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London, England, 1832-04-30 00:00:00

'cation for the town constituencies ; and these;
'two things arc essentially connected with each,
other. No sane man, we think, will contend that
aristocratical interests are on the whole too'
much represented under the . present systems
considering the vast masses of property which
the public good requires should be effectually
protected; the chief objection, as rye understand
it, is, that under the existing mode an oligar'
chical section of the Aristocracy, rather than
the Aristocracy generally, comes to be repre•
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rented, and that in an irregular and unseemly
manner. We think there is marvellously little
practical value in this objection ; but supposing
the contrary, for the sake of argument, the
conclusion ought to be that the Members
taken from schedules A and B should be given'
to the Aristocracy at large in some un-
objectionable manner, whereas the Bill gives,
them almost exclusively to the democracy.
If these Members must be distributed among
the towns the qualification should he a high
one, but that proposed is confessedly the
reverse. The Ministerial prints take great,
paints to convince us that in many towns
the 101. voters would be few in number; but
this is not the question. The point to be
noticed is the proportion between the voters at
high rentals and the voters at low rentals, and
the last will uniformly outnumber the first. A'
rental qualification is, therefore, necessarily de-,
mocratical, unless the qualification be high, or
double and treble votes be given to the higher
rentals. The more the Ministerial scheme is
analysed the more it will be seen that the pre•
ponderance in almost all elections is given to
numbers as distinguished from property ; and
very great alterations are consequently required to
make it at all tolerable, alterations far greater
than Ministers can allow without breaking at
once with their radical allies, and throwing
themselves into the hands of a more mode-
rate class of Reformers. If the ten-pound
franchise be insisted upon for the democracy,
schedules A and B should be preserved to the
aristrocacy ; but if any important disfranchises
meat be permitted, the whole question of the
qualification will require a minute and jealous in-
vestigation. On the whole we see no prospect
of so modifying Earl Grey's Bill as to make it
acceptable to any man who understands and loves
the British Constitution as it has hitherto existed,
and happily exists to this hour. When this fact
shall becomes manifest we trust that we shall
have no more wavering, but the entire conserve.
tive party will be animated by one heart and soul
in offering a determined resistance to all revolt'.
tionary schemes. Earl Grey must be by this time
fully convinced that his system and his Ministry
cannot go on, opposed as it is by an immense
and constantly increasing party, comprising by far
the greater part of the property and intelligence of
the country. The experiment has been tried,
and it has failed. The Peers may yet entitle
themselves to the lasting gratitude of the empire,
by giving it at once a conservative Administra- .
tion and a constitutional Reform.—Morning
Post.

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