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storm of the impending crisis. Should our ardent ex-
pectations be realised, the Whigs will establish a further
and the proudest claim on the gratitude of their country.
They have, aided by the hearty support of the people,
effected a gigantic reform in the English representative
.• system--thrown open to general competition the vast
markets of the East—annihilated the revolting slavery of
the • West, and laid the foundation of good and re-
sponsible Government in the towns and cities of this
kingdom. These, though important and glorious
- achievements, will confer infinitely less renown than the
act which they are about to propose, if it only fulfils the
nation's hope by totally abolishing the iniquitous tax on
the first necessary of human existence, and thus giving
liberty to the industrial energies of the people. The
duty of the electors is obvious. We doubt not that their
_conduct will be worthy of the occasion, and equal to the
momentous consequences at stake. Laying aside for a
season their sectional differences, they must unite, as the li
heart of one man, to secure the commercial deliverance
-which has so unexpectedly appeared in the prospect.
(From the Edinburgh Chronicle.)
AnorxrioN or THE CORN-LAWS.—We understand that
a Member of the Committee of the Anti-Corn-law As-
sociation of this city has left town for London, with
the petition subscribed by upwards of 27,000 of the in-
habitants in support of a total abolition of these obnoxious
laws- The petition is to be entrusted to Sir John Camp-
bell for presentation. 'We trust that other associations
throughout the country will act in a similar way. We
are happy also to be informed, that the public bodies of
the city are in motion for the same object—and for a re-
vision of the Import Duties. The Guildry are to meet
on Monday, the Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday, and
the Merchant Company on Wednesday, We believe
that a public meeting of the inhabitants will be held in
the beginning of the week.
(From the Cork Southern Reporter.)
- When first announced, many were alarmed at any re-
duction in the corn duties, and it was not unnatural ; but
it is quite a mistake ; a fixed duty on corn will not affect
prices materially in Ireland, while it will work unques-
tionable good otherwise. Since our last publication we
have had an opportunity of conversing with many largely
interested in this question—men of high intelligence and
great practical experience, and we were agreeably sur-
Prised to find that they were, after calm reflection, clearly
of the same opinion with ourselves, as to the beneficial,
or rather harmless, operation of the proposed change.
But not only in its agricultural interests, this change
will not be of immediate detriment to Ireland ; it must
also affect powerfully her political condition. While it
will raise and augment the popular strength of England,
it will weaken and disarm the party that has ever unre-
lentingly refused the smallest boon to • Ireland. The
principle of government is changed. Ministers have
adopted a new creed,. They mutt' henceforward govern
for the people, and if so, they have, in answer to the Irish
people, no alternative but to grant the fullest measure of
equality.. They are pledged as an Administration to
their new course, and it now rests with the people—the
strong, united, and invincible people—to work out this
measure, and achieve their own happiness in the truth
and justice of their laws and government.
(From the Birwick Advertiser.)
Out of evil cometh good—out of a deficient and de-
clining revenue has arisen, or is about to arise, the boon
which justice and reason, and the true interests of the
country, were likely long to demand in vain—a tho-
rough ;dorm and remodelling of the existing system of
commercial tariffs, beginning with the master grievances
of the corn, the timber, and the sugar monopolies. The
announcement of the great question of tariff reform
having been taken up by the Ministry, has pleased as
much as it has surprised the whole community, with the
exception of the parties having an interest, or believing
themselves to have an interest, in the doomed monopo-
lies-7-to wit, the landlords, the West India planters, and
thatportion of the " shipping interest" employed in the
Canadian trade—we may add, with the exception also
of the more rabid portion of the Tories, who are infuri-
ated at-the Ministry having, at the very moment when
they seemed on the point of falling, adopted means so
likely to bring them an accession, both of credit and of
strength.

-7 , . (From the Kelso Chronicle.)
RA.WICK.—The promptitude and activity displayed by
the .anti-Corn-law Association here is beyond all praise.
Already has the petition received hundreds of signatures
and will, we. doubt not, outnumber the one that was de-
spatched from this place last year.
(From the Bolton Free Press.)
The Ministerial crisis has at length arrived. The an-
nouncement of Lord John Russell in the House of Com-
mons, and the explanation of Lord Melbdurne in the
Rouse of Lords, must have convinced, even the most
sceptical, that the efforts of the Anti-Corn-law League
have not been made in vain. The struggle will, no doubt,
"be a desperate one. Against us are arrayed a
majority of the lords of the soil, and a great majo-
rity of the established clergy. On our side we have the
manufacturing interest, the shipping interest, and a
large. portion of. the mercantile classes. More than
all these, however, is the sincere conviction, " which they
of the, adverse faction want," that our cause is the cause
of justice and humanity. Sooner or later these princi-
ples must prevail, and, therefore, no temporary discomfi-
ture can dispirit us... Meantime the duty of all Corn-law
Repealers is, to tell ministers plainly what they want.
Every man who refuses -to lend a helping. hand in the
present struggle to obtain the abOlition of the bread tax
is aqcessory. .to the murder, by " painful extinction," of
thousands of his fellow-countrymen.

