The Sun. — London, England, 1842-02-11 00:00:00

ivit*lsriNvc4 TIIE GREAT A NTI-CORN-LAW CONFERENCE. (YESTERDA Y.) 3 down to the Houso of Commons to witness the birth ; some had gained admission, some had been shut out.--( Cries of " Hear, hear.") All was expectation. The Oeposition side of the House at the hour presented a mist amusing spectacle. There were the farmers' friends elongating their necks and extending their ears-s.although that was in some cases need less-(Cheers and laughter) -straining their eyes-( Renewed laughter)--their hearts were rising out of their neckcloths ; there they were, like the storks in the fable, trying to get a peep into the Ministerial pitcher. - (Cheers and laughter.) The first half-hour passed-there was. no delivery.-( Laugh p' GREG (in continuation from our Afternoon Edition of t r ) The second haif.heur passed-ne delivery. -( Renewed - Th th'rd-no delivery.-(Continued laughter. ) Th ere yesterday)elaid:- Their language was laeughter. e i iast_ea7erelOo,ooo bales of cotton Vislierpoteed this year tban .. oh, spring to light ; auspicious babe be born?" ofto, wheNas the exports have considerably increased. The -(lmmense cheering and laughter.) Drops of sympathetic of thin Country have not been able t o p urc h ase w h at the country . the Abbey-clock struck seven, and then, after the tragedy of. a c es.- Sitar ) While the imports o f t h e one art icle .. starving People," there was enacted the _pantomime of the decreased by 150,000 hales last year, the ex pnretestto,,,n _ b ( as .4 Sliding Scale."-(Hear, hear.) 'three mpnths had the Hall einevery other article of British produce have been mate- Doctor taken for deliberation-he had sent to consult all the siii7,.le.easetl. . That was an admitted fact. What should most renowned State doctors of Europe ; men had been sent k n. _i n Peel have known by that? He certainly should have round to places " where herbs unbidden grew," to collect sim kav":.. iiat it proved the fact that the people of this country plea for the shop of the State Doctor.. In all directions had w ere "' been able to purchase that produce. and not that they t h ey sought for information, and we were told they had tested hithertnout able to consume it. The people have not been able every statement. There had , been a rumour that after having at all to procure their usual amount of provisions, or anything felt the pu'su of the petient the Doctor hadegiven it as his approaching to it. What was the reason of that? Ihe opinion that the patieet was suffe ing fr.an exhaustion, at to principal reason of itthe people ob uged t o was that va r ; PaY so much for their food-( Hear, hear) -and fir the the best remedy was change of air -( A laugh )-a long 'tun oth b anks er articles they require. The restrictions of the voyage-( Renewed laughter)-say to the United States-to r. ,' , e s' and the consequent derangement in every department of Canada-to Nova Scotia-to Australasia-(Continued laugh- Set e are the causes of the high price of food-the people should ter) -to Van Diemen's Land, and that when there, a little 9 et altogether to the measure which was lase night pro pounded • travelling into the interior of the countr • (Great laughter)- all 3 -- the in the House of Commons. That measure contained lit tie who'e - a little cutting down of the primeval forest trees -a rno.e. evils of the old system. It might be said that the some labour in the rearing of a . log cabin-a little clearing of e tof duty undrr the on corn and provisions the groundand sowing of the d d then a patient waiting see , an • present law, but 'yet it. contained all the essential evtls of the • for the harvest, and good appetite to eat it when gathered. Is .e sliding scale. The evils of the sliding scale were But upon authority this decision of the Doctor had been eon thePrornitietit ' . law as • in .the proposed measure as they werein tradicted, not by himself, but by one of his thought he * as, the in it stood„-( Hear, hear.) He (Mr. Greg) _ would_ who would not dwell in our shop, but who . e could that slid' c etteg, by a few facts, what the serious mischiefs of do better over the way--(Loud cheers)-got his indentures numbers scale were. This country had imported, in round cancelled, and now Edward has found a new master.-( Loud all kin e d r , during the last years, ten millions quarters of grain of cheers.) The sliding scale !-and this was the end of all !- 'lnant't '--- 1 wheat, peas, barley, &c. The importation of that and this was the result of a whole winter's meditation at less than grain within those three years cost this country no Drayton Manor !-(Cheers.) " Oh, most lame and impotent then ffes , t o wenty millions of money.-( Hear, hear.) What was conclusion !" Oh most ridiculoue_farce ; or, rather let him say, u ' , : f f the operation of the sliding scale upon the irnpor- Oh cruel mocker of the people-Oh heartless and wicked dis markets .that corn? The wheat purchased in foreign regard of the rights of human industry !-(Cheers.) A . di atel ,,. !!!?niti be brought home to this country imme- sliding scale ! What was a sliding scale ?-a key to turn • run J ihto ‘vtitirenever there was a scarcity, all the -purchasers the lock on the door of the storehouse of the Universal Father for instate. e Baltic markets at once. Suppos e wheat, of the world-( Gr, at cheering)-a law that took away the. Was Payabl e ; for the a quarter. The duty of 203. a quarter bounty of God freely sent for the support of his children- Se that the try, " s a u t ivase quantity purchased and imported by this coun- hibited the thousandsand tens of thousands from that which they Iseult! co_. the that to be on an average ten millions of quarters, had already earned. Cursed law, doubling the primeval curse, lio ns of country ten millions of money. That ten mil- turning the warm sweat of industry into the the chill damp of th e s l idi u ' o "°' Y was lost to this country by the opponents of starvation.-(Tremendous cheers.) He denounced that law. th e i name g lise seVe ; the next evil which it caused was __( Cheers. ) It was an impious law.-(Cheere.) Grant should, as he ha u d s3 a for I freight, because the corn imported that suffering was not great, that there were no strong motives expense was doubt observed, be instantly shipped. The to urge them to repeal that unrighteous law; grant that corn s h ould be y i ncreased by the dispatch with which the food was plentiful-that trade was thriving-that profits were ehat ed. The . sent from the market in which it was par- great. -that the population was employed-that gladness eulated we , i freight alone of the quantity of corn he cal- and jay shone on the desolate homes of the country-the law he had mention m e p e orted into this country within the period would still remain as unrighteous and iniquitous as ever.- Again, three-fourths, cost this country two millions of money. (Cheers. )If they perseveres! thus to the end, and not remain were obliged of the vessels the British people waiting for three months, they would succeed. Saul at Tarsus country were r te e employ in bringing that corn into t is acknowledied his Master on one day, and the . next he was withi n a s I "relgn vessels, because it should be imported eaching to the Gentiles. --(Loud cheers.) Display the zeal twat, w.tflettarieular daft. These twelve millions of money paid of new converts.-( Cheers.) Rejoice that you did not see the ~((Tear,_,l hearnt last t tee years were completely thrown away. initaity before.-(Cheers.) Redeem the time. Take your muted...ef a . I e But that was not all the people had en- arrefrom the skies, acrd fight this Goliath of the Philistines.- obli ged t ° t was a trifle to what they suffered. They were (Loud cheers. ) Take a pebble from the brook,. and strike The screw ° Pay with bullion for that corn in the foreign market. him down•-(Load cheers.) He wanted to get their feet on a 4114 the r was applied by the banks in order to save themselves, rock.-(Cheers.) If they departed from principle, and made ~,a ut t u r esult was that the rice of the whole produce of the the question one of time, or place, or circumstance, or harvest, The Y was immediatel ra P dfm2o to 30 per cent. averages, or prices, they committed themselves to a sliding ;E ach exports of this y ise ro n Y year the • country amounted to -0 millons ser log. „ a l e . tl' or -(Cheers.) There were other sliding scales than those stati on , w , imports exceed that by many d egrees. The of Sir Robert's - (Hear, hear.) While they denounced his, in co ,e no take English goods pay ten per cent. less for them they should not adopt one of their own.-( Hear, hear. I Make e itp „ o n :_quence of the application of the Bank screw; that loss, it a moral question, and they made it an intelligible one; they ex p r arte e d uton a hundred and fifty millions of quarters of wheat made it an authoritative one; they enlisted the best of the corn 'stoney, l e n three years, would amount to fifteen millions of munity in their behalf; they made the minister, and the elder, and hc i ,W i nteh, added to the losses sustained by the purchase and the preacher, pray for them, and get subscriptions for lever, millions of foreign corn, made the enormous sum of twenty - them ; their petitions would be laid in that or the lion made in sterling.-(Hear, hear.) That was a calcula- vestibule, or in the house that had been erected to Him who, ke h ad , . lit round numbers, and he (Mr. Greg) believed if when among men, set- them an example, that they should tread hearil. aid it amounted to thirty millions sterling it would be in his steps, and who when on the green mount multiplied the li it was e t'uth; that sum was thrown away as completely as bread for the 5,000, and by his power as God, fed the taken ,rothrown into the German Ocean.-(Hear. ) It was poor by a miracle, rather than they should go hungry away. cl as , es `_,U the pockets of the labouring and manufacturing _(Cheers.) Now for Sir Robert's speech.-( Laughter. ) any set the country, and given away to foreigners without It was truly characteristic. Was it . a statesman. like , speeeh ,, ? plet e a loss whatsoever for it.-(Hear.) It was as coin- ..._(" No, no.") Was ,it a patriotic speech ?-(4 No, no. ) Into t h e o to the British people as if it had been thrown Was it the speech of a Christian Minister?-(" No.") Was Wer e to L eean. That was not all. The people of England there any recognition of high and everlasting principle le N i t , haven a repetition of those evile, for they would Was there any compassion in his demeanour for the thousands de et i oe m n tSed as long as the sliding scale, to regulate the intro- who were perishing for want of bread, and " who stood all day th e 4% r .. foreign corn, was in operation. That was not ti the idle in the market-place, because there was no man who itnphi e Li, ant not end there; the derangement ceused by the who hired them ."-( Cheers ) It was a cilium's, serpentine, erected of the screw extended over the entire country. It prudent evasion' of the true merits of the question.-( Cheers. ) eve, operativeelen shopkeeper, every merchant, every trader, He came to it like a tiger who preys stealthily.-(Cheers. ) 11,4. in this country.-(Hear, hear.) It affected •that speech was a disgrace to the judgment . of their conntry - co u l d ...0 revenue ; for if the people had not food, they (Loud cheers)-a libel on the Christianity of the nation- Gr eg consume taxable commodities; therefore, he (Mr. (Cheers )-1 mockery of the woes of the people-( Continued Site e 4. lll °,,st cordially concurred in the resolution before the c heers) )the hard-hearted manifesto of a Ministetindifferent to i ns ma r e for he was convinced that the essential evils of the slid- the perishing condition of her Majesty's subjects.-(Continued si r existed to the utmost extent in the proposition made by cheers.) He was glad that a Gentleman on the right of W as " .. Peel last night in the House of Commons. To be sure there the chair severed the speech of the Minister from the Sovereign. i t u sta l° t roe little alleviation from the horrid, cruel, foolish, and The Ministers were for them-the Sovereign was not.- of the ?%'I ' system which at present exists, but the .object What ! a Sovereign-a..wpman-a wife-a mother- -a patriot f !lous e o itt tstrY, as avowed by the Prime Minister in the Queen-sanction that ; Iniquitous mockery of the wrongs o ~.4 6 a n d `-'ornmons last night, was to keep the price of food_. the people !-(Great cheering, and cries of No,_no.)_ No. Rob ert Per Per cent higher than it was on the Continent. Sir Not then for their Queen. ert Peel said . his Wheat it was object and his wish to keep Now's the day, and now's the hour, ( Inane, at a . Price varying between Ms. and 533. per See the front of battle lour ; he had--(Cries of" Hear, hear.") He (Mr. S.) was afraid See approach proud Faction's rower, 6 . alre a d he sentence which was pronounced Peel and Buckingham ! (Loud cheers.) .7 Th eir y incurred t time excellent and worthy Chairman, and therefore he let them cast their eyes for a moment over the battle field, of not allude to more than one other point, as tet the the h effect . "of . V . ' "-(Loud cheers.) To whom did from the Mount _ T i o sion. ~L t c r ie s f" N ") tesetint:orn-laws upon this country-he would merely ask %e rn eby whom were the meat and flower produced by this No. They were the known friends of the people, the comps • f rY condelusion think that the menu aste r i slimed? It was a to . sionate friends of the 'people, the enlightened friends of the and su n g Or working -classes consumed them :-not at all, the meat people. Their humane, their Christian conduct, was blended ,ehti re ig ar, and flour, and other articles of that sort were almost with sagacious views of sound political economy.