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

°. t r ! , t P r , . , - ! t %; i).,‘,..'.. ?; ..,,....a.n.. irs..;) i•, ; ,...% ~..,---= r" , n4.1.."6.gte c .. '. t cjVCIZ, ; a f : - 1 4 : /..., a ' .'• /ik., , --;4t, .... .RICR OR STOCKS 3 p Ct. one. 76} 51 Cow.. for Aec. 751 61 51 3 per Cent. HU shut 34 vrt Ct. 1818, 851 , 3', per Cr. Red. 861 51 ; i 3i p r Cent. New. 8 44 FOREIGN STOCKS. Brazilian, 57; for Acct, 56j 71 61. Danish, £fl; for Acct, 571 e. iretk , Aftrican. 1825, 36; for Acct, 3616. *Russian, 684 8; for Acct, 881 8 ; ditto 111. 881. Spanish, 1711; for Account, 1 7114. Sp odsh. 1823. 14; for Acct, 131 14 1 14. French 5 per Cent, 88f 9nc ; 3 per Ct, 54f 60c; Exchange, 25( 10e. Amsterdam Exchange, -.On, 11-8 5-10; Flamburgh, 13-7 i. Irish 34 per Ct. (./NIPANIES. Irish Grand Canal, 73i Forth and Clyde, £685 Lis. & Man.Railway,Xl66to£l! ) Cromford, £45 Guardian Albion Fire, X 75 Alliance, £8 5. County, £4O Bolanov Mineq, £lBO Steam Navigation, die. £6 15s fTISH COMMERCE. Cart—(92g.; £9 to £lB. Hine—Butts,eod to 23d; Buenos Ayres (A.) 9d to lOW. Correa-Jam. middling, sCii 141 to ,63 3s; Dem. and Berbice, £2 iis to . 24 2s; Mocha, £3 S. to ,E 6 10s. Tr*—Bohea, is II d to 9s Od ; Congou, mid. 2s 2d to 2s 94 ; Hyson, mid. 4s 3d to 44 6cl. :, £4 14s to £4 16$; Dutch, X 4 les. Cusisa--Cheshire, old, 2310 s to £3 18s ; S.Glo'sterde to £2 Bs. TALLOW—Russia yet. 22 7s 3d ; White, 22 7s 6d. Rica—Carolina 14. Oil to 19s • Bengal, 13$ 6d to 17$ 6d. '1 Sucaz.-2557d per cwt. SMITHFIELD FEB 211.—Beef,4s 24 to 4s lid; Mutton, Ss 04 to Ss 4d ; Veal, Ss Od to Os Od ; Pork, 4. 6d to .5. 4d. MA -LANs, MARCh 2.—Wbeat, 66s to 785 . ; Barley, 441 to 48. . . Oats. 22s to 325. GAZZTit ATIRAGIN FL. 2S.— Wheat, 75s Id ; Barley, 42s 7d ; Oats, 27s lld ; Beans, 40s 2d. BOROUGH Ma ancr, F.. 28.—Kent • ish, Jett 151 t0 . ,E.14 Os; Fain. ham, £l5 Os to £2O Os. COAL EXCHANGE, Frs. 28.—Beat Wall's End, 35s Od to 351 . 6 d ; other sorts, 27s Od to 34. 6d. SMITH FULD HAY Malan, MAIM! 3. Hay, X 2 Os to sea 10s. Straw, LI 14. to £2 Os. PUBLIC CI 114 , k Stock, shut India Stock, 203. P .nds, 4 3 London Docks £59 104 St. Catherine's. 478 lOs City Gas, £l9O Bank of Scotland, £167 British Linen, ,E 250 Grand Junction, £243 Leeds, 1:195 Illient's, £lB 10s STAPLES OF BRI' COTTON (Liv.)—Georgia, Bowed, 6d to 7;d; Sea Island, lld to 20d ; N. Orleans, 614 to Sd. Wool. (Lon.) —Saxony prima, Ss to Ss; Austrian prima,2s to 4s; Segovia, 2s Od to 21 64 ; South Down, 12 to 15 ; Blanket, 7 to 9. Sax, thrown—Piedmont White, 27s to 451; yellow slack, 24s to 27s ; Modena raw, 14s to 16s ; Bengal, lOs 0J to 151 ; China, 13s 6d to 17s. FLAX—Riga. £59; Ant. £5O £65. Isom— Pigs, £4 10.04 to £4 15s; Bars, £6 5. 04 to £6 109 Od; Swedish, £l3 to 113 10s. Conga—£B7 to £BB Os ; South Amer. SW to .C 72 10s. LEAD—Bars, £l3 ISs to £l4. Th.—Blocks, £3 15s. SUGAR—Lumps large, 13 3s Od to £3 4s OS; Powder, fine, £3 16. to 14 6s Od ; Bengal, £1 2s Od to Al 4s ; Jamaica, fine, £2 16s to 4'3 Os. TORACCO Maryland, 33d to Sid ; Virginia, 5 to 6 ; Cuba, 15 to 18. On.—Flor. £1 15 Od half chest ; Linseed, £2 Os Od per cwt ; Pale Rape, £2 10s. BRANDT—Bordeaux, 31 to 3s 6d. Rum—Jam. (14) 2s 3d to 2s 54 ; t i Dem. (10 a 20) 2s to 2s 2d. _ . Watsor;los Dd to 11.. 0 Goons, 21 64 to : 1 .19d. Potty—Good, Z 35 to X4O. Saxony—Good, X 25 to ,e4O. . ,°' t ! Moosioo—Lon. P. £3O to £4O. I ,i •:1 r i i~ 7 tti P ' ~ I ~~ LONDON. THURSDAY, MARCH 3. Lieut.-General HASIENZIE Lieut.-General Sir CHABLIS WALE Major-General HUSGIxsox Lieut.-General ARMSTRONG Blajor-Gleneral OUSELZT LiCHL-CleGeTtl EGERTON General ARCHDALL LIMIHRISH.OOTIMaI HOUSTON, And about 40 other Officers. t; ONZ o'CLocc—Barometer, 29.58; Thermometer, 36. Wind W.— Weather, cloudy, with rain. THE EVENING STAR. This day the Right Honourable Lord HILL, as Com mander-in-Chief of the Forces, held a Levee at his Office in the Horse Guards, at which the following General and other Officers attended : The Allgemeine Zeitung of the 24th ultimo, received this day, contains another Manifesto by the Emperor Nr- CHOLAS. Its purport is communicated in one brief sen tence—" If the Poles," says the Autocrat, " arm against Russia—if they come forward to combat against their Sovereign—it is then themselves— their own cannon—that overthrows Poland." Nevertheless, the Poles continue to struggle for their emancipation, and the good wishes of every right-minded man in Europe accompany them. The Paris Journals of Tuesday and yesterday are received this day ; from which we find the probabilities of war every day becoming stronger. The Morning Herald, in a late edition, gives