The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-01 00:00:00

WATERLOO BRIDGE.

The Adpurned General Meeting of the Shareholders
and Proprietors of Waterloo,bridge was held yesterday,
at the Crown and Anchor Tavern; about half-past one
o'clock the Chas- was taken by the Rev. Dr. Rash.
The minutes of the proceedings having been read,
Mr. POWELL real the Report of. the Directors,
stating tire' various sums received in cash monthly from
Febroaryen to, to February 1841, the average receipts
per day, slid their increase or' declension, and contrast-
ing thernatith the receipts in each month, from February,
1841, to 231Afebruary, 1842.
It appatred th'en.that' the receipts for fout-toll fr:,m
23d Feb.08.40;,-tti 23d August 1840, which were at ld.
amotintedgile*Ola 2s. 10d., and fe:lin 21th August,
1840 to 21.44,0.,,,,18 Id, they amounted to 4,85.1. is. 4d.
making dil74o9.lireceipts fur that. year 10,10 A ,10s.
Which at 10,,,fispki.,paaLki,,,-er, ihowed that 2,446,922
parsons jfkyked.,9yer the .I:nidge in that year. Then
the receittilfrotia the 23.1 of February, 1841, to 23,1
Feb., 184' ,?ivhfch were at one halfpenny each passenger
amounted') 9,441/. 33. 2d., which allowed that the 'lum-
bar of petaifriS passing over the bridge during that year
was 4,533,218 ; being an increase, as conteasted with the
preceding year, of 2,086,226 persons.
The Directors, inasmuch as the declension in the re-
ceipts was every day decreasing, decided that ,the pre-
sent toll of one halfpenny-should be continued, and
stated that they saw no necessity for resortin,, to the
original toll of one penny. .
. 11. eopE,
m movirg that the Directors' Re-
port be affirmed, said that the recommendation con-
tained in it with respect to coedit the
had not been as yet suffieitested;l) present toil
but at all events
the losses were not so trreattyas prevent the trial of
it for some time longer.
the Pp)prietors attempted
to return to the old t..4l ot, the p; lie would inveigh
against themmore than ever, and parti,lilarly a • there
was a new bridge beingereeted, instead of Witsrlloo-bridge
re sum by the mninv toil,'
r?alizing a
diminished it,
receipts would be very eooinlerably
it was adopted. The 'lieport showed the 'teat
increase of trAtile, an I he had great pleasureit
proposing its adoption, because he was convinced that
the present toil, together with affording more accomoda-
Lion to the public, would be of advantage to the Proprie-
tor.% He also thought the Directors were entitled to the
thanks of the Company and Pubii"'frir'giring f•he twitter
so much consideration, and for making the suggeStions
contained in their Report.
Mr. MORGAN concurred in the observations which had
been made by the proposer of. the resolution, and se-
conded its adoption.
Mr. SANGSTER was opposed to the motion. ir„ as
very sorry the toll had ever been reduced at all. The
Company were going ott safely and well until the toll
was reduced to one halfpenny ; they *ere induced to do
so, having been' told that the(- would rot only (109b10;
but treble, their reVillue, and, in fact, that they ti ould
have then had 250,000/. more in their pockets itthey -
had imposed a hallp.ennyetoll from the corn eiencement ;
all that calculation was untrue ; in:AL.-ad of tgeir revenues
being doubled, or at all increased, they were several
hundred pounds less this. year than the receipts for a
wresPoliding, period during... the- penny. toll; The

