22 DECEMBER 1838, Page 11

The Manchester Chamber of Comme , rce have decided in favour of

an " immediate and total repeal " of the Corn-laws. A petition to that (effect• proposed by Mr. ConnEN, as an amendment to the unsatisfactory Directors' petition offered by the Tory-Whig Chairman to the Cham- ber. Was carried on Thursday, by a large majority. This is an important decisiou, and should give the tone to other meetings. It would have been a fatal error to recognize the principle if rrotectire dutie,s, leaving the amount only as a subject of endless discussion.