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LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1867.

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Another grand provincTaldtmonstra.tion has been
made at Norwich, where the company had the ad-
vantage of Mr. FERI:AND'S downright and un-
sparing eloquence. There was a goodly attend-
ance, principally of those working men whom both
parties agree to pay so much court to just now. A
few years ago very little attention was paid to the
political views of our artisans and agricultural la-
bourers. Now, in the race of Reform, they are
thought all-important, and whichever party can
muster the largest meeting of working men holds
itself triumphant. Extremes usually meet, and
there is not much doubt but things will presently
settle at a suitable medium, leaying the industrial

classes a voice in the direction of public affairs

without giving them actual predominance.
It is a noticeable fact that whatever the opinion
of the Liberals the Conservatives think their leaders
have made great concessions, and some evidently
are only half satisfied at the wholesale change in
prospect. The Hon.T. DE GREY, who addressed the
Norwich meeting on Thursday, said, in referring to
the Ministerial Reform Bill, that it was hardly to
be expected that a Conservative Government would
come forward with such a wide measure of enfran-
chisement. "It was a matter of anxiety to their
usual supporters whether they could support such a
measure. He had done so because he felt that after
the agitation without, and the undoubted desire
which existed on all sides that the question should
be settled, the Government bad no other choice but
to endeavour frankly and honourably, and to the
best of their ability, to settle it." Mr. DE GREY
said truly enough that to draw an arbitrary line
below which no one should be admitted to the fran-
chise would only mate discontent. This was the
weak point of Mr. GLADSTONE'S proposal, and it is
only wonderful that he should have fixed upon so
unsatisfactory a distinction between his own scheme
and that of the Government. A household suffrage
or a rating suffrage is founded on a principle which
every one can understand ; but no principle can ex-
plain the virtue which resides in the payment of £5
and is excluded from £4. It has been the fault of
most Reform Bills that they have been too restricted
and arbitrary, not only in the numbers which they
admitted to the franchise, but in the principle of

their admission.
Mr. FERRAND'S speech on Thursday was, as usual,
very much to the purpose. He addressed himself
mainly to the working men, of whom his audience
was chiefly composed. Notwithstanding his un-
doubted Toryism, Mr. FERRAND spoke sensibly
and liberally enough as regards the position
of the English working-man. He very soon dis-
posed of the dismal pictures of oppression and hu-
miliation drawn by some public speakers. In no
country in the world, he declared, was there to be
found a greater share of the wealth divided with
the working men ; they deserved to receive it un-
grudgingly. " Remember, working men," he ex-
claimed, " that every office, every trust, every
honour, within these realms, are as open to you as
to the highest and richest in the land ; and there
is not an hour in which some working man in this
country, or some other country, does not step out
of his ranks, boldly and honestly confiding in his
talents and integrity to advance step by step." There
is nothing, as Mr. FERRAND showed, to prevent
such a man from rising to the highest offices of State,
and becoming the companion of the QUEEN herself ;
but this very freedom which used to be the boast of
all classes of Englishmen is in reality objected to by
working men themselves. The trades unions, to
which Mr. FERRAND, in addressing an agricultural
audience, did not refer, lay down as a fundamental
rule that one man shall not do better than another.
They refuse to put the doctrine into so many
words, but they act upon it nevertheless, and
ability, energy, and perseverance are kept back
in the race, for fear they should too far
outstrip mediocrity, insolence, and indifference.
The working men of England are justly proud of
the distinguished men who have risen from their
ranks, but they cannot hope or expect to add many
more names to the list, when the one great object
is to raise wages irrespective of the quality or
quantity of work ; and in the attainment of that
object every manifestation of individual superiority
is checked and discouraged. It is necessary that
working men should enter into these considerations,
now that they are on the eve of political enfran.
chisement. They must understand the principles
which regulate their own affairs if they would choose
a fitting exponent of their wants and wishes. They
must give up the habit of trusting implicitly to their
leaders, and accepting unreservedly the plausible
statements of public speakers. If they aspire to the
dignity of a voice in the representation, they must
take the trouble to understand the scope and ten-
dency of the policy they want represented.
Mr. FERRAND, as we have said, did not enter
upon this branch of the subject. He declared his
conviction that the majority of the educated work-
ing men were conservative, but had the fair-
ness to admit that he thought to whatever side
they belonged they would be opposed to all tur-
bulence and revolutionary agitation. The bees, he
said, shrewdly enough, are not likely to destroy the
hive which contains the honey. It is too much their
interest to maintain the country in its integrity and
power.

Mr. FERRAND did not, of course, spare the Liberal
party and their leaders in his satire, but they have
been altogether undeserving of it, and certainly
could not have looked for much mercy at his hands.
At the close of the evening it was decided that a
deputation should wait upon the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, so that the working men of Norwich
are determined not to be left behind iu the struggle.

The Luxemburg question bids fair to become the
chief topic of the day, and to do more than rival in
interest and importance even the hitherto all en-
grossing subject of Reform. We expect that when
Parliament re-assembles there will be more hon.
members to press forward with questions to the
Foreign Secretary as to the state of Continental
affairs than to demand from the Chancellor of the
Exchequer some details as to the progress of the
bill in committee. Although it is still extremely
doubtful whether peace will be maintained, it is
satisfactory to know that no effort will be spared to
obtain that desirable result. This is as it should be,
because the misfortune of another Continental war
just now would be very great ; and the manner in
which the probability of this one would be pre-
vented must keep Prussia a little within bounds for
some time. The French papers, as may be imagined,
are full of the exciting details connected with the
affair, and anxiety is on the qui vive as to the events
likely to take place at the next sitting of the Legis-
lative body. It is said that doubts exist as to
whether M. JULES FAVRE will have the leave he
desires to question the Government on the subject of
Luxemburg. 'The Memorial Diplomatique asserts
that the general opinion in Vienna is to the effect
that the Duke DE GRAMONT has brought from Paris
the basis of an " intimate understanding" between
France and Austria in case of war becoming cer-
tain. This is very likely to be true, and no doubt
the Austrians would make excellent auxiliaries to
the French, although single-handed they could not
compete with the better prepared forces of Prussia.
The representatives of England, Russia, and Austria
have, it is said, presented simultaneously communi-
cations of the most pressing kind to the Prussian
Government, in order to bring about a satisfactory
solution of the Luxemburg question in a peaceful
manner. The Etendard declares that the intelli-
gence is authentic, which states that Queen VIC-
TORIA has sent a letter to the King of Prussia to the
effect that Europe should be spared from the horrors
of war— a war in which England would be neces-
sarily " neutral." The excessive claims of Prussia,
it is added, increase her disapproval of the matter.
Whether this be true or not in reality, no doubt it
is virtually correct, because there are no two opi-
nions as to the course which this country would
take in the event of hostilities bc.t:ng declared be.