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LIST OF THE MINORITY.
  • Marsland, H.
  • Martin, J.
  • Maule, Right Hon. Fox
  • Morison, General
  • Muntz, G, F.
  • Napier, Sir Charles
  • O'Brien, J.
  • O'Connell, M. J.
  • Ord, W.
  • Oswald, J.
  • Parker, J.
  • Pechell, Captain
  • Philips, G. R.
  • Philips, Mark
  • Phillpotts, J.
  • Plumridge, Captain
  • Ponsonby, Honourable C.F.A.C.
  • Ponsonby, Hon. J. G.
  • Protheroe, E.
  • Palsford, R.
  • Ramsbottom, J.
  • Ricardo, J. L.
  • Rice, E. R.
  • Roche, Sir D.
  • Roebuck, J.A.
  • Ross, D. R.
  • Russell, Lord E.
  • Scholefield, J.
  • Scott, R.
  • Scrope, G. P.
  • Seale, Sir J. H.
  • Smith, B.
  • Smith, Right Hon. R.Y.
  • Standish, Charles
  • Stansfield, W. R. C.
  • Stanton, W. H.
  • Stuart, Lord J.
  • Strickland, Sir George.
  • Strutt, E.
  • Tancred, H. W
  • Thornley, T.
  • Towneley, J.
  • Trelewny, J.S.
  • Tufnell, H.
  • Turner, E.
  • Vivian, J. H.
  • Wakley, Thomas
  • Walker, R.
  • Ward, H. G.
  • Wawn, J. T.
  • Williams, W.
  • Wood, B.
  • Wood, G. W.
  • Yorke, H. R.

TELLERS

  • Villiers, Honourable C.,
  • Stuart, W. V.

Deputies from a great number of anti-corn-law associations throughout the kingdom had congregated in London, and during the debate on Mr. Villiers' motion had met daily at Herbert's Hotel, to watch the proceedings in the house over the way, and daily to demolish the fallacies and the falsehoods uttered there. Resolutions were passed not only against the Corn Law, but against every commercial monopoly, and recommendatory of a registration of members of the League, the adoption of weekly, monthly, and other periodical subscriptions, and urging a complete parliamentary registration of all free-traders in the boroughs and counties, in order to bring into united action the whole of the free-trade constituencies of the empire. Nor did the exclusion from Drury Lane prevent a continuation of the meetings which had been commenced. On the 13th of May one was held at the English Opera House, which was addressed by Mr. George Wilson, Mr. W. J. Fox, and Mr. Cobden. On the following week, the meeting was held in the Hall of Commerce, and was