an extract from the Journal des Delats, maintaining, that the responsibility of having com menced war, is incurrred by Austria :—" The entrance of a single Austrian regiment, into any of the re volted Italian States, will be regarded as an act of hostility to Fiance." Accounts of unsuccesful Carlist movements, in the provinces, continue to reach Paris ; but the capital itself is tranquil. A council had recently been held, composed of the heads of the military, civil, and po lice departments—Generals LEBAIJ, and PAJOL, and the Prefets of the Seine and Police---4t which the moat deter mined measures to suppress revolt had been resolved upon. At rather a later hour than usual this day, we received our Papers and Letters by the Paris Estafette. We now endeavour to condense the principal contents of them. The intelligence from Poland contains nothing yet deci sive of its fate. From Koningsberg, in Prussia, under date 17th Febr, it is said that the Russian army is only six miles from Warsaw; and accounts of a decisive battle may be daily expected. The two opposing armies are reported to be about equal—two hundred thousand each. The Polish head quarters are said to be at Okuniew•. The streets of Warsaw are barricaded, and furnished with cannon ; and the public buildings are all fortified. An insurrection Las broken out in Podolia ; and the city of Delta especially, has become the theatre of bloody scenes. So much from the Gazette Prusienne de Konings berg. In Le Temps, there is a letter from Warsaw, of July the 15th, describing the enthusiasm which prevails in that city. It gives an account of the gallant conduct of General CHLOPICKI, and the advantages gained by him, and another Polish General, in skirmishes with the Russians. Another letter in the National con firms this account; and adds, that Warsaw had been illu minated on the 16th ult. From Italy, it appears, that an insurrection at Rome had been subdued ; but the ancient city may still be said to be in a state of aeige. Le Temps contains a furious denuncia tion by Cardinal Beanspri —pro Secretary of State. The military force at Rome is about 4,500 men; bows made of tri-coloured ribbons of the Italian republic—white, green, and red—are constantly scattered about the streets, and public triks. The amusements of the cati►irals have ceased, and the • ~, theatres are closed. A brisk attack was made on the sol diers of the POPE, in the Place Colonna, which occasioned three discharges of muequetry, and the loss of many lives. We find by the, Avis° of Toulon, inr a letter dated Ge noa, the 16th ult, that the Austrian troops occupied Parma ; and another letter in the Gazette de France, from Naples of the 17th, contradicts the insurrectionary move ment said to have taken place in Sicily. On the Northern frontier, we find, from the Journal des Debats, that an Austrian General, who had passed the Po, near Ferrara, with a considerable force, was compelled, by the National Guards, to recroes the river. With respect to affairs in France, we give the following in the words of our Correspondent :—" We are all here per fectly tranquil, though the Government is not without some alarm of a fresh ebullition. There has been repeated inter views with the new Prefect of Police and the Minister of the Interior ; and yesterday the whole of the troops in Paris were ordered to keep their barracks. The funds yesterday experienced a further decline ! the 5 per cents. leaving off at 90fr. and the 3 per cents. at 55fr. 90c. This was attri buted to gambling speculations, but has a very gloomy appearance. It is not yet known when the Chamber will be dissolved, some say not for three weeks. The Ministry promise to hold together, which will be for the peace of Europe ; for if any change takes place, it will be the' bear party who will come in." During the discussion in Parliament, of the great and vital question now before it, there is not much chance that other subjects will obtain any considerable share of public attention ; and, indeed, it is desirable, that the public mind should be kept intent on the great object, and active in affording, by every possible means, which can prove efficient, a full demonstration, that the conduct of the present minis ters, in bringing forward a measure so completely to the satisfaction of the people, has merited support, confidence, and attachment. We have thought it our duty to concentrate, under the head " Perliamentary Reform," during the interval which has elapsed, previous to the important motion being brought forward, all the proceedings throughout the country in sup port of that