The House of Commons seems to feel that it has already taken an over-dose of political economy this session. The
... quantity of dry and dull arguments for and against the Corn-laws, which it has swallowed or rejected, is certainly enough to have palled the taste and turned the stomach of even a less squeamish assembly. And it is not yet over, though butter has been disposed of by a majority of a hundred and two, and cotton-hose by a majority of eighty-eight. Silk and timber and strong drinks awaited them ...