The Express.
London, England, 1850-05-08 00:00:00

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE PRO-

TECTION OF BRITISH INDUSTRY.
Yesterday a general meeting of delegates from vari-
ous parts of the United Kingdom was held at the Crown
and Anchor, Strand, for the purpose of considering the pre-
lent condition of the agricultural in emit. The Duke if
RICHMOND, president of the astociation, in the shale
The room was crowded, and on the platform were the
Marquis of Doweshire, Earl Stanhope, the Earl of Eglinton,
the Earl of Olengall, Viscount Combermere, Earl Talbot,
the Earl of Malmesbury, Sir C. Burrell, M.P. ; Lord John
Masers, M.P. ; L',rd Feveraham, Mr. Christopher, M.P. ;
Mr. P. Bennet, Be P.; Mr. P. Foskott, Colonel Sibthrro,
M.P. ; Mr. R. Baker (Writtle), Mr. Bell (Cambridge), Mr.
C. Lilliogston, Mr. Civilly Wortley, Mr. Petite, M.P. ; Mr.
F. Mackenzie, M.P. ; Mr. George Frederick Young, Mr.
Booker, Sir M. W. Ridley, &a.
Tte CHAIRMAN stated, in opening the proceedings, '
that it would not be necessary for him to treepase upon them
more than fur a few moments, asihere were gentlemen pre
seat who were better qualified tone himself to address the
meeting. He must, however, state his conviction that if this'
country we. to continue to be free, moderate import duties
must be levied. The " experiment " of free trade had been
I tried, and had failed: end common sense always said it
would fail. The system must therefore be immediately pat
an end to. The meeting of to-day was called for the pewee
lof hearing from tenant farmers the prospects of their various
localities. Knowing the justice of their cause, let them per-
severe, and he woe sure that the boon they sought would,
sooner or later, inevitably be obtained. (Cheers )
Mr. BOOKER, f Olossorganshire, proposed the first re-
solution:—.. That the difficult and intolerable distress per-
vading the agricultural and other great interests of the
country, and the state of deprivation and suffering to which
biro masses of the industrial population are reduced are, in
the opinion of this meeting, fraught with consequences the
most diustrous to the public welfare, and if not speedily
remedied, must prove fatal to the maintezahce of public
credit, will endanger the public. peace, and may even plasm
in peril the safety of the state.' In proposing this resolu-
tion the hon. gentleman commenced his observations by
stating, that the system of free trade had been so disastrous,
in its results, that a return to protection was absolutely maces
ssry to secure the tranquillity and independonze etas nation.
Those who were present well knew the Mistretta that every-
where surrounded them. The prevailing symptom we.
cheapness—end why should it not be accompanied by use
and tepees ? There must be something wrong, when cheap-
ness was attended with such lamentable results. Mr. Hus-
kisson said, in 1815, that nothing swab:the more delusive than
that cheapness wa, in itself a benefit, unless it were attended
by a large demand for labour and capital. (Cheers.) Mr.
Booker proceeded to refer to an address which had been sent
to the working men of England by the delegates, setting
forth the present position of affairs. The delegates have a
desire to collect all the statistics in their power, showing the
falling off of wages silica the introduction of the free trade
system ; and they would appeal to the friends of native in-
dustry for assistance. It had been said that free trade had
not yet had fair play. This he most strenuously
denied, and he was indebted to the kindness
*A courtesy of an honourable friend of his, Mr.
Owyn, M.P. fur Falmouth, fur certain returns
whica justified him In Gaming to a conclusion opposite to
those who advocated the doctrines of free trade. Now, it'
was said that in the export of cotton there had been an in.
crease sines the establishment of the policy which they were
met to condemn. The return showed that although tee ex-
ports of cotton had increased 10 per mot , the consumption
of that article had decreased 20 per c‘it., so that, in point of
fact, the Cotton trade iu this country l eel decreased 30 per
cent. (Hear, heur.) Let them look at the state of our
colonies. which fur the east 10 years had enjoyed the blessing

of unrestricted free trade. What was the laogoage they
used whets they contemplated the position in which they
wen pleteed? •We are ruined." Free trade had not fair
play ! What had been the effects in Ireland ? In the year
1844 or 1845 there were in that °emery 1,069,628 acres eulii-
'aced In wheat, and in 1847—the year following to.
consummation of free trade—the number was redueed
to 743,871. la this year 1848, the number was decreased to
666,770, Riskin altogether a decrease to the amount of
600,000 acres, which would have produced 2,100,000 quar-
ters of wheat, which, it sold at such a price as the commo-
dity ought to realise, would have brought upwards of six
sterliag. (Cheers.) Free trade had not had fair play,!
