A short history of England . ocessions made a great impressionon those who saw them. The success of the North in the Ameri-can civil war was in a certain sense a testimony to the good judg-ment of the English workingmen, for they had believed in thatside, while the upper classes had generally anticipated its the great reason for the wide acceptance of the general prin-ciple of a bill for further parliamentary reform was the passage oftime since the last measure of this kind had been adopted. Anew generation had grown up which was familiar with the deficien-cies of the existing syst
A short history of England . ocessions made a great impressionon those who saw them. The success of the North in the Ameri-can civil war was in a certain sense a testimony to the good judg-ment of the English workingmen, for they had believed in thatside, while the upper classes had generally anticipated its the great reason for the wide acceptance of the general prin-ciple of a bill for further parliamentary reform was the passage oftime since the last measure of this kind had been adopted. Anew generation had grown up which was familiar with the deficien-cies of the existing system of representation and was not familiarwith the extent to which it was an improvement on still olderconditions. To this generation further reform seemed a naturaland necessary step. 594. The Reform Bill of 1867. — The bill was introduced byDisraeli in 1867 as a very moderate measure. One amendmentafter another, however, was carried, introducing more liberalprinciples, till it was a far-reaching and thoroughgoing THE GROWTH OF DEMOCRACY 659 The Conservatives were in a yielding frame of mind, Gladstone andthe other Liberal leaders urged them to further concessions, and theconstant agitation going on outside of parliament during the debatescarried both parties farther than they quite realized. The bill wasfinally carried through both houses by quite large majorities. The bill of 1867 deprived eleven of the smaller towns of therepresentation which had been left to them in 1832. Thirty-fiveother towns having less than ten thousand population were eachdeprived of one of their representatives. These representativeswere given to the great cities and thickly populated most important change was, however, in the right of suffrage was introduced in the parliamentary is to say, after this year every man who was owner or tenantof any dwelling house and paid the usual taxes, or who occupiedlodgings worth ^10 a year, had a right to vote. I
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