The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-18 00:00:00

BOROUGH.

Although we have not to say a large supply of hops
pressing on the markets, we have still to report a very
heavy inquiry for them, at barely previous quotations.
The duty which will, no doubt, be announced next
week, is again called 160,0001. East Kent in'pockets,
51 10s to 6/ 8s; Mid Kents, ditto, 5/5s to 61; Sussex,
41 lOs to 51 8s; Parnhams, 8/ to 101; Old Hops,
3/ to 4/ 10s.

THE SUN, LONDON; FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 1842.

del, and it was subsequently bestowed on the " Good
Duke Humphrey."
Hen. VI. Ann. 25. Lord Say of Seale, who unhap-
pily was beheaded by Jack Cade.
Edward IV., Ann. I. The famous Earl of Warwick ;
after whom, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, subse-
quently Richard
Henry VII., Ann. 8. Henry, Duke of York, the
King's second son, afterwards Henry VIII.
Henry VIII. Thet Duke of Richmond, natural son
of King Henry VIII.
Charles I. Villiers, Duke of Buckingham.
For some time after this reign, the officer of the
army that commanded the Castle, acted without
patent as Lord Warden ; the patent, however, was
again resumed, and has been at times as honourably
filled since, as it was in its early periods.
The nature of the Lord Warden's office, as regarded
particulars, appears to be in exercising the jurisdic-
tion of a Sheriff ovor all the ports and members, in
the execution of writs and custody of debtors. The
Admiralty jurisdiction in the Lord Warden's hands
is expressly reserved in that clause of the Municipal.
Reform Act which abolishes chartered Admiralty
jurisdictions in general. A branch of thin jurisdic-
tion appears in the Court of Lodemanage, so called
from the Old English word Lodeman, a lead-man or
steerer, which is held for the licensing and regulating
of pilots, by the Lord Warden and a number of Com-
missioners. The Lord Warden seems anciently to
have held a Court of Chancery in one of the churches
at Dover, but it has long been obsolete.
At present the efficient authority, charge, or pa-
tronage of the Lord Warden is not very great. The
honourableness of the situation, however, makes it
paramount to all minor considerations, the salary it-
self not being more than 3,oool.—(Macculloch's Dict.
Commerce.)
The Barons of the Cinque Ports, who form part of
the Court and State attendant on the Lord Warden,
have, time out of mind, had the honour to carry the
canopy over the King and Queen at their coronation,
and dine with them the same day. Their service is
thus stated in an old document :—" To bear the silk
cloths, sustained by four staves silvered over, with
little silver bells gilded, over the King and Queen, on
the day of their coronation ; and after the service per-
formed, to receive and have the same cloths, with
their appurtenances, as accustomed fees. And also to
sit at the principal table at the right side of the hall."
The Barons of the Cinque Ports numbered 32, and in
the grandeur of theprocession and cerefilon,y, formedno
small part.
The derivation of the names of the different Cinque
Port towns over which the Warden exercises juris-
diction, has been settled by antiquarians and etymolo-
gists thus:—
WINCED:MBA, written also Winchilsey, is said to
signify Wind-cold-sea (dell, an old word, yet in use
for cold), according to the Latin word Frigo-mare-
ventus, for which now its modern name is used.
" Well," sayt an old writer, " might the ancient
town deserve that name, standing, as it does, in a low
plain, open both to the winds and the sea."
RYE, or Rhie, written in Latin Ria or Rhia. Some
concluele t. tpbei:t4, called, froth it
that coin. Others, that it is 'named from the rivulet

FOLKESTONE, famed in times of Popery for its
monastery, long since swallowed up by the sea, with
its five other parish churches. It was in former times
so well traded and peopled, that it acquired the name
of the People's-town, or Folks-town.
ROMNEY.—Some consider this to mean the high-
way or port to Rome, reckoning from Canterbury, the
head kingdom of Kent, in which time there was
great posting thither. Parkinson, however, says that
here the Romans found quantities of the Roman
nettle, indigenous to the soil nn their first landing,
and thence named the land Romania, corrupted into
Romney.
HYTHE.—This in the Saxon tongue signified a
haven.

