The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-07 00:00:00

THE ANTI-CORN-LAW
CONFERENCE. , 1
(THIS EpAy.)

(Continued frort: Our Afternoon Edition.)
The Rev. Mr. MORGAN (of Stourbridge) next addressed the
meeting. He said that Stourbridge, connected as it was with
the iron trade, was lees affected by the present distress than
odic? places, yet even there distress did prevail to a great ex-
tent, indeed to an extent-never experienced in the memory of
the oldest inhabitant of the town. He could adduce
some indirect proofs of this statement, which were not the less
conclusive because they were indirect. In the year 1838 the
market tolls of the town amounted to 7061., in 11340 they fell
to 6221. Between Stourbridge and Birmingham there were
threee turnpike-gates, which had been let for 1,0041.. but the
person who had taken them had incurred a loss of 3001., in
consequence of the falling off of the traffic between those
towns, which resulted from the decrease of manufactures. In
the poor-house the usual number of inmates was under 100; on
Thursday last the number was 198. The scale of wages fixed
by the Work Committee of the Board of Guardians was, for a
a married man with three children, from six shillings to seven
shillings a week ; for a man with a greater number of children,
eight shillings ; for a single man, four shillings ; for a boy,
three shillings per week.—( Hear, hear.) The question then
came, what was to be done ?—( Hear, hear.) He wished
they could obtain an audience of her :Majesty. However her
Majesty was unable to de anything in the matter. They must
only then not do anything precipitate, but wait till the Execu-
tive Committee had made its report, and propounded some re-
medial measures. He concurred with Mr. Hayward that the
Association ought to direct its attention to the suffrage move-
ment.—( Cheering. )
Mr. RAWSON (of Manchester) wished to call the attention
of the meeting to a fact which had been communicated to him
by a very excellent man, a Conservative, Mr. Smith, wine and
spirit merchant, of Manchester, who informed him that out of
1,2001. worth of goods which he had lately sent to Stockport,
with which place he carried on a good trade, he did not expect
to receive 2001., in consequence of the distress prevalent there;
and yet, strange to say, that-gentleman wished to " conserve,"
among other things, the Corn-laws.
Mr. CHAPMAN (of Loughborough) wished to make a few
observations. The state of that district was most deplorable.
The workmen were in a condition as bad as the peasantry of
Ireland, or of the impoverished States of Italy. The staple
trade of the place was hosiery, at which -.nen who used
to earn
.frorn 16s. to 20s. per week ne,te received only
from 7s. 6d. to 10s. per week. Othe,"r trades were in an
equally declining state. Chartism, tc,„, was extending every
day ; and property, which had be
.ett hitherto sacred, was be-
coming more and more insecm, every day. The people were
beginning to think that the.v.fotight not to starve, while there
was any means of obtaini-,. support in the country. In the
hosiery trade no ire;provement had been introduced by ma-
chinery, and yet the operatives engaged in that trade were as
much distresse:„'. as those of any other branch of manufactures.
In agricultc4.o, too, machinery had not been introduced so as
to throv.; the labourer out of employment, and yet distress
arm:4 that class had never been so severe as at the present
base. It was idle, then, to say that the introduction of
machinery in manufactures had injured the condition of the
operative, since here were two instances of the absence of
machinery being followed up by the existence of distress.
The spread of Chartism among the Dissenters, and the pre-
valence of the feelings among them which would render pro-
perty insecure, was an alarming feature in the appearance of
the times. It' the tide of distress had reached a mark so high
as that to which he alluded, there was reason to apprehend
that there would be very little left which would not be sub-
merged. There was one thing which he did not understand,
and that was the interference of Government with trade. Such
an interferenee on the part of the Government of a country
was an usurpation, and could not be justified. He would con-
clude by. throwing out a suggestion of the necessity of their
endeavouring to form a British and Foi eign Free-trade So-
eiety, which would have for its object the establishment of free
trade with all countries.
Mr. Geonoz THOMPSON announced to the meeting that
the debate on Mr. Wallace's resolutions, which had been ad-
journed last night, would, in all probability, be resumed to-
morrow evening. Mr. Bannerman, who had a raotion fixed
for this evening with reference to the opening of the ports by an
Order in Council, had been requested Sir Robert Peel
to postpone his motion, in order to allow the Government to go
on with their own more immediate easiness; but Mr. B. had
refused to accede to that request, and a deputation from the
Executive Committee had gotie to Mr. 8., for the purpose of
strengthening him, if nece,siary, in his purpose, as no business
would be of more irsportance than that which Mr. B.'s mo-
tion involved.
The Citalas,Loi announced that the Delegates would as-
semble this evening at half-past six, at Brown'', Hotel, Palace-
yard.
_

Mr. GRUNDY, of Bury, came forward for the purpose of
laying before the meeting a statement of the distress at pre-
toad existing in the town of Bury ; the distress existing was
vaparalleled. The state of the country was most
stppalling, and he saw no chance of their obtaining re-
dress from that Legislature which pretended to regulate the
destinies of this great nation.—(Cheers.) He wished that
gentlemen who made speeches would dwell more upon the
means likely to alleviate the distress, than upon the details of
that distress.—( Cheers.) No impression, he was convinced,
was likely to be made upon Sir R. Peel or his party: They
acknowledged the distress, and pretended to sympathise with it.
He (Mr. Grundy) judged of men by their actions, not by their
words, and he was satisfied that Sir Robert Peel and his party
eared not for the starvation of the people, so long as they coula
drain them of the resources.—(Cheers.) It was high time for
the people of this country to coalesce and demand by firm re-
monstrance and with uplifted hands, the restoration of their
rights.—( Loud cheers.) The country was dissatisfied with the
milk-and-water system that had been so long pursued.—( Loud
cheers.) There were now many persons who were Corn-law
repealers. What had made them so ? Why, the pres-
sure upon their pockets, upon their bodies, and upon
their circumstances.—(Load cheers.) He had foreseen,
in 1815, shat would be the consequences of this law ; for
a lotsgacries of years he hadAstood almost alone in his opposition
to its•und when he now" saw the numbers who, since that
period, had joined in tie opposition to it, be felt sure that there
was sufficient energy and, independence in the country to reno-
vate all that retp.ired renovating.—(Cheers.) Let them,
therefore; joist heart and hand in the struggle. Let them have
a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull altogether—(Loud
cheers)—but in order to do that, they must be with the people.
Why did they object to join the people on account of any mere
small differences of opinion—because they did not like this
leader, or because that demagogue had too much influence ? If
the general views and feelings of men were right, they should
join them without looking out for little foibles. They should
forget and forgive, and all join together in the cause of the
country.—( Loud cheers.) If they went on as they were
going on at present, something serious must eventually, happen,
unless it were averted by the-good sense of the people forcing
the Government to adopt the measures necessary for their re-
lief.—( Cheers.) The township of Bury was in a state of the
deepest distress. The number of houses unoccupied amonnted
to 469, the rateable value of which was 3,661/. Bs. 6d. There
were unoccupied of houses of the annual rent of 51. and under,
331 ; frem 51. to JIM, 75 : from 101. to 20/., 37 ; from 201. to
30.1., 12 ; from 301. to 40/.', 3 ; from 501. to 60/., 1. There
were besides, 8 unoccupied warehouses. 1 timber yard, and
1 print works. The rate payable upon the rental of the unoc-
cupied property at the present time would amount to 381/. 7s.
The number of empty houses was increasing every week, and
three or tour families frequently inhabited one cottage, for the
sake of economy. Rents were from 20 to 30 per cent. lower
than they were in 1838 and 1839. In 1839 there was a poor-
rate of 10d. in the pound ; m 1840 it was 2s. Id.; in 1841,
2s. Id., leaving the parish in debt nearly 3,0001., which would
require a further rate of Is. 3d. to liquidate, and in 1842 it would
require a rate of 3s. 4d. in the pound to get the parish out of debt.
The tetal amount of the poor-rates in 1839 was 1,8471. Bs. 7d. ;
in 1840, 4,709/. 7s. sd. ; in 1841, 4,884/. 7s. I Id. The number
of persons relieved as vagrants were, from June 30 to Decem-
ber 31, 1849, 481; from January 2, 1841, to March 25, 1842,
2.525; and from March 28 to June 27, 1842, only three
saanths, 777. One of the great foundries in Bury was the
property of Messrs. Walker. The amount of wages paid at the
f. u idry in 1835 was 24,4141. ; in 1837, 19,914 ; 1838, 27,200/. ;
1839,25,7t'4; 1840, 17,709; 1841, 13,083. A corresponding
diminution had taken pace in the amount of wages paid by the
machine-shop of Walker, Smith. and Co. In 18311 they had
paid 22,0391. wages, and in 1841 only 10,5461. There were
nine mills and works unoccupied, which when employed found
work for 2,C00 hands. Not more than one-half the meat was
slatnahtered in Bury now
_that there was two years ago. Per-
sons with small capital, who were a most important class, were
daily emigrating, and 5,0001. had been taken ou- of Bury by
persons emigrating to America within the last six months. The
depreciation of property was dreadful. A mill which, five years
ago had cost 93,000/., had been offered for sale, and only
4,0004 offered for it. Another manufactory, which in 1840
cost 15,000/, had since been purchased for 6,000/. A large
spinning establishment, which had cost 40,0001., had been
offered for sale a few months since, and the highest bona fide
bidding offered had been 4,0001. The distress and embarrassment
of the shopkeepers and tradespeople was dreadful, in conse-
quence et the distress existing among the working people, and
general ruin would be the consequence, unless some alteration
took place. He wished he knew how to bring about the
alteration.
Mr. G. Toomrsoat—Will you pay the Income-tax?
Mr. GUNDRY—No, I will not—(Loud cheers.) I will go
to any peaceable length with any person.—( Cheers.) He had
received a letter from a block-maker, who had served his
time with the father of the Premier, Sir R. Peel.—(Cheers.)
The writer stated that in 1835-36 and 37, when food was
cheap their calico printers were in full employment, and earned
from I/: to I/. ss. a week, but now the average was not above
3s. ed. or 4s. a week, and that not above one-third of tho time
was employed, and this was a trade in which no machinery had
been introduced. Tbe writer attributed all this misery to the
accursed Corn-laws and other monopoly laws of the country.—
(Loud cheering ) In the township of Haworth, which was
not io'so desperate a state as some of the districts, there had
u'ellj within the last two years, eight cotton factories
totallY stopped and six working short time. The poor-rates
hacheereased from 1,601/. in 183.5 to 3,767/. in 1842. They
attrithited all the misery and wretchedness they were suffer-
ing to the 'atrocious' unjust, and cruel Corn.lavrs.—( Cheers. )
Somethieg must be cisme,
state of things, or either rough or smooth, to remedy this
something dreadful would follow. They
should demand of the legQature to do the right. He was not
a petitioner ; he was a remonstrant.—(Loud cheers.) He
was not a beggar—(Cheers)—he only wanted his own—
( Cheers)—and not that which belonged to any one else—(Con-
tinued cheering)—and he never would rest satisfied while laws
were, made for the protection of one class only to the detriment
and robbery of the remaining part of the country.—(Loud
cheers.) He had no objection to tell Sir Robert Peel that he
would submit no longer to have his property ground under foot,
and that what he bad gained by industry he would not have
taken from hiss by robbery.—( Loud cheers.)
Mr. THO3IPSON said that Mr. R. R. R. . Moore, of Manchester,
was charged to present to the meeting a
ne port
thing had fallenort from Bolton.
The Rev. Mr. FERGUSON said that i
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from Mr. Bury which he would not like to
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atondthea
public. lie (Mr. Fergusson) was a man
Christian Minister, and Mr. Bury had said they must lift
ft theirme
hands; Now this could mean nothing but physical frc
hoped this was not meant.
Mr. BURY rose amidst loud cheers and said the last speaker
was a preacher of the Gospel, he (Mr. Bury) had no objection
to tell them that he had been one too. He was as much a man
of Peace as any man living. What be meant was that they must
show anattitude of determination. He did not mean lifting his
hand. in the sense that: Mr. Ferguson supposed. What he
meant by lifting their hand was to show that have their rights
they would._(Cheers.)
Mr. R. R. .sieoir.e. of Manchester, then addressed the
meeting. He Said,
they had beard a great deal of over-pro-
duction in this country. They were told that the great mis-
chief which they were suffering under was caused by this—
too much clothes for the people to wear—too much manufac-
tures. Now he had in his hand a very extraordinary reply to
this cry of over produetion. He had a shirt which had been
worn by a man in Boltorefor five years. It was patched and
mended in all direction. Now, if there was over-production
in the country, it was very extraordinary that a man should be
-oblige letters a coarse cotton shirt for five years. He would
an account of the condition of the man,
read a giving
and.the state of his family generally:—
The history of this shirt is as,follows La.st week, June 29,
oq.dolait3 was see the state
1842, 'De., Hodgkin, of L.
The Arst hoilse he en-
of some of the poor families in o ton.
f Hulme-street- quilt,
Wed .was that -Of Joba • ° Tled-

