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Dir. Hume, Mr. Emmet, Mr. Blactney, Mr. Grattan, and Air. Ruthven, the Petition was ordered to be printed. Mr. HUME moved for an estimate of the expenditure likely to be incurred by the New Bankruptcy Act ; also an account of the expenditure attending the printing of the Votes and Journals of the House for the last 21 yean.— Agreed to. Captain GORDON presented a petition from CaUington against the Beer Bill.—Laid on the table. Mr. HUNT presented a Petition, very numerously signed by respectable persona, setting forth their disapprobation of the prosecutions on account of uttering religious opinions, and praying that Mr. Taylor might be released from his very severe puntshment. Mr. HUME supported the petition. Mr. O'CONNI.LL thought that the prosecution bad been imprudently carried on against Mr. Taylor, and did great harm to religion. Mr. Taylor ought to be liberated, and not allowed to remain in gaol, as an object of sympathy with his partizans and the multitude. Lord ALTHORP thought that the publication of all religious opinions ought to be unrestrained and free, provided they did not militate against the peace of society. Sir R. PEEL thought that very great discretion ought to be exercised in instituting such prosecutions as that under which Mr. Taylor was suffering. He had successfully tried the experiment of non-prosecution. He reprobated the con. duct of Mr. Taylor, and thought that the laws against blas phemy ought not to be repealed. Mr. LAMB observed that the prosecutions against Mr. Taylor had not proceeded from Government ; but he thought there was nothing in the character of Mr. Taylor's offence to deserve the name of free discussion. Mr. CAMPBELL reprobated ale conduct of Mr. Taylor. Mr. H MBE condemned the prosecution of Mr. Taylor, is calculated to bring religion into contempt. After a few words from Mr. Trevor, the petition was laid on the table. Lord EBRINOTON gave notice of his intention to move a call of the house on Monday next. MONEY PANULNiOF WAIOKS SILT.. Mr. LITTLETON moved the third reading of the 'Abney Pa7ment of Wages Bill. Mr. HUME objected to the Bill on pdndple, because he thought it would act injuriously upon the working classes. He would therefore move that the Bill be read a third time on that day 6 months. The gallery was cleared for atlivision. For the third reading • 61 Against it -67 The Bill was then read a third time, and passed. BANKRUPTCY BILL. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved the second read :ng of the Bankruptcy Bill. Mr. J. WILLIAMS said that nothing had been stated in opposition to the bill to shake his opinion as to the neces sity of the measure to improve the present state of the law upon the subject. The whole system had a direct tendency to delay and prolong the ends of justice. The principles upon whichthe Bankruptcy Court was conducted were at variance with the mode that was pursued by any Court of Justice. The present mode of appointing the Commissioners of Bank ruptcy was vicious, and had for its sole object to provide for young men who had no experience In the law ; those were facts that could not be denied. The system embraced every degree of objectionable principle. The hon. member refer. red to the report of the Committee appointed to inquire into the subject, to prove the peat evils of the present system and contended that a reform of those abuses was loudly called for. The honourable and learned gentleman then referred to the opinions and evidence of several distinguished lawyers, as published hi works, and taken before Committees and Commissioners, expressive of the inefficiency of the existing system of administering the Bankrupt laws. One beneficial effect of this measure would be to diminish the number of appeals to the Court of Chancery, for the Court of Appeal proposed by this Bill would try issues respecting bankruptcy, which often, after long litigation in the Court of Chancery, were referred to the Common Law Courts.