The Quarterly Review (Volume 42) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1830. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... ners and habits of Wales to those of England is a desirable object. Whether it is so or not, we will not now discuss. But all the witnesses agree--indeed it is obvious to common sense--that nothing is more likely to impede such an assimilation, than the depriving of eight Welsh counties of the great advantage of communication with educated and intelligent Englishmen at the assizes. Art. IX.--1. Political Fragments. By R. Forsyth, Esq. Edinburgh. 1829. 8vo. 2. Church Reform. By a Churchman. London. 1829- 8vo. 3. Reasons for a Revision of our Fiscal Code. By A. Mundell, Esq. London. 1828. TO those who had watched the progress of the fierce and sanguinary struggle that terminated at Waterloo, the state in which this country was left by the vast augmentation of the national debt to which it led, and the new order of things created by the restoration of peace, afforded just ground for uneasiness. Still no immediate change in its condition became visible. The exhausted states of Europe required time to see and feel their altered situation, and in the meanwhile commerce resumed its ancient and accustomed channels. It was not long, however, before a depression became perceptible in almost every branch of industry, such as we had not for many years before experienced. Various persons pointed out the real causes to which this was owing, but the public were unwilling to listen to unpleasant suggestions, and the embarrassment, whose existence could not be denied, was assumed to be ' a passing cloud, ' which, when it cleared away, would leave our political horizon as bright and cheerful as ever. This sanguine anticipation has not been verified. The disagreeable symptoms, veiled under this poetical figure, never wholly disappeared; and the pressure under which we have been suf..