Star. — London, England, 1831-03-28 00:00:00

PRUSSIA. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. S IER CK, MARCH 21.—A person who is come from Cob lentz, announces that the Prussian General who commands in that place has just stated in the order of the day of hie division, that all the colonels of regiments are to be in readiness to march, at the first signal, from Coblentz and Treves to Saar !week. Orders have been given to prepare quarters for 50,000' :,en This order of the day seems to have caused some agi cation in Rhenish Prussia, especially as nobody understands vainst whom so great a number of troops may be directed. Many Prussian troops daily arrive in the environs of Treves—the roads are crowded with them, and they all seem ;o be proceeding towards the Belgian frontiers. It is need less to warn our readers against news of this kind.—Mes ,ayer des Chambres. BERLIN, March 15.—1 t is reported here that a Russian corps wished to pass the Vistula near Thorn, on the Prus sian territory, but that Count Gruigenau, who is intrusted with a special mission, refused. BRESLAU, MARCH 10.—Here and in the environs a ,/ , (1y of troops will be shortly assembled, to the number, it is said, of forty thousand men. It forms part of the great military cordon, which will extend along the frontier from Thorn to Upper Silesia, to secure the Prussian territory .ig.iinst any attempt that the Poles might make to enter it force. It seems that this cordon will consist of about we hundred and fifty thousand men--a force which would tice to repel effectually any invasion at all points. ITALY. A telegraphic despatch from Lyons, gives the following Mr ., . dated on the 19th inst. from Italy :—" The Austrians have advanced detachments upon the road of Ferrara to llolezun. They have pushed on as far as Ceuta, where they fare re-established the Papal authority. Every thing indicates that they will entirely occupy the insurgent pro vinces. The King of Sardinia continues in the same state. ilis malady is very serious. The Queen signs for him, but Without the title of Regent. No sign of trouble in Pied mont"— Le Temps. BELGIUM. BELGIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION. BRUSSELS, M A ncu 24. Yesterday evening a numerous meeting assembled at the rooms of the Society of the Belgian Union, for the purpose of taking into considera tion the basis of a patriotic Association for maintaining principles of the revolution against any attempt which ::dght be made by their enemies, for ensuring the inde pendence of Belgium, and the perpetual exclusion of the Orange family of Nassau. Several Members of the Na tional Congress were present at this meeting, which was so numerous that the room was hardly large enough to accom atodate all. We also observed the Ministers Gendebien and Tielmans, and a number of the principal functionaries ; se veral colonels and other officers of the line and volunteers; Avocates of the Brussels bar, of that of Liege, and other places; and the editors of the influential journals, both me tropolitan and provincial. ACT OF THE ASSOCIATION. Considering it a sacred duty for every Belgian to defend Lis independence at any price—considering that the Con zress has for ever excluded the family of Nassau from any puwer in Belgium—a decree which was in a degree ex :urted by a tyranny of fifteen years' standing, by the burn ing of Brussels, the massacre of its inhabitants, and by the bombardment of Antwerp. An Association has been iOrmed in Brussels, in order to secure the independence of the country, and the perpetual exclusion of the Nassau.. The members bind themselves upon their honour to defend and maintain at any price the independence and nationality of the Belgians; to fight against the Nassau family; never to treat with them, no matter to what extremity the country may be reduced ; and to repel all aggressions on the part of the foreigner." The Governor General of the Grand Duke of Luxem ',,ourg, has issued a proclamation to recall the people to their )31: , oance, and threatening as to a contrary course. lCc have little opinion of the effect of the proclamations of the Duke de Saxe Weimar, or that a counter revolution in the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg or the other Belgian pro vinces can in any way be effected. The Duke of Saxe- Weimar has not made much progress: the month's grace granted by hini draws to a conclusion. Out of a population of more than :300,000 inhabitants, 12 persons have sent in their adhesion, and have gone back to what is called the legi timate order of things. " In the name of the Belgian people: —We Baron Surlet de Chokier, Regent of Belgium, having considered the ile , :ree of the National Congress, dated March 1831, and having heard the deliberation of our Ministers, have decreed awl decree as follows : Art. 1. The National' Congress is convoked for the '29th of March next.