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that the Tories have proved themselves more mole-eyed in this mat- 

 ter than even we had supposed them to be. How can they hope to 

 govern the country at the present time ? What new elements have 

 arisen out of the late changes available to, or tangible by, the Tories ? 

 Is not the present House of Commons impracticable ? will not the 

 next prove, if possible, still more refractory ? Let them recal to 

 mind the dissolution of Parliament consequent upon the rejection by 

 the Lords of the Reform Bill ? What was the result ? why, that the 

 people sent up a Parliament determined to demand Reform ; and the 

 Lords were, at length, overborne. Here is an eternal precedent for 

 the people, to which they will and must recur constantly. " Thou 

 canst not teach them to forget/' oh, Duke of Wellington ! however 

 much you may desire to make them remember. 



Should the new Ministry if we are to have one, after all choose 

 to meet the present House, or prefer to invite another what then ? 

 Alas ! Schedule A is no longer in the alphabet of corruption ! It 

 turns this way there are the people ; and that, there are the people ; 

 and around, the people. 



" Where'er I turn is hell, myself am hell ; 

 And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep, 

 Still threatening to devour me, opens wide, 

 Whereto the hell I suffer is a heaven." 



The seals are thrown up with a curse, "D the people ! they're 



always in the way." 



The strange and unintelligible principle to the Tories that the 

 people have a right to a voice in their own government, leads them 

 into the wildest mistakes, and will perhaps at length conduct them 

 within the purlieus of legitimate impeachment. It might be very 

 well, at one time, when they had an ostensible majority of the people 

 on their side a corrupt House of Commons then standing, by a 

 strange fiction, for the people, as an Egyptian outline with a front 

 eye in a side-face, and with one leg, is intended to represent a human 

 being it might be very well at that time to denounce the so-called 

 minority as factious ; and to talk, with loud and imposing utterance, 

 of loyalty, and upholding the laws, and " things as they are," but 

 We cannot understand, now that they are indeed the minority, why 

 they are not, upon their own principle, to be justly stigmatised as 

 factious why they are not also bound to be loyal-~why they are not 



