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-R- PAELIAIEKIARY JOTTINGS. KEFOBM, and nothing but Reform, was the only topic discussed by gossipers up to Whitsuntide, the old maxim of too many cooks spoiling he broth" is likely to be exemplified in Passing this bill through Parliament. Mr. ■Disraeli has too many nurses for his baby, and though a strong, healthy child at the outset, some give it too much pap and others none at all, and the disconsolate parent, obliged to take every ??e s. appears to please no one. It is time 'he infant was out of his swaddling clothes,* we ^ant to see him walk through both Houses of Parliament this Session, and obtain the Queen's Consent to take his place in the world in 1868. after day the over-fond parent dangled his child before the members of the House of Com- mons, who, on their part, differ in the clothes it • shall wear, and in the diet necessary to form a sound constitution; no child, was ever talked about so much, and I sincerely hope when he does get on his legs he will be the means of pacifying all parties, and give general satisfaction to the parties, and give general satisfaction to the country. Joking apart, Mr. Disraeli has conceded to the ■o-ouse of Commons far more than was anticipated ^Tory Government could concede,, and now the r?ost Liberal members are crying, Hold, enough," here are upwards of forty clauses in the new Reform Bill; the first seven, which refer to the Oorough and county franchises, have passed trough the committee after about three weeks' sCussion. A yet more difficult thing follows— ? £ the redistribution of seats" and i, 0UI}darie8 of new franchises." "The soul of J.6 bill," as Mr. Newdegate*observed the other ght, "ig iQ these latter arrangements," arid by ery slow degrees does Mr. Disraeli advance these oiisideratipns before Parliament. Some members are locally interested in retaining things as they are, others, on a general principleof a full and *&plete reform^ desire to extend the franchises as J*8 as possible, so that every class in the community g.ay be represented, and that no close borough 8ch allowed to exist. The Government on e16 was reduce the number of members to ~e for all boroughs wkere the inhabitants do not j 7,009. Mr. Laxng, however, on Friday, produced an amendment to the effect that Should be extended to boroughs of >000, and this, although opposed by the Govern- was carried by 306 votes against 179. jj the Government concede thia, they will be^6 new seats to create, as that aumber of mem- of^iH cease to represent small boroughs instead thii -as proposed by the Government measure cla S' require a little time to reconstruct a gi ttse which, according to Mr. Laiag's idea, shall larger representation to densely-populated jtricts. This is one of the difficulties Me.i sraeli has to contend with, and when Parlia- se^have agreed upoa a plan, there must be a ect committee to decide upon the boundaries tt?eW electoral districts, so that there is a multi- °f business to be gone through before the rBa Bill passes the House of Commons. THE NEW MORNING SITTINGS. Co r- israeli is fond of his dinner, and has of ten: \V tnpl.allled that important business is going for-, dop iB during a whole evening wl ich 8 give a Cabinet Minister proper time to lief6' aad as it is most important to expedite the Jlorra Bill befere the committee, during which tne he is desirous of being present, he proposed, order to accommodate himself and the public p8°» that on Tuesdays and Fridays the House of should meet at two o'clock in the aft-er- and the committee should sit till seven at which time the meeting should be sue- din un^ n*ne °'c'oc^> to give members time to Cftol ,e^0.re the other business of the House is pro- fireded with. Tuesday, the 28th of May, was the jj jrial of the new scheme, and members were iietaal to the hour named. At once the House ah^V11-0 comm^^ee) and the meet-iag was renaark- conciliatory feeling1 of the great ma- «*<* members. Mr. Disraeli gave up the eom- fr ^.householder clause—he gave up his fancy c ^cbises of edueationary and pecuniary qualifi- awons, and, though Lord Cranborne and a county members would have liked to limit tvl6 ^^Chise to householders paying a rental of £ 4, pe borough clauses were passed, which give abso- lute household suffrage to every man whose house i ^.rated in ever so small a sum. Mr. Bright com- Phtnented the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and aid he had proposed the extremest measure of htranchisement in boroughs that he had ever *[ocated in public or in private, and it would be ^handsome in him (Mr. Bright) if he were to say 1 against the borough franchise clauses as stood, or withdraw his cordial support from P bill which was now giving satisfaction to the t(°Untry j "but," said the hon. gentleman, although I will not taunt the members of the ^ernment with the change which has taken wace in their opinions, it certainly is one of the ^arvels of the age. If they had conceded the bill () last year they would have settled the question reform for twenty years, and when they had called upon to take the next step they might :1Ií.' found a population well qualified by education 1° come under the Chancellor of the Exchequer's Jaacy franchises." A little sparring now took Elace between Mr. Disraeli and Mr. Gladstone. j*e former, as