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riously not a tribunal in the country , exposed to the public eye , where grosser injustice is constantly committed than at the Quarter-Sessions . There are exceptions , where a man of weight in the country , who happens to be laborious , and a lover of impartial justice , fills the chair . But these are exceptions . The contrary is the general rule .
9 th August Mqfor Pitman ' s Dismissal . —In our comments on this discreditable case in last month ' s Notes , we expressed our persuasion that the Ministry would not remove Major Pitman from the Commission of the Peace . It is , therefore ., doubly incumbent upon us to make our acknowledgments on behalf of the public , to the Lord Chancellor , for an act of justice which , obvious as it is , no former Chancellor would have thought it incumbent upon him to perform .
We cannot , however , bestow the merited commendation an this proceeding of Lord Brougham ' s , without at the same time remarking , that if justice has been done , it is no thanks ( to use a familiar expression ) to the e Morning Chronicle / Our worthy cotemporary , who , though his paper has become a regular Ministerial organ , will always have our best wishes
and our most perfect respect , inserted an article on the 5 th of this month , which fully prepared us for a whitewashing of Major Pitman . Though he might be a brute in his family , that did not , the € Chronicle' argued , prove him unfit for the bench ; since he might be able to command his temper there , though not
elsewhere . Yes , doubtless ; and to read moral lectures from the bench on command of temper and pass sentence , most imperturbably upon poor and ragged people , for offences not grosser than his own , and infinitely more excusable . We are sure that the excellent editor of the ' Chronicle' had no hand in this
miserable sophistry . It was not in this spirit that he conceived those memorable articles , which made the country ring with the offences and follies of the country magistracy , and did more than has perhaps been done by any single individual to bring down the oligarchy of England .
lOth August , The Government of Department * . —There are facts occurring , we might say constantly occurring , which necessitate one to believe , not only that the Whig Ministry is altogether a government of departments , —that the collective will , or the collective understanding of the Cabinet , is hardly ever brought to
war upon anything , —that any single Minister commits the Ministry to the most important acts , without consulting with his collea gues , —but even more than this : we must believe that their 'gworance of each other ' s proceedings is systematic and designed , ai has for its object , that when one of them does an excep-Suable thing , and the question is put to another * he may wash
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The Government 6 f Departments . 659
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1834, page 659, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2637/page/55/
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