The Sun.
London, England, 1835-12-21 00:00:00

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.

tions of that day. on which, honoured by their confidence and
supported by their indefatigable and gratuitous exertions, he
was first placed in the highest station to which a private gen-
tleman could aspire.—(Cheers.) There were other personal
and local circumstances that peculiarly enhanced the gratifi-
cation of that day ; but still he confessed it was not without
alloy. There hovered over him a cloud of doubt and apprehen-
sion, lest he should have undertaken a task beyond hi§ powers,
and fallen short of and disappointed their expectations. He
could not, however, but feel on the present occasion that that
cloud had been dispelled by the sunshine of this hour, when,
after three years' service be found himself the honoured guest
of an assemblage of his constituents like the present, and that,
too, in a quarter of the Division where the preponderance of
hostile influencevvould naturally predict a different result.—
(Continued cheering.) When last he had the opportunity of
addressing them on political topics, they were called upon at
the General Election to say how far they had departed from
'the principles on which they had elected their Members to
serve in the preceding Parliament. Their answer was simple,
but emphatic; they returned again his hon. colleague and him-
self, to prove that the boasted re-action had not infected them.
__(Cheers.) He told them on that occasion that he, for one,
was content to leave the working' out of the Reform Bill in the
hands of those who framed it, not of those who conformed to

it,...._(Great cheering.) He thought it right that those who
had sown the seed should reap the harvest.—(Cheers.). It
was the undoubted prerogative of the King to ,select what Mi-
nisters be might deem fit ; , but it was the, no less undoubted
right and duty of the people to send Representatives to Parlia-
ment who should vigilantly watch the conduct of those Minis-
ters, and compel them to measures on which the people
had set their hearts.—(Hear, hear, and " True.") He had
declared that while be would not, following the example of
another place, reject a beneficial measure, because he disap.:
proved the source from which it emanated, he could not place
confidence in the Administration of Sir Robert Peel.—
( Cheers. ) On this principle he had acted. The first vote he
was called upon to give was ono on which he regretted he felt
_

compelled to differ from those with whom he had on every
subsequent occasion acted. Having acquiesced in the election
of Sir C. M. Sutton as Speaker in 1833, he felt he required
some good reason, for rejecting him in 1835. He had gone
into the House as a juryman to hear the charge and the de-
fence, and having found a verdict in his favour, he could not
conscientiously convict him for the sake of a party triumph.—
( Cheers.) The next question was the Address, which, as he
thought, formed a legitimate opportunity of expressing his opi-
nion as to his Majesty's Ministers. An amendment was pro-
posed censuring the late dissolution of Parliament, and
pledging the House to an efficient Municipal Reform. To
this Address lie had given his support.—(Great cheering.)
He now approached a subject on which at the risk of being
thought tedious, he must beg permission to dwell somewhat
more fully. It was the first opportunity he had had, and the
importance of the subject demanded it ; for it was a question
which had severed the Cabinet of Earl Grey, displaced the
Administration of Sir Robert Peel, and at this moment was
the ground of collision between the two branches of the Legis-
lature, namely the Irish Church.—( Hear, hear.) In approach-
ing this subject he once for all treated with ineffable contempt
the conduct of those who, arrogating to themselves exclusively
all proper and religious feeling, but somewhat as he thought
in defiance of that spirit of Christianity which they so vaunt-
ingly professed, denounced as spoliators of the Church, ene-
mies of religion, and infidels, those who on this subject thought
differently froin themselves.—(Hear, hear.) He trusted it
was unnecessary for him to defend himself from charges such
as these ; he hoped the whole tenor of his life afforded a suffi-
cient answer to the calumny. He should, therefore, only re-
mind them that it was usually indicative of a weak cause when
hard words were substituted for arguments. and unworthy im-
putations took the place of reason.—( Cheering.) The mis-
government of Ireland had been charged upon -Administration
after Administration for ages past. It was a stumbling-block
to all; and whence the dilaulty ? It was to be found in the
anomaly, which he so much regretted, that the religion of the
State was the religion of the minority—( Hear, hear)—that
the millions contributed to the spiritual instruction of the thou-
sands—(Cheers)—in a word, that you bad to sustain a great
Protestant Establishment in the midst of a great Catholic po-
pulation.—(Great cheering.) But did he say that religious
faith should be abandoned because of its numerical weakness?
No such thing ; but he did think it due to the feelings of the
majority that that Establishment should be better adapted to
its position, and by remedying a state of things which could be
justified on no principle or policy, secured, as he conscientiously
believed, on a safer and a firmer basis.—(Cheers.) As far
back as the Tithe Composition Act of Mr. Goulburn in Lbrd
Liverpool's Administration, it was clearly foreseen that tithes
could not much longer be collected in Ireland. In 1833 it
was admitted on all heads that period had arrived. It is true
they had collected 12,0001. arrears at the point of the bayonet,
but it was at a pecuniary cost, of 28,0001., to say nothing of the
sacrifice of human life, and the bitter animosities engendered
'by the strife.—( Hear, hear.) Lord Stanley, as a preparative.
for the adjustment of the Church question, introduced the Irish
Church Temporalities Bill, by which it was- among other pro-
visions enacted, that the number of the Bishops should be re-
duced, and that tile appointments to vacant benefices, in which
service had not been performed for three years, should be sus-
pended, and the proceeds paid to a fund under the controul of
the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. This passed both Houses
of Parliament, and I here name it because by that Bill the
principle of Parliamentarq interference in ecclesiastical
matters was clearly admitted.—(Great cheering,) , In 1834
a Tithe Bill was introduced ; and inasmuch as it was
clear that tithe was a legitimate charge upon the land it was
determined to levy it on the proprietor ; and for this purpose
to avoid the unfortunate collision between the clergy and the
people, and to ensure them a certain enjoyment of their incomes.
