The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-11 00:00:00

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TIIE GREAT
ANTI-CORN-LAW
CONFERENCE.
(YESTERDA Y.)
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down to the Houso of Commons to witness the birth ; some
had gained admission, some had been shut out.--( Cries of
" Hear, hear.") All was expectation. The Oeposition side
of the House at the hour presented a mist amusing spectacle.
There were the farmers' friends elongating their necks and
extending their ears-s.although that was in some cases need-
less-(Cheers and laughter)-straining their eyes-( Renewed
laughter)--their hearts were rising out of their neckcloths ;
there they were, like the storks in the fable, trying to get a
peep into the Ministerial pitcher.-(Cheers and laughter.)
The first half-hour passed-there was. no delivery.-( Laugh-
p' GREG (in continuation from our Afternoon Edition of t r ) The second haif.heur passed-ne delivery. -( Renewed
- Th th'rd-no delivery.-(Continued laughter. )
There yesterday)elaid:-
Their language was-
laeughter. e i
iast_ea7erelOo,ooo bales of cotton Vislierpoteed this year tban .. oh, spring to light ; auspicious babe be born?"
ofto, wheNas the exports have considerably increased. The
-(lmmense cheering and laughter.) Drops of sympathetic
of thin
Country have not been able to purchase what the country . the Abbey-clock struck seven, and then, after the tragedy of. a
ces.- Sitar ) While the imports of the one article .. starving People," there was enacted the
_pantomime of the
decreased by 150,000 hales last year, the ex-
pnretestto,,,n
_b(as
.4 Sliding Scale."-(Hear, hear.) 'three mpnths had the
Hall einevery other article of British produce have been mate- Doctor taken for deliberation-he had sent to consult all the
siii7,.le.easetl. . That was an admitted fact. What should most renowned State doctors of Europe ; men had been sent
kn._in Peel have known by that? He certainly should have round to places " where herbs unbidden grew," to collect sim-
kav":.. iiat it proved the fact that the people of this country plea for the shop of the State Doctor.. In all directions had
were"' been able to purchase that produce. and not that they they sought for information, and we were told they had tested
hithertnout able to consume it. The people have not been able every statement. There had, been a rumour that after having
at all to procure their usual amount of provisions, or anything felt the pu'su of the petient the Doctor hadegiven it as his
approaching to it. What was the reason of that? Ihe opinion that the patieet was suffe ing fr.an exhaustion,
at to
principal reason of itthe people ob-
uged to was that
var; PaY so much for their food-( Hear, hear)-and fir the
the best remedy was change of air -( A laugh )-a long
'tun oth
banks er articles they require. The restrictions of the voyage-( Renewed laughter)-say to the United States-to
r. ,',es' and the consequent derangement in every department of Canada-to Nova Scotia-to Australasia-(Continued laugh-
Sete are the causes of the high price of food-the people should ter)-to Van Diemen's Land, and that when there, a little
9 et altogether to the measure which was lase night pro-
pounded • travelling into the interior of the countr • (Great laughter)-
all 3 --
the in the House of Commons. That measure contained lit tie who'e -
a little cutting down of the primeval forest trees -a
rno.e. evils of the old system. It might be said that the some labour in the rearing of a . log cabin-a little clearing of
e tof duty
undrr the on corn and provisions the groundand sowing of the d d then a patient waiting
see , an
• present law, but 'yet it. contained all the essential
evtls of the • for the harvest, and good appetite to eat it when gathered.
