The Express.
London, England, 1851-12-10 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 10.

The reformers who met in conference at Man-
cheeter have sorely disturbed the equanimity of our
conservative brethren. The reset:items they adopted
and published have raised a storm of remon-
strance and protest. Among the nmonetrants the
Times Los particularly distinguished itself ; not so
much, indeed,hv any superior force of argument. but
by the pertinacity of its attacks, and their ludicrous
incoeeistency one with another.
The Timer has, in fact, in its eagerness to throw
discredit on the textile en reformers, and cold water
on the movement, pretty needy bowel the political
compass. One day it has deprecated the extinction
of the small constituencies; and the next, given them
rap u. indefensible. It has stuck at nothing that pro-
mised to injure the cease of reform without compro-
mieinr, dtsclf. For the Tin, is a wary old swords-
man, and never aims a thrust or strikes a blow
without cuiculating beforehand hex it may best re-
cover feed tl tee itself again on guy.. 1. It has alter-
nately endeavoured to node :mine the reform move-
ment amid profeeehnie of seal for improvement, and
openly.cesailed the meet fundamental and generally
reote.,•notel Fincipka of rebeen.
lte first demonstration was a piece of special plead-
ing them tposal to ereupa eti tam number of
the !UM!I len englis into electoral districts, as in Scot-
Lend and Wake. It did not rest satisfied with
as-
sailing the node is which it was proposed to get rid
of these smelt and necessarily corrupt cuustituenciee ;
it armed for the it perpetuation : and—of all rea-
sons to be adduced by a professing free-trade
orean —for this purpose it deprecated their
extinetiou on the gmued that this would
weaken the landlord interest in parliament. The
raw* applied for aid against the Manchester and
ilea (tiding reformers to the class interest which
it has for a series of years alternately bullied turd
bluebell at the very interest uhielk it has de-
Kt fled as thet of "top-boots and buckskins." The
reply to this anti-reform stemmed of the Times
in 061444:., enough. ply the showing of that journal
there are three cheeses of e custitteeneiee :—The large
towns, generally in the interest of the mereantile and
manufacturing community; the enmities as gene-
rally in the interest of thi, landlords; and the small
boroughs nlso (and we invite the attention of re-
formers of the sthuol of Mr. Ettwann BAINES to'
the ndmiesion), tar the most part in the interest of
of the " ugriculturists " i.e., of the land-
lands. The attem of the northern reformers
to get rid ibis class was readily de-
-31011111:til by the Times,
_ in the first instance,
us an attempt of the tooling community to poach on
the preserve of the landlorele. Now, iu the flouee of
Comments the temetry rept eentatives outnumber the
represent:inset. of the her; towns, and by throwing
the "agrieultend" boroughs into the ilescending
scale, the hindlord influence is made paramount and
irresistible. Tu retiree tree* their grasp the portiou
of the House of Commons relented by the small '
roughs is not to destroy the balance between the
agricultural and commercial interests, but to establish
a fair balance.
In thin first assault the Times profensel great
repute for the refonners marembled at Manchester
and ettafidenee in their moderation. Its second on-
slaught was is a very diffieent tone. By that
time the recent military revolution in France was
assumed to have Lad an effect in terrifyiug timid po-
hticiens. 'the Thms therefere ventured to discredit
reform in general. The Manchester Conference was
acconlingiy represented as holding extreme and re-
volieionery etrines. See, screamed the Tim.. a,
what universal suffrage lees done fur France. And
then it went on to denounce the rate-paying quakily
cation of the Nlancleester Conference a: um better
than universal suffruge iu disguise. This certainly
was going to work very confidently in the belief
flint a panic awakened by the peceidsntial coy .reet
in Pares had bewildered the wits of its readers. 'I
Fur. to sly that a rate-paying qualification
I. tantanmeat to unieened sutfmee, is eei-
thee more nor less than to deny the
exietenee of a proletariat class in this country. It is
needleet. to argue against so preposterous an msump-
tiou : the has thaw it to our lintel. The great

argument of the Tins, ag-iiiist entrusting the water
supply of London, and ether measures of sanitary
poitic, to municipal management, was, that such an
arrangement would place the great mass of the
por. r inlmbitants at tle,mere' of the rate-paying
classes. The Tiwe deals with facts with the most
consummate coolness exactly as suits its purpose for
the nuenent. If parliamentary reform is to be made
a bugbear, is rate-paying qualification is declared to
be universal suffrage; lithe establishment of an bre-
spaisible governmeut hood to dole out to the Lon-
doners their daily supply of water is to be advocated,
a rate-paying qualiticatien is declared to be an un-
duly limited set Itrage.
'lle Time a next, for some inscrutable purpose, saw
lit, as Lord CANTLERFAGII would have said. to
turn " its tack upon itself.' (Inc line morning it
testori-h el its gobinamela readers,—whom it had per-
suaded that the small boroughs were the Palladium
of the landlord interest and the British constitution,
—by gravely assuring them that all these small con-
stituciwie s were so hopelessly and incurably con opt,
that, with a view to our pelitical safety, and indeed
out of reglad to COMIWIt decency, they must be
abolished. But in the latitudes of the 1701 es a re-
form breeze is no steady, trade wind. The very next
day the psiwr was back to its old habit of abusing
and depreciating parliamentary reformers in general,
and those lately assembled at Manchester in par-
ticular. The wind had changed during the night,
and the weathercock with it.
Amid all this veering and shifting,—this tergiver-
sat ion andrelf-cont mdiction,—one steady, unchanging,
intlexible purpose is, however, apparent. The Times
may shift its place and tlertn.„.e its demeanour as often
as a cat watching a mouse ; but, like Gill-
NALKIN. when so employed, it never for
moment le-ea sight of its intended prey. Coax-
ing the men of Manchester or bullying them;
denying specific measures of reform or Lelaring their
necessity; the Timis has ever one and the same,
object in view,—and that is the obstruction of pmts.-
nientary reform. And tnis very inveteracy of purpose
ought,—et en were other arguments wanting,—to con-
vince parliamentary reformers of the importance of
their object, and the eon-tiousnets of their adversa-
ries that they have power enough to attabi it if they
will only exert themselves.

Nerrittve. is more noticeable than the universal
interest eseitedby the ANNUAL FAT STOCK Snow of
the fimirityliati Cum. Gentle and simple, from the
peer to thi: workman, Hock eagerly around the really
magnificent specimens of agricultural skill now exhi-
biting in Baker-street Bazaar; there to discuss re-
spective merits with every degree of knowledge
or want of knowledge to be expected from an
assemblage comprising all classes,—tram the breeder
or grazier, critical on the points and curious as to
the ^ handling" of each animal, to the genuine Lon-
doner LI gartling it as so much beef, mutton, or pork.
And it cannot be doubted that to this fondness for
live stock,—which seems to be inherent in an English-
man,—very much of the perfection to which our do-
medic animals have attained is due. The visitor in
going round the show-yard will not fail to remark
that nearly every agricultural district of Eng-
land contributes more or less to the exhibition;'
and that them is a considerable approach to'
uniformity amongst the animals shown. Though of
course the exhibitors are fur the most part farmers,
and agricultural landed proprietors, there arc many
others who may be strictly termed amateur graziers.
As for instanw, a tine Pembrokeshire ox, the winner

. iof a prize in Class
&t,
s exhibited by an eminent soli-
citor of Lincoln's-inn. Again, Prince ALBERT shows
many beasts, and has taken three or four prizes ;
while all the noblemen, whose names are familiar to
the frequenters of the Smithfield Club Show sustain
their reputation by the animals they have this year
produced.
The ccouomical valao of such au cxhibitios is very