they soon obtain their just rights-uni-tradictory reports of the revising barversal suffrage, short parliaments, the ballot, and no property qualification." Mr. NICHOLSON proposed the health of Dr. Wade, with a suitable eulogy. risters' decisions on the right of lodgers to vote as parliamentary electors, induces me to trouble you with my opinions on that subject; they are the Dr. WADE returned thanks in a long result of considerable research, and will, and able speech, in which he defended I believe, be found substantially correct. himself against the Morning Chronicle, The governing principle of the Reform which had spoken of him, in common Act suffrage in Boroughs, is, that it with other members of the Westminster should be vested in the occupiers of Association for abolishing the assessed premises of the annual value of ten taxes, as a conspirator and an anarchist. pounds, and that, too, without reference The Doctor maintained that these asso-to those premises being an entire house, ciations were justified in the course they or a part of a house, or a shop, warewere taking, by the conduct of the Government. Mr. CARPENTER, in a long speech, defended the associations, upon constitutional principles, and, especially by the authority of Burke. Mr. NICHOLSON proposed the "True Sun, the people's paper," and called upon all present to give it their support He said he was in daily communication with all parts of the kingdom, and he could state that the True Sun had effected wonders in almost every town and village in the country. If the peo ple did not support the paper, they would show themselves undeserving of a free press. Mr. DENNETT and Mr. SIMPSON expressed the sense of obligation which the masons felt towards the paper, and stated, that it was the intention of nnmerous workmen to use no house in which the True Sun was not taken. He hoped that the working men throughout the kingdom would act upon the same principle. It was their duty to do so. (Great cheering.) Mr. CARPENTER returned thanks, and the meeting separated. house, dwelling room, or other description of premises. All that is required for the basis of suffrage is the bona fide occupancy, and the ten pounds annual value; so that a house of sixty pounds annual value held by one man who lets off a distinct part value ten pounds to each of five other men, gives six persons equal right to be registered as parliamentary voters, and this holds good whether the subletting be yearly, monthly, or weekly, provided the rent be in proportion to the required annual ten pounds, the act in no part of it even stating the kind of letting requisite, or mentioning the words householder or lodger, but cautiously confining itself to the terms "occupier of premises of ten pounds annual value.” Now, Sir, this was the suffrage which the reform Ministry told us we were to have, and this was the suffrage which induced me (among many thousands) so zealously to advocate the Reform Bill, little thinking that the Ministry would break faith with us on so important a subject, by covertly throwing difficulties in the way of that suffrage of which they so loudly vaunted, and to the exWe should have stated that the sum pectancy of which they were indebted of 61. 4s. was collected for Mr. Deane, for the greatest part of the gallant and through whose exertions chiefly, Popay energetic support they received. Howwas detected. He is in circumstances ever, so it is; and Whig reputation for of great distress, occasioned by his dis-good faith receives another stab. missal from the police, and we were When the Reform Act was printed, glad to see the sympathy manifested the rate and tax-paying clauses were towards him. RIGHT OF SUFFRAGE IN BOROUGHS. discovered, but not before. Of these clauses, nothing whatever had been said by the Ministry during the discussion, and of the existence of which SIR,-The confused and even con- clauses, I verily believe a large part of the supporters of the bill in the House of Commous were totally ignorant: at least, I know that a very able and talented supporter of the bill, and nearly connected with the Ministry, declared, even after the act came into operation, that there were no such clauses in it. However, there they are; and until we can get rid of them, we must put up with the injustice. But still they do not alter the original basis of the suffrage, which yet remains in the tenpound occupier, be he householder or lodger, or be his tenancy yearly, monthly, or weekly. If, therefore, any sub-tenant (or lodger in the modern acceptation of the word) desire to obtain his franchise, he ought immediately to send written notice to the overseer of his parish, requiring that his name may be entered in the present poor-rate books, as an occupier to the value of ten pounds of the assessment of the house in which he resides, his year of preparatory rating will then date back to the day of making the present poor-rate; and if in July next his year is complete, and the enactment for the payment of rates and taxes shall have been complied with (or repealed), then the overseer is bound to register him as an elector, and his vote is as valid as that of the householder or landlord, whose liability