The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-10 00:00:00

EVENING SUN

MISCELLANEOUS.

Mr. Williams, the late candidate for the Poetry Professorship at
Oxford, appears to have mingled but little in the violence of the
late party question. During the hottest period of the controversy
he was down with his family at Aberystwith, attending to the coil.
accretion of a new church in the sequestered spot of Vangorwen,
to the building of which he had subscribed considerable sums.

A grand fancy ball was given at Floience, to about GOO of the
elite, on the 17th ult., to celebrate the birth of the Prince of
Wales, in the Palazzo Ferrari, where Lord Holland resides. The
Duchess of Castigliano appeared in a Persian costume, richly
jewelled; and the Marchioness Iremtri as Mary Queen of Scots,
with a profusion of pearls and diamonds.

struae. They were before the eyes of the nations of Europe.
They had always come out of such contests gloriously. They
were now contesting with a few—with an oligarchy—as to
whether they would enlarge and throw open the markets of the
world to themselves. Their object was to receive from
those markets the commodities they needed in exchange
for their own manufactures. They were to decide
whether or not they should succeed in increasing their com-
merce—the source of wealth—:despite a haughty and cruel
enemy who treated them with contempt and cruelty merely
because he claimed to be a landed proprietor, and deemed
them serfs. Their contest was as to whether they
should go feed with the swinish herd.—(Hear.) Let
no one say that he used that word for inflammatoi y
purposes. He confessed if he had the power he would inflame
the mind of every man on this question, because it was the
cause of all—a holy—a religious cause. He took that word
from the uncentradicted accounts in the newspapers of what
had really taken place in Wares, where the starving operatives
were seen actually to drive the herds of swine from the troughs
in order to grt at something like food. ; Their great contest,
then, was for freedom of trade—freedom in the trade in provi-
sions—in the necessaries of life. Would they let the aristo-
cracy trample upon them ?—(" No, No.") If they would
boldly struggle—if they would be guilty of no riot, no tumult
—if, becoming bold from their sufferings, tkey spoke out to
the h nighty aristocracy—they would find that they would be
no longer plundered.—(l he Hon. Gentleman sat down aulidst
the most enthusiastic cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN then said that the gentlemen of the Exe-
cutive Committee were requestel to withdraw to the Commit-
tee- room.

