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1828 March 26
Peel & BenthamCopied
The Finance Committee has begun its labours –
you see, under what auspices. Imagine if you also the extent
of the retrenchment that may be expected from them. For my own
part I must acknowledge myself quite though
not very little surprized most completely consummately confounded.
that applied to the two Commissions for the two
subjects so carefully – Commission procedure and property
law in addition to the already existing one for Chancery procedure.
Conceive them applied to the this proposed
County Common Law Courts English sit, , is.
But these, it seems frightened at his own , the
Right Honorable , with all his zeal for improvement
has already given up.+ +See House of Parliament
As to the principle of competition there is a difference
some difference there is between Mr Peel and Mr Bentham, and it is
this. Competition principle Mr Bentham is for applying it as far as
it will go: so service in one shape as well as to service in another: to
servants of one class as well as servants in another: to proof of aptitude
for service, and thence as the practice to the securing of aptitude for
as either or to off official service in public
general, as well as f to the striking off of needless and
and pernicious expence employed in the procurement of such service.
Not so Mr Peel. He is for applying it so far, and
and so far only, as it is practical: not where it would the application of it is practical: not where it would be theoretical, it
is practical where the effect of it is to reduce the price of to the given for the
labour of the poor: to reduce it to the very minimum of what is capable of
of keeping them in existence: even by considering that a labourer
to earn must exist. It is could be theoretical, if applied either to the
to the injury of the rich: applied either to the of that is to say
on their part, or to the domination of the remuneration on the part
or to the encrease of aptitude provided for them in return for
official service, or to the encrease of aptitude with relation
to that same service: steadily as we have found him
assured, that as remuneration encreases, so will aptitude,
and that as aptitude can not so neither can remuneration, be excessive:
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