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MANCHESTER.

(YESTERDAY.)

PROM OUR OWN REPORTERS.

A meeting of Members of Parliament, the Delegates, and
other Gentlemen connected with the Manchester Anti- Corn-
law Association, who attended the dinner last night, took place
this day at the York Hotel, for the purpose of deciding upon
the course of proceedings to be adopted during the approach-
ing session of Parliament, by the friends of the Repeal of the
Corn.lawa. The meeting was attended by Sir W. Moles-
worth, M. P., Col. &awe v, M. P., Mr. Finch, M. P., Mr.
Villiers, M. P., Mr. Leader, M. P., Mr. Hohhouse, M. P.,
the Deputation from Liverpool, the Mayor of Bolton, Bailie
Johnston and Mr. Weir from Glasgow, the Mayor, Mr. Sat-
terthwaite, and Mr. Higgins, from Lancaster, the Mayor, Mr.
Stansfield, Mr. Barnes, .and Mr. Pilot, of Leeds, Mr. Boult-
bee, Birmingham, the Hon. Mr. Murray, from Edinburgh,
Messrs. Joseph and William Walker and R. Wynne, of
Wolverhampton, the Mayor of Hull, Messrs. Coppock, Nil-
strop, and Hudson, of Stockport, Messrs. Barker and Ash-
croft, of Preston, Mr. Hearne, Wigan, Mr. Erskrigg, War-
rington,' and deputies from Nottingham, Derby, Leicester,
Blackburne, Halifax, Rochdale, Sheffield, &c., Doctor Bow-
ring, Mr. Wm. Ewart, Col. Thompson, Mr. Cobden, &c. &c.
The. CHAIRMAN (J. B. Smith, Esq. ) said—Gentlemen,
this is the most important meeting hitherto held—the meeting
is to decide on future proceedings. We have no definite pro.
posal to lay before you, but we have welt considered the sub-
ject, and have drawn up resolutions, which we wish to submit
to your consideration. We shall be happy to receive the sug-
gestions and opinions of any Gentleman before they are finally
adopted. We, therefore, invite discussion upon the most
important move we have hitherto taken, in order that we may
not commit any error. Mr. Cobden will read the resolutions
for you, and submit them for your acceptance.
Mr. COBDEN said it had been thought on the present occa-
sion that the chief plan should be unity of object and unity of
action, and so that they should all act as one body in London.
They proposed the formation of a Central Board in London,
composed of Representatives from all the Associations in the
Kingdom, acing there as one body, and pursuing the course to
be suggested by these various bodies. Mr. Cobden then
read the resolutions, which were subsequently adopted.
They were aware that in Manchester at least they were all
resolved to spend a little of their fortune, and not a little of
their time, in getting rid of these monstrous laws.—(Cheers.)
He did not mean to inflict a speech on them, nor would he
wish that any other gentleman should detain them too long by
discussions upon the principle which was recognised and
admitted by all on the present occasion. He would scarcely
take time to congratulate them on the proud position they
had taken, and on the results of the meeting of yesterday,
attended as it was by delegates from all the large towns of the
kingdom, and so many Members of Parliament, who had
taken an interest in the question.—( ticar, hear.) They were
met for business, and as it was a matter of the first importance,
he hoped they would proceed to it at once. The resolutions
had been hastily drawn up, but still the general course of
policy had been long settled in their minds. The phrases°.
logy of the resolutions was, however, thrown out for considera-
tion, and he hoped they could have the advice and opinions
of many of the gentlemen present in order to give due effi-
ciency to them, and enable them to be carried fully into effect.
—( Cheers.)
Mr. WEirt, of Glasgow, rose to give his unqualified assent
to the resolutions, and pledging himself on behalf of the
Glasgow Association to abide by them. He did not speak
without warrant, because Mr. Johnston and himself had re-
ceived the following instructions front the Glasgow Anti-Corn
law Association :

That Messrs. Johnston and Weir be instructed to endea-
vour to organize a plan at Manchester, with the Members of
the Anti-Corn-law Association there, and the delegates from
the other Associations who are to meet on the 23d instant, for
collecting evidence from different parts of the country, and
reporting it to a Central Committee or Board, whose duty it
will be to arrange and classify it, and to instruct the various
Associations as to the particular points they will be expected
to adduce witnesses to prove."

