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Ch autism is rising in high places . The House of Commons has permitted Mr . Henry Berkeley to introduce a bill appointing the Ballot in the election of Members , and Lord John Russell has made a " declaration" in favour of a 3 jolishing the property qualification . Universal Suffrage is becoming a familiar idea . * Lord John has before talked as if he intended to , have a direct representation of working-men in his promised . Reform Bill for 1852 .
We cannot , however , set much store by these apparent advances . Mr . Berkeley has before carried his annual Ballot-motion ; and , indeed , motions by independent Members to thin Houses during the dinner-time , are getting- to be regarded as trifles . Ministers will no longer take the trouble to whip in " Members to prevent them . Lord John ' s declaration was made under circumstances of solemn trifling . The question before the House was the Committee on Mr . Hutt ' s Colonial Qualification Bill : Mr . Tufnell moved an instruction to that Committee to abolish the qualification for English Members of Parliament , and d
in the debate on that lop-sided motion , Lor John made bis declaration , that he did not think property qualification necessary . Members ^ were overpowered with grateful surprise ; Mr . Tufnell withdrew his amendment , and Mr . Hutt withdrew his bill , hastening to leave everything in the hands of Lord John . Such a premium is there still for Lord John ' s declarations . Yet he has made them before : he has declared that Church property in Ireland should be devoted to un-sectarian purposes ; he has declared that it would be puerile to prevent Roman Catholic bishops from taking the titles of places ; and he has declared many other things .
His reply to Mr . Hume , in the case of Van Diemen ' s Land , might have reminded the House how little there is to expect from a declaration . Mr . Hume proposed to defer the vote for . the expenses of transportation to Van Diemcn ' H Land , until the llouue should know more respecting the feelings of the Colonists as to transportation ; on which Lord John replied with a fluent recapitulation of past changes in the system , so put as to imply that Ministers had never pledged themselves to give up transportation , or to do anything else in John la
particulflf . To accept Lord HuHseH ' a expnation , one m : iy understand that Ministers never pledge themselves to anything ; but that sometimes the lnngimgt ) of Ministers sounds promising ,, and "OHiethnoH they are scrupulous about " raining hop ™ " ; sometimes their ucUomh happen to be popular , and sometime * the reverse ; but that in a "y east ) they providently lay up a store of expressions whicli they can fetch out to fortify an e xplanation . To explain retrospectively is as easy a » to declare protectively , and about us useful . [ CouNTftr Bohmon . J
Present services are the things that it is not so easy to extract . Mr . Thomas Buncombe proposes that non-payment of the House-tax shall not forfeit the parliamentary franchise of the occupant ; but Ministers object , that if a franchise depends upon the occupation of rateable property , there is no reason for not paying the rate or tax . Now , according to the Whig theory , the property qualification is not a consideration or purchase of the vote , but only a rude proximate test of the class to which the voter belongs ; but , it seems , besides that testthey exact the test of punctual payments .
, Mr . Ewart proposed to exempt from the tax houses built in flats , on the plan of the model lodging-houses most likely to be imitated in popular neighbourhoods . The Chancellor of the Exchequer made some feeble objections on the ground that exemptions facilitate fraud , and the motion was rejected by 164 to 40 . Almost simultaneously , the House oi Lords was receiving Lord Shaftesbu ' s Bill to facilitate the erection of
ry model lodging-houses , under the direction of town councils and other local bodies , and Lord bhattesbury ' Bill will p robably be carried , if so , it will be necessary to follow it up with a separate measure , conferring that very exemption which Mr . Ewart failed in securing . Such is the mode of transacting public business ; doing and undoing , but doing nothing directly , or at the proper time . roductive
Mr . Scully ' s proposal to promote rep employment of the paupers in Ireland furnished an example of the progress which sound doctrine is making ; even Members of Parliament are beginning to follow the example set them by poorlaw guardians . Ministers replied with stale commonplaces ' , and the motion was negatived by 64 to 42 . Its supporters , however , form a curious list—Poulett fcJcrope , Colonel Thompson , Sharman Crawford , Sir John Walshe , Lord Claude Hamilton , and Mr . Henley . The Protectionists will learn in time , that henceforward their main object can only be attained through the principle of
concert . Among the little ministerial defeats of the day must be mentioned Lord Robert Grosvenor ' s success with the motion to repeal the Attorney ' s and Solicitor ' s Certificate duty : he beat Ministers by lG 2 to Ki 2 . In this flat time , the Bishops and their incomes have afforded game for Home newspaper controversy , and they have ventured into print
them-Kelves . The Bishop of London ' s enormous eKtuto at Paddiogton , in an unceasing field for Sir Benjamin Hull and other Church oJconomiBts . "Die Ilibhop of ( iloucester has been brought into tha contest by Mr . HorBinan ' a citation of the Horfield case . The llitihop denies the alleged understanding , that he wuh not to renew the . lenne of that VHtuta , but to Hiirrender it to the Kcclesittstical CoumiJHsionerN for general purposes ; but , according to hin own account , it appears that ho haw leased it to his own secretary , in order to keep it under
his own control , and to make improvements whic promise to be very lucrative . The Bishop o * Durham lies under no worse charge than that of having received a larger income annually than ne stipulated to retain for himself . M . de Tocqueville has at length read his elaborate report on the Revision question in the trencti Assembly . The report is a state document oi great value—clear , consistent , and temperate . inc whole question is discussed with a fearlessness and quiet energy which are very admirable--the absence of rhetoric being by no means its least recommendation . The gist of his recommendations is in accordance with the notions of the Rue des
Pyramides , namely , total revision ; but we venture to say that the arguments and qualifications with which he enforces and surrounds his positions , will please neither the Bonapartists , the Legitimists , nor the Orleanists . In point of fact , the only recognized party which c ; m he satisfied vvitn the rone of the report is the Kep « bhcan , and their satisfaction will only be negative . De'locqueville proposes to appeal from parties to the nation at large , by summoning a Constituent Assembly . We must remark here an error into which an
intelligent writer in the Morn ' my Chronicle has very naturally fallen . He Kays the Republicans have sustained the position that the Constitution was as perfect as any human institution could be ; and that they have imputed the agitation of the country , and the conflicts between the Executive and the Legislative Assembly , solely to the disloyalty of the dominant parties in not accepting the conditions imposed by the Constitution . Now it is a remarkable fact , that so long ago as ( be series
spring of 1850 , Pierre Leroux published a of papers in La RcpiMiquc , in which he pointed out , on behalf of the Republican party , those two identical legislative mistakes which I \ l . de locqueville lias ho Keverely bandied—the election by departments , and the mode of electing the IVcmident of the . Republic The extreme Republicans were , and arc , equally opposed to both modes ol election . - The President of the Republic has made another speech , of which we have only to remark that its tone is more imperial than ever . KfiHsutli has written a letter to the Charge
des Affaires of the United Stiites at Constantinople , exposing the kind of liberation of exiles , which Lord Paimerston claims credit for having helped to bring about . These refugees were friends of KoBsuih , and were forced to separate from Iiun by an Austrian Commissary—Lord Palmerston h » Hy-Does the Foreign Secretary confound the wora » "' Ci ^ S'sri ^ sUi . K oc A «»* m l ; 1 i in , ,, „• « p » . ™ - » « f . 'ss & ssr ^ a » X ,, t Hungry « . tl « . r . tally occ » pat . on « -SSWly t « rSuae tl . cn . flgam to resistance .
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Leader (1850-1860), July 12, 1851, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_12071851/page/1/
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