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THE BEETHOVEN FESTIVAL
THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.

this meeting to fear that he is no longer anxious to main-
tain the Bill which he introduced and carried through
Parliament in 1842 ; and if so, it is the opinion of this
meeting that he, and those who think with him, will be
no longer deserving' the support of the agriculturists."
lie spoke of Sir Robert Peel as a very ungrateful son
and a very unnatural father—(Laughter)—an ungrateful
son to the agricultural interest, who had placed him in
his present position, and an unnatural father, inasmuch
as he was disposed to send his son—the Corn Bill of
1842—a begging.—Gore laughter). Mr. Terrewest
went at length into several points connected with free
trade, and replied to some arguments advanced by Mr.
R. R. R. Moore, at the meeting at Lewes on the previous
Tuesday. He also quoted from Mr. Barton's pamphlet
the extraordinary statistical fact that the ratio of
mortality increased greatly when corn was below 40s. a
quarter. When the price was from 60s. to 705., the
mortality in a million was 19,879; when the price was
under 405., that number was increased by upwards of
6,000 ! Perhaps the meeting might he startled when he
told them that it was free trade that ruined the Roman
anfroamuththoreihtyisftoorn.atnhisaalisssoenr:
, Mr.
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passageaTtil.ioenqaucroa,tnehdeparare.t)end As
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any sensible portion of its subsistence, in ordinary sea-
sons, on foreign, who may become hostile nations. And
to independence which rests for
if we would see a memorable example of the manner in
which the greatest and most powerful nation may, in
the course of ages, come to be paralysed by this cause,
we have only to cast our eyes on imperial Rome, in
which the vast extent of the empire bad practically esta-
blished a free trade in grain with the whole civilised
world ; and the result was that cultivation disappeared
from the Italian plains, that the race of Roman agricul-
turists, the strength of the empire, became extinct, that
the fields were laboured only by slaves and cattle. The
legions could no longer be recruited but from foreign
bands ; vast tracts of pasturage overspread even the fields
of Lombardy and the campagna of Naples, and it was the
plaintive confession of the Roman annalist that the mis-
tress of the world had come to depend for her subsist-
ence on the floods of the Nile."—(Hear, hear.) Mr. Ter-
rewest concluded by moving the third resolution—" That
a petition be presented to her Most Gracious Majesty
the Queen, and petitions to both Houses of Parliament,
praying that her Majesty will not sanction, or either of
the Houses of Parliament introduce, any Bill calculated
to destroy the present system of the corn-laws, until the
sense.of the nation has been obtained by means of a
general election ; and that his Grace the Duke of Rich-
mond be requested to present the petition to her Majesty
and the petition to the House of Lords, and that Lord
Marsh be requested to present the petition to the House
of Commons."
Mr. R. MARTIN seconded the resolution.

M. JUL LI EN''S CONCERTS.
Since the Festival given last year in honour of the greattomposer,
BEETHOVEN, at his Birthplace, the musical professors and ama-
teurs of almost every continental city have bestirred themselves to
evince their admiration of that great departed genius, and have pro-
dnced some grand musical reunion for the special performance of his
finest works. The public enthusiasm with which these Festivals
have been received, as well as the royal patronage bestowed on them,
proves the estimation, and indeed almost devotion, 'with which the
talents of Beethoven are regarded abroad. It has, however, been
the frequent remark of foreign artistes, that in no country are
Beethoven's works more highly appreciated than in Eggland; and
since the public in general have been enabled at a reasonable charge
to make themselves acquainted with them, such a widely-extended
knowledge now exists, that it is scarcely possible to conceive but
that a similar demonstration in England must be highly and
generally popular.

M. JULLIEN having at his disposal an orchestra of unrivalled
talent, conceived the idea of producing such an entertainment as
that above-mentioned, and on making koown his intentions has re-
ceived from many distinguished amateurs and professors the most
encouraging assurances of support and assistance.
In addition to his usual orchestra, M. Jullien has been enabled to
add the names of several of the first professors, and has also the
satisfaction to state that Signor Sivorl has expressed his wish to
take part in the Festival, and will for a short period longer delay
his departure.

