The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-04 00:00:00

cocoa, of sugar, incr eased the coneumption of these VA'
rious beverages ; and those who drank them would have
consumed more beer, made from the malt of barley. Yet
the barley growers did not find any difficulty in selling
their produce. Again, there were no less than seventy
millions of eggs impoi ted annually; and he had seen
in a scrap book, a petit ion from the hens of England,
published at the time tht 1 importation was first allowed,
complaining of the bards hip and injustice of allowing it,
—using arguments agains t it as reasonable as those 01
the Duke of Richmond in t '6l, House of Lords. 'ln JOY
1842, the importation of li% Pe cattle was permitted- at a
moderate fixed duty. He wi:shed them to know the
number of cattle that ha. i be en imported since that
time, up to January 184,3, there lad been
imported 1,114 oxen, 36,3 co ws, 40 calves, 210
sheep, 7 lambs, swine 364, sucking pigs 87'
The Dukes of Richmond and Cleveland said before this
law was passed, that cattle were actually standing 011
the shores or foreign countrie•s in the utmost agony of
expectation that they would c. ')me over to this country
to feed the people here. In cc els equence of this repre-
sentation the farmers of dm co uwiry were panic struck,
and this, added to the poverty of their customers; caused
cattle to fall in value twenty par cent. He recollected
reading in history that 250 yet irs ago, or rather more,
the Spaniards equipped a numerous fleet for the purpose
of invading this country. Ife „ believed that there was
not half so much fear at the ie lea of the Spanish fleet
invading this. country, as the land 'owners got up amongscl
the tenantry about a lot of poor to "fortunate half-starse.,
oxen and cows coming over bere.—(Cheers slid
laughter,) But there were other articles that'
those which he had mentions A._ There was the
article of hides. In the year t, 843 there were intl.();
duced into this country hides to the amount 0'
535,000 cwt. Of hides leather was made, and of leather,,
boots and shoes, and 'carriage hart less, and a variety 01
other articles. In this country the y had a large quad"
City of hides that came from cat -le slaughtered here'
Nobody ever found, that because. 5 35,000 cwt. of Lidos
were imported from foreign cou nudes, that hides the
produce of this country could not be sold. Let then'
take the article of tallow. There ' -were imported' late
this country last year 1,778,000 Cc vt. of foreign tallow'
The Dukes of Cleveland and Richa sand, no doubt, burnt
a portion of that tallow. Tallow w as produced in this
country, yet this tallow was not diminished in COr
sumption. Take the article of s ilk. From the ye
1820 to 1827 the average annnal cc 'sumption of silk te
this country was about 3,000,00 0 lbs. In 1843 the
importation was 5,743,000, very ;nearly double the
amount imported between 1820 and 1827. There were
96,000 pieces of silk handkerchiefs ed Lich came from ea'
possessions in the East. Did any one t ay, that the menu" t
facturers of silk of this countr4, hAd been injured In t
consequence of this ? Take again Ihe article of flan
from which linen was made. In 18'35 . the importation
was 740,000 cwt. ; in 1843, it was :1,438,000 cwt.,
nearly double what it was in 1835. The case of w'o°
was the same. The importation in this article had , .
doubled in ten years, and yet in spite o f that the price et
wool grown in this country had inert rat ied from tod. t°
Is. 6d. per pound. Cotton, too, had inc Teased from 181°
from 90 millions of pounds to 585 millic ins, yet this had
not affected the agricultural prodtece of the country
He was prepared to argue that no harm had come to this
country or to the population in any sh rt e from thus is;
creasing importation in these most uso ful articles. Le
them turn for a moment to the prote ct ed trade. What
had the West Indies been doing lately- 1? He had heard
persons in the House of Commons gel; up and say that
they were producing sugar at a cost o f 6 id. per lb., I°',
which they could only get 6d. per 1i &. Why, suppose
the manufacturers of this country • were to do this' ,
and call for a tax to be placed on the people i,ll
order to enable them to carry .an their trig°
to a profit, would they not be classed as fools 0, ' i
something worse? If the West India people could 11°` 0
carry on their trade, why let drop. (Loud cheers.)
