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London, England, 1860-04-21 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 21.

IT would be hard to say whether the speech of
Lord baker on Thursday night or that of Lord
Carr was the most intolerant of popular right, or
the most insulting to popular feeling. There are
no such Tories as your recreant Whigs. Both
these noble lords started in political life as Liberals,
and both for some years identified themselves with
the carrying o f Liberal nwasures; but each of them
betrayed very early the hollowness of his seamed
sympathy with the vulgar mass of industry
and intelligence, and the indomitable inveteracy
of that oligaiellic spirit which has rendered each
of them personally and politically so unpopular.
The utter scorn with which these hereditary de-
fenders of hereditary monopoly treat the most
m•wlerate and limited demands made on behalf
of millions of the working classes might well
extort expressions of painful amens from the
wiser and caluierminded leader of the Upper
House. Lord GamsviLut deprecated earnestly,
though unavailingly, the recklessly offensive bus-
image used by Louis DERBY and GREY, provocs-
ti%e tiny must inevitably be of deep and bitter
feelings of resentment from the great main of the
Lord Can• asked with a impercilions air
--of what psosible advantage could the electoral
franchise lie to a working man 1 And tool Deasy
del not hesitate to renew his nisqualitied adhesion
to the pnriciple upon which his Bill of last year
was bawd, namely, that there should be no exten-
sion of the suffrage in boroughs below ten pounds.
To enfranchiee even the comparatively small pro-
portion of the skilled artisan clam contemplated
by She present Bill would he to endanger pro.
perty, disturb the be/ance of the constitution !Li
now aristocrstimily fixed, and would ultimately
end in the overthrow of the monarchy itaelf.
Lon' Dmier's offhand say of justifying this
iwiustrous hill oti the intention of the
Government awl the character of the
great body of the nation is eminently charac-
teristic. In J 4 towns, he telts us, the increase of
the constituency was likely to be from lOU to 350
per cent. ; "and em..... 1.0 aall 4, in agreeing to this
" addition to the constituencies, they would be
" putting an irresistible temptation into the
" hands of the foetal class of the community to
" tae for their own benefit, and with an ignorant
" prodigality, those higher classes whom they very
" erroneously supposed to be the authors of the
•' great expenditure of the country. They were
" invited to give to the lower clamed a prepom
" deriding coritiol, as was the case in the United I
" Matas, over the financial expenditive of the
ttttt try."

11.0 shall be quite content to stake the whole
of tivi pending ivsue on the truth or falsehood, the
tenability or the untenability, of the statement
Isere made. Argument on the subject would
be utterly burs s here every fact and every
inference is flag! mitrue. First of all, there
is no such clam of towns as that arbitrarily
assumed by Lord Dee sv as capable of the descrip-
tloll he Lea given. .As well might he talk of the
class characteristics of persons whore incomes varied
from two thou.,uul to two hundred thousand a
year, or of person,: shoal knowledge varied from
capacity to make am observation Sc to the longitude
at sea to the gift of being able to discover some
new law of the universe. There may be
WOW half score towns which under the present
1141 will treble their constituencies ; but there are
not thirty•fou: , 11.4 All; like it. Under the