-(Cheers.) '4 a ge y c onsumed by the higher classes. What do the people The middle classes were with them, although here and there . meal:cultural districts live upon ? Was it not upon flour and enslaved to their aristocratic superiors. They were ex ammo ?et t t,„ ° potatoes ?._(Loud cries of " Yes, yes, when they can with them. The manufacturing and trading interests of she artow ` r e.) Meat .is not used at all by many of them-they country were all their own. The operatives of the country ene ur . i t l i othing w h atever of the luxuries of l i fe-they have not were fast being educated out of those false and pernicious wnt% e ven sit' the c ommon necessar i es; an d Si r R o b er t Peel v i ews w hi c h they once c h er i s h e d . Th ey were b r i ng i ng than know that, for no man is more acute and has more sense the hatchet of disease, and burying it in the sight of the tot e t : has--( A voice, " His conduct upon this question does country-they were joining heart and hand with the advocates c 'arou w t hat" )--he knows well that all the luxuries of life are of repeal ; and ere long all classes, saving that solitary class • th e 'zed by the middling and higher classes. The people- arrayed in opposition to them, would present a fomidable and ho e 1- " n ufaeturin g - the - working people-the operatives inviucible phalanx to the eyes of the Belshazzars of monopoly, t he none of ,hear.) As to what w ho, if they lifted their looks, would . even now see the i i , , 1) ?1 , le sho ld a state 'of things, writing on the wall Who stood in their way? The land do in such land- He 4 . Ores) u to sa weuld was not then prepared • y.. holding . aristocracy of the country. And who were they ? lig merely recommend every man to ale with energy and What was their history.. beaddiscuss ed to„e eeth r When the cheers greatness greatness of the cause they were engaged in.-( Loud labourer told these men he had a right to earn his °f feeli e ,, No w , such was the state of feeling, or rather want bread by the sweat of his brew, and d to get it, now? ' a nd apathy which then prevailed; but what was it what did they tell him? The men of broewho might i acres, astures l ea l( near hear. ) They had succeeded in bringing over ride 40 miles in a straight line through pre ewes, and l p . , tinn ' '; one-half of a great - political' party to the proposi- and paddocks, and corn-fields, and hills, .and cales,. and law, 1 fixed du r - - h t tal rea' of those t s-these men No, we have a right above sou t i-s, th e • Let them 0 Bs., and ot . ers to a o . la ws • • s ream i 'tee t h ' consider their losses, their nts, and more sacred than yours, that is to be protected in the t u t r s t ise e .'et th ~,, s which had been heaped upon them, 'and then puted and unshared participation of the ~ :ititire trade fl „` tt re e- ar gue, and let them subscribe, and let them lec- country in the principal articles of its food., --(Hear. )Well,time in th e that'do„ w hen there is an universal agitation through- but from the time of William the Conqueror down to the i letv -e Ultie e r -nt rY , * and when all men are combined, then comes of the sixth Edward and the reign of Elizabeth, the Corn-law th • . 4 r action , of • • fforthad for its express object abundance and c eap is so p() on. In the meantime let them try ever y e of this country . . .-et nf ~e r a n d a'coie of n the sub- It been devised and executed for the purp . th e th e c enueavour to spread idormation on ness. had . f %t ate outlaw, Man , persons present might remember giving the people a. sufficiency of le b•ad at a low rate, and say "' of i • 1 . nation the designs of the landed aristocracy, then e ,, Ste t , ignorance in which they were themselves some ing the from ben 1 0, and it h f the dut -of all who werewith the supply of the peoples' food, , and apparent, to tamper aiesn bite tae was t ere ore y . . . d ress ge ottit Ormed on the subject. to spread that information make exorbitant profits on its sale. -(Hear, hear. ) Eliza law or rather issued an order in Council, of ihn tho se i r !• ,. When all were prepared ti . e take steps to r . e t • .et. enactee a , of her noblemen found combining for „ li.h, i e lawsnj.l:l,ies, and . when the conviction of secure t.he iniquity declaring that "' Lin the peoples' food at undue profits, I p t . he 6 40 1 : cattle universal, then means to I justice the purpose of s a combination of victuallers corn tut ;_,R Aws , s ti_ Which . should not now be hinted at. caih,"d'ltir, the me ad said at that late hour of the day he should mittni„ a emisdemeanour, and infringing the common law of A let, air' ti meeting many minutes, but,. as he had heed, the country.-( Hear, hear.) And as such they .. were liable A L • ier I nd (' should make a few observations.-(Cheers.) to what: To be put into the pillory--( Hear, hear s -to be tec oril. ‘, been addressed to him from the Manchesterprison durine the Koval subject to a heavy fine and sent to . fo ,, ice a b the remlution aw League, from which he should read one pleasure. If these laws were to he eget% ' en 'ai l 2 of a rlieli pi ed P e a'sed at a general meeting of the members, laeople'3 Parliament, why then, he thong t . the t • ct You °t a g e n the Associationsanction noprinciple save the .*, hbourini , Penitentiary would sty to his , prisoners- to peel ntt un Heil ' the treadmill, make way •; I have Noble not said that qualified repeal of the Corn -laws. Sir Robert men dancing on . _ _ ,e, R .end tensres for th e , fie the true test of the people's prosperity should and Right Honourable anti Rdigh.rties of ~ Hear, hear. „ ) • comparative decree. in which ive lowness or highness of prices, but the this place.-( Laughter, and loti on & assault Men, you fellows hi's of tir e they had the power of commanding the corn- Come you petty-larceny men, ) f bread in 'Thames of's'iina ' It hal at one time been uncle' stood to be a that were sent here for stealing loaves o to4l st. ls to have been born • Fn I d, but were they to be street or Spitalfields, give way, leave your places, nobler feet toter that t h e peo . !n agan . he nations? even of England were as well fed as those than your's will henceforth dance upon the tread-mill.-(A . here." t - I have stupendous sort of offenders coming th an d that th and if such were the case, were they 0 laugh). a that prince of renegades the i t e People of England were not to be fed better And then my Lord of Cheerios, and f the Derby dilly, and ngi, d ussian boor and the Polish serf. The people of the Knight of Nether by, and the driver o ',cuntr worked three times hard as those of any otherthepaces of those many more of their colleagues, would take tr,,,, I, and ~..... . as . d tempted to commit crimes. - h d Corn-laws ha , " the others.""e therefore entitled to much more comforts whom t e accurse serf on the one hand "Nard e d N , a lie should conclude by observing that , as The Monarch formerly stood between the s that aristocracy was gt,, i 4,4 Cr,nehest the people of that town had fought the and the aristocracy on the other ; but now n the Sovereign, now with the t tt i e nanf ullY--(Cheers.) Ile had been connected i n the ascendant ; they trampled non ulao now th e Peopl e °•;., from the commencement of this ag it a tion, and upon the people, now upon trade, now upon manufactures, , were all-power to aril h there were all of one mind, and were fully determined upon industry, and now upon poverty. . The) h were a Mr. t_eir colours to the mast -(Loud cheers. ) ful. 'they returned themselves to Parliament hear.) y If they alle ge oit• TIICIIStPSON said he . should avail himself of the pri- Parliament of provision mongers.-(Hear , would write nn the addressing th e Conference, and make a few remarks were to act honestly and put up their sign, they , s ., esr.i. grew f r Pre 'tflt Position of their can e, and the duty which over it, " House of Commons and House of ortt 3l, 341 those that Position. Th e y mi g ht take it for granted that Buckingham, Peel, Graham, and Company:, self-appointed heer s and th e a .' wh came to London - to time Conference, considered provi,ion merchants for 27,000,000 of people. -( th e de'Utlellt 66 N ft. No Complete whether reference was made to laughter.) They would add to the inscription, N . , . ii _ Cott 1: of Pros idence, of nature, or to the will of competition allowed, for corn, beef, butter, bacon, " eg isfo ' co ' n - Pose of h ey "le not there so much for the par- quire within.-( Laughter. ) Take especial truce as f or d reading each ether essays on the Corn-laws, nection with the shop over the water."--( Loud dcheers and claims , c u,nts! a e _ A eci di, ng their course of action according to the cir- laughter.) 'these were the melt who dented the first titan 't:' act' n e -A ,` which they were placed, and to point out the line o f justice. And why? Was it because . they were worsehad "e to ° vi ' l l"h, from hour to hour, and year to year, it would other men? No, hut they had acquired power ; they have 'lick, fo r the m - to pursue.- 2 ( Loud cheers.) Could he erected themselves into monopolists. Their monopoly had ferettec:osen the line of pr - ocedure to be adopted at the Con- been admitted by the people for twenty•lour years. It ' ten th d.,.titis daY, he wished that it bad been confined tot so- had been supported by other monopolists, and the nation i ts tinsti ce ',: r "! l ' n. f the essential, incurable, anti everlasting had now to tight a band of confederated opponents pod"'cid Provideda'l taxes imposed upon the universal benefits of They were the monopolists not only of food, and of political of for the support of man. If he understood the power in this country, but they were the m , nopohsts of the dent °I . the this.a question, it W3s based upon grounds indepen- inestimable privilege of worshipping Gad according to their sle et bi w l - a • rvest, whether it were good or bad-indepens conscience. They were the monopolists of personal free 11)cusient _, .g a es o whether they were high or low-inde- dom ; and this very Buckingham of to-day, was the Chin , go uge uttr de, whether in prosperity or adversity. The doe of yesterday, who, as Chairman of the India 'ight t question was, whether an body of men had a 0 c ircumscribe the benefits Committee at the Thatched House, used to send forth manifesto factor(lm - after manifesto, saying that to attempt the extinction of the I tight to say a cheering)-hether any body of men had hateful and abominable system of Colonial slavery, was to y sr. , ~ay to the industrious man, when he had fabricated a • his vestedright to the blood, and veins, and sir eas and - f ore "! ''' a cloth, o you shall 'goer h as not exchange ki t - 16 , 1e _ iv _prepared for you."-(Cheers.) That was the Duke of Buckingham-so conscientious, so sensitive, e l ieers e .) 0 peel this question might to he discussed.-( Loud in his allegiance to the farming interest ot the country, that he 41 Leen a eel last night had done what the emissaries of Peel ' 6. ~, oto tang in every part of the country which he (Mr. could not consent the 'nation Me, a belief that there eno) ,-t e n . t pson) had visited during the winter. He had been oc- the purpose of jockeying . ~1 a wo hours in trailing red herrings in 1 • • me of Sir Robert pod that would be something in the measure e Leers and laughter.) a directions.- cou'd command their respect, and prove worthy their ae.cep a when he i He had imitated the huntsman, who, ' . hear.) This was the hotly they rigs to the shed to dray, bis dogs off the scent, tied a red her- lion.-(Hear,ii hear, it was a contest of land v. ---(Cheer end of a string, and trailed it about in all directions. • • to contend h _ . 5 a antillaughter.) Peel might for the last three months tus ice, v. the law of God, the sights of the people, v. all they wanted to do was 'cote b en sitting at the feet of a few men, who had all the 1 V. the happiness of the people; and _. winter been end to thin the e a ,,,, ... endeavouring to delude the country as to the Ito force down their plan of expediency, . . int.) submlssion, to it':._;(,st distress. It was machinery, it was over-production, population, and to starve the people_ ►, • ~0,7 u perfeeundity-( A laugh)-it was banking, it was the waste their strength ; and to send them .. tutu the } ken monetary system of America. Now, Peel might have the quiet , grave in order that they may remain in lit _ si te at the feet of these men fur the last three I and usurped p.asession of this Island and its contents.- , 1 _ en t t w n for he had oceupied fuur-fifths of his speech of I (Hear and cheers,) But he had another charge to bring est arsine • s tet e with these topics. -4 Cheers.) He had said he could . a against them and it was the gravest of the two. his reeseribe until lie had been regularly called in, and had ef t* quarrelled not with them because they were lords but he Well, he had been called in, and had received his fie, land, that they soil, that they were monopolists of the poise a could not prescribe until he had had time to feel the t t h a at t e Possessed it, had seized it in the first instance, it i tre ..._.,nd study the sympoms of the patient. He could not I the y had kept. it, had distributed it, had ti ansmeted ,_ i t ate :nlue until the re -assembling of Parliament. This he I . rouyndno‘avniilossessed it-they had walled it round, had fence it '-' at the b • • witbeginning of the winter, at a time when a rigid I must pursue set th - sprin.