What would tacit' wives and daughters say to the decrease
which had taken place of late years la the export of butter
—salt butter—trom Ireland ? Ia the year 1843, the come.
tity of salt butter exported from that country was 260,000
toss, equal in amount to three *adieu sterling. The num-
ber of cows required to produce this enormous quantity of
butter must have been about 260,000 ; bingos, what was
the state of affieire In that country, owing to the disastrous
effects of free trade? Her pastures were broken up, and
the foreigner beat her out and out. The effects in England
were already well known, and he would :rave to
others the task of dilating upon them. But he
would at once ask what was the remedy for the evils they
complained of, and they would answer him by stating that
the remed was to be found in a return to the polity of pro
Section. Cheers.) How then was this remedy to be ob-
tained? y • cordial union of all clones, whom possessions
had been invaded, and whose skill and enterpriu had been
overthrown by that vile policy which had supplanted them
in their own markets. (L tud cheers.) It was quite clear
that there was no hope from the present parliament, or from
the present advisers of the erown—(hear, hear)—but they
might congratulate themselves that they bad a cenatitu-
Serial sovereign, who well km w that her own peace and
happinese, as well as the security of her throne, depended
upon the welfare and prosperity of those whom she
so benignly governs. (Cheers.) Lot them tell her
of the difficulties and dangers which had over-
taken the sail:lemon of the soil—the bard-working
indastrious occupiers of the domains of our ancient
nobility. Let them tell her that though distressed they
were still faithful and uneeduceably loyal and true to her,
and he would stake his life upon it, she would be commas-
*mate lead true to them. (Cheers.) Amongst those
who advocated their cause in the House of L trds there
was • Richmond, a Stanley, • Malmeabury, • Stanhope, a
Deernshire ; whilst in the House of Cemmoos they had •
Disraeli—(cheer.)—a Granby, a Manners, end a boat of
other., ready to fight the battle of protection. (The hon.
gentleman sat down amidst the most deafening cheers. which
lasted several minutes )
Mr. CHO WLER, • tenant farmer, of Nottineharothire,
secons'ed the resolution, stating that he 'storied to support
the present argument by fact', and by facts alone, such as
would prove to them what was the real coaditien of the
!shouting elutes, who were the twain springs of preduetion
and of strength. (Hear, hear.) In the county in which he
lived the wages of the Itheuriag men had boon reduced from
120. to 10s. a week, and in some parts to 9.. This was the
Lmina: reduction, but in point of fact it had been still
greeter, owine to he large amount of surplus labour, which
was the means of keeping a vast number of men out of
employ. A correspondent in the neighbouring county of
Leicestershire had informed him that during a coa-
st limb's portion of the winter oily a small number
of I hewers wero employed, and daring • certain pried of
that season eight of them had been seen begging—not ask-
leg for meaty, bat for the masts of °boasting work. Now,
on loultieg at the system of management adopted by some
of our great landlords, be turned to the estates of Sir Robert
Peel, where he certainly expected to find perfection.
(Hisses, groans, and loud cries of Traitor, traitor.") He
was justified in saying this, after the great public document
which Sir Robert Peel had *sued to his tenantry. (Heir,
hear.) He expected to &el the labour, re on the Kinesbary
props ty—which was close to Drayton Manor—welt housed
and well fed ; but what did he find instead, and in • part
of the county where the Lams varied in extent from 500 to
400 acres, which, in proportion to the silt of the
county, might be constdered • large number ? Why,
instead of finding the labouring popu'eti in comfortably
located. as he hats expected. lie discovered that the Enelise
labourer was being gradually displaced by the low-priced
Irish lebeurer—(hear, hear)—who were employed ter little
or no money peymeot. (Cries cf Shame ! Shame !) And
who had no cottages to live in or beds to sleep in, but were
obliged to dwell in barns and out hews s. This was the state
of things he found on one of the estates of Sr! lb sheet Peel.
(Groan, and cries of " traitor.") And from the facts he had
mentioned, he draw this con. lesion, that the system adopted
on the property alluded to, had the effect of depressing the
English labourer without dentine the Irish labourer.
