The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-05 00:00:00

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thyself, and wife are throv% n out of employment,-
we are driven back to
.our own native parish to b
Maintained by you limners' of the parish."—(Hear.
The next case came. " Who are you ?" inquires th
Board. "I am a slubber from Leeds; the mill has stopper
or begun to work short time, in consequence of *Olt&
have been out of employment for the last two month
and have maintained my family as long as I possibt
could. There is no hope for us in Leeds now, as fa
as we could make mit, ,and. I am come here to m
parish for relief."—(Applause.) This was not a cas
which occurred once a week.;.... but twice, thrice, an.
four or five times a day.—(Hear, hear.) Thus wer
the agriculturists suffering directly from the distres
of the manufacturing population. (Hear, hear.) Him
were they in the agricultural districts to -be relieVe
from this pressure ?—(Hear, hear.) Mat wer
they to do with' the manufacturing labourers
They might understand the :gear of a mill,' hu
they. might understand nothing about the gee
of the spade and the harrow, and might
utterly useless at the tail of the plough.—(Heal
hear, and laughter.) Nothing could relieve th
agriculturists from this pressure but improvement i
the trade of the manufacturing districts.--(Applause.
And he must say, that he looked to improvement
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trade, not as the best, but as the only means of re
lieving the agriculturists from depression. Big wh:
was the price oragricultural produce at this moment
Everybody_ knew that the price of stock and corn we
lower than it had been for years. Was anybody s
weak as to attribute it to the importation of corn an
cattle under the new tariff. ? Did anybody suppos
that the introduction of 1,500 or 2,000 head c
foreign, and very inferior cattle, had produced th
reduction in the price of meat ?—(Hear, hear.) IV.h
the farmers themselves did not now believe that tt;
induction of this miserable cattle had done it.

Mr. C. WOOD, let us add, is for a total repea'T
of the Food-laws, and for an immediate repeal
if that can be obtained with the ,assent of the
landowners. That is a condition always content.
plated by the League. To this end,- it send
about lecturers and publishes tracts. It hat;
never aimed at compelling, but always at CQI•
vincing, the landowners; Mit, as it knows tha;
when their own interest' is concerned, they arc
rather a stolid and stubborn race,'the League htti
endeavoured, by arousing and enlightening the;
people at large, also to 'work on their fears.
Circumstances have aided. the League, or-rather
justified its doctrines and foresight, and have en-
abled it to bring over every day an increasing
11 umber onandowners and farmers to its opinions.
Nor is the Leagum, which advocates not only
an immediate, but total repeal, without converts
in the Press. The Morning Chronicle is now evi-
dently ready to give up the advocacy of the Whig
nostrum ofa moderate fixed duty. We were gra-
tified,yesterday at observing that, the Examiner
openly gives it up. " There is one," it said, "of
our opinions as to the Corn-laws which we see
reason to abandon—the opinion in favour of a
low fixed duty. We looked upon a low fixed duty
as the mode of working out gradually the change
from the restrictive system to free trade, and as a
guard against any agricultural panic.' There
• was a time for such an expedient, but the time
has passed." We have nu change of opinion to
avow, and long ago took up' the ground which
our most enlightened and far-seeing Contempt).
raries are now disposed to occupy. We hail
with great pleasure everraccession to our good
cause, though we are well aware that others are
likely to get more of the praise, more, of the
honour, and more of the rewards, than we, who
have laboured consistently and untiringly for
total repeal from the beginning.