THE BEETHOVEN FESTIVAL
Will commence on
MONDAY NEXT, ,JANUARY 12, 1846,
and continue for the Five Following Evenings, during which the
most celebrated works of Beethoven will be produced.
The principal artistes already engagedto take part in the perform-
:knee, are, Messrs. Barret, Baumann, Platt, harper, Richardson,
Baker, Case, Lazarus, Handley, Jarrett, Prospere, Hill, Howell,
Casolani, Sonnenberg, Schmidt, Rowland, Blagrove, Thirwall, Chipp,
Stoepel, Hatton, Betts, Day, C. Harper, J. Harper, jun., Collins,
Keating*, Mason, Trust, Goffrie, Doyle, Cubitt, Wagstaff, Lucas,
Bousselot, and Herr Koenig.

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Offices of the Company, No. 41, Sloorgate-street.

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sub-
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I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant.

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its HINDRANCES and OBLIGATIONS.

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CONDUCTOR—M. JULLIEN.

.The first act of the Concert will on each evening be entirely se-
lected from the works of Beethoven ; the second will be miscella-
neous, and embrace all the popular novelties of the season.

Full particulars will be duly announced.
Notwithstanding the great additional expense of these entertain-
ments, the price of admission will be as usual, viz., the Promenade
and Boxes, Is. ; Dress Circle, 2s. 6d.

Places and Private Boxes may be secured on application to Mr.
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Musical Establishment, 214, Regent-street.

MANCHESTER AND SOUTHAMPTON
RAILWAY.
The following letters have been addressed to the editor of the
Times :

Sir,—ln one of your editorial articles of this morning on the sub-
ject of new railroad schemes, I find the Manchester and Southamp-
ton Railway thus singled out for animadversion:—" The mnch-
vaunted plan for railway communication between Manchester and
Southampton, for instance, is now alleged to be simply an impossi-
bility. In the excitement of launching the scheme, allotting the
shares, getting the plans deposited in time, and congratulating the
fortunate shareholders on the last grand point having been gained,
every one seems to have forgotten the existence of the Cotteswold
hills. which present, it Is now declared, an insurmountable barrier
to the railway being constructed. It is strange that no one ever
thought of the Cotteswold hills before, but there they are, and there
they have been from the first—' a great fact,' which all the forces
the Railway King has at his command will not be able to remove."
The sinister report to which yea thus give currency was officially
contradicted in the columns of many of your contemporaries a fort-
night ago, and the Directors had hoped that a statement at once so
unfounded, and calculated so unnecessarily to disturb the minds of
their shareholders, would not again be lightly advanced.
For your information, however, and that of the public, I beg once
more distinctly and emphatically to state that, so far from the Cottes-
wold hills presenting " an insurmountable barrier to the railway
being constructed," the Company's engineers-in-chief (Messrs. Ste-
phenson and Bidder) have been enabled to lay out a line which,
having regard to the entire distance of 88 miles between Cheltenham
and Southampton, is of ordinary character and costs.

I may add, that the gentleman on whose a-uthority this pass
was some times nee stated to be " impracticable," is himself the en-
gineer to a line through the same hills, wh!ch is to be submitted to
Parliament in the ensuing scission, and as to the engineering features
of which this Company may invite comparison with those of
their own lb e, and that the practicability of the line was
distinctly ascertained many months ago, before a prospectus ap-
peared, or a single share was issued ; and. further, that the Directors
are fully prepared to substantiate to Parliament and to their sub-
scribers every statement upon the faith of which they have re-
ceived the support of the latter, and are about to so icit the sanction
of the former. You will, indeed, be aware that, if any reasonable
doubt existed on these points, the public and the shareholders are
themselves in a, position to satisfy their doubts, copies of the Com-
pany's Plans being in the possession of the Clerk of the Peace for
every county into which the line runs ; of every Parish Clerk, of the
Clerk of the Parliament, and of the Officers of the House of Commons,
elerksofPee of i s
Peace and
peofr hPaoriusr.h being bound to exhibit them
to all th
all comers Clerks
for a fe om

-1; order that there may be no possible mistake in this matter, I
annex a letter from the Company's engineers, in confirmation of the
foregoing statement, and remain, Sir, faithfhlly yours,

JOHN WHEELER.
17. Great George-street, Westminster, Friday, Jan. 9, 1846.
To the Managing Committee of the Manchester and Southampton

Railway.

