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What would be the next opposition affair he did not
knew, but whatever it might happen to be, ten t one
but it would assume the cloak of humanity, in order to
deceive honest and not very shrewd people.—(Cheers.)
Now, we had been charged with intolerance, because we
had found fault with some projects that had been brought
forward to remedy the distresses of the country. Why,
if they quarrelled with them at all, it was because they
had been ostentatious projects, brought forward to di-
vert public attention, and not, as they believed, with the
real intention of serving the object professed by the pro-
pounders.—(Hear, hear.) Who could say that the
League had ever found fault with private benevolence
or had ever stopped to quarrel with men going about
to do good, and not seeking to proclaim trumpet-tongued
their own good works ? But it was when men who
supported the corn-laws were found ostentatiously pro-
pounding other schemes to meet a great political evil, it
was then that they had a right to criticise and question
the intelligence, at least, of those parties, and to ask how
they could profess to serve the people, while at the same
time, by their votes, they were trying to starve and im-
poverish the people ?—(Cheers.) lie must confess that,
having been let a little behind the scenes in the conduct
of these parties, he did suspect that a great number of
those who had got a reputation of being benevolent-
minded in public matters, were trying to start these
false scents with the view of leading the people off from
the question of the corn-laws.—(Cheers.) Ordinary in-
telligence might teach them the utter futility of trying
to benefit the people who, by their own legislation,
were kept short of the necessaries of life. They told us
that the people wanted water, and wanted good houses.
No doubt these were excellent adjuncts, and indeed abso-
lute requisites, to a civilised and comfortable state of
existence ; but did they ever hear of people short of
food keeping themselves clean or warm, or heir's,b com-
fortably housed ?—(Hear, hear.) What was the state
of the people in the worst district of Edinburgh ? Were
they inhabiting miserable hovels—were they wanting
of well-built houses ? No ; the very worst popula-
tion of all Edinburgh were inhabiting what were
once the palaces of the nobility and Queen Regent
of Scotland ; and if they would put the whole po-
pulation of London into Buckingham Palaces or
Windsor Castles—if they kept that population on a short
allowance of the first necessaries of life, they would be as
degraded and debased as they were now in St. Giles's.—
(Cheers.) Now, he would charge with inconsistency,
and express his detestation of the motives of those whom
he saw prominent in advocating better houses and a better
supply of water to the people, and who at the same time
denied them employment and food. He hoped he should
always be ready to discriminate and give the meed of
praise to those men who, whilst they were aiding, or at
least sanctioning, the remedying of the evils which they
as free traders attacked, were also prominent in advo-
cating other ameliorations of the condition of the people.
—(Cheers.) He received a letter the other day from
an old friend of his, and a fellow-labourer in those efforts
they made six or seven years ago in the cause of educa-
tion—he meant Mr. James Simpson, of Edinburgh—in
which he spoke in somewhat a tone of complaint of the
remark. which were made in Covent-garden Theatre
upon the subject of public baths. Now he (Mr. Cobden)
should be anxious to pay the tribute of his highest
admiration to the conduct Mr. Simpson had pursued.
He had not prominently advocated free trade in corn ;
but he had been a silent contributor of his pound or so
to the League, and they knew that they had his good
wishes. But if he or any one else thought they could
promote the benefit of mankind, by giving their atten-
tion to other questions, why God speed to him, and he
wished him well in his labours.—(Cheers.) He saw a
great many working people present ; indeed, hew could
they assemble 5,000 or 6,000 people in that Hall
without having a great portion of those who worked
with skilled hands and heads for their living ? And
he never liked to omit saying a word to them on
the state of their question, though it was difficult to
say anything that should savour of novelty. But
they had heard what Mr. Brown had told them of
the condition of the people in the United States.
He told them that every person there had seven
pigs and five sheep, and that there were horses to
every family. Did it ever strike a working man what
is the reason that every family has more horses, and
every man has more pigs and sheep, and quarters of
corn, in that country ? Why, it was simply for this
reason, that there were more horses, and pigs, and sheep,
and quarters of corn in that country, in proportion to
the people, than there were in this country.—(Hear.)
