The Sun.
London, England, 1840-04-03 00:00:00

DUTCH MAIL.

THE HAGUE, MARCH 31.—The S.cond Chamber of the
Str.t,s-Geaeial to-thy adjourned to Thursday, April 23.
The Journa! of St. Petersburylt announces that his
111,ijestv the Emperor of Russia has been pleased to ap-
point the Counsellor of state, Baron de Brunow, hitherto
Russian Minister at the Court of «'urten►berg and Hesse
Darmstadt, to the past of his Ambaisador to her Majesty
th- Queen of Great

W.M,SIIv, NIAReII 24.—11 is Imperial Highness the
Grand Duke Alexander arrived here yesterday evening.
The city was illuminated. To-day several persons of dis-
tihetion heirs bud the honour to be presented to his Impe-
rial Richness. lit af'erwards went to the church to per-
form his devotions.—Plo..sicn Slate Gazetts. March 27.
E1..'1/4, 1 A.N k U Isil)—lhrt.,tistn.a, ...PAIL I.
A.ettil..l 1)elA,10, per Cent.
ft oth,child', Loan, 5 per Cant I, S'.i
Loan of Thirty Millions, .1 per Cent. 9s't
------- 3 per Cent. 74
Loan of City, i5:12,4 per Cent 94%
• •
Society of Commerce, •.1.,•4 per Cent lO
Rank of &Asir:lu, 5 per Cent.-- ...........
NZ i(111:11 Society.
I.xchange on London (short) ............... ... I I ...-;;:54
—Brussels Papers, April I.
DUTCH FUN 1./s.—Amsmitiratr, 1111anceuy3.1.mil..
Actual IMit, ':.!‘ per Cent ............. ... ..... Y. 45.4.
fly s'lilii
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. ..... ...... ....... ....... r5l
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Ditto 17•37, ti per cent...................
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Exchange on Londvs!,
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11 Seya
Datclt Papers. April 1.
BERLIN, MARCO 23.
.4-per tent. mai 'N,
Bitls. Money.
It !,11„ 10;1
k; o,,orge on London, three muntlis ri i4-ci
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Prussian. Siete Gazette. March 29
IS'tr.riSb se an uni.tl.l-11:',' Si; sgr. illi'lN4Ll' (UNDO.
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AUSTRIAN FUNDS..-VIENNA, Marco iM
live per Contr. Metalliques . ll/Iv,
Fear per Cents.
Three per Cents
Bank Shares
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—_4l,,Ledneine Zeitung, Al&rch‘2lai.

THE DRESDEN G: LLERY.—In the course of
a discussion which took place some days ago in the Assembly of
the States of Saxony, upon application of the Government for
a grant of money towards erecting a building on a large scale
for paintings and other works of art, the contents .f the mile-
bratcd gallery of Dresden were, at a recent valuation, rated at
a sum execciiiiig 8,000,000 dully s.
'lle Italian Opera at Paris has been conceded
for next season to M. Dormoy. Lablache and ft übini are the
real lessees, Nth° furnish the funds. M. Marliani, the coos-
poser, is to be stage manager. The Home Minister has granted
a pension of 601. a-year to Mdlle. Falcon.

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The Delegates did not commence business yestreday un- F"""
e_._ burgh-,"-..cc:,-7&-c:-.---ii.:- Ea-r-1--Of- Darlington founded
.a tries were
the Corn-1
tit a quarter before one o'clock, although the hour uxod
statement on these returns, to show that the fluctuation in
lo •ed son
yesterday was twelve, the price of corn was less in this than other countries. P
3 -
C. 1 S. WALKER, Esq., took the Chair. crease of
Mr. Baines had yesterday answered that statement, and that the 1.,
The SECRETARY read the minutes of the last meeting,
showed that the Corn-laws were the causes of this fihe-
which were ordered to be confirmed.
