29 APRIL 1848, Page 8

Many of the gentlemen who took a lead in organizing

the late Free- trade agitation met at the head-quarters of that agitation, Manchester, on Thursday night. The meeting was held in the former " Council-room " of Anti-Corn-law agitators, in Newhall's Buildings; and Mr. George Wilson, the old League chairman, presided. Mr. Cobden expressed a willingness to postpone the particular questions of reduced taxation and reduced ex- penditure, if they would hinder the main object—extension of the suffrage. The meeting organized a great agitating correspondence, like that of the Anti-Corn-law League.