The Express.
London, England, 1859-02-07 00:00:00

(Stamped Id. AdditimmaL) [TWOPENCE.

SPURTING.

THE SPRING HANDICAPS.

SIN R. W. CARDIN, ON 81101,111.

At a dinnerof the supporters of Alderman Carden,
11. P., at Gloucester, on Friday, the worthy alderman spoke
at some length :—Lord Pahnerston has a reform bill, et, bee
L°l4 "ha Russell; and then there is Mr. Bright—(:lN
oh)--but I need not talk of him. (Cheers.) I think a man
who Wanda up in public and denounces the Established
Church, the hereditary peerage, and says that the country
will son do without a limas of Lords, dove not deserve, and
certainly will not obtain, much coneiderution from the people
of shim *mail • (Loud cheers.) Abolish the House of
Lords ! Why, what mado he members hereditary legislators ?
Mr. Bright nys that they do not possess hereditary talent.
Perhaps not ; but It I. undoubted that there is men wisdom
in the House of Lords than in thaßouesot Commons. (Cheers.)
The majority of those who compree it are thee who had made
thentsives great by their publio seriess, snd deserve to he ale-
rated by in it country, and rewarded by honours which they
can transmit to their posterity. (Loud cheers.) see seen sr
the members du not poster hereditary talent, stall, as a body,
I repeat they posna more talent than the House of Com-
mons, se'ccted as it is from all ports of the country. I be-
lieve Lord Derby, although he is oiled a conservative, is the
bast reformer in this ernutry. (Oxen) I Wine he has
done more to win public confidence than any minister is the
non period he has Coen in once. (Cheers) Ido not mean
to say that parliamentary renew le not necessary ; on the
contrary, I think it is, (Chain.) I think there are many
anomalies in the repreeentative sn'em that ought to he rec-
lined • and, depend-non it, mimeo, Lord Derby will do
' fl. (1•111.) He will give us • good, fair, and conatitu-
lyni nessare of parliamentary reform ; he win propose
I inks nermenro, no he will carry it. Iny that an extension
of the franchiseis neciveary. (Cheers.) There are anomalies
In the stele of the septennials& which ought to be rectified.
For instant" Andover has 241 registered voices; Chinned:tam
300; Harwich, 272• Honiton, 273; Tewkesbury, 373; and
Dartmouth, 302. Hero are 1,760 electors altogether, and
they return 12 members of parliament. Look, on the other
band, at Cheltenham, with 2,400 registered electors ; it
returns only on member. There is another subject to
which I will call attention. There is • Limon measure
celled the ballot. lam oppceed to the ballot-ond cheers)
—because I feel it is an-English; beense I feel that it
woad Ind to deceit and falsehood. The conservatives have
nothing to fen from the ballot ; but I oppose it as the easo-
menomeent of deceit and falsehood, and se tending to brisk
doss the right feeling and destroy the online, which
should exist between man end man. (Cheers.) Gentlemen,
in the Queen's speech allusion Is made to three important
manures of km reform, which will be promoted is the en-
suing anion by the government; and, really, I think that
the valuable time of parliament would be muck biter be-
stowed on than things than in any considersUon ea partia-
-1 mantra, refers.