measure. We shall now, under the head " Support of Ministers," which we now consider to mean the same as support to Reform, concentrate all the public demonstrations which shall be made in support of the men, who have realized the hopes of the people, in standing forth as their champions, in the present struggle with corruption. The Reform Debate was continued last night on the all engrossing topic, and may probably be continued beyond to night, though there are preparations for a division ; yet there is so little to oppose, except what may be urged against all Reform, that the Speakers are chiefly the eulogists of the measure. We are most happy to observe, that a meeting of the Common Hall of London is to be convened to pledge itself to the support of Ministers ; and we advise Petitioners, Counties, &c. &c. to assemble, without delay, for the same purpose. Should the decision be decidedly in favour of the measure, the victory of the public is proposed to be cele brated by a National Festival, and by General Illuminations, &c. Such a victory over the internal foes of the country, will be far more worthy of celebration, than all those gained in wars of doubtful Justice and Necessity. Mr. HUME led the debate last night, in a speech charac terized by his usual point and ingenuity. He eulogized the plan, as calculated to gratify the people, the Crown, and the aristocracy ; and stated that the approbation of it seemed universal. Some observations of his, in which he Mated that imper fections on minor points might be corrected hereafter, called up Mr. Situa.Ey, who avowed himself an anti reformer ; and, therefore, described the measure as productive of confusion of social order, and the derangement of society. He then provoked the laughter of the House, by asserting, that the representatives of close boroughs were the only true, complete, and independent Members of the House ! Though himself, he said, the representative of one of them, (Gatton,) he was astonished, on looking around him, to see the ablest members of that class ; and therefore, amidst their cheers, be declared that be would not consent to the dis franchisement of one of the boroughs. Mr. BARING WALL lamented that Mr. ►SHELLEY had obtained so little attention; and compared the boasted unanimity to that of Puf in the Critic. He then read passages from the Westminster Review, the Examiner, and the Edinburgh Review, to show that the proposed charge would not satisfy; and that it was, in their language, merely calculated to break in pieces the bonds of society, and destroy the privileges of the Peerage. He thought that reform was so busy in every thing, that no enactment was necessary. Lord NEWARK approved of the plan, but deprecated the announcement of Mr. Hume, that it was but the precursor of others. Lord DARLINGTON thought the proprietors of disfran chized boroughs ought to be compensated, by a rate on places which acquired the privilege. He thought the system had worked well. LOAD EBRINGTON thanked the Cabinet for the plan, and the KING for his approbation of it. He was a friend to vote by ballot ; yet be yielded his predilections, and those of his Constituents, for what he regarded as a great good. He added his firm belief, that the confidence of the country was entirely withdrawn from the present House. Lord Sroamorr deprecated the measure, as pernicious and revolutionary. His borough was to be disfranchised, though it had now the same number of votes as anciently. Wby were Taviatock and Knareaborough to have two mem bers ? Scotland, he asserted, would not be satisfied ; and he concluded by saying, that the measure would upset reli gion, and plant atheism in its stead ! si r J. WA Las did not consider the plan as a Reform, but as an entire change of the Constitution. He thought the institutions, which suited the age of Enw Aan 111. were not adapted to 1831. They ought not to give way to popular clamour. He regarded the threat of dissolution as improper; hat whichever way they decided, dissolution would follow. AC. Mr. MACAULEY thought the plan was the only means of preventing a revolution. Lord MAIION objected to the reduction of the number of Members, and considered the plan as revolutionary. Mr. HUNT stated. that the plan had exceeded his expectations, and that no statement had shaken hie approbation of it. He was sorry, at the same time, that ballot, and universal suffrage, were not part of the measure. He spoke, he said, from personal knowledge, when ho described the inhabitants of close boroughs as the most ignorant and illiterate in the kingdom. He had, he said, been accused of