Is .e sliding scale. The evils of the sliding scale were But upon authority this decision of the Doctor had been eon-
thePrornitietit ' .
law as • in
.the proposed measure as they werein tradicted, not by himself, but by one of his
thought he
*as,
the
in it stood„-( Hear, hear.) He (Mr. Greg) _ would_ who would not dwell in our shop, but who . e could
that slid' cetteg, by a few facts, what the serious mischiefs of do better over the way--(Loud cheers)-got his indentures
numbers scale were. This country had imported, in round cancelled, and now Edward has found a new master.-( Loud
all kinedr , during the last years, ten millions quarters of grain of cheers.) The sliding scale !-and this was the end of all !-
'lnant't '---
1 wheat, peas, barley, &c. The importation of that and this was the result of a whole winter's meditation at
less than grain within those three years cost this country no Drayton Manor !-(Cheers.) " Oh, most lame and impotent
then ffes,towenty millions of money.-( Hear, hear.) What was conclusion !" Oh most ridiculoue_farce ; or, rather let him say,
u ',:f f the operation of the sliding scale upon the irnpor- Oh cruel mocker of the people-Oh heartless and wicked dis-
markets .that corn? The wheat purchased in foreign regard of the rights of human industry !-(Cheers.) A
. diatel,,. !!!?niti be brought home to this country imme- sliding scale ! What was a sliding scale ?-a key to turn
• run Jihto ‘vtitirenever there was a scarcity, all the -purchasers the lock on the door of the storehouse of the Universal Father
for instate. e Baltic markets at once. Suppos
e wheat, of the world-( Gr, at cheering)-a law that took away the.
Was Payable; for the a quarter. The duty of 203. a quarter bounty of God freely sent for the support of his children-
Se that the
try, "sautivase quantity purchased and imported by this coun- hibited the thousandsand tens of thousands from that which they
Iseult! co_.
the that to be on an average ten millions of quarters, had already earned. Cursed law, doubling the primeval curse,
lions of country ten millions of money. That ten mil- turning the warm sweat of industry into the the chill damp of
the slidiu'o"°' Y was lost to this country by the opponents of starvation.-(Tremendous cheers.) He denounced that law.
the inamegliseseVe ; the next evil which it caused was
__( Cheers. ) It was an impious law.-(Cheere.) Grant
should, as he hauds3a for
I freight, because the corn imported that suffering was not great, that there were no strong motives
expense was doubt observed, be instantly shipped. The to urge them to repeal that unrighteous law; grant that
corn should be y increased by the dispatch with which the food was plentiful-that trade was thriving-that profits were
ehated. The . sent from the market in which it was par- great. -that the population was employed-that gladness
eulated we, i freight alone of the quantity of corn he cal- and jay shone on the desolate homes of the country-the law
he had mentionmepeorted into this country within the period would still remain as unrighteous and iniquitous as ever.-
Again, three-fourths, cost this country two millions of money. (Cheers. )If they perseveres! thus to the end, and not remain
were obliged of the vessels the British people waiting for three months, they would succeed. Saul at Tarsus
country were rtee employ in bringing that corn into t is acknowledied his Master on one day, and the. next he was
within a s I"relgn vessels, because it should be imported eaching to the Gentiles. --(Loud cheers.) Display the zeal
twat,
w.tflettarieular daft. These twelve millions of money paid of new converts.-( Cheers.) Rejoice that you did not see the
~((Tear,_,l hearnt last t tee years were completely thrown away. initaity before.-(Cheers.) Redeem the time. Take your
muted...ef a. I
e But that was not all the people had en- arrefrom the skies, acrd fight this Goliath of the Philistines.-
obliged t° t was a trifle to what they suffered. They were (Loud cheers. ) Take a pebble from the brook,. and strike
The screw ° Pay with bullion for that corn in the foreign market. him down•-(Load cheers.) He wanted to get their feet on a
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the r was applied by the banks in order to save themselves, rock.-(Cheers.) If they departed from principle, and made