" Gentlemen,—We observe in the ' Times' of to-day a statement to
the effect that this line is impracticable, the Cottoswold hills pre-
sett' ing an insurmountable obstacle to its construction.
" It has been our professional rule and practice to lay out the
railways committed to our charge in such a way as to insure easy
and practical lines by the construction of moderate works at a rea-
sonable cost, and we shall be prepared to show, at the proper time,
that, so far from the Manchester and Southampton line through the
Cotteswold hills being impracticable,' It answers in every respect
to the character we have endeavoured to impart to all our under-
takings, and will bear a very favourable comparison with several
lines now in operation, and with a vast number of those submitted
to the Legislature in the last year, or intended for Parliament in its
approaching session.—Your obedient servants,
(Signed) " ROBERT STEPITENSON.
" GEO. P. BIDDER.
" Great leorge-street, Westminster,
Friday, January 9, 1846."

SUSSEX SOCIETY FOR THE PRO-

TECTION OF AGRICULTURE.

HAILSHAM, WEDNESDAY.-A very considerable meet-
ing of tne yeomen. farmers, and others friendly to the
principles of this society was held this morning at the
National School-room. There were between 200 and
300 present :—Sir P. Micklethwaite, Dr. Cunningham,
John King, Esq., of Blatchington ; R. King Sampson,
Esq ; R. Terrewest, Esq., Sm.
The chair was taken by Mr. A. DENMAN, chairman of
the district, who commenced by introducing to the meet-
ing Mr. W. W. Burrell, the Honorary Secretary to the
Central Sussex Society for the Protection of Agricul-
ture, to whom he paid a high compliment for his zealous
and indefatigable exertions in the cause of agricultural
protection. Having moved the first resolution—" That
this meeting views with deep concern the present very
anxious position of the agriculturists, and is impressed
with a firm conviction that on their welfare depends the
prosperity of every interest in the country, and more
especially all those tradesmen, artisans, and labour-
ers who are entirely dependent on them for support"—
the Chairman proceeded to combat the assertion of the
League that cheap bread did not lead to low wages; re-
marking that whatever might be the case in the manu-
factories of clothing, as regarded the labourers employed
in the manufacture of bread, cheap bread and low wages
were convertible terms. The Chairman also denied that
the destitution in Ireland arose so much from a failure
of the potato crop as from a want of money.—(Cheers.)
Much had been said about the contemplated measures of
the Ministry. He believed that we ought to follow out
the advice of the celebrated Horne Tooke, who on a me-
morable occasion, when an unpopular man was about to
address a meeting, suggested that the auditory should
hear him first, and hiss him afterwards. So with Peel,
we ought to forbear expressing an opinion of him till we
knew what he would propose ; at the same time it be-
hov4d us to be prepared to oppose his measures, should
he propose to sacrifice agriculture. The Chairman next
adverted to the disparaging remarks f Mr. Cobden with
regard to the Duke of Richmond ; and, in reply,
observed that we first heard of his Grace as foremost
in the battle in defence of his country, at Waterloo;
after that, as being engaged in allaying the diffi
culties at home incident to a transition from war to
peace; and lastly, we find him again foremost in pro-
tecting the agriculturists of the empire from the attacks
of the League and free-traders.—(Cherry.) Such a man
was deserving of our warmest approbation.—(Loud
applause.) A friend of his, in conversation the other
day, talking of the proposed repeal of the corn-laws,
observed that Sir Robert Peel had better re-peal himself;
to which he (the Chairman) replied that he had better
examine himself to the core firA.—(Cheers.) His own
opinion had for many years been that Sir Robert Peel
was not to he trusted.—(Applause.) . •

Dr CUNNINGHAM, in seconding the resolution, ob-
served that during his practice in that neighbourhood
for many years, he had inv wiablv observed that the poor
people were always the wort off in periods of low prices
of bread.

