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

_GRAND WEEKLY
11.11‘i-Tel--C9-11,N-LAW LEAGUE

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among all classes of the people.--"( Hear:
told the tenant farmers in 1815 that wheat woulBdiits
a quarter—in 1822, in 1828, and again in
ti 14
ere feeding the farmers into the .same chinses_eni,
eulations ; and now, when this system has ullio
they are trying another last chance on the g,oli
and ignorance of the farming class, is the Tropeno
injustice and mischief's of the corn-laws may 7 're?
tuated ter some years longer.—(Hear, hear-)
these Anti-League meetings are, of thews
cient to procure a repeal of the corn-larls•4o 0,11o,11
hear.) What do these meetings consist el? Pm co
lords of all degrees, landowners and squiraes
,0
magistrates, game preservers, and game
_lt. oat
chairmen at quarter sessions, transporters
and the unhappy portion of the clergy. of the Esc'
Church. Church. They put a farmer in the cVair
to be unaccustomed to public speaking---saeaub repe• "
cite, having ;iteard monopoly fallacies so, ooften,•
Abase
few Of their' ivith considerable hesitation. '•--111' not
the Aitii-VeNtilaw League is the staple COsite p ,
their sPeeelies. The assertions which they .113';
two things—either the utter dishonesty of t
,•,e of ,
who make them, or . the profound ignoran. .00
landowners. of this county .--(Loud cries ofhe„
.hear.") They -held a :meeting yoikshire,t 0,10
day, to counteract, I Suppose, one which was he hs
Lord Harewood was in. the chair. Thelarge e
proprietors said there was_ no use- in arguing 0,4
tion, as the time for argument was gone hic-tg
ter.) Putting aside, however, all the argumen
they used for and againstc-for I will not take 'Li,
time with them—let us see what one of their (Too
tions was. They stated that one-half-of the rib, if
country would be thrown ont of employment 111,41
peal of the corn-laws. Now, if I said '?rag,
monstrous at one of the League meeting's
come to one afterwards.(Laughter.) If "he ore
duction of the' produce of one thousand .000
land from abroad would throw out of cultirau
thousand acres of land in this country, how hsPr• sed
that the , enclosure of millions of acres 0' ofit
this country- has not thrown out of cultivationwPige
acre of land?—(Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") 1801,°
read an extract from a newspaper publishedijl4lcOlij
Which this argument is disposed of. (The Hon.yrw oso
then quoted from the article in which it Iva! 00;
that there was no more reason to fear that the_.,lllool
tion of foreign corn would throw land out of elussl,
than the improved system of husbandry which beY.2l
*greater quantity of corn, and the increasedly
acres which had been subjected to theplough-) the 11;40(
of Haretvood spoke of ulterior designs art titer!,,
of the League ; if the League had DO, toll
design, the course these Anti-Leaguists are L
would prove a necessity for such designs.--411e'Issfr;;
He says that we are merely a set of cotton s•osio,
turers and mill-owners, and that it is cottlie
corn—that we are mere speculators—men hies
ehe'poor to nothing—that we are against theelatel,
and landowners ; and then the Noble Lord_.., rd, of;
circumstance which your Chairman has nienti7,„. Irs
anonymous farmer having attended a meet'l cr°l,
anonymous cpunty, who had his stacks ;$
burned; and he then says that there.
maa. in his senses can doubt of the .g 1,5 sones
of the Anti-Corn-law League.—(Laughter.) for ,I
must have been asleep for the last five Ye3rs' e 131'4
have been over every county in Great Britain, :i",,gg,;#
'held in that time more than one hundred wed
circulated thousands of newspapem an reset
of treats, which' explained fully and .withertn,gueo,
what the intentions of the Anti-corn-law r,
and have been—the man ' cannot be in, try
.fro)
or they must have served him to a.
