The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 14, 1S&

(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of Saturday.)
Mr. STUIGGE wished to make a single remark upon
wha
and
hbade
fallen from their indefatigaole friend, Joseph Hume ;
was sure that he would be the last man to throw cold water
upon a great movement in which the ladies had set the
example. His friend gave them a caution not to act illegally
law.—
(!Ur. refusing to pay assessed taxes. Now:- he belonged to a Society
which he believed was not remarkable for breaking the
(Mr. O'Connell proposed three chests for " 'fhe Friends,"
which were giveu with great enthusiasm.) He was perfectly
satisfied that' the ladies of Manchester had hit upon the right
method of bringing the most aristocratic Ministry in the world
to terms, and compelling them to surrender at discretion ; and
he trusted. that their example would be followed.—( Great
cheering.) The Society of Friends had acted upon that prin-
ciple 150 years with respect to church-rates' and some other
things. Ile had had what he might call the pleasure of having
his sofa taken not lung ago out of his room ; and he had late 4
refused to pay the armed pollee tax in Birmingham, and had had
other goods taken. He would have the Lord Mayor of Dublin
and the,alember for all Ireland by and bye to explain the law of
the case.—( Laughter.)
Mr. HUMS wished, with the indulgence of the Chairman,
to explain what appeared to be a difference between himself and
Mr. sturge. Mr. Sturge was quite right-in saying that he
would not throw cold water 'on their proeeedings. What he
intended to caution them against was, the committing them-
selves to a public resolution to refuse to pay taxes.—( Hear.).
He himself was the chairman of a meeting of the Political
['Mons when a similar resolution was proposed ; and he was
told that it subjected himself, and all who agreed to it, to a
public prosecution.—( Hear, hear.) He wanted them to imi-
tate the Quakers—it would not then be conspiracy; they might
separately agree, yet not in conjunction.
Mr. G. Trioeirsors said the mystery was now cleared up,
and he was sure the meeting would take the hint.—(Hear.)
Mr. O.CONNELL was then called, and three hearty cheers
having received him on his rising, he slid, Gentlemen, I readily
obey your summons, I had almost said I cheerfully obey it ; but
I have so much to say that I fear I shall fatigue you before I sit
down, for this is the time when words ought to be things, and
when the situation of the country ought to he distinctly under-
stood, and the determination to right themselves from the
odious and sordid classes of the aristocracy ought to become
general. —(Loud cheers.) I would I had the power to rouse the
country to a sense of the necessity of the crisis, and to the pow-
erful exertions that should be made to put down this aristocracy,
unless you should be resolved to become their willing and con-
quered slaves. —(Cheers.) Your masters were abroad, and
they insisted on continuing, your masters ; and the question was
whether the people of England would consent to remain their
slaves, aitd not only forsake their masters, but bring them to
'a proper sense of their duty.—(Cheers.) It is now universally
admitted (admitted even ; by Peel and his followers
as well dS by 'every unman being, that the distress was now bee
-conic universal; and was not confined to any particular place
or locality.—(Hear.) Take any. particular circle of the
country; and it -be found that from the circumference-
•td the centre the distress is universal.—( Hear, hear.) It is
admitted that, from Paisley to Taunton, and from' Bath to
Aberdeen, there is universal suffering, distress, and destitu-
tion.--( Hear, hear.) lam Mot exaggerating—nay, it would
take more time than you or I can afford, to describe its extent
and its intensity. Peel admitted it ; and Beckett,
whom—oh l shame upon them—the men of Leeds substituted
for my Hon. Friend. There,is this good, however, that those
who denied the distress a few months ago, were now forced to
admit the amount of distress.—(Hear, hear.) But is it
casual distress—is it accidentil—is it produced by any parti-
cular season ? Peel, to be sure, said it was something in
America which caused it ; but that was one of the most auda-
cious sophisms that was ever thrown out by man.—(Hear.)
He said that the distress of America produced the distress of
this country, and that the exports to America were much less;
bathe did not recollect that those exports were paid for in rice
and tohaeco, and cotton, and that they would be a great deal
more if you were allowed to give them value for their corn,
which the Americans produced in abundance.—(Cheers.) No.
The distress is not casual. It has been coming on gradually,
and stealing, and that is the woeful nature of malady.—
(Cheers.) But four years ago the distress was less ; three
years ago it was more ; two years it, has been increasing,; and
now it is universal and overwhelming distress.—(Cheers.)
Now, people of England, let no man delude or deceive you.
You are not likely to be relieved from this distress by' the pro-
position of Sir Robert Peel.—(Laughter.) If iou were
in a position to compete with fereienere, frightful as is the
distress there would be a hope of its termination.—(Hear,
hear.) But if.you could undersell Germany, Belgium, France,
anti the. Hauseat le Towns, of what use would it be to you now?
What prospect of mitigation for you of your distress?—( Hear,
hear.) But. foreigners are even underseiling us in our
own market.---(Hear, hear.) 'What prospect of relief from
Peel and the proposition, he holds out ?—(Hear, hear )
Five or six. months ago he was lecturing to some of his friends.
He turned from side to side, shook hi, head, and did nothing.
—t Laughter.) But he proposed. no remedy to cure the
aisea,e.—(Hear, hear.), He had the audacity, to be sure, to
prescribe a plan of eurc.—(Cheers:) But how or in what
.respect it is d.fferent from the present I cannot understand.—
( Hear, hear.) I remember it was said of a philosopher who
found it difficult to discover the distinction of differences—
" Who. could not see
. . •
What difference there could be
'Truitt Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee." •
—(Cheers and laughter. )--We had Tweedle-dum before, and
we bad Tweedle-dee note, and that is ail.—(Laughter.). In
the late debate he (Sir R. Peel) said in answer to me that the
question was of " awful importance." That was his expres-
sion, and he was right; but. ht.v was I met ? Why by a state-
eueut of vulgar figures, with 5 before 52, and 4 before 51.
Cheers and 'laughter.) Thus he mei the " awful importance''
of this most awful crisis.i.—(Cheers. ) And that is your states-
man—that is the leader' of the English nation!—(Cheers. )
(The, lion. Gentleman then referred to the foreign relations
and the positioh of 'England, and the, state of America, Cabool,
Atighanata.n, and. Cliipa, and the danger of imposing taxes for
the support of the war in the latter country, while they were
starving at home.) The condition of the'people is discredit-
ab:e to. the ,nation and
,the Government.—(Cheers.) The
question is between the operatives and the aristocracy, and I
'know who will be the. winner in the contest.--(Cheers.)
The people Will not endure to be beaten with injustice and
scorn, and if they did they would" deserve to be beatsn.
Nay, more there 13 another preposition perfectly understood,
that cheap corn, on the contrary, means high wages—( Hear)
—and dear corn sinks wages ; so that the developed aspect of
robbery, as committed by a scirditl aristocracy is, that oil the
one hand they sink wages, anti on the other raise the price of
. food. In what country is this dens? Its a country renowned
ter its common sense. The Frenchrinin dances better ;
the Spaniard has a gri ver carriage ; the Italian
snore flippant, the German snore serious and plodding, but the
man who has common sense always as his favourite and' dis-
tinguishing quality, has been hitherto the Englishman.—
(Cheers.) What then bas become of his common sense flaw?
I remember telling a story of a. Frenchman boasting of the in-
genuity of his countrymen because they had invented tuckers
and ruffles; but John Boil observed to him, we added the
shirt to them. Illustrating, thus, the truth of the principle
that Englishmen were, of all men, most euided by .common
sense—Englishmen, who possessed more ingenuity than the
inhabitants of any country in the earth—Englishmen, the first
in the arts and sciences—Englishmen, who were never heaters
in srme who have invented and made improvements in ma-
chi-tery until they have almost made it. to think and execute
'the functions of sentient beings—Engbdunen, whose skill, in-
' destry, and patient trial, are the admiration of the world.
(Y,! are these the people who are to lie prostrate at the feet 01
an aristocracy !--(Hear, hear,, and cheers.) Peel, to be
sn-c, told you that the people were worse off in Prussia,.
NI, by? I an, wiry for it ; but I want en know, if the Pressiett
Lae nothing to eat hut sourcrout, is that a reason that John
Bull should not have enough to satisfy his wants ? But there is
; Aber view t..) be taken on that subject. The Prussian
It••Weinin is hardly better off than the Prussian serf,- or at
1, act the previa of- the middle classes.—( Hear, hear.) But
your nobility, your aristocracy, are surrounded by all the
luxuries that the earth can produce. I will take Peel at his
own comparison. The Prussian serf might be worse off than
the English slave, but the English Nobleman enjoys the benefit
of all the skill, ingenuity, and industry of Englishmen. He
absorbs all the advantages of your science and labour-s-all the
luxuries arising from it. Oh, people of England, you are
labouring not for yourselves but to increase the luxuries of a
class—( Hear)—that has the beastly cruelty to tell you that
you shall mot have food except at their discretion. Certainly
st is not creditable to the people of England that a Parliament
such as the present should be returned. You re-echoed the
'cry when I spoke of my friend Mr. Hume being rejected from
Leeds ; end it is a disgrace to the English people that. he is not
in Pal liaineot.—( Hear.) And why is he not? Because- the
caastituency is not egt,,nlive enough—because in those which
ave caded open pli.ot?, gener:il dime are 100 or 50persorts who
tin, the scale ; and it requires a sacrifice of private property;
which spy friend is too honest to himself and others to make in
order to Lily the' v(Mei. • •Etermerly teats in Parliament were
bought openly and at once front. a single individual, but now
they were bouglirfrom mmy. At the last election, was there
not, as it was pretty generally known, 1,500/. given for two
votes it a certain borough. —( Year, hear, and cries of "Name.")
