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 with consistency, propriety, and dignity of character. The poet Campbell has described the feelings of the outcast when he wanders through the village; how he looks wistfully at the cottage with its little garden; leaps on the gate, and says to himself:—

Oh! that for me some home like this might smile, Some hamlet's shade, to shield my sickly form— Health in the breeze, and shelter from the storm!'

To those whose lives are spent in toilsome exertion and constant endurance, but who can take time so far by the forelock as to accumulate little sum, such hope and promise as this, does the present plan hold out and offer as an excitement. May their spirit arise to aspire towards and seize it; and obtaining it, I think we shall be on the high-road towards a better choice of legislators, & more complete identification of the interests of those who toil with the advantages of those who think,—a better identification of the different classes that extend themselves through the demarcations of society; and our House of Commons will then be in a fair way to show what it is to have a full, fair, and free representation of the Commons of England. (Great cheering.)"

From this time there were thousands of free traders who purchased freeholds, at an expense of several hundred thousand pounds; a practical kind of movement, promising a practical result, and a proof of earnestness and determination which led many influential landowners to give more consideration to the free-trade question than they had ever given before.

The third annual aggregate meeting of the Liverpool Anti-Monopoly Association was held in the Music Hall, on Monday, January 20th. The chair on the occasion was filled by Thomas Thornely, Esq., who was supported by William Brown, Esq., Thomas Blackburn, Esq., &c. The chairman, in the course of the remarks with which he opened the meeting, alluded to the subject of sugar in the following terms:—" There was one new point in the sugar bill of last year, which was, that foreign sugars from certain countries named in the act of parliament—it being considered in this country that the labour was the labour of freemen—should be admitted at certain protecting duties; that wherever we had a treaty with a foreign power,