The Express.
London, England, 1865-05-04 00:00:00

11!"'

•

lIIIROUSERS.—Tho NEW GOODS me now
J. roily. awl OaSham who No wa Wad IKON ••his
gabs for s soot fair ad Trossies osa &read on the boa
mamba M
HAMILTON owl lIMITOra,
106. Stread. omits Inter Hal.

TM;

Two thoughtful pianoforte mdiprelllll we the Na-
way of thinking. The secretary of the Minersl'
Association recommends a " provident" franchise
rather than an "indiscriminate lowering of the
" hoe." So Lord Er.cno is persuaded that the work-
man take little or no interest in the question ; and
he convicts all parties in the House of making fools
of one another sad of the public out of doors, by
saying one thing in front of the SPZLILZH'S chair,
and another thing behind it and in the lobby. Lord
Ercilo divides the Liberals roughly into the ad-
vanced and the orthodox ; he belongs to neither,
but he vita, among the advanced, and from
that commanding position' has the courage and the
honesty to denounce the " want of pluck " in the
Government, and in members who "pretend to
" vote for a measure which they cv,iiire in their
" haute." Lord ELCHO probably never displayed
greater valour than on this occasion ; his straight-
forwardness deserved all the compliments it re-
ceived.
But the honours of the sitting were reserved for
the member for that model little borough of Caine.
Mr. Latinism indeed spoke capitally, with even
more than his usual force and point, and proved
himself at least as honest as Lord gizmo in de-
nouncing false professions and broken pledges,
whether of members or of ministers, and yet not
shamed of being true tohis party and his principles;
an "orthodox," and, if you will, an "advanced
"liberal." Bat the honours of the afternoon were
reserved for the representative of that model little
borough of the good old days—Caine. Mr. Lows
has not been to Australia and back for nothing ;
hls liberalism is of a ripe and mellow flavour,
and, like those high-priced Bordeaux wines
which have performed the voyage to India, and
are labelled retour de l' leek, it should be cha-
racterised as Liberalism Moor ds l'Aostralie. It
is true he was member for Sydney, and sat in
council before the deluge of Democracy had swept
over the colony ; but, like Lord ELCHO, he has
his correspondents no doubt over there, and be
learns that since the electors in Victoria have had
to pay a shilling for the registration of a
vote, half the population has retired from
the franchise. Mr. Low; though he speaks as if
he were addressing a pupil room, fairly captivates
the House, and especially the old Whip and young
Tories, by his brief and biting sentences. He is
so sure of his meaning, so dogmatic, and so obvi-
ously disinterested as he site there behind the Trea-
sury bench, that his utterances are positively sibyl-
line. He adjures the House spin and again
to beware of "democracy," and not to surrender
the British constitution to a futile and superstitious
belief in destinies, which are not destinies at all
on this aids of the Atlantic. Having onoe repre-
sented a borough containing 487 registered
electors in a population of seventeen thousand,
and having found that borough too hot to
hold a representative of pure intellect,
and having retired to the dignified and philosophic
retreat of Caine, with its 174 registered electors
in a population of five thousand, Mr. Lows is evi-
dently at ease, and at liberty to abandon the prin-
ciples and professions which encumber the members
for larger constituencies. The whole House is
proud, and ought to be proud, of a member
who can afford to be so eloquent and outspoken ;
but, democracy apart, it may be doubted whether
this country is yet prepared to set up as its ideal
of government a legislature composed of represen-
tatives of noble Marquises, or a government of
landarins.

TORN BM/I:MINS GOLD CHAINS by troy
av vow. et realiesbi• voles, and the worimeinelig
wham& Iffilashiatarea prime. The in the (halm pa.
witted, and reparchased at the price
"Ir'reWite note,
How mach par chain weighs to the utmost carat
The Omni= otthe gold, and chine tor Whim.'
itnicesgtha
lieststactoey, No.ll, Henrieltsghwit, °mut-garden, W.Q.
Inedon.
hasp made of chains and Jewellery for Is. each.
MIL Tals ellehlisttrasna is dosed al le the evening•
end on
Batsman at I dela*.

