The Arkansas banner., 1845-05-14

farmers friends is really very thriving af- fair. It IS like the business in guano from
 Ichaboe, only it cannot be considered nearly so clean. Loud cheers and laughter. lwould ask you to go to the class who are really agricultural; for these men of whom we have been speaking are not agriculturists. Hear.
 Ask the farmers how they fare under this sys- tenn? have heard of none of them getting rich church livings; no garters. Laughter Some laborers have no stockings even. Re- newed laughter. No, there are no titles, nor army or civil naval, or promotions for the men who invested capital in the soil of Eng land under the faith of these corn laws. And of the laborers it is hard to speak; it is sub feet too sorrowful to joke upon; if it were not, should say that the only decoration to which they are admissible is that of the order of the Union. Cheers. Well, if these No. 17 Bond street gentry have played such fan tastc tricks with the interests of farmers, and with their own principles, how do they con- duct themselves when they are in the House of Commons? They sit on the side of the ministers; they distrust the governments ;'they look uneasy; little sullen but they do not make any great demonstration of resistance. Laughter l told them the other night ot a character given in very ancient book to cer- tain faithless guardians of old, that they were dumb dogs, who either could not or would not bark Cheers. This was considered rather yiluperative. Laughter. Sir Robert Peel, not wishing altogether to dlsplease his party, took upon himself to lecture me for
 want of manners. Renewed laughter. lie hadforgotton charges which had been brought by him against an honorable friend of mine. l Loud and prolonged cheering. There was another member on the ministerial sde-Mr. Stafford O'Bren, the member for Northamp-
 tonshre. chairman of the publication com mittee of the great central association, which
 meets at No IF, Bond street Laughter. - Now, Mr. Stafford 0'Brien is, was going to
 say, guilty and must be held answerable
 for the publication of a pamphalet in which
 the sentiments of the venerated Adam Smith
 are altogether knowingly and intentionally perverted. Hear, hear. When told them
 how they served their tenantry and laborers, he assured me that was not the way to treat
 the gentry of Eng land. Laughter. Now it is a great mistake that MT. Stafford O'Brien should have put on the lions skin and take upon himself to censure men in the House of Commons. He has disappointed nature that he Is not something very different. From hls
 dress, manners, and tone, 1t IS evident that he
 would have made his fortune as a man-mil- liner; and more than that, believe he might have borne with credit the stupendons respon- abilities cf such an ayocation. Loud laugh ter. These protectionists do not, then, make great demonstration against the government
 They mutter little: 1t is sort of human growl; but there is no great resolution to bite. Their cause is Bad; and they know it. Hear, hear. Their courage is oozing out day by day. They have no faith whatever in the maintenance of their objects, and they never had any in the soundness and the hon esty of their principles. Cheers. Sir Robert Peel drags them along; and they are able to make scarcely any opposition. A very beau
 tiful and pleasure-giviug writer, Leigh Hunt, in one of his delightful essays, described the difficulty with which very ingenious indi- vidual drove a number of pigs to Smithfield
 [Cheers He says: Unwilling has been their subjection, but more in sorrow than in an- ger' They were two far cone for rage Their case was hopeless. They did no see why they should proceed; but they felt them
 selves bound to do so-forced, conglomera- ted, crowded onwards, irresistbly impelled by fate and Peel Often would they have bclted under any other master. They squeak
 ed and grunted as in ordinary; they sldled, they shurlled, they half stopped. they turned an eve to all the little outlets of escape, but in van There they stuck, (for their very progress was a sort of sticking,) charmed in- to the centre of his space of action, laying their heads together, but to no purpose; look ing all as if they were struggling the shoul- ders, and eschewing the tip end of the whip of office. Much eye had they to their left leg-shrewd, backward glances, not little ipation-squeak, and sudden rush ol avold- ance. It was superfluous clutter, and they felt it; but pig finds it more difficult than any other animal to accommodate himself to circumstances. Being out of his pale, he IS in the highest state of wonderment and map ttude. He IS sluggish, obstinate, opinionate, not very social; has no desire of seeing for eign parts. Think of him in multitude, for ced to travel, and wondering what it is that drives him. Judge by this of the talents of the drive.' The reading of this extract was frequently interrupted by cheers and laugh ter. We'll, so much for the great central so- ciety for the protection of British agriculture. take it that it will make very ridiculous figure on the page of history, if any historian should ever deem it worth his while to notice 1t. It was an imposture when it was first started, hear, hear; it was got up for the purpose of making some spasmodic effort to perpetuate gigantic injustice; all the intelli- gent classes saw through 1t in moment, and those whom it was specially intended to de- Jude are now beginning everywhere to find out that, as it has the features of an impos- ture, so it is one which ought speedily to be put down. Cheers. But in the other so- clety, that of which we are part-assembled
 here and organized for the purpose of plo- noting the advancement of that other great principle of free trade and perfect emancipa- ton olindustry-[ cheers we haveno Buck
 nghams, Richmonds, and Knatchbuls, to
 whom you can point with stars. titles, and
 promotions in the army or in the civil ser
 vice. The prominent men in the anti-corn
 law league, whether here or in any other part
 of the country, for there arc hundreds of them
 are from the ranks: they have not joined
 this agitation for the purpose of obtaining