The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-29 00:00:00

PROTECTIONIST DE3IONSTR A-
TIOI\7.—(THIS DAY.)
The second annivereary meeting of the Netioeal As-
toociation for Protection of Indust! y and Capital through-
out the British Em • he'dday in the Theatre
was.is
af 4 0311, Drury-lane. The doors were thrown
epau soon
ter eleven o'clocle, and imuerdiately there was a rush
Vert,
to all parts of the house. The boxes and pit were
_
much crowded; a large proportion of the
Seale appearing to be farmers of the superior class,
l:no looked far removed from that state of ruin and de-
gB4on which the country has been led to imagine
arb are in- No one could be detected in the s
upper an operative or a labourer; hut the
a boxes and stalls were occupied by
eJy set of fellows, who, amidst all their sufferings,
ett'n Iluw and then find time and spirit to follow the
ase, and who, even on the present occasion, when they
ilught be expected to assume distress though they have
tnbl9t, they seemed quite happy and contented, if heahley
. 'cued countenances and robust exteriors be any
index to the condition of their minds. Before the busi-
i•,,Ts of the day opened they kept up a running fire of
'iss and sallies, and any one entering the theatre, igno-
4,izin of the purpose of the gathering, would have
ed the audience was bent upon witnessing
:Incise instead of listening to a long detail of the woes
a panto-
cnciewrons which it is said agriculture is now suffering
Lot Stanley
or three preliminary cheers were got up for
pietsn'tteleY and Earl Stanhope, but it suggested a sus-
bas,-1 or packing to hear a voice every now and then
"it out the reminder of " Shout boys, shout." Still the
Eeett_ing was orderly and good tempered, and when the
'le of Richmond took the chair, at twelve o'clock-, a
stytLea cheer was raised, which shook the very walls of
etheatre a. •
The
„ „Ana
the U.IiAIMAN, in opening the proceedings, thanked
04 !fleeting for the eception it had given him. any
p Tons of free trader were too well known to need any
oui-f9tt):lnot4etek:orilr: him, but this he would tell the meet-
1g and the country, that he for one would never give
(Cheers.) He cared not for the abuse
shoileir oPponents, still less for the ridicule which they
14).gweebeeddielipaofe them; but if they did not think that
the people were coming over to the cruse
c_leuprotection, the people might depend upon it that they
Would let them alote.—(Cheers.) The land was suffer-
wt 4" now, when they called for relief, they
t 5 met with intimidation, but the operatives
elnanufecturing districts had found out the fallacy
thate c
eo th heaP bread cry, and they were now convinced
upon eh. permanent prosperity and happiness deper.ded
owe rcl wages and constant employment, which could
hag produced by the principle,: which this meeting
thenlet to advocate.—(Cheers.) He would not detain
tail, "ger, but at once call upon the Earl of Win-
„ea, to Dlove the first resolution.—(Hear, hear.)
iss'n.: Earl of WINCRILSEA then proposed—. That the.
ontinued and still increasing distress of the agroi: ell era! in,
""erest; the unmitigated difficulties of the co.l
tees,,salest; the deep depression of the shipping in
ec,r f the diminished and continually declining profits
trade and ot every branch of industrial pursuit; the
"ction of the wages of labour, and the dimunition of
increase in many parts of the United Kingdom; the
by co sof crime, and the desertion of home and country
stet ly
augmenting bodies of the most industrious
indi valuable portions of the British population ;—present
Social evidence g
the evidence that derangements exist in the
Pin
sYstern of the country, which are sap-
e_. foundations of its prosperity, and, if
_speedily remedied, roust end in wide-
farmers disaster discontent, and ruin." All that the
Cots
wanted' was fair and legitimate protection for
not
finative industry, without which the country could
wish nor trade prosper.—(Hear, hear.) The re-
Boleti°
ei6i, 6,a he had to move spoke for itself in clear and de-
goee„l4egtlage, which could not be misunderstood. It
and
ar lie direct to the declarations of Free-traders,
the 8a the Protectionists were quite prepared to make
1,e1,0 concessions to every other interest they would
lirllr tit: their principles, which was protection to
protection l'sn plough, protection to the British loom, and
the British trade.—(Cteers.) The dis-
h,
.! of the agricultural interest had been acknowledged
tt,,,lfee-FGraogv:rtieorecilt, but they had neither the honesty nor
apply any remedy for fear of offending
had made friends.—(Loud cheers.) Protecieon
z:actiera. a.de this nation what it is, and if they wished to
that its grandeur to protection they must return,
and tha.
