The Glasgow Argus of Thursday contains a grave article in
reference as well to the state of public feeling in the important district with which it is more immediately connected, as to that of the country at large. " Discontent pervades not the operative alone, but all the less wealthy classes." To remove this discontent, measures must be taken to make men " feel easier." But "the ten-pound constituency has not the earnestness for what is necessary ;" and therefore an extension of the suffrage must be a preliminary to a course of legislation for the " common benefit." Unless this policy is adopted, the "enfranchised classes" must " make up their minds to years of suffering, discontent, and turbulence." " If," says our Glasgow contemporary in conclu- sion, " the majority of voices be for placing Lord Durham at the head of such a movement, and his Lordship take the lead on these terms— with all our hearts."
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