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

MORNING SUN

struggle. They They were before the eyes of the nations of Europe. I country consumed? It was a delusion to think that thenanews
They had always come out of such contests gloriously. They 1 facturing or working .classes consumed them :-not at all, -
were now contesting with a few-with an oligarchy-as to , and sneer, and flame and other articles of that sort were almost
whether they would enlarge and throw open the markets of the ! entirely consumed by the higher classes What do the people_
world to themselves. Their object was to receive from lin agricultural districts live upon?. Was it not upon flour and
those markets the commodities they needed in exchange 1 meal, or i otatoes ? -(Loud cries of " Yes, yes, when they _
for their own manufactures. They were to decide I get them.") Meat is not used at all by many of thou-110
whether or not they should succeed in increasing their cone- I know nothing whatever of the luxuries of life-they have not
merce-the source of wealth-despite a haughty and cruel t enough even of the common necessaries; and- Sir Robert Peelse
enemy who treated them with contempt and cruelty merely I must know that, for no man is more acute and has more sense
because he claimed to be a landed proprietor, and deemedl than he has-( A voice, " His conduct upon this question does
them serfs. Tneir contest was as to whether they not show that")--he knows well that all the euxuries (tilde are
should go feed with the swinish herd.-(Hear.) - Let consumed by the middling and higher classes. The people
no one say that he used that word for inflammatory the manufacturing- the working . people-the operati
ve
purposes. He confessed if he had the power he would inflame have none of them.-( Hear, hear.) As to bat
the mind of every man on this: question, because it was the the people should do in such a state of thing%
cause of all-a holy-a religious cause. He took that word he (Mr. Greg) was not then prepared to se3_',e
from the uncontradicted accounts in the newspapers of what Ile would merely recommend every man to act with energy an".
had really taken place in Wales, where the starving operatives vigour, and with a seirit of zeal and determination propetrtionat u
!
were seen actually to drive the herds of swine from the troughs with the greatness of the cause they were engaged in.-(feet
in order to get at something like food. Their great contest, cheers. Now, such was the state of feeling, or rather want
then, was for freedom of trade-freedom in the trade in provi- of feeling .and apathy which then prevailed; but whet was it
.•ions-in the necessaries of life. Would they let the aristo- now ?-( Hear, hear. ) They had succeeded in bringing over
(racy trample upon them ?-(" No, No.") If they would at least one-hal of a great political party to the proposi-
boldly struggle-if they would be guilty of no riot, no tumult firm of a fixed duty of Bs., and others to a total repeat of those
-if, becoming bold from their sufferings, they spoke out to laws. Let them consider their losses, their wants, and
the haughty aristocracy-they would find that they would be the insults which had been heaped upon them, and then
no longer plandered.-( The Hon. Gentleman sat down amidst let them argue, and let them subscribe, and let them lee...
,the most enthusiastic cheers.) - ture, and when there is an universal agitation thronglin
The CHAIRMAN then said that the gentlemen of the Exe- out the country, and when all men are combined, then conies
cutive Committee were requeste Ito withdraw to the Commit- the time for action. In the meantime let them try every effort
tee-room to consider the propositions which several members in their power andendeavour to spread information upon the sub-
of the Committee wished to submit to them. He trusted they ject of the Corn-laws. Many persons nresent might rernember
' would return as soon as possible. she state of ignorance in which they were themselves so w°
Mr. GEouGE Inonesom then came forward, and said that few yeas ago, and it was therefore the duty of all who we
he wished to make a remark before Mr. O'Connell left. (The . now better Wormed on the subject, to spread that infer-madam
Right Hon. Gentleman was at the time just quitting the room.) 1 amongst others. When all were prepared to take steps to re-
He (Mr. Thompson) understood that the Liberal Members dress those injuries, and when the coaviction of the iniquity
of the House of Commons were to meet at two o'clock for the of those laws became universal, then means to secure justice
purpose of considering the proceedings of last night. lie (Mr. might be found, which should not now be hinted at.
