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Pounds had been expended in the current year. A fund of 1844.
2 hundred thousand pounds was demanded for the year to Zr 40.
ome; and before the end of 1844 pearly ninety thousand
Pounds of that sum had actually been raised. Of this
“Mount, nearly fourteen thousand pounds were subscribed
8 a single meeting in Manchester. Cobden had, at that
time a4 any rate, supreme faith in the potency of this
Vast propagandism. He till believed that if you brought
ruth to people’s doors, they must embrace it. Projects for
the establishment of newspapers for the spread of the views
of hig school, always interested him keenly. The following
letter to Mr. Bright describes the beginnings of one of the
Most excellent journals of the time :—
“I wish I could have a little talk with you and Wilson
#bout the removal of the Circular to London. James
Wilson? Las a plan for starting a weekly Free-trader by
himself and his friends, to be superintended by himself.
But he does not intend this unless he can have the support
of the League, or at least its acquiescence. He has a
Notion that a paper would do more good if it were not
the organ of the League, but merely their independent
Supporter, But then what is the League to do for an
gan? If we start another weekly paper, it would clash
With his, Villiers seems to have been rather taken with
James Wilson’s plan, and it would undoubtedly be desirable
bo haye Wilson’s pen at work. It is quite clear that the
League must have its organ. The question for us to decide
8 What kind of paper shall we have? Is it to be simply a
moval of the Anti-Bread-Taw Circular to London with the
“henge of the title to the League Oircular and to be still
Confineg exclusively to the one object and movement of the

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0 Afterwards Secretary to the Treasury, snd Financial Member of the
in neil of India. A most interesting acoount of Mr. Wilson is to be found
the Literary Studies of the late Walter Bagehot (vol. i. pp. 867—406.)