The Government undertook to guarantee to the Clergy 771. 10s.
for every 1001. due to them, free from all risk, trouble, or
cost of collection. Now this Bill passed the House of Com-
mons by a large„,majority, but was rejected by the Lords ;,but
upon what grounds? Was it that they thought the clergy
did not receive a due equivalent ? No such thin.- ; for in the
Bill which Sir Robert Peel introduced he oiferal them less
by per cent.—( Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") What then
was the reason ? Why, as - a sort of Appendix to the old
Constitutional maxim, that " the King can do no wrong,"
their Lordships appear -to have adopted another, " that
°Connell can do no right"—(Cheers and laughter)—v,-hich
has, as it were, become a stsndin .order of their Lord'ships'
House ; and avowedly, because Mr.. O'Connell brought, his
local information and his vote to the suPport of that Biil it

The Matters of the Petitions and Schedules of the Prisoners
hereinafter named (the same having been filed in the Court)
are appointed to be heard at the Court-house, in Portugal-
street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, on To-morrow, Dec. 22, 1835,
at Nine o'clock in the Forenoon.
Williams, J.,Denmark-street, Rateliff-highway, victualler.
J.,
Stone, J. ucklersbury, London, wine-merchant.
Berry, W., jun., Diss, Norfolk, cattle dealer.
Filbev, J., Egham, Surrey, coachmaker.
Parkhurst, W., High-street, Poplar, traveller.
Grimes, H., Queen-square, Eldon-street, victualler.
Lewis, 8., sen., Tunbridge Wells, Kent, baker.
Tuson, W., College-terrace, Chelsea, anatomical modeller to
King's College.
Gidley, J., Chipping Ongar, Essex, surveyor of taxes for the divi-
sion of Epping, and the hundred of Ongar.
Roberts, W. D., Rodeswell-road, Mile-end Old-town, cooper.
Wood, E., Swan-street, Dover-road, Southwark, currier.
Flockhart, A., King-street, Covent-garden, watekrnaker.
Kemp, 1., Southampton-street, Camden Town, agent.
Bloomfield, J. 8., Upper George-street, Bryanston-square, gen-
tleman.
Clark, W., Little Pulteney-street, Golden-square, narness-maker.

MUNICIPAL REFORNI.—As the day approaches for
the election of the New Corporation, so much the more do
the Conservatives of Bury appear to approach perpetual
motion. In' every hole and corner are they to be seen
begging, praying, and intimidating where invitations fail—
but all will be of little avail.—Suffolk Chronicle.
GREENOCK CATASTROPIIE.—Mr. Thom, of
Rothsay, has published a letter on the cause of the late
catastrophe at Greenock. He is of opinion that it was ne-
glect of his instructions to Mr. Smith :—" On examining
the breach on Friday last, I find that the vermin puddle in
front, and particularly near the top, had not been executed
agreeably to these directions ;—and I ani of opinion, that the
immediate cause of the melancholy catastrophe, has been
the burrowing of a moleror moles, in the embankment, a
little below high water mark ; and that when the water rose,
so as to enter the hole, or holes so 'made, they would soon
be so much enlarged by the current passing through them,
as to give the water sufficient force to produce the melan-
choly and fatal catastrophe. If embankments are not made
impervious to moles and other vermin, no bulk or quantity
of matter can render them secure. It is more than twenty
years since I discovered this—and ever since, my first and
chief care in forming an embankment is to make it imper-
vious to all sorts of vermin ; and hence the very particular
instructions given to Mr. Smiti!,"

—be had written td his friend Mr. Ihandl ey, to ask his opinion
as to the propriety of a Central Agricultural Meeting; -anal
Mr. Handley, m•his reply, had invited ht n to be his guest at
Culvsrthorpe, in his progress to the North ; isvhich invitation
having accepted, he then ieasint their intents ens to his excel-
lent friend, and was happy to ,embrace the owmortunity of 're..
presenting the sense that lip . entereeined of the important
Font:mon cause,. and to have
tsheraeideeeisisqfit 1101fr.sirtianndlgaeyt ittisiethfeeisrti
ye
03,a1.404.
the se who had
done themselves the honour of elecuidtges such e representative.
