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ROYAL POLYTECHN IC INSTITUTION,
A Lecture on the PREVALENT DISEASE in FOTATOES,
and the Me ins of extracting the Starch as an Article of Food, will
he delivered by Dr. Ryan, daily, at Half-past Three, and on the
Evenings of Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, at Nine.
Professor Bachoffner's varied Lectures, with experiments, in one
of which he clearly explains the principle of the ATMOSPHERIC
RAILWAY, a model of which is at work Daily. Mr. Downe, the
celebrated Flutist, will perform, at Three o'Clock, en Tuesdays,
Thursdays, and Saturdays. Coleman's NEW AMERICAN Logo-
MOTIVE ENGINE, for aszending and descending Inclined Planes.
1 beautifnl series of DISSOLVING. VIEWS. New OPTICAL IN-
STRUMENTS, lee. Experiments with the DIVER and DIVING
BELL; &c &c.

Admission, One Shilling. Schools, Half-price.

R. CARTER'S MAMMOTH HORSE.
The colossal Horse, GENERAL WASHINGTON, the pro-
perty of Mr. Carter, the Lion King, has been visited by many thou-
sand persons, including the Lobility and gentry, and numerous ladies,
who have declared that he is the most extraordinary horse in the
world. The principal journals have spoken in the highest terms of
this remarkable animal General Washington is tie largest horse in
the world—he is twenty hands in height, and weighs twenty-five
hundred pounds.

He will be exhibited by Mr. Carter for a short time, previous to
his departure to America, at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, from
leleven, ♦.x., till Nine, P.m.—Admission, Is.

GLASGOW via FLEETWOOD and Alt-
DROSSAN, every MONDAY, TUESDAY, TRIIRSDAY, and
FRIDAY, by the new Iron Steamers, "HER MAJESTY" and
"ROYAL CONSORT," 700 tons and 350 horse .power.
The above ships leave Fleetwood, on the arrival ,)f the trains that
leave Euston-square, London, at 7.38., 8.45., or IL Passengers
can be booked through to, Glasgow in London. Carriages taken by
the 8.45 train only. Daily communication with the talc of Man.
Further particulars ntay be had at 8, bt. Swith!n:s-lane ; er the
.Universal-office, Regent-circus, London; or of the Agents, Kemp
and Co., Fleetwood, and M'Kean and Lament. Glasgow.

.EGAL and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE
..1.4 OFFICE, No. 10, Fleet-street, London, December 18, 1845.
Notice is hereby given, that the TRANSFER-BOOKS of this
SOCIETY will be closed from the 31st.day of December Instant to
the 31st day of January, 1846.
By order of the Board,
T. R. EDMONDS, Actuary.

NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE SOCIETY,
26, CORNIIILL, LONDON.
Capital.Esoo,ooo.
•
Empowered by Act of Parliament.
This institution offers important and substantial advut-
tages with respect both to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities.
The assared has, on all occasions, the power to borrow, without ex-
pense or forfeiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the premium paid,
(see table); also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion
of lib, interests to meet other conveniences sr necessity. Assurances
for terms of years aro granted on the lowest possible rates.
DIVISION OF PROFIT:.
The slums and increasing prosperity of the Society has enabled
the Directors, at the last annual investigation, to declare a third
Bonus, varying from lin to 75 -per cent. on the premiums paid on
each Policy elected on the Profit scale.
EXAMPLES.

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IrPuri s 4 *
t.- m 4 ' Berms Bans in 7‘. c) ti .rl, 0. aox.
1,1 i Premium. 2
q added. Cask. Ei: &45.13 ti
111 Pio
.4 5
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XiX s. d 1837 X 9113 5 ..tB7 13 5 Sl3 17 1 5395 I 1 1
601000 '74 3 4. 1838 165 13 0 74 13 10 11 8 6 346 2 3
I 1 1839 138 13 6 61 14 3 82 10 296 13 4
1840 89 0 0 41 13 4 60 I 247 4 6

Tse dtvision of profits is annual, and the next will be made in De-
eem 4er of the present year.

F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, See.

ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE
CORPORATION,
ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON.
(established by Royal Charter A.D. 1720.)
FIRE INSURANCES.
NOTICE.—The usual fifteen days allowed for payment of Pre-
mitims falling due At Christmas will expire on the 9th day of
January next.

LIFE INSURANCES,

Two-thirds of the Profit on the Company's Life business, since De-
cember, 1841, will be apportioned, periodically, among Policies for
Life, without involving the assured in any risk of partnership.
The Company has returned to the position in the Royal Exchange,
which it had occupied in the former building from 1720 till its de-
struction by fire in 1838. '
Branch Office, 29, PALL-MALL.
THOMAS TOOKE, Esq., Governor.
WILLIAM SAMPSON, Esq., Sub-Governor.
The Hon. J. T. LESLIE MELVILLE, Deputy-Governor.
DIRECTORS.
Henry Bainbridge, Esq. Chas. John Manning, Esq.
George Pearkes Barclay, Esq. Henry Nelson, Esq.
Edmond S. P. Calvert, Esq. Edw. Howley Palmer, Esq.
Alexander Colvin, Esq. John Henry Polly, Esq.
William Davidson, Esq. Abraham J. Robarts, Esq.
John Deitcon, Esq. Charles Robinson, Esq.
RiVersdale W. Grenfell, Esq. Sir Samuel Scott, Bart.
William T. Hibbert, Esq. William Soltau, Esq.
Lancelot Holland, Esq. Robert Thorley, Esq.
Sir. George Larpent, Bart. Henry Warre, Esq.
John Chr. Lochner, Esq. Octavius Wigram, Esq.
Sir J. Wm. Lubbock, Bart. Charles Baring Young, Esq.
A.LEXR. GREEN, Secretary.

