The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-07 00:00:00

No. ll.—lncome and Charge of the Consolidated Fund, in the Quarters ended the sth April, 1844, and the sth April, 1845.

Quarters ended April 5,
INCOME. 1844 I 1045 li
X. X. 1
Customs •••.•..• • • • • • • • ............ 2,950,347 3,900,846
Excise ..... ... .. ..... .. .. .. .. .. 1,867,5,6 1,934,471
Stamps 1,639,011 1,742,461
Taxes 144,685 145,945
Property Tar ••••••••• • • • • • • • • .
Post-office • 174,000 178,000
Crown Lands 65,000 35,000
Miscellaneous ..... • • • • • • • • • • • ...... 41,292 22,951
Produce of Sycee Silver received from
China. — 392,065
Imprest and other Moneys
Repayments of Advances .• •••.•• • • • • 226,284 418,545 I
10,155,308 10,882,002
To Cash brought to this Account to be
applied to pay off Deficiency Bills — 100,000
19,155,308 10,932,002

NATIONAL ANTI-CORN-LAW
LEAGUE.
GRAND FREE-TRADE BAZAAR.

every feeling of every well regulated mind and
member of society. Even in the Lighest ranges
of literature he had known instances of the
pen being wielded by powerful hands to the ac-
complishment of the basest purposes, when it appeared
that women had the benevolence to make themselves

On Friday a meeting of ladies was held at the Hanover-
square Rooms, being summoned by the Ladies' Committee
for promoting the success of the Free-Trade Bazaar, to
hear addresses from W. J. Fox, Esq., and George Thomp-
son, Esq. Before one o'clock, the time appointed for the
meeting, the Queen's room was filled. Mr. William
Beaver was introduced to the chair by Mr. Saull.
The CHAIRMAN said, Ladies, it would be bad taste in
me to occupy a single portion of your time, when we
have such friends as Mr. Fox and Mr. George Thompson
in your presence. I will at once commence the business
of the morning by calling upon W. J. Fox, Esq., to
address you.—(Applause.)
Mr. Fox then came forward, and was received with
considerable applause. He said—Such an audience as I
behold here assembled, and on such an occasion as that
which has led to your coming together this day, renders
the present meeting one without precedent or parallel in
the history of public speaking. The circumstances give

marked by the use of their pen in exposing the pre-
vailing corruption daily vended in the market in the
sustainment of bad laws. This he could call nothing
less than wielding the tomahawk of political writers by
the hands of interested ruffianism.—(Cheers.) But
the objects of the solicitude of those he now
saw around him, felt assured of their continued exertions;
and those who made those exertions might rest assured
of bespeaking, through their acts, an envied and envia-
ble glory and blessedness.—(Cheers.) For what could
be said to stand as equal to that reward which would be

