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London, England, 1852-02-14 00:00:00

14, 1852.

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THE NEw.
REFORm
BILL. ....
or returns of Members to serve in the unit.sd Parliament of
Great Britain and Ireland for that part of the United King- ll
(From the Times.)
what
and
od wasi..
dom called Ireland, and (for regulating the Qualifications' of!
Members to serve in the said united Parliament," as relates
Pgreeralitemmeenatesurrye ofR
ißsilmVi'ldeely
to the qualification of Members elected to serve in Parlias ciously styled, now lies before us, to s
oet ier with the "Corrupt
ment, shall be repealed. to Tbebethe'
MEMBER HOLDING OFFICE AT THE TIME OP ELECTION NOT Practices at Elections Bill," by which the
to saddle on future Parliaments the odious
Minister proposes
TO VACATE SEAT BY MERE CHANGE
OF OFFICE.-6 chisement. The former of these measures I work of disfran-
ANNE C. 7,5. 26.
is that which most
47. If any Member of the House ofCommons in any future presses for attention, and the part of it to which all eyes will
and which indeed is the only point
Parliament shall, at the time of his being chosen such Mem- turn,now possessing
any novelty, is Schedule B, being a list of the boroughs to -
bar, hold any office, the acceptance of which after his being enlarged, and the towns to be added to them, with theirbe
chosen would have made void his seat in Parliament, his ac- boundaries and " temporary contents." At the risk of being
ceptance during such time as he shall continue such Member quoted by some watchful contemporary as expr • - easing a
of any other office, upon or immediately before his resigns- warm opinion in favour of this schedule, we must confess, in
tion of the office holden at the time of his election, or upon the andwarmthof r hearts, that have
openness
or
or immediately before the revocation avoidance of his tip- seen for
r many aday aso pretty and suggestive a topographical
polls • tment to the office so holden, shall not, nor shall any catalogue, Under any circumstances one might marvel
like change only of office from time to time make void his how so many places endeared to early associations, and seat in Parliament, unless the office so accepted be an office cherished for reason rather than th •political
any
the holder of which is incapable of being elected a Member
of the House of Commons. character, have found their way into a Bill before
SCHEDULES TO WHICH THIS AC 1' REFERS.
Parliament. But that marvel becomes utter amaze-
ment when we are told that the sweet rural
SCHEDULE (A). localities here reluctantly dragged into light are the destined
refuge and balance of this mighty empire. The Commons
having pretty well " tackled" the Lords—the subject sug-
gests a rustic phraseology—and having become themselves
too equally divided between the interests of cotton and:of land,
Lord John proposes to raise up a vast balancing and arbitrat-
ing power out of the very bosom of English society in the
shape ofour small market towns. Like Numa— Curibus parvis
et paupere terra misses in imperiune magnum—a new race of
rural legislators is to arrive from the breezy dawns and
sunny coasts of the south from Dartmoor and Salisbury-
plain, from the Vale of the 'White-horse, from streamlet and
from wood, and a hundred sweet spots hitherto known rather
to the sportsman and the tourist than the dull politician. In
the fabulous beginnings of history we read of kings who, in
the hour of distress, betook themselves to sequestered islands
or woodland glades, where they tended sheep or watched
cakes on the hearth till their tinie came and they once more
appeared at the head of their armies. Evidently some such
legendary precedent has suggetted the proposed rustication
of the British Legislature. The rural virtues, which Gold-
smith despairingly beheld on the strand
preparing to take
leave of their country, have now every chance of bein in-
vited back and installed in greater dignity than ever. I
Let us linger awhile on the many pleasing scenes recalled
by this fairest of schedules. A Homer alone could find the
epithets that mark best their peculiar attractions. There is
\Vantage, nestled on the slope of the huge down; the birth-
place of King Alfred and Bishop Butler; there are Newport
Pagnell and Stony Stratford, that we have so often changed
horses at in the days of " the road ;" Maidenhead and Amer-
sham represent the "silver winding" Thames; Penzance
carries us to the Land's End ; the fishing port of Brixham
an the beautiful church of Ottery St. Mary contribute their
several attractions to this peerless company; for watering
places we have Sidmouth and Torquay, Bognor, and Harro-
gate, with others of less note; for respectful quietness we
have Blandford and Wimborne Minster, in Dorset; Coggle-
shall, Halsted, and Manningtree, in Essex, and scores of other
places too modest to be named. There is the bold promontory
of Sveanage ; there are Fairford and Lechlade, once the
sole seat of Latin literature in this island; the bloody
field of Tewkesbury is now to be invigorated with Upton-
upon-Severn; Basingstoke, with its picturesque little ruin
and its coach-deserted streets, Stockbridge with its trout
stream, and Whitchurch, which has lost its sole remaining
importance as the place where Oxford students took the
