The Sun.
London, England, 1845-06-19 00:00:00

1846.

June 17—Receipts to this date,
as per ledgers ....£2,627 9 9 5,632 5 2
Ditto London lists .. 3,004 la 5
bazaar receipts as per statement 25,046 0 11

£116,687 13 4
[The reading of these accounts was received with
tremendous cheering, the sums received from the agri-
cultural districts more particularly so.] It is -not
merely in a pecuniary sense that we congratulate you on the re-
sults presented by the Bazaar. From the first day visitors
were admitted the daily numbers exceeded 5,000; from first to
last 120,0L0 persons were admitted. The Bazaar lasted 17
days, so that upwards of 7,000 must have been the daily average
of visitors. —( Hear, and cheers.) The receipts per day ave-
raged more than 1,200/. The especial thanks of the friends. of
free trade are due to those alone who at this jancture assisted in
the completion of the League fund, and gave evidence to the
country that an interest was felt in it which had never been
surpassed on other questions by the same class.—( Hear, hear. )
The moral effects of that demonstration are great and will be
felt for many years to come. I have heard but one opinion ex-
pressed by those who visited it that they never
in all their lives before saw so great a multi-
tude collected together who manifested the same
order and decorum as they observed during the time that they
visited it. The contributions are more diffused throughout
the country, doing your work, and when other things
shall occur which may appear more congenial to the
taste of free traders, the simple relies of the result of the la-
bours of those who sent to the Bazaar shall be reading a quiet
lesson in the domestic circles for years to come.—(Hear,
hear.) I have great pleasure in calling on Mr. Cobden.—
( Loud cheering. )
Mr. COBDEN came forward, and was received with the same
hearty and unbounded demonstrations of applause which inva-
riably greet him in free-trade meetings—He said, Ladies and
Gentlemen, I could not help thinking, as my friend the Chair-
man detailed to you those interesting and novel statistics, that
I was following him at some disadvantage, inasmuch as I would
have little chance of communicating to you anything so new
or agreeable. He is just come from the north, where he has
been making up his accounts. —( Laughter.) I have just come from
.a railway group, where I have been on the tread-wheel for the
last three months, as much a prisoner as though I had been on
Newgate, and with the disadvantage of feeling conscious that
I was in a place where more time was wasted than even in the
distinguished House itself. Yet even under the roof of St.
Stephen's something has of late passed of a very cheering cha-
racter. I think I may say, I bring good news from the House
of Commons. —( Hear, hear.) It is not, after all, such a bad
place, especially for agitation.—( Hear.) Last year we
made a little mistake at the beginning of the session—we laid
our heads together, and came to the conclusion that we should
employ ourselves better out of doors, in visiting some of the
counties and agitating a little,—this year we changed our tac-
tics, and we think Parliament was, after all, the best place for agi-
tating.—( Laughter.) You speak with a loud voice when you
speak on the floor of that House. Yon are heard all over the
world, and, if you have anything hard to say, it is a long whip—
the la.h will reach over the kingdom.---( Cheers. ) We deter-
mined to confine ourselves to Parliament, and the result shows
that it was the best field for our labours. We there brought for-
ward a succession of motions ; we asked for a Committee to
inquire into the nature of the corn-laws ; we challenged the
protectionists to show us what benefits the corn had conferred ;
they refused a committee of inquiry, and the country would
rightly interpret their motives.—( Hear, hear.) Mr. Bright,
at, active-minded man, looked about him and thought that of all
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