purpose.—(l..aughter, and cries of " ges"aitiOls
That Noble Lord knows nothing of the -elvesil
the population of the country in which hebonche
knows nothing of the importance of the great 4t."1,1
national industry, the woollen manufacture Ih/10 101.,%;
shire, which his legislation tends to destroy-- ds,
nothing of the peril in which that trade now elansrees r
that great man knows nothing of these great se now e.;l
national prosperity, of dignities and wealth he... ore,
joys, and for which he is indebted to those el 001'1
interests which he now affects to despise 311 Ile 1
and, by his legislation, endeavours to destrols., one
be
only known as a large landed proprietor
tip
the legislators of the country, and has a sea to
House of Lords ; and, according as he choosesod r 0
himself, is high or low down in the peerage'y cbai
I forsooth, is the man who comes forward eni, 000.01161
us, the Anti-Corn-law League, with the raOs; viforef
revolutionary intentions! But I tell my.Lor".o nettled;
that such unfounded and libellous accusationsy4
to raise the character of the aristocracy of this toted'
and if he dares to charge us with such .crimes'sieru;si
men in England now who will yet humble the
to 001,4
to which he belongs. (The meeting here rose. toots
and cheered for several minutes.) There,,,wfas,,id tea
Lord at this meeting—Lord Faversham. I°loo°o
the corn-laws were for the protection of the ,fle 0.4
classes, and to prevent an overwhelming)
ruinous competition with foreign countries: _ere rid
what protection can there be when tf,doll4s
no less than between three millions and four ":"e- tell si
paupers in the 'country? Why, if there I' in
fifteen millions of acres of good land, which was
00d 11,0
of nothing but ploughing and sowing to give a Aid acts
vest, how, could there b protection for the isisflof
'of Lord Faversham ? The sea encircles - C":ince s s
and we cannot go abroad to get food, .in eons%
the provisions of these infamous restrictiVe'_;,l..
distinctly ;that no law can operate asaprotee,seclotse
there are at least three millions of persons lnilli.oSellstljj.
in a condition of pauperism. His Lordship
truth in the next sentence, when he says that rota ,
affords protection in having labour transportedt siffs
to other nations. Why, that is exaetly 0090
We,can produce enough, we have millions Of;laW cep
anxiotts, for the fruits of our industry, but ti!,
us out `- from these markets, while stlesf
other s nations to compete with n'
at
Ptbe
-fully in those markets, although not
,l)tie of
ot,
oneshalf our skill, ingenuity, or industry, 14,..1jr,.er shistsl
_ same time we are compelled to give a inuele',`; his '
-of the profits of our industry to the landlord 100
than what he would be entitled to, only for thTer oftles
(Hear, hear, and cheers.) There was anot.the els tif
nobility there—Lord Tyrconnel. He let out usio01„00
hoof most distinctly. He said, of all the doled
which the people were gulled, he loodist ell
that of free trade as the greateste,i, eolllldas
was attempted to be palmed upon "f free' but
because it was impossible to have a system this; free
in a country which was -so heavily taxed asio hsvetsee,
(said this scion of the nobility) if wiectiairtueciet!slopireuod
trade, let us have it, not alone in agr
but in everything else that can be produced the I'
countries. Earl Tyrconnel next alluded to ps
holders, and hinted that there should be 5°
emgeunittacboime,e
and to
suchV th
,thsethfautntdhheyolders whie',. their ref
might be° the eltieoo
share in the losses which would arise frontleparts o•
state of things. I think that the man yew, ruth, fries°
the straight line of honour, consisten6y,. and his prephisi
rally finds it difficult to come back arn to
of that ,us '
line of conduct. My Lord Tyrconne is one incillstrs's
who have been plundering the homes of the oewer the
and hardworking people of this country ibrd
..`thste
twenty years, and now when we fin 00;00
eourse thus pursued had produced nothing huff gis:e erp,ss
misery, and privation, and tell him that hem :0 dog` 0.0
right to plunder, we don't demand of him Ole° es
for that which is past cannot be reealleu• put
tell him this, he turns round on us, and sass. rob _A
t to
on the fundholder—in other words, 'he stlYs:th re5P-We
It has been remarked, with much truth, wriobbect
the monopolists, that some one must
want to bring this most extraordinary lei t
pith _ ve
tea
.mind, and I will tell him, in your name, shit eeo
we will unite to put down monopoly, weyft,.t tve,el4
parties to help-him or any one else to / nsie'rs.)