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public had no right to think or expect the Pro.
prietors could continue a system Which caused sue]
losses, and certainly it could not: for a inoiner..t be sup,
posed that the Proprietors wtTet,t)';alilloeltleiriptfra,n TdjusTtiChei
reason, or equity, to keep the _ . .
Proprietors had; expended a very large sum in the erec,
don of one of the most beautiful and -ornamental struc-
tures in the world, and all they expected was a moderah
interest for their money. They did not get anything
Like that ; they scarcely, got 1 per cent, for theli• capital.
The loses sustained were enormous, and certainly the.
Proprietors had every reason to complain that the publie
lid not support them, instead of the public having reason
to complain or inveigh against them for returning bad
o the penny toll. Surely the public could not expect tt
put; Waterloo Bridge on a level with a petty, pittiful.
)eggarly hatch.—(Laughter.) On the whole, he was o;
pinion that the original toll of one penny should be re-
sumed from anti after the 15th of March next, anti hi
would propose an amendment to that effixt.
Mr. BUTTERWORTH seconded the amendment—i
an Act of Parliament was passed for the purpose co,
purchas;ng the Bridge, as he believed it was in the con-
templation of Government to do—it would be the in-
terest of the Proprietors to increase their receipts a:
much as possible, and he thought that the best mode of
ffectini, that object was to resume the penny toll.
Mr j'ExEnt.s thought that recurring to the penny toll
would be a very hazardous thing.
Mr SAVAGE and other Proprietors having expressed
'_heir opinions in favour of the existing toll, '
The resolution, adopting the Directors' recommenda-
tion, was carried by a large majority—there being on!y
five in support of the amendment.
The meeting adjourned at half-past two o'clock to
Diri-sday, 2d of June next. .

MEETING AT MARYLEBONE.

.4 public meeting was yesterday held in the yard of the
AarylebOne Workhouse, for the purpose of petitioning
Against the new Corn-law, and expressing a want
if confidence in the present Ministry. The
fleeting was, however, converted to a very dif-
'erent purpose. At an early hour the Chartists begat;
:o assemble in overwhelming fbree from all parts of the
netropolis ;- and at one o'clock, the hour appointed for
3ommencing the proceedings, they had obtained almost
:xclusive possession of the platform and of the space
tdjacent.
At one o'clock Mr. SANKEY took the Chair ; a motion
:o that effect having been put, and almost unanimously
igruti to.
SAVAGE then came forward to move the first re-
sohition ; which was to the effect, that the distress,
;he :anguish, and suffering, to which a multitude
of our fellow countrymen of the working class were now
exposed, were without precedent, and claimed the deepest
sympathy; that this distress results mainly from a
want of employment, arising out of our enjust
and ruinous commercial regulations, which hating
aeon passed for the interests of a particular
olass, cramp and cripple the industry of the country ;
that the Corn-laws are the first and foremost of those
ruinous regulations ; and that the meeting looked
Ripon those laws as only one of a number o causes
Ahich affected in a -Mill more deadly marner the
national prosperity ; that the people had nothing
:o expect from the present House of Com-
aloha ; and that the adoption of the People's Charter
was the only remedy for the evils under which the
country was suffering." Mr. Savage then proceeded at
some length tonllude to the five points of the Charter,
which was based, he contended, upon the essential prin-
ciples of justice, and the passing of which could alone
give peace and prosperity to the country.
Mr. HunnE seconded the resolution moved by the
preceding speaker.
Mr..FEAucui O'CoNrton came forward amidst loud
cheers to address the meeting. He said that he wished
to express his approval of the speech of Mr. Savage,
and: his dissent from his resolution.—(Hear.) He
:ould not approve of the first part of that resolution.
which stated that the Corn-laws were one of the first
and foremost causes of the distress which prevailed in the.
country. In his opinion all our evils were to be traced
to class legislation ; and the only remedy for those evils
was a full • and free representation of the people.—
(Cheers.) He should therefore mm e 'an amendment to
the resolution which had been propo ,ed to them, in which
all friends of the Charter and of free trade might concur.
Mr. O'Connor then read his amendment, which was to
he effect, that—" While the meeting expressed their
unqualified approval of the principle of free trade, and
their desire to see the present Corn-laws repealed, they
did not think that such a change could properly emanate
from the present House of Commons in the imperfect
state of ovr representation, and that it could not, under
these circumstances; tend to the benefit of the people."
The amendment, further recommended the adoption of
the Charter as the only means of doing justice to the
people, and diffusing prosperity throughout the land.
Mr. O'Connor then addressed the meeting at some length
in support of the amendment he had thus moved. No-
thing, he contended, was to be expected from the
present House of Commons. That House ought
to be the heart of the land, but the heart was
now ossified—and the limbs were consequently
decayed and withered.—(Cheers.) The rich, in our pre-
sent anomalous position, had their luxuries and their
palaces, while the poor man had to go from the cottage
to the cellar, anti from the cellar to the cold shelter of
the workhouse. The Whigs of the present day complained
of the working of their own Reform Bill, and it was mani-
fest that until the representation was placed on a new basis
the people could expect neither prosperity nor justice.
A good measure could be, passed by Parliament as it was
-now' Constituted. The proceedings of that clay would
he the commencement of a new movement for justice to
the people. The present was not an unfavourable mo-
ment fora combined effort on the part of the friends of
justice and freedom. The middle classes found they could
not do without the people; and the Queen Was not so much
against them as former Sovereigns ; IPA at all events
they could e!spense with her assistance—she was but
" number one," and she had no vote in addition.--
(Hear, hear.) No party should have them which was
not ready to grant them complete justice; and their cry
should be the Charter,. the whole charter, and nothing
but the Charter.—(Cheers.) Mr. O'Connor concluded.
by moving hii amendment.
A. 14 RIDLEY seconded the amendment.
Mr. MACCONNELL spoke in favour of the original reso-
lution, and Mr. SMART supported the amendment.
Mr. SAVAGE stated, that it was a matter of compara-
tive indifference to him which resolution we adopted.
All that he wanted, was the adoption of the People's
Charter.