addressing rabble; but he never addressed any rabble so rotten and stinking as the rabble of Calne. He alluded with great energy to the sixteen murdered at Manchester, and the six hundred wounded ; yet no redress was obtained ; and, on the con trary, he was sent to prison for two years and a half! He considered the measure, as the only one which could pre vent a revolution, and sat down amidst loud cheers. Lord MOUPEBII gave the measure his cordial support, and spoke with contempt of Gatton and Old Sarum. Sir C. WETHERELL rose to make what he considered a dying speech, as the dying member for Boroughbridge. He deprecated the disfranchisement of 120 Corporations; yet he asked why Caine was not of the number ? He ob jected, at this time, to an experimental constitution; and stated, amidst great laughter and much cheering, that Russell's Purge, like Pride's Purge, was to exclude 168 members. The ATTORN EY-GEN ERA L replied with his usual elo quence; and stated, among other points, that the Bill was merely to be regarded as a Bill of Pains and Penalties, against persons who had made a trade of their votes. At half-past one the House adjourned. SUPPORT OF MINISTERS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. SlR,—The firm manner in which you have advocated the measure of Reform, from the very commencement of its be coming so popular a theme, and the concise and succinct ac count you have furnished or the numerous meetings held on this subject, leads me to trust you will aid the cause still further, by impressing on the p*'blic the necessity of immediately calling public meetings, to congratulate and thank Ministers, for their decisive, efficient, and satis factory- measure. A general illumination has also been hinted at; which, could it be accomplished, would pro duce a good elect, and which I have no doubt you will recommend. Trusting that every Englishman will rally around the standard of Reform, and by their united strength carry the great question triumphantly, I remain, your obedient Servant, March 3, 1831. G. R. M. The following requisition has been already numerously signed by men of all parties—Whigs, Radicals, and Tories: " TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORD MAYOR. " We, liverymen of the city of London, request that your lordship will be pleased to call a common hall of the city at as early a time as possible, for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of the citizens of London, in common hall assembled, adopting 'resolutions or such other measure as shall show their determination to support, by all the legal means in their power, his Majesty's ministers, in carrying into effect that great reform in the Commons' House, which they submitted to that House on the Ist of this month." A meeting of the united parishes of St. Andrew, Holborn, will take place this day (Thursday), at three o'clock pre cisely, at the inquest-room, Si. Andrew's-court, Holborn hill, for the purpose of expressing on the part of the pa rishioners their high admiration of Lord John Russell's plan of parliamentary reform, and their determination to support the King and his ministers in relation thereto. An illumination was talked of yesterday in the cities of London and Westminster, to commemorate the introduction of the reform bill, and as a pledge of its success. We have ' no objection to that; but in any case let the people in every possible constitutional way show their respect for the friends of the bill , and their aversion to its enemies.— Times. List night Mr. Barrett, the common councilman and gro cer, in honour of the introduction of the reform measure by ministers, illuminated the entire front of his house, in Fetter-lane, with the words " support the ministers;" formed in large letters of transparent yellow lamps. It is not improbable that this mode of expressing approbation of the measure may become general, and some day be agreed upon for thus giving expression to public feeling. The bells of most of the churches around London in those districts to which it is proposed to extend the elective franchise, were merrily rung throughout the greater part of yesterday evening. AM. CITY. ONE O'CLOCK. Consols, which left off yesterday at 75i 76 for the ac count, opened at the same price, since which they are 76/ to 1. Little can be said of the opinions of the public this day, for politics vary with the debates, and the speculators are anxiously waiting for the final result of this grand con test. In the Foreign Market nothing doing as yet. A private letter from Saint Quentin says, the ex-ministers in the Chateau of Ham