The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-27 00:00:00

THE SUNIi LONDON, THURSDAY, MAX121;71841.

to rot ; but now beef was sold there for Id. per lb., and
some of it was sent to Cuba and the Brazils, and he
was quite sure the people of England could eat it. It
might be, from the great demand that would ensue, raised
to about 2d. per lb.; but they could not grumble at that,
for if the Corn-laws were repealed, they would have
more money_ to buy beef with.—(Applause.) With re-
gard to the sugar monopoly, Mr. Gladstone had told
them the reduction would only be ls. 6d. per cwt., and
that was not worth dividing ; but in October last the
price of sugar was 9d. per lb., and when the question was
agitated in Parliament it forced the sugar down to 7d.
At that time (October) there was a difference of 3s. per
cwt. ; but Mr. Gladstone had only calculated from the
time the sugar was forced down. When monopoly was
done away with they would have sugar down to sd. per
lb. The consumption of sugar was only three-fourths
of an ounce per head in the United Kingdom. He
thought he got more than his share, for he was very
fond of sugar, and, therefore, some of them must go
without. He said they had thrown politics overboard,
for they found they had only about 50 representatives
out of the 658 for the manufacturing interest ; and,
therefore, they must exert themselves to get the Corn-
laws repealed.—(Applause.)
Mr. GARNETT, of Clitheroo, said he had for a great
many years been a spinner and manufacturer, and there-
fore had had some experience in the trade ; but during
the whole course of that time he had never known the
trade to be in so paralysed and distressed a state. He
believed sincerely that the misery which the Corn-laws
inflicted in this country was to a far greater amount than
many people were aware.
Mr. COBDEN, of Manchester, was introduced amidst
the most vehement applause. He said it had been his
lot to address a great number of meetings on this
subject, yet never before such an assemblage, such a
multitudinous assemblage as he then saw around him.
They came there to protest, in the name of justice,
against the most iniquitous law that ever was enacted in
the world's history—a law purposely designed to starve
annually thousands and tens of thousands of the poor
people of this country—a law which was intended to in-
flict the perpetual curse of scarcity on the land—
(Shame)—a law which could have no other result than
the producing of a perpetual scarcity. It was a law
so gigantic in its iniquity that it had the design of
imprisoning a nation on a spot of earth not capable of
feeding them, and which was designed to keep the country
wretched—(Applause)--a law which violated the most
ohviousprinciple of nature. He quoted for them the Word
of Got:, in condemnation of the Corn-laws. In the first chap-
ter of Genesi;'
at the 29th verse, in the very first injunction
delivered by the Crk2.3l"
to our first parents, he found it said,
"I have given you every _herb bearing seed which is upon
the face of all the earth, and eve: v tree on which is the fruit ;
every tree yielding seed; to yotiit hall be for your meat."
Every her bearing seed which is on tn,2 face of the earth!
That was the splendid patrimony given to pile first pa-
rents at the hands of God himself—and what ;,:,1(1 they
done to fulfil that mighty gift?—(Applause.) The; a is
nothing said in Scripture about the Duke of Buckingham's
estate.—(Hisses.) He found nothing said there which
would inculcate or sanction a statute which denies the
people of this country being fed on the corn which is
grown on the face of all the earth. No. That law is re-
served for the law-makers of this country, and he had no
hesitation in saying that the Corn-laws were opposed to
the most obvious disseminations of divine truth. But the
law of nature, which has given to various climes and vari-
ous soils different capacities, in order that the interchange
of one with another might beget kindly feeling., perpetual
peace and amity with each other, had been violated in the
article of food, whilst the law-makers had taken advan-
tage of it in everything which was to their own interest.
He found no sliding scale to preclude the importation of
their port or sherry, their silks or their mahogany. No •,
