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MORNING SUN vided assent of the public- as to the fitness of the appointment. But then there were two other appointments in the Equity 'Courts, created by the Bill of the last Session, and so high an opinion did the present Government hold of the jtidicial services- of Lord Cottenham that their first act after the passing of the Bill was to tender to him one of those judgeships. Lord-Cottenham declined to accept the ap pointment, and he (Sir R. Peel) could well understand the motives that had induced him to do so; it was scarcely to be expected, in consequence of his positipn, thathe would accept it; but the Government were determined not to forego the oppor tunity of offering it to Lord Cottenham, and thereby effect ing a saving to the country, and also showing to men of high professiona reputation t'eat the Government were determheed not to pass them by. „He would now give also an explanation of all he knew as the retirement of the Judges referred to by the Noble Load. The Noble Lord acquitted the Govern ment of any blame. His motion was directed against the Judges the nnselves ; and, he must say, when he heard the bar of each_ of the Courts, in. which those Learned Sledges presided, offering the expression of their unanimous opinion that those Judges might repose e in uninterrupted happiness for the re mainder of their days, it was painful to thihk that such repose should be interrnpted,and that happiness prevented, by debates in that House s intended to convey reflections upon them. lie was not prepared for the resignation of his valuable friend Lord Chief Justice Bushe. He (Sir R, Peel) had not heard that his powers were undermined, but It was intimated to him that his Lordship wished to resign, being now 75 years of age, having been Attorney-General from 1805 to 1825, and having served the Administration of the party to which the Noble Lord belonged with equal fidelity to that with which he served his own. He (Sir IL Peel) therefore thought., that a recollection of the lustre which the united abilities of Plunkett and of Beebe reflected on the Administra tion of Ireland, ought to have induced the Noble Lord to ex ,empt the late Lord Chief Justice from that attack.—( Hear.) The Lord Chief Justice signified his wish to resign solely on account of the infirmities attending seventy-five years of age. There was no stipulation as to a successor, and if be (Sir Robert Peel) interfered at all, it would be to throw obstruc tions in the way of the retirement of so distinguished a man. His character might be estimated from the address that had been presented to him by the Bar of Ireland; and he (Sir R. Peel) could not but think that the advocate for justice to Ire land was the first man to throw imputations on the profession to which he belonged--( Cheers from the 31inisterial benches) —describing it as a Bar whose addresses to retiring Judges were mere waste paper, for when a leader made a call, some had the meanness to comply, and other; had not the courage to refuse.—(Hear, and cheers ) The Lord President signified his desire to retire also, stating that he was seventy-eight years of age, and weighed down by infirmity. It was supposed that some inducement Lad been held out to the Lord President to influence him to resign his office. It was not indeed, expressly stated that the appointment of his son was connected with his retirement; but it had been insinuated that sense such nature operated on his mind. He (Sir R. Pee:) altogether di claimed the imputation. There was no kind of connection between the two events ; and the ai.point ment of the son had been made out and his salary had led. en fixed before her Majesty's Government had considerd. arrangement might be ma le with respect to the d t'Peintment of a successor to the Lord Pre ieent. The ape ointment of the son was not in the slightest deg ree cotineede4',ittethe retire ment of the father. The' son had be a appointed in corn plitnee wih that rule which the / e' Gentleman was dis rased to apply so rigidly —lied w 3 appointed Dean of the culty, because he had "Te elected by the universal voice of the Bar of Scotland to tlesee most honourable position, and be cause he (Sir R. P ee) believed that the Bar of Scotland, admitted that r. distinguished advocate could have been selected, than. Mr. John Hope—(Hear, hear)—to fill the office. The lion. Gentleman hal asked whether the Lord President had nit signified a wish to retire in 1834 o: in 1835. He (Sir R. Peel) declared, singular as it might appear to the Ilem. Gentleman, that, as far es his memory went, he had trot the slightest recollection of such a circumstance. Pat supposing it hail been made, how utterly inconsistent Was that charge with the other?—( Hear, hear.) His ( Sir R. Peel s) tenure of office was somewhat precarious in 1835; and he be lieved that after the, vote upen the Spcakership, he might have pretty well foresesa %\ 11• It OUld have been his fate. He should have thought, too, that th • Hon. Gentleman's confidence in his own Administration in 1840 must have been somewhat checked, after he had found in 1839 that the Ministry had found it ne cessary to resign because they did not possess the public eon& dence.—( Hear, hoar'.) But what was it the Hon. Member now asked? Why, simply this—whether he (Sir R. Peel) had the virtue in 1835 to resist the proposal ? The Hon. Gen tleman admitted that he had deserved some credit if, after having a. plausible ground for accepting the offer of resignatien, he had still not availed himself of the opportunity. He hoped that if the Hon. Gentleman spoke again upon .such a subject, he would recollect that he must haee a hope of again occu. ring a seat on the Treasury Benches.—( Hear, hear. ) He asked him upon what those disclosures were founded— ( Loud cheers)—and if the Hon. Gentleman's conscience would decide that they were altogether on one side and in their favour he (Sir It. Peel) would desire hint to come back.— Laughter and cheers.) But, supposing this was the case, he ( Sir( R. Peel) could not take the credit of having declined to accept it. But if this offer were made, it appeared to him (Sir Robert Peel) thathe would be perfectly justified in saying to the Lord President, " You mistake your infirmities, they are dif ferent from what you suppose them to be, there may yet be. intellects which you can apply to eublic service; my advice, my friend, is thehYoteehould remain."—(Cheers and la ugh ter.) If he took that course, ii weuld be reconvilsable with and con firmed by the dete s tein 18311-4 Hear, hear.) If, in 1839, he (Sir R. Peel) hadedsileeiel s ttee Loid President to remain in office, and devote the remEtritirleida portion, of his years to the public service he should have been met by the Hon. Gentleman the Under Secretasy of State, be stating that that was the first time he had"} ailtl iheethat distinguished and venerable Judge was afflicted with mental indisposition, although his physical powers might have been impaired by the labour of years. The Under Secretary of State won'd then have been ready to an swer for the full application of all his mental powers. The Right Hon. Barouct concluded be easing it was his firm in tention to °plebs:4lo4- motiOn. Lord J. RUSSELL said the question which he had pro posed was a very siml,le one indeed, and the only answer he had reeeived'to it was from the Secretary of State for the Home Department. Tint Right- lion. Gentleman had given some thing like an answer, but as to a defence, not one of the gen tlemen opposite attempted to make any such thing.—(Loud cheers.) H:s (Lord J. Russell's) statement was this, that there were grounds to suspect that two Judges, being very high on the judicial bench—(Hear, hear)—had retained office at a time when they were infirm, either in mind or body, in stead of giving in their resi g nation, until another Ministry came into o ffi ce, and he (the Noble Lord) said that if that was admitted to have been done—if Judges holding those high situa tions were to took at the state of the Houses of Parliament, to see whether one party had a majority over the others, and whe ther they ought tcr postpone their resignation until certain Ministerial changes would have taken place—he (Lord J. Russell) said that was conduct which must have the effect of lowering the character of those .Judges in the estimation of the public. —( Hear, hear, and cheers.) He had heard much said on his own side of the House in corroboration of the statements he had made, and very little was said on the other in refutation of them.-(Cheers.) The Learned Lord, the President of the Court of Session in Scotland, had stated himself that he was incapable of performing the duties of his office—he stated that he had great difficulty even in walking up the steps to his court; that he was latterly afflicted with deafnese while he held his office.—(llear, hear.) Were those changes, those afflictions so sudden as to occur immediately before the resig nation of that Learned Judge ?—( Hear, hear, and cheers.) Had they all come on in 1841—(Loud cheers)—or did the Learned Lord, although he was some time afflicted in that way, postpone his resignation until there was a change in the Ministry.—(" Hear, hear," and cheers.) As to the case of the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench in Ireland, he (Lord John Russell) had heard nothing except what had tended fully to confirm the statements he had made. A fight Hon. Gentleman opposite (the Recorder for the City of Dublin) stated that these in • firmities of body had come on the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench in Ireland only lately.--( Hear, hear.) If that statement was made within the knowledge of the Re corder of Dublin, undoubtedly it would have great weight. But that Right. Hon. Gen!. did not state that the facts were within his knowlsdge ; and if the retirement of the Lord C hief Justice was caused in that way, undoubtedly it was very proper—( Hear, hear)--but as those facts were not stated by the Secretary of State for the Hume Department, he (Lord J. Russell) would not take them as answers to his statement.--( Rear, hear.) Was it to be admitted or asserted by the Members of the Go• vernment, that it was proper for a Judge—that it was exalt ing his character, to use means, or Watch the movements of po litical parties, in order to wait until certain change; of admi nistra•ions had taken place, that they then might retire from office ?—( Hear, and loud cheers.) 'With respect to one of the Judges in nuestiop e it was not denied that he was incaracitated from discharging his duties. With respect to the other, the facts were not refuted. Therefore he (Lord J. Russell) must per severe in calling- for the letters which were the subject of his motion. At all events, there Ms this singular fact, that the change oflthaiNlinistry had taken place concurrently with the resignation of both tha f se Learned Judges.—( Hear.) With respect to Lord Corehouie, he ( Lord J. Russell) directed his Hon. Friend then Under- Secretary, to write to his Lordship, stating that' is reisienteation must be unconditional, and without stipulation of any kind ; and that having received this intima tion, he might. resign or retain his office as he chose. The case of Lord Plunkett was one of an ere irely different-nature, for the office of Lord thaneeller lacing held during pleasure, differed greatly from those that weee held for lire. He (the Noble Lord) would not now enter into the reasons of Lord Plunkett's retire • anent-e(Laughter and cheers)—but would merely remark that his successor, Lord. Campbell, of whose political rind legal abi lities the House had often had the benefit, not knowing what might be the effect, of a dissohation—(Laughter)—accepted the office, with the stipulation that he should have no retiring pen sion. This was an act for which the opposite party could not show a precedent ; nor did he blame Sir Edward Sugden,when appointed, perhaps not is ith a greater prospect of continuing in his office, for not making a similar stipulation. Having mentioned those cases, he (Lord John Russell) must persevere in asking for the letters, foe he feared, otherwise, it would be difficult to convince the country that Judges did not, from poli tical motives, delay the resignation of offices which age and in firmity had unfitted them to hold, and that such conduct was intended to be heist out, not as a warning, but, to use the words of the Right Hon. Bart., a precedent foe others.—( Cheers.) The House then divided, is hen the numbers were— .For the illation Against the motion Majority --- 73 The Loan Societies Bill was read a second time. Sir H. lIAItDINGE brought up the Army Estimates. The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at a Quarter to Nine o'Clock. A -S -- _NTI-SLAVERY. We have just received a communication fr om France, informing us that the public meeting is postp one d t i ll the 7th of March next, in order to give more time to receive the replies of the various friends that have been invited to attend it. —Anti-Slavery Paper. HEARlNG.—.Patronized SIGHT AND RlNG.