I have no objection to name Harwich.—(Hear, hear, and
cheese ) I always call things by their proper names. Oh !
the Members had nothing do whh it ; but some good-natured
friends did it without their knowledge. --( Laughter. ) It is
disei'ead able that the people of England, who have ever been
rem trkatile for their love of human freedom, should be the first
to think of votiles • for the enemies of the country. They
woult not allow their Kings,.as the rest of Europe did, to tax
tittle at their discretion. Englishmen have always had
a salutary horror of letting their pockets be picked
without their cottsent. It is an established rule that
-, ' Englishmen should not be taxed except through the
med um of their representatives. 'l'o he sure the principle
noes not apply in practice, becau:e they are not your repre-
sentatives, I deny that the present House of Commons is the
• representative of the English people. It is the representative
•of the corruption of the rich and the intimidation of the aris-
toeraey—witat were called the Duke of Buckingham's bucks-
- ( Laughter)—the 50/. tenant at wilt voters-e•the Venal freemen
of Liverpool, and other tOWns.• The peraele of England (meta
not to be calumniated by saying that the-present Parliament is
their representative. his an oligarchy; got together by the
force of brilisry to swindle the public money into their own
pockets.—(Hear, hear.) Well, now, .1 have not antiouneed a
e single propositions that could not, be demonstrated, or, rather, is
not demonstrated by the Tor enuneiationss What I want to
Itiow is, will yens put up with all this ?::._(" Ms.") Will the
people of England submit it. Why if they do, they may ; and
If they did not choose to act as the people of Ireland did during
the last famine in that country, namely, to approsch the sacra-
mental ceremonies, receive the extreme unction' and go to their
cabins to die--let them go to their clergymen, and prepare for
death; because death is approaching—death is in the streets—it
trits.4el,,telalzs
caonndif,s,vrrt tatnthdethl
(h.aat-,
is in the lanes and alleys—it
hitations of the poor,
and light are excluded.—( Hear, hear, and some interruption
• from an individual in the throng, who asked what these obser-
vations of the Right Hon. and Learned Gentleman hail to do
with the question?) Mr. O'Connell went on to observe, that
it seemed to him that when the question was whether food was
to be cheap or dear, death by stervation had something to dS
with it.—( Cheers.) Even an, Irishman might be permitted
to have just so much eosins-ion sense as to see that a nem
• earning six shillings a week
,could buy twelve loaves
- if the markets were open, and now that he was not
see . permitted to get mere than eight for the same moßm
the want of the other four migfit
:produce death in his faz
milt, not immediately, lint in the apse of a few iioekii by the
5.1,7, process, upon his little ones, of continued inanition. He
km • (CYG. ) believed his friend who put the question must be
from Chusan or some part in China, to think that the people
of England coulalive
laughter.) The Ria‘?'iltliCeonlesatniadl favour.--(Hear,i.. hear, anti
enftlylnan then
went on to deprecate riot or tumult oneathinceda?
to the Legislature,lF eat
ople,
and advised continued petitioning that
their wants must be ultimately attended to. Let them ..sna.

was a wrong thing. There might be prosecutions
for such conduct., But he (Mr. O'Connell) wished
to know who would prosecute the Lancashire witches. Not
one of the aristocracy would dare to prosecute any of the Man-
chester ladies.—( Hear, hear, and laughter.) The ghosts of
the operatives murdered by. the starvation laws, could not, of
they appeared before the aristocracy, frighten them more than
would the idea of prosecuting Mrs. Brookes. lie (Mr.
O'Connell) thought there would be some magic in the sound.
The ladies of Lancashire had been long celebrated for their
witchery. .The Lancashire witches continued the Hon. and
Learned Gentleman, is a name that sounded like magic to the
young, and what prevents the auditory nerve of the old
being also delighted with the sound.—( Hear, hear.)
They are, all that painting can express, or youthfnl poets
fancy when they love. No, the Lancashire witches are
safe.—(Cheers.) They are more, their example will be irre-
sistible.—(Cheers.) 1 do not want any man to join in their
agreement—(Laughter and cheers)—but all my life I have
had a taste for passive resistance.—(Laughter.) There is no
law against a man's putting his hands is his pocket and not
taking them out at the command of the tax-gatherer.—
lLaughter and cheers.) We tried this where law is cheap, in
Ireland ; what was the result of the first movement ? The
result was that we abolished Church-rates altogether, root and
branch. Stanley himself swept them away when he saw that
Paddy was determined not to gay.—(Cheers.) There was no
agreement, mind—(Laughter)—but he refused to pay when
he saw it was time to say he would not.—(Hear.) We also
made an experiment on tithes—it was not successful to the
same extent, but we struck off one-fourth of the tithes.—
(Cheers.)' These are Paddy's precedents for you. My
friend near me was quite. right in saying that your resolution
not to use excisable articles would speak trumpet-tongued
against She Ministry. But here, again, Paddy has a precedent
for you. The last ticket 1 saw signed by Father Mathew was
No. 52,071.—( Great cheering.) The defalcation of the re-
venue in consequence is 63,0001., on a revenue not exceeding
5,000,0001, being more than a tithe of the whole. This is the
kind of tithe I wish to see taken.—(Laughter.) I have
the happiness to say my brother teetotallers—(Loud
cheers)—for I taste neither wine, nor spirits, nor
porter, nor any fermented liquor. 'I have new been a year and
a half at it, and now I am two years younger than when I be-
gan.—(Cheers and laughter.) Nay more—it is said Paddy
is unsteady.—( Laughter.) Now the minutest calculation that
can be made shows that only one out of 300, or rather less, has
failed in keeping the pledge. The number of teetotallers is in-
creasing, and happiness has been the result in the country
which used to be so subject to destitution. Ireland has become
a corn importing country during the last two years, and the
bread consumed has been guadrupled.—( Hear, hear.) Oh
then take the advice of my friend—proclaim the pledge of non-
consumption of excisable articles, and corn will be
rapidly imported into England—the nails of the aristocracy
will be paired, and their tusks will be drawn out.—(Cheers
and laughter.) This is a noble idea ; but it may be said that
it is not practicable. I never heard that an Englishman was
not able to do what any other man did. It was never said at
sea—tt was never said in the loom—it was never said in the
factory—it was never said in the Senate. Paddy has done it,
and why shouldn't John Bull ?—( Hear, hear. Here some
confusion occurred in consequence of an interruption by a person
in the body of the meeting, and a cry of " Turn him out ." was
heard.) Oh, don't turn him out, I like to be interrupted, as it
givee me an opportunity of addressing you again.—(Laughter.
A voice—" You ought to have put a little mere water in you:
'grog before yp e. came, heee.", Great laughter.) Oh, you
,have not.put,spoits enoug in4htirlasfor' if' rite had you would
not talk such .nonsense.— f:auiliteg arid -cl4.et-ss)' Don't in-
eerrupt me now again Ural, I em'done. I rtmil,eare how much
I am interrupted after I griCdorie,L4Lafighter and cheers.)
But after all, can you have any aaners' bf Opposing • the aiis-
tocracy, backed as it is by the army and sustained by the
Church, unless you unite together all the ho-
nest operatives, and all the commercial inhabitants
of the country. I may say by way. of parenthesis, that without
&teetotal movement being made in Ireland, a great many of
the Catholic clergy have joined, and also several preachers of
the Dissenting congregation, but I believe not one clergyman
of the Established Church.—( Cheers. )
A GENTLEMAN-Oh, I know one. ,
Mr. O'Coteeme—Oh, lam glad you do.—( Cheers.) But
you must have all the people of England with you, or yolu have
no business to think you can conquer. It will not do to have
the middle classes alone, though they suffer exceedingly. It
will not do to have the operative classes alone. Let me see
the magic mind that can combine the operative and middle classes.
Now let no one think, that in what I am going to say I am about
to censure one class or the other. Hear me first before you
condemn any particular phrase that may seem to have any-
thing offensive in it. The operative classes say that the middle
classes do not sympathise with them, and that they would be
content if they could get a franchise for themselves, without
insisting to have it extended to the operatives. The middle
classes again say that the operatives have become exclusive,
and will not act with any one who will not go the whole
hog with them. Now there may a little common
sense in both accusations ; but whether there is
or no, this is the time to put an end to every
delusion; and I ask you. would it not be an arrant delusion,
if the middle classes were to say to the operatives, we invite
you to join in the fight, but you shall not share in the victory?
They ought to agree upon some avowal respecting the exten-
sion of the suffrage. Now, it has been said—indeed, I have
said it myself, that the words Universal Suffrage do not intend
what they mean, for no one would think of giving the suffrage,
to the convict, to the person under age, to the female sex, tothe
lunatic, or the idiot. The words are, therefore, inaccurate.
On the other hand, Household Suffrage was mentioned.