~,auttur esult was that the rice of the whole produce of the the question one of time, or place, or circumstance, or harvest,
The Y was immediatel raP dfm2o to 30 per cent. averages, or prices, they committed themselves to a sliding
;Each exports of this y ise
ro
n
Y year the • country amounted to -0 millons ser log. „ale. tl' or
-(Cheers.) There were other sliding scales than those
station,
w, imports exceed that by many d
egrees. The of Sir Robert's - (Hear, hear.) While they denounced his,
in
co
,e no take English goods pay ten per cent. less for them they should not adopt one of their own.-( Hear, hear. I Make
eitp„on:_quence of the application of the Bank screw; that loss, it a moral question, and they made it an intelligible one; they
exprarteeduton a hundred and fifty millions of quarters of wheat made it an authoritative one; they enlisted the best of the corn-
'stoney, len three years, would amount to fifteen millions of munity in their behalf; they made the minister, and the elder,
and hci,Winteh, added to the losses sustained by the purchase and the preacher, pray for them, and get subscriptions for
lever,
millions
of foreign corn, made the enormous sum of twenty- them ; their petitions would be laid in that or the
lion made in
sterling.-(Hear, hear.) That was a calcula- vestibule, or in the house that had been erected to Him who,
ke had , . lit round numbers, and he (Mr. Greg) believed if when among men, set- them an example, that they should tread
hearil. aid it amounted to thirty millions sterling it would be in his steps, and who when on the green mount multiplied the
li it was e t'uth; that sum was thrown away as completely as bread for the 5,000, and by his power as God, fed the
taken
,rothrown into the German Ocean.-(Hear. ) It was poor by a miracle, rather than they should go hungry away.
clas,es`_,U the pockets of the labouring and manufacturing _(Cheers.) Now for Sir Robert's speech.-( Laughter. )
any set the country, and given away to foreigners without It was truly characteristic. Was it
.a statesman. like, speeeh,,?
plete a loss whatsoever for it.-(Hear.) It was as coin-
..._(" No, no.") Was
,it a patriotic speech ?-(4 No, no. )
Into the
oto the British people as if it had been thrown Was it the speech of a Christian Minister?-(" No.") Was
Were to Leean. That was not all. The people of England there any recognition of high and everlasting principle
le Nit, haven a repetition of those evile, for they would Was there any compassion in his demeanour for the thousands
deetioemntSed as long as the sliding scale, to regulate the intro- who were perishing for want of bread, and " who stood all day
the 4% r.. foreign corn, was in operation. That was not tithe idle in the market-place, because there was no man who
itnphieLi, ant not end there; the derangement ceused by the who hired them."-(Cheers) It was a cilium's, serpentine,
erected of the screw extended over the entire country. It prudent evasion' of the true merits of the question.-( Cheers. )
eve, operativeelen shopkeeper, every merchant, every trader, He came to it like a tiger who preys stealthily.-(Cheers. )
11,4. in this country.-(Hear, hear.) It affected •that speech was a disgrace to the judgment. of their conntry -
could
...0 revenue ; for if the people had not food, they (Loud cheers)-a libel on the Christianity of the nation-
Greg consume taxable commodities; therefore, he (Mr. (Cheers )-1 mockery of the woes of the people-( Continued
Sitee4.lll°,,st cordially concurred in the resolution before the cheers) )the hard-hearted manifesto of a Ministetindifferent to
ins mare for he was convinced that the essential evils of the slid- the perishing condition of her Majesty's subjects.-(Continued
sir existed to the utmost extent in the proposition made by cheers.) He was glad that a Gentleman on the right of
W as".. Peel last night in the House of Commons. To be sure there the chair severed the speech of the Minister from the Sovereign.
itustal°troe little alleviation from the horrid, cruel, foolish, and The Ministers were for them-the Sovereign was not.-
of the ?%'I 'system which at present exists, but the
.object What ! a Sovereign-a..wpman-a wife-a mother- -a patriotf
!louse oitttstrY, as avowed by the Prime Minister in the Queen-sanction that ;Iniquitous mockery of the wrongs o
~.46 and `-'ornmons last night, was to keep the price of food_. the people !-(Great cheering, and cries of No,_no.)_ No.
