The Sun.
London, England, 1867-03-28 00:00:00

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_MES.—The happy turn in the progress of Re-
form is a triumph of common sense. No further
back than Tuesday afternoon everything was in
poussibdloyusbutrfvuilvwe htehtehecr thomiengMdinaiyst,earniadl
schemetshusosPeepmseoc.sotutadt w
llacious guides—persons of authority—
were well assured that if the bill passed a second
reading it would disappear at the very next stage.
We had better confidence in the wisdornofParlia-
ment, and our confidence has happily
proved well
founded. The House of Commons is wiser than
any Cabinet, and the House of Commons has pre-
vailed. Mr. Bright's charge against the present
Ministry was perfectly true, but it was too partial.
They are able, they are distinguished, one or two of
them are even endowed with the rare quality we
designate by the name of genius, and yet they pro-
duced a measure which was rrotinaccurately described
as the worst Reform Bill ever submitted to Parlia-
ment. Was there any trustworthy hope of better
things on the other side the house? Strong in eel
cisin, and criticism is easy, the leaders of the Op-
position betrayed their weakness the moment they
began to construct a policy. Mr. Gladstone openly
acknowledged how completely separated he was
from the bulk of his followers in lamenting the ex-
tinction of the " ten minutes' " bill. Mr. Bright's
powerful speech on Tuesday night was powerful
from the sincerity of despair it betrayed. He had
spent his days, he had consumed his strength, in ad-
vocating Reform, and he found as his reward that
he stood alone, even below the gangway, having at-
tracted no support he could call his own, having
made no convert to keep alive his sacred zeal.
The "unerring instinct" of the House of Com-
mons discerned the critical nature of the situation,
and discovered what ought to be done. It is the
good fortune of the Government to have recognised
the unconscious manifestation of this instinct, and
to have frankly acted upon it. Men who take a
superficial view of current events may talk of the
sacrifice of principle, and of a degradation of
policy. The opinion will not bear examination.
The question of Reform is essentially one of more
or less—of the extent to which alterations may
safely be carried without threatening danger from
the mere momentum of change, of the strength of
safeguards, and the stability of social arrange-
ments. We are apt to think that the men of 1832
were childishly timid, because, having been bred
under a Parliamentary system which had remained
unaltered since the Restoration, they dreaded the
effects of Reform. We have had a wider expe-
rience, and ought to be wiser. We have seen too
many changes to be timorous of revolution ; we have
known too many disappointed hopes to have a pas-
sionate belief in the immediate consequences of
Parliamentary Reform. The Cabinet might in any
case defer to the better wisdom of the House of
Commons without an imputation on their motives.
Directly it became apparent that the majority of
the House thought they had been unwisely scrupu-
lous in one direction, or heedlessly lavish in another,
it was incumbent on the Ministry to reconsider their
steps. Beyond, however, these general considera-
tions, there were special reasons why the Govern-
ment should assent to the alterations suggested to
them. They were recommendations to recur to
their own better mind. We are not disposed to
quarrel idly with those who have repented ; but the
offence of the Ministry was that they had de-
parted from their own counsels. When Mr.
Disraeli complains of the tone in which the
Ministerial plans have been assailed, it must be
retorted that the House of Commons had a right
to complain of the Ministry. Not only were their
counsels secret or ambiguous—they had absolutely
put aside proposals which they themselves had de-
cided on. The Ministry have redeemed their error,
and we refer to it only to show that they could
do so without suspicion of impropriety. The Lodger
Franchise had been omitted from their bill. It is
confessedly a Franchise which requires careful defi-
nition, but without a Lodger Franchise the opera-
tion of the bill in large boroughs, such as those of
the Metropolis, would be most insignificant. The
Lodger Franchise in large constituencies is an im-
perative necessity in any measure of Reform, and
we rejoice accordingly that the Government are
pledged to concede it. Is it in any way to their dis-
credit that they have done so? So far from it, Mr.
Disraeli was right on Tuesday night when he
claimed to himself the merit of having been the
author of this franchise, which first appeared in his
Bill of 1859. A further reduction of the County
Franchise was equally inevitable. Lord Derby's
former Administration had proposed to reduce the
occupying qualification in counties to £lO, and,
what was more to the purpose, the House of Com-
mons had last year, in a great division, approved
