The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-04 00:00:00

No. 16,836.

NATIONAL SECURITY BANK.
Established under the Statute 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 113,
and to be incorporated under Letters Patent.
Temporary Office, No. 153, Fenchurch-street, London.
CAPITAL, 500,0001.,
With power to increase it, if necessary, in FIVE THOUSAND
SHARES of 1001.—First Deposit 101., to be increased to 501. per
share, as required by the Act before commencing business.
Should the Letters of Incorporation not be obtained, the amount
subscribed will be returned to the shareholders without any deduc-
tion whatever.

OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, AUGUST 24, 1846.
IHE PRINCIPAL OFFICERS OF HER
MAJESTY'S ORDNANCE do hereby give notice that they
will SELL by PUBLIC AUCTION at the Tower, on TUURSDAY,
the 10th of September, 1846, at Eleven o'Clock in the forenoon pre-
cisely, Sundry LOTS of OLD STORES, consisting of Great Coats,
Clothing, Bedding, Theodolites, Fire Engine. Hose Pipe, Tools, Bolts,
Steel, Iron, Brass, Fire Wood, and various other articles, the whole
of which may be viewed at the Tower, six days previous to the
Sale (Sunday excepted) from ten till four o'clock, upon application
to the Principal Storekeeper's Mice at that place, where Catalogues
of the Lots and Conditions of the Sale will be delivered to those
persons who may apply for the same.
By order of the Board,
G. BUTLER, for the Secretary.

REMOVAL-GALVANISM.

MR. W. 11. the Professor of Medical
Galvanism, of 5, Pelham-crescent, Brompton, begs to
inform his friends that he has taken the house, No. 44, Finsbury-
circus, Finsbury-square, and will be ready to, receive patients there
in about a fortnight's time. _He also informs them that as the house
is a large ono, he will be enabled to do away with the great incon-
venience of keeping patients waiting so long, as he is now sometimes
compelled to do, it being his intention to have eight operating rooms,
and thus have eight patients under the operation at ono time. In
the interim, invalids who may be desirous of having his pamphlet on
Medical Galvanism, will be pleased to inclose two postage stamps to
him at Pelham-crescent.

BY ORDER OF THE LORDS' COMMISSIONERS OF THE
ADMIRALTY.
This day is published, Bvo., 55.,'
THE NAUTICAL ALMANAC FOR 1850.
THE NAUTICAL ALMANAC for 1846, 47, 48, and 49,
MAY STILL BE HAD.

DIRECTORS.
Barkly, Henry, Esq., M.P., No. 3, Fenchurch-buildings.
Cadogan, William Hodgson, Esq., No. 15, St. James's-place.
Cockburn, W. T., Esq., No. 27, Davies-street, Berkeley-square.
Deffell, Weary, Esq., 'So. 14, Mincing-lane.
Denny, George, Esq., No. 64, Cornhill, and 21, Austin Friars.
Hampden, Reim, Esq., M.P., Marlow House, Little Marlow, Bucks.
Hodgson, Richard, Esq., M.P., No. 13, Upper Brook-street, Gros-

II OF ROME, GREAT WINDMILL-
STREET, HAYMARKET.

INVENTORS and DEPOSITORS of WORK-
ING MODELS and of other Specimens of the Useful Arts (as
well as the Visitors of the ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION)
are respectfully informed that the Directors have given their anxious
consideration to the new appointment of DEMONSTRATOR in
MECHANICS, whose, duty will be to explain to tho Visitors the
Principles and Uses of the above Specimens with clearness and
simplicity. The Lectures now comprise the ELECTRIC TELE-
GR A.PII, as well as other objects of present interest. The beautiful
Optical Exhibitions, Re. Re.
Admission, Is. ; Schools, Half-price.

UNPRECEDENTED ATTRACTION!!