And was there any working man who had not carried
his logic and argumentation a little further, and said to
himself, " If there is less for the whole of the people of
this country than there is in America, it is impossible
that each individual can have so much as each individual
in America." And when somebody must go short, de-
pend upon it the short commons would fall upon the man
who was the poorest in the land.—(Hear.) Now, this
seemed to him to illustrate what:free traders meant by
having corn and provisions cheap: they meant to have
them plentiful. It was only a kind of conventional term
for " plenty," when they said "cheap ;" it would be a
better term to use " plenty," instead of " cheapness"—
indeed, as the old compilers of our Prayer-book did,
when they called it sometimes plenty, and sometimes
cheapness. But if they had not pigs, corn, and sheep in
the land, the people could not eat them ; and the only
way he was aware of was that of getting more into the
land. True, some of the agriculturists told them (and
his friend Mr. Philips would bear out what he said),
that if they would only wait they would produce as
much as the people wanted to eat. Now, they had waited
for thirty years, and they had not done it ; and he
thought they were playing the dogs in the manger now,
for they would neither do it themselves nor let other
people do it.—(Loud cheers.) Well, they had had
another turn of the wheel ; the wheel of fortune
had gone round, and now they appeared to be on
the upper spoke of the wheel, and the agriculturists
were down in the mud. The agricultural class was
now the class that was suffering more than any in
the :country for want of food. Now, there was not
a more helpless class in the community than! the
agricultural labourers : they had not the means of com•
bination ; they never met to express their grievances ;
they lived a solitary life ; and we heard nothing of their
distresses except through those horrid outbreaks of in-
cendiary fires.—(Hear, hear.) Well, if there was not
another motive on earth to induce us to go on with this
agitation. to get more food into the country in order that
the people might have more food than they had now got,
the condition of tho agricultural labourer ought to excite
us to continue those exertions.—(Cheers.) Let it be re-
collected that this great cemmunity around them was
committed before the world to the carrying out of this
cause.— (Cheers.) This agitation had been cradled in
Manchester, and monopoly must be coffined in Man-
chester.—(Loud cheers.) Every age, every generation,
had some distinguishing struggle that marked its his-
tory. In one century we had the contest for religious
freedom another century marks the era of political
freedom—another century comes, and the great battle
of commercial freedom has to be fought—(Cheers)—
and Manchester, and those free cotton districts around
it (he called it a free district because the cotton trade
had never been dandled by protection, and never owned
its devotion to monopoly)—were pledged to take the lead
in this great contest—a contest that had already become
historical ; for it was marked upon our Parliamentary
annals as one of the greatest of modern combinations.—
(Cheers.) The y could not draw back from this contest.,
but they must bring not merely disgrace upon them-
selves, but disgrace upon the nation, and prove them-
selves recreant from the very race from which they
sprung.—(Applause.) It was not a mere contest for a
few more pigs, a few more sheep, or a little more corn.
If the mere physical, the material gain to which we were
looking, was all that we had to hope from the trial of our
principles, why it would be a sordid and mercenary con-
flict after all. No ; the triumph of free trade wss the
triumph of pacific principles between all the nations of
the earth.—(Cheers.) It was a blow, and a death-blow
to the old system of diplomatic intrigues between the
governments of countries.—(Cheers.) It was making
them, as the industrious fabricators of this district, and
their friend Mr. Brown. and such as him, the ambassa-
dors and merchants of this country, it was giving to
them the title-deeds by which they would secure to
themselves and all nations the blessings of peace for all
times.—(Loud cheers.) He saw in the distance—he
might perhaps be dreaming—(No, no)—but he saw in
the distance a world's revolution involved in the triumphs
of free trade principles.—(Cheers.) The very motives
whit had led governments and ambitious rulers to rear
up great empires, and to aggrandise the world's terri-
tory—those motives would be gone, and gone torbevter;
better
profit they had taught people that they could e
profit by the prosperity and freedom of other nations,
through the peaceful paths of industry, than they could
triumph through the force of war or military conquest —_(Cheers.) He might be dreaming, but he thought he saw
in the distance that great empires. and vast and power-
ful military and naval establishments, would be no longer
necessary in the governments of the world when they
had established free trade throughout it.—(Cheers.) If

L I
Mr. GEORGE WILSON, the Chairman, rose to address
the meeting, about half-past seven o'clock, and said—
They were assembled this evening, at the commencement
of the seventh year of this agitation.—(Cheers.) How
many more meetings of this description might be re-
quired before the corn and provision laws were abolished
he could not pretend to say; but he confessed that, look-
ing at the extent and character of this meeting, he did
not believe that in any of the past years they had opened
their proceedings under more favourable auspices.—
(Cheers.) They met to-night more especially for busi-
ness. Ten weeks ago, the plan which they proposed for
the enfranchisement of the counties was laid before the
members of the League by Mr. Cobden.—(Cheers.)
