568 NOTES TO THE MOXTH. 



The expenditure for the barristers in the process of registration is 

 computed by Col. Stanhope, to amount to the sum of 200,000, and the 

 entire cost in subsequent appeals, and other litigation, will probably 

 exceed half a million of money. Very numerous electioneering meetings 

 have occurred in the course of the last month in the counties, and the 

 metropolitan boroughs, the whole of which have been pervaded by the 

 utmost enthusiasm in favour of the vote by ballot. The tyrannical 

 conduct of the Duke of Newcastle, and the other boroughmongering 

 Lords, has reconciled all ranks and classes to the adoption of this 

 measure, as the real and only shield to the freedom of election. There 

 now remains no doubt that the new House of Commons will be composed 

 of a numerous majority of sound reformers, though the tories are making 

 the most strenuous efforts for the return of the principle champions of 

 the old order of corruption. Amongst these, the notorious member for 

 his own breeches pocket, has started in opposition to Mr. Western, the 

 enlightened member for Essex, and Lord Henley, a fat corruptionest of 

 the chancery stye, has appeared in the field in opposition to the invaluable 

 member for Middlesex, though only to excite the laughter of the public, 

 at the presumptuous efforts of this protege of the Earl of Eldon. It is 

 also amongst the signs of the times, that the pledges required from the 

 popular candidates very generally include the abolition of tythes, the 

 repeal of the corn laws, and the question of an hereditary peerage. 



<>ocf aid si t iitiw ob Q? InooTiq IB ovjsd aw tedW O r {.egi9il moit 

 THE ANNUALS. EVERY second day of the past month has produced 

 its event in the shape of an Annual. " They come like clouds/' vo- 

 lumes of golden vapour ; and promise to be as numerous as ever. As 

 far as we can yet judge of them, they may be at least pronounced to be 

 severally and collectively worthy of their precursors, both in external 

 beauty, and in the elegancies of art and literature. Their only fault is, 

 not that they should be no better than their predecessors, but that they 

 should be precisely like them. Any change, even for the worse, would 

 have lessened our weariness, and excited us into something like de- 

 cided criticism. However, we shall give our Annual Chapter in the 

 December number, which will include notices of all that have reached 

 us, including Friendships Offering, with its pretty collection of prints ; 

 Miss Sheridan's Comic, with some cuts that have never been transcended 

 by Cruickshank ; a sprightly and right pleasant volume by the editor of 

 Figaro in London; the Amulet, with a set of unrivalled plates, and a 

 series of articles that possess that lasting charm of agreeableness and 

 utility which all the rest of the Annuals want; and Mrs. Hall's Juvenile, 

 strengthed by an alliance with Ackermann's, and graced with first-rate 

 merits of verse, prose, and picture. 

 



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