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 simple test will be—the complete, total, and immediate abolition of the monopoly of food. (Cheers.) I know not why one should hesitate to say, upon such an occasion as this, that the placards which I see round about this theatre express the feeling and preference that I think may be honestly entertained for Mr. Pattison as the representative of that great city. (Tremendous cheering.)

Liverpool, in its great and growing commerce rivalling London, was doing what it could to counterbalance its want of representation, or rather its misrepresentation in the House of Commons. The monthly meeting of the Anti-Monopoly Association was held, October 4th, at the Amphitheatre; and the enthusiasm manifested by a crowded audience of between 5,000 and 6,000 persons equalled, if indeed it did not surpass, anything ever before witnessed in Liverpool. The house was splendidly decorated for the occasion; gorgeous banners and free-trade devices ornamented the stage, while the boxes were surrounded by pithy mottoes. Mr. Charles Holland was called to the chair, and the meeting was addressed by Mr. Thomas Blackburn, during whose lucid and argumentative speech the most perfect silence reigned throughout the house; and the clear appechension and ready assent given to each successive point in his most logical train of reasoning, evinced that the audience fully understood the functions, and took upon themselves the responsibilities, of a deliberative assembly; and their vote, unanimously given, that whatever the course other nations might pursue, it was our duty at once and for ever to abolish all restrictions on our commerce, sot at once a noble example to the country at large, and read a valuable lesson to its rulers. This motion was followed by a well-timed resolution, calling upon the electors of London to do their duty, and discharge worthily the heavy responsibility devolved upon them, by sending to parliament as their representative a thorough uncompromising corn-law repealer. The speech of Mr. W. J. Fox, which followed, was brilliant in the