The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-29 00:00:00

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i. protection with the landholders? l g for in'etence,thE
jeet of railroads. Every one woul" d ;-it iliitt britT bel
the greatest possible advants.Te to VleOlt.;0, ha• lii)
ruined many. hundreds 1 of most de. , . (' ..*- e
lust ..
the licensed victuallers living on the . •
.!e.• ' . affraffif
ot 4
been ruined in consequence of the ra' oocliKalld ti '
talked of any protection for, or of any ~Filsop., t
deserving body of persons. lly had th .K. ..
.; . tie& abf -
to protection more than the licensed victuallers?—(Cheers. )
They had tried and proved Mr. Wood, and he felt convinced
that if they again returned that gentleman to Parliament, tic
would do every thing in his power to put an end to the present
rotten and corrupt system.—( Cheers.) He had great pleasure
in seconding the nomination.—(Loud cheers. )
The Ilion BAILIFF then asked if any elector wished to pro-
pose any other candidate, and receiving no answer, he proposed
consecutively the names of Mr. Alderman Humphery, and
Mr. B. Wood, and took the show of hands on each. Every
elector present held up his hand in favour of each of the two
gentleman, and, after waiting a short time, the High Sheriff
declared Mr. Alderman Humphery and Mr. Benjamin Wood
duly returned to serve in the ensuing Parliament for the
borough of Southwark.
The announcement was received with the mast enthusiastic-
cheering from all parts of the Hall.
Mr. VOUSELEY put it to the High Bailiff whether, for the
purpose of securing the regularity of their proceedings, he
should not have waited for an hour, after putting the question
whether there was any other candidate, before he declared Mr.
Alderman Humphery and Mr. Wood Members for the
borough.—(Cries of " No, no.")
The objection was not further noticed.
Mr. Alderman BUMPIIE ar then came forward amidst loud
and repeated cheers, to address the meeting. He hardly knew
how to give expression to the feelings which animated him, for
that renewed mark of their confidence.—(Cheers.) When he
reflected that after a connection of nine years between biro
and his friends around him, they had again placed the same
trust as before in him, no anguage could express his grati-
tusle. He would go to Parliament with a determination
not to represent his own interests but theirs.—(('heers.) It
was clear that every elector could not be personally repre-
sented in the Council of the nation, and he believed that in
the present instance the electors of the borough of Southwark
had confided the duty of representing them to h;neself and his
hon. colleague, merely because they held their meal opinions.
—( Hear, hear.) He should like to say a word or two upon
those questions which brought them there that day'. The
Government had of late felt that the taxes now levied upon
the country were inadequate to its expenses, and when the
Chancellor of the Exchequer had introduced his budget, the'
greatest anxiety was felt as to the means by which he pro-
posed to increase the revenue. The Ministry had announced
upon that occasion their determination not to add to the as-
sessed taxes, which had already been raised 10 per cent., or
to add to the direct burdens of the country. They proposed,
however, that foreign sugar should be introduced into this
country. not in such a way as to annihilate the West India
interest, for an increased 'duty of 50 per cent. was to be
imposed upon foreign sugar. The community at large would
by that means, he believed, be enabled to purchase sugar at
2d. a-pound less than at present. They were also to have
cheaper timber. It was said that they had now cheap timber
from Canada ; now, for his part, he had never used that timber,
and he never should, for be found that it lasted only from
twenty to thirty years, when it became unfit in the building
of houses. He always used Baltic timber, and the Govern-
ment proposed ro reduce the duty upon that timber. The
motion was immediately opposed. Next came the great ques-
tion of the_ Corn-laws. '1 he Ministry found that we Lad,
during the last year, imported nearly 3,000,000 of quarters of
foreign corn, the greater part of which was admitted at a duty
of Is. They were anxious that wheat should he introduced at
a duty of Bs. per quarter, which they thought would be a fair
and moderate arrangement. For his part he was opposed to
any duty at all; but it was supposed that a proposal to that
effect would have raised too great an opposition. The land-
holders of the House took the alarm at the Miniiterial mea-
sure, and upon their entire policy the Government had three
influential bodies opposed to them—they had the We.t India
proprietor;, and the shipowners and the landowners.
