Anti-Corn-law meetings of some note have occurred at Edin- burgh
and Dundee. The former speaks, chiefly, the sentiments of the Dissenting ministers of Scotland, and their congregations. Dundee adds another to the list of great manufacturing districts that have formally recorded their complaint of protracted distress, and their conviction that that distress is attributable to our re- strictive system of commerce. Both meetings were distinguished by the presence of practical agriculturists, who declared that the Corn-laws do not benefit them. At Edinburgh, Mr. HOPE, a farmer, showed that they are inoperative to give any protection
where corn-rents prevail ; while they inflict all the inconvenience of high prices on the bread-consumers. Mr. CARNEGIE, at the Dundee meeting, calculated that three-fifths of the land in Great Britain are employed in growing luxuries : the consumption of luxuries might be doubled were times of prosperity restored ; and six-fifths of the land might then be laid out in the production of luxuries alone, even supposing none were needed for the home- growth of corn,—an impossible case. This comparing of notes and dispassionate appeal to actual experience among agriculturists is the very best augury of the true advancement of the cause.
