The Duke of Buckingham dined on Saturday with a party
of farmers at a tavern in Buckingham. His Grace told the company, that "the
Corn-laws, in their actual shape, were the very best that could be framed," and he urged them "never to give away any portion of them." As foe the Ministers, the Duke said- " The persons who are now in power remain in power solely for the sake of emolument, and they will concede any thing ant, every thing to the parties who keep them there. These men show the duplicity of their characters and policy in the way they treat the question ,af the Corn. laws. They show the truckling and trickery cff their mantes in lail%iag the question an open one, and thus court votee they would odieriviso have a chance of obtaining. I would rather see Lord Melbourne standing for a repeal of the whole Corn- laws, than making it an open tette: ion, nail liv i ig the members of the Cabinet one against the other. That was not the way a great question should be handleat by honest statesmen."
Sir Thomas Fremantle adverted to the actual operation of the Corn- laws— it was publiely etated that a twee sillily of foreign corn hal been during the weck relcase-I froat band, to CIt aumant of tentet aseateet Inarters, in the Metropolis, and nearly as min.11 mnro in the warehouses of the outports ; =kite/ altogether, he believed, teI .1 It iiRafters. And yet people were absurd enough to say that ender the se: telt Cornolawe :ioeign corn could nut 'ue in- troduced. Ender those laws nit :c atm.:age co-it ;at-lid be introduced, and at a more reasonable price Hum if th,r,2 were a tie, d duty. .A. fluctuating duty had an effect upon the corn spaadaHrs wil:ch was always beneficial to the public. The Ma ache (-; elvo very bail accounts of trade in Lancashire. There have sevs.it feilueses in Manchester— (me for between 4t ■01. el. a ea ete.e.,:j.
At Brebein, on Titeseley. eta 'letions were passed, by noblemen and
gentlemen corn:vett:et e1 Cee t!!. in favour of applying to Parlia- ment for oil ia ceteoreetie4- a reilwey from Loedon te the great packet- station, Fahnotula
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