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

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SPIRIT OF THE PUB

At six minutes before seven in pthesse st 4
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Trams.--The Reform Bill has a
the Gth day of August, they siguifie c 710004(41"-.,e :,l''rier
to the main clauses of a bill doomed i .-rewificAktl- ;--:-. -ezt-4.'
of many to overturn their autleuit
brim to an end the British Consta ' '----rarzfc
fbtl. must be owned that an event of suchlt nsi
ra_
eik,,e4 it-14."
cendent impOrtance was marked with a very slip; Sl' >
show of excifitinent. It may even be said that
apathy, which; if at all varied, was varied by signs
of satisfaction at havite:rdlsposed of a trouble-
some(jftheanidionurr.,,gralc,liseoee
or e,ie was the characteristic
Legislators
peers
intrude I where more ceuttiolrieisel ~.gislators feared to
positiontread Lordaild i
ißussellis former
paid
co
nt
Lie debt due to his
Reform.wont
I3ut otherwise the house had'l r'eetsiionneNdvitihts
The well known figures were there, bat
trleipeousenaccustomeil '111:01's who had startled the
very doorkeepers ten days' since had retired again
to the calmer occupations of rural life. There was
noThing interesting in the Commons but a Cattle
Plague Bill, the details cf which were probably
scare of county unknown to all save a
and yet the faithful Conunons:is werel 3'
bat'ne ntilliienrls;
ieacried to bae
t have represented
beenat th ec
xßi ways so. What
great historic
therk ddecibu,otticis,ttriaio-
ngil
scene was as lifeless as a Ryden.seeofe
were, by dint
ptiooiiii:tswahtile whichtlie itacriticallfa i(iioozn...,iieln t ‘P
a
of much entreaty on the partp It the Ministerial
e n d
whip, induced, for the sake of saviiin vote
dtilt
e the bill, to
froraadivpisaioss.ne'd 1 f not toe:yL
,hunnoticed,
againstabse nt themselves
their
b ctter
judgment,and their significance was not The
long after they had occurred. Lords have
approved the Reform Bill. Household suffrage,
supplemented by a lodger franchise depend
on a 110 qualification, will henceforth determineLnt
the rulers of England. There are other portions
of the Bill the importance of which we
till s
he so
uhs
easy. e bed r
es
jeotitcl
eedthbayt
itthseh co ounl d-
shall not be disposed to underrate, but the en-
cf ruarur ec in.' icsei nogf be loat
be so. We do not profess to be perfectly assured
as to the results of the great change about to be
established in our representative system. To do so
would be to insult the :ntelligence of 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
makingleap
yeltet. l
rdayvoa cark net) Ilia] ekdig4da i
ri
, thacgdreaark.
great e x
Itp is
absolute
e r -
ln
vain under such circumstances to affect
confidence. But we have never'been anxious
about
the result of the first step of Reform,
To except
us t in so
far as it might lead to a second.
ques-
tion has always been, not what cert • e = immediate
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. Men might comfort themselves with the
assurance that no ill effects would happen in their
time, but the natural and inevitable consummation
of the process they had initiated would be the
establishment of equal electoral districts, with the
election of the representatives of each vested in
the
the
majority of the householders, or, perhaps, of
adult male persons, in each 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 changes 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' Unions receive no more than their
proportionate share in legislative power we need
not be frightened at Trades' Unions. On the con-
trary, it will be found that when the representatives
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 proposal,
again, will be attained by means not wholly incon-
sistent with the methods of practical life. Lord
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 rho so as to pre-
vent the loss of a day, intervened atlast of all
stages with a new clauetse to ehod thenabldetailse thofe Hwhicoush he
e of
Commons, by some m
did not explain, to elect a member for each of the
four boroughs disfranchised for their corruption.
Lord Derby pointed out that the seats for these
boroughs had been already appropriated by the
bill, but it was evident that Lord Stratheden simply
wished to attach names to his new
partil orderMS of members,
inA RS bishops arc appnint,a in infidelill7ll,
and fie ...6b. ..., -n-c// call any one of them member
for Mesopotamia as for Totnes or Great Yarmou th.
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 bmeay i
nsm-
possible methods, will be attained by better .
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
millionaires, the men who delight in corruption are
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.
as to wha We have no
doubt as to what ought to be,
or t will
be, the result of their .examined.
papers appear worse the more they are
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 get-
ting their votes, but they cannot vote against him.
It is true that he commits a misdemeanour by
applying for voting papers without authority, but
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, in spite of all
the arguments to the contrary 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 ands nassailed. Introduced, as novel prin-
ciples necesrily must be, on a limited scale, it
marks the line of future change. The bill which
contains it present promise of full enfranchisement
and full repation, and will, as we believe, give
us a House of Con_mons protiouncing file withit conserves
no uncer-
tain sound the will of the nation, wh
eithin it every element of the national life.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.— Last Evening.
Amsterdam .................. Short. 11 171 11 18}
Ditto ........................ 3 Dlonths. 11 191 12 01
tterdam .................. 11. 19f 12
Ro
Antwerp ..................... 25 35 25 01
40
Brussels ..................... 25 35 25 40
Hamburg .................... 13
25 2
91 13 91
Paris ..................... .... Short 25 121
Ditto ........................ 3 Months. 25 30 25 37f
Marseilles .......... ~...... 25 35 25 40
Yrankfor; on the Maine 1201 120}
'henna, ........................ 12 95 13 5
Arinste ........................ 12 95 13 5
Petersburgn ............... 321 32k
Berlin ........................ —62 G 261
Madrid ....................... 48 49k
- 491 49f

Cadiz ........................
Leghorn .....................
Milan ........................

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27 171 27 20
27 171 27 20
27 17i 27 25
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Genoa
Naples
Palermo
llessiva
Lisbon
Oporto

. 17 27 25
27 1:' 27 25
27 171 27 '25
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