,00°
any one-class of our countrymen.--(Chr` toihterLiorli'
was also a "squire" at the meeting--(l4'nisthe sol,hich
Richard I3ethell, Esq., and he, presuming e truth it the
city of his audience, said, if there were any that njpolit
Was more self-evident than another, it was, endent ors
interests of the nation were mutually 'l4 there ee'
one another, and when one suffered
the i 1150,1,00
be a consequent depreciation in his the.,
Why, I must again - say that !"..ated. cool'
we have already so frequently role os-the.hets'
wrong done to us, the industrial portiosiudioras_t,
munity, must eventually fall upon the I said Alf /col
selves at some future period. But this, , taken
sled
then, was in the position of a man who hillinwheepcyd;
some one else what he had no right ,
.sice
to restore it, replied, "No, a great prineiPf. can ',Ol,
society is so bound up together that no
.olietio7 your
without involving others in the Same in you efl,be
.therefore, I shall.,bst, make restitution te,„_. seth
_,.ter
handkerehief."-atTlatighter.) This nSlthe Qtts'iyier.
it remembered:US:me, of the Chairmen 0011, biro self
Sessions,. andS'Alfefetitf,, do I steak feel ttogl
a 'degree of " lakneration," which s t
-
utterly inadequate- ':toconvey to the
~:b-ovhoot
,e,
(Laughter)—for I recollect in my days 01
t. Oh; vs,
entertained a feeling, amounting:ell:nes the lie_nejog in
wards the high finictionaries presiding
an observance, of their conduct,jeeisions,?_,r- der.;;nces
afterlife,' goon convinoed me. that in tt":ie rodeto his
however those high functionaries -rnii„rht,onstioe,
.!josi-
by law, they were but little influencedsne)Lloos,
capacity of Chairman of tho Quarterditeinution °tool
vidual asked, had there been any
en.rieul.t in
the
dusty'; or hoirchwphreetshseerc.l monostthheecaovniltyraurp; nat:!_eby,:
.hasnacianicalterolli
ccoreutssuteyd,raatneds,Wwehreichtheyfellnsootledl)a.iulypoi;erteit. e
terests, Were not a most oppreSSlVe any-, Gento to
hepnersota.
iff,al3 tress
Learned ,uro
ore
the station I occupy," said this / have '7,,,rebi
"as Chairman of the Quarter Sessions,
find 1
ood 0
nsmtoaett
af
that at beingth
reason
ecitna
isf,onirltyytn. edratoens
agriculture
aret hes
rei
sist:2llo
ue
j3::ettpyrt•in,,,eret4oos.:;
The Anti-Corn-law League did notailsrur
a out of tn i'vbic•°o
burdens upon agriculture should be p char es
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solidated Fund ;and not one of the many
d to die
a ap
thcceoaugnrti.e,,ultusruaelhiswtssebreeatrhewweroerdtossobt;htegir
vi;orb„tehiynyicCewnh.jothajwiecirhoclaci:
poafrQtyuazatesrinSetshseionis jousTehoaft
tth
takeet P Parliament i aamn
ye nmt canore
taxes.giv give Commons.
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have been taskLaelluhtlir&
.upon the agricultural interests ha
doe's•—'ine"
the last was that upon shepherds'ce
.0 ti VI)
at lino
An Honourable Member belongin„ t
of Wales, the other night rose_ tonlintre shcorticoleit
intended for the purposes f
° some liell'„Ge.r.lisri of
exempted from toll; but there were
thought, jijou
on, his own side of the House, who 0)13 r
backrwouel free
tradeo
ttlnlaughter.) rat.,•
00
heard of hismotion.--(Cheers ant e the count nhoisto,b,rei
justgqiun quite eln
oowbsc; advisable
u and
nothing
the t
0..1111r_lte).
rs,6
Bethel had talked of the increase the pry tm;
oTfhipoosace rhaetress.,_;, bfardomintchr:akseeedp-4 is:l,7l,atfro -presiise:ce oede:
a " 13$
aristocracy, and by sending to gaol_ dog, Is
to be crossing a field, attended "