—(Great cheering.) They had racrena learnt from the news-
papers what Mr. Handley had dohe for a grief...liters.; but I live
h seen bin? in the. battle-field, and always in the thickest of the
fight—never a deserter from the postoviten your interests, was
the theme of discwssion.—(Loud. cheers.) He has ever been
=Dias
!tnadunacllts:Lid(tGrurlwthelesine,,srtinh;e.s)h
en
s talents- are
Was rejected; and •hence. tin! misery and destitution in which Tati-le6bwe:6W-oatt-.,trentga..gbraioctlitistloidrlsutgs
the Irish Clergy
.are involved, and to whom they now offer the have but one feeling towat'ds him,—(e-)
equal to his virtues, of Whirdi I:eat i havehwiis clay hadia proof,
tardy and degrading compensation of eleemosynary relief.—
the _Slain
(Hear, hear.) At the early part of the last Session the Cora- in an article furnished hy him fur
mission' appointed in the preceding one to enquire into thecompletely con-
trial ihregat int, on the malt-tsx,l
;aiercin ,Lts•
`cidlural an: Lulus-
Established church in Ireland made its report. To this . fates the dogmas of the ithecise Comaniasdoners. —( Loud
he would beg shortly to refer, as in itself -a justification of the cheers.) Mr. Handley, like myself, is. both,
an Agricultuiista friend of popular rights; whi.._l-
- .Reformer and
course which had been pursued. 'lt was found that out of
some 1,300 benefices composed of parishes, or unions of pa- must
„Champion of the farming interests--(Great •
he is a gal-
course
rishes, in upwards of 150 there was not to be found' one single Nevertheless, though .a strong Reformer, lie is a tilllY inde-
aeehalf of
looking with equal jealousy, on the
Protestant—in more then 350 not 10; -in 500 not 0 ; and in pendent member,
860 theta were either none, or a less number than 50.—( Loud his constituents, to the measures of Poulett Thomps. en and
cries of " Hear.") Now he appealed to them' whether this Sir -Henry Parnell, as he does to those of their political . 914)°-
was a state of things to be justified or continued?—(" No, nente.—(Cheers.) Had you not known him before, the Sc vand
no.") What then did Lord Melbourne's Administration principles contained in his speech this night should secure 1-4 iln
propose? Why, in pursuance of the principle established in tour support; and if you know your own interests, lam seals'- •
the Church Temporalities Bill, they determined, after existing flied that Henry Handley and -the South Division of this countyl"
interests should cease, and their benefice; fall vacant, " That. are insenarahle.—(` They are, they are," and immense cheer-
any surplus- revenue of the present Church Establishment in in g. ) ' '
Having said thus much, it is needless fur me to enter
Ireland, not required `hr. the spiritual cure of -its Members, be upere the political subjects that have. been so, .ly handled, and
applied to the moral and religious education of all
,alasses of I Ought ;sow to sit down.—(Cries o tt No, no.") Well, them
the people, without clistin-ction of religious persuasion; pro- as allusion has been made to my opiniorm on the Currency, I
viding for the resuraption of such surplus, or of any such part am. bound to observe, that •,I consider it to. he most deeply
of it, as may be required by an - ce in the num- connected with our. distress.
.There is :tot a. peraon pt:csent
ber of the members 'of the Established Church.--(Great
cheering.) In this resolution he acqu seed. He was told
that it was appropriating Church proper to other than pen- •
who' is not an owner or occupier of land, and colietiquently
every one is interested in tracing the causes of. -.in.; suf-
ferings, and endeavouring to relieve himself of their prossure.
testant purposes. He denied the fact. It was restoring it
_( Cheers.) Agricultural Associations had sprung up in
.v
ia-
to those purposes for which it was in great part originally n- e rious Parts of the country; but all had proved powerless, froot
tended. Had Protestantism increased in Ireland? Had they he waist of unioa _and concentration. At last it was deterw
made Converts from Catholicism
the- As:,eciatiens in the sum' ,cu comities, that same,
eystem ?—( Hear. ) No ; and they teem told by Frot-erita7).t • 5
:stsib!s'S:lidelistSbe• taken to loZ.:11' ALS4elict2;C:l,• Association. Ac-
Clergymen, the reason was the - benighted ignorance corilb, rcrly a pgehiminnry meeting too's-. plae`e Pit
the 1.11:th of this
and superstition of thc Catholic population.: To tghat more month, see wSiefr deputies •-fitunsedmoshevery part of. England -
Protestant purpose then could such funds -be applied, than in attended ; and err the 15a1 the great meeting was held, at
removing that ignorance, dispelling that superstition, by the which from f'our to ii-.7e hundred of the most respectahle coon-
blessings of education, and thus furthering the dissemenation try gentlemen I• had ever seen, both as to wealth and intelli-
of Protestant principles?—(Great cheering.) If that were not gelice, attended. -At that meeting the resolution foe establishing
a Protestant purpose, lie contended at least that such was not a. Central Association wan inianimously caeried. Lord Stanhope
to be found in the maintenance of churches without communi- then, in that meeting so heßi in the micidia of the city of London,
cants, pastors without flock% pay without work.—( Hear, 1 : hear. )
• in the very focus of the friends of Peel's Pill, moved and car-
These were the opinions which he bad conscientiously formed red a resolution—" That we must either raise our prices to
in the exercise of a disinterested judgment. . He trusted they meet our burdens, or lower our burdens to meet our prices
were entertained by his constituents at large; but if not, he (Cheers.) This resolution was needy unanimously carried ;
could not flatter them that even to ensure their approba• and out of that vast body of . deputies, there were not not ten
tion could he abandon the results of his deliberate conviction. echo ,did not concur in considering the change bathe currency
—(Great cheering.) He would on that subject only add, —(Ceriee of "True, true.")
as the chief cause of their distress.
that lie might err in hi:, opinions for that wags human, but he Some of the London -Papers affected to think that, the cur-
would never shrink from avowing there for that was mean.— reiscv had no more to do with aericultutgal distress, than Hal-
( Continued applause.) He now approached a subject which ley's Comet.--( Loud laughter:) " ,TIILT flight as well tell me
he should treat tenderly within, those walls. He meant the that the spark has no connection with the fire.—( Cheers. )
Municipal Reform Bill—(Laughter,) and he must in justice Let me ask what it wag that raised prices during the war?