— The honourable and learned member here entered into a long calculation of the expenses incurred in the different stages of proceedings in Bankruptcy cases, and compared them with the expenses which would arise from the system now pro pos ed, pointing out the great advantages which would arW from the latter. He passed a high eat opium on the more than human exertions of the present Lord Chan cellor to 6et rid of the arrears of his Court. In answer to the objecuon respecting the extraordinary patronage which this bill would create for the Lord Chancellor, be begged to say tnat the patronage under the present system was greater than the patronage created by this measure. He re collected having heard that Lord Erskine was only 24 hours Lord Chancellor when he had 106 applications, principally from peers of the realm, to appoint some of their relatives commissioners of bankr upts. Sir B. SUGDEN thought the learned gentleman should have sought some other opportunity to speak of the merits of the Lord Chancellor. It was indiscreet to forge down upon them the bill, by bringing forward the opinions of the noble Chancellor, and force remarks in justice from others, who might have the same respect for the Lord Chancellor with himself. For such remarks, so provoked, the noble turd would have to thank his learned friend. The learned baronet then proceeded to say, that he had the most pro. found respect for the Lord Chancellor, but when be heard him so lauded for his exertions in the dispatch of business, he felt himself bound to say, that he colud slered it impossible that any mortal man could devote so many hours a day to matters requiring so grave sonsideration. andjcould profitably discharge his duty to the public. if it were possible that any man could endure the tell of attend ance without shortening leis days, or killing himself, the Lord Chancellor could not make proper decisions, as he bad never had the opportunity of acquiring the ne ry legal knowledge In the Court of Chancery. It was the larned baronet's opinion, be said, that the noble Lord Chancellor bad obtained great credit for what it was impossible be could be entitled to. The learned baronet proceeded to =hoed- Ten on the Laws of Bankruptcy as they stood. He said be IVY opposed to many of the items of the practice, and t Larti. cularly to the admission of a ffi davits. With regard to al leged confusion that was said to exist before the Commission ers, be could say it was like the disorder of a country dance, there was peas order in the confusion. And these Commis sioners were to be replaced by ten judges, or call them what you like, who were to be fixed for life; and how was any one to know that those so appointed were to be qualified for their office. He bad understood that the ministry had come in with a detonation of economy and retrenchment, but he could assure them that this alteration In that court of law, with the judges to be pensioned, would be a much greater expense to the public t ha n the present constitution. He ri diculed the ides of having 10 judges and 10 registrars; he said that 6 judges and 10 registrars would do far more business. He was tired of hearing what Lord this and Lord that had done; he had expected that this present administration was one of purity, and not encompass the errors of others. He then contended at considerable length that the Lord Chancellor was increasing his emoluments and diminishing his busi ness. He approved of the retiring pension of 6,0001. He denied that the measure was necessary ; the Vice-Chancel. 1 liar, under whose jurisdiction the almost entire bankruptcy business was placed, bad full time and ability to dispose of it; there were us present no bankruptcy arrears in Chan. The new judges (at 3,0001. and 2,0001. salaries) would dispose of the business in thirty-five days. He consi dered the official assignees did not offerj sufficient guarantees, for the safety of the large sums deposited in their bands. complained that the Bill squandered away the fund in Chancery, called the "dead fund," which should be con. sidered as a sacred deposit. He concluded by saying that Ministers bad greatly disappointed him after their great Promises of Reform in Chancery. Had the late Govern ment remained in office, all the abuses of that Court would have been long since removed. (Hear.) Mr. Sergeant WILDE contended that the Honourable and Learned Gentleman ought to have shown that the pro posed Court could not accomplish the objects which it was intended to attain. He would support the measure, because he was convinced that it would be highly beneficial to the country. Mr. J. SMITH said, the present system was a source of :much fraud, delay, and expense. The Court of Review could greatly diminish these evils. The official assignee Would operate as a salutary check on the assignees named by 'he creditor,. The bill was then read a second time. After a few words from Mr. Knight, Mr. Omdburn, Lord Althorp, &c. the bill was ordered to be committed on Ittday next. On the motion that the vestries bill be read a third time, Mr. R. TREVOR having several objections to offer to the Bill, which he was reluctant to enter into at that late hour of the night, would move the postponement of the second reading. After a rev words from Mr. PROVE:IEIIOE and 9 thrrs,—The House divided For the postponement 8 I Against 361 Majority 28 The Bill having been read a third time, the other Ordure of the Day were di•pused of, and the Roue Adjourned at .1 Quarter to Two o'clock. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON, THURSDAY, OCT. 6. ERRATUM. YMITEILDAIG—ID the node. of the York Association, for through NOW read throw light. Onz &tuna, 'NIS DAT—Thermometer, 66. Be. roman. 2942. Weather, showery. Wind S.W. What will the PEOPLE do, if the Loans throw out the Bill ? What they ought to do is evident— they ought to be CONSISTENT, FIRM, and UNANI mous. Let them persevere, by all efficient means, in reaffirming the principles which they have al. ready espoused; and NEVER RELAX till they have achieved an effectual Parliamentary Reform. There is no want of intelligence or energy in the leaders and Committees connected with public meetings, and they know their duty, and will perform it; but all those who have hitherto supported them must, in the event of a defeat, redouble their zeal. And, above all, the friends of Reform must beware of any RE-ACTION on the part of their enemies, who, on gaining any small advantage, will be prompt in displaying their smothered malignity. There would have been a Parliamentary Reform after the public excitement on the subject in 1791 and 1792, but for a re-action of the selfish minority of the nation. That re-action was con ducted by the Lords, the Clergy, the close Corpora tions, and the Tory Lord-lieutenancy, with their supple Magistracy. These contrived at that time,' to play on the fears of the timid and neutral ; and thereby, for several years, converted their minority into a majority; and hence the subsequent wars, l ead the frightful waste of the treuures and resour ces of the nation. Then, be it observed, the very same parties are still in existence, and though sub dued,continue to be actuated bythe same malign and selfish feelings. We therefore cite that too memo ruble case, as an emphatical warning to the Re formers of the present day. We say again they must be FIRM, CONSISTENT, and having hot one object, be UNITED AS ONE NUN. Happily at this time the public cause has allies in a vsvßiovic SOVEREIGN, and his PATRIOTIC MINISTERS; and it is also nobly sustained by a MAJORITY of the House of Commons. These are circumstances which give confidence to hope ; but we repeat that vigilance is necessary; and above all things despair, lukewarmness, and division, are to be avoided. We do not write the preceding paragraphs un der the impression, that there are any increased reasons for doubting the decision of the Lords. We differ from many persons who impeach the sound judgment of noble legislators, and think that what ever may be the relative wisdom of their House, too many of their Lordships are wise and discreet enough to yield to the intelligence of the age—to the wishes of the at teo—and the unanimous voice of the Puma. We think that a majority must be even more sensible of the deleterious workings of the infamous and disgraceful rotten-borough system, than any of the people, however much they may have suffered from the system. There ate a large party in the country who con ceive that a Bill passed by the Commons for re gulating its own constituency, ought to have passed the Lords as mere matter of form. If the Lords had passed any Bill for regulating their own House, would not their Lordships have deemed it imper tinent and indecorous, if the House of Commons had presumed to discuss its provisions as an imme diate affair of its own ? At the same time, the Constitution, with marked jealousy, prohibits, in letter and spirit, any interference of any Peer with the House of Commons, while there are no such restrictions imposed on the House of Commons with regard to Peers. We do not positively affirm, that the assent of the House of Lords was not necessary to such an Act of Parliament; nor that the limo and Commons might render this arrangement Law, without the assent of the House of Peers; but the peculiar case rendered it—as is presumed—a point of courtesy with the Peers to interfere as little as possible. Such a discussion as that which has been taking place was certainly not expected, though such a course may be admitted to be, in severity of construction, within the spirit of the Constitu tion. These considerations have, therefore, their full weight with the people, in considering the possibility