Mr. limo proposed the second resolution. :—" That
this meeting recommends every farmer in the king-
dom, and every well-wisher to his country to come
boldly forward and exert himself strenuously on
every occasion to return as a Member to Parliament
g
a candidate who will give his independent and un-
flinching support to the agricultural int;erbesutt,
thatand cir-
cumstance buffer one iota of the. present protection to be taken
away." The present corn-laws had not made the Agri-
co ur ltt uh rei sftreseo-wtprarasodseprr. o . :sAa sn
attributable,dh couldethheet
hairlug u
ment of the free-
traders, to the agitation
that because the price had not been so high as
contemplated when the law passed, they had better take
free trade, which would still further reduce their prices,
appeared to him to be most absurd. NIL King then
illustrated, by a local allusion to Mr. Rickman, the land-
lord of the George, and a supposed competitor, paying
nothing for license or taxes, the impossibility of the
energetic efforts produced by competition enabling the
taxed English farmer to compete with the untaxed
foreigner. The free-traders told us that the land at
home was badly cultivated. Granted that improvements
might still be made ; but where was land better cul-
tivated than in England even now ? Another thing
which the free-trader carefully kept out of sight,
was the fact that the foreign labourer did not taste
the corn which he produced. He had stated the
other day at Lewes, that two or three months ago a
gentleman had sent to France orders for the purchase
of 1,000 quarters of oats, and that after the purchase had
anunderstood to say that
been made, and before the oats could be shipped, the
francs French
per Gexport duty of five
this duty was imposed to prevent the exportation of this
particular quantity of oats. That was not the fact : but
a number of persons had gone over to buy oats, and it
quarter. v.erl i m e n t hadHe had imposedbeen
was in consequence, probably,of the aggregate purchases,
that this step was taken by the French Government.
Doubtless, should a scarcity arise, Russia, would adopt a
similar course ; and the result of free trade at home
would thus be great plenty and low prices when we did
I not want corn, and when we did, the price would be
! high, owing to foreign G ivernments imposing export
, duties, which would thus go into their treasuries instead
I
lof our own. It was quite right that the farmers of Eng-
land should be prepared for the worst. If Sir R. Peel
intended mischief to the aL;riculturists, it was
quite right
I that we should be prepared to resist ; if he did not in-
; tend that, which he hoped was the case, he would want
all our support.—(llear )
Mr, I(ItNo SAmpsoN seconded the resolution.

