The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-23 00:00:00

week to week—they (the speakers) were left, as it
were, to guard the fortress of free trade, and to take
as much care as lay in their power that it sustained
no damage in the absence of their friends, but to give
I it up to them in safety when they came back, as he
trusted they would, with triumph ringing in their
ears, and with the gratulations of their friends in the
metropolis for the victory which, through their exer-
tions, had been obtained. The question of free trade
was now, for the first time, brought clearly before a
county constituency in South Lancashire. The great
battle they were now fighting in South Lancashire
was plainly and broadly one of free trade on the one
hand, and of monopoly on the other. They asked
for the verdict of the electors of that district ; and if
it should be given in their favour, it would be a more
encouraging triumph than any which they had
achieved, and if they failed, the failure would only
give them renewed vigour and fresh determination
to return to the conflict in other counties. He had
seen in the Times of that morning the report of a speech
which had been delivered by Mr. Entwisle, one of
the candidates for South Lancashire, and in that
speech the Hon. Gentleman said that trade had
reached its utmost limits. The poor man seemed to
lament the magnitude of the trade of the country. He
complained that it was enormous. Why, a giant's
constitution required a giant's food. Was not the
population of the country enormous? Did it not in-
crease at the rate of nearly a thousand a day ? Was
not the taxation of the country enormous ? And if the
monopolists would start such expressions, was not the
rent enormous ? and the imposition of taxes upon the
people's food, for the enhancement of that rent, the
most enormous of all ? Why, it was a strange dis-
covery this wonderful overgrowth of trade. Whero
did they find it ? Did they find it in South Lan-
cashire ? The shopkeers complained that their trade
had grown so enormous that they did not know how
to enlarge their establishments sufficiently, and that
they were quite distressed to find out in what way to
apply their surplus profits and enormous gains.
Mr. Entwisle did not al:yolutely express a wish
to have trade limited, although it was to that which
his argument tended. That gentleman argued that all
other interests should be subservient to one interest,
which he considered the most important in the coun-
try. How absurd was this, and how ridiculous was
it for any person to say that one portion of the com-
munity was more important than another. It was like
the folly of the fiddler who had hurt both his foot and
his hand, and whose constant cry to the medical at-
tendant was, " Doctor, never mind my foot, that is of
no consequence ; but, cure my hand, take care of my
hand," until, at last the doctor, wearied by this con-
stant importunity, cried out, " Why, you fool, you
enormous fool, if your foot should be mortified, what
will become of your hand."—(Laughter.) Let the
landlords of the country learn a lesson from that old
story. It should teach them that they are dependent
on the multitudes as much as the multitudes are de-
pendent upon them. Let them look to the daily oc-
currences arising out of destitution and want, which
attracted the attention of the inhabitants of
this metropolis let them consider how fre-
quent were the instancess of poor creatures driven
to despair by the absence of the means of em-
ployment, seeking relief in self-destruction. Let
them consider, that in this metropolis a poor creature
had been found guilty of being destitute, and was
condemned at first to death, but subsequently to
transportation, for the crime of being driven to des-
peration. It was for this that agricultural protection
was maintained. Chemists told them, that in the
human blood there was a certain quantity of iron,
and that it must be extracted from the blood ; and
they also affirmed, that out of the veins of forty men
sufficient iron could be produced to make a plough-
share. If such a ploughshare could be obtained, it
ought to be preserved as the crest of the " Agricul-
tural Protective Society."—(Cheers and laughter.)
The aristocracy of this country were not as the
ancient nobility of the land were. They were now
titled tradespeople. The Duke of Richmond com-
plained of the operation of Peel's tariff upon his
salmon streams in Scotland. He said that he had
lost 2,0001. per annum by being obliged to reduce
the lease to the rental of those salmon streams.
Well then, if this were the case, the people of this
country, in their consumption of salmon, had been
plundered of 2,0001. a year by this coroneted fish-
monger.—(Cheers and laughter.) The Morning
-Herald, about a week ago, commenced an article
by stating, that in a county not sixty miles from
London, viz., Suffolk, there had been more than fif-
teen incendiary conflagrations ; and they said, under
these circumstances, that it was not a time to rest in
contented indolence. They then went on to quote
from a pamphlet entitled " A Remedy for some of
the Evils under which the Country Labours." This
pamphlet was written to show that while the habita-
tions of cottagers in various agricultural villages
had diminished, that between the year 1801 and
1831, in five parishes in the county of Bucking-
ham, the number of families had increased by 129,
while the cottages had decreased by 41. In three
parishes in Cambridgeshire the families had increased
166, while the dwellings had been reduced by 18. In
seven parishes in Hampshire, there had been an ad-
dition of 248 families, and a diminution of 124
houses. In five parishes in Sussex the families were
increased by 62, while the houses diminished by 59;
and the general result of a very cursory glance over
six counties showed that in 1801, 2,551 families were
accommodated in 2,375 houses, leaving only 16
families to seek a share of the habitations of others.
while in 1831 the families had increased to 3,307, and
the dwelling-houses had been reduced to 2,041, leav-
ing 1,266 families to share the shelter of others.
These parishes, it would be recollected, were all in
agricultural counties. They had often heard of the
cry which was first raised as a signal of plunder—
" War with the palaces." That cry was, to his
mind, not half so disgusting as the cry of " War on
the cottages for the benefit of the palaces." Accord-
ing to the Morning Herald, 15 incendiary fires had
occurred within two months. Now, he understood it
was common to go from the metropolis to keep Whit-
suntide, and that custom referred to that sacred event
of which they were told that tongues of flame de-
scended from heaven to earth. This, however, had
been reversed in the present day, for tongues
of flame were seen ascending from earth to
heaven—(Hear, hear)—and they pleaded eloquently
of the wrongs, the sufferings, and the destitution of
that mute peasantry. It was the object of the Anti-
Corn-law League to remedy these evils. The League
could not fall, or if it did fall, it would fall like Samp-
son, grasping the pillars of truth—(Loud cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN then announced that another
meeting would be held on Wednesday next.
The meeting then separated.

