20 JANUARY 1844, Page 9
The usual monthly meeting of the Anti-Corn-law League was held
in Manchester Free-trade Hall, on Thursday evening. It was reported that, since the last meeting, the deputations of the League had held twenty-five meetings, and that the new fund now amounted to 22,588/.
Anti-League meetings have been held at Banbury, in Oxfordshire, attended by Viscount Villiers, Sir Robert Peel's son-in-law ; at Durham, and at Wisbech.