The Express.
London, England, 1866-02-09 00:00:00

LORD RUSSELL AND TER WORKING WIN

Commenting upon the interviews of two deputation' on
the gabled of reform with Lord Russell yesterday, the
Telgraph says it is struck with the baldness air of the
present agitatioe, and rem•rks that his lordship's visitors
left his presence entertaining no doubt of the anxiety of
the Premier to comply as far as practicable with their
wishes. The Telegraph describes sileo as discreet
and statesmanlike the language held by Mr. Bright
yesterday at a private gathering of the leading English
reformers. It appears that at this meeting Mr. Bright
urged moat forcibly upon his fellow reformers the vital
necessity of dropping all minor questions in the effort to
achieve the one main object—a valid extension of the
suffrage. The inequalities and anomalies of our electoral
system, manifold and gross so they are, most, be held,
be left for the present to rectify themselves. The
primary end in view most be, to admit a large pro-
portion of the non•reprssented claws within the psle of
the coestitntion ; end, to effect that purpose, the whole
streegth of the liberal party was imperatively required.
Nothing could exceed the frankness with which Mr. Bright
expressed his implicit confidence in the sincere desire of
Lord Russell to do his best for the canoe of progress, or the
readiness with which he made allowance for the great diffi-
culties which the Premier would have to encounter. The
cue thus given was faithfully followed by the different
spokesmen who yesterday addressed the Prime Minister on
the subject of reform.
Regarding the deputation as a remarkable manifestation
of publ'o opirion, the Star remarks that Lord Russell now ,
knows that to introduce a bill based on inch a sham as a
61. rating francb,se will be to disturb and not to satisfy.
Nor ran lodger clauses, in themselves thoroughly de-
sirable and 'greatly needed, be held for a moment to
supply the place of a genuine reduction of the franchise.
The large number of the working classes who live in houses
of 6/. rental, and who are ent;tled by their intelligence and
their probity to have a part in our political system, are not
to be satisfied by the announcement th►t though they are
still to be shut out iome ether persons *bo happen to live
in lodgings are to be allowed in. The lodger clause must