uld
Thompson) then meaet to submit to them whether it was not Mr. RAWSON said at that late hour of the day he sly)
desirable that they shouldforward to that meeting en expression not detain the meeting many minutes,. but, as he had been
of their resolute determination to carry out the great principle called upon, he should make a few observations.-(Cheers• )
upon which they were agitating-the total repeal of the Corn- A letter had been addressed to him from the Alanchester
laws. Anti-Corn-law League, from which he should read one
Mr. O'CoserEee intimated that, as the meeting alluded to resolution passed at a general meeting of the members,
by Mr. Thompson was but a preliminary one, and had not re- which pledged the Association to sanction no principle save the
ceived any official character, it would be better net to ad- total and unqualified repeal of the Corn -laws. Sir Rebel
dress them, but let them come to a spontaneous determination Peel said that the true test of the people's prosperity
but sh°Ld
as to the course they would adopt. He (Mr. O'Connell) wouia not be the comparative lowness or highness of prices, the
convey to the meeting referred to the sense and feelings of the degree in which they had the power of commanding the come
present assembly. forts ;if life. It had at one time been understood to be at
.
Mr. Tnomrsoti, in a few words, assented to Mr; O'Con- blessing to have been born in England, but were they to bse
nell's proposition. • told now that-:he people of England were as well fed as thoge
Mr. O'Connell then left the room, and retired amid three of other nations? end even if such were the case, were they W
distiect rounds of applause. be told that the people of England were not to be fed betor.
te
Mr. R. J. GREG, of Manchester, then rose to speak to the than the Russian boor and the Polish serf. The people f
resolution proposed by Colonel Thompson. He felt under some England worked three times as hard as those of any other
degree of embarrassment in addressing the meeting g after the country; and were therefore entitiled to much more comforts
eloquent, oratorical, and feeling epeech of his friend, Mr. than the others. He should conclude by observing that, ite ~_ es-,
O'Connell.-(" Hear, hear, and cheers.") Their worthy and regarded Manchester, the people of that town had fought till
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excellent Chairman had in some degree prohibited anything good battle manfully.-(Cheers.) He had been connectel nosc,,
like a Corn-law lecture in the present state of public feeling. with the town from the commencement of this agitation, am Aila°,7l,
He agreed with him in many respects as to the necessity of the people there were all of one mind, and were fullytietermine° at``_,
that prohibition, and that the time had come for action, and to nail their colours to the mast. -( Loud cheers. )
not for words.- (Great cheers.) He agreed with him also Mr. G. THOMPSON said he should avail himself of the gist- ns . .
in the statement that anything like a cold lecture on vilege of addressing the Conference, and make a few restart'
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political economy would be altogether- out of place, on the present position of their cane, and the duty wh'enel.
-(Cheers.) At the same time he knew of •nething that ex- grew from that position.. They might take it for granted ethe; , lee.
cited the feelings of people more than a sense of injustice- all those who came to London to the Conference, '''consid r., %.
(Cheers)-and he knew of nothing that excited a feeling of in- the argument complete, whether reference was mill of
e to,
justice more than desling upon injuries.-(Cheers. ). What, the design of Providence, of nature, or to the w -
he would ask, did Mark Anthony appeal to when he wished to God. They were not there so much for the Pet'
excite the people? Why, the bleeding body of Caesar ? pose of reading each other essays on the ' Corn. laWs'
-( Cries of " Hear, hear.") And what did Peter the Hermit as for deciding their course of action according to the ctr;
do when he wished to excite commiseration? He pointed to cums'ances in which they were placed, and to point out the lid
the sufferings that the people endured on their way to dem- of action which, from hour to hour, and year to year, it ofet
salem. He would for a few moments allude to the great prig- be necessary for them to pursue.-( Loud cheers.) Could be
ciples that had excited the country to action, believing that by have chosen the line of procedure to be adopted at the Con-
so doing he would put their injuiies in a more prominent light, ference this day, he wished that it had been confined to a so- .. .
