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" GIVE US TIIIS DAY OLTR DAILY BREAD."
" Give us this day our daily bread,"
Our fathers taught us thus to pray ;
God hath for all his bounties spread—
Man to his fellow man says Nay.

Beware, ye Earth Lords, who by might
Oppress—beware of the oppressor's fate,
Lest God's swift vengeance on ye light,
His instrument—a nation's hate !

A DELPHI THEA TRE.—We understand that
Mr, Healy, the accomplished leader of the band at this theatre,
to whose skill and precision so much of the effect of many of
the charming performances here may fairly be attributed, takes
a benefit on Wednesday evening next. Besides the attractions
of Mrs. Keeley's Jack Shepherd, Yates's Abram Mendez, Paul
Bedford's inimitable Blutskin, and Cooke's William, in Black
Eyed Susan, a musical melange of great variety and excellenee
is 'advertised. We need scarcely wish him a full house, for the
great fault of the Adelphi is that it is almost always too full.
INVESTIGATION IN NEAVGATE.—On Tues-
day an investigation was commenced in Newgate before Major
Palmer, Inspector of Prisons, Mr. Studdart, D.M., and Mr.
Carmichael, Crown Solicitor, concerning the escape of the
prisoner, Richard Jones, on the preceding day. The proceed-
ings are strictly private, as no person is allowed to be present
except the Commissioners, and the witness under examination.
The circumstances of the escape are already before our
readers, but we may add, in addition, that a rumour was very
generally prevalent through the neighbourhood of Green_
street, on 'Tuesday, that the Commissioners of Police had ac-
tually sent word to the prison some days previously, announc-
ing the intended escape.—Dublin Evening Post.
FIRE-ARMS.—A few days since two boys were
stationed at a corn field in Luddesdon, Kent, with loaded
pistols, to scare away the crows, when one of them endeavoured
to fire his pistol, but it flashed in the pan. The lad snapped it
several times, but it did not go off, when the other snatched
it from him, pulled the trigger, and is immediately went off.
His companion was standing over him, and he was shot in the
head, the ball actually passing through his brain ; death was
instantaneous.

tIEBILITY. NERVOUS IRRITATION, &i,
EDICAL ADLNIONITORS.—The
114 taws ing Works are intended to instruct those interested
subjects en points of importance to health or ease of mind :
physiological
Ist 7r, (Twenty-third Edition, each)
ZEGI OF LIFE aftbrds a comprehensive
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Prostre.t' ethibiting their rueful consequences, tending te sexual
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THE DECENNIAL CENSUS.—Active prepa-
rations are already being made by Government for taking the
decennial census in May in the next year, in which some im-
provement will be made.
NEW MODE ON CONVEYING TREES.—Satur-
day, H. Enfield, Esq., of this town, received through the me-
dium of the Post-office, thirteen Mexican oak trees from Wales,
the postage upon which was prepaid, and amounted to ten-
et, ce,-- Nott Review .

(From the Standard.)
The inventive genius of our Conservative Contem-
porary has just produced the following cock and hull
story :—" We are informed, upon an authority which
we consider entitled to great weight, that a serious, and
apparently irreconcileable difference has taken place
in the Cabinet upon the Neapolitan question. We
have been favoured with the following particulars
on the subject, on the accuracy of which we are dis-
posed almost implicitly to rely. At the last Cabinet
Council a treaty was submitted for ratification, by which
the King of Naples undertook to remove the restrictions
upon the export of sulphur, and further to make a
most favourable arrangement for the admission of va-
rious articles of British colonial produce, more par-
ticularly the cured fish from Newfoundland, on
such terms as would be highly advantageous to
the trading interests of the country. The ratification
was supported by Lord Clarendon, Lord J. Russell, and
Mr. Labouchere, and opposed by Lord Palmerston,
seconded by the Premier, Lord Lansdowne, and one of
two others, the question being, of course, decided in the
negative. It is understood that this sacrifice of the com-
mercial interest to the caprice of a set of incapable men
is the result of a personal quarrel upon a point of
etiquette between the King of Naples and the British
Minister at that Court. The Minister is the brother
of the Foreign Secretary, and that wise personage has
described a trifling altercation as a national insult, and
orders have been issued for the British squadron at
Malta to proceed to the Bay of Naples, and there to
assume a hostile attitude ; whether a blockade is to be
at once declared we are not distinctly informed. The
difference in the Cabinet is said to be of the most serious
description, and will probably lead to the resignation of
the President cf the Board of Trade, the best head of a
Department among them."
(From the Courier.)
_ _ _ _ _

