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.. (Hear.) Those duties on
constitute a direct tax upon one of
ant of our cereal products. Take off . au,
and not only the value of that produce iuld
increased, but the sale for it would be enormousll r
ftoerettiho
trpgehezrrgaootetadw:nrauddetseeottlioal.l Well, do you call that unrestricted com. •
petition ? Is that carrying out the principle of free
trade ? Now, take Ireland, and take some portions
of England, as illustrating another part of the
question of free trade. lam prepared to say that
there is a great district in Ireland, and there is a
certain extent of land in England, which could
aagc
col le:
roo a.p m Nogreatermuoniwntidr than
fobydfiooutwut yo
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eiyttocr uaa
levieddns
trade
—vnne any other
yowyp eirwith
regard much
tobacco
bbur
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uuen unrestricted trt ihcet e d competition
prohibition
that
an t the
yot
im market
to al! competitors. Well, you stand in this position,
the
utilise the soil of
this country for the growth of to-
baCco, in order
of so many millions a year upon the importation of
foreign tobacco. "Well, is that unrestricted com-
petition P But Igo further, gentlemen, I ask
you is it common sense—Is it reasonable ? Is it
rational? Is it tolerable ? But
thinking as strongly
as I do upon the wrongs of the rural districts, I
would ask, is there any other interest in this coun-
try to be found which would submit for one hour
or for one minute to the intolerable injustice which
I have just brought before you ?
(Cheers.) We have
only ourselves to blame. Fight sour own battles
with the means which you have. Disregard all
questions of party and fight the interest of
the rural
districts of this country. Whenever the time comes
for the revision of the representation, bear this fact
in mind—that there is but one real grievance now
existing which requires a remedy, and that is the
inadequate representation of the rural districts.
Bear this in mind; fight your battle now to a man
without flinching. Whenever you have to discuss
the question of reform, say at once, 4, We are the
majority of the people of England, and no reform
shall take plate till our grievances have been
remedied." •
Mr. BRAMPTON GIIRDON, M.P., also responded
to the toast, and said that though a member of Par-
liament would ill fulfil the duties of his situation if
he did not do his best to support the agricultural
interest, his experience warned him that to rely upon
any extraneous assistance from what Parliament
could do, or was likely to do, would prove again, as
it had done before, a broken reed.

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STAMPED ...Aid.

Mr. Bentinek, RP., on Foreign and Home
Affairs.

Last evening the Marshland Agricultural Asso-
ciation held its annual dinner at Terrington, St.
Clement's, near King's Lynn, the Rector of Hitting-
ton, the Rev. H. Flokes, presiding. Mr. G. W. P.
Bentinck, M.P., and Mr. B. Gurdon, M.P., were
amongst the company. In reply to the toast of his

health,
Mr. BENTINCK said—Gentlemen, you cannot for-
get that we all have our opponents, and that even
agricultural associations have theirs; and amongst

