The Express.
London, England, 1867-04-23 00:00:00

an honest and sufficient extension of the suffrage, and de. tennonger and donkey, although it would take a week to
clams its opinion that the measure now before parliament, travel from here to London, yet running athwart the Lon-
inasmuch as it require. the personal payment of rates by don And North Western line, might bring to total destruc•
every occupier and a residence of two years, and does not tion a great express train ; and so very small men—(loud
include any clause for the enfranchisement of lodgers, is • cheers)—very small men, who during their whole political
virtual denial of the claims of the working CLOWN to their lives have not advanced the question of reform by one hair's
rightful or any share of political power." breadth or by one moment in time, can at • critical hour
Mr. G. Barn seconded the resolution. like this throw themselves athwart the objects of • great party
Mr. Scooterisa.n, M.P., who wee warmly received, said end mar, it may be, a great measure that ought to affect
that the successful demonstration of that day had shown the interests of the country beneficially for all time.
most evidently the peaceful but determined will of the (Chem-. ) Now I believe that when I see men leave their
people to obtain& satisfactory measure. They had entered party m thisway, not when the party is going contrary to
their earnest protest against the miserable bill offered by its acknowledged principles, but not going with them—
theof
government. and thereby had shown in its true light that there is not much of principle, and not much
the conduct of those who had deserted their Patriotism, and not much of love of reform in
party on so u „tone an neanwen. He was not their conduct. I suspect there is something worse than
all this—smaller and mouser concealed under a conduct
• e that they could do any good with the bill ; but
like this, and I say that it becomes the constituencies
it their duty to rally round Mr. Gladstone, whose
decision announced that day he could not regard as finaL the kingdom to ascertain what are the motives of their
members, and whether this question of reform is thus to
They must unite and carry him back not only to the
head of the party but to the prestige of office. If they be baled by them in future-
did this, bad as was the beginning, he did not 'impairßut whose.. ver is true, or
whosoever is false, the question. remains, and the people of
that the end would be more satisfactory. { llnghuid, who demand its honest settlement, will, I be-
_. lime, never withdraw from that demand. Last year when
Mr. Bittern then rose, and was received with berets aa
i Mr. Disraeli end his friends rejected Mr. Gladstone's bill,
°been' which were renewed again and again. Wbui 'on that very night of that last division I said, " Destroy
Ilene, was metered, the hon. gentleman joemeilled to this bill—destroy that government ; but there remains yet
refer to the remarkable change which the past eight (melon of refo. am dl
la
ho mouths has weenght in the aspect of the reform question. the
great, and earnest, and • noble people, who will
Nothing had been said this session of the revolutionary
still demand that this question shall be settled." I
character of Lord Russell and Mr. Gladstone, and even be bone,.
so
now. I don't believe to
the
passing
which was so lavished upon him last year.
had escaped without a single sentence of the vitupers-
of this bill in the shape in which it is now before us. I
tellers it is • fraud of the very worst and of the most in
he explained by the adoption of his advice to the
milting character. I say, try it not by the "unerring
working men of London and other large cities. Turning
instincts" of • corrupt House of Commons, but by the " un-
to the government bill, Mr. Bright contended that every
instincts" of an incorrupt people, and you will,
clause proved that the main object had been to strengthen I believe, ascertain its true character, and you will insist
conservative interests under the pretence of granting upon its rejection. Why there has not been throughout
reforms. Entering into a variety of figures as to the
coon. _
try though after what I am about
the effect of the personal payment of rates, to
se_
ao
effort
will be
made
to disprove
and two years' residence, and mentioning, in so doing,
whet sal an
say
—there there has not been throughout
that 36,000 voters would be shut out from Binning-tbe country a single meeting of any kind of which there
ham, while 28,000 would be admitted at Sheffield, he asked
has been any record in the papers that I see in favour of
what would be thought of • budget which so arranged
this bill. Lest year there were • thousand meetings in
the taxation or tariff that in one county the Uses would
favour of the bill ; there has not been this session • tingle
be ten times what they are now, while in =other there
petition presented to the House of Commons, so far as I
would be no taxes at all. The bill would place by the
have heard or read, in favour of the government bill. Last
estimate of its friends no more than 100,000 voters on
...ion the
petitioners came there in one single
the register. The result would be in Birmingham 36,000
fortnight by hundreds of thousands. It is the
new agreements or attempts to bargain with the land- bill of the tory party, or the purposes of
lords. Mr. Gladstone's proposition would give to 264,000 the Wry party ; it is not the bill of the
persons the chance of coming on the register for boroughs,
le of England, nor is it intended to consult their
without any excitement, without any contest about rating
wishes or their i tenets. (Cheers.) Mr. Sc
be said
acts; while Mr. Gladstone would have also agenerous lodger
he would leave it to me to say what should be done—his
clause. The vital and leading principle of this bill would have
modesty grows with his lengthened experience—and he
to be repealed before household suffrage could be obtained,
