The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-06-20
A Brief History of the Eng.
! lish Parliament.
REFORMS AND REFoRMERs
= Glimpse ofthe Famau. Men ofB.,,
Ie1tury-. Year aud
Party.

'T'nS 10 oistrauchIse sixty buroughs;
other words. IL WAS 20 srraured a.
SVe q large share Of inf renee to III
'niddle Classes Of the towns and ies FL
hs tue overs of the land -ownin
'ristocracy Of tn country. The b.
vas bitterly opposed by he House q
Lords. L. hsd no prospect OF psssin
mi the ministry prevailed on the KIM
di~oive Parliament. The new cleo
ions were unparalleled for riots anC
infusion. Parliament met June Ia
1881. and Lord Johns bill passr6 the
> mmons. sept 81. by large msjori v
ou, the Lords rejected it. Ibis action
produced frightful riots through III
| reat i'ian. and 10 add the hOrro,
81 the year the Asiatic cholera vIsit.d
the cnuntry in the autumn of 1881.
Lord John agsin Introduced me ref ,rm
II WI u very sight alterations, and il
Sss carried IA he Common. by N over
~he ming majoity Mar 10 1897 but
vas once more defeated the Lords.
Ine Ming refused o create new peers to
pass the bill and the ministers resigned
Day 3. The Dukrf Wellington failed
70 form minis ~. ana the former MN
'stry was rec He'd. aud the X ng then
consented TO cre4ie new peeiS if nece =
'ary. so that finally, June the bill pas
ed the Lo'ds, an hree q We after
received The royal assent.
The next great reform movement in
Psrlis ment was in 1859. when the Earl
Of Derby was Prime Minister. Among
ne acts accomplished were the adnis-
81 m of Jew to Parliament. ana he
substitution of a ngle oath for thu.
osths of allegiance. suprem CIV. ana
o1luraaon, required o. members of
Parliament; and this form has since
Oeen further amended bv the Omission
o. the words objected To by Catholics
who re no longer required to axe a
sep rate oath. The attempt of III
administra ion or government, |
a. toe word Is there u ed-to settI,. the |
question OF further reforms in Parlia-
nent. which had been agi.sted for
several years. ended by their defest.
March 81 1859. by $50 votes a Z sinst 29I
AID Was foil wed b dissolution, tie
fall OF Qerby's ministry by his supposed
wan If sympathy with the au e Of
Italy. Fl $3.50
Lord Palmerston did in 1866. and
Lord John Russ II was invited to form
a N nistry. which from its Liberal a.
stone ministry. Mr. Gladstone was
mad Chancellor of the Ex hequer |
The Duke of Argyll and Mr.. Goschen
were also members OF the ministry. /
The efeat of that administration as
in this wis B: On Monnay. Marc -.
1856, Mr. Gladstone brought for ard the /
scheme of re orm. proposing /
to extend its franchise 10 occupiers of /
houses and land 10 tie annual value of /
f14 in counties aud e. pounds To-
borOughs. With this was subsequently !
combined a bill for th,a redistribution
of seats IL Parliament; that is, TAX
ing on2 m mber from tie small
boroug4s hich had two and give TO
the cities and popIlous boroughs or the
great counties an additional member.
When the bill was introd ced it did not
give satisfaction. Tn great mass of
Conserv itives and many Liberals were
not In favor OF any chan se in the fran
chise, " bile another party desired a
more radical measure. The Earl Rus
sell and Mr.. Gladstone found themselves
deserted at critical time BY a POI ton
Of their own followers, and on an i'm
portant clause of the bill the govern
ment were left in minority of seven.
The ministry tbereupon resigned, and
the Earl of Derby was invited to form
q ministry. Derby and Disraeli led the
in the two houses. This
new ministry had come into power on
the promise to bring forward a reform
bill. This task fell to Mr.. Disraeli.
Some Of the Cabinet, old Conservatives.
because they could not be
brought TO agree on and support a
reform bill such as was proposed. Their
places were filled by ministers who were
in harmony with Mr.. Disraeli. The
reform bill was finally introduced in
1867. 1t was found TO contain provi-
sions more liberal even than those
by the Russell Gladstone gov
eminent. and, after many amendments. |
il was adopted by the Commons July |
10, 1867. This lead 10 the election OF |
1867, when Mr.. Disraeh became Prime |
Minister on Feb. %.
Mr.. Gladstone introduced into Parlia- |
ment, March 80. 1865. his famous reso-
lutions for the disestablishment of the |
Irish Church. The assaults made upon |
Mr.. Gladstone because of this measure |
are described as torrents of denuncia- |
ton from the Conservatives" The |
were pushed, and April 80, |
1868, Mr.. Gladstone was successful in |
bringing 20 vote the proposition that !
the Irish Church. as an establishment. |
should cease to exist" defeating the
Disraeh government by majority OF
sixty-fve. Mr.. Disraeli refused 70
resign, though bitterly contesting Mr..
Glsdstone's position. Mr. Gladstone
waited. TIE election which followed
was attended by great excitement, call
ing out more feeling than had been
manifested since the election first after
the passage of the reform act of 1882.
Mr.. Disraeli's appeal to the people, as
well as that of Mr.. Gladstone. resulted
in a Liberal majority OF about 112. Then
the Queen invited Mr.. Gladstone TO
form a ministry, which was difficult. as
Mr.. Disraeli had, contrary to custom,
resigned before the new Parliament had
met. and Mr.. Gladstone had TO form the
Cabinet during the recess. In that
ministry were John Bright, Mr.. Cos
chen, Lord Harrington, Earl Spencer,
the Duke OF Argyll. and Earl Granville.
The Liberal party remained in power
unit. the early part Of ls74. Under Mr..
Glad tone many reforms bad been
brought about. The IRISH Episcopal
Church had been disestahlished and the
Irish land laws modified. The ballot
was applied 10 Parliamentary elections,
a new and improved system of elemen-