The Express.
London, England, 1868-08-15 00:00:00

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enormous, the number on the xegister being
now 48.000 against •-16.000 amerly.
the class of oountry towns Via augmen-
tation appears very considerable. Here-
ford reports a rise from 1,880 to 2,477, Stroud
from 1,380 to above 6,0110, Windsor from 630 to
1,667, Bury St. Edmunds from 720 to 1,1146,
Colchester from 1,012, to 2,823, Lincoln from
1,738 to 4,040, Stamford from 301 to 1,083, New-
ark from 680 to 1,770. From counties we have as
yet seen returns from two only. In South-West
Leineasliire, in which the former constituency was
about 10,000, the overseers have now added 6,000
occupiers, while claims on both sides are expected
to reach about 3,000 more. In Olamorganshire it
is also believed that the constituency will be nearly
doubled.
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TIM Evsma, THE DEAD Iaii3CONINO ; OR, PREMED
POE THE NAVY. Messrs. Reynolds, Pitt, Rignrood, to; Miss
M. Henderson, tc.—American Minstrels and Ss Tommy;
DIM A. Anderson.—And LADY ANNE'S

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—rom---
F such data as these instances, selected at
random, furnish, it would seem probable that
the now constituencies will be, in boroughs,
scarcely less than double the old. The result is
very different from what Mr. DISALSLI annoimoed
as his estimated effect of his bill, when ho brought
it in. He then stated the total occupiers in
boroughs in England at 1,387,000, of whom
644,000 were already voters. He expected to
enfranchise directly 237,000, leaving 486,000 in the
class of compound householders, with a possibility
of enfranchisement. Subsequent events, however,
carried on the education of his party faster than
he expected, and oomPounding was abolished in
so far as it might operate as a restriction on regis-
tration. The measure is, doubtless, still imper-
fect; but we can see in the returns already ob-
tained how very material the amendment has been.
Instead of having only Mr. Diss.sura's total of
700,000 borough voters, we seem much more
likely to have considerably above a million.
In counties he estimated the increase at
300,000 ; if anything like the ratio of South
Lancashire and Olamorganshire should prevail,

NOTICI.

it is evident it will be much more.
We readily thank bin for being thus
better than his word, or rather, shall we
not say, for doubling the total effect of his
Reform Bill in order to meet gracefully the views
of Mr. HODOKINSON, to whom we are really in-
debted for its extension by abolition of the com-
pounder.
But the curious notion which is still left to per-
vade the measure, of enforcing payment of parish
rates by the penalty of loss of the national fran-
chise, is producing in various places some startling
effects. In Liverpool, we learn, it has been
attended with a marvellous success. The rate-
payers, under this stimulus, have paid up
arrears with unprecedented punctuality, and on
one day alone upwards of 12,000 persons thus
proved their fitness for exercising the highest
rights of citizenship. In Glasgow, again, the
effect was different. No less than 23,000 who
would have been otherwise qualified are deprived
of the franchise this year because of not paying
their rates in time. Glasgow happens to be one
of those towns in Scotland in which everyone is
rated, and therefore it may be inferred that the
23,000 who have not paid are the poorest,
while the 40,000 who have, are the wealthiest.
There may, however, be another reason.
The whole Scottish members protested against
Mr. DISRAELI'S rating freaks as utterly
inapplicable to their country, and declared that it
was preposterous that the owing a few pence to
the rate collector should disfranchise, when owing
201. to the butcher did not. Scotland is logical,
and it may be that she has carried out her logic
into action. It may be also that as it is certain
that Glasgow will return three Liberals the con-
stituency has not cared to register. Whore, as in
Liverpool the contest will be keen and the issue
doubtful no voter has neglected to qualify. The
difference in system shows sufficiently, however,
the absurdity of the test which operates so
variously and capriciously, and when we recall
further that in the attempt to enforce it there has
been everywhere produced extreme suffering
among the poorest of the community, and that
some districts of the metropolis have been almost
driven into insurrection, we must hope that one
of the first acts of the new Parliament will be to
abolish utterly Mr. Dirotazta's sole surviving
principle." Last session and that preceding it
were sessions of compromise with every
sort of absurdity. The great aim of

