The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-25 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

FALMOUTH, OCT. 24.--By the. Liverpool steamer,
arrived last night with the Peninsular mails, the ac-
companying dispatches were received. Her dates of
leaving are, from Gibraltar the 13th, Cadiz the 14th,
Lisbon the 17th, and from Oporto and Vigo the
18th instant.

LISBON, OCT. 17.—Up to the present moment
there has not been any announcement either of the
settlement, or even of the progress made, on the ar-
rangement of the new tariff. This important subject,
so highly interesting to every one, is the topic of
general conversation ; for while the suspense occa-
sioned by the protracted delay of this negotiation con-
tinues, no speculations of any kind will be entered
into, and commerce will consequently remain at a
stand still.

The Government has issued orders "to make prepa-
rations for the electioneering in those parishes of the
provinces where vacancies have occurred, or where the
former elections have been annulled, or where the de-
cease of the electors have been the cause of the inter-
ruption. The day fixed upon for the purpose is the
6th of November next, and the 20th of the same month
for that of the twenty Deputies, who are still wanting
to complete the number which constitutes the Parlia-
ment. Economy being now the order of the day
(and, perhaps, better late than never), the police force
of Vienna and Braga have been dissolved, the cavalry
and infantry of these extinct corps having been incor-
porated into other- reigiments ; similar dispositions
will be adopted in other parts of the country. A list
of all the employes in the several custom-houses of
the kingdom has been published, and a new organiza-
tion entered into of the same. A Committee has also
been formed to take into consideration salutary mea-
sures for the better administration of justice, and an-
other for the formation of a;p_tospectus of a permanent
law for the levying and receiving of the decima and
other taxes.

In Oporto several persons have been arrested on
suspicion of being implicated in the coining of false
money and manufacture of paper, with the forged
Government stamp, which was discovered through
secret information given to the police, in a small house,
fitted up with all necessary machinery and utensils
for the purpose. A large quantity of amalgamated
raw metal was found, together with a good deal of
base coin, ready for circulation. The authorities are,
of course, on the alert, and the trial of the parties is
to take place in a few days; in this country the pun-
ishment for this offence is death. On the 6th inst., in
the same city, the first stone was laid, with the usual
formalities, for the erection of the new Commercial
Exchange, the funds for the purpose having been
raised by voluntary contributions of the wealthy mer-
chants there.

Preparations are making, in the Royal Palace, for
the reception of his Royal Highness Prince Joinville,
who is expected here on his way to Rio Janeiro.
The Royal Family all enjoy perfect health. Every-
thing is tranquil, the late revolutionary movements up
the country having been completely quelled.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

FRONI THE MORNING PAPERS Of THIS DAY.

CITY, MONDAY EVENING.
TIMES.—As the subject of "repudiation " begins
to be discussed with fresh earnestness among the
creditors of America, as well as among the citizens
of that country, a letter from General Hamilton to
Mr. Calhoun, which has been published in the Ame-
rican papers, may possess some interest. As there is
much in this letter of which we entirely disapprove,
referring to the "United States' Bank, we confine
ourselves to a brief notice of General Hamilton's re-
marks on " repudiation." The present degraded situa-
tion of his country he seems to feel acutely, and while
he observes that with all the abundance of money in
London, the Commissioners of the United States
could not get money at 10 per cent. in this country,
he is perfectly aware that the distrust is not in the
resources of the United States, but in the principles
of
hasl been able no negotiate a loan at 3i
per rcent.,
he comparatively insignificant town
while the vast country of the United States
of tilie a p
oebmupi
would not be able to effect one at treble the interest.
Denmark, Belgium, Holland, without a prospect of
being able to pay off the' principal of her debt, could
all come into the markei as borrowers, and yet that
market is completely turned against United States'
securities. It is in vain, he says, for America to pro-
fess that she does not want European capital, when an
agent has been sent out for her " daily bread." The
object of the letter is to exhort Mr. Calhoun to do
something towards restoring the credit of his country
by introducing a uniform currency. This part of it
we decline noticing in detail, our only object being to
show the feeling against " repudiation" which is
springing up among the honest men both of the in-
debted and the crediting country.
POST.—The destruction of the caisson lately
formed on the Goodwin Sands by Mr. W. Bush, and
the loss of life which attended the event, are a subject
of much regret to the commercial body. Great be-
nefit to the public, especially the shipping and trading
interest, had been anticipated from Mr. Bush's inge-
nious contrivance ; and the circumstance that it should
have been run foul of and annihilated by that for the
protection of which it was invented, namely, a ship in
distress,. is rather an aggravation of the disappoint-
thent felt at the unfortunate issue of Mr. Bush's ac-