certain to crown with success and victory, ~already anti-
cipated, the beneficent and meritorious warfare waged
by such hands, conscious that they stood forth as
the fair and firm advocates for the well-being
of suffering humanity. To enter into a detail of the
efforts of his fair auditory in connexion with the bazaar
about to be opened in Covent-garden would be unneces-
sary, for he had already seen that in that too his highest
expectations had been anticipated, and therefore he had
no need to tell them what was to be done, for they all knew
it much better than he could describe it. Fairy fingers had
been at work, giving softness, and beauty, and harmony
of colour, to:those productions of art which so clearly
resembled those bestowed by the Great Creator of the
Universe upon nature. The birds of the air had been
vividly transferred to their:works, and the canvass had
made many live again before admiring eyes. They had
given truth its place in all its simple beauty, song and
poetry abounded in their works, and thought and imagi-
nation had lent all their glorious richness to enhance their
value.—(Cheers.) To thank his auditory, therefore, for
all this as they merited, was not the object of his speech,
for it would not be in his power. But he would say,
they had given completion and perfection to a work
hich had long before occupied the minds of many
as one that should be undertaken ; and they had put
before the world practically all that had long occupied
the minds of the Adam Smiths and other
philosophers of times gone by.—(Loud cheers.)
These philosophers, although they had no influence over
the counsels of the realm, although their voices were
not heard in the great seminaries for instruction, they
were philosophers who had achieved a mighty task,
and performed a great, good, and blessed work. The
men who upheld those principles of philosophical eco-
nomy did a good and needful work to prepare those who
were to follow them in the consummation of it. The
merchants and the manufacturers of the north were the
next class who, when they saw laws made not only to
injure their own interests but to spread desolation around-
the country—when in one week a change in price might
bring them from the height of prosperity to the depths
of adversity, and reduce them to a state of bankruptcy
sent petitions to Parliament, petitions signed by mil-
lions, and when these were disregarded they put forth
their strength, in mighty meetings, applied from their
legislators to their constituents, and called upon the
country to raise its voice and show its strength in im-
mense meetings for the diffusion of instruction on this
momentous project, and who were ready to continue
that work until its end should be accomplished. These
merchants and manufacturers, following the path of the
philosophers, had done their share of good, and had
earned from their contemporaries and from their pos-
terity enduring honour. Something else was wanting to
this to give it grace and neatness; something to round
it off, and that such remaining want they, the women
of Great Britain, had achieved. They made this a free
struggle, no mere philosophical speculation, no party
conflict; they carried it beyond this, they rendered it
more sacred than all that had as yet been done, or all
that, without their assistance, could be achieved; they
rendered it a household word; they brought it to their
fire-sides ; they made it one of their household
gods ; they declared that the wrong was so
great and so grievous, the path so clear and
the principle so good and; so glorious, that it de-
volved upon woman to lend her hand and raise her voice,
in order to complete the purpose of those who had been
so long instructing them in vain. They made it the cause
and the plea of woman, whose moral sense was out-
raged; of woman, who knew better how to suffer than to
strive, whose history was one of endurance, and conse-
quently whose sympathies were so keen for the op-
pressed; of woman, who was seldom seen acting under
the blood stained banner of false
glory, but who had
been enlisted under the banner of kind administration;
of woman, who stood by the Cross when the
Apostles fled in haste, and who, by the strength of her
sympathy, was destined to be entered, on account of
this very question, in the annals of the deliverance of
those who were as yet crying in vain for help, but who
should from her hand receive joys and blessings, conso-
lation for the past and hopefulness for futurity. They
did not now-a-days act as in former times, when the in-
sulted artisan struck down the plunderer of his rightful
earnings, and when the oppressed came together, in-
creasing their rage by communication, and had written
the history of their remonstrances in the blood of the
oppressors, and were hanged in hundreds in gratifica-
tion of the sanguinary justice of their tyrannical judges.
But in your assembling together, and braving whatever
may result, individually and collectively, you evince that
firm gentleness which heaven in its wise constitu-
tion of things has invested with a moral power, and by
investing it with this power
given a pledge of its leading
eventually to triumph, glory, and blessedness. For what
can be said by all the world compared to that which
your own minds and consciences will suggest? What is
there in all the reproaches that may be hurled, in all the
sneers and sarcasms which may be levelled, at you, com-
pared with the anticipation of the success of your
righteous warfare; with the blessings of those who are
ready to perish, that will come upon the heads of who-
ever has aided in this deliverance; and with the sense
that you have made an efficient contribution to the
world's progress; with the consciousness that the mo-
tives by which you have been actuated derive their
power from the purest sources, and that you exercise
them in full communion with those religious princi-
ples that even in the presence of your God do not
interfere with, but prompt your best endeavours for
the well-being of suffering humanity. You know how
to aid the League Bazaar a thousand times better
than I could describe. Fairy fingers have been at work,
imitating the hues of !Nature's best productions, giving
the softness of texture and the harmony of colour which
the Great Artist of the universe bestows on the flowers of
the field in all their richness and variety. The best
hues of every bird that floats on the air have been
offered to your adornment. There has been with you
and taste, but
you, for the
sake of this great cause, have bid the canvas live and
nthoetsoencloymthb
breathe to the admiring eyes of those who gaze on your
ienee ffd o rwt t
ho f pnedrus
setvreyr.a n cseo,
me a re eo,
artistical productions. You have moulded forms not
unworthy of being animated with the breath of life.
You have given truth its shrine in song, and to song pre-
pared for the voice, its enduring mould of melody.
Thought has been at work putting forth its deepest
powers; imagination, in all its gorgeous richness; ire
mory:, with its ample stores; the pen of the poet and the
logician;—all these you have combined with the pon-
derous efforts of industry in its toils, willing its contri-
bution also, soon to claim the attention of a gazing and
admiring public, to show what the power, skill, taste, in-
dustry, perseverance, and energy must be which can
produce such a testimonial as that which will speedily
be exhibited of the diversity of British industry,
the fervour of British charity, of the skil, the combining
and blending power, of the women of Great Britain
compassionating suffering humanity.—(Cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN, at the conclusion of Mr. Fox's
speech, exhibited to the meeting an elegant cushion,
upon which a most beautiful cornucopia was worked by
the needle, forwarded by a lady from the country,
through the medium of Mr. Burnett, as a contribution
towards the Bazaar. The beauty of this article excited
general admiration.
Mr. THOMPSON said, he never listened to
eloquence
such as that which had delighted the present meeting,
without a strong desire to be himself mute. To
heighten the effect which had been produced was next
to impossible, and he (Mr. Thompson) should deeply
regret the saying of anything that might diminish it.
To him such spectacles as the one before him were not
singular. In connexion with that sacred cause (the
cause of emancipation) with which his humble name had
been coupled by the chairman, he had for many years
seen frequent meetings like that both in England and in
America. It was not going beyond the truth to say that

