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Rh given to all the nations of the world, more or less depending on each other, and keeping up the kindly and beneficial intercourse. (Hear, hear.) Let the laws be blamed which blasted the fair prospects of the nation and inflicted the curse of sterility, barrenness, and scarcity upon a land where plenty might reign, and mar the gracious designs of Providence by unjust legislation. (Continued cheering.)

His lordship's peroration was about as good as one of the small tracts of the League—almost as good as Mathew Henry's commentary upon the text, "There is corn in Egypt." He here gave an indication that defeat that night was not to prevent his bringing on the motion with regard to the Corn Law of which he had given notice. All doubt upon that point was removed on the following Thursday night. The house was in a state of great excitement, the tories being driven almost to madness because the whigs did not consider the union of monopolists a sufficient reason for leaving office before they had brought their plans fully before the house. Lord Darlington, to be relieved from painful suspense, put the question to Lord John Russell when he meant to bring forward his motion, to which his lordship quietly replied, "On Friday, the fourth of June." It was understood that, besides having a discussion on the Corn Law then, ministers would bring forward the whole tariff, and that, if defeated, they would dissolve Parliament, and "appeal to the country"—appeal, however, being only to an electoral body in which his lordship, unfortunately for his new position, by his own avowal, had sought to give the preponderating influence to the landed interest.

During the protracted debate in the House of Commons, the ministerial defeat being anticipated, and when the defeat had been incurred, numerous meetings were held all over the country, and, generally, the principle recognised was the entire repeal of import duties on corn and provisions, with a reference to the ministerial measure as an instalment to be accepted without any compromise of the demand for full measures of justice. The town