Since that time the hest energies of the council 'rad been
directed to taking those steps most likely to c. educe to
the success of their plan. Since then t irty-five
meetings had been held in various parts of Le icashire,
Yorkshire, Middlesex, and North Cheshire—the greater
part of which had been addressed by their respected
friends Mr. Cobden and Mr. Bright.—(Cheers.) Now,
it was not for him to say what would be the success of
this plan ; but he would say, that unless each of these
districts placed on the register, by the 31st of January.
from 500 to 1,000 free trade votes, in addition to those
there before, the free traders would not have done their
duty. —(Cheers.) With reference to the statement made
at the last meeting, as to the increase on the register for
South Lancashire, it !sad not been controverter' that he
had heard of. They then stated it to give a majority of
1,700 free traders now, and on looking it over again for
this evening, they were prepared to abide by that state-
ment. Should the Noble Lord the Member for South
Lancashire take it into his head to imitate the example
of the Noble Lord who lately represented North Lan-
cashire, the public would have the opportunity ofjudging
if they had not• estimated correctly.—(Cheers.) The
Chairman then called upon Mr. Philips, the Member for
Manchester, to address the meeting.
Mr. MARK Plumes came forward, and was received
with great cheering. He said he could not help sus-
pecting, when he received the invitation to attend that
meeting, that the chairman had
_!t, in his mind that be
(Mr. Philips) had been devoting himself to farming pur-
suits a good deal lately. He probably took him to be a
little of a backslider. He perhaps thought him to be
somewhat like a razor that had been laid aside for a
time—he was losing his edge, and required setting
again.—(Laughter.) However, there he was, and he
hoped they had spent a merry Christmas, and permit
him to hope that they had entered on the commencement
of a prosperous and happy new year.—(Applause.)
Since he had last addressed them he had been labouring
under heavy domestic affliction, which had necessarily
withdrawn him for a time from public life, and he did
not hesitate to say that his feelings had undergone a
considerable change, and he had felt reluctance to appear
in public. He would willingly, if he could, retire into
private life, but so long as they called upon him to dis-
charge the duties of their representative, he should feel
it his duty to endeavour to discharge them.—( Applause.)
Ile wished he could work like their friend Mr. Cobden.
j He congratulated them upon the steadfastness which they
had manifested in connexion with this great question of
free trade. He was delighted to see there was no back-
sliding among them.--(Hear.) He congratulated them
that they were determined to carry this question, and
were not to be cheated into the belief that because
they had somewhat of a return of prosperity they
were not to apprehend a return of the evils with which
they had been heretofore visited. What had legislation
done within the last twelve months to secure a conti-
nuance of this prosperity ? 'What, for instance, had
been done with reference to our export trade to Brazil
oura
zr streets,s,weavers, with
and the United States ? We should look in vain for
any change in this respect ; and as bad legielation had
pieduced bad results before surely it would again.
%V i
hat was t that had crowded 'our Exchange once more,
fid o
rti a
and traffic,m giveneactihdanics? N
employmentottwproto-
tection to agriculture, but the altered state of prices, the
cheap rate at which the necessaries of life could be ob-
tained, the extension of the market for our manufac-
tures, and the low price of the raw material on which
the industry of this great district was employed.—
(Cheers) In all this was there not an approxielation to
the very results which had been anxiously antic- paled as
the consequences of free trade ?—(Hear, he: :e) The
present position of the country offered the best practical
illustration of the truth of their principles. Somebody,
th eretore, must have been attempting to practise delu-
sion, or to state that which looked like falsehood.—
( Applause.) But they were not likely to succeed. This
was the season t'or stocktaking ; and what did their op-
ponente stock consist of? The old fibs to which they
had given such general circulation were no longer in
gar:diitf
It,hoeuyidatbteemlpitkeed smugglettroyingtopass a bad
them out in
demand,
betweenhilling two good ones, and they would fail,
as they deserved to do. But he heard an cnormous
joint-stock company was about to be formed, at No. 17,
he believed, Bend 'street, which was to eclipse all others
in the articles they were about to submit to the approba-
tion of a discerning British public. It was nut their
intention, he understood, in the first instance to attack
the League, but to attack Sir Robert Peel. and to en-
deavour to wrest from him his tariff, and his Canada
Corn Bill.—(Laughter.)
He had voted in support of
that measure, and should, in consistency, be bound to
come to the rescue of Sir Robert, if he were placed in
any predicament by this formidable society. The course
for the free traders was perfectly clear—to stick to
everything they had got, and to get. as !mach more as
possible.—(Cheers.) He had not inquired minutely
into what would be the operation of that Bill in ell its
details, being satisfied that the main result would be to
le id to an increased demand for British manufactured
goods.—(Cheers.) Be had last week travelled from
London in company with one of the principal supporters
of this agricultural society to which he had alluded, who
was a good-tempered. open-hearted country gentleman,
and Rho had declared his readiness to support the
removal of the cotton duty. Mr. Philips alluded to the
soiree recently held in that hall, at which several gen-
tlemen of the Young England party were present, and
expressed his regret to learn that with all their admi-
ration of our manufacturing industry, and their well-
wishes to the town, they had not called at the offices
of the League and registered themselves as members.—
(Laughter.) But he hoped they would yet do some-
thing for the cause of free trade. He was much at-
tached to the pursuits of agriculture himself, and had
seen quite enough of it to know that if the farmers of
Great Britain looked to so-called protection to secure
their profits, they would be grossly deceived ; they had
the d
been the subjects of this deception too long, and the
consequence r y, they were suffering
e and
dtos the at' as a
übtyod
of every one who was
really a friendue i,h
it was
farmers, to endeavour to open their
y mh. a
was,
eyes as to the real state of the case. The sooner such a
delusion was di pelted the better ; and the more they
inquired into the conduct and proceedings of the League,
the more would they be convinced that it was not the
any particular section of
that protection had not
given high agricultural wages, and it was equally clear
ta hd ev oc
co
amt em
ouf n anyit y.
