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London, England, 1846-02-05 00:00:00

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GENERALFRAMPTON'SPILL
OFHEALTH which
USE IS
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head •ache, lickness, dizziness, pains in the chest, &c., are): remove
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"To Mr.rrout, 229, Strand, ondon.
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Ileavitree, Exeter, April 24, 1844.
" feel pleasure in being able to bear my strong and unso-
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I shall he happy on all occasions to give them my individua recom-
mendation, and am, Sir, " Your obedient servant,
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SPORTING IN
BETTING AT 11IANC:

THE CUES
20 to 1 agstiitst NA-tr.-taken
20 to I agst Sweetmeat—off.
20 to 1 agst Whinstone—take

22 to 1
25 to 1 agst Miss Burns—off.
27 to 1 agst Mickey Free—do.
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5 to 1 agst Sting—offered
15 to 1 agst Brocardo—off.
2tl to 1 agst lago—taken

I TELLIGENCE.
HESTER—TUESDAY.
ITER car.
27 to 1 agst The ttaton,-t,
35 to 1 agst Hope—offered
40 to 1 agst Mermaii—taken
40 to 1 agst Annie filly—do.
50 to 1 agst Redstreak—do.
50 to 1 agst Arthur—do.
itsttfits
130 to 1 agst Malcolni
140 to 1 agst Humdrum.

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Offers tO take 12 to 1 about Osprey.
WORGESTER WrEEiliikt CHASES—TuusDay.
Handicap of 20 sows. each, with 100 added, 10 ft, &c. (22
Subs.; 8 paid.)
Mr. Preston's Brunette, 12st (M'Donogh) 1
Mr. J. Elmore's Alice ray, 11ste,• ........... • • 2
Mr. Tilbitfyis. Culircrthdrpe, 1 ISt& 66 6**# 6
tits following also started, but were not placed :—Mr.
T.
011iver's Vanguard, 12st 91b—Mr. Adams's Pioneer, 12st—
Mr. Bewille's Lycurgus, 12st—Mr. Welsh's Sampson, list 41b
—Mr. Ekins's Peter Simple, list 61b—Captain Barnett's
Boxkeeper, list 41b—Mr. Do Rode's Regalia, 11st 21b—Cap-
tain Allen's Exquisite, 11 st 21b—Mr. Rogers's Wilton, aged,
10st 81b--Mr. Moseley's Jerry, lOst 61b—and Mr. Pearce's
Scavenger, lOst 21b.
4to 1 on the field, 5 to 1 agst Lycurgus (taken), sto 1
agst Pioneer (taken), 6 to 1 agst Brunette (take 7 to 1), 8 to
1 agst Exquisite, and 10 to 1 agst Culverthorpe.—Won
cleverly.
The Witley Selling Stakes cf 5 sows. each, and 30 added.
Four miles. (8 Subs.)
Mr Stagg's The Fowler, 10st 71b
Mr. Tilbury's Tom Tug, 1 Ist
Mr. Herbert's bay mare, 10st 71b
Mr. Powell Th's Barnaby Budge, Ilst 91b
Three others started. Won by two lengths.

WEST RIDING ELECTION.

NOMINATION AND ELECTION OF LORD MORPETH.

Lord Morpeth was yesterday elected for the West Riding
of Yorkshire without any opposition; Mr. Ferrand, after all
his bluster, not daring to show his face on the hustings.
Shortly after ten o'clock Lord Morpeth arrived. ills
Lordship wore a court dress, and rode up Wood-street at a
walking pace, surrounded by an enthusiastic body-guard of
his supporters. He was, of course, cheered to the echo, and
seemed in high health and spirits.
R. H. Anderson, Esq., the Under• Sheriff, officiated in the
room of the High Sheriff, who was prevented by indisposi-
tion from attending.

After the usual formalities the proceedings commenced,
Mr. W. FAWKES, of Fernley Hall, stood fueward to pro-
pose Lord Morpeth. He addressed the assembled multitude
—who were estimated at fully 30,000—at considerable
length, beginning with some sarcastic allusions to their
agricultural opponents, and especially to Mr. Ferrand.
After having dilated at much length upon the inestimable
advantages of free trade, and the triumphant position the
advocates of that principle now occupied, Mr. Fawkes con-
cluded an harangue of greet point and ability by saving,—
that he would proceed at once to the proudest office which
a man in his humble capacity ever performed, that of nomi-
nating, as lie then did, as a fit and proper person to repre-
sent that riding in Parliament, their noble,talented, and.
tried friend, Lord Viscount Morpeth.
J. G. MensuAres, Esq., seconded the nomination. He
said that Lord Spencer was gone from them; that Earl
Fitzwilliam was prevented only from participating in their
victory by his absence from England ; but that they had
still amongst them Lord Viscount Morpsth, and that they
would keep him as their own. (Cheers.) It would ill
become him to detain them long; he would therefore
simply conclude by performing his high and important
duty of seconding the nomination of the Noble Viscount.—
( Loud cheers.)
