The Express.
London, England, 1861-02-09 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, TAB. 9.

TH Pk/. is & question of first consequence which
our Mio...u.vm and MONTAHUS are bound to answer,
but of the existence of which, so far as we can
gather from their public utterances, the anti-
Refunners of the House of Commons have scarcely
a 'unpick'''. What, lot us ask them, do they
think is to be the future political condition
of our Working Population We urge this in-
quiry on all who are tempted to persuade them-
selves that a negative resolution of the Govern-
ment has disposed, or can dispose, of the troublous
question of Parliamentary Reform.
The difficulties which have so frightened our
ti-de am, Liberals were not founded on the
policy of this Minister or tho promise of
that statesman ; nor can they be removed by
any renunciation of pledges by our public men.
The chief ground on which an extension of the
suffrage by a reduction of the voting qualification
has uniformly been advocated is nothing less
than the fact that a great and formidable power is
growing up outside the boundaries of the Constitu-
tion, a power which it is of the first importance to
attach to the political system of the country. How
is the gravity of this fact diminished by the
fact that the Government and the Legislature
are hostile to an extension of the suffrage ?
There the working classes are, and there they will
remain, not only toiling and spending, begetting
children and paying taxes, but daring sometimes,
these thinking animals, to lift up their eyes and
contemplate curiously the wonderful system
which makes a PHIPPS a Senator and petted
courtier, and leaves a STRPHRSHON or Lcx•ss
undistinguished by the State. Every true
statesman sees that the working classes cannot
but 6., new Asa holaroinrils, a pow., which
it u most unsafe to neglect. They are more nu-
merous awl more intelligent this year than they
were last, and their numbers and intelligence will
he greater next year than they are now. The
opulence of the middle dames increases fast, but
the progress of the working classes in the know-
ledge which to them especially is power, is greater.
If it could be ascertained that the working classes,
with all this assurance of strength, were nevertheless
indifferent to the attempts made to endow them
with political franchises, • circumstance so unna-
tural is one to excite inquiry, and even suggest
alarm. Before we can rest satisfied with the weed
of those who tell us that the working classes care
nothing about political rights, we should like to
know whether any guarantee can be given
that this indifference will last. Further, we
should wish to know for certain whether
this indifference, so foreign to the character
of Englishmen, may not have its roots in
distrust of • political system from which it has
been the modern policy of their richer coun-
trymen to exclude them, and which must neces-
sarily have an oligarchical character in their eyes.
However this may be, here is a great and in-
creasing power, giving proofs in a thousand ways
of political capacity, but designedly kept out of
the political system of the country. We may
deliberately that it is the greatest madness to be
a witness of the continued growth of this power,
and do nothing to reconcile it with the institutions
of the State ; and that if our lords and
gentry had as much consideration for their
children's peace as they have for their
own ease, so far from rejoicing over the
defeat of schemes for getting a hold on the work-
ing classes and interesting them by means of an'
extension of the suffrage in the maintenance of the ,
Constitution, they would desire their success, and if
the indifference of those classes were as great as
it is said to be, would even become missionaries of
the Constitution, to compel them to come in. To
pecocerante ministers, to " liberal"reactionists, and
hilarious orators of the back benches of the
Opposition, we repeat, then, ourquestion—" What
" are you going to do 1"
Meanwhile, thoughtful politicians will observe
with pleasure that in this, the first week of the
session—within three days of the renunciation of
Reform legislation by the Government, the
cause has been taken up by the representative of
one of our greatest borough constituents, • Liberal
of tried consistency, a gentleman whose name and
character are dear to the middle classes, of which
be is an ornament. It will be seen by our Par-
liamentary intelligence that Mr. EDWARD BAIN=
has given notice of • motion, for an early day, for
leave to bring in a Bill to extend the Borough
Franchise in England and Wales. We are sure
that any Bill which the honourable Member
for Leeds may bring forward for this
purpose will be a measure worthy of the support
of all sincere reformers. Mr. Dimly Sermove,
the Member for Southampton, has also given no-
tice of a bill having the same object, but we can•
not doubt that by wise counsel the confusion which
would result from perseverance in two measures
of the same general character will be averted.
The re-introduction of Mr. Louts Knee's 13111 for
the reducing the qualification of tenant occupiers
in counties from 501. to 101. is also another step
in the right direction. The objects contemplated
in Mr. ittiss.'s and Mr. Loves litso's bills are
quite enough in the way of Parliamentary Reform
to engage the attention of Liberal members in one
session, and we shall expect to see them vigor-
ously pursued. We have had plenty of candid
and philosophic observation already this session.
We hope and believe we are now going to see

something of the earnestness and sincerity in duty
which it is always pleasant to witness, and without
which no public movement can flourish among a
free people.

WU Coun.

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The Queen, scoonipani;il by the Princesses Alice
►al Helena, and attended by the Hon. Horatia Stopford
and Lord Alfred Port, visited the Month Kensington
Museum yesterday afternoon.
The Prince Consort, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel the
Hun. D. de Rev, rude on horseback yesterday morning, and
visited the British institution in Pall-mall.

The Prince Consort presided, in the afternoon, at a meet•
ing of the royal commission for promoting and encouraging
the fine arts in the rebuilding the Prlace of Westminster.
The Queen and Prince Consort, ao:ompanied by the
Princesses Alice and Louise. honoured the performance of
the English ()perm, Covent.garden Theatre, with their
presence in the evening. The royal suite consisted of the
Viscountess Jocelyn, Hon. Horatio Stopford, Lord De
Tridey, Lord Alfred Paget, and Lieutenant• Colonel the
Hon. D. de Dios.

