text:  We are satisfied that nine out of every ten even of newspaper readers turn with disgust from the columns headed "Anti-corn-law League " "Doings of the League " "Great Meeting of the Anti-corn-law League " and so forth; and (making every allowance for the exigencies occasioned by the dearth of topics while Parliament is not sitting ) we are exceedingly surprised that the great London newspapers should inflict upon their readers so much of the slang and drivel of the gentry in question