The UNDER-SHERIFF then came forward and said—Has
any other elector any other candidate to propose; if so, let
him come forward and he shall be heard ?—(Cheers and
great laughter.)
No response having been made to this appeal,
Lord Monomer stood forward, and was received with long
and reiterated bursts of enthusiastic cheering. 'When silence
was partially restored, he said—Gentlemen, electors of the
West Riding—and let me add, old friends—(Reiterated
clieerS)-it is not, it could trot be, without varied and very
deep emotion, that I find myself here again before you.—
(Cheers.) Yes, even here in Wakefield, before a constitu-
ency of the Wrest Riding, do I, the beatenitnd rejected can-
didate of 1841, now come forward in 1846, without having
offered myself, without having canvassed, and, as it now
seems, without being opposed.—(Loud cheers.) Not that
we have not had some rumours and same demonstrations of
opposition.—(Hear, and laughter.) There has been plenty of
blowing of trumpets, at least there has been plenty of bray-
ing.—(Loud laughter.) We first heard of the pretensions of
Mr. Archer Gurney, from Rock Vale, in the county of Devon.
—(Laughter.) That sounds very picturesque; but I believe
that this gentle stranger has returned to his sequestered
home.—(Laughter.) 1 am told that he appointed a meeting
in Wakefield, and that he was met there by four protectionists
and seven reporters.—(Laughter.) All I hope is, that he did not
convert the reporters, because I rate their •intelligence suffi-
ciently high to be persuaded, that whatever their employers
may be, they at least are on the side of free trade.—
(Cheers.) Well, next to Mr. Archer Gurney came—[A
voice in the crowd, "The Bingley Bull.]—(Loud laughter)
—next to Mr. Gurney, I say, we had a gentleman who, as I
am reminded, spoke in somewhat harsher accents. lie was
not so much a candidate himself as the godfather of candi-
dates—(Laughter)—only, indeed, his godchildren did taro
rather rusty. He first hit on two gentlemen, both bearing
names—long highly respected in the West Riding—
(Cheers)—but the first object of his affections chose to go
and fight the battle of native industry in the particularly
independent and self-directing borough of Ripon.—(Laugh-
ter.) Now that seemed somewhat cruel in him to his god-
father—(Laughter)—but I think that Mr. Ferrand himself
it was who exercised the cruelty endured by the next can-
didate, because, if I am rightly informed, he has sent a cer•
tificate to state that he is not well enough to perform the
duties of High Sheriff. High and onerous, however, as these
duties may be, I dare, from personal experience, to assert
that those of a representative of the West Riding are still
more trying to the health.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.)
The result, however, is that this day, when the question has
been put to you, no opponent has come forward to dis-
pute your choice.—(Hear.) And how is it that this has come
to pass? Will you for a moment in my anxiety to ac-
count for the phenomenon—will you let me refer to the
last occasion of my meeting you in this town, and then
take some credit to myself for having exhibited something
of the spirit of prophecy in the remarks which I then ven-
tured to make.—(Cheers.) I said on that occasion "that
the opinions and the measures of which I am the advocate
are now moving in their onward though unseen track, and
hastening to their accomplishment;" and I added, "if there
be one subject more than another in which a nation is most
likely ultimately to see itself righted, it is on that which
concerns its fool"—(Cheers.) And it is on the question of
food—that question which has stirred the mind of England
to its inmost depths—that I am now come again to ask for,
and as I believe to receive, the recovered suffrages of the
West Riding.—(Loud cheers.) But, I further said, on the
last occasion of our meeting, that "the triumph of our oppo-
nents is the most signal and decisive which has yet been
attached to the car of Conservative reaction." May I not,
then, now say with equal truth that my return this day—my
unsolicited, uncanvassed, unopposed return—will lay the
corner-stone of a great electoral reaction, on which other
constituencies first, and finally Parliament itself, with
the sanction and sympathy of—highest of all—the
Sovereign herself —(Cheers)—will erect the finished temple of
perfect free trade ?—(Loud cheers.) For I do feel, gentle-
' men, that often as we have met, and fully as we may have
sympathised already, there never has yet been an occa-
sion on which our opinions and our hopes have been so much
in unison as at present.—(Cheers.) I do flatter myself that
the great mass which I see around me consists of men boast-
ing honest and simple hearts, wound up to one common aim;
and I put it to yon what object can come so closely home to
your interests, to your bosoms, to your every-day life, as
those laws which profess to regulate the admission of corn,
and which do in fact regulate your daily meals—(Hear)—
which concern every class and condition among you—which
concern every man whom I address; and not only that, but
every one of your wives whom you have left beside the kit-
chen over., and every one of your children, who, though they
may not be able to ask for food, yet can very well cry for it ?
