The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-19 00:00:00

something said about protection. The Right Honour-
al3,,l,eßaronet talked of the necessity of protection to
'''' `le, he at one time called the domestic interests of the
country ; another time the native industry of the
country ; and again, the great interest of the
ni°earit 3% We ought to know what this protection
Izitaswoi.whether it is indemnity, or the support of a sYs-
'eh cannot support itself. I think it is incum-
-11 you to show, that if they are entitled to indem-
nity, that that indemnity'
t:t be . is just. Protection ought
universal in its application ; but to pro-
ttebot
tne landed - proprietor, and not to protect the
r, is sheer injustice. You do not attempt to pro-
:,, the labourer from the improvements in machinery.
f 07,7,
°then, seek to protect the , landholder ? Why
~, t„r prevent the community from obtaining their
I I,`'`._ l,oln
.better soils than you yourselves possess
habit
tSe i ooking the other day into Humboldt's Travels,
„it la mentioned that persons who had been in the
and_sitor two centuries of carrying people across. the
t
T, Andes r
their backs, had petitioned the Parliamen
rra3'lng against the roads' which were being constructed ace the mountains. • I shall now refer to an extraor-
kearY argument brought forward the other night by the
ember for Kent it landholders ot the
)3ceettra_trY paid by far the'wlatisilgesta proportion of the taxes._
ii "re I enter into that, I must call the attention of the
ipuse to the petition of a labouring man, who sets forth
3vlat share of the taxes he bears. The petitioner is Wm.f
ee,„ k ; he says he uses per week 2oz. of tea, 2oz. of
the 'tee, Boz. of sugar, Boz. of butter, quartern of brandy ;
I,l,lzeepriee of these articles without the Custom-house and
etrerlse these
would be 2s. 4p. ; they do cost him .how-
6d. ' 7s• 7.1 d., being for taxes ss. 3d. a-week, or 131.
k. 13s.
:1:: WYoearlrii;rigand this man receives only l ls. a-wee . n
fer"e:e are articles of almost necessary consumption
781 and when we see what he pays,
laudo Per
~
atre the cent. taxes, let us hardly hear that the
ef
foal's Pay the largest proportion of thetaxests country. My object in bringing this
House, is to show that there is no ground for
that statement. This question has been argued before
tan li°use very fallaciously ; it has been argued as
oN;11,11„estio between the manufacturers and the land
forlCrs' --- (Rear, hear, hear.) I ,have brought
Ird this • many times, but I never
consider tl ' motion
ilas he„„e It as a question between those parties. It
thisco-- computed that there are 30,000 landowners in
tnaititnilittrY, and 14,000.000 acres of land, and they are.to
It ea can that against the interests of the wholecommupity.
testelide°! he contended that the farmers are more inte-
than 11.1 the continuance of the present. law
e
Earn, anY other classes of society. There is
.th
tubes of amongst them as in the various
sub." of this country and their profits, therefore, are
leet to th - ' •_. The Right Ho
crab „ e same innuence.
tion. _,7 Baronet said that this was a labourer's ques•
the lab' agree with him in that, and I regret thatnee
t o not see their own interest in refere
eat
511 intOuceostuiriontr.y._T(here is no class who have
labourerss?
toafastehi,sL crest
in having food cheap as the , nows
that th
Hear, hear.) Ever
condition e labourers of the United States ayre e•inntagbelitter
than those of England. And why ? e-
ue dee food is cheap. Food being cheap they
Ife food Work much, and there is plenty of employment.
tliseit7„, were plentiful here, it would be pre-
4ddea , 'Lie same as though so much land were.
fie, i.o to
1 4 —e Country ; and if land were cheap and plenti-
Would° i?ae would doubt that the labourers of this country,
PO se "e as 'well off as those of the United States. Sup-
tlina:rnew island were to rise up in our Chan.nel,fanod,
wouki 8 flocked to it for the
_purpose of producing end_
Oass,,,s°t the effect be to better the condition all
the -' the Produce of the island being- exchanged fir
ThertleeFessaries and comforts of life ? (Hear, hear.)ou
of etn„ls all argument that labourers will be thrownt
all
Show thverY vague. I have already quoted authorities to
Iti{4haTa no land would be thrown out of tillage. The,
ef the prod Baronet Baronet said the other night that the value
()tight
beeer°d of this country was immense, and that wne_
%rest to careful how we dealt with so vast an i
eoent.i ICovv there were 14 millions of arable land in the
And Irii;:willich consumes 22 millions of quarters of wheat,
kiiiio,, au& that no more than two, or at the. utmost four
ellan."B would be introduced from abroad if you makeesat
(IN e• r 0 be sure the people would eat
la great
hey more bread, if; through having more employment,
in that
able toraise the standard of living. But I
na th. at it will be quite impossible to displace !much. land
d
Peoptel3 country,
the island
flouri , are more fully employed, and if _
If manufactures should revive, if he
land;"-si. how can you kee dov4.-n
steal value of
jr::l:ifttntdllooupecoapnlzonly do it by a. sliding ce—(He.ar,_
t)litof the elleers)—or by oppression, drivingytohuersc.asvietas.l
at • country having to support the people
have fair play, who. should have so
On tt,eas°ll to be satisfied as the owner of. the soil ?
