The Express.
London, England, 1849-04-13 00:00:00

EAST INDIA-HOUSE.

mast place 6,000 ad.litional liberal meesters ow the re-
rimer. He now told them they molt place 6,000 wore.
(Hear, hear.) The amount of iratharimm which they
got up at melt eniestings se the pneeet must not be the test
of their sincerity ; bat each iadvidael should endeavour to
show hie eamestaeoi im the Ganes by silently working day by
day ie the Mop or in the street. One veto, it should be re-
melabercd, ma worth a thousiutd Moms. (Cheers.) And it
wee only by wilful organisation and watchful attention to
their interests tbat they cou!d hope for • moms% to ottani
as their member • maa who truly represented their mad-
mate. (Applause.) The toast with which he had hem
entrusted referred to international arbitration. (" Hear,
hear," and applause.) What could be add apes that subject
had bees so well said by gr. Ceram that if he (Mr. 841 y)
should endeavour to addireandythingitweald he like an attempt
to " mist the lily or to the rose." (Criss of "04 on.")
He mast also mealiest at there were amay elegasat
tea-
tlemsw to follow him ; sad lie bad else la kis mind a certain
Premiums who, when gelled epos to my slam easeinknis
to ma Englishman is Paris, mid, " Thu ipmallemsa hes a
great tales( for silence." If any remarks he bad imaidid
to make were worth hearing, they would no deisla keep, sad
he might have as oppartuaity sometime soma of saying what
be had to say in his own diarist. He begged, therefore, to

preps—
" May laternstionsl arbitntios be adopted In ell our
future treaties with forein nations, and speedily supersede
the %inches lan appeal to the sword in the settlensent of
national' disputes."
The toast was received with cheers.
The CHAIRMAN—I have now great pleasure is calling
num sty ?neat Mr. Itieklethwalte to peeps* the nest tout.
(Cheese.)

J. MICKLETHWAITE, Eq., alderman, Wakefield,
said, Mr. elminsaa and patleseen. I rise to propose to you
the name of $ gentimeas whisk I ma sum you will all re-
rim with enthusiasm I beg leave to propose the health of
Mr. Bright. nramenm chemise, *hid was proloogsd for
some time.) He had heard it said that one vote was worth
a thousand rimers ; but, rill, melt geodes sheets se those
did • ma's firm Fri when he cams to Yorkshire. (Ap-

please.) He lnagid to repose—
Mr. Bright,the undaunted obis:spies of civil, religiose,
and emassersiel (readout."

JOHN BRIGHT, Esq., M.P., then roes, and was re-
setuel with a hard of applause which lasted for several
adautee. When dime had been obtained, the hos. gentle-
man spoke u follows : —lf my one now present, before en-
tering this room, felt dispirited at the pea ion of public
affairs in this country, and at the apparently slow progress
which the great principles are making—end t confess I had
no such feeling—l think the aspect of this assembly, its
numbers, its straneth, its undoubted intelligence, its seal
and resolution, and the manner in which it has received my
friend the member for the West Riding—(" hear hear,
and applause)—the manner in which it has 'mussed its ap-
probation of those great ant statesmanlike views which he
has laid before the meeting—l say all this is admitted
to dispel any want of cherrfalnees, if such might
have existed before the meeting in the mind of any
penes now present. (Cheers) But I confess that, for
myself, I am disposed to take a cheerful view of the position
of English polities at the present time. (Hear, hear.) There
we many symptoms, I think, before us, which show that we
are at least making es great • progress as our fathers did at
my former period, end greater progress, probably, t t greater
ends, then we otarselms bus witnessed dairies the few years
la which we hem been engaged in publ c life. (Hear, hear.)
There is one circumstance which strikes me se not a little
singular, and that is, that almost all the dinners, public
sere, that are given and eaten, and a great majority of the
path* meetings that are held throughout the country, are
hell asiort a different dam, for different objects, on dif-
ilfeent principles, so these that we nave been accustomed to
read and hear of in past years. (Hear, hear, and
cheers) I have bees endeavouring to look back to the
time when the last great tory dinner or banquet was gives.
(Laughter and cheers.) And I do most solemnly dukes
that I am rot able to recollect one of any political impeet-
asee, except, I think, (DIN or some, that took place jut be.
fors the tortes obtained power is the year 1841. (Hear,
hear.) That party then made • great rally for what to them
was a great object, the possession of place and the perpetus-
dos of the monopoly in core. (Hear, hear.) The other
meat constitutional and trwlitional party, the whigs, are very
much in the same position. They have held no great meetings,
no ereat banquets, for exclusively whist_ objects, I believe, for
about twelve year". (Hew, and applause.) Pot', from 1837,
they may be described as a party fretful of going along with
their heretofore supporters, and therefore losing hold of the
enefidenee of the country, and becoming small ard select,
rather then great and powerful. (Heir.) The last time we
heart of them, I believe, et a political dinner, was et
Gresuwich or Blackwell, when the cabinet suiristers mem
bid to eat large quantities of whitebait. (Hear.) A few of
them, I believe, mos that time, a few of the more anti-
quated, have dined at scam club in St. Jameesstreet, and
called themeless " The still-existing Fox Club;" but there
is no great san -cable like this. (Hear, hear.) There gra no
meat sesemblles lake there that have been held of recent
times in the Free Trade Hall in Manchester. (Cheers.)
It is not now parable, In any part of the kintadoro, to sell
together great and enthusiastic assemblies of oar country-
men, to welcome with loud applause the worn-oat principles
wad policies of the two parties by whom this country has,
until now, been governed. (Applause.) The fact Is that
there is a nee element lIROWIIII to great magnitude in all
parts of the Veiled Kingdom; that good sense
which, notwithstanding our many blunders, still does prevail
am rugthe English people, is gradually—l would say rapidly
'—wing throes* ell the debasion. which have bees practised
upon our fathers a.td upon ourselves. (Cheers.) And we
ere about to brash away from the scene, mach of that which
hem heretofore bate looked upon with reverence and with awe,
as though it was necessary to the greatnew of a east people.
(Hear, bear, and chests.) That very movement which was
only in progress to its final maws the lest time that I had
the pleasure of meeting a large assembly in this room,—that
great movement has done marvellous thine' for England
b-sides haulm down the price of ems. (Hear, hese.) It
has taught men to love and value the principle' which have
been enunciated here to night,—principles which show that
the political rulers of pest asps have either not known or
have wilfully concealed from the people principles which are
irfinitely more essential for our well bring, and for our per-
manence as • nation, than any of those bold and empty
phrases by which, in past times, they had beguiled us.
(Chien.) I look back to that seven years struggle as a
struggle far many victories in one. (II -er, hear.) 'Ti. true
we spoke of free trade and abolition of the restrictions
upon imports of corn ; but we taught the people
that there hero nations all over the earth, maces
like this nation in the eye of heaven—nations like this
nation, which might Intik^ greater progress did all the maims
of the earth understand each other, —(hrar, hear)—and wren
they ltherattal cross the shackles of prejudices which had hype
them in hostility, and which had prevented their mutual
improvement and prosperity. (Cheers.) Now, what could
he more practical, whet could he more rational, what could
be mere worthy of our serious attention, than those projects
which have been laid before us this night by me hon. friend,
your representative ? What can have come over thin country,
whet can we t ave been living under, that any 'can shall get
up and say these things are impracticable schemes. sod
merely the projects of a visionary mind? (Hear, hese.)
Why, if we bad never read those absurd histories which we
studied when we were children, and which unfortunately we
too much Relieved now we are men—if we had not looked
bark, as if it was true, upon all those effigy which have
bees told us of the wisd on of many of oar sne-stors who
wen not very wise, and the greatness of some of our
tratesmen who were not very great—if we came to
look at thus osestioss as if we could shut out
all the past —there is not a man here there is
not a 112411 in Yorkshire—there is not • man in Bag-
land, who would net say be looked upon this project as a
project which we ought to have adopted long ago—(cheers) ;
that it ought not to have bum now, in this year 1849, that
we propose rearechauut, a great disbanding of our forces,
and the abolition ot:mneeemary expenditure, that these one-
rous government taxes should have 011111= for the flit time to
be thus seriously considered by the people. (Loud chum)
I said there were symptoms abroad which prevented me
from; feeling any despondency. I came back only to you
last county election. I won't go into the question as to who
differed, and upon what they differed that has nothing at
all to do with the argument which I draw from it. (Hear,
hear.) There may lave been mistakes, more or less, on
both sides, and misunderstandings which will not occur
again. (Cheers.) But this fact cannot be concealed, end
here must be declared, that somewhere about 12,000 electors
of this riding voted in favour of principles, of opinions, set
forth by • candidate—l maintain in the face of all who may
contradict it—opinions more truly liberal than any county
candidate, I believe, in any county in Busked. (Gnat
cheering) It is perfectly idle to say that thee.
12,000 men are hereafter to be counted nothing in she emer-
gent Mon of this gnat division of the county. My friend
Mr. Cobden referred to the Hampshire election, end I
thought he spoke rather severely of these femurs who bad
been making an effort to set up for themselves. (Laughter
and applause.) I admit the truth of what. ha says as to the
great mistake they commit if they keg they an ever set
up spinet the equine, to get a roaming which 'the squires
themselves admit they eannot get. (Hear, bear.) Their
only thanes of claim anything is is man. They have
the class, which is their equal class, is social radio°, in
the towns ; end the sooner the great body of tenant farmers
of this country come alknow that their interest. are not with
the leaded proprieties, bat with the people lo the towns,
are, is fee, with ell the member, of tree trade societies—the
sooner will they accomplish anything for themselves.
(Applause.) But stall I would rather see even that terrible
andthat spasmodic action on the part of the farmers of
Hampshire, ay, or say other county or constituency, than
that d, hopeless, stagnancy in wttieh county districts' are
generally line. (Hoar, hear.) Why, is the Memo of
Commons, on last Tasedey night bat one—that was the day
44 the election—it was be that Mr. Shaw was returned
for Hampshire; and it was stated to me by many, whose
authority ayes of the BM kind in the house, that they be-
lieved Mr. Portal, the squire candidate, mead ant have •
dance—in fvet, thattharne wee scarcely anybody for him ; and
these is no doubt whatever that bat for theta:emulsion which
kos already be en alluded to, Mr. Shaw would have been
esegrawl by a large majority. As it was, he polled between
WM reil SOD votes, and the 'neonatal candidate only some-
Mang Mu 1,100. t'Chistm.) But the reformers are ring
to re eater... and they say that by mether electies they will
have a great many 'more on the register, end the the
300 yoke now against Atm will he cheated to a majority in
their geom. (Load comm.) Well, thr Hampshire 14111111T5
are lemming something a Adis they am imam, to try far a
little independence. (H.Nar, hear ) And whilst they are
registering these Lundrees of votes at a tfme, I hope
they mill pith up a little Gomm ethrer sod thy
when there does cows a stray le "gas, we shall
if Myer. it
awbuhagdiltbeewinthretarna (Hearbettteithurr") Btatthall'ak•
see of the horoefoe in your own esounl—Sheilleil--at this
=smut. A radium is ablest sa Lee Mussed for that

Yttt•rday a Cum tof Directors was held at the
lot Itftio-hraw,, when the new (limy', elected on Wed.
pace! Isar—rit.. 8:r Rohs rt Calaph.H. Bart., William
jemayk Itattwbeh . Bag . Bir James W.ir gar, Bart., Vest -
OA What& Hoary Bak.* J he Clorraaht Whiteman,
bi., a:d Bir H. sr: Wi !wit, K.L.B.—took tho oath and
dew aeais. hiej .r-broas.wl 84 Archibald 0 .B.away, K.C.8.„
ents eh I*n. Chainav , an.. Joh* Bteph. rd, Esq., Deputy.
Chaitson, to :he year ineraimg.

