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Ministers : but in the course of the evening it was discovered , iWt they intended to propose some trifling amendment ( it did * iot appear what ) in the marriage law ^ and that they hoped , but v ^^ re not sure , that on the subject of English tithes , some mea * lir % mig ht be brought to completion in the present Session . It has further transpired that they do not mean to propose a registry * tion of births , marriages , and deaths ; that they have not decided whether or not to re-introduce the Local Courts' Bill *; Wt that there are two things , besides the repeal of the Union , which they are firmly determined to resist : any alteration in the Corn Laws , and any separation of Church and State . Is this the way to retain any hold on a people every * day becoming more alienated from the higher classes ,, and every clay growing in the capacity and in the habit of organized co-operation among themselves ?
On the showing of these very men , a great change has t # ken place in the structure of society , and has , through their instrumentality ,, been communicated to our political institutions . Power has passed from the few into the hands of the many . On their own showing too , the many are most imperfectly informed , most liable to error , and likely to make a most dangerous use of their newly-acquired power , unless they somewhere find wiser guidance than their own . Accordingly , the Whigs
deliver to them , by word and deed , the following instructions : ~^ ' We are the wisest and most excellent persons in the world ; the only persons who are fit to govern you , as all , except Tories and anarchists , acknowledge . But do not expect from us any thing to improve your condition . If that is your object , you have Onl y yourselves to look to . We , if you would but let us alone , desire no better than to leave every thing as it is . Some things \ VS do not mean to give you , say or do what you will : you shall rot have cheap bread , nor be allowed to choose your own pardons . But whatever else you ask for , you may have , by making us sufficientl y uncomfortable ; for we are a liberal and enlig htened Administration , and arc always ready to quit any spot as soon as it m made too hot to hold us . Therefore , if you want us to stir , make readv vour fuel and light your fire . But as long" & § we convenientl y can , we are your men for upholding existing institutions . We are the pillars of the Constitution , and it cannot be in safety if it rests any where but upon us , because of our y ielding nature . If the lories had it , you would storm and rave , and
blow down it and them together ; but we , you see , go Upon castors , and , you are aware , do not absolutely object to being pushed from under it when we must . ' What is this but exhorting the people to incessant agitation ? * Since this wag written , Ministers have announced that they have made i > p their minds to propose a Local Courts Bill , and not to propose any modification of the Timber Duties . Ouce beaten on this important measure by a Tory Parliament , they have rot the heart to try again .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1834, page 163, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2631/page/3/
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