The Sun.
London, England, 1840-01-15 00:00:00

• tbeae evils.
1 J‘ That, impressed more fully by the experience of the
past year with the necessity of the most determined efforts
[for the repeal of the Corn and Provision-laws, this meet-
!sine of Deputies pledge themselves to the continued sea-
-1 gort of the League until the object for whichit was estab-
listi'ed be attained."
l' In the borough of the Tower Hamlets was located the
London silk trade, the sugar refining trade, now de-
.,( pressed and almost destroyed by bad legislation ; and,
Ilastly, they had the great port of the commercial ma-
ribe of London. Both the Members of the Borough
me the Tower Hamlets were triendly to the entire re-
peal' of the Coan-laws, and Mr. Clay had requested
him (Mr. Coates) to state to that meeting how much
he regretted his inability to he present, and to assure
' him, that tit office, or out of office, they might calculate
1 on his exertions to obtain the entire repeal of
, those obnoxious and accursed laws. (Cheers.)
I He was glad to see so great a number of the working
o
1 classes present. The working classes were the life's
iblood of the State.—(Near, hear.) He (Mr. C.)
; would nevsr separate the working classes from ether
classes. Tense who would separate the working classes
;front the middle classes, the employed from the em-
plover, were the equal enemies of both.—(Hear, hear.)
Tee working classes possessed power, but that power
w •0 best exercised wleien it went hand in hand with
was
the
~ ewer of the mi Idle classes.—(Hear, hear.) He
1 e t certain whether the landed aristocracy were not
wo.•king an experiment whether they couldventured on do without
ti, 1 people or not.—( Laughter.) If they
seta. an experiment as that, it was possible the people
m'etit .liseentr thesy could do without the landed arts-
.. • .(Cieere and laughter.) He was for carrying
1 erasa .-- - - but he very much sus-
', every thints by I:Pat.:cable means,
1 peace that h the janded aristocracy wished to have a
fair stanil-up fight seith the people, they would only
(Laughter.) He did not pro-
come off second beet.--.etion in all its details and
fess to be master of this qua
bearings, but he did nodersteeel the common sense
The Cern-laws were it pro-
vaev of it.—( Hear, hear.)
ection to one particular interest. ei7hat was the prin-
peaes,ction to one
ei. le—( prig-
(Hear)—ad the principie of
The ex-
, tr:ole was robbery to all others.—(Cheers.)
elusive euppert of any one interest by legislation, tees se
Imuch telt sn away from every other interest. In whose'
ftvour were those protective Corn-laws passed ? Not
k in fevour of the labourer, the tenant, or the farmer, for,
gen, rally speaking, they had done him no good,
but a
1. e et 6. •al of evil ; therefore it was a protection in favour
of t:,e „few, at the expense of the many.—(Cheers.)
Nov. fete etederstood the evil of all this—(Hear, hear)—
; and thereforse in his opinion those laws, as they existed,
at the expssnse' of the great body of the community,
I w, re against .-eaeon and justice, and opposed to the
rights of men a.nd the laws of God.—(Cheers.) He
felt that the Coen-fe'w question was a religious question,
and he hoped the relic 01,3 feeling of the country would
ho aroused on behalf of :he .poor.—(Hear, hear.) He
, betel ed the advocates of tLe repeal of the Corn-laws
the cause in evil
were touch indebted to the polieeerance of the men
k of Manchester, who had been true' td
report and in good report, who had .440 tht the battle
i ~, eeason and out of season, and he be.'"€=-1 firmly
the ultimately, being serious in a righteo:'s caAse,
they oust prevail.—(Loud cheers.)
f Mr. I.,”ESEY from Preston seconded the resolution.
lie was a thorough going, tee-total, repealer of' the
Corr-laws, from a conviction of their bad effects.
t
1 'Tense laws had been productive of the worst cwhile
onse-
, ru .necs. Bread by them had been made
s.rieses had been extremely low. In P
threston every
r` species of labour had been depressed by e Corn-laws.
_lle appeared before them that night for the first time
1 64 a Corndiew repealer.—(lmmense cheering.) He
stood before them, therefore, with all the zeal of a new
convert.—( Hear, at. `f cheers.) He was well known to
them as an agitator ; sieliatever he put his hand to his
heart was in it, and he ,"as never satisfied until he
had accomplished it. They s, quid recollect that other
farticles of produce and food wesee,also heavily taxed.
