The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-08 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION

in a satisfactory state.—( Loud- cheers.) He should like
to see the franchise better defined, sill stripped of
those legal subtleties with which it was at present clothed.
—(Cheers.) He did not like to see a man who had acted con-
sistently. hrovght up and bullied and badgered in the llegis-
tration Court, in order that he might assert his rights.—(Great
cheering.) Then, with respect to the question of the Poor-
laws—he was prepared to discuss that question fairly and.
openly. He had nester voted for the Poor-laws as they at pre-
sent existed, but he wished those who opposed the present
Peor-laws to reflect upon the evils of the old system. He
did not say that the new Poor-law had answered all the ob-
jects intended. It was brought lit as an experiment for the
purpose of trying a new system. It might or it might not
have answered the purposes intended ; but if he were returned
as their representative, he should go into Parliament
prepared to discuss the question and prepared also to
vote against every clause in the Poor-law Bill which
he thought unnecessarily harsh and severe. He now came to
the question upon which he felt that he should be more readily
heard—he alluded to the finances of the country. The Go-
vernment had been very much attacked on this subject, but it
should be recollected that for the good of the people Minis-
ters had sacrificed millions.—(Cheers.) As an instance of
that he might refer to the Post-office ; and then the expenses
of our conquests in Syria were not to be kept out of view. In
these circumstances what did the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer do? Did he come down to the Haute of Cm-smote.%
and state that lie was prepared to propose a property tax
(Cheers.) Did he come down and state that it was his hats-in-
tim, to place fresh burdens upon the people? No suet, thing.
He came down prepared to propose the reduction of meatus:l.
—(Cheers.) Was that proposition hailed with "Joy is the
House of Commons ? No! it met with the most, tremendous
opposition. The first -part of the Chaecellor of the Excle-
quer's project was to take off some pa .t of One duty on sugar.
tie told the House that the peo',,te of Brazils and Cuba
were harshly used, and that they
,had expressed their deter-
rninaion that if this country laid. a duty of 130 per cent. en
their sugar, that they would lay a similar impost open all
manufactures of this country. As to the timber duties he ha-I
only a few words to say. He was prepared to sedate the
duties on timber to the. Canadian level.—(Cheers.) He n tv
came to the question of the Corn-laws, and upon that subject it
was hardly necessary for him to state that he had voted with
Mr. Villiers in every motion he had made on that subject.—
(Cheers.) Corn-laws wi re inteselueed into England in the
days of Edward she Third ; and lucking hack at tlose times it
would be found that the price rif corn in this country was much
less than it was on the Continent, and in ordet to prevent
foreigners from taking the cows of this country the Parlia-
ment, in the reign el Edward the .Third, passed the Act to
which he had referrel From that time down to the present
various !eel ilative enactments had been introduced ure if they
came dews: to the time of George the Third, and during that
reign it wee stated by the agrsculturalists that the low price of
corn was lea ins to their ruin, and then Ministers of that day Se-
troduceil a I rophsition into Parliament ef the most unexampled
chat a.sten Be r ame to Parliament sue propesed bv. ais Act of
the Legislature to steatiy the prices of corn. Snvh an Act of
folly was met, as it ought to have been, by the results rhii la
followed. The Act was passed in 1791, and between :791 and
1801 there was the greatest fluctuation in the price of
corn, which was at one. time sds., and at another 1555.
a quarter. Cheers. ) Then came the principle of the sliding,
seats, upon ithich the leader of the Tory party had deduced'
he would !eke his stand. It was an odd thing fur such at man
to say that hs woutd take a sliding and slip; ery thing to stand
upon.--(Cheers Lad laughter.) lie would taw twine to a
point with eespect to the Corn-laws which was mere nearly
connecte S with that city. There was a time when there was
a mach greater influx of strangers into that city than there
was at present. How, he would ask, had they been driven away
irons it i IVhe because they found that the price of provisions
on the Condsent was but half what it was in this country.