'This would not let in the operatives, for the
great mass of the operatives live in lodgings, for,
alas ! they cannot have houses ; and there never was a
period when they were less likely to have them, unless
some change be speedily made. But another phrase has been
suggested, and I think it is more favourable and proper--it is
the Manhood Suffrage—the suffrage of every one who had at-
tained the age of scan.—( Cheers. i This would be perfectly
consistent with the principles of the British Constitution. I
threw out this expression then, and I hope it will dwell in the
minds of the people, and set them thinking; but however you
agree:as to the,name, I hope we shall, from this time forth, see
the middle classes embracing the operatives, and the operatives
extending the right hand of fellowship to the middle classes,
and that the heart will be in the hand when it is offered.—
( Cheers.) You are coming-to a time of great struggle, Eng-
lishmen. You have in history, that when Jack Cade and
Wat Tyler hanged an Archbishop of Canterbury and a Lord
Chancellor, during an insurrection which was,caused by the
oppression of the aristocracy upon the universal people of Eng- •
land, what was their excuse when the insurgents were put
down, and carried by hundreds to execution ? "We rose in
insurrection because we were miserable."—( Hear, hear.) You
are come to a period when the operative classes are miserable
again. Remember, that insurrection had only the effect
of loading the chains of the people. They were
'soon defeated, because their forces were tumultuous,
unorganised, violent, forcible, and sanguine. But a period is
now arrived when the greatest revolution may be achieved by
the force of public opinion, and by peaceful combinations, with-
out endangering the social state, or the relations of private
life ; but these may be made more sacred and prosperous by
taking away grievances, abolishing oppressions, and giving jus-
tire its full range. The humble individual who addresses you
comes from a tumultuous country, irritated by 600 years of
ceaseless oppression, whose peasantry have been hunted
from their hovels—(Near)—and even at the present day,
it occurred last week—they have been obliged to burrow holes
in the church-yards to shelter them.—( Shame, shame.) And
yet that country, however, by all the bad passions that such
treatment must have produced, have allowed (pardon my
vanity for saying it) the individual who is honoured by your
attention to rule the whirlwind and direct the storm, until he
succeeded in achieving a victory, glorious in principle and sa-
lutary in its results—for you never would have have obtained
Parliamentary Reform if Ireland had not. assisted you.—
( Hear, hear, and cheers.) You never
_would have gained
Municipal Reform if Ireland had not stood at your
,fide, and you shall have Ireland now struggling again to obtain
justice for England.—(Cheers.) I shall call her organised
Ireland, for though the organisation is not military, there is a
tact natural to the cause of temperance that gives Ireland a
power she ',e'er had before, and she can exercise that power
with a power and effect such as no other nation can exhibit.—
(Cheers. ) With this example before you, in your present state
of suffering, with your present knowledge, will you,
people of England, longer submit to be trodden down by the
Aristocracy ?-.:( Cheers.) How much better than you are
they? Is slave written on your foreheads—is master marked
on the brows that wear their coronets? Are they superior to
you as a class in intellect? Just listen to their speeches for an
hour in the House of Lords, and then hear the speeches made
by the operatives within these walls.—( Loud cheering.)
l'he mumbling, broken tooth—(Laugh:er)—and the gaping,
half articulate, and entirely ungrammatical sentence, have
made me exclaim, after listening to them, And are these the
men who are to legislate for the English people ?—( Cheers. )
Is it for these the people are to starve ? Is it for these the ope-
ratives arelis lie down and die. Oh no. We are men as well
as they. Indeed the question is, whether they are men ae well
as us.—(Laughter. ) I have ' sometimes imagined—no dis-
credit to the Lancashire witches—that the pantaloons were
ill placed on some of them._( Renewed laughter.) I know
this that if England does not rise, not with the strength of a
giant refreshed with wine, but with the strength of a giant
and with the wisdom of a Solomon,--if she does not rise, not
for the slsughter or of blood, but for principle arid exertion--
(Ch.cers)—ii she does not tell the Lords that the people will
nod crawl upon their feet—(Clieers)—if she does not tell the
Lords it is our House, and the money-changers must be swept
Away"—(Cheering)—if she does not do this she will
be swept away herself. Yes, people of England, the eyes of
the world are upon you.---(Cheers.) The monster of Russia,
on his throne of ice, is looking at you, to see if you are ready to
be worse than his own serfs, for they have plenty of fwd.—
( Great cheering.) The Americans are looking at you, to see
if you are like your sires,—(Cheers.) Yes, America, with but
one black spot on her escutcheon—Negro Slavery ! North
and South America are looking. to see whether you ate worthy
of the times of your forefathers.—( Great cheering.) They are
asking, Are these the descendants of the men, who at Runny-
mede made the tyrant Monarch sign the Charter, declaring two
things—first, that religion should be free, and that the food of
the people should be untaxed ?—(Cheers.) They are asking,
Are these the descendants of men who, more than once, com-
pelled tyrant Monarchs to reconfirm that which %els not in the
Charter, but which had been obtained by the determination of the
people —( Cheere. ) They are asking—Are these the men
who, in the last century, found an imbecile Monarch on the
'Throne, and sent him to wander in a foreign land ; I said, be-
fore, we live in happier times the Monarch, now en the 'Throne
has no wish foreign to her people —( Cheers)—and no inclination
.adverse to their happiness.—( Cheers. ) It is delightful to see
the example she displays in her domestic happiness.—( Cheers. )
The wife leaning upon the husband, and both of them smiling
,n their infant children.--(Cheers.) And it is delightful to
pink that that weakly being is the most i otent Monarch upon
eirth.—( Great cheering.) There is no question between the
;lonarch and the people but how to preserve thein.—(Tre-
inondous cheering.) The danger is in the a.istocracy ; they
are for their own selfish interest, and by that means weaken-
ing the throne, and eclipsing the glory of the country.—
(Great cheering.) Why did the Duke of Buckingham retire ?
—( Cheers. ) He thought that it would gain him a little
credit for common sense.-;-(Great cheering.) He must
have supposed the monopoly he supported would be
trenched on a little—( Laughter )—that some little alteration
would be made that would injure the landlord.—(Cheers. )
Does aot that speak a forgone conclusion—does not that say they
are determined to support their own class at the expense of the
whole community ?—(Cheers. ) I impeach them in the pre-
sence of the English people with treason.—( Tremendous
cheerio ) I impeach them in the name of Ireland.—( Cheers. )
g.
They have lost my confidence.—( Cheers.) I impeach them
in the name of the industrious people of Scotland.—(Loud
cheers.) . I impeach them in the name .of the wise, the
common-sense people of England, the prudent people of Eng-
land.-( Cheers.) I 'impeach them, in the name of the people,
the! 'would starve the Queen's subjects, of endangering the
security of our beloved Queen's throne.—( Cheers. ) Yon have
listtined to me long-.--(Cheera)--1 perceive that my brogue
does not frighten you.—( Cries of" No, no:") There does not
breathe on this earth a being more anxious than myself for
order, or one more anxious to get rid of every shackle upon
human convenience, or upon human food.—(Cheers.) Your
country stood high in battle, it was never defeated in industry, i t
was never exceeded in ingenuity.—(Cheers.) Englishmen,
with all these qualities, with a memory of what your ancestors
have done, with the interests and happiness of your children
at 'eiears, 1_ «11l upon you .frock, this room to commence that
`-v.:.l._The_

'Mr. THOMPSON rose, amid cries of "Cobden."
The CHAIRMAN briefly explained, when
Mr. THOMPSON came forward amidst loud. cheers. He said
he came there to gratify no personal feeling, but he had been
earnestly requested by those who felt anxious that out of the vast
mass of information which this body possessed, those facts should
be selected which were of most importance, that they might
be applied to their respective purposes by those who
were present, in their respective neighbourhoods. He stood before
them at the express desire of those parties to make a statement on
the authenticity of which they might depend, for the purpose of
exposing the wicked and hypocritical cry in the House of Lords re-
garding the sliding, slippery scale, that the Corn laws were for the
benefit, not of those who made speecees in the House of Lords, but
for the occupiers of the land, the cultivators of corn, and the
labourers employed In their service. Knowing that this had
heed the statement put forward for years to sustain the Corn-
laws, and, having a desire to test the truth of this
statement, he took the opportunity of visiting the town of Longs-
town in Cumberland, the residence and seat of the Right Hon.
Sir Robert Charles James Graham, Bart., late of Pembroke, late
of East Cumberland, now of Dorchester, and one of her Majesty's
principal Secretaries of State for the Home Department.—(Hear,
and laughter.) He visited that property. and he lectured on that
estate to a number of friends at the Graham Arms, where Sir
James was wont once a year to deliver a lecture to his independent
yeomanry and intelligent peasantry—(Laughter)—a lecture
of the most satisfactory kind, for it was delivered after dinner,
whilst the wine and the pewter was yet on the table; its subject
would be the improvements lately discovered by the Agricultural
Society, and praises lavished on the intelligence, skill, and' inge-
nuity of his farmers. It could not fail to be a most interesting and
satisfactory lecture.—(Laughter.) He (Mr. Thompson) held in his
hand a statement, which might be relied on, as it had been made
by himself in the district of which he had been speaking, and to
which it referred, touching the tender mereies of those who
sustained the Corn-laws, on the hypocritical plea that they
were for the benefit of the occupiers of land, the cultivators of, and
the labourers on, the soil. —(Ch,:ers.) He dare say it would be re-
membered, that sixteen years ago Sir James Graham wrote a book
called " Corn and Currency," which referred to the conduct of the
landowners ta their labourers, and which also entered into the Cur.
rency question. Sir James Graham had forgotten his book, or if
not, wished he could; but the public had not forgotten it. But in
the month of February, 1839. he made a speech in the House of
Commons, on what subject ? On the subject of inquiry, when
the people asked to be heard by counsel at the bar
of the House, and solemnly affirmed on the Gospel,
that the Corn.laws were acting against the best interests of so-
ciety; he (Sir James Graham) made a speech on that occasion
which was called, in the papers of the day, " the speech of the
night," " the speech of the season," " one of the finest ever
heard;" and the peroration was so grand, it was beyond anything
that ever preceded it, and they left it alone in its glory.—(Loud
cheers.) This peroration contained the life of a farmer on his
own ;estate. He described him as rising to the call of
incense-breathing morn, going forth mid the chirrupping 'of
feathered songsters,—cheered by the magnificent views around
him, --L- fanned by the • .breezes that wound their way
along the perfumed vale—then a little healthful labour—there.
