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LITERARY NOTICI

Parliamentary Speeches, dnring the Session 1840. London :
William Edward Painter, Strand. Royal Bvo., 358 pages.
This is an admirable collection of all the speeches worthy
of preservation, delivered by the most distinguished and
honourable men, peers and commoners, during the last session
of parliament,—and with the advantage of greater accuracy
than is generally to '

many of them

found in necessarily hasty newspapers,
'pounced in the title-page of the book),

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further re-

endation of the work. But the utility au

of the work are such th

it we shall stand excused in offering
of its plan and purposes. " Its ob.

some brief explanat

to preserve th

iubstance of each great qt

;stion—not by the hackneyed

ong deba

resenting, in a united
iervative leaders—un-

the speeches of the

mixed with baser matter." The work was published in num-
bers and parts of series, so printed that each speech could be
procured separately, for the small sum of threepence, and the
sale has already been great. The whole now form in one
volume a complete record of the great debates, and as the
compiler anticipated on the outset " deserves a place in the
library, not as a matter of temporary interest only, but as
serving to the politicalhistory of the period." Of the highly,
talented, and truly oratorical speeches in the volume, deli-
vered by Lord Stanley, Sir Robert Peel, and the other great
leaders before named, we need say nothing here. Their
powers as speakers, and their worth as conservators of all
that would enoble our country, and relieve her from the
trammels which the vicious policy of the whigs has imposed,
re too widely acknowledged by the honest and enlightened
Nor could we do justice to
have uttered by submitted extracts

eulogy from us
the sentiments t

to require

from their corrected and eloquent addresses as here supplied.
The whole must be perused with care, as we feel assured they
will be with pleasure by the conservative reader. 'We cannot,
however, take leave of the work without adverting to the ad-
'2B I mirably penned essay which form*, the " introduction" to the

work, in which the author has in a masterly manner enume-
rated the various delinquencies of the present whig adminis-
tration, and their utter unworthiness of the confidence of the
country. We regret that we have but room for the follow-
ing introductory paragraph to this portion of his subject :
The confidence of the Commons in the Melboure Ministry
has been distinctly tested on six occasions during the early
portion of the present session, that is, between Christmas
and Easter of the current year—a House of Commons, be it
observed, of their own, and far in the third year of its exist-
ence .

—and with what result They have had two majorities,
Jne of nine and the other of sixteen. On the other hand,
they have sustained four defeats, and the conservative ma-
jorities have amounted severally to 10, 16, 28, and 105 ! Yet
the Melbourne Ministry maintains its place ! The mere
statement of these facts is surprising ; and when accompa-
nied by the eloquent speeches which this work will contain,
nest completely settle the question of confidence or no con-
It is remarkable that, even as regards parliamentary
-to say nothing
conservative peers, it is

fidence
elonuer

, in the present House of Commons

and the
Ihe counterpart of such a
W hen a series of heads of con-
ive statesmen were published, a series of portraits of
lers followed. Will the speeches of the Palmerstons,
the Russells, the Mcrpeths, the O'Connells, the Bulwers,
the Humes, and the Wakleys, appear in sequence of those of
Lyndhurst, Wellington. Peel, Stanley, Graham, Goulbourn,
Herries, Gladstone, Follett, Sugden, Pollock, Thesim,
D'lsraeli, Inglis, and other eloquent conservatives? We
believe not.

all on the Side on Which argument predominates
i boa

whigs are alike poi

NEWFOUNDLAND & BRITISH NORTH AME-
RICA SOCIETY FOR EDUCATING THE POOR.

lball not be wrong in surmising

that not many of the

inhabitants of Liverpool

,re acquainted with even the exist-

enee, and still fewer with the utility ar"
valuable society

efficiency of this
Pin auxiliary society for this town and

Ls been formed, and at a meeting of several
A* the clergy and laity held here towards the close of last
the statements of Samuel
idents, relative to the re-
ligious
state of British North Ametica, the following inte-
resting but lamentable particulars were elicited.
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neighbourhood

month, for the purpose of he
Codner Esq oue of the vie

1. That Newfoundland had been a possession attached to
the crown of Great Britain, since its discovery, A.D. 1497.
That there exists in that island an extent of coast of not
of British de-
-22, (the year before that
) the entire number of cler-

of the CI

oh of