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London, England, 1858-06-10 00:00:00

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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

A SPECIAL EDITION of the "EXPRESS,'
enstainiag the :multi of the dey's Races, is pub-
Ished artery evening during the Sporting Season, at
adz o'clock.

TM!'. evening the Noun of Compose will be called
Lopes b sanotion is the forum of a Statute the oft-
' -ropsated proposal to extend the Franchise in Colin-
'ties Is all occupiers of premises worth WI. a year.
-As fa quesalca of political prudence, or of social
equity, the merits of the proposal were never
much contested and they have sow for some time
been treated as in the abstract incontestable. It

is admitted by the most stolid of Tory squires,
and by the most incorrigible of Whig im-
pediments to progress, that however large
the numerical addition to tie aggregate of
erint y voters might be, the actual amount
of change which it would probably occasion
in the whole of that branch of the representa-
tion would not he very enuiderable. The small
people in the small eoantry towns would still, under
the present unprotected mode of voting, be subject to
all these eircuanjaceut and overawing influences
which render farm tenants at will confessedly so
malleable in the hands of landlordism. In certain
eases where property happens to be more than
usually divided in the surrounding neighbourhood,
or when a eanatarvailing weight of some species of
trade or maeufacture happens to exist, there may no
doubt boa nameable chance for something like real
liberty of opinion for the class which it is proposed to
enfranchise; and in entities where the rival
strength of parties in the upper ranks of society
happens to be pretty nearly balanced the
new 101. constituency might now and then prove
a outing weight in the scale of aristocratic liberalism.
But nobody believes seriously that a score of county
seats would be permanently taken from the ranks of
assistance, and given to those arrest progress. It is
not upon any such ground that the concession will be
opposed_ What the unreasoning conservatism of
Parliament is affected by is the selfish and short-
sighted fear that is unable to calculate whereabouts
the practical consequences of the contemplated
change would fall. (Matins!, and inarticulate
obstructive, sit panic-stricken during a discussion
of such a subject, like so many old women during
• thunder-storm. They have been told repeatedly,
nay, they admit to one another in low mutterings,
that, terrible as it looks, the lightning is sure not to
do many of them harm ; but each of them trembles
for her own maim' sake, not knowing whether it
may not be her individual fats to become an ex-
ample of the power of this strange and incalculable
element. Were it, indeed, proposed that the inde-
pendent exercise of the new franchise should be
guaranteed by means of the Ballot, we should be
lees surprised at the craven obduracy of the reeistant
classes we have referred to. But u the meagre is
now presented—a mere fractional part of a general
scheme of electoral reform—it seems to us little
short of legislative idiocy to place any serious ob-
stacle in the way of its adoption.
Men like Lord STANLEY, Sir Ftrzaov KELLY, and
Sir Botwita LYTTON cannot plead, however, any
such fool's pardon in abatement. They know full
well how little there is of a revolutionary character
in this 101. county franchise Bill. They cannot, with
grave faces, resist it on the groand above described.
That may do for the NEWDLOATI,XNIGIITLIT, and
BESTINCE 1010010 f politicians ; bat bat MAJESTY'S
present Ministers, after their pompons professions
upon the hustings, of readiness to outbid their ofilciall
rivals in the way of Reform, cannot in common
decency Niggle or boggle at this safest and slowest
step in the right direction. For them there must be
some other pretext found. W hat will that
pretext be ? It will not do to set up
the old weather - beaten scarecrow of " A
" general measure of Reform next Session." We
hare had enough and more than enough of that
impudent hoax. For six stagnant years it has been
duly brought forth and paraded, first by the Govern-
ment of Lord Asanocco, and then by that of Lord
PALMEILRTON ; and each time, as it has been pro-
duced, every heartless and hollow impostor in the
train of dishonest leaders has smiled and bowed
approvingly, and with solemn effrontery told his
constituents that coming events cast their shadows
before. Rot the constituencies and the people at
large are at length convinced that from first to last
the oft-repeated promise was nothing but a cheat ;
and if the I)erbyite Cabinet have really any
intention of bringing forward a comprehensive
measure next session, the very best thing
they can do ia to keep elm of the im-
putation of trying to trade upon their pre-
decessors' broken promises. Be that as it may,
no toleration will be given to any attempt on
their part to baffle specific measures of improvement
by resort to the exposed and scouted charlatanism
of Lard PALMERSTON and Lord ABERDEEN. Let
them say, if they please, that by further Reform
they never meant any genuine abatement of popular
exciintion : that will at least be intelligible and
manly; we shall then know what we hare to ex-
pect, and be prepared to set accordingly. Let them
say, if they will, that the addition of so many 101.
occupiers would make several of the county oonsti-
tax,,,:iss ineemeniently large, and, we shall freely
admit the truth or the assertion la a matter
of fact ; but, as • matter of we
shall reject the exam as a valid one
for not passing Mr. LOCKE KING'S Bill.
Middlesex, the West Riding, and South Lanoeshbo

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