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Mandeville is full of the corn-laws. He is chosen chairman to a select committee in the House. He is murmuring agricultural distresses in his sleep; and when I asked him occasionally to come down here to see me, he started from a reverie, and exclaimed, " Never, Mr. Speaker, as a landed proprietor; never will I consent to my own ruin." My boy, my own, my beautiful companion, is with me.
The practical result has been, that between the 9th of July 1842, and the present time, there have not come over foreign cattle enough to make one week's show at Smithfield. Its working is in beautiful harmony with that of the newly modeled corn-laws, as we shall presently explain.
We know nothing of the causes that have led to this memorable and momentous event, except that apparently differences of opinion prevailed among the members of the Ministry in reference to the corn-laws.
On the whole, I journeyed along very pleasantly, certainly quite as pleasantly as I do at present, now that I am become a gentleman and weigh sixteen stone, though some people would say that my present manner of travelling is much the most preferable, riding as I now do, instead of leading my horse; receiving the homage of ostlers instead of their familiar nods; sitting down to dinner in the parlour of the best inn I can find, instead of passing the brightest part of the day in the kitchen of a village alehouse; carrying on my argument after dinner on the subject of the corn-laws, with the best commercial gentlemen on the road, instead of being glad, whilst sipping a pint of beer, to get into conversation with blind trampers, or maimed Abraham sailors, regaling themselves on half-pints at the said village hostelries.
But, ever since I succeeded in what everybody allows to have been the most hazardous attempt of the kind ever made, I mean in persuading an audience of manufacturers, all Whigs or Radicals, that the immediate alteration of the corn-laws was impossible, I have been considered as a capital physician for desperate cases in politics.
English monopolists did not fail on their side to exclaim, when the corn-laws were repealed, "What will become of Great Britain in time of war if she depends on the United States for food?" One thing they fail to observe: it is that this sort of dependence, which results from exchange, from commercial operations, is a reciprocal dependence.
Thus the state of the Continent; the policy of Metternich; the condition of the Papacy; the growth of Dissent; the proper mode of dealing with the general spirit of Democracy, which was the epidemic of European monarchies; the relative proportions of the agricultural and manufacturing population; corn-laws, currency, and the laws that regulate wages; a criticism on the leading speakers of the House of Commons, with some discursive observations on the importance of fattening cattle; the introduction of flax into Ireland; emigration; the condition of the poor; the doctrines of Mr.
In vain Cato inveighed against this shortsighted policy: the rise of demagogism had a part in it, and these extraordinary, but presumably very frequent, distributions of grain under the market price by the government or individual magistrates became the germs of the subsequent corn-laws.
The conversation got brisker and brisker: and before the cloth was drawn there was a very general clamour, in which all sorts of subjects seemed to be mixed each man addressing himself to his immediate neighbour; one talking of taxes another of tares a third, of hunting and the system of kennel a fourth, of the corn-laws old Blossomnose, about tithes Slapp, about timber and water-jumping Miller, about Collison's pills; and Guano, about anything that he could get a word edged in about.
The Question of Increase in the Number of Spiritual Peers. Repeal of the Corn-laws. Revolution in France, and Agitation on the Continent. Death of Sir Robert Peel. Indifference of the Country to Reform. Repeal of the Navigation Laws. Resolutions in Favor of Free-trade. The Great Exhibition of 1851. Dismissal of Lord Palmerston. Theory of the Relation between the Sovereign and the Cabinet.
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