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ings In this crowd enough to enable me to call upon you, as
a jury, to decide that question ; and I call upon you to be
the arbiters for a moment between Sir Robert Peel and Sir
John Cam Hobhouse. (Hear, hear.) We all remember the
events of 1836. Sir Robert Peel was then called to the
councils of the crown by his Sovereign, who, mature in
years and experience, had tried the Whigs and knew
what they were worth. (Hear, hear, and loud cheers.)
He enjoyed the favour of a sovereign who never, under any
circumstances, and with whatever party he acted, did other-
wise than give him his honest support ; but he was beaten in
the House of Commons; and what did he do? (Hear, hear.)
It is a matter of history now, for the sovereign who called
him to his councils is dead. I did not see him clinging to
office with tenacity I did not hear such words as these pass
his tory lips in that 'hour of defeat and discomfiture—" I have
lost the confidence of the House of Commons ; here I have
been beaten; but I will protract my resignation, for I have
the favour of the crown ; and, let me tell you, that is the best
support a minister can have." No, gentlemen. He was
beaten ; but he crossed the floor of the house with the ap-
plause of his enemies, with his honesty unimpeached, and his
principles unimpaired, and he took that seat upon the other
side of the house behind which three hundred gentlemen of
England then, or at least since, have rallied round him.
(Tremendous cheers.) It is from whig lips that I have lived
to hear the doctrine that the support of the crown is the best
support which a ministry could have—(hear) :—for those
were the words of Sir John Cam Hobhouse, in a late debate;
and, gentlemen, I call upon you to recollect them. (Hear,
hear.) In my view, they call upon the constituency of this
country to rise, like oue man, to displace from the neigh-
bourhood of the sovereign those who, if they hold such doc-
trine in the face of England's representatives, may instil doc-
trines into the ear of the sovereign which must be poiscin to
that ear—doctrines to which, if the sovereign were to assent,
the monarchy would be endangered to its foundations, and
doctrines to which, if the people assent, they deserve not to
be, what they have been, and what they are, the devoted and
loyal subjects of a constitutional monarchy—sympathising
with the prosperity of that government in the hour of Eng-
land's prosperity, ready to rally round it to the death in
the hour of misfortune and of danger. (Great cheers.) I
say they deserve to become not such as these, but the tax-
payers of a bey or a pacha, or the slaves of the palace fa-
vourite of the hour. (Loud and long continued cheers.)
These are all grounds upon which I retain, I will not
say, unmitigated, but increased—not any personal ran-
cour, for there are many among the ministry whom I
esteem and regard for their talents and station, and for
whom I have as much private regard as for any gentleman
with whom I am politically connected, (hear, hear, hear),
but these are grounds, I say, upon which I think I am justi-
fied in retaining, not only the unmitigated, but the increased
political hostility against them which has actuated hitherto
my course in parliament. (Loud cheers.) I have said it is
not for me upon such an occasion as this to detain you from
avocations which are far more worthy your attention than
any thing I can occupy you with at this moment. I content
myself with having briefly expressed to you my opinions upon
the leading subjects which now engage attention, and with
having vindicated upon this occasion the course which I shall
think it my duty to pursue, should I have the honour of your
suffrages. (Cheers.) Of that result I confess it is impossible
for me to judge from any knowledge of my own, but, from
the accounts I have received from those who have never yet
deceived me, I confess, that either with regard to my own
prospects, or those of my honourable colleague, I have not
the smallest or slightest apprehension. (Enthusiastic cheer-
ing.) All I have to dread is, that too much security may be
placed in the prospects before us. (Hear.) All that I wish