for the amount of rate is in no way diminished by his lodger being rated for a part of the as sessment. I believe I have now placed this important matter in its true light; and if any of your readers have a desire for more information on the subject, I beg to refer them to the Morning Chronicle of 23. Aug., 1832, in which they will find a case drawn by me, and to the Morning Chronicle of 28. Aug., and a day or two subsequent (also last year), where they will find clear and able answers to the case from a barrister of the Inner Temple. I am, Sir, High-street, St. Giles, 5. Oct., 1833. To Mr. Cobbett, M.P. GEO. ROGERS. LONDON MARKETS. MARK-LANE, CORN-EXCHANGE, Oct. 7.The extensive supplies of Wheat and Barley which came to hand towards the close of last sold on Friday, added to a fair arrival this week, and the greater portion remaining unmorning, caused the stands to exhibit an ample show of samples, particularly from the home counties, as well as Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire. The large receipt of Flour likewise depressed the market, and deterred millers from coming forward. The business transacting in Wheat was, therefore, very limited, and the quality and condition of the fresh Corn not being improved from last week, rendered the better descriptions full 1s. per qr. cheaper, and all secondary and inferior sorts extremely difficult to quit at a decline of 2s, per qr. on the rates of this day week. Old Wheat was dull sale, and prices nominally the same. In bonded Corn nothing doing. Barley was in plentiful supply, but the new samples received this morning were rather improved in quality; the quantity, however, of samples ou hand exceeding considerably the demand, prices of all descriptions, except the selected parcels, receded 2s. per qr.; and the market for the article closed dull at this decline. Malt of all qualities was a very heavy sale. Oats in moderate supply, and the article experienced a fair demand, at rather worse prices than this day week. New Beans were more in request, and in some instances realized Is. advance; old qualities were dull and unaltered in value. New white Peas met a very limited request, and must be noted 1s. to 2s. cheaper. Grey and maple were also dull sale. Ship Flour, owing to the large arrivals, hung on hand, and might have been purchased on rather lower terms. In town-made qualities no alteration. and Northamptonshire; with a few from Nor folk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire, and our western and midland districts, Sussex, Surrey, and Kent; the remainder, including Town's-end Cows, chiefly from the London marshes. Full three-fifths of the Sheep were new Leicesters, of the South Down and whitefaced crosses, in the proportion of about three of the former to five of the latter; about onefifth South Downs, and the remaining fifth of about equal numbers of old Leicesters, Kents, and Kentish half-breds, with a few pens of horned and polled Norfolks, horned Dorsets and Somersets, horned and polled Scotch and Welsh Sheep, &c. The Lambs consisted of about equal numbers of new Leicesters, for the most part of the Downish cross, and South Downs, with a few pens of Dorsets, Kentish halfbreds, &c. MARK-LANE.-Friday, Oct. 11. The arrivals this week are moderate. The market dull, but without alteration in the prices. THE FUNDS. Beans, Small...... Tick.. ... 48. to 50s. SMITHFIELD, October 7. This day's supply of Beasts was rather numerous, and of considerably improved quality; the supply of Sheep, Lambs, Calves, and Porkers, rather limited. Trade, with Mutton and Pork was somewhat brisk, at fully, with Beef, Lamb, and Veal, dull, at barely Friday's prices. About four-fifths of the Beasts appeared to consist of about equal numbers of short-horns, Devons, Welsh runts, and Irish Beasts; the remaining fifth of about equal numbers of Herefords and Scots, with a few Sussex Beasts, Town's-end Cows, Staffords, &c., chiefly (say about 2,200 of the short-horus, Devons, Scots, Runts, Herefords, and Irish Beasts) from Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, ECOND GLASGOW LOTTERY. Authority of Parliament. The Scheme contains Prices of All to be drawn in ONE DAY, Wednesday, 22d January next. The Prizes consist of Freehold Lands and Houses; but the fortunate Holders have the option of taking the Property, or receiving the Amount in Money as soon as drawn, according to the Value set against each Prize in the Scheme, subject only to a small Commission of 5 per Cent., to cover the risk and expense in selling the Property. The Shares, divided agreeably to the directions of the Act, are on Sale at all the Offices, at the following Prices.WHOLE TICKET ... HALF £13 13 0 £7 6 0 EIGHTH....£1 18 QUARTER.. 3 15 6 SIXTEENTH 6 0 19 6 Schemes at large may be had, gratis, at all the Offices. Printed by William Cobbett, Johnson's-court: and published by him, at 11, Bolt-court, Fleet-street. TOL. 82.