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is on their own heads . It is essential that the fcontest for supremacy Tjetwecfn ihei peprJie 4 arid tlie tiartv should as soon as possible be orpugpt to a nnai decision . The King ' s speech Is very TaWworthian . It is constructed with ingenious facility for the accommodation of those who are very desirous indeed of being gulled , or of having some excuse for appearing to be so . It throws no additional light on the plans of Ministers , or on anything else .
* The satisfactory state of the trade and commerce of the country , and of the public revenue , ' is a curious comment on the alleged occasion for dismissing the late Government and dissolving the Parliament . We thought that ' let well alone , ' had been a maxim in some credit with tfie Tories , whom it has often
served as a plea for any abuse not altogether intolerable , or the removal of which had not been rendered inevitable by popular indignation . The excuse set up for the confusion occasioned by their seizure of the government was , that the country could no longer bear a state of ceaseless agitation . They now confess
that it was thriving under that agitation , —that they interposed under false pretences . One exception , indeed , is made . The ( agricultural interest 1 ( save the mark !) is in ' great depression , ' and the burdens ' on the owners and occupiers of land are to be distributed * over other descriptions of property . '—And this while the corn monopoly endures !
Those who read our last month ' s article on the elections will not need to be told our views of the amendment on the address . It may , perhaps , best embody the numerical strength of opposition ; we should have preferred a better embodiment of its moral power .
Election Promises . —Before it was apparent that the choice of a speaker would become a question of great natiotial importance , Mr . R . Ferguson , the member for East Lothian , had promised not to vote against Sir C . M . Sutton . C a lled on by his constituents to * " perform his duty , ' he applied for a release from his promise , which was refused ; and he therefore felt bound , as a
man of honour , to abstain from voting . This conduct is generally lauded as very moral ; and had Mr . Ferguson done ' his duty * to his constituents and his country , he would infallibly have been vituperated for a promise-breaker . There is . some sophistry here > nor need we go to the abstract doctrine of promises for its detection . The acceptance of a trust is an implied
promise of the most sacred description . A candidate ' s profession of principles , renders the compact express . In his engagement to Sir ; G . ML Sutt ^ n , Mr , J ^ gusan , violated ( unintentionally ) his previous promise to his constituents ; the promise . which would have bfien ^ uit « f Buifipiently , made by the fact of his becoming their representative . That fact bound him to do jvfratever his iudg * ment dee ^ inqd Jaest f <* r ypfe conmuiuity . . flfp personal engagement
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. V Notes on the Newspapers . 205
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1835, page 205, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2643/page/61/
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