- ~•guns and man-traps upon i , 't and they i n ; u r_ was settieg in,the and hundreds of thousands were perish- Hi to t e dusty read, and scarcely ever, except from less ts _ r _ t. '!ant-( Hear, hear) -were shivering before their fire - ' presented to aiitglimpse of those beauties which mother earth tabn "Ta av ttis and looking with despair at their empty cupboards, tCheere.) II .e admiration and homage of her ehildren ow . having sold the cuveriug of their bed to buy bread, had quarrelled not with them that they were the s lords of these fair e ile `_,.. th to gather the potatoe-peelings cast forth ou the possessions ; he could see them, and that wa enough for - him °f "gtiiiietlseof the neighbourhood. And there had been evidence t wailsnor jure "' the if lie could not, he should neither scale Or (Rea' . things before Parliament 'ere they adjourned.e fence to look at them. If they rejoiced in I r, hear. T the feet of their l wide [ tad e„enee his ) he Doctor had received his appointment, them possesetens, he could say he would enjo , (Cheers and n a l , i shop, but he wanted time to prepare his physic. Wanted ;:ime :o n laughter. ) Ile had felt the pulse, but he 1 parliament was study the symptoms of his patient. At length ' was to t a k e s , called together, and last night the revelation „ey a in.t had heard its murmurs -the ;.or:hted.-(Cheers and laughter!) hadT seen the smoke it had as thehad been aneounced, an ' he hour of its bringing hour for the mountain's bringing lock had been fixed on forth. They had gone 4 .. With a propriety that none can feel But he who lifts an unpresumptuous eye, And smiles and says, My father made them all." The charge he had to bring against them this day was not that they possessed these lands ; he would not investigate their titles ; he would leave thorn in quiet possession, the charge he had to bring agai nst them was, that they were not.only monopolists of the roil of this beautiful land, but virtually the monopolists Cf "the great globe itself, and all which it in- ITN hat the present Ad. 1 other advainistra useful lesson, which pe:ntm r en ts, that it cau se he hel d pa re a s and abilities we -( Hear.) eman opposite e...- I been influenced 01 the parties ?,1 04 her MajestysiG,T, ins which the pub"' tame of Lord Co:e. r R. Peel) ihat 31r, (Hear, hear.) bench in Scotland eas.—( Hear, hear, ) ad he had bad til e , dic a great belle': un.—( Hear, hear -4 R ees which had bees i it came into power; the appointment!' he thought, and n.Jr. e Creswell was professional 111:0,3; , they had the u t, of the appein., olei !,, vents in the D 0 st Session, sod ! id Government bold ttenhant that their tender to hint one 0 ed to accep t the are w ell understand t. was scarcely to :t; a t he would accept I to forego the oet. and thereby er: ing to teen of 1, nt were deter,n 110; also an espial' Judges referre to Flitted the GoveT,Le lirected against bwai, n he heard the:deo, ied Judges fre",hese • opinion that re, tppiness for the oie ink that such Eerie revented, by &b a ne ns upon thent...":,,t valuable friendr4i had not hearot,',:st timated to bi o l 4 years o age, hali i ,g 1825, and ba t: 7 1b. ,rt to whien slity to that ev e t. Peel) tiler _‘, ) ,A re which the 110',',.; i on the Admilns"ei, Noble Lord to et' ) at attack.--(1170.0 h to resign solty„, Y -five years (S it isor , and if be t . .„ e , e t o throw ostr:;0, distinguished $ had the address the! nd ; and be ( to Ir e ' to for justice tf . doil ns on t he Prin l e , ) Ministerial benic„dgee !s to r etiring made a c al ' there . had 5 0t Lo rd eers.) 'rile that be also, stat ing t !d d o wn by 1 n, 61. „:t 3 had been ha" "i' t 0 4 ign his offiee„ son ointmenta I!l3nateJ had been S ir mind. He tion, There wgiot, s ; and t he had be kis salary h" sa d considered t o the apPointlthe e appointment retire"' e t e d with the coo. appointed i° l'entleman w-a9f th 'ftted Dean °. • e ui he universal ro:f Ile position, an 01, .e Bar of Scot ['locate could iiristie !tar, hear) --t° 'Lori whether 0° li e e in 183 4 o: ia to t be might appearueld emory went, ' eh a circular terlv inconsistt p eel„ .) his (Sir 11;, bye in 1835: au ht rship, he nt.„ 4 ":11 his fate. rie an,s confidence' vii, n somewhat che.et stry had found !oroi. ess the public ( u , i ,,bef t the Rah I l lvel ) ✓ he (Sic 11- oeil tv ? The H°P"; or some credit pitisa e offer of resigetivred ort uni ty. ° ob je. 4, upon such a,' ac ts , hope of egatnbor,/ see.—(H ear, vded, ires were PliojerlCe itleman'S 110.ttleif one side° lA clt• - ' tiro to co°' e this was the - " e d ! f having deb° nt ' 'to ap peared to h i justified in iayi firmities,theyarbi :, se, there may rvice; my s ° ) we and la ughtepcoe leable with 11 0 :0 tar.) If, in 1 , ° ",;(0 1 nt to remain 1 0 o blie as years to the die Hon. Gentleills"6ol ,t that w as tbj o le, and venerabl_he eiel' lthough his l' l l lll labour of yea, rs. o 0 1 : re been rep'' ffr tental powers, ir ;. it was his ortr which be b a d he 11' t h e only an,. ° lloo ie 4 S ta te for the are had givellue ge CIIIl; not one of ~, t"( 1 ,ol o : , such thing. i , vent was tb : P ; se c ; Judges, bei7 I—had retain, „, n m ind or b.„°`'lio':ft,r."' it another, that said that if sitoi; ding those b i g e at , t ses of parliain j , c io; the others , ;nation unto 1105,,, —he (Lord 4.,„,t '''° er. the effect ot nation of to, ,10 he and much 4 the staterefttiondo`f e other in re ,,,tee i l i s rd, the that; ,t tted blinset,:lo 31,4 his office---' to l',, g up the Steps deafness, Iho' hose chankege're'ir) :ely before ;cherle hear, a ° did• th e cheers )—° r come tirne ,1 rationn" " I° l hey,' 01 ; 1 Hear, ~he Justice 01 Poo John 1°,0601 fully to co 00,05,0, Gentlono,„se ated that o f ) Chi e f Jas ti' '' he , 1 0 1 tely.-- I a to uowledge e great Weeit-okoiao, factswer,lice Drd Chief (14e,rof very 11°P. e , e r-- rela rl ,,,i o Oy t Fusse l l)`' J . ilea r ' tr i i the de• mber g rya s ° that it .ofroi, he inovelliti,f OP A a changes f,.tob`ro • might r e o ;. o of to t •esrect vsciti', co ae ;,,„";,* in° „" l er' to the 0 , " -- • u st r h o . Russell) , I° , of Ise re the anbrttist itbe ,solar lac" c rentlY es. ( R us sell) w r f ` o rd"" iiho rite to his iitional. atrti(s` received g, b , ol e o , e e hose.„ o ' e Ito n .itt lt runrea,turdliVered grorp h e Noble Pie. rc(t Plunketts : r,, e t yol . merely replay, or antl leog:1 betoe ail not l'n °l tf !hter)---eitaqe•P‘i 1° 1 ; . a.ve n o r r coolttia peo. ) site ear t Y award Sug f on o.. i d i spect w i ve re iulation. sell). mos.t be , t it A vr iSerclid not, fron t which ageAuset glo,f, a such et"le wore' ,ut, to usetieiers.) hers. ere were. 75 1:13. 73 time. .my F:stiolate.„s'd the, t; ;posed of, IP' lock. i ;tic e' Jin the O, t„, the p ie Pcolveti J a bers to thegab' bong .3ocieff he oColonial S. exp re:ise d was c on ` d cte.,; )i witnesse. 4 they would To TRU Su , I ONDON, ViiTDAV. F I BEIRIYAM 184,1 c .herit." They had, by means of the lawc converted the bounty of Nature beyond ow sea zirt isle into a substantial mockery. What was it to him, that there was corn in Poland, in Russia, in France, in Ame r i ca , an d on th e p l a i ns o f E ng l an d, or th e shores of !he Pacific, if he was forbidden to taste it ? God had sped the 1,1,u211 in an lands, but the operation of these laws checked it with...ly in the furrow, and arrested the husbandman and the farmer heir toil—those who would have cried aloud bring your swords a . d make them into ploughshares, and your spears and turn then into pruning hooks—( Loud cheers) --for hear ye not the cry from multiptied millions from the shores of Albion, saying, be ye our brothers, and give us bread.—(lm mense cheering.) But this wicked man, the law-maker, the landed aristocrat, had iirtual!y' monopolised the universal bounty of God, and we starve in consequence of it. We starve in the mid-t of plenty. Did he stand here to abuse, the Char tists? He stood herS to admire and bless God for the patience of the working classes They have passed by the stacks of these men, they have met them in the roads, themselves clammed and fainting, while the others were lolling in their chariots, and thinking it condescension to cast the dust from the wheels in the faces of the plebian and taunted passengers. They have passed by the custom-houses, the _flows of which were groaning under the weight of whrat, which these laws had arrested and put in prison. They had prowled about their • streets, menaced by the police ; they had shunned home because there there was a starving wife and starving children; they have been among us, yet we have slept in our beds safely ; our pantries have been safe, our children have been safe ; we have come out and gone in, whe ther we were in Bolton, or Pai,ley, or Manchester, or Ashton, or Forfar ; yet they had found their children, their servants, and their food safe, while millions had been starving around them. Publicly he declared that the patience of an outraged people had been all but miraculous. Ile thanked them thus pttlicly—in the name of this Conference he thanked them, and exhorted them to persevere, for surely it must come to this, that their forbearance and forgiveness, their sublime fortitude, and unresisting submission to this most stupendous robbery of their rights, would "plead trumpet-tongued" for them with every man not deaf to reason, and not utterly insen.. sible to the claims of bleeding humanity. These men were the glory and the strength, and the foundation of the country. Should they perish, and that Coriuthian capital, with its deli cate tt acery, its beautiful strawberry leaves, and its polished shaft, be preserved ? He would not touch those who were the glory of the country, and its strength, and its founda tion !—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") Rather let the column fall !—(lmmense cheering.) He thought they were now just where they ought to be, and ho would go where he ought to be, and retire from their presence.—( Go on, and cheers.) Their friend Mr. Greg had asked what they were to do, awl had not answered the question very distinctly. They would do all that might become honourable men. Those men in power were weaker than a reed. He knew that they had impaired the strength of the country. He knew that the Sampson of Bri tish commerce had been lying down in the lap of the Dalilah of monopoly. He knew that he had been shorn of his strength ; and to some extent they had put out his eyes, and he was now brought forth to make sport for the Philistines. —( Hear, and cheers.) But Sampson's God still lived —( Continued cheers. ) The might of his arm was omnipotence, the glance of his eye was omniscience, his heart was love. Let Sampson call upon his God. Let these proud men sit aloft ; let them look upon this struggle; them marvel to see this man groping. " Grope on, my friends," (continued Mr. Thompson,) "grope on. ou have the pillar to-day, you have clasped it ; let it not go. Call upon your God, who is a God of justice. Call upon " Him" in the name of your country perishing for want of bread, and . yet a little while, and that edifice which has crushed with its weight so many millions of our countrymen shall tumble at once and for ever to the ground."—( Vehement cheering.) What, then, should they dO? Hold fast by their „ . r _. , declaration of the previous night, aria their declaration of that day.—( Hear, hear.) The rock before them was the rock of expediency. They were embarked on board of the vessel of immediate, total, unconditional, unco:npensated—unless it were compensation for the injured—uncompensated repeal of the Corn-laws.—( Cheers.) But they were not upon the quarter. deck ; there were other men upon the quarter-deck. Upon this side of- it, and upon that, there was Sir Robert Peel with his obsequious followers and proud supporters, who used him as men used any instrument that was ready to theii. purpose.— ( Hear, hear. )' And there were men who called themselves repealers, who were not repeaters. lie warned them of this. There were those whom the Americans would call " men of conspicuity" in the House of Commons—men of name and family, and influence—who said " Yes, we attended many meetings, and have responded to many toasts for the total re peal of the Corn-laws ; but we only meant the repeal of the present laws, and the enacting of fresh ones." They should beware of such men. They would pretend to represent them, and by their fine speeches and sophistries endeavour to cram their temporary notions of expediency down their throats. —( Hear, hear.) Let them stand firm—let them regard that man as worse than Sir Robert Peel, who consented to any measure which violated the principle of their cause. Let them do this and they were safe ; the battle would then go on out of Parliament, and triumph was certain. What, then (continued the Hon. Gentleman) are you to do? Be united; throw yourselves upon the working classes of this country. Get the peo ple at your back. Do not be afraid of them—do not neglect them —do not fear to look them right in the face. Take their hands, stand by their order; listen to what they say, correct their errors.