The Sun.
London, England, 1842-06-04 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen held a Court and Privy Council, at one o'clock, yea.
erday afternoon, at Buckingham Palace.

At the Court Baron de Moncorvo, the Portuguese Minister,
had an audience of her Majesty the Queen, To deliver letters from
their Majesties the Queen and the King of Portugal.
M. Fortique, the Venezuelan Minister, and le Commandeur
Marques Lisboa, the Brazilian Minister, had audiences of her
Majesty.
Monsieur Ellauri, Minister from the Oriental Republic of the
Uruguay, had his first audience of her Majesty.
Their Excellencies were respectively introduced by the Earl of
Aberdeen, K.T., her Majesty's principal Secretary of State for Fo-
reign Affairs, and conducted by Sir Robert Chester, Master of
the Ceremonies, and the Archbishop of Canterbury.
The Privy Council was attended by his Royal Highness Prince
Albert; Lord Wharncliffe,Lord President; the Duke of Buecleuch,
Lord Privy Seal; Sir Robert Peel, First Lord of the Treasury ;
the Duke of Wellington ; the Earl of Aberdeen, Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs; Sir James Graham, Secretory of State for the
Home Department ; Right Hon. H. Gculburn, Chancellor of the
Exchequer ; Earl of Haddington, First Lord of the •A•ttairatty
Earl of Ripon, President of the Board of Trade ; Lord Firnerald,
Protident of the Bard of Contrt.tr,'Earl of, Liverpool. Lord
Steward ; Earl Delawarr, Lord Chamberlain ; and the Earl of
Jersey. Master of the Horse.
At the Council the*Archbishop of Canterbury was ordered to
prepare a Form of Thanksgiving for her Majesty's providential
deliverance from a recent treasonable attempt.
A Proclamation was ordered to be issued for regulating the
weight of gold coin.
The Hon. William Bathurst was the Clerk of the Council in
Waiting.

Lord Stuart de Rothsay, her Majesty's Ambassador to the Em-
peror of ltus,ia, was presented to the Queen, at an audience, by the
Earl of Aberdeen, principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
The Queen gave audience to Lord Wharncliffe, Sir Robert Peel,
and Sir James Graham.

The Court was attended by Lord Hill, Gold Stick in Waiting,
the Treasurer of the Household, the Vice. Chamberlain, and the
Comptroller of the Household.
The Earl of Morton was the Lord in Waiting, and Captain
Meynell the Groom in Waiting. Major. General Sir Edward
Bowater was the Equerry in Waiting on Prince Albert
His Excellency General Count Mensdorf, and the Counts
Hugh, Alphonse, Alexander, and Arthur Mensdorf, attended by
Captain Francis Seymour (Scots Fusilier Guards), left town yester.
day mornining for Woolw ich
at half-past six o'clock. , and returned to Buckingham Palace

His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Sir Edward
Bowater, was r•resent at a meeting yesterday afternoon of the Coin.
mittee for Promoting the Fine Arts in the re.building of the Houses
of Parliament.

The l'rince of Wales and the Princess Royal were taken their
usual carriage drive yesterday, accompanied by the Dowager I.7dy
Lyttelton.

The Royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace last evening in.
eluded her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Anna Maria
Dawson, Lord George Lennox, and Captain Francis Seymour.
The following is the complete list of the Knights Grand Crosses
present at the ceremony of the Investiture of the Order of the
Bath, on Wednesday, viz.—His Royal Highness •the Duke of
Sussex, Acting Great Master; Field-Marshal his Royal High.
ness Prince Albert; Field-Marshal his Royal Highness the
Duke of Cambridge; Field. Marshal the I)uke of Wellington ;
Viscount Strangford ; General Lord Hill; General the Hon. Sir
Edward Paget; General the Hon. Sir Galbraith L. Cole;
General the Marquis of Londonderry ; General the Right Hon.
Sir George Murray; General the Marquis of Anglesey; General
Sir William Henry , Clinton ; General the Right Honourable
Sir James Kempt ; Admiral the Right Honourable Sir
George Cockburn, Lord Heytesbury, General the Earl of Effing
ham, Lieut.-General Lord Bloornlield, Admiral Sir Philip C. H.
Durham, General Lord Strafford, Admiral the Hon. Sir Robert
Stopford, the Right Hon. Sir Robert Adair, General the Hon. Sp'
William Lumley, General Sir James Willoughby Gordon, Bart.,
Viscount Palmerston, Viscount Canterbury, the Earl of Minto, the
Earl of Clarendon, and General Sir Thomas Bradford; with the fol.
lowing Officers of the Order, 'viz., Walter Aston Blount, Esq.,
(Chester Herald), Genealogist; Algernon Greville, Esq„ Bath
King of Arms; Captain Michael Seymour,' R.N., Registrar and
Secretary; and Albert William Woods, Esq., (Lancaster Herald),
Gentleman Usher of the Red hod.

