The Arkansas banner., 1845-05-14

the antl-corn law league has made 10 Iile po- nulation of Great Britain. Loud cheers. - in 1899 we asked our friends and neghbors, nrincipal in Landcaster and Y Yorkshire, for a subscription to begin and carry on the war aoainst the corn laws; G5000 was immedia
 telv subscribed. In 1S40 we requested a further subscription, and G7,000 or G8,0O0 were raised for that and part of; the follow inc year. In l841 we sent out circulars to every county in the kingdom, asking the men who are engaged to teach the doctrine of re- Iioion to the people, what they thought about the corn laws. We invited them to come to Manchester and confer upon this subject, and not less than 700 of them did leave the dis
 tricts in which they resided, and, at immense personal inconvenience and great expense, they assembled in Manchester to discuss this momentous question. Cheers. In lo42 we had a Bazaar in that town; the ladies pro- yided the articles for t, sold them, and hand ed G1O.O00 to the council, of the league as the proceeds. Hear In l843 we asked for f50, ,OO0. and that sum was collected.- In l844 we solicited f10,000, and between cS0,000 and G90,000 have been subscribed; although the great Bazaar to be held here in May, next, and the proceeds of It, were reck- oned when we originally asked the country for E100,000. This year is but young as vet; two months almost have gone, in the three concluding months of 1S44, we asked the free-traders in the northern countries not to subscribe money to the council ofthe lea que, but to do that which was more benef- cial--to invest some of their property in powerful weapon by which at the musings they could defend their rights and liberties.
 Immense cheers. During that time, accor- ding to a calculation, which believe Is un- der the mark, it appears the free-traders In those countries, at the recommendation ot the council of the league-in Lancashire, Cheshire, and Y Yorkshire, chiefly, have lnves- ted sum of not less than E250,000 in the purchase of country qualifications Cheers.
 There is class of men, as you know, every where, who do not take the trouble to inquire
 into truth, and then go about spreading that which is not true. There is set of indivi- duals in the country who say, 'This is very unconstitutional in the league collecting mo- ney by thousands and scores of thousands, buying qualifications, and making ficticious voes.' Laughter. Why, it is no such thing. The league never collected penny to purchase qualification for any one. We buy our own qualifications. have five bro- thers, there being six of Us altogether and we have spent G900 in the last four months in purchasing qualifications in four counties in the north of England. The whole of this E250, ,000 has been subscribed by individual free traders in these countries, who are re- solved by this means to get within the pale of the constitution of their country, that they may fight the battle of their country's rights and liberties on the constitutional ground of the hustings at the next election. Cheers. We shall have a Bazaar here in may next, and, from the reports which we have received by letters in London and Manchester, we find that in a large number of towns committees are already at work, and that a very magni- fcent collection of articles will be submitted for your inspection aud purchase in the month of May. But every body in the coun- try asks, Are they doing what they ought in London;' Hear. Now, in the metropolis 1t is very difficult to form district or local as sociations for purpose like this. In town of twenty thousand inhabitants in the north you can get twenty or thirty ladies to meet together, and take the whole management, and do everything in very frstrate slyle.- Here 1t Is not so easy, because people have their friends living very long way apart, and they do not know their neighbors so much as they do in the small towns in the north still have no doubt that great deal is being done, and that a vast deal more may and will be accomplished, before we are three months older, for the purpose of adding your contri- buttons to those of your countrvmen and countrywomen, in order that we may have in this building-and decorated, as 1t will be. Tn the most magnificent manner-a splendid collection of articles which would be worthy. ay, and would be no discredit to her-the sovereign of this land herself-to visit
 Loud cheers. l take il that our position as an anti-corn-law league is a very prosperous one. l never advise any one to look on the dark side of things; always endeavor to look on the cheerful side of the picture
 troubles and disasters will come fast enough without going half way to meet them. Re- collected who Is the prime minister of this country now. He did, 1t is true, come into office upon the shoulders of the great central association, or those who, since that time, have formed it; but what have been his opin-
 Ions Tn past times, and what are his now - From what source does he expect that fame which he hopes will hereafter attach to his character? l have here a quotation from a speech made by Sir Robert Peel in 1924 Mr. Huskisson was at that time bringing forward his lree-trade measure with regard to silks, rbands, gloves, and so forth. The land owners do not make a great fight about those articles. The report says; 'Mr. Secretary Feel exhorted the House to firmness-remin- ding 1t that the eyes of Europe were upon 1t, and he warned Parliament. How, greatly those sound and irrefragable principles of commercial policy which they had heard so ably advocated would be prejudiced if it were to yield to fears of the the timid, or the re- presentations of the interested He knew good deal about it in 1924 He cannot be less informed twenty-one years afterwards In lS42 he said 'The true policy of nation Is to buy in the cheapest and sell in the dear est market In his speech on Friday last, he had occasion to allude to certain combination which exists, or is supposed to do so, amongst the coal owners in the north of England by which they fail largely and abundantly to sunnlv thiS noetronolis with coal Wbat yros