The Sun. — London, England, 1840-04-03 00:00:00

EVEN IN G EDITION. ANTI-CORN-LAW DELEGATES. ----- The Delegates did not commence business yestreday un- F""" e_._ burgh - ," -. .cc:, -7 & - c: -.--- ii . : - Ea - r - 1 -- Of - Darlington founded . a tries were the Corn-1 tit a quarter before one o'clock, although the hour uxod statement on these returns, to show that the fluctuation in lo •ed son yesterday was twelve , the p rice of corn was less in this than other countries. P 3 - C. 1 S. WALKER, Esq. , too k the Chair. crease of Mr. Baines had yesterday answered that statement, and that the 1. , The SECRETARY read the minutes of the last meeting, showed that the Corn-laws were the causes of this fihe which were ordered to be confirmed. TER.S. tuition, and the fluctuation at Dantzic arose from e th nt e itl i e n o - beco a t n h t r r o y w . n FALLACIES OF CORN-LAW SUPP.OR. creased demand in England, and that no man was , Mr. SYDNEY SMITH observed that the pr a i d ncipal object countries, for which they had met was, that theywho - h loosen called to take advantage of his own wrong for continuin_gunand double pr. abuse. But there was an important omission to be fo hours, in by the Earl of Darlington "the pet Parliament in in these returns-those from Amsterdam andßotterdam.. Palace-yard," might revise the proceedin t g y s of the . greater • and it was for ontinent. against tla Parliament that had assembled below them , only commenced in 1929, before Holland began c to.insti- gum . ent c Mr. IA the purpose of refuting such fallacies, and . such mss-state- tut() a Corn-law like"the other countries of the free of of the Ea tnente as should be made there the evening before, that it We had no return a what the prices were importationat Amsterdam and Rotterdam when they proposed a . was thought advisable the Delegates should meet at twelve o'clock instead of two. The Earl of Darlington, in his corn. They had this fact admitted, that the difference in cious. I speech of last night particularly threw contempt upon during a free trade, had only been between 295. the price in a hundred years in Amsterdam and and 34s . f o thatform o a n n y t the meeting of two hundred Delegates, assembled Half of the whole consumption of this country depended distress. from every quarter of the country-from the northernmost on Foreign nations ; and yet they found Holland for one country, i ' of Scotland to the northernmost part of England-all part brought together by a sense of rautual danger and distress, hundred years had greater than any quarter of t i h n e tr g od lo n te ed ; m wh o o n m or th t e i yet the return began at the time a Corn-law was . and by a sense of humanity, for the purpose of relieving ato Holland. If the return had commenced earlier, they no differs the enormous distress which existed in their various dis- would have found t hat there was a greater steadiness there bushel ; 1 tricts.-( Hear, hear.) He Believed there was in the as than in any other place. He found that in Amsterdam the poor labs membly of Delegates a greater amount of business talent, nee, and of moral and social influence, than was price in 18 34 was so low as 235. ; in 1835, 21s. ; in 1836, them. : of intelli e3s. ; in 1837, 245. ; and in 1838, 275. This country, room goil assembled even within the House of Commons itself.- which depended on foreign supply, had the greatest stea- only food t (Hear, hear.) Why had the Delegates been elected ? diness of supply under our present Corn-laws, for there must There wa 1 Beemuse they were looked upon as the most eminent incli be regular supply, or there would be a greater variation in go away ; victuals in their various districts, and had been selected by price. At this price France was suffering by the fluctuation how was their fellow-citizens as the individuals best acquainted with of the Corn-laws, which was reducing the population to the food, but business, trade, and manufactures, and with the condition same level as in this country. He had thought it his duty to for even I of the different districts from which they came. They were make these remarks, and he must express his surprise at of food, better valifled, from these circumstances, to understand the most miserable and lamentable ignorance on the part of of life. the subject than the individuals who attempted to bring them into contempt by calling them a petty Parliament. The Earl of Darlington had also stated that the Anti-Corn-d men who still refused to be enlightened-who denied their and were allegations, yet would not afford them an opportunity of laig's-me proving them, nor refute the statements they made. It Let thee late League had resorted to the most unscrupulous an un iair means for the purpose of carrying on their proceedings._tbn What more unfair means could have been adopted than was the most unjust and insolent proceeding that could be made on the part of those who were their representatives, for he believed three-fourths of their constituents were there things o men pros they she to Par-/ had been adopted by the landlords. Theyassembled.-( Hear.) exports, liament before they thought of agitatingßtharewoelnutestioh for the House The CHAIRMAN announced that he had received a letter they sou the purpose of offering evidence atfrom Mr. Norton, of Lincoln, offering an annual subscrip- criterion the hat House had been I of Commons of their distress. tion of 10/., and to double it if necessary.--( Hear.) was quit, tin the habit of attending to the complaintsßutt of one-third or one.fearth of the population -the d agri f eutliri ts of the countr --they hsfl, investigated everysha e o complaint the agricnlY- Mr. PRENTICE said that the Earl of Darlington had accused the delegates of sending paid missionaries to all duce ale What as parts of England, for the purpose of instilling filth and ports ? . tnrists could possibly have. Whenever they had desired to be t abomination into the ears of the community. He was glad sold at ; heard at the bar of the House of Commons their request to tally gi to find that the lecturers had done so much good as to ex ,! had bees complied with, and relief had been . granted to cite the ill-will of the landlords.-(Hear.) Their object a great I them from time to time, until, as Mr. Baines . had stated, for part ought to be to increase that sort of mischief of which the the only tax supposed to press on agriculturists was the did nc Earl of Darlington complained-the filth and abomination on shepherds' dogs. And even that was a sort of solicit red of which he complained being enlightenment and truth.- ipaoxlitieal economical bull, for shepherds' dogs were only ( Hear.) The delegates ought to pledge themselves to to for the purpose of looking after the sheep; that did not cheap I organize a far more complete system of agitation than had _ress upon the agriculturists, but only upon store farm- hitherto prevailed. He would wish to see lecturers go says " i ing ; but when two-thirds of the population came forward, Ihe might say three-fourths in point of political import- into every villiage and county, so that wherever there was -moth a voter the principles of free trade might be explained.- another ) anA., and wealth, and power, what did they say ? there iv ( Hear.) It would be very easy for a lecturer to take ! Tary shut the door in their faces. They made circuit of ten or fifteen miles, to organize Corn-law As- not reci ; a second application For inquiry, and the door was shut formerl a sociations, and to recommend the payment of small sums, against them again, and now they appealed to the public, from one penn to a shilling, in aid of the funds for the by an ii I eiecaese Parliament would not give them a fair seance, diffusion of the y principles of free trade, and especially of therefor i and they Lad been to d that they had adopted the most tree trade in human food.-( Hear, hear.) They must an inert unscrupulous and unfair means.-( Cheers.) If theywell-be create a great movement, and they ought to do it in such were submitting the country to agitation, whose fault was a way as to make gentlemen in the House of Commons were & %it ? Wily that of the House itself.-( Cheers.) If they a alarmed for their seats.-(Cheers.) They should tell those q uantit i were sewing the seeds of reflection in t i e course they had gentlemen that it was of no use to talk of Whiggism or their m adootea, it was the fault of the landlords themselves, who Toryism, but that they must be Corn-law repeaters, or bad driven them to be politicians and ag itators, until they , else wala out of the House.-( Cheers.) Darlim apoloni I obtained that which was their due.-( Cheers.) W "y' I The Rev. NOAH JONES, of Derby, wished to say a he tho even the Baroughrecve of Manchester, who had never been few words in vindication of the Anti-Corn-law lee- Mr. I an k e g:tater, had come forward for the purpos e of sa y in g he tinned, turers. He believed Mr. Paulton, in whose character f had .aide his einney through the labouring classes, and wha h m e he felt a great interest, was the first lecturer who means they weirs overwhelmed by &stress, he considered that d the Cc had instructed the country upon the great principles they %yes bound to return hack to those by whom he had d ma h e with tl had taken. He happened to be present in the Theatre of his fortune, some of the sernpathies by which he . h s a fdl o o - Balton the very first evening that Mr. Paulton appeared Niih I tniced that fortune ; and he never would agree to his a w siun to as a lecturer at all. He had never heard any thing filthy 1 men being ground to the dust without an exertion o their had Si or abominable from him, and he had moved a vote of I behalf. What did the Queen da with Parliament when thanks to that gentleman in the name of morality and farmer 1 she was dissatisiied with teem ? ahv sh e kicked them o ut. religion, for his eloquent expositions.-( Hear, hear.) He o ne 1 And why should not the people, if their Representatives could not, as an Hon. Gentleman did in the House of at th did not consult their intereT, also kick them out ?- Commons, stand up and say, "Thank God, I under- of tei (Cheers ) They appealed to the country, but they did stand nothing about political economy." Lie did un- that h uot act as political agitators ; they had refused to derstand a little about political economy, and he as 'w°' .- agitate any tning relative to the representation of the hoped he should understand a great deal more, and he argue coaatry.--( Hear tied . cheers.) They sounded them should be happy to be the means of giving people a little titer c wires to the 'subjectcifthe ;torn-laws elune, and for doing light on the subject, arid af interesting them in the cause of scasor this they hail beer, celled a palsry and petty Parliament, j ustice and humanity. People might charge them with t he C . and that ti:ey hail recourse to this most unfair and unscru- ) trying to prejudice one class of men against another; but grows i pules means to carry forward their measures.-(Cheers. if there wassuch l They had been told that their Anti-Corn-law Circular ..0 men trying to . be wiser than tva4 one tit the most scurrilous and abusive publications God.