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QACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY, EXETER-
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On :FRIDAY EVENING, February 20, 1846, will be performed
HANDEL'S ORATORIO, 'SAMSON.
Principal Vocal Performers, Miss Birch, Miss M. 93. Hawes. Mr.
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CONTENTS:-
.
1. Lord Campbell's Lives of the Chancellors.
2. Missions of the Church.
3. Mr. Newman—Theory of Development.
4. Lewes's Ancinut Philosophy.
5. The Cornaws and the Aristocracy, No. 2.
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MUTUAL ASSURANCE BRANCH. PROPRIETARY BRANCH. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.
Half Pre- Whole Pre- Half Pre- Whole Pre- DEAL FEB 4—The Rockers, Nelson arri,
Age. mium, first mium, after Age. mium, first mlutn, after Downs from Demerara, experien five years. live years. seven years. seven years.
had decks swept, and loss of sails, boats, &c.
(1
xs.d.X s. d. Xs..X H. d. Poorx, Fn. * ed a hurricanen, B.—The Falmouth, Mills, from
20 10 0 20 0 20 018 0 116 o Falmouth, parted her chains, and went on shore
25 12 2 24 4 25 019 7 119 2 Bay yesterday, but got off after throwing her b
30 14 11 29 10 30 11 9 23 6 board, and came into this port.
he u she' ,s
1 8 6 2 17 0 35 1 4 11 2 19 10
40
apnodrt i fills
ownithshtohree
toitine. the
lihmea lniatirettrfotrAepa
55 2ls 10 5 17l
35 1
13 3 36 6 40 19 2 218 4 to Lt!yEnpooz, FEB. 4.—The John Horrock. frog
45
271 19 6 319 0 45 114 10 39 8 9
4 15 6 50 2 2 6 4 5 o
50 • 8 65 212 9 55 6 shore on the West Hoyle, is breaking up, g up, ant
PETER MORRISON, Resident Director. washing out. There is a small vessel on shor
Al. OP_ frlr P...... 4— ____ .

BATHER WINTER'S EXPLANATION !
ih How is it, Father Winter? Explain yourself, I pray
How Is It that you're acting, Sir, in this uncommon way?
It seems that you've dismiss'd " Jack Frost" (that chilly little
fellow),
And the only thing we hear of you is now and then a " bellow."
No frozen water-drops are seen, wherever we may range,
No snowy shovers arc seen to really very strange.
liow is it, Father Winter? Explain yourself, I pray !
How is it that you're acting, Sir, in this uncommon way.
THE REFLY.
I'll tell you how it is, ray friend : The w'nter dress of '"
Bas made me shrink from an attempt at thine. ^
With winter articles like these, 'twould
To try to chill you with my cold. r -
While Messrs. MOSES hay"
You'll only mock my
But do not tako.
And cast -
Fo,*

your noses.
of little use
, fright with my abuse.
use power to wrap you up so warm,
hand, and ridicule my storm.
advantage, pray, because I'm so remiss,
...side your winter dress at such a time as this,
if I take it in my head, as I very likely Man
I'll show you that the Winter King cast " Cottle atibtber day."
You'd better stick to MOSES' coats, Whilst they will stick to you,
And, when you find them rather old, you'd better purchase new.
Unless you act on this advice (which I would not withhold), -
Depend upon't, you'll have to say—" Oh, dear ; it's very cold l"

Beaver Taglionts •••••••Os•• •• •• OS S••••• •• ••••from 8 A
c Westet ft olds or .'odringtons 9 10 6
D'Orsays, Attols, Pembroke, and every dosetiption *of ,
Winter Coats .....•••••• ..... •••••••••••••••••••••11...... 1 0
Bcys' Winter Coats in every style ...... from 9 $ 6
Winter troasers, lined .................
4 6
Doeskin, ditto.. l• •• •••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 0 10 6
Dress Ceti* @aged ......... ....... . ..... 1 0 0
Froek,ditto•• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• 1 i 0
Roll Collar Vest•• •••••••• ..... • •• •••••••• ••••••••bb 9
Double-breasted
Boys' Hussar and Tunic lb b% 6t I. 0 18 6
Ditto, Winter Trousers ...........- •• 11% 1.1 411 s. •• •• d ao
Ditto, ditto Teats •. •• .• .• .• •• •1 4.1.•• •• •• ••• •• •• 0 1 6