TER.S. tuition, and the fluctuation at Dantzic arose from
ethnteitlien
o- beco atnhtrroyw. n
FALLACIES OF CORN-LAW SUPP.OR.
creased demand in England, and that no man was ,
Mr. SYDNEY SMITH observed that the praidncipal object
countries,
for which they had met was, that theywho -h
loosen called to take advantage of his own wrong for continuin_gunand double pr.
abuse. But there was an important omission to be fo
hours, in
by the Earl of Darlington "the pet Parliament in
in these returns-those from Amsterdam andßotterdam..
Palace-yard," might revise the proceedintgys of the. greater
• and it was for ontinent. against tla
Parliament that had assembled below them , only commenced in 1929, before Holland beganc to.insti- gum.ent c
Mr. IA
the purpose of refuting such fallacies, and. such mss-state- tut() a Corn-law like"the other countries of the
free of of the Ea
tnente as should be made there the evening before, that it We had no return a what the prices were
importationat Amsterdam
and Rotterdam when they proposed a .
was thought advisable the Delegates should meet at twelve
o'clock instead of two. The Earl of Darlington, in his corn. They had this fact admitted, that the difference in cious. I
speech of last night particularly threw contempt upon
during a free trade, had only been between 295.
the price in a hundred years in Amsterdam and
and
34s . f o
thatform
oann y t
the meeting of two hundred Delegates, assembled
Half of the whole consumption of this country depended distress.
from every quarter of the country-from the northernmost
on Foreign nations ; and yet they found Holland for one country, i
' of Scotland to the northernmost part of England-all
part
brought together by a sense of rautual danger and distress, hundred years had greater than any quarter of tihnetrgodlonteed;
mwhoonmorthtei
yet the return began at the time a Corn-law was .
and by a sense of humanity, for the purpose of relieving
ato Holland. If the return had commenced earlier, they no differs
the enormous distress which existed in their various dis-
would have found that there was a greater steadiness there bushel ; 1
tricts.-( Hear, hear.) He Believed there was in the as-
than in any other place. He found that in Amsterdam the poor labs
membly of Delegates a greater amount of business talent,
nee, and of moral and social influence, than was price in 1834 was so low as 235. ; in 1835, 21s. ;in 1836, them. :
of intelli
e3s. ; in 1837, 245. ; and in 1838, 275. This country, room goil
assembled even within the House of Commons itself.- which depended on foreign supply, had the greatest stea- only food
t (Hear, hear.) Why had the Delegates been elected ?
diness of supply under our present Corn-laws, for there must There wa
1 Beemuse they were looked upon as the most eminent incli-
be regular supply, or there would be a greater variation in go away
; victuals in their various districts, and had been selected by price. At this price France was suffering by the fluctuation how was
their fellow-citizens as the individuals best acquainted with
of the Corn-laws, which was reducing the population to the food, but
business, trade, and manufactures, and with the condition
same level as in this country. He had thought it his duty to for even I
of the different districts from which they came. They were
make these remarks, and he must express his surprise at of food,
better valifled, from these circumstances, to understand
the most miserable and lamentable ignorance on the part of of life.
the subject than the individuals who attempted to bring
them into contempt by calling them a petty Parliament.
The Earl of Darlington had also stated that the Anti-Corn-d men who still refused to be enlightened-who denied their and were
allegations, yet would not afford them an opportunity of laig's-me
proving them, nor refute the statements they made. It Let thee
late League had resorted to the most unscrupulous an un-
iair means for the purpose of carrying on their proceedings._tbn
What more unfair means could have been adopted than was the most unjust and insolent proceeding that could be
made on the part of those who were their representatives,
for he believed three-fourths of their constituents were there things o
men pros
they she
to Par-/
had been adopted by the landlords. Theyassembled.-( Hear.) exports,
liament before they thought of agitatingßtharewoelnutestioh for
the House The CHAIRMAN announced that he had received a letter they sou
the purpose of offering evidence atfrom Mr. Norton, of Lincoln, offering an annual subscrip- criterion
thehat House had been
I of Commons of their distress. tion of 10/., and to double it if necessary.--( Hear.) was quit,
tin the habit of attending to the complaintsßutt of one-third or
one.fearth of the population-the
dagrifeutliri ts of the countr
--they hsfl, investigated everysha e o complaint the agricnlY- Mr. PRENTICE said that the Earl of Darlington had
accused the delegates of sending paid missionaries to all duce ale
What as
parts of England, for the purpose of instilling filth and ports ? .
