The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-01 00:00:00

NEWMARKET RACES.

(THIS DAY.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
(Continued from cur Afternoon Edition.)
The St. Leger Stakes.

Midas ...

Artisan ...
Merry Peal

•••
Won by a head. •••

The Granby Stakes.

Bilberry ...

Sophis:ry
Freedom

Won by a neck.

The Triennial (four yrs old) Stakes.

Nigger
Cranberry
Abdallah

Won by a length.

... 1

... U
... 3

... 1
... 2

•11.1 3

... 1
... 3

STATE OF TRADE.
(From the Manchester Guardian of this day.)

M TUESDAY.—We have to report a
spiritless market, in which there has been a small
general bias of prices in favour of the buyers, or,
where this has not been the case, a somewhat greater
facility at least in buying an the previous terms. In
warps below 24's, and also in pin-cops, there is a'decline
of fully -id. per lb. from the highest rates of last Tues-
day. Many orders for these have now run out, or
are near their termination, and fresh ones cannot be
obtained without conceding something of the late
advance, which, to a large extent, was merely
nominal. The lower counts of water, in the bundle,
and also No. 20's, have lost ;id. per lb ; as have also
mule from 30's downward. No. 30's reeled water
twist is steady, but the buyer, not requiring imme-
diite delivery, is not quite so limited in his choice as
he has been for some time back. Much the same ob-
servation is applicable to 24's and 28's warpe. In the
goods department it is found that domestics are
steady ; while in long cloth 3, T cloths, printer and
shirtings, the seller cannot do so well in regard to
price, as he did last week, or at least experiences
greater difficulty in selling. Bnt althoug the market
is as we hare described it, there is no apprehension of
much change for the worse in price. Great confidence
is felt in the continuance of a good home trade ; and
the present backward movement is regarded as no-
nothing more than what is necessary in order lo a
renewed demand.

ROCHDALE, MONDAY.—We have little change to
report in the flannel market to-day, either in price or
demand. This is the time of the year when the ma-
nufacturers are generally busiest ; but all is very
quiet, and the country orders are very limited. The
wool market has been flat, and prices were about sta-
tionary.
MACCLESFIELD, TUESDAY.—The demand for goods
remains without alteration. Prices are steady, and pro-
duction is going on satisfactorily, considering the ad-
vanced period of the season. In the meantime pre-
parations for the spring are beginning to accupy the
attention cf our manufacturers. The thrown silk
market remains as about reported fur the last month.
It may, however, be assumed that prices are more in
favour of purchasers, in consequence of the dragging
state of the demand. In raw silks but little is doing,
occasional offers are made at prices compatible with
those of thrown, but hitherto without resulting in
much business, merchants choosing rather to hold.
HALIFAX, SATURDAY.—We cannot report any
noticeable variation in the aspect of the worsted
trade, width is still in a very inanimate state. There
is no sign of improvement in yarns, and the quantity
of machinery thrown cut of employment continues to
increase. The sales of long wool are limited, and the
quotations remain unaltered. Short wool is firm, on
account of the shortness of the supply.
HUDDERCFIELD, TUESDAY.--The market to-day
has again been dull, no sales of jail ortance have been
effected; indeed th 3 attendance of buyers ihas been
slack. A little more business has been done in
plaids and the thicker woollens for the winter season.
There has been scarcely anything done in the wool
market.