Exeter coaches, are now set down to a rubber with Ando-
ver; the New Forest contributes Ringwood and Lyndhurst,
Romsey its Norman abbey, and Alton its rural charms;
there is St. Ives, whose bridge we have so :often heard of;
and passing over places we have scarcely heard of, we are
taken to Brandon and Swaffham, to Oundle and Chipping
Norton, to Witney, where they did once make blankets, and
to the venerable names of Bishop's Castle, Church Stretton,
and Cleobury Mortimer. The famous ruins of Glastonbury,
Burton-on-the-Trent, the beautful park of Petworth, Heytes-
bury, under the spurs of the Plain, and Warminster, ap-
proached by the woods of Longleat, are the next most notices
able, among other, perhaps, more beautiful places; the
quiet village of Amesbury presents itself with Stonehenge
and Vespasian; camp ; and after a trip through the less
frequented regions of Yorkshire, we finish with Harrogate,
Pateley-bridge, and Ripley. Such are the most renowned
of the parishes and townships whose delegated wisdom is to
balance the Legislature that balances the world. How
much do we owe, after all, to the early training of our states-
men ! How deep the love of pastoral life even in our hard
1 old Reformers ! Poor Falstaff " babbled o' green fields"
after a life of debauch ; and after thirty years passed between
bebates and office work Lord John still melts with rural re-
collections. But is it a constitution or an eclogue he has
given us? Is it a text for lawyers, or a subject for an illus-
trated volume? Publish the Bill with cuts from drawings
hy Turner and Stanfield, and it will infallibly pass. Should
the continent be closed, or should the railways want a sub-
stitute for the Great Exhibition, they cannot do better than
advertise " summer excursions through Schedule B." At
all events we shall have it in a moving diorama. So re-
solved is Lord John Russell to omit no means of enriching
the sentiment of his scheme, that he has revived
for its sake a considerable number of the bo-
roughs, now, alas ! no more. In the list before
us we once more see the faces of our old friends, Amersham,
Camelford, East Looe, Okehampton, Saltash, Stockbridge,
Whitchurch, Heytesbury, Downton, Aldborough, and
Boroughbridge. After a trance of twenty years they come
again to the light of day, at the spell of the same wizard
who had consigned them, as we thought, to Parliamentary
oblivion.
As the object is to trim the constitution and to preserve
for ever that particularl adjustment of interests it is our
happiness to enjoy at this moment, perhaps it is scarcely ad-
missible to inquire into the numerical or commercial import-
ance of these places. If a jacket will stop a leak, we do
not quarrel with the comparative slightness or apparent in-
congruity of the instrument to which we owe our lives. A
very slight prop will sometimes save a heavy structure,
though it certainly is found now and then, as at Brigh-
ton Pavillion the other day, that a slight prop may answer
for fair weather but not for foul. The hundred or more
townships and parishes—many of them are not even mar-
ket towns-that are to keep our House of Commons in
the existing state gun, bsar about the same proportion to
that giant as the Lilliputians that held Gulliver to the
ground; but if they answer their purpose, what more need
we require? It is true that we may conceive a few sources
of discontent to those who will not recognise in the end a
glorification of the means. There are people we fear, who,
as they run their eyes down the third column in this sche-
dule, will ask why Stony Stratford or Little Hampton is to
be enfranchised, and not some overgrown busy town in the
north, as if we had not the most ancient precedents for giv-
ing political power to the bramble, and leaving the oak, the
olive, and the vine to their own more useful employments.
'I here are people who will ask why these sixty-seven bo-
roughs, of which twenty-nine return one Member, and the
rest two, are to be treated by the same rule, and both
classes augmented to the same electoral magnitude.
We already hear it alleged that the stream of
enfranchisement has been directed by some cun-
ning hand which knows well what town to
include in the favoured bound, and what to leave in the
wide waste of the county constituency. As every complaint
that can possibly be made is sure to reach us in time, we
forbear for the present. All we have now to do is to thank
Lord John Russell for taking us a trip of no small interest
through some of the most lovely portions of the land we live
in. Nothing can exceed the relief it has afforded us after
the vast which .
statistics and the dull utilities with political
questions are now-a-days so generally incumbered. We
think the plan
would harmonize have only one thing to suggest, and we really
wonderfully with the conceptions of this
measure—it is that the Legislature should discuss it in some
of the very scenes
here enumerated, or others equally histo-
rical. Courts have been held at Winchester, Old Sarum, and
we believe, at Wantage ; Councils have been held at Claren ..
don, and the fate of empire has been decided in other places
of small resort. What more appropriate than that the pre-
sentin one of the measure should be passed very rotten
boroughs which it recals to life?