tnrists could possibly have. Whenever they had desired to be
t abomination into the ears of the community. He was glad sold at ;
heard at the bar of the House of Commons their request to tally gi
to find that the lecturers had done so much good as to ex-
,! had bees complied with, and relief had been. granted to
cite the ill-will of the landlords.-(Hear.) Their object a great
I them from time to time, until, as Mr. Baines. had stated, for part
ought to be to increase that sort of mischief of which the
the only tax supposed to press on agriculturists was the did nc
Earl of Darlington complained-the filth and abomination
on shepherds' dogs. And even that was a sort of solicit
red
of which he complained being enlightenment and truth.-
ipaoxlitieal economical bull, for shepherds' dogs were only
( Hear.) The delegates ought to pledge themselves to to
for the purpose of looking after the sheep; that did not cheap I
organize a far more complete system of agitation than had
_ress upon the agriculturists, but only upon store farm- hitherto prevailed. He would wish to see lecturers go says "
i ing ; but when two-thirds of the population came forward,
Ihe might say three-fourths in point of political import- into every villiage and county, so that wherever there was -moth
a voter the principles of free trade might be explained.- another
) anA., and wealth, and power, what did they say ? there iv
( Hear.) It would be very easy for a lecturer to take
! Tary shut the door in their faces. They made
circuit of ten or fifteen miles, to organize Corn-law As- not reci
; a second application For inquiry, and the door was shut formerl
asociations, and to recommend the payment of small sums,
against them again, and now they appealed to the public,
from one penn to a shilling, in aid of the funds for the by an ii
I eiecaese Parliament would not give them a fair seance,
diffusion of they principles of free trade, and especially of therefor
i and they Lad been to d that they had adopted the most
tree trade in human food.-( Hear, hear.) They must an inert
unscrupulous and unfair means.-( Cheers.) If theywell-be
create a great movement, and they ought to do it in such
were submitting the country to agitation, whose fault was
a way as to make gentlemen in the House of Commons were &
%it ? Wily that of the House itself.-( Cheers.) If they
a alarmed for their seats.-(Cheers.) They should tell those quantit
i were sewing the seeds of reflection in tie course they had
gentlemen that it was of no use to talk of Whiggism or their m
adootea, it was the fault of the landlords themselves, who
Toryism, but that they must be Corn-law repeaters, or
bad driven them to be politicians and agitators, until they
, else wala out of the House.-( Cheers.) Darlim
apoloni
I obtained that which was their due.-( Cheers.) W"y' I The Rev. NOAH JONES, of Derby, wished to say a he tho
even the Baroughrecve of Manchester, who had never been
few words in vindication of the Anti-Corn-law lee- Mr.
