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LONDON, FRIDAY. APRIL 1.

AFTER seven nights' debate, Lord Jona Rucsugs
Resolution, declaratory of the justice and policy of
lowering the Borough franchise, and of retaining the
Town freeholders in the County constituencies, has
been carried by 330 to 291 votes.
The speech in which Mr. DISRAELI concluded the
debate rendered any other decision impossible in en
assembly the majority of when members notoriously
represent Liberal constituencies. For two hours the
CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER employed his
great abilities in defence of a measure which had
been condemned with an unanimity rarely seen in a
large deliberative assembly. There is scarcely an
obnoxious clause in the Bill which he did not
eulogise ; and when he declared that the maintenance
of the borough franchise at the present qualification
was one " of the three principles of the Bill," every
true friend of Reform felt that he had received a i
political challenge. Everybody expected that Mr-1
DISRAELI would defend the position of the Govern-
ment with skill and courage ; but when be profaned
himself enamoured with propositions which have
been condemned with equal energy on both aides of
the House and rejected with indignation out of doors,
it was evident that the last chance of the Govern-
ment was gone.
In the presence of tbie decisive event, it were waste
of time to recapitulate further the arguments which
have contributed to it, or to criticise the manner in
which it has been brought about. Our business to-1
day is with the fact as it stands ; and with the out-
look as to its immediate consequences. And, first of
all, we may congratulate the country that there is
an end of the ricketty and deformed Bill, whose
existence in this world of struggle has loam
but of one month's duration. It was bora
on the 28th February, and it has perished ea
the 81st March. Never was more nursing or doctor-
ing bestowed on any legislative bantling ; and seldom
hel a greater amount of benevolent sympathy been
bestowed by ditinterested strangers, touched by
helpless cries. No end of venturous operations were
,ecommended and even attempted to set the mil-

ahapen streight ; but all the skill of surgery has
proved vain, the painful gaspiags for life are over,
and the Deformed Us-transformed is happily for its
authors and for us at rest. We are entering upon
the third month of a Session devoted by common
consent to the revision of the Representation of the
People in Parliament; and all we have got is a ge-
neral resolution come to after much controversy,

that it is not expedient to disfranchise certain
county freeholders, and that it is expedient
considerably to enlarge the number of electors
in towns. As the first part of this Resolution is
strictly negative, we may safely dismiss it from
further consideration. The attempt to despoil the

counties of their most liberal and independent ele-
ment has been successfully resisted, and we may
take for granted that in our time no one will ever
try to make away with it again. But the second
part of the Amendment of Lord Jolts RUSSELL
new become a substantive effirmation, on all sides
there will arise the pressing and importunate ques-
tion, what specifically does it mean ? How mush
is there involved in it, or how little? Its noble
author has hitherto refrained from expounding in
detail wh►t in his view is its legitimate scope and
bearing. But that exposition must now come
and we cannot doubt that Lord JOHN RussELL
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will justify the confidence he his asked from
the House, and which they have shown they
felt in his courage and judgment by the vote that
they have just given. For what is that vote but a
general concurrence in the sentence expreeeed by the
aristocratic Nestor of Reform, that Ministers had
failed to provide adequately for the growing wants
and expectation. of intelligent industry ; and that no
measure ought to be adopted that did not do so?
Palpably the first and moo irresistible inference is
that the House must and will insist upon the speedy
production of a measure that shall be in this as in
other respects satisfactory. Acquiescence in any_
thing short of this would not only be an act of self.
stultification on the part of Parliament, but a prac-
tical confession that the seven act drama we have
jest had played out was a solemn juggle
and an egregious fraud. We have no fairs,
however, of any such result. On all sides
there has been msnifeeted a desire, selfish per-
haps, but all the sincerer therefore, to come to some
sort of settlement during the present session. By
one set of men, if not by another, the construction of
a Bill in accordance with the now clearly understood
dispositions of the House, must be essayed without
delay. The coantry is tranquil, but it is observant
and suspicious. Public men, hy the confession of
more than one of them in the late debate, have no
respect and influence to spare, no more opportunities
of usefulness to throw away. It is when the bowl
L undisturbed, the cream is easiest gathered; let it
rest for a little too long and it mud= imperceptibly
and turns irredeemably sour.
Wiesner Lord DIARY and his colleague will
accept the reproof which has been administered to
them as an admonition or a sentence, a very few days
must show. lithe former, they ought not to lose an
hour in endeavouring to recover their lost position
as leaders of legislative opinion, by setting attest the
teak for whose perforinteee dors ere may st♦d able