Professor TURNOUR, ever anxious to ensurenovelty at this favour-
ite place of Amusement, has at a great expense succeeded in bring-
ing over to this country THREE FEMALE MODELS, natives of
Hindoostan, who will make their first appearance on MONDAY NEXT,
in a series of Six Classical Groupings, selected expressly by the most
eminent Artists and Sculptors of the day, for the purr ose of intro-
ducing to the patronage of the Nobility and Public these far-farned
beauties of the East.
The TABLEAUX will be executed on a scale of splendour never
before attempted, and will comprise amongst others the BATTLE
OF THE GREEKS, by M. Claxton ; SAMPSON SLAYING THE
PHILISTINES, by D. Cooper; HYADES, by Bielfeld ; and will be
continued daily dnring the week. The TABLEAUX will be varied
every Evening.
Stalls, 2s. Gd.; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is. Doors open at Half-past
Two in the Afternoon, and Eight in the Evening.

venor-square.
Kirkpatrick, Sir Charles S., Bart., Hammersmith.
Stokes, Henry Graham, Esq., No. 2, Great Knight-rider-street, Doc-

tors' Commons.
Upton, Hon. Edward, No. 7, Eaton-terrace, Raton-square.
Wright, Augustus, Esq., North Bank Cottage, Regent's-park.
With power to add to their number.
GENERAL DiANAGEß—Charles Twigg, Esq.

'AUDITORS.
Henry Bruce, Esq., Mincing-lane.
Robert Roscoe, Esq., Torrington-square.
William Tucker, Esq., COTllhill.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Sutton, Ewens, Ommanney and Prudence, No. 6, Basinghall-
street.
Messrs. Capron, ,Weld, Dawson and Brabant, Saville-place, New
Burlington-street.

BitoICEAS.
Messrs. Sutton, Gribble and Sutton, Royal Exchange.
Messrs. Cardwell and Sons, Manchester.
Messrs. Dowling and llowden, Edinburgh.
This Bank will combine the advantages of complete security to
shareholders, depositors, and others, with an ample return upon the
capital invested in the undertaking. This will be accomplished in the
following manner:—
All the funds of the Bank, with the exception of those required for
current purposes, will be invested in Exchequer Bills, India Bonds,
or the Public Funds, and in no other securities whatever.
The various branches of business transacted by other banks will be
undertaken by this Establishment, with the exception of discounts;
but accommodation in this respect will be procurable on the most
favourable terms, through the agency of this Bank.
..krlv.itUcaS ,witt_bg made solely u,AßLia_ amnfulties specified above,
and no person will be 'allowed to daccoiftft:'" ' ' -
Interest, at the rate of 1% per cent., will be allowed upon Special
Deposits, and the dexter halves of Exchequer Bills, or India Bonds,
of a corresponding amount, will be given, if required, to the depo-
sitor; such deposits, if under 10,0001., may be withdrawn without
notica; and if amounting to 10,0001., and upwards, at One day's

notice.
With a view to assure the shareholders and depositors of the con-
stant management of the Bank under the rules laid down, and to
keep them at all times acquainted with its condition and security,
