The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1856-04-05
Dickens Exposition Of the "WhoIe Sci.
ence Of GOyernment"...The CircumlO-
cutiOu Office.

ming blow 10 the embodiment Of official old
fogyism in England, the principal portion Of
which we copy below:
The Circuinlocution Office was fss every
body knows without being told tho most
Important Department under Government
No public business Of any kind could posi-
bly, DC done at any time without the acqui.
escence of the CircumlOcution Office. It's
hDger was in the largest public pie, md in
the smallest public tart. 1t was equally iln-
possible to do the plainest rish, anu to undo
the plainest wrong without the express au-
thority Of the Circumlocution Oihcc. II
another Gunpowder Plot had been discover
ed half an hour before the lighting of the
match, nobody would have been justified in
saving the Parliament until there had been
half score Of boards, half bushel OF nj.
Rniss. several sacks Of Official memoranda,
and a family vaulffull Of ungianmatical cor
rcspondence, on the part Of the Clrcululocu-
ton Office.
This glorious establishment lad been ear
ly in the field, when the sublime principle
involving the difficult art Of governing Il
country was first distinctly revealed to
statesmen. 1t had been foremost to study
that bright revelation, and to carry it,, shin
ing influence through the whole Of the OIL
cial proceedings. Whatever was required 10
be done, the CircumlOcGtIou Office was be-
iorehand with all the public departments in
the art Of pcrce.ying-nDw NOT 10 Dg IT.
Through this delicate perception, through
the tact with which i, invariably seized II,
and ,Aro I.h the eeniu, with which It Always
acted on it, the Circumlocution once had
risen ~ oycrtop all the public departmeutsi )
and the public condition had risen - G--
what il was.
Il is true that How not do twa, the great
study and object Of all public departments
aud professional politicians all round the
Circumlocution Office. 1t is true that every
new premier and every new Government,
coming in because they had upheld certain
thing as necessary to Je done. were To
sooner come in than they applied their ut
most faculties to discovering, How not 10 do
il. 1t is true that from the moment when Il
genera election was over, every returned
man who had been rayiug ca hustngs be-
cause It hadn't been done, aud who had been
ask ing the friends Of the honorable gentle
man in the opposite interest on pain Oi in
pcachmrnt to tel! him why it hadn't been
done, and who had bcen asserting that !,
mast be done, and who had been p'cdgiug
himself that it should be done, began to dc.
wise, How it was to be done. II Ia true that
the debates Of both Houses VI paT!!cInent
the whole session through, uniformly tended
TO the protracted dc!Iberation, 10" not to
10 Il. II ~ true that tAe rlya! spee.H AZ t"r
opening Of such session yrlua,y sad, Ay
lords and gentlemen, you nave coasi!-'"
bic stroke Vi work TO do, ana you WA p'l17v
to retire TO your Respective c'A'"pcrs' anu
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