—Patronized by their Majesties the King an d Princess of Hanover, and their Royal Highnesses the lat 3 her Serene Highness the p s , : n Augusta, the Princess Sophia, ti c l e e ssEsterhazy, the Princesses Nary and Rosa, her Grace , t3h°P ford, and their Graces the Archb" Dowager Duchess of Bpi of Canterbury, and the Dukes of Norfolk, Devonshire Manchester, and Marlborough, Marquises of Hertford, Londonderry, Sligo, and Thomond, Earls of Shaftesbury, Tankerville, Hare wood. Powis Bradford, . low, Verulam, Harrowby, Buckinghamshire, __. Wick ford, Lisburne, and Ferrero, Bishop. of A E 2 e x a e th, Somers, Ox Lincoln, Cork, Elphin, and Kildare, Lords Hill, Cowley, Woodford, in addition to the above distinguished patronage t w o " ' ' lc ' 84c " the Invented Spectacle Le nses and Sound Magmifier.Newly. Invisibl e Operati oil Voice Conductor, Mess r s. S. and B. uom Albemarle-street, Piccadilly , opp osite the York Hoot °:::d' 39, . King Wiliiam.street, City, state that their valuable inventio ns have 76, also gained the sanction. and unq ualified a pp robation of ab o v efou r hundred of the prineipal members of the medical profession. Imme diately these Newly-invented Spectacle Lenses are placed before extremely imperfect,. vision, that mist and dullness which appear before the eyes is at once removed, every object be. • cones clear and .distinct, so that the MOst aged imperfect sight be comes bright and brilliant, and is r 1-I S t s b ong tto youthful, natural, eat %xi ' atrial state. Their Ir ' Ida, Operative Voice g ot . r o I , 4agnia. , yist Conductor unto •ncil.4l`s-fcitt vetikluy i . Sot the it ast perceptible nor , se . o f ( 1 „1. , cy glie Soli - neata - e' relief to old-itanding extreme heard with ex . ..1 the faintestwhisper -at a public assembly is act ctiattnetnes s t re et, opposite the York '' To be had only at 39, Albemarle ciby,—No connection with Hatet, and 76, King WU' i tamatreet h person. s of the same name, I II G REA T ANTI-CORN-LAW CONFERENCE. (YESTERDAY.) The Conference met yesterday morning at the Crown and Anchor, at eleven o'clock. The attendance was much more numerous than it had been on any former occasioD. Mr. M‘LAREN, on taking the Chair at half-past eleien o'clock, said that at a meeting of the Executive Committee this morning, which had been very fully attended, he had been allowed to propose that, as he had occupied:the Chair two days, the Committee should fix upon another member to fill that post. He had occupied the Chair two days, and he thought that a sufficient time for a Deputy from the country t 9 have occupied that Chair, and therefore he had expressed it as his opinidb that the Chair ought now to be occupied by some person connected with Loudon. The Committee had consi dered the subject, and had acceded to his request. It had then been considered who should be recommended to occupy the Chair to-day. and it had been agreed upon that P. A. Taylor, Esq., of London, should be requested to occupy the Chair.— ( Cheers.) He therefore proposed that Mr. Tay:or should take the Chair. Mr. KEItSfIAW, of Manchester, seconded the nomination, which was carried by acclamation. TA Loft then took the Chair. The C.HaramAsr said he had unexpectedly had the honour conferred upon him of being called upon to occupy the Chair to day, but from what hE Wad seen of the quiet and orderly manner in which their proceedings had been conducted during the last two days, he felt that he should have no difficulty, with their a, , sistance, in eaercising the function which had devolved upen him. The question had assumed such a shape since yesterday —( Loud cheers)—had been so cleared front all difficulty, as Co make their path clear and straightforward.—(lmmense cheering.) All apprehensions had been removed lest the wily politician at the head of her Majesty's Government. should by securing concessions, concessions in words only, lure some portion of that support from them which had recently been manifested in their favour throughout the, coutttry— (Cheers)--and if they continued in their coureaswith resolution, moderation, and tirmnez.s, they must car: y their point even tually, as they would be sure to cam: every question involving a national wrong.—(Loud cheers,' The question was, in fact, shortly, whether the corn- groe eing trade should be protected at the cost of every other tra d e and elds, for the sole purpose of en riching the corn- the agg ~,, , ,ing rade.—(Cheers.) The effect being wealthyrandise - etent of th Venormous rents of an already too a:'.stoeracy—(Loud cheers)—which were upheld solelj f o r t i v.er own purposes, by that aristocracy having the corn ":and of the legislation of the United Kingdom.—( Cheers. ) Nothing could be said to add to the sordidness of such conduct, but something might be said to demonstrate its absurdity.— ( Cheers.) The aristocracy attempted to lessen the force of this plain statement—attempted to delude the people by telling them that this law was not enacted for the purpose of adding to their rents—not for the aggrandisement of their wealth—that it was not a tax imposed upon the country—but a law enacted for the eational good. He would merely remark upon two of the arguments which had been propounded by Sir Robert Peel, in his speech of last night. Sir Robert had said that the distress was not attributable to tl:e Corn-law, but to the great excitement of the year 1837. Now he would say, that this could not be a cause, but it must be a consequence.—(Loud cheers. ) In what state must that nation be which fears to put forth its utmost, powers of production ?—(Cheers ) What state must that country be in which could only be maintained in health by keeping the exertions of its industry in a languid state ? (Immense cheering.) Was the whole world civilised? Was it true that the country could only be maintained in a healthy state by restraining its creative powers. If such were the case, the end of the world must be at hand. At all events there was, not room for another producing individual in it. We already produced too much for the consumption of the world.—(Loud cheers.) Another argument made use of by Sir Robert Peel was this. He, congratulated the country that the amount of the exports had so much increased. Now if any of them had ever walked through the streets of London during a time of distress, he must have seen staring him in the face the announcement—" Tremendous sacrifice." The con sequence of that announcement always was, that immense sales took place ; and perhaps, in the course of two days, the mere chant's warehouse was cleared. Well, then, when this had taken place, Sir Robert Peel would go into that merchant's warehouse, and, shaking him by the hand, say to him, " Sir, I. congitatulate you on your prosperity ; you never made such large tales in your life before." 'The merchant might well re ply, as did the General who had lost half his best troops in a victory, " Sir Robert, another such a run of prosperity would be toy ruin."—(Hear.) Ile would recommend that, in their speeches of to-day, those who addressed the meeting should use rather the language of action than that of reflection.—(cheers. ) that they should rather say what was to bedone for the future. (Cheers)—than deliver anything like Anti-Corn-law lectures. • (Cheers.) On the question now there could be no mis take.—(Cheers.) The landed aristocracy were pitted against them, and give way easily they would not.—(Hear, hear. ) Sir Robert Peel, after five months, of gestation had brought forth the mouse of last ni: ht —( Cheers and laughter.) There were no hopes fur them, they must either conquer the aris tocracy in some way or other— (Immense cheering)—he meant Peaceably, constitutionally—(Cheers)—but they must put the aristocracy down in some way or other, or the aris tocracy would crush there.—( Loud cheers.) Mr. Gitec,, (the late member for Manchester,) said that before they proceeded to the regular business of the meeting they had a grateful duty to perform, and he therefore proposed a vote of thanks to their late Chairman.—( Cheers.) Mr. E. BAXTER had great pleasure in seconding the propo sition. He had come a distance of 500 miles to advocate jus tice to all—to the merchant, to the manufacturer, to the spin ner, to the poor ; and he would tell them he was determined to come back again as often as Sir Robert Peel pleased.—(Loud cheers.) He would not relax in his endeavours as 1 .ng as justice was refused to the people.—(Cheers.) He wished to see justice done to the commercial man, the manufacturer, the labouring classes, and the poor—(Loud cheers) —and he hoped that they would none of them desist until they had accoin plishedjustice for England, Scotland, and Ireland.—(lmmense cheers.) He had come 500 miles, and therefore claimed a right to second the vote of thanks to Mr. M'Laren, for he knew him well.—( Cheers.) He was a gentleman who had been most highly esteemed as an upright, intelligent, and ta lented mart. He had great pleasure in seconding the vote proposed by Mr. Greg.—(Cheers.) The vote of thanks to Mr. M'Laren was then put and car ried by acclamation. Mr. APLAarx, in rising to return thanks, said, he begged to acknowledge the kindness of the gentleman who proposed a 'vote of thanks to him for his services in the Chair. He consented to occupy the Chair with great reluctance; but, having undertaken the office, he used his best endeavours to discharge properly his duty to the meeting, and he must say, that the conduct of the azsembly was such as to render his office almost a sinecure.—( Hear, hear.) He begged to thank the meeting for the manner in which it had received the vote of thanks which was passed to him; but, being on his legs, he wished to explain, that the meeting which was held last night at Brown's Hotel, eller the announcement of the Pre mier's measure, was quite unconnected with the Conference. They met as individuals, and passed resolutions which would be laid before the Conference to-day ; but he begged it to be understood that they did not meet as a Conference.—( Hear. ) It was not their intention to take upon them the powers of the Conference. He also desired to say that he cordially agreed with what the Chairman had spoken, that this was not a time for reflection, but for action.—(Cheers.) There could be no difference of opinion, that though the sliding scale had got a new face, it was essentially time simile as the old cne—( Hear, hear)—and it was perhaps the best thing that could have happened that t'..ere was so little difference in the two mea sures.—( Cheers.) If it had been larger, some of the friends who were not over zealous in the cause might have said, " Oh, it is a large measure, let U 3 give it a trial for a year or so, that we may know how it will tell ;"_but now the change was so small that no person who might be inclined to take the smallest good ,Iteration, could listen to it for a moment as worthy of consideration.—(Cheers. ) He knew they would more than ever be united in resisting it.—( Cheers. ) The CHAIRMAN said he could not help announcing to the meeting, that he had got intelligence that the Manchester Bazaar hail already realised 10,000/.—(Loud cheers)—an answer to Sir Robert Peel's speech last night.—( Cheers. ) lie would take that opportunity of remindini ... - entlemen that they must have for th e s t rugg l e t h e s i news :at Hear) — and that they must open their purse strings, lint looking on what they gave as an outlay, hut as an investment that would briog a large interest.—(Cheers.) Colonel THOMPSON rose 4rnict loud cheeri, and said, that since he came into the room, ass abstract of the speech of the Prime Ministerhad been put into his hand, with a desire that he would comment thereupon, and'inasmuch it would be very unwise to occupy three hours on a commentary ou the three hours' speech of her Majesty's:Premier, he must be excused if he fell short of the longitude of that sprech.—(Cheers and laughter.) lie would follow the advice of the Chairman, and give them words of action, rather than of reflection.—(Cheers.) Nevertheless he would bog of the meeting to hear some words of reflection, rather than of action, on the plan of the Prime Minister, and the reasons he avowed for pursuing that plan.— ( Hear.) And in the first place, he (Sir H. Peel) took the position that the existing national distress was not to be traced altogether to the operation of the Corn-laws. Now, `then-. every one of them went home to their own residences, would not distress, whether they would or not, present itself to them?—(Cheers.) And would not their ledgers trace it to the operation of the Corn-la:'-s ?—( Cheers.) Does not each mer chant know that the operation of these laws has been the cause of throwing, out of his employ men, women, and children, and that they are cast starving on the world, because the hands that would feed them are not allowed to carry food to their mouths, because the law says that the productions of industry shall not be exchanged for. food ?