The Express.
London, England, 1866-06-02 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 2.

Ws trust our Chinese friends who visited the
House of Commons last evening were more
amused with the proceedings than the native
occupants of the Strangers' gallery can have
been. In sober truth, it was s deadly-lively
business for those who sought • feast of
eloquence, though we hold it to be just and
necessary that at least one night should be
given up to the multitude of members who,
in the absence of an audienoe, have consti-
tuents to convince of their legislative existence,
and that the novices more especially should have
an opportunity of hearing their own prose.
Excepting the speeches of Sir Mani CAIRNS and
the Loan Aiwa:ars, the episodical attempt
of one desperate member to disperse the House by
counting it out while Mr. WHALLEY was giving
tongue, and Lord Etc Ho's gallant sally against
the ministerial position just before the adjourn-
ment was moved by Lord Jolts MANNERS, last
evening's discussion carried the question no further,
and seemed only to give breath tothe leadersof both
parties, who on Monday next are to descend into
the lists in single combat. The LORD ADVOCATE'S
speech, however, will have left its mark on the de-
bate. It had the double merit of brevity and
directness. Less forensic than that of Sir Huoa
Camas, it was larger in spirit, and fax more con-
stitutional and statesmanlike. Dealing with the
Member for Belfast's references to the borough
franchise in Scotland, it simply disproved them one

after the other by a plain statement of facts. irien,
rising to the higher considerations of constitutional
policy, the Loan ADVOCATE convicted the Member

for Caine's arguments of something more than an
affected dread of Democracy—of striking at the
very root of the representative system. Mr. Lows
had insisted that, whether it was a constituency
like his own, of 150 electors, or a constituency of
thousands, that returned members to the House,

mattered absolutely nothing, if only the result
was conducive to good government. There is
more of logical propriety, perhaps, than the
Loan ADVOCATI admits in this idea of representa-
tion, considering its source. The member for a
nobleman's nomination borough very fitly repre-
sents blood, culture, good manners, and aristo-
cratic privilege : nor could he fitly represent
anything else. Look at his constituency, and you
easily understand the member for Calne's anti-
pathy to representation of the people. But
Mr. Lows and his followers should have longer
memories. They denounces 71. franchise aa though
it were a revolutionary innovation, and utterly
foreign to the traditions of the old constitutional
Liberal party in this country, forgetting that in
1797, the Lord GREY, who thirty-five years
after passed the first Reform Bill, proposed a
household suffrage bill, and was supported by Mr.
Fox, who has been generally regarded as a tolerably
well-bred Whig. The LORD ADVOCATE quoted a
very striking passage from the speech of Mr. Fox
on that occasion, in which the great Whig orator
scorned the cant of a " virtual " representation of
the people by a select and privileged constituency.
In these degenerate days the " great Constitu-
" tional Party," as the Tory Opposition designate
themselves, are shocked by the proposition that
the British Constitution contains the elements
of monarchy, of oligarchy, and of democracy ;
and that the House of Commons represents
the democracy, or, in other words, the government
of the people by the people, through their repre-
sentatives. According to the Caine theory, no
doubt the House of Commons should represent a
few noble owners of large estates, small boroughs,
and liberal ideas of bureaucratic government, and
we are not entirely persuaded that the LORD-
ADVOCATE was not conceding somewhat too much
in saying that no element of oligarchy could be
found in the House of Commons. In saying that
no element of oligarchy ought to be found in the
House of Commons, according to the theory and
principle of the Constitution, he reminded Mr.
Lows's followers of a fundamental truth which
they would too willingly forget.
There is a curious mixture of slyness and sim-
plicity in the habits of the gentlemen of " the
" Cave." This artful natvet4 wan most in-
nocently displayed at the close of last
night's debate by the sudden, though evidently
preoonoerted, sally attempted by Lord Ewa°,
with all that air of solemnity which he has
studied, not unsuccessfully, to acquire since he
became a profound politician, and all that martial
bravura which his distinguished and arduous
services on the harmless field of Wimbledon
have made a sort of second nature to
the hero. Turning to the Treasury bench, and
pointing at the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER,
Lord Etcuo demanded a categorical and instant
answer to a question which he put on the strength
of a certain " rumour in the House." Accord-
ing to this mysterious and somewhat mythical
rumour, it was not the intention of the Govern-
ment in the event of their obtaining a majority
against Captain HATTER'S amendment to proceed
with the Reform Bill during the prdent Session.
So Lord Ezeno desired to be informe 1 "at once"
whether the rumour was correct, in order that
suffering patriots and martyrs like himself, who
in obedience to a strong sense of duty had felt
obliged to place themselves in opposition to tl•e
Government on this question, though still remain-
ing attached to " the party," might be released
from the painful necessity of endangering the exist-
ence of the Government by their votes. To
this generous and sympathetic appeal the
CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER replied with freez-
ing calmness, to the effect that he was not aware
of any such rumour, or of the sources from which
it could be derived, and was even a little
sceptical about its currency ; but that he musc
beg those who had raised it or believed in it to
wait until he had the honour to address the House
on Monday next to ascertain the intentions of the
Government. To invent such a rumour and to
give it a forced currency needed no remarkable
ingenuity in the gentlemen of the Cave ; but we
are at a loss to understand its motive or ols'ect.
If Lord Ezell° and his friends are so anxious not
to imperil the existence of the Government
their course is clear : they will vote with the party
to which they still desire to belong ; let the
Bill pass into committee, and leave to the legiti-
mate operations of the obstructive party to defeat
it by delay. By so doing, they will have the
additional satisfaction—if, indeed, they are, after
all, advanced Reformers in disguise—of preparing
the way for a future Bill, compared with which
the present one will be "as water unto wine."
And if the Government is defeated, they will at
least have the comfort of knowing that it died in
open fight against its foes, and was not stabbed in
the back by its friends.

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On Thursday, his Excellency the Chinese Com-
missioner and suite, attended by Major Brine, R. R., and
Mews. Boars and de Champs, interpreters, visited West-
minster Abbey sad the Houses of Parliament, being met
by the Peg Rev. Dr. Stanley and Admiral Sir Augustus
Clifford, Bart., C.B. Later, they occupied seats an the
diplomatic gallery of the House of Commons, and in the
evening went to Colonel Stodare's performances at the
F4Tptian-hall. Yesterday they visited the Royal Arsenal,
Woolwich, being met by the principal storekeeper, Captain
Gordon, C.B. ; Colonel Freed', R.A. ; Lieut.-Celonel Gor-
don,R.R., C.B. ; Captains Le Meander and filessor, R.A. ;
, Mr. Fraser, Re. They afterwards railed on Captain Rd-
monatone, C. 8., of the Royal Dockyard, Woolwich.

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