that low prices of provisions in this district had not
sert shwapsarctlye,aorr
created low prices as between the master manufacturers
and their workmen.—(Cheers.) The only thing done in
the way of legislation, to relieve the pressure under
which we had laboured, was the opening of the trade
with China.—(Cheers.) This was a complicated ques-
tion, involving, amongst other considerations, the ques-
tion of how we were to be paid for what we sent out.
Our principal imposts were tea and silk ; the former, by
far the most important, was so wofully taxed that it was
almost taken from within the reach of the working
classes. And it was curious to observe, that many indi-
viduals interested in the China trade, but oppm'ed to the
League, were now calling out for a reduction (0-* the duty
on tea. But, if the Government made any concessions
on that point, they must also make concessions cn another
little article which was essential to an increased consump-
tion of tea—namely, sugar; and it would be the duty of
free traders to exact from them equal justice in reference
to those two articles. It had been said, the League was
dead, and that Othello's occupation was gone ; but, if it
were dead, it was the largest ghost he ever saw, and,
not only a large one, but a most troublesome one to lay.
—(Cheers and laughter). In conclusion, he would draw
their attention to one striking fact, that though the re-
venue was increasing, and though the Minister and his
friends weld doubtless tweet of this, as a proof of the
flourishing condition of the country, yet that the last
year's consumption of sugar only showed an increase of
2or 2i per cent. While congratulating them on the re-

champion of the freedom oft the negro they abolished
1 slavery in our colonies.—(App dause.) And when
returned free traders at the nest ele deprieda l'ipt'Z'
lit it woula be the sigual for the downetfltrof commercial, ; monopoly.—(Cheers.) Now, he •tthshhreeoreuel:.aegehish:ehno oppor-
and the
3111nstit3Ofejalaidudarrte•s,shintigt
tgheenretlemw
lawyers could do a great dealeeroenf business in hyreeeet'fbwreeetkhse.
`le thought they we. e printing; off their deeds by steam,
0, • having them lithographed, they- were geeing" n.so
fns with
Athtehme.n--(xuHtne, them.--(Hear.) Lottnroiynsotutntugtiumnaan:bwelhontoiging
in lodgings, let no young man with a good coatwas
to
hi, asacks,that could atlard 50a or 601. for an investmeonn
hesitateinrement,
slienlihillaitnfreedtongrniv'eby
Inst
a tae
l a'oci interest,ehinvestment, meta
g.
u anr tt
enablethu
vote (et the next election, and sinike a blow in favour of
inareagael commerce, which would give him a better
chance of inrospering its the world.—(Cheers.) He could
state of mind tar those pertIODS, ivhen the next election
..... not imagine
.anything more pain fall than would be the
... . . . .. .
what he said was founded in reason, and not the dretnna
1. came. who had oeglected ,the precious opportunity of
of the inseeination, then he said this was a cause which. s
qualifying themselves to take a p art in that momentous
was worth contending fur; one that not merely the near.
chant and the manufacturer, but the philanthropist teed
I struggle. In all probability tins general election would
see place in 1846; unless they p urchased their qualifica-
the Christian might well lay hold of, and glory that the f
1
ii tam before the 31st of this month, they could not be upon
liad lived in an age when he might take a share in the
thet register till 1847, and them the ea sneral election, in all
h human probability, would have
sure, one way in which youngemen mightqualify after pass al. There was, to
.
cent-Met fryer selfishness and monopoly.—(Cheers.)
A tlic:
that word trieriepoly; if they coulo only et
people
be
understand what it meant! Why theta if the very-name i
the 31st. He saw a ;good many ladiee 'resent, and they
s.eoeomed to be getting into a channel in vehich they could
was fixed on the back of a candidate, it would beitsvitiffia.;
p.er,ate with them, inasmuch as they 'were not
eient at secure his defeat at the poll,—(Cheers.)
ant it ow a word
aLli
ge odious wan: It was a curious fact, cm e to have votes; he only 'wished they were,
not knoven to our forefathers, the ancient Britons. Their I.
because many of them would make e b •
eta•r use
Welsh lecture* had g 0,,, a distinguished linguist to trans- f
, of them than their husbands did. .