The duration of Mr. Sheriff Evans's confinement, one
would suppose from the language employed last night
by the Colonial Secretary, is to be determined by the
decision of the Lords on the Printed Papers Bill. Lord
John Russell, after expressing a hope, in which he is
cordially joined by the whole people of England, that
the discussion nn the privilege (piestion would not be re-
sumed, moved the attendance of Mr. Evans at the bar
of the House on the 6th of May. The second reading of
the Bill is fixed for Monday next, and the present mo-
tion, having for its object the further incarceration of a
man whose only offence is obedience to the laws of his
country, looks exceedingly like an attempted intimida-
tion of a House which has on repeated occasions shown
itself superior to selfish considerations. We take the
fact as it stands, and do not assert that such is absolutely
the motive which has induced the prime agitator of the
very discreditable course hitherto pursued by the majo-
rity, to intimate what can be construed in scarcely any
other sense, than that, if the Lords do not agree to this
Bill, the Sheriffs' imprisonment shall be perpetual, so
far as depends upon the will of the party, headed and
misled by Lord John Russell.

BENEVOLENCE OF HER MAJESTY AND
PRINCE ALBERT.—Her Majesty has been graciously pleased
to signify her intention to provide for the widow and children
of Lieutenant Saunders, late of her Majesty's steam-yacht
Firebrand, who died very suddenly soon after he had the
honour to bring ever his Royal Highness Prince Albert to
this country. In early life Mr. Saunders, who was then a
pilot, had the good fortune to prevent her Majesty from being
injured, perhaps killed, by warding off from her the spar or
gaff-boom of a sailing-yacht, near which she was sitting with
her illustrious mother enjoying an aquatic excursion. For this
aet he was promoted to the quarter-deck, and ultimately to
the valuable and lucrative command of a Government steam-
yacht. On hearing of poor Saunders's death, her Majesty is
said to have been much affected, and lost no time in com-
municating her gracious intention to his disconsolate widow.
The other incident is as follows :—.When his Serene High-
ness the reigning Duke of Saxe Coburg and Gotha left this
country, on his return home, in the Firebrand, Mr. Hicks, the
Master of the:Royal yacht William and Mary, having been
temporarily placed in command, his Serene Highness made
several kind inquiries after Lieutenant Shambler, the officer
who had on a former occasion brought him over, and learning
that he had accepted the command of a West India packet,
and fallen a victim to the climate, his Serene Highness, in the
kindest manner, warmly expressed his sympathy for the or-
phans and widow, who were left totally destitute, and imme-
diately wrote a letter, which he requested Mr. Hicks to take
charge of, and personally deliver to Lieutenant F. Seymour, owe
of the Equerries of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, which
humane mission that gallant officer faithfully performed, and
the result is, that Mrs. Shambler has received a Royal intima-
tion that the long services of her husband will be rewarded by
a pension to the widow.