(Hear, hear.) He would now c Wee the den of another lion
of the day. (" Hear, hear" and laughter.) They would
recollect that hie. Villiers, M.P. for Welverhsnaptoo, bed
once stated that 91 millions had been saved to this country
by the reduction in the price of pr mei out. It ap-
peared, however, that since the year 1542, the poor-
rates at Wolverhampton had been gradually it:creating, and
it was quite clear that 91 millions had not been saved. It
had, in tact, been lest to one els*, and had not been gained
by any oth-r. (Hear, hear) He (Mr. Chewier) went en
to observe that two thirds of the people of this country were
dependant upon agricultural pursuits 'or their livieg, and he
Imes persuaded that agricultere never was in a less fl swish-
ing state. It the present price of produce were maintained,
the tenant farmers and occupiers of land would never be able
to pay their labourers Durine the list winter great effuse
were made by the farmers to employ the people, and tbry
were now taunted because they had not been able to do so.
If the labourers had been sent to the ocor house. u they
now must b•, the consequ aces would hive been of a most
painful nature. If the present state of affairs c 'Queued to
ex:at they might stem the torrent till after harvest, but he
was sure that in the end they would combatse together, and
if they did so, was it likely thst the tenant farmers would
mount their horses to prevent them ? 'Cheers and
cries of "We would help them.") As regret led the hied-
owners, he need only say, that if tles y would stick to
their tenants, the tenants would stick to them—(loud
cheers and waving of hats)—and they would support the
crows as well as the landlords. (Hear, hear.) Landlord.,
as a class, bad conterred gym ben. fits upon the country, but
he complained, in reference to the present movement, that
they hail latterly left them not only to do all the e ork, but
also to pay the expenses. (Lettgleter end chem.) He then
made some observations respecting the malt duty, a tax, he
sat 1, which compelled them to pay from 75 to 1(0 per cent.
• for an article before they could use it. This he considered •
' most unjust and unneceseary burden upon the people of this
c meaty. (Hear, hear.) Sir Robert Peel (he was sorry to
allude to his name again) had stated that the lased of the
'sheering man should be free from taxation, and yet he
(Mr. Chewier) could enumerate fifteen articles, consisting of
eatables or drinkable' cenaumed by the labouring classes,
which produced a revenue to Atte country of thirteen millions
and a half. Notwithstanding this fact, the " wiseacre,"
Sir Rebut Peel, said the food of the workieg
people ought not to be taxed. Now as to the duty
en malt. He would observe that very little of that commo
dity was consumed by the higher classes, but that the great
bulk of it was consumed by the working people. With the
exception of a few cider counties, there could be no doubt
that throughout England the almost univenal be ge
amongst the working population was malt liquor. (Hear,
hear.) One obmrvation he wished to make tespecting the
Great Exhibition of 1861. (" Hear, hear," hisses, and
laughter.) Of this he could only say, that a "mare's nut"
had been discovered in this country, and in that mare's
nest Prince Albert had been found. Now he (Mr. Chew-
ier) begged to declare, that in offering these remarks, he
meant no disrespect to his Sovereign or to the Prince; but
he could not refrain from saying that the results of the
treat exhibition would not prove so satisfactory as they were
expected to be.
The resolution was then put, and was carried unani
mously,
Mr. BALL, of Burwell, Cambridgeshire, proposed the
second resolution "That this meeting attributes the de-
pression and distress of the agricultural, colonial, shippirg,
and other interests to the rule and impolitic changes in the
laws which had long regulated the importation of foreign
productions. That it is of opinion that those laws were
based on the most just principles and dictated by the sound-
est policy—that under their salutary influence the British
nation had attained an unexampled state of prosperity and
a proud pre-eminence in the scale of nations, and that it
thew object and spirit in fostering end protecting native
industry be finally abandased, many of the most important
interests of the state will be sacrificed, and the national
prosperity and greatness be seriously impaired." He (Mr.
Ball) thought the unfortunate position in which tLis country
was placed, and which the present resolution pointed oat,
was in a great measure caused by the Rouse of Commons
having disregarded their petitions. (Hear, bear.)
The ministers had been truss to the principles
they folmerly professed. When L ird John Russell
came into office the voice of the country was not in
favour of free trade, but the general body of the people ral-
lied round the banner of protection. Instead, however, of
maintaining protection, the government had struck it down
—blasted the hopes of the peep's, and proved themselves
unfaithful to the constituency of the country. (Cheers.)