Mr. O'Connell then left the room, and retired amid three
distinct rounds of applause.
Mr. R. J. GREG, of Manchester, then rose to speak to the
resolution proposed by Colonel Thompson. He felt under some
degree of embarrassment in addressing the meeting after the
eloquent, oratorical, and feeling speech of his friend, Mr.
O'Connell.—(" Hear, hear, and cheers,") Their worthy and
excellent Chairman had in some degree prohibited anything
like a Corn-law lecture in the present state of public feeling.
He agreed with him in many respects as to the necessity of
• that prohibition, and that the time had come for action, and
not for words.—(Great cheers.) He agreed with him also
in the statement that anything like a cold lecture on
political economy would be altogether out of place,
—(Cheers.) At the same time he knew of nothing that ex-
cited the feelings of people more than a sense of injustice—
(Cheers)—and he knew of nothing that excited a feeling of in-
justice more than dealing upon injuries.—(Cheers.) What,
he would ask, did Mark Anthony appeal to when he wished to
excite the people? Why, the bleeding body of Cassar ?
—(Cries of " Hear, Naar.") And what did Peter the Hermit
do when he wished to excite commiseration? He pointed to
the sufferings that the people endured on their way to Jeru-
salem. He would for a few momenta allude to the great prin-
ciples that had excited the country to action, believing that by
so doing he would put their injuries in a more prominent light,
and the, eby enable the Delegates, when they returned to those
who had sent them to the metropolis to explain to the people
the amount of injuries they had sustained, and show them the
necessity fur action.—( Cheers.) He would allude for a
moment to the great principal cause. The effect of the limita,
Lion of food was the bottom of all the evils the people of Eng-
land were suffering. That was the great injustice, and that was
the evil must be removed before any remedy could be hoped
for. —( Cheers.) He begged of them for a moment to con-
sider the state of their countrymen when they were confined
in the black hole at Calcutta. Many of those persons were
men of great wealth, yet what was the consequence
with respect to them • why they struggled to get more air,
and in that struggle the weak sank under the strong, and be-
fore the morning many of them were dead.—( Cries of
" Shame.") Many of those individuals would have given thou-
sands for air, but they could not obtain it. In the same way
in this island, there was but a small space, and the inhabitants
were too numerous for the food it could produce, and the re-
sult was that they must perish unless more food could be pro-
duced. It was useless to talk of any thing that would not
have that effect.--(Loud cheers.) If the people had
money, it was true they would buy. food, but what would
be the effect of that ? The price of food would be
increased, but no more food could be got, and the agricultural
labourers would have to perish.—(Cheers.) In short, before
they could get more food relief must 'be given.—(Cheers.)
But it was said, negociate with foreign powers, open new
markets for your industry ; but what would be
the use of that unless more food could be ob-
tained ?—( Cheers.) He would suppose the whole empire of
China was open to the English markets, there would be no use
in that. No good result from it unless more food could be ob-
tained.—( Loud cheering.) It was true that if China was
opened to the English, they might get more gold
and silver, they might get more raw silk.—(Hear.)
But that would do no.good without food. It might be applied to
the purchase of that, corn mostly, but how could it be ex-
pended unless there was plenty of food in the country to
purchase If the Corn-laws were repealed, then they should
have the benefit of new markets, because then the manufacturers
of the country could be exchanged for food.—(Cheers.) He
was sorry to dwell on the point, but it was the most important;
as he had said hefore, they cou'd have no relief
without snore food; no extension of trade would
have any effect, they must keep this in mind
that every measure that did not increase the quantity of food
was useless.—( Cheers.) They had been gulled and cheated by
the operation of the Corn-laws ; their;manufacturers had been
racking their brains to find out new inventions, but by that they
did themselves no good, because every thing produced by other
classes of the community had to be exchanged for the limited
quantity of wheat that the country produced.—( Cheers.) For
the last twenty or thirty years there was hardly the slightest
increase in the value of the exports. What was the reason of
that ? Why, that there was but a small quantity of food grown in
thiecountry. There wa3 a bl urideringgoing on, an unconsciousness
of that which, if they had been conscious of, they would have
resisted long ago. The people were now awakened to this,
and he trusted that they'would not stop till they had effected a
total repeal of the Corn-laws. Referring to Colonel
Thompson's speech, the question of their exports had formed
a large portion of the speech of Sir Robert Peel;
to these he had referred as a proof of the prosperity of the
isountry. He did not know whether he was aware that such
was not the fact. If he was, he had acted in a most improper
manner; if he was not, then he was not St for the post lie held.
(LEFT SPEAKING.)

CORN-LA WS-MIN ISTE RI AL
PLAN.

RESOLUTIONS INTENDED TO BE PROPOSED IN
THE COAINIITTEE ON THE CORN-LAWS—By
SIR R. PEEL.
I.—That the following Duties shall be paid upon the Impor-
tation of Corn, Grain, Meal, or Flour, in lieu of the Duties
now payable thereon ; viz., if imported from any Foreign
Country :

_
WHEAT:-
Whenever the average price of Wheat, made up and published
in the manner required by law, shall be, for every quarter,
Proposed Present
Sliding Sliding
Scale. Scale.
C Under 51s. the duty shall be,
1 20s. Orl. 36s. &I,
1 for every quarter
51s. and under 525. l9 0 35 8
525. and under 535.
••••••34 8
535. and under 545.
545. and under 555.
555. and under 565.
565. and under 575. l6 0 ...... ...30 8
i7g. and under 585.... 15 0 29 8
iBs. and under 595. l4 0 28 8
i9s. and under 6os.
Xis. and under 61s. l2 0 26 8
ils. and under 625.
its. and under 635.
;3s. and under 645.
4s. and under 651.
,s*. and under 665.
,6s. and under 575.
....20 8
7s. and under 58s.
..18 8
:is. and under 695.
...... 16 8
9s. and under 70s.
Os. and under 71s.
Is. and under 725.
2s. and under 735.
is. and upwards
BARLEY.