The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-26 00:00:00

say it has vanished; everybody is against the prin-
ciple of the sliding scale now.—(Applause.) The next
question is the question of a bread-tax. I have shown
you that it would make very little difference to the
merchant or the manufacturer. A ss. or 6s. duty
would not prevent, my friends who ship their goods
abroad from always bringing home corn to sell, just
as they now do tea or sugar; the tax to be paid upon
it would be a tax chiefly paid by the working classes.
—(Applause.) Well, now, is not this a question
that the working classes should begin to talk over,
and take a little interest in, in their own work-
shops.? It is no use their standing aloof, and saving,
" These Anti-Corn-law Leaguers are all humbugs—
they are making no progress—they cannot do it." We
are going to abolish the sliding scale.—(Applause.)
And I now tell the working classes that it depends on
them whether we get rid of the whole tax or nut ; it
depends on them ; it is their business.—(Applause.)
And whenever I see working men at our meetings,
whether in the Potteries, at Nottingham, or else-
where, I invariably tell them this; because I don't
want to have it told to me by and by that I have not
let them into the secret. Now, the Anti-Corn-law
League have had work enough to bring the monopo-
lists to the point which they are at; and, suppose now
that they were to throw out a proposal for a ss. or
6s. fixed duty in the next session—and I believe that
a great majority in the House of Commons would be
very glad indeed, next session, to silence this agita-
tion by a ss. or Gs. fixed duty—suppose that this were
proposed, are you sure that there are not a good many
men among those who have given their hundreds, our
merchants or capitalists, who, if they get what will
suit them, will be very apt to go off to their mills and
their counting-houses, and be content ?—(Hear, hear.)
Is it not human nature ? Would you not do it your-
selves ?—(Hear, hear.) I ask any of the men in
fustian jackets, if they would not do it themselves ?
—(Applause.) Very well, then, what can you ex-
pect more of other men, fallible, interested, human
creatures, than you yourselves would perform ? But
the League, the Council of the League, the men who
have worked for four years in the League, are men
who have taken up the question, and ben sustained
in the question throughout by their conviction of the
inherent injustice of any bread-tax at all.—(Loud
cheers.) And they will go on—(Applause)—and
they'll go on upon that principle.—(Applause.) But
councilors and leaders, like generals, must have fol-
lowers; they must have forces. And if a five or six
shillings' fixed duty,is to carry off a lot of those fine
troops who have been giving their hundreds, who is
to help us to get the rest ?—(Applause.) Now, Ido
say to the working classes of Manchester, particularly
—take one thing for granted—the Anti-Corn-law
agitation has just now the first place in public opinion.
I don't say—l won't say it is more important than
other questions ; but this 1 say, that no rational man
who reads the newspapers, or who steps into the
bar-room of a public-house, or who goes by a steam-
boat or a stage-coach—no man with a head on can
deny for a moment that the Corn-law question is the
engrossing question of public opinion, and that ques-
tion must be disposed of before any other great ques-
tion takes possession of the public mind.—(Applause.)
Well, then, I say to the working men, " Look after
this agitation, in which you are more deeply concerned
than any body else ;" and to the working men of Man-
chester I say, "Join the Anti-Corn-la N League ; I
believe the member's cards are a penny ; that is the
entrance-money; and when you come to our meetings
it is Universal Suffrage."—(Loud applause.) But,
mind you, if the party in power, the party at the head
of affairs, has the power—and it has had it so long—
to keep us at bay, and actually maintain the sliding-
scale with all its enormities, and oppressive and inju-
rious as it is to the rich capitalists of the country, how
in the world do you think a few men upon this plat-
form, with the aid of only a few working men, will
be able to get the rel:t, if these rich men and capital-
ists are detached from us ? I say again, join the
League before that alteration comes • . you ,have Uni-
versal Suffrage; and we won't let the League be dis-
solved till we get total and immediate repeal.—(Loud
cheers.) Now, I say to the men in fustian jackets,
tell all your mates in your workshops what I am
telling you. But we must have conditions on your
joining this League : we must hear nothing about
classes and parties.—(Hear, hear.) My doctrine is,
that you cannot carry any measure with the aid only
of one class. They are deluding you, and want to
practise upon you, who tell you that you can carry
any great question by the 'power of your own class
alone. We want all classes, and we have got them.
—(Loud applause.) Have you not heard that two
Noblemen—real Noblemen, men whose names will go
down to posterity as Noblemen—have given yesterday
50/. each to the League fund ?—(Applause.) Have
we not got the millionaires of the country, men like
Mr. Strutt, of Derby, and Mr. Marshall, of Leeds ?

