The Express.
London, England, 1849-11-15 00:00:00

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soliti of liberty, political sad eceemseclel. Bede.
ilea sae treacly revisit *broad, protedioni4
led aristocratic efforts ate betive M *mot adis
yet at the same time all the upper iiawass, sad as lie
someiderable portion et the edibles ease, • ham bus
se late so alarmed with the mosses of dee
Vparty abroad, sad the follies, both th
irpesetior, which it foU Ma derseg.aboet laer 5
power, that English libesehelaireis.sour the
rireas wrest whi eases widest •thalsokrael:pm
'us s of life, whilst them Is bat little InOVitmeett in
the lower Se sountereet it.
But however great the political inertness of
thee lower stratum of English satiety which
from the labourer to the industrious/ad ems-
MOO& middle else, there is in the midst of that
lends= great disoonteat, 'great distress, ea impe-
tigo°n d taxation, which no government sea brave,
sad a mode of questioning the wisdom and superio-
rity of the upper classes, most dangerous to be g-
lowed to grow, however silent in its growth.
In the two most admirable and memorable speeches
delivered at the meeting of the Birmingham Freehold
Lead Society on Tuesday night, Mr. Counts de-
pleted ard developed, is be arose eon do, the physi-
cal Onuses' of the great maim of the middle and
hadedzioas lower edam, from their fate and butanes
veatiaig completely is the bands of the aristocuoy.
Mr, BRIGHT expressed the moral grievatiet. Each
dimmers, is a mirror in which every reader of our
industrious cleans will see the different sides of his
naiad reflected. What he feels and suffers in his con•
ditias, in his pocket, in his present and
Mare interests, be will learn from Mr.
COMM What he suffers, as a free
and Intelligent being, direst aide, knocked about,
and even trampled upon now and then, to make way
fee beardless legislators and hereditary blockheads,
who Unit and threat, and wield influence and power,
ea the strength of the great wealth, numbers, and
knowledge of the Fesglish people, whilst then:eel% es
at the same dme a iserable fraction of
may or d all t—this p. rumient anomaly and wrong
can nowhere be found es powerfully peortrayed as in
the eloquence of Mr. BRIGHT.
Mr. COBDILN war COUTelied to express his disappoint-
meet that every effort in parliament to enforce wo-
man sad Win down exgenditare, not to any ideal or
scale, Ind to thartthich suflioedand supported
the ems retry and. its establiehments fifteen years ago,
hasiseennot se much discussed as scented, and that by a
standing maynity of those connected with placeholders
sad revelling in the very expense they uphold. Mr.
COWIN is indignant to Ind all the members of large
sad popular constituenvies, the representatives of
capitol and izdustry, voting one way, and
yet stifled or reduced to insignificance by
another inheres% based on the monopoly of
land, and the privileges attached to it. This
landed and aristocratic interest, once on a time divided
by struggles for place, lent then from time to time a
helping hand to popular idea and to popular parties.
But now, only a few stray individuals venture into
the popular fold. All hold sleet, and the people left
without any partizans, save such as rise directly from
acie
Ives, and no longer able to rely I pon the old
eaportiuessettoo atfr
vetryhemutmchosamt pploointei, hispovewmerw to
forr
dumdum.
MA. Connate might have said there were but two
ways of their obtaining this power, either by a revo-
lath" or by such paths and openings, however round-
about, as the constitnion afforded. Did the constitu-
tioa of none t.tich, demagogues would have some
emus in aiming at revolution. But the constitu-
dos does efford these openiego. It givis the franchi.e
to all possessed of land to the annual value of forty
'killings. There was no man, capable of political
feast, or worthy to entertain it, who might
not procure himself a vote in this way, ta.
militated is it wee by the plan which the
meeting = Tuesday was called to celebrate. What
man, even the met conservative, could object to eves'
the lemb'est aiming at the elective franchise by the
practice of economy and the at ainment of property f
It is a ritool of virtue, preparatory to the prise of
power. And for our part, our astonishment is, that
several tines did not join, or affect to joie, in the
Birmingham meting.
Independent, indeed, cf all consideration of the
trembles, or of political power, Mr. CoIIDIN
pointed out one of those reforms indispensable to re.
place our social system on a secure bans. This is,
the ealargement and increase of the proprieties,"
clam—the rep`acing by emu analogous body of sass I
the yeomen that have disappeared from the soil of
This would be attain. d by agriculturists
joining is, or originating for themselves, a society of
the kind recommeaded. Mr. Linnets and others

alluded to the wish so general arnongeottleesOl:votersto
al
te themselves, and mum. in the constitation
tbstel
pendence which their means and position
Audi entitle them to. The landlords have eonverted
all the agricultural population under them Leto a
marl sad dependent race. And the farmers
have, we think, f mod out the truth, that for an
entire dams to be dependent, is quorum* 'with that
satire class being permanently robbed.
The material suffering, the pemmiary distress, and
dateline at any or of every parties of the indentions
classes, are, however serious and galling, net mire so,
pleb.ps, than the moral cause of di• content and die-
sdlietiea ia the same elem. And, indeed, if we
hash this moment to our colonise, especial to Canada,
the smoky whose late movement of disaffection so oc-
SON every mind, we shall there find moral causes
qthadag, seen mote than material ones, to estrange
a 'gelation ti the English race from England.
'The mealiest care=r is that the middle and indastri.
ens elms in the colonies cannot bear to be ruled, and
naked, and sacrificed by a mother country whose go-
weromer.t is aristocratically c msti rated, monopolising
power, influence, and place, and wielding all in a
!petit diametrically opposed to the habits and the
tamest of an industrious and democratic society.
But the democ•atio effects of industry are not
mate felt in Montreal than in oar own indus-
trious &Arleta at home. Let it not be sup-
posed that we put forward theirs democratic
readastias as opposed to monarchy or dan-
gerous to the throne. Quits the contrary. It be not
of the sovereign that the industrious alums complain,
but of a clique of persons with nothing wonderful to
boast of either in extent of wealth or antiquity of
elsocest, bat who make use of the pretence of aril,-
totescy and breeding to exclude from power and infin.
Mal all not belonging to their narrow, reek'.
dicta, and stupid c ne. It is against the dictation of
this sham arletnerac7 that the colonies are rising. k d
the people of England, we are glad to see, are taking
eMbreat steps to do the same, bat to that legal, peace-
able, and constitutional •ashion which Mr. 9'ATLOI4 of
Birmingham, has devised.

Tp maxi will acquainted with our rural diatri&a
it agltssrs somewhat sopererogatiry to edlect detailei
!ao►a'lbr the purr:mat allowing_ that the agricultural
labourers of the wag mad *lit-midbasd counties are