The advocates of protection had not been beaten by fair and
legitimate mean., but by the treachery of those who had be-
trayed them. The time had arrived when they should exert'
all their energies to carry out the principles of this use
elation, and he had great pleasure iu moving the resolution
which he had read. (Cheers ) •
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Mr. d. A. WILLIAMS, of Wiltshire, seconded the mat
Italie. He stood there deputed from the county from which
be came to protest against the treatment which, ea a class,
the occupiers of the soil had suffered from her Majesty's
ministers and the legislature. Despite the warnings of those
like the noble duke ia the chair. they had persisted in a
measure which would reduce the tenant farmers of
England to beggary. An individual whose name Its
(*rebore to mention, as it grated on the tars of every
rimer, some years ago laid it down that sore
Mild not be cultivated for less than 565. per quar-
ter, and on those 114ures leases had been entered into,
mad on that calculation was based the tithe commutation;
sad last year, when they were selling their wheat at 425.,
Obey had to pay tithe on an average of Ski. 10d.; and this
year, when wheat was selling at 364., they p►id tithe at an
average of .535. Ile maiutaiusd that the industrious classes
were alone made to bear the burdens of this measure, while
capital and proper'y sere exempt.
The resolution was then put and carried.
Professor AYTOUN, of Edinburgh (editor of Black
mood's Magazine), who was reswiv. d with great cherries('
said h. hen been desired rather thee requested, en behalf
of the Sa ittish Protective A.sucia•i tit, to attend this mest•
is,. end move one of the iesolutlons. It would be wrong
83otlend, so deeply interested as she was in the questioa
of protection, was not to come forward and testify to the
tossmry of England her sympethy in the cause they Wife
m•t t advocate. Scotland we. peruape more intereated in
the maintenanceot protection than eves England was.

Ye- lase is pedal si iiss ware Me stiriesitand improve-

meets, not being morn than seventy yeah old. Town
and country were equally interested in this question,
and he was terry to say that in the high-
lands the desolation had begun. He feared that
it was to Scotland that this country owed a certain clam
called political economists. (" Hear, hear," and laughter.)
He did not mean the father of them, Adam Smith, whose
work Mr. Cobden took about with him, and whose comments
on him were to be valued at their true worth. Mr. M'Cul
loch, a Scottish political economist, who had been among the
earliest professors of free trade, had of late seemed to discover
that it was not so invaluable a boon u he had supposed. An-
other Se itch political economist, an ornament of the House
Commons—(laughter)—Mr.of Mliregor, bad won the
, hearts of the free traders by saying that the nation would
improve at the rata of two millions a week when the corn
law was swept awn, —(laughter)—and it was said in Glasgow
that he was the political tutor of Sir R ibert Peel.
Chia was an itge in which men had been lOW, befooled
by figures than anything else. Os ELier," and laughter.)
It had been a delusion in .former times that whatever ap-
peared in the newspapers must be true. That had paned
away, but figures and statistics had taken the place of that de-
lusion, and it was because statesmen had not seen the absur-
dity of this that the present misetief and distress had (in-
curred. Scotland of late years had been much commended
with regard to farming, and the farmers of England were
always told by Sir R ibert Peel and his followers to look at
the Lothians. In the beginning of this year the farmers of
the Lothians le atified that they were not only not making a
shilling, but that, under the present system, all their in-
dustry, skill, and frugality were in vain, as long as this in-
cubus weighed on them. (Hear, hear.) I• tem+ di covered
by a Mr. Ceded, whn was indoctrinating Sir R. Peel in agri-
culture, that they had not farmed high enough. Thegrowing
of potatoes on peat moss was advised by Mr. Caird as
the remedy for all want of protecion. Mr. Mechi—(laughter
and eheers)—a gentleman whou rat in were undeniable,
had been teaching the fanners to shave close, and the
evil spirit of free trade had at last gon• into Mr. Huxtabl. 'a
swine. (" liver," and laughter.) The misery of the High-
lands did sot date solely from the repeal of the corn laws,
but from the noxious tariffs of Sir It. Peel, which had re-
duced the price of produce ene half; and he believed that
the British fleet was now victualled by Lreien provision,.
