The Express.
London, England, 1853-04-01 00:00:00

L9.Vl)Ol', FRIDAY, APRIL 1.

TM RR was something extremely satisfactory in
the proa.«lings at the Huddersfield inectiag, ad-
(hissed by Loril of which a full report
appeared in yestirday's Express. The hank and
candid manna- in which the noble lord vindicated
himself tom aay complicity with the transactions at
Hull, which led to the loss of his scat, can scarcely
fail to may home eunvietion to tie minds of all.
His tanuciation of his political creed was straight-
forward, unrest 'cid, unequivocal, and characterised
by um xaggerated deckion. lord Gupta:tett is vet
but a young man, and time may change hitn—hi is
untritil in polities! life, and temptation may prove
too strong for him ; but he is ingenuous ; his
views at present are sound and liberal; he is animated
by enthusiastic benevolence and a desire of honour-
ably di-tingu:ahing himself ; he is in short one of
Ulnae .I.l.mbinbi who deli rim to be encouraged and
treated with that generous confidence which consti-
tutes the strongest hold on a generous mind.
The reception experienced by Lord Gour.nlett at
the hands of the electors of Huddersfield was ex-
actly w hat all the antecedents of that borough w onld
IiAVO led us to expect. It was in Ilutteerslield
that WlLuxurottex found his warrn.st,

at, and to the end, most unwavering sup-
porters. It was the high moral excellence
of IV!Lilt:a►wccr, combined with Lis yoath
and ingenuous frankness, quite as much as his orato-
rical powers, that won from the men of Hudders-
field that •• love at first sight," which endued un-
cooled and unchanged to the close. It was the heart,
site as much us the head, of Huddersfield that made
elsokt or wii.oEßru ocE—a choice which attcr•evcuts
ao arup:y justified. It is the sawe instinctive love of
what is generous and elevated—appearing in the
attructive shape of ingenuuusyout h—t hat has inspired
the cordial wele:m:e given to Lord Gontnicit. May
be prove as worthy of it as WI ti:Faironcx, and may
the men of Huddersfield again have reason to be
proud of their instinctive sagacity in reeugue:ing at
once a true mall.

Of this the future must determine. But whatever
may lie hid in its dark bosom, this is certain, that
Haler-Acid's approbation of Lord Goo} wen has',
been earned—in part, at least—by a frank and
manly avowal of a sound political creed. Lord
GODERICII takes his stand upon religious tolerance
and respect for the rights of adherents of all creeds,
upon a progressively extending and perfecting system
of free trade, and upon an efficient electoral reform.
His views on the last-mentioned subject are
especially satisfactory in these cautious and some-
what trimming days. He avows his conviction that
the corrupt state of our representation can be puri-
fied by noshing short of a mersure that shall liberally
extend the suffrage, equalise the constitucucies, and
afford to the honest voter the protection of the ballot.
To those principles the men of Huddersfield have, by
their acceptance of Lord GODERICII as their eandt-
date, set their seal—a proof that their par tof Yorkshire
at least is " all right."
Looking to the proceedings at Huddersfield, one
might be tempted to exclaim with the poet—
Loud rmr the hand has uttered forth,
The loudest in tae faithful north.
But for the ~,nnparative tameness and chilliness of
tho OnLY gathering at Alnwick allowance must
indeed be made. With all deference to our tee-total
friends, we do suspect that the northern constitution
may rt quire a moderate and cautious exhibition of sti-
mulants to keep it vigorous. It is positively touching
to read the remonstrance on this score wLich forms
the most prominent topic of Lord Cilium-Or speech
at Ainwick, and, indeed, appears to have occupied
fully a half of it. Compassion is touched in a lively
manner by his Lordships picture of himself, oppressed
with a severe cold, in the chilly market-place of
Alnwick, on a raw, ungenial spring evening,
with no more cheering beverage or posset than the
thin potation afforded him by the stern tee-total
founders of the feast. But atter every allowance
has bet n made, still it must cc confessed that there
was a sad want of the generous warmth of Hudders-
field about the leaders ut the Alnwick demonstri-
tion—there is no reason to complain of the body of
the meeting.
The tone of the leading speakers at the Alnwick
gathering is the more to be regretted that
circumetances have conspired to impress it with
the character of a gathering of the GREY
clan, to indicate its present relations to
othel• great parties in the state. The chief
—the Earl himself in person—was there to
countenance his kinsmas, Sir GLowte ; and so was
Lord PAN MURE, &faithful retainer of the Gitees,who
has been unwontedly frequent in his attendance at
political dinners since he announced his retirement
into private life. It was remarkable, in the first
place, that although Sir CIIARLLS WOOD'S ac-
ceptance of office would seem to indicate an acquit.-
cence of the GREY section in the existing ,
twirl arrangement., and although Lord CARLISLE
(and for whose borough of Morpcth Sir
GEORGE GREY has recently been elected) was pre-
sent, with the exception of cold routine toasts, the
subject of "her Majesty's Ministers" appeared to be
with common consent tabooed at Alnwick. This
does look like a disposition on the part of the GREYS
to assume an independent position, to disclaim any
elose or binding intimacy with other sections of the
Liberal party. Now it has been customary in the
manufacturing districts to hold out Earl Hese and
his immediate friends as the most advanced and
liberal section of the Whigs; and j'et, while Sir
0 LOUR GREY was playing fast and loose with the
question of Parliamentary Reform in his speech
(which the well-known Conservative leanings of that
gentleman rendered no-ways astonishing), and while
Sir WALTER TRW/CLEAN by his denunciations of the
balbt (in connexion, it must be admitted, with
sundry proposals for the compulsory promotion of
teetotalism by Act of Parliament) called
forth a storm of indignant reprobation,
Earl GREY maintained a marked and total
silence on the subject of Parliamentary Reform. This
is eminently unwise; for, as Lard Hopewell re-
marked at Huddersfield, the Ministerial pledge to in-
trodiree a measure of Electoral Reform next session,
in combination with the shameful disclosures of Par-
liamentary committees, has set all men &thinking
on the subject. This is no safe time for a statesman
to incur even a suspicion of growing lukewarm in
his zeal for Parliamentary Reform.