The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-26 00:00:00

TA T TERSALL'S.—T HIS EVENING
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FRANCE.
General Magnan, in taking the chair of the Coun-
cil. General of the Bas Rhin, made a speech in which
the following important passage occurs :
" Yesterday, when taking lesve ef the Prince Presi-
dent, he told me that he was occupied ss ith the forma-
tion of a strong and solid army of reserve, which, with-
out compromising tee safety or dgnity of France, will
permit him to effect his contemplated reductions in the
taxation of the country."
This address had a favourable effect on the Bourse.
The following observations on the new House of
Commons are from the Assemblee Nationale:—
" The composition of the new House of Commons, in
England, is at present the object of very natural atten-
tion. It is stated that, in the new House, there are no
more than 154 representatives of the aristocracy, or of
landed property. But there are 101 barristers, 18 attor-
neys, and 100 merchants, manufacturers and wholesale
dealers; to these must be added 20 bankers, 11 directors
or contractors of railways, three engineers, one builder,
one architect, and two brewers; and lastly, the army
reckoning in the new House 67 of its members, whilst
the navy has only 13 represon' Wives. These, after twenty
years, are the results of the Reform Bill voted in 1832.
We may state from this statistic which we found in the
Times the depth of tho changes effected in the Parlia-
mentary institutions of Great Britain. We can also see
how far the prophetic apprehensions of those statesmen
who were the determined opponents of reform have been
justified. When Lord Eldon, on the day in which the
.Reform Bill was voted in the House of Lords, rose from
his seat and exclaimed, Well then, my Lords, old
England is no more! on that day the old Chancellor
of William Pitt, of Lord Castlereagh, and of Lord
Liverpool, read well into the future. In fact, old Eng-
land is no more. Before the Reform Bill England pre-
sented the spectacle of a great aristocracy itself. That
was her great and her original superiority. Now, the
great families still preserve their high °facial positions,
but that powerful breath which gives life and action to a
Government, no longer emanates from the aristocratic
classes. The effective and militant influence comes
from the middle, tha commercial, and manufacturing
classes. It was formerly also the admirable result of
that old political organizstion, that the aristocracy was
not less in the House of Commons than in the House
of Lords. It again found itself there under other con-
ditions, and more connected with the middle classes,
but it dominated there with all the authority of politi-
cal traditions, and with that moral elevation which
makes great governments. It is thus .that through
the complicated and mysterious machinery of its org-a-
Dieetion, half feudal and half constitutional, that great
and illustrious nation presents to the world the spectacle
of a powerful and fruitful liberty, never subjected to the
miseries, the infirmities, and the disorders, which are
the
probably inevitable lot of free institutions in demo-
cratic
states. England will perhaps never again see
those great assemblies, which have illustrated her his-
tory. Her Reform Bill, by enlarging; the circle of the
electoral franchise, by suppressieg the rotten boroughs,
which were so much cried down, to replace them by the
great commercial and manufacturing centres, has
lowered in an irremediable manner the level of the
Housecife°tHhnhs. Thus, for s, for instance, the Parliament
of 1852 has no resemblance to those Parliaments, which
by turns were the scene of the glory of the two Pitts.
The race even of the statesmen of that time appears to
have disappeared never more to revive."