The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-05 00:00:00

I not by friends or_ relatives, but by my antagonists.— I
1 (Hear, hear) They have beplastered me with mud to 1
Ithe utmost possible extent; they have abused mu as
Imuch us ie is possible for any men to be abused, but I
shall not think it my duty on the present occasion to
follow any such bad exumele.—(Hear, hear.) I imagine,
gentlemen, that most of you have been on the Swifts
here. You have been indulging in the good Cumber-
land amusement of wrestling,—(Hear, hear.) I have
always observed that those who mean to keep their legs
keep their tempen--(Rear and laughter)—and the first
thing those who play a losing game are accustomed to
lose is their good humour.—(flear.) Now, I do not
mean to lose my temper on this occasion, or to say one
word which is disparaging to my opponents.—(Hear.)
Now, we are all aware how easy it is to blacken any
character, however pure. All that I have to do in re-
ference to any one of the best•dressed persons among
you is to hire a chimney-sweeper and ask him to stand
next to him and rub against him, and the purest and
whitest linen will be soiled by the dirty hand of thehired
sweep.—(Load cheers and laughter.) Gentlemen, it is
not my intention to have recourse to any such expedients
or to descend to any such language.—(Groans, and loud
cries of " CalcraEl Calcrattl" and counter cheers.) I
wish to recall to you the higher duties you have to per-
form on the present occasion. It Le impossible to over-
estimate the great importance of the decision which the
electors of England are now called upon to come to.
Her Majesty has appealed to the decisions of her people,
and the First Minister of the Crown himself has said
that he throws himself upon his country; that country
you are, and yen ara called upoe to make a good deli-
verance.--(Cheers.) Now, gentlemen, I conceive that the
questick :trolly at issue between us is one in which there
is netA }mean whom I am now itodreSsitig who has not a
deep 'Erkstortal- Intettette-e(ljteartleeteasiti, when I. wage
here last, that it was bioernitiie very difficult to feed a
Protectioeist anywhere, and I ventured to foretell that
there would be scarcely any among the candidates tor
cities sand boroughs.--(A Voice—" Remember 1829,"
and cheiers.) My friend there asks mo it I rembember
1624 —4:Uproar, and cries of " Hoist him up," "Turn
him 0u,,." and "Send him to Mushroom-hell.") The
noise stud cries of "Put him down" continuing, Sir
James said, "Oh, no ; let him have fair play, let him
speak ; let him come upon the platform and he shall be
heard.''..—oreiceB e e
"II ' filled with yellow drink.") Yk,l3
shall all, have a fair hesri ; give me one, and he shall
have ou:e too ; he reters °tog '29. My friend, don't you
forget what took 46larce, in the year 1832, when I, as a
teemher of Lord Gt2_vi-rornent,' took an activ, part in carrying tee- Reform
the fra ritelise.—(e‘h,ers
a°3ndU,ll, which greatly enlarged
ep ,cti toes go back to. Go bark toI care not wile,
'27 ; and I ask you,
who wcis the wan who helped to re
give freedePnee'le the "feat and
Corpor aqua Acts, and
of the corpora-
tion of this country?—(Hear, hear
men Rome and Irvieg ) Go (saelrtom Alder-
friend eugg sc., to '29. West vies thea mey
I took in '29 ? Did I not atand forward, in pjt '
- re..:iPeues
of intieh obl,,qay, in de'es ce of civil and I:
liberty ?S—(Cheese) Go back, too, to '3l. Who car-
ried tne R form Bill, together with Ltrd Grey and Lurd
J. Itus:sell?—(tear.) Go hack to 1835. Who sup-
p tried reuneepel reform?—(L -ad cheers from the cm-
poratioie-) I remember the day when the Lord-Lieu-
tenant of the county used to come into this very hell,
and nominate the mayor for the year; and go and ask
at that place in Ftsher-street—go to Mushroom-hall—
(Applause and counter cheers)—:and ask Mr., Hodgson
who pee sed tbat measure --(Hear.) Do you wish to re-