-2. Our Minister of the Interior is entrusted with the execution of z:.o present dcc.•ee. lily the 11,gent, (Signed) SURLET DE CHOEIER. F. TIELMANS, Minister of the Interior." Brussels, Much 21, 1831. BRUSSELS, MARCH 23.—1 t seems that the embarrass ment, or rather the distress, of our finances, and the critical situation in which the government finds itself placed by the notification uhich has been made to it of the speedy execu tion of the decision of the Congress at London, has induced the convocation of the Congress for the 29th instant. The enemies of our Government impatiently expect' from that assembly some extreme measure, which will hasten the overthrow of the present order of things.— It is affirmed that the Provincial Commission of Manufac turers yesterday had an audience of the Regent, who listened with emotion to the representation of the stagnation of com merce and manufactures, and declared that his most ardent desire was to see a regular Government established, and an end put to the crisis in which we are, and that couriers had been sent off to London and Paris with despatches, the object ..f which was to obtain the mediation of France and England ;a the arrangements to be concluded with Holland. MARC/1 2.s.—The new Ministry is formed: it is com )..ed of M. Sauvage—the Interior ; Barthelemy—Justice ; flans de Steenhiivse— War Devau x —Foreign Affairs. (The three latter appointments are announced in ordinances of the Regent. The papers do not contain any ordinance appointing Al. Saursge.) The Regent has refused to accept the resignation of Al. de Brouckere, Minister of Fi 'lure. M. Tichuans is appointed Governor of Liege. SPIRIT OF THE JOURNALS. Tiatts.—Sir R. Peel is !ably run down, for we find, that for the hundtedth time he stammers out that most revolting nonsense about !flu' merit of the rotten boroughs in sending a dozen clever men to par :lament in the space of half a century. How often must we repeat that the people are as eager in their inquiries for men able to do their business as any borough patrons can Lc, and that able men alone will be looked for by the people, whereas tih y are seldom thought of by borough lords until the whole tribe of brothers, nephews, cousins, &z. have been first Provided for—and a glorious set of national representatives we find them. hut why is it (as a gencral question) that such clever men are sought ut by the borough patron at all ? Is it for th e p u bli c goo d t h at b e promotes them ? For instance, look at the galaxy of youthful genius vhich shines upon from the Newcastle sky—the graceful Attwood, • he solemn Sadler. anti Wetherell, who seasons the sober wisdom of Punch with the classic salt or Grimaldi. These are youths of no mean promise we admit, but why is it that the Duke of Newcastle resorts :o them ? What benefit has his Grace, through their agency, bestowed •ipon the people of England ? Would it not be better that these personages, nominees for 8. -, teughbridge, dce. &c. should meet in the hall of Clunibcr rather than in St. Stephen's, forming there a lit!le domestic solve under the presidency of their patron, the .age and philosophic Duke, and amuse themselves with .nventing penal codes for the refractory vassals of Newark, rather than attempt to humbug the English nation by hashing up for Sir R. Peel the cold and stale jest of a natural sympathy between the qualifications of men of genius and the menial services to which a borough patron consigns them. This audacious abuse of words could never have been heard but in an assembly where the multitude of offenders against the first principle of representative government are to each other a common protection. Henceforth, when by the wise provisions of the Reform Bill, the expenses of popular elections shall be reduced almost to no thing, a man of character and talent will make his way into the House of Commons with far more average probability than he now does by licking the footstool of a lord; and the solid advantage thence acquired is,"that when there, he must be dependent on the esteem of his consti tuents—not on any great man's cupidity or caprice. Hsitaza.—lf the proposed measure of Parliamentary Reform be revolutionary in the odious sense of the word—that Is, if it have a tendency to unsettle the foundations of public order and security—it is very strange that it should have among its most zealous promoters a large proportion of that class of persons who are peculiarly sensitive as to the consquences of any rash or inconsiderate changes in the social structure, and have more to lose than other people in general by measures subversive of public confidence, and dangerous to the public, tranquility. We allude to the merchants and bankers of London who thronged the Egyptian Hall on Friday, to re. cord their opinions in favour of the great measure which is to 'give the people of England a real representation in the