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ATTACK ON COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS.-
An attack was made on Friday last on two commercial travel-
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of Merthyr Tydvil. It appears that Mr. Rolling, from Bristol,
questioned a lot of lads who were playing before the inn, if
any of them were Chartists,- one of them, with some show of
spirit, replied, " what. if they were, it was nought to him."
Rolling replied, if they were Chartists they ought to be hung
up like sheep. This was all that. passed, and the circumstance
was forgo ten ; and a little before night set in the two travel-
lers, in a gig, started for Merthyr. They had not pro-
ceeded far, when they obrtrved a number of bo3s and men
evidently awaiting their approach. They noticed that one
or two were provided with sticks, but not contemplating
an attack, they drove on. When within a few yards of
the party, onu of the men advanced, and seizing the horse
by the head, called his fellows to come on. Mr. Dixon
asked what it was they wanted, when the spokesman of
the party, pointing to Mr. Rolling, with a few oaths, ex-
plained that they had come pumposely to make him unsay
that which he had said about the deserts of the Chartist
body, Mr. Rolling was about to reply, when he received a
blow from behind on the head, which knocke.l off his hat into
the road. Rolling immediately leaped out of the gig to re-
cover his hat, when the leader of the party, quitting the
horse's head, tripped up his heels, and struck him as he was
falling. Mr. Rolling is a very powerful man, and with great
determination of purpose and presence of mind, seeieg the
horse's head was free, he sprang to his feet, and seizing the
astonished Chartist round the middle, threw him across the
bottom of the gig, calling at the same time for Mr. Dixon to
drive on. Mr. Dixon imm-distely applied the whip, leaving
the astonished Chartists to follow in useless pursuit. Mr. Rol-
ling being a much more muscular man than his antagonist,'
succeeded in keeping him down, and when this aspirer for
liberty found his struggles were useless he counterfeited intox-
ication The ruse. however, was of no avail ; they brought
him to Merthyr, and he is now fully committed for the out-
rage. Mr. Rolling suffered but little from the two blows he
received, but during the struggle in the gig he received a bite
on his thumb, the marks of which will descend with him to
his grave.

We regret to announce the decease of the Right
Hon. Sir Robert Wilmot Horton, Bart., which took place on
Monday afternoon at Sunbrook Park. Sir Robert had been
for some time in a very precarious state of health, but his
medical attendants had not antiepated so early a termination
of his illness. When actively engaged in pubic life, Sir
Robert's chief endeavours were directed to telieve the dis-
tresses of the lab,uring classes by means of emigration ;
indeed, he was. the first person who, called public attention to
the happy effects that might be produced throughout the
overpopulated parts of the empire by enabling the poor to seek
in our colonies that market for their industry, which could
no longer be provided at home. It is impossible to withhold
our admiration ~f the benevolent motives which prompted him
std for the per
those exertions ; indeed, nothing but a most generous sym-
pathy for the distresses of the induvri,us poor cou:d have sup-
ported him through the difficulties he then had to encounter.
Sr
will
nl long
of
whichnghe h
e rememberedadmi
administered in the colony of
Ceylon
riod of six years), as the reform( r of numerous abuses, and
(t
the patron of every improvement which seemed adapted to the
i Robert'sh e g nameo ve rnrn
wants of the colony. A wide circle of private friends. by
whom his social qualities were long esteemed, "ill deeply Is.-
ment his loss ; indeed if our partiality des not
induce us to
exaggerate the merits of the departed, We sincerely believe
that, apart from his higher and more valuable qualities, few
Men have been more prized as a companion, or will be more
regretted as a frien I.—ltforning Paper.
- Major- Malcolm, of the 3d Light Dragoons, is
..
to. accompany Colonel Sir Henry Pnttinger to China as his
official assistant..- United Service Gazette.

DOWN WITH MONOPOLY!

LONDON HAS DONE ITS DUTY !

GUILDHALL CORN-LS* MEETING.
