Mr. POULETT THOMSON, when addressing his Manchester consti- tuents on
Thursday, repeated the MACAULAY shuffle about the repdal of the Coro-laws. It was, he admitted, the mos: important of all subjects; but he would say nothing about it, because it was also a very difficult subject-the difficulty being occasioned by the division of opi- nion regarding it which prevailed in the country. Mr. THOMSON' might as well have declared without reserve, that Ministers had re- solved upon the coetionance of the Corn-laws-to support the land- owners against the millions; for that is the meaning of shrink ng front the discussion of a subject on which them is a division of opinion. Gentlemen, payers of the Bread-tcx, and starriT, s from the futile mo- nopoly-whether ye be of the country or the town-manufacturers or fariners-we counsel you to disregard the qualms and deli- cacies, and to UNITE, for the con tioual discussion of this " dillieun " question, until, by dila of reason and cveiy lawiul means of agitation, you remove the curse inflicted upon the hind by ignoiruit avarice.
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