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THE CHASTER versus THE CORN LAWS . Aa m stated in a paragraph -which reinserted in our I&st , & discussion took place in the spacious amphith 3 atre recently erected in Leicester , on Monday , Not . 23 rd , between Mr . Bairstow , the Ch&rtiat missionary , and Mr . Finnigan , a lecturer specially appointed by the Anti-Corn La"w League , &s to the benefits likely to result to the ¦ working classes from a repeal of the Corn Laws , Mr . Bairstow contending that their repeal , unaccompanied by other financial and social measures of reform , -would be productive of no benefit to the
^ reaith-prodnciag millions ; -while Mr . FLnnigan maintained that an immediate and total repeal of these obnoxious laws 'Would place almost every comfort -within the reach of the working man . It may be proper to Elate , for the information of our readers , that the discussion in question < of -which the following is a condensed report , ) had its origin in a ebalieng-e gjren t > v Mr . Bairstow when lecturing at Leicester some -weeks back , that he was open to discuss the question -with say one maintaining a contrary opinion to himself , in ¦ consequence of -which the Committee of the "Working Hen ' s Anti-Corn Law Association at Leicester wrote
to the League in Manchester , requesting that Mr . Acland might be permitted to accept Mr . Bairstow ' s challenge , -which , after seTeraJ -weeks of correspondence , -was agreed to , and the necessary arrangements were consequently entered into bet-ween the Committees of the Working Men ' s Anti-Corn Law Association and the National Charter Association , that the discussion should come off on the 23 rd ; Mr . Bairstow Laving relinquished several engagements that be had pre-riou ^ y made , in order to suit the convenience of the League . On the Saturday week prior to the day fixed for the discussion , however , two of the Corn La"w Committee -waited on Mr . Markham , the- Chainuan of the Chartist Committee , to state that Mr . Adand could not come at the tiroe appointed , as he had been sent
into Irelsnd by order of the League ; they , therefore , ¦ vrishedthe discussion to be postpoind . To tlsisthe Chartists objected , and as the agreement -wis bindine , that whichever party failed to produce their man—except in case of sickness or death—should pay the -whole expences . They accordingly issued bills announcing the discussion io take pl&ce at the appointed time . This Jed the repealers to make a fresh application to the League , and it "was not till the Sunday afternoon , as the discussion was fixed for the next evening , that they privately distributed hand-bills , announcing Mr . T ? innig&n as their champion , and basely endeavoured to prejudice the public mind by insinuating "that , for augh ; they knew , Mr . Bairstow and his party might "be in the pay of th « tyrannical aristocrat—the Duke uf
Buckingham . " A spirited answer to this slanderous imputation -was issued fey the Chartist committee on the following morning . A general feeling of indignation ¦ was excited against the traitorous - \ Vhlgs , an-1 the theatre was consequently crowded toexce » 3 in the evening , it being estimated tiai there were at leas : 3 . o 0 i > persons present at the discussion . It is rumoured , and indeed not -without foundation , that the Leiirue , Luving ascertained that the public feeling was against them , considered ttit the discussion -would be injurious to their cauae , ani that Mr . Bsirs ; o-w -would expose their Til = hypocrisy , as he had done at Ashton ; and , therefore , determined that it should not take place , which ¦ would have been the case , had not the working men
threatened that unless some one was sent to oppose Mr . Bairstow , they wonld break up their Association It was agreed by the two committees that Cyrus H . Edmunds , E > q ., head master of the Proprietary School , should be thr moderator ; that gentleman , however , declined , and , as the parties could not agree on another , it -was left for the meeting to appoint one . Mr . Markham , on behalf of the Chartists , proposed the Kev . Mr . B ' . oodworth , a dissenting minister , who stated that he did so because that gentleman had never shown himself a violent partizan , and was unconnected "with either agriculture or n . annfactnres , and therefore most Hi- iy to act impartially . Tie motion bavins been seconded .
Mi . Fi > s , a member ot the anti-Corn Law Association , then propasoJJoseph Whetstone , Esq ., the late mayor , a gentleman -whose independence of character and impartiality of conduct during the time he held the cfiee of chief msgistrate entitle him to the esteem of bis fellow-townsmen , and whom the Chartists themselves wou'd rsavt ? bees the first to ha . T = chosen to arbitriie between tttm and their opponent ? , hut as he is a large TaanTs-acttirftT , it -was deemed expedient to reject him , which was done by the meeting by' a large majority . Tue Kev . Mr . BLOOD-tvor . TH then took the chair as medeiaiGi . 3 is : ds : load cheers : and Mr . Buirstow nominated Mr . Ma £ K . H _ O ! as hi = chairman , r . nd Mr . Finnigan appvintci 2 iii . Tiuvisto act in the same C-iT-acily on hi * behalf .
