The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-31 00:00:00

T ICE RESO

LUTION OF WANT OF

CONFIDENCE.

Another interminable debate on a most ptievlle mo-
tion, treated on one side at least in a most, elaborately-
childish manner, has just set in in the Hotise of Com-
mons. What an edifying spectacle it is to. .witntss the;
Prime Minister expectant and the would-be' saviour of
his country, spending four mortal hours in an endoavoiir
to prove that two instances of Parliamentary crises, each
of which was absolutely sui generis and mdilie
thing that ever went before or after, do not in nil
points resemble a third Parliamentary crisifi,
Vguial n its
incircumstances and 1111pre941* (1 3
circumstances
If ,ever mortal tidal or Ninister created 4, re,eedent
for himself 144 reonired a tokt anal sangr.itie tempo-
. .
-2-
iyltmt *even to Comm.. e. pOO4IIItY. 14 its "itetlea,s, it
waS If iiiiiii
stance Of. a ParlianientaFy crisis Which ilesffYto ft
•
tt?
. vyiiite,il
xOl itiot§34-3; thite''Oer were
- •• -!. • • .
stances Oat a Ministry in stepping a little as= i
from precedent. and following the examnlq
T4!t* jictl)prf eeft, cl:egthig"tiweCti4en, it;
.
Uiey
ar4 the etrtna§ta.nens of-thus present
crisis, in which an appeal is to be.made to the
choose whether they will be starved f&.l
by another. 11 pd 4:ei; the tune et" o Com-
is-tO be taken ,up 1411e:did' night with historical
''.shat Fox said in 1785
west Pitt
did in 1784 • and '
, or- all, what ‘Peel did in 1834,
-'
and what Robhonse said in 1835. Of a truth, it must
be a great blessing to be ruled by a man who is so great
a master of form, so great a lover of candour, and so
profound a student in the vote-books of half a century
ago, as the great Sir Robert.
Of course it cannot be supposed for a moment that
the motion will have any result at all, unless it ends in
the defeat of its proposer. In that case, indeed, it would
be clearly' seen to be a false move, and it would there-
fore rebound with shame upon the heads of its authors.
If it succeeds, Sir Robert can hardly expect thereby to
deter the Ministers from a dissolution. The debate would
seem to be nothing more than—
" Much Ado about Nothing."

—Tablet.

THE MOVEMENT. - PROGRESS

IN STAFFORDSHIRE.

