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approbation of the kingdom. lam told that the riots
at Stockport were caused by that proclamation. Why,
if the proclamation had not been issued the same dis-
order would have taken place in fifty parts of the king-
dom.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, instead of this measure
tending to excite the Roman Catholic population, it was
the providential cause of maintaining peace and of sav-
ing the country from bloodshed. And our precautions,
gentlemen, were so great, that we previously interfered
with the Orange processions which were understood to
come off in Ireland. This was the course we took, gen-
tlemen, instead of being guided by those sordid and
selfish motives which are the tactics of party.—(Hear.)
We shall, gentlemen, with your permission, carry out
our views of policy on all these matters with more effi-
coney, and, I believe, with more success in the new Par-
liament.—(Cheers.) It is my firm conviction that the
Government of Lord Derby will meet Parliament in the
autumn with an absolute majority.—(Cheers.) To me
that is not a subject of doubt. And the Ministry shall,
therefore, no longer have to meet a hostile Parliament,
or be restrained in it; policy by an overpowering Oppo-
sition. We shall meet Parliament prepared to do our
duty, under a firm conviction that the country will
steadily support us. My Honourable Friend ()Ir.
Dupre) has referred to the position in which the
country would be placed if the Government did not suc-
ceed. Gentlemen, I will not conceive the alternative;
but at the same time no one can be blind to the fact
that the Opposition will create its organisation upon re-
volutionary principles.--(Hear, hear.) Happy was the
prescience of Lord Derby when he told the Whig oppo-
sition that the pear was not ripe last year.—(Laughter.)
The Whigs were in office. They have shown us their
character, and their policy has been received with uni-
versal scouting by the country; and they cannot, gentle-
men, attain to popularity again, except by calling to
their councils the Jacobin Clubs of Lancashire.—(Loud
laughter.) But I feel, gentlemen, that the present Go-
vernment is necessary for the preservation of the English
constitution; but the future institution of the Opposition
already peeps from its shell and developes its horns, and
from that shell the Opposition cannot emerge except
enveloped in the shrine of sedition.—(Continued laughter.)
change in the Institutions of the country will be the
condition of its success; and you must indeed be false to
all your professions—false to that high spirit which
Englishmen have ever shown—false to the traditionary
associations of your country, if you suffer an Opposition
founded upon such principles to govern this nation. Well,
then, gentlemen, when we meet in the county hall on
Friday, I want to know if you will support the princi-
ples and practices which I have so feebly detailed?—
(Loud cries of " Yes, yes.") Will you be prepared to
say, "We shall have justice done to the soil—(Yes
yes)—we shall have our legislation conceived in the
spirit of the age—(Yes, yes)—which is the spirit of
justice."—(Cheers.) Will you be prepared to say, , We
,
will have the Protestant constitution of this country
preserved, not with the sectarianism of bigots',
but with
those who believe that Protestantism is the only safe-
guard
of English liberty."—(Loud cheers.) These gen.
,t
dawn, are the issues before you. Be prepared to fightagainst those difficulties and compunctions
which an un-
wise and eccentric opposition may create, and in the
ancient spirit of the men of hire, which
has conquered in times that are past, and which now, I
believe, will carry us on to that higher triumph which
yet awaits us.—(Loud and repeated cheering.)
Toasts followed, and the spirit of th
maintained for some time, when Mr. Dapm and
r.
Disraeli returned to town. a rneetirg w_as

SUFFOLK (EAST).
The nomination and election of two knights of the
shire, to curve in Parliament for the eastern division of
the county of Suffolk, took placa yesterday
( Wedues-
day) on hustings erected on the Cornhill, Ipswich, in
the presence of Mr. Anstruther, the Sigh Sheriff of the
county, and a great concourse of persons- There was
ne contest on the cccasion candidates being
rSiierliFsti,t,zrwohyo reKepllryesaenndt. a SirtnEe.SG the onl y
division
at the close of the
occb, both Ministe.
,
last Parliament.
Mr. W. C. FONNEREAII proposed, and captain F. COR-
tureen seconded, Sir E. S. Gooch; and Sir Fitzroy
Kelly was nominated and seconded, respectively, by
Colonel BENCE and Mr. N. BeitmenorP•
The HIGH SHERIFF then asked if any other elector
had a candidate to nominate, and no reply being made,
he declared Sir E. S. Gooch and Sir Fitzroy Kelly to
have been duly elected.