fer to ritly other epi,eh?—(Upeuar.) Go back to 1842;
go back, if you will, to 1829; go back to 1835; go back
to 1842 e. Wno in 1842 louent the battle iogeeber with Sir
R. Pe el, and introduced the system of tree trade into
this country ?—(lnterruetious and uproar, and cries of
' "Away with them," " More yellow drink," " Take him
to Mils b +oam-hall," &o.) I ask of you to remember
1842. It was in the year 1842 that my late lamented
friend, Sir R. Peel, laid the Mutilation of the free-trade
system..--(Cheers and groans.) From 1842 to 1846 I
steadily supported that system, and in the year 1846,
or rather towards the close of 1845 and in the be-
ginning of 1846, it became apparent to him and to me
that the repeal of the corn-laws was indispensably
nocessery for the prosperity of the people of this
country.—(Cheers.) Well—did we hesitate to risk
power,, to sacrifice our ambition, to surrender the sup-
port of the strongest party ever led by a poweriul
Minister, when once satisfied that the interests of the
people demanded that sacrifice?—(Cheere.) Well, now,
who were the people who broke up that Government?
Who overe they that made common cause with their bit-
terest political opponents for the sake of wreaking their
vengeance upon Sir Robert Peel and myself, because
we were of opinion that there was no sacrifice on our
part which should not bo made to secure the repeal of
those ,obnoxious laws? I ask you, who were they ?,Are
they not the precise individuals who have now risen to
power by the cry of " Protection?"—(Hear, hear,) By
no other means whatever have they risen to power, and
now hewing risen to that envied position, are ready
to kick down the ladder by which they were raised to
the giddy height they occupy, and to renounce that
protection by which they alone succeedd to office.—
(Hear, and cheers.) I told you when I was here last
that the framers and advocates of this—(lnterruptien)
—I told you—(Cries of '` Calcratt!" end groaning
and counter-cheers)—l told you before that no
person would venture to appear before a Carlisle consti-
tuency avowing frankly a desire, or his intention to
support the re-imposition of the corn-laws; and in that
aniicioation I have not been deceived.—(tieur, hear.)
There is now hardly any city or borough in which a
Peotectionist can be found frankly avowing his purpose;
at the same time, you must boar in mind that. however
—(Uproer, which continuer] some moments). Do you
choose to give me a hearing or 1..1? " Thatiln.. is the queer
tion.—(Cries of `• No" end "Y, s, h groans and
cheers.) [IE.. Rome—N': mite), Sir James, it is only
i rity with you.]
one or two; you have the great mei
.coontinued—l wee
Sir J. Graeae], with this assurance,
saying that it is absolutely neeessarY,sltf you wish to give
era...Jo:cite din-C-
-o:feet to tree-trade principles. you
a analdadoubtlut supporters,
tion of that pollay, not to Ciii.... --- ~ ,
rtow, if you ad-
but to warts end undoubted friends.
here to the letter, the letter isco--
id gnu wants life and
animation, lied will fed to give the desihed h ffecte, hut
tee sincere friend to which
it is the aniwatitig spirit of te
e iEj
it ought to be eutrustiare—e
..
Poar and shouts.)
K' neck that me!.
down. Telco him back Dlr. Counc'llor Connell --
so. Mushroom-hall."—
D
(Loud laughter.)] It
Pretended
been effected that
The corn-lass wale abol is etended that when
shed all
you hive a right to desire. Now, I altogether deny
that proposition. I saythat much yet imams to be
dune in the eati-nsioe of trc
.1 trade, in which ell of
you have the greatest possible interest.—(Rear. hear.)
I ventured to say in the Lions° of Commons, and I repeat
it here, that with regard to the corn-laws, I don't be.
lieve there is a ploughboy in England—l don't believe
there is a weaver—l don't believe there is an old wife in
the country, who does not iv &rattled that her position
has been bettered by what bee already teken place.