House of Commons, and thereby to restore the beauty and ex cellence of the Constitution, which the usurped power of a proud oli garchy had nearly destroyed, while they substituted in its place a su premacy unknown to the laws, injurious to the just prerogative of the Crown, and destructive of the political rights of the people. That the opinions of the merchants and bankers of London upon the subject of the Reform Bill are of the very first importance is admitted by the enemies of the measure, who laid the greatest possible stress upon the declaration lately signed by certain commercial and moneyed men in opposition to reform ; although the persons who affix ed their names to a document, of which, if they acted from no other motive than pure patriotism ' and with no other object than to save the country from revolutionary horrors, they ought to have felt proud,were actually ashamed to call a public meeting, and to do that in the light of day, and in the face of their fellow-citizens, which loses nearly all its fora by being advocated with that equivocal seal which Ries for re tuge to darkness. TIMES—We publish the report of an anti-reform meeting in Scot land, composed of freeholders, magistrates, &c. Tory tools, as may be well imagined, of the powers heretofore exercising dominion over a Scottish county. If that report contains matter to excite contempt or indignation in other respects, in one it has moved our compas sion and sincere regret. It presents to us the picture of Sir Wal ter Scott—broken down by disease and conscious infirmity, but urged on by what still remains of the original tendencies and vivid impressions of his high feudal spirit.—oonde. scendiog to become, at this heart-inspiring moment, the mourner for condemned absurdities. Has, then, the living earth whirled on, and I left the gray novelist alone in his land of self crested mist and light—of courts, and camps, and chiefs, and dames, and lakes, and towers, and multifarious witchery ? Long still may this great ruler of the i realms of fiction enjoy and communicate to others those delights which an active cultivation of the resources of his own vast domain is so well calculated to furnish ! Within that region, Sir Walter Scott nerd indulge no revolutionary tenors : there, no conspiraly can molest his person—no republican will dream of attempting to undermine Ms throne. He rules and will rule over a loyal universe; but, alas I who shall name his successor? This mighty minister to the innocent plea sures of his own and future ages would nevertheless do wisely to know the limits of his proper field, and to act within it. He has made history, whenever he touched it, a romance. His politics are already a chimera. POST.—While the revolutionary press is daily calling upon us to place our representative constitution in the hands of the present Minis. ten, in olden that it may be reformed and re-fashioned after their good pleasure, they never seem to think it necessary to advise us to inquire, as we should in any matter of minor importance, what is the character of those in whom a trust of such fearful consequence is to be reposed ? —Have they shewn great ability ? Have they exhibited un impeachable honesty in other public affairs, which they have attempted to manage? We shall not undertake " boldly to answer," after the manner of the Times, without 'hewing any authority for the reasonableness of our answer, but we shall simply refer to the parliamentary proceedings of the ministry since their accession to office for a decisive reply. As to their ability, what pledge have they been able to fulfil ? Into what matter have they thrust their blundering hands which they have not been obliged to abandon ere it was matured, or to relinquish from direct defeat, if they attempted to persevere ? If they lay claim to ability as the ground of their title to remodel the Constitu tion of the country, let their Financial Budget and its fate be taken as a single matter-of-fact argument sufficient in itself to settle that ques tion. If they lay claim to perfect honesty and purity of intention, as giving them a right to be trusted with the manufacture of a new Legislature, let the public consider the history of their Civil List Com. mittee, and treat the claim with the contempt which it deserves. ROXBURGH ANTI-REFORM MEETING. A numerous meeting of the Freeholders, Justices, and Commis. stoners of Supply having met on Monday last, to consider the pro. priety of petitioning Parliament against the general measure of Reform, Sir WALTER SCOTT, in reply to some arguments adduced in favour of Reform, spoke to the following effect: Sir WALTER SCOTT—He had no intention of intruding himself upon the Meeting, as his voice was nearly gone, and be was not otherwise (well; but the present was so important an occasion, that entertaining the clear opinions that he did upon the subject, if he were to lose his