The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-21 00:00:00

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s-1441 free trade in corn, corn would be any
lx,er• But though he gave the (late of the first
ttl
Wss rich was delivered in 1810, when wheat was
e did not quote the date of the last, which del'
ksle- ' ivered in June, last year, when wheat had
lek„\raore than 33 per cent.—(Cries of " Hear,
Itsi ) Ile had sometimes found people a little
ktheess to account for their arguments; contending,
ol•b_ Y. did, at one time, that they should have cheap
to and stating at another that they did not intend
st4l4•l4orti the farmers by lowering the prices of their
tv th ties. Many were at a loss to understand
!ti, _eY could be benefited as traders, manufactur-
"''"?-lor„ehants, and .consumers, without the lower-
41,wers the price of food. Now these people
Itti" went upon the assumption that they
t e4augh to eat already. They forgot
6,_t here were. at least 10,000,000 of people
ki"tle islands who were not sufficiently fed, and
‘ fi° growers of wheat were raising their produce
Ille."` subsistence of not more than 20,000,000, at
4 r'ttentB,yi the 28,000,000 of their population ;
..while
Nte 'stthe people, by their restrictive and suicidal
streSiliWere thrown out of the market for wheat, and
kti, N upon potatoes, oatmeal, barley bread, or
itkirke.st is(ll,ear, hear.) Let those people into the
td,,,t bring them forward as consumers, and then
:light not only sell their wheat to these newly-
customers, chstorners but even enable them to buy
kzil ,jOre abroad.' A calculation had been sent to
%11`1'e other day by a large biscuit baker,
tt* Vas worthy of attention, as coming
kte 4 practice man. He said that if they
brto the people of these lands 21 ounces
44 per day, that would amount to
41,'" quarters of wheat : and if they would allow
!h!cals of the people to have this extra allowance,
Zeia,„."" to what they had, it would amount
"uPortation of ten million quarters of wheat.
141doZthe compensation which they offered to the
hp)4 era, and the farmers.—(Laughter.) He
t; 'l4l,LtileW the people to prosper, instead
t'l-iwg them paupers, and then the farmer
Nes,,,Z4le them for customers. There were
1'44.'4 cc:lM was sold as low, nay, lower, in this
ktfi4l ender the corn-law, than it would be under
SLree trade. When they had famine seasons, as
us have if they limited their supply to these
t• Llialands,.With their capricious climate—when
114547 It succession of three or four years of famine
11? to.? 43 they had had from 1838 to 1842, what was
killer quence ? Why, they starved down and ba-
e.llo n tiheir po ulation. He told those farmers
ltWfr-nlitd like pto have their customers at home,
Otii,.. In 1838 to 1842, 500,000 persons had eini-
N- ,J from„ these islands to find food in other coun-
t hear.) When, at the termination of
kb:4°)d of dearth, they had' but one good harvest,
i. ealturists were astonished to find that they
. , Customers ready to consume the extra pro-
Nti;.4l:f their land. Why they had been destroy-
customers by bringing down the labouring
ltyb: Potatoes and oatmeal, and sending away
N;47, who .had the means to emigrate to those
171ih : WhiCh were not cursed with. corn-laws..
B,No
of of opinion—and he had said it in the
111404,.. el' Commons, where he never wanted to pay
Niplinpliments, or s anything that would be
Nriog to them—(Laughter)- that neither land-
tariners, nor farm labourers had derived any
)Sl4, from this system. He believed that land
ItlFet this moment have been more valuable in
Z• intry if there had never been a corn-law. He
`4lleLed the Government last autumn to send to
eru bassador in Switzerland for an account of
4,e of land in that country ; and he ventured
I-41M land in Switzerland was at this time more
i,l tha than land in England, alth ,ugh in Switzer-
It) ere was perfect free trade in corn.—(Hear,
, •he had never told the farmers, in all his
:4 - ations, that they must look for their remedy
Pk"etki
N h..reduction of rent.—(Hear, hear.) He said,
'l„f eignedly, that if he were going to take a
ilk °l' a twenty-one years' lease, he
k!ilfitl, rather take it at all the present
ilthilidcnOWing that the corn-laws were to
‘isiri,'led to-morrow, than he would take upon
1t:1+4644e burden of the land if he knew that the re-
h,li„;BYstem were to continue. In the first case,
2"4141"'l be sure that he was surrounded' by a pros-
Ni:_eulniunity, capable of consuming all. that he
st rochice, and he would not confine himself to
I,eklOction of old fashioned wheat. But, in
SiaD.reaie he would dread the retribution that was
,4,luPon 'him in the shape of pauperism, income
!a 04 rates of every description, and county as
L.N.Seneral taxes, which, if this system continues',
pktiCed to render land valueless both to landlord and
1.74.),,, Now, with these convictions, backed
das
S-44 ione by the most intelligent amongst the. lan -
Zu.the farmers, why need they continue to
ItretTo longer
a close luestion ?—( Hear, bear.) They
etyi,.,4onger a I•• y of manufacturers or traders.
Lloart'u the best of the landlords and the best of the
-r "iththem, and he did not despair ofye.trepre-
Nr the county of Buckingham in Parliament.