11)PISIZMBER I you will see your Mends at
WAIN shoe We Opera. W. obeli sup Qom

rRAL HALL, ova A 10. Sup at ZVANS'
afterwards. Do Doe taws.

Efte evortoo.

Itlvidliesosaats
be tor 'The Uprose" London limbs.
mod be at Um Mae, 30, Samarleaks* 14 Two
=I ma
c le she dAt ad pullesties.

TIDS EVINDIS, liY W/lid MOTHIL —ran WOW IN
KANN Kiwis. Wham ISsoksions,asd Compton • lisideses
% NONA sad Loyal/ —LORD DUNDIXARY 11AltigD AND
DON VOL Kr. &aim—AM WV SHAVING. Imlay.

umen.
NA
on AND PIDDLESTILIKOII.
—LAGTip
AR NA won. Mama. D. loakan, Droanbasa,
R. VendanholL D. Thaw, D. Mum, Wien, Qatar Gra D.
Gooalmet and KW IL of,,.—And AN Milli APOLOGY.

LYCSHAL
ib tezernag A DAY Ann TEI WIDDING. Num.
and Mlntree : the. Herresa and Mrs. G. lars.—THl
YIicriaSTIBANK. Mr. lecbter sod Hader
LOST WWI-
- ; Kles Ler:tem. MDIA Dealriee—And CHILD.

BRITANNIA.
Tim Winne.. TES VOLCANO OF ITALY; OR. TEI
YUNTIV C 8 FLAIL. Nis. B. Issa.—The Tamplotra Mlestrali.
—DMO-LRAB. Was SA Cam. —AM ANARICAN BLAVARY.
..01notaio• biallvast S.

HIGH MITE AT LOZtDON-BRIDOL
TM DAT Korea& th. ISSAA.....AflArsoaa. NA TM.
Togovaew Memlag, IC4o. ags.....Aniesoce.lo6. I.

LONDON, THURSDAY. MAY 4.

