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legalized marriers for money , and all the practicers of every species of conventional falsehood , think themselves qualified to pass him silently by ; and more respectable men , out of a selfish timidity , imitate them . Mr Wakefield ought to have been in the new Parliament .
He is qualified to lead even leading men ; and indeed does so , to a certain extent , and much to their honour . But generally speaking , a petty jealousy , and the dread of a loss of reputation in one ' s terie' in the article of
" co , or " knowingness , " takes the place of a large and hearty wisdom , and renders us mimics , and servile victims , of the aristocracies whom we know to be ill-informed , and whom we affect to despise .
The Whig Ministry will open the new Parliament , doubly suspected by the Radicals , exchanging looks of mingled hostility and invitation with the Tories , hated by the clergy , backed by a Court which is identified to a certain
extent with changes all over Europe , and gloriously supported ( and never did we speak more seriously ) by O'Connell and the Irish nation ; for it is the support of reason and gratitude . The government of Ireland , and the imorovements Irelandand the improvements
, in the church , are the glories of the Melbourne Administration ; and these , and the natural tendency of the trading part of the community ' to be content with a state of peace , will be their strong holds with
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what is called the nation at large . A greater nation is behind , — the " masses , " — the producers of wealth , — the toilers in anxiety and ignorance , and most unequal fatigue . But their time is not yet come ; and our daily prayer is , that it may come tranquilly . If the Ministers are in earnest in their
good intentions , and mean to found their continuance in office upon a sure , however slow , development of the improvements naturally flowing from Reform , even according to their own understood version
of it , and without any organic changes , the community will have reason to be grateful to them ; for they were born and bred to do no more , to the utmostand it will be utmost it win
verv : very ; ana oe the business of the gradually educated Many to effect whatsoever may remain of good and tranquil , for the benefit of the world . But if the Ministers
are not thus sincere , —if they merely intend to make a compromise , after the old aristocratical fashion , with those who contend with them for power , and , reckoning upon the natural Toryism of royalty and the
quiescence of the shops , will give us no further improvements in the church , no continuation of such appointments as those of Doctors Musgrave and Lamb , no ballot , no
deliverance of the army out of Tory hands , &c . &c . then Queen Victoria ' s new reign , so hailed and hoped of , so willingly beloved , and so affectingly entreated by the secret
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Result of the Elections ^ and Defects of the Reformers . 151
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 1, 1837, page 151, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1835/page/7/
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