The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-08 00:00:00

C OR N-L Vl' S. -A) ISTRESS" 1N • THE

COUNTRY.

Yesterday evening a meeting of the Young Men's Anti-
Corn-law Association was held at the Standard Theatre,
Shoreditch, for the purpose of petitioning her Majesty not to
prorogue the present Parliament without adopting some legis-
lative means of relieving the p
industriousre:eat frightful state of destitu-
tion under which the and productive classes in the
kingdum were labouring.
Shortly after eight o'clock Mr. George Thompson was called
to the Chair, amidst loud acclamation.
The CHAIRMAN said, he felt bound to obey the wish of the
meeting in acting as Chairman, and to render his humble aid
under the present alarming circumstances in which the country
was placed. In his opin4.on, there never was a public meeting
held at a moment when the foreshadowing of coming events
was more likely to produce alarm in the thinking
mind than the present, for never did the distress of
the masses appear so deep or so hopeless, or more likely to sap
the foundations of these institutions, which, whatever might be
their } articular opinions of Government or policy, were still
dear and estimable in all their eyes. And whence arose their
distress and its concomitant dissatisfaction? They had within
the confines of Great Britain all the elements of wealth and i
glory. No sane man would be so impious as to charge it
to the Great God of Nature, and yet they, a population whose
prominent qualifications were virtue, dtligence, forethought,
and a yearning after independence of station, were starving. This
nation was free from foreign invasion and intestine feud, and
wherever there was a human being to be clothed, that country
would semi us the produce of its soil, and ask nothing more
in return from us than the more refined and ingenious produc-
tions of our intellectual advancement. Why, then, was it that
England, whose name commanded respect on the shores of the
Antipodes, could not support her own children?—( Hear, hear,
and cheers.) He felt not for the improvident or the idle, but
his heart bled for the ill-fed and starving artisan who had a wife
and family, and in vain sought for employment where Nature
and God intended that bread shoUld abound for all men, but
when lie was denied that remuneration which his industry
merited—he bled for those who, in the centre of Great Britain,
the seat of empire and power throughout the world, and the
sanctuary of religion, were perishing of hunger, where more
was spent in idle luxury and aristocratic debauchery in onenight
than would give work to thousands of the industrious poor.—
(Cheers.) if Satan himself had framed the laws they could not
have been dictated in a spirit more calculated to hurry men to
immolate themselves upon his shrine than those which pressed
upon the labouring classes of England,- They were met there
that night not only to reflect upon their present circumstances,
but also to shape their future course of procedure. If he were
asked what steps should the body of the meeting adopt, he
would answer do as he did. They had applied to the Queen in
the usual constitutional forms, but they found her powerless in
the grasp of an all-powerful oligarchy—they had applied to Par-
liament.—(Laughter.) From that contaminated rendezvous of
men who had bought their seats and who were the represen-
tatives of nought but corruption, they had received nothing
but contumely. Again he stated that the only way by which
the Augean stable could be cleansed was to do as he proposed,
and to the meeting he would say, " Go thou and do likewise."
He intended doing that which, if followed up by others, would
annihilate a Government in three months, namely, to refuse to
pay taxes—to refuse to pay, after the manner adopted by the
Society of Friends ; they might take his goods, they might
incarcerate him, but one shilling in money should never be
tendered to the income-tax collector by him.—(Loud cheers.)
That would take the linch-pin out of the vehicle of Govern-
ment—it would unship the helm and render the cumbrous
vessel motionless, and all without any viulatiou of the law
or derangement of the properly established order of society.
In his opinion, the time for talking had now almost passed by,
and the time for action commenced. In saying this, Heaven
forbid that he meant any thing irreconcilable with peace, har-
mony, and the dictates of humanity ; but by a resistance in
strict accordance with the principles of the constituted laws of
the country, they would so far cripple the Government as to
make Sir R. Peel swallow his former professions and pretended
principles, as they had done before, in obedience to the pressure
from without.

