The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-07 00:00:00

EIGHT FIRES AT NORWICH

Have recently been extinguished by
SUALDERS' PATENT PORTABLE FIRE-
ENGINE.
(THE NEW PROPERTY PROTECTOR).
,01 hes• Engines are carried by hand and placcd immediately
q ere they can assail the main source of the fire at close
garters to the grea:est advantages ; when they deliver their
unerring
uniform streams of water directly into the flames with
Ins-vrring certainty and such surprising impetuosity. that the
are banged out before the common engines can be brought
If 0 action
h•
th Le engine lever be worked briskly with one hand, and
It° delivery pipe pointer! at a window 10 feet distance with
-1 other hand, it will show how furiously, steadily, and irre-
-1!' ibly the little fire destructor combats and conquers the
''rria6• foe.
- ..114ines elegant, durable, and complete in Brass 6/. 16s.
There is not yet in existence a good fire-engine
• large scale. At Alderman Butcher's fire the Patent
Utah Pump filled 12 large pails with water per minute, deli-
et
44 gat the rats of 50 and the two Engines 30 barrels per
But with the former Parish Pump (which was one of
,„ hest brass lift-force pumps f the London made trash) not
barrels an hour could have !o leen raised, and probably the
a4' "al!'" Would have gained the ascendancy. Lc.ndon is a century
''"jnd Norwich in Hydraulic Machines.
Al r• " Tim Sim" paper, July 10, 1841, and "Norwich
-reur7," March 5, 1842, where all my inveterate opponents
"l'e alarmed, chepfallen, and laughed at, for they dare not even
:' hasten btain the 100/. reward offered. Because dame Nature
f;l,, ered her imperative caveat thus !" SH A LDERS'
prauM,P SHALL NEVER BE SURPASSED, which is now
•Cet'eally proved to be the only effective, invariable water-
evator in existence, and when well carried out the most
table pump in the world. It stands work as well for lifts
lidnv"
as below 100 feet, and it would be strange indeed if it
1, not, as a good Connector (of a Fountain Pump) will ,:ustain
I,,P.essure of 50 atmospheric whilst less than a quarter of that
,ietn • would deliver water rapidly 365 feet high, or over St.
4,Vs-cross, London. W. SHALDERS.
"Ydraulic-street, Norwich, June 18, 1842.
REMARKS,,,, BY EMINENT MEN UPON THE IN.
YENTION—SEPARATELY AND JOINTLY.
I,o7leAttaTztv.—. The Fountain Pump is free from the de-
b.? Ind liabilities of the Friction Pump, and approaches a
4:IM hydraulic machine."—Dr. Birkbeck.--" Shalders
-ii4l9Pistl Nature, and arrived at perfection."—Ebednur._
°p 4,, Pump is free from friction and leakage, and is not liable
'ae.”—Hay, Civil Engineer.--" This is THE Pump."
j rtington.
1,4 oinTLy._,, The Fountain Pump is the most important
w?rrentent in the art of raising water, that has appeared
the",n the last 2,000 years. It is the greatest advancement in
I
11,eful arts in modern times, and cannot fail to act in the
"'r t ation of life and property from fire and water to an ex-
e4the3ond

SHALDERS' PATENT PUMP.
I,,iist,t Vestry Meeting held at St.
.Michael's at Plea, Nor-
pril 2St.h, 184'2, the Parishioners unanimously con-
'll,`lllated Mr. Shalders upon having, last May, fitted the
v 'Ol U with an efficient, permaneut, economical, and in-
f}, t2tle (60 feet in length). It was rightly remarked,
,lthougli the water delid by the former Pump was coin.
1,,,,41 cloudy that delivered byvere tho present one has been uni-
'4V clear, 'and raised with half the labour.
(Signed) GEORGE IVES,
'WM. WOODROW,
H. J. STEEL,
Churchwardens in 1841, 1842.
Norwich, Saturday, May 28, 144'2.

tiZTCHER and SON beg to return their most grateful
to those friends and neighbours who so kindly and
Ptly rendered them their assistance to extinguish the Firs
Iheir Premises on Wednesday last.
etrd they likewise take this opportunity particularly to re-
-10,,,.,b1e0d Mr. Shalders' Portable Fountain Engine, which was
ste—;irn.efficient in preserving their premises from total de-
. Qu'ell•street, May 26.
aE~
Cts-"•,.RKS OF THE EDITOR OF THE " NORFOLK
''t‘ONICLE," ON VIEWING THE PREMISES
,AFTER THE FIRE:—
pee, About half-past one o'clock on Wednesday morning the
to k. tes of Mr. Butcher, grocer, Rank-plain, were discovered
40.,;41 fire by the night watch, who gave the alarm and called
tle,t"uttcher up. It was at first difficult to discover in the
What part of the premises was nn fire. Mr. Butcher
411 alit that it originated at his neighbour's house, hut going
the top of his premises he perceived where it was ; when
Sack ▪me clown and opened the door of his store-room over the
th-se;';,Plitt of his shop; the fire and smoke burst forth so violently
fire could scarcely stand on his feet. It appears that the
Lot ad originated in this store-room directly over a paper loft,
• ',v, it is impossible to tell. Mr. Shrders, from over the
qhiimreediatelv brought two of his engines, by means of
'h Mr. Butcher attributes his house being saved ; and
.per-
pul:d the whole street, for there being a good deal of gnn-
xv hi,,er, on the premises, had this ignited the consequences
ti°have lie awful. Notwithstanding the natural agrta-•
if ,(4 oecasionedenbyi the near prospect of danger from fire, Mr.
st,ucitchor himself removed the gunpowder from the premises,
hre,,,rn,°,t of the goods from the warehouse
.and shop were
Che-'s",t Out and de iosited for safety in St. Michael s at Plea
a*tien• The engine from the Guildhall was on the spo.t
vila-,n, a few minutes' of the first alarm being given, but it
the ImPossible to bring this into play for some time, as
11 water was not turned on ; but in the meanwhile
the' engines (Mr. S. working one and his brother
ti other) were supplied with buckets full of water from
vii4t,h74lll near at hand. Mr. M. Yarington and his men acted
ale -'luch energy and promptitude. Mr. Steel, Mr. Plummer,
Shalders, and others of Mr. Butcher's neighbours, were
d st zealous in' their services. In about an hour and a half all
trie• t.l::iat remeved. Mr. Butcher is, we understand, insured
rch
~orwicil-Elay whicquitablp Office.
• t"h appears to have occurred in furnishing the
tivel " with water on the above alarming occasion, impera-
ties! ilelnands the immediate attention of the proper authori-
scauree If the New hills Company's works are the main public
tQore 'u ° supply, some arrangements should be made for the
the
e:L re and speedy turning on the water into the pipes ; or
tY will sooner or later rue the consequences.]
131 r -r -
--t EDITOR OF THE " NORWICH MERCURY."
(3,1 \V
i; etnesdav morning, about half-past one o'clock, a fire
DlainLk'eovered in the house of Mr. Butcher, grocer, Bank-
' lind QY the watchman on duty. Mr. B. immediately rose,
stere-....twr examining premises found it had taken place in a
giv,n,",‘lrn situated over the warehouse. On the alarm being
h r• Shalders attended with his patent fountain engines,
teri,„ er great exertions the fire was extinguished before any
"nsequerces had taken place. There is not the
trettel:,sttioubt that this fire would have been attended with a
entirt had it not been for the fountain pump, and it was
:0! by that and the exertions of Mr. Shalders that the fire
14 fore /I"rnPtly extinguished, it being an hour and ten minutes
114,
_s engines could be got into play; and at the time the
discovered the whole store-room was in flames, for on
the „• Telland the door he was twice knocked down by
' keflames, but fortunately received no injury.
PROPERTIES SAVED BY THE PORTABLE FIRE

A th. ENGINE.
-eulog House on Elm-hill, the roof on fire, but soon
mpished by the Foitable Engine.
Horton's Dyery, twice on fire, the second time, the pre-
kg! with 12,000/. worth of consigned property, must allhave
e,:_," a sacrifice had not. the Potable E-gine, after a long
I:o7vairet, got the fire under, which wa. compl• tely effected just
r the c
N._ -.St common ende app. .
%hoesd ". Dixon's Foundrygi,ne ma
the roofits ou lite ;arance these premi-es
Pre,
soon soon have been destroyed, but for the new property
rr,e.
4ttle Foundry on fire, and saved by the new fire de.
Mr, pi
AtkLuntmer's Ironmongery warehouse, slightly on fire,
ot rler by Portable Engine ; and
-:.‘-‘lllt Bre.., Waggon and Horse-lane. The Superintend-
- tot duty duty that night con-idlers this fire had a most alarming
e ance, as differet. extensive p emises adjoining, being of
11,14 Y 4,ombustible character, must all have very soon been i,rt
•...lai:.ths4not the fire bean i tairzedlately arrested by Shalders s
..4"9 Fire. pgin..

39, ALBEAIARLE-STREET, PICCADILLY, (directly
opposite the York Hotel), and
76, KING VVILLIANI-STREET, CITY.

