The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1851-12-10
IMPORTANT BRITISH REFORM.

crisis III the governmental institutions
Great Britain is at hand II is confidently az
serted by many of the most able and infiucrti.
journals Of England, among which is the Lion
don cnnrtcr'y Rericm," the high Tory orgar
and the able representative of the aristncracy
and the privileged classes, and of Church an
State, that at the next assembling ofParliamen
Lord John Russell, the premier, sanctioned b
the Queen herself, will introduce a bill to gran
to the people the right Of unirersai Suffrage b,
ballet
/ The "Rev;ew' comedies the fact hat such
/ bill vii! be introduced and expresses strong
conviction that it viii pass into law
/ Such reform Will be the herald for better
days on the European continent 1t will he the
most gigantic change since the time of Magma
Charsa and must rcvolutionizc the politics of ali
Europe.
This invaluable political blessing once concc-
ded to the people and others must rapidly fol
low, until the people will become as free, as
those of this country.
How is this startling change to be accounted
for' The all powerful example and influence of
the institutions his country, upon the govern
men's of Europe, must be cited as the pre- emf
nent cause.
What higher compliment to the institutions
of our country could we desire, than to witness
nation of the age and experience Of Great
Britain, taking example from one So young as
the United States
The "Review" says:
"Thus, then, sHer Mjcsty's Prime Minister
is put forward as The instigator of new sRevo-
'ntion, hy which the hereditary aristocracYa and
Church Establishment are to be s,crpt n1ray,' and
the hcreditnry 7nonarchy is matter for future
consideration when the other two institutions
have been 'aanihtiatcd-'
s.This, then is what Lord John Russell-and
we go even hightr-tIis is what the Queen
has 10 look to from the Introduction Of a New
Reform Bill Its details will be of little other
importance than the fastening or delaying the
catastrophe. If, in the present state Of the
world the Minister of the Crown shall propose
any eatcnsion of the sufrogc we believe that it
will be fatal and irretrievable move down
the incline Of democrocy-or, in other words,
towards the experiment of British Repub
lie.
ssWe have already stated strongly our points
of hope and resistance they are powerful, bat
then ,ciH be areak and at all events, Intellectual,
if the authority and influence of the Crown be
thrown into the adverse scale. The majority
of even the we'll wishers of mon archy will not
be very forward to incur the trouble, the risk,
and the ridicule of being more royalist than the
Sovereign herself. If her Majesty secs her
own interest and that of her son and family in
the same light that do, and shall forbid her
ministers to berin revolution, the end ofwhi, Ii
it is fearful to look at, get hardly possible TO
9oubt-if, say. the august mother Of the
Prince of Wales shall take her stand against
any further encroachment of democracy on the
Cons,ituton-thc country. we have donbt,
would stand gladly and gallantlv by her. But
if ministry shall be permitted t. use the name
md influence of the Crown to forward rrvo
lutonary refural, God help al-prince or
people-arho hare anything to lose by Repub
lie -
This sounds very much like reform Let il
come and let those whom the "Revicw" speaks
of as haring something to lose, obtain their sup
port as other men do. The loss of pensions,
sinccures and perqnsites to sustain privileged
class in Incidence and luxury, and that too
wrung from the severe toll of millions Of indus
trious people, should present no very powerful
obstacles to the adoption of such re form.