In pursuance of a requisition very numerously and re-
spectably signed, addressed to the Lord Mayor, a meet-
ing of the electors of the City of London took place yester-
day, at the Guildhall, for the purpose of taking into con-
sideration the existing Corn laws, and preparing an ad-
dress-to Parliament on the subject. At a few minutes
past one o'clock, the Lord Mayot!, Thomas Johnston,
Esq., entered the hall, and was received with loud and
general cheering. There were loud calls for Sir Matthew
Wood, who presented himself to -the meeting, and was
greeted with much applause, as was also Mr. Crawford,
M.P, The hall was densely
.crowded, and on the plat-
form were several of the most influential merchants and
traders of the city.

-., -
Among the gentleman :on the platform we observed
James Morris, H. Prescott, C. P. Grenfell, Ralph Ri-
cardo, Esqs., Directors of the Bank..of England ; Greg-
son, Larpent, Gladstanes, Benjamin Wood, Esq., M.P.,
W. Wilkinson, C. Perkins, Sir M. Wood, M.P., George
Grote, M.P., W. Crawford,' M.P., J. Pattison, M.P.,
M. Forster, H. Travers, John Dillon, W. M. Christy,
H. Ashiirst, Wansey, Fearon, D. Richardson, Heppel,
Amory, Col. Bristow,•Norman, Hawes, Sturt, Nicholson,
Brown, Wire, Prevost, T. H. Hall, R. Taylor, J. Robert-
son, Cumming,.J. Pease, M.P., Prendergast, &qrs. &c..
The Lonn•Mkron said he held in his hand a requisi-
tion numerously and respectably signed fbr the present
meeting, to consider the subject of the Corn4aws and
Ito prepare, if the meeting thought proper, an address
'Ton the subject.—(Loud cheers.) ''"The Coeif,laws were
of importance not only, to ;the whole
kingdom, and he had no doubt. -that whatever was-done
by the Legislature and the Government would be .for
the benefit of the whole community.—(Cheers.) In the
diScussion that was about to take place he hoped and
trusted that everything would be amicably conducted,
and when it had terminated that they would separate in
peace and good will towards all men.—(Loud cheers.)
Ile would now call upon the town cryer to read the re-
quisition. •

-
The requisition having been road,
JOHN DiLLON, Esq., came forward to move the first
resolution. It had been asked "Why do you propose an
alteration in the . Corn-laws ?". His answer was that
they wished for an alteration because they wanted bread
for the people--(Loud cheers)—they wanted employment
for them that they might earn bread for themselves.—
(Cheers.) Not the bread of poverty and pauperism, but
the wholesome bread of honest industry—that best of
out-door relief that enlightened laws could confer upon
industrious man to enable him to earn bread for himself.
—(Much cheering.) , They wanted markets for their
manufactures, for if they did not take the produce of
other countries, they would not take the manufactures of
England in return.—(Hear, hear.) They wanted re-
lief from taxation, and therefore they wished to increase
the trade and commerce of the country to be effected
by free and enlightened legislation. They wanted
steady prices, and not a recurrence of those drains upon
their gold and silver, and therefore they wished to do
away with the graduated scale, and not add the chance
of gambling to the fair risks of trade.—(Cheers.) Above
all, they wanted a free and enlightened system of com-
mercial intercourse between nation and nation, and if
they wished to gain that object they must set an ex-
ample by being enlightened in their commercial policy..
—(Loud and general cheering.) The present were times
of great difficulty--,-they were times of new difficulty,
and they Must be met by new measures, and an improved
course of policy. Every man asked what was to be done
by way of remedy. One said, support commerce, another
said support trade, another said support the agricultural
interest, anot her saidsupport theCorn-laws,tke s ugardu ties,
the timber duties, or the silk duties, and some men advo-
cated the East India, whilst others insisted that the West
India interest should be supported. But there was an
interest above them all, because it included them all—the
interest of the people.—(Great cheering.) As to the
protection of, trade, and commercial interests; let every
trade and dais support and protect itself, and then all
would be protected.—(Hear, hear.) They had long
since passed the limits of wealth and population by which
they could by any possibility remain a purely agricultu-
ral country. They were now in difficult circumstances,
and they must meet these difficulties by a liberal altera-
tion in the existing laws of the country.—(Cries of I
" Hear, hear.") If a duty must be laid on
corn, let it be a certain and fixed duty—a duty of which
at all times they would know the worst and the.-best—
not a mere speculating gambling duty.—(Cheers.)