are treated with singular kindness ; they were latterly closely watched, and it was difficult to obtain permission to visit them ; but within a short period visits to them have been more frequent. The prisoners are no more confined to their chambers, and they walk with their friends on the ramparts ; and , the walls of this pre tended fortress are only of the height of a garden wall. CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. The express from Paris has brought the French Renter considerably lower, at 54-50, it is also rather of a warlike description between Austria and France. This has had some effect on our Funds. which were in the early part of the morning at 761, but receded to 751 with a very heavy market, caused by the above express. We understand that several failures have taken place in Paris in the Funds there. In the Foreign Market Spanish Bonds have rather improved. NAVAL INTBLLIGEIVCR. MAtm Aswan Tam Der—Dublin 1. , ; Waterford, 1; Sweden, 2; France, Drum, Mimi 2.—Wind 8. W. strong lweese..—Arrived from the River, and remains, the Mary Ann, Jackson, for New South Wales. Arrived off Manaus, the emma, Reynolds, front the South Seas; and Belhaven, Campbell, from Demerara. Cowan, Memos 2.—Arrived the William IV. Grinishaw, from New York. Facitourm, Kasen W.N.W. to W.& W.—Arrived the Clarence, Harding, from Aux Cayes. Mae you, the Bee, .. from Bt. Ander°. laminas. Mown I.—Arrived the Reliance. MiGas, from Ber me; Vannes, Abbott, from Mobile ; William Osborne, Bianshard, from Savannah; Emma, Jarvis, from St. Michael's; Atalanta, Petrie, from Smyrna; and Brothers, Patterson, from Trieste. CLros, MAWS I.—Arrived the Jane, Ritchie, from Bethke, and Zephyr. Shank, from St. blidtaars. Cat, Fan. SM.—Arrived the Ask, Moran, from St. John's. New Brunswick ; and Boas Fim, Ramada, from St. Übe's. SVAVGATI Cam, Mallen S.—Arrived the Confidence, Wesley, from Rants. The following vessels have &Mood at Babies :—ApMo, Bae% esti Wirth:, Mitts, from Leedom; and Regular. Bo* from Liver- Poll• :~;:r . .T TWO O'CLOCK. 14 per Ct. 1826, Long Ann. Jan.lB6o, shut Old Annuities 85e New, .ClOOO Kull. Bi'a 16 18 £5OO Ditto 16 18 £lOO and £2OO Do. 19 17 SPIRIT OF THE JOURNALS. Ca Bostic L is.,—.The debate on the of Lord J. Russell, for lost. to bring in his Reform Bill, is again adjourned. It is difficult to g errr i l , the satisfaction which the announcement of the measure has every whe•e produced. Nothing else was talked of yesterday. Whatever orp,.. don to the measure there may be in the House, it would have , difficult to discover any out of doors. The opponents of the n rue,, of all grades, were in motion yesterday. A meeting was held s, r Edward Knatchbull 's, attended by seventy 3lembers; another in., l , of thirty members, was held at Sir Charles WethercT, 7 meeting, of fifteen, was held at Sir Robert Peel's. A, !I I ; Coticifiabtelest,—the course to be pursued in their opposition, keenly and anxiously agitated. We uodlrstand it was determined e at all of them, not to oppose the introduction of the Bill, though at 5.,, several Members were anxious to make head at once against it, „n . 1 . ground that. if not crushed in the outset, the Press would pr.,k r , such an impression on the public, that it might no longer be !,obsi , .i, to withstand the evil. But the greater number thought that a row,, like this would be held indicative of a determination not even to a n„ the measure a bearing, and that it might create a spirit In the pt., p: soil more dangerous than that produced by the Pres, ; , ..! the continued discussions. Sir Robert Peel has a difficult car to play, and we understand his party were not exceed'ugh edified by his counsels. It is very easy, in fact, for si t Charles to rant and roar like any other Bottom ; for being as high on the ladder of ambition as he an ever be, words are nothing to him. li d! Sir Robert may be pardoned for having an eye to office hereafter; ab ,! one false move at a time like this, may be of immense consequehce. To be opposed to reform, at a time when ninety-nine in a hundred of tilt nation are for it, is no trifling matter. Hitherto no good argument has been urged against the measure by its opponents. They like the pr e , sent state of the representation, but they can lay down no principl e a , the test of the goodness of that representation which is so much the sub. jest of their admiration. If that which exists is to be deemed Kos!. merely because it exists, we should have no reformation of any ah4t.. whatever. We ottght to have some principle surely to guide us in t°,.