—(Cheers and laughtee.)
sea Edict. a good deal of study they I
But though '
late it into Welsh,
' . ,they could not vote, it was a very
turned it into a phrase which ;:e again converted bud_ 1 singular fact—and •it would be looked upon at some fu-
into Finglish, and it was " a one-handed bargain.. -- sure time, perhaps, when ps, the world had grown wiser alma
'llovvwers
(great laliglner.) Our manufzeturers and mibetter, as an anomalous circumstance,6
zniobti,f that although.
sometimes shoufed and hurraed foe this one-handed ba r- ladies could not vote, theyaso many block-
gain. Now, there we§ a meeting the nther day at Ash:- heads and dunces to vote as they nos!
ton-under-Lyre—a meetine, of the Conservative Asso-• holds upon.—(Laughter.) Now,ife there wascoaanlyerkirmee -
ciation ; there were 400 of them-gat which Mr. Eatwisled„ earnest friend to their cause—any gentlewoman having-kind,,
Mr. Tatton Egerton, anti Mr. Cornwall Legh at.'en-de al. sous or nephews, or even grandsons ; if they should.
There was a Mr. De Hollingworthlhere—be had re,"i"," happen to be rising twenty-one, and if she had a little
the old Norman prefix to his Hattie $ a was not pla.'s, ,freehole
property that she intended to divide
" Mr. Hollingworth" now, but he had added the " De'; ttasess when she was gone—why then ne would recent,-
before it—De Hollingworth !--(Great laughtet.) Well, (m -ani to her to convey away to them a 40s. freehold
he made a speech. Bear in mind he was spe6Jlitie of
viNti. Let her do it if they were but twenty years old
Ashton, a place that had grown into existence, migif aaaaa , would then have twelve months to consider how
thli,', oc said, within the lifetime of the present generation ; V,4Y. • I make the best use of their vote when they
and it had grown by the industry of the manufacturers .6.34 one. Let such persons qualify as many
w
and merchants of Ashton. Now, hear what this Mr. "7, t w Y,Le -e they departed hence, and then they-
De
Hollingworth had to say of one class of people by as
t,thntelarcenitii.: e:,
~4... •.faction of seeing their young friends
whom he was supposed to be surrounded. He was speak- m vote fur free trade' -; ieir lifethee,—(Applause.) Now,
ing or
vi.
es ,
ing of a manufacturing politician, one of their home- i gad it was a curiou;
there might be yuCtng 1-. - _ '
spun politicians, and he said:—" He is probably a man to haze contemailated their case
thing the law seemed
who has made his own fortune by one of those luckythat e iu h you must
exactly. It was a curious fact, ta.‘ g
chances in trade that have been of such frequent occur- e 31st of Janwery to he on
buy a qualifiction before th
._
rence the last five-and-twenty years. He may be a goodmarried se qualifier:-
the next year's register, yet tf you
tradesman, may possess good, natural. sound sense, andregister though you
Lion you might be put upon the
by its exercise, by frugality and ind t • •raised US T 3• , lace nofit by marriage uy to July.
only got possession himself from awes ing a warehouse to become its master. only
and laughter.) So, it' a )(inn,
- se man let
But what then ? What does he know beyond the '
walls him, he knee of no
the 31st of January escape
of his own counting-house ? Totally uneducated—or
other way in which he could rescue himself s 'earn his.
, _
with such information only as may be gathered from a dilemma but by marrying a freehold before d, uly.—
village schoolmaster—what value would he set on that
(Laughter.) But he would recommend the y.nshatg
statesmanlike knowledge derived from experience and
intercourse with the world ? Would he not naturally
ladies not to take pity upon him; it was his duty to take
of getting married.—(Applause.) In some parts of Swi.e
s"
affect to despise what he could not understand, and sub t-
up his freedom, and qualify himself before he thought
stitute a degraded cunning for that practical and almost
zerland there was e custom that, before a young man'
once of ages, transmitted to us by the pages of his-
prophetic wisdom, the fruit of the accumulated experi-
couple of buckets.—(Great laughter.) He thought a,
was eligible fur marriage, be must possess a Bible and a
tory, the only real instructor of mankind ? Is such
}''sung man to be eligible he this country should possess,,,
a man fit to legislate for an empire? Is the calm-
a freehold for the county, and be a voter.—(Cheers..,
I: for of pence to become the distributor of millions ? Is
He recommended the young laelies to toss up their heads'
such a man, presumptuous from ignorance, to direct our
at the young fellows, uoless the could answer the fleets anti and armies ? Is such a man fit to attrise the Crown
toga tirein the affirmative, "Ate you a freeholder of the
in its most important appointments to the secred and
county ?"—(Applause and laughtor.) Now he these
duty benches ? For what portion, then, of a senator'ses visited these
there was a large class of skilled ope,,•ati
duty is such a man fit ? Is not rather his proper sphere
meetings—machine-makers, tool-makers, and men
jot f
to sweep the floor and senate-house, as he has formerly
that class—who got the highest: wages. hey were t e
done that of his own warehouse."—(Cheers and -ere meet of intellect-
aristocracy of their class; they vs,
laughter.) Cheers and laughter !—(Great laughter.) stheir order.'