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and thereby enable the Delegates, when they returned to those lemn declaration of the essential, incurable, and everlasting,
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who had sent them to the metropolis, to explain to the people injustice of al taxes imposed upon the universal benefits.w. 1.
the amount of injuries they had sustained, and show them the God provided for the support of man. If he understood the
necessity for action.s-(Cheers.) He would allude for a principle of this question, it was based upon grounds indepelv en •
moment to the great principal cause. The effect of the halite- dent of the harvest, whether it were good or bad-indepene y •
Lion of food was the bottom of all the evils the people of Eng- dent of wages, whether they were high or low-loft-an-4
land were suffering. That was the great injustice, and that was pendent of trade, whether" in prosperity ur adversity.- re_ e , ,
the evil which must be removed before any remedy could .he simple question was, whether any bddy of men hag '"
hoped for.-( Bear.) He begged of them for a moment to con- e;ght to circumscribe the benefits of the universal Bee°l
Sider the state of their countrymen when they were confined factor-(lmmense cheering)-whether any body of men bit_ •
in the black hole at Calcutta. Many of those persons were a right to ;2:v to the industr ions marl, when he had fabricated,:
men of great wealth, yet what was the consequence yard of a cloth, " You shall not exchange it fur food which tr_
with respect to them ; why they struggled to get more air, foreigner has prepared for you."-(Cheers.) That was to:i
and in that struggle the weak sank under the strong, and be- principle on which this question ought to be discussed. --( Lou r .
fore the morning many of them were dead.-(Cries of cheers.) Peel last night: ised done what the emissaries of Fee
" Sname.") Many of those individuals would have given thou- had been doing in every part pf the country which be (Mr.
sands for air, but they could nut obtain it. 'ln the same way G. Thompson) had visited during the winter. He bad been oe',
in this island, there was but a small space, and the inhabitants cupied two hours in trailing red hearings in aildirections.--
were too numerous for the food it could produce, and the re- (Cheers and laughter.) He had imitated the huntsman, who' • ,e ;
suit was that" they must perish .unless snore food could be pro- when he wished to dram his dogs off the 'scant, tied a red bets ssiii
duced. It was useless to talk of any thing that would not ring io'the end of a string, and trailed it about in all directionl'osele
have that effect.-(Loud cheers.) If the people had -(Cheers and laughter.) Peel might for the last threernont°4 ..e.rotil
the' ' ;el'',
money, it was true they would buy food, but what would have been sitting at the feet of a few men, who had all
be the effect of that ? The price of food would he winter been endeavouring to delude the country as to the nee ,04
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increased, but no more food could be got, and the agricultural cause of distress. It was machinery, it was over-prodnets°,l 'to
labourers would have to perish.-( Cheers.) In short, before it. was superfecundity-( A laugh)-it was banking, it was 1",- ' ,ee
they could get more food relief must be given.-(Cheers.) rotten monetary system of America. Now, Peet might hevo, ;,,s3
But it was said, negotiate with foreign Powers, open new been sitting at the. feet of these men for the last the - -j,,:se
markets for your industry ; but what would •be months, for be ,had occupied four-fifths of his speech kit
the use of that unless more food could be ob. last evening with these topics.-( Cheers. IHe had said he eta
tained?-( Cheers.) He would suppose the whole empire of not prescribe until he had been regularly called in, and t.
China was open to the English markets, there would be no use his fee. Well, he had been called in, and had received his
the ' se ,
in that. •No good result from it unless more food could be ob- but he could not preecribe until he had had time .to fe
he
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tained.-(Loud cheering.) It was true that if China was pulse and study the sympoms of the- patient. He could Phe
opened to the English, they might get more gold prescribe until the re-assembling of Parliament. Thie.,eie.
