The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-22 00:00:00

was in the habit of taking 25/, 301, and 351. a day, and
on an ordinary day, not market days. Other shopkeepers
were suffering equally. One gentleman assured him that
in his two shops he did not now take so much as he
used to do in one shop. He (Mr. Bonner) 'wished to
correct an error which had appeared in a report of a
former speech of his. He stated then, that a friend
of his had for ten weeks past been in the habit of pur-
chasing fourteenand fifteen wedding rings in a week. In
the reporting his speech he was made to say that the num-
ber was 15 during the whole ten weeks, instead of 15
per week. This was a fact of a fearful character. It
showed the fearful condition to which the people
were reduced. Where they used to have fifty
weekly applicants for relief, they had now 261. Such
was the case last Friday. There were multitudes who
would not apply for relief, although they needed it, so
that the number of applicants for relief was but a
small proof of the very groat distress existing.
The present Government was looked upon with
contempt, and when a person spoke to a poor
man of the law, the man lost his temper, and spoke
in the most unmitigated contempt of the institutions of
the country. A Government was only valuable as
it was respected.—(Loud cheers.) When a Govern-
ment was not respected, there was little chance of its
going on comfortably. He believed that many of the
•workpeople in his neighbourhood had determined upon
coming up to London—but not in a body, for a
troop of soldiers to intercept—b-ut they were talk-
ing of coming up in small companies to Lon-
don, there to meet and to press their demands
on those parties which oppressed them. He (Mr. Bon-
ner) did not countenance such language ; but the people
said they Wonld have bread—they would not starve in the
midst of plenty—they would demand it from those who un-
justly withheld it from them. He thought there was serious

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ground for apprehending that unless a change took place
violence would be resorted to.— (Hear, hear.) They
. had in his neighbourhood three relieving officers,
where they had only one a few months ago, and a
sub-committee- of guardians had within the last
week been appointed to assist those relieving
officers. A friend of his had told him.that the nailers in
the neighbourhood were working at starvation prices ;
the chair-makers Were at a stand-still, and rob-
bery was fearfully prevalent ; these robberies being
committed by working men. He heard of a man,
yesterday, having destroyed himself, in conse-
quence of the distressed state of his family. He
believed that if the Corn-laws were repealed there would
be at once a happy feeling throughout the country. It
was said by some, that to do this they must have
complete suffrage. lie begged to say that no one more
firmly approved of that principle. He thought every
mutt of twenty-one years of age ought to have a vote.
But it would not be a relief to the people. 'this
was. merely a means towards an end, whereas the
repeal of the Corn-laws was an end. They cared more
about feeding the people than giving a man a
vote. He thought they had committed a great mistake
respecting the Reform Bill. That Bill was a kind of
ladder to a better system, but the people did not ascend
it, they rested contented that it was there, until their
enemies had taken it away from them. So it would
be with complete suffrage. Uniiersal suffrage would be
a national benefit, and not a universal one—it would be
a benefit to this country, but not to America. Therefore
he said go for free trade first.—(Cheers.) In the Asso-
ciation to which he belonged a proposition had been
made to merge the Association in that of the National
Complete Suffrage Association. The subject was dis-
cussed, but they determined to go for free trade first—
(Cheers)—and all of those members were suffrage men.
—(Hear, hear.) There was an old adage, do not at-
tempt too many things at once ; but the Suffrage Asso-
ciation said, do a good many things at once. He (Mr.
Bonner) thought the Conference ought to have a meet-
ing of the ministers of London in order that they might
take a leading part in the agitation. He would conclude
by relating a little anecdote, which had occurred under
his own observation. A landed proprietor was holding
an argument with a poor Irishman on the Corn-laws.
The landlord was getting the worst cf the argument,
when, to put a stopper on the Irishman, he said, " Why if
the Corn-laws are repealed we shall not be able to take
your pork and beef from Ireland, as they will send it
from other countries, so that Ireland will be ruined."
" Well," said the Irishman, "I suppose it must be so ;
but faith, I don't think we_should be worse off, for then
we should have to eat the pork and beef ourselves, and
by my sowl we don't do that same now."—(Laughter.)
The meeting then adjourned till eleven o'clock to-day.