DAVIES'S • BEST MOULD CANDLES, 6d.
per lb., with the improved Wax Wicks ; Store Candles,
bd.; Hale's Superb Composite, 9%d.; Price's, 10d.; Ogleby's Bo-
tanic Wax, Is.; German Wax, Is. 2d. ; Fin. Wax, Is. id.;
Transparent Wax, Is. Bd. ; Genuine Wax, 2s. Id.; Genuine sperm,
Is. Sd. ; Palmer's Metallic, 61,4 d. and Sd.; Hale's Metallic, 7%d. ;
"Yellow Soap, 465., 525., and Us. per 1121bs ; Mottled, 60s. and
645.; White Windsor, Is. 4d. per Packet; Palm, Is. 4d.; Old
Brown Windsor, Is. 9d. ; Rose, 2s. ; Almond, 2s. 6d. ; Superfine
Sealing Wax. 4e. 6d. per lb.; Genuine Sperm On, Is. O. per galloa
Ogieby's Patent Oil, equal to Sperm, 48. 6d. ; Solar, 3s. 6d.
Per Cash, at DAVIES'S Old Established Warehouse, 63, St. Mar-
tin's-lane, opposite New Slaughter's Coffee-house.

lati, RANDY •AND CAPSULES.—Mr. BETTS
I, (the late flrnt of J. T. BETTS aid CO.), Patent Brandy
Distiller, 7, Smithfield ears, feels it due to himself and the walls to
state, that the Manufacture of the PATENT BRANDT was not,
and never has been known to any person except to himself and ens
of his sons. And that he was succeeded in tke business of tke
Dis-
tillery, 7, Smithfield Bars, by his sons, J. T. BETTS, jun., and CO.,
on his retiring therefrom, in 1843.

Mr. SETTS further states; that he is the sole Patentee, manufac-
turer, and vendor of the Metallic Capsule, (or solid metal covering
far the mouths of bottles), that no Other Brandy in England, except
BETTS'S PATENT BRANDY, is thereby protected; the Patent
Metallic Capsule if, therefore, applied to any other lik'andy, must
have been surreptitiously obtained.

' HORIZONTAL WATCHES, VERY FLAT.
A B. SAVORY and SONS, Watchmakers, 9,
A
Cornhill, London, opposite the Bank. Price, in Silver
Cases, Three and a-Half Guineas each ; or, in Gold Cases, Six Guineas
each. These Watches are accurate and durable, the Horizonta.
Escapement being peculiarly suited to combine those important requi-
sites. They are jewelled in four holes, and continue going while
being wound. A twelvemonth's warranty is given with each.

GRATIS!-GRATISI GRATIS!
THE PALACE OF BEAUTY.
No doubt many persons are anxious to look
At what we have said in the new winter book ;
And we beg to acquaint them this book is now printed,
And that many a fast of importance is Mated;
You'll find that we've not been remiss in our duty,
When you read what we state in "The Palace of Bsaity."
This book costs you nothing (it couldn't cost less),
And that is a fact upon which we lay stress ;
If you just write a letter applying for one,
'1 our request will be granted by MOSES and SON,
Who are never accus'd of ne,lecting their duty,
With regard to transmitting "The Palace of Beauty."
No matter the distance at which you may dwell,
We send in the town and country as well ;
And that which, perhaps, will surprise you the most
Is the fart that we also agree to pay post ;
This proves that E. MOSES and SON do their daty,
When'er they're asked for" The Palace of Beauty."
LIST OF PRICES.
MAW 111.11 E.

A I. it.
Bear r V aglionis
esester elds or ilodringtons 10
D'Orsal I, Attois, rembroke, and every description 4f
Winte rCeats
Boys' Witter Coats in every style "bons
Winter troasers, lined 4 6
Doeskin, ditto •... •• • • •.. lb so •• •• •• •• •• 11 •• •• 010 6
Dress Coats, edged
... 1 0 I
Frock, ditto. ...... • •• .• • .
801 l Collar Test.. .. „ „„ .. '

Doable-bp— A
Rom .•
ffussar and Tunic ittitit..... ,
Ditto Muter ...... ....• •• .•
Ditto, 'Otte Tuts ............ .. -