Sir E. S. GOOCH said, he was grateful for the honour
they had done him, which was one of the greatest that
i
could be bestowed on an English commoner in his native
county.th,irlocal
Furnt e
rtehset
ef,u
andtu re
tohe
thosewouldo
sedulously
them in Parliament, and they
country attend
large.to
This was the third time they had elected him to repre-
sentmight rely on it that
the confidence they had again reposed in him should
never be abused. He should be a humble supporter of
the Government of Lord Derby, for to that nobleman
and his Administration alone they mast look now for
the good of the country.—(Cheers and derisive laugh.
ter.) On the subject of Protection, he was afraid they
should not have a re-imposition of the duty en foreign
corn—(A laugh)—but under the auspices of the present
good Government he hoped that taxes would be removed
and the saddle put upon the right horse.—(Cheers.)
Although John Bull was a good horse, he was at
present over-weighted, and all he (Sir E. S. Gooch)
wanted to see was his carrying no more than his fair
weight in a fair race.—(Cheers.)
Sir FITZROY KELLY, who was received with cheers,
mingled with partial disapprobation, said—lt now be-
comes my pleasing and welcome duty to return you my
sincere and heartfelt thanks for the distinguished honour
which you have just conferred on me, an honour which
I assure you no man in England more highly appre-
ciates than myself.—(C beers.) This is not the first
time on which I have had to thank you for having con-
ferred that distinction upon me; but when I came be-
fore you on the last occasion, it was under circumstances
very different from those under which I now have the
ter t a wouldi
that e nht tplee
liet
satisfaction of presenting myself to your notice. Upon
that occasion I was comparatively unknown, and alto-
gether untried (Oh oh! laughter, andcounter
cheers)—but I had something to point at in
my earlier
and
I andl ventureddid
notto hopeen
me,
county,
iwnhvearai na. y St oh minek
hyaodu
nwoht ot
the
er ee
onnofiwd
elistening
hties and
remember that for several weeks my pretensions
unanimously before he entireelected bod
then,y o a
st hle h
ave t electors,he
tee honour of being unanimously elected now ( 11ud
I believe that I was chosen not from s.)
m any merits of my
own, but because you believed—and I hope you did not
believe without just grounds—that I was attached to the
same principles, identified with the same views and in-
terests as yourselves, and that it was not my custom to
depart from those principles which I had professed when
gratification and
that werewa
asking the suffrages of any constituency, should they
place me in the proud position of advocating their
in-
terests in the Commons House of Parliament. I believe
also I came before you with confidence in the supportl
should receive, not only on the grounds I have stated,
but because I was known to be a member of that Go.
vernment which stands between this people and demo.
cracy—(Loud cheers and uproar)—which;stands betwee
our constitution and revolution—which stands between
the prosperity and the destruction of the agricultural
interest of this country.—(Renewed cheers and confusion.)
I ought no longer to detain you without coining a,
once to the great question which agitates the country,
which you are assembled here to lend your aid in de-
termining, and on which our institutions, our constitu-
tion, the monarchy, and the church, depend for their
existence or their destruction.—(Cheers,) The gees,
tiou is, whether you will, by your representatives in
Parliament, and by the power with which the constitu-
tion has invested you, support and advance what is called
the doctrine of free trade in this country, or whether
you are satisfied that it has already done enough of
evil, and are ready to withstand its further progress, or
at least its progress in the same direction, with all the
power which the constitution has enabled you to confer
on your representatives in Parliament.—(Cheers and
disapprobation.) I desire especially, while addressing
the assembled body of those whom I am proud and
happy to call my constituents—(lronical laughter)—not
to be misunderstood on this all-important occasion. It
is easy, indeed, for those who speak in the absence of
others of whom they speak—it is easy for certain
newspaper writers, to whom most public men have as
little leisure as inclination to reply in print in their
own coining—it is easy, I say, for persons on such
occasions to misrepresent the sentiments, the, principles,
and the language of any public man.—(Hear, hear.) I
have—but I do not complain of it—come in for my full
share of such misrepresentation, not only for the few
weeks which preceded the last election, when you were
pleased to return me to Parliament, but during every
month and week and day, I had almost aid(' every hour,
which has elapsed from that time to the present. It
has been supposed that I denied the beneficial conse-
quences to the country of all the measures brought for-
ward in Parliament by the late Sir Robert Peel. Let
me Bet myself right on this matter, and if I only have
the honour of your attention I will endeavour to make
Clearly intelligible to the understanding of every man
who hears me the extent to which I supported and do
now approve of those measures, and the dividing line
beyond which I held, and still hold, that they were
productive of nothing but evil and injustice to many of
the more important class of the community. I was of
opinion that those measures under which import duties
were repealed on a great number of articles of constant
and daily consumption by all classes of the people were
calculated greatly to benefit the great mass of the
community, and that they had that effect throughout
the whole realm of England. But when I comp to