Srwcz the year when the daylight sittings of the
Horne of Commons were made memorable by the
leadership of the late Sir Grown Lxwm, Wednes-
day has become the most important day in the
parliamentary week. It is not only that on Wed-
nesday the moat important questions are dis-
cussed, but that they are discussed with uncommon
candour and severity by some of the ablest speak-
ers in the House. This seems to contradict the
notion that decisive parliamentary battles should
be fought between the dinner-hour and bed-One,
and that the parliamentary atmosphere is insuffi-
ciently charged with the electricity indispensable
to the shocks of party conflict while the sun is high
in the heavens. Sunlight, it is evident, is propitious
to frankness, to simplicity, to honesty, to rashness, to
brilliant indiecretimut, andto splendid avowals. That
the working hours of day should be more favourable
to a close, calm, searching, and precise order of
eloquence than the small hours of the night is hardly
surprising. Yesterday, for instance, will be long
remembered when all but the Budget nights of the
present Parliament have passed into oblivion. It
was the second reading of Mr. Binres' Borough
Extension Bill—not, as it should seem, • day of
very lively promise. Yet, our readers will perceive,
it will certainly occupy the most brilliant and in-
structive pages in the latest volume of 11•Nexan.
The mild tenacity and gentle perseverance of the
member for Leeds obtained a rare and unexpected
success, which even the modest patience, the frugal
rhetoric, the careful and oonciliatory moderation of
the speaker might not have achieved under other
circumstances. The result of yesterday's debate, for
which all true Liberals, and indeed all who are con-
cerned in upholding the character of the House of
Commons, have to thank Mr. BAIN'S, is nothing
less than this. He gave Liberals and Conserve-
lived', of all aorta and conditions, an opportunity of
throwing off the masks and disguises they had
worn uneasily too long ; he gave the House on the
brink of dissolution an opportunity of liberating
its soul and purging its conscience. The value of
such • moral victory as this to the constituencies
is not to be affected by the result of a division.
1t Mr. Baum recapitulated his " voluminous stn-
" tistica," proving to satiety the exclusion o: the
great body of the British people from the pale of
the British constitution. He appealed to the
quiet and loyal behaviour of the unrepresented in
times of trial and distress ; he quoted the latest
parliamentary return showing that in proportion to
the growth of the population of these islands
during the last thirty years the representation of
the people had actually fallen off ; he replied in
advance to the objection against proposing • mea-
sure of electoral reform on the eve of a dissolution
by the precedents of 1832, and by the prudent
suggestion, that to pass a Reform Bill before an
inevitable dissolution might save at least a second
and not inevitable general election. He touched
firmly, but tenderly, upon the pledges of Minis-
ters, and he asked the House, in the exercise of a
wise and timely discretion, to throw a new
bulwark of educated and enlightened numbers
" round the institution of the country." Nothing,
in short, could well be lam menacing or exciting
than this earnest appeal from a Reformer who
declared " that his Bill would not rob a single in-
" dividual in the whole empire of any privilege be
"now possessed." Mr. Rutz', who should know
something of the feelings of the working classes,
seconded the motion in their behalf, and asked
the House to be just and wise in time towards a
people that deserved its confidence. But the value
of yesterday's debate is not to be sought in the
excellent apcechesof Mr. B•zwee and Mr. BAZLEY.
MS to Lord Ewa° and to Mr. Lowe that the
House and the country owe their acknowledg-
ments. Whatever may be thought of the quality
of Lord ELCHO'S reasonings, or of jokes
which are apt to fall a little fiat
in reading, we must all do justice to his
good temper and sincerity. As a Colonel of volun-
teers, who has seen ranch service at Wimbledon
and Brighton, he has, of course, a strong dash of
military humour in his style. Lord Etcno, it
seems, has had a large and intimate acquaintance
with countrymen since the Volunteer movement,
in which ho has taken so distinguished • part,
began. Some two-thirds of the volunteers, he
says, are working-men of one sort or another ; but
the conspicuous fitness of these men to have arms
in their hands and to be the defenders of their
country and its institutions, has only the more con-
vinced him not only of their apathy about the
franchise, but of their unfitness for it. Besides,
the interests of the working amen tee better
cared for in Parliament than those of any other
class in the kingdom. Only • few agitators want
a Reform Bill; the working men themselves want
none, or at least nothing short of universal suffrage.
Lord Er.cao is in constant correspondence with
a painter and glazier, who was once a volunteer in I
his corps, and has now emigrated to America.
This man has lost his faith in an extended suffrage
since he crossed the ocean, and be now recom-
mends a " long and careful inquiry into the ineel-
" lectual and moral condition of the masses " at
home before an extension of the suffrage is granted.

rli
i\'‘,ll 3( ill ilial*lll.llll4\ , . ... c '
. if S.
‘, et
~
.• • , 4..., 0r,,,, „--,-•_._ 'MA
MO IL; .
neli- •
. •
sAlif EAritiNG,
. . .
~.. •
___., _ 9 - _