0 1 .
0 2 6
is 6
3 0
0 1 6

MIDIS TO =AWOL
Winter Coats, in every style and shape, handsomely
Milled cloth great Coats, velvet collar and cuffs .. 112 0
Tweed Wrappers
• ..... ••....• 0 111 6
Ditto Trousers ................. .....
..5
.5.5 0 6
Winter Trousers, in all the new patterns •
Doeskin ditt0.......•.•......•.5•.5•5.5.....5...... b ii 6
11
162 110
Best quality, or dress de
Dress .
Ditto, best qUality made •• •• • ...... • • ..... .. • ....• 2 15 0
rrock Coats.• .• ••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • •• • ..... 1 0 0
Ditto, best quality made • • ••••• • • • • • * 0
Cashmere Vests..
••••• •b1.1.1.6,••,••••16 6 6
satin do., plain or fancy 0 12 0
Boys' Hussar and Tunis suits .•
55....
Great Coats •• 1 6 11
....... 14 6
The New Work, entitled the " Monarch Mart,''' with full slirection
or self-measurement, nay be had, on application... Foat Free;"
IMPONTANT.—Any article purchased or ordered, Whet approved of
exchanged, or the money returned,
Observe—E. MOSES and SON', Tailors, 'Wholesale and Retail
Woollen Drapers, Outfitters, and General Warehousemen, 164; Mints-
ries, and 86, Aldgate, City, opposite the Church.
id,ls. No business transacted at this Estabtill'Aint from sunset on
Friday till sunset on Saturday, when bttalliell is resented at twelve
• clock.
Citrriox.—E. Moses and Son are olsliged to vier& the public
against imposition, having learned that the entradesmanlike false-
hood of being connected with them, Or its the same concern', has
seen resorted to in many intitnnces, and for obvious reasons. They
have no connexion Whatever 'a sth any other eltablilbriteit, in or out
of London, and those who desire gentine otsip Clothing should (to
prevent d:appite the Church.popsointment,.) 711 or send to 154, Misories, or 86,
Aldgate.

OOWLAND'S ODON'I'UV
wr, PEARL DENTIFRICE,
Patronised by the Queen, and the Royal family of Great thitalm
and the several Sovereigns and Courts of Eitropt.
Mite Powder for the Teeth, compounded of the choicest and
most recherche ingredients of the Oriental Herbal—the leildbig re-
quisites of cleanliness and efficacy being present in the highest pos-
sible degree. It extirpates all tartarous adhesions to the Teeth, and
ensures a pearl-like whiteness to the enamelled surface. Its anti-
septic and anti-scorbutic properties arrest the Anther progress of
decay of the Teeth, and induce a healthy action of the Gums. The
Breath also attains a fragrant sweetness truly gratethl to its pos.
sensor.

As the most efficient and fragrant aromatic Tooth Powder ever
known, ROWLAND'S ODONTO has for a long series of years oc-
cupied a distinguished place at the toilets of the Sovereigns and the
Nobility throughout Europe, while the general demand f,..r it at once
announces the favour in which it is universally held.
Price 2s. 9d. per Box.
CAUTION.—To protect the public from Fraud, the Hen. Com-
missioners of Stamps have directed the Proprietors' Name and
klblress to beeaimed on the Government Stamp, thus—
A. EOWLAND and SON, 20, Hatton-garden,
and which is affixed on each lin.
Ott by the Proprieters, end by Chemists and Perfume.
15s• AJ Qtall Ali mato; 13304140,

CADETS for INDlA.—Every information con-
nected with OUTFITS far INDIA, partieifiers of Passage
by Ship and by the Overland route, detailed Lists or Outfits both for
Ladies and Gentlemen, with the necessary variations for officers,
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plication to Messrs. THRESHER and GLENNY, East India and
Colonial Outfitters, 152, Strand, London, where all outfits are sup-
plied at the wholesale prices.

IMPORTANT AND INTERESTING NEW WORK ON OREGON

AND CALIFORNIA.
Just ready,

C APTAIN FREMONT'A NARRATIVE of
the EXPLORING EXPEDITION to the ROCKY MOUN-
TAINS in the year 1842, and to OREGON and NORTH CALIFOR-
NIA in the years 1843-4. By order of the United States Govern-
ment.

This work, besides containing the most accurate and authentic in-
formation, from actual official survey, will be found extremely inte-
resting as a graphic description of novel and exciting scenes and
adventures.

Wiley and Putnam, 6, Waterloo-place ; and at all the Booksellers.

AMERICAN STATESMEN OF THE LAST FIFTY YEARS.
In a few days, in 2 vols. Bvo.,
THE LIFE and TIMES of the HONOURABLE
HENRY CLAY,
Late Senator, Secretary of State, one of the Commissioners of the
Treaty of Ghent, &c.
With Extracts from his Speeches, Correspondence, &c.
By CALVIN COLTON,
• Author of "Your Years in Great Britain," &c.
This work may be regarded as a faithful picture of the political
history of the Uuited States since 1810.
Wiley and Putnam, 6, Waterloo-place; and at all the Libraries.

/elegant Pocket Edition, price Is., by post Is. 6d.
DR. CULVERWELL ON MARRIAGE,
its HINDRANCES and OBLIGATIONS.
" Ts be or net to be, that is the question."—Shakspeare.
Contents :—On Matrimonial Eligibility and Unfitness—Laws el
Paternity—Phenomena of Gestation—On Maternal Influence—On
infelicitous and unproductiTe Unions—Cariosities o (Medical Experi-
ence, Cases, &c. &e.
Also Companion to the same, prise Is., by p3st is. 6d.

