text:  "If a man tells me his story every morning of my life by the year's end he will be my master " said Burke "and I shall believe him however untrue and improbable his story may be;" and if whilst the Anti-corn-law League can display such perseverance determination and system its opponents obstinately remain supine and silent can any one wonder if such progress be not made by the League in their demoralizing and revolutionary enterprize that it will soon be too late to attempt even to arrest? If this Journal has earned during a quarter of a century's career of unwavering consistency and independence any title to the respect of the Conservative party we desire now to rely upon that title for the purpose of adding weight to our solemn protest against the want of union and energy--against the apathy from whatever cause arising--now but too visible