by our other hand, consider what you jeoparedsitsie.
niatiY°llr Present conduct. You hazard the
144 °f Yon? countrymen, you endanger the public
arid e twis, you force the people to become politicians,
the Present°ll them and the middle classes to thinkftthialet
majority system is maintained for the benefit of
of 4.lrity of
„„,, the Legislature. You talk of the multitudes 13 'l at Ivo llb 'ficed nit repeal of trot orr.i .
'totilllt,r:_ally.j thinksaid
hert
,lissaeeewnc ohm°
mightnow,yreawlloyuisudffer.
!11/41 °no the question of the import duties,ba vtehaeltayimou.-
-Ns waYs have new claimants ; indeed, you
Nkov who were not born when the law passedin 1815.
‘.
t.'"th respect to its giving employment to the. poor,
,ttelition
~_ of monastic institutions was resisted by
1;401"•' argument • it was asked what was to be
0
`44 ''-'r therelief' cif the poor if they were abo-
ut.,b ti,_
~..
D,ogear.) Why that argument was thus met
_,. ill llle., for their support, and the Poor-laws sprung
`e3tr'el c'llseouence.—(Cheers.) But the agricultural
Iteeoll,l do not afford constant employment fol; theiipi
the
.
agfieVag to the last census, 350,000 pe.rsotonws
1% ere notral districts, found employmen t in
thro,,,,i for manufactures those people. would have bornasovethbaeteinf
there"fcg uaelt for support upon the agricultural districts,tan
j11)141.,e the system does not givecont
t'ai i',is4t.----(1-lear hear.) I shall now conclude,me
.)
fn- Le Honourable'Gentleman who follows
1 tow ,
consider them
%%vs. isn information on the working. of
_these
•,-01.1%. oPpose them because I
e filch unsuited to the present state of society.
4isteLn - tilhat we can obtain a sufficient amount of sub-
an
°l' th,een, 1 exchanging our manufactured products
1 ia„ grleultural products of other countries,. and that
I,Nicer,Bllre which prevents that, acts injuriously on our
ii,ei*alea-e• I therefore move that these duties be. now.
),-`4t, there When I say now, I mean to mark my opinion
ti°iLtereetis Lo ground for their, continuance, and that
t'at s Would suffer by their and to show.
Ati.eaersraY opinion coincides with that of the peti-
'late to this House, for the total and kart
41,4,Y grrelea! Of col; se, if it 'can be shown t a
1,,1ue1i%-h. bare
, would be inflicted by their sudde.n
if? al f„r
~ an be no objection to postponing their
at is 4 short time ; but when we see the resistance
thinirklade to every kind of change, however gradual,
meßlPr'' the People- would be justly chargeable with.
11'14 1.1.1ltta(1.11. their own interest if they did not insist
Z°Ake °Tate justice being done to them ; and I
i,ittletatilltiarn-_,ael,l gentlemen who think that the law
for' hie it, zt ty to be repealed, however they may differ
1 Illy to . 0 the question of immediate reptal, will vote
li otioti
Ii"*OSW •
did ALI) said that, in rising to address the House,
%aid 1, Lot hcn.,o ,_
gideoy 10nlet:,,,Lo say anything that might not be better
for red the other Member, but when the House con-
Iv el his a Importance of the subject, he trusted. it would
hoalq b Polog-
o„ j for trespassing upon its atte.ntion. He
4-4,30111eo,„-,7-ever, be prevented from addressing them at
a(„tei, aielater the luminous anddetailed speech in whichthe..em.—
Chr, a?er, who
Head just sat down, addressed th
at the new
rose for the purpose of protesting
the roan new and crude scale of the Right Honourable
t
lleb„ore, and all other laws which fettered the free
41.444,her0ti 0f,,,_ grain—( Hear, hear.) He considered it be-
/4a,, titan yoev!er to legislate on the subject.—( Hear, hear. )
ps; I:if the ~,,,.do so had hitherto failed,and he believed_thac.t.thre.
