Note 19 — TO THE RATEPAYERS OF ST. MARYLEBONE.

There is no vote among the Pairs on the Repeal of the Paper duty that challenges more attention than that of Lord Brougham. What a miserable spectacle! Conspicuous by his absence, not one word,—not one syllable could Ex-Chancellor Brougham vouchsafe to strike off the fetters on knowledge in Central England. Let me tell his Lordship his Mission speech on Central Africa was inopportune, and unpatriotic, when on that Monday evening there was a nobler field before him in the House of Lords to exert his eloquence. England FIRST.