The Express. — 1846-10-21 (London, England)

UDOLPHO. There is " a disgraceful submission," and an attempt to " force by his (Lord FITZHARDINGE'S) own acts, at the instigation of another, Mr. GRANTLEY BERKELEY into a position which incapacitates him from doing his duty to his constituents." Then the " private arrangement " looms larger and larger upon us, as something which affects Mr. BERKELEY'S " public position ;" but anon, he dashes the subject from him, as " scorning to call for any additional sympathy from the public, or to seem to seek friends other than the abstract public quarrel may require." It is a most mysterious business altogether, and has a sort of rightful-heir, behold-the-murderer, bluefire Victoria smack about it. The horrid secret is to burst on the constituency "at the right time;" when the wicked brother will be unmasked, the " predominant shadows" cleared away, and the injured innocence of Mr. GRANTLEY BERKELEY proclaimed, amidst the " tears, cheers, and laughter" of a genuine "blaze of triumph." Mr. GRANTLEY BERKELEY, in his first letter, accused Lord FITZHARDINGE of throwing him over, without complaint made, explanation given, or opportunity offered him of changing his coat ; of advancing to the Radical, or receding to the Tory ranks, according to the will of the noble nominor. The same epistle charged certain influential persons of the West Gloucestershire constituency with giving way to this cruel determination of the elder brother, and calmly allowing poor Mr. GRANTLEY BERKELEY to be made a JONAS of, in order to allay some darkly revealed domestic squall in Berkeley Castle: the Earl threatening, if they did not submit, that he would no longer defray certain registration expenses for the county. The letter containing these charges was commented on, with a freedom provoked by the singularity of its grammatical structure, the very un-English character of its language, and the peculiar picture it presented of an independent county constituency, lackeying the will of a resident nobleman, and blowing hot and cold in obedience to the signals from Berkeley Castle. The comments it gave rise to could hardly have been pleasant to the active persons who took upon them to personate the liberal electors of West Gloucestershire. They retorted, accordingly, with an indirect disavowal of the base imputation laid on them by Mr. BERKELEY, declaring: That the revolution come to by the meeting was principally caused by the knowledge of Mr. Grantley Berkeley having, in the year 1145, in the stroogesttilgus, announced his determination immediately to resbri/seistieSniil EParibriatirnlmge weresom l'frfievetd.arnAln,Emelt betweenarcee that, upon a revival of a discussion upon this private matter, the Liberal interest of this division might be placed in extreme Jeopaidy by the sudden retirement of the honourable gentleman at any moment be might think fit, and when it might be inconvenient, if not impoesible, to bring forward a candidate to supply his place.. In other words, that the BERKELEY family were continually quarrelling; and that Mr. G. BERKELEY might be pitched over, or pitch himself over, at any moment, either carrying a portion of his supporters with him from the Berkeley Castle cause—in other words, the Liberal cause in the county—or so petrifying them between the neutralising fears of abandoning a BERKELEY, or opposing the BERKELEY, that the enemy might profit by the opportunity and return a Tory. West Gloucestershire, they argued, rests on the house of