weaver, but now out of employment; his wife was repairing the
collar of this shirt, She was a person of delicate and rather
interesting exterior. The hOttie appeared cleanly; on her
fifteen months' old, which she was suckling,
alleging, that though it was time it should be weaned, she did
not like that it should begin to partake any of that scanty por-
tion of food which the rest of the family
,required." He had
known such instances himself. He had visited within the last
six weeks twenty families, and in many instances he found the
mother suckling her baby, and the child was actually starving
at its mother's breast. " The husband being absent she said
that their family consisted of her husband and self, with four
children. That only one of the family, one of the daughters,
was in work, that she was a power-loom weaver and earned
3s. 6d. per week, and this sum, together with ls. 6d. which
her husband had earned with jobbing, making 55., was all they
had to live upon. Her bosom becoming exposed whilst suck-
ling the child, it was obvious that she had no linen upon herself,
and on the inquiry being put, she stated that she had net now
for several weeks possessed a chemise that she could put on.
Inquiries have since been made by a neighbour, touching the
circumstances of this family, and the case is fully borne
out—the person who undertook the inquiry observing,
that ' there are people worse off than these.' It is
deserving of observation that the shirt sent herewith has
been in wear these five years by the father of a family ; that
the smother is without linen ; that their principal subsistence
comes from the earnings of a daughter, who is working at
power-looms for a manufacturer. of shirtings ; that that manu-
facturer has frequently had, and probably now has, his ware-
house crammed full of shirtings and other goods, for which
he has no sale. And yet there are persons found, even
within the observation of these melancholy circumstances,
who audaciously allege that the sufferings of these people
arise from over-production.'—(Cries of, " Hear, hear. ')
Over production—the only over-production was that of goods.
—( Cheers.) There was an over production of meddling with
the trade and commerce of the country.—(Cheers.) No
warehouse in the country would be full, nor a loom unworked in
the kingdom, if they were not bound by the laws which kept
the food of the world from the starving people of England.—
(C.eers.) Was it to be wondered at that the warehouses were
full in this country. How could the people buy shirts ; how
could this poor man do it? All his earnings went to buy bread.
America was not allowed to give the people food for the shirting
they made. The law makers were not obliged to go ragged.
They sold bread, and would as long as there were people to buy.
They rolled in purple and fine linen, while the people are star-
ving. He(Mr. M.) was glad the question had been asked with re-
spect to physical force. They wanted no physical force—they
wanted no such thing. Of all weaknesses dreamt of, physical
force was the most absurd. What they must do must be to
withdraw their support from an unjust Government. The
strength of the Government lies in their physical force. They
(the delegates) had been 'charged with exciting the people.
.'they had said that Sir Robert Peel had had the power to give
the people food, and he bad brought forth nothing. If that was
exciting the people, then it was the duty of every Chris-
tian and human being to do so. It would be criminal
not to do so. The physical force of the Government lay in the
Horse-Guards and the police; but the people were becoming
enlightened on the subject, and they would be no longer led
by the Government. Mr. Thompson had submitted a plan to
the meeting. He (Mr. Moore) wished to see the burden of
carrying the Corn-law thrown upon the people.—(Cheers.)
They must not say, " Why did not the Parliament do it ?"
They must not say. Why did not the Corn-law League do
it ?" The people themselves must do it. They must with.
draw their support from the Government. They could not go
on if the people refused to use taxed articles.—(Cheers.) For
himself, for the last five months, he had drank nothing but
milk and spring water; and at his breakfast he took his cup of
water with pleasure, in the hope of some day seeing Peel
the First Lord of an empty Treasury. If he were
so, he would give up his post directly. They were
bound to obey the law, but they could obey it in their
own way; they were bound to pay the taxes; there were
two ways of paying a letter, either by stamping it or paying the
postage. Let the law take its course, and let the goods be
seized. Let them do the same thing with respect to the In-
come-tax, that revenue introduced to prop up monopoly. It
was said that there would have been an equivalent on the re-
duction on the duty in the paltry articles in the tariff; but
this was a mere pretence. The Government intended to do
nothing—they had done nothing—and now added to the other
taxes they had an Income-tax, which was to support laws that
were injuring the trade of the country, and disgracing the coun-
try abroad. They must pay the Income-tax in the least agree •
able way to the Governmeat possible.—(Loud cheers. )
lie liked keeping within the law, and it was per-
fectly legal to say let your goods be seized.—(Cheers.)—
In Ireland, when cattle were seized for tithes, it was common
for several thousand people to assemble for the purpose of
watching the sale, and frequently no person could be found to
bid. He knew that the people of this country were not suffi-
ciently unanimous to allow of a similar plan being pursued,
but the re were other plans which might be successfully
adopted. The meeting had probably heard of John Hoskins,
the Birmingham blacksmith and the great teetotaller.—( Hear,
hear.) John having had some chairs seized for Church. rates,
got five or six of his shop-mates to attend the sale. When the
chairs were put up to auction, some one bid three pence for
them. " Oh," said John, " they are worth more than that;
I will give five shillings for them." Some one then
offered ten pounds, and this was followed up by successive
bidoings of 201., 301., 401., and 501., and this went on till at
last the bidding stood at 1,000/. John told the auctioneer that
if he knocked them down at that price, he should insist upon
the difference, and the result was that the chairs were restored
to him, and the Church-rate people had to pay the auctioneer
201. or 30/. for his work.—( Great laughter.) Now, the very
same thing might be done with respect to the income-tax and
the assessed taxes, and if they did not stop the supplies by such
means, the fault would rest with those who refused to adopt
that course. These were measures which would ac-
complish their purpose, if they had only courage,
perseverance, and. fearlessness enough so to act. He
would not occupy the time of the meeting at much greater
length, but he wished to state one or two facts. He had in
one day visited twenty-five families in Salford, and of that
number of families the great majority had been four-and-
twenty hours without food of any kind. On that day they
wererelieved from the workhouse. In one instance he, on
going into a cellar, found a man lying on shavings, with not a,
morsel of covering. Ile had been lying on those shavings for two
months, afflicted with dropsy and disease of the chest. Shortly
after he 'died in the workhouse, and on his deathbed he told him
(Mr. Moore) that on one occasion he bad been thirty-six hours
without a morsel of food passing his lips. —(Hear. ) If the Go-
vernment could be brought into the cellars and garrets of the
back lanes of Manchester; if they could see men week after
week growing paler, and thinner, and weaker from starvation;
if they could see children with marks of disease brought on by
slow starvation, they would not dare to hurry on a motion of
supply. The first question would be how were the starving
and dying people to be supplied with feud?—(Hear, hear. )
The land was full of abundance. All that stood between the
perishing people and plenty was the inhuman and tyrannical
laws of the country, supported by a few for their
own profit. It was their duty to take from the
dominant party the power to support those unjust
laws, and to inquire each one of himself what could be
done to withdraw from that inhuman party the power to
starve their fellow-men and to trample upon the law of God.
Mr. G. THOMPSON said an Hon. Member of the House of
Commons had very often referred to the use of what he was
pleased to call devil's dust in the manufacture of cotton.
There (pointing to the shirt lying upon the , table, and
referred to by the preceding speaker), there they had a satis-
factory and occular refutation of the Hon. Member's charge
against the manufacturers. He confessed that he believed
that the only devil's dust was that which Mr. and others
were in the habit of throwing into the eyes of the community,
in order that they might not see clearly the cause of the
people's distress, but imagine that to be a remedy which they
proposed, but which was in fact no remedy at all. The mere
circumstance of that shirt having been worn for five years
was proof positive that all the cotton made in Lancashire was
mot so plentifully_ supplied as had been stated.—( Hear, hear. )
Mr. WINKS, of Leicester, wished to call the attention of the
meeting to the present circumstances of the town of Leicester.
'f hat county was partly a manufacturing and partly an agricul-
tural county. The staple produce is manufactures was gloves
and hosiery. The people had suffered greatly during the last
winter. They had met by groups in the streets, and some
sight disturbances occurred in consequence. Parties of half-
a-dozen men went from house to house, for the purpose of pro-
curing assistance. They came to his own shop, and when he
told them that it was impossible that he could relieve all who
adopted that method of applying for assistance, they said " We
cannot help it, we have nothing to eat, our wives and children are
in the same condition, and we must beg ;" and though a notice
was i4sued by the Magistrates, stating that the practice was
illegal, it was still continued. When the Queen's letter ar-
rive d in Leicester it was not favourably received ; but a public
meeting was held in the Town-hall, and a sum was raised which
was sufficient to afford relief for four or five weeks.