COUNTY.—Places to
be Boroughs.

Temporary Contents and Boundaries,

CHESHIRE :
Birkenhead •. •• .

LANCASHIRE:
Burnley ........

Counties and
Boroughs.

Parish of Farringden, exclusive
of the Hamlets of Little Cox-
well, Hospital, Littleworth,
and Wadley.
Township of Wantage.

(Parish of Newport Pagnell.
United Parishes of Saint Giles
and Saint Mary Magdalen.
Parish of Winslow.
Parish of Beaconsfield.
Municipal borough of Maiden-
head.
That part of the parish of
Amersham which is in the
county of Buckingham.

IThe parish of Chesham, except-
ing the Hamlets of Ash.
bridge, Ashley Green, Bil-
Wigton, Botley, Charterldge,
flumdridge, Latimers, and
Waterside.

Parish of Saint Austell.

Municipal borough of Penzance.
Municipal boroughofCamelford
e:zish of Fowoy.
Municipal borough of East Looe

Chapel*, of Maryport.
Township of Workington.

Township of Newton Abbot.
Parish of Highweek.
Parish of Brigham, including
Chapelry of Kingsweare.
Parish of Ottery Saint Mary.
Parish of Sidmouth.
Parish of Callington.

Parish of Morton • Hampstead,
Municipal borough of Oke.
hampton
Municipal borough of Saitash.
Parish of Collumpton.
Chapeiry of Torquay.

Parish of Beaminster, exclu-
sive of Langdon Tything.
Blandford Forum Parish.
Parish of Sherborne.
Town Tything of AxminStec
parish.

Parish of Wimbome Minster.
Township of Stalbridge.
Parish of Sturminster Newton
Castle
Parish of Swanate.

Parish of Coggeshall.
Parish of 'la'stead.
Parish of Dlanningtree,

Parish of Fairford.
That part of the parish of
Lechiade which is in the
county of Gloucester.
Parish of Northleach.
Parish of Upton-on-Severn.
Parish of Winchcomb.

Municipal borough of Basing-
stoke.
Borough and parish of Stock-
bridge.
Parish of Whitchurch, exclu-
sive of tythings of Chadcott,
Freefolk Priors, Cold lienley,
and Whitchurch Parsonage.
Town tythixg of Ringwood
parish.
Parish of Lyndhurst.
Municipal borough of Romsey.
Parish of Alresford.
Parish of Alton.

Parish of Bromyard, excl wive
of the chapelry of Brock-
hampton, and of the town-
ships of Linton, Norton, and
Winslow.
Township of Old and New
Kington.

!Parish of Saint Ives.

!Township of Collie.

Parish of Bourn, exclusive of
the Hamlets of Coathorpe
and Dyke.

Parish of Brandon.
Parish of East Dereham.
Parish of SwaiTham.

Parish of Oundle, exclusive of
the Hamlet of Ashton.

(Township of South Blythe.

Municipal Borough of Chipping
Norton.
Parish of Witney, exclusive of
Hamlets of Crowbridge, Cur -
ley-, and Halley.

Municipal Borough of Bishop's
Castle.
Township of Church Stretton.

