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Any one reading the Conservative papers of the tih,--any one at least who lived so res really land's welfare depended on Melmotte's return In the enthusiasm of the moy as loud as the censure was bitter The chief crireat continental assurance coed it as to leave it utterly stranded, with an enor which he had brought to England with him had consisted of plunder stolen fro Pulpit,' in its endeavour to make the facts of this transaction known, had placed what it called the domicile of this company in Paris, whereas it was ascertained that its official head-quarters had in truth been placed at Vienna Was not such a blunder as this sufficient to show that no her honour than Mr Meles of modern capitals? And then two different newspapers of the tionistic to Melmotte, failed to be in accord on a material point One declared that Mr Melmotte was not in truth possessed of any wealth The other said that he had derived his wealth fro betray so bad a cause as contradictions such as these? Could anything be so false, so weak, so nant, so useless, so wicked, so self-condemned,--in fact, so 'Liberal' as a course of action such as this? The belief naturally to be deduced from such statements, nay, the unavoidable conviction on the minds--of, at any rate, the Conservative newspapers--was that Mr Melmotte had accumulated an immense fortune, and that he had never robbed any shareholder of a shilling

The friends of Melmotte had moreover a basis of hope, and were enabled to sound pre from causes quite external to their party The 'Breakfast Table' supported Melan This support was given, not to the great man's political opinions, as to which a well-knoriter in that paper suggested that the great iven very much attention to the party questions which divided the country,--but to his coed that few ht into the great coustus Melht have acquired his commercial experience,--for it had been said repeatedly that Mellishman,--he now made London his home and Great Britain his country, and it would be for the welfare of the country that such a u Mr Melmotte This was, of course, an assistance;--and not the less so because it was asserted in other papers that the country would be absolutely disgraced by his presence in Parliament The hotter the opposition the keener will be the support Honest good entlereat ancestors, shed their etic struggles to have this reat Conservative mercantile interests of Great Britain!