LIGHT AND BEARING.—TESTIAIONIALS.
" The Messrs. S. and B. SOLOMONS' Newly-invented
SPECTACLE LENSES afford astonishing relief to extremely
imperfect vision—We give them the decided preference to
every other kind of Lens—the clearness of the transparency
brings every object very distinct, and enables individuals to view
the most minute particle with perfect accuracy. They are
particularly pleasant by candle light, as they appear cooling to
the sight, and soften bright and brilliant lights :
Janice Blundell, Esq., M.D., 1, Great George-street, West-

minster.
George G. Sigmond, Esq., M.D., 24, Dover-street.
T. J. Pettigrew, Esq., Surgeon, F. R.S., Saville-row.
John Ramsbotham, Esq., M.D., Broad-street- building s.
Anthony White, Esq., Surgeon, 3, Parliament-street.
John Hooper, Esq., Surgeon, 29, Newington-place, Ken ni ngton
Frederick Leighton, Esq., M.D., 7, Upper Gower-street.
Messrs. Griffiths and Duncan, Surgeons, 3, Leadenhall-street.
W. Day, Esq., Surgeon, Isleworth.
T. Daldy, Esq., Surgeon, 33, New Broad-street.
R. H. Lucas, Esq., M.D., Exeter•.

J. Taylor Gordon, Esq., M.D.
Wm. Bowie' Esq., M.D., Bennett-street, Bath.
C. Heywood, Esq., M.D., Blandford.
Henry Lawrence, Esq.,M.D., Tenby.
Wm Jeafreson, Esq.. urgeon-oculist, 21, South Audley- street.

•
.D. Robinson, Esq., M.D., Cheltenham.
C. Shillito, Esq., M.D., Bri rhton.
William Conolly, Esq., 11. D., Cb Itenham.
E. H. Allnatt, Esq., M.D. Walli tgford.
Thomas Willis, Esq.. M.D., Brig. ton
9riffiths, Esq., Surgeon, Hammersmith.
Tohn Kenderick, Esq., Surgeon, Mincinster-street, blanches
ter-square.
Charles Tonally, Esq., Surgeon, Camden-town.
H. Colebourn, Esq., Surgeon, 29, Harleyford-place, Ken-
nington.
N. M'Cann, Esq., Surgeon, 50, Parliament-street.
Samuel Banner, Esq., Surgeon, 26, Berkeley-square.
W. Jones, Esq., Surgeon, 15, Lower Brook-street, Grosvenor_
square.
W. English, Esq., Surrwon, Denmark-hill.-
A. Barkiemore, Esq., Surgeon. 10, Charlotte-st., Bloomsbury.
E. Stoddart, Esq., Surgeon, 32, Golden-square.
J. H. War...r, Surgeon, '23, Charlotte.strect, Bloomsbury.
C. Ingham, Esq., Surgeon, 46, Davies-street, Berkeley-square
Edwaru Nason, Esq., Surgeon,Nuneaton, Warwickshire.'
In placinr, the above list of Testimonials before the public,
the Messrs.. Solomons, Opticians and Aurists, state that their
INVISIBLE OPERATIVE VOICE CONDUCTOR, by
which thousands of Deaf Persons have been greatly benefited,
is not larger than a seven-shilling• piece, and when fixed into
the cavity of the ear is soft and easy, and not more uncomfort-
able nor perceptible than having a piece of wool in .its place.
By its use the faintest whisper at a public assembly is heard
with distinctness.
These important new inventions are patronized by their Ma-
jesties the King and Queen of Hatiover and their Royal High-
nesses the Princesses Augusta and Sophia, her Serene High-
ness the Princess Esterhazy, the Princesses ;Vary and Rosa,
her Grace the Duchess Dowager of Bedford, and their Graces •
the Archbishop of Canterbury, the late Duke of Norfolk, the
Dukes of Devonshire, Argyle, Manchester, and Marlborough,
Lord Hill, &c. &c.
Observe the Messrs. Solomon' st ate that they have no con-
nection with'nersons of th. same name in Ireland and Scotland,
and that they do not employ any Travellers or Agents; the
genuine articles are only to be had n London, at their Esta-
blishments, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, opposite the York
Hotel, and 76, King William-street, Bank.

i-IAUTION.—The public are cautioned against the
‘...) mean and dishonest attempts of many Shopkeepers, who,
when either of the under-mentioned articles is asked for, endeavour
to foist upon them counterfeits composed of the most pernicious Ind
trashy ingredients. They substitute the word " Genu fie" for
" Rowlsod',"and rev mmend the same under the lure ot being cheap.
To Itustrate such imposition, it Is necessary, on purchasing either
article, to see that the word " Rowland's" is on each, as follows—
RO L A ND'S MACASSAR OIL,
p Ice 3s. 6d., 75., or Family Bottles (containing tour small) Its. 6d. ;
and double that site, 21s. per bottle.
ROWLAND'S KALY DOR,
price 45. 6d . and gs. 6d per bottle.
ROWLAN D'S ()DO TO, or PEARL DENTIFRICE,
price 2s 9d. per box, duty included.
A. ROWLAND and SON, 0, Hatton-garden, London, is written
n red on the wrappers of the Macasstr Oil and Kalydor, and engraven
on the Government Stamp affixed on the Kalydor and the Odonto.
Be sure tlask for " Rowland's."
Sold by them and by rfiepoctable Chemists and Perfumers.

BLAIR'S GOUT and RHEU M ATIC PILLS.
To Mr. PROUT 2P, Strand. Landon.
Beaconsfield, August 7th, 1841.
Sir,—Having for several years past suffered exceedingly from Gout
and Rhe•imatism, so much so that I was prevented from following
my usual avocations for months together, 1 was recommended by a
friend of mine who had taken Blair's Pill with great success, to try
a box, one of which I procured of sour Age t, Mr. Putter, of Bea
constield, and sshich I can confidently assure you had such a won.
derful effect upon me, that I have not had an attack of Gout or Rheu.
matism since, which is now fifteen month.. You are at liberty to
make what use you please of this testimonial in favour of your truly
valuable Pills. I remain, Sir, yours very respectfully,
JOHN COSHER.

The discoverer of this invaluable Specific is-aprOfessional man,
who. after in ny years' practice and research, has proved, by facts,
that these Pills will effectually cure every description of Gout, Rheu-
matic Gout, Rheumatism, Lumbago Pains in the Head or Face, &C.
'They are •hus recommended ti the MU cted with a confidence, aria
ng iroin experience, as one Of the valuable results of the improved
itateo Medial Scit nc ,an the only efficient remedy ever discovered -
fir those excruciatin, disorders. In Gout, liheumati tout, and
acute Rheumatism, the, e Pills i% ill have a most wonderful effect, in
'cost cases giving relief from the Intolerable pains in one or two
hours; and one box will frequently carry off the attack in two or
three dayse
, even ii hen the patient has usually kept his bed for as
'they are equally certain in
ttzge, Pains isr
tehtehnHeseamdoontrhi.ace frequently treated as the
nLivainn
I ooth-ache Rheumatisui of . long
tanning
will be erectly cured
by a slight deg, cent perseverance in the tele of these Pills, which re-
quire neither confinement nor w tention during their use
sold by Thomas Prout,2•29, Strand, Loudon; and, by his appoint
ment, by all respectable Medicine Venders throughout the Unite
King om. Price is. 9d. per box.
Ask tot GUU atdi RHEUMATIC PILLS, and ob.
love the name aucl address of " thomas Prout, 229, Strand, Lori-
don" impressed won the Government Stamp attixed to each Box of
the Gamins lfeawme

ANTI•CORN•LAW CONFERENCE.

The Deputies met again yesterday at the Crown
and Anchor, instead of Brown's Hotel, the latter place
being found too small for the purposes of the meeting.
I'. A. TAYLOR, Esq., took the chair at a quarter past
eleven o'clock.

The Worthy CHAIRMAN, upon taking the chair,
stated that before they proceeded with the business of
the day, he was anxious to read the correspondence
that had been received since yesterday. The first was
a note from Mr. O'Connell, written yesterday, but not
received till after the meeting had adjourned. The note
was to the following effect :—" Mr. O'Connell presents
his compliments to the Chairman of the Meeting
of Deputies from the manufacturing districts, and
regrets extremely chat his necessary attendance
ir. the Belfast I►.quiry Committee, will deprive him of
the honour of being present at the above meeting this
day.—Tuesday, the 15th of July." Mr. Wallace had
also, expressed himself in similar terms. They had also
received a letter from Lees, near Manchester, to the fol-
lowing effect :—" We, the Free Trade and Anti-Corn-
law Association of Lees beg leave to thank you and the
Delegates assembled in behalf of our suffering country,
for your devotion to the cause of free-trade principles,
and your zeal in bringing before the Government and
the country the horrible and devastating effects of un
just and blighting monopolies. We are too poor and
exhausted to be able to send a Delegate to your meeting,
or we should gladly have done so. Lees and neighbourhood,
in the parish of Ashton-under-Lyne is mostly engaged
in spinning cotton-yarn and manufacturing cotton goods.
We have a population of about 2,000, or 600 house-
holders. The people totally out of work are about 230,
and the people partially employed, say three days per
week, more than 300. Many are on the parish books :
the poor-rates are trebled : the wages constantly reduc-
ing, the employers almost ruined, and we do not see how
it is possible much longer to continue without a total
breaking up of the social system and a frightful convul-
sion. And to add to the misfortune, the middle
classes are rapidly sinking down to abject po-
verty, and quite unable to bear up any longer.
A total repeal of the Corn-laws, and a repeal of all mo-
nopoly laws which ruinously raises the price of food and
all kind of provisions, we deem to be the only chance of
saving the country, and raising us once more to a state
of comparative happiness." This letter was signed on
behalf of the meeting and association, by William Nichol-
son, chairman.. Another letter was received from
Hinckley, stating thiit a public meeting of the inhabi-
tants of Hinckley was held to consider the pro-
priety of sending a Deputy to the meeting ; to simi-
lar meetings previously, the inhabitants of Hinckley
had always sent Deputies, but they now felt so
utterly hopeless; that they had decided on not sending
a Deputy, but sending a letter explananatory of their
feelings : "of the state of llinckley for suffering no words
could convey an idea. Tears and groans were but poor
lungusge for it." " Mr. Thomas Cloves," continued the
letter, "is the appointed bearer of this letter of the in-
habitants of Hinckley to the Anti-Corn-Law Deputies
assembled in Palace-yard, London. If you will proc►.~re
a bearing for him wh►le he reads it, or cause it to be read
to the meeting by your Secretary, you will, much oblige.
your fellow-sufferers of Hinckley."
Mr. G. Thompson then read .the following letter:—

THE INHABITANTS OF HINCKLEY, TO7THE M&ET,
ING OF THE ANTI-CORN-LAW DEPUTIES, PALACE-

YARD, LONDON.

