The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-19 00:00:00

rHE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 19, 1842•

GREAT CHARTIST MEETING AT
THE CROWN AND ANCHOR.

Ree.
FOLKESTONE, fathed 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 on their first landing,
and thence named the eland Romania, corrupted into
Romney.
HYTFIE.—This in the Saxon tongue signified a

haven.
DOVElt.—ln 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.
SANDWICH.—In the Saxon, Sand-wic—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 n 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.

LOSS OF THE RELIANCE EAST
INDIAMAN.
The City of Boulogne steamer, Captain Tune,
which left that port at ten o'clock on Thursday night,
and arrived at London-bridge Wharf yesterday af-
ternoon, brings some additional facts relative to the
wreck of the above vessel. The information is ob-
tained from Captain Tune, who gleaned it during a
short conversation with Dixon, the carpenter, who
still remains at Boulogne ; and in the absence of any
official account may be deemed of some importance,
as showing more clearly the circumstances under
which the ship struck.
The statement made to Captain Tune is, that pre-
vious to the- Saturday morning, when the Reliance
went on shore, the weather had been so hazy that the
officers of the ship had been unable to take any ob-
servation for upwards of 70 hours. At the time the
vessel grounded she was heaving to under close-reefed
top and staysails, and veering her head to the north-
ward when she struck on her heel. Her head imme-
diately came round, and she fell broadside on the
sand. The tide was, as has been already stated, ebb-
ing at the time, and the sea running very heavy,
which caused the vessel to break up speedily. The
fact that the Reliance, when she split, was more than
two miles from the shore, which is low and sandy,
will account for the awful loss of life which occurred.
Several other bodies of the ill-fated crew have, since
the last accounts were received, been brought into
Boulogne and buried there.
It appears that Mr. Walsh, the first mate, was an
intimate friend of the poet Moore, with whom he
passed several weeks in Wiltshire, before leaving Eng-
land on his' last voyage. He was also extensively
known and respected in India, and was familiarly
termed by many of his friends " Paddy. Walsh." He
is described as having been very ready in "lending a-
hand" at getting up dramatic entertainments on
toard, and contributing in every way to relieve the
tedium of a three months' voyage. Mr. Walsh was a
very clever officer, and served as first-mate as well on
board the vessel which brought over Sir Lionel
Smith from Mauritius, as on board the Repulse, in
which Lord Cardigan's regiment returned from India
in 1836. He was appointed to the command of the
Greenlow, a ship belonging to Messrs. Crawford, but
in consequence of some delay he sought and obtained
the appointment in performing the duties of which he
met his melancholy death.
Green, the second mate, is stated to have been con-
nected, by marriage, with the late Lieut. Roberts,
who, it will be remembered, commanded the unfor-
tunate President.
The weather at Boulogne, on Thursday morning
last, was so boisterous that the Britannia, Dover
packet, which left at 10 A.M., after vainly endeavour-
ing to cross the Channel, returned to port at half-past 1.

ST. PANCRAS VESTRY.
On Wednesday a special meeting of the St. Pan-
cras Vestry took place at the Vestry-rooms, Gordon-
square, for the purpose of receiving the official Report
of Messrs. Tremenhere and Twisselton, the Special
Poor-law Commissioners recently appointed to investi-
gate the state and education of the pauper children,
and also the further Report of the Directors and
Guardians of the. Poor thereon.
Mr. G. HOUGHTON, the Senior Churchwarden,
having been called to the chair, the Report of the
Assistant Poor-law Commissioners was read.
Mr. MGAHEY, the Vestry-Clerk, then proceeded
to read the Report of the Directors of the Poor.
After some details upon the state of the information
and intelligence possessed by the children,
The Report terminates as follows :—"The Directors,
in conclusion, have to suggest to the attention of the
Vestry that the Special Commission and the proceed-
ings thereunder are illegal and void, inasmuch as one
of the Special Commissioners (Mr. Twisselton),
being an Assistant Poor-law Commissioner, is, by the
Act sth and 6th Victoria, chap. 57, expressly de-
clared incompetent to act as. a Commissioner under
any such Special Commission, the object of the Legis-
lature being evidently that such special inquiries
should for the future be conducted by persons not
immediately dependent upon the Poor-law Com-
missioners. The Vestry will, therefore, determine
whether or not legal steps ought to be taken to have
the Commission and all its proceedings set aside."
The Report having been adopted,
The' CHAIRMAN said it had been suggested that
some steps should immediately be taken by the Vestry
to invalidate the Special Commission and its proceed-
ings, on the ground of illegality.
Mr-DOUGLAS thought a Committee ought to be
appointed. He would contend, against anything the
Commissioners might offer, that the religious state of
the poor in the workhouse was better now than it
was when they had a hired chaplain, at a salary of
1201. a year.
Mr. STOCK moved the appointment of a Committee
to inquire into and report to the Vestry on the pro-
priety of taking legal steps to invalidate the whole of
the proceedings of the recent Special Poor-law Com-
mission ; and, in doing so, expressed his regret that
the Directors (of which body he is a member) had
not taken earlier notice of the subject, feeling con-
vinced, that if there was reason for a second inquiry,
the Poor-law Commissioners would'permanently come
into the parish.
The motion having been seconded, was carried una-
nimously, and the Vestry separated, after a sitting of
several hours.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.
ARRIVALS.

