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E., Hampton Wick, Middlesex. ........ 'ND orough Lion at suburb THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, .APRIL 27, 1860. R S 18ro -I. A L A C E.- N°. 21,140. ending TICKETS for the NEW SEASON, commencing Tuesday, May 1, and terminating on the 30th April, 15.61, are now ready for issue. . _ _ - Pj cE 4P. STAMPED, SD• r Glas- etehire, mpton ; he had . _ They are of two classes, viz., Two Guineas, admitting Tree on all occasions; One Guinea, admitting, free on all occasions when the price of admission to the Palace on the day is under Five Shillings, but admitting on those days on which the price of admission is Five Shillings or upwards on payment of Hall-a-Crown. . _ _ . P ÜBLICATION S. THE GOVERNOR AND COMPANY of the BANK of ENGLAND do rtereby Give Notice, That on and after the 19th day of May next the business of the Bank of England will CLOSE on SATURDAYS at Three o'clock in the afternoon, instead of at four, as at present. April 26, 1.60. JAMES ST EWART, Secretary. Chief Justice Cockburn, giving the opinion of the common law judges, in condemnation of the arrangement of calling on any of them to assist the Judge-Ordinary. Lord CRINWORTH moved that a clause be added to the bill to prevent collusion between parties for the purpose of obtaining a dissolution of marriage. The clause, supported by Lord Wensleydale, the Lord Chancellor, and. Lord Chelmsford, was agreed to, and the bill, as amended, passed through committee. THE NEW NOVEL, MAR Y - BER TR AND, . By FR A NCIS : ItEDITIE, Is Now Ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols. • Hurst and Blackctt, Publishers, successors to Henry Col burn, 13, Great Marlborough street, Now Ready, In 2 vols., 21s. bound, THE ENGLISHWOMAN IN ITALY. IMPRESSIONS , OF LIFE IN THE [IONIAN STATES and SARDINIA, during a . Teu Years' Residence. By Mrs. G. GRETTON. OXFORD UNIVERSITY' BILL. The report of amendment on this bill was brought up anti agreed to.. ois Val ent out at Mr. apanied e of the walked vhen he r Office, ied to a keeping should; er face, ter not n called she ex rds him. Valley, sr dress, s's baby I of vio- Is to her s, when what nable to was at rse, Mrs. 1r should • ppeared not take cleans- God ; timoniali for sick who was remedies I tetanic years of ier earn d chain. found to ier boxes powder, Lary test, was also :—" We , came to b.nia, but. to show. at where v of wheat. Oats were .31s to 333 .30s to 335 .27s to 29s .438 to 485 .—s to —s advance on icarce, and e rates. I to 58s Od I to 55s 01 d to 58s Od I to 55s 041 I to 408 Od I to 56. Od 1 to 48s Od I to 44. Od I to 44. Od I to 34. Od I to 40s Od 1 to Ms 01 I to 29. Oct I to 28s Oct Old to 11/1 I to 0311 I to 0.11 1 to 480 to 42. Od I to 44. Od I to 38s Od d to 44s Od I to 41. Od i to —s Od I to 33s Od I to 52a Oct 1 to 50. Oct £lO 15 0 • 8 6 0 5 0 0 5 '5 0 ith a slow , new, 53s barley in to 38a per no ; _beans, with wheat id for other .ti. s. d. - 0 to 0 3 0 to 11 0 1 0 t• 23 0 i 0 to 17 0 ' 0 t• 22 6 ' 0 to 40 0 8. d. .21 0 .21 0 .21 9 .21 0 .21 6 ...- .21 3 9 Utt▪ inlo 3 ....is 6 rryn ....23 0 ....20 9 espatched g mails. Next Dtail due. May 10 ,M3y 4 May 10: ,April 25 IMay S May 2 April 2 6 April 25' April 29 May 2 April 26 April2s May 4 May 5 I May 1 April 25 April 26 :ay 2 May 10 IMay 14 M3Y - of Cap.. s, Croy dH, of a Pancras, licht, to Esq., e)rge's , , Lady . U,arl of aouset L. voter ppm* ; ~,-Col. Adan 2 5 , ag •fir K. v Tell° S I UN° 0.. 112, The days on which the price of admisSion is fixed at Five Shillings and upwards already decided upon are— The MENDELSSOIIN FESTIVAL • and GI:EAT PER FORMANCE of ELIJAH and Torchlight procession, on Friday May 4. The SIX OPERA CONCERTS, on Fridays, May 11th, June Ist, 15th, 22d, July 6th, and 13th. The GREAT FLOWER SHOW,,on Saturday, May 26. The MUSICAL FESTIVAL of the ORPHEONISTES of FR SNCE, on Mond ty, 25th; Tuesday, 26th; and Thurs day, 28th June. Other appointments at a rate of admission of Five Shil lings or upwards may be made as the Season progresses. Season Tickets fQr Child' en under twelve years of age will be issued at the uniform rate of Half-a-Guinea. Tickets and the published Prognumme of the Season may be had at the usual Agents, at the Crystal Palace, or at 2, Exeter-hall. By order, GEORGE GROVE, Secretary, CRYSTAL PALACE.-ON FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1860, a GREAT FESTIVAL PERFORMANCE of Mendelssohn's ELLT AH, on the occasion of the Inaugura tion of the Bronze Memorial Statue of the Composer (by Mr. Charles Bacon), provided by public subscription. Principal Vocalists :—Miss l'arepa, Miss F. Rowland, Miss Palmer, and Madame Sainton-Dolby ; Mr. Sims Reeves, Mr. Evans, Mr. L. W. Thomas, and Signor Belletti. The Band will in clude the Instrumentalists of the Sacred Harmonic Society, with numerous additions thereto, selected from the principal Orchestras, the Cryst.l Palace Band, and the Large (organ, built expressly for the Handel Festival. Organist—Mr. Brownsmith. The Chorus will consist of the London Divi stoa of the Handel Festival Choir (comprising the Chorus of the Sacre i Harmonic Society, with selections from -the other Metropolitan Choral Societies), the leading professional Choristers, and Deputations from the principal Pro vincial Choral Societies, the Cathedral Choirs, and various Continental Choral bodies. The entire Orchestra will number THREE THOUSAND PERFORMERS—Conductor, M. COSTA. The Musical arrangements under the direction of the Committee of the Sacred Harmonic Society. The Oratorio will commence at Three o'clock. The Statue, which will be placed for-the occasion on one of the Upper Terraces, will be unveiled at Six o'clock. .A Great Torchlight Proces sion at dusk. _ _ PRICES OF TlCKETS.—Admission tickets (if purchased on or before the 3d May), ss. ; by payment at the doers on the of the Festival, 7s. od ; Reserved stalls, arranged in blocki, as at the Handel Festival, in the area, ss. extra, or in the corner galleries tea. 6d. extra. Tickets at the Crystal Palace, and at 2, Exeter Hall, where also plans of the seats may be inspected, or by order of the Usual agents. .... Theaew Season Tickets will admit, on this occasion, sub ject to the usual regulations. CiIIUSTY'S MINSTRELS, Polygraphic Hall, King William-street, Strand.—Farewell Season in Lon - •lon.—Every Eveninsr at 8, and every Saturday Morninsr, at lo'clock. Tickets and places may be secured at the Hall .. - rom 11 till 4, and at Mr. Austin's West-end Box-oilice, St. Jamea's II all, Piccadilly.—Soie Proprietor and Manager, Mr. J. W. ItAxxon. A RGYLL ROOMS, Windmill-street, Picea -47 dilly.—Open eyery.Eveninz, with the'celebrated Band conducted by Mona. Lamotte (chef d'orchestra to the Em perm Napoleon). A maznificent SMOKING SALOON added to this Establishment. Doors open at 8 o'clock. Ad mission, Is. Licensed pursuant to Act of Parliament. THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ROOMS, NIGH HOLBO!%N. This Establishment, pre-eminently distinguished for the elegance and matchless beauty of its decorations, combined with the perfection of its management, is OPEN EVERY EVENING for DANCING. The celebrated band, under the direction of Mr. W. M. Packer, plays a nightly-varied selec tion of the my t approved classical and modern music. Doors open at half-past 8. Overture at 9. Closing at; 12 punctually. Admission, ls. WEST MIDDLESEX VOLUNTEER RIFLES.