DOVER.—In ,Latin Dovoria and. Dorobernia, in
Saxon Dofra. All of which seem to be drawn from
the British word Dufirha, high or steep, alluding to
its cliffy aspect.
SANDwicir.—ln the Saxon, Sand-vvic—that is to
say the Sandy town or bank. King Canute gave to
the haven of Sandwich, the royalty of the water on
either side, so far as from a ship there stationed a man
could cast a short hatchet out of the vessel into the
bank, to Christ's Church in Canterbury. The Romans
called it Sabulovicum.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

FROM THZ MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.

CITY, TIIIIRSDAY EVENING.
TIMES.—It appears by the New York papers that
a meeting of ship-builders was in contemplation at
Boston, to take into consideration the depression that
Complaints of the
has occurred in their business."'
sort, and of the decline of commerce, are said to be
very common in the New England States, and this
decline is attributed to a variety of circumstances.
Many of the great fortunes at Boston having been
made during the war,. in consequence of the immense
carrying trade of the United States, a great portion
of that trade was continued even after the proclama-
tion of petiee. But as there has now*been a peace for
nearly 30 years, other countries have
gradually ex-
tended- their ,merchant-marine, and the Americans find
themselves no longer posseised of a monopoly: This
is a state of things which some of the journalists say
cannot raise any just cause of Complaint, however it
may be lamented. If the • United States hold com-
mercial intercourse with any other. nation, it is natu-
ral to suppose that nation will do half the business ;
and the complaints which are Made by the American
shipowners would seem to have in view the absurd
theory, that the United States will hold no intercourse
with foreign nations unless all Owed the whole business
of fetching and carrying.
SUN.—Public Securities left off with a good appear-
ance
this afternoon, and Consols both
Bills realised
both for More and
and
Time, were 94* to 944 ;Exchequer
56 to 68 premium, and India Bonds at 51 to 53
premium. The other Stock underwent no alteration.
In Spanish Bonds the improvement was maintained
up to the close of business, the. Actives being marked
Chilli 18*, and the Three per Cents. 22i. i. Mexican were
done at 33 ; Colombian, 21-4- ; Chi
89 to 91, and
Brazilian, 654. Portuguese COnverted brought 324;
Russian, 113, and Dutch New Fives, 99g.
No animation was exhibited in Shares, and the
quotations were heavy, except for Birminghani,
which touched 93* and 94 premium. Croydon were
4-.} discount. In Brighton Railway there was scarcely
abargain. Great Western were 18* premium. An- '
glo-Mexican Mint Shares were 2k premium.
The large amount of 1,700,000
brought by the Curacoa, from Rio Janeiro, is ex-
pected dollars in bullion,
to have a favourable effect upon the foreign ex-
changes here, as we can afford to send some of it
abroad.

BACKING OUT of a DIFFICULTY.
We understand that misapprehensions have existed
n d
against
tf
tra manyvn nri regarding rdu i_n g the declaration' sub-
scribedj the Edinburgh and
persisted in running their trains
y
an the Lord's Day.
irinllatehs ge minds
terms Glasgow g a
ai
Railway,
o f
tthe
e declaration
long a the. Railwa Company
s
were, that " the sub-
_,
scribers would give a preference to other . modes of
conveyance"---not that ink eas
e however pressing
and urgent, would they travel by the railway. This
was the
cninitinterpretationmt Committee who unanimously put upon the
clause framed it : and the di-
fficulties arising out of the misapprehension of the de-
b y the
de-
claration having lately been represented to them, we
understand that they have again explicitly stated this
to have been their meaning. Since the date of the
declaration, several other modes of conveyance have
been withdrawn ; and in many instances the warmest
friends of the Sabbath are left no .alternative but tra-
velling by the railway. We are satisfied, however,
that the scriptural opposition to the desecration of the
Sabbath in the way referred to, will not be with-
drawn, but that by' all cOmpetent means it will be
zealously prosecuted. Earnestly do we hope that the
Directors and Shareholders will soon see it to be their
duty, as well as their interest, to remedy the evil corn-
plained'of.—Scottish Guardian. .
It required no gift of prophecy to foretell from the
outset that this would be the upshot of the agitation
against the Edinburgh Railway. The Non-Intrusion
coaches, which were kept for months on the road,
although scarcely any passengers travelled by, them,
must have cost a tolerably comfortable sum to certain
of the parties engaged in the struggle ; and,
now that
these vehicles have been abandoned, it would be not
a little instructive could the public procure inforina-
tion regarding the expense of the frolic. We suspect
that this will be kept concealed; but it must prove
satisfactory to those who signed the declaration against
railway travelling to learn, that they have
now ob-
tained a dispensation from their spiritual superiors,
and may henceforth make use of this sinful
means of
communication. It is well that a. loophole of escape
has been provided for tender consciences, and it is
rumoured that, in' consequence of the 1!
oan of the
Kirk having been thus removed, the Directors of the
Railway, by way of showing their gratitude to the
clergy, propose to start a special train for the ap-
proaching Convocation, the sale of the tickets to be
confined to the Kirk Sessions and the members of the
Church Building Society. Further particulars man
be learned on application to Mr. W—rn C—ns, or
Mr. W--m C—m P—l; and travellers by the
Greenock or Ayrshire Railways will obtain every
information from the Rev. J-5 (3----n of K_____v.
—Glasgow Argus.