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DEAL FEB. 4.—The Rockers, Nelson, arrived in the
Downs from Demerara, experienced a hurricane, 17th ult.,
had decks swept, and loss of sails, boats, &c.
POOLE, FEB. 3.—The Falmouth, Mills, from London to
Falmouth, parted her chains, and went on shore in Stadland
Bay yesterday, but got off after throwing her ballast over-
board, and came into this port.
LIVERPOOL, FEB. 4.—The John Horrock. from Demerara
to this port, is on shore on the main hear Leaseover light-
house, and fills with the tide, The Mary, for Demerara, on
shore on the West Hoyle, is breaking up, and her cargo
washing out. There is a small vessel on shore on Burbo.
The Alice, for Preston, was not on shore on Burbo, as re-
ported in the list of the 3d instant.
DUBLIN, FEB. 2.—The Grace Darling, hence to White-
haven, has been towed back, and laid upon the ground with
damage, having been in contact *Rh tht Anti Holt, arrived
at this port from St. John'si.NqW Brimswick.
RAMSGATE, FED. 4.—Wind W.N.W. to W.—Arrd.
Orpheus, Nif'l'..olson, London for Men, with bows and bul-
wark; uamaged, having been in contact; Nautilus, Thomas,
11-LiCton for Mauritius, with bows and cutwater damaged.

which
Not-
tingham Town Council was he
Si R. Peel's free-trade
petition to Parliament In favour of r
at the same time
THE PREMER'S MtASVatld.—onAvimeteneetsirdiagvo,
schemes was agreed upon, the Mayor being
ee to Sir John
fatten seal. The petition was to be intrusted
Hobhouse and Mr. Gisborne for presentation.
rektiested to alto the document the importance of the corpo-
Knight,P ove only
daughter of Mrs. Idwafd Knight, formerly Miss Y!
The New loth Evening Express thus sp
untimely death of Miss Julia Hamilton eak s of the
:
Olt lAtated doillie actor of that nream m
iended
many years a favourite at Crary-ltine Theatre, who married
son of
gi DEAtit joyo A Si[ ;c' MAntd"—We are .
obi*Etiy,lisii itiri seeingt
I.l‘i'r. t.1‘..; Elintintetnen . t of the death
most forcibly of.thia 114 or ibe Poe; Upon looking at our
1 et Miss J ulia Hamilton Knight, aged i 8 ; a young lady whose
promise as a musical genius was such as is rarely held out by
One so young; a promise, too, which the lapse of every day
was rapidly realising. Most thoroughly grounded in
,ln=
the
if it. a , fir
elements d that dttinegt of tli ARS; knib at 11 ited;
tipl kith Jai of it From a child, she new its pitlldsilph Ai
*izli di its practice; its thedry as *ell. as its nrieChinistit.
'Nutt by lie bat mast6rk, MA licirroOd illitliink ridtti
the . Whith oitil. atii:Paskilig &his did rid eidhaoe
piano were the wonder, as well as the delight, of all Iyh
14 ‘e (3.*6diitibri of it, and her performances upon PI
listened to them. And what made them all the more
charm-
ing was the utter freedom from everything lilie oterwbe nig
i• iti itz
conceit, ,or peFsoA al t AO, br ii.n4its Pride iii het 11-e
iii)Catht was in her exhibited of gentle modesty, and an
laiiithilitiit `koi iIA 444-iciiiitiii; iii so mien genius the rare
en-
tire absence of everything 11; *pretenton. This-lovely young
person was the only child of her mother, tihe taisn d, F. rt,Bl;
Knight, for so long ft I,IMe a raVotirite with the Vets of
ti
friends and admitetSs ?..hil
music and the &alba in thiS city as well is hi , iondi3n:
Julia wits brought up here, and hefts •Wete,d*Yildged OF Pii
traordinaty poWett. Biie liptt let a ii•liN lo! stlOttiY attathed
deaLtha,NonnoeNofkevr LoitlirotseprtirdAr4rohbili.
a uOthig mother and untie; to
mourn het early loss ; while art has lost, in hei Prenlittire
Londonci
svued oChop PE SUDDEN
vuen:r
DEATH H°
fo s2pol
OAt s tiT.l,,
as
aE
D, Charlesfurther
DINNER
yEeßrd e ,dio,
Ai f Er
TABLE.—Yesterday
Eto. ,ednihiatnalry4sYah: j;suo:si:foe6tf:
dttrhaheyee-
funds of the hospital, from William South, Esq."
Ifi
8.80
nheld r
ova
en, inquest iti ehset
baotdtyh
of
fColeridgeJoseph A
Vining,rm s
?,irri.n::s.k.
5 et
Princess-street, e tA',
aged 59, a tobacco-pipe maker, at 12, Sandford. street. On
Sunday last he sat down to dinner, id his *f
, al is wi ehaving said
grace, he responded fervently " Amen." Instantly after-
wards, he sank down in his chair, and Flavin?, moaned three
times, expired. He was latterly in good health, though
partly disabled by a previous paralytic attack. Verdict—.
" Accidental Death."

