The Express.
London, England, 1851-09-16 00:00:00

DONCASTER RACES.

TIIIS DAY.

GREAT YORKSHIRE HANDICAP.
Confessor .. .. 1
Antigone .. .. 2
Ali-1s Ann .. .. 3

Seventeen rin.

WORKING MEN% TRAINA TO 1'111: EXIIIBmo f:
The working men's tints on the Great Western last week
to the lishthitiotr tent 1,009 passengers at ss. each to and
fro from Bath, Brutal, and elsewhere, giving two days in
London.
PAPACY IN BIRKENFIEAD.—Last week somo ex-1

elimawt was created among the protestant perdue WI the
amewmusity in this town by the appearance of a large pia-
card span the walls, bearing the following annesmosinent :
—"St. Werburgh's Catholic Church, Birkeshood.—The
annual sermon, in support of St. Werburgh's sands, will
be preached on Sunday, September 11. Pontifical high
nuen will be celebrated at 11 o'clock, and the sermon
preached by the Lord Ili,hop of Shrewsbury. In the even-
ing, ve,pers will be run: at half-past 6 o'clock, and the
preached by the Lord 6i.!tni) of Troy, after which
there will be a rolcunt h,:nedietion." The result was, that
on Sunday morning a Lage e,o.gregationvany being at-
Wer-

tr.tetcd out of mere

at St.

1;;;:h 7s. altar was----~d.corated
and m the right there was a kind of canopy or throne,
intended fur the reception of " the Lord Bishop ot
6hrewabury." The service was principally conducted by
three priests, in vestments of cloth of gold, who appeared
to act as the chaplains to the bishop. " The Lord Bishop
of Troy " did not make his appearance, and his absence
was thus accounted for by Mr. Brown, who, before the ser-
sky eummermed, stated that " the Lord Bishop of Troy
was called to the south, and emsequently could not be pre-
sent or announced in the printed placard ; " but his lord-
ship, "their own bishop, would address them in the even-
int as well as the morning." The only noticeable feature
in the ceremony was the great devotion paid to the "sacred
person" of the bis►op, whose bands were repeatedly
lisw.l during the ceremony by the officiating priests. On
Laving the chapel many of the congregation, principally
those of the poorer class, kneeled down and eagerly caught
the g.irment of the " prelate," which they applied to their
CRE.tT SOPTIIERN AND WESTERN RAILWAT.—
The capital account of this company to the 30th of June
show•, that 3,dfY2,6961. had been received, including
_.0;+,8601. on ordinary shares, 211 ,16W. on the eighth shares,
sieot. from the Public Wm:a Loan Commissioner,, and
loins on debentures. The expenditure amounted
t :0.059.5941., including 316,0161. for working stock, and
Ilti,nsa/. subscribed to the Irish South-Eastern Railway and
nth, r line., leaving a balance of 97,11161. against the com-
p my. The revenue account for the half-year ending the
;; an of June showed that 116,186/. had been received, and
*landed, leasing a profit of 68,7941. Out of this
'sin 2"2.2191. was deducted for interest on loan and deben-
tm, s. and 5,491/. interest on preference shares, leaving en
sialable surplus of 40,970!. The dividend, at the rate of
3; I.ir cent. per annum, ;for the half-year amounted to
4..1271., leaving a balance of 5521. The receipts for traffic
donne the half-year ending June, 1850, amounted to
10..3tx51., and for the same period in 1851 to 112,8011.,
sh.iwing in increase of 7,2931. The available surplus for
the halt year ending June, 1850, amounted to 41.2631., and
1.. r the h.d.t.year ending June, 1851, to 40,9791. The depre-
ciation fund amounts to 3.1,7901., and the directors are of
opinion that when It reaches 40,000/. they may stop at that
h,tetc. About 2,500,000 passengers have travelled ou the
Lai since its opening, anil not a single life has been lost in
manetion with the trains.

