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people could not be put off till spring.--( Hear, hear.) He en-
tre.,ted the Right Hon. Baronet not to think of dismissing the
Parliament till some permanent relief should be afforded. He
entreated him to consider how different was the position of the
country now to what it was list spring; then they had some
hopes from the measures which the Right Hon. Gentleman had
promised so solemn ,y carefully to mature ; now they had no
promise of relief, and they had no hopes. But patient as the
people had been, an much lauded as they had been for it, that
House might depend upon it that the more terrible now would
be their despair.—( Hear, hear.) Let the Right Hon. Baronet
reconsider the Corn laws and devise some measure which would
furnish a remedy for this crying calamity.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE said that if he had any fault to find
with the resolution proposed by the Hon. Member for Knares-
borough ( Mr. Ferrand) it was that it did not go far enough.
He (Mr. Duncombe) believed that five millions at least instead
of one million would be required for the purpose of relieving the
poor, and if the House would grant the Committee he would
move an amendment to that effect. There were several pre-
cedents to warrant the House in granting those sums. In 1832
the House voted one million in aid of the suffering Irish clergy,
who were affected by the operation of the Bill of the Noble Lord
opposite (Lord Stanley). Thirteen or fourteen thousand
pounds were granted annually in aid of the Polish refugees.
Silinilar grants had been made in favour of French refugees.
And why not make grants of this kind in favour of
the suffering poor of our own country ? The dis-
tress now endured by the poor was owing to the present Go-
vernment—( Hear, hear)—who would not attend to the state-
ments on this score. When he was on the other side of the
House he had shown them that the poor were in many in-
stances obliged to subsist on carrion, but his statements would
not be believed by Hon. Gentlemen opposite. Their only
object was the attainment of place and power. It was the bu-
siness of that House to provide a remedy for the distress, and
for that reason he would vote for the Hon. Gentleman's mo-
tion. He believed that they were not fully aware of the distress
prevaiing in the manufacturing districts. They would not at-
tend to it. It would take 500,000 or 600,000 men to come up
to London to convince them of it, before they would believe it ;
and when t'...,ese men did come, the House would then lend an
attentive ear to their sufferings, but not until then did lie think
the House would listen to their woes. What were those poor
individuals to do? Were they to lie down in the ditches and
die ? They had not sufficient respect for the Government of the
country to be satisfied to do any such thin.- for it. Admonitions
in churches to contribute relief would have little effect;
it would afford little relief. A better remedy must be
applied. The House had begun this evening by refusing to
listen to the grievanc, s of the Dissenters, and they were about
to conclude it by refusing to afford the slightest relief to the
thousands, the million 4, of the deserving, but starving, poor of
the country.
Mr. FERRAND would not enter into the question about
the Church, but pass on to notice the observations of the Hon.
Member for Stockport about free trade. It was not a year
ago since the electors of this country were appealed to on that
question, and they decided, as the large majority of that House
showed, in favour of the Corn-laws. The Hon. Member for
Perth (Mr. F. Maule) had stated that his (Mr. Ferrand's)
addresses in that House were made for the purpose of exciting
the people of the country. He begged leave to tell the Right
Hon. Gentleman, that previous to his (Mr. Ferrand's) taking
his seat in that House he found the manufacturing districts ex-
cited in the most unjustifiable manner by persons anxious to
set them against the Government of the country. -Men the most
wealthy were his ing persons who were reckless of all principle,
of all honour, and all truth, to excite the working classes
by the most disgraceful and inflammatory language. But
although that course had been pursued for months, notwith-
standing the great waste of money, the parties had failed. He
(Mr. Ferrand) had done more to put down hired agitators in
this country than any other Member in this House, and the
conscious tectitude of his conduct amply repaid him for what he
had done. As to any statements he (Mr. Ferrand) had made,
he would leave the House and the public to decide upon them,
and thoroughly convinced he felt that whatever attempts Hon.
Gentlemen opposite might make to throN a slight upon his
statements, the people of the country would place greater con-
fidence in what he stated than in all the statements of all the
Hon. Gentlemen opposite.—( Hear, hear, and ironical cheers.)
The House then divided, when there appeared—
For the motion .. 6
Against it
Majority against the motion —loo
T.AGAN NAVIGATION BILL.

On the motion of Lord ELIOT the following Members were
nominated as a Select Committee on this Bill :—Mr. Nicholl,
Mr. Vernon, Sir John Walsh, Mr, Christopher, Mr. Pringie,
Captain Carnegie, Mr. Dickinson, Captain Jones, Mr. Charles
Wood, Mr. Sharman Crawford, Air. Sergeant Murphy, Mr.
Protheroe, Mr. Thornely, Mr. Redington, and Mr. Patrick
St ewart.

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