The Press.
London, England, 1853-11-12 00:00:00

memory of his late mahter And to his own
reputation to address an expostulatory pro-
tel.t to Sir .1 AUES, and to terminate their poIi•
tient elinneeti tttt . Now, if there I•e one thing
more clear than smother in this matter, it id,
that the rural population and the limit in
Wrests of this country are untler.represented

in our present system.
There is another point. Events have proved
that they flllll6ll which may be
best trusted. The "large-measure" statesmen
who talked so glibly of transferring forfeited
franchises to great towns were either
informed on the subject, which is not impro-
bable, or they were reekless and evil designing
men, which it would
pose. We believe in their incompetent.° and
compinutive purity. We think, &Ism factions
causes. they have fallen into au evil India of
talking loose liberalism on grave subjects
which they have not sufficiently considered,
and have made silly pledges from which they
find it 'Who'll to extricate themselves. It is
the business of the Conservative party on this
question of Parliamentary Reform to be re-
sumed until they have received the exposition
of the Ministerial plan. The Tories, in the
person of Sir ltosswr Pam., gave in their ad-
hesion to the Reform Act after it was passed.
The sincerity of that adhesion WAti tauntingly
questioned by their opponents, who boasted of
their devotion to " the bill, the whole bill, and
nothing but the bill." Wu have lived to set'
the liberals recoil from their own party•work ;
and the insincere supp4srters of the Reform
Act have turned out to be the Radicals thew
selves. The Conservative party sire freed
from their pledge with respect to the measure
of —32, by the conduct of the Coalition
Ministry acting in deference to their engage-
ment with their Radical sillies. Let the Con-
servative party hold aloof at present. They
are, by the act of their opponents, no longer
bound to the maintennisee of a measure which
was mainly devised to destroy their just in•
fluenee in the country, though it may have
failed to do so.
Let us hear what the Government have to
say. As for apprehensions of unpopularity
from the opinion that the Conservative party
are opposed, on principle, to extension of the
franchise, these are idle fears. The largest
extension of the franchise on record was the
work of the Tories, in spite of the Radical
party—viz., the enfranchisement of the fifty-
pound tenants, the purest and most inde•
isendent portion of the constituent body.
Therefore there is no truth in this allegation.
Propositions to extend the franchise on con-
stitutional principles will always be listened to
with respect. As for inventing a represents.
tivu system free from anomalies, that is au
affair for the Abbe Siam. English gentlemen
are far too practical to embark in such *dyer-
tures, fit for dreaming professors and jobbing
lawyers. We must have a parliamentary con.
stitution that will work in harmony with the
character of the country ; that will support
the monarchical, aristswrat ie. and ecclesiastical
institutions of the United Kingdom; because
those institutions are the only security for the
rights and liberties of the people, and the
greatness and peruisuence, of the empire.