The men who; of all others, deserved the least srfl
' '
pathy, were the proprietorein the West India colony'
--(Renewed cheers.) There was anot:ear protected ity
terest, and that was the shipping ineare st. The conV
plaint of the shipping interest was one et mtinued howl'
They were continually calling on the Legislator! It.
for relief—they had been protected into their it:
present wretched condition.—(Hear,) There was el•
Committee now sitting on the subject-411e same sort isi it
Committee that used to sit to inquire wh y the farmers k
were badly off. They had examined a las ge shipowner
in London, who, at the last election, if Ile voted at 8,1"
voted in favour of monopoly. He told ti sae Comtnittl-, t"
that ships could be built cheaper in the colonies than
they could in this country, and it was they efore, he sel.',l
necessary that a tax should be imposed on' all ships bie'
in the colonies. Now what could be aloe a absurd 601! .
that ? Was it not disgraceful that the shit pping interest;
of this country, which wee the mistress of tai to seas, shod
come to the House of Commons and ask •for assists"eed
in the difficulties in which they were plated? This h'.
been the effect of the agricultural prote motion in 01'
country. His business was entirely one -on which Fait
liament had never laid its deadening• fingers, 1, A
the shape of an Act of Parliament to Prn'i It ,9 t'
tect it. Let them look te the col ton trade `,, Itaitec4lffe-1
Lancashire. Sixty years ago cotton was scarcely know, 0 hereby there. It was said that the man was. still alive w.„/e !t. /suit.,
hauled the first bale of cotton into Liverpool that cs',, s,'"eilles r
from America. He had no doubt, too, tin it the inati''',:f • icciee" at
erected the first steam-engine in Lancashire for the fll,-(1 killeirreelet'
pose of weaving cotton was still living. He would re -a Illall, esIZ,
to them a statement of the value of' property in land °'te ' :rning SU
buildings in Lancashire. The valuation of the county rate a'
including, altogether, stock in shops, furniture in hat: ,vvitnlB44,
and including the enormous value of machinery eu"; -------st
ployed in that county. Tbe annual rateable value "I'o to
6,192,067 L How many counties .did they suppose,, 1?
re- "to a England and Wales, it would take to make up this, ficut, an
Huntingdonshire, 272,5701. ; Westmore land, 256,3031, ; ogle sale
Rutland and Anglesea, 15,7001.; Brecon, 171,13215: Ts7l,-)is'
Cardigan, 180,151/. ; Carnarvon, 204,2984 ; Dettldr tune, trees]
232,7031 ; Flint, 207,456/. ; Merioneth., 25,506/. ; 310111,i kit: trees]
goutery, 273,9641 • Pembroke, 217,2.?...2L ; Radnor affil lider41:11(
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Berkshire, 652,91 a ;Buckingham, 636,027/ ; Herefer'
627,1371.; Hertford, 724,6871.; Monmouth, 453,7501; endf
Oxfordshire, being a total of 5,860,482/. The whole ‘'t
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IitE,E,oN,
Wales was rated at 2,443,5101., and all England'". e
48,169,5881. Thus was Lancashire two and-a-half tinie,,f ltPaYinarkaelt'
the amount of all Wales, and more than one-righth "t„ elt, as is
all Englan 1. This, however, was an unimportant feed essayri li ix
if they spoke of it to the squires.. They certainly hst.. settentlst'r,
passed through Lancashire, when on their way to 60° necessary
Vi Th • Y.
land for the purpose of grouse-shooting. They ss„ Ivire:ir T
there a great many chimneys, and a great deal of sten; . salletig an'
and a great many working men, who did not Woe, t.,etts e:li
their hats to them.—(Great cheering.) That was a ver,,, firitest ei; disagreeable feature. But it would be well if tiles' .....__At4rea at
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men would reflect that there was such a county.—(esLise
hear.) The majority of the corn and flour produced In A.
