1 THR BILL PASSES THE UPPER HOUAK. 38%

Which you will see that I am a likeable’ person. I hope
You wip) appreciate this,”
“June 23.1 have been plagued for several days with
Jtting to Herbert for the picture of the Council of the
League, and it completely upsets my afternoons. Bedeg
 my mind has been more than ever upon the worry
thong that affair which is to come off after the Corn
Bi 4 settled, and about which I hear all sorts of reports.
You must therefore excuse me if 1 could not sit down to
"ite a letter of news. . . . I thought the Corn Bill would,
"tainly be read the third time on Tuesday (to-morrow),
but I nog begin to think it will be put off till Thursday.
Ther is literally no end to this suspense. Rut there are
Ports of Pes) being out of office on Friday next, and the
Peers may yet ride restive.”
“June 26.—My DEAREST KATE, —Hurrah! Hurrah! the
Com Bip is law, and now my work is done. I shall come
ow to-morrow morning by the six o’clock train in order to
be Present at a Council meeting at three, and shall hope to
be home in time for a late tea’

1248.
Ar. 42.

By what hag always been noticed asa striking coincidence,
"1d hag even been heroically described as Nemesis, the
Cory Bill passed the House of Lords on the same night on
Vhich the Coercion Bill was rejected in the House of Comtong,
 On this memorable night the last speech before the
Hiision was made by Cobden. He could not, he said, regard
"be vote which he was about to give against the Irish Bill
one of ng confidence, for it was evident that the Prime
histor could not be maintained in power by a single vote.
“he hag 4 majority that night, Lord George Bentinck
roulg Soon put him to the test again on some other subject.
bh ay case, Cobden refused to stultify himself as Lord
foorgs and his friends were doing, by voting black to be