236 COMPENSATION. 



nothing short of absolutely depriving me 

 of the means of subsistence that I was 

 inimical, or even indifferent, to the mag- 

 nitude and importance of the great work 

 going on throughout the country; or that 

 I considered that the interests of the few 

 should stand in the way of the many. 



I only wish to record the injustice 

 done to a set of men who, most certainly, 

 had vested rights in the old method of 

 travelling if the means of subsistence 

 are considered so and in most, if not 

 in all, other organic changes, those vested 

 rights have been acknowledged by the 

 Legislature. In the instance of the 

 Municipal Reform Bill, compensation was 

 granted to those legal officials who had 

 held appointments in some close corpora- 

 tion, or under some distinguished nobleman 

 or gentleman patrons of the borough and 

 who were relieved from their arduous duties 

 by the will of the new constituencies. 



That the case of the one should not 



