The Express.
London, England, 1850-07-29 00:00:00

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LONDON. MONDAY, JULY 29.

Tat evil genius of the whip has ones more pre-
vailed. They have had the infatuation to propose a
121. eompeom,se of the Irish franchise, and have
already met with their reward in its contemptooas
rejection by the exultant leader of the tory opposition.
Well may Mr. Utsaezt.t exult, for the tactics of
his party have triumphed. Ministers have submitted
to be first bullied and then duped : bullied in debate
by Lord Srasrev into deserting the 81. rating, on
which, as a basis, they had framed and introduced
the bill : and duped by Lord ST. 011.31 Alts and the
m at:lions half dozen who affect to hold the
of parties in the House of Peers,
into making an offer utterly inconsistent with
the former. The insolence and abuse by which
the first was achieved is too fresh in the minds of
men to need repetition. No epithet of scorn was too
coarse to stigmattse the religion or condition of the
Irish people.To the passionate and fanatical utterance
of ariatooratio and ecclesiastioslaversion were aided the
broad jests and scurrilous extravagance of the noble
and learned farceur whom the manager of the com-
pany seems to keep at call, and whom he publicly
scolds and flogs when the half-witted creature makes
too free. Instead of rebuking the Weedede and ita-
policy of their opponents in thus outraging
the trellises of a long injured people, or
adhering firmly and faithfully to the princi-
ples of Irish electoral reform which at their in-
stance the House of Commons by considerable majo-
rities had affirmed—ministers In the upper homes
condescended to parley, agreed to palter, and finally
without explanation of any kind permitted the bill,
deformed by a 151. amendment, to be read • third
time sub eitentio, and sent back to the Commons so
chanted and altered, that it eould hardly be recog-
nised as the same measure.
Under such circumstances, the course open to Lord
JoIIN was simple and plain. He might have said to
the party optima to him on this as he did on the
Post-office question—" Be it so: you shall be taken at
your word; the responsibility for what may follow
no longer rests with me; you have spurned
our advice and the prayer of the people : this bill
shall pass into a law : but against the sufficiency of
your law I will appeal ere long to the judgment of
the nation." Such language would have stirred the
popular sense of right and justice to its inmost depths.
It would have proved that the advisers of the crown
were conscious of the consequences of their past neg-
lect, whereby Ireland had been left almost without
constituencies, and that they would not therefore re-
ject even a Lords' amended bill. But it would have
likewise shown that they were in earnest in propo-
sing a really liberal franchise, and that they were de-
ices:need to persist in demanding its enactment.
It may be said, why not rather recommend a
ye. insertion by the House of Commons of the Sieknes?
It is evident, however, that to do so would hare
been in other terms to throw away all chime of
carrying any bill during the present year. No one
could expect the reckless majority of the Peers,
backed as they would be by a numerous minority in
the Commons, to rescind their recent votes or to
accept the re-adjusted measure. We do not blame
Lord Joss for not adopting such a *woe. We
think he owed it to the Irish people—whose political
wants in this respect be had for years suffered to
remain unallevistsd, until at length they had grown
intolerable; we think he was bound to accept for
them any and every conces&on of justice which he
could obtain. We repeat, therefore, that in no
event do we think he should have deliberately oms-
tributed to the loss of the bill. Bad as it is, no man
can say that even now it does not partially and in
particular eases, extend the constituencies, and, full
of jealous and unjust exclusion though its provisions
be, it may visibly serve as au instrument wherewith
to extort something more.
What we deprecate and deplore is that so utterly
worthless and miserable • compromise of principle
should have been offered as that of 12/. instead of 151.
for the sake of giving the Trimmers and ShuMers
the credit of settling the question, and patching up
the quarrel between the two houses. The Trimmers
and Shalom are partly whigs and partly tories—
that is to say, one-half of each of them le
whig and the other half of each of them is
tory. When the whip are in power they have a
bowing acquaintance with " progress ; ' when
the tories are uppermost they are the firmest
friends of '• order." In times of uncertainty when no
one can tell what change is impending or who may
have the key of the imperial pantry during the next
fire years,—those worthies are in an excited and very
unhappy state, and they are upon such occasions wont
to employ themselves one half the day whispering
sneers at the Ins to the Oats, and at the Oats to the
Ina—while the remainder in spent in ostentatious
endetvours to reconcile both by seducing each to
belie a portion of their respective principles. And
the marvellous part of the thing is that although the
folly and falsity of all their manceavres forms
a theme of incessant mirth with those who
alike despise them, they still contrive to
weary and worry persons who ought to know better
into taking their idiot counsel and consenting to row
in their crazy boat. Both in the Commons and in the
Lords there were mutterings beard of a 121. amend-
ment when the Franchise Bill was in prams's; but
in neither house could the Trimness screw up their
moorage to make the proposal. The reason is obvious.
They saw very clearly that they would have found no
real support, and that a division would only have
made their ridiculous weakness plain. They there-
fore shrunk from trying fairly their shabby notion at
the legitimate time; but now, when ministers are to
be led into a snare, they are all eager and eloquent,
full of "regrets that their advice was not earlier fol-
lowed," bat at any hazards resolved " that they will
save the country. Nun tali ausilio, nee defensaribus
istie.

As far u the balance of parties is oonoerned it
eiguirles little or nothing whether the bill is passed
with a 121. or a 15/. clause. The difference in most
of the county constituencies would be of no practical
moment. Whig and Tory familiar would retain by
either their present predominance undisturbed ; and
hence the unworthy willingness to try the proposed
expedient for cushioning the real question. That
question, however, remains, and will yet extort an
answer very different from that which it may now
receive. Are the people to name their own repre-
sentatives in parliament? That is the citation
which this miserable compromise vainly tries to
evade.
We hope that the true friends of popular rights
will unanimously abstain from being se to the
threatened proceeding. Let the itary factions
estzias
settle it among them 111 please. 'Ti. no affair of
ours. The feeling of has already been ex-
pressed by the organs of popular party in Ireland
at the notion of a compromise; and nothing could
tend more effectually to alienate the advocates of
general and comprehensive reform on the two irides
of the Channel than to find the principle of the
franchise with regard to Ireland made the subject of
• chaffering bargain in conferenos between the two
losses. Details may admit of degree and adaptatioet;
but principle cannot be so dealt with, and we trust
that few who sincerely wish for a united party in
revue of constitutional purees will make the ads-
take of acting se if they imagined it possible.

MIMI. YOUNG MA FINIAND have lad soother
field day. These gentleman are the Simms Twine
of protection, the brethren of Helen, • &rids adore,"
which cheer by their essabined brilliancy the storm.
tooted agricaltarists ea the billows of free trade.
Where the one Is yea are as sore to Sad the other sr
you are, when the dewing bear approaches, to detest
tan asseociate rug Ow% Ith4 ellAtrisiga4 bk.