The Knights Grand 'Crosses were called over by Bath King of
Arms, and, with the Officers of the Order, proceeded into the pre-
sence of the Sovereign, in the Throre Room.

By the Queen's commmand,,tis'Excellency Lieut-General Count.
Menstlorf was then introduced between the Earl of Clarendon
and General Sir Thomas Bradford, the two Junior Knights pre-
sent, and'conducted to her Majesty, preceded by Bath King of
Arms (carrying the Ensigns of the Order on a cushion), and
by the Gentleman Usher of the Order. The Count kneeling near
her Majesty, the Sovereign was pleased to invest his Excellency
with the Rihawd and Badge of an Honorary Knight
Grand Cross, and to deliver to him the star of the Order, after
which Count Mcnsdorf had the honour to kiss her Majesty's hand
and retired. The Knights Grand Crosses were then again called
over, and, with the Officeri of the Order, retired from the present c
of the Sovereign. •

The Princess Sophia Dlatilda arrived in town yesterday from I
Blackheath, and visited her Majeity the Queen Dowager
House ; and the
Duke and Duchess of Saxe Meiningen, at Marlborough
the Duchess of Gloucester at • Olikicester Haunt ; and the Duchess
f Cambridge, at Cambridge Honk.
The Duchess of Kent left town at half.past nine o'clock yesterday
morning for Froginare Lodge, where her Ro:•ai Highness was received
by Sir George Couper, Bart., the Comptroller of her Royal High.
ness's Household. The Royal Duchess returned to her residence,
Clarence House, in the evening.
The Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George, and the Princess
Augusta of Cambridge, attended by Lady Augusta Somerset and
Baron Knesebeck, honoured Mrs. Lawrence, at Ealing Park, with
their company, on Thursday morning. In the evening, the Doke
and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, honoured the Duchess of
Peaufort and the Countess of Kinnoul, with their company at their
respective residences.
.
The Duke and Duchess of Saxe Meiningen, and the Duchess
Ida, of Saxe Weimar, visited the Duke and Duchess of Cam.
bridge yesterday.
The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort gave a grand dinner last
evening, at their residence in Arlington-street, to their Royal
Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the Princess
Augusta of Cambridge, and a select party.
A deputation on the subject of plate glass, consisting of Messrs.
Cushbart, Cookson, Blandford, M'Rae, and Knox. accompanied
by Mr. Hodgson, M.P., anti Mr. Hodgson Hind°, m.r.,
had
an
Interview with the Earl of Ripon yesterday at the office of the
Board of Trade.
the Foreign-office.
The Attorney-General attended yesterday at
Mr. Wilson Patten, M.P.. and a deputation of the flax spin-
ners of Preston, had an interview with the Earl of Ripon at the
Board of Trade yesterday.
Despatches for the Governor of Canada were sent off yesterday
from the Colonial.office.

LADY BLESSINGTON'S NEw NOVEL.. -Lady Bles-
sington's popular pen has never been more happily employed
than in her new novel entitled "The Lottery of
It is
a lottery in which the tickets may soon be expected to be at a
premium, for they are " all prizes and no blanks." The cu.
merous characters which figure in this new work are so true to
nature that it will be difficult to persual'e the world they are not
drawn from actual life ; and the endless variety of theme, the
perpetual changes of scene, she movement in the events, the
dramatic character of the dialogues; and the animation and
spirit of the general style, mark out this production as destined
to rank among the most popular ones of the brilliant Countess's
fertile pen.
M. Pageot and his family arrived at Frankfort cn
the 17th inst. "-- •

HOME COLONIZATION.
TIIE DISTRESSES OF TIIE COUNTRY.