—(Cheers.) On what principle of justice could those who advocated those laws now, defend themselves when they came to answer them, as he trusted in God they would be compelled to answer them—when they were asked why a compensation in the shape of a bounty on foreign corn should not be continued to the people for an indefinite period— ? (Cheers.) He (Colonel Thompson) hoped that a few like touches from the Minister would bring their courage to the sticking-point—( Loud cheers)— and that they would find out that there was nothing of the pith of anything like argument on this question. These Tory aristocrats tell you that they were born for the enjoyment of duties, and that the people were born for the enjoyment of paying those duties.— (Laughter.) Now, when it is urged that trade is declining by reason of that law, which is continued for the aristocrats' benefit, how, he asked, would they answer to the people, the demand for retribution?—( Cheers.) He would not unneces sarily advocate retribution, but it was Scriptural?—(Cheers. ) He found that four-fold was paid for a sheep, and five-fold for an ox, and if that were so, what retribution ought not be demanded for the Corn-law?—(Loud cheering.) He went back to the principle—he might prove that retribution was acknowledged to be most profitable in all nations and ages, and it would be found that it would not do for any, man to continue injustice in the expectation of impugnity. (Loud cheers.) Something must be done in the way of threat or retribution before the wicked or selfish were made to give up their unjust practices.—(Loud cheers.) It remained to he seen whether they were not to have some other droits de sesg.l lleur. He need not explain what that meant, they all knew that it gave certain kinds of rights over their wives end daugh ters. And just as insulting and unjust, considering the differ ence of anciaat and present times, were the demands of the aristocracy upon them.—( Cheers.) They tell us that the ma nufacturers must not work without paying to them a high per tentage for the liberty, and this was a state of things which no nation like Eng'and would sub. mit to. —(Cheere. ) He would now proceed to some of 11)4 arguments of their enemies. The existing national distress was stated to arise from a concurrence of various causes. There was a rope about the neck of the patient, but the doctor comes in and says that it was a concurrence of causes that was killing hina.—( Loud cheers and laughter.) The poor patient it was evident had not died from the rope, but fro&s a concur rence of causes.—( Laughter.) He had a flow of blond to the head.—( Laughter.) A tendency to suffocation.—( Renewed laughter.) But the Prime Minister in his capacity of State Physician, would accountle-the phenomenon of the patient7a case, by attrib u ti ng i t to a'concurrence of causes end a compli cation of embar rassment. —(Laughter.) Say not a word of the rope—look for the c ause to a concurrence o f c i rcu mstances to account for the extravasation; and thus the Premier answers THE SUN, I ON DON. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1842 e to the people of England for the state of the country. But there was mention made in the speech of the state of joint-stock ba n k s . L e t th e m r e c o ll ec t t ha t w a s what pre vented the prosperity of trade.—(Hear, and laughter.) Then there were the improvements in machinery. These improve ments are charged as the cause of the mischiefs of manufactur ing specu'ators. What wicked men they were to speculate.— (Laughter.) But there was not one word of landlords' specu lations. Now, why should they not get up parish committees to ascertain whether the landlords had or had not too much rent ? If it could be proved that the manufacturers had made any profits at all, that was immediately produced as evidence to show that their. demands for more were unjust. • Now from what he had learned from those who had preceded him, he be lieved that a man had a right to all that he could honestly get; and there was no reason to say to a man I should think he had already made enough. If a contr ,ry principle were established, the time might come when the people might turn round on the aristocracy and tell them that 2001. a year might suffice for any man. But the depression of trade, it was said was accompanied by an interruption of our relations with Ame• rica; and the distress in the Unite I States arose from the ope ration of causes similar to those which last produced our war. That reminded him of the story of the sailor boy who, when asked by his Captain that he was doing, replied, " no thing," and When another was asked what he was doing, he replied, " helping Jack, Sir."—( Laughter. 1 So it was said that there was nothing doing in England, and in America they were following our example. And .that was given as a reason why we were to continue to do nothing. It was added that the diminution in the demand from the United States arose in some degree from its monetary embarrassments. He (Col. Thompson) supposed our refusal to take their corn had nothing to do with the matter. It was very certain, however, that a man who might not be able to pay in money might be able to pay in articles of subsistence; and our refusal to take the corn of the United States, might have caused an unfortunate irritation on the other side of the Atlantic, and only corresponding with our own. They could not put an end to the distress in the United States --they could not prevent the cessation of a steady demand from the United • States, nor prevent their monetary embarrass ntents, under the existing state of our relations with that country. But the Government might put an end , by wise legis lation, to the interruption of our trade with America. Again , it was said that commercial distress and embarrassment were inseparable from the nature of commercial transactions. That was the assertion of Sir Robert Peel ; but he might as well have told them that men (lied and worms eat them. That, - hOwever, was no reason why their tountryhouses should be closed; and why their pro-perity should he allowed gradually but certainly to decline, England, too, was a country in which a large portion of the people were dependant upon the pros perity of trade for the means of subsistence; and yet it was supposed that, the interests of the working-classes could be separated from the interests of manufacturers. That was ' a fallacy into which he was sorry to say some of the working men hail fallen. He believed, however, that few of their men really belonged to the working class ; he believed they were a set of melt hired to play the part of mummers.—( Hear, hear.) At one meeting he had seen three men and two boys whistline, who called themselves the repre sentatives of her Majesty's Pro• Corn-law opposition. ( Laughter.) Yet these men called themselves the mouth pieces of the working classes; while the real working men mate forward and tr ld them 1 hat what they wanted was a cheap loaf.—( Hear, hear.) He had no doubt but there were indi vidual manufacturers who might have made an improper use of the power which their position gave them over those who "creed them ; but the . good sense of the nation ought riot to allow some private and individual errors to be brought forward as a ground for maligning a whole clam— ( Hear, bear.) Sir Robert Peefsaid, that "although very great distress did most unquestionably exist, there was no cause of despondency as to the future prosperity of our com mercial greatness." Only let things go on as they were, and the Prime Minister would exhort them not to despond.— ( Hear, hear.) But what invitation was there to go on when we had lost nine-tenths of the commerce of Europe, which might have continued our ownif legislation had not interfered to prevent it? The Corn-law was framed upon the principle that commerce and trade were to be depressed, except in as far as the landlords were to receive the benefit of them. When the day came for trying the converse of that proposition, let them not forget that that was the tendency of the language of the Prime Minister in the day of his pride and prosperity. The agrictilturists, according to Sir Robert Peel, were not opposed ' to a modification of the Corn laws. He (Colonel Thompson) knew some agriculturists who would not oppose a total repeal of the Corri-laws.—( Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") There were some long-headed men among the agriculturists, 1 ' end there wire• many of every other class. There were some of them. in that room—men whom he (Colonel 'I hompron) knew-to be of capacious heads. There we: e also great tern-- serial possessors both in the House of Lords and in the House of Conmoris, who had good sense enough to know that their interests were bound up with the prosperity of commerce. llonour to these men, and a speedy increase to their numbers. —(Hear, hear.) But, according to Sir Robert Peel, 'it was impossible to satisfy the free traders " There were, perhaps, e in that asSe.nbly many gentlemen who hail come to London with exaggerated fears of the thieves of London, and who were surprised to find that they escaped in their walks with their pocket-handkerchiefs. • But it would seem they should have been satisfied with half the pocket-handkerchief. It was im possible to satisfy the free-traders who demanded the removal of all protective duties—who asked to escape with whole pocket-handkerchiefs. They should have surrendered the half at least to their plunderers.—( Hear, hear.) There was, however, another subject worthy of notice. It had never been shown—it never could be shown—that whatever sum was levied for the purpose of protection, as it was called, was not twice taken from some one to be given to somebody else. And the principle of the Corn-laws was to take a shilling out of the rocket of the manufacturer to put a sixpence into that of the landlord.—(Hear, bear.) Sir Robert Peel proceeded to say— " There remains then the parties who advocate a fixed duty upon the importation of foreign, corn." Now of that class of persons there were two descriptions—there were those who wanted to stop there, and there were those who wanted not to stop there. He apprehended that any one in that room who' advocated a fixed duty, advocated it with a view to a final abolition -, and he should not, therefore, dwell long upon that part of the subject. Sir Robert Peel, turning to those who i advocated a fixed duty, said—" The same .silium was surely to ibe attached to a fixed duty as to a' variable one." There was odium, then, incurred by those who left the passenger without the whole pocket-handkerchief in the practice of their par ticular vocation.—(Hear.) Sir Robert Peel went on to say— " But the true test of the matter, was not the com parative prices of food at home and abroad, but the compara tive amount of the enjoyments and comforts of life which each individual labourer could command." Why, what was the compare:ire amount of the comforts and enjoyments of life possessed by the workmen of Bolton ?—( Hear, hear.) By the men whom he had seen in that town thrusting their heads into corners and dusthelea, to find nothing more of softness that a dusthole could bestow? The comparative amount of the cimfo-ts and enjoyments of life, quotha ! Let each of them go home to their villages and towns, and hunt up the comparative amount of the comforts and enjoyments of lite, as a proof that the Corn-laws ought not to be removed. In giving extracts from the evidence of Dr. Bowring, the Mini,ter contended that the labourers of England were able to command a larger share of the comforts and enjoyments of life than the labourers of the Continent.—(Disapprobation.) Sup ' ewe that they did—was that a reason, why you should take ' from them all you can squeeze? Did Sir R. Peel suppose, ' that, even if it were true, it was a reason for stopping the progress of their ledgers, of their sales abroad, and preventing the employment of their operatives at home? Why, if that were the case, they must shut up shop, or if not exactly that, must carry on a little business, instead of a great one. Looking at all this, did not this meeting see that if anything like pa triotism was left in . the country, it must con s i s t i n oust i ng these men front power. —(Tremendo us cheering, renewed end continued for several minutes.) But, thank God, they had at last got them to a point. The bull was at last brought to the ring, and they should now see what metal he was made of. - The question was brought to this :—Shall there be any , ommerce allowed by the law of the country ? Shall all the industry, all the wagei, all the population that might by every possibility be called forth and supported by commerce, be pro.. hibited and forbidden to exist ? There had been much said of a work written on what was called " painless extinction," in which a number of men had.incurred perhaps justifiable odium, from advocating this " painless extinction." He knew not what it meant. It was something that ought not to be, he did not doubt; bet what wa, it compared to this general painful extinction ?" Here was a population under the pro cess of being carried through all the various grades of misery of Which human nature was capable, the men of Bolton were re sually dying of the experiment of bow much dirt a man was capable of living on. He had seen a wretched bird perishing from the ignorance of children, who did not know the quantity of misery it was capable of supporting. Such was just the case with the population tney saw perishing under their eyes. When the gentleman whose evidence was unfairly brought to establish a case against them, gave a true and honest account of the slate of the population of the borough Iv, repre i,i-inctl, "liar" was the genteelest term he was saddled with. 