The CHAIRMAN (interrupting the speaker)—l have just
received the following answer from Downing-street to the ap-
plication made, that Sir Robert Peel would receive the De-
puties to hear what they had to state :
" Sir,—l am desired by Sir Robert 'Peel to inform you, that
hew ill see the parties to whom your letter of the 6th of July
refers in Downing-street. en Saturday next, at half-past eleven
o'clock."

Mr. WINKS then proceeded with his address. The working
classes of Leicester were becoming reckless of consequences ;
they were in the habit of saying that they were worse off than
the inmates of gaols, or of union work-houses. He was per-
suaded that if he could produce to the meeting a number of the
ill .clad, half-starved stocking knitters, or frame-work knitters of
Leicester, they would present such a spectacle as could hardly be
gathered from any other place. The operations of the town-
ship of Hinckley especially were reduced to a state of wretched-
ness for which it would perhaps be impossible to find a
parallel. He would only say a few words in addition with
respect to the remedy for the evils under which the country
suffered. They had just heard the announcement
that the Premier would *grant them an interview.
That was very kind of him no doubt ; but he
(Mr. Winks) for his part, expected nothing from the
Right Hon. Baronet. It was his belief that they should net
trust to premiers, nor to Parliaments, but to themselves.-
-(Cheers.) Whatever might be the determination to which
the Executive Committee might arrive, he was sure they
would proceed with prudence, and that they would adhere to
the resolution to which they might come. He would
remind them, too, that they should hasten as much as possible
the period at which they would arrive at their determination.
The people were starving—nay, they were dying ; and they
could not wait for a remedy for the evils under which they
suffered. They should have relief sent to them as promptly
and as efficiently as possible.—(Cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN informed the meeting that the Executive
Committee had come to a resolution to invite those Mem-
bers of Parliament who had voted, or paired off in favour of
Mr. Villiers's motion, to a Conference with the Deputies,
at Brown's Hotel, Palace-yard, at two o'clock on Friday. The
meeting at the Crown and Anchor would take place as usual on
that day from eleven o'clock till two.
Mr. DICK, a deputy from Paisley, then proceeded to address
the meeting. He believed it was very important that gentle-
man should point out, as suggested by the Chairman at the
commencement of their meeting, the advantages which
would be likely to result from a repeal of the
Corn-laws. He believed that, if the Corn-laws were
repealed to-morrow' a great increase of employment
would immediately take place in'the borough of Paisley. He
had just received a communication from a friend in Dundee,
stating that if a repeal of the Corn-laws were to take place to-
morrow, the whole of the establishments in that town would he
put immediately into operation.—( Hear, hear.) They knew
that they could at once obtain flour from America, and flour
was the very article which they stood in need of. The aristo-
cracy were said to be the authors of the evils under which the
country laboured ; but surely those evils should in some mea-
sure be also traced to the middle classes, who allowed themselves
to be bribed and bought, and to become the slaves of power.
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of legislation. A practical scheme for destroying that
would be the thing to relieve them. There were three con..
vent ional crimes on the statute• book, which seemed to be over-
looked ; these were the crimes of treason, sedition, and blas-
phemy. He would tell them what his practice for twenty
years had been with respect to them. He had for.t.wenty years
come to the determination, that no man charged before him, as
a juryman, with treason, or sedition, or blasphemy, -should be
convicted. So long as the middle classes were put forward by

the higher classes to do their dirty work and convict men of
r these crimes, so long would the power of the aristocracy, con-
' tripe. When any one was charged with these crimes let the
middle classes inquire into the nature of the case, and riot con-
vict for them ; they would then inspire the aristocracy with
terror. Though the middle classes complained of mono-
poly, they were themselves the monopolists of legisla-
tion. Let them declare openly for the Charter—let them
put down selfishness among themselves, and by this means a
union would be established between the middle and working
classes, which would obtain for them that moral force which would
alone have influence on the aristocracy. The petitions of the
middle classes might be well written, beautifullyyecorded on paper
but what was the result of them when they were presented?
When they should also be signed by the stiff fingers, which
spoke of men with strong arms, accustomed to hard blows,
then they should have a mural force which would tell on the
aristocracy.
THOMAS CLEW (Deputy from Hinckley) said he was a
stocking-maker, and his constituents wished him, it he
had the opportunity, to offer a few words on the state
of Hinckley. He had been connected with it for forty-two
years. They went on in prosperity till 1814, when the Corn
Bill was introduced, and ho was one of those walked from
Liverpool to Nottingham, when the roads were placarded with
" No Corn Bill;" in fact, he might say that he was a
Corn-law Re' ealer, before there was any Corn-law at
all. It had been prophesied by a large Tory ma-
nufacturer, that the moment the Corn-Bill was a law,
the sun of commercial prosperity in Hinckley would set ; and
as he had prophesied, so it proved. Trade had been falling off
for five and twenty years, and for the last three or for years,
the state of things had been awful beyond description.
With respect to the means of alleviating the present distress, he
thought that unanimity of effort and perseverance ought to
mark all their exertions. They should never flag in their agi-
tation against the system of oppression which clogged the pro-
gress of free trade. Agitation had annihilated the Corporation
and Test Act—had given Emancipation to the blacks. Agita-
tion had enabled that great and good man Daniel
O'Connell to emancipate his Catholic countrymen. Ile
hoped that the Lord would take the heart of Sir It.
Peel into his hand, and remould and fashion it. He
could show him, if he came to Hinckley, such scenes as he
never witnessed in his life, and he believed that, unless he had
the heart of a hnissary, or was as stupid as a Bishop—(Tre-
mendous cheering)—that his heart would be touched. He had
visited houses in Hinckley, and the poor children had come
round him crying, and hoping he had brought salvation. He
had been sent to the Conference by his employers to show the
Conference the state of the country. There was not one in
Hinckley but was under distraint. All were in the deepest dis-
tress. He hoped soon to see these laws abolished, when the
rich and poor could live together in peace.—( Cheers. )
Mr. BLUDWORTH, of Leicester, had been working with the
last speaker for the last twenty-six years, fighting the battles of
the poor, and had once nearly been transported, and twice in
prison. A working man had said to him, " You know
that the middle classes are not prepared to meet us."
Was that the case then?—(Cries of " No, no.") The
working men said, if the Corn-laws were repealed, what
security had they, as the middle classes only wanted those laws
abolished, and then they would desert the poor.—(No, no.)
He thanked them for that " No " in the name of the working
people of Leicester. He had asked the manufacturers in his
neighbourhood if they were prepared to give up their luxuries,
and they said " No." He asked them if they would refuse to
pay the Income-tax, and they said "No." He (Mr. Blurl-
worth) had never ;paid a Church-rate, and he never would.—
( Cheers.) There were 100 persons in Leicester living upon
Is. 6d. a-week. They only worked two days in the
week. A man had met him in the street, and asked
for charity; he refused, for he conceived that charity
was only enslaving the minds of the poor. He ad-
vised the unemployed to go to the unions in a body, and
demand their rights rather than ask for charity. He did not
believe a repeal of the Corn-laws would give them all they
wanted. He was not only an Anti-Corn-law man, not only a
Universal Suffrage man, but a Universal Rights man.—( Cheers. )
If they wished the assistance of the working classes, they must
let them see that they care for their rights—that the mis'dle
classes wished to give them their rights.—( Cheers. ) At a
meeting the other day in Leicester not three middle class
gentlemen had attended. if Mr. Vincent were to go down and
call a meeting he would have 3,000 people assembled round him.
Why ? Because the people believed that he was desirous of
gaining for them their rights.—( Cheers. )
The CHAIRMAN rose to order. He fully agreed with the
speaker in his views on the Suffrage question, but they were not
met there to discuss that question, and therefore, as a point of
order, he must request the speaker to confine his observations to
the question before the meeting.'
Mr. BLUDWORTL/ would bow to the decision of the Chair-
man. In Leicester there had been upwards of 5,000 unem-
ployed persons applying for relief. The class immediately
above the working class was nearly' exhausted, and unless
something was soon done, they would also be in a state of des-
titution.

