TC-RMM, [25 Feb.?]. MS: Trinity College, Cambridge. Hitherto unpbd. Tentatively dated by TC's having read Milnes' “Puseyite” One Tract More, ca. early Jan. (see TC to JS [JOST], 12 Jan.), and by Milnes' long speech, 21 Feb., in the debate against the motion for repeal of the Corn Laws (see TC to JCA, 21 Feb.).

1. Milnes had said that “the necessity of the repeal of the Corn-laws did not at present exist,” and that though he would have liked the sliding-scale to have been “more liberally constructed,” he was “glad to see the tendency of the measures proposed towards free trade,” and thought that “there was hardly a Member of that House who might not live to see the day when the Corn-laws would be legitimately, equitably, and peaceably repealed” (Hansard 60:778–85).