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the Liberal party was to screw out of
the Tory party as much concession as could be
got, certain, that whatsoever was thu.s gained we uld
lighten the work of the future. With this ob-
ject in view anything was yielded rather than
force the Ministry to resign. It was always a
question what would have this effect, and Mr.
DISRAELI often yielded when his opponents feared
he would stand firm. But on the other hand he
was often obstinate at precisely the points in
which there was least justification for obstinacy.
These points form now the blots on the Reform
Act which must be first removed. With a
new parliament all reason for compromise
will have passed away. The Liberal party will
be in power, and able to carry its own measures.
The elections will have demonstrated the faults in
the electoral system, to which it must first ad-
dress itself. With this duty before it, there is a
double interest attaching to the circumstances in
which that election will take place. It has both
to place in power the men who will remove the
inconveniences of the present system, and it has to
demonstrate clearly what those inconveniences
are.

LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 15,

THE NEW CONSTITUENCIES.

IT will probably be some little time before we
can receive any complete returns of the new con-.
atituesicy, as it appears in the lists now exhibited
on the church doors. The lists are, besides, at
present imperfect, for they contain none of that
indefinitely large class who will claim under the
lodger qualification, and even as to the names

which they do include, they are subject to all the
corrections which will be introduced either in con-
sequence of new claims, or of objections to the
overseers' entries. It has also to be kept in view,
in oomparing the neer figures with the old, that
in many boroughs the boundaries have been en-
larged. But making allowance for all these cor-
rections, some of which will, doubtless, tend to
compensate each other, the returns, as the
country papers begin to furnish them,
are of great interest. They show, in
a rough way, how striking is ;the en-
largement of the electoral body under the new
Reform Act. Thus in Birmingham, the consti-
tuency of which was formerly 14,000, the new
constituency will be 42,000. In Liverpool the old
figures were under 23,000, now they are 37,730.
In Birkenhead there is an increase of only one
thousand, the figures being 5,000 now, but there
trade has been bad and the population has fallen
off by 7,000. In Southampton again the increase
is still more trifling, being but a hundred or
two. But in Glasgow the augmentation is

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 15, 1868.

" Creed," s course which. would " admit to the
V. privileges and the fellewshipe of the University:'
Baptists, Indepenipit4 Wesslejalius; asflello Die- ,
",enters who have net lapsed into Bocinianisnx."
or that new solleges should be founded out of the
revenues of the old ones, in which members of
" each creed should teach according ta-their belief
" until Gob bring us to one mind." These propo-
sitions, startling as they are when we consider
the quarter from whence they come, were re-
ceived but coldly by the Conference. It was
urged that the plan proposed would give up some-
thing to Remanism as well as to Protestant dis-
sent ; that it would subject young Wesleyan
ministers to the influence of " canonizing agents
" in disguise ; " and that the body ought not to
be " caught by the golden bait " offered by Dr.
PLUMY. Finally, it was resolved to simply
acknowledge the letter —in other words,
to silently decline the proposals. But when
the former attitude and policy of the
school of which Dr. PUSZY is the heed are re-
called, the changes wrought by the force of
public opinion during the last thirty years seem
very marked. To retain a theological bast, how-
ever dwarfed, Dr. PUREY would now consent to
endow even a Socinian College, and would place
most dissenting bodies on a level with the
Established Church. But the essence of the
. argument against tests is that theological opinions
shall not exclude the best mon from the
University chairs. Dr. Posse would enforce
the principle while giving up what to the majority
of his school makes the principle dear. He would
have a test, however small, forgetting that in
morals and logic a thing hateful in itself is not
less hateful when its dimensions are reduced. The
old plea that "it is only a very little ono" is
never valid; and we cannot be surprised that the
Wesleyan should content themselves with simply
acknowledging Dr. PUSEY'II remarkable letter.

&ill 18 DAY.)