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Company's Mail
PaTclilieet arrived off
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the Tower last evening, at 10 o'clock, with' the Ham-
burgh Mail, having had a most splendid passage of
forty-six hours only from liarnburgil.

GREAT CHARTIST MEETING AT
THE CROWN AND ANCHOR.

charged with conspiring and meeting on the I ;ail
Of August, and creating certain rows, al
riots on the lst.—(Laughter.) There was a good
deal of art anddeceit i n this mode of prosecution. i t
NlVvaanstneed the Income-taxcessaryforS f to
irßobeorrt—Peelketoepshdoowwn thosewhatlie
rascally
ag buaboChao to frightenrtists—anti hthtase landlords,hewould
and reconcile
keepChartism
as
them to his new imposition. It was weii known that
in attacking him (Mr. O'Connor), an attack was
made upon the -Chartist body generally. • But the
enormous expense of these prosecutions, some 380,0001.,
must fall upon the middle classes. There was always
an increase of 30 per -cent. on the secret service
money, whenever there were political prosecutions;
and when there was a general election the secret ser-
vice money was doubled. And what was tl e te-e
Many of the Chartists had been convicted benere, and
what was the consequence? They were beck at their
work again.—(Cheers.) After commenting :mon the
state of the law as regarded trial ley jury, 1111..
O'Connor said, that supposing the lec:et audi kind-
liest feeling prevailed generally throughout the
country towards Chartism, still it WZI.S in the p:over
of the Crown,to select theforty-eight jurors to try their
political prisoners from among 'that part of a leiety
which had not as yet thrown, off their old prejudices
against such doctrines. The present struggle was for
the advantages promised to the people by reform, and
they ought to rejoice that the outbreak had taken
place, because it showed that the people when ie
power were incapable of cruell2, using it.—
(Hear, hear.) The state of the disorder of the
country arose from class legislation.—(Cheers.) They
were likely soon to have a large addition to the ranks
of Chartism—the shopkeepers were on the eve of
bankruptcy, and, let the great Tamworth doctor patch
it up as he might, he could not put down the Chartists'
till he could get pure gold out of dirty poen—
(Cheers.) The cotton lords, too, were all going to
the dogs, and when they were engulphed in ruin, out
of chaos light would come again.—(Cheers.) He
would be the last man to bring about such ruin, but
they were doing it for themselves.—(Cheers.) The
131-ess haddone all it could, but without avail, to put
down the Chartists, and one paper, the Sunday Times,
had saij• that they pandered to the worst of passions,
and that every one of them, like the trumpeter, ought
to be hung upon a tree. • ow with respect to that
paper, he wouk say to all present, wherever you see
it put it behind the fire, and do not leave the room
till it is nothing but ashes.—(Cheers and lauglite.r.)
He congratulated the Chartists that at last they had I
got weapon for weapon.--(Cheers) They had got
the Little Evening Star and the G real Northern
Constellation.—(Great cheering.) The former was
losing 801. a-week—(Hear)—but if it lost JON. or
200/., all the combined power of the Government or
the Press should notputitdown, although they had not
a farthing of the money of the Duke of Buck ingliam,
the Carlton Club, or the Corn-law League. Mr.
O'Connor, after appealing to the meeting for contribu-
tions for the purposes named in the resolutions, ob-
served, that as far as he was personally concerned, his
o*.n -expenses had rie'tter:--Oost ethe countrraaything,