life in consequence of his appearance at the Meeting, he would willingly yield his last breath in opposition to the measure now before Parliament. He would tell those who were dia. posed to indulge in hissing, which they bad no title to do at that meet ing, that it did not affect him more than the hissing of a number of geese. His friend, Mr. Bell, bad afforded him several instances of the dangers to be apprehended from the intended measure. He disliked the moment in which the measure was brought forward--he disliked the feelings that spurred on its supporters. They knew of the last Re. volution in France—how it happened he would not atop to enquire : all that he would say was, that the persons who climbed to the democratic part of the Constitution had obtained the advantage which they dc ' sired, and they obtained their own Government in the way which they thought best. This has set fire to a train over the land that has burned far and wide. France for ages has been imitating our Con stitution, but not fairly. She has been always trying to add some thing to it, to render it more exquisite, but in this she constantly failed. There were to less that 13 different Constitution. and this he believed was the fourteenth within lour recollection, and in every one of them France had made a Constitution that in the course of a year was found inapplicable. And was it from France that Britain was to imitate a Constitution, and to depart from its own, which had given happiness and victory to the country, and had carried its glory to a height France had never been able to attain ? He was moreover, convinced that we would have war with the French— that they would never cease to be hostile to us as long as the remem brance of the battle of Waterloo remained impressed upon their minds; and that this country could not be considered in a state of safety as long as they could do us any harm without imminent danger to themselves. He had himselt seen a little of the extreme degree of the ingenuity of the French in imitating our devices. They wished to introduce from this country an iron bridge. They sent to an engineer of this country to have such a bridge placed over the Seine near 11Iarly. The first thing that the French engineers did was to examine the drawings ; and they declared that the bridge intended would not do—that it was not elegant enough—that it was altogether English, and, as such, they set about altering all those counterpoises which were necessary to give it stability ; but they no wooer set it up in this condition than it turned upside-down. It was quite the same thing with regard to their consti tution ; they tried to make it better, and we now saw the end of it. In repairing an old edifice that has withstood the floods and winds of ages, we should be captious not to fiestroy its symmetry • we should " let well abide well." The tree under which we and our fathers have slum. bered for ages we should not be rash in cutting down. He had heard much of the success of the Union. How long was it in being success. ful ? More than fifty years: men's bairn had turned grey before this success made its appearance ; and they now had their hopes realised. Although the worst of miseries were brought into our country by an innovation so much to be deprecated, it would in the government of the world be brought round. The crop came in GOD Almighty's time; but we should not be rash enough to sanction changes which were very likely to occasion evils of no ordinary kind, instead of continuing to live quietly and peaceably, as we have done hitherto. He should take leave of them with the adage of the gladiators to the Emperor of old, inorituri is salviata ; If we pass this we shall be undone. Mr. WILLIAM BELL having observed that no man could believe some change was not required, and that it ought to be a change of ex. tension ; and having added that although the similes which the Ho. nourable Baronet used were good in themselves, and the theories raised on them magnificent, they had no application to the question. Sir WALTER SCOTT again said, God forbid that I should be against all Reform. We have occasion no doubt for Reform, but it ought to begin first in our own bosoms. What I am against is proceeding incautiously. With regard to the Constitution of this country (continued Sir Walter) he might say of it, possdere librat tea—her own powers balance each other. It was very sel dom that these powers came into violent contact with each other. If they were to destroy any of those powers they would destroy the balance of the Constitution, by extending the power of the people, and deprive themselves of the means of mending it. He could only compare the present measure to a watch placed in the hands of an unskilful person, who by turning the regulator backwards and forwards, without a knowledge of its machinery, broke it in pieces; and now we have got a repeater in the hands of children, and GOD knew' that is to become of it. The Petition against Reform was then adopted by a majority of 47 to 23. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. St R—Your spirited advocacy of the cause of the Poles is one among several reasons for your Paper being in deserved estimation in this city. The friends of the Poles have been proposing a subscrip tion, and to 'mike it general, and expressive of the feelings of the nation, it is preferred that no person shall contribute more than a ant LLING. The idea was started last night in a small party, and twenty-three shillings collected instanter, every one under taking to be a collector among his friends, so that in a few days we are likely to have twenty. three times twenty-three shillings. We hope to get the librarians to concur and to open books. We were at a loss as to the best focus for our collections, and on naming the Proprietcrs of the STAR, a paper which gave us the first hopes of Polish success, it was agreed that I should solicit your concurrence and the pub lication of this note, as a suggestion for the country at large. If every friend to the brave Poles will take a very slight trouble, you may, we presume, be soon the depositary of a sum, which will do honour to the English people, and sub stantially serve a must interesting cause. CATO. BATH, March 24th. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Maces &mem Tins —Dublin.2 ; Waterford. 1 ; Guernsey and Jersey, 1 ; Holland, I ; Flanders, 1 ; France, 1. MAR, MARCH . 26 and 27 —*lna S.S.W. PORTSMOUTH, Mama 26 and 27.—Wind S.S.E. to S. FALMOUTH, MATCH 25 and 46. — Wind &E. to S.W. squally—Ar rived the Juno, Langstoke, from New York. GREAVOCE, Maim' 25.—Arrived the Commodore Gribble, Hart, from Charleston. Ltvzsroor., Rialtos 26.—Arrived the Henry Thompson, Drew, from Charleston. Hoz:rust% Maims 26.—Arthred the Europe, Owens, from Trieste. Dom, h l 27.—Arrived the Adour, Gretchen, from Ilam. burgh, with 'ix feet water in her held, having struck a wreck in the North Sea, bound to Cowes. PINZANCI4 Ma.acu 26.—Arrived the Providence, Power, from St. Michael's. The Traveller, Henry, from Trieste, has arrived at Denman& Extract of a letter from Capt. Riede, of the Sunbury, arrived at New Orleans from Liverpool :—" We were brought to by a brigantine betwixt the Cayman and Cape Antonio, which ordered our boat along side showing and pointing them the ' long Tom,' if we did n o t im mediately. I sent the mace and three men; the boat returned with two, and four Spaniards—or looking like such, but only armed with knives—demanding bread, saying they would pay for it, having plenty of dollars on board. They took about 10 ewt. of bread, one cask of flour, one cask of peas, and one bag of rice, with every thing else eatable they could lay their hands on, for which the mate returned with 7,0 dollars. He reported her to be regularly armed, with 50 men, and 550 slaves, and quite out of provisions, basing only a few yams oat board." PORTSMOUTH—SATURDAY. The Dryad, 42 guns, I ommodore Hayes, and the Favourite, 18 guns, Commodore Harrison, were at Siena Leone on th e 20th J anuary . The Plumper gun-brig had arrived there with a Portuguese slaver, having on board 500 slaves and 40 Portuguese. At the time of the capture the Plumper had only six white men on board.—Mr. Herbert, Mate of the Medina, shot himself, having stabbed a man, which occa sioned his death. The occurrence took place when employed on some boat service, under an impression of mutinous conduct on the part of the man. The Gannet, 18, Commodore Sweny, was towed out of Plymouth har bour on Wednesday, having had the zinc sheathing taken off, and replaced by copper. Sir Humphrey Davy's protectors having been discontinued, it was determined to try the effect of a zinc, prepared in • peculiar manner, as a sheathing for ships' bottoms, instead of copper. It is now found, however, that zinc will not answer the purpose, on ac count of the brittleness, breaking off like glass, thus exposing the bottom to injury, and impeding the ship's motion. Tne Georgians convict ship, under the superintendence of Dr. Tarn, arrived on Tuesday, from Deptford, and embarked 182 convicts on Thursday, for Australia. , The male convict ship Argyle, Lieut. Henry Gordon Brock, R. N. Superintendent, with 250 convicts on board, sailed yesterday se'nnight, from Plymouth, for Van Diemen's Land. It is intended again to separate the West India from the Halifax command. Rear-Admiral Lord James O'Brien will hoist his flag u Commander-in-Chief on the North American station. The Stag, 46,1 which is to carry the broad pendant of Sir T. Trove. bridge, is to be armed with long 24-pounders. L'Aigk and Curacoa, which are cutting down to flush-decked ship, are to be armed with long 32-pounders. Capt. Mingaye will command one of them. The Ariadne, Semarang, Dispatch, Nautilus, and Savage, are still