Every hundred weight of cheese puie :1 tax of 10s., and
every hundred weight of butter was tax.*'d :205., and if
; they brought down the price of one article ,:sf food, the
others would speedily follow.
(L
cheers'.
if,
therefore, they succeeded in getting the Corn-lawti r
' pealed, the hard-working industrious classes would o:.:-.
taro their beef, breed, butter, milk, cheese, and every-
' thing else at a lower rate.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.)
. lie had only one other observation to make. He stood
there as the decided friend of the working classes, and as
the advocate of a free trade in corn, and everything
else. It vvas most unjust and iniquitous that bread, the
essential element of human existence, should be taxed.
!It should be perfectly free—free as the air they
I breathed, or as the waters of the ocean.—( Loud cheers.)
Mr. L. concluded by seconding the resolution, which
was carried unanimously.
Mr. WARDLE, Secretary to the Working Men's
Association of Sheffield, then addressed the meeting.
• He did not stand before them in the position of the last
i;meeker, for he was an old Corn-law repealer, and he
had long exerted himself for the ace- mplishment of
t, thee o lij...et. It was unnecessary for him to go into the
iaatei s I.f the question which had been already most ably
discus:, d and illustrated. An address had been circu-
lated front the working classes that the repeal of the
1 '-lorn-laws would produce a reduction of wages, and can-
ine upon the operative classes to oppose the question.
That, however, was a complete fallacy.
The Mellowing resolution having been moved by Mr.
Baines, of Leeds, and seconded, was declared by the
I e..;liairrnatt to be carried unanimously :
That the Deputies offer their grateful acknowledge-
I ti erne for the valuable services of the several Anti-Corn-
las. Associations of the kingdom, in the dissemination of
?-.me( information by means of lectures and tracts; and
they recommend the
organization of similar Associations,
-a be united with the League, in all towns where none
Live been established. The Deputies urge upon all such
:seceieties the paramount duty, et the present juncture, of
coithwith calling public meetings, and of forwarding nu-
iss-cowl! si negd petitions to both Houses of arliament and
Quetn, for the total and immediate P
repeal of the
t Corn-iascs."
Mr. :OSEPII WALKER, of Wolverhampton, then
tame forwaed to address the meeting. From the situa- '
teten in which he stood as a merchant and purchaser
f,pam the manufecenrers, he flattered himself he knew
$„,,,•• little as to thee bearings of this great question.
Ho was in the habit o-f receiving orders from all parts
Ireland, anti foreign countries, and the
of EaglaVd, latter were upon the
orders he i-eceived from the le
condi-
tion that he furnished the g',eoda at such a price
as enabled the Party ordering the to sell
elsewhere. at
the same price as !hey did in Belgium ande
2ition with respect to Oeose orders ?
Now, what was his po
Why, he did not put them into hand, and ti; result
was that the small manufactorers were ruined, tisey
were without orders, trade was had, there was no JO.,
mend for goods. This was ail owing to the Corn-laws.
What, then, was the next operation ? Why, wages fell
as the orders ceased.—(Cheers.) But then it might be
said, that although he was obliged to sell his goods at
the same price that he gave the manufacturer to the
German and Belgium markets that he might get higher
prices in Ireland ; now big. experience taught him he
could do no such thing. The price at wieLeh he must
sell his goods at Rio and New York must govern him in
i selling them at Dublin and old York. It required no
reasoning to prove this. He had in his own town many
! competitors, and if they found that he was selling goods
cheaeer at old York than he was at New, they would
aoon compel him to desist,—(Cheers.) What class, he
would ask, was most interested in the repeal of the
Corn-laws ? He maintained, the working men.—
(Cheers.) Now what was the object of the Corn-laws ?
Why to create a scarcity of food for the purpose of (ree-
fing high prices. The loaf was already too small,
wed, to use a vulgar phrase, some of the family of England
)masst bite short.—(Cheers.) Who was it that was
obliged to do so? Was it the rich ? No.—(Cheers.)
i Was it the clergy? No —(Cheers.) Was it the
ifLe :itidodiile:lahtsy
[ est?he
sNwoea.-tiCti:irrsb.),Owllt:Gourgehat
cbhreeeard
was dear they could get enough to supply their daily
wants,—..(Cheers.) It fell exclusively upon such men
as composed the present meeting.—(Cheers.) Those
ere .I* --' ic looked upon the repeal of the Corn-laws as
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~ ,_ adic il measure, and cue that would lead to
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vhf
What was it they
1
', li,--4 a perfect equality on the subject of
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