turn home—the ivy-covered porch—the woodbine and honeysuckle
peeping In at the window—the snow-white napkin—the careful
dame—the hearty dinner. Then a-little more healthful labour—
the return again—the smiling babe and rosy children—the sub-
stantial supper—the sound and healthful slumber—rise, breakfast,
and labour again. The Saturday night—the Sabbath morn—the
time-honoured edifice—the edifying discourse—the Sunday
dinner—the chapter in Pilgrim's Progress, where the beau-
tiful vale is described and the pearly gate ; thus they spend
their lives in healthful inoffensive exercise• with the smile of ap
praying vir(ue. If they abolished the Corn-lawe, !mid Sir James,
all thia'happiness would be dispersed, these men woulAibe sent into
' the manufacturing' districts, which he deseribed:aeatie sinks, of ipi-
. tinily andltifidelity, where they. would .be oppressed by spinsters in
the shape of mien. He (Mr. Thompson ).went to this. estate, and held
a meeting at Longtown ; there were a good many of the inhabi-
tants of the town and the neighbourhood there ; lie de-
scribed to them their happy condition as he had just done to this
meeting—they looked exceedingly vacant—(Hear, and a laugh)—
He said, "Is it really true? Is this the actual Garden of Paradise,
with the river of Eden flowing through it ? What happy men you
must be, who live in this paradisaical state, under the patriarchal
sway of the knight of the bright sword."—(Cheers.) They looked'
exceedingly vacant. He told them there was one thing which
struck him very forcibly. It was, that all those blessings which Sir
James Graham had enumerated, seemed in the bulk to be a very
cheap lot.—(Hear, hear.) He could not tell how much it cost the
Right Hon. Baronet, that men should be called up in the morn-
ing by the song of birds, or regaled by the freshening breeze,
as they proceeded to their labours. These were very cheap
advantages , but of course the man who so eulogised nature
would himself resemble nature in his bounty to his own ten-
antry. Therefore, in his conversations with those tenants he
observed to them—" in addition to happy cottages, to the sound
of birds and healthy recreations, you no doubt get good wages;
suppose we say 20s. a week." The reply was, "No." " Then
let us say 155." " No." " Then let us say 125." " No, we
get Bs.' —( Hear.) " No," said another, " some on us only
get 65."--(Cheers and laughter.) He had heard of ploughmen in
that neighbourhood who were in the rectipt of five silver shillings
and their food ; he asked if it was true ? The answer was" Aye."
Then said he, " If you get ss. a week, and have nothing to do hat
li
to pay your rents, and furnish your -tables with food, of course you
are enabled to store yonr shelves with the periodical literature of
the day—(Laughter)—to place the surplus of your wages in the
savings.bank, and to do something for your benefit and that of your
country—(Laughter)—you must be happy men, indeed!" But they
did not seem to understand him.—(Laughter.) He then proceeded
to inquire into the condition of the farmers in that' district—he
wanted to know whether Sir James Graham's disinterestedness in the 1
House of Commons, had been displayed by him upon his property.
What did he find ? Within six weeks atter the arrival of the Right
Hon. Baronet at Netherby, he went to his parlour. He had private
interviews with his tenants ; and he who seemed so desirous of
stimulating their industry, and who had been in the habit of giving
lectures on the breeding of cattle, on ploughing and thatching, and
the rotation of crops, instantly raised their rents from 5 to :35 per
cent.—(Hear.) Now these were important facts ; and Sir J. Graham
when he rose to tell of the happy condition of agricultural labour-
ers should be greeted with one universal groan. He might be a
gentleman—he did not mean to deny it. He was a scholar, he
(Mr. Thompson) was sure, from the number of classical quotations
he had scattered throughout his-work upon " Corn and Currency,"
for the purpose of enlightening and educating the farmers and the
peasantry of the country. He (Mr. Thompson) was sure he was
a learned mao—he was a great man, and, therefore, he did not
wish him to be treated with personal disrespect ; but, 'as a public
man, his conduct at Netherby ought to be generally known, and he
wished that meeting to receive the statements he was ahout to make
without abatement, without suspicion, for lie could assure every
gentleman present that he came there charged to the
very muzzle with proofs that Sir James Graham
had made the Corn-laws the means of augmenting his
rents for years, and that he was now making them
the means of bringing him an additional income of 4,000/. a-year.
—(Loud cries:of " Hear, hear.") That hypocritical plea of his being
the farmers' friend, and doing every thing for them and nothing
for himself, should be scattered to the winds or consumed by the
execrations of the public.--(Cheers.) He would now read the
following communication which he had received from a farmer in
the district in question, and which was well deserving the attention
of the meeting :-
1 "As a farmer, I beg leave to state the effects I consider the
existing Corn-laws have had upon the rent of land and wages of
agricultural labourers, in the neighbourhood in which I reside.
The land, since the passing of the Corn law in 1815, has been ad-
vancing in value progressively, as instances of which, 1 may mere
tion that several farms on the Netherby estate, the property of
Sir James R. G. Graham, Bart., has been advanced from 25 to 80
per cent., the particulars of which I annex. Consequently the
farmers even under Sir James Graham are now beginning to dis-
cover that the existing law only benefits the landlord, and have
hitherto proved a delusion to them, and a scourge to their servants
and labourers.
• " Farm servants may be divided into two classes, the married
and single; the former have from gs. to 103. per week, with a cot-
tage to live in, and on an average 1 calculate the number of their
families at five each, consequently the Os. or les. per week has to
procure food, clothes, and firing for the whole family; and although
it consists mostly of oat and barley meal, potatoes, milk, and her-
rings, when they call be procured, as I of my own knowledge know
that many of them don't taste butcher-meat once in six months,
consequently to them it must make a very material difference whe-
ther they purchase their food at a high or low price.
" Single men-servants are generally hired by the half-year, at
stated hiring-days, held at some market-town twice in the year,
and arelodged and victualled in their master's:house, consequently,
when provisions are selling high, the farmers invariably contrive
to do with as few servants of that description as possible, particu-
larly in the winter half year, on account of the great cost of their
victuals. And from the same cause more servants ensleavour to
procure half yearly engagements ; consequently, the supply be-
comes greater than the demand ; hence, a fall of from 15 to 00 per
cent. frequently takes place.
" 1. Rent of Rosetrees Farm previous to Candlemas, 1824,
447/. 10s., then let on a lease for eineteen years at 6041., and
lately offered to the present oecupier at an advance of 1561. 10s.,
but declined; but has since been let to another for that advance ;
consequently this farm has been advanced about. SO per cent.
since 1823.
"2. Rent of Mossbnund Hall Farm previous to Candlemas,
1816, 3501., and then let at 526/. 10s., being an advance of
about 50 per cent.
" 3. Rent of Moat Farm at this time 335/., and now let, to enter
at Candlemas, 1843, at 416/, being an advance of about 25
per cent.
" 4. Rent of Linton Farm at this time 286/, now let, to enter
on at Candlemas next, at 3531., including some new buildings to
be erected by the tenant, being an advance of about 25 per cent.
" 5. Speard Farm now let at 2451., and lately let to another .
tenant at 306/., to be entered on at Candlemas next, being an ad-
vance of about 25 per cent."
These (continued the Hon. Gentleman) were but specimens of 0%
tender mercies of those who would seem, in the House of COM.
iuMis, to have caught up the mantle of Wilberforce, so eloquent
were they in their advocacy of the rights of the farmer, and of his
claims to protection'—(Hear.) He had laid these statements be-
fore the meeting, that they might see that the Captain of Sir R.
Peel's D.agoon Guards in the House of Commons, was himself a
man who had ground down his tenants and labourers to
the lowest possible condition.—(Leud cries of " Hear, hear."'
Sir James Graham said to his tenants—" You have improved my
property by the expenditure of your capital upon it. It is to your
skill and industry, and to the application of science, to which I owe
the beauty and fertility of my farms, and my gratitude is in propor-
tion ; persevere, and you shall find, that when I come to renew your
fmct
capital,
s:Dias le,p and Department n
tenants,
ploughman,i
unless
nhn
ite;.:ehndt
he
inquiries
geauvgii eor
ivaesd. adopted
itrte dehn
respect
pit:
chget t
htoe Secretarytlie,aeses
amount
offo
any
t Iholoef.
leases, 1 am not ungrateful nor forgetful." Such was the lan-
guagehis
s of
was possessed of sufficient for several years, he refused a renewal.
It was true, be gave small premiums,
2!. 10s. to the thatcher, and he brought his lady to grace the scene,
but begot more than cent. per cent. upon these trifling premiums,
He increased the rents of his tenants when he came to have a re-
newal of their leases, and that was the manifestation of the grati.
tude of this ne plus tears of Pro. Corn-law humanity. He re-
gretted to find that Mr. Alderson was doiug she same thing in
Westmoreland which Sir James Graham was doing in Cumber-
land. The handwriting was upon the wall, the spirit of the people
were raised, and nothing could quench the extent to which it had
now been raised but the total and unqualified abolition of the Corn.
laws.—(Cheers.) It.'was the desire of his friends around him that
the facts he had stated should go forth to the world ; and also that
although he did riot wish publicly to state the names of those to
whom he alluded, yet if any gentleman wished for full and authen-
tic information, he should be most happy to prove the truths of
his assertion upon the most authentic information.—(Cheers.)