it a peculiarity of character,-which, to a certain extent,
cannot but depress the feelings of those who have to
address you, from the very sense of moral sublimity,
which cannot but be suggested to our minds by the
scene which we now contemplate.—(Hear, hear.)
For—to behold you, the representatives of the
women of England, brought together to bear your public
and active testimony to the cause of justice and hu-
manity, involved as it is in the proceedings of the Anti-
Corn-law League, is a nobler and a grander sight than
any miscellaneous public assemblage, however vast its
numbers, and however determined its opinions.
It is grander far than any gathering of any
patriots or warriors listening to the leaders whom
they expect to guide them on to battle and to ♦ictory.
It is grander than any meeting of the ministers of reli-
gion assembled in their robes, gowned and mitred, and
surrounded by adoring multitudes—because in you, who
have so great an object to be realised—an object as great
as ever was contemplated by human beings—in you we
see the women of England met to declare that the laws
which refuse to industry its remuneration—which ag-
gravate the wretchedness of the suffering and restrict
the achievements of enterprise—which divide class from
class—which swell the bills of mortality and fill
the records, not only of disease, but of crime—ought to
be abolished. You are met here to bear your testimony
that this disease-creating, and poverty-producing law
shall not be continued—a law which presses down the
powers of the country, and renders this isle the
abode of vice and wretchedness, when it might be
one of virtue and of enjoyment--of honourable
and useful progress. But, what can I say to you—can
I declare to you more than you yourselves express by
your attendance here? What topics can I appeal to
which you have not anticipated? Your presence here is
more eloquent than the most strenuous discourse of the
most eloquent public speaker.—(The Learned Gentle-
man was here briefly interrupted by an expression of
approbation which we cannot call a cheer or applause,
but which was too marked to be left altogether un-
recorded.) He went on to say that the effect
of the corn-laws upon the whole of the
British community was such as might be
experienced by this great metrepolis, if that proud and
stately river which flows through it were to change its
course, and instead of mingling its waters with the ocean,
were to surround, enclose, and isolate the City and the
whole of Middlesex, so that we might speak of this
metropolitan county, as the old romancer talked
of the isle of Windsor, they would have the isle of Mid-
dlesex. Food would rise in price—land would rise in
value—rents would be doubled as they had been through-
out, under the present restrictive system, but the imme-
diate cultivator would not find remuneration. Many
would be driven to leave the localities to which
they were attached, and would be obliged to go forth
pilgrims, with heavy hearts, to look for a country which
would give them a remuneration for their labour.
Kent and Essex and Buckingham would have
their retributory codes, and would impose pro-
hibitory duties on the produce of Middlesex.
He told them that which they themselves knew, which
they, the women of England, told to the world by gifted
members of their sex—he told them but that which had

