Star. — London, England, 1831-05-28 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE JOURNALS. TI MES.—lt is difficult for any nun in his sober senses to conjecture whenca came the folly of imagining that the House of Lords would be capable of opposing the Reform Bill, when all the world must be so well aware how impossible that august body would find it, to make their opposition effectual. We do not now speak of the state of feeling i n to which respectable noblemen would be thrown, when, from enjoying the esteem and confidence of their several neighbourhoods, and of the nation generally, they had rendered themselves, by a single vote in Parliament, the objects of universal suspicion or dislike. That is not the argument we now seek to address to them. No; but we ask those of their Lordships who may have been indulg ing some beautiful dream, as to the practicability of beating the King's , slinisters, on the second reading of the Bill, what do they mean to do ' ofterteards fi Do they fancy that Lord Grey and his friends would continue Ministers after the Reform Bill had been thrown out? They might as well talk of a human body performing all the vital functions After the breath was out of it. No ; Lord Grey retires instantly on the Bill being rejected. And who comes in ?—not the Duke of Wellington, ;,or Sir Robert Peel. They know too well what they are doing. They xcil know that there is a majority of more than one hundred in favour of the Bill, and only sir county members against it. Then how could an anti-reform, or • mock reform Mi. nistry—a Newcastle, Wetherell, or Lowther Cabinet—go on against such a House of Commons? How could they appeal against such a House of Commons, because of its reform spirit, to a nation which returned it for the sake of that very spirit, and for the purpose of carry ing the Bill ? A dissolution would give a more thoroughly reforming House of Commons, in which there would neither be a chance of Lord Chandos, nor of any one other anti-reformist, sitting as a County Member. Would such a Parliament put supplies for the public service into the hands of a Tory Cabinet so constituted as above ? What, in that case, would be the duration of such a Cabi net? and what the power of resisting reform for another month?— POST. —A pamphlet has just made its appearance, which is sup po,ecl to speak the sentiments of his Majesty's ministers, and bears MlOll,l internal evidence that it has proceeded from the pen of the most practised political writer of their body. This pamphlet bears the title of Friendly Advice to the Lords on the Reform Bill,' and we cannot more accurately characterize it than as an undisguised at tempt,—an attempt as audacious and revolutionary, as it will un doubtedly prove vain and fruitless .— in order to bully and intimidate that Estate of the Realm into a complete and unreserved abdication of the whole of its constitutional functions—a whole tale surrender of its rights, its powers, and its duties, as a deliberative assembly, whose concurrence is necessary to the completion of every kzislative act. The Jacobin incendiary who has perpetrated this out. rage—for such, whatever be his rank, we take leave to pronounce him— after assuming, gratuitously, as we suppose he will presently discover, that the House of Lords will not venture to express an opinion hostile to the reform bill, in the shape of an amendment to the address, goes on to sur mise that instead of this direct mode of attack upon the bill, that illus. trions Assembly will labour to throw out the Reforming Ministers, by means of a systematic opposition to all their other measures—. that they will oppose the Chancellor's law reforms, Lord Melbourne's Subletting Act, and whatever else they can hope to defeat. 44 But," proceeds the Revolutionist and the bu.lly, "let the Lords beware of all such tricks, for tricks they are. All of their manceuvres mean only one thing—hostility to the Reform Bill. The meaning of every thing the Opposition will say is, " throw out the Bill'—the meaning of every question they will put is, throw out the bill'—the meaning of every vote they will give is throw out the bill." The meaning of this is sufficiently intelligible. The House of Lords, and by parity of rea soning the House of Commons also, are to be precluded from dis cussing, amending, or rejecting, any measure his Majesty's ministers may think fit to propose, or those bodies are to lie under the imputation of striving to get rid, by a side wind, of a measure which they dare not openly and directly resist. The pamphleteer, and his patrons or col leagues, will find themselves grievously mistaken, if they expect that the House of Lords will be deterred, by any such jacobinical de nunciations. T I MES.