The Hon. and Rev. Lord Charles Paulet, and Lady
Paulet and family, at Marshall Thompson's Hotel
Cavendish-square, from Brighton; General Sir Jeffery
Prendergast, at ditto.
DEPARTURES.
Mrs. Carnegie and Miss Nicholson, from. Marshall
Thompson's Hotel; the Hon. Mr. Duncombe, from
ditto ; Allyne, Esq., the Rev. Mr., Mrs., and Miss
Thurlow, from ditto; Mrs. Gibbons, family, and Miss
Cotton, from ditto ; James M'Taggert, Esq., and Mrs.
M'Taggert, from ditto, for Lyndhurst, Hants.

THE LATE SPECIAL COMMISSIONS.
A great meeting of those persons who are advocates
and supporters of the People's Charter took place on
Thursday atthe Crown and Anchor Tavern, Strand, for
the purpose of taking into consideration the proceed-
ings of the recant 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 to become 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'clock; and on his entering the room,
and taking his seat on the platform, the most enthusi-
astic cheering resounded from every part of 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 gratifica-
tion. For himself to be unanimously elected to preside
upon an occasion so interesting, and in a cause so af•
fecting the rights and liberties and distresses of the
working classes, he considered 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 "lire 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 larder, 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 not to sympathise with crime, not to justify
disobedience to the law, not to advocate deeds of vio-
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.—(llear,
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 of the 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
Jury and 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 hissed.) 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.) i3ut 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, had applied to Lord
Chief Justice Tindal, and 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 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.'
Nov 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 Eng-
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
broditht 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'Cosision then rose to support the resolu-
tion, and was received with tremendous cheering from
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 ho was there as large as life—(Laughter, and
cries of " Shame.") Now, what was the object for
THE LATE SHIPWREcKS.—The loss of the Water- ' which the present meeting was convened ? It was a
100 convict ship in Table Bay involves, in addition to meeting of all classes. of all shades of politics, of all
the question of her seaworthiness, some nautical ' men loving justice.—(Cheers.) They were not there
questions which it would be as well to examine into. to express their approbation of crime really committed
The chain cable of this ill-fated ship is said- to have against the law, even in aid of parties, but to evince
snapped inboard, which leads to the supposition, that their abomination and abhorrence of the law being
when the wind increased cable was not veered. Olt stretched for the purpose of putting down the public
board the Abercrombie cable was veered to one hun- sentiment.—(cheers.) But there was a living spirit
dred and fifty fathoms, and the top-gallant and top- which no Judge or Jury could put down or destroy.
gallant masts got down on deck, and other seamanlike For himself, in his own person, however he might
preparations made to meet the approaching tempest. suffer pains and punishments by the misconstruction
The rotten state of the Waterloo must have been of the one, and the penalties imposed by the other,
known ; which, in addition to her dreadful cargo of if the people pronounced him innocent what cared he
convicts, might have been the cause of her being under for any verdict given by packed Juries ?—(Great
the command of some very inefficient person, as it is cheering.) He had been cited last Saturday before
not probable a seaman of a high grade in the mer- the Queen's Bench to answer to the accusation of
chant service would have taken the command of so several conspiracies. Why it was the law that con-
inferior a ship with so desperate a class of men as spired against him, and not he against the law. He
convicts. Why, asks a writer, are our old 32 and had never attended a secret association in his life, and
such
36-gun frigates now rotting in the Medway, not yet for all this he had been persecuted at an enormous
used for such purposes, instead of
hiring cl. isrepu- expense to himself. But the singularity of the thing
s table craft ? I was, that on the present occasion he and others were