Lincolnshire went to Lancashire. The landlord 001 B 7
tr-d"
would not lose by the abolition of the corn-lays—they.,, t ~ td vat
might lose in political power, but not in a pecuniatiij Nattkre
point of view. But they should recollect that politic Thlewort
power might be bought too dearly. Who were ti)(lsl.° ,t'r'amp
who kept up this system of monopoly? Sir Rol!err.t ISt grits
Peel's father made his fortune by honest trade—e3' f jp---a-z
ATI
Gladstone's father made his fortune by the extent. 0,,
his operations in foreign commerce. They had nothinio -
to boast of with respect to ancestry. They could not S 0
" Their blood
Had flowed through scoundrels since the flood;"
and yet it was these men whom the aristocracy bosstsol
of—men of whom it might be said that it was douby,
whether they had any grandfathers or not. He 10e.i,
not which were the most contemptible or disgrace,,uor
the aristocracy who became the dupes of these melt,
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the men themselves. The Standard, in a late article, "'""to
contended that the labourers in Lancashire ought
share the profits of their employers ; and
,t,
,
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Herald the other day alleged that wages PP;el
fallen ten per cent, since 1842. This was.
most infamous assertion. He had no personi
acquaintance with the editor of the Standard, but he lie. ni
derstood that he was a native of Ireland. If so, theogt
he was a living contradiction to the assertion
,„t,''is
Ireland produced nothing of the reptile species. 1_4..
paper, the Standard, a short time ago, consigned, 'lrti.
out the slightest remorse, all the manufacturing clllO,
and towns of this country to utter ruin and destructi°,o
He understood that this publication was now in the PT
Qf the Government. In the years 1816 and 1817
r" system was established in this country uncle, l
-
Lord Sidmouth and Co. In the year 1820 two air
serving, but erring men, paid the penalty of t,1:;1.
lives on the scaffold at Stirling, on account of t"`i,
having been engaged in some seditious movenlenbi
Those men were brought to that untimely end througo,
the instrumentality of a spy. The Standard, a ffh
days ago, said they were particularly acquainted wit ,f
the subject of the manufactures of Lancashire. One 40
the spies in Scotland, in 1820, was a cotton weaver.
that
might be that that very man wrote this article in to .1
Standard. He (Mr. Bright) did not say tal 41
it was ; but he had heard that this indiviu;s
had been engaged to supply the columns of
tV
vvitts t:
gemini of the press, the herald and Standard, ~d
matter. Oh, this was a filthy trade.—(Cheers.) Nothlo
could be more glorious to his (Mr. Bright's) mind, Ih, ,
an organ of the press like the daily press of this courlf
d,' ,
if it were managed with honour and integrity. He
-no
not think that any man, however great his ambits
might be, could wish for a higher honour than to Per -1
forth, every morning his sentiments to ten the
twenty thousand reflecting, intelligent minds. the .
was thereby insinuating his own soul into /30
souls of thousands of his fellow-countrymen. 0
when a man perverted this power he becaras. ,
demon. He (Mr. Bright) called upon that meeting
and upon the inhabitants of that metropolis,
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go
slacken in their efforts—not for one moment to I°l,o
their resolution, until the corn-law—that impious--,,ito
blasphemous law, had been abolished for even-et.'
Hon. Gentleman sat down amidst loud cheers.) „ee/
The CHAIRMAN then said that he bad the PIP" 0
duty to perform of announcing to them that the neon,
would be their last meeting during the present sesstb,
Their next meeting would be held on that day 111,tot
in Covent-garden Theatre. He thought they ought
to separate on this occasion without giving three chi
for Mr. Cobden, Mr. Bright, Lord Howick, Mr. Gibs
'i:
Mr. Ward, an the other Members who supported- 3ior
Villiers in his late motion in the House of Common
a repeal of the corn-laws.
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