Mr. BARTON, of Leicester, thought his worthy colleague
must have made a slip of the tongue when he said the middle
classes in Leicester were wanting in sympathy to the working
classes. He (Mr. Barton) at once repudiated the statement.
Mr. BLUDWORTIi had said that such was the feeling of the
working classes.

Mr. BARTON considered such a feeling a most groundless one.
He hoped the middle and working classes would henceforth
unite in an effective opposition to the aristocracy of this
country. —( Hear, hear.) •
The meeting then adjourned until eleven o'clock to-morrow.

ELECTION COMMITTEE.
(THIS DAY.)
SOUTHAMPTON.

The Committee met at one o'clock; the Hon. J. S. WoRT•
LILY in the Chair.
Richard Andrews was called and examined—ls a coach-
maker, living in Southampton. Voted at the last election for

Messrs. Hutchins and Alangles. Is an active partisan of theirs.
Was not a member of any of the Whig Committees. Had com-
munications with them. Had no communications respecting
money with the Committees. Knows nothing of colourmen
and messengers. On one occasion he got 101. to pay 20 men.
He gave the money to Zimmerman. He (Zimmerman) was
not a voter. Cannot recollect who gave him the money. There
were entertainments given during the election; they were
given freely on both sides during the canvass. He attended
some of them. There was an entertainment given at the
Royal Yacht Hotel on the Queen's birthday, or some other
joyful occasion. That was the first time an entertainment was
given. Messrs. Hutchins and Mangles were present. Those
who were present paid for their tickets. They were generally
voters. Does not believe that on former occasions they paid for
their tickets. Has no doubt but extensive corruption prevailed
at the last election; it is his belief. A person of the name
of Woodward, a tenant of the town-crier, told him that he

was sued for rent for voting for the Liberal candidates. Wit-
ness paid 21/. for him. Believes that if the Legislature does
not take means the same practices will prevail at the ri,xt
election. 'Thinks that eighty or ninety votes might have
received direct bribes. Between 200 and 300 might have re-
ceived direct and indirect bribes. His party had more than
600 promises. Does not think persons break their promises un-
less they have sovereign reasons.—( Laughter.)
To Lord BARRINGTON—Thinks that if chairmen and co-
lourmen were put down it would tend to do away with corrup-
tion. Thinks that 2501. would be sufficient to cover the legal
expenses of each candidate. No person at present had any
business to come to Southampton without having plenty of
money.
To the COMMITTEE—Saw Mr. 'Abrahams on Friday ar
Saturday last at Southampton. Is ready to swear he never told
Mr. Abrahams he was asked by Mr. Baker to state what was
false. Saw Wren's book in Southampton after the late Election
Committee. He told Mr. Abrahams that he had seen his sig-
nature to a bribe. Abrahams answered and said—" Oh, I
know what you mean, that pencil mark in Wren's book."
Abrahams did net deny the mark was his. When
he saw Abrahams on Saturday last, he told him
that he should mention the conversation he had with him re.
specting the signature, and then Abrahams said " Very well,
I will go up and declare it is not my signature."
Sir. Joseph Lankester was next called—Was one of the per-
sons who drew cheques on the Liberal side. Does not know of
bribes being given on the Liberal side. Messengers were
paid on the Liberal side. There were no colourmen on
that side. They had no procession. Chairmen and colourmen
were appointed, but as they were not the winning party they
were not paid; their names are in the Committee books.
These books are in the possession of the agents, Messrs. Sharpe
and Harrison. Many of the messengers and clerks were voters.
There were from 25 to 30 houses open on their side. They
were open for the purpose of refreshment from the beginning of
the canvass to the issuing of the writ. Many persons in his
ward, that of St. Mary's, said to him, " We are anxious to vote
tor your party, but we are offered so much by the opposite
party that we cannot refuse it." In consequence of that,
he engaged the houses. Many persons notwithstanding
voted against them. Had a knowledge of the previous election
in Southampton. In 1830 there were two candidates, Pen-
lees, Liberal ; and Hay, Tory. The expenses of Mr. Penlees
were between 4,0001. and 5,000/, those of Mr. Hay, as ad-
mitted by him to Mr. Hearn himself, were 1,000/.—( Laughter.)
In 1831 there were three candidates, Sir C. Williams, Liberal ;
and Messrs. Dutton anti Hay, Tories. The expenses of Sir C.
Williams were only 400/. The Tories were sucessful. In 1834
Adderley and Penless were the Liberals, Hay and Meanly
were the Tories. The expenses of Mr. Adderlcy were 4831.
of Mr. Peulees between 5001. and 600/. The Liberals engaged
180 colourmen at that election. Mr. Adderly war successful,
and Mr. Peulces was seated on petition ; does not know what
the expenses of the Conservatives were ; the colourmen were
paid IL, the price was since raised. In 1835, Sir J. Easthope
and Mr. Bingham were the Liberal candidates, Messrs. Dalton
and Hay were the Conservative candidates. Sir J. Easthope
ore that occasion paid 1,0001. into - Adderly's bank, he
(Sir John Easthope) received back a cheque amount--
ing to 180/. ; he told witness it was an an unexpected
thing, and he thought he should have to pay 500/. more. Mr.
Binghams paid nothing. There were no colourmen employed
on that occasion. The Conservatives were successful. In
1837 Lord Duncan and Lord C. Paget were the Liberal can-
didates. The system of treating began to be revived at this
election on the Liberal side. It was never extinct on the Con-
servative side.--( Laughter.) Public.houses were opened.
The expenses of the candidates were 2,000/. Heard that the
expenses on the Conservative side were 3,000/. Mr. Dutton
and Mr. Martyn were the Conservatives. Lord Duncan and
Sir. Dutton were elected. In 1841 the Liberal Candidates
were Messrs. Hutchins and Mangles ; Lord Bruce and Mr.
Martyn the Conservative candidates The whole expenses. on
the Liberal side were 3,000/. or thereabouts. The most of it
was spent in treating. The books would tell what the exact
amount was. There was a further sum of 2,500/. paid
into the Hampshire Bank by Sir J. Guest. The rea-
son of that was as follows :—When Mr. Hutchins was
canvassing persons said to him " You will never succeed, you
have got no money ;" upon which Mr. Hutchins said to him
(witness) " What do you think of my paying in 9,500/. into
th
can't
etiansy thathaireßa whke "-- ;have it will be sure to get abroad ; and then
they got no money. '_(Great laughter.)
afrots of
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of money
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was spent in
Witness advised him to do so. Not a farthing of it was spent on the
election ; it was all paid back In cheques to Srr J. Guest.
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voters who go there ; believes there was
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some direct bribery on the Whig side; it was not much.
To Mr. Vim-. Those who received bribes, he believed to
be the lower classes of voters; the artisans were the most in-
dependent voters ; he knows one who refused so much as 301.
does not like to tell his name; he voted for the Liberals.
Mr. SHIEL—You ought to have no objection to give his
name in connection with such honourable conduct. _

Witness—His name is James Lawrence, a working jeweller,
living in College-street; knows who offered him the bribe ; does
not like to tell his name. (The person's name was handed
in to the Committee.)
To Mr. VESEY-It is difficult to say whether it would be
wise to extend the franchise to a still lower class of vc,ters than
those who took bribes. Knows many poor voters who would
nut fake bribes.

To .Mr. SHlEL—Thinks that if treating and chairing were
put A stop to it would tend to put down those corrupt practices
which prevailed in Southampton. Thinks if they are not put
a stop to the same scenes would occur again. The respectable
persons on both sides were desirous they should be put a stop
to. Thinks the feeling in Southampton is decidedly liberal.
Mr. SAHEL—Then the candidates one one side must be
decidedly liberaL—( Laughter.)
. To Lord B.Aaaltivirox.,The Liberal side had a majority of.
promises. Abrahams told him. that-be did not consider his
Party secure till Saturday morning.
The Committee then adjourned till 41eien h'cloatio-rtoriOiv

CRICKET MATCH.-THIS DAY.)
THE MARYLEBONE CLUB v. THE MANCHES-
TER CLUB.

This contest was commenced to-day at the enclosure
of Lord's Ground. The weather being unpropitious, the
attendance of spectators was but limited. There were,
however, a good sprinkling of fashionables, including a
number of well-known amateurs. The Manchester
eleven comprise very fine prayers ; and the Maryle•
bone Club, in order to compete with them,
with anything like success, found it necessary to bring
some of their best men into the field. At the
commencement of the match the betting was in favour
of the Marylebone Gentlemen, but the game did not ex-
cite much speculation. The heavy fall of rain which
came down at a few minutes betore two o'clock, put an
end for a time to the play, and on the score being cast
up, it was found that the Manchester Gentlemen (who
having won the toss, went in first) had scored but 35
runs with a loss of seven wickets. It is expected that the
match will not terminate before to-morrow evening.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
(THIS EVENING.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.

Their Lordships met at the usual hour.
A messenger from the House of Commons brought up
the Sudbury Disfranchisem,nt Bill, the Mines and Col-
lieries Bill, and several other Bills, which were each
read a first time.

