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The Nineteenth Century , No 182, Apr 1892 [‎97v] (199/244)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (120 folios). It was created in Apr 1892. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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THE NINETEENTH
April
stood as they were in 1889, or botli parties only slightly increased
their votes. But where the labour vote was cast, the majorities were
greatly increased. This is no accident or coincident. On the
contrary, it is a political portent that will cause the Government and
the Opposition front benches to realise what has not yet dawned
upon them—that if they want the support of the people, no partial
programme will secure it.
Now that the Progressives have an overwhelming majority the
question is being asked, ' What will they do ?' Their first act, in
electing three Moderates as aldermen, speaks well for their magna
nimity. The election of three labour aldermen shows also a lively
appreciation of the help that labour gave in the election, and
confirms my view of the part labour successfully played in it.
Generally the Council must, as a matter of legal necessity, carry out
the purely executive and administrative work imposed upon it by
law. Outside that work the Council cannot do better than continue
its policy of taking effective steps to actually secuie those alterationb
in the Act of 1888 that prevent its committees from doing their
work promptly, through absurd financial restiictions that the
Treasury does not endorse, and which the Local Government Board
ought to at once remove. Beyond this mere mechanical alteration
the Council cannot do better than persist in securing the wider
powers from Parliament that for three years it has been demanding.
The Council is now re-arranging the work of its committees, defining
the duties of its chairman, and ought in the interests of all concerned
to clearly define the functions of its clerk, which are now vague and
unsatisfactory. The suggestion thrown out in some quarters, to
create a 'cabinet' or ' executive,' I hope will be stoutly resisted by
all who desire to continue the public, popular, open policy of letting
committees who really know most about the work decide the lines
on which that work shall be conducted 5 always acting, of course,
within its proportionate spending limits and the approving vote or
veto of the Council. The best method of getting consistency and
continuity of municipal policy is to allow the ' common sense of
mostof its Councillors in open Council to decide. In a multitude
of councillors there is not always wisdom, but there is more likeli
hood of safety, impartiality, and honest work by this means than
might be possible if an 'executive' was appointed or a 'cabinet'
tried to either initiate or veto measures the Council, as a whole, did
notjapprove.
There is no analogy between Parliament and the Council. Parlia
ment deals mainly with abstract legislative propositions, and where
it does discharge executive and administrative functions by its
cabinet ministers or heads of departments, its work could be
improved upon, and money saved, if there was some more direct

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The file contains a copy of the journal The Nineteenth Century. A pencil note on the cover of the journal, in the hand of Lady Pelly, indicates that Lewis Pelly was being read an article from this journal on Easter Sunday five days before he died.

The article he and his wife were reading has been marked on the cover 'Prospects of Marriage for Women, by Miss Clara E Collet' which appears on folios 24-31.

A second annotation, written by Sir William Henry Rhodes Green, gives the date of Lewis Pelly's death and is provided as context to Lady Pelly's comments.

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1 volume (120 folios)
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The journal contains one set of foliation and three sets of original pagination.

The principal foliation for this volume appears in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio, using a pencil number enclosed with a circle.

The three sets of original printed pagination that appear are as follows:

The advertisments at the front of the journal are paginated as i-xxxii; the articles themselves are paginated as 525-712; and the Sampson Low, Marston & Company publications list at the rear of the journal has been paginated as 1-8.

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