A celebrated statesman had said in the House of Com-
mons that he wished for a slippery or sliding scale; that
he did not wish for a fixed duty, but a sliding one.—
(Hear.) Now the people wanted a fixed rule to guide
them in all cases.—(Cheers.) It was impossible for him
on the present occasion to enter,intp an 0111101-ate state-
ment of the evils which floweerfrOm a graduated scale of
duty, but he would bring forward an argument which, as
a commercial city, they would easily understand. Speak-
ing
of a tax up n corn, they were all aware that a tax
upon imports was an addition to the price—it made
the article dearer, and when . a man imported corn, the
price at which he would be able to sell it was uncertain,
but the buying price, the mannfiicturing price, was ge-
nerally certain except in the case of corn. Thus the
fluctuations in price made the buying price" as well as
the selling price uncertain at the same time.—(Hear,
hear.) 'A man imported corn, because he apprehended
a scarcity ; but, in the meantime, the market fell.
The Consequenee was that he lost by the sale, and at the
same time the duty rose, and he lost by the duty. It was
like being hit 'with both ends of .the stick.—.(" Hear,
hear," and a laugh.) That system was most unfair and
unjust, and to the farmer it was very often injurious.—
(Hear, hear.) An enormous quantity of foreign corn
rushed in when the duty was low, and then, if
therewas a plentiful harvest, it was a curse
to. the farmer, and he was actually ruined
by the bounty of Heaven.--(Hear, hear.) But it
was said if the Corn-laws were altered, the agricultural
interests would be ruined. He begged to deny that posi-
tion. Let the agriculturalists do as the manufacturers had
done—let'them improve their processes of production, let
them become more economical in their management, and
meet the foreign•competition in the market.—(Cheers.)
It should be remembered that the demand for
the supply of the English market would raise the price
of foreign corn, so that its price would be much higher
than at present. The proposition of the Government was
to lay a fixed duty of Bs. on all foreign corn, and it
had been shown from calculations that had been made
that all the corn imported' since 1828 paid an average
duty of ss. 9d. only, so that the proposed duty was
actually more than the average duty paid since 1828.
—(Cheers.) Another reason that had been urged against
the alteration of the existing daty was rather a singular
one—it was that they would not be able, to go to war if
the duty on corn was taken off.—(Laughter.) His
simple remedy for that was, let them remain at peace,
and, better still, let them make it the interest of other na-
tions by taking' their produce, to remain at peace with
England. That was the practical view 'of the subject.
(Cheers.) It has often bem said of them that they
were theorists, but he repelled the charge-,it was the
advocates of the Corn-laws and other monopolies who
were the theorists, and not those who advocated the in-
terests of free trade. The only chance and hope of safety
in the present circumstance Was in calling forth the full
energies of the nation. He had already said that they
were surrounded by great difficulties—they had a greatly
increased population, with a narrow tract of ter-
ritory for their support.—(Cties of " Hear, hear.")
They had a heavy debt, while the world was in rivalry
against them ; and it was only by the power of their
own right hands that they could rescue themselves from
the position in which they were placed. He a.4ted them
would they tamely submit to have their right hands tied
behind them ? (Loud cries of "No, no.") Let them all
demand with 'one voice to be free, and there was little
doubt as to the result of the struggle.—(Cheers.) For
himself, he 'was proud of his country—she was great
among the nations of the earth for her industry—great
for her science and knowledge—great for her sobriety,
temperance, and all qualities that were calculated to
maintain that important position.—(Cheers.) But let it be
remembered that they were great, not in consequence of
their restriction and protection syStem, but pleat
in spite of it.—(Vehement cheers.) Let the
people get full scope . for the exertion of
their energies—let them remove every restriction
and prohibition—let every one labour . for the
promotion and extension , of his capital in
the means that seemed best to him—let 'all
the restrictions on commerce be abolished, or as the,
French phrase was, " laissons nous faire," and then would
the people
.of ,England show to all the nations of the
earth the truth of the proverb, that " Heaven protects
those who protect themselves."—(Much • cheering.)
The Hon. Gentleman concluded by moving the first re-
solution, which was to the effect—" That a free and
liberal policy. on the part of this country, particularly
in those laws which affect its agriculture and its com-
merce, has become more than ever necessary, and that
theth meeting highly
higcloilry-laws approves of the proposed alteration
in Corn-laws --(Cheers.)
