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Forgotten before the week is out , Lord John Russell ' s new Reform scheme has become a historic curiosity before -it is a fact . Nobody talks of it > except to wonder at the lack of talk about it . Everybody asks what everybody else thinks about , and nobody answers , for nobody does think about it . People who can keep awake over the study of
its tedious trifles , do dream that they discern in it something ; but whether that something is bad or good , they cannot -tell . It is many measures in one , on the principle that " many a little makes a mickle . " Here are its chief propositions— s Reduction of the 10 / . borough-franchise to 51 . Reduction of the county 50 / . tenant-at-will franchise to 20 Z . —the Chandos clause reduced to
two-fifths . Augmentation of small boroughs by annexation of neighbouring districts . ITbion of certain small boroughs . Extension of franchise to persons paying 21 . assessed taxes , not for licences . Abolition of the property qualification for Members .
Omission of . " the true faith of a Christian" in the oath which excludes Jews . Omission of the anti-papal abjuration [ papal aggression of 1850-1 notwithstanding !] Parliamentary commissions to inquire into corrupt boroughs before disfranchisement . Present disfranchisement of St . Albans . Abolition of fictitious votes , as in Scotland , by requiring the tenement to be in actual possession of the voter .
The last two provisions stand in separate measures ; and a separate bill is to give Ireland its measure of Reform . Whon Lord John announced this « cheinc on Monday , it fell upon a listless and ill-satisfied House . Mr . Bright rather supported it ; Sir Joshua Walmsley said truly that it would not satisfy the public ; and although one Ministerial l
genteman asked Members to decide the principle on the second reading , and not tp concentrate tneir hostility on the details , Mr . Disraeli truly stud , that in the details of a scheme which is all detail lieg an t j ie mer j | t . So that a detrimental § Mting of the details is promised at a later stage . 8 deciding the pr inciple on the second reading , or any other stage , Members feel this difficulty—[ Country Edition . ]
that they can ' t discern any principle to be decided . Will it pass?—that is the question asked by all who do think it worth while-to talk of it . The difficulty of answering the question lies in the apathetic and negative character of its reception on all sides . There , is certainly no hostility to it . Radicals and High Tories are almost equally tolerant ; the Tories are especially mild in their demeanour towards it- The moat deeidedly hostile doubt which we have heard expressed
came from a moderate Radical , who is almost a Whig , and who is not likely to lead any onslaught on the Ministerial position . About the House the notion is that the Bill will pass by favour of the general indifference . We hope it may . In other matters there has been some bustle and little business . Mr . Sharman Crawford obtained leave to bring in his Bill on Tenant Right on Tuesday . The peculiarity of the concession was , that Ministers , who are hotly opposed to the Bill , principle and details , were afraid of what might be said if they rejected without
pretending to read it . On the whole , this scheme , which is an expression of Irish feeling on tenant wrongs , met with small favour . At the same time , it was quite obvious that the Russell mode of dealing with the question—cockering and then shirking it—pleased no one but Russell himself . While Lord John Russell is sneering at all attempts to adjust the relations between landlord and tenant , four impracticable Irish peers—Lord Roden , Lord Westmeath , Lord Londonderry , and Lord Desart—demand a coercion bill , which the Whigs at present are not prepared to grant .
The attempt made , on Wednesday , to smuggle the Manchester and Salford Education Bill through the House as a private bill , met with a fatal and deserved failure . Mr . Gladstone effectually , we hope , put a stop to that not very creditable procedure . The point is not whether " the bill was a private bill—no doubt it was—but whether it ought to have been made a private bill .
The Ministerial candidates have been re-elected at Perth and Northampton ; and ' Greenwich has returned Admiral Stewart . The whole town was astounded on Thursday by the publication of a paragraph announcing the appointment of Mr . Layard to the Under Secretaryship of Foreign Affairs . What has Mr . Layard done ? Ho is not in Parliament ; he has not served up to the place . No : but he has excavated nobody knows how
many feet of Syrian sand , and discovered marbles at Nineveh : a splendid qualification , certainly , for the management of our foreign relations . But perhaps this appointment is intended as a blow at the family party "—* as a generous recognition of somebody , no matter whom , not related to the Greys and Russells . It may be so . We observe that Lord Stanley of Alderley , whom Mr . Layard succeeds , comes back to the Ministry , as Vice-President of the Board of Trade .
Externally to Parliament there is little to notice . The Employers have been trying to coax back the men by opening their establishments to those who will sign a declaration of their own helplessness ; and many have signed .. But the undaunted members of the Amalgamated Society still hold out . How the employers can have the face to talk of
a free bargain while they proffer a degrading declaration to the men , we cannot understand . It is obvious , in the words of Thomas Carlyle , that " the free bargain and fair up-and-down wrestle and battle between employers and employed" is not capable of being permanently " a rule of labour . "
The first conversazione of the Society of the Friends of Italy on Wednesday in Freemasons ' Hall achieved a genuine , hearty , spontaneous triumph for the cause and for the hero of the cause . It was a free-will offering of hearts and hopen , a tribute of loving admiration , and a promise of better days to come . From this hopeful festival , which , as Mazzini happily said , was a commentary , and an improved commentary , on Lord Granville ' s declaration as to
refugees , we cast a glance at poor , distracted , helpless France . We have nothing new to record this week . Louis Bonaparte has given audience to George Sand . He tells her she will be surprised at what he will do . So said Lear ! He is almost inaccessible to mere mortals , absorbed in the confection of those tremendous Napoleonic Institutions . Thenett result of his gigantic efforts of brain at present is—a very expensive costume for the supernumeraries who are toperform the part of "Conscript Fathers . " France is ceasing even to give excitement ; she is not only decadent , but positively dreary and dull .
Isabella of Spain , we are glad to hear , is recovering from the brutal attack of an odious fanatic ; —an old priest , as it turns out , and bad as only p riests can be , when nature , under the slow tortures of an inhuman system , turns awry , and makes the doomed ascetic half-fiend , half-beMt .
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 14, 1852, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_14021852/page/1/
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