The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-15 00:00:00

tot answer him when he asked them •
Lar burdens that pressed upon lands.
counted with the landed interest,
xtent, and should feel very loth to
iuggested this evening, a bill fur-
nished for the amounts received off the land. My Lord
Beaumont had said that real property in England
bore about 8,000,0001. taxes; and that he would set
that 8,000,0001. in one scale and the corn-laws in
the other, and they ought to be satisfied. But did
not the Noble Lord know that houses, mining pro-
perty, and shares in companies, were as much real
property as land ? So much for that portion of the
subject. Then the argument that if corn from fo-
reign countries were to be admitted, it would have a
very injurious tendency. Poland had been particu-
larly mentioned; and they were very fond of declar-
ing, that if Polish bread were admitted, their labourers
would become like Poles ; to use the expression of
a venerable labourer in this cause, Col. Thompson, if
they admitted this Polish corn they would begin to
speak the Polish tongue.—(Laughter.) This arose
from the different circumstances of the two countries,
and what was applicable to Poland could not be ap-
plied consistently to Great Britain. This great
question now agitated is no pecuniary question.
The landed proprietors are jealous of the advance of
the mercantile community of this country ; they do
not like their heels trod upon by a class whom they
have been taught from their cradle to look down upon.
They like to depress the mercantile community. Yet
this cannot be from a pecuniary motive. From their
love of power, their love of ascendancy, and their love
of aristocratic privilege, they wish to keep down the
middle classes of this country. Now, however, that
this question and its merits are clearly developed in
the sight of the country—now that free-trade is almost
obtained, that it is so near their hands that they can
reach its fruits—Englishmen ought to be branded as
slaves if they do not throw off the yoke which a proud
landed aristocracy have pressed upon their necks.—
(Immense cheering.) When we consider the great-
ness and universality of the cause now advocated, it
is evident that the mercantile community cannot throw
off the yoke without their act being felt throughout
the whole world. It will be felt not in this nation only
—it will be felt through all the civilised nations of the
- _
world.

Ties which - link them in mutual union

and interests, which bind them together, will be
drawn closer, and more beneficially interwoven—
commercial freedom will be " peace on earth
and good will to men."—(Cheers.) The first step
to this is the abolition of the British corn-laws. It
is not true what has been asserted by our oppo-
nents, that we seek protection for certain branches
of manufacture, and that we will not give it to agri-
culture. I deny the truth of this. I, who am a
representative of Manchester—the men of Man-
11,..xter—the men of the greatest manufacturing town
in the kingdom, desire nosuch thing. The merchants in
the Chamber of Commerce in Manchester, and the

