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Bernal& bringing their ship into action, we should
not be surprised if Ministers threw overboard some
mere of the lumber with which they are stillest's-
bored. We have already seen something dose Is
this way, and where so mach is at stake it would be
strange iodised if those in command should heeitate
to exact any sacrifice that they fancy may help them
to fight the ship succemfally, sr that their crew
should, under the circumstances, 'tickle about the pre-
servation of baggage, which, if they are beaten in the
coming struggle, they must wall know canaet be
preserved. There is no minor detail, therefore, on
which popular criticism has been expended which
we should be astonished to see given up
bat WWI this and Monday atat, or open
that eventful day. But the mein primal& ed
the Bill, as Wooly defined by the Pastes Mang
and by his Lieutenant in the Roues of Ceimmenes
will still remain ; and it is upon this that belik
parties—the party of Progress and the party of
Resistance—have agreed to appeal to the arbitile-
mint of perliameatary battle.
What Is the principle of the Bill, the (Bath :Whet
and elaracteratie feature for the sake of which Cu..

wrestles. are called on to rally round it, and he the
sake of which Liberals of all shades and degrees of
opinion are prepared to oppose it ? Mr. DUZLILI
has himself frankly and fairly told us what that
principle is. Not only in his introductory speech
en the 28th ultimo, but subsequently, when, after
ten days' reflection, he gave notice of certain me.
difisatione which he intended to make in committee
with regard to the town freeholds, he stated pre-
doily ad pointedly that the main pried* or the
oneasere wan the establishment of a uniform seams
in ocienties and boroughs; in other words, that the
refusal to extend the occupation honshise is towns
below ten pounds was the rives 'nil nen of the
It WY for the lake of tibia " maim peiestrieeltheseen-
" sun," ae ha and Lord MillßY have him thsamlist
eanditly termed it, that they resolved to knee ahe
official friendship and aid of Mr. WsLrota and Mr.
HENLEY ; and that, too, when they had no better mem
to place in their rooms than Mr. EIPTCOCIIT and Lad
Donotnianose. It mad, doubtless, have bees se
wavering semeiotics in their maids, sad is there of
the not of the Cabinet, which could have led
them to cause mach a change in the pastoral
of the Administration on the eve of its
greatest triaL Nadia, but • awed and firm falth
in the value and steroid' if finality with reaped
to the Then Prunchise as settled in linen aseamat
far their resolve to take up the prides they now
seanpy. Mr. Wairotx and Hr. HZIILZT newel
emiformity daageresa, and offered in profanes Is
pas far es aIL nisi in boroughs. But the met
of their colleagues believed that uniformity was the
true flag to hoist, and that if they proposed to aban-
don the present suffrage in towns they would not be
able to hold their followers together.
This, then, is the cardinal point of conten-
tion, as laid down by the friends of the Bill ;
and this it is which the amendment proposed
by Lord 101131 RCIWILL specifically impugns
and condemns. The amendment deplores, is ha-
rp whose Osamu sot even Lard Gary or Mr.
Utter are able to make it appear they misapprehend,
" the' no readjust/neat of the franchise will satiety
" this House or the country which does not provide
for a greater extension of the suffrage in cities
" and boroughs than is contemplated in the present
•' measure." To all unwerped and unpainted in-
tellects this resolution is equivalent to a rejection of
the Billow its second reading; and therefore it is
that every recreant from the Liberal ranks objects to
it. For argument sake they say, indeed, that it is
abstract and vague; bat in the next breath they
admit that it is neither one see the other, because
they go on to declare that it moat either lead to a
new Parliament or a new Administration more ani-
mated with a spirit of reform than the present
Government and the present House of Commons.
Faction is always Committing this old blander
of pleading double. At one 11111011110, 11011110-
ingly, we are assured the ameadampat
unprsctical, Inasmuch as moderate amid vehement
Reformers may shim vote for it ; and the next
moment we are assured that it is foolieh and wring,
because of the practical eoemegessems its men*
must entail. The truth is, as every bens* mail hobs
and knows, that the amendment is sesepembeseive,
not vague ; substantinl, not illusory ; ail that It
grapples unmistakeably with the fruldensestal fal-
lacy of the Government Bill, and seeks to avert its
adoption by the Legislature. If the principle of the
measure were, as Lord Oar, pretends, the creation
of certain new franchises and the re-distribution of
some fifteen seats, Lord Joan's Amendment would
be wide of the mark and immaterial to the main
jou.. That it is not se meant or so understood by
the two great parties arrayed against one another,
even that mast captious of cavillers betrays himself
by admitting. If the Amendment be carried,
se Mr. Eutot and Lord GREY apprehend it will.
Ministers onset offset to accept a defeat whisk
mounts to a drieeeiatiom of " the main prladgielle
" their Bill ;" ;ad they must therefore prepare is
give pleas to the men wise will some is pledged to
thoroughgoiag measure, or they must oak the temati-
Unlacing to setant a saes Cousevativ• Parliamest.

Rut why not simply roots to reject the BM OM the
seeocd reading ? If the atassiddrent he istanded re wa
equieatent for that flood's, nod if it is so understood
b 7 the.* who resist it, why not put at end to all
cont./Homo* and quibbles &boat itd phraseology, by
sobs, timing the Witt god eosseamphro• formala-•