say, had there beea more Geanthams and fewer Leicesters, Not the war itself, but the Bank iS'estrietien Act of 1797, and
there would have been less necessity for- that measure.— why was that restriction necessary ? Because it was discovered
(Cheers.) He considered it a necessary consequence of the by
that eminent statesman, Mr. Pitt, that he could cot raise
destruction of boroughrnongering, that the self elected Como- the nixes to carry on the war, without' doubling the, prices ;
rations should be reformed. If it had not been done so effec- and then, when he had got wheat up to Us- a bushel, he pro-
tually as it ought, he yet believed there was more than they ceeded to icy on those burdens, to whiclet the country never
could afford to lose, and he hal acquiesced in the viers of his would have submitted 'under different circa n-nstances.—( Hear,
Majesty's Ministers, and accepted what they could get. hear.) We allowed ourselves to be higth.pr. taxed, .higher
He must now briefly allude to what -he feared was to them, tithed, higher rented, on the faith. of the conOnuance of the
as well as to himself, a sore subject, namely, agricultural dis- system ; and now, I ask, how are we to be es petted to pay
tress.—( Hear, hear.) On that topic his conduct, and his these higher taxes, higher rents, and higher tither', when wheat
opinions, were so well known, that he should not be justified is brote;ht down to ss. a bushel ? How can we pay 145., or evert
in detaining them on the present occasion. Two measures l Os., with -only' ss. in cur pocket ?—( Hear.) Owing to the
Cgenc had been introduced in the last Session, which he thought Bill of 1819, sve had 800 or 1,000 millions of public
uiy
would have palliated, if not removed, their difficulties. He debt, and probably as much private debt to pay, oat of ss. a
had, as they knew, advocated to the best of his ability the re- bushel, in of 14s. a bushel.—( Hear, hear.) Priests
peal of the Malt Tax—(Cheers,)—and to the mitigation of were kept up until the end of the war, but was it cessation
the evils of Peel's Bill he had given his support, when so from war that lowered them ? Certainly not. But because
ably introduced by his Hon. Friend near him, the Member for the Bank, from 1814 to 1816, had reduced sits issues 23 per
Yorkshire, Mr. Cayley, in whose hands he should leave the cent.—( Hear.) It was the withdrawal of the currency that
task of enforcing that subject on their attention.—( Cheers.) produced - the distress, which we all remember, of 1815 and,
Thus much for the past. He would now add a very felt words 1816, when Lord Liverpool found it impossible to stand out
as to the future. Remembering the principles on which he agailist it.—( Hear, hear.) One of the Bank Directors was.had first received their support, he should continue to support ;liked, before a Committee of the House of Commons in
his Majesty's Ministers in such salutary and efficient reforms 1819, if he remembered the distress of 1815 and 1816, turd
as time had rendered necessary, and the enlercasine intelligence what relieved it? He answered, he did remember it; and
of the age demanded. (Loud and continued cheerine'.) that Government had induced the Bank at that time to issue
Rumours were rife -in high quarters that this was the more notes, by which alone that distress was relieved.--
last Parliament in which those opinions would be represented (Great cheering.) The Bank, therefore, which was pre-
in the South Division of Lincolnshire. In polite language paring itself to return to cash payments in 1815 and 1816,
he was told he was to'be relieved of his Parliamentary duties were obliged to desist in 1817 and 1816. Peel's Bill, how-
-(Roars of laughter.) Gentlemen, added Sir. Handley, ever, came in in 1819. and 1821 and 1822 proved the horrible
emphatically, it is net as they wish, but as you will ;so long consequences.—( Loud cries of Hear, hear.) Lord Castle-
as
you arc steadfast to your principles, believe me you may reagh came down to the House in 1822, and after confessing
defy their efforts. You have but to exert your power to ensue that Peel's Bill had caused the dreadful fall iii prices, by re-
your success.—(" We will.") -Let not, however, conscious issuing the small notes again relieved the distress.—(Cheers.)
security lull you into supineness.--(No, no.) The enemy Is Then cease the panic in 18')5, of which many ignorant people
ever vigilant, ever active ; emulate bins in these essential foolishly imagined paper currency to be the causea Nu such
qualities and you will be inviucible.—(Great cheering.) thing. The paper currency must depend on the sternistrd. ,of
Remember the cause is yours, not mine. lam the iastrunseet value, which, when dear, would occasion plenty of currency
in your hands, and rest assured so long as you deem me and remunerming prices; if otherwise, the reverse. If the
wcrthy of the trust, I will exert my best energies to promote standard were gold, at 3/. 17s. lod. per oz., it is certain that
your views, and to retain your approbation:—(Cheers.) there must be a -scarcity of money and low prices,because, whil.le
Mr.' HANDLEY concluded by proposing " Health and pros- much -paper was issued on a limited and fixed standard,
perity to the Yeomanry and Independent Electors of the prices would rise so long as gold remained at the fixed.
