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Wtiny, which, in justice to our own subjects, we are bound 1857.
10 do, I fear that in the process we shall familiarize our- Zr. 58.
elves with deeds of blood which may tend to make us a
’ruel and sanguinary nation, and then God help Bolton or
Oldham, if some day from sudden suffering its passionate
multitude should seb the middle classes and their Horse
Guards at defiance ; for assuredly then they who now cry for
the destruction of Delhi would not be less merciful to the
bricks and mortar of Lancashire.”
“Nov. 22. (To Mr. White, the Member for Brighton.)—
“++. You have seized upon the most important of our
Social and political questions in the laws affecting the transfor
 of land. It is astonishing that the people ab large are
% tacit in their submission to the perpetuation of the feudal
Ystem in this country as it affects the property in land, so
long after it has been shattered to pieces in every other
ountry except Russia. The reason is, I suppose, that the
Sreat increase of our manufacturing system has given such
80 expansive system of employment to the population, that
the want of land as a field of investment and employment
for labour has been comparatively little felt. So long as
his prosperity of our manufactures continues, there will be
10 great outcry against the landed monopoly. If adversity
Were to fall on the nation, your huge feudal properties
Would goon be broken up, and along with them the hereditary
 system of government under which we contentedly
live ang thrive. When I was travelling on the Continent, I
foung among the thinking part of the population in France,
Ttaly, and Germany, a great feeling of surprise that the men
Who had abolished the Corn Laws had not also abolished
the monopoly of land; and they were quite puzzled, and
Almost incredulous, when I told them that there was little
feeling against our custom of primogeniture even among the
tural population of England, Another reason may help to