In the absence of news, the Chronicle this morning, solemnly
announ- ces, that "the corn and provision monopoly" will not be destroyed " without a severe struggle." Who ever thought that it would ? There is, however, just as near or as remote a prospect of it at present as there has been any time since the rising of Parliament. Did any one expect the monopoly to fall in the approaching session?
A gentleman who signs himself " Philo-Agrestis" is writing ultra- agriculturist letters in the Morning Post, and to-day he attacks—whom, of all people, does the reader think ?—stanch Mr. George BankesI The offence is, that Mr. Bankes's " no surrender" speech at Blandford was not delivered in Parliament last session ; when, although Philo: Agrestis calls it bordering the ludicrous " in virtue of its silliness and want of coherence," it "might have proved serviceable to the cause of agriculture." However, in denouncing the measures of the Whigs, says the censor, Mr. Bankes accurately describes Sir Robert Peel's policy. This is "hitting right and left."
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