E. E. Rswhires, Esq„ of Liverpool, proposed . the following re.
solution :
"That the Delegates attending this ,
. at the meant
crisis of the Anti-Corn-law movement; would strongly lectmunend
to the various Associations throughout the country, the necessity of
meeting throughout the ensuing week, to especially confirm the
Resolutions adopted at this Conference, pledging the Delegates not
to vote for any Members of Parliament who. may . not vote, or ean-
didates who will not vote, for the total and immediate removal of
all restrictions on the importation- of food, and protesting against all
the laws which tamper with the subsistanee of the people; and also
to memorialise her Majesty, expressing an utter want of confidence
in her present advisers, or in any Ministers who will not propose to
Parliament-the entire and immediate repeal of the Corn and Provi.
sion-laws.', - ,
.... • .
Mr. leensoe seconded the resolution without comment
The resolution was pfht and carried unanimously.
Mr. G. THOMPSON in the absence of Mr. Rawson, proposed the
following resolution, and he would do so without a word :
" That the Conference close its general business with this day's
proceedings, and that the Executive Committee, with power. to
add to its nnmbers, continue sitting so long as it seems needful ;
thirteen constituting a quorum ; P. A. Taylor, Esq., being Chair-
-- - ... _. •.__ ...... r iv

Gentlemen to compose the Executive Committee. The Committee
to sit at Brown's Hotel.
" EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
Colonel Thompson, London ;
. Mr. P. ~y Jamesinr
,VVcibiaaoi
rnm
a, LondonLnd
0; n
Mr. Sidney, Smith, Lendon ;
Mr. Scoble, London ; Black, M.D., Deputy Chairman, London;
Mr. Kershaw, Manchester; Mr. Wm. Rawson, Manchester; Mr.
W. Evans, Secretary, Manchester ; Mr. E. Armitage, Maecbes.
ter; Mr. A. Prentice, Manchester; Mr. S. Lees, Manchester ;
Rev. J. W. Massie, Secretary, Manchester; Mr. J. Bright, Roch-
dale ; Mr. L. Heyworth, Liverpool; Mr. Stanfield, Leeds ; Mr.
Millington, Bradford ; Mr. Clayton, Bradford ; Mr. -Dixon, Car-
lisle ; MY. Ashworth, Bolton; Mr. Joseph Sturge, Birmingham ;
Mr. Bell, Coventry; alr. Larin, Edinburgh; Mr. Aston, Edin.
burgh; Mr. W. Buchanan, Glasgow; Rev. J. Burder, Stroud;
Mr. J. C. Symons, Stroud; Mr. Biggs, Leicester; Mr. Akroyd,
Halifax.; Mr. Batley, Huddersfield ; Rev. W. Williams, Caer-
narvon ; Mr. Evans, Caernarvon ; Mr. W. Ibbotson, Sheffield
Rev. T. Bailey, Sheffield ; Rev. W. Roaf, Wigan ; Mr. W. Morris,
Halifax; Mr. E. Watkins, Manchester; Mr. C. Edward Rawlins,
Liverpool; Rev.
Ellis,Rev
.Bsaenijt.enßaetisitr
Platt."
The ; in Rev. W. Lowe, Forfar:;
The Rev. J. W. Massie rose to second the resolution, and in
doing so, said he ought to explain to the gentlemen who would be
leaving London, that a power was vested in the Executive Com-
mittee, in which 13 was to be a quorum, to add to their number,
and this would secure the continuance of the Conference as long as
needful. He might mention, that those gentlemen who were leav-
ing London, were requested to communicate the same to the Se-
cretary of the Executive Committee, and to mention any person
whom they might wish to supply their places as Delegates remaining
in London. They wished, that in order to perpetuate, as long as
was needful, the Executive Committee, because not only must they
watch the proceedings, but make a report of those proceedings
to the country ; and that report must be made in a form which
would give it an authentic character. They hoped also to follow
p, not only what was passed in this report, but to suggest
what was necessary to be adopted in future, with respect to any
future transactions relative to the state of the country. He would
not trespass longer on their attention. He had been anxious that
the details of the proceedings should he settled, and that his re-
spected friends, who were so well able, and who were so entitled to
address them, should have a full opportunity of expressing their
sentiments ; and although he was a member of the Executive Com-
mittee; he, in the absence of Mr. Rawson..would second the reso.
lotion.—(Cheers.)
A DELEGATE inquired if the Committee would be open far any
one who wished to attend ?
Mr. G. TitomPSON—The whole of the members of the Conference
will be welcome there. A venerable and respected friend at that
meeting had suggested whether they should not have a great out-of-
door Anti-Corn-law meeting.—(Great cheering.)
The resolution was then put and carried with great cheering.
Loud cries were then raised from every part of the meeting for
Mr. Roebuck ; and when it was stated that he was not in the room,
Dr. Bowling was also called for with equal vehemence, but
neither did he answer.
Mr. Situate-al CRAWFORD being next called for, at length came
forward. He said he felt. it his duty to come forward at their call,
although, after the eloquent speeches ;which they had heard, he
could not expect to say any thing that could add to those arguments
adduced by previous 'speakers. But he obeyed their call with
the intention of expressing in a few honest words,
the wish of his heart to co-operate with the delegates in every
manner he could in the just cause in which they were engaged.—
(Cheers.) He did not come forward as a manufacturer, or as a
commercial man, but as a landed, proprietor—(Loud and repeated
cheers)—and he was convinced that the interest of the land-owners
was as deeply involved in the repeal of the Corn-laws as those of
any other class of society.—(Hear, hear.) He felt that the inte-
rest of the landlords and 'the manufacturers could not be separated.
Whatever served the one wastseneficial to the other, and any attempt
to separate the interests of these portions of the community
by restrictions and protectivelaws, could be of no interest to any
class or body in the country to which, they were applied.—(Hear,
hear.) There had been a gooddeal of discussion as .to the compa-
rative advantages of a sliding-scale and a fixed duty. But for his
part he would not consent to enter into that discussion, because he
could not see in either of them any remedy for the evils which
afflict the country, nor could he see any remedy except in the total
repeal of those mischievous laws.—(Hear, hear.) He could not
consent to compromise that great question. —(Cheers.) He eould
not admit that the people should not have provisions as cheap as
they could be procured. There was no other remedy for all the
distress which prevailed than the instant and absolute repeal of the
Corn-laws.—(Cheers.) That-repeal might not instantly affect trade
to any great extent, but a starving people ought to have instant
access to a supply of cheap food.—(Hear, hear.) He thought that
those persons who were parties to keeping up the price of the
people's food were indirectly answerable for the results of those
laws on the lives of the people.—(Cheers.) The results were
starvation and death—(Cheers)—and if he were a party to keep-
ing up the law, he would feel that he was in some degree account-
able for the deaths which it occasioned.—(Hear, hear.) He felt
that the great relief which they were contending for, could only
be obtained by the cordial co-operation of the different classes of
society.—(Hear.) Neither the middle now the working classes
could obtain any object by themselves. But when they were united
cordially such moral power was acquired that no aristocracy could
continue long to resist them.—(Hear, hear.) Those were the feel-
ings which he had long entertained. With those feelings he had
advocated extension of the suffrage to the whole people, and he
was persuaded that the country would never get rid of class legis-
lation until the whole people were fully and fairly represented in
-Parliament.-(Cheers). Those opinions he had long entertained,
and at should ever be his most anxious endeavour to advocate them.
Dr. BOWRING; M.P., was then announced as the next speaker
to address the meeting. The Hon. and, Learned Member was re-
ceived with enthusiastic cheers, which lasted for some minutes.
When silence was procured, he stated that if any encouragement
were wanted—lf any recompense or' Inducement were necessary to
get the people to persevere in the good work which had been
so nobly commenced, that recompense would be found in the en-
thusiasm—the excitement—of that influential and respectable meet-
ing.—(Cbeers.) That enthusiasm would glee every motive to pro-
mote the great question in which they were engaged, and which
had been in every respect. he. would Say, delightfully carried
on.—(Loud cheers.) When it was recollected how it had
commenced—first, there were statistical discussions—next
arithmetical inquiries—then doubts, hesitation, and opposition—
when these things were remembered and compared with the pre-
sent state of feeling in this country as to the question of Corn laws,
looked upon as it now was, not only as a moral and a political ques.
tion, but as a religious question, inseparably connected with the
principles of that book to whirls they were all bound to defer—
(Hear, and cheers)—no longer were the frauds and fallacies of the
house of Tarnworth to cast impediments in the way of public,
the
-
the mothers, and the daughters of England
provement. The question of Corn-laws was now taken up by the
clergy, by the men and by the women of England.—(Cheers,) The
matrons,were
to get rid of those iniquitous laws—(Loud
cheers)—those laws which had given authority to that monopoly
which was so intolerable an injustice—which had perpetuated
the abominable system of giving up to the few the rights
and the privileges of the many.—(Hear, hear.) The Right Hon.
