The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-26 00:00:00

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DR. wrr.sox ON THE. wATEn CURE.
Just rublished, Vice is. 6d.
THE PRACTICE of the' WATER CURE,
with authenticated evidence of its efifeit:7 and safety, con-
taining Seventy authenticated cases, the opiniolts of English Medical
Practitioners, the History cl,7llii Water Cure, and an Acootuat of the
Processes used in the Treatment.
By JAMES WILSON, M.D.
'London: 11. Bailliare, 219, Rtgent-street ; and H. Batty and Co.

GREENWICH ANTI-CORN LAW

ASSOCIA_TION.
Ameetinc, of this Association took place on. Wednesday
at the Lecture Hall, Greenwich, for the .purpose of receiving
a deputation from the National Anti-Corn-law League, to
consist of Mr. Cobden, and Mr. R. R. R. Moore. The large
'hall was crowded to excess at an early hour, with a most
'respectable assemblage, a goodlv. proportion of which, we
-observed, consisted of ladies. The deputation, accompanied
by the President of the Society, Colonel S. Perronet Thomp-
son, who acted as Chairman on the occasion; entered the hall
,afeiv minutes after seven o'clocsk, arid were received with the
most vociferous cheers by the 1,2(X) persons assembled before
them; Mr. ; Moore being detained at Covent-garden at.the
'weekly meeting of die IPagrit, his place was supplied by Mr.
George Thompson, who accompanied Mr. Cobden as his co
deputy. Admiras Dundas, M.P. for the borough, was also
' present. _ _

As soon as the meeting was constituted,
The CHAIRMAN came forward, and said that they were
.assembled that evening to receive a deputation from
the League.. lie himself had had 'the honour of acting
. with that body in various parts of the country, and he
' would leave to the Deputation the task of informing the
meeting of the long and interesting histories of their suc-
cess in every, district which they had visited, only urging
thento make the fullest disclosures, in 'order that those
there assembled might form a judgment of how far they were
acting with prudence in continuing their support to the
League, and to the great cause which it advocated.—(Cheers.)
All ranks and interests were then present, nono wanted its
representatives, to lead on the public against the unjust mid
partial system of legislation by which all were injured.
Much attention would be paid in the other districts of the
Metropolis to the manlier in which they would then receive
the Deputation. From their approbation the League would
receive strength. It-had gathered strength everywhere else.
It had been in Scotland. and its representatives present would
tell them of its success in that quarter. •They would all soon
throughout the country be united for the abolition of the
corn-laws, under which every interest had more or less suf-
fered. He would now call on Mr. Cobden, the undaunted
champion of free trade, who had at heart, together with his
own interests, which every man had a right to pursue, their
interests, and the interests of every body besides. The Chair-
man then sat doWn amid prolonged cheering.
At this moment a person from the body of the meeting in •
quired of the.. Chairman, if those Who addressed the meeting
would answer any questions which might be put to them at
its close? These questions would be deferied till then, as he
was opposed to interruptions during the
.progress of the re-
gular proceedings.—(Hisses and partial cheering.)
The CHAIRMAN said that he supposed that when those
whom' he meeting had invited to address them had finished,
they would gladly hear any question from those whom they
hadinvited, butit was entirely, as to the latter, a question of
courtesy. The meeting was not under the smallest obligation
to hear any question answered which they did not like. That
was a matter which he would leave to the discretion of the
assemblypledging himself to act in strict accordance with
whatever opinion they should express.—(Cheers.)
The' SEcrurrAity then read a letter from Mr. Barnard,
M P. 'for the borough, apologising for his absence front the
meeting, after which
Admiral DUNDAS, his colleague, came forward, and was
.received with tumultuous cheers. He was completely corn-
-Milted in the:cause of free trade in corn, and so far was in
favour of the League.—(Hear, hear.) He was also in favour
of a free trade in everything else.—(Renewed cheers.) He
would have preferred that the League had declared them-
selves free-traders altogether, than have declared themselves
the 'Anti-Corn-law League solely. As it. was, however, they
had worked uncommonly well, and had certainly, done their
duty, considering the interests in array against them. There
Was one class of men opposed to them, however, and that was
the landlords, who should be grateful to the League, for
since the present agitation commenced the farmers had re-
doubled their exertions and skill.—(Hear, hear.) For that
alone the League deserved credit.. The Gallant Admiral
then went on to say that he considered the question involved
in the agitation of the League as intimately connected with
the suffrage question.—(Hear, hear.) The suffrage was at
present upon such a footing; that the Peers and great people
throughout the country exercised all political power—astate
of things which was as impolitic as it was unjust.—(Hear.)
After dwelling at some length' upon this point, and apolo-
gising for introducing matter which was not wholly relevant
to the question before them, the Gallant Admiral concluded
by &smiling the Meeting that lie waia'always ready to give his
support to Mr. Cobden and :his eoildfli.oie,'Wl in the House
of Commons and.elsewhere. . .