been put forth in bold and strong language by Mrs.
Loudon, in her " Philanthropic Economy," which had
been told with such elegance and almost fairy stores of
fancy by Mrs. Mareett, and what had been told in such
sound philosophy, and vi ith such varied illustration and
infinity of resources, in the elegant and powerful lan-
guage of Harriet Martineau.—(Hear, hear.) They had
given the world instruction, and they came there only to
say that they were not inattentive to their lessons. They
rejoiced that the women of England came forward there
on that day with such strong sympathy and determined
gentleness to put down theemisery thus exposed. Oh!
no, indeed, there was no need of teachers on a subject on
which pens, and eloquent ones, had been found amongst
their own sex. They had well done their ditty; and if
some times the heart of man forgot what was due to such
teachers—if there was a tendency to take a dishonour-
able license with their names—if it w as said that writers
of the gentler sex should, instead of discussing such sub-
jects, remain at home, making puddings and mending
stockings, they might retort by saying that they were
too honourable for many men otherwise employed at the
present moment; and if legislators, peers, and rulers
could not imbibe the simple lessons taught by those
women, and had not integrity enough to act on them, why
they were unworthy not only of their present functions,
hut even of making puddings and mending stockings.
There should be for them a more charitable feeling,
even if they were. as ignorant as it was pretended they
were—even if they could only set up nurseries for un-
enlightened Chancellors of the Exchequer, and offer
plums and praise to Premiers, who seemed to have some
glimmerings, though imperfect, of the truth.—(Laughter.)
As it was not necessary to treat this question as a matter
of argument before an audience so enlightened on the
subject, he would refer to another topic, and would
thank them rather for the demonstration of earnest feel-
ing which they had shown, rather than call on them to
use greater exertions in the cause, for he knew that was
not necessary. They felt earnestly in this matter, be-
cause the evils Of monopoly in their most aggravated
form came aspecielly under the notice of woman's kind
and observing eye. Many who were present there were
doubtless witnesses in their own neighbourhoods of the
gradual sinkings from the effects of poverty—bow di-
minished employment narrowed the resources derived
from the wages of labour—how the poor lost one article
after another—how their articles of furniture, and even
their clothing went to the receptacle of the pawn-
broker— how ono little luxury was given up
one after another till the bare subsistence of the day
was all that could be got. None so well as the gentler
sex knew how all this time the heart was breaking un-
der the struggle ; how the spirit was worn with the ef-
forts to make an appearance in the' world, and in the
contention to bear up against approaching poverty.
They knew how, under the operation of those impious
laws, the working man was transformed ; how those
tendencies which bound together human beings to each'
other, and all the diversified classes of society
in one harmonious whole, were broken, till
at last he sunk in the struggle if he did not
turn to crime and guilt. He need but mention
these things to awaken a vivid picture of them
in the memories of many who heard him. He knew
that they felt those things as they ought, and, therefore,
they were there on the present occasion. He would do
nothing more than express his thanks at the moral cou-
rage displayed by the women of England on this occa-
sion. To be present there, exhibited moral courage of no
small amount, for they were opposed by an unscrupulous
party who from their wealth and title gave the tone to
fashion ; and not to be daunted by the sneers and in-
sinuations of such persons from being present
there, exhibited the greatest moral courage.
He had, however, to congratulate his fair and crowded
auditory upon having as powerful advocates in their
cause sonic portion of the public press. But he re-
gretted to say, that whatever of fidelity, and truth, and
honour, they had experienced from that portion of the
press favourable to their views—and they were not few
—still he felt compelled to declare, that there were other
public writers who, though they should be at least the
faithful recorders of what passed at these meetings,
yet did not hesitate to falsify their proceedings, and issue
the most brazen contradictions cf what had been said
and el, ne by those who were present ; but they were not
to he surprised to hear on occasions their motives mis-
construed and impugned, their kind and mild desires to
do good falsified, in a manner altogether abhorrent to

Quarters ended April 5,
CHARGE. ---..
' 1844 1841
Permanent Debt ..........., ~ ...... ..... . .. •
3,532,232 5,704,180
Terminable Annuitie5................ •• •• •• ' • •
1,324,273 1,307,059
Interest on Exchequer-bills issued to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fan..•••
Sinking Fund .. .. .• .. .. .• .. .•
The Civil List •• .. ................ •• •• ••
97,597 97,785 Other Charges on the Consolidated Fund
For Advances ..............• • 240,000 380,000
Total Charge •* • • 5,941,229 8,710,003
The Surplus *
4,214,079 2,271,999
The Amount of Exchequer-bills issued to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund for the Quarter ended 10,155,308 10,982,002
Jan. 5, 1845, and paid off out of the growing produce of that Fund for the Quarter ended April 5, 1845,
after deducting 600,000/., paid off out of the Sinking Fund ..................................., ..... , .
_.._ 1,495,929
The Amount issued in the Quarter ended April 5, 1845, in part of the sums granted by Parliament out of
the Consolidated Fund for Supply Services•
• 3,713,599
Ihe Surplus of the Consolidated Fund, Quarter ended April 5, 1845
The probable amount of Exchequer-bills required to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund,
Quarter ended April, 5, 1845 •••• •. ..... .................................................. 2.n2.7 ace