Load WHARNCLIFFE laid upon the table the Re-
port of the Commissioners of National Education in
Ireland.

The Tithe Commutation Bill passed through Com-
mittee.

The Order of the Day for the third reading of the
Liverpool Improvement Bill having been moved,
The Duke of RICHMOND moved that the clauses
which proposed that the public-houses in Liverpool
should be closed at certain hours on Sunday, in the same
way as in London, should be expunged from the Bill.
He did not think that clauses of such a nature should be
introduced into a private Bill like the present.
The Bishop of SALISBURY supported the clauses.
He believed they had the approval of the whole of the
respectable inhabitants of Liverpool.
He believed that the Bill would be an efficient remedy
for these evils complained of by the promoters of the Bill,
and he hoped their Lordships could not, therefore, assent
to the amendment of the Noble Duke. _ _

=The Bishop of NORWICH expressed his decided ap-
probabtion of the Bill as it then•stoosl, for the reasons so
ably assigned .by the Rev. Prelate. lie hoped the Noble
Duke would withdraw his opposition.
Lord SKELMERSDALE said, that connected as he
was with the neighbourhood of Liverpool, he could not
remain silent in the matter underdiscussion. He should
certainly feel it his duty to support the Bill in itA present
form. He could not concur in what had fallen from the
Noble Duke. This Bill concerned the peace and com-
fort of upwards of 300,000 inhabitants.. He should cer-
tainly support the third reading of the Bill.

The House then divided on the amendment—
Contents l5
Non-Contents 4B
Majority against the amendment —33
On our return to the gallery, we found
The Duke of RICHMOND addressed the House. He
hoped that the Magistrates who were for shutting up
the public-houses on a Sunday would not pay their
labourers at twelve o'clock on a Saturday night, and in
a public-house.—(Hear, hear.) He should now move
that the clause which prevented publicans seving boys
under the age of sixteen years, should be rejected.
Lord CAMPBELL said the clause ran—" boys appa-
rently under sixteen years of age."—(Laughter.) If the
Noble Duke did not divide the House he (Lord Camp-
bell) should do so.
The Earl ot: WICKLOW considered that the clause
was the best in the Bill. A Bill had been introduced
into the House of Commons, when the Noble and Learned
Lord was a Member of that House, in which was a clause
precisely of a similar nature, and which the Noble and
Learned Lord must have been aware of.

Lord CAMPBELL—I was not aware of it then.
The Earl of WICKLOW—If the Noble Lord was not
the framer of the Bill, it must certainly 'Ave come under
his notice.

Lord SKELMERSDALE supported the clause.
Lord CAMPBELL replied.
The House then divided, when there appeared—
For the clause (Contents) 3B
Against it (Non-contents) 32
Majority against the clause —6
The Bill was then read a third time and passed.
MINES AND COLLIERIES BILL.

Lord HATHERTON presented a petition from Staf-
fordshire (as w•e understoA) against the Mines and Col-
lieries Bill.

Lord CAMPBELL presented a petition with a similar
prayer. . _

BANKRUPTCY BILL.

The LORD CHANCELLOR gave notice that he
wauld move the second reading of the Bankruptcy Bill
on Tuesday.

Lord CO- TTENIIAM said that he should also move
the second reading of a Bill of his slating to Bankrupts.
Also the second reading of two Bills relative to the Local
Courts And Lunatics and Insolvents.

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUTAT 7, 1842.

WALES.

r pity from time t.) time of expressing his opinion upon
that subject, end none of the opinions he then expressed
did he desire now to depart from. Upon the subject of
the Savings Banks he also expressed his opinion.
He said, then, that he did not think it expedient
to raise money without the consent of Parliament for
those loans ; but he stated at the same time what he
was anxious now to state. that that proceeding of the
Government had no effect whatever upon the security of
the money which was invested in the Savings Banks.—
(Hear, hear.) Now the Hon. Gentleman said that it
was necessary that every body should understand
bow that proceeding had taken place. Why it was men-
tioned every successive year by every one in the House
who discussed the question ; it was well know to every
one, and so far from it having been clandestinely ar-
ranged or unknown to every Hon. Member, the
Honourable Member must have been aware of it, as
would appear from the speech he made in the year 1838.
'Tice Huth Gentleman's resolution had no reference to
the particular point of Government raising money to
supply the deficiencies of the revenue through the me-
dium of savings banks. It went to give power to
savings banks to vest money, in the funded and un-
funded debt to the amount of twenty millions, and
hsd no reference to the particular point. In
1838, he did not move any resolution con-
demnatory of the practice, but five
.years after he
moves for a Committee of Inquiry upon the subject.. He
did not see any need of inquiry, and he would, therefore,
resist the motion of the Bon. Gentleman. A discretion
was vested in the Commissioners of the National Debt,
of putting money in the funded or unfunded debt.
and what could be more unwise than to have restrained
them from exercising that discretion. There was no inten-
tion of concealment, and it not appearing to him that
therewas anything requiring inquiry, he should oppose
the motion.
Mr. BARING said that he agreed with the Right
Honourable Gentleman that an inquiry like the pre-
sent was alwayS attended with great public incon-
venience. That inconvenience, however, might be
disregarded if the enquiry was necessary ; but he would
tell the Honourabl Gentleman that there was not
the slightest degree of concealment • upon the subject.
The returns were on the table, and if he required the
further returns, he (Mr. B.) would second him
in a motion for that object. If that Honourable
Gentleman wished to follow up his proceedings,
the course he ought to adopt was to move for an amend-
ment of the Jamod which existed under the Act of Par-
liament. With regard to the transactions itself, and the
resolution of the Hon, Member,- he would tell him that
the resolution could not pass because the figures were
wrong. He compared two transactions which were of
a different character. One was that by which the un-
funded debt was charged, not the funded debt, but
a new debt was created thereby.. The Hon. Gentleman
had stated, in his resolution, that five millions
of the debt was paid, but he was mistaken ;
the whole amount was only two . millions. - He
thought it was rather too bad to charge the late Go-
vernment with being secret in their acts. Every person
who knew anything of the manner in which the Govern-
ment was carried on, weuld know that, during the ex-
istence of the late Government, year after year their
proceedings were laid on, the table of the House.
Mr. WILLIAMS thought the only way of dealing
with the matter was to bring in a Bill to remove the
power of dealing With these Savings' Banks from the
hands of those who now exercised it, consisting as they
did of only three persons, the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
the Governor and Deputy-Governor of the Bank of
England. These parties had the power of
converting all sums invested in Exchequer
Bills, and reinvesting theM as they pleased.
They could make use of this vast power as they liked.
He had given notice of a Bill this Session to do away this
power, but so many important matters had come before
the House, that he saw there was no chance of cam ing
it through the House during the session. But if the
Hon. Member for Montrose did not bring in a 'Bill in
the early part of next session, he pledged himself to do so.
After a few words from Mr. ESCOTT,
Mr. F. BARING said he was anxious to state that he
condemned the practice of adding to the Debt, but not
that of enabling the Exchequer to pay off dm deficiency.
Mr. HUME replied, He said he did not wish to sug-
gest anything that would not receive general approbation.
What he wished to destroy was the power of adding
to the permanent debt of the country, without the
consent of the House of Commons. It was giving
t much power to the Ministers: He had no doubt that
the Right Hon. Baronet had his piccadillies.—(Roars of
laughter, occasioned by the manner in which the
Hon. Member pronounced the word.) The system was
wrong—then why object to the remedy ? Where there
was so much delicacy, all could not be right. He
should take the sense of the House on the subject.
The House then divided. The numbers were—
For the motion
Against it
Majority
Mr. Sergeant MURPHY moved, "That this House
will, on Wednesday, the 13;h day of this instant, July,
resolve itself into a Committee of the whole House,
to take into consideration the. Act 17 and 18, Car.
2, c. 7; intituled an Act for provision of Ministers in
corporate towns, and making the church of St Andrews in
the suburbs of the city of Dublin presentative
for . ever, " with a view to the repeal of so
much thereof as relates to the provision of minis-
ters in cities and corporate towns in Ireland."
.The Act to, which his motion referred was an
Act passed sn 1675. It was an 'Act passed
for the purpose of providing payment for ministers
of separate towns and cities in Ireland.
When they considered the period when this Act was ori-
ginally introduced as the law of Ireland, there were
peculiar circumstances which render d that law then
not a peculiar grievance, because, according •to
the state of the population of the then corporate towns,
they were doing no more by levying this tax than
making those who were the predominant sect pay for
the support of those whose ministry they follow.
(LEFT SPEAKING.)

garded as of some importance, as being another link
towards the connexion of Sydney with Moreton Bay.
The land on the banks is do,oriblA as being very fine.
abounding with pine and cedar.