there will be three auditors, whose duty it will be at least once in
every month, and as much oftener as they may think proper, to in-
spect the accounts and securities in the Bank, and who will have a
discretionary power to call a special general meeting of the proprie-
tors, at any time they may think such a measure advisable.
A preliminary account has been opened with the Bank of England,
in the names of six of the directors above-mentioned.
The unequalled security which this Establishment will afford to all
classes associated with it, is perhaps a sufficient guarantee for the
patronage of the public, and its consequent success.
The shareholders will find in it a perfectly safe, and at the same
time a more profitable investment than that presented by any Beta-
blishment subject to the well known general risks of the Banking
business, since it will be free from those losses which operate in
other cases as a drawback on the dividend.
Depositors will have, in their own possession, indisputable proof
of the safety of their property, and other persons employing this
Establishment will find all the conveniences attending private or
Joint-Stock Banks.
The outline which has been given will convey a general idea of the
plan. In the prospectus will be found the fullest information, and
an address in which is discussed the system of Banking now in opera-
tion, and the necessity for the introduction of a new system, con-
forming itself to the regulations of the above-mentioned Act of Par-
liament, for the purpose of affording greater security than could
hitherto be obtained, the want of which has been manifested by the
heavy losses which many Joint-Stock Banks have sustained.
Applications for shares, in the annexed Form, may be addressed to
the Secretary, at the Office of the National Security Bank, No. 163,
Fenehurch-street ; to the above Solicitors and Stockbrokers of the
Company; and to the following Solicitors in the country, of whom
copies of the Prospectus and any information may be obtained :—An-
dover, H. Footner, Esq. ; Bath, Messrs. Taylor, Kemp and Co., and
Messrs. Crutwell ; Berwick, R. B. Weatherhead, Esq.; :Birmingham,
Messrs. W. and E. S. Palmer ; Bideford, Arthur Ley, Esq.; Boston,
Messrs. Hollway and Harwood ; Brighton, Messrs. G. and 1.1. Faithful ;
Cheltenham, Messrs. Newman, Gwinnett and Ticehurst ; Dublin,
F. T. Mostyn, Esq.; Edinburgh, Messrs. Anderson and Trotter;
Fakenham, I. I. Overton, Esq. ; G,asgow, R. Sword, Esq.; Grant-
ham, Messrs. Manners and Son; Halstead, G. P. Arden, Esq.;
Haverfordwest, G. Parry, Esq. ; Holt, W. Withers, Esq. ; Kettering,
Messrs. Lamb and Nettleship ; Mansfield, W. Woodcock, Esq.;
Newcastle, Messrs. J. Adamson and Sons; Newport, (I. of W.)
Messrs. Griffiths and Sons ; Ross, W. P. Hooper, Esq. ; Salisbury,
.T. Cobb, Esq.; Stoke, J. H. Jardine, Esq.; Stratford, J. Otway,
Esq.; Stroud, G. Edwards, Esq.; Sudbury, Messrs. Ransom and
Tiffin ; Tamworth, I. B. B. Stevens, Esq. ; Teignmouth, Messrs.
Tozer and Mackenzie ; Ware, J. F. Green, Esq. ; Weymouth,
It. C. Phillips, Esq.

