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of the understanding and will / and of the doctrine , that the King , not in legal fiction merely , but in fact , can * do no wrong . * When Dr . Howley was appointed to the archbishopric , to which a house and park adjoining these beautiful hills are unfortunately appended , one of his first acts was to obtain in order of two magistrates , for stopping a public road which ran along the lummit of the hills ; and , this being effected , he immediately enclosed nearly the whole tract with a paling seven or eight feet in height . By this the
people of Croydon have lost their most frequented walk , and the people of London and the neighbourhood , the most beautiful scenery to which they had ready access . It is some comfort to think , that the ground which has thus been added to the primate ' s domain , will in a few years , with the rest of the church property , be at the disposal of the State . When the time comes , and it will come , when we shall see the people of Croydon sally out with axe in hand , and let el the fences which nave been set up to exclude them from what was morally as much their birthright as any man ' s estate ii his—then , and not till then , we shall feel that the Reform Bill has done
its work , and that the many are no longer sacrificed to the few . 14 th June . The Tom-foolery at Oxford . —We know not if the sow e ? er mistakes the squeaking of her own pigs for the voice of the whirlwirid ; but the Tory aristocracy certainly mistake the voices of their sons and their sons ' toadeaters for the ' spirit of the age . ' The present exhibition wonderfully exemplifies that great fact in human nature , the importance of a man to himself . From Doctor the Duke of Wellington down to poor Lord Encombe , every character in the farce felt so solemnly persuaded that he was ,
or at least looked like , a hero or a martyr I while in reality he only looked like a fool . It is really too simple of the Tories to fancy that any one except themselves cares for , or so much as thinks about , what Oxford says or does . We all knew already that it is the hot-bed of Toryism , and that the elergy of the Church of England and the youths whom they educate are rare to be Tories . We know no more now . Tories they are , and Tories let them be . As they were the last Jacobites in the country , so will they be the last Tories . The only remark ( beyondm& occasional interjection of con *
tempt ) which we have heard from the lips of any Radical on the affair , was in expression of regret that a place pretending to be the fountain-head of morality and religion , should teach its youth to cheer a Lyndhurst and a Wynford ; as if the youth of the London University should toss up their hats for Mr . Wakley or Mr . Whittle Harvey . Oxford was powerful once ; but even the prestige of its power has passed tway ; it is as effete as the Pope , also an important enough personage in his day . But what has once been powerful , usually lives on until it become ridiculous ; and that evil day has arrived for Oxford . Peace be with it ! for
it can how do no harm . 17 th June , Parliamentary Monstrosities . B —Lord acon recommends that in stud y ing the nature and laws of any principle or element of the universe , we should observe it where it exists in the greatest abundance and strength , * nd is least counteracted by the presence of any adverse element . We think this a good rule ; and in obedience to it , we shall exhibit from time to time « och specimens as offer themselves , of the characteristic vices of some institution or some state of mind , carried to the monstrous . Two such have
presented themselves within the last few days . 1 . . What a Bishop is : —In the House of Lords , on a petition for removing the civil disabilities of the Jews , some one remarked , that as they tolerated Sochftians , they might as well tolerate Jews , who were not one whit greater blasphe-Jfers , ( giichat least seemed to be the spirit of the noble lord ' s remark . ) Dr . wey , bishop of Hereford , and brother of the Prime Minister , hereupon ob-* nred , ' The Socinians were a set of persons whom he held in utter abhorfence—as a Christian he could not do otherwise ;* bat yet he must say that w Socinians , though they rejected the divinity of our Saviour , believed him
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Parliamentary Monstrosities . 525
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No . 91 . 2 P
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1834, page 525, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2635/page/65/
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