11 OCTOBER 1851, Page 10

At the yearly meeting of the Worcestershire Agricultural Society, just

held, Sir John Pakington expressed an opinion that the question of pro- tection or no protection, reenactment of a corn-law or extension of the present system, cannot be settled by merely one general election. He de- clared that all the prophecies which had been made both for and against the repeal of the Corn-laws had signally failed ; and claimed that the tillers of the soil are " undoubtedly entitled to relief from all burdens in the shape of taxation which unduly press upon them."