CHAPTER IV.
AN ANTI CORN-LAW ASSOCIATION.
A considerable rise in the price of corn after the harvest of 1836, a pressure upon the money market, and the failure of some hanks, gave indication that the prosperity which had for some time been enjoyed was not to be of much longer continuance. Towards the end of the year an Anti Corn-Law Association was formed in London, with the following gentlemen for its committee:—
John Blackburne, M.P.,
Joseph Brotherton, M.P.,
J. S. Buckingham, M.P.,
William Clay, M.P.,
P. Chalmers, M.P.,
T. S. Duncombe, M.P.,
H. Elphinstone, M.P.,
William Ewart, M.P.,
George Grote, M.P.,
D. W. Harvey, M.P.,
Benjamin Hawes, M.P.,
Joseph Hume, M.P.,
J. P. Leader, M.P.,
Sir W. Molesworth, M.P.,
James Pattison, M.P.,
Richard Potter, M.P,
J. A. Roebuck, M.P.,
Joshua Scholefield, M.P.,
Colonel Thompson, M.P.,
C. A. Talk, M.P.,
Thomas Wakley, M.P.,
Robert Wallace, M.P.,
Dr. J. Wyatt Crane,
John Crawfurd,
Ebenezer Elliott, Sheffield,
Thomas Falkoner,
E. W. Field,
Edmund Fraser,
Alexander Galloway,
Thomas F. Gibson,
Dr. J. M. Gully,
G. H. Heppel,
William Howitt, Nottingham,
W. Ibbotson, Endclifle Hall,
J. W. Liggins,
Captain M'Arthur Law,
Robert Nicol, Leeds,
John Marshall, Leeds,
Elias Moss, Liverpool,
Francis Place,
Archibald Prentice, Manchester.
