The Express.
London, England, 1857-08-11 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 11.

Ms Ministerial man at the minthea has sighted
had. Ministers will eat theh and whitebait
diammea ilataeday next, end e• tine amming Satur-
day It le howl that kr Main!! VW be able to
prorogue lonellemat peadela la Ism doyertare for
the North. The liathien lithe Sethi Oimme.
are like the andlimee at • mend be idaterhall
when the lest piece on dm pogimule b newt to
begin. Some have alreedy taw isportue to
escape the crash; others are mid% their arrange-
ments to quit before all is ever I mil a few are re-
signiug themselves le be flee het to have. lbw
will apparently be se head surnmen et the law
cents" this year ; for of tee fry Iliallek1111111•11111
whichwere expected to be peemed, aim* allasealt
the Divorce Bill have already died analemeirhalk. Lag
night Lord Joan Autism. execrated limit with
heroic resignation. He brought up the awl of
his Committee oo the terms of the sth amt d& Were
Lust IV., esp. 62, to the effect that dr yogi of
the Act do not apply to the House al alunarks t
and intimated that as the door of the Itemle of
Lents is now closed against all Bills from the Caw
marls, he will pompoms his Parliamentary Oath' Bill
till next Session.

The work of the Session is over: what may sot
°emir before the members of the Legislature meet
again! There is little prospect of India being paci-
fied before that time. The disturbances in the
Chinese waters will probably, like a wounded snake,
keep dragging their slow length along. The Smut
may revolve, on bearing of the Berepl mutiny,
to retract his promise to evacuee Herat. The
Mormons may be driven out of Utah, end the Free-
Soilers put down in Kansas. An Wive " slave-
trade in disguise" may be carrying an front the
West Coast of Africa to the French West loam
Colonies. What between the aisodentsadinp

about the Danubian Principalities, and the encralcit-
mots at Ras& in Chords, the Treaty of Paris
may, like last year's maw, have become • thing of
the pest. &pad the amines of our little England
these may be sissy and strange changes before our
Parliamentary sages " meet again."
And in England? Why Lord PALMERSTON will
have hie Reform Bill ready. What its worth may
be, and what reception it may meet with, remain to
be seen. But blessed is he who expecteth little, for
assuredly he will not be disappointed.

Tax triumphant and unopposed return of two
Liberal members for the borough of Great Yarmouth,
in place of the two Liberal members unseated on
petition, conclusively proves that the election set
aside by Lord Maim% Committee was the genuine
and unbonght expression of popular opinion. The
excitement occasioned among the electors by the
unseating of Memos. lirCettoort and WATKIN
appears from the first to have far transcended
the ordinary manifestations of mere political
disappointment. The feeling on the part of
the constituency seems throughout to have
boas, that their deliherata chaise hod boas mainsail'
ably set aside by the decision of a partisan Commit-
tee sheltering a foregone conclusion under the ma-
venient latitude of the law of constructive agency.
To what extent this impression is well founded it is
not for us to pronounce, but it is obvious to remark
that the majority of the Committee were notoriously
the seldom supporters of political opinions diametri-
cally opposed to those of the gentlemen whom their
decision unseated. It is at least equally clear that the
evidence of constructive agency by which they were
led to implicate the sitting members in the responsi-
bility, while they exomeated them from all know-
ledge, of the acts of bribery proved to have been I,
committed, was very far lees cogent than that which
has repeatedly been held by Committee after Com-
mittee daring the coerce of the present esesion—to
love been far too unsatisfactory for prothentieg
spinet those upon whom the manes of the nth
stiteensiss have fallen a sentence of incapacitation
fres serving ea their representatives during the re-
sides of the wrest Parliament. It is aweless to
multiply Ostrom which nowt be at once familiar
to all those who have watched with any anodes
the proceedisper the Election Committees of UM.
Report after Report his been hid beim the Nem
is which the Committees, births hod gasibasb
of bribery to be established, lave yet bang ass
no snacient proof has been brought bib fir
that sash acts were committed by the wile stet
sitting members, whom they have thetheall mew&
ugly to be duly elected. Lord Manual Committee,
upon evidence of the very loosest sad vaguest de-
scription, sines to arrive at en errata essielsoics.
They declared that the sitting members had, by
their agents," been guilty of the leer or lye paltry
acts of bribery, amounting in the whole to some 131.,
which they considered to have leas made oat in
evidence ; and upon that finding they have reversed
the decision of a numerous and important con-
stituency.

Wet has been the result ? As far as the divi-
des Ma are concerned, where one vote tells IS well
es amelmr, dee consequences of the decision have
been itsoOstely neutralised by the return of Messrs.
Y3VRO Old ).Loa. So thoroughly has the spirit
of the mkt potty been aroused in Yarmouth by
their iota's.* Simiction that the decision et the
Committee was en oasir one, that no Conserva-
tive candidate has ventured to present himself
and even Sir EDWARD LACON, the enoessetal peti-
tioner, in spite of old connexions end stress Leal
influence, has been compelled to leave to the sae-
censors of those whom he has unseated the honours
of an uncontested victory. As regards the numerical
balance of parties, therefore, the unseating of Messrs.
WCOLLAGn and WATRIN /ma left matters es it
found them. The result is not therefore a matter of
indifference either to the electors of Yarmoath or to
the Liberal party in Parliament. The ability and
political knowledge of Mr. M•Cru.son, the active
energy of his oolleague, are not so easily replaced.
The new Parliament is not too rich be such elements
as thew. The sommeors of Mr. M'Cou.son and
Mr. WATRIN may be, we Most they are, very credit-
able representatives I bat it is no disparagement to
them to my that they mama lay any claim to the
parliamentary experience of the one gentleman, and
have yet to give proof ot their pomeming the
business-like qualities of the other.
There la another point of view in which this deci-
sion of the Yarmouth Committee indite results offer

ground far grays coasideratioa. The mates= titles,
tribunals which see to uphold or roes= the &dm
of representatives by the iwastilastaiss of tlia
country ought not only to be fns trap reproach;
but above suspicion. The trial at pslitkal *AM
ought to be vested in judges wholly remote Iron
the sphere of political inflows= Until this =ll be
taken it is impossible to suppose that the People can
respect, or ought to respect, the swim's given on the
highest and most responsible class of questions of
civil right that can possibly be tried in • free
country. The Home, we shall be told, is reluctant
to part with its privileges by vesting the deci-
sion of these questions in any judicature beyond
the limits of its own body. We cannot help
thinking this reluctance unwise. No privilege is a

source of power which cannot be exercised without
100 of respect. A doubtful decision of a single par-
tisan committee costs the House more in loss of
popular estimation than the entire transfer of the
whsle jurisdiction could possibly cost them in loss of
power. The most important of all the political
rights of Englishmen ought no longer to be vested
in tribunals precarious in their rules of decision,
guided by no fixed principles of law, unskilled in
balancing the weight of testimony, and liable by
their very constitution to discreditable suspicions
which will often be incurred even when they may not
be deserved.