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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

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TIMES.—Sir Hugh Cairns very truly said in open
ing the adjourned debate yesterday that it would
take more than a night to efface Mr. Lowe's speech
from the memory of the members of the House of
Commons, and the whole course of the discus-
sion which followed illustrated the justice of the
statement. There was everywhere noticeable the
languor of reaction. Mr. Lowe's words still rang
in the ears of members, his arguments remained un-
shaken, and their effect had indeed only deepened
upon reflection. It was true that the Attorney-
General had followed Mr. Lowe on Thursday; but
his speech, prepared against other antagonists, had
lost the weight due to the ability of the speaker and
the vigour of his reasoning. A day had elapsed, but
there was a craving for further repose, and Mr. Whal-
ley ought to have been welcomed as a public benefac-
tor when he insisted upon avenging the Government
for a previous count out, by stopping the way with a
proof that everybody was infected by Fenianism,
himself, as Mr. N ewdegate would perhaps suggest,
not excluded. The world knows nothing, however,
of its greatest men ; there were too many members
for doomed boroughs eager to seize the only oppor-
tunity before them to allow Mr. Whalley to pro-
ceed ; a stroke of genius unparalleled in Parliamen-
tary tactics brought down upon him the remon-
strance of the Speaker, and the debate was allowed
to proceed. It cannot be said that last night's
debate shed much new light upon the subject of
Reform. The Lord Advocate, no doubt, possesses
some influence over the Scotch members; but Scotch
members, even if strengthened by the mystic Seven
promised them, would form but a small part of the
house. Sir Hugh Cairns brought out in stronger
relief than ever the anomalies of the Redistribution
Bill, and showed how unfortunate it was that a
measure designed on strictly arithmetical rules
should work so unequally towards the two great
parties of the State. It may, however, be retorted
that this is the inevitable effect of the soundness
of Whig principles. Disfranchisement is a neces-
sary part of any Reform Bill, and disfranchise-
ment must begin with the smallest boroughs. If
it is found that more Conservatives are in jeopardy
of their seats in consequence than Liberals, this is an
indirect testimony.to the ca-use of Liberalism. Tak-
ing the 8,000 limit, the seats affected are tolerably
evenly divided ; but if the limit were extended to
10,000, 18 more seats would be touched, of which
14 are held by Liberals. Sir H. Cairns insinuates
the 8,000 limit was chosen for party motives, or, as
Mr. Goschen would say, to secure a bill that would
pass ; but we are surprised Sir H.• Cairns does not
see that the proper deduction is that 8,000 is the
limit of virtue. The distinction is fine ; but allmoml
distinctions are fine. Below 8,000 there are political
vice and consequent disfranchisement ; above 8,000,
even if the excess be no more than a score, virtue
has its own reward. The same lesson is to be
deduced from the curiosities of grouping. If we find
that six integers to be reduced to vulgar fractions
return only one supporter of the Government
among them, that a second half-dozen to be left in
their integral condition, but shorn of half their
members, return three supporters of the Govern-
ment, and that a third half-dozen within the same
line, yet absolutely untouched, return eight, we
can only wonder how it is to be explained. The
result may, on a superficial view, appear suspicious,
but that is nothing; it must be mortifying to
the Conservative party, but that is inevitable. Let
them console themselves with the thought that if
members are taken from small boroughs, addi-
tional members are given to populous counties.
A populotis county, containing, as all populous
counties do, many rising municipalities and not a
few freeholders in the Parliamentary boroughs
within its limits, will furnish with a £l4 qualifica-
tion a sufficiently large constituency. Wealth, at all
events, will retain its power. It is expensive
enough now, as the returns quoted by Mr. Lowe
showed, to contest a county ; but with a reduced
qualification the cost would be ruinous. Every
candidate would be compelled to retain an agent
in every town, if not in every village possessing
an attorney, within the limits of the division.
