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LONDON, 7AID4T, JAN. 14.

LORD PAMIR= and 11Ir. Hoasusts hare been
contributing their respective doubts and perplexi-
ties to the stook of obstruction which some of their
late colleagues would heap op in the path of
Reform. We are sorry to see men of whom we had
hoped better things hesitate and palter with great
principled at such a time. Lord PANMUI/E, if we
mistake not, started in political life as a very de.
cided Liberal, and though he subsequently thought
fit to modify some of his opinions, he stiU
professes to hold the creed of CHARLES
itliEs Fox, the guiding principle of which
he declares to be defence of the privileges
of the people against the usurpations of the
nobility and the Crown. In accordance with
that principle he supported the Bill of 1832; in
accordance with that principle he agreed, as a
member of Lord Joni Russetes Cabinet, to a 61.
franchise in 1652: what does he mean by telling as
now that he still adheres to the wisdom of the former,
while he studiously geoids the utterance of one con-
sistent word in re-assertion of the latter? By his
own showing he most believe that were Mr. Fox
amongst us at the present day, he would advocate
this and something more. That wise and good states-
man abhorred evasions and ambiguities ; he said
out plainly what he meant by being a Wbig ;
and his version of Whiggery was, the right of
every householder to a voice in the representation.
Is this the Whiggery of Lord RUMORS ? If it be,
why does he not say so? Never, assuredly, did a
party more need re-habilitation in its old traditional
principles than that to which he belongs. After
sitting three years in a Cabinet that wantonly and
wilfully broke every pledge of Reform, it needed
some re-assuring earnest of unwavering faith in right
and justice to win back the confidence which had been
lost. His Lordship's reference to his baptismal certifi-
cate is little to the purpose; it is not the name but
the spirit of Mr. Fox that a wise politician should
boast of. Nor can we accept a fancy passage
in an after-dinner speech at Brechin, about the
glorious right of asylum for aliens of every
race, as sufficient atonement for the never-to-be.
forgotten Conspiracy Bill. The only two things we
can make out distinctly from Lord PANNURE'S Con-
servative speech is his opposition to the Ballot, and
his addition of certain counteractive maxims and
precepts, which he for the first time promulgates as
portions of the Whig creed. These may be briefly
said to consist in the duty of defending the Throne
and Aristocracy against the encroachments of the
People. There is not a partisan of Despotism abroad,
or of Oligarchy at home, that has not this cant
phrase for ever on his lips. It is the very shibboleth
of Reaction; and Lord PAMMURE must have known
that it would be so regarded when he used
it. And what is the pretence for thus try-
ing to stimulate the prejuliors and passions
of resistance? According to his Lordship, " we live
" in very curious times, when we are to have very
" large measures of Constitutional Reform, when
scarcely a voice in the country is raised in their
" favour." Where, then, is the danger? Nobody
suspects the Court or Aristocracy of flinging away
any power they can keep. Nobody can deny that
the whole of one House and the majority of the other
are members or nominees of the privileged class. If
Lord PAXMCKI, believes what he says, that hardly a
solve in the country is raised for Reform, what does
he mean by drawing his political sabre and bidding
his party hi political bayonets, to " resist the en-
" croachments of the People?"
We cannot say that we think Mr. 110R3V.4:4.8 ex-
position of principles mach more felicitous than that
of the noble lord. If any logical inference were to
be drawn from the long string of casuistries and sar-
casms with woich the electors of Stroud appear to
have been entertained, it would be—that the
Radicals would not he content with a good Ea
that the Whigs should not par anything but a bad
Bill, and that Lord Deahr could not carry either •
good or a bad one. Very enlightened and encou-
raging doctrine this from one who takes so severely to
task his late friends and colleagues because they werto
as he says, a done Government. Close enough they
undoubtedly were; but what is the use of saying so,
if is the same breath the people are told, in effect,
that they are never to have any real increase of re-
presentative power The Deal's' Administration
have no chance whatever, we are assured, of carrying
• Reform Bill; for, if what they propose be a small
measure, it will be scouted, and if a large one, it
will break up their party. Lord ions Reesetes
scheme of a U. franchise in towns and 104 in tout
Dee, tasted by rating, won't do at all, in Mr. HOMO-
MAN'S opinion ; for, if you go down to 61. why set
to is., and ten years afterwards to 6d., and that
would be universal suffrage. We hope that this
i• a moi.report, though we have striven in
4.11 !CI Intent sore alternative phrases that would
sopport the context, and escape the condemnation
whim f: e words, as reported, deserve. The Member
for Stroud cannot be ignorant that his five shilling

or five penny rated householder hai no existence
save a rhetorical one. Between the 61. suffrage and
the old rated or householders suffrage there is in-
deed in the smaller towns a substantial difference
But a gentleman who hu filled high administrative
office cannot be unaware that in many places there

are no tenements whatever rated under five pounds,
and that in general there are very few where there
ie any considerable number ra'ed below three or four
pounds. His Universal Suffrage ghost, therefore, will
not walk; old women in Stroud may possibly be scared
by it, but we strongly recommend its non-pro-
duction elsewhere. It was natural enough
in a politician like Mr. Lowe to cast
obloquy on popular demands, and to talk of
the middle classes being wholly swamped by opera-
tive numbers ; but we own we did not expect to
hear from Mr. HORSM ‘N wholesale objections to
every proposal for the mitigation of present injus-
tice, unaccompanied by any suggestion, however
vague, for its remedy, on the transparent plea that
because Reform was talked of we were on the high
road to Universal Suffrage, and that Universal Suf-
frage was the MOM of Despotism in France and of
Slavery in America. That Universal Suffrage his
failed to frustrate unscrupulous ambition on the
other side of the Channel, or to abolish percale'
bondage beyond the ocean, is lamentably true. But to
sseribe either the one or the other to it as a cause
is a marvellous stretch of the powers of misrepre-
sentation. Negro slavery, as Mr. HOESMAN well
knows, grew up in the American colonies under the
islilarchie system of rule, which he would perpetuate
in this country; and, as for Continental absolutism,
he will hardly venture to assert that the Governments
of Russia, Aast•is, and Naples are less arbitrary
than that of France, though none of these ever pre-
tended to deduce their origin from popular election.

WE believe that the speculations of a contempo-
rary, of Mr. Gurnrrone's remaining for any length
of time in the lonian Islands, are entirely unfounded.
Sir Jelin YOVNO'S tenure of power there will almost
immediately terminate, and pending the short in-
terval between his departure and the arrival of a
soccemor, Mr. GEanirtonE will, in a few day., re-
ceive the authority requisite for conducting the
administration. Bat the Right Hoe. Gentleman
will, we learn, be in London in ample time to parti-
ejpate in the leading events of the Session.—Daily
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