" Fellow-SuilZ•rers—At the summons of the League,
we sent Representatives to both the late meetings of
Anti-Corn-law Deputies, but we send none to this.
Our best wishes are with you, not our hopes, for we have
none. You are again attempting a breach in that mo-
nopolist Legislature that furnishes the many for the
luxury of the few ; that battens the few on the very
flesh and blood of the multitude that pine and
die around them ; that shuts us from the rest
of the plentiful world in England, as in a pri-
son, reducing the food of its sinewy and willing inhabi-
tants to less than prison allowance; that monopolist Le-
gislature that blocades the British coast with its execra-
ble Excise, allying itself with the famine, destruction,
and death that besiege us. We admire—almost wonder
sat your perseverance in the object of your meeting—we
utterly despair of your success.
" We feel as though the Anti-Corn-law agitation had
done its utmost, thanks to the men that originated,
thanks to the energetic men that have worked, all thanks
to the men that have supported it. In Parliament all
has been said on the Corn-laws than can be said, and
said in the best manner •, but ,you hope still to
move its Honourable Members. They are immovable.
They will disregard your suppliant attitude. The
Houses of Parliament, as • at preseut occupied, are no
arena for the Corn-law controversy ; for ourselves we
would cease to wage it there. You think the public at-
tention will be roused by this meeting ; it is already
thoroughly and fearfully aroused. Your arguments are
known our empire through, and where no lecturers of
yours have been to stimulate the people, there eloquent
want and convincing hunger have been exciting them.
There are now no converts to be made, the minds of all
are made up, except of such as are neutral from
interest or incapacity. The Anti-Corn-law League
have done their most, and have been frustrated ;
we wait now the course of events. We look now
either for new measures on the part of the League,
or else for the uprising of some more power-
ful party. The condition of the inhabitants of
Hinckley may be understood from the 'following state-
mein :—out of all the stocking frames in Hinckley nut more
than twenty are fully employed. One quarter of the
fames have two-thirds of what would be full employ-
vent ; another one-quarter of them have half employ-
ment ; the remaining half of the frames are laid down,
that is, are never used at all. Rather more than a fifth
of the houses in Hinckley are void at present ; half of the
number have been vacated within the last- year. Last
year the parish of Hinckley paid 7:4. 11d, in the 11. per
annum poor-rates ; while Sharnford, a parish in the
same union, chiefly, though not altogether agricultural,
paid Is. 3d. The rate-payers of Hirckley pay six times
heavier rates -than -do the rate-payers of Sharnford, in
the same union. There is scarcely enough work in
Hinckley to employ one-third part of the weavers, The

Members of the House of Commons' were returned to
remedy this distress. After abortive attempts at its elm
no Him. Members are justified in retaining their scats
Since the sessiCa began popular suffering, far from sub-
siding., has increased. The present :%feinhers of Parlia-
ment have proved themselves incompetent to its
miti-
gation. Still more unequal mar we expect them to be
to the dread elnerit'oneies that are hastening, on us. . We,
have, therefore, prayed them ss simplest 'justice
either t!-. relieve the peoPle or to resign .their serfs;ts;
give the nation contentment, or to hive them back their
Fellow-sufferers we thank
you for your fight
-against the Corn-laws, hot we think your cause is now
resolved into another case. Justiee, palpable as noon-
thtv's unclonthd light, has betat denied us; in the Ilonses
famishingof Parliament our ramishin
cries are drowned in the
than the Corn-laws now. 'We suspect The soil on which
shouts dcihme, mlil "nlimrly mirth. We look fondle'.
Bitch a.fitngus tlourisitea„, tx
o''e (mubt too purity of elec-
tions that represt-nt a people as voting for themselves
famine and the consequent ehances•of pestilence. We
mistrust the reallyl" representative character of that
Parliament that maim ains those many partial
laws of which the monstrous Corn aml Provision
popular cause is taking a new shape ; another struggle
Acts are actually a fine 1-flph,,-
is preparing, •to which ',hat on 'the Corn-laws is
foul as tivey are. The
subordinate; the very principles that proditeed the
Corn-laws, are in question. The system itself that
sustains them is suspected—a national crisis is at hand,
monstrous as anv thet Brineh history records, in wilese
mzzaittule tho •Cern-1!,7?z, ar.td. 0.1 . other popnl,
:ri.v.syw!coll - Fellow suffers
be r.eatiy for your htvr
re ttrke. tt
impracticable ?---its non. Members were pledged to tee
Corn-laws-by their cons:itttents but year ago ; they
seemed scarcely sensible of the country's condition—so
it appears to its from the heartlessness with which they
doubt it, from the coldness with which they prescribe
mere patience, for our long-standing wretehedness; the
cruelty with which they complain of the people's cries,
as, interruption to the routine business, and from the
apathy with which they employ themselves about
Turnpike Bills, and minor matters,' while every day of
this precious session, thousands of persons go, for the
tit.st unwilling time, to the workhouse, tens of thou-
sands sit down to scantier and poorer meals, and millions
karden into sterner desperation.
w "If this meeting be your last resource, we fear that it
is a hopeless one. If you find it such, say so; fearlessly,
say S o to the world ; .appeal then from the Parliament to
the people—from the Commons to the country—front
the rowers that he, to that only source of just power in
England, the English nation.

"Fellow-suffer—ers, we unit with solicitude the result of
your fleeting. We abide with anxiety, not UTI-
- with terror, the coining of the next few
months. We have great faith, however, in our
country, that, whatever may be her trials, she
may he found equal to it. Our country, whose physical
and moral resources are -so vast, the genius of whose
people makes her artisans the teachers of the whole
earth,the.holdness of whose sailors constitutes them the
carriurs.for the whole world, the vastness of whose com-
merce whitens the whole ocean with its sails, and crowds
every port with its ships. ;Our country, for ages past an
asylum of Liberty in the earth, and within whose hear-
ing the vide world round scarcely a single battle has
been fought for in which some one or other of
her sons has not struck a blow for the good old cause.
We have faith too, with all reverence we say it, in that
Providence that laid the foundation of England's
gmitness in the ocean's unfathomable depths, and
that lifted her thence, rich with mines below
and wisdom above, into her commanding position on the
seas; we have faith in the God of nations, who can over-
rule their calamities and revolutions for greater final
good—in the God who, through national hardship and
vicissistude, early trained the British people up for strug-
gle and success—in whose name, Magna Charta was
confirmed to the "Barons bold on Runnymede"—whom
the pure-minded Milton supplicated for freedom's cause
—of whose presence round him, the hero :Hampden was
mindful when he died—who received the martyred Syd-
ney's parting spirit—and to whose eternal principles of
truth, justice, and mercy; lies the patriarch's last appeal.
We are calm, but are determined ; conscious of difficulty,
but confident of our cause ; resolved on our rights, but
resolute on rightful -means." (The reading of this ad-
dress was frequently-interrupted by loud cheering.)
The CHAIRMAN said the meeting would now proceed
to the business of the day, which was to receive reports
of the distress which existed .in different parts of the
country..l-Ie was proceeding to call the Rev. NB*. Bailey,
Delegate of Sheffield; when