A public meeting was held on Wednesday evening a
the Crown and Anchor Tavern, convened by advertise
ment in the daily and weekly papers, for the purpose
considering the best means °ravening the total ruin whie.
appears to threaten the country from the rapid spread
distresS among the working classes, and embarrassment one
difficulty among the trading and commercial classes of th
community. It was also understood that the principle:
and results of the system of Home Colonization were t•
be developed as the only r; needy for the pressing evil
under which the country now labours. The large root)
of the tavern, which will contain ab,ot 2,000 persons
was crowded to excess, and no small inconvenience wa
felt from the heated state of the atmosphere of the apart
ment. Great numbers came and went, finding it impose
sib to obtain admission. On Mr. Robert Owen entering
the room, he was very warmly greeted by the immense
assembly. It having been duly moved and seconded,
Mr. lionEnT OWEN took the Chair, and immediately
opened the business of the evening by addressing the
meeting. He said—The object of this meeting is to consi-
der, first of all, the very deplorable and- wretched state
in which so large a portion of :our fellow-subjects are at
this time, not only among the working, but the middle
classes. This part of the sulect, 1 rite afraid, has been
so long, familiar to many of you, and it has been stated
so often from the highest authority in the most officia;
manner in which any subject could be placed before the
public, that I need not take up much of your. time in stat
trig the distress that now exhts among those classes ; thf
rapid and downward progress of that distress; and the cer
trinity that unless some decisive measures are speedily
taken, both the middle and working classes of this country
will be brought to the lowest state of ruin and misery.—
(Hear.) To me it has been a matter of considerable
surprise, that we could have gone on, day after day,
month after month, and year after year, falling from a
State of comparative high prosperity, till we are now
reduced to a worse condition than any other nation in
the civilized world, for there is no country in the world in
which there exists suffering to the extent of that now
endured by the working population of this country—
(Hear, hear)—and yet, my friends, in the midst of all
this suffering, while the people are actually dying in
hundreds, and, I fear I might say thousands, for the want
of the commonest necessaries of life, we are said, and
truly said, to be the most wealthy nation that has ever
yet existed. How is this ? How is it that, in a nation
possessing more wealth, and possessing the means
or increasing that wealth ten, nay, twenty fold,
yet, under these circumstances, if we pass through
the streets of this metropolis, we see more misery around us,
we find more miserable objects, than are to be found among
the same number in any country in the world? We have from
time to time heard great complaints from one party of the mis-
takes committed by the other. If we read the public papers
of the day, according as we take up this paper sr that, we
should suppose from the paper advocating a particular party
that that party is perfectly right, and that all others were per-
fectly wrong; that the cause of all these evils is the other party.
We may ring the changes, and go round from Tory to \Vhig,
Radical, and Chartist, through all the various divisions and
classes of society, and we shall find that they are all complain-
ing of each other. My friends, this is an error—an
error that ought now to be done away with.—
( Hear.) None of these parties is the cause ; it is your system
that is the cause ; and till men's minds can be elevated and
raised to examine that system in which we now live, to ascer-
tain what arc its principles, and what are the necessary con-
sequences of those principles, you will not know the reasons
why you are all suffering in the midst of great means to
produce abundance. I have, during the last thirty years,
explained on innumerable occasions the progress of events
as they were going forward. I stated in the year 1818—
not privately, but first of all to the Congress of Sovereigns
assembled in that year, at Aix-la-Chapelle; afterwards
to my countrymen in this city, and in the various
populous towns of the kingdom—that the progress of
Machinery, and the progress of knowledge, would produce
a state of society in which one of three timings must
inevitably occur :—Either machinery must be destroyed,
or the working classes must emigrate, or they must starve ;
unless there was a complete and entire change in the
system under which society was then governed. And I
have now merely again to state to you that machinery must
be destroyed, or you must emigrate, or you must starve,
or ou must entirely change your system. But suppose you
destroy machinery, what will be the consequence? It would
be a miserable expedient, for machinery, properly under-
stood and properly applied, will be found one of the greatest
blessings tan has ever yet received.—(Cheers.) Will you
emigrate? It wig be useless whilst machinery is making such
giant progress under the present system. You may emigrate,
and experience all the di.aters and_ all the sufferings which
many arc now suffering in the distant parts of the world to
which they are gone ; or you - -y continue here to starve,
as hundreds and thousands are doing at this moment in this
city, and all over the kingdom. But if you emigrate, you can-
not go in numbers proportionate to the progress of machinery ;
if you die off of famine, you cannot die fast enough to have any
immediate effect on the present system. This being the case,
why expend all your strength, and talent., and powers, in
useless discussions? Not only are the discussions between
party and party useless, but I have no hesitation in saying that
all the discussions that have taken place for a considerable
time in our own Houses of Parliament, in the Chamber •f
Deputies at Paris, and in the Congress of the United States,
are mere words, and have no effective meaning with regard to
the relief of the populations that are suffering from the progress
of ill directed scientific poser. In all that has been said in these
public assemblies, which are called by each country great
and intelligent, you cannot find one practical speech from
a single member of either of them, bearing on the re-