The Moderator and Chairmen having each expressed their determinatioQ to use every endeavour to preserve order , and to give to tha cisputants a fair and impirtial hrf-ring , Mr . Bjljbstow rose amidst great cheering to address the m&tting . He said in spite of the insinuation which bid been thrown oat against him in the placard which bad been circulated- by the friends of repeal , he was no ! come to advocate a continuance of the Com Laws ; nor -was he in the receipt of pay from the 3 > uie -of Buckingham ; neither did be ever in his life say that a repeal of the Corn Laws would entail misery on the ¦ working classes . The proposition that he was come to discoss was , thai a repeal of the Corn Lavs , without other remedial measures , would be of no benefit to the
Laboaring population of this country . It would be for Mr . Finnigin to prove the negative of this proposition . The question then was , would a repeal be beneficial or would it not ? tCries of " Xo , " " no . "'; He wished it to be understood that he - was quite indifferent -which gained the victory , whether him or bis opponent . It was truth he sought It was the -well-being of the millions for whieh ise felt anxious , and erer had done . Cheers . > Whit was the Corn Law ? It was a prohibitive duty on foreign corn , fixing on it a certain price for the support of landowner and farmer . On the same principle the manufacturer was protected . Ail parties who do not live on labour axe protected by prohibitiTe duties . ( Hear , hear . ] The question then was , wonld a repeal
of one of these duties only , while a hundred and fifty Others equally injurious should be left untouched , be of any benefit to the working classes ? It was requisite to glance at the influence and effect of these questions in deteriorating wages . The principle of Corn Liws bad existed loi nearly tour centuries , dnrin § -which time there had been alternate seasons of prosperity and adversity ; and if it was asserted teat the Corn Laws had been the means of depressing trade , it might also be urged that they had at other times been the means of producing a good one . In order to arrive at a just conclusion , it was necessary to trace the effect that vould resolt from repeal to the working classes of oUier countries also . The question affected the whole wa<h-PTOducinz millions . They must look to all other
countries , and if it could be shews that in those countries were no Corn Laws existed , the labouring classes were as bad off as in this , then he consiviered he Bhould have proved sufficient for his opining to presume that the proposition be had advanced was correct . He "Would shew that so long as the working classes of this or any other country were deprived of political power , they would be unable to alter their condition . ( Cheers . ; There was a principle or power in existence which he considered one of the great causes of the evils which at present afiict the working classes—a power -which owed no allegiance to any person or Government . The energies of m ** , when employed and reaJJj directed in promoting his own good and that of others , in constructing machinery for his use and benefit , ought to be encouraged ;
but when it tended to depreciate the wages of the working classes , and monopolised all the productive power , while the unproductive class reaped the profit , then he maintained that it became the omnipotent cause of eviL ( Lend cheers . ) Man ' s labour and life ought to be identified . God had said unto man " By the sweat of thy face shall thou eat bread . " The same great and just Being had also said— " Those who will not work , neither shall they eat" There were plenty of indi-Tiduals ready to support the axiom , that labour is the source of all wealth , and that the labouring class are the productive class , and produce to aa extent far beyond their means of consumption , and ought , therefore , to be protected . The rights of labour ought to be held more sacred than property , as it 1 b the basis of everything else . Whatever tends to reduce it onght to be of no consideration in comparison with it . The
landowner , the manufacturer , and the capitalist , can fail back upon their own resources . Not so the working TTnyn . With him it is labour er death , and therefore it was necessary to him that it should be prelected . As laixrar -was tbs life-blood of society , and was the means of preserving order in the serial compact , it was not to be touched without committing a sin against Bociety . ( Loud cheers . ) By the agency of machinery this country had become notorious for its commercial greatness , and -was renowned above all other nations . But the productive power now glnts , or goes a-head of the consumptive power , and tends to cripple the resources of the country . The productive power of the country has , of late years , increased thirty fold , while that of the consumptive has not more than doubled The world itself is glutted with our productions , and this ctnntry having reached the acme of its commercial greatness , most now decline .