-( Hear, bear.) If mcm" there was anything like blasphemy to be found in any man, Uncle that had ever issued from the press ; and they had been told, also, that their lecturers, instilled into the ears of' it was in the minds of those who thought, in their short-f the n the people every tried of filth and aeorninatiun. What was ,ighted a iadom, that they were able to amend the laws of t v h:: 3 l ) , ' , that filth and abommation ? Why, the first principles of nature. For hunself he felt great gratitude that re Mr religion, namely, humanity acid justice. They told the been taught other views, namely, to depend upon the two 1 poor that they ourrlit to have bread, that what Providence w ' isdom of an All-Seeng G_ ad. The present question was . bad made so good could not be made better by the policy , , p rinci p le, „,.... one of and he was sure that ultimately it must were. be .. successful.-(Cheer Cheers. ) not a of man ; that that universal intercourse of man with man, whiata the mightiest and greatest who had ever appeared ia , Mr. Roar. :111 h LLIGAN, from b Bradford, in Yorkshire, said !Mgt' such that they had been told y the . . the human form had come un earth to inculcate, was the Corn-law upholders best for the social relation of man with man--( Hear, that all that they wanted in agitating the question was to if a n reduce the price of wages. Now he had brought a docu- tion, hear, and closcrs)-and that the attempt to re- so ut merit which he thought would show that the price of food much 1 sti if!t the commerce and intercourse with other coun had nothing whatever to do with the price of wages. That ! tries was what they ought the least to expect from those document was as follows:- truth wh o claimed a m o nopoly of heaven as web as of bread.- , (Cheers.) They were told by the same person that in 'Yearly avera g e Also, Yearly avera g e , Yearly avera g e t h e y 1823 Mr. Huskisson had attributed the distress and panic or the price \ Yearly average of Wages paid '_(,)f Wages . paid ,„ v ,,, sif that period to over trading. Now, in the first i Iscc, Flour at lirad-'price,of Wheat for weaving for combing cm ' ".: turd Soke'Mill consumed at the four different average q uality or r ha strauld like to kaew what- was meanteby this phrase h er stone of .same Mill, Our- q ualities of of wool, by one i ,i ci ovea-trading. Now, they lora it li. evidence that in the I ilbs., from ing the same goods during of the large`2t , ver iti:ll to 15 , ..9 years. it being each year of firms .in the ` t i n ton counties, in spite of what the Earl o f Dar- i nc l us i ve . chiefly of the the same pe- same town Our - wet lingtun might say, the labourer used only one pair of i Liner qualities. tied, by one of in g the same it i , the most re- period. breeches in 33 years. He was married 33 years ago ; spectable hand ;Co shorties after be had purchased a pair of breeches, and loom manu_ o f ; f ac t u rers in the these very breeches he was w e arin g at this moment, and pri same town. yet we were to be told that the people of this country were wo i addicted to over trading, when the inhabitants of the - ---' l agricultural districts were so little able to supply them -1831 2s. 101-d. 655. lid. 14s. 3d. 4 1 4 d. Th I selves with manufactures that they could only purchase 1832 2 5} 60 10 14 6 4i pre one pair of breeches in 33 years. Now, to what was the 1833 201 54 6 14 74 5 ale ' panic of 1825 to be attributed ?-why to the fact that the 1834 j 8 45 21 15 3 4i of I price of wheat had jumped up from 435. 6d. a quarter in 1835 1 8 38 51 13 0 51 wa: i 1322 to 665. in 1325-and dear bread was the occasion 1836 2P e 47 811- 13 71 5-' the 3 of that panic, as it had been of every other. Was there 1837 , 2 _,. 57 1 11 l i 44- cis( I arry panic in 1822 or in 1835, when bread was cheap? DM" 2 9 69 11 10 3 5 72 111 9 41 4i tun INo ; bat there was a panic in 1825 and in 1837, when bread 1a39 2 10_,.4 she I was dear. Had they ever heard of a panic when bread From these tables it appears, that while flour fell in Brad- ant i was cheap ?-( Cheers.) The cause of panic was short wheat during a series of I °reps without a proper supply of corn from abroad. Now let them look at the prices o': ford from 2s , 10 0. in 1831 t o 2s . sd. in 1832, weavin g feu wages rose from 14v. 3 d. to 143 6d. From 2s. 51d. in he 1832 flour fell to 2s. Old. in 1533, while weav- He t years. In 1821 wheat was 545. Id. a quarter; 1822, 435. ing wages rose from 143. 61 to 14s. lid. Again, a ny; I 6d. ; 1823, 61s. ; 1824, 625. ; 1825, 665. ; so that the from 2s. 04d. in 1833, flour fell to Is. and Sid, in dec gradual approach of panic came on as the price of wheat 1834, while weaving wages, preserving the same inverse at 1 rose in 18203 and 1824, until it had reached its maximum proportion, rose from 14s. 'lid. to 15s. 3d. But take a he 1 in 1825, and then came the panic. What was the case per i o d w h en fl our was on the rising scale and how stands he when wheat was 565. and 555. ? Why, that the country the case? From 1836 to 1837 Lill. rose Op. per stone, to t was in a state of prosperity-the people had more money to and weaving wages fell 2s. 6d. per piece. From 1837 to din i spend in manufactures because bread was cheaper, and the 1838 flour rose 61d. per stone, and weaving wages are nee panic and ovcrtrading was neither more nor less than this, that in consequence of the dearness of bread the people again sunk 104 d per piece further. Front 1838 to 1839 tea flour again rose, and weaving wages fell still further. Or, bet were not able to spend any money in manufactures, whilst in other words, we have from 1831 to 1834 each year a we the manufacturers had every reason to expect that instead fall in corn, accompanied by a rise in weaving wages; and sot , of that they would have the same trade that they had before. I from 1535 to 1839 a constant rise in flour, and a most la- bi t ) Then he says, " but it was said also that the home demand 1 men table depreciation in wages paid for some description l o had diminished front an inability to purchase, and that was l o f weaving. So with respect to wages paid for combing. 1 an effect which was attributed to the Corn-laws. If that pe I in 1831 flour was at 2s. 10Sd., and combing wages at qd. ms we re so he begged to inquire who were the real home lln 1835 flour fell to ls. Ba., and combing wages rose to f a , consumers. He had always heard that " they were the land- s? r d. But in 1839 flour had got to 23. lettel., and we find it owners and persona employed in agriculture, and there combing wages down again to 41d. That is, while t h Icould be me doubt that they being the best customers con- flour fell 42 per cent., wages rose 30 per cent. But tit sumed at least four-fifths of the articles produced." They while flour rose 70 per cent., wages fell 27 per cent. se had labourers, however, examined before them who pur- ra ire thought that was proof positive that the rate of wages se chased bat one suit of clothes in the year, and yet it was was not at all regulated by the prices of food, and there hat such tannic, were the best consumers of f ore tc s aid t it was quite unnecessasy to say another word upon the H manufactures. If the home trade depended on subject, as it must be well known to all. d , agriculturists, the consequences would be that Mr. MORRIS would refer to a statement of the compare- n in 1.835, 1839, aed 1840, they would have a better five rate of wages and prices of wheat at Halifax, as a h home-trade than was ever known, as the farmers and proof of what was advanced by Mr. „Milligan ; and, as the d l a ed.oweers during those years bad been making fortunes , weaver was situated he had no compensation whatever, _ It hail been stated by Lord Darlington, that since that either in an increased rate of wages, or in an additional e period he had not only got his usual rent, but that ar- quantity of work. Mr. Morris then read the following c rears have been paid to him. They knew the declining . statement, which he said was drawn up by one of the s state of the home-trade, during the years he had referred most eminent manufacturers of Halifax :- to. They had had a wholesale draper from Don- - 1 caster telling them that in 1835 his trade had 'Average price of Bradford Prices' Halifax ( iacreaaett to the amount of 7,0001., but that every year since it had been increasing. That had occurred in - Wheat per Qr. lof Labour. Lasting!. 1 -- 7 the centre of an agricultural district, where they might no turally expect that the improvement in the prices of corn 1834 - would hare improved the condition of manufacturers. 1835 1836 Ifs. d. s. d.l s. d. s. d. s. d. ' 46 2to 47 o'lo 0 18 0 14 0 1 39 4 40 29 0 17 0 14 6 ( 10 0 16 6 14 6 I They found that such a change in prices made no change in the state of labourers, and that they get no higher 1838 wages than they did when prices were lower. Theyll: 10 6 90156 13 0 t 1839 ... 7 6 0 2 6 5 64 78 0 14 6! 11 0 f are obliged, however, to pay more dearly for food.- ( Hear, hear.) There are twenty agricultural labourers 1840 ' . 65 9 7 3 14 0 10 6 i 6 9 13 6' 10 0 t for cue f armer , and it is clear that a system which destroys This was the fullest verification of what Mr. Milligan had c the eustorn of twenty, while it improves that of one only advanced. r - must be iurious to the home-trade of the country.- Mr. OXLEY said that t he result of all this at Bradford f ' (Hear, hear) Th e y fou n d that the sums aid in the had been, that one-third of the population of that place were r 1 home market we re near l y a t hi r d l ess sines the years he out of employment ; that upwards of 3 , 0001 . had been sub had referr e d t o . I t was d emonstrated that the home trade . scribed to - relieve their distress, and that the poor-rates strffered more severely than any other when the ' 1 price of had just doubled. bread was high. As Mr. O'Connell had said labourer takes his cotton to the h quarter of wheat for his eight days' , the E ng li s h Mr. Smerit would refer to the . fallacy cf their opponents, I labour. Let him, on home market an d get s a w h o contended that a rise of price was always accompanied ' Not only had the rate of wages fallen, the contrary, take it to Poland, ad he will by a rise of wages. Not tars and one bushel of Wheat for the - but the demand tame amount of labou r • they were only employed ix dal , s, As Mr. O'Connell said, the whole meaning of the Cor .