The Express.
London, England, 1852-11-30 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 30.

Tne immorality of the members of tho present
government develops itself according to their pecu-
liar idiosyneracies and individual mental condition.
In the aristocratic and lordly Earl of DERBY it
assumes the bold and audacious form of coolly re-
questing a greet party whom he led into the quag•
wire of Protection to abandon—for the gratification
of his ambition—those principles in the concrete
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which both he and they still profess to abide by in
the abstract. In the Hebraic and Anatie
Mr. Disks= it manifests itself in the
shabby practice of cajolery and deception.
It induces the sycophantic Mr. FORBES MAMMAS
to play the bully with the only morning journal that
supports his friends, in the miserable hope of abating
the hostility of • rival print with a larger circula-
tion. And it has led the coarse and trickles Major
BEREAPORD into the instigation of bribery and
corruption. Such is the nosegay of virtue and morality
presented to a new Parliament within the first fort-
night of its meeting, by an administration pledged to
west and drive back the progress of democracy in
ttzd. The three first named culprits and of-
have capped, for the present, that punish-
ment which surely awaits them, but Major BEERS-
PORN there is some reason to hope, will not be quite
se fortunate. Already a petition from the Miyor
and other electors of Derby, detailing the facts of the
ease, had been presented to the house, and printed
and Weed with its votes; and last night Sir ALtx-
ANDER COCKBURN moved for • public committee to
inquire into the circumstances of this remarkable
ease. To this inquiry the expectant Peer but present
Commoner, Sir J. Y. ButLza, assented on the part
of the SECRETARY AT WAR.

The serious character of the imputation against
Major BERESFORD derives greater importance from
tw• facts worthy of notice. The Town Conseil of
Derby have since the election elevated to the oaks
of Mayor the gentleman to whom activity awl seal
the arrest of Moaosm and the dimovery of the
"W. B." letter were owing. In addreeslog his
Essex constituency, after the *Rik ewes to tight,
Major Beagsrozo, it will be ressibisted. assured
them that he would in his defame lay bare es foal a
oonspiracy es ever disgraced the ties of English
elections. This charge of eomop4uey of seems in-
volved Mr. Moss, the gentlemen quatimbsr,
to it, as affecting him, the Tema Coosa of y
hare replied by electing Mr. Man to be their chief
magistrate, whilst proem/deg the investigation
into the conduct of a Wake somber of her
Mantle/ Ooveroment I—tbstsby giving him all
the meal and materlid moppet in the wee
of the saanipality of the Seten /whisk 'or
BzuweaD mihapplly seusead in g.
The sem het saafkorring additional impertases
ad gatvity on the motion he impish_ ie. thet it
wee made by the late A2IOIIBIIV-0131111u4 a
geatiesnan not apt to rush beatify sr indisrestly
We a question where the Wiesen will net bear
out the aseasation ; but rather certain to have
flemsd a strong and decided legal opinion as to the
ea at the testimony for establishing the case
bebe to the house.
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Whet psuileddenee Major Busman, the
Seasstarrat-Wat 1 the Dam Administration, can
make before the semmittes to the chug* against
hi:is, it is difficult to divine. At Ant, it was proposed
to rely on a cock-and-when story that the letter was
add:owed to the congenial Mr. FRAIL, not during the
last, but in the duties of 1847; that the letter then
written had falls. late the hands of a discarded Tory
agent, and had been sold to the Liberals for nee on
the last omega& But this idle tale is so signally
contradicted by the presence of MORGAN, from
fihrewsbnry, caught in the very act of bribery at the
very tavern RIM,
.4 ha the lettori, that it will, on the
advice, it is understood, of an eminent parliamentary
barrister, be abandoned ; and Major BERESPORD
will, it is reported, resort to the Old Bailey tactics of
leaving the prosecutor to make out the case against
him ; then suggest its general improbabilities, and
at last fall beck on his own previous good character.
It is no doubt proper in the first instance to
bear what evidence can be brought forward by the
petitioners. But the house can hardly fail to observe
the difficulties that will obstruct them in the conduct
of the case. Mr. hum, the agent for bribery, for
example, is Major BIRSSIORD's friend; and Mr.
MORGAN, the signal briber, is Mr. FRAIL'S friend.
And both may plead that in giving evidence they
may be affording the means of convicting themselves
of a criminal offence. This the house will probably
have to provide against ; as well as to give the peti-
tioners every assistance in procuring, bringing up, and
examining these and other witnesses. It is absolutely
necessary, therefore, should Major BERESFORD pur-
sue these tactics, for the House of Commons to take
up the matter zealously and earnestly, and not per-,
mit either legal quiddities or audacious practices to
obstruct and defeat the inquiry sent to a select
committee.

'flat the letter addressed by the BF.CRETARY-AT-
WAR to Mr. FRAIL is in his handwriting it will not,
we presume, be denied. What, then, was "a good
and safe man, with judgment and quickness,"
(such as Mr. FRAIL) much given to interference
in elections, and willing to introduce himself
to Messrs. Cox, of, Derby with a lie in his month,
saying that ho came heal Chester,—what was
such a man " wanted" for, at Derby ? The interpre-
tation Mr. FRAIL gave to it, and the use the Derby
Tories put it to, is plain enough. They employed
MOROAN--RM they thought
t Mayor BIRRISTORD
tended he should be cmp bribery, and be