South Division.—(Three times three.) price. People then rushed to the Bank to get gold, as
Mr. HEALEY, of Laughton, returned thanks Cm the Yee- the cheapest commodity with which to speculate, and
manry of Lincolnshire, whom he characterized as -being as in- haying got it, sent it abroad, inasmuch as. by lair
dependent in their feelings as those of any county in England,
, they could not sell it for. more than 3/. 17s. 10d. in -this.
yet many of them were pressed down by circumstances and country, and employed it abroad in buying goods, tipon,which
by coercion—if they were not so pressed down, be believed
they riot a profit in this country. If the geld standa. rel iii
that every one of his fellow Yeomen would record his vote for
1605 had been raised to 4/. 101. per ozninstead of 3/. 17s, 10d.
the man they had that day met to horseur.—( Great cheering.) there would have been no more a panic died than there is a-
Hundreds and thousands of the Yeomanry, tylio were eager to
.panic now.---(Lou& cheering%) After -1 635., • the Mrchlatson
vote one way, were compelled to vote the other, exclaiming as continued to be reduced, and the reduction has been ginne oh
they did so, with Shakspeare's apothecary, '
- ever since. I began farming in-. 1824, and I then sew tags;
" My poverty, but not my will, consents." -
;Tool and mutton soh', So badly that I despaired of making any
—(Cheers.) In the neighbouring county of Leicester, he hadlB'29, 1830, and 1831,
wait from t': em. 'I ha scare years of
canvassed for his friend General Johnson, and in one parish,
Iproduced better prices for mol and mutton; but this was but of
where he knew the Yeomanry were friendly, there were, out
little advent...eh to those who'.
ba.lost all their flocks from the
of 375, just one vote for him, and five for the respectable Whig
rot. The upland farmers alone wretw benefitted, whom the.gre.
candidate, out of whom there was just one plumper, and that
lied not visited. The one pound ;totes ceased in 1829,,hut
was the person of the parish.—(Laughser and cheers.)
On as wheat during the scarcity was puma: in from foreign couh-
that occasion he had received the promises of a vast number
tries, the high prices of corn ceased when . the scarcity term:-
of single votes for his friend, the other of course being con-
ratted : - not so with wool and mutton, whicih as they could
sidered as the property of the landlord ; but not one of such
not be supplied from abroad in sufficient quanttlties,, continued
promises were fulfilled the spirit was willing but the flesh '
to fetch better prices. ' Now, alas, all are going down toile- .
was weals"—while they gave their landlords one vote, then—(Hear, hear.) Just before I left home they I asked
'
found that they were also compelled to break their promise as
an old friend who mixes ranch with the yeomaory how
to the othern—( Shame, shame.) Upon one subject that was
things went en.--Lis answer was emphatic, " The .
-farmers
likely to be brought forward by the able Gentleman next to
are beggared in heaps."—( Hear, hear.) One and all, maland
Mr. Handley (Mr. Cayley), the Currency, he hoped to have
and to viand arc no hr sharine the same fate. Were landlords
the opportunity of replying, as in contradiction to his own in-
to insist ripen arrears,-not one in ten would be found sosent.
terest he was compelled to take a different view from that
(Hear, hear, and " True.") The fact is great landed pro-
talented Gentleman. As the spokesman of the Yeomanry of
I
wietors have up to this time been deceived by their stewards:.
the division, he expressed his and their fervent hope, that Mr.
(61merisea.) At York I met many of them, and said to
Handley would continue to represent them and their children
hem " YOU have been deceived by your stewards, who tell
so long as he had life and strength for their service.—( Con- ' , „`
tinuacheers.) ton your tenants can pay when y
°the • cannot. '—( Cheering re-
eateo. ) The steWards have endeavoured to make them be-
Mr. HANDLEY hoped they would not accuse him of acting
d petted.)
that wheat at 4s. or ss. a bushel will pay rent—monstrous
upon the old Scotch adage, " Yeu scratch me and I'll scratch absurdity !—(Loud cheering%) Landlords at last are rousing
you," or an English maxim, " One good turn deserves ono- themsel;res to follow in the wake of their tenants.—( Cheers. )
ther," in proposing the health of their excellent Chairman.— - I worked laboriously both day and night for a great length of
(Laughter and cheers.) It was not by many the first time time to obtain relief and induce the landlords to move, until I
that he had proposed the name of Sir Montag,ue Cholmeley be-
gan to despair of seeing, me country rescut'd from the dis-
which, in his absence or in his presence, was always received gladdening
tress into which it. is plunged ; hut I now feel, Kie
with the same fervent enthuiasm.—(Cheers.) His Hon. eat hand—
nd proud conviction that the dalhof our triumph; ne
Friend, like himself, had been in the public line.—(Cheers.) is before us.—(lmmense cheering.) Some tell us :it is now
His license: had not been taken away from bins, but only
s too late to change the currercy—too late to go back. -The
suspended.—(Continued laughter.) He (Mr. H.) fondly author of the 131.11 of 1819 snys'it is too late! Nay, mare, I
hoped he should soon sec him again in the same line, if it was and others who think with me, have been called public rob-
only in a Tom and Jerry.--( Hear, laughter and cheers.) hers for holding the Opinions we do. I - answer, if we are
To he serious, his Hon. Friend, whether as a private gentle- public robbers you are ten times more so.—(Great cheering.)
