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

supply-Of food brought-to-market;-that-for several miles
round Sheffield, the flour-mills are working short time.
What does this mean but short commons for every poor
man in Sheffield—short commons for every man's wife
and children, as well as for himself ? What does this
prove, but that our fatal commercial policy is at the
present time working its natural and necessary
results on distant markets, that, one by one,
your foreign customers are dropping off—the mer-
chants around me, are seeing that orders dwindle away
0 their hands, till they are forced to dismiss deserving
and ;2telligent workmen, with whom it has been their
Unless we can put a period to this
pride to maintain a connection, during a long life of
useful industry ?•
and intelligent commu-
elerme state of things, ruin and de-
unhappy and unwt.,
had pleasure in finding here
cay menace this most La.:serving.
they have ever done,
nity.—(Cheers.) I have
eir.opinions like men.
our Chartist opponents, meet uls,
r own friends gallantly in in the field, and fought tt:
ant: honestly, and
r,:ints we
They are not the men to desert the:
to those in
cause they are falling, but manfully,
stoutly stretch out the hand of fellowship
distress. It matters not now on what minor
may differ. There are certain great
which we may honestly concur, and on which conga:-
practical poin:s on
rence is necessary to our safety.—(Cheers.) You scot
what we have come to. I told you in my address, that I
consider the Reform Bill to be on its trial, as much as
the Ministry or the House of Commons. What-
ever we may come to, two years hence, we must
try first whether we have the power to carry
good and useful measures with the machinery
now at our disposal. If we have not that power, you
will have an additional right to call upon these gen-
tlemen who represent the middle class, and who hold in
their hands the elective -power—you will have an addi-
tional right to call upon them to concur with you in
demanding such a change in our institutions, as may
give the power to carry good measures, whatever party
may introduce them into the Legislature.—(Loud
cheers.) Now, Gentlemen, Mr. Parkes said, very
justly,—and I heard his observations with great plea-
sure,—what credit could be given for good faith to
the measures of the Ministers, after the absurd decla-
ration which Lord Melbourne had made some time ago?
My Honourable Friend says, if Lord Melbourne were
here he would give an ingenious answer. I believe he
would be puzzled give a good one.—(Laughter.) I
apprehend he could -obi; tel you that he finds him-
self a wiser man this year
lie was last, and that
he is convinced 'it is necessary, -b...711%.
our diminished
markets and the increase of Ananciat- cumbrances; -to
overcome his original repugnance to tho:e measures.
, He has, however, given way entirely to the Zrmvi"F
necessities of the country ; and that, I appreheij, IS
L the only reasonable explanation. of Lord Melbournb:s
. conduct. You have the conduct of the Government be-,
; fore you. It is that of men risking office and place, and
all you are accustomed to consider valuable, by bringing
forward a budget which has arrgfed against them all the
protected interests of this country. It is, therefore, the
, duty of those who may be called the unprotected interests,
to rally round any party that brings forward such honest
measures, and to give them support in their endeavours to
' carry them. lain as little interested as any man can be
in the proponderance of any party in the House of Com-
mons. I have nothing—l say it distinctly—to ask or
seek, or hOpe, or Wish, from any Government that may
come in. But when I see good measures brought forward,
I do not care what distrust of the Government I may have
had before, I take the measures, if reason, and inquiry:.
and common sense tell me those measures arc good