nor ha 4 heeVer'it6eeitkd'at'fartftirieqrotraadiving maw
to defray them. The expenses of his prosecution had
cost him about 2001., for he had had to carry his phy-
sician, his attorney, and his bondsman to Liverpool,
and professional men did not travel for nothing. lle
then congratulated the meeting on having Mr. Dun-
combe in the chair. They did not disregard rank and t t'e
when placed upon honourable shoulders, and they del
not honour Mr. Duncombe the less because he was
not a working man, but the more, because, belonghor
as he did to the higher orders of society, he had proved°
he could feel for the distresses and wrongs of the
working man. After exhorting the meeting to form
a firm union, he said he knew there were spies abroad
drawn from different Classes of life, but if lie had
health he would, in the course of ten days cr a fort-
night, show those new disputants who had lidely been
in the habit of meeting them that they were humbugs,
and that nothing but the Charter would achieve the
regeneration of the people of England.—(Cheers.)
The resolution was carried unanimously.
Mr. FUSSELL proposed, and Mr. AVEsTtatToN se-
conded the next resolution, as follow, :—That while
your petitioners readily admit that persons convicted
on true and sufficient evidence before a just Judge and
honest Jury, of any real crime connected with thee la-
mentable outbreaks referred to were deserving of pu-
nishment, they think that such punishment should
have been awarded only in proportion to the wrongs
proved to have been inflicted on society, and with a
due regard to that mercy with which the administra-
tion of the law should have been tempered, especially
under the peculiar circumstances."
Colonel Tnomnsoaa who was received with loud
Cheering, supported the resolution. What a shame it
was, he said, that the law could not be administered
in a way to carry with it the good opinion of the
people. He feared he saw a recurrence to those crimes
of the law which had disgraced a darker and bygone
age. When they saw men who filled a situation in
which they were bound to weigh crime as if they
were above all the passions of humanity, land one of
the scales of justice with angry passions, class inte-
rests, old prejudices, and evil feelings, he must say,
that bad was the conditiOn of the people who were
forced to depend upon such an administration of jus-
tice. Had they not seen the people ground down un-
der the abhorrent system of class legislation ?—(llear,
hear.) Whyano class was fit to govern all other
classes.—(Hear, hear.) He cordially supported flee
resolution.—(Cheers.)
The resolution was then carried by acclaination.
Mr. CLEAVE then proposed the following resolution :
—" That nearly three hundred families having, by
the sentences passed during the late Special Commis-
sions, been deprived of their natural protectors, and
reduced thereby to a condition which presents no
other alternative than to seek refuge in union work-
houses, or to become houseless Ad destitute wan-
derers; and such enormous expenses having been
entailed upon the individuals indicted, who have
traversed their trials, as to demonstrate that justice
(which should be freely dispensed), to be pro Cured,
must be dearly purchased ; it therefore, now b:iloves
the friends generally of humanity, apart from all re-
ference to individual, political, or other opinions, to
testify their sympathy for the unfortunate families of
the men already sentenced, and at the same time
their desire to see justice secured in future, by
establishing a General Defence and Support Fund."
He exhorted the meeting to be liberal in their sub-