On Saturday the Delegates re-assembled at Brown's
hotel. There was a most numerous attendance of Dele-
gates, and several Members of Parliament were present.
JOHN BROOKES, Esq.,
took the Chair at Three o'clock.
Mr. COBDEN, in moving the first resolution, could not
help giving expression to the disgust which he felt at the
conduct of a large portion of the Hou=e of Commons, and
in doing this he felt he was not giving expression to his
own opinion alone, but to that which he was certain was
that of the majority of those who had witnessed the attempt
in that House to suppress a discussion on a subject of the
most paramount importance, in a manner, he must say,
most derogatory to the dignity of the assembly. He be-
lieved that those were right who had told them that it was
useless to go to the House of Commons, as they had little
to expect from that assembly. The great majority of that
assembly had been totally inattentive to the subject. On the
first night, at one period, there were not above forty persons
present to listen to the clear and lucid statement of Mr.
Villiers; on the second night that number, was not ex.
ceeded until about ten o'clock, when shoals of Members,
in a certain state, poured into the House to attempt to
crush the debate by their interruptions. He thought it
right to state that he believed the Whigs were as much
in fault as the Tories for this. They bad little reason
to be satisfied with either Whigs or Tories, and their
business lay not with the present House of Commons, but
with their constituents. He would therefore exhort them
not to look to the House of Commons at all, but to the
creators of that House—(Cheers)—and until some alte-
ration was produced in that House they could never hope
for justice. He would conclude by proposing the follow-
ing resolution :
" That the effort, of the Deputies to obtain a vote of
the House of Commons on the question of the Corn-laws
having been most unexpectedly thwarted by the success
of our opponents, in prematurely putting an end to
the debate on Mr. Villiers's motion, without any di-
vision on the merits of the question, it is expedient to re-
quest Mr. Villiers to bring the subject again before the
House as early after the Easter recess as possible."
Mr. TAYLOR, in secondinr, the motion of Mr. Cobden,
could not help giving a decided expression to the strong feel-
ing of disgust he experier.sed when he considered the at-
tempts that had been made to suppress the discussion in
the House of Commons.—( Cheers.) The only course had
been adopted which could have been adopted under the
circumstances. Their opponents were desirous of effect-
ing a division and stopping the debate. After Sir Robert
Peel had given utterance to his usual sophistries and fal-
lacies, in order that they might produce an effect upon the
public mind, by the course adopted by Mr. Warburton
this had been frustrated. He had no doubt they would
have wished to put an end to the question ; no doubt they
wished to put an end to the effects produced by the exhi-
bition of the League of the poverty and the destitu-
tion of the country; and they would have been happy to have
dulled the public car to this subject for the next 12 months.
He had one subject of congratulation, and that was that
the landed interest of the country, though ever so cold and
selfish, had limits to their power, and their limits
were in the privileges of the people. In Ireland the
middle and the labouring classes had no control
over the landlords; but in England the case was dif-
ferent, and were it not so he firmly believed that they
should witness such scenes as the oppression of tenantry
exhibited in Ireland. The interests of the aristocracy of
this country were fortunately mixed up with thosa of the
industrious classes, and he believed no other circumstance
could secure them against the iniquities which they would
otherwise see perpetrated.—( Hear, hear.) He felt great
pleasure in seconding the resolution.
The resolution was then put, and agreed to.
FALLACIES OF SIR ROBERT PEEL'S SPEECH.