WEST RIDING ELECTION.

NOMINATION AND ELECTION OF LORD ➢iORPETH.

hiss
hbloursttlye r,
anfotetr d atreinn got,eoloschkow
Lord Morpeth was yesterday elected for the West Riding
of Yorkshire without any opposition; Mr. Ferranti, after all
•Lhoiardfac:
roornpethilei hausativinegds..
Isis
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 nigh Sheriff, who was preiented by indisposi-
tion from attending.
After the usual formalities the proceedings commenced.
Mr. W. FAWKES, of Farnley Hall, stood forward to pro-
pose Lord Morpeth. He addressed the aasembled 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 longth 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 great point and ability by saying,—
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. Monstrous 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 Morpath, 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 UNDEP,SukrarF then came forward and said—Has
any other elector any other candidate to propose; if so, let
him come forwara and- he shall be heard 3--(Cllee.m and
great laughter.)
No response having been made to this appeal,
Lord MonrErn 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
cheers)—it is not, it could not 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 West Riding, do I, the beaten and 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 some 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 picturescpie; but I believe
that this gentle stranger has returned to his sequestered
home.--(Laughter.) I am told that he appointed a meeting
in Wakefield, and that he was met there by four protectionists
andseven 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 carne—[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. He was
not so much a candidate himself as the godfather of candi-
dates—(Laughter)—only, indeed, his godchildren did turn
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 gad-
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 riot 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 mast
likely ultimately to see itself righted, it is on that which
concerns its fbloa."—(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 aof 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 set been
attached to the car of Conservative reaction." May I net,
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 tem pie 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 you 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-S--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 uponany 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 nece=sary 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 rccoacile it to myself, for the present,
to occupy any other seat, or represent any other men, 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 riding,
in an address which they were good enough to present to me,
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—
(Chcers)—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
Commons as the Member for the 'Vest 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 beat en—(Cries of " Shame")—by the exertions of the
great body of the landed interest—(Cries of " By bribery-n—
-and by other friends of monopoly, because they said I had
adopted a very violent and revolutionary course in recom-
mending a fixed duty of Bs. per quarter.—(Laughter.) I
think they would ho slightly obliged to me now if I could se-
cure them the rejected Bs. duty.—(Cheers.) But that
scrip has- gone down in the market—(Loud cheers and
laughter)—and no efforts can get it up again.—(Laughter.)
However, the revolutionary 'Whigs were got rid of; but, in
the meanwhile, a youthful League bad sprouted up. Oh !
but they did not mind that—not 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 !"—most delusive word. Whatever
may be the beatitudes of the corn-law now-a-days, rest is not
an element in which it seems destined to breathe.—(Cheers
and laughter.)
However, there were two or three good har-
vests in succession, and matters went on with comparative
smoothness for a year or two. But then came the events of
the last autumn, with which most of you must be suffi-
•
men The average price of th
tly familiar.e quarter of wheat
higher than the year before. The price of
was 13s. or 14s._
the best wheat iu the market was fully 20s. higher, and in
addition to this the potato crop was afflicted with certainly
a considerable and still unknown and ysterious degree of
pestilence, in Engl_and, Scotland, and Iremland. Under these
circumstances, all we know of the movernsnts of Govern-
ment was, that several Cabinet Councils had met, and broken
up, and made no sign. Now, in this state of things the
League came clown tam dine at Leeds, and I wrote them a
er) lam aware that I have some
letter there.—(Hear, ass , "1' fall me, that it was
fastidious friends who told me, and st.i.. . in fal
well to express myself as warn 4as I meat- ;mist_
all very sort}-laws, w
vour of the repeal of the
,a, but that had
nets td iivg lok !Ho* to It
.eatlefilaughter, in the
„Ada cfted ntiti " t tHat sr, _rat
his secured pant elect:oil "s•---BenOitYgd Ittqgliteo Isis
fv
ship tontinuld;;Well; if that was the CON trist fate
—rCh6ers and laughter.? At all es red 1
bought it Cheery.. .N .
•
feel that any e. finenot have formed Nil h the League will
not be looked Upon as a very grave oiltncoi yotir gyps—Zoi
iip)--and neekhardly t.reithl! Myself, with any i!..gth_ •ta
elegy glat4scliti ealOn an occatsion like
ee n pat; ot .• irt,ls°lll9.n
of my well-wishers which I should not thee;
r sant 444. that, in the first place, the very little bit of
n mentioneu Was
money which has bee given tO promote the
total rvstrotion of the West Riding, and as a poll taken on
thefdrnir lift Of tlegdfe tttrhed me out, I can't be held
If I cd-dperitte itlth Aide' tO rectify what,
Jilel t And to enlightenVl; 4iA; "4 f h Pd
ricia—(C Ors an ging tet) tit further
future eonstitue
nce to the Lea • all I could
League gener
than the; With rqe at the
,vents of the
Bak to tile , . last few years, and
not —CH A frthil thyself that, although many mem-
sanie ImB thae
League may have said things in which I could
bars of the
although the League may have done things
not agree, and a
t subscribe, tth t' fth
ye a time question o e
to which I could no ,
es *t
he law sow s present position mainly to
repeal of t
(Cheers)—to its unmeasured exertions, and to
the League—
nd ability of its leaders.—(Loud cheers.)—[A
the energy a
exclaimed, " Three cheers for Cobden," which
voice here
rtily.]—His Lordship resumed :—And be-
were given heartily.]--His
I do not like the notion of reaping the fruit of
sides, I confess
without assigning the reward which is
other men's labour, w
thinkthat k it would be reversing,
due to the wor •
if it was the labourer who
and not following the parable,
came in at the eleventh;, hour who was to be the party