Baronet at the head of the Ministry had referred to his (Dr. Bow.
ring's) report with reference to the state of feeling and trade in the
north of Europe. He fOr. Bowing) had been sent to the Conti-
gent and to the north of Europe to ascertain what were the feel.
legs of the German Goviirnment.l The feelings and wishes of that
Government were everything he could desire—(Cheers)—the mar.
and proposals were made which would have undoubtedly
kets were large, and demands for British produce were considerably
i
effect;h of improving the condition and securing the proiper-
t
i g:tnhis country. What was the answer made when he (Dr.
n a:dr increasing;;
of thea s
Bowring came homeP—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") The answer
made by the British Government was, " we cannot touch
the Corn-laws—(Hear, hear, and groans), We cannot touch the
Timber-laws."—(Loud disapprobation.) No matter what the ad-
vantag9s to the British people may be, the German and foreign mar.
kets are not to be made accessible to Otem.—(Hear, hear.) The peo-
ple of Germany shall not have the manufactures of England—nor
shall
have the produce of Germany. The people of Germany
mg h t they
be
naked, and the people of England might starve, for the
interests of the monopolists should not be disturbed.—(Hear.) He
had compared the condition of the people of Prussia and the Conti-
nent with that of the people of England, and having had a good op-
portunity of making that comparison he had not the least hesitation in
saying that the contrast was most discreditable, most dishonourable
to Sir Robert Peel.—(Hear, hear.) If the condition of the people of
England was contrasted with that of the inhabitants of the most im-
poverished countries on the Continent, Sir Robert Peel should blush
' with shame for being the cause of the poverty of England, and for
having prevented the repeal of those laws which had caused so
much misery through every part of it.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.)
He (Dr. Bowring) had visited most of the cities of the north
of Europe, and he could assure the meeting he had never
seen anything like the extreme poverty and distress which existed
in the town of Bolton, with which he was connected. There were
thousands amid tells of thousands of los fellow.men in a state of
starvation, and producing that which they could not sell, though hun-
dreds of thousands of persons in Germany are anxious and willing
to buy.—( Hear, hear.) Was that state of things to be endured—
would the conduct of the Right Hon. baronet be tolerated merely
because lie represented, as he called it, the great landed interests of the
country—No. But as the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor of Dublin
had properly observed, let the matter be analysed. Look at the
enormous consumption of the lower classes of this country compared
with the landed aristocracy—(llear, hear) —look at their relative
influence, and if the Comparison was to be carried out, it must be.
seen that there are miseries endured in England which are not to be
found in any other part of the world.—(Hear, hear.) Yet there
Wm s no peOple who had so much moral aptitude, so much virtue, as
iii this country. Was it not insulting, that after five months
of deliberation and consideration, her Majesty's Government
should come forward arid say they admitted the extent of misery in
the country, but they did not imagine that the proposition with
respect to the introduction of corn would afford any relief ?—(Hear,
hear.) As far as he (Dr. B.) was able to see, he could state posi-
tively, that the proposal of Sir Robert Peel was much
worse than the law as it was at present.—(Hear.)
rld'ileiecßoirgnh.itawHBO.n.
BGeenttoleldmatnhemi n theen dv.e.aels tio,opteLfteicstfi tehdew
irthhionseer machinery
hoof
and he proposed, therefore, to introduce
made the averages ;
that most utiPoptilar part of the administration, the excuse to draw
yet tighter the cord by which foreign corn was excluded. H. e
mismangement the people should obtain
cheaper. some He was determined that
d that only on certain terms should foreign
735. should be 755., an
He was sure that this would
corn be admitted.—(llcar, hear.)
• of the question. He rejoiced to think
ution
twhaesi fbrareidadlest oneby De
not be accepted as a
ded the land.—(Cheers.) He viewed
that a higher and
whole question, now peva between) dinslg-scales
he s uabble bet
with great indifference
snlobler tone—a clearer understanding of the
were lowered
inquiry. He would not give up the
to so mean and unworthy and fixed duties.
of the people ought not to be taxed. That
HQ
principle that the bread o
elioutlit be sorryg if the question
solution; ,by that lie would stand, and he
principle was the 00. Y
over a sliding scale.—(Hear.) show
s on which Lad for its object to the
would accept of no solution
be satisfied that nothing
superiority of a fixed
scales and fixed duties he should alike repudiate. The Hon. Gen-
their overwhelming tleman sat down av,ro,l:lnsirt,lsoauidd
mightcthheeeby:t.
The Rmenvv.entrbe
0,000
could d the black
terror.—
(Hear, hear.) Peel had
hoisted
iteer to them, flagand
of monopoly and
they should give no
piracy ; he would give no qu
The hands of the monopolists are
quarter to hint.—(Hear, hear.)
ta of the people; it was the death
upon the thrOa 0 _
amp and free. trade, it was "pull
grapple between mon ,
hear.) 'operatives
devil, pull people."—(Hears
Fire were those
the fight. Neither the middle classes, of them.
who must decide polistts
selves,. nor the operatives, of themselves, could conquer the aris.
was a mond force Chartist.—(Cheers.) The moral
Mcrae), ; but, u;,ited, the aristocracy would sink in the struggle..
He (Dr. Wade) Y to them the
They only required equal rights -and equal
hand of friendship•
the o n
Charter i ta
they
moat
u t
e sought,
argued
laws. He had differed from some of them as to the plan of action.
B
yo
could t ainetl
obtain h e There were soma' who contended that the Charter should first be
force chartists would cn to them if the extended
longer have it in their power to impose burdens upon the people.
and strike down its strong.
When this had been done it would be time
hold.—( Hear, hear.)
40 clench the nail by carrying the Cha:ter. The Chartists thought
they had not the confidence of the middle classes. If the middle
paralyse the right arm of ;Ineoseaoly,
themselves that when this measure
classes would pledge
operatives should not be forgotten,' he
was carried the
operatives would join them in the attack upon
had no doubt the
mono..oly. The necessity for such a combination could not be doubted.
ans
et
hwal; ebnetfhoar et stvha
It
hbourhood of this city, a man had
was a fact, that, in the neig
d that when the body was opened at the Coro.
died of starvation, an
tier's inquest grass, yes; grass of the field, wa4 found in his stomach.
liundreds.w„, dying of hunger, and hundreds more were daily ap-
plying to the
• -
fain the prison allowance of food. There was another fact, which
was equally startling. The husband of a poor woman had declared
that his wife's milk was mixed with her blood because she had not
sufficient sustenance. These were some of the results of
the Corn-laws.—(Loud cries of " Down with them.")—
The aristocracy would permit the people to commit suicide, murder,
or any other crime. What cared they, provided they had high
rents.--(Cheers.) They would rob the working men of their
s _ rani

an end to such a state of things, and the minister of religion, like
the prophet of old, was bound to " cry aloud, and to spare not, and
to denbunce oppression in the highways." Their Divine Master, in
his sermon on the Mount, told the poor and the meek and the
mourner, to be comforted,' "that His Father who was in
heaven, might see their good works and glorify Him."—(Cheers.)
The good work of Christian ministers is not alone to preach, but to
put their hands to the plough and work themselves.—(Cheers.)
This he would say was the duty of the ministers of the Church of
England, and a fine opportunity was now offered to the bishops of
their church to exhibit their feeling for the poor.—(Cheers.) It
appeared that in 1840 only three lsisheps had voted, and two paired
off' in favour of Earl Fitzwilliam's motion. Let the bishops stand
forward, now the Church was] distracted internally and • eater-
nally.—(Hear, hear.) She was standing on quiver, quiver, quiver,
to consolidate the people and engage them in their belief. They
boasted of its being the Church of the poor man, now let them
prove it by standing forward on that occasion—(Cheers)—and the
people would believe it—(Cheers)—for of course he gave credence
to it himself. He would sit down by supporting the resolution,
and trusted in. God that they may go on and prosper under the di-
rection of Divine Providence —(Cheers.)
Mr. Rewsosr, of Manchester, said it was not his intention to de-
tain the meeting further than by stating a few statistical facts re-
ferring to the midland counties. The sale and proceeds of 120
dozen of cotton drawers, shipped from Great Britain to the United
States, was as follows, in returns made in flour. The net returns
in barrels of flour were 62 barrels, divided thus—material 41 bar-
rels, profit more than 6, labour more than 34. On the contrary,
in America the returns for the same number of cotton drawers were
of material 70 barrels, profit more than 8, labour more than 139,
exhibiting a balance in favour of America of 134 barrels.—(Hear,
hear.) These facts were capable of being as clearly demonstrated
as any proposition in Euclid. Thirty-two barrels was the duty in
America, 42i in Liverpool ; 31 the expense of selling goods in
New York, 8 the expense of the commission of buying flour, Lnd
201 the expense of selling flour in Liverpool, making a total of
134 barfels. All those who came there should advocate a total re-
peal, and sanction a fixed duty as little as a sliding scale.—
(Loud cheers.) The fixed duty of Bs. had taken away from
the working men 134 barrels out of 216.—(Loud cheering.)
It was not desirable that he should enter at any greater length into
the subject. But on another occasion he would make statistical
statements that would let none of them sleep quiet in their beds
till the mischief was entirely removed.—(Cheers.)
The Rev. Mr. Massie called the notice of the Conference to the
fact, that the Gentleman who had just addressed them (Mr. Rawson)
consulting with his family how he could best serve the present cause,
had resolved, together with his wife and daughters, to give up the
luxury of a carriage and horses.—( Enthusiastic cheers.)