lief of the people ; yet they are the three first assemblies in the
world. You inust then, my friends, look to other measures ;
you must look to yourselves.—(Cheers.) Can the twit Houses
of Parliament create anything for you? Can they create you
food, can they build you houses, can they make von doilies,
can they supply the wants you now feel? Can the 'Chamber of
Delaoies do it? Can the Congress of the United States do it?
There is not a member of any of these assemblies for whom
you arc not obliged to find clothes and houses. the means
of amusement, and all the wealth they possess; how unwise
is it then to look to them for that which you provide for
them, and which • they cannot provide for themselves?—
( Cheers.) I wish I knew how to convey to you the 60 years
of experience which I have been slowly and gradually acquir-
ing of ycur present condition ; of tke causes of your distress,
and of the means of removing it. Why, whenever risen
can dismiss from their minds the errors which have been
infused into them by the system in which they are all in-
volved, we shall discover that there is nothing more easy or
practical than to place you all—yes, 1 s-.y all—in a condition
of most desirable independence. —( hear, hear.) Have you
ever heard any Member of the House cf Commons, of the'
Chamber of Deputies, or of Congress, stating simply, and so
that the public might understand it, that only two things arc
required of those who govern? One is, that they should form
effective arrangements for insuring a good, useful, and valu-
able character to all who are born. Have you heard any such
principle propounded? Yet it is the first thing requisite
to relieve us from our present difficulties. We want, above
all, to give a superior, sound, practical, education to
all ; and the science by which this can be effected
is as certain as the science of mathematics. There are
means, and obvious means, by which, by taking children
from their birth, they may be so trained, so educated, so
placed, that every one. of them shall obtain a superior and
valuable character. Tell me this is not to be done ! Who will
venture to say so? I have tried the science in practice for fifty
years, and have never failed in it, and I will undertake to dere-
lope the means by which any Government, and all Govern-
ments may train their population in such a manner that all rf
them will be better than any individual who has yet beer.
trained under the old system of society. Look at our unfor-
tunate fellow-beings who have the misfortune to be born
in the lowest, • the worst, and the most vicious part of
this metropolis; examine the results produced by the ex-
ternal arrangeMents around the children so born and
so placed. Are these children worse than the children
of the aristocracy, are they wens.. than the children
of the Quakers? No! they are precisely the same;
they are of the same Ilesh and blood, have the same
faculties, both as to number and kind. Look, then, at
the children of the aristocracy, and of the Quakers, and
see how different these are from tl e inhabitants of St. Giles's
and other similar places. How many of one class are subjected
to all manner of sufferings, to all manner of punishMents, and
to ignominious deaths, while of the other class not one in
ten thousand experience anything of the kind. And yet what
is the, education given to the children of the aristocracy, and
to the children of the Quakers ? It is an education under a
system of the grossest error—a system which calls vice virtue
and virtue vice.-,(!tear, hear.) I am not speaking either
against the Quakers or against the aristocracy, or against any
envision of society ; 1 know well the causes why all these in-
dividuals are as they are, why they think as they
do think, why they have the appearance, physical and
Mental, which they possess, and why their conduct differs,
one party from another. The whole of this lies before me like
a map.--( Hear, hear,) I know how they are produced, and
could easily produce them. But rejoice with me my friends,
that the means are discovered by which the children of the
whole population may be trained from infancy to be far superior
to the children of any parties, classes, or sects, in this or any other
country of which we have, any knowledge. This is a science
which, when comprehended and practised, will lie found of fir
more value than all the other sciences put together. This is
one step which all Governments have to accomplish, and what
is the other? It is to create wealth, that those who have been
thus trained and educated to be made reasonable and ra-
tional beings, shall be surrounded with all the natural
comforts which the progress of civilization is capable
of affording to every one of them. Is this difficult? Why
how is it possible you can have remani d so long in this
country and not know that from a long period past the only
real cause of the poverty of the country has been the excess of
its real wealth ?—( Hear, hear.) Whenever we have had a
great surplus of all the most valuable kinds of wealth, that has
been the period when the industrious classes have suffered the
most ; and when the greatest numbers of them were dying of
famine, the farmyards were full, and the warehouses over-
loaded. What is the case now ? Why there are houses, in
thousands, empty, throughout all the manufacturing diarists,
and yet there are as many thousands of our fellow-subjects who
have not where to lay their heads, while the houses are regu-
larly going to ruin. and tumbling on the heads of those who
own them. But who is to blame for all this ? Does any Go
vernmrnt know how to relieve you? They have no practical
knowledge of it—it has not been their business—they have
been trained up to be politicians and not practical men
knowing how to educate, and create wealth. and to make
such arrangements that education and wealth should be so
combined that. all might derive advantage from it ; and, '
therefore, I stand to this, that all who look for re ief from them,
are looking for relief where it is utterly impossible it can he
found.—( Hear.) You must count on your selves for the education
of your children ; you must employ yourselves in creating real
wealth. I have tried again and again ; I have placed my ideas
in words before the public, in almost every variety of phrase I
could devise, but I found that the only way to accomplish the
object was to begin the practice .of the principles 'myself, I

