CHAPTER VII

The enthusiasm of progress--Carlyle and Disraeli--Protection and Free Trade--Sir Robert Peel the Protectionist champion--High Church movement at Oxford--The Church as a Conservative power--Effect of the Reform Bill--Disraeli's personal views--Impossible to realise--Election of 1841--Sir Robert Peel's Ministry--Drift towards Free Trade--Peel's neglect of Disraeli--Tariff of 1842--Young England--Symptoms of revolt--First skirmish with Peel--Remarkable speech on Ireland 91