PORN OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Directors of the National Security Bank.
I desire to subscribe for shares in the National Security
Bank ; and I hereby engage to pay the deposit of 101. per share on
such number of shares as may be granted to me, and to sign the
deed of settlement.

I am, &c.

Name - • .. • •
Profession .. •..•• • • • ....... ..
Name and Address of Referee •• • • • • • • •

THE TONTINE LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY.
20, PALL•MAL L.
Capital, 400,0001.
TRUSTEES.
JOHN ELIJAH BLUNT, Esq.
JOHN CONOLLY,
M.D-
SAVILE CRAVEN HENRY OGLE, Rag., M.P.
BANKERS.
Messrs. Ilerries, Farquhar, and Co.
Messrs. Martins, Stones, and Martins.
This Company effects every species of Life Assurance, Annuity,
and endowment.
Four-fifths of the profits divided amongst the Assured on the par.
ticipating scale.
Prospectuses may be had on application at the office.
By order of the Board,
FERDINAND GRUT, Actuary and Secretary.

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market. Now I certainly cannot see anything igno-
minious in such a maxim. On the contrary, it seems to
me that if we should actin any other way it would be to
act in despite of every-day prudence and of plain common
sense. But Ido not stop here, for I would ask whether
buying in the cheapest and selling in the dearest market
is not the only course which can enable the individuals
who practise it, or the nations, which are formed of such
individuals, to put a larger surplus into their pockets
than if they had bought in a market less cheap, or sold
in a market less dear? To put a surplus in one's pocket
—" Oh, what a low idea," it will be said.—(A laugh.)
How very unlike the days of chivalry—how very unlike
the days of Archbishop Laud, the eavesdropper. But
this practice of putting a larger surplus into your pocket,
paltry as it may seem, what does it represent? It repre-
sents the power, in the first instance, of having a larger
meal, a rasher of bacon, or a jug of milk, when these
things, under other circumstances, would have been
forbidden luxuries. It represents the power of having
better furniture in your houses and lodgings, of mend-
ing your broken panes of glass, and of stopping the
holes in your roofs to keep out the cold 'and rain, when
under other circumstances it would have been a sort
of waste to do so. It represents getting better clothes
for your children, which will enable you to take them
to church or to meetings, or to walk out on a Sunday
afternoon, or to send them to school to receive the bene-
fits of a good education.—(Hear.) It represents, as you
rise still higher in the social scale, a choicer collection of
books upon your library shelves, or more favourite prints
and pictures upon your parlour walls. And it represents
the power, without having recourse to additional taxa-
tion, of providing better security for the wars of our na-
tive land. It will enable your Member, Mr. Ward, not
to increase the navy estimates, without calling on your
other Member, Mr. Parker, to devise a fresh tax for this
already heavily-taxed people.—(Cheers.) It will also
represent additional comforts for your soldiers and
sailors; it will provide new sources of recreation for your
labourers and mechanics, by opening public walks and
galleries, supplying them with the sight of works of
art, and with the exhibition of works of science. It
will make the nation at large, not only more wealthy in
the lowest and grossest sense of the town, but more bril-
liant, more refined, more benevolent.—(Loud cheers.) In
short, it is the talent which, put out to interest, will make
its possessor wealthy, and worthy to rule over ten cities.
In the measures lately adopted we have, of course, mainly
sought our own good as a nation. But other nations will
see what we have done, and will copy us, for their own
good.—(Hear.) The more you establish and extend the
benefits of tree trade, the greater security there is for a
good understanding and the harmony of nations. Talk
of buying in the cheapest and selling in the dearest
market being a low and paltry maxim, why it is to se-
cure that cheapness and to acquire that dearness that
nations will be brought to see the guilt of war.—(Hear,
and cheers.) No sooner has this country, in her impe-
rial Legislature, given lofty utterance to the doctrines of
free trade, but already we hear the echo across the At-
lantic. Even Russia is contracting the giant limbs of
her prohibitive system; Sardinia and Sicily are also
giving in to that maxim of law and prudence; and even
the Pope of Rome has become the promoter of railways,
and I hope he will end by becoming a sound commercial
reformer.—(llear, and cheers.) And fate whispers that
we are beginning to instil these principles into the
hitherto closed ears of Germany and the Rhine. Our
charmer charms too wisely for parties to stop their ears;
and I look forward to the day when the sword will drop
from the hand of the soldier, and the red artillery shall
quench its murderous flashes.—(Hear.) And now I
hope you will go with me in saying that this derided
maxim of buying in the cheapest and selling in the
dearest market, besides the immediate benefits it confers,
must tend to the sublimity, the charity, and the blessed-
ness of peace.—(Loud cheers, during which his Lord-
ship sat down.)
JOHN PARLER, Esq., M.P., was sure that the meeting
would think, from the speech which they had just heard,
that the Noble Lord bad made a very recent incursion
from the woods and forests, and happy was it for them that
he had carried into that district all that poetry of nature
and truthful portraiture in the speech which he had just
made. But as he (Mr. Parker) had not the advantage
of presiding in so poetical a region, he had no occasion
to dwell upon those beauties, or to enter at all iato the
question of woods and forests. They must be content to
hear his humble views advocated in common and prosaic
English, and showing the triumph which truth had
gained over prejudice and error. They had very pro-
perly put upon one of their banners, " Time works
wonders"—that was an undoubted truth ; but he would
ask which of them in the course of a few years would
look back to anything compared with the magnitude of
the struggle that that great commemoration had con-
summated, or could have thought that they should have
met at that period to speak no longer of the law as it
exists, but which was obliterated, and gone to that place
from which he hoped it never would return. Some time
ago the persons who entertained these views were not
many. Col. Thompson had certainly given the country
some sound opinions, which he had taken from Adam
Smith, who had lived before him, and illustrious writers
who had gone before their time, and had constituted the
age in which they lived by their discoveries. But the prin-
ciples of commercial freedom, though popular here
some few years ago, were inadequately understood,
and it was not until the mind of the nation had had
the stirring events of late years applied to it, that they
saw before them the reality of this question in all its
importance. They had industry enough to deal with
these monopolies as they had been dealt with. Ile re-
membered well when this question was first raised in
Sheffield. lie remembered, in 1840, when the ques-

