The Express.
London, England, 1859-01-31 00:00:00

ALECTION INTELLIGENCI.

EAST WORCESTIERMIMLE. Mr. John Blaney
Pakington, ron of the Fhat Lord of the Admiralty, Is now •
candidate fur the representation of East Worcestershire.
Late on Friday that gentleman issued an addreas announcing
that he hat acceded In oho wishes of many influential friends
to allow himself to be put in nomination. He asys :
" While my political principles ere conservative, no man
can bo more sincerely deatrous thin myself to promote
progressive improvement, both social and political ; and,
ea I believe these to be the sentiments of the present
ministry, I should, as your representative, love to the
government of Lord Derby &general but Independent support.
I am firmly attached to the protestant church of Hogland
and anxious for the proper maintenance of her venerable
fabrics ; but, et the same time, 1 am opposed to the com-
pulsory exaction of church rates from those who conrcienti-
early object to them ; and I would support this principle in
any measure which may be brought forward with the hope of
rattling this long-disputed questim. In the same spirit I
would be willing to give my support to any measure which,
haring for its object the imprortunint of our reproaenta-
live system, will combine a just deem to extend popular
rights with due regard to the malotenexce of theconsutntion.
I also attach great importance to the amendment of our laws,
and would promote any well-conaidoted attempt to 'Stet that
PurPoort"

TORNIO, POLICY OP THE GOVERIMENT.

We read in the Observer :

We said that we were alarmed at some tendencies Is the
press to drew us, or to drift us, something like the
vest war which our fathers waged for so many year. fur the
deliverance or the settlement of Europe, and which delivered
nobody, and settled nothing, altos all. How much more
must we be alarmed at a presage which we find in a weekly
piper yesterday, which at one time spoke the opinions of
some members of the government, and which professes to
speak their sentiments now upon authority
When the proceedings in perPament give the Bide-. and
proper opportunity for esplanades, we are saddled that
will be exhibited on the part of Lord Derby's government a
foreign policy which will he decided and unmistakeable, as
well as intelligible to every man of common sense, whether
initiated diplomate or untrained citizen. That is what this
couotly wants. That is what other European powers have
a right to look for from England—a bold, explicit decleration
of pnlicy founded upon international law and Immutable
principles, which Manny that while we hold our band from
intervention, we look upon and shall treat the power that
shall stir up war directly and openly, or indirectly from
behind a stalking horse, for the purpose of her own ambition,
as en enemy to the peace of Bernie."
These be brave words. We have no solution to oda-, but
to doubt courteously the authority with which our 15,ntem-
porery affects to speak. The government is not mad enough
for this. The power is, of course, France—the sulking.
horse Sardinia, who are about to "stir up war in Europe for
the purposes of their own atubitiou." And we are told that
" the government will announce these opinions when par-
liament meets in a tone that will bo decided and unmistake-
able," We meat tette leave to doubt this. We do not
Wave in any em .h trilling with n responsible and meows
position. We would not tidies', 1-, even if we thought—
which we do not—that it wee the policy of any set of ',tales-
teen to treat England to another cooly war for the stollen-
anent of tertian or Papal role to Italy, where they have
already lasted too long. We are told that we must no: join
in • sentiments," war in favour of Italian freedom. Be
it so. But the., would bo neither tense nor sentiment in
embroiling °madras ahh powerful allies ter the purpote of
maintaining cr restoring the eruct and grasping tyrannies of
Italy, which hove an lung outraged the feelings and a) mpe-
thies of every British wind.