(" Shame.") Free trade was weeding out the Highland.:
the stream of emigration was flowing from every port, and
sinless the government were made to retrace their steps,
Scotland would soon be brought to tee erudition she was
in when the Heritable Jurisdiction Act was repea'en ; and,
in short, she would become much what Ireland was.
The crowding of labourers from the country into
the towns was swamping the labour of the artisan
and was one of the causes of that distress which had been so
feelingly described by the Merning Cheonick. It seemed
that it was the object of the ministry end the free•tradera to
force all labour into the towns. For the first tine in hi•tory
a *big Chancellor of the Exchequer had a surplus which
would have been a large deficit but for the income tax laid
on by Sir R. Peel, by solemn promises that it was temporary
a d would be removed is a limited time. (Hear.) How
did that tax work on farmers ? Hai they paid it from their
profits ? (No, no.) Then it was a crying iniquity. The hon.
gentlemen concluded by express's,/ his oe!ies that the feel-
sees and determination of the agriculturists of E inland and
Scotland were united in obtaining the repeal of the tree
trade measures, and that when the red fires of St. George
and the white cr,ata of St. Andrew were blend, d ne feared
no Cobden. (Very great cheering.) He moved the follow-
ing resolution : " That this meeting attribu'es the depreision
and distress of the agricultural, colonial, shipping, and 'they
interests to the rash nd impolitic changes in the laws which
had long regulated the impertatam of foreign productions ;
that it is of opinion that those laws were based on the most
just principles and dictat id by the sounitst policy that,
Mill' their salutary iofi ience, the British nutlet, had at-
taked an unexampled state of pr verily and a proud pre-
emie, ore in the 'cafe of nations; Red that if their it cts
and spirit in fostering and protecting native industry he
finally abandoned, many of the most important interests
of the state will be sacrificed, and the national prosperity
and greatness be ruinously impaired."

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Sir MATTHEW WHITE RIDLEY, 71• rt, of Nerthi.m-
be eland, wended the reeoltrioi.. Hr had been deputed by
the agriculturists' of Northumberland to depose bet .re this
meeting to certain facts which had occurred in that county.
A deputation from that county had attended a preliminary
meeting yesterday, and placed a series of facts in his hands
to lay before the meeting, in order to m at certain declare
tions which has been made, most urjustifithly, in parlia-
ment with legged to N irthumberl and. Toe decided feeling
of the majority of the farmers of Narthumberlen I were
represented by him, and they denied that free trade had nut
affected their interest., bath agricultural and reining. A
circul-r had been printed stating certain tuts with regard to
the non-relinquishment of farm., the nog-reduetien of rents,
and the keeping up of wages, with which he was thereto &al.
It had been stated in parliament by Sir G. Grey, that there
had not been any diminution in it e wages of egricultund
labourers in the; part of Nnthumberlend with which
be was connected. Now, in the norther' divlden, and aloe
in part of the southern divisioa of the county, the labourer,
were hired in May by the year, and as this was said is Feb-
ruary, how was it possible that there could tee tiny reduction
in wages when the agreement of May, 1849, was still bind-
ing? (" Hear," and cheers.) In the southern nivision,
where men were not hoed by the year, wages had been much
reduced, and that in a week alter the declaration of Sir
George Grey. More farm, had been abandoned last year
than bed happened in many year.. Rents had been in
almost every inetence seduced, and tl.use rents that had been
paid had been paid out of capital. (Hear, bear.) In the
towns of Newcastle, Morpeth, Alowick, and Berrien. the
shopkeepers had nut anything like the business
they had been accustomed to do in former year",
by at leag thirty-fire per cent., and tite trades-
men in those towns stated that they never had
such difficulty in getting in their bills from their agricultural
cu•to,ners. Jr. Newcastle 7,000 persons were !Taira g out-
door relief, besides those who were in the workhouse, and
the rates had much increased. It Lad been siid by E irl
Grey, that he did not consider his estates in N.rthumberdenci
nad been depreciated in value. Now, that noble anti was
po•sessed of a faroi which was considered one of the priniest
and most valuable in the county in the barley and turcip
mils, and which was tenanted by a most intelligent and el -
terprising man. The rent paid ter it until this month was
2,2401. a year. The tenant had lately announced that he
could not pay more than 1,600 i. a year, which was refused,
and the farm was advertised, and the only tensible offer list
was made for it was ',VOL The consequence was. teat that
farm was now in the course of being occupied by Earl Grey
himself. (Haar, hear.) With these facts before Lim, would
he again tell the house that his property had not
depreciated. (Hear, bear.) He could secret that the county
of Northumberland had been depreciated in point of pro-
perty as regarded landlords, tenant., and tradesmen.
