The Express.
London, England, 1866-03-21 00:00:00

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LONDON. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 21.

MR. Lowe, who discerns among the fatal cole•
sequences of the most moderate of Reform Bill.
a demo )lazed House of Commons and a weakened
executive, mast have felt as agreeable shock laur-.,
prise at the motion of the member for the ower
Himlets—one of the most democratic constituen-
cies in the country—lest night.
Mr. Averow, in his lucid and sensible speech,
which was seconded by • Conservative and
approved by the OHAACRLLOR of the Excminruse
and by Mr. WALFOLE, appealed to " the
" fundamental principle of the capstan-
" Lion of the House of Commons that it should
" never itself take the initiative in granting
" or voting any public money, or in levying any
" taxes upon the people; but that the entire initia-
tive in these respects rested with the Crown
" alone." He showed how, in the beginning of the
last century, an entirely new principle had been
Introduced by the plan of separating the levying
of taxes from the appropriation of the
public money, thus constituting the Exchequer
a sort of trustee between the Crown on the one
band, and the Parliament and the public on the
other. Hanoi the continual assaults by private
members upon the balance of public money in the
lachequer, in behalf of constituents of their own,
or of the supposed interests of their constituents,
or of their order or profession. To arrest this
evil the standing orders were twice reinforced,
and notably by a committee in 1852, who were
probably satisfied that they bad finally and
completely secured the sole and whole initiative of
the Crown, according to ancient and fundamental
Parliamentary law and usage, in proposing any
grant of public money. But, as Mr. AYRTON
misted last evening, though "the public gate of
" the Treasury " had been closed, a " secret
" access" had been left open to members, who had
discovered of late years many indirect way* of
charging the revenue and voting away the public,
money. No doubt, as the member for the Tower
Hamlets avowed, it is embarrassing for a member
to oppose the vicarious generosity of these benevo-
lent dispensers of the public money, and unfair to
Ministers of the Crown to inflict upon them
the duty of resisting such attempts. He therefore
proposes once for all to stop the mouths of these
assailants of the Treasury by a standing order, and
thus to close the " escape " in the restrictions
constitutionally imposed upon representatives
of clamorous deputations of class interests (as I
in the case of the Cattle Plague Bill the other
day), or it may be, as the swelling Civil
Service estimates seem to suggest, of the fancy
schemes of select coteries. Mr. AYRTON put the
principle of his motion in the clearest and strongest
light and in the briefest form when he asserted
that nothing was more desirable " is a legislative
"assembly than to tie the hands of private mem-
" bars." Mr. Lows, foreshadowing the calamities
of a Reform Bill which should enlarge the num-
ber of democratic constituencies, denounced the
deterioration of the House of Commons by a larger
infusion of schemers and jobbers, and the dete-
rioration of the Executive under the pressure of •
parliament of self-acting delegates. Although con-
vinced that to the Reform Bill of 1832 (which
spared the little Wiltshire borough) we owe all our
present blessings, he suggested, without precisely
affirming, that to the democratic element which it
introduced into the House we owe whatever symp-
toms of weakness may be discovered in the Erects-
Jive, and whatever encroachments of Parliament
upon the initiative of the Crown. No wonder, then,
that on both sides of the House the example of a
representative of the most democratic constituency
in the kingdom, rising to assert the ancient and
fundamental principles of the constitution, to for-
tify the executive government and the authority
of the Crown, and to impose restrictions
upon private members of the House, was witnessed
last evening with universal satisfaction. Mr.
AYRION, no doubt, has the " defects of his qua-
" lilies." He is somewhat eccentric and recal-
citrant as • member of • party ; but as
the representative of a popular constituency
be hes the courage to confront unpopularity in the
discharge of what he believes to be a public duty,
and he is more respectful to his country than to
his constituents. This is more than can be said of
some arietocastio squires and colonels when terri-
torial interests or army estimates are in question.
And ;it is more tolerable, as we need hardly remind
Mr. Lows, to confront unpopularity at Caine than
in the Tower Hamlets.

Their Royal Highnesses Prinoe Alfred and the
Duke of Cambridge bosomed Lord and Lady Claremo
Paget by their proem* at dieser last evening at the *obis
end pliant lord's Aloha residenoe at the Admiralty. Count
and Countess de Paris, the Duke and Dualism of earl.
borough and Lady Cornelia Churchill, Admiral Sir Rodney
Mandy, Admiral Sir Sydney C. Dames Admiral Wee, sad
Otway had the honour to meet the royal visitors at
r. Later in the evening Lady Clarence Paget had a
. and early party to meet the illustrious pleats.
The Duke of Rutland's party at Belvoir Castle,
metershirs, broke up on Monday. Ileforturstely his
.• had to be absent from his friends owing to an attack
gout.
"he Earl at Malmesbury is still suffering from a
serere attack of gout. It is most likely that the noble
will sot be able to leave tows for the BMW, recess

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