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appear, advertising the addresses of those who agree
to keep them on sale, in all the bills, cards,/and tracts
of the branch. That these publications shall be
made under the superintendence of the Business Com-
mittee of the Central Association, who shall give their
best attention to any manuscripts, tracts, or sugges-
tions transmitted to them by the branches.
" In conclusion, the Committee would beg to guard,
themselves from being understood, in their introduc-
tory observation, to mean to convey the impression
that small progress has as yet been made in producing
an effect upon public opinion. While the nearly uni-
versal report made to them by their branches, and the
friends of free trade generally, is, that they still find
much ignorance in society on the subject of mono-
poly, and that ignorance is the great obstacle in the
way of repeal, they are quite as unanimous in assur-
ing the Committee that the public have made great
and rapid progress in the comprehension of the ques-
tion ; that at no former period was the zeal and ac-
tivity of their branches so great as at present ; that
they have never found such a disposition in the neutral
or hostile public to listen to their arguments, or to
acquire information as now; and that a very great
and favourable change of opinion has recently taken
place among the agricultural portion of the commu-
nity, especially in the case of tenant farmers. The
Committee entertain a strong opinion that no oppor-
tunity should be lost of acting upon the rural popula-
tion, through every channel of communication, and
especiallyts
of Kent,
establishment of
uorfraseys,ocainad-
t the bytracts
villagesae lon s
Essex. In the present temper of the predial districts,
they anticipate large accessions to their cause, from
the so-called protected interests themselves; and they
have only, in conclusion, to urge upon their consti-
tuents and friends generally, the importance of im-
proving the goldbn opportunity afforded by the pre-
sent favourable disposition of the rural population to
recommend, by appealing to their reason and their
consciences, the great cause which it Is the object of
the Association to promote."
After some conversation the Report was agreed to.
In obedience to the call of the Chairman,
Sir Da LACY EVANS congratulated them upon the
evident and most satisfactory progress which they
were making in the advancement of the cause which
they had espoused. The meeting itself afforded to
kis mind an admirable and convincing proof of the
vigorous manner in which they conducted their exer-
tions, and they could not but anticipate that the hap-
piest results must ensue.—(hear, hear.) Twelve
months ago Mr. Villiers—(Cheers),—the most able
and consistent champion of their cause, had congratu-
lated the country upon the excellent progress which
the Anti-Corn-law party was making; and the very
first division in the present Parliament had shown
that, so far from a Tory Government coming into
power having stopped this progress of opinion in fa-
vour of free trade, a decided increase of supporters in
the House of Commons had been obtained.—(Hear,
hear.) The declarations of the Premier himself upon
this subject had been most profitable to their cause,
but most unsatisfactory to his own supporters.—
(Hear, hear.) This was an event which demanded
their best and most sincere self-congratulation, and
he hoped to see their exertions in consequence re-
doubled.—(hear, hear.)
After some observations from Mr. Edwards and Dr.

Price, •
Mr. WILSON said that he would offer a few obser-
vations to the Meeting with reference to the principle
upon which the Report which had been presented to
them had been framed. The main argument which
had operated upon the Sub-Committee was the im-
portance of disseminating knowledge through those
classes in which ignorance still prevailed upon this all-
engrossing topic ; and, therefore, it was that they had
adopted public instruction as the best means of work-
ing the important end which they had in view. They
had heard that, though other trades were dull, every
printing-machine in Manchester was to be set to work
by the Anti-Corn-law League. He feared that their
means would not enable them to give like employ-
ment to the whole of the London printing-presses ;
but he hoped that, ere long, many presses would be
set to work, and tracts produced which would secure
a more lasting effect upon the minds of their oppo-
nents, or of their lukewarm friends, than the speeches
or lectures of their friends, however admirable in
themselves they might be.—(Cheers.)
Mr. MOOR (of Manchester) was then called on by
the Chairman. He said that he was convinced by
his experience and observation that no time like the
present had ever presented itself for affording instruc-
tion to the public mind, and thereby gaining fresh
supporters of their views. lie referred with confi-
dence to the speeches which had been made by the
opponents of the existing Corn-law, and he was pre-
pared to contend, notwithstanding the threat which
had been held out, and which had been already re-
ferred to by the Chairman, that much more had been
said to excite the :people by the monopolists in the
House of Commons than by those who had striven to
obtain the just repeal of the tax upon bread. It had been
said in the House of Commons by the supporters of
the monopolist party, that machinery was the cause of
all the evil ; that the masters were the tyrants
and the. oppressors of their servants ; that the
people were starving and were patient ; and yet had
the Prime Minister of her Majesty declared that his
measures were not measures of relief.—(Hear, hear.)
But they had heard speeches also from the same Right
Honourable Baronet in favour of free trade, and where
such speeches were delivered by such a man, could the
speeches of members of the Anti-Corn-law League,
men warmly engaged in the cause of the people, upon
their own conviction of the injustice to which they
were subject, be raked up because they contained ex-
pressions of their more earnest feelings ?—(Hear,
hear.) Could men, he asked, speak calmly whose
rights were trampled upon, and who were treated with
injustice ?—(Hear hear.) The Report, which had
been read, showed that this Society was not alarmed
at the pliagraph to which he had referred ; for his
own part, he should take it as his guide in future, and
he should speak even more warmly upon this question
than he had yet done. Cheap food was not the con-
sequence of the tariff of Sir Robert Peel ; but it was
the consequence of the continued refusal of free trade
to the people. The scarcity of purchasers was the
cause of the cheapness of provisions—the want of de-
mand was the cause, and until free trade was intro-
duced, until England had the world as the garden
from which it could select the produce which it re-
quired, and to which it could send its productions, the
same difficulties must prevail.—(Hear, hear.) The
farmers now begin to see this ; and now, where tracts
were before viewed with suspicion, or not received at
all, they were looked for and accepted with anxiety
and pleasure.—(Cheering.)
Colonel TuoMrsoN was prepared to give his testi-
mony also towards the proofs of the daily increasing
disposition and anxiety of the public mind in favour
of the cause of free trade. The Corn. law, he thought
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but
it was the point on which they were going a-head—
(Cheers)—and he was sure that the time was not far
distant when they should arrive in the happy haven of
their wishes.—(Cheers.)
Mr. S. SMITH gave notice that lectures on the Corn-
law would be delivered to-morrow (this day) at the
Royal Oak, Bayswater ; on Wednesday, at Poplar ;
on Thursday, at St. John's Wood ; and on Friday, at
Tottenham ; and thanks having been voted to the
Chairman the meeting separated.

DEATH FROM FIRING • ROYAL SALUTE.-011 the
9th inst., as James Martin, one of the Coast Guard
officers, was in the act of ramming the charge down
the northernmost gun for a discharge, on the occasion
of the anniversary of the birth of the Prince of Wales,
the powder exploded, and the ramrod and wad struc
him
k
him on the face, killing him instantly, mutilating
in a dreadful manner.—lpswiciz Express.
A meeting of the subscribers to the testimonial in
honour of the late Earl of Durham was held at the
Turk's head Inn in this town last week, when the
Executive Committee were appointed, with power to
decide upon a design, and commence the erection of
the monument on Painshaw 11111 as early as possible.
--Newcastle .Tournal.
. under
The Marquis of Bute and the Right Hon. pox
Maule have been proposed for the Lord Rectorship
His Excellency the French Ambassador has quits
of
Glasgow College.
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recovered from the effects of the indisposition
f
own'hicshulnidealyaboeuvreent sgincdeinheisd r.csetiuthrn
street, where a few select friends were invited to
Aulaire, at the Dowager Lady Holland's, in Park-
meet them.

The Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress have been
most attentive to the poor young fellow whose thigh
was
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case, on
eminent Wednesday:na d hal
have
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gave
should
re-
peated inquiries after his health, which it is satisfac-
tor,z to state is good.
THOUSAND POUNDS RODDERT.—We
understand that a portion of the proceeds of this rob-
bery have lately made their way to the Bank of Dili-
land, in the shape of a 5001. pound note. It was paid
into the Bank of England by the Messrs. Masterman
and Co., bankers, London, to whom it was paid by
the Messrs. Rothschild, the celebrated millionaires,
who received it from their house in Paris. It has
been conjectured that the note was paid in Paris within
forty-eight hours of its being stolen in Preston.—
Manchester Chronicle.
CONTEMPLATED IMPROVEMENTS AT WINDSOR.--
About fifty handsome villa residences, encircled and
interspersed with ornamental grounds, and to be
called Victoria Park, through which it is proposed to
carry a road across the new bridge over the Thames
to the railway station at Slough, will be shortly
erected. The track of land running from Arbur-hill
to the Eton and Slough turnpike-road, commanding
views of Windsor Castle, has been purchased by Mr.
Bedborough, of Windsor, for the site of the proposed
improvement&