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There would be no agreement—there could be no agree-
ment, except among those who go the entire length of
justice.—( Cheers.) The members of the League denied
the right of the landowners to tax the bread of the poor.
Was it going too far to assert that ? Let those who
thought so come forward and defend the bread-tax if they
dared. But the landowners were too cunning to do that.
They knew that they had not a good case to defend, and
therefore they declined all discussion. They called him
and his friends a pack of unprincipled agitators for stirring
up the country on the subject. It was quite nateral that
they should do so. They were afraid lest John Bull
should happen to waken and find out how they had been
robbing him.—( Cheers. ) And this reminded him of a
good story he had lately heerd of a fdlow who belonged
to Caine, named Billy Whittaker. Billy was a
merry, laughing sort of a fellow, who was much
fonder of drinking than of working, but as he had
no great estate he very soon fell deeply in debt. It was
all one to Billy. He was still as merry as ever, laughing
and singing as if he were the wealthiest man in the parish.
One day a person to wham he owed a pretty large sum
happened to meet him. " I wonder, Billy," said the cre-
ditor, " heow theaw can be so merry when theaw owes so
mich. I wonder the very thewt on't does not hinder thee
fro sleepin' at fleet." " Nay, nay," said Billy, " I wonder
more why theaw caa sleep at nest for thowt e' what I
owes thee." (Laughter and cheers.) Now, this was pre-
cisely the case of the landowners and the people whom
they had been fleecing. There had they been robbing us
for the last twenty years in the most merciless manner,
robbing us of about 1,000,0001. a-week, and yet their con-
sciences did not seam to be troubled in the least degree. All
that surprised them was that John Bull could sleep so
sound, while they were picking his pockets.—( Renewed
laughter.) Mr. Brooks then went into some interesting
statements about our foreign trade, and the dangers which
menace it at present, and concluded an excellent speech
amid much applause.
JOHN BRIGHT, Esq., of Rochdale, who was very kindly
received, next came forward. In the outset of his re-
marks he said he had lately seen a small tract containing
an account of the conversion of a poor person to a
sound belief in the doctrines of Christianity. From the
account which that man gave of the means which led to
his conversion, it appeared that the only instrument ii
producing the change had been the reading of the New
Testament, and that alone. In a similar spirit he wool
have them to study the question of the Corn-laws. It
did not require a learned education, nor the comment tries
of men bred at universities, to enable them to under-
stand that great question. All-important as it was,
the principles on which the course of free trade was
founded were intelligible to the ihumblest capacity.
All that was needed was that men should meditate upon it
with an honest heart, and there could be no doubt enter-
tained as to what conclusion they would come to. Strip
the question of all the sophistries with which it had been
surrounded by those who throve on the present system,
and it came to this, that the Corn-laws had been enacted,
and were maintained, to keep the price of food higher
than it would otherwise be. But how was that enhance-
ment of price produced?—by causing an artificial scarcity.
Let their common sense be brought to bear on that single
fact. Could they believe that a law enacted to produce
scarcity was beneficial to any class of the community ? It
might be good for those who live by the rent of land to
promote a scarcity of the produce of the land, as it en-
abled them to get a higher price for it. Brat how could that
be good for the great mass of the people, who had to
pay that increase of price ?—( Hear, hear.) He would
dey any of the landholners or their organs to answer this
question. They always blinked it. They began to ask
what would become of the agricultural labourers if the
Corn-laws were repealed ? Just as if the labourers were
not among the very worst sufferers by these laws. Why,
at the present time such was the distress among them,
owing to tire high price of
.food, that charitable associations
had been formed in Sussex and other counties to purchase
clothing for the poor people, they not being able in many
instances to purchase it themselves. Again, in Wiltshire,
the proportion of paupers to the rest of the community
is double what it is in Lancashire—a clear proof that
there, great as the distress is here, there must be still more
distress. But if these fallacies were disposed of there
were others in reserve. It would throw the land out cf
cultivation. Why should it do so ? From 1832 to 1836,
the average price of food, owing to a succession of good
harvests, was lower than it would likely be were corn im-
ported freely into this country. But did that cause the
farmers to throw any land out of cultivation ? Not a
single acre. There was more land under the plough in
1836 than ever there had been in any former year, although
corn had for several years been falling in price, and was at
that time less than 40s. a quarter.—( Cheers). Let them
listen no more, then, to the melancholy predictions of those
who frighten us with stories about all the land being
thrown out of cultivation. There was indeed room for
very melancholy reflections in connection with this ques-
tion, but they were produced by contemplating the
terrible evils which menaced our manufacturing population
in the event of our rulers persisting in the present system.