Mr BARRET WADDEN next addressed the Conference. He
said, that since the commencement of the present Conference, he
had each day listened with the greatest attention and anxiety to
the statements of the various gentlemen who had addressed
them, and who had brought before them a mass of evidence'
of the appalling character of the sufferings of the people at the
present time—a time which the Prime Minister had been compelled
to confess was one of awful importance. There was no man, ex-
cept perhaps his (Mr. W.'s) friend (Mr. O'Connell) who had kept
a more watchful eye on Sir R. Peel for the last twenty-nine years
than be did. He knew him well; he knew his mode of proceeding,
his public actions—nay, the very time in which he performed
those actions.--(Cries of " Hear, hear.") 'Vas it not a little
extraordinary that the Minister should introduce his Starvation
Bill into the House of Commons on the first day of Lent ?—( Hear,
hear.) That very fact brought him to another which he did not know
was a fact, but he deduced it from a fact; it was this :—Sir Robert
Peel had not been at Church on Ash-Wednesday.. If he
• had, he would not have dared in the presence of the people—
nay, in the presence of his God—to have brought in such
a Bill. Why did he (Mr. Wadden) say so? Since
he had taken his places among, ahem as a delegate, he
bad heard various Cleegymen of the Established Church an atten.
lion to the denunciations - ins the, sacred writing's againstthe man
Who withheld•fdod from' the people. HIM the people shall curse.
In' the Prayer-book of the Church. of England what' whs. inserted
among the prayers for the first day, of4Lent? Certain denun-
ciations ; and those denunciations *ere' appointed to be
read aloud by the Minister. (Hear, hear.) They were
as follows :—." Accursed is be that perverteth the judgment of the
stranger, the fatherless, and the widow ; accursed is the unmerciful
extortioner." Was it possible that if Sir R. Peel heard those denun-
ciations read he would have dared to bring in his Bill on such a day ?
The number of petitions to the House of Commons had increased to
17,000, which was a proof, he supposed, of the sufferings of the people
under the Corn-laws. But since the petitions were now presented
in bundles, no speech being allowed to be made on them, and Sir
Robert Peel had refused to. receiving the deputation front the
working classes ; it was time to declare that the House of Com.
mons did not represent the people of England, and that the Go-
vernment was no longer a paternal Government.—(Loud cheers.)
The Poor-law Commissioners had sent out 1,716 circulars
to the country, to ask whether agricultural capital had
increased or decreased. There came 1,710 answers,. stating that
agricultural capital had decreased,—decreased under the law of
which the declared object was to promote the interest of landed
proprietors, farmers, and labourers.—(Cheers.) The Hon. Gen-
tleman then referred with great effect to the famous protest
against the principle of a bread.tax recorded in the Journals of the
House of Lords, and signed by the Duke of Sussex, the Duke of
Gloucester, Lords Granville, Wellesley, Essex, Torrington, Douglas,
the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, the father of the present
Duke--(Groans)—Montford, King, and Carlisle. Next he re-
ferred to the well-known and most honourable declaration of the
late Sir Robert Peel, that the interests of manufactures and
agriculture must go hani in hand, but that to impose a
tax on what a man eats was most iniquitous—(Cheers)—
so that the late Sir Robert Peel put upon the Statute-book of the
country a solemn protest against the passing of the Act which
his son wishes to perpetuate.—(Cheers.) Sir Robert seemed
to depend upon the patience of the people; but that may be strained
too far. The aristocracy of the country had been laying out their
gold and silver to entertain a foreign King, while the people of
England were dying of want.—(Great cheering.)
The Cif AI RNI N then said Gentlemen,• it now devolves
upon me, as your Chairman, to close the Conference. As men-
tioned at the commencement, although the work of the Delegates
within these walls: closes to-day, yet their greatest work and most
arduous duties will soon begin on their return to their constitu-
ents and their own neighbourhood.—(Hear, hear, hear.)
I have to recommend to the Deputies to send up
from their districts memoranda to their respective
representatives in the House of Commons to be at their posts, and
consent to no compromise.—(Cheers.) This is in harmony
with one of the resolutions. You have passed a reso-
lution which will be more effectual in frightening your opponents
than any resolution you have passed—a resolution which at former
meetings 'at Manchester and elsewhere, has been proposed again
and again, but which was opposed, the representatives of the Anti-
Corn -law League fearing that by passing a resolution
so strong they might injure their own cause.—(Hear.)
I allude to a Nobleman who was the candidate for Yorkshire, with
whom they had parted—and they would part with any one—and I
feel satisfied that the greatness of the sacrifice was an argument for-
its being made, because it would have a strong effect on the public
mind.—(Cheers.) All who have attended this meeting, from its
commencement, must have experienced great pleasure in witness-
ing the unanimity which has prevailed, and the acclamation which
has'accompanied thepassing of every resolution. They were not mere
speculative resolutions, wishing that something might be done ;
but they were resolutions so strong and substantive, that I am sure
they will have a great influence on the country—they will do their
work—they will have their effect ; or if they do not, wait for a
short time, when stronger, more determined, and most undoubt-
edly more effectual resolutions will be passed, which no Govern-
ment, no Ministry, no House of Commons, no landed aristocracy,
however powerful, can or dare resist.—(lmmense cheering.) I
pronounce this Conference to be now closed.—(Cheers.)
On the motion of the Rev. Mr. Mess's, Mr. Taylor then re.
tired from the chair, and W. P. Wilkinson, Esq., late Mayer
of Etter, was unanimously' voted to his place.
The Rev. Mr. Massie then came forward. He said there had
been repeated cries for Mr. Roebuck in the room. He (Mr. Mas-
sie) should have been proud if Mr. Roebuck had been there, but
he was not, and the call was therefore rendered useless.
He (Mr. Massie) rose with the greatest pleasure to pro-
pose that 'the thanks 'of the Conference be presented
most cordially to P. A. Taylor, Esq., for his patient
and unwearied attention during Thursday, Friday, and Saturday,
and up to this hour —(Cheers.) It must have been a matter of
gratification to thosewho had come from the country as Delegates
on this occasion, to know that a gentleman so well known, and of
such influence in the City of London as Mr. Taylor should have
consented to identify himself with their causeby presiding over them.
The Rev. Gentleman concluded by saying that he wished to take
that opportunity of stating that the Executive Committee would
meet again as usual at the close of the Conference.
Mr. ASHWORTH came forward to second the motion of a vote of
thanks to their late Chairman. In doing so, he wished to congra-
tulate the meeting on the improved character they had acquired
since three years ago.—(Hear.) It would be remembered,
that three years ago the present movement had been commenced
by certain manufacturers 'and merchants who saw the very
great evils which the Corn-laws were entailing on the country.
They saw the Dukes arrayed against the millions, but they saw at
the same time, not only the manufacturing classes, but the ministers
of religion and the women of England, and when they saw
the women of England combining for the amelioration
of the condition of the poor, how could they despair of
ultimate success. In conclusion, he should congratulate the
meeting on having taken up its position upon such high grounds
as to render it impo sible that the cause which they advocated
should ultimately prevail.
The Chtsigmag said, before putting the motion from the Chair,
Ire should make a few observations. He came from Exeter,
and other places, but lie never witnessed a meeting where such una-
nimity and enthusiasm prevailed. He thought the Delegates were
deeply indebted to their late respected Chairman for the order and
propriety with which he conducted the meeting.
Mr. 'faysoit said he feared the meeting received his name with
too much partiality. He could not claim that high influence in
the:City which _a late Speaker attributed to him upon other
grounds ; than% those which arose from his untiring exertions
in advocating the repeal of the Corn-laws. Ills friend Colonel
Thompson could bear him out iu the assertion, that
some eleven years ago they were able to muster but a
few persons at their meetings in the City, but this present assem-
blage now presented a happy contrast to those scenes. In conclu-
sion, he begged leave, with all sincerity, to thank the meeting for
the manner in which the vete of thanks was passed.
The CHAIIIIIAN then submitted to the meeting the following do-
cument :
ADDRESS OF. THE FINANCE: COMMITTEE OF ANTI-
CORN-DA W DELEGATES ASSEMBLED. AT THE
CROWN AND ANCHOR, FEB. 6, AND SUCCEEDING
DAYS.
The . above Committee, in the faithful discharge of their
duty, have given their deliberate and earnest attention
to the financial affairs of the National Anti-Corn-law League,
in connection with the present position of the question,
and the immediate and prospective claims npon the funds of
the League. It must be !obvious to all friends of the great
cause, that a contest of unexampled interest importance, and ex-
tent, is at hand ; and that there is at this moment an imperative
call fear renewed arid redoubled efforts to carry on and complete
the work of Universal Enlightenment, and of the consolidation of
the moral power of all who stand opposed to the restrictions and du-
ties upon the food of the people. This great end the Commmittee
believe is to be accomplished by the employment, to a greater
extent than ever, of duly qualified persons to Lecture in all parts
of the Kingdom, and especially in the Agricultural Districts, from
which there are already applications for at least ten in-
dividuals where only one can be afforded. The Committee
are of opinion that, at no conjuncture of events could
more labourers be sent into the field with a better prospect of suc-
cess, or under circumstances more strongly demanding their most
strenuous exertions.
A noble, benevolent, and patriotic effort has been made by the
Anti-Corn-law women of the country, and the Committee trust
that their example will be immediately followed by
the De-
puties now in town, and their Associates throughout
the kingdom. They therefofe respectfully, but most
earnestly, recommend that every Deputy should assist the
League to the .utrisost extent of his ability, and that he should
take steps on his return to his co •.ecents to obtain, by congrega.
tional collections and indivileals ...ascriptions, pecuniary aid. Do-
nations made in London r• a'y .se handed to the Treasurer of the
League, now in attendera-e and hereafter to the Executive Council
of the National Anti-Corn-law League in Manchester.