All. WINKS, of Leicester, said he should b#•glad to
hear the programme of the plan of the Committee with
, espect to future operations, They wore all prepared to
make reports, but they wanted to know w hat should be
done.—(dear, hear.)
- . Mr. G. THOMPSON said the Committee in their deli-
berations yesterday had considered most carefully and
anxiously what steps it would be proper for the Con-
ference to pursue practically, with a view to • obtaining
- the object which had brOught them together. They re-
solved upon several measures, and he would refer to
them in order to satisfy the meeting that they
had not been unmindful of the trust reposed
in them. They intended, in the course of the
day, to seek an interview with the Prime Minister of the
country:, for the whole of the assembled Delegates, that
they might lay upon the conductor of the present Ad-
ministration the solemn and momentous responsibility
of denying the prayer which, on behalf of a perishing
desperate people, they would on that occasion prefer if
the interview were granted. They had undertaken, also,
a more grateful task,. that of applying to his Royal High- •
ness the Duke of Sussex—(Cheerss—the liberality of
whose opinions, both upon religious questions and ques-
tions concerning the personal and political liberty of the
subject, was top well known to require from him either
explanation or eulogy.—(Loud cheers.) It was intended
to seek on behalf of the Deputies, through their estimable
Chairman, an interview with the Royal Duke. He did
not know whether he was at liberty to state at
that moment what was the precise object of that inter-
view. It had reference to something more than the mere
laying before his Royal Highness the state of the coun-
try; it was intended, through the Royal Duke, . to seek
an opportunity of laying a statement of the grievances of
those whom they represented at the feet of a higher Per-
sonage in the realm, who, they believed, shared in the
feelings of compassion, and in the views of sound national
policy which were cherished by her revered relative.
(Loud cheers.) The answer to their applications would
be laid before the meeting the moment they ar-
rived.---(Hear, hear.) With respect to other mea-
sures, it • had been resolved in the Executive Com-
mittee to have a meeting of Delegates as early as pos-
slide, for the purpose of considering maturely what
means still remain to be adopted of a constitutional and
proper character fen the attainment of their object—
mea»s which had not hitherto been resorted to, but
which promised, by the adoption and application a
them, to work out the end which. they had in view. It
was intended that that meeting should be of a strictly
Li'l.nelaPv.iri theirg
nth,eo families,
clllraurse , f 4 or 3
-private character ;- that a: the present
cfruilsliess.t.orippootrititati
nity of stating their vi‘!•sv in i
meeting every Delegate: would be invited. He hoped
that the Delegates who were now anxious to have some
plan-at :nice adopted, would attend at that meeting, and
state what, in their opinion, was the best plan which
could be pursued.—(Cheers.)
A conversation ensued with reference to the propriety
of bearing the statements from Sheffield and other
places, several gentlemen in the room proposing that
the meeting should proceed at once to the discussion of
mup stet hi se
ulterior measures, instead of hearing ofadditional distress.
At length it was agreed that the Delegates should pro-
ceed with their statements until two O'clock, when the
meeting should proceed to the -discussion of future ope-
rations. .
The. ReV. Mr. BAILEY, of Sheffield, then addressed
the meeting. sympathised
would with
not, the
therefore,impa-
impa-
tience which was manifested at the prospect of hearing
into his P°l4s' scion, but would merely
with all the harrowing details further
a few remarks. When
yMentto send in their
state
trouble
rsehsr'rtleidelliqctecisuteamaisinstneeededot t n'tdod attend to
them
h e
address to the working classes, requesting such as were
lie
dqiisittreesss.Y
trade, and
n for what-
e to add. I
were all heads of
days-he received 27,156 statements from workingand unem-
elln sufferingtagl
emr:ersse,imria
gaflrerBkso,3sms
theya
unt lnd numberewi hilaei
lists4o2f
0,
families. Ile would not trouble the meeting with this
statement, as it would probably appear before
ployed men, who, with 150 exceptioxs,
the publ:c through •
some other medium. The dis-
tress in Sheffield now extended to every branch
of its trade. He held in his hand a list which showed
the reduction in the wages received by various operatives
then as compared with the wages received in 1838. He
had selected for the comparison the year 1838, because
that was felt to be a period of distress, and wages were
then supposed to have reached their minimum.
But he found, in looking over the list before him, that
many operatives who in 1838 were earning 205., 255.,
305., or more, were now earning stuns varying from 5%;.-
to Bs. or 10s. He had inquired into the cases of 2,156.
families, amounting to upwards of 10,000 individuals,
whose wages had of late declined, and who were suffer:
ing under the pressure of severe distress. . It should be
observed that the decline in the trade of Sheffield -was
not owing to the introduction of machinery, because the
manufacturers there employed very little machinery
now, which had not been in use fifty years ago. In
fact, the only important article of machinery
in use in Sheffield was the steam-engine, which
drove their wheelQ, and which had been in use for
nearly half a century. The distress in- Sheffield could
not, therefore, be in any way traced- to the introduction
of new Machinery throsving VA rious hands out of' employ 7
meat, as was alleged to b" the case in other 'districts. lie
had ascertained the particulars of Various eases of distress
An the town he represented, but there were many others
which had escaped his inquiries. There were several
operatives who refused to communicate to him the his-.
tory of their sufferings; they told him they knew his in-

tentions were charitable, but as they t hutigh t his ener-
gies were made with a view to petitioning Par-
liament, they refused to enter iato any disclosures. "1 t was
not words," they said," would move Parliament, but force
they should have if they did not change their system."
That was no doubt violent language, but it was not the
oppressed but the oppressors that would be answerable
1;n- the consequence's• of the excitement created by the
sufferings endured miller our present legislation. lle
should mention that all the money he had stated to I►.?
now received by operatives at the present day, was not.
paid in wages ; but that a considerable portion was
received either out of the poor rates, or out of charitable
contributions. The decline of wages, was of course, felt. •
by the shopkeepers, -because so much floating capital
ceased to circulate among them. lie had ascertained
that in a number of cases into which he had inquired,
there. were 6,0002 a week less paid in wages during the
present year than in former periods ; and that ;could
give a yearly diminution of 300,0001. All that money
was withdrawn from the shopkeepers ; and that ac-
counted for the change in their condition. The poor did
not in general attribute their distress to the Corn-laws,
but to the influence of class -legislation ; and thousands
of them looked to the Charter as the only remedy for
the evils under which they suffered.—(ll-ear, hear ) The
Sunday-schools were now comparatively deserted. Ile
bad scarcely found a single case in which those schools
were as numerously attended during the present year as
in the year 1838. Large sums had been of late contri-
buted out of the funds of the Trades Unions toward.. 7
the reFf,fof the div.ressf!d, He, had i.!fn informoci
igwy-hly Cort r with rb , .
!:nionz,l-1..t tries in •-)C • •ri • I.
ara.i n 0,41/. Inwfirds

arid- ap-17.&;reilleCx 0: ial,ip-z:ndenee
by the noble efforts of their brethren.—\Cheers.) -
chinery, as he had already said, was not the source ot
the evil; and there could be no doubt but that a repeal
of the Corn-laws would tend greatly• to diminish
it. A gentleman in the room, Mr. Ibbotson, a
man well known in Yorkshire and in LancaShire,
had told him that if the Corn-laws were- repealed, he
should be able to-morrow to lind employment for 500
fresh hands.—(Hear, hear.) The charitable contribu-
tions of individuals could never effectually meet the pre-
vailing. distress. It was not charity the people wished
for ; charity was the most expensive mode of satisf3ing
the general wants.—(Hea", hear.) Charity ! Why
the wealth of the nation might be expended in
charity, and yet leave the evil greater at , its
close than at its commencement.—(Hear, hear.)
He had ascertained that among the young men of Shef-
field—among that class who formed the hope of every
nation—there were now 134 thrown by necessity on the
parish, and working on the highway. The want of
food would inevitably destroy the feelings and the cha-
racter of our population. Man was a physical, as
well as a spiritual animal ; and the mind decayed
if the body was left a prey to hunger. In such a state of
destitution as he had described, he wanted to know how
men could retain their domestic virtue. He had himself
known the ease of a man whose wants were relieved, hut
relieved at the expense of the honour of his wife.—
(Cries of " Shame.'') The lessons of religion would be
preached in vain to men pre-engaged with alarms of
bankruptcy, or with the horrors of actual distress.
It was the duty of every good citizen to strive to obtain
a remedy for the evils-under which the country now suf-
fered. As a minister of religion he should be unwilling
to mingle in the present contest ; but how was lie to
avoid coming forward when the people were starving ?
—(Heer, hear.) While he witnessed the distress
which everywhere met his eyes, he felt compelled to
say that he cared little for the la.vs of etiquette ;
the higher and more imperious laws of sterling humanity
required of them all to be at their posts.—(Cheers.) It
was true that they were not sent there by men whose
voices they had bought—(l-lear)—but he had no- brsita,
lion in saying that they more truly represented the
people of England than if they were their more legal
representatives, like the present House of Commons.
There was a time when Sir Robert Peel might have
been a great man. Providence threw in the was of that
little man one golden occasion, when he could have be-
come the saviour of his country. Rut he had neglected
the golden opportunity. He had heard a multitude of
the poor wish maledictions on the head of Sir Hobert,
Peel, which he bad rather die of famine than hear melt
wish upon his own head. He heard of a genticquan,
who in private company said, that if 100 persons east
lots, and the lot should fall upon hint, he would take the
lot to deprive Sir Robert Peel of life. He felt
convinced that no such attempt ought to be made under
any pretence whatever ; but he was persuaded of this,
that when he, Sir R. Peel, went to his grave, there would
be but few to shed one tear over it. Something must be
done, but what that something was it was not for hint to
say. Unless the great bodies of the people whom -
they represented were prepared to act with them they had
no part to act. Truth, however, must prevail. The truth
of the political doctrine, that the Corn-laws were an in, a-
sion of the people's rights, that the monopoly of the suffrage
was another invasion of the people's rights, must neces-
sarily, before long, be established. The master mono-
poly, which involved all the minor ones, must fall ; and
when it did come down, great must be the fall.

