text:  * * * * * The disgusting selfishness and hypocrisy of such men as Cobden and his companions in veiling their real objects under a pretended enmity to "Monopoly" and "Class Legislation"--and disinterested anxiety to procure for the poor the blessings of "cheap bread"--fills us with a just indignation; and we never see an account of their hebdomadal proceedings but we exclaim in the language of our immortal bard-- "Oh Heaven! that such impostors thoud'st unfold And put in every honest hand a whip To lash the rascals naked through the land!" While we repeat our deliberate opinion that the Anti-corn-law League as a body is in respect of actual present influence infinitely less formidable than the vanity and selfish purposes of its members would lead them to wish the country to believe--we must add that it is quite another question how long it will continue so