left it to me se give the advice which I will not say be
Mr. Bright then proceeded to ridicule the new county
was not disposed to give, but which, perhaps, he thought
franchise provided for in the bill. The system of
might in some degree have more weight with some
voting papers, he said, was simply bribery and cox-
persons if I were myself to give it. But really
ruption made easy ; and in the distribution of sesta
the advice to be given, whether from him or
there was the most transparent job probably ever
from me, is so clear that it does not require
seen in • bill. Had Mr. Coleridge's instruction
to be given, for the sense that would make me give
been carried, the formation of the bill would have been
it is the sense that would make everyone of you accept it,
left in the hands of the friends of reform ;but, as he had
though I did not speak. What has happened during
predicted would be the case, they had delivered themselves
the last ten months ! What happened from the Hyde-
into Mr. Disraeli's bands. The very worst feature of the
P meeting and your own meeting, the South Lan-
bill has been confirmed in committee, and by the treachery
cashire meeting, the meeting in the southof Scotland,anda
of some of its members, it has been made impossible foe
thousand other meetings ! They have driven the tory party
the liberal party to contest the future fortunes of the bill
from its anchorage as the professed and open opponents of
I am sure (continued Mr. Bright) you will wonder
reform, and you have only to do now what you have done
how it can be that such • thing could happen
hitherto. I will advise no course which might not be pre-
amongst the liberal party. I will tell you. This House of
sent to 'le minds of commit and enthusiastic men, bat
I Comm, I will undertake to say, is by far the most co •
which in this country never will be necessary andeertainly
rcpt that has been elected and assembled einem the Reform
cannot be necessary now. I said before in a speech in St.
Bill. lam not able to say what it has cost to seat these
James's-hall in the winter—" What comes ineverycouatry
660 members in that house, but if I said it had cost them
where there ie a manly spirit, if justice be perpetually de.
and their friends • million of money I should be a long
Died.? But the question of force was settled in this
way under the mark. I believe it has cost more to seat
country in the year 1832. There is no power in Lords or
these 650 men there than it has cost to seat all the Commons
to . _ _. _ . .
'Cheers.' ThmmsereftoYre"thrPeaceat whriuicheyzonpreravoendooni Yrd:rinPumg thou.
members of all the other representative and legislative
assemblies in the world that are now in existence in diffe- ! . '
ram year, and which has produced so great a result,
rent countries of the globe ; and without a man's intend-
requires only to be continued, and • further and more
ing to be corrupt, this state of things makes him inevit-
complete result is certain. The richer classes in this
ably corrupt. Mr. Scholefield and I are in a position
country—the comfortable classes—they are not bad men ;
to take what some would call too favour-
they don't want the country ill-governed ; they like
able or too severe a view of this matter.
political power in their own class, which is not unrea-
We come here and don't meet with • contest, and are not
*enable or uncommon, but at the same time they do not
asked to pay expenses, but there are many members who
want, either as individuals or as bodies of men, injus-
pay always from 1,000/. to 15,0001. for their election, and
Lice and oppression to be felt or to be believed
although there are men in the House of Commons who
throughout the country. The rich people of this
are too honest, I believe, to be swayed by that considers.
country as • mere matter of wishing would desire that
thin, still there are great numbers, I ant satisfied, who everybody should be satisfied, and everybody should be
are willing to take almost any kind of measure on any sub-
comfortable, but the rich people in the west end of London
jeer from any government rather than go back to their con- cannot stand perpetually the exhibition of 50,&10, or
stituents with the chance, ant of all, of not coming 100,000 or 150,000 men coming out and ailing, "We are
back to the house at all, and with the certainty that if shut out from the constitution of our country ; we are
they stand a contest they must lessen the balance at their
not seeking to injure yon; we are not men of
bankers' by several thousand pounds, and so they are
violence of whom you need be afraid ; but
willing to tolerate a tory government and • tory reform
there is the constitution, and we claim under
bill, to break up the liberal party, to do anything what-
that constitution to have the right to vote for mem.
ever, as they say, to settle the question in the House of bets of the House of Commons. Let Mr. Beaks and his
Commons' style and fashion, in this parliament, and dux.
friends in London, let the working men everywhere, by
ing the present session, and not as the great body of
great meetings—the greater the better—peaceful and
the people wish it to be settled, and they are ready to bear orderly meetings—passing sound and rational
n, firm resom
the lu.
all this rather than have •• dissolution of parliament. There
tions—let them make it appear to every person, fro
were many honest men amongst those who met in the tea- humblest in the land to the Queen upon the throne, that
there is a genernl, a wide, • universal, and a strengthening
room, but there were some of whom I should not like
exactly to say that, there were some who were ignorant of
sentiment, that what exists is not longer tolerable, and
party tactics, and who fancied that if the bill could be got
that something better must be established. I give you
into committee we might somehow or other manage to
my word--I never said anything with a more perfect con.
