LONDON MARKETS. MARK-LANE, CORN-EXCHANGE, OCTOBER 31.-Supplies, since this day se'nnight, of MARK-LANE.-Friday, Nov. 4. The arrivals this week are moderate. The English wheat, English, Irish, Scotch and prices remain the same as on Monday. foreign barley; Scotch flour, English and Scotch oats, English and foreign beans and peas, with malt and most kinds of seeds, from all quarters, very limited: of Irish wheat and oats great; of foreign wheat, and English, Irish, and foreign flour, good.-There were no foreign oats nor rye from any quarter. There was to-day a numerous assemblage of buyers; and, owing to the supply being limited, a bustle among the samples, that seemed to indicate a brisk trade, in most kinds of grain, a few small parcels of very superior wheat, and a considerable quantity of good barley, with some beans and peas, sold at an advance of from Is. to 3s.; malt 2s. last week from Ireland, the trade became dull quarter, 9,294 quarters having arrived at nothing beyond last week's prices, with the exception of fine wheat and barley.-Our lower barley quotations are advanced, on account of improvement in quality.-Linseed and hempseed find purchasers, but most other seeds are next to nominal, at last week's currency. Wheat Rye..... ........ Barley ......... .. 53s. to 65s. ........ 30s. to 35s. 13 per Cent. THE FUNDS. Fri. Sat. Mon. [Tues. Wed. Thur. CHEAP CLOTHING!! (Near the new opening to St. Bride's Church,) .... 2 12 0 Ditto, ditto, Best Saxony Cloth.... 3 0 0 .... 180 12 0 18 0 Ditto ditto Waistcoats. A Plain Suit of Livery...... 4 40 Ladies' Habits and Pelisses, and every description of Clothing for young gentlemen, equally cheap. The whole made from goods of the finest quality, and the CUT and WORKMANSHIP not to be surpassed. I recommend Messrs. Swain and Co. as very good and punctual tradesmen, whom I have long employed with great satisfaction. WM. COBBETT. A Price Sixpence. LETTER to EARL GREY on the Sub ject of the ADJUSTMENT of the HOUSE OF PEERS. "It is a kind of Analysis of the Division on the Second Reading of the Reform Bill in the Lords. The public will, we are sure, be much struck with the fact which the Author communicates; but at present we do not think it would be wise to make any new creations for the purpose merely of neutralizing the Irish and Scotch Peers." -Courier, Oct. 20, JAMES RIDGWAY, 169, Piccadilly, and through every Bookseller. Of whom may also be had THE PEOPLES' MANUAL; or notices respecting the MAJORITY OF 199 PEERS advocates of existing corruption, who REJECTED THE REFORM BILL. Is.; or, on common paper for distribution 3s. per dozen. "This Tract is admirable! it is well cal. culated to effect the objects of its production; its contents should be widely and unreservedly disseminated.” Printed by William Cobbett, Johnson's-court; and published by him, at 11, Bolt-court, Fleet-street. VOL. 74.-No. 7.] LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12TH, 1831. “In all human probability, then, the whole "of the interest of the debt, and all the sine. TO LORD GREY, [Price 1s. 2d. which may be added, bishops burnt in effigy, and that, too, by the very same people who, thirty-eight years ago, were urged by the loyal, and by the clergy in particular, to burn in effigy that "Toм PAINE" who foretold these very things, and which things would have been prevented, if his advice had been followed. Of the cause I shall presently speak; the rocks" are at hand, I do not know but if these things do not indicate that what can. I am well aware that those who live on taxes and tithes will, while they grind their teeth and grin horribly, exclaim, "Punishment will fall on the rioters!" Ay; but what then? It has fallen on them: many of them are dead; hundreds are sent into slavery for life; and some of these for "highway robbery," committed by a crowd of men and boys making a farmer or a parson give them a few shillings or a On the Ten-Pound Suffrage in Large few pence. MY LORD, Towns. Kensington, 7th November, 1831. "Punishment " has fallen " " upon them; punishment did fall on WILLIAM SUTTON, a Hampshire lad of eighteen, who, with a dozen others, PLEASE to look at the motto! She made a farmer give them four copper really seems now to be getting amongst pennies, for which " highway robbery the breakers! The wind howls in the SUTTON was condemned to death, and shrouds; the masts creak; the curling transported for life. "Punishment fire of the waves gleams through the did fall upon HENRY COOK, of Micheldarkness; thump after thump sends her dever, who was hanged for striking to and fro, and the next moment may BINGHAM BARING, without doing him rive her in pieces. The standing army any bodily harm. "Punishment" has all in motion; cannons travelling post; fallen on them, and is falling on them guards stationed to defend the tread-every day; but that brings no diminumills; post-chaises filled with common tion of the danger or of the alarm. soldiers; fires blazing in every direc- Many fall; many indeed! But miltion; the rich, in towns, arming for lions remain; and millions can neither their defence against the "mob," as the be put to death, nor held in chains; working people are called; yeomanry- and as to making them contented by cavalry, in the country, arming for a calling them mob, rabble, wretches, similar purpose; a bill brought in by miscreants, monsters, and the like, none the Government for issuing licenses to but the insolent villains who plunder farmers to plant man-traps and spring them will ever think of that; and guns in their homesteads ; a JUDGE amongst these villains are a great part escaping from the bench, over the roofs of those who conduct the London daily of houses, in disguise! I shall pre-press. In such a state of things, the sently speak of the causes; but, at any inflicting of punishment does no good. rate, such is the state of things; to Even the dreadful slaughter at Bristol H will not frighten nor damp one single of Bristol at the time when this contuworking man; but it will fill the breasts melious lawyer was about to enter it for of the whole of them, even in the most obscure hamlets, with feelings that it would be unnecessary for me to describe. 