of a disappointment. The debate in the Lords was last night con tinued with the same earnestness as on previous evenings, and it seems likely to be maintained through the week. The Tories continue con fident of victory, and it is impossible for us to anticipate the result from what can be learnt is and around the house. The petitions were less numerous, though at least 100 were presented in favour of the Bill, aiSd about a dozen against it, one of which was by Lord Coventry from some persons at Worcester, and in presenting it, his Lordship made some pertinent observations in re gard to his own disinterested opposition. Lord Whamcliffe introduced a preliminary discussion on the language of some of the speaker. at the Birmingham meeting particularly Mr. Haynes and Mr. Attwood ; and those gentlemen will we are persuaded, have no objection to this addi tional circulation of their opinions. The Lord Chancellor defended the meeting, as did Earl Grey. About twenty other Lords spoke also, creating a preliminary debate in regard to that meeting, and. to points which grew out of the discussion. The debate on the Bill itself was commenced by Lord Dudley, who denounced it as destructive of the Constitution. The Marquis of Lansdowne then took a very comprehensive view of the entite sub ject, and of the state of the country, laud ing the Bill, as promising the greaten advan tages and security. The Marquis of London derry was short, and treated the Bill as the precursor of universal suffrage. Lord Goderich then took an enlarged view of the subject, and concluded by declaring that the Bill would be as beneficial to their lordships as to the country. Lord Haddington opposed with considerable powers of argument and eloquence. The best speech of the evening was the acute and sensible one of Lord Radnor, who exposed the rotten borough system by a history of his borough of Downton. At haltpast one o'clock the debate was adjourned. In the House of Commons, three Bills of great public interest engaged attention—that against the Truck system was passed after a division of four against it, and sixty-one in its favour. The Bankruptcy Bill was read a second time ; and the Select Vestries Bill was passed by thirty-pia against eight. A call of the House is fixed for Monday, with the view to ulterior measures, if the Lords should reject the Bill. Ne sre persuaded our coders will thank us for giving place, in our last page, to the excellent Speech of General PALMER. It deserves to be read at every fire-side in the Empire. This day despatches were received at the Foreign Office from Paris, Brussels, and the Hague. This afternoon Lord Hill held a Levee at the Homo Guards. It was attended by five General Cascara, and about twenty-five others. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. BY EXPRESS FROM PARIS, THIS DAY. The information from Prussia and Austria states that Ramorino, upon whom reposed in the late days the hope of the Polish nation, could not pass the Vistula, and had thrown himself upon the Aus trian territory, where he has been disarmed, and treated without doubt as Dwernecki. The Russians regard that retreat as a great victory for them. It is, however, little glorious for the conquerors, but it will have afflicting consequences for Poland ; the corps of the army which supported itself upon Modlin, is no longer in a state to keep its ground against the clouds of enemies which will inundate and crush Poland ; it appears that it will endea vour but to obtain an honourable capitulation. There remains but the Polish patriotism which the Russians, notwithstanding their secret police and their bayonets, cannot stifle, and which, it must be hoped, will rise to light at the first favourable occasion, and always prevent the nation from bear ing patiently the'chains of foreigners.-.Le Temps . Letters from Berlin announce that the Grand Duke Michael will be invested with the post of Viceroy of Poland, in the room of his deceased brother Constantine. The accounts from Vienna represent the Cholera in that capital as advancing with great rapidity. The number of persons attacked up to the 43d September, at noon, was, in all, 974. The re coveries were 134, the deaths 367. The remain ing cases 473. The Journal des Debats gives the Protocol, No. 41, of the Conference at the Foreign Office, 15th Sept. 1831, with a view to show that the retreat of the French troops from Belgium was spontaneous. Belgic papers and Brussels letters, describe the time of the new King as divided between military reviews, sham battles, and the distribution of his army in the most convenient stations. Tile utmost anxiety prevailed on Wednesday in Paris, on the subject of the English reform bill.