2,937,529

the triumph of the abolition cause was greatly accelerated'
if not principally achieved, by the untiring efforts of the
noble-minded women of England.—(Cheers.) To them
belonged, in no small measure, the honour of having
formed that public opinion, which, in the end, was found
so strong that a Cabinet Minister now opposed to them,
declared in Parliament that it was impossible
to resist its demand.—(Loud cheers.) Well did
he remember the time when a petition from the women
of England had to be brought into the House of Com-
mons by half a dozen of the officers of the House, and
when one of the most distinguished among the people's
representatives exclaimed, "It is time to legislate for
the extinction of colonial slavery, when the maids and
matrons of England, half a million strong, are thunder-
ing at our doors for justice."—(Cheers.) His eloquent
friend had not been afraid to speak to the ladies present
of the petty persecutions they would have to encounter
among their acquaintances, and the probable sneers and
misrepresentations of a portion of the public press. He
(Mr. Thompson) ,knew too well the courage and forti-
tude of the women of this country to imagine for a mo-
ment that any of these things would scare them from
the discharge of their duty.—(Cheers.) He had wit-
nessed the undaunted, the almost heroic bravery of their
sisters on the other side of the Atlantic, in a kindred
cause. He had seen them sit calm and unmoved in a
meeting like that, while a ruffianly mob without
were breaking the windows, and threatening the destruc •
tion of the building ; and, while he gazed upon
them, he had felt that he would sooner find
his wife, his sister, or his daughter; among those
women, than among the coroneted aristocracy of his
native country.—(Cheers.) The truly noble were the
truly humane. Not many mighty, not many honour-
able, had been memorialised in the pages of sacred his-
tory; but many who were poor and despised in their
own day had been. If Pharaoh's daughter was men-
tioned, it was because she took pity on the infant she
found sleeping among the bulrushes, and brought it up
as her own.—(Cheers.) Little did the poor widow
think, when she was dropping her two mites into the
treasury, that the eye of the Saviour of the world was
upon her, and that she would live for ever on the page
of inspiration, with this commendation of her conduct
from the lips of a Divine Being, " She hath done what
she could."—(Cheers.) To do anything to help a cause
like that which brought them together, was much; to
win the approbation of their own hearts, was more; but,
to obtain the testimony of Him who was greater than
our hearts, was best of all ; and that could only be
gained by Croaking our capacity for doing good the
standard of our duty, and losing no opportunity of
speaking or acting in the cause of truth and justice.—
(Cheers.) Thus far the anti-corn-law cause had
been conducted free from sectarianism on the one hand,
and party-political bigotry on the other.—(Cheers.)
No distinctive differences were compromised by joining
the League. No names were written on their standard
as the badge of a party. No votes were given in the
House of Commons for this man or that, because he was
of this or that sect in politics. Never had the motto—
" Measures and not men"—been more consistently acted
upon than by the League.— (Cheers.) It was earnestly
to be hoped that such would always be the case.—
(Hear.) It was nevertheless true that the monopolists
were in the habit of decrying female exertions, in the
cause of free trade, as impertinent and inappropriate
intermeddlings in politics. He had not unfrequently
seen a dandy monopolist upon his canvass, after con-
temning the labours of the ladies, take off his hat and
make a low bow to the wife of a voter, and at the same
time earnestly entreat her to give him the benefit of her
powerful, her omnipotent interest.—(Laughter and
cheers.) Yes, so long as she wore his rosette in her
bosom, and waved a handkerchief of his colour at the
window, and refused to deal with a tradesman that would
not vote for him, so long she was in the way of
duty ; but the moment she preferred the cause
of justice to him, his colours, and his party, then she
was an officious intermeddler in matters foreign to
her sex, her station, and her duties, and must
be sent back to the distaff and the darning needle with a
flea in her ear.—(Cheers.) When the energies of the
women of England were first called forth in the anti-
corn-law cause, there was truly enough to excite their
compassion, to enkindle their zeal, and to alarm them
for the safety even of their homes and their country.
Millions were but half employed, and hundreds of thou-
sands were altogether idle. Mills were empty, work-