CMASTITT ; its ABUSES and DISEASES (72 Engravings).
These two interesting little volumes are not intedied for idle or in-
discriminate, perusal, but they are earnestly offered to the attentive
coisideration of these who may be more legitimately and perhaps
painfully interested.

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Mann, 39, Cornhill, and all booksellers, or direct irons the Author,
21, Arundel-street, Strand. At kome daily till 2 ; Evenings, 7 till 9.

FOURTEENTH EDITION of the SILENT FRIEND on Human
Frailty, with Coloured Engravings.
last published, price 2e. 64., free by post (in a sealed envelope) 3s. 6d.,
THE SILENT FRIEND ; a Medical Work on
the Infirmities of the System Y both sexes ; and on the loss
of the reproductive powers, with means of restoration. The baneful
effects of Indulge- ce, &c., are hilly pointed oat. Illustrated by En-
gravings; followed by observations on Marriage.
By E. and L. PERRY and Co., Consulting Surgeons, Lenten.
Published by the Authors, and may be had at their residence
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and at 10, St. John-street, Doansgato, Manzhe der, on Mondays,
Tuesdays, and Wednesdays.
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THE TWELFTH EDITION.
Just Published, in a sealed envelope, price 25. 6d., and seat free, ex
receipt of a Post-oftiee Order fir 3s. 6d.
MANLY HEALTH: a Popular Inquiry into
the Concealed Cause of its Decline,
with Instructions
for its Complete Restoration. Addressed to Ulna suffering from
the destructive consequences of excessive indulgence, terminating in
Mental and Nervous Debility, Local or Constitutional Weakness, In-
digestion, and Consumption. Including a comprehensive Dissertation
on MARRIAGE. Illustrated with Cases, &c By C. J LUCAS
and Co., Consulting Surgeons, London.
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by way of protection, to caution the publie against being duped b y
such base imitations.

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THE 'YEW LONDON MAGAZINE.
This is the fourth appearance of this new candidate
for public favour, which is ati agreeable metlngd of Useful
and entertaining information. We would commend
" The Bachelor's Bncycloptrdia of Practical Economy"
to the attentive perusal of all young men beginning the
world. The present paper propounds the art of living
upon 701. a year, and shows clearly how it may be ac-
complished, The lovers of fun will be delighted with
Obadiah Goosequill, and Mr. Tippletoddy, while gossip-
ing with the olden pdetsi will introduce many a reader
faitrbtoofif first time 'Etc), onanedoaftthtehemOssatmberiltliimanet
one
ets
ofof
ourthe
most elegant lyric poets, Sir John Suckling. There is a
great deal of pleasant reading in the New London Ma-
gazine.

SPORTING MAGAZINE.
Harry Hie'over continues his valuable treatise on
"Educating Horses," and tales occasion to go into the
siibjhtt of education generally, and treats it in a very
philosophical manner: Take the following as a spe-
cimen
One of the that material things in teaching men, chil-
dteni or brutet; is td make them perfectly understand what
it is we want of then4.and this I.,stisOct it hOt stiWays,dtillh
eithei childitti, iatisned, are often punislied
Mini our fancying them unwilling Or obstinate' when; in
truth, their not completing their task 'irises fro our fault in
net making
,therh bdtnpreheild it i with hoiseS f ani iiiiitti
etrtaiii this is a matter of bdurly occurrence, We are too
apt to fancy that easy which we knew ourselves, forgetting
that A B is tss difttcult to resit Ai A hist lesion as 101„,14the
iiihst difficult problem of Euclid is at a maturer age dr its
more advanced education."
It would be well that all engagkid its the btisinhis of
itistrubtidn should fieeti this obseiliation constantly in
mind. The illustrations to this number are " Clipping,"
engraved by Engleheirtt from aiiiture by Turner, and
bY
view **With ofliiintin~,Lodge of Queen
Epping Forest.

Howitt, a
Writr3irlidOsietwiioEiliSilhat arttAtifer ifijarrinYttfy
has just brought befcire the public another of thole charming
fintions With which her„narde,3 4colge identified. In in-
terest 4 " The Citliene of Prague fir exoedl.atiy.iif lie pre-
decessors, and of this Mrs. Hewitt is sofiiilY 160:egged; thii
in the preface she styles it " a noble work, and an honour
to human nature." The hero is a very remarkable cha-
racter, who niade a great figure in the last century; bat
it itli novel readere the chief featured of hii very picturesque
and romantic story will be the animated picture it contahid
of ,thq. Court of the Celebrated Empress Maria Theresa
'this ilhistrious lady gind her dqually eminent Minister.
Kaujiiti, playing distinguished parts in the narrative,
" The Citizens of Prague" will enable the English reader to
dsroavitweailgt
Sovereign his own, in which he will meet with some verytecresting comparison between this noble-minded
•
singular coincidence&
SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT COVE.—On Sunday night,
at the hour of eight o'clock, as Captain Bennie,_ of the Prin-
cess Royal transport, was going down the "Holy Ground,"
on his way to the boat that was to have conveyed him to his
ship, be took one of those narrow and tortuous paths that
lead down to the Strand, when, melancholy to relate, he had
scarce proceeded more than a few steps, when, from the im-
passable state of those footways, which are always dangerous
to those who venture by them, and particularly so to those
unaccustomed to them, he was precipitated among the rocks
and stones beneath. Captain B. received several 'injuries
and is dangerously hurt, but we are happy to say hopes are
ontortemed of Igo roctrery.—Ork ,Et
amen

