The Express.
London, England, 1849-06-09 00:00:00

The ►ow this went into committee.

Oa our return to the gallery,
Mr. J. O'CONNELL (who it appeared had addressed the
brew atter strangers had been ordered to withdraw) said
Ent aft r the specimen of fainter. he had experienced when
he attempted to give (spree. i tei to hie opinions immediately
previous to the division, there wee but one of two cosines
aro to him, either to insist upon the house enfortiog justice
to its neroshers or doing away altogether with an absurd
practice, and therefore he begged to observe that there were
stung• es in the gellery. (Loud ei.es of" Oh.")
Mr. &mai eceor.lingly ordered strangers to withdraw.
We are indebted to an hon. member for the following re-
port ut what took place subsequently to the exehrioa of
et:anion, the house hike at the hose in committee oa the
Irish Poor Law B II :
" Cause I—Mr. MONSELL thought it would be advisa-
ble to take • discussion on the maximum rate en the lino
dame, and he thought the disci:anon would be long and
itheallo sot go on at so late an hour.
" Mr. ADAIR agreed.
"Cu). DUNNE uought no progress could be toads that
"Mr. STAFFORD bad meant yesterday to raise this
oweetion on the words ' it shall not be .awful.
Lord J. RUSSELL hoped the bun. gentleman would go
N with kis . bjeetioas to night.
"Mr. HERBERT thought otherwise.
" Mr. V. SMITH made a remark.
" Mr. CLEMENTS said many members were opposed to
the oAximunt.
". Mr. ROCHE did not me why. if they win to proceed
they should not proceed at once. Whea everyone c.toplained
of toe poor law i waa a wute of time not to go on.
" ger A. BROOKE thought it would be better to recall
the paltry. (Laughter.)
. Mr. ORATTAN bad long been a member of the bowie,
MI he Lad Layer known • case when • member whose
sputa for ire miaow was not reported had got op and du
the poblis of • report of what took plass. (Hear,
He lama the uljuirament, in order to decide this
gosenteen. Woes Mr. WyWyndhamwas sot rep..rted be did not
set Wes; he woe eded with his speeches. Why punish him
cob *east to make • good speech on that qualm ? He
fosoroped he we. • young man, sad via., sad wasted his
'pooh reported. His boo. hind might sot CM. Doe* let
tee matt oors-Ives ridiculous is the eyes of the ormatty.
"Mb. O'CONNELL, iesubetanoe,sa d it wooed importases
kr Hs; a its ut ut hers. If the house won satisfied, be mold
net holt it. He coaplairted of eafairates. He had sun
Ihe sesewenver is the gallery speaking with the reporters.
(Lend laiauer.) It might be ridienkue, but ho wool
Mad up ST the right of members to be treated fairly. He
suet deprive his friend of the pleasure of seeing hie speech
print.
Mr. BERNAL put the question in • load voice is these
word.. •It ehell sot be lawful.' (L wl laughter.)
" Mr. ORMAN begged pardon; he had moved to re-
port rotaries.
" Major BLACKALL proreed to go on without further
waste of time. Oa asatten of such Yost importen .e they ,1
omen so go so without the reporters. Whether it would be
advishle to eopport a maximum at ell was • mos. imporieust
epteolios.
.ILyd JOHN RUSSELL mid the principal reason for
the modems= was, it would Mettles prune to occupy and
&doom land, girls, greater remota for support of the pt or.
Nee woo 'kis theetedul. One eientleman gave evio:ence that
he had tried this. Its had promised his team's that when
Se tee tame to by he would pay it.
• • •

T.— . .
" Mr. BORSMAN sa:d, the Nome vatleman mid that
Mfs would no d without a diminished area of tesatioa.
Lord J. RUSSELL hoped the house would iro
"Lard C. HAMILTON was r anxious as env one to 110
111 S. no thought the noble lord should stet, when the sub-
jset be renewed, es It was impossible to finish it at
that We beer."

"L ,n 1 RUSSELLesid, he should take the Peel iament ary
Oaths Bill 11r.t as Moaday, tad Ai bill wood ; if not,
than .4t Thursday.

the erirtini.