---S. W. SILVER and CO., Contractors to the Corps, are now prepared to supply the cloth accoutre ments, gaiters, &c., according - to regulation. 66 and 67, CORNHILL, E.C. WEDDING STATIONERY, including every requisite.—Beautiful and elegant designs by DE LA RUE and Co. A sample packet and price list sent free. No charge for carriage on orders over 20s. The London Depot for De La Rue and Co.'s manufactures—HENßY GOOD'S, GO, Moorgate-street, E.C. Card plates and crest dies engraved In the first style, and note papers beautifully embossed in coloured relief, or if plain, stamped without charge. An illustrated catalogue will be forwarded free on application. REDUCTION OF TENT POUNDS PER TON In the price of THORLEY'S FOOD FOR CATTLE On and after the Ist of April. 1860. Barrels ctg 448 Feeds, wg nett 1121b5., with measure, 40s each Cases „ 448 Feeds, ~ 1121b5., Packets, 45s each Carriaze paid to any railway station in the kingdom, Nutritives value .. £l5 Condimental value .. .. 125 Total .. £llO per ton. sheivinr, a profit of £lOO per ton through the use of this in valuable compound, adapted for the seasoning of all kinds of food for animals. 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Lord TEYNHAM introduced a bill for the extension of the weights and measures bill, which was read a first time. The noble lord also presented several petitions from Wool wich and other places in favour of the bill. CHURCH RATES. Earl DE GREY and RIPON presented a petition from a place in Yorkshire in favour of the volition of church rates. The Earl of DERBY presented petitions from places in Lancashire against the abolition of church rates. MARRIAGE LAW. The Bishop of CHICHESTER presented a petition against any alteration in the law of marriage. UNION OF BENEFICES BILL. The Bishop of LONDON moved the second reading of this bill. Its object was to remedy one of the principal evils pointed cut by a committee which considered the sub ject. There were a large number of parishes which had once been very populous, but had ceased to be so, though they still possessed very large endowments, the object for which they had been made having ceased to exist. The bill proposed that these funds might be made available for the spiritual improvement of the poor of an adjoining or poorer parish. In the City of London there were many such pa rishes, with populations varying from between 800 or 900 persons, and it would be a source of benefit if these large and wealthy parishes were made to contribute for the spiritual relief of the larger but slen derly-endowed districts. Another of the benefits the bill would bring about was an amalgama tion of various parishes, and ensure the existence of a parsonage house, and the residence in it of a clergy man, whereas under the existing system the clergy man was compelled to reside at a distance of some miles from his parish, and in many cases the poverty of the district was so great that it was impossible for the bishop to insist upon the erection of a parsonage house. There were at present acts of Parliament in existence by which it was possible to tax a rich parish for the benefit of a poorer one when the patronage of both was vested in the same hands, but the state of things in the City of London was so complicated that the appli cation of those acts was rendered impossible. It was not generally known that in the City, in spaces no larger than Grosvenor-square, there was, in ono instance, four, and in another five churches. By one of the provisions of the bill it enabled the taking down certain churches. He was aware that in this he was trenching on dangerous ground, especially as there were such strenuous exertions being made to erect them. He was also aware of the out cry that would be made by persons who would look upon the bill as one to destroy the splendid specimens of the genius of Wren and other great and eminent nten, but such would not be the case, for all those churches which had any historical interest would still remain intact ; and in any case where one church was taken down he had no doubt another would be erected in a More populous parish. Another objection to the bill might be the removal of the remains of the dead, which would produce infection, as it was calculated that at least 48,000 tons of human re mains were under the city churches. He assured their lord ships the bill provided for the removal of the dead in a proper and reverential manner after an order in council had been issued ; and as to the fear of infection, he thought the fears on that head were somewhat exaggerated. It had been sup posed that the City benefices were of a very wealthy nature ; some, no doubt, were, but the majority of them were, on the contrary, very small. What he should like to see was that in the city of London they should have small model parishes, the duties of which would leave them leisure to pursue theological learning. Looking at all the circum stances, he hoped their lordships would consent to the second reading of the bill. The Earl of CARNARVON analysed several clauses of the bill, which he considered most objectionable, and said he trusted their lordships would not give their consent to those clauses. The Bishop of OXFORD regarded many of the clauses of the bill objectionable, and in particular that clause which proposed to give a power to the commissioners to disturb the remains of the dead, and to devote the consecrated grounds in which they were laid to other purposes. Ho con sidered such an appropriation of those sacred spots as a vio lation of the contract entered into between the Church and those who laid the remains of their departed friends in those grounds, and he should therefore oppose such a provision in the bill. Lord REDESDALE, the Bishop of EXETER, and the Earl of DERBY made objections to some details of the bill, and suggested that Its operation should be confined, in the first instance, to the city of London, in order to test the prin ciple. ' Earl GREY thought the interests of the Church should not be lost sight of in the provisions of the bill, any more than the interests of other parties concerned. The Bishop of ,LONDON having replied, the bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed. DIVORCE COURT BILL. On tho motion that the house resolve itself into com mittee on this bill, Lord ST. LEONARDS objected to that clause o f th e bill which proposed 'that the dissolution of marriage should be confined to the decision of one judge, and proposed that in so seriously important a matter there should be added another judge, to assist the Judge-Ordinary, and that their concurrent decision should be necessary to give validity to the dissolution and nullity of marriage. The LQRI) CRANCALLOR read a letter from Lord INCLOSURE BILL. `This bill; on the motion of Earl DE GREY, passed through committee. The house resumed. DIVORCE (IRELAND) BILL. • I Lord CHELMSFORD brought in a bill f or ex t en di n o the provision of tho Divorce (England) Bill to Ireland. The LORD CHANCELLOR said he should su pp or t such 4 bill, which, in his opinion, would confer much ben ' fit on a large section of the population in that country ; b t it was it measure which the great body of the people the did not want and would not