and silver, they might get more raw silk.-(Hear.) stated at the beginning of the winter, at a time when arlile
But that would do nogood without food. It might be applied winter was setting in, and hundreds of thousands-were lee r„,17,,
to the purchase of corn mostly, but how. could it be ex- ing for want-( Hear, hear)-were shivering before their P[L,
pended unless there was plenty of food in the country to less hearths and looking with despair at their empty cupbetaZe
purchase ?If the Corn-laws were repealed, then they should who having sold the covering of their bed to buy bread, the
have the benefit of new markets, because then the manufactures gone forth to gather the potato(-peelings cast forth err ~e„
of the country could be exchanged fur food.-( Cheers. ) He dunghills of the neighbourhood. And there had been evidened,
was sorry to dwell on the point, but it was the most important; of these things before Parliament 'ere they adjourn° t,
as he had said before. they could have no relief -( Hear, hear.) The Doctor had received his appointtne,uc,
Without more food; no extension of trade would had opened his shop, but he wanted time to prepare his phesite
have any effect, they must keep this in mind -(Cheers and laughter.) He had feit the pulse, bet Al .
that every measure that did not increase the quantity of food wanted time to study the symptoms of his patient. At lend
was useless.-( Cheers.) They had been gulled and cheated by Parliament was called together, and last night. the revelats'
the operation of the Corn-laws ; their manufacturers had been was to take place. The mountain had long beers la.bourinsi
racking their brains to find out new inventions, but by that they they had heard its murmurs-they had seen the smoke it r',ag
did themselves no good, because every thing produced by other emitted.-(Cheers and laughter.) The hour of itsbring' a
classes of the community had to he exchanged for the limited forth had been announced, and five o'clock had been fized.:6
quantity ref wheat that the country produced.-( Cheers.) For as the hour for the mountain's bringing forth. They bad genie
the last twenty or thirty years there was hardly the slightest down to the House of Commons to witness the birth e '" of
increase in the value of the exports. What was the reason of had gained admission, some had been shut out.-(Crw°l4o
r
that? Why, that there was but a small quantity of food grown in " Hear, hear.") All was expectation. The Opposition t.
this country. There Rasa blunderinggoingon, an unconsciousness of the House at the hour presented a most amusing specteni •
of that which, if they had been conscious of, they would 'have There 'were the farmers' friends elongating their necks ,' , ,
resisted long ago. The people were now awakened to this, extending their ears-although that was in some cases ne74.
and he trusted that they would not stop till they had effected a less-(Cheers and laughter)--straining their eyes-( ROI, i
total repeal of the Corn-laws. Referring to Colonel laughter)--their heads were rising out of their neekclotet a
Thompson's speech, this question of their exports had firmed there they were, like the storks in the fable, trying tiger")
a large portion of the speech of Sir Robert Peel; peep into the Ministerial pitcher..-(Cheers and lau h,
to these he had referred as a proof of the prosperity of the The first ha'f-hour passed-there was no delivery.-(Lalee
country. He did not know whether he was aware that suck ter. ) The second half-hour passed-n®.-(Bene ,)
was not the fact. If he was, he had acted in a most improper laughter.) The third-no delivery.-(Cos: tinned laughter
manner ;if he was not, then he was not fit fur the post he held. Their language was- "
There were 150,000 bales of cottons less imported this year than " Oh, spring to light ; auspicious babe be .born. to
last yeas, whereas the exports have considerably increased. The -(lmmense cheering and laughter.) Drop of i'vrnPaettlest
reason of that was quite manifest. It was plain that the people perspiration stood on faces of the farmers friends. ,i'aests
of this country have not been able to purchase what the country the Abbey clock struck seven, and then, after the tragelaY, the
produces.-( Hear.) While the imports of the one article " Starving People," there was enacted the pantomime" &be
-cettoe-has decreased by 150,000 bales last year, the ex- " Sliding Scale."-(Hear, hear.) Three months hak the
ports of every other article of British produce have been mate- Dootor taken for deliberation-he had sent to consult so,;
rially increased. That Wee an admitted fact. What should most renowned State doctori of Europe ; men had been
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Sir It. Peel have known by that? He certainly should have round to places "where herbs unhidden grew," to collect st;in
known that it proved the fact that the people of this country plea for the shop of the State Doctor. In all directions
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have not been able to purchase that preeduce, and not that they they sought for information, and we were told they had tefing
were ti,:t able to consume it. The people neye not been able every statement. There had been a rumour that after hav bit
hitherto to procure their usual amount of provisions, (e•yenything felt the pulse of the patient the Doctor had:giveu it aetioo,
at all approaching to it. What was the reason of that? The opinion that the catient was suffering fr.= exisail?o,o,
great-the principal reason of it was that the people were obe , :teat his disease was weakness, and that in the Doctor 'a (IP tog
liged to pay so much for their, food-( Hear, hear)-and fur the the t:...7.
