The Express.
London, England, 1867-05-11 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 11.

TIM politicians who cannot look beyond a single
division, and the measure which it virtually
secures, are likely to be either unduly elated or
unduly depressed by the vote of Thursday even-
ing. If anything is certain about the Reform
Bill of the present Government, it is that it can-
not be even a temporary settlement of the ques-
tion with which it affects to deal. If it achieves
anything it will achieve only what Mr. MILL
calls " the unrivalled feat of making a re-
" doublement of agitation both inevitable and
" indispensable." This is the consequence of
seeking peace rather than the basis of a just
peace. It is ridiculous to imagine that an ar-
rangement which Mr. GLADSTONE, Mr. BRIGHT,
and Mr. MILL decline to accept, and regard as per-
nicious, can be durable. Mr. DISRAELI is an un-
rivalled parliamentary manceuvrer, for the simple
reason that his compeers and superiors in the
House of Commons shrink from the arts to which
he is not ashamed to prostitute a fine genius. He
has his reward ; but the reward is of necessity a
short-lived one. Grave constitutional questions are
not to be settled by parliamentary manoeuvring.
It may suit Mr. Duotssu's purpose, or gra-
tify a passing mood of insolent triumph, to repre-
sent the opposition to the vital points of his mea-
sure as inspired by the spirit of faction,
and to restrict the candour and generosity
which he attributes to the House of Commons to
the fifty or sixty real or nominal Liberals who have
voted with him. But Mr. DISRAELI cannot deceive
himself into the idea that a compromise with
these fifty or sixty members is a real settlement.
The passage of the Bill of the present Govern-
ment may put a stop to discussion in the House of
Commons during the existence of the present
Parliament ; but if the Bill become law, the pre-
sent Parliament cannot survive the organization of
the new constituencies which it will create. It has
in this case probably only one clear session before it.
The remnant of its life will be disquieted by dis-
content and agitation out of doors. Its dissolution
will be the signal of a new struggle. The
elections will turn, for the first time
during the last thirty-five years, on the question
of Reform, and tho new Parliament will ad-
journ the strife from the hustings to St.
Stephen's. The Bill of the Government is so
felicitously framed as not simply to keep alive
agitation, but to extend and embitter it. At
present the demand of those who are without, is
that a considerable section of them shall be
fairly brought within the pale of the Parliamentary
Constitution. The Bill of the Government
does not honestly meet this demand ; and it
creates new causes of dissatisfaction. It
will foster ill feelings between a favoured mino-
rity of householders, to whom it grants electoral
facilities, and the aggrieved majority, from whom,
on transparently disingenuous pretences, it with-
holds them ; between the propertied classes, who
in vestry assembled regulate the franchise of
their parishes, and the poorer classes whose privi-
leges are thus disposed of ; between the occupiers
of small tenements who desire votes, and the
compounding landlords whose interest it is to
keep their tenants off the rate-book and the re-
gister ; between the towns which the Bill candidly
and liberally enfranchises, and those which it
shackles indirectly with disabilities. Well-dis-
posed and right-minded men, who may be com-
paratively indifferent to politics, and lukewarm on
the subject of reform, but who care for peace and
justice, will be almost forced into agitation for the
redress of the inequalities which the Government
measure creates. Only one way of accomplishing
this end will be open to them. The advanced
post cannot be called in. The main body can

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