The Express.
London, England, 1860-06-05 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE IL

Tne conduct of the resetionists in the House
of Commons last night was a decided gain to the
Liberal cause--to that enduring cause, we mean,
which, be the fate of this Reform Bill what it may,
is as sure to win in the long run as the sun to rise
merit New Year's Day. The Frenchman who
interpreted the inscription over the Royal
Rzalange as " The land belongs to the
Lord'" Was not more at fault than those
gentlemen to the left or the right of the
t3'e►sze who presume to imagine that
by the law of political gravitation the future of
England belongs to Toryism. Were we fanatics
of a faith so fatuously opposed to reason as the
laith in political retrogression, we should be a little
discouraged by the exhibition of three zealots of
the Tory pervasion, supposed to represent, if it
represent anything, the party of order against the
party of movement, getting up one after another to
defy the rules of the House, and to set at nought
the authority of the !intact& The other
day we saw a mob of Conservative mem-
bers, to whom alone it is due that our
institutions are not Americanized, obstructing
the course of legislation bodily at the door of the
House, and trying to watch a count-out by force
of arms. Density of mind and dulness of speech
were not sufficient, so breadth of shoulders was
appealed to. When the arguments of the prize-
ring failed at the door, the morality of the turf
was tried, and every form of " nobbling" was re-
sorted to in vain. Mr. lICHT, Mr. GRIFFITH, and
Mr. Bawrixcit, illustrious " heavies" in the Tory
foeivz d'unnie, rising in succession to move

out of order, were such admi-
rable specimens of the zeal which TALLNY-
RAND appreciated, that we could almost
find it in our hearts to regret that the Srzsxze
was compelled by duty to snuff them incontinently
out. It is well that the country should enjoy to
the full the uninterrupted spectacle of Tory good
faith, moderation, and self-respect. We cannot
make too much of these instructive and encou-
raging examples. We are fain to regret that the
tactics of evasion and delay, of:which the BAYARD.;
of the Tory benches and their high-minded asso-
ciates in the opposite camp have made so much,
are beginning to fail, and that all the coarser arts
of cunning are exhausted. They will soon
be reduced to silent voting, and we shall no
longer feel .the inestimable privilege of hearing
Tory bores talk against time and the Brains, and
seeing Tory bullies barricade public business with
their shoulders as well as with their skulls. On
the other hand it may be said that if the ever-
dying British constitution is really to be saved, it
must be by bringing to the surface that Tory virus
which has been sapping its strength for years
under the hectic flush of Liberal-Conservatism.

The Quarterly &rim has done us good sorvice in
compelling Mr. DIRMAILI to give up the light
comedy of Liberalism and to assume once more the
rothyriors as the leading tragedian of the party of
resistance. Who was it said that the day of
parties was past Every day is restoring the
ancient landmarks, and defining the old limits of
opinion more and more sharply. Mr. Diszaitt,
" notwithstanding," as he said, " the Quarterly
" k.,w'," took the command of the gentlemen on
his side of the House last night in a most unmiti-
gated Tory uniform. Lora JoRN Rciemt had
conjured the Opposition to deal with the Bill
openly and undieguisedly. Mr. Dories rose at
to, the challenge, and with that histrinsie
Noheinerice of which he is a muter, drew a
picture of Europe in the throes of war and revo-
lution, and Great Britain in the pangs of a parlia-
mentary " dislication," with English members
sitting under sentence of dismissal, and Irish and
Scotch members unreformoiL He denounced the
Itsionn Bill as destructive of Lord Jonx Emma's
reputation, and of the safety and honour of
Greet lirita'n, and, in a word, as Chaos. Not
that the gentlemen on his side of the HOMO were
averse to the admission of the working doom to
the francluau ; but it must be in times km
menacing to Europe, and by means of a " corn-
" prebensive " measure. Fled not the Tories
always been the best friends of the working
classes, even as F RA N • I% 11. of Naples is
the beet friend of the Lizzarviii I Had they
not provided baths and w:i•ithwiises, churches, and
schools? Had they not patted working men on
the back on philanthropic platforms, extolled their
loyalty, labour, and intelligence, at Institutes,
enacted short hours for them in factories, and
generally shown • disposition to see their humbler
countrymen well soaped, well housed, and well
buttered I But as for political reform : the
working classes don't want it ; this is not the time
to give it ; the present Bill is too little and too
renegades in disguise,
q rid of it. So what

