24 FEBRUARY 1844, Page 15

ENGLISH CHANCELLORS. — Sir Robert Peel, who is fond of such subjects,

mentioned last night a striking fact, in the number of men who have risen, within the last eight or ten years, from the comparatively obscure social posi- tion in which they were born, to the post of Lord Chancellor—Lord .Eldon, Lord Brougham, Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Planket, and Sir Edward Sugden. " When I recollect their obscure origin, and their comparatively obscure pod. tionin society, and see them elevated by the power of then merits to the highest civil situation next the Throne, I say this is the proudest homage to the De- mocratic principle of the British constitution, and the strongest practical con- radiation to the Roman satirist- .. Hand facile emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat

Res angusta domi.'