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"hold farce is it now to attempt to parade the Whig party 1846.
" the Free Traders par excellence! I will be no party to Zr. 42
“eh a frand as the attempt to build ap its ruined popularity
"Pon & question in which the Whig aristocracy and pro-Prietors
 in the counties either take no interest, or, if so,
“ly to resist it. I see mo advantage but much danger to
id cause from the present efforts to set up the old party
Gistinetions, and calm reflection tells me that isolation is more
"0d more the true policy of the League.” * This idea held
Wrong possession of him until the day of Peel's final defeat
“2d resignation.
Before coming to that, it will be convenient to state very
briefly the course of proceedings in Parliament. The motion
¥28 made to go into Committee on the Resolutions, on the
Yh February. Eighteen days later, after twelve nights of
dobage, and after one hundred and three speeches had been
lelivereq, the Government were successful by a majority of
Uinety.soven. On March 2, the House went into Committee
the Resolutions, and Mr. Villiers’s amendment that Repeal
ould be immediate as well as total, was lost by an im-Menge
 majority, barely short of two hundred. The Corn
By was then read a second time on March 27, by a majority
f 6ighty-eight in a House of five hundred and sixteen ; and
wag finally carried in the House of Commons at four o’clock
1 the morning of May 16, by a majority of ninety-eight in
% House of five hundred and fifty-six. The Lords made a
Much Jessy effective opposition than, as is shown by Cobden’s
otters, was commonly expected. The second reading was
®rried by two hundred and eleven against one hundred and
ty four, or a majority of forty-seven. Amendments were
i» i, They were made. . .. Men qualified themselves with a view of
og the ~epeal of the Corn Laws, end in consequence of Sat eesisn
1 Morr: + wnlked over the sourse at the next alaction. paachss.
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