Did any one thine that a man would le .ve the land of his na-
tivity to go to distant climes, except he was forced to do o from
tinting iS income was not sufficient to erecure the necessaries
of life in Orb country ? The Testes and the Cerietrvatives of
late had shown great anxiety to do good for the working
classes. They ha.i told them, and it was one of the most im-
wadent asserticns he had ever heard, that if the price of corn
was reduced, wages would he reduced also. Was that the
fact ?—( Cries of" Yes, yes," and " No, no.") He would
unhesitatingly assert that wages were not dependent cm the
Trice of corn ; all that they were dependent on was the demand
of labour.--( Great cheering.) It was not denied, even by
the Conservatives, that the manufactures of the country would
be consider ably increased, and that increase could not take
Tfat-e without *an additional dr mand for labour. —( Cheers. )
he agriculturalist said he was placed in a different situation
teem other men ; that he was not dependent on the people of
any conetry for his food. Was such the case ? Follow
the man who made such an assertion to his breakfast, and
there you would see him with his coffee arid sugar—follow him
to his dinner, and there you will find a nice linen cloth on the
table—you win find him shaking his pepper-box—(Laughter)—
and probably you would see him windup the goon things ef
this life with, perhaps, plum-pudding, and a ehtss f sherry to
reboot.—( Great laughter.) He believed hiat'he had now nearly
stated all that was necessary for him. He had no doubt that
he shout' be told he was an agitator, an:, his lion. Friend Mr.
Roebuck, whom he had heard state that he believed the Con-
etitutioa of this country to be the best in the world. lie bad
heard him attacked, and called; a revolutionist. Ebel been
stated by the Tories that they must disunite the Liberal party
'He was sure that such would-net be the ease in Bath, because
lie felt. convinced that the enlightened electors of that
_city
were well exam that union was strength. Such as he had
stated were his sentiments upon the different questions which
he had brought before the electors. He had been born and
bred a Whig ; he hail been educated in Liberal principles, and
his opinions were before the public. He had daring the short
course of his political life been ergawed in more than one con-
teet, but he had never yet been beaten either in Perthshire or
Southampton.—( Great cheering.) In those contests he was
engaged alone—in the present he lied the advantage of having -a
.gentleman associated svi h him whose abilities no one could deny.
There was no man whom the Tories were so much afraid of meet-
ing inth s' House of Commons as his Hon. Friend whom it was in-
tended to pet in nomination with him. In the present contest
they were engaged hand in hand, and he could only say, as far
as he was concerned, that the more equal the numbers were
on both sides on the day of the pull, the more honestly should
he think that the people had voted.—(Great cheering.) He
had now only to thank them for the kindness with which
they had heard him, and to assure the electors of Bath, that if
they did him the honour of returning him to Parliament, they
would always find in him a steady friend.—( Great cheering.)
Mr. ROEBUCK then came forwari to address the meeting,
and was received with loud and enthusiastic cheering. It had
often been said that the people were fickle, but he would ask
those who had had personal experience of the people of Bath
to say whether they had ever seen any fickleness among them ?
He had known the electors of Bath now for about nine years,
and after the lapse of that time, he would confess that he had
seen nothing approaching to fickleness in them.—(Hear.)
The people were not fickle, but they were often deceived.—
( Hear, hear.) The people of Bath. were still his friends—
( Cheers, and cries of " Yes")—and the reception he had met
with since he bad lately conic among them, was highly gratify-
ing to his feelings. He was sure that so long as the
people were dealt fairly and honourably by, they would
never be unjust to their true friends. Ile was pioeil to call
the peoelit of Bath his friends, arcs he was cqu,.li Freud en
the presena eceasion to show thee Le deserved the's, coefidence.
ten the resent oecedon he stead i.t . iweenar position.
Bath, at the present time, he mieht alteeet shy repre-
sented the liberal seate of Eitel Lee. Alt the Liberals
e ere. teuding to flee Rime fete —I hey had itifferenet s
sometimes, but they trait all the same noble object in view.