—( Hear, hear.) Let me tell you that the other day, in a distant city in the north of England, I had a five hours and a half debate, in an immense meeting of working men. I had to bide the pelting of the storm five hours. What came then ? I showed, or endeavoured to show, that I was their friend. The clock struck twelve, and instead of a tempest, instead of violence and unreasonableness, -and animosity and opposition, the sob and the tear, anal, by and by, a tremendous burst of acclamation, demonstrated to me that they were men with " organs, senses, dimensions, passions like ourselves ;" with reasoa that you might appeal to, with affections that any one might win ; and that they would go with you when you demonstrated that you were their friends, and gave them that which no man would withhold, a pledge that they have a right to something more than bread ; and that if they, with peaceful weapons, will help you to fight this holy warfare for that charter which you find in the first page of the Bible, you will help them as far as your under standings and your consciences will permit you to go, you will help them to obtain that power, without whiele if we repealed the Corn-laws to-day, we should find ourselves unable, successfully, through coming years, to contend with the monster whose jaws had been forced to disgorge the prey which it had taken from a starving people. Throw out, then, your grappling-irons, and bring all these men home to you. You are going by and bye to your respective neighbourhoods, and there you can do much. You are the true Conservatives of this country—the other men plot treason.—( Cheers.) I cheer them with violating the Constitution of this country, and trampling upon' the sacred injunction of the Decalogue, and flying in the face of our national religion, which teaches us to pray seven times on the sabbath : .‘ Give us this day our daily bread." I charge them with these heinous offences, and 1 charge it upon you to link yourselves with the people, to become one with them ; and, while they take a course at once injurious to physical happiness, the moral purity of the people, and the debility of the nation, take you a course which vs ill preserve all that is worth pre serving, arid extirpate all that defaCes our beauty, diminishes our strength, or makes us a reproach in the eyes of the world. __.(Loud and long-continued cheering.) I shall not take advantage of a Corn-law meeting to be more explicit than this.—(Hear. ) A word to the wise. When the time shall come that the people, the midule and the working classes, shall be one, that moment the doom of the Corn-laws shall be sealed. I thank you, Sir, for your atteetion, and beg respectfully to wish yo u f a rewell.—(Mr. Thompson sat down amidst vehement and reiterated applause. The resolution was then passed by acclamation. Mr. Me sse: of Manchester, moved—" That, whereas her Majesty's prevent advisers have wholly dissatisfied the country b . ; refusing to bring in a measure for the immediate and total abolition of the Corn and Provision-laws, a memorial from this Conference be presented to the Queen—(Cheers)—expressing an utter want of confidence in her present advisers, or in any Ministers who will not propose to Parliament the total and im mediate abolition of these laws, an their alarm at the, conse quences likely to arise from th e di stress of the suffering people." a - The resolution was carried by acclamation. Mr. COATES, Delegate from the Tower Hamlets, moved a ree lotion to the effect th at the Conference should adjourn until six o'clock in the evening, to reassemble in the same place, to receive the sentiments of such Delegates as might wish to declare their opinions of the Conference and the country, but recommending the speakers lobe brief, as a number of gentlemen were anxious to address the meeting. Mr. Coates then said he should best recommend brevity in the evening by being brief himself in the morning. —( Hear and laughter.) Some people had been weak enough to anticipate good things from Sir Robert Peel, hut he (Mr. C.) was not one of them. On the contrary, he endeavoured last night to correct their dein olic ncgo meeting, congregation, aettiioe b nn y : telling ad ir.. the t i h lu e l n, m etoi a pnlg s e t t o ot r n, y e‘r‘e. about the late Rev. Mr. Huntington, a well-known and most popular preacher os v if ie h d se a t to a i Calvinisticr)iubw hear him as they were to hear Sir R. Peel last night iarsiatatoteenatH6':eoruhts'oe ons. onia an to disappoint. ati,, discourse, The yl a io s s t u e , : o . o_ e r m a a( c n i r ' , h e ra r i au t i h hl e ;e itli k tatric e aa n ni c at e t d hi expecting sec i ao ) r t y u o . might have said if you came hither expecting r:laleeyB, liberal l)tnrlgtSirae nnp I aelo t e. : 111'1: i t : I theeeen Beloved or Is ee trade, or even an approximation, however remote, to however,L d alternately, tang' l e u r , I, a;tl t r h •r e ie g s o o s f d h e a a i r l , d he h a a r d . freeJr:i t b., I a m t h e man that can disappoint you '— t ) hat :l v .h es e ts e d r i i t a l le no l‘ t h f l o li l s lo te w r -ante in cycles. Now, that was discovered b a cleverish youth about 4,000 years ago.—( Cheers and laughter.) But during the seven years of plenty he stored up against the seven years of famine, so that he was able to supply Egypt, anti also Palestine. While Sir Robert would n.n permit, a supply to be laid in agairs4 years of latrine in years of abund. ance, but at seasons of famine lie said you must eat bread at the famine price. This was the whole substance nf his political wisdom. It seemed to be a satisfaction to.the Ps line Minister to state that the people of Prussia were worse off than the people of England.—(llear, hoar, hoar.) Was it to find out this that the King of Prussia was re ceived with such splendour and hospitality on our shores? But lie had but !Ale knowledge of the people of this country if be thought they would derive satisfaction from knowing that the subjects of a despotic kingdom were in a more miserable condition titan themselves. But still they were not without hope that when they got more ground down—when the poor were fool er still, and the hungry hungrier still—when the people of England were brought down to the level of the most de graded nation—th. n the time might come N , si would be • their political saviour.P ,r c i i i Sir tl obPee ssir e ß rt obert l did not think that they were yet sufficient sinners to receive his gown.—( Laughter.) Perhaps he would say in the words of the well known hymn— Come hungry, come thirsty, Come ragged and bare ; You can't come too dirty, Come just as you are. —(Shouts of laughter.) He, (Mr. Coates) had a better opinion of the good sense and indomitable courage of the people of England, to fear that the nation would be trampled on by a faction.—(Cheers). Whatever might be done to reduce the people to the condition of the lowest of the low their spirit would revolt against it, and every man in England would exclaim, " I'd rather be a dog, and bay the moon, than such a Briton."—(Cheers.) The motion which he rose to make was, that the Conf erence s h ou ld ad journ to six o'clock in ais place. But he wished also to inform them that there would be a meeting at Mile end at eight o'clo k, for the purpose of promoting the same righteous cause—( Hear, hear ) —and he had the plea ure to add, that although they were in this district in the heart of the Char tists, and surrounded by a mass of the poorest of the working classes in Bethnal-green and Spitaltields, there never yet occurred a public meeting on the subject of the Corn-laws in which face discussion was not allowed, or order not maintained—nor one in which the resolutions were not I carried almost unanimously.—(llear, hear.) At all those meetings he had had the good fortune to receive a vote of thanks for his impartiality, in which vote the Chartists pre ll all sent unanimously joined.—(Bear, hear.) The secret of his success was short and simple, it was to give a fair hearing to d e tt . htroeiuymm Ile eie was i ss a : es a set cause u q „ quite i t o e f o oppo sition p u or investigate sure and working classes were united, they must look downwards, themselves with the working sallleilntasidigohne'tsoltonualnPiefovialatorl-ldppesor'eml sent of the aristocracy to the monopolists.— (Cheers.) He concluded by moving the adjo urnmen t t o s i x o'clect , The CHAIRMAN then, in terms of warm eulogesintroduceda seconder of the motion, the gentleman well 1 no un as aut h or o f the letters signed" Diogenes in a Morning Paper.—(Cheers.) The Gentleman then came forward, and said i that the kindness with which he was received on the present occasion confirmed him in the conviction he had ever had, that if a man would but con scientiausly and diligently exert himself in a good cause, he would receive from Englishmen his reward, no matter from what clime or country he came, or to what class he belonged. When he first took up the question of the Corn.laws, it was fashionable to declare them a bore. It was difficult to make any person listen to any' argument on the subject. If he began to talk of reciprocity, every one would say, that, if he supported the doctrine of reci procity, he should lose his cash. But he said, that if he went to a baker, to purchase bread with tar instead of with cash, he would be certain of not getting as good bread as if be had brought cash. So much for the doctrine of reciprocity. Ile would be extremely brief, and only observe, that he trusted he benefited the good cause, whether he introduced Sir Robert Peel to his friend Hub. bard, i►s the City, or to his own friends in Mark-lane--whether ha showed him how his Jim Crow scale worked, or raised Lord Stanley to the d:giiity of the Marquis of Tamboff. He would say no more, but beg to support the resolution proposed. The CHAIIIMA sr then put the question, which was agreed to ; and it was intimated that the Conference should re-assemble at six o'clock this evening. Mr. SYDNEY SMtill then came forward, and addrossed a few observations to the meetingg• He stated that 994 petitions had been presented to the House of Commons, in favour of repeal of the Corn-laws, sinew it had assembled • this session, whereas the Prime Minister's sliding Seale was supported only by three petitions. The Conference then separated at a quarter to four o'c'ock. Among the Delegates present we noticed—Sir William Low thorp, of Hull, -Mr. Boultbee, Col. Thompson, Mr. Greg, Mr. Sturge, Mr. George Thompson, Hamer Stansfcld, El., of Leeds, the R v. Dr. Campbell, the Rev. T. Binney, the Ray. James Car. lisle, the Rev. Dr. Reid, &e, Jiniong the Members of Parliament presedt, we noticed M r . O'C onnell, Mr. Williams, of Coventry, Dr. Bowrilig, and Mr. Ewart. Copy of a resolution passed at a General Meeting of the Members of the Manchester Anti-Corn -law Association, held on Tuesday, January :15, 1842 : " That the Deputation to London be instructed to press for a taal and immediate repeal of the Corn and Provision laws, and should any modification be offered, that they (the'Deputation) resist and repudiate the attempt." Nearly 100 Deputies arrived to-day. ADJOURNED MEETING. The Anti-Corn-law Conference again met, pursuant to adjourn ment at Six o'clock last evening, in the large room at the Crown and Anchor, P. A. Taylor, Esq., in the Choir. The CHAIRMAN congratulated the Delegates on the exceedingly satisfactory meeting of the morning, and said, he had no doubt, by continuing such a spirit of unanimity, enthusiasm, and &ter mination, they could not fail eventually to carry their object.— (Cheers.) It was impossible, considering the great importance of the business which was before them this morning, and the great importance of that which would occupy their time to.morrow morn ing, which was to present a memorial to her Majesty for the dis. missal of her Majesty's present Ministers—(lmrneuse clieers)—it was impossible in the morning to give many Deputies who were desirous of addressing the Conference an opportunity of laying before the Conference au account of the statistics of the ♦arious localities. They had met this evening, not to pass any resolu- tion, but to give those Deputies, who were desirous of so doing, an opportunity of laying an aecount of the statistics of the respective distress before the Conference, and as as several gentlemen had re turned their names as being desirous to address the meeting, he would impress upon them the importance of condensing their re- marks into as short a space as possible. Dr. PENNY, of Reading, said that the Conference had hitherto heard, almost exclusively, of the state of the manufacturing dis. tricts. He was a Deputy from Reading, which was in the heart of the agricultural districts, and he could state that Reading had never witnessed so exten_ive and such largely extended distress _ _ since the Corn laws had tirst been enacted.—(Hear, hear.) The farmers in that neighbourhood were not, generally, very enlightened on the subject, aand those who Were so were not at liberty to express their opinions, in consequence of the in fluence of the domineering landowner.—(Cheers.) Reading was at the present mom.:nt virtually unrepresented its the House of Commons, for such was the state of distress at the period of the last election that the candidates felt that they had an opportunity of exerting influences deleterious to the character and principles of the electors to obtain their votes, which they could not obtain in an honest way, and the consequence had been that two Tories had been returned to represent a borough which, for years, had been represented by Liberals ; and they had been petition e d aga i ns t f o r bribe, y and corruption, and consequently Reading might be said to be unrepresented. He was no party man—he was a gin! ster of the Gospel, representing his congregation, and he had the satisfac of stating that he had brought up with him a petition from that congregation, to which 250 signatures were attached, praying for a total and immediate repeal of the Corn-laws.