The Express.
London, England, 1859-03-14 00:00:00

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Ts§ Ise is brusitisg sp, sad is all directions As
oolidissitbag strewth of Resistance to sincere Rohm
is obviously givisg way. Amoog the Conservatives-

proper thereare herd signiflciot inntterinp that
when they were about it Minieter, had better bays
gone farther and averted the unpopularity ears be
attach to all a ho undertake at the basting, to defend
their meant Bill. A painfal conviction has during
the last ten days come over the minds of the Ten Score
and Ten who, 03 the Ist instant, swore to defend Lord
DULAT'S project against all comers, that the project
is as a whole indefensible. Had they attended to
what was told them on the morning of that day to
the column& of this journal, they would not have
oomesitted themselves se a party to the errors of thole
Iseders.

We, who for twelve months have disregarded all
considerations of party preference and personal pre-
dilection, in our resolution to gave the present Ad-
mieistrmoo a just sad fair trial, felt it to be oar
duty, without the hmitatioa of a day, to repudiate
as Agile, foolish, and false the unreel Reform Bill
they bed proposed. To or it we. immaterial whew
they the rank and tile of Lard 'tenet's hilowore
wood accept the new Rag he offered them or not
we knew that the country world have noes of it,
Led that a very short time would minas to prove
the fact. But we own frankly we were not pre-
pared for so rapid a disintegration of the strength of
Anti-Reform se we seem to be about to witness cm
all aides, in consequence of the evident (Mime of the
GOTIPIIIIIK lit plan. Already we have had solicits of
amendments in the Wand seam ►y more than sae
hitherto thoroughgoing Tory member ; while 'sir
!weirdly a majority of the Home of COMMINGO have
made tip their Weds to vote for the temperate and
dissikd

of the principal Lanka el the
meesurie proposed by Lord lode Ht'seut.. If re-
port speak true, the Cabinet itself is a prey to wist-
ful doubting. and divided counsel.. What to do?
How to mend their hand so ea to &veld impending
diaconefiture ? flow much to yield to earnest Libe-
rals whe care more about meapres than men, et wbat
minimum of concession may suffice to detect from
the main body of Opposition that equivocal con-
tingent which oily waits for an excuse to go over
to the enemy in the midst of the battle!
Such are the anxious questions debated in
Downing-street by its present occupants, and
not likely to be resolved without further
dislocations and sever►nce.. It must be plain
enough now, even to the mind of Lord HARD-
wicxx, that it had been better to bare agreed to
Mr. H 'e and Mr. 'IVALPOLea propositions two
mouths ago for reduction of the town franchise is
dl.; and there are not wanting obedient and obliging
adherents who would fain see Lord DLABY fkfl
back thus far, in the hope of escape from his present
untenable position. But, putting aside all ems al
consistency, there is the awkward remembrance that
the ex-Secretary for the Home Department and the
ex-President of the Board of Trade are sitting close
by, looking exceedingly stern and ready to say,
" Why didn't you say so before ?"
There is, moreover, another consideration which
Ministers see bat too likely to take into acoonnt.
They have always relied on an anti-Reform section
amongst the Whip. The Our party, it was
averred, wished for no Bill at all, and were ready to
vote for any proposal that clearly was worth
nothing. karl Game had, both in print end in
speech, openly stated the repugnance with which he
looked upon all and any increase of popular power;
and when Lord Deane offered him a seat in the
Cabinet last year, it war not upon any discordance
of political principles that the noble earl refused.
And now we have the blunt and angry avowal of Mr.
Exiveaan Ettice, the oldest and ablest representa-
tive in the Lower House of the family connexion
referred to, that he thinks the Government

Bill ea liod that he intends to vote for its
second reading. The strange epistle he has thought
fit to indite to the electors of Coventry reads uncom-
monly like • desperate attempt to worn a perishing
boars crew of the landing-place. Mr. ELLICI
would, if be could, prevent any Bill at all being
carried. Next to that he would like the worst Bill
possible. Nuns of your half-way bolos of enfran-
chisement for him ; W. or 64 rating he brands as
utter imposture, because he knows that there is
imminent danger of that much eonomsion being car-
ried by one set of man if not by another. The old
freemen, that 'pie( r were even suspected of venality
or corruption, are the objects of his particular prais►
They bare stack to him for five and twenty year.
and doubtless are ready ro do so still t and strong in
his moss of inespoesibility sa their ei-chilant
radical member, Mr. kitica does all that in bits
INS to preclude the chance of liberalising • Tory
Bill Is Committee, and to avert a Whig Bill as-
Wain' liberal provisions. In order to gain a boar.
lag fur his unconcealed anti-reform notioce, the right
boaoarabl, gentleman professes himself to be in sen-
timent an our-end-outer. It is to the tune ei(
Household Suffrage that he lies set his rueful words

of warning against all present Reform. Mr. BRIG=
would Rive or Howesbold Suffrage too, but hi
would give it now. Mr. ELLICE takes especial are
to repudiate all such simple-minded ways of dealing
with the matter, and coolly propane that the debt
he cashews to be doe to popular justice should be
deferred tomes distant day, wet to be vaned. He
would have as believe that be is in favour et Hews-
laid Suffrage, although he declares the Fmk ere
Cot tit fit. It ; and because they are not fit for k be
""04 to he their true adviser and friend whom be
sa;e, " Ihm't ask for it OQw, but Wilt till YOe get itt