Constitutional Whig

From Bell's Weekly Messenger.

Blackwood's Magazine of this month contains some spirited articles in poetry and prose. The Notes of this month are in the best style. We extract the character of Lord Brougham, which is inimitable:

NORTH.

I agree with you in entertaining a sincere admiration for Brougham's abilities; and though I have never had much intercourse with him in private life, can well understand your having a sort of liking for him too; but somehow "it does so happen," as Canning used to say, "that I never think of his history or position without feeling a sort of cloud come over my mind's eye." Depend upon it, that's not a man destined to end smoothly. He can't stop where he is; and whether he's to soar or to sink, this deponent saith not.

TICKLER.

Castlereagh went mad and died miserably. Canning touched the verge of madness, and the cord snapped. Brougham is tasking both intellect and temper to a pitch far beyond either of them.

NORTH.

It were time he should reflect!

TICKLER.

Yes, truly. Here he is administering, at an hour's notice, the highest judicial office in the world, with just as much knowledge of equity law as a very clever man may be expected to have picked up insensibly, fortuitously, indistinctly, and in short worthlessly, of the proper business of a most difficult profession toto coelo different from his own.

NORTH

As much for example, as John Hope may know of Lithotomy, or Dr. Abercrombie of Craig De Feudis

TICKLER.

Even so, and this in the presence of a Bar grown grey at the feet of time-honored John of Newcastle.

NORTH.

When one reflects on the one hundred and forty millions of property actually depending, on the knowledge, judgment, diligence and patience of the Chancellor of England, several things that have happened in one day are almost enough to make a poor simple body start.

TICKLER.

Then there is the Cockpit, where the decisions of all the courts of Hindoo, and Persian, and Chinese, and Malay, and Dutch and Spanish law, &c have to be overhauled. Then, there is the over hauling of English, Irish and Scotch appeals in the Lords-the latter part, however, being of all his business what he is most up to.

NORTH.

Aye, and then we have what few Chancellors even of those who had not their own proper business to learn, were ever much used to dabble in— the actual tear and wear of party Politics, the stroke-oar of viluperation, the near wheel of sarcasm, the burden intolerable of bolstering up his own blockheads, at all times and stations with one shoulder, while he has to show the other a cold one rather, with equal promptitude and alacrity whenever it is desirable to squabash their antagonists.

TICKLER.

If we add to the severe duty of dining out and giving dinners to ministers and diplomats; likewise the imperious necessity of being visible at every levee and drawing room, and at every dancing dejeune ball, hop, rout, or assembly given by a great lord or lady of the right side-moreover, of being audible at every meeting about the abolishment of chimney-sweeper, or the emancipation of Blackey. and the persecution of professor Pattison—necnon the simplification of common law, and the rectification of equity procedure-necnon the keeping of the chancery lunatic-necnon the keeping of the conscience of King William the Fourth-necnon the newspapers-necnon the editing of Paley's Natural Theology in company with Charles Bull—furthermore the writing of "FRIENDLY ADVICE TO THE YEOMEN" in pamphlets, and, eke the reviewing of said pamphlets in the Edinburgh Review; and finally. the building of a block jam to Brougham Hall-to say nothing of receiving and bamboozling all the deputations of all the congregations of confusion mongers- and reading and answering all the communications of all the quacks that think they have