enatlof efficiency. The merits
instance of what may be tive and persevering exertions in bringing his under-
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embryo "Light of All Nations." The caisson has, it
seems, totally disappeared.
It is stated on good commercial authority that the
Marquis de Lavalette, the nobleman who recently
married Madame Welles, the widow of the opulent
American banker, and merchant at Paris, is coming
to England partly on an excursion of pleasure, but
more particularly on a mission a some kind from M.
negotiation on the
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Exchequer may find himself in a situation to carry
out a conversion of the Reduced Three-and-a-llalf
per Cent. Annuities and of the New Three-and-a-
Half per Cent. Annuities. amounting together
to 212,503,002/. The special ground on which
we expressed that sentiment Was the abundance
of money, worth only two per cent. en commercial
paper, and the Absence of demand for commercial
in-
vestment. This dulness of trade forces money into
the public funds, and the lowness of individual credit
creates a forced and fictitious enhancement of public
credit. IVe must remind the monied interests, and
particularly the Stock Exchange, that Sir Robert
Peel alluded, in the course of last session, to the pos.
sibility of being able-to effect a financial operation of
great importance, whereby a considerable reduction
would be effected in the annual charge of the public
debt. He made that statement in allusion to the
price of Consols at that period, (April, 1842), as an
evidence of the confidence reposed in his Govern-
ment. ' When the chiefs of the Administration
pointed with triumph to the prices of the funds as an
index to the confidence reposed in the present Go-
vernment, Commis were at 91. They are now 935
to more than 2.4 per cent. higher than in April
last; but that forms no sure test of public feeling in

favour of or against the present Cabinet. It is, in fact, a
proof of the prevalence and inveterate permanency of
that national distress which Sirß. Peel first denied alto-
gether, and, when driven to admit, he only retreated
from his first denial to fall back upon the allegation
that it was partial and evanescent, and would speedily
disappear. That distress, however, continues, and
has been permanent, instead of yielding to his mea-
sures. There is no revival of trade, and money re-
mains a drug in too few hands, who cannot find eli-
gible investment for it. There is no demand for it to
embark in commercial or manufacturing enterprise,
and thus the absence of activity in trade necessarily
creates a demand for stock, and Consols form the only
safe means by which reasonable interest can be ob-
tained by capitalists. The immediate aspect of things
gives no reason to suppose that any general revival
can be looked for before 1843. The late failures in
the corn trade still hang heavy on the market, and a
dead weight from that source creates a distrust in
Lombard-street which it will take a long time to
overcome.

Letters received from Paris this morning mention
the suspension of payment of three houses at Mar-
seilles connected with the corn trade, namely, Messrs.
Archias and Co., Messrs. A. Guizot and Co., and
Messrs. Rey Brothers. Nor are these all. We fear
that the roll of misfortune originating from that
source is not yet complete. A loss of 1,200,0001.,
which fell upon the Corn market here znd abroad by
the recent speculations in Mark-lane, cannot be wound
up in a hurry ; and some time yet must elapse before
all the ramifications and extent of the mischief can
be ascertained.

SUN.—The English Stock Market continued up to
the close to be rather in favour of the buyer, the differ-
ence however, as compared with Saturday being
barely 3 per cent. since, for to-morrow the transfers
were at 93a to 93i, and for time at 93 buyers.
After so material an advance in prices recently it
could not but be expected that some party should
come forward, being tempted to sell. Exchequer
Bills at 21' were 58 premium; Now Three-and•a-
Half per Cents, ranged from 1014 to 1013 ; and the
Three per Cent. Annuities brought 92a to 93.
In the Foreign Market there was more activity to
day, and prices were subject to greater fluctuation
than on ony single day for some time past. Portu-
guese Stock declined, the New Five per Cents. to
381, and the Converted to 321, the Three per Cents.
however, not being lower than 231. The speculation
so far has for the present received a check, and
whether it will be continued for the rise or the fall
remains to be seen. The Spanish Five per Cents.,
owing to the accounts from "Madrid being considered
more favourable, improved to 163 and the Three per
Cents. to Colombian was quiet at 203, and
Mexican at 32+. French Three per Cents. brought
80 25, and the Dutch Two-and-a-llalf per Cents.
improved to 52;1 and 523. At Amsterdam on Friday
the market was brisk, and prices were buoyant.
The Railway Shares appeared to be more saleable,
and the principal lines were taken at about 13 dis.
for Brighton, at 18 premium for Great Western, and
at 163 premium for South 'Western.

