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a our Bon and a half. Tu the end, the arguments of
blo Traders were Vic to be so absolutely unanswertopos]
 at a resolution in favour of total and immediate
uel, — carried hy five to one. The circumstances were
Vhong a same, snd the result was the same at Lincoln,
Thun obden was eccompsmied by Mr. Bright. Af
Hottp” the church bells were rung, flags with free-trade
insisog were hung from the windows, snd a brass band
fo th on sucompanying the deputation from the railway
Moore place of meeting. Cobden, Mr. Bright, and Mr.
Nine oe listened to with unwearied attention for
with g an four hours. The farmers listened at first
Yigg oubt and suspicion. Gradually their faces cleared,
in ction began to warm them, and at last such an
of Phen had been made, that eight hundred farmers out
tote) Tseting of twelve hundred persons, voted in favour of
and immediate repesl.
Bedford Cobden had not a single friend or acquaintby
 : He had simply sunounced as extensively as he could
Tho gos that he meant to visit the town on a given day.
dwg had been canvassed far and wide to attend to put
The he representatives from the Anti-Corn-Law League.
hag ssembly Rooms could nob hold half the persons who
side oe together, and they adjourned to a large field ont-Sug
 e town. Three waggons were provided to serve as
Cobges but the monopolist party rudely seized them, and
Lord had to wait while a fourth waggon Was procured.
The harles Russell presided, snd the disenssion began.
WO went on from three o’clock in the afternoon.
tui nine o’clock in the evening, in spite of heavy showers of
but i, o first Cobden wes listened to with some impatience,
ing © warmed to Le subject, and began to deliver telltnd
 of illustration and srgument, the impression
lv suroad that he was right. The chairman Was

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