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mitigate their relentless impracticability. They will find that they 

 cannot stand still they will feel that they will not go on, and at last 

 that they must go out. 



And here, for the more speedy bringing about of this consumma- 

 tion so devoutly to be wished, we cannot but express our regret that 

 the foolish misunderstanding between Lord Brougham and Durham 

 should have been suffered to be kept open so long. We have re- 

 ceived a pamphlet printed for private circulation in Paris, written by 

 Sir Arthur Brooke Faulkner, which contains many sensible and well- 

 timed remarks upon this point. We have the less hesitation in 

 transferring a few passages to our magazine, that they may oe con- 

 sidered " as good as manuscript." Sir Arthur, it seems, is a per- 

 sonal friend of Lord Brougham, and took the liberty of addressing a 

 letter of remonstrance, some passages of which he gives in his pam- 

 phlet. We select the following as the most important : 



" What, in the name of Heaven, is to become of us ? Of all the po- 

 litical enigmas of our time, that which baffles and confounds me most is, 

 why you and Lord Durham should have had this split you, the idolized 

 Reformer of the people up to the day of, I was going to say your elevation, 

 but more properly your deprcsssion to the woolsack ; for, sure I am, the 

 position was a millstone about your neck, and as so effectually hampering 

 your talents was, more than any other, the position which your enemies 

 ought to have desired for you. What difference of so very mortal a nature, 

 after all, is there between Lord Durham's opinions and yours? The one 

 offers to go a little slower, the other a little quicker. But are you not 

 both yoked in the same harness both staunch Reformers? And when you 

 had gone on a little together, might you not have got, possibly after a 

 little plunging and kicking at first, down to a medium pace that would, 

 at least, have saved us from the duke ? Instead of this, your differences 

 have only supplied a plea to your foes to attack the honesty of your prin- 

 ciples, presuming even to class you with the ambitious, vulgar herd of 

 trimmers, who mount on the shoulders of the people, without the least re- 

 trospect, or regard to so many years of your public services, as the wor- 

 shipped reformer of abuses, and the uncompromising opponent of op- 

 pression. You know how many VITAL measures depend upon the cordial, 

 united, determined, and unflinching co-operation of the friends of the 

 people namely, the Reform of the House of Incurables, to the level of 

 whose inanity the press would invalid you, and to whom, if the Duke can 

 only hold out, you may expect the accession of a fresh batch of truckling 

 upstarts: In the next place, the expulsion of their Reverences from the 