st remedy was change of air-(A laugh)---4 ....0
various other articles they require. The restrictiois of the voyage_(esenewed laughter)-say to the United Statet:.eir
banks, and the consequent derangement in every department of Canada-to Nova Scotia-to Australasia- (Continued lahirsie
trade, are the causes of the high price of food-the people should ter)-to Van Dienaea's Land, and than when there, aeseeee
object altogether to the measure which was last night pro- travelling into the interior of the country-( Great laught.r_ia,
pounded in the House of Commons. That measure contained a little cutting down of the primeval forest trees.-a littlevennun of
all the evils of the old system. It might be said that the some labour in the rearing of a log cabin-a little cleartl.iett
amount of duty on corn and provisions was not so great as the ground and sowing of the seed, and then a patient wt
under the present law, but yet it contained all the essential for the harvest, and good appetite to eat it when gas eon
evils of the sliding scale: The evils of the sliding scale were But upon authority this decision of the Doctor had heeptiees,
as prominent in the proposed measure as they were in tradicted, not by himself, hut by one of his own aPPr° could
the law as it stood,-(Hear, hear.) He (Mr. Greg) would who would not dwell in our shop, but who thought beeterett
show the meeting, by a few facts, what the serious mischiefs of do better over the way-( Loud cheers)-got his inne4ooo
that sliding scale were. This liountry had imported, in round cancelled, and now Edward has found a new masterit t
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numbers, during the last years, ten millions quarters of grain of cheers.) The sliding scale 1-and this was the end 0
so a.
all kinds-wheat, peas, barley, &c. The importation of that and this was the result of a whole winter's meditett_weeteo'
quantity of grain within those three years cost this country no Drayton Manor !--(Cheers. ) " Oh, most lame and I.TE sY'
less than twenty millions of money.-( Hear, hear.) What was conclusion !" Oh most ridiculousefarce ; or, rather leeenn die: -.
the effect of the operation of the sliding scale upon the impor- Oh cruermotakery of the people-Oh heartless and wick 7 fro
tation of that corn? The wheat purchased in foreign regard of the right( of human industry !-(Cheertso 'tor
I,
markets should- be brought home to this country home- sliding scale ! What was a sliding scale ?-a kre!, gath!
