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 reform--for preserving, not for
pulling down--for restoration, not for revolution. He was a shallow
politician, a miserable reasoner, and he thought no very trustworthy
man, who argued, that because the people of Paris had justifiably
and gloriously resisted lawless oppression, the people of London and
Dublin ought to rise for reform. Devoted as he was to the cause of
parliamentary reform, he did not consider that the refusal of that
benefit, or, he would say, that right, to the people of this country
(if it were a legal refusal by King, Lords, and Commons, which he
hoped to God would not take place) would be in the slightest degree a
parallel case to any thing which had happened in France."

Mr. Brougham's elevation to the exalted station which he now fills
need be related but briefly, since the particulars must be fresh
in the recollection of our readers. Upon the resignation of the
Wellington ministry--with the title of BARON BROUGHAM AND VAUX, he
took the oaths as Lord Chancellor, November 22, and his seat in the
Chancery Court on November 25, 1830.