to warn my partial friends against is, their indulgence in too
great security, if they do me the honour to entertain the
wishes they formerly felt and acted upon for the prevalence
of conservative principles, for the triumph of that cause, in
my very humble and unworthy person. (Cheers.) For
your attentions, gentlemen, upon this occasion, I cannot be
too thankful. The noble gentleman concluded by again
thanking the meeting for their attention, and then retired
amidst enthusiastic applause.
Mr. R. BOOTLE WILBitAHAM then proceeded to address
the people. He was loudly applauded. Considering, lie
said, the state of the weather, it is not my intention to trou-
ble you long with the few remarks that I deem it my duty to
make • but since you have done my noble colleague and my-
self
the honour to meet us to-day under such circumstances,
with weather as we have now, I cannot but express to you
my gratitude not only for meeting us upon this occasion, but
for that support which upon all former occasions you have
done us the honour to give to us. My noble colleague has
gone rather more at lengU than I shall into the views with
which we have been actd as opponents, generally speak-
ing, of the administration. (Hear, hear.) I can only add to
what he has said, that my feelings have been equally opposed
to their measures ; indeed, I have very little knowledge of
them. But, as far as their measures have gone, I conceive
that from year to year they have been getting worse. You
all remember that they proposed to start their government,
with the principle of non-intervention, with no patronage,
and with controlling the public expenditure within the small-
est limits. (Hear, hear.) I ask you, gentlemen, if any of
these pledges have been fulfilled? (Loud cheers, and cries
of " No.") Do we not at the last moment see them jobbing
and chopping ? (Hear.) What else is their appointment to
the office of Lord Chancellor of Ireland ? Do we not know
that Sir John Campbell is put in only to gain the retiring pen-
sion. (Shame, shame !) At all events we see them jobbing
and changing their offices as if they were going to have a te-
nure of them for ten years longer; whereas, I firmly believe,
that on the very first day that parliament meets we shall re-
ceive their resignation. (Cheers.) I have, in my address to
the electors of this county, explained my opinions upon the
subjects on which this dissolution took place, but I beg to
say, when I read the addresses of those gentlemen who
profess to support the present government, I see they are
talking about free trade and the doing away of protective
duties as being the reasons why we are sent to our con-
stituents to ascertain whether those are the principles which
they maintain. That is not the case. (Hear.) The reason
is to ascertain what confidence the constituency and the
conntry at large have in the conduct and principles of the
present government. (Loud cheers.) I think, and I am
satisfied it is the general opinion of the people throughout
the country, that not only will her majesty's ministers dis-
cover that they have not only not the confidence of the late
House of Commons, but that the country at large despises
them and rejects them as being men of neither power nor
pretensions to carry their views into effect. (Cheers.) It is
unnecessary for me to go further now into this question. I
have endeavoured, as I said before, in my address to the
constituency, to point out what my views are, I will, there-
fore, only add, that I feel much obliged to you for your
patient attention, and that I shall, upon all occasions, do my
utmost to promote the conservative cause,—(cheers)—for I
conceive that this country looks forward now to years of
peace and quiet, and 'not to those restless times which we
have had for the last ten years past. With that hope, I trust
you will return your late members for this borough, and that
my noble colleague and myself may receive the honour of
your continued support. (Loud cheers, during which the
honourable gentleman retired.)
Three cheers were then given for Lords Francis Egerton
and Sandon, Mr. Wilbraham and Mr. Cresswell, after which
the meeting dispersed.

