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" Touch not the unclean thing."
The Roman Catliolics are notoriously gaining ground upon
us every year. And has not Protestantism reason to dread
some melancholy catastrophe, while she pertinaciously prefers
the profane gibberish of tradition to the hallowed phraseology
ofinspiration? Merciful Heaven! th.st, in the middle of the
nineteenth century, she should still, with unblushing front, be
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with the nomenclature of our blessed Lord and his Apostles,
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AMSTERDAM, FEB. 11.--Our London COT-
respondent again assures us that the English Cabinet is fully con.
vinced that Leopold will very shortly accede to the late decision of
the Conference. It is reported that the men of the levies of 183')
and 1853 now on furlough, will be shortly called into service. -
THE FACTORY SYSTEM.—The announcement
of Mrs. Trollope's new work, " Michael Armstrong, the Factory
Boy," has caused no little sensation, more especially throughout the
manufacturing districts. The questions universally asked are, "In
what spirit will the authoress treat this important subject ?" "On
which side of the question that has recently engaged so much atten-
tion respecting the factory system, will she take her station ?" "Is
it to the cotton kings, or to the cotton-slaves, that her sympathy and
powerful aid will be given ?" The appearance of her first Number,
which is announced for the 20th. inst . is anxiously expected as the
solution of these queries; but in the mean time we may, state that
we have good grounds for believing that the whole power of this
talented writer's pen will be devoted to aid the efforts which have
been lately made for the amelioration of the operatives in our
fact ries.
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" The repeal of the iniquitous and oppressive Corn-laws, in which
you have so long and ably taken an active part, Is, it appears to be
opposed by the united force and ingenuity of great part of the land-
owners and their tenantry. A meeting was held at Beverley on the
26th ult , attended by several gentlemen, amongst whom were the two
East Riding:Members, and in their speeches they repeated the old silly
and one hundred times refuted arguments in favour of what they
call " Agricultural Protection." The farmers were terribly af-
frighted at the predictions of Mr. Gilby, a clerical magistrate,
who assured them that without protection, the landlords would
have to become farmers, the farmers labourers, and all the labourers
would be sent to that " Den of Desolation and Despair, the Union
Workhouse." A string of resolutions was agreed upon, one of
which was, that the copy of a petition were to be sent to every
township in the neighbourhood for signatures. This is now going
briskly forward, the squire and parson usually signing first, then
come the farmers, and afterwards the mark of A B, and scratch of
D, their labourers ; judging from the one I have seen in the
township of Bainton, I should say they all scarcely ought to weigh
a feather. The farmers know nothing of the subject, their fears
are aroused by what they hear from their landlords, and their ser-
vants sign at the request of their masters, and in this way great num.
bers of petitions will find their way to the House.
" I happen to be a farmer and have not any other means of making
a living but by farming ; but having been so often deceived and
cajoled by Col n-laws, a few years back I began to pay some atten-
tion to the justice and necessity of such laws, and soon came to the
conclusion that they were worse than useless to the farmers, and to
the other parts of the community, a great and positive evil.
Twenty-four years ago I entered on my present occupation, under
he idea that the law enacted that year would secure to me
80s. per quarter for wheat, and other grain in proportion,
but you may judge of my disappointment and dismay at having
to dispose of a good part of that year's crop at 405., and having
taken a lease tor fourteen years, I was completely at the mercy of
my landlord, who fortunately is a humane and reasonable man, and
who at once reduced my rent 3001. per annum. The next
year's (1816) crop was defective, and in 1817 the price of wheat
again reached 895., when the ports were opened, but closed again
in February, 1819, and then the farmer's hopes revived and there
was a general expectation of an immediate rise again, but so far were
these hopes disappointed, that the price of grain got lower and
lower till December, 1822, whent he average price of Wheat was
only a fraction over 38s. !I and ruin and bankrnptcy stared the
whole farming community in the face. So much for Corn laws.
The present law has not served us much better, for under
it I have sold wheat at 325. and 80s., and yet this is the law
that could not fail to secure good and steady prices, I ought
to apologize for taking up so much of your time, but I am
so disgusted with the ignorant and unfair means made use of by
my brethren of the plough, for continuing what they blindly
consider their only safety, that I should gladly attend to any hint
for benefiting the cause you have so ably taken in hand, and
should any evidence, showing the futile nature of Corn-laws to
the farmer's interests be wanting before a Parliamentary Com-
mittee, I should, even at some personal sacrifice, and at the risk
of forfeiting the good-will of many of my brethren, state
what I know and have experienced. I ought, perhaps, to say
that I farm 600 acres of Mr. G. and 335 of another gentleman,
i
in an adjoining parish, that is mostly n tillage, and, therefore, I am
deeply interested in the corn question, hut have yet to learn, that
great fluctuations, or even great prices are beneficial to the farmer."
Mr. Went stated that he had also received this morning a lettar,
informing him that Anti-Corn-law Meetings had been held in al-
most every village in the neighbourhood of Glasgc w. He would also
mention, by way of reply to what Lord Stanley stated the other night
in the House of Commons, that a gentleman had written to him,
stating that his only reason for not making 3dditions to his mills

