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cies may be swamped by voters living in unrepre-
sented towns. The scheme of distributing the 49
seats saved by diminishing the representation of
small boroughs seem on the whole equally fair with
the disfranchisement clauses. An additional mem-
ber is to be given to each division of a county con-
taining, exclusive of Parliamentary boroughs, more
than 150,000 inhabitants—South Lancashire, which
has a population of more than 600,000, forming
two divisions—and 26 members are thus to be added
to the counties. An additional member is to be
given to each of the four boroughs—Liverpool,
Manchester, Birmingham, and Leeds—now having
each more than 200,000 inhabitants, and an addi-
tional member to Salford, now having only one_ie-
presentative, though containing (more than 100,000
inhabitants. The representation of the Metropolis
is to be increased by dividing the Tower Hamlets
into two boroughs, and creating a new borough of
Chelsea and Kensington. Burnley, Stalybridge,
Gravesend, Hartlepool, Middlesbury, and Dews-
bury are to become Parliamentary boroughs, each
returning one member, the London University is to
be constituted an Electoral constituency, and the
seven seats still remaining are allotted to Scotland.
The redistribution scheme of the Government is
fair and moderate. The number of small boroughs
dealt with might, perhaps, havebeen increased with
advantage, and we have pointed out a defect in the
scheme of grouping which might even now be re-
medied ; but in disposing of the seats obtained for
distribution by the first part of the scheme the claims
of the counties and of the great centres of industry
have been impartially considered. Some members
will, perhaps, regret that, at a time when so many
" three-cornered" constituencies are intended to be
created; no proposal is made to revive the plan for
representing minorities contained in the bill of
Lord Aberdeen's Government in 1854 ; but it is
probable that the Ministry have rightly ganged the
wisdom of Parliament in abstaining from such a step.
On the important question of boundaries the pro-
posals are less satisfactory, but it is evident that the
Ministry are ready to consider any practical sugges-
tion for fairly defining the limits of Parliamentary
boroughs. There is some simplicity in Mr. Glad-
stone's scheme for evading the difficulty, since the
proposal that Parliamentary and municipal boroughs
shall be conterminous can only make the determina-
tion of municipal boundaries henceforth what it has
not been hitherto—a political question. Mr. Glad-
stone objects to the proposal contained in Lord
Derby's bill, which would have given to the Enclo-
sure Commissioners the task of fixing the limits of
Parliamentary boroughs, on the ground that the
power is too great and too vague to be thus dealt
with, though it is in fact nothing more than to re-
peat, through a definite existing body, what was
done in 1832 through a special commission appointed
for the purpose. It cannot, however, be impossible
to settle the boundary question, if all parties consent
to deal with it in a spirit of fairness, and in that case
the Redistribution Bill incorporated with the Fran-
chise Bill may easily become a satisfactory measure
of Reform. There are some clauses in the Franchise
Bill which it is now confessed would produce effects
not intended by its framers, and it may therefore be
presumed that they will be withdrawn with little, if
any, reluctance. It remains only to determine how
Parliament shall deal with the two bills now before
it, and though Mr. Gladstone refused last night,
in reply to Mr. Disraeli and Sir Hugh Cairns,
to do more than express his readiness to con-
sult the convenience of the House of Commons,
subject to the one condition that Reform be not
allowed to drop, we think there can be little doubt
that the plan recommended by Mr. Bouverie is that
which ought to be pursued. The second reading of
the Redistribution Bill is fixed for Monday next,
and if, as we hope, it passes this stage after no
very prolonged discussion, the house can go into
committee on both bills at the same time, and then
fuse them together. Whether it will be possible to
pass the composite measure thus formed this session
must depend very much on the good sense of indi-
vidual members and the sagacity of the leaders on
both sides, but especially of the Opposition. It is
most obviously for the interest of the latter, as it is
for the good of the country, that the spirit of reform
should be laid at rest; they has.,e now the opportu-
nity of accomplishing this result, and that under the
most favourable conditions, if they will only resist
the temptation of snatching a temporary triumph
over their opponents.
" ANGLO-AMERICAN TDIES."--It is with any-
thing but a feeling of satisfaction that we
transfer to our columns an account, pub-
lighed in tho Time& o last Tuesday, of a, recent
interview between the Washington correspondent
of that journal and the President of the
United States. In explanation of that occur-
rence, the Times of Wednesday declares that
the President, unlike the Sovereigns of Europe
who are hedged round with divinity, " can
talk with anybody about public affairs without
impropriety or offence. He can address a mob,"
says the leading journal, "from a platform or an
open window ; he can hold conversations which
the post will convey next day to the furthest corner
of the Union ; and he may explain and unbosom