This county well performs its duty in the present
crisis. -Agitation—the struggle to revive waning pros-
perity—the vital effort against personal starvation and
national ruin—is bravely, zealously, and heroically sup-
ported in the county of Stafford. Despite the hypocri-
tical cant of professing ministers of Christ,—despite the
sophistry and plausible falsehoods of pretended " far-
mers' friends,"—despite the tyranny of generous land-
lords, land masters, and merciful authorities,—the work-
ing men of Staffordshire are boldly and energetically up
and doing, in the present holy crusade against the Bread-
tax -the present hopeful campaign against monopoly.
We, last week, had to record glorious proceedings at
Wolverhampton, Walsall,Lichfield, and other places. We
had previously narrated similar movements at Darlaston,
and in other parts of the county. In our present number,
still more numerous instances are recorded. Bilston
has assembled the largest meeting remembered them
Wednesbury has nobly seconded her neighlont.'s de sips;.
stration. The Potteries have 1)404 `thi:iv thousands
arrayed 911 the ;il4llO side, Willenhall is active and
allOst unanimous in petitioning.. Rugeley and Alrewas
(the very centres of agricultural influence) have shown
themselves of one mind. In short the whole distalet is
roused from one end to the other, froia the bxder. where
Copeland lords it cm4' 139,pr, workman's state o de-
pentbacei tq the extremity where: Gla4stoat elks,oys a
IAP9r4Ty triugaph at the e-,?ep§p ofsslaw-gotten gold.
n important ttespon4ihility devolves upon the leading
the Present crisis. It is their first aild
most imperative duty, a duty far more iltpllt Than all
other considerations, to convent DtdAte vneetutgs, and
get up petitions, withmq cf• §uile*r station
11,s, Ml3Ol ill crested curers. the landlord
wto is wise enough to know that the interest of
the labourer is his interest, inasmuch as labour
gives to land its only value, must perceive this ; the
master who has sense enough to be fA.ly4re thr,,i the Pros-
xrity of the worlitngt iS hi 4 Inasmuch as
t144413tid ginfeiri alters and stimulates the workman's
daily toil, must see it also ; and those in public authority
who are capable of discovering that public order is
never so easily maintained as when discontent has,
existence, cannot fail to admit the fut, gni, above all,
toinistors or religion are. eared' ilpOn to be foremost in
promoting the proceedings recommended. Christianity
and the common dictates of charity and humanity leave
them no alternative. We cannot expect anything from themajority of clergymen of the Fitahli,ted March as a
tOQT. it& oPposed to every measure which has for
its aim an extension of the privileges and comforts of
the people • and it would be strange indeed, if, upon a
question which may be said to affect their own in-
comes, they were 'to act differently
cpugse ; but from kiinister....-0-pi4l, es--Churches
etiAt` virtiinixtii* naerits,mtber than by
tyrannous fpetiong e.Npacii every effort to be
Tpad:q.- 1144,e4; inust rouge nen—respective flocks 'they
irldi 'offer up public prayers to the Great Disposer of
all events. If our Bishops (to their eternal dtagrceo
have not seen fit, at this crisis, vtlev that prayers be
op* it itttyµr elittrches—:entreating the Almighty so to
disrose the hearts of our oppressors, as to cause them no
longer to withhold from his people the daily bread
which he in his infinite bounty had provided fy,7.: thou
—let the Roman Catholic and D..iss,e4ing, pastors shame
tNr fattguers upon ii4ite' religion, by their example.
i) one can' be spared from the cause. High and low,
rich and poor, must, Gael' and all, strain every nerve to
serve it.—Staffordshire Examiner, .

pROBOSED OPEN AIR ANTI-CORN-LAW
MEETING.—A requisition was presented to the Mayor,
signed by 5,390 persons, "working men, inhabitants of
the borough Manche.ster," requesting that the Mayor
would call and preside over a public meeting of the work-
ing classes, V) be held in the open air. We believe that
the Mayor, having received the requisition as he was
about leaving home for London, promised that he wonld
take the matter into consideration, and return an answer
from London, The Mayor d6clines to call such a meeting,
under existing circumstances, on the ground that a public
meeting of the borough had been held a few days ago for
the same object, and that a petition agreed to at that meeting
was now in course of signature; thereby affording to every
inhabitant of the borough an opportunity of recording his
opinion in relation to these laws. The requisitionists, aiftir,
ther appears by the advertisement, on receiving the Mayor's
reply, determined to hold the meeting nevertheless ; and
they have convened it for Wednesday next, at eeven
o'clock, to be held in Stevenson's-square, " for the pur-
pose of protesting against the bread-tax." The requisi-
tionists held a meeting last evening, in Carpenteesmhall,
which was nearly full, Mr. Warren, the president of the
Operative Anti-Corn-law .4)Asacliition, in the chair ; when
it was determined that ten of the requisitionists, on
behalf of the whole, should convene the meeting, to be
held as above stated. They also agreed upon a, ferns of
protest against the Corn and Provisinu=laws to be sub-:
mitted to the public meeting, and, if' approved of, to be
sent to.all the temporal and spiritual peers, and to all the
Members of the House of Commons ; and it was deter-.
mined that the meeting should adjourn till the Micas of
the protest had been seen in the votes on .ijoyil
William's and Mr. Villiers' motions on the Ofern-laws. It
was also resolved, that Mr. Cobdeik should be requested
to take the chair on Wednesday.—Manchcster Guardian.