— The debate on the French Peerage Bill continued on Tuesday in the French Chamber, and was likely to last several days. Our letters from Italy mention fresh troubles to have broken out in the Bolognese states, and that active intrigues exist between the Austrian autho rities and those of the holy see. The French Minister was left in a minority on Monday evening, upon a local measure for regu lating the Bordeaux corn duties. The Dukes of Orleans and Nemours, with their aides-de-camp, left Paris at a quarter past one this morning for Mauberge. The King is now regu larly installed at the Tuilleries. The light cavalry, and the cavalry of the National Guard, divide the military duty of the Chateau, and a sentinel from each, the one with the carbine resting on the thigh, and the other with the drawn sabre, take station at the triumphal arch, as was customary when Charles X. inhabited the palace. The Tribune has arrived at its 22nd seizure ! Hercule de Roche promises great disclosures when he is summoned into the witness box. Leona, 22d SeeT.—Our Michaelmas fair is to conti nue this year 14 days beyond the usual 3 weeks. It seems that the Government proposed this prolongation of their fair to the senate of Leipsig, probably on account of the present depressed state of trade, and also because many frequenters of the fair have been hindered from arriving in time, by the quarantine reguladons against the 'holm. In conse quence of this resoludon, new buildings are erected to re ceive the additional quantity of goods that may be expected. The merchants are so eager to obtain certificates for goods to be sent away before the chokes (of which we are in daily fear) makes its appearance, that the usual number of persons employed,in making them out is not sufficient Ciacow, SEPT. 22.—(From the CIVCOIII Cou rier.) — The presiding senator having seen in some German jour nals an article dated Vienna, Aug. 28, and stating that an Aulk council of war had received information that two battalions and some hundred cavalry of the Polish army had entered the territory of the free republic of Cracow, and approached the Austrian territory, for which reason the authorities on the frontiers had been enjoined to admit nobody into the Austrian territory without strict investigation, and performance of quarantine, finds it ne emery to announce that this news is wholly unfounded, no troops having entered our territory ; and it may be expected that the cordon on the Austrian and Prussian (ratters will soon be withdrawn, as the :cholera has al. most entirely ceased in our territory.—Stun/fort Papers to 061.1. THREE O'CLOCK. Bank !Hock, shut. Three per Coat. Reduced, shat. Three per Cut. Ounmile, I 0 11. Three and a Half per Cent. 1818, shut. Three and s Hall per Coat. Red. shut. Three and a Half pee Cent. New, 88i i i. Fear per Cot len, shut. Long Annuities, Jan. MO, shut. Anode" Jan. 1880, --. India Bands, 2 din par. £lOOO g Hills, 118; Ada. 8; £lOO and MHO dn. le. ialk als r Account, —. Connie for Account, 81 Q. FOUR O'CLOCK—Console en 81. REFORM AND ANTI-REFORM PETITIONS. TO THE EDITOR OF THHE EVENING STAR. Stec,—The Editor of the Standard, in his excessive zeal to uphold a bad cause, has thought proper to publish a statement relative to the City of Worcester Reform Meeting, totally at variance with truth. The assertion that only 400 of the lowest canaille (Anglice, rabble) is utterly false: at least 1,600 dthens were present, and a more respectable as. semblage never took place within the walls of the Guildhall The petition emanating therefrom, previous to its being transmitted to London, received in one day 2,200 signa tures, in spite of the denunciations of the Clergy and the Body Corporate. Such was the result of the Reform Meeting—now mark the contrast, a attain Alderman, formerly a manufacturer of British wines, but now an inhabitant of Berkeley's Hospital —a retreat for decayed tradesmen the Town Clerk, (4 man eery learned in the law, and an occasional contributor to the Standard) the Mayor elect (Steward to Dr. Carr, the re candy appointed Bishop of - Worcester, a zealous reformer) and two muter glover., famed for their profound erudi_ tion honourable tnen--endeavoured to obtain a meet. i ng of the Corporation to get up an Anti-refornt Pe tition within the sacred limits of their Council Chamber t—but the great majority of the Members were too liberal and enlightened to respond to the call of this political junta, and the