Mr. COBDEN then came forward. The assembly rose en
masse, and a storm of shouts burst from every quarter of the
spacious hall. The cheering was again and again renewed,
and when it at length subsided, the Hon. Gentleman observed
that be felt somewhat at a loss on entering the meeting as to
how he should address them, or what he should say, believ-
ing that they were likely to be quite as well informed upon
the question as he could be himself. The Gallant Admiral
who had preceded him, however, bad furnished him with a
peg on which to hang a beginning, at all events. He' had
called them to task for not adopting the title of the " Free-
trade League," instead of calling themselves the " Anti-
Corn-law League." But he would explain to them how the
League was both of these, although acting under a distinc-
tive name. The League believed that, if they could manage
to dispossess' the.landowners—who formed the majority in the
House of Commons—of their peculiar 'monopoly, these land-
owners would save them the trouble of getting rid of all other
monopolies. They (the League) believed the corn-laws to be
the key-stone of the arch of monopoly, and they had only to
remove the key-stone, and the whole structure would fall.
Therefore it was that the League kept the battering ram
going against the key-stone of the arch. But they might
say that. they had no proof that the League was in earnest
in wishing for free trade in everthing. The manufacturers
had no protection which they did not want to get rid of.
There were, it was true, laws on the statute-book enacting
that cotton goods should not come into this country from
abroad without paying a duty. But so was there also on the
same statute-book a law, at one time, subjecting the impor-
tation of coals to Newcastle to a duty of 245. per ton.—
(Hear, hear, and laughter.) In neither ease could such a
law operate as a protection. The so-called protection on cot-
oddtt
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protection,
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every seven pounds of raw cotton worked in England, six
pounds were sold abroad, and at a better price than the re-
mainder
e manufacturersd
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might show the same thing to be the case with regard to
them. By free trade the League did not mean, as sonic sup-
posed, to abolish the Custom- house, to abolish the necessary
imposts for revenue. What the League wished was, that any
taxes put at the Custom-house should be for the Queen's re-
venue-alone, and not for the purpose of raising the price of
corn sold by Sir Edward Knatchhull and others, that they
might afford to pay their marriage settlements.—(Cheers and
.laughter.) The corn duties were never collected to increase
the Queen's revenue. Their object was to raise the price of
corn at home, in order that the owners of land might rent
their land at a higher rate.—(Hear, hear.) In the House of
Commons the monopolists had ceased to reply to the free-
traders uponsthe subject. The Ministers were afraid lest
their supporters might commit themselves, and said to them,
ns the.coansel said to his client, "You, had better not say
anything about the matter, lest you should commit your-
self and endanger your case." A paper bad been put into his
hands, purporting to be a manifesto issued by the West Kent
Protection Society. That society, judging from an analysis
of the names subscribed to it, was composed of 13 labourers,
50 farmers, 50 agents, and 137 clergymen and landlords.—
(Hear, hear, and laughter.) And yet all these called them-
selves agriculturists.—(Renewed laughter.) Now, land-
owners were no more agriculturi!ts than shipowners were
sailors. That society was for protection. It talked of the
heavy taxes of this country in comparison with those of other
countries.. It forgot that the manufacturers paid far more
(:)fiiptali3einego. Continent than it was
And as to labour,
taxes than did the agriculturists.—(hear, hear.) If in the
aggregate we paid a larger sum than other countries, it was
here. In proportion to the work done, a man in England did
more fur a given quantity of food than any other man on
Ibieee"dleuisl iee'dvetll
the face of the earth.--(Hear, hear.) Their representative
had just told them what the League had done for agriculture.
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tb e,Nt
at fs, renhieeaainwsr
This Kentish Society seemed apprehensive that the
object of the, League was to destroy agriculture.
• But he would say that inure had been done
during the last five years for agriculture in this country,
than during any fifteen years before the organisa-
tion of the League, and if the mere alarm that they would
have to come to free trade had done so much for the agri-
Culture of the country, what. might they not expect when
it would be in actual operation ?—(Hear, hear.) A great
deal has been said as to the effect which free trade would
have upon wages. It would not tend to reduce wages. as
had been alleged ; but the reverse, for not only in manufac-
tures, but also in agriculture, would it give rise to an in-
creased demand for labour, which was incompatible with a
reduction of wages. :They might be:told that foreign countries
would not take British manufactures in exchange for their
corn ; but would the foreigner give his corn for nothing? He
would take their manufactures. There had yet been no al-
teration in the tariff to extend the foreign trade. Let them
set the foreigner the example of free trade by abolishing
duties upon corn, and that would be followed by the adop-
tion of free trade by the foreigner. They were told that the
foreigner would only take gold for his corn ; but where
would they get the gold with which to pay him ? In
countries where gold was produced ; and all that they had
to do, if the foreigner would not take their manufac-
tures, was to send these manufactures to those countries
and bring back the gold to pay fur the corn. So much
for the question of corn. T here;was another question
equallyimportant, that of
sugar : the West India interests
and the corn interests at home were leagued together to
keep the people on short allowance in both these articles.
They were now paying double what the foreigner had to
pay for sugar in their. own Custom-house. The foreigner
might come to the Custom-house and purchase Brazilian
sugar for one half the price which they had to give for sugar
of the same quality.—(Shame, shame.) Nothing was more
wholesome or nutritious than sugar, and they should not be
restricted in the use of it. As to the cry- against slave-grown
sugar, that was a very dishonest plea. We had no objection
to refine slave-grown sugar in bond, while the same prin-
ciple, which excluded it from our use, also excluded the sugar
of free countries. When refined, the sugar grown in Brazil
was sent to Switzerland, Turkey, and even to Jamaica, to
be consumed by the coloured people there, at nearly