CORONERS' INQUEST, YESTERDAY.
A CIIILD BOIL‘T to DZATlL—llefore Mr. Bedford
setae in MO, Carty-etre en the bnuy M Joel Harris,
eyed t t-re yewv• wise at. d under the following dreadful sie-
nna:mt. s:—Th:. Oman d Heed with his parent. Is Yates*.
• as. Carws•etrem, lesewinh,en. On Wednesday
th• dli'd s mitt went to e. e of CFe upp, r yawns
wit'• a e•e+. end 6 ...Jinx Ott dose Ivo Itched she left the
ogre the • ;r •ettile the went dw eke key, Led the de-
pend attot'tor e thl t'ere left s'ettdhtet en ..kw
drip tt• ti t • mite, whisk wa• quite at of the way
d bie The servant had kw% live down "'btu she
Mad ei bet wr.e..tna end to Jog baelt end stetted the
dodo of the d in•tt, i &at s na tow ea..d ht the Land
elbewher . Tim Hen .1 re 'min tr•lard a• we as
, a+ 4 h •re tat nto the Kiat h College Ll spiel,
me Moe. d• • Me. 6 1 r, Oh, tone. tureen, ; bet he Wee
▪ iret ••Stftj t.t' w I 'e, n...t, eel that be
essay-') ..1 wh at • • Tie jury returned .1 verdict of
oNiigata! Asa h

WEST f•IDI NG BANQUET,

IN HONOUR 07
D COBDEN, ESQ. M.P

W. y- • te• y -,1•71` r• pat cf M•*. Cobden's I
meek m• 0.• IC ' ! die tr. Ws zoo T.:, or the remain-'
bap .e.t.•-
Tit .t.,s ..T4 tnpo-a " Thr -oPP.rt•ri of
W. Cris! savour e, N 0... i 1 TlPi.olUo. sad may
Dr ;a no er a he pp .piss d ht the dream-
s rime w a se.. • • 1.1 4.4.14 po
J.aurit uA1..311.1LL, Zig , toward sseos 71 ceived with
egg's .v ll^ iss klr. Minions sad geolve.v,—After the
W stot •x* si-ti eery/wee% we bemoan listen. d tes oilers
molt shoo he. w• I sot boormo um
.oil.irces you at
De
; hot, c.o.'s I mosy array, I 'Loll sot
De hash v y ray vivo of Vic boo iur y bans
sop 4 . • 3 s I. gmy a I:4* wthth • 1$ who
impel t' • 11. , e.- se eleh .high one till Wider gem-
m wed c-r. • I a., 1-1 saris (CUM..) IRA,
014111 . m .t 1 of erode tido to the he veer welonaa
obiela this Ive c a- tidily It -a vow Riven ',lts micreesutse
Wier, ht.. P. F* 31211/11 with VIII Vint I.ooly of those
team 1 see sr and In*, a a 1111 i of tt • RAW', tad ads of
that perti:a the constituency nha ws see slyly elected bias
et ti' trot - vow 11::-; bat rat% r. bastion ths
Loaner t t ho I a bkik tript In the came amembly
as hives I , I tope auw to have the pleasure of
Wend r y pot, ,aol tearimeny to the contionewo
of than h'a h sial tics e' sleepily and cosier which hare
untied him 14 Garry. alms alit him • whole people, and
effikk we have p ere* :O. 6 hall • will tonliatte t, he exerted
la bun. it :a net is e.ay, bersover, fee our in into rto
gamy w,.h lin tote Hoes. of C.:names& (lbw, hear )
Mao, ad.. ne v.einsliace, al 1 advents ihtirretvo, have to 11-
entrome •••••eire I.ree sioassnes of comosit all and financial
nitro IP% be curia thr4neb that asadobly. (Rev.) It
▪ Dam os shall ht or to ilit'•t th.• pied teed. huh by inch;
sad wi;si toe rives rem tehimt se dad ewe -manly supporting
MR mice. vet • •v, sad to h. re who we loli vc will dernd
yea the smcuri they naive ham great savtings hire bit.
(Caws.) Wa lithe rut to he owes buty In air disentiscae-
tie as WSW 111.4 y &AM IT to be Ike stow w.rk of cur political
=ads/; toe though st,w, It is aura. (Hear.) The real
affisalties Jr.. in iff.ving large and 'weeds; rtorenettroents in
eationaleatililshmer.ta We all el estuary not unbcquitatly
ef t plan for carryhur oat rattan in our two pri•
lob e'llUTel.; hot what do we do viler such eircumeateast
Ds we is, st at all bscords on effecviur, at over, the whole of
wldt We 6.1c11 to Wahl, or licit our improvement to that
Ala wt find we tan aconsplish daring the first efforts?
Wylie n. 'tier—we cut and come men—f" hear, hear," and
leirlerti—ttke is lame • slice as poirible the timt due. and
rims spin •ro the fiekb. It is true no successful efforts can
he made to carry on soy plan of financial or other refoent,
sakes we t city. by getting a tear dead the extent at which
wi cued t^ sim• as t which we hoe• reason to hope to at-
tain Toat is preenoly what the gr •it Cobden !modest has dons
farm; it has gives us•elsar and determinate view of what
hems mss ne a sad isai,ty. No doubt ty laying down and
Inarlas baton, that pablie a largo and comprehensive mas-
teries, r pled:dative !age laid himself open to army at-
tacks. 11.,,ny smell olsketions have been reads. Now I
have sir= shat I (outsider due atocrobsn to all these, and
they do t, t, say Wad, weigh for ore moment against the
rest ol jec. embodied I. his plan. (Cheers.) The question
Wight Wore tia la simply, is the heavy tax laid upon ts a
Meat National aril or ant ? (Rear.) Next, to there any
arrest nett vity, for the perposes of nationsl def-nee,
to
maintaiti the rust expenditure of our naval and military Ner-
vier. ? rest investigations before puliamcntsry con.ntl-
tem have thrown. great light upon the qihation, and, to my
miael, have ooschisivaly shown that there is mom (or an ex-
trr sive T041;0.60n in its topcoats. Neither ought we to eon-
eider this question of finaudd reform merely a rands,
shit nip, end pence question. It is most intimately,
though perhaps indireetly, connected with our beat
lllter•Sts. and cheers) fitsarity from fast
attack is • great thief, but national wealth and pro
Well is gradual. We may have worse evils still than the
issados eta foreign enemy. What does hbtory show ran
this point ? We vas scarcely find au instance of any
and prosperous osoununity that has been Tidied by
invasion ; and, bola the Roman empire downwards, we Ind
instances without number of groat and prosperous commu-
ting that have been ruined. eenvet'sed, and revolutiouised,
by the pressure of excessive hordes, of taxation. (Cheers.)
fling therefore come with a clear conviction in my own
Ilad that our honourable member bits seized upon a great
mild truth. I tear not for the small mistakes he has
In* hi it ; a man who has the energy and the seal which
h man who is capable of leadieg as the people
lergrt b a
uds of troth—may well Wind to make tome
nee Mail in detail. I have always been • zealous sup-
e—(hrrar, bear)—of the- great practical truth., and as
Mai trued to go on to the sad. (Load cheers.)
DOLLY, EN., of Sheffield, said he had been on.
toad wi.h a tour; but he hat that the honour which had
has thole hint was sot in any degree merited by him-
wit Its rather took lies en acknowledgment of the services
tithe liberal ranee, is all the mutest* fir the West Riling,
elder had been rendered by the electors of the district of
ffidield. (" Hear, hear," and chows.) Ha most say, with
am degree of pride, that they did exert themselves to the
Monet at the hut contest, and they unhesitatingly declared
firm at•achment to the present member, Mr. Cobden,
noon trey fe:t tnat if they did not make a determined
lad upon that occs.ios, they would have had no change
•w_lleterair.g him at • future time. Some of the letters
hiliffittkey had beard read, he thought, must be tolerable
lalwag to them. (Hear, hear.) Their illustrious member
ha enured to a variety of " Utopian " ideas, whit*, it wee
Mihe entertained ; but he would ask, where senhi the
Limit/ of Yorkshire sine year. ago We ffineil
aft Otoptas ices—an; thing more extraytgant—then
lIIIMLIC•that their prevent hon member should mg 1111.
&at the in'ereits sf the West Riding in parlienmett
llinifthem9 Some gentlemen even west the lesgth et
Meg that n wee Utopias to Hippos@ they could over rend,
Vitt.
Utcpia RandVoice—" Not at all.") He did sot think it
h e was sure the majority of the people
Murat did not think so either. (Cheer.) Bet if tba
wise tt raters him again. it mat be by foilw
• Coign's) trivial. When he ems .thoh‘feet
la a !man egg a, he told Ibura that they

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 13, 1849.