FESTIVAL TO MR. T. 'S. DUN-
COMBE, M.P.

Last night a festival was given at the Hall of the
National Association, in Holborn, to Mr. Duncombe,
M.P. for the borough of Finsbury, the object being
to testify to that Honourable Gentleman the esteem
felt for him by his constituents, and their appreciation
of his exertions in the House of Commons on behalf
of the labouring classes. The hall was well filled by
an extremely respectable company of ladies and gen-
tlemen, and tea having been served, the business of
the evening was commenced.
Colonel Thompson took the Chair, and was sup-
ported by a large body of gentlemen. We noticed
on the platform Mr. T. S. Duncombe, Mr. P. T.
Thompson (the son of the Chairman), Dr. Epps, Dr.
Black, Mr. Hodgkin, Mr. Lormon, Mr. Parry, Mr.
Thomas, Mr. Hetherington, &c. _

The CHAIRMAN opened the business of the evening.
He said that the meeting had assembled at no ordi-
nary time, nor on any ordinary occasion. Many were
looking to the proceedings of that evening with in-
terest, and he trusted that their assemblage would
tend to promote the great object of political reform
which they had in view ; that they' should go on,
fearing nothing ;—intending no ill to any, but deter-
mined not to give up one atom of that which they
eonsidered to be their rights, and which it was their
duty to endeavour to obtain.—(Hear.) There might
be those who had conducted themselves illegally—he
was not there to apologise for them, but he maintained
that it was not because some went beyond the true
limits to which their exertions in the cause of freedom
should be confined, that all should be persecuted.—
(Hear, hear.) The Gallant Colonel concluded by
proposing " The people—may they speedily possess
their political rigl►ts, in order to remedy their social
wrongs."—The sentiment was received with loud
cheers.

Dr. Errs came forward to propose the second re-
solution or toast. It was as follows :—" May the
Queen remove from her councils and offices or state
all those who restrict and misapply our country's re-
sources, and call to her aid those only who will ex-
tend to the people the full measure of their rights."
having borne testimony to the unceasing exertions of
Mr. Duncombe, the guest of the evening, in the cause
of the people, he proceeded to say that the resolution
which he had to propose recommended itself strongly
to the attention of the meeting. He believed that the
present Government bad been placed in its present
disgraceful position by the still more disgraceful con-
sequences of the proceedings of the late Ministry— 1
(Cheers, and cries of " No")—for he believed that the
Administration of Lord Melbourne had done all in
their power to prevent the people from obtaining
their rights.—(Renewed cries of " No," and cheers.)
lie believed that Sir Robert Peel's Government
had done more for the people than that which
preceded it, and however unwilling they might
be to give it support, they must pause before they
utterly condemned it.—(Cheers.) They were not
the men, it was true, to whom they could give un-
bounded confidence, and they must look to the result
of their exertions to secure Ministers more in accord-
ance with their views.—(Hear, hear.) The honoured
guest of the evening (Mr. Duncombe) was, he
thought, a great thorn in the side of the Government.
—(Cheers.) He might be a polished thorn, but the
wounds which he inflicted were, therefore, the sharper.
—(Hear, hear.) If they wished to realise the results
which the resolution proposed they should gain, it
was such representatives as Mr. Duncombe whom
they should return to serve in Parliament; and if all
boroughs would adopt the course which they had
taken, he was convinced that through the exertions
of such men they would not be long before they ob-
tained the rights which they now upheld.—(Cheers.)
They had amongst them one who was in every way
deserving a seat in the Commons House of Parlia-
ment, and, should they have the opportunity, he had
no doubt that they would return their worthy Chair-
man, the author of the Corn-law Catechism.

