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London, England, 1867-08-07 00:00:00

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of many to overturn their authority, if not. to
bringl to an end the British Constitutioni
itself.
It must be owned that an event of such trans-
cendent importance was marked • with a very slight
show of excitement. It may
even be slid that
apathy,
which, if at all varied, was varied '
of satisfaction at havinc, disposed by signs
of a trouble-
some and ungracious task,'
was the characteristic
of the hour.
Two or three
irrepressible peers
intruded where more tea om
tread. Lord Russell paidllt. legislators feared to
the debt due to his
position and his former
connection
with Reform.
But otherwise the house had resumed its wonted
repose. The well knownfigures were there, but
the unaccustomed visitors
who had startled the
days
very doorkeepers tensince had retired again
to the calmer occupations of rural life. There was
nothing interesting in
the
Plague Bill, the details ofwhich Commons but a Cattle
unknown to all save a score of county were probably
members,
and yet the faithful Commonsn were bat thinly
represented at the Bar. It
is al ways so. What
might have been expected
to
be a great historic
scene was as lifeless as a Hyde
Park demonstra-
tion, while the critical moments of the debate, the
points at which half a dozen peers
of much entreaty on the part owere,
of the
by dint
Ministerial
whip, induced, for the sake of saving the bill, to
absent themselves from a division, if not to vote
against their better judgment, passed by unnoticed,
and their significance was not apprehended till
long after they had occurred. The Lords have
approved the Reform Bill. Household suffrage,
supplemented by a lodger franchise dependent
on a £lO qualification, will henceforth determine
the rulers of England. There are other portions
of the Bill the importance of which
shall not b 3 disposed to underrate, we
but the en-
franchising clauses have been settld by the con-
currence of both houses. We rejoice that it should
be so. We do not profess to be perfectly assured
as to the results of the great h e ange about to be
established in our representative system. To do so
would be to insult the Intelligence
o f those proposed
to be enfranchised by the bill, who are as able to
discern their flatterers from their friends as other
classes of the community. We are, as Lord Derby
yesterday acknowledged, making great
e.
experi-
ment. We are taking a leap in
the dark.
vain under such circumstances to affect absolute
confidence. But we have never been anxious about
the result of the first step of Reforrrmo us
, excepte
in so
far as it might lead to a second.
ques-
tion has always been, not what certainim"tnediat
proposals would effect, but what would be
their
natural consequences at a further stage. If a
measure of Reform were recommended which simply
reduced qualifications by two or three pounds, and
transferred representatives from small constituencies
to large boroughs, we should be anxious about the
future. thatmight comfort themselves with the
assurance no ill effects would happen in their
time, but the natural and inevitable consummatithe
on
of the process they had initiated would e
establishment of equal electoral districts, withb the
election of the representatives of each vested in
the
the
majority of the householders, or, perhaps, of
adult male pea, i eac district. This prospect
was a sufficient reason for rejecting the feeble bill
of last year, which directly led to it. The bill of
this Session will receive the sanction of Parliament
under different circumstances. An assurance will
have been given for the maintenance of representa-
tive government under all chanffes in the distribu-
tion of electoral powers and under all extensions of
the suffrage. With this assurance we treat the ex-
pressions of apprehension in the House of Lords
last night with little concern. Lord Ravensworth
was prophetic on the power of Trades' Unions when
converted into political agencies ; but if the mem-
bers of Trades' lUnions receive o more thwe aced
proportionate share in legislative power
not be frightenel at Trades' Unions. On the con-
, it will be found that when the representatives
trary
of these societies meet face to face in open day with
the representatives of other classes of society they will
be disarmed of the greater part of their power. The
object of Lord Stratheden's chimerical p orncon-
posal,
radical life. Lord
again, will be attained by means
sistent with the methods of p
Stratheden, at the very moment when the bill was
about to pass, and when the members of both houses
were anxious that it should be sent down to the
Commons before that house adjourned, so as to pre-
vent the loss of a day, intervened at the last of all
stages with a new clause to enable the Houch he
se of
Commons, by some method the
did not explain, to elect a member for each of tho
four boroughs disfranchised for theseatsir cofor these
on.
Lord Derby pointed out that the
boroughs had been already appropriated by the
bill, but it was evident that Lord Stratheden simply
wished to attach names to his new order of members,
just as bishops are appointed in partibus ilfidelium,
and he might as well call any one of them member
for Mesopotamia as for Totnes or Great Yarmouth.
His real object was to preserve members of trans-
cendent ability from the possibility of exile from the
House of Commons through the caprice of a small
section of a constituency, and this object, sound in
itself, though pursued by Lord Stratheden by im-
possible methods; will be attained by better means.
Lord Russell's fears that the enlarged constituencies
may prove viciously corrupt do not much affect us.
The corrupt elements of the constituencies will not
be sole masters, and, with the exception of a few
millionaire, the men who delight in corruption aro
rare. The Lords sent back the bill to the Commons
with two amendments in it. The introduction anew
of the machinery of voting papers was sanctioned
by Lord Derby
.avowedly with the desire that the
Lower House might have an opportunity of recon-
sidering their decision upon them. We have no
doubt as to what ought to be, or as to what will
be, the result of their reconsideration. Voting
papers appear worse the more they are examined.
Let but an unscrupulous agent make applications
on behalf of voters, whether obnoxious
or friendly
to him, and it is impossible that they can vote ex
cept as he may wish. He may not succeed in bit-
ting their votes, but they cannot vote against .
It is true that he commits
ithout au a noelmisdemear
but
by
applying for voting papers wo,
the authority requires and can receive no attesta-
tion ; he can get any tool to present it, and what is
the penalty ? Directly a voting paper is issued the
voter in whose name it is given is incapable of
voting except by means of that paper. The Com-
mons cannot by possibility assent to a machinery so
obviously open to abuse. On the other hand,
members of the Lower House cannot, ins pite of all
the arguments to the contrail which mistaken inge-
nuity can suggest, conceal from themselves the pro-
priety of the amendment for the representation of
minorities carried with such unanimity of authority
in the Upper House. It rests on a platform unas-
sailable and unassailed. Introduced, as novel prin-
ciples necessarily must be, on a limited scale, it
marks the line of future change. The bill which
contains it has the promise of full enfranchisement
and full representation, and will, as we believe, give
us a House of Commons pronouncing wit
ih no uconserves
ncer-
tain sound the will of the nation, while t
within it every element of the national life.

COURSE OF EXOSANGE.—Last
Short. 11 17
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Amsterdam ..................
Ditto ........................ 3 Months. 11 19
Rotterdam .................. 11. 19
25 35
Antwerp .....................
Brussels ..................... 25 35
Hamburg .................... 13 9/
Paris .......................... Short 25 121
Ditto ........................ 3 Months. 25 30
Marseilles ..... .. ... .. ...... 25 35
Frankfort on the Maine 1201
Tienna ........................ 12 95
Arieste — 12 95
Petersburgn — 32
Berlin — 626
Madrid ..... . — 48
Cadiz —49 i
27 17i
Leghorn —
27 17
Milan
27 17.
Genoa
Naples — 27 17
Palermo
Messina
r. 9

Evening.

Lisbon
Oporto

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25 40
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25 37f
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27 20
27 20
27 25
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