- termining how a nation ought to be represented. Mr. Horace To! , dislikes the middle classes. Ought they then to be exciud .: from all influence in returning members ? Another rneinbc dislikes .he nroponed plan, because, though under it the property 0: the people of . England, re al and personal, will be represented, it wit: afford no opening to Indian Nabobs, or retired Slave-drivers, who nry be ambitious of the honour of a seat. Another says. How will the political Swiss:of the countryZfind an entrance into the house ? ' returned by an independent constituency. supposes a candidate to enjoy their esteem on account of his talents and vir.ues • but what is to becom e of those whose talents and vinues remain to be discovered ? One would think that the protection of the Iber.ies and property of a nation is the only object for which a itcpsesentation is not required. Nay, Sir Robert Inglis seemed to wish to argue, that the less the representa tion was connected with the nation, the more it approached to perfection. Mr. Hallam. according to him, had said, that if they looked at the map of England, and saw a place that was not represented now, it was cer tain that it was a place of no itnportarce when the system of the repre. sentation of the country had been formed. He (Sir Robert), however, thought, that if they examined the subjcc., they would find that this was not the case. And why was it not the case ? Let us hear Sir Robert. " What was it that had first induced the Sovereigns rf this country to call a Parliament together ? It was becsuse they wanted men and money to carry on their wars." This was nr. excellent reason, of course, for their leaving out populous places, and selecting places with few inhabitants. Had a Parliamer t been first called, in our times, by a sovereign in want of men and money, he would have assuredly taken care to leave out Man chester, Birmingham, and Leeds. Our ancient sovereigns would have been delighted with such a state of the representation as we now possois The good sense of the people of this country will secure them 'gains: attempts to reach their understandings by such arguments. Once more we call on the people to bear in mind who they are who are now trying the question of their own fitness to represent them. We need ear no more. Pour.—We have always insisted that Reform of Parliament, in the sense in which that expression is understood by its advocates, with scarcely an exception, is strictly equivalent to revolution. This arc• Lion it was, however, somewhat difficult to prove so long as the change implied in the term Reform was a vague and indefinite abstraction, possessing no distinct features, and no tangible body. This difficulty is now, however, fortunately at an end. The opponents of Reform have at length obtained a distinct view of the revolutionary monster against which their efforts are to he directed. It lies at their feet an object of scorn rather than of tenor, a thing of gigantic proportions, but of infantine feebleness, to be at once strangltd by the vigorous grasp it can no longer elude, or extinguished by the con temptuous kicks, to which it is no luga invulnerable. Reform, we are now fully authorized to say, means the subversion of monarchy In England ; for where is the man so simple as to believe that the monarchy can long exist, if entirely divested of its power, or that it can retain any portion of its power when deprived of all influence in that Body, which can at any moment withhold the supplies necessary for the preservation of the State ? Who can pretend that the influence of the Crown has been hitherto more than barely sufficient to protect its just constitutional prerogatives from the invasions of De mocracy ? Who can deny that the measure now before the House of' Commons annihilates the monarchical, while it incalculably increases the Democratic, influence ? Is it not plain, then, that the measure is, in principle and necessary effect, a revolutionary measure, and that it leads directly, and by short and visible steps, to the establishment in England of a republican government ? HEDALDAVe are not disposed to attach much importance to the arguments against the plan of Parliamentary Reform brought forwent by Lord John Russell of such reasoner' as Sir Robert Inglis, inas much as the burden (and grievous it seemed to the House) of his speech was, that the mode of electing Members to the British Parliament always has been corrupt, is corrupt, and, therefore, must for ever main corrupt. The only security, according to Sir Robert Inglis and Mr. Horace Twits, for the liberties of the people of England, is in the perpetual