£l4 clear annual rental as a fit qualification for the
County Franchise. Their own measure—for we
may treat the Ministers of 1859 and 1867 as the
same—no less than the judgment of the House of
Commons, justified the willingness the Chancellor
of the Exchequer expressed on behalf of his col-
leagues on Tuesday night to reconsider their pro-
posed limit. The Dual Vote—but we will not be
so ungenerous as to dilate upon the Dual Vote.
Let us put it as Mr. Disraeli did, ou the phi-
losophers, whose probable complaint that their
too eager disciples have mistaken their meaning
will be so much in the style of philosophers
that, though true, it may be neglected. The
monstrosity is gone, and there is none so poor
as to lament it. The essence of the Ministerial
Bill was acknowledged by Mr. Bright and Mr.
Disraeli to lie in its treatment of the Borough
Franchise ; and here, again, the Ministry
have shown a commendable zeal to meet the
wishes of the House of Commons. That their ori-
ginal proposals—overlaid as they have been by the
voluminous commentaries of parochial and legal
minds—were conceived in a practical spirit will not
be denied by any candid critic. By common con-
sent personal responsibility to rates is acknowledged
to be the utmost limit of the Occupation Franchise
in boroughs. This is allowed by Mr. Bright as
much as by Mr. Henley, by Mr. Gladstone as much
as by the Ministry. It is true that the personal
payment of rates is contended for on the one side,
while the other is content with their payment by the
tenant in the shape of increased rent ; but the fact
of punctual payment is with both an object of con-
cern. And it is well it should be so. All men are
at la.st agreed that the franchise is a trust which
ought not to be given to those who cannot meet the
most common obligations of citizenship, while it is
confessed with equal unanimity that it is vain to
choose any figure arbitrarily as a resting-place for
the suffrage. How to reconcile these conclusions
is a fair subject for discussion. The Government
thatproposed
thosetliat
wh
all ran yteppnay ratepayers
esshouldindi
rbeentelnyf enfranchised,
hesed,
and
enabled to claim on the register of direct ratepayers ;
and, subject to certain obvious corrections of ma-
chinery, there is much to be said in favour of the
elasticity and variety of the franchise which would
thus be conferred. Mr. Gladstone suggested that
below a certain limit—for example, a £5 rating—
the owner should always be rated, and that the
franchise should be conceded to all above that limit,
whether direct ratepayers or not. Lord Grosvenor,
with, perhaps, a sounder discretion, would have all
rates below the limit charged on the owner, all above
on occupier—thus reducing the range of the Small
Tenements Act, but making it within that reduced
range universal—and would then enfranchise rate-
payers, and ratepayers only. Mr. Poulett Scrope
revives an old suggestion for exempting from all
liability to rates houses below a certain low rental,
and would grant a household franchise above that
limit. It is impossible to believe that, amid such a
multitude of counsellors, animated by a common
desire, there cannot be found a solution of the diffi-
culty. No one, in fact, doubts that it will be found
and with its discovery the last obstacle to the pro-
spect of passing a Reform Bill in 1867 will disap-
pear. The Chancellor of the Exchequer rightly said
yesterday morning, that the House of Commons was
a practical assembly, and we are glad to add that the
Ministry have proved themselves to be practical
men. They have submitted to be taught by that
conflict of minds which the House of Commons
above all deliberative bodies can display, and the
improvement of which is the first object of Reform.
The character of the house is high, and its intrinsic
excellence has never been better exemplified than it
has been this session. A great question was in jeo-
pardy. The Cabinet had misunderstood the ele-
ments necessary for its solution. The leader of the
Opposition, with the assent of his more prominent
associates, maintained that its solution had by their
error been rendered impossible. The House of
Commons was, however, resolute in its determina-
taiboonutthbayt questiontohpeposi
nopposing
should
combinationsno
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officialer be
men,bandied
and
both Cabinet and Opposition leaders deferred to
the
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asatshseenirtemd
measure,
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the good auguries of the early part of the session,r
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some four
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n.
Parliament
look upon a great deed accomplished--upon
ad-
mission of a large number of citizens now unenfran-
chised to the privilege of voting—upon an enlarge-
ment and a reform of our representativve system ;
and it may look forward to a career of renewed activity
undisturbed by the agitation of organic changes.