NEW REFORM OF PARLIAMENT.
(From the Leeds Mercury.)
The preposition will no doubt be made that the suf-
frage should be universal, or at ieast should be ex-
tended to all householders. tVe heartily wish that,
by any reasonable stretch of charity, we could suppose
the lowest class of householders to be generally qualified
to use cue franchise, wit. au,../it.go, either to them-
selves or the community. Our principle would be to
include all of whom such a hope could he fairly en-
tertained, and we would rather admit too many than
toe few, because knowledge is extending down ward?,
and there would be no danger from a slight excess of
liberality. But we fear there is still a considerable
proportion of the labouring class so entirely destitute
of political knowledge, and even of any taste for
public matters, so indifferent to religion and its ob-
servances, so low in their habits, so near the verge of
pauperism, so hand•to-mouth in their living, so shift-
less yet ever shifting, that they must necesearily form
a deterioeting element in an electoral body, and even
an element of danger. Por men who are not intel-
lectually and morally qualified to use the franchise
would in all probability abuse it. Not knowing the
value of the privilege, they would be ready to sell it
for money or beer ; in many cases they would im-
plicitly do the bidding of employers or parish over-
seers ; and all such tools would just neutralize the
votes of so many independent and intelligent electors.
There is also the danger of ignorant men becoming
the dupes of political charlatans, possibly in some
serious national emergency. We are sure no society
of working men would allow their decisions to be
overruled by men swept out of the streets and ale-
houses; and to introduce such men to the exercise of
the Parliamentary franchise would discredit the
honest and thinking operatives, corrupt our consti-
tuencies, and emperil our legislation, without
doing
the slightest good to the individuals themselves. Our
desire, therefore, would be to admit the steady and
respectable part of the working classes to the fran-
chise, but to exclude the hand-to-mouth class, until
theirimproved habits give some reasonable assurances
to society that they would use the franchise well.
Now if " every occupier of a tenement or portion
of a tenement" were admitted to the franchise, as is
proposed by the "National Parliamentary Reform
Association," a very large part of the hand-to-mouth
class would be included. There should, therefore, in
our judgment, be some restriction—either a certain
length of residence in the same borough, or the bonds
fide payment of rates by the occupiers themselves, or
a certain amount of rent, or some other test adapted
to sift off those who are not fit for the suffrage.
Without this, the representation of the people and our
legislation might be seriously damaged, and the elec-
toral bodies might be terribly corrupted.
The extent of the franchise is the grand point in
any change of the representative system, and we hope
it will be considered by all classes in a calm, tempe-
rate, and conciliatory spirit, so as to unite Reformers
as far as possible, and to stimulate Ministers to a
large and good measure, without disheartening them
or throwing difficulties in their way by excessive
demands.
The "more equal apportionment cf representatives
to population" will be one of the n,ost difficult and
delicate points for the consideration of the Ministry,
of Parliament, and of the public. There are on the
face of the present system very gross inequalities_
such, for example, as boroughs like Westminster, the
Tower Hamlets, Manchester, and Liverpool, with
from 200,000 to 350,000 inhabitants each, returning
only the same number of representatives as boroughs
like Buckingham, with less than 4,000, and Ayles-
bury, Andover, Bridport, Dartmouth, &c., with popu-
lations below 5,000. It is very natural to wish that
such inequalities should be rectified ; and we should
be glad if they could be, without introducing more
serious evils. But in the first place, we do not think
a mere proportion of Members to population would
so well represent all the classes and interests of the
nation, as; a system which admitted a number of
smaller constituencies. Next, we should be very
sorry to see London, with its
population o
'2,400,000, rEturning one-eleventh of all
the Mena-
f bars of the Douse of Comm„,, namely, about 60,
out of 658. With such a body of representatives, all
of them resident at the seat of Government, London
would have much more power than is for the good of
the nation at large. But the
.chief evil to be appre-
bended from adoptingthe,lVciple of mere numerical
proportion would he, oaa
great towns, the borough spite of London. and the
nopulatipn would be
swamped by the agricultural
English Constitution
has
from )I.loepulation.. Now the
firstt given a much
greater number of representatives than to the countiea dispropo'rtiono ht4'' boroughs
ever, very.
cv*tehof tendon
materially crunterhalanced by the intluAsi
b2present
proprietors in the smaller boroughs,
time the number of county Members is col
of borough Member., 405 —Riving Il largt, sYsor3io, ratilbtdy
to the boroughs. Nov tho population liuin'g country and in small towns and villages, all directie'
or indirectly under the iefluence of the proprietore cf
the land, very far outnumbers the town population—
we believe, at leas, in the proportion cf 2 to 1.
Therefore the adoption of tiaQ principles of mere
numerical proportion might, and we firmly believe
would, completely shitt the balance of the Constitu-
tion—would swamp the manufecturing and com-
mercial interest by the agricultural, and the demo-
cratic by the aristocratic. This is a point of immense
importance, and it will require to be vary judiciously
dealt with ; for there can be no doubt that, generally
speaking, the boroughs represent the spirit of libe-