The Express.
London, England, 1852-02-09 00:00:00

TIM REFORM BILL EXPLANATION OF

TO NIGHT.

It is —w quite certain that the government
werwure 10 be brought forward this evening will not
Contain the ballot. Lord John Russell,—it was oil
fisturdai announced by his friends,—has finally made
up his mind so strongly against the ballot, that.
should i . during the progress of the bill. be carried
(es it is improbable it mar be. by the opposition
Beim eft:tele-awing from the Douse of Commons pre-
vious to a ills ision on the point'. his lordship has re-
mised to resign office. Thus the country is again
hkely to is• disappointed in acquiring that protection
kern dirt dion and influence which Mr. Roebuck, on
wthocitt. states formed
.cart of the recommendation
mule to Earl Grey's cabinet by a committee consiet-
isig of the I etc Earls Durham and Besshorough, Sir
James Utahans, and I.9rd Juke Russell hinueff !
.ts alnisly announced, the franchise is towns will
be reduced to di., and in counties to 201. In addi-
tion. however. it is now added that an entirely novel
description of franchise has been framed: though
what it may be is kept a profound secret by those
entrusted w ith the preparation of the bill.
In themselves thew reductions in the electoral
qualiticeion will not, it is supposed, be deemed ob-
fectien..l,le by the conservative party in the House
of Common; a wish is indeed openly expresses' by
some for .1 county franchise as low as 10t ; and even
the chats are by nu means prepared to take their
stead on the question of amount. On the assumption
that the bill will not
.greatly augment the power of
the large manufacturuig towns,the conservatives will
Bet offer it any systematic or violent hostility, but
sir rather prepared to discus it as a matter of detail;
sad in toot view they will, it is said, be content with
marling then amendment in the Commons, mid 'me-
in:idle large attention to be effected by Lord Derby
in the 'Lords.
It seems almost certain that the bill,—as now ar-
nnircd,—will not contain any schedule A, or disfran-
elnse any boroughs; and the whigs de lard that it
will not increase the influence of the agricultural in-
tires! by merely enlarging the electoral area of small
boroughs. Other plena of increasing their consti-
twines.' haw, it is confidently stated, been devised;
such as grouping together small towns, and claming
is me electoral district several boroughs now sepa-
rately represented. In this respect the measure, it
added, will be much better than has been de-
scribed. On this point, great discussion and some
difference, it now comes out, occurred in the cabinet;
but the supporters of nomination constituencies (such
se (•.ilue. Morpeth, and Totnes) prevailed. This is
the more to be regretted as probably the opinion so
strongly entertained by the late Lord Durham is
. tornect one, viz., that rotten boroughs, where one
man money was es good as another's, are infinitely
preferable to nomination boroughs, where the
patron's shim is law.
On the whole, the opinion prevalent is, that the
bill will disappoint the expectation of the more
ardent reformers, and yet that it will, notwithstand-
ing, largely extend the suffrage. Where it will fail
Is in distribution ; and that happens to be a main
point in the question. A few of the large towns now
unrepresented in parliament will, however, it is un-
derstood. be enfranchised. All this, however, is a
poor instalment without The Ballot.—Daily News.

Luau BROUOUILY'S Nzw COUNTY COURTS BILL—
Oa Satuiliy Lard Brougham's new bill on the County
Courts wrs printed. There us 28 sections in the bill. By
Oki. hill. which wee printed by order of the House of
Lard., the 'uterine the judges may be increased to 1,5001.
a ycsr, cod clerks to 7001. a year. An appeal is to lie by
either party to a trial dissatisfied with the determination of
atemity Court judge 1:i point of hew in any cum tried with
sr without a jury. The Lord Chancellor may appoint
County Court judges and commissioners and others of the
Gain of Bankruptcy to he officers of the Court of Chancery.
let Hundred Court of 01114 w is to be abolished.
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THE I woo AT HENEFUItD.—About an o clock on
Insley evening the waters of the Wye began to abet*, and
early this (Saturday) morning the road in St. Martin's-
menet and Blackmarstone became comparatively (reefer the
SA, of the market day. The ravages from Hay to Chep-
stow, with all the intermediate towns and villages, have
slily hero exceeded once in extent, ia 1796. Close to Here-
ford one farmer lust 100 sheep; another, some in-calf cows,
LW at Eegu Mdl the waste among the flour, barley, and
salt was to a great extent. The ruts in the streets are
keg,: enough to bury • hone, and there is • current belief
that two missing farm servants were drowned en Friday
while vainly striving to rescue a flock of sheep.
IIteLVHEAD BREAYWATLIt Wow:B.—A grand ex-
'bolos took place a few days ago at Holyhesd, in the quer-
n, at the mountain now 112 course of working for material
for the formation of the extensive breakwater and pier at
the sew harbour. Upwards of 7,000 lbs. of powder were
kedged in three chambers, in a shaft ti, feet In depth, with
0 feet of heading; and this heavy charge was fired by
reams of wires attached to a galvanic battery. The ex-
phsion proved eminently successful, throwing down and
dislodging upwards of 30,000 tons of stone, many of the
w..•e1l of rock being upwards of 20 tons in weight. A day
or two helure the above explosion • lamentable occurrence
Welt place at • quarry, whereby • man named Owen Wil-
liams lost his life, Ming literally crushed to death by the
falling of a large block of stone, weighing about four tons,
ape him
ENGLislt llosizae.—Within the last few days
leveral Saxon manufacturers have been in Nottinabam, in-
quiring into the precise causes which have enabled us to
temp to to successfully with them even in the low hosiery
breathes, and it is said they express thennelves perfectly
@Masked that nothing they can bring to bear against us
taa match the speed and economy of our new machinery,
epeeist:). as we have so ready • command of the raw maim
whiee they are compelled to ship their yarns from
Inerpoul to hamburg, and to carry them in cumbersome
waereas thence to Chemnitit.—Nortingheas Renew
BraITA'TILD MUIIDEIL AT HOLML.—Very great ex-
citement was caused in the little village of 11,,Inic, near
llama in Kindel, on Friday morning last, by tho dis-
ett'ry of the body of a young man 1U1104,1 Thomas
One nap, under circumstances which gave cinema ground to
tamer! that be had tome to his death by means of violence.
The die -ascii, who had formerly resided at ltenthant,
whet: he worked in the flax mills of Me.mrs. ltoughseelge,
tad ales was personally kuuwn in Hahne, although he was
ant at the tone in employment there, was • penes of
auk t, and was in a state of great poverty; sad
what metes- ran have existed to CM eteamiesima et se find
44,1 is, indeed, • mystery. As yet set the slightest sap
ilium attaches to a single isdividual use is it kiSOAS that
any in hitched was in company with him after he had bees
Mewl, the say to the Cinder Overal, where he Form' to
deep tor the night. The evidence of Mr. Noble, swims,
to the inorke of violence on his person, mud the dram-
Nance deio.d to by another of the witnesses that he bed
bei n chartered a portion ef his clothing, leave it beyond
dneNt that he had sot died a natural death. On Friday
aft reus.n no isiquest as, held, when the jury returned a
retell t of ee Waled murder against some person or persons
Ishaowa."—Zeasilal Mercury.