Mr. Rawson said, if money could not be obtained from
the provinces, they must pay another instalment of their own subscriptions. Mr. Charles Walker insisted upon the necessity of some public de- monstration.
Mr. Alderman Brooks said, this was not a political question, and sin- less the Corn-laws were repealed, Manchester " would be left behind."
Mr. Berry, from Nottingham, gave a deplorable account of the suf- ferings of the operatives and the state of trade in that town; and in Leicester matters were little better.
Mr. Scott, of Dundee, described the commerce of Dundee, Arbroath, Montrose, and Aberdeen, as in a languishing state. Mr. Alderman Cobden enforced the necessity of renewed exertions. The Squires had had their meetings, and they had been nothing but Pro-Corn-law meetings in disguise. They had dined, and met, and 'raised the cry of "Protection to land ;" while the other party had been quietly looking on. The Association had been taunted by foes and scolded by friends for inactivity ; but they had not been altogether inactive, as their lecturers had done much service in the good cause. The time, however, had come for a zealous attack upon the Legislature throughout the whole country. Subscriptions had been sent from Leeds, Bradford, Huddersfield, Nottingham, and Dundee; and might be ' expected front Glasgow, Liverpool, and Birmingham where individuals had pledged themselves that from 2001. to 500/. should be sent to Man- chester. He believed there would be from 3,000 to 4,000 present at the festival next month ; but the sinews of war were wanting, and he
hoped the gentlemen of Manchester would pay. 25 per cents of their subscriptions, in addition to the 50 per cent. already paid. Resolutions pledging the meeting to active exertion were passes unanimously.
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