The Express.
London, England, 1866-03-13 00:00:00

belreging to the classes. There w
doubt, sow dispute nworths the soundness oft be
of the working , !mss)—sent I are beggi7,4l
that war &finite, ,is • Imp daglaitios. ells"
grow ter. otphleal I hellue, lower*, it • um'
&Oki iioa that can be fated. (Her, hear.) " k,""4„.,
believe the teem admits d mourata d • •
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is thopkeeping, tistough their wives r
they ought Dot really to stied as working N
, kind, bat I only tbisk it right to mess (001.-iiis Iht
derstandieg of the case. Bat suppose we were
20 per out on that 'decant, the result u those
E Ole figures would be that at least 21 per cent, or a 1
1142
lig Pit eat., el the present coonitnenci may bi-
deed as belonging to the WWI* 04s. ji1...."1116,
far I will freely ova that is • lags
than I had expected to find. (Opposition eil4; Ictre
amastatine, glad el it. and Cody wish jildr.„l
larger still. (Cheers.) But, sir, I must ein epogrt.
infuses of the working claws in the present colM
equlQ
oies, that is the first plus it is exuseiodii
have gem roughly Wier the 200 berughs, leen ;
have gathered together about 60 boroughs in di
proportion of thy working classes possessed of the f
taken apse the whole of those 00 was net less fn
third. I gathered 30 other
.boreudbg, prob.* b‘le
of greater Importance, and in those 30 boroagiis fires
the proportioa of the workinig aliases was ot
n siere fig,
000.tegith—thesr, bear)—and this divtrantOre
working claws is not ooh unequal. bet Iling„114
say myself, u rather of a northerner, the T.
is least where it ought to be largess-1
the toms of the north. (Hear, heir.) I oz -"ma_
you six towns as examples. In Oldham, let ".
eoestitueecy of 2,266, the working clams are MI, eels:
eight. In nasuaz, with • 'unease, cf 4771, the pi,
log claws are 171. or one in DM. In Steelman,
°pediment, of 1,348, the working classes are 124, er lug
neves. In Bradford, with • eonstitneacy of km a:
working claws are 438, or ors in teem In egg4Z
• coutitnency of 7,217, the working classes are 523,
in fourteen ; end, het of all, there is atom which denscg
special mention, not only on account of the delis/aka
man by whom it was hat twelensenthe ago represinieN
for other reasons—l mesa the town of Rethink new
probably has done more than any other teen la issied
good to practical ruled" a cam for some enfranchassest
the working classes--(hear, hear)—because it h a beds
where that most remarkable system, sad at the
sight I do not hesitate to say that most vitical and paha
system obtained of ousting the retail Seder and the
Ins sign takieg into its own bands the basins ef
supply, and where, through the extraordiery
and self-acting power of these men, that systemT
eueesidully assumed, and become the greatest ec d
comfort and profit to themselves. (Hear, hear.) eleth
the we? Rochdale, with • constituency of 1,366, Am.
eviranoltisement of the working classes of 66, w obi
twenty. (Hear.) If, then, the proportion of the
claws to the whole oesstituencies has been MN,
tory than we could have supposed, on the other
must say its distribution is unsatisfactory. (lien, esti
The ease et Rochdale is peculiar. It so Impels the,
district which naturally would belong to the berosiu
incladed in it and that illustrate, the necessity of •
tog some aonsideration of the present state of
any complete view of the representative system.
sir, we era very much pleased and in very geed hens
with ourenves beak••• we god we have er 26 mist
of the sockets classes included in the borough sag
tuencies. But how was it in 1832? I have oedemas(
to make the best estimate in my power, because thk • very Interesting and important question, and I spereb:
there cannot be the smallest doubt of these prountim
That of all, that the enfranchisement of the worldigein;
as it stood is 1832 was not an excessive enfruchaz
and secondly, that the advance of the working dames
1832 in everything that can entitle men to sone e
the government of their country has bees a seat me*
deniable advance. (Cheers.) It is not denied on my*
whether we take education in school,, whether
embed, obedience to the laws, whether we take
send and a power of endurance shown eider &Mesh
=4l63—thou. heart—whether we take avidity far
1k: and salf4mpeovernsed—applying . say d
them testa there can be so doubt at id
that if the working man was is some degree fit to al
political privileges in 1832, he has at any rate
some additional Strum now. (Hear, bear.) In 1632
were 83,000 tresses ; I take the proporthe Mika
helmet* to the working slaws at bt per ant., or Ii
freemen. There IMO then the scot and lot roes and.
pot walloping voters. Ibave only taken 60 per seat des
voters as belonging to the working elasses—end eh,
minim that is a very moderate estimate—Nu bat.
that gives us 27,000 under this bead in 1832. I WSW
to the 101. oceatiers in 1832 ; and as the 101. cosidesee
present, according to the Agar's we are now meg, heel
per cent, so using the same definition for the mewed
completive,lmams them in IEI2 to have been Daly e
per cant., that le to say, 26,001 Adding those Apra toga
ther I come to this result ; the total oonetitseens la US
were 282,000, and the properties belonging to the went*
classes, 87,000 ; that is to say, in 1832, they wee 31 fe
cent. of the whole, and they are now 28 pa amt. Peel
It is not satbdactory, on all paints, to deal wltheihquedia
as a matter of pure skeet°, • hut still, if eatiele mei
anything, I think these figure; prove, that the piestain
of the working classes which ought to have bets a;
011•414, and growing Properties, has been a &Mil •
Pul.. and consequently that the time ha a
when we sbo eld do sometime* to Meresee the prorate'.
