Year: 1871

until an early hour on Saturday morning II was impOs
sbe to report in my last letter what leading Journals


thought OF IT, editors according to their saubri
ons but incOnvenient custom. all IN bed when the
debate concluded The Standard editors always go 10
bed early. Though tho Tory party May triumph aud
accede power at 10 O'Clock Thursday night 1t
Saturday morning before The Standard informs its
readers edtoraly OF the event The other dav, when
the Army bill rejected by the Lords The Daily NeeS
was asleep, and came out two days later with article
censuring Mr. Gladstone for suffering twelve hours o.
elapse before he "put his foot down" Tho fact that
Mr. Gladstone had been to Windsor and captured
Royal Warrant before The Daily Hews was well awake
We do our journalism comfortably in London. The
result OF journalistic opinion that Sir ROunde Pamers
speech approved and the Treaty cordially accepted


The great event OF the week the Lords throwing out
the Ballot bill The House OF Commons has sat this ses-
sion the incredible number OF hours Of which 1870 or
100 have been after midnight The Lords, who, think
have only once sat till midnight and have, Lord Gran
Vile sad found time to attend TO their business both I'm
town and country have refused TO consider the Ballot
bill from want OF time, and have thrown out the bill by


majority OF 49, There Ia great complaint made That the
working class OF Newcastle are strike behalf Of
what is called the Nine Hours Movement. 1t woudseem
that their LOrdshps In favor OF Four Hours Move
ment for that about the length OF time they sit on The
average The noble Lords have acted like noble chill
iren, MT Gladstone ndu On my
bill with Royal Warrant and they have determined to
checkmate him by throwing out the Ballot DILL ana thus
wasting half laborous session OF the Commons and dis
appointing the hopes OF the whole natonwhch has been
forty years arguing up TO the question: and struggling
and agitating for its attainment Canning said' III
memorable speech that, upon the theory that u was
the duty Of the House OF to speak the will OF
the people, that WILL adequately collected must DC para


mount and supreme in the State lie Thought that sueh


theory Of the House of Commons would never obtain
in this country, and he put these memorable
questions: "By what pretenson could the House
OF Lords be maintained in equal authority
and Jurisdiction with the House OF Commons,
when once the House Of Commons should nave
become direct deputaton speaking the peoples wlil'
and that will the will Of the Government In one way
or other the House OF Lords must act II 1t be to remain


concurrent branch OF the Legislature. Either 10 must
uniformly affirm the measures which to 1t from the
House OF Commons, it must occasionally reject them
Fit uniformly affirm it Is without the shadow Of author


y But TO presume reject act Of the deputies OF
the whole nation! BY what assumption Of right could
400 great prOprietors set themselves against e
national voice Z" The time has come now when the
House OF Commons is the expression OF the actual VIII
OF the nation" and the 400 proprieOrs" have taken
upon themselves TO arrest and dissow the most mpor


ant act Of legislation with which the Commons have
been en- gagged for years We shall how the nation
will regard this; especially the Lords have nothing
10 do with the manner in which the House Of Commons
shall be elected Not venturing to reject the Ballot bl
its merits but taking the shabby ground OF want OF
time they will very much incense the nation who VIII
remember that, il they had been called upon to vote
another annuity to Royal parsonage, they would nave
found time for that they did few days ago-passng
Prince Arthurs bill with indecent alacrity We are
under the Lords deserve to be- II we forget this last
outrage.


Mr. Torrens the member for Finsbury, has raised
question I'm the Commons touching the operation Of
Royal Warrants. No doubt q good deal is to be SAID
against them since they override the decisions Of Para
Inent and the hands of unscrupulous Minister may
do mischief Mr. Gladstone has used 1t on behalf OF the
people, but clearly it may be day used against them
Torrens will carry Tory votes in aid OF his notion
the being obstrucveness But the Conservatives
will lend no help destroy the Warrant 1t is moI
archica power they support Mr. TOrrens will be right


in obectng to the theory of Royal Warrants though OBJ
structive in his present application OF his doctrine Mr.
has Irish talent for making things cOnstitu
tiOnay uncomfortable TO the Government Whether we
give gracefully not IL is not for TO say; but
can deny that we give quickly where Princes
Princesses concerned Prince Arthurs Annuity bill
was introduced and passed the Commons In six days.
The Lords previously prepared to assent
to It, The working classes are beginnng-as


it was long ago predicted they would = 10
apply the counsels of frugalty preached TO them to





the condition OF the poor aborer compelled support
not only his family but his old father l2 shiings
week with Her Maesty's inability TO provide for her
children out of some f5Ooo year. Prince Arthurs OBJ
tanning $4,000 year. free OF all taxation for doing moth
ing, makes poor taxpayers uncomfortable. OF course
they wrong II we are to have Royalty, we ought
not TO treat II in beggary 1t would he re-
lief II some enterprsing person would come over and
farm the Crown for us. At present Her Majesty is III
ttsad No working a SDrit XOud hold situa
ton where his wages carped by those who pay
them Her Majesty is carped at at this time Abolish
Royalty If you WILL but do not keep II and gudge its n-
come II is thus considerable party Of workingmen
cue this country They do not wish 70 see Democracy
nggardy.


We have had reasonable chane" OF a street fight in
London that might have furnished much matter for
comment the you lately had in New-YOrk
meeting proposed 10 be held by Mr. Odger in Ira
fagarsquare protest against the annuity Aforesaid
Mr. Bruce Home Secretary had the bad taste 10 IN
terfere and forbid it, The meeting being about the an
nuy, question before Parliament, il would have been
decent to let IL alone. Mr. Bruce did worse BE sent
Prefec OF Police To forbid the meeting and after
ward he discovered 1t TO he legal and had TO allow it,


making appear that the Government had been
fully deed and Mr. Odger and his friends had protested
that they would hold the meeting. Had Mr.. Bruce
treated the working eass TO he consulted on
public questions. he would have learned at that
illegal meeting intended and avoided forbidding
what he had TO permit But this is the way we are
governed Put man III Office here and he counts the
public offensive and criminal party who to be kept
distance and snubbed often possible. This il
the way the Marquis OF Harrington produced the fight
the Phanix Park. Dublin. last week. Had Mr.. Bruce
persisted in putting down the Trafalgar square meeting
should have had boodshed at the foot OF Nelson's
column. Our public meetings tradition and not
right The the Home Office arrives at some set
tlement OF the right the better.


University College London, has four connected
with II distn guished for nurgency Of thought and
boldness Of speculatOn-LOrd Brougham, Mr Grote
Augustus DE Morgan, and Francis william Newman
Pref Newman the brother OF Dr. Henry otherwise
known Father Newman, is distin guished in nearly
every department Of learning and speculation. MI
Grnto has IMPRESSED his nnninn with ngular YiYdness