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doomed prerogatives. But neither in the selec-
tion of candidates nor in the mode of voting
has there been ever the shadow of regard for public
opinion; and of -*the party that now in despair
cheer with frantic vociferation the elevation of
their new standard of " Middle Class Monopoly"
there are not perhaps a score who have been re-
turned to Parliament by the unbiassed or sponta-
neous choice of middle-class men. Nor is this all.
Granting, for argument sake, that one in every
three of our present representatives owes his return
in a greater or less degree to the genuine influence
of the industrious portion of the community en-
franchised in 1832, what portion of that community
is by just distribution and division of electoral
rights made to value or enabled to feel its power ?
Is it not admitted on all hands that, by the prepos-
terous inequality of constituencies, and the exces-
sive size of many of them, all sense of the value of
the franchise is individually lost ; and that thou-
sands and tens of thousands of ten-pound house-
holders in large towns have long abandoned the
thought of exercising an apparently useless privi-
lege ? Will these men turn out and fight for the
exclusive possession of that which they habitually
spurn as worthless? Or will the independent
minority of a country town, who have found them-
selves, because of their fewness, overborne and set
at defiance by the menials of " My Lord," or the
vassals of " Sir John," feel that it is for their ad-
vantage to keep up the exclusion of their five
pound neighbours, with whose aid they might pro-
bably emancipate their borough ?
But truly has it been said that hypocrisy is the
late-born child of wrong. Whatever is active,
energetic, and thoughtful in the electoral mind of
England regards with just and bitter resentment
the way in which the aristocracy has systematically
cheated and baffled the nominally powerful classes,
whom now it calls on to take close order in oppo-
sition to expansion and progress. Its flatteries and
professions of friendship come too late. Had they
been earlier they might have been deemed kind,
and thereby made some dupes. Now they will
deceive nobody. The educated, frugal, inventive,
and orderly men of the working classes are our
natural allies, whose aid we have long desired to
obtain, and whose participation in the privileges
we ourselves possess we feel it to be our interest as
well as our duty by every legitimate means to
facilitate. We don't want to be swamped, but we
don't fear being so. There is not the least danger
of too much being conceded to waged labour, or
humble householding. The only danger is that
there will be to a little.—Daily News.