—We cannot conceive a more difficult question than as to the precise policy which ought to be employed towards our West India possessions. It is not that the views to be taken of the subject are so numerous, regarded in their superficial divisions of commercial, poli tical, and moral, but that these several interests are really so mixed and complicated, that there seems to be no chance of disentangling them to any useful end. The diminished number of the Degrees in our sugar colonies (a circumstance stated so positively that it can hardly be unfounded), —we mean of those negroes retained in bondage, while the free negroes have followed implicitly the general law of population operating in all free commu nities, and have much increased,—is to us, we acknowledge, the great staggering fact as to the treatment experienced by those help. less beings. If, therefore, it should tura out on examination,—and perhaps the case has been already examined with sufficient diligence, but if it should turn out to be an undoubted truth, — that in er to make negroes cultivate sugar at all so as to produce a profit to the master, you must tax their physical constitution so oppressively as to work a certain, though induect reduction, or even stagnation of their numbers, the commercial argument and he moral come at once into open collision ; and it is not a very perplexing question by what prin ciple a Christian Society ought to be governed, whatever prudence and precaution meat be observed in conducting the application of the principle. HERALD.—Whatever share political or religious systems may have had in producing the evils under which Ireland labours, and which render the peasantry of a fertile country the most wretched on the face of the earth, it is certain that the poor people, whose calls for relief are now so urgent, are the victims, not the authors, of the calami ties which they endure. The first dutyof Christian feeling is to affordthan the assistance of which they stand in so much need, and when that is dune there will be leisure to enquire into the best means of preventing the recurrence of such desolating misery. Religion without charity, says the most eloquent of the apostles, is but a "sounding brass and a tink ling cymbal " And certainly the angry disputants who brought the meeting convened at Exeter-hall, on Thursday, for the starving Irish, to a violent termination, by turning it Into an arena of religious contro versy, displayed more of' the "sounding brass" of outward piety, than the vital spirit of genuine religion, in their speeches and their actions. PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Folmar/ WINES.—The number of gallons of foreign wines upon which duty has been paid for home consumption (Imperial measure), for the year ending January , 5, 1831, is 6,628,496, and net amount of duty received 1,524,1771. 18s. 3d. SPlairs.—The quantity of spirits (imperial measure) exported from Ireland to England, during the year ending January 5, 1831, is 426,322 gallons T he quantity of spirks exported from Scotland to England, during the year ending January 5, 1831, is 2,724,221 gal lons ; to Ireland, 1,006,493 gallons. Savr.—The quantity of foreign salt imported into Great Britain and Ireland in the year 1830, amounts to 373,127 bushels. TOBACCO AND SINUTT.—The quantities of leaf tobacco, manakin tured tobacco, and segars, and snuff, entered for home consumption in the United Kingdom, for the year ending the sth of January, 1831, amounts to 19,406, 4021 b. The amount of duty received thereon is 2,938,0501. 10s. 10d. Hat.r-PAY.—The half-pay and retired allowances, civil and mili tary, paid In the year 1830, is as follows : Army ... • Navy .. Ordnance Civil Departments Z. ..d. ... 2,939,606 9 6 .. 1,531,848 17 111 ... 357,090 0 0 .. 485,370 18 7 Total ... 6,313,714 6 34 Blncrxxalszons Seavicza.....A statement of the Estimates of the Miscellaneous Expenditure for Services of a mi cellaneous nature, sub. mined to Parliament for 1831: Secret Service ... •• Printing, Lords and Commons _ . ... 436,400 ... 104.300 Stationery, Printing, fee. (Public Departments) ... 131.525 Gold Coinage ... 15,000 • Prosecution; relating to Coin Law Charges Convicts at Home and Bermuda Captured Negroes 8,000 18,000 ... 108,166 - ?V" ..mummers for preventing illegal traffic in slaves 19,460 New South Wales Rills .. .. ... 190,000 Fees on Turnpike !load Bills ... .. 14,260 Common Law and Law of Real Property (Com. mission) ... .. ... 3.1,500 Leseene and Escovery (Compensation) Pension on Irish Civil List .. ... Expenses under Commissioners of Records, itc. ... 11,321 .. 11,276 1,846 655,035 TiIIICELLANEOUS SE RVICEII.—A Statement of the Estimates of the Miscellaneous Expenditure for Colonial Establishments and other services In the Colonies, submitted to Parliament, for 1831: CIVIL zsTainisualzisTs. £ 6. d. Bahamas ... 2,940 0 0 Nova Scotia ... 6.625 0 0 Wet - codas ... 4.000 0 0 Prince Edward's X a. d. Sierra Leone ... 9,730 15 10 Gold Coast, Civil and Mil I tary Es tablishments .. 4,000 0 0 Society for Props ption of the Gospel in Po. reign Parts ... 16,189 0 0 Island 3, 3 20 Stores for New South Wales and Van Dieman's Land for Con victs, Clothing and Tools for li berated Africans at Sierra Leone, .. 41600 Ntwfoundland .. 11,261 00 106,668 16 10 Betdements in West- ern Australia .. 24,896 0 0 Fernando Po ... 31,150 0 0 , 101,012 16 10, GENERAL ELECTION. UMBERS RETURNEITV . MI NEW PARLIAMENT. Crsil District of ndrew Johnston, Esq. Glasgow District of Burgas-...losepit Dixon, Esq. Nairn District—Charts Lenox Cumming Drum, Esq. STATE OF POLL PIEZZOICI (COUTO, Ma SIS. Osten .. 1894 Greville ..-. ... 