MEETING AT THE AMPHITHEATRE OF THE
TRADESMEN'S AND OPERATIVE CONSERVA-
TIVE ASSOCIATIONS.

Last evening a most crowded meeting of the members o
the Tradesmen's and Operative Conservative Associations
was held in the Amphitheatre, for the purpose of meeting
Lord Sandon and Mr. Cresswell.
Amongst those present we observed Sir Thomas Brancker,
James Aspinall, C. S. Parker, J. Parker, C. Bushell, S.
Holme, Thomas Dover, John Shephard, Charles Lawrence,
George Grant, H. Sandbach, John Wilkinson, Jas. Ackers,
R. Houghton, James Proctor, J. B. Molyneux, Robertson
Gladstone, Daniel Ledson, John Miller, Wm. Potter, R.
Jones, jun., Thomas Toulmin, John Penington, Richard
Bryans, John Carson, P. Wright, Dr. Hensman, Dr. Baird,
M.D., John Smith, Captain Brassey, Joseph Cooper, T. D.
Butler, A. Henderson, G. Green, jun., Peter Hope, Wm.
Birkett, Thomas Muncaster, H. C. Chapman, Duncan Gibb,
J. Booker, Thomas Jones, Thomas Lee, John Kilshaw,
Cottingham Moss, J. Rowland, James Holme, John Moss,
H. Banner, Adam Hodgson, David Hodgson, Dr. Stubbs,
Dr. Pearson, Dr. Bickersteth, Alexander Shand, Joseph
Ackers, and G. P. Walker.
On the motion of Mr. JOHN KILSHAW, ALEXANDER
SMITH, jun., Esq., Chairman of the Tradesmens' Conser-
vative Association, was requested to preside.
Mr. SMITH having taken the chair, alluded to the manner
in which he had been returned to the Town-council for
North Toxteth ward, in opposition to Mr. Rathbone, and
expressed his determination to suppost the institutions of
his country both in church and state. (Hear.) He then re-
ferred to the admirable speech of the Rev. Hugh M'Neile, at
the Operative Protestant Association meeting, and said that
it had set the question of the corn laws completely at rest.
(Loud cheers.)
A PERSON from the gallery inquired whether the chair-
man would allow a voter to ask a question from either of the
candidates? (Cheers, and some confusion.)
The CHAIRMAN said he could have no hesitation in an-
swering the question. Ours was not the cause of darkness,
and we were prepared to give a reason for every thing that
we did. (Loud cheers.) Ours was a great cause, and he
would tell the meeting what it was. We avowed ourselves
loyal subjects, and supporters of the constitution in church
and state ; we avowed ourselves to be friends of the Qreen,
and anxious that her dignity and the constitution of the
country should be maintained unimpaired. (Cheers.) We
were, therefore, ready, not only to avow our sentiments, but
to answer any questions as to them which might be put to
us. (Cheers.) He was satisfied that the admirable speech
of Mr. M'Neile must have carried the conviction, to the
minds of all who had heard or read it, that the Anti-Corn-
Law Leaguers, who had been agitating the country in com-
mon with her Majesty's ministers, had no other object in
view than the filling of their own pockets, without caring one
straw for the people. That speech had made it as manifest
as anything could be, that the sole and only object which the
millowners and the Anti-Corn-Law Leaguers had in view was
the reduction of the wages of the operatives (cheers), and that
without the reduction of wages it was utterly impossible
they could reduce the price of the manufactured articles in
which they dealt. (Cheers.) That point he considered as now
settled beyond all dispute. The same result would apply
not only to them, but also to another community. We had
been told, that if the corn-laws were done away with, as a
matter of necessity, a very large proportion of the land in
this country must be thrown out of cultivation. (Hear.)
What would be the consequence of that? There was abun-
dance of work and occupation for the mechanics and artisans
of Liverpool in the town of Liverpool, but they were not
left to themselves; they were interfered with by people from
distant parts, and the consequence was, that those people,
either by hook or crook, contrived to get such a footing in
the town, which prevented the natives and those who had
long resided here from finding employment. (Hear.)
At this moment Lord Sandon and Mr. Cresswell entered
the theatre. Their appearance created an immense burst of
applause.
The CHAIRMAN said the enthusiastic reception just given
to Lord Sandon and Mr. Cresswell, was a convincing proof
of the unanimity of the meeting, and of their anxiety to see
these gentlemen again returned at the ensuing election.
(Loud cheers.) The conservatives, as the meeting were
aware, were opposed to the mischiefs which had been done
by her Majesty's ministers : they had done everything in
their power, from time to time, to oppose them, and at last
they had succeeded in carrying a vote of censure. A new
parliament had, therefore, been called, and upon the result
of the elections which were about to take place, would de-
pend whether the past government remained in power, or
whether the conservatives assumed the reins of state. (Hear.)
Of the issue of these elections he had not the slightest doubt,
and he believed that before we in Liverpool had commenced
on Wednesday. we should have learned that Lord John Rus-
sell, her Majesty's secretary for the colonies, had been
defeated. (Cheers.) He had no doubt that on that day we
should find that four good conservatives had been returned to
represent the city of London. (Loud cheers.) We were all
aware of the manner in which her majesty's ministers had
thought proper to support Mr. O'Connell upon every occa-
sion ; but he believed there were not many who were aware
that they had carried their proceedings still further. He
could not call Mr. O'Connell exactly a rebel, or the party to
which he belonged in Ireland rebels. Within the last few
days a letter had appeared in the Times, signed by Sir Francis
Head, who was governor of Upper Canada when the rebellion
broke out there. Sir F. Head was not a man particularly
attached either to one party or the other, unless he had had
opportunities of seeing in what manner the loyal subjects
of Upper Canada conducted themselves upon that occasion,
and he had thought it right and proper, and he (the chairman)
thanked him for the manner in which he had opposed her
majesty's ministers--to place upon record facts which shewed
that not only was no encouragement given to the loyal inha.