sale of seats in the House of Commons by the proprietors of some boroughs, and in the never-ending bribery of the voters in others—in abort, that it is impossible fir pro. party to retain its due influence, except through the means of money illegally paid and received. Now, however anxious we are for an ex tensive change in the application of the principles upon which the British Monarchy is founded to the constitution of the House of Com mons, we should be slow to assent to any plan which destroyed the proper influence of the higher classes of society in that house. Without the representation of those classes, and their proprietary interests, in that house, such a frequent occurrence of differ ences on legislative questions might be anticipated between the Houses of Lords and Commons as would materially, if not fatally, ob struct the course of public affairs; but we feel assured that the plan of reform proposed by; the Government does not involve any such conse. quenccs. Nay, we go further, and we believe that the legitimate in. lium° of property and local connection will be unimpaired, and that, in many cues, the individuals through whom that influence is now ex erted will be unaffected by the contemplated alterations. ' Ties—The Reform Bill—the Ministerial Reform Bill—we may even add the Royal Reform Bill—is now before the country. It will be observed, too, that with the peculiar privilege which is said to belong to the measures of an absolute monarchy only, the secret was kept till the blow was struck; and then, indeed, were'those against shorn it was levelled, or whose resistance was most to be apprehended,overwbehned with surprise, and confounded with dismay. They did not expect it ! To us it appears that the Tories are more infatuated than that wretelsci I creature who is now shut up in Holyrood House, after having overthrown the fortunes of his family by his blind adherence to obsolete prejudices, if they do not catch at Lord John Russell's plan, and embrace it as a (ion-send for preserving the tran quillity of the country. The measure is a bold and comprehensive cue, no doubt ; but look at the principles from which it starts, the tuts upon which it is founded ; and if any one can deduce more moderate and restricted consequences from such premises, we shall be content to join his party. That may be laid down as an axiom so clear ami assured, that the man is a fool—an absolute fool—who denies it. Then what are you to do with the 120 members who now most scandalously enter Parliament from those boroughs ? You must either dock Parlia ment by so many members, or distribute them somewhere ; and bow they can be better distributed than over large counties, and into large towns, we really do not know: and this distribution is all that the bill now before Parliament aims at affecting. The next mischief to be re lined is the extravagant expenses of elections. It is impossible that they should continue ! It is not a matter of choice, or a suggestion of policy, ;hat the expenses of citations should be reduced,—it is stern and uncontrollable necessity, or there were an end of elections and of fit men serving in Parliament altogether ; and how was this to be done but by some such measure as Lad John Russell's bill. It does not prescribe the ballot as a remedy, for which some men have been so clamorous; but if it a substitute for that hazardous and degrading experiment. which o therwise must be tried,—if, with little comparative expense, it preserves the relation between the electors and the elected, and so keel" up the responsibility of the latter to his constituents, we think that it Wrats a great good, and preserves the country from a gulf already open lug and gaping before it, which no one esn see the depth. Such is the Bill now before eat, mud which we assert has given such an electric pleasure to all who have hosed it. Bat still we are aware that Its me ri ts are to be hid than wises the evils which it would correct are in full force. Ow eiessepaliars, therefore, ask bow the public la ' 4 to call for salvoes it Isswid: as we recommended yesterday ? We answer, by lasesmtlyassullegg the Hesse with prayers and petitions for the bill--by pubis costs. ssassasassaing its adoption.. MARRIBD. At St. Pantos Church, & Maine, Eq. of Judd-street. Brunewkk• square, to Markin, the youngest daughter of Mr?. Monoo, of Jeffers• street, Hanish Town. The 9d bet. &t Chatham, Mr;. - ITllsabeth Bull, aged 7s, late home. keeper at the Vktaalllag Mee, Somerset-place. LONDON: Ptinted ma rublbbed by JONI: MAYNI, at the STAR Orrics, No. 1, Pickett-place, Temple Bar.