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what the Zimes means hy reprinting all my pamphleb
Hitherto I don’t see that their own comments have shaken i
much, and I suppose therefore they are rather inclined 0
let it tell its own tale in a favourable way. But perbaps the
nbuse is all to come. However, it is an abundant recom
pense for the little night-work, and the occasional cold foe
it cost me, to see it sent to all the corners of the earth upo”
the T¥mes’ broad sheet. They may abuse it as they will, bu
after letting it be fairly read, I have no right to complai™
If, as Doctor Johnson says, the best compliment to #2
author is to quote him, I must surely be satisfied when the
whole of my pamphlet is quoted. I don’t know what the
effect of the Times reprinting it will be upon Ridgway ®
sale, but it will perhaps not be unfavourable; I havea 1088
letter from Parkes, in which he is complimentary upon the
pamphlet. The Liberal pressis so taken aback by this slap
in their face in the very midst of their anti-French how)
that they hardly know what to say to it. There is 80 much
bhat they are bound to accept and support, that they hardly
know how to oppose, and yet they don’t feel disposed 0
approve if they can help it.”
The great event of the session was the first of those
powerfully conceived and magnificently expounded financial
schemes by which the new Chancellor of the Excheque®
astonished and delighted the country. The little handful
of Protectionists declared that it was a Budget for Man
chester, and asked for how many years more Manchester Was
to dictate laws for the nation. The country gentlemen did
nob even yet realize that the centre of political power Was
lowly passing away, not for a moment only but for evel
from the hereditary and territorial, to the commercial and
industrial interests. They were not wrong in perceiving
that this was the track along which Mr. Hladstone was n0W
following Sir Robert Peel. In criticizing this great Budgets