The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-29 00:00:00

.......----Thei
among all classes of the people.-(Hear, hear.,),bBBos,
told the tenant farmers in 1815 that wheat wowe,2 tilel
a quarter-in 1822, in 1828, and again in 18 see,
were feeding the farmers into the same chiatericsp,
culations ; and now, when this system has es
ibiliti
they are trying another last chance on the gn,,,atibt
and ignorance of the farminc, class, in the hope ulgietTe
injustice and mischiefs of the corn-laws may bie Tr-eves'
tuated for some years longer.-(Hear, hear.) ' sail
these Anti-League meetings are,
of themselvesh
cient to procure a repeal of the corn-1100.0001
hear.) What do these meetings consist of ? 1)11,,otf
lords of all degrees, landowners and squires, core*
magistrates, game preservers, and game slang 000,
chairmen at quarter sessions, transporters of 11°000
o
and the unhappy portion of the clergy of the SO /00
Church. They put a farmer in the chair whop re,,o
to be unaccustomed to public speaking-(Laugh?
who, having heard monopoly fallacies so often, re escO
few of them with considerable hesitation. The slt, ol
the Anti-Corn-law League is the staple conun'4olo
their speeches. The assertions which they
the
two things-either the utter dishonesty of the rd 110
who make them, or the profound ignoranee;vo
landowners of this country.-(Loud cries of '"Atid
hear.") They held a meeting in Yorkshire tbn co,
day, to counteract, I suppose, one which was hellolo
Lord Harewood was in the chair. The large Pio,
proprietors said there was no use in arguing "tea'
tion, as the time for argument was gone by. 00
ter.) Putting aside, however, all the argumentsecd r
they used for and against-for I will not take 1,11) ,ifi
time with them-let us see what one of their "of
tions was. They stated that one-half of the holm fr
country would be thrown out of employment hi,..„- g el
peal of the corn-laws. Now, if I said fl
monstrous at one of the League meetings, I never joie,
come to one afterwards.-(Laughter.) ,If the.4os°
duction of the produce of one thousand '7O!
land from abroad would throw out of cultivonges 0
,ii
thousand acres of land in this country, how issfati
that the enclosure of millions of acres of o?
this country has not thrown out of cultivation aof
%ere of land?-(Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") 1102
read an extract from a newspaper published in tje
which this argument is disposed of. (The Hon.Genrf
then quoted from the article in which it Ivas toe,
that there was no more reason to fear that the 11,1,,fotei
tion of foreign corn would throw land out of cathoo,
than the improved system of husbandry which Piero;
a greater quantity of corn, and the increased 111113,1,„, el/,
acres which had been subjected to theplough.Ylle er
of Harewood spoke of ulterior designs on witeiO
of the League ; if the League had no.Uut:ol4
design, the course these Anti-Leaguists are 1),, tot'
would prove a necessity for such designs.-01e%ear
He says that we are merely a set of cotton Ins6„,;001
Curers and mill-owners, and that it is cotton ,
!ern-that we are mere speculators-men II"
she poor to nothing-that we are against the istet'
and landowners ; and then the Noble Lord re; ofd
circumstance which your Chairman has mentioned'io 0
anonymous farmer having attended a meal cd,
Onanonymous county, who bad his stacks ,
,r,
burned; and he then says that there toe,
man in his senses can doubt of the illoe0:t
of the Anti-Corn-law League.-(Laughter.)
