Abstract
“IT is natural on New Year's day to look both backward and forward—to take stock, and even to speculate as to the future. This coming year will bring the commencement of the fifth year of the reign of His Gracious Majesty King William IV; and it finds that eminent Whig, Earl Grey, who some two years ago piloted the Reform Bill to the Statute Book, still in the saddle as Prime Minister. Perhaps the most notable piece of legislation during the year which has just closed was the enactment of the abolition of slavery in Great Britain and its Colonies, despite the opposition of that rising hope of the younger Tories, Mr. William Ewart Gladstone, M.P. for Newark. Probably a century hence this measure will be regarded as one of the boldest and most enlightened efforts of the Reformed Parliament, as well as one of its earliest. Who can tell?”
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