attempt proved abortive! A petition was however engrossed, and after lying two days in the Grand July Room, received the signature of 82 individuals, including all the servants and dependents of this aural Body! The ridicule with which this coterie (contemptible alike in numbers and intellect) have been assailed for having thus unwittingly exposed the weakness of their cause, and the soreness they feel at the Citizens daring to defy their mandate, and presuming to express their loyalty by an illumination at the Coronation of the best of Monarchs, have driven these miserable imbeciles almost frantic, and induced them to adopt the paltry re. sense of endeavouring to traduce the characters of men, as far their superiors in talent and every moral excellence, as the numerical difference which exists between the signatures to the Reform and And-Reform petitions. The designation these worthies have thought proper to bestow on a respectable class of men will long be remembered by the Citizens of Worcester, and will never cease to be cherished by ONE OF " THE RABBLE." Worcester, Oct. 4, 1831. wainemweamemmnsewt DORSETSHIRE ELECTION. Ist Day. 2d. 3d. 4th. sth. Gram. Ponsonby 271 245 483 309 158 1466 Ashley . 243 449 433 211 133 1469 Minority only 3 ! CITY ELECTION. FINAL CLOSE OF THE POLL The LORD MAYOR . . . 3,258 Alderman THORPE . . . 3,081 Sir PIETER LAURIE . . . 2,698 SELECTIONS OF ON DITS RELATIVE TO TUE LORDS •ED THE REFORM BILL. Should Britain's Peers deliberate' so well, That Britain's hopes subside in dull despair, What will easue I think I could foretell— Male je me tab' par respect pour kw Pairs. Their temples tottering on destruction's brink, Should Britain's bonzes blind resistance dare, "'What will ensue, I could foretell, I think— Male je me tab par respect pour les Pairs. Vilest and wont, where few are wise or good. Should Cumbria's D—e some' malengine prepare, What will ensue, foretell I think I could— Male je me tats par respect pour les Pairs. His high hate of the tribunitlan crew, Should Cotiolanus-Wellington declare, I think I could foretell what will ensue— blab je me tab par respect pour les Pairs. Should Londonderry's head in Chancery Fall but once more to Brougham's benignant cue, What will ensue I could foretell, thinks I-.- Male je me tale par respect pour les Pairs. Age honoured board of oligarchal ill ! Be but thy scale made heavier by a hair, I think I could foretell, ensue what will— Maim je me tail par respect pour les Pairs. The reports as to the probable fate of the Reform Bill were more contradictory last night than ever. They were, therefore, more conclude. in one sense, as proving that nothing was distinctly known upon the subject. Lord Winner:aye's appeal to the tradesmen of Bond street baa received a ready answer from that quarter, the majority of the Inhabitant, having requested Lord Hoarse to present a petition declaratory of their anxious wish for Reform. The Duke of WZLIJINGTOW'S desire that the Hasse should reject this Bill, but should not pledge itself for or against any future bill, was exceedingly entertaining. Force Lord Guar to resign on the question of Reform, and then you shall have as good a bill from me. Admirable candour ! Disinterested policy ! The Bishop of St. Amph, on Tuesday night, was at lined with a second attack of paralysis, and ilex in a dangerous Hate. We learn that it is the Bishop of Bristol who holds the Bishop of Si. Asaples prosy, which under such awful circumstances, he of course cannot feel himself justified in using. At the Dorsetshire election, the vote of a clergyman named England has been declared void, by the assessor, in consequence of the rev. gentleman having bet a sover eign that Lord Ashley would be returned. The Earl of Waldegrave has resigned his situation as one of the Lords of the Bedchamber, with the intention of vot ing against the reform bill. 1 The Marquis of Exeter has resumed his notices to quit, and last week selected Mr. Pilkington. builder, and Mr. Lawson, coach.contractor, of Samford, on whom to vent his lordly iodignation.—Smagford Ckampion. We understand that a number of Clerks in the Govern ment Offices have left town, to support the Anti-Reform Candidate in Dorsetshire ! Of all boroughs Done are so so Injurious to the nation as those which are held by persons in other, who, in lieu of paying a stated sum, are in the habit of feeding their consti tuents at an enormous expellee to the country, in the shape of places and pensions. A number of respectable tradesmen of Boston have deter mined not to pay a farthing more &rattled taxes until the Reform Bill shall have become the law of the land.