The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-16 00:00:00

I arrogate to myself nothing in connexion with this move-
ment of the League. It is the work primarily of the manu-
facturers of Lancashire and Yorkshire, co-operated with and
most ably backed by the rest of Englana, the manufacturers
of Scotland, by the middle classes generally, and now by the
working class as a mass. It is your work. You have begun
it nobly. We are but the instrument—the sharp point of the
coulter turning up the soil; you are the power at the butt-
end of the plough.—(Cheers.) You must do the work; and
lam sure you will acquit yourselves as you ought. Depend
upon it, the names of your towns, and the sums subscribed by
them, will, when published in London, amazingly help Sir
Robert Peel in framing the Queen's Speech.—(Loud cheers. )
I thank you for the kindness with which I have ever been re-
ceived in the West Riding—always glad, coming through the
tunnel of the hills that separate Yorkshire from Lancashire,
to be the bond of union between the two counties; for, you
may rely on it, so long as the white and red roses intertwine
in the same chaplet, with reference to this question, the mono-
polists
never can succeed.—(Loud cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN then called upon the delegates from the
different districts in the West Riding to announce the
amounts collected in each, which was done in due order ;
several of the deputies addressing the party in short
speeches. The following are the results of the subscription
so far as it has gone, but the probability is that several
thousand pounds will yet be added to the gross total :
Barnsley (district) .
Birstall
Bradford
Doncaster .. . .
Halifax
llebden-bridge
Huddersfield 6,300
Keighley
Leeds 8,600
Batley-bridge ... lOO
Otley 125
Rotherham
Skipton
Sheffield
Wakefield ........ ........... . .

Making a grand total of not less than £33,440
The details of this subscription, the reading of which occu•
pied much of the evening, were loudly applauded.
The financial part of the business having been thus dis•
posed of,

Mr. El RAINES, jun., proposed—" Thanks to Mr. Richard
Cobden, M.P., Mr. John Bright, M.P., and Colonel Thompf
son, for their unwearied exertions in the cause of free trade."
The toast was drunk with the utmost enthusiasm.
Mr. BRIGIIT, on rising to acknowledge the toast, was
loudly cheered. He said,—" I need not say how great is the
delight which my colleagues and myself have felt whilst at-
tending this very respectable meeting. You have thanked
us for the arduous labours in which we have been engaged.
We are repaid, if it were only that we have made the ac-
quaintance of and formed friendships with hundreds, I
might almost say thousands, of the choice spirits of this day
and of this country. We have had hard labours, true
enough, but we have been cheered by your approbation, and
not less by the glorious prospect which every increasing
success offered to our view. We have learnt much since
we began this contest. We have learnt that it is a greater
and a more sacred contest even than we thought it at first,
and we have learnt also, that, although the battle may
be hard—the hill steep to climb—yet there is
power and intelligence enough, and we now have
organization enough, by which we can carry this
great contest to a successful, to a most triumphant
issue.—(Cheers.) The people of this country are to be hood-
winked no longer. It was madness to maintain the corn..
law, when its character was once found out.—(Hear, hear.)
One of the most philosophical writers of this age has said
that he could not write a chapter about the corn-law, for it
made the very air hot.—(Hear.) Dr. Chalmers has said,
" There is no one thing which our Government could do
which would so sweeten the breath of English society as the
abolition of this corn-law."—(Cheers.) We ask for a quarter
of a million, and they would have laughed at us had they
not recollected the previous 100,000/. and the 50,000/. before
it, and now, within a short month, mole than half of the
quarter of a million is already subscribed, and ready to be
forthcoming.--(Cheers.) Well, here we are to-night —not a
vast number—but representing a vast number out of doors,
with influence, intelligence, and votes. This night—at this
moment, whilst I am addressing you—the great theatre at
Covent-garden is filled to overflowing, and the streets around
are crowded by thousands who have not been able to obtain
admission. To-morrow night, at this time, the Free-trade
Hall at Manchester will have its 7,000 or 8,000 within its
walls at least. Yesterday was the first day of issuing tickets,
and 10,000 persons applied fur them.—(Cheers.)
these are demonstrations such as have never taken place in
this country before on any political question whatever. The
political atmosphere has been foggy for a long time; but we
find it clearing away a little now. I met a Conservative
Member yesterday by accident, and really it seemed as if we
had been fellow-labourers in the free-trade cause all our lives.
—(Hear, hear.) There is no shyness now. In fact, lam not
certain we shall know which side of the House to sit on when
we get there on Thursday next.— (Cheers and laughter.) I
have now only to tender the acknowledgments of myself and
colleagues for the vote of thanks you have given us; and, as
we have beforetime been borne up by your cheering co-
operation, we shall go from this meeting to-night conscious
that we have a cause worthy of all the energies that we can
bring to hear upon it, and that we have supporters in this
district who are worthy of all the labour which we can pos-
sibly bestow upon this cause.—(Cheers.)
Colonel THOMPSON then addressed the meeting in a
humorous and able speech, and concluded by giving the
health of the Mayor, and prosperity to the town and trade of
Leeds and the West Riding.
Mr. ALDANI seconded the 'notion, which was carried by
acclamation, and the meeting separated.

