30 JULY 1831, Page 15

"WORN-OUT INSTITUTIONS.—If the Monarchy, the House of Lords, or the

Established Church, were useful to the people, they would see it and say so : none know better what is useful to them than themselves. If these institutions be not useful, why should they be preserved ? They came by conquest ; but this is no reason why they should he continued. And this is the virtue of the present times, that men begin to ask of what use an institution is to them ? I should hope, that Lord Winchilasa is not in the state of mind that would say—our ancestors conquered these institutions, and will keep them by the right of the sword ; though Lord Grey has been weak enough in his dotage to talk about standing by his order."