scriptions, from the amount of which both friends and
foes would judge of the intensity of their feelings.
Mr. JENKINS seconded the resolution.
Mr. SPURR supported the resolution. If every
person in that assembly would only give ld. each it
would raise a large sum, and tend to alleviate great
distress. He was not one who would break the law
till nature forced him—(Great cheering)—but this
he would say, it was better to obey the law of God
than man.—(Cheers.) He was never a coward,
neither had he ever attempted to commit suicide, but
he thought he-should be doing so if lie was to allow
himself to starve in the land of plenty.—(Clicers.)
Many had proposed remedies for the people's dis-
tresses, but in his opinion there was no other than the
People's Charter. It was cowardice, and that alone,
that prevented them from obtaining the Charter.—
(Cheers.) Englishmen at the present moment, the
majority of the masses, were afraid to declare their
sentiments even in their workshops, or. any where at
all. If they were prepared to carry out their prin-
ciples as their fathers of old did, they would get their
Charter.—(Cheers.) Let them when thrown into
prison stop there, let them not spend their money in
Peeing Counsel, or getting bail ; no, rather let them
feel it to be an honour to know they were suffering in
so glorious a cause.
The resolution was declared by the Chairman to
be carried unanimously.
The CHAIRMAN then announced that 'Mr. Roberts,
of Bath, who had generously given his gratituitous
services in defending the prisoners at Statlael, would
address the meeting.
Mr. ROBERTS presented himself amidst great cheer-
ing, andassured
cause
tiner
anything by that
that his aiiu
had
occurred. He gloried in leaving shaken hands with
Chartist
W. Ellis, who he (Mr. Roberts) avowed was not
guilty of the charge imputed to him. But the secret
was that Mr. Ellis had, on a previous occasion, suc-
ceeded in ousting the aristocracy from the very hall
in which he was tried, when they had met to move men
Address of Condolence or Congratulation to our 11106 i
gracious Queen—(Laughter)—or it might be Prime
.Albert—at all events one of the Royal Family—and
what did Ellis do ? He .simply moved au amend-
ment, to the effect that the people should be condoled
with too.—(Hear, hear.) Ellis succeeded in ousting
the Lord who sat in the chair, and in taking it him-
self.—(Cheers.) Why, it was admitted that Ellis
was not guilty of the crime for which lee was tried.
()n the Saturday, at six o'clock, when the case for
thee prosecution was closed, Chief Justice Tindal
proposed that the Court should adjourn; Sir Wile
Liam Follett requested that the defence should he
proceeded with, and that defence was, that .the
prisoner was in bed at the time charged. Oh- but
between that time and Monday morning, time time
was well employed, for people were brought up in
chaises from places miles away to prove that the neer
was not in bed at the time.— (Groans and 1'
eases )
Mr. Roberts then strongly appealed to the g
for funds, and concluded by proposing the following
resolution, and the prayer of the petition
James Scarlett, Lord Abinger, Chief Claim of' lie‘lit
Majesty's Exchequer, one of the Judges op ioitned her
preside on such Special Commission, did deliver Jude
qntbery
tar
eipnrecsheanr
ws ,e
rwehiimc hp,raospeyro,uars ppertoict
an unfair, unjust, and pli-
ttehe ndepneenycl;l:cbaelcing of
ula.ted to prejudice, mislead, and
tuipcoaln
exasperate the minds of the Juries to whom such
charges were addressed, and
bywhom the individuals
indicted as participating in the late disturbanef2', were
to be tried.
, " Your petitioners, therefore, most CUTiI estly but