- stead of being employed s , for labour had decreased ; and now, in. laws is just this : that the manufacturers and merchants nthree or four, and many of This was s f employment altogether. the country are compelled to give all to the farmer, in had been one of the strongholds order that he may pay the part of on e man back again in which Anti-Corn-law cwauesree gait hich he wa s happy to say was fast giving way. making great way. of their opponents, exchange for manufactures. It is just a clear robbery to When the working man of three days of the week. Ile works Paulton first went Stirling last three for the Duke of Buckingham and three for himself, him. Year, oV i z M e r albout forty or fifty persons assembled to to hear 1 and yet the Duke comes up with his poor-law, and tells should be O ' ut v ; was ' no public 1 the laboisrer to depend upon his own resources. Why petition, but different the Chartists. T year a public meeting bodies petitione- were afraid to call a publ_hi bmoreeetincs, lest they d separately. This did not the Duke of Buckingham stand on his own re had been held on the subject, the sources ? Why had the Duke out-door relief, and the Chartists had attendedet and moved an amendment,suj but the . ipoor man, who was out of wor k, not allowed to have it ? ori g inal m otion for the rep ea l was carr i e d by a majority of , If he were to give a poor match-seller in the street a nine-tenths of the meeting, An Association had been 1 penny, and he took the money to a baker's shop for a loaf , formed, and regular o ffi ce b e . l of bread, and the baker put one halfpenny info a poor box day last, by - earers appointed. n • way of a demonstration, a soiree had been I called the Duke of Buckingham's poor-box, and gave the held, which had been attended by from 800 to 1,000 0 Mon -1 poor man but a halfpenny worth of bread, such a tax could , people. Deputies had attended from the manufacturing Oct be collected a single day in England-but this is the I districts round Stirling. This was calculated to do great I fact, half th e p oor man ' s earn i ngs go to the Duke of I good , and it would place the agitation upon suc h a founda ' Buckingham, and the other half to the poor man, and yet, tion as must produce a good effect. A petition had been they were told such a trade as this was to be increased. , sent up this year which was more numerously signed than I Then the Earl of Darlingt on s a id th a t ~ the. agriculturists 1 any petition that had ever emanated from Stirling, except I consumed at least four-fifthsthe 'in favour of the Reform Bill, as it of articles pro- the one I dured." Strange speculation 1 Ile ut a question 1,300 names. was signed by Ito a farmer. Of all the grain you P raise. how Mr. SYDNEY SMYTH begged to say that Mr. Smith came y much do you conanme ? The answer of a Lincolnshire ! from the midst of the most important agricultural district I farmer was, th . at they sold in the market two-thirds of all in Scotlan d. the grain they raised, and on l y retained one third for the I Mr. SMITH said he tright mention that there were I s upply of their labourers, themselves, and families: What ; several proprietors of land present at their meeting, and Ibecame of the other two-thirds that' wa kit. ? Did it go to the families of the sold in the mar- I not one c , hand was held up against the motion for the repeal agricultural o la. of the - bourers ? No ; they were supplieerde, P And fact' c]. ,, t i the o f mt other 1 Mr. BEaN ir n lawa said . their enemies heaped all sorts of abuse k third, and the other two-thirds were, consumed by the manufacturing community. , , upon them for their Christian_ en deavoniti to feed their I , Ferri of Darlington said the agriculturists consumed four- the fsilow-men, w .ho worked for their living. If any party I fifths of all the articles produced.__( Hear, he • guarded .his , our- ! were blasphemers it was that oneblowsl:iongwsou,,ldnisetnarGveodtl,le:tri • ! There was another thing to las particularly guarded -" ea r.) fellowmen, and deny them the i a t z ahest--a return just published by the order of the house ' NhR goodness, ,Nv9 had sa se id nt b tl e iern. wished to address a few words 1 o f Ceinmens : - A return of the highest and lowest ann brought the dia . :A-en-es per 1 ve rere prices of wheat, and - cent. against the manufacturing class last night. If there was ual ' upon the cha °N e of over-production which was between the years 1515 and 16'38 in England and the fol lowing countries—Prussia Proper, Posen , Saxony, West-1 phalia, Lisbon, Hanaburgh, Rotterdam, Saxony, Peters burgh," &c., &c. The Earl of Darlington founded a statement on these returns, to show that the fluctuation in the price of corn was less in this than other countries. Mr. Baines had yesterday answered that stateme nt, and showed that the - Corn-laws were the causes o f this fluc tuation, and the fluctuation at Dantzic arose from the in creased demand in ingland, and that no man was entitled to take advantage of his own wrong for continuing an abuse. But there was an important omission to be found in these returns—those from Amsterdam and Rotterdam only commenced in 1829, before Holland began toinsti tut() a Corn-law like"the other cou ntries of the Continent. We had no return of what the prices were at Amsterdam and Rotterdam when they proposed a free importation of corn. They had this fact adm itted, that the difference in the price in a hundred years in Amsterdam and Rotterdam, during a free trade, had only been between 295. and 345. Half of the whole consu m p tion of this country depended on Foreign nations ; and yet they found Holland for one hundred years had greater than any quarter of the globe ; yet the return began at the time a Corn-law was introduced into Holland. If the return had commenced earlier, they would have found that there was a greater steadiness there it than in any other pla ce. He found at in Amsterdam the price in 1834 was so low as 235. ; in 1835, 21s. ; in 1ii136, 235. ; in 1837, 245. ; and in 1838, 275. This country, which depended on foreign supply, had the greatest stea diness of supply under our present Corn-laws, for there mutt be regular supply, or there would be a greater variation in price. At this price France was suffering by the fluctuation of the Corn-laws, which was reducing the population to the same level as in this country. He had thought it his duty to make these remarks, and he must express his surprise at the most miserable and lamentable ignorance on the part of men who still refused to be enlightened—who denied their allegations, yet would not afford them an opportunity of proving them, nor refute the statements they made. It was the most unjust and insolent proceeding that could be made on the part of those who were their representatives, for he believed three-fourths of their constituents were there assembled.—( Hear.) The CHAIRMAN announced that he had received a letter from Mr. Norton, of Lincoln, offering an annual subscrip tion of 10/., and to double it if necessary.--( Hear.) Mr. PRENTICE said that the Earl of Darlington had accused the delegates of sending paid missionaries to all parts of England, for the purpose of instilling filth and abomination into the ears of the community. He was glad to find that the lecturers had done so much good as to ex cite the of the landlords.—(Hear.) Their object I ought to be to increase that sort of mischief of which the Earl of Darlington complained—the filth and abomination of which he complained being enlightenment and truth.— ( Hear.) The delegates ought to pledge themselves to organize a far more complete system of agitation than had hitherto prevailed. He would wish to see lecturers go into every villiage and county, so that wherever there was a voter the principles of free trade might be explained.— ( Hear.) It would be very easy for a lecturer to take a circuit of ten or fifteen miles, to organize Corn-law As sociations, and to recommend the payment of small sums, from one penny to a shilling, in aid of the funds for the diffusion of the principles of free trade, and especially of free trade in human food.—( Hear, hear.) They must create a great movement, and they ought to do it in such a way as to make gentlemen in the House of Commons alarmed for their seats. —(Cheers.) They should tell those gentlemen that it was of no use to talk of Whiggism or Toryism, but that they must be Corn-law repeaters, or else wala out of the House.—( Cheers.) Toe Rev. NOAH JONES, of Derby, wished to say a few words in vindication of the Anti-Corn-law lec turers. He believed Mr. Paulton, in whose character he felt a great interest, was the first lecturer who had instructed the country upon the great principles they had taken. He happened to be present in the Theatre of 1311 ton the very first evening that Mr. Paulton appeared as a lecturer at all. He had never heard any thing filthy or abominable from him, and he had moved a vote of thanks to that gentleman in the name of morality and religion, for his eloquent expositions.—( Hear, hear.) He could not, as an Hon. Gentleman did in the House of Commons, stand up and say, " Thank God, I under stand nothing abort political economy." Lie did un derstand a little about political economy, and he hoped he should understand a great deal more, and he ahould be happy to be the means of giving people a little light on the subject, and of interesting them in the cause of justice and humanity. People might charge them with trying to prejudice one class of men against another; but if there was such a thing as blasphemy at ail, it was in men trying to be wiser than God.—( Hear, hear.) If there was anything like blasphemy to be found in any man, it was in the minds of those who thought, in their short ,ighted isdom, that they were able to amend the laws of nature. For himself he felt great gratitude that he had been taught other views, namely, to depend upon the wisdom of an All-Seeing G ad. The present question was one of principle, and he was sure that ultimately it must oe successful.—( Cheers.) Mr. Roar. MILLIGAN, from Bradford, in Yorkshire, said that they had been told by the Corn-law upholders that all that they wanted in agitating the question was to reduce the price of wages. Now he had brought a docu ment which he thought would show that the price of food had nothing whatever to do with the price of wages. That document was as follows: THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 1840 any over-production, lie would ask, did it not arise en tirely from the Corn-laws ? Unless they were prepared to show that the people in all corn-growing foreign coun tries were well clothed, it made a good argument against the Corn-laws of this country. The people must be em ployed somewhere —it was proved by Mr. Porter's Tables, that the land did not employ above 2 per cent. of an in crease of 37 per cent. —the remainder had, therefore, to be thrown upon the commerce and manufactures of the country. Again, if the people in this country were paying double price for their food to what was done in foreign countries, had the artisan not thus to work • double hours, in order to compete with the foreigner ? The ar gument of Lord Darlington had made out a good case against the Corn-laws. Mr. WALKER, of Wolverhampton, said the arguments of the Earl of Darlington were fallacious—utterly falla cious. It was now set at rest that the exports did not form any criterion:of the prosperity of the country; in fact, that on the contrary they were a certain proof of great distress. There was not food for the people in this 1 country, or why should there be laws to keep it out ; upon whom then did that shortness fall ?