are too well known to need recapitulation. Some
among us are the converts of the League, but there
are many of us who, before the League was formed,
before Colonel Thompson wrote his Corn-law Cate-
chism, or Ebenezer Elliott his Corn-law Rhymes,
from the time the food monopoly assumed its most
odious form in the law of 1815, have cherished an un-
dying hostility to the system, from the conviction that
it was highly injurious to the welfare of our country.
By the kindness of Providence, great men have been
raised up to accomplish its overthrow—the object has
been pursued with unparalleled constancy, sagacity, and
zeal,—with a liberality, which, if it was not most wise,
would have been prodigal. We believe that the tree of
monopoly is not merely cut down, but uprooted, and
therefore we recommend that this association, following
the example of the League, be now conditionally dis-
solved; but if it shall hereafter be seen that any fibres
of the old root retain their vitality, if ono shoot should
re-appear above the surface of the ground, then we shall
call upon you to resume your labours, and complete
your task by its utter eradication. And now, as a Free
Trade Association, we bid you farewell. We commend
to your sense of justice the great leaders under whose
guidance we have reached this high consummation. You
will retire, we trust, to no inglorious ease, other fields of
labour for the good of your kind now Oakm your atten-
tion; to the moral, the intellectual, and the physical im-
provement of your countrymen you will now turn your
thoughts, your exertions, and your prayers."
He afterwards alluded to the time when the association
was formed five years ago, and the progress it had since
made, until now, that its labours were brought to a
close. The League had been formed only for commer-
cial reform; and so soon as that was obtained, as a
necessary consequence it fell to pieces. The men who
composed it, however, still remained, and they would
probably turn their attention to other subjects. They
must not forget, at the same time, to whom they were
indebted for what they had received—their early leaders,
foremost of whom was Colonel Thompson, who he was
happy to see present this evening.—(Cheers.) It would
be bad taste in him (Mr. Smith) to occupy the time of
the meeting just now, and he would therefore simply
move the resolution, leaving it to others to second and
support it. Mr. Smith accordingly moved the resolu-
tion, which was seconded by Edward Vickers, Esq.
Lord MORPETH, M.P., was introduced by the Chair-
man, and on presenting himself was received by loud
and often continued plaudits—the company rising,
waving their handkerchiefs, and renewing their applause
at several intervals. His Lordship, on silence being
obtained, spoke as follows :—Mr. Chairman, Ladies and
Gentlemen, I will confess to you that even placed
as I am, surrounded as I am, welcomed as I am. it
would not have been my first impulse at the end of a
very long and laborious session of Parliament—after
having myself during the progress of that session, gone
through two elections—it would not have been my first
impulse to have met you under a roof, and to have
come to make and to listen to speeches in a closed
apartment. I would rather have betaken myself—or
rather I should have been tempted to betake myself to
those woods and forests—(Laughter)—which arc sup-
posed to be officially assigned to me.—(Cheers.) But
when I reflected on the uniform consideration and kind-
ness I have ever experienced in the town and neighbour-
hood of Sheffield, and the undeviating support which
has upon all occasions been given to me during my
connexion with the West Riding of Yorkshire—(Hear)
—upon the struggle, and (as far as :Sheffield is con-
cerned) the successful struggle which you made even in
the hour of defeat—when I reflect further, that at the
two last elections you were kind enough to dispense
with my personal attendance among you, but gene-
rously renewed your confidence and support without my
having appeared in the usual manner to claim it at your
hands—when I reflect further on the occasion which
now brings us together, upon the stake which Sheffield
has in that great question, the history of which seems
now to be completed, and of the part she has borne
in every part of the mighty struggle I felt
that I could not occupy the first moment of our recess
better than by coming among you, and here, in the heart
of Sheffield, joining you in the office of ringing the knell
of the departed corn-law, and offering a benediction
round the cradle of free trade.—(Loud cheers). The
resolution which has been moved and seconded brings
before you two different administrations, and the names
of the respective leaders of the two great parties in the
state. Any one who has bestowed any attention upon
what has been said will be aware that I for one have
never failed in giving the full meed of just praise to Sir
Robert Peel for the part he has borne in the settlement
of the corn law. He himself, in the last speech he made
as a Minister of the Crown, paid a great and emphatic,
but no more emphatic or great than just, tribute to the
paramount claims of Richard Cobden.—(Loud cheers.)
And I feel that Richard Cobden himself would be the
last man who would deny the credit which is justly at-
tached, in connexion with the history and downfal of the
corn -law, to Sir Robert Peel.—(Hear, hear, and loud
cheers.) I feel that I ought nor, in the position I now
occupy, to endeavour to assign the degree of credit which
may attach to the party in the state with which lam
connected, or to the Ministry of which I have the honour
to be a member.—(Loud cheers.) What is more to
the purpose is to remember how incumbent it is upon
that Ministry to bear in mind what has been the course
it has hitherto pursued, and what the principles which
