The Sun.
London, England, 1860-12-05 00:00:00

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(eh a privilege. He (Mr. Bright)
agr_ ompson when he said that
when a man was strong ould put all the weak
ones upon the public. The strltg man possessed
enough, and returned members to Parliament, and
made laws and assisted in spending taxes, which
already amount to some £75,000,000 a-year, which
affords a wonderful scope for the younger brothers,
uss ais, great &c., of our aristocracy. In his opinion in
he a free country (and he did not say it was not a free
coan
country) they could_ breed men and rear men fit to
rule without violating the laws of nature. He
thought also that the families of gentlemen and
noblemen, whose prolongation of existence from
generation to generation was based, on the virtues
of their members, were infinitely of more worth to
the State than those kept on their legs by the laws
of primogeniture and entail. (Cheers.) The subject
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meetings like the present ; but on that occasion when
they were met to promote the social elevation of their
countrymen,
discuss fairly and freely the grievance which he held
to exist in regard to the law of tenure.
Itwinags
thought useless to repeal the Corn Laws, and they
wished us almost at perdition because we repealed
them for them. The hon. member concluded as fol-
ows:—The landowners don't understand the ques-
tion ; they fancy there is a terrible abyss open
before them, and they don't know how far they are
going down, and they fear that perhaps they will
never find any bottom if they, fall. This is the sort
of notion they have if this law should be touched.
They imagine it is something very complex, which
it is as it exists, and they think it is very dange-
in g of t#e intelligent landowners, but of the general
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body of landowners—isitheY4hink when we pro-
pose the alteration of those laws, we propose some-
thing which will oblige , them to part with their
estates by some mysterious process which they can
not avert, and that in some way or other their
power as great territorial magnates will be abo-
lished. On the contrary, I believe this freedom
which I advocate would raise the value of land in
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the
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discussed their politics and their recent presiden-
tial4s. a day and a dollar a day (4s. 6d.) was the regu-
lar amount of wages of a farm labourer in that
country. But that labourer does not grow as much
wheat on an acre as the farm labourer here. The
land does not produce as much ; and in Lancashire
every girl and every boy almost is getting wages
equal to the father of a family following the plough
in the land of England. How is it Shall it
endure for ever ? It is for us to alter it ; and we
can alter it if we understand the question thoroughly,
and set our shoulders to the wheel and determine
to do it. We shall give employment to the
people, we shall raise wages, and breathe the
breath of life into those politically dead, and
close up that deep and wide chasm which these laws
have created between the possessors of land and other
classes of society, particularly that class of which
my friend the clergyman speaks when he describes
and deplores their condition. (Cheers.) Now, I
say, then, we, as members of the House of Com-
mons, are in the way of our duty, as connected with
those zealous citizens having votes, in discussing
this question, and urging some public measure with
regard to it. lam sure if land were as free as corn,
and as free as cotton, it would give power to the
Government as the dispenser of justice. And at
the same time it would give contentment to the
people, who would rejoice as they would have
occasion to rejoice in the abolition of a great and
grievous wrong. (Cheers.)
A vote of thanks was passed to Mr. Bright and
Mr. Scholefield for their attendance, with which
the proceedings terminated.