cows h", too, without delay.—(Cheers.) No country.
th„, first Pendent which did not tupply itseif with
hoe Last necessary of life; and yet, without protection,
417 could that be done? Already the land was rapidly
policy out of cultivation, and if the existing commercial
icy were persevered in, the colonies, wh.,m the Free-
(irr said he did nut care for, would shortly fall, and
away would go the market of the manufacturer.—
hear.) He therefore warned the manufacturer
pod the capitalist to pause before it was too late. Do-
ti': upon it, if the farmer fell both these would go with
06,; and he called upon every man who had the internst
416 country at heart to come to the rescue, and banish
nmo Free.traders from their own strongholds.—(Cheers.)
R11.,°,(1 forbid that he should speak ill ot the dead; but Sir
obert Peel was wanting in moral courage. He sue-
titahed first to the Roman Catholic Association, by
bll4 our common Protestantism was perilled, and next
e gave way to the free-trade intimidation, by which he
ad endangered the safety of the country itself, for his
proceedings had given rise to a party whose principles
„'efe as various as the colours of the rainbow, and whose
„_
sreats, as held out by Sir James Graham, were still
more odious than those of the Manchester school itself.
.",(Cheers.) He therefore urged the meeting not to
:,.'hltidon its principles, but to go for protection, and no-
uing but protection.—(Cheere.)
b, Mr. ISAAC BUTT, Q.C., seconded the motion, declaring
~,18 conviction that the Protectionists would ultimately
,_"attY. their point. He came there to represent the Pro-
c."etionists of Ireland, and to tell them that Ireland en-
ely sytnpathised with this movement. The Hon.
-'4l,oarned Gentleman then went into a lengthened
statistical statement to show that crime and outrage had
nQincreased in Ireland since the abandonment of protection.
d had gone out of cultivation in Ireland, and the
baason that was not the case in England was; simply
necause the farmers had capital to work upon here.
ie resources, however, were rapidly disappearing,
seill a very short time the fate of the land in Ireland,
ct overtake that of England.—(Cheers.) The ob-
Jfel!•teerct of
athe Free-traders was the extermination of tenant-
whether
, and
that iobjectt was
should for th m
i ccomp be as eetin
rsthoedsay
g
(tio
' not) The tenant • farmers stood in the
ay of revolution, and if the meeting succeeded, so they
would continue to stand.—(Cheers.)
At „this stage of the proceedings
10 "le CHAIRMAN announced that as the theatre bad been
t° be inadequate to accommodate all who were anxious
.4-117.°„.Pretient, a meeting had been convened in St. M -
bled
kareisti6taall,Land he would therefore request his friends,
Cam •
gaZ°l3ol Mr. G. F. Young, and Mr. E. Ball, of
to go over and conduct that meeting.
h Mr. Beats before he quitted the stage, expressed a
inelle that this meeting would pass a resolution, request-
erhazgudl3l7 ce Albert to lend them the Crystal Palace when
c Exhibition should be over, and then the Protectionists
show the world that truth was inalienable from the
of this country.—(Laughter.