the last, and I lament to say the crowning act of
the Government of Sir Robert Peel—when I come
to the repeal of the corn-laws, which took place
in 1846—it is there that 1 stop—it is there that :I
protest—it is there that I deny any substantial good;
and I affirm that that measure was followed by un-
mitigated evil.—(Cheers and disapprobation.) Does it
require the aid of argument or of eloquence to prove to
you practical men—the most of you engaged in the pur-
suit of agriculture—the mischievous results of a mea-
sure which, while it left every burden untouched and
undiminished, which pressed upon the productive in-
terests of the country, had the inevitable effect—by in-
troducing competition with untaxed foreigners over, I
had almost said, the entire surface of the globe—of
rendering it impossible for the cultivators of the soil in
this country to realise those prices for their produce
wtehrthe,iecceh..u_iwtivoantlodrroefmunerate them for the expense of raising
it from the earth? Such was the effect of the repeal of
mopienriashtieodn.s'
the corn-laws in 1846, which rendered it impossible for
thesoil in this country to carry on with
while rates p
competition
d every burden
which " and taxee and tithes, an
presses d tends to embarrass his
the fearful to which he was exposed,
on the land an
tends from the IQafndlord to- thetutreanlanu
The entire.y u
I nrelaxed and undi-
and feel. • , ha confined to any particular
branch or class 8
he result has been, what all of you know
not been
the agricul
and fromtomfamrmunerit,y,but ex-

the tenant farmer to the labourer, involving within its
terrible and fearful consequences every man, woman, and
child whose interests are identified with agriculture.—
(Cheers.) I think I shall be able to satisfy you—if
you—thattyiot
iuorn own
painful experience has not already satisfied
the effect of this unchecked comps-
between the producers of grain in this country
and the cultivators of the soil in other countries
where there is little or no taxation at all, must
be to bring an influx orenders it utterly impossible for you to obtain the
of corn into this country, which
price which alone will enable every one of you, of what-
ever class or conditiontoliveand to pay your debts at the
end of every year of your life. When you consider that
these consequences have fallen on all of you, I think I
may confidently ask your support for that Government
which is pledged and determined to withstand the fur-
progress of that fatal system of legislation to
you and your families, and your important class,
thwhahnvirli
have been made the victims. Before I quit this subject
I must be permitted to ask—and I eppeal with confi-
dence even to those who differ from me—whether in the
face of actual returns to Parliament, tewhich I will now
briefly call your attention, it can be said—whatever may
bbrethe case with some few limited classes of the com-
munity—that the whole mass of the people have been
really and substantially benefited by free trade? I here
repeat, without dread of contradiction, what I have
over and over again affermed in a neighbouring county,
and in many places in this county, that the effect of the
free-trade legislation in 1946, and the great influx of corn
into this country from abroad, was not to put one addi-
tional pound of bread per annum into the mouths of
the people of this country.—(oh, oh, and laughter.)
I will prove it. This Statement has been often denied
and often controverted, but never disproved—never re-
futed; and I undertake, if there be truth in the returns
to which I have alluded, to satisfy the moat doubting
and the most hostile among you that I rather under-
stated than overstated the truth, when I affirmed that
fact on the occasion to which I have referred. It has
been said that upwards of 3,000,000 quarters of wheat
more were imported in 1850 and 1851 than in 1845 and
1846, before the repeal of the corn-laws took place. A
similar or a proportionate increase in other grains—
such as barley, oats, and other agricultural produce—has
additional corn and grain, and the bread
place; and it has thence been inferred
that
ouul
lb t
thistak en
that was made from it, went to increase the food of the
various classes of this country, and, therefore, the com-
forts and enjoyments of the people. While I admitted,
as I do now, the truth of the fact that there was this
increase in the importation, I venture to assert that the
food, the comforts and enjoyments of the people, have
been in no wise increased; have not, taking them as a
mass, been increased at all; for if 3,000,000 more quar-
ters have been imported, 3,000,000 quarters less nave
been produced in this country.—(Cheers.) The effect,
therefore, is this, that while there is no increase to
the comforts, to the food, or to the enjoyments of the
people, there is the sale at a profit, the producing at a
remunerating price, of upwards of 3,000,000 quarters
of wheat in favour of foreigners, to the prejudice
end loss of the British producer.—(Hear, hear.) Now,
let me trouble you with the very driest of all subjects,
with what we call " statistics" when we meet in another
place. I will call your attention to a statement founded
on returns made to Parliament, of which, mind, lem
not the author—the author is a gentleman of repute,
Mr. Hutsack, of the Temple. It is a statement founded
on returns made to Parliament of the quantities of wheat
grown in this country and in Scotland and Ireland du-
ring several years before and including the year 1846;
and in the several years since 1846, terminating with,
but including 1851. Now, bear in mind that the in-
creased importation, which is said to be so much in-
crease in the food of the people, amounts to something
more than 3,000,000 quarters of wheat. That is the
difference between 1850 or 1851, and 1846 or 1845.