Mr. M. P. MICKLETHWAITE, in proposing the next
resolution, said he thought it the duty of every man to
stand forward on the present occasion, when the agri-
culturists were threatened with a free trade in corn, to
express his opinion. He stood before them as a per-
fectly disinterested man with regard to party politics, for
he had never interfered with the tenant—he had never
voted himself.—(Cheers.) But they were now met to
consider the question of free trade. Free trade had
already undergone a certain trial in this country. We
had had free trade interfering with the shipping, with the
silk manufacture, and with the glove trade. And what
had been the result ? We had heard constant complaints
ever since.—(Hear, hear.) The manufactures of this
country did not constitute the trade of the country. The
trade of the country consisted in the growing of corn.
Three-fourths of the population were employed as agri-
culturists ; and the money, as we had been informed,
expended and invested in the growth of corn amongst
the tenantry alone, amounted to the large sum of
150,000,000/. The labouring classes might be caught
with a clap-trap of a large loaf ; but let them recollect
that a duty even to the amount of 15s. per quarter,
would not increase the price of the quartern loaf more
than a farthing ; that was, that in 1001., the manufac-
turer's loaf would not cost him extra more than ss.
He did not know whether he made himself under-
stood, but it was a positive fact, that the fourth of one
per cent. was the only increase that was put on the
quartetn loaf by the addition of a duty of 15s. a
quarter on wheat. What benefit, then, could our ope-
ratives and labourers gain by the introduction of foreign
corn ? The foreign labourer received a much smaller
rate of wages than were given in this country. The
rate of continental wages was about 4s. a week ; our
wages here averaged from 108. to 12s. We had been
told that this was a year of scarcity ; but he did not be-
lieve this to be a fact. Scarcity generally arose from a wet
harvest causing the wheat to sprout ; but that had not
been the case this year. The years from 1829 to 1831
were years of scarcity ; but was there any suffering
among the labourers in consequence ? None ; because
the importation of corn in those years was greater than
had ever been the case before or since. After alluding
to the disastrous effects of Sir Robert Peel's Currency
Bill of 1819, Mr. Micklethwaite proceeded to say, we
were told that it was the intention of Sir Robert Peel to
relieve the land by removing the poor-rates, the land-
tax, the county rates, and the highway rates, and
making them a national charge ; but he doubted whe-
ther even this would compensate for throwing the la-
bourers out 'of employ. If it was necessary to intro-
duce free trade at all, it ought to be accompanied by
other measures, by a measure similar to the Tithe Com-
mutation Act, a measure that should regulate all pay-
ments upon a certain standard. The standard of the
Tithe Commutation Act was the price of corn; and he
did not know that a better standard could be introduced
for every class of payments, from that to the highest
personage in the realm, and the salaries of the Ministers
of State, to the national debt, the mortgagees, the bond-
holders, all debts indeed. He thought if all debts were
regulated by an Act similar to the Tithe Commutation
Act, the burdens which we so much feared migh t be thrown
upon the agriculturists would then be equally dispersed
throughout the country ; every man would contribute
more or less to the loss that would be sustained by the
free importation of foreign produce. If this were not
done, the farmers and labourers would be the sufferers.
Sir Robert Peel had always acted on a one-sided view;
he had never looked at the matter with a view to spread
the burden over the whole country.
Mr. BOYS seconded the resolution.

1 TT ,1
MT. TERREWEST rnover the next resolution—" That
the conduct recently pursued by Sir Robert Peel induces

All the resolutions were carried unanimously.
The CHAIRMAN here observed, that although the
farmers of Sussex were not much in the habit of speech-
making, he begged leave (through the public press) to
tell Mr. Cobden, and the League, that if they would
come to Hailsham, and meet the farmers foot to foot,
they should find a party to meet them and argue the
question.—(Cheers.) In conclusion, he said, " Main-
tain your corn-laws, and command the markets of the
world;" and he was prepared to sustain that position
against the League.—(Applause.)
Mr. BURRELL, in moving a vote of thanks to the
Chairman, quoted from the speeches of Mr. Villiers,
Mr. Muntz, and others, to show that the object of the
League was to reduce the wages of the English labourer
to the continental level.—(Applause.)
The proposition was carried by acclamation, as were
also similar votes of thanks to Mr. Burrell and Mr.
Terrev.est, for their exertions, the former as Honorary
Secretary of the Sussex Society f,r the Protection of
Agriculture, the latter as Honorary Secretary of the
Hailsham District Association.

The pvtitions reeeiveri numerous; signatures during the
tAft, moon.

WALTHAM' AGRICULTURAL
PROTECTION SOCIETY.