The Moderator here intimated to Mr . Bairstow that the time allowed for him to address the meeting had expired , on which he immediately sat down , and was loudly cheered by his friends . Mr . FlKJUGAX then rose to reply , and was also ¦ warmly applauded by his friends . He said , the question -was whether a repeal of the Corn Laws wonld or ¦ would not be beneficial to the working classes ,- but after a deal of high-flown eloquence from Mr . Bairstow , be was unable to draw the conclusion whether he had supported the negative or affirmative of the proposition . He had denounced the Corn Laws , and had shown
bow they had operated to the disadvantage of industry ; it waa dear , then , from bis own argument , that they were bad ; infact , he had , throughout , shown that a repeal erf the Cora laws only would prove of incalculable benefit to the working classes . ( Cries of " No , no , " from Hz . Bairstow , and also from his friends . ) Mr . Finnigan said , though a stranger , he -would be heard , * ad proceeded to say that Mr . Bairstow had told them that the Com Laws -were passed to benefit the landowner , the farmer , and agricultural labourer . ( Mr . Bairstow said , Not the labourer , " and his friends " armly expressed their disapprobation at the wilful IBigftpTt > aan tot ' T " TTIft / lA h y \ Xr . pifinigati 1
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Mr . Travis strongly reflected on the meeting for interrupting Mr . Finnigan , and said they were afraid to hear the truth . Mi . Maekham , In equally strong terms , protested against the imputation which Mr . TravU had thought proper to cart on the meeting , and , at the same time , ¦ urged them to hear Mr . FinnijjaD . Mr . Fixnmgan then proceeded , and said he wonld leave ont the agricultural labourer ; but it was the first time that he had heard that the labourer formed no part of the agricultural interest . He -would show that the Corn I ^ -wb had not even benefitted the fa rmer , but had driven him to seek employment and subsistence elsewhere . By referring to the census of 2831 , as compared with that of 1821 , it would be seen that there
were , at least , 30 , 000 less employed in agriculture in 1 S 31 than there were in 1821 . Why were the farmers and agrieultnr&l labourers driven into the manufacturing districts , aa stated by Mr . Bairstow ? ( Mr . Bairstow denied that he had said so , which was followed by considerable noise from both parties . ) Mr . Bairstow had told them they had had Corn Laws for four centuries phst ; be should have told them too they had had corn imported at the nominal duty of 6 d per qr . for many years together ; and also that during that period they were enjoying-good trade and great prosperity . ( CheerB . l Mr . Bairstow had said those who would not work should not eat , from which it was to be inferred that he intended those who did not contribute something for the benefit of society should not be fed . Whether Mr .
Bairstow or him&elf were then engaged in producing anything-towards the support of society he wonld leave them to judge , . Cheers and hisses ) The next point on which Mr . Bairstow had touched , namely , the rights of iadunjy , was one on which he entirely agreed with him . He considered that every man bad a right to sell his labour at the best hand ; and that if labour was not pTotectwi -. h « -working man must be ruined . He would tell the laudo-wner that , as a -working man , he had no right to prevent bis doing everything he could to obtain protection for his labour . He -would yield to none in the love of liberty , but h 6 considered it the duty of the people first to destroy the shackles of industry , and afterwards break the political fetters which bound them . Cheers . ) Will the repeal of the Corn Laws— by
destroying the principal shackle that binds industry— i e of any benefit to the working classes ? He thought if the cause of evil was removed the effect must cease , as ihe Corn Law was simply a prohibitive to prevent that corn coming into the country of vrhich wb stand so much in need . The repeal of that law must confer a benefit on ttie working classes . The agricultural labourer ¦ was compelled to live on the smallest pittance and t he coarsest food , and therefore any measure that would tend to increase the supply of the necessaries of life must prove beneficial . While the Com Laws had reduced the wages of the agricultural labourer , they had tended also to depress the farmer by subjecting him to high rents and rates , while the profits had gone into the pockets of the landlord . ( Cheers . )
A repeal would elevate the farmer , and add to the comforts of the labouring poor . For every quarter of con imported into this country the foreigner would receive so much of our manufacture in return . ( Cheers . ) How many quarters of wheat , he would ask , had been thrown into the Thames , through the effect of the Corn Laws ? A repeal would prevent a repetitisn of such a sinful waste of the principal necessary of life . He would now proceed to show the effect the Corn Laws had in reducing wages and deteriorating the foreign tiarkets . Mr . Bairstow had said that those countries , ill which no Cora Laws existed , were as bad off as England . He did not care for that ; a repeal of these laws in England would benefit the foreign labour also . He-won' . d refer them to the fact that , in 1335 ,
provisisns were much lowtr than at the present time ; but at that period there was no disposition manifested by the manufacturers to reduce the w . iges of their workmen . ( Cries of " There was . " ) In 1 SS 5 , the quartern loaf was only 4 ^ d . ; and were was es reduced . ' Cries of yea , yes . ) If they were , then they onght to have risea now . iCries of " We know that . ") A repeal of the Corn Laws -would be of benefit to the working classes , by enabling the foreigner to import corn into" this country , who would receive our manufactures in exchange , thereby increasing the demand , and , consequently , wages would rise . ( Cries of no , no , and yes , yi-s-V It was for Mr . Bairstow to show that the Corn i ^ aws had done no harm , and then he would believe Lha : their repeal would confer no benefit .