Mr. HoDwus spoke in support of the resolution.
He said that it embodied a sentiment to which it re-
quired little from him to fix their attention ; and he
was only afraid that, in endeavouring to carry it out,
they should have to look very far before they could
find statesmen who should be able and willing to
carry the wish which was expressed into effect.—
(Hear. hear.) So far as his own observation taught
him, all those who had been entrusted with political
power were men more interested in securing, their
own aggrandisement and that of their friends,
and in promoting their own views, than in
contributing to the promotion of the public pros-
perity—(Hear, hear)—and before they could hope
to have better statesmen, he believed that they must
improve the educational system of the community at
large.—(Hear.) Before they :could hope to secure
their rights they must learn to know what they were.
It was, therefore, with much pleasure that he saw in-
stitutions such as those which were rising throughout
the country, the great object of which was the pro.
motion of political knowledge amongst the people.
When the people knew what their rights were, they
would not be long before they attained them.—
(Hear, hear.) The resolution was received with loud
applause.
The CHAIRMAN said that he had now come to the
most grateful part of the evening's celebration, which
was to speak on the immediate cause of their assem-
blage.—(Cheers.) They had met together to do
honour to a man who had represented the community
to which they belonged in Parliament with integrity,
with courage, and with energy.—(Loud cheers.)
Other constituencies might meet together, and might
have a lively consciousness of future favours, or a
recollection of past gifts—of feasts, or more solid re-
muneration for support, but in this case there was
nothing of the kind. In this instance they had met
to do honour to a man, merely because he had served
them faithfully and honestly.—(Cheers.) There was
no scene of fashion or of greatness to which his honour-
able friend might not aspire; but he had taken a more
liberal course—he had faithfully served his country-
men in their battles for freedom.—(Cheers.) It would
would be going over that which they all knew,
unnecessarily, if he attempted to give them
a history of all the occasions on which
their respected representative had served them
in Parliament.—(Loud cheers.) When, he would
ask, was the popular cause unserved when
he was present ?—(Hear, hear.) When was it that
a man who suffered oppression did not receive his
support when he possessed the power to exert himself
on his behalf ?—(Hear, hear.) His Hon. Friend
was an aristocrat by birth—he looked like one—
(Hear, and a laugh)—but he had shown them that
that was no reason whf those of lowly birth should
not receive his cordialcomfort and support.—(Cheers.)
,He (Col. Thompson) would not rest longer, on his
good deeds, but he would bring forward Mr. Dun-
combe—an honest man and a brave; and he called
upon them all—men and women too—for Mr. Don 7
eombe was a gallant gentleman—(Loud cheers)-40