—(Cheers.) I have already referred to the past ; and while
I certainly shall think it my duty to address myself mainly
to the great question now at issue before the nation, I hope
you will not think that I unduly dwell upon any topic merely
relating to myself; for, gentlemen, when a candidate comes to
present himself to the choice of a constituency, some degree of
egotism is almost rendered necessary by the circumstances
of his position.—(Hear, hear.) In addition, then, to what I
have already quoted from former sayings of mine, you may
remember, when I was last before you, that I also stated that
I did not think I could reconcile it to myself, for the present.
to occupy any other seat, or represent any other mett,than the
seat and the men of the West Riding.—(Loud cheers.) Now, it
is true that a great number of the inhabitants of this riJiaaga
in an address which they were good enough to present to ma
absolved me from all that could be considered binding in that
engagement, and although it is true that the time had come
when I might have considered it my duty again to embark
in. the struggles of public life—but, gentlemen, how I de re-
joice now that I have not entered into any other service—
(Cheers)—that I have called no other men my masters—
(Loud cheers)—that I have reserved myself for this cause
and for this hour—(Tremendous cheering)—and that should
you shortly confirm my election, I shall go into the House of
Commrs as the Member for the West Riding, to vote for—(An
enthusiastic burst of cheering drowned Lord Morpeth's voice.
When it subsided, he exclaimed)—l think you must be aware
that the sentence was intended to have concluded with " the
total and immediate repeal of the corn-laws."—(Cheering.)
You will bear in mind that this was the main point on which
I sustained defeat, and the Liberal party in the riding sustained
defeat with me, at the last general election. I was then opposed,
and then beaten—(Cries of " Shame" )--by the exertions of the
great body of the landed interest—(Cries of " By bribery")—
and by other friends of monopoly, because they said I had
addpted g *cry 'violent and revolutionary course in recom-
mending a fixed ditty of per quarter.—(Laughter.) I
think they would be slightly obliged to me now if I could se-
cure them the rejected Bs. duty.—(Cheers.) But that
scrip has gone clown in the market—(Loud cheers and
laughter)—and no efforts can get it up again.—(Laughter.)
llcst'ever, the revolutionary Whigs were got rid of; but, in
the meanWhild, yoe.thful League had sprouted up. Oh
but they did not mind that—net they. On the contrary,
they brought in an amended corn-law of their own, which
preserved most of the machinery of the old sliding-scale, with
some additional features, which they termed "rests."—
(Laughter.) "Rests l"—most delusive word. Whatever
MO IA the beatitudes of the corn-law now-a-days, rest is not
an element hi Whidh it seerris destined to breathe.—(Cheers
arid laughter.) HosveVer, there were two or three good her-
vests in succession, and matters went on with comparative
smoothness for a year or two. But then came the events of
the latt antumn, with which most of you must be suffi-
ciently familiat. The average price of the quarter of wheat
was 13a. or 14s. higher than the year before. The price of
the best wheat in the market Was fuleyl 20s. higher, and in
potato crop was afflicted with certainly
addition to this the
a ediisidCraifle enti etillunknown and mysterious degree Of
tnglandj_Pdotland, and Ireland. Under these
pestilence, 0
noOtfctohuenomilosvbeamdennitest,
of
Govern-
mentandbroken
circumstances, all we knobWi
was, that several Ceeow,
in this state of thing the
up, and made no sign.
I am aware that I have some
League came down todine at Leeds, and I wrote them a
letter there.-- (Hear, hear.)
s te that sin was
busi-
ness
fastidious friends who told ine,fand 11
pleasedswls,varmultythasatlllsadno
all 3 b
very Well to express m aa
your of the repeal al the corn
Lea ue.—(Lau h g ter, in the
to give my money to the g
"It is that
midst of which a voice cried out,d t Di. note which
has secured your election "—RerieJeo laughter.) ear.) His Lord-
ship continued—Well, if that wnads l
a
u
ghter.) ,Ta•alaite I have
bought it cheaply.—(Cheers and
formed 'th th L events. I
e eague will
feel that any connexion I have
t o
not be looked upon rte a very grave offence uhy ur eyes—(No,
no)—and I need hardly trouble myself wie any lengthened
apology on that score. But as en at;
_occasion like
this there is no objection on the part 01 any portion
of my well-wishers which I should not sests:l
'le to meet,
in the
will say this, that,
first place, the very ett, bit of
h has been mentioned was given to prom
the
money which
local registration of the West Riding, and as a poll taket: On
the former list of electors turned me out, I can't be ?md
much to blame if I co-operate with others to rectify what,
in my opinion, was a mistaken judgment, and to enlighten
future constituencies.—(Cheers and laughter.)
