Freeholder And Commercial Advertiser (Newspaper) - April 19, 1852, London, Middlesex OL AND NEW APRIL PRICE PARLIAMENTARY WE write on the eve of a general Soon it must take Whether he likes it or Lord Derby must consent to Under the cir we may be excused for making some few remarks on the class of candidates to whom voters should give their venturing upon this we must first recal the attention of our readers to the primary idea of the House of In this two principles of paramount im portance are involved the first the Com mons the peoples house and the second that the object of representation that the people should impose their own This view of the question brings us at once to the root of the If our first principles be we must choose our not from the ranks of the but from the ranks of the If our second principle be cor we must send to the House of not the men who live by the pen and array and navy but the men who pay the who feel where the shoe who have a direct not in the increase of expenditure but in its Hitherto our great fault lias been that we have lost sight of this simple We have filled the House with and army and navy and scions of and men pledged to Protestant principles and the con sequence has been that the national expenditure is enormous that government here is more ex pensive than in any other part of the globe and that the aim of every be he who lie for years to must be to destroy our vicious and to undo what has been As if the House of Commons were a we have required from every mem ber a profession of By a property of an unjust and have excluded the people from their own In the same manner the Whigs treat the people as the true source of political and then refuse them even a The consequence of this omission that the House of Commons belongs to the people only in It is time this state of things should utterly We must away with it for Here then comes the question which we pro pose to which ought to be of some in terest to voters at Who are the men we require in the House With the exception of possibly a according to the principles we have laid the men in the House at present have no right there at As Spooner sits there to defend that Protestantism which in his view is always in we would at once consign him to the congenial dulness of consecrated As the class to which Lord John Manners belongs has already a house to we would deem it a fication for him that he is a lord by courtesy and the son of a lord by For the same rea son we should object to the three hundred and eighteen we learn from are county and borough members en tirely at the disposal of their We say these men are already represented in one place and they need not be represented in We do not want nor men like Out of the House it is really difficult to imagine the insolence of these men to those who really re present the In some cases this is so great that men have quailed before and feel ing themselves browbeaten by the two great parties in the have retired into private life rather than put the inconvenience and annoyance to which every independent pub lic man is At one man we can to whom the people owe who gave up his seat in that House entirely from the con sideration we have just Aristocratic legis lators are not what we We need plain honest men in Never was bigger false hood than that which declares that the people of England speak by the fops and strip lings in white whom you may see lounging in the or sleeping in the more fitted for the ballroom or the opera than for a seat in the It were easier to make the Ethiopian change his skin than to make legislators of such they were never in earnest in their With their and and and Mayfair they have no time to think of manhood and womanhood trodden down by a lifelong strug gle with waut and woe in every Such as cannot be trusted with the destinies of our country or solve the problems by which the more thoughtful of us are It were vain to look to them for Where precedent fails them they are sham the work is clearly beyond their t We say electors have nothing to do with such Like let your repre be men connected with trade and in not scions of noble what is men of noble lives champions of the order to which they and to which we owe all the greatness and glory of our There have there still amongst our many who shed honour on the coronets they wear but our greatest the worlds and poets and have ever sprung from the In Stephens the want is not but plain honest Send then to the House men who have that You will find the benefit of it The remnants of class legislation and of religious that still stain our will be wiped We shall have the representation a and not a glaring We shall have cheap We at have the rea of In we you cannot go far wrong if you remember that the House of Com mons is the peoples and that it exists for the purpose of you must choose men who are bone of your and flesh of your They must also have some idea of money and moneys We have pretty plainly pointed out the class of men to be On this head we have one other remark to Beware of the man who send him to the House to serve you if you take his bribe you must serve Bribery has this other that it virtually imposes a property and that more or less must impair the efficiency of the The question then be comes one not of merit but of Under a system which allows large election poverty is a disqualification and strange to many of the worlds best men are its THE PEASANT PROPRIETORS OF SOME short time since the Economist entered at some length on the question of small landed pro we regret to at precisely opposite opinions to our The great fact it dwelt on was the condition of The Economist stated that the destitution of the mass of the people is the great difficulty of every government in in have a very imperfect notion of the extreme poverty of a great portion of the French and the severe Actual privations of many of In no country are such large numbers of the people actual proprietors of land as in Frauce in no country is the condition of these pro more The opponents of the system of landed subdivision attribute most of the pauperism and misery of France to this source the most enthusiastic advocates of this system admit that at has been powerless to remedy The Economist then quotes official returns to show that in some three mil lions and a half of with no aperture ex cept the or with one window or at most are the dwellings of sixteen or nearly half the population of France and that twentyfive millions of the population are gaining a scanty and uncertain or steeped in poverty and To this state a writer in the Dublin Advocate has been at some pains to make an appropriate and he gives the testimony of authors and travellers of the best repute to show that not only are the French peasantry not in the miserable condition represented by the but to show that they have risen from wretchedness and sub jection to general comfort and personal inde To us it is clear that the facts of the case are against the and the vision of property in France is not the illit considers The letters of the correspondent of the Morn ing lengthy here to they frequently pourtray of rural abun never refer to the existence of the des familiar to us in connection with the simple annals of the The late Henry of after being em ployed on a government