'I hit alone w ould show them the line every man had to march through who took this view of the question. But six weeks ago " liar" was the term put forth by the satellites of the Pre mier's press against the gentleman whom they had themselves appointed to discharge an honourable duty, and who had insisted en doing it honestly and creditably ; and the same abuse must be sustained by all men of the same opinions. But he goes on to say, that " the argument founded on the prices of food at home and abroad is fallacious." It was fallacious if it was put in a fallacious manner ; but taking it to be correct, it did not touch the fact that for every shilling given for food by the ope rative,.you turn through his hand another shilling, which is sr nt to the landlord in the shape of rent. And there was a great fallacy which had been often offered to the operatives, and to which too many of them had submitted; they had been told that the tax paid to the landlord was the security frir their wages; now, if those could be weak enough to admit that - what was taken from them in the shape of a tax to the landlord, a tax on the operative's food, is a part of the wages of the operative—if some of them had been deluded to believe ' this, it was for those who had some leisure, and better Means of information, to discuss the foul fallacy, and disperse it to the winds.—(Cheers.) Well, then; what had they done after all this? This, they might suppose, must lead to some thing. What is it? Nothing! What is at best? Why, a Partial reduction o f th e sca l e; b ut the sliding-scale with all its inge n io us di s h onesty, i s preserved unharmed an ' d un e,uched ; something was done in the way of altering the degrees of the scale, calculated, he observed, with peculiar ingenuity, as ith reference to the present time, appearing to promise some u i arte tmusttime. e . be s i t r h e rt . c o p n e s e e l q u appearede nc e ? I t V o, htyh,i think that k :h all na. crease r r e e a e s e o r ( v i e a d t . telief at th e ac tu a l moment, lent the evil principle was there tl.e agitation that might have b een di m i n i s h ed now, will be i a fut l' W if he obtained temporary relief he might go on for a certain time, and then, he presumed, th ere would be a necessity for more starving operatives at B o l ton, more widows, more' orphans, with none to care for them ; more men living, as he had seen them, on pennyworths of mutton, and half , peneyworths of bread, and all -the while these men were looking on, riding in their coaches, while they were living on the life-blood and sinews of their fellew citizens ; all this while, too, they were calling themselves, and being called by others, what by courtesy they were termed in the House of Legislature, and felt xi° shame in meeting the eyes of their countrymen in the streets. There never Was a more barefaced injustice, there never was a robbery so large totomited with such palpable evidence of falsehood and wrong. —(Cheers.) To this demand for relief it is objected, that " it seems as if it was a law of nature that there should be these several periods of scarcity and abundance, succeeding E each other; not single or a lt erna t e y ears , b u t certain periods. They knew that this was true, they knew that thistles greW is one place, and nettles in another, and, if great care was tee taken, sow-thistles would grow over all. But what is all t ei. but fudge, when compared with the vital interests at stake? V. lay, they,had always known that there must be periods of scarcity a.:d periods of abundance, and,assensible and honest men, they (eight to encourage commerce, in order to relieve those periods of scarcity. But there was an objection to the occurrence of periods of abundance ; they keep us at the scarcity point, that we may be reducer:l to the necessity of giving a famine price, in order that we may pay, as we do pay, a great portion of the earnings of our honest industry to the landlords' rent. But you were born, as our Amercan brethren Virase it, to the possession of natural and water-born privileges, you ought not to consent to a confiscation of a half or .a quarter of your means, to be put into the pockets of those mho had the power to make the laws. Why, if any other set af'titen wire in the possession of : power—if all the manufse. turing operatives had the power of making the laws—could they make any worse ?—(Cheer s.) It the sailors . of a ship— if the common soldiers of a regiment, had the power of law- makir.g, could they make such laws for reducing a great country to a little one ?.--( Loud elieekg.) He sayi to that 'a a fixed duty in abundant seasons would discourage their home agriculture by bringing down the price." What is done by the home manufacturer? He gets such prices as he can, and calculates his outlay accordingly, and if he is disappointed, like an honest man he puts the disappointment in his pocket. He is never heard going to the landowner to make up the de. ficiency. But the I indowners, it seems, must have two bags, and those bags were the right and left pockets of the manufac turer—(Cheers)—and they dip their hands into them when ever they find it convenient. There were perhaps some altera tions in the plan; as many, probably, as amounted to the dif ference between a silken halter and a hempen one ; but it was a mere change in the mode of doing mischief. It was a great comfort, no doubt, that there was some alteration in the scale, and when they came to examine its amount, they would find that there had been just enough agitation to take down a third of the evil, and they would he encouraged to think that a little more agitation would bring down the whole.—(Cheers.) And if they wanted to hasten the re• moval of the whole, they must threaten the enemy with going a d vcc ate the taking a l arge retr ib ut i on on the landlord: ; how many would follow him depended on them, andintegritythan not en himself. But he did utterly scout the charge of insin cerity and deceit, and what not, which was launched by the Piess against the advocates of the system ef compensation. He would not launch accusations of insincerity and deceit against any man. Let them advocate the total repeal of the Corn-laws. Though they - were told that such men were never heard of—men who would accept of no compromise. Let us tell them that we will compromise, but only to this, that a full retribution be taken for us for the evils of the existing Corn-laws. Twenty-four years' bounty on the importation of foreign corn would be a just ate! adequate compromise.—( Hear, he-kr.) Out of that they had his full consent to compromise if they thought it would aid the,attainment of their object; but he would-op pose all compromise out of any thing else. And, now, having applied himself at some length to this subject, the meeting might not be aware with what he was going to conclude. He bad first to read the resolutions adopted at a meeting of thedele g-ttes which was held last night, and then to propose th - at they s:tould be adoptel by the meeting. The delegates walked, about 600 in number, to the gates of the Hou e of Commons ; decent respectable men ; ne was sure not one of them had ticked a pocket. —( A laugl..) Only 100 obtained admittance— ( Several voices, " Not so many ")—the others were locked out. It was within his memory, that the last time Sir F. Burdett was elected, his Tory mob, horse and foot, went in procession to the House of Commons, and when he (Colonel Thompson) who was a Member of that House, arrived there, he found the lobby filled with his infantry—( Hear, hear)—who wore his co'ours in their hats.—( Hear, hear.) On that occasion the House ef Commons had no objection to allow a mob with elec tion colours to enter within its walls: but when 600 gentlemen the representatives of the oppressed country went to the House of Commons, they were treated uncourteously —they were treated unhandsonaely—(hear, hear)—indecen:y was thrust in the face of each of them, and that House had declared itself to be what they had found it, what they would find it, and what it always would remain till they had altered it. Those who had gained admission waited till the close of Sir R. Peel's speech, and then adjourned to Brown's Coffee-house, and, after set ious deliberation, judged they ought to express their opinion as follows : " At an adjourned meeting of the Anti-Corn-law Deputies, held at Brown's Hotel, Palace-yard, at half-past seven, this evening— Resolved unanimously— " That, in the opinion of this meeting, the measure announced by her Majesty's Government, on the subject of the Corn laws, so far from holding out the slightest prospect of any relief of the dis. tress of the country, is an insult to a patient and suffering people; and the Deputies view such a proposal as an indication that the landed aristocracy of this country arc destitute of all sympathy for the poor, and are resolved, if permitted by an outraged people, to persist in a course of selfish policy, which • will involve the destruc tion of every interest in the country. _ " Palace yard, London, " DUNCAN M'LA REN, Chairman." W e d nes d a y Night, Niwe o'Clock. " At a second Adjourned Meeting of the Members of Conference at Brown's Hotel, at nine o'clock P.M., the Deputies took into con sidoration the course which should be pursued in the present posi tion of the question, and unanimously adopted the following Reso lutions, as e;tpressire of their opinions, and agreed to recommend them to the sanction of the General Conference :—. " That the Deputies now present having further deliberately considered the proposition of her Majesty's'Government on the sub ject of the Corn laws, this evening announced in the House of Corn mons, deem it their duty, on their own behalf and in the name of their constituents, to record their emphatic condemnation of it, and tht it solemn protest against it, as a total denial of the just demand of the people of this country, and as evincing a determination to perpetuate an oppressive and unrighteous system, together with all the essential evils which have hitherto resulted from the operation of the existing Corn.laws." " That the Anti-Corn-law Associations throughout the United Kingdoin, and all other friends to an immediate and total aboli.. tiori of all duties and restrictions upon the necessary food of the people, are earnestly requested to take mea,.ures for expressing, without delay, in every constitutional manner, their hostility to the proposed measure of her Majesty's Government, and their fixed and unalterable determination not to relax in their exertions, until a measure of complete justice is obtained; and to consent to no compromise of the sacred principle upon which the agitation for the abolition of the Corn-laws is based." " That to the end that every available support may be given to Mr. Villiers in his intend•:d resolution for the total and immediate Repeal of the Corn and Provision.laws, the Deputies recommend that all petitions be forwardcd im mediately fur presentation, and that any protests or reiolutions calculated to sustain the Deputation in the approaching contests, may be forwarded to the office of the Metropolitan Anti. Corn.laW Association, 448, Strand, London." " That it is desirable that these resolutions be intnediately published in the provincial papers, and that the Committees of Anti.Corn.law Associations be requested to take measures to effect that object." " Now," continued the Gallant Colonel, " pull Ministers, pull people, for you are fairly pitted against each other, and he who pulls best will carry it.—(Loud cheers.) I propose, that in sour capacity as the aggregate of Delegates, you adopt and confirm the resoluti.ns which have cow been read to you."— ('I he Gallant. Colonel then sat down amidst great cheering.) IlAmEti. STANFIELD, Esq., on rising to second the resolu tion, said he ought perhaps to apologise to the meeting for fol lowing Colonel Thompson; but, as a Delegate from the town of Leeds—the capital of the clothing district of the West Riding, and from which place he had that morning received a petition sired by 42,9(X) persons—be would consider himself guilty of a ecreliction of duty if he did not, on the part of himself and his colleague, pnt in his protest against the nefarious scheme 'propounded last night by Sir Robert Peel.—(Great cheering.) He did not say " by her Majesty's Government," for he could ' not bear to attach the name of one whom they loved so much to a scheme which they detested so mnch.