On Monday week, resolutions were adopted at a public meeting
in Aberdeen to establish an Anti-Corn-law Association, On that occasion, Mr. Bannerman, M.P., said-
"-The question of the Cora-lairs is a praeticarqUestion, intoTvingntetheary of erganic-cluinge its the constitution. The Corn:dime have been aepeatedly changed—unluckily changed for the worse ; and it is my opinion that the pre- sent laws are miserably bad, and ought to be repealed. On the time and the mode of accomplishing that object, I shall not at present express an opinion. It has been stated, I see, that the Ministers have got up and encouraged the igitation of the Corn-laws. This is utterly untrue; and I am convinced that no Member of Parliament, out of the Cabinet, is aware of the course the lifinisters mean to pursue regarding this vital question. Hitherto it has been looked upon by Lord Melbourne's Cabinet as an entirely open one, on which every person, in any way connected with the Government, might speak and tote as he pleased."
The Kirkaldy Chamber of Commerce has resolved to petition both Houses of Parliament in favour of Corn-law repeal.
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