'
GEORGE LARPENT, Esq., came forward to
.second the
.
resolution. He would enter very briefly into the sub-
ject, as he felt that the arguments which affected it had
barnexhausted by the lion. Gentleman who had pre-
ceded him. But as he had himself for many years takenan active part in that important question—a question in-
teresting to every class, but above all to that class which
was now for the first time heard ofienli.4;_hur'e feltleg it
isla-
tsii
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tty thT eT lclassescomeu b joe forwardfc et ohnasd Consumers—(Hear,
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vital a propo-
sition.
brought under their
consideration in the year 'lB_s, at a meeting attended
by the merchants, bankers, and other inhabitants of the
City of London. The Right Honourable the pre-
sent Lord Mayor was then in the chair as now.
On that occasion reselutions condemnatory of a
fluctuating duty were all but unanimously adopted ;
those resolutions having been supported by Mr. Thomas
Wilson and Mr. Ward, their then Conservative represen-
tatives, as well as by another gentleman who had since,
ilefeared,ch,ahngeaerd )his opinions—Mr. Alderman Thomp-
son.—(HearThey had held another meeting in
-1,83 D, at which his friend Mr. John Horsley Palmer.
as-
sisted, who spoke in con'deMnation of a;
" era duty on
corn, as embarrassing our riorietary. trannietions-and
causing repeated drains of the eurnney. Icle should

serve, in conclusion that an alteration in the existing
syStem would lead to an extension of our_ commerce and
an exchange of our ;manufactures for the corn of other
nations; to the great benefit of all classes of the commu-
nity.—(Cheers.)
. The resolution was then put and carried amidst great
cheers, with only five or six dissentients.

J. l'itivott, Esq., came forward to propose a petition
to Parliament founded on the preceding resolution. The
subject then under their consideration, he did not hesitate
to say, was one of the most important ever discussed in
this country. They all felt that the present laws were
a disgrace to a free land.--(Hear.) What else could he
say of any of these laws which deprived the multitude o:
a sufficiency of daily' bread—which left the labourer
without employment—which cramped the energies
of , the whole nation—which placed property al-
together in a false positiort—and which were now,
by starving a large portion "of our manufacturers, driv-
ing the people to the very verge of despair and
rebellion ?—(Hear, and cheers.) There was a feature,
in the times particularly worthy of observation, and that
was the fixed determination on the part of the people
to amend not only the Corn-laws, but every other bad
law which depressed and degraded the many, for
the benefit of the few.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.)
He hailed with delight the appearance of such a deter-
mination on "the part of the p-ople, and he trusted they
would persevere in their efforts for the improvement
of their moral and social condition.—(Cheers.) They
should study to foster that spirit, and to give it a right
direction.—(Cheers.) If they did not get rid of all
those bad laws, the social structure would be shaken
to its basis.—(Cheers.) Was it not surprising that those
whose interests would' be the first affected by any convul-
sion, should continue to be the last to endeavour to
apply any remedy ?—(Cheers.) Did the nobility recol-
lect the French Revolution—(Cheers)—and the events
which had preceded it ? The aristocracy of France
at that time held in their hands all thetand of France.
They had engrossed the whole of them, and what use
had they made of their monopoly ? The first cry of
that Revolution had been, " Down with the aristocrats,
and bread for our starving families."—( Loud cheers.)
Was the present state of the country far from it ?
Were there not thousands in this country starving.—
(Cheers.) It had been said that the present was an un-
due agitation. Now how were they to act except by
agitation when anything like concession to their wants
and wishes was resisted ?—(Cheers.) Agitation was in
his opinion one of the finest words in the English lan-
guage.(Cheers.) It was a word that kept bad men in
awe, and was the safeguard of our liberties.—(Cheers.)
Let them recollect that the hand of sympathy was now
held out to them from high quarters.—(Loud cheers.)
Let them seize the hand so held out to them.—(Loud
cheers.) For his own part, he was for the total aboli-
tion of all laws which imposed a tax upon human food.—
(Cheers.) The present, however, was a good measure,
and it would lead to a greater
,good.—(Loud
cheers.) He believed that some such measure was ab-
solutely necessary for the salvation of the country.—
(Cheers.) He moved that petitions founded on the re-
solutions they had been so wise—(Cheers)--,as to pass,
be presented to both Houses of Parliament.—(Cheers.)
