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expense of the consumer ? The very journals which preach patience and political economy to him will , anon , talk of the great interests which must be represented , and supported against Theorists and Destructives . Manchester has done well to record its approval of Mr , P . Thomson , and strengthen his hands .
From all appearances , ministers will have an overwhelming majority in the new House of Commons . It will be compounded of various elements : Conservative Ministerialists , moderate Reform Ministerialists , Radical Ministerialists , Ministerialists simpliciter , and thick-and-thin Ministerialists ; it is impossible to guess at the proportion in which these elements will be mingled . Little doubt can be entertained that they will be strong enough to carry any measure of real reform , which they shall please to introduce , at least so far as the Commons are concerned . The measure of
benefit to the country will not be in their power , but in their will . There is the House of Lords , indeed ; but that is the same thing as saying that there is the Church , the corporations , or anything else in the country which a good government is bound to regard rather as the subject on which reform is to be exercised than as a barrier by which its course is to be for ever impeded . The House of Lords cannot defeat the ministry unless the ministry chuse to be defeated rather than amend the House of Lords .
The Premier can , if he so please , sacrifice the interests of the country and the will of its representatives , to the obstinacy of his Order , but in that case he will sacrifice his own character also , beyond all redemption . That would indeed be a spectacle to 4 make the angels weep / We will not believe it of the head of the present administration , perverse as have been some of its proceedings , and incredible as have been many of its blunders .
Three things seem tolerably certain , and they are the matters about which we are most anxious ; and that , not on account of their intrinsic , btrt of their relative importance ; not for their own sake , but that of their consequences . We reckon confidently on Triennial Parliaments , Vote by Ballot , and the repeal of the Taxes on Knowledge . These contain the principle of progression . If these be obtained , it will be of comparatively little
moment what blunders or com promises be substituted for real reforms , what deceptive or half-measures be adopted for the day ; these will afford the power of putting all right at last . Let the Reformers of England allow neither 4 sleep to their eyes nor slumber to their eyelids / till one and all of these rights are in their possession . He is no real reformer who obstructs their
attainment . They are a needful supplement to the Bill , ' a necessary inference from ir , by which alone its professed objects can be realized . Let us gain them , and no ministerial changes , or ministerial wavering , timidity , or dishonesty , can obstruct the advance of national improvement . It is possible that efficient reform * in the Church , Law , and Finance , may precede these measures ; but it is certain that such reforms would follow them . It is also
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48 The Elections .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1833, page 48, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2606/page/48/
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