go down to their own quays, and see ships arrive freighted
with every luxury that could minister to the excesses of
the rich ; but they would see a sliding scale step in
prevent the poor man from receiving his food. If they had
patience with him he would read a statement made by Mr.
Hearne, a Catholic priest, at a tea-party lately held
in Manchester, a man who rarely went to public meet-
ings. Mr. Cobden here read Mr. Hearne's speech,
which went to prove the great distress which prevails in
Manchester, and attributed one half of the deaths
among the poorer classes .to starvation. A note had
just been put into his hand which seemed to urge that
they, in Liverpool, were not all lying on a bed of roses.
The note seemed to point out a rather darker state of
things than he had vainly hoped existed. He was told
there were something like thirteen thousand families
claiming parish relief in this town. Could it be possible
then, that the people of this town were aware that they
were paying fourpence out of every shilling they spent
as a tax for the landowner? Was it possible that the electors
of that borough were aware of it, and still sent men to the
House of Commons to uphold that monopoly ? There
was, at the present time, a most sympathizing expression,
by certain of the bread-taxing gentlemen, for the paupers,
forsooth ! Oh, nobody was so great a friend of the
pauper as the bread-taxer.—(Laughter and cheers.) But
a man must become a pauper before he could obtain the
sympathy of the bread-taxer.—(Great cheering.) Who
ever heard from him (the bread-taxer) a cry of sympathy
for the hardy, industrious, honest, struggling working-
man, 'who was determined, in spite of all obstacles, in de-
fiance of all aristocratic oppression, to maintain his fit-
mily in independence, without recourse to parish relief ?
—(Hear, hear.) No one; there was not a spark of sym-
pathy in the minds of the noble bread-taxer for honest
and independent working-men. Oh, no ! He would
give encouragement to the paupers; he would make
paupers first, and then tax honest, hard-working
men to keep them. Such was the sympathy of the bread-
taxer with the people of England. Let the paupers, and
let every man in England possess the right, the inalien-
able right of exchanging the fruits of his industry for
the fruits of the soil throughout the whole earth, hnd
then the union workhouses might be left to stand empty
and tenantless, as a monument of the faulty legislation of
past times.—(Three distinct rounds of most animated
applause.) Although while the tide ran high he never
had joined in the attempts thus to gain the favour of the
poor, he had no hesitation in telling the audience that
he looked on the imposition of the new Poor-law,
whilst the Corn-law was in existence, as an aggrava-
tion of the injuries inflicted, upon the people.—
(Cheers.) It had imposed fresh restraints, heavier tests,
severe ordeals on the men who had been made pau-
pers by that law which the landlords had enacted for
their own benefit. The new Poor-law was passed be-
cause, under the operation of the old law, the landlords
saw that their estates were becoming valueless in their
hands. He knew, as an inhabitant of the south of Eng-
land, that previous to the passing of this law, when a man
came to take a farm in Hampshire or Sussex, the inquiry
was not " what is the rent ?" but " what are the Poor-
rates ?" In one parish, that of Cholesbury, the poor had
actually not possession of the whole of the lands of the
parish. The owners refused to have anything to do
with it. The fields were lying waste, the gates were
pulled down, the hedges were broken and decaying ;
even the minister of the gospel deserted the village, after
having vainly endeavoured, by means of alms collected
in the neighbouring parishes, to keep the poor. The
scene, however, was after a time changed. Under the
advice and assistance of a society sitting in London, the
agricultural population set to work to till the lands
of the parish themselves, and for themselves, and in the
course of two years and a half the poor men, who had
previously been hopeless paupers, became possessed
of cows, and pigs, and horses. A man, with three
acres of land cultivated by his own spade, was enabled
