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      • . ¦¦ '"' . ' , THE QUEEN , THE OPENING OF PARLIAMjEJf'T , A ^| THE ADDRESS OF THE WORKING MEN ON NATIONAL EDUCATION .

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      We again saw the Queen on the opening of Parliament , preceded by her Dragoons , and her carriages , and noble horses , and her grooms and footmen ( ugly with caps that make their heads look little , and

      goldplaistered skirts that make their bodies look large ) , and the flat-capped and wide-tunic'd yeomen , as old as the time of the Tudors , who walk along giving sidelong glances at the crowd , as though they were saying " We suppose you are

      quizzing our dresses / ' Her Majesty looked as flushed as before , and was talking and laughing to the lady opposite her , whose fair visage , full of

      extemporaneous delight , reminded us of the gentleman in Ariosto who " applauds with all his face . " * The hurrahs were louder than on the former occasion ; but we did not hear any of those fervid exclamations of " God bless the Queen "—

      it m i * -v / -l da irn - * r * -nwf Im / I « -i mnKr « " " God save your Majesty ;" perhaps because we did not stand in the same place ; perhaps because of the growing suspicion that the opinions at cpurt are too merely conservative .

      Assuredly the Speech from tKe Throne is not calculated to remove this suspicion . The plea for it is , that it was purposely negative in order that

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      the Address in return might be unanimous ; and this is thought a good plea , and even made a merit of by the framers of the Speech . Now we must take this opportunity of observing * that questions of this kind are a little too overweeningly

      begged ; — that the begging them conveys an ill compliment to the personage or the principle in whose behalf they are begged ; and that there is too disingenuous a custom in the holders of power , of requesting

      us at one moment to accommodate them with our silence and acquiescence , and leaving us at another to put up with the consequences . They tell

      us , for instance , to-day , that we must not urge them so fast , or speak so boldly ; and to-morrow , that we have not urged them at all ;—that the country ^ has not called for such and such a

      measure , and therefore it is not wanted . Again , the most ardent Reformers among them have lately got a habit of piquing themselves upon not being loud in advocating their

      own measures , —in not " thrusting their opinions" upon the community 4 < before the latter are prepared for them / ' And people take their Jiate off to such intimations ^ and call them " candid " and " miftlv . "

      We confess we are unable to M ill ' I

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 1, 1837, page 373, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_01121837/page/5/