all the Wary elf COO& a year was " mma-
d ie. • Tow b s certain trot." After dre—
w miens leannions which have come to light, the com-
mittee observe :—" It Uwe appears that at the time of the
appobtmen of Kr. Edmunds to the °See of Clark of the
Patina it was ogres& between him and Mr. Junes
that Mk • year cat d the salary should be applißer/trer
for the benefit of the family of John Bingham or should
be aveilable tons& the liquidation d Widens of James
Bsoegbais. An It aloe wend that is the year 1863,
whoa It was proposed that rear Bdmaais should TWO hie
oSoes of Clerk ci the Mean and Clerk so the Coon*
sinus of Patesta, there was ea nadentanding between him
and Mr. William Broughams that if Ur. William
Brougham's son should be appointed to succeed to the
°Moss a similar deduction should be made from his emolu-
ments, to be applkid in the same manner as the 3001. a
year which had been nee charged apes Mr. Edmunds's
salary for • puled ci 30 years. Bo far as the publio is
oonoerned, what was the anusl agreseseat as to the appli-
cation ci this 3001. a year Is :hilly immaterisi. Any pr-
vats aniagement that • portion of the salary of a public
officer whin is the reenneeradon for his Nevis= shall be
applied to the heat& of any other pane is a grave canoe
spinet public morality, and deserves the severest °oedema-
nation. AU the witness. concur in noting that then
trunnion took plus without the slightest knowledge
of them on the tof Lord Brougham That he was
no atrty to the ermagemepar nt for the avpropriation of any
part of the Wary of the Clerk of the Mein in as y other
manger than for the sole beoeilt of Mr. Udmurt& That be
was kept in entire iguanas of all the oirmundences
seated with the psymeat of interest upon V
she
of 1811, and the Under the
of that mortgage to trusteertt
t▪
he of Mr. Edmunds, aid that ha had so nuns of arriving
at the facts, as be bad resigned the eons niangereent of
his affairs first to his brother, June Brougham, and after-
wards to Mr. Wm. Brougham, the latter of whom has ex-
pressly sworn that he never communicated any Information
to Lord Brougham upon the subject. Mr. Edmunds, who
lived upon she most confidential terms with Lord Brougham,
end wee for a longmums of years an inmate in his
been, also states positively that Lord Brougham knew
nothing el the arrangements respecting his off m nor of the
application of any portion of his salary otherwise than for
his own benefit ; sod Lord Bingham himself, in se affida-
vit, which the committee oonuoted to receive, upon being
satisfied that his lordship was unable to attend, swears is
then words—' In 1833 I appoiated Mr. Edmunds clerk of
the patents, the salary being 4001. • year. I made the sp-
poieMeet freely cad without any coodition, or etipolatkek
or uedersteading whatever. I derived or received or ex-
pected to receive no benefit or advantage whatsoever from
the rippointmeet. If it stated or saggested that lor any
ember of my family received or derived any
herein or nuance from the appoielsont, such stet*.
meat or reunion is, as I firmly believe, utterly
false, u with respect to myself I know it to be.
I read In the Timm of the 10th Minh that a yearly
payment of 3001. had been made by Mn. Dimon& for
directly on a mmigav and otherwise, by which I no
directly or isdireetly benefited. I utterly deny all neer-
ledge of say such ter
ledge and of any and every part
thereof: The eornmittee, In conehnon, tenet that am
may, without depattisg from their proper functions, be
permitted to express their 'gratification that the result ci
their inquby should thus have been to remove the pas-
sibility of any suspicdoe attaching to the character of so
distinguished a member of your lordships' house."

PORTUGAL

LATINT EiTrELLIGENOrm

♦ Lisbon oorreepoodeot of the Nord writes that
in the whole kingdom of Portugal, the Encyclical of
Dec. 8 was published only by a single cnrs3, and
that he received a severe reprimand from his bishop.
It is true that the Portuguese government had re-
fused its exequatur to the bull ; but such unanimous
submission to the law as the part of the clergy, in
a country completely catholic and profoundly reli-
gious, is a very curious fact. Another incident of
the same nature may be mentioned ; a royal decree
has just abrogated a prior ordinance, which rigor-
ously interdicted working on Sundays. No bishop
has as yet protested against that decree ; but much
clamour has been raised by the ultramontanes.

(szona's Tscsawo.)
HEALTH OF THE KING OF THE BELGIANS.
BRUSSELS. MAT 4.

The King has passed a more restless night than
the previous ones. The general state of his
Majesty's health has, however, undergone no

THE NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN THE POPE
AND KING VICTOR EMMANUEL.
TWIN, MAT 4.

The Opinion of to-day publishes ; Oorreapondemee
from Rome asserting that there is little probability
of the negotiations now pending between the Pope
and the King of Italy leading to a sueoessful result
on amount of the opposition raised by the ultra-
montane party.