charged with conspiring and meeting on the 17th
of August, and creating certain-- rows, and
riots on the lst.—(Laughter.) There was a good
deal of art anddeceit in this mode of prosecution. It
was necessary for Sir Robert Peel to show what he
wanted the Income-tax for—to keep down those
rascally Chartists—and thus be would keep Chartism
as a bugaboo to frighten the landlords, and reconcile
them to his new imposition. It was weii known that
in attacking him (Mr. (OConnor), 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 the use ?
Many of the Chartists had been convicted before, and
what was the consequence ? They were back at their
work again.—(Cheers.) After commenting upon the
state of the law as regarded trial by jury, Mr.
O'Connor said, that supposing the best and kind-
liest feeling prevailed generally throughout the
country towards Chartism, still it was in the power
of the Crown to select the forty-eight jurors to try their
political prisoners from among that part of society
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 in
power were incapable of cruelly 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 paper.—
(Cheers.) The cotton lords, too, were Al going to
the dogs, and when they were engulphed in ruin, out
of chaos light would come again.—(Cheers.) Hewould be the last man to bring about such ruin, but
they were doing it for themselves.—(Cheers.) The
Press had done all it could, but without avail, to put
down the Chartists, and one paper, the Sunday Times,
had said that they pandered to the worst of passions,
and that every one of them' like the trumpeter, ought
to be hung upon a tree. Now with respect to that
paper, he would 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 laughter.)
He congratulated the Chartists that at last they had
got weapon for weapon.—(Cheers) They had got
the Little Evening Star and the Great Northern
Constellation.—(Great cheering.) The former was
losing 801. a-week—(Hear)—but if it lost 100/.. or
200/., all the combined power of the Government or
the Press should not put it down' although they had not
a farthing of the money of the Duke of Buckingham,
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
own expenses had never cost the country anything,
nor had he ever received a farthing from a living man
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. He
then congratulated the meeting on having Mr. Dun-
combe in the chair. They did not disregard rank and title
when placed upon honourable shoulders, and they did
not honour Mr. Duncombe the less because he was
not a working man, but the more, because, belonging
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 forth
a firm union, he said he knew there were spies abroad
drawn from different classes of life, but if he had
health he would, in the course of ten days cr a
ifort-
night, show those new disputants who had lately been
in the habit of meeting them that they were humbugs,
and that nothing but the Charter
la nd. wo (Cheers)ul achiev the
regeneration of the people of Eng
The resolution was carried unanimously.
Mr. FUSSELL proposed; -tiftd'Mr. WESTERTON se-
conded the next resolution, as follows :—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 the 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
received with loud
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cheering, supported the resolution. What a shame it
was, h
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good opinion of thed
not be administered
in a
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,' load one of
the scales of justice with angry passions, class inte ,
-
old prejudices, and evil feelings, be must say
that bad was the condition of the people
rests'
forced todependupon such an administration of
were
jus-
tice. Had they not seen the people ground down un-
who
der the abhorrent system of class legislation ?—(llear,
hear.) Why, no class was fit to govern all other
classes.—(Hear, hear.) He cordially supported the
resolution.—(Cheers.)
The resolution was then carried by acclamation.
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 and 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 procured,
must be dearly purchased ; it therefore, now behoves
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 ever.

respectfully, pray your Honourable House to institute
such an inquiry—by the appointment of a Committee
or otherwise—into the.proceedings of the late Special
Commissions, as your Honourable House in wisdom and
justice may deem fit. And your petitioners further
pray your Honourable House to address her Majesty,
that she may be pleased to visit the before-mentioned
James, Lord Chief Baron Abinger, with such a mark
of her Royal displeasure, as may induce other Judges
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. RUTTY 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. FRASER said that the modern Jeffries had said
that which would bring him into a predicament he
would not like. He had declared Chartism to be
illegal because it did not suit the views of the aristo-
cracy. He ought to be impeached, and the best way
of impeaching him would be for all classes of honest
Reformers to join cordially together, and prove to the
aristocracy that they could not put down Chartism, or
any other " ism."—(Hear, hear.) The speaker con-
cluded with an earnest appeal for money.
The resolution and petition were then agreed to,
and a committee nominated to carry out the objects of
the meeting.
Dr. BLACK then moved a vote of thanks to the
Chairman, which was carried amidst tremendous
acclamations.
Mr. DUNCOMBE, 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-
lishmen would always do when they met for such a
purpose.—(Cheers.) He had asked them at the
commencement to give to every person who
might differ from them a patient hearing. He
was 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 ?-7(Cheers.) That
meeting had nobly done its duty, and it remained
for him to do his, and to present to the House of
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 well
founded, that the House of Commons would address
the Crown for the removal of that Judge for his dis-
honourable conduct. He (Mr. Duncombe) would
feel proud in presenting that petition, and the greatest
gratification in giving effect to it by moving for the
inquiry, being convinced that upon that inquiry being
instituted the public would find the Chartists were
not such monsters as they had been represented to
be ; that their views were honest, and that they
were entitled to their suffrage and votes in
the House 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 disgrace to the Government—(Cheers)—
and that the conduct of Lord Abinger was most violent,
and that 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 b 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.)
He 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 Commons,
and lie (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-
fident of the goodneas of their cause, that the blame
would rest with him and not with them, if they did
not succeed.--((g rest cheering.)
A vote of thanks was then carried to Mr. Roberts
for his gratuitous services to the unfortunate Chartists
at Stafford, three cheers were given for Mr. Dun-
combe and Mr. O'Connor, and the vast assemblage
separated 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.

