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Cbt Oputator DECEMBER 18, 1830

"THANK God," exclaimed Lord ALTHORP in the debate of Monday last, "the time at which this country could be governed by patronage is past!"7--If we believed the fact, we should be equally pious, equally emphatic, in our grati- tude for so great a blessing; but we are not quite convinced that the days of patronage are passed.