they were men of the largest inconies O. .
dand
Now, there was a Persian phrase, a phrase used in te
Now, every one of them ought, as a matter of pm e
East, when a man submitted to a deep humiliation—they count `•
Hear
a matter of duty, to qualify for the
borough
three " That man eats dirt." Now, he saw the names of
hear.) It was a very expensive thing to get a
three or four manufacturers, or millowners, as present at eish it
vote; you must pay 10/. a year for a house, fun ~ ,
that meeting ; the man who was in the chair, his father
and pay taxes; but in the other case, you might live
swept the floor of a mill.—(Cheers.) Some people went
where you liked, in lodgings or a garret, if you f'ssa•-
to public banquets to eat turtle and venison ; he thought
sensed a 40s. freehold. A working man at Oldham,. toe'
those gentlemen went to eat dirt, and they had their
poor to buy a freehold, said to his fellow-workmen, " We,
stomachs full.—(Cheers and laughter.) Now if those
gentlemen, the De Hollingworths, were to come, there, in hoped as many as could would thus buy the right tot
vote, and then ' happen they would open the door for:
the presence of free traders, they would not use such
they who could not afford to buy.' "
language as that—there they never heard it.--(Laughter.) —(Cheers.) It was his
'
They might not like free traders, they hated them, they opinion that in a few years time the election for the
c
feared them, but they did not despise them.—(Cheers.) county of Lancaster would be more in the hands of the
It was only the men who went to their Conservative working classes than it was now in the hands of the
dinners at Ashton-under-Lyne, that eat such dirt as that. squirearchy and farmers.—(Cheers.) He believed, from
e what he heard of what was going on in all directions,
—(Cheers and laughter.) Now, suppose they "took stock
of the county Members of this country. They had been
that there would be such a vast number of skilled arti-
zans and better paid operatives on the county register,
told what sort of Inez the manufacturing politicians
were ; now, let them consider what sort of men did the that it would be impossible in a few years' time to
counties send up to Parliament. There were 158 county return a man for South Lancashire unless he were ac-
Members representing England and Wales in the House ceptable in the main to that clans of voters.--(Cheersa,
of Commons. Was there one of them since Lord Stan-He had heard people say this was a dangeraue politic el
,g„_
ley had left North Lancashire, of whom they could say, game they were playing, and that they were goin. to
democratise the constituencies of the country, Ins
"he is above mediocrity in talent ?"—(Cheers, and
They're below it.") There were not ten of them ever answer was, "If the constituencies have hitherto been
opened their mouths in Parliament with a chance of being an aristocracy they have made very bad use of their
listened to, unless to be laughed at.—(Cheers and power—(Cheers)—and if you mean by a demosneacy that
laughter.) They were presumed, by courtesy, to be all class of operatives who can affbrd to save out of their
educated men, and he had a profound respect earnings 501. or 601. a year, they are a class I would
''or those advantages which the highest education much rather see in the possetesion of political power than
would give to men of natural talent. But what the landed aristocracy who hive so much a \jused their
should they say of one hundred and fifty-eight men, power."—(Loud cheers.) If any working nean wanted
the picked men of their order, the picked men of their to make up his purse by the 31st of January, And hap-.
counties, so far as their class goes—what must be their pined to have an employer of common sense, they
natural attributes, when they mustered in the House of would lend him a balance of 10/. tit' 201. till he .could
Commons, and made such an exhibition of themselves as repay the 11.1011ey. He knew it was done, and had bees,
our county Members did ?—(Cheers and laughter.) done very extensively.—(hear, hear.) It was. an
Why, it was quite a common thing, if a county Member elevating and proud thing for the worl'eing man to
got up, and made a speech in which he did not murder buy his freehold. It was a far more elevating thing
the Queen's English, for a man to touch his neighbour than a deposit in the savings' bank, where he sae, nothing:
in this way and say, " That is a pretty good speech for more of his motley. If he bought a cottage, area it was;
a detached cottage, he could put his hand in his rocket
a county Member."—(Cheers and roars of laughter.)