Now, what is the quantity of wheat produced and sold
la this country? In 1844, there were 5,456.307 quitters
of wheat produced in England; in 1845, 6,666,240 quar-
ters; and in 1846, 5,958 962 quarters. The fair average
of that production, taking the three years, was somewhere
about 6,000,000 quarters of wheat produced in England by
the farmers and the cultivators of the soil. Now, let us see
the years that succeeded. In 1849—for the returns
pass over the intermediate years before free trade had
had a fair trial—in 1849, when the Act of Parliament
hed first a complete effect, the production was 4,459,983
quarters; in 1850, 4,688,274 quarters; and in 1851,
4,487,041 quarters. Taking the fair average and
speaking in round numbers, that would be a production
in England of about 4,500,000 quarters per annum since
the repeal of the corn-laws. Then what is the diffe-
rence? That while in the three years before the re-
peal of the corn laws the British cultivators of the soil
produced and made a
profit on 6,000,000 quarters of
wheat, in the three years succeeding the repeal that
important class had fallen off in their production to
4,500,000 quarters. Here is an annual loss and dimi-
nution in the production of wheat in this country of
1,500,000 quarters per annum. I shall not weary you
by going into detail figure by figure, with respect to
the diminution in Scotland and Ireland, but I pledge
myself it will be found on reference to these returns
that the diminution is greater in Ireland, and some-
what leas in proportion in Scotland. The result of the
whole is that nearly 3,500,000 quarters of wheat less
were produced in England, Scotland, and Ireland
during the three years after free trade had
had a fair trial, than in the three years be-
fore the passing of the Act. Now, with regard to oats,
in 1845 and in 1846 there were about 2,000,000 quarters
of oats produced in each year in this country. In 1850
and 1851 the production of oats in this country was
under 1,000,000 quarters; so that while you find the
falling-off in the production of wheat in this country
lamounts to one-fourth of the whole quantity, you find
that in oats the production is reduced from 2,000,000 to
less than 1,000,000 of quarters. And this is the sys-
tem
electors on that side of the market-place, bold out as so
of free trade which some of my friends, the worthy
strikingly beneficial to the people of this country. Two
of the best tests of the prosperity of the great body of
England and
le-
vied throughout Wales for the relief of the
poor, and in the amount of money deposited in savings
ban
the people are found in the amount of the poor-rates
ks by that class of the community whose prosperity
we seek to promote. Let us look at the question of the
poor-rates,
because I have read in a newspaper, and even
on the authorityhighhonour of Rigserving under her Majesty—l
hof a ht Hon. Baronet, with
whom I had the
Sir James Graham, who has recently been re-
mean f Carl/310 on free-trade principles.—(Great
turned 'or
_.. applaud him, d t
for he is a man of transcen an
you may
t before you make him your Member here
cheering from.the.L.ihmer,al Party. in the crowd.) Oh,
bu
e questioas with regard to the agriculture of
and the measuresby which he would sup-
the country, and
• erest. But it has been said by Sir James
port that
and by others, that tho amount levied by poor-
Graham' • • 'n of
is fair criterion
ability;khim soma questioas
the general prosperity of the
rates a .
and it has been asserted that the amount of
been far less sin the repeal of the corn-
laws
poor
during the three years before 1846. But
laws than
nthe facts? There was in 1845—(" Aye, that's
what arc.le-,,,
t and laughter)—yes, but it is a true brief,
your brief,
you ill listen you will learn something from it.
and if g )In 1845 there • d for the
relief cheers.) was raise
-_(Counter
poor in England and Wales 6,791,006/.
relief of the
tt, much had the .poor out of it?") I hope they
(`` EL°- whole of it. This I know, that we paid it all.
country
sad the ,tura raised for the relief of the poor was
In 1846 L.
