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London, England, 1842-07-06 00:00:00

norant of the truly beneficent principles of free trade ; but
such was not the case. Since the days of Huskisson, it ap-
peared that Sir Robert Peel and his party had been in love
with the principles of free trade; and what had they done in
consequence to modify our commercial cede ? They had ap-
plied the principles of free trade very ingeniously to a great
many unimportant matters, and considered that the principles
of free trade were so excellent, that even this moderate appli-
cation of them would enable the nation to support the in-
fliction of an Income-tax.—(Loud cheers.) Sir Robert Peel
had observed that there was no unmixed good in, nature, and

had determined that there should be none of his measures
without a mixture of evil, taking care at the same time that
the evil should vastly preponderate.—(Cheers.) If cheap
beef was such a benefit why not cheap bread ?—(Loud cheers. )
Why not cheap coffee and cheap sugar?—(Loud cheers.) How
had the nation been treated in the article of sugar, after having
made a present to the West Indian planters of 20,000,000/. of
money ? The nation had been taxed for them 5,000,000/. a
year ever since. Instead of unfolding the great principles of
commerce, the Government had been engaged in coining dolts
for the use of the people—(Laughter)—and considering the
chandler-shop, huckstering, miserable measures of the present
Government, he doubted not but that it would be known in
history as the Half-farthing Administration.—(Loud cheers and
laughter.) They were told all this frightful distress
was to be relieved by charity. Charity began at
home, and there were thousands to whom the begging-box
had been held out who stood as much in need of charity as those
did fur whom the subwription was solicited. He had been ap•
plied to by the Churchwardens of his parish in the country;
he took them into the room, shut the door, and then, instead of
a subscription, he had given them—for he had not sent thesis
empty away--a lecture on the Curti-laws.—(Cheers and
laughter.) Ile (Mr. Coates) had opposed this begging-letter,
because he would not lend himself to delusion. He considered
that it. was a degradation to the clergy to be asked to read that
letter in their churches, but he supposed as it was their
duty, they must submit to it. If Fe were a
clergyman who was desired to read the letter, he would call
on them to curse those who withheld corn from them. With
respect to the Tower Hamlets—the district with which he was
connected—he was not furnished with any minute details, but
he was aware that in almost every department of trade, the
coalition of the people was gradually deteriorating. Cer-
tagly, in one part of the district, which bordered upon
the water, the shipping trade was in rather a brisk state,
I;et the principal activity was in those dockyards
in Which the Government vessels were fitted up.
There was one large class of persons in the Tower Hamlets
district, the publicans and innkeepers, who he could attest were
suffering very severe distress.' It' that proceeded from the pre,.
valence of temperance he would be the first to rejoice at it,
:cut when he knew that the labourer was able to drink nothing
but water while the Duke of Buckingham drank champagne.
he was shocked at slut inequality that existed in the
iannlition of different members of the community. He had said
that they could not look to the House of Commons
fin- relief, further titan they could work on the fears of that
assembly. They would get nothing from their sense of justice,
and that system would go on increasing as long as the people
• were patient, and submitted to it. With respect to Sir R.
Peel and the Conservative party, he never expected anything
from therm, but he was hound to say that the Liberal Members
of the House of Commons had disappointed him. And if
men of rank and editeation would not perform the duties
which devolved upon them, as representative• of the people in
the Legislature, they must address men who, like the operatives
who had addressed thew: that day, would bring honest and firm
purpose to the dis•charge of their duties.
'l'be Cita t s3IA N sant that it had been agreed upon to adjourn
eaeli day's proeeedinee at three o'clock. It now only wanted
half an hour of that. time, and be thought it bet ter that the meet-
ing should stand adjourned till to-morrow at eleven o'clock.
Mr. J. Scoutx said, that he should not have ventured to
obtrude himself at the present early period of the meet-
iis of the delegates, but for some observations that had
fallen from the last speaker. That gentleman had rightly in-
culcated the necessity of union and honesty of purpose among
those who had that great object in view that brought the pre-
sent meeting together. He generally concurred in that gen-
tleman's observations with reference to the House of
Commons and Ministers. But he (Mr. Scoble) wished
to impress upon their minds, that they had enemies
both within and without the camp, who advocated
the most liberal opinions in public life, and shrunk from those
®pinions in private, when in the society of Members of Par-
liament—men who pretended to be friends of the Anti-Corn-
law League. but who did nut boldly dare to support it in
private. When he considered the immense wealth, intelli-
gence, and public spirit represented at an early part of the
present year, by the Assembly which had then met in London to
promote the cause now under consideration—when he looked at
the vast efforts madeby the influential members of the Assembly,
and the little impression which those efforts made upon the
• public mind, and upon both Houses of Parliament, he attributed
the failure altogether to the practice of certain parties mtlintafri-
ing in public principles and opinions from which they shrunk
when in the company of Members of Parliament. He
caution:Ai the meeting against those individuals, and he called
upon such individuals, whose conscience upbraided them with
their conduct, either to abandon the Anti-Corn-law League
altogether, or to do their duty as members of it manfully and
sonestly, in order to the accomplishment of the great object

