CHAPTER X.

THE NEW CORN LAW.

I the interval between the prorogation and the great 1842
session of 1849 it was commonly understood that the mr, ss.
Government would certainly do something with the Corn
Law, Expectation was not sanguine among the men in
the north, Some of the more impatient were so irritated
by the delay, that they even wished to agitate for the overthrow
 of a government which had just been appointed,
“ud which commanded an overwhelming majority. Cobden
38 Wiser. To one of the shrewdest of his allies he wrote
%ome useful {ruth
“Ido not like your idea,” he said, “of getting the deputies
% pass a vote for dismissing the Ministry. That would be
ken gg Partisan movement—which it really would be—
nd we should lose moral influence by it. Let us not forget
that we Were very tolerant of the Whig Ministers, even after
Molbogry had laughed in our faces and called us madmen.
the Present Government will do something. It is the House
8 Commons, and not the Ministers, that we ought to attack.
Lo 10t see how with decency we can worry the Queen to
hangs her Ministers, whilst the people’s representatives
tare Wade her take to Peel against her consent, And
ong the representatives who have done this are those
Liverpool, Warrington, Wigan, Leeds, Blackburn,