The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-04-28

has only $50 registered flO electors. The votes
OF the members for South Lancashire, with it's
500 900, or rather 200 900 of people, and "a 900
electors, may be neutralised by such filthy hole
as Harwich, where the poor wretches, "free and
indeDendent electors" value a vote as one might
estimate stale fish-to be got rid of as soon as
possible. at the highest price 1t will fetch. The
West Riding of Yorkshire, with its ], 200, 900
inhabitants, and its So 900 electors, has chance
against Horsham and Woodstock, each of whom
muster between 300 and 400, who vote either as
they are ordered, or as they are bought. Leeds,
Birmingham, and Glasgow, each of them with a
swarming population and large constituency, are
on the very same level as Lyme Regis, Bewdley,
Lincoln, or Klnsale, places alwaysto be let, and
where honest men would scorn to possess the
franchise, lest they should be implicated In the
disgusting practices by which seats in parlla-
ment are TO be procured. No wonder that gene
rails, admirals, colonels. captains, commanders
of yeomanry, militia, Yorkshire Hussars, or
"Roysl Meath Regiment" should be sble to
tonal expenditure, and, with an arlstocratic
sneer, to "po.h-pooh" everything which would
reveal to the legislature the real condition of
the country.
This state of things can be endured no longer
We of the middle classes haze vast stake in the
,refare and tDei-bsing Of the country. Our facto-
rles, our shops, our counting. houses, and our
warehouses, have cultivated and enriched the
soil, and augmented the value of land tenfolds-
The brawny arm of labor has drained the mOrass,
reared the streets, dug our canals, and construct
ed our railroads. All that renders England worth
living for Is the achievement OF the middle and
The working classes-captal, skill, and labor, are
the supporters of throne, institutions, and public
order. Are zoe to run great risks, because a few
pueriie idiers tciH not cannot comprehend the
Necessities OF the age, or the szigsncies Of the coun
tsfied, discontinued population, standing as it
were constantly under arms, and encamping over
against the peace and prosperity of the country?
Or shall we not endeavor to take them out of the
hands of pike and blunderbuss men, of wild theo-
rlsts, and dangerous demagogues, and, by preach
ing blessed words of sympathy and encourage
ment to the manly and thinking portion of the
people, cool the fever other souls?
Pts-the hour is come-,ce scant the men. We
require an organization of men such as those who
achieved the peaceful revolutions of bygone
times. There is no fear of violent revolution in
this country for all sympathIes are on the side of
order and peace, but there Is something worse
than folly in permitting even the idea to be enter
tanned, of demands 70 be enforced by riot and
bloodshed, which can be obtained by peaceful and
constitutional exertion. The points OF union for
an organization Of the middle and working
classes are numerous and paipable. We want
sufficient power in the House of Commons to en-
sure thorough revision of all taxation, and a
complete control over the national expenditure
We want electoral districts, In order to extin-
gulsh the disgusting bribery which is practised
IN small boroughs, and by which idlers aad seat
monse buy their way into the legislature We
require an enlargement of the suffrage vote by BAL
lot and substantiat justice to Ireland What else
10 required need not now be Indicated.
Are there honest, earnest men amongst the
middle classes ready 10 enter into such an or
gaulsatiOn9 II there are. let them read what
was written in the year 1919, by professor GOer.
rec, and for which the late king OF Prussia caused
him to fly from his native country. They are
words full of prophetic power, aud though nearly
thirty years have elapsed, most signally are they
descriptive OF the great want OF the present hour.
Thus spoke the prophetic Goerres:-
THE persons Of whom history IL in want moi
smooth, superficial wornout tiers, who pursue I'M
meaning insienhcancy ~ . study, and iuAnity a.
trade nor msnisters, who can only set themselves Al
end Of q long Of clerks, and thsn dsplay mar
terry Of the letters Of tho alphabet but who know
thing OF the world CT life ner generals, who hold the
oesrisg to advantage In court drawing room the
h host blessing earth nor men in ofics. and col
asrs who's: whole ysor IN empty .now r.
whom there life and spirit who are ready to sscracr
themselves and their pleasures to the claims Of tbs
times who esteem forms according to their worth but
disdan to be slaves to thsm-men who courageous.
~ bestds the rapid courssr, and govern It's wild i'm
petuosty."
AFFAIRS OF ENGLAND AND THK CONTINENT.
From the Manchester Examiner, April 8
Public affairs have not, at this moment, a
cheering aspect. In London and in Manchester,
a gloomy epirit prevGils, as If some underlined ca
iamity oere impending and the cold, incessant
rain which has succeeded the sudden and pre-
mature, heat is not calculated to tighten the at
hearts that feeling of confidence which can raj.
ly a commercial and Industrial community
Yet we really cannot see any substantial cause
for all this dependency. 1t Is true that chart
ist convention has been sitting In London, and
foolish or excited men have uttered threats of
contemplated violence, and urged the necessity
for q positive resort to physical force. The 60
vernment have also deemed it necessary to Issue
4 proclamation, through the me dunn Of the me-
tropoitan commissioners of police, interd citing
the announced great meeting on Remington
Common, and the contemplated procession to the
House of Commons; We shall not comment on
the inconsistency of WING government (Which,
at the time of the reform bill agitation, was so
Indebted to displays of physical force,) inter-
dieting popular assemblage on the strength Of
an act OF the reign of Charles the Second. If
they were to carry out that act In Its integrity,
liberty would be mere name in this country.
The Daily Netcs points out that the act of Charles
the Second can be applied to any popular meet
ing whatever, and Is SO constructed as to be ct
ton which was secured to us by the revolution
of 1858. But all this we pass over, because We
are averse TO demonstrations which are not gud
ed by men In whom we can place confidence,
and because we feel persuaded that process,o on
of fifty or hundred thousand men. bearing to
the House of Commons petition demanding a
radical change In the entire constitution OF the
country, has an appearance of intimidation not
compatible with the freedom of a representative
Yet even the Morning Chronicle, so long the
servile organ of the wings, admits that the Char
fist petition is drawn up with becoming gravity
and decency.
remarkable for the clsarnes Of the language the calm
Of the TONE the precision Of the thoughts and the
s.s and YOU are in dad lock As regards tho
Allow the Hrst item and you allow the whole account
rhs supposed right Of every man 20 tbs elective fan
ohss the foundation Of the entire fabric While that
foundation lasts tho fabric will stand tho ment lie
struck away ths fabric will coms down But II must bs