1792 PEMBROKESHIRE ELECTION. WITIPMAY (14th day), May 25. The apparent majority for Sir John Owen increased after this day's polling to 102 ; but Mr. Greville, in his speech delivered this evening on the hustings, made out a majority of 19 to be in his favour, if the cases were determined. In consequence of the system pursued, not one half of the cases will be determined at the close of the poll to-morrow, at 3 o'clock ; and a considerable number of Mr. Greville's voters will remain unpolled. It will remain to be seen whether a demi-reformed House of Commons will countenance this wilful procrastination on the part of the Sheriff and of his subs. Mr. Greville's committee are understood to have come to the conclusion of recommending him to petition to avoid the election. A petition for a scrutiny would not yield an adequate recompense, owing to the contemplated short dura tion of the next Parliament. The election for Pembrokeshire is not yet concluded.— Things look better for the reform candidate on the last day than on any former day. Sir John Owen appears to have a majority of 102, but Mr. Greville has 121 cases before the assessor, which he is sure will be decided in his favour. If, therefore, the assessor is honest enough to decide those cases before the return be made out, the reform candidate will be duly elected by a majority of 19. EDMONTO • REFORM MEETING. A very numerous and respectable meeting took place on Tuesday evening, at the Angel Inn. Application had been made to the church wardens, to convene a meeting, for the purpose of congratulating his Majesty and his Ministers on the grand measure of Reform. This ap plication was treated with contempt by the church authorities, and a meeting independent of them was agreed upon, At six o'clock, John Perceval, Esq. of Tanner's.end, accompanied by Mr. Joseph Hume, M.P. and Mr. Serjeant Wilde, M.P. enteredthe assembly-room amidst the most enthusiastic cheering. Mr. PERCIivAL stated to the I assembly (about 800 in number) the object of the meeting in a very eloquent speech. He alluded to the corrupt and bigoted state to which that parish, as well as too many others, was reduced, in consequence of the almost uncontrolled authority of the church, and observed, that certainly the measure of reform in troduced by our excellent King and his Ministers would be a great pent when consummated, in favour of the people ; but that that reform would never be complete until reformation took place in the ecclesiasti. cal branch of the state. Was it not a disgrace to see a prelate with many thousands per annum, and other patronage attached, whilst so many of the poor Irish were dying with starvation, and that greatly caused by aristocratic ascendancy ? The learned gentleman concluded by calling upon Mr. Hume to take the chair, amidst the greatest cheering. Mr. &demi Wuxi rose amidst great applause. He addressed them in a very long speech, and commented on the benefit that reform would eventually produce ; but he regretted much that one of its clauses would disfranchise a great number of those honest electors who bad returned him for Newark, and throw a power into the hands of the Duke of Newcastle, which it was one of the objects of the bill to do away with ; however, he would not Gamoyne it when it was brought forward next month in the House of Commons. He alluded to the unjust power of the aristocracy and the clergy over: the free representation of the people, and said he hoped the time was near at hand when England would once more flourish, blessed as we were with a patriot King. (The bon. gentleman spoke in such a forcible manner, that it would be doing injustice not to my there is little doubt but that he will be one of the brightest ornaments of the House of Commons. During his speech Mr. Byng, M.P. entered amidst great cheering, which lasted for some time. Mr. Huss rose and addressed the assembly In a long and eloquent speech in favour of reform, both in the legislature and the church, (but particularly in the latter), and thanked his liberal friend, Mr. Perceval, for his great'perseverance in bringing forward the meeting, opposed and insulted as he had been by the parochial authorities. He was highly gratified to see such a numerous and respectable assemblage, which was the greatest proof of what was the real feeling of English men, who were now determined to maintain their rights. Mr. ENGLISH and Mr. DIAMOND (large landholders) stated that they had intended addressing the meeting, but after such speeches as they had beard from Mr. Perceval and their hon. friends, they must de cline saying any thing further than that they supported the great cause which had been so strongly advocated by them. A vote of thanks was given to Mr. Perceval, at the instance of Mr. Hume, after which votes were returned to each of the other gentlemen. A congratulatory address was then entered into to his Majesty, which, up to this evening at six o'clock, was signed by 2,704 of - influential parishioners. the most respectable and Birmingham, to which it ought never to be forgotten we are mainly indebted for the success of the Reform, gave, on Tuesday, a public entertainment to Messrs. Foley and Spen cer, the successful candidates for Worcester. Dr. E. John stone was in the chair, and was assisted by