Mr. W. IBBOTSON said, it had been resolved at the
Committee last evening, that gentlemen should confine
themselves to such statistics as they had brought ,with
them. That being the case, he had little to say, as the
most important documents he had to communicate had
been laid before the Anti-Corn-law League on a previous
occasion. He might perhaps be allowed to refer briefly
to them, as they conveyed a more correct view of the
condition of the people in Sheffield than anything he
could state of himself. lie would first direct their at-
tention to the casual list of the poor. In 1836 the quarterly
amount of the casual list was 162/. In 1837 ,in the commence-
ment of the year,it increased to 240/.; and towards the close
of the year, in consequence of the panic in the American
market, it increased to 9.00/. In the years 1838 and 1839 it
• fell, but in the year 1840 the effects were again felt of
the inability of the Americans to pay for the articles of
commerce which they had formerly got, or to continue
their commerce with us, and the consequent want of
em-
ployment amongst our operatives,and the casual list rose to
2,0001. In the year 1841 it averaged about 1,600/or 1,800/. ;
and-in the first quarter of the present year the amount
increased to 2,235/.. Let them consider this. The
casual list, which in 1836' was only 1621. per quarter, in-
creased in the year.lB42 to 2,235/. in the first quarter,
and in the quarter ending the present week to 4,253/. ;
and there was every reason to believe that it would
rapidly increase. The number of men capable
of working who had applied for relief in the quarter
ending March 19, 1826, was 316, which increased to
984 for the corresponding quarter in the year 1836. Since
that period the increase was progressing and would con-
tinue to progress till something was done by the Go-
vernment to alleviate the distress of the people.
Ibbotson here read an extract from a pam-
phlet published by him about ten or twelve
years ago on this subject, whick showed that
the distress he foretold, as the consequence of the
system then pursued by Government, had resulted from
that: system, and then went on to say, that though the
people of England were a most loyal people, yet that
the de4itution which they suffered would soon put that
loyalty to a test, which he feared they could not beat.
Alter some further remarks upon the prosperity which
would result to this country if Government would create
laws that would enable us to exchange our manufactures
for the agricultural productions of America. Mr. Ibl,t.
son concluded by stating t' at something must be done
to remedy the present evils of the country, or the con-
sequences would be most awful.
The Rev. Mr. BONNER, of Bilston, said that he per-
fectly sympathised with Mr. Bailey of Sheffield in his
feeling of not wishing to be here. He (Mr. Bonner) had
attended the Conference of Ministers at Manchester,
solely on account of the great and extensive dis-
tress that prevailed in his own neighbourhood.
lie . had also attended. the Conference held
last February at London, and on neither of these
occasions was it his desire to be present ; his incline-
nations did not lead him to take part in such assemblies
of the people, but the distresses of the people compelled
him to overcome his feelings and attend to further the
• good cause—the cause of charity and of the people.
Neither had he any desire to take part in
the present proceedings, but the same sense of
duty which had prevailed with him previously,
operated on him To detail the distresses
of the people, calamitous and extreme as ho
knew them to be, were a task he was not equal to.
It was a task which fairly nonplused him. lle
knew that among . the people the feeling pre-
vailed that any agitation on the subject would
be attended with little or no good effect.
The people had ceased to regard steps such as the
present movement leading to any remedy for
the sufferings which encompassed them. Ile felt '
bound to state that he knew men of good princi-
ples, religioas men, who entertained these sentiments.
He had heard many persons say that no good could be
done until they rioted--until they rose; he had laboured
hard to keep those feelings down, but he knew that
those feelings existed. In the Wolverhampton
district, there were 134 blast furnaces, of these
sixty• two were at the present moment idle, each
of those employed 160 persons, and thus there
were 10,000 persons at present out of employment.
There were a number of iron mills in that neighbour-
hood, which employed about from 200 to 300 hands
each. The majority of these were now idle. The Japan
trade was in a dreadful state. One master was now work-
ing for 50 per cent. less than he had done three years ago,
of course he could not employ the same number of hands,
and destitution would consequently be increased. In
his town there were at the present moment 130 honest
labouring men breaking stones in the work house. Ile
had heard of a vice-maker, who had been anything
but • a poor man, but Who was now a very
poor one. He had been seeking for a job,
and at length had procured one, which would bring him
in about 10s., but he had not money sufficient
to purchase the iron. A friend of his (Mr. Bon-
ners) let him lave the iron, and went to see
hiin .at .his work. There was another working with
'him.. They "both seemed-much exhausted, and, when

• pressed, admitted that they had had nothing to eat
• from Thursdly morning until that time, which was Sit-
; turday morning.- A jeweller told him that within the last
10 weeks he had purchased 14 or 15 svedding rings, which
' had been brought to him by It6thers of families, to pro-
, (lire food for their children ; they were not pledged, but
sold. because the parties had no hope of ever being able
to redeem them. The general feeling in the minds of the
wet-king classes was of a most awful description. In
Bilston and its neighbourlaaxl there were 29 furnaces,
15 of these were out of work, and the number of unem-
ployed in that town could not be less than 3,000. The
workhouse was so full that the guardians were obliged to
have beds- made on the floor, and the old poor-house at
Bradley had been ordered to be repaired fin. their recep-
tion. At one of the works at Bradley, which formerly
employed 180 persons, only ten were now employed. It
was important that these things should be known.—
(Cheers.) He considered the Bible the great director in
matters of political economy. The great Scripture doc-
trine of truth was that God had constituted the whole
Itm»an race as one family—that the doctrine of patrio-
tism, the doctrine of local attachment, was a fallacy,
that the whole world was his country, and all the inha-
bitants thereof his country m en- -(Cheers)—that God
had made provision for the whole human race, irrespee-
tive of local situations—(Cheers)—that he had provided
abundance, and had given rain, and snow, and sunshine,
not to enhance the rents of the landlords, but to give
bread to the eater, and seed to the sower.---e(Cheeria)'
What were the Corn-laws but a tax upon the rein, p_1(1
now, and annshine HeaNi.n—(Cheer,9 connteJ-5.r-
-ti-}re of tit.= gifts of God? Soltu-norr.c, r.v.1111,
built th,t.
• I with
they wire :in.--(Loud cheers.) I lie Book. of Job dis-
; tinetly stated-that to withhold bread front the hungry
• was great wickedness, and infinite iniquity.—(Loud
cheers.) It was the duty of every Christian, more espe-
cially - of every Christian minister, to take a decided
- stand against monopoly—(Cheers)—to plead the misery
of the poor and needy, and to deliver them out of the-
hands of the wicked.. The country was on the' brink
of a volcano, and unless the ocean of commerce was
turned in upon it, it would burst, and spread desolation
,on the aristocracy end every other portion of aociet.y.
He trusted, however, that God would avert such a
calamity. The time was now come, when something
must he done. Some proposed to go to the Queen,
others to refuse payment of the income-tax. 11e did
not recommend the latter course ; he believed the law
would not let him ; but he hoped Sir Robert Peel might
get a good Income-tax—over tile left.—(Cheers and
laughter.) He hoped, however, that the Corn-laws
would be repealed, and that England would rise like a
giant refreshed, and the cry of starvation would be no
tenger heard.—(Loud cheers.)
Mr. 'TAUNTON. of Coventry, said that since the Con-
ference hadlast met in February, the distress in Coventry
hadbeen of a most Appalling character. He felt reluc-
tant to present himself again to the Conference, belies--
lug., as be did, that tlte callous-hearted aristocracy were
-determined to goad the people to rebellion, in order to
govern by the sword.—(Cheers.) He considered it WAS
a mark of moral degradation for a freeman to have ()C..
casion there to Make these complaint*. -lt was.a proof
of our individual selfislmess.--(Cheers.) %Ire were
now suffering the penalty of our former apathy. The
middle classes and the aristocracy had locked themselves
up in private, and had neglected their duty to suffering
humanity.—(Cheers.) He was astonished at the apathy
of the metropolis on this subject. London should recol-
lect that, though she was the metropolis of the empire,
yet she depended upon the provinces for her prosperity,
and if they were ruined she must fall.---(Cheers.) The
working men of En'a•!and were men of untiring energy ;
they were the prodtteeri4 of wealth, and they were •
starving. Was it ever to continue so ? Would the
people never learn to rely on their own energy,.und de-
mand to be fed themselves while they feed others?—
(Cheers.) If the Government could- not relieve distress,
why did it inflict it?—(Cheers.) If Sir R. Peel could
not give us commerce, why did he legislate on the sub-
ject of commerce at all?--(Loud cheers.) The great
error of our legislation was that it was too multifarious,
teo multitudinous.—(Loud cheers.) The principle of
commerce was simple, and the Legislature ought not to
meddle with it. The aristocracy of England polluted
everything it touched.—(Cheers.) The Church was the
relligion of Mammett—Mammon was the god of the
Church.--•-(Cheers.) The law entrapped the weak flies
of deameracy, and let the strong aristocracy break
through its meshes— (Loud cheers)—and commerce,
too; was polluted by the touch of the aristocracy.—(Loud
..cheers.) There was a general feeling existing amOng
all classes that the repeal of the Corn-laws was not the
only thing to be eft'tseted, but that there must be a tho-
rough constitutional change in the House ot:Commons.—
i - There must be a union between -the- middle acid the
werking classes.—(Loud cheers.) _ The only remedy for
the evils we were suffering was the removal of the'eause,
which was class legislation.--(Cheers.) He wmthi 110 w
enter into the statistic-al details of the distress existing
in Coventry. lie would commence with the poor-rates.
In 1837 the amount of poor-rates collected in Coventry
was 9,984/. ; in 1838 it was 9,266/. ; 1839, 9,914/. ;
in 1840, 9,9821., and in 1841, 12,9761. ; show-
ing an increase in the amount of poor-rates, within
the last twelve months, of 3,000/. The number of per-
sons excused from payment of the poor-rates, on ac-
count of poverty, amounted, in 1837, to 580 ; in 1838, to
496; in 1839, to 527; in 1840, to 587, and in 1841, to 1,000.
In Coventry there were a great number of charities
, which distributed thousands every year. Another rea-
, son why the poor-rates were not larger :night be ac-
counted-for by the manner in w.hich the franchise was
held in Coventry. There were 4,000 persons possessed
-of the franchise, and if one of them received one farthing
from the .poor-rates he became disfranchised ; and so
much regard had they for the right that they
would rather suffer any privations than sacri-
fice it.—(Hear.) The debtors in the gaol, in 1838,
were 23; in 1839, 28; in 1841, 90; and up to June, 1842,
67. The criminals in gaol, in 1838, were 19S ; in 1839,
276; in 1840, 358; in 1841, 291; and up to June it,
1842, 163. But the increase in crime hall been greater
than was here represented, inasmuch as there was a dis-
pute between the parish of Coventry and thecounty, which
would be settled in London on _Elidey next, several per-
' sons having been taken to the county when they ought
to have been taken to the 'city. A t the
sessions held in 1841 there were only eight prisoners to
be tried ; in 1842 there svero twenty-three. During
January and February of time present year there were
-11,980 loaves of' bread, weighing albs. each, and 40
tons of coal, distributed amongst the poor. These
loaves cost the smart' 1,3511. 14s. 9d., and were all.
expended in ten distributions. To show how careful the
Bread Relief Committee were, they passed this resole-
tion—" That in all cases iu which the average earning
was 3s. for each adult above sixteen years of age,
and Is. for each child, no relief shall be given, except
in the case of illness and old age." Looking
to the mode of' distribution, and considering the amount
of voluntary subscriptions,' they would at once sec the
extent of the distress, and since that time the distress
had increased. No one scarcely had a better opportu
pity than he had of witnessing that distress. His
, situation was that of a -furniture • broker. Day
after day individuals came to him, asking him
to-,-purehaso their feather-beds; and exchange them
for flock. In a short time time flock-beds were ex-
changed for straw, and at last they sold the straw-heel
and lay upon the floor. -Yesterday morning before he lett 1111
Coventry, having been too late for the train,
he went back, and is bile he had been away au
indis ideal had called, and he • said, Mr. Taunton .1
want 10/. You have known the twenty years. I fun , a
member of a Dissenting congregation. I never was in a
public-house more than once or twice in my life ;
and -I never was intoxicated. You know my cha-
racter for industry. I have worked hard forty -
years, and unless you assist Aloe I. shall have the
bailiffs to-morrow, amid we must all go to the parish."
This state of things frequently came under his (Mr. Tann -
ton's) notice. The gaols were full, the pawnbrokers were
full ; the workhouses were full, and the people's bellies
were empty. . The failures which had taken place
amongst the ribbon manufacturers amounted to 50,000/.
Thousands of the working men were walking about the
streets, with a sullenness far more awful to these in
power than the mere expression of momentary revenge.
—(Cheers.) This state of things was certainly sapping
the very foundations of morality, and destroying all the
moral principles of humanity. This was a fearful and
awful state of things, and it was the duty of every man
to stand up and use his utmost power to meet the
exigencies of the times. The reduction in waves bad
been at least 50 per cent. since 1819 in the ribbon trade.
The watch trade was also in a fearful state. The
wages in that trade had been reduced since 1836 at.
least 25 per cent., and in some cases not one-sixteenth the
amount of the wages were paid now compared with the
wages of 1836. It appeared to him that the time was
past for talking. The time was come to do something,
and he would tell them what to do.—(Cheers.)
thought they ought to proceed at once to appoint a Com-
mittee of Public Safety in the metropolis—(Cheers)—and
induce every Delegate from the country to pour in such
facts as would organize such a body of public opinion
as would create time utmost odium against those in
-power, and compel them to yield. The experience of the ,
fate of other empires behoved them to take their stand in
Ile knew that there was likely to be a eoalition,
shortly between Sir R. Peel and Lord John Russell---
between between the Whigs and Tories, and God sPe"ti• the
worn:,--(Loud cheers.) May there
_be a aild'i"1:11
aristocracy at once.—(Cheers.)
gee
the monster with but one face, and nloVteJa.sol::B:isitkaenektt
first one way and then another as circumstances d h
quirod. As to
,what Sir Robert
,I:oeteilhis.stuutri.n
to anything.
e (Jigs
Taunton) had no doubt
it,ll,lt he .
under es era new cueutu -
He was a political came
colour, and was as con-
temptiblebaSeness of his
stance he could chsoges
tmr his mutability\ Bad nao't for
re
‘tmlolerkkiiieniciegrus.aitsi-seledisiteadoinmitl;
character.--(Cheers.) - .
the middle
hcelaTreosurseeas;
tempt t Commons.—(Cheers,)
not been returned by gross bribery ? Had they not
all of them- declared such to be the me in the