OUTGOING MAILS.

Maas Ise MINE Myth Aneertee sad the UMW Math- will be
made up cm the 'within (tithe 15th June.
The Wait India MMIN ezeindlin nersanda. Beer. Menem
Hendaree. New Wog" mad Mateo, and teeluding those for
Madeira, St. heen.de.wbereetwa. New OTheleda. Chll4 and Pees, wO.
be made up on the thereltsi of the Valium..
The snails for Vise, Oporto, Lisbon, Madeira, Odle, and Gibraltar,
will be nude up on the sierslng of the 11th of June.
The thane he Gibraltar, Mew Ureic.. the Kaiak Wanda agent
Adam, Ceylon, India. 11nes-Koss, end Chic, m. aeothamt too, tell
be Innis up on the 20th of Jute.
The mails, via Mandan, to the Idedlterteneen, Egypt, Ceylon,
India, Ilong-Koss, &s., will beads up ou the 25th June.
The moils lor Madeira, the Brazils, end Buenos Ayres, will be made
upon the evening of the 4th dJuly.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 9.

IT would be diffictit to fled a page of any eountry'e
annals more demonstrative f the benefits of Pm
:dues faire—the let-alone system—in polities, than
the message of the President of the French Repubic,
give n to the world in the Moniteur of Thursday.
Whilst almost all the mocerchs of Europe are pair-
fully enraged in doing everythirg for their subject.,
universally to their sully eta' disgust, the French Pre-
sioent takes 'ratters and men as he fnis them, ar d
reeennts how, from the very lowest state of weak-
ness and confusion, Frew h politics, as well as
French commerce, have recovered of themselves,
without government troubling Itself to do more than
the common constabular duty of keeping the peace.
The entire moral indeed of this presidential tale, if I
not the whole tale itself, is simply this : wherever'
and in whatever things I and my goveramt rat have
interfered, these things have gone wrong. Wherever
and in whatever things I and my government have
left things to themselves, they have righted, and gone
cm well.
Like a genuine Frenchman, LOUTS NAPOT.FOS is
evidently not contented with seeing these goof re-
sults arrive of themselves. He would gladly have
had more hand in them. He excuses himself fcr not
dying move, on the ground that " he was not is pos-
session of his full constitutional powers." We can-
not, however, but think it fortunate that since De-
cember, government has been so weak, and the eons- i
try so strong—politicians so immolate, whilst the polo-
lie pursued its own onward line, the commu-
nity setting itself so act'vely to repair the
ruin caused by the ravager and the soldier.
Government, with its public criers and its public 'I
writers', have indeed been exclaiming " Ord. r,
order," with great energy ; but the great mass of the
people have been keeping and ensuring this same
order more effectually, by the tranquil pursuit of
indu.try. The simple feet of the imports of the raw
materials of manufacture having reached once more
in 1849 the reenter amount of 1847, says far
more for the return of security and peace, than
the 451,000 -men and the 17,000 guns which
the President beasts of having, in addit on
to four millioom of national guard.. And
indeed, as all we know of thee 451,000 wielders
of bayonets, who live at the expense of the state le,
that they vote at the elections for socialist candidates,
and fraternise with the Roman mlaublicane whom
they were sent to reduce, we should be inclined to
bssr the public security more on the artisans who me
working up these mill'ons of raw material, than on
the soldiers, whom government represents as never-
rare to watch them.
But if the let ohm, system has proved itself so
eminently the best in domestic administration, it is
in f reign vilifies that its wisdom shine+ eminent by
the side of the follies and failures of intervention.
H rel the Sicilians been from the first left to themselves,
had they been plainly and truly told, that in the
event of a struggle, they would &Agin no real sip.
port from those amateur fleets and forces that
salutrd the independence of Sicily, the people of
that is'ard would have known how far to push
their resistance, and within what limit to rseeict
their demands. But when great powers counte-
nano., at one time, their rejection of a Bourbon and
selection of a CALIGNAN, and when next they
counsel a submis.ion which renders the King of
NAPLES master of their army, their admini tration,
their resources, and their constitution; then on these
powers, England and France, rest the odium and the
crirneof supporting a nation in the demand of ex's. me
liberties, and then stifling in the supprersion of their
every liberty and of their last hope of independence.
The fate of Sicily, is replete with eternal disgrace
both to Frerch and English, and fully destroys not
only all influnnce, but all respect formerly paid to
them in Southern I'aly.
Bat whatever good intentions may have been
pleadei for interference in Sicily, the French cannot
be allowed even the excuse of them in their Roman
exoedition. The account which the presidential
document gives cf this unwarrantable act is the
most lame, the most false, and the most hypo-
critical that can be imagined. It is indned as
false and as unintelligible as a despatch of
M. LESSEPS. It begins with the outrageous untruth
of attributing Pope Pius's flight to a conspiracy of
the Roman people! When that flight is perfectly
well known to have been the result of a diplomatic
conspiracy, of which the French ambassador was the
spring, and the Bavarian envoy the instrument. The
Romans, at first enthusiastic for Ptus IX., grew
cold towards him because he sought to prevent C n-
tral Italy from aiding in the liberation of their brethren
of the north. The Pope further increased eir
discontent, by leaving unexecu'ed every one of his
own constitutional decrees, and by maintaining the
ecclesiastical fonctionaries in their old monopoly of
dewer and of abase. No people had more lessen, of
iscmtent with the government than the Roman..
—a discontent not confined to the rabhle, but shared