k The Memorial Dipromatigae, a Paris journal estab-
lished to promote Austrian intereete, says in its number of
yestsedey :
" Thedese relation which since the tinnier of the P rincess
Royal have existed between the courts of London and Berlin,
the conformity of their views, sail their common debits to
consolidate the peace which to to oreus try to Europe, have
reaulted In an agreement between the two powers as to the
armies to be followed in any mac of the eventualities which
the preeett erieio glee. reason to aryreh,od. Tires two
poison, which are wetting together actively for the mainte-
MUM of pe. es end concord, have Fives it to be understood
that to the event—happily very inprobabie—of their pacific
efforts not being. crowned with eurc.ao. they eid be ~central
If war should break out only between Piedevet and Anetria;
but that if the tame neutral attitodo should not be °Merited
by all other meow, they renew, their liberty of action. It
L the existeaca of that fact, little known out of diplomatic
circles, and falsely interpreted in others, witch has given rise
to the retart of mean
cab! having been signed between
Austria, titen, and Englund—,a rumour utterly devoid of
foundatioz."
The Jic..oettel flipironntifer also mutable the following
paragropbe :
letar from London that the Crieen's speech, en the
op.*, of potheisneet next Thursday, will be pacific. but
tlem—very iirta Mewl. It will have for Ito text the respect
of trcaier, ant e xoepting the Meatiest of 1815. We are further
informed that it Lori Palmereton commits the iropnelenos
of attacking the cabinet on the subject of the Lombardo-
Venetian provinces, the present Secretory for Foreign Albin
will not hesitate to lay before the House of Commune the
secret despatches of Lord. Pah:cent= himself on that
qurlion.
A letter front Lordon etatesthat, after the consultation of
ministers which was held en the 25th, at the residence of the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, several members of the cabinet
expressed to their political friends a firm conviction that the
peace of Europe will not be disturbed. Lord DI ahricebury
had addressed to the Britannia representative at Turin a
despatch, with instructions to read it Count
peering to to order that Piedmont may not deceive herself AS lo
the true infectious of England. li le added that the maniere
of Tieur.a limo canlilenti.liy announced to the two courts of
Prance and Eugland than, not to give cause for false inter-
pretations, it has provisiortally suspended the despat. h of
naili!ary teitiformeuenta to Italy."

NOVEL. EMFLOYMENT FOR A PIGEON.—A few
days ago ea a man named James Made yam leaving the
Barnet railway station be suddenly burst • blood vessel. He
War inetastly rmveyed to the Bernet union workhouse, and
although every attention was paid to hire he very charily
expired. It appeered be bad gone to Bernet to mut some
carrier pigeons, and rather a novel experiment was tried to
dieoover hie Wendt.. A onto yea attached to one of the
pes..., and it wax inatently liberated. The ?milk was, Ilrat
pi
a brother of the driveled arrived at Barnet and ner,gui,„ea
the dead body of hie relative is about an hour afterward,.
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LONDON. MONDAY, JAN. 31.

