It is plain that Lord LYNDHURST has got "the length
of Lord BROUGHAM'S foot" (in vulgar parlance), though Lord BROUG mot very probably imagines that LYNDHURST is his tool. Any one, how- ever, who takes the trouble to pass an evening in the House of Lords, will soon see how the land lies. Last night, for example, Lord BROUGHAM'S eulogy of his crafty rival was evidently suggested out of doors by the object of it. Lord BROUGHAM took the opportunity to talk half a column about himself. Everybody will laugh at that ; but LYNDHURST will take care, and so will his party, to derive some solid advantage from the silly flattery which Lord Baounuast lavished upon men whom the Country regards as factious, selfish opponents of a most valuable measure. Nothing in this world could be worse-timed than praise of the sagacity and disinterestedness of the Tory agent in the work of mutilating the Corporation Reform Bill. Why will not Lord BROUGHAM cease to thrust himself upon the public? He has lately been doing good service in the House of Peers ; and as long as he will confine his speeches to matters of importance properly before Parliament, he will be popular and of use ; but this eternal babbling about self would be the ruin of any man.
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