letely united, ably led, and
count in their ranks the most powerful men in the House of
Commons; they are by far the most numerous of any of the parties,
one-third more than the Whigs (without the Irish), nearly five
times more than the Radicals, and within twenty of all combined;
and yet they are as effectually excluded as they were just after
the passing of the Reform Bill, for all that appears to the
contrary.

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Lord Durham's enormously long Report[16] appeared in the 'Times'
on Friday last, before being laid on the tables of the two
Houses, whereat he rose in his place and expressed much surprise
and displeasure, all of which was very ridiculous and
superfluous, for he had two thousand copies of it printed, and
distributed them to the right and left, to anybody who came to
see him, to Foreign Ministers and others, so no wonder that the
document found its way into the 'Times.'[17] He sent a copy to
Easthope, proprietor of the 'Morning Chronicle,' but with an
injunction not to publish it, and Easthope told him he wished he
had kept his copy to himself, for he could have obtained one
elsewhere which he should have been at liberty to publish if he
had not accepted his with the prohibition.

[16] [This was the celebrated Report on the Administration
of Canada, which bore the name of Lord Durham, but was
in fact written by Mr. Charles Buller, and embodied the
opinions of Mr. Gibbon Wakefield and Sir William
Molesworth on Colonial policy. It is not too much to
say that in the course of the next twenty years this
Report changed the Colonial policy of the Empire, and
the principles laid down in it certainly converted
Canada from a revolted colony into one of the most
loyal dependencies of the British Crown. What would
have been the result if the Ministers of George III.
had treated the complaints of the American colonies in
1774 with equal wisdom?]

[17] [The copy which appeared in the _Times_ was sent to
that journal by Mr. Hanson, who was one of the persons
attached to Lord Durham's mission. He afterwards became
Sir Richard Davies Hanson, Chief Justice of South
Australia. This gentleman gave the following account of
the transaction. The whole report was written by
Charles Buller, with the excep