The marvellous extension of our manufactures had enabled
this country to maintain a much larger population than
could ever have been maintained by agriculture alone.
But if the present restrictive system were upheld a few
years longer, a large part of the manufacturing population
would be thrown out of employment. In that case they
must fall back on the rates. What would be the conse-
quence? They would cat up all the capital of the country
first, and then they would come on the land. The land-
owners would then find out what folly they had committed
in destroying the trade of the country rather than give
up their unrighteous monopoly. But they were told
by a certain class of persons that it was impossible
to make every body comfortable—" it was the order
of Heaven that some should feel poverty." This was
no doubt true, but would any one assert that laws
to produce starvation, misery, and death were the
order of Heaven ? If be could believe that such was
the case, it would go far to destroy his confidence in the
superintending wisdom and justice of Heaven.—( Cheers. )
But it was impossible for any rational being to lend his be-
lief to so outrageous a doctrine. It was not the ordinance
of Heaven that England should be cursed with dearness.
Did she not possess greater natural advantages for carry-
ing on manufactures than any country on the face of the
globe?—( Hear.) Why then was it that the people of
England were not allowed the fruits of that superiority
which they had attained? It was simply because they had
hitherto been working for the landowners. They were
now seeking a little for themselves, and if they followed
out the present agitation, he had no doubt that they would
succeed.—( Cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN, in introducing Mr. Cobden to the
meeting, said he was one who had done more to stir tip a
right feeling on this question than any man in England.
(Cheers.)
Mr. Alderman COBDEN, who was most enthusiastically
cheered, said he did not think he merited so high a cha-
racter as their Chairman had given him. He was simply a
member of the League, lending his aid in a cause which he
deemed the greatest that any human being could engage
in. In coming there that evening he might tell them that
he was not engaged in foreign trade like his friend Mr.
Brooks, so that it was from no special desire to see any
extension of it that he aided in the present agitation. But
he did not lay claim to a whit more disinterestedness on
that account. He was as much interested in the prosperity
of our manufactures as any capitalist present. His busi-
ness, however, lay with the home trade, about which a
great deal was said by the monopolists. They pretended
that dearness of food was the only thing that could make
the home trade prosperous. How stands the fact?
When he sent out his travellers for orders he did not
send them into the agricultural districts. Very
few prints were sold among the half-starved pea-
santry of the Duke of Buckingham. It was to Lon-
don, Liverpool, Glasgow, Bolton, Bury, Rochdale, and
other busy towns that they went. Now he had inva-
riably found that when food was cheap it was easy to get
large orders, and then trade was brisk. When food was
dear the demand for prints fell off, because when the
people had to pay so much for provisions they had nothing
left to buy anything else, for they all knew that people
would fill their bellies before they cared much about cover-
ing their backs.—(Cheers.) But although he stated
these things to show in what manner it affected trade, he
had not joined this agitation merely from selfish motives.
He viewed it as a great question of justice—( Loud
cheers)—as a question of humanity. He could see
no more right that the landowners had to hinder
him, or any one else, from buying food in the
cheapest market than those same landowners had to
possess themselves of his body, and make him work as a
slave for their benefit. They were told that, in spite of
those bad laws, trade had been very good a few years ago.
He denied altogether that we had good trade at that time.
