Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1866-09-26

thrown out by the House of Lords, and Eng
land barely escaped bloody revolution, for
not only here in Birmingham, but all over the
kingdom, there preparations for an ap-
peal to arms but King William Nv. was for
the bill, and the Lords being driven to the
wall, yielded. and the bill became Law, which,
with two slight and unimportant modi-
6ca,ions, is in force to-day.
THE ENGLISH PARLIAMENT.
The Eng lish Parliament is composed OF the
House of Lords and the Commons. The
Lords are of FIVE classes, namely: those by
virtue of hereditary right those appointed by
the Crown those who such by the virtue
of their otfics-the Bishops of the Church of
Eng land those elected for life ; those elected
O continue during a Parliament The first
are descendants of the old Federal barons, who
are peers under the laws of promogeniture.
The ,econd class my be increaseda at the pleas
ure of the Sovereign. George |. created Co.
George Ii. 80, George w. 50, William w. So,
Victoria up to 1862 aad created SO. The to-
tai number of peers is 455. OF these "a are
bishops, archbishops, peers of the roya.
blood, and all the rest dukes, barons, earls Wis
counts or marqGises.
Under the intense spirit of caste, as a ruiz,
| these four hundred and fifty men have very
| little sympathy with the people of England.
people they care not to consult the wishes of
the people. They are that whatever
increase of political power the people may
gain will be so much loss to themselves.
Turning now to the House of Commons, We
! find that Il is composed of members elected
| from boroughs, towns, counties and universities
| 70 be a voter in borough, person must oc-
cupy, as owner or tenant, house of yearly
| rental of fifty dollars. A country elector must
have freehold inheritance yielding forty shii-
! linss, or an estate of that value acquired by
ma: riage, life interests in real estate OF the
value OF fifty DC liars per annum. This does
not very hard upon the face, but We are
not to forget that all the land Of Great Britain
| is owne d by few thousand individuals. Tne
population OF the United Kingdom is now
! about ) 900 600, while the number OF voters
| registered at the last election IN 1864 was J.
| 027,0l7. Under this law, which seems so fair,
tive-six hs of the population disfranchlsed,
as not more than one person IN thirty has the
rg h; to Vote. The working classes are wholly
d'sfrauchised, and the power now is 10 the
hands of the nobility and the midlirg classes.
| The Commons is composed OF SIX hundred and
! fitty-eigtt members Of these two hundred and
| titl-,ix are from counties and four hundred
and two from cities and boroughs. England
has five hundred members Scotland fifty
three Ireland hundred ami five. The
Universities OF Oxford, Cambridge and Dublin p,
eacn send a member.
THE LATE REFORM BILL.
G,adstones Reform oil made RENAL OF
$50, instead of $50 as al present, the quAIif
cation. 1t was petty affair. He estimated
that 204 600 voters would be added TO those
aiready qualified Mr.. Bright, at the meeting
Se>l erday, stated that upon more careful es
! innate not more than 1000 would be added
But the tories refused this pltitul concession,
/ aud Overthrew the administration on that ques-
! ion.
| Ii am not mistaken the time viii come
when the people OF Great Britain viii d
/ blessing In hat defeat
| 1t was rot what the people wanted, and they
received lis defeat with caimGess. 81 undis-
turbed were they that the tories used It as a
| Iustiticatl of their cause. - See," said the
,crie organs, d" the people do not ask for this
they manifest 10 CeslTe for the passage of the;
| bui, and are satisfied with the hanc-iee as il
is" They imagined thai the ques ION was set
| led, but instead tide is rising which will
sweep from Lands Fad To the Shetland Isles
TIE FUTURE.
| T he events Uanspring in other lands are
beng felt by the people of England. The
! Uni ed States ard Prussia alluded 10 in ev-
cry speech, and now the Reformers are ins crib
ing" Manhood suffrage on their banners
The governing class are acute enough to see
that Il anhood suffrage will, if granted, upset
! privilege and caste. And yet some of them
are snrewd enough to see that something must
be done. Inc Saturday Repien. intensely ar
l>tocratic, admits IN lis latest issue that grea,
! changes are al hand.
In lsc," says he Rerls,c, " the disadvsn-
tage> OF cur system of government have lately
tt,ar ~
iieve that the English Constitution is not on
the of enterioS wholly new phase"
What but The light Of passing events in other
lands have thus illumred the Constitution and
made its disadvantages apparent
The Repietr and all the tory newspapers are
opposed to al enlargement of the suffrage 10
any great extent. Manhood suffrage is iheil
great adherence The Lords will oppose it tc
The bitter end, and SO will the Church.
The Reuielo iaments the helpessness and
ineihCepcy OF the English government, with
ou, mistrusting that III these times of quicker
ed thought aud actioa-of telegraph, steam
ships and railroads, III at the British system i.
the most cumbersome, numbering, gilded ole
coach on the face of the globe-helpIess from
its magn hcence.
RoYALTY-wHAT IT COSTS.
Let take look at English royalty, and
see what the people UI Englan0, hge-slXthS o
whom have no voice in the government, pay
for the maintenace of government, which
in the language of the Rerie,c, cannot gov
ern.'
These are the sums paid to the royal family
The Queen per annum, Sl,925, ,0O(
Duchess of Cambridge, 30, ,O0t
DucaesS of Mack enburg Streltz, l5,O0t
Duke OF Cambridge, 90, ,OOt
Princess Mary Of Cambridge, l5,CO(
The Princess Royal, 10000
Princes Alice, 80 00(
Prince OF Wales, 200 ,00t
! Princess of Wales, so UOt
King of Belgians, 250,00(
Total per annum, 81 ,6l5 ,00C
+! In addition there several hundred thou
sand dollars in pensions to the Duke of Mari
borou h, Duke of Schomburg, Earl of the
Bath, and pensions to the sevants and their de-
scendants oi the Georges, King William
Queens Annie, Caroline and Charlotte, making
the total annual expenditure of $4,000 900 tc
the royal family
Let US / ok at the Queens household if We
would obtain a clear idea of the cumbersome.
ness of the machine.
THE LORD STEWARDS DEPARTMENT
The Lord Steward is of the Board of Greer
Cloth. What that is | am not able to saw bu
it is composed Of lord steward, a treasurer
comptroller, mast er os the household, sec
retary of the board, three clerks, secretary Il
the garden account, two messengers and mes
senger to the lord steward.