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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 19.
THE debate on Mr. Csenwutt's Resolution has
been adjourned till Thursday, and it is not expected
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that the
i nottihevote can be taken before Friday. This
delay to be regretted. A Mail from India is
its way from Maresillea, and its content.
may throw such a light on the actual state of affairs
in our great Oriental dependency as may exercise a
salutary influence on the passions of the House of
Commons, and compel its Memberkto reflect on the
consequences which their vote may produce in India.
Minister' have expressed their readiness to acquiesce
in the amendment propceed by Mr. DILLWYN ; and
really the more the question is ventilated the more
it appears advisable that all parties should ogres to
the adoption of such a middle coarse.
Meanwhile, as it is possible that • majority may
insist upon Mr. Csitowates Resolution being Car-
-1 ried, and as it seems now admitted on all hands that
in that case we are to have a dissolution as soon as
the routine business of the Session can be got through,
it behaves the Liberals throughout the country to
be prepared for such an eventuality. If recent pro
°Wente are to have any weight, the course pursued,
in the event of Ministers being outvoted, will
be ea follows :—As soon u the indispensable
business of the Session is at an end, Parliament will
be prorogued. The announcement
on w of
will
thsl
bediash dissolution,
semi
the calling of a new Parliament, the Ism of writs,
&c., will immediately follow. When the elections
are completed enautumnal
a view to a trial of strength ; the result of which
will be, either that Ministers will retain their places,
or that they will resign, and a new Administration
will have to be formed.
The late humiliating scenes in Parliament afford
an instructive illustration of the pernicious con-
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sequences of allowing • general election to be de-
cided simply by a cry of up or down with this or the
other individual statesman. Moreover, we are now
edified by a declaration of Lord Pstaxaeroe's most
powerful organ in the preen that nothing would be
gained by the mere restoration of the late Cabinet
•I to office ; that a new and better combination of
public men must be formed with a view to
ensure a stable Government. There goes some-
thing more, however, to the composition of a
Government that can work for the general good
than a mere abnegation of personal jealousies and
animosities among a certain number of aspirants
to office. The contracting parties must also be
agreed apse the principles that are to regulate their
conduct when in office, and the policy they are to
pursue. Aad they must make a frank and unre-
served declaration of those principles and that policy
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1! the ground upon which they appeal for the support
of the electors. The strength of the Liberal party
will be wasted unless it can be rallied round a body
of reliable leaders ; and it will be equally wasted
• unless these leaders are selected on account of their
principles. We of the Liberal party must have a
flag to rally round respecting which there can be no
mistake ; and that flag must be placed in hands re-
Bisecting which, also, there can be no mistake.
The first article of the Liberal creed is Parlia-
mentary Reform. And inasmuch as all patties are
now ready enough to give a vague general pledge
II II in favour of Reform, some distinctive and explicit
declaration mast be required as to the scope and
• 1 tendency of the Reform meant. A liberal extension
eft the suffrage is the first requisite. A nommoss and
intelligent class of men exists beyond the pie of the
amstitnticni, and these men, inasmuch as arsenal he
Ufa views and wishes exercises a strong kfleseee
over the decisions of the Legislature, are endemiably
peossmied of political power. The existence of pai-
-1 timid power which can only be exercised by indirect
mamas sot recognised by the Canetitatits im preg-
nant with danger, and thereihre the mamba=
of the class to which we refer into the
electoral body aan urgent necessity. Although the
WIT elms of electors admitted by Lord thiar's Bill
infamed for a time a higher moral tone into our
elealiams, debasing influences have already reduced
this toss to a low standard, and a further infusion
of sew Mud into the electoral ranks is wanted. The
atones of the protection of the Ballot his contri-
,l bated mainly to the speedy demoralisation of the
ten-pound voters; and to prevent a similar catastrophe
with the new electors for whom admission is now
claimed, the adoption of that mode of voting ought
to be made a sine qua nos. The re-distribution of
the electoral districts, the shortening of the possible
duration of Parliaments, the abolition of vexation'
and unnecessary oaths; and of all proprietary
restrictions on the choice of representatives, ought
also to be insisted upon.
Next in importance to the extension of Otn
liberties—or more properly upon a par with it—is
the insisting upon securities for thus liberties wi
have sheedy inherited er acquired. Can should bi
taken to make sure that no future Ministry skid
dare to ask, and no future Parliament to entertain
for a moment so much as the proposal of an Alai
Act, or Conspiracy Bill, or any assimilation of our insti
tntions to the coercive and spy organisations of th,
C.oatinent. In like manner, explicit declarations o
respect for the entire freedom of oral and printer
i diessmion ought to be exacted from all candidate
for a seat in the Legislature, and aspirants to a plea
usemg the leaders of the Liberal party.
Ramat experience bas shown that a disposition t
tamper with our free institutions is intimately aim
ciated witha desire to contract intimate alliances will
the old despotic countries of Europe. No Stateemes
therefore, can be accepted as the representatives o
leaden of the Liberal party whose Foreign Polley ism
Used upon the recognition that the People' as
infinitely more important than the DiwwWiss: wh
do not avow warmer sympathies with Italy am