" Mr. OILMAN said, as to dividing, he would do what
the house Med.
Ayes
Note
" Mr. BERNAL.—" It shah set bee "tufa" Load laugh-
ter, 5,..1 cr.es of " (Whey, gallery.")
A long prow (u lowed.
Mr STAFFORD thought it unforturete that this cos-
=Wee us Iri.h pier laws should !aegis at midnight, whets
it could nut tome at awaits till Monaay week, owing to the
twang, meat of the poor. matent.
At this moment strangers worn, d. and lie O'Coruxu.
having culled vttentien to the fact, the reporters withOrew.
Mr. STAFFORD resumed—The noble lord said himself
that the evening hal not Men by any means lost, as they
had h.. 0 • good debate. Ile (Mr. Stafford) had pursed to
take the objectim to the saaalainin on the words ' it shall
be lawful" If bitten, then they meant to fliht on the
words " 5.." in 1 ith line, and divide on a subsequent m-
use. It must b a subject of great importance to English-
men to know whence snooty was to come, whin the
maximum was attained. The noble lord said Mr. Martin
had tried this as his 'date, promising to pay his tenants
when the inazinum was reached. Toe Premier was here
Mr. Mame, and the consolidated fund was hi. estate. 8,
that, when the m mimosa was attained, the eamilidated
fund was: be attached. What s'imulus was there to em-
plettamt under this plan ? Toe assumption would be, that
the ea isimum rate would always be reached. Su tt at.
as the occupier w u the only person who could
give inapt eyment, no stimulus would be at aided. The
farmer would deal with hie landlord on this amumption.
We I are had experMece of this in England. Acts in
England (35A Oro. 111., c. 10) formed a precedent. He
quoted the 'reelable. (Cries of " GaVery, gallery.") A
masia.ma was established in this English act. But then
those gentlemen who hope there is any penman, nee in such
an arrangement would be disappointed. Another act is
passed to double the arrangement. Then game 52 George
111., which ab dished the plan altogether. Agrteultural
prices in Ireland would Mil, and the analogy with England
was thus stronger. Tbe noble lord mid the maxim am was
an inducement to levee. Ho asked Low a espit dist, look.
to English legislation 'on Dicta Poor Law affair., could
think it safe to Divest 1001 in Irish property, unless their
legislalon contained the germs of a better system ?
Do you think that a capitalist who had seen such vicissi-
tude., such fresh burdens on landed property, would trust
that no further change would be proposed ? What would
proven• our doubling the maximum? When the maximum
is attained, wile re would more mosey come from ? You
Cannot diminish pauperism. With Irish mecums. undo-
velope ', )0u cannot say to the tide of Irish pauperism,
That tar shall you eo and no further." The bill had no
searaatee that the maximum would not be exceeded. It
would not tell well for English representatives to let it be
understeol that the remainder should come from English
resources. Every statement showed that poverty was ia-
creasie et. The expenditure exceeded by far ss. in the pound
in the disesteemed districts. Ilsw were they to wooed ?
There ...gut to be more openness and plain statement in
the b 11 It would be recall-eted that the law of settlement
depended on the statement of the pauper and the allocation
of the guardians. The result of the maximum rate wou'd
be to te•upt great injustice to electoral divisioas. One elec-
toral divieicm would be overburdened, and others compara-
tively escape. The question is, would you -r not make this
law a stimulant to employment ? If farmers cool► thus shuffle
of the r burdens on others, how would the end, employ-
mese. M ,twined? The noble lord had refused to rate whence
the overptas of pauperism was to he relieved. There would
be so security to the owners of pr minty. The plan would
mulct the industrious for the sake of the indolent and
Weeee'ul He ronfessed he could not co cries how parka.
mat—believing in the deity of the rich towards the poor—
Meld owe the bill. Yet it would past. The house had re-
gistered • he will of the noble lord through tit. Thus be
eduermtiv warn. d the noble lard that the bill contained •
diagerons and fatal principle.
Mr. V. NIIIITH had asked oa thesecond reading what
Muhl the the mad whoa the maximum was attained? The
aside herd said it Best came on the pariah, then on the sbah
but altryganis then was a blank. TM country woo b
le se ie was before the poet law. Is ether weak Mb
}salty ...Wit have to come on English property.
LAO J RUSSELL said, these who had erred the gee&
Sea had pricetded ea the assumption that there was Mk
sail Ir m re-y on the cons licfre I fund. AlMnaga the
Western unless were liable fir the whole 40e. in the pound.
Marred, y. t as the rate wee not collected, what good ON
Ugh a t Did it not cause • panic, and pemenat isle
Pomp. rat ? The knave, when told that the rate would
only a• USA in 75., would al elate accordingly.
10"1 2. RUSSELL next said he could not conceive thd
the farmer would amass th t the rates would run up to 65.,
and even aid in making them run up, in Gan to Fri
Ile out of others. This weld be an absurdity. Sep
r, fir en insole, the rates were naturally only U. of
Le woo'd have the ordinary Interest in hostiles dews
the rat... The boa. gentleman Owl ask. d when they were
Mete kw money after the maximum was obtained ? Few
ef
the dirldons would reach the sans. Tiers would not be
110 el et, r.I dui ions sa which the rate would be exceeded.
Thing. could not be left in their present condition. Reale
would f. 1; the poor mold not be mitered at all. If bad, the
maximont rate was better than doleg nothing. He should
object oi Ldvasee out of V a emmolidas d feed if the is was
▪ d Ire lend's coalition wnuld then be only the same
la Srot!ard'a, Till or late, 1837, the poor law was only
volsoLary ; ss. in every electoral division, 2e. ea the sus,