The time allowed having expired , Mr . Finnigan resumed his stat amidst the cheers of his friends . Mr . B . U . RSTOW , in replying , said , Mr . Finnigan ' B first sentence was to the effect that he i > Ir . B . > had denounced the Corn Laws , and his last -was a request for him to prove that the Corn Laws had produced no evil ; a species of uucourteous contradiction which he would leave him to reconcile . \ Cheers . ) He urged also that he sMr . Bw had shown that the Corn Laws had crippled industry . Such was not the fact . He had shown that trhere wealth flowed into the pockets of the idle , it could not benefit the working das * es . tCheers . ) He again repeated that the Corn Laws were passed to benefit the landowner and farmer . Mr . Finnigan had also said that he > llr . B . ) bad proved that tbe Corn
Laws tad driven the farmers into the manufacturing districts , and thereby reduced the wagea of the manufactnriDg labourer . He did not intend , nor did he think he had stated this to be the case . He would leave Mr . Finnigan to prove that such was the fact , and tbat it did . not proceed from class legislation . 'Load cheers . ; 3 fr . Finnigan asked who brought the farming labourers into the manufacturing districts ? He'illr . B . ' , would tell him . A great number were introduced into Bolum by a Poor Law Commissioner , who had been written to by one of the resident manufacturers , who wanted them in his mill ; but as soon as the deinacd ceased , they were driven to the bastiie . Cries of t-hame . ¦ Mr . Finnigan had referred thtrm to a period when corn was admitted into this country at
the nominal duty of Gd . per quarter ; and he did bo p-erhaps to show that it was a period ef prosperity . Bnt he could point them to a period from 1833 to 1838 , -when Vbe Corn Laws were in their height , and wheat wa . 5 only 40 a . per quarter , being much lower than from 1803 to 1815 , when they bad no Ce-rn Laws . If , as Mr . Finnigan stated , a repeal of the Corn Laws would have the effect of sending the surplus produce of our manufactures abroad , still he maintained tbat it would not benefit the working population . Whose property was the sujplus produce ? It belonged to the manufacturers , and the middle classes , who would share the profits of exporting it , while there would be no guarantee that the working man wonld derive any benefit ¦ Cheers ., In order to excite their risible faculties , Mr . Finnigan bad asked whether be waa produciog anything
to benefit society while addressing them . He might also ha ^ -e Biked whether those who sat listening to him were of the productive class while thus employed . Cheers . , He would tell Mr . Finnigan there was a great difference between spending a few hours in the manner they vaie then doing and lifing idle for years . ( Loud cheers . Mr . Finnigan also charged him with talking about polities . It was a political question . What was the reason they were unable to carry the repeal of the CernLaws last session ? Simply because the people had not political power . ( Cheers . ) It was said that thousands of quarters of corn had been tl rowu into the Thames , and he contented that there would be no guarantee that it would not be repeated , unless the people have the power to send persons to the House of Commonswho will prevent it . ( Loud cheers . )
Mr . Fixxigas said Mr . Bairstow bad referred them to the fact of Mr . Chad-vrick , the Poor Law Commiasiecer , sending a somber of agricultural labourers to Bolton to work in the mills . Had they not been out of work he would have had no occasion to have sent them ; o ? it must be that that they could obtain higher wages . Mr . Finnigan then directed the attention of the meeting to the fact that at the time they had no Com Laws , this country was blessed with prosperity , and expressed his belief that a repeal of the Corn Laws at the present time would be followed by similar results . ( Cries of "no , no ; there waa no steam then . " ) He also referred them to the price of
ccrn in 1813 , which he stated was 106 s . per quarter , hile the manufacturer was receiving only 6 s . per yard , for mafrintr a certain description of cloth . At the peace in 1814 , the price of making the same cloth rose : o 13 d . per yard , and wheat fell nearly to a third of its former price ; which he Baid was to be attributed to opening of a foreign market for our goods and receiving corn in exchange- Directly onthepassing of the Com Laws , in 1 S 15 , wages fell , as an impediment was thus thrown in the way of the free export of our manufactures Cheers . ) He thought this was sufficient to show that the Corn Laws had prodncad great evil , and again urged that their repeal would afford immediate relief to the working classes .