He was there represer tang one of those opinions, and his Noble
• Friend represented the other. Such was the state of the libe-
ral populetion of England; for he was vet going to make it a
:Ministerial measure. All ha. wanted to do was to work out the
cause of the people.---(Hear, hear, and cheers.) He would
now ask the meeting fee a moment to run back with
him a few years, and then they would understand the
cond tion in which he was placed. He thought he should be
able to conciliate some whom he believed to he mistaken, but
who, no . doubt, thought him so. A liberal Administration
hail given the the Reform Bill, and for that alone they owed
them a debt of gratitude. But it had been said that they were
going too fast. Now, far his own part, he did riot believe that
I e could go too fast • for in England they had the most clan-
eerous aristeserecy that ever ruled a country. Therefore it
was that -he thought they could not go too fast. He had been
thought to be crazy, and it had been stated of him that he was
a revolutionist ; but he had said that the day would come when
it would be said that he was right. That day had come—that
banded mower had reared up its crested front, and
they wet e banded together to oppose it. They were
there Ii Wilting • the battle they had fought 'before.—
(Cheess. ) They must fight as a united body, and there must
be no tie arrelling between them. Beth must fight for Bath.—
(Cheers- ) There must be no compliance ; there must he a
thorough understanding en both sides. No fixing upon any
man's forsehead that he is a had fellow; only let him be a
Libel desiring all that you desire, responsible Government,
and then you must join heart and hand. A Government
4manating friene the people is responsible to the people, and
would look to the interests of the people, Such being the
present condition of England, here andeveryehereh‘evhweotineldr
Ask of all wh o called themselves thorough Reformers,
they though ,t they would be best able to obtain a liberal and re-
sponsible f trovernment by union or by separation. The peo-
ple of Bann had, in large masses, welcomed the Noble Lord,
who, he was happy to say, was to be put in nomination with
himsetr, with voices high and hats in the air. He had no
doubt that that Noble Lord bad not forgotten Saturday night,
and it vrould be long ere he did so. If disunion did not
take piece in their ranks—they were certain to gain the vic-
tory ; bait if separation did take place among them, let it be en
the betels of those who sowed dissension, and they, he would
venture to say, would not be found among the masses, for they
wore with hi'm and the Noble Lord. If disunion did take
place the result would be that enthusiasm would be
put clown and discord raised in its place. They were ready
as one man to hold out the hand of fellowship to all, and there
could be no doubt whatever about either his friend or himself.
They had come forward to fight the people's cause. If they
were beaten, the people were beaten, and if the Tories suc-
ceeded, the people of Bath would suffer.—(Great cheering.)
He was sure that he need say but very little as to his own
opinions. The electors of Bath hnew theta all—all the world
knew them. He came there again after nine years' knowledge
of him, on the part of the electors of Bath. Nine years ago
they liked him, and they told him that they liked him now.
tie trusted that the present contest would be carried. on with
perfect good humour. He was sure that it would be on the
part of his Noble colleague and-himself. He was sure that, on
their part, it would be carried on with truth and sincerity ; and
he could assure the electors that wherever he found an un-
fair proceeding during the election, he would denounce it.
If they had the Ballot, as the Noble Lord had stated, they
could not be terrified out of their votes ; but there not being
that safeguard, tradesmen were imposed upon, and compelled
to give their votes where they otherwise would not. What
he wished the electors to recollect was, that the Tories
were not content with employing intimidation, but
they were trying
; h
tohtork upott the baser pas-
sions of the people
their wants and their very ignorance
snare they have created a l. to degrade them. They were about
to open, from one end of Bath to the
hother, the beer shops.
4:Cheers. ) You will find many of
or
namesc of the parties
who call themselves Blues, or Tories,
rsetrhYea Conservatives, at the '
head of Temperance Societies and societies fr:
the fteOpie in the principles of the national Churchueati" of
would find them go to Church with red morocco Prayer Book,irhey
and on the Monday, or even on their return from Church,r they
would whisper that the election was safe, for they had openede
the beer-shops.—(Cheer.)
honest? Was it 'common sense ?--( Cheers. ) It was a base
purpose, joined to base means, to be used
.to base ends, ard,
as
they debauch them with drink, so they weed seil them for gold. •
The two Tory candidates had claimed for themselves tweedier
religious coraiderations. He would leave them to be dealt
with as the electors of Bath knew Ito .v to deal With such sun.
Let them manfully express their detestation of such proceed.
ings. e Let them act upon it. Let them tell it to their neieh-
hoof', and let it be known far and wide: He thought that he
need hardly trespass on their time further. He was sive that
the electors knew well the battle they had to nd
sure that they wfully aware of
ere . e was
the means they had in their
Ithaitarid:oto..ye,artttonwthhe warfare, and it was a pleasing thing for
there they found theirrefvr they found the people improving. ;
moveni.oet.
was
goino.needs, and wherever the temperaece
enthere they nun& Their friends... in
ehortehhay had vitt&
be sneeesseei in the and right on their side, acid were-Sui-e to
ployed the moss ewers -The Tories as a party had
and thaepaesyeeelen.,P" means to carry out, thir view?,
It hid hehts't
(Great cheering. .3
m.e lhakYo°
are her!, in Bath ?"
Lord had thought fit to