bitants of Upper Canada for risking their lives and property,
in support of the government, but that one of those infamous
individuals who really was part and parcel of the company
who concocted the rebellion had been placed in the situation
of solicitor-general to her majesty. (Heir, hear.) Was
that conduct which would be applauded or approved of by
the inhabitants of Great Britain ? (Loud cries of " No.")
Was it not our wish to maintain loyal men—to grant to them
not only support, but to grant to them every encouragement
which the country can give? Ought we not to reward such
men, in place of degrading and disgracing them ? But her
Majesty's ministers had actually degraded the very people—
the very people—and without whose support and as-
sistance at this very day the Canadas would have been in the

possession of the tlied States. ^ (Cheers.) These were
startling facts. These, then, were the ministers against
whom we were arrayed, and he was satisfied that every indi-
vidual present, and every true British heart, would join with
him in saying that this ministry did not deserve our confi-
dence—that the vote of the House of Commons was an ex-
cellent vote, and one which met our sympatky and our
cordial approbation. (Loud cheers.) The chairman then
expressed a wish that the electors would respond one and all
to the calls made upon them, to support their late excellent
representatives, and return then' by a larger majority
to the House of Commons than before—for he should be

sorry to find that either one or the other returned by a
smaller. His conviction, however, was, that they would be
returned by a larger majority. He trusted that the electors
would return them by such a majority as would give effect
and furtherance to the triumph which we should, no doubt,
receive from London. (Cheers.) This would be the next
election of importance to that, and he was satisfied that the
results of both would be such as to satisfy Sir Robert Peel,
Lord Stanley, and his noble friend at his right, who would

undoubtedly fill a prom-Inea situation in thecoUncils of the
country. (Cheers.) The chairman concluded amidst many
cheers, by calling upon the first resolution.
Mr. SAMUEL HoLme moved the first resolution. The
contest in which they were about to engage was one, he said,
of such permanent interest, that he would call on every one
of his fellow tradesmen and fellow operatives to exert himself
on the great occasion as if victory depended on his individual
vote. The welfare of the nation, the happiness and security
of their own domestic hearths, the glorious institutions
under which their country had so long flourished, were all
menaced. He therefore trusted that there was not a man

present who would refuse to spring to the rescue, and who
would not respond to the sentiment—
" Breathes there a man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land."
(Loud cheers.) The finances of the country were crippled

at the present moment; their taxation was increased and
their trade paralysed. It was high time, therefore, to take
the helm of the state out of the bungling hands who held it,
now, and to give it to those who had more wisdom, dis-
cretion, ability, and honesty. lie looked upon the present
to be the fag-end of the reform ministry. They were some-
thing like an old quill which bad been worn to .the stump.
Ten years since they could boast the names of Grey, Althorp,
Brougham, Carlisle, Ripon, Richmond, Stanley, Graham,
and Burdett ; but where were those men now ? Echo an-

swered where. The present ministry were like tenants un-
der a process of ejectment, who had barricadoed the doors
'and windows and refused to give up possession. And some
of them was peeping through the key-holeaud shoutingcheap
bread ; another was shouting out cheap sugar ; and a third
was lifting up a slate in the roof and shouting cheap timber.
(Great laughter.) But the people were not to be gulled by
cries of this kind, and they were loyal enough to stop the
chimneys and to march them out. (Great cheers.) He
(Mr. Holmes) had no inclination for things cheap and mus-
ty, for as far as his experience went, such things were
never good—(cheers)—but if the conservatives got rid of the
present bad tenants and obtained possession of their property
the questions of cheap corn, cheap sugar, and cheap timber
would be settled to the satisfaction of the country at large.
He hoped the conservatives would not undervalue the exer-
tions of their political opponents. Sir Joshua Walmsley, he
believed, would not be guilty of anything dishonourable, but
he had lieutenants who would not stick at trifles to carry his
ambitious objects. It was a maxim of the Duke of Wel-