houses were full. Places of worship were deserted by
those who had been their most steady frequenters, be-
cause of the poverty and misery that had befallen, even
the most upright and religious. Seven hundred ministers
of Divine truth had given it as their opinion that the
wretchedness, demoralisation, and disaffection then every
where prevalent, were to be traced in no small degree to
the influence of the corn and other kindred laws, which,
by depriving the people of the means of obtaining em-
ployment, had hurried them to beggary, and placed them
at the mercy of every tempter that might lure them to
their ruin. It was then the women of England first ap-
peared in the field, and nobly did they do their work.
They went from hovel to hovel, and beheld for them-
selves the desolation which iniquitous legislation
had wrought. They saw the fireless hearth, the
empty cupboard, the ragged children, the wasted wife,
the helpless, hopeless husband. They saw independence,
integrity, comfort, self-respect, attachment to the laws,
and almost loyalty itself, broken down and wrecked by
by the operation of a system framed for the benefit of
particular classes, and those the most wealthy and least
productive in the State ; and, seeing this, they resolved
that they would henceforth make it a part of their
religion to labour to set free the industry of their native
country.—(Cheers) Do any call this political ? Then,
I say, shame on those who create the necessity for women
to rouse up, at the strong call of nature, to reform the
laws of the land !—(Cheers.) Do any call this un-
womanly ? I say. that woman is never more woman—.
never acting more m accordance with her duties and the
strong instinct of her nature—never more noble—never
more sublime—than when exerting all her powers- to
remove the causes of misery and suffering around her.
" No radiant pearl that crested fortune wears ;
No gem that, sparkling, hangs from beauty's ears ;
Not the bright stars, that night's blue arch adorn ;
Nor rising suns, that gild the vernal morn ;
Shine with more lustre that the tear which breaks,
For human woe, down woman's lovely cheeks."
—(Loud cheers.) Happily, the dark days to which
he had alluded had passed away ; but let no one
suppose that they were gone, never to return.— (Cheers.)
Return they inevitably would, if the causes which
formerly produced them were not removed. Heaven
had in mercy sent abundance of food, and that abundance
had had the effect of staying the progress of those heavy
calamities which for several years had covered the
nation with gloom, and brought the population to the
verge of despair. In the order of events, bad harvests
would again happen, and with them would come the re-
verses and ruin which had often before been experienced,
unless the people of this country achieved their own
emancipation, and abolished the laws which prevented
them from realising the benefits of unrestricted com-
merce, and exchange of the products of their industry,
with the varied tribes and countries of the world.
(Cheers.) In this great work of the emancipation of
human industry the women of England were ordained to
take an honourable and influential part—a part in every
respect in keeping with their position, their faculties,
and their affections. Yes, and with their solemn obli-
gations and responsibilities in the sight of their Maker.
Much nonsense was talked about what woman should
do, and what she should not do, as though a difference in
regard
to sex made a difference in regard to responsi-
bility. He would advise all who heard him to take counsel
of their own hearts, rather than advice from the adversary.
What was it they were asked to do ? To fulfil the
duties of rational, responsible, and immortal beings. In
these respects they were equal with men, and with the
angels of God. They had influence—the influence of
speech, of example, of labour, and of wealth. This in-
fluence they were called upon to exert in
plea of athe cause of
their country. A day was coming when the
difference of sex would be insufficient to absolve them
from accountability—who then would dare to say 44 Do
nothing," when a voice from heaven said " Work while
it is called to-day, for the night is coming, and there is
neither knowledge, nor device, nor wisdom in thegrave?"
But enough, those before him needed not that he should
add anything to what had been said in the way of ex-
planation. If they sought to be engaged in a good cause
—the cause before them was good. If they sought good
company in a good cause—the companions they would
have in the cause of free trade were the benevolent, the
wise, and the upright throughout the country ; and, if
they sought rewarcl, they would find it—in the blessings

