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ADVERSE OCCUPATION.
Sia—A gift is to be disposed after the receiver's pleasure, a trust is dis- charged according to the trustee's discretion. Where no conditions are ex- pressly reserved, this discretion is unlimited and unimpeachable. Whether the trust raised by an electing body choosing an M.P. be limited or not, is a contested question, whereupon the parties are not fairly divided. The elected agree in holding the confidence irrevocable, while the electors differ, as upon any other legal or constitutional question. The tendency of legislation has been on the side of the elected ; as mayhe seen from analogy of Parliament's dealings with the electors. The abohtion of the three questions to a voter effects that a man preserves his franchise after he has parted from his quali- ication. Let us apply this test to the elected : here are two instances ready. Mr. John Simeon, having forsaken his creed and submitted himself to the old profession, restores a confidence which would never have been reposed in bun as he now stands before his constituents. Yet the change seems to be in what Mr. Simeon is, not in what he would do were he to continue to re- present the Isle. Mr. Hawes, on the contrary, is not changed personally or officially ; he is a Whig still, and as a Whig is assisting to inflict injury upon the credulous Kinsalers, and their fellow believers. 'Yet he will keep what Simeon will let go ; while the world will applaud both alike. Holz TOUR OWN.
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