to maintain his family in comfort, and to send his children
to school.—(Cheers.) He should now leave the subject
of the Poor-laws, but he should wish to impress upon
their attention the grand argument used by the bread
taxers : " Oh, if you repeal the Corn-laws, you will bring
in great quantities of foreign corn, and what, then, will
become of your labourers ?" He would answer this by
asking what became of the labourers in Cholesbury ?
(Great cheering.) What, indeed, could deprive la-
bourers of their subsistence unless they were deprived
of their land ? How did they subsist now ? They sub-
`sisted on the land, and paid a rent upon it in addition,
at least their employers paid a rent. A little time ago one
cf the lecturers of the Anti-Corn-law League was urging
this argument to a crowd of the peasantry assembled
around him, when a farmer came up out of the midst of
them, and said, " What would you do with these men if
you throw our lands out of cultivation ?" The lecturer
was not necessitated to answer the question, for the pea-
sants shouted out, " Oh, never mind, we will cultivate
them ourselves."—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) The other
day, one of the Anti-Corn-law lecturers, who was tra-
velling in Dorsetshire, hired a peasant. whom he met, to
carry his carpet-bag for five miles, in order that he
might have an opportunity of entering into conversation
with him. He (the lecturer) had been addressing the
people in a neighbouring town. He said to the man,
"You have some Anti-Corn-law lecturers here, sent
among you from the manufacturers of Manchester ; do
you know what those manufacturers are going to do 7 I
will tell you. They are going to repeal the Corn-laws,
and then there will be so much foreign corn imported,
that all your lands will be thrown out of cultiva-
tion," The man looked up to the speaker with a
knowing cock of his eye, and said, " They beant
going to carry away the land, be they ?"—(Great laugh-
ter, followed by enthusiastic applause.) He should
say that the man who voted for the bread-tax under
the present circumstances of this country was not prac-
tically Et belieter it; the Holy Scriptures. He would
not descend from this ground. lie would fasten on
their higher feelings ; lie would claim their religious
sympathies, and demand from them as a duty that they
should vote far a repeal of this iniquitous law. Pro-
perty in Manufactures and mills had been depredated
within the last three years fifty per cent. in value. How
long would this state of things last There was one
class in Liverpool which had not hitherto suffered amidst
the general distress. The merchants had suffered. Those,
for instance, who sent out goods to America, and
brought back cotton, which was sold at a loss of 1/.
per bale, had suffered. Importers of all kinds of goods had
suffered) but still there was a numerous body in this town,
tilt! brokero.3 who had not yet suffered to any great
extent, because all goods, whether outward or inward
bound, must pay toll to their exchequer, whether sold to
a profit or not. But he would ask, how long would this
state of things continue ? how Ion& would the brokers
be prosperous, if the trade of the principals continue ! to
be carried on to a loss ?—(Hear.) lie believed that
t that
sstchtieelfl
itvhaesmretnnioavi,
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there was anoatth: e.;r:c,,,la;stostorfighhidt.ust.iTeu,sllimide;di bt?egtinhneinshgpto_
n who, he was in-
they had been.—
fermed, were not so prosperous ••eless
when he
sing
there was the(°l%l-IVI ten
CCaoarrtllll9 kepi Yes, and
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same distress which was pressing so heavily uthe p
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andc la classes sec
carpenters.
pmeunstte reach,rs.
nalnBd3sBpacnedid 11y83re9a.eph:05yeau,aryessel:Islre
shipbuilderse
im-
portation of foreign corn, all unemployed
taken up, and despatched to thsebercoatua'e
world in search of grain. Ship
for tea, sugar, coffee, and cotton rose ,arid then'thteTisfidipts
owners, who clid not pereeive,the cause ci f_-this: saittsl4n-
expansion of trade, laid down fresh •
!ar, near-1
As many as seven hundred or eight
'hundred 'Were laid
down at Sunderland. Shortly after, the sliding scale
ticitrcteersf °I the

