He selects a Whig year when the home consumption was 220,-000 bags under the importation, and a year for Peel when the importation exceeded the home consumption by 280,000 bags, and claps down the figures as alike describing the home consumption.
None of the Peel papers have taken up the subject: if they should, the ‘Morning Post’ will answer the pamphlet; but I should like to have mine back again, in order that I may furnish them with the notes.
* * * * was with me this morning, and called my attention to the circumstance that the author starts with ‘We,’ but drops into the singular number; * * * * fancies it is Peel himself, but the page on endowment fixes it on * * * *.
Lord L * * * * means, I presume, that Peel’s savage hatred is applied to the Protectionist portion of his old party, not of course to the janissaries and renegade portion.
The following letter was in reply to one of a friend who had sent him information, several days before they occurred, of the great failures that were about to happen in the city of London. The list was unfortunately quite accurate, with the exception indeed of the particular house respecting which Lord George quotes the opinion of Baron Rothschild.
TO A FRIEND.
Welbeck, September 17, 1847.
A thousand thanks for your letter, the intelligence in which created a great sensation at Doncaster.
As yet none of the houses appear to have failed except S * * * *. Baron Rothschild was at Doncaster. I talked with him on the subject; he seemed not to doubt the probable failure of any of the houses you named, except * * * *. He declared very emphatically ‘that * * * * house was as sound as any house in London.’
Lord Fitzwilliam declares ‘it is no free trade without free trade in money.’