The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-25 00:00:00

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thie.oecasion, that I should take the chair, I consider it
my duty to comply. Mr. Parker will first address you
and I hope you will hear with attention and patience all
who may wish to speak.
Mr. PARKER—(Cheers)—on rising, said, I understand
that this borough has been placarded with insinuations
,and inuendos that we, the advocates of Liberal principles
in Sheffield, had absconded in dire alarm, having discoe
vered that we were entirely wrong in supposing that
cheap sugar, cheap corn, cheap timber, or any other of
th: measures proposed by her Majesty's Government for
the aug.:entation of the revenue, were principles to which
we had clevo..'d ourselves in Parliament, that you had no
synittgthetic feelt.:•rs for the national interests these mea-
sures were intended ::ee promote, and that we were not
likely to abide your sriffran-as because gentlemen came
from foreign parts, froni differeaat quarters of the glolee.
to tell -us that our foreign policy hat felled, and that tbe
budget of the Ministers was an illusion: and a humbug.
Nov,, Gentlemen, I say, we have not seen a foreign po-
licy for the last 200 years, or at least since
.Chathaus
wielded the destinies of England, so triumphant and SIM-.
passingly successful as that which is-impugned at thie,
day. You have been asked to believe that the Minister
who advocates and conducts this policyis a traitor to his
count.ae ?—(Cheere.) But if Lord Palmerston had re-
ceived the gold of Rusele, can you suppose he would have
bearded Russia in the East ?—(Hear, hear.) Would he.
hare met her designs in India and in the Levant, and,
achieved the successes which have renewed the glory of
our navy, without the presence of a Russian ship or a
Russian steamer ? What he has done,-liar indeed been
with the concurrence, the consent, and the gaod,will of
Russia. But so far is Lord Palmerston from being the
instrument or the tool of Russia, that he carries out his
Itleali policy in a manner more creditable to this country
and the empire at large than I have. before known since
I had anything to do with politics.—(Loud cheer.: •) The
true reason why Lord Palmerston's policy is attaefeasd is,
that he wields his power at home and abroad -in sup} ort
of liberal opinions. In Spain, he is for the people ; in
Portugal, he is for the people ; and wherever he has oa-
cashes) to regulate our affairs, he is for the many, and not'
for the few.—(Cheers.) Therefore it is that Lord Palmer-
ston's policy is selected as the ground for particular at-
tack ; and therefore it is that, as in other cases so in this,
the answer is the success which has followed it, and which
neat all these attacks rebound upon his assailants.
But It really seems as if poor Sheffield, in this election,
is to be coquetted with by persons from every part of
her Majesty's dominions. I have scarcely been in the,
town more than a couple of hours, and I have seen blue,
addresses without number. • Lovers approach you ins
letters written in blue, from every end of the earth.
Softie try to gain yon, by showing the perfidy of your
foreign pehey—others oa the dreadful failures of our
hOme policy—others seek to win you by 'adulation. /
seek you with none of these. I feel that our great want
is relief for the commerce of the country, the want of
scope, and space enoe:gh ;. to alter, or amend, or remove:
the Cam-laws.—(Loed cheers.) Among an enlightened
community, say specific is the more likely to find favour;
for nothing can be clearer, that it is absolutely essential to
the prosperity of the country, that we get out- of the nare
row track—the miserable, narrow, and antiquated prine
ciples on which our foreign trade has been conducted.
Those are my principles, and I believe that they are cal-
culated to enrich individual: and aggrandize, the nation.
The people of :England will not fail to perceive their
own Interests, and sooner or later the principles of the
budget must prevail.—{Bear, hear.) We want to raise
money, and we can have it if we reduce the duties,
because that would produce increased consumption. We
want to increase trade; and we can increase it if we
open our ports to the produce of other countries, and
thus enable those countries to reenive ours. We can
thus at once augment our revenue, and encrease our trade.-
The measures of the Government were :ntrodeced in a
period of great distress, which I lament ae much as any,
but I bei:eve that nothing will tend so.muult to restore a
healthy stana and beneficial action of affairs, es an adop-
tion of this views which Ministers have inducea. Well,
then rise up tine three great monopolies—coloniol, Ca-
nadian, and landed, bendiag together, andeeech with
their several reasons for themselves and the negroeee
Bat I state here, as I stated in the House, that the Le-
gislature ought to look as well to our companions and,
countrymen abroad, as to our fellow subjects in other
parts of the world, and that if I have any bias at all, it
must be in favour of my countrymen, rather than of
those who live is distant parts of the world. A dissolu-
tion has taken place on these questions, and you are the
parties who will hate: to decide.
A person named Blastrox inquired whether the peti-
tions from this town had bee:, for a fixed duty or a total
repeal, and whether the Goya/IL:lent was offering a total
repeal ? .
Mr. PARKER replied, undoubtedly ti:e petitions were
for total repeal ; but a fixed duty was propesed.