Now, he observed that at the same dinner Mr. Flntwisle, and walk round it and say," That's mine--(Loudclasers)
and Mr. Tatton Egerton, and Mr. Cornwall Legh se- —that's mine, I bought it, I paid for it—l worked for it;
and who has so et sad a title to his freehold as I haver- es
verally spoke, and they seemed to him not to like the
(Great cheering.). Now he wanted to see the little land
prospect of things in this part of the country.—(Hear,
owners beat the big landowners at the poll.--(Cheers).
hear.) Mr, Entwisle complained that the people in
South Lancashire insisted on fighting their battle on It could be done. Recollect the men of 30,000 L a-year
could hay© but one vote. Let this be their work then
one question alone, and that question free trade. He
would like to fight the old battle of Whig and Tory continuously till the 31st of January; get qualifications,
again.—(Cheers.) Yes, yes ; South Lancashire was and.. get them conveyed to them, if it was only'by a
safe with 2,000 majority in 1841, when it was Tory scrap of paper the size of their hand; get possession of
against Whig, but Mr. Entwisle knew that now it was the property by the 31st of January, and then, when the.
free trade against " the one-handed bargain men," the next contest came for South Lancashire, they would'
monopolists.—(Cheers.) But the free traders had get a hare their friends, Mr. Villiers and Mr. Brown, in the
thousand majority just now.—(Loud cheers.) The mo- piece of the present Members for that division.--(The
nopolists talked of recovering their majority at the next whole meeting here rose simultaneously, and gave three
revision ; he said they would have a thousand more at loud cheers.)
the next revision.—(Loud cheers.) They had heard The meeting called loudly for Mr. BRIGHT, who, how-
the chairman say they must have a thousand new quali- ever, addressed but a few words to them, expressive of
ficatiens in the Manchester polling district before the the satisfaction at the progress they had made in register.
31st of January. Well, he did not know whether he ing new freeholders in the Wist Riding of Yorkshire,
was letting the cat out of the bag or not, but he believed where he had been engaged in forwarding the objet'. of
they bad 600 or 700 already.—(Cheers.) They would the League; and Mr. Alderman Brooks then moved, and
make it a thousand, and then they should be able to say Mr. Joseph Brotherton, M.P., seconded, a vote of thanks
at the next contest for the county that they ha" s ma- to the speakers, which was carried by acclamation, and
jority in the Manchester polling district alone sufficient the meeting;separated.
to overbear the monopolists' majority in Ormskirk,
Wigan, and Newton, the only polling districts where they
had a majority. Now let it be said—it shall and must be
said—that the Manchester polling district is able to beat
them in all those districts where they have a majority.
We'll insist upon fighting them ourselves, and
leave Liverpool, Oldham, Ashton, and Rochdale, and all
the other places, to look on.—(Cheers and laughter.)
But he wanted something done for North Cheshire too.
He took a deep interest in that contest for North Che-
shire.—(Hear, hear.) Now, the Egertons of Tatton—
father, and son, and grandson—had been sitting for that
county for about fifty years, with a very slight intermis-
sion. If they wanted to strike a blow that would ten at
a distance in London, just turn out a man whose family
was supposed to have ruled the county for half a cen-
tury.— (Cheers.) That was the bird they must try to
bag—(Cheers and laughter)—it was of no use shooting
mere sparrows, like their lately elected member for
South Lancashire.—(Laughter.) They would not be-
lieve in London that the free traders could turn out Lord
Francis Egerton until it was done. When it was done
it would be felt—it would be a blow that they would
stagger under.--(Cheers.) The next best thing they
could do to turning out Lord Francis Egerton, who, as
a man, as a county Member, stood as high as any man
representing a county, for intelligence and personal re-
spectability, as well as for accomplishments—if they
wanted to strike the next heavy blow, turn out Mr. Tat-
ton for North Cheshire.—(Cheers.) He was in North
Cheshire, at Macclesfield, on Monday. 'Why, the mono-
polists, at last election only had a majority of 470 or
500, and he would undertake to say that they had more
people to qualify in Lancashire and Yorkshire for North
Cheshire—that there would be more new qualifications
from those two counties than the amount of the mono-
polists' majority last time.—(Loud cheers.) Why, in
the little village, as he might call it, of Hebden Bridge,
in Yorkshire, there were forty free traders marching
down in a body to qualify for North Cheshire.—(Lousi
cheers.) Well, with what Stockport and Macclesfield
could do for themselves, and Hyde, which was a host,
they would have North Cheshire, and have it
booked as safe as any borough by the next revision.—
(Loud cheers.) He did not imagine it was imprudent
or incautious to say so in this public way. He knew
there were persons there from all parts, not only from
North Cheshire, but beyond North Cheshire ; and he
wanted them to take this, not as a mere idle threat, but
to go home on the morrow and put their shoulders to
the wheel, and lend a hand to accomplish their object.—
(Cheers.) Depend upon it they should gain nothing by
attempting to keep these things secret ; they could not
put salt upon those birds' tails—they were too old for it.
