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1-40 VE'S EXCHANGE; a Tale
By CHARLES BOYLE, Esq.

" Sit you down,

'And let me wring your hart !

'—Hamlet.

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LONDON :
FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 11, 1839.

We copy from the Glasgow Argus and especially
recommend to the attention of our readers, particu-
larly of those who are engaged in active opposition to
the Corn-laws, an account of the proceedings at
Glasgow, and of the means the people of Glasgow pro-
pose to adopt and recommend others to adopt, in
order to carry the repeal of the Corn-laws. They
propose to petition Parliament to be heard at the bar
against the Corn-laws ; they have no doubt, apparently,
that the prayer of such a petition would be granted, and
that then., by the arguments of Counsel, by the sifting of
evidence, and by the continual agitation of the
subject in Parliament, a victory would be ensured.
We believe so, too, provided Parliament would agree
to the somewhat extraordinary course, of hearing evi-
dence at the bar against an existing law. We do not,
at this moment, recollect any precedent for such a
course ; and even though it were a usual one, the
landlords, when the time comes, will exert all their
power, if' they are determined to pursue their present
murderous system, to defeat that proposition—certain
that, if it be not defeated, the Devil's laws would be
extinguished. Promoting crime, ensuring penury,
ruining our manufactures, banishing our arts, and
bringing about slow but certain national decay, they
will not bear the light of a close investigation. On
no principle of expediency, of morality, or jus-
tice can they be defended ; and if the landlords
could not stifle the proposed Parliamentary inquiry,
they would at once be sensible that their pet scheme
for starving people would be blown into atoms by
the national wrat'• They will, therefore, resist Mr.
WEIR'S plan to the t;tmost, and before the first point
of it can be reached, the landlords must in fact and
spirit be subdued. We, therefore, see no reason in the
proposition of Mr. WEIR why the Press and Public
Lecturers should for one moment abate their exertions,
in order so to rouse the public indignation before the
sneeting of Parliament, that the landlords will be afraid
to brave the hurricane.
We rejoice to learn that the Manchester manufac-
turers, like those of Glasgow, are resolved that it shall
not be any fault of theirs if they do not attain their
object. The following extract of a private letter,
written yesterday from one of the leading gentlemen
of that town, will convince the landlords that they
will have no child's play next Session in defending
their monopoly. The writer says—
" lam this moment returned from a meeting of merchants
and manufacturers, called for the purpose of raising a subscrip-
tion to carry our causo to the Bar of both Houses of Parlia-
ment. We are determined to submit no longer to having our
petitions thrown under the table. If we do not get an imme-
diate repeal of the food taxes, we may bid farewell to all ou
greatness ; and never did I see such determination in any
meeting before. As the Duke of Wellington said of the
Canada war, " It will not do for this country to carry on a
little war," so we say it won't do for this great manufacturing
community to carry on a pedling Anti-Corn-law Association.
" The period for holding the meeting was most unpropi-
lions, as at the same time there was held a meeting of the
Commissioners of Police, and an important meeting of the
Dissciters to consider about removing the Dissenting Academy
to this place, by which we were deprived of numbers who
would othe.rs have attendei the Anti-Corn-law Meeting ;
nevertheless ws? subscribed in the room 2,0001., and I hope by
Saturday next w• shall make it 5,000/. We shall invite all
other towns to join us, and -by these means we shall raise
20,0001., and so carry the repeal this year, and havo done
with it. When does London mean to awaken from its slum-
bers? I send you annexed our resolutions. You may now
be assured we are in earnest.
" The subscriptions, amounting to 2,000/, are all in sums of
1001. and 801. each. The Resolutions adopted were as fol-
lows :--

" This Meeting feeling deeply and solemnly convinced that
the Foreign commerce of the country, upon which the welfare
of all classes of our manufacturing population depend, is
threatened with impending dangers, from which it cannot be
preserved unless the duties upon Foreign Corn, and all other
articles of food be immediately abolished,
" Res,..-slved—That a subscription be forthwith commenced
for the purpose of carrying forward the proceedings of the
Anti-Corn-law Association in a manner commensurate with
the magnitude of the obstacles to be surmounted, and
worthy of the vitally important object for which it has been
established."

This is commencing the contest with spirit, and if
it be so followed up, if the other towns follow the
example of IVlanchester, if at length slow, dilatory,
reluctant London should move in this holy cause, there
could be no doubt of success. We should, however,
conceal the truth from our readers if we did not bring
distinctly before them one great obstacle, which is the
true cause of the apparent dilatoriness of the metro-
polis.

At Glasgow, Mr. WEIR said,
" Viben on former occasions we moved by petition against
the Corn-Nws, our unenfranchised brethren moved along with
us. They ace tired out and disgusted—they are hopeless of
obtaining until they, too, possess the franchise. They are as
hostile as ever to the Corn-laws, but they refuse to petition
against them because they believe it to be unavailing. Our
array in point of numbers is on this occasion much diminished,
as in point of wealth it is increased."

From the Scots Times we learn, that at a numerous
and respectable meeting held at Glasgow on Tuesday to
follow up the resolutions adopted on the previous Wedne-
sday, a letter from Mr. A. PURDIE was read, proposing a
coalition betwixt the new Association and the Univer-
sal Suffrage Society, and indicating an intention to
oppose the measures of the Association, if the proposal
was not accepted.

A letter from Leith, which we inserted yesterday,
-recommended what may almost be called hole and
corner meetings, no doubt from a conviction that the
Chartists would endeavour to make every public meet-
ing respond to their own sentiments. Their leaders
have in fact publicly advised the people to attend all
Corn.-law meetings, and propose resolutions favourable
to Universal Suffrage, and the knowledge that their
advice' will be everywhere acted on influences the
Abolitionists to ovoid calling public meetings in most
places, and certainiy in the metropolis. Heretofore
the working classes in our towns were the loudest and
most turbulent advocates for the repeal of the Corn-
laws, by which they are the greatest sufferers ; now
they are opposed to such a repeal, unless it
be conjoined with a preliminary resolution in
favour of Universal Suffrage. So tired is their
patience, so exasperated are their feelings, so
terrible is their hatred of our institutions, so deter-
mined are they to effect a revolution, that; they resist
even an improvement which would increase their com-
fort and promote their prosperity, because it would
make the body of laws—to destroy which all their ener-

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