I an keg:tater, had come forward for the purpose of saying he tinned,
turers. He believed Mr. Paulton, in whose character
f had .aide his einney through the labouring classes, and whahme
he felt a great interest, was the first lecturer who means
they weirs overwhelmed by &stress, he considered that d the Cc
had instructed the country upon the great principles they
%yes bound to return hack to those by whom he had
dma
he with tl
had taken. He happened to be present in the Theatre of
his fortune, some of the sernpathies by which he
.hsafdloo
- Balton the very first evening that Mr. Paulton appeared Niih
I tniced that fortune ; and he never would agree to his a w siun to
as a lecturer at all. He had never heard any thing filthy
1 men being ground to the dust without an exertion o their had Si
or abominable from him, and he had moved a vote of
I behalf. What did the Queen da with Parliament when
thanks to that gentleman in the name of morality and farmer
1 she was dissatisiied with teem ? ahv she kicked them out. religion, for his eloquent expositions.-( Hear, hear.) He one 1
And why should not the people, if their Representatives
could not, as an Hon. Gentleman did in the House of at th
did not consult their intereT, also kick them out ?-
Commons, stand up and say, "Thank God, I under- of tei
(Cheers ) They appealed to the country, but they did
stand nothing about political economy." Lie did un- that h
uot act as political agitators ; they had refused to
derstand a little about political economy, and he as 'w°'
.- agitate any tning relative to the representation of the
hoped he should understand a great deal more, and he argue
coaatry.--( Hear tied. cheers.) They sounded them-
should be happy to be the means of giving people a little titer c
wires to the 'subjectcifthe ;torn-laws elune, and for doing
light on the subject, arid af interesting them in the cause of scasor
this they hail beer, celled a palsry and petty Parliament,
j
ustice and humanity. People might charge them with the C
. and that ti:ey hail recourse to this most unfair and unscru-
) trying to prejudice one class of men against another; but grows
i pules means to carry forward their measures.-(Cheers.
if there wassuch
l They had been told that their Anti-Corn-law Circular ..0
men trying to
.be wiser than
tva4 one tit the most scurrilous and abusive publications God.-( Hear, bear.) If mcm"
there was anything like blasphemy to be found in any man, Uncle
that had ever issued from the press ; and they had been
told, also, that their lecturers, instilled into the ears of' it was in the minds of those who thought, in their short-f the n
the people every tried of filth and aeorninatiun. What was ,ighted a iadom, that they were able to amend the laws of tvh::3l),',
that filth and abommation ? Why, the first principles of nature. For hunself he felt great gratitude that re
Mr
religion, namely, humanity acid justice. They told the been taught other views, namely, to depend upon the
two 1
poor that they ourrlit to have bread, that what Providence w '
isdom of an All-Seeng G_ ad. The present question was
. bad made so good could not be made better by the policy , , principle,„,....
one of and he was sure that ultimately it must were.
be
.. successful.-(Cheer Cheers. ) not a
of man ; that that universal intercourse of man with man,
whiata the mightiest and greatest who had ever appeared ia ,
Mr. Roar. :111hLLIGAN, fromb Bradford, in Yorkshire, said !Mgt'
such
that they had been told y the. .
the human form had come un earth to inculcate, was the Corn-law upholders
best for the social relation of man with man--( Hear, that all that they wanted in agitating the question was to if a n
reduce the price of wages. Now he had brought a docu- tion,
hear, and closcrs)-and that the attempt to re- so ut
merit which he thought would show that the price of food
much
1 sti if!t the commerce and intercourse with other coun-
had nothing whatever to do with the price of wages. That
! tries was what they ought the least to expect from those
document was as follows:- truth
who claimed a monopoly of heaven as web as of bread.-
, (Cheers.) They were told by the same person that in 'Yearly average Also, Yearly average,Yearly average they
1823 Mr. Huskisson had attributed the distress and panic or the price \ Yearly average of Wages paid '_(,)f Wages. paid ,„ v,,,
sif that period to over trading. Now, in the first i Iscc, Flour at lirad-'price,of Wheat for weaving for combing cm ' ".:
turd Soke'Mill consumed at the four different average quality or r
ha strauld like to kaew what- was meanteby this phrase her stone of .same Mill, Our- qualities of of wool, by one i,ici
ovea-trading. Now, they lora it li. evidence that in the I ilbs., from ing the same goods during of the large`2t ,ver
iti:ll to 15,..9 years. it being each year of firms .in the `
tin
ton counties, in spite of what the Earl of Dar- inclusive. chiefly of the the same pe- same town Our- wet
lingtun might say, the labourer used only one pair of i Liner qualities. tied, by one of ing the same it i,
the most re- period.