—(lmmense and lotd.cheerine . ' . ) The scheme was a nefarious one. Injustice was stamped on its brazen front. It claimed an exorbitant trice for the property of the rich at the expense of the poor ; it never hinted at securing a profit for any other class of the community,or at providing a fair day's wages for a fair day's work. That the labourer was worthy e' his hire, and had as geed a title to it as those idlers whose claims to their property j were based on artificial rights, seemed not to have entered into 1 the political creed of him who concocted that scheme.--( Hear, hear.) One of two things was clear, either that the Prime Minister did not understaud the dan g erous position of the couetry, or that lie was employed by a party to strand She vessel of the State. He would not, for the honour of huma nity, entertain the latter idea, but in all charity suppose that he acted in ignorance, and really believeethat over production was one of the great causes of distress. If he had attributed it to overreaching on the part of those who were entrusted to nuke the laws, he would have been nearer the mark. Over i production ! It sickened one to think that a man invested . with such great power should have such small ideas. Did he wish to say that there was too much food and clothing in the country, while thousands were pining of destitu tion ?—( Hear, hear, hear.) The Poor-law Commissioners told us that there were every year two millions of destitute people its Ireland, while numbers of poor Ii ash wandered threugh this land in tattered garments that seemed held to gether by a miracle ! Did he mean that these poor people had plenty of clothing? Did he mean that the people of Paisley had plenty of food, while 17,000 were existing on charity, and 7,000 of them had not a bed to lie on? Absurd ! He might mean that there were more goods made than the people had money to buy ; but who prevented them from purchasing ? Why, those that prevented them from labouring—from using their labour, which was the coin given the poor by Heaven.— (Cheers.) The same party prevented the merchant from ex changing his goods with the produce of Amefica.—( Here Mr, O'Connell entered, and was received with enthusiastic cheering)—and the starving people of Paisley from purchasing food by their labour. Who was that party ? The landlords and their restrictive laws. Paradoxical as it might appear, he (Mr. S.) would answer Sir Robert Peel, that the present distress of the country was not caused by au over-pro duction of manufactured goods, bitt by an under-production of agricultural produce.—(Hear, hear, and great cheering.) It was a fart that as the harvests were good the demand for b er e c g a a s n e , , i.nd l t n h l e 8 1[ 3 , %), ti t i s B3 o 4 f , t l h B e 3s 7r l c B l 3 la 6 n , ants h a e n c h l a t r h v e , s lLb o w n e r e r e r s manufactured geods incr ease d. I n 1 8 32 t h e good harvests su in c - - cessively good.—( Hear, Lear.) In 1836 the raw produce .was 200 millions, and the manufacturers were not able to supply the demands that were made upon them, and the machinery had to work all night. In 1837, 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, we had bad harvests; the raw produce amounted to 150,000,000, the manufactured at 200,000,000. From these and othar facts the Hon. Gentleman inferred, that under-agri cultural production, not over-manufactured produce, was the cause of the distress. Free trade, it was not perhaps ge nerally known, had been 4 - tiarinteed to this country by Magna Charta. Mr. M'Culloch had informed us that one clause in that famous document stated that " all mer chants shall have safe and sure conduct to come into Eng land, and depart from it, and to buy and sell without the obstruction of evil tolls."—(Laughter and cheers.) This pri vileee was confirmed by several. subsequent statutes, and Lord Coke distinctly stated " That all monopolies concerning trade and traffic arreagainst the liberty and freedom granted by the greater charter."—(Hear, hear.) True, the Lords and Com mons might takeaway those rights, and they had done so; but let them beware. The people of this country resembled those poor animals who were made experiments on in • the receiver of an air-pump. At the first turn of the handle they were in blissful ignorance, but as the handle was successively turned they moved abo it, and at last Jumped up in agony , struggling for life. That was th e s t a t e of the people of this country. to To be or not to be, was now the question ; and if they wished live, they must redouble their exertions.--( With these observations, he seconded the motion of Col. Thompson. Mr. O'Coereest, being now generally called to on, rose amidst burl cheers, and said— Having unders o:1 that that has your the call been Chairman has assented to my obeying e xpress my gratitude for made' upon me, I first beg to the kindness that dictated that aa • .. 1, • My next duty is to state . to you that I . come here for a dife exertions.—(Cheers.) f.rent purpose from that which brought me here last. On Tuesday I came here to listen —to •clay I come to look at I come in order to estimate you.—(Laught er an d c h eers .) d ? —( es es , , , but y you are might what m anner of men you be.— (Ch ee rs.) This is the question. ever delude Englishme n , w h at k i nd cf men are you ? Are you crouching ? —(No, no.) Are and a laugh) ou timid ?—(No, no.) Were you Well, I have got an aye words, at last. I sa id , on the last day, t h a t you would get. no relief, Y, - a and I was a prophet. I sa id also that you would et g egotv plentyrds. b o u f t ndoelduts,liuvseiorwiiordlst,is plain, palpable, and di s ti nct. and i a scheme that deceive s ome b o d y . B ut I %casein prophet in that. You h ave g You m a y s i ng t h at " Britons never wl slaves if you su b m i t to th i s.—( G rea t cheering.) My Heav en I The questio n between you and the sordidaristocracy—for so did they are—is whether or not they have a ri ght to tax your breast. No figures of arithmetic should e.-ilude yo u . I t is a qdestion of t h e l oaf. I t i s a question whether one class of Englishmen sh a l l say to another, " you shan't eat your bre a kf ast l be s 1 a until you have paid me for leave with some of the loaf." This is the question. You have feed enough, and money enough, but you will not be permitted to buy it, unless as the landed aris tocracy are pleased to consent. Englishmen, will you be slaves ?—(Cries of " No," and cheers.) Let the echo of that sound spread from John-o'-Groats to the Land's -end. Let it be hlard distinctly, emphatically. Let the cry be general and simultaneous, and you need not cry a gain.--(Cheers.) You are in this happy situation, that you have but to speak emphatically, . awl you need not act. Words are things now. if every part of el ; eted England_if every man whose broad is taxed— if every man who is not ab:e to give his children an additional slice, because the aristocsaey step in and take away the `•S,,-.• ' gest part of the loaf--if every such man will .peak loudliis : simultaneously, and emphatically, how can the aristocracy 1 resist? They may make Peel the instrument of a party, but whit de we care for Peel or them?--e(Great cheering.) He may dance Jim Crow, and think that he is stationary while Ise is twirling round, but if the people are in earnest—and was there ever a question which so called upon them to be in earnest ?—it will be impossible for him and his party to resist.—(Hear, hear.) Tree, he has the Parliament tolerably well constructed for his purpose. I have heard that 1,500,000/. were expended in bribery to get up the the present Parliament, and, I believe it is a fact. For a time I was staggered at the id a that such an amount should have been laid out by a knot of men for the mere privilege of trampling over Englishmen and Irishmen. I did not think that the mere pleasure of dominion, and the desire of a share of the loaves and the fishes would account for this outlay, but now I perceive a better reason for it. They did not lay out a single shilling of their money, which they did not advance as a manufacturer does his capital. They laid out their money, it is true, but then it . was to make the people pay three times as much.—(Crree of " Hear, hear.") It was a mere pecuniary speculation.—( Cheers.) They were great men to be sure.—(Cheers and laughter.) They were descended from Noble Saxons and Normans, although, in truth, some of them, like the Members of the Delegation, came from the farm or the spinning jenny —(Great laughter)—and such were the worst oppressors he knew.—( Vehement cheer ing") They secured themselves from apprehension for the agitation on this question by saying, that there would be meet ings at the Thatched Tavern, and at the Crown and Anchor; but that they would be able to find at those meetings some people who would not consent to take their breakfasts until they got Universal Suffrage—(Cheers)—and others who would bring the libel dew into operation.—(Hear, hear.) There never was so oligarchical a Parliament. in England as the pre sent.—( Hear, hear.) There never were so many Lords and sons of Lords in the House of Commons ;. and very odd thins were sometimes done by those sons of Lords.—(Cheers and laughter.) People heard a good deal of talk about horse-races aye, and there used to be a favourite athletic amusement called boxing.—( A laugh.) But that went out of fashion .by their crosses and sells, and the Lords and sons of Lords were -row driving horse-races out of fa hion by the same tricks and crosses --(Cheers and laughter.) But if there ever was a cress or sell, it was the Duke of Buck ingham hat done it.—(lmmense cheering and laughter.) What did he do? Why, he resigned.—( Renewed cheers.) Was it because the interests of agriculture were co npro mised? Teo ; it was because he wanted to blind the people.—(Cheers.) It was because he wanted to delede them into a belief that something good was going to be done for them at the expense of the landed monopolists —(Hear. ) But what? Were the landlords not satisfied now with Peel's plan ?—( Cheers, and a cry of " No.") Well, no ; they were not satisfied, and they could never be satisfiel—they wanted more, more.—( Great cheering.) But of all the paltry dexte rities that ever were played, that resignation of the Duke of Buckingham was the most paltry.—(Cheers.) And yet who could tell what the Whigs would do?—( Hear.) He was told that they were to have a meeting to-day, and he wished to knots' would they stand upon the fixed duty ? But was not that a fixed injustice—a fixed oppression ?--( Hear, hear.) It fully admitted the p-inciple which that meeting contested.— ( Hear, hear.) They were assembled to contend for a Christian principle—to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to solace the sick.—( Cheers.) Suppose twenty of them were invited to dine in the next room, and the dinner was paid for and served up, and then the Duke of Buckinghare was to come in, and like the Doctor in Don Quixotte, flourish his wand over the viands, and say, " You shall not touch a morsel until you give me one-half, and pay for the other, which is the entire value of the whole."—( Cheers and laughter.) Should they not say in reply, " Get out, you swindling rascal ; we have paid for our meal, and you want to leave us but half and charge double for the rest?"—( Cheers and laughter.) Now, what was the principle they were contending for? It was to allow every man to eat what he had money to pay for, and every other man to bring him the food which he wanted to sell.---(Hear, hear. ) There is a man at Hamburgh who has corn, which he wants some one to buy. Now, was there anything more monstrous anything more wicked than to prevent a hungry man from buying it?—( Cheers. y But this was called protection.—(Cheers. .6 Oh, protect me," said the poor man—" protect me," said the working man—" pro tect me," said the mother of a family—" protect me," said the helpless orphan.—(Tremendous and repeated cheering ) But to talk of protecting the aristocracy, who were clothed in purple and fine linen, and feasted sumptuously every day !—( Renewed cheers.) But the poor working man, whose daily wages were the only thing he had to depend on, and which he laid out all upon bread, that was the man who wanted protection, and ought to he protected (Cheers.) The protection of the aristocracy was the protection of the slave-nwner against his unfortunate lectim. It was to pamper them up at the expense of the blond and bones of the people.—( Hear.) That was monstrous—it cried to Heaven— .he trusted not for vengeance, but for mercy and protection.— (Hear.) It was an oppression and injustice unparalleled in the history of England. hi the time of their ancestors there had been monopolies. But when Charles granted-monopolies on almost everything else, he never dared to give a monopoly of food.—( Cheers.) He never dared to go . to that, although his oppressions at length goaded his people to madness until they bedewed the scaffold with the blood of the unfortunate monarch.—( Hear, hear.) Oh, God forbid that such—but no, no; there is no chance of that I She is safe by the constitution and the affection of the people.