by ;1171; enlightened and middle el .1.0. But the
French eovernment was uttenly ignorant of We,
and founded its policy upon a belief of the contrary.
Th's however, resulted from the French republic
maintaining at Rome a legitimist arab:savior,
a man attached to all the oil priestly and eeeerdota:
regimes : a man who could not bat betray and belie
the eourtry and the principle he represented. The
President of the French Repable lays down, llte Sir
ROBERT PEEL, the three lints nf conduct open to him.
He, however, omits altogether the only straight-
forward, just,honotnable, and eMple one, whi.'h was to
abstain from interveetint hi ms. lf, and to **nits. strong
d's ent, and to object to others interreni .g. Instead
of this, an expedition is sent to the coast of the Romsn
states. It lands, and makes a dash at Rome,
refusing to explain its views, or exchange even civi-
lities with the de facto gtvrroment of Rome. Of
coarse it toe is with resistant'. It is even worsted,
yet at the same time so paralyses the Hmina, that
the entire of the "Avalon.' are Riven op to Aus`ria
without a blow, the Frene'l invasion thus producing
that very corqnest of Central Italy by an alnolutist
power, which it pretends to have enme to pr.-
vent. Meaner and more mendacious documents
than the despatches of M. LESSEES we never
met with. More simple, yet more powerful, or more
just remonstrances, are not to be found in diplomacy

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 9, 1849.

than those of the Roman tiiumvirate. They are a-
mirably written and reasoned, and place the Roissin
g,vanment ac superior in intel (ct as in right and
tii principle to the misiirable and dimented agent r f
France. We regret to add that the President of the
French Republic holds a language far more akin to
the mean Machiavelism of M. Lessus than to the
plain, truthful, and honest language of the Roman
tnumv:rate.