la view.
Mr. BeeKiianr would not have troubled the meeting
but for the observations of the Delegate from the Tower
Hamlets, relative vs the prosperity of the shipping interest.
That gentleman had derived his information most probably
from persons in connection with the London and St. Kathe-
rine's Dock, and from merchants, but he (Mr. Burkhart)
had an intimate knowledge of the East and West India
Docks, and he had received communications from
the shipwrights and operatives connected with the
shipping interest, who stated that nothing could be
farther from prosperty than their calling. Never was there
greater distress among those operatives than at the present
time. He knew of himself 500 shipwrights to be out of em-
pioyment, and except those employed in fitting out ships of war,
the vast majority of the workmen were out of employment.
A GENTLEMAN whose name we did not learn, lint who
stated that he was a Delegate from Rotherhithe, confirmed the
statement of Mr. Buckhart.
Mr. Cosi' es explained— He said it would be in the recollec-
tion of the meeting that his statement as to the prosperity of
the shipwrights, applied only to those employed in fitting out
vessel,: of war and for foreign service, and therefore his obser-
vations corresponded with those of the last two gentlemen.
Mr. GEORGE Tiro sIeSON said he deemed it of importance to
remark that it. was the opinion of many concerned in the duty of
calling together the present Meeting of Delegates, that the De-
putation should be continued in town until the last hour of the
present session of Parliament.—(Cheers.) It was the feeling of
sonic, at lkst, when the Delegates were last. in town, that had
they delayed their departure they would have produced a much
greater.; effect,—( Hear.) Gentlemen, therefore, would du
well to get their commissions prolonged, or at all events, to get
substitutes from the districts they represented.—(Cheers.)
Mr. A'slinoirs then proceeded. to address the meeting. He
should not have trespassed on their attention at that late mo-
ment., were it not that he found he should be unable to attend
to-morrow. He had heard it suggested that they should con-
tinue to sit until the adjournment of Parliament ; but he would
ask how was it to be expected that a vast number of
Delegates, who were engaged in the same hard warfare
with circumstances to which the gentlemen who bad preceded
him had alluded, would leave their pursuits and business in
order to attend, day after day, in order to hear statements of
distress which were known to every one. He had at-
tended the Conference at the Crown 'and Anchor four
months ago. A vast number of Delegates were present on
that occasion; but he would ask what they had done?
They had, as the eloquent Mr. Thompson observed,
separated without earning to any resolution. Were they to de
so again ?—( Cries of " No.") The manufacturers in England
who had suffered from the existing state of our Legistature, had
('assembled together ; and he would ask them whetter they were
prepared to suffer any longer? He told the manufacturers of
England that it was for them to put an end to the great
evils under which the country laboured. The shopkeepers
of this metropolis were not suffering so deeply as the inhabitants
of the manufacturing districts ; a large portion of the wealth of
the landowners was spent among them, and against the class on
which they so much depended they could never be brought to
combine, unless some practical object was held out for
their attainment..—( Hear, hear.) He wished further
to tell that meeting that without the aid of the
inhabitants of the metropolis they never could effect their pur-
pose. Now he had a plan to propose for the adoption of the
manufacturers of England. It was stated that manufacturers
had been of late selling at an actual loss. Why then did they not
close up their mills altogether? They could not suffer much
by taking such a course ; and when Sir R. Peel saw the whole
suppo:t of the people thrown upon the Government, lie would
be compelled to make terms with the manufacturers. If the
manufacturers did not support the people, the land should sup-
port them, and a burden would thus be thrown upon the landed
interest, which they would feel it their interest not long to submit
to. Let the manufacturers put a stop to their works
and such a course would speedily be attended with effects which
they cooll never hope to tollow from resolutions agreed to day
after day "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." The
classes who suffered from the injustice of our legislation, by
adopting the plan he had proposed, would manifest their own
•strength, and would make it felt by the class from whom they
suffered. A definite object would thus be placed in view ; and
that justice which had been denied as a right would be spee-
dily yielded by the fears of those who abused power for their
own seltiis.h purposes.—(Cheers.)
A Mx: BER of the COMMITTEE here proposed to Mr. Ash-
down that he should attend the Executive Committee that
evening, when his suggestion would be taken into consideration.
The meeting then adjourned until to-day at 11 o'clock, at
the Crown and Anchor Tavern. •