Mr. W. MILLER CRISTY seconded the resolution,
which was put and carried unanimously amidst the
loudest cheering.
Mr. C. PERKINS said the next step for them to take,
was to consider to whom their petition ought to be con-
fided for presentation to Parliament. It should be entrus-
ted to the hands of one possessed of energy and principle
enough to do the subject justice. And to whom could
they confide better than to their old, tried, respected, and
ever to be esteemed representative Sir Matthew Wood ?
When the Reform Bill was first brought forward, the city
of London took the lead in returning four gentlemen
who were Reformers, and three of them were now acting
with Sir M. Wood.—(Cheers.) He . therefore moved
that Sir M. Wood be requested to present, and Messrs.
Grote, Crawford, and Pattison be requested to support,
the petition.—(Cheers.) He proposed this cheerfully,
but not confidently, because he feared that as Parliament
was at present constituted, their petition would not meet
with that respect to which the petitions of the people were
entitled. But he 'hoped they were on the eve of a general
election, and if the people of England did not do
their duty to themselves by returning men who were op-
posed to the Corn-laws, they would deserve to have
their petitions treated with disrespect.—(Loud cheers.)
They had their eye upon a great and distinguished orna-
ment of the cause of freedom.—(Loud and long-con-
tinued cheering. When the cheering ceased there was
an attempt made to raise the cry of the Poor-law in
one corner of the hall, which, however, was
instantly drowned with renewed cheering.) It was
the first time in the history of the country, that
the Ministers of the Crown had been with the people.--,
(Loud cheers.) If they did not succeed now, when would
they ?—(Loud cheers.) The landed interest had no
right to complain of the people ; they were now ap-
proaching that interest in a spirit of conciliation ; they
were offering them protection. During the existence of
the present Corn.law, 12,000,000 of quarters of-corn had
been imported into this country at an average rate Of
duty of ss. 9d. per quarter ; they now offered them
Bs., and the fact that 12,00q,000 of quarters of wheat
had been imported, proved that the landed proprietors
could not grow wheat sufficient for the wants of the
country.—(Cheers.) The fact was, the landed interest
(lid not want protection, they wanted the total exclusion
of foreign corn.—(Loud cheers.) The present Corn-law
was merely intended to throw dust in the eyes of
the people—it was intended to exclude corn system-
atically—(Cheers) and its effect was, that after the
landholders had sold us all the corn at the very highest
price ; they handed us over to the foreigner to sell us
his corn at the same rate.(Loud cheers.) The present
system of Corn-laws threw the Bank of England into
difficulties, crippled the currency, -and produced 'the
greatest distress among the people. All the evils
which they had been recently suffering were, he verily
believed, the consequences of these unholy enactments.
Let them rouse their energies and take care to return
only such men to Parliament as would support the in-
terests of the bulk of the country, rather than any class-
interests whatever. He begged to propose that Sir M.
Wood be requested to present the petition to
the House of Commons, and that Messrs. Grote, Craw-
ford, and Pattison, be requested to support it.—(Cheers.)

Mr. PRENDERGAST came forward to second the reso-
lution, and said that he would entreat the consideration
of the meeting, as he was not accustomed to public
speaking. He had never before the opportunity of ad-
dressing so numerous an assemblage, and the situation
in which he then found himself was somewhat embar-
rassing. In seconding the resolution he felt it necessary
to say but very few words, in consequence of the very
able and intelligent manner in which the ques-
tion had already been discussed in that hall.
The present question was well understood already.
The attention of the people had been drawn to
it now lot four years ; and, therefore, the proposal made
in the House of Commons was not treated as a new
question, but as one which already had received the as-
sent of the people of England. They knew full well the
principle on which it was based, and they were,
therefore, ready to give their assent to the pro-
posal.—(Hear, hear.) They had been told that
that resolution would benefit only: some particular classes
of the community. Wouldbit not, he would ask, benefit
the whole community ? Would it not benefit the manu-
facturing classes ? Would it -not benefit the trading
—would it not benefit the agricultural classes of the com-
munity ? He would ask them, would it not benefit
them all, by giving them a fair, steady, remunerat-
ing price for the article brought into the
market, instead of a fluctuating price, which might be
good for some individuals, but was certainly ruinous' to
all classes generally,—to the agriculturists and to the
country at large ?—(Cheers.) It had been said that a
more monstrous proposal was never entertained, but
they had never heard it once said that the
proposition would not benefit the working
classes, that is, that a proposal to make bread
cheap would not benefit the great bulk of the con- ,
sumers of bread—an assertion so monstrous certainly
was never beard. They had been told that wages were
regulated by the price of corn, and that the present
proposal would have the effect of diminishing wages.
