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1843.  astir with angry ezpectation for many days; the dra?
Ar. 39. ecclesiastic had been vigorously besten all over the county
Sir John Tyrrell, at this tirne one of the dovghtiest follower
of Peel, promised or threatened to attend; passions waxed
very high; special constables were sworn in; and the
violent and the timid alike declared that the agitator
would find themselves in no small bodily peril. Husting®
were erected in a large field, nod when the dey ca™
several thousands of people assembled from all parts of
the county. At the appointed honr Cobden and Charle?
Villiers were at their posts, and they were soon followed PJ
Sir John Tyrrell and Mr. Ferrand. Then the journament
began. The battle raged for six hours, and the Leag™
shampions achieved a striking victory. The amendment u
his resolution was pn fo utter rout, and when night fell, Si
John Tyrrell was found to have silently vanished. Ab 0P°
point in the controversy, he had irrelevantly defied Cobd®®
to do further battle with him at Chelmsford. Cobde”
instantly took up the glove, and on the appointed day ¥
Chelmsford he went. Sir John, however, had already hed
snough of an unequal match, and Cobden carried on the
controversy in the usual way and with his usual success.
“ Will these repeated discomfitures,” cried the Morni®d
Post, “induce the landowners of England to open their eye’
to the dangers that beset them? What may be the cans®®
of Mr. Cobden’s success? The primary cause is assuredly
that which conduces to the success of Sir Robert Peel
Why, indeed, if parliamentary landowners deem it honest
and wise to support the author of the Tariff and the ne%
Corn Law, should not the tenant farmers of England sup”
port Sir Robert Peel's principles when enunciated by Mr
Cobden? With what pretensions to consistency could Sir
John Tyrrell oppose Mr. Cobden on the hustings ab Col
chester, after having supported all the Free Trade measure?