(Cetera.)
The resolution was put and carried.

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Mr. JOHN J. ALLNA CT. of Wallingford, Berke,
moved the next resolution : "'Chat no relief trona general or
local taxation, which is resistant with the maintenance of
national faith and Vie etficienc) of public establishments,
can enable the British and c-loni producer to maintain a
successful competition with foreign productione, and that
the only hope of replacing the age:cultural and other British
interests in a state of prosperity rests on the re-establistionnt
of a system of import duties."
Three distinct principles were enumerated in this resclu-
tioa The great establishments and insti:utiou of this
country had been jeopardised merely to try an experiment,
which had signally failed, and the loyalty for which the yeo-
manry was once so famed wu now shaken by these insane
laws. They had a right to say to any government theylhave
no right, end they dared not put their hand into your
pockets and rob you. (Great cheers.) It Wes said the
country had gained 91 millions from the agricultural inte-
rest, and if they had been robbed of this, had they not the
right to be exempted from taxation to that amount ? If
they were to be thus robbed, he warned the fundholder that
his turn would come, and the word " national faith" would
not be found in the vocabulary of the farmer. There ought
to be some understanding an to how those who were paid by
the state at rates which were consistent with corn, at ia/e. •
quarter, were now to be paid. Wrier' was the financial reform
feeling of Cubien and Bright when they refused to vote
for Mr. Henley's motion and supported the previous question.
The hon. gentleman then went at some length into the
question of the reduction of labourers' wages, and went oa
to say that the (semen ot England would not go " whin-
ing" to the House ot Commons, but wculd raise their heads
erect, and demand their riots. (Great cheering.)
Mr. WATSON, of Keeler (a Scotch farmer). seconded
the resolution—and said that he was deputed by the farmers
of Scotland to say, that they were heart and soul with the
protectionists ot that country—and while they had bzen
looking on with interest on the proceedings of this country.
they had not been quite idle, but had received the support of
• portion of the perm, which was neither to be bought nor
sold. (Hear, hear.) Those who had attempted to deceive
the tenant farmers of England with the humbug of Scotch
farming were not the practial farmers of that country.
This resolution was also carried unanimously.
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Mr. CALDECOTT, from Colchester, moved the nest re-
solution (the 6:12), entrusted to him by a body of dele-
gates: " That the members of the various delegations from
all parts of the United Kingdom now present, cannot win-
rate without recording their deep sense of the invaluable
services rendered to the cause of protection by the noble
President, the respected chairman of the acting committee,
and the other members of the committee of the Na'iossl
Association, in whom the whole agricultural commonly re-
pose the most deserved and unbounded coefileace, and they
earnestly recommend to their fellow-countrymen, who desire
the restoration of protection as the leading principle of legis.
lative policy, to 'tappet the association; and whatever di:-
retina of opinion may prevail on minor points, unitedly to
follow its energetic but prudent guidance, in the great
struggle in which they are engaged.'
Mr. MODEM, of East More, Sussex, seconded the reso-
lution, and in doing so made some remarks on the report of
the Times cammii-sioner on Sussex as to a farmer, in the
neighbourhood of Brighton, who had made • profit et 9001.
• year by his farm. It was utterly untrue. (Cheers.)
It was unanimously weed to.

Mr. GEORGE 110DDINOTON, of Batton Coldfield,
Warwickshire, moved tee neat resolution : t• That a me-
morial to the Bight lion, the First Lord of the Treasury be
prepared, foundsd on the foregoing resolutions, protesting in
the strongest manner against the continuance ut the present
sys:em of minified free trade,' and solemnly casing ou
the administration, of which his lordship' it, the head, the
hi.a.y responsibility of rejecting the appeals of the peop.o for
the abaniknment of that sy 'Urn ; sod that a deputation be
appointed fur the purpose of presenting the same to his lord.
ship, and of reprseenting te him the present critical and
alarming position of many districts of tbecountrj" —which
was seconded by Mr. tiaaur litociaris, of lirrefordshire,
and earned unanimously.
A vote of thanks to the noble chairman was moved by the
Kul of EULINTON and seconded by Lad Joaw Marais*.
situ which the meeting separated.