lington, when he was going to fight a battle, to make victory
secure before he fired a shot. It was necessary that the con-
servatives should imitate the example of the great leader of
his country in this respect, and not to he certain of their
strength until the victory was certain. (Hear, hear.) The
opposite party were going to tender the votes of the Protector
Society, many of the members of which had gone to the
Parish-office for relief. He hoped and believed that there
was loyalty enough in England and in Liverpool to prevent
the lofty plume of England from being bowed to the dust be-
fore the dragon of Rome.
Mr. Joit( WILKINSON seconded the first resolution, and
it was carried unanimously.
Mr. DANIEL LEDSON having been called upon to move
the 2nd resolution, was received with loud cheers, and spoke
nearly as follows :—I never rose, sir, to address a public
meeting in my life with greater pleasure, or with more heart-
felt satisfaction than I feel in addressing my brother
tradesmen and brother operatives on this occasion. (Hear,
hear.) We have met to express our warm acknowledgments
to my Lord Sandon and to Mr. Cresswell for the very able
and the very indefatigable manner in which they have repre-
sented our interests in the Commons' House of Parliament;

—(loud cheers)—and I am sure it would be needless in me to
call upon this meeting to renew that confidence which we
have for so long a period reposed in them. (Cheers.) Sir,
when I see myself surrounded as I am on this occasion, by
the great wealth and intelligence of the town of Liverpool, I
regret exceedingly that the resolution has not been placed in
more able hands than mine; but, gentlemen, I trust you will
bear with me a moment if I attempt, however feebly, to offer
a few observations. (Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, our oppo-
nents have loudly proclaimed that we have arrived at a great
crisis. We have, indeed, arrived at a crisis in political mat-
ters which the most speculative prophet of the future could
hardly have ventured to anticipate. (Hear, hear.) We, the
tradesmen and operatives of this town have assembled
to express our decided and deliberate opinions upon
questions which, in few former periods of our history,
can we find a precedent or a parallel. (Hear, and cheers.)
A ministry, gentlemen, which has continued in office by
various shifts and stratagems since the year 1835, a minis-
try that has exhausted, one by one, all those thimblerig
tricks which the good sense of this country has so frequently
denounced. (Cheers.) A ministry that has sustained itself
in office one day by concession to repeal ! and another day
by encouragement to revolution. (Tremendous cheers.) A.
Ministry which, in its utter weakness, has in one week
stretched forth its supplicating arms to the conservative ma-
jority in its front ; and in the next in its utter imbecility im-
plored the aid of the radical mountain at its back ! (Renewed
cheers.) This ministry, gentlemen, because of the consti-
tutional and manly stand taken by Sir Robert Peel, on the
vote of confidence question—(cheers)—at last arrived at the
end of its various resources, and, gentlemen, what did
they ? Why, with the country in the greatest state of
excitement, with a deficiency in the revenue, and with dis-
content abroad, this ministry absolutely dissolved the parlia-
ment, but previously threw down on the political arena, as
mere clap traps to the electors throughout the country, the
three great and important questions of svgar, timber, and
corn. (Tremendous cheering, and cries of hear, hear.)
But gentlemen, as chairman of the Operative Conservative
Association, if I know any thing of the character of the opera-
tives of this great town; if from the frequent demonstrations
I have had the pleasure of witnessing, I may arrive at any
opinion as to their character, I believe that nothing can be
more hostile to their feelings than that which savours of
subterfuge or deceit. (Load cheers.) To what else can this
new-born zeal for the inter ests of the poor in the hearts of
this philanthropic government be ascribed? (Hear, hear.)
When the New Poor-law Bill, with its harsh and inhuman
clauses, was under discussion, the amendments and sugges-
tions of the conservative members were met with contumely
or indifference. (Hear, hear, hear.) The destitute poor
are unworthy the attention of these liberty-loving
ministers. (Cheers.) Cases of oppression are passed
over with light-hearted contempt, and a cry of ex-
aggeration is raised—(hear, hear)—but let this same mi-
nistry be defeated upon some favourite party project—let
Lord Stanley quash their Irish registration bill—(loud
cheers)—and immediately rises in alibis dignity, the right hand
of government, my Lord John Russell, and, in his exceed-
ing sympathy for the poor, proposes to take into considera-
tion the question of the trade on corn. (Great laughter and
cheering.) But I ask you, gentlemen, notwithstanding the
