Excerpt from Brief History of the Rise and Progress of the Anti-Corn-Law League: With Personal Sketches of Its Leading Members The following brief sketch of the rise and progress of the Anti-Corn-Law League, up to the month of May, 1845, has been somewhat hastily put together to answer an emergency - the opening of the "Great Covent-Garden Bazaar." A List of the Members of the Council is here published for the first time. Other matter, illustrative of the League, is added, which will be found, it is hoped, both interesting and useful; more particularly to those who are not intimately acquainted with the manufactures of England in the practice of their details; also to those who are not too well acquainted with life in the farm-fields. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.