THE BIRMINGHAM "TICKET." ( From the Saturday Review.)

Mr Bright has appealed to the Parish, and to the Parish he shall go. There is no longer any use in expressing surprise at the ignorance of this gentleman. The sentiment of astonish ment is one which is soon exhausted in the presence of the strangest spectacles j and in time one becomes habituated even to the in credible blunderings of a demagogue. But for this wo might have thought it worth while to dwell at lome lengtti on the wonderful ex posure ■with which the »ble and instruetve speech of Mr. Moncreaf has furnished us, of the fundamental ignorauce and misrepiesenta tion on which the superstructure of the great ■Birmingham scheme of Reform has been built up. It appears from this conclusive demon stration that Mr. Bright is as profoundly ill informed in regard to the affaiis of Scotland as he is about English institutions —more he could not be. Indeed, his folly seems exactly commensurate with the wisdom of Solomon — it extends "from the hyssop which groweth on Libanus." From Parliament to the Vestry — from the Parish to the Empire—his unscrupu lous ignorance ranges with comprehensive in capacity ; and the more we examine his as sertions and his schemes, the more we begin to doubt whether it may not, after all, be pos lible to abiolfe his honesty at the expense of his intelligence. When the notable proposal of the parish franchise was first launched, we pointed out the startling contrast between the practice which Mr. Bright professed to take as his model and the democratic principles in sup port of which such a precedent was alleged. A practical inquiry into the real operation of the parochial franchise, which the Birming ham agitator, appealing to the " experience of the past," has so highly eulogised as •' a fran chise, with which everybody has been con tented, which nobody has condemned, and

which has done no harm to law, or order, or the ieeurity of property," leads beyond all manner of doubt to a conclusion the exact op posito of that which Mr. Bright adduces it to support. "The parish suffrage is far moie liberal, more equal, and more just than the electoral franchise," says the well informed politician. 