Mr. BAINES, jun., came forward to propose the second
resolution. He wished to take the opportunity of making
a few observations on the speech delivered last night by Sir
Robert Peel, in the House of Commons.—( Hear, hear.)
That speech was replete with fallacies, which he did not
wish to let pass unnoticed. Sir Robert Peel, in the
course of that speech, divided the grounds on which it was
sought to justify a repeal of the Corn-laws, into three
heads. The first was, that the Corn-laws were the cause
of the derangements in the currency ; the second was the
effect of these laws in producing great fluctuations in the
prices of corn ; and the third was, the distress prevailing
among the manufacturing classes, which was proved by the
present state of the country. With regard to two of these
grounds, he felt anxious to offer a few remarks on the
speech of Sir Robert Peel. He was persuaded that the
Corn-laws were the main cause of the derangements in the
currency. It was important to Sir Robert Peel to
prove that the Corn-laws were not the cause of
these derangements, and his way of accomplishing
that object was a very remarkable one. The Pre-
sident of the Chamber of Commerce at Manchester,
Mr. Smith, bad taken a part upon the subject of
the Bank as to the currency, and had published a Report
upon the question. Sir Robert Peel had that Report in
his hand. Now the Right lion. Baronet's object was to
convict Mr. Smith of having ascribed the great derange-
ment of the currency, not to the the Corn-
laws, but to a totally distinct ,:sure .he conduct of the
Bank of England—thinking that, could he succeed in so
doing, he should of course exonerate the Corn-laws from
having been the cause of the disaster which bad occurred.
The course he had taken was peculiar: he said " he
wanted to show the gentlemen who professed an opinion
that the evil was exclusively to be assigned to the operation
of the Corn-laws, that the chief agitators against these
laws assigned a perfectly different and distinct cause"—and
then the Right Hon. Baronet proceeded to quote, not
what Mr. Smith had said, but the summary by Mr. Jones
Lloyd of what Mr. Smith had stated—and the reason why
Sir Robert had done this would soon appear.—(lleac.)
Mr. Jones Lloyd, giving his account of what Mr. Smith
stated, said—" The depression in trade which has occurred
since 1835, especially the events of 1838 and 1839, are to
be attributed entirely to the mismanagement of the circula-
tion." Let it be remembered that this was not what Mr.
Smith had said, but what Mr. Jones Lloyd stated Mr.
Smith to have said, and Sir Robert did not read the
passage from the Report of Mr. Smith, which he had in his
hand at the time, but he ( Mr. Baines) would read it ;
it was as follows : —Mr. Smith said, in the Report of the
Manchester Chamber of Commerce—" In August, 1838,
the prevalence of wet weather I ed to a general belief that
the harvest would be deficient, and that a large importation
of corn would be the result." '1 he paper announced that
foreign exchanges had fallen, in consequence of the great
number of bills remitted to the c ontinent, in payment for
grain. The Funds declined from the same cause. In
September the average price of wheat reached 735.
a quarter, and the duty falling to one shilling, it was per-
ceived that a large amount of gold would be required to
pay for the corn. But under a natural state of trade no
drain for specie would occur in payment for grain, any more
than it did for tea or silk. The Corn-laws place a prohi-
bition on foreign corn, until the corn of the home
grower had reached a certain high price, becoming an
entire exception to the ordinary rates of commerce, and
causing, for such sudden and extraordinary purchases
of grain, necessary demands for bullion in payment."
This was the account which Mr. Smith gave, but which
Sir Robert had carefully abstained from reading.----( Hear,
hear.) The Delegates would now see why he had substi-
tuted the statement of Mr. Lloyd.—(Hear, hear.) Thus

Two or three days ago, a young man, elegantly
dressed, called at No. 9, in the Place Dauphine, and desired
to look at an apartment which was vacant. He was accom-
panied by the portress, and seemed to cast a very longing eye
on some jewellery in the boudoir, and on the plate-basket in
the kitchen ; but he was so closely watched by his attendant,
that he had no opportunity of taking anything. As he was
leaving the house he said he liked the apartment, and, as he
should take it if his wife approved of it, he should certainly,
when he had settled, give a handsome presmt to the portress
as an earnest of future liberality. The old lady, quite affected
at the prospect of his generosity, invited him into her lodge,
and began, like most of her class, to gossip about the owner of
the house and the lodgers; when she had done, the young man
took his leave, and was accompanied to the door by the port-
rest. On her return, she found that she had not taken such
good care of her own property as that of the proprietor, for her
spectacles and a silver spoon had disappeared with her amiable
and generous visiter.
FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER.—On
Tuesday last the master of a collier and two lads, his appren-
tices, each aged 17 years, were returning from Gravesend in
the ship's boat, with the sail hoisted, and on reachirg Grays
Point a slt lden squall of wind caught the main sheet, which
was made fast, and instantly capsized the boat, immersing all
the parties in the stream. The lads struggled for a short time
in the water, and then sunk to rise no more. The captain
saved himself by clinging to an oar until some persons came up
in a boat, into which he was taken, and conveyed to his ship at
Greenhithe. The bodies of the two lads, who were both at-
tired in blue jackets and canvas trousers, have not been found.
A fatal accident occurred near this town on
Saturday. Hannah Peacock came to Shrewsbury market on a
pony, which shied as the Greyhound coach passed near Atcham,
and threw the young woman under the hind wheel, which
passed over her head, and killed her on the spot.—Shrewsbury
Chronicle

