ougham, and Dr.
Lushington, the former of whom vindicated the present system at great
length. It was an unsound principle, he said, to make places fit
to particular men. On the contrary, they ought to seek men fit to
particular places; and it would be easy to show that, with three
efficient judges, such as they had now got, there was not the least
necessity of subtracting from the court of chancery any part of the
jurisdiction which it at present possessed. He argued that there were
more cases in the court of chancery than could be considered during
the year, and that with the present judges in the court of chancery all
those in arrear would be speedily dismissed. Mr. D. W. Harvey supported
the motion, and entered into an exposition of the mischiefs of the
bankrupt-law as at present administered by the commissioners, whom he
described as being in general, either young men possessing capacity
without experience, or briefless old men possessing experience without
capacity, and to whom the appointment was an act of charity. Above all
he complained of the inconsistency of those who now pretended that all
the evils would be removed by the mere change of men, while the system
must remain unchanged. All the splendid denunciations, he said, which
had thrilled through every bosom in that house and in the country, were
to be considered only as party tactics, were to be looked upon as
the result of disappointed ambition. Professional advancement being
obtained, those who had been most loud in their attacks upon the late
Lord-chancellor Eldon, had now become the warmest eulogists of his
merits. The house was now told, that, if in the vehemence of debate,
anything had been said which was calculated to injure his character, it
ought to be considered as nothing, as the mere accidental effusion
of party spirit. It fell to the lot of Mr. Brougham to defend certain
members from this charge of political delinquency, which he did with his
usual tact, It had been said, he remarked, that a wondrous change was
now visible in various members of parliament; that they were all opposed
to the alterations in the court of chancery which they had formerly
advocated; and that now being in office they had no objection to the
arrangements of that court, though out of office they had poured forth
against them torrents of fiery indignation. It was assumed, also, for
the purpose of an unfair attack, that he himself, and those who thought
with him, had chan