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slided the, other way ; it went up, and trade in cotton
and everything else was injured. Vessels might now go
to America or to Egypt for cotton, but their owners, in-
stead of getting, as before, ltd. or 1 jd. per lb. freight,
were glad to get ;id. And what was the effect of
thin on the shipbuilder and the carpenter ? When the
thousands of ships which had been built, in consequence
of the sudden rise of freights-in 1838 and 1839 came
into the market, there was a stagnation of trade. The
corn carrying trade had ceased, and the vessels might
now go about to the four quarters of the world
seeking for freights, and be unable to find them.
It was asserted that the manufacturers wished for a.
repeal of the Corn-laws, in order to enable them to com-
pete with foreign manufacturers. He should say that
they wanted a repeal .of the Corn-lawS, . in order that
they might enjoy the right—for it was a right—of ex-
changing their fabrics for the corn and food of other
countries. He cared not for foreign competition.—
(Hear, hear, and cheers.) Give the English manufac-
turers the wide world for a market ; do not confine them
to one limited spot of the great earth, and they would
not-complain ; they would not speak of foreign rivals,
for the good God of all had given enough for all.—
(Much aPplause.) He concluded by seriously and
earnestly exhorting the electors to ponder the subject
well, and said that on their deciSion depended the com-
fort or the misery, the health or the disease, the life or
the death of millions of ' their fellow countrymen.—
(Enthusiastic and prolonged cheering.)
Mr. HARDY stepped to the front of the stage and
said, as an elector of Liverpool he claimed the liberty of
saying a few words. Some little disapprobation was
heaid amongst the assembly, and cries of " Name, name,"
were general. Mr. Hardy said a few words which did
not reach the reporters' table.
The CHAIRMAN—Mr. Hardy, the gentleman who
wishes to address you, says he goes further than the
speakers who have already addressed this assembly. I
really do not know how far he goes, for the gentlemen
who have spoken go for a total repeal of the Corn-laws.
—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) I am of opinion that it
will not be in order to allow Mr. Hardy, 'who is not a
member of the deputation, to speak on the same Side. It
will be, therefore, my duty to request him to sit down.
A Mr. Dix, who is, we understand a journeyman tailor,
here advanced to the front of the stage. Mr. Hardy still
stood on the opposite, or what is technically called' the
O.P. side, Mr. Dix being on the prompter's side, and both`
claimed to be heard. At length Mr. Hardy sat down,
when the assembly turned their disapprobation entirely
against Mr. Dix.
The CHAIRMAN said the gentlemen from Manchester
had come at a great expense to Liverpool ; they had
stated their opinions fully, fearlessly, and truly ; and they
invited discussion.—(A voice from Mr. Hardy's friends,
" You refuse it.") They invite full discussion from any
who wish to oppose them by argument. He would merely
ask that when Mr. Dix had spoken Mr. Cobden should
be allowed to reply.
Mr. Dix said, Mr. Cobden would not take it amiss if
he asked him at the outset one simple question, and re-
q,-ired an answer. Would he inform them what was the
exact rental paid by the tenant to the landlord for one
—I do not profess to answer that question,
qui‘airrte.re ?—" Oh, oh, that's the old thing."
but if I did, it would not answer any; purpose for that
gentleman. 'lt is of no consequence to that which I advo-
catTeilel
CasrikAlbßU3ti
AfoNr jsuasita,:i 1.1-1,-(DCihxela
evrss.
)the only man who
had come forward boldly dfre,etly to -oppose them. He
was satisfied that he (Mr. Dix) Would be answered both
to his own satisfaction and that of tho meeting.
Mr. Dix proceeded. He had a right to put that ques-
tion, because it was only proper that they should know
the amount of which they were plundered. Mr. Cobden
had not thought proper to answer, because it would have
shown upon what sort of foundation his arguments were
based. The average price of land in this country was
three guineas an acre, and each acre would produce
about six quarters of corn. The rental was about
is. 6d. per bushel, which, if reduced one-half, would
be only ninepence, of which the consumer would be
benefited merely fourpence-halfpenny. They had been
told to believe that the landed interest had a protection,
while trade had none. He could show them by docu-
mentary evidence that trade was protected to the amount
of 42 per cent., while land was 'protected only 22i per
cent.—(Oh, oh, and laughter.) The real evil was that
they had no protection against machinery. The protec-
tion on land was far less than the protection to trade.
It was the duty of the State to give protection to each
interest in proportion to the amount of its taxation.
How did- Mr. Cobden reply to this assertion ? Nay, he
said he granted it.—(" No, no," from • Mr. Cobden, and
some confusion.) Had, then, the Government a right
to tax us, and then to allow other countries that were
untaxed to come in and undersell us ?—(Hear, hear, and
cheers.) He had asked Mr. Cobden how the principles
of free trade, as applied to silk, had operated. He had
shown that they had not operated well, and Mr. Cobden
was unable to deny it.—(No, no, that is wrong.) He
then asked him if the people in that trade received the
same amount as before Mr. Huskisson's interference.

