As with the press, so is it with Mr. Brougham and all such politicians. They stop short, or, rather, they begin in the middle. They attempt to prevent the evils of the deadly ivy by cropping off, or, rather, bruising a little, a few of its leaves. They do not assail even its branches, while they appear to look upon the _trunk_ as something _too sacred_ even to be _looked at_ with vulgar eyes. Is not the injury recently done to about _forty thousand poor families_ in and near Plymouth, by the Small-note Bill, a thing that Mr. Brougham ought to think about before he thinks anything more about _educating_ those poor families? Yet will he, when he again meets the Ministers, say a word about this monstrous evil? I am afraid that no Member will say a word about it; but I am rather more than afraid that _he_ will not. And _why_? Because, if he reproach the Ministers with this crying cruelty, they will ask him first how this is to be prevented without a repeal of the Small-note Bill (by which Peel's Bill was partly repealed); then they will ask him, how the prices are to be kept up without the small-notes; then they will say, "Does the honourable and learned Gentleman _wish to see wheat at four shillings a bushel again_?" B. No (looking at Mr. Western and Daddy Coke), no, no, no! Upon my honour, no! MIN. Does the honourable and learned Gentleman wish to see Cobbett again at county meetings, and to see petitions again coming from those meetings, calling for a reduction of the interest of the...? B. No, no, no, upon my soul, no! MIN. Does the honourable and learned Gentleman wish to see that "_equitable_ adjustment," which Cobbett has a thousand times declared can never take place without an application, to new purposes, of that great mass of public property, commonly called Church property? B. (Almost bursting with rage). How _dare_ the honourable gentlemen to suppose me capable of such a thought? MIN. We suppose nothing. We only ask the question; and we ask it, because to put an end to the small-notes would inevitably produce all these things; and it is impossible to have small-notes to the extent necessary to _keep up prices_, without having, now-and-then, _breaking banks_. Banks cannot break without _producing misery_; you must have the _consequence_ if you will have the _cause_. The honourable and learned Gentleman wants the feast without the reckoning. In short, is the honourable and learned Gentleman for putting an end to "_public credit_"? B. No, no, no, no! MIN. Then would it not be better for the honourable and learned Gentleman to _hold his tongue_?