The Express.
London, England, 1848-11-07 00:00:00

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LONDON. TUESDAY. NOV. 7.

Ws were not unwilling to aeoept Mr. Firs-
cm.sian on the nun credit of his name; but it wee
ea the 'apparition that be would do honour to it, and
display the traditionary virtues and qualities of hie
berm The preen' Lord Frravrismam wee ever a
met plaisepoken saw He never left any one in
ask of kis nimbi or distrust of his purpose.
Awl t• • phis realies
_haw hieconotituente,hewould
a• Imo ••• imsemeed bine& by enamoring in an
San be metal have flown.
FITSWILLIAM, on the contrary, is a see
sae subtle politician. Too young to fors an slabs
ovum tbosenbjecta an which men firs formopiniona,
r. Frnwn.stam is already too old to express even
I opinion which he entertain& On the amidst of

endowment he has not yet made up his miud, because
be has not yet heard it discussed in Cue Hones of
bems. Thereto cannot be • plaint( reafeseion that
e propos. iris( the Hess of Commons, net to
represent has conalitnsate, but to stay what part it
may be best prudent for him to follow—what colour
most advantageous for hint to adopt.
The endowment on why !tr. liltrinLuax has
sot ratio asp his mind is oevertheless the only im-
portaat one of the gaieties. proposed to hiss. As to
free trade, that is mese talk--everyone calls 'ninteelf
a tee-trader. As to retreashmest, that, too, is easy.
A ministry has bet to propose the increase of some
millions in the estimates, and then sactifioe the greats:
pact of this increase to the murmurs of the house,
making in reality no redaction, but assuming both for
themselves and the parliament the credit of an
economy which is really bate Flan of extravagance
that has failed.
Mr. Ftrzwitutu's crate ea a reformer is even
mote difficult to
_get at. The worthy but easy libe-
rals, who met at Nonmetals, agreed to put the reform
pledge to Mr. Frrxwitutu in the mildest possible'
shape. In fact the spirit of reform could not be more
copiously diluted. He was flaked simply to declare
himself for extension of the suffrage. And to this he
might have replied in the affirmative, if he even
went no farther than Lord Joins Ruissext, who
proposed divers petty, little, and ingenious extensions.
But no ; Mr. FITZWILLIAM would not even swallow
reform thus diluted. He was afraid of displeasing
his tory supporters by even the innocent and un-
meaning pledge that would have satisfied Mr. BAINLS.
He makes a wry face, fears that it might commit him
too far, and that the Normanton public might contem-
plate changes too radical for him ; and he literally
backs from any extension of the suffrage. Lord
Firzwiwat was considerably more than a whig.
In the inverse proportion of the progress of the age,
Mr. FITZWILLIAM is something considerebly less than

a y.
tor
We gave en opinion at the first that Mr. Frrz-
WILLIAM Ought to be tolerated sod supported out of
respect to the political opinions of his family. We
are sorry he has not shown himself more worthy of
that confidence. But it only corroborates the general
sentiment that it is from businesslike people and
classes that politicians can be obtained to do honestly,
straightforwardly, and effectually, the task of re-
trenchment. Without further electoral reform, indeed,
the middle classes will sever have a party of their own
in parliament, and consequently never a direct influence
upon legislative or political influence. But we are
also well aware that we cannot drive this into people's
heads by argument or demonstration. The light
must break upon them from experience. And the
consolation for the delay is, that when light does come
in this way, it comes irresistibly.
We have no doubt, however, that the progress of
opinion will advance precisely in the same way and
with the same effect throughout the boroughs and
counties of England, as it has done at Liverpool.
Hitherto Liverpool was, as we all know, the most
aristocraii: of cities. No candidate for its Represen-
tation was ever looked at, unless he was a lord or
a placeman. There was no safety for the county
or its trade, =cording to the Liverpool doctrine,
except in the political prevalence or monopoly of the
aristocracy. The same doctrines which procured re-
turns to parliament, also influenced municipal choice.
The town council was as aristocratic in its way, as the
greater election. A tradesman was as unworthy of
the one, as a commoner of tie of her.
A change has now come over the spirit of Liver-
pool's dream. The election for the municipal council
has just taken place, and the result has been a t0t..l
revolutioo. The old members, who pretended to mono-
polise fitness and capacity, have been got rid of. And
not only have municipal reform and retrenchment, and
equal taxa' ion,carried the day, but tradesmen have been
voted into the council to see the principles, dear and
vital to their clam, curie' into effect. Who will say,
after this, that Lancashire at least is not in the way
of progression ?
The notable change in the aristocratic capital of
commerce is not to be attributed to the influence of
any doctrines, of any effervescence from the continent,
of revolutionary or communistic theories. The over-
throw proceeded from the prodigality of the old rating
corporatienists. On a comparison between the
local expenses of the aristocrat:catty governed Liver-
pool and the democratically administered Manchester,
the expenses of the former were immeasurably and
soaocountably. greater. The Mane/weer Guardian
published a minute comparison of both, and thereby in-
deed gave no slight blow to the Liverpool system.
There, in addition to the expense, every art, subter-
fuge, and theory was employed to throw the burthen
of the local taxation a property, and to place it
upon trade and earning. In fact, the same abuses
and the same struggle against them whinh are going
on in the country, were at the same time
taking place with mire concentrated force at LirrpooL
The result in that town has been, that the citizen'
were obliged to get rid of the system in order to get
rid of its abuses ; to change not only the local repre-
sentation, bat even the clans from which it was chosen,
ere they could get at the root of the evil.
We are confident that the country at large mast
imitate Liverpool, ere it can arrive at anything like
fair hopes and a fair system of economy. The
country, however, will require some more time ere it
arrives, by the natural force and progress of things, at
that inevitable conclusion.