What was there pointed out, Glasgow had already in part
done. They had drawn up a petition praying to he heard by
counsel and witnesses at the bar of the House. They would
take nothint, short of the total repeal of those laws.—(Loud
cheers.) They" had enough to do in their struggle with the landed
interests, and they should not. by consenting to any fixed duty
give the Government a,greater interest, by a hope of additio-
r nal revenue, in.,perpet wiring the restrictions on trade. By a!
letter lately received from Glasgow he had learned that the
petition had already received 40,000 signatures—( Great
cheering)—and every person had attached also his address or
place of residence.—( Hear, hear.) The petition had been
sent into all the mills and factories, and had been freely and
readily signed by the working people. They had not stopped
there, but had appointed a Committee to whom was referred
the duty of drawing up resolutions, and circulating informa-
tion for the purpose of procuring facts to lay before the House
of Commons. These facts had been drawn up with all the care
and caution with which a lawyer would prepare proofs of a
case to be laid before a jury. He would add that to the same
Committee was entrusted the duty of procuring and classify-
ing information from all the neighbouring districts, that it
might be submitted to the Central Board for its further con-
sideration.--( Loud cheers.) The Glasgow people would go
along with the other Associations throughout the country, and
do whatever was agreed upon by the bcdy at large. They did not
mean to stand out on their own particular views of action, but
to do all in their power to promote unity and unanimity. The
only condition they would make in giving that unqualified
pledge was, that in all their transactions they should court
publicity—( Hear, hear)—that they should insist on being
heard, not before a Committee—but at the bar of the House ;
that they should insist on their petitions being discussed: and
the only other stipulation was, that they should go for the
total and immediate repeal of the Corn-laws.--( Cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN said he had received a letter from Aberdeen
from the Anti-Corn-law Association there, enclosing a pe-
tition, the statements of which could be proved at the bar of
the House of Commons, and praying to be allowed to do so.
—( Hear, hear.) They regretted that they had not time to
send a deputation to the dinner.

Mr. A. PRENTICE, of the Manchester Times, gave an in-
stance of the inefficacy of the present mode of treating pe-
titions in the House of Common!, with regard to one forwarded
from Manchester last Session, which had been, without any
observation, thrust into the bag, and was never afterwards
heard of.

The CHAIRMAN suggested it might be as well to hear the
sentiments of the various delegates before the resolutions were
ai:opted.
Mr. WEIR said he had forgot to state the amount of sub•
scriptions that had been received in Glasgow. The sum of
5001., which it had been announced was received, was only
for the purpose of meeting the current expenses of the Asso-
ciation, and he had no doubt that a much larger amount
would be received.—( Hear, hear.) He begged to move the
first resolution, which was as follows:
'• That at a meeting of delegates from the principal manu-
facturing and commercial towns of the kingdom, held at the
York Hotel, in Manchester, on the 24th of January, 1839,
to determine upon the course to be pursued for effecting the
total repeal of the Corn and Provision-laws, it was resolved—
That this meeting of representatives from all the great
sections of our manufacturing and commercial population, so-
lemnly declare it to be their conviction that the prosperity of
the great staples upon which their capital and industry are
employed, are in imminent danger from the operation of the
laws which interdict or interfere with the exchange of their
productions for the corn and other produce of other nations,
and thus check our trade, and artificially enhance the price
of food in this country; and believing that the facts upon
which this judgment is formed, are too little known, and of
such national importance as to call for their disclosure before
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the people's representatives, they earnestly recommend that
petitions be immediately forwarded from all parts of the king-
dom, praying to be heard by counsel and evidence at the bar
of the House of Commons in the approaching session of Par-
liament."—( Cheers.)
Mr. BOULTBEE, from Birmingham, seconded the resolution,
and stated his opinion, after 20 years' deliberate consideration of
this question was, that there was nothing which embarrassed
the country so much, and nothing which threw so many impe-
diments in the way
of our commerce, as the Corn-laws.—
(Hear.) The views he entertained on this subject differed a
good deal from the views of others, particularly in his own
was that the landlords them-
selves would be as much benefited by the repeal of the Corn-
laws as any other class of society,_( Cheers.) Two errors were
fallen into by those who had not the means or the time to investi-
gate this subject--one was that the prohibition on the importa-
tion of wheat would raise its price ; the other that cheap provision
was necessarily beneficial to the poor. The first position might
be true, if the importation of wheat added to the supply, and
no addition was made to the demand ; but if the very act of
adding to the supply also added to the demand, it came round
to the same thing.—( Hear, hear.) Every instance for the
last 200 years showed that when the importation had been
prohibited, the price bad fallen. When it was free the price
had risen. In 1683 the price of wheat was 458. 41 for an
average of half a century. At that period, like the present,
the landlords took it into their heads to endeavour to raise the
price to 545. ; but the very measure they took to increase the
price had the effect of reducing it to 365., and for very
many years afterwards the average price was 365. instead
of 455. 4d.—(Hear, hear, hear.) Then again in 1836, the
importation of wheat had been prohibited for about eight years,
so that the landlords had the full benefit of the Corn-laws; and
during those eight years wheat fell regularly, year after year,
down to 365., which was the lowest price within the memory
of man ; and his only wonder was, that the landlords should
be so infatuated as to persevere in a system which had been so
unsuccessful.

The CHAIRMAN begged to remind Mr. Boultbee of the hint
that had been thrown out by Mr. Cobden about long speeches,
as the present meeting was more for the purpose of business
than discussion.

Mr. BOULTBEE was not present Lt the commencement of the