ee„,a•d) .4 ''iglit Hon. Baronet would fail also. He -l% Pr
-itat tiait;°°lld on the broad ground that no one class o the
Pre ' hoti • a.' right to place burdens on the other classes
illi.eedin individual a,grandisement.—( Cheers.) Any. such
kiltust...,4pe held to be unjust, and as impolitic as it was
110: for thee', hear. ) Monopoly was the robbt of
d hnegbelieved
,th Iti the n oetietlt of the f..w—(Cheers)—
feret ,ite's tol those who enjoyed undue advaanntageizerlitthice
1444,,th,05e wound not gain by it. It
was
as impolitic
to
Lev_ von fiv''',' gained as for those who sufferedH
be-
"d th "e Present law. (Hear, hear.) fey
ret en~ at all „
le, ' our, , ' the Acts passed, as
wit'iliththat °;V:hro, bad ended. in disappoßinatrmoennett,riaonodldhembeee-t
Nint tke flitstian,` nof the Bight Hon.
,Baronet
grievously disap-
hvils, "" laed_, He believed it
hete...and 10,' ners, while it wouldcwoontinuetoinafloidctmganreua_t
heard interests!esnd misery, upon the mercantile
,ballulnaily
lof the country.—( Hear,
the 41"
-tar anf,l'A proietors regret the extent o t which the
hear.) He had
lirite parto'. this sountry had arrived. He had heard
etteala cnio
_Y, orelare their belief that the people of Great
Lei; 4'hui joje(l more comfort and more happiness before the_
it wev,4 the ~".r commercial and manufacturing system. He
the .as sareg;e Individuals weresincere in those statements; but
I.,rltr r!onout,'Y Uteessary to state to that House that they drew
thi:e of
tithe
from false premises, and with a total igno-
14onritry
w'aci,s. Besides, the question was no.t nowt.whetht
he 14142th/I was, a, !? become a great commerctieasltnoaomiomne—rclial
ce,Z.nuf„turl'inegthreart,jobemg already the g
world,ourrecaommerce should
.°4l`l"-e ' t 4
I"'Per, ornshnoutlde be allowed to decline. We
ostitaut)dfsttiil,l. We were the greatest workshop for a
*it thtP.""or'ti
t° 'ta.teilPruv " inhabitants of Europe, and we should
Prove or ret rcat. Now, it was notnecessary for him
liit':'.'loYe ri Oaf 1 ept7olteu:ti
rh:r(l:•laltoovet,,,b_at House what would be the . resiikt
_ofwoaur.e.tr.oe-
telaera.r),. hear.) The evils which_ _
toldeoni'-
i,i...P_Lite....soieLlae Pr society would be too dreadftunvanced
The principal ar n
11q".."inde C On to the landed interest g:ams thate it would
~,... did not Pendent, of other nations for oar supply of corn.
",,olt, wow(' "'lnk that any person who knew much of the sub-
qldooot Couldtilow great value to t.h
tAtior,,4tp he anyi)gr
greartatcoe ! r anrdg umma ennut c t ulir -e
mxtmenetreinadeapendent of other 41tiee toeS,IZPS he might be tol.d that it would be the grossest
lie 'eave his ay away all protection from the agriculturists,
I,e erith,_,Y protection to the manufacturer.—( Hear, hear.)
111'a as ''rea Foncurred in the justice of that
.remark.
k i,e4f,icte, "I i . and he bieved the most enlightened
il'eal f' Is in this country were reads., with
'4'ieh °. the Corn-la to assent to adrepeaolr of all laws
41144f,resti icted the frewe'''
e p tation of every
fl'onirtiereet:red article. tilinspoopritiaii ton:was thaxt the agriculture,
,4,_%48,„,ennd acs ores of the country had flourished,. not
1411e,r, hear)
; trad, t• He believed the mot e freedom that was given
he w the more it would flourish. Such being his opinions,
ther a' ready to concur in _. with
;night i,_ r i!. rictive duties. He was well aware that there
tilt; b7.c.onsiderable difficulty in obtaininc, so desirable a re-
w°
_Lite he did not espair. He trusted that the landowners
hf
i.thoerAtarayYwthottidhbee
ewnassorceodnbvin
vould lee to considerable modification, and for himself he
acefdreetthraadt
trade in
rhoersot.interests
tta ret
rille ei:sttv,:eithi ituOto7i,
as
te twhadmitted
e i
n entitledio (fullyi
fttohttebhapete Neatesttpha e petitionsobnd consideration,
tdi theounly,
levva eri aPoo by pamphlets on the subject of the Corn-
ittl i had seen su h pamphlets himself, and he
the speeches he had ll=
Many
observed prints (cif
improper description.
with praiseworthy moderation,
karkYed f
onandthisrausuubhjeascthewz