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

PROTECTIONIST DEMONSTRA-

TION.—(THIS DAY.)
The second anniversary meeting of the National As-
sociation for Protection of Industry and Capital through-
out the British Empire, was held this day in the Theatre
Royal, Drury-lane. The doors were thrown open soon
after eleven o'clock, and immediately there was a rush
to all parts of the house. The boxes and pit were
very much crowded; a large proportion of the
audience appearing to be farmers of the superior class,
who looked far removed from that state of ruin and de-
pression which the country has been led to imagine
they are in. No one could be detected in the
garb of an operative or a labourer; but the
upper boxes and stalls were occupied by
a jolly set of fellows, who, amidst all their sufferings,
can now and then find time and spirit to fellow the
Chase, and who, even on the present occasion, when they
Might be expected to assume distress though they have
it not, they seemed quite happy and contented, if healthy
rubicund countenances and robust exteriors be any
index to the condition of their minds. Before the busi-
jness of the day opened they kept up a running fire of
okes and tallies, and any one entering the theatre, igno-
rant of the purpoee was t gathering, would have ima-
gined the audience was bent upon witnessing a panto-
:oil:ad
we
rioansgtesacl of listening to a long detail of the woes
which it is said agriculture is now suffering
roei II Stanley
Two or three preliminary cheers were got up for
Stanley and Earl Stanhope, but it suggested a eus-
of packing to hear a voice every now and then
bawl out the reminder of" Shout boys, shout." Still the
rin) eeting was orderly and good tempered, end when the
hearty Ilefßichmond took the chair, at twelve o'clock, a
the theatrecheer was raised, which shook the very walls of
again.
The CiIAIIIBIAN, in opening the proceedings, thanked
the meeting for the reception it had given him. His opinions of
free trade were too well known to need any
?xplanetion from him, but this he would tell the meet-
ing and the country, that he for one would never give
uP eroteetion.—(Cheers) He cart d not for the abuse
show
eir
oPponents, still less for the ridicule which they
ered upon them; but it- they did not think that
loge bodies of the people were coming over to the cause
of protection, the people might depend upon it that they
Would let
them alone.—(Cheers.) The land was suffer-
win!: and now, when they called for relief, they
. e •
Me, with intimidation, but the operatives
In" the Manufacturing districts had found out the fallacy
the cheap bread cry, and they were now convincer!
thatupo their permanent prosperity and happiness depended
good wages and constant employment, which could
had met
produced by the principles which this meeting
Met to advocate.—(Cheers.) He would not detain
7112 I"gerf but at once call upon the Earl of Win-
tee% to move the first resolution.—(Hear hear.)
J•ha Earl of Wietcrtu.sne then proposed—" That the
outing-continued and still increasing distress of the agri-
-132_ Rural interest; the unmitigated difficulties of the cola-
-141 interest; the deep depression of the shipping in
el'esrest; the diminished and continually declining profits
?Yade and of every branch of industrial pursuit; the
auction of the wages of labour, and the dimunition of
ihtl3Pl°Yrnent in many parts of the United Kingdom; the
. crease
of crime, and the desertion of home and country
111 continually augmenting bodies of the most industrious
. valuable portions of the British population;—present
an,PPutable evidence that derangements exist in the
ertal system of the country, which are sap-
rtig the foundations of its prosperity, and, if
suot speedily remedied, must end in wide-
bread disaster, discontent, and ruin." All that the
• thr.l.llers wanted' was fair and legitimate protection for
r native industry, without which the country could
:esintyfteoluarni:huangoer, trade prosper.—(Hear, hear.) The re-
_a?tution he had to move spoke for itself in clear and de-
which could not be misunderstood. It !i_ty.e the lie direct to the declarations of Free-traders,
as the Protectionists were quite prepared to make
sae ee
„ -nine concessions to every other interest they would
"fi.e.i.e...! give up their principles, which was protection to
'nu nsritish Plough, protection to the British loom, and
tProtection to the British trade.—(Cheers.) The dis-
r:of the agricultulinterest had been acknowledged
J the Government, but they had neither the honesty nor
the no
the nrane to apply any remedy for fear of offending
b4U
ir revolutionary friends.—(Loud cheers.) Protection
.._ Made this nation what it is, and if they wished to
Lusintain its grandeur to protection they must return,
mid thin
at, too, without delay.—(Cheers.) No country
e2uld be independent which did not supply itself with
hor first necessary of life; and yet, without protection,
w could that be done? Already the land was rapidly
'tiling out of cultivation, and if the existing commercial
poling were persevered in, the colonies, whom the Free-
Nee said he did not care for, would shortly fall, and
Free-
then away would go the market of the manufacturer.—
kneel., hear.) He therefore warned the manufacturer
and the capitalist to pause before it was too late. De-
Pendst upon it, if the farmer fell both these would go with
him and and he called upon every man who hail the interest
,o,f his country at heart to come to the rescue, and banish
Free-traders from their own strongholds.—(Cheers.)
God forbid that he should speak ill of the dead; but Sir
Robert Peel was wanting in moral courage. He sac-
combed first to the Roman Catholic Association, by
Which our common Protestantism was perilled, and next
he gave way to the free-trade intimidation, by which he
had endangered the safety of the country itself, for his
Proceedings had given rise to a party whose principles
Were as various as the colours of the rainbow, and whose
_ threats, as held out by Sir James Graham, were still
''''tsore odious then those of the Manchester school itself.