(.I.nplause.) Have-We not got our rich merchants
and our shopkeepers ; and have we not got a majority
(if all those chases--eye, and of the working classes,
too—with us ?—(Loud cheers.) Therefore, anybody
who comes here must not come with any class feel-
ings at all. If he wears a fustian jacket, he must not
refu:;e to sit down with a Peer, if he is invited.—
(Applause and laughter.) Now, something has been
iaid about a certain party in this town or neighbour-
hood, or in the national Councils, that have been mis-
behaving themselves. My good friend Mr. Brotherton,
here, 11,,s fought so long with the old party watch-
words of Whig and Tory ringing in his ears, he has
arrayed himself so long under the banner on which,
I believe, "Whig" was inscribed, that he cannot help
even now, at an Anti-Corn-law meeting, having a
brush at he Tories.—(Applause and laughter.) Now
I hope lie will come here every Thursday night ; and,
if he does, we'll teach him that there is a new party
sprung up in the country, a party that's going to
upset all other parties.—(Loud applause.) Mind you,
I say so. We have worked to very little purpose for
the last four years, if we don't hold our own, now
that we have got it, and get a great deal more, too.
I say, our party shall upset all existing parties, or
other parties shall merge in ours, and join us.—(Ap-
plause.) And the first of these parties, Whig or
Tory, that shall join the free trade party, and shall
join it honestly and purely, will hold the reins of
power in this country in less than three years from
this time.—(Applause.) But they must hold them as
free traders ; we do not care what they do call them-
selves, if they act fairly to free trade ; and there
really must not be a rag of monopoly left. I say
they will be in power in three years; the Anti. Corn-
law League will put them into power.—(Loud ap-
plause.) I cannot help, before we part, reiterating
my advice to the working-classes who may be pre-
sent, to go home to their own clubs, and parties, and
let them fully understand exactly how this question
stands. It is tottering, it is giving way, everywhere.
I declare I can hardly answers the applications I get
from all parts of the country, to visit them, from east,
west, north, and south ; and if I could subdivide my-
self
into fifty, I could employ every fraction of my-
self in visiting different parts of the country.—(Ap-
plause.) The country is so alive, so fairly boiling
up, that I suspect it will boil over ere long, unless the
monopolists give way.—(Loud and prolonged cheers.)
Mr. Alderman BROOKS then moved a vote of
thanks to the speakers,
.which was seconded by Mr.
W. HARVEY, and unanimously, passed.
Mr. BAYLEY acknowledged the compliment, and
the proceedings terminated at about half-past ten.

IRELAND.
TIM MURDER AT MILTOWN-EXTRAOR-

DINARY DISCLOSURES.
DUBLIN, DEC. 22.—The inquest was resumed this
wanasd
given. The
the most extraordinary
charactermorning, place was greatly crowded.
On Tuesday evening the body was identified by
Joseph Lynch, residing at Parnell-place, as that of
his late brother. He, at once, gave
it as his opinion
that the deceased committed suicide in a fit of in-
sanity. A number of other parties, however, could
not be brought to think that he met his death by his
own hands, under the mysterious circumstances that
Lave appeared.
Mr. Bailey said that, as the body had been recog
nised, he might now say, that the person missing
from Liverpool had been found there.
The first witness called was John Lynch. He
said— I reside at Parnell-place. I have seen the
body lying dead near the lime-kiln. His name was
Alfred Lynch, and my son. He was engaged in tha
Ortinance Survey-office, Phoenix Park.
T. Captain Bailey—My son Joseph told me a razor
had been taken out of Alfred's dressing-case, and my
daughter told me that he had torn a great many
papers and memorandums.
To Colonel Shaw—l searched his room, and could
not find his razor or his comb. The papers being
burned did not excite my suspicion.
John Brennan, the dairyman, whose house is within
about sixty yards of the kiln, deposed that he left
home about a quarter-past six o'clock on Sunday
morning to deliver milk in town. Saw Pat Tynan
about four o'clock, at which hour witness called him
from bed. Both proceeded to the cow-house to milk.
Tynan often warms wash at the kiln, and might have
done so on Sunday morning. Witness had not a sick
cow, but he had one that did not feed well. Heard
no noise about the kiln. Left the house shortly after
six, when Tynan was cutting potatoes. Returned
from Dublin about eight o clock, when he observed
a crowd of people about the kiln, and first heard of
the murder. Tynan is 'livery proper, well-con-
ducted boy. Saw marks on the wall, but did
not see any spots of blood about the kiln. Thought
that some person got over the wall after leaving the
body in the kiln, and did not . come through the
door, that Tynan might not see him as he was going
to warm the wash. Heard of no strangers or suspi-
cious characters being about the neighbourhood, nor
heard of clothes being found. A person called on
Tuesday night, and said he thoughthe knew the body,
and that it was his brother. He sat down in witness's
house, and seeing several boys seated round the table,
he asked them were they going to gamble, if they
were, he said he wonld play for sixpence. Witness