-ied the practice in Manchester for ten years, commencing
when I was twenty years of age. I afterwards tried the
aetiee on a much larger scale in Scotland for twenty. nine
.ears, and there I had proof upon proof, beyond the possibility
f a doubt, that anything might be done fur any population
',y the practical adoption of those principles; that all
might be made industrious and cleanly in their habits ;
chat all might be made to produce more wealth than they
.could wish to consume, and that all might be trained
to live in harmony together. I thought when 1 had shown the
I esults of ten )ears' experience in one place, and of twenty-nine
year• in another, that there would be no doubt of the results ;
'rid I then thought it my duty to go into the world and declare
those glad ti lings to the human race, that all men might in a
short time hare the benefit of a superior education, and of
,uperior productive employment.—( Cheers.) I found in
every assembly I attended that these principles were al-
,rest universally approved ; all seemed to wish to carry them
uto excention ; but it. has not yet been done, and I find that
unless I again—even at the advanced period of life at which I
have arrived—commence there practical operations, to show how
easily the formation of human character and the manufacture of
wealth may be carried into practice; how delightful they
would b., when combined; and what. desirable results would
follow from their combination,—l find that unless I do this, I
might pas, out of this world, and that the principles I ad-
vocate might be known and spoken of, but the practice of them
would not be understood. I have therefore commenced a Home
Colonizatien Society; and there is now in Hampshire the nucleus
of a Home Colony. We know what it is for the inexperienced
to go to a foreign Colony, and what they suffer in climates other
than those they have been accustomed to, and countries whose
habits are opposed to their own. Though we hear of the few
who do well, yet we never hear of the hundreds, and of the
thousands who (lie miserable deaths in thus emigrating.
I have no objection to emigration, provided it is necessary,
and that our fellow subjects who do emigrato, are
trained as all human beings ought to be trained;
they would then carry with them those qualities, and
that knowledge which would be of service to them and then
children, and the inhabitants of the country to which they may
emigrate. But there is no necessity for ioreign emigration at
present, nor for many years to come..—( Hear' hear.) It was
only the day before yesterday that. I passed from the Home
colony I have spoken of through a country which appeared
to be devoid of inhabitants. I saw now and then a
house, and now and then an individual appeared, but, gene-
rally speaking, it seemed deserted. We have now secured 1,200
acres of land, which used to maintain only four or five farming
families, white they may be made to maintain 1,200 individuals
in high comfort.—( Cheers.) And every 1,200 acres in Great
Britain are capable of maintaining the same number. The
country is not cultivated, it is merely scratched; we have
only a miserable crop from the surface of the soil.—(:-fear.) I
have stated to you what it is that must be done, either by the
Government or by individuals, and which it is better
should be done both by Government and the people.
(Considerable confusion arose at this part of the speech, from
the crowded state of the meeting and from individuals calling
to have the windows opened.) I wish (said Alr. Owen) I
could at once introduce the spirit of the system I am en-
deavouring to advocate, among you. I could wish that all
would make allowance for each other, and accommodate each