have. The bill was then read &first time, and their lordships adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(YESTERDAY.) The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock. NEW MEMBER. Colonel ROWLEY took the oaths and his seat for Har wich, and was received with loud cheers from the Conser vative benches: ' ~PRIVATE BUSINESS. The London and South-Western Railway (New Line to Bristol and Exeter Railway at Exeter, &c.) Bill was read a third time and passed. PETITIONS. Several petitions were presented in favour of and against the Church Rates Abolition Bill, in favour of the Medical Relief Bill, against the Wine Licences Bill, from South : ampton ; in favour of the Bankruptcy Bill, for additional remuneration to medical officers employed in Poor-law Unions, against the Highways Bill, in favour of the Wine Licences Bill, in favour of legalising marriage with a de ceased wife's sister, in favour of the Reform Bill, &c. PARLIAMENTARY BOROUGHS. Mr. BOVILL moved an address for return of the num ber of registered electors (and showing the number of free men) in 1859-60 in parliamentary cities and boroughs hav ing a population under 10,000, and of the areas of such cities and boroughs, to be added in separate columns to the return showing the relative importance of boroughs according to houses and taxation for which Psi ad dress was agreed to by this house on the 3d day of April Instant; and that there be also added, in a separate column, the estimated increase of electors in such boroughs by a £6 franchise, according to returns already laid before the house.—Ordered. REFORM BILL. Mr. E. JAMES gave notice that to-morrow, on the motion for the adjournment of the house, he would ask the Secretary for Foreign Affairs if it was intended to introduce any measure to provide for the registration of persons who may become entitled to vote in the event of the Reform Bill being passed during the present session of Parliament. (Hear, hear.) STATEMENT OF POOR LAW AUDITORS. Mr. WATLINGTON asked the President of the Poor Law Board whether the correspondent of the Times news paper of the 23d instant was correct in stating that the au ditors of the Poor Law Board had defined "gross estimated rental" to be " the landlord's rent, the landlord and tenant respectively paying their own charges ;" and, if so, to in quire what, if any, is the difference between " gross esti mated rental" and " net annual value." Mr. VILLIERS said that in consequence of the hon. gentleman's notice he had referred to a file of the Times, and had seen the letter alluded to, and the statement was what the hon. member described. He applied to those 'auditors, who stated that the contents of the letter in ques tion were quite correct; and they also said that the auditors throughout the country agreed with them, which upon in quiry he found to be the case. PROTECTION TO BRITISH SUBJECTS. Mr. H. B. SHERIDAN asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, whether he had heard that complaints had been made of the insufficient protection afforded to British subjects in the kingdom of Naples, and in the immediate neighbourhood of the disturbances in Sicily, by the English representative and British men-of-war on that station; and whether there was any truth in these complaints; and if he walld state which of her Majesty's' vessels are on that station, and whether the instructions had been to give assistance to all persons rightly claiming the protection of the English flag; and, whether, to his knowledge, it was true that Austrian troops had been em ployed to aid in the suppression of the efforts of the Sicilian population to obtain a better form of Government ? Lord J. RUSSELL said that the Government had re ceived no official complaint on tho question of the protection of British subjects in Naples, but three vessels of war were stationed at different ports in the kingdom of Naples for the purpose of affording such protection. One vessel was to be permanently stationed at Palermo, and another in another place, which would afford the necessary protection. He was in possession of no official. information relative to the interference of the Austrian troops in the way re ferred to by the hon. member in his motion. ASSISTANT CAVALRY SURGEONS. Mr. BEEDES asked the Secretary of State for War upon what principle a deduction of Sid. per diem was made from the surgeon and assistant-surgeon of a cavalry regi ment for each horse kept by them for the public service, when the rate of pay of those officers is precisely the same as that of the medical officers of infantry regiments ? Mr. S. HERBERT said that infantry medical officers were exempted from the deductions in question by a special warrant the cavalry officers did not possess. REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL.- ADJOURNED DEBATE. Mr. BLACK said he felt constrained by a sense of duty to give utt crane° to the sentiments which he had more than once expressed before, both publicly and privately, and which were participated in by a majority of his constituents. A mixed Government supported by Parliamentary repre sentation had proved by experience to be the most effective and powerful machine for the production of good govern ment. It might be said not to be perfect, but that was only saying that it was human, and if it got out of gear, or re quired repair, it must be attended to with the utmost care• fulness; but there should be no perpetual tinkering at it. (Hear, hear.) Before altering the machine, two things should be ascertained with certainty—first, that there existed a defect, and secondly, that the alteration proposed to be made would remove the defect and improve the ma chine. (Hear.) Was the elective franchise a right or a trust ? If a right, upon what was it based ? Some said that all who lived under the laws had a natural right to a voice in the framing of those laws ; others maintained that taxation and representation ought to be coextensive. But, if the latter principle were accepted, every man who took a cup of tea or who smoked a pipe might demand a vote. (Hear.) Ia his opinion the people had a right, not to the franchise, but to the best system of government which could le provided for them. You were not bound to gratify every demand of theirs which would not tend to promote their happiness. It might be asked, " And who is to decide what shall tend to their happiness P" His answer was that this duty must devolve upon the Government of the day. (Hear, hear.) The responsibility rested on the present House of Commons, and a tremendous responsibility it :was to make any change in the existing system. (Hear, hear.) As to the proposed reduction of the county franchise to £lO, he thought they were justified in adopting that as an improvement. Was there any reason to suppose that £lO householders in the counties were not as intelligent and as independent as those of the same class in the boroughs ? (Hear.) Believing them to be equally well qualified, he should support this proposition. Again, in England there were 40s. freeholders. Why should there be a distinction between England and Scotland in this re spect ? He thought the 40s. freehold franchise was worthy of adoption in Scotland, not merely because it existed in England, but because it was an ancient franchise, which, as it had