be Country.
The Council of the Birmingham Political Union held a meeting on Tuesday last. Mr. G. F. Muntz, Mr. B. Attwood, the Reverend T. Macdonnell, and others, addressed the meeting in speeches expressive of great disappointment at the conduct of the Ministry. They said that it was evident that no measures calculated to be of real service to the country were to he expected from them, unless they were compelled to bring them forward by the universal cry of the People from one end of the country to the other. The coercive measures to- wards Ireland were also strongly denounced. Mr. 3Iacdonnell said that Lord Grey had contrived "to extract all the virus of former acts of coercion, and had concentrated them in one focus." It was determined to hold a public meet- ing of the inhabitants of Birmingham, at Beardsworth's Repository, on Monday next.
It is said that the people of Wolverhampton will also hold a meeting for a aimilar purpose next week.
Nearly every branch of trade is in a flourishing state at present. We under- stand that this is particularly the case with the iron trade, which, after suffer- ing a longer and deeper depression than any other branch of business, has begun to revive rapidly. Within the last three months, the price of iron has advanced 133i per cent., or 1/. 10s. per ton; and business is at present unusually brisk.— aLiverpool Titus.
Kay TO POLITICAL KNOWLEDGE; TAXATION. The dose of this important inquiry, and the analysis of the Debates in Parliament. have encroached so much on our limits this week, that we find it necessary to omit not only the favours of several Correspondents, but our-usual notices of New Books, and other branches of the Belles lettres. We shall make amends for these and other unavoidable emissions in our next Number.
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