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SHAMEFUL HOAX.—Some irreverent person
sent through the Post-office on the Ist of this instant, April, a
wig, addressed to the Bishop of Exeter, and purporting to be
" sent by his Holiness the Pope of Rome, with his compliments
to the Pope of Exeter."— Western Times.
SUICIDE OF A MILITARY OFFlCER.—Thurs-
day morning an inquest was held before Mr. Wakley, M. p_
at the Woodman, D'Oyley-street, Chelsea, on the body of Capt.
Ellers Parnell Hopkins, late of the 4th Foot. It appeared from
the evidence of Major Bennett, of the 64th Regiment of Foot,
who was on a visit to deceased at his residence in Cadogan_
place, that he appeared in good health until Sunday last. On the
evening of that day, he and his lady were sitting round the par-
lour fire ; witness heard the latter suddenly scream, and, turning
round, he saw her holding deceased, who was seized with an
hysterical fit, at the conclusion of which, with uplifted arms,
he exclaimed, " My mother, my mother, see, she is burning I
save her, save her ! " Deceased's mother was burned to death
above five years ago in her bed-room, without deceased, in con-
sequence of being blind, being able to afford her any assistance.
On Sunday night deceased retired to rest, resolving to make
his will next day. He was so unwell that he was obliged
to keep his bed on that day (Monday last), and during the ab-
sence of his lady from his bedroom he cut his throat with a pen-
knife and razor. Though the fatal circumstance was imme-
diately discovered, and two surgeons called in, the loss of blood
from the wound in the throat was so rapid and extensive that no
effort of art could save I.fe. Verdict, " Temporary mental de-
rangement."
FONTHILL ABBEY.--The splendidly beautiful
table that stood in the ante-room at Fonthill Abbey was pur-
' d a few days azo by a Sheriff's officer at Salicburv.

Mr. Smith distinctly assigned the Corn-laws as the main
and primary cause of the derangement of the currency,
and stated the misconduct of the Bank of England as a
secondary cause. For they would observe, there was a
conjuncture of things produced by the present state of the
Corn-laws, and to that conjunction the Bank of Eng-
land was said to have in some measure contributed.
—( Hear, bear.) Now, it was for their judgment
whether the Bank of England in that conjunction of cir-
cumstances acted wisely, but what was prior to that was
the question,what produced the conjuncture itself, and that
was in the most distinct manner in this Report alleged to
be the Corn-laws. Therefore the representation of Sir R.
Peel that Mr. Smith was an authority that the Corn-
laws were not the main cause of the derangement

was unfair, for he had shown from Mr: Smith himself the
Corn-law was the primary and main cause of that derange-
ment. The second argument against the Corn-laws was,
that it produced great fluctuation in the prices of grain.
He was not going to observe on what Sir R. Peel bad
said on this head further than to remark that he was much
too wise to quote that return of the fluctuation of grain in
England, Dantaie, Hamburgh, and other places, which
had been relied on by Lord Ashburton and Lord Darling_
ton, but which Mr. Laboucbere and others had clearly
shown did not really constitute an apology for the Corn-
laws, but to prove that the fluctuation in foreign ports was
itself owing to the operation of the English Corn-laws.
He came now to what seemed to him the principal act of
unfairness, and the main fallacy of Sir Robert Peel. He
alleged that the principal objection made on
that the part of
those who objected to the Corn-laws was, they have
produced great distress among the manufacturing and com-
mercial interests. Now Sir R Peel took up that document
which he (Mr. B.) felt assured he would seize held upon,
and quoted that return to show an increase in the e ot
in 1839 as compared with 1838, and thereby drawing the
conclusion of manufacturing prosperity. But, then, said
Sir R. Peel, " I know how this argumenertityis,
but the
the It is
said, this is not an argument of prosp
re-
verse, and said he should be equally justified in arguing a
diminution of trade from an increase of home consumption."
And, then, Sir Robert did him (Mr. E. Baines) the
honour to quote the speech he had made, and to observe
upon it, that he had not proved his point. On the con-
trary, Sir Robert Peel maintained that " it was ex-
ceedingly difficult to ascertain what the amount of
home consumption at any period was." He con-
tended that a more complete evasion of the whole
of the argument, in reply to the mere exhibition of the
official returns of the exports, than was exhibited by Sir
R. Peel, could not be practised. Sir Robert Peel said it
was a difficult matter to ascertain the amount of the home
consumption—now, at the moment he spoke, the Right
llon. Baronet had the materials in his hands for ascer-
taining it at once, for that document clearly showed the
quantities of the raw material entered for home consump-
tion, and he would have found in a moment that they were
much larger in 1838 than in 1839—his ( Mr. B.'s) argil_
ment was, not that there had not been a larger export, but
that export had been a proof not of prosperity, but the
reverse ; for that in 1839 there was actually a
much smaller quantity of the raw materials entered for
home consumption, and therefore the exports being greater,
and the quantity of manufactures produced smaller ;
ou-
the home trade, that is the consumption of our own p p
lation, had doubly fallen off.—( Hear.) Sir R. Peel had
proof of this in his hands at the moment, but it answered
his immediate purpose to be blind to it. In two ways he
had the prooc in hi,. hands, for he had his (Mr. B.'s)