—(Cheers.) He had been sent as a deputy to Manchester, and in the Town Hall of Reading had given ass account of his deputation. The Hall was crowded to excess, and the utmost unanimity prevailed in approving the progress of the Manchester Conference to have, not a sliding scale—not a fixed duty—but no duty at all.—(Hear, hear.) He had been present at a meeting last week, not in the Town Hall, for the Tory Mayor had refused the use pf it—(Cries of " Shame.")—but at that meeting, which was attended by 5,000 of the working classes, the most perfect unanimity pre. vailed its favour of the abolition of the existing law. The cause of Anti-Corn-law repeal had made immense progress in Reading within the last few months. He was its favour of a f u rth er ex tension of the franchise.—(Loud cheers.) They had man y Ch ar . tists its Reading, but they had never interfered with the efforts of the Anti.Corn-iaw League.—(Cheers.) They had said, " We will help you to repeal the Corn-law, and hope 'you will help us, as far as you can go, to obtain an extension of the franehise."— (Continued cheering.) It was high time that some one. should arise who would administer such a purge toPoel as would compel the Physician to heal himself.—(Cheers.) He had prescribed low diet for his patient, but the prdper method of cure was to give the patient plenty to eat, wholsome air, and exercise, and he would soon be restored to a state of health and vigour. He hoped that the time would speedily come when they would be able to throw overboard all those who advocated either a sliding scale or a fixed duty, whets they would see their ports thrown open to all the world, and commerce free as the air that wafts the ship upon the ocean.—(llear.) He (Mr. Penny) knew of an individual who lived in the county of Berks for snore than sixty years, the son of a respectable tradesman, who, owing to extreme depression, brought on by the existing laws, had fallen from a state of comfort into ad versity. Some short time ago, that individual gave to him (Mr. Penny) forty pawn-tickets, the sums marked on which were gene.. rally 4d., 6d., Is., and never exceeding 2s. Gil. The articles were pawned for the purpose of enabling the poor man to procure sustenance for himself and his wretched grandchildren, and of those articles one was the little frock of his perishing grandchild.— (Cries of " Hear, hear," and " Oh, oh.") That was a state of circumstances existing in the centre of those who advocated high aristocratic principles—in the neighbourhood of the Doke of WelfingtorVs princely abode—in the midst of the proud mansions of those who, because subjected to no sufferings themselves, imagined, or seemed to imagine, that no degradation, no distress was endured by the people. But there was a point beyond which, the patience of the people could not be provoked.— (Hear, hear.) He trusted that the principles of liberty, to which expression bad been given in the course of this Conference, would find an echo in every bosom, and then, and then only, they would find that " Britons never would be slaves."—(Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN next announced the Rev. 1)r. Bailie, of Sheffield. The Rev. GEN CLEMAN then came forward, and said that he was not a Doctor, but he thought that if he were one, after having promised a recipe for a desperate case, he should at least have the courtesy, when he delivered it to his patient, not to torture him by saying that he had no confidence in its success. Sir R Peel, after his long preparation for the present—after having sent to all corners of the empire emissaries to collect information—after having told the people of England to be patient, and that he would provide a re medy—after all that, the Prime Minister came forward last night and told them, what ?—why, that in the remedy which he proposed for the sufferings of the people he had no confidence whatever. — (Hear, hear.) Sir Robert repudiated Isis own plan, and how, then, could they avoid repudiating it also ? He (Mr. B.) was not dis. posed to repeat all that had beets already said to prove how great a nuisance the Corn-laws were ; he would only Say that hitherto he had been in favour of a fixed duty, not because he thought it a de fensible measure, but because he thought it the only one attain able.—(Hear, hear.) But now he repudiated that measure which he advocated before, and whatever power he had he should pledge himself to exert it to procure the total, entire repeal of the Costs. laws. Sir 11. Peel had last night proposed a new addition of the sliding scale, and he (Mr. B.) trusted that the first use that would be made of it would be to slide the Right Hon. Baronet into the position of a private individual.—(Cheers and laughter.) As a Minister of religion he felt hitnself bound to advocate principles of justice. When John Knox was taunted by some parties to abate somewhat of his claims. and concede something to the severities of the time, he sternly replied that his Divine Master was to him all, and that he world stand or fall by the invincible justice of the everlasting God.—(Cheers.) Let that be their motto—(Hear, bear)—and they were sure of ultima'e success. The course of justice was a glorious one, and would triumph in the end.—(Cheers.) Sir Robert Peel, and those who advocate Isis measures, mu s t remem b er th a t, littl e as th es e meetings may appear to hi m , t h ey conta i n no smal l vo i ce o f warn . ing on several other subj ects relating to the great evils that are passing in this country.—(ll ear. hear, hear.) He b e li eve d that that slay a new war had commenced, and God only knew what might be the issue. A question had been raised in a form more than phantasmal, and it would be well if it slid not come with terror. A little time ago the country would have beets content with half the measure now demanded from the Government, for tardy legislation on this subject will share the fate of tardy legisia. Lion on all other occasions. Its 1828 the franchise was asked for a few gre at towns; in 1630, it was demanded for the whole kingdom. —(Cheers.) In 1633, Charles was asked to abate a few of the national grievances, and refused; he was petitioned in 1639, and refused ; and again he was petitioned in 1640, and again he refused; and at the end of that year indignation had brimmed the national cup, and struck down in quick succession all that sup_ potted that absolute Throne, and brought about the Common wealch.—(Ciicers.) Let those times and those hist ivies be present to Sir Hobert Peel—for he might he assures! of this, that those principles will be reacted; and if the aristocratic power is to set at nought the claims of the people, the next step will be—how slid the aristocracy come by its power P—(Cheers)--and by what . means can we recover this possession ? The next qtiestion will be, ought the aristocracy and the power of the landed interest, or the popular power, to be predominant in Parliament? When the crisis came, when one of the two will have to be preferred, he knew that the tardy justice which Sir Robert Peel was have read (our Colleges, it appeared, so reluctant to give, will decide that the people shall have the justice) —those who had preponderance.—(Cheers.) This contention ofw itohu:htenispeohwieevrouofs than those of the Corn laws read one page of this mss-legislation of their Governors—will turn Parliamentw ere v erytli t l v e a l s ,l h ac ig es s f vtb io o r th t, ierterlagdissoulelse political far back, and read more ; and as they turned back they will find legislation ' the of people w ill-educated ho l'a d the memorable trial of Lord Straffor, upon when impeached be lore the House, and when he made such an eloquent f l d e fence upon every point o lawyers who _ a w, that he beat Pym, and all the patriot opposed him. Pym alone, in the spirit of patriotism, rose and said, 1 . There are Points at which the statute law dies, and wher e we must revert to the eternal and unrepe ata b le laws of humanity, which are above and before all Parliaments; and upon those laws, the laws of man, it is that we impeach him."—( t Lo t ud eheero , This was the ground they must occupy, when ley found that they could not obtain political justice from Parliament. If the National Church, that placed its eminent teachers in the House of Lords, fails to educate that House and the House of C ommons, in the common principles of Morality, then the people must educate those Houses —(Cheers) —in those principles.—(Loud Chee rs.) It was not pre tended that a repeal of th e Corn.l aws in the ab stract was an loins. tice, but Sir Robert Peel said, last !sight, that in the complicated state of the country it would be an injustice. L it then come to this ? Is it because ages of mischief have been growing up in forest height, and to forest density, I hat the bright beams of heaven are never to pierce through it ?—(Cheers.) .No! if they wanted justice, what Cheers. ever O ther measure s may b e neces. sary let them be had too. —( ) He had said that the pre sent struggle was big with ether events than the mere dispute upon the Corn-laws; the great trial of monopoly was now to be met, monopoly of all kinds, monopoly of religions, monopoly of Legisla. tuns, monopoly in Parliament, monopoly of the pension-list, mono poly of the Colonies, monoiNtly everywhere.—(Cheers.) They were about to enter upon the great trial of monopoly, in the per sons of the starving thousands of the people and a titled and gorgeous aristocracy—(Chee rs ) --and a s to the issu e , he was con fident beyond a doubt, and night and morn it should be his prayer for the adient of the justice of the invincible God. Justice, like God its author, was no man's enemy, and ought to be hated by no man. Let the aristocracy bring on the trial, and let the people of England look to their part in it, and remember that if Peel should carry his measure by a triumphant majority, it would be a great calamity. But Sir 11 Peel might apply to himself a verse of Quarles, the quaint author of the ~ Emblems." To a mass determined to avoid justice, he s:.ys— " The farther off you g o, Justice deals the weightier blow." So with him ; the farther he travelled from.the high road of ins• tice, so much the heavier would be the blow with which the people of England would visit him. He considered that the communica tion that had been made to Parliament would raise a sensation throughout the country, which' Sir Robert Peel was not prepared to meet. Mr. *DNEY SMITH said, as a member of the Conference, he was anxious to impress upon the speakers the necessity of brevity, as it was improbable the Conference would sit longer than Saturday, and twenty-four Delegates being in attendance, it was necessary that their constituents should know they had recorded those opinions which they were sent there to express. Mr. Asnnowst, a Delegate from the Sussex Anti-Corn-law Asso ciation, said he should profit by time hint just dropped, and be as 'concise as possib'e. He represented a county which had to struggle with much difficulty and great discouragement in giving an open and candid expression to its feeling. It was represented by ten Tories in Parliament, and he thought ar least ten Delegates should represent it in the present Conference- The town lie had the honour of representing contained a population t f 14,000 personS, and In that number there were only 130 electors ; and therefore it was important that the representation of the Anti-Corn-law Assn. elation of that district should express their opinions and feelings. He could detail distress in his neighbourhood which would bring contrition to the heart of any man save a Premier. A new Poor. house had been built there, and yet since its erection it had been debated whether it should be enlarged, or the overplus of the paupers turned ottt.—( Hear.) In the month of November upwards of t5O able-bodied labourers veiled for shelter and a meal's vie. trials, while they were wandering the counry seeking for that work , which. notwithstanding their anxiety to get it, was denied them; and this in the county of Sussex, the hot-bed of monopoly. and tithes and parsons.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) He had been deputed by one of the largest meetings held in the district which he represented, to express their sympathy and cordial concurrence in the object of this Conference; but he was desired, at the same time, to state their firm conviction that it was useless to be peti tioning year after year—(Loud cheers)—merely to be made sport of by State hacks and trading politicians.