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(IOLONIAL SOCIETY.
At a General Meeting of the COLONIAL SOCIETY,
specially convened this day in'consequence of the proposed al-
terations of the Duties on Sugar and Timber, the following
Resolutions, upon which Petitions to both Houses of Paalia-
ment were founded, were unanimously adopted.
1. Moved by Captain G. R. MarnEw, M.P.; seconded by

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Sugar Duties on Friday next, it is necessary for this Society to
take immediate measures to protest against a course which they
believe will prove most ruinous to our East and West India
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4. Moved by BENJAMIN hut., Esq., seconded by Douct ts

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nglish and French
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THE BUDGET AND COHN-LAWS.
(From the Wcrcester Chronicle.)
The notice of motion for inquiry into the Acts relating
to the trade in corn, given by Lord John Russell on Fri-
day last, has caused a great sensation amongst the mono-
polists, and given lively satisfaction to the friends of free-
dom of Trade. As the Morning Chronicle justly sip,
" Ministers have fairly thrown themselves on the Das ion for
support in the assertion of a great national right and inte-
rest." They have a right to expect the energetic sup-
port of the nation, and we feel confident they will not
be diaappointod. Unless they arc strongly bucked up
from without, they will be comparativsly powm Hess,
and their good-will to relieve the people from the tax
which the pres,nt law goes to impose upon their food,
will be neutralised. Nothing but a long pull, a strong
pull, and a pull altogether, can servo the present turn.
The tide is now at flood, and if the favourable moment be
not caught, a long time may elapse Lefore suet, another
opportunity presents itself. The repulsive and disgusting
uproar from the Tory benches which greeted Lord John
Russell's announcement, sufficiently marks the hostility
which that party are prepared to exercise against any
change in the present laws. They will be reinforced and
seconded by the monopolists out of doors, with a vigour
proportionate to the stake (their own private interest)
which is involved in the great questicin, and unless the
people make their voice heard in accents of thunder by
the constitutional method of petition, in the chambers of
S. Stephen's, it may be feared that might will prevail over
right. Unless a like gigantic force of public opinion to
that which carried the Reform 13111 be brought to bear upon
the Legislature, the hopes of the nation will be nipped in the
bud, and their legitimate expectations of relief from the
pressnre ofa restrictive Corn-law will be painfully baulked.
Action ! action I 1 action !! I should he the Repe tiers'
motto ; their rallying cry, No Corn.laws and Commercial
Prosperity ; their watchword, Now or never. The de-
claration of Ministers has already struck a bloN at the
c-rn monopole, which it remains with the people of this
United Kingdom to carry home.
S TOURISRIDGE. Mooday evening a numerous
meetirg of the inhabitants was held in the School-room,
Wollaston-road, to adopt a petition for the repeal of the
Corn and Provision-laws, and for a revision of the Com-
mercial Code; Samuel Blackwell, Esq ,in the chair. A
petition, which was read to the meeting, was adopted, and
the resolutions passed unanimously.
(From the Dublin Evening Post.)
Honour to Lord John Russell. Honour to the masterly
tactics by which—when the enemy thought themselves sure
of the victory—their flanks—both their flanks—have been
turned, and their centre thrown into inextricable confu-
sion. The holy alliance between the Tories and the
Chartists—the successful game played by the corrupt aris-
tocracy, with the aid of the rotten democracy, against the
liberties of the country, has been won. We do not know
which to admire the most, Tory roguery or Chartist de-
gradation. We need only say the parties are worthy each
other. They have made a holy alliance against Ireland.
They have bound themselves in a bond for the extinction
of her liberties. The first fruits of the alliance is the
defeat of the Irish Registry Bill. Lord Stanley may
be proud—but what are his feelings compared to the
exultation of Mr. Walter? Sir- Robert Peel may be
happy—but how his felicity " pales its ineffectual fires "
before the bright blaze of delight which lights up the
heart of Fergus O'Connor ! But will the holy alliance
last? For the nonce it will; but, with all their boastings
—nay, with their apparent numerical superiority, the
allies have made no impression, as yet, upon the fortress
of Powning-street. They have succeded in beating the
Irish—they have succeeded in outraging and insulting Ira.
land—they have left the Ministry in a minority; but
they arc still, apparently, as far from office as ever.
How can this be accounted fur? We stop not to in-
quire ? It is enough to say, that the proceedings of the
House of Commons on Friday night have brought matters
to a crisis, indeed. Tho notice of Lord John Russell
tell like a thunderbolt upon the Legislature. The revi-
sion of the Corn-laws, with a view to substitute a fixed
for a fluctuating duty, has produced a sort of revolution.
It was necessary—it was indispensable ; the time had
come for a change ; the falling revenue rendered it in-
esitable ; but, nevertheless, the Tory interest were con-
founded by the announcement.
(From the Cheltenham Examiner.)
THE CRISIS.--The Ministers have assumed a position
unprecedented in the annals of British Government. They
have taken up the principles of free trade, and on them
are prepared to stand or fall. On the same evening (viz.
last Friday) the Chancellor of the Exchequer adopted the
remission of import duties, as a means of improving com-
merce and increasing the revenue ; and Lord John Russell
gave notice that he should, on the last day of the month,
move that the House resolve itself into Committee to
take into consileration the Acts respecting the trade in corn.
The princi,ilcs which we, in common with every edu-
cated and disinterested reformer, have long upheld, as the
sole true principles for ensuring the tell welfare of the
country, are at length, but for the first time, recognised and
adopted by a British Government. We do not bestow army
vehement laudation on Ministers on this account ; but we do
feel justified in saying that they have done their duty well
and boldly. For religious liberty—for national education
—for cheap postage—for the Irish franchise, and partially
for the English franchise, the Government have firmly
striven ; and now they have crowned their efforts with
one for free trade. Oa these principles the Govern.
meet has taken its stand ; the present Parliament will
of course oppose them, and then, having right on their
side, and faith in the strength of principles on which
they may well rely, they will appeal to the country to sup.
port them. The struggle will be a clearly defined one. It will be
between monopoly aid the many—it will be between
corrupt government and popular government—it will be
bstween the friends of plenty and the creators of poverty
—it will between the friends and the foes of the working
man—it will be between the champions of religious liberty
and the assetters of the right of one creed to domineer
over all other creeds. In this struggle one thing is quite
plain, namely, that they who are not with us are against
us. The halters between the two opinions can maintain
no middle position. The foes in false colours may as well
abandon their disguise ; it will not serve their turn. The
Chartist voters for the Tory Walter hare done so already ;
and the only difference between Tories and Tory Chartists
consists in the latter being infinitely greater foois than the
former. As to principle, there is manifestly not a pin's
difference to choose beteeen them.