These parties combined together, and called upon Sir R. Peel •
and he (Mr. Humphery) believed much against his will, and,
prevailed upon the Right Hon. Baronet tobring forward a pro-
position which vrouldprevent the dgcussion of the Ministerial
musty es. Sir Robert Peel accordingly brought forward his
no-confidence motion fur the purpose of suppreeeing discussion,
because discussion was really valuable and c ilculated to en-
itle-hten the public mind. Sir Robert Peel said in effect that
ofttong:: the Government might dissolve the Parliament, the coun-
try shoda
_not uncle' stand what they meant.—( Hear, hear.)
of the motion, and upon that motion the op-
That was the a4rift,
pesition succeeders : for unfortunately there were gentlemen in
the House, who, „ith,,igh returned by liberal constituencies,
thought proper not to yea.: at all.—(Cries of " Shame.") The
GoNernment was thus cossepe2e4 to dissolve the late House of
Commons for the purpose of eali;elete another ; and they had that
dmtobly 2!erponded to the call, ancilie hoped the constituencies
threttgbotet the empire would imitate their example.—( Hear,
hear.) With respect to the Corn-lase he felt that he knew
something, althosigh he was not acquainted with all the bear-
ings of the subj:efe Wheat could not3ow be exlinitted into this
country until the averages reached 72e. per quarter, which would
make the price of the quartern loaf amount to about 10d.
Wheat was then introduced at a duty of one shillintr. But the
average wst-got by reckoning the prices paid in varioos parts of
the kingdom; eiy that the 'nice of good wheat should bc' raised
to at least 90s. pow porter before foreign wheat was admieled
at the shilling duty. New was that? There was no part of this
country in which there were not bad lands, and bad wheat sold.
at a comparatiyely low price; so that in order to make up the
average of 72i , the good wheat ;should be sold at 905., or even .
IOOs .
tpheerycould have g
quarter lt wasutherfoar; amptebrfetbctefacibladelyintgo
dsuutpypofose
houees
that r
725. per quarter. The monopolists cs-owded their store-
osed that the people
oith foreign grain, but was it to be sup:"
therefore got their wheat at a low price s' No such thing.
ra;ied to get their
nlct sell it at
The corn merchants, for year after year,
wheat admitted at the low uuty, and they never- co
the price at which it had originally been al bought ; be: e people
of this country wei e obliged to pay for warenonses and holing.
and all the other expenses, which amounted in a few yea:.' to
very nearly 20s. per quarter. Under this state of things tie
corn merchants could never furnish the people with new and
wholesome wheat at a low price.—(Hear, hers. y Much had
been said of the prudence of Sir Robert Peel. Ike
Right
Hot.. Baronet was no doubt a men of great dexterit Ff os had
been stated by Lord Stanley upon the occasion of a late divi-
sion in the house of Commons upon a Railway Bill. .17,0 rd
Stanley, who was opposed to the Right Hon. Baroeset
upon the subject, and who was never every well tempered man,
said, that there was no man in that House who could cress up
a statement so dexterously as his:Right Hon. Friend. Now, if
that were the case, might it not be supposed that S r R.
Peel would use the same address upon subjects on which the
Tory party were agreed' Wien the Government proposed.
to equalise the duty upon East Indian and West Indian Rum,
' Lord Stanley, with a large portion of his party, opposed the
motion, but the speech of Sir Robert Peel upon that occasion
deserved as attentive consideration. He said that he held no
preperer either in the East Indies or in the West Indies, and,
therefore, he had no interest or feeling. but for the consumer.
Now, what cotdid be better than that? Upon that occasion the
Bill was carried. But what would Sir It. Peel say upon the.
Corn-law question? Would he say that he held property, and
that he would therefore eapport the Corn-laws ? But then he
could not consult for the interest of the consumer merely be-
cause it interfered with his own. Upon all those questions he
(Mr. Aldeimau Humphrey) felt the deepest interest; he was
enxious that every man in the country should have enough to
eat, and abundance of work, and he would give him food at as
cheap a rate as it could be obtained, nor would he support any
measure by which the mass of the community could suffer.
He might be told that by reducing the duty upon wheat to 85.
a quarter they would reduce the landlords to beggary. It
was said that most of the estates upon which corn was grown
were mortgaged, and that if men who had 10,000 acres of land,
with a festal of 10,0001., were obliged to pay 5,0001. a year in
cornpeupl
etv ohue itdaxthe
de nmleevaevl
ye
mu
ootrbtiguagg
fore s, athreemdusctelivoens.
