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London, England, 1859-05-20 00:00:00

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SONDOM. ntuutr, NAY 20.

As the late Parliament was dissolved in conse-
queues of its vote of censure upoo Ministers for having
brought forward as insufficient Reform Bill, the
first question that will naturally arise in the New

I.wham/at mast be the confirmation or reversal of

that rote. If the people, when •ppe•led to by the
Boy ZllllOll, here
returned • tosjorny of representa-
tives pledged to • more just •nd comprebeneire
'unsure thastbst whichtbeirpeedeoessors refused to

adopt, their int set as faithful stewards must be to
pot distinctly upon legislative record a clear
and emphatic declaration of the satioo's will.

It was vexatious sod troublesome enough to
have had the busineos of the session inter-

rupted for six weeks, for the porpoee of
inakiog that appeal. It baa been costly and
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woetefel enough in the reeking ; and debilitating
and injuriou, enough to the natioesl istereate abroad

Mat at each a jimetaria it should hays boot made.
Bat there is no help fur these things sow. We have
paid the price, and we now begin to Lk what have
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we got for our bargain? We are assuredly entitled
to something substastisl in the way of malt. In
their honest desire to secure as a good Reform Bill
our late Parliamentary treaties felt themselves jus-
tified in incurring ail the possible aod certain cense-

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(pumas of a diaiso:etion; fur they knew the sort of
nun 'h.:, Doi to deo:with in theprosent Cabinet,

and they neeertheleas felt it to be their ditty to pin

a Reeohalos which ►tforded them the pretext for
appealing to the cout.try. Whatever asay hays
been thought sad said of the use made
of that pretext. certain it is that the
people at liege have not repudiated those who
•forded it by voting fur the amendment of Lord
Jolty Rreeru.. Oa the contrary, they have sent
beck with every souk of honour and confidence all
the trading men who supported that Resolution ;

sod they-
hare confessedly returned to the now
Hosea of Comtism, a decided majority pledged t.
'amain the priaciples it embodied. What, thew,
will be the Snit duty of that majority after they
hays chasms a Speaker, taken the oath*, mined to
',DOW the standing orders, adopted the preliminary
steps for the 'entireties of disputed election'', sad
in a word organised thornier* for business ?
We have no hisitatlow is saying that sot a day
or as hoar should be last by the !Antal majority la
peen*/ their doter enieotioni to meatus Ike dissessisa
of the great question of the dey at the pulse
when it wan interrupted by Lord Diver's ahem
Of the prerogative. Anything short of this would
be wwwat trilling with the dictated will of tb
settee. sad ■tter self-stultification an the part of
P►rliament. Let poor. imagine for a moment that
ere an desirous of arguing the matter in a party
erase, or that we are animated by any party purpose.
Tbe great pri%ilege of the initiative in all grave and
weighty matt,* of kgialation belongs to the Admi-
■lmration of the day. There is nothing to prevent
Lord Drape and his col'eagnee, if they be so minded,
bringing forward atone. such a measure as they sow
know public opinion would approve. By doing so
they would make the only sort of amend. in their
power for the inconvecience end injury they

have caused by the dissolution. lhey would
thereby ems into court and offer to sub-
mit freshly to jadgment in appeal being ca-
tered against thew. Their doing so would no

doubt him set of humiliation, but then ministerial
fencer have grow■ supple by practice, and would
hardly refuse to bend once more. That is, however,
putty their affair ; oar's is to insist that judgment
be peremptorily entered op in the great awe of
Popular Enfranchisement against Corrupt Oligarchy.
By the 31st instant her MAJLESTY'S Miuietere must
have made up their minds either to do the peoples
bidding as expressed at the general election regard-
ing Reform, and to do so at once and without further
evasion, or to set that bidding at defiance. A plain
question, answered in plain term', will decide that
point. Parry iog and pawing will no longer dim
At the beginning of June there is no time to waste in
speciosity or Jesuitism. If the season is ►ate for going
in'o committee on a Bill to amend the representa-
tion of the people in Parliament, that is not t►e
fault of the people, or of their friends in Opposition:
t is the fault of those who have wantonly wasted
the greater pert of April and the whole of May if
an abortive attempt to obtain a majority of sham
Reformers in the House of Commons. But it were
sheer impudence to set up that factions and futile
attempt as an excuse for another year's delay. Rita
who could so far forget the deceptive of duty would
th're!y pet the millets out of the pale of all ordinary
forbearance; and would justly provoke the MOSS
summary; measures on the part of their opponente,
calculated to bring their tamer of temerity to an
immediate sad.
Should Minister., however, prove deaf to all
warning sod remonstrance, and refuse to lay urn
the table forthwith a satisfactory project of Refers,
then the leaders of the Liberal party will, we trust.
be prepared to take suitable steps for thevindica-
tion of their own consistency, and for the content-
ment of the country. A nobler opportunity could
not be afforded to men than that which the contin-
gency we have supposed would present. They have
but to place themselves at the head of the popular
movement for Reform, and to become the clear and
audible exponents of popular expectancy aed deter-
mination, and their cause is woo. let them make
the pasaarg of a broad and effective measure of en-