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fluences which are again successfully at work . Mr . Lyall would not have been returned for London , nor Mr . Halcombe for Dover , had Ministers retained the popular attachment which for a short season they possessed . The Marylebone election has just repeated the same warning , though in a different and better form . They are evidently strong enough to repeal the taxes on knowledge ; but here , unhappily , the question is whether they be strong
enough to prevent the repeal of those taxtfs * We could scarcely believe our ears when we heard the reply of * honest" * Lord Althorp to Mr . Warburton ' s question on this subject ; the expectation had been so confidently entertained that a direct assurance would be promptly given of their total repeal . We still hope that the removal of those most iniquitous imposts will be forced upon them . That it will be forced , if we obtain it at all , is quite enough to decide the character of the Government .
The great patron of * useful knowledge * has declared his abandonment of those views of the necessity of an efficient plan of national education which have heretofore furnished him with the material of so much eloquence . He is now converted to the sufficiency of private charity , except perhaps in some of the large towns . At every step a hope vanishes .
The defence of military and naval sinecures , and the resistance to the authenticated publication of the division lists , were both in the old Ministerial style . The speeches without the names would puzzle our chronology ; they might belong to any of the last fifty years ; with the names they date themselves .
Weeks are rapidly passing away ; they will soon be months ; and nothing is yet done for the people . Nothing yet done by a Whig Ministry , in a reformed Parliament , with an overwhelming majority . And still the cry is , < Give them time . ' What have they done with the time already ? Is it for them to complain of the endless discuseions and recriminations which themselves
originated ? Before now , some half dozen measures of relief and improvement might have been carried through the Commons , had Ministers been so disposed . They have taken care that the time should be otherwise occupied . The poor , abortive , half-and-half project of Irish Church Heform is all that has yet been produced to save appearances . And even this was postponed to the Coercion Bill . Ireland was told , with an insolence which was enough to make the calmest
blood boil , that nothing should be done for her till she was bound , prostrate , and silent . The hypocrisy of this measure is more offensive than its tyranny . The object was not to put down outrage . An accession of strength to the ordinary machinery of the law is the utmost that , by a Government obviously paternal , would have been required for that purpose ; and it would have been unanimously granted by the House , if there bad been equal alacrity displayed in the adoption of remedial
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246 On the Conduct of Ministers since the Meeting of Parliament .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1833, page 246, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2612/page/30/
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