--(Cheers.) He therefore urged the meeting not to
abandon its principles, but to go for protection, and no-
thing but protection.—(Cheers.)
Mr. Is. BUTT, Q.C., seconded the motion, declaring
his conviction that the Protectionists would ultimately
Carry their point. He came there to represent the Pro-
tectionists of Ireland, and to tell them that Ireland en-
tirely sympathised with this movement. The Hon.
and Learned Gentleman then went into a lengthened
statistical statement to show that crime and outrage had
increased in Ireland since the abandonment of protection.
Land had gone out of cultivation in Ireland, and the
reason that was not the case in England was: simply
because the farmers had capital to work upon here.
because
resources, however, were rapidly disappearing,
and in a very short time the fate of the land in Ireland,
Would overtake that of England.—(Cheers.) The ob-
ject of the Free-traders was the extermination of tenant-
farmers, and it was for this meeting to say
(No'
that object should be accomplished.--
‘"°' no.) The tenant • farmers stood in the
Way of revolution, and if the meeting succeeded, so they
Would continue to stand.—(Cheers.)
At this stage of the proceedings
The CIIAIRMAN announced that as the theatre had been
found •
to inadequate to accommodate all who were anxious
be present, a meeting had been convened in St.. Ma-
r and he would therefore request his friends,
ci!rl.Btanhope„Mr. G. F. Young, and Mr. E. Ball, of
an?bridge, to go over and conduct that meeting.
I, kr. BALL, before he quitted the stage, expressed a
; °Pe that this meeting would pass a resolution, request-
' 'theg Prince Albert to lend them the Crystal Palace when
e Exhibition should be over, and then the Protectionists
Wouldl_ show the world that truth was inalienable from the
laud of this country.—(Laughter.) at r• BUTT then resumed his address, and commented
wee.nglY upon the recent conduct of Sir James Graham,
ti"leh he stigmatized as revolutionary and unconstitu-
- ti and he protested, so help him God, rather than
• Used'er the language which Sir James Graham had
• e , to have his right hand cut off.—(Cheers.)
":f argued that protection was the safeguard
wh.the labourer—it was, he said, a false philantoropy
teen urged the adoption of free trade all over the
"d, because it had a tendency to reduce wages to
everlovvest possible ebb, and he insisted that in-
, Inet taught us that it was the duty of
4,,ryprotect its own industry.—(Cheers.)
areats of revolution, or threats of resignation, should
sot
4; deter them from marching onwards in the good
irk* Resignation, forsooth; why, he remembered
et en this country had a monarch that would meet such
inrettts •
ek_ with the simple retort that he would go to
met and select the first twelve honest men he
met fur his Ministers.--A laugh.) Now was a
course
which would well have been followed onthat a recent
Occasion, for assuredly the Sovereign might have gone
te Charing-cross and discovered a better Minister than
!n_rt!it which now enjoyed power, but, at all events, she
ight have gone with this consolation, that it would
nave been impossible to find a werse.—(A laugh.) He
Concluded a long and eloquent speech by conjuring the
trnermined eeting to keep up tho agitation, and return home de-
ative ultimataly getting protection restored to
inctostry.—(Cheers.)
. Mr. DAWSoN, of Selby, in Yorkshire, spoke to the re-
solution, and he did so from experience
because he knew
Where the agricultural shoe pincheut he fto
!ell the meeting where it wasp unlessd it bwas to be got
found
le the speech of Sir James Graham
had a
dn
ode
100 trhe edr t
rm
oboe
nr
Of the House of Commons, who
• the
than an attempt to restore protection would end
In provoking a revolution. Free trade only bened men
With fixed salaries or income, but every other class it
l!tiv°PPressed, including the artizan and manufactubreinogbloigpeed-
e• and sooner or later the country would_
return to a protective system.—(Ghee The
eh
tin
itself was preferable to free-trade, and rather
"tarnn continue under the one he would go for the other.
1,1‘,4120 resolution was then put from the chair and car-
meeting was proceeding when we went to press.)
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b rdhhire are organizing an opposition
replacetirB
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co ••AL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.—Ad
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the $o Society, and the society
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IV order a
4E PATENT LAWS.-011 Saturday, 1.,
Windsor
olg.-'e douse of Lords, was printed a return containing some
,de
tglie.st_ions and memorials, addressed to the Board of 'lra th,-.mleet of the patent laws and the amendment
tending, the documents show the expense and delay at-
bill ng lett era patent for inventions. There are now two
t
ia * before the House of Lords for amendment of the pater!
I W 8,,, Which Bills will be considered on the meeting of their
'rushiPs on Thursday.
Were MANX GIANT.---The inhabitants of Liverpool
„2e Much surprised to see on Friday, walking up and down
our streets, a man of extraordinary dimensions, Arthur
from Sulby, Lezayre, Isle of Man. He is only
ii.'ntY-three years of age, stands seven feet six inches
IR!, .
band weighs twenty-one stones. He is a Manx farmer,
pallocc!lb a little property of his own. He arrived in Live:-
c01:0,3Y the King Orry, Captain Quayle, from Douglas. He
4,_ to bid farewell to a number of his friends who are
'mut to emir.. t
eaa e.