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London, England, 1864-06-01 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1.

MR. GLADSTONE has republished the remarkable
speech he delivered on the motion for the seoood
reading of Mr. BAINES'S Borough Franchise Bill.
In that speech the CHANCELLOR laid down that the
onus probandi lies upon " those who m►intain that
" the present state of the representation ought
" not to be touched, not upon those who say
"it ought to be amended ;" and that " °vet/
"man who is not presumably incapacitated by
" some consideration of personal unfitness or of
" political danger, is morally entitled to come
" within the pale of the constitution." In a brief
note by way of preface to the present edition,
Mr. Ghanirroxiz refers to the outcry that has been
raised against this statement, as if he had said
something extremely revolutionary, and observes,
that if his statement of principle requires explana-
tion, candid minds will find it in the context of the
speechlwhich contains it, and that " he can make no
" other reply than to publish whathe said." For our
own part, we never thought Mr. GLADSTONE'S
speech needed to be explained. It seemed to be,
like all his speeches, easy of perversion by those
who wished it had not been delivered, but clear
and intelligible to all who really cared for its
subject. On the morning after the delivery of
the speech, the Times, echoing Mr. Warman,
informed the world that Mr. Ghanerrosz had
adopted " the language of levelling and sweep-
" ing democracy," had countenanced the " right
" divine of multitudes," and was backing "aqua-
" lity against liberty." The next day it maid
that Mr. Ghansroxe had proclaimed the doctrines
of " the most extreme democracy," and predicted
the repudiation of Mr. Ghaneroies by the majority
of the members of the present Government. All
this was very rash. Calm observers said that,
come what might, the old Whigs would stick by
the only statesman who can aspire to lead the
Liberal party in the House of Commons. The
wild imputation of revolutionary doctrines to the
Caastcrxhon of the EXCHEQUER by • journal
pretending to guide opinion only excited • smile
of wonder. There were even those who
predicted that before long the Time/
would come round to Mr. Gianirrortz,
is its accustomed way, by pretending that he had
come round to them. They did not ►ffirm that
this would happen before the end of the month,
but it seems they might have done so with safety.
On the morrow of Mr. GLADSTONE'S speech, in an
article welcoming it as the beginning of a new
epoch, we said that the Citaitcmhoa of the
Facnagors had announced no new doctrine, but
only affirmed anew a principle which was " the
"corner stone of Liberal politics, and which had
" been laid down scores of times by the greatest
"of our Liberal statesmen within these fifty years
"without exciting surprise," and again, that "he had
"unfurled and raised aloft what Tories on both aides
"of the House call 'the standard of Domestic Re-
"volution,' but which the public will recognise
"as the old, long lost flag of the Liberal party."
The difference between us and the Time was,
that we took Mr. Gunwrons's limitations of his
own principle into account, while our contempo-
rary, for some reason, thought proper to disregard
them. Mr. GLADSTONE now points to that omis-
sion. He says that the alarm raised from a Conser-
vative point of view is unreasonable, but " he could
" have more readily conceived" objections to the
" rather narrow limits" to which • proposition,
apparently of wide scope, is reduced by " large
" and scarcely definable exceptions." " Still,"
says the Clizrecemoa, " the exceptions •p-
-" peered along with the proposition, and
" formed part of it." The Times standing thus
consisted end rebuked has recourse to a device
which we will mention without characterizing. It
treats the limiting principles to which Mr.
GlArierows refers as if they were not before it
when its previous articles were written, but were
now published for the first time, and Mr. GLAD-
gnomes reference to them it calls a "formal renuncia-
" non," and takes an indefinite amount of credit
to itself for candour in not, " after so precise and
" ample an admission on his part, seeking to
" fasten on particular word■ or sentences,
"or to fix upon them a meaning which
"he emphatically disclaims." Mr. GLADSTONE
has retracted nothing, admitted nothing, explained
away nothing, and there is no virtue in forbearing
to wrest words from their context and wantonly per-
vert the language in which au eminent statesman
addresses the country. Those who congratulated
Mr. GtanwroNz on his speech did so because they
understood it and trusted him ; because, in the
words he now employs, the leading principle of his
speech was " not a startling novelty," but "is
" rather the practical revival of a strain which,
" five years ago, was usual and familiar ; which
" had then derived abundant countenance from
" the very highest organs of political articulation,
" and which how only sounds strange because
" within that period it has fallen into desuetude."
The Parliamentary Reformers of this country see
in their chief a man of truth and • man of power,
and the confidence and satisfaction they feel can-
not be in the least affected by the arts of reac-
tionary politicians to conceal their helplessness,
nor the far-fetched devices by which infallible
prophets seek to cover their mistakes.

DOWN IN OST gin, MAT 28.—The Queen hat
been pleased to appoint Sir /baud Graeae Macnoo Dell,
Kat. sod C. 8., to be Lieu.-Governor of the province of
Nova Scotia. Her llafeaty has also base pleased to appoint
Junes Watson Sheriff, FAI, to be President and Senior
Member of the Executive Cmiacil of the Island of Nevis ;
sad Jobs Mr:Dogrel' and JRI9OI MUI, Kiva, to be Members
of the Conseil of the Island of Granada.—Ossette.

PATRIC!' MVBII.III, SOUTM KINSIMOTJN. —Num-
bier of visitors for ilia weak ending May 28. 1.472. Total
somber Bison the optimise of Um Yuma Ns dray, 12th
May, 1858), 816,540.