The Express.
London, England, 1851-09-27 00:00:00

WOOL MARKET.-THIS DAY.

There has been more demand for foreign Wool this week
than fur many weeks past, both for home consumption and
on speculation. There are parties who anticipate an im-
provement in the value of Wools under 2s. per lb., owing to
the war in the Cape, and the landing of gold in Aus-
tralia. The colonial Wool sales, which are ex-
pected to commence on the 16th or 23rd of October,
will consist of about forty thousand bales (from all
our colonies). There are at present in London about
32,500 bales, consisting of Wools carried over from the
last sales, and arrived since, viz. :-10,600 bales Sydney
14,000 Port Philip ; 2,900 Van Dieman's Land ; 2,300
Adelaide ' • 2,778 Cape ; total, 32,478 ; and it is expected
we shall have imported before the sales' about 7,500 bales
more. This week's imports are 100 bales from Hamburg,
993 from Sydney, and 944 from Melbourne ; but numerous
vessels have arrived off the coast with the change of wind.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27.

WE arc well satisfied with the principles, the ar-
guments, th, eloquence, the seal, and the popular
adhesion, shown at the meeting of reformers in Nlan-
chester. We should like to ho able to say as much tl
of the gathering ; not that the eloquence of the
aka at was wanting, hut that which wassmast desi-
rabl. in foe h a mectiler was the display of union
aninagst shades and classes of liberals, and of good
und.ratutitliag amongst the leading men of the great
party of progress.
It ix idle to disguise that to fight the great battle
of progressive reform at the present day is no light
or ti inlet; task. Far different is it from the contest
of tomity scum back. Then the whole country was
mined by all that was extravagant in expenditure,
and odious in administration. Every class felt that
it would be bettered by rehirm. Tlw middle class was
even more excited than the lower, and a large portion
of wealth and property went w•Ali the movement, as
pate, sensilde, and as breaking dose n a most joerak trots
and stupid monopoly of power. Abroad, events were
encouraging, not alvnoing. Fiance had made a
model revolution, by the hand. of the l'urisian
workmen, who hail no sooner achieved the great
wimp st, than they hanclisl over the fruits and the
power to the notables of polities, and to a king of
their choosing.
Th.. atwial revolutions of 1818 are by no means so
encouraging to men of wealth. or even of industry.
Our upper chews eschew change. Wealth does not
seek, :it bast from the liberal side of politics, more
influence than it enjoys. The middle classes are not
actuated by the inituences of 1832 ; whilst through-
out the world, and, of course, somewhat in England
also, the working classes are inclines' to look more to
social change .. and theories for their improvement,
than to the political and constitutional progress
which has so viten deceived them.
In this latter tendency, this new phase of popular
creed, ter ',collet. very great danger, and we would
fain bring the people hock to put faith in the reform
of a constitution, and in their acquiring a share and
an interest in its spirit and its working. But in this
the middle chigoes must aid, and to this the

more liberal of the upper cheeses must lend a hand. If
they hold aloof, and allow the operatives to be ad-
dresses!, as Weals to hare been the ease at Manchester,
by etimparative strangers to the town, and by politi-
cians who, however moderate, still appeal mainly to
lower class interests, then the worst of consequences
must I WOW ill the segregation of interests, and the
rise of class champions, who will find other and more
dangerous weapons in the storehouse of popular
hopes and theories, than ever used before.
As long as Sir Jostte.t WALMSLET presides over
the grist Reform Association, there can, indeed, be
no fear of this. Nothing ran be more temperate,
more judicions, and we will add, more able than his
apeuelo. lle was well supported by Mr. Fox, and
by the members for Marylebone and the Tower
Hamlets. And yet we looked for something, in at
least now of their speeches, which we did not tind.
We mean a fuller development of views, and some
indication of how the chiefs of the popular party
consoler that reform could be carried out. The
very best way of at this moment advancing the cause
of reform is to set people thinking and arguing about
it. It is not enough to tell the people "to be up and
doing." They should be shove nat least, at this time
of day, what they are to strive for. It is the very
business of an association to prepare the great mate-
rials of information, and digest them into some
*acme. Were the Financial and Parliamentary
Reform Association to do this, they would set the
thinking claims of the nation at work, and would
far more advance the great cause than by any
=omit of exhortation promulgated front the plat-
form.

he mew that we especially take of reform is that
which, we perevire, Mr. llynr: entertains, and that

)Ir. 1)1,41:v.1.1 echoes.

It is, that relents is above

all things a fiscal question. It is quite plain that
we shall never emerge from fivancial embairassment
and try burdens, unless there is a large and more
popular electoral body to enforce economy, and to
make the expenditure of the state sumo:thing more
than an appanage for precisely that'elass of people
which ought to be independent of it. It is also
requisite, lust, and ohs: that the consuming as well
as the smaller producing interests should be repre-
sented in proportion to their wealth and number. in-
strati of leaving parliamentary power to be mono-
polised by one or two classes of producers. True it
is , that these may be intimidated into making con-
cessions and into doing justice ; but intimidation is
neither a safe element to employ nor is it a lasting
or a contenting one. Free trade in corn, for ex-
ample, wun from the moat powerful parliamentary
class, will never be fully accepted by them until all
interests in the country are fairly represented and
the recovery of landed monopoly thereby rendered
hopeless.
We consider reform, therefore, a middle class
question, quite as much as it concerns the more
skilled and eminent of the operatives. And it must
be great impulicv on the part of the reform leaders,
or a great drefiction of duty on the part of those
who esteem themselves middle claim champions. if
the eminent men of both be not found together,
working in the same rank, with the same zeal, fur a
cause which vitally concerns both.
If we at this moment regard the countries of Europe,
and contemplating the fearful recoil which has been
given to the cause of liberty in all, ask tho chief
reason fur this disaster, we shall find the
principal and universal cause to hero been
the division between the middle and the lower
elastics. Though both joined in the first resist-
ance, and eootributed to the first conquest, they
separated imins-diately after, distrustful of car I
other. Tito middle classes and their liberties thus
became an easy prey to awakened despotism, whilst
of the lower classes some were crushed in the fight,
where they bravely marched against another section
of the lower class, armed and trained sa not-
dives. The number of peasants that filled the ranks
of the anny on the continent rendered these
armies dechlidly hostile to civic movements, aad even
to the town populations. Everywhere the peasant,
clothed in uniform. has been employed to put down
the workman, his brother. Nothing of the kind can
physically take place here. But let as beware, also,
in our moral and intellectual combats, lest our abso-
lutists succeed in marshalling one section of our
working classes against the other, or in uniting both
against the trading community and interests.

Tut: representation of the counties is that which
at this moult nt demands the most watchful attention
from the pul lie. That is the citadel of class interest.
in the counties the lauded interest is all powerful,
and thereby dominates over the legislature. The
very name count)• member, suggest' the idea of a
nun sent to legislate to raise rents, and to uphold as
much of feudalism, as the temper of modern society
will bear. But it is a great mistake to imagine that
• county member must necessarily represent, as in
nineteen times out of twenty he does at present, only
the views and interests of the landowners. Even in
the agricultural counties, if all the intelligent in-
habitants were enfranchised, and their votes fairly
taken, we should see a very different kind of mem-
bers. acting under very different influences, sent to
parliament from the counties.
There u in most counties a large section of lade.
pendent men over whom the landowners have no