The Daily Ziews thinks it cannot be reasonably denied
that there is a basis of truth in she representations of the
O'Dosoghtte. The evils spoken of by him—the established
church, the land laws, absenteeism, the catholic oath, and
the rest, though not the positive provocetives of Fenianism,
nor the objects of Redirect attack, yet, in their cumulative
eff-ct, produce a languor of loyal sentiment which predis.
poses the weaker of the Irish people to yield to seditious
or treasonable incentives. They create a bad moral
and political atmosphere. It cannot, fears the Daily
News, be denied that the peasantry of three at
lead of the provinces of Ireland, and of a portion of the
fourth, have a certain vague and ill-defined sympathy with
the Fenian conspirators. Fenianism comes from America
as the cholera from Asia ; bet then it finds a nutriment
on which it feeds, and without which it could not propa-
gate itself. The more wildly Irish members wander from
the truth in their view of Irish grievances and of their
proper treatment, the more need is there of thorough in-
quiry. Their differences from each other, end from the
prevalent Eoglista opinion, show that further investigation
is necessary ; and this the Chancellor of the Exchequer
admitted that it was the duty of the government to
institute, though he objected, on grounds which an
overwhelming majority held to be valid, to be bound by
the terms which The O'Doooghtte desired to incorporate
into the address. The member for Tralee may be satisfied
that if his amendment has been lost, its object has been
piped.
The proposal of The O'Donoghue to tax absentees from
Ireland is one, the Post thinks, which eoeld be sans-
timed by those even partially conversant with the funda-
mental principles of taxation. The Irish church question
stands on a different footing; but it is e question of
much too great importance to be disposed of
by a hasty vote on an amendment to the address.
However, as the largest mem is only composed of en aggre-
gation of atoms, the O'Donoshne and those who supported
him are perhaps fairly entitled to Goateed that the emend I At the meeting of the National Association at
grievances, each as the operation of the educational and Dahlia yesterday, at which Dr. Callen was present, the
poor laws and the state of tenant right, have predisposed propriety of starting a candidate in opposition to Mr. For-
many to sedition, and that, if they had been redressed, the ' insane was under dimursion, but no decision was come to
temptations of Fenian agents from the United States would pending the answer of the government to the question to
have proved ineffective. be put by The O'Dossogbus in referents to the Lord-Lieate.
The Herald says that it is Whig rule of which the mat's declaration that government did not intend to disturb
O'Dosegbue chiefly complains. It may be admitted the principle of national eduesUoni
that the law of landlord end tenant should be Lieut.-General Windham writes to a contompo-
put on a different footinf. that the tenure of racy coatradictins some statements respecting his late
small holdings should be made more secure, and nephew. The unhappy youth, be aye, was seat to a good
estates peened by resident landlords, that almost every private school at the age of eight, and afterwards to Eton.
official I. the Irish government end every viceroy ought sot Vice-Chancellor Sir W. P. Wood took special interest in his
to be an Englishman ; end that royalty is absent for ease, sad canoed the best tutors he could find to be put about
too ions periods from the country. Our govern. him. The oaks of telbrigg fell "to pay robbery, not prodi-
meat by contemptoom rejection of appeals on these gaoy ;" sod the pester part of the money made away with
things have given grave oases of offence to the Irish during young Windham's life went in the same way. None
people. The whole 'perch indeed is worthy of our careful of his family ever mid he was mad or had delusions.
atteatioe, as an attempt to specify and to fix upon our Lord Elden said that for a man to be legally of us.
whig rulers the caves of the wide-spread sympathy sewed mind it is sot neemwary that be should have de-
among the lower classes of Irish with the Feats& eon. 'unions, provided he be so weak of iatelleet as easily to
sphasy. Os the bringing up of the report, the debate, become the prey of evil and designing promo. It was
the Herald anticipator, will bo ranneed. end new their belief in the sostadeem of this opinion that in
combatants will enter the field. dosed Windham's bsaily to try by law to saes him.
The Tefeprepk could laugh at the thought of laying They did not ennead. Time has pswved whether
the silt of a tax upon the tail of absentee the jury formed a more *street estimate of the young
loselleeds ; sad at that constant, curious fallow of the man's mind than did his family. "By the verdict
On* bleed which sashes it government reepoesible for of the jury he was Ids absolutely bee. sad. *ease-
the butter that does set come it the chore, sod the disease qua*, sneered to cola his property and his health ; to
that doss come to the potatoes. But it does mot wait to weary and earay every one esaneeted with him, and quickly
laugh—bat to Ist the Irish people know, by the way The to • home a bigger awl a bankrupt; and ultimately to
&Donoghue is listened to, that without braise the die at the early swot 11, Laois& se • elimax. ea infant
Feelass, which they will baldly seam ne of doing, we son that be has solemnly sworn before the Court of Chan.
English—" barring the aortas"—weat to do them wry is Not his Child, although the law gives it Was."

b. snarld4ioo, note setbotitute. The deputation of yes-
t.rday hes probably rendered the government and the
country a great service by pointing out thee. facts with

emphasis.

THE FIRST DIVISION OP THE SESSION.

The members who voted last night for the
O'Doooghue'e motion that the following word' be a Med to
the address its reply to the Royal sperzah :—" Humbly to
express our deep regret to her Majesty that widespread
disaffection exists; in Ireland, end humbly to represent to
her Majesty that this widespread disaffection is the
result of grave cum, which it N the duty of her
Majeaty's ministers to examine into end remove," were :
Messrs. J. Bagwell, G. R. Barry, Sir G. Bowyer,
Dr. Brady, Molars. J. Bright, G. L. Bryan, R. J.
Devarenx, J. B. Dillon, A. W. F. Orville, Colonel F.
°ravine, Sir J. Gray, Messrs. G. Hadfield, J. N. M`lienna,
D. M'Luese, J. F. Maguire, J. S. Mill, C. Moors, J. L.
O'Beirne, Sir P. O'Brien. Messrs. M. W. O'Reilly, W.
Poilard•Urquhart, T. B. Potter, D. J. Reardon. 0. Stock,
arid E. J. Synan. Tellers for the ayes, The O'Donoghne
and Mr. Blake.

It will be seen that Mr. Bright, Mr. Hadfield, Mr. J.
Stout Mill, Mr. T. B. Patter, sad Mr. it'Lann are the
ode members not representing Irish oonstitnencion who
voted for the amendment. The majouity includes most of
the aivanoed liberal piny, lit well u government men and
oosserratives. The metropolitan members, Messrs. Craw-
ford, Lawunoe, T. Hushes, W. T. Torrens, John Locke,
Captain Grosvenor, Aldermen Leek, Mr. Llyard, Harvey
Lewis, and T. Chambers, voted &gaunt the amendment.