—not upon the noble men or the gentlemen present, because to them it made no difference whether wheat were Ss., 155., or 255. a bushel ; they would get enough, but how was it with the poor labourers, such as those whom they had seen before them. Suppose that eighty gentlemen were in that room going to sit down to dinner, and that there should be only food on the table for 70, and the door were locked. There was that good feeling amongst them, that none would go away without a fair share of all that was there. But how was it at the national table ; there was a deficiency of food, but that deficiency all fell upon those poor labourers, for even the artizan with his 20s. a week would get plenty of food, though he went without other almost necessaries . life. The poor labourers had to bear all the deficiency, and were obliged to live upon barley and potatoes—upon that pig's-meat, as it had bees aptly called, which they had seen. Let them look to the operation of the present state of things on our manufactures. He should tell the gentle men present, and particularly those from Manchester, that they should not insist on there being a diminution in our exports, as even Mr. Villiers had done last year, because they could be met with figures, and, after all, that was no criterion of the well-being of the working classes, but it was quite the contrary. That merely obliged labourers to pro duce a larger quantity of goods for the same quantity of food. What was the true consequence of an increase in our im ports ? Why there were more goods manufactured and sold at a less profit, though the quantity might be numeri cally greater. He came from a district where they had a great mass of people who manufactured in a small way for parties in the wholesale trade, and whose whole capital did not exceed .5/.—( Hear, hear.) They came to solicit orders from wholesale manufacturers who had to reduce their prices until they could sell against cheap bread eaters.—( Hear.) One of those poor people says " I will give you twelve locks for a bushel of wheat" —another says " I will give you fourteen"—and, again, another says " I will give you a dozen and a half." Here there was a positive increase in quantity, but the merchant not receiving the same rate of profit for his capital as he formerly did, was obliged to make up for that deficiency by an increase in the goods he manufactured. He would, therefore, tell Lord Darlington and Sir Robert Peel that an increase of exports was no criterion whatever of the well-being of the people, but was merely a proof that they were doing more work for the same, or perhaps a less quantity of food. it was, therefore, but a consequence of their misery and destitution. What, then, became of Lord Darlington's argument against overtrading. He had to apologise to the meeting for entering into that point, but he thought it was an important one.—( Cheers.) Mr. RAwsoN said that so long as the Corn-laws con tinued, the amount of labour to supply our people with the means of subsistence would decrease. Let them remove the Corn-laws and they would then be able to compete with their foreign opponents. Mr. SMITH said that he wished to make another allu sion to the speech of Lord Darlington. That Noble Lord had said that " it was true that in unfavourable seasons farmers might produce ninety quarters only instead of one hundred, and if he could only obtain payment at the ordinary rate, he would sustain a clear loss of ten quarters, but at the same time the probability was that he would get for the ninety quarters the same amount as would be paid in other years fur one hundred; and the argument, therefore, went for nothing." Thus the far mer contrived to exempt himself from the vicissitude of i seasons —( Hear, hear.) Lord Darlington told them that the Corn-laws were justifiable, because they enable corn vowers to get the same price for ninety as for one hundred qua, tors. That was a temptation to farmers to put an im mense quantity of land out of cultivation.—( Hear, hear.) Under the present law, the smaller the quantity of land, the more the farmer was benefited, and when the rest of the population was prospering he was complaining that he was going to ruin.—( Hear.) Mr. JOHNSON, of Derby, said he wished to notice one or two misstatements on the part of Lord Darlington, which were often urged by the supporters of the Corn-laws, and not always refuted by their opponents. The Earl of Dar lington said " the extent of machinery and population was such that they could manufacture enough for a new world if a new world could be found." He denied that allega tion, and believed no manufacturer had made a statement so utterly destitute of truth, and he thought it would be much better if their opponents would confine themselves to truth, and not propagate fallacies to mystify the people. Tne Earl of Darlington had brought forward arguments they had seen before. He said the iron was protected by kl higher rate of duty than corn. That might be fact or not—that iron bars three-quarters square were pro tected by a duty of 30a. the ton, and that bars of less size were protected by a duty of at per ton. He thought it would be better if the duty were reduced to 305., because it was only holding out a delusion to the supporters of the Corn-laws, when in fact it was no protection at all; for of another class—hoop iron, the duty was 231., while the price had not been more that 10 guineas, or 111. ; and he would ask what protection that could be when the thing which was only worth 10/. was protected by a duty of 23/. ? The silk trade had a similar protection ; in 1424 it was protected by a duty of 30 per cent. Since that time au alteration took place, and there was now a variable duty of from 30 to 70 per cent. ; but at this time this country was scarcely an exporting country at all. Whatever was the price in foreign countries, the home price must be pre cisely the same. Another fallacy was that the agricul tural class consumed four-fifths of the article produced. He should say if he spoke of the classes purely agricultural, and abstracted other classes, that, instead of consuming four-fifths, as Lord Darlington said, he was quite sure if he said one-third he should much overstate the question. He had made inquiry into this subject, because he thought small facts illustrated large principles, better than fallacious declamation. He had spoken to a friend, a manufacturer at Derby, how he found the country trade, and it happened he was just packing up a parcel for the city of Yoi k, and he said " This is for person to whom I used to send orders to the amount of 80/., but they have been gradually re ducing, and this one is but 301." Perhaps this may be an over statement as to the general principle of the country trade, but he had no doubt of the important fact which had been fully proved before Parliament that the home-trade was considerably reduced. He had spoken to a per son engaged in the fine hosiery trade, and asked him the amount of his business as compared with 1834, 1835, and ho answered it was not one half. Yet he was perfectly master of his business, and a more industrious man did not exist. He thought he should not overstate the fact if he said the home trade had fallen off 25 per cent. But it was urged if the Corn-laws were repealed land would be thrown out of cultivation. Were there no mills out of cul tivation ? He had seen hundreds of men of Nottingham selling sand, and yoked together drawing it ; he had seen men of seventy years of age, who were almost too weak for that purpose. Was such a state of things to be continued ? ( Hear, hear, hear.) He deeply regretted that their cause had not progressed more in the House of Commons than it had done, but this he knew, that it had progressed with such celerity out of doors, that Parliament must very soon feel the effects of it. --(Hear, hear.) The cause in which they were engaged was the cause of the poor man—it was the cause of the millions against the few, and it would, as he was quite sure it ought to, prevail.—( Hear, hear.) Mr. Sawn! (Saddlevrorth) wished to mention that a German manufacturer had said to a friend of his who sent out 10,000 dozen pairs of hosiery goods annually—" If you have a duty of 10s. per quarter on foreign wheat, we do not care about your opposition—if you make it 55., it will be doubtful ; but if you take it off altogether we cannot compete with you." Mr. HILL (Bradford) wished to make an observation or two, as he was about to leave for the North. In Brad ford, as well as in many other places, it was well known that distress had existed to a very considerable extent. The Poor-law Guardians had relieved, as far as they could, all within their Union. But subscriptions had been raised to relieve those who resided in districts that did net fall within the Union. He (Mr. Hill) had visited many of these districts, and he found that the greatest distress existed among those who had come to Bradford from the agricultural districts for em ployment—they had come from Suffolk, Norfolk, and other places.—( Hear, hear.) He did not attribute the whole of the distress to the Corn-laws ; but he believed that law was something like the main-spring of a watch—it pro duced its revolutions and its effects. As it was more than probable the motion in the House of Commons would be lost, he would suggest to the Delegation the propriety of mooting the question in another shape ; and he thought the House of Commons could not refuse to inquire into the state of the commerce of the country, the depression of trade, and the cause of the bankruptcies that had re cently taken place. Mr. LIVICSEY said he was anxious that the delegates should know something of the distressed condition of the hand-loom weavers in Lancashire, and he wished them to heve up some of that distressed class—among whom in stances of utter destitution were too numerous, and eases of starvation —of actual death for the want of food—were not unfrequent. He begged to call the attention of the Delegates to the following statement (respecting the town of Preston and its neighbourhood)—of the condition of the weavers . The state of a hand-loom weave d r, wife, s. and three children was this, — Man's earnings ..................... .., 6 0 6 Wife's ditto 1 1 6 Parish .............................. 9 0 EXPFSDITURR. 0 Rent and looms ........................... Coal Candles, soap, &C ......................... 0 10 3 6 • Balance for fi)od (not to mention clothing and every leaoth:7t t comfort) 53. Gd., being one and a pennyfarthiny p er Yet he f oun d t h e po3r people kept as long as possible out of the wor kh ouse, because they hoped better ti mes would et ar r ive. —(Hear, hear.) They lived in hop e —were their exp ec t a ti ons to b e di sa pp o i n ted ?—( Hear.) But it ought not to be lost sight of, that the Corn-laws were the root and basis of a mass of evil restrictions in regard to provisions generally.—( Hear, hear.) For inst ance, in respect to Irish butter—as the Irish peasantry were begin ning to leave of drinking whisky, and consume bacon and butter—the importation of butter had already diminished to this country, and would doubtless still further diminish ; and Irish butter being now 116 s. a cwt. higher than it had long been, consequently shopmen were cut ting up now Dutch butter, which paid a duty of twenty shillings a cwt., and yet undersold our own butter in our home market.—( Hear, hear.) So with cheese, which might be bought in Holland at 30s. a cwt. paid a duty of 10s. 6s. yet was cheaper in this country than our own.—( Hear, hear.) Then as to eggs. French eggs paid a duty of 10d. en every 120, yet were cheaper than English eggs.—( Hear t hear.) Now, in the event of Mr. Villiers' motion being rejected, what measures were intended by the Delegates ?—( Hear, hear.) Would they return to their several districts and re-agitate the country, and obtain petitions ten-fold more numerous, and strongly worded?—(Hear, hear.) Could the motion be brought before Parliament in another shape ?