worked well in one country, might be expected to work well also in the other. (Hear.) However small a man's property might be, he took as great an interest in all that concerned it as the proprietor of large estates. If ho had acquired this small prope► ty, you might safely assume that he was industrious and well conducted ; Hire inherited it, you might in the same way assume that ho was tolerably well educated. But did hon. members believe that they would improve the electoral system by the reduction of the borough franchise to £6, and the infusion into these con stituencies of a large body of persons possessing little edu cation, intelligence, or independence ? (Hear.) It was said that you might find as intelligent men among the £6 as among the £lO householders. That might be true, but he spoke of the class, and not of individuals. (Hear.) There had been too great a disposition to talk of the virtues of this class, and to flatter them on every occasion. (Hear.) Now, he did not wish to say anything disrespectful of them, but was it consistent with common sense to suppose that men in their position could have had such - an education as would enable them to understand difficult questions of policy? (Hear.) Were men in the lower ranks of life likely to have the same amount of education, of inform•ttion, mid of inde pendence as those above them in the social scale ? (Hear.) There could be but ono answer to such a question. (Hear.) Nothing was more difficult than to decide intelligently upon political questions, and would Parliament be justified in intrusting the power of deciding those questions to a large mass of half-educated persons, whose passions and prejudices were so easily aroused, and who were so open to tbo iZaWNICte , of wascrupuslous agitators, (Hear.) Witbiii the last few mouths there had been a melancholy example of the way in which the working classes managed their own affairs. On being told that by agitating they could get 10 hours' pay for nine hours' work, they wont out on strike, exposing not only themselves but their wives and children to great sufferings. No doubt they manifested great self. denial and mutual reliance, but these virtues only made them the snore formidable. Well, it was now proposed not only to introduce such persons into the constituencies, but to introduce them in large numbers, in, some boroughs increasing the susmiicr of elccters to onc-fourth, in etlszr, by ono half, while in others the new constituencies would outnumber the old ones. There was thus to be a new in fusion into the present electoral body which would lower in quality the whole aggregate of the borough constituencies. Now, if an hen. member had any important business to transact, and wanted some persons to take charge of it, would he like to go into the lower streets of Westminster or St. Giles's and take the first half-dozen men ho met there, or would he not feel himself much safer in selecting bis agents from—he would not say Belgravia, but from Cheap side or the Strand ? By conferring the franchise on such a large mass of half. educated people you would not raise the character of the constituencies, but, on the contrary, must inevitably bring it down in some degree to the level from which the new body of electors sprang. (Hear, hear.) Would that be an advantage ? If so, it should be done at once ; but, if it were doubtful, it would be prudent to hesitate be fore taking a step which could not be retraced. (Hear, hear.) Some hon. gentlemen were not aware of the extent to which combinations such as trade unions and their affilia tions were carried. In a recent instance they had seen a small executive body sitting in London issuing orders and receiving obedience from all parts of the kingdom. It was stated that the number of those who were governed by that executive in London alone was not less than 600,000. (Hear, hear.) It might be true that all those persons would not be admitted to the franchise under this bill, but a very considerable proportion of them would be admitted. Supposing that the executive committee, com posed probably of men who were energetic, en thusiastic, and aggressive, chose to issue their mandates, how many men eonnected with that body would dare to disobey them ? In fact, every man of that body would be either a voter or a canvasser, and the house could conceive the immense effect which such a combination would have upon elections. Hon. gentlemen opposite said that the new electors would deal injuriously with the taxation of the coun try, :and that would be only natural, for all men liked to shift burdens from their own shoulders to those of others. But they would also agitate other schemes. When he was pursuing his canvass at the last election he met many thousands of that class, and the question was put to him, " Would he support an Eight Hours Bill ?" He said at once that question showed how dangerous it would be to intrust them with the franchise. (Hear, hear.) No sooner would those men receive the franchise than it might be expected that they would make the eight hours question, or the abolition of the tobacco duty, a test for election, and no doubt some candidates would be found to swallow the test. (Hear, hear.) The noble lord the member for Stamford (Lord R. Cecil) had said that, having sat upon several election committees, he had found that the class usually bribed were the freemen—persons of the same grade as the £6 householders. (No, and cheers.) He could give another proof. (Hear) There were no freemen or potwallopers in Scotland to be affected by the Reform Act of 1832, and there had been no corruption among the £lO householders in that hountry. But in England the old constituency was partly affected by the dry rot of bribery, and the taint was commu nicated to the new electors. In fact, bribery and corrup tion extended to the Tweed at Berwick, and there stopped, for bribery was unknown in Scotland. (Hear and a laugh.) There was another view which must be taken of this bill. There had not been much agitation about it, but there had been some meetings, at nearly all of which resolutions in favour of manhood suffrage or something of that kind had been submitted. It was, however, argued by the leading speakers at those meetings that they should be content with this bill because it was a step in the right direction, it was an instalment. (Hear, hear.) Those persons were justified in regarding this bill as an instalment, and, if it were passed, they need not fear that the whole sum would not be paid in due time. (Hear.) If this bill passed, we should have gone down a certain distance on the slide; we might still go on by stages, but it was certain that at last we must come to the bottom. (Hear, hear.) The question had got a shove which would carry it down the whole distance, and there would be no standing-point until it arrived at manhood and universal suffrage. (Hear.) If, however, the house thought manhood suffrage would benefit the people or im prove the representation, why not go to it at once ? (Hear, hear.) • That would save all the agitation which might be expected from proceeding by degrees to reach that point. The house might be sure that it would be impossible to go back when once this step was taken. The opinion of the late Lord Macaulay upon this subject had been previously referred