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• . (From the Cambrian.)
The Torypoliey may doubtless answer well enough
the purpose of the oligarchy, which is to oppress industry,
annihilate commerce: r and .grind the poor with taxes.
But -the,great body of the people must infallibly, if they.
comprehand their interests, make common cause with the
existii:g Government, which, if it be remarkable for any
one thing more than another, is undoubtedly so for its
strenuous attachment to the principle of Reform. Should
Parliament be shortly dissolved, therefore, we trust the
nation will come forward and do its duty manfully.
Ministers have, already done. theirs.
(From the Waterford Chronicle.)
'he' announcement made by Lord John Russell on the
subject of the Corn-laws has raised a host of friends for
the Ministry, throughout Great Britain • and every
landlord in 'lreland who has a head to think or a heart
to feel is with them on the subject. Foremost in
,the
rank of the frieuds'of mankind stand Mr. O'Connell and
Mr. Sharman Craivford.; they have uncompromisingly
avowed their determination to oppose the iniquitous
bread tax, and need,we say that the' people of, Ireland
are prepared to think and act with those distinguished
and enlightened patriots. The Tories are for monopoly ;
they care not about the people. To uphold ascendancy,
i.;" every thing is their end and aim. The Tories in
Power, and we would not give one year's purchase for
the 1.,h01e revenues of the Church.
(From the Dublin Evening Post.)
Tn CORN-LAWS IN IRELAND.—Those very silly—
but it must, at the same time, be confessed, very disho-
nest—people, who imagined that Ireland would rise, like
one man, for the perpetuation of the bread tax—for the
monopoly in food—for rack-rents and depopulating land-
rds—have hitherto been most grievously disappointed
in their calculations. The 'country is rising, indeed, but
it is against the starvation principle of the Tories. The
People are rising, but it is in array against the wicked
combination of as base, as cruel, as unprincipled men,
as ever conspired against the liberties of a country. It
Was hoped that. Ireland being principally agricultural,
the people might be excited to take a hostile position
against Ministers. Vain is the aspiration. Agricultural,
Irela.ul is; no doubt, but it will take a great deal of ar-
pawn', to. persuade the people that they can be injured
°Y a subStitution of a fixed for a fluctuating duty on corn.
(From the Monmouthshire Merlin.)
We hare arrived at a crisis. It is impossible to con-
ceal this. fact. A financial, commercial, and political
crisis has happened in conjunction ; and as Reform came
'upon us like a thundering avalanche, so has the great
thaw set in, threatening to dissolve the.very ground be-
neath the feet of the monopolists. Lord John Russell
has delmtved.to play his trump card until the end of the
game. It is not lost on that account, although we ad-
mit it might have been better had he played it sooner.
Better now than never. The Ministry were not the men
"` to bow beneath the ills upon them piled." With one
vigorous effort, they have cut their way through the
Tory ranks that were encompassing them, and once
more stand in the van of the battle, sounding a call to
the rescue',l,olChi*e'doubt not, wilt be ar.swered by all
England. 'J.' • ' •

(From the Somerset Coun'y Gazette-)
GOOD NEWS FOR THE COUNTRY.—Bravely have Mi-
nisters met the exigency of the times. The fears we
expressed-last Week,. t they should shrink from the dif-
ficulties presented by the financial condition of the coun-
try-were Vain. Ministers have proposed to meet the de-
liciency iethe revenue, not by putting on fresh taxes,
ut by takifiedff a portidn of those which already exist,
lind'whichtqflost oppress the productive classes ;—they
propose to reduce the tax on bread, on sugar, and on
"timber, and'Sci2f, make. the mass of the people more con-
!enable, and; at the same time, to increase the revenue
by
.means' or the increased consumption which lower
prices of die" necessaries of life would lead to. It is a
glorious object ; may it find the support and success it
deserves. Already a howl of rage has gone up frcm the
'ory supporters 'of monopoly. They threaten the Mi-
nistry with their most uncompromising opposition. The
Ministry will look to the country for. support in their
struggle with the public plunderers. It is . more than
probable that Ministers will be defeated in their endea-
vour. They Will then appeal to the country, and leave
it to the elect3rs to say whether they prefer cheap food
or dear food ; that will be the one question, and on their
gle-'sion will depend the fate of England. Can we doubt
wl.at that decision will be ?
(From the Bristol Mercury.)
The repeal of the Corn-laws ! What a mass of human
Misery will be swept from the earth by that one single
measure—what germs of future prosperity will be im-
planted for commercial England ! We regard this as
decidedly the most important legislative step that has
been taken since the enactment of those same most odious
laws a quarter of a century ago, when,. in a borough-
niongering House of Commons, with doors guarded by the
soldiery, the high-minded latidords of England proceeded
tO tax the poor man's loaf for the benefit of their own
Pockets, whilst the sabres of the military alone restrained
the indignation of an outraged community from bursting
into acts of popular violence, and musket-balls and cold
steel formed the barrier between the people and their
representatives ! The repeal of the Corn-laws is a plain,
straightforward practical measure—a measure which
affects at once every industrious man's cupboard-comforts
—every workin men's weekly mnrketing.
(Prom the Devonport Independent.)
Ministers have thus commenced that reform which has
so long beeit.ifeedect--their first steps, though few, and

making but comparatively small prirress, being firtm
And manfully taken, and deserving the warm eneourag.
tent of every one who has the national prosperity
of heart.

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