The amendment and the original motion were then
put in succession, and the amendment was carried by a
vast majority.
This result was hailed with loud and repeated cheers
by the larger portion of the meeting.
Some further resolutio.is were then passed, and the
irast assemblage, which amounted to some thousands,
separated.

CHARTIST MEETING.
Yesterday evening a numerous meeting of the Journeymen
Taihire was held at the Institution, John-street, Tottenham
Court4oad, for.the purpose of advancing the principles con-
tained in the People's Charter.
Mr. Cuernv having been called to the Chair shortly before
8 o'clock, said, as one of the trade who was anxious for the
ultimate success of the principles of the People's Charter, he at
once acceded to the proposition that he should preside over the
Meeting, and he hoped every person would be heard with
fairness and impartiality. The working claesea in the country
had never before been sunk so low in misery and starvation,
and it was therefore the duty of every one, who wished well tohis
country and his species, to unite beart and band to exterminate
class legislation. If the people stood true to thems,lves and
!heir cause, and were not led away by the aristocracy and the
middle classes, who sought, by impracticable schemes, to deeCive
them, they were sure of gaining their poll! teal rights. la the late
debate in the !louse of Commons his attention was particularly
attracted by the speech of Captain nous, the Member for
Westminster, who might not inaptly be called " Young Glory."
—( Loud liughter.) That Tory luminary stated in his place,
that the journeymen tailors in London were able to earn from
30s. to •365. a week, and he (Mr; Cuffey) requested the Se-
nretary. of the Society to which•ho belonged to write a letter to
the lion. and Gallant Captain, informing him that he had
grossly exaggerated the amount of wages paid to that class of
artisans, and in reply the following letter was received :
" Sir, I have to thank you for your resolutions, passed at a
meeting of the General Council of the National Charter As-
sociation, relative to the amount of wages, and to what they
are
.pleased to call the principles embodied in the People's
Charter.' In return, I send you a true copy ally speech in the
!louse of Commons. I have carefully read ever your resolution.
You will permit me to observe that the working classes of all
descriptions in Great Britain arc better • off • than the working
elasses of the same rank in any part of the old world, and that
the wages you receive (when in full work) will produce mere
comfort. Your misfortunes are owing to the increased popu-
lation in this over. peopled country. Every trade, every pro-
fession, is overstocked. We are starving one another, but the
remedy is simple ; emigration to our colonies, where men of
your trade will earn great wages. I see re hardship in living
in another country, under a better climate, with all the
civil advantage; of the mother country,. and where the
tax-gatherer is unknown ; this appears to be the only mode
qf redressing your physical ills by the exercise of your nevi-m-
-ing capacity. Depend upon it, no political power will im-
prove your condition ; fsr it is •a curious fact that those per-
sons who, through your exertions, are placed in high political
situations, advocate .' Free trade principles.' Free trade
will be your particular ruin. All the Continental workmen
can afford to under.w.irk you, because they live upon coarser
food, and choose to enduregreater privatious. What you call
privations they consider as co eforts, their ideas being infinitely
inferior to yours Hear, hear) therefore, instead of
free trade, you want additional - protecting duties,
which are not to bo had —namely, a fine or
tax upon British subjects who Wear clothes made by foreign
tailors. I repeat, therefore, there is nothing like our
Colonies for our working classes, whatever may be their trade,
where the demand for labour grea'ly exceeds the supply, in-
stead of our old country, where the supply exceeds the de.
mand ; and I do not give ycu advice which I would not follow
myself, for I have visited every Colony, from Upper Canada to
New Zealand. Whatever may be our difference of opinion on
political subjects, you will be pleased to consider me willing
and anxious to serve you to the best of my humble abilities, and
be assured that I have nothingsomuch at heart as the amelioration
of alel
rWorki
4- e:a. s e , for, on their moral worth, theirstern
courage, and good fecliny, depends the prosperity of' this great
H. .1. Itous, 28, Chel.street."—[The
passages in italics were underscored i the Gallant Captain's
sjs Ith Tchon.s.iCcichrairbilielanalblairttye,r onco,nvihmartmthiengst
yaitedsorhee
!me
nagn
tuhs,c
ariL t .
overweening impudence of desiring the industriou anti produc-
tive classes to leave their father laud for the back woods, read
letters from nes,rs. ! uncombe arid Leader, M. P. s and Dr.
Al‘Duttall, apolnenising for their absence, and expres4ng their
concurrence in the object for which the meeting was called.
Mr. PARKER moved the first resolution, which was AS IV-
lows :—" That it is the opinion of this meeting that the dis-
tress and.misery that exists in the hide of journeyman tailors
has been brought about by and through class legislation,, and
hereby recommend a union of the trade, with a view to- elle-
via,e their sufferiries" lie said this meeting was called for
the purpose of testing the feelings of the operatives of the west-
:end of Linden respecting the People's Charter, and he was.
happy, from the number and respectability of those in atten-
dance, to be able to- say that the call had been warmly re-
sponded to.
Mr. iitinans seconded the resolution.

