The Express.
London, England, 1849-04-16 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 16.
Tim eyes et earnest reformers :throughout the
kingdom are turned with hopeful expectation towards
the West Riding of Yorkshire. That district •
to become the citadel and central stronghol of real
reform. The election of Mr. COBDEN to represent it
in parliament—unsolicited on his part, and when he
was far from his native land—appears now to have
been only the commencement of an attempt to geni-
us all the Yorkshire constituencies with reformer,.

At the great meeting in Leeds on Thursday last it
wee unanimously resolved to prepare to give an un-
ntistakeabls manifestation of its opinion on financial
reform at the nest *leans, by vigilant attention to
the registratioe, and by a persevering effect to
boron the strength of the liberal party
On the register of the county constituency."
The meaty is preparing to give Mr. COBDEN
a colleague worthy of him; Bradford remains de-
voted to Colonel Taomrsom ; the aria of Sheffield are
shoat to send Mr.Rossuca Is peellemsst ; and the
right honourable repressablithef Heller has received
certain broad hints as to the inly teas ea which he
ern be allowed to rids hb meet. Wherever in the
West Riding taro ism eseslitasory the.
electors are lesdrring te slag therm*
going and ealineking Mem. hopselinosid,
• The emmieden of the Tednien ltes hen
stirred by the bezels of Manthester. " I want them;
said Mr. Puny at the Leeds mediae, "to take the
plume out of the Lancashire men ; 1 want them to
be the sea to carry Mr. COMM'S plan oat; I want
then to take the had ca 'hie questa" and to have
each an blesses generally in reference to it, that it
may be aid, when canted, to have been carried by
the armbee for the West Riding and the West
Tine fit agesmge in the "Memoirs and Corn-
wallis', of Womb Renee which has an import-
s** gasetzwits, spins the attitude sommed by the West
Writing in 1806 to Mr. (now
MlClththav, Homes said :
I leek era what has bees ailed Mr. Fors party—the
sundae el the aim whli sztiegiddaml entirely
id* : his we staid hope the fragments
Am Ike pally hid boa beg spe leeks to phew arktller
ism Ilse, I emit mkt die soaddlos diet. la miss of
et ....al. Ilia the seder of people 4 this
Istedellea he it melee ph % eoa-
= by the egieen -Si.lsliet and habits et Shoe
ausamen familia *le ore eliareethierd by
_moderate
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sad • Oath Mammies et the gh at IIMPII• Mama No
dsablible is the aside, deseiney it they preserve their
width Nat piddle vies ffillUMMlld nest bey.
Maßsbeennosses have shined et hes years=
the tams* at that haw et as sod h
to that ithy are the very okesaulasess 'fish have
beeeeht ether free goversaests to Mask tai—ea
=reds, the dtpsedsaties paposedlei hen ligitrliwiny
of tesace, sad as aughealelisa et thii haftirf
lass ea amuse of forties dearer. Thom esiehe, lin psr-
have already bath anderatieed our loothellsall gni
the eratiateata sad character of the math& 410
"the sass that it dose arias se the had* *et
the great amber amtse wham wealth it Mod k
sidetabielst equal preptetioaa, the ninthly geed edenisa
that stalthemako h,t,, tizesealaftreyelial sad mini hese
that are dies esetheed is, • to whisk belli air
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aorogit M sake it a repress* ler ever naiad the preset
age it it does set make a trial at teat.
Making allowance for the one mistake in this
review—the gratuitous assumption that a trade
naturally developed can be an overgrown Quo—
its remarks are strikiegly applicable to the
Finest time. They are infinitely more tree of
ft than of the year in which they were written. The
accumulation and distribution of property among thei
middle classes have immensely increased since 1806;
general addition, and knowledge and interest in poli-
tics have made immense strides. The terrible war in
which Great Id: itain continued to be involved fur many-
years after the date of Mr. Holum's letter, by favour-
ing still more the augmentation of the military
force, and the growth of an un-English habit
of timid dependence on the soldiery, prevented
the fulfilment of hit sanguine prophesy. Bat
at last the day hes arrived when the full-
grown spirit of the middle classes is ade-
quate to the teak which he chalked out for it, and the
load of warlike armaments, and "a bulky system of
finance," perpetuating a jobbing sense of dependence,
call mare imperatively than ever to be grappled
with.
The reformers now in the field are of the clam to
which Mr. HORNEE turned his eyes with hope in the,
dark night of EtnoN, ADDINGTON, and CASTLEREAGM
ascendancy. The reforms they contemplate are those
which he announced as most urgent—reform in our
finances, reform is oar overgrown warlike establish-
ments, reform in our system of colonial administra-
tion. And we need only look to what is going
on in Sheffield to feel convinced that the
intelligence of oar middle-olds reformers is
commensurate to their good will. Mr. Rognecit
is, perhaps, more than any statesman of the day a
thinker who has based his principles von extensive,
systematic study, and who views every political
question rubmitted to him not only on its own
isolated merits, but with reference to its bearing
on the whole complicated aggregate of public
business. It is upon this deep-thoughted poli-
tical philosopher—and precisely because he is sock
—that the men of Sheffield have fixed their choice.