was the existence of the Corn.laws, and that if he could obtain an
assurance that the Corn-laws would be repealed he would commence
building immediately. It was evident to him (Mr. Weir) that Lord
Stanley came to the consideration of this question with his mind
already made up, and that he had been fishing for information, less
fpwutisrphheeodse
for the purpose of arriving at the truth than for the purpose of main-
twined
mwhichr. foGirßetElioe
taming plausible arguments in favour of the Corn-laws.—(Hear,
hear.) It was most desirable that their case should be fully and
fairly stated at the bar of the House, in order that the debates might
not be characterised by arguments on patchwork information, ob.
principaltoof
r erepudiate
u bolsteringdisapteea
speakers
that the House should come to a determination 41) every informa-
1, notions ; but
tion before them.—(Hear, hear.)
had put forth on his (Mr. Greg's) authority. That Noble
Lord had stated that the main object which the Anti-Corn-law
mischievous
the
House sentiment
Lords
Association, and the delegates had in view in seeking for a repeal
of the Corn-laws was to reduce the wages of the operatives He
(Mr. Greg) was certain he never made use of any such expre'ssion,
and had no hesitation in saying that he never entertained such a
sentiment.—(Cheers.) What he said was, that if the Corn-laws
were not repealed there must be a reduction of wages, and that
very shortly. filet was what he had said, and what he was pre-
pared to show.—(Hear, hear.) He also thought the repeal of the
Corn-laws would prevent a reduction of wages, but at any rate it
was better to have cheaper food with a reduction of wages than to
have dearer food with a reduction of wages.—(Hear, hear, hear.)
His opinion was that the repeal of the Corn.laws would give at
general stimulus to the industry of this and other nations—that we
should be able to go on without reduction of wages at all, and even
without a reduction in the price of corn.—(Hear, hear.) Another
misstatement that bad been put forth was, that the manufacturers
were making enormous profits. For his own house he would say
they would be perfectly content to give the whole of their personal
experience for a profit of 2i per cent. exclusive of interest. He
superintendence—the whole of their capital, and the whole of their
should say, therefore, that in any old business, like the cotton bu-
siness, in which there were no secrets and no monopoly, the profits
must be necessarily small.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. STURGE would suggest the propriety of endeavouring to ob-
tain a Parliamentary return of the local emigration which had taken
place from the agricultural districts under the authority of the Poor
Law Commissionesa, It was an important fact that after all the
protection which had been afforded to the agricultural interest, the
poor had suffered so severely in those parts of the country, that they
were obliged to send a considerable. portion of their poor population
to the manufacturing districts to find employment. He believed
that in certain portions of Gloucestershire where the manufacturers
were suffering from excessive competition, property was so depre-
ciatel in value, that it might be occupied for payment of the rates.
He believed this was the case at Uly• and this was only an illustration
of what must happen everywhere. He had received a letter from Stroud
from a friend in answer to an accusation that the then Stroud peo.
pie bad rather injured the cause by consenting in their petition to
there being a small duty. His friend stated that he had been in-
duced to withdraw his oppositi•;n to this, because he understood that
the woollen manufacture was protected by a duty of fifteen per cent.
They had recently passed a resolution expressing their willingness to
give up all protection for themselves, and he mentioned this to show
the importance of that resolution. A petition would be sent up from
Birmingham which had received from thirteen to fourteen thousand
signatures, notwithstanding they had been defea ed at a public
meeting. :vsePrriyen-ccinceived