( From the Scotsman.)
TIIR --We arc delighted to find that Ministers
have at length resolved to attack that master-grievance of
the country, the Cora-laws. Oa Friday, Lord John Rus-
sell gave notice that, on the first open day arter the 31st
instant, he would move for a Committee of the whole
Home to consider the subject. When questioned as to his
intentions, he intimated that he proposed to substitute a
fixed duty for the present graduated scale. The announce-
ment, says the Chronicle, was loudly cheered by the Libe-
rals, and fell like a bomb among the Tories. The rene-
gade Times, which professed extreme hostility to the Corn-
laws, raves a fury at the prospect of seeing its own os-
tensible w ishes fulfilled ! Lord Melbourne, according to the
Tory journals, declared, two or three years ago, that it
would be madness in Ministers to propose the repeal of
the Corn-laws. As matters then stood, his Lordship's
statement was certainly correct. The landholders, the
only parties who are benefited by these laws, compose
two-thirds of the one House of Parliament, and the whole
of the other. They have availed themselves of their
power to tax the bread cf the people for their own exclu-
sive profit : and any attempt to wrest from them, by mere
force of argument, a law which, in their own opinion, en-
larges their rent-rolls, would be the extremity of folly.
Nothing but a great public movement, the display of a
determination on the part of the people to put an
end to the system of plunder, of which they have so
long bt ea the aictima, could give Ministers the
slightest chance of success. Such a movement
began last year, when nearly 4,000 petitions, with nearly
1,400,000 signatures, were presented to Parliament for the
repeal of the Corn-laws. There is abundant evidence that
this was not the result of any transitory feeling, but of a
conviction deeply seated in the public niincl, and which, as
it has truth and justice for its basis, and appeals to every
man's pocket, will grow and strergthen till its object is at-
tained. Nothing short of this could have justified Minis-
ters in taking up the question, and, backed by such a
manifestation of public sentiment, they would have been
wanting in what they owe to the country, and to
their own character as the advocates of justice and
popular rights, if they had adopted any ether course.
We say, that an attack on the Corn-laws at the
first favourable opportunity was duo to their own
character, because it completes the cycle of their great
reforms; and, though they should be driven from office in
consequence of the attempt, it enables them to retire with
the proud consciousness of having spared no great abuse.
To say nothing of the repeal or reduction of the house-
duty, paper.dnty, soap duty, newspaper-duties, and others
to the amount of six millions, the penny postage, the open-
ing of the China trade, and a host of olhcr useful mea-
sures, which would have shed a lustre on any Cabinet, there
were a certain number of master evils or grievances re-
quiring Herculean reforms, and these will for ever cousti-
tut() the peculiar and exclusive glory of the Whig (love, n-
meet. For the removal or redress of the evils and ririev.
ances alluded to, they brought forward and carried the fol.
lowing great measures:—The Bills for Parliamentary Re-
form—tor Burgh Reform--for the abolition of slavery
—foe the commutation of tithes in England—fur the com-
mutation of tithes, and abolition of Church-rates, in Ire--
land—for the correction of the manifold abuses of the
English Poor-law—for the introduction of n Poor-law
into Ireland—lastly, they gave to Ireland, and would have
iven to Britain, the benefits of cheap, good, and nbi%er_
education if their enlightened endeavours had not teen
defeated by the Church—all measures of vast importance,
any one in time past would have immortalized any Ministry.
Of the major grievances of ihe country, the Corn-la-as
only have hitherto been spared; and we rejoice to think
th-t, in attacking them, they crown with honour a series of
unexampled public services, and fill up and complete their
claims to public gratitude.
TH. BUDGET.—Th.: proceedings in Parliament since
our last have been of paramount interest, and much excite-
ment has been created in political circles, by Ministers
having been twice defeated on the Irish Parliamentary
Voters' Bill. It was at first supposed that this would lead
to an immediate resignation on their part, or a dissolution
of Parliament. But as neither of these could well take
place until the Budget was brought forward and discussed,
mit:liters merely withdrew the Irish Bill, and things ac-
cordingly remain in the same doubtful position as be-
fore. On Friday the Chancellor of the Exchcqner
brought ,forward his Budget kit the year, which is suffi-
ciently fair to have received praise from Mr. flume. At