With the exception of these great blots upon the
foreign policy of M. BARROT.B government, it is un
poes Me nut to applaud its pacific spirit, its temperate
tone, and modest opinions. The tone in which the
message speaks of all other governments, except of
the poor Roman republic, is dignified and concili-
atory. It avoids offence, and neither fawns nor flatters.
It amply acknowledges Russia's recognition, and
thir ka us for the "good wishes" which England has
(demi France. The sentence, however, contains a
covert reproof that England has nothing but " good
wishes" to offer.

If the influence of the TOCQUEVILLZ and DCFArlti
accession to the cabinet was shown in retrenching
and correcting all obnoxious phrases and retrograde
tendencies from the minis'erial document, especially
from its chapter on foreign affairs ; its very language
is evident in the resume or concluding summary, In
which whole sentences bespeak the pbilo-
poplin, pen of M. DE TocuurvittE. The
distinction between the extravagant pretensions
and theeriqi always put forward during the progress
of a revolution and the sane, true, and moderate aims
of that revolution, is forcibly drawn and nobly worded.
Some promises are given of institutions for popular
benefit, and, we regret to say, some threats of farther
pressive law. We do not perceive, however, that
this programme points to the first great necessity, the
reconciliation of classes, without which the present
system of military watch and ward cannot be put an
end to, and without which all efforts at improvement,
or reform, or economy inset prove completely idle.

THE COURT.

WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—Their Rnqal Highnesses the
Duke and Duelled of Cambrilge, them Royal Highnesses
the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Heckles-
bourp-Strelds, and his Royal Highness Prince George, took
leave of the Qum* and Priam Albert this morning, arid
proceeded to the Slough station of the Great Western Rill-
wey, to their return to town. Lady Augusta Cadogan mad
Bum Remise& were la waiting on the Duke and Duchess
of Cambridge.
His Royal Highness the Count of Syracuse took leave of
her Majesty and the Price* this for. noon. The Chevalier de
Colonise attended his royal highr cos.
The Duke of Willirgton, his Excellercy Prince Cuttlel.
eels, the Duchess of Strherland, the Duke of Norfolk, Um
Duke and Duchess of Buccleucb, the Marquis of Bread-
bane, the Marquis and Marchioness of Aberrant, the Earl
and Crunteis Fortegeue, the Earl of Bruborough, the Bill
and Countess Spencer, and Lord George Lennox, also left
the Castle %achy.
The R4al (linnet party this termini: will include her
11,•yse liign-ess the Duchess of /Ctn., tne Lady in Waiting
ea her Boibl Highness. and the Booms de Speth.

[Pod last night% Gazette.]
CROWN-OFFICE, JUNE 8, 1849.—MEMBESS RE-
TURNED TO SZI/V/I IN THIS PASSINT PARIJAILINT.—
County of Sutherland : Sir David Dundu, of Ochtemre, in
the county cf Perth, her Ils.jesty's Judge Advoeate General.
—County of Warwick ; Southern divition : Th 3 Hon.
Heneage Finch, commonly called Lord Guernsey, of Off-
church B try, in the county of Warwick, in the morn of
Evelyn John Shirley. Esq.. who has accepted the office of
steward of her Dlsjest)'s Chiltern Hundreds.

FINANCIAL AND
PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.

