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for them—a hope n bleb the recent votes of ParHamm
Ivould go far to disappoint. He had heard, and heard with
much concern, the Hon. Member for Nottinghamsh it
declare that these discussions were very inconvenient, as
they led the people to think that they were, worse ofr
than they were. This was not possible. He read an ~
extract from Mr. Holland Hoole, the boroughreeve of
Salford, delivered at the Cern-law'Conference, express-
lug his apprehension of a popular outbreak if something -
were not dune to relieve the distresses of the people. Ai,
Bilston the people had already commenced to pillage the
bakers' shops, and was this to continue through all the
%%inter ? The Hon. Member for Oldham had slated, tha,
ttithin the last/18 months he had paid for labour 50,0006
more than that labour was worth. Why should
he be culled on to make this sacrifice for the

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landed interest?—what sacrifice were they making
for the manufacturers? He quoted an extract from the
Mnrh-lone Express 'of Monday last, showing the until-
vourahle effect of the late weather on the prospects of
harve.st, afid doubting whether an average produce will
be secured. It this paper was to be helieveo, there was
an end of that early and abundant harvest. But even if
it were so, they could not ship off one additional cargo Of
their manufactured goods; then let them not trust to this
prospect, He conteeded that the motion was fonded
on constitutional principles and in common humanity,
and he implored Honourable Gentlemen to pause
before they voted against it. It' the measures of
the Right Honourable Gentlemen should have a
fair trial and fail, they would then, by voting for this
motion, have the satisfaction of having done their best
to relieve the distresses of these to whom they were in-
debted for every atom of property they possessed. He
concluded by moving the resolution of vi hich be had
given notice :—" To move an humble address to her
Majesty, to represent to her Majesty that the distress in
the manufacturing districts. to which her Majesty was
pleased to allude in her Majesty's most gracious speech
at the commencement of the present session, ' as having
been borne with exemplary patience and tbrtitude,' con-
tinues unabated ; and that the sufferings and privations
resulting therefrom, are rapidly extending from the
working to the middle classes of society; that none of the
measures hitherto proposed by her Majesty's Government
[ to Parliament, however just the principles upon which some
of them have been founded, appear adequate to afford a
timely and sufficient remedy for these great and press-
ing evils ; and that her Majesty's Government cannot,
without the aid of Parliament, take such further steps
as may
.be necessary for that purpose ; and farther '
to represent to her Majesty an anxious hope,
that if, after the termination of the present session, ne
decisive improvement should take place in the condition
of her Majesty's suffering and loyal subjects, her Ma-
jesty may be pleased, again, at an early period, to call
Parliament together, with a view of giving fuller effect
to those sound principles of commerce, which, if fairly
imd,impartially carrie. out, more especially as regards
the food of the people, would, by giving an impulse to
trade and industry, avert those calamities which the in-
clemency of winter, superadded to want and destitution,
must inevitably produce."
Mr. WARD seconded the resolution. There was
never, be said, a motion made in that House to which
he gave a more cordial concurrence. He believed it we°
' perfectly constitutional and politic, and .if it were not
agreed to now, he was convinced that the Parliament
would be called together in the autumn to carry into
effect the only practical remedy that could be applied to
the evils they laboured under. Hon. Gentlemen oppfr
site had already given up the present Corn-laws in their
minds—they must be prepared for their repeal. They'
only clung to them as a sort of respite, but the capital.
punishment they could not avoid. The principles of the
present Government were all he could desire as a free
trader; the only failure was when they came to
be carried out into detail. Thus, when they asserted
good free trade principles with regard to foreign meat,
it was only under the assurance that no beef at all could
come in to the injury of the British agriculturist. St
last night, when they were discussing the question 0
bonded corn, it was shown that the quantity of cora
affected was so miserably small that it could have no
effect whatever on the corn of the home grower. lie
did sincerely, trust that the Government would act up
to itsprinciples and call the Parliament together in the
[ autumn, so as to provide the only remedy that could b°
effectual. He wanted to change the semblance into
something suLstantial.—(Hear, hear.) As a Member
for a suffering town, he wished to bring particular facts
before the House. A memorial was presented 'to the
Right Hon. Baronet from Sheffield, which informed hit°
that the heads of 1,500 families were unable to find
work. The rateable property of the place was almost
exhausted by the drains made upon it.-(Hear,
hear.) They were waiting for a revived trade,
but it did not come, arid the greateit:! alarm
was felt for the coming winter. The town of Sheffield
illustrated, in an especial manner, the evil working 0(
the Corn-law. He need not tell the Right Hon. Baronet
what effect the repeal of the Corn-laws would have. lie
was told by one of the Anti-Corn-law delegates that be
was ready to put on 500 new hands himself if the Cora:
laws were repealed. He did net speak on this questio7.,
as a party man, but as an Englishman. It was thi_els
trade, and the industry and ingenuity of Englishmen, toL
made England what it was, but by their present syss:
they .were doing every thine. to ruin it. The mid4"o,
man, and the working man, were both suffering frond
rige
operation of the present system. What was the lan
eft
of an industrious working man on the subject, in a t',;r
to him ? (The Hon. Gentleman then read the letter
of She
which stated, that the state of the town ,,,
field was in a far worse condition than f,",;,-
represented by him (Mr. Ward) in the House of `'„,o";
mons. There were 3,000 houses untenanted in Shetnetu.