with the necessity of proving the Atel.‘the teigh
command, the wounded vanity of stittiorship, as'
the concoctor of last year's Bill, Mr. D►szazu
fairly burnt his ships last night, and
told the Liberals in almost as many
I •
words that as the Tories looked to war to
save them from Reform, the Liberals must
I wait for a period of disturbance and distress to
carry a comprehensive Bill. Mr. DISRATIA latest
utterances may be accepted as the most powerful
and perfect expression—the concentrated 011101106—
of Tory sentiment and opinion on the subject of
Reform. And this is what all the prophetic
declamation and the ambiguous sarcasm clearly
teach. That the Tories desire war as a diver-
sion ; that they love the " lower orders," but dis-
trust and fear them ; that no Reform is worth
having if it be moderate, and that no comprehensive
Reform can be expected in quiet times. These
are not, we confess, reassuring or comfortable doc-
trines ; but they are not our,.

After Mr. Dumont's unadulterated confession
of Toryism, what need we say of the amiable
valetudinarian twaddle of that venerable petit-
maitre of rose-water liberalism—the member
for Rye ? We should be very sorry to
speak with imperfect sympathy of so eminent
a social Reformer as the great churchyard abo-
litionist and abater of smoke. We accept him as
a finished illustration of that public usefulness and
superior intelligence which only the smallest
boroughs supply. He is known to be a "friend
" of the working classes," not in theory only, but
in committees, though politically he talks of them
as of a foreign nation, or other strange and un-
familiar order of beings ; as though " having
" intercourse with the lower classes" were
an experience in the life of a public
man akin to going down the shaft of a coal mine.
This excellent gentleman, it seems, has had two
ideas in his public life-time. We are not now
speaking of the works which Mr. Don assures us
he

has published, but of his ideas in Parliament.
One of these is borrowed from France : it is the
Conseil. de Prud'hommes, to decide disputes
between masters and workmen ; and it was as
chairman of a committee for collecting evidence for
this purpose that he has " had considerable inter-
" course with the working classes." Accordingly he is
in

with a member of the " Central
"Committee of the National Association of Trades
" in London," and he is able to cite the rird rote

opinions of Mr. °mows Porn,- The former
writes that his friends are indifferent to the Bill,
because it does not include the moat "thoughtful"
among them ; the latter states that he can
indirectly control six hundred thousand men.
The former shows, therefore, that the Bill '
does nothing for the working classes • the latter,
thit it makes them all-powerful for mischief.
These are the fruits of Mr. MACKINNON'S " could-
" &rale intercourse with the working dames."
But Mr. MACKINNON hes had another idea in his
life • and to this, as to his first love, he returns
site an absence of nearly thirty years. In
1831, he tells ne, he introduced a motion to
the House in precisely similar terms to the
motion he introduced last night. The mo-
tion on both occasions embodied the idea
that a Reform Bill should be postponed until
after the results of the Census were known. Sir
Gannon Lewis disposed of this ides by asking
how the relative position of boroughs liable to
disfranchisement could be affected by a number-
ing of the nation, and by offering the Rnorsrasis-
G 's opinion, that the Census was more
likely to be fairly taken after a Reform Bill than
before. The Horn SECRETARY probably hit
the nail on the head when he mentioned casually
that as the results of the Census could not be

ascertained before the acne of the summer of
1861, a Reform Bill on the basis of the Census
must be put off till 1863. But Mr. MACKINNON
labours under an aged fondness for this
bright idea of his golden prime when he made
his maiden speech ; and he seems, like
M. Moms; to be possessed by a sort
of physiological theory that Reform is
nnc me hide, and must only be approached
after a Census. Now really with aft our respect
' for Mr. Macs mum( we cannot help remarking
that the House of Commons has something better
to do than tokratify these twittering souvenirs
of early loves and conquests. It has to follow
Lord Joni/ ReasELL's earnest and statesman-
like advice ; to go into consideration of this
Bill without attempting to conceal or evade its
importance, without impairing the people's trust
in the sincerity of Parliament, or their respect
for its decisions. For when the war (which
Tories seem to pray for) cornea, to whom will
they look to man the armies and the fleets, to
build the ships and cast the guns, if not to the
people whom in peace-time they are treating as a
dangerous class I

much ; the House is full . f
who will be delighted to gel
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