at Spithead, waiting for orders. The nature of the service up which it is contemplated to employ these vessels has not transpired , and baffles conjecture here. Miss Linwood has outdone herself in her new picture of Cais. All the world visit it, and admire it. It is in truth one of the chief stars of the metropolis. We are happy to see that the Mansion-house subscrip tion for the distress in the West of Ireland already exceeds 15001. The failure or. Saturday of Cornelius Buller and Co. proves to be of far less extent than was that day supposed. By the statute 21 Geo. 111. chap. 49, any place opened for public debate, on any subject whatsoever, upon Sunday, and to which persons shall be admitted upon payment of money, or by tickets sold for money, shall be deemed a disorderly house. The keeper to forfeit 2001. the manager, moderator, president, or chairman, 1001. and every person receiving money or tickets, or delivering tickets, .501. recover able by any one who will sue for the same. The ostensible keeper and every joint owner to be deemed a keeper. Penalty for advertising such public meeting, 501. The penalties to be sued for within six months. Lord Erskine, on Friday, wok the oaths and his seat in the House of Lords, for the first time, in the present session of Parliament. It transpired early on Saturday morning on 'Change, and caused a considerable sensation, that a Director of the Bank of England had stopped payment as a merchant, and was also largely a defaulter by speculations in the funds. The individual alluded to is Mr. Buller, carrying on business under the firm of Cornelius.Btiller and Co. but without, we believe, any copartnership. He is of very old standing in the direction of the Bank, basing passed the chair several years ago, and consequently bein_ a member of the " Com mittee of Treasury," with access to all the important and secret operations of that corporation, which invariably originate with such committee. As a mercantile failure, the affair is of little moment, the house having long ago reduced its transactions within very narrow limits. The a hole extent of its outstanding obligations we have heard stated as low its 30,0001. Wi.ll regard to the speculations in the funds, they are of no great extent, the differences against him not amounting, it is said, to more than 2.0001. but no small scandal has been caused in the City, by the discovery that a Bank Director, whose a cial knowledge gives him a petit zielvantage over other merchants, has entered into any such speculations at all. The uninitiated have always been led to believe that that Court was quite in capable of engaging in similar transactions. His ape( Ca tions have, no doubt, }moved very injurious to other persons besides himself, for, independently of the loss sustained by the brokers he employed, who are responsibie, according to the rules of the Stock-Exchange, for his transactions, those who were in his confidence would be induced to follow his example, on the strength of his character and supposed access to official information. A Bank Director would be presumed cognizant of numberless circum stances likely to affect the value of the funds, and in which consequently his movements would take place with nearly the absolute certainty of success. Mr. Buller has of course now ceased to be a Bank Director, having been disqualified by selling the amount of stock which made him eligible, in the course of the last week. There alit be no contest for the vacancy, as his successor, according to the old established practice in the Bank, is already fixed on by the other Directors, and opposition in such cases, as all the world knows, is now never thought of.— Times. ANALYSIS OF THE VOTES OF THE COUNTY MEM BERS ON THE REFORM BILL Voted. Tellers. 411•••••••••i.mor .111.1mM. For Agst.k 7 or 106 64 ' 1 2 Paired off. Total Number of County Members in the Imperial Parliament. 6 •-I4 Apt. For Thus we see that tne total cumber of Knights of the Shires, who have so nobly recorded their aentiments in favour of the measure, is oni. hundred and eleven, being nearly two.thirda of that independent and most important class of our Representatives. DIVISION ON THE SECOND READING OF THE REFORM BILL. From a careful analysis of the published lists of the Members who voted for and against the second reading of Lord John Russell's Reform Bill, we find the numbers on both sides resolve themselves into the fol lowing subdivisions, which will at one view exhibit the real strength co both sides of the question : FOR THE BILL. ENGLAND. County Members - - - For places where the representation is free Boroughs :—ln the patronage of Peers Ditto of Commoners - Numbers. . 57 . 