Robert Per Per cent higher than it was on the Continent. Sir Not then for their Queen.
ert Peel
said .
his
Wheat it was object and his wish to keep Now's the day, and now's the hour,
(Inane, at a
.Price varying between Ms. and 533. per See the front of battle lour ;
he had--(Cries of" Hear, hear.") He (Mr. S.) was afraid See approach proud Faction's rower,
6 . alread
he sentence which was pronounced Peel and Buckingham ! (Loud cheers.)
.7 Their y incurred t
time excellent and worthy Chairman, and therefore he let them cast their eyes for a moment over the battle field,
of not allude to more than one other point, as tet the
the
h effect . "of .V. ' "-(Loud cheers.) To whom did
from the Mount _
Tiosion.
~L t cries f" N ")
tesetint:orn-laws upon this country-he would merely ask
%ern eby whom were the meat and flower produced by this No. They were the known friends of the people, the comps •
f rY
condelusion think that the menu
asteri slimed? It was a to . sionate friends of the 'people, the enlightened friends of the
and sung Or working-classes consumed them :-not at all, the meat people. Their humane, their Christian conduct, was blended
,ehtireigar, and flour, and other articles of that sort were almost with sagacious views of sound political economy.-(Cheers.)
'4 agey consumed by the higher classes. What do the people The middle classes were with them, although here and there.
meal:cultural districts live upon ? Was it not upon flour and enslaved to their aristocratic superiors. They were ex ammo
?et tt,„° potatoes ?._(Loud cries of " Yes, yes, when they can with them. The manufacturing and trading interests of she
artow `re.) Meat .is not used at all by many of them-they country were all their own. The operatives of the country
eneur.itliothing whatever of the luxuries of life-they have not were fast being educated out of those false and pernicious
wnt% even sit' the common necessaries; and Sir Robert Peel views which they once cherished. They were bringing
than know that, for no man is more acute and has more sense the hatchet of disease, and burying it in the sight of the
tot et: has--( A voice, " His conduct upon this question does country-they were joining heart and hand with the advocates
c'arou w that"
)--he knows well that all the luxuries of life are of repeal ; and ere long all classes, saving that solitary class •
the 'zed by the middling and higher classes. The people- arrayed in opposition to them, would present a fomidable and
hoe 1-"nufaeturing- the- working people-the operatives inviucible phalanx to the eyes of the Belshazzars of monopoly,
the none of ,hear.) As to what who, if they lifted their looks, would. even now see the
ii, ,1)?1,le sho ld a state 'of things, writing on the wall Who stood in their way? The land-
do in such
land-
He 4. Ores)u to sa
weuld was not then prepared • y.. holding.
aristocracy of the country. And who were they ?
lig merely recommend every man to ale with energy and What was their history..
beaddiscuss
ed
to„e eeth r When the
cheers greatness greatness of the cause they were engaged in.-( Loud labourer told these men he had a right to earn his
°f feelie,, Now, such was the state of feeling, or rather want bread by the sweat of his brew, andd to get it,
now? ' and apathy which then prevailed; but what was it what did they tell him? The men of broewho might
i acres,
astures
leal( near hear. ) They had succeeded in bringing over ride 40 miles in a straight line through pre ewes, andl p . ,
tinn' '; one-half of a great- political' party to the proposi- and paddocks, and corn-fields, and hills,
.and cales,. and
law, 1 fixed du r - - h t tal rea' of those t s-these men No, we have a right above souti-s,
the • Let them 0 Bs., and ot
.ers to a o . laws• • s ream
i 'teeth ' consider their losses, their nts, and more sacred than yours, that is to be protected in the
tutr stisee
.'et th ~,, s which had been heaped upon them, 'and then puted and unshared participation of the
~:ititire trade fl
„`ttre e- argue, and let them subscribe, and let them lec- country in the principal articles of its food., --(Hear. )Well,time
in the that'do„ when there is an universal agitation through- but from the time of William the Conqueror down to the iletv
-e Ultieer-ntrY , *and when all men are combined, then comes of the sixth Edward and the reign of Elizabeth, the Corn-law
th • .4r action, of • • fforthad for its express object abundance and c eap-
is sop() on. In the meantime let them try ever y e of this country..