earnest and laboured protestations of ministers, if it was not
a very sudden and a very suspicious sympathy. (Hear, hear.)
Gentlemen, are they not the most wretched, the most im-
becile, the most vascillating ministry that ever this country
was cursed with ? (Great cheerincr, and cries of " Yes,
yes.") And now, after numberless defeats, they have given
us an opportunity of turning them out (hear) ; and I
believe that there is such a spirit aroused throughout the
land—that there is so much anxiety to preserve our Protes-
tant institutions—that we shall be successful. (Tremendous
cheering.) Gentlemen, in reading Sir J.Walmsley's speech,
I was very much pleased to observe one remark which he
made, and which was the greatest compliment he could have
paid to our glorious cause—namely, that he had not called
upon a single conservative elector from whom he had not
met with the greatest civility and kindness. (Hear, hear.)
Sir Joshua having thus stamped the character of gentleman
(hear, hear) upon every conservative elector, I trust that
you, my Lord Sandon, and you, Mr. Cresswell, have received
the same civility and kindness from our opponents, and that
you will be able to return the same compliment to the oppo-
site party. (Loud laughter.) Gentlemen, her Majesty's
ministers started with professions to carry out reform, re-
trenchment, and peace (hear, hear) ; but, I ask you, have
they carried out these great principles to your satisfaction.
(Loud cries of "No no.") I apprehend, that in the object
of reform, it never was intended to subject this and other
towns to a political party or a religious faction ;—(cheers)—
and as to retrenchment, gentlemen, I shall only refer you
to the eloquent and splendid speech of the great conservative
leader, Sir Robert Peel—(immense cheers)—in which he
places the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the ludicrous and
perhaps in the eyes of the ministry unenviable position of sit-
ting on an empty chest by the side of bottomless deficiency,
and fishing for a budget. (Great laughter and cheers.) I have
only to refer you to the deficit of two millions. (Loud
cheers.) As to peace, gentlemen, the angry and menacing
attitude of France holds out no prospect of a renewal of our
commercial treaty. (Hear.) The imprisonment of M`Leod
still cries for notice ; and notwithstanding all the promises of
a negociation, the China question remains nearly where it was.
(Loud cheers.) Gentlemen, I would here sit down—(cries
of " No, no")—but I shall still trespass upon your time a few
moments, and trust I shall be excused in attempting to offer
a few observations upon the much agitated question of the
corn-laws. (Hear, near.) Gentlemen, I quite acknowledge
that a free importation of corn into this country would enable
the poorer classes of society to obtain it at a much cheaper
rate. I have travelled a good deal, although a very young
man, and I have had considerable experience. I quite admit
the arguments of theAnti-cornLaw
perhaps,Leaguerst enablehatthe the
im-
portation of corn in this country would,
poor man to purchase it at it cheap rate ; but if we are to
have a free importation of corn let us have free trade alto-
- bear, from Lord Sandon.) When I was
gether. (near,
abroad I purchased a bat that would have cost here 21s. for
7s. 6d. I also purchased a good suit of black clothes for
£2 18s, which would have cost here from £6 to £7, and a
of pair shoes, which would have cost here spmething like
•
12s, for ss. 6d. (' contend, Hear, hear.) Now, I that if the
free benefit the poor man, so like-
wisefree importation
would the free
of corn
importation
of all these articles of dress.
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more than one-half, therefore, you see, gentlemen, the cry
for cheap bread
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or 1801 there was a very great scarcity of corn in this
country, and that
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starving people we
hear.) We went to Prussia, and the Prussians certainly did
business with us, but they took care they did not
receive our manufactures in return for their corn—(hear)--
took our money for
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And so it would be again if the people of this country were
starving, if we are to be beholden
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for our supplies. (Hear, hear.)
thrown out of cultivation, you may depend upon it the nation
would be in a position ten times worse than it is now. (Ap-
plause.) Ido not know whether there are any coopers pre-
sent ; but as I happen to be a sprig of a cooper myself, I can
give you my testimony as to the effect of free trade. (Hear.)
I dare say you know what shooks are. Now, it is a very re-
markable fact that shooks have
will
basekenanimypooorotpeder tporeasgerhetat ex-tent into Liverpool; and
whe-
ther he supposes he can compete with the price at which they
are imported—is it not impossible for any master tradesman