_.„"-- fur ''o
must have been asleep for the last five YeThi;ye blal
have been over every county in Great Brit iegt.,)
held in that time more than one hundred inerolll,%
have circulated thousands of newspapers, an" reserri
of tracts, which explained fully and witholit '
what the intentions of the Anti.corn-law 1',_,,, lefter,d
and have been-the man cannot be in n'of ro)
or they must have served him to a 1-100,1
purpose.-(Laughter, and cries of ." Flestlitios y
That Noble Lord knows nothing of the e(Seed
the population of the country in which behrob,r
knows nothing of the importance of the great ,„" P 0
national industry, the woollen manufacture we, itsofoi
shire, which his legislation tends to destroy---lt af. I'd
nothing of the peril in which that trade now stfeteesi
that great man knows nothing of these great 'tiolfj
national prosperity, of dignities and wealth beoper4
joys, and for which he is indebted to those !IA ei,
interests which he now affects to despise yr, 190(
and, by his legislation, endeavours to destr°,7ls 0080
only known as a large landed proprietor--; je 0
the legislators of the country, and has s ee9 to_itilio
House of Lords ; and, according as he cheese/0- 4_,00
himself, is high or low down in the peerage" a cP7pil
forsooth, is the man who comes forward 011000)
us, the Anti-Corn-law League, with the mostiioeliveo
revolutionary intentions! But I tell my.r-au ig nos iti;
that such unfounded and libellous accusationos 0001
to raise the character of the aristocracy Of wthereot°
and if he dares to charge us with such critaes',. Ai 0 41
men in England now who will yet humble t"" ea 01;,0
to which he belongs. (The meeting here res...e 00,V
and cheered for several minutes.) There.roitl':A
Lord at this meeting-Lord Faversham.
~Pe ieboY
the corn-laws were for the protection of te,e,ieg, 0;
classes, and to prevent an overwheiw" tof
ruinous competition with foreign countrietbero.)
what protection can there be when oilliv." d
no less than between three millions and fenrere.i7oo
paupers in the country? Why, if there::,o o,lor
fifteen millions of acres of good land, Whieu - 00,
of nothing but ploughing and sowing to give 700
of
vest, how could there be protection for the
,i, o,"
and we cannot go abroad to get food, b 1
of Lord Faversham ? The sea encircles w-elie er,ol
corllo4 .„e!
the provisions of these infamous restrictive ar;eth lq,:iff
distinctly ;that no law can operate as a pro
there are at least three millions of persons it teil,.oo
in a condition of pauperism. His Lortlaw, gisord
truth in the next sentence, when he says dill:earl°. it.,
affords protection in having lal-,our tran sll°l\e, t °;ror,,
to nth°. ‘l--lki --7 I. Why, that is ii.,....117 costs 9
We can pic.,jiice eilougt:, ..e have milliOrg, °,ll 'Ol, lei
anxious for the fruits of our industry, but -iits 'V
roso, us out from these markets, while ; 'so
other nations to compete with n" tll°
fully in those markets, although net bile Vei
one-half our skill, ingenuity, or industry, lee or
same time we are compelled to give a rsuchi for .0/
of the profits of our industry to the land 10 tY
balie f
than what he would be entitled to, only for totter
op
(Hear, hear, and cheers.) There was ont the co II
nobility there-Lord Tyrconnel. He let ellageoie iir,
hoof most distinctly. He said, of all the,,,„keti e,
which the people were gulled, he iy-that„,ool
that of free trade as the greatost,e ecrol
was attempted to be palmed upon of free JO
because it was impossible to have a systenl, ° thi°;efl:
in a country which was so heavily taxed to be o'
(said this scion of the nobility) if we areral Lore
trade, let us have it, not alone in agricultu, ie i f
but in everything else that can be procl,llc; tbediStir
countries. Earl Tyrconnel next alluded old ''.(
holders, and hinted that there should b. it ilail fo!J
ment come to with the fundholders %s best theAt",
equitable, and such as that they might theLif
share in the losses which would arise frewdeperl
state of things. I think that the man Ivil°d trittliii;sl
the straight line of honour, consistency,, anti, Op c „§
rally finds it difficult to come back agalll Aof -4 ,of
line of conduct. My Lord Tyrconnel is tithe°- Will" #.l.i
who have been plundering the homes of r itrost n
and hardworking people of this countryefea tlieeehif
twenty years, and now when we mil t 01.°0?
course thus pursued had produced nothing boll 41;14'
misery, and privation, and tell him that he,111,, t0,,t1140 °<
right to plunder, we don't demand of I"_,'" ,in kV",
for that which is past cannot be recallin,s, pit ilitoo
tell him this, he turns round on us, and 55.7.6 o'6o
on the fundholder-in other words, he soY_"ith l'l.