other as far as the nature of the room will permit.

we understand this spirit we shall never be able to overcome
all our difficulties. If that spirit could be infused into the
working population of this country their difficulties might be
put an end to in a very short period indeed. I will not
take up more of your time. having occupied it already for an
unreasonable space : but I have not met you for a long period,
and Tour condition is so alarming, so serious, that I could not
longer remain without being desirous of placing these simple
facts before you once again. Whatever you may do, I shall
return to this colony in Hampshire, and do all in my power
to show how easily a good character may be formed for all,
how easily wealth ma be created for all, and what a delight-
ful state it is to live in harmony together, from understand-
ing what our nature is.—(Loud cheers.)
Mr. LLOYD JONES moved the first resolution. He felt much
gratified in having been called upon to introduce it to the meeting,
which was one, not of any political party existing in the country
at this time, but one called with the intention that all party and
political feeling should be laid aside. They were not to look
at each other as political partisans, but as men sympathising
with each other's sufferings, and anxious to remove each other's
difficulties. lie then read the resolution :—" That poverty and
destitution among the working classes, and bankruptcy and im-
pending ruin among the middle classes, prevail at this time to a
most alarming extent, and are continually increasing, whilst the
most superabundant means for the attainment of a high degree of
permanent prosperity for all, are unemployed or misapplied." He
thought it would not be necessary to adduce any great number
of facts to prove the first part of this resolution. The state of the
country was proved by every newspaper—those daily and weekly
records of the condition of the nation. Let them read the con-
dition of the people of Manchester, of Stockport, of Bolton, of
Paisley, and of every one of the great towns of this kingdom
which has been said to be the richest in the viorld.—(Hear. ) '
Let them read the Report which had lately been presented to
the Houses of Lords, and Commons, as to the condition of the
hand-loom weavers ; and if it were possible to find greater
destitution in any age or in any country, let it at once he steed,
_in order that they might keep themselves in countenance
with the world.—( Hear, hear.) Let. them read the moral and
physical condition of the working people in the mining dis-
tricts, both sexes working absolutely naked in the mines to-
gether.—( Hear, hear.) The most. savage people on the earth
had a more exalted morality than existed amongst the minieg,
population of this country.—( Hear, hear.) With respect to
Paislev, they had been Mori:nal by the newspapers, that a
short time since a quantity of bones was exported front Ame-
rica, for the purpose of relieving the distress of the manufac-
turing population of that tt.wn—( Shame)—one of the largest
toe ns in this rich and wealthy empire—exported as charity—
( Hear, bear)—and the industrious and comparatively en-
enlightened population of that town had to fall, as it were, on
their knees, and return thanks for the boon they had received.
This state of things was, if possible, daily growing worse and
worse. If, as they were told by a Minister of State, the
only course open to them was to trust to a periodi-
cal recurrence of prosperity, it was useless to talk about othes
remedies; but if it could be proved that they had the meant
of relieving the distress; that the possessors of wealth at leaso
had the means at their command, there would in fact be ng
ground for despair. The proper application of wealth bein-
clearly and distinctly pointed out, there ought to be no hesie
tation on the part of its possessors. to apply it for the relief of the
deep sufferings of the people.—( Hear, hear.) To cnumeratd
the various benevolent societies existing in this country would
occupy more time than was then at his disposal. He secede
therefore draw the attention of the meeting merely to one
branch of their charities, one stream of their benevolence, and
point out the vast amount which was expended to little pur-
pose abroad, whilst it might be applied to relieve the distresses
of our own countrymen.—( Hear, hear.) It would be familiar
to the meeting that there were a number of societies, composed
of English gentlemen and ladies, who had been all over the
earth to look for objects of sympathy. Like too many re-
formers, these parties neglected reforms at home, whilst they
were busy in effecting reforms abroad.—( Hear.) They
had neglected the condition of the people who had
created their wealth for them, whilst they had squandered
it upon persons who were thousands if miles from them, and
whose claims, however strong, ought not to prevail over those
of their o ?in wives and children—of their own countrymen, who
were continually appealing to them for relief,—( Hear, hear. )