They have thereby given proof that they are
animated by no vegan and ephemeral sentiment,
but
.by a clear sense that patient inquiry, ex-
tense° combinations of ideas, and stern adherence
to general principles alone can enable them to 'rai-
ses the evils under which the nation labour,. They
have set a noble example, in despising the prestige
drank or wealth, and acknowledging the tom aristo-
eney of intellect. •
Is connexion with the all but unanimous call of the
Seen of Sheffield to. Mr. ROEBUCK to represent them,
there is a subject which must not be passed over in
silence. Of " the educated radical'," as Bloekseood once
called the politicians of the old Westminster Review
school, Mr. ROEBUCK, COI. THOMPSON, Mr. Hume,
and Sir WILLIAM MOLERWORTH are almost the only
individuals who have rernainedin the fielder politioe, and
retained at the same time unshaken their original
principles. Since their party has suffered a paprrtial
and temporary eclipse, a new class of
have come span the scene—the men of the Levee,
who having accomplished their first en are
now addressing themselves to more edgewise iabOoloi
The adherents of the old factions look with a Jealous
eye upon the coalescing of these two parties. They
**ad the consequences of a frank and medial co-
operation between the philosophical politic use
and the practicil men of the -,manufeetnifing die
*iota. They therefore seek to insinuate jea-
lousies and aversions among them. If they
pay a compliment to Mr. ROEBUCK or Sir WILLIAM
MOLESWORTH, it is at the expense of Mr. CoBDEN
or Mr. Bine:arr. They would fain inspire the two
former with an idea that their acquirements at d in-
tellects are not duly appreciated by their new asso-
ciates—the latter that the others are likely to
play the schoolmasters with them. All who know
any of the parties are aware that such a trans-
parent trick is little likely to have any effect
upon then; but it is nevertheless deserving of ex-
posure, were it only to put the general independent
and liberal interest on its guard against the machina-
tions which are at work by dieuniting to weaken and
sidermine it.

Tama is no fault to be found with the verdict in
Daoures cue. Upon the evidence before them
the jury could come to no other conclusion.
By the law of England a man is to be held innocent
soil he is proved guilty. The charge against Mr.
DEMIST was, that be bad, by his treatment of
ANDREWS, caused the attack of cholera of which the
boy died, sod that he was consequently guilty of
manslaughter. To establish each a charge it was ne-
cessary to prove—first,that the boy had been delivered
into Mr. Thiourea keeping in a sound and healthy
state; second, that he had been under-fed, insuffi-
ciently clothed, made to sleep in an ill-ventilated and
over-crowded room, and so-forth; third, that while
be was being thus treated his health gave way;
fourth, that the organs affected, and the manner in
which they were affected, were first or premonitory
symptoms of cholera; lastly, that he died of cholera,
nothing having occurred to him beyond his treatment
in Mr. DROVE* establishment to superinduce or
aggravate an attack of cholera.
Brea had there been a clear, unbroken, trust-
worthy chain of evidence to substantiate all these
points, a jury might have warrantably hesitated to
Wag in a verdict of guilty. Symptoms of disease,
their ceases sad consequences, are so much matter of
opinion, and medical men are so much divided in
opinion respecting them, that non-professional men
might justifiably declins returning • verdict upon
evidence where theory must of necessity be so exten-
sively intermingled with statements of fact. Bat is
Mr. Daourz's case there was no room for hesitation.
The poor boy had entirely escaped notice amoog the
crowd, and there was no possibility of tracing him
faun a state of sound health to sickness and
The jury could do nothing but acquit Mr. Daousr.
This might have been foreseen. The idea of bring-
lag Mr. DRODET to trial is one which has been flf.•
peatedly acted upon in this country, when harrowing
limitation dams or suffering have outraged public fee
ink ; and the vomit has in every instance been, either
that the waged moved, from the impossibility
et ender any category of exulting and
or that in the event of his being cow
deemed, redaction that others, allowed to
with impsaity, were as culpable as be, tarnedesZ
entreat el .3mpathy in his favour. In the case of
Batunanor and others, indicted for causing by their
cresities the death of prisoners for deb+, the culprits
Mied; in the cases of Lord rMACCLESFIBLD and
liztvair, an impression was produced
Oat they were victims leas of their own
siseeeduct than d partyy animosity. &m-
-ilt/DOE had acted oppreseFcly and inhumanely ; but
he bad only done what had been winked at in all his
in office. The public had grown more
=l,: the gaoler had not. The proper use to
have made of the exposure of his misdemeanours, was
to realign the system, not to inflict vengeanoe on a
contemptible individual. Lords MACCLESFIELD and
Mar.vuzz had only acted upon, or countenanced, the
some lees and jobbing principles which had pervaded
their dwasteesets for centuries. Public morality bad
Deem Moe sled. but the MO officials had not par-
le the seinuelim. Here, also, the pro-
pel ini ar the exposese et the peculation of
the ems end the enseivance of the other,
WOW hose best to reform the system, not
to rode Am by judicial decisions, which were,
la bet, ar petfacto declarations of law. The case of
Mr. Damn is exactly parallel to theirs. The system
=hie astslhahaastt at Tooting was utterly
bet them* virtuous public, which has
embed et web millest and maltreatment of friend-
less pauper cW4isk las no right to make him the
scapegoat for the amens of the community.
I .
t may bare been that the revulsion in public
imdin4 naturally produced by indicting one man for
se teee in which many others are more or less
gestleipitere, had already begun to show itself,—or it
c ciailme bees that the personal friends of Mr. Daourr
teas court to countenance him—this at least
is sedate, that a good deal of sympathy for him
ems evinced by the audience. But surely the enthu-
elastic individual. who gave vent to their feelings by
a loud clapping of hands at the close of Baron
Purrs charge, and the friends who crowded round
Mr. Dewar to congratulate him on his acquittal,
were rather premature in their demonstrations. Mr.
DROULT has had no more than justice done him in
being declared free from the charge of manslaughter ;
but the facts which have been proved respecting the
management of the Tooting establishment are not
each as he has any reason to be proud of.
The Tooting tragedy is not an event that can
with propriety be allowed to pass into forget-