---L(Hear, hear.) The working classes of Eng-
land were too intelligent to be gulled—should
he say gulled—(Cheers)—to be humbugged—(Cheers)—
by such assertions. The price of corn had been going
on increasing for some time past, but had wages been in
consequence increased ?—(Cries of " No, no.") If that
were So, it was clear. that the price of wheat did not re-
gulate the rate of wages. He would then again ask, whe-
ther the present alteration of the Corn-laws would not
benefit trade, and if so, would it not increase employ-
ment, and would it not in consequence increase the demand
for labour ? and if so, would not the demand for wages be
increased.—(Cheers.) They had been told various in-
terests were embarked in those branches of commerce,
to which the proposition of Government referred, and
that they ought to study those interests. The Canada
People had a great quantity of bad timber, and they
said, if you lower the duty on good timber how shall
we-sell our bad timber ?—(Hear.) What answer could
any man—could Lord John Russell make to that
statement ? He might say, endeavour to per-
suade the people to take the bad timber ; if
they won't take it, lower the price, and if they
do not take it all, why, he may say, lam sorry that
there is nothing but good timber used from one end of
the kingdom to the other.—(Cheers.) Then comes the
corn. The landlords will say there are great quantities
of bad land in England. Well, then, but the whole
land of England is not bad. Is it not so?—(Cries
of " Yes, yes.") Well, then, there is some bad land
not fit to grow corn. Why, then, the answer to that
should be, do not grow corn upon it.—(Cheers.) Bring
to the market only what the land will produce.-L(Cheers.)
Another would say you are going to make sugar cheap
and bring cheap sugar iuto the country-2--(Cheers)—and
what should he do if his sugar was dear ? The answer
to him would be, lower the price of it—(Cheers)—but
if he could not lower the price of it he must think of some
other article to bring into the market. They had been
told, indeed, that all these interests would be injured, and
that on the other hand other interestswould not be benefited.
Why only yesterday 80,000 Teetotallers assembled in
they drank tea—tea was sweetened by sugar.
'The- people then would have the interest
t)otalleri with them.—(Loud cheers.) There
Lon—wo f(tsChdanehoenToteee
-_(Cheers.) The-
interest also with them—those who would
net dirk tea---the bra.ridy-and-water interest, which
used sugar,--(Cheers and laughter.) Thus they had

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the temperance and the drinking interest with them.
Lord John Russell had been pleased to say that he was
aware they should have the Canada, the West India, and
the East: India, and the landed interest against them.
but there was one interest, which they would admit was
one of some importance, the eating and the drinking in-
terest, with them.—(Cheers and laughter.) He (Mr.
P.) hoped they would show them that all these
numberless interests, :powerful as they were, could not
compete with the eating and the drinking interest,
which would beat them altogether.—(Cheers.) Under
those circuntstances they couid not do better than join
heart and hand in the present good cause. Whatever
they were, whether Tories, Whigs, or Chartists, tempe-
rance men or drinking men, he hoped they would
all join in 'their common interest. It was the
;merest of all the subjects of this realm
from the man of immense capital to the man who had no
capital but the labour of his hands. Let them all then
unite and resolve to support Ministers, who were deter-
mined to support the people in their good cause. Before
he sat. down, he would beg leave to tell them
that the petition lay for signature at the bottom of thP
Hall, and he trusted that every man present would sign
it.—(Loud cheering.)
• Mr: DILLON then read the petition.