OPENING OF THE PORTS.
, GREAT FREE-TRADE DEMONSTRATION IN
HULL.
(Abridged from the Hull Advertiser.)
A meeting of the merchants, shipowners, traders, and
ether inhabitants of the town of Hull, convened by the
Mayor in pursuence of a requisition, to which was at-
tached the signatures of 136 of the most respectable and
influential residents of the borough, was held at the
Town-hall on Monday last, for the purpose of praying
her Majesty to be pleased to order the ports to be throwis
open for the importation of food. The meeting, IN hich
was most numerously and respectably attended, wae pre-
sided over by John Groeham, Esq., the Mayor.
The first resolution was proposed by Mr. Alderman
TilomrS-ON, and having been seconded by the Rev. J. 11.
13110MBY, Vicar of Hull, was unanimously adopted. It
was to the effect that the meeting viewed with serious
alarm the failure of the crops, and that it consequently
became the duty of the Government to adopt every means
for the prevention of the evil results likely to arise
' from it.
Dr. GORDON moved a resolution to the. effect that
dearth and scarcity of food diminished employment, en-
gendered disease, and increasel crime among the work-
ing classes, which was seconded by the Rev. M. SerteEra
and carried amidst loud cheers.
The next resolution, advocating the opening of the
ports by an Order in Council, to be followed by an Act
of the Legislature permitting the free importation of
human food, was moved by Mr. Alderman Ancessoer,
and seconded by Mr. Councillor SISSISSON, and carried
with acclamation.
HENRY BLUNDELL, Esq., moved that a loyal and
dutiful address be presented to her Majesty, imploring
her to permit the ports to be thrown open, and to cause
the immediate assembling of Parliament, for the pur-
pose of abolishing all restrictive duties on the importa-
tion of food. The motion was seconded by J. JONES,
Esq., the ex-Mayor, and carried nem. con.
E. F. COLLINS, Esq. (Editor of the Hull Advertiser),
proposed the adoption of the following memorial:—
" TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
" Most Gracious Sovereign,
" We, your Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the
inhabitants of the borough of Kingston-upon-Hull, in
public meeting assembled, viewing with serious alarm
the state in which this country is placed by the general
failure of the potato crop, which constitutes the prin-
cipal food of several millions of the working classes in
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and
the proved deterioration of all descriptions of grain, and
being apprehensive that the scarcity and dearness of all
description of food produced in these islands will cause
an imminent amount of suffering among the poorer
classes of your Majesty's people before the ensuing
harvest, most humbly approach your Majesty, as the
fountain of justice and the hope of your people, in this
their season of imminent peril. We would most humbly
but most earnestly remind your Majesty that dearth and
scarcity of food are proved by the experience of the past
to diminish employment, to render property insecure, to
excite discontent, to engender disease, to increase crime
among the labouring classes. We, therefore, most
humbly pray your Majesty to suspend, by the merciful
exercise of your Majesty's royal prerogative, the
operation of the corn-laws, by commanding the ports of
the United Kingdom to be thrown open for the impor-
tation of all descriptions of food, free of duty; and by
summoning Parliament together for the immediate
repeal of those laws, and for the removal of all legal re-
strictions upon the free importation of food for the sus-
tenance of all classes of your loyal subjects."
The Rev. JAMES ASPINALL, Rector of Althorpe, Lin-
colnshire, on rising to second the motion, was received
with tremendous cheering, which lasted several minutes.
After the applause had subsided, he proceeded to say—
Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen, these are eventful and im-
portant times. The breaking up of the late Ministry—
(Cheers)—l never used the word late with so much
pleasare before—cannot fail to precipitate a crisis in
which all our watchfulness and all our exertions will be
required, that we may neither be baffled by open
enemies, nor over-reached by false friends who may
desert to us from the hostile camp. I rejoice, therefore, .
to see this meeting. The struggle with monopoly is not
over, whether Sir Robert Peel is meditating treason to
it, or is only dreaming of once more modifying it to a
less repulsive form. In either case it is only scotched,
not killed. But I do not believe the rumours which give
him to us as a total repealer, and claim for him the
honour of martyrdom. I regard them as inventions
cunningly devised, and industriously circulated by the
enemy to throw you off your guard, and so lull you into
security and consequent inactivity. I am glad, then, to
find that you are not the sort of birds to be caught by
such chaff.—(Cheers and laughter.) For my part, I am
here to-day from the conviction that, when distress be-
gins in Lancashire, prosperity will not abide very long in
Lincolnshire, and that when the profits of cotton fall off,
the interests of corn will be greatly damaged. In short,
as an agriculturist, I am always most anxious to see
the masses in the trading and manufacturing districts
obtain " a fair day's work " to make the hungry,
and " a fair day's wages " wherewithal to buy the
food which we supply. But it will, perhaps, be as well if
I commence my remarks to you with briefly stating the
results, as far as they can be yet ascertained, of the
harvest and potato crop in our part of the country. With
regard to the former, that is, the wheat harvest, although
much inferior to that of last year which, if I may so say,