66 the purpose of administering justice. The London daily papers, which have taken notice of this matter, choose to consider the working people almost as As to the immediate cause of the brutes in point of mind; they choose, present violent state of things, it is particularly the Morning Chronicle, to clear that WETHERELL was not that ascribe all the violences at Bristol to the cause, except upon one spot, and even ignorance of the working people. Never there there were predisposing causes, was there ignorance or impudence sur.without which the dreadful effect would passing that of these writers. The not have been produced. To be sure, working people, in country as well as his conduct had been particularly offen- town, know their interests a great deal sive; he had called the working people better than these writers seem to know by all manner of vile names; he had them. Of their quick-sightedness I will called the 101. voters a pauper consti- give the editor of the Morning Chronituency;" he had called the working cle the following instance. When I was -people of London "the turbid, base in Hampshire, the other day, a choppopulace;" he had been constantly stick, who came to my place of lodging insisting that the people were become cool to talk to me about the mode of harvestin the cause of reform; he had called ing and preserving his corn, and who ·for special commissions to go forth soon diverged into a talk about the Reagain; he had, in short, been a co-form Bill, said: "And this cholera operator with THE LIAR in calumni-morbus, Sir, don't you think it's a sort ating the people on the subject of the" of a shoyhoy to frighten us out of the bill; he had done every-thing to irritate" reform?" "Not exactly that," said and provoke the people. But still, if I, "but when one of your children has the people had felt confident that THE got the hickups: Ay," said he, BILL would finally be carried, they interrupting me, "then my dame tells would, indeed, have hissed and groaned "it some frightful lie, and away goes him most gloriously in a noble-spirited" the hickups." "Just so," said I: place like Bristol, and they might have" Ay," said he, "but they won't smashed his carriage; but there their " frighten us by their cholera morbus, anger would have ended. He would" and make us contented with potatoes have been a subject of laughter and of" and water." My friend, DOCTOR mockery, instead of serious assault, if BLACK, who owes his diploma entirely they could have been confident that all to me, understands a great many things; his efforts against them would finally be he knows a great deal; but he does not defeated. Far, however, was that from know the state of the minds of the being the case. They had seen THE working people of England, who unBILL rejected; and, which was a great derstand, quite as well as he does, the deal worse, they had reason to appre-nature and the tendency and the object hend ANOTHER BILL, by which the work- also of all the laws affecting them, ing people would be for ever cut off from which have been passed since the oldest the right of voting. Their minds were of them came into the world. They soured by this prospect: they had no know all about STURGES BOURNE'S promise that this should not be done; bills; all about Peel's new felony and they looked upon themselves as betray-new trespass laws; all about the pued; the inflammable matter was already in their breasts, and the offensive, the contemptuous, the insolent WETHERELL was the match. I beg your Lordship to consider a little the state of the mind of the people 66 nishment of them without trial by jury; all about the parson-justices; and the pensioner and placeman, and military and naval officer-justices; they know all about the origin and ancient distribution of tithes. They understand well how a bill came into the House of Com-general good; and of this whole country, mons, and was passed there, to authorise containing so many cities and towns the selling of their dead bodies; they do where the working men possess this not form themselves into clubs, in order peculiar privilege, nowhere has the to raise money to defray the expenses generous surrender been made with so of watching the graves of their deceased much enthusiasm as in this very city of relations; they do not do this without Bristol. When, therefore, they learned, asking, why the Parliament cannot pass and from your own mouth, that it was a law to protect the dead bodies of the the intention to prorogue the Parlia poor, while they pass so many laws to ment until a time undefined, was it not protect the live and dead bodies of to be expected that their feelings of pheasants, partridges, and hares? In disappointment would be strong in proshort, they want no instruction upon portion to their generosity and zeal and these subjects: they know well, that all devotion? It is a common saying, that their hardships arise from the want of you cannot have blood out of a flint having members in the Parliament chosen by themselves. stone; but it is as reasonable to expect blood from that callous material as to expect passive obedience and nonresistance to associate with enthusiastic public spirit. The people of Bristol knew these things as well as the people in every other part of the kingdom; and, besides this general knowledge, they were But, if the people of Bristol felt sore particularly interested in the fate of the at the delay in passing the bill, what Reform Bill; particularly interested in must have been their feelings at susthe passing of that bill without any al-pecting, as I suspected, and as we had terations; and especially an alteration good reason to suspect, that the new which would raise the qualification of bill was not only to deprive them of voting in large towns. The elections their ancient right of suffrage, but to at Bristol were made by the freemen, deprive them also of the ten-pound who are a very numerous body, and voting contained