breeches in 33 years. He was married 33 years ago ; spectable hand-
;Co
shorties after be had purchased a pair of breeches, and loom manu_ of ;
facturers in the
these very breeches he was wearing at this moment, and pri
same town.
yet we were to be told that the people of this country were wo
i addicted to over trading, when the inhabitants of the - ---'
l agricultural districts were so little able to supply them-
-1831 2s. 101-d. 655. lid. 14s. 3d. 414 d. Th
I selves with manufactures that they could only purchase 1832 2 5} 60 10 14 6 4i pre
one pair of breeches in 33 years. Now, to what was the 1833 201 54 6 14 74 5 ale
' panic of 1825 to be attributed ?-why to the fact that the 1834 j 8 45 21 15 3 4i of
I price of wheat had jumped up from 435. 6d. a quarter in 1835 1 8 38 51 13 0 51 wa:
i 1322 to 665. in 1325-and dear bread was the occasion 1836 2Pe 47 811- 13 71 5-' the
3
of that panic, as it had been of every other. Was there 1837
,2
_,. 57 1 11 l i 44-
cis(
I arry panic in 1822 or in 1835, when bread was cheap? DM" 2 9 69 11 10 3 5
72 111 9 41 4i tun
INo ; bat there was a panic in 1825 and in 1837, when bread 1a39 2 10_,.4 she
I was dear. Had they ever heard of a panic when bread From these tables it appears, that while flour fell in Brad- ant
i was cheap ?-( Cheers.) The cause of panic was short
wheat during a series of I °reps without a proper supply of corn from abroad. Now
let them look at the prices o': ford from 2s, 100. in 1831 to 2s. sd. in 1832, weaving feu
wages rose from 14v. 3d. to 143 6d. From 2s. 51d. in he
1832 flour fell to 2s. Old. in 1533, while weav- He
t years. In 1821 wheat was 545. Id. a quarter; 1822, 435. ing wages rose from 143. 61 to 14s. lid. Again, any;
I 6d. ; 1823, 61s. ; 1824, 625. ; 1825, 665. ; so that the from 2s. 04d. in 1833, flour fell to Is. and Sid, in dec
gradual approach of panic came on as the price of wheat 1834, while weaving wages, preserving the same inverse at 1
rose in 18203 and 1824, until it had reached its maximum proportion, rose from 14s. 'lid. to 15s. 3d. But take a he
1 in 1825, and then came the panic. What was the case period when flour was on the rising scale and how stands he
when wheat was 565. and 555. ? Why, that the country the case? From 1836 to 1837 Lill. rose Op. per stone, to t
was in a state of prosperity-the people had more money to and weaving wages fell 2s. 6d. per piece. From 1837 to din
i spend in manufactures because bread was cheaper, and the 1838 flour rose 61d. per stone, and weaving wages are nee
panic and ovcrtrading was neither more nor less than this,
that in consequence of the dearness of bread the people
again sunk 104 d per piece further. Front 1838 to 1839 tea
flour again rose, and weaving wages fell still further. Or, bet
were not able to spend any money in manufactures, whilst
in other words, we have from 1831 to 1834 each year a we
the manufacturers had every reason to expect that instead
fall in corn, accompanied by a rise in weaving wages; and sot
, of that they would have the same trade that they had before. I from 1535 to 1839 a constant rise in flour, and a most la- bit
) Then he says, " but it was said also that the home demand 1 mentable depreciation in wages paid for some description lo
had diminished front an inability to purchase, and that was lof weaving. So with respect to wages paid for combing.
