The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-01-28 00:00:00

}hit yOurs- would be the very

.Imed with misery and
as one spark of patriotism within
the idea of grywing rich at the

ught to be branded as a traitor

tn Where to-day to contend that

ust inevitably lead to

labourer,
I will

inufacturin.•b
,labcurer
he period of the

discussion

Cobden declare

iould have
do. 1,

it has been on t

Now, then, I eon e to the state of

sed to wonderful vicissitudes, he professed half in jest and 17c.rous during that period; but what, /et me ask you
half in earnest a sort of confidence in fatalism and predes- labourers, has been the state of the manufacturing opera-
tination. But on some solemn public occasions, and yet tives ? Why, in my neighbourhood the walls are placer-
more in private and sober discussion, he not only gravely ded continually with addresses from the working men, who
disclaimed and reproved infidelity, but both by actions are strikiog against their masters to i3revent a reduction
and words implied his conviction that a conversion to of wages, and calling on their brother
IN eratives to sub-
religious enthusiasm might befal himself or any other scribe for them, to enable them to resist these attempts
man. Ile had more than tolerance—he had indulgence at plundering them of their just dues. Within the last
and respect for extravagant and ascetic notions of religi- tour or fine months a mill has stood for several weeks
ous duty. He grounded that feeling, not on their sound- at Bingley. The hands employed therein turned out,
ness or their truth, but on the uncertainty of what our and 1 believe. a sum, at the rate of 3s. a head for
minds may be reserved for, on the possibility of our being Ahern; was subscribed by the operatives in the other
prevailed upon to admit and even to devote ourselves to mills of the town. During the eight, ten, or twelve weeks
tenets which at first excite our derision. It has been these men were out of employment, had they cheap breed,
observed that there was a tincture of Italian superstition high wages, and plenty to do ? No ; they had the big
in his character, a sort of conviction from reason that the loaf, but theyl lad the little shilling also. (Applause.)
doctrines of revelation were not true, and yet a persua- As I came through the town of Bingley to-day I observed
sion, or at 4east an apprehension. that he might live to
think them so. He was satisfied that seeds of belief were three or four different placards belonging to different seta
of men again striking against their masters. And what
deeply sown in the human heart. It was on that principle do you think took place last Monday night in this very'
that he permitted and justified, though he did not dare to town? Alr eef ng of the working population employed
authorize, the revival of La Trappe, &c. He contended in the manufactures of that town and surrounding district
that they might operate as a safety• valve for the fanatical was convened—what for, do you think ? To.petition par--
and visionary ferment which would otherwise burst forth liament not to grant protection to the agricultural inte-
and disturb society. In his remarks on the death of rest—to stand by the principles of free trade, do yon
Duroc and in the reasons he alleged against suicide, both suppose? No, but fur the whole working population of
in calm and speculative discussion, and in moments of that densely nonulatcd district In unit. tr.
.•• I • •

strong emotion (such as occurred at t'ontaineo►eau in compact union-J-10 do
1814), he implied a belief both in fatality and providence. obtain for themselves
In the programme of his coronation, a part of the core- parliament has
mony was to consist in his taking the communion. But „.„, ' -

They tell the public to
protection for their labour, b
aced to protect it. (Applause.)

—-- auu were a warn you, agricultural labourers, that. although
when the plan was submitted to him, he, to the surprise I learn from inquiry that a heavy reduction of wages has
of those who had drawn it, was absolutely indignant at not come down on your shoulders, it is approaching you
the suggestion. "No man," he said, " had the means of
knowing. or had the right to say, when or where he would with fearful strides. In the days of protection I gave to
my labourers 15s. a-week. When Sir It. Peel carried his
take the Sacrament, or whether he would or not." On measure for the repeal of the corn-laws I reduced them to
this occasion he added that he would not, nor did he ! 125., and lam now employing 16 able-bodied Irish at Os.
Thsre is some mystery about his conduct in similar re-
aw-lwieetehkei'l
spects at St. Helena, and during the last days of his life.
He certainly had mass celebrated in his chapel while he from my doors, within the last
month, above 200 Irish,
was well, and in Isis bed-room when ill. But though 1 who would have gone down on their knees to obtain em-
have reason to believe that the last Sacraments were ac- ployment at any wages I should choose to give them. Can
in dgiivte is
them perfectly
'Js. or oa r
question
t ios'
fori for
11a rnv
lave turned n eddr c
Brayll
tually administered to him privately, a few days before his this state of things long continuo without reaching you
death, and probably after confession. yet Count Montholoni here: The Irish are coining, like hordes of locusts, and
from whom I derive indirectly my information, also stated they will cat you out of your living, for the farmers mast,
that lie received Napoleon's earnest and distinct directions in self-defence, reduce their expenditure to the last tar
to conceal all -the preliminary Preparations for that me- tiling, and if the Irish will wet* for is. instead of the
lancholy ceremony from all his other companions, and English at sa., the farmer is bound, to prevent Waved
even to enjoin the priest, if questioned, to say he acted by gettkg into the Gazelle, in honesty and justice to lilin-
itonnt Montliolon's orders, hilt had no knowledge of the 1 gw, to his wife, and his childreni to emp:oy ill) Irish
Emperor's wishes. It seems es if he had some desire for labo Hors.
such assurance as the Church could give, but yet ITU . .
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