But further
than that, with reference to the League generally, I could
not look back to the events of the last few years, and at the
same time dissemble from myself that, although many mem-
bers of the League may have said things in which I could
rot agree, and although the Leagiitetrina
y have done things
to whichl could not subscribe, ye tat the question of the
repeal of the corn-laws owes its present position mainly to
the League—(Cheers)—to its unmeasuredr exertions, and to
a
the energy and ability of its 1 d
es.—(Loud cheers.)—[A
voice here exclaimed, " Three cheers for Cobden," which
were given heartily.]—His -Lordship resumed ;—And be-
sides; I confess I do not like the notion of reaping the fruit of
other men's labour, without assigning the reward
which is
due to the work- I think that it would be reversing,
and not following the parable, if it was the labourer who
came in at the eleventh tour who was to be the party

making objections to the wages assigned to him who had
worked from the first. And, although Ido not think large
self-constituted bodies, whether you call them leagues, or
associations, are desirable modes of, or machinery for, work-
ing out legi-lative measures and changes; yet there are ob-
jects of such importance as to necessitate even objectionable
modes of overcoming the obstinacy of the resistance with
which they are opposed. Knowing, then, how powerful and
multiplied are the interests combined—l may say leagued—
against a repeal of the corn-laws—feeling this, and viewing
the corn laws, as we all do, toppling to their fall, I could we
—such were the sentiments in my bosom—l could not with-
hold that without which good wishes are but hypocrisy, and
what Sir John Tyrrell—(Laughter)—would call "humbug"
—my acknowledged and avowed support.—(Cheers.) Next
in order came all the Ministerial changes and the changing
and crashing of Cabinets. The, gentlemen, has now be-
come rather an old story, with which we have not much
concern. You will remember that 2ir Robert Peel, though
at the head of large majorities in both Houses of Parlia-
ment. felt it his duty to resign the Government, and Lord
John Russell was honoured by a commission to form an Ad-
ministration in its stead. Now, all with which I hays to
concern myself is this—l consented to accept office in a
Government every member of which had unanimously
agreed to the proposition fora total and immediate repeal of
the corn laws.—(lmmense applause.) Well, that endeavour
—that glory-giving endeavour even—was net made. It was
interrupted by causes wholly independent of that question.
They do not concern ns now, and I will not enter on their
consideration, though I have a strong opinion about them ;
and I never will conceal my wish that my pure and high-
minded friend, Lord John Russell—the statesman who had
proposed the abolition of the Corporation and Tests Act—the
statesman who had introduced into Parliament the Reform
Bill—should also have been the person to have proposed to
the Legislature'of his country the final abolition of the corn-
laws —(Enthusiastic applause.) However, I certainly my-
self should feel, and I am sure that he, would feel, any
individual or any party disappointment as compensated,
and more than compensated, if it should turn out that
this great question itself—a question of free trade—had
more chance of being brought to a satisfactory and trium-
phant issue with the Government in the hands of Sir Ro-
bert Peel rather than in his own.—(Loud cheers.) And
more, gentlemen, I think that the dispersion of the Whig
leaders would have merited still graver reprehension. 1
thinktheir hesitation woald have degenerated into cowardice,
and their caudal.) iutsa treasonss,if thex had not felt that they
had reason to believe that a Gevernmentcor sThfali Sir Robert
Peel was at the head, was prepared to do great things for free
trade.— (Lend cheers.) That expectation has been borne
out.—(Cheers.) I think none of us will deny that in the re-
cent proposals submitted to Parliament Sir Robert Peel has
done great tl:ings for free trade.—(Cheers.) I reserve for
myself the consideration of the precise details ; but I may say
that I cordially approve of the great feature of that measure.
I rejoice in the instant admission free of all duty of colonial
corn, of Indian corn, of meat salt and fresh, and live cattle.
I am not sure, though I know that therein I differ from many
of my friends, and from many ardent free traders in general.
I am not sure, I say, that I shall feel myself called upon to
dissent from the differences which he still wishes to retain
between the admission of slave grown and free-grown sugar.