was next door to a miracle, it is but little below an
average, and small complaints would have been heard
about it but for the sad and awful failure of the potato
crop. On this point, I am sorry to say, exaggeration is
almost impossible. But what is, perhaps, the worst
feature of all, and must tell tremendously before another
harvest is, that we have the phenomenon of low prices,
encouraging consumption, with an ascertained scarcity,
the farmers being anxious to sell, at any price, such part
of their produce as they dare not risk the keeping of for
fear of the disease reaching it. I need hardly observe
that the result of these things must create a gap in the
food of the country which it will be quite im-
possible for the produce of the wheat harvest to
supply, and which must, therefore, help to accelerate
the approach of that crisis under the fear of which we
are here assembled. But, before I go further into the
subject, I have a little scolding and grumbling and some
of our friends to get over, in which, I hope, when you
hear the purport of it, you will heartily join me. The
country has had a bitter lesson during the last few
weeks. I trust that it may be a salutary one. Before
that period darkened in upon us, it had become the
fashion of many speakers and writers on our side of the
question to be constantly telling us that Sir Robert Peel
was an excellent free-trader, and would, in time, do
everything for us. For myself, I must say that I always
considered such persons to be very original eulogists of
the lite Premier ; for their compliment to him, when
translated into plein English, could mean nothing else
but that they regarded him as the veritable and amiable
snake warmed and cherished in the bosoul or monopoly
only to sting it to death.—(Loud cheers.) Now, I do not
think that this strange trust in Sir Robert Peel has yet
affected the self-reliance or diminished the efforts and
energies of any of the free-trade party. But its ten-
dency, if persevered in, would be to produce such an
effect. You may depend upon it that any seeming bias
which you may ever have perceived in him towards your
principles has been the 'seult of your selfreliance.
But if Vou ever go to sleep, and allow it to he the substi-
tute for it, it will become " fine by degrees and beauti-
fully less," until it altogether vanishes from your view ;
that is, if the monopolists had brought the greatest
pressure to bear upon the late Minister, he would, I verily
believe, have remained with the monopolists ; but, as it
happened that the free-traders produced this greatest
preseiite; he has come over to free trade, or to some
approximation towards it, of which we do not know the
exact degree yet.—(Cheers.) You will probably recol-
lect in your miscellaneous reading to have met with an
account of an elderly gentleman, Mr. Bold, who once, as
he returned a young lady's glove, which she had acci-
dentally dropped, thus tenderly addressed her—
" If from glove you take the letter Cie
You make it love—that's what I feel for thee ?" •
to which this sad rejoinder instantly came forth-
-0 And if foam bold you take the letter B,
You'd make It cid: and that won't do for me."
Ad I would try it a third time, and put it—
" And if from Peel you take the letter
You make it eel, add fhat'S too slippery for rte."
That is, I have not yet admitted hitt into my Book of
Martyrs.—(Renewed laughter.) But then comes the
question, which haa often been asked of the good-natured
people of whom I speak—" lire you not satisfied with
what Bir Ttobert Peel has done for trade ? Did he not
take the sages oF fOrrr hundred and thirty articles all PA
once at the beginning of this -;er± year? To be sure
he did. But it must be recollected, that if (to use a
crin.-.'zi-ciftlnlirase) he is a free-trader in the sample, be'is, or was very leiely; dill a monopolist in the bulk.
He abandoned, it is true, foul' Hundred and thirty poor,
inteeeni: piney monopolies, which noliody felt,
and
which noboay, thcieforel complained about, but he stiff
upheld the two giants, the Gog and Meteog of monopoly,
anger and corn—(Loud cheers)—in all the imialetsify
of
theli cee'reteiste weight. But enough of this. I will
only ask, in conneiicti with its have we not leaders of
our own, without everlastingly coceinetf.inT with one who
has always shown himself to be, and, 1 oelioirai kill is,
the most megiecious champion of monopoly ? Have i+to'
not all the tried met of the League ?—(Loud cheers.)
1-11.*6 y; if not Mr. Meeartlay?—(Peenewed cheering.)
Hie riot a Morpith just thrown in his time-honoured
name to take his part atid lot with us f--(Tremendous
cheers.) And what other war-cry is that raised in the
forefront of the battle? It passes from mouth, and cheers
frone month to mouth, and cheers us with the certainty
of success, aS it tells that the hero of a hundred fights
and of a hundred victofies in the political struggle has
joined us, and unfurled the plat and unsullied banner
of tho house of Russell at our head. Let us, then, I say
I again, place all our treet in self-reliance, union, and our
owofeea , •
-- exertions and cast off altogether the foolish thoughteenfiding in the abduction, by
Robert reel., and his being compelledbienc y the force of
expedy, of Sir
I Will
' circumstances to become the unwilling ste father
now go on of free
trade.—(Cheers and laughter.)
to consider whether, throuhghrthreosilgplueoctotma
yweht in
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plet e fix your attention
• the country. And, first o
on what I consider to be a verlydencoureagniinl gthseigirn
ofoldr
our cause. Its enemies have at aside
arguments against it. Not that they have got anyare aban-
better
or stronger instead of them, but the old ones
doned as no longer tenable. There is, for instance, the

