Our Fortieth Anniversary. — Three weeks ago, we reminded our readers 6t the fact that the Independent was then half
... revived, and with it Chartism subsided, or assumed harmless shapes. But how of the Anti-Corn Law agitation ? In 1841, the Whigs attempted a mitigation of the corn monopoly. Beaten in parliament they ap- pealed to the country. A majority of 91 turned them ...