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London, England, 1860-07-11 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 11.

&ME of those who have been the most reckless
hitherto in stimulating Reaction seem to have just
found out that even for their purposes it may go
too fast and too far. By dint of whipping and
spurring, it has been impelled to surmount ob-
stacles which, so long as any regard to decency or
prudence was observed, appeared to be insuper-
able : pledges the most solemn, and principles the
most thoroughly established, have alike been
counted as nought in the political steeplechase we
have seen ridden of late, and in which those who
once wore opposite colours have emulously joined.
Neither the hereditary jealousy of parties, nor the
traditional tenacity of privilege in the two Houses
of Legislature, have been able to arrest Reaction
in its mad career. The penitent professions made
by the late Ministers on the eve of their fall, and
the auction biddiags by which their successors
contrived to subvert them, have been alike dis-
regarded ; and a House of Commons which dared
not deny its need of purification and Reform has
contrived to evade the discharge of its obligations
to the country by resort to the hypocrisy of class
fears. So far as the present mnrepresentatives of
the people have power or rule, the disfranchise-
ment of industry and intelligence is to be perpetual,
and the right of the aristocracy to nominate
one half the members of the Lower House is not
to be in any degree limited or curtailed. Except
Mr. HURRSII A Nv nobody pretends tobe unconscious of
the fact that a moiety of the so-called House of
Commons is thus chosen. With consistent indis-
cretion the ultra-Conservative member for Stroud

draws attention to the identity of the element whereof
the two Houses were composed in 1830, as if that
identity had subsequently ceased to exist. But
no one can be duped for a moment into forgetful-
ness of how the fact stands. So far from there
being fewer sons, brothers, and other relatives of
peers in the Lower House now than there were
before the first Reform Bill, there are actually •
greater number, and it is a number that is steadily
increasing. It is not, indeed, as formerly, by means.
of rotten boroughs that the system of nomination
is maintained. Up to 1831, the counties were
comparatively free ; they are now for the most
part absolutely subject to the dictation of one
or two great lords. It is Lord DERBY'S
boast that they are so ; close counties
have taken the place of close boroughs in the
usurping system of oligarchy—that system which
any measure of Reform worthy of the name must
tend more or less to break down. Our columns
yesterday recorded the latest intelligence u to the
practical working of that system. The Marquis
of Ananias has great possessions in the counties
of Tyrone and Donegal. As a holder of perma-
nent office at Court, and connected by property
and faintly with other parts of the kingdom, he is
seldom long resident on his Ulster estates ; and
nature has conferred on him none of the qualit;es
which fit men in high station to sway by guiding
opinion. But Lord ABEROORN possesses that
which, for Parliamentary purposes, is better than
intellectual distinction or social influence : he has
vast territorial power—he has used it for many
years to compel Tyrone to submit to the nomina-
tion of his brother as one of its members, and he
is now about to compel Donegal to accept his son,
a stripling without personal fitness or claim of
any description, as its non-elected repre-
sentative. A resident gentleman in the latter
county, of good fortune and ability, had
gone half way through his canvass, and
would have succeeded in fairly winning the suf-
frages of his neighbours and friends ; when lo ! a
decree is issued from Baron's Court, announcing
that the young lord just come of age would sit
for the county himself, whereupon Mr. STEWART,
after consulting his friends, and finding a league
of the two or three chief county peers against
him, declares he has no choice but to succumb.
And this is the system which Whigs and Tories,
Lords and Commons, have conspired to perpetuate
during the present session.
And es their course has been regarding Reform,

so has it likewise been respecting taxation.
Genuine panic LIP no respecter of persons ; neither
is its counterfeit any respecter of parties. The

country has seen with surprise and shame the base
accord established between the Upper and Lower
House of Lords, as between emasculate Whiggery
and exultant Toryism, on the great question of
taxation. Let it never be forgotten that in the
last unavailing struggle to resist the insolert
usurpation of the House of Lords, class was fairly
ranged against class, and not a single aristocratic
voice was raised to maintain in its entirety the
right of the Commons to give and to annul taxes,
and the duty of the Commons to withstand the
" gigantic innovation " recently perpetrated. Mr.
Otitis-rows, Mr. BRIGHT, Mr. 0860104/4 Mr.
Coutes, Mr. STANSYELD did well ; but where
were the fops and fools of quality whom our
too credulent constituencies were content to accept
at the last election for their representatives I
Absent, dumb, or herding with • crowd of
reactionists of which the House is full. Well,
they have had their triumph and their day ;
another is to come. So complete indeed has been
the rout and discomfiture of liberalism, that
already those who have betrayed the people's
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