Mr. WALNIESLEY expressed his concurrence in what had fallen
from Mr. Greg, and mentioned that a petition from Liverpool which
had obtained upwards of twenty-five thousand sigc,atures would be
presented in a few days. -
Mr. CLAY recommended to the attention of Mr. Ewart, that he
should in his proposed manifesto insist on the fallacy which was so
generally spread among the working classes, that a fall in the price
of food would necessas ily be accompanied by a fall in the rate of
wages. Nothing could be a greater mistake than this. • The Laws
which regulated wages were independent of the price of provisions ;
they were dependent entirely upon the state of the supply in the labour
market. He was the more inJuced to urge this point because at a
meeting held at the Tower Hamlets on this subject, they were dis-
turbed by a small irruption of Chartists, and this fallacy was made
use of. He (Mr. Clay) had made use of a few argumonts which had
been attended with the best effects, and the Chartists were defeated
by a very large majority.
Dr. BOWRING would relate, as an illustration, what had happened
in the Jura Mountains. Until within the last sixty years, that dis-
trict had been scantily populated, and continually subject to visits-
tions by famine, and many and frequent emigrations took place.
About sixty years ago, a free trade in corn was introduced, from
that period the population had been increasing—there
had been an influx of inhabitadts instead of an
emigration. Wages had risen, a considerable proportion of the
labourers had been enabled to buy land out of their savings, and at
this moment there is not a population in possession of greater hap.
pi ness.
Mr. EWART thanked Mr. Clay for his suggestion, and felt mnch
obliged to him fur his assistance. The cause was under very great
obligations to Mr. Clay, who had brought forward the subject in the
House of Commons, at the time when it was not of such general
attention as at present. _ _

' Mr. BARKER said that the Noble Lord, the Member for North
Lancashire had stated in the House of Commons that no lees than
nineteen new factories had been erected in the neighbourhood of
Preston within the last two years. Now, as he (Mr. Barker) came
from that part of the country, he might be supposed to know
something of time subject. lie held in his hand a list of all the
firms at the close of 1936, and there had not been an addi.
tion of more than three new mills instead of nineteen as stated
by the Noble Lord.—( Huar, ear, hear.) He thought
it incumbent on the Noble Lord to make himself ac-
quainted with the place he represented, and although Preston was
not perhaps the capital of North Lancashire, yet it was one of the
most important towns in the county. Previous to his leaving town
two Delegates would be up from Preston to take his place, and a
petition very numerously signed would also come up from Preston.
Mr. CLAY asked if they were spinning mills?
Mr. BARKER—AII.
Mr. CLAY said it was the reply he had given to Lord Stanley on
the occasion alluded to.

Mr. 13AaKEit said that they could scarcely be called new, as some
of them were commenced three or four years ago, many of them,
were then doing very little work, and they were now doing less.
Mr. CLAY saki it was of importance that Members of Par Ha.
tnent should be furnished with these facts.

➢lr. 13ouvrann said that the question of wages might be put in a
very few won:a ; the rate of wages depended upon the number of
men out of work, for as long as men were unemployed, so long
would the rate of wages get lower. lie mentioned in illustration of
this fact the circumstances connected with the strike, as we under-
stood, of the gun.makers of Birmingham. The wages in this trade

had not been reduced by the masters, but by the competition among
the men themselves, who undersold each other in the labour

market. In proof of the effect of want of employment there
he would relate the results of inquiries instituted last winter into

:he state of the labouring classes at Birmingham. There were 967

families, whose earnings did not amount-to one shilling per head

per week. There were one thousand five hundred and ten, whose
earnings did not amount to two shillings per wed:, and there were
one hundred and ninety-two who had no bedding at all, and nineteen
hundred who had hardly any.
Dr. BOMLING begged to inform the Delegation that the Evidence
Committee had already received many answers to their queries, and
they fully confirmed the views taken by the Committee.
Mr. Moos wished to state that a petition, very numerously signed
would be in town to-morrow from Leicester.—(Hear, hear.)
Lord Nuorxr said he had been prevented from attending the
Committee yesterday by business, and he found that Mr. Boult.
bee's motion had been abandoned. It was for a Commit-
tee to consider of some means of bringing the facts re.
lating to the Corn-laws under the notice of the agriculturists.
He was most anxious upon the subject, and he would then give
a conditional notice, that on Thursday next he would move a reso.
lution to the like effect, of course it would depend upon the fate of
Mr. Villiers' motion. He was unflinching in his opposition to the
Corn laws, and would not agree to any compromise.—Adjourned.
[There was a slight error in our report of the proceed-
ings of this Committee the day before yesterday. Mr.
Walmsley stated the annual increase of the population at from
350,000 to 300,000 annually, and not 3,000,000. He also stated
the number of the barrels of flour exported from the United States
was one million, and not nine as appeared in the report.]