ABSTRACT
When political affairs are critical, Sunday is always a great day for rumours. There was a rumour on the Sunday following the last adjournment; namely, that the government had resolved at all events to terminate ‘ the deadlock,’ as Mr. Cobden called it; and that next day the minister was not only himself to speak on the coercion bill, but to make a declaration of the danger in which cheap food for the people was placed by a factious opposition, and to intimate that if the obstacles were not removed he would counsel the queen to dissolve parliament.
