Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-11-18

THURSDAY MORNING, NOV. 10, 1858.
All the readers of Iatelligencer, we take it
for granted know something about Mr. Bright,
member of. Parliament for Birmingham, Eng
land, and notorious world-over for his liberal
and republican notions of Reform Reform is
rather an obnoxious word to the Governmental
Great Britain. Daniel o Connel made it SO, for
under cover of it, he gave his most lusty any
radical thrusts at the crown. Mr.. Bright is
nowadays, par excellence, the obnoxious advo-
cate of Reform in England. He has penchant
for the way politics are based and balanced in
these United States Of ours, and seems to have
much more ardent appreciation of our very
rnany blessed privileges than we, full fed and
ungrateful, do ourselves. He made a speech
before his constituents fcw days ago-a tell
ing and eloquent speech, which has set the
Britishers all astir-worse, several degrees, than
Stewards and Hammond's have US peoples
this side the water.
We extract the peroration. not having room
for any more. He considers
TIE ELECTIVE FRANCHISE. 80
think it would be of great importance that
the franchise known as the forty shilling fran
Chise should BIO extended to nil parts Of the
people of England and Wales Hear, hear7-f
Well, now come to q question which, although
u believe those persons who have no vote at
present will hardly credit it, is as important to
the country as the question 1.-THE franchise; and
that is the question how. your members shall be
allotted to the various localities and bodies of
electors EHear, hear Now Iwill.frst ask YOU
simple question What is the obvious rule
that would recommend itself.to every man in the
world, If now first put to him would he not argue
/ IN this way@-that law has given to certain per-
sons the right to vote, the law presumes that
every person who has the right to vote is capable
OF deciding how he should vote; every elector,
therefore, IN the eye of the law, is of the same
importance as every other elector; why there
fore, should not every elector in voting for
3 q member of Parliament vote for the same
proportion of the whole Parliament that every
other elector votes forP Hear, hear.l
shall be told that am not to go to the
United States for an example. Well, I'll
come a little nearer home. Take the King
dom of Sardinia was in the city of Turin
s= last year. made inquiries there as to the
mode of election and the distribution of mem.
.bers. made particular inquiry with regard to
the city of Genoa. Genoa, / think has popu.,s
lation of. about 14O, 600, and il returns seven
members to the Sandman Parliament. Sardinia
IS not a republic Its government Is limited
monarchy, like ours. Let us go furthersfrom
home to the colonies. Take the colony of New
South Wales, of which the capital is the city of
I, sydney. The city. of Sydney returns eight
members to the New South Wales Parliament
Go on to the new colony of Victoria: the CITY
of Melbourne, with. the, suburbs, return thirteen
members to the, Parliament of the province of
Victoria, and, by bill introduced by the minis.
ters OF late, the number thirteen is about to be
increased to eighteen and the same rule nm.
plies, and We know that throughou the territory
- OF the un1tediStateS the nnmber3of members is
allotted exactly to the number of the people and
that every ten years the scale is revised. Intact
It corrects itself Well, now, j do not for mo-
ment argue that it is necessary that we should
actually ascertain the number of men and voters
IN every district, and to proportion the number
exactly to this calculation. But say that we
have q fair right to an honest approximation to
equality and tairness in this matter, and that
there can be no real representation in this coun-
:. try or in nnysother country without it. Zap
plause.
THE BALLOT N TIE UNITED STATES.
~ have great fear that until you have a minis
uylin which there IRE men who are really in
favor Of reform, and of an honest REFORM YOU
are not'likely to get any Such measure as tile
most moderate amongst us ought to be in the
4 LleaSt satisfied with. I must warn you against
sone phrase which 4 find our friends, for ne can.
not now call any of them our opponents-Tla laugh
80 but our friends the bewidered reformers
are beginning to use. They say now we must
not on any account Americanize our institutions
.loWell, 1 only know of one institution in Ameri.
s1tca of which Americans need to be very. greatly
ashamed and that institution was established
under the monarchy, although unfortunately it
has lived and fonrished under the republic
Hear, hear They tell you that in America
1nnmbers-you know what that neans-oyer-
wheltn property. and education. Look at3the
g Legislation England, look at our wars, look Mt
this great fact that every improvement of the,
a aStSprty years has been an Improvement which
| numbers, aud. hers only, have wrested from
The property and what they call the education
of the country gYouts education surely is repre-.
scented bysyo1r universities butI state now as
1haye stated before, that il the legislature Of
England had been guided for thirty years past,
according TO the, councils Of Representatives
of the Universal lies, England, insteadsof being a
country Of laws and order would have been
long before this country of anarchy and rev6lu.
stione Hear, heaT,l This America is n strange
i 5pgbear. langhter.l There are thirty-two at
least, II not thIrty-thres Independent sovereign
ia9 States in the United States Of America Now
a amaDot ono OF those who believe that Won can.