ABSTRACT
One of the assertions which are made in defence of the Constitution of the House of Commons, is, that it collects a greater number of persons of talent than any other mode of election would bring together. The Committee on the Poor Laws sat during the greater part of two sessions, and have put forth two Bills, the most material parts of which are some changes in the formation of Vestries. This chapter discusses the Universal Suffrage and Annual Parliaments and the conduct of the Ministerial and Opposition Parties in the Parliament session. The crime, the real offence of the Reformers is, that they, as well as the Bishop, have discovered the causes of misgovernment;—they too have traced them to selfism, and can be no more cajoled by either party. The Holland-house cabal had stigmatised the Reform and Reformers.
