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

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fug Alt for them. They hoard a the speeches at Mule/lay Meet.
M believee ethey d
weret' eiyn wee:l'Pu earnest, se'i
whent hear
of them_but who could believe ttscy were in earnest, when they
said they sought to convert the world to Christianity, if they did
not now come forward to save the poor from starvation ?—'Loud
cheering.) S ts.Pl'rae u said,ut; lift
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cheers.) He would call upon them in the words of Isaiah, chap.
Cry
aloud
up voicej,etthey,erys
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subject
unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God ; the
Pbwers that be are ordained by God." He was sure God never
gave Sir Robert Peel power to starve the nation.—(Loud cheers.)
He might have effectual means of starving the nation, but that
was got power, but oppression, " For there is no power but of
God."—(Loud cheers.) Then there was the other Sir Robert—
Sir Robert Inglis, who was about to bring forward his motion for
Church Extension ; that was, for the extension of Luryingefrounds.
He would like to go to the House of Lords, and call upon the
Bishops, who would have plenty of fees for consecrating new bury.
ing-grounds for burying the people, who were starving, from these
accursed laws.--(Loud cheers.) They hoped in the country to
hear good news from the metropolis that the ministers of the Gos_
pep there were not backward in well-doing, but that they would see
them standing by the side of a scarring pepulation.—(Cheers.)
'l'. EGER, Esq., of Grimaced, Sussex, next addressed the as-
sembly. He said that after the extent to which the meeting was
protracted, lie would be very brief. lie had listened with great sa-
tisfaction to the last speaker. He too could say with the gentleman
that he was an humble land-owner, occupier, and farmer. He
had no means of sustentation but as a landlord He was con.
strained to confessehat be differed from the last gentleman who
spoke, for the landowners were not interested, as it was with them
a question of rent. In his (Mr. K's) locality the rich man told his
serfs in reference to the last election that they were safe as regarded
the Corn-laws by the majority that had been obtained—nity, that
if Sir R. Peel flinched, they who brought him into power would
turn him nut. He (Mr. E.) had not the happiness to come from
a large district, but that those who had deputed him were in favour
of tete repeal of the Corn-laws. (He (Mr. Eger) differed from the
gentleman who had just addressed them with so much eloquence,
who had been much more severe upon the Whigs as being mono.
polists than he would wish to be. They knew the Whigs to be
honest, but from the publication of Sir R. Peel, it appeared that
his plan was nothing more nor less than to increase
the difficulties of importation into this country. to
fact, Sir Robert would raise the duty instead of
reducing it. Hitherto they had open ports at 735., but the ave-
rage was now to be 745. before they could reach the it. duty. He
was living in a portion of the country where the rich man would
not allow his tenantry to possess a conscience.—(Hear, hear.) He
(Mr. Eger) stood alone to grapple with those gentlemen who advo-
cated the doctrine of monopoly in his neighbourhood. At the
lest election a gentleman came up to him and said that he was
surprised to find himself adhering to the party to which he was
attached. His (Mr. Eger's) reply, to him was, that his surpriso
was greater that that gentlemtin should adhere to the opposite
party. As regarded labourers in his district, he never paid less
than twelve shillings a week to each labourer. But he knew there
weee labourers in that district who were in extreme want. Indeed
he saw a man lately there in the hands of the police, and upon
inquiry he learned that the man was in custody for stealing poles.
The poor fellow said that they might send him where they
chose; that he could not be worse off than he was, for that he
had but eleven shillings a week, and eleven individuals had to be
supported out of that stun. In fact, unless the restrictions upon
trade and manufactures were taken off; this country would be a
very undesirable one to live in. There was scarcely a hedge that
could stand in the winter time, nor a pole that could be left stand-
ing for any length of time, for they were all taken by the distressed
peasantry as fuel, sincti, the high price of food took every fraction
from them. lie had known and seen men who would willingly
have given the names of other persons than Darby and
',titer, who were the misrepresentatives of the Eastern
Division of the county of Sussex, but they could not,
and though he had' a triplet of votes for a triplet
of counties, yet he was virtually unrepresented in Parliament, ex-
cept by one Member for Middlesex. It had been stated that, from
the constitution of the present House of Commons, they had no.
thing to expret. But he had also heard a friend say, that he had
great hopes of Sir R. Peel, He confessed that he could not sym,
pathise with him, for he had expected just such a measure as he
had propounded; the effect of which was to raise prices, and to
humbug the people.—(Cheers.) If a tub could be thrown out to the
whale, Sir Robert Peel was perfectly willing with all his -ausibi-
iny to do it, but as to making any regeneration for this coutttry, it
was not in him—" We cannot gather grapes from thorns nor figs
from thistles."—(Hear, hear) He hoard, with pleasure, and singular
delight, the speech of a young Ad talented man, who had, he be-
lieved urged his views with great sincerity ; hut he was afraid, if
his.counsel was followed it would be just the very thing the To.
ries would flke. Only let them have the opportunity of exercising
their lead and steel, and they would soon put them down.—(No,
no.) But by peaceable agitation they should be able to carry far
more terror into the Tory ranks than all they could ever do by
force. It was this manifestation of brute force that had eleven
back the cause of public liberty to an extent which
it was not within his power to ealculate.—(Hear.)
The riots in Wales had given the alarm to the timid, had perhaps '
decided the wavering, and took from She public liberty its greatest
power. Yet he thought the circumstances of 1642 were not to be com-
pared with the struggles of the seventeenth century. He was happy
to say that they had not now to struggle with the Sovereign.—
(Cheers.) In the seventeenth century the struggle was with a de-
ceitful King., but their Sovereign had done all she oould dn.--
(I.ond cheers.) She had constitutionally done all she could for
her people. The question had been submitted to the electors,
whether they would have dear bread or cheap bread, whether they
would have free trade or restriction. And never let them forget that
the Whigs, in the first year they were in power, brought down in
their Budget a proposal ter the repeal of time timber duty. There
was a majority against it, and therefore they abandoned it ; and,
though they never came up to his mark, yet, if they compared one
party with the other, it was like comparing the glow-worm with
the light of the meridian sun. He would now only add, that if
the Duke of Richmond was any authority at all, he told them that
the Corneae was a question of rant. Ile said, if they were
repealed, he should lose half his rent; he would he obliged to have
fewer acres of lawn, and therefore fewer gardeners ; fewer plea.
sure-grounds, and therefore fewer labourers ; fewer horses, and
tt erefore fewer grooms ; fewer coach es, and therefore fewer coachmen,
So, because the Duke of Richmond must have horses and gardeners,
and grooms and coachmen, the poor must be starved and the inte.
rests of the nation destroyed! He should rather declare tor the hap.
illness of the people and lower rents.

