The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-07-11 00:00:00

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and in consequence of a
r been agreed to by the commit-
forward such a motion as the
of democracy on the continent
was felt that in this country
ttions time-honoured and
had proved that our constitution
of a theory, but a practical reality, that we had
worth living for and something worth dying
-when thousands of humble hearts were raised in
ateful acknowledgment of such blessings,—was that a
time for unsettling institutims which were likely to prove
a model to the nations cf the continent, when they should
awake from the fearful dream that now overcame their
- -v-roishmen at a moment of such doubt

resolution that had n

Was it well to brin

present, when the resu'

re so disastrou

hen it

at least there were ins
able,

Len severe tri

something
for

senses,.
and dn.]

and energies in tampering

. -
of fame and protection ?"
We have no hesitation in affirming the perfect
correctness of this exposition of the state of feeling
which pervades three-fourths of the intelligent
middle classes of this country, and even of a ma-
jority of the industrious working classes. Mr.
Cobden, however, says,—" At least six-sevenths of
the male population of this United Kingdom are
earnestly praying for and claiming the rights which
them,"—such rights being, we
those to be conferred by the bill sought
to be introduced. And he adds,—" I will go fur-
ther and tell the House that a very large proportion
of the middle class regret that so many belonging
to a humbler order of society than themselves
should have been included amongst the unrepre-
sented portion of the

you are (
presume, 1

sincere -desire ti

communit . They express a
the franchise should be extended;
'-terest to the result of this

they look with great

w, there is one very decisive
is statement of the alleged
venths of the people to pos-
Do six-sevenths of those
is take any trouble to obtain
that they do not. A very la
7ment of their rates

test of the truth of tl

earnest de

within u
it ? It

within the
eer indifference to the pri-
I as the reward of prompt
ly that if a proper
ses throughout the
of England, whose rents

ve urn
;he hot

rig-ht of cot

ing upon

their occupants, it would be found that three out
of five of such occupants do not estimate the

value of the f

rth the trifling sacrifice,

in many
to be pu
Cobden

trouble alone, of elaiminf
n of it by being rated. Mr

himse

I tell a story of the thousands
and who have paid their

e bQen found
1-tendina the

boroughs, which the framers of the Bill retained
for Whig uses, may be swept into a new schedule
A, as from time to time they exhibit their delin-
quency. But the great mass of the public are not
prepared to pull down the present structure, in
order to found a more democratic structure in its
stead, convinced as they are that, whilst from its
•- elements have bee,- 4uced

ng deniocrati

la con-

stant flood of talk and declamation, which impedes
all practical legislation, and mocks at the most press-
ing demands and wants of the people—these elements
t before the world no eminent legisla-

have broug

in the

I warrl

mer than