borough—(ionatese cheering)—of linear ability, who, as say, that, allowing for that diluter°, which mat always
a smother of pa/Mount. and in other capacities, has ten- east between certain individuals and paramaphs, and
dewed great suedes to the liberal eauss for many years pat— ardelos which
(bear, kalzosgeamtrsissaarawidealhoseqvuirrenimiare;tiohligrawbillr well in appear in all newspept ra from
time
rinUsutne,thiakiagis, it hasthenisarlalifeetorr ha that
tdesir*larlialto.oifmainm.
turned for Sheasid, I take it, without opposition. (Cheers.) tale thine great principles whisk Lancashire4na and Yorkshire
Why ? 'Beaus everybody in Sheffield, those few whips have unitedly done so much to support in the politics of this
who vety properly support him, and those toga who do not country. (Applause.) I amid recommend to say, man
oppose him, kiwi, perfectly well that the great bulk 4/ the has who takes a daily paper, to take the Daily News. I
trepidation of Sheffield are at least to go tar, would recommend you in all your towns to increase its dr-
eads
are olved that their membersparheanad es o
as far as Mr. Ligation. to give it all the halo you can by means of such
Roebuck professes to go. (Cheers.) Now these us all adarthemsats "soya may find It iveseisry to invert in •
symptoms to me that we are not in • state of stagnation, and manias apes You must not mind what other people and
that there Lao canes to despond ; and things shall be a great other parrs may say. Your cause is your own, ad you must
deal worse than they are before I give up hops (Chan) support it. or will never triumph. (Applause.) I have on
If we go into the homes of parliament, there is sot a very former otensions spoken of the condition of Lancashire and
cheering prospect there. I laelaStinkeiS walk to the bar of the Yorkshire, melba stand connected with the politics of this
Hosea of lords; it is a many that one is not permitted to kingdom ; and lam delighted to he here to-night, for Italy
go any farther. (Laughter and cheers.) There is no liberal affords saoltsr opportunity of esssonting that good feeling
party in that house at all now. In times ppast then were men which must, and, to a tans *tout, Aosta, be held between
who nada fair defence for the rights Hike rale. Thoth the two canna (Hear, hoar.) These two counties, in
is ass man there still wise la now on one 14, and now en population, still woe in lodualty, mod in wealth sad
another; on who wail once too much honoured In being par- intelligence. and in power, are a king thins
nutted to represent this county. (" Hear, hear," ad chars.) selves. They hays mare responsibility than say ether
Bat the Haas of Lords does not appose to have an idea counties in the country. Oar ts see saga
beyond that which it bad yam and yssrs ago. (Haar.) alike, oar industry sympathissesatuerrte4fory. kshiremingend
It repealed the oora laws only an compulsion ; and it no Lancashire men possess generally speaking the ems wadi.
Islas to manta* its character, that it will not repeal any ties which lad to samen, whether ft be is runnier In
bad law, or soma any good law, except on the prams of the pursuit of public questions. (Hear, hoar.) We us. It
some nut vary creditable motive. (Hoar, hear.) la the is true—no, we were—divided by a mugs of kilk. whilithe
Hams of Commons they are not quite so sheaciass. The industry and skill of your countrymen have cut 1
actin, sine their rally in 1841, have never barn able to ally (" Ruh. hew," and applause.) We are united news al
alai*. In ran, they made so great an effect, that they have bops we never shall be Nbseveted. (Chows.) Lat sis Y'
ever-reached their mark, and from that time to this Mailman, with our sasociatiou, with our to-beim/an&
they have been in a state of gradual or total disioca- powerful association, de our utmost ; do your *MA
don. (Cheers.) Thus is • party calling than- in Yorkshire, with your association ; and if yen onseljnat
selves the protectionist party, numbering 180 cc 190 a parliamentary reform yet, by which men in vastly grata
at a strong division, and led by a gentleman of no small numbers will be placed upon the register, let us avail our. '
ability—of singular reposity, in some particulars; but I selves of that great instrument, 'he 40s. freehold, by whOb
don't think very meat capacity as a parliamentary leader or we can work out our own political redemption. (Cheers.)
• statesman. The country gentlemen—what a hopeless cos- And u. these two counties much slag together in the
dition they are brought to! All the men of their own clan carom of freedom—u they show all lords and gentlemen
who are mu of power and intellect have abaudomid those. who will not go with the people, tor load the people as they
They are not able to find from their own reeks a man whom might do, that the people will march along by themselves—
they can even put forward with the pretence of nuking him (applause)—and as cowl be the virtue, the comhios
• leader ; and they are led at the present moment by a gone don, the force, the inoelligeuese, the ancares of tree
Masa who one can scarcely thinkt bun many sympathies In two counties stab-ea, so do you !ad throe qualities dove-
common with them; and I am quite sure, as les looks loped in all other °onetime in the kingoom; and in • few
back to his left, over those forces who so loudly years In eau, when we can our oyes bask over the pot, we
sheer him, In must wish from his soul many atlas that they will sea that the years whisk we has lived latest have been
had something else in them beyond the power to make a those wherein we have exercised the greaten of malolievirtue,
noise. (Hoar, and cheers.) But pass across the table and and where our exertion* have boa attended with the
you come to the whig government. Now, I don't like to gre test of public beneficial insult.
speak disrespectfully of the whip government. Inetividmilly, The hoe. ratlonan resumed his seat amidst the enthimi-
there are admirable men in that government, but collectively, wok plaudits of the audience.
I say here what I have said there, that a great feebleness Mr. FaRBES, of Bradford, proposed the next toast. Hs
mark, their polity. (Hear, hear.) They have too much said, Mr. Chairman, and gentle/am, I observe that there aro
coneciencs to take the policy fairly and broadly of their old a number of eloquent speakers to follow me to sight, and I
opponents, the toga; their sympathies are much more In feel, therefore, that it would he emu impertinent on my
the direction in which we go, but they have not the part —a resident of the West Riding—to detain this assembly
courage to graph, with the circumstanees—(cheers)—and one moment. Moreover, Mr. Bright has so fully elucidated
with the hostile forces that stand opposite them, and the the sentiments of the present assembly on the subject
not very cordial support which they meet with from of the toast which bas been entrusted to me, that I shall
the country, it seam to me net likely that they will simply read the sentiment and cone:ode. Did I suppose
be able to maintain their present condition long ; for a moment that the sentiment would to the slightest
but certainly they will not be able to carry out degree suffer from a course of that kind, I should endeavour
that policy which the majority of tho people of this to offer a few remarks; but, inasmuch as it is well known
country are so anxiously I oohing for. (Hai, hear, and that for elms years I have on every becoming occasion
applause.) The government, in fact, if at a deed-lama. strongly advocated an extension of the suffrage—(hrar,
Oar consitatioa has been boasted of to the skies, and ell the hear); no parties win suppose I am attempting to blink
world has been celled to look at it as the most admired* the question. (lieu, hear.) I believe that if the opinion
thing which human wisdom ever contrived. Our castita- of this asionthly was taken (for, of course, the sentiment
lion now is exhibited to the woold as a machine does not enter into detail as to the extent to which the re-
that has trim much praised i bat alder all, the presentatith 'coca mitht be enlarged), there would not be
tints comes when it will not work. (Hear, hear) one man w:.o did not believe that some extension was highly
Now, look for • moment to the condition of this deeirabl t, and ou nit to be conceded. (Applause.) Again
country. Take England alone first. Look at its pleat and anis I heel heard it stated that oho revolutions which
pauperism, ins periodical great discontent, its perfrolieol counter-1 France and the continent in the course of tho past
partial insurrectionary movement, arising partly out of tis year clearly prove that we ought not to extend the suffrage
sufferings of the people, and partly out of the h clings of of this country. Now, from these very circumstances, I
the people that they are shut out from their 1: gitimste plum myself argue in a very opposite manner ; and I believe the
in the coonitution of our country. (Cheers.) 0) across the stability o: all our valued institutions at the very time of the
channel • and look at Ireland. You will see there thot ooavalsions on the continent proves that our mew are en.
under this boasted constitution you have a state of things an titled to an i onneion of the suffrage; end it would be well
fri_htful that anarchy in its wildest moods, anarchy wholly for those p.m, ii who oppose it not rashly and improperly
uncootroldd by reason or by continence, has never offered a further to o ob, what is so-on olio and j tar, bearing in mind
more hopeless and frightful picture to the girl of an w` at has • .ken Wee., on the continent ot Europe. The sea.
astonished world. (H .ar ) More soldiers than td-store in • timeot committed to myself is:
country governed upon constitutional principles ! (Shame) "hay the basis of the r. presentative system be enlarged,
A vast church establishment in a country where there are and the national institutions thereby rndered more stable,
few belonging to the church! (Hisses.) Ahillef every par- and s it more worthy the universal attachment of the
lion of the local taxation of the counts, matoged by an ono- pe mho."
spoceible party, entirely without the etectoral or represents. The CHAIRMAN gave the health of
ties cyst :a ! (Hear, hear.) Almost ne taxes chat ged up re Cd. '7HO dPS3M, to which the :folioed colo-el replied In
that country, and yet landlerds awl people spotty demure- a h ief epeeeh In which he urged noon the auditory the do.
lised and peuperited ; and, in fact, onsthird of the United sirahleoest at i &ciao a noire am moot all classes of sociem,
Kingdom lying prostrate, appealiog to the industry of this :or the ou Omni m advancing the no swore, whiith Awl, he's
Wend f,r the very means whoeby its population must live. rivommen lel to them by the hon. ranutor for the \Vat
(Heir, bear, and applause.) But don't stay at Ireland. G . WOO-.
to India, a country with 100 million inhobitaots under the ROBERT CARBUTT, Em., or Lc 4, then gave the next
rule of this country; with a perpetoal series of most b'e'efy, gentian% He • ill ear man who Is list.. eit t a such 'peak
and many of them moot unnecessary and unjust, Wars— inr as bee h d healed that evening e old so far colleen his
(blew, hear, and app autos) —a country loon woich that youths are ommonet his feeling. as to venture to address
11% during the last fifteen years, has tthim mar us sloth ten at any l•nspli upon the subject which was sub.
=fir millions' sterling of taxes ; and Its not returned sailed ro h min the scotins rat he wee shoot •ei pr pop ; but
more than 1 i millions of hat enormous rim in any of three 'thonsuch 33 it 'oar seem ly been eh del to during tun even-
improvements which are necessary to the prooperiM of India int, rs,vt!Nifon wffr.li witch hod Amyx.' from the g idiot
—such as roads or adrosda, or canon, or tanks, or bridle., colonel, he (Mr Carlon.) "gigot veronre to address to them
essay of those other wakes without which the prosperity of s few restarlia, which hotfooted woultt be attentively listened
India cant advance. (Cheers.) And of your atonic, to. Toe ....wont with which he we, en-ratio woe 0er0u0,,,, :
also, you have host& I hors In my I.oiiket • latirdoo " The to of r oval of the oovi 'anon lows,—the last
newspaper, making precisely thaw complents to which Mr rem mot - f the auttgaated and vicioug system of roc
Cobden9ll.l44. A pshlio "owing hod neon coned to rotesit is goty and oroterion." This ere. a ecottment to which
again.t their ^teat expeoditoro and peer.ia parliament to he most h sto:ty responeloo, a oeniirneot which he had
give them each a repo. eittedivo matelot of government as we I entercinel for many years For. having lived abroad,
boa already given to Conga, hut which we only gave to sod having witnessed the iniu limn coo.equocos to our
Canada after Canada had rebelled. (Chien.) Well, now, own commerce ;from the f.i.o -yomr. ii legolation upon
air, whet is the remedy for all this state of things? Wative thet p i to he 11.4 lono an) c into to 'he c onclusion that
is it thatowe all any hinter now than we were twenty-flvo co it would be for the hsnefl of •hi i coontry to repeal the
thirty year+ ago? Was it because the House of Lords took nonganon tans. Hs would just venture t' siva them a sight
the forctnat lad in reform of any kind ? Is it **mole of a system of navigation Lio a fibi,k existed iu the
that great party, that territorial party, which ger in which ho had reside I, as oe:y Homburg. That city
rola tho Commons, that led on in toe WO. kW4II Sitn.iff.l on the north aids of the LI or, end oppoita on
of political improvement ? No ; but every change that it are the domains of the worthy rid., .ot our royal family,
ria kave bad from the tine when the disentors were Land the Kiogs in llar.orcr. Just opp oit • to the town was situ-
by tests sad oaths he'ore they could thee office under steel the ton of Harbour,. Tree riv r era there cxceedisgly
a mgronament or municipality—going through all these wi .e, and was intermsted by numeroom islands, but during
*saga catholic t monnation, the Reform Bill, the time of the occur tenon ol liemhuig by the French. they
municipal reform, the abolition of slavery, all those found it to their interim to build • woolen bridge to faciii-
rat • changes which took place of recent years in tests the communication. It was found tq bar of immense
*a tariff, down to 'he abolition of the corn law—l Rialto re ' Bat after the rederegretion of all the guilds
ask you whether them is one of these greet changes which is and eerrations in their 'inutile privileges, it wee found
owing to these great and ancient panes in your bowel of soon to be an armies thing to keep up this bridge,
legislation-ow are they not all owing to the resolution, tie end vary much to the advantage ot the guild and cur-
griming intelligence, the combination and tho energy poration ot watermen to have it destroyed; and • system
of the great middle and industrial classes of this of navigation lace was estatilished, of which ho would give
country ? (Cheers.) They call us destructive, if we ask the audirnec a specimen. Tho Ha inburgeie were at liheny
that your one million of electors should be lucre's dto on entity their own anode over to klubouto ; but the Has
throe or fur or five millions. They call us desuctive, home/ions sold, o You shan't take any of our goods bark
when we ink hot theall aeries a rip/pies which par- again ; that in our right end privil •ee." So they canes
liament already has "auctioned with resoctit to other mea- heck smeary ; the Harhounrieme brought over their goods
arr. (Hear, hear.) -But I say there i. anthem a destrac- to Hamburg, and in return were sent away without • '
ties in the present position ot ths people of this country, na return cargo. (Hear, beer.) That was • sort of exempli
the determination on the part of the powerful and the ligation on a email seals of the operation of these navig Mon
smaller eases to withhold from the people thos3 ironical laws ; and if any man relent seas "eked whether each •
rights to which they are so justly entitled—(cloors)—and system could be at all advantageous, either to one party or
which they 11l loudly demand. (Renewed cheers.) The the other, be would decidedly saner " N a." So far was this
Property of the rich and powerful can only be sus- synths carried, that when steam-boots came ta be in us •
hind permanently upon the same great principles they brought an old tub of a storm boat, which sailed at
that will sustain the property and the industry of the rate of four miles an hour, between Hamburg and liar-
toe great mass of the people. Let us have iridustry free, bourg, and for several years they would only allow it
. xpenditure as light as possible, taxes IS light as poseihle and to carry passengers, and not a single bit of goods was
as egnel as possible—let no man have it to say that govern- allowed to be conveyed. The course of events, however.
sent is a maehine to tax and to oppress, and not a machine broutht the people to themselves they found they could
to protect and to conserve—and then let a man's estate be not keep the carrying trade in that direction union they
over half a county, or let it be in a cottage merely, or in the gave up their mutual jealousies; and many years ago they
isdustry of his right hand, and all property is most secure had returned to a more liberal and better system of carrying
and equally secure is any civilised and governed country in on their trade. (•' Hear, hear," and applause.) This would
the world. (Chars) Now, how is it we are to bring to exemplify what** aviation laws were to us. In their
bear upon our government that ma' public opinion which origin, the navigation laws were no better than this: In the
I believe to exist, and to be daily and hourly incase year 16.51, it was exacted that no goods the produce of Asia,
ing ? Surely toy that union and combination and co ope- Africa, or America, should be brought to us in any bottoms
ration by which in put years so much has been already but English vessels. We repeated something like the Ham-
gained. (.. Hear," and cheers.) We hare established, as berg and Herboung quarrel; ocly we said they might come
you know, probably, in Manchester an auction* whose in hers and take away our goods, but that they must bring
mediate object is to stimulate, not in Lancashire only, hot their own ; just the reverse of the other case, that no nation
is all parrs of the kingdom, a due attention to the capita- whatever should bring their goods to Borland but in English
cation both in counties and boroughs. (Hear, hear.) We vends only. However, after the in epondence et the
wish to take every man who has a liberal sentiment. and tined Statas of America, we acknowledged that it names"
who wishes it to be spoken in the House of Commons and eery to give to the American the right of bringing rods
to have it embodied in your statutes, and the only mode by from their own country to this. However, ths Americans
which to effect this is by placing his name upon the thinking a system of navigation laws might be usafut to
register, sad to add to that name other names them, established them; on the same principle as our own.
in long and every day incasing muster, who hold similar No *age took plum till towards the year 1818, when the
sentiments as himself. And wo believe that now the time circumstances of the win gave as a monopoly of the carrying
has c .me when there is opinion enough and resolution trade, and it woo never found to be practicable to endeavour
oimugh; that with a little otganisetion in Laneashirs and to fora us to abandon that scheme. However, it was found
Yorkshire we may complete is them counties that great necessary to come to toms understanding, and it would be
work ; and radiating trom them soanties, there may go to seen that we bad gradually given way to the force of ants-
the furthest corners of the United Kingdom a spirit and a stances, and so far from obtaisiog our rational navigation
determination, and en organisation also, by which all these laws, we had gradually ceded to one nation alter another.
great opinions may be brought to set in concert, and whoa it (Chests.)
mica does so act, there is no power in either house of pulls The CHAIRMAN said the next toast was one which he
nice—no power in the traditicesal reverence for these great ;armed with groat plensurs—araely, " The West Riding
parties—that an prevent the honest and fair fulfil. electors resident In Lancashire." (Applause.)
sent of the national sentiment. (Hers the hon. gen- WILLIAM BROWN, Esq., it.P. for Sotth Lancashire,
tleman's observadoss wen lost amidst loud applause.)»tuna thanks on behalf of the West Riding electors lai-
r may be allowed to say here also that there is one great dent in Lunashire ; but the hon. gentleman war almost
agency which we ought never to forget to support, and entirely inaudible to our reporter.
that is, that portion of the public press by which these FREDERICK SCHWANN, Esq., of Huddersfield, one
great principles are fairly and honestly defended. I need of the vim-presidents, begged to propose the health of Alex-
sot point out to you the newspapers in Yorkshire or in ceder Henry, Esq., one of the members ibr South Luca-
Laiteashire which defend and support these principles ; shire. (The sprat was drunk with three chars)
you know them well, and you appal them well. (HILT, ALEXANDER HENRY, Esq., in acknowledging the
hear.) With respect to the London prers there is ono paper toast, said—l am much *bilged for the honour you have dons
which, to my mind, has at this =sea a peculiar claim me in inviting me to be present on this interesting occasion,
epos the nrepathy and support et the great mom of than when you an mat to do booms to the man whom we all
who are in Maar of peace, sad retrenabassot, and walls wish to honour, and whom am love for the great political
tauter. Worst. The Laden mossagjournake, the now, principles which he bolds an and for Om good which he has
nu Claroreicho the Herald, the Morruni Post, are not the already effected, In thanking you for too levitation, I can
papas that support your opinions. (Hear, boar.) Whoa only say that I cameleer commerce sad manufactures as the
your opinions are in the saosndant ; when parliament is greatest preservers of pesos amongst nations. I em, unto)-
.bout to enact the laws that you mak • when &groat minister tunately, not known to many of the grades's present ; but,
eons% down and throws away his party for the sake of hi. perhaps, I may be permitted to say that it is as much u
cry, rhea a powerful newspaper will COM to your assistance, forty-five years ago since I first sat foot is Yorkshire. Since
when you lack not its aid. (Hoar, hens) Bat when we that time, I have been burl; engaged in exporting the
find a paper in earnest, se we do for ono in the Morning otanufectures of this distzict of Rue country to foreign lands,
Advertiser (which has a large and Influential metropolitan and I hope I have, in soma degree, coot! bested to the cons
eiroslatios), and especially in the Daily News—(cheers)— menial prosperity and the productive industry of the West
we find their honestsupport to the pcneipla sad the Riding of Yorkshire. (Caws.) With regard to the ex.
opinions which we advocate. (Applause.) You have heard tension of commerce, I may remark that I believe the
that the Dail, New has lately changed hands. That is manufacturing interests of this country to be compare-
not entirely the truth ; bat it is not a matter that I am Cooly in their infancy, and that its future prosperity dap-ndo
**How to conceal that' aortae penes is the north of upon the continued nunistry and ingenuity of its population
Zaigad—and in various parts of Hogrand, for it is by no enabling them to meet that competition of .oreign nations,'
Means Ossinn to the north—bate beams, in sons degree which must nscesearily grow up, In the course ot time, front
Interested in the prosperity sad prospects of that jasper. the changes which are inevitably taking plum. The mann-
(Hear, hear.) And iaterosted with no pecuniary aim; but restorer should protect himself by his akin, his industry, his
interested entirely with a view to great public pgneiples aad in/tenuity ;by adapting Heal( to lb. was of foreign coun•
publie °lied,. (Applause.) I say nothing of the ants tries; and by taking from eariagaufaturer his rupee-
carnet of that or say other pare • I speak of it sines that live productions. I .tonld also have the farmer protected;
poloist change took plain, which may be dated from the and protection to him is a reduction of rent—that mast bo
opining athb NNW of parliament, and I am bouad to his protection. I woad have. too, the labdlord protected