Mr . Baibstcw again rose amidst loud cheeM , and said that had Mr . Finnigan attempted to controvert the positron that he , Mr . Bairstow , had laid down , that the evils which oppressed the country proceeded from class legislation , « wing to the people being deprived of their political rights , and not from any effects produced by the Corn LawB , he should have thought it necessary to reply more at length , but he waa spared the trouble . He denied that the Cern Bill of 1815 iras the cause of reducing the wages of the manufacturing labourer ; the real cause being the principle of unlimited machinery to which he had before referred . Mr . Bairstow then quoted a variety of statistical returns , showing the great increase in the productive power of the country ; and also that the reduction in wages was not to be
attributed to a decrease in the exports of our manufactures , as they had increased three-fold -within the last thirty years . He then contrasted the wages of the rabouring class in this country , with those of France , Switeerland , &c and showed that while the latter-were receiving only 38 . or 4 s . per week , the average wages in England were from 12 s . to 14 s . He said it was absurd , therefore , to talk of competing with the foreign manufacturer , with such a disparity in the price ot labour , and the enormoua amount of taxation , which oppressed the conntry . So long as the landowner and the manufacturer monopolised the franchise , no benefit wonld result to tie working man from a Repeal of the Com Laws . Give the people the power of protecting themselves , and they will soon improve their condition . ( Load cheers . )
Mr . Finxigan replied , but -with less effect than before , reiterating the assertion that Mr . BairetoWa whole argument went to prove the negatiTe of hifl own proposition , which of course led to frequent interruptions from the friends of Mr . Bairstoir , who felt incensed at such barefaced effrontery and misrepre sentation . The interruption caused fr » r » to remark that be bad before met . Mr . Bairstow at Ashton , where
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he received much worse treatment at his hands than he had done on the present occasion , and accused him of sending a garbled report of the proceedings to the Northern Star . Mr . Bairstow replied in a very able address stating that be had only to referthem to the report which appeared in the Corn Law Circular of the proceedings which took place at Ashton , as compared with that in the Northern Star , to convince any one who was present which had given a garbled report .- He then urged that the real object of the manufacturers and millocracy of the country in their ontcry for repeal was merely to reduce the wages of their workmen
with the view of enabling them the better to compete with the foreign manufacturer . He concluded with an eloquent appeal in favour of the People ' s Chatter , urging that a 3 the people were the lion empower , aa statea by Mr . Finnigan in the fable to which he had referred , they ought immediately to be invested with freedom , which would be best ensured by the passing of the Charter into a law , as it would lead not only to a repeal of the Corn Laws , but to the redress of all other grievances ; and as it would destroy all invidious distinctions it -would produce peace , order , and happiness in the country . At the conclusion of his address , which was listened to with great attention by all parties , he was greeted with loud and long-continued cheering .
Mr . Swaix then moved a resolution to the effect " That it was the opinion of the meeting that a Repeal of the Corn Laws , unaccompanied by other remedial measures , would confer no benefit on the working classes , " which was seconded by Mr . Mansfield , and earned by a majority ef ten to one in opposition to a motion in favour of the Corn Laws . Thanks were then voted to the Moderator and the Chairman , and three cheers having been given for the Charter—for the incarcerated Chartists—and also for Mr . Baines , who has recently been committed to Leicester Gaol for non-payment of church-rates , when the meeting quietly dispersed , the decision having , unquestionably , given a death blow to the Corn Law agitation in question .
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THE ROYAL LYING-IN . ( From the Satirist . ) This great national event—which will in its happy consequences most probably consign that gracious and exemplary sovereign the King of Hanover to his foreign douiinisus for the rest of his natural life—" came off , " to use a sporting phrase , on Saturday , last , at ten minutes before two in the afternoon . Our popular journal is proverbial both for the peculiarly interesting nature of its intelligence , and the remarkable accuracy of all its details , and we have in this instance spared neither trouble nor expense in ascertaining many minute and extraordinary particulars nut yet communicated to the anxious public by any contemporary Court newsman , which we hasten to lay before our readers .
