The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-08 00:00:00

Mouse of Commons was sitting I had enough to do to
attend to your business, and I do not believe I could
attend to any other without neglecting your interests.—
(Hear, hear.) I forgot to state that one of the mea-
sures condemned in Sir. Robert Peel's motion was the.
Penny Postage Act. Why did the Tories let that Act
pass ? There were ninety and some odd Members amongst:
the Tories who voted for that measure—(Hear, hear)e--
and now they wish to condemn it. They voted for it
because they had seen their constituents, and their con-
siituents were for it ; and because I had presented pe-
titions in faVour of it from my constituents, and none,
that I am aware of, against it, I voted for that measure.
Now the Government is blamed for carying that measure,
which one-third of the party helped them to do. They
tell you much about the state of the finances, but you
will remember that it is only a comparatively short
time since that they paid twenty millions, which was
voted for that noble object, the doing away with the
slave trade, and three millions of the taxes have been
taken off. They tell you that there were three millions
left in the Exchequer, but they don't tell you of any
deficiencies that caused there to be no such surplus in
reality at that period. The Government, you are told,
have put Baron Campbell into a situation, in the
pla.-28 of an old man who resigns,—(Lord Plunket)—
and that this is done that Baron Campbell
may have the retiring salary as ex-Chancellor of -
Ireland, as he will soon have to retire also. Now, I have
made inquiry, and I find that Baron Campbell took
that appointment, with a condition that if the Tories
came into power and he holds only for a short time, he
will not claim the pension.—(" No," from Colonel Sib-
thorp.) Colonel Sibthorp seems to doubt what I am
stating.—(Colonel Sibthorp—" I do ;" hisses and signs
of disapprobation marked the interruption.) I will give
you my authority, it was Sir George Grey who told me,
and do you think that he would not be able to know
that ?—(Loud cheers.) Let it be recollected that this
Government, that they say is so fond of patronage and
jobbing,' the first thing they did was to reduce their
own salaries.—(Hear, hear.) They reduced above
3,7001. annually in the salaries of persons who had
been employed by the . Tories to collect the taxes.
Who showed themselves, when in office, most fond
of jobbing?—(Hear, hear.) Who opposed the Whigs
when they tried to look into the state of the Pen-
sion List ? Who- got it into that state ? Not the
Whigs.—(Cheers.) What state was the country in when
the Tories left it ? Were there not incendiary fires
blazing in every direction ? Were there not Political
Unions in Birmingham and other places ?—(" Who en-
couraged them ?" from the Tory party.) If you want
to know who encouraged them, I tell you, it was the
Tories refusing to listen to the wishes of the people.
What state was Ireland in ?—(Hear, hear.) Yet last
year, when the Chartists; brought into notice and power
by the Tories, by getting up a cry against the New Poor-
law, raised a fearful riot in Wales, the Government
sent for troops out of Ireland to put those riots down.
He defended his consistency in opposing the Ministry
on questions of finance, but supporting them on Sir Ro-
bert Peel's motion. He would censure the Ministers for
bringing forward measures, if they thought themselves
unable to carry them. Mr. Macaulay had said they
miscalculated, and it seemed they had done so griev-
ously. Sir Robert Peel had declared himself against
a fixed duty, but would not pledge himself to make
no alteration in the present scale. He (Lord
Worsley) had looked very carefully at the speech of
Sir Robert Peel at Tamworth, and had adopted that
speech as a tone of the party that would come into
office. Sir R.,Peel said he would not alter the present
system, but wished so to
:alter the scale, that the protec-
tion to farmers would not be less. The present system
had worked well, and he (Lord Worsley) advocated its
continuance.

Mr. CHRISTOPHER and Mr. C UST afterwards addressed
the meeting.
Sir C. ANDERSON, Bart., wished to set himself right
in regard to the public meeting that had been referred
to ; he fully understood that the Noble Lord would op-
pose the Ministry on the proposition of a fixed duty, but
he did not expect him to do so on any other question. As
an old constitutional Whig of sixty years' standing, who
had supported the Noble Lord, and his father and
grandfather before him, he did not expect that he
,should turn round, give up his former friends, and at once
turn Tory. Such was the impression on his own mind
as to what the Nobie Lord would do, and he had acted
accordingly, although he must also admit. that others,
and those of his own family, had understood Lord Wors-
ley differently.
EDWARD lIENEAGE, Esq., M.P., would not have
offered himself, but that Mr. Christopher had referred on
his canvass to the Poor-laws ; such professions on the
approach of an election were an appeal to clap-trap to
catch a few stray votes. He had to congratulate them
on the prospect of an abundant harvest : the crop of
Conservative candidates grown in the South Division
was so great, that not content with their couple for home
consumption, they had exported two for the especial
good and benefit of the Northern Division.
Mr. CHRISTOPHER explained that he had given notice
of a clause in the Poor-law Bill to give a majority of
two-thirds of the Board of Guardians the discretion of
granting out-door relief, without reference to the Com-
missioners, and he should renew that proposal.
On the show of hands being called for, it was im-
mensely in favour of Lord Worsley ; Mr. Christopher
and Mr. Cust were nearly equal.
The HIGH SHERIFF declared the show to have been
in favour of Lord Worsley and Mr. Christopher, and
Mr. Chaplin (for Mr. Cust) demanded a poll.