Mr. P. A. TAYLOR having proposed the following resolu-
tion:—" That this meeting views with feelings of grief and
alarm the severe, rolonged, continually increasing misery of
the industrious classes of the country," '
Which was seconded by Mr. BOOTH,
A person named MA NTZ rose to move as an amendment " That
the only means by which the present condition of the operatives
could be alleviated, was by adopting the principles of the Char-
ter in the assembly framing the laws ;" and continued, in a long
arid rambling speech, to enforce his views, in which he was sup-
ported by three or four other speakers, amidst much confusion
and uproar.
The original motion having been put and carried,
Mr. H. PRESTON, Jun., proposed the next resolution, which
was seconded by Mr. WHITE, and carried after some opposition
from a number of Chartists, who jumped from the burly of the
theatre upon the platform. It was as follows :
" That this meeting has seen, with feelings of surprise and
disgust, Sir R. Peel's declaration that he does not hold him.
self responsible for the distress of the country, when he has re-
fused to carry out, in respect to the food of the people, those
principles upon which his late tariff was based."
The following resolutions were then put and carried, shortly
after which the meeting separated.
" That this meeting considers that the proasodings of the pre.
sent Parliament have shown the utter recklessness with which
gereral and national good is sacrificed to selfish and class inte-
rests ; and regards the intended prorogation of Parliament at
such a time as adding insult to injury, and throwing off even the
poo: semblance of sympathy with a nation's sufferings."
" That the memorial now read be presented to the Queen,
praying her Majesty not to exercise her prerogative of pro•
roguing Parliament until some measure has been passed which,
by admitting free from duty the productions of foreign coun-
tries, shall at once give employment and food to our unemployed
and starring millions."

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NEWMARKET, WEDNESDAY NIGHT.

Entry for Thursday : -
TOWN PLATE, B. NL—c by Hymen darn by Perchance ;
Brick-groom; Miss Sally, by Nonsense out of Rectory; Espar-
tero ; Seahorse ; Ma Mie ; and c by Retainer, dam by St.
Patrick. •

11 A NIIICAP. —From the Starting-post of B. AI. to the end of
new T.Y.C.—Menalippe, 5 yrs, Bst 101 b ; Langclee, 4 yrs,
Ifilb ; Minaret, 4 yrs, Bst slb ; the Oneida Chief. 3 yrs,
7st 21i) ; and filly by Bizarre out of Flambeaux's dam, 3 yrs, tist.
CHESTERFIELD STAKES.—The Bolero and Nanine
Turk and Mary Ann fillies have paid in addition to those men-
tioned in our last.

The Garden Stakes.—Twenty-six horses were handicapped,
but there were not acceptances enough to niake a race.
THURSDAY.—Handicap Sweepstakes of 15 soya. each, 10 ft.,
Ca. three yrs old and upwards. From the starting post of
13. M. to the end of New T. Y. C. (5 Subs. )
Duke of Rutland's fby Bizarre, 3 yrs, Est (J Howlett) 1
Mr. Price's The Oneida Chief, 3 yrs, 7st 21b
Mr. Pettit's Langolee, 4 yrs, 7st 101 b 3
Mr. Thornhill's Menalippe, 5 yrs, Bst 101 b
Betting.—Two to I agst Langolee, 3 to 1 agst Bizarre filly,
3 to 1 agst Menalippe, and 5 to 1 agst The Oneida Chief.
Menalippe and Langolee laid in front in the early part of the
race, but were headed by the other pair at the kill, the Bizarre
filly winning easy by a length.
The Chesterfield Stakes of 30 soya, each, 20 ft ; for two years
old ; colts Bst 71b, and fillies Bst 41b. Last half of B. M.
(23 Subs.)
General Yates's ch c Canton, by Cain .................(Nat) 1
Lord Exeter's f by Jerry, out of Macremma (41b extra) ..,
The following also started but were not placed : —Captain
Colquitt's Pickpocket—Duke of Richmond's f by Physician
out of Young Sweet-pea—Lord Chesterfield's ch o by
Gladiator out of' Anchorite's dam—Lord Exeter's f by
Beiram or Sultan, out of Fanny Davis—Mr. Colman's Jamal
(late Bacon)—Mr. Thornhill's Extempore, (Ms extra)—and
Duke of Orleans Sis. to Jeffy. Betting-2 to 1 agst Lord
Chesterfield's colt, who coughed repeatedly, and had no backers ;
'7 to 2 agst Young Sweet-pea ;4to 1 agst Canton ;
and 10 to 1 against any other. The running was
made- by the Fanny Davis filly, the favourite following her,
the ruck, headed by Young Sweet-pea colt, lying up ; this order
was maintained with scarcely any change, to the rise of the
hill, where Canton and the Maeremma filly singled themselves
out to finish ; the filly, however, with the extra weight on her
back, had no chance, and was beaten easily by a length. Ex-
tempore and the favourite were third and fourth, and every-
thing else tolerably well up, with the exception of Jamal,
who assisted Pickpocket in making several false starts (in one
of which he got rid of his j •ckey), lost start, and never was
able to reach the front. The winner is in the Derby.
The Town Plate of 501., for three yrs old ; colts, Bsts 71b, and
fillies, Bst 31b. B. M.
Mr. Rogers's Bridegroom
...(Rogers) 1
Mr. Newton's Ma Mie
2
The following also started but were not placed :—Mr. Towri-
ley's b c by Hymen, data by Perchance—Mr. Arnull'a Miss
Pettit's Eipartero—General Yates's Seahorse—
and Lord Kelburne's c byy. Retainer, darn by St. Patrick.
Betting—Even on Seahorse ; 3 to 1 agst Ma Mie; and 5 to
1 agst the Hymen colt.
Seahorse anti Bridegroom occupied different positions at the
commencement of the race, the first leading, and the other
bringing up the rear; at the top of the hill, however, the favo.
rite cried peccavi, and Bridegroom, going in front with Ma
Mie, defeated her with diffioulty by a head, Seahorse third, and
Lord Kelburne's c fourth.