How did' he reply ? He could, not deny the fact that
they received considerably legs wages.-L(lnterruptlon.)
How did he reply ? He said simply tfibt the Tories

had done So they have, " and interruption.))
That was no argument. Mr: Cobdett, said—" Give
us free trade, a fair field, and no favour."

He asked him now if he could produce as cheap
as foreigners, and why we could not now keep the
foreigners out ofourmarkets.—(Cries of " Because we

have dear bread," "We want bread as cheap as they have
it," " The answer is easy," followed by loud cheers.) If
that were the case, how could we keep the foreigners out
of our markets unless we worked at the same rate of
wages ?—(" Try usrand interruption.) If cheap bread.
Nvouldlower wages, how would we be better able to com-
pete 'with the foreigner ? -Would it make any difference ?
—(Considerable confusion here arose, which compelled
the Chairman to make another appeal to the assembly ,to
hear Mr. Dix patiently for ten minutes more. A person
who appeared to be creating great disturbance was
ordered out by the Chairman.)
Mr. Dix said, if the Anti-Corn-law League would
furnish any man of sufficient ability, he was prepared to .
meet him to discuss this question, where he should not be
put down by brute force. Mr. Dix here resumed his seat.
Mr. COBDEN asked the meeting to hear him patiently,
and without interruption, for ten minutes.
Mr. Dix proceeded. He asked them if they were not
able to make any alteration in the money price of wages,
how they would be better able to compete with the
foreigner ? He asked them if they would compare a
copy of the evidence on the Import Duties with the ab-
stract of the Anti-Corn-law. League, and they would find
that the League had bolstered up their report by many
important omissions. If any one could furnish him with
an abstract of the League and a copy of the evidence he
would show them. LMr. Dix produced the abstract.]
He looked at the evidence of Mr. Walker, of Wolver

hampton, who said the difference must come out of the
wages oilabour, for they bad the raw material as cheap
as in any part of the world. This was altogether sup-
pressed in the abstract, and its place filled up with other
matter.—(" No, no," and interruption.) A passage in
the evidence of Mr. Hume appeared.—(Cries of " Ex-
plain the other first.") He referred them to the Re-
port. If they would compare them at home they would
find it so. Mr. Dix next read a paper in the abstract
which he said was attributed to Mr. Hume, while there

was no such passage in the evidence of Mr. Hume. Any
gentleman who doubted his word might read the pas-
sage in the abstract when he got home.

A copy of the evidence was here thrown over to Mr.
Dix, and Mr. Cobden requested him to substantiate his
assertions. Mr. Dix offered to show that there was

matter in the report of the evidence which did not ap-
pear in the abstract. To this, it was replied that the ab-
stract was, from its very nature, an abridgment. Much
confusion ensued, and it appeared ultimately that Mr.
Dix was unable to make good his assert;un respecting the
introduced matter into the abstract. He at length sat

down, without making any further observation.
Mr. COBDEN replied—As the Americans were wont to
say, he thought Mr. Dix was in afix.—(Laughter.) He
had told them that the average price of land was throe
guineas an acre, and that corn had a rental of Is. 6d. per
bushel, which, if reduced to one half, would be 9d., so that
the labourer would only gain 41d. In fact, he wished to
show us, what the landlords had laboured very hard to show,
that the benefit would be a mere trifle. Why did they
not give it up then ?—(Protracted cheers.) It appeared
the manufacturers had a great deal of protection,and knew
nothing at all about it all this time. It seemed that they
were protected 42 per cent., while the landed interest was
protected only 22i per cent. Such being the case, was it
not strange, when the manufacturers asked them to give