in the last bill; or, at who are principally working men. The any rate, so to alter the suffrage as to bill that has been rejected by the diminish the number of voters in the bishops and other lords took the right city of Bristol? If I be asked what away at once from all the freemen who ground they had for this suspicion, I are not actually residing in the town at once more repeat the speech of the Lord the time of the election, and for some Chancellor, made towards the close of months before; and it also took away the debate on the Reform Bill; and the right of all resident future freemen; here are the parts that I allude to of that so that the present apprentices never speech. At the beginning of his speech would, as freemen of the city, have a (Oct. 8), he said, "I have listened with right to vote at elections; but the bill" profound attention to the debate, of did not do injustice to Bristol, because" which this, I believe, will be the last it gave a vote to every man that paid night, and which has already occupied ten pounds a year rent for a house," five days, and having heard a vast which was better for the city and better" variety of objections, having weighed for the nation; because, while it gave "the arguments on both sides, and a greater number of voters than existed" careless whether I give offence in before, it made those voters more inde-]" any quarter, I must say, that I am so pendent, less liable to be over-awed or far moved by some points urged as to corrupted. "be ready to reconsider some matters The world has never exhibited in-" upon which I had deemed that my stances of public spirit, of generosity," mind was sufficiently made up." After of devotion to country, equal to those an hour or two of very unmeaning stuff, which have been exhibited by the work- he came to this: "In London and the ing men of England in their eagerness to great towns, in the Tower Hamlets, give up their peculiar privileges for the" in Lambeth, and the like, ten pounds 66 H2 86 "is a low qualification; but in other and thus leave the working millions places it is not. TWENTY POUNDS without the power of returning one " was ORIGINALLY DESTINED for single member. Does your Lordship. "the qualification; but, upon inquiry imagine that the people of Nottingham, "into the circumstances of the small of Derby, and of Bristol, did not see "towns, we were induced to abandon it. this as clearly as I did? They saw that "But if noble Lords, speaking upon the the Lord Chancellor was ready to give "question in general, choose to object them up; they heard, coming from to this qualification that it is uniform, your Lordship's own lips, that the new "and say that it ought to be different bill was to contain alterations; what "at divers places-lower in the smaller those alterations were to be was kept a "towns, and higher in the larger-I secret; and no contradiction was ever "will not say that I agree with them; given, and has not yet been given, to "I will not say what was originally my the interpretation which I gave to the opinion; I will not tell the reasons speech of the Lord Chancellor ; and "that now recommend the bill, as it what, then, were the people to think "stands, to my support; but I will say other than that this part of the bill was "that whoever holds that doctrine will to be surrendered? What the feelings "find me ready to secure for him the of the people are may be best described, "most ample, the most scrutinising, the perhaps, by what they would inevitably "most candid discussion of the subject be if the new bill, with this alteration in "in the committee. I speak as an in-it, were to pass. The bill being passed; "dividual; candour compels me to say "thus much. But I, at the same time, "say that it is emphatically a subject for "the committee." the famous Reform Bill having become a law, off would go the reforming members to Dover, to Canterbury, to Rochester, to Chichester, to Portsmouth, to Southampton, to Chester, to Northampton, to Liverpool, to Derby, to Nottingham, to Hull, to York, to Newcastle, and other large towns. If we suppose one of these members addressing his constituents in order to get them to choose him again; and, as a happy instance, let us suppose your Attorney-General arrived for this purpose at Nottingham; something like the following would, if he were to speak common sense, be bis speech :— "GENTLEMEN, "When I last had the honour to be elected by you, you deputed me to Now, my Lord, it was impossible for me to read this without seeing clearly that the Lord Chancellor was ready, not like the hunted beaver, to throw anything to the hunters belonging to himself; but to throw to them the sole protection of the working people. Let it be observed, and your Lordship knows it well, that the ten-pound suffrage in the great towns was the thing on which the opposing bishops and peers made the stoutest stand. They saw, as I see, and as the people saw, that the ten-pound suffrage in the great towns would be a real good to the working people. The opponents of the" to keep together in my chivalry with bill, therefore, took it as their strongest my learned brother, Lord BROUGHAM. ground of objection. They dwelt upon" We have fought the good fight; we it more than upon any other part of the" have beaten the boroughmongers; we bill. With from fifty to a hundred" have carried our glorious Reform. men, really chosen by the working peo-" Bill; we have, indeed, taken away ple, they clearly saw that the Pension the suffrages of all those working and Sinecure List never could stand a 66 men in this ancient and high-spirited year. They saw, in short, that they "town who returned me to Parliament; might as well give universal suffrage at" and we have given the right of voting once. Therefore it was, that the Lord" to the tax-eaters and tithe-eaters, and Chancellor made the speech that I have" others who live by the labour of the quoted from, clearly expressing a readi-" working men; but, then, we have ness to give up this ten-pound suffrage," taken care to secure to those working 66 |