Sir William Molesworth has addressed the following letter to Mr.
'tables, with his subscription of .51.1i. towards tut Anti-Corn-law fund. Sir William Molesworth has addressed the following letter to Mr. 'tables, with his subscription of .51.1i. towards tut Anti-Corn-law fund.
' 7',, 1:ist,so blth January 1559. " Div dray Ilainet, !weds will not 1,,t behind Man.he,ter and Glasgow in the Corn-law tit;itaitiet. 1 flank the cum, by these arc„ cities is most wise, iI1
4otti11:: be heard ht ce■tii.,1 at ti,e bar ur the II it' Commons against
the Cos•b,t'. ought it ti.ti the stmt.', a, its nitaitiritettner, are :Li 1111101
inw-
ivateu 11, is .111,,US statnte:wlilell injures equit14 es cry class tit' the
:111111tIlhity, nut (.:0•1.1ithig 551m,it blundering igner:uncr prevents t114,111
11'0111 svciliq' 000 their polo:m.1a iniere,i, most it hale, tvith the ailtinteing prosyrity CH. ri:aniiity, 11,1N ili11,1,1,11 ty ii I:1 msu, uhic6 d •pritos :11Ir 11/1:1‘11.:11.11/1,1%, tt, mark. 1, of ;Iii world. all I t-btrtet oer p•a.t.tolry. In order that tiothint( should he wa:ttitie Ihrwaril the t'o; whits. u2itation, Manr:Imster and Waszow have ceni• 1111111Veli ,itLseriptietv. Let us do till. sallIC: awl ir a beginning him not been made itt Leeds, lit,. to c e sub,oenitig 5 it.
" I en the 2:;t1 ( which I shall attend) will have a great erred in uniting all per.,,cis (h,ply interested in the commercial and marinficiaring pro,perity or this CI■1111t•:', their (pi ii i lll is may be MI 0i111.r one diens,
in an intact: the Corn•law ; and aielt an onion cannot rail ill sooner or later obtain. in,; its object.
*Fhe Leeds petition received 9,000 signatures in two clays. In Leicester, Yarmouth, I'reston, Bristol, Wolverhampton, Birming- ham, Nottingham, and Lincoln, public meetings have been held, or summoned, to petition Parliament to abolish restrictions on the trade in corn.
At Chester, on Saturday, a " highly respectable meeting of farmers and gentlemen "adopted a petition in favour of the present Corn-laws, and against the substitution of a fixed duty.
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