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Widable. I ohserve there are & great many busy men of mn.
Ur party who like to see their names in print, and who Zr 87.
therefore take up small matters continually ; they are very
little attended to by the House. With these men I shall
Lot interfere, and they will all sid me in obtaining a fair
Bearing on my great question. We had s curious scene of
Jealousy and bickering to-day. Sharman Crawford brought
on an amendment to the address without consulting anybody.s
 Roebuck, who is as wayward and impulsive as he is
clever, walked out of the House with a tail of four or five,
whilst hearty old Wallace of Greenock cried out, ‘Who
Cares for you ? who cares?’ amidst the roars of the House.
I can gee that Roebuck will never do any good for our Free
Trade party. | He does not see the importance of our princi-Ple,
 and therefore cannot feel a proper interest in it. Heiss
good deal in communication with Brougham, who, by the way,
Sent word by Sturge to-day that he wants to see me. 3
find myself poset by cliques, but my abstemious and romi-Rating
 turn will make me entirely safe from all such intrigues
80d influences.” ©
“From what I can hear,” he wrote a month later, “it
Appears that Peel has no plan in view of any kind, with
*espect to the corn question. The aristocracy and people
ia gaping at him, wondering what he is going to do, and
bis head will be at work with mo higher ambition than to
gull both parties. Iam of opinion that there never was &
better moment than at present for carrying the question
out of doors, If there be determination enough in the
Winds of the people to make a vigorous demonstration

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* When the House met to receive the Report on the A AT
Mr. Crawford proposed sn amendment, to the effect tha resentation of
doploreq in the Speech was to be attributed to the nor-rep pimons, and
the working classes in Parliament. The Radicals were not uns
"he amendment, wes defeated by 298 against B9.
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