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ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE.
• On Monday a new piece was brought out at this theatre,
Written by Mr. Raymond, and we are happy—very happy—to
say that it met with and deserved complete success, and we
cannot retrain from expressing a hope that the performances at •
this English house will receive the patronage of a British
public. The play to which we have alluded is called The Lone
Mt, and its story is soon told. A peasant named Jerome (F.
Matthews), has a daughter, Lisette (Miss Crisp), who is loved
by Antoine, a peasant in the neighbourhood. She, however,
has formed an attachment for Lindorf (Diddear), who is sup-
posed to. he a person of high birth and great wealth, anti this
attachment is apparently returned. The time of the nuptials is
fixed, and there are to be gay doings in the s illage ;
but in the meantime Hortense (Mist Faucit), a niece
of Jerome's has met Lindorf, whom she had known
under another name, and also knew that he had murdered a
relation. She declares to him that if he will not give up Li-
sette she will denounce him, but upon his promising to do so
she swears she will not divulge the secret. On the return of
Hortense to her uncle's, he charges Fier with base ingratitude
in having been guilty of inducing Lindorf not to marry his
daughter. She will not tell.-hini the reason, and he drives her
from his house. Lindorf hears of this, and under pretence of
protecting her, he hires a man to conduct her to the moun-
tains, having for a bribe promised Brent (A. Wigan) to let
him have his " lone hut" for one night. He then employs an
Hungarian (0. Smith) to be at the but that night, and to
murder Hortense. here is a very fine and effective scene be-
tween Miss Faucit and 0. Smith, and drew down loud plau-
dits. Hortense is to be dispatched immediately the cluck
strikes twelve, but just before that time Antoine and Brent
arrive, rescue her, and kill the Hungarian. Lindorf believing
Her ense to have beenkilled, returns and claims Lisette, and thee
are about to be united when Hortense again appears, denounces
him, and he is shut in an attempt to make his escape through
a mountain pass. There are two lively parts, which are played
by Harley and Miss Murray, who excited great laughter. The
acting throughout was exceedingly good, and what is not often
I the case upon a first representation, the performers were appa-
-1 rendy perfect in their parts. There was a very pretty ballet in-
troduced, which met with' an unanimous encore. Some of the
)scenery was extremely beautiful. The curtain fell amidst the
most enthusiastic cheering, and the piece was given out for re-
petition this evening; and we have no doubt it will be highly
ssful.

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By a vessel, which atarrived itay; on the 26th
instant, accounts have been received from Guadaloupe,
eleven days later in date than by the preceeding arrival.
The merchants of that colony had, in consequence or the
embarrassment created by the postponement of the Sugar
Bill, applied to the Governor for pecuniary aid, and de.
mandAl that their bills• might be discounted with the
colonial Funds. The Governor refused.
Sovereigns are•not required to turn the scale; they,
are weight if they are an exact balance with it, and cannot be
legally refused at their-full value of 20s.