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The Reform Bill , as at first proposed , was a good Bill , and the Lords threw it out . It was brought in again , and the people enforced its acceptance by the c pressure from without . ' Bttt they might as well have enforced it in the first instance , before the Chandos clause was introduced , making the majority of the counties rotten boroughs ; and also the other alterations , which
left the corporations mere nests of corruption , injurious to the people ' s cause . The Lords would have passed the Bill in its healthy as easily as in its unhealthy state , had the people c pressed' at the proper time . The Corporation Bill was a good Bill as at first introduced , though not so good as it might nave been . It should have been accompanied to the Lords , in the first instance , by a due quantity of ' pressure . ' It will not do to be nice , and talk about Constitutions . We know that the
Constitution as by law established is a bad thing for the people , and we must amend it as we do an old house , without studying too nicely the rules of architecture . The * irresponsibles' from cowards become bullies , * counting on our forbearance . They did not know how far they could go till they tried , and their friends
in the House of Commons were secretly well pleased at the curtailments of the Bill . There has seldom been anything more contemptible than the conduct of the Collective Wisdom on this remarkable occasion . It was a question whether we were to have the Heform Bill a dead letter or not . Robert Peel affected at
once to acknowledge the necessity for it , and the people were smoothed down . The Lords bounced , and declared they would cut the Bill down . And thereupon John Russell and Spring Rice affected to bounce also , and to be vastly patriotic , and determined to stop the Supplies , or the Appropriation Clauses ; on which the House cheered , and was vastly patriotic also , and John Bull was soothed and gulled . And then the Lords murdered the Bill and kicked it out , and the ' Chronicle' swore woundily . Lord
Melbourne and Henry Brougham seemed the only earnest people of the party . And then the Bill was amended by the Commons . And then a formal or ' free conference' was demanded , whereat Mr . Wakley—kept on his hat . And then it was found out that the Supplies having been voted , the cash could not be kept back ; and then , all on a sudden , the Ministers discovered that the Bill
was a most excellent Bill , and much better for the hereditary tinkering , fory lo ! the Oligarchy could not bribe in the old fashion amongst the corporators , but would be obliged to use a -new mode ; and John Bull grew rather sulky , for he could not clearly make out how that would benefit him . And then Spring Rice went into Ireland to drink cheap whisky out of a cheap glass , which two inestimable benefits he had given the community with his budget ; and—thus the Session closed . But , nevertheless , it has been a good session , for the public mind has ripened apace . ' His gracious Majesty' has bten
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On the Close of the 8 e ** ion . 641
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1835, page 641, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2650/page/13/
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