himself to the correspondent of a European jour-
nal." Further on, the Times states that the
" President gave full permission that the details of
this remarkable conference should be made public."
The American people have been represented by
Charles Dickens and other caricaturists as utterly
destitute of propriety. Whether justly or not, they
have borne the character of an ill-mannered and
uncouth race, who do not scruple to disregard all
social amenities, who by instinct place their feet on
chimney-pieces and expectorate on drawing-room
carpets, and who, in a word; are mainly remark-
able for those traits of character which shock the
refined and disgust the sensitive. But while these
and similar caricatures, which have been manufac-
tured at the expense of the Americans, are destitute
of the slightest foundation of truth, it is admitted
that they do not, as a people, hold themselves
bound by those strict and rigid conventional rules
of etiquette which are observed in some civilised
countries, and which common sense teaches are
absurd and foolish. If an American citizen asks
an interview with the Executive, he does not think
it necessary, on being ushered into " the presence,"
to prostrate himself and kiss the Presidential toe,
nor even to addreis him as " Your nigh and mighty
Puissantness !" On the contrary, he addresses the
President as he would any other gentleman, and
expects to be treated in return, not with official
hauteur nor offensive condescension, but with that
easy and respectful urbanity with which gentlemen
always meet each other. But underlying this fa-
miliarity, which is only another name for self-re-
spect, there is always prevalent in the minds of all
intelligent Americans a deep and abiding respect
for the Presidential office. Englishmen regard with
jealousy the slighest infraction of the dignity of the
Crown, and have made it a penal offence to speak
of the Sovereign in terms of disrespect. But we
do not scruple to assert that no intelligent man in
England venerates the Queenly office more highly,
or is more jealously alive to its dignity, than are
the people of the United States to that of the
Chief Ruler of the Land. Indeed, we believe and
maintain, in common with all Americans, that the
office of President of the United States is an
office of greater power, greater honour, and greater
dignity than that held by any Sovereign in Europe.
Kings and Queens and Emperors are born, not
made. They reach their high position not by the
force of character nor by the public choice, but by
the accident of birth. In all intelligent commu-
nities, that man who, by honesty, industry, and
intelligence has accumulated a fortune, is more
honoured than his neighbour who has simply ob-
tained a competence by some lucky accident. So
an office which represents the free choice of a
great nation is more honourable, and ought to be
more honoured, than that which is reached by
means entirely independent or. in defiance
of the wishes of the people. For the same GREAT EASTERN STEAMSHIP (LIMITED).
reason that the American people are proud of The ordinary general meeting of this com_r. pay.ny
office,3
the Presidential
they would also desire was held yesterday at the London Tavern ; I
to be proud of the President.. He is not only Gooch,
M.P.
the embodiment of law and power, but 'should also , in the chair.
The report was taken as read.
represent the refinement and the civilisation of the
The CHAIR3IAN, in
people. If he fails to do this he grievously offends moving the adoption of the
accounts, said the directors
and outrages the nation. When a little more than re
regretted being so port and statement of
ing
sathe ng, but
a twelvemonth ago the Vice-President Elect ap- late in hold
to y thmee the
at the new
peared on inauguration day in a state of inebria- the delay had enabled them
tion, his offence was more serious, and was felt to charter of the ship
by both parties, and was,
be more serious, than almost any political misde- had been sealedcharter had been completed.. The
mean our which hhe thought verY favourable one for their tom_
whole people, Republicans and Democrats, were v It secured them £20,000 a year for the Use
whether the laying the cable should
alike shocked ; and a universal feeling of disgust Pan"
and sorrow pervaded all classes. We put the case buth -* b
it had very gr
e successful or nut,having
eatl
been on board
not one whit too strongly when we declare that the prove
ast year, and having seen the whole of the
American people would sooner forgive Brechiu- the ship 1
of the ship,
ridge his treachery, or even Jeff. Davis his treason, operations in laying the cable,
than to tolerate another such an exhibition as that increased his confidence, and he thought •
it quite
y
which disgraced the nation en the 4th March, 1865.
The late " remarkable conference" between the possible with proper tackle to raise up the end of
the cable already laid. They PRESIDENT of the United States and a Correspon-
last raised the cable up
about a mile year, bat the
dent of the London Times is declared by that jour- tackle, being inade-
We quate, broke. However,
nal to be highly honourable to the President.
kind of , the s ip would go out next
do not profess to understand that peculiar
"honour" which' forms the stock-In-trade of the
Times, but we are putting the case they would doubt
very mildly when .be able to raise the cable success-
we declare that among the four or Avo thousand luny and complete it, would which entitle them to