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objectionsre
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worked from the first. And, although Ido not think large
s tf
aownr ,
ch
ework-
ingout legislative measures and changes • yet there are ob-
jects
r o
machinery
the to
r hime
s i objectionable
which they are opposed. Knowing, then, how powerful and
multiplied are the interests combined—l play say leagued—
against a repeal of the corn-laws—feeling this, and viewing
the corn dews, as we all do, toppling to their fall, I could not
—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 rememberi that .ctir Robert Pe 1, 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 toforn an Ad-
ministration in its stead. Now, all with which I have to
concern myself is this—l consented to accept office in a
Government every member of which had unanimously
agreed to the proposition for a 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 us 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 hare 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 owu.—(Loud cheers.) And
more, gentlemen, I think that the dispersion of the Whig
leaders would have merited still graver reprehension. I
think their hesitat ion would have degenerated into cowardice,
and their caution into treason, if they had not felt thst they
had reason to believe that a Government, of which Sir Robert
Peel was at the head, was prepared to do great things for free
trade.— (Loud 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 things 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
tt.at 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 is s 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 are -glad to enlist supporters from every party
In the State, yet 1 cannot be sorry to see before me soaire- •
veiling a complexion of our own old colour.—(Cheera.) 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 goldenwheatsheaf,' which the samesun is now
ripening on a thousand shores, but which the legislation of
man has hitherto kept from 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 hear 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 got at; in the next place, 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 of 20s. 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
give them the means of takingyour cotton, your woollens, your
worsted, your hardware in exchange for what they can send us,
whether it be wheat or Indiancorn—a food hitherto but little
known amongst us, but which, from experience,
.1 can
safely recommend to you whenever you can get hold of it.
'You will find that some of their cakes, which they call
Johnny cakes, go hard to rival some of our far-famed York-
shire cakes.—(Cheers.) What I have said of the present
state of America applies still more strongly to those parts of
the American republic which have more intercourse with us,
and still more to the countries of Europe in proportion to
their proximity; and I rejoice to think that in extending
and encouraging universal commerce, we take the best means
of extending and encouraging universal peace.—(Loud
cheers). I was much struck, a year or two ago, on conversing
with a neighbouring farmer of ours over in an adjacent
county, as to the prospects of agriculture, and he said to me,
" Ay, there never was a friend to the farmer 1ike...." Nosy
like whom do you suppose? Like the Duke of Richmond, or
the Duke of Buckingham, or Mr. Hudson, the railway king?
