Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1859-01-06
British Parliamentary Reform.

ne BRITISH Government. recently maze
peech to the people Of Manchester, Enz-
and, which is a model Of good sense, argu.
ment and plsinness Of speech adapted to .
popular assembly. We make some brief ex-
.rac,s, which will show something of the
light of suffrage in Englsud. and Mr..
Brieht's view of American sfairs.
"The counties. as yop know, return their
by the votes, chiefly Of two clas-
-freeholders, and oechpies ct hnde OF
houses Of the value Of $50 andupwerd. Or
these ESQ occupiess and upward. then. are
about 200 600; but Of occupiers tetveen
Elo and ESQ, 1 see BY q return reeently
made 10 the House of Commoas, mot LEES
than 400 900. But the 400 600. By he pres
ent law, are eniirely ,gnorant and excluded;
and the 400 GOO, being to a very large ex-
tent. oecupisrs of land, and occnpiers for the
most uart without leases. they are to large |
extent dependent upon the good will of
their landlords, and their votes, speaking
generally. are employed to swell the power
Of the great landed proprietofs in all the
county elections of the kingdom. tHesr,l
hesrl. Now. Lord Derby. the present prime
minister, is man who has the power of ex-
pressing very accurately what he means;
he is great master Of the English language;
and he once gave Us an illsssratioa of whs,
is understood in England Acouniy repre-
sentation. He said tha. if anybody would
tell him what were the polilics RI three o.
four of the grest landed pssgsisfitsof eng
county, he could tell at once what were,the
politics of the members for tisSt codnty.
IA laugh tgl+ 4qfs 4 =
81 was looking down a list. the other
night, beginning with the Tower Haalle,s.
the largest population. and coming down to
some one which is the sinai lest. | forget its
name; but found that there were "a bur-.
oughs, not one of which has espulation OF
10 600 persons. / think 10000 10 abou,
! one.third the average size Of the several
wards iD Manchester. The whole lpopula-
tion of the II boroughs IS oaly AL 600,
which is not very much more than the pres
cnt population of Manchester and Stafford;
and yet these II boroughs return ia mem.
bcrs to the House of Commons fCries Of
..Shame''l while Manchester and Sslford
return only three members. But if you 60
! q little lower to 5000 Us a standard, you
will find not less than "a borougbs, and
their whole populations is exactly sls 600.
! which is exactly the population of the City
/ Of Manchester at the census Of1 1851; but
these 81 boroughs return SO members, while
Manchester returns onlv two. tCries OF
"Shame."] 7e.lt aJ s
"Now, what is it iha, nopo.ei That
every householder, Of course; because every
householder is rated 10 the poor, shall have
/ a vote; and if man be not ! householder
strictly, but if he have an office, or a ware
house, or stable, or land-if he shall have
any property in his occupation, which the
| poor law taxes, out of which he must con-
tribute 10 the support Of the poor, then | say
/ would give that man vote. ftHeers
1 Now, sixty years is long tine. ", have
/ mepss aho ssis,ocracy 81 ia Country
s.mokins nSskiihxfSns frequent moon pla,
81 81 and readable Weekly Esw.Tb Tbsy Ell ,h,
10 10 the country: -. h., .d
.-fS{aueeo---aoW much FSDut :"
every year. and how much void tsry e1or
does; what a great step the people nave
}.keaforxarA. | Wish se same t.
the legitlmatvs G1hc ciusi6h sftSf all ih
praise otthe people. Your smtistician. tel
you that two millions Of the people are sub
scribers to benefit societies, and that ihel
have now for funds more than 90 ,00e 900
Is that no proof Of provideucei Is that n
= proof OF improvement and 'adyancementI q
course, with regard to your small boroughs
you must take come poins-sf population
and you must cut Off ell those below il
y You must allow their present electors 3
merge. ss they would necessarily merge, il
the El0 franchise. which. in Il probability
: you will establish for your counties. Bu
still know exactly how we sh all be met
"You are going to Americanize u.s." Lou
laughter ] Nothing is so dreadful to an Eng
Iishman who is thinking OF emigra,in
/ across the Atlantic, ss that we should b
Amsricsnized in England. L4u.h,er Th
Z is q phrase orit inatedby some cpnninssknxv.
:. laughter] intended TO catch good man
. dupes. Blu, should Ahkeso ssa these gen
4 tiemen. whether repress n{s6Sn Is not a,
81 English custom and an English principle
t They we're Englishmen who irst took j, |,
the United States. lApplause]. =.
"One word more upon this l have sal
over and again, that perhaps ] am the yer
i iIst man in Engiend who would .propos
any institution here becan-e found it e. Sc
.kwhere. am not insensibie TO some thing
that appear to me to be errors in principle
some that are errors in practice, in the Con
States. But ! protest sgsflbt our beiu
shut up to take nothing from America bu
! cott on, and rice, and tobacco. Laughte
and spplausesl And. in fact. We do take
/ good many other things. am told that N
friend, M. Piatt, member VI very emi
rent firm. has wonderful machine frol
America With which to. .nsks bricks. w
know that the agriculture Of this countr
has been greatly sdsaR lsgs} shy the impor
tstion Of fsaptns mag fi3sf iEm Ameries
II Hear, hear. VIC Know 955t those psi
sons who are going abort 30 spprehcnsiy
: OF revolution. have par:icplar reason to b.
delighted with America. bStause they hav,
received from that country The insenton O
the revolver. ["Hear" snt isughtkr.) "A
this moment in the Gover nment sunaiiarm
establishment at End6eld, they have pa ten
machinery from Amerca for making gul
stocks. They can turn out a gun s'eck,
am tol in twenty-five minutes tt for tn
barrel. what dreadful thing to think "
III Iauuhfer A nd Am sure that Mr. Miles