—( Tremendous cheering.) The-death of Charles was filthy—it was crime—it was madness.—(Hear, hear.) But it was occasioned by his cruel persistence in commercial mono poly —( Hear, hear.) Still Charles never touehed the bread of the people.—( Hear, hear, hear.) That was reserved for this liberal and enlightened age, this Christian age. There were eight-and-twenty Bishops on the benches of the House of Lords ; and when Christian parties throughout the land assembled in hundreds and thousands, their remonstrances against this unchristian oppression wese treated with scorn, and threatened with a vast deal of puniihment.— ( Hear, hear.) He exhorted the meeting not to desist for a moment. Every moment's rest they gave their oppres sors, the worse they would become.—( Hear, hear.) When an attempt was made by one of their Kings to set the wishes of the people at defiance, thee turned the blockheadoff.—(Laughter.) That was an example of the folly and danger of insulting the people of England. Some of our nobility might like foreign air too.—(Loud laughter) Peel's • peech asserted the principle of that robbery called protection.--(Hear, hear.) But they were not assembled to contest shillings, but princi ples. If Peel's plan were ten times more a mitigation than it was (and it was no mitigation at all) still it it could only be said that Peel was afraid of the people, and that when he had cajoled them to disperse, he would come in bye-and-bye for something more. —( Hear, hear.) He (Peel) had said that the aristocracy had a right to tax the people's bread. Did they consent to that?—(No, no.) If not, what then would they do ?—( Loud and repeated cries of " agitate, agitate," during which Mr. O'Connell bowed gravely, which was followed by great laughter, cheers, and cries of " Take a lesson from Dan.") In speaking upon that sub ject two days ago, •he (Mr. O'Connell) had said, in the words of a common adage, " that half a loaf was better than no bread ;" it was understood that he was willing to take less than the whole principle. He meant no such thing. He meant that if they granted him the principle, he would endeavour to work it out, but he could do nothing with them, or take nothing whilst they maintained Peel's grin ; ciple, that they had a right to tax the food of the people ( Cheers.) He would say as the meeting said, "agitate." The sound was familiar to him, and he knew the use of it before now.—(Cheers and laughter.) . Let there be a day appointed for meeting in every locality, and let pe titions be presented from all, asserting the principle that no class has a right to tax the others for its own benefit. It need be in no more than five lines—only they should take care to have plenty of signatures at the tail.—( Cheers and laughter. ) Let no man tell him ( Mr. O'Connell) that he was in too humble a sphere to be able to do good. There was not in his (Mr. O'Connell's) own position in society a more humble in dividual than himself, but he had done some good to the public cause, and to the principle of civil and religious liberty by forgetting his own humility. By constantly persevering in the agitation for what was right, he had at length carried his purpose. He did not presume to set himself up as an example to others. They would pardon him, he trusted, for making even a passing allusion to himself, but he thought it right to throw out the hint for the purpose of en couraging others who had higher claims on the people than he to persevere in their struggle for their rights.—(Cheers.) Let no day pass without their doing something in the cause in which they were at present engaged. It was a question of life and death, and involved the first of all principles. In an cient times there were in this country several classes of society. There were the church and the nobility, the gentry and the serfs. The people had succeeded in destroying that classifica tion of society. They had broken through their bondage. There were no longer legal serfs. But why should he say there were not legal serfs if there were some individuals who, by the authority of the law, were deprived of the food which they ought to have ? The masters of the serfs of old, at least allowed them to hive plenty of food. They took, indeed, alt their labour from their serfs, but did not the monopolists of the present day also take their labour from the operatives? Was not their distress ad mitted to be overwhelming and universal ? That which was stated en one side of the House was admitted on the other. That which his admirable friend, Mr. Cobden—(Cheers)—he , who belonged to no party, but entirely to the people—asserted on one tide was re-echoed from the other side of the House. Coud net Mr. Beckett, from, Leeds, bear testi mony t o t h e desolating nature of the publi c distress? Could anything be more clearly admitted than that the present distress was over whelming and universal in the manufacturing districts? Where was the Goshen—the green spat—the oasis in the desert of English legislation ? They could not point te . him one district in which the operatives were prosperous and earned a sufficiency of wages. No. It was, on the contrary, one sandy desert of desolation. That fact was undoubted. It was the effect of the way in which the value of their produce was diminished—of the lessening of their manu factures—the stopping of their factories!. They were every day growing in that respect poorer and poorer ; and their desolation would soon be complete. There was a ludicrous story of a Frenchman, who endeavoured to bring his horse to live without food, and when he had almost succeeded the ani mal died. That was something like the experiment at present sought to be tried on the people of England by the aristocracy. They were seeing how long the people could go without food, or live upon alms—those people who would indignantly scorn alms if they got an opportnnity of earnittg wages. Did the statesman who had been selected by the aris tocracy at the present moment tell them that he had ally relief to give them ? Did he say that he would stop the progress of starvation? No. He said no such thing, and if he did, they would not believe him.—((,;teat cheering arid l aug ht er .) He pretended to be a great doctor. Sortie months ago he gave himself out as, what the Indians called a me dir.ine-man—(Laughter)—vmd he said if he did hot !et his fee, he would not presc r ib e . B ut now he had get his paltry fee he had been regularly called in by the pampered aristocracy; and what opinion had he to publish—what remedy tf pre scribe? Why n o n e w h atever. Wei 1, then, he (Mr. O'Con nell) would a dd ress t h em in the language which he had often address e d t o hi s °An i mmediate countrymen-- " Hereditary bondsmen, know ye not, Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow." --(Rapturous and protracted cheering.) Let them depend oti themselves. Let them agitate—agitate—agitate.—(Cheers.) They were irresistible when they were combined. He (Mr. O'Connell) was not the man to introduce politics into the pre sent subject. It was what Peel himself said was too awful and important a sueject to be mixed up with any partisan feel ings. He (Mr. O'Connell) did not mean to conceal his own politics. H e did no t mean to conceal that he wasathorousl: Radical. He considered such to be the best in the various creeds of politics. The conduct of the others was a proof of the vice o f c l ass - l eg isl a ti on. He submitted to those who differed from him in politics, whether, they believed if all the people were represented in Parliament, they would have an elints'er daring to tome. forward._ to say that th e 3dis tress of the people Was overwhelming and universal, and yet admitting that he •had no remedy to offer? Was that distress brought on by the people? No. It was not pretended that any laziness had come over the people ; but it was admitted that the governing' powers were the cause of the distress—the governing powers who crushed the people. It was also admitted that no class of men in the community ever com ported themselves with mote tranquillity, more decorum and orderly obedience to the laws than did the operatives of this country. What crime then had „Englishmen been guilty of that they shou'd be sentenced to starvation ?—( Hear, hear. ) The rulers of the land had, in a great measure, abolished the punieloeet.: f death in detail, and tht.y did well. But now they ::."as ht to inflict that punishment by wholesale. The people of England were now engaged n 2 a glorious MORNING SUN struggle. They They were before the eyes of the nations of Europe. I country consumed? It was a delusion to think that thenan e w s They had always come out of such contests gloriously. They 1 facturing or working .classes consumed them :-not at all, - were now contesting with a few-with an oligarchy-as to , and sneer, and flame and other articles of that sort were almost whether they would enlarge and throw open the markets of the ! entirely consumed by the higher classes What do the people_ world to themselves. Their object was to receive from l in agricultural districts live upon?. Was it not upon flour and those markets the commodities they needed in exchange 1 meal, or i otatoes ? -(Loud cries of " Yes, yes, when they _ for their own manufactures. They were to decide I g et them.") Meat is not used at all b y many of thou-110 whether or not they should succeed in increasing their cone- I know nothing whatever of the luxuries of life-they have not merce-the source of wealth-despite a haughty and cruel t enough even of the common necessaries; and- Sir Robert Peel se enemy who treated them with contempt and cruelty merely I must know that, for no man is more acute and has more sense because he claimed to be a landed proprietor, and deemedl than he has-( A voice, " His conduct upon this question does them serfs. Tneir contest was as to whether they not show that")--he knows well that all the euxuries (tilde are should go feed with the swinish herd.-(Hear.) - Let consumed by the middling and higher classes. The people no one say that he used that word for inflammatory the manufacturing- the working . people-the operati ve purposes. He confessed if he had the power he would inflame have none of them. - ( Hear , hear.) As to bat the mind of every man on this: question, because it was the the people should do in such a sta te of thing% cause of all-a holy-a religious cause. He took that word he (Mr. Greg) was not then prepared to se3_',e from the uncontradicted accounts in the newspapers of what Ile would merely recommend every man to act with energy an". had really taken place in Wales, where the starving operatives vigour, and with a seirit of zeal and determination propetrtionat u ! were seen actually to drive the herds of swine from the troughs with the greatness of the cause they were engag ed in.-(feet in order to get at something like food. Their great contest, c h eers . N o w, s uch was the state of feeling, or rather want then, was for freedom of trade-freedom in the trade in provi- of feeling .and apathy which then prevailed; but whet was it .•ions-in the necessaries of life. Would they let the aristo- now ?-( Hear, hear. ) They had succeeded in bringing over (racy trample upon them ?-(" No, No.") If they would at l eas t one-hal of a great political party to the proposi boldly struggle-if they would be guilty of no riot, no tumult firm of a fixed duty of Bs., and others to a total repeat of those -if, becoming bold from their sufferings, they spoke out to laws. Let them consider their losses, their wants, and the haughty aristocracy-they would find that they would be the insults which had been heaped upon them, and then no longer plandered.-( The Hon. Gentleman sat down amidst let them argue, and let them subscribe, and let them lee... ,the most enthusiastic cheers.) - ture, and when there is an universal agitation thronglin The CHAIRMAN then said that the gentleme n of the Ex e - out the country , and when all men a re combined, then conies cutive Committee were requeste Ito withdraw to the Commit- the time for action. In the meantime let them try every effort tee-room to consider the propositions which several members in their power andendeavour to spread information upon the sub of the Committee wished to submit to them. He trusted they ject of the Corn-laws. Many persons nresent might rernember ' would return as soon as possible. she state of ignorance in which they were themselves so w ° Mr. GEouGE Inonesom then came forward, and said that f ew yeas ago, and it was therefore the duty of all who we he wished to make a remark before Mr. O'Connell left. (The . now better Wormed on the subject, to spread that infer-madam Right Hon. Gentleman was at the time just quitting the room.) 1 amongst others. When all were prepared to take steps to re- He (Mr. Thompson) understood that the Liberal Members dress those injuries, and when the coaviction of the iniquity of the House of Commons were to meet at two o'clock for the of those laws became universal, then means to secure justice purpose of considering the proceedings of last night. lie (Mr. might be found, which should not now be hinted at. uld Thompson) then meaet to submit to them whether it was not Mr. RAWSON said at that late hour of the day h e sly) desirable that they shouldforward to that meeting en expression not detain the meeting many minutes,. but, as he had been of their resolute determination to carry out the great principle called upon, he should make a few observations.