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The Prorogation . 665
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fatal facility of sarcastic language ; this time , that they might not be alarmed at his ' meditated encroachment on their judicial functions , his cue was to cajole them , and neither in this , when he once began , could he stop short at the hounds of truth or of discretion . He i » a / slave to his owa flux of words * His tongue governs him , not hfc his tongue . <
With August . The Prorogation , —At length the session has closed , and closed with a most characteristic speech from the throne . Not a word was said in it of Ireland , or Church Reform , or the claims of the Dissenters , subjects on which even any allusion to the past , much more any suggestion concerning the future ,
mig ht have been inconvenient . In lieu of such , the whole glories of the session were passed in review : and these did not require a
long enumeration . Silence was observed on the subject of the Beer Bill . They had passed the Poor Law Bill ; and—they had enlarged the jurisdiction of the Old Bailey ! Made virtute , generose puer ; sic itur ad astra . With a lurking consciousness , possibly , that the expiring session , with the exception of the Poor Law Bill , makes but a sorry
figure in the way of legislative amendments , Ministers have (drawn upon the session to come for anticipated renown , and have exhorted Parliament to apply itself to the consideration ofour jurisprudence / and ' our municipal corporations . ' If we may augur from this that Ministers will themselves do what they bid others do , and will meet Parliament next February with their minds made up , and their measures already matured , though it
be only on those two subjects , we shall hail such a change in their practice as one of the most laudable symptoms they can evince of minds at length alive to the exigencies of the times , and to the serious nature of their duties . We trust that the proposed amendments in ' our jurisprudence , ' will be not merely some trumpery consolidation of statutes , or mitigation of penalties , but that at least a bill for local courts , and local registration in all de partments , will accompany the bill for a well organised local administration , which would be the fulfilment of the pledge for a reform of the municipal corporations .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1834, page 665, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2637/page/61/
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