The size of a county might, no doubt, be reduced
by enlarging the boundaries of the Parliamen-
tary boroughs, but of all the sections of the
Redistribution Bill that referring to boundaries
is perhaps the least satisfactory. To make the
area of a Parliamentary borough depend upon
a double vote of the inhabitants of the borough and
of its suburbs, involving the adoption of municipal
rates as well as of Parliamentary privileges, is a
wretched expedient for disposing of a difficult ques-
tion. It is, indeed, possible that the subject of boun-
daries was not considered until it was brought into
prominence at the end of the debate on the Franchise
Bill, and it is only fair to refer to haste what must
otherwise be attributed to ignorance on the part of
the Government. The complete scheme of Reform
proposed by the Ministry may be summed up very
shortly. Dismissing its 'accidental and separable parts
it consists of a reduction of rental qualifications in
town and county, a disfranchising of small boroughs,
and a transfer of the members taken from them to
increase the number of members for counties and
more populous boroughs. The qualification in towns
is reduced in deference to the claims of numbers ;
the county qualification is reduced for a similar
reason, though the motive for fixing upon the £l4
limit has always been exceedingly obscure •, the dis-
franchisement of small boroughs is proposed because
the numbers of their inhabitants are insufficient to
justify the maintenance of their present privileges ;
the groups are allowed one or two members, accord-
ing to the number of their aggregate population; the
third member is given to counties when their inhabi-
tants exceed a fixed number, and to towns when their
inhabitants exceed another fixed number. No states-
man could approve a plan of Reform such as the
Government propose, unless he saw it in a fair pro-
spect of settling the question, and the speeches of
its advocates, no less than its apparent principles, can
permit no one to indulge in such a hope. The
schemse itself might, indeed, not be so alarming
were it not put forward as an instalment, and were
it not planned with a carelessness which would be
out of place in the most trifling proposal for a change
in the law. The reluctance—we may say the deter-
mined refusal—of the House of Commons to accept
the scheme is manifest, and we are not surprised
that_ the rumour should gain currency that the
Government intend to withdraw their bills if they
can obtain a majority, however narrow, on Captain
Hayter's motion. It may be that the rumour is a
device, not unknown in the experience of the House
of Commons, to secure a waverer or two ; but we
may express a hope that it has a solid foundation
of truth. We are in a difficulty. The Government
scheme is doomed, and properly doomed, and yet
Reform is necessary. Another Administration has
attempted a task which so many have tried in vain
only to prove the impossibility of any Government

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passing a Reform Bill without the assistance of the
Opposition, and the impossibility of any Opposition
being found so full of self-sacrifice as to assist a
Government in passing it. Mr. Gladstone has de-
clared that the Session shall not be lost, and it will
not be lost, if we recognize this truth, even though
the Government scheme be withdrawn. We must
have recourse to some new method of action. With-
draw the question in the first instance from Par-
ham ent ; let the nation seek the assistance of such
a dispassionate tribunal as a well-chosen Commis-
sion would supply, and in the report and recom-
mendations made, after mature consideration of
electoral qualifications, redistributions, modes of
voting, the prevention of bribery, and, in short, of
all the branches of Reform, we may find the solu-
tion of this irrepressible question.
ANGLO-AMERICAN TIMES.--War--It has begun.
We hear not yet the thunder of the cannon,
the sword drinks not yet of human blood, the
diplomatists have still to assemble around the
green table and talk of preserving peace. But
there is no peace--war has begun. We see the
sabres flash, we see the advance and the retreat, the
thrust and the parry ; we perceive the look of hate,
the muscles strained to their utmost tension, the
utmost skill of each swordsman used to make the
opportunity for a deadly thrust; we see not yet the
dripping gore, but the duel has begun. Eight hun-
dred thousand Austrians are under arms. Half 3
million Prussians and nearly four hundred thousand
Italians oppose them ; each host is maneeuvring
to
take the other at the greatest disadvantage ; ana
this is virtual, nay, actual, exhausting war, though
mangled human bodies strew not yet the battle-
field. Whether peace will be preserved is really 1;11
longer the question, but it is whether the war will
be stopped before it has filled central Europe
with desolation and woe. We think it can
scarcely cease till there is a conqueror and. a
conquered. The instinct of self-preservation
has been strong in Austria. She has been baited
to madness, and she wishes to settle with her
tormentors at once and for ever. In her excitement
she feels a glorious strength, and she is not likely to
ask for quarter before she feels the dire nece,ssity.
