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LONDON :
MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 28, 1839.

The Ten Towns' Messenger states that Sir
RO-
BERT PEEL will, support a modification, but not a
repeal of the Corn-laws. That settles the question of
a change in them.
Mr. O'CONNELL, it is rumoured, will vote against
those laws, but the Irish Members generally will vote
as their interest and the interests of their constituents
dictate. The Tory Papers, one and all, continue to
fire vehement abuse day after day at the Corn-law agi-
tators, and daily the Corn-law agitators increase in
strength and numbers. Everywhere the determination
has been formed to submit to no compromise, and we
learn from Manchester that the opinion is there gain-
ing ground that a bounty ought to be given, as in the
time of WILLIAM and MARY, on the importation
of corn, in order to save our manufactures from
the ruin with which they are threatened. We will
say at once that such a bounty will be only to enact a
new injustice, and we cannot approve of it. The
bounty is intended to protect a particular interest, and
will come out of the pockets of the whole people. We
have already said, in reply to the Herald's argument,
that the landlords have been unjustly treated in times
past, that evils already suffered cannot be remedied, or
undone, by committing another injustice. That such
opinions have been generally' espoused is, however, a
strong proof of the exasperation which has been caused
by the continuance of the ruinous Bread Tax.

`We also learn from Manchester, that the Chartists
of Oldham, and we believe Wigan, have joined the
middle classes for Corn-law agitation. To us Tio part
of the late proceedings at Manchester gave greater
pleasure than the assurance we found in them that the
working classes in that neighbourhood were in many
cases disposed to act cordially with their masters, to
procure a repeal of the Corn-laws. A Correspondent
informs us that Lord JOIIN RUSSELL'S letter is likely
to have considerable influence in this respect. Nothing
less than complete and total abolition is demanded by the
manufacturers—nothing • less will or ought to satisfy
them; but Lord JOHN RUSSELL is " for a moderate
fixed duty," and this oppositicn is properly regarded
as a proof that the Abolitionists are not set in motion
by the Ministers. With such proofs before us of the
extent of the agitation and the determination of the
people to have a total abolition, promising complete
success, we see no chance of their being cajoled into
accepting the fixed moderate duty proposed by Lord
JOHN RUSSELL.

We refer to our reports of the meetings at Kendal
and Stroud, to which we have not space further to ad-
vert, and to the public meetings which have been called
at Newcastle, Leicester, and in the Metropolitan
Borotighs, and indeed in every part of the country, to
convince our readers, that, till the Corn-law question is
settled, Parliament will not he allowed to occupy itself
with anv other subject.

We refer the reader to a brief but important Re-
port of a Church-rate Meeting, held at King's Lynn,
on Friday last. The senior Churchwarden, Mr.
JAMES TOWELL, a man of high respectability, and
a firm supporter of the Church, declared that, be the
consequences what they might, he never would be a
party to any proceedings by means of distress warrants
against conscientious Dissenters. The plan which he
proposed was, to lay such a rate as when levied on
members of the Establishment, should be fully ade-
quate to the necessities of the case, without resorting
to compulsory measures against those who do not be-
long to its communion. This is a course recommended
no less by an enlightened zeal for the true interests of
the Church, than by a regard for justice and the
sacred rights of conscience. Mr. TOWELL has set
an example which we trust will not be lost upon other
Churchwardens. Happy would it be for the Church,
were it universally imitated. Instead of those perpe-
tually recurring contests which are disturbing the pre-
sent peace of society, and sowing the seeds of lasting
animosity among the inhabitants of the same locality,
we should then see good will and harmony prevailing
among them, however diversified they might be by
ieligious opinions.

In the Congress of the United States application
has been made to the Government requesting the Ex-
ecutive to communicate to the House of Representa-
tives any correspondence that may have taken place
with the British Government relative to compensation