For the borough of Leeds the Anti-Monopoly
party have called out Mr. Hume and Me. Win. Aldam,
jun. ; and the Monopoly party have invited Mr. Wm.
B( ckett and Lord Jocelyn, The Reformers have wisely
chosen a Whig and a Radical, and the men they have
selected do them honour. Mr. Hume is one of the most
valuable public men in the kingdom ; and Mr. Aldan' is
a young man of excellent talent:, high principle, and
most liberal views, closely connected with the trade of
this borough, Some of the more ardent Radicals had
conceived a prejudice against Mr. Aldan', in consevevee
of his not being decided on the Ballot ; but the ex.piana-
don given in his Address of his views this subject,
and the personal explanation of his principles at a meet-
ing of the Liberal electors yesterday morning; have qui•.,e
removed every unfavourable impression, and won th,,
respect and confidence of the electors. After 'ne had
answered many questions put to him by tho-,e who had
been most inclined to doubt, the vote of a,rprobat ion AIMS
passed with perfect unanimity and the ",m;st zealous cor-
diality.—Leeds Mercury.

THE LATE TIIIINDLIRSTOIIM.—On Thursday
eeening this town and neitthbourhood were visited with one of
the most violent thuiKlOr storms ever remembered. The day
hsd beep ypry aultrv,' rod towards sunset the clouds in the
south-east at' the edge of the horizon portended a tempest.
From eight o'clock till half-past nine the lightning flashed
literally without ceasing ; indeed, we do not recollect having
witnewd such innumerable discharges of the electric fluid it
so short a space. At the latter point of time the thunder beg!
to be heard, rapidly increasingg in londness until it burst e
rep
our heads with a noise resembling the simultaneous discharge
of a park of artAlery. The wind blew strongly fr.= the
south, and a storm of hail, or rather of •,;trees of
ice," fell with u Violence seldom seen in Etr;tand. In
the buildin7,3 exposed to the south the windows were broken
by !'..undreds and thousands, terrifying the inmates, especially
females, by the suddenness of the unusual visitation. The
extreme intensity of the storm abated soon after 10 o'clock,
and passed into other districts, spreading dismay and devasta-
tion over the country. The damage caused by this appalling,'
storm is enormous. At the Great Western Railway statiun
almost every pane in their numerous skylie-lits was broken,
and we hate heard that it will cost nearly 2001. to replace
them. The hailstones were of sipres from that of a hazelnut
to a small walnut, and therefore most destructive wherever they
fell perpendicularly. In the surrounding villages the damage
was of a most serious character. At Purley tire valuabl,
cows, the property of Mr. B. Peel, were struck by the electr'
fluid, and instantly kilted. They were of a superirm deseiip
and were destined for the pastures of Sir R. Peel, at Dray n;
Manor. The village of Cavcrsham, which, riling from the Than „'
presents an exposed elevation to the soakth, suffered more t I,
yet hoard of. The greenhouFtr of
any other place we have
"
Captain Montagu, Caversha‘.hill, Mr. Cooper, Mr. St
„h"
and other gentlemen zero literally destroyed, besides at's'
glass in various parts of their a
nun:ber sql)Ares
1)1
the . railwa,
hzus,'ea„ The mansion of Mr. Crawahaw, which f• known an object from the London-road and j so 've'' '-
had scarcely a whole pane left; and in t' the parish aloe, e
several hundred; of pounds must N) expo d
e. to repair ti, damage. As far as we have vet heard, tio loss of
has occurred through this awt
ul storms It
must human lif
bare bee t very general,
as we understood it 'extended f
the western parts of Surrey into Gloucestershirreom Ehpsom an,
further we have not yet ascertkined.—Berkshire bhroZere .
Mr. Edward Ellice (St. Andrews)
paired cf
with Mr. Robert i-100 Tuesday
nighton on " 4 • in favour
Mr. Dunooo44f motion for an address to the Crown I
ix 0,,,) consideration the cases of peraors confined I
political offences. al •

CORN•LAWS.--In Mr, SlaJes Travels in er. •
many and Russia (choptm Odessa) will be found al
important artiolo #4-e Qorn-law, with referrJnee to tb
supply cinT,..,4406.44ek Sea Ports and fre.,ol Germany,
wrbiA 91*443G115q.c1 Irotild do well to peruse.