— Boston Gazette. The Norwich petition weighed 11lbs. dos. and measured 96 pude In length (nearly the height of Norwich Cathedral) it was signed by 11,362 persons, between Thursday and Ss turday evening. The former petition received only between 6000 and 7000—Nortrieh Last Anglian. Lord Harrowby took great pains to show the injustice of depriving Corporations of their influence, and pointed out the ease of the Borough of Tiverton, with which his family had been so long connected. Neither his grandfather, father, nor himself hal ever possessed an acre of Lind within 100 miles of the place ' • still much intimacy continued b e tw ee n his family and the Borough fur nearly a century. It is said that Awe of the Lords, on the sick of Minis ters, have gone over to the Tories ; namely, Lind Hill, Waldegrave, Howe, Courtney, and Tankervilc. Another report says the Duke of Portland. The clause which allows 101. householders to vote, includes not only those who pay that rent, but all those who pay above that sum, including everything from 101. to 10,004. There will be more voters who pay 201. a year and u p war d s rent than who pay only 101. There has, indeed, b„en mon. arms exaggeration on this point. In Gisagow, for instance, with its 202,000 inhabitants, there are only 6,000 houses rated at 101. and upwards, consequently there will not be above 6,000 voters. It mans, though the Duke of Wellington was prodigi cutely afraid of the Irish, and had, in 1229 ' a horror of civil war, be think, the English may be easily managed- He has a thorough contempt for them. If not encouraged by hi s Majaay's government, they _would not be formidable. speech Ms not certainly added to his reputation as • statesman. s - Last night, a melancholy occurrence took place In Chapel-street, Brompton. An aged Cobler, of the name of Pearson, bad married a young and faunh wife, which had created mach pleasantry among his neighbouri, especi ally as the nobler was a strict methodist, and some young awn for two nights serenaded the couple with rough moste, and lest night, with the consent of other inmates, l in the at the home. The nobler on this imbed 'aide W MOM with kali@ in hand, and stabbed the two hasesset of the ring twea k so severely that they wee De essendly Mated 3 oneislaly to St. George'. Hospital. Use et than this looming is eansidered in imminent danger, and thv other is very ill. TM solider and his wife were conveyed to Kensbigus watchisease. TIIE PEERACI:. _........-- Peers of the United Kingdom created from the beginning of the Regency to the end of George IV. 1811-1830 : EARL Vane BARONS. BARONS. VISCOUNTS. Colchester Ran fu rly Gordon Her Farnborough Granville Minster De Tabley Exmouth ()monde Witarncliffe Hutchinson Wemyss Feverahaut Berafoed Clanbtassill Seaford Ciancarty Kingston Lyndhurst Combermere Silclwster Fife Uoderich. Olenlyon Tenterdco BARONS. Maryborough Plunkett Lynedoch Oriel Melrose Hill Stowell Cowley Dalhousie Ravensworth Stuart de Rothesay 3leldrum Delamcre licytesbury ROSS Forester R %eh...Tr y Grimatrad Bexley Clanwilliam Foxtord Gifford Durham Melbourne Penshurst Skelmasdale Churchill Tadcaster Wallace Harris Somerhill Wytiford. Prudhoe Wigan Of these sixty-one recent creations, a majority of about thirty will, it is said, be found voting against the Bill. Yesterday a Court pf Directors was held at the East India Rouse, when the following ships were thus sta tioned, iris: —Asia, Captain George Bathee ; Sir David Scott, Captain David James Ward ; Macqueen, Captain Robert Lindsay; Dunks, Captain John P. WIWI' ; Hance, Captain Charles 8. Timins ; William Fairlie, Cap tain Thomas Blair; Charles Grant, Captain J. R. Man. demon—Bengal and China. Duchess of Athol, Captain Edward M‘Daniell ; Orwell, Captain James Dal. 1 maple; Thomas Cootes, Captain James Al esan d er Christie ; George the Fourth, Captain Thomas W. Barron ; Abercrombie Robinson, Capt. John Innes— Bombay arid China. Marquis Camden, Captain Thomas Larkin.—Sr. Helena, Bombay and China. Windsor, Captain A. T. Proctor--St. Helena, Prince of Wales' Island, and China. Edinburgh, Capt. David Manhall; Berwickshire, Captain Frederick Madan ; London, Captain Timothy Smith ; Earl of Balcanas, Captain Bryan Broughton.