PEEL AND THE CURRENCY.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR—If any amount of ignorance among our legislators,
and of apathy among the millions to whose dearest interests
those legislators are blindfold, could astonish a reflect-
ing being, he would be thunderstruck with amazement at
the currency plan of the Premier, with whom Providence for
our sins has cursed us, and the indifference of his victims to
their coming fate!
To a person capable of combining three ideas, it is obvious
that the plan of the mountebank. who is so fond of inter-
fering with the life-blood and vital air of our commerce
(the currency), is framed with one object only—that of
driving us (as far as pernicious legislation can do It) to the
, use of a metallic currency—thus carrying, yet further, the
murderous effect of his measures of 1819.
It is clear that if the amount of circulation should require
to be extended, in consequence of a revival and extension of
trade, it can be effected, according to the Peel plan, only by
the importation of more gold. Now, dismissing for a moment
the consideration of the evil of having to part with ten or
twenty millions of our goods simply to provide ourselves with
an increased quantity of the mere machinery by which ex-
changes are effected (all that the circulating medium does), '
let us consider the consequences of this increased demand
for gold.
Even Sir It. Peel may be aware that an increased demand
enhances price. Now, If we desire to import many mullions
of bullion, it is clear that its price will rise above the statute
price; the inevitable result will be, that all paper will be
driven in—the issuers will be required to liquidate it in gold
at the statute price ; and the original holders of the notes will
take the gold so obtained into the market, and sell it to the
importer at an advanced price. Look to the consequences.
The note issuers being drained of specie in this way, will
take care to issue no more ; their business will be stopped ;
but this will be a mere bagatelle to the effect on the issuers
of bills of exchange. Gold will bo required in payment (for
the bankers, of course, will issue no more notes), and the
whole mass of specie in the empire would not pay one-third
part of these bills 1 Is the lunatic who is about to stop the
whole trade of Great Britain aware of this fact
Yours always, COMMON SENSE.

A deputation, including Sir John Walsh, Mr. Price.
and Mr. Maynors, had an interview with the Chancellor
of the Exchequer yesterday.
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