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own will , by the mere proposal of measures adequate to the fulfilment of their recorded purposes and pledges . We Tepeat it , the Government Bills thrown out by the House of Lords would have done the country but little good , had they been passed into law . Whatever , then , has been proposed during the session , of large practical benefit , of plenary evidence of principle above the mere policy of rival parties—has been thrown out by the Whigs and not by the Lords . Of these
are the Ballot—the removal of Bishops from the legislation—the abolition of unmerited Pensions—the abolition of Military Torture —and the abolition of Primogenitive inheritance . These measures were rejected by the ( jrovernment . Among those proposed by themselves and rejected by the Lords , we have , foremost , the Irish Tithe Bill , of which the only portion that in the least affects the real grievance to be removed , is of so purely abstracted a character , that it is exceedingly doubtful if it would have any existence whatever in practical operation .
The lithe Bill was the next most important measure of the Whigs . Is this a boon to the people ? It is at least a benefit to the Clergy , whose incomes will be increased thrice where they are lowered once . The Irish Municipal Corporation Bill—the firstwas indeed a well-principled measure . But on the first show of resistance by the Peers it was so cruelly crippled , and rendered so incapable of any great benefit , that the Whigs fully expected it would have been accepted by the Lords .
The Bill by which the Whig Reformers have secured to his Grace of Canterbury , four times over the salary paid to the Primate of the Roman Catholic Church in the reign of Charles X ;—this Bill , which provides lawn and purple for the followers of the fishermen of Galilee , at the cost of 160 , 000 / . per annum , in a land eminently Protestant;—this Bill is one of the measures which the King has been especially directed by the Ministry to hold up for the admiration of the country as a feat of theirs , of
which they are peculiarly proud . The Marriage Bill , which allows Dissenters to -be married when they have had the consent of the Poor-law Board of Guardians , is another happy piece of Reform legislation—a meet evidence of the wishes of the Whigs to remove the grievances of Dissenters . There are also several other enactments , like the Prisoners ' Counsel Bill , the County Polls ( Election ) Bill , and the Imprisonment for Debt Bill , all of which the Ministers have allowed
the Lords to pass into law , after their own fashion of lop-sided legislation ; and which it was rather the duty of the Whigs to have rejected . Since , imperfect remedy of an abuse is the exchange of an abuse with the chance of its speedy abolition , —for the same abuse minutely diminished , with the certainty of its endurance .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1836, page 573, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2661/page/49/
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