4 JUNE 1864, Page 2

Mr. R. Coning4sby, engine-fitter, of Penge, has written a letter

to the Times in which he declares that he and his class do not want reform,—do not, in fact, care about the suffrage. They prefer to improve their minds. The letter is that of a well-educated and acute man, who is probably just as crotchety as he is visibly clever, and who admits that his statement will make him unpopular with other workmen. Even if it did not, he has forgotten one-half the question, the truth viz., that a man who can write such a letter is morally bound to obtain and exercise all the power he can get for the benefit of those who know less. It is not because he can write of the "soul-moving music of Mozart" that he has no responsibility to his class and his country.