this manner, for if he had done so, instead of show ing anin-
crease he would have shown a considerable decline. He
believed there were other parts of Sir Robert Peel's state
merit which were equally fallacious, but he happened to be
familiar with the subject treated of in those parts to which he
had alluded, and lie knew that great and gross fallacies
were contained in Sir Robert Peel's speech on those
points. He knew how unfairly he had acted, first with
regard to his statement of Mr. Smith's opinion on the
cause of the drain of bullion; 2d, in quoting what he
(Mr. Baines) had admitted with regard to the exports, but
not quoting at the same time the manner in which he
showed that those exports proved not a prosperous, but a
declining trade; and, lastly, not in quoting the increase in
the Custom duties, he had omitted to notice that most
important item the Corn Duties, which, if he had noticed
he would have shown, not an improvement, as he had
alleged, but a serious decline. He thanked the meeting
for the attention with which they had heard him—
( Loud cheers)—and concluded by proposing the following
resolution :--
That the following Deputies be appointed an Execu-
tive Committee, to meet in London after the recess, and
to take such measures as may seem to them advisable, for
the persevering prosecution of the object in Parliament
and the country :
Alexander Johnston Glasgow.
H. Stansfield

Mr. Rawson

Richard Cobden
Dr. Bowring . London.
James Aiken Liverpool.
E. Baines Leeds.

Joseph S i urge -
T. M. Gibson
W. Boultbee
C. Todd
John Dixon
Edward Ashworth
George Wilson
James Wilson ... .....
L. Hey worth
\V. Johnson Derby.
John Wigham Edinburgh.
Richard Taylor
W. Weir

Lees
W. Brook
W. Morris
Isaac Milne

W. Biggs Leicester.
R. Ricardo
G. A. Young
J. B. Smith
John Crawford
Bean Nottingham.
Mr. Wilson
Mr. Bowler
Samuel Jackson
Mr. Wynn.. .
Mr. Miller Liverpool.
Mr. Peter Taylor London.
Mr. Beacon

Mr. Coates
Mr. T. Gibson Tower Hamlets.