It has been remarked, with much truth, wrobbrie
.5
the monopolists, that some one must befeileig,,oo/0
want to bring this most extraordinary ,bat ril beep
mind, and I will tell him, in your name, we ebrioeleo
we will unite to put down monopoly' Yetthet a If 90e
parties to help him or any one else to islets.) el?
any one class of our countrymen.---(C,Lughte4
was also a "squire" at the meeting---v-on tb,he 0.00
Richard Bethell, Esq., and he, presuming „ trove) 70
city of his audience, said, if there were non.' that 0 119
was more self-evident than another, it Wde'peudete ,Il,ject'
interests of the nation were mutually a tile 00)0
one another, and when one suffers the . 14
be a consequent depreciation in this le Po',
Why, I must again say
we have already so frequently 1'4;00 01_1,1'0 tboe
that iterate co,
wrong done to us, the industrial pont„aler'so,o
munity, must eventually fall upon their-0ia,0153
selves at some future period. Buttilt tin, G,
thell, was in the position of a man wo°2;,a vfn' 01W
some one else what he had no right to, '''.',',/e is wa 00:),
to restore it, replied, " No, a great prinoe%le 0.000, rot
society is so bound up together that n
~. inflict'. of SO
without involving others in the stun' to foti ji tif
therefore, I shall not make restitution s sr. 04004401
handkerchief."-(Loud laughter.) , This
of 01, ytif
it remembered, is one of the Chairmen -of tor sa/,
Sessions, and, therefore, do I spes,k 1 feteenV
a degree of " veneration," which the ,;0(1 iv r,
to 4, boye 00e, to
utterly inadequate to convey'
(Laughter)-for I recollect in nay daYsvoo te,..tobi, 0
entertained a feeling, amounting Ow_ the ri,:oi
wards the high functionaries residing 501 n;ecisw
an observance of their conduct, deciele_n'their ,7000 hie
after life, soon convinced me that in
ht he,, 11,1edi'
however those high functionaries nisity, jostsuitisil,
by law, they were but little influence" L'i 1 0 f to
cpseio 9' 0, _i , '
vidual asked, had there been any `", egrl._. 4 eed
capacity of Chairman of the QuarterArolinetko.Porrt iii;
__n., v 30.. _. ps , P .0'
taxes which pressed most heavily •r they soa i;
dustry, or whether, on the contrary,o,,,e ,
0,,,,,r0.,,,0
creased, and were they not daily incrZeicie."-, Y_
P. et,
county rates, which fell solely up!' 11.,„„estLailew,te
the station I occupy," said th's,
__ , bev
terests, were not a most Leahoppreissive2"-r haveti,l
"as Chairman of the Quarter Sesole;leets, ita?_,, SP.ted;
means of being informed on these 3.1172
eyed eiti..;Yroter
rates are riszu/a be 00,01;
state that the county
not that a reason why agriculture
0,, 1.0p00,.,the vie
The Anti-Corn-law League did n i out ie, W.O
solidated Fund ; and not one of the to ,, M5)11
8 s V'
t 0 the _ to a
burdens upon agriculture should b. ee
inPasny cho e 54
the agriculturalists bear were to be Es wer,tni 1,,b; oc
account." such were the words of tiro fix, 10,401;,00
of Quarter Sessions. That was t 0.,.... Theceitb 0%41
party was in the House of Comm"'
rotecti°lll;hich Of °II)
that Parliament can give no,more P been w 0 1,06
All the
it take off an more taxes. ,_ en/cove
dog. rriPeit Ile
tupon
lastthe
washa
that
agriculturaltipe inn t e
shepherdsr
An Honourable Member belongla „ropeev,hoe.viee,c
of Wales, the other night rose,. t 4-0,000.007,,,„
01(
intended for the purposes of manure got,
_„rii_i_j
0,
exempted from toll; but there wer.e_se;Qugh
.he )09,,,,e, ;
on his own side of the House, wnutaik of_4ober, f!,.,
would not be quite advisable to. gee.
.P.... teor„or:
" free trade" just now ; and to% eethint 10705
back to his original obscurity, af,aeghter.,?oaety,oo, e
heard of his motion.-(Cheers and I „f. the. t .rossc`of etas
Bethell had talked of the increase 'from tnesiere 04
Those rates had increased- I sa!,:,,t the Prewbo c isso
of poachers-from the keeping in no ~,.. ifjoa
aristocracy, and by sending ~:c? tay a dq.'
to be crossing a geld, attend .