A very crowded meeting of the Anti-Corn-law League was held
at the Manchester Corn Exchange, on Thursday. Mr. George Wilson, the Chairman, said that during the week they had sent out about 700,000 tracts for distribution, and that they had fifty-four bales, amounting to about three tons, to be sent out next day. Good accounts of the collection of the fund were sent from a number of places. The main address was de- livered by Mr. John Bright, who reported the progress in Scotland ; speaking highly of the superior intelligence of the people. He made special mention of one subscriber to the fund-
" Among the subscriptions given in Edinburgh was one, and it was entirely unsolicited, from the mother of a late Secretary or Under-Secretary of Ireland, a gentleman who is known, and probably will be known for ages, for one single sentence that passed from his lips : he said= Property has its duties as well as its rights.' And the mother of that Mr. Drummond sent 51. down to the League fund in Edinburgh ; thus testifying her opinion, and showing that she coincided in the view that her IOU has expressed."
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