—(Hear, hear.) And he was also desired to ask if they were prepared to carry out those measures which would be of real and practical benefit to the people--if the small shopkeepers, and those dependent upon the lords of the soil, were to carry on the struggle until they were ultimately crushed ? He wished the Conference to declare energetically that they would no longer submit to those intolerable laws. There was a feeling now amongst the working classes which required that some great , moral demonstration should be made to bring Sir Robert Peel to his senses. He had heard of the sacrifices of thecitisens . of London in the olden times—he had heard of the females selling their jewellery and plate to procure the sinews of war, and he trusted that myriads would uow come forward and make some great movement. Ho apprehended that it was unnecessary to enter upon statistical details—they had had misery until humanity had sickened at it. In collecting signatures for a petition on the subject about which they were now met, he had witnessed such distress as he had considered impossible to exist without he had witnessed it personally. Action was now what was wanted, and not talking, and he hoped he would be able to tell his consti tuents upon his return that the Anti Corn-law Conference was actuated by a firm and undaunted resolution to struggle to the last for the repeal of the Corn-laws. Mr. Sreargato said the greatest distress existed in all parts of Scotland, fully equal to anything that could be found in this great metropolis, or any of the manufacturing towns throughout the country. They were told that if any one was in want and over come, and said to him " Be ye warm, or be ye clothed," yet gave bins not that of which he stood in need, it profited nothing ; and of what avail was it that the Government admitted that distress existed, and professed to sympathise with the sufferers, whilst they did nothing for their relief?—(Hear, hear.) Sir Robert Peel admitted that the proposed alteration was not likely to confer any material benefit upon the country. Was it not then an insult to the nation to propose such a remedy ? (Heer, hear.) But there was one admission in his (Sir Robert Peel's) speech which was of very great importance. He said the duty which he proposed would be au adequate protection to the agriculturists. If the proposed duty were adequate, it followed that the present duty was far more than adequate; and there fore; to the extent of the differeace, *upon his (Sir Robert Peel's) own admisSion, the people had been robbed.—(Hear, hear, aed cheers.) He (Mr. Sterling) did not think the efforts of Anti. Corn-law Associations had as yet been unsuccessful ; it was to them, at least, that the proposal of this measure was to be at tributed. They were charged with using inflammatory language. Ile believed that they were the peacemakers who had stood in the gap between the oligarchy, the selfish legislators, and the suffering, the disinterested, and the almost maddened people (Hear, hear)—who had stemmed the torrent of dissatisfaction and prevented the outbreak of Chartism throughout the length and breadth of the land.—(Hear, hear.) He had been deputed to at tend that Conference, not by his own congregation alone, but by the whole population of the town, all of whom, with very few exceptions, had signed a petition for the total and immediate repeal of these Corn and Provision laws. Ile had been instructed by his constituents to consent to netting less than their total repeal. The Rev. Fruxcrs BISHOP, of Warringtou, next addressed the meeting. He said he rejoiced at the firm tone taken by the Con ference; at the determination manifested to stand on the broad ground of principle, to look at the great question before them in the light of truth, to demand justice and nothing less.—(Cheers.) Ile was deputed to that Conference by a large meeting held at War rington, on Monday evening, a meeting of both sexes, Ile was proud to stand there to represent the feelings, wishes, and views, with respect to the Corn-law question, not only of his fellow-towns. men, but of the women of Warrington, 6,000 of whom had memo rialised their Queen, calling upon her to exert her influence as far as it could be constitutionally given, on behalf of her oppressed and suffering subjects.---(Cheers.) The cause had raised a mighty moral influx since the junction to its ranks of their fair country women, whose influence, when exercised as it finally was, on behalf of humanity and benevolence, was all potent and irresistible. As lie was leaving the 'fleeting to which he had referred, he was met on all hands by the injunction—" No surrender, no comprosuise—no half measures—total,total repeal."—( Cheers.) Ile rejoiced that he would be able to resider an account of his steward ship, without any misgivings in this particular. That tile Con ference had manifested a determination not to be driven from the rock of principles by the wily professions, the puny promises, and time dexterous sophistries of that man of words—Sir Robert Peel. He had never anticipated any good from such a quarter- Ile had borne in mind, on that occasion, the remark of Burke, " Blessed are they who expect nothing, for they will not be disappointed."-- (Laughter.) Expecting nothing from the Government he had not been deceived by their professions. He rejoiced, however, to find such men as Wellington and Peel were even driven to pretend to do something. They no longer insulted the people with the taunt that every man in the land had it in his own power to obtain a competence..—(Loud cheers.) It was satisfactory that at last the prevalence of deep * distress was acknors. ledged, although Sir R. Peel, with fitting consistency, whilst he denied that the Corn.laws had anything to do with it, proposed an alteration of those laws, if not as a remedy, at least as a paliia tive.—(Hear, hear.) But the people knew where the shoe pinched —(A laugh)—they knew that the Corn-laws excluded than from a market fur their labour, and accordingly they asked, why were those unconstitutional laws to be continued?—(Hear, hear.) Ile called them unconstitutional, because they were not intended for any purpose for which the Legislature was constituted. They were not found to extend the resources of the empire, but to main. tain the predominance of one class, to take money out of the pockets of the people to enrich a few who held the laud. Tim monopolists asserted that all this was mere theory ; but the people found out that it was all practice.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") They said that they were not theorists, but practical men. —(Hear, and laughter.) •The Chinese having once tasted .the flesh of a pig which was roasted in a burning house, found out that want of pork was a good thing, but when they wanted to get it their practical experience led them to the only mode they knew of, they put a pig into a house and Masted it by burning the house.—(Cheers and laughter.) It was tints the mo nopolists, having enjoyedtheir roast pork at the expense of the ruin of others, go on in the course of their practical experience to have their roast pork, heedless of the general ruin which their sys. tent must inyolye.—(Chsers and laughter.) He looked with con siderable fear to the consequences of maintainlng the present sys tem. A spark of hope still lingered in the breasts of the working classes, but he looked with dread to the time when that should be extinct.—(Hear, hear.) Could it be expected that men would lie down and starve in the midst of plenty ?—(Hear.) Could it be expected that they should stand by quietly and see their wives and children sinking into the grave through hunger side by side with a pampered and over-gorged aristocracy?—(hear , ) It was not in human nature to endure these things with patience, or to submit to oppression, to this extent without turning on the oppressor.—(Hear, hear.) If the Monopolists did not listen to the voice of justice they world be compelled to yield to the demands of force.—(Year, hear.) The Rev. Mr. STIIACIIAN, of Forfar, presented himself to the meeting, and said it was a subject of rejoicing to him to fled, that in the provinces the people were alive to their duty and their interest. He had received a letter this day from a landowner and farmer in Scotland, who assured him that the conviction was rapidly spread ing amongst the class to which he belonged, that a total repeal of the Corn-laws was as desirable for them as for those engaged in commercial pursuits.—(Loud cries of " Hear, hear," and chetas.) He was glad to say that on this subject, even in the Established Church of Scotland, there was d rustling amongst the dry banes.— (A laugh.) In his own parish, the elders, sixteen in number, the managers, twelve in number, and all the heads of families, liad petitioned for the total repeal—(Cheers)—and the women, to the number of hundreds, memorialized the.Queen.--(Renewed cheers.) All class legislation was a sin—(Cheers)—and it was the duty of every man to do all in his power to put down the legislation which took away the peer man's loaf.—(Cheers.) Whilst those who sup posed that they nionopolized all the intelligence, as well as the wealth of the country, were niggling like huxter wives about lid., the people outside were deliberating whether there should be any. duty at all.—(Cheers ) Whilst Sir Robert Peel was discussing the merits of the sliding scale, he was in fact taking the course by which he and the monopolists must slide into thetomb of the Captilets. Sir Robert Peel must be displaced.—(lmmense cheering ) It was high time they should awake out of their sleep, and every good man should be at his post, aiding the poor luau to recover his cights—(Clieers)—and one of his first rights was the right of sup plying Iffinself and his family with sufficient clothing and food.— The Corn-law was nothing but a inoutla.tax—(Cheers)—it was a tax upon, the poor man's finances. It was a tax which said to him that out of every loaf he made use of he should give one third to furnish sauce fir the rich isfan's plum-pudding.—(Rear, hear.) In Scotland it was formerly the custom to make a whole country-side thrall to souse particular mill, and time miller, who was frequently a rascal, plundered the people of their meal. At length they found it was more to their interest to pension oil this miller, and pay him for doing nothing, and then they could go to some honest miller. The aristocrats were thrall-men, and it would be better to know what would really satisfy them, than to let theca go on stealing their meal.—(Cheers and laughter,) When he first went to Dundee lie saw a man being scourged through the town, with this label on his back and suit his breast, " James Cowie, convicted of theft." He thought it would be no great harm, if a similar label were pinned upon the back and breast of the Duke of Buckingham 1 for what was it but theft of the worst description. to steal a portion of the poor mail's bread ?—(Loud cheers.) In destitute districts, the poor were living below the starvation point. That might seem at first to be impossible, but it was easily explained. At the beginning of the year, a family might be well clothed, and have plenty of furniture and bedding. They earned during the year barely sufficient to supply them scantly with the necessaries of life, their clothes were wearing out, and they had no means of renewing them. Was not that being below starvation point ? If a cabman spent every day the earnings of his cab horse, it must be evident that when they were worn out, he would be without the means of subsistence. There were thousands sinking daily into this state of deplorable wretchedness. They were told they were a discontented set—that they had slave eman cipation (they paid well for it, by the by)—Catholic emancipation— the Reform Bill. This was good in part ; they were all good, but why should the people cease to cry as long as they were deprived of their rights, as long as they lacked food and were destitute of cloth ing and of education ? So long as that was the case, honest men would do well to be discontented.—(Cheers) Sir Robert had been groaning with heaviness for Live mon ths. He called the nation to witness his delivery, and he had brought forth nothing.—(Cheers.) Peel's proposal was a mockery to a starving people. He would net now cuter into a Scripture argument as to the iniquity of the Corn law ; but lie would call upon them to reject both a sliding scale and a fixed duty, which afforded but a poor prospect, and to look to the brawny arras and acute intelligence of those classes who were anxious to restore the prosperity of the nation. Two doctors had now tried to heal their galled backs, but they were both quacks. They would heal their backs and feed their bellies if they would feed on what those quacks would sell them. There was the rub. Where was the man that would slide with Peel or fix with Johnny ? As every doctor has his hobby, It is even so with John and Bobby.—(Laughter ) The one prescribes a fixed birch, The other boasts a sliding scourge, Stand fast to Eight. Lord Russell cries, Slide up to Twenty, Peel replies. What Doctors giving stone for bread, While half are starving, half are dead. —(Cheers and much laughter.) Mr. S. went on to say, that he trusted tlfey would not put themselves under the regimen of such doctors ; that if they would trust to the intelligence of the country and the firmness of the people ; that they would aid and assist in every good work ; if they did so assuredly, when they were united, those who would tyrannize over them would be forced to let th nins of power drop from their hands.—(Cheers.) The Cu►IRM►N here intimated that a circular had been issued by the Executive Committee, inviting all the Members of Parliament and all the clergy of this city to attend a meeting of this Conference on Saturday next, at 11 o'clock, at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, when every facility would be afforded for inquiry and counsel. The Chairman also stated that he had just learned that Mr. Villiers had again this evening, given notice in ' the House of Commons, that he would move for the total repeal of the Corn-laws. He regretted also to say, that Lord J. Russell had contented himself with giving notice of a motion to the effect that any alteration in the Corn-law by a depression of the sliding scale was inadvisable. Mr. BUCK MASTER, of Buckinghamshire, next addressed the Con. ference. Fie said he felt great pleasure in presenting himself as ' . . the representative of a large ajrienltural district.