sed by Lord George Bentinck, who was considered as the
champion of protection; he moved that the speaker do leave the chair
that day three months. No division took place on his lordship's
amendment, and the house resolved into committee on the corn-law
importation act. Amendments were moved on some of its clauses, but they
were all either negatived or withdrawn; and by the 9th of May the report
was brought up. Sir G. Burrell moved that the report should be received
that day six months; but after a long discussion, which was more
distinguished for personal attacks than for sober argument, the
amendment was withdrawn, and the bill was ordered to be printed, and
to be read a third time on the 12th. The third reading was on that
day moved by Sir James Graham, and the final struggle in the house of
commons on this great subject commenced. The Marquis of Granby moved
that the bill be read a third time that day six months; and in doing
so, he did not believe the measure would pass the legislature; but if
it did, he hoped their anticipations of evil would prove inaccurate,
and that the anticipations of Sir Robert Peel, however vague, would be
verified. The debate on the third reading continued by adjournment up
to the 16th of May, its opponents putting forth all their strength to
defeat it--arguing and pleading for the corn-laws as though the very
existence of England depended on their continuance.

On a division, the third reading was carried by a majority of three
hundred and twenty-seven against two hundred and twenty-nine, and the
bill was then read a third time, and passed amidst loud cheering.

The report of the customs' duties bill was brought up in the commons on
Monday the 18th of May, and though strenuously opposed by Lord George
Bentinck, and others of his party, was agreed to without a division;
and on the morrow it was read a third time without either discussion or
division, and passed.

On the 18th the corn-importation bill was introduced into the lords
by the Duke of Wellington, who moved its first reading. The Duke of
Richmond said that he could not permit the bill to be read even a first
time without entering his protest against it. The first reading was
carried without a division, the Duke of Richmond being the only peer who
expressed dissent. The Duke of Wellington gave notice that he would
move the second reading of the bill on Monday the 25th. This motion
was introduced, however, on that day by the Earl o