The CII►IRMAN then announced that he had only one more gen-
tleman ou his list, Mr. John Cadsby, of Manchester.

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Mr. G A nsav stepped:forward and said—Standing here, Gentlemen,
as I do, the representative of ten congregations—(Hear, hear)—l
might justly claim your indulgence while--I inflicted upon you a
speech, but at this late hour it would be exceedingly unbecoming
in me to attempt so to do. The congregation in Manchester with
which I am more immediately connected, numbers about 800 per-
suns. On the 6th of September last, agreeably to the recorpmen-
dation of the Conference of ministers, held in Manchester in
August, a prayer meeting was held, that the good Lord in his
providence might be pleased to send relief for the starving thou-
sands. After the prayer meeting a number IT us ajdotprned to the
Vestry, and fiirmed ourselves into a Congregational Anti Corn.
law Association, to aid in raising funds for the League, to super-
intend the getting up of petitions, and otherwise forward the great
end we had in view. This Association, in answer to the call of
the Council of the League appointed me to represent them here;
anti no sooner was it known that I was thus appointed, than letters
from eongregatiols in the neighbouring towns, Blackburn, 1% nry,
Oldham, &c., came pouring in, entreating Inc to represent them
also—(Cheers)—and I may mention that only one voice pervaded
the whole—total and immediate repeal —( Loud cheers This,
therefore, I feel bound to demand. —(Cheers.) We ask no more,
and will take no less—(Cheers)—the total and immediate repeal
of the bread-tax.—(Cheers.) He was glad that the measure of Sir
Robert Peel had not been more liberal in its provisions, for, in con.
sequence, their arms would be strengthened, and they would-be
enahltd to gain fresh 'vantage wound month after month. lie
would trouble them but little farther, than to assure them that. he
would be able, from personal observation, to inform the ten con.
gregations by which he was deputed, that this Conference was
the most cheering sight which it was his happiness ever to have
witnessed.—(Cheers.)
Mr. SYDNEY SMITH, as Secretary, and one of the Executive Corn-
Mince of the Conference, begged to state that the Committee would,
meet at nine o'clock to-morrow morning (this day), and the
Conference would be held at eleven o'clock, when he hoped
all the gentlemen present would make it a point to be
punctual in their attendance. Ile could not conclude without
congratulating the Meeting upon the presence of the Welsh land-
owner (Mr. G, Evans), who, he trusted, would make the Bucking-
hams of the present ikiy swallow the leek to the smallest end, as the
Welshman of old did.—(Cheer,.)
The CHAIRMAN raid the Conference and the speaker were much
indebted to the meeting for the patience and decorum with which
those who addressed the meeting were received. He should observe
at the same time that lie had been very much hi the habit of,being
present at public ineutiugs, and was not unacquainted with the
interior of the House of Commons, and it had seldom been his lot
to hear such a succession of able and talented speeches
as he had heard that evening, and that the constituencies had
done both themselves and the cause which they advocated infinite
honour by the gentlemen whom they had selected as Delegates.
With such men it was impossible to doubt the triumph of mind and
intellect over interest, ambition, and power. With the hope that
they should have a good attendance to-morrow, he should take
his leave.—(Loud and long.colitinued cheers.)
On the motion of Mr. EGER, seconded by Mr. BUCENIASTER.
a vote of thanks was unanimously passed to the Chairman
land the meeting separated shortly before ten o'clock.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TA TTE II SA LL'S —YEsTEn DA V.
'I he betting of yesterday was flat, and, although it touched
upon all the stakes now in the market, was without any ma-
terial effect on the prices.
THF: eIIEsTER. cur.
9 to 1 agst Mr. Kirby's Lanercost
12 to I agst Lord Westminster's Manlial Soult
13 to 1 agst Mr. Holme's Vulcan
15
,to I agst Mr. Plummer's Alice Hawthorn
25 to 1 agst Colonel Ans,m's Ithodanthe
TIM DERBY.
7 to 1 agst Colonel Anson's Attila
12 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Chatham
1000 to 35 agst Mr. Wreford's Wiseacre
40 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Dirce colt
50 to 1 agst Mr. Scott's Artful Dodger
50 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes' Meteor—taken
1000 to 15 agst Mr. Greville's Gunter
'2OOO to 25 agst Mr. Bird's Dr. Allen—taken twin
TOE OAKS.
9 to 1 agst Mr. Et%lali's Passion—taken
25 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Adela filly—.taken
• 25 to 1 agst Mr. Allen's Belle Dame--taken
The whole of the Duke of Cleveland's thorough-bred horse
will be sold at Baby Castle on Saturday, the 26th inst.

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