Excerpt from Life and Letters of George Jacob Holyoake, Vol. 2 The other interest that brought him within the parlia mentary sphere - helped him to realise that Parliament was not a mere talking shop -was his sympathy with continental insurgents. To return for a moment to the fifties, we may recall how the attempt to blow up Napoleon in 1858 with bombs manufactured in England led to warm remonstrance on the part of the French Government. Lord Palmerston listened complacently to its appeal, and brought in a conspiracy-to-murder Bill. On the first reading it had 299 votes against 91. Just as it seemed in principle, the measure was dreaded by the foreign refugees and their friends. If the Bill passed, foreign rebels might at any time be officially described as suspect and driven from their one sure refuge in Europe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.