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[37] Bentham's _Works_, x. p. 574.
[38] Brougham's _Speeches_ (1838), ii. 287-486.
[39] An interesting summary of the progress of law reforms and of
Bentham's share in them is given in Sir R. K. Wilson's _History of
Modern English Law_ (1875).
[40] Bentham's _Works_, x. 571.
[41] In Cambridge Pryme was the first professor in 1828, but had only
the title without endowment. The professorship was only salaried in
1863.
[42] Ricardo's _Works_ (1888), p. 407.
[43] Printed in Porter's _Progress of the Nation_ and elsewhere.
[44] See sixth volume of _History of Prices_ by Tooke and Newmarch,
and privately printed _Minutes of Political Economy Club_ (1882).
[45] _Speeches_, 3 vols. 8vo, 1831.
[46] _Ibid._ ii. 465-530.
[47] _Ibid._ ii. 477.
[48] Bentham's _Works_, ii. 459. We may remember how J. S. Mill in his
boyhood was abashed because he could not explain to his father the
force of the distinction.
[49] _Speeches_, ii. 246, 332.
[50] _Ibid._ i. 102-108 (Currency Pamphlet of 1810).
[51] _Ibid._ ii. 397.
[52] _Speeches_, iii. 257.
[53] Ricardo indeed made a reservation as to the necessity of
counterbalancing by a moderate duty the special burthens upon
agriculture.
[54] In the _History of Trades-Unionism_ by Sidney and Beatrice Webb
(1894), pp. 88-98. The history of Place's agitation is fully given in
Mr. Graham Wallas's _Life_, chap. viii.
[55] Wallas's Francis _Place_, p. 217.
[56] First published in 1807-8.
[57] _Letter_ iii.
[58] _Ibid._ vi.
[59] Sydney Smith put very ingeniously the advantages of what he
called the 'lottery' system: of giving, that is, a few great prizes,
instead of equalising the incomes of the clergy. Things look so
different from opposite points of views.
[60] _Church of Englandism_, ii. 199.
[61] See especially his review of Southey's _Book of the Church_.
[62] Romilly's _Memoirs_, iii. 33.
[63] 57 George III. caps. 60-67.
[64] Edition of 1828, p. 24.
[65] _Ibid._ p. 10.
[66] A Mr. Gray proposed at a county meeting in 1816 that the cry of
'retrenchment and reform' should be raised in every corner of the
island (Henry Jephson's _Platform_, p. 378). I do not know whether
this was the first appearance of the formula.
[67] Hume had been introduced to Place by James Mill, who thought him
worth 'nursing.' Place found him at first 'dull and selfish,' but
'nursed him' so well that by 1836 he had become the 'man of
men,'--Wallas's _Francis Place_, p. 181, 182.
[68] Torrens's _Life of Graham_, i. 250-72, where his great speech of
14th May 1830 is given.
[69] 2 and 3 William IV. cap. 111 (passed 15 August 1832).
[70] 4 and 5 William IV. cap. 15.
[71] _The Platform, its Origin and Progress_, by Henry Jephson (1892),
gives a very interesting historical account of the process.
[72] 57 George III. cap. 19, and 60 George III. cap. 6.
[73] See Jephson's _Platform_, pp. 167-70.
[74] See Jephson's _Platform_, i. 348, 455, 517.
[75] See _Ibid._ ii. 129-40 for some interesting passages as to this.