leader of the House, asked "in what respect the members of the Govern- tnent had changed their opinions." Roars of laughter followed this, and Mr. Gladstone Viewed the conduct of Ministers in Opposition they cheered Mr. Lowe when he spoke in favour I a lateral and not a downward exteneion of the rauchise, and now, when the right hoo. gentle- expresses the same opinions, they fall dead ? fPon the House because there are no Tory members cheer him. All amendments on the first seven pauses were then withdrawn, and the Chancellor of iv congratulated the committee upon "*6 amount of business they had gone through, that Part I. of his bill had passed, aad he for the same success which had attended first morning sitting to get through the whole °t the bill soon after Whitsuntide. THE COUNT-OUT. .The success of the first morning sitting was^of •^ort duration; there were many private biMs ponthe paper to be discussed on the re-assembling Jper dinner. Punctually at nine o'clock Mr. I &v.ljtae^ took hisaeat on the Treasury Bench, beside him were Sir Stafford Northcote, Sir J. ^ington, Mr. Hardy, the Attorney-General, &d Solicitor-General, &c. No one appeared J1 the front Opposition Bench, however, until Mr. g a vford walked from his place behind, and sat .°le tenant for a minute or so j presently he was JOIned by Colonel French, who was heard loudly to *claims I can't think what's the meaning of it, av w°n't come in." Then Colonel Knox, who on the third bench behind the Ministers, _revir the Speaker's attention to the number of ?!eoibers present. The right hon. gentleman for he had not quite taken his seat when Qf 8 Referred to; but with the evident intention ot giving time, asked the gallant gentleman .aether he was still desirous that; the House ^ould be counted, affirming that when he intro- the subject he was not then in the chair. Colonel Knox immediately rose and said, I think, f there are not, suffioient members to constitute iiouse." There was therefore nothing for it but «° c°nnt, and the Speaker called upon the gangers to withdraw," and set the sand-glass gangers to withdraw," and set the sand-glass gOIng; during the three minutes which thus ^anspirg^ Colpn^. Freseh tried tohip up his friends; but it was no use, there were I plenty of members in the lobby, bat they only peeped in and retired again. The Speaker had evidently some hope that he should make a House. He took his three-cornered hat in his hand, and counted very deliberately one, two, three, up to 28, then, as if he had made a mistake, commenced again and went slowly up to 38; he looked in all directions and could see HO other member than himself, and as he only made 39, the House was declared ad- journed. On the day following Colonel French called attention to the unprecedented conceited plan to prevent certain measures then on the paper from being introduced into the House, when Colonel Knox admitted that he had moved the count-out in order to defeat a motion for appoint- ing a select committee on the Ecclesiastical Titles Act in a small House. The Government promised they would endeavour to prevent such an occur- reneg in future. THE DISFRANCHISED BOROUGHS. On clause eight of the Reform Bill being intro- duced on Thursday, which was one to disfranchise the boroughs of Yarmouth, Lancaster, Totnes, and Reigate, there were a few advocates for the disfranchised boroughs, the most powerful being Mr. Bright and Mr. Lowe. The former made no less than three speeches, in one of which, after arguing in vain for mercy, he said, if the Hon e wished to punish, let them suspend the represen- tation for a few years, but it was a horrid thing for a great borough like Yarmouth to be totally disfranchised. This argument was set aside by Lord Cranborne, who said that if the representation of Yarmouth was suspended, they weald be in a worse position than if the borough representation was at once aricl- for ever to cdase; because in the one case the inhabitants would lapse into county voters, whilst in the other they would be entirely unrepresented. When the amendment.of Mr. Howes, that Yarmouth should be omitted from the clause, was put, so few Ayes responded against a multitude of Noes, that the hon. gentleman thought "fit to withdraw it; but Sir G. Bowyer dared a division on the pre- amble of the clause, when 325 voted in favour of the Government measure, and osly 49 against it. <ste.ee again a. division was taken upon the suspen- sion rather a.n the disfranchisement of Yarmouth and Lancaster, when there were in favour of sus- pension, 87; in favour of disfranchisement, 159. feoor Reigate and Totnes had no advocates ia their f favour; thus, these four boroughs will be artiong the things of the past, and wili rank lis.« St. Albans and Sudbury of a bygone period. On Monday we had I know not how many amendments to the redistribution clause. Bir- Serjeant Gazelee and Captain Hayfcer bringing forward the most formidable ODe, but the first was outvoted by a majority of 52 and the other was withdrawn. Thus Mr. Laing's amendment is the only successful one, and from the few hints which Mr. Di&raeli dropped on Mor.-diy he wit), after the Whitsuntide re-sees, introduce a new clause into the bill which shall incorporate the scheme of Mr. Laing, which the House has ac- cepted.

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