The Express.
London, England, 1855-05-07 00:00:00

ling aside mail subjects which are by ao lamas ualapertast;
there is ow department in repast of which I hams re-
solved 'imp impressies, that is. UM, diegraeetsl Mato of the
hospiltak at eentari. I will net talk to you of those" slam
of suffering " which have hems so elegantly refund Me
by one of the publiejeurnals, whom thousands ofear basalt
sad 'Noblest men have perished as Omagh they were doge.
I will only refer you to a publicatioa by a statleman, whim
wrapsthy with the lower classes is not • thief; of yesterday,
I mean Bydsey Godolphin Osborne. (Cheers) Now one
word as to the mode we propose to adopt : this is sot • this(
of • day only. (Cheers.) I spoke of intelligent un-
derlings is oleos; I believe there are many such;
and we bays groat reason to complain that they
sever reach the bead. Look to the list of the
Commission of Rieke, of Customs, of Tams, of everything,
and I will amine for it that in nineteen eases out of twenty
they obtained their place bemuse they were the cousin,
or the brother, or tie me of a member of par-
liament, or of somebody that bad Wisest* *sough to
command the appointment. I would ask whether it would
sot be grateful to us, for instance, to see Rowland Rill made
Postmaster-0 I? I would ask you why it should be
• fact that, never in the memory of any men, no other than
a peer occupied this position, which requires a knowledge
of business, smoothies like • gym ,athy with commercial
industry—general qualifications which I am bound to say
are not found in the eases of one out of ten peers ? I believe
the remedy is is the bands of the people. Depend upon it,
lit is because we will it to be that It is so. I believe at this

moment there are not fifty men in the House of Commons
really and thoroughly proof against the various forms of
influence which surround the path of members of paths.
,meat. (Cheer) There are now in the HOW* of Com-
linoi• 120 sons of peers and 100 grandiose, sons-in-law, or
Whet relatives, making in all 220, or more than a third of
SO Reuse of Commons, immediately connected with the
peerage. Now, I believe that thaw gentlemen have se good
a right to be in the house as any other men in England, but
then I may doubt very much the wisdom of the coalitions-
eke which have d this. (" Hear," and laughter.)
But as long as men reverence gold chains, and purple and
las linen, and es long as the constituencies are preparci to
mead such men to represent them in the great council of the
nation, we shall find that systems of government perpe-
tinted of which we sow ceurpfaier and it is only by our
individually feeling, and faithfully fulfilling our duties in
dealing with candidates for our suffrages. that we shell get
any real redeem in th• matter. (Hear.) As the first step
towards the sttainment of that object, I submit to you that
there must be such a thorough change in paths opinion es
to treats a rela ionsbip between the member of parliament
and his constituents. lam convinced that we shall
obtain s real administrative reform so long as a man is

obliged to go cap in hand to the Tots?, awl say la Ma.
" Will you do me the great kindness to mord walla
in my favour ?" (Hear, hear.) When I Vw "'p
rima to parties for the purpose of why they
did not vote, I have on many soessions bees told by them,
to my astonishment, that" they considered it was not worth
while to give that width was sot worth asking fir."
That is a proof of an amount of immorality on the
part of the people which would justify, or at least account
for, the state of tbiogs which we now seek to reform.
Let us, u citizens of Loudon, mks can that at the sent