THE LATE SPECIAL COMMISSIONS.

A gfeat meeting of those persons who are advocates
and supporters of the People's Charter took place last
night at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, Strand, for
the purpose of taking into consideration the proceed-
ings of the recent Special Commissions, and to adopt
such measures as might be deemed requisite to insure
a fair, patient, and impartial trial to parties yet un-
tried, as participating in the late lamentable disturb-
ances in the northern and midland counties; as also
to afford relief to nearly 100 females, who, by the
conviction and sentences, lately passed, had been de-
prived of their natural protectors, and were thereby
left no other alternative than to seek refuge in union
workhouses, or tobecome houseless and destitute wan-
derers through the land. Long before the hour ap-
, pointed for taking the chair the great room of the ta-
vern was crowded to suffocation, and many hundreds,
we feel no doubt, sought admission in vain. On the
platform and in the gallery were a great number of
females, among whom was Miss Walker, who called
herself into such celebrity among the Chartists, by
her speeches in their rooms at the Old Bailey. Mr.
T. S. Duncombe, M.P., who was the great lion of the
evening, and whom it was advertised would take the
chair at seven o'clock, did not arrive till ten minutes
before eight o'ciock ; and on his entering the room,
and taking his seat on the platform, the most .enthusi-
astic cheering resounded from every part or the vast
assemblage. Mr. Duncombe was attended by Mr.
F. O'Connor, colonel Thompson, and several Chartist
leaders.
Mr. DUNCOMBE, on being unanimously called to
the chair, felt convinced, that, to those high-minded
independent men with whom the meeting had origina-
ted, the noble manner in which these acts had been
responded to by the vast numbers that had attended
that evening must be a source of the highest gra.tifica-
tion. For himself to be unanimously elected to preside
upon an occasion so interesting, and in a cause so id
fecting the rights and liberties and distresses of the
working classes, heconsidered one of the highest ho-
nours that could be conferred upon him.—(Great
cheering.) Notwithstanding the fact that a Learned
Judge of the land, in his most inquisitorial charge to
the Grand Jury, had been represented to have had
the audacity to assert that 3,000 or 4,000 Englishmen
could not meet together to deliberate upon and discuss
a public grievance without being what, in the eye of
the law, or _rather in that of the Learned Judge—
(Cheers and groans, and cries of "We wish we had
him here")—was an illegal assembly ; he (Mr.
Duncombe) trusted that the vast number that
had assembled in that room, and if it had
been five times larger, he was sure it would
have been filled—(Great cheering)—would give
the lie and practical contradiction to the assertions of
that Learned Judge.—(Cheers and cries of " We will.")
It was his duty as Chairman rather to explain the
purposes for which the meeting had been convened,
than to express opinions of his own. They had met
there '-nottn sympathise' With britne;'lnot z'in justify
disoVdietreeioqhe advoCitdiads of
lence—(Hear, hear)—but they had met for the proper
and legitimate purpose of discussing calmly and in
public, according to that privilege which was their
birthright as Englishmen, a great public grievance;
and if in the administration of affairs there should be
anything deserving of condemnation, they were there
loudly, firmly, and boldly to condemn it.—(Hear,
hear.) They were to judge whether those Special Com-
missions which had been issued in consequence of the
unfortunate disturbances that had taken place in the
manufacturing districts in August last, had fairly,
honestly, and impartially fulfilled their duty.—
(Groans, and cries of "No, no, •certainly not.") And
if it could be shown that a prejudice had been un-
justly created against those who had been put upon
their trial, it was the duty of the meeting, as English-
men,. to denounce the oppression resulting from such
a prejudice. They had met there to express their
sympathy with the fatherless and the widow—with
those 300 families who were now enduring the greatest
misery in consequence of the sentences that had al-
ready been passed. Some of those who were suffer-
ing, or were about to suffer, might have committed
crime, but it was crime with which, considering the
peculiar circumstances ofthe country, and the distress
that prevailed, the middle classes should be disposed
to deal leniently. It was the duty of Englishmen, if
the law had been strained to meet these particular
cases--'-(Cheers)—to assemble together, and to express
their opinions, and to create a protective fund to de-
fend themselves against the repetition of such oppres-
sion.—(Hear.) As to those who were sentenced
by the' law, it was at least a consolation to know
that they had been tried by a fair and impartial
Juryand an honest Judge.—(Cheers.) Let the
meeting look at the case of John Mason. That
man, with others, had, on the mere representation of a
police-constable—(Hear, hear)been sentenced at
Quarter Sessions, Mason to six months' imprisonment,
and the others to two months. The night before
they were tried, the Magistrates had sent to say that