Mr. FEARG OS O'CONNOR rose to address the meeting, and
was received with loud cheers. He said the main-spring of
legislation should be free and impartial discussion. They
were for that principle, because they knew the truths they ad-
istnced would become more self-evident by it, whilst those whose
deeds would not bear the light sought to mslign anti misrepresent
tilts argaments of their opponents. Nothing could speak more
forcibly in favour of the people than the manner in which
" Young Glory's" letter was received, for a grosser tissue of
absurdity was never penned. In that letter it was stated that
the distresses of the people arose from overspopulation ; but
any man of common perception must see that the class of per-
sons to whose Secretary it was addressed was interested, above
ill others, in a large population, for unless the overplus went
naked, the tailors, of all others, -were most interested in having
t large population. The Member for Westminster told them
to emigrate to a foreign land. They would do no such thing.
But he (Mr. O'Connor) would tell him what they would do.
The working bees might yet, in a voice of thunder, tell the
drones to emigrate, or, perhaps, they might sting them out of
the hive—( Hear, hear, and cheers)—fer if emigration
were necessary at all, let the idle and the slothful be the first to
go.- and the industrious producers be the last.. As the Chait man
had very properly observed, the aristocracy told them to emigrate
o the Colonies where they and their connections were pos-
sessed of large grants of land, which they intended to make
available by the capital of industry ; while as being the authors
of the infamous Poor-laws, they would cry out, "be joyful," as
'hey saw each ship load of emigrants depart from the shores of
England.—( Hear, hear, and cheers.) He was astonished to
in;' that those who were comparatively comfortable were satis-
i!,:sd with the compararive comfort, for he thought the working
classes of this country had no right to bo sati-fled with-
rut increasing production. The rights of all descriptions
if property were protected, save those of labour, whi h
aught to be the most respected of all. In travelling through the
sotnitry a person will frequently sine placards in gentlemen's do-
-mains, having such inscriptions as these Whoever is fsood
trespassing here will be prosecuted according to law," but no
one saw a caution to the effect that, he who trespasses on the
imor man's labour should -be punished. Such a thing was
'lever thought of, because they who could make the law to
prevent others from trespassing were themselves the tres-
passers. There were two classes whom in his :rear( he dis-
pised, and those were the persons who, having votes,
gave them corruptly, and those who, nut having them, re-
fused to struggle to gain Clem. He would tell " Young Glory"
.here was no necessity fur the people of Englan I to seek a
foreign clime fur food. He also disagreed with those who
a-nsidered that the people were necessitated to bring the
waste lands of this country into cultivation. in order to enable
them to raise the necessaries of life. lie might be allowed to
liken the waste lands of this country to the ts,ld meat in the
larder, which would serve those who came after
theM. There was capital to so large an amount vested
in manufactures in other countries, that it rendered
them,- in some degree, independent of England ; and if
they were to let their lands oat of cultivation, as some folks
advise, the fieeigners, who hate England, would, in the time of
-scarcity, turn round and say, England'at 'one time put an ex-
clusived duty Upon her manufactures, and now we will put the
same upon our corn. For ten years, whilst in office, it was
Lord John Russell's cry that the sufferings and privations
of the people were the consequence of great commer-
cial prosperity in the country; but the moment lie
found hi.nself on the bleak side of the Treasury benches, then
his political vision became cognizant of the fact, th# the dis-
tress was general throughout the country. He (Mr. Feargus
O'Connor) and his colleagues, who were struggling to gain the
People's Charter, were accused of being firebrands, agitators,
and torch and dagger-men by the Whigs, but seven
months had now elapsed, during which it was acknow.
'edged by all pariies that the most appalling distress prevailed,
and yet there had been no violation of the law, whilst during
their time the Whigs could not agitate for three months
without such events as the burning of Bristol and the sacking of
No,tingham. The people should be cautious, and not join this
deceitful faction, for their policy' always had been first to urge
the people on, then when they got into power upon their
shoulders,_ turn round with state prosecutions and packed
juries. He did not care for parties or factions, but let
any one point out to him a principle, and to that principle he
would adhere. The mass of the people had witnessed . the
introduction of steam and its manifold applications ; they had
witnessed all the great magical improvements of their genera-
tion, political and scientific, but yet, could they lay their
hands to their hearts upon returning to th,ir squalid houses,
and say those grand developments of nsture's resources
had in the slightest degree ameliorated their social position.
Mr. O'Connor concluded amidst loud and long continued
cheering, by parodying an old proverb—God gave-us the land,
but the Devil gave us the landlords.
. Mr. KNIGIIT proposed the next resolution, which was
seconded by Mr. M‘UnATit, a working-man, in a very able
and effective speech. The resolution was as follows—" That
this meeting is of opinion that the only means left for the trade
and the working-classes generally of bettering their condition
is by adopting CAI principles contained in the People's
Charter."