the various opponents we have bad no more active
nor powerful one than the 7 Imes newspaper. There
are, probably, very few present who do not read the
fines, and I will appeal to you whether we have
not seen in the course of the last few years a series
of attacks upon associations of this kind, upon the
objects for which they were instituted, and upon the
results which were likely to accrue from them. Now,
gentlemen, that newspaper is a very powerful an-
tagonist. It is powerful from its wide circulation—
it is powerful from the almost unrivalled ability of
its writers, and it is also powerful from the equally
unrivalled power of sarcasm and sophistry which it
brings to bear upon every question with which it
deals. (Hear, hear.) I would ask you to remember
that the Times, though professing to be the organ
of public opinion, is more especially and notoriously
the organ of those who financially, and, therefore
politically, are the avowed antagonists, and I might
almost say the enemies, of the rural districts of this
country. It is the organ of the great capitalists.
It is the organ of those whose interest it is to see
dear money and cheap labour. Now I apprehend
that the interests of the rural districts is to see
cheap money with a remunerative result for labour,
and the produce of Viat labour; and I venture to
say to you, and I appeal to the proof of history,
that there is no country in the world which may
not be tested by that result. Wherever you find a
full remuneration for labour, and for the produce
of labour, you will find the wealth and the pros-
perity of that country on the increase ; wherever
you find the value of labour, consequent
upon the decrease of the value of the produce of
that labour, falling, you will find disaster. That I
hold to be an axiom which no one will venture to
dispute, and if he does dispute it ho will dispute the
history of the world. I have always considered
that the interests of the landowner, of the occupier,
and of the agricultural labourer, are one and iden-
tical. (Cheers.) They are inseparable; they cling
together by the closest ties, and there is but this
distinction between them—that, unfortunately, in
this world the man who has the least feels the
pinch the soonest. With that exception, I for one
contend that there is no possible distinction to be
drawn between the interests of the landowner, the
occupier, and the agricultural labourer. They must
sink or swim together. When one does well, all do
well ; when one does badly, all do badly ; and it is
by their union that they can preserve their position
in the country. The limes—acting wisely, I ad-
mit, is its own generation—has endeavoured to sow
dissension among those classes ; it has endeavoured
to show that these associations were got up for sel-
fish and for useless purposes, and that the rewards
offered were inadequate to the merit of the services
which were praised. I venture to think for one
that those attempts will fail throughout the rural
districts of this country; and I will only ask you to
remember when you read the limes—however much
interested you may be by the great ability of the
writers, however much amused you may be by
the amount of sarcasm and sophistry which they
bring to bear upon this question—that it is an ex-
ponent of an interest, numerically small, though
powerful from its wealth, but which is antagonistic
to the interests of the rural districts of this coun-
try. Now, gentlemen, the last time I had the
good fortune to he present on the occasion of the
meeting of the Marshland Agricultural Associa-
tion I ventured to address you upon the subject
of the war which is now raging in the northern
continent of America, and I then expressed the
opinion that the policy, and I thought the duty, of
this country was at once to recognise the indepen-
dence of the Southern States of America. (Hear,
hear.) I think that the result has shown I was
right. We have all been horrified for two years
past by the tyranny practised by President
Lincoln, and by the brutalities of General
Butler. (Hear, hear.) I think there is justly no
limit to the strong expression of disgust with which
the accounts of the transactions in that country
have been received in what I, in contradistinction
to them, will term the civilised world. We as
Englishmen have learned that we ought to be
thankful for those monarchical institutions under
which this country, thanks to Providence, has en-
joyed the greatest amount of rational liberty ever
known to any country in the world. (Cheers.) And
whenever the time comes when we are called upon
to discuss a question of—l will not use a word
which creates alarm sometimes in public assem-
blages—but whenever we are again called upon to
discuss the question of any revision of our institu-
tions—l will put it in that more circuitous form—
I venture to think that, without reference to party,
there are very few present here, or anywhere in
England—excepting one particular party, which I
am sure is not represented here—who will not at
once say, "Let us be careful before we tamper
rashly with those institutions under which we have
enjoyed each manifold blessings." (Cheers.) But,
gentlemen, since I had the honour of addressing
you last, very nearly in the same locality, a new
subject has arisen, certainly of equal interest, and
perhaps, as far as this country is concerned,of almost
equal importance—l refer to what is going on in
Poland. Now there can be no doubt, if we could
deal with every question in the abstract, upon its
own merits, that there are few men in England
who would not say, and who do not say, that they
deeply deplore' the sufferings of the Poles ; that
they deeply lament the course which has been
taken by Russia in dealing with her Polish sub-
jects; that they, as Englishmen and lovers of
freedom, would do all in their power to alle-
viate the sufferings of those people. In that
sentiment I in the fullest degree coincide ; but un-
fortunately it is utterly impossible to deal with any
great public question upon that limited, though
natural view of the subject. We must go further
into the question. We must see first what has
given rise to the state of things which we lament,
and we then are bound as Englishmen to ask our-
selves next what will be the effect of our conduct
in dealing with this question upon the welfare and
the prosperity of our own country. The hon.
gentleman then went on to give his views as to
the cause of the present condition of things in
Poland. He considered that the insurrection was
not brought about the oppression of Russia, but by
the machinations of the Church of Rome. France's
sympathy for Poland he believed to be entirely a
selfish one ; and he was, for both those reasonet!
glad that England had expressly declared her
determination not to involve herself in a
ean
quarrel on accpunt of Poland. Referriug
follows :
• tied as
questions, the hon. gentleman continued
5 unrestricted
It' free trade means anything—it what Ettiorohpoine
does unre-
competition. Very good. Now hend,
stricted competition mean ? aPPre I It
any new lights upon
to have discovcti-L'!Coa'Pctilion means
at
the subject, that unrestrie a
nOt to have the benefi' t
least this—that if yell are - .
at least In hrit,inry to
_.in
protective duties, that y 0
u. industry, you ehall
maiket the produce
Impediment operation ;
have no antagonistic
shall start fair with other strugglers
that you
in the raark" r of the world, and that neither
favour nor ffe
action shall be shown to one side or
I think it would
the other. be a work of :-.uperero-
gatioa to ask such an assembly as that I have now
the honour of addressing, if they are aware of the
fact that, out of the large revenue collected in this
country, five millions are derived from the duties on

Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.

Lieut. Wm. H. Liddell and Lieut. Fred. C. B.
Robinson were yesterday promoted to the rank of
commanders.

The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty ;—The Rev. W. V. Lloyd,
chaplain and naval instructor to the Scylla; John.
Tweedic, paymaster to the Hogue; James W..
Ozzard, paymaster to the Victory ; and Arthur C.
Dowdell, second master to the Supply.