—(Hear.) Then immediately on tho termination of the debat e , s hould it end in the rejection of the motion, let a member give a notice of bringing forward the preposition in another shape. While hundreds and thousands were starving, the Delegates could not stop in: their course—( Hear, hear) —firmly convinced that their cause was that of j us ti ce and truth ; and persuaded that nothing but free competition in all trades could promote cheapness and comfort.—( Hear, hear.) He would pledge himself never to turn his back on this great question, and both at meetings, in publica tions, and in discussions, he would do everything he could invent to uphold the holy principle they had in view. Mr. TURNER, of Chorley, said he was a manufacturer, and had been so for nearly forty years ; sometimes he had been most extensively employed, and he mu s t say he did not know a single wor kman in his neighbourhood who got fie. a-week. He was the Chairman of the Chorley Asso ciation, and as such he might be permitted to state a few short facts. In the neighbourhood of that place, up to February last, the better kind of labourers—the weavers of fancy goods got 75., Bs. ! gs., 10s., and sometimes lls. a week, but that was withdrawn in February; now the weavers were employed upon a coarse kind of jaconet, for which they got 71d. the piece, and for another sort they got 101 d. ; of this work they could compl e t e one p i ece a chy. For another article they could get 2s. or as. for making a piece of 20 yards; of this he could not make more than a piece and a half a-week. The work-people in his neighbourhood were worse off than in the manufacturing districts ; and the only difference was that in his neighbourhood children could commence working when they were nine or ten years of age. He had been into the houses of several of the workmen in Chorley ; on one occasion he went into no less than twelve during the dinner hour, and, with one exception, all that they had for their dinner were potatoes and butter-milk. One person bad a piece of bacon and a little meat. These were facts of which there could be no denial. Dr. BowRING said that his valued friend who had brought forward the question of the Corn-laws in the House of Commons last night had adverted to many articles that were prohibited from being imported into this country, but he had omitted many which he would mention to the meeting, all if which were totally prohibited from being brought into this country under any conditions whatever. Among them was fresh beef, live cattle, ground corn, all foreign fish, except turbot and lobsters.—(Cheers.) Lamb and mutton, fresh pork, sheep and swine. Ile trusted that when the Corn-law agitation was arrested in the House of Commons, something would be done to remove the grievous oppressions which the people were subjected to in consequence of the prohibition of the articles to which he had referred.—( Hear, hear.) With respect to other articles of food, he would mention some welch were subjected to an enormous rate of taxa tion. There was the article of eggs. The importation of eggs into this country was immense, it had amounted in one year to eighty millions, and these eggs paid a duty of 12 per cent. on their value in this country, and of most probably 40 er 50 per cent. on their value on the other side of the water. Then there was the article of salt beet, which was charged with a duty of 12s. per cwt., which amounted to about 25 per cent. on its value. There was butter, which was charged with a duty of 20s. per cwt., which was equal to 20 per cent. on its value. Cheese paid a duty of 10s. 6d. per cwt., which was equal to 22 per cent. on its value. Potatoes were charged with a duty of 60 per cent., and thus, as they approached the food of the poor, they found that it was subjected to a more oppressive rate of taxation.— (Cheers.) The revenue in this country had been raised not by making the wealthy pay their fair share of taxation, but the revenue had been raised by taxing the industry of the labouring masses instead of the accumulators— and when these facts should be fully understood by the peo ple, he was convinced that the yoke would be found to be intolerable, and then those who stood between the op pressed many and the ruling few would be able to form a confederation and a league, the voice of which would force itself to be heard in those places in which, even now, but little attention was paid to it.—(Cheers.) He noped that some special reference would be made to the subject •f these oppressive laws, and then it would be found that tne corn grievance was not the only grievance which ground down the people, but that it was only one portion of that system of cruelty of which the people were the victims.—(Cheers.) Mr. RicliAßDsoN would ask two questions-Ist. Whether the price of the Anti-Corn law Circular should not be raised to 3d., the effect of which would be to get it into coffee-houses and club-rooms, so that at all events the arguments in favour of their cause should be placed within the reach of the frequenters of such places. And 2d, Whether it would not be advisable to meet next year the first week in May, so as to get the co-operation of the different religious societies, which met at that period, and in that case he would suggest that the subject should not be brought on in Parliament until that period. Mr. LIVESEY would suggest the propriety of getting up an Exeter Hall meeting on the subject during the latter part of next mouth. Mr. RiceaensoN said the use of Exeter Hall had been refused.—(Cries of " Shame !") After some little discussion the question of the price of the Circular was referred to the Council. Mr. J. SNIITII thought it most important to the poor overworked and underfed labourer and artizan that only 19 of the Gentlemen in the House of Commons opposed to them thought proper to attend in their places, while the advocate of the poor m an a tt em pted to make out a case, which he triumphantly did in their favour. They ob jected to the House being made a Court of Oyer and Ter miner ; it, in their hands, was one of Terminer alone, where . they were never present at a discussion no r absent at a division.__( Hear, hear.) Let the people know the manner in which th e i r a d voca t es were treated, and their complaints despised, and they would rise in their energy and return men who would d o th e i r duty and give som e attention to their wishes and grievances. Mr. Wiesos suggested that a Committee ought to be appointed for the purpose of attempting to obtain the con currence and assistance of the Dissenting Ministers of the metropolis. Mr. PRENTICE said, had Mr. Wilson inquired, he would have found that steps had been taken for that purpose, and was not confined to the metropolis, but extended through out the country. Mr. T. M. GIBSON wished to make a proposition, in consequence of what had fallen from Dr. Bowring and Mr. Livcsey respecting the beef and mutton laws. He thought it was most important that the public generally should know that beef and mutton were not only not taxed, but were actually prohibited altogether. Now he would propose that some delegate or delegates should interest themselves with any Member with whom they were ac quainted, in order that as soon as the discussion on the Corn-laws was over, if they were beat, immediately to give notice that he would call the attenti,,n of the House to the Beef and Mutton Laws, with a view to their immediate repeal.--(Laughter and cheers.) It would give a variety to the question—it would be like a dessert after dinner— and he would like to hear any good reason for the mainte nance of the prohibition. The only reason he knew was that the Legislators were dealers in, beef and mutton, and therefore they made laws to compel all persons to buy of them alone. He would therefore move a Committee for the purpose. Mr. TAYLOR could assure Mr. Wilson, that the London Association had taken all steps to obtain the assistance of Dissenting Ministers. He would suggest the appoint ment of a Printing Committee, in order to lay short, pithy acts before the public. After some desultory conversation the Delegates ad 'ourned till one o'clock to-morrow. TELEGRAPH. —The importance of this esta blishment was manifested last Tuesday. A brig outward bound, with a cargo worth about 1,2001., not being able to proceed attempted to put back into the Humber, but in a snow storm got on the Binks outside of the Spurn. This vessel (the Marys, for Dunkirk) not haring been entered in the tele graphic list, the signal-man on board the Bull Float could only report " a brig on shore at Spurn," and as a matter of course, no steps were taken until it was known whose business it was to look after her. Some hours after the first intelligence was sent, the men at the Bull Float ascertained and reported that she was the Mary, Captain Lancaster, for Dunkirk. This being ascertained, Messrs. Wilson Brothers, the parties inte rested, immediately sent down a steamer and lighters, and dur ing the night got the vessel discharigheed,acacniddenthtiseDd v u lua h b a l v e e c b ar e g en o transshipped before intelligence of known in Hull by overland communication ; but had this a vessel had proper si nals, Ales srs. Wilson Brothers might sentssistance g down at n ine in the morning, in stead of two or three in the a fternoon. A complete set of W a t son ' s t e l eg raph flags being sent down by the steamer en W e d nes d a y morning, they were able to report the satisfactory inf ormat i on of the cargo being all safely landed. A meeting of th e Telegraph Committee was held on Wednesday, and we are informed Lieutenan sWatson reported that during the six winter months, the telegraph has been interrupted by the weather only twenty-nine days, and that during that pe riod 247 vessels inward bound, 219 outward bound, and 97 at author in G r i ms b y and Hawk roads, have been reported by name to the owners or agents , b esides some hundreds of others without s i gna l s —.Hull Observer . AN ANCIENT EthNeTkeTenß, u TRICK.--rrs,he means resorted to every-way -looking spcjou com mercial s pi r it o f J o h n B u ll, in the necessa r y o p eration of for outN emptying full p oc k ets an d filli n g empty ones, are so varied and so :ngentous, th a t a man canno t but feel a hear t y en j o y ment in being cheated : it is a sort of compliment paid to his under standing when such beautifully contrived mechanism is brought into work to out-wit him ; yet there are men who prefer the old worn-out bait which has already slain its hundreds and its thousands, to the most beautiful trap into which this branch of modern art could tempt bias. The hero of this our paragraph present, n was one of them. Tired of pulling the masculine noses and trimming the feminine curls of the good folks of Brentwood, he " shouldered his gun," and sallied forth to show his neigh bours " how birds were killed," and on his return at dewy eve, he dropped into a public-house to wash away the remembrance of the misses and the misfires of the day. His gun of course attracted attention ; would he sell it, was. asked by a gentleman who probably thought he saw the bump of takeinitive ,as, n e ohd s a s ht: r_a i at t hg h r e ie r te strikingly t h r tr i oe k e i r n pe g no l ou y unndes of his bdeveloped.eeof, ownership : ra S si e ,hs l i l pait—ay, compliments.rethree that pounds, he w• o u a l : d. l How ever,tviemr very ; c t o h a o e n l l ( m i r was more give credit till the morrow. The morrow came, h a d nai digested o e 1 n f s t made I dd i e e t curlinghuep tricki , is tongsand mind t htw:a deals beef a withe philosopher,and onlymh ee men of sterling habits.