WALTHAM, JAN. 7.—A meeting of the above-named
association was held this day in the Agricultural-hall,
Waltham, for the purpose of expressing their opinions
respecting the contemplated change in the corn-laws.
The Duke of Rutland, the President of the society,
was expected to attend, hut was prevented) by the sudden
arrival at his Grace's residence of the Duke of Cam.
bridge.
At :,.velve o'clock the chair was taken by Mr. Robert
Smith, of flitley, tenant-farmer, who was supported by
Lord Charles :Manners, M.P , E. B. Farnham, Esq.,
M.P., T. Bradford, Esq., of Stonesbury ; J. Charles-
worth, Esq., of Witham ; Rev. E. A. Gillet Beesley,
Esq.. and a number of tenant-farmers.
Mr. BRADFORD moved the first resolution—" That
the protection afforded to the British agriculturist by
the present corn-law is no more than is absolutely ne-
cessary to enable the occupier to cultivate the land at a
profit."—(Cheers.)
Mr. J. CHAPPLESWORTH, of Witham, seconded the
resolution.
Lord CHARLES MANNERS said he did not rise for the
purpose of objecting to the resolution so ably proposed
by Mr. Bradford, and seconded by Mr. Charlesworth.
For a number of years he (Lord C. Manners) had been
most friendly to a system of protection to agriculture, and
his convictions on that subject had been formed long before
he had the honour of representing the county of Leices-
ter. He considered that protection was not only just to
the agriculturist, but also necessary to insure a due sup.
ply of food to the population, without having to place
our dependence on the foreign grower. At the present
moment we must consider ourselves in utter ignorance
of what might be proposed in the ensuing session for the
adjustment of this important question. The claim of the
agriculturists to protection was one which he never should
give up.—(Cheers.) At the same time, finding ourselves
in ignorance of what might be proposed by the Legisla-
ture as a substitute for the present system, he could not
think that they were acting wisely—indeed he thought
they should be acting prematurely—if they did not leave
some opening to consider what might be satisfactory to
the country, as well as advantageous to the farmer.
Under these circumstances, notwithstanding his com-
plete concurrence in the resolution, he should take the
liberty of moving three resolutions of his own, framed in
concert with the Noble President, whodesired him (Lord
C. Manners) to express his regret that, in consequence
of the sudden arrival at the Castle of the Duke of Cam
bridge, who expressed a wish to go out this day to see
the hounds, his (Lord C. Manners) noble relative had
been prevented from doing himself the honour of ap-
pearing in that room. The resolutions he (Lord C.
Manners) had to propose agreed very much in substance
with that which had been already proposed, but he
wou!d first read them, and then if the meeting thought
proper, they might adopt them:-
1 "1. That, as 'ailed by the increasing and unconstitu-
tional enmity of the Anti Corn-law League, and alarmed
and perplexed by reports of an intended reduction in the
prote.tion which we yet enjoy, we deem it necessary to
re-assert our oft-repeated conviction tLvt no further re-

TURAL PROTECTION SOCIETY.

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PRICE SD.

duction of its amount can take place without exposing
us to the hazard of wide-spread ruin.
" 2. That we desire no advantage which will be for
our exclusive benefit, or to the injury of other classes of
the community ; but, cousiderim2, as we do that our
labour and profession are in connexion with native in-
dustry as closely as those of any other class, we feel that
we are equally entitled to claim protection as a right
which cannot he foregone without a diminution of the
energies of cultivation, and consequently of the actual
amount of home-grown food.
"3. That we, therefore, respectfully lay our case
before the Legislature of the country, and earnestly pray
that no change may take place in the present laws re-
gulating the import of corn, unless accompanied by mea-
sures which, by equalising the burdens which now press,
if not exclusively, at least chiefly on the land, shall main-
tain us in the integrity of our present position."
The Noble Lord concluded by moving the foregoing re-
solutions as an amendment.