Mr. Milligan
Lord NUGENT was sure he was not giving expression gotten of bad ones." It had been stated by Mr. Harcourt,
more strongly to his own feelings than to those of all pre- in his place in Parliament, that the Corn-law agitators
sent in the room, in congratulating the Deputies on the were unable to influence the Chartists, because they had
effect that must be produced on the public mind by the , sense enough to sec that the question did not concern
exposure of the fallacies of their opponents, which had them, but :manufacturers. Nothing, however, could be
just been made. He had great pleasure in seconding the more unfounded than such an assertion. The Chartists
resolution, and in doing so he would mention to the meet- did not refuse to join in the Anti Corn-law agitation be-
ing that which he thought it was important should not be cause they did nut feel interested in the question, but
lost sight of; and the events of last night he considered because they were persuaded that, with the present consti-
proved more than ever the importance of the point to tution of the House of Commons, any exertion on their
which he alluded. It had been imputed to the Delegates parts would be unavailing. He should also observe, that
that they had not conducted their proceedings in a suffi. the Chartists of the town of Derby, from which he had
ciently practical manner. He certainly did not wish to come, had stated, in a petition sent to the House of Corn-
extend that observation to statements such as they had mons, that they deprecated any attempt to separate the
just heard from Mr. Baines.—( Hear, hear.) The con- interests of the manufacturing and labouring classes.
test, however, between them and their opponents should k great deal had been said of the misery and distress of
henceforward be carried on before the country : and one of the manufacturing population—but what was the cause of
the most effectual means of advancing their cause would that misery and distress ? Was it not the maintenance of
he to prepare well-considered and detailed reports of the these Corn-laws? Nothing could be so fatal to all the
nature of the Corn-laws, their pressure on the best in- best feelings of humanity as want and famine.—(Hear.)
terests of the country, and the grounds on which they con- The Delegates bad heard of the effect of this distress upon
sidered their infliction unjust, and therefore to be abolished. some of the agricultural population—that they went out
—( Hear, hear.) The discussion of the question in Par- at nights.—(Bear,' hear.) He much feared that famine
liament would be protracted for a time, and he thought was but too strong a temptation to crime. That, under
that one of the principal duties of the Committee they such deep want, the population ought to be contented he
were appointing would be to collect evidence and prepare would not believe; he could not counsel contentment, for
reports, which might be submitted to them when they met he felt that in Englishmen contentment under injustice and
again. These reports could be sent into the country want was not a virtue.---( Hear, hear.)
under the sanction of their name. Contenting himself Mr. T. WILSON said he agreed in the agitation of this
with making these observations, he felt great pleasure in question, because it was not a political question but the
seconeing the resolution. cause of truth and justice, which it was the duty of every
The resolution was put and carried. man to agitate---( Hear, hear)—and thus become a conser-
Mr. JuIINSON remarked that the tea intended for home vator of the national peace.—( Hear, hear.)
importation had increased—from 1e39, 3,364,0001., to A Gentleman, who said he was a visitor, here remaiked.
3,660,000/. in I 840—( Hear, hear)—a further amount of that it appeared to him perfect madness to say the question
300,000/. in addition to the million which had been stated was not political. They could not expect by doing so that
by Mr. Baines. Our manufactures had declined gene- the people would take an interest in their cause.
rally 20 or 30 per cent.—k Hear, hear.) Mr. Mogan rose to order, and after some conversation
Mr. MILNER Ginsoe moved— the motion was put and carried.
" That the Council of the National Anti-Corn-law The CHAIRMAN then announced Mr. WARBURTON,
League determine the time of the meeting of the Execu. M. P., was present, and would give them some explana-
tive Council in London ; or, if they should deem it ad- tion as to the termination of the debate.
visable, summon the whole body of Deputies again to as- Mr. WaßeuitToe then rose amid much cheering, and
semh!e in the metropolis." said he felt assured after the manner in which the de-
He thought that as great a number of Delegates should bate on the Corn-laws had come to a termination, the De-
assemble here as could, for the spectacle of many gentle- legates would wish to receive some explanation. The
men devoting themselves, at great sacrifices, and leaving fact was, as they already knew, in consequence of the
their ordinary avocations, to the Anti-Corn-law cause, must expectation on the part of many of the supporters of their
have a strong effect upon the country.—( Hear.) Now views, that the debate would be adjourned, he dare say
he felt the great importance of the fallacies which were not less than thirty of their supporters went away, and it
constantly delivered upon the subject being at once ex- became necessary to adjourn the debate. Now that debate,
posed—and exposed before they were forgotten.—( Hear.) in the opinion of Mr. Villiers and others, could not be ad-
With reg.rd to Sir Robert Peel's speech he felt that no- journed if, after Sir Robert Peel's speech, the discussion
thing which had occurred during the debate ought to be a had been continued. A division would have taken place
subject of greater congratulation to the Corn-law repealers with thirty of their supporters absent, and it, therefore,