newest of all—the ducal one, which says, "Never mind
corn, but stick to curry powder."—(Laughter.) Again,
at one of their meetings, not very long ago, it was urged
that no fault whatever rested with the corn-laws, but
that much of obloquy and odium was brought upon
them by the iniquitous bakers, who would charge such
enormous and unreasonable prices for their bread.—
(Cheers and laughter.) Fortunate bakers! that they do
not live in Constantinople, where the Turks cheapen
loaves by cutting off the bakers' ears, and, sometimes,
their heads.—(Renewed laughter.) Another mode of
endeavouring to keep monopoly mit of sight is, for its
advocates to maintain a perpetual outcry on the subject
of the miseries of the werking classes in the trading
and manufacturing districts. But as this has been al-
ready most expressively defined, by a leading organ of
Toryism itself, as " factious benevolence," I shall not
spoil the picture by adding one word of my own to it.
But the most extraordinary substitute for an argument
in behalf of monopoly which I have yet seen was one
which I met with a short time since in an agri-
cultural journal, in which it It'a.l urged that the
corn and sugar monopolies had just ea good a
claim as the national debt upon the taxation of the
country, and that, consequently, to assail the former
was to threaten the latter with the sponge.
Never NVAS a more absurd proposition put forth
by the simplicity of man.—(Hear, Lear.) What is the
national debt ? It is the representative of money lent by
private individuals to the state, and, until the capital is
repaid, the interest must be regularly forthcoming to
those who, confiding in the national faith, have trusted
their money to the country instead of investing it in
other securities. Now, what claim have the monopolists
equal to this ? Have they lent any money to the
country ?—(Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") At what time
and to what amount ? When did the transaction take
place, and how was the sum borrowed expended by us ?
Until we know all these particulars, we shell demur to
the alleged debt, and continue to believe that our ideal
creditors have been oftener borrowers than lenders ;
more frequently receivers than givers.—(Hear, hear.)
But did you observe the very revolutionary hint about the
sponge and the national debt in the argument of the cham-
pion of monopoly ? Really I was not prepared to ex-
pect anything so bad as this even in such a very unscru-
pulous quarter.—(Laughter.) My faith in Toryism, small
as it ever was, is now utterly gone. When the magistrate
turned over the exciseman to the tender mercies of the
infuriated mob, his measured hint against violence was
contained in the words, " There is the pump, but on no
account put him under it." And what says the Tore
scribe in this instance ? " There stands the national
debt, and here is the sponge ; but be sure you do not let
the one come in contact with the other.''---This is posi-
tively monstrous. What enormity Toryism may next
contemplate in its onward progress it is impossible even
to guess. All good citizens must be prepared to check
and counteract its revolutionary and anarchical tendencies.
Repeal the corn-laws, and you give a new lease of vi-
tality to the commerce and manufactures of the coun-
try, and render trade trade indeed, and no longer a
mere speculation. Repeal the corn-laws, and you make
the world the market of England, and England the
workshop of the world.—(Hear, hear.) Repeal the corn-
laws, amid you fill every sea with our ships, and every
land with our goods. Repeal the corn laws, and what I
look at most in the whole struggle, you will give labour
constant and steady employment, and so rescue it from
those periodical battlings with famine to which it is now
exposed as often as a failing harvest comes round, with,
first, stagnation, and then panic in its train.—(Loud
cheers.) Whatever the timid and impatient may say to
the contrary, I think that our cease is advancing steadily
and surely towards success. I point to all the little
nothings and the almost as little somethings which the
late Ministers have grugdingly conceded to the principles
of free-trade, to their amended tariff, to their altered corn-
laws. These, be they ever so trifling in themselves, and,
as I said before, ever so unwillingly or ever so craftily
yielded, are still to be hailed as so many straws, so many
pilot balloons, sent up to try the current of public opinion,
and indicating that, whenever " the pressure from
without" shall be strong enough to insist, in the name of
the people of England, upon a repeal of the corn-laws,
the thing will be done, let who will hold sway in Down-
ing-street. But, while speaking of these things, let us
give praise to those to whom praise is due.—(Cheers.)
In all that the late Premier yielded to the demand for
free-trade, he did but feebly and poorly imitate the an-
nounced policy of the Ministers whom, in his struggle for
place and not for principle, he so treacherously drove out
for avowing those very tendencies to which he has since,
in part, given practical effect. This, I am aware, is a very
sore point both with Sir Robert Peel and his more im-
mediate followers. " Sir Robert adopts free trade in
imitation of the Melbourne Administration ;" they in-
dignantly exclaim, " He was always a free-trader, and
his policy was his own, and borrowed from no one else."
Now, if it be correct that he was always a free-trader,
he must have kept the secret admirably for many years
of his life, so much so, indeed, that our merchants and
manufacturers have a right to put the question to him—
"'Tis true that, you say, you dissembled your love,
But why did you kick us down stairs ?"—(Laughter.)
And then, again, as to the assertion that his policy was
his own; who doubts it? Do you? Do I? Does any-
body ?
The golden hair that Galls wears