CAMBRIDGE INSTALLATION.—CAMBRIDGE, JULY 6.
--The Chancellor being a member of St, John's College, a
splendid fete chanipetre was given by the Masters and Fellows
of that Society in honour of the occasion. The preparations
were of the most magnificent description, and had long been in
progess. Professor Walmsly's concert at the Senate House
followed, and we regret to say was very thinly attended. In
the evening there was a grand display of fireworks in the
grounds of Jesus College, where thousands of the townspeople
congregated and remained till eleven o'clock. This evening
the grand ball in the Fitzwilliam Museum takes place, which
will, no doubt, be thronged, as the place of sale of tickets
is actually crowded with applicants. This morning the
sacred oratorio of the Messiah was performed at St. Mary's
Church to a most numerous and brilliant audience. 'I he
throne, the pit and galleries were quite filled, but there wag
plenty of room in the side aisles. His Royal Highness the
Duke of Cambridge, the Cuke of Cleveland, and many of the
nobility occupied places on the throne. The music of the
Messiah is so well known that any description is unnecessary.
Miss Birch sustained her high reputation, and in the air,
" Come unto him all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and
he shall give you rest," she was more brilliant than at any
former period during these concerts. The choruses, too, were
executed with great minuteness. The concert did not end
until three o'clock. This evening the Master of Trinity gives a
grand banquet in the fine hall of that College.
SALMON.—The take of salmon along the coast has
during the last and present week been considerable. At
Ballantrae, on Tuesday, the number caught was much greater
than on any former occasion this season. A great part of them,
principally grilses, were brought to our market yesterday, and
sold freely—trout, 4d. ; grilse, sd. ; and salmon, 81/ d. per lb.
The stake nets at Burnfoet, Monkton, Prestwick, and Doon-
foot, have had each a fair share of salmon during the above
period, although in the former part of the season few fish were
caught. These sell—trout, sd. ; grilse, 7d. ; salmon, Is. per
b.—Ayr Advertiser.

SHEEP-FARMING IN NEW SOUTH

ANTI-CORN-LAW CONFERENCE.
The Delegates re-assembled in the evening, at Seven
o'Clock.
Colonel Tiloatesots was proposed, and took the Chair. He
said they were met that night in prosecution of the only means
which were left them, in endeavouring to forward the grand ob-
ject of their industry and their efforts. They had one thing left
them, which was libertyof speech ; they came therefore to speak
fairly, and he hoped all of them, wether there were many or
whether there were few, would not neglect to make use of that
instrument on that occasion. Either there was distress, or
there was no distress in the country. Was there any man that
could deny, or could doubt, that there was distress? It was not
their making, and it was not until they had concentrated all
the facts they possessed together that they could remove it.
They were then ready, as far as lay in their power,
to relieve that distress. There were many opposed to them
from the imperfect information they possessed, and who would
otherwise be their friends. They questioned whether we ought
to take the weakest point for the direction of the operations, or
whether they should diverge to the strongest, where they would
meet with the greatest resistance. He remembered once being
in one of the colonies, where the trade was much in heavy
wood. Because the wood would not swim, they tied lighter
matter upon it. Now, because the Corn-law question was net
difficult, they ought to attach it to that which was difficult.
If there was distress, it would find•its way sooner or later to its
deliverance. It had been recommended that the manufacturers
should shut up their manufactories for two months. There might
be a time for such an operation, but that time was not now.
Their enemies would not press them to it. Public irritation
would go on increasing, and the time would come when Go-
vernment would take away the source of public irritation, and
they would find that they (the Delegates) were right after all.
—( Cheers.) He wonld intreat them to go on as they had
begun accumulating evidence to lay before the country.
Mr. DICKSON, of Adlington, in Lancashire, then addressed
the meeting. Not having made the attempt of speaking in
such a place before, he hoped that any little mistake he might
make would be kindly looked over. He would endeavour to
tell the truth in as homely language as he could. He came
from a place in Lancashire where the principal trade
was calico printing. This trade had been declining for the last
twelve months in particular. All parties in that township were
agreed as to the distress. The clergyman of the parish, who
was a friend of Sir Robert Peel's Government, had convened a
meeting in the vestry-room, and a local subscription was raised
to the amount of 4951., and they received 295/., from the Manu-
facturing Relief Committee, in King William-street. That
was expended in meal, clothes, and partly ha labour.
Twenty-four gentlemen had been appointed to investigate
the distress, and he was one. They gave no notice of
their intention of visting the houses, and out of fifty-six houses
they only found what could be called four blankets. He had
himself called on persons, and he put the cases down as he
visited them. In one family he found that they received ss. 10d.
a week for the last twelve weeks, and ss. from the parish.
In another family of six, the husband had been ill for five years.
The children got 4s. a week. His children frequently lived
on nettles for days together. In another case he found that
the family had not tasted meat during the present year, and
the children were sent out begging. In another family they
had had but 151bs. of flour in the house for 15 weeks. In
another case the family had lived for a week upon a
calf which had died, and had been thrown on a dunghill.
The Hon. Delegate then proceeded, at some length, to state
cases showing the hardship the working I 'lasses were suffering
in ne township from which he was a Delegate, and concluded
by expressing a hope that something would be done to put an
end to the misery that existed in the manufacturing districts.
A DEPUTY was convinced, unless they buckled on their
armour, and were determined to fight, they would stand no
chance. The middle classes had the power to turn out the
present Prime Minister, and if they did not do so it was their
own fault. His tariff 'Nos a complete humbug, and, in fact, he
did not care what he said, as long as he held his situation.
Nobody liked him ; the Standard did not like him ; the Post
did not like him ; and he was sure their beloved. Queen hated
him.—(Cheers.) They were now engaged in a praiseworthy
work, and in that work he trusted they would persevere
(Cheers)—and by that means ahuw her Majesty's Ministers
they were not to be trifled with.
he Rev. Mr. POYNDER, of Bilston, thought the best course
for them to consider would be to discuss the measure they
ought to adopt, and not to enter into details of the distress of
the country.
Mr. SQUIRE thought they ought to enter into some broad
and comprehensive measure to relieve the distress that existed
in the country. Whether that was to be accomplished by me-
morializing the Queen or attending Sir Robert Peel, was the
question to be decided.
Mr. MoottE said that the Executive Committee would sit
this evening and to-morrow, and all they wished was, that any
gentleman that had any effective measures to propose would
bring them forward and they would meet the greatest
atention.—( Hear, hear.) Sir Robert Peel and the Duke of
Sussex had been written to, but no answer having been
received, nothing further could be done. He thought it
would be injudicious to stifle the tales of distress that might be
brought forward.
The Rev. Mr. POYNDER was only anxious to know what
the abject was the meeting had in view ?
A short discussion then took place as to the course they
should adopt as to the present discussion, when, after a few
words from Mr. SMITH,
The Rev. Mr. LOWE, of Forfar, rose to address the
meeting. He merely rose to lay a few facts before the meeting
which had come to his knowledge. In the neighbourhood with
which he was connected men were working at 6s. 6d. a week
wages when they were in full work. The distress of that part
could not be described. At this small amount of wages some of
them worked only half the week and some less. In 1838 the

Among the miscellaneous extracts from the Aus-
tralian Journals copied into those of India, we find the
Calcutta Englishman quoting an extraordinary narra-
tive relative to the peril attending that much talked-
of lucrative undertaking, sheep-farming in the interior
of New South Wales. The writer of the letter which
is here alluded to is described as a settler at Portland
Bay, and the truth of what he says respecting the
fact of the people of England entertaining a most
erroneous idea of the occupation of sheep-farming
cannot be refuted. Instead of it being "the easiest
and most delightful life beneath the sun, with the
certainty of making a fortune," scarcely a living can
now be obtained from it, and the reason is, that the
flocks are increasing so prodigiously fast, that there
is not sufficient demand to keep them within saleable
compass. Hence the great fall in the value of sheep,
and the desperate state of the agriculturists. On
the subject of the safety of the country,
the accounts appear to be most discouraging.
The frequent murder of sheep-farmers and
their assistants while tending their flocks in the
tracks of the interior, the only places in which there
seems to be nourishment sufficient to support the
herds, is alluded to as illustrative of the caution re-
quired on the part of persons who may feel inclined
to embark in this description of occupation ; while the
cannibalism by which these slaughters are accom-
panied are not the least part of the revolting details
which cause the mind to sicken in the contemplation
of them. To fit a party for . the hardy requisites of
sheep farming, which appears to be the mode of life
which most of the agriculturists who leave our shores
are inclined to follow, there must, it is stated, be no
lack of moral courage as well as physical force to
encounter the many obstacles which present them-
selves, either in the shape of long wanderings after
the necessary pasturage and water, or the uncertainty
of how long the " run " may satisfy the flocks under
inspection even when it is discovered. The picture of
such a state of things is pretty well portrayed in the
following extract of the letter of the writer before
alluded to, and which will, doubtless, produce in the
minds of those who may have in contemplation such a
migration the idea of the necessity of some further
investigation before they determine upon such ad-
venturous pursuits. After stating the particulars
attending the death of Mr. Morton and his servant,
which is considered as only one of the many in the
catalogue of massacres committed by the natives, he
proceeds :

"As the Government have not taken the slightest step
in this affair, it is not to be wondered at if the settlers
themselves take ample vengeance on the blacks, and
which they most assuredly will do. This affair was
preceded by the murder of a shepherd at a station on
the same river, but for which upwards of twenty of them
got shot, and since then several attempts have been
made ; indeed the other night there were five or six
blacks at my sheepfold, when it was only a few yards
from my house ; fortunately the dogs prevented them
doing any mischief. But the other night I had a terrible
alarm from them. I was coming up from the bay with
a dray load of provisions, and only one man and my-
self ; we had done our day's journey, made our camp,
and had supper, and were then' distant' . copimon day
and a half's journey from home, when about eight o'clock
in the evening we heard a must terrific yell from a large
body of them about a quarter of a mile distant. Luckily
John II- and two men on their way to the bay
had just joined us, so we all got our fire-arms in
readiness, expecting to be attacked every moment.
As, however, they did not come down to us
then, ws thought our only chance of safety was
to' yoke the bullocks up again, and
.quietly steal
away, as our three allies were going in a contrary
direction ; fortunately, it was a brilliant, moonlight
night, and we reached the first station, distant about
twenty miles, in nine hours. When I reached home I
had been upwards of twenty-six hours on icy legs, most
of the time walking, with only two hours' rest. I never
was so knocked up in my life. You may imagine this
state of things increases our anxiety very much ; we
dare not now go ten yards from the house us it .out fire-
arms. The ether day a black fellow, without any wea-
pon at all, rushed at two men and nearly mastered
them, breaking a double-barrelled gun, about three
miles from my house ; and one day, whilst I was at the
bay, my wife was going to take a walk with her servant,
when, about one hundred yards frora the house, they saw
a native, stark naked, standing; in the creek watching
them; she went back to call her brother, when the fellow
made off:"

same man earned lls. 6d., and now with five ur six children-he
got hut 6s. 6d., even if he succeeded in wo,king from one
week's end to the other. But this was not all; in 1836 the
lls. 6d. would have purchased '24 quartern loaves; in 1842,
6s. 6d. would only purchase eleven quartern loaves, so that the
man and his family must necessarily be more than half-starved
if he worked the whole week.