The question was then put from the Chair, and car-
rigid neat. con. •

Sir MATTHEW WOOD then came forward, and was re-
ceived with loud cheering. When the applause had
somemhat subsided, the Hon. Baronet said that he had
always great pleasure in meeting his constituents, and
particularly on such an occasion as the lie-
sent, when he .found- them so unanimous—(Loud
cheers)—and when they requested him and his colleagues
to support a petition to the House of Commons, the 'ob-
jects mentioned in which be had always endeavoured to
carry forward. (Cheers.) He was always opposed to
the Corn-laws, and at all times did every thing thing in his
power both before and since he liad --been in the
House to repeal and abrogate those laws altogether.—
(Loud cheers.) If he should still have the honour of a
seat in the House—(Loud cheers, and cries of " You
shall, you shall")—at the time when this great question
would be decided, he trusted he would be found acting in
conformity with the views and wishes of the people.—
(Cheers.) Since the day when they had first received
nun in their arms, he scarcely recollected, numerous as
had been the times which he had appeared before them,
a period at which there was so much ground
for satisfaction as the present.----(Loud Cheers.) All
parties had agreed on the necessity of a change,
and the question now was only who should bring for-
ward the measure of alteration.—(Cheers.) The Con-
servative party had said " Let Sir Robert Peel come
into offide, and we will vote for the repeal of the Corn-
laws. It was a great question whether they could trust
them or not—(Cheers and laughter)—however, whe-
ther they could or not, he believed the question would be
carried to effect which nothing would be wanting on his
(Sir M. Wood's) part. The worthy Alderman then sat
down amidst loud and long continued cheering.)
Mr. GROTE (who was received with repeated cheer-
ing) said—My Lord Mayor and Gentlemen, I shall
have the greatest pleasure in executing the instructions
which you have been pleased to give your representa-
tives on the subject of this important petition.—(Loud
cheering)—l have already witnessed, on the subject
of the Corn-laws, two long-continued and im-
portant debates in the House of Commons, and on
these, my vote and humble powers of speech were not
wanting to lent assistance to the cause, which is now
saactione.d by so numerous and commanding an assem-.
blage.—(Cheers.) Much as I rejoice to see the unani-
mity which now prevails amongst you, I still wish that it
was so far interrupted by some of those gentlemen who
in 1825 signed the petition which has been read to you, and
who now sel cause to change their opinions—(Cheers
and laughter)—for I think that the fallacy of their
reasoning and the infinity of their arguments could easily
be shown.—(Cheers.) The very
.principle on which the
Corn-laws are founded is to restrict each and every one
of you from purchasing your food where you can get it
best and cheapest—(Cheers)—on the principle- of pro-
tecting (as it is falsely called) one particular class—one
particular body of producers, at the expense of
the whole people—(Cheers)—and this' principle, whether
in politics or in commerce, is the essence of injustice.—
(Hear, hear.) I hope, Gentlemen, when you hear the
word " protection," which sounds both just and holy,
but conceals both injustice and impolicy—(Hear, hear)—
I hope when you hear of protection to the producers of
corn, or of sugar, or of any other commodity, you will
understand that it is an artful name for a new tax upon
the industry of the people.—(Hear, hear.) We pay al-
ready heavy taxes to support the Government. 'But the '
more we pay to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the less
we can afford to give the landowners.—(Cheers.) The
Chancellor of the Exchequer proposes a fixed duty, and
that shall have my most cordial support ; but I cannot
conceal from you, that it does not effect all for the corn
trade which I think ought to be done.—(Cheers.) The
less the duty is made, . the better I shall be
pleased, and I think the best plan of all is to have no
duty at all.—(Loud cheers and laughter.) Gentleineti;
in my opinion, a fixed duty of Bs. is much.to be pre-
ferred to the present system of what is called a
sliding scale, which, as we all know very well,
is nothing more than a system of gambling.—(Great
cheers, and cries of " Nothing more.") But I hope,
Gentlemen, we are not to look upon the duty as invested
with the privilege of finality.—(Cheers, laughter, and
cries of " No, no".) I hope we are to look upon it only
..ts a temporary expedient to secure them the transition
fr-ozn the present system of monopoly, and framed to one
of perfect free trade. But at the same time, gentlemen,
I am ready to admit that under the mistaken
and fallacNis system which is at present maintained,
some interessts have grown- up, which it would be
cruel at one bh,w to cut down. Then there has been
encouraged a sysOm of cultivating wheat in this country
which owes its exiL,tehce altogether to the Corn-laws,
and we owe it to those' who have been induced by our
laws to embark in it ; we should take a careful course in
proceeding to the establish:nent of a free trade.—(Hear.)