Is her's : who would have thought it?
She swears 'tis hers ; and true she swears,
For I know where she bought it."
—(Laughter.) But, perhaps, it may be said that, al.
though the small concessions made by Sir Robert Peel
to the principle of free-trade, are, whatever may have
been his motive, good, so far as they go, still they are not
to be received as positive signs and symptoms that the
monopolists are prepared to abandon the corn-laws. Not
if they can help it, certainly. But you shonld know your
men better—you should know both them and your-
selves, both their strength and your strength, better. The
people of England will bear much and long. They are
a people little addicted to change, and only driven to it
by the most exasperating stimulants. But when once
they feel that right and justice are with them, and
their hearts are up and determined upon victory,
they will be more than a match for any Ministry
which, in the vicissitudes of the struggle upon which we
are entering, the monopolists may pick and cull to their
own satisfaction and pit against them. Up to a very recent
period all was well with us. The country was prosperous
and happy. Providence had overruled the blunders and
ignorance of men, and two bounteous harvests had coun-
teracted the mischievous working of class legislation. A
wise statesman would, like Joseph preparing in the
years of plenty for the years of famine, have taken ad-
vantage of such a period, and smoothed the way for the
next scarcity in our own crops, whenever there
should be a change of the seasons, and they
should leave the Ministerial benches to go into Opposi-
tion. But what was Sir Robert Peel doing all this time?
lie was watching over the food monopoly until very
lately with careful tenderness, as if it were the proudest
monument of his legislative wisdom, and not only that,
but, as if anxious to "make hay while the sun shone,"
for the Chancellor of the Exchequer, he crowned the ex-
periment upon John Bull's patience, good-nature, and
gullibility, with the pleasant addition of the income-
tax (Hear, hear) thus employing the time fur
averting another commercial crisis in rendering a
commercial crisis more certain and inevitable than over.
But what security had we for the continuance of this
state of things ? Was Sir Robert Peel regent over the
barometer ? Was he master of the seasons ? Could
he nail the weathercock in any particular quarter ?
Could he give up any guarantee for a farther series of
good harvests ?—(Cheers.) Not he. Well, then, what
followed ? Our prosperity being only a fair-weather
prosperity, we felt that we must abide the issue in fear
and trembling, as men who knew that the first short or
failing harvest would scatter all our delightful dreams
and golden prospects to the winds.—(Hear, hear.) When-
ever it comes, we said to ourselves, the averages will
begin to creep up, as they are doing now. Anxiously and
feverishly will they be watched from many a quarter of
the country. At last they will be dangerously high.
Then there will be a whisper in the Bank parlour warn-
ing the directors that it is time to be preparing for the
cominp; storm. The country banks, taking the hint from
head-quarters, will catch the infection, and become
equally cautious. The accounts of their customers will be
searchingly looked into. "Pay up" will be the order of
the day. Money will be scarce; business will stagnate;
confidence and credit will depart. There will be a
snivel). and a crash, far, wide, and sweeping, through
the trading' and manufacturing districts. What of rail-
road shares then? what of them now, at only " the begin-
ning of the end?" But what of them then, when the
and itself is upon us? What of bank shares? What of
the shipping interest? What of business in all its branches,
when many a gallant bark of enterprise shall be engulfed
in the troubled waters on which it rode so gloriously
before--e-(Lond cries of " Hear, hear ")—and there shall
be more return bills than profits, and more bank-
ruptcies than successful speculations? There will be
broken fortunes and blasted hopes ; blighted prospects
and withered hearts ; there will be woe, and wailing,
and lamentation in the land ; there will be mills stopped.
neid the industrious thrown out of work ; the rinini
( ear)—
employer will be starvation of the employ d
etheir demon
poverty and hunger will againhrasi
yes,i
front, and once more strew with
the path by which monopolyo itsticsingtriuvmieptihmasl
car' lit the Juggernaut
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Then, perk psi dragsd ohs lerai
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and bitaer wisdom ; and, feeling the
learn tardy rl°)mulitee of. Wellington himself—
willof Richmond orthether.
and staggering beneath him, think
a
casting overboard the
statetlast
v vessel reeling
lighteningreeling
the ship by
weight of monopoly
under which she
that the is sinking.—
(Cheers.) But I trust
i England will
not wait for the full return of such a crisis, n all its ter-
rific and whirlwind fury. I trust that they will say,
Overboard it must go, even now, and the crew and cap-
tain with it." Aye, let the whole " organised hypocrisy"
go together. lam forgetting. It is gone, and, I trust,
never to return. We have a new pilot, as well as a new
policy.—(Cheers.) We have regained the advocates of free
institutions to be the advocates of free-trade. Let the
country uphold them in the good work ; let the country
raise its voice that it may be done now, while, compa-
ratively speaking, the calm lasts—before excitement again
occupies the place of judgment, and passion usurps the
throne of reason.—(Bear, hear.) And for whose ad-
vantage is all that ruin of which I have spolite to
be perpetuated ? I disclaim all benefit to be derived
from it on the part of the landed interest.—( ,
hear.) I repudiate the very idea of the monopoly being