We are given to understand that a letter has been
received by a Member of Parliament, from Mr. R. Steuart, one of the Lords of the Treasury, intimating that the Corn-law question is to be taken up at the opening of Parliament. Deeply convinced as we are, after many years anxious study of the question, that nothing short of a total repeal of the Corn-laws can benefit the country, and that to be safe this repeal must be immediate, we urgently press upon the attention of all the necessity to " beware of trepans." From conversations with the Dele- gates at Manchester and with the most intelligent inhabitants of various
places we have recently visited, we are assured that the conviction, that -any thing short of a total and immediate -repeal of the Corn-laws will prove unavailing, is universal among their opponents, from Trent toJohn o'Groat's House. If the powerful body entertaining this opinionbe but true to itself, it must prevail. As the Corn-laws are at present, they cannot continue. No agriculturist will long endure a system which allows corn to enter and beat down prices at the exact moment when high prices are essential to him. A move must be made : and if the body organized at Manchester remains firm and united, it can decide the result of that movement. Sir Robert Peel, we are assured, has declared his opinion that the Corn-laws must be modified. Lord John Russell suggests a low fixed duty. We must listen to the tempting of neither charmer. Let parties and partisans sink or swim, let us abide by that which can alone save the country, total and immediate repeal of the Corn-laws.- Glasgow Argus.
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