Severvl other persons addressed the meeting, and it broke up
about 12 o'clock.

LAW INVIEI.LIGENCE.
ROUSE OF LORDS, Feb. 28.
The Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham, Lord Cottenham,
Lord Campbell, Lord De Lisle, and the Bishop of Exeter, sat
in the House of Lords to-day to hear appeals,
THE LORD ADVOCATE V. LORD DOUGLAS.
The arguments in this part-heard appeal were resumed, and
concluded to-day, when
Their Lounsnirs gave judgrueat, diunissing the appeal
with costs.

RENTON V. ArrsrauTirEs.
This appeal was opened at four o'clock. The arguments
were adjourned till to-morrow (this day).

FRASER V. LORD LOVAT.
Lord COTTENHA 31 gave judgment to-day in this case, af-
firming the judgment of the Court. below, with costs.

ROLLS' COURT, Rb. 28.

IN RE I3ROOKSEANI: AND EARN.
In this cause, which came before the Court on petition, the
bill was filed by the Duke of Brunswick, and prayed to have an
account taken, and the bills taxed.
It appeared that there had been some litigation in
France betwten the Duke of Brunswick and the Duke
of Cambridge, in which a large amount of costs had
been awarded to the former. • Subseiptently, both the
parties being in England, and the Duke of Cambridge not
having paid the costs awarded by the Court in France to the
Duke of Brunswick, the latter brought an action in this coun-
try for the recovery of those costs, and the interest accruing
upon them, from the date of the trial in France. In this
second action he was also successful.

1 The defendants Brooksbank and Farn had been the soli-
7iters of his Serene llighnes in those transactions, and the
bills of costs with which they, furnished their Illustrious Client
formed the ground of the present application.
The arguments in the case engaged the Court from an early
hour in the morning, and were not brought to a close when
his Lordship rose.

VICE-CHANCELLORS' COURT, Feb. 28.
(Before Viee-Chancellor WI GRAM.)
BRANFILL V. BRYDCES.
The arguments in this part-heard case occupied the Cour,
the whole day. •