. Lord Grey of the Reform Bill, being the life of Charles, second Earl Grey. middle-class Times, which was stronglyopposed to the uUra Radicals. The anti-clerical violenceof the mobs recalled the days of the Long Bishops of Durham and Exeter dared not go abouttheir work in their dioceses. On the Fifth of Novembera mitred figure almost everywhere took the place ofGuy Fawkes. Even in haunts of ancient peace, likeWorcester, where as the Radicals complained * therewere so many Black Slugs living about the purlieusof the Cathedral, that it was * uphill work to form ^ Papers, 52,

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. Lord Grey of the Reform Bill, being the life of Charles, second Earl Grey. middle-class Times, which was stronglyopposed to the uUra Radicals. The anti-clerical violenceof the mobs recalled the days of the Long Bishops of Durham and Exeter dared not go abouttheir work in their dioceses. On the Fifth of Novembera mitred figure almost everywhere took the place ofGuy Fawkes. Even in haunts of ancient peace, likeWorcester, where as the Radicals complained * therewere so many Black Slugs living about the purlieusof the Cathedral, that it was * uphill work to form ^ Papers, 52, 15, where the Duke of Newcastle, in his lettersto Melbourne, accuses some of the magistrates of haranguing themob about the Lords and the Bill, and indifferently suffering allthese things to take place. He himself could not (he said) venturepersonally into the manufacturing districts; I should either be murdered,or raise a riot by appearing,* Malmesbury {Memoirs), p. 29. Lord Tankerville, though an oldWhig, and a friend and neighbour of Grey, could not swallow the

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