— Chelmsford Chronicle. CAUTION.—W e caution the public against a band of swindlers who are endeavouring to cash flash bills of exchange, &c. One of the letters of the swindlers, received in has been put into our hands, printed on fine gilt letter paper. — Hull Observer. SPIRIT of the JOURNALS. FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTREDAY. (From the Globe.) The Tories owe a debt of hatred to his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, which, notwithstanding the large in stalments they have frequently, and at no distant intervals, paid without reluctance, still remains undischarged. The malignity appears to grow with what it feeds on. Every op portunity for manifesting it is seized with avidity, and seems to communicate additional intensity to their vindictiveness. This is not surprising. The private virtues of the Duke of Sussex form a strong contrast to the vices which dis figured and debased the princely dignity of those of his brothers whom the Tories most delighted to honour. His patriotic principles, held firmly, and avowed openly, when the Court was hermetically sealed against the entrance of any who ventured to be honest in the cause of the people in those bad times, also provoked the ven geance of the ruling faction, who succeeded in estranging from him the affections of, first his father, and subsequently of his brother who next occupied the throne. The Duke of Sussex was, in effect, proscribed for his private and public worth. (From the Courier.) it has been a sort of fashion of late years to treat the various political and social questions which have agitated the public as abstract considerations. The so•styled Liberal Political Economists of the day have taken man in his abstraction; and without reference to his passions, his weakness, his habits, and the circumstances which surround him, have legislated for him as if he was what he ought to be. Relying on the axiom that the working classes ought always to be industrious, frugal, and pro vident, Poor-laws have been enacted on that assump tion, which, but for accidental helps, would have driven, and may still drive, the labouring popula tion to despair and madness. In like manner the advocates for free trade, having satisfactorily proved to themselves by a plus b minus x, that nations ought t• buy where they can buy cheapest wherever the article required might be produced or manufactured, would have caused the trade of this country to be deprived of all its protection, and have trusted to the politico-economico con victions of foreign countries to remove all their restrictions on foreign manufactures, and to introduce a perfect system of philosophic and commercial reciprocity. (From the Standard.) Mr. Villiers lasi night brought forward his Anti-Corn .aw motion, in a speech which, as the Morning Chronicle says, lasted through nearly four hours. If the length of a speech should afford a presumption of the goodness of the case for which it is employed, Mr. Villiers no doubt has gone far to achieve a victory. Most, however, will be of opinion with the honest juror in Horne Tooke's case, who, without taking much pains to weigh and sift the evidence, grounded his verdict of acquittal npon the nine hours' address of the Attorne)-General. It must be a doubtful matter, said he, upon which a cunning lawyer thinks it necessary to employ so many words, and as it is doubtful the Judge tells me that I am bound to acquit. The long speech of Mr. Villiers pre sents little that is new; all his arguments, when he con descended to reason, which was not often, were arguments a thousand times refuted any exposed. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S—YESTERDAY. A full room, and a good deal of betting. THE DER.BY. 10 to 1 agst Angelica colt—taken 11 to 1 agst Theon—taken 14 to 1 agst Launcelot—taken 16 to 1 agst Confederate-15 to 1 taken 25 to 1 agst Gambia—taken 26 to 1 agst Wardan—taken 26 to 1 agst Monops—taken 26 to 1 agst Ottoman—taken 30 to 1 agst Bokhara 40 to 1 agst Black Bess -40 to 1 agst Velvet 50 to 1 agst Assassin—taken 50 to 1 agst Janus—taken 50 to 1 agst Diplomatist 40 to 1 agst Muley Ishmael-50 to 1 taken 0(X) to 15 agst Glenorchy—taken ,000 to 15 agst Dreadnought [OOO to 15 agst Pathfinder [OOO to 15 agst Little Wonder [OOO to 20 agst Sophocles THE OAKS. 7 to 2 agst:Crueifix 7 to 1 agst Black Bess—taken [0 to 1 agst Lalla Pookh [6 to 1 agst Filly out of Rowton's darn—taken TWO THOUSAND GUINEA STAKES. 5 to 2 agst Angelica colt (I to 1 apt Wardan—teken 7 to 1 agst Crucifix 7 to 1 agst Confederate—taken 10 to 1 agst Grey Milton SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. (LLOYD'S.) VESSELS SPeKEN wiTir.—The Monongahela, from Liver pool to Philadelphia, on the 25th ult., lat. 50, lon. 11, and Irene, bound to Liverpool, 26th, off Cape Clear, by the Martha, Martin, arrived at Liverpool; Marmion, Harrison, London to Quebec, lat. 49, lon. 9, by the Vivacious, Proom, arrived in the Downs; William Henry Angus, from Honduras, 13th ult., lat. 48, lon. 20 ; Shannon, from Liverpool, 15th lat. 48, lon. 19; Janet, from the Cape of Good Hope, 16th ; Victoria, from Cadiz, 24th, lat. 49, lon. 9, by the Saladin, M'Kenzie, arrived in the Downs ; Montreal, 13th ult., lat. 46, lon. 27 ; Rokeby, bound to Liverpool, 27th ; and William Parker, Liverpool to Montreal, 28th, off Cape Clear, by the Berbice, Greirson, ar rived at Liverpool ; Elizabeth, Odessa to Falmouth, 24th Feb., off Malta, by the Anna Laing, arrived at Falmouth ; Clutha of Greenock, for St. John's, New Brunswick, 25th ult., lat. 51, by the Persian, Fisher, arrived at Falmouth ; Hope, Bristol to Newfoundland, 23d ult., by the Margaret, Green, arrived off Cork ; Elizabeth, Pollack, from Odessa, 20th Feb. in the Archipelago ; Mary Ellis, from Odessa, 10th ult. of Cape St. Vincent, by the Sarepta, Buck, arrived off Cork; Renovation, from Shields, 11th ult., off Lisbon, by the Six, Derry, arrived at Falmouth ; Mary Ann, Odessa to Falmouth, off Girgente, 20th Feb., by the Nereid, arrived off Falmouth ; Mount's Bay, bound to St. Michael's, lat. 38, lon. 22, by the Queen, arrived in the River ; Harmony, Liverpool, to Cape Town, 13th ult., lat. 48, lon. 13, by the Claremont, arrived in the Downs. NOTICE TO MARINERS-FLOATING LIGHT AT BERBICE. The following is a copy of a letter received at Lloyd's from their Agent at Berbice, dated sth February : " SIR,—I beg to transmit to you herewith, for the informa tion of the Committee for managing the affairs at Lloyd's the following particulars regarding a floating light placed at the entrance of this harbour. " A single bright light from sunset to sunrise, and by day a black ball at the mast-head. Lat. 6 deg., 27 min., 30 sec. N., lon. 57 deg., 2 min., 3 sec, W., East Point Berbice River bearing S.S.W., distant 10 miles, 21- fathoms at low water spring tides. " I am, Sir, " Your most obedient servant, " G. FULLARTON, Jun." To Mr. Dobson, Esq., Secretary to Lloyd's." THE POLISH REFUGEES. A deputation from nearly 200 Polish Refugees almost all of them officers and gentlemen of respecta bility, consisting of General Dwernicki, Major Mier seiewski, and Count Dunin, waited on Lord Dudley Coutts Stuart, lately, to present him with an ele gant gold ring, bearing the arms of Poland, and the inscription " Wdzieczai Polacy w Anglii Lordowi D. C. Stuart," together with the following address, as a tribute of gratitude for his noble exertions on behalf of their country : " London, March 26, 1840. " My Lord—lt is with a feeling of the most lively satisfaction that we come to your Lordship for the pur pose of offering to you in the name of the Polish re fugees in England, whose list is subjoined, a token of their sentiments for your person. In entrusting to us this pleasant task, they have directed us to beg of you to consider their humble gift as a testimony of the warmest gratitude and esteem with which they are animated for you. _ . _ " They feel, it their duty to express publicly their high sense of the exertions made by your Lordship in be half of Poland, as well of your services to the Polish refugees in England. Those exertions, which have rendered your name illustrious in the eyes of every noble-minded man, have not been limited to any par' ticular time or place. Since the fall of our last revo lution your voice was ever heard, your assistance ever ready, when any opportunity presented itself of acting for the good of Poland, and promoting her restoration to her ancient limits and independence. Almost every motion in Parliament relating to our country, was either made or most efficiently supported by your Lordship. Most of the public meetings in which the Polish ques tion was agitated were convened under your auspices, and saw you the foremost amongst her generous adt o• cates. We can never be forgetful of our duties to wards all the illustrious persons whose names we ere proud to number amongst those of the friends of Po land ; but at this moment it is to you that we ad dress ourselves as the principal mediator between us and the British nation. " It was also chiefly through your instrumentality that the Polish Refugees in England have been pro vided with the means of subsistence, and you have defended their honour when it was threatened by the calumnies of Russian agents. Neglecting your own affairs and ease, you have devoted, and still continue to devote, the greatest portion of your time to the cause you made your own. Our position, as it is well known to you, is extremely painful ; we live entirely in the fond hope of paying once more the debt we owe to our country ; bnt that happy moment may still be de layed ; and whatever trials should in the meantime fall to our lot, our gratitude cannot but increase for a friend who has never failed us in adversity. " These are the considerations which prompted the Polish Refugees in England, whose names are subjoined, to offer a ring bearing the national arms of Poland, and they know your Lordship too well to entertain any doubts that you will appreciate this token of their gra titude, not by the value of the object, but by the sin cerity of those feelings of which it is but a feeble ex pression. They are well aware that your services can not be too highly acknowledged ; they flatter them selves, however, that this manifestation w►ll not be in different to your noble heart, as it was called forth by a just apprec=iation of your merits, and of your inflinching attachment to the cause of Poland. " We have the honour to be, &c., " Lieut.-Gen. DWERNICKI. " Major MIERZEIEWSKI. " Captain DU NIN." (Signed) In the early part of last week, while an old farmer was ploughing in the parish of Kilbarchan, he heard the cuckoo. The old man made a remark that he never but once before heard it so early, and he well remembered that they had a very early harvest that year.— Glasgow Chronicle. