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    • Tim& «^ 3 pecialty 7 ^ 4 i ^^ ; the reformers of the Empire are united . The timely declaration * of the metropolitan members is as a banner raised in a crowd , and order follows spontaneously . Meeting after meeting , throughout England , evinces an unimpaired unity of spirit . The characteristic caution of Scotland carries the dread of division

    even to an extreme degree ; and the mighty voice of O'Connell answers for Ireland that the repeal shall be in oblivion till Toryism is trodden down . The Dissenters are up , in their Churches ; To your tents , O Israel ;* and the operatives see the wondrous difference between the hope of a second Bill of Reform and the possibility of a second field of Peterloo . So let the elections

    come ; let au the lies of the hustings be outdone by future promises ; let beey run down the kennels of Liverpool and Norwich ; let the Chandos cattle be driven in herds to the county booths ; let the ' Churcvh' be ' in danger / and the ' life and fortune ' war-cry raise its last desperate shout ; we shall still have the Commons of England in their House of Parliament , and the cause of all honest men will be triumphant .

    But there must be no blind gratitude , nor blinder confidence . There is work to be done for the country , of which the electors should make sure . No party names , nor local connexion , nor general character , nor indefinite professions , should avail for a candidate . Nor no length of service , if he will not render the service now needed , and which is essential . Every member should go into the new Parliament solemnly pledged to do his utmost m the very first session , for two great objects . First the

    completion of organic reform by extending the suffrage , shortening the duration of Parliaments , and granting the vote by ballot : and Secondly , the commencement of a thorough Church Reform , such ad shall restrain the Church to its spiritual functions , and deprive Toryism of its body guard—a corrupt political clergy . All the talk of reform which comes short of this , is moonshine . Without the accomplishment of both these purposes , even Whig moderation cannot hold office for any time , nor an y good

    governthcir caps . We noted , among other specimens , the following instance of Question tmd Aiuwer from the game broadsheet , that of November 18 . The leading article queries thus : * The object of it ( the Common Council Meeting ) was ( o present a requisition to the Lord Mayor to convene a Court of Common Council ; but for what purpose do our readers suppose ? Why I to consider the propriety of presenting an address to the King , expressing the General Alarm of the Citizens of London at the unexpected dismissal of the Administration , &c . » Gbnbral Alarm I Where are the

    symptom * of it ? In what hole and corner in it hiding itself ? We will venture to say tnflt so impudent a pretence as this would not have been hazarded bv any man but Mr . Richard Taylor . To which questions , we receive from ' Money Market and City Intelligence / tho following reply ready made . * Among the liberal politicians of this part of the metropolis , the greatest excitem ** t off course still prevails , and it cannot fail to show itself ; we think , in action , as toon as the names of the new Minister ! are announced . '

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    BS 86 The fFellington * Dictatorship .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1834, page 826, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2640/page/8/