' AN CORN-LAWAI.' -- ,
J 0 is RINED
MEETING-.
Oa Wednesday last the adjourned meeting to receive
-
the deputation of the Anti-Consislaw League wasslci.
The stage was crowded with gentlemen, amongst wh'
were many members Qf the Town Council. g oni
On the motion of Mr. Alderman BLACKBURN, Sir
Joshua Walmsley was again voted to the Chair, amidst
thunders of' applause. . .
HENRY Asnworms, Rsq., was again introduced to the
•
Meeting. li'nr iu' years past the trade in the manufac-
turing 4iatrlets had been very diatreased, and it would not
bs° 19,n.txfiw; Liverpool felt the eilects of it. The advo-
°P4?-"3 Cs. Ole COrn-laws,sAia they were a protection for equa-
114111g ViW's !Alt, titexa was, no Act of Parliament to pro-
-1 tecl, sniti 1114sscorrty or the larka Of' labour. As a proof of 1
lit •. 4,.. c., • • .
,t(,', ,fw.
.. gate 0 she manufacturing districts. las, I
atatesd that-haw were 2,900 houses empty la Ma,r -• ~,!-, .-.1
' ~I.A."retor)2l
Aanit 1,200 to I,SOO in Stonkrort, 1,500 ivy NOP': 1,.220
in Preston, and 1,000 irt oiah„. aria 4, hilt an- equal
number or i•-u- • ten. u. • ti, -), ." , 1
- --' ''4 tVas'..!tr",, ra9.• era
::o% Sit wide i could
zet all, ?,•Ri.., On a'snaing down to Liverpool that day he
c,l,r C.n?..°Yal 9f' ft.ll*Mi itliti tits snaking some inqui-
‘
rlc.ql
.P ?Viand tii4 a raain with his wife and ten chiV ~,..
nesivin• \yew faann* te the workhouse. The day befesaa they
Gi
ted food.
yawned tlltieeir
rnlat.isitntbe4l,il.nctlhhao. sliia,..l„.}tiihsawsy4ardo not
so beneficial ta• '' a- s 1.- ..," . i
...•me agrVai ta,sata as toey 7asaist man,
tl— ' ---
._..... believe. In pa.ssing through rievonshire- 04 few
years ago he saw beautit'uJ Isass's.",ng little cottages with
the myrtle and hawthorn growing art:wild them. He
went inside of them, but what did he find? There was
a clay floor, very wet, tpia no furniture? There were
men with only "s,, or Bs. a week, with which they
could scarcely keep soul and body together. These
were the class of men whom the Corn-law land-
lords considered their country's pride.—(Hear, hear.)
Would they consent to be their country's pride ?—(No,
no.) He then rroceeded to state in the course of advo-
cating the repeal of the Corn-laws, Chartists, when they
were made properly to understand the question, became
Anti-Corn-law lecturers. In 1535, when alt.! t.,(41,1t was
cheaper by nearly one half than it was in IWO, the work-
men's wages were raised nearly fiVe par cent,, whilst in the
last named year the wagea of' the manufacturing popula-
tion were rasluoqd 10 per cent. Those were questions
which they ought to consider well, especially as they
would be called upon soon to exercise their franchise.
They would, doubtless, be canvassed by all parties and
if they should go home and find their wives and Ligh-
ters weeping for the black of the Brasil% or the West In-
dies, they should ask them if they had began to weep
for the bleeding industry of their own neighbours.
Mr, Alderman BROOKS, from Manchester, vests re-
ceived with loud applause. He said the Whig,. Tory,
Chartist, and Radical party were united its die manufar- 1
turing districts against the Cornsiaws. They
heard of the story of a man and wife fightints, k'lia all
and when
some person came in to separate them tl'
on him and beat him off: That, ..),-- both turned
eras just the way they
should do—they should leav"s-ofriighting with themselves
and fight against the Corn-laws. They talked of protec-
tion. Why, anything that wanted protectim showed a
weakness to start with, If they saw a strong healthy man
going along the street, they would never say he wanted
protoetiNt S but if they saw a poor old woman crossing the
!-IklW:h and a coach coming, they would say, "Go away, old
woman." What they wanted was trade, and the sliding
scale prevented them from making any calculations
with regard to corn, and, in consequence, they were de-
prived of trade in that article, for which they could send
out tligir goods, and when a scarcity came they were
(slaked to send out their gold, thereby crippling their
trade, He had had a letter the day before from his tra-
voller at Walsall, and he was told he could get no orders,
for there was nothing doing. There were fifty furnaces
stopped there, and all this was caused by these laws. He
believed that the manufacturers in his district had not
Made a shilling for the last three or four years, and he
enlas wished the merchants and brokers of Liverpool would
matte inquiries as to the cause. After calling on the
electors to act conscientiously at the next election, and
" do unto others as they would be done by," he said they
asked for justice and a total repeal of the Corn-laws, and
then sat down loudly applauded.
1417, Alderman CORDEN, from Manchester, said, in
looking over the Mail, which some friend had been
kind enough to send him, he found that the meeting was
