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meet with the same attention and the 

 same result as the other, must be attri- 

 buted to the constitution of the Lower 

 House. Those whose duty it is to frame the 

 law on such occasions, depute it to crafts- 

 men, who, like the artificers at Ephesus, 

 when persuaded that their craft was in dan- 

 ger, cried, " Great is Diana, of the Ephesians ! " 



It has been said that, in the early part 

 of this great social revolution, money was 

 given to two or three of the great men 

 in London, to share and distribute among 

 others who were equally entitled to it. If 

 this were so, these gentlemen knew pretty 

 well how to appropriate it. 



If a stranger or foreigner were to land 

 in this country, like Goldsmith's " Citizen 

 of the World," the first thing that would 

 be most likely to attract his notice is 

 the ease, safety, and expedition of our 

 mode of travelling ; and he could not 

 be too lavish in his praise of the skill, 

 industry, enterprise, and wealth of the 