—(Cheers.) My doubt is, whether he can in practice realise
that difference. But if he can, great as are the lengths I
would always go in behalf of free trade, I must ever
disconnect from all fellowship with that glorious cause the
blood-red flag of the slave-trade.— (Loud cheers.) But, with
respect to his measures. I wish above all to avoid the three
years' delay before we arrive at the totally free admission of
corn.—(Cheers.) I object to it as much with'reference to agri-
culture as to any other interest, I am not sure wheth r it
would not in the end tell more prejudicially on them than
any other class of the community, and in any amendment or
motion which may be brought forward, I shall be ready to
vote that that which he wishes to take place three years
hence shall be immediate and at once.—(Loud and protracted
cheering.) Gentlemen, if you send me to Parliament, I shall
then, as I have explained, be on the whole prepared to give
my cordial assent to the measures just submitted to the
Legislature.—(Applause.) And in this state of things,
whilst this great proposal has been just launched into the
House of Commons, whilst the whole mind of the country is
intent on the reception it is there to meet with, it happens
that by the will of Providence, and by the sudden and
unexpected death of Lord Wharncliffe, to whom and to
whose race I have been ever opposed during my whole
public career, but to whom no one of his most deter-
mined opponents could refuse the just praise of being an
upright, high-minded, and most useful public servant—
it happens that by the vacancy occasioned by his death, the
consideration of the proposal of the Prime Minister is just at
this important and critical moment submitted to this consti-
tuency, which is not only the largest in the kingdom, but
which, in company perhaps with one other, has a greater in-
terest in having it solved than any other in the realm.—
(Loud cheers.) Yes, gentlemen, the West Riding of York-
shire, comprising Leeds with its woollens, and Bradford with
its worsteds, and Huddersfield with its fancy goods,
and Halifax with its piece goods, and Sheffield
with its cutlery,. and Rotherham with its iron, and
Barnsley with its linens, besides the far and fair domain of
agricultural enterprise—this riding has reason to say " aye"
or "no," shall there be a total repeal of the corn-laws—
(Loud and enthusiastic applause)—for that, gentlemen, is
the banner which we have planted in our van and which we
engage'to support against all assailants.—(Cheers.) I cannot
be sorry, though free-traders as such recognise no party, and
though they arc glad to enlist supporters from every party
in the State, yet I cannot be sorry to see before me so pre-
vailing a complexion of our own old colour.—(Cheers.) I re-
member in one of our former contests having christened it
the" sun's own colour."—(Cheers.) To-day we will call it the
" colour of the golden wh,satsheaf," which the same sun is now
ripening ona thousand s'aores, but which the legislation of
man has hitherto kept fr em our ports and markets.—(Voci-
ferous applause.) They may talk of a black cloud in the
west, but the harvest sun has a ray warm enough to scatter
it.—(Renewed and enthusiastic cheering.) I know that on
the other side of the Atlantic they are uttering big words
about Oregon, and we hoar that the inhabitants of the western
states of the American republic talk particularly loud on that
subject, and that they are anxious to have a brush with us;
whilst it seems that the inhabitants of the eastern states are
more pacific in their disposition. Why is this, gentlemen?
It is not in the natural order of things that men should
grow more warlike as they live further west. No—it is
because the inhabitants of the eastern states have a long
sea-bound coast, large manufacturing towns, and ships,
and harbours, and commerce. They do not like to risk those
things, and therefore they say, naturally and very lauda-
bly, they are inclined for peace.—(Hear, hear.) But it is
different with the western states. In the first place, they
cannot be very easily place,
got at ; in the next they pro-
duce nothing but agricultural produce, and they know that,
if besides living 5,000 ..or 6,000 miles away from us, the
quarter of wheat, which they might be inclined to send over
shall have to pay a duty of2os. when it arrives, they would
not be able to get rid of a single bushel of it, and therefore
they fling up their caps for war.—(Loud cheers.) But give
them the same motives for peace which the inhabitants of
the eastern states have, and being sprung from the same
stock as their brethren of Boston and New York and Phil-
adelphia, being the sons of Puritans and broadbrims them-
selves, they will be actuated by the same motives as their
more sedate and sober fellow-citizens, and instead of wishing
themselves to go a thousand miles further, where they would
meet more new tribes of Red Indians to contend against than
draughts of water by the way ; and when they arrived there
to go to war with us for a number of uninhabited pine
swamps, they might think it were desirable to bestow a little
more skill on their own rich clay cottons, if you would only
gIVB them the means of taking your cotton, your woollens, your
worsted, your hardware in exchange for what they can send us,
winether it be wheat or Indian corn—a food hitherto but little
known amongst us, but which, from experience, I can
safely 1„-commend to you whenever you can get hold of it.
You will find that some of their cakes, which they call
Johnny
eakss.s, go hard to rival some of our far-famed York-
shire cakes,—
(Cheers.) What I have said of the present
state of Amerie,
applies still more strongly to those parts of
the American rept
blic which have more intercourse with us,
countries of Europe in proportion to
:
and still mere to the'
their proximity; and 1 rejoice to think that in extending
and encouraging naivety: al commerce, we take the best means
of extending and encot:
raging universal peace.—(Loud
-
cheers). I se as much structs a year or two ago, on conversing
with a neighbouring farmer pf ours over in an adjacent
county, as to the prospects of rig:admire, and he said to me,
" Ay, there never was a friend to the farmer like --." Now
like whom do you suppose? .T4ike the Duke of Richmond, or
the Duke of Buckingham or Mr. Hudson, the railway king?
No ; but like Napoleon Bonaparte. " `-:here never was," said
he, " such a friend to the farmers as old Bonaparte."—(A
laugh.) I thought I had never heard put ,in such close but un-
conscious connexion the genius of rnonopo:v and thegenius of
war.—(Cheers.) What was the state ot the world then,
with wheat at 06s. a quarter, as it was in UV., the quartern
loaf ls. ; war all over the world, and at home nothing
bat Orders in Courtcll, as our Saddleworth friends will well
rernember.—(lAnid cheers.) Give me then,the co-
inerce—not the conquest of the worla—overtlowing garners,
and not an empty lattrelopen ports, and free produce, not a
decrease of intercourse And the substitution of an embargo
a dependence—l will eve., use that obnoxious word—a de-
pendence on foreign counties, instead of independence and
en isolation from them.—(Cheers.) Dependence on fo-
reigners ! Why, that is the favourite bugbear with which the
sleek, soft-tongued monopolist tries to bamboozle his gaping
crowd of rustic auditors.—(Loud cheers .) Why, I ask him,
how he would do himself withcut dependence on foreigners?
