held that it was advantageous to make great changes by
steps, suggested that unless the village boroughs were disfranchised the agricultural labourers would want votes, and generally talked more like-a Whig than a Republican. It is now five years since we pointed out that Mr. Bright bated the landowners more than he sympathized with the workmen, that he desired middle-class ascendancy rather than democratic rule. He has not under this Bill got his desire, and there is a latent fear in his mind which makes his approval very cautious indeed. He would not approve at all, but that the Bill, amidst the many evils it will produce may also produce one good, a direct and unmistakable upheaval of those toil-worn millions for whom Mr. Bright, bourgeois as his politics are, still heartily and honestly cares.
