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    POLITICAL GLEANINGS.

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    I r The harvest of the political writer is during the sitting of Parliament , when in St , Stephen ' s field ( his chapel , alas ! no longer ) the thickly-clustered and nodding ears invite him to thrust in his reap-hook or ply his scythe ; but when prorogation makes

    clearance , there , and orders his harvest home , it does not follow that his ' occupation ' s gone . ' There are still many ' stray gifts' to be picked up here and there ; and the reaper , sunk into the lowlier office of the gleaner , may yet gather enough for a mess of pottage that will serve to afford a taste of the times . We shall

    endeavour to cater for our readers in this humbler occupation , and notice some of the best pretensions to a place in the memorabilia of the past month . First , there is the great Bristol dinner to Lord John Russell . This feeding is thought by some to be a feeling for the next

    election . Bristol is a step from Stroud , which we shall see his lordship take with great pleasure . The Dissenters are stron g in Bristol , and they owe him a debt which might be liquidated in this way , very honourably and acceptably to all parties . Was it with this view that there was so much caution both in the address

    and the reply , so dexterous an avoidance of the differences between the Whig and the Radical Reformers ? If so , it waa very well not to slap the faces of the latter as a preliminary to asking their voices . There will be time enough for that afterwards , though it might have been done with safety now ; for the Radicals know

    how things are , and will help to substitute Lord John for one of their Tory Members , notwithstanding his proclamation , against Organic Reforms . The silence of the principal on this occasion was made more noticeable by the loquacity of the subordinates . His cue was to let the Lords alone ; but theirs was to persuade

    the people to let them alone also . Accordingly , Lord Seagrave , Lord Ebrington , and Mr . Thomas Moore followed in quick succession with a set of apologies for the Peerage , each curious in its way , and constituting together the heads of a defence which is to check the invasive tide of public opinion , provided the aforesaid

    tide chooses to be so checked , and will flow backwards at the sound of a little pretty whistling . Lord Seagrave pleaded their responsibility , Lord Ebrington their pliability , and Mr . Moore their morality . The first is an instance of the way in which words are continually employed , without even the shadow of a

    meaning . What Lord Seagrave ' s conception of responsibility is , we cannot by any means decipher ; we only know that he ascr ibes it to the Lords , an 4 contends that they are jvrong who would have the Lords irresponsible , for this reason , that the King himself is responsible , through his ministers , and the King is greater than a Lord . We have no doubt of it ; but a $ the

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1835, page 757, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2652/page/1/