ief. It is simple and
efficacious; clogged with no exceptions, unless such as even the most
zealous of the Catholics themselves must admit to be of necessity
parcel of the measure."

In the session of 1829, Mr. Brougham explained the proceedings of
the Commissioners appointed to inquire into Public Charities, who, it
appeared, had examined sixteen counties, and partially examined ten;
altogether amounting to more than 19,000 charities, being more than
half the number in the whole kingdom.

In 1830, Mr. Brougham supported Lord John Russell's plan for
Parliamentary Reform, as an amendment to a motion of Mr. O'Connell;
in which Mr. Brougham opposed universal suffrage and vote by ballot.
In the same week also, he spoke at some length on the punishment of
Forgery by death. The opinions which he expressed, Mr. Brougham said,
he had learned from his great and lamented friend, Sir Samuel Romilly;
and he concluded by expressing his hope that he should live to see the
day when this stain should be removed from our statute-book. In the
following month Mr. Brougham brought in a bill for local jurisdictions
in England, for diminishing the expense of legal proceedings. On June
24, Mr. Brougham spoke at great length upon the inadequacy of the
ministerial bill for the reform of the Court of Chancery. On July 13,
he moved for the abolition of West India Slavery, and expatiated at
great length and with extreme earnestness--first, on the right of the
mother country to legislate for the colonies, and next on the legal
and moral nature of slavery.

Upon the dissolution of parliament, consequent upon the death of
George IV., Mr. Brougham was invited to the representation of the
extensive and wealthy county of York. In his speech to the electors
he alluded to Parliamentary Reform, a revision of the Corn Laws,
and the extinction of Colonial Slavery, as three grand objects
of his ambition; and concluded by thus explaining his becoming a
candidate--"_because it would arm him with an extraordinary and a vast
and important accession of power to serve the people of England_." It
need scarcely be added, that his election was secured; his return was
free of all expense: indeed, never was triumph more complete.[3]

Soon after the assembling of the new parliament, Mr. Brougham, in
connexion with the topic of the recent revolutions on the continent,
and parliamentary reform in this country, concluded an interesting
debate by saying--"He was for ref