deal with abetter than in the whole house, and the men wbo
fidence that I speak the truth—that you have only thus
met there are responsible for the division which took place
to meet, and thus to speak, and the barriers which stand
subsequently ; for if the instruction of Mr. Colridge had before you will fall at your words, and before long,
been put, I believe it would have been carried ;and if it
It may not be this session—it may be the next—you will
had been carried the disposal of the question of reform be admitted to • frank, and generous, and liberal, and
would have been in the hands of Mr. Gladstone and the satisfactory exercise of the electoral franchise guaranteed
liberal party, instead of being as now in the hands of by the constitution of your country. (Loud cheers, in the
Mr. Disraeli and his reluctant followers. Now his posi. midst of which Mr. Bright resumed his seat, having spoken
tion is enfeebled. Mr. Hardy had—what shall I say!—the
for exactly an hour and • half.)
effrontery to taunt Mr. Gladstone with being the The resolution was unanimously agreed to, and the pro-
leader of a portion of a party. There are ceedings were soon afterwards brought to • close.
little difficulties on the government side to which I need
not now refer. Mr. Disraeli, the other night, spoke of
Mr. Gladstone as the one person in the house with whom
he would not deal on this question. (Cries of " Shame,"
and hisses) He treated him as the representative of a,

OPENING OF THE NEW EXCHANGE NEWS Roox
AT LIVIRPOOL.—The New Exchange News Room, which
forms a portion of the New Exchange building' at Liver-
pool, was yesterday thrown open to the subscribers, who
are about 4,000 in number. The room is one of the most
magnificent—both for extent and gorgeousnemi of deco-
ration—in the world, and will long be one of the most
attractive " lions "of the port. The news room and bar
comprise an area of 1,094 square yards, and on the same
floor are conversation rooms with galleries over them) com-
prising an area of 732 square yards—the new room being
nearly three times larger than the old one. The news room
proper—surmounted by an enormous dome—is 1011 feet in
length by 90 feet in breadth, the height being 50 feet to
the ceiling line—the total height from the floor to the
centre of the dome being 89 feet. The architect is Mr.
Wyatt, of London, and the builders Messrs. Holme and
Nicol, of Liverpool. Yesterday the room was densely
crowded all day and universally admired, though many
complained of the excessive reverberation.
THE GREAT EASTERN AT NEW YOWL—The New
York Times of the 11th says : —" The arrival of the Great
Eastern at this port yesterday, after a passage of 14 days
from Liverpool, gives interest to the question whether it was
worth her while coming here for the purpose of carrying
passengers to the Paris Exposition. There is so little interest
here in the Exposition, and such a limited number of appli-
cations for passage that cannot be accommodated in season
in the steamships of the regular lines, to France, England,
and Germany, that it is liable to doubt whether the
"Great Ship" can at this time get the three thou-
and passengers which she is capable of aocounuo-
dating. The threatening' of war in Europe, and
the uncertainty of affairs in France and Germany, will
not add to the desire of Americans to cross the
ocean. On the other hand, the advantages and enjoyment
of a voyage in such a ship will be very attractive to hun-
dreds, and with good management here and good accounts
from Peri', it may be possible before the close of the month
to secure for her the proper complement of passengers.
We hope it will be, and we even hope it will be possible to
retain the Great Eastern as a permanent passenger ship
between New York and some European port."
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faction and of party strife ; the rest of the house he would
discuss the matter with in a different manner and on dif.

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feint terms; and these renegades from the liberal

party—some of the men who met in the tea-
room, and some radicals who voted last Satur-
day with the government—beard this taunt of Mr,
Hardy ; they heard the insulting observations of Mr.
Disraeli, and allowed their leader in the face of the
country to be thus insulted without having the self-respect
or the manliness to resent it. What shall I say of that
leader ? It is not, as you know, my practice to speak of
the official politicians and the statesmen of this country
with exaggerated eulogy, but I will venture to say this of
Mr. Gladstone—and there is no man in either house who
undertakes to deny it— that since 1832 there has been no
man of the official class or rank, and no states-
man who has imported into this question of re•
form so much of conviction, so much of earnest.
ness, so much of seal, as has been imported
during the last two years by the present leader of the
liberal party. (Cheers.) Who is there in the House of
Commons who equals him in knowledge of all political
questions? who equals him in earnestness? who equals
him in eloquence? who equals him in courage and fidelity
to his . convictions ? (Cheers.) If these gentlemen
who say they will not follow him have any-
one who is equal, let them show him. If they
can point out any statesman who can add dignity and
grandeur to the stature of Mr. Gladstone, let them
produce him. (Cheers.) It is a deplorable thing
that teat year a small section of forty men, or
thereabouts, of professing liberals, destroyed an honest and
acceptable—l speak of the people—an temptable bill
of the late government, and with it they also destroyed
the government which proposed it ; about an equal num-
ber have this year to a great extent destroyed the power
of the opposition, and may assist an anti-reforming govern-
:sent to par a very bad measure on the greatest question
of our time—(cheers)—and having done all the mischief
which they could, they begin to write silly letters to their
constituents. What can be done in parlianientiuy parties
if every man is to pursue his own " little gamer A cow