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF COMMONS, APRIL, 2. The SPEAKER took the Chair at a few Minutes beforo Four o'Clock. On the motion of Mr. Alderman THOMPSON, the River Wear Watch Bill was read a second time. On the motion of Mr. LYSTER, the Allerton (York) Inclosure Bill was read a third time and passed. The Scottish Widows' Fund Bill was read a third lime and passed. CORN-LAWS. • Sir JOHN MORDAUNT presented a petition from a place in Warwickshire against the repeal of the Corn-laws. Sir J. Y. BULLER presented petitions from Durham against the repeal of the Corn-laws, and the grant to May nooth College. Mr. HALFORD presented a petition from the mer chants, manufacturers, and other inhabitants of Leicester, signed by 3,528 persons, condemning the conduct of the itinerant agitators, who were going about the country in flaming the minds of the manufacturers by false represen tations, instead of enlightening them with truth and reason. The petitioners stated that they were engaged forty-four weeks of the year in manufacturing goods (princi pally woollen stockings) for the home market, and the remaining eight weeks only for exportation, chiefly to America ; so that they entirely depended on the home trade, and therefore their interests were inseparably bound up with the cultivators of the sail. It would be impolitic to place the country in a state of dependence upon other nations for the supply of corn ; and they would consider it as unjust to admit the cheap corn of other countries to compete with the home produce, as to admit the cheap stockings of Saxony into competition with their (the petitioners) productions. Mr. THORNELY presented petitions from different parts of Liverpool, praying for the repeal of the Corn-laws. Mr. GREG presented similar petitions from different parts of Manchester. Mr. P AL ME R presented a petition from the attorneys of Reading, praying for the removal of the Courts of Law from Westminster to a more convenient situation. Mr. HA WKES presented a petition from Stafford against the repeal of the Corn-laws. Sir CHARLES KNIGHTIEY presented a petition from Northamptonshire praying for the liberation of Mr Howard. Mr. FRE airIFI ELD presented a petition from fifty-five attorneys at Dean, praying, that no measure might be adopted that would interfere with the discharge of the duties of solicitors. Captain PE CHEL L presented petitions from Sussex praying for an inquiry into the Corn-laws. Sir R. INGLIS presented a petition from Durham pray ing the House to adopt some regulations as to the trade in opium. Mr. A. WHITE presented a petition from Sunderland against any further grant of public money for the building Churches. Mr. M. PHILLIPS presented petitions from different places in Manchester in favour of the total repeal of the Corn-laws. Mr. RAIKE S CURRIE presented a petition from agricultural labourers of a parish in Northampton for a repeal of the Corn-laws. Mr. W. MILES presented two petitions from Somerset in favour of Church Extension ; also a petition which he was requested to present in the absence of an Hon. Relative of his, from William Lewes of Bristol, who stated that he presided at a public meeting of the inhabitants at which resolutions were passed, strongly deprecating any altera tion in the Corn-laws, and that next day petitions for a repeal of the Corn-laws, purporting to have emanated from that meeting, had been hawked about the streets of Bristol for signatures. The petitioner also deprecated the manner in which the workmen had been compelled by their employers to sign petitions in favour of a repeal of these laws, and added that three fourths of the operatives of Bristol were decidedly opposed to their repeal. Petitions against the repeal of the Corn-laws were also presented by Sir Charles Burrell from places in Sussex; by Mr. Bingham Baring, from four places in Staffordshire ; by Mr. Pendarves, from Sussex; by Sir Charles Brooke Vere, from four places in Suffolk ; and by Lord Hotham, from Leominster. Petitions for a repeal of the Corn-laws were presented by Mr. Brotherton from 1190 teachers of schools at Man chester and Salford ; by Mr. E. White, from Sunder land; by Sir Benjamin Hall, from Marylebone and other places in the Metropolis; and by Mr. Benjamin Wood from 5013 inhabitants of Southwark. Mr. SO WE RB Y PARKER presented a petition from the Isle of Wight, in favour of Church Extension. Mr. BAINES presented two petition; from Yorkshire, against Church Extension. On the motion of Mr. W. ATTWO OD the General Steam Navigation Company's Bill was read a third time and passed. On the motion of Mr. FRE SHFIELD Perry's Di vorce Bill and Lloyd's Divorce Bill were read a third time and passed. Mr. RE D INGTON presented a petition from Galway against any alteration in the Corn-laws. Mr. BRUGES presented a petition from Bath, praying the House to provide some remedy for the Corn-laws. Sir G. STRICKL AND presented petitions from the West riding of York, praying for the repeal of the Corn laws. Mr. C. LU S HING TON presented similar petitions from Surrey ; also several petitions praying for the aboli tion of Church-rates and the release of John Thorogood. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, in order as he said, that every man might express his wish to the Legislature, presented a petition from a cotton-spinner at Glasgow, praying for Uuniversal Suffrage and Vote by Ballot. Sir HENRY PARNELL presented a petition from the Medical Association of Scotland, praying for medical reform. Sir G. CLERK presented a petition from Stamford, praying for Church Extension ; also a petition from Seot land, praying for an alteration in the law of Church Patronage. Mr. HORSMAN presented several petitions for the repeal of the Corn-laws. On the motion of Mr. LOCKHART, the Glasgow Bridewcll Bill was ordered to be read a third time to morrow. Lord FITZROY presented a petition from Bury St. Edmund's praying for a repeal of the Corn-laws. Lord J. RUSSELL presented a petition from Salford, signed by 1,500 persons, whose united property amounted to 30,000,0001., praying for a repeal of the Corn-laws. Lord MORPETH presented similar petitions from landholders, inhabitants, and labourers in the oounty of York. Mr. WALLACE presented fifteen petitions against the Corn-laws. CANADA. Lord J. RUSSELL having brought up the Bill re specting Canada, which was read a first time, on moving that it be read a second time, said that he wished to cor rect a misapprehension whichl had taken place of some thing that had fallen from him with regard to Clergy Re serves, and which, perhaps, if not corrected, might lead to serious misunderstanding in Canada. It had been stated that he expressed himself unfavourably to the general nature of the measure which the Legislature of Upper Canada bad passed, and that the Governor-General had proposed a measure totally opposed to the views of the Go vernment. This was far from being the meaning of what he had said. What he had said was, that it was a diffi cult thing to have a measure with regard to the subject which would entirely coincide with one's own abstract no tions, or with what might nave been feasible forty years ago, but which was not practicable now. He went no fur ther in his observations, which applied generally to the opi nions held about Church establishments. It had first been thought expedient to direct the Governor-General what measure to propose, but considering the difficulties of the question it was subsequently thought advisable to leave it to the Governor-General's discretion.—( Hear.) The Governor-General, in conformity with the views of Government, had made inquiries on the subject, and had addressed a letter to him (Lord J. Russell), in which he told him that it would be hopeless to attempt to carry any measure on the subject, so extreme were the feel ings of parties and so adverse were they to each other. He added that no compromise could be entered into in the matter. But he afterwards stated that there were some hopes of Members coming to an accom modation, and that those who had declared they would not snake any provision for ministers of religion, had shown themselves willing to consent to a measure which would provide for ministers of all denominations. Such a measure met with the ready concurrence of the Legislative Council, and especially of those members of it who belonged to the Church of England. After a long debate the measure was carried. The Bill had been transmitted with despatches to this country, and he (Lord J. Russell) should add that he thought the Governor-General of Canada had most ably and wisely conformed himself to his instructions. They had not wished to place any obstacles in his way, or to desire the Gover nor-General peremptorily to propose anything which might lead to disunion. So far, therefore, from an nulling what the Governor .General had done, they enirely approved of the course, thinking it would be a means of restoring peace to Upper Canada. He should now state, that considering all that had passed on the subject—considering the declarations of Mr. Fox, and the opinions advocated by Lord Stanley, as well as his evidence gives before the House of Lords—consider ing, too, the opinions of the Earl of Harrowby, and the message of the Earl of Ripon, sent to Upper Canada— considering all these circumstances, he hoped they now had a prospect of soon seeing the question terminated. He thought it better to introduce a measure with a view of settling a question to which all these debates had reference ; and be would put it to those who were adverse to this Bill, seriously to consider all the particulars he had mentioned, and also all that had taken place in reference to this sub ject, and whether they really thought it advisable to counteract the desires of those loyal subjects of her Majesty resident in those Colonies who had repeatedly expressed their wishes for a satisfac tory settlement of this subject.—( Towards the conclu sion of his speech the Noble Lord dropped his voice in such a manner as to be frequently inaudible.) The Bill was then ordered to be read a second time on Monday se'nnight. HILL COOLIES. Mr. MACKINNON gave notice of his intention of moving for a Committee to investigate the subject and provide Legislative enactments for the regulation of the emigration of labourers from India to British Guiana. Mr. WILLIAMS moved for a return of the number of days the Judge of the Admiralty Court attended and presided at that Court, in each of the years 1836, 1837, 1838, and 1839 ; also a return of the amount of salary, fees, or other emoluments received by the Judge of the said Court in each of those years; also a return of the amount of salary, fees, and other emoluments received by the present Judge of the Admiralty Court as Judge of the Consistory Courts of London and Rochester, in each of the years 1830 to 1839 i nc l us i ve . Mr. ABEL SMITH p ro p ose d, for Mr. Crawford, that the following Members should constitute the C2mmrtte e on the Surrender of Opium in China :—Mr. Crawford, . Lord Viscount Palmerston, Sir Robert Peel , M r. Charles Buller, Mr. Herbert, Sir George Staunton , Mr. Cowper, EVENING EDITION:: Mr. Robert Clive, Sir George Grey, Mr. Hogg, Mr. John Elliot, Mr. John Abel Smith, Mr. Parker, Lord Viscount Sandon, Mr. Strutt, Sir William Somerville, Sir Robert Harry Inglis, Sir Charles Lemon, Mr. Ed ward Buller, Mr. Clay, and Mr. Horsman, Lord SANDON did not think that the Committee, as proposed by his Hon. Friend, would carry out the objects which it had in view. He thought some other names ought to be added, or it would not be fairly consti tuted. He had no personal feeling on the subject, and his only desire was that a fair and impartial Committee should be appointed. Lord G. SOMERSET was afraid the Report of the Committee, if constituted as proposed by the Hon. Gen tleman, would not be satisfactory, because undoubtedly it would be such as to overwhelm the opinions entertained by gentlemen on his (Lord G. Somerset's) side of the House. Sir R. PE EL was surprised that the Government could not be satisfied with less than a preponderance of 15 to 6. The usual majority of 7t060r8 to 10 might be all very well, but 15 to 6 was never heard of.