PROOF POSITIVE.
MR. Caoxim,when discussing the principle of the Reform13 ill in one of the 119 speeches with which he has favoured the house on that subject, argued that the desire of the people for Reform could not be great, because, on looking to the Votes of the House, he found that very few petitions had been presented on. the subject. This settlement of the question of the people's likings and dislikings by an appeal to so very copious and satisfactory a record, is a mighty logical and pleasant one. We can fancy, some fifty years hence— that is, if there be such a thing as a Croker then—some genius cast in a similar mould, proceeding to prove the harmony and unanimity of the Committee on the Bill, in the same satisfactory way. " Look," he will say, " to the Votes—' House in Committee on the Reform Bill ; Chairman reported progress ; to sit again this day'—you see the entry is uniform ; there is not a word about division in it from beginning to end."
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