The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-08 00:00:00

opposite to taunt those who had been once in office with what
they hail not done when they had great difficulties to contend
with; but it was-no reason to give to the country for anyline
of condurt, that Whig Ministers were as bad as they were.
They were returned to that House for a different purpose—for
the purpose of discussing and settling those great national
questions upon the broad principles of justice, without
any regard to self-interest. Their monopolies all hung, toge-
ther—it was the same with corn, with sugar, and with timber,
m —(lronical cheers fro Col. Sibthorp. ) He believed the Hon.
Member for Lincoln had given that expression of dissent.
Now he (Mr. Bright) had met in the county of Lincoln a
person who objected to the repeal of the corn-laws, and he asked
him if the Ministry repealed the corn-laws what would
he have done with the sugar-laws? His answer. was,
repeal them, of course ; and he ( Mr. Bright) would
ask a planter on the other side of the House, who wax only
a sugar planter, what would he have done with the eern-laws if
the sugar monopoly were done away with ? Why, he would
becone a Leaguer at once—he cared not one straw for any
monopoly, but that by which he profited. Therefore, it was
he (Mr. Bright) charged them all as monopolists in sugar as
well as in timber. He charged them with not fulfilling their
duty to their constituents in thus regarding the interests of
classes only. in opposition to the well-known interests of the
great body of their constituents and of their countrymen.
What was the condition of thole people whose interests suffered
by the sacrifice of the Brazilian trade ? Had they so soon for-
gotten that, two years age, JOO,OOO men had come out of
Lancashire, and asked the ruling powers what they meant to
do for them ? They had in those districts of Lanca-
shire and Yorkshire the most industrious population on the
face of the earth. He lived amongst them, and he knew
them tell, and he knew that' from their industry the-rents of
Hon. Gentlemen were gathered, and that it was the profits of
their trade which enabled the country to carry on the late long
and sanguinary wars. He knew that the agriculture of this
coumt:y never yet maintained the prosperity of the country.
However, they disregarded the interests of these manufacturing
districts; and then they lately had their long discussion upon the
state of Ireland, with its two millions and a quarter of paupers.
—( Cries of " Question.") • Should they not, while the popu-
lation was. in such a state, extend the trade of the country, so,
as to correspond with the extension of the population ?—(Cries
of " Question.") It was to the question to refer to one por-
tion of the empire which they would gladly forget, but that
circumstances would not allow them. In that country, then, a
population—upwards of two millions—more numerous than the
population of this vast metropolis, were in a starving con-
dition.--( Question.) He could make great allowance, from the
occupations in which Hon. Gentemen opposite had engaged during
the recess, for their unwillingae,s to grapple with this question.
But there was a trade which employed a vast number of the
people of Lancashire and the people of Ireland, who, driven
from their homes by the brutality of the landlords, came to
Lancashire by hundreds and thousands. He had at the present
moment many families of those poor people in his employment,
who could give horrible and appalling accounts of the circum-
stances under which they were driven from their native coun-