if the prisoners would plead guilty to having attended
an unlawful meeting, the record should be with-
drawn.—(Groans and hisses.) But those men had
properly said, "We have been guilty of no crime,
and therefore we will not plead guilty. We met
peaceably in public, as Englishmen have a right to
do, to discuss a public question, and you had no right
to interfere."—(Great cheering.) But the authori-
ties did interfere, and what had been the result ?
Those men had been convicted.—(Hisses and groans.)
But a subscription had been entered into, and he
trusted the families of those men were now kept from
want.—(Hear, hear.) He contended that an unjust
prejudice had been excited against those who were
put upon their trial even at Stafford, although he was
disposed to do all justice to Lord Chief Justice
Tindal. The Chairman then alluded to the case of
Peplow, who had been interrupted in free ingress and
egress to and from a public Court of Justice, by
order of the High Sheriff, on the ground only' that
he was known to be a Chartist, and it was not
until Mr. Russell, the Counsel, hail applied to Lord
Chief Justice Tindal, 'und represented the impossi-
bility of conducting his case, and procuring justice for
his clients, unless his messenger were permitted free
access, that this man Peplow had been allowed ad-
mission.—(Shame.) But he (the Chairman) would
come to another point. The meeting had no doubt
heard of one Judge Jeffries.—(Hear, and laughter.)
Now, the treatment the Chartists had received at
Liverpool and Chester reminded him of a passage in
the life of that personage. An individual was brought
brought before that celebrated Judge, and it was
found that the charge laid against him had no founda-
tion in fact. At the last moment, however, the
counsel against the prisoner stated, as an addition to
this charge which could not be sustained, that the man
sometimes attended church and sometimes the conven-
ticle—in short that he was a trimmer. " Oh, oh,"
said Judge Jeffries, "he is a trimmer, is he ? I have
heard of that monster before, but I have never seen
one. Stand up, prisoner, and let me see your shape,
that I may know how these monsters are formed."
Now that man was condemned, not because he was
guilty of the crime laid to his charge, but because he
was a trimmer. He (Mr. Duncombe) believed that
many persons had suffered, and that, unless the people
bestirred themselves, many more would suffer, not be-
cause guilty of a specific crime, but merely because
they were Chartists.-:-(Great 'cheering.) If there was
an Abinger among them, let them give that Abinger
a fair hearing, let them attend to all he might say
with patience, and then he would with shame confess
—(Cheers)—if there was any shame in him, that he
had maligned Englishmen when he said that 3,000 or
4,000 could not meet, and quietly and legally discuss
remedies for grievances which either the Parliament
or the Government had inflicted on the people of Erie.-
land.—(Great cheering.)
Mr. BALL proposed the following resolution
" That this meeting most deeply regret and sympa-
thise with the degraded and distressed condition of
the labouring portion of their fellow-subjects, shown
so particularly throughout the late unfortunate dis-
turbances in the northern and midland counties."
Dr. BOWKETT seconded the resolution. The time had
come when they must have a real religion instead of a
false one, and real charity instead of a bastard one.
True charity was now required in aid of those who
were persecuted, and he had no doubt it would be
brought to light by such meetings as the present. If
they could not hear in churches of the distresses of the
people, they must be sounded forth in such places as
the present.
Mr. F. O'CoNricet then rose to support the resolu-
tion, and was received with tremendous cheeringfrom
all parts of the room, accompanied with the waving of
hats and handkerchiefs, which lasted for several
minutes. He was one of the victims of the perse-
cutors.—(Cheers.) He had had the honour of six
criminal prosecutions within the last five years, and
still he was there as large as life.—(Laughter, and
cries of " Shame.") Now, what was the object for
'which the present meeting was convened ? It was a
meeting of all classes. of all shades of politics, of all
men loving justice.—(Cheers.) They were not there
to express their approbation of crime really committed
against the law, even in aid of parties, but to evince
their abomination and abhorrence of the law being
stretched for the purpose of putting down the public
sentiment.—(Cheers.) But there was a living spirit
which no Judge or Jury could put down or destroy.
For himself, in his own person, however he might
suffer paint end punishments by the misconstruction
of the one, and the penalties imposed by the other,
if the people pronounced him innocent what cared he
for any verdict given by packed. Juries ?—(Great
cheering.) He had been cited last Saturday before
the Queen's Bench to answer to the accusation of
several conspiracies. Why it was the law that con-
spired against him, and not he against the law. He
had never attended a secret association in his life, and
yet for all this he had been persecuted at an enormous
expense to himself. • But the singularity. of the thing
[lves, that on the present occasion he and others we're