KILLARNEY JUNCTION rionerAY.---The direcfm• I
of thin company intend to resume the weeks es early es
pooiblr, with the view of complatiag them by ths
summer. About 50,0001. has bees orpsoded w via:r.."
the hoe at the Killarney end The estirweied esN of Ms
whole line from Mallow to Killarney, a diabase of 411 mash
a stuttd to be 19/0,0001. During tho last @swiss the dins.
tors obtaiued un amended act, which authorial dna to
reduce the capital from 37ji,0004. to 210,0001., ead the
mount per there from '254. to 151. each, The Grad
Pea:here and Western Railway Company originally sub.
sttib.4 100.0004. towards the undertaking, which is is form
•jimetion with their line at Mallow, but by the new set
ace amount of subscription is reduced to 60,0001., of whir*
.409/. has been already paid. The company have Power
to borrow 124,000/. mien the 'minty of the counties Of
Cork sad Kerry, and it expected that the shareholders '
will riot be culled upon to subscribe more than 40,0001. le
complete the line.
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Our contemporary, referring to our first lead-
ing article of yesterday, says that therein " more
honour is done to us than we deserve, in attach-
ing a degree of importance which we are very far
from attaching ourselves to our humble speculations
on the Parliamentary Reform question. Our object in occa-
sionally addressing ourselves to the discussion, of that ques-
tion during the present lull of politics' is to lay before our
readers the various alternatives adopted at different times,
in different countries, to absolutely indiscriminate universal
suffrage, which we agree in deprecat;ng, and which seems
to have started into ephemeral existence everywhere, only
to show that it could subAst nowhere." The article from
which these words are takes, then goes on as follows :
" The tornado of 1813 has at least cleared the political
atmosphere ; and it will be our own fault if we de
nut profit gratis by experiments which have cost our
neighbours the bombardment of half their capitals—
and thrown them back, after all, whether in France,
orpermany, on liberties practically more restricted than,
for the most part, they possessed before, and on securities
for order the more precarious, as they are more plainly
thaw not of respected law, but of feared or felt force.
Continental Europe seems sadly threatened with the sway
of the Caesars; but England anarchised would have a
still sadder fate; the first symptom of succumbing public
force, or public faith, in this country would bo the
knell of that doom, which Masses* somewhat less than
fifty, and the Prince de Joinsille somewhat more than
five years back, found motive to wish to translate
into thought, and publish to Europe. Tho following
was avowal of what were Napoleon's real intens
tions as to England, if his plans had succeeded
la conquktr—personne n'y songea: it s'agissait scale-
ment de la ruiner, de In laiseer dans un tat tel quo per-
bonne n'eu *unit convoitil la possession.' What—con-
quer England—nobody ever thought of it ; the only job
in hand was to ruin her, to leave her in such a condition
that none should have thenceforth coveted her pos-
session.'

" It is our deliberate conviction that twelve months of a
system of indiscriminate suffrage would ruin England : be-
cause it would give the rein to that political imagination,
which always accompanies political ignorance or half-know-
ledge, and would inundate parliament with projects, which
there would then be no security might not become
laws, for obtaining by direct legislative action whatever
objects the classes which live by the labour of their
hands deem desirable to them. Now there is only one
way by which multitude•delegstcs can even seem to
make progress towards that end. It is by pulling
down all pre-existing public arrangements ; since, so
lung as any of these are left standing, demagoguescan make
their existence tho pretext why the promised popular mil-
lennium is not realised. A totally democratised legislature
in an old country must therefore proceed by disorganising
every establishment of external and internal defence,
finance, and commerce ; and such legislative action would
not have worked a twelvemonth without saving ail future
Napoleons and Joinvilles the trouble of working from
without—of planning Boulogne descent., and protecting
oceanic islands.

" But we are contending, it will be said, against chimeras.
' Manchester,' according to our contemporary, ' has
shrunk from universal suffrage.' And his main quarrel
with us is for throwing out, as he imagines, official feelers
in favour of what he terms universal suffrage turned to
the account of toryism.'
" Our contemporary may make his mind easy. Our specu-
lations on the Parliamentary Reform question are our own.
We have no premature mission to publish the outlines of a
cabinet measure as yet in embryo. Neither have we in-
tended, in any observations we have cursorily thrown out
on this subject, to express our own decision in favour of a
system of double vote, or indirect election. Some of our
expressions, in the haste of writing, may have gone further
on this point than our deliberate sentiments. We arc dis-
posed to think two degrees of election have real and solid
advantages when the first election is not made forthe sake of
the second, when, as in the ease of the senate of the United
States, its electors have been elected in the first in-
stance for a different function, and one more immediately
interesting to their constituents than that of assisting to
compose a central legislature. But we are much inclined to
agree with M. Ouisot, in his lately published ' History• of
Representative Institutions,' that the double-election sys-
tem, when its whole object is to effect one election, viz.,
' that of a central legislature, is radically vicious, and likely
to be entirely fatal to all political interest and spirit in the
proceeding. We can conceive an excellent combination of
local and central elections, in which the members of local
bodies, elected by a wider suffrage, should constitute select
constituencies for central ones. This is, in fact, the prin-
ciple in practical operation for the elation of tho senate of
the United States.