Italy pants to be united and free. As _her children
would die for love, so she feels life without Venice
a burden, and she is fully determined to do unto
death. But what can we hope from the position of
Prussia ? The bully, the braggart, and the thief
are not necessarily brave. They will do what pru-
dence should teach them to avoid, but this is simply
because they have miscalculated their chances.
Let them see clearly that the odds are against
them, and ten to one the reprobates Prey°
themselves the most arrant of cowards. The boast-
ing, the dishonesty, and the bullying of Prussia
have been prime causes of the conflict. The odds
are now clearly against her. Will she act the
craven at the last moment, give up the sPel
and accept the consequences of unsuccessfn
and cowardly dishonesty ? We think
Bismarck is more nearly a political foot,
pad than a cowardly thief. He still rules at
Berlin, and he knows perfectly well that he taus
go forward or cease to be. While he wields the
arm of Prussia, she is certain to take the desperate
chances. We see, therefore, no hope for peace;
The utmost which we can expect is a pause--soaleor
thing in the nature of an armistice of longer _
shorter duration—and this will not be likely i_ta„,
prove itself a blessing. It will strengthen 01,
armies, but it will exhaust the peoples ; .911,11;
when carnage actually begins, it will be
to be the more desperate and deadly. If ett.h
nage must come sooner or later, we should say w,l
Canning, " Let it be later," were it not that -r-411
rope is, in the meantime, bristling with bayonets:
Can Italy bear an armed truce of uncertain der
tion ? She had better fight a bloody and a loslng
campaign ; she had better be prostrate and bleed
lug
at the feet of Austria, than to bear longer in ees,he;
less watching the weight of her armour. -1-" r
People know this. They will have Venice, a
lose all that can be lost in the desperate game °f
if
quick and decisive war. They will be haPPY
they conquer ; and if they lose, the yoke of t
conqueror cannot but be lighter than the terrth.iou
tension of the warlike position which they 113'4
occupied for several years. For the peopiee;
Austria an immediate settlement is uec
sary. The Hapsburghs may sink or
the Empire may be triumphant, or it may be ini.
i
solved ; either or any definitely settled Pet,
.
tion of affairs will be preferable to the fins
cial distress, the constant exertion necessary T.
maintain the large military forces essential to
Empire as long as the rest of Europe is ,
ling with bayonets. If the Empire go to rwl
.if anarchy supervene, order will be most certain
Al
evolved out of chaos ; the elements of the State IsT."
be finally attracted to other centres, the burdens
of war will cease, and peace blessed, 11321313,r;
prosperous peace—will come at last. For IP
rest of
is central Europe an immediate disarnti
meat not so imperatively necessary, but ,10
is nevertheless very important. No country eau:sr
perfectly free and prosperous while a very hes,i'da
proportion of the population arc under arms. ?yes
however our feelings may revolt at the 1 it
o. f the terrible carnage of the battle-field,
is better for humanity itself that ten th,..°
sand men shall die a violent and sudden deatutpr
the. promotion of a definite solution of an „111—sa
national difficulty, than that twenty thou—dor
extra
in soldiers be permanently retained WI s..
arms a totally useless, resultless life. For 0.4,
t.ion.s not immediately involved in the contll.l"ch
it is also far better that the carnage W
later.
must come, shall come sooner, 'rather than est
In England we are in the midst of the grest.oro
financial crisis since the wars of Napoleon. . we
know not where or when it will end. But this it,
do
know--actual bloodshed will se,arcelyincreasec4
while it is certain that a short time at the best so
bring disasters if the international probleul once
imperfectly solved that Europe is doomed Lee:
more to the protracted terrors of an armed P-70.0
such a peace as makes bankrupt all the excheci pit-
o! a continent—such a peace as exhausts th„e not
tons with the watching and exertions, if
the bloodshed, of ordinary war. If the til;iog
and the parry of the duelist mean anY'roli-
. but play, if the marchings and counter-Ineinw,
ing of armies are not merely a passing sPor
the war has begun—it cannot end without nod
page. We say, then, " Let the carnage eonle'
God protect the rights of the Peoples."

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