-(Cheers• ) upon which they were agitating-the total repeal of the Corn- A letter had been addressed to him from the Alanchester laws. Anti-Corn-law League, from which he should read one Mr. O'CoserEee intimated that, as the meeting alluded to resolution passed at a general mee tin g of the members, by Mr. Thompson was but a preliminary one, and had not re- which pledged the Association to sanction no principle save the ceived any official character, it would be better net to ad- total and unqualified repeal of the Corn -laws. Sir Rebel dress them, but let them come to a spontaneous determination Peel said that the true test of the people's prosperity but sh°Ld as to the course they would adopt. He (Mr. O'Connell) wouia not be the comparative lowness or highness of prices, the convey to the meeting referred to the sense and feelings of the d e gree in which they had the power of commanding the come present assembly. forts ;if life. It had at one time been understood to be at . Mr. Tnomrsoti, in a few words, assented to Mr; O'Con- blessing to have been born in England, but were they t o bse nell's proposition. • told now that - :he people of England were as well fed as thoge Mr. O'Connell then left the room, and retired amid three of other nations? end even if such were the case, were they W distiect rounds of applause. be told that the people of England were not to be fed betor. te Mr. R. J. GREG, of Manchester, then rose to speak to the than the Russian boor and the Polish serf. The pe ople f resolution proposed by Colonel Thompson. He felt under some England worked three times as hard as those of any other degree of embarrassment in addressing the meeting g after the country; and were therefore entitiled to much more comforts eloquent, oratorical, and feeling e peech of his friend, Mr. than the others. He should conclude by observing that, ite ~_ es - , O'Connell.-(" Hear, hear, and cheers.") Their worthy and regarded Manchester, the people of that town had fought till yis 'ri . 07e excellent Chairman had in some degree prohibited anything good battle manfully.-(Cheers.) He had been connectel n osc,, like a Corn-law lecture in the present state of public feeling. with the town from the commencement of this agitation, am A ila°,7l, He agreed with him i n man y respec t s as t o th e n ecessity of the people there were all of one mind, and were fullytietermin e° at``_, that prohibition, and that the time had come for action, and to nail their colours to the mast. -( Loud cheers. ) not for words.- (Great cheers.) He agreed with him also Mr. G. THOMPSON said he should a v a il himself of the gist- n s . . in the statement that anything like a cold lecture on vilege of addressing the Conference, and make a few restart' „ a , ~ political economy would be altogether - out of pla ce, on the p r e sent p osition of their cane, and the duty wh'enel. -(Cheers.) At the same time he knew of •nething that ex - grew from that posi t i o n . . The y mi g ht take it for granted e the; , lee . cited the feelings of people more than a sense of injustic e- all those who c ame to London to the Conference, '''consid r . , %. (Cheers)-and he knew of nothing that excited a feeling of in - the argument complete , whether refere n ce was mill of e to, justice more than desling upon injuries.-(Cheers. ). What , the design of Providence, of nature, or to the w - he would ask, did Mark Anthony appeal to when he wished to God. They were not there so much for the Pe t ' excite the people? Why, the bleeding body of Caesar ? pose of reading each other essays on the ' Corn. laWs' -( Cries of " Hear, hear.") And what did Peter the Hermit as for deciding their c o u rse of action according to the ctr ; do when he wished to excite commiseration? He pointed to cums'ances in which they were placed, and to point out the lid the sufferings that the people endured on their way to dem- of action which, from hour to hour, and year to year, it ofet salem. He would for a few moments allude to the great prig - be necessary for them to p ursue.- ( Loud cheers.) Could be ciples that had excited the country to action, believing that by have chosen the line of procedure to be adopted a t the Con- so doing he would put their injuiies in a more prominent light, ference this day, he wished that it had been confined to a so - .. . A and thereby enable the Delegates, when they returned to those lemn declaration of the essential, incurable, and everlasting, .- .. 1 who had sent them to the metropolis, to explain to the people injustice of al taxes imposed upon the universal benefits.w. 1 . the amount of injuries they had sustained, and show them the God provided for the support of man. If he understood the necessity for action. s -(Cheers.) He would allude for a principle of this question, it was based upon grounds indepelv en • moment to the great principal cause. The effect of the halite- dent of the harvest, whether it were good or bad-indepene y • Lion of food was the bottom of all the evils the people of Eng- dent of wages, whether they were high or low-loft - a n -4 land were suffering. That was the great injustice , and that was pendent of trade, whether" in prosperity ur adversity. - r e _ e , , the evil which must be removed before any remedy could . he simple q uestion was, whether an y bdd y of men hag '" hoped for.-( Bear.) He begged of them for a moment to co n- e;g ht to circumscribe the benefits of the universal Bee°l Sider the state of their countrymen when they were confined factor-(lmmense cheering)-whether any body of men bit_ • in the black hole at Calcutta. Many of those persons were a right to ;2:v to the industr ions marl, when he had fabrica te d,: men of great wealth, yet what was the consequence yard of a cloth, " You shall not exchange it fur food which tr_ with respect to them ; why they struggled to get more air, foreigner has prepared for you."-(Cheers.) That was to:i and in that struggle the weak sank under the strong, and be- principle on which this question ought to be discussed. --( Lo u r . fore the morning many of them were dead.-(Cries of cheers.) Peel last night: ised done what the emissaries of F ee " Sname.") Many of those individuals would have given thou- had been doing in every part pf the country which be ( Mr. sands for air, but they could nut obtain it. 'ln the same way G. Thompson) had visited during the winter. He bad been oe', in this island, there was but a small space, and the inhabitants cupied two hours in trailing red hearings in aildirections.-- were too numerous for the food it could produce, and the re- (Cheers and laughter.) He had imitated the huntsman , wh o ' • ,e ; suit was that" they must perish .unless snore food could be pro- when he wished to dram his dogs off the 'scant, tied a red be ts ssiii duced. It was useless to talk of any thing that would not ring io'the end of a string, and trailed it about in all directionl'osele have that effect.-(Loud cheers.) If the people had -(Cheers and laughter.) Peel might for the last threernont°4 ..e.rotil the' ' ; el'', money, it was true they would buy food, but what would have been sitting at the feet of a few men, who had all be the effect of that ? The price of food would he winter been endeavouring to delude the country as to the n ee ,04 ; ,Htp# increased, but no more food could be got, and the agricultural cause of distress. It was machinery, it was over-prodne t s ° ,l ' t o labourers would have to perish.-( Cheers.) In short, before it. was superfecundity-( A laugh)-it was banking, it was 1 ", - ' ,ee they could get more food relief must be given. -(Cheers.) rotten monetary system of America. Now, Peet might he v o , ; ,,s3 But it was said, negotiate with foreign Powers, open new been sitting at the. feet of these men for the last the - -j,,:se markets for your industry ; but what would •be months, for be ,had occupied four-fifths of his speech k it the use of that unless more food could be ob. last evening with these topics.-( Cheers. IHe had said he eta tained?-( Cheers.) He would suppose the whole empire of not prescribe until he had been regularly called in, and t. China was open to the English markets, there would be no use his fee. Well, he had been called in, and had received his the ' se , in that. •No good result from it unless more food could be ob - but he cou l d not p re e cri b e until he had had time .to fe he - ;' tained.-(Loud cheering.) It was true that if China was pulse and study the sympoms of the - patient. He could Phe opened to the English, they might get more gold prescribe until the re-assembling of Parliament. Thie . , e ie. and silver, they might get more raw silk.-(Hear.) stated at the beginning of the winter, at a time when arlil e But that would do nogood without food. It might be applied winter was settin g in, and hundreds of thousands-were lee r„, 1 7,, to the purchase of corn mostly, but how. could it be ex - ing for want-( Hear, hear)-were shivering before their P[L, pended unless there was plenty of food in the country to less hearths and looking with despair at their empty c upbetaZe purchase ?If the Corn-laws were repealed, then they should who having sold the covering of their bed to buy bread , the have the benefit of new markets, because then the manufactures gone forth to gather the potato(-peelings cast forth err ~e „ of the country could be exchanged fur food.-( Cheers. ) He dunghills of the neigh bourhood. And there had been evidene d , was sorry to dwell on the point, but it was the most important; of these things before Parliament 'ere they adjourn ° t , as he had said before. they could have no relief -( Hear, hear.) The Doctor had received his appointtne, u c , Without more food; no extension of trade would had opened his shop, but he wanted time to prepare his phesi te have any effect, they must keep this in mind -(Cheers and laughter.) He had feit the pulse, bet A l . that every measure that did not increase the quantity of food wanted time to study the symptoms of his patient. At lend was useless.-( Cheers.) They had been gulled and cheated by Parliament was called together, and last night. the revela ts ' the operation of the Corn-laws ; their manufacturers had been was to take place. The mountain had long beers la.bourinsi racking their brains to find out new inventions, but by that they they had heard its murmurs - they had seen the smoke it r', ag did themselves no good, because every thing produced by other emitted. - (Che e rs and l aughter.) The hour of itsbring' a classes of the community had to he exchanged for the limited forth ha d been announced, and five o'clock had been fized .: 6 quantity ref wheat that the country produced.-( Cheers.) For as the hour for the mountain's bringing forth. They bad g eni e the last twenty or thirty years there was hardly the slightest down to the House of Commons to witness the birth e '" o f increase in the value of the exports. What was the reason of had gained admission, some had been shut out.-(Crw°l4o r that? Why, that there was but a small quantity of food grown in " Hear, hear.") All was expectation. The Opposition t. this country. There Rasa blunderinggoingon, an unconsciousness of the House at the hou r p resented a most amusing specteni • of that which, if they had been conscious of, they would 'have There 'were the farmers' friends elongating their necks ,' , , resisted long ago. The people were now awakened to this, extending their ears-although that was in some cases ne74. and he trusted that they would not stop till they had effected a less-(Cheers and laughter)--straining their eyes-( ROI, i total repeal of the Corn-laws. Referring to Colonel laughter)--their heads were rising out of their neekclot et a Thompson's speech, this question of their exports had firmed there they were, like the storks in the fable, trying ti g er") a large portion of the speech of Sir Robert Peel; p e ep into the Mini s te r i al p itcher..-(Cheers and lau h, to these he had referred as a proof of the prosperity of the The first ha'f - hour passed - there was no deliver y .-(La le e country. He did not know whether he was aware t ha t suck ter. ) The second half-hour passed-n®. - ( Bene ,) was not the fact. If he was, he had acted in a most im p ro p er lau g hter .) T he th ird- n o delivery.-(Cos: tinned laugh ter manner ;if he was not, then he was not fit fur the post he held. Their language was- " There were 150,000 bales of cottons less imported this year than " Oh, spring to light ; auspicious babe be .born. t o last yeas, whereas the exports have considerably increas ed. The -(lmmense cheerin g and lau g hter.) Drop of i'vrnPa e t tl e st reason of that was quite manifest. It was plain that the people p ers p iration stood on faces of the farmers friends. ,i' a e s ts of this country have not been able to purchase what the country the Abbey clock struck seven, and then, after the tragelaY, t he produces.