Our informant states that , at a very early hour on Saturday morning , her Majesty gave bis " Royal Highness" to understand that she was not very well , and that , as it was absolutely necessary she must be worse to be better , she requested hiui to see that eveiything was kept particularly quiet . Albert , like a dutiful hubby , having pulled off his night-cap , and put on his dressing-gown , started off first of all to the nursery on the second floor , -where he put a stop to the hammeriDg , sawing , and screw-driving . He next took a strict survey of the Royal cot and its appendages , placing with his own hands every vase and useful utensil belonging to the nursing-chamber m its proper place . He then ascertained that the brace of baths were sufficiently polished to receive the national bantling , and having brought himself down stairs , he summoned all the domestics round him , every one of whom he forbade to cough , blow tLe nose , sneeze , or even wheeze , during the next twenty-four hours , en pain of instant dismissal .
But a few hours elapsed when her Majesty ' s " grumblings" -were " given tongue" to in a key or two louder , and while she proceeded " grumbling" on in a manner most satisfactory to the Countess of Sandwich and the other Ladies of the Bedchamber-in-Waiting , who fnlly understood her Royal complaint , Lord Byron , the Lord-in-Waiting , Colonel Cavesdish , the Equerry-in-Waiting , and Sir Frederick Stovj . n , the Groom-in-Waiting , who were pacing np and down the floor of the apartment adjoining , found it impossible any longer to restrain the impetuosity of their feelings , and in a fine phrenzy of excitement , with Colonel Wylde , Prince Albert's Equeiry , and Captain Seymour , Prince Albert ' s Groom-in-Waiting , bringing up the rear , tfeey burst into the room tenanted by the Ladies-in-Waiting , and very appropriately addressed those titled personages in the following energetic song : —
Air— " Run , neighbours , run . " Ran , ladies , ran , cut about , and flurry , scurry , now . Just as you all did when ALBERT lost his pin ; Be off to every doctor in a devil of a hurry , now , And tell them Vjc ; s waiting to begin her Jying-in , Then fly to the Lord Chancellor , and then across the water , Tell Lambeth ' s sly Archbishop there'll be a son or daughter , And with the other Ministers we wish bis Grace to handle The new-bom bit of Royalty we pop within his dandle . Run , ladies , run .
Go fetch Kent ' s Duchess quick , pray see that she's in readiness ; Put a ladle full of brandy in Nurse L illy ' s tea cup , To arm the old girl's nerves wivh firmness and with steadiness When before the -Priv / Council the brat ' s to be shown up . See that every flannel ' s hot , and air'd is every napkin , Which this little Royal bantling is snugly to be wrapp'd in , While for Prelate old and thirsty , and ministerial daudle , Let there be mix'd a " jolly lot" of strong and smoking caudle . Run , ladies , run .
The Ladies of the Bedchamber took the hint , and flew off like so many sky-rockets in every direction . All the Cabinet Ministers arrived , with the exception of the Marquis of > ormanby , the Home Secretary , who , deeming this affair a sufficient demonstration that the duties of the Home Department had been well and duly performed , thought his presence might be dispensed with . Everything now proceeded as regularly as the shelli / iy out of a Binecurist ' s salary on quarter-day . In due course of time , Sir James Clark , Dr . Locock , Dr . R . Ferguson , and Mr . R . Blagden , all the doctors learned in the obstetric art destined to be concerned in the introduction of royalty into existence , arriving at Buckingham Palace , and visiting the little Queen , they all very coolly comforted her by telling her to " go on never minding . "
These sagacious instructions her Majesty obeyed to the letter , and soon afterwards presented the expectant and impatient nation with a plump and perfect Princess , which Nurse Lilly immediately snatched up , and , precede * by the gratified German hubby , whose manheod now was tmbstantially demonstrated , rushed breathless into the ante-chamber , and placed the chubby morsel of regality , like a centre dish , right ia the middle of the Council table . The ravenous hurry with which this operation was performed , prevented the old lady from observing a
large stand-up pewter ink-stand ; which , coming in contact with the nether-end of infant royalty , produced a liberal assortment ot screams and sqaaUa Of course , various attempts were made to pacify the screeching cherub . The Archbishop of Canterbury proposed repeating one of his sermons , which he knew by experience to produce the most soporific effects ; Viscount Palmerston volunteered reciting his correspondence with the Chinese , and Viscount Melbonrne offered to read a passage or two from Mrs . NorUm ' s " Undying One , " which it was well known he always had about him .