.-et nf ~er and a'coie of
n the sub- It been devised and executed for the purp .
the the c enueavour to spread idormation on
ness. had .
f %tate outlaw, Man , persons present might remember giving the people a. sufficiency of le b•ad at a low rate, and say-
"'
of
i • 1 . nation the designs of the landed aristocracy, then
e,, Stet, ignorance in which they were themselves some ing the from
ben 10, and it h f the dut -of all who werewith the supply of the peoples' food,, and
apparent, to tamper aiesn bite
tae
was t ere ore y . . .
dressge ottitOrmed on the subject. to spread that information make exorbitant profits on its sale. -(Hear, hear. ) Eliza-
law or rather issued an order in Council,
of ihnthose i r!•,. When all were prepared ti.e take steps to r.et•
.et. enactee a ,
of her noblemen found combining for
„li.h, ie lawsnj.l:l,ies, and. when the conviction of
securet.he iniquity declaring that
"'Lin the peoples' food at undue profits,
Ipt. he 6401: cattle universal, then means to
I justice the purpose of
s a combination of victuallers corn-
tut ;_,RAws,sti_ Which
. should not now be hinted at.
caih,"d'ltir, the mead
said at that late hour of the day he should mittni„ a
emisdemeanour, and
infringing the common law of
A let, air' ti meeting many minutes, but,. as he had heed, the country.-( Hear, hear.) And as such they
.. were liable
AL • ier Ind (' should make a few observations.-(Cheers.) to what: To be put
into the pillory--( Hear, hear s-to be
tecoril.‘, been addressed to him from the Manchesterprison durine the Koval
subject to a heavy fine and sent to .
fo,,ice a b
the
remlution aw League, from which he should read one pleasure. If these laws were to he eget% '
en'ail2 of a
rlieli pied Pea'sed at a general meeting of the members, laeople'3 Parliament, why then, he thong t . the t •
ct
You
°t a gen the Associationsanction noprinciple save the .*, hbourini, Penitentiary would sty to his,prisoners-
to
peel ntt un
Heil
' the treadmill, make way •; I have Noble
not said that qualified repeal of the Corn -laws. Sir Robert men dancing on . _ _
,e,
R .end tensres for the ,fie the true test of the people's prosperity should and Right Honourable anti Rdigh.rties
of
~
Hear,
hear.„)
• comparative decree. in which ive lowness or highness of prices, but the this place.-( Laughter, and lotion&
assault Men, you fellows
hi's of tire they had the power of commanding the corn- Come you petty-larceny men, )
f bread in 'Thames-
of's'iina ' It hal at one time been uncle' stood to be a that were sent here for stealing loaves o
to4l
st.ls to have been born • Fn I d, but were they to be street or Spitalfields, give way, leave your places, nobler feet
toter that the peo . !n agan .
he nations? even of England were as well fed as those than your's will henceforth dance upon the tread-mill.-(A.
here."
t - I have stupendous sort of offenders coming
thand that th and if such were the case, were they 0 laugh). a
that prince of renegades
the it e People of England were not to be fed better And then my Lord of Cheerios, and
f the Derby dilly, and
ngi,d ussian boor and the Polish serf. The people of the Knight of Nether by, and the driver o
',cuntr worked three times hard as those of any otherthepaces of those
many more of their colleagues, would take
tr,,,, I, and ~..... . as.
d tempted to commit crimes.
- h d Corn-laws ha
, " the others.""e therefore entitled to much more comforts whom t e accurse
serf on the one hand
"Narded N,a lie should conclude by observing that, as The Monarch formerly stood between the s
that aristocracy was
gt,,i 4,4 Cr,nehest the people of that town had fought the and the aristocracy on the other ; but now
n the Sovereign, now
with the t ttienanfullY--(Cheers.) Ile had been connected in the ascendant ; they trampled non ulao-
now
the
People °•;., from the commencement of this agitation, and upon the people, now upon trade, now upon manufactures,,
were all-power-
to aril h there were all of one mind, and were fully determined upon industry, and now upon poverty. .