—China direct. SPEECH OF GENERAL PALMER, M.P. FOR BATH. IN THE MOOSI OF COMMONS, 4TH OCTODF.R. General PA LMER saiishat, as the present was, his first opportunity of speaking upon the question of reform, he hoped to be allowed to state hie opi nion of the general measure ; and as in what he bad to say he should abstain from any argument already urged in the debate, be trusted it might be considered a claim to the indulgence of the house, and an earnest that he would trespass as shortly on its time as the deep importance of the question would allow him. He had ever held the same opinion of the absolute necessity of reform, and to the full extent of the present measure, and could not express it more strongly than in the few words of the late] Mr. PITT, which he begged to quote as the text of his argument to support it. " Without a Parliamentary Reform the nation will be plunged into new wars. Without a Par liamentary reform you cannot be safe against bad Ministers, nor can good ones be of use to you. No honest man can, under the present sys tem, continue Minister." Such were the words of the late Mr. PITT before he came into office ; and although the present state of the country was solely to be ascribed to the continuance and enor mous increase of the abuses of the system under his administration, the bon. member firmly be lieved that Mr. Ptrr, when Minister, would have adopted reform, but for the causes which prevented it, and compelled him to abandon the attempt. The same excuse was to be made for each succeeding Government; and although be had ever opposed the system, and must have continued to do it un der whatever ministers, it was but the truth to say that hitherto no ministry could have carried the question of reform, for the reason that, whatever the feeling of the crown or the aristocracy, the general feeling of the people was against it; but now that their eyes had at last opened to the ne cessity of the measure, and the public voice had called so loudly for it, the commencement of the present reign, with other fortunate events, com bining in its favour, bad been the golden opportu nity for any Government to have carrisi it. In the first place, what more fortunate than his Majesty's accession to the throne, at that so criti cal a moment, being just in the nick of time to win the hearts of the people by that endearing conduct which, however natural in itself, was so unlike all precedents, that it had happened to follow, and not precede the great events at Paris, would have de stroyed all its charm, and all the good arising from it, in that reciprocal :attachment and sympathy of feeling betwixt the Crown and people, the best se curity for the interests of both. Secondly, the glorious revolution at Paris, which not only bad done immortal honour to the moral character of the French people, but the greatest service to the present question, by at once removirg those fears which had been so long and deeply impressed on the minds of all classes in this country as to the danger of reform, looking to the example of the former French 'evolution. Thirdly, another revo lution in Belgium, net being, as in France, the im mediate consequence of an act of tyranny without example, but arising out of the deep resentment of the people at the oppression of their government, which the example of Paris bad occasioned to burst forth, not only in Belgium. but more or lees through out the Continent ; and lastly, the situation of the Holy Alliance, who, in spite of their treaties, and the sum of two millions thrown away by this coun try at the peace on fortresses to maintain them, were unable to combine against France or Belgium, having enough upon their hands at home. For all these reasons, the opening of the late Parliament by the King's speech had been the golden opportunity for any Minister to declare the intention of relorm, and, above ail, the individual to whom the country , owed the deepest obligation for the a.'option of that previous measure of the same moral and political character, but of far greater difficulty—Cstholic Emancipation. And it was in the firm belief that the same necessity which had determined the late Minister upon the Catholic question had equally resolved him to carry reform, that the hon. member had looked with satisfaction to his continuance in office as the surest means of obtaining it; insomuch, that be w..uld have had not only the Crown and people with all the strength of Government on his side, but the same zealous and disinterested support of the Wings which they had given bins on the Catholic question, and which would have enabled his to catty reform in the same triumphant iletaser.— But however mistaken in such belief, be hoped it was all for the beet that the muse of reform *as not in the bands of those who, in carrying the ' Catholic question, declared it to be against their i t 1 I~ I~ i I it I