(Cheers stet uproar.) Now, if you will persevere in that
policy,—(Grosns)—if you will persevere in it, much
still remains to be done. lam satisfied, such is that in
creasing revenue of this country by the -
reduction of
taXstion, in consequence of the establishment
trade, that if the Government steadily adhere to itsof free
ciples, and honessly endeavour% to give effect to ittoprithn-
greatest possible degree, before i
e
.ton • e
~ it will be quite
compatible with the politic interest and the •
public credit
to reduce the duty upon tobacco and many articles of
prime eecessity. and to repeal many other taxes which
press on the great body of the people. I may mewl°..
,
more particularly tea, soap, ci, ,
eeer, and many othee
articles which enter into the use and consumption of
almost all who hear eae.
—(tt ._
eae, and some uproar.)
Now lam Wiener. 1 vvon't weary you by referring
to figutes--(intertuption.) If I were to refer to
figures I could, show you that, in last
four mouths,
tncre has been a great andthe
progressive increase in
the consumption of all those • articles which are con-
sumed by the great body f o the people. I would
mention more particularly such as tea, coffee, sugar,
spirits, tobecco —iu short, all those things' which
constitute the comforts of the humblest classes of
society; and it is impossible, therefore, to contradict the
fact that this policy is intimately connected with the in-
terests and the comfort of the great body of those will
hear me.—(Hear, hear.) Now, gentlemen, I should jto
wish shortly to refer to some other topics. The Prime
Mioister of this country has said that tie will ntwar
aenaci
to you only upon the single subject of the cornelobteged,
free trade, but that he wishes the issue to
rebivehether he
teed to take the sense of the country 1190-0-oficie„,, or
and his supporters are entitled to a.
r iY:irstra are not rather
whether your own tried populal-r thee. is the issuo
more worthy of that support. That,
odecide,—(Uproar and
you are to-day called. upon
to
recently taken even in
cheers.) Just look at the course just
passe ~....
u (Another
the short session of Partlien.s
duration.) Now I am
interruption of some m° deepest interest in ' • have 113 e insuring
quite certain you u
t prac:ioes at elections—(He r
the avoidance of corh.Pthe
present Lesaion, 8.)
' Lord John Kasselk °
eelmaneons a bill to chock
introduced
these cor-
into the Rouse vfNow,
mark tl • .
in tits in rote-
rapt praciee
,' es.
ure The C •
that men. , eovortimeeit introducsd
relics to t.
varioas c...3-,-. .
e ewes into that rueesuee, ell tending to di-
minish its
• efficiency. There was a ptovieion in it
Cornelis -. ‘ • • into
which enabled the sten to inquire corrupt
Pr3e
. deft; and treeteing at clectiens immediately preceding
au, one which gave rise to the inqeirv. That most
wholesome prevision, at the instance
wes veitletraen.—(Cheers and of the Government,
groans ) Again, it was
competent to the douse of C i;ninerts, by an address to
the Crown on their part, without the concurrence of the
house ouse of
Lora;;, to move that, a Commisdon of Inquiry
be
Issued. By an amendment introduced it was d.cmed I
that the
. concurrence of the House of Lords in such ad-
dress shoul.l bo necessary.—(Hear.) Now, I do not
wish invidiously to refer to former proceedings in this
very ow} i _
but still certain proceedings were brought
wider the consideration of a Committee of the Howe of
Commons in 1847; and chat was the result ? Tne elec-
tion was declared void —(Roar, hear.) Now, by the
decision lately adopted, all inquiry into the proceedings
of that election is impossible. And this is the Govern-
ment that pretends to have at heart purity of elections.
—(Cheers and groans) G _nth. men, I conceive that
the education of the people is a master of the very
greatest importance. It has been said, very falsely,
of me that I and under clerical influence, and am anxious
t- unduly to uphold the power and authority of the clergy.