—(Hear, hear.) He thought the agricultural bearing of the question had been over. looked in some measure. He had personal cognizance of the fact, that in the county of Buckingham—that county which was to be especially protected by the sliding scale—there was fully as much distress as in the manufacturing districts. There was as much real suffering experienced by the labourers in Buckinghamshire at the present moment as in the manufacturing towns of the North of England. Its that county the farmers were getting bankrupt, and the same state of things that existed its the years 1334 and and 1835 was again be experieneed.—(dear, hear.) He was stopping in Buckinghamshire, and was written to from Uxbridge to endeavour to get as many petitions as possible for a repeal of the Corn-laws, in one parish in Buckinghamshire. Ile had the notice on the Wednesday, and by the Friday he had a petition signed by upwards of two hundred, for repeal. The wages of the labourers in Buckinghamshire never increased anything like the increased price of food. It was out of the power of the farmer to regulate the wages of the labourer. The manufacturer, with the farmer, can no more regulate the wages of the labourer, than they can regulate the motion of the sun ; it was quite out of their power, and acted on different causes. In 1834 and 1835, the labourers of Buckinghamshire had, on an average, Ss. a week ; two hundred were working at 6s. a week, able-bodied men, having wives and large families ; none had more than 9s. 6d. ; and could " • ' ' it then be supposed that those men were in the position repre sented by a bloated aristocraey—(llear, hear, hear)—namely that they were better off than the labourers of the Continent ? The question was not whether they were better off than them or not, but whether they were so well off as they ought to be.—(Cheers.) _ . In one case in Buckinghamshire, a labourer had fallen down on the farm from actual exhaustion for want of food. In a parish, Choltsbury, in 1834 and 1835, the farmers could not cultivate the land, and the adjoining parishes were obliged to contribute to the poor-rate of that parish. The consequence was that the land was thrown out of cultivation, but some individuals were sent to the working men, and asked them if they could cultivate the ground ? They replied " 0 yea," and the land was divided into small allot. - ments ; It remains in small portions to this day, and was paying a higher rent than ever it paid before,while the men were bringing up their families in independence, without the help of either farmer or landowner. Those who thought that land would goout of cultivation appeared to imagine that tithes and rent were necessary to the culti• vation of the land, while it could be very well cultivated without the assistance of either.—(Hear.) It would be a very good day for the working man whoa the land did go out of cultivation. The Corn.laws,and these who upheld them, had been proved to have been guilty of theft, and he could prove that they were guilty of tour. der, for murder, whether perpetrated with a knife or by the depri vation of food, was in fact the same. The people must do all in their power to obtain repeal. The House of Commons were but the representatives of the aristocracy; they (the Con ference) were the representatives of the people—of the backbone and sinews of the nation—the working classes. The agricultural labourer was always best off in those years when bread was cheap, and, therefore, it was to their advantage that the Corn.laws should be repealed. They had beaten the Whigs on this question, and they could and would beat the Tories on it also, for they had it completely in their power to do so. When they at• tacked the Corn-laws first, many of the Whigs, being monopolists themselves, were against them, and they said if the Corn-laws be repealed, so also will be the timber duties, the duties on West Indian produce,and other protections ; and it being generally very difficult to draw a man's conscience through his breeches pocket, they were deaf to the cries of a suffering and starvink, l eople on this question. The agriculturist was only one portion of the com munity, and it was, therefore, the duty of every honest man to pursue that course which would confer the greatest benefit on the greatest number. The Duke of Buckingham, that prince of humbugs, who is a disgrace to a civilised country, and those ►ike him, can go to the Continent and get their food and luxuries at a cheap rate, while the artisan and the labourer must stay at home. Some would attempt to prove that the country was too thickly populated. Such an attempt was a libel upon the great God of nature. What was the declaration of God ? "Be fruit. ful and multiply" was his command. All they wanted was fair play, and justice done to every man ; and he advocated the repeal of the Corn-laws because,it was a matter of justice, because it was a matter of expediency, and because upon it depended whether great masses of his countrymen were to be prematurely taken to " that bourne whence no traveller returns." Peel had only scotched the disease; but they should let Mtn know that nothing short of a total repeal of these laws would satisfy the people of this country.—(Loud cheers.) Mr. THOMPSON, of Northwich, should have preferred remaining silent, were it not that he felt he could not do so conscientiously, considering the responsibility which rested upon him as a Delegate from a large and influential body of persons, who were, one and all, in favour of a total repeal of the Corn-laws. He stood there fully prepared to advocate a total and unqualified re. peal of all . taxes upon the food of the people. Had there been a low duty proposed by the Ministry, they should have been in a much worse position than that in which they now stood. Yesterday they were on the ground-door, and now they were upon the platform, and were prepared to advocate those measures which were necessary to effect the proposed intentions, and that was to put bread in the mouths of the working men. Ile was determined to advocate the question at all hazards, and be was determined when he returned home to adopt such a measure as would make their operations more effective. He perceived a want of organization amongst the Corn-law rcpealers, and he re solved that he would procure a large and well-bound book which would last for years, and instil upon the mind of every man with whom he conversed, the iniquity of those laws ; and induce every man, woman, and child who could write to sign theil names in it, and pledge themselves never to cease their ex. ertions until they succeeded in effecting the repeal of those laws which had starved our industrious countrymen. It was quite tin. mcessary for him to add to the picture any scenes of woe which he himself had witnessed ; the picture was already too dark ; such things were enough to harrow the feelings of any man who had a spark of humanity within him. They must now endeavour to secure the remedy. One of the means of doing so, was to unite themselves more closely to the working classes. They Inta stood at too great a distance flow them—they had not suffi ciently amalgamated with them. Many of them had peculiar views —th e Chartists, for instance—in which they could not concur; but let them unite all their differences in one general effort to obtain the repeal of the Corn-laws.--(Hear, hear.) The question was a grow ing one—it had got fast hold of the public mind. Never had it been so well understood as now. They would go from that Conference not only with their minds enlightened on this subject, but with their arms nerved for action. IL: was not prepared to take the ad vice of one of their legislators, to make emigration the remedy for the distresses of the country. As a patriot, he loved his country, and had no desire to leave it ; rather would he endeavour to assist in eradicating those evils, which had grown up in the Constitution before they were aware of them. He was determined to make his children lisp the repeal of the Corn-laws, to teach them in infancy that those laws were oppressive, and to endeavour that they should grow up with that impress , on.—(Hear, hear.) Much might be done too by instilling the same expression into the minds of children in the day schools and Sabbath schools; they should be taught Mat they were opposed to morality and to religion. As a Christian man, belonging to a Christian church, Inc had treated this as a great moral and religious question; and if it were so, it should be in stilled as such into the minds of the young.—(Bear, hear.) In con- c!usion, he was happy to have an opportunity of expressing his con currence in the plans and principles which had been set forth in that Conference, and of declaring thus publicly his firm dett r:nina. tion not to cease to agitate this question until the great ob:eet which they had in view had been at'ained.—(Che :vs ) GRIFFITH EVANS, Esq., (Chairman of the Carnarvon Conference said the meeting could not expect from him anything like a thief t speech. Did they understand his native language, he could relate to them facts which would make their cars tingle and their hearts thrill. Ile would crave their indulgence for a few minutes ;it was the first time in his life that he had attempted to address an Eng. lish audience in their own language.—(Bear, hear) After travelling more than 200 miles to represent the people of Merionethshire, and part of Montgomeryshire, he should not feel justified In returning, without having said something on their behalf. It had been said that night by a very fluent speaker, that the farmers of Bucking. hanehire were calling for a repeal of the Corn.laws. lie could tell them that the farmers of Merionethshire, and of the principa lity generally, were demanding their repeal. The poor were there getting poorer still. The farmers were sinking with the working men in so frightful a degree, that unless something were speedily done, they would sink in one common ruin. The working men might be called the foundation stone of the country. If there were any property, it was in the strength of the working man. The great Lord might lose his estate; the rich Duke might lose his money, the Baronet might lose all his indulgences and all his grandeur; but the working man had the power of gaining his bread by the labour of his hands and by the sweat of his brow. Ist 1829, corn was high. In his part of the country, barley was the principal growth ; in that year the price was 48s. per quarter. Wages were low at that time. He (Mr. E.) in that year paid his head servant 91. a year, and his harvest men ]ll. a day, with food. In seven years after barley was fallen to half the price, but he paid twelve guineas a year to his head servant, and the wages of the harvest men was 12d. and 14d. a day. The re. suit was that the people lived happily and in plenty—(Next, hear) — they were well fed and well clothed. Thcre were able to take their places in church, which they could not do in 1829, nor in any one of the three last years.—(llear, hear.) Some people tB,ked of emigration. What benefit would that do the country ? It would take away all the useful, all the industrious and able part ot the !CP. pUlatiOn, and leave only the tag end.—(Laughter.) The prosperity, of the people must be in proportion to the demand for the products I of their labour. In consequence of there being no demand for heir labour the poor-rates were doubled.—(bear, hear.) He could not see how the farmefs could be injured by the people having employment --(Hear, hear.) He was himself a landowner, and farmed besides about '2,000 acres (near, hear)--and he had given fu I consideration for years past to this question, and he could never find out how this system could do good to farmers or landowners. 1 But, in fact, those persons were blinded by the tithe-owners, who had a peculiar interest in the Corn-laws through the operation of ( the Tithe Commutation Act.—(Hear, hear.) if a clergyman had an income of 4001. a_year out of tithes when corn was 4/. a quarter, he would have that income reduced to 3001. when the price of corn was reduced to 31. a quarteer.—(Hear.) Ile did not speak of clergymen alone, but of tithe-owners of all kinds. By the Tithe Commutation Act, the amount of the tithes was made to depend upon the price of corn; so that to the tithe-owners it was a sliding-scale like Peel's.—(Great laugh ter.) He repeated that he did not only speak of the clergy, but of all tithe.owners. Many of them(wero men who never put on a surplice, and many were ladies.— Hear, and a laugh.) Yes, many ladies had property in tithes, and others had the power of ap. pointing their friends to rectories and bestowing on them a title to receive tithe. No class, however, but the tithes-owners alone had any real interest in the Corn-laws.—(Cries cf Hear, hear.) And, speaking of the clergy, he must certainly say, that he should be glad to see the clergymen of London coming forward on this quest ion.—(Cheers.) The people of Wales were looking with anxious hope to this large Conference, and hundreds were at that moment on their knees praying to God that this Conference would have some influence with Parliament, and would prevail on the Legislature to grant them some relief.