honest measures, measures that may conduce to the 'Wel-
fare of the people. I take the measures, caring nothing
for the men, if they do not stand honestly by them.--
(Cheers.) Now, Gentlemen, as I went into that part of
the subject lamely yesterday, I do not intend to trouble
you to-night with statistics or figures of any kind. But
I wish to introduce, on these hustings, to the largest
assembly he will ever get in Sheffield to listen to him, a.
new Conservative candidate. The name, I suppose, by
a misprint, appears as " William Sheppard ;" but, as a
gentleman said below, the right name must be " Jack
Sheppard."—(Laughter.) -111 tell you why. This Jack
Sheppard means to take your parse, if you put him into
Parliameut.—(Cheers.) Ido not mean to say that he
will do so by putting a pistol to your iind, but he means
to do so by his votes in the House of Commons ; and, on
my honour, if you can read English; he tells you so pretty
plainly. In the first place, he says, "1 avpw myself a
Conservative, in the spirit of true ,Conserva-
tism." You ought to know this William
Sheppard belongs to that small Urquhart . Party
' that I told you, • yesterday, you might put illto a
band-box. He is one of those Conservative gentletL'en
who p; about the country with Mr. Urquhart, and, nt't
being liked at other places, having tried Bewdley
tit,: succeeded, he comes to Sheffield, because anything is
dough for Sheffield, you know.—(Cheers snd
Itooto- I.Lr.• says, he " looks with intense anxiety at
our &Newer:ill rel.:tions ;
sense, by but he insults your common
(el, IL: a previous paragraph, that he is
" opposed to thel6Wket of the day—that he is twosed to
an alteration in the CA_Tain-lots, unaccompanied hy any
antidote for the destruetlem of vested rights." What
vested right can there possibly be in the Corn-laws It
dates only from 1829. When we talk of vested rights,.
we mean something of long, ancient,. and venerable exist-
ence, whether ft have any basis of riz-ht or not. But in
this 'low there is nothing ancient or venerable. It is but
a mischieietas Act of Parliament, ten yeirrs of age, and
it may be repeenad, and rill be repealed, the moment
you command a tittsority in the House of Conunons.
This anxious gentleman says, that "if iaced in the
proud position of being elect 4. one of your' itii"iabers,"
—" it will be his constant aim U,4 enlarge the sphere of
our commercial revenues, and to remove impedissent "
whether from errors or abuses, that enol.‘a:n its polders.
I hold the greatest legislative error in this country to be
the act that - rruricts the food of the BriOsh people— -
(Cheers)—and if lie wishes to extend the sphere of in-
dustry; that must be the first to fall. I tell you that the
man who comes forward with these two paragrj*
in
one address, either does not kriosl;, his own mind—i'os no
clear idea of what he puts forth,' or else he has the nicest:
complete contempt for your intelligence, and mean.'. tie-
signedly and wilfully to mislead you. But I knovv the
people of Sheffield too well to suppose they will be
mislal
by the trash in this paper.—(Loud cheering.,
What extending markets can you have, if you'x
shut out the produce of three-fifths . of the ;world; r
from your own market ? What can the Gofer). -
ment do under such circumstances ? Go where you will.
—to Germany, to the United States, to any part of the
world, and talk of their relaxing duties—of exteadiag
their intercourse with England, and their first. axxwex
will be, " Look at home, Gentlemen. Practise •
you preach. Look at your own Corn-laws. What ham
we to give you for your goods, if you will not allow us;
to send you the produce of our soil ?" And we. refuse
to do that, at the time when our people are stintod for
bread—when in Manchester and Bolton, as I saw stud
in the papers to-day, the children of the operatives :re
following the carts of grain from the brewhouses, to piec
up the few scattered grains for their subsistence.—
(" Shame !" "Look to the Government for that.") Look
to the Government ! When have I ever voted for the
Corn-laws ?Do not come to me with these abstract no-
tions again, to disturb the unanimous feeling of this meet- .
ing.—(Cheers.) Look to practical things. If, with the
present machinery, you cannot carry what is essential to
the well-being of every industrious man, then look
further. But I say now that I believe these changes
can be made. We are engaged in a great struggle with
all the protected interests. If the unprotected are disor-
ganised—if they do not choose to act well together—if
they permit abstract opinions to separate them—if they
are divided among themselves, the protected interests will
put their feet on your necks for seven years, and keep
you down till you are steeped in poverty, and they in-
volved with you in one common ruin.—(Cheers.)
A person inquired Mr. Ward's opinion about permit-
ting the export of the raw material of manufactures, such
as steel ?
Mr. WARD replied—You cannot put on prohibitions
yourselves, if you claim free trade with other countries-
You cannot have prohibitions in your own favour, and
claim exemption from those in favour of others. Give
fair play?,.cake off every unfair pressure, and you can
stand conipetitien with any other country in the world ;
and I ShOnld b4`ieip thfich ashamed for my intelligent
and industrious cutintrymen, if I did not know that to be
the faa.
..1
" Will you vote for the separation of Church and
State ?"
Mr. WARD—NO.
HENRY PRYOR asked if Mr. Ward would Tote for the
Re?eal of the Union with Ireland ?
Mr. WARD replied he would not, he should as solon
think of voting for the separation of Scotland, or Wa. es,
or Yorkshire.
Mr. PARKER concurred in the answer.
persons had questions to ask, he declared the meeting
dissolved. •;,, • no other
The CHAIRMAN then said, as it appeared
TutN, vote
n of d
seconded by Mr. PARKER ; and after three
cheers for Free Trade, and three cheers for Parker and
o n thanks to the. Chairman was moved hy_Mr.
Ward, the immense meeting quietly broke up.

--The following
bAoaelidlia
rrnahgmmo so d,.
EN:Henley-on-Thames. A.
TRAGICAL OCCUR n
i melancholywo rs,ey
,s
farm,
about circumstancet
w:ororsca
nomcnudi rieverrrsaelesndf,
nsgoi
Passing,
sgalelbeludy(
ntt
heostehd
gae Ya,.naeteit inmatesghl neighbourhood,
s
I man having the appearance of a ronavigator, had been observe
ti
hßetween six and seven he was seen
during the afternoon,
actingto b r
eavke
openry in
aconhdereennttelry.
ab-
sent haymaking) by
field, and and eight or nine boys and men went
,inbsytawnhtliych,
and
the parties in the
found barricaded
within. The man
to the house, which theyd
who was then in the house, filed a gun (he found on the pre-
mises), at them
shot
throughthro
ugthht et
hi windowh.earitl: laihnbderadtieeldy,
of them ve
others wounded m their flees; the door was then forced
three
lye the others, when he threw a bill-hook at the first person
-'which, fortunately, missed •
who entered,
a powerful persons and armed with a pick-axe, he closed and
• s sho
secured him, and, with other help, finally conveyed him to the
gaol at Wargrave. To-day he was to be examined by Major
A'Court, and other Berkshire Magistrates, though of his in-
sanity there can he little question. Street was a very indus-
trious man, and has left a wife and five children, and it is re-
markable that he had been, on the previous Sunday, to Mouls-
ford, a village ten miles distant, to see his sister-in-law, and on
his return home on Monday evening he told his wif,. he had.
a most dreadful dream, and he was sure something would hap-
pen to him. His wife begged him not, to trouble himself
about. it, but he was so dejected, and the linpression so strong
on his mind, that he was unable to cat and drink the next
evening, when the fatal event took place.
BERLIN, JUNE 13.—Our King,,,who, two Or
three years ago, derived so much benefit .'tom the use of
the waters of Marienbad, did not follow the advice of his
physician to go there again last summer, because the
pressure of business was so „rest at the commencement
of his reign. This year he will rArain from visiting that
place, though it was partly resolved that he should go.
The King will go this week to Magdeburg, to be present
at a ceremony which is to take place in the neighbour-
hood, in honour of the late Field-Marshal Gneisenau,
who was a Roman Catholic. His Majesty seems not yet
to have come to any resolution respecting his vi • .
sit to the
ti Rhenish provinces this year. . ,