Mr. BEESLEY would not have thought of preparing
any resolutions to bring:before the meeting if he had
known that the Noble Lord had in his packet a set of
resolutions so entirely in accordance with his own opi-
nions, and so nearly amounting to the substance of those
resolutions which he had drawn up for the meeting.
Nothing could he more to the point than those resolu-
tions, and he should have great pleasure in seconding
them. He was not prepared to say that he would object
to a' change in the corn-laws ; that would be stupid—but
he was prepared to say that he would resist to the ut-
most any change in the corn-laws that would be likely
to lessen the amount of protection at present afforded.
He took the broad principle, that the farmers were en-
titled to as much protection as, and no more than, en-
abled them to cultivate the land at a reasonable profit,
and employ labourers at a remunerating price.—(Cheers.)
He would not uphold the corn-laws, if it were only the
landlords that were interested in their continuance. The
landlords were able to defend their own rights—they
were able to shift for themselves even if their income
were reduced 20 per cent., as it undoubtedly would be if
protection were taken away. Nor would he defend the
corn-laws if only the farmers were interested in their
preservation, because they would have opportunities
of turning their capital to account in other respects,
for they had quite as much spirit anl intelligence
as, and more industry than, any other class of the com-
munity ; but he advocated the maintenance of the corn-
laws because he feared for the prospects of seven mil-
lions of labourers who were wholly dependent on agri-
culture for their support. He was anxious not to say a
word about nor even allude to theAnti-Corn-law League,
but they talked about class legislation. But would it
not be class legislation of the most partial character to
take off all the impart duties from agricultural produce,
arid still leave a protection of 30 per cent. on all manu-
factured articles ?—(Cheers.) Was not corn a manu-
factured article ? It was as much a manufacture as
gloves, shoes, &c., for which we paid 30 per cent. more
than we would have to pay if those articles were not
protected.—(Cheers,) As to having lost confidence in
Sir Robert Peel, he (Mr. Beesley) must first wait to see
what measures Sir R. Peel would propound to the Le-
gislature before giving an opinion on that point.—
' (Cheers). It was most important that the manufac-
turers of this country should be flourishing, for unless
they were doing well, the farmers would not have so
large a consumption for their produce. He believed
both interests must sink or swim together. He would
not, therefore, do anything to stand in the way of the
manufacturers, though he should by no means consent
to anything having a tendency to diminish protection to
the Agriculturist.—(Cherre.)
E. B. FARNHAM, Esq., M.P., said he had receiver] a
letter from the Secretary ef the Association, stating that
the Committee requested him to attend the meeting.
He could assure thorn he would have thought it disre-
spectful to his constituents had he net made it a point
to attend, particularly at a crisis like this. when there
should be no rnisunderstan.iing between the represen'a-
tive and those hr represents.—(Cheers.) It was only
three years since they had placed Sir R. Peel in power
—a man who was borne to office on the shoulders of the
age iculturists— who had used all his talents, when in
opposition, to fight their battl, s and to maintain protec
tion to agriculture, yet he had been the first to throw
the agriculturists overboar.l.—(Hear.) He had been the
first to frustrate their hopes. lie had completely forfeited
the confidence which they had placed in him. He (Mr.
Farnham) did not wish to prejudge him, nor to condemn
any man unheard; but let them go back to 1842, and they
would find that it was in that year the flrst inroad was
made on protection to agric7lture. They would find
that in that year a law was passed for importing
foreign cattle into this country at reduced price, and
that that measure was fao wed by the Canada Corn
Bill. So sudden and extraordinary were the late Mi-
nisterial changes, that it was not too much to conjecture
that some aide and important alteration was now medi-
teted in the corn-laws.—(Hear, hear,) Far his part, he
did not wish for any compromise, for they had Cobden
and Bright's own words for it that no compromise would
satisfy them—nothing less would satisfy them than
total repeal. Lord John Russell admitted that corn was
a manufactured article ; if so, wky should not the farmer,
the manfacturer of corn, be entitled to the same protec-
tion that was conceded to every other great interest in
the country ? They claimed not protection from selfish
views ; they sought it not for the sake of the landlord or
tenant—they asked for protection to native industry—
the welfare of both the agriculturist and manufacturer
was associated. He perfecily concurred in two of those
resolutions, but would move that all the words after the
word '° grain," in the third resolution, should be omitted.
The concluding words were a sort of compromise, and as
the meeting could not be aware that Sir Robert Peel was
going to offer a compromise, they should not anticipate
any such event.

The Rev. E. A. GILLET seconded the proposition of
Mr. Farnham.

The three resolutions, with Mr. Farnham's amend-
ment, were then put, and carried by a large majority,