give him such a reception as in their hearts they
thought he deserved.—(Loud cheers.) The Chair-
man concluded by proposing the following resolution;
—" Our invited guest, T. S. Duncombe, Esq., a le-
gislator regardless of party or faction, who, having
espoused just principles, has honestly stood forward
in Parliament the advocate of his oppressed and suf-
fering countrymen. May he continue to pursue the
same manly, Just, and prudent course, till the rights
of the millions are won, and their wrongs redressed."
Mr. DUNCOMDE having presented himself at the
front of the platform, was received with loud and long-
continued cheering. He said—The high and distin-
guished compliment which you have this evening been
pleased to pay to the humble parliamentary services
of the individual who has now the honour of addressing
you, calls for the utterance of grateful sentiments
which I very much fear lam not able to express, at
all events in that style of language which your kind-
ness demands, and my own feelings lead me to em-
ploy.—(Cheers.) I have often heard it said that
popular favour and public esteem are, after all, but
transitory and capricious ; and that those whom it
pleaseth the people to honour to-day, they turn their
hacks on to-morrow ; but I believe such to be a libel
on the people.—(Hear, hear.) It will be invariably
found that, whenever the people have withdrawn their
confidence from a public man, such conduct has
been justified, and the desertion has been merited
by the man having, for his own private purposes,
and for personal objects, given up the cause of the
people.—(Cheers.) At all events, I can say, that
since I have had the honour of a seat in Parlia-
ment, public confidence and popular esteem have uni-
formly been my lot; and I believe that so long as I
persevere in that course which I marked out for my-
self on my first entrance into public life, that esteem
and that confidence will not be denied me.—(Hear,
hear.) I must confess that lam proud to stand here
beholden to no Minister for protection—indebted to
no Court for its favour—(Cheers)—conscious that
though I have not merited your kindness this even-
ing, I have never done anything to forfeit your con-
fidence and esteem.—(Cheers.) It is impossible for
any one to look at the present state of political feel-
ing in this country, and of political parties in this
country, without some feeling of shame and of regret:
I know that much of it is to he attributed to thedis-
appointment which has been occasioned to the people
by the inefficiency of the measure of Reform, carried
in 1832—an inefficiency which has been proved by
the facility with which the present Tory Government
has forced itself into a power, which they seem to
glory in exercising over the few remaining rights
and privileges of the people.—(llear, hear.) We
are now reaping the fruits of that change of
Government. Much blame is due, and justly due, to
the Whigs for their conduct. They were told, when
they were in the zenith of their power, that they were
not then snaking the best of their time—that the re-
form which had been effected was ,incomplete, and
that it was their duty to render it at once a complete
and useful measure. They heeded not the warning
which was given to them; but they talked of finality,
and hung on the skirts of the Court, instead of sup-
porting themselves on the strong arms of the people.
—(Hear, hear.) And what was the consequence?
Corruption and intimidation were brought to bear
against them, and at the eleventh hour they brought
forward measures which were good, perhaps, but
which came too late. They called on the people for
aid—upon the people whom they had neglected; but
amidst the universal corruption and intimidation used
at the last general election, their cries were unheeded
in the hour of need. They fell ; and I am sorry to
be almost compelled to say they deserved the fall—
(Cheers)—unpitied and despised by all.—(Cheers.)
Well, then, I say, we are now bitterly reaping
the fruits of their misconduct in the popular
cause.—(Cries of "Hear, hear.") I ask you to look
at the last session of Parliament—take it with re-
gard to any party. There never was a session so dis-
creditable to the Tories, so inglorious to the Whigs,
and I may say so unsatisfactory to the people. I was
looking this morning at the return of the number of
hours during- which Parliament sat in the course of
the last session, and I find that, from February to
August, they sat 1,008 hours, and 125 of those hours
were after midnight. Now, what did we do during
those hours ? They were passed in crimination and
recrimination, between this agriculturist and that
manufacturer—between High Church and Low Church,
between my Lord John This and Sir Robert That—
(Cheers)—my Lord John reproaching Sir Robert,
and saying, " You are not satisfied with turning us
out, but you take our measures."—(Cheers.) And
what are those measures, now they have taken them ?
—(Hear.) We have got a trumpery Corn Bill, a delu-
sive Tariff, and we have got an inquisitorial Income-tax.
—(Cheers.) These are the great measures which Sir
Robert Peel required five months to ponder upon,
before he proclaimed them to the world—(llear,
hear, hear.) But then, what was done with
regard to the people ? Did we not, night