and he must be protected by a reduction of taxation, by a
reduction of naval expenditure. (Hear, hear.) II these
things were done se thty ought to be done, I am persuaded
we should have happiner and prosperity throughout the
• gantry. Respectfully thanking you far the kindness of
your invltatios, I heg most cordially to bid ye u good night.
Mr. COBDEN then rose and said—Oentianen, I have
now a toast to propose, and I beg you will BB your glues.
We have a duty to perform to ours +lose and our worthy
chairman before we leave this hall. Chairmen, gentlemen,
like poets, are not made • they must be born chairman.
There are certain qaalitid necessary for a good chairman,
which tan only be rein by nature. There must be as end-
e+ fivw of saimal spirits,. an unfailing suavity of manner,
and a handsome pretence an the chair. All these good qua-
lities we have had the pleasure of witnessing to-night,
and I have also experienced a like satisfaction on former oc-
casions, and I therefore beg to propose the thanks of the com-
pany to one worthy chairman for the admirable manner in
which he has discharged his duties ; long life and happiness
to him, and may we again often meet, and again have hies as
our chair an. _ _ _ _ _ _

The toast having bees drunk with honour, Mr.OOODMAN
thanked the amiably for the honour conferred upon him.
The last Meet of the evening the chairman announced
was " The ,iee•cbairman and stewards." The tom% having
be. n drank_

E. BAINAB, Beg., of Leeds, in responding, said : On
babel( of the chairmen and steward., I beg to offer my
cordial thanks; and at this hour I will not do you an act of
injustice in detaining you by a speech. I have heard with
mush pleasure a very important pledge which Mr. Cobden
has recorded in this presence that he will bring on, year after
year, this all-Important question of arbitration and peace,
and a rodustion of armaarenta. And we—l speak peteonally
for myself and for the vice-chairmen and stewards, and I be.
Hove I may say fee the West Riding,—will pledge ourselves
ro him that as long as he does 6o we will support him.
(Cheer.)
Mr. GOLLY here proposed the health of John Brooks,
Eq., of Manchester, and, a round of sheers having been
given for Mr. Cobden, the proceedings terminated shortly
before eleven o'clock.

