Mr. Paulton has been lecturing on the Corn-laws in Edinburgh,
to numerous audiences. At the close of his last lecture, Mr. Cairns pro. posed a vote of thanks to Mr. Poulton ; which was, apparently, carried unanimously ; and Mr. Paulton was about to return thanks, when Dr. Glover rose, and a row commenced ; a few of the Doctor's Chart. ist friends insisting that he should be heard, while the majority of the meeting were for putting him down. Thus the meeting ended in up. roar. Dr. Glover, in a published letter, says that he did not mean to oppose the vote of thanks, but to observe, in reference to a remark of Mr. Cairns, that there was no use in petitioning Parliament for a repeal of the Corn-laws, until a further reform of the House of Commons was obtained. The Doctor adds-
" I wished to know if they would join to obtain reform. They know my sentiments: hence Mr. Paulton's friends raised such a hue and cry of intro- sion and tyranny, while, in fact, they were the aggressors, as they wished tho sentiments they obtruded on the meeting to pass as the sentiments of the meeting ; and when any sentiment was uttered, then they spoke, two or three at once, to prevent its being heard."
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