man, a personal friend, a liberal landlord, a patriot, or als it robbery to ask back not more than one-sixth part of that:
Member of Parliament, was alike beloved and admired by all, of which we have been defrauded ?—( Cheers.) •We ask not
and to end with a saying, as he began with one, he need only to ;o back the whole way, but only so far as will preserve the
remind them that "good wine needs no bush," and with that fanners as a body' in existence.—(Hear, hear.) I rejoice
maxim he gave them their excellent Chairman, Sir Montague however to say that beondheaten, deluded, inauited, defrauded
Cholmeley.-(Three times three and great cheering.) as we have been, the gleams of a brighter day now shine upon
Sir MONTAGUE CItOMLELEY, in returning thanks, observed, us—the standard of the agriculturist is raised—our banner is
that it was not the first time that he had met his friends in unfurled—riur union is cemented, and victory is in our grasp.—
Grantham to advocate and celebrate similar principles. The (Triumphant cheering.) Our enemies taunt us with being too
last time Was occasioned by the circumstance of his having late. Who made it so ?—( Cheers. ) When Lord Western in 1b22
supported the great and all important question of Reform.— brought the enrranCY, question forward, Lord Castlereagh said
(Cheers.) Since then he had been most happy in his retire- " it was too soon."-("Shouts of applauseo 'We are now
meat to obserVe how that noble measure had been carried out unanimous—only three out of the- whole meeting of from 40(.1
into great good.—(Cheers.) The motion of the Marquis of to 500 deputies in London held up their hands against the
Chandos on the malt tax, most ably seconded by his 'excellent resolution, that the currency was the cause of our distress.—
friend, dispelled the illusion that had been created by the proud (Cheers.) Too late ! Why, what justice is this ? It is at
vaunts and holloW promises .J.' the Tories.—( Cheers.) They if a punctual schoolboy, finding the school-room locked, could
ed for being too late. We have
the " farmer's friends !" That party, -the head of whom Sir not get in, and then was flogg
Robert Peel hai brought more distress upon agriculture, than been flogged, and with scorpions, because the door of relief
even the calamitous war itself !—( Cheers.) Their short-lived• has been shut against us, and now, when we do seek to enter,
tenure of office had been long enough to prove to the farmers we are told it is too late !—(Great cheering.) some have
that they had much less to expect. from their pretended called a change in the currency a transfer of property: This
"friends," than from the much-calumniated Whigs and Re-_ is merely insolent—it-is to prevent a transfer of BHP& agri-
forniers.-S--( Great cheering.) culture to some other country.—(Great cheering.) Mr. lii-
The VICE-CRAIRMAN said a toast had fallen to him, but be- cardo said iii 1823, if he had known as much in 1819 as he.
fore he gave it he begged to state that he had been instructed then did, he would have supported a proposition for mite.
by Mr. Heathcoete to °nerdy declare, should any allusion be imp-, 14s. into a sovereign. A Cabinet Minister said the same
, -
made to the subject, that he was not ,connected with no parti- lin 1833—these admissions, prove the injustice that has beene
cular party or person—he proposed the healthnof Mr. Heath- done us, nevertheless we do net ask to coin 14s. into a sovc-
cote, the other Member for the Division.—( Dead silence.) reign—probably a change from the gold to the silver standard
Sir M. CIiOLMELEY, in proposing the health of Sir Robert would be sufficient upon which to issue sufficient paper to raise
Heron, whose absence was occasioned by domestic calamity, Prices securely.—( Hear.) Souse of our enemies taunt us by
stated that the county was much indebted to the Hon. Baronet, Saying half the forests are now felled—halt the farmers ruined,
len" and time for having been the first to elevate the standard of int. , rn-
(hence, when it was thought little better than high treason so it' I know you, -as I know my own gallant yeomanry, . i say
to do.—( cheers. ) • they shall. not.--( Cheers repeated.) Half the occupying
The next tonst was the health of' the Members for Grant• farrncrsrl..knov; non': live be; erifkrance of their landlord.,—it'
ham; which was received with cheers mid hisses, the, latter called upoe to pay arrears they meat go to the prison-houeswor
preponderating,
w ,
tho workhouse. -OnOut they ?..—( No. no.) It prices wvcc
Sir M. CIIOLMELEY eaid it was n6l‘ his pleasing duty to raised there victims of Peel's Bill Might, in ihnr or five years,
mention the name of a Gentleman not personally known to tern -themselves round; and can you think that landlords,
many, but by the reputation of his splendid talents, and valua- if prices were raiserL woeld have the unheard-of cruelty
hie servieWie to -the cause of agrict4ture, known to all—Mr•
~ to mice their rants?—(Loud cheering.) No, no; they
CeyleY.—(Cheering.) ••
All wlao read thi!" newspapers, must be now knew how much of the eapitel ef their Jet:a:its
aware of his indefatigable and tpowerful eNertions in favour of hen vanished in the payment of rent. 'ilie crgrency evil Ilea
the farmer, and of freedom. in hirn would be found at once not yet touched the landlords to half the extent it will. Rents
united the Champion of Liberalism and Agriculture.—(Rap- i have been reduced perhaps 40 per cent. ; they must be reduced
turous 'cheering, and cries of " Bravo, bravo.") • 40 per cent. more is wheat remain ut. 303. a quarter, and even
Mr. Cavene rose amid excessive cheering, .When it sub- then the tenant cannot pay.— Hear, hear.) I repeat tdhtt the
.sided, he said, the kindneSS of his friend Sia 'Montagu-it-h 1 and peesent system is but a transfer of the eultivation.af‘l4pgild
. - • —ot. t4e ;Yawl-
cordial reception they had given him, had nearly overcome, Ito some errantry.—((;Leers:)` Ties may as f., ,
~
him. Neverthslchhh their cheers weee gratifying to him. as I ing principle 3 of the money-robbert, or the cold-blocalelphas
theteproseelthat he ayes act considered au intruder.—(Cries of] losophers of -political economy; but •I hope the people of Enk,-
" No.") i'lle reason why he Was with them was simply this : 1 land Ira' never cons:canto see their fertile' fields laid deeolite.