after night, make representations to the Go-
vernment, and to the House which calls it-
self the representative of the people,. that
the people of this country were starving—were dying
by hundreds in the manufacturing districts, and that
it was necessary to afford them some relief, or at all
I events to institute some inquiry into their condition,
and the causes of that condition? Every inquiry was
resisted. We told them that if they persisted in this
course, they would drive the people to desperation—
that the working and industrious classes were not
prepared to starve and to die in ditches—that they
ought not and would not submit so to terminate
their existence. They heeded not this warning—they
prorogued Parliament, and the moment the Queen
had closed our doors, she was compelled to go home
and sign a proclamation calling on the Magistracy,,
and calling out the military, to put down the people,
because as Parliament would not help them, they
threatened to help themselves. Some of these people
said, "we had better die at the point of the bayonet
or on the scaffold, than be famished and die in
ditches."—(Hear, hear, hear.) Many thousands
were out of employment, and those who were em-
ployed worked from sunrise to sunset; they were
over worked, but they were under paid, and they
could not get that which the working classes were
quite right to demand—a fair day's wages for a fair
day's work.—(Cheers.) All the outbreak and insur-
rection which occurred has been attributed to various
causes. Every one tries to shift it from his own
shoulders. One day it is the result of Chartism ; an-
other it is produced by the Anti-Corn-law League.
I believe, however, that neither was to blame. Dis-
tress is not the offspring of Chartism or of the Anti-
Corn-law League • but Chartism is the offspring of
the oppression of the poor—the Anti-Corn-law sseague
is the offspring of a base and sordid monopoly ; but '
as Chartism is the offspring of the oppression of the
poor, the poor have a right to demand that they at
least should have that voice and that power in the-Le-
gislature that they may obtain some relief.—(Hear,
hear.) Well, then, what is the result ? What is the
conduct of Government with regard to this insurrec-
tion ? The police and the military are put in mo-
tion. The-Magistrates, whom Sir James Graham—.
the renegade Graham !—had been so active in ap-
pointing during the previous winter, were let loose
for the purpose of committing the unfortunate of-
fenders. Ido not mean to say that there were not many
of them guilty of criminal acts, but when you look
to their condition—their impoverished and starving
condition—l say that some allowance ought to have
been made for the misdeeds in which they were unfor-
tunately engaged.—(Hear, bear.) To he sure we
have hail a Judge sent down to try these men, stating
from the judgment-seat that the distresses of the
people were vastly exaggerated. —(" Shame.") I
want to know how they can possibly he exaggerated.
—(Cheers.) It showed either great ignorance or
great indifference on the part of the Judge to make
that assertion.—(Hear, hear.) How, I ask, could
their distresses be exaggerated, when we know that
hundreds of thousands of human beings inhabiting
the manufacturing districts, were glad to appropriate,
aye, even carrion, if they could find it !—that many
ofthem were glad to cull the nettles from the fields,
and to put them into hot water, to make something
like broth ! Their houses were without furniture—
their hearths without fuel—their bodies without rai-
ment—and vet these are the persons vs ith reference to
whom my Lord Abinger—(Cries of " Shame ")
—has thought proper to say from the judgment-seat
at Liverpool, that, so far as he was a judge—and a
pretty judge he is—their distresses were greatly ex-
aggerated.—(Hear, hear.) Men not mixing with
society, or with the people, might possibly make such
a blunder ; but Lord Abinger appeared not only as a
judge, but he assumed the characters.
of a
politician and a legislator, and as such it is im-
possible that he could be ignorant of the
sad and lamentable distresses of the poor -in the
ot satisfied
i
manufacturing districts.—(Cheers.) N
with this, however, he makes a mostindecent and
unconstitutional charge to the Grand Jury. He de-
scribes those of whom he speaks as "a kind of men
called Chartists"—(Cheers, hisses, and cries of " lle
was a Jacobin")—and he says that this kind of men
classes,pose of voting possess no pro-
, at the elec-
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should the h savlovr k ge
for Members of Parliament, and, in point of fact,
that they should have a voice :0:1k:1:sal:tie
ifioarve sthoseseen
who have property.—(Hear, hear.)
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classes really imagine.—(Dear, hear.) Ibe
the opinion in favour of the document called the
Charter is
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—(Cheers.) Every party
s(me particular branch of the laalvl. and as each finds
tbe impracticability of carrying out' its views,they
l ecome convinced of the necessity of a change,
by the
( ffect of which the House of Commons shall be en-
tirely remodelled.—
though he (Cheer,) Lord Abinger, how-
ever,may not have possessed the same
personal acquaintance with the extent of the powers

