Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-09-10 00:00:00

" here

on Election—Petition:4 in the current number tf

Blackt6ood's

51agazine,--" bribery he're

" rather a comical form—much of it being &Ile

by giving over-prices for pigs, and by making.,

" anti-temperance presents of barrels of beer
By the terms in which the Cmnmittee gave thei

decision, they acknowledge all this—sPecify,
deed, several of the cases where ten pounds Illure
.
than, the market value of some pigs had been'
given ; and others; where half-barrels and barrel:
of beer had been. bartered for votes: " But''
charitably say the Comthittee, " there was 11°.

evidence that such acts a bribery had-take°.

place with the knowledge of I

A. LEAT'

" and- therefore he was .duly'eleeted!" But 114)
doubt Mr. LEATEFAM. had to pay for the pigs and
the beer, notwithstanding that they were
.0:

liberally bestowed. by the Lib(
knowledge.

erals without hio'

To return, however, to 31. a. BRIGHT•-
honourable RaclicaL mourned most wofullY °`er

the two misspent parliamentnsy sessions of the.
present year—over the_ melancholy apathras to
reform which both. the past and the present
House of Commons then exhibited ;- and so de"

sponding would he seem• to have been, that he
told his brother Libvrals he felt almost incline('

to ask the CHANCRI7I,OR- of the EXCHEQUER for
" the only office he_should probably ever fill,'-'
the stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds. 13111
amid all this lamentation anctwoe, why does no
Mr. BRIGHT remember how much he hini9e t
contributed to throw. away the opportunity' that
was presented, in, the • first parliamentarl,
session of the present. year, of. obtaining
0,
measure of reform-, which. would, at least, ha%,
been an instalment, of what the country has te,,
right to expectß' The- R.efoctn Bill of the 13
Ministry might have beenz made—and, had it
been properly treated, would, no doubt have be al
made—a sound though cautious constituticaluo
measure; and one, which, upon the whole, vr°,,,fr
have been acceptable to. the country. But P'eri:
BRIGHT was one of- those. who hounded on a
tious oppositions to. it, the success of which 0
served to make the, day more distant when °f
further reform, of the, representation was IV ;
to be effeeteet,

There was. One. other remarkable feattle;
Mr. BRlGireg oratory on this occasion. lte
dignantly reputliated the epithet of demag4ll:3o
most magnanimously. declaring, that so far
pandering; to the prejudices, or exciting OP to
sions of the " people," he was ever as, readithe
rebuke their excesses as he was to deuollnce. _g_

Acti°''''

vices of the classes above them.
however speak louder than words; and it 15,
possible to reconcile Mr. BRIG-He's. profess `°-:;
in this. respect, with the practices. of his sc;,lll°'
political life before. More than this, the Pr-tel;
pies of Mr. BRIGHT are not of the Chavic:,
implied in any such professions. On the eontrs',
they are the principles, if, not of a deniageguL;
certainly of a mischievous political agitcj't
in a cause the triumph of which 'v°11,,.0.
inevitably upset that balance of the Constittitliou
of this country, to the maintenance of wiliclirty
are indebted for that large measure of libetire
connected with order which we enjoy—a nle iii
infinitely larger than that which is elli6• or
any republic, either on this side the Atlarl-etze..
the other ; and to which we owe the elle°lllll-fill
ment and direction of that most sucees"
Britain
national progress, which has raised Great of
to the highest eminence amongst the nati011-
the world.

Now that her hopes of liberty have
awakened, is struggling Italy to be left to
her:
self? Is any attempt to be made to save th
from the violent excesses of revolution on
one hand, or from the oppression of outraged an
successful power on the other ? Is Austria to u
unnoticed and unimpeded while; she takes ine,ll,;
sures for consolidating the advantages She
fitt'
been ag'llll