The) h were a
Mr. t_eir colours to the mast -(Loud cheers. ) ful. 'they returned themselves to Parliament
hear.)y If they
allege
oit• TIICIIStPSON said he.should avail himself of the pri- Parliament of provision mongers.-(Hear,
would write
nn the addressing the Conference, and make a few remarks were to act honestly and put up their sign, they ,s.,esr.i.
grew frPre'tflt Position of their can e, and the duty which over it, " House of Commons and House of ortt 3l,
341 those that Position. They might take it for granted that Buckingham, Peel, Graham, and Company:, self-appointed
heer s and
the a.' wh came to London- to time Conference, considered provi,ion merchants for 27,000,000 of people. -(
the de'Utlellt66 N ft. No
Complete whether reference was made to laughter.) They would add to the inscription, N. , .ii_
Cott 1: of Pros idence, of nature, or to the will of competition allowed, for corn, beef, butter, bacon, "
egisfo 'co' n -
Pose of hey "le not there so much for the par- quire within.-( Laughter. ) Take especial truce-
as for d reading each ether essays on the Corn-laws, nection with the shop over the water."--( Loud
dcheers and
claims
,cu,nts! a e_Aecidi, ng their course of action according to the cir- laughter.) 'these were the melt who dented the first
titan
't:' act' ne-A,` which they were placed, and to point out the line of justice. And why? Was it because
.they were worsehad
"e to ° vi'll"h, from hour to hour, and year to year, it would other men? No, hut they had acquired power ; they
have 'lick,
for them- to pursue.-2( Loud cheers.) Could he erected themselves into monopolists. Their monopoly had
ferettec:osen the line of pr-ocedure to be adopted at the Con- been admitted by the people for twenty•lour years. It
' tenth d.,.titis daY, he wished that it bad been confined tot so- had been supported by other monopolists, and the nation
itstinstice',:r"!l' n. f the essential, incurable, anti everlasting had now to tight a band of confederated opponents
pod"'cid Provideda'l taxes imposed upon the universal benefits of They were the monopolists not only of food, and of political
of for the support of man. If he understood the power in this country, but they were the m ,nopohsts of the
dent °I. the this.a question, it W3s based upon grounds indepen- inestimable privilege of worshipping Gad according to their
sleet
bi
wl-a• rvest, whether it were good or bad-indepens conscience. They were the monopolists of personal free-
11)cusient _,
.gaeso whether they were high or low-inde- dom ; and this very Buckingham of to-day, was the Chin-
, gouge uttr de, whether in prosperity or adversity. The doe of yesterday, who, as Chairman of the India
'ight t question was, whether an body of men had a
0 circumscribe the benefits Committee at the Thatched House, used to send forth manifesto
factor(lm - after manifesto, saying that to attempt the extinction of the
I tight to say a
cheering)-hether any body of men had hateful and abominable system of Colonial slavery, was to
ysr., ~ay to the industrious man, when he had fabricated a • his vestedright to the blood, and veins, and sir eas and
- fore"! ''' a cloth, o you shall
'goer has not exchange
kit-16,1e
_iv
_prepared for you."-(Cheers.) That was the Duke of Buckingham-so conscientious, so sensitive,
elieerse.) 0
peel
this question might to he discussed.-( Loud in his allegiance to the farming interest ot the country, that he
41 Leen a eel last night had done what the emissaries of Peel '
6. ~,
oto tang in every part of the country which he (Mr. could not consent
the 'nation Me, a belief that there
eno),-ten. t pson) had visited during the winter. He had been oc- the purpose of jockeying .