SOUTH AMERICA.
Baezirs.—Her Majesty's brig Crane, of six guns
Lieutenant Lewis, Commander, arrived at Falmouth
from the Brazils on Wednesday, having made the
passage in the extraordinarily short period of 34 days.
The Crane left Rio de Janeiro on the 13th of Oct., a

month subsequent to the departure of the Swift frOm
that city, whose arrival we announced on the 12th
current, though it will be recollected, that the latter
had to call at the northern ports. The Crane has
brought two passengers only—viz., M. L. Monaoff,
Russian Ambassador at the Court of Brazil, and

Count Stackelberg, his attache, on their return home.
She has also in specie, &c., a freight equal to 19,0001.
on merchants' account; and by her we have con-
firmed the account received per last packet, of the
province of Minas having been subdued to good order
and tranquillity by the Government troops. Baron
de Caxias, the successful Imperialist General, was
about to leave for Rio Grande, where he was ap-

pointed to the two-fold capacity of Commander-in-
Chief of the army and Governor of the province.
When the Crane left Rio Commodore Purvis was
there with the Alfred, also the Curlew brig and
the schooner Viper. The Satellite had sailed for
Valparaiso, and the Malabar for Monte Video. The
American ship of war Delaware was also there, ac-
companied by the schooner Enterprise.
Her Majesty's steamer Growler was gone to Rio
Francisco to assist in saving the effects of the late ship
Middlesex. The Satellite had left for round the Horn ;

person in that assembly would csiii-iiiVe id. 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 he was to allow
of plenty.—(Cheers.)
for the people's hmilannsyelfhatdo sptarrovpoe
posed
rtheme
eldainecsi
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
Che
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prison stop there, let them not spend their money in
fe
—ou(nCshele,erosr.)getidtientg themba when thrown into
bail ; no, rather let them
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c.
so glorious a cause. they were suffering in
feelT ihtetroebseoluatnioh urnonwoasdteco
declared
dw
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th 3 Chairmail
be carried unanimously. ,
The CHAIRMAN then announced that Mr. Roberts,
of Bath, who bad generously given, his gratituitous
services in defending the prisoners at Stafford, would
address the meeting.
Mr. ROBERTS presented himself amidst great cheer-
ing,anything that had
wgaslonrioetddinautpaevdinbishaken hands with
and assured the meeting that his zeal in the
avowed was not
Chartistoccurred.
lie
But the secret
was that Mr. Ellis had, on a previous occasion, suc-
ietyal Family—and
suc-
ceeded in ousting the aristocracy from the very hall
IgnViltEy lolifsihewlichoahrgee(LlPu. tßedobteorthsi)m.
in which he was tried, when they had met to move an
might be Prince
Address of Condolence or Congratulation to our most
grAlabceirtotaQtualelne—ven(Ltsaot
what did Ellis do ? He simply moved an amend-
ment, to the effect that the )(.ople should be condoled
Queen-(Laughter' rR
with too.—(Hear, hear.) Lllis 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 he was tried.
On the Saturday, at six o'clock, when the case for
the prosecution was closed, Chief Justice Tindal
proposed that the Court should adjourn ; Sir Wil-
liam Follett requested that the defence should be
proceeded with, and that defence Was, that 'the
prisoner was in bed at the time charged. Oh, but
between that time and Monday morning, the time
was well employed, for people were brought up in
chaises from places miles away to Prove that the man
was not in bed at the time.--(Groans and hisses.)
Mr. Roberts then strongly appealed to the meeting
for funds, and concluded by proposing the following
resolution, and the prayer of the petition :—" That
James Scarlett, Lord Abinger, Chief Baron of her
Majesty's Exchequer, one of the Judges appointed to
preside on such Special Commission, did deliver cer-
tain charges, which, as your petitioners would humbly
represent, were improper, as proceeding from a Judge
upon the Bench, being of an unfair, unjust, and poli-
tical tendency ; calculated to prejudice, mislead, and
exasperate the minds of the Juries to whom such
charges were addressed, and by whom the individuals
indicted as participating in the late disturbances, were
to be tried.
" Your petitioners, therefore, most earnestly, but