1 an effect which was attributed to the Corn-laws. If that pe
I in 1831 flour was at 2s. 10Sd., and combing wages at qd. mswere so he begged to inquire who were the real home lln 1835 flour fell to ls. Ba., and combing wages rose to fa,
consumers. He had always heard that " they were the land- s?rd. But in 1839 flour had got to 23. lettel., and we find it
owners and persona employed in agriculture, and there combing wages down again to 41d. That is, while th
Icould be me doubt that they being the best customers con- flour fell 42 per cent., wages rose 30 per cent. But tit
sumed at least four-fifths of the articles produced." They while flour rose 70 per cent., wages fell 27 per cent. se
had labourers, however, examined before them who pur- ra
ire thought that was proof positive that the rate of wages se
chased bat one suit of clothes in the year, and yet it was was not at all regulated by the prices of food, and there-
hat such tannic, were the best consumers of fore tc
said t it was quite unnecessasy to say another word upon the H
manufactures. If the home trade depended on subject, as it must be well known to all. d,
agriculturists, the consequences would be that Mr. MORRIS would refer to a statement of the compare- n
in 1.835, 1839, aed 1840, they would have a better five rate of wages and prices of wheat at Halifax, as a h
home-trade than was ever known, as the farmers and proof of what was advanced by Mr. „Milligan ; and, as the d
laed.oweers during those years bad been making fortunes, weaver was situated he had no compensation whatever, _
It hail been stated by Lord Darlington, that since that either in an increased rate of wages, or in an additional e
period he had not only got his usual rent, but that ar- quantity of work. Mr. Morris then read the following c
rears have been paid to him. They knew the declining. statement, which he said was drawn up by one of the s
state of the home-trade, during the years he had referred most eminent manufacturers of Halifax :-
to. They had had a wholesale draper from Don- - 1
caster telling them that in 1835 his trade had 'Average price of Bradford Prices' Halifax (
iacreaaett to the amount of 7,0001., but that every year
since it had been increasing. That had occurred in - Wheat per Qr. lof Labour. Lasting!.
1 -- 7
the centre of an agricultural district, where they might no-
turally expect that the improvement in the prices of corn 1834 -
would hare improved the condition of manufacturers. 1835
1836 Ifs. d. s. d.l s. d. s. d. s. d. '
46 2to 47 o'lo 0 18 0 14 0 1
39 4 40 29 0 17 0 14 6 (
10 0 16 6 14 6 I
They found that such a change in prices made no change
in the state of labourers, and that they get no higher 1838
wages than they did when prices were lower. Theyll: 106 90156 13 0 t
1839
...
7602
65 64 78 0 14 6! 11 0 f
are obliged, however, to pay more dearly for food.-
( Hear, hear.) There are twenty agricultural labourers 1840 ' .
65 9
7 3 14 0 10 6
i
6 9 13 6' 10 0 t
for cue farmer, and it is clear that a system which destroys This was the fullest verification of what Mr. Milligan had c
the eustorn of twenty, while it improves that of one only advanced. r
- must be iurious to the home-trade of the country.- Mr. OXLEY said that the result of all this at Bradford f
' (Hear, hear) They found that the sums aid in the had been, that one-third of the population of that place were r
1 home market were nearly a third less sines the years he out of employment ; that upwards of 3,0001. had been sub-
had referred to. It was demonstrated that the home trade. scribed to- relieve their distress, and that the poor-rates
strffered more severely than any other when the ' 1
price of had just doubled.
bread was high. As Mr. O'Connell had said
labourer takes his cotton to the h
quarter of wheat for his eight days'
, the English Mr. Smerit would refer to the. fallacy cf their opponents, I
labour. Let him, on
home market and gets a who contended that a rise of price was always accompanied '
Not only had the rate of wages fallen,
the contrary, take it to Poland, ad he will by a rise of wages. Not
tars and one bushel of Wheat for the - but the demand
tame amount of labour • they were only employed
ix dal, s,
As Mr. O'Connell said, the whole meaning of the Cor .-
stead of being employed s ,
for labour had decreased ; and now, in.
laws is just this : that the manufacturers and merchants nthree or four, and many
of This
was
sf employment altogether.