to; but he thought the house would not object to a short extract from the noble lord's letter to Mr. 11. S. Randall, of New York : " I havo long been convinced that institutions purely de mocratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty, or civiliza tion, or both. In Europe, where the population is dense, the effect of such institutions would be almost instantane ous. What happened lately in France is an example. You may think that your country enjoys an exemption from these evils. I will frankly own to you that lamof a very different opinion. Your fate I believe to be certain, though it is deferred by a physical cause. . . . But the time will come when New England will be as thickly peopled as Old England. Wages will be as low and will fluctuate as much with you as with us. But you will have your Manchesters and your Birminghams, and in these Man cheaters and Birminghams hundreds and thousands of ar tisans will assuredly be sometimes out of work. Then your institutions will be fairly brought to the test. Distress everywhere makes the labourer mutinous and discontented, and inclines him to listen with eagerness to agitators, who tell him that it is a monstrous iniquity that one man should have a million while another cannot get a full meal. In bad years there is plenty of grumbling here, and sometimes a little rioting ; but it matters little, for here the sufferers are not the rulers. The supreme power is in the hands of a class, numerous indeed, but select—of an educated class—of a class which is, and knows itself to be, deeply interested in the security of property and the maintenance of order. Ac cordingly, the malcontents are firmly but gently restrained. The bad time is got over without robbing . the wealthy . to relieve the indigent. Tho springs of national prosperity soon begin to flow again, work is plentiful, wages rise, and all is tranquillity and cheerfulness." It was said that if they adopted this measure it would be a settlement. A settlement! When they had the Bill of 1832 before them it was to be a final settlement (hear, hear) ; but that bill had not been in operation many years until there arose a cry for the extension of the suffrage. If they made one change was it not likely that they would be required to make another ? (Hear, hear.) He was one of the most ardent supporters of that Bill, but there was a most material dif ference between it and the present measure. The electors then introduced were from £lO upwards. They had then a constituency composed of all classes—the most highly edu cated, the most opulent, the most influential, the higher and middle, and a considerable portion of the lower elapses. (Hear, hoar.) But in the present Bill they had got but one class (cheers)—a large class--whom there was great danger of its overweighting the machine. If it was considered de sirable that a certain portion of the working classes should be admitted to the franchise, there was a way of doing that without diluting the aggregate body of the electors. He should have no objection to give up a certain number of boroughs to manhood or any other suffrage (a laugh) ; but don't let them leaven the whole lump with a £6 franchise. (Cheers.) It was painful for him to differ from statesmen for whom he had the highest respect, and whom he held in the greatest honour for their invaluable services to their country, but be could not, from the mere influence of affection, permit himself to appear even to acquiesce in what he did not approve, nor did he wish that his constituents should imagine that he had said one thing to them, and another to the House of Commons. (Cheers.) Sir E. B. LYTTON (who was cheered in rising to speak) said—Sir,—lt is obvious, as had been observed by the hon. gentleman who has just sat down, that the consideration of this bill involves a question on which gentlemen opposite have an interest fully equal to our own; and, therefore, imitating his example, T will state my views in a spirit that shall be as free from party bias as I can possibly form and express it ; and as T think it very important that we should have clear perceptions of the nature of our dispute, and of the consequences of any mistake we may commit, I will first entreat the house to bear with me for a few minutes, when I try to consider whether at least we cannot agree as to the broad principles upon which all good representative sys tems must be based. Sir, I will assume that every popular reformer, and every sound political thinker, who seeks to estimate the proper standard at which to fix ar, electoral franchise must, in abstract theory, start from the same point—(hear, hear)—and that point is the prima facie right of manhood suffrage. Where you find a civilised commu nity in which all the members are equally free, and where by a system of indirect duties every man is more or less taxed to the support of the State, I can readily understand that every man should consider that he has arriwa facie right to proffer his claims to vote for those who superintend his affairs aid regulate the machinery by which his welfare is controlled. But here, from the origin of all poli'ical societies, commences another view of that same question, upon which reformers may differ—l do not know if they do—but on which all who are acknowledged to be sound political thinkers aro agreed. And it is—Granting that every man in a free community may thus put forward his claim to the electoral franchise, still every member of a community merges all his individual rights, and many rights much nearer and dearer to him than an elec toral franchise, in the paramount consideration how the State itself can be best sustained for the general safety and the social advancement : or, in the words of the hon. gen tleman who has just spoken, how the greatest happiness of the greatest number can be secured from attacks without aigl within, from foreign dangers or its own, mistakes, for the longest probable period.. That question has been largely discussed by political reasoners for more than 2,000 years— (hear, hear)-,-bilt I think the substanCe of all that has been said by theii;beSti authorities mayTke fiktrid in This very sCinple definition free State will be thus best :sustained and advahiTd, by securing to its legislittii - e councils the highest average degrce,cif the common sensed the comi sou interest. (Hear, hear.) Thus, ,intelligence is requisite, but not intelligence alone; you might have a legislative as sembly comprised of riffea Indisputably-intelligent—nobles, lawysrs, priests, win mighthonestly believe they used their intelligencefor the common interest, when in fact they used it for their own. (Hear, hear.) Hente it follows that no one class interest must predominate over all the others, (Jr the common interest is gone. (Cheers.) Gone if that class be the great proprietors, gone if that class be the working men. But there is this distinction between the working class and every other, that, granting their intelligence to be equal to that of others, granting that it is not more likely to be misdirected, *still when it is misdirected the conse quences are, if they are invested with the eketoral power that determines legislation, immeasurably more dangerous both to the common interest and to their own. (Cheers.) For they are the roots of society, and