Mr. Benjamin Smith, M. I'. for Norwich and son of
the late Mi.. William Smith, has addressed a letter to Lord Brougham ; wliahi, it we mistake not, will one day draw down on the said Benjamin a severe thump from his father's old frieed and coadjutor. Mr. Smith, havieg been alluded to by Lord Brougham as mat following his father's ex- ample when he voted against the immediate itbolition of the Appren- ticeship, defends his vote, and then adds, in reference to Lord .Brougham's recent attacks on the Whigs_ "! have heard with grief, from one who .011 the Assyrian mount
Rom him i distigorcil then could befall Spirit or happy sort,'
that Lord Broughant's health is evidently suffering ft mu the storm within.' Oh, my Lord, if you had now alive that ft it till whom you have k intl:y t:e•igtia•eti us ' able, amiable, and honest,' and, let me add, straightfot ward mot :M1)at inasmuch as these qualties would have been called forth on the presritt coley gency, would he noc have ventured to remind you, that while yon Ave lacciatiog yourself yen sactitice your country—that your utieiity inte!lect is it n it i mai propel iv, to be husbanded for the good of others? Would he not have eximt nil you to fling away all ambition but that i.1 being ustful—to apply p.m' mind to secure the happiness of the Negro rate, to alkyl de their pie-cut misery, to render their approaching enfranchisement easy and safe ? Why should it be said or surmised, that, deserting the Cause of Education and the 01:Ladies, objects feasible and of paramount importance, oil now bend all your force to obtain the abrupt abolition of the Apprenticeship, simply because the ineasuie is at once popular and ilopreeticable?"
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