the country are compelled to give all to the farmer, in had been one of the strongholds
order that he may pay the part of one man back again in which
Anti-Corn-law cwauesree gait
hich he was happy to say was fast giving way.
making great way.
of their opponents,
exchange for manufactures. It is just a clear robbery to When
the working man of three days of the week. Ile works Paulton first went Stirling last
three for the Duke of Buckingham and three for himself, him. Year, oVizMeralbout forty or fifty persons assembled
to
to hear
1 and yet the Duke comes up with his poor-law, and tells should be O'utv; was' no public
1 the laboisrer to depend upon his own resources. Why petition, but different the Chartists. T
year a
public
meeting
bodies petitione-
were afraid to call a publ_hi
bmoreeetincs, lest they
d separately. This
did not the Duke of Buckingham stand on his own re-
had been held on the subject, the
sources ? Why had the Duke out-door relief, and the Chartists had attendedet and moved an amendment,suj but the.
ipoor man, who was out of work, not allowed to have it ? original motion for the repeal was carried by a majority of
, If he were to give a poor match-seller in the street a nine-tenths of the meeting, An Association had been
1 penny, and he took the money to a baker's shop for a loaf , formed, and regular office be.
lof bread, and the baker put one halfpenny info a poor box day last, by - earers appointed. n •
way of a demonstration, a soiree had been
I called the Duke of Buckingham's poor-box, and gave the held, which had been attended by from 800 to 1,000
0 Mon-
-1 poor man but a halfpenny worth of bread, such a tax could , people. Deputies had attended from the manufacturing
Oct be collected a single day in England-but this is the I districts round Stirling. This was calculated to do great
I fact, half the poor man's earnings go to the Duke of I good, and it would place the agitation upon such a founda-
' Buckingham, and the other half to the poor man, and yet, tion as must produce a good effect. A petition had been
they were told such a trade as this was to be increased. , sent up this year which was more numerously signed than
I Then the Earl of Darlington said that ~ the. agriculturists 1 any petition that had ever emanated from Stirling, except
I consumed at least four-fifthsthe 'in favour of the Reform Bill, as it
of articles pro- the one
I dured." Strange speculation 1 Ile ut a question 1,300 names. was signed by
Ito a farmer. Of all the grain youP raise. how Mr. SYDNEY SMYTH begged to say that Mr. Smith came
y much do you conanme ? The answer of a Lincolnshire ! from the midst of the most important agricultural district
I farmer was, th.at they sold in the market two-thirds of all in Scotland.
the grain they raised, and only retained one third for the I Mr. SMITH said he tright mention that there were
I supply of their labourers, themselves, and families: What ; several proprietors of land present at their meeting, and
Ibecame of the other two-thirds that' wa
kit. ? Did it go to the families of the sold in the mar- I not onec
,hand was held up against the motion for the repeal
agriculturalo la. of the -
bourers ? No ; they were supplieerde,
P And fact'
c].,, ti theofmt other 1 Mr. BEaN
ir n lawa
said. their enemies heaped all sorts of abuse
k third, and the other two-thirds were,
consumed by the manufacturing community.
, , upon them for their Christian_ en deavoniti to feed their
I,
Ferri of Darlington said the agriculturists consumed four-
the fsilow-men, w .ho worked for their living. If any party
I fifths of all the articles produced.__( Hear, he •
guarded .his
, our- ! were blasphemers it was that oneblowsl:iongwsou,,ldnisetnarGveodtl,le:tri
• ! There was another thing to las particularly guarded -"ear.) fellowmen, and deny them the
i atzahest--a return just published by the order of the house '
NhR goodness,,Nv9 had
saseidnt
btleiern.
wished to address a few words
1 of Ceinmens : - A return of the highest and lowest ann brought
the dia.:A-en-es per
1 verere prices of wheat, and - cent. against the manufacturing class last night. If there was
ual ' upon the cha°Ne of over-production which was