described as having been attended by a few hundreds of
people, and that they were chiefly of the " lower or.
ders." He was very glad to find that they had the
is lower'' class amongst them. He was glad
to find it admitted that all the rubbish the
bread-taxers had put forth about high and low
wages had not succeeded in deluding the work-
ing classes,--s(Appiause.) This brought him to remark
ntaral a placard industriously posted in his town, and he
fancied they had had some of them in Liverpool, calling
on them to remember that the low price of bread in Po-
land and Russia brought very low wages. Surely that
must be the very Mist resource when they were obliged
to draw a oamparison between the condition of the work-
ing class of England, whom they attempted to persuade
that they were well off, and the Polish serfs. He
though they had a glorious Constitution and that their
country was the envy of . surrounding nations, and the
admiration of the world.—(Loud cheers.) He thought
that the pt ens who made this comparison always
geed that the working classes of this country were
under the benign Government of a Church and State, who
especially looked to their interest.—(Cheers.) That
connection had Leen enjoyed by them for a century and
a half, Pa id yet, when they wanted to prove that the
~:perking classes were not so bad as they were, they went
to Poland to comparetlasin with the Polish serfs. Was
it not a little streave they did not go to a place more.
familiar ti the, people of LiVerpool,—was it not
stletpip. they' did not go to a place called America ?
tithe bread-taxers asserted that bread governed the
rate of wages, to prove which they went on the broad
scale ; they Went north and south ; they said they
did not care where they went, -because the rule ap-
plied universally ; but how was it they did not get
across the Atlantic, and test their rule by the rate of
wages in New York ?a -(Applause.) They might .have
called on the Irish in their way, and made their inquiries
there too.---(Hear, hear, and loud applause.) He thought
he g,* ppe of those bread-taxing Commissioners going
alit on such an inquiry—going out on account of tin'
Duke of 13uckingham, who asserted that the price of
bread governed the rate of wages. He crossed to Ire-
land, went to Tipperary, and at last came to Clonmei,
and inquired the last market price of wheat. What
would it be, Sir &Ana ? How much was wheat it_
T
Clonmel?"—(A voice, "695.") Whatwas therate (kw- ,res
in Milne' ?—(". 4d. a day.") And had they full ":,orls'all
the year round, for he always liked to inquire fiiat?-:-(No,
no.) Well, then, let hint take his; pascal in the beau-
tiful Great Western, anal land at .N.sas,
York. What
was the price of wheat per- quarter
Joshua ? (Stir Joshua--L•astka, pe• ~ in New York, Sir
quarter.") Well, he
knew semething about the
and made inquiries ea.-au it
,rie of wages in America,
but he had no doubt there
would be some tmericars citizens in that vast v.ssem-
binge who would be als;s: to tell their. They had lately
had het ire them a (...,.tr_iistiettl paper published by the cor-
poration of New .s.; ork, in which it was shown that po-
licemen and 'isartchmen, -of whom the corporation em-
ployed al., jut 700, got a dollar and a quarter per day,
or atont ss. 6d. ' • and that was not a. bad estimate of
-sue rate of wages for unskilled labourers; but they would
come down a little and say that the rate for unskilled
labourers was four shillings per day ; :and now they
came to the perplexity of the comesissioner in writing
to his Grace the Duke of Rackingliam—"May it
please your Grace, stopped , at Clonmel, found the
wheat 635. a quarter ; wage';, 4d. day ; men not fully
employed. Went on to N,
air York—wheat 365. per guar-
ter ; wages ought to hr-,,,, been 2-d. a day, found them
4s."—(Great applause
j.)
He (Mr. C.) thought that must
puzzle. the
P----"se. phy of the Duke of Buckingham.—
hil
(Loud laughter." - But they would be told that if they
went to Atutar!'
con-
sidered,, wad.'
thins ta', ~Bat it was not the price cf bread, but many
.eia there were many things to be c0n-
wy.,(2.,.te.".t what it was ; it was supply and demand that
governed the rate of wages. He (Mr. C.)
,"s.thal ad the rate of wages. Did the Anti-Corn-law
party
„ Wit to diminish the rate of wages when they
°P-"'..al ,out for more trade ? How could they get
m .ore tradr, unless they got more employment for every
class of Labourers ? Would they not need more por-
ters and. labourers., if they imported more goods ?
Would tbey not need. more ships, and that would give
more esnploymeut tocarpenters ? And if they built more
ships, would there not be a greater demand for sailors,
acid would dray not get better wages.—(" Hurrah, that's
good," said P, son of Neptune, who happened to be seated
(in disc fror.t of the gallery.) The question of -wages,
1 after all, ',vas the whole question ; and thus the bread