Butintieine d of
l
because certain landlords or their grandfathers thought fit ter
squander their estates? —(Hear hear.) Ile had been told that
should the
the landlords were to spend 1,000,0001. of money npon the
present election', they would, if they could thereby secure
a majority of 100 members in the ensuing Parliament, save to
themselves 10,000,0001. by staving off the evil day. At al
.events, be could say that in that borough the electors i.ad shown
themselves, and he was sure the Government and the country
would acknowledge it, they had shown themselves noble
men.—( Laughter and cheers.) He said that because he felt
anung them, and that no money could purchase their votes..
that opposition to the Liberal candidates would be useless
They had that day returned two men who would support the
commercial measures of the Government, and answer the ex-
pectations of the Queen. Her Majesty had called upon her
people to enable her to provide for the expenses of her Govern-
ment in the manner least burthensome to the country, and
they had realised her expectations. They would never find
him acting in the House of Commons in a manner contrar They
to the principles which he then professed.—(Cheers.)
ment he would restore tbe trust which they had
moment he felt that he had lost their confidence that fno-
hends.—(Cheers.) He had only in conclusion to thank them
most heartily and candidly for the honour which they had done
him that day.—( Loud and long-continued cheers.)
Mr. Wool) was received with greet cheering. In the first
place, he had to return thanks for the honour which they had
placed in his
eaecet
reconferred upon him. It was only eighteen monthsar
they had sent him to Parliament. They had directed
only of principle'. They had long beep d
of civil and religions;
to be mindful of the politics of party orco.fvorneuetnec;
ofuatutoiernithteintite'
tension of the suffrage—of an extensiosno..
economy,
and a
liberty. Long had they been advocate 1
of free trade, and the
re-
duction of taxation—long the friends
of the community ;and
well-being of the labouri
•n Parliament—(Cheers)
to carry them out in his place i
The
beneficent inten-
s he had endeavoured
k—notowint
gh
e that
utmost
e of
fereh
is theirpo e
,u 1 sentiments,as
esre
for a time—(u eers e said ) h
public good, had been frustrated .
that ultimately those princi-
for a time, because he felt certain
try could not exist as a pros-
tions of the Government—the measur.es they proposedb for the
lees must triumph, for the country
°laical sense, had combined
opponents of the Ministry, in a p for
lasses the purpose of over-
with the monopolists of all :c .
~_
or tnew own purposes. But the
perous country without they yrere a.greed to.--(Cheers.) The,
throwing the Government f
to that call in the m ex:
trusted that all places would respond
thsvark had done—he did not wish
in which the borough of on
Queen had nobly thrown herself upon the country, and be
had acted nobly such -ri"
on an occa-
of the borough of Southwark
n that they were determined that they
to speak either of his Ho:Colleague or hireself,but the electo
sion. They had show
orthe country would not. be crushed
hunters. He asked, was It Consistent with common sense that re
. by monopolists or place
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i
near neighbour should be able to purchase his sugar at 225. per
cwt. while we were obliged to pay 60s. for it? Was it con-
sistent with common sense that we should be obliged to pay
more • than double price for our corn?—(Cheers)—or that our
neighbours might have the best timber at one-fifth of the price
which we were obliged to pay for it ?—(Cheers. There was
an increased price for all those articles, but that was not all—
that was the smallest portion of the evil. Let them look at
the manner in which trade was affected by these monopolies.
It was a fact that we sent as many goods to Brazil as we sent to
the whole of the West India Islands. Now suppose we were
to take their sugar and coffee, how much might our exports
be increased ? they would not, as now, be confined to 5,000,000,
but might rise to ten, aye, fifteen millions ; in fact, if we were
to takc their produce, who would put a limit to the trade ?
(Cheers. ) The protection afforded to the West Indies, in
fact, swallowed up the whole amount of 'the manufactured
goods which we sent to them; in fact,
to put the matter in a
plain point of view, this country actually gave them the whole
of the manufactured goods they imported at present. Was this
country to be kept in this trammelled state for ever ?—( Cries
of " No, me.") They said it was an olds ountry, and that
we were worn out. But how was this lt was because
of the system of legislation which had been pursued—
a system which tied up their hands, and prevented them
from using the common and every-day means of prosperity
placed in their power. We had a large debt. Now, he would
ask, who contracted it? Why, the Tories,—the very men
who refused now to give the country free trade. His Hon.
Friend and Colleague had stated that the whole, of nearly the
whole of the land was. mortgaged. That might be so ; but, he
would ask, what right the Tories, when in power, had to
mortgage the labour of the people ?--( Hear, hear.) He was
no advocate for extinguishing the debt with a sponge ; there
were thousands who were dependent upon the interest of the
imstpocrokp, srhlyould nbtrea wcitepedd,
debt for the means of living; and he, for one, would never
improperly cbountsnenott that
thte phatartdebiest,
nowml beenhuickhladdingthe
out. He was strongly in favour of the, rt t rope y ax.—
(Lova and continued cheering.) In his soinnion, preopetty,