The Express.
London, England, 1859-03-25 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 26.

THE pith of a lady's letter is usually found in the
postscript. Last evening, indeed till within half-an-
hour of midnight, the interest of the performance
in the House of Common was concentrated in the
prologue which was delivered by the CHANCELLOR
of the EXCHEQUER with an air of injured mag-
nanimity and awful candour "too like despair for
"prudence to smother." It seems to be the business
of certain honourable and liberal members to throw
a flying bridge across the swelling river of Reform,
for the safe retreat of the enemy's forces from the
land of promise. The Honourable Member for Shef-
field assumed the command of the liberal pontoon
corps on Friday last, and the Honourable Member
for Bridport took up his commission and did a dex-
terous bit of service in the enemy's front last night.
The maw:metre was very skilfully responded to
from the opposite side. Mr. MITCHELL with a
sad simplicity had asked the CHANCELLOR of
the EXCHEQUER whether the Government was 1,
to be understood to persist in maintaining
the uniformity of town and county franchise as the
principle of its Bill for the Reform of the Repre-
sentation of the People. Mr. DISRAELI, with that
component riles, which a solemn occasion demands,
replied, in snbstanoe, that though to answer the
question categorically would carry him too far,
be would say that her MAJESTY'S Government
would certainly not have introduced a Reform
Bill at all had they not trusted that there was
no provision in that Bill which might not be bene-
ficially submitted to calm and impartial considera-
tion in committee. For according to Mr. DisRAELI's
constitutional and strictly conservative interpreta-
tion of the Address in reply to the Speech from the
Throne, the House bad implicitly pledged itself, in
advance, to give " such a measure " its " calm
" and impartial consideration ;" whatever " such a
" measure" might turn out to be when it should be
laid on the table. Now, we ought to be incapable of
surprive at any doctrine, however new or startling,
from the lips of the great political showman who
exhibits the borough of Arundel as the repre-
sentative constituency par excellence ; but we con-
fess it did a little startle us to hear from the most de-
t?rmined admirer of party government, that because
the Liberal majority of the House of Commons had
tolerated a Tory Government for a session and a half,
it waa pledged to swallow all the nostrums which Tory
quackery may prescribe for the chronic malady of Re-
presentative Reform ; and that by simply echoing
the Speech from the Throne, it had bound itself to
treat with calm and impartial consideration—in other
words, to be content with amending in detail, instead
of rejecting altogether--the measures submitted
by the Ministers of the Crown for the time being,
who occupy the Treasury bench on sufferance, and
exist as Ministers by the grece of the Liberal ma-
jority, during good behaviour. Surely this is a very
comfortable creed for the Government of one party
ruling by favour of another. It may be that there
was more in the few words pronounced so signifi-
cantly by the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in
reply to Mr. MITCHELL, than met the ear of the
House. Perhaps the intimation, that, had the futurns
import's exams been known to the present Govern-
ment when it announced a Reform Bill, " that Bill
" would certainly not have been introduced," is the
first signal of one of those manteuvres which, in the
despatches of generals, are described as brilliant flank
movements, and are sometimes known to the calm
and impartial page of history as retreats. Between
this and Wednesd►y next we shall probably know
ji more about it : at present we see through a glass
1 darkly a sham battle, in which there are neither
w: victors nor vanquished, but complaisant dupers and
is not involuntary dupes.
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RECENT pamphleteers, and certain journalists, and
most members of the Legislature, agree in assuming
that the non-electors are ignorant of polities : there-
fore incapable of forming a judgment on political
affairs ; and therefore, again, not to be contemplated
as in any way, or under any circumstances (even
when admitted to the garage or to the House itself).
candidates for any portion of the governing power.
They may be heard, even from their own lips in Par-
liament, but they are never to dream of helping to
govern by entering the executive. This is the
Liberalism of "staunch &formate," "old Re-
" formers," " earnest Reformers," as these exclu-
sive gentry call themselves. In the very hour
that each things are said—when the working
classes are proclaimed to be well-off in the
security that they will always be protected by the
compassion of their superiors, what sort of figure
do those superiors cut before the eyes of all the
nations in Europe and Americo? The spectacle is
one of pain and disgust to all true friends of free
Government. The present House is probably one of
the worst that has met in this century, in regard to
public spirit and political principle. The incapacity
for any large view, abroad or into the future; the
hypocrisy under which personal aims attempt to
hide themselves ; the mean selfishness which talks