of the Chartists which I possess, .must have recollected
the petitions which have been presented to Parliament
in the course of last year, and the present year.. He
must have recollected the petition of last year, signed
by 1,300,000 persons ; and .that of the present year
bearing the signatures ofthree millions and a-half; and
yet he has the assurance and impudence, I must. say,
to say that there are "a kindof inen called Chartists,"
who wish to subvert the aristocracy, to divide pro-
perty, and to overthrow the .nionarchy.—(Cheers.) I
have looked at the Charter again and again ; but I
can find nothing in it which would sanction an inter-
ference with the rights of the aristocracy—(Cheers)—
nor could I find a line which indicates a desire to
overthrow the monarchy.—(Cheers.) What the
people ask is, not that they should have the exclusive
right of legislating, but an equal share in the legisla-
tion of the country—that their liberties should be
equally protected with those of .my Lord Abinger
(Cheers)—and that the Government of the country
should be placed upon a broad, _popular, and secure
basis.—(llear, hear.) Well, indeed, may my Lord
Abinger wish that the people .should have no greater
power in the House of Commons than they now
possess, for if recently they had possessed that power
which they claim, the House as,, it would have been
constituted would not have sanctioned that which is
now called the " Scarlett • job," and the House of
Commons thus con:tituted would have no hesitation
in addressing the Crown for the removal from the
judgment seat of any Judge who had sodisgraced that
high position as Lord Abinger has done in this in-
stance.—(Loud cheers.) I hare no - doubt thatthe
charge delivered by him is well received, that it is
greatly admired and highly approved of by his
brother renegade, Sir James Graham—(Cheers)—but
when Parliament does meet it is impossible that
this charge, if made—and I am, of course, pre-
suming that the charge is correctly reported in
the public newspapers, and I have not heard the nc-
curacy of the report doubted--.-but I say that it is
impossible that this charge,- whether in the words' or
in the spirit in which it is reported, can pasS unno-
ticed in the House of CoMmons. It is impossible
that Parliament can permit a
.charge, dangerous to•
the liberties of the people, to pass uncensured and
nnnoticed—(Cheers)—and I can only say, that if no
other inilividual calls the attention of the House to
the subject on its meeting, I. feel: that I should basely •
betray the trust reposed in me, • hot only by my Own
constituency, but by the working classes, if I did not
call the attention of the House to it.—(Loud cheers.)
Such at all events is the lamentable position in which
public affairs now stand—in ‘Vhich that -question,
which is the question of questions, I mean the fran-
chise, stands before the public. It stands before tha.
public thus—that if a man call himself a Chartist
he is to he condemned from-the judgment seat :
hbut it rests with the people how long this state vf
things shall continue.—(Hear,
.hear.) ]lush ,
depend on the energy, prudence, forbearance,
but, above all, the cordial union of all classes.
Let us have no more quarrelling, and quibbling about
names.—(Hear, hear.) Let us meet the 'foe openly.
I say that the question of the.day.is the franchise, and
until that is settled it is in vain, constituted as the
House of Commons is, to look for any other reforms.
--(Cheers.) I know the woikihg classes have much
to hear—they have much to-exasperate them,but still,
with union and energy, they must not despair. lam
well aware that it is possible fOrihe Government,• be-
hind the back of Parliament,:tO strain the law—to
confer upon their police new powers—to appoint hosts
of Magistrates to commit-40. hire traitors. to betray,
and spies to deceive the unwary.' They may also find
.pliant Juries to convict, and they may retain corrupt
political partisans as Judges to condeme ; but if the
people are true to themselves—if they will but stand
within the four corners of the law—Sir James Graham
and the whole of his renegade,. crew may yet find
united people who are too strong for them.—(Cheers.)
It is said that the " darkest houris nearest the dawn."
And, so it is ; there is that elasticity about British
freedom that on all past occasions, when darkpesi
has most prevailed, it has always emerged from
it with increased splendour and renown.—(Great
cheering.) I know that you Will not surrender
any portion of those privileges which belong_ to you,
and which the Government seek to take away., If
there is anything to which, above all other things,
you are entitled, it is the right' to hold public meet-
ings; when that is taken away, be sure despotisM is
in the ascendant. But I know the million would be
prepared, in the words addressed to Sir R. Walpole,
" to die the last of British freemen, rather than live
the first of British slaves."—(Cheers.) I fear that,
amidst the wrongs under which this country is suffer-
ing, I have wandered too far from the compliment
which you have honoured me by paying me.—
(Cheers.) Believe me that your kindness this evening
will be remembered to the last botir of my existence ;
and if any reliance can be placed on the word of man,
as you have .been pleased to approve of the course
which I have taken, and as by continuing in , that
course I shall continue to merit your approbation, -I-
beg to assure you, that so long as it shall please God
to give me health and strength, - I will never swerve
from that course.—(Cheering.) llonoured with your
approbation, encouraged by your honest and disinte-
rested cheers, no exertion shall be spared on my part
until, in the words of the first: resolution, the just
rights of the million are \Van- and their manifold
wrongs redressed.—(lmmense cheering.)
following resolutions were- proposed and • se-
conded respectively by Mr. -Hetherington, Mr.
Thompson, and Mr. Cleave ; ap!-1 by Mr. Parry and
Mr. Thomas :
"May Reformers of all shades .of opinion speedily
perceive the necessity for cordiality and union in fa-
your of the People's Charter—a measure framed to con-
fer equal political rights, with Out which there are no
hopes of ever obtaining equal political justice."
" May inquiry in pursuit of -:truth be freed from
all legal trammels ; may the Press be unshackled from
its restrictions; may despotic judges he deposed, and
unjust Magistrates be depriced of their arbitrary
power; and may every obstacle to the purifying in-
fluences of knowledge be speedily removed."
The meeting then broke up at a late- hour.