Hitherto the burden of the national struggle has fallen upon a
comparatively small. number. Hereafter
.let it be cheerfully and
honourably shared by the friends of the cause at large. If the
sinews of war are supplied, the contest now waging will soon termi-
nate in the triumph of justice and-humanity, over the cruel and
selfish legislation of interested Men.
JAMES KERSHAW, Chairman.
WILLIAM RAWSON.
ELK ANAH ARMITAGE.
FRANCIS BOULT, Jun.
SAMUEL LEES
EDWARD EV ANS.
JAMES AYTOUN.
EDWARD WATKIN.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
GLOBE.—Those who have hoped, against hope, fur a good
Corn-law from the Peel Cabinet may now see they have
"expected," as Mr. Cobden said,- " grapes from thorns, and
figs from thistles." " None can compass more than they
intend ;" and if Sir Robert Peel has not compassed a
satisfactory Corn-law reform, it is because he did not intend
such a reform. Everything roust depend on the view which
a statesman takes of the situation which he seeks to im-
prove. Now, there are two opposite views which are taken of
the present situation of things. The Liberal party regard it
as an " awful" crisis of our finance and commerce—as the
turning point of our future destinies which must decide the
extension or decline of our wealth and well-being. They
trace mainly and distinctly to the Corn-laws a commencement
of decline, which has most decidedly, vsliether permanently
or not, taken place during these three or four years.
They ask whether these acute fits of distress are to' recur
periodically—whether the malady (rooted in the precarious-
ness and insufficiency of the home supply of the neces-
saries of life) is to become chronic—whether the waste of
national capital on improvidence-prices, for mere food is
periodically to derang' our commerce, and city up our
financial resources? Most clearly anti demonstrably it
has done so, during these four ye:.rs last past. The Con-
servative Minister cannot deny the facts, but refuses to trace
them to their source. Refusing to trace, in any great degree,
to the Corn-laws the commercial and financial symptoms
so fearfully developed and aggravated, he refuses (consistently)
to seek the remedy in a thorough reform of those laws.
The party in power have had ample warning both from
the errors of their predecessors, and their, however
tardy, perception and abandonment of those error. If Sir
R. Peel had been free to act, he has had full experience to
guide action—the experience of faults and embarrassments
incurred by others for his instruction. The Whig ministers
had tried expedients, be£ore they threw themselves upon prin-
ciples ; had tried them with that signal ill-success which should
have been a warning ko their successors. It appears to be a
settled routine in .hnglish statesmanship that every variation
of vulgar policy shall be exhausted first, before it will
be permitted to statesmen to strike into any new track. We
certainly think the late Ministers ought to have taken new
measures sooner ; because it would have prevented the imputa •
tion of moving without hope of carrying them. They are
accused of having proposed those measures, because they had
forfeited their tenure of office. It would be more correct to
say they proposed them, because they had spent their stock of
expedients. When new taxes proved unproductive, new prin-
ciples of taxation became imperative.
STANDARD.—The Right !lon. Baronet, while he does
full justice to the claims of the agriculturists, puts their
case upon much higher and much stronger grouna than the
claims of any class; he demonstrates that it is the in-
terest of the whole he consults in defending the landed
and agricultural interest, and proves by irresistible ar-
gument the utter fallacy of all . the pretences of the
anti •agricultural party. Without in the least courting
the manufacturing body, he disarms of the topics of agitation
all who would excite discontent among them. The new seals
will give corn cheaper—muds cheaper—in all seasons
approaching to scarcity, than the fixed duty of the
late Ministers. There is not much novelty in the reason-
' ing of Sir Robert Peel's speech ; there never can he
in the speech of one who reasons with truth and can- ,
dour, and without affectation, upon a well-worn subject.
The highest merit of a speech in such cases is clearness of an-
rangenaent,-happiness-of combination, and force of expression ;
and by these last night's speech ,seas otnisiently distinguished.
'There is one Observation of the. Righ's Aion.Birinief,-hOw e‘ier,
which we do not remember to have plet,witisbeforeat-least in
connection withtheCern-law questionss-s2*"gh the fattreferred'
to is fully warranted by experience, and,altliqughlt has a most
important bearing upon the question referred to. We allude to
the fact that unfavourable seasons commonly come in periods of
successive years, and not singly. But whoever suffers by an
unfavourable season, the farmer is sure to suffer more
than others—one bad harvest discourages, if it does not
disable, bins from cultivating to the highest point in the next;
and two or three bad seasons following each other without
interruption, must utterly exhaust his resources, if, in addition
to the evil of a deficient crop, he has to encounter a free
foreign competition. Thus, the fields would, in a little time, be
left desolate—the home market, for all manufactured
goods, extinguished—and the country reduced to a state of ab •
solute dependence upon strangers for necessary food. As
may easily be supposed, the organs of the Opposition
are extremely angry with last night's exposition. It
wounds them as fatal to the hopes of the money-
jobbers by whom they are prompted, and as belying
their confident predictions that Sir Robert Peel would
desert the agricultural interest. Lord John Russell last
night seemed disposed to cavil at the extension of the
field from which the averages are to be taken, and
Mr. Cobden unloaded his bile in a fierce expression of
mock amazement ; but the other Members of the Opposition
were generally silent and sullen. As to Mr. Cobden, if he is,
indeed, taken by surprise, he has to blame those journals of
his own party that have taken so much pains to lull him in a
"fool's paradise."
COURIER.—We can only briefly advert to the admirable
style in which Sir Robert demolished the fallacy that
the well-being of the people must be measured in any
country or at any period solely, or at all, by the compara-
tive cheapness of bread and provision stuffs. The only true
barometer by which the healthy state of a people can be
ascertained must ever be the relative extent of command over
the necessaries of life, which result f:om the advantages of
a larger field of constant employment at more remu-
nerating rates of wages. The First Lard of the
Treasury tested these important considerations by this only
infallible standard, so far as such a standard can be termed infal-
ilible, whose construction is the handywork- of such impure
hands as those of Dr. Bowring. That person, as our readers
know, was engaged and pai dto make out a one-sided case against
the Corn-laws, coute qui coute, in respect of exaggeration
in one sense, and depreciation in the other. He performed
his task to admiration, as all the Anti-Corn-law faction
have testified by unanimous acclaim. His object was to
elevate above reality the social position and the material
condition of the foreign operative class, and contempotaneously
to understate that of the labouring classes here. With these
objects his statistical figures, where not actually reposing on
official authority beyond suspicion, were collected and constructed.
Well it is on the partial, and on both Sideshighly colouredor trea-
cherous statements of this semi-official tourist, that Sir Robert
proceeded to establish his case, and establish it he did to the
satisfaction of every one who heard him, or who shall read at-
tentively this most interesting portion of his speech. He esta-
lished beyond all question that the general condition of the British
operative is, as we trust it may ever be, and as it ever will be,
whilst home industry is promoted by Corn-law protection,
greatly superior in all regards to that of the same continental
class. He established it, under the disadvantage of reason-
ing, from, materials fabricated, tortured, or furnished from
a hostile quarter, incontrovertibly and irrevocably. Let those
who doubt compare the amounts of wages, the prices of food,
and the several rates per head and per people of the consump-
tion of necessaries or comforts in Prussia or Belgium, with
those of this country.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Feb. 12.
IN THE MATTER OF EDWARD HARRIS.
The insolvent, who had been acting manager of the Victoria
Theatre, and had entered into liabilities for the two late pro-
prietors, Beverley and Ratcliffe, both of whom wet e described
as " insolvent debtors," applied to be discharged on sureties
until his hearing on the 11th of March next.
The COURT granted the application for the discharge of the
insolvent.
The case of Mr. Wallack, the actor, of the Haymarket the-
atre, which was reported on Friday, was again mentioned at a
subsequent period of the day on which the motion was made.
The application was for a special order to enable the insolvent,
who has lately been performing the principal character in ton
new comedy of Marriage, to appear before the Court on
Wednesday, to be discharged on sureties until his hearing.
The report stated the readiness of the Court to grant the in-
dulgence, provided the messengers of the Court would give a
certificate to serve the bail notices in time, as the customary
day for the• delivery of the same had expired, and it was uncer-
tain whether the application could be granted. Tte messen-
gers, however, undertook to serve the notices, and the Court
directed the order to issue for Wednesday next instead of the
following Monday.
The schedule of Mr. Wallack, who is now in the :Fleet
Prison, has been filed for public inspection. It exhibits debts
for which consideration has been received, extending over a
lengthened period, to 12,7051., and there is property mentioned
on the schedule for the creditors. It will be recollected that
Mr. Wallack was the proprietor of " The National Theatre"
in New York. The insolvency is attributed to the destruction
of the theatre and the loss sustained by fire in September, 1839.
The professional income of the insolvent appears to have been
considerable, especially last year, when he realised 1,2001.
His expenditure, on the other side, shows the disbursement of
the money he had received for a number of years. By the 'general
practice of the Court, insolvents are required to commence their
balance sheets from the data of the earliest debt in the schedule.
—Mr. Wallack has an order to appear before the court on
Wednesday, the 16th inst. The hearing of the case is ordered
for the 21st March.
An insolvent, named Richard Pryce, who had been a shell-
fishmonger in the Strand, was on Friday opposed by Mr.
Nichols, on the part of creditors, and supported by Mr. Cooke,
with Mr. Woodroffc.-1 he insolvent was' examined at con-
siderable length, and his case occupied several hours. It al).
peered that he had been bail in this Court on some occasions,
and had been a " sporting character." He betted on horse
races, and last " Derby Day" he lost about 4001., which he
believed he had nearly all paid.—The Court, alter a long in
vestigation, ordered the insolvent to be discharged.