agricultural survey of his own came over to Europe to pursue similar researches in England and on the con has given very decided opinions the favourable condition of the French He I have never as far as they came under my a more happy set of people the French with scarcely an exception and they contrast most strangely in this respect with the English and I seldom went among a field of labourers in England or es if they were without some coarse joke or indecent leer at least it has happened to me many times and seldom without being soli cited for something to drink your honours and especially in without finding them and In France it is the They are well with caps as white as or neat handkerchiefs tied round their heads the men with neat blouses or and good This testimony is confirmed by that of who speaking of the subdivision of pro This is a fine state of and with a tolerable intimate knowledge and distinct recol lection of the lower orders of I am in to upon the the pea santry of France are the happiest peasantry of any country in We need not show what was the condition of these men sixty years nor strengthen our argument by referring to Kayes valuable but we give one fact which should be after the Economists own At a meeting of the Statistical Hough of read a paper that in with an efficient there is of serious crimes only one in while in Eng and where the police is more not one in twenty of the crimes committed are are one in And previous to the even Alison is obliged to confess that the French peasantry were in a most deplorable In if they were in such a state at the present it could surprise no when we remember that the enormous French army is drawn away by forcible conscription from the cultivation of the soil that the all depending upon central are six hundred thousand that the system of octroi duties and commercial restrictions upon trade and creating scarcity and limiting all must consume the property and weigh upon the energies of the Evidently if she be not with is not against If her peasantry be happier than ours if crime be less common there than with churches in every corner of ths something of the credit of this must be due to the system which gives every man a stake in the and excites him by motives such as we deny to our Dorsetshire labourers and starving If France lias not her large landed proprietors ruling their wide at any rate she has a peasantry not sunk so low as ours and if that system be which produces the greatest happiness of the greatest aims at that rather than the aggrandisement of the privileged few must give the preference to French sub division rather than to English How against both we We ask no legis lative interference in the All we ask is that the land be That boon we shall not have to cross the water to see the bene effects of peasant PROTECTIONIST THE Morning Advertiser of Friday states that Earl Derby has instructed his followers at the next election to speak of protection in as vague terms as but at any rate not to commit themselves or him to any measures for its resto We can quite believe this to be Not a day passes without our witnessing a protectionist abandoning and be coming a convert to As the tenant farmer has been he has pinned his faith to Lord he has moved heaven and earth to get Lord Derbys men in to and as just when the prize seems within his it is carried and he is left Of this old truth we have lately had several fresh At on the late Railway speaking of the told his He thought they had been too hastily and his firm con viction that had they been leisurely dealt it have been much better for the landed interests and for the country as it was he could not see that it would be wisdom to reenact more corn The measure was in his premature but it was and the people would have it and to return to now he considered would be if not At on the same of Doctors that he was a supporter of Lord Derbys but he would not be a party to taxing the poor mans In North Adderley has pub an address to his constituents which has somewhat of official Adderley was offered by Lord Derby the secretaryship of the Board of He considers that his views in the the opinions of Lord What his views are he thus states c Whatever other modes there may be for an adjust ment of unequal it appears to that those at least must be abandoned which have the tendency in any degree and the less the degree the less reason for adhering to them to raise the price of food in order that he may be clearly Adderley As an agriculturist myself I give and as the repre sentative of a great body of agriculturists I re commend them to give that mode of compen sation for any special taxation we bear which we cannot receive without unmerited odium attached to It is thus clear that the most thoroughpaced protectionists feel the hopelessness of the and are retiring from The men from whose speeches we have just quoted dis claim any intention of entering upon a retro grade or disturbing the existing commer cial At the same time they openly own their and regret the course which the government has and the country has So far then as regards the we have no occasion to Lord Derby will no more attempt to bring them back than Lord John The cry for their restoration has answered its and is now done It was a party and it answered a party Now that that end is it will be long before we hear of it We do not write this in the language of As long as people thus suffer themselves to they will be We only hope that at 1 the treachery of Peel will be For the future the name of Lord Derby should be substituted in his though we question whether Lord Derby will be the last statesman who will gain office and power by pandering to passions that never be and by exciting hopes that must lead to ELECTION PROCEEDINGS IN IN the Morning of under the head of we read the Report that there will be no fewer than four or five candidates for the representation of this and there can be no not withstanding Sir Robert Peels his vi denunciations of the Protectionist Meeting at the Town and his subsequent support of the Derby his seat lies Property and if he possessed no other would almost of them selves render Tamworth his According to real fitness under the present but little to do with the choice of a A mans fitness is in his not in his prin The Tamworth electors take Sir Robert because he was the son of his At that stupidest of all that of hereditary is clung to notwithstanding that the late Sir Robert in his own person and so illus an example to the If Tamworth had its we should not only have a house full of hereditary but both houses full of statesmen to the manner Tamworth also supplies us with another beau illustration of our present representative Tamworth chooses its recent member for equally good reasons as those for which it chooses its The reporter we have already quoted Captain Townshend does not stand so high as he did a few weeks with a certain class of to on most a trivial cause gives great Within the last few days the eldest son of the gallant Captain came of and it appears that on this the worthy forgetting that an election was so near at failed to supply to the electors and that amount of creative comfort to which they imagined they were Great has been the offence created by this We can hardly imagine any class more