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—( Never, never, and tremendous cheering.) Are we to see
lour gallant yeomanry breaking stones by being compelled to
pay, not a just debt, but double that which we have borrowed ?
—( Cheers.) Rouse yourselves, my friends—listen to none of
the delusions of those philosophers with fixed incomes, but
think and act for yourselves.—(Great cheering.) On the
currency everything has been done to delude you. Parlia-
ment has helped to delude the country, but you have a few
friends who will dissipate the delusion if they can. My friend
:Mr: Handley and myself are determined to stand fast by this
question.—( Cheers.) This—however the truth may be dis-
guised by those who have fattened upon the ruins of their
country—is a contest between the real acres and the wise-acres,
alias the non-acres.—( Loud laughter and great cheering.) I
beg to drink prosperity to the agriculturists of Lincolnshire.
—( Cheering, repeated again and again.)
Sir M. cHOLMELEY paid a high compliment to the patrio-
tism and talents of Major Handley, whom the people of Bos-
ton had returned to Parliament, and who, while there, was
the steady advocate of the rights of the people, and the inte-
rests of his constituents. He proposed his health, which was
drunk with great cheering, and three times three.
Major HANDLEY said that he had been highly delighted and
instructed by the lucid and eloquent exposition of the cur-
rency question, which had been made by the Hon. Member
for Yorkshire, but that he would not enter upon debateable
ground. Were I called upon only to return thanks for the
honour which has been conferred upon me, I should do so
with much cordiality, but at the same time with brevity.
However, a toast has been put into my hands of so spirit-
stirring a nature, so intimately connected with that most im-
portant of all questions upon which the two Houses of Par-
liament entertained conflicting and widely different opinions
during the last Session, upon which a degree of irritation
prevails throughout the Empire, which it must be a primary
object with every well-wisher of his country to allay, that it
is impossible to refrain from some remarks. Feeling as Ido
the peculiar weight at this moment of the sentiment which I
am about to propose, I shall not shrink from a free expres-
sion of my opinions.—( Cheers.) In a violent contention of
parties, it rarely happens that reason is much attended to: each
imputes to the other the worst possible motives, and clamour
takes the place of argument. It is for those who in same
sort stand apart from the conflict, to weigh and to moderate
both, extremes, and to decide for the safer and the middle
course.—( Hear.) Within our memory, much has been done
for the security of civil and religious liberty—the Reform of
the House of Commons—a measure now acknowledged to be
reasonable by every reasonable man, has placed both on a
'vantage ground, which being zealously garrisoned by the
people, will defy the utmost malice of the enemy.—( Loud
cheers.) The Repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts, and
the Catholic Emancipation ; repealing the penal code—that
barbarous march of re-action against a vanguished system of
tyranny and bigotry—have led us to a very general acknow-
ledgment of this great principle—that every man has a full
and free right to judge for himself in matters of religion.
Safe under the protection of the great principle upon which
the Reformation was founded. and our own Church established,
we laugh at those who affect to apprehend a return to
Popery, and feel it to be the best security that ecclesiatical
tyranny shall never be established, either under that name, or
any other name or disguise which it may hereafter assume.
Let no man suffer deprivation or abridgement of civil rights,
in consequence of his opinion on matters of religion.—
( Cheers.) That is the great palladium of religious liberty ;
if this be lost, the degradation of the 12th century may re-
turn ; the barbarity of the dark ages, when the clergy excited
with impunity, tumult, and sedition, in every European State ;
when priestcraft assumed everthing, and intermeddled openly
with every transaction of Governments ; when the priesthood
affected a Brahminical or Druidical super-eminence over
every other class ; when it could brook no superior in the legis-
lative or executive powers of our Constitution ; when it I
arrogated to itself the sole cognizance of the crimes of its
own members, and men took upon themselves holy orders that
they might escape the punishment which the law awarded to
crimes of the most atrocious nature.—( Hear, hear.) But if
a Christian priesthood did at one time attain a power so de-
degrading to the nations, so destructive of every kind of 111
berty—if the Reformation was established only in parts of
Christendom after so violent a struggle, and so much blood-
• shed, let us take especial care that the fruits of that struggle
shall not be lost either to ourselves or to those who arc to suc-
ceed us. Let us remember that the appetite for power grows
by indulgence ; that the most pious and humble of religionists
are but men ; and that in becoming a dominant sect and ac-
quiring power and wealth, they may also become insolent and
rapacious. Let us guard against this spirit of dictsition, which
is the spirit of Popery under whatever form it may appear.—
( Great cheering.)— Is there any thing in the 'name of Pope
or Popery•which of itself urges men to tyrannize and perse-
cute ? Give wealth and authority to any exclusive order of
men—permit them to teach the world uncontradicted that their
authority is divine, and not to be subjected to the
control of Lumen government, to which all others must
submit—that their wealth is sacred—that it cannot
be touched even to ameliorate the distribution of it,
and though drawn from the public resources under the
sanction of the civil power, it must continue to flow in the old
channels, to be absorbed in the sands of private interest, and
be altogether lost to public utility—do this, permit this to
an order of men separated and segregated from the people,
united in a common bond of interest and ambition, powerful
from their number, their educati in and still more from the
sacred functions which they discharge—do this, and you will
in no long space of time convert such men into Gregories and
Innocents under other names.—( Immense cheering.) In
saying this, I must not be understood to speak lightly of that
sacred duty which I hold to be imperative upon every Go-
vernment, to take care that religious instruction be provided
for the people. Those whose time is taken up in labour for
the sustenance of their earthly bodies, and whose pursuits
unfit them for an examination of matters of a higher order
relating to a preparation for a future state, are not to be neg-
lected, or left to chance, or to the benevolence of individuals
in the great work of religion. I have spoken of one party
as arriving at a degree of power dangerous to the welfare of
the State, and to the liberties of the people. I must now
declare that I am not sufficiently sanguine to persuade myself
with another party that the poorer classes of our fellow-coun-
trymen would find ample spiritual consolation from individual
exertion and voluntary contribution. I conceive that in all
weil-regulated societies it must be an object of public care
that its ministers who serve at the altar ought to live by the
altar—that a provision for them should he certain, not depen-
cLent on the zeal of the pious, which may cool, or the heat
of contentious rivalry, which it is to be hoped may be allayed.