A deputation respecting the hop excise duty repeal had
an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yester-
day. at his official residence in Uowuing•street
A deputation from the Seamen's Hospital Society had an
interview with the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson and the
Right Hen. W. Hutt, yesterday, at the office of the Board
of Trade.
A deputation to Viscount Palmerston for the appoint.
ment of a high commissioner to the King of Dahomey had
an interview with his lordship yesterday. The deputation
had also an interview with Lord Jolla Russell. respecting
the appointment of a consul to reside at Abbsoiruta..

Den Patches were received yesterday at the Ccl;7;A-office
front the t ;overt:tors of Canada and Malta. Despatches were
sent to the Governors of the North American provinces,
Falkland Island., and to the Lord Hidh Comonssioner of
the lonian Islands.

(MOM LAST NIGHT'S GAZZITL)
I.OItIP CIIAMBLKLAINN.UFFIUr, FEB. 7.—Notice 14
hereby given, that the Queen will hold a Drawinvroom, at
St. James 'b Palace, upon Thursday, the 21st of March neat,
at two o'clock.

Was-OFFIC; FEB. 6.—The Queen has been
graciously pleased to give order■ for the appointment of
Charles Manly, Esq., chairman of the Board et LILO
Revenue, to be an unlinary member of the civil division of
the thud class, or companions, of the Most HonourulAe
Order of the Bath.

W 1-1-1 ALlti Fen. 4. —The Queen has been
plumed to approve of the appointment of the Hight lion.
Edward George Malan Howard (commonly milled Lord
Edward George Fitsalan Howard), to be Deputy Earl Mar-
shal of England.
Foszu:s-orrice, FEB. s.—The Queen has beau
pleased to approve of Mr. Augustus Charles Gunipert as
Consul at Bombay for his Majesty the Emperor of Austria.
THIS PRINCE 07 WARMS COUNT •I L-CH A M SER.
13ccalrcuAM•tATR, Fn. IS. —Jobs Francis Basset, of
Tchkly, in the county of Cornwall, Eq., boa been ap-
pointed Sheriff of the county of Cornwall.

ROY•L ENGLISH OPERA, COVILIT•O•RDILN.-Her
Majesty, the Prince Consort, the Prineem Alice, the
Prises= Louise, attended by the Viocountese Jocelyn, the
Has. Horatio Stopforil, Lad Alfred Paget, Lord do Talley,
and Colonel the Has. D. de Has, honoured the perform.
awe of Halfe's Dienes last evening with their presence.

The Earl Cowper has left St. James's-square for
Wiest Park, Bedfordshire. The Countess Cowper will
dewily lam on a tour on the Continent. Her ladyship
will sot Mum to LOOLIDO until May.
The Earl of Sandwich, who came to town for the
tweet* ed parliament, has returned to Hinchingloooke,
whore hie lordship will remain until after Esater.
The Earl of Munster has arrived at the Caven-
dish Hotel, Jermyn-street, from Soothed.

Viscountess Palmerston will have an assembly
this evening at Cambridge Home.

Lord and Lady Egerton of Tatton will arrive in
tows early ni at week from Tattoo Park, Cheshire.

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The Speaker will give his first parliamentary
dimmer en Elaterelay seat, at his residence in the New Palace
at Westminster.

On Saturday (this day), says the East Suffolk
Mercury, Lead Itendbisham (Frederick William Brook
Thallmain) skeane his aksjority, and all Suffolk is talking
se this peed yeeparatiani which have been nude at Kandla-
abaft Hall to celebrate the happy event. There is good
mama to make • great day of it. Associations neither local
Ivor temporary —amociatioas of high national importance—
are connected with the event. On this day the curtain
falls for ever on the splendid Thellumon ease in the Court
of Chancery ; the romance of more than • hundred years
culminates in the complete happiness of the hero, and con.
dudee with all the festival sad rejoicing which befit the
last chapter of the thrilling story.

A large body of noblemen and gentlemen,
solditea, annistora and men of letters, are combining to raise
a indintonial to Sir Jams Outram—a statue, to be placed
bad& that of Havelock, and perhaps a service of plate.
The committee consists of the Duke of Argyll, the Earle
of Shaftesbury and Dalhousie, Lords Palmerston, Harding*,
Harris, Keane, Lynda', Truro, and Stanley, the Lord
Mayor of London, and a lung list of social and military
celebrities

Mr. John Phillips's picture of " The Marriage of
tie Prisms Royal* will be Waited shortly at the French
OaDery. Two sew portraits of her Majesty sod the Prince
(b..od, by Mr. Winterbalter, will be on view at the same
time.

A musical work, taken from Prof. Longfel-
low's Hiawatha, composed by Herr &opal, will be per.
&noel at Covent-garden Theatre on Monday neat. The
verse is to be recited by Miss Matilda Heron, a transatlantic
actress c 4 mown.

The Sunday TtMel says :—" Madame Griai will
positively take leave of the stage in April, and her anal
appramace will be on the hoards a Her Majesty's Theatre.
Mr. E. T. Smith ►as purchased the sole right of represent-
ing Verdi's lie Auk in MaArli era. It will be produced
at Her Majesty's Theatre during the ensuing season."