All these obliging offers being politely negatived , the wisdom of the Privy Councillors exhibited itself by requesting Mother Lii . lt to take back the new importation from baby-land , and when ont of earshot , to pacify it in any way most agreeable to herself . The old lady nurse immediately displayed her breeding , by dropping a respectful curtsey to all round and removing the princely squaller ; and having bestowed on it a regular good dip in each bath , to cleanse it from any infection it might have caught by coming in contact with Cabinet Ministers—a precaution she knew by experience to be highly necessary—she huddled on the finery made for it to somnambulise in , and deposited her diminutive charge in the " nautilus crib" manufactured expressly for its slumbers and snoring . Mrs . L illy then began ventilating . her own lungs and getting the baby to sleep at the same time , by vocalising the following exquisite parody in a remarkably harmonious iin-trumpet kind of voice .
" Oh , slumber , my darling " Oh , dose off , my bantling , upon thy prime bed , In Buckingham Palace reposes thy head ; The hills and the dales that from this door we' see , They all map belong , puling infant , to thee . If no little brother the Fates should disclose , To cut yon clean out and to put out your nose . Oh , sneeze off , my bantling , the time it may come When yoa , like your parent , John Bull may well hum When a good thumping pension the Commons so free May , noodle-like , vote , puling infant , to thee ; And then you can sing , aa the shiners disclose , ' How pleasant I've led Johnky Bull by the nose . "
Albert , having ascertained that the regal babe was fast asleep , and having done the dutiful by going on tip-toe to VIC'S bedside , where he squeezed her band and said a few civil things , he very naturally began to think a little about himself . The excitement attendant on his becoming a parent , having made him feel very dry in the mouth and somewhat peckish , he sidled up to one of the Maids of Honour and asked civilly if he might not be allowed a lump of plumb cake and a Jorum of caudle . This delicate request being overheard by the four men-midwives in attendance , they immediately selected a retired " snuggery ; " into which they shut themselves , and having turned the key that nobody should witness the mystery of the process , they proceeded to the manufacturing of a huge saucepan of Caudle .
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The patent Ingredients stood already , 9 lr James Clahk . took th « m up , and poured them into the pot , calling out to his iEsculapian coadjutor at his elbow , " Bob Blagden , blow np the fire . " BZagden immediately caught up a pair * f hand-bellowa and blew away for dear life ; Dr . Locock and Dr . R . Ferguson both bestirred themselves vigorously ; when Sir James Clahk , tapping on the table with a spoon to insure silence , commenced the following Incantation , in which he waa joined by the other " three black Graces ;" and it is but justice to all four to observe that every part waa recited with equal effect : — Sir James Clark . Thrice hath Locock's voice been heard . Bob Blagden . Thrice have Clark and me conferred . Dr . Locock . Thrice hath Blagden cocked his chin .
Dr . Ferguson . Locock cries , 'I Begin—begin . " Sir James Clark . Round about the saucepan go , In the choice ingredients throw ; Albert ' s " Pension Bill , " that ' s bred In his cunning German head , For giving him « f tin a lot . Boil thon first in the caudle-pot . Chorus , led by Sir James Clark . Bubble , bubble , toil and trouble . Blow , Blagden , blow , and caudle bubble . Dr . Locock . Pop we in the saucepan , now , A bit of brass from Albert's brow , An air of that young humbug ' s humming . A fiddle-string used to his strumming , With tunes of tbat bright lad ' s composing , Enough to set a donkey dosing . Dr . R . Ferguson . I'll cool it with Borne German blood , Now the caudle ' s rich and good . Sir James Clark . Well done , prime caudle now we gain . And every one ahull have " a drain . " Grand chorus by all ( Sir James Clark leading , by . beating time ivith his spoon on the saucepan . ) Now , there ' s an end of all our trouble , Bob Blagden ' s made the caudle bubble .