it is the roots of so • ciety that their errors will affect, while their timbers are SO great that their votes could overpower the votes of all the other classes put together. Where this happens, the in stinctive safeguard of the rich is corruption; and the in stinctive tendency of ambition, where it is not rich, is to wards those acts which give dictatorship to demagogues. (Cheers.) The honourable and learned member for Mary lebone has done me the honour to quote expressions of mine in praise of the labourer and mechanic. I neither retract that praise, nor the qualification with which it was accompanied. The working class have virtues singularly noble and generous, but they are obviously more exposed than the other classes to poverty and to passions. Thus, in quiet times, their poverty subjects them to the corruption of the rich, and in stormy times, when the State requires the most sober judgment, their passion subjects them to the_ambition of the demagogue. (Hear, hear.) To every man who has read history, these are no unsupported propositions. The history of the old repub lics is uniform as to this truth, and as all those republics, at least where democracy was established, employed vote by ballot, so the same history tells us that the vote by bal lot is no cure for the evils. (Hear, hear.) Hence it is that those eminent writers on the Liberal side, who have lately examined this very question of a new franchise for Eng land, with political courage as well as speculative acuteness, have all specially dwelt on the extreme danger of basing that new franchise widely and exclusively upon a principle that, once conceded, must expand—a :principle that, by avowedly reducing your borough franchise so as to admit manual labour, w ithout any equipoise, without any test or condition beyond that of finding a way to cover it at 2s. 4d. a-week, must end by giving to manual labour the political power over the capital that employs and the mind that should direct it. An hon. member in the course of this de bate referred to the opinions of Mr. John Mill, than whom no severer reasoner adorns our age; but what are Mr. Mill's opinions ? Dead against every argument by which the pro posed franchise is defended. He would give, it is true, a vote to every man, but, in order to counteract the effect of numbers so created, he would give to a man of superior edu cation or property, such as a farmer or a tradesman, four or five votes, to a man of still high6r education and property, five or six votes. More lately Mr. Mill has declared in fa vour of the propositions by which Mr. Hare, in a very re markable pamphlet, would insure the representation even of the smallest minorities. These ideas are so against the taste of the house and the inclination of the public, that their adoption is impossible, but I mention them to show there are consummate reasoners whose doctrines of Gove rn meat belong to the boldest school, and who are yet more anxious than the highest Tory among us to secure to pro perty and intelligene pow er that shall not be overborne by the influence of numbers. (Hear, hear.) The mem ber for Birmingham says there is no cause to fear the influence of numbers or of the working class, in the bill that is now before us. He says, first; that the proposed ad dition as regards the boroughs is not considerable ; second, that the total constituency will still be very small in pro portion to the adult population. (Hear.) But the member for Birmingham fails to see or to grapple with the argument of my right hon. friend the member for Buckinghamsb ;re. It is not with my right hon. friend a question of numbers alone, but rather of fitness. In fact, though I accept the opinion of the right hon. gentleman the Home Secretary, that all possible pains were takento obtain accurate returns, yet he must pardon rue if I say that, without entering into the dispute between him and the member for Mai yleboue, these returns must seem incredible to any gentleman who will use his own power s of inquiry and observation, for a £6 house is a house at 2s. 4d. a week, but if any gentleman will inquire in the small rural towns or even the larger vil lages in his neighbourhood, he will find that there n-e scarcely any houses in them that are let to the most ordi nary artisans at less than 2s. 6d. a week; 2s. 63. a week is generally the lowest rent paid by a journeyman labourer in a small rural town. What must it be, then, in a large borough? Just consider. Many gentlemen, no doubt, have built plain cottages for their own day labourers ; tho. cottages cannot cost them less than about £BO each; they would be contented with a small interest for their money, because, as it is truly said by the Duke of Bedford, who has conferred benefits on the working classes, the more signal, because so nobly unostentatious, the country gen tleman does not build cottages for immediate remunera tion ; but in a borough town such houses are built by small capitalists on speculation, who would not be satisfied with less than 71 or 8 per cent for their outlay—that is, more than 2s. 4d. a week, more than £5 a year, for a house equal to the humblest cottage you build for your hum blest labourer. But, granting the returns to be correct as to the present number of £6 householders, they can affard no criterion of what the number £6 voters would be if this bill passed into a law, for the poorest labourer who now pays 2s. a week for a hou. e (and less than that he could not pay for any hovel in a borough town), would gladly pay 2s. 4d. to secure a vote es a go 1 specula tion, which will give him a claim on the wealthier trades men of the town who take an interest in elections, should he want a job of work or a charitable donajon at Christmas— those small gleanings of calculating benevolent a which are the perquisites of poor electors ; and, on the other ha at' a landlord who now lets houses at 2s. or 25.2d.a-week will scs ow them up to 2s. 4d. in order to increase his political importance by having a numerous tenantry at his command, in cons i tutional proof of the legitimate influence of propel ;y. And you must take with you the fact, which you seem to ignore s--marnely, that every year, as the prosperity and popula tion of the country increase, the £6 franchise will become wider and wider as to numbers, lower and lower as to the condition of the voter. The £lO occupation is now, in the large towns, a very much lower franchise than it was 30 years ago. You are legislating for posterity in a direction you can never retrace, and in less than 30 years a £6 fran chise must, in the larger towns, be equivalent to household suffrage. We have, therefore, no fair criterion as to numbers; but, in the meanwhile, we find, even by your returns, that the addition proposed is quite enough to overbear the exist ing constituency in about half the present boroughs; it must mates Tally influence elections in most of the other halt. We then ask if that addition is composed of a variety of classes ; we find that it is confined to a single class, and we object to overbear the existing constituency by a single class, without any equipoise or relief. (Hear.) I shall make our distinction more clear by proceeding at once to the second assertion of the member for Birmingham. (Hear.) He says that the entire constituency, which