up their trifling protection; and offered in return to give
up their large one, that they should call them revolu-
tionists?—(Loud and continued cheers.) It had been.
Wass o
mint b
ondoyt
said strange
ir. thatp ix m the,was
.landlords
7,ve1l
paid.
said . that -if this demand were not conceded, there
would be a revolution. • He had heard many sensible
people say so.
Isuvheeol should risk.
paid
ic:ls Ifcio
Cobden)
bei revolution i ohno
hoped
dr thisnot, f
or
If question,
he when
were Mr. Dix
got
could prove that there was no benefit in it?—(Oh! he's
toh talk of the painful 'bread-
tax,
laiighßteer.
tax, and Mr. Dix proposed to mend. the matter by tax-
agnr greatly
cheers.) lye e toor
s.
It seemed he was not content with dear
) high
T haey priceo am
afeuogr
bread, but he wished us to have dear clothes too.—
(Laughter.) Suppose Mr. Dix went with his week's
• his pocket, and purchased a barrel of
wages in
innegwme dulhiaungehrte laughter.) °. -4
flour for 225. It would be his by purchase ; but
he could not eat it till he had paid fourteen shillings
for taxes, which Mr. Dix said ought to be paid by-.the
foreigner, for the protection of the home grower. Now
comes the great trump card, " What do yoh want foreign
corn for, except to reduce wages ?"They were one-
eyed
people
who talked in this way. They wanted to
have repeal of the Comlaws, in order that they might
exchange productions. If they. had a free ingress for
the-productions of other nations, there were 250 millions
of people all over the world wanting .to trade with us ;
tat
other they had 'a right to, the trade in corn.
to wear our clothes,. and to give us: corn . for them. We
could not trade with.them. at present. The question,
however, stood on the ground of
.inherent justice, and
way of benefiting the people of this
country. • Our land did not grow enough. [2.11r. Cobden
sat down amid load cheers.]
. .
he averred There
is
no that
Mr, W. RATiInoNE, who was received with loud
, cheersmoved the first resolution, which was seconded

by Mr. Rosso'N.
mir. A witEsvg riEYWORTH, second.3.l—.. by Mr. JOHN
proposed the second resolution. Mr. Taylor
....ieeting to, be prepared, to support the
‘Tti the course of the next day
• • conjunction with

Sir Joshua
Itrahusky,
oxhorted tm, •
question•at the huaiings.; _
he said a gentleman ivould be.naineth:,_
SirTJhoreeshuach-lele'ar.shri;l:rye; asgivaeiCiallif9drl4o,
and three cheers for lieottieiky,
.:. The meeting,s6PaPttekle.t<l4ll.l)44,eitnigji

a
to be an aim,—
conciliating the TOry
-cloned his Whir, frietOg 013 the"
gip._
dentlyinnonnced tbep. "ty eo &lug, „,
A cottageraL ?IA , Pm!, Ngir,oyx ton witivo support of 'tin? towne, without, Ygebelieve, wint4rig
the last fortnight buried Po of his children. ' opponent horn the Tory camp.—lhioems. Guarcri;4?