-No. 3.] LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19TH, 1833. [Price 1s. 2d. LETTER IV. TO THE the case of necessity; and, I am now going to show you that, even since the date of my last letter, the Morning Chronicle, which is the organ of the Government, the defender of all its cormorant creatures, and the spiteful avenger of those who endeavour to drive those cormorants from their prey; I have now to show you that this tool of the Government itself has put forth that which amounts to this: that the landowners must lose their estates, or that the in HON.JOHN STUART WORTLEY. terest of the debt must be reduced. It : does not say that it does not mention the debt at all; but it says that which amounts to the same thing; and this, together with some other things, it shall be my business to show, when I have inserted the article to which I allude, and which was published on the 8th instant: Bell-court, 16. October, 1833. SIR,-This is the fourth letter addressed by me to you on the subject of your Jewish stock-jobbing pamphlet, in which you accuse Sir JAMES GRAHAM, the Quarterly Review, the Morning Herald, the Scotch and Hampshire petitioners, and particularly me, of having shown" unflinching impudence" in as"The evidence taken before the Se-, serting that the interest of what is called" lect Committee on Agriculture is, in the NATIONAL DEBT ought to be reduced. many respects, consolatory; but to "one class of men it holds forth a prosThe three former letters you will find,« pect of utter ruin. It seems to be the if you choose to look for them, in the "opinion of the witnesses from all parts Registers of 31. of August, 7. and" of the country, that a great reduction "of rents is absolutely necessary to pre"vent the destruction of the farmers; and as landlords are, with few excep tions, very much in debt, reduction of "rent means neither more nor less than ousting them from their estates. "One main cause of the distress of "both landlord and tenant is the in"creased prosperity of the labourers. It 23. of September. In the course of these [Printed by W. Cobbett, Johnson's-court.] would appear, that without playing tricks with the currency, by which, "the labourer is cheated without his "knowing it, it is hardly possible to of Mr. THOMAS ATTWOOD, and the "lower wages materially. The system. other currency-mongers, if acted, on, would have relieved the landlords, but it would have robbed the labourers." D After this comes an awkward analysis things. He saw the corn and the meat of part of the evidence taken before the agricultural committee of last session, which evidence, by-the-by, has not been delivered TO ME, though it appears that these newspaper-people have got possession of it. I suppose that I shall get at it, some how or another, before the commencement of the next session. Some folks thought that I was one of those members, who was very likely to be a fit person to be upon that committee. I was very glad that I was not, because it leaves me at full liberty to ransack its report and the whole of its proceedings, of which it will not be-and-thirty pounds. This cock-chafer come me to speak disrespectfully; but which it will become me thoroughly to examine and freely to observe upon. To return to the Chronicle; the rest of its article is an awkward rambling analysis of the evidence taken before this committee: the sum total of which analysis is this; that, if the labourers cannot be brought back again to the potatoes and water, to which they were reduced in 1830, the farmers must be totally ruined, or the landlords must lose all their rents; that is to say, all their estates. (first a nasty grub, and then a stupid humming insect flying in the dusk, and feeding upon the sweet leaves which blossoms of the fruit); this cock-chafer ought to cherish and ornament the could not see any of the whys and wherefores of these strange circumstances, which, to him appear, I dare say, to be wholly unaccountable, and to lation; or by the want of heddikeshun. have been produced by surplus-popu Whether Sir JAMES GRAHAM and his committee looked into these whys and wherefores I cannot say, but this I know, that if I had been upon the committee, these whys and wherefores are the very things into which I should have looked. For, it is here that the cock-cause of the loss of estates is to be dis It is very curious that this grovelling, grubbing, poking, mole-like, covered. What! Did this committee bourers' wages, as compared with the inquire into nothing but the rate of laprice of corn? Oh, no! That House, to which I have the honour to belong, cannot have thirty-one men picked out of it so very BORNÉ (to use a polite French epithet) as not to see that the price of corn was a mere item in the rate of wages as compared with the inquiry, and that a very vulgar item, too. Oh, no! Honourable members chafer-like writer can see no other alternative. He is a caitiff, who has condemned me to sudden dissolution; he is at once an arrogant and a stupid fellow; but the wretched thing might, one would have thought, have been able to discover some other alternative; for, it is a horrible state of things, indeed, if we be left to choose between blazing homesteads, and the loss of the landowners' estates. This fellow could not of that House are not cock-chafers: stop a little while to inquire what it deep research; and, having a great they are gentlemen of minds adapted to was that had produced this state of landowner at their head, and having the |