PAttmEs, the Chartist chairman on Whit-Monday,
after a few remarks, expressive of his want at confidence
in the good faith of the 'Ministers, inquired why they
had not been in their place in the House of Cenaamons
-When Mr. Scholefield made his motion for a pre :lute.-
tax
Mr. PARKER replied nothing could be fairer than the
question, or more courteous than the manner in which
it was put. As far as he could remember, Mr. Labon-
chore, the President of the Board of Trade, was in the
House, and spoke upon the motion. Mr. Lebouehere
stated, that on the eve of a dissolution, when the Mem-
bers were anticipating their appearance on the hustings,
such a measure could not be proposed with advantage,
and he declined entering largely into the subject. Mr.
Parker thought seine other Members- of the Governelent
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were also present.
Mr. PARKES thought it would have been better had
they all been there ; and he asked what was. thereason
that at the eleventh hour Ministers should come forward
with measures which he, in common with many others.
believed would be productive of benefit to the people ?----
(Hear. hear.) He asked also for what reason, twelve
months ago, Lord Melbourne had opposed-these mea-
sures ; and three or four years ago, when a deputation
from Glasgow waited upon him, said that line, distress
was a common temporary occurrence, and would soon
disappear ? How was it that Ministers never thought of
ptoposing there measures till they were threatened with
a defeat on Lord Stanley's Bill ? - -
Mr. PARKER—As to that portion which relates to Lord
Melbourne, if the Noble Lord were here, I am sure he
would be most ready to answer it, but I cannot e---(Laugh-
ter and cheers.) I may remind you that, individually,
many of the members of the Government, especially those
in the House of Commons, have always voted on the st-ehj ect
of the Corn-laws as they have done this eeear. I have vo:ed
on questions of trade in favour of these principles, and
since I became a Member of the Government I have
voted upon them just as I did before. As to Lord Mel-
bourne, if he were here, he would be delighted with the
ability of the interrogator, who no doubt would get from
him a very clever answer.—(Laughter and cheers.)
Mr. PARKES said, many persons in the country, of all
shades of politics, and both rich and poor, had felt a
great degree of sympathy with the situation of those un-
fortunate and misguided individuals, Frost, Williams.
and Jones—(Hear, hear)—and in - common with the
Chartists, had been desirous that the case of those per-
sons, and others who were imprisoned for their political
opinions, should receive a merciful coneideration. What
was the reason that he, as their representative, • did nt't
.participate in those feelings ; and when a petition was
presented to Parliament, praying that. the House would
advise her Majesty not to release them, but to reconsider
their sentences, that he did not Vote in its favour ?
Mr. PARKER said the question related to the.motion
madeby Mr. Duncornbe, a few weeks ago, to address
the Queen, praying for the liberation of. certain 'entice
now under political imprisonment. He Must first state
that the individuals whose names had been mentioned
were left out of the
_motion by Mr. Puncombe.
The true state of the case was—(" HOW did you TOW 7")
Gentlemen, I nun not going to shirk anything.
why i
did it: I.voted • against the motion, because, being my-
self a Member ut the Government, even _supposing I
agreed that the parties were proper subjects for Roy al
clemency; how could I say that theSecretery. of State
for the Home Department, whose duty it is to attend to
these subjects, was, in point of filet, not doing his duty
I believe, if there be any persow-in ,
disposed to clemency than another, and
the country more
l d" has' suf-
fered more for his clement and Merci ii disposition to
prisoners, it is the present -' Secretary of State for Home
Affairs, the Marquis of Norma.nby.—(Hear, hear.) yea.
know how he was assailed for the liberation of prisoners
in Ireland.—(Hear, hear.) The reason. why I voted as I
did was, because I considered that the cases et these men
and of all other prisoners, were safe in the hands' of Lord
Normanby, for I am sure he would rather recommend
the Queen to exerciFe a merciful interposition,. whenever
he felt that he could do so with justice to the general
- and tranquillity of the country, than pursue a
peece
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more rigorous course.
Mr. ntaKEs expressed his•hope that the distionstra-
tion which had been made in favour of. the, prisoners
would induce Lord Normeaby to consider their case,
and he believed that none would rejoice- mor'tii their
restoration to their families- Ilia - m p it - .. - d Mx
ne r. at et •int • .
Ward.—(Mr. Parker assented.)
Mr. WAan-a(Cheers)—Gentlemen, I recollect that,
four years ago, when I come a stranger into this town,
and first visited this spot,' though things were not then
so good as they had been two years before, it was a per-
fect hive of industry. I saw nothing about me but the
signs of busy men, well employed, for you had even then
a good demand, and by the sides of the canal- were piles
of timber and iron; that -seemed to promise employment
to all your population. for five years .to come. Now, I
ask, where are they ? I see now the signs of decaying
trade, of sinking industry. There is the same fine spirit
which animated you then,—there are the same hands,
with the same intelligence and pourer of mind, to guide
and direct them -in useful labours,---but all your efforts
are neutralized by the unhappy laws of .91.1 r
..ponntry.
Now, I want to inculcate the necessity of iiitc.ifig some
minor differences of opinion On abstract point's; irtat pre.
wail ainong.u.s. We have in our town, in:our owed_ posi-
tion—every man has, in his.own house, at his own door,
about his own hearth--the outward and visible signs 4
decaying profit and trade. 'And even in that trade 'which.
is the last to fall off—that trade which eu st mat bat ' .
for a
while when others are gone to decay—the- trade of pro-
viding absolutely necessary food, the first, . life for the people-ain'tlial. trade .th '-'
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