IT is stated that a communication his taken place
between the authorities at the Horse-guards and the
trusts/A of Kinies-colleirn with the view of adtt'nfr to
that institution a department for military education.
We bail the announcement with pleasure; and we
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trust that no modes hositadon—no antiqt—an scruples
ae pometilioe—on the part of the authorities at the
liesse-tuards, will prevent a satisfactory arrange-
sheet from being made. The trustees of Bine,-
I wasp deserve the highest credit for I=l
token the initiative in a reform so urgently needed.
Se far are we from lamenting with the Atlas that a
Imp periodical should have been foremost to suggest
Nth miessuive, and a tory institution the first to
seam them, that we rejoice, on the contraVenofind
seek a spirit at work msuch a quarter. we
remember how greatly the obstructive dispositions of
maimed
party have impeded the and
i
the utility of other reforms of the
highest importance to the public weal, we
cannot help looking on it at a subject for the warmest
eougratdation that the Name abstractive disposition
does not exist in the present instance ; or, at least,
that the public mind has become so thoroughly awake
to the necessity of immediate reform, that its ablest
advocates in theory, and its most energetic furtherers
in practice, are to be found in the itake of that ultra
party from which opposition woo mot to be feared.
It ii a circumstance of the happiest omen for the noble
but arduous end that is to be attained. It will save a
world of wrangling in the first place, and, better than
that, whole yeses of time which would have been lost in
the attempt to concede the shadow of reform without
its substance. It stops the mouths of all gainsayers
and grumblers—ofilosrs of the old school, and dunces

(Dire expectant) of the new school, and othatry '
patkmen of no school at aIL A reform that the
Quarterly has advocated with seek manly sines and
frankness—that Klag'. College has expressed its de-
sire to aid with all the resources at its command, and
which in a few days we trust to hear that the Com-
mander-in-Chief boa honoured with his approval, may
bid defiance to all the opposition that dunces, old or
or the still more unhappy fathers of dunces,
can bri g to beer ageinst.
What wean now chiefly solicitous fair *that the Com-
mander-in-chief and the filecairraiv-Nr-Wia should
give sufficient enocraragessent to the feeling, of which
we trust that the wise and timely offer of King's
College will not be a solitary instance. The military
authorities of the country have much in their power.
More is lett to their discretion than in perhaps
say other department of the public service. In
fact, so far as the education of the lasses is ma-
maid, it is our impression that all the inset anemeary
reforms could be carried oat without askiag atr wah-
is( far a mingle act of parliament, eel widest
adding the penny to Aber the army or aroma
estimates. In no rarest ism the writer is the
Quarterly more avian Ws good some and his pear
tical acquaintance with the habits and wash el this
country than in his thrusting all actin at esia•
Wishing • military usiversity ; • plunging; as la
aye, " into an encemothe swig hr the wpm of
getting ukatea Wadies et the military
schools of sad Holhad." That
is not what is r= at all. AU that is
needed as a asamsessment is, that to all the first-

rate educational institaKons in'the orsuitry, both col-
leges and schools, a military department should be
added, where those who are intended for the army,