tax( I's, •although they had no consciences, were shrewd

eno7igh to knot that the whole question rested on the
rats of wares ; and they knew that if they could not con-
" ,ne,, the working man that their wages would fall the
dread-tax would soon come off., He (Mr. C.) knew they
coulti not do that, and therefore, the working men' would
!shun do away with the Corn-laws.—(Great applause.)
ba 1835, when wheat was 395. per quarter, he paid his
r len the same rate of wages as he did in 1838-9, when
i vheat was nearly double that price. Repaid them by a
tale or rate, andlit never was altered—it was always the
same. Did . the Duke of Buckingham ever make
any allowance in paying his servants when the.
bread was dear ?—(" No, no.") In some cases
the rate of wages was settled by an Act of
Parliament. In London and other places the fares of
hackney coaches were settled by the Corporation. Thou-
sands of people were dependent upon such employment,
but did the Act say you shall have ls. for such a
fare, and when wheat gets up to so much you shall have
Is. Gd., and when it rises still higher you shall have 25.?
No : the law did not commit such an absurdity ; the law
itself convicted them of falsehood in laying down such... a
proposition. In agitating for the repeal of the (mili.:
laws, he: was not advocating an extension of his own trade
especially. He had never entered into foreign trade,was
although he considered that his home trade_
rn.
___(l,4o:ll.l;etneas:noi
as - much dependent on the reirftlerof
altltedioCgo
*laws as the foreign trade.
the sneering manner in
that was mean except when a man prostitutedirar, to
ili 1 spoke
his talents of the " lower orders," Mr. C'.vshaiiedilhetill:new of nothing
and stated what was a falsehood.
____H e(Ld iodudnot
laughteralltletaonAdf t..lix na'h hear, "Dix.")
The Earl of IV
applause.)inehil-
the other day, of squires
;Ste mentioned talents.
sea, at an agricultural meetin,
and bull-frog farmers.
bull-frog farmers for the same )11 tihiaet Ccaloblebdettthdeinid,
and he was a good one for es. They were al-
up,(Laughter.
ways croaking. at the sumo` editdheyLow;derewelitnionhgilsaolal
i wfo
rme theirn) manufacturespret, nd th at
will llol:ecythe()tfl-licl' A. nt i -grf C o
marketsAnti-Corn-law
i perfect indiff,-
`heir foreign trade is a (natter _cence
if they cannot obtacirne:chettii hre
of
their artisans, 1,-4
stlalye;
',urn their
e‘-°- the home trade." Thuo,
't- It if they lose it altogether, provided they
rAwntion to . spoke the
the put out
genuli•
foot of opposition to. comr,
•,e feudal aristocrat. He thir
erce, before which
clove
• e?„. to fall.—(Applause.)
no act with him, whether
they represent Liverp 1
anlld'athodseesviti'n'
09. br not--(Hear, hear)—would
111,eurdINA'rdehiltsisclan,