loyal Americans now in London, there are very few
who have not, ever since the publication of that ac-
count in the Times, walked the streets of this metro-
polis with a personal sense of humiliation and
degradation. We speak of that which we know, and
testify of that which we have seen, when we assert
that of all the vagaries of President Johnson
none have so completely disgusted his coun-
trymen and rendered them so heart-sick as
this. They feel, as Americans, that their
President should be reticent in speech, and
should make himself heard through his official
utterances and his public acts. But if his tongue is
so unruly that it cannot be restrained, they feel,
at least, that he should address himself to his
-own people, and not to a professed public enemy
pefresehlse.eule'threY and; the i4,its.ntzietsuthi oat; s s which he re -
raged, and insulted, and calumniated othenAfteinneroienatn. nation, that when the' President consorts with it
or any of its representatives, all Americans feel
nity, and that, instead seinf
°ling
that his indiscretion is
a Congressional im-
peachment, a medical
come •
his mental condition wouldvery like insa-
Lnission to inquire into
Irvent o
We have felt it our dutye t the more appropriate.
livandaitsc
nnan ever
States.n oe t
committed by a
comment in very
but consider the
plain
t e termspl or anbnl
President of the United
sire- not to be misunderstood by Bout
English
ldiseb-
friends. We are most sincerely anxious that the
people of this country should respect the American
people ; and any attempt on the part of the PRE-
sIDENT, consistent with dignity and decency, to con-
ciliate the good opinion of England, would be not
only unobjectionable, but highly commendable. If
President Johnson had instructed Mr. Seward to
to
explain his domestic policy .Sir
Frederic Bruce,
for communication to the Government' and the
people of Great Britain, we might, have questioned
the expediency, but not the decency, of the pro-
ceeding. In giving a two hours' conference to a
representative of a foreign newspaper, for the
,purpose of explaining to such an auditor the
details of his domestic policy, he is placed in
the position of one who, having arrayed himself
against his own people, appeals to foreigners
and detractors for support and sympathy.
If any of our English readers imagine we are
putting this matter too strongly, let us ask them
what they would think of their Queen if she were
to send for the representative of the New York
Herald, and, in a two hours' audience, condescend
to explain to that sapient individual the differences
between the Ministry and the Opposition in Par-
liament on the subject of Reform ? The President
of the United States occupies the same relative
position as the Queen of the United Kingdom. He
is the highest personage in the land—alike the Go-
vernor and the Commander-in-Chief. An act
which would amount Simply to a folly if perpetrated
by any other becomes in him not merely a grave
misdemeanour, but a high crime—a crime against
the society which he represents. As such his late
indecorous conversation with the Times' Cor-
respondent will be regarded by his intelligent
countrymen. We do not venture to predict the
feeling with which that conversation will be received
in America when its details become known bit we
think it not out of place to state that the mail of this
day
.will carry out letters from several prominent
Americans n London, addressed to Secretary
Seward, and remonstrating against this latest
vagary of the President, which is felt to reflect so
much discredit upon his high office. And it is right
to add that many who most cordially support the
President's reconstruction policy, and who most
strenuously oppose the recent proceedings of Con-
gress, will join in the expression of their regret and
shame at the transaction to which we have adverted.

Railway and other Companies.

SUNNINGDALE AND CAMBRIDGE TOWN,

A special general meeting of this company was
held yesterday at the office, Broad Sanctuary,
Westminster, for the purpose of considering a bill
for altering, in some particulars, the authorised
construction of the railway and its extensions ; Mr.
Moon in the chair.

The bill empowered the directors to make some
judicious alterations in the railway, and to raise
£20,000 in shares, and to borrow £6,000.
It was stated that the additional capital was
required- for the purchase of land. It had been
estimated that the cost of land would be £7,000,
but the estimate would be exceeded.
After a short discussion, in which some dissatis-
faction was expressed atthe delay in the commence-
ment of the works, the bill was approved.