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the subject totally distinct from paity politics, and under-

stood that there were numbers Of indivi

s either

,nt, who differed with hi

nd many

others upon party politics : hut, on the present subject, they
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Tieved the party who now stood forward to represent Walsall
was the sincere advocate of free trade in every respect. He
(Sir Joshua) had known him for many years. He was a re-
tired merchant, was perfectly conversant with mercantile
affairs, had devoted his time, talents, and money to what he

a -source of the highest gratification to see the industrious

DusinL, t

awe to a sense c
a, important, an

was (1116- to themselves On the

the question of questions. Household stiffrage, vote by bal-
lot, and all those other questions which' had distracted the
:ommunity fox so long a-period, fell into utter insignificance
;Teat question of free trade,_ which came
ye, and to the interests of

compared with tl

home to the hearts

the feelings

)üble for the necessaries of life ; for the price of corn, in-

d of being, as it now Was,

and 70s. per quart,
Tho nrecpnt Inv

would,
lad in-

sovereigns of almost all nations to put restrictions
h commerce and manufactures, which produced

bour mar

the price of wages

produced crime and misery, and filled the
Alrthis was to be attributed to the laws

then, he asked, should the producers of wealth for ever In
the poor of the land? (Loud and lon
ith cries of " Bravo, bravo.") The
of the corn 1

-continued hurrahs

airmaei then wet

on to say that the repeal

Ns meant not to

is their op-

snowed to come into
. -
this country at only 245. per cwt., and foreign sugar at 635.
per cwt., went into the pockets of the West India planters,
to whom England had already given twenty millions of mo-
ney. Every farthing of this, which was but a second edition
of the corn laws, was paid by the people. The fact was the
same with regard to coffee. Colonial coffee came into this
country at 6d. per lb. ; foreign at ls. 3d. ; and the ai ffe Fence
between the 6d. in the one case, and the LA. in the other,
went to the colonial planter, after having been extracted from
the pockets of the English people. He (Sir Joshua) would
have them to look at corn in the same way ; for, though their

population was rapidly advancing, and increasing competi-
tion was taking place, and though the amount of corn ex-
ported was not equal to what it was in prey ?us years, still
the amount of manual productions exported was annually
less. After stating that the price of labour was regulated by
supply and demand, Sir Joshua next proceeded to show, that
if we could take the productions of other countries, duty
free, in exchange for ours, we should have more manufactur-
ed goods to return to them. He next alleged that wages had
invariably been reduced as prices rose, but that the price of

;ulate tile price of wages

Sir Joshua con-

eluded by reading an extract from the evidence of Mr. J. D.
Hume and Mr. M`Gregor, both of the Board of Trade, in
relation to the question, and concluded by hoping the meet 7
ing would not assist to return any man to the House of Com-
mons who was not disposed to take off every prohibition and

coesumptio,
of the land.

Mr. JOHN MURRAY proposed tl
the present corn and provision laws impose on the peoP

,e first resolution—

" That