Southern pioneer, and Carroll, Choctaw and Tallahatchie Counties advertiser. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1840-1842, 1841-06-12
Saturday, june l9, ls4I,
REFORM IN ENGLAND.

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+ The Northern papers that Ministers in Eng
land have brought forward bill to abolish the
/ corn monopoly, and that the move has excited
an intense interest and corresponding excite
h .ment throughout the Kingdom. The corn
laws have, since the adjustment of the rotten
1 boroughs, been one of the most papable sour
ces of oppression and grievance under which
the British subject has labored, and there is no
system in modern England that calls more
loudly for revision and repeal than the justly
slgmatized sod GUS corn monopoly" England
is evidently keeping pace with the enlighten
ed improvement of the age. Reform in its
fullest and widest .sense-Reform of the anti
quated and tyrannical uSages of the feudal
times of the royal prerogatives; and of the
4 privileged orders is steadily, if slowly, on the
march to moderate republicanism. Already
has the Kingdom of Great Britain, though in
fact a monarchy, yet in consequence of her
superior advancement before the rest of the
empires of Europe in enlightened intelligence,
been deemed and styled republic in all but
the name. Her Executive, although clothed
/. with the insignia of royalty has his preroga-
(. tive clearly defined and strictly limited. AL
most without discretion his power is merely
nominal Watched with vgilant and jealous
eyes. the slighsest infraction upon the liberties
of the subject, would cause the tocsin of alarm
to be sounded from one end of the kingdom to
the other while his Ministers are held imne-
diately and personally responsible for the acts
OF the crown. In the hands of Parliament
the English Monarch is comparatively CT.
pher, since the representatives of the great
body OF the people, may at any time, with
hold the annual appropriation of supplies and
thus stop instanter all the wheels of executive
government And even when the King has
transcribed his privilege, instances are not
wanting in British history where the people
II have erected themselves into one vast Jury OF
Inquest, and having tried their lawful monarch
according to the forms and solemnities of the
prescribed law, have brought him to the scat.
tod Charles the first, or as he is sometimes
called ''The unfortunate Charles;' was execu
ted for less daring violation of his preroga
tive than that exercised by one of the Amer
can Presidents. For centuries has the spirit
of democracy in England been waging the
war of social liberty, and in each contes
wringing from the privileged orders fresh con
cessions to the rights and powers of the PEG
pie. The last move has been for "unversa
suffrage" introduced by Lord Morpeth, unde
s the title of 'the Irish restriction Bill" which
after nine days discussion was lost by ma
jority of 81 against the first clause and
against the second or principal clause-sti
the indomitable spirit of reform gathering re
S. newed energy from every defeat, will continu
# to actuate the heaving masses until the gov
eminent Of Great Britain in spite oflts form;
will be as free and liberal as that of the mos
Y enlightened and favored natives of the earth