—(Hear, hear.) The letter then went on to detail par-
ticular cases of misery in the town.) What, then, eon-
tinned the lion. Gentleman must be the feelings of the
peoplei n such a state of things ? With what feelings
could they look upon that House, if they did not take_
means to provide relief for the people ? Such a state of
Y:,
things he looked upon with alarm and with sympath
He therefore supported the motion of his Hon. rieno
as affording to the people the only prospect of sulstair
tial relief in the coming winter.—(Cheers.)

The motion having been put,
Mr. D'ISRAELI said he thought the House might 0
well vote a want of confidence in the present Ministry nt
once, as not to leave to them the discretion to call Par
ment together if they thought it necessary.—(llear.)
The present motion was substantially the same: as ths.',
which was brought forward a short time since. Ile iw
mitted the distress of the country, and he did not see
any likelihood of its decreasing. The lion. Member for
Sheffield had attributed it to the Corn-law. But he be-
lieved it was not owing to any single cause. Many causeg
contributed to that distress. He did not think it was owing
to the stoppage of the trade with America, but hie,
thought it was in consequence of the settlement which
took place after the late war, and which was an and-
commercial settlement as far as England was concerned'
From 1831 to 1841 they (the Opposition) pursued f•
course of commercial policy to which in his (Mr:
D'lsraeli's) opinion, the present distress, was, in a gre"
measure to be attributed. When they remembered that
during these ton years six commercial treaties had been
signed but not ratified, that two treaties had been ratified
but had entirely failed, and when they remembered th°
hostile tariffs that had been framed, he thought the&e
were considerations sufficient alone to convince'
the House, that the distress was not owil3K
to agricultural impolicy. He thought it woola
have been very desirable if they could have formed,
a treaty of commerce with the south of Ger Many
France, which would, in a great measure, hal
done away with the German Union ; and he did
blame the Noble Lord that he had not entered into
these treaties, because they had thereby lost these nial:;
km. The treaty with France would have admitted All
Sheffield, even at a very low rate of duty ; the woollens
of Bradford, and all kinds of linen and linen yarn, at
very low rate—in no case exceeding 10 per cent. By that
treaty English manufactures, to the amount of betwt
9,000,0001. and 10,000,000/. sterling annually might ha"
been exported to:France. This was no treaty in nubibto;
the ink was wet in the pen of the French Ambassador,.
ready to sign it ; the Noble Lord was pressed to sign iG
by the French Minister and the French Ambassador,. 0
but he did not do so. They had lost six commerciP
treaties,
,which he calculated would have produced IL° '4
interchange:of 18;000,000/. sterling. When the Neill° Y 4
Lord found that he had lest all, he endeavoured to I'oo' 1
a treaty with Austria, by which they "ere to enjoy the 0
commerce of the Black Sea; and yet, notwithstandal
that treaty bad been ratified, the first Austrian veSSI"
that arrived in England was sequestrated. This treat!
failed, and so did the treaty which the Noble Lord st;
tempted with Turkey. He (Mr. D'lsraeli) had look
ip
around him for the cause of distress, and he must 501
that he could only attribute it to the anti•commereis, '
policy which had been foiLowed out by the Noble Lora'
He did not believe that diStreSs could be relieved by the
repeal of the Corn-laws, or any isolated measure. Pi.: -
did not believe the distress to be transitory, and ••
thought the only remedy would be a recurrence to thet;i
principles of commercial policy under whic:: they haw
formerly flourished. He should vote against the ID"th'°,--r
of the Hon. Member for Finsbury-, believing that ",;-,
Majesty's Government would, during the recess, give 1":44;'',/
important subject their most earnest consideration.
Mr. EWART thought he might congratulate gentli4l; t'f,/
men on his side of the House in having gained an all): „e
the person of the Hon. Member who had just sat d° he
were it not that he was at such dreadful issue with t"
late Foreign Minister; and he (Mr. Ewart) feared the°
would be no way of settling that difference but by 1:0"
pointing the Hon. Gentleman to the situation which '-
:1g
Noble Lord had recently filled.—(Great laughter.)
H Friend the Member for Sheffield had done his duty
in representing the distress which existed in that towil±
but he (Mr. Ewart) could inform the House that it poi
not in Sheffield alone that distress existed. In Liverrw.
the poor-rates had risen to a frightful extent, the she);
ping interest bad suffered immensely, and emigrate of
to the United States—nut of the poor and needy, bat
mess of substance—was going on to a greater extent thar
was evcrknown before at this time of they ear. SetnePe'riel
were apt to say, "let us have an abundant hervest, a
it will be all right." Were the destinies of this gr eat,
empire to depend upon the weather ? Was the Minister co;
a great nation to let the barometer alone decide sto
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prosperity or the suffering of the country 7 lion. 3\l€_
bers opposite had it in their power to render/s innact.
pendent of the harvest, by allowingiii
foreign corn ; yet they insultingly refused to do sa-
the
allusion to what the Right Hon. Baronet had state
other day, to the deputation which had waited upon him
bet
be (Mr. Ewart) would admit that our exports had
f the
increased, but that was owing to the depr( ciation,o_ving,
the imPotio
home market, in consequence of the people not ns
employment. If the trade were o cued with Anieri
Pdemand
the people would have employment, thesc-
for manufactures in the home market would in cre!
Let them look to the increase—in the home clonal a
France. •
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