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THE EVENING sfAn.

LONDON.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2.

We sincerely congratulate the nation on the develope-
ment of the Reforming Plans of Ministers. It is the
triumph of public virtue, and of those,exertions which have
been made, during the last forty years. Its highest praise
is the bitterness with which it is impugned, by all those who
have fattened, and continuo to hope still further to fatten, by
the cajolery of the people, by the management of the public
finances, and the patronage of the State. We sat under the
gallery, amid those nobles whose ascendancy depends on the
conservation of the system of mock representation, and
their groans and exclamations at every new announcement
of the Government Orator, were the highest compliments
which the plan of ministers could receive; and ought to
act as an inducement to Reformers, of all grades, to co-
operate, with heart and hand, to aid the government in car-
rying it through. It may not go all the lengths proposed by
theory ; but it contains so much good, that our only fear is,
that it is too good to be carried. Let it, however, be con-
aidered that extremes beget extremes ; and that the grossness
of abuses has given rise to popular demands scarcely hoped
to be realized ; and, therefore, that wisdom lies probably in
the golden mean which Ministers have adopted.
In the first place, SIXTY of those nefarious sinks of cor-
ruption—the rotten boroughs—are to be extinguished, by
which the country gets rid, at a stroke, of 119 vultures,
preying on the vitals of the state and people.
In the next place, we diminish the power of 47 others of
the same class of close boroughs; while the extension of the
suffrage will render the elected 47, at least innoxious.
Then the right of voting in towns universally is not, as at
present, to lie in those agents of corruption—the burgesses
and new-made freemen (who are only to have a life interest);
but in the householders, renting to the amount of ten pounds
per annum. In counties, also, the right of voting is to be
extended to copyholders of ten pounds per annum, and to
leaseholders of twenty-one years in England, and nineteen
years in Scotland, granted above two years, on property at
fifty pounds per annum.
All this is popular, and it adds tr Ala ♦ MILLION to the
present number of constituents.

It is then proposed to confer TWO Members on seven
large towns, and olvE on twenty secondary towns, at present
unrepresented. Also, to enable four divisions of the Me-
tropolis, on the north side of the Thames, to return each
two Members ; and the Lambeth division, on the south side,
to return the other two.

Above all, as a security to the landed interest, it is intend-
ed to confer on 27 Counties, of the largest population,ltwo
additional Members each, from two districts of the Counties,
assigned by a commission of the Privy Council ; and to
give to each Riding of YORKSHIRE the power of returning
two Members.

Nor is this the whole extent of the concession : for by
limiting the right of voting to residents, and cutting of those
curses of fair election—the out-votes, it is intended to con-
chide all elections in towns in two days, and in counties in
those days ; and to simplify rights, by lists prepared in the
manner of Jury-Lists, and in counties by taking the votes
in the rear ective hundreds.

This system is to be extended throughout all the United
Kingdom.

Scotland will gain five additional Representatives, Ireland
three, and Wales one. But the whole number will be
reduced from 658 to 596--quite enough for practical
deliberation.

The only part of the plan not developed, Which We think
slight to have bees regarded, ie the present unconstitutional

and UPIII ped DURATION. On this, Ministers do not pledge)
themselves to move; bet leave it for further consideration,
and to any other parties.
On the subject of the BALLOT—the touchstone With many
'of the perfection of every system of election—they also
forbear to move ; and, as bird JOHN RUSSELL argued at
length against it, we may infer that they are opposed to it.
The objection which his Lordship took to irresponsible
voters, he should recollect, applies with equal force to Grand
and Petit Juries, whose irresponsibility is the best recom-
mendation of the Jury System.
Beneath, we have subjoined the lists which are necessary
to the due understanding of the whole ; and we also refer to
the speech. We may add, that his Lordship spoke in the
first person plural, as the avowed organ of an unanimous

Cabinet ; and that he enlarged with emphasis on the appro-
bation which the plan had received from the KING. His
Lordship spoke, with grace and eloquence, for nearly two
hours and a half ; and was listened to with attention, by the
fullest House of Commons ever assembled. His peroration
was particularly splendid, and his exordium ingenious.
No question for years has engaged a more intense interest.
The approaches to the House were crowded, and the avenues
and passes choked with anxious enquirers.
It now remains for the people to assemble everywhere, and
do their duty ; which duty, in our opinion, is to support the
Ministers in carrying their plan into a law. They will
thereby at the next, and we trust early election, have the first
opportunity which they ever enjoyed, of electing a Par-
liament !