I think, Gentlemen, it is a gat thing that we have once
obtained a recognition of the principle of free:trade in
corn ; but I repeat that we must .VProach to a total abo-
lition of restriction by careful sleps. The present
Corn-law acts imperiously, not mere ty on the food and
comforts of the working classes, and reS,4ricts them in the
market for.the necessities of life, but it re.%tricts the field
for their employment in every line of indtotry—(Hear,
hear, hear)—and they cripple, embarrass, and con-
fine the resources of our trade with the most
important regions of the world.---(Loud cheering.)
Now, Gentlemen, let any man compare the differenca of
comfort and happiness which the induste.ious poor en-
joyed in 1835, when wheat was 40s. the quorter, and in
1839, when it was 80s.—(Hear, hear.) On this
point I feel that you, as the members of the gseatest
leading community in the world,—as of
this vast metropolis of London, which is the miNt
of European, Ameridan, and Asiatic commerce. I feel thai
you have a deep interest in this question ; and if the
trade -of your vast city could be still more enlarged
and extended, as it would be by those reformations
in the tariff, it would be a blessing not only to
you and to the whole country, but to the whole commer-
cial world, and to all civilised mankind.—(Vehement
cheering.) It is not only to the aggregate
interest of that community to which I belong,
in heart as much as by birth, the proposed measures of the
Government will be a benefit.—(Cheers.) But they are
especially calculated to benefit the important community
which has three times honoured me with its confidence
and sent me to Parliament to express its wishes and to
defend its rights—(Loud cheers)—and when this ques-
tion comes before the House of Commons, as it must
come in a very few days, I will support the pro-
positions of her Majesty's Government, as I can
state that in doing_ so I represent the sentiments as
truly as •I advocate the interests of my constituents. The
Hon. Gentleman sat down amidst tremendous and reite-
rated cheering.

Mr. W. CRAWFORD said it would give him unfeigned
pleasure to give every support in his power to the ob-
ject of the petition. The views they had heard x"
presscd that day were those which he had always pro-
fessed,e and which he had first declared at a meeting in
the city of London in the year 1825. He adhered
to those opinions, and he entirely concurred in
what had fallen from his Hon. Friend, Mr. Grote, par-
ticularly in that part of his speech which looked to the
ultimate abolition of the Corn-laws,—(gear,
in the mean time he would be content hear.) But
with such a change
as it might seem prudent to introduce. On that subject
he advocated no finality.—(ue, r, hear.) They could not
maintain the position which this country now held with-
out a very considerable change in its commercial policy.
He had been thirty-e years engaged in general trade,
and had had extensive opportunities of forming an opi-
nion upon_ the subct ; and he. assured them on his
honour the belief he then expressed as to the
necessity of a change had been always deeply impressed
upon his mind.—(Hear.) He had feared, indeed, that
the time would not arrive so soon as it had, for the pub-
lic
consideration of the question. He had feared that a
great change in respect to the Corn-laws would only
have been forced upon the country by suffering, dearth,
and distress ; that then, and not till then, could the
aristocracy be compelled to adopt the course which
the interests of the country required.—(Hear, hear.)
He attributed in a great measure the present state of
public opinion to the digest of the evidence taken some
time ago before the Import Duties Committee of the
House of Commons, whose labours were, he believed,
I owing to the good sense and the suggestion of his Hon.
Friend, Mr. Hume. That digest had been so extensively
circulated through the country, that he himself knew one
northern town, where 12,000 copies of it had been sold.
When he had read that evidence, although he was not
disposed to go the whole length to which it would lead,
still he was Satisfied that the influence of such a publi-
cation could not be withstood, and that in carrying out
'a more liberal principle of commercial policy, we would
necessarily lay the axe to the root of the present system of
Corn-laws. That was a conclusion which appeared to him
undoubted from the moment he had first given jiis se-
rious attention to the evidence taken. He was persuaded
that the time was ,near at hand. when thp
of which many of them -were witnesses, of tit growing ri-
valry of us on the part of foreign manufacturers in tho:.-e
markets. which hart once been exclusively our own:
should-be met if? a more liberal system of policy.
Those- who were acquainted with the subjoct, were
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