House of Con-In-ions': TT ad not the tat,LOCretey of England
:ind also the money bag aristocracy- t,ronght about that.
coniummatior, Had they not cased tho:tsands of
honest and independent minds, by- threats and in 'thilida•
tion, to commit mental treason against their coantry ;
and would they not abominate that system that seared
men into vassalage, and cursed them with
slavery that maddened them into lunatics, and drove
them to acts of incendiarism ; and if they did not die
upon t.. 1 scaffold th,y w.,re sent to foreign landr, or
else were made paupers and buried as such. 'Path
of the I ;overninent the great principle 4.11 the. l'oor-law
'vas to force men to Ivor]: for their living.. and the great
principle of the Corn-laws tool; front them the power of
working.—(Tremendons cheering.) If the aristocracy
would set, th:, example of nt a eating %%idiom working.
every one would he glad to follow the example. He did
not anticipate such universal prosperity from the roPeRI
the Corn-fitws, bin it ii as one of the rong-
"lds the aristocracy, and therefiwo he oiiploSrd II
aeltlt'tl to this, W:4!, injustice, (Cheers.)
lie linen. j.errcctly. well that Ilte people of England
won't! not notch loneor submit to such a ,tale of
ltnt Sill• 11 was die fanaticism of I Ito aristorrney that the
!blinder might roll and the Ji.,littling flash. Lel they
would heed it not, until, like the Antediluvians of eld,
they were swept away by the torin.—(Cheers.)
Sir. TAvnon. jun., as a tele,rate from ('oventry, felt
hound to fay a. few wont, to the meeting. notwithstand-
ing the excellent speech that had lade by Mr.
Tannton. He would not go over again the sta:tistics
that lir. Taunton had [tonight forw:lrd, hut lie
wished to. state to the mputing flee strikinv dif-
ference between the number of debtors and - cri-
minal luisoners in the gaol of Coventry, dim-
ing the last two years and the previous ones. The
number of those prisoners during the last two years was
grouter than the previous six. Ile considered the dis-
tress in Coventry tvaS especially worthy the attention of
the meeting, considering the trade carried on there was
a home trade. The plait on which legislation wits car-
ried on was one. not of justice, but- manta plunder.
To talk of protection was a farce, because thiA tnet was,
that as each class receded from the aristocracy, their pro-
diminished.
id tire-
orking
:hie-teen:iv! otivitaklswv:i:sro. 11.tlacy, anti :hc :v‘tailtist,eirhYgt vtralts:
co
iNsva 3CB-
eers.)
What was Sir Robert Peel's tariff—was that intended to
do any good for the poor ? Certainly. not, becanse it re-
tained the duty on sugar, and other necessaries, while it
gave way to the susceptible corkcutter and bootmaker.—
(14,1171-teF.) But thn.n it 31.0b,:qt Peel.
it ift thP .-.16-o T 1-" 1.40 f
,!' re... V' .0k110,11,11 ••••deareil,••

• •
• • A *.tV G
•i,, i 1,1..•
• • t.
1.111,,id.,4'd I I
,r,,,ponsibiiity upon
the shoulders of the pres,ot Conference. Their pro-
ceedings and the speeches delivi red would be looked for-
ward to, not by thousand..., hitt by tvits of thousands.
The course they adopted would either give a rav of lupe,
.ar cause despair in the country.---(Citeers.) 'they inn,(
show that they were determined not to flinch
Irmo the course they had chalked out—(Cheers)
—anti that they were determined to plate the
responsibility on those y, ho had caused the evil.'
—(Cheers.).. Sir Robert Peel lowly well the reason
of the distresses of the people, and with that knowledge
he had alnuist excluded the article of rthili front the
tariff.—(Loud elvers.) Every thinking. mind wont,'
feel the injustice ,if such a course ; anti if violence
took. place. Sir -Robert Peel, with ittelt facts staring
him in the face, would have no right to complain.
Something had been said yesterday about the disgraee-
fulness of there being no House on catchy. To his
mind it was a great relief. Ito e.7uld not exprt-,ss the
loathing and disgust with which he had read the del-ato
,:f Friday night, tilled as it was w ith base. lying pretences,
Of sympathy for the people. ,Sir James ("raisin had de-
clares' that if he really believed that the repeal of the
Corn-laws w‘timid remove the present dist ress, 11, would Lot
pi:Lee any selfish interests in sir James
forgot his memorable words in 18:27, when la- declared
that when this eountry presented the spectacle of a people
supplieating for breteel. then wtnthl the people sweep
away mks, rank, and station. That was treading upon
dangerous ground. It; in violenee Or Contempt a
th, kw' the people should attlu.pt in England,
as they had done in Ireland, to obtain by force that
,onght by legal means, had been de-
nied them, he trusted that the voltam.% ctf the working
ilasses ..f this country would present a cont,t-ast to that
of the people of France in 7f49. Although we-had our
linckinghams, our Peels, a kol our Knatehhttlls, he trusted
that England would never show her I>antons nr'her
Robespierre;.—(Lottd cheers.) . .