diately. Whenever there was a scarcity, all the purchasers the lock on the door of the storehouse of the Unive Ito the_,
ran into the Baltic markets at once. Suppose wheat, of the world-( Great cheering)-a law that took evqdrep, ~,y,
for instance, was 60s. a quarter. The duty of 20s, a quarter bounty of God freely sent foe the support of his sided ptrto: e
was payable for the introduction of that article into this country, sent them into prison, placed t!sem under bondage,47oh
so that the quantity- purchased and imported by this coun- hibited the thousandsand tens of thoesancie from thly.t 7.0,1 o°d
try, suppose that to be on an average ten millions a quarters, had already earned. Cursed law, doubling the pren7, &oleo., in
would coat the country ten millions of money. That ten mil- turning the warm sweat of industry into the the ebfrthat tAaot
lions of money was lost to this country by the opponents of starvation.-( Tremendous cheers.) He elene`unce ) 6five3 1
the sliding scale; the next evil which it caused was -(Cheers.) It was an impious law.-( Chteersro-ifigelsottbet
the immense loss for freight, because' the corn imported that suffering was not great, that there were n q 23' Q.ratA were
should, as he had already observed, be instantly shipped. The to urge them to repeal that unrighteous laeAv ' 7ofite does'
expense was doubly increased by the dispatch with which the 1 food was plentiful-that trade was thriving- thi at, I% ea. isse
corn should be sent from the market in which it was pur- great -that the populations was employed-t- vtte.....tbene,
chased. The freight alone of the quantity of corn he cal• and joy shone on the desolate homes of the cow, lei'ts syeee,eairt
culated was imported into this country within the period would still remain as unrighteous and iniquitous ot,f,e'-erstO
he bad inentioued, cost this country two millions of money. (Cheers.) If they persevered thus to the end, and n' -te4'" wsl
Again, three-fourths of the Vessels the British people waiting for three months, they would succeed. Saul 11, P- yeP
were obliged to employ in bringing that corn into this acknowledged his Master on one day, and the nes'n 0 the,
ernintry were foreign vessels, because it should be imported preaching to the Gentiles.-(Loud cheers.) DisPlel t- 'se,' °'
within a particular day, These twelve millions of money paid of new converts.-( Cheers.) Rejoice that you did I,ok,
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away within the last three years were' completely thrown away. iniquity before,-(Cheers.) Redeem the time. Tat.latieeese.;es'
obligeddured- ttohaptawy awsi
with
bulliontri Iletfoorwlaatt theyeara suffered. They
reigTohmeyarwkeerte.
-(Hear, hear.) But that was not all the people had en- arms from the skies, and fight this Goliath of the Fhidset etre' ie.l!,
(Loud cheers.) Take a pebble from the brook, a`cet on: ,4'
The sere* was applied by the banks in order to save themselv k (Ch )If they departed from Prinell' ' harc gee '
him down.-(Loud cheers.) He wanted to get thiteira'od ireee,% (i;
es, roc .- eers.
and the result was that the price of the whole produce of the the question one of time, or place, or circumstance,
r eeie -se
to° s 5it,n,,,,,t
conetry was immediately raised from 20 to 30 per cent. or averages, or prices, they committed themselvesthan tereis,..e,,
The exports of this country amounted to 20 millions sterling. scale.-( Cheers. ) There were other slidireg scales ced 'lee a
sienoun else
Every year the itilpotts exceed that by many degrees. The of Sir Robert's.-(Hear, hear.) While they - eear.) ,hei
nations who take English goods pay ton per cent. less for them they should not adopt one of their own.-( tle`u.ible °°° ; cwoos'
iii cotieegdenee of the application of the Bank screw; that loss, it a moral questiota and they made it an intellig
~ of the
_ier,
the
0V 0 for
stippdse upon a handfed and fifty millions of quarters of wheat made it an authoritative one ; they enlisted the besaeld
exported In three years, would amount to fifteen millions of munity in their behalf ; they made the ministesre,bschiptioor tee
money, *high, added to the bytes sustained by the purchase and the preacher, pray for them, and
and freight of foreign corn, Made the enormous sum of twenty- them ; their petitions Would be laid in tle
'vestry
t h'ia tool
seven millions sterling.-(Hear, hear.) That was a calcula- vestibule, or in the house that had been erected ,100 t..., the
theft ittadtt in round numbers, and he (Mr. Greg) believed if when among men, set them an exemple, that theynoeplie the -
mount 1 sea ~
he had said it amounted to thirty millions sterling it would be in his steps, and who when on the Ceen , Grid, e away
etesto:-P7nV;ii If h°.