MR. LAyARD'S APPOINTAIENT.
's appointment of Mr. Layard is an act of
disregard of the formalities and con-
high courage; . .
nice of axe, it sets at naught exclusion and caste
ventiona f
it is a search in the pro; e: direction for real
pretensions; k
like converting shams into realities; it indi-
merit: it 100 s
sire to employ the true workers of life; it exhibits
rates a de
Lord Granvilil et
is a .
Lord Granville, not only as superior in intention to many of
his colleagues, but free from their prejudices,
and, what was
scarcely to be anticipated, independent in his own depart-
mentnd many. Lord Granville might, had he been disposed, have
fouyped excuses for seeking refuge in the
Stanleys or Strati ;ways of his party
member of the Lower House, for already there are two under
; he could not choose a
secretaries in the Commons and the law allows of no more;
swtohnant sino
anastiumrilar al , then, as to take a peer, as did Mr. Glad-
position? Lord Wodehouse might have
Glad-
been
had. Lord Granville, too, is a young man, himself
in in the Foreign-oflice; how readily might he have called in some aged IVhig talker having the reputation
of experience greater than even Mr. Adington? Or, if he waated a nonentity, there are hundreds of his well-dressed
acquaintance daily pacing St. James's-street, who would
have taken the salary and spent it at Newmarket.
But no ; Lord Granville wanted a man of work, of hope,i,
of promise, like himself. lie instinctively looked into
Ce lone
ranks, and there ho found Mr. Layard, the son of
merely in making great and interesting discoveries,
on whom
the power he had exercised over unrulythe
cinnamon ' planter, who had distinguished
rhiaima,sehlfu,tynoint
other
idle all that
only he could rely for assistance; and—disregarding
d. a man of the people
idle babble—Lord Granville has called.
the of E 1
forsotnheir anar,
formscan t mightaf nffi allegece
of
hisof Mr.wan Lt
ofay ard's
special wantstn
studies, and
apierdi esnaccehi
and Lord Grey the son of an old .
M
Lord Granville, in appointing r.Layard,
subordi-
nate secretaries,
to his aid. Whilst Sir GeorgeGrme
choice beyond social and political
has enlarged the field of
open the door he has
yinhisatser,
turned the handle of.
limits. Let it be our duty to keep

'arish of Cleobury Mortimer.

IThe Town Division of Bruton
Parish.
Nrunicipal Borough of Glaston-
bury.
Parish of S hep ton liallatt,exclu-
sire of the Hamlets of Charl-
ton Woodlands and Oakhill.

Townships at Burton-on-Trent
and Burton Extra.

!Parish of Debenham.
[Parish of Framlingham.

What the-world wants is youth, not age, in office. We
are oppressed by what is called experience, and can hardly
move for the weight of decrepitude that bears down upon
us. Mr. Maucaulay says that no Minister upwards of forty
ever governed this country long or well ; and there is much.
truth in the statement. But, at all events, new phases are
opening on humanity, and what is required are men
w 4
will meet events cordially and hopefully, not invalids,_boldly
in who shrink from looking the future w law?:
in the face by burying themselves and their fears the P
Nor is there any such mystery, or difficulty, or
of
science in public affairs as it is the fashion in Ministers.
flicial experience
occult
all parties to affect. It was not want of 0
andgrave
in que s
good-
Lord Derby failed from, but want of ability
se-
bility. Already the inexperienced Lord
=cry and gracefully in his saddle ; the very
entrance into the Foreign-office be a,,diTangseendsea
anavdniadl
yl e restsasitielhi s.-tion with the United States with good
faith ; and within less than a si
• weeks' tenure of place
he
of what the world calla
writes and speaks with the authority
wid reverend
ilir, seigneurs.aya r d : Lordit i
h the twaddle that We
a great minister. Away, then, w
need old, experienced, grave,
Granville teaches us better in appointing. s
i and ,ound judg
ment,m that we re-
intelligence, activity, t
quire for doing the work of the nation.— Dily Neu's.

The following of the nobility. and gentry visited
Lord R. Grosvenor, Lord
lof the earthduring the week :
Mr Wyld's large mode
Sutherland,l Lady
Fihner and familv,
Mahon, the Duchess d Blantyre, li De T
Lord Sir • Lacy Evans, bir
Lord Craven,
Hamilton, Esq., 141"
---.P., Colonel Sir William
c 'tb
Henry ..,031 'A , Lady Baring and daughters.
:
Carl Fitzwi
Colebrook, L. •
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