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    Uth May . M ?* fFiUiamBrougffam ' s piflsfor a Registry cfmrths , Deaths , arid Marriages , —There are people who would Hay $ all aggrieved persons and classes measure their denj ^ nds . not ty what they are entitled to ; but by what It su / ts the convenience of Minsters to gjye . The course of events is now affording aeries of moat signal aipjcomfttxiies to sjuch counsellors . Xlie Disaeriterji ka < T scarcely a cnarice for the removal of tlieir minor grievances , yntil they commenced agitating against the greatest grievance of all . Wop ) * most of the little boons to Wjbich they weie advisee } to limit their pretensions , are flung to them en rndsse in a sort of panic , and they are most rapidly hastening

    on their final object , the equalization of alj pecis by the ajbolition of a Sectarian Establishment . Yet there are people , biu | Dissenters too , who stiil call upon them , for thjeir own sake , to be ' moderate , ' and to ask for no more than is ' attainable ;* forgetting that what is attainable , altogether depends upon what is demanded ; that the Tories and high Churehmen will not be * moderat ^ if the Dissenters are so : that

    Ministers are between two contrary impulses / and are sure to yield to the stronger pressure . The Dissenters are wise enough to know , that to a compromise there must be two parties , and that he nrnst be a poor dupe who asks for an inch while his adversary take ? an elL The Registry which will be provided by Mr . Brougham ' s Bill , will supply a grievous defect in our institutions , and one which concerns the whole cpmmutifty as wefl as theDissepterSj thoughas in rnpst casesif

    , , no powerful class haa been especiall y aggrieved by the evil , we might have waited long enough for a remedy . The Registers , it seems , are to lj > e kept by the collectors of taxes . We do not foresee any inconvenience from tfris arrangement , except a slight tendency to render tie Registry unpopular . But the fact is strikingly

    illu 8 tratiye of the total absence of machinery for the corxjuct of administrative business . In France the registres de I ' ktat civil , as they are called ^ are kept by the mayor of every commune , an unpaid officer , usually one of the principal inhabitants , who is selected by tji . Crown from a Municipal Council chosen by the people . These officers , and the prefet 8 , who are the more direct delegates of Government , are an agency

    ready prepared for collecting any information , for executing any law , or for transacting any local business which the Legislature may impose upon tliera . They are also a fit agency to look after the performance gf all duties , which the Legislature may delegate to any other class oi functionaries . But in England , when local inquiries are to be conducted , or local business , 3 one , which the Legislature are in earnest

    a ^ out , they are forced to create special officers and gfant separate salaries , pven a Factory ^ Jill cannot be executed wjtjhout appointing Inspectors : and the registration qi voters under tlie Reform Bilf , was turned over to illiterate overseers ; revving barristers beipg aftervyardp appointed nt considerable expense , to je . ctily tneir ' bli ^ nde ^ . Fpr wan ) again of local authorises tp w ^ ipm tji e irpmqdiate cqptr . 9 ) of a ^ t )^ e . 8 e t , emipprjjijry pf special o ^ Scjm-s could ' ^ e ' confide , cl t ^ . ey pi a ^ e , thei / rejpprtp directly to phe sipn \ e Office ; which i ^ tliujB overburdened , \ vit $ busJ . ruiSjB ojf the most multifarious jtnd distracting Wp ^ , / s un ^ le \ Qf \^ fryqi the W& ifilf w 4 yaiiety t ^ j iVe xeapn ^^^ e n ^ n t ^ o ^ y jyt . 9 ^ « d »

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1834, page 446, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2634/page/64/