—(Cheers.) His friend Mr. Bright and himself had
been passing into almost every manufacturing polling
district in the West Riding of Yorkshire since the last 1
meeting. Now the West Riding was infinitely the
largest and most important constituency of the king•
dom • they bad 33,000 or 34,000. registered electors.
London had only 20,000 ; South Lancashire, 22,000 or
23,000 ; the West Riding of Yorkshire had 50 pr cent.
more of a constituency than any other in the kingdom
They would see, then, the importance of winning the.
West Riding more than any other ; and he
had
no
doubt, that before the 31st of January, as he had
already
stated, they would be able to say that there were 25,000
new
qualifications. They lost last time by 800 or 1,000.
But
m
they were not going to satisfy themselves in
quali-
fying good men ; they had got a lot of bad
on on
the register, and they would have them struck off ; they
would have no illegal votes there.—(Cheers.) lie spoke
i A th the
greatest delight of the reception they met with
in Yorks • Inre.They required no stimulus from them, did'nt
the people there ; the men of Yorkshire were prepared
to
do at the next election what they had done on former oc-
casions. That was the constituency that had decided the
fate of great questions in this country before. When they
returned Henry Brougham—the Henry Brougham of that
time—(Dear)—they struck the last blow at the borough-
mongering system ; when they returned him as the

THE LATE MYSTERIOUS DEATH
AT WATERLOO-BRIDGE.

Thursday afternoon Mr. Carter and a highly respect-
able jury assembled at the Hero of Waterloo, Waterloo-
road, on the body of Emma Meyer, alias Emily Ashburner,
aged 21, whose body was discovered on Monday morning
in the mud at Waterloo-bridge. The bridge-keeper hav-
ingydescribed the wanner in which the body was found,
ulia Meyer, a bingle woman, of No. 3, Seymour-
court, Church-way, New-road, St. Pancres, deposed
that the deceased was her sister, who was an unfortu-
nate female, and she used to go by the name of Etaily
Ashburner. Witness saw her alive and well on Satur-
day night. She was then in good health and spirits.
Previous to coming to Buckle's-buildings the deceased
lived at No. 40, Barclay-street, Clarendon-square.
Mrs. Anders,m, the beadle's wife, described the na-
ture of the wound which she had discovered over the
right hip of the deceased.
Sarah Ann Page, of 6, Buckle's-buildings, deposed
that the deceased came on the night of Thursday to
lodge at her house. At eleven o'clock on Sunday night
deceased took her supper, after which witness and
deceased crossed over Waterloo-bridge. They went to
Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square. At a quarter past
three o'clock on Monday morning witness left the de-
ceased in Bear-street, Leicester-square. She was then
with two females and a man, one of the females wit-
inquiry has
ovary
appeared to be upon
ness knew by the name of Eliza Simms, the other
female was called " Bella." Witness has not seen
been
At the time the two females and
the man met the deceamadesedrespectingsincealthoughthey
all vgood terms. She thought the deceased would have fol-
lowed her home, for she gave her a halfpenny to enable
her to come over the bridge. She had no money while
at her house. The address found was written by wit-
ness. It was a card of address. Deceased did not co-
habit with any person. Witness could form no opinion
how the deceased came into the mud. She never saw
either a knife, or a pair of scissors in the deceased's
possession.
The inquest was then adjourned till Monday.

- - - -
How I\lueu CAN, BE DRUNK ?—A London dray.,
man will consume a couple of gallons of ale or stout in
a day, by a process of perpetual inhibition in moderate
quantities. It is a common habit with carriers and
waggoners, who journey from country villages to towns,
to stop at most of the public-houses on the road, both
going and returning, and partake of refreshment in the
shape of ale and spirits. Add to the quantity thus
obtained that which they drink at their different
houses of call in the town, and the aggregate becomes
enormous. In this way they will often swallow two or
three gallons daily of ale, as variable in in its age and
strength as in its amount of adulteration. But still
greater quantities of beverage are frequently consumed
by harvest labourers. In Herefordshire and Devon-
shire, it is not considered an excess for a man, when
inovcing, or making hay, to drink from 12 to 16 quarts
of rough cyder in the day.—Medical Times.
FATAL CASUALTY.—On Monday, between twelve
sod one o'clock, a lad about fifteen years of age, &'u-
played on board the Admiral steam-ship as deck steward,
named Alexander Martin, lost his life at the Broomielaw.
He was sitting on a short plank, swung on the outside
of the vessel, it appears, cleaning the cabin windows,
when one of the lines gave way, and he was precipitated
into the river. A life buoy was at hand, and every
incans were used to sd.re him, but after falling into the
water he never rose to the surface, and betoro he was
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