It was temporary and unsound prosperity. Had it been a
healthy state of things it could not have given place so
rapidly to a panic. The truth was, between 1631 and
1836 the Americans had been borrowing money in Lon-
don at a great rate. During these few years they had
borrowed forty or fifty millions of our money, upon stocks,
bonds, shares, and other securities, and wish the
money so advanced they had bought our goods for
exportation to the United States. This was not
a health)? state of things ; it was only borrowing
and lending. The only wholesome trade that could
be carried on was one of barter—one in which two coun-
tries exchanged their surplas commodities with each other.
To show how far we were from such a state of things at
that time he might state that by a comparison of our ex-
ports and imports in the six years ending 1836 it had been
ascertained that our exports exceeded our imports in
official value no less than 124,000,000/. The revulsicn
came, as all of them knew too well. In the latter end of
1836 the bubble burst, and they had not recovered from the
consequences.—( Hear, hear.) 111 r. Cobden concluded an
able address by calling on the electors of Bury to join
heart and hand in agitating this great question.
EDWARD GRUNDY, Esq., of Parkhills, moved that this
Meeting pledges itself to support no Candidate at any fu-
ture election who shall not promise to vote in favour of
total and immediate repeal.
The Rev. Mr. SUNDERLAND seconded the resolution,
which was carred unanimously.
A vote of thanks was then given to the deputation, to
which Mr. Cobden replied, and moved a vote of thanks to
Mr. Walker for his conduct in the chair.
The Meeting broke up about half-past ten, every ore
expressing himself pleased with the proceedings. The
general impression was that it was one of the most important
meetings that has ever been held in Bury.

The Bishop of London left St. James's-
square, on Tuesday last, on a visit to his mother, Mrs.
l3loomfielkl, at her residence near Bury St. Edmunds.

PRICE sd.

THE CORN-LAWS-LEITH.

(From the Scotsman.)
Yesterday a public meeting of the inhabitants of Leith,
called by the Provost, pursuant to a requisition numerously
signed, was held in the Trinity House, for the purpose of
petitioning Parliament for a repeal of the Corn-laws.
Shortly after one o'clock, the room was filled. On
the platform were Provost Reoch, Bailies Thom and
Muir, Convener Ferney, Councillors Taylot, Ferguson,
Carnie, Gibbs, and Mitchell; A. Geddes, James Whit-,
John Gillon, George Berry, James Miller, C. Thorburn,
and R. Philip, Esquires ; and the Rev. James Harper.
On the motion of Mr. C. MORRISON, Provost Reoch
was called to the chair.

The PROVOST said the question of Corn-law Repeal was
now exciting great interest throughout the country. As
members of a great commercial community, suffering from
the effects of these laws, it was their duty as well as their
interest to come forward and express publicly their sense
of the evils connected with the present system.
Mr. GEORGE BERRY then rose and proposed the first re-
solution. In again offering before a public meeting of his
townsmen his opinion of the Corn-laws, he would state,
ihat lie had considered the subject to a great extent,
and the more he had done so, the more did he
see reason to hate and detest them. These laws,
ho was convinced, had drawn biter tears of anguish
from the widow and the orphan, from Vie poor,
and the destitute in the land. Into many hun-
ble dwellings, where peace and plenty formerly existed,
the Corn-laws had introduced poverty and want, disease,
ay, and premature death itself.—( Hear.) He did not say
so for the purpose of catching their ears, but from convic-
tions seriously and deliberately formed, and founded on
his practical experience of their baneful and destructive
effects. The cause of repeat was a good cause ; it was
the cause of mercy, and of justice, and of truth. It
were absurd to think that they could have too much agi-
tation upon this subject, and that too much light
could be thrown upon it. The best wish he could ex-
press in regard to it was, that it would be made clear
and intelligible to every man in the kingdom; then it
would be impossible that the evil could exist. Alluding
to the tone of despondency which he regretted even
some of the advocates of repeal sometimes assumed, he
observed that nothing was more absurd. There was no
despondency with Clarkson and Wilberforce, the untiring
and zealous friends of the slave. There was no despon-
dency with ourselves when, as one man, we demanded and
wrung from our unwilling and corrupt aristocracy, by the
Reform much of that power which they had grossly
abused. Let them not forget that the cry for cheap bread
was the cry of a whole nation, and that no cause so
powerfully backed could be other than successful. The
voice of this free and intelligent nation had been raised
for a repeal of the bread tax, and it would not be stilled
or hushed but in the triumph of its adopted cause.—.