Timex are two kinds of political arithmetic,
and although they may not differ widely in their
rwtdes of calculation, in the rerdts thereof they
widely disagree. The one deals delicately with
semblance, and meters of conventional forms; the
other has generally more to, do with realities
and substantial matters of fact. Lord MARCUS
litt.t. proclaims from time to time the wonders of
the one, Mr. Hume is accustomed to expatiate on the
less obvious though much more important deductions
of the other. Seldom, if ever, do their army ts tally,
indeed, they must be confessed to be utterly irrecton-
cileable. A recent case will illustrate our meaning.
On Tuesday night a resolution was propeeed by
Mr. Hume in his place in rarliament, to the effcet
that the evicting stee of the reptesentation woe un-
satisf lett ry to the ye-iple of this country, and that
they wished to sea certain measures token to secure
i's safe and necessary n form. Of the debate thereon
arising we are not now about to ape .k. The division
whereby it was concluded is that with which we are
more immediately cone •rned. " The people of Eng-
land tt.ink as I have told you," quoth Mr. Hume;
"poll them to-m'now on the question, and
you'll see it is so." " Nay," rejoined L' rd
MARCUS, " they think quite otherwise, and I'll
p-ove it presently to the world ; for have
we not within St. Stephen's wale the algebraic sym-
bols that constitutionally stand fir long arrays of
numbers out of doors, and if you will only be content
to divide th, se parliament are X-Y-Zsinto our two lob-
h es, we shall quickly see which of us is the strouger."
Whereupon a wild shout of " I):vide, divide !" an-
nounced that the latter method t f computation wss
more acceptable to those c ,rned. The counting of
select hoses is a much quicker and quit ter operation
then counting the multitudinous bodes which the
noble and boo( urable proprietors of the afurt-
said nasal promontories are supposed to stand
for. How far this last supposition is cor-
rect may, indeed, be doubted ; nor will the
misgivings prevalent on th • subject be much
alla)ed by the strange discrepancy mada manlost
between the re-ults of the proceeding we are now
d-scribing. &Ace it to say, I o 4 that af.er the
house hod on the cceasinn in quest on been cleared
I and re-filled from opposite division doors, instead f a
majority :of the peep'," upper icor to have expressed
their approval thr.ugh their repreeentatives, of an
extended suffrage and more tqoalieed constituencies,
the p-epoederence was claimed by the opponents of
such reforms and the proportion assigned by patri-
cian arithmetic to the respective -pinions was that
which 268 bears to 82. _ .

MEETING AT HAMMERSMITH.

Last evening a preliminary meeting of the resi•
dents in Hanimenmitb was held in the Albion-hall, for the
Purpose of adopting means for the °frail ation of a district
asoeciation, to forward ths el+ eta ct ntemolated by the Me-
tropolitan Parliamentary and Financial Reform Institution.
The chair was filled by Dr. Simrsox ; and on the circular
by which the meeting had b-ea convened being read, a con-
versation ensued upon the title to be given to tt.• proposed
district assoziation. In the circular the designation adopted
was" The Western Branch of the Metropolitan Association;"
but Mr. Jerson (who attended from the parent kniety)
pointed out that, legally, they could not have " branch swis.
tier,"and that each must have a st parate title, indicative of its
locality —After a lengthened discuosun,
Mr. T. J. BERLE (the dramatist), moved the following
res Avalon That this meeting boils' convinced of the
necessity of affording every assistance and sup on to the
cause of parliamentary and financial reform, now forma itself
into a society to aid the efforts of the Metro; oli:sn Mod
, ation, under the title of the Ram.uersmith Parliamentary
and Finarcial Reform Society."
Mr. FLEICHER seconded the mition, upon which it was
suggested by Mr. C. Brown, that as several influential gen-
tlemen resident in the adjacent parishes of Fulham and
Chiswick, were deeirous of doing the prop tied society, it
wLuld be de•irable in compliment to those important dis-
tricts, to add their names to the designation of the new asso-
ciation.

Several gentlemen concurred in the segirestkm, bet on the
whole it wm. thought best to defer the addition of Fulheaa
and Chiswick until a g • I nubTc meting should be h 4 11.
The original resolution was then pur, and carried unani•
mously.
on the motion of Mr. MANSING, seconded by Mr. C.
Bkowe, a provisional committee was appointed to carry out
the foregoing resolution, and to arrange the preliminariis (or
&general public meeting.
Mr. Charles Brown having been elected treasurer, and
Mr. Fletcher honorary secretary pro tem., the enrolment of
members took place, and occuptod the rewinds of thr
fitting, which closed with a vote of thanks to the chshrinae.