~1 a wo hours in trailing red herrings in 1 • • me of Sir Robert pod that
would be something in the measure
e Leers and laughter.) a directions.- cou'd command their respect, and prove worthy their ae.cep a-
when he i He had imitated the huntsman, who, ' . hear.) This was the hotly they
rigs to the shed to dray, bis dogs off the scent, tied a red her- lion.-(Hear,ii hear,
it
was a contest of land v.
---(Cheer end of a string, and trailed it about in all directions. • • to contend
h_ .5 a antillaughter.) Peel might for the last three months tus ice, v. the law of God, the sights of the people,
v.
all they wanted to do was
'cote b en sitting at the feet of a few men, who had all the 1 V. the happiness of the people; and
_.
winter been end to thin the
ea,,,,
... endeavouring to delude the country as to the Ito force down their plan of expediency, . .
int.) submlssion, to
it':._;(,st distress. It was machinery, it was over-production, population, and to starve the people_ ►,
• ~0,7 uperfeeundity-( A laugh)-it was banking, it was the waste their strength; and to send them.. tutu the
}ken
monetary system of America. Now, Peel might have the quiet
, grave in order that they may remain in
lit_ site
at the feet of these men fur the last three I and usurped p.asession of this Island and its contents.-
,
1_ enttwn for he had oceupied fuur-fifths of his speech of I (Hear and cheers,) But he had another charge to bring
est arsine •
stet e with these topics. -4 Cheers.) He had said he could . a
against them and it was the gravest of the two.
his reeseribe until lie had been regularly called in, and had eft* quarrelled not with them because they were lords
but he Well, he had been called in, and had received his fie, land,
that they soil, that they were monopolists of the
poise
acould not prescribe until he had had time to feel the tthaatt
e Possessed it, had seized it in the first instance,it
itre..._.,nd study the sympoms of the patient. He could not I the y had kept. it, had distributed it, had ti ansmeted
,_ it
ate:nlue until the re-assembling of Parliament. This he I
. rouyndno‘avniilossessed it-they had walled it round, had fence it
'-' at the b • •
witbeginning of the winter, at a time when a rigid I mustpursue setth -
sprin.-
~•guns and man-traps upon i , 't and they
in ;ur_ was settieg in,the
and hundreds of thousands were perish- Hi to t e dusty read, and scarcely ever, except from
less ts_r_t.'!ant-( Hear, hear) -were shivering before their fire - ' presented to aiitglimpse of those beauties which mother earth
tabn"Taavttis and looking with despair at their empty cupboards, tCheere.) II .e admiration and homage of her ehildren
ow. having sold the cuveriug of their bed to buy bread, had quarrelled not with them that they were thes
lords of these fair eile`_,.. th to gather the potatoe-peelings cast forth ou the possessions ; he could see them, and that wa
enough for- him
°f "gtiiiietlseof the neighbourhood. And there had been evidence t
wailsnor jure"' the if lie could not, he should neither scale Or
(Rea' . things before Parliament 'ere they adjourned.e fence to look at them. If they rejoiced in
I r, hear. T the feet of theirl wide
[tad e„enee his ) he Doctor had received his appointment, them possesetens, he could say he would enjo,
(Cheers and
nal,
ishop, but he wanted time to prepare his physic.
Wanted ;:ime :on laughter. ) Ile had felt the pulse, but he 1
parliament
was
study the symptoms of his patient. At length '
was to take s, called together, and last night the revelation
„ey
ain.t had heard its murmurs-the
;.or:hted.-(Cheers and laughter!) hadT
seen the smoke it had
as thehad been aneounced, an 'he hour of its bringing
hour for the mountain's bringing lock had been fixed on
forth. They had gone

4.. With a propriety that none can feel
But he who lifts an unpresumptuous eye,
And smiles and says, My father made them all."
The charge he had to bring against them this day was not
that they possessed these lands ; he would not investigate their
titles ; he would leave thorn in quiet possession, the charge
he had to bring against them was, that they were not.only
monopolists of the roil of this beautiful land, but virtually the
monopolists Cf "the great globe itself, and all which it in-