(Hear, bear.) Now, may I address sus word to swami
opposite? Thus is no wile there is so atntagem whichou
lay bidden under it. It is the simplest thiu. n
the weld. Let them take the distribution of- its
workingolass voters in diffaent pert' ef pis
constituencies, and they will desire Weis
uneolatioa from it. Let them obseve the dee ei gbh
working-class element upon the coadition of ph*
parties, because it is not deeded that there is on the ocin
site side a not nensinral, but still a very oinaldersth
sppreheesion of the effect of a wide enfreocheereent, are d
any sow enfranchisement of the working elutes to /WU
of • diminution of those parliamentary Slum
which most naturally and Justly those Intkeel
regard as essential to the well-being of We date.
New, I will take • ease celebrated on one ride and DWI=
on the other. How stands the proportion of the wag
dews in the metropolitan boroughs es compared Sethi
ran of the country ? England, without bcr meroplea
boroughs, has, ia her town constituency, 21 per cost at
wg alums ; England, in her metropolitan
ea i
ham only 23 per oink of the working chaos ;
apprehend it is undoubted that if there be one sectisteithe
members of this home who steadily, osesediy, ed
uniformly represent liberalism in this house. and s Me'
what advanced liberalism, and I am glad to say Menielea
philosophic liberalism—(" her, hear," soda leuth)-E
who have been sent up to this house by
li en boroughs. Thu, from coestitueeoin with the=Wee
proportion of the working dames have been at 11P
member.* the least conservative in the petty ese
of that term. That hmy small proportion of omeohtits
to boo. gentlemen opposite. The government in apptesk
tag the oonsideratioa of this question patently sakes
bth of 1880 sa their starting point I may be Mad winker
we adopt the bill of 1860 simpliciter. Let me sow ant
"Amnion of the house to what happened is the dismiss
in 1860, and though we then spent ten nights in dohs est
to nothing, and though a good deal that wee indent MI
said in comparing our owe institutions with those dies
coonnattribtr,bwyet
of some effective
we had gone into cleaectimir.eveuldierili°no not
ta
thick
oimilesdl.l4
we could have held to it exactly aa It was,
ay
because, in oar view, it would have admitted too etrij
persons to the immobile. What was the view we Wain
of it? My noble freed at the head of the rework in
introducing the bill on March Ist computed that the
of it would be to enfranchise 194.006 in borough:g
that was, in oar belief, the outside estimate. Bier O. Lea_
rives whom no man could be • more acute or knew
ledge, said, speaking from lake Wonsan" that AO"
ranthiesment under the bill would be 160.000 in boron '
and my hem friend t ber for Birraileibis
took the estimate at from 160,000 to 170 000, or sad?
the same 'mount Ido not think that sox ose
who considers oar boroogolaresentatioe oright.
be rhopsned and Min would OW 1616
that was an unreasonable or very large enfranchisseelt
Bat it was an enfranchisement badly distributed and iota'
116.1thAlnetr*P°lisf. featly
y=bha dw
was
measured jested
causerieill 15.
bWhillyt;:ft ha:l:Lail:lealt,
u minds limsdnbt
iked:ailm b:
eYr
fdint 14:
one-third of the whole town population of the coral*
and undoubtedly I think it was against us that the spat
ties of that bill would have been highly unequal as being
the metropolis and the towns of the provincx
numbers would have been eafraorshised to gamy
towns, and at the tame time what would have hem tio
result on the metropolis' In London, under the peel
law, these are numbers of persons who ore not
frees the frenehise, though the law entitles them to hos
it. I mean pante:duly the clamed ooropoued househoklen
aaiblAmlyb:allini:eal:erePnacia
iAllucheitalpeotimhfiesecasalllithnTl7htionresosecai6o774B'otut"-rar.:7:
I was comparatively unimportant ; such was the raluntioge
, I ground and such the scale of rents in Loam.
the bill of 1860 was almost no bill at all, end yet mr Dm'
friend proposed his bill on • double bads. It is qUill
void that ft was a bill for establishing
ki raistagba,::::+iss'eozroadanzdelwisoa,"4.ooolsojamee.pelir;h:ildemllhofencirrypnlns.tbitrtellacemirthaecehmlaillittirethe:;ll63l7igii:
relation to the Lades eonstiteescies, and the mul"_,,,"
persons likely to be admitted to the handers fo the er-,
boroughs alder the 64 franchise be esnlamin
, at about 400,000 • but • committee of the Huss of 3
who wasidend tl equsetion, adopted, by a large r°'
the statement that a& franchise would bays eufran
°sly about 300,000. Bet we did not admit these
a e!«•'
make ; we held to our own number, d._
placed the number of the working ell". „.,feda,
admitted to the friathise at from 160.000 to ""^.
If the bill had proceeded to esemeittes the tee propotill!
, Gould not bare stood together. Either the me bah it r_
• other most have been given up. Parliament would se"
hate onasatod to bare bought down the traosbiaa to et,