No ; but like Napoleon Bonaparte. " There 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 monopoly and the genius of
war.—(Cheers.) What was the state of the world then,
with wheat at 1365. a quarter, as it was in 1112, the quarter's'
loaf ls. 61d.; war all over the world, and at home nothing
but Orders in Council, as our Saddleworth friends will well
remember.—(Loud cheers.) Give me then, I say, the com-
merce—not the conquest of the world—overflowing garners,
and not an empty laurel—open ports, and free produce. not a
decrease of intercourse and the substitution of an embargo—
a dependence—l will even use that obnoxious word—a de-
pendence on foreign countries, instead of independence and
an 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 without dependence on
hters foreigners?
I need not ask bins whether his wife and daug do not
rustle along in the silks of France, the velvets of Italy, and the
lace of Florence; but I would ask himself whether he does
not procure his tea from China, and his coffee from Brazil—
whether he does not wear the fleeces of Saxony, aye, and
perhaps smoke the cigars of Havannah.—(Loud cheers.)
And if he does that, ask him in your turn why you may not
have wheat from the Elbe and bacon from the Ohio 2—(Loud
cheers ) I believe that it is not in diminishing, but in in-
creasing our dependence on foreigners, that, we shall best
follow out the laws of nature and the will of Providence, and
thus enterinto the strongest recoguisances for the harmony,
~he peace, the civilisation, and the prosperity of the world.---
- a For, let me put it to you, what is the case with
lb Cheer., ',tiers of which the mistaken friends
OS6 mantitau... ' yes
present us with so unreasonable
added Miffed tomes...,
are there is work
'Cheers,) What are all the
iftid insfettided a eBl '?—% -^oll
nidn+afeettiras tritriecl ottt,. 'Whether .... e!!, cotton, worsted,
of tillci but SO Winch itotlt to sell? 'Wt...
Odd must be hands, and *here there are bands- here muste
.
fitsrito.lthil; and those mouths aft filled with the bet.. .---
Mutton Ott her and bread which are rafted front the soh
hi ille landlordt title farmers of England. Bat they say, I
*o4it td irafisfer that stlpply from the native to the
foreign iffeareii aid i It five just talked of wheat from
the Etbe and bsea from the Ohlo—well, but the
foreigner will not give iiia bread and bacon for no-
thing. He may have a very goOd o_pinion Of the
manufactures of Yorkshire and of England gene-
rally—he may have a better opinion of you than
Mr. Busfeild Ferrand has .—(A laugh, and a voice " lle
have o' him."). But
has as good an opinion of huz as we la
.11
still, though he may think them very fine fellows, e wid
not be likely to supply them gratis. He will ask a fair, an
what he considers a remunerative price for his corn ; because
corn, and there is
if he does not get that he will not send his _
An end to all the alarm about the transfer of supply. But I
hope he will send a large quantity, and that he will receive a
fair price for it,which he must receive either directly in your,
manufactures, or else in money for which vou will previously
have exchanged your work.—(Cheers.) -Well, to turn out
fresh work you must have fresh hands. Fresh bands, again,
bring fresh mouths, and the fresh corn which the foreigner
sends over will be available for additional food, and Ihe.rieve
the additional hands will pretty nearly absorb the additional
food ; consequently, the demand on our native
rural toll w.ill
be very nearly the same as at present, and any
fall in p .