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ve:;p2ctfully, pray your Honourable House to institute
such an inquiry—by the appointment of a Conimitte,
or otherwise—into the proceedings of:the late Special
Coro nissions, as your Honourable house in wisdom and
jwitiee may deem fit. And your petitioners further
pray your Honourable House to address her Majesty,
that she may be pleased to visit the Le-Core-mentioned
James, Lord Chief Baron Abinger,'with such a mark
of her Royal displeasure, us may induce other Judger
hereafter to preserve the purity of the judicial func-
tions unsullied by political rancour or party spirit.
And your petitioners will ever pray, &c."
Mr. RUFFY RIDLEY seconded the resolution, and,
commenting in strong terms upon the conduct of Lord
Abinger, said he trusted they would never cease from
agitating till that monster in the
.form of man was .
removed from the judgment- seat.
Mr. FBASER said that the modern Jeffries had said
that which would bring him into a predicament he
would not like. He had declared Chartistn to be
because it did not suit the views of the aristo-
cracy. Ile ought to be impeached, and the best Way
07 impeaching him would be for all classes of honest
Reformers to join cordially together, and prove to the
aristocracy that they could not put dawn Chartism, or
any other
ism."—(llear, hear.) The speakenon-
i
tilari e
andar petitionnesta were te.l
app, al formot-1.
agreed
cluld,hed with
resolution to,
and a committee nominated to the ' •
carry out objects of
the meeting.
Dr BLACK. .then moved a vote of thanks to the
Chairman, which was carried amidst tremendous
acclamations. .
Mr. Durscomna in returning thanks-for the honour
done him, observed that when he took the chair he
felt that the task would be an easy one, and he had
not been disappointed. The persons present had con-
ducted themselves in a manner that he was sure Eng..
lishtnen would always do when they met for such a
purpose.—(Cheers.) He had asked them at the
commencement to give to every person NV 110
might differ from them a patient hearing. lie
wits happy to find that no such differences
had taken place. Would Lord Abinger, he would
ask, now say that 3,000 or 4,000 Englishmen could
not meet for serious discussion ?—(Cheers.) That
meeting had nobly done its duty, and it remained
for him to do his, and to present to the House of
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Commons the petition that. had been unanimously
agreed to that evening.—(Cheers.) That petition
called for inquiry into the proceedings of the late
Special Commissions, but more especially into the
conduct of Lord Abinger, and it asked, if the result
of that inquiry should prove the .allegations
founded, that the House of Commons would address
the Crown for the removal of that Judge for his dis-
honourable conduct. He (Mr. Deneon;be) would
feel proud in presenting that petition, and the greatest
gratification in giving effect to it bir moving for the
inquiry, being convinced that-upon that inquiry being
instituted the public would find tilt Chartists were
not such monsters as they had beeh represented to
be; that their views were honest,, and- that they
were entitled to their .suffrage, and votes .in
the Jlouse :of; Commons, as,well, as the aristocracy
were in the House of Lords:,,-(Cheers.) That he
believed would be proved upon inquiry; it would
also be shown that the Chartists wished to show no
violence to persons or property, and that the manner in
which the late Special Commissions had been con-
ducted, were a disg race to the Government—(Cheers)--
and that the conduct of Lord Abinger was most violent,
and hat he ought, therefore, no longer to remain on
the judgment seat. He hoped the petition would
not stop there; it was a most excellent one, and when
it was read, as he trusted it would be by. every con-
stituency in the kingdom, and by every working man,
by every Noble and Judge in the kingdom—aye, and
by every policeman, new magistrate, or constable,—
(Great cheering)—he trusted there would not be a
single man, who wished to be thought well
of by his fellow men, who would scruple to
attached his signature to it.—(Tremendous cheering.)
Ile hoped, also, that every constituency would put it
to their representatives, either to support the petition,
or to give up their seats.—(lncreased cheering).
The conduct displayed at that meeting that evening
would be worthy imitation of the House of Commtms,
and he (Mr. Duncombe) trusted, when he presented
their petition to that House, its Members would give
him the same attention as those now present had
done.—(Cheers.) He (Mr. Duncombe) was so con-
Went of the goodness of their cause, that the blame
would rest with him and not with them, if they did
not succeed.—(Great cheering.)
A vote of thanks was then carried to Mr. Roberts
for his gratuitous services to the unfortunate Chartists
at Statlbrd, three cheers were given for Mr. Dun-
combe and Mr. O'Connor, and the vast assemblage
eparated at nearly half-past eleven o'clock.
A collection was made in the meeting and at the
doors ; which amounted, we believe, to.a considerable
sum. •