. The life of John Bright. roceedings ofthe evening—interesting as evincing the great coolnessand good sense of the vast mass assembled together. Noone manifested any particular alarm. John was wroughtup by the accident and spoke in no honied strains of theevil machinations of the enemies of the cause of Corn LawRepeal. It was highly amusing to see him and GeorgeWilson and young Rawson each holding up a farthingcandle, the two former flattering and comforting thepeople by turns. When Bright wrote to Cobden about Peel, Graham, Famine& Co. he scarcely did justice to the two senior partners, whow
. The life of John Bright. roceedings ofthe evening—interesting as evincing the great coolnessand good sense of the vast mass assembled together. Noone manifested any particular alarm. John was wroughtup by the accident and spoke in no honied strains of theevil machinations of the enemies of the cause of Corn LawRepeal. It was highly amusing to see him and GeorgeWilson and young Rawson each holding up a farthingcandle, the two former flattering and comforting thepeople by turns. When Bright wrote to Cobden about Peel, Graham, Famine& Co. he scarcely did justice to the two senior partners, whowere plotting against the interests of Famine at no small riskto themselves, and with scant consideration for the prejudicesof Co. Peel and Graham were watching, with ever increasingalarm, the incorrigible statistics of population, which would goon increasing while the wheat-growing power of the countrystood still. As early as December 1842, Graham wrote to Peel: 4 In truth it is a question of time. The next change in. PRISCILLA, SISTER OF JOHN BRIGHT Afterwards Mrs. Duncan McLaren (From an early portrait in possession of her son, Lord Aberconway) 1842-43] PEEL ACCUSES COBDEN 87 the Corn Laws must be to an open trade ; and if ourpopulation increase for two or three years at the rate ofthree hundred thousand per annum, you may throw openthe ports and agriculture will not suffer. But the nextchange must be the last. If this letter had been published when it was written therewould have been an eruption of the political Vesuvius. TheProtectionist crew would have cut the throats of their officersbefore they had perfected their arrangements for handing overthe ship to the enemy. For if it was a question of time, itwas not time yet by the House of Commons clock. To men in the position in which Peel and Graham now foundthemselves on the Treasury Bench—beginning to think whitebut pledged for a while longer to talk black and act grey—it wastorture to see their own incarnate conscien
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