than that speech.—( Hear, hear.) The speech is nothing became necessary, at all events, to adjourn the debate. Then
but a lame and impotent attempt to find an excuse for the first question was to adjourn the debate to Monday ; upon
doing wrong, not a statesmanlike endeavour to point that an amendment would have been moved to adjourn it
out what is right, and to urge its adoption. Sir Robert until Monday week, which, if carried, would have had the
said that the Corn-law ought to be maintained right or effect of adjourning the debate till after the holidays, be-
wrong, because it had been maintained, and found no other cause Monday week was so near Easter that a great
argument for supporting it but its present existence. number of Members would be absent, and therefore it
Sir Robert admitted this great principle—" the best would be tantamount to an adjournment until after Easter.
friends of the landowners were the manufacturers— That would have been the case if, on putting the question
and the manufacturers (not the Corn-laws) were the that the debate be adjourned, that amendment had been
main element of their prosperity."—( Hear, hear.) carried. But the motion to adjourn could not be carried,
How could manufactures prosper unless markets increased because the rule of the House was, that they could not
in number, and how could they do so unless the power of put two successive amendments without the iuterven.
taking the staple commodities of other countries increased tion of some other motion.—( Hear, hear, and cheers. )
also? It therefore appeared to him a direct argument It would have been necessary to have raised a new debate,
against the Corn-laws, by saying they did not form an ele- and to make the motion a second time. It the motion had
ment of the prosperity of the land.—(Hear, hear.) He been made a second time tne ' would have been in the
had omitted another important thing. He showed they same predicament they were before, with large adverse
were right in advocating the repeal of the Corn-laws, majority ; and even if they had carried the adjoernruent of
He showed all the arguments against them applied to a the debate it would have been put off, riot till Monday, but
fixed duty, and consequently that they were right in advo- to some more distant day. Under those circumstances,
eating a total repeal. lied they brought forward a half it being clear that the motion must be put off to
measure, they would have excited no popular enthusiasm, such a distant.oltn dayat
i_ ttnyca,tould b
it weouplicloprulttoinplauttetlhye
thing
because they would have adopted half the arguments of their been adjourned till after Easter, it appeared to bins
adversaries—at least have admitted there was some justice ( Mr. Warbt, ) that
in the principle of protection. Ile had only glanced at in such a way as to prevent a division taking place last
the speech himself, and could not say what other fallacies night.—( Hear, hear.) Nothing else could have been done
there might be in it. He would not, therefore, detain with such a large party as they had opposed to them.—
them longer, but concluded by moving the resolution. (Hear, hear, heat.)
Mr. SMITH seconded it, and expressed a hope they would Dr.B ola•altiaGy which ,in ththe questionepartof th
had
eEsecutbiteTenClonuanneaiglendf
not separate without a vote of thanks for the exertions the Delegates, begged to say that they were perfectly satis-
that had been made in Manchester. fled with the w
Mr. CoBDEN wished to make one remark with reference 1 in the House of Commons,_...( Cheers. )
to the speech of Sir Robert Peel. It was rather remark-
,Mr. S. A. YOUNG rose to move the next resolution.
able for its omissions than what it contained. It was a sin- That the thanks of this Delegation be tendereeto the
gular fact be had given up all the old topics. Not one gentlemen comprising the Council of the National Anti-
word of the exclusive burdens of the landed interest—of Corn-law League at Manchester, and that they be re-
the country being thrown out of cultivation—of the horrible spectfully requested to continue their services."
effects of being dependent upon foreign supply—( Hear, I He was sure it would not be necessary to adduce any
hear, hear)—not even the least reference to Pre- arguments in favour of such a resolution. It was at
sident Van Buren's Message. The omissions were as Manchester that the movement in favour of the repeal of
important arguments in their favour as anything he said, the Corn-laws first assumed a definite and useful form.—
which was saying a great deal.—(Hear, hear.) And while ( Hear.) The Manchester Gentlemen were the first to
upon this subject be could not help thinking the fixed-duty enter into a subscription, and when the rest of the country
men had been ill used. There were two or three gentle- had only subscribed between 2,0001. and 3,0001., Mal-
men came among them (and were said to have been nearly Chester alone had raised between 5,000/. and 6,000/.—
frightened) with a petition in favour of a fixed duty. He ( Hear, hear.) Besides that, they had established an
believekthat petition was lost. It had been
stated to have Anti-Corn-law Association, and had been the means of
been spirited away by his friend Mr. Rawson, or that he agitating the question generally throughout the coun-
had thrown it into the Thames.—( Laughter.) The Duke try. (Cheers.)
of Richmond had said a fixed duty was the wildest scheme Mr. LAWRENCE HEYWORTII seconded the resolution,
he had ever heard of. Sir James Graham said he could which was put and carried nnanimonsly.
understand what ti total repeal or e. sliding duty
the advocates cl a fixed duty were either insincere or great his hands he would take that opportunity of disclaiming
ruct,;., but ' Mr. AITKEN said that a resolution having been put into
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