Well may popular arithmetic laugh at such a
reckoning, and scout the notioe of assenting to its
fella-ions results. Whom do the s 268 represent ?
Whose sentinoints do they express? Or what clement
of just comparison is there between their averag re-
presentative signiflancy end that of the men oho are
sett by the great constituencies of the empire? None
whatever that we are aware of. Let any one read
the string of noble young hods and honourable old
gentle-ren who figure in the list of the soi-lbsont
mei oily, and add together the sum total of
their electors, and then for decency's sake let
each be granted (what many have not) five
hundred of those constitutional retainers, ironically
termed eupportere; and then let him try how many
of them it will take to outweigh in mere figures tie
misnamed ,ninority of 82? Why it was easy to
name a tenth of what Lord Motleys pleasantly c ills
Mr. Hume's minority—who sit for places whose ins
hnbitonts far ontnnmber there who dwell in the
various pocket boroughs represented by the oppo-
nents of to-form—sweeping thus away at once the
semblance of a predominance even in figures. The
aggregate population of London and Lancashire alone
where representatives voted for the proposition of
Mr. HUME, do not fall short of it. The sentiments of
ailing every great town, who ther in the north
or in the s uth, whether manufacturing or commer-
cial, are well known. Glasgow shares the feeling of
Birmingham, and Wolverhampton thinks and votes
with Newcastle. Of what real weight in the menial
against these ought scores of such places as Horsham
and Wycombe, and Leominster and Evesham to be ?
The analysis of the Oivision in quieition suogeots,
however, many important considerations. In the
first place it is not a little remarkable in how many-
instances the faithful expression of popular feeling is
neutrons d, as far as the House of Commons is con-
cerned, by the vote of the second representative ef the
place on the opposite side. In this respect Bristol and
Hull; Middlesex and the West Riding ere virtually
struck oat of the national council ; while Bradford and
Bolton, Cambridge and Oxford, with many more,
share a similar fate.
A still more curious feature is the absence of many
whose presence bad been naturally anticipated. We
do not allude to those who, like Mr. ROEBUCK and
Mr. DUNCOMBE, were unavoidably precluded from
voting on the present occasion in oonformity with
their own views; but we should like to know why so
many of those who own their seats confessedly to the
will of the people happened to be absent when a mat-
ter so deeply affecting their int-rests was at stake ?
Of the two members for Edinburgh but one voted,
and that was against popular rights. Of the two
members for Glasgow, one only recorded the wishes
of his constituents. Of the two members for Leeds,
neither were present ; and of the two repnaentativas
for Brighton, for Northampton, and for Newcastle, but
ono in each took part. What singular concurrence
of unpropitious accidents kept all these geAlemen
away ?
But the most instructive inference to be drawn from
the division list of Tuesday night is that which its
homer! iety. suggeots. With two or three exceptions,
not a name is to be found in the otinority connected
with the sristocracy. Of opulence, intelligence,
West!, and the h'ghost station which commoners can
attain there was indeed no lack ; bat of the monopo-
lists of hereditary privileges of the nobles by law, as
contradistinguished from the ennobled by personal
worth, genie*, or attainments—with the few ex-
ceptions already n.ticed—there was not to be
found so much as a bitter younger brother.
What need have we of further proof how ut-
terly untrustworthy are lordlings and fine gentlemen
whose liberality is got up for the hostirgs, and is
only heard of amid the din of a general election ?
Let the people rem.mber these things and avoid the
suicidal blunders into which they !lava too often
&lieu in seeking the patronage of a needy .aristocrat
instead of the service of one of their own order.
Until they learn more thoroughly to rely upon the
stuff whereof they themselves are made, and to re-
pudiate the Ira:eh:foul oondetconsion of these who,
in their hearts, grudge them every right which they
have won, the people of this country will never
enter into the full po session of that they are entitled
to, and we must frankly own, will not have proved
that they are worthy of it.