The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-07 00:00:00

ELECTIO N MO VEMENTS.

CHESHIRE (NORTH).
A poll was demanded. to take place on Thursday and Friday
next. The following is a report of Mr. E. I. Stanley%
speech

The Hon. E. J. STANLEY came forward amid loud cheers
ing. He said they were met now, at a moment hardly second
in importance to that great period when they assembled to
struggle for the Reform Bill. For what purpose did they ex-
ert themselves? What object had they in view but that
of obtaining good and cheap government.-a-( Hear, hex
Her Majesty's Ministers had taken the only alternative thefy
could adopt consistently with their duty. They had appealed
to the people. Her Majesty now awaited that answer; and
on that answer, be conscientiously believed, depended the fu-
ture prosperity of England, or the loss of its great commer-
cial and manufacturing superiority. What, then, were those
measures? First came the alteration of the Corn-laws; the
substitution of a fixed duty of 6s. for the present sliding scale.
Now he (Mr. E. J. Stanley) would tell them what he thought
of a sliding scale. In the first place a sliding scale roust depend
upon the averages, so open to fraud by fictitious sales, which
gave nothing to the revenue ; and then again, when large
quantities of corn had been admitted, by means of fictitious
sales, closed the market again. This, then, was a scheme sim-
ply for the advantage of the corn jobber. Another disadvan-
tage of the sliding scale was, that it caused great variation
in the price of corn, which every farmer was well aware was
injurious to his interests, while it prevented the manufacturer
from becoming a regular dealer in corn, because he could never
be sure of dealing so as to derive a benefit from at, while on rho
other hand he might be ruined by it. The consequence of this
absence of a regular trade was, that in times of scarcity the fo-
reigner would take nothing for his corn but gold, and this was
the case a few years ago, when nine millions of gold went out
of the country for corr., and the Bank of England was obliged
to restrict its issues, thus restricting trade also, and causing
great and general distress throughout the empire. What, then,
were the merits of a fixed duty in comparison will a sliding
scale ? The advantages of a fixed duty would be to keep Up
steady prices ; and, by enabling the manufacturer to deal in
cc rn, extend our markets and our trade with countries having
nothing but corn to give us in payment for ourgoods, and espe-
cially with countries who said that, unless we placed oar trade
with them on a more equitable basis, they would close their
markets to us. It was worth while to note the new Presideut's
message to the United States of America on this subject, in
which he significantly observed, that he should hold the
tariffs in suspension, so as to make the best arrangements
with foreign countries that might offer, while he expressed as
intention to put a heavier tax on our manufacturet,.unie,s we
should take their corn and timber on more favourableterms.
He would now say a word to each `'t. these partiAesn interestedAnd here he
in this questicn, and first of all to the farmers.
d that there was no one there who
Corn-laws? lie presume
forth by the Standard, that
entertained the sentiment put
and
would ask what benefit had they derived from the present
whe,itf°r,fei,ibrr:ao way Passing (tion ruin
Englishmen as rich as they arcs. though
manufacturing towns anti districts in
should eugulph all the
.rt,
" England would be as great poyerofnule, and us.ful
would say to
Alan-
cheater. Stale% bridge, and Dui:infield that;
He did not know what his friends of Alan-
(heat Britain."
he would ask iris friend opposite—his 40 colleague—who would
be the best judge of whether such a grotimentwetrld be ap-
provedparty. He (Mr. Manley) hardly thought
his Hon. Friend would be one to approve of such a sentiment,
through ire estate, which sum fifty
re-
th.siisiok.e ti uly, had received 40,0001. for land
re-
quired o
would have been equal to the fee
years s.go, he presume,
simplt of his estate.
31r. T.irroN EGERTON—I beg to say it was a fair price,
would
whatmm
and agreed to after the valuat itai of competent surveyors.
Mr. E. J. STANLLY—That improves my case. If it were
more than the fair value, which I never meant to in:innate
that ,
make
mgaiau against
argument ; but if it was a fair
u-ers have done to this country,
when had made the market value of a few acres of land
m
worth the whole fee-simple of a large estate a few
price,or e
years ago.—(Cheers.) This was °illy one instance out of a
number which had strut k his mind ; but he appealed to the
meeting, if manufactures had given them such advantages as
these, if it would not be to their advantage, as well as that
of the manufacturing towns, to put an end to laws which
might have a tendency to depress the manufacturing inte-
rests, and of driving our commerce to foreign lands? To the
farmer these laws could clearly be of no value, because they
induced him to take farms at a high rate on the speculation
of high prices being ensured to him, while their very eon-
stiuction of the laws was such as must render them uncer-
tain and variable. To the electors, then, of North Cheshire,
whether engaged in commerce or agricultufe, these laws
could offer no protection equivalent to the injury which the)
must suffer from their continuance. Mr. Stanley went on to
speak of some kcal matters, and retired amidst loud cheers.

WAKEFIELD, JULY 5.
Extract from Lord Siorpeth's Speech on his nomination for
the West Riding of Yorkshire.
(Abridged from the Leeds Mercury.)
" I do not mean on this occasion to advert to the general
conduct of the Government, to the battles they have fought
and won in the cause of civil and religious freedom, or even.to
the battles they have lost in the cause of more general and
unlimited education.—(Cheers.) In the department more
immediately confided to me, I have striven to do what jus-
tice I could to our fellow-countrymen in Ireland.--(Cheers.)
But, Gentlemen, I pass on at once
hv,its_cio,lhltthbhc haeatdrieas topics more im-
mediately before us, nor will I even enter into any formal re-
view of those subjects which must either be admittedii))loaesreegndedeficiency
tltifidl
cyim onehint_eackilyl
sides, or which must have become sufficiently obvious and fa-
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matter
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whi ei
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does exist at present in the public income of the country, and