JrnISMOr from Ike manner in wilt& We deer
French keen was hien up, the nese says it is clear Vat
the mak of the amiss is such that the kirk though
amounting he eighteen saillioos 'telling; had no effeet in
damping the confidence of capitalists. Whether the
drolaration that France is tranquil " to-day " did or did
not mean that it would probably be excited ti-morrow
seems to have troubled the creditors of the nation very
slightly. They were equally careless to ascertain whether
the true inteiprelation of the declaration "Dies pretty,
IVeeee" was that Divine Providence would preserve
the empire through imminent wars, or whether, as ap-
pears more likely when we remember that it was the old
motto shuck on the edge of the five-franc pieces of our
youth, it simply proclaimed the inviolability of French
Isom and the perfect security of Bente&
Referring to the Paris Pee, the Deily Neter remarks
that the Second Empire, which is nothing if not thea-
trical, understands to perfection the art of sustaining
public curiosity by a continual expectation of something
new and strange. It revels in the mystery of the Un-
foreseen. It delights to hear the whole world of peer-
moocher asking what the great day will bring forth ?
Chronic uncertainty and anxiety contributes not a little to
the prestige and authority of the government which elan
so dictate the destinies of Europe. Commerce and in-
du►try, all the mercantile and material interests of the
community, cannot but rejoice in the protection of a
Sovereign who, whether lie is silent or whether he speaks,
can turn an annual file into an annual financial crisis., and
cause so much healthy commotion in all the money
markets at the mere approach of the anniversary of his
vatron saint.
The Telegraph observes that while there is no reason to
believe that W. year's fele will be leas brilliant than
usual, it has certainly been ushered in by no appropriate
manifeetations of national feeling, an uneasiness prevail-
ing in Paris with regard both to home and foreign poli-
tics.
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The Star mays that however the Tories may be, as they
profess, gaining ground in the country-in the metropoli-
tan district, at all events, three is no sign of that Conser-
vative reaction on which Mr. Disraeli bases hie hopes of
an unlimited and uncontrolled tenure of power. The me-
tropolitan boroughs may be regarded, one and all, as se-
cure seats for staunch liberate, and in the counties round
London a sterling radical temper ban also manifested
itself.

IGN NEWS.
(THIS DAYJ

TIM HIPUDENTB' DEMONOTRATION IN
PARIS.

The manifestations which took place in honour
of the eon of General Cavaignac at the College
of Charlemagne were renewed at the distribution
of prizes in the College Sainte-Barbe, where M.
do Corcellos, a personal friend of General Ca-
vaignac, pronounced a warm eulogy on the former
chief of the Executive under the Republic of 1848.
The applause of the students continued for full
twenty minutes. " The government is reported
to be very anxious," says the I nth:petulance Bar,
" with regard to the excited state of feeling
amongst the student classes in Paris."

A CHRONICLE OF THE LAST FORTNIGHT
IN FRANCE.

Tho Temps gives the following chronicle of
events from the Ist to the 14th of August :

August 1 : Condemnation of Duportsl, editor, and M.
Favy, printer, of L'Evimeipetion, for outraging a creed
recognised by the State. August 5 : Condemnation of
Henri Rochefort to four months' imprisonment, and W.
fine, for striking the je.nter of a libel. Ditto : Fine
of 21. on Rochefort for non-ine,rtion of a cosi-
mnivie. Ditto : Action of M. Parent against Police-
man Andre for assault, &Anis' &ed. Ditto: Thi fclitor of the
Messcger da Sati-(hart, fined 8/. ; and the manager of the
same journal, fined 40/. Angled 6: M. Dubei*oo, printer
of the .Rereil, fined 2W. for an article exciting to contempt
of government. August 9 : The Eleetear, summoned or
the came charge. August 10: The Eclipse, prohibited
from being sold in the streets. August 12: The Figaro,
fined 201. for publishing the report of the case of Roche-
fort r. Marchal and Stamir. August 14 : Condemnation of
M. Rochefort to one year's imprisonment and 400/. fine ;
of M. Dubuisson, printer, to three months' imprisonment
and 80/. fine. Ditto: Public sale of the IneMpeadeat de
lionlargis and of the Journal de Manor prohibited. Ditto:
Prosecution of the Liberal tie &iee el Oise. August 15 :
Public rejoicings in honour of Saint Napoleon.