—(Hear, hear.) He should willingly consent to have his name struck off the list, because the Bank Committee had just commenced sitting, and he could not attend on both- - ( Hear, hear)—so that he hoped some other Member would be selected. Mr. SMITH (who was nearly inaudible) said the Go vernment had considered that three Members were so op` posed to their policy as to the opium trade, that they might be deemed hostile—Sir G. Staunton, Mr. Crawford, and himself.—( Hear.) Sir R. PEEL said he did not know that the opinion 3 of Members were expected to be formed previous to in quiry.—(llear. ) He did not think any of the six Mem bers on his side had so made up their minds either way.-- ( Hear.) If they had he had no idea which side they were.—( Hear. ) Lord JOHN RUSSELL said the objection of the Right Hon. Baronet would have been a good one if this had been a party question, but such not being the case, lie did not see why the lousiness of the Committee could not be conducted by Members from one side of the House BS well as from the other. Mr. GO ULBURN said the Noble Lord's argument was, that the consideration of a most important national question should be left to the supporters of the Govern ment, because, forsooth, it had not been made a party question. Mr. H E RRIE S would look with the greatest jealousy on the composition of the Committee. The question, as he understood, was, whether the value of this opium, amounting to two millions and a half, should be paid by the Government, and the House was now about to put itself into the hands of a Select Committee to deter mine that question. He protested beforehand against being bound by its decision, although it was impos sible not to feel that the Report of that Committee would in some degree affect the decision of the House. The Committee was not one appointed to inquire into ge neral matters, but it was one the question before which nar• rowed itself into this, whether these claims were or were not to be satisfied at the expense of the Government. His Honourable Friend opposite said that he was op posed to the policy of the Government on this question. He understood that there were Gentlemen on the other side, who differed with the Government in the view they took of this subject ; and he supposed that it was consi dered that these Gentlemen were a match, to set off against those who approved of the conduct of the Government. Gentlemen on the other side, no doubt thoroughly understood this subject; Gentlemen on his side the House had no opportunity of doing so.—(Cheers.) Government had already expressed- a distinct opinion by refusing to pay the bills ; and it was rather remarkable, that after that public refusal, they should have expressed their willing ness, without any debate, to assent to the appointment of that Committee. This certainly looked very much like an understanding on the subject. He, however, understood the Hon. Gentleman to say that such was not the case; but as this was a subject in a very narrow compass, and in which the Committee would have to de cide yea or nay, he thought they were bound to look to the composition of this Committee with some jealousy. Mr. ABEL SMITH was in possession of no other in formation on this subject than other Hon. Members. He supposed that the Government would take the same view of the subject in the Committee which they had taken pre viously to its appointment, in which case their views would be in opposition to his own. Mr. FINCH was glad this question had been raised. He thought that the manner in which this Committee was proposed to be appointed was objectionable; considering the circumstances of the nearly equal division of parties in that House he thought that in questions of this sort bath sides of the House ought to be fairly represented . He thought also it was a wrong course of pro ceeding to place the same Member on three important Committees at the same time. The Hon, Mem ber for Tamworth had said very fairly, that it was impos sible for him to consent to be appointed on this Committee, because he had most important duties to perform on other Committees. And he would ask the Hon. Member for Chichester, who was already a member of the Bank Com- ' mittee, and of the Committee for the Impro vement of the City of London, whether he thought it right that he should also be a Member of this Committee? Sir HENRY HARDINGE thought the Committee as at present composed bore on the face of it great par tiality. He thought the proper course would be that . , the appointment of the Committee should be p ost p oned until to-morrow. Mr. E. SMITH acquiesed in the suggestion, aed the appointment of the Committee was postponed till to morrow. Mr. BERRIES wished to call the attention of th e ' House to a circumstance which he thought it was neces sary it should be acquainted with. Some time since he had called for certain accounts relating to the Post-office,, which were furnished about a week ago. Those accounts were ordered to be printed ; and upon looking at the printed papers he found that the statements differed ma terially from the accounts laid on the table in the estimate with regard to the Post-office ; between the time of its being laid on the table of the House and the time of its being printed, a difference had been made of 80,0001. That was a circumstance which he thought ought ' to be explained. If anything had induced the Chancel lor of the Exchequer to make the alteration, he would no doubt lay the additional paper on the table, or withdraw the return for the purpose of amending it. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER ob served that there had been no concealment or fraud. The Post-office had made out an estimate and sent it in, but just as that estimate was actually printed the Secretary °f the Post-office stated to him, in a letter, that some mis take had been made in the calculation, and reques ted to be allowed to put in: the altered estimate. That amended estimate had been put in and p rinted. He begged further to state that no communication what ever had passed between him and the Secretary o f the Post-office on the subject, except to ascertain what was the course he (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) w i s h e d . to pursue with regard to that estimate, and that from th e time that estimate was sent to him no communication whatever had taken place. Mr. HERRIE S had not intended to make any in sinuation that any improper intercourse had taken place between the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Seer!. tary of the Post-office. Neither did he mean to say that any blame was to be imputed to the Right Hon. Gentleman, but he should not have discharged his duty if be had no called the attention of the House to the subject. SHERIFF EVANS. Lord J. RUSSELL gave notice that he would more that the order for the attendance of Mr. Sheriff Evans b e put off till the 4th of May. CORN-LAWS. Mr. HUME presented several petitions against the Corn-laws. Mr. PATTISON presented five from the city of 14° 13- don against the Corn-laws. ADJOURNED DEBATE. On the Order of the Day for resuming the debate ea the Corn-laws being read, Mi. WODE HOUSE rose and said he had never de fended the Corn-laws, nor would he ever advocate th em on any other ground than that stated by Mr. Huskisa ° l 4 that the Corn-laws involved such immense interests In this country, and were so closely con n e c t e d with the well-being and comfort of all classes, and m te ; over so surrounded with peculiar difficulties, thaa they must be governed by considerations connecter with ourselves, and only secondarily by ou r relati on : 1 with foreign countries. The present Corn-law had exi st ed twelve years, and during that time wheat had be i dt 3 e on an average fifty-seven shillings a quarter , fro m`l nine millions of quarters had been imported e uty foreign countries, and during the whole period th , s u rris had not been over five shillings, surely then the L'e I law could not have been productive of so much e•vo- At that time the King of Prussia openly .and u nceall o f cally declared that he should take that opportuniti by taking the duties off corn, and he would bo gold what what this country did, and he would impos e - we r ti duties he pleased.—( Hear, h ea r.) That was the ans o. of the King of Prussia, and might not his example be o n- I t obco r hufu i e gtat s nhht , geot u ecte p doov o ueb n nrweyt w ri aty l e t in, o tiwil m n ieetrh w xt mightiaelremes; e, interest in ne not dependent th,e‘n l y country.tothf c o r ]ended cTohrii? lowed by the Governors or Governments of other T hat • ially inte t r i e n s ti t sit respect ttowoagntryie.ufilvtoureyewaraesTe-oer la a b e c, e r n a o ti t e n ex w e ' principleav rage p now r odu c i e n did op tioil- He was connected with a numerous body of m en e „rn aesedon e t w o e f n t g y r e b a u t sb e e x t o were now dispersed throughout every part of tu, a ot pire, under circumstances of peculiar distress--he aut the hand-loom weavers. I n a publication lately bo r ed forth he saw it asserted that laws cou ld on injustice an d part i a li ty as t h e C orn -laws we re never be of lo n g continuance.—(" Hear," from the Hume,) N ow th e question which he unde rstood House to be discussing was whether or not these 01;10., were based on injustice and partiality.-- t ar pu t hear.) These opinions had been from ycar to gar by Lord Fitawilliam, but had been most sn of fully met. In the third Report upon the conclitLeec.'nf the hs rid-loom weavers, Mr. Mitchell stated that the ell in t _ sa introduction of foreign corn would be that priceseciu" Government could be justified in inflicting so m ucb e. and with respect to a free trade in corn, ho obsery d. on the speculation of producing a certain degrec_ct, :S oy The difficulties of carrying into effect the r ° the intro. Amendment Act had been very great, but -y r _ wo re duction of foreign corn, a large body of laboureids _s e er thrown out of employment these difficulties -woe ° . a c `_., s be overcome. In a year in which a great failure s:epr__','.rd,, should occur, the usual supply of corn would be er _li t ` as the Governments of other countries would not per a a dee'? under such circumstances to be exported. He forth, Viet debt of gratitude to Mr. Mitchell for haying put . 8 , 1 Report. In his part of the country, likewise, 'gut had their itinerant orators, as well as in other parts, as 'the was happy happy to say they had signally failed; and ; let the' ll vernment was fond of agitation on this subject, agitatewith with their united, or their disunited Cahinet, ea their 200 gentlemen to assist them, and he thanked 1-1 th h yen that among his constituents, who were subject to er a sa t t re me distress and poverty t h emse lves, their -Ts beit . would be received i n th e same manner a s t f lecturers had been. H e wou ld no w call the att,..ntio.nsbeod the House to the Report of Mr. Chapman, and he w' !' 'X"!Mj'9~6..~.~.