The Express.
London, England, 1858-06-14 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

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adz .'clock.

WHILE a numerouserction of the Party of Pro-

yew in the House of Commons hare been trying
daring the present session, not wholly without
enemas, to raise again the too long prostrate standard
•f earnest sod practical Reform, attempts at a
•ewantervailing movement have undisguisedly been
snaking by the more oligarchic section of the Whig

oligaray: The unfounded rumour (for the e;

Premier himself has declared it to be unfounded)
that a Reform Bill of toms sort bad been prepared
• last winter, and was likely to be produced this sea-
_

Mon, drew forth from Lord GREY a long and tedious
• protest, in the shape of a pamphlet in five acts,
against all further concessions of popular power,
without countervailing and compensatory restraints
and shackles on the popular will. The bubble of a
Palmeratonian Reform Bill having burst, and the
Palmerstonian Cabinet itself being dead, Earl
GREY'S admonitory functions might for a time have
been at an end but for the appearance of danger
to the monopoly of caste in a new quarter. The
Tory Government ia making signs, doubtful and
equivocal enough, but still wearing the look of
signals to advance in the right direction. They re-
fuse to give any positive pledge about a general
measure of Reform ; they resist the Ballot and the
Ten-pound County Franchise; but, on the plea that
they regard the Property Qualification for Members
as absolutely nugatory and obsolete, they have con-
sented to let this smallest of concessions pass.
Whereupon Lord Garr re-appears in the character
of Caesandro, denouncing the balk of the popular
party who ask for the Ballot and extended Franchise
as revolutionists ; clamouring for some compensatory
move in favour of the ascendancy of wealth ; and
warning the Tory party that they were in imminent
danger of being betrayed by the compliance of men
like Lords Deane and SALISBURY with the desires
and demands of the vile and vulgar bulk of the na-
tion. Danger, indeed, there is in the present condi-
tion of things, though not of the kind Sir CHARLES

WOOO pretended to fear when he tried to cajole
people into voting for Mr. CARDWELL'S motion, or
of the kind his relative in the Upper House professes
to dread if the Property Qualification Bill is per
milted to peas, without some new encroachment on
the personal feeling of the less opulent classes of the
community. The question of privilege from arrest
is one which ought in all decency and just:oe to be
discussed calmly and upon its own intrinsic merits.
It is one which can never be raised as rip rds the
Lower House without being applied to the Upper.
A. regards the case of bankruptcy, Parliament has
already vindicated its own honour from reproach ;
and there is, we believe, a very general disposition
to extend the spirit of recent mnolmente to cases of
insolvency or fraud after the issisies of a eompotent
tribunal. But, II was well pointed oat by the LORD
Otter icericz the other evening, to give the indis-
criminate and unlicensed power of arrest under any
circumstances to any creditor who for persenal
or political purposes may desire to inflict
• public humiliation on a Member of either
House of Parliament, would be to raise
a very serious and very odious question,
and one which no right minded man would dream of
originating in the House of Peers. But Lord GREY
is a true type of the bigoted, exclusive, and over-
reaching section of aristocracy to which he belongs.
His father made it has boast that, should the day of
extremity ever come, he would be found ready to
"stand by his order." Bat in everything the wise and
courageous leader of Liberalism in bad times is
caricatured by him who in days when there is
neither excitement nor disaffection to apprehend, nor
the perfidious intrigues of o Court to withstand.
raises wantonly and wilfully a cry of reaction, and
who is not ashamed, es one of the leaders et a
Whig opposition, to play for the plaudits of the linger-
ing Alf Talmo of tbe Tories who sit behind Lord DERBY.
If the Liberal party is ever to be re-constructed

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on a firm or energetic basis, it must be with • clear
and positive understanding as to the policy to
be pursued by those whom it may choose for Its
leaders. Anti-reform notions, like those of the
GREYS and WOODS, hive been tolerated too long in
the councils of the party. Twenty years ago these
very men seceded from Lord MELBOURNE'S ()OTOS..
tient avowedly because the Ballot was made an
open question ; and during the remaining years of
Its existence they were the pertinacious allies of the
Tories on the most critical occasions. Time, which
seems to have the effect on other men of eradi-
cating prejudices and mollifying the exclusive ten-
dencies of class, appears to render them only more
impracticable and insufferable in their hostility to
popular rights. There is no use disguising the matter.
The Party of Progress are at the present nicatent
broken and powerless because they have been
shamefully misled and betrayed; and there is ao
hope for the resuscitation or renovation of the party
until they shall make choice of men to lead them
whose reputation has never been tarnished by sob-
merviency to foreign despotism, or treachery to
domestic freedom.

SHRIMP Oott,re has j:Wt been dealing with is
sztraoroinary ease of prison disc:cline at Forfar. A
Wild, named WILLIAM BUINS, only ten
was brought before bim charged with running sway
from a place called • The Roadie Reformatory," te
which he had been committed by the polio. magi..
trate. at Dundee after a fortnight's provisos
imprisonment.

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