Earl Spencer and the Hon. -Captain and )Irs. Fre-
derick Spencer and family, are passing the autumn at,
Althorp-park, where a select family circle will shortly
assemble.

ACCIDENT ON THE BIRMINGHAM BAlLWAT.—Yes-
terday morning the down-traill, which leaves Lon-
don for Birmingham at six o'clock, met with
an accident within a short distance of the Leigh-
ton station, in consequence of its coming in con-
tact with a bull that had jumped over the hedge,
and was crossing the line. 'Three ,carriages were
thrown off the rails by the concussion, but fortunately
the passengers escaped without the slightest injury.
The legs of the poor beast were cut completely off,
and the animal was otherwise' so-severely injured that
he died almost instantaneously. In consequence of
the occurrence the up-train wai delayed for more
than an hour and a quarter, as well as the trains which
left London.

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WOesntmSiantsuterdr,aytiNavav si
dburie William
.i i-i S.L.
rAelgaorng.ae,retE'ssq., Church,
late
Police Magistrate of Queen-sqore-office, to which
he was appointed from the Western Circuit, coming
from Christchurch, Oxford. - WS loss will be deepi y
felt by the objects of miserriwho crowd the po-
lice-offices of this city;_ whilSt he judged in public,
he gave in private. The prior In his own neigh-
bourhood will long remember bim as the fearless
visitor of the sick, tbr, whilst others fled in the fearful
season of the cholera. thii excellent man was seen at
the bedside of the dying, cheering them, relieving
them, and praying with them. Mr. Gregoric has left
a widow and four- young children ; to her in affliction
may be some consolation the,universal and deep re-
gretar
yhigh-minded, and gentle-
.
Baronet, whose death was announced in our obituary
Tiitteill'ilt:Aax'f'tir Stlin'is .1: COWAN, BART.—The late
Perth, by Mary
yesterday, was born Mardi 18, .1774, and lolna.soen.,
quently in his GBth year. Ile married, Aug.l2:F2l,.lBslOir,
a descendant Of
.1;SJI%'.'(11):111:"),Intl'sic):11,;vo'thIO' ‘ll:.f"aii third
r‘los.a.iffug'll:S:h:lt.tin:riirlittienC'Ctgfirlo,7('a:ll-I,:ai:ini(lisl:i'fOitnsn4lCttlf.Aolfliii:uth'
i,n,
ed ecdi,tya,balo. nut,
vit,la.ites
fisillerstpilltellic
air in 18%1.7-13- •ri
GOVernrim'ent are in treaty
et3ieilla;retrele:inG period2uannolb:doate. f:Coro:l°:itleate:r.nnta
understand
Ina
tjthehsaatty 'os c e
:1. s i 0
with the Earl of 1-laddington for .the surrender of his
which our readers are aware
`e
improvements
finished,on the
rights as keeper over the Ring's Park, Edinburgh,
alte-
rations, which NN'lten o 3
to the ancient'..,_Palace of
trolled power over this ggarr:
grounds,
di I:
aanlHldOosttbeurneo-
'nl demesne, eimsniem,r7aep:eriavtao-ectot
bable that her Holyrood, as it is not impro.
tant period, and the Palace will be in other respects
-Majesty may revisit Scotland at nadia-
made fit for h 6. Majesty's reception and residence.
THE LONG VAcAnos.—Yesterday the loch; va-
cation ceased. The offices of the several Courts re-
sumed business. Declarations are now filed and de-
livered, as well as rules given to plead. These matters
are the precursors to bringing men to the payment of
their debts, to failure, or a prison. There is a cessa-
tion in all pleadings from the 10th of August to the
24th of October, which is denominated in the profes-
sion the` "long vacation,". though term does not com-
mence until the 2d of November.
nu: NEW MAYOR OF MAICHESTER.-11 rumour
is correct. and no doubt it is, Alexander Kay and
James Kershaw, Esqrs., will be put in nomination
for the office of Mayor. for the. borough of Man-
cheater for the ensuing year. The probability is that
theilahtetev‘rgeorknitnlegmerasNsvei ei
sa are-B opt
purchasing
gr ei enPg rasnssd
slaughtering sheep for their own use, and thus eat
their mutton at a comparatively low priee.—Doneas-
ter Chronicle. . .

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