The Archive · 1900

LORD BROUGHAM

HenryBrougham, afterwards Lord Brougham, wasan indomitable reformer in every one of the many fields where reform was than needed. He went in for the spread of popular education and was indeed one of the very first to see that a systematized national education was one of England's mist pressing needs. He was the uncompromising opponent of slavery and the slave trade., He went in for the mitigation of the fearful systems of punishment which availed under our criminal law and whicl mid all their other evils, tended, in their very barbarity, to make punishment of any kind uncertain by causing the common Inmanity of juries to refuse a conviction altogether it eases where the legalized punishment would have been utterly out of proportion to the crime, He worked hard for reform in the complex system, of civil law which often by the mere interpose itim of enormous cost and interminable fitization rendered it impossible for the most reasonable claim to obtain 4 chance of timely satisfaction "Look to says Sydney Smith, "and turn to that side where he waves his long and lean finger; and mark well the face which nature has marked so foreihly—which dissolves pensions—turns jobbers into honest men—scares away the plunderer of the public, and is a terror to him that doth evil." Brougham was a great orator as well as a great reformer. His style was rough, uncouth, overbeari but had' the {it of genuine" eloquence and the listener forgot all his defects of manner, style, and gesture while he bore down opposition in his championship of some great movement for the spread of education and the removal of He took a leading part in the passing of the great Reform Bill of 1832 which reduced the chaos of our electoral em into order, and opened the way for a genuine system of parliamentary re-or THE Broop s Tite Lire."—Clarke' greatest reforms the people of these islands fave ever been enabled to make, Devotion NoT!@-famed Blood Mixture is warranted to cleanse the blood from all impurities from to duty, the safety of the State, the whatever cause arising. For Scrofula, Scurvys maintenance of the Sovereign and the Eczema, Bad Legs, Skin and Blood Diseases, Government—these were the great objects Pimples, and Sores of all kinds, its effects are of his career. He lived through more than marvellous. Thousands of wonderful curer half the century and the writer of this have been effected by it. Sold e where a article saw him often, and once heard him 2s. 9d, Beware of worthless imitations,

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