NEW WORK BY THE MARQUESS OF LONDON -
DERRY.—W 6 are requested- to state that Mr. Colburn,
of Great Marlborough-street, has this day published
" A Steam Voyage to Constantinople, by the Rhine and
Danube, in 1840-41 ;" by C. W. Vane, Marquess of
Londonderry, G. C. 8., Sze. ; to which is annexed the
Author's Correspondence with Prince Metternich, Lords
Palmerston, Ponsonby, &c. ; in 2 vols., Bvo., with illus-
trations, price 28s. bOund, which can now be had of all
booksellers.' Mr. Colburn has also just published, Mr.
Vigne's Travels in Cashmere, and the countries adjoining
the mountain course of the Indus, &c., with observa-
tions on the late, and now passing, events in Affghan-
istan in 2 vols., Bvo., with avaluable map, and twenty-
two

An atrocious and extraordinary attempt to murder
was made on Saturday in the Rue des Trois Bornes,
Faubourg du Temple. A journeyman mason, named
Colet, with a wife and six children, have lived
fn- two years in very humble lodgings in the above-
named street, Faubourg du Temple. Cslet had for
some time taken to drinking, neglected his work,
and at last got drunk so frequently, that he could
earn nothing, and to meet the expenses of his vicious
habits, he, by brutal treatment forced his • wife to give
him the major part of the small sums which she gained
by washing. At length, in a fit of despondency, he ac-
knowledged to her his errors, expressed his conviction
that she could live and maintain her children better with-
out him, and declared his determination to shoot himself
if she would give him enough to buy a pistol. Sho en-
deavoured to divert his thoughts from this gloomy
prospect, and lead him to better resolutions. Her re-
monstrances, however, only revived his evil spirit, and
he became so outrageous that she was compelled to resign
to him all her little store. With part of the money he
did purchase a pistol, powder, and ball, but with the
rest he made himself completely drunk again. In
this state he went home on Saturday morning with
the pistol loaded, and instead of turning it against
himself, presented it at the head of his wife. The
poor woman instinctively raised her hand to ward
off the blow. The savage fired, and the ball, after
• passing through her hand, wounded her severely on the
forehead. The sound of the report brought in the
neighbours, who found the poor wife extended bleeding
and senseless on the floor. They detained the assassin,
and sent for the commissary of police, who committed
him to prison. The wounded wife was carried to the
hospital, where it has been ascertained that the wounds
are not mortal, but that it will be necessary to amputate
several of the fingers of her hand.

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THE LATE SCANDAL CASE AT MANCIIESTER.—The
Manchester Chronicle of Saturday contains the following para-
graph relating to this case :—" It was not our intention to have
giren publicity to this painful affair in the columns of the
Chronicle. The feelinp of the friends of both parties must
hare been sufficiently harrowed up by the circumstance, without
the public attention being further drawn to it; but, as inaccu-
rate reports have found their way into the London papers, we
deem
it proper briefly to state the facts of the case. On the
night in question the servant girl appeared to have gone to bed
as usual, but being concerned in the plot, did not undress her-
self. Shortly after she retired her mistress went to her room
to ask her some questions as to the state in which she had left
the tires. The servant having satisfied her on this point, she
departed, and went into her own room. In about a quarter of
an hour afterwards the servant, being on the alert, heard her
mistress open her room door and walk into the bed-room of her
lodger, locking that door after her. The servant then slipped
out of the house, gave the necessary information, and in a few
minutes four strange men (the husband not being one of the
party, but remaining at a neighbour's, waiting the issue of the
affair entered the house, broke open the bedroom door, dragged
both parties out of the room, and most cruelly beat Mr. A,
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strument, and otherwise abused him so severely thst his life was
desrAired of. A retof
t was prevalent in town last night that
he died during the afternoon, but there is no truth in this
rumour. We can state on the beitauthority that he is still alive;
and hopes are entertained of his recovery.