'flie Rev. Gentleman was here interrupted by a Delegate,
who said that he considered that that meeting was not called fir
the purpose of hearing further details of the distress, but to
adopt means to prevent It.
A DELEGATE said that although the last speaker might have
supped full of horrors the aristocracy had riot. The details were
not for the information of that meeting alone, bur for the whole
country.—(Cheers.) They wanted to stir up London ; by only
so doing could they stir up the country.—( Cheers. )
After a short consultation it was resolved that Mr. Lowe
should proceed.
The Rev. Mr. LOWE resumed—He was attempting to show
the distressed state of the manufacturing districts, owing to the
want of employment, low wages, and high prises of trod.
In Forfar, in 1836 eight hundred bullocks were slain.
In 1t342 only four hundred were killed. Here then did
they see the cause of disease spreading in the manufaeturing
districts, leading numbers to premature graves. In 1836 there
had been 90 committals for trial in Forfar ; in 1842 there were
202 for trial.—( Hear.) The moral character of the people
was fast sinking, and he would illustrate it by reference to two
facts. In his neighbourhood a house had been broken into, and
although there were valuables in the house of plate and linen,
they emptied a linen bag, and then filled the bag with flour, and
that was all they took. Another house was entered, and the
only articles they took were some oat cakes. This was a speci-
men of the progress downwards in the morals of the people,
caused by the class legislation they were met to abolish.
With respect to the depopulation of the place, no less than
40 families had been turned into the street in one week. A
poor woman had been rescued from self-destruction. She had
attempted to destroy herself, as her furniture wag about to be
seized, but she said they should never take her furniture as‘she
would die first. This was the downward progress of demorali-
zation caused by the accursed Corn-laws.—( Cheers.) The
poor-rates of Forfar were double what they were a few years
ago. He would read a statement which he had received from
Forfar signed by soveralinfluential persons, and by two operatives.

The late 4 news. from LOndon noticed by the
Sydney pliers is the destruction by fire of the 'lower.
The • new discovery of a river called the Richmond,
about 50 miles to the northward of Clarence, was re-

" STATE OF THE POPULATION OF FORFAR.

" The linen manufacturers, who are the employers of three-
fonrths of our population, are feeling their busineas so depressed
that they had begun to discharge hands altogether, while
nearly all those who are kept on are but partially employed.
The manufacturers are not to blame for this state of things ;
they have continued working until their warehouses are com-
pletely filled with cloth, for which no market can be found.
" The weavers are in a most deplorable state ; while num-
bers are without employment, and the major part only partially
employed, their distress can be better conceived than de-
scribed. For a number of years back their wages have been so
low, that when in full employment a sufficiency of the bare ne-
cessaries of life could not be procured ; and now when em•
ployment has failed, their food, from being deficient in quan-
tity, has so deteriorated in quality, that diseases are engen-
dered, that ultimately will carry large numbers to the grave.
The moral character of the people is fast sinking under such a
state of things. Cases of theft in articles of provision are be-
coming frequent from places where articles of small bulk and
considerable value are left untouched.
" 'Winders are a class that are suffering severely; the loss of
employment among the weavers has reduced them to a state
of actual starvation, and as they are generally aged persons
who cannot earn a subsistence by any other means, their state
is lamentable, and unless an alteration take place before the
inclement season of the year sets in, it is to be feared that
many of them will fall victims to hunger and cold.
" Every other trade in the town is an equal state of
depression ; for masons there is at present no employment
either in the town or neighbourhood. Wrights are in the same
state, while of shoemakers, tailors, &c., not a third of the usual
number are employed.
" Property of every description is fast losing its value ; house
property, at the present time, is unsaleable. A larger number
of houses is unlet than ever was known in the town before.
One large square (Walls) has been nearly untenanted, and the
doors and windows of the empty houses blocked up.
" Poor-rates since last year have been doub;ed in amount.;
and the only class of workers who get relief from that source
are the winders—a fearful proof of the intensity of the distress.
" From the short time allowed, it has been impossible to go
into statistical details regarding the number of unemployed,
partially employed, and the amount of wages earned. We may,
however, say that total want of employment, and consequent
starvation, is staring every operative in the face; and avid, in
the course of a few weeks, assn edly overtake the is hole mass,
if prospects do not brighten, as it impossible for manufacturers
to struggle much longer than they have done."
He would also read another statement, together with a letter ,
he had received on the subject