(Loud cheers.) Already they observed the harbinger of
brighter days in the very extensive agitation among all
classes for a revision of the import duties. He then
warned them against a compromise, for to that some of
the organs of the Corn-law party were directing them.
selves as their only hope.—( Hear, bear, hear.) They
had all along acted on the Rob Roy plan of keeping what
they had, and taking what more they could get ; and when
they found no means of escape, they would certainly at-
tempt a compromise. He hoped they would have the good
sense not to listen to anything of the sort. It was not
alone cheap bread which they sought. Bread was dear
to any man who had not wherewith to buy. It was necessary
that the Corn-laws be repealed, that the labour of the in-
dustrious classes might be restored; that they should get
the produce of their manufacturing skill exchanged for
the produce of other countries, and especially for the corn
grown in other countries, of which we had a scarcity. The
►andholders had attempted to gull:the working classes with
the idea that their wages would be reduced with a free
trade in corn. Nothing was more absurd; and, at the
present time, when the loaf was 9d., wages were lower
than in 1835, when the loaf was only sd.—(Hear.) He
hoped every intelligent elector would make the Corn-laws
a busting question, and declare that no man was fit to be
his representative who would not vote for a repeal of the
Corn-laws.—(Cheers.) He entreated the non-electors
to give their aid in this agitation ; for their advantage
principally would it turn out to be. He sat down amidst
great applause.
W. TAYLOR, Esq., seconded the motion, which was
carried unanimously.
Mr. JOHN MITCHELL moved the next resolution. When
he saw Members of Parliament interesting themselves
about drainage and sewerage Bills, and others endeavour-
ing to find a cure for the prevailing destitution and disease,
he was inclined to tell them that, though their efforts
might be all very good, the cruel Corn-laws were the
mighty evil by which that misery and destitution were
brought about, and that they never would be abated until
the poor were fed, and in the receipt of the profits of their
industry. There never would be an educated and intelli-
gent people in this country till these laws were abolished.
He referred to the testimony of Mr. Deacon Hume, Dr.
Bowling, and Mr. M'Gregor, in evidence of the state of
our fiscal absurdities. Let every constituency act like Wals
sail, and soon there would be an end of the Corn-laws.
Coe/valuta FERNEY seconded the motion, which was
agreed to.
Bailie Myra, in an excellent speech, moved the next
resolution, which was seconded by Mr. JAMES WHITE,
and agreed to.
The next resolution was moved by Mr. Gibbs, ye-
conded by Mr. Archibald Geddes, and carried unani-
mously; the fifth by Mr. Robert Philip, seconded by Mr.
James Hamilton. The sixth was moved by Mr. John
Gillon, seconded by Mr. Ferguson, and agreed to.
There were five or six Chartists present, ono of whom
asked why the meeting had not been called for the even-
ing, that the working classes might attend ?
Mr. MITCHELL and Mr. BERRY both pledged themselves
to attend any such meeting if called by the working-
classes, provided the subject discussed was the Corn-laws,
and that alone.
Observing some inclination among the Chartists to
make further objections, Mr. Berry once more stood up
and observed, that the conduct of the universal suffrage
party, in refusing to co-operate with the Corn-law Re-
peaters, was very discreditable. Let them agitate for the
Charter by all means, but why stand in the way of getting
a bad law altered, under which they themselves were suf-
fering ? He entreated them not to be led away by un-
principled leaders. It was proved that Nightingale, the
Manchester Chartist, bad been taken to Walsall to oppose
the Repealers in a Tory's carriage, and paid with Tory
gold for his assistance.—( Hear, hear.)
On the motion of Mr. Charles Thorburn, the thanks of
the meeting were given to the Chairman, and to the Di-
rectors of the Trinity House for the use of the room. The
meeting then dispersed.
A petition has since been put in course of signature.