—( Cheers.) At a moment like this, when a conflict so se-
vere and acrimonious as that which now prevails, such decla-
rations as these might expose a man to attack from both
sides ; but I am well aware that there does exist in this coun-
try a great body of reasonable, well-intentioned, and upright
persons, such as the assembly which I have the honour to ad-
dress, and I am convinced that in the end trut hand reason
mug- prevail.—He concluded by proposing ‘• Civil and Re-
ligious Liberty all over the world," amidst great cheering.
Mr. WavoN prof osed the Aldermen and Corporation of
Grantham, in whose Hall they had niet.—( Laughter, cheers,
and hisses.)
Sir M. CHOLNIELEY next proposed, after paying a high com-
pliment to his undeviating patriotism, " Charles Allix, Esq."
—(Three times three, and much cheering.)
Mr. Amex was proud to receive the flattering testimony of
such a body of freeholders, by whom he hoped he would
always be found at his post. —( Cheers.) He was happy to
have the opportunity of expressing his respect for his Hon.
Friend (Mr. Handley), and his thanks for his conduct in Par-
liament.—(Cheers.) They had told him this night that they
they conceived he had done his duty—if, like some, he had
pledged himself to measures to obtain his seat, and the mo-
ment he had taker, it forgotten those pledges which had only
been given to secure their personal objects, then, indeed, he
would not have heard the echoing cheers of that room, nor the
cheers that next week will be wafted from Boston to every
part of the county.—( Great applause.) His conduct had
been most noble, and without offence to Mr. Cayley, who had
worked most gallantly in the same ship, he must say that it
was impossible that any man could do more than Mr. Handley
had done.—(" True, true," and immense cheering.) Yet,
forsooth, he is to be turned out next time.—( Peals of laughter,
and shouts of defiance.) No, no, I say the attempt is mad-
ness—as well might they seek to move the Heavens as to dis-
place Mr. Handley from his throne in the hearts of the yeo.
manry.—( Deafening cheers.) But if ambition cannot be gra-
tified malice may—they consider him comparatively poor, and
intend, it is said, to attack him, through his purse, and ruin
him by pecuniary expenses. Shall we permit it ?—(Loud
shouts of " No.") I say with you no—we will return him
without one shilling of expense.—( All the company rose as
one man, and gave immense cheering, which was repeated for
some time.) It is true hundreds may be compelled to vote
against him, but they cannot be prevented from giving. their
sovereign a piece in his favour, and they will—such is the
universal feeling of the county.—(Repeated cheering.) I give
you as a toast, " Whenever the day of battle comes, Success
to Henry Handley, and downfall to his enemies, be they who
they may."—( The cheers that followed this toast was beyond
any thing we ever witnessed.)
Mr. HANDLEY said he thought his cup of gratification had
been full, but Major Allix had contrived to add one drop more.
--(Cheers.) Confusion to his enemies had been drank, but
speaking advisedly, he could say he hoped that none existed,
except politically, and towards such, after that night, he could
say, " God help them !"—(Great cheering.) If not rich in
money, he certainly was rich in friends, and friends, too, whom
no money could buy—(Cheers)—friends who did not require
the rattling of a post chaises to go to the poll, but who would
take a nag from the plough, or even travel on their own good
shanks.—(Great cheering.) To a better man than himself
in the cause he would give way, but to no other. He had
told them when he started, that he was a cock that would
either win or die in the pit.—( Great cheering.)
Sir MONTAGtE CHOLMELEY said—l rise to propose a toast
which, assembled as we are to celebrate the successful issue
of independence in this division, must, I am certain, be cor-
dially received by you. I propose the health of our indepen-
dent brethren in the Northern Division of this county, cou-
pled with an expression of our hearty wishes for their perfect
success, whenever the fight again occurs.—(Great cheering.)
Many here present, I am sure, participated with me in feel-
ings of mortification and suspense at the result of the last
contest—a result produced, lam convinced, by no inherent
weakness on their part, but rather by an undue confidence,
begetting indolence, and a still more fatal distrust amongst the
different shades of reformers—a distrust which I, for one,
most sincerely deprecated, and used every humble effort on my
' part to obviate, unfortunately without success—a distrust which
their opponents treated with delight, and, with their accus-
tomed tact, used every means to foment and augment. I trust,
however, hereafter, making a proper use of adversity, whose
• • usages," we are told, are " sweet," they will, like men
:,•• of common sense, having one common object in view, unite
; jar the furtherance of that object, and after laying aside all