have entitled us to succeed to that high position. And
I trust that the Government of Lord John Russell, con-
formably with the spirit of that resolution, will feel that
throughout all the domain of free trade, their part is not
only to carry out, but to improve upon what has been
done.—(Loud cheers.) There is indeed one lesson which
our excellent chairman has given us, which, for my part,
I should be the last to disclaim. He has told us that
the great duty of governments is to let the people alone.
Now, feelingihow much more they havelalways tine, and
done so well, I am quite content to take the injunction
of my friend near me, and I wish it could be taken up
by half the world besides—to let them alone, and let
them manage their own business, which they can do
better than with the help of meddling governments and
legislatures.—(Hear, hear.) However, in managing the
complicated affairs of a country like this, there will al-
ways be plenty for its administration to do ; and I hope
the experience of the last great struggle, and the know-
ledge of the difficulties we have overcome, will show to
us that there is scarely a difficulty, when met in a
right spirit, which may not be overcome when fairly
confronted and honestly grappled with. And in this
spirit I hope the Administration which now enjoys the
confidence of the Crown will be able to:reap many noble
gleanings in the field of human progress.—(Loud cheers.)
There is.one consideration adverted to by your chairman,
whilst it tends in some degree to damp the exhihration
and to suspend the satisfaction with which we should
be otherwise disposed to hail the past tiiumphs of free
trade policy, and to enervate its coming trophies, yet if
rightly considered, at the same time embraces the value
of that principle which has been embodied in the recent
measures of the Legislature, and ought to make us more
satisfied than ever that it has now given it a permanent
sanction. The consideration I mean is that which I fear
is too correctly stated in the recent speech of her Ma-
jesty from the throne—the disease in the potato crop.
But, lamentable as the presence of this evil is—fearful as
the prospects are which it may open before us, yet we
ought to feel grateful that we have already done all
which pertains to human knowledge and legislatures to
break the shock, and to counteract the mischief.—
(Hear, hear.) The mysteries of nature which we cannot
read ; the decrees of Providence which we cannot con-
trol, seem to proclaim to us that at present at least
there will be a large deficiency in an ordinary and very
general article of human subsistence. But at last our
ports will no longer be subject to an uncertain and
capricious sliding-scale, which must have practically
shut them on the importation of wheat, oats, beans,
barley, maize, and other grain. At last articles of
human food will be admitted free of duty under all
circumstances. And does not this dark and myste-
rious evil, which now seems to be spreading over vast
tracts of country, seem to bring something in the spirit
of a solemn rebuke to those who, in the earlier. discus-
sions of the present session, without, I am :sure, any
intention to deal lightly with the privations of their
countrymen, yet permitting themselves, with something
like premature levity, to indulge in sarcastic references
to the malady in the potatoes ; and to those who have
been lately filling the market places and the farmers'
tables of our provinces with dismal lamentations over
the good old days of bygone protection ? I fear that
I am presenting to you no imaginary picture when I
say that if such measures are not taken, especially in
the sister country of Ireland—as I know are about
being taken—multitudes will run the risk :of famine.
The most inveterate protectionist will tell you that he
is as ready as any one to meet the pressure of any im-
mediate evil, and that if the natural operations of their
loved sliding-scale bad not of itself reduced prices, in
such a state of affairs they would have been ready in
the face of famine to throw all the ports open. But
we tell them that that is not enough—small thanks to
you, that the sharp cry of a people's famine will be
strong enough to sweep away every obstacle ; but what
we want to proclaim is that in every year, in every sea-
son, in every state of the weather, the ports of Britain
shall be open.—(Loud cheers.) Therefore plough now
your fields, and wastes, and prairies ; cut down your
forests ; grub up the roots of your trees ; sow wheat,
1 and maize, and barley, and oats, and beans, and peas,—
load all your boats and barges on your seas and rivers,
the Baltic, the Don, the Hudson, and the Mississippi,—
come when they may, and from whence they may, for
the ports of England shall be open to them, and no man
shall stop them.—(Loud cheers.) The manufacturers and
workmen of busy England shall open their mouths wide
for all this abundance, and no man shall stay it.—
(Cheers.) And this it is mainly which makes rue re•
joice that the people and the Parliament of my country
have given a complete, an irresistible, an eternal sanction
to the principles of free trade, and to reverse which I
believe will be a far harder task than to remove the
pyramids or to stop the doss nfal of Niagra.—(Cheers.)
And I have the sanction of your chairman and of this
meeting, that if such an attempt should be made, the
free-traders of Sheffield will do their best to stop it and
to put it down —(Hear, hear.) But thin it is the fashion
for the defeated and disappointed to deprecate and dis-
parage the principles which they have been unable to
arrest, and which they are powerless to change. And
therefore it is that we hear some of that party talking
with infinite scorn of its being supposed to be a right
thing in a commercial country to lay down the rule that
you are to boy in the cheapest and to sell in the dearest