While this operation was performing , Albert bad been allowed to demolish a huge mass of plum cake in the steward ' s room , and was wending his way up the pipe-clayed well staircase , when he was summoned by the four sons of Galen to take a swig at the caudle ; the thirsty German obeyed the invitation , and haying been asked how he had occupied himself while it was being manufactured , he pulled from his pocket a roll of closely written music-paper , and said , " If de gentelmans voud give him . leaf , he voud sing dem von littel song , vich he had made to de toon of de ' Food mkker : "
As all the party thought that even the noise Albert might afflict them with would be far preferable to the squalling of the high-bom brat , of which they were heartily tired , they consented to endure his vocality . He therefore , after taking another turn at the caudle , commenced warbling the following , in very pretty broken English : — I knew by de smoke , dat so twisted and twirled Above this prime Palace , dat a good roost vas near , And i said , " if dere is a snug crib in de vorld , For a poor needy Yarnian , vy dat crib is here . " So ven I vab sent for , I detei mined to pull Long andhard at ere purse of dat old fool . JOHN BULL .
Vith VlC at my side , oh , how aweet 'tis to lay—Or at Vinsor on all that ' s delicious to dine—And to know I shall nibble , on each quarter day , A fat sinecure , vich I ne ' er vil resign Vile de people allow me to take a tough pu'l At de purse of dat greatest of gabies , JoilN Bull . And soon in dis gullible land I intend To import a great gang of my poor Yarman fry ; For as I have got a Princess , dere can be no end Of de cash I shall have , all de crew to supply ; So vith starved ragged Yarraana I'll cram dis land full , Who , like leeches , vil stick to de purse of John Bull .
By the time this edifying ballad was concluded , we regret to say that all the party was very nearly fuddled . The medical men were dosed copiously with soda water and brandy , to onable them to issue the bulletin , and they were then put into their own carriages , and safely deposited at their respective residences ; while Albert , having -niahed his illustrious spouse " good night , " in Bpite of the hiccupping with which he was afflicted , was ordered by his consort to be off to bed immediately , an imperative mandate which he obeyed without the slightest hesitation , crawling up , crestfallen , to the solitary turn-up bedstead which had been prepared expressly for his repose , in a diminutive attic at the very top of the building .
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PALACE INTELLIGENCE . ( From the Court Correspondent of the Satirkt . ) Buckingham Palace , Tuesday , Quarter-past Two , P ^ M . Viscount Melbourne baa this moment had the honour of kissing the royal infant . The " Princess Royal " was most graciously pleased to puke immediately after . Tuesday , Half-past Two , p . m . His Lordship i 3 now holding a Council with Mrs . Packer and Mrs . Lilly , the wet and dry nurses . Three o'clock , p . m . The Council has just broke up . The following minute was agreed to : — " The caudle to be made sweeter . " Melbourne . ( Signed ) Jane Packer . Sarah Lilly . Wednesday Morning , Twelve o'clock .
A Cabinet Council has just broke up , after sitting three hours ; the discussion was rather stormy , and Losd Melbourne , as will be seen by the following minute , was defeated : — ' In consequence of the high price of sugar , it would , at the present moment , be a ' heavy blow and a great discouragement' to economy to make the caudle sweeter . " Palace , Wednesday , Three o'Clock , P . M . Threatened Resignation of the Wet and Dry Nurses . —All is alarm and consternation here this day ; Mesdames Packer and Lilly have threatened to tender their resignations , this afternoon , in consequence of the caudle question being carried against them . Quarter-past Four , p . m .
Mrs . Packer continues as firm as a rock ; she has this moment made the following noble and heroic declaration : — " I can consent to leave a Palace , and retire to my cottage at Reading . I can consent to leave the Throne and all its blandishments . I can consent to lay » y head on the block for my heavenly Royal mistress . But I never can consent to make six gallons of caudle with less than six pounds of lump sugar . " Half-past Four , P . M . The excitement here still increases . The Duke of
Wellington has just been privately sent for . It is fervently hoped his Grace will be enabled to prevent the most fearful and awful consequences which must arise ( to the Crown and the country ) , if , at this moment , the nurses resign . Five o'clock , P . M . The Duke has arrived—he is now closeted with Lord Melbourne and Mesdames Packer and Lilly ; we are all in a state of feverish anxiety . Prince Albert is in a state of great excitement Half-past Five , p . m .
Thanks to the great disposer of events , the Duke has succeeded , and our beloved Queen will not be deserted by her nurses . No ! those illustrious women will not desert their Sovereign ; they have withdrawn their resignations ! The Council has permitted the use of fifteen ounces of sugar to one gallon of caudle . We are all going mad with joy . Happy , thrice happy Queen Noble , noble-minded nurses l Devoted , most devoted people !
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 5, 1840, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct358/page/6/
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