At the meeting of the Anti-Corn-law Conference today, communi- cations
were read from Notting, Bradford, Sheffield, Derby, Manchester, and other places, testify ing to the universal dissatisfaction at Sir Robert Peel's Corn-law measure. Mr. George Thompson stated that the ladies of Manchester had held a meeting, and had formed themselves into a society pledged to passive resistance to the payment of Assessed Taxes, until the total repeal of the Corn-laws should be effected. They explained, that by "passive resistance" they meant, that they would allow their furniture to be seized for taxes without offering any oppo- sition to the collecting-officer; but that at the same time they should urge the people not to purchase the articles seized; and that they should abstain from the use of taxed luxuries. Mr. Hume, the late Member for Kilkenny, was among the speakers at the Conference : he deprecated resistance to the payment of Assessed Taxes, as illegal.
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