he estimates at 1,000,000, will be very small compared to the adult male population, which he estimates at 7,000,000. (Hear.) But when he would thus make manhood suffrage a standard by which to compose a suffrage, that, if more limited, should fairly re present the diversified character and opinions of the whole adult male population, he forgets to omit from his 7,000,000 not only about 700,000 paupers, but more than a million and a half composed of soldiers, sailors, mercantile marine, domestic servants, and rural peasants, whose tendencies might counteract the opinions of the special class this bill selects for the franchise; and the right way to look at the present suffrage, and at the proposed addition, is evidently this :—The present suffrage is a selection, made less than 30 years ago, from those classes of the male population with whom popular liberty is most safe, excluding rural peasants as too muoh under the influence of landed aristocracy ; do mestic servants, as too much under the influence of mas ters ; soldiers and sailors, as too much under the influence of the Crown. (Hear.) But if, while you conti nue t o ex clude from your constituency large masses of the population that represent Conservative elements, you admit a new ele ment which our common sense tells U 3 must be exclusively democratic, you destroy the fair equipoise of representation even by number, end you do not impartially extend the area of a national franchise, but you pervert the national franchise into the monopoly of a single class. I close, then, this part of my argument with these plain propositions :- Ist, that it is not consulting the common sense of the com mon interest ; 2dly, that it is not a fair apridcation of the doctrine of representation by numbers to introduce into a constituency alre.idy so popular that in this vast metropolis and in many of our great towns the richer classes are not represented at all, a new selection from that special class ef artisans who, crowded together in large towns, always have been and always will be the most democratic and the most excitable part of the population, without any selection of an opposite tendency ; so that the more some town has been rendered populous and flourishing by expenditure of capital and activity of educated intellect, the less capital and edu cated intellect will have a voice in the representation of the place the prosperity of which they created and maintained. (Cheers.) And now, sir, let me observe that it was well said by the hon. member for Leominster, in a speech which the Home Secretary censures for being animated—(greet laughter)—l cannot retort the charge on the right hon. NEW-SPAPEh , - VW; I I7„MZ . „ dleman, who spoke us if "he can)e,* ise him"— (con tinue(l laughter)-I)Tats+-' 1,14/ teas been conducted on premise.L. trite. !• It hag been. too much assumed thaMl thqiet , lass. are excluded •by the present franchise: We tft as. to open the door, as if the door had been kept rigidly locked and barred against them. But is that the ease ? I apprehend that in all the metropolitan boroughs artisans must form a considerable part of the constituency. In fact, if your re turns are 'correct, and we must prefer them to the calcula tions of the member for Marylebone, it is clear that the main reason why artisans living in X. 13 houses do not add largely to the metropolitan constituencies must be because a large number of artisans in met ropolit al constituencies live in £l.O houses. But, take any borough, any county—have not all and each of us several working men among our constituents? The working classes arc, therefore, admitted at present. The door is not locked. You say admit more, many more ; open the door much wider: Very well, du : but, since per cannot admit them all, do let us try and est a'oli.•11 seine better test than that of a certain amount of poverty. (Cheers.) Do not lower your franchise upon the express prim iple of ale:it:leg . i!io poer solely and wholly !Kean they are pour. (Cheers.) The member for Halifax, in a speech of much promise, and in the excellent taste of a gentleman who can unite ardour for a cause with courtesy to opponents, said " The best test of fitness for the franchise is the desire to possess the franchise." Let him reflect f r a moment, and ha is too good a logician not to see that his position is un tenable. Desire is no proof of fitness. We all desire to be rich—is that any proof that we deserve riches ? 'We all de sire to be strong, healthy, and wise, and how few of us take the smallest pains to be strong, healthy, or wise I (Laughter and cheers.) We must have, then, a better test than desire. In our bill we, the late Government, sought to take that simplest test by which the human being vindicates his claim to reason—l mean the habit of frugality aid forethought for the morrow in the man who lives by the labour of the day. We this did expand the franchise to the working class, not by regarding them as the mere symbols of four crazy walls, but in proportion—l do not say as they had a stake in the country, for every man, woman, and child just born has a stake in his native country, but in proportion as they showed they were sermaele of that stake, and had by the mere exer cise of a virtue most useful to themselves—the mere prin ciple of saving for the uncertain morrow—entered into the Blass of proprietors, and had become participators in that prudent regard for order which is the safeguard of property and the main distinction between liberty, which is always thoughtfal, and licence, which is always reckless. (Cheers.) You dismiss these attempts of ours to modify, refine, and exalt a mere popular franchise, dismiss them without one effort of your own to improve them—and I believe they could be greatly improved and enlarged by a Government in whom re formers had confidence, and whom this house honoured with a majority ; you dismiss not only our notions, but all the theories and all the warnings of your own ablest writers, and you, who came into power upon the presumption of superior capabilities for a comprehensive scheme, you con tent yourselves with what ?—rudely creating an additional constituency upon the express and sole principle that it is to be poorer and less intelligent than the present, without a single franchise of 'a higher nature ; and you make that addition so numerous that in most of those large towns which are the centres of energy, which the member for Rochdale once told us " govern England," it is that poorer and less intelligent class that must take the lion's share of political power. (Cheers.) And when wo are told by the hon. member for Birmingham and the hon. member for Leeds that a £6 franchise is not so rigidly confined to the working class, but that there are several £6 occupiers who are not actually working men, I say that in no way touches our objection. They are equally men subjected to the con ditions of poverty and passion ; and though wo aro willing to admit poverty and passion into the franchise, we are not willing to give them the lion's share of political power over capital and knowledge. (Cheers.) And I say this not as against the representation of the working er the poorer classes, but on behalf of their genuine and true-representa tion ; for if you reflect a moment you will own that their true representation must be snore or less perfect in propor tion to the knowledge which may exist in this house of the inseparable connection between their interests and all our legislative functions. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, in a speech which, whatever we may think of the budget it introduced, will remain among the monuments of English eloquence as long as the language lasts, told us truly that "the interest of the working man was consulted less by our cheapening the articles he consumes, than by our stimulating the trade which gives him wages and employ ment." I advance upon that argument, and I say, there fore, that the true representative of the working man is in every wise legislator who stimulates trade, who strength ens credit, who exalts the standard of society, in which the working man rises with every step that raises the common interest of us all. (Hear, hear.) I say that he has a true representative in every profound lawyer who renders justice more accessible; in every enlightened philanthro pist, who ameliorates the condition of humanity ; nay, in every naval or military officer whose professional science suggests sounder defences, not only fur the land we inhabit, but for the prof action of the commerce which employs the millions, and which rises or fills with the honour of the flag that is only the safeguard of our wealth, because it is the symbol of our power. (Cheers.) But, are hese the kind of representatives the working classes would generally pre fer if they were the great majority of electors ? I say boldly, No. (Hear.) For even in u nrerica, where education is far more equally diffused than it is svith us, it is the common complaint that such are not the kind of representatives they prefer. Just hear what is said on that score by an Ameri can toldre,is;ng his fellow citizens—not a political malcon tent declaiming on a popular hustings, but a man of high e lucation (fir. Poherty), calmly addressing the literary societies of Lafayette College, and the title of his lecture is " Fears for th-_, future of tl Republic." After stating, as a well-known fact, that the more respectable citizens even of the commercial and indust:al classes will tell you that they " scosa to mix in politics, their time can be better employed," he bees on to say, "Thus, the vast machinery of this huge republic in all its departments is for the most part left to the control o bands of men who make politics a trade—men who laugh at integrity, are insensible to patriot • ism, are regardless of intellect, who hate the man who tells the truth and will not cringe to them, and love the one who lowest bends, yet ckeats them in the end. Surely it is of vital importance to the wellbeing of a State that its Legis lature reflect the wishes of the people ; yet there are those who legislate for the diffsrent States e; the Arne' ican Con federacy who arc unable to read, much less to frame a sta tut 3 ; who know nothing of our past history, present wants, or future prospoets ; who are ignorant of the constitution, and would not dare to fill the huufak of clerkships, yet occupy seats in legislative halls. But their ignorance is their least fault. Cerruption swarms around each Capitol, daring the pee and defying the power of out raged constituencies ; legislatiox is bought and sold. 'Within a year it has ,we to light that in one of the vigorous States of the 'West the majority of the Legislature, with many of the State officers, in violation of their oaths and of honour, were purchased each for a given price. Better fur us and for our posterity, better for our peace at home, our character abroad. that the Legislature of Pennsylvania should meet but once in 10 years than that the State should be disgraced by such representatives and dishonoured by such laws." (Cheers.) Yet those are the sort of repre sentatives whom the majority of the working classes elect, mainfluenced by that aristocracy to whom the hon. member for Birmingham ascribes all the evils we endure. (Hear.) So much for America. Now look to England. Let me ask who in our time has been the man who has had the largest share of the especial confidence of the working classes ? Not the hon. 'member for Bir:uingham—(hear, hear)—but Dlr. Feargus O'Connor. (Hear, hear.) And is there any member present who would say that at this mo ment the interests of the ... working classes arc not better re , presented in this house by such gentlemen as I have de scribed, and whom we may recognise wherever wa turn our eyes, than they would be if they could turn this house into a synagogue of Feargus O'Connors ? (Laughter and cheers.) But this bill is to amend the representation. How will it do that? Will it make the House of Commons wiser? 'Will it make our councils more enlightened? Will it increase the knowledge, the integrity, the pecuniary in dependence, and the mental discipline without which we should have no strength in public opinion if we ever had to protect our freedom against an able tyrant and a standing army? We read in that masterly contribution to our his tory which Mr. Forster has just published that when Charles I. attempted illegally to seize five members of this house all London rang with cries of " Parliament I" " Pri vilege I" and why ? Because at that moment this houso represented property, station, and knowledge, as well as patriotism and valour, and, therefore, it had strength in public opinion. But a few years later Cromwell expelled all the members and locked up the house itself; and there were then no cries of "Parliamentary privileges I" (Hear, hear.) There was scarcely a murmur heard out of doors. Why was that? Because the house was but a Rump Par liament. It had ceased to represent property, station, and knowledge; and, therefore, it had no strength in public opinion, though its large majority were stanch Reformers— nay, they were actually discussing a new Reform Bill, not very different from that of the hon. member for Birming ham, at the very moment when Cromwell and his pilsemen entered. (Laughter, and hear, hear.) Is there any gen tleman here who will tell us he expects to return to Parlia ment a wiser man—a sadder man, perhaps, he may be— when he knows he has ceased to represent property, staticn, and knowledge, and has become the delegate of the poorest householder in the borough he represents. (Hear, hear.) But how will this measure improve the constituent body ? When that guntion wins asked in the debates on the gre , t Reform Bill, the answer of the reformers was crustiinx. Yo s hen got rid of the boroughmenger, who eoid his borough, and the potwalloper, who sold'his vote ; and your substitute; were trade, commerce, manufactures —that combination of various interests which is found in the middle ranks of so ciety, which cannot he called a class, because it contains all classes, from the educated gentleman to the skilled al tiean —(hear, hear)—and which, therefore, does represent a high average of the common sense of the common interest. (Cheers.) You then did not merely extend the frenchise. To use the feu words,xal t I ed think, t of the late Lord Grey, ",y ou purified, constituency." (Hear,' h ear .) ee But when you are asked, " How does the little Reform Bill purify and exalt the constitueraey,7 what . will youjanewer ? (Coutiaued. 41 our fourth. page.)