*trot fir',Borr then resumed his address,
and commented
Y upon the recent conduct of Sir James Graham,
eic , stigmatized as revolutionary and uneonstitu-
u„4aal, and he protested, so help him God, rather than
used the language which Sir James Graham had
1/„u) to have his right hand -cut off.—(Cheers.)
worichih
o; argued that protection was the safeguard
vilh.the labouree—it was, he said, a false philanthropy
urgedthe adoption of free trade all over the
the because it had a tendency to reduce wages
.to
8,51 lowest possible ebb, and he insisted that in-
ever taught us that it was the duty of
Zery nation to protect its own industry.—(Cheers.)
Threats of revolution, or threats of resignation, sheuld
Sotcleteh them from marching onwards iu the good
'When- Resignation, forsooth; why, he remembered
m this country had a monarch that would meet such
Charing-cross
with the simple retort that he would go to
and select the first twelve honest men Le
met fur his Ministers.—(A laugh.) Now that was a
cottrae which would well have been followed on a recent
t°ceasion, for assuredly the Sovereign might have gene
0
Chit/jug-cross and discovered a better Minister than
that which now enjoyed power, but, at all events, she
aught have gone with this consolation, that it would
have been impossible to find a werse.—(A. laugh.) He
concluded a lung and eloquent speech by conjuring the
Cleeting to keep up the agitation, and return home de-
termined upon ultimately Ratiog protection restored to
active industry.---(Cheers.)
Mr. DAwsuer, ot Selby, in Yorkshire, spoke to the re-
kintion, and he did so from experience,
Where the agricultural shoe pinched, because he knew
but he forgot to
tell the meeting where it was, unless it was to be
Ingle speech of Sir James Graham and of
M found
ember of the House of Commons, who had declared their cons -
!iction than an attempt to restore proteetion would end
la Prhovoking a revolution. Free tract° only benefited men
fixed salaries or income, but every other class it I3Preseed, including the artizan' and manufacturing ope-
lative, and sooner or later the country would be obliged
ak return to a protective system.—(Cheers,) The
~,utirter itself was preferable to free-trade, and rather
an
continue under the one he would go for the other.
tie'.„,lle resolution was then put from the chair and car-
d
rtitAlairaously.
"no meeting was proceeding when we went to press.'
It is et- •

ofO• is stated that the Protectionist tenant-farmers e;isetnof_
t:rordshire are organizing an opposit
:ewrohom they returned as Protectionists, andakaretepputrepsoensitnag.
r'ace Alr Harcourt and Lord "%Terre
tilt. ,
~,,-3 chosen from the tenant- farmeis themselves.
.ttoy
t 3 AL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.
poration
N,,,,21_11e1l meeting, on Thursday, the seal o
Royal
..,.s ordered to be affixed to the agreement
taketheipaossession of
---fAthte
it, for immediately after the Lth o.
of .or the purposes of their cattle show,
Pavilion dinner
, 411gust. It has been decided that the
'41411
t, , take place in the Horn...park, and a more appropriate,
untilt be beginning
4.-.4.viorvees3ii.er spot, could not have been selected.—Windsor
TH.,.
by order of
the ir, ... PATENT LAWS.—On Saturday,
o8"elss and memorials address.ed to the Board of Trade
they
ue subject of the patent laws and the amendmentt. tendW• The documents show the expense and delay a
liill ing let, ers patent for inventions. There are now two
s before the House of Lords for amendment of the patent
laws' which Bills will be considered on the meeting of their
a.ordships on Thursday.
ve4 MANX GIANT.—The inhabitants of Liverpool
6L',„,_e llalch surprised to see on Friday, walking up and down
Etrie streets, a man of extraordinary dimensions, Arthur
t 3.' froM Sulby, Lezayre, Isle of Alan. He is only
high,wePY-ree years of age, stands seven feet six inches
111444 w.eighs twenty-one stones. lie is a Man:!. farmer,
Pool b a little property of his own. lie arrived in Liver-
orn Y the King Orry, Captain Quayle, from Douglas. He
~_ es to bid farewell to a number of his friends who are
"'Nat to emigrate.