— (Hear, hear.) The aristocracy in his neighbourhood called him a ' spouting demagogue.—(A laugh.) But he could take all that as coolly as Sir Robert Peel himself—(Cheers and great laugh ter)—and neither sneers nor taunts would mako him turn his back upon the cause. (Hear, and cheers.) They had not in Wales been enabled to get the assistance of any ministers of the Gospel. They had gone about to the different towns and villages, but they were not granted admittance into Town-halls; public-houses were closed against them—chapels and ;daces of worship were closed against them ; and what did they do ? Why they borrowed a cart and went into the street—(Loud cheers) —and there they were attacked and called all manner of names, yet still they went on.—(Loud cheers.) A minister of the Gospel had come to him, and said that no man professing Christianity could act in the manner in which he (Mr. Evans) was acting. He asked if Christianity did not consist in seeking justice for one's neigh. boor ?—(Loud cheers.) Did not Christ do so when he related the parable of the Priest, the Levite, and the Samaritan ?—(Cheers.) He referred him to the Ist chapter of Isaiah, and asked him if he would call Isaiah a sprouting demagogue and a political firebrand ? " Why should ye be stricken any more ? Ye will revolt more and more. The *hole head is sick"—that was the King—" and the whole heart is faint" that was the Parliament (Cheers an 1 laughter)—and unless some purge was administered to itunless it were soq*cured of Its faintness, it would ruin the country.— 1 (Cheers.) Again he cal led u p on the ministers of religion in this great metropolis to come forward and join them. He hoped to see them ,and to Ileac them at the Conference. The country was look, oitfigths aemnd_atbßuitbwlehSooccoleutlyd fug A l t for them. They hoard a the speeches at Mule/lay Meet. M believe e e they d were t' e i y n w e e :l' P u earnest, se'i whent hear of them_but who could believe ttscy were in earnest, when they said they sought to convert the world to Christianity, if they did not now come forward to save the poor from starvation ?—'Loud cheering.) S t s . P l ' ra e u said,ut; lift ‘ cheers.) He w ou ld call upon them in the word s o f I sa i a h, c h a p. Cry aloud up voice j,e t t h e y ,erys ltuelabterusmupeb subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God ; the Pbwers that be are ordained by G od. " He was sure God never gave Sir Robert Peel power to starve the nation.—(Loud cheers.) He might have effectual means of starving the nation, but that was got power, but oppression, " For there is no power but of God."—(Loud cheers.) Then there was the other Sir Robert— Sir Robert Inglis, who was about to bring forward his motion for Church Extension ; that was, for the extension of Luryingefrounds. He would like to go to the House of Lords, and call upon the Bishops, who would have plenty of fees for consecrating new bury. ing-grounds for burying the people, who were starving, from these accursed laws.--(Loud cheers.) They hoped in the country to hear good news from the metropolis that the ministers of the Gos_ pep there were not backward in well-doing, but that they would see them standing by the side of a scarring pepulation.—(Cheers.) 'l'. EGER, Esq., of Grimaced, Sussex, next addressed the as sembly. He said that after the extent to which the meeting was protracted, lie would be very brief. lie had listened with great sa tisfaction to the last speaker. He too could say with the gentleman that he was an humble land-owner, occupier, and farmer. He had no means of sustentation but as a landlord He was con. strained to confessehat be differed from the last gentleman who spoke, for the landowners were not interested, as it was with them a question of rent. In his (Mr. K's) locality the rich man told his serfs in reference to the last election that they were safe as regarded the Corn-laws by the majority that had been obtained—nity, that if Sir R. Peel flinched, they who brought him into power would turn him nut. He (Mr. E.) had not the happiness to come from a large district, but that those who had deputed him were in favour of tete repeal of the Corn-laws. (He (Mr. Eger) differed from the gentleman who had just addressed them with so much eloquence, who had been much more severe upon the Whigs as being mono. polists than he would wish to be. They knew the Whigs to be honest, but from the publication of Sir R. Peel, it appeared that his plan was nothing more nor less than to increase the difficulties of importation into this country. to fact, Sir Robert would raise the duty instead of reducing it. Hitherto they had open ports at 735., but the ave rage was now to be 745. before they could reach the it. duty. He was living in a portion of the country where the rich man would not allow his tenantry to possess a conscience. —(Hear, hear.) He (Mr. Eger) stood alone to grapple with those gentlemen who advo cated the doctrine of monopoly in his neighbourhood. At the lest election a gentleman came up to him and said that he was surprised to find himself adhering to the party to which he was attached. His (Mr. Eger's) reply , to him was, that his surpriso was greater that that gentlemtin should adhere to the opposite party. As regarded labourers in his district, he never paid less than twelve shillings a week to each labourer. But he knew there weee labourers in that district who were in extreme want. Indeed he saw a man lately there in the hands of the police, and upon inquiry he learned that the man was in custody for stealing poles. The poor fellow said that they might send him where they chose; that he could not be worse off than he was, for that he had but eleven shillings a week, and eleven individuals had to be supported out of that stun. In fact, unless the restrictions upon trade and manufactures were taken off; this country would be a very undesirable one to live in. There was scarcely a hedge that could stand in the winter time, nor a pole that could be left stand ing for any length of time, for they were all taken by the distressed peasantry as fuel, sincti, the high price of food took every fraction from them. lie had known and seen men who would willingly have given the names of other persons than Darby and ' , titer, who were the misrepresentatives of the Eastern Division of the county of Sussex, but they could not, and though he had' a triplet of votes for a triplet of counties, yet he was virtually unrepresented in Parliament, ex cept by one Member for Middlesex. It had been stated that, from the constitution of the present House of Commons, they had no. thing to expret. But he had also heard a friend say, that he had great hopes of Sir R. Peel, He confessed that he could not sym, pathise with him, for he had expected just such a measure as he had propounded; the effect of which was to raise prices, and to humbug the people.—(Cheers.) If a tub could be thrown out to the whale, Sir Robert Peel was perfectly willing with all his -ausibi iny to do it, but as to making any regeneration for this coutttry, it was not in him—" We cannot gather grapes from thorns nor figs from thistles."—(Hear, hear) He hoard, with pleasure, and singular delight, the speech of a young Ad talented man, who had, he be lieved urged his views with great sincerity ; hut he was afraid, if his.counsel was followed it would be just the very thing the To. ries would flke. Only let them have the opportunity of exercising their lead and steel, and they would soon put them down.—(No, no.) But by peaceable agitation they should be able to carry far more terror into the Tory ranks than all they could ever do by force. It was this manifestation of brute force that had eleven back the cause of public liberty to an extent which it was not within his power to ealculate.—(Hear.) The riots in Wales had given the alarm to the timid, had perhaps ' decided the wavering, and took from She public liberty its greatest power. Yet he thought the circumstances of 1642 were not to be com pared with the struggles of the seventeenth century. He was happy to say that they had not now to struggle with the Sovereign.— (Cheers.) In the seventeenth century the struggle was with a de ceitful King . , but their Sovereign had done all she oould dn.-- (I.ond cheers.) She had constitutionally done all she could for her people. The question had been submitted to the electors, whether they would have dear bread or cheap bread, whether they would have free trade or restriction. And never let them forget that the Whigs, in the first year they were in power, brought down in their Budget a proposal ter the repeal of time timber duty. There was a majority against it, and therefore they abandoned it ; and, though they never came up to his mark, yet, if they compared one party with the other, it was like comparing the glow-worm with the light of the meridian sun. He would now only add, that if the Duke of Richmond was any authority at all, he told them that the Corneae was a question of rant. Ile said, if they were repealed, he should lose half his rent; he would he obliged to have fewer acres of lawn, and therefore fewer gardeners ; fewer plea. sure-grounds, and therefore fewer labourers ; fewer horses, and tt erefore fewer grooms ; fewer coach es, and therefore fewer coachmen, So, because the Duke of Richmond must have horses and gardeners, and grooms and coachmen, the poor must be starved and the inte. rests of the nation destroyed! He should rather declare tor the hap. illness of the people and lower rents. The CII►IRMAN then announced that he had only one more gen tleman ou his list, Mr. John Cadsby, of Manchester. . , Mr. G A nsav stepped:forward and said—Standing here, Gentlemen, as I do, the representative of ten congregations—(Hear, hear)—l might justly claim your indulgence while--I inflicted upon you a speech, but at this late hour it would be exceedingly unbecoming in me to attempt so to do. The congregation in Manchester with which I am more immediately connected, numbers about 800 per suns. On the 6th of September last, agreeably to the recorpmen dation of the Conference of ministers, held in Manchester in August, a prayer meeting was held, that the good Lord in his providence might be pleased to send relief for the starving thou sands. After the prayer meeting a number IT us ajdotprned to the Vestry, and fiirmed ourselves into a Congregational Anti Corn. law Association, to aid in raising funds for the League, to super intend the getting up of petitions, and otherwise forward the great end we had in view. This Association, in answer to the call of the Council of the League appointed me to represent them here; anti no sooner was it known that I was thus appointed, than letters from eongregatiols in the neighbouring towns, Blackburn, 1% nry, Oldham, &c., came pouring in, entreating Inc to represent them also—(Cheers)—and I may mention that only one voice pervaded the whole—total and immediate repeal —( Loud cheers This, therefore, I feel bound to demand. —(Cheers.) We ask no more, and will take no less—(Cheers)—the total and immediate repeal of the bread-tax.—(Cheers.) He was glad that the measure of Sir Robert Peel had not been more liberal in its provisions, for, in con. sequence, their arms would be strengthened, and they would-be enahltd to gain fresh 'vantage wound month after month. lie would trouble them but little farther, than to assure them that . he would be able, from personal observation, to inform the ten con. gregations by which he was deputed, that this Conference was the most cheering sight which it was his happiness ever to have witnessed.—(Cheers.) Mr. SYDNEY SMITH, as Secretary, and one of the Executive Corn- Mince of the Conference, begged to state that the Committee would, meet at nine o'clock to-morrow morning (this day), and the Conference would be held at eleven o'clock, when he hoped all the gentlemen present would make it a point to be punctual in their attendance. Ile could not conclude without congratulating the Meeting upon the presence of the Welsh land owner (Mr. G, Evans), who, he trusted, would make the Bucking hams of the present ikiy swallow the leek to the smallest end, as the Welshman of old did.—(Cheer , .) The CHAIRMAN raid the Conference and the speaker were much indebted to the meeting for the patience and decorum with which those who addressed the meeting were received. He should observe at the same time that lie had been very much hi the habit of,being present at public ineutiugs, and was not unacquainted with the interior of the House of Commons, and it had seldom been his lot to hear such a succession of able and talented speeches as he had heard that evening, and that the constituencies had done both themselves and the cause which they advocated infinite honour by the gentlemen whom they had selected as Delegates. With such men it was impossible to doubt the triumph of mind and intellect over interest, ambition, and power. With the hope that they should have a good attendance to-morrow, he should take his leave.—(Loud and long.colitinued cheers.) On the motion of Mr. EGER, seconded by Mr. BUCENIASTER. a vote of thanks was unanimously passed to the Chairman land the meeting separated shortly before ten o'clock. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TA TTE II SA LL'S —YEsTEn DA V. 'I he betting of yesterday was flat, and, although it touched upon all the stakes now in the market, was without any ma terial effect on the prices. 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