THE PRO-CORN-LAW MOVEMENT
(FROM A CORRESPOMPENT.)
For a few days past I have been in Lincoln..
shire, and I beg to forward you a few particulars
of the two great meetings that have occurred in
this county.
On Monday, the 17th instant, a meeting of the
Southern Division of the county was called at
Sleaford; the day selected was a most auspicious
one for the agriculturists; it was a market day,
,it was the day of the fair it was also the day on
which the agricultural labourers were keeping
their annual holiday ; to have attempted any
movement, without a population to back it, would
have been madness; the Town-hall was well
filled with wealthy landowners and their tenants,
and all went off most tamely, for, from the open-
ing of the doors to the hall being closed, the
time did not exceed half-an-hour. The expected
division kept away Messrs. Handley and Heath-
cote, the " Whig" Members for that part of the
county, and all was mere formal business and the
adoption of a petition.
And now for the great Lincoln meeting. On
Friday, the 21st instant, the High-Sheriff had
convened the meeting, to be held in the Castle-
yard. Some symptoms of opposition had been
observed, for hand-bills from the Anti-Corn-law
league had been distributed the previous day,
and a taxed loaf and an untaxed one had been
carried, side by side, on the top of poles. Still
a general opinion was entertained that in a
place so dependent on the agiculturists as Lin-
coln is, no offence should be given to the county,
especially when it was impossible for the oppo-
nents of the bread-tax to summon even a re-
spectable minority on a market day.
The High-Sheriff did not make his appearance.
In the course of the week he had taken unto
himself a wife, and he was on his wedding tour.
He was represented by his Under-Sheriff, a Mr.
Godfrey Tallents, of Newark (not even in the
county of Lincoln), the son of the late agent of
the Duke of Newcastle, who commenced that se-
ries of ejectments which the Duke attempted to
defend, in his celebrated declaration, " Have I
not a right to do as I will with my own?" Doubt-
less this young gentleman inherits the name,
without the talents of his father.
The muster in the Castle-yard was highly re-
spectable; on the hustings appeared the princi-
pal Whigs and Tories of the Northern Divi—
sion, all, for once. united; the one party led
by the Earl of Yarborough, the other by
the Earl of Winchilsea; the County Mem-
bers for this division' Lord Worsley and Mr.
R: A. Christopher, for the first time, too, in
amicable conjunction. Doubtless, ere this, some
of the London papers will have had some notice
of the speechifying. That lam not going to de-
tail, for I have no gift that way; but I may re-
mark upon a few particular facts. From what I
learned, the speakers paired off as they pair
rabbits, fat and lean; that is, in order to avoid
any particular appearance of politics, they came
alternately, Whig and Tory. The mere matter-
of-fact talkers were heard very patiently; but
about the time that Lord Worsley thought pro-
per to address the meeting some few of the me-
chanics of Lincoln had strayed into the Castle-
yard, during their dinner hour, and not being sa-
tisfied that all should go off without some op-
position, for want of a leader to advocate
their cause, raised a cry of " cheap sugar." Lord
Worsley is popular with them; and still, by his
good humour, he was heard patiently without
any great interruption. But then the great
Christopher, formerly Dundas of Edinburgh and
Ipswich notoriety, must come out. He had not
uttered three sentences before he experienced a
like interruption. Instead, however, of mild and
conciliatory conduct, as had before succeeded, a
Tory land-cormorant, who has a name something
like Bray-forth, began lustily to bray forth
" Turn them out," whereupon a lot of fellows,
who had clustered themselves under the hustings,
just where Christopher had taken his place,
pushed their way out, and began indiscriminately
to beat every person who did not look like a
farmer. Perhaps it was indiscreet in a few
operatives of Lincoln to be interrupting
a county meeting with their few words
of disapprobation ! But these valiant agri-
cultural heroes fell foul of every body that
did not seem to be of, their own class,
and most savagely and cruelly beat with their
hooked sticks and their heavy whip-handles,
many inoffensive parties, who had taken no part
whatever in the proceedings. Not more than
forty or fifty persons had made the slightest ex-
pression of any opinion, even that of holding up
a hand; but these valiant heroes, armed with
bludgeons and with heavy whips, beat out of
the Castle-yard some hundreds of inoffensive
people, half-starved mechanics, and apprentice
boys, while Magistrates of the: county were not
only looking on, but actually applauding, from
their places on the hustings.
However, it is to be hoped that this most
abominable outrage will not pass unnoticed. I
was told that one gentleman, who stood near,
but outside of the crowd, was the Town Clerk
of the City of Lincoln, and I am quite sure
that the gentleman in question, whoever he was,
by his kind interference prevented more than
one poor fellow from being savagely beaten. I
also observed that the Governor, or some other
officer of the county gaol, gave shelter to a mi-
serable wretch who fled to him for protection,
and he was obliged to call for his pistols to pre-
vent these valiant heroes breakinginto the prison
to drag forth the half-starved mortal who had
so audaciously shouted out for " cheap sugar."
But, perhaps, the most impudent thing of all
was, a fellow, who I am told rents a farm under
the city of Lincoln, in the other division of
the county, was actually leading on the bludgeon
men, and'beating poor freemen of Lincoln, who
were his own landlords. This caps all.