ported before. Indeed, previous to the sr plini ion of steam to
naval purposes, Sir R. Peel's tariff wouhl have been a nonen-
tity, but they were now imported from Hamburg at a abeam
rate than they could be imported from the interior of Ireland,
and the ruin of that portion of the empire had been com-
pleted by the recent measures of free trade. (Cheers.) The
tandem of this country had been saddled with many taxes,
and they had quietly borne them all. But the time had
arrived when a period must be put to this increase of tax-
ation. The farmers ef England het been compared to the :
camel, who would bear any weight upon its back, until it
broke. He thought, however' that a fitter illustration would .
be the elephant—a noble animal, which would bear any .
weight that was fair. Bat the elephant, when he thought
he was too much oppressed, would turn, and rend the hand o•
that fed him, and the man that should have guided him.
(Cheers.) But the present measures of so-called free trade,
were not free trade at all, tenet as far as agricultural produce ,
was concerned. Malt could not be imported into Eogland,,
because there was a revenue derived from the home-grown; .
and tobacco could not be grown here, because of the revenue
derived from foreign tobacco. (Rear, hear.) It was said
that they had not had any experience of free trade. They
had not bad a very long experience it was true ; but what
they had experienced had been very bitter. It was also
alleged that there had been a free trade in cattle for some
time, and that it had not affected the price. He admitted
that the pine of cattle did not fall immediately that the
tariff allowed foreign cattle to be imported ; but the reasons
for that were palpable. In the firm place, the foreigner was
unprepared for the admission of his cattle into this country,
and they were not in a fit condition for the English market;
bat the moment he found that be would he sure to touch our
gold, be would bring his cattle into the beet possible
condition. Foreign stock would then be largely imported
Imported into this country, and the stock farmers would be
more injured than ever. (Hear, bear.) Another reason
why the price bad not immediately fallen was that the foreign
beasts that had been imported into England had introduced
with them a foreign disease—(cheers)—aad a meat fatal
disease it was, which had at least decimated the farmers'
stock They need not wonder, then, that the 1410 bad not
fallen, for the farmer had only nine tenths of his stock to
tend to market, and a great portion of those were diseased.
(Hear) He would just allude to one other subject, showing ..
tho effectsof free trade on a branch of cultivation ire which
he and a Rood many of his neighbours were concerned. He
grew often to a great extent., mid hal been acne-
touted regularly to spend 31. 10.. en pie in the
year upon them in manual labour alone. Immediately
upon the tariff passing, the Sieve; peeple, who grew
those things f, r next to n ehing, sent in such quantities that
the trade was altogether upeet, end had never recovered.
He now did not spend le. en are upon them, and did not
even cut them. (Cheers.) Undoubtedly that was a great
loss to him ; but it was a great loss also to the perish upon
which the poor people, who were thus thrown out of employe
meet, were obliged to fall back. (liver, bear.) The reso-
lution atm stated that they wished to repudiate the idea that
any practical reduction of taxation could be regarded as an
equivalent f 4 protectian ; still, shot in order to mitigate the
evil as far as mosible, they felt it ineembent upon them to
impress upon parliiintut the necessity for the im-
mediate revision of all geuer2l and local taxa-
tion which pressed with unequal Foe fit upon the land.
He Lad noticed Jett the ministoy,theigh they 'puke of cheap
things being geed, and of cheap times benefiting the people,
forgot that cheap tim'a should etteOlte them to live a little
ch. seer than they had been in the habit of doing. He per-
ceived that Mr. Ward, the memloe f r Sh'ilield, hal ob-
tained the appointment of Chief C .miefiei eller of the lonian
Islands, and that Mr. Tamil, an old whipper-in of the whip,
had limeade' to the Admiralty ; but be did not perceive
that either of them bed connated to the office with a salary
one farthing less now that provisions were cheep than when
they were much demote (Hear, hear.) For his part, be
believed that the old-fashioned rules of our forefathers were
in many instance the best ; lied, though he &Omitted that
the farmer should profit by new inventious and ine-
pre-elements, he did not believe tkat newfangled schemes
such as free trade could either promote the interests of the
farmer, or he !minded as in gee rite ce with principles ef
justice and fairness. He was of opir 1 c that there was no
easier way of raising a revenue thus 'or imposing taxation
upon all (union articles whatever, and by taxing as little as
o• genie the productions of Remise t. He eared not whether
it were the productions of the soil, or anythh,e else ; but
let them tax England as little SP mositele, and the foreigner
as mush as might he necessary. (Cheers. t With these views
he begged to submit the resoluti AI fir their adoption.
(Cheerio)
Mr. WELSH, of Southall, in twendine the etiolation. said
• h- t distress Oid ex or —them +here we• a very severe strain on
One sericulture' letereet was admiteel by all. lie was sure
that they were ell unanimous on this point. With the eve-
rages of wheat tor the six weeks t ndino 2 tth March last at
4fie. Bd., barley 294. 3d., ora's 17s 21., rye 965. 6d., Titans
We. Id., peas 32s 7d.—with me ttow Lay Felling free e We to
65e nee load, ono the price of beef lower tban it hod been
for 27 year., he thought the" the emit. ern would not be
ti led with much money —certainly with not mu I of en aria-
•oerstie kind. t Hear, hear) Ihe Chancellor ef tie Exthe-
ere r, in a late memereble spce'h—m. amiable to its
sllacies—admittee that eseiru •-: rat oi-dress d d cake,
but be thought •hat it was t ortined to the eenthera conries.
Mr. Sidney He thert aloo admitted the deep es, but attri•
huted it to the badness of the nun., sayine that the Conners
had no corn to sell. Mr. Carley dented that the die: f(Si was
limited to the south, but asserted that the north was also in
the same conditi en. We have only to take up some of the
local papers to see how things were nine on. A wee-
country farmer, w icing to the Cornwall Gazette,
said, ' Wheat are we to do ? How are we to
•ive, and pay rent, labour. eased rates ? Improve-
ments iu rut oration are out of the question. Must
wo sell up it tone, and emigrate ? " (iieer, heir ) The
mellowing also eppeerel in a if siiir artiele of the S:o0.1ord
••f March 28:—'• Hit One° t^e Delta of lilifibolo,l 41 has
received notice of their ieeteniier to quit th it fines at
elichaelmas next from the occupier' of 7 COO acres of Med."
He thought that these faces, coupled with men esteem with
which they as 're acquain'ed, cot to riedien !n-
-eatens of land to lic given up in their own
neighbourhood, were rather signitinint, and ineffi-
cient to prove the extent ef the exi• tir a dieters. (It• ft )
It lead been and was conotintly uroe4 that there lied hoc
low prices before, even lower than now, and the year 1h36
had been pointed o—that model year ef the finencisl re-
sormers, which the present onvernmen• earl tench a heroer if.
Let them take best year. They hal, it was acknowleege.l,
very low prices then, but under very different circumstances.
There was then, ae also the year before, an irnm 11119 yield :
this year the yio Id was just the reveree—it was bad. So
great was the yield of 1835 that only 68,905 quieten
of wheat were imported from abroad that year. Sir R.
Peel, quoting " Tooke on Prices," said, " There was a great
similarity of snaps in certain regions of the earth. The csuse-
tries, lying within the same degrees of latitude endured very
merit' the same vicissitudes of pro twit, and miefertuoe in
respect to agriculture." This was no doubt to a great ex.-
tent a correct observation, and if it proved anything it cer-
tainly went to show that when ere had a prolific year in
England, other countries in the sane latitude were likely to
have au abundant heivrat also. Ito would ask, if they
should have a yield of 1835 again, as he treated they
should have, what would then In th. it prices ? (Hear.)
If distress existed now, in the shone of too low prices, it
was, as the erolution stated, still impending over them. A
letter dated Washington, March 17, and published in the
Hew York Herald, says :—" I wish you to notice the im-
mense amount of wheat which hag been detained in the
interior by the long whiter, and I enly wish that the whole
had been in the grain stoles of Leiden, as it would assist in
opening the eyes of rime of your free-trade landed gentry.
I think they ongfot to have opened their eyes before."
Mr. Hume gave it as his opinion in 1839, that
nee trade would bring the prices of corn throughout
Europe as neer to a level as the cost of carriage wool)
allow." Now that was a very sound opinion, the weight of
which was duly appreciated by the manufacturers of Man-
chester, though not by the landed interest. But there was
another argument that would do very well for the land. It
lied been said by Mr. Ward, the free trade member for Shef-
field, "that they could obtain to 'torn from France
none from Belgium, none from Holland, Portugal, or Spain :
He also said, that es to Odeon it was impossible to draw a
supply from that plea., on account of the enormous price of
corn imported from such a distant part, and that this coun-
try was limited to the Baltic for a supply of grain. Now
that was en argument that did very well for the laifded inte-
rest, and, like moat others addressed to them, had turned out
most fallseioue. (Cheers) Now be could only see the
moat diessMou consequences as likely to ensue, and which,
lint speedily arrested, must overwheltn the whole agricul-
tural community in ruin. If, as they beard, land was given
must ensue!
up, labourers must be out ef employ—the whole
machine must be stopped. What disasters
Sir R. Peel said, in 1839, " Seeing the state to which agri-
culture had arrived in this country—seeing that it contri-
buted to the health of its inhabitants—he told the oppo-
nents of these laws (the corn laws) fairly that be and those
who thought with him, would be sorry to observe cultiva-
tion receding from the tops of those hills to which it had
climbed, and the whole if the country, though it might be
productive of greater wealth, converted into a series of
large manufacturing towns, connected by railways,
travelling through abandoned and deserted rural districts,
even though there might be greater wealth, he never 'mulct
see that change in the social condition of England without
the utmost pale." This state of things, with the exception
of the wealth, wee already come upon Ireland, and was im-
pending aver ourselves. (Cheers) Free trade m%ht tell
them, as it had told them, to Mender our (*WA to
the banks of the Oder and the Vistula, but as
Sir Robert Peel asked in 1839, what was to be
0000 with team where bad lands were thrown out of eultiva-
tion; when the occupation of farmers, who were attached to
I. cality, was gone, what was to become of men advanced in
lie, who had no peat fancy for mercantile speculaelon, who
could not understand them, when they found this dee-
trios prevail ? (Hear, hear.) Looking at what hal
pawed, es well as at the present, and speculating on
the futon, he thought that they ought immediately to moues
themselves to protest against the late legislative enactments,
which had brought them into this unequal and unjust com-
petition with foreigners—an unjust competition, onelderiag
their heavy hurtling, both general and loss). But the
new measures of fret trade were pared with such
haste, and such was the fascination of the ora-
tor of the Manchester school, that those 'who
ought to have been their protectors went over with Sir R.
Peel to the camp of the enemy. Not only did pirliameat
remove pretsetwe, but they left them burdened with all the
imposes end expense, whin they had borne under the aye-
tem of protection. (Hear.) Was not the whole ablest of
the retinal of the protective duty on otarnsoWre-
Once its price ? DM as not Mr. Hume
British corn would be malaillated to t-• • . 1 • 0.04.,..
Lod yet the free-trade legislature r ego go. • _.,..
„, the burthens with which thA. _,
W rem than the cruel system mimed by 1,:o..; err --e • .
.
moisten who required the same qua.
I:raw, their free trade rulers required " etStOSVIIIFIe
t 1714,
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~4,.....;_;:yet:-."7, ,73