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_ - -
" STATE OF TRADE, WAGES, &C., IN MONTROSE, ASCVt :.
TAINED BY PERSONAL INVESTIGATION.,
" Montrose, for these some years past, and until now, °ls.
not been subjected to depression of trade, and want of 01°Picl:
aient, in tne same rate as the surrounding towns in the saw-
ounty, hut has continued to enjoy such stability as the Ib;
-ence of bankruptcies of its principal merchants and-those*b t
•.-mployed the greatest number of individuals, was at less
partly calculated to afford. And although at present such an
amount of destitution proportionally cannot be exhibited when
,ompared with other places, yet, when compared with foment
,ears, it presents a tale of lowness of wagesand want of emplors,
nent, which evidently shows that it also is sharer to a large en",,,
tent in the general depression.
" Its staple trade is, like the rest of the towns in Forfarshire",•
flax spinning and linen weaving. Those employed at the sr:f
ning, including foremen, &c., of the various departmei'ts "
the mills, have last week got notice of a reduction 0e;
„
ten per cent. off their wages, to be carried into effeet,:i
in a few days. One flax spinning mill, which afford",
employment to eighty persons, has been standing sLt°7-,
gether for the last month. It is anticipated that should Ftl,. -.
continue to exact the new duties on the importation int° 1r.....
country of linens and linen yarns, that not fewer than film',
300 to 600 persona would thereby be thrown out of emPlel;•
ment, as tl.ree of our principal mills have been Spinning &Un-
entirely for a considerable tithe past for that market. .iti,
"In the weaving there are at present about 01 d -
idle looms in the town, and about seventy weavers Ingn :
others thereby ; employed. Men employed in 'AIL&
fabrics which require a considerable degree of Orel;
and skill, can earn, by working twelve hours a day, 00'4 iv
a week, exclusive of deductions. Women and boys, genefski..,
employed at inferior descriptions of work, can earn, by"*,,?
ing, twelve hours a day, 4s. a week, exclusive of deductlr;c
Wrights are also suffering severely at present. In tire, easFor.t-
the master wrights, who generally employed about ninety ,104
neymen, ali are paid off but twenty-six. Ship carpentersn4
two eases; being the principal ship builders in the town ;'olrogn
nine, in one case, of journeymen formerly employed, is. tie
receiving receiving work, and in the other case, the • most 'of ~,x.
men are to be discharged in a few weeks. ' : jot,
" Masons almost entirely idle, there being, no `-ssLdd
contracted for at present, but one small house, ner any 1ft0.177i0
of any. • -, ,:''-., ~,
" Sawyers all unemployed. ~ niA
" The shipping in a miserable state of depression, tilt° , ,iy
only sinking money; and they contemplate, in a nirrabl? '
cases, laying up their vessels, as, in the one case, they, s,
their loss, but in the other they do not. A great nu.. . ~.
seamen idle. Employed about the shore, about 70 menial'
iog on an average 7d. a day. Also above 100 carters err'-5
half-work. Discharged, two days ago, about 60 labouroSB,,,sn6
ployed at draining, &c., in the neighbourhood of Montioffe
" Shopkeepers universally complaining, antfoeveral-'nftisr:d
shops empty. The pawns filling rapidly, and, in sonlere
provision shopkeepers receiving articles of apparel, deposmy, IF
their owners in pledge to procere a meal.
" Montrose, July 1, 1642."
ell
s
. `°Kerriemuie, in.l y... 0 5..-i,_ enl pao
" My dear Sir,—Having learned that you_ had beet'
gated by the Anti-Corn-law Association of Forfar to attend
meeting to be held in London on the sth of July, Itna',l2°
unable, from various causes, to send a delegate from this P
I have been instructed respectfully to request you to represet
distressed condition of the generality of our operatives Pty
,>
ferenee. In the expectation that you will feel disposed t° the
cede to their wishes, I beg to submit for your infonnatifflt,
following particulars :—According to the information,jo„l
nisiied by several respectable individuate who had been apnor,...
el
to canvass the different quarters of town, it appears that,, •
early part of this week the number of weavers unemploY,,:i ' 4
the town and immediate neighbourhood was between-file kitei
six hundred, and it is likely that the numbers will, in: actsi4
time, he considerably augmented, as several manufa yo,l*
have intimated their intention of discharging an additlie
number of their workmen. If to this numb•T is added wifstiter
the greatest part of whom are out of employment, it rivars•-•
be stated that at least one-sixth of the population.conntAo
with manufactures are out of employment ; and of the genetol;lo
it may be said they are but partially employed. Wages foti,l
common fabrics are 6s. or 6s. 6d., which will, on an avers
occupy a week in weaving; and out of this small sum 11°"-tio
rent and other necessary expenses have to be paid. -otvingtbng
the very depres-ed condition to which many are subjeCtedi_An,
poor-rates are double to what they were in 1840, when tnel.`,`,74
first introduced; it is this year Is. 3d. per pound, and itwillfolB
short of meeting the demand. Since the abolition of the V
kitchen, which had to be abandoned for want of funds, sevenal!:,o
have been mentioned of extreme destitution ; some have be :,-10
ported on good authority, to /save been for several ;dal'
without food, and others have, it •is asserted, been ro°loTan
to the painful necessity of subsisting upon refuse of wheat, A'!"'"0
bust
use. commonly called third flour, a species of (nod unfit for b°,;;
.1,1
use. Such, Sir, are some of the affecting statements stnj ij
have to be transmitted from this quarter, which I Ilene 1.,,ii,i
will feel disposed to make a proper use of at the CordereneetiVi
" Wishing that you and the otherfriends of justice anei...,11.,r,
manity, may be successful in your patriotic exertions, .
" I remain, your obedient Servant, 0 80'
"CHARLES DOIG, SecretarY•44:4
He would not detain the meeting further. It was time ttsent:
remedy was passed. and he hoped that they would net ."`',
London until they had roused the metropolis en the sUbjee;be)?-
Mr. SMITH said he had some few statements to Mite P bif
meeting. Twenty-six families of 162 individuals living ill„eiii
neighbourhood, in Lancashire, were living on Is. I lAti• r ii;
head. Sixty families, containing 372 souls, were livrog_.:ri•
Is. lid. per head. Sixty-five families, of 414 persons, wig.
living on Is. lid. per head ; and eighty-two families- of ;..b.•
persons, were living on 84d. per head. The work in his neTon.
bourhood was by the hand-loom, and a man working fout°l4:
hours a day obtained 3s. 6d. a week at the lowest worlf•Te'•
ss. Bd. at the highest. He knew a firm which had given on,.
of closing their manufactory, whereby 400 persons vfou:os4.
thrown out of employment. One of these men had been rketen
same house 41 years, and he now earned 6s. 6d. a•week• P 7.00
was another who had been in the same house 27 yestl*ol.
where he used to get 6s. 6d. he oni,v now got 6d. ',: iv
iltmen had to work three times as muds ES they used to w"
keep themselves alive. If there was an a/tension of teo aft
1101
they would not have to work so much, and there wolii,ffii4
more people employed. They thought there was *respe7,o7
this. They had no confidence in the proposed measurer!, 7A
Government. Government. The reduction in the duty on squirtel.s .0;
would not revive trade.—( Laughter.) The reduction JN•lip,801„
duty on articles in druggists' shops would not restore ~Sf. 19
They w.,nted something more substantial. They ',eBn.e. i 0
good remedy. It was no use to say don't use exciseible.iftic 'd
The poor people could not use tea, or coffee, or any exii.; Al
article, arid yet things were still the same. Teetotalist' 44
fa:,
rapidly progressing, but it was doing so by mein' Jpi
(Laughter and cheers.) With respect to the Iticonie.os .4
they waited a little longer before they collected it, therSooo24
be none to collect in his neighbourhood. Mr. •
had, at their last meeting in February, • told '''. 94
what his profits were. He showed them -001' Or
profits were little or nothing, and they well
less now. Many of the manufacturers had not sold a, '
r4:4
piece this year. Slany of the manufacturers had only;
:iyil
one market this year, and that was on the Bth of FePr:rritoi
sow, if they had free trade their warehouses would be 'c fi
' 0
at. once. • If they could but clear the warehouses, that ,ji)
help them. In his part of the country they were no *screp*„o
they did not approve of fighting. War had been a logs,
abroad, and they did not want to have it at home. , 10r,
not like cutting people's throats—they had a better. 0113
ii
They went at once for universal suffrage.—(Cheers.")'k•ngen3
went for the whole measure. The aristocracy would ref,
them part, so they would lay their hands on the -sch° ,' /00
(Loud cheers.) i hey would go up the steps one byol3ln, ~,elf,
they were not allowed, and so they would step at one° .0040'
top. They were for the extension of the suffragtf.; 5010,0
man said to him when he came away. „tnial t'
before these blessings come, we shall be dead. Do sod iott0:,,4
we shall last to see them come ?"—(Laughter.) They s (OA ~;
come, and he hoped that such was the determinati.n, 4,E•e.',
Delegates.—( Cheers.) They must all go for the whels'',olo,
sure. They were sent there by the people; their seats 11011124.,
bought like those in the House of Commons. They repres4por '
larger constituencies ; constituents, whose all lay in theft P'.94'.'i
l'•
who lived by their industry and labour.—(Cheersii lii(;:pi't
them then all be united, and go for the whole measure-- - sP
sal Suffr..ge.—( Cheers.) A tl:01r;
The Rev. Mr. LUDWORTII, of Leicester, confirrintbo4l
3.
statements of the last speaker. As long as they had `' o'4!
and State in union, they would have persons to persecute . 'I d
,ttioot,
poor. dd
Mr. RIDGWAY, of the Staffordshire Potteries, thena mit'
i,
the meeting. He had no harrowing tale to unfold, but. * ;
lieved he had such a tale to bring forward as wouldlnir%
ldi
righteous cause. Up to the present period the Pattern isr
been a prosperous district ; but at the present moment itnliii '
otherwise. Distress had reached them, and he was sinte,!i4W"
something was not done, it would increase to a degree nte.s di,s,,o'
and never before suffered in that district. He trusted tn••tlis'..
present meeting would tell the country before they pantett bet'.
j.
their distress was such that it must be alleviatesl,. andtb tbt
Majesty's Ministers had no excuse for not inquiring into ...4.1V,,
distress. It was the last-time the Delegates would meet'`',
justice was not done them, some other course must be ad°ll,"l,
( Hear, hear.) The aristocracy ought to be told that the
toe.;
were determined to take care of their own rights, Icsetel%
invading the rights of others.—(Cheers.) All that tbetruiefr'i
was,A clear stage and no favour, and that they were de". :.:,,,
to have.—( Cheers. ) - be ~
• • bad , A A
A DELEGATE asked whether any communication --•
~,,
received from Sir R. Peel? - %
rl•
The SECRETARY stated that there had not. „ls lr• 'ls'''.
The meeting then adjourned till to-day at *Wen e"-- vi -,i,
_ /, , ~ . .A.
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eti :;'iii'
IMPERIAL PARLIAMEN'i'"
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HOUSE OF COMMONS, July
COMMITTEE OF SUPPLY.-ADJ0111,?,4
DEBATE on the DISTRESS of the COL 4-; si)ghi
(Continued from our Third Edition of last aighogarwo
Mr. AL DAM placed no great reliance on the 01/q.
antes of relief to the woollen or any other trsl"6, old 4
derived from commercial treaties. The wooliel.ciera 110
was at this moment suffering very much fr0n2,..01',0,0
competition. The Hon. Member went into a s',.sr
of the distress which prevailed during the - Yel,:ctroird
1535 to the present time in the manufacturing,,- trar,o4l
of the North, which distress, he contended a frr"-bssf.,..sl
in corn would have prevented. Whatever lotif otris
opinion as to the operation of the Corn-:aws-11Pd;
distress of the country, he thought the openingo fir,
ports at the present moment was a distinct que6ll:o
that of the Corn-laws, and would be beneficialiottSo
gating the present distress. Such a measure v4:o oiSe".;l
in his opinion, be prejudicial to the farmer, ohenZil
would not operate so much in lessening the price "1.. bosrlo
as in stimulating an increase of labour.—Olegbouldrtv
The object of a foreign market was that it;,llo4tr„,,A
suscitate the home market.—(Hear, hear.) reanto.t4
of distress in the country was such that 501101,10L'10
was essential—(Hear, hear)—and he canceltaistnr
he had pointed at would do much to relieve
In conclusion, the Hon. Member read a resolant's4w , ; is
to at a meetine. in Leeds, setting forth the distr"
country, and the danger of allowing it to 0120 crirgi
dJ
Sir B. HALL brought under the atteritiPltiOhili,dt
House the state of the parish of Marylebnnlly.. 00149
wealthy and popular parish, there was act:l7,l,lllPUoi
twentieth of the inhabitants receiving pargoli:scrior" 05
From a comparison of the price of corn in. the f,j
years from 1834, with the number of paupers;l,lteatliMf;iill
year.;, he proved that pauperism had increasocomi.;,,;i_ifax
proportion to the increase in the price of The 10"110
corn and pauperism always went together.
now presented most extraordinary afire i 4
rosi(reto
portion of the wealth of the kingdom wai 003,11 in m 4.)/
in the metrt.t2olis ; it might be supposed
°lnd-
sence of so much wealth the poor might
.._.r:1411;,0
moot, yet the dltference in the parish of
„A,':•'6s,t4os
from the great influx of wealth, was very slihll, (oiejaiils
moment there were no less than .one in evcboo:.0,1000;0/
the population recei -* • diial relief. „io.ht,ip...„iro
ring parochial
meets were %%ell worthy the attention of thn.i"s;
Gentleman opposite. fie had taken the par. .441,7i4
it bone, because he would not be thought
~.rso"4„,ri
geration. - Ile had excluded the parishes. 7„loartp,
and Pacldit.gton, because he would not be it_l,,:jawilitir47/1
of exaggeration. He had taken the must "%Meth.
3"
in the metropolis, Marylchone, the k 1
was the 11'
greater part of the aristocracy dwelt. SUCK