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By the way, it is & wholesome sign thet my middle-class 184%
Popularity seems rather to be increased by my avowal Ar 39.
of Dy origin; and for the first time probably a man is
Served by that aristocratic class, who owes nothing to birth,
Parentage, patronage, connexions, or education. Don’t listen
to the nonsense shout our being prosecuted. The enemy
hag hipng his fingers already by meddling with the Leaguers.
Wait, till we have held two or three weekly meetings in
Drury Lane Theatre, and you will see that we are not the
Ten to he put to the ordeal of a middle-class jury. Our
Wetropolitan gatherings are bonh-fide demonstrations of
Sarnest energetic men of the shop-keeping class, a large
Proportion under thirty years of age. There is this advantage
 from a middle-class movement in London, that it always
%arries with it the working men, who are all intermingled
by their occupation with the class above them more com-Pletely
 than in any other large town. I observe what you
Say about the spirit of our Manchester Tories. The base-1958
 of that party exceeds anything since the time of the
old Egyptian worshippers of Bulls and Beetles. But depend
Upon it, the hostility to the League is confined pretty much
%o the leaders, and you will see when a general election turns
Upon the Corn Laws (and we must have a dissolution upon
the Question before setiling it), that the rank and file of
fe Party, the shopkeepers and owners of small cottage
Property, will either desert the Tory masters, or fold their
“Is ang refuse to go into action ab their bidding. But
Our Salvation will come from the rural districts, The
mers are already half alienated from the landlords, and
& Schism will widen every rent-day. Araidst the deluge
of lottery that I have received since the Peel blunder,
IN 10s of commune tions from farmers. My declaration
bat 1 4m a farmer's son, seems to have told as I ex-Poetd)
 nna it is a point of too much importance not