.Iwcisnse other expedients to obtain the indefinite
postponement of Reform, an attempt will probably
be made, when Parliament re-assembles, to rain the
question whether general and local inquiry, by means
of a Royal Commission, into the working of our
existing system of representation ought not to pre.
cede any legislation on the subject. 'MS hopeful
devote for the purpose of delay is not new. It has for
some time been maturing by the bureaucratic section
of the party of resistance, and is, every now and then,
put forward as a philosophical specific against popular
demands. Rat it is worthy of note that as yet it
has never been formally brought forward in either
House. The reason is obvious. So long as susses-
sive Cabinets could be relied on to play false to their
pledgee about bringing in a Reform Bill, statistical
inquiry into the number of electors whose names
began with B, and into the average number of miles,
furlongs, and yards which each elector walked when
going to the poll, and other vital matters of the
like description, might safely be dispensed with.
It was not the useless information that anybody
wanted for its own sake, but the power
to gain time by asking fur it, and the chance
of being able diligently to woes time in
collecting if, that was felt to be of value. The call
for official inquiry before legislative action wan re-
garded, in short, as an admirable resource in case of
emergency, to be kept in reserve till Iteform seemed
really imminent, and then to be produced with all
the simplicity of look and earnestness of tone be-
seeming patriotism suddenly conscience-stricken at
its ignorafice of numberless most fen-important
details. Had the scheme been one in whose utility
its doctrinaire inventors placed any real faith,
or had their object been, as they will of
course pretend, to facilitate and promote
the enactment of a sound and comprehensive
measure of electoral progress, they would have
urged its adoption during the session of 1832, after
the change of government had frustrated Lord JOHN
Rt --ends proposals, announced at its commence-
mett in the speech from the Throne. Lord ORLY
was a member of the cabinet who prepared and pro-
pounded those propositions. lie and his friends,
who are now so bewildered with circumspection and
diffidence on this particular topic, must have
felt acutely the guilt and folly of the rashness
they then committed in sanctioning an ex-
tens.on of the suffrage and a reduction of
certain nomination boroughs without previous
resort to a statistical job in the shape of a costly
and cumbrous Commission of Inquiry. But why
did they not seine the opportunity afforded by their
expo:Son from office to set such inquiry afoot? Or
if dejection and disgust be allowed ass eufEcient
excuse for that year, why did they not try their
crotchet in the next' The coalition had just been
installed. They were full of high promisee of legis-
lative amelioration. They had made it a e sedition
that they were to have a year to consider their plan
of Reform. Then was the time, if ever, for the believers
in red-tape tightening. and looseninge of political
right to ask for the reticulated masses of
infinitesimal facts, without which, we are told, they
now declare they cannot think of legislating. Bat
so ; neither in 1832, nor in 1863, nor in 1831, wee any
suggestion made either in Leedom. Commons; and
in 1833, Lord JOHN and the l'eelitas having been
thrown overboard, Lord I'UNZIiTON became Mi-
nister, and pledged himself anew to deal with the
question ot Reform. The conduct of the war during
the first two years, and something else we never
could make out, prevented his redeeming his promise.
But neither thcee obstruct,ces who were all that time
in office, 801 f those who were during that period enjoy.
leg the individual freedom of oppoaition, e Ter muttered
as audible word in favour of the project, until about
twelve months ago a pants pamphlet appeared from
the pen of Earl VAST, who was manifestly duped
into ?has prematurely showing his hand, by the cir-
culation of the false report that Lord l' it.sseettott
had actually a 144 prepared. In the brochure al-
luded to, the noble anti-reformer enunciated plainly
the 4rand stop-gap statistics! scheme. In a variety
of ijaarters it has sine* been feebly reiterated; aad
the Law Amendment Society were last Saturday per-
ensiled to devote a mornini sitting to the subject.
But again we ask—why, if the motisee be really
those that are professed by the oligarchic and bureau.
grafi,: authors of the project—why has it not been
brought fairly baton Parliament during the last
seven years' Why has it been kept is rffn until
thtrt seems to bea probability of something practically
king done to redress great grievances and to settle
great questions '

Apert, however, (ruin the considerations we have
adverted to, and whore significance it is impossible
to d. ny, there are intrinsic of jections to the scheme
that to every hearty and loyal advocate of popular
right will appear insuperdhle. We utterly deny
that the eatensi us of the franchise to the ioduetrium
climes is a proLletu to be solved by lordly or right
honi,urable pedants beefed in a Government office,
theorising about the minimum of vulgar stuff that
may be infiltrated into the porcelain vases of ex-
clusive power, without danger to the satin cushions
on which such delicately painted and enamelled
yowls stand. We spurn the notion of a seli et and
secretive c:ique being entrusted with any inquiry
into any portion of the great public question—
are we or are we not to choose our rulers
We say at occe and unhesitatingly, that
the Minister who would dally or trifle with such •
proposition in any form or shape would betray the
duty he owes to Parliament, and the still higher
dui} he owes to the nation at large. Parliament
could tot, without fatally derogating from all Kit
respect and from all constitutional principle, devolve
upon the seesaws of Crown the task of tellingi