The Express.
London, England, 1851-09-08 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 8.

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Moat than one change in the composition of the
present cabinet scans probable, if not inevitable,
before the end of the year. Declining health, it is
believed, will indispose a prominent and influential
occupant of the Treasury bench in the Commons to
resume the Liberians duties he has hitherto per-
formed; and the increasing infirmities of two of his
colleagues render it daily less reasonable or politic to 'I
impose on them once more the toils and responsibili-
ties incident to the coming parliamentary campaign.
Fee that it will be a campaign, in the true and
full misting of the term, there can be no question.
The last sessions have resembled more a
tedious repetition of reviews than of pitched
battles. Now and then there has been a real
skirmish. and then long intervals have been animated
by a dropping fire from Peelites in ambush and pro-
tectionists at sea,—heaving to consiosally, but hardly
venturing to land. But of downright hard fighting
for the posseados of power or the ascendancy of any
great principle, we have seen little. The whir
have been content lazily to coon py their old
and low entrenchments from which any coca
pact and vigorous band might have driven them.
Tky have almost invariably kept their flag furled.
and suffered their lines to go out of repair; while,
sick of inaction and insolence, the rank and file have
grown thoroughly demoralised, and cannot without
difficulty be kept from mutiny and desertion.
Truly the time is at hand when a rally and rein-
vigorauon of the whole liberal party must be
attempted in good earnest. If net is 06:44 why
then in opposition, we must try to redeem lost
character, and to pull up lee way. The world
is moving on, and we cannot for ever stand
still. to have the honour of maw noble
and right honourable imbecilities get into their
family coaches and get out of them agsza—benevo-
kntly breakfast, languidly lunch, and dip
dine together day after day. What is Vl=
of a government that aoes not attempt be
govern ? We can't for the life of us see why ffia
Board of Control and the Privy Seal, and the %Vasil
and Forests and the Secretaryship for belarlanalli
not be done by machinery that might be mole to move
a pair of unmeaning hands and strike appointed
sounds, all for half the money, ifthanis
nothing more to bo done in those d
than has been, is now, or ever will be peeZ=lll.l4
the wooden worthies that at present
positions. No wonder there is discontent
among the intelligent members of the party, ens:
they nee these mock ministers and burlesque
erste thrust into every place which can by easy
bility be left unmanned. For these arc not
men; they are mere lay figures tricked out in the
Windsor uniform sad stuffed with Whig straw.
When the push for power comes, lumber of this kind
will be only in the way. Who would follow, who
would fight for them! And fight for themselves
they cannot. Let the clique who set them there,
look to it in time; or they may. roe it when too late.
But, as we have already intimated, the clique
themselves—few and fortunate although they have
hitherto been—are not immortal, and not the least
considerable amongst them may have ere king to
seek a softer pillow than that of an office in which
be has done far less than many of his dis-
tinguished predecessors. We know not whether
the chair of the new parliament, or a fo-
reign mission, may appear the more desirable
to the retiring statesman. The public are far more
concerned to kaaw who is likely to be his enwerner.
From what melba is he to be sought for ? Of what
calibre is he to be I, And of what definite colour arc
to be his antecededb and his principles ? We shall
not name names •. the task, at all times thankless
and invidious, whys candidature for high office is in
question, becomes peculiarly uninviting when the
post is not yet vacant, and ellen that post is a Seem
taryship of State. We prefer confining. ourselves to
the assertion of those plain and incontestible
rights which the popular party have in such
a matter, and the neglect of which in the
chaise, whenever it is made, we do not
hesitate be my ought Ile be and will be considered as
unprintable. It fe high time to have done with
Lilly Ape. The country is weary
.of this species
of inns hies. Right divine in a single perms is
onlielestly hard to bear ; bat there is about the
shier 1111. i an air of implode& Geed sr bad heat
lend isles comparison, for a Lim or altar arra
be eompand with others. Fellows he lath seas. That.
too. is wesethiag. Dr to be leas& erd/X:=
Dar eels& ef
from the nit ani=lirieseastikbaynidel‘sothiteg definable,
and eseemsig amply because they have all inter-
ried, or have mere and mats in common,
this is West the most mass and bemired asentation
we in herres—a mere meld caked and mosey
making oespersey spinet the intellect, werth,
wealth, and rank of the reales. To break up this
odious intensification of oligarchy, and to prevent its
reverfence when owe it has been prostrated. we want
electoral reform es smelt as for anything else. The
system has lasted too long, and all uses are sick and
ashamed of it. But, as it is doomed by public
opinion, and sooner or later must go, it were well if
the whigs for their own sake word yield the
point frankly and gradually, and above all in
tune. If every dull and ;hammering cadet of
the grasp-all families is not by this time jwortiled
for, we cannot help it. They have had a eisar mo-
nopoly of imperial prey for now Ave years minter-
ruptcdly ; and were it ealy far itereja sake the
routine of the set we heseedorth ho deported from.
This, however, is net all. The middle dosses of
this merry, the inesative, creative,
highly eformed, and praotioell=a the
people, isomad their share in the government of the
conany they have contributed men then say er
than ev=t.ther ekes of the eaaverisity to reader
sad free. The exclusion el
great,
power, save those who have ebt::
way contrived to WNW alliance with tuiereacy,
is hateful in the eyes of the malcontent nosy. la
the cabinet et mareentile England there is not a
merchant, IKE f has there been that we an call to
mind. A eiebeend trader, armed of the scares of
his wealth, and vein of the raw lowers of a rank in
which he is lordly seknowledned. hems me exception
to the role. No eau of Weave of a
groins, would ever he adulated theinm-
cleaves to a participation of that power w es
moat theirs of right as the ttep et the right of
every rats-paying householder. The monerl3f of
administrative authority is as gross a fraud upea the
practical talent and intelligence of the middle dress.
u the maintenance of the neadastioa er
the exclusion of three millions of ratepayers a
voice in the representation. They are in truth part
and parcel of the same corrupt sad
system—the system which *ands in thee=itini
effectual probing of our perilous social ills, and of all
genuine efforts at redeeming the ignored labouring
mass from Gallen and toooding enmity to the things
that be.

Ws cannot well embalmed the meetives of the
Board of Inland Rovemeas Y extindhig, or
to extend, the opeallea the; mum odiumilliek.ilA
unproductive tax, the advertisement duty. Whether
the buoy officials really Ma at reaferiag the tax
mom extortionate, or whether they mar* Irish
rim= the absurd rem= and
at its wading, we am* my.
Taber it is a NUM of MOM MOO-
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forth and feral in journals and Whidnab pais
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