~,,q/ (,4 in 1847, 6.964,825/ ; in 1848, 7,817,410/.;
6,Boo,u`—' "7,674,1461.; in 1850, 7,270,4931.; and
poor-rated has
in 149'6,778,914/. : making, therefore, in round
in 1851,
numbers, the fair average amount levied for the relief
in England and Wales nearly, if not ex-
-0,000/. sterling a year more than before
ceeding, I,oos
were repealed. It is easy for manufac-
turer", corn-
leawf r those well-paid labourers who have not
turere, On,.
for
effects of this fearful course of
t felt the .t to themselves, and laud and rejoice
ye point legislation, to r
of the poor
taking such towns as Manchester, Liver-
prosperity of the country; bat, remem-
ber, I am
Stockport, any more than the counties of Sul-
pool, or , I am taking the entire kingdom
folk or Ess"-sa far from your system of free trade
together ;
and,
increased the general prosperity of the country,
having llion a year has been required to support
in the increuaosted
the poor since than
its completion.—(Cheers.) Now, I see
more than a Lin
had arrived before the entire system of free trade
at rkino• classes before me, who doubtless
several of the
it
feel the inestimable
: condition or station in society. They
ever may be their t advantagest' of independence, what-
are the most irarithe well-being, but the very existence
for on their labour de-
pends, not merelY:hrtca:mt community; and it is well to see
of the rest
be able, on behalf of themselves and
benefitted as to increase their investments in
legislative changes, they are so far
their whether,
ta
ma fitleirensfg,rte-aet
Now I
deposited in savings savings banks. Nowbanks
was
29,504,8611,; in 1845,
find in 1844 the amount
31,743,250/. Here we advance
30,748,8684; and Lie - In 1846 was passed the measure
to the dividing line:e, beseeching your cool and calm
to which I am n 0,6 that Act began to operate upon
attention. From 1"
important class of the community
that numerous and sits in savings banks; and
the deposits who contributed to
t of deposits from the close of
now let us see the amount
fell from 31,743,2501, to
that year. In 1847
tii
fell to 28,114,1361.; in 1849 to
30,207,1801.; in 1848 -- ttoothe last year to which we
28,537,0104; and in 185 u
no,gst 846,
In
have an accurate return
Ito
system,s6 34—0
(f
lifreeaer' trade,
the last year before this u
e corn-laws, began to operate,
based on the repeal of tne. country contributed no less
this
the labouring classes 01 --ritiOini2i7te,
;ea banks; but in 1850, when
than 31,743,2501. to saving
taken full effect, this
the repeal of the corn laws
contribute 27,198,5631. in
same class was only able
off iat°the profits and savings, and that way--a falling 0- tt and happiness of this
therefore in the comforts, peace,
iimmit to the amount of
important class of the "21-1 believe in my conscience, 1,500,000/, in „„evenee,i as
f, , with which we are now
of this change in the corn-laws.
of the country.
I as for the consideration
a question rather than over-.
I am reminded that I have understated
diminution,
the corn-
stated this amount, and that
nearer 4,000,000/. than
Paring 1846 with 1850, is a d that, whatever may
1,500,0001. If, therefore, we find this
be the caseof the people 0 f
with certain classes -
with the well-paid
country, whatever may be the ease
; es towns, who have not
workmen in large manufacturing menu —if
yet felt the effect of this coarse
of legislation
get we
find, when we take the whole of the community together,
it is adversity and loss, and not
gain and prosperity,
and if we
which this change in the law has produced;
into the de-
find, when we look a little more minutely
legislation to that groat
tails of the consequences of this
whom Edmund
class of the community with respect to
of statesmen,declared that it was un-
Burke, the wisest
with the farmers
wise and dangerous to try experiments
e if we find, taking
of Great Britain---(A. derisive laugh/
the three clasees of which they are ceinp -oged, that they
• landlords are un-
are reduced to this condition. that tne
d cheers)
able to obtain their rents—(Laughter an —even
comp
that to make—.
after the deduction's they are come • •
• and toiling from
that the tenant farmer, after working
one end of tho year to the other, and expending the
sweat of his brow, so far from gainin• g has sustained a
,