I need not ask him whether his wife and daughters do not
rustle along inthe silks of France, thevelvets of Italy, and the
lace of Florence ; but I would ask tainuelf whether he does
not procure his tea from China, and his coffee from Brazil—
whether be does not wear the flee. :es of Saxony, aye, and
perhaps smoke the cigars of Has annah.—( Loud rs.)
And if he does that, ask him in yoc x turn why you may not
r chee
have wheat from the Elbe and bacon-.from the Ohio ?—(l,oud
cheers) I believe that it is not in. diminishing, but
ea
inh in-t
creasing our dependence on foreig aers, that we shall
and
thus enter into the strongest recoguisances for the harmony,
follow out the laws of nature and esa will of Providence,
the peace, the civilisation, and
toy prosperity of the world.—
(Cheers.) For, let sue put it ou, what is the case with
landed interest sometimes present us with so unreasonable
those manufacturers of which the niistken friends of the
and unfounded a jealousy 2—(Cheers.) What are all the
manufactures turned out, whether woollen, cotton, worsted,
or silk, but so much work to sell? Where there is work
there must be hands, and where there are hands there must
be mouths, and those mouths are filled with the beef and
mutton and beer and bread which are raised from the soil
by the landlords and farmers of England. But they say, I
want to transfer that supply. from the native to the
foreign grower; and I save Just talked of wheat from
the Elbe and b icon from the Ohio—well, but the
foreigner will not give his bread and bacon for no-
thing. He may have a very good opinion of the
I manufactures of Yorkshire and of England gene-
:ally—be may haves a better opinion of you than
Busfeild Ferrand has .—(A laugh, and a voice "He
good an opinis n of huz as we have o' him."). But
still, t. lough he may think them very fine fellows, he will
not be lis ely to suppl: 7 them gratis. He will ask a fair, and
what he cos"siders a as smunerative price for his corn ; because
if he get that he will not send his corn, and there is
an
alarm about the transfer of supply. But I
hope Ile will send a
lark r,e quantity. and that he will receive a
fair price for it, which
ehd to does
all nott
tc,
e must receive either directly in your
money for which you will previously
manufactures, or else in
have exchanged your it -ork.—(Cheers.) Well, to turn out
fresh work you must has ' e fresh hands. Fresh hands, again,
bring fresh mouths, and the fresh corn which the foreigner
sends over will be available for additional food, and I believe
the additional hands will 'etty nearly absorb the additional
food ; consequently, the de& sand on our native rural soil will
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would, I flatter myself, be compensated by the demand for the
different kinds of produce, and for the food which is pro-
duced on our native soil, and it would be compensated
further by the withdrawal of the superfluous harms from
the old rural districts into the new and improving fields of
manufacturing industry.—(Cheers.) What I am tempted to
look forward to as the result of an entire repeal of the corn-
laws would be much the same in effect as a perpetual suc-
cession of good harvests. There would be mere to eat in
the land, and when there is that, you may depend upon it
there will be plenty of mouths to take it.-Leud and long-
continued applause.) I cannot but suspect the motives, or,
rather, I will say I cannot but object to the reasoning which
shrinks from abundance.—(Cheers.) The blessing of hea-
ven cannot be the bane of mad.—(Cheers.) It is not so
much to ine the absolute diminution of the price of
corn which I look to as the result of an alteration in the
law, but it is to the uninterrupted steadiness of trade—to
increased supply following increased demand----more to do
and more to eat.—(Cheers.) • Such are the unblest con-
sequences of the corn-laws. Why, supposing, as a mere
matter of fancy, that some foreigners were to be so violently
smitten with love for us, as to send over every year large
cargoes of provisions gratis, as a mere token of their re-
speclal regard end consideration for the British people, are
we to say, " Oh no, not by any means; we are much obliged,
but really we have plenty, we would rather be excused ?"