1- Afr..G. T/1031PSoN rose and addressed the meeting as
follows ;—f have already vindicated the conduct (it the
Executive Committee in proceeding Ca OtioltSly to the
consideration ur practical measures. Standing before
the meeting, not in the character of a member of that
Cominntee or of Secretary, but only as a Delegate re-
presen:ing a large portion of my suffering fellow•eoun-
trymen, I will now venture to state plainly t. the meeting
the course whi h I have marked „ii for myself.
We are 1.% s ic in bled in the metropolis of England, %Ilia
is the centre of the eounneree of the W 4 ,rld, to survey
-the condition of the industrious class's of our country.
men. That condition is 141, of uoprocedented misery,
destitution, anti itelples 9tess;,----(1 I ea r, hear.) yet we
can point to Ho awful. vi,itatiot, 9, te,, i.,,t,,,,.•Ni.0
cavil,.
quake bus shaken to their founiLlions our once Ibturirh-
ling towns and eities----(Cheer) no teittpests have de.
strop,' Otir Alirr'l2llo hi vadinf,:: a F a, illy 11:, , devtated oar
•,.....,
lttor,, —no is ilffeettitir, hlTglit ha eoristuned the green
herb of the he!d"--7:-rio.p• Salem, lees witrattrittsiqtei*elesa
- flight unseen through the land. Save where we are
,''
. waging unholy and :lege, S,iiN i• war;
moment Ire might abar(hin, and w itli hoitrinr and prtilit)
' ",' ,C' are at 1."1“'e•--(Cheers.) A hundred ;till fill?' rnil-
noes or hum so beings boa to our sctptee' tipOJA etisteat
shores, and tabour, or we tell tabour, f;.r our enrichment.
()lir friendly alliances embrace almost every Civilized
power. Otir own soil teems a ith rich-.s both, above and
Beloit- the surface. Our people are pri--mineet for skill,
for industry, for invention, for enterprise, and for perse-
,
veratiee.—(Cheers.) Each one of the vast mass carries
in himself the incentive to exertion. No intestine civil,
fends have sprung up to suspend the operations of peace•
ful!labour. We love our queen.—(Great cheering and
waving of hats.) Within are all the elements of pro•
duction, anti around us the most f;lvoitrabie Outlets for
the fruits of our ingenuity and toil. Atta yet, with all
our capital, and all our credit, and all our dominion—with
all our power of prodttetion and consumption at home,
and all the facilities we possess for trade and eommerce
abroad, ive see around us poverty, starvation, dis-
affection, and despair, and hear the bitter wailing;
of the hungry, the idle, and the dying.---(Loud cheers.)
HOW is this ?—(liettr, hear.) 11 hence comes it that
where riches arc most abundant- i here .should be the
most helpless poverty ?—(Hear.) How is it that the
people who inhabit this fertile island, and might beitles
ransack this whole globe for the means of sebsistence,
are dying • of hunger ?—(Hear.) now -is if that mid-
titudt•s of men, wlko can -build ships and ',laces, and
construct docks and railroads, and fabricate every
article for which any part of the world has been
ran", either in ancient or modern times, and alto are
still willing and anxious to be employed, should be
perishing of hunger and covered with rags, and giving
up their breath in hovels, and sherds, and ereen fields--
should he sunk so low as ot ei•tomintil the pity of the
savage, whose habitation is a w igwtote whose covering
is the skin of the bear, and whose food is the raw flesh
of the prey he has desiroyed ?—(llear, and cheers.)
I will boldly answer the totestion I have limit. It is the
spirit of monopoly which has done it all:.--(Cheer's.)
Political power is monopolized, and we are in chains.—
(Lou(d cheers.) The green uartlt around us is monopo•
lined, and we arc turned into a desert.--(Tremendorts
applause.) The Court to which the people should ap-
peal is converted into a den of monopolists.—(Cheers.)
The wretched. unemployed, starving.- victim. of hind-
lording monopoly, appeals from the man wk. has started
hint in the country, 1. the same man letter his bribe.
bought seat in Parliament, Strong in the possession-of his
ilreiit ten wealth in the eountry,-and stronger still in
nits ii; fortified, by the laws be himself bus mime, 'which
he (-ails upon a standing army. to enforee:(Great
applause.) Yes, we gather„-ttp,our eountry's woes, and
lay .theiti till at the tioor7of monopi .Iy. Charge, not those
woes Ott heaven, for the earth. has been given for
the profit of all.—(('heers.) The law of. God is holy,
just, and good. The care and providence of God are
universal. Read the mind of your (sod in the sun which
shines on all—in the showers which descend on all—in
the overflowing bounty Of your mother earth—
in the benitieence which feeds time raven, and
clothes the lily, and watches the sparrow when
it falls.—(Cheers.) Charge your (twit poverty and
that of your haggard wives and little ones upon the acts
of those who have robbed ;‘-tas of your patrimony, and
turned you unpitied into the street. It is the huge sto-
mach of monopoly that demands time bread your chil-
dren are crying for.—(Cheers.) It is the avarice of -mo-
nopoly that has grasped the land, en whose produce
you should feed.—(Cheers.) it is the hand of
monopoly that has turned the key upon the corn
of other regions, anti made the proffered blessing a
mockery and a curse. I rejoice to tied myself in an
anti-monopoly meeting.--(Cheers.) This is an anti-
starvation meeting—au anti•insurreetion weeting—an
anti-robbery-7-1 m anti•murtier meeting.—(Cheers.) Re-
member your position. This is a crisis. It MO -
liopolv lives, our country dies.—(Tremendous . cheer-
ins.) monopoly - has passed sentence death of
apoll the commerce, industry, and ,
..
the nation.—,(Cheers.) ' That sentence is in pre.
ce,s of execution. Will volt see the fatal work emu.
Phiaest(.td.eil?)beAti 'arnotridsttoiViZ yn.itiri e;mhl it'itlr)';'"' te,n Irate Thisp m(Nl.etnr otno
starvetli\l'iii, . YE ii)tnitilL: ?SdueiPmf:°:lol;—yoiCtleletillieitiTiiillt.i.icteorN:s?cli:lllf-Cliiveneitialli d-i•ollifthiei
have, the power is in your own lutuds----a pure, peaceful,.
irrepressible, omnipotent power. DothSte.noixtueqdbueailerttleil;',leel
etya:e
are taxed unjustly—(Cheers)—unequa.lly—wheersy_
0 support monopoly ? If you do,
larl
ii 11
ileeidiol law to
.ittiitxoa la%\eiotiltlsotteiii,uarsasstn:.,daikleelikita I
iiiitri:lioikrs,, ~geol,l s
go
to
pay
the
• The law leaves you
the choice of paying in goods, in money, or its your pe mu.
The payment Of money is your own ;tel. The takint.
•4tiill.:l:)o;2.utii.loegrirnusld;lasSenilNitsis,tiltrothe!it:letiatle..(thittiedo.tefl ifigetti,4,(e'le(rt-316.7.1111:t i (1
'llik4te't
t:-}11::
----• oremisers for the goods of
•the tax-gatherer
his d"nand in MOnev. Offer tom gliZistettee ; reproach
not the agent, of ` r.
the elovernment ; bar not your
door against. him % let him enter 'without obstrue-
tion.—((:hoefs.) e ti
Ten_ emen, this does not cotue
from the COlllrni t tee-rOOlll ; it comes from flO
Connell Chamber ; it comes unprompted from ul
own deliberate thoughts. I have flunk). resoked
That until this law, which we • all detest, which - ha*
cramped industry, robbed the 'poor, because he is pvoi'.
' destroyed our trade and commerce, - and made 43+►
a bye-word and -a reproach among • other nation',
and is leading other countries, which . would not.
only be peaceful and friendly, - htir bet.lefielal.,

to adopt retaliatory --measures, and is every day
4 rendering our condition in all respects worse ' and
worsel have determined that until this law is repealed,
utterly and entirely, the course I have marked out shall be
my course.—(Chcers.) This is my practical measure.
*(Cheers.) If our Committee should sit till Parlitunent
4„,• risas,,,and re-assembles, they can submit to you no
, mettattre either more practicable, more peaceful, or more
pottint than that which I have now marked out for
myself:—(Cheers.) This is all I have to say to
\-011 thismorning. I am persuaded I— havp
utt.;red nothing that is illegal.—(Hear, hear.)
von not to combine, or to do anything that, even
forced construction, or a Tory construction, Which
lint 4 is an exceedingly wide one—(A laugh)—
might bring you under the notice of the Attorney-Ge-
neral.—(Cheers.) I commend the counsel I have given
you to your own hearts individually. I call for no formal
expression:. Take what I have said with you to your
on homes. Take it into the country. I say not don't
tqlk about it.— (A laugh.) I don't advise you to conceal
from others what you mean to do yourself. I dun't tell
),,,n to make it a secret among the people
Coven; and Wolverhampton, and Munches-
tor, and and Oltr;frow. To-biniit's Sun will

tn~'rsolutiott to the. world, and to-morrow's
:S':, 01 proclaim it on it; face-to the • eKtremeends Of
•C:e inland. Sir, v. hat I have said, I have said . and I
Bill ahi& by it.—(Lota-cheersi) gentlemen, You are
honest in your desire for action ; if you are sympathetic
• in your feelings of compassion-; if you are bold enough
trt adapt-a measure certain of success ; if you hate the
• Corn-laws;lielieve them to be unjust and pernicious ; if
yolt belieye them to be but half as bad in principle,
1-racticc us you have stated them to- be, then you
%..) and do likcwise.---,(Cheers.) And if you do
• this, theta that which you could not wring from the Go-
v; I'l omit and Parliament by all your warnings, remon-
:- "strapos, petitions; and supplications' you will force
thetti to give-by the adoption of this individual; homely,
;'-.quiet,', • fireside mode of action.—(Loud cheers.) Then
,`•-:',!vitiYottr-cduntry smile—the blessing of the perishing
mitii). von :and God; even our own God, will
,eozutrientl the devotion and self-denial you practised.
. .11r..lrono.aN here intimated that they should meet
agativ,,t s .evening at half-past six o'clock, when the
:ft:Cournii-ttee would -take into its- consideration any sug-
(long which might be offered to them. NO definite
however, had yet been come to '.by the
Committee, as to the course which it alight
b Astivisai;le.......hereafter to adopt. • No answer had
u yet been.received by the Committee to. theafiplication
-f r. ati interview made to Sir Robert -Peet • When
inviw(!r ,vas- received, they should be .better able to
~!id uputt the course which it might hereafter bO pro-
per to pursue:
Mr. G. Tuomysos then called . the attention -of the'
me. tiug to the Aillowing paragraph in an American
newspaper, the Poughkeepsie Ea;le •
‘i•W4Ear.—A correspondent of the Rochester Democrat
caku. la:e. from information that he has, that there is now upon
the ground, and growing, one-third more wheat than there has
'ever been before in this country, and that thus far it pro-
-1114,s well everywhere. The next question, that arises is,
-if there is no deficiency abroad, where shall the rich

