On this page
-
Text (1)
-
Untitled Article
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
Untitled Article
ship different gods . Lord Melbourne ' s religion is an affair between him and his family , or between him and his country , nowise between him and his God ; the Deity alone not being a
party concerned in the religious belief or observances of his creatures . But this is a genuine representation of the feeling really entertained . In an ordiuary conservative gentleman ' s scheme of religion , the part assigned to the Deity is by no means a dignified one . He is to be believed in , for his existence is implied in
several of the thirty-nine articles ; and such honours are to be paid him as the Church has been accustomed to render : but as for believing their religion because it comes from Him , that is out of the question in their case : as the * religion by law established , * it comes to them , with the rest of their social obligations , from Parliament ; though doubtless they would admit that it comes from . God too . But the truth is , that to them God comes from it .
Lord Althorp and the Beer Bill . —To their indelible disgrace , the Ministry have adopted Sir Edward Knatchbull ' s Beer Bill as a Government measure ; and this act of real insult and injury to the industrious poor will pass into the statute-book under their auspices , * as a companion to the Poor Law Bill , and an index , as too many will be apt to think , to the real animus of this last .
We have so often , in these Notes , exposed the pretences of the beer-house suppressors , that we return to the subject only to notice , in a speech of Lord Althorp , an observation of almost miraculous shallowness . The bill , it seems , gives an appeal to
the Quarter-Sessions against the decisions of individual magistrates : and this not being deemed by some persons a sufficient remedy , Lord Althorp declared that he ' looked upon an appeal in open Court to be as sure a protection to justice as trial by jury ; at all events , in cases such as occurred under the present bill . The
magistrates who tried appeal cases came from distant and various parts of the country , unfettered by previous pledges , and devoid of any local prejudices . ' Very true ; but sheepstealers also ' come from different parts of the country / yet if we merely set one gang of them to watch another , it will fare but ill with the flock . As
a chairman of Quarter-Session * , Lord Althorp ought to have known better what his brother justices are made of . What if they be 'devoid of local prejudices ? ' Are they not all magistrate « , and country gentlemen ? and among what class , not excepting even the clergy , exists there so intense an esprit de corps ceptiiig even the clergy , exists there so intense an esprit de corps
a « among these ? ' Ask my brother if I am a thief / says the proverb ; but Lord Althorp would tliink the brother an unexceptionable referee if lie were only a half-brother . () f what avail has been the power of ampeal to the Quarter-SewHioiiB againwt the stopping up of path * / Even between man and man there is noto-* It ha » tine * i > o «» ed , and stand * with the Poor Law Bill , a » the ouly notable Ugfelfttm enactment vf ttw § e # * iou »
Untitled Article
658 Note * on ike Newspaper * .
-
-
Citation
-
Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1834, page 658, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2637/page/54/
-