the Cockatrice for Buenos Ayres. The Curlew was
employed in cruising ; also the Phantom. The prize
of the latter vessel, reported by the last arrival, had
been condemned, and the slaver would be sent with
her living cargo, in a day or two, for Demerara under
charge of Lieut. Lang.
The latest quotation of exchange at Rio shows an
advance of 4 on that received by the last packet,
being 27, at which rate about 150,0001. had been ne-
gotiated. Government Six per Cent. Stock, 70 to
701 ; Silver Coin, 88 ; Spanish Dollars, 1.860 to
1.850 ; Doubloons, 28.900 to 29.000.
The opening rate upon London was 25, 25 to 251
prevailed until the 14th, when a large amount was
negotiated at 26, and at this and at 264, the remaining
business for the Swift packet, sailed 17th, was done;
from 17th to 20th (her Majesty's ship Curacoa), 26
to 261 were the rates, and the largest sums were
passed at 261, the rate thenceforward until 24th, when
the amount was taken at 27, and although bills were
subsequently negotiated at 26i and 264, the bulk of
the transactions, and the amount was heavy, until the
close of the month, was at 27.
BUENOS AYRES.—The latest dates from Buenos
Ayres were to the 26th of September. The Buenos
Ayrean army, 12,000 strong, had received all their re-
inforcements in horses, &c., and operations were ex-
pected to commence in the beginning of October,
when they would cross into the Estado Oriental ; and
their squadron was in readiness to proceed down the
river, to co-operate with the land forces.
Accounts have been received from the Upper Pro-
vinces, where all was quiet; a good understanding
prevails between Senor Fen° of the province of Cor-
rientes, and Roses. The former, it appears, saw
nothing but destruction by joiningFructos in the strife.
Rosas has opened the trade to the river Parana and
Uraguay in places unoccupied by the enemy, and has
delivered up all the vessels detained in consequence of
an infringmement whilst the port was closed. In
consequence of this business was rather brisk at
Buenos Ayres. A fair amount of business was be-
ing transacted ; on some articles an advance of 10 per
cent. was readily obtained. Flour in bond 12 Spa-
nish dollars per barrel. Mediterranean produce look-
ing down. For Brazilian products an active demand
existed. In home produce 53 to 54 for salted cow or
ox hides. Freights to England 40s. for tallow and
salted hides. Doubloons 268 to 275 dollars. Six per
cent. stock 65 to 68 per cent. Exchange upon Eng-
land 2 15-16 d. to 3d.
In consequence of the death of the Duc d'Orleans,
her Brittanic Majesty's vessels Pearl; Partridge, and
Vier,
half-mast,display and ed, on the 12th
the insttw., their own and the
French flag o form-r fire 121
minute gun's.
A similar demonstration was made on the 13th by
the United States corvette Decatur, French schooner
of war Eclair, and Argentine brig of war General San
Martin, with this difference, that the two latter had
their yards crossed, and their firing was at half-hour
intervals from sunrise to sunset.
_According to accounts from Monte Video, British ship-
ping in that quarter had greatly increased within the
last few years. In 1841, by an official tabular state-
ment, 159 British ships had entered in at Monte
Video, making in tonnage 34,537 ; while in 1830,
there were only thirty ships, amounting to 7,480 tons.
Exchange on England at Monte Video 42d. to 43d.

INCOME-TAX.—Severa l motions and other applica-
tions have been made during the present term to the
Lord Chancellor and the other Equity Judges re-
specting difficult legal questions arising out of the ope-
ration of the above • There appears every proba-
bility of the prediction of the Vice-Chancellor being
fulfilled, viz., that i
. t will occupy years to decide an
the questions relative to the Income-tn.