of reducing the
labouring classes to diet less of quantity and coarser of quality, by
which the rates of wages are, and are to be, ground down: but Chadwick
naturally insists, that to new poor-laws the post of honour should be
assigned in the work of desolation; whilst Cobden, though acknowledging
their efficient co-operation as a means to an end, and their priority as
first in the field, fiercely contends for the greater aristocratical
pretensions and more thoroughgoing operation of corn-law abolition. The
Wakefield "self-supporting" colonial specific comes into collision,
moreover, with Cobden's "perish all colonies." Kay Shuttleworth vaunts
the superiority above all of his analytical schemes for training little
children at Norwood to construe, for after age,--

"The days that we went gipsying a long time ago;"

whilst Hullah simpers forth, in softest accents of Cockaigne, the
superlative claim of choral shows in Exeter Hall--

"That roar again, it had a dying fall.
Oh! it came o'er my ear like the rude north,
That bursts upon a bank of violets."

Bowring and Hume did, certes, pull together once in the matter of Greek
scrip; but, _Arcades ambo_ no longer, the worthy doctor turned
anti-slavery monger, whilst Joseph, more honest in the main, cares not
two straws whether his sugar be slave-grown or free, excepting as to the
greater cheapness of the one or the other. So also with Hawes, never yet
pardoned by the financiering economist of "cheese parings and candle
ends" for the splendid Thames tunnel job, and L200,000 of the public
money at one fell swoop. These people range under the generic head
_Charlatanerie_, as of the distinct species classified as _farceurs_
according to the French nomenclature. For other species, and diversities
of species, of a lower scale, but of capacity to ascend into the higher
order with time and opportunity, the daily papers may be usefully
consulted under the headings devoted to the "pill" specific
line--_pildoras para en contrar perros_, as the Spanish _saynete_ has
it.

Happily the country need never despair of salvation, even should the
cabinet prospective of _farceurs_ fall to pieces, for there yet remain
two species of a genus taking higher rank in the social system; species
that really have a root, a name, and pretensions hereditary or
legitimately acquired. These each affect philosophy, and represent it
too; they of the caste hereditary in _grande tenue,_ they