Why, as I have tried to prove, this extravagant supposi-
tidn is not much more in favour of the British corn-grower
than the present state of things. Of course foreign
corn-growers will have money's worth. They must
be paid in manufactures, and more manufacturca will
produce a demand for more home and foreign grown
food. And now let me ask you, gentlemen, whether these
are all crude and unsupported theories—will they stand the
test of facts ? Why, our more recent experience sufficiently
shows, that in saying what I have said I am only speaking
the words of truth and soberness. We have recently
had periods of dear and cheap years. This point was very
fully stated in the House of Commons by Sir James Graham
—it has been demonstrated also by Sir Robert Peel, and no-
where more fully or more wily than in our excellent weekly
instructor, the Leeds Mercury.—(Cheers.) Well, if you re-
member, there were two periods of commerce ; diminished
home trade, diminished wages, diminished revenue, with an
increased amount of poor-rates, turbulence, and crime;
while the cheap years have as uniformly and regularly ex-
hibited an increase in wages and employment in everybranch
of industry ; they have recruited the public revenue, and,
comparatively speaking, set open the doors of the workhouse
and the prison.—i Loud cheers.) In the summer of 1842,
which closed the last period of dear years, who does not re-'
member. the state of affairs ? Every manufacturing town or-
vaded, every mill barricaded ; while last summer, which for
the present, but I hope not ultimately, has closed ie period of
cheap years, what spectacle did it exhibit ?—(Hear,
hear.) Why, every man, from the Premier to
the navvy, turning• up the sod for new railways
(Cheers and laughter)—while the great difficulty to be en-
countered was, that of preserving people from throwing away
their good money too fast.—(Cheers.) Now, I wish to ob-
serve that we have been charged with reckless, almost with
revolutionary conduct in suddenly proposing to subvert
long-established protection, and to upset deeply-rooted habits
of industry. Well, with respect to the suddenness of the
proceeding, I think that the events of last autumn will suf-
ficiently acquit us. I have told you of the rise in the aver-
ages of wheat, and in fact the prices of wheat have varied
irrthe same market from 365. to 725. For a practical view
of the results of such variations let me refer to an agricul-
tural paper, the Mark-lane Express. That journal stated
last autumn that 4f the very inferior quality of a large propor-
tion of the wheat of this year's growth has hitherto prevented
the duty from receding more than a step or two; and from
present appearances it is questionable whether the article will
be for some time admissible below 12s. a quarter." And
again, " Had the quality of the new produce been only tolera-
bly good, the duty would undoubtedly, ere now, have fallen
to 10s. per quarter, or even lower, in the regular course"
of things, the finer sorts of red having been for some time
selling at 70s. and upwards, while choice samples of white
have realised as much as 803. per quarter at several of the
principal consuming markets. It may be conceived, there-
fore, how bad must be the quality of the common runs to
have kept the general average below 60s. per quarter: such,
however, has been the case, the last weekly return for
the kingdom being only 595. 2d. per quarter.—(Hear, hear.)
So you see the rates of duty founded on the averages are
no indications of the real quality of wheat in the market.—
(Hear, hear.) Then we had the failure of the potato crop,
respecting which I may as well read one of the resolutions of
the Mansion-house Committee, which sat in Dublin to in-
vestigate into this melancholy subject :—" We are, unfortu-
nately, able to proclaim to the inhabitants of the empire,
and in the presence of an all-seeing Providence, that in
Ireland famine of a most hideous description must be im-
mediate and pressing, and that pestilence of the most
frightful kind is certain and not remote, unless imme-
diately prevented."—( Hear, hear.) Now, however Pro-
tectionist Societies may declaim and protest, I appeal to
you whether a Prime Minister could lay his head on
his pillow, had he not first taken every means in his
power to augment the stock of the nation's food, without
the risk of being awakened from his sleep by the sharp cry
of a nation's famine ?—(Hear, hear.) With respect to the
more prominent and general charge, that there is anything
revolutionary in our peoceedings, I say, that whilst there
are many things in the constitution of this country, in the
modes of thought and habits of feeling interwoven with the
framework of society, which I should wish to be enduring
and eternal, yet there is one feature, one painful and per-
vading feature of our condition, which any one who, like
myself, has visited the younger world across the waters—at
the same time that he saw many things which he might not
wish to copy, would earnestly desire to see removed—an
abiding plague spot which he would be ready almost to give
up the wealth of both nations to wipe away.—(Hear, hear.)
What I allude to is, the striking and painful inequality
between the two extremes of society—the extreme of wealth
and the extreme of poverty.—(Hear, hear.) Do not
mistake me, I am not declaiming against wealth ; wealth
we must have to find our millions; neither am I trying to
stir up your minds to repine against poveriy. While
such numbers continue to cover such space, poverty we
must have. But I confess I should not much lament any
change which would have a tendency to reduce the
extreme inequality of the balance. For what is it I see among
my countrymen—what is it I see among the inhabitants of
the West Riding, who, in the wonderful multiplicity of their
employment,are a very apt and complete representation of the
community at large?—(Hear, hear.) Why, I see industry
without limit and without parallel—lining the valleys,
swarming up the hills—plying on the rivers, choaking even.
the railways—an extent and variety of active production
calculated to warm, to clothe, to arm, to defend the whole
world, if they couldbut be our cuatomers. But whatis it that in
this boiling, swarming, struggling mass of life and energy alone
seems wanting ? Why, more to eat—(Cheers)—a large loaf,
a fuller meal.—(Cheers again.) Why, I sometimes feel
that the very strength of our case constitutes my weakness.