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KIN AHAN'S LL WHISKY. DUBLIN
EXHIBITION, 1865.
This celebrated OLD IRISH WHISKY gained the
Dublin Prize Modal.
It is Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Whole-
Wine. •

week. An Orange mob had succeeded so far in
exasperating their Catholic neighbours as to get
up a riot, confident, no doubt, in their accus-
tomed immunity, and they were not deceived.
The magistrates, as usual, took informations
against the Catholic prisoners, but, with one ex-
ception, discharged the Protestants, although they
were clearly the aggressors, and were equally
identified by the police. The judge reprobated
this one-handed mode of dealing with justice in
the strongest terms which he could imply, and an-
nounced that he would bring the facts of the case
before the Lord Chancellor, and leave it to him
to determine whether the magistrates had dis-
charged their duty on the occasion or otherwise.

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by the Agents in the principal towns in England ; or
wholesale at
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" Kinmhan's LL Whisky."

COUNTRY HOTELS, PUBLIC HOUSES,
and BUSINESSES.
FURNESS and KNEE'S List on application,
Partinglars for insertion received until the 27th of the
month at their
Auc riov AND HOTEL AGENCY OFFICES,
5, Azar-street, S.rand, W.C., and nearly opposite the
Charing. Cross Railway Station.

The weather continues most unpropitious, and
now, for almost three weeks in the most critical
portion of the spring, absolutely nothing could
be done to promote the tillage of the land.

Railway and Other Companies.

METROPOLITAN DISTRICT.

The report of the directors states that the works
and stations between the West London Extension
Railway and the Kensington and Glocester-road
joint stations were so far advanced that that part of
the railway might be opened for traffic within a few
months. The directors anticipated a considerable
addition to the Metropolitan, or " inner circle,"
traffic proper from the passengers which would be
brought uppn the line by the connexion which they
bad formed with the principal metropolitan rail-
way companies. During the last half-year the di-
rectors had made two calls, and they had decided on
making another, payable in the middle of April.
The directors were convinced that the general dis-
trust of railway investments had no foundation
whatever in regard to undertakings of the class of
the Metropolitan Railway and the Metropolitan
District Railway; that a few months would suffice
to restore at least former confidence, that the price
of the ordinary shares would have a rapid rise, and
that the anxiety for investment in the debentures
would enable the board to make a reduction in the
rate of interest. In the meantime the directors be-
lieved that they were acting with prudence in care-
fully regulating their expenditure, confining it as
much as possible to the portions of line first to be
opened, and also in giving their attention to the
creation of a debenture stock as soon as practic-
able in lieu of the ordinary debentures. The com-
pany was now in possession of surplus lands of con-
siderable value, and the directors bad decided on
taking steps for the disposal of all surplus property
at the earliest period consistent with the interests
of the company. The new works of the Metro-
politan Railway, extending from the junction with
the Metropolitan District Railway at Brompton to
Packlington, continued to be so energetically prose-
cuted as to leave no doubt of their being ready for
traffic simultaneously with those of the district rail-
way to Westminster.

The pair of oxen, which took the first premium
at the Bradford cattle show last autumn, were sold
iti the Cambridge market, Feb. 27, for $l4 50c. per
hundred. They weighed 4,700 pounds, and were
admitted to be the finest yoke of oxen ever raised in
Orange county, having increased in weight 1,000
pounds since they were turned out to pasture in
June.