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    ment be anticipated . They are essential ; and whoever would induce the people to throw these overbQard under the pretext of union , is a deceiver . The union he seeks , would comprehend the people ' s enemies . The only real pledge of union is the Durham test . The squeamish Whig who will not concede so much to

    friends , is prepared to concede much more to foes . Had thus much of organic reform been conceded by Earl Grey two years ago , we should not now have been under the Wellington dictatorship ; we should not now have been wondering whether the ministry was cashiered for thinking of Church Reform ; we should not now have had to fight our battles over again , and have only the consolation of this new crisis being of a more peaceful character than the former : we should not now have had an

    unreformed House of Lords dreaming , however vainly , of unreforming the House of Commons ; we should have been inscribing the tomb of Toryism instead of parrying its dying kicks and convulsive strugglings . But it is not too late to mend the mistake ; and heaven helps those that help themselves .

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    The well-timed pamphlet of Mr . Bulwer ' s quoted in the foregoing Article , finishes with an excellent comment on the hopes held out that the Duke might become a reformer . We select some of his specimens of * Tory claims on popular confidence . ' ' Dissenters , their claim to enter the University ' , and their character generally .

    * u Who and what were the Dissenters ? Many of them differed but little , except in one or two points , from the Established Church ; others of them did not agree with the Church of England in any respect ; others denied the Trinity , and others were Atheists . Would it be desirable to place such persons in a situation to inflict injury on the Established Church V '—Speech of the Duke of Wellington , April 20 .

    Again , on the Dissenters University Bill—* 4 < If ever that measure should be adopted by the House , which God forbid . . . . "'—Ibid . Irish Church Reliefs . ' " The object of the government , ( for Ireland , ) after the passing of the Roman Catholic Relief Bill , should have been to do all in their power to conciliate—whom ? The Protestants ! Every thing had been granted to the Roman Catholics that they could require T ' —The Dufce of Wellington ' s Speech , Hansard , p . 950 , vol . xix . third series .

    On the Irish Church Temporalities Bill . ' " Utterly inconsistent with the policy of the country . "

    * Irish Tithe Bill . 1 u If the Government were so feeble , and so irresolute , as to allow the law to be dormant , ( in collecting tithes , ) then it was no wonder the English Church should be sacrificed . '"—Ibid . Aug . 11 . 4 4 < Well , ' says one journal , but at least he will give us a Corporation Reform . " The following sentence looks like it , certainly :

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    The Wellington Dictatorship . 827

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1834, page 827, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2640/page/9/