The Arkansas banner., 1845-05-14
From He Globe.
OF HONEST PRIN CIPLE IN
 ENGLAND.

ENGLAND.
 The speech of Mr. Bright (member of Parliament, and one of the abest leaders of the league) is . fine exemplifcaton of the plan adopted by the honest liberals of Eng land to deliver the people from the privileged abuses of the government. They attack one great and rank iniquity, and fix the whole at- tention of the country upon it, and invoke all its Virluelo tbe encounter In the wake of this great movement all the minor mis- chiefs are drawn in, and follow the destiny of the greater It was thus General Jack SOB, in the war with the bank, brought all Lhe accessories of aristocracy into the field, and overthrow them together. Mir. Bright2s speech, in his fine array of the characters opposed to the eague-their aims eludidated l by their past history -contrasted, as they are, with the principles and designs of the leaguers, brings into view the great struggle between freedom and despotism which is in volved ill the simple question of the corn laws.
 MT. Bright then came forward amidst prolonged cheers, and said: may be ex- cused if feel some anxiety in being called upon to address this meeting after the two speeches 10 which We have lisened-one de- ] lvrred by gentleman who Is well known as a perfect master of the science of polti- cal economy; the other by gentleman cele- brated, not only in this kingdom, but in dis tant parts of the globe, as perfect master of the art of oratory. My confidence arises, however, from the fact, that the question
 which we are met tonight to discuss is one of vast importance, and almost limitless ex- tent. Iknow not that the proloundest think CT, or the most powerful speaker, however much he may exert himself, can get farther than the very borders of this question; for day by day, as we are connected with 1t and investigate 1t, we continually find more and more beauties, and become more and more enamored of the great work in which we are engaged. Cheers It's course has been 1 like that of every other great question: It's beginning was feeble enough At it's com mencement it was wrapped up in much so- 1 phistry and mystification. Fallaces the most luderoHs, pretensions the most absurd, were Iput forward to oppose the progress of those principles of which we have been the hum blc opponents to the people of this country But now this sophistry and mystifcation, '''NSS tiiN EONI dli Ndti- 1shed; and the question of free trade-the object for the promotion of which the anti corn-law league is organized-stands before the people of this country in this simple
 form; we have justice confronting wrong and oppression; and were asking the people of
 this empire to side with justice against op- pression. lCheers Two principles are of
 ered for your adoption. The one goes by the name of protection, the other by the title oi free trade. Al the mansion-house, and at police office not far from this piece, men sometimes give false names. Laughter If they have committed any act which is dis graceful and criminal, rot being entirely lost to shame, they give name by which they are not commonly known. Renewed langh- l ter Thus the men who support this sys- tenl-who for thirty years at least have laid hold, with relentless hand, upon the subsis- tence of the ioiling millions of this country those individuals dare not call their system by the name which 1t justly deserves, but have assumed that of sproteeton'-an amia- blc and harmless thing Laughter On the other hand the free trade principle is offered to you; and believe that so many meetings have not been held in this building and else where without this effect, that there is ROW an almost universal assent to the beauty and honesty of the principles which the league is established to promote. Hear. These great principles, or rather these two princi- pies, are fidy represented by two parties: the one the great Central Society for the Pro lection of Agriculture,' and the other the National Ant-com LaM League' We have learned that protection is a robbery of those upon whom it acts: that 1t is enervating and injurious even 10 those who seek 10 profit hv it. It Is supported, for the most part, in this country by landowners, great and small; not by facts, reason, argument, and proof, but by force, fraud, cajoery, and delusion, practised upon every class which comes within the range of it's influence. The protection so- eleues formed twelve months ago were fitting means oi promoting this odlous syslem From them was formed the great Central As soeIailon. which has opened an office in this metropolis; and, to be pasticular, may state that am informed that il is at No. F Bond street. Laughter Now in the north of England l have occasionally seen circulars which have been sent down from some cer- tainly not very respectable firms in the city oi iohaoh, oliefillS 10 any party III the man. uiacturing districts, who was thought 10 be short of capital, certain accommodation bills. to be drawn, acceptek, endorsed, dshonor- ed, and renewed, to be again dishonored.
 Laughter. Now, these firms may be called swindlmg concerns; and I have been endea- voring to discover whether the establishment al l7, Bond street is not of the same charac- ter. Laughter.) told them in the House of Commons, the other night, that they ought to put sign over their door witb this in- serption upon it: ''British farmers regularly
 taken in and done ior,' (Laughter.) The brass plate might have engraved upon it, Richmond and Company (Renewed laugh ter.) They offer to the farmers accommo- dation to help them out of their distresses; fraudulent bills of every description; prom ises which never can be realized; acts of Parliament which are of no more value for the purposes for which they are passed than the parchment upon which they are engross- ed. And thus they lure on thousands of farmers to a reliance upon support which must fail them, and to ruin from which there is no escape. Clear, hear.) This so- elety Is euriously formed There are in it i nnIitieal la,,JIorls o,,l.