25 FEBRUARY 1843, Page 13

THINK OF THIS.

SOME friends of Free Trade have been muttering half-subdued growls at the prospect of corn being admitted from Canada. Will they listen to a friendly caveat ? Either that measure will have no

sensible effect, or it will afford a medium of relief: if the former, it cannot interfere with their exertions : if the latter, it may relax the zeal of some who now attack the Corn-laws, but to an equal extent it will relax the pertinacity with which others cling to them. What interest can Free-traders have in opposing such a measure ? Why should they assume the character of the wilful though warm- hearted papa in Paul Pry, who, confessing he had his own way, yet grumbled because it was not in the way be wanted it ?