of the poor, the prosperity of their native land, the pro-
moion of peace and goodwill throughout the world, and
the gratitude of coming generations, for having been the
emancipators of British industry.—(Cheers.)
Upon the motion of Mr. G. l'EtomPsox, seconded by
Mr. SUMMERS HARFORD, thanks were voted to the
Chairman, and t. • meeting separated.

LITERATURE.

FREEMASOAV QUAI?I'EI?.LI REVIEW.
The leading article (for this periodical has its re
gular leader) intimates the possibility of the Free.
masons' " Quarterly " changing into a " Monthly,'
conditioning, however, that the necessary " supplies"
must be forthcoming for such purpose. The present
number, we perceive, is extended far beyond the
usual space—and, to make room for many papers, the
smaller type is invariably used. The articles are
various—most of them have the characteristic signi-
ficance of the craft, but there are many which wilt
interest the general reader. The library and museum
of the Grand Lodge appears to be a failure, but the
editor seems to attribute this to a want of system,
and, we presume, he will show good cause why such
a necessary requisite should not be abandoned.
The masonic differences in Ireland hare, at length,
terminated; and his Grace of Leinster now rules
over a united body. The consecration of a new
lodge in the suburban district of London is interest-
ing. The violation of the principles of Freemasonry
in the Grand Lodge of Prussia, by the exclusion of
the Jewish Freemasons, appears:to have justly excited
universal surprise. A paper on "Masonic Auto-
cracy" to us has a startling effect, for we had always
looked on Freemasonry as being founded on equality;
It would seem, however, that the "cautery" is some-
times needed to restrain what surgery in the olden
time would term "proud flesh." The "rejected
letters"—by a Roman Catholic Freemason are well
written—and must convince any sceptic that the
attack on the order by some of the Roman
Catholic Bishops is as impolitic as it is unjust.
" Gleanings from Masonry" is happily conceived,
and written in the pure spirit of morality. The
" Freemasons' Lexicon" centains precisely that in-
formation which it implies ; and a popular " Lecture
on Freemasonry" is among the most interesting ar-
ticles we have read on the subject. Among the
" Masonic Anecdotes" there is one in which it ap-
pears that the ties of masonry were held sacred by a
pirate—for the honour of poor human nature, however
debased, we allude to this interesting fact as among
the soundest proofs of the value of the institution
itself. Among the articles of intelligence, that of
the initiation of Native Indian Gentlemen and the
laying the foundation Stone of a Penitentiary in
Jamaica, at which the Earl of Elgin attended, are
worthy cf attention; and taking this number of the
Freemasons' Quarterly we may fairly observe that it
maintains its long-standing reputation.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND QUARTERLY RE-
VIEW. No. XXXIV.
The most interesting article in the present number
of this review is that on the controversy at present
raging in France between the University and the
Jesuits on the subject of education. We all know
the fearful doctrines which were taught by the
Jesuits of the olden time. We have all read the
admirable " Lettres Provinciales" of Blaise Pascal, a
pious Catholic and an honest man, and we believe
that it is the general opinion in this country that these
detestable doctrines taught by the Jesuits some cen-
turies since, and exposed by Pascal, have been, if not
publicly retracted, silently suffered to fall into de-
suetude. Such, however, is not the case. From the
statements of_the reviewer, it would appear that even
at the present hour the commission of murder is
publicly taught by the Jesuits as a duty on certain
occasions.
"M. Bouvier, Eveque du Mans, writes in IS4I, in
favour of pure absolution, and the authority of the
Church in all things over the State; and, whilst speaking
on the duty of subjects towards an usurper, thus ex-
presses himself:—' At the voice of the legitimate prince,
they ought to take arms against the usurper, to fight
against him, to overcome him, to drive him away. More
than this—they ought to assassinate him as a public
malefactor, if the legitimate prince so command. Imo
privatim ilium t'snquam publicum malefactoiem occidere,
si legitimus princeps id expresse jubeat.' It is the latter
part of this opinion to which we would call attention;
and our readers may easily conceive that such a doctrine
is neither very convenient nor agreeable in France at the
present moment, where there are two pretenders to the
throne; one legitimately heir to it in exile; and he who
actually occupies it having no other claim than the voice
of the people. Such a dogma, in the hands of those who
reserve to themselves the right of deciding who is and
who is not an usurper, becomes a most dangerous
weapon; and it is riot to be wondered at that the influ-
ence of the Jesuits is dreaded by every peaceful citizen,
as well as by every lover and maintainer of the truth
of God."