There is an old saying, " seeing is believing ;"
I saw people with their heads streaming down
with blood; I have since heard the names of

people who were thus violently abused. I have
asked the question, but I find that the Castle-

yard is not-within the jurisdiction of the City
,lagistrates; it is a part of the especial domain
of our Sovereign Lady the Queen, as Duchess of
Lancaster; it therefore belongs to the Magis-
trates of the County, some of whom witnessed,
and more than one applauded, the shameful
treatment of these (indiscreet if you like) half-
starved, unarmed people, who called out "cheap
sugar !"
Some professing Reformers have since called
these ill-used people "tools for their pains ;"
there is not much hope of getting any redress;
but it is right that the people of England should
know that the only public meeting that has been
held in defence of the Corn-laws was called at
Lincoln, on the only day of the week when it was
impossible that, the citizens of Lincoln could

attend, and the few opponents were driven out
of the Castle-yard by bludgeon-men; after
which Ipswich-Dundas-Christopher had the im-
pudence to declare that it was a public meeting,
which gave the lie to the Anti-Corn-law League,
who said that the bread-taxers dare not hold
a meeting in the open air,l

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THE WEATHER AND CROPS.--Although sun-
shine and bleak winds have , alternately predominated during
the past week—the former advancing what the latter retarded—
it is universally.acknowledged.that a finer season for vegetation
has scarcely ever been known, u there has been neither ex-
treme of wet or aridity to check the healthy progress of the
herbage and the grain crops. The somewhat cold and stormy
features of Aril, which did partial injury to the young grasses
and early fruit trees, have been succeeded by the balmy sweet-
ness of the present month, which•has produced a Tenewed out-
burst of genial warmth and that vivifying spirit, which has,
given birth to the " beauty of abundance " which now meets'
the delighted eye in every direction over the sward. Fruit
trees, which are remarkably forward, are literally hoary with
bloom. The growth of pasture during the last few days has
been magical. The grain crops, as we before observed, are
looking very promising, and bid fair to realize the most san-
guine hopes of the husbandmen.--Sheffidd Iris.
PARLIAMENT WISER THAN GOVERNMENT.
—The Waterloo-bridge Committee (or Government) strenu-
ously opposed lowering the toll, but the Assembly (or Parlia-
ment) reduced it one-half; and already the halfpenny pay-
ment produces more than the penny used to give. Theave-
ave-
rage number who pass, will now be about 16,000 daily, where-
by
the Company will in one year, benefit by a halfpenny dona-
tion 5,840,000 passengers, most of them persons in humble
circumstances. Thus, this noble bridge is become the noblest
charity in the metropolis ; and the public are exceedingly
obliged to those gentlemen who called a special general assem-
bly, to contravene the narrow policy of the bridge govern-
ment. Hence it may fairly be inferred, that in proposing to
reduce duties, and thereby increase consumption, the Govern-
ment is wiser than the Parliament, which prevents them from
thus at the same time providing,for thd-Vants and revenue• of
the country. .

•
RiIPitESENTATION .Ql, EAST SUSSEX.-.4-1t
seems now to be pretty well understood that two members in
the Tory interest will be returned for this division of the
comity at the next election. This is by no means an encourat-
,ing fact; but the course taken of late by Mr. Cavendish goes
-•at way towards reconciling Reformers to that which appears
inevitable consequence. In the vain hope of
ristoers.cy, the Hon. Member aban-
-,t and popular principles re-
ts" has thrown off the
--Pr a single