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    been in the habit of spending these daily shillings on a gardener to gr& #° you cabbages . Is or is not the loss of trade to this gardener quite equal to the increase of trade to the wood-cutters ? And if it is , then do not this loss and gain balance each other exactly , and is not the necesof

    sary consequence that your loss ,- ^ your loss of the shilling or the cabbages , —is a second loss , and that there are on the whole two shillings-worth of loss , for one that is to be gained by the fraternity of woodcutters ? Apply this rigidly to the question of the Tallow ; and then Bay whether I was or was not right , in telling you the agriculturists were to gain 11 . by taking 2 L from other people , "—Pp , 24 , 25 ,

    This is an admirable specimen of the application of mathematics to the rules of the Utilitarian philosophy . It is very different to the Tory mathematics , which is the art of finding conclusions suited to hereditary assumptions . To blunt the edge of commerce , and puzzle the reason of the community with equally knotty and superficial theories , thus injuring its interests with its understanding ; to make us pay twice for grinding down to our own discomfort , instead of once for grinding sharp to our advantage ; as though in a heayy wager between a hurdygurdy and a flour-mili which were the better workman , the odds were greatly in favour of the former ; this is the policy pf our legislative wisdom , —our Peers and Representatives !

    While on the subject of' Representatives / we can but express our regret at the Whig views taken by several valuable friends of the people , both in the public press and in the House of Commons , who advocate the reform of the " Lords " as a necessary preliminary to obtaining the Ballot . This is not only a most serious point in itself , but rendered doubly so by the

    divided action among radical reformers which it will induce . Whether correct or in error , as a matter of opinion , it was in accordance ^*! th the custom of the 'Monthly Repository' to express itself / clearly , and at once , without waiting to see what support it was likely to have . Our position was taken in the January Number of last year , and the subject was renewed in

    December . We repeat , the Ballot is the first thing needful . This will probably be the unpopular side of the question ; but we cannot help that . Tn our last number , a writer , whose uniform sincerity and far-sightedness are not without their due weight in the political world , has said : — " It has become requisite that , in the advocacy of their own principles and

    measures , the Radicals should face the peril of a Tory restoration to office . Had the Whigs dealt fairly with the country in Parliamentary Reform , no such peril could have existed . There can never be any security against it in future , but in those further organic changes to which the Whigs have hitherto opposed theniselves . " And by what more certain standard can we judge of the Whigs' future conduct than by their uniform conduct from the earliest periods of their equivocating existence ?

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1837, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1827/page/9/