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    good thereby , it should be remembered that there must follow , and has followed , an immensely overbalancing amount of evil , in the loss of consistency and public confidence . Suppose they had gone out months ago , on being defeated in some broad and efficient scheme of Church , Law , or Corporation Reform—should we not have been all the better for it now ? Would not the

    experiment , now making , have been tried , failed , and almost forgotten ? Would not the ex-Ministers have gained an elevation which is now for ever beyond their reach , and which would not only have gratified an honourable ambition , but conferred a power of serving their country to which all that their accommodation gained was not worth a straw in the balance ? Might not , by this time , the House of Lords have been reformed , and the Court itself

    propelled some inches towards common sense ? To look back on this principle with complacency , and to put it forward in vindication of the small doings of the Cabinet to which he belonged , argues ill for Lord John ' s sagacity . We should have thought better of him had he frankly confessed it as a great blunder . He has only to look into the Tory and rota-tory

    newspapers , and the speeches and addresses of dishonest candidates ; the little done by the Whigs , in the way of Reform , is the burden of them all : and if the people should be deceived , this is the topic by which they will be deceived . True , the argument is bad enough , that because the Whigs were prevented by the Tories from doing more , we should , therefore , expect more to be dope by those very Tories who prevented them . But this is not

    the way in which it is put . That the Whigs should have allowed themselves to be prevented even from proposing what they profess to have wished , and what their avowed principles demanded , is alleged against their sincerity ; and then the inference follows , with some plausibility , that we may as well have one set of rogues in office as another . For the injustice this may do them they have themselves to thank . They ought to see , and renounce their mistake , before they dream of holding office again .

    Cheap Elections . — ' The Spectator , ' of Dec . 6 and 13 , has some excellent hints on the mode in which the Economy of Reformers should oppose itself to the Money of Tories , in the ensuing contests . The plan should be printed and distributed all over the country . Amongst the hints are the following : Schoolrooms and other buildiners mip * ht be used for Dolhnff daces . rooms and other buildings might be used for polling places

    , instead of erecting booths . Large rooms hired , instead of going to hotels . Canvassing conducted by local committees . . No useless placards . Competent and practised persons appointed to superintend printing , &c . ; and liberal journals should advertise for the duty . One lawyer at each polling place quite enough ; attornies would not lose by volunteering . The pomp of processions a * vain show / Those who have conveyances take their

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    64 Notes on the Newspapers .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1835, page 64, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2641/page/64/