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

between the years 1515 and 16'38 in England and the fol-
lowing countries—Prussia Proper, Posen, Saxony, West-1
phalia, Lisbon, Hanaburgh, Rotterdam, Saxony, Peters-
burgh," &c., &c. The Earl of Darlington founded a
statement on these returns, to show that the fluctuation in
the price of corn was less in this than other countries.
Mr. Baines had yesterday answered that statement, and
showed that the -Corn-laws were the causes o f this fluc-
tuation, and the fluctuation at Dantzic arose from the in-
creased demand in ingland, and that no man was entitled
to take advantage of his own wrong for continuing an
abuse. But there was an important omission to be found
in these returns—those from Amsterdam and Rotterdam
only commenced in 1829, before Holland began toinsti-
tut() a Corn-law like"the other countries of the Continent.
We had no return of what the prices were at Amsterdam
and Rotterdam when they proposed a free importation of
corn. They had this fact admitted, that the difference in
the price in a hundred years in Amsterdam and Rotterdam,
during a free trade, had only been between 295. and 345.
Half of the whole consumption of this country depended
on Foreign nations ; and yet they found Holland for one
hundred years had greater than any quarter of the globe ;
yet the return began at the time a Corn-law was introduced
into Holland. If the return had commenced earlier, they
would have found that there was a greater steadiness there
it than in any other place. He found at in Amsterdam the
price in 1834 was so low as 235. ; in 1835, 21s. ; in 1ii136,
235. ; in 1837, 245. ; and in 1838, 275. This country,
which depended on foreign supply, had the greatest stea-
diness of supply under our present Corn-laws, for there mutt
be regular supply, or there would be a greater variation in
price. At this price France was suffering by the fluctuation
of the Corn-laws, which was reducing the population to the
same level as in this country. He had thought it his duty to
make these remarks, and he must express his surprise at
the most miserable and lamentable ignorance on the part of
men who still refused to be enlightened—who denied their
allegations, yet would not afford them an opportunity of
proving them, nor refute the statements they made. It
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
assembled.—( Hear.)
The CHAIRMAN announced that he had received a letter
from Mr. Norton, of Lincoln, offering an annual subscrip-
tion of 10/., and to double it if necessary.--( Hear.)
Mr. PRENTICE said that the Earl of Darlington had
accused the delegates of sending paid missionaries to all
parts of England, for the purpose of instilling filth and
abomination into the ears of the community. He was glad
to find that the lecturers had done so much good as to ex-
cite the of the landlords.—(Hear.) Their object
I ought to be to increase that sort of mischief of which the
Earl of Darlington complained—the filth and abomination
of which he complained being enlightenment and truth.—
( Hear.) The delegates ought to pledge themselves to
organize a far more complete system of agitation than had
hitherto prevailed. He would wish to see lecturers go
into every villiage and county, so that wherever there was
a voter the principles of free trade might be explained.—
( Hear.) It would be very easy for a lecturer to take
a circuit of ten or fifteen miles, to organize Corn-law As-
sociations, and to recommend the payment of small sums,
from one penny to a shilling, in aid of the funds for the
diffusion of the principles of free trade, and especially of
free trade in human food.—( Hear, hear.) They must
create a great movement, and they ought to do it in such
a way as to make gentlemen in the House of Commons
alarmed for their seats. —(Cheers.) They should tell those
gentlemen that it was of no use to talk of Whiggism or
Toryism, but that they must be Corn-law repeaters, or
else wala out of the House.—( Cheers.)
Toe Rev. NOAH JONES, of Derby, wished to say a
few words in vindication of the Anti-Corn-law lec-
turers. He believed Mr. Paulton, in whose character
he felt a great interest, was the first lecturer who
had instructed the country upon the great principles they
had taken. He happened to be present in the Theatre of
1311 ton the very first evening that Mr. Paulton appeared
as a lecturer at all. He had never heard any thing filthy
or abominable from him, and he had moved a vote of
thanks to that gentleman in the name of morality and
religion, for his eloquent expositions.—( Hear, hear.) He
could not, as an Hon. Gentleman did in the House of
Commons, stand up and say, " Thank God, I under-
stand nothing abort political economy." Lie did un-
derstand a little about political economy, and he
hoped he should understand a great deal more, and he
ahould be happy to be the means of giving people a little
light on the subject, and of interesting them in the cause of
justice and humanity. People might charge them with
trying to prejudice one class of men against another; but
if there was such a thing as blasphemy at ail, it was in
men trying to be wiser than God.—( Hear, hear.) If
there was anything like blasphemy to be found in any man,
it was in the minds of those who thought, in their short-
,ighted isdom, that they were able to amend the laws of
nature. For himself he felt great gratitude that he had
been taught other views, namely, to depend upon the
wisdom of an All-Seeing G ad. The present question was
one of principle, and he was sure that ultimately it must
oe successful.—( Cheers.)
Mr. Roar. MILLIGAN, from Bradford, in Yorkshire, said
that they had been told by the Corn-law upholders
that all that they wanted in agitating the question was to
reduce the price of wages. Now he had brought a docu-
ment which he thought would show that the price of food
had nothing whatever to do with the price of wages. That
document was as follows: