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analogy with the franchise . To whom can a nation be responsible ? To say that electors should be responsible in the choice of representatives is equivalent to saying that the nation is not represented . If there were first an election of electors by universal suffrage , the objection would have some sense in it ; but even then only against the secondary , and not the primary exercise of the suffrage . The whole of Lord John ' s speech is admirably dissected in the Examiner of the 25 th of January . Having mentioned that paper , we take the opportunity of disclaiming a very forced construction of our praise , and well-merited praise we deem it , of the ' Cheltenham Free Press , ' last month , as if it implied any sympathy with , or approval of , an attack therein made upon the ' doubtful integrity ' of the ' Examiner . ' We believe the terms were used unwarily , as they certainly were unjustifiably ; for where shall we find the purest integrity as well as the highest ability of journalism if not in the ' Examiner ? ' In fact , we should have thought the expression of our opinion superfluous , if not impertinent , had it not been called for by this misconstruction .
The Birmingham Town Hodl % and the Nomination Meeting therein . —The Birmingham Town Hall is a noble edifice—look at it from any of the five lines of approach , when you will . Seen under a very clear sky , it is silent glory and beauty ; under the bright light of the moonbut more so when the clear moon is now dark'd , now flashed out again suddenly , by the rapidly-scudding black storm-clouds , —it is , of all the buildings I remember in this kingdom , the most thought-suggestive .
And , probably , much of this power is ascribable to those very matters of objection , which tastes , that I must consider superior to mine , have taken to its site and neighbourhood . I iike it for standing near those humble brick dwelling-houses , Knowing and feeling , as I do , the purpose and spirit which urged its erection , it looks to me like their magnificent , not insolently condescending , friend—not their haughty lord . Had its site been more elevated ground , and its whole more isolated , I
think it would not have possessed that look of the kindly grand , that countenance of the benevolently beautiful , which , to my sense at least , it now possesses . The projection beyond the street line in the south front , which a skilful and scientific architect pointed out to me as a great defect , I like ; this must be my bad taste . It steps out with a generous and complacent bravery , as if it would say , ' I belong to you all , and will protect and befriend you all . I am here with you ; come to me all as fellows and friends : * not as an insolent blusterer , with one
leg thrust out , like a bully , because he happens to be a strong and big fellow , as who should say , ' Keep off , you rabble , you vagabonds ! or come on if you dare , and I'll smash you ! ' I believe there is not any building in England that can exhibit such a glorious range of columns .
Afar olf they attract , near they fascinate the gaze . Get into an angle with the eastern line of them , and they become countless , calling up u fancy of there are thousands more , ' only your vision is too weak to trace and follow the line . Stand at a distance , and look to the roof ; the sky and it are associated ; they are mighty and graceful dwellers together . The fabric is a splendid poem . It lias , besides , recommendations to the * practical man , ' par cjcellence . Had Government done the town the honour of patronizing the
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Notes on the Newspapers . 135
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1835, page 135, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2642/page/55/
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