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London, England, 1858-10-29 00:00:00

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FOR the filet time since his election for Birming-
ham, Mr. BRIGHT has found himself sufficiently re-
covered from the effects of his recent indisposition to
meet his constituents. Between him and them
there seemed formerly to be no special es penile/
sympathy. Birmingham, like most of our gnat
industrial communities, which owe their greatnem,
and feel that they owe it, to the self-reliant working
out of their own ideas and capabilities, hes always
had its political and intellectual idiosyncrasies, and
far from being disposed to qualify or disguise them,
it has generally taken can, in the selection of its ns-
presentative@ and the expression of its will, to make
these distinctive characteristics felt. But while
adhering to this rale in the main, the people of
Birmingham have not ceased to be as English as
the rest of their countrymen, and they have
not, therefore, ceased to be tolerant, generous, and
Jost. They differed oftentimes with Mr. Baum!
on questions of public policy ; but the difference did
not blind them to his talents or hie services as a
public man. And when by a scandalous coalition of
Whigs and Tories, he was driven from Parliament
at the general election of 18,57, the people of Bir-
mingham beard the tidings with disgust, and re-
sented the wrong with mute but deep indignities.
They felt that a truthful, able, and courageous 'hid
of the great class to which they belong had had bid
play ; sad that from the too limited Teaks of the
people's real representatives in Parliament, a man
bad been struck down who did not deserve it, and
who could not be spared. In • few months the re-
presentation of their town falling vacant, they re-
solved unanimously to elect him in his absence, and
thus at once to repair the shameful fault Manchester
lad committed, and to administer the most dignified
and at the manse time the most expressive reproof to
the cum-plotters of Piccadilly and Pell-mall.
And now, for the firm time, Mr. BRIGHT has the
opportunity of meeting the men of Birmingham
face to face, accounting for his past omission in this
respect, and thanking them for their conduct to-
wards bun. He does so gracefully and well, with
the self-respect and brevity characteristic of a
proud-hearted man, but with the delicacy and feel-
ing of a man whose gratitude has been touched to
the quick. The allusions to his late prostration of
body and mind. traces of which be seems to have
Mill about him, are equally free from the unworthy
affectation of infirmity and the boastful reas-
surance of strength. But whether his actual
vigour be or be not less than it used to
be, he declares himself ready to gird himself
once more for the battle of the people, and eager to
participate in the coming tray. To some there may
appear, perhaps, rather more than requisite of a
tone and spirit of pugnacity in his mode of dealing
with the subject of Parliamentary Reform. We
do not ourselves concur in the opinions be bee
mrpremed on some incidental topics ; and there ine
others which, for the sake of the cause, we bad rather
be bad omitted altogether. We are. however,for keep-
fag the middle of the road during our morels together
OR a great undertaking, and suffering an inanity of
minor objects to pave =contended foe, and at the
time unheeded, rather than distract at sr
lemon the general zeal by efforts which, however
legitimate and right, are unessential to the main
and in view. We decline, therefore, to be lured into
the byways of eontroverey which Mr. flaw= here
and there temptingly opens up ate.
A gnat MON is at lane, we in whisk the
welfare and sententment of the bulk of the nation is
involved, and one which by anima, pesseueremek and
deasemieation may, we believe, be wee. Whether
the complete triumph of repreesotative right ma be
attaised in a stogie battle or in one sampaign, we
knew net. Mr. BRION?, like other want men,
would seem inc.ined to say, if we comet get ell the
messtial things we ask next session, we will take
none. We do not say so; bet while we declare, it
berme the moat plain and unequivocal, that to say-
thing like • settlement of the question of Reform a
widely extended franchise, the protection of the
ballet, • re-distribution of electorates, and a diminu-
tion of the wet of elections, are each and all of them
indispensable, we are not prepared rashly to pledge
ourselves to reject any and every Bill beams it may
net Notate the whole of these sessatials. If the pri-
vileged orders are tools enough to think that they can
bay off the popular demands for justice by conceding
adekitiesal means for enforcing them, let the ems-
sequences be upon their own heads. They have tried
this vain policy before, and reaped nothing bat
humiliation and thavklesenese from it. Grudgingly
Red timidly they yielded bit by bit of sectarian
ltheety,alwaye nursing something the people would
not forego, until at last they were compelled, under
threats of violence and tumult, to pass Cothelis
Emancipation. Untaught by experience, they
played the same game with commercial liberty.
teas after another the fondly prized items of restric-
tion were lung overboard ; and in the end the most
dearly cherished remnant of all was wrenched from
them with ehoutsof triumph, and amid the tolling of
the death-bells of parry power. Let the aristocracy
at their peril repeat the same suicidal impolic-• now,
when the disfranchised iuduatry mid intellect of the
country, weary of waiting, comes to demand its'
eights. But let us not, through any passing irrita-
tion or impatience, be led into diruLog popular

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