petitions, all of them that have issued out thence, have
prayed for the total abolition of the corn-laws, and of
all restrictions on free trade.—(Cheers.) There is a
geet:eman, a Mr. Stuart, about to become the repre-
sentative of the constituency of Newark, the represen-
tative of the Duke of Newcastle—(Laughter)—who
has said so much, namely, that those who demand free
trade are seking protection for themselves. I must
tell that gentleman that it is not to be tolerated, after
W 4 have asserted so often that we seek the abolition
of the corn-laws, free trade, and no protection—it is
not to be tolerated that he should write letters, and
give the authority of his name to such statements
He is, I helieve, a Chancery barrister of some practice ;
this,however, is rather sharp practice; and his brief has
not centeieed proper instructions.—(Laughter.) Mr.
Glachtone, too, is leaving Newark —(Laughter.)
Whither he is going I do not know ; but if Sir Robert
Peel make such a change in his policy as is rurnoure I
at present, the probability is twat the League may
have to find a seat for hirn.—(Laughter.) Mr.
Gladstone, indeed, is the best man among them. As
for Sir Robert Peel, he has been taught by a proper
preceptor—he has learned from experience ;in the
Cabinet he is the best supporter of our cause. But,
after all, it signifies little what Cabinet Council. may
ehe: it is you, you only, with the aid of the people of
this eeentry, that must carry this question • but you
will not sin:peed if you show the slightest flaggingi in
your exertions to 'rain the point. If it were supposed
that you had allowed ;ourselves to be lulled into a '
false security of success, the League would have for
many years to continue in the sieuw,7le, But I know
you must triumph— (Cheers)—I kno:: the con-
test is between Justice and oppression—ee!ween
right and guilty privilege—and you must prevalz.
T believe you will succeed in the present year also,
and this hope I draw from the condition of the two
parties. What is it ? On the side of the one party,
on the side of protection, there is division ; on our
side there is unity; on our side there is confidence—
on theirs, suspicion ; here, reason—there, passion ;
here we have the use of experience and philosophy—
there they are supported by none but those who
have maintained feudal tyranny, and every abuse on
he statute-bock of the kingdom. Considering both
pe,.!ies in the contest, comparing their condition, there
was everything to hope, and everything to stir
energy and encourage perseverance till a triumph has
been achieve€l.—The Hon. Gentleman sat down amid
great and prolonged cheering.
Mr. R. R. Mooaz then came forward, and said he
would rather the chairman had allowed the
meeting to break up after the closing of
Mr. Glbson's address, for nothing more could
be added to what had been said. If anything was
necessary in addition, it was to urge them to continue
their activity in increasing the number of free trade
votes in Middlesex, „East Surrey, and Hertfordshire.
T‘.liddlesex was won-1,700 free trade votes had been
gained in that county—but East Surrey and Hertford-
shire must be won. He recollected, in urging this
upon them, that they had been charged by a Noble
Duke with using unconstitutional means to gain their
end. He had the best ground for denying that, and
for retorting it upon the author and his party. The
unconstitutional means which the nation had to com-
plain of, was the interference of the House of Peers
with the representatives of the nation. It is not the
League, but the other party that boasted of the power
they had in returning a representative, and the num-
ber of farmers they could drive up to the poll.—
(Hear, hear.) The Earl of Salisbury boasts his
sway over Hertfordshire, the Duke of Richmond over
Chjeliester and Sussex, Londonderry over Durham
city and south Durham county. The Duke of Marl-
borough had had three representatives for Woodstock
in two years, and two of them his own sons ; Newark
was in the power of the Duke of Newcastle, where the
enajority of the voters are free traders ; the Duke of
Buckingham for Buckingham, Winchester, and
Aylesbury ; the Marquis of Exeter for
Stamford ; Lord Sandwich for Huntingdon.;
Lord Egremont for Midhuret ; the Earl of
Jlithurst for Cirencester, and various other names
that may be found in The Sun of the sth January.
It is this kind of tampering with the election of the
people's representatives that must be put a stop to.
The Duke of Richmond said the other day
that the gentlemen of the Anti-Corn-law League
threatened, and were determined to carry the
elections by means of fabricated votes,
and by no other means. Mr. Moore believed it was
the Corn-law League which proposed such a course
for themselves—that league in which is the Duke of
Norfolk, and the Duke of Buckingham—meeting at
17, New Bond-street. Their only hope was by
means of fabricated votes. They made uncon
stitutional use of the register of this country.
The agents of the Anti-Corn-law League had gone
and taken the register, and purged it of the fabricated
votes put on it in favour of protection. One man
in Highgate claimed a 405. freehold. Where was it ?
In the churchyard.—(Laughter.) Who was the
tenant there that paid rent ? He was struck off.
Nor had they restricted their doings with the regis-
tration to this; they Lad taken care to have many
recorded of the right kind, and in the legal way,
to all of which the other party had opportunity
of objecting. Yet, though that party had a right to
expenses had they been successful against them, from
all those recorded in Middlesex they had got but 21.
expenses. lle (Mr. Moore) hoped many would
continue to apply at 67, Fleet- street, with a view to
uglification as freehold voters. For 561. they could
ave a 403. freehold, and thereby re-
ceive four per cent. for* their money, he-
ides the opportunity they had of benefiting the
country. The League had not spent their 100,0001.,
and their 50,0001. of thiziear before, in giving free-
holds gratis—they used that money in
t abroad right Information among the
spra-ling
be great question occursyln.g their atten-
F°Ple °I
the means of qualiticatton a$ voters.
tion, and on
e talk of compensation with the ether
There was SOIll
iv had
party. If compensation was to be granted to anv
:surely it was to fall to the share of those ha e
leeen robbed at the rate of 15s. on every quarter of
w!leat which they used.
They talked of compensa.
tion, :.nd did they refer to slavery and the slave-
re they, then, willing
!holders fof their vrecedeut ?
to be ranked as Jlaveholders; _But even. if they
were, he said, they tbeit qmion since
reversed
noW of ff;4l°Tl
the time of slavery, and they weie
belonged a; the
that compensation, if any was due,
right of the slaves, and should have come out pi' the
pockets of the slaveholders. The speaker then re•
to the numerous class of sufferers in this
count n
_whose ills—many of them irremediablo---had
been inflicled by the monopolists.
amid great diming. He then retired
,Mr. WILSON then announced to the meeting that
the meetings of the League would be more frequent
than they had been hitherto, and that the next would
likely be held on that night fortnight.

DAMAGES.—W hat a man gets by going to law;
and, as the word is derived from damnum, a toss, it iii ex-
ceedingly appropriate.— P unch.
DZAD WEIGHT.—VIde the National Debt and
other blessings, which are among the venerable Institutions
pf the country.—Punde.

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