82 Other influence University 31embens - 41) -39 l 97 - 171 -238 Paired cff :—County blembers - • 3 - Open places - 1 1 5 - - Boroughs - - 1 - Counties wholly in favour - -24 49 Votes. Ditto partly . - 8 8 - York is included in the enumeration of those in favour, as it gives • majority of two that way—three of the members voting for and one against. County Members Boroughs Paired off SCOTLAND. - 8 1 a IRELAND. County Members Open Cities and Towns - - Botoughs I—ln the patronage of a Peer - Ditto a Commoner . --- - • . Paired off . - . 2 Counties wholly in favour - - - 15 30 Votes Ditto partly . . - . 11 11 —4l N.B. Of the Counties favourable to the Bill, four are ultra Orange t of those opposed, the whole number, six, are ultra Orange ; and of the neutral ones. seven are of the same politics. ets usual, all the Bzres. ford Members voted against the measure. Thus we have the following recapitulation of the numbers for the Bill : County Members OPen - - Boroughs . - University Members Voted. Paired off: - 103 5 - 90 2 - 109 1 . 2 -- 0 304 - &-:312 AGAINST THE BILL ENGLAND. County Open Places Boroughs in the patronage of Peers Ditto of Commoners Ditto other influence - 31 - 1 . 25 - N Z 1-182 - 4 27 University Member; 2 - 0 Counties wholly against Partly, as before . 240 - 6 8 11 90 20 It will be seen that without the borough members the opponents of the bill could only have mustered MS votes in England and Wales, while for it in the same parts of the country 139 votes were obtained. Again, of those boroughs whose Members voted in opposition to Reform, the number of those to be totally disfranchised by the opera tion of the bill is not less than forty-nine, both the members for thirty of which voted against the bill ; and as many as thirty-three are to be deprived of the power of returning a second member, both the members for eighteen of which voted against the second reading. SCOTLAND. County Members . Boroughs . Paired off . . 14 12 . 127 IRELAND. County Members . • • • . 23 Open Cities and Towns . . . . . 4 Boroughs t—Patrons, Peers ? . . • 6 1 10 Ditto Commoners . . . 4 University . . . . . I Paired off . . . . . 1--30 Counties wholly in favour . 6-12 Ditto divided • • . . . _. 11.-11-23 RECAPITULATION AGAINST THE BILL. County Members . . - - - 70 Open Places . - yp Boroughs 208 University Aiembers - • - - 3.-311 ..—. " LOOK ON THIS PICTURE -AND ON THIS!" AGAINST SETORN. County Members. England and iVales ... 31 Ireland ... .. 28. 68 &odand ... .. 14 Open Places. England and Wales ... 25 1 2 , 1 Ireland University Members ... 3 Borough Members. Under the Patronage of— Peers ... ...111.1 Commoners ... bOi 209 Under other influence .. 27 Paired off Resti:t ... ... 311 Boroughs to be tlishanchisee. No. of Votes. Forty-Dine wholly •.79 t 1 30 Thirty.three partially 61 I FOR REFORM. County Men.bers. England and Wales .. 67 Ire.and ... .. 301 103 Scotland ... ... 7 Open Places. England and Wales .. 821 90 Ireland University Member, .... 2 Borough Members. Under the Patronage of ... .. 62 Commoners .. 47} 100 Under other influence.. 10 Paired off Result .. ... 312 Boroughs to he disfranchised. No. of Votes.. Twenty-two %holly ... 29 t 60 Twenty-two partially.. 91 f The first duty of a reformed parliament will be to repeal Peel's Bill, and correct the errors, as fatal to the people as to the borough-mongers, of the various experiments on our monetary system. This caase of all our domestic cala mities will soon be removed in a parliament of men of busi ness, who wiil not be deluded by theories, nor be outvoted by those who have no practical knowledge. We must either room to the currency in Lich the debt was created, or cancel the debt—that is, we must either raise the means of the people to the taxes ncecssary Z 3 pay the interest, cr be unable to pay it. A reformed parhaumnt will feel this— though it is evidently too tomplicated a question for many of cur loesent Legislators'. The universal question, whether the reform bid 1%111 be ear; led by this Parliament is put by all ? We ansa er Yes. t how, against so formidable a Minority and so qualify ing a Majority ? Because the Eieg will have it so, and the peo;.:e a:e unanimous. The Minority are men who cannot exist without the royal favour—it is vital air to them—and they will drop in one by one. Every division wi.l reduce their numbers, and add to the numbers of the Majority. it is an opposition bound by no principle, tad reconciled to itself by no virtue. Ave—but then their Lordships ? The King—the King—the Lord Lieutenancies—the patronage — the younger brothers and sons. Hereditary virtue and self interest will decidejlgir Lordships—the bill must and u ill be carried ! The applications to sign the address to his Itlajesty, and the petitions to both Houses of Parliament, in favour of the Reform Bill agreed to at the meeting of merchants and bankers at the Egyptian Hall. have been so numerous, and were continued up to so late an hour on Saturday, that the Lord Mayor has determined that they shall remain ter sig natures at the Mansion House until to-morrow. Nearly 10,000 names have been already signed. i t ' ~: