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some of the difficulties which formerly opposed them, the
gentleman who seconded the Address having said that distress
*as admitted. The evils produced by the Corn-laws were manifest
in twO ways i first, by raising the price of provisions ; and
second, by destroying labour, With regard to the first, he did
not think so much as others did he did not think their
re; eal would lower provisions much, but he was sure it
fella d to inerea e labour. These laws had resulted
from people not considering that all commerce
was barter, and that in prohibiting the importation
of corn, they did in fart prohibit the exportation
of manufactures. Wages had lately been reduced about
one-third or thirty-three per cent. at Birmingham, and he
would divide the people of Birmingham into three sections; of
th se one-third were fully employed, one-third were only em-
ployed two or three days in the week, and the other one-
thnd were not emplo)ed at all ; the result of this
was, that the wages of the country were reduced from 3,000,000/.
a week to 1,000,0004 a week, and it seemed impossible to
conceive otherwise than that the landholders must be injured
by the taking away of twe-thirdS of the means of their cus-
tome! s.—( Loud cheers.) When he was a boy, he had
heard from Dr. Adam Smith of three reasons for the
enactment of a mercantile law, and he had never
heard of any others; the first was, to compel
the people to buy dear when they could buy cheap ; the second
way to make them sell cheap when they could sell
dear • and the third was to make them buy a bad
article when they could get a good one. He was
now a very old man. lie had advocated free trade principles
during his life, and he would go on till the day of his death.
The Chairman then intimated that it was understood that the
meeting at its breaking up would go in procession to the House
of Commons.

The Rev. Mr. Lows supported the resolu ion. He thought
it could not be said that Scotchmen were cool upon the
subject of Corn-laws, when such numbers of Deputies
had been sent from that country. (Cheers.) Those Delegates
had come there, not as a party faction, but as the friends of
humanity ; they had all one object in view, and they would
never desist till they ob,ained it.
The resslution was then agreed to.
After a short discussion it was agreed, upon the proposition
of Mr. WILKINSON, the late Mayor of .Exeter, that the
Deputies should proceed in a body to the House
of Commons at half-past three o'clock for the purpose of showing
to the Members of that House, that the Deputies were re-
spectable, and were not to be deterred from the purpose for which
they had come to the metropolis—namely, that of giving to
the famishing poor the necessaries of life.
Among those present we notic, d F. Thornely, Esq., Dr.
Bowring, M.P., Mr. Ewart, M.P., Mr. R. H. Greg, Mr. Ash-
worth, Mr. Otway'Cave, M.P., Rev. Dr. Jenkyns, Coward
College, Mr. Edward Baxter, Dundee, Mr. W. Buchanan,
Glasgow, Mr. Biggs, Leicester, Mr. J. Baxter, Dundee,
Rev. T. Spencer, J. Evans, Esq., Wales.

The meeting having retired for some time, met again at
half-past three, when it was unanimously agreed. that
the Delegates should go in precession to the House
of Commons, and should at the same time present
to Mr. Villiers the petition adopted at the meeting,
and obtain the earliest intelligence of the proceedings
of the Legislature. The Chairman intimated that as their
numbers might otherwise occasion confusion, they should
stand in the lobbies and passages of the House side
by side, and leave room for ingress and egress, and the mem-
bers of the assembly should hold- their tickets, which were all
coloured, in their hands. The meeting, to the number of
about four hundred, accordingly proceeded to the House in
prom tion.

RAILWAY BETWEEN LONDON

AND PARIS.

The following letter Las been addressed to us
by the Mayor of Boulogne. The pamphlet
which accompanies it will be noticed in due time.
Monsieur le nedacteur—Permettez moi d'appeler votre
attention sur la uremoire ci joint qui traite de la (Erec-
tion A dormer, en France, au chemin de fer international
qui doit unir Londres-et Paris.
L'interet evident qu'ont les deux nations A, ce que la
communication entre ces capitales soit assure:?, par la
roie la plus courte, la plus facile et la plus niguliere, ne
me laisse aucun doute qu' apres avoir la notre travail
vous ne reconnaissiez les avantages qu' offre le port de
Boulogne sous tons les rapports. Les admirables travaux
qui out rendu son entree et sa sortie si faciles et ont pro-
curs a sun chenal une profondeur d'eau qu'on ne trouve
dans arrant port voisin, ont eu pour resultat de lui as-
surer pros des trois quarts deA voyageurs.entre la France
et l'Angleterre : et cola malgre l'immense avantage que
procure a Calais la presence des paqUebots de malfe qui
font un service obligatoire. On pout donc dire que, sans
ce privilege, presque tout la passage aurait lieu par
Boulogne oil s'ernbarquent deja la malle de l'lnde et
presquFlous les courriers de commerce.

Ices resultats &ant encore peu connus, puis qu'ils ne
datcnt que de cinq a six ans au plus, it est demon devoir
d'en repandre la connaissance, afin que l'opinion pub-
lique puisse se prononcer en connaissance de cause sur
la direction que reclament, pour la liyne de Londres d
Paris, les interets des deux nations. 11 ne vous ecltp-
pera pas que notre systeme aura en outre, quand it sera
execute dans son ensemble, l'avantage d'ouvrir a tous
les ports Anglais une communication avec le reseau de
chemin de fer du Nord, par tousles ports Francais de
Dunkerque au
Notre deiir etant d'e2lairer le public, en portant tons
leslaits avec leurs preuves a l'appui a la connaissance
des principaux organes de l'opinion publique, j'ai penfe,
Monsieur le Relacteur, que vous seriez assez bon pour
insOrer dans votre feuille un extrait de notre travail, et
vous associer ainsi a toutes les mesures qui peuvent reS7
serrer l'union de deux grandes nations.
J'ai l'honnour d'etre, Monsieur le Redacteur, votre
devoue serviteur.

LB MAIRE DE BOULOGNE,
. • [AL. ADAM.]
Dtipartement du Pas-de-Calais,
rulogne-sur-iffier; Janvier 29, 1842.