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    ledger maA the remains of Lord Oastlereagh ' s Sijc Acts , wj * ic | v ; be ) at so heavily upon the press , has tended very mttah to slwnafa t ) iQ affections of many . warm and disinterested * friends of popular in *« atructioQ . The continuance of these nefarious laws and imposts * Ought not to have been , endured for a single month after the *

    power of their repeal was in the possession of honest and eniigh . t * ened men . The tardy justice is coming , but it comes ungracefully after almost every candidate has been obliged to pledge himself to that repeal in order to obtain a chance of success . The promise * em cathedra , in the * Edinburgh Review , ' is somewhat pf an etc * post-facto concession . The concluding question and answec

    should have been made by Lord Althorp when he opposed Mr . L ^ Bulwer ' s motion against this hateful tax : * What shall be put in its place , supposing the revenue insufficient , and a substitute necessary ?—Any other . ' Even that would have been soon enough for gratitude . We have had , instead , the anomaly of a Stamp-Office Inquisition , protecting some publications and oppressing

    Others in the most arbitrary manner ; the venders of one cheap publication imprisoned by hundreds , while another was breaking the law almost weekly , in the name of the Lord Chancellor and half the members , of the administration . Very glad shall we be tQ receive the boon ; but the delay and objections * untili ts bestow ? ment by Parliament , with or without ministerial help , became cer ^ tain , was an additional blunder and a very great one .

    We cannot now go into detail on the subject of retrenchment * Much has been done , for which let all due praise be awarded * Many people thought that more might have been done , and a premature pause in well-doing not unnaturally checks , if it do not reverse , the feeling with which well-doingis regarded . After

    what passed last Session it is rather an equivocal plaim Qu ap ~ plause that ' arrangementsare even now in progress for , a further reduction in the estimates of the ensuing year * to th& qntQunt of one million and a half . ' Better nexfc year than never ; but why not before ?

    The author of ' Whig Government , ' who has arranged bis remarks under the heads of ' Peace , Parliamentary Reform , and Retrenchment / boasts rather prematurely of the redemption q { the first of these pledges . Should extended or continued hopti | tr ties be the result of our present armed interference between Hq 1 ~ hind and Belgium ) it will have : been very mal-adroitly managed

    to be quiet when interposition would have , been sure of exciUDg the gratitude of all the liberals in Europe , and active when the very mention of the Belgian question had long begun to excite a nausea in the public ; What can be thought ot a war ( should that unhappily be the result ) thus commenced , aftei ? the apathy Which abandoned Poland to its fate d We cannot read th ^ followin g apology without inexpressible disgust : < However iW ? h . jkhis fflelancholy catastrophe might be deplored , stiU it became a

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1832, page 845, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1826/page/54/