ROYSTON.
A public meeting was held in Royston on Wednesday
evening. Mr. Falvey and Mr. Bontems attended as a depu-
tation from the League. 'The meeting was originally an-
nounced to be held in the large room of the Crown Inn, but
a few of the monopolist farmers attending the market, on
Wednesday, declared that if the League meeting was held
there,. they would never attend the house again. Under
these circumstances, the innkeepers, two orphan sisters, be-
came quite alarmed, and expressed their fear of being ruined
in consequence of the threats held out against them, by the
liberal friends of protection. Mr. T. Titchmarsh having
learned how matters stood, at once undertook to relieve the
young women from their fears of such petty and intolerable
tyranny, and at the same time provide for the meeting by
granting the use of a inalthouse or granary for the occasion.
At seven o'clock the room began to fill ; and on the mo-
tion of Mr. TITCHMARSH, J. G. FoaDnAm, Esq., banker and
county magistrate, was called to the chair. He opened the
proceedings by stating that, though lie differed in opinion
from the gentlemen who were to address them, he hoped
they would give every one an attentive hearing. He then in-
troduced Mr. Falvey to the meeting, who had not concluded
a sentence before a few neighbouring monopolists began to
make the most hideous noises, and that, too, in opposition to
the great body of the meeting, who were desirous of listen-
ing attentively. The chief disturbers were Mr. King, of
Tadlow, and his son ; Mr. Meyers, of Harrington ; Mr. Paleck-
ley, of Abingdon, and a few others who had threatened the
innkeepers with their vengeance in the course of the day, and
prevented them from making the most of their room, It
was quite clear to all present, that the monopolists had made
themselves drunk, in order to get their drooping spirits up,
Mr. Falvey, however, persevered, and showed the failure
of every corn-law since 1815, in affording protection
to the farmers and farm-labourers of GI eat Britain
and Ireland. He invited any of his opponents to discuss the
question with him; but they refused to do so, and confined
inhuman
sounds. opposition to the sending forth of the mostnhuman
sounds. The Chairman repeatedly expressed his disgust at
the conduct of the small knot of drunken monopolists, and
said. he intended to have said a few words in opposition to
the views of the speaker; but he refrained from doing so in
consequence of their tin-English-like Conduct Mr. Falvey,
at the close of his address, proposed the following resolution
That, in the opinion of this meeting, it is the interest of
the tenant-farmer, the labourer, and the landlord, that the
corn-law question should be promptly and permanently set-
tied,! by a total, immediate, and unconditional repeal; the
experience of the last thirty years having proved that pro-
tection drives capital from land, narrows the home market
;II no c
n teu
deprecating
tions
by crippling foreign trade, and injures all classes periodically,
The CHAIRMAN moved an amendment in the form of two
the total and immediate repeal,
so
and the other condemning the present system or corn-laws,
and expressing a hope that in the approaching session of
Parliament such a measure may be proposed as will finally
rbeyrluuitnioonuss
settle the question. He then put both to the meeting, when
he declared Mr. Falvey's free-trade resolution to be carried.
Three cheers were then given for free trade, three for the
League, and at the suggestion of Mr. Falvey, three for the
Chairman ; and the meeting broke up, the free traders is
high
glee, and the monopolists evidently chop-fallen. Many
of the townspeople requested to have a second meeting as
soon as possible, and Mr. Falvey promised that their request
should be complied with as soon as the qualification business
for the present year was brought to a close.

LORD METCALFE.•••• We regret to learn that th
Noble Lord is not improving in:health, and what is more dis-
tressing to his friends' there is not the slightest hope that he
will recover from the Inroads which big virulent disorder has
alreAdy suatio.

body in England. Probably it may as well devolve on me
as on any one here present to speak as to the object of the
League, having been in at the birth, as I hope I shall also be
in at the death of it.—(Cheers.) Through the seven years
of our apprenticeship it would be egotism indeed if I were to
pretend to say t,N.at in this long period, when we have been
pursuing altogether untried courses without precedents to
guide us, we have not, and I myself have net, committed
many mistakes. I have no hesitation in saying, that if we
had to run our career ever again—if we had to form another
League—we should beat the monopolists in half the time.—
(Cheers.) Half our tune has been employed in learning how
to do our work, and not a little in undoing what we had done
badly. But- here we are, after seven years' agitation ; and I
think I may safely say, at all events, that if we have
made mistakes in our mode of operation, we have never
changed our principles one hair's breadth from the moment
tettoiw:hifeureeintn
ishet caied:olsc,ms,ao empire,mu,a,
fnnpe need our work.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.)
Men tell us that England has grown great, prosperous, and
happy- I deny it.--(Cheers.) Lcoking to the advantages
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people.—(Cheers.)
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control
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labourers,
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sal mot,
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cdni
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farm in the south of England, and of my own knowledge I
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classese
now, without wishing to say more harsh things than
needful of them, we will content ourselves with declaring
that we will take the government of the country out of
the hands of these people.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.)
We are going to assert the right of the great mass of the
manufacturing and industrious population of this country to
the influence they are entitled to have in its government ;
and I say that no Government henceforth can be carried on
in this country unless it recognises for its basis the wish and
the will, and the decision of the people in Lancashire and
Yorkshire—(Loud cheers)—because Lancashire and York.
shire form the basis of the commercial and manufacturing
energies of this country.—(Cheers.) I think Sir R. Peel
understands this as well as I do; for I am told, on better
authority than newspapers, that he intends en the meeting of
Parliament that the Address shall be moved by Lord Francis
Egerton, and seconded by Mr. Beckett Denison. Now that
is rather clever.—(A laugh.) It at once indicates to the
2isai:ne:vdoiewry.eiso:rtktlhhsahebtinerSleuii:mrvobßer,eorhbisoeefrtNt3lh,
oithe
your Peel
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u,oeoverfnne govern
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tri through rtli
all. 35,000,
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nest Riding;
RoLadlniLancashirenbegae i;
Lanca-
shire. The members of those constituencirs I call trump
cards in any mates hand • and it is quite clear Sir
Robert knows when and hew to play them.—(Cheers.'
I rose to thank you for the toast of the League in behalf o
myself and friends who are engaged in it. As an individus,