orm--for preserving, not for
pulling down--for restoration, not for revolution. He was a shallow
politician, a miserable reasoner, and he thought no very trustworthy
man, who argued, that because the people of Paris had justifiably
and gloriously resisted lawless oppression, the people of London and
Dublin ought to rise for reform. Devoted as he was to the cause of
parliamentary reform, he did not consider that the refusal of that
benefit, or, he would say, that right, to the people of this country
(if it were a legal refusal by King, Lords, and Commons, which he
hoped to God would not take place) would be in the slightest degree a
parallel case to any thing which had happened in France."

Mr. Brougham's elevation to the exalted station which he now fills
need be related but briefly, since the particulars must be fresh
in the recollection of our readers. Upon the resignation of the
Wellington ministry--with the title of BARON BROUGHAM AND VAUX, he
took the oaths as Lord Chancellor, November 22, and his seat in the
Chancery Court on November 25, 1830.

In the House of Lords, in reply to some censurable observations on
his acceptance of office which had been made elsewhere, his lordship
explained his motives with great candour. After an allusion to his
difficulty in resigning his high station as a representative for
Yorkshire, Lord Brougham said, "I need not add, that in changing
my station in parliament, the principles which have ever guided me
remain unchanged. When I accepted the high office to which I have been
called, I did so in the full and perfect conviction, that far from
disabling me to discharge my duty to my country--far from rendering my
services less efficient, it but enlarged the sphere of my utility. The
thing which dazzled me most in the prospect which opened to my view,
was not the gewgaw splendour of the place, but because it seemed
to afford me, if I were honest--on which I could rely; if I were
consistent--which I knew to be matter of absolute necessity in
my nature; and if I were as able as I knew myself honest and
consistent--a field of exertion more extended. That by which the Great
Seal dazzled my eyes, and induced me to quit a station which till this
time I deemed the most proud which an Englishman could enjoy, was,
that it seemed to hold out the gratifying prospect that in serving my
king I should be better able to serve my country."

Already has the official elevation of Lord Brougham been a