UXBRIDGE AGRICULTURAL
MEETING.
[Peon ova owe REPORTIRe.]
Yesterday being market-day in Uxbridge the
opportunity was taken by the friends of agricultural pro-
tection to convene a meeting of the tenant-farmers usually
attending the =whet. The large apartment in the public
roomy was well filled with pusses of that class, whose ro-
bed forme and florid consplesiens harmonised but indiffer-
ently with their general complaints of destitution and sp•
proaching ruin. There were also present a dissentient party,
alleged to be oonnuted with the town, but, as will be
seen by the subjoined report, every attempt upon their part
to obtain a hearing, was summarily put down by the chair-
man, aided by some vigorou friends on the platform.
We may add that the question seemed to excite little interest
in the town or ns ighbourhood. The poster& announcing its
advent had been in meet instances defaced, whilst there was
pretty gencrady circulated a counter handbill, calling upon
the townsmen to attend and propose as an amendment "The
abolition of all useless 'sinecures and appointments," the
bringing down of the public expenditure in accordance with
the income, and a lair representation of the people in the
House of Commons.
At half-past three o'clock, Mr. CHARLES NEWMAN, of
Hayes, took the chair • and along with him on the platform
were:—O. C. Duped, M.P. for Backe; 11. de Burgh,
West Dayton • J. M.P.
Esq Langley ; Mr. Brown,
Cowley; Mr. Weald, Harrow-weld; W. Lightfoot, Esq.,
Cowley; Mr. Taylor, Henwell; Mr. Mason, Cippenham
Court; Mr. Lac est*, Cnerisey ; Mr Nightingale; Mr. Bate,
; Mr. W. Tramper, Hayfield; Mr. R. Healey,
stewardhbr :mmtrro.. the
wvih.
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itittok:ett
jo on. fg.,lSoenoeer
n;
G. Mr. Chandler,
.i Williams,an aeld;Lit a 1 cui • ;
J. li, eh, Hayes; Mr M Scent, Hermondeworth ; Mr. J.
Tramper, D sons y; W. Herten, Esq., Plied lge ; Mr. T
Shackle, Haves; Mr H PuUta. Celanrook ; Mr. A. Welch,
Southall ; Mr. H. Wells, Maidenhead; Mr. Kendall, Lang.
ley ; Messrs Bake, Hemmenmith; Mr. W. Jupp, Brent-
ford; Mr. W. White. Rickmanaworth farm; —Cox, Esq.,
Hillhouse ; Mr. C. Newman, Harrington ; Mr. Andrews,
Woodford ; Mr. C. Saunders, Brenttord ; J. Montgomery,
Esq., Beentfurd ; W. Ball, Esq., West Drayton; Mr. J.
steliff, lierefiad ; Mr. Atkins; Mr. Bothem, Salthill ; hit.
Statham, Detebet ; Mr. Jourdan, ilanwell; Mr. P. Powell,
Denham, Bte.
The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceediogs, observed
that, as a tenant farmer, he had not hesitated to come for.
wart upen this occasion, though be saw many around him
much better fitted than himself to occupy the position to
which he had been appointed. He thought that the time
bad arrived when they mud join hand aced heart, In crier
to prevent any further destruction of their property. (Hear,
hear.) He believed that they should he enabled to prove
to the Chancellor of the Exchequer shit the distress of
the egriculturles was not pctsal, but general, and he
Wasted that the farmers, as a body, would he supported by
the meeting in their present movements. (Cheers.) Certain
resolutions had been prepared to be submitted to the meet-
ing, and the gentlemen near hies bad consented to propose
them. Thom eentlemen were connected with the IJebndge
market, although not living in the immediate county, still
he hoped and trusted that they should be able to carry their
resolo• ions, and to convince, the country that they had a
jut eleins 111140 the legislature for relief. (Hear, hear.)
Without any further comment, he Lego& to call epee Mr.
Laelete to introduce the fire. resolution.
Mr LACOSTE, of Curtsey, then presented himself. The
resolution which he had to propose was in the following
firma :
not la the opi.,ien of this meeting the distress already expert.
Med by, Sad still impentlins over the farmers of the United King-
dom. Is leseebt with she must dilsurrous ounsequenoes, and has
been mainly occasioned by recent legislative enactments, bringing
them into unequal sal unjust coilidou with the growers of foreign
men, and unless speedily are must overwhelm the whole not-
waltural community in ruin; and though this [PPM ing reputlates the
idea that any practicable reduction of taxation can he regarded as an
equivalent for protection, mid in order to mitigate the wit as far as
p Nibble, they Mel it to be incumbent upon them to impress upon par-
liament the necemity of the immediatr revi.ion of all reneral and
local taxation which pre e. sitb unequal severity upon the land.
In obeying the call that had been made upon him by the
committee, and in answering with promptness the request of
the chairman, that he should move this resolution, be dis-
claimed any ambition to thrust himself forward in any cause,
though utadeub:eally this was a time for men to come boldly
forward, when the legislative enactments of late y_ears threat-
ened to involve classesiscommonruin. !Cheers) It
might be asked why a Surrey man should be *ailed upon to
propose the first resolution to a meeting in the county of
Middlesex ? Fur many p us, however, he had 'wen away
connected with agriculture. He was, moreover, a free-
holder in Middlesex, and be occupied 300 or 400 acres
of land, none of which was a mile distant from
that county. (Hear, hear.) The last occasion upon
which he was prtsent in that room was when Mr. Cobden
was addressing them and telling them, as tenant farmers and
occupiers of land, that they had not the lust interest in this
question, and that they would not be injured by it in the
slightest degree. Ha (Mr. Lacoste) believed, however, that
bitter experience had proved to them ere this that the tenant
farmers were the first to feel the blow. (Cheery.) He would
not say that the tenant farmers would be the t only class to
gaffer ; because, if that were the case, they might sigh and
groan alone. Bat after the tenant farmers, would corns the
owners of the land, and it would not be long before they
were made to suffer. But another clam—the poor labourer
—would also smart under the inflictor. (Cheers.) The
labourer bad been deluded with the idea that cheap bread
was to be everything to him. There could not, however,
be a greater fallasy than suth a notion; for mere
cheap bread alone was of no avail, unless the poor
man had the means of purchasing it—(than)—and
he had no hesitation in saying that at this moment
the consumption both of bread and meat was far lees
than when the y were at a higher price. This was to
be attributed to she want of the demand for labour, and so
king as that continued, so long must the poor man be in a
wane position than when there was a ready market for his
labour. (Cheers.) Those political economists who had
said that the farmer only wanted a little pinching to make
him farm better had shown their immense Ignorance of these
mutters, for to talk of making a man farm better by redwing
hie income one-ball was certainly an extraordinary proposi-
tion. (Hear, hear.) Having previously referred to Mr.
Cobden, he might be allowed to allude to an anomaly
which :truck kin as very remarkable. Mr. Cobden prided
himself on being the son of a tenant-farmer, end
asked whether It were likely that he, as the Poe
of a farmer, should attempt to injure farmers. But
he had ceased to be a farmer, and had become a
cotton spinner, and well he had leathered his nest by it--
70,0001. was not easily made by farming. (" Hear, hear,"
and cheers.) Next to him came Sir K. Peel, the son of a
cotton spinner, who tame forward as the farmers' frig ad.
and was selected by them to be their leader. The farmer's
son became a cotton spinner, and the cotton spinner's son
became a friend to the farmer, and both together conspir d
to rain him. (Chews.) It was an tel bird that fouled its
own neat; and of these two he knew not which was the
worst. Hesheuld say little of theme men who, led by Sir H.
Peel, had forsaken their pledges, and betrayed them—he
left thus to their own feelings. (Hear, hear.) In intro-
ducing this resolutian to the meeting, be would briefly ad
vert to one or two of the topics which it contained.
The first allegation in the resolution was, that
the distress already experienced by, and sell im-
pending over, the fermen of the United. Kingdom,
was greater than could be borne. That could not be denied.
(How.) Ho knew a man who had lost upwards of 1001. by
a flock of sheep ; he was, perhape, also losing 6001. a year by
his farm; yet he was compelled to pay the income tax
though he was a loser instead of a gainer. The commis-
sioners did not examine the books of the farmer to see
what his profits were, but upon the half of hie rental he
paid the income tax, alike in good times and in ban,
whether a inkier or a fuser. (Chan.) Various other taxes
premed upon the English fanner hkewise which ware Ata
Bother unknown in those foreign countries which were
allowed to send in their can to compete with him. The
tram of row rates, too, pressed unduly upon the farmer—
the burden wee almost exclusively upon the land,
and was decidedly unjust now chat that peas• tine was
removed from him on which be bad bees taught to rely.
The farmer wanted nothint unfair. The Britdle farmer was
a kind of model of an Englishman, and was never afraid of
anyone if he met him fairly ; but when their hands were tied
behind them, it was impossible that they amid con-pets with
the foreigner. (Hear, hear.) But many things bad warred
of late to increase the difficulties with which the farm re
were surrounded. The introdect.on of steam to naval par.
pow for e temple lead,rhrown d pen to the foreian, r much
greater ?wadies for the InOroduerinn of his cern Into this
country than he posoesed before. It enabled him elm to
send In live beasts and calves, which be could not hays int-

