ABSTRACT
After a discussion of three nights, closed by the Duke of Wellington in a speech in “which he informed the house of lords, that ‘ the bill for the repeal of the corn laws had already been agreed to by the other two branches of the legislature,’ and that, under these circumstances, ‘ there was an end of the functions of the house of lords,’ and that they had only to comply with the projects sent up to them; a sentiment the bearing of which seems not easy to distinguish from the vote of the long parliament which openly abrogated those functions; the lords passed the second reading of the measure on the 28th of May, by the large majority of 47.