,tildi& was not far distant when the landowners
titov: just as anxious to claim for themselves the
it. ' being free-traders, as the West Indian pro-
-1..!1`4:t14.11tr, now were to profess their abhorrence of
06";',._(Laughter.) Let them look to what the
ill.: mkt done for the best interests of agriculture,
Li 3111 t, improvements in tillage. Who could go
"ttskiptee, country without observing the beautiful
4the lend
the draining tiles presented through-
Cind in all directions F—(llear, hear.) If they
kid f? that by the mere fright of free trade, what
Ittli eijeee trade itself do for the land ?—(Hear, hear,
x,ers.) He had a letter the other day
tlttliut'lorthumberland, in which the writer
t
i,,ti;„he was connected with agriculture, and that
b,..',lten ulacturers of agricultural improvements, of
'tlk cog tiles, &c. and that agricultural chemists and
'!1111tt:111eeted with scientific improvements in agri-
Iklexi\atiglat to subscribe in presenting him (Mr.
est 0f..)
_with a piece of plate for his exertions in the
tpr aglicUlture. He (Mr. Cobden) should have
litleeeite of plate, and he would be bound the Duke
1.1, th Ingham would subscribe to it.—(Laughter.)
.7411, n,e141 picture to themelves the candelabrum
tOss 'a Upon a tripod, with a sheaf of wheat in or ie
ALI., power-loom in another, and a shipin
ete---the union of manufactures and coin-
-0 litevitli agriculture.—(Cheers and laughter.)
NI no doubt whatever that they should shake
resetinith.is question in less than five years from
Celt, that
tirne.—(Cheers and laughter.) He was
a nat they should make the question less of a
ii4ei7tion, and take agriculture more and more
Vbe, rieVr on the sub:ect. Agriculture was the
i, h:iground on which they (the Leaguers) stood.
Os fq"" heard what had been said of the condition
t ITillers. There was a gentleman on. the plat-
ade told them just now that he was in company
liN, tit r day with fifty farmers,
.when an in-
V% sap that
at his elbow whispered into
),,,? thai‘nat there were not two out of those
o,,„`' Would not be bankrupts in less than two
ti'dst (hear.) He (Mr. Cobden) was at a large
qt leuee in the Midland Counties on the occasion
tOllllOl-ing-match, at which there were present
ktli-e Cr and in the course of a discussion
th•tfk ondition of the farmers they all agreed that if
t'l/t edition
of the county was sold up not one of
k4' -NUM
t,,t,roatu. be found to be solvent ; and the result of
Vit:era-b, discussion, on the condition of the land-
thnati'tts, that if they were sold up they would not
‘‘,7ll' to be solvent. He (Mr. Cobden) then yen-
&lt'lthil throw in an observation ; and he said,
Ise, UZI", you have had it all your own way
krqa -e eight and twenty years, and it
.vst. 3'°. 1
Were not able to take care of your-
Qhe ." OW let us, free traders, have a turn, and see
lititforWe shall not do better for you than you have
.1i tlh,,Yuurselves."—(Hear, hear.) Now he hoped,
ft:lljg ; evidence they had had to-night, that no one
41e111°away from that magnificent gathering with
iblv that; what they asked for—free trade—could
rift Injure the agricultural labourer. He (the
tti,N, I'Lral labourer) was as low as he could be.—
tk, night What they had heard from Mr. Hunt
104" would be verified by the intelligent
WI °4 all parts of the country—that if their
Was
IsttrdenCultivated not up to the pitch
khi wee cultivation, but up to theyoint at which
Ikh,, Sew e cultivated in parts of IN orthumberland
ttC.l%.o„i,aud; that then those counties of Eng-
40thzit'l Produce double what they did at present,
qi,tir, '',L ,re would be three times the demand for
l'h!etis They had heard something about the super-
Vine men
of landowners for their acres.
401'11,4 II Would not allow any change to take place
t%illow'ven displeasing to their eye. They would
ti th,„.their green lawns to be ploughed up be-
,thef i the;,.grandfathers had looked upon them ; and
4tlj Syriet°rel must look upon them forsooth, though
ilvith nr e no longer was covered with grass,
114 Os it wess• That superstitious reverence for the
tiiii Yihieh as. would disappear before the stern neces-
kkielien\%;ould be imposed upon the owners of the
11/41!', filo trley saw no other incans of 'drawing their
itSive'.. Meeting their mortpges, and showing
thies.-..... at the accustomed period in the west end
it ~,,,,s ,
fro eani than 13y treating their land as traders did
i tt% ~,.. inercial. commodities,.* something
PS* "Leh b •
(4, the Y skill, science, and capital, they could
1,4), ht utmost possible amount of produce._
tlitt it wa:*) He asked the farmers now present
hya1411(1? 3 that W2SS most wanted to the land of
fil,11:11,1t,. 'hie,h l 74.0tuThlehAhreeey
bemw
meant, not
et
sesl
,1 himbut it
more was
schaepeipta_l,
not sacks of money,
Nti''vbere '
were now one and three heads of
~,,.!ter ii'ete there were now one; also better ploughs,
"ce, arrow,
NI, That , and better under-draining in every
14',2 that was the capital which they wanted ; but
(u,nr to would be valueless unless it was allied with
11,111e:h.) /6414, it constant increase and production._
Drs.; allitai _'w he,asked how it was that there was
aft, Per tut. on the land which was necessary for its
PteSellt;vpositi atien? NV bv, in this country there was
ve plethora of capital. Money was