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London, England, 1860-01-03 00:00:00

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LONDON. TUJIBD4Y. JAZ 3.

ThrtlL vg rawmtly anti-Reformers of every
degree clung to the hope that ere the Seusion of
1860 opened some crisis in foreign affairs, or
emergency in domestic matters, would) arise suf-
ficiently grave to serve as a pretext for once more
defining a change in our electoral system. Accord-
ing to thew worthies the system works admirably.
Corruption by wholesale and in every variety of de-
tail cannot be denied; but the practical upshot
is, that every man of good family and good
position can get into Parliament if he only has the
pluck to run a certain risk ; and what more is to be
desired ? Great communities are indeed without
representation, and greet classes of the very best of
the people are without part or lot in the matter ; but
what signifies their discontent? They are hardly
deemed worthy of being admitted to enrol-
ment as volunteers; and as for being suffered to
become voters, the notion is utterly hateful
and absurd. The system as now constituted
works well, too well for the working of it to be
easily or willingly surrendered; and the country
being tranquil, the people generally employed, and
parties well nigh balanced in the State, there seemed
but lately to be ground to reckon on the aooeptiuses
of some plausible excuse for breaking the pledges
given and promises made of a comprehensive measure
of Reform. But the fear of an impending rupture
with France is passing away ; and even the chances
of serious complications arising out of the contem-
plated Congress are grown faint and dim. Instead
of heading a reactionary league of the Latin nations
against England, NAPOLION 111. has broken off
relations with altramontrugans, affronted the Papal,

royal, and imperial prejudices ot legitimacy
throughout Europe, and frankly accepted the anta-
gonistic principle on which constitutionalism is
founded in this country, in the Plather-
lands, in Sweden, Piedmont, sad Spas.
A new bond of amity sad accord is thus likely to
be established between England and France ; and
when France and England are at one, the world
is tranquiL
Nothing can be more unpropitiose to the sinister
purposes of our anti• Reformers in high places than
such a state of affairs. But with the devotion of
bigots to a bad faith, they are busily martin Wpm,
tied devices for spoiling what they can so leapt bye
to prevent. They denim not only to mac the
ediascy of the nemare Ministers are bowed to lay
on the table vim Parliament meets, bat they is

scram to deprive it of all colour of earneetame
calculated to rally amything resembling popularity.
To accomplish these midi • notable suggestion has
bees made :—to divide the arw» into two
separate bills, one of which shall relate exclusively
to the franchise, the other as exclusively
to the redistribution of sesta. Both, it is
recommended, should be limited to England and
Wales ; and the subsequent introduction of similar
measure, for Scotland and Ireland ought, it is Mil,
to be conditional on the success of them, and cm the
period of the minion when they shall have bees dis-
posed of. By this means it is hoped that popular
confidence and sympathy may be kept is 'berme,
and that seeds of distrust between different section'
of Liberals within the walls of Parliament may be
gradvally sewn.
Proposals for the extension of the county suffrage
to la, and that in ►oroughs ji Al., would, it
is feared, enlist an amount of popular support not
easily resistible if modest once for the Called King-
dom, therefore it is that the plan of division le in
preference urged. Again, it I. felt and hued that if