We have reached 1859 and 1860. Palmerston (liberal) in and Derby (conservative) out; the National Gallery opened; the first street trams introduced—in Birkenhead; a journalist specialising in humour but not law succeeds in getting himself appointed as a stipendiary magistrate; a regular economic review reveals that high wages have converted the working classes into flesh eaters faster than farmers could convert grass and turnips into beef and mutton; the proportion of prostitutes to the male population ranges from one in 169 in the commercial ports, one in 235 in the pleasure towns, one in 530 in seats of cotton manufacture and one in 777 in seats of woollen manufacture.
And The Law Times proudly announces that its law reports are to be published in six-monthly handsome volumes at considerable cost but without any increase in the cover price of the publication. In quantity, they were to be treble the size of the Weekly Reports and one-third