tion first took a formidable position, he took the liberty
of asking some friends as to the great difference between
this question and others which had been easily carried.
He contrasted this question with the slavery question
and the reform in Parliament. In slavery there was
none to oppose them but the planters, while in the
abolition of boroughs, there was none but a power-
ful aristocracy and a powerful party in those bo-
roughs—but there was a mighty majority in the
nation. Now in the question of the corn-law matters
were in a different position, because they had not only
the great proprietors, but also the small landed pro-
prietors against them in the three kingdoms. He
therefore saw from the first that it would be a
severe struggle, and therefore they ought to thank
those who had shared in the struggle, and whose
services could never be sufficiently appreciated. The
corn-laws were now, he believed, settled for ever.
But if Mr. Fisher's doctrine of letting things alone had
been applied some ten years ago to the corn-law, they
would have been in a different position. He meant
letting things alone when they were in a natural and
inartificial state. He wanted to clear away these in-
jurious laws, and then, when the coast was clear, let
things alone. He trusted it would be the maxim of
every future Minister who should conduct the affairs of
this country. There was another victory not less im-
portant than that of corn, he meant sugar. It was emi-
nently useful and desirable that when the corn-law was
settled, and before lassitude came over the public mind,
the Government should address themselves to the sugar
question. They did so, and taking advantage of cir-
cumstances within their reach, they had succeeded, he
hoped, in settling that most difficult and perplexing
question, and putting sugar as well as corn upon the
principles of free trade.—(Cheers.) He must say, with
respect to this great achievement and victory of free
trade, he could not pourtray its results in such lan-
guage as they had heard from his Noble Friend, but
all must see that it was in point of fact the necessary
result that when that cloud in the west appeared,
frightening statesmen from their propriety, and alarm-
ing every lover of peace and good order—(Hear, hear)—
when there were rumours and reports as to the possi-
bility of our friendly connexions with America being in
jeopardy, they must see that if this great question of
free trade had not intervened there would have been
little hope of these dangers being averted ; but they were
now holding out the olive-branch of peace and the right
hand of fellowship. They could rejoice that the quarrel
was over, without having recourse to the department of
his Honourable Friend, or to to his own department, to
maintain the dignity of England. He was happy to see
Colonel Thompson present, one of the great veterans
and champions in the cause. During the fourteen years
which he had had the honour of a seat in Parliament,ifrom
whatever side the question had come, his vote had always
been recorded on the side of free trade.—(Hear, hear.)
He bad voted with Colonel Thompson when perhaps
not more than a score were with them ; with Lord Mor-
peth, when the votes did not reach 100 ; and with Mr.
Cobden, since ho had taken the command of that great
cause. He had not expected that for some years they
would have obtained that great victory ; but it should
teach them that where a mighty nation and an intelligent
people employed their minds and energies in the right
iway, without mixing the question up with party objects,
looking only to truth, that power is irresistible. He hoped to
see in future the absence of that vindictive and party
feeling by which the affairs of the country had been too
much agitated. He hoped to seo a prospect of some
armistice and lull of party warfare. The result of the
struggle must impress them with the truth that there
were means in store for carrying out great social results.
It taught him—and he hoped it would teach all—that it
they had but steadiness and industry, honour and ho-
nesty, they would have the support of nations, and be,
as we were—victorious. (Mr. Parker sat down loudly
cheered.)
Mr. WARD, on rising, was received with; long and
loud cheering, which lasted some minutes. After it had
subsided, he said, that if he had looked only to personal
feelings and circumstances, he should have preferred to
meet that company at a future period. He had, how-
ever, felt it to be his duty to do so, and had accordingly
come amongst his old friends. He wished to remind
them that it was nut a convivial meeting, but one to
celebrate an important operation in our history
—and to pay respect to that company without disre-
spect to others. He felt that he had a difficult as*
to follow those who had preceded him—and who
had left him so little to glean, particularly as ho was
the fourth commentator upon the same resolution.
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had left for those who followed them.—(Hear and
laughter.) The course which that meeting was adopt-
ing was one which was suitable to the great occasion—
and singularly so, as regarded its time and character
and constitution. In all the speeches which he had
heard that night it had been made a matter of astonish-.
ment that they should have been then meeting for such
a purpose, and at such a time. If, at the same period
last year, any one had predicted the most impossible
thing, it would have as easily gained credit, as to have
prophecied that his Noble Friend, Lord Morpoth,
now address them, not only as a member of the Cabinet,
but also as Member for the West Riding,,
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