The Express.
London, England, 1857-11-23 00:00:00

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(From the Inquirer.)
As the week has been productive of no eery stir-
ring sews, we me at leisure to remark upon • book of con-
siderable interest to politicians, which append en Thursday.
It is • peat volume of almost • thousand pages, tab which
Sur Joha Bentley Wilmot has collected all the acts of parlia-
ment that have been introduood and carried by Lord
Brougham, with the bills that he has introduced into parlia-
ment without moor. It le exactly half • century since this
peat social reformer was admitted to the English bar; and
he was • Scotch lawyer whet be came to London, without h
more than • Scotch reputation. During that bald century,
Lord Brougham has held °Mos in the State once only, whew
he was made Lord Clunicelkir, and raised to the peerage.
That happened long ago ; sad his official life midway in his
career wee cot of may long continuance. Before it, and be-
hind, an long periods of wholly independent labour, and we
all know that la his official der he had not been more than
' six hours Lord Climodlor baker he laid as the table of the
Hoorn of Lords mason. of Classerm redone that cut away
many of the material »wank of Mike, and increased the call
upon its occupant for strenuous exertion. Probably there has
never lived a man ttahlng before the country independent
ground who has so worked in the Broth& parliament as to
produce • record of work dose equal by one-fourth in bulk or
vales to the matter coatebseil in Sir John Perdley Wilmot's
volume. Its peat interest to us lies in the fact that Lord
Brougham's peittied kb Ms been devoted wholly to martial
reform& The fret set pried through his agency wee • blow
irk whist the went Si social crimse—the slave trade. He
was the brat men who brought before our misfit any great
watiowak Ilidlen• of education ; to which km we need hardly
odd that he was the founder of merbersits' institutes, and
that be was the peat Messer of that system Si cheap sad
geed Illssatare fee the people now moeived as • neeesety of
metal lien Fee liberty el coneciemoe be bas always fought—
the Modem Si the pram the rights of dlesestue. In law
mime he he. dens linemek of a Ulm. Sides years' per-
WOMEN made pound far the eekbliehmen of the whew
of Caney Comb, Ned be still works for ask uslarikos.
He would give this all keel business, doll
and
that ought to be Melded amply, proy,fsirly, kr the
people smog whom it arisen Ile Mtreduced UWE et
prompatado into the atednel courts of the metropolis. He
his fought terrible fights avian delays and Si
Justice in the Court of Chown, sod won may • y
the battle. He has gives qui* and just law to the -
rapt. He bee fought against mistime litigation, and has
done his utmost to cut it off at the onset by slipping datum
into act after set, which compel linguae to have recourse to
arbitration while their quarrel is yet in its birth. He has
snacked moms in lawyers oats, sad even has proposed—incourse—tovain,
vain, ef course—to piece within the reach of prom weer
anthesised forms which should be legal and binding Vim
used le the course of ordinary treesections In the way Si
bond, sasssisr, and sale. He is the President of the Law
Reform hesonatice, which ha did not indeed project, which
he helped the to establish. &MI reformers rest
the odor day at MEWMltime mkt kis presideocy, for surely
las is the true head Si that hapteteet
It le • noticeable het that a err who has devoted hi to sel f
is this kind of work, who k so ematially the friend of the
people that every perms In the crusty must have received
some solid advassors from his !goon in mon ways than
one ; it is a artioesH• foot that each a roan, became he is
not booed to any party, should naive hut a small share of
the gratitude that is his dm. The purpose of SirL E. Wil-
erotre collection Si Lewd Brougham's acts and UM is to
enure to the post reformer, la his Weeks% • fair mongsi-
lion of the noble work in which to this lour he is active.
The book should cell forth prompt and emphatic askew-
Isdgmees from the prem.