The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-17 00:00:00

hors de combat by being cracked like lobsters in their shells,
—(Cheers and laughter.) Yes, they were a nation, but
when they were, it was a nation not worth living in • and tv
that time would they again bring the people back.--effever.)
They were not, however, he would tell them, the nation ;
but the hard-working, industrious, productive classes of the
country were the nation.—( Hear, hear.) It had been ate%
said, and there was much truth in the statemerit, that "Eng-
land was the paradise of landowners ;" .but her industrious
sons, was not the land theirs? The landowners, however,
caled the land theirs, as if they were " the gods" -who made
it ; and were not content even with that.—(A laugh.) They
talked of their estates; but they got them not by Misery,
but rather by sword and rapine.—(Hear, hear.) Theftilked
of the heavy burdens which they say are on the land, and
yet there was no property which was less burdened than the
land. " Free markets" was the cry of Wat Tyler ; and the
dagger which stabbed him then was still stuck in the arms of
the City of London Corporation ; and the cry which was raised
then was raised now. Yes, " free markets," not hi England
only, but in all the world.—(Enthusiastic cheering.) They
demanded for all markets the same freedom as they looked
for themselves.—( Hear, hear.) They demanded " free mar-
kets"—free as the air of heaven, free as the billows of the sea,
free as the aspirations of the soul of man.—(Great cheering,
and loud cries of " Bravo.") What, he would ask, had not the
wisdom and industry of man done for labour ? It was said in
a newspaper, a few days Lack, that the price of corn was only
the same now that it was in 1791 ; but the fact was,
that., while the price of corn was the same as in 1791, the
rent of land in this country was double, and more than doable
what it was then ; and it was that that crippled the farmer,
and rendered him unable to compete with. foreigners.—
( Hear, heat.) There were they (the Anti-Corn-law League)
in their v duntary gathering, and yonder were their oppo-
nents in trick set meeting. by Royal mandate; there were
they (th League) in their open proceedings, while bonder
also were. their opponents in their seclusion. There were
they (the League) in the open way, and they took up the
gauntlet which their opponents had thrown down, and
hurled 11!fianee in their teeth.—(Loud cheers.) ".We
advance to the conflict," continued Mr. Fox, " which they
brave—the conflict of public opinion against power, break-
ing no la w even of their making. In the spirit of that peace-
ful niceality which they profess, and have made part and parcel
of the law of England, we carry out this great eaaw,- and we
3e In even for them deliverance from the curse wbleh the
aporessor brings on his own head; for ourselves, emancipa-
tion from the disgrace of being plundered and enslaved; and
for our country, deliverance from the prospect of confusion,
from the endurance of wretchedness, from anarchy, and from
desolation. The age of feudalism is past, and the spirit of
feudalism cannot govern this country. It may be strong
in the prestige of the past; it may glitter in the splendour
which it has won from the toils of industry ;
it may fortify itself in the bulwarks of institutions ; it may
aurround itself with a servile multitude ; but the spirit of feu-
dalism must succumb before the genius of humanity ; the
spirit, the principles, and the power of feudalism, must stand
by and snake way for the rights of industry, and for the pro-
gress of nations towards commercial. political, and intellectual
I;herty."—("l remendous and long-continued cheering foiloAed
the conclusion of the above speech.)
The CITAIRMAN then stated, that Mr. O'Connell had con-
sented to attend the next weekly meeting, an announcement
which was received with vociferous applause.
he meeting then dispersd.

STATE OF IRELAND.

HOUSE OF LORDS, FEB. 15.
LORD NORMANBY'S RESOLUTIONS.
MAJORITY.--PRESENT, 79.
H. R. H. the Duke Aylesford yrSCOUNT.
of Cambridge Hardwicke Lowther
Lord Chancellor Delawarr BISHOPS.
DUKES. Bathurst Rochester, Bishop
Richmond Digby Llandaff, Bishop
Marlborough Roden Exeter, Bishop
Buccleuch Clanwilliam LORDS.
Montrose Longford De Roos
Wellington Enniskillen St. John
Buckingham Lucan - Sinclair
MARQUISES. Caledon Colville
V% inchester Rosslyn Polwarth
Salisbury Wilton Boston
Bute Verulam Southampton
Exeter St. Germain's Rodney
Camden Somers Carteret
Cholmondeley Ripon Kenyon
Westmeath VISCOUNTS. Braybrooke
EARLS. Sydney Blayney
Devon Hood Rcdesdale
Sandwich Strangford Rivers
Shaftesbury Massertene Howden
Jersey Midleton Prudhoe
Eglintoun Gage Colchester
Haddington Hawarden Bexley
Dalhousie Lake What neliffe
Aberdeen Lorton Feversham
Dunmore Beresford Brougham
De Lisle
Orkney Canning_

Beaufort
Portland
Northumberland
MARQUISES.
Twecddale
Hertford
'Waterford
Downsh ire
Donegal
Thom ond

PROXIES, 96.
Courtown
Mayo
Bandon
Donoughmore
Onslow
Limerick
Clancarty
Powis
Charleville
Orford
Harrowby
Harewood
Brownlow
Beauchamp
Glengall
Sheffield
De Grey
Eldon
Falmouth
Rowe
Dunraven
Amherst
Cawdor
Ranfurly
VISCOUNTS.
Arbuthnot
Strathallan
De Vesci
Melville
Sidmouth
Exmouth
Combermere
Canterbury
Gloucester, Bishop

Or-monde
Bristol
EARLS.
Pembroke
Westmoreland
Stamford
Abingdon
Poulett
Morton
Home
Galloway
Airlie
Leven
Selkirk
Balearras
Scofield
Glasgow
Ferrers
Macclesfield
Warwick
Buckinghamshire
Mount Edgcumbe

LORDS.

Clinton
Saltouu
Rolle
Dynevor
Bagot
Grantley
Berw.ck
Bayning
Wodehouse
Nor thwick
Dunsany
Carbery
Farnham
Clonbrook
Crofton
Alvonley
Elbubo. ough
Sandys
CaAlemaine
Harris
Glenlyon
Ravenswort
Delamere
Downes
Gifford
( owley
Stuart de Rotheay
Heytesbury
Skelmersdale
Wynforcl
Ashburton
Seaton

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