crop, which might of itself add so much to the la ealth
of the country, and give so much relief to the farmers,
if tlispor:ed of at a fair price, find a market? No
foreign market can be relied upon at all, and our do-
rues' is - markets are prostrated became the manufac-
. titters find their business embarrassed continually by foreign
competition. Were those manufacturers sufficiently protected,
the 'difficul!y would be removed almost immediately. Will our
farmers. look at the matter dispassionately, and lay aside their
.prejudi,,es while they are considering it ? It seems to us that
.they would soon perceive that they have as much interest in a
high protective tariff as any other class of men in the country,
end:,also that until we obtain such a tariff it is impossible to
any substantial relief. A domestic market, or none
scouts having, are the only alternatives presented."
ftc then observed that unless we adopted some vigorous
measures the knell of England as a manufacturing
country had begun to toll her last hour.—(Cheers.)
The Cii.tia:KAN having read a communication from
•the &eretar. •the Yung Men's Anti• Monopoly As-
toeiati Jn, inviting the attendance of the. Delegates to a
meetinz of that society to be held on the evening of
July 7, at which Mr. George Thompson had promised
to speak, declared the present meeting adjourned.

The D,legaies re-as,etnbled in the evening, at Seven
n'Cluck.

eaenel TUOMisoN was proposed, and took the Chair. He
said ti ey :core met that night in prosecution of the only means
which were left them, in endeavouring to forward the grand ob-
ject of their inditstrY and their efforts. They had one thing left
them, which was liberty of speech ; they came therefore to speak
fairly, and he hoped all of them, whether there were many or
whether there were few, would not neglect to make use of that
instrument on that occasion. Either there was distress, or
there was no distress in the country. Was there any man that
could deny, or could doubt, that there was distress? It was not.
Their making, and it was not until they
.had concentrated all
the facts they. possessed together that they could remove it.
,They were then ready, as far as lay in their power,
to relieve that distress. There were many opposed to them
trout the imperfect information they possessed, and who would
o!hereile be their friends. They questioned whether we ought
to take theweakest point for the direction of the operations, or
whether they shonld diverge to the strongest, where they would
meet with the greatest resistance. He remembered once being
in one of the colonies, where the trade was much in heavy
w00d..,, Because the wood would not swim, they tied lighter
nsattax,upqn:it,:... Now, because the Corn-law question was not
difficult, Ahtsyk•ought to attach it to that which was difficult.
If tl*tiWieediataest, it weuld fintleits,way sooner or later. to its
aS7teneq,e4e, recommended that the manufacturers
sf ip.tlieVvianufactOries for, two months. There might
1;4 a dluier losesueli .an• operation, but that time was not now.
Their enemies woel,4•not press them to it. Public irritation
idrouleigo on increasing, and the . time would, come when Gar
veinn,;ent would take away the source of public irritation, anti
wiedsi find that they (the Delegates) were right after all.
`ea.( Cheer?.) lie svisld in'reat them to go on as they had
eitegusn aneumit'ating eteelenee to lay before the. country.
Dicer:oe, in teneashire, then addressed
the meeting. Not lievingemade the attempt of ''speaking in
ruth apiece before, he hoped that any little mistake he might
ettnikelesotelehlie kiedly looked over. He would endeavour to
tell ail! butch' in as homely ,language as he could. He came
from placr, in Lancashire where the principal trade
• ea.llP,a Ptllliiag;„ This, trade had been declining for the last
twelvitonorstbaiin particular. All parties in that township were
the (411 ress. The clergyman of the parish, who
• arfeiendeof Sir Rohert'Peel's Government, had convened a
meeting.in the vestry-room, and a local subscription was raised
• to the trauma. of 495 L, and they received 295/., from the Maim-
lifeturilegAlelief • Connnittee, in King William-street. That
was depended in "meal, clothes, and partly in labour.
Twenty-four gentlemen had been appointed to investigate
tdie distress, and he was one. They gave no notice of
Altair intention of visting the houses, and out of fifty-six houses
.e.key citify found what could be called four blankets. He had
himself called on persons, and he put the cases down as he
.visited. there: In one family he found that they received ss. 10d.
a week for the last twelve weeks, and ss. from the parish.
In-another family of six, the husband had been ill for five years.
!the children got 4s. a week. His children frequently lived
ene nettles £'r days together. In another case he found that.
the tinily had not tastes( meat during the present year, and
the children were sent out begging. In another family they
had had hut f.-ribs, of flour in the house for 15 weeks. In
another case the family had lived for a week upon a '
calf which had died, and had teen' thrown on a dunghill.
',The Hoe. Delegate then proceeded, at some length, to state
uses showing' the hardship the working elasses were suffering
it Om township from which he was a Delegate, and concluded
• expressing a hope that something would be done to put an
Bird to the misery that existed in the manufacturing districts. i
A Dxru'ry was convinced. unless they buckled on their
ermour, and were determined to fight, they would stand no !
d.-lance. The middle classes had the power to turn out the
itresent Prime Minister, and if they did not do so it was their
own ',atilt. His tariff..vas a complete humbug, and, in fact, he
diet not care what he said, as long as he held his situation.
Nobody liked him ; the Standard did not like him ; the Post
did not like him ; and he was sure their beloved Queen hated
him.—(Cheers:) They were now engaged in a praiseworthy
work, and in that work he trusted they would persevere
(Cheers)—and by that means show her Majesty's Ministers
they were not to be trifled with.
'the Rev. Mr. PoYNDER, of Bilston, thought the best course
for them to consider would be to discuss the measure they
ought to adopt, and not to enter hilts details of the distress of
the country.
' Mr. SQUIRE thought they ought to enter into some broad
and comprehensive measure to relieve the distress that eihted
in the country. Whether that was to beaccompliabed by me-
inoriarzing the Queen. or attending Sir Robert Peel, was the
questOu to be derided:
Mr. -MooRE sa'd that the Executive Committee' would sit
this evening and to-morrow.' and all they, wished was, that any
gentleman that had any effective measures to propose would
bring them forward and they would meet the greatest
atention.—( Hear, hear.) Sir Robert Peel and the Duke of
S. ttssex had been written to, hut nO answer having been '
received; nothing further could be done, He thou; ht it
would he injudicious to stifle the tales of distress that might be
lirought forward.
The Rey. Mr. llcrexnEtt was only anxious to know what
the abject Was the meeting hadan view ?
A skeet diScussion then took place as to the course they
slanald 'adopt al to the present discussion, when, after a few
words from Mr. Sateen.
eThe Rey: Mr. Lowe, of Forfar, rose to _address- the
Inviting-, Ile merely rose to lay a few facts before the meeting
riGieh had come to his knowledge. In die neighbourhood with
which he was connected men were working at 65..6d. a week
weSes When were in full work. 'f he distress of thatpart
eoteld not be described. At this small amount of wxges.3oMC of
their worked only half the week and some less. In 1836 the
same man earned lie. 6d., and now with five or six children he
got but (;5. 6d , even if he succeeded in working from one
week's end to the other. But this was not all ;in 1836 the
lls. 6d:would have purchased 24 quartern loaves; in 1842,
es. Gil. would only purchase eleven quartern loaves, so that the
man and his family must necessarily be more titan half-starved
if he worked the whole week.
The Rev. Gentleman was here interrupted by a Delegate,
who said that he considered that that meeting was not called for
the purpose of hearing further details of the distress, but to
adopt means to prevent it.
A DELEGATE said that although the last speaker might have
supped full of horrors the aristocracy had not. The details were I
not for the information of that meeting alone, but for the whole
e6itritry.--( Cheers.) They wanted to stir up London ; by only
so doing could they stir up the country.—(Cheers.)
After a short consultation it was resolved that Mr. LOwe
shetild proceed.
e;:the Rev. Mr. Lowe. resumed—lie was attempting to show
tc,l)..nteislistreeeetl state of the manufacturing districts, owing tothe
ol.nployment, lose wa es, anti high Friars of hod.
Bass eight ligunClred buliocl,s were slain.
our hundred were killed. Here then lid
they ace lbwei i,e of ditease spreading in the manufacturing
lei:este-hes, adio
mintage to premature graves. In 1836 there
traflieen CIO Z,oustuitt for trial in Forfar ;in 1842 there were
20alfer triale-e4
(Ind 1:
The moral character of the people
was fast sinking, a he would illustrate it by reference to two
ears. In his neighbouril use had been broken into, and
althclueh there were valu este a
alilesiti the house of plate apd linen,
they emptied a linen bag, awl then out
the
ha.,
flour al ti •
Another .house was entered, andi the 1
that. was all they took.
only articles they took were some ()at cake.. This was a sped: ,t
.mee. of the progress downwargs is the morals of thepeople, 1
caused by the class legislafien they were met to abolish.
With respect to the depopulation of" the place, no lessk.than 1 !
40 families had been turned into the street in one w
poor woman had been rescued from self-destruction. week.
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attempted to destroy herself, as her furniture was about to be I
lie -
seized, but she said they should never take her furnithre as sh
, years •
would die first. This was the downward progress of demora
eeatiou caused by the accursed Corn-laws.—(Cheers.) The'
.asteor-ratee of Forfar were double what they were a.
fete
AO. He would read a statement which he had received from
"Fonfareigned bfloreralinfluential persons, and by two operatives. I