The English Reform Bill of 1867 Volume 93, No. 1

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...Hyperboreans, were always perfectly warm, happy and virtuous, because they had got to the other side of the north wind. It is the same view that my right honorable Friend takes with respect to the 10 franchise--if you go a little lower you get into the virtuous stratum. We know what those persons are who live in small houses--we have had experience of them under the name of "freemen "--and no better law, I think, could have been passed than that which disfranchised them altogether.1 Such words quoted as a whole or in part by opponents of Lowe became far more effective as a means of stirring up the working classes than as any obstacle to democratic tendencies.2 The members of the Radical wing were of course not any too pleased with the actions and words of the dissenters. Mr. Fawcett referred to Mr. Horsman as an "honorable gentleman who sits on the Liberal benches, and is always enthusiastically cheered by the Conservatives who sit on the opposite side of the House." 3 Bright suggested that Lowe was resentful because out of office: "For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, That pleasing, anxious office e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the Treasury, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind?" 4 As for Horsman: 1 Hansard, vol. clxxxii, pp. 147-148. 2 Cf. supra, p. 100. Hansard, vol. clxxxii (March 13), p. 200. Hansard, vol. clxxxii, p.'219. The right honorable Gentleman is the first of the new party who has expressed his great grief by his actions--who has retired into what may be called his political cave of Adullam--and he has called about him every one that was in distress and every one that was discontented. The right honorable Gentleman has been long anxious to form a party in this House. There is scarcely at ...