Under all the circumstances of the case, we are
not surprised that the French Government do their
best to prevent the associates of M. Bouvier from in-
terfering in the education of youth, indeed we think
that Louis Philippe has shown himself the most
moderate and tolerant of monarchs in not adopting
more stringent measures against the men who thus
openly preach a crusade not only against his throne,
but his life. De Ravignan, who has recently pub-
lished an apology for the Jesuits, remarks upon the
hardship of holding the society answerable for all
that its members publish, but as the reviewer justly
observes :
"lle forgets, or wishes his readers to forget, that the
vow of obedience prevents any inferior member from
publishing a book which has not received a sanction; and
that thus the society is legitimately held accountable for
works which are all, directly or indirectly, published by
permission."
The article is admirably written, and deserves atten-
tive perusal. The present Number likewise contains
an article on Education in Ireland, which breathes a
tolerant and a liberal spirit. With regard to the
Maynooth grant, the writer admits that there is no
choice in the matter, and, admitting the necessity of
the grant, he contends that it should be a large and a
liberal one. With regard to the effect which a Par-
liamentary grant to Roman Catholics may produce
on the Church of England, the reviewer very pro-
perly says :
" We have no fears for the Church of England on such
grounds: if she cannot maintain her position in the face
of a Parliamentary grant to Rome, we say that she is
not deserving of support, and that she cannot be regarded
as a branch of the Church Catholic."
He also approves of Sir R. Peel's plan of establishing
colleges for secular instruction for those who cannot
conscientiously subscribe to the religious tests re-
quired by the existing universities. Ile thus lays
down the broad principle :
" But provided all the institutions of the Church are pre-
served in their integrity, we are not prepared to say that
the State, haring granted toleration, should not supply
equal advantages in another way to those who cannot
avail themselves of the advantages of the two Univer-
sities."

It is gratifying to find these advances in aright direc-
tion in a periodical which we believe accurately re-
presents the feelings and desires of the majority of
the clergy of the Established Church. There is also
an excellent paper on Mr. Ward and the University
of Oxford, written in a gentlemanly and charitable
spirit, completely answering the arguments of Mr.
Ward, without indulging in anything like personal
attack, and giving him full credit for being actuated
by worthy motives. It is a model for controversial
papers. In an article on Church and State the recent
vagaries of the Bishop of Exeter are justly animad-
verted on. The following is a very neat bit of quiet
satire :

" On questions of history the Bishop of Exeter is one
of the last men in the world in whom we would place
any confidence: his learning is great—his piety un-
doubted—his fairness of intention unimpeached. We
subscribe to all this. He has all the virtues which be-
come the high office he fills, but he falls short of some
of the minor qualities. He lacks memory, and he is
wanting in consistency. We do not say it to pain him,
or any of his friends, who may be disposed to cast the
deepest censure upon us for speaking of him as we sor-
rowingly do; but our duty compels us to say that, when
the Bishop quotes history, we are inclined to think so
much the less of the value of his testimony."
There are several other excellent papers in the
present Number.

THE LAW OF NISI PRIUS, comprising the Decla-
rations, Pleadings, and Evidence, in particular actions.
By John Frederick Archbold, Esq., Barrister-at-law,
This is the second volume of one of Mr. Archbold's
practical and most valuable contributions for the use
of the legal profession. This volume completes the
work. Perhaps its great and peculiar advantage to
the practitioner is that it combines in one view, com-
pendiously as well as lucidly and learnedly, the forms
of pleading in each particular action, together with the
law and evidence. Mr. Archbold's zeal, abili+ye
the law
and
o
as-
siduity as a writer on well selected branches .
is well known ; and we are not aware that he has ever
exereised them to more practically useful purpose
thaninthoef work—oneptrheesehnatrristees
bag of the fittest accom-
panimentswith which we are
acquainted. The subjects treated of in this volume
are actions upon bills
of
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togetherpromissory
with notes,
cheques on bankers,
railnl
ethiensiunreaidheone
ts
insurance
itsverdict,
interest,
all branches and accessories.

WADE'S LONDON REVIEW.
The opening article of the present Number, " An-
cient and Modern Civilization," is a very so-so affair.
Just such a string of pompous common-places as
Polonius might have strung together. It is not de-
cidedly bad—it is far from good—but it is insuffer-
ably dull. " A thing," as Dogberry would say,
" most tolerable, and not to be endured." The paper
on " Rabelais" is excellent. Shrewd, witty, and with
a genius for common sense, the author is deeply im-
bued with the spirit of the honest and sarcastic cure
of Meudon, and does him ample justice. We hope
that the writer of this article may be induced to
develop his subject still further, and to give us an
edition of " Rabelais" with notes and a commentary.

Such a work is much ►wanted. '.i here is also a very
E e usible article on the subject of " Scotch Banking,"
in which the writer defends the existing s<•stem with
great success.