LINCOLN and LINDSEY AGRICUL-

The following is a copy of the letter addressed by
Colonel Sibthorp, to Mr. Stevenson, honorary se-
cretary of the Society, and read at the meeting on Fri-
day last.
27, Chester-street, Belgrave-square, Dec. 31,1845.
My dear Sir,—lf lam prevented, by a continued in-
disposition, attending the meeting, on Friday, the 2d of
January, I trust that absence will not be imputed to any
indifference to the importance of that meeting, or to any
change in those feelings and opinions which I have ever
entertained, and endeavoured to express, during the
long period that I have been honoured with some confi-
dence in the public service of my country, and as
one of the representatives in the Commons' House of
Parliament. Those feelings and those opinions re-
main unchanged, and, I believe, unchangeable ; nor
shall I be wanting, as I trust I never have been, on any
occasion in which it has been or may be required, to stand
forward in the support and protection of thoseinttrests,
which I most firmly believe to be paramount in importance
for the welfare of this, and ought to be ever, the first
country in the world—l mean the agricultural interests.
Nor care I however humble may be the individual efforts
of myself—(hut if all are firm and united, that firmness
and union will prevail)—l will not at any time subscribe
my vote to the slightest alteration, or change, or diminu-
tion of the now even too little protection to such just and
great national considerations.
Whatever may be the intentions of her Majesty's Mi-
ni6ters, I feel, and shall not hesitate to disclose my opi-
nion. that this state of suspense can admit of no excuse.
I have seen too much already to place my eunifijtesnteit:
where I would most gladly have considered m
i ,Y
fled in so doing, and Iduelfi.el(ihtomwye,pearihnefunaldu. sghttyt'
choosetotell
Sir Robert Peel more thin once
to treat that independent observation), thlt I had lost
all my confidence in him. There may be some to chime
in with him, and no doubt will do, whatever may be his
future intentions, whether it be further inroad in the Pro-
testant religion—the national religion of this kingdom—
or another attempt to encourage th foreign and Ile free-
trader. Whatever may be the course of his my ,terious
ecboeassurvedtl shallin s t
be
ellready
to raise mydan-
gerous,
and concealed schemes,
rd my op against voice, and
delusive, and unconstitutional measures similar
to those which I did and do still consider no Prime Mi-
nister should have dared to have done in preceding ses-
sions. Having witnessed what we have, it is our bounden
duty not to slumber or sleep on our posts ; and, as has
been most truly stated, the fate of this empire depends,
not on. a Minister or Ministry, but it depends on all and
on everything that will maintain the veneration and
purity of its national religion, uphold the power and
equity of its laws, and protect the rights and liberties
of all classes of the community, and in the due regard
and observance of all those points ; the fate of this
empire depends upon the cordial, united, and firm
efforts of the people, and amongst which the great agri-
cultural body must act their part and secure their
claims. May I ask you to give these my honest, but
imperfect expressions of feeling, opinions, and deter-
mination to all who may honour me with the acceptance
of them.—Sincerely yours,
CHARLES D. W. SIBTHORP.
B. Stevenson, Esq., Hon. Secretary,
Lincoln Lindsey Association, Lincoln.

THE MILITIA REGIMENTS.—The total number of
regiments in the United Kingdom is 127, of which 61 belong
to England, 14 to Wales, 14 to Scotland, and 38 to Ireland.
Middlesex possesses six, which are the Royal East Middle-
sex, the head-quarters being at Hampstead, and the Colonel,
the present Member for Middlesex, Colonel Wood; the
Roral West Middlesex, head-quarters at Uxbridge, and
Colonel, Right Hon. G. S. Byng; the Royal Westminster,
head-quarters, Brentford, and Colonel the Viscount Chelsea;
the King's Own Light Infantry, head-quarters, Stoke New-
ington-common, Colonel, the Earl of Dalhousie ; the Queen's
Own Light Infantry, head-quarters, Bethnal-green, and Co-
lonel, the Earl of Wilton ; and the Royal London Militia,
head-quarters, the Artillery-ground, the Colonell being Sir
Claudius Stephen limiter. In Middlesex there are 6 regi-
ments ; in the county of York. 5 ; in Devonshire, Lanca-
shire, and Hampshire, 3 ; and in Gloucester, Cornwall, Lin-
coln, Somerset, Suffolk, Essex, Kent, Norfolk, and Surrey,
2 each. In Ireland there are, for the city of Cork, 1, and I
also for the northern and southern divisions of the
do 15 English, 3
county;
2 for the county of Down; 1 for the city, and I fort
3 of
the
c, unty of Dublin ; 1 for the city, and 1 for the thceou Welsh
regiments ; and 2 for the county of Mayo. All
regiments enjoy the prefix of Royal, 8.4
Scotch, and 4 Irish. There are 15 English regiments of
_r
Light Infantry, I Scotch, and I Irish; and 5 of the English
regiments are Rides.

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