-( Hear.) While the imports of the one article " Starving People," there was enacted the pantomime " &be -cettoe-has decreased by 150,000 bales last year, the ex- " Sliding Scale."-(Hear, hear.) Three months hak the ports of every other article of British produce have been mate- Dootor taken for deliberation-he had sent to consult so,; rially increased. That Wee an admitted fact. W ha t should most renowned State doctori of Euro p e ; men had been 7,.. Sir It. Peel have known by that? He certainly should have round to places "where herbs unhidden grew," to c ollect st; i n known that it proved the fact that the people of this country plea for the shop of the State Doctor. In all directions _.P.ati. have not been able to purchase that p r eeduce, and not that they they sought for information, and we were told they had tefi n g were ti , :t able to consume it. The people n eye not been able every statement. There had been a rumour that after ha v bit hitherto to procure their usual amount of provisions, ( e• y enything felt the pulse of the patient the Doctor had:giveu it ae tioo , at all approaching to it. What was the reason of that? The opinion that the catient was suffering fr.= exisail?o,o, great-the principal reason of it was that the people were obe , :teat his di sease was weakness, and that in the Doctor 'a (IP tog liged to pay so much for their, food-( Hear, hear)-and fur the the t:...7. st remedy was change of air -(A laugh)--- 4 ....0 various other articles they require. The restrictiois of the voyage_(esenewed laughter)-say to the United Statet:.eir banks, and the consequent derangement in every department of Canada-to Nova Scotia-to Australasia- (Continued lahirsie trade, are the causes of the high price of food-the people should ter)-to Van Dienaea's Land, and than when there, aeseeee object altogether to the measure which was last night pro- travelling into the interior of the country-( Great laught.r_ia, pounded in the House of Commons. That measure contained a little cutting down of the primeval forest trees.-a littlevennun o f all the evils of the old system. It might be said that the some labour in the rearing of a log cabin-a little clear t l . i et t amount of duty on corn and provisions was not so great as the ground and sowing of the seed, and then a patient w t under the present law, but yet it contained all the essential for the harvest, and good appetite to eat it when ga s e on evils of the sliding scale: The evils of the sliding scale were But upon authority this decision of the Doctor had hee ptie es, as prominent in the p roposed measure as they were in tradicted, not by himself, hut by one of his own aPPr ° c ould the law as it stood,-(Hear, hear.) He (Mr. Greg) would who would not dwell in our shop, but who thought be ete rett show the meeting, by a few facts , what the serious mischiefs of do better over the wa y -( Loud cheers) -got his inne4ooo that sliding scale were. This liountry had imported, in round cancelled, and now Edward has found a new masterit t 0 11.1 numbers, during the last years, ten millions quarters of grain of cheers. ) The sliding scale 1 -and this was the end 0 so a . all kinds-wheat, peas, barley, &c. The importation of that and this was the result of a whole winter's meditett_w ee teo' quantity of grain within those three years cost this country no Drayton Manor !--(Cheers. ) " Oh, most lame and I .TE sY' less than twenty millions of money.-( Hear, hear.) What was conclusion !" Oh most ridiculousefarce ; or, rather lee e nn die: -. the effect of the operation of the sliding scale upon the impor- Oh cruermotakery of the people-Oh heartless and wic k 7 fr o tation of that corn? The wheat purchased in foreign regard of the right( of human industry !-(Cheertso ' t or I, markets should - be brought home to this country home- sliding scale ! What was a sliding scale ?-a k r e!, gath! diately. Whenever there was a scarcity, all the purchasers the lock on the door of the storehouse of the Unive It o the_ , ran into the Baltic markets at o nce . Suppose wheat, of the world-( Great cheering)-a law that took e vqd r ep, ~,y, for instance, was 60s. a quarter. The duty of 20s , a quarter bounty of God freely sent foe the support of his sid e d p t r t o: e was payable for the introduction of that article into this country, sent them into prison, placed t!sem under bondage,47oh so that the quantity- purchased and imported by this coun- hibited the thousandsand tens of thoesancie from thly.t 7. 0 ,1 o°d try, suppose that to be on an average ten millions a quarters, had already earned. Cursed law, doubling the pren7, & ole o ., in would coat the country ten millions of money. That ten mil- turning the warm sweat of industry into the the eb f r tha t t A ao t lions of money was lost to this country by the opponents of starvation.-( Tremendous cheers.) He elene`unce ) 6five3 1 the sliding scale; the next evil which it caused was -(Cheers.) It was an impious law.-( Chteersro-ifigelsottbet the immense loss for freight, because' the corn imported that suffering was not great, that there were n q 23 ' Q . r atA w ere should, as he had already observed, be instantly shipped. The to urge them to repeal that unrighteous laeAv ' 7ofite do es' expense was doubly increased by the dispatch with which the 1 food was plentiful-that trade was thriving- thi at, I% ea. isse corn should be sent from the market in which it was pur- great -that the populations was employed-t- vtt e .....tb e n e , chased. The freight alone of the quantity of corn he cal• and joy shone on the desolate homes of the cow , lei' ts sye e e , ea irt culated was imported into this country within the period would still remain as unrighteous and iniquitous o t,f,e' - er stO he bad inentioued, cost this country two millions of money. (Cheers.) If they persevered thus to the end, and n' -te 4 '" wsl Again, three-fourths of the Vessels the British people waiting for three months, they would succeed. Sau l 11 , P - yeP were obliged to employ in bringing that corn into this acknowledged his Master on one day, and the ne s 'n 0 th e , ernintry were foreign vessels, because it should be imported preaching to the Gentiles.-(Loud cheers.) DisPlel t - ' s e , ' °' within a particular day, These twelve millions of money paid of new converts.-( Cheers.) Rejoice that you did I ,o k , .y 4 away within the last three years were' completely thrown away. iniquity before,-(Cheers.) Redeem the time. T a t . l at ieeese . ;es' obligeddured- t t o ha p t a w y awsi with bulliontri Ilet f o or wla a t t they eara suffered. They reig T o h m ey ar w k e e r t e . -(Hear, hear.) But that was not all the people had en- arms from the skies, and fight this Goliath of the Fhid se t e tre' ie . l!, (Loud cheers.) Take a pebble from the brook, a` cet on: ,4' The sere* was applied by the banks in order to save themselv k (Ch )If they departed from Prinell' ' har c gee ' him down.-(Loud cheers.) He wanted to get th i t e ir a ' o d ire e e,% (i; es, roc .- eers. and the result was that the price of the whole produce of the the question one of time, or place, or circumstan ce, r eeie - s e to° s 5it ,n ,, , , , t conetry was immediately raised f rom 20 t o 30 per cent. or averages, or prices, they committed themselvesthan tere is, ..e ,, The exports of this country amounted to 20 millions sterling. scale.-( Cheers. ) There were other slidireg s cales c ed ' l ee a si e noun else Every year the itilpotts exceed that by many degrees. The of Sir Robert's.-(Hear, hear.) While they - e e ar.) , hei nations who take English goods pay ton per cent. less for them they should not adopt one of their own.-( tle ` u .ible °°° ; c w oos' iii cotieegdenee of the application of the Bank screw; that loss, it a moral questiota and they made it an intellig ~ of t he _i e r, the 0 V 0 for stippdse upon a handfed and fifty millions of quarters of wheat made it an authoritative one ; they enlisted the bes a e ld exported In three years, would amount to fifteen millions of munity in their behalf ; they made the m i n iste s r e , bsch i p tio or t ee money, *high, added to the bytes sustained by the purchase and the preacher, pray for them, and and freight of foreign corn, Made the enormous sum of twenty- them ; their petitions Would be laid in tle ' vestry t h'ia too l seven millions sterling.-(Hear, hear.) That was a calcula- vestibule, or in the house that had been erected ,100 t..., the theft ittadtt in round numbers, and he (Mr. Greg) believed if when among men, set them an exemple, that they no eplie t he - m ount 1 sea ~ he had said it amounted to thirty millions sterling it would be in his steps, and who when on the Ceen , Grid, e aw ay etesto:-P7nV;ii If h°. . nearer the truth; that sum was thrown away as completely as bread for the 5,000, and by his 1 ." 1 ., e d r butitli e g r " eter'4 if it was tnrown into the German Ocean.-(Hear.) It was poor by a miracle, rather than they shot; 51. 1. ..41.1eues e ecli taken from the pockets of the labouring arid manufacturing -(Cheers.) Now for Sir Robert's sp. " nail . like' sP n o. 9 . • ON . 0, WO classes of the country, and given away to foreigners with ou t It was truly characteristic. Was it a s tate s', ~..t '.,) ? any return whatsoeeee foe it,--( Hear.) It was as come --(" No, no.") Was it a patriotic ePee,;:t l , a „Yoe r e ciPl e s o plete a loss to the British people Si if it had been thrown Was it the speech of a Christian Minister e s e en , pe „ o at, into the ocean. That was not all. The peenle of England there any recognition of high and evei'La,s,':' r E ie th; a ll 'lt, were to have a repetition of those evils. for the . would Was there any compassion in his demeanour ' no goon . .., !IP, be continued as long as the sliding Peale, to re elate 1 intro duction of foreign corn, was in operation. 7' at e the; ' I idle in w in er t e h p e er tn ish ar in k g et- f p o l r ac n e , a , n b t e e c f a b u r s e e ad t at was not all the evil did not end there; the derangementl -II tion- - et ee. ' .., caused the A 0 • haenred was a w ! nu °. i f:4 ll'4 ' e l i sl application of the screw eeteneed over the entire by svasion of the true merits of the ques . , (n y 1 eily,-- -• tr. e-s country. It ' _ prudent t'• e iii t e 'a tiger who preys stem( , ~ e coo , .„ . affected every shopkeeper, every merchant, hired them."-( Cheers )It was a ca utious , ' ers. every trader, He came to le 4 . e esear, , It affected dgment of athe gangel ai . d iagraLe to the in . o f every operative in this country...lre even the revenue ; for if the people hadhear.) ' on the Christianity ( Con , to . eolne -- l iffereg" c rl not food, they ( Loud c . e) Ivies of the p . That speech was a e s could not consume taxable commodities; therefore, ' Ch ) a mockery of the Aerie'g e- ' Ines. he (Mr. ( eel's- "esto of a aline ...n o r; Greg' most csrdially concurred in the resolution cheers) -the hard-lo arted mann, - ~ subiecl3. (Conti:resis he resolution before the i 1 meeting, for he was convinced that Ilse perishing condition of her Majesty s Jon the Tereig ° ' . -'• essential evils of the slid ing scale existed to the utm House se:neer-es.) He was glad that a Gentlemen t ee So 0t ...... Sir R. Peel last night in the in the proposition made by • r f° lll vas' 11 lot f the chair severed the speech of the Mte _ 4 , 0 I _ ate , _ , . of Commons.To be sure there was some little alleviation fromthe The Ministers were for them-the oftSovoi`oliee.--.a,):,,50f iniquitous system which at horrid, cruel, foolish, and What ! a Sovereign-a woman-a wife -a t he Not, °lso. of fie Ministry, as avowed ' present exists, but the object that • ' iniquitous mockerY . inoy - n o. e..- House of by the Prime Miniseer in the Queen-sanctioniniq . cr ies or se - Commons last gig p - -food the people !-( Great cheering, and r 75 and 80 per cent Higher g t, was to keep the prie e of . Sir Not then for their Queen. 's the hour, Robert Peel said it than it was on the Continen us keep See Now's the day, and now s 1 eheat at a ' was . his object and his wish tr.' He lour S .pnce vary See the front of bat ,_ po wer, a c h, , r;. _. , , quarter.-(C riee of „ Prig between 545. and 58s. P er h id See approach proud Faction 3 ( LOU .. ~,,, :., • , 4 he had alreadyear. He (Mr. S. was ate 'as 1 incurred Hear,• Pee, end Buskingliasn ! , .se t he , e u'e s .. e ... ~ ~, be t , ' ,he ••vh. h was nroeoune, srl ; snt so - ) 1 0 ' elm i , eeir eaccrient, and worthy sentence ' ‘ c of ~ ~ ... :.,..Id tint allude tors -, • than 'silo Chan man,. and therefore 1, 1 frOm the " Mount of Visiou."-( Laud ' - ,' L u d cries c on?' o' of the Corn.laws i en:, than - ,ne other eaint, as to the effeet le ?--t- ° le %h ° they stand opposed? To the f , eop ..,_ e „ t op I Upon this country-he would merely ask the • meeting by whom k no wn fiends of tr s Flay were the • i were the meat and flower produced by thbi ‘ PA - It.• ~.,.. - ~' cUSlav e d tr y Wer e vle ws the hat( ta ' , t4tr y , f 7 7 , 11 3ia 1,40, "'• Writink'f, ~, '`~ E~~. Duc e fj ith s _ag.'