breed at • lees • , while they placed them ander the same
herdges—burdens wide had beam* intolerable, sad
whisk they no Mega e .ald or would submit to.
) Let them room themselves dies, and
demand the immediate midis et all disk heavy
Criaid local t-ntioa. They had a right se desaM
at they repudiated the idea that say .'ounce that
mold be mode would bees equivalent to the pealeseles that
bad bees takes from them. (Cheers.) Ns id wee &wiz
diseing • moderato prolsodoa restored is sates
edge, as Mr. Disraeli obssded, the ludo=
hare tasted more of the sharp auks of bee Ws&
Were sot all other sakes proesedag tbdr ladae-
try ? The America saga, thee sesta trail, seeks,
bad jut pissed at the heed of their gesuessegat an
earned gad sober patriot, who ,Mtsd, is his ;magegge is the
swim of 7th of Mild lest : It shall be my deify to ee-
eseassead seek coostitetkoal demureete emigres§ as may be
il d proper Ware esecesugewunt sad protection
t:Cargleat hairnets of aarMoimn
_eammercer, and mass.
Asiturea.' That gestbassa plead the great in-
terest dagriodbsee ; but their bee-trade
gablieter, is the Queen's speed, dough ha mediated
meaufewaree, omitted . (Hear.)
He wetted that their broeVeitZeima=terase forward
sad petition ; if they would edam dimming mad be so
looter supine, he did see imp& of apeigullage gill eur•
sowing the steep hills o whisk it had abetted. ilory
should still see them in their swan eleibed with their
waving golden mantles ; they amid still be 'waded to l=
they wa to il cultinte the banks of their ores
peaceful Maoism instead of the 0 terer the TiOritat it
dud be audit the B.g of pretested and numerated leg-
lead. (Lend churl.)
At this stage of the oneeedinge, end when the skeins's
we about to put the r volution, • person in the hail said, in
respectful tore, " Would you allow a working am to
aped, sir, Attire you put that moieties ?" The Oakum
met him with an abrupt sad decided negative, gad the eta-
=little mosmeyllable "No" wee repeated with sten-
lanes by a bevy of gentlemen upon the platform.
The perms then said, " Well, as a freeholder of Middlesex
I have • right to be heard." NA w, however, delight
geometers et the nesting. Considerable cosissios issued,
which wee at keg* put ea ad to try
The CHAIRMAN who said—Will yes show me to re-
mark that is all societies of this kind, when ponces meet for
ea mew purpose sad have certain resolutisse uproot's§ in
thaisumes with thei wishes et the majority of the meeting, it
is see weMs§ery is permit innovation. And I don's, I m-
ire rahisesdhe allow any Limeades here. (Chests)
Web'', Wags this ream kw as capon pupae, sad when
you his oreemd sod see so sassy respectable, Istelligent,
sad ledmigieue brawn hese mug to eseadals d eppreselos
setbey de with dolt 'dere. yes alum rupee that I shall
allow say basestloss. (Clean.) When the remlutioss
have bees pat is doused way be re this meting, If you
'piss to COMO here sad LAM a society of your ewe yes me
velem, to do so. I sow beg loan to pat the reeshatioa
eiders 11014 is my hose fur pour seacties.
A peweesspas the platform here again interposed. Be
o . air, This le a moot unfair preceelte,;—why don't you
bear what the soma he. so isy." He append about to
MAO fember obseustione, whew he was very alum-
sessiesely ideeragged by some eas sear him, who plaided
his ems gad posed him frem Se gleam.
The rolek ea was thee pat end serried.
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Thet Sle mesettas efeee'wlit • the Its& MB am bulbs
eslessi. re by its powlshse the Sol SU be beedlotei ebb eh
mimes Ole vands It arm aelostel. est So utile S act
be 101 l gems Me; meddle for bwer ISM= to So bleway
rent Oren home= d es aseeedi yobs sad me obleetis
alb steeblesty Me the el tbe hisbenor : awl eigeo.
Se* et Si dest be asequeoe al the
Wes esearoletur" toed" es yea as err,
lei Millsos4 Wok en ISIS& Isms, hes
Mas aimed It le gels Issesible MOS rah pews
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due the seise et empaelvely ussed
See aid seen tweee la eentsmst levels Se
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giambeeidiesi

TM Maim of Imbed had barn jeeringly asked what
Shay meld expect the peasant to do for thent whim sash
ores ad • aspirate panami of his own, and they wars all
what maid he best fiw them, one uremia. by the
17floned of the malt tax. soother by local bamboy and a
tkbd by the Migaitim of • flood duty. Their arlumawks
had bulled thaw sairril as IsMilas at their devoted heads,
and had told them that they were as dull as the dad May
Wood up, and m rapid al the owes
handydrowsed *dr
• sad Lord Re sell conumpti Wiwi of to
;Mon oecupotiste hod bushel them with madigther.
ow Nth*, scaldset maible iodate* Is suss
11111110. 71"
biswesw. mat hairs@ lb' Lew or L rd I. Russoll b faro Ms
gm modal, should sot bedtime to iodides la it (V Hoar,
Mar." sad • lamb) The pulley of the prune goverment
W bun disastrous in the extreme, and It did act require
mesh foresight to predict the destitution aad distress quick
had sow overtakes the headed lamest. If they leaked
abroad to our ooloniss, they would fled the same diming,
miming them as hero. Canada was 'Tithing soder to
dues of our lrgialatioe, and the Walt ladies we,. berm
'trebly milled. Is England digitiser was spreading all mead,
but our coadition, bad as it was, was not to be umpared to
the mate of the plater truntret ; Imbed &radii apse this
@sentry he km market; and he always thole& that to
Irbh iambus would have j tined in one plubut in
support of the advocates of putt c ton to maim . He
nun could have believed that any body of aim w have
bon so hoodltgely deed to their country an those min bad
moved themeless with their pretended harangues hart/
upon their Mle u lips. To country bad undoubtedly arri
at • Pate of greatness unparallet din any age. Mr. Mama-
lay, in his admirable history, stated that the nolibms of •
no
very remote period of ear biacory were timid of aonfarts
that could nos@ be possemd by • modern bouris, sad that
the middle claims ate bread which would now @mato a riot
I. a mks workhouse. Whether it was owing to oar
'attitudes, or la *pits if them, it nu undeniable that we
had noshed • point of lofty erratum. How mortifying
than would it be to reflect upon the present suicidal policy of
the government, and upon the foreigner chuckling over the
faded fortunes of Ragland. Stub greatness as oars had ex-
cited the biter jea!onsy of our foreign op imes ; bat they
had always England anuesilible so long as her population
had remained true to theniselvee. (Cheers.) He wanted is
armee theathowsver, to the startling fact, that notwithstand-
ing all :hey had nand, and all therwere likely to soar,
the government fatanded to impose • still farther rims*
oa them, la the shape of the Roads BM, now before perils.
Mint. If that bill were allowed to pus into • law. 1
it would prove • most monstrous grievants to the
bream la this county. Sir R Peel, in 1848, 'awaited hie
Wadies of report., some modification of the Highway
Act, as a slight compensation to the Croon for to with-
drawal of protection If Mr. Cornelia Lewis's bill ware the
germiaatioa of Sir R. Peel's plan, he could *sly my that •
mare loft-aboildered enspensation could not wall have been

dribed. (Clem) TM tempts oasis bad been hitherto
magma deb,, Me reeling mesa el ahem had bees
ateuhey hod inane& the made in
1:1261. seems sight yet Mese wale Ihe mg pr-
ams mass to Wag al& the wpm,
rabidly, evirmtie» arteriel pewees, tamarbas lb. area
of their opseadess, and taring away bad maw-
meat altogether. He was for from withal; to
cast a stigma apes the magistrates of thee meaty,
whore he very meek respected ; but be al Illiett
to ragtag powers of the nature confirmed %sashirpre-
posed fa inoperable heads The snot is
the Wades of this (patio was the none was debt new
existing apes the tells. These reads were formille 4111111 WW
distant large torte yids the asentorli.. The
Worst used the as lag suited their
the t sow err forward with the
of eidldlfieg the fusers with that debt. That welt
berm been fended. The counties law inflated
that miesay to their repeats taped , and the matter by
whit, Wanes the trustees mad the (17here.)
The geemmeent weal sever, its, his spielembri token
ups dismasime the responabillur tbra ar ether
paraselleidad the tares bees them honad—had they
sot bees basked sp by their -trateei:helleire of
lisseharr. (" Neer, hear," sad a ) The present
county rating was most arousal. lir Grey, in
mow to Kr. Nowell, who was speaking upon the what
of MA rating, solutowledged that the unequal rating am•
pained of la Ireland was precisely the ease is Begbad,
only wane ; yet that very 'natural, of whisk filr Grego
Grey was a umber, proposed new to enema that seed eye.
ter, which would be tea times more mesons than CM
toasty rates sow mid he the whale sooty. (Hear, beer.)
He thought that the magistrates bad moral to do already,
and they were mightily skilful, as they all knew, in the
rarer of dishounteats. Moreover, the people of this
country had always been rentarkabde for their ability be sod&
doverameat, sal Yr. Lewis hamar referred tie that
in earn, to Mr. Disesai, yet he now proposal
to take the mimagement of the roads from them and to M-
t:oder a maple' madasery which would lead to trams-
doss szpoditare sad to slay shun is the way a
end faveritista. (Cheers ) His opinion Imes this
wee, that if the grverament would free the reads ban the
pessent debt, woad Menden the proposed bill, would re.
maw Me Isibeeses, would apportion the nails (saw
semasigraythimg more them would) to the nets pa-
riahs mai* they leavened, sad remit them tio tas-
aege them dimseal Whenld be highly &dosages*, for
thou. (Chem) body tesollsd sae thole
made they ealeeird perhaps 3,0001. or 4,0001. a year ; but
now they weld not miler above 4001. or 5001. upon the beet
of thou. Altavista( for the time he had are-f-., he
should mow eseclide by earnestly resimmeadiet sokr-
ties of the reselati.a which he had the hessur wpm.
Mr. J. DICK, of Hayes, la sesending the vessieskri, said
that after the lengthened statement at kis bird wllo had
islueddressed them, ha need may express his a delbaiss at
s
that the tenant fanner were at length West's,
alive to the »Aides of their situation. (Rear, hear.) Re
hoped that by a lean FA. strong pall, soda pall alto-
gether they might mess* is lain apes goversziest sad
psalmist the amid" of mesas elms air sea-
m. whish were rapidly bereft m desienstior the Imes
sad abatises of this owner y. Let them remember Met
• bold pieneney, their earafe oar
wk.. ihreowdcea yew be eveille.

_
Trneobara was Sea per sad wed re
Mr. W. /ODIUM pre dr NO raidadri
'Gat the farm ef the Thriel tir. bora arreall
the egarisa et free trade cribs mar el pyre hark Ns ef aaae
air rel. reperima aa eiretailan ef air sr Mimi
• tat • reallar hv thus team Itsweerdwa. vide Oa
yaw Metes el Males aad eat err ea errs Ida with re lon
harerree ereWle r themeteee hr away ermabetra daidst.
X le the Gls mote, that • wish, INgget•dg an
=pi I le Iffilabity seami jut tam Oa gran Ns.
tgagralegilm steer esmer umg.
Ha sail Asa if ha tai asassltad his wees lipeilags he Amid
mat hem airs • peardwan part in the peewit pneeedingee
hate daddy that Veneer wee e et of ad.'s%
ass bow ta then awe or ler, and hiving been ape.
dally Wird, he trusted that ho should not be looked op a
as as intruder. (Bear, hear.) Be believed that n•
rads had bra merely a topis of avow nuke
tat 1 1831), when tlw Liaise was sitablialtal IS

