text:  And first we would say this--Do not any longer degrade the honourable House of Commons by forcing on its attention matters and details which ought to fall beneath the province of a lower tribunal: do not leave it in the power of any fool or knave--and there are many such actively employed at this time--who can persuade half a dozen of the same class with himself into gross delusion of the public to occupy the time and monopolize the nobler functions of the legislature in the consideration of some miserable scheme which never can be carried into effect and which is protracted beyond endurance simply for the benefit of its promoters