. nearer the truth; that sum was thrown away as completely as bread for the 5,000, and by his 1."1.,edr butitliegr" eter'4
if it was tnrown into the German Ocean.-(Hear.) It was poor by a miracle, rather than they shot; 51.1...41.1eueseecli
taken from the pockets of the labouring arid manufacturing -(Cheers.) Now for Sir Robert's sp. "nail. like' sP no. 9
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classes of the country, and given away to foreigners without It was truly characteristic. Was it a states', ~..t '.,) ?
any return whatsoeeee foe it,--( Hear.) It was as come --(" No, no.") Was it a patriotic ePee,;:tl , a „Yoe reciPleso
plete a loss to the British people Si if it had been thrown Was it the speech of a Christian Minister e seen, pe „oat,
into the ocean. That was not all. The peenle of England there any recognition of high and evei'La,s,':'r Eie th; all 'lt,
were to have a repetition of those evils. for the. would Was there any compassion in his demeanour 'no goon . .., !IP,
be continued as long as the sliding Peale, to re elate 1 intro-
duction of foreign corn, was in operation. 7' at e the;
' I
idle in
winertehpeertnisharinkget-fpolracne,a,nbt
eecfaburseeadt
at was not all-
the evil did not end there; the derangementl -II tion--et ee. ' ..,
caused the A 0 • haenred was aw!nu °. if:4ll'4' elisl
application of the screw eeteneed over the entire by svasion of the true merits of the ques . ,(n y
1 eily,---•
tr. e-s
country. It ' _ prudent t'• e iiite 'a tiger who preys stem( ,
~e coo,
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affected every shopkeeper, every merchant, hired them."-( Cheers )It was a cautious, ' ers.
every trader, He came to le 4.
eesear, , It affected dgment of athe gangelai. d
iagraLe to the in . of
every operative in this country...lre
even the revenue ; for if the people hadhear.)
' on the Christianity ( Con , to .
eolne-- liffereg" crl
not food, they ( Loud c . e)
Ivies of the p.
That speech was a es
could not consume taxable commodities; therefore, ' Ch ) a mockery of the Aerie'ge- '
Ines. he (Mr. ( eel's- "esto of a aline
...n or;
Greg' most csrdially concurred in the resolution cheers)-the hard-lo arted mann, -
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subiecl3. (Conti:resis
he resolution before the i 1
meeting, for he was convinced that Ilse perishing condition of her Majesty s Jon the Tereig°' . -'•
essential evils of the slid-
ing scale existed to the utm House
se:neer-es.) He was glad that a Gentlemen tee So 0t......
Sir R. Peel last night in the in the proposition made by • r f°lll vas' 11 lot f
the chair severed the speech of the Mte _4,0 I
_ate, _ , .
of Commons.To be sure there
was some little alleviation fromthe The Ministers were for them-the
oftSovoi`oliee.--.a,):,,50f
iniquitous system which at horrid, cruel, foolish, and
What ! a Sovereign-a woman-a wife-a the Not, °lso.
of fie Ministry, as avowed ' present exists, but the object
that • ' iniquitous mockerY . inoy- no. e..-
House of by the Prime Miniseer in the Queen-sanctioniniq.
cries or se -
Commons last gig p - -food the people !-( Great cheering, and r
75 and 80 per cent Higher g t, was to keep the prie e of
. Sir Not then for their Queen.
's the hour,
Robert Peel said it than it was on the Continen us keep See
Now's the day, and now
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eheat at a ' was. his object and his wish tr.' He lour S
.pnce vary See the front of bat ,_ power, a ch,,r;.
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quarter.-(Criee of „ Prig between 545. and 58s. Per
h id See approach proud Faction 3 ( LOU
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he had alreadyear. He (Mr. S. was ate 'as 1
incurred Hear,• Pee, end Buskingliasn ! , .se the
,eu'es..e...
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be t, ' ,he ••vh. h was nroeoune, srl ; snt so - ) 10 ' elm i
, eeir eaccrient, and worthy sentence
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:.,..Id tint allude tors -, • than 'silo
Chan man,. and therefore 1, 1
frOm the " Mount of Visiou."-( Laud '-,'L ud cries con?' o'
of the Corn.laws i en:, than -,ne other eaint, as to the effeet le ?--t- ° le %h°
they stand opposed? To the f,eop ..,_e „top I
Upon this country-he would merely ask the •
meeting by whom known fiends of tr s
Flay were the • i
were the meat and flower produced by thbi ‘PA -
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