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religious instruction . He declared that if , when those purposes were foUjr provided for , a further surplus remained , it was the right of the State to take that further surplus , and apply it to any purpose which it deemed most advisable . He declared it as bis deliberate conviction , that , in the case o ! the Protestant Church of Ireland , after the religious wants of the Protestant population were fully supplied , there would remain , not only a
surplus , but a large surplus . And he distinctly affirmed , that upon these principles , he , as a minister , was prepared to act . Nor did he , as is the practice of some of his colleagues , say bold things so timidly , that the impression left is of spirit lessness , and not of boldness . The tone of his speech was wholly in accordance with its substance : the style was Chat of a dignified determinedness of purpose , and by no means , as it has strangely appeared to some of our contemporaries , querulous and dejected .
What matters it , if Lord Lansdowne or Lord Brougham used language which did not corne up to the mark of Lord Grey ' s speech ? The principles of a ministry are the principles of the minister who is at its head . Lord Grey is a man who weighs his words : every word with him means all it seems to mean . Lord Brougham ' s words are thrown out at random ; he never speaks twice of the same thing in the same tone . Few things could have been more solemn and impressive than the warning addressed by Lord Grey to the assembly—addressed to them on an authority so imposing to them as that of Napoleon—that he , the conqueror
of Europe , had fallen , not by the strength of his enemies , not by his wars or his imprudences , but because he had opposed the spirit of the age—that the Bourbons who succeeded him , and all the old governments of Europe * would perish from the same cause—and that every government , and the order to which Lord Grey belonged , and which he was as desirous as any one to maintain , unless they profited by the example , would share the same fate . That such truths should be spoken to that assembly , by an English prime minister , was what , very few years ago , would have been deemed impossible . The Lords have never received sucn a lesson ; they will never forget it , though they will neter profit by it ; it will ring in their ears till the day of their fall .
After Lord Grey ' s speech , we were not surprised at Mr . Abercromby ' a acceptance of a cabinet office ; and we do not doubt that he had grounds for what he is represented to have said to the electors of Edinburgh , t hat 1 has become a member of the administration , because he believes it now to entertain views more consonant to his own , and because he has a strong hope that its measures will henceforth more decidedly attack , and more completely remove abuses ; and that thus our institutions , being thoroughly renovated , will more surely tend to accomplish the good of the whole community . *
Almost all that we have hitherto observed of the conduct and declarations pf Ministers , since the debate on Adr . Ward ' s motion , has been of a kind to justify our hopes . We must particularly commend the feeling which they manifested , and which , it must in justice be said , was manifested by the whole House , on the subject of national education , when brought before them by Mr . Roebuck . An excellent committee has been appointed , and there is now reason to hope that on that grand subject something not inconsiderable will be done . **
The only bad symptom which we have yet discerned is , their declared purpose of renewing the Irish Coercion Bill . On this subject we suspend our final judgment until the bill is brought in . The military tribunals , which Mr . Abercroraby , before he was in office , steadily and uncompromisingly opposed , were the principal blemish in that biU ; and we would fain hope that nis influence may now induce his colleagues to provide a substitute for that odious jurisdiction . It is not in the least necessary to the efficiency of the bill ; and is the great cause of its well-merited unpopularity . To deliver -r — —
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1834, page 527, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2635/page/67/
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