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were, as a narro,

sons—as

lerely subjects or retainers of the Duke of Buck-
What, on the other hand, of those persons who
d the agriculturists ? No man felt more for the
,ny class in the country than he did; but stir
that in the c—turing districts, instead c

inghan

now accuse

sufferings of a
he must

ay, manutam....
peace and quietness, which the agricultural districts enjoyea
there had been disturbances there and bloodshed ; and per.
sons disposed to do their duty, to earn their livelihood in
peace and quietness—who asked for nothing more than " a
fair day's wages for a fa;r day's work," had been obliged to

1 leave inanuta-ctories in which they worked, and in -which
they were anxious to continue to work, by persons set on by

wham he did not know ; but this he vioilid say, that the
conduct of those persons who charged the agriculturists was,
in his mind, very equivocal. (Hear, hear.) He could not

help supposing that these very p
their attacks against the

ons, who had been making
, which, by-the-by, had
of the last year, had wished

griculturists

I been reserved till th.

I to throw a

tub to a whale

'rom th

ert the public attention
ms—to call the hounds from
s.) Several

fter the hare. ((

the crafty fox and set h
meetings had been held by t
s by Mr. Cobden, who car

gentlemen, and among

I oche
I his own

,re them, according to
shape. (Hear.) He

hem as a manufacturer,
oas a convert. H

A parl

was a person who

bleb he had spo-

of the county of Buck

convert TO

be a very honest ma
ert cou

did not deny ;

not be a very w

inions on the same subjec

for a ma

who had held two
..ould not be much relied on. He knew that converts wer
in the habit of saying that a man did not live for nothing
that he was wiser to-day than he was yesterday, and there
fore he was entitled to change his opinion but it was ver.
possible that a man might be less wise to-day than he was

. . -
yesterday, and his opinions might be warped by his own in
terests. Whether this was the case with Mr. Cobden h,

would not pretend to say, bt
them, as he himself said, as a c

obden came before
He (Dr. Marsham)

had always observed of converts that there were no persons
who were disposed to speak ill of those whom they had left,
whether in religion, philosophy, or politics, sooner than a
convert. He thought it necessary, perhaps, to show the sin-
cerity of his conversion by abusing all those persons whom
he had left. (Hear, hear.) Certainly, if that were the feel-
ing of Mr. Cobden, he had laid it on agriculture pretty thick.
What was the course or argument which those persons pur-
sued? In the first place, they attempted to threaten • and,
in the second place, to reason, as they fancied. He thought
their menaces were to be as little regarded as their reasoning.
In a late speech which Mr. Cobden Made' he boasted of the
power and the numbers they possessed. He began his enu-
meration with stating, that he had two lords on his side—
cotton or silk lords, he (Dr. Marsham) supposed. (Laugh-
ter.) He then went on to say, that he had also on his side
the merchants and the millionnaires. Now a millionnaire
was not, as some people might simply suppose, a millowner
(laughter), but he was a man that bad got a million of mo-
ney. But if the statements of those persons were to be
believed, it would be a perfect miracle how the millionnaires
had acquired so much money under the present system of
the corn laws; and it also surpassed his (Dr. Marsham's)
imagination to conceive. (Cheers and laughter.) It seemed
that these millionaires had, like other people, more wit than
money, or, he should rather say, more money than wit.
(Renewed laughter.) They hired lecturers to go about the
country, and they paid for newspapers, and they had even
sent him one of their publications in order that he might
read their speeches. It was no wonder that they were timid
magistrates, because the man who had a million of money in
his pocket had a million of cares, if not of fears. It was no
wonder that the millionnaire was listened to by ladies, for
his features would not look the worse, nor his voice sound
less sweet, because he had got a million of money in his
pocket. But they not only threatened, but they endeavoured
to reason with them, the agriculturists. The firs
ment was, that England did

iot and could not produce corn
sufficient for the population. They said that the utmost
that the kingdom produced was 16,000,000 quarters of corn
annually, and that as the population amounted to 26,000,000,
and as it was necessary that every man should have a quar-
ter of corn to live upon, they inferred that 10,000,000 people
were starving. But this was not the case ; they had forgotten
that 5,000,000 lived on oatmeal, and more than 5,000,000
atoes. Put these together, and it would be
ibus annis, one year with another, the king-
Ippon its population, and without much
_lean) But suppose this was not the case,
get the corn elsewhere than from foreign
not got colonies ? Had_they not Ca-

found, con

dom did in fact Si

countries

..da, with millions of acres yet uncultivated? If they looked
to France or Belgium they would find the population at the
present moment labouring under want of employment, and
the reason given in those countries for this want of employ-
ment was, because they had no colonies, or they should do
• These Anti-Corn-Law-League
-•' were an idle and