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which have repeatedly been made by my honourable friend
the member for Sheffield. Ile will again lw deserted by
his followers ; he will again be dragged through his diffi-
culties by his opponents. Some 1 t •st Lord of the Tres.
bury may determine to quit his office rather than 'Wild all
the professions of a life. But there will he little 'Wheal:y
iu finding a successor ready to change all his opinions at
twelve hours' notice. I may, perhaps, while cordially
supporting the bill, again venture to say something about
consistency, and shout the ingiortance of maintaining a
high standard of politieal morality. The right honourable
bayonet will again tell toe that be is anxious only for the
success of his measure, and that he does not choose to
reply to taunts.
" I teserted by his followers " ! " Dragged
through his difficulties" "Belie the profes-
sions of a life"! Anti again we fiud Mr. Ma-
caulay talking upon " Maynooth " (p. 378) :
Bat far lie it from us to imitate the arts by which
we were overthrown. The speetticle exhibited on the
bench opposite will do quite mischief enough. That nibs-
chief will not be lessened, but doubled, if there should be
an answering display of inconsistency on this side of the
house. If this bill, having been introduced by Tories,
shall be rejected by Whigs, both the la- itt parties in the
State will be alike discredited. There will he one vast
shipwreck of all the public character in the country.
But we could fill whole columns with pas-
sages of similar " disgraceful imputations:.
We really pity Mr. Nlacaulay when we read his
penitent prefitce, in which he tries to swallow
all the invectives which he had spoken against
Sir Robert Peel; and the last sentence printed
in his volume reads with most humiliating
etteet:—" For myself, sir, I hope that 1 am
" both a Liberal and Conservative politician.
Ah! Mr. Macaulay, your position is too high to
stoop to the miserable cant of the head of her
Majesty's Government. Such a conclusion to a
volume full of exasperating rhetoric is worse
than absurd. Oh ! humiliating spectacle to see
the great Edinburgh reviewer upon his knees to
Peelites ! Oh! contemptible catastrophe to
view the once bold-spoken member for ('nine
catering to the taste of Mr. Herbert ! Oh !
what would Sydney Smith have said at such
a pitiful sight? But we know what ho did
say :—" As fur Macaulay, sir, he's only a book
in breeches."
Of the two editions of the speeches, we are
compelled to say that Vizetelly's is a more
fitithful presentation of all Mr. Maeattlay's
political career. It may have several inaccu-
racies, but it has no wholesale suppressions.
and it is not " doctored " for the purpose of
avoiding annoyance to Mr. Macaulay's ancient
fifes anti recent friends. In Vizetelly's edition
the purchaser also will have the advantage of
the portraiture of Mr. Macaulay (copied from
Mr. Francis's extremely clever "Orators of
the Age "), which is decidedly the best critique
that has ever appeared on Mr. Maciudity's
manner.

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