Sir EDWARD MULLIGAN, M.P., wrote:--"Your meeting is a very important one, and has my cordial support. But with British-made ladies' gloves at £1 3_s._ 6_d._ a pair, British-made chocolate at 17_s._ 6_d._ a pound, and British-made silver watches at £38 a piece, it cannot be denied that the absence of foreign competition has favourably affected home prices. May this encouraging catalogue be continued. I hear, too, that since prohibitive duty has been imposed on the importation of petroleum the coarsest kinds of composite candles have been selling at 9_s._ 6_d._ a pound. Living for the Middle Classes must be getting unendurable. I hail the prospect as a hopeful sign of the times." (_Cheers._) Mr. JOYNTER, the Chairman of the Association, then rose to move the first Resolution:--"That in consideration of the fact that, though the threepenny halfpenny loaf was now at 3_s._ 9_d._, and that though the agricultural labourer was paying 4_s._ 7_d._ a pound for bacon, £3 17_s._ for a smock, and £1 15_s._ 6_d._ for a second-hand spade, and that yet, notwithstanding these fiscal advantages, he did not seem entirely satisfied with his improved condition, the meeting should urge upon the State, the necessity of imposing still further prohibitive duties on foreign imports in the hope of introducing even greater complications into the vexed question of how to make the British Consumer entirely support the British Producer." Mr. WAITLAND seconded the motion. He added, however, that notwithstanding the undeniably flourishing condition of British trade at home, he could not regard its prospects as equally satisfactory abroad. Owing to the retaliatory action of Foreign Governments, our Exports appeared somehow entirely to have disappeared. (_Laughter._) Mr. GRUNTZ, said that was so. Still there could be no doubt as to its healthy progress in our midst, and that reflection ought to quiet the misgivings and comfort the heart of the ardent Imperial Associationist. He had in his pocket at that moment a British-made cigar. (_Cheers._) It hadn't a nice flavour, it wouldn't draw, and it cost him 12s. 6d.--(_laughter_)--still, it was made of British-grown tobacco, and that was everything. (_Hear, hear!_) Perhaps it was in their wine that people of his class suffered most. In the old days he used to drink Dry Monopole; but since a Government duty of £20 a dozen was imposed on all imported Champagne, he had had to have his from the "British Home-manufactured Wine Company;" and, though they charged him eleven guineas a dozen for it, and he believed it frequently made his guests seriously ill, still he felt he was supporting a "home industry," and did not scruple to put it freely before them. (_Roars of laughter._) After the enthusiastic singing of "_Rule Britannia_" by the whole meeting, a vote of thanks to the Chairman brought the proceedings, which were of a very animated character, to a conclusion. * * * * *