It appeared from the Report of the British and Foreign Bible
Society, pub:ished in 1835, that up to that period, when it had
been in existence 31 years, the Society hid expended two mil-
lions of money. The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel
in Foreign Parts in the year, 1837, expended 55,000/. 'I he
Baptist Missionary Society, in the same year, expended
, 20,000/. The London Missionary Society, in the year follow-
ing , expended 77,0001. The Church Missionary Society, in
the same year, expended 91000/. The Wesleyan Methodist
Missionary Society, in the same year, expended 100,0001., and
the Scotch Church Missionary Society expanded annually
above 4,0001. It should be observed, too, that very little of
this money was expended for the purpose of promoting religion
amongst their own people.—( Hear, hear.) Every year, half a
million sterling was expended for the purpose of extending re-
ligion abroad ! The fact was almost incredible, when our own
population were perishing in the midst of ignorance, and fur
want of the common necessaries of life.—(Cries of " Hear.")
It appeared from, the reports furni,hed, that the Societies them-
selves were beginning to discover that this lavish expenditure
upon foreigners, ,for the purpose of religious instruction, had
not done that amount of gooa which the benevolent founders of
the Soeieties'anticipated that it would produce.—( Hear, hear. )
He had in his possession the Baptist Magazine for July, 1839,
which contained a letter to these Societies, entreating them to
take some steps for preventing drunkenness amongst the popu-
lation of the British Isles, in order that the population abroad
might not be contaminated,—(Laughter.) The best authori-
ties on the subject bad stated, that the English had introduced
amongst the heathen, not only all their religion, but all their vices,
and that they had polluted and were exterminating the native
population.. Why had they not first expended their money
to improve their own population? If they had instructed their
own people—sif . they had eradicated the vices existing amongst
their own countrymen, they might then fairly direct their at-
tention to other countries, and th-y would then be able to ele-
vate, instead of corrupting and destroying, the population of
those countries.—(l-Hear, hear.) What then did they demand ?
Looking to this lavish expenditure—to the amount annually con-
tributed, and the little good which had been done—ard rrmern-
bering that the contributors were the producers of our wealth.
and the neighbours of those who expended it, they inended that
it should first be employed in elevating the moral and physica.
condition of the people of these islands.—( Cheers.) They might
tell them that the heathen were languishing in darkness;
but they would reply that their ow population were
shrouded in ignorance. They might tell them of the importanet
of prosiding spiritual salvation for persons abroad; but the)
would point to their own wives, their own children, their own
fathers and mothers—to all who were dear to their hearts,
perishing for want. of the commonest necessaries of life.—
( Hear. ) Truly had it been said--
Aves, swine, have litter spread,
And with fitting food are fed;
All things have a home—but one,
Thou, 0 Englishman, hest none !"—( Hear. )
And yet they were a wise people, an enlightened people, a rich
people ! One would have thought, from a debate which tool
place in the House of Commons the other night, that they were
too licit. In a discussion about sending a Bishop to the West
Indies, a Noble Legislator had declared it to be scandalous that
an. et.lightened and rich country like this should talk about a
salary of a few hundred pounds as the stipend of a relate.—
(Laughter.) This occurred in the very same montl. that the
population of Paisley had accepted a charitable present of bones
from the people of America..--( Hear, hear.) It had been clear))
proved, then, by what he has' stated with respect to the
various benevolent institutions to which he had referred—and
no doubt they had been established with the very best intention:
—it had been clearly proved t hat they had the means of brnetititig
their own population, and it was equally clear that they ought
to apply them to th it purpose, and to that purpose only. IVbet,
they had set their own house in order, it would then be time
to go forth and assist others in rutting theirs in order. 7 hat
man should be denounced as a traitor to his country, who ran
after Calmuck Tartars—who went cast, west, north, and south,
to expend British wealth, whilst the producers of that wealth
w ere languishing for want of the commonest necessaries of life.
—(Loud cheers.)
Mr. A. CA3IPBELL, in rising to second the resold.
time said, it was a gratifying sight to sec thousands of
his countrymen assembled fur the purpose of proposing
plans for averting the ruin of the vrerking and middli
classes of this country. It was an- index that they were
approaching a new era—an era in which all classes would