Excerpt from The Parliamentary Companion, 1852: Twentieth Year, New ParliamentSntcx this Ana was first undertaken, nineteen years have Weed away, seven administrations have been summoned to the councils of the Sovereign, six parliaments have been elected, and five have been dissolved. Within this period imi tatora and plagiarists without number have too often sought to intercept the just rewards of an original design, and to sustain a precarious existence by borrowing almost every feature of typography, language, and decoration. But the turn K of mind which dictated spoliation was naturally incapable of 1 impartiality, and those who appropriated without hesitation the outward features of a successful plan contributed at least 5. One item to their compilations - the taint of political bias. It is 0 not surpnsing therefore that this volume, which, during every X ministerial vicissitude since the passing of the Reform Bill, has aimed at avoiding party tendencies, should have succeeded in acquiring public support, and that it should once more appeal to a just and generous body of readers with the con 'ld fidence of an enlarged experience and the sanguine enemy Of 0] a renewed life. 0) To describe in any preface or introduction the kind of ln H formation which may be found in these pages is now fortunately a a needless task, every reader who is not already well acquainted (o with its purposes and characteristics may be safely referred to N the Table of Contents for the shortest exposition of its objects and the strongest evidence of its utility.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.