28 OCTOBER 1848, Page 8

The first anniversary meeting of the Corn Exchange at Birmingham

was held on Thursday, and some two hundred gentlemen of all parties sat down to dinner. Two odd incidents varied the speechmaking: Mr. Newdegate exhorted his auditors to "rely upon it that there is no advantage in mono- poly "; and Mr. Muntz proposed the toast of the "Agricultural interest— the greatest of all."

Lord Brougham arrived in town on Sunday last from Brougham Hall, and has since departed for his seat in the South of France; to make a brief sojourn in Paris by the way.