Even during the most violent part of the contest for the Reform Bill I do not remember to have seen so much agitation in the political circles.

I have some odd anecdotes for you, which I will tell you when we meet.

If the Parliament should be dissolved, the West Indian and East Indian Bills are of course dropped.

What is to become of the slaves?
What is to become of the tea-trade?
Will the negroes, after receiving the Resolutions of the House of Commons promising them liberty, submit to the cart-whip?
Will our merchants consent to have the trade with China, which has just been offered to them, snatched away?
The Bank Charter, too, is suspended.

But that is comparatively a trifle.