Col, g'aol's c by Slane, out of Vulture (Nat), beat Lord
Keliturne's Deerslayer ; 200, h ft ; Bst 41b, each; T. Y.C.
Vetting, 5 to 2 on Deerslayer. Won cleverly, Deerslayer having
stopped when collared.
Goonwoon Ftweas.—The Chesterfield Cup, to which there
are already 20 subscribers, closes and names to-morrow.
LIVERPOOL Cur.—Lord G. Bentiuck's To2sail is declared
not to start.

SUDDEN DEATH.--Yesterday evening, at six
o'clock, an inquest was held before Mr. Higgs, at the Black
Horse, Haymarket, on view of the body of Edwin Ball, aged
54, late landlord of the White Bear Tavern, Piccadilly, who
died oa Tuesday morning under the following melancholy cir-
cumstances .-.-From the evidence of several witnesses, who
were examined at great length, it appeared that on Tuesday
morning, shortly after one o'clock A.M., a disturbance was
caused in the tap of the above tavern, which is quite distinct
from the White Bear Hotel, by a young man recently dis-
charged from Mr. Ball's service, who had been lodging in the
White Bear tap since his dismissal. Mr. Ball, hearing the
noise, went out to assist Mr. Holt, the landlord of the tap, in
ejecting the young man, and having succeeded in doing so, re-
turned to the bar-parlour of his own house, and requested Mrs.
Ball to prepare supper. While she was in the act of doing so
deceased suddenly fell fot•ward, and died instantaneously. Mr.
Woolridge, surgeon, of the Haymarket, deposed to having been
called in to see the deceased, whom he found quite dead. He
attempted to bleed him, without avail, and attributed his death
either to apoplexy or the bursting of some blood-vestel in the
heart. It having been rumoured that the deceased had been
struck by the young man on the night of his death. witnesses
were called to inquire into this statement, and the first exa-
mined was Joseph Holt, the landlord of the White Bear tap,
whose evidence strongly denying the fact, corroborated by
other respectable witnesses, completely exculpated the accused
from the charge made against him when taken before the Ma-
gistrates at Marlborough-street Police-court on Tuesday. The
Coroner brit fly remarked on the melancholy nature of the case,
and suggested it as very probable that the deceased came by his
death from undue excitement, in endeavouring to preserve
peace in his establishment—a conclusion the jury immediately
coincided in, by returning a verdict of " Died by the visitation
of God." The inquiry, which lasted upwards of two hours,
excited much interest from the prevalence of the report that
violence had been used by James, who is at present imprisoned
far an assault on Mr. Holt, but the result clearly acquits him
rom this charge.
We quote the following from the Presse :—" The
oldest man of France is M. Noel de Quersonnieres, who
was formerly a commissary of the army, now living in
Paris, though born at Valenciennes in 1 728
subject to arty infirmity, takes four meals;i
He is not
day, shaves
himself;reads and writes without spectacles, sings very
agreeably, and sleeps soundly.
-!-!e
poetry, and his conversation +s foil ci very good
wit and sense,
abounding with anecdotes.
Al
the,
fl6age of 90 he married
who died in
diving
birth to a son. He states ttwrites
n young English girl, aged onlyh
a
t
his grandmother died at
' gaily, he will frequentlY
the age of 125, and would have lived longer, but for a
severe Nth When conversing
invitehis friends to his funeral in the next century.