A note lies before me from the aged George Jacob Holyonke, in which, referring to the fact that it is now fifty years since the Repeal of the Corn Laws, he recalls the days of the Anti-Corn Law League and tells with pride the fact that while the Chartists of the Forties were opposing the agitation for the abolition of the duty on corn he was the only Chartist lecturer who refused to hold aloof from the Corn Law repealers. He has stood by the Cobden guns from that day until this, and he will be one of those who will dine at the Ship at Greenwich on the forthcoming J! 27th of June in celebration of the completed half century of Free Trade in Corn.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.