The Express.
London, England, 1851-10-14 00:00:00

INDON BRIDGE.

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LONDON, TUESDAY. OCTOBER 11.
Titotaiff during regal visits and royal progresses
little but the fair and sunny side of society may be
allowed to appear and greet the sovereign and her
family, they ate nerertheless useful. They stimulate
loyalty, and they inspire and strengthen confi-
dence ; they popularise the monarchy, and, in doing
su, they increase the power of the people. For they
exhibit them tull of those sentiments, feeling, and
traditions, on which only monarchy can safely rest,
and there scatter to the winds the fears and appre-
hensions, sometimes expressed even by prime minis-
ten+, titat large accessions of popular power will ma-
he-idly change the character of the government and ;
constitution of this country. They establish relations
of ace lime let and respect, and even affection, between
the Qt I is and her subjects; they display her as al
sovereign who neither interposes a stupid aristo-
cracy nor a huge army between her person
and these who owe and pay her allegiance as a mo-
narch, who takes a deep and active interest in their
condition, who desires to see and to be seen by her
people, who can understand and appreciate what is
seen, whose personal opinions and wishes are never
opposed to reasonable extensions of public lilkrty
and national fret tom, and who seeks to make her
children, from the early dawn of youthful intelli-
gens., acquainted with the greatness and vastness
of what they may have hereafter to govern and pre-
side over.
To stimulate loyalty in favour of such a monarchy
as that of England, and of such a monarch as her
MAJLITY, in Manchester and Liverpool, is to pro-
mote and strengthen the CUUSC of order, good govern-
ment, and human progress. It begets no senseless
satisfuctian with things as they are; it secures no
unmeaning a.sent to abuses; it strengthens no or-
ganisation of a reactionary policy; it affords no poli-
tical security to a timid or a backward ad-
ministration. But, by placing the sovereign on
ttrnts of intimacy with her subjects, it tends
to render her less and less dependent on the old
hacks of party polities; and so it lessens that hold
which political castes have hitherto had on the
government of England, to the exclusion of fresh
vigour and of new blood. The men who have made
Manchester and Liverpool what they are, who, in
making those towns the wonder of the world, have
added to the wealth and increased the comfort of
every unit of this empire, can never lie so dependent
on an aristorrary for ministers fit and worthy to em-
joy the confidence of Queen Vier'nu t, as it is the
fashion and the practice of that aristocracy to assume.
And this, it may he safely inferred, is part of the
instruction royalty learns by these visits; to he ap-
plied when, 'hereafter, the present political system
shall have broken down by its own weight—for
last much longer it can not.
No man, woman, or lad, who took rut in the re-
ception of royalty at either town, is a bit the worn
or less ardent a reformer by the display; whilst all
are to some extent latter citizens. Liable as it is to
abuse, and abused as it is very ollt n in London by
the vulgar ride, this desire and curiosity to become
arquainted with the person of the sovereign and her
family, is nevertheless in principle a rational and a
proper feeling. We long to know all these whom
we respect ; tend, knowing them, the interest we take
in their conduct and happiness is increased. Logic
is not altogether predominant in the direction of
human affairs; sentiment and affection have still
their fair share in the administration of national
destinies. And between sovereign and people this
interchange of cariosity is reciprocally useful. We
feel that a monarch who, on all nosonable oceasiona,

places herself in such unreserved communication
with her subjects, can have no desire but fur their
happiness; and the monarch, it Ls but fair to assume,
must on her part feel that in the desire of the people
for gnat changes ' they have no object inimical to
the rontinuaucts of the dynasty of which she is tin'
reprise ntat ice.
And if this be so, which orwhn shall he allowed to
inttrpose between the sovereign and the people of
this country ? The sovereign has no interest in a
restricted Islustittiener, in rotten boroughs, in elec-
toral intimidation; this people have the steepest inte-
rest in obtaining a franchise which shall make them
the n-al depositaries of political power. ltv such a
franchise, it it quite clear that in England the
monarchy will he :strengthened, not weakened ; on
what pretence. then. are third parties to he allowed
to step m and to forbid the consolidation of that par-
Beater firm of government with which the English
people have shown they are content. The old theory
was that a monarchy could only rest on an aristo-
cracy ; the modern theory is, that Whilst an aristocracy
may be needful to adorn and gild a monarchy,
it eats rest onlv on the affections of a people. But a
people will sat now-a-days long give their atfeetians
to a monarchy in the administration of which they
have no share. The personal character of such a
monarch as Queen Virronta is but a happy acci-
dent. Sosereissus even of her house have opposed
pint. demairds, which even their ministers were
willing to commie. Now we have a Queen whose•
svmp.s!hies are all with the papular cause, both at
gums• and alwoud; now, then, is the time to secure
that Urge us:els:as:nut electoral franehise which, once
contested, can never in this country be recalled.

NcvEtt.perlinpo, was there so striking an example
of a in.s living taught in his own trap us that of
Lot i- N irt.LEON and the law of the 'dist of May.
By this name is known the parlianwntary decree
dirt ng ianchisi two ur three Mi11i0411,4 of thu *French
people. When the metropolis returned a large ma-
jority of socialist members, the conservatives in-
Sandy resolved to punish l'aris by disfranchising its
artisans. This they did elreetuallv, by ordaining !
that none should have a vote without proving that
lie had been domiciled and employed in his
present locality for a certain time. But the
working class, and more than the working
class in great towns, is for ever changing. Then
their empl.iyers' signature win. required to establish
the claim of the employed. This, under a hundred
pretexts, might be a ithhcld. And thus sonic two
ur three out of the MIX millions of French electors
were deprived of their right of suffrage by the As-
semble, and with the consent and co-uperatiou of
the l'evsident.

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'flw latter was at the time, no doubt, persuaded I
that the best chance of being continued in power lay 4
in his conciliating the middle, the propertied, and
timid chisses, together with the Collgen alive party
in the Assembly, whichvras their champion. Accord-
ingly he consented to fling the people overboard. And I
now it appears, that LOUIS NAPOLIA/X'S only chance is
from the votes of those very people whom he clis-
franehised. every shade of the parliamentary parties
having turned against him. The President, there-
fors.after shutting the popular flood out of the elections
for his own purpose on the list of May, would now
open the sluwes and let the popular flood in again to
float him. But to this the Assembly, of course,
wands opposed. and with the Assembly every knot
of statesmen, that hope to exist by eithir the favour
or tolerance of the Assemble, or that undertake
to carry on the government in accord with the
majority.
The signal fur the President's standing out and
insisting upon the repeal of the law of the 13th of
)far. was given in a leading article of the Onset.-
tun: 'owl, signed ONANIER or CASSAGNAC4 It may I
here he remarked, that articles in the journals of
France seem to have all the 84111 e. prestige and to
wield the same influence, when signed by indivi-
duals. as when they were expressed in the collective
or editorial tee. Never was the French press more
powerful, or its weight more felt than at the present
moment. No our could deny the ability with
which the manifesto of the Coastandionnel
against the disfranchising law was written. The
socialists, it argued, arc powerlass without a Balm
you have given them one by disfranchising the
people, whose right they may uphold. In giving,
the socialists such a flag. there is no class or party
interested to oppose. them. The peasantry, who
Might take was against the red republic, would not
miter and march against universal suffrage. All

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