do away with what Ns amours were planed
to term pestados. Whin Mr. Cobden ad his
party tab the mitts la led, the peissiple milky
spook sod what wilk Mete ail ether bakes meat of
the ISO misd, • npid rule was lade of what
?es= the ef the leaded lama and the
temestkoners. Ia 542, the estratry =thrall mkt may
ems,
sod Peel wee idled late *Moe. Of emus, ham-
tog tkatla met do senteliling ezneordnarr to tothe the
weedzykom its perilous pea les, bang faith it almost
thet wet a my, with an isms' see te its
so hisegooks debit•
ef ten est n
wind alaw
"as
ed
he dagemk wen propmkg•amai
km, Una be a War ruder to the people,
and le make it ge does with the monsfeemers,
to spied it Ines the lead sod bans of tees trade.
(Chong.) Now that breed sad butter was all, safortaandy,
takes hum the Moot femme, (Hear, hear.) The thing
was ass met swildisty lent hi degrees. Fine an smilers.
dee 14W. wee= telteiseir mg the lasoollo tax, and
*at wee by the Miff. The flat asp was
whop leiltylitir Mans te pails opinion, whit% was then
Maki mush in that direetka. The insane tax was
anewity—there wen no other seam of restoc-
ks t▪
he Slues of finance, but the tariff was • that sever
or expected until it ems suddenly sun the
Its( It mme, in feet, like a thief In the night ; even the
lossigues bad not expected it, but Sir Robert Peel
odneissesd it as • bus to the trading times.
(Incur, ilme.) At first its evil tendensies were sot fairly
POft but now believed the knows were
illeViissolimd what he t
tie tariff really meat. (Load
Km, Sr.") lie would give the menu a law
SUB M low them what had token pan, and it Richt serve
is alga of fantasied what was yet to tea,. (Hear, hear.)
Akita of his whom he had asked for • Mw pettlealus bad.
ihenhited bias with ems den which would enable the
kisses to fass we idea se to the enormous qualities ef pro-
Miami whisk wen meant late this nutty. ThewWlem of
proddeos from Jan 8:h to Ma 9th hid been
gr
arraign of bona ; 12,866 casks of beef ; 13,168 tab
of
port; 134 casks of ham ; 3,232 casks and 12,644 kegs
of led ; and all this late the port of Leaden slue.
(Her, Ser.) In Liverpool there had bees entered daring
the mee pitied 11,666 peeksges of !mon, 16.621 cookie' beet.
6,190 oaths of pork, 126 casks of lama, and upwuda of
24,000 cons sad ken of lard. Now, the vane of these
items weeded 400,0001, std thy amounted to 11,000 tees
weight, .11 of fitiebta_ provisions (Hear, hear.) If they
added to this about 40,000 toss of potatoem, together with a
variety dottier artistic they might tom a sort of anitesate
erinsate of the mast to width their interests bad seared.
(H. sr, err.) The free trade degas was, that it was imma-
terial ~ter or not this country grew owns, and that in
reality the uneaten' Warm ought to be voted a nullity.
(Hest, Sur.) If thief/. west on ea they did at pas nt for a
meek keyyw period, that intense would la reality be a nul-
lity. (Mesa.) Some etotheted them by lulu,
that while we 'took forties earn, forrignen took our
mosakolson, and to such an extent that a impetus would
be its to trade suflicient to &both ell the gantlet labour
Of Se ms toy. Every one was to boom prawns. work
was to beam abundant, and workhouse llllgbt be dis-
*mutinied.
Mr. MONTGOMERY—No, no ; that was sot prombed.
Mr. ANDREWS—Nano he we painting the ease in
Nina • little too florid. (Hear, bear.) His belief was,
that if the course of that fr. e trade was not arrested, the best
linnets of the country would be jeopardised ; sad he eases
/award that day to lead his humble assistance to prevent
sub a unhappy cumulation. (Cheers.) He had alluded
to the prognostic* ed the advocates of free trade. He would
neer call ette sin to i s Mud results. He would
se the 'Ahura; moo what Dealt did he de-
rive from the tensed pikes. (A Fenner "We
eat give him week.") Did he find his means of pertinent
the unsomies of life, his capital, in feet, increasing ? (Hear,
bone.) Oa the outran, did he not find that, cheap a Fro-
thiest were, his °Meaty in getting those provisions was
=thaa when every one had a fair remuneration for his
(Hear, hear) If they looked at what might be
edied the naked bone and sinew—he meant the middle
dams of this ceuntry—they would see people who case had
greparty with their mesas wasting away. Let them
po mad the country towns, aad see the amber of
gimp thou were shut up, showing that there must be some-
this g teaks la the system. (Hear, hon.) There was once
a time Sou if a man had COMM= industry, and some
little mass, he sight always make sure of • living, but
a period was fast approaching when such things would be
humble. Let • man do what he would, the competition
which was daily springing up on every side would prevent
his gettias soy Mara. (Hear, bear.) It was invidious,
N speak of pancake breathes of trade, bat he
singe at what competition was doing In his own
(7wit) bodoess. This was a wed. which was esti-
mated le employ ninety million of capital, and yet, if they
travelled Attu* the country, they would find that half the
mills had mead wahine. (Hear, bear.) Why so? In
conseqessei of • ecompetision which until now bad
has. Seemed of. They had certainly expected flour Iron
Amass, as it was with that ammodity the Americans paid
fer our madianred goods ; but to their utter astonishment
Frau* had, within the last nun mo-ths, become a shipper
of flour to this country. It was estimated that 26 per cent.
of the floor now used in London muse Iron France. (Loud
cries of " Rear, hear.") They should remember that no
utter what might be the description of previa:oos, whether
meat, or cern, or cattle, all imported produce deprived
the farmer of emotes, and the labourer of work ; ad that,
eessequendy, the rein must ramify through all dames of
*grinners' society. If they went to the country gatlemen,
they heard of nothing but retrenchment and economy, and
so it went ea downwards, until at last it must ter-
minate Ia the utter rain of the poor. (Cheers) The re-
venue returns bed recently been published, and they heard
much eugrataktires on the &tuba there lead bess as increase
cf about a million is the Cliltolso. He did no. see in that
any evident,* of increasing posterity. Let theta look on
the other elate of the picture. Then was • falling off of
140,0001. in the ineome-t a defied which, be it num-
bered, represented des of name. (Hear, hear.)
What an mount of crippled means throughout the nanny
did not thatielling off repreeent. (Hear, hear.) He would
next attempt to show them the 'went to which fen trade
was affecting the pries of one. From Feb. 6, to March the
kb of the present year, then had been imported into
Idifferent ports of the United Kingdom 666,000 quarters of
wheat, 143,000 quarters of barley, 33,383 quarters of oats,
1t7,769 of rye, 23,356 dress. 8 575 of beans, 392,000 of melee,
13.674 of rye and 878,798 hundred weight of flour.
(Hen, hear.) This be thought would account to nine
event for the increase in the customs, for, however small the
duty was, and be believed it was only a shilling, such im-
mense impartation mast tell sentibly on the custom (laths.
Bat while the *atom were benefited, the foreigner found a
market, ant the home producer was destroyed. (Cheers.)
In one week alone we had imported 10,000 quarter of wheat,
10,000 of barley, 3,500 of beans, and 15 000 of rye. He
only bored that suck tuts se these would crease the farmers
to take a little interest is their own affairs, and before it was
tee late to apply te the legislature for some alteration. Two
.orris Wkmei suggested. One was, that the anthems
es
lad *said be Wined ; and the other was, that they
thenii Morn to maiden. With regard n lessening the
bestir at laza_ .116 Moult had tried all he could, but
the Mum of CIMINO@ was ',idea ly determined not
le gin any relief in that direction. With regard to the
ether pont. he was firmly convinced that they might ch-
ina a ratan to protection but he feared that the pant
ens cat the time for thi accomplishment of their object.
They mna beer in mind that the present House of Common
bad canal free trade, and consequently from it they could
expect se ukase. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. I. WASH in seconding the reioliiio
that sok* had ever been SI hardly dealt with as the
teushinser. He had taken land, subject to ..train bur-
dims oat at a certain teat, and since then changes had
beat rode by the leglelatue, whit% made him wholly in.
able to beer dame beethise. He would not take up their
time ley malliattsp speseb. but merely say that he ex
pleb* any little km the pawn House of Commas.
Is la udniss senses wail be to petition her *dory
to Simi the present Issee of Common and to call to-
gether a new ewe. (Gnat theorist)
Oa the question Wait pat,
Mr. MONTGOMERY, a ougistrate of Breutford, asked
permission to make a few observations, but was mist by a
general uproar, and cries of " Ne, no.'
The CHAlRMAN.—Geadanea, it matters not to as., is
the situation I. which I am placed, whether the speaker be
a magistrate or a poor man. (Cries of " Bravo.") I have
told you before that as you have been kind enoegh to plea*
me here is a mooned& titration I will sot allow any inno-
vation from any man. (Cum.)
At the meelasion of the Chairman', observations the up.
roar was renewed. The knots on the platform crowded
rand Mr. Mostgoesery, sad sommened hustling him. At
last one of them (Mr. Names, jun., 005 to the chairman)
took Ids by on head, and putting the other round his
waist, tubed him lisday of the platform. This proceeding
caused a gempati maks is the body of the meeting. About
fifty gam= rushed bus the back and breathe Mr.
Idoettemery bath la Several suisuu erred out,
" far," " him a beeriag."

At length the CHAIRMAN again interposed,
Mist the yams tree escluairoly a yeoman's nesetre M
that nese hat yeomen should address it. He nee Mr.
Meetgetaley, Int be hoped it would not go forth frees that
issettag that they bad been interrupted by that gratletnen,
lost the lord lieutenant of the county might lyt Muted to
watch him oat of the liet of lese(streeee. (Oh !oh I) Re
thought it was time to being the basins= to a mediation,
and should, therefore, put the thi
rd resolution to the
mean Mr. fiONTOOMRRY.—I wish to pewee an amenduwat,
and I am sot to be allowed to do so. (Heat, hest, and
The reeehation wet then put and speed to.
Mr. ATKINS mead the fourth romolnion. se fellows:
That this mandag, gebelpelly d lemmt-Immere,
pewee mile/ bpi I I • sr most grades, Cleum Ind pod
attashnent Mho sesnisantn. Uwe& tomewit bed his.
whaling wok Amp mint asuman ladianase la Nth lames of
0111 el Ms ameatry,* trey of time whet
weresenninei the 2111ftlei etnralese **dem sad yeteragee—
a etrimelmes wlisa shisysevilei amply elsp!mm

He coupleinvd of the pressure of the incises tax upon
the fuse-r, who, no matter whet might he his loans, was
Meted at hall hie rental. He congratulated this country on
the c .mparative quiet it har, eajo. id while throw a were
being overthrown ; sad trusted that fanners who had
been Arm eupportvre of the thron., w nag main) kaa
indit-
fueaos a• the hauls of people to authority.
Mr. JORDAN, in we .nding the rev lotion, swum d his
conviction that no good could be d. ne with the present
House of Commons. Let them ad eta the Qom, and be
wit sort hie blipatv would !ken to the v. ice td hes people.
(Cneers ) It oat Wales., to m he lobe speeches aleutt sari-
, %literal dieters; the qui thin n as the remedy. Tt.at r medy
was anew p irl• ant a-. (Lori et. re.)
This remlutioo wit* alto agreed to.
Mr. PuLimis muved, earl Mr. ',Haulm wooded,

the presentation of a p►tition embodying the sham resolu-
tions ; filer which thanks were voted to the chairman ; and
the lasting separated.

FREE INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS AT
BIRMINGHAM.
Yesterday, the foundation atone of a building to
be &weed to the porpoises of • free ied•thriel whoa, war
hag is oso.elsost, Biratinghes, by M. D. 11111, Q.C.,
the reorder of the bwough, is the proems of the mayor,
the clergy, sad • large number of the ambers of the
Mena; rabble bodies I. the borough. The- school is it
boded to eceemzeodete one hundred boys sad girls, desti.
tuts Andrea of all denomination., ,ho bed& boas b..
emoted is useful leornlag. will also be provided with the
mesas of obtaining they hvelibood in after life, and thee it
is wisely endeavoured to prevent crime by a timely eppli-
cation of the Wirings of adscation.