I sometimes feel I could willily shrink from putting it in
its full outline before you.—(Hear, hear.) I almost wish I
had made a mistake in reckoning the extent of the injury
which I conceive has been brought about by restrictive and
exclusive laws.—(Hear, hear.) But is it not so ? Taking
our whole population together, can it be said that we have all
of us enough to live on ?—(Cries of " No") And is there, then,
not reason to believe that by the removal of restriction, by the
admission of foreign corn—by the downfal of monopoly—we
can get much more to live on?—(Loud cries of " Yes," and
cheers.) I know that it always bears the appearance of in-
vidiousness to quote or rely on any religious grounds as the
means of enforcing a political question, and I quite agree that
- it is most invidious and objectionable if we assume that we
are more guided by conscientious and religious motives than
our opponents.— (Hear, hear.) But still I think the person
who discards all the religious considerations which can be
brought in favour of our view of this question of free-trade,
shows himself strangely wanting in his estimate of the real
importance and urgency of the healing measure which we
would propose. And, though I will not dwell or insist on
any such grounds, I cannot, before closing these remarks, re-
frain from asking why, in the face of such evils as we hive
experienced, and the face of such advantages as we may
hope to realise—why may not human legislators sometimes
endeavour to act in the spirit of that blessing which the
national church repeats on every Christmas morning—" I
will bless her victuals with increase, and will satisfy
her poor with bread ?"—(Loud cheers.) And if I am
asked whether the chosen people of old, in reference to
whom these words are used, were confined to the limits of
their own rocky and barren Judea, I would quote again,,
in
reference to the foreign supplies which might besEaore I in
upon them—" The kings of Tarshish and the issbrio.
,v 1 bringgift
presents; the kings of Arabia and Saba shall
There shall be heaps of corn on the earth, and high on the
hills."—(Cheers.) I may be told that those words refert to a
still higher fulfilment. They may so; but I conten that
prof
the highest and most sacred ministry of faith and of
afop
phecy may be faithfully copied and adopted in every
disinterested benevolence, in every exercise of cornpielieni
sive charity, in the cup of cold water, and in the crust of
dry bread to the meanest disciple.—(Loud cheers.) I will
not venture to recommend the great cause we have in hand
to area meaner consideration ; I will not let my argument
stoop -from the height to which it may fairly be raised; but
I commend this whole question—the question of free corn, of
free food, and of free-trade—l commend it to the reason, to
the feeling, and to the consciences of mankind.—(The Noble.
Lord sat down amidst the most overwhelming applause.)
Mr. W. WALKER (of Bradford) wished to ask whether his
Lordship would support the measure for limiting the
between
sof
factory labour to ten in it day for all young persons
13 and 21 years of age?
Lord MoRPRTiI said—l think the repeal of the corn -laws
- PATS
will give an opportunity for a fresh consideration, and, I
hope, for satisfactory adjustment of the question of the
hours of labour. 1 ardently wish that the question could
be settled by agreement and adjustment between the em-
ployers and the employed.—(Cheers, and a voice, " No one
else has ought to do wi' it.") I consider that in the vote
I shall give on the subject I may very likely go against
the opinion of some of the masters—against some 'of the
men ; but I will leave myself at liberty to act with respect
to both as I think the circumstances of the time and the real
interests of both shall at the time require.—(Laud cheers,
and cries of. " We'll trust you with it. ')
Mr. WALKER having thanked the Noble Lord for the
courtesy of his reply,
The ITNDER-SHERIFF came forward, and said—Has any
other elector any other candidate to propose ? If there be
any such elector, let him come forward, and he shall be
heard.—(Cheers.)
No other candidate having been proposed,
The UNDER-SHERIFF said—Those freeholders and other
electors who are in favour of the election of Lord Morpeth
hold up their hands.
In an instant a dense forest of hands were exultingly dis-
played.
The UNDER-SIIERIFF continued—Those freeholders and
other electors who are against the election of Lord elorpeth,
let them hold up their hands.
We could only distinguish seven hands held up against the
Noble Lord.
The UNDER-SHERIFF then said—The electors present
being unanimously in favour of the election of Lord Morpeth,
' I do declare that George William Frederick Howard, com-
monly. called Lord Viscount Morpeth, is duly elected to
serve in Parliament for the West Riding of Yorkshire.—
(Vociferous applause and waving of hats and handker-
chiefs. The example was set by those in the immediate
vicinity of the hustings, and was immediately taken up by
the vast crowd, extending the whole length of
re
The enthusiasm and unanimity which prevai
the scene strikingly imposing.) IleVd"rjejsi dt d.
t• e (A voice,
Lord Mora-Tern said—Gentlemen—and I may now again
add constituents—(
_Hear2—hiirdoet
dfolriktob
oeldfirstitmes". —This scene
"Nor the last")—this lye have, gentlemen, as I
recalls many striking memories.