Mr. Scholefield, pre sident of the Birmingham Union, Mr. Russell, Mr. Lee, Dr. 1. JOHNSTONE, Mr. Scott of Stourbridge, and other en lightened patriots of the town and vicinity. Among the speakers, besides the new members, were the Rev. R. Kennedy, who proposed the health of Lord John Rus sell ; the Rev. Mr. Legh, of Bilston , who proposed the Staffordshire members; and the Rev. Mr. M'Donnell, after the toast of " Civil and religious liberty." Mr. Schole field proposed with eclat, " The Constitution, the whole Constitution, and nothing but the Constitution ;" nor were the Poles and their independence forgotten. A French paper printed in London, and as usual edited by a Renegado, is seeking to provoke newspaper notice, by a scurrilous attack on this and other liberal papers. This may please his patrons at Holyrood ; but we can assure him, that attacks on the advocates of liberal principles, will be the means of confining his British circulation to the pre cincts of that ancient Scottish palace. We are at the same time very proud of being placed at the head of his list, and of being assigned " the first rank" in the maintenance of prin ciples which our readers approve. We had almost forgotten our old friends Barruel, Peltier, and Mallet du Pan ; and really thought it too late in the day for such men to find even humble and obscure imitators. Letters from Hanover of the II th inst. state, that in the course of the preceding week, the Second Chamber of the States adopted a proposition for extending the free dom of the press to its utmost legitimate limits, and a bill will be immediately presented to carry this resolution into effect. In the expectation that his Majesty William IV. will accede to a proposition from the States to form a new constitution, the Second Chamber has appointed a Com mittee to consuls upon this important subject. -MARRIAGES OS FOREIGNERS IN FRANCS —A CiTCII lar from the Minister of Justice, addressed to the King's attorney at Periueux, contains various instructions relative to marriages contracted in France by foreigners. The laws of several neighbouring countries forbid the natives from mar rying abroad, without an authorisation to that effect from their governments, in which cue alone their marriage is consi dered lawful. The result of that is, that the inhabitants of i those countries coming to settle in France for industrious or commercial purposes, having married French women without that license, when they return to their own country, their women and children are rejected as illegitimate. In order I to arrange this matter, the French Government has deter ' mined on requiring hereafter of every foreigner, when he is not naturalised, who wishes to marry in France, a cer tificate from the authorities of his birth-place, or last resi dence in his country, stating that there is no obstacle to his contracting marriage in France. According to the 167th Article of the Civil Code, strangers who are of age, and who have not acquired a domicile in France, by a residence of more than six months, are obliged to give notice of their intention to marry, at the place they last resided in out of France. This notice must be given in the manner re quired by she custom of the different countries, and the local authorities must certify that the necessary forms have been complied with. COURT NEWS. I . LITERATURE.—REFORM. His Majesty held a Chapter— the rby subm —. itted to the Icy Advice, most ropmffi torts. ort the of the Most Noble Ora a Rcforor MIL ((MOWRY. the Garter, at three o'clock yesterday afternoon, at the Palace of Si. . spirited and cogent address, to that part of James's, for the purpose of investing Earl Grey with the Blue Riband • • This is a verY of the Order as a supernumerary Knight. . the British community, who may be now said to have the Lord Waldegrave, as Lord in Waiting, having informed domestic peace and prosperity of this country more especially the principal King at Anus, that the King was ready to hold the in their power—whose voice is to decide whether the notion Chapter, the following Knights catered the Throne-room in their is to be torn asunder by civil feuds, or united in fresh Order: the junior Knights test. dressed its the splendid robes of the Order ; the Duke of Richmond, the M a rq u i s of Exet e r, the Duke of bonds of social affection. Devonshire, the Duke of Dorset, the Duke of Beaufort, the Duke of We cannot believe that the aristocracy of Britnin can err Rutland, the Earl of Westmorland, Prince Leopold. . on such an important question, as that which occasions the His Majesty was attended by Lord Foley as Captain of i . resent address ; but should there be still waverers, let them the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen Pensioners, the Marquis of Clan- order ri.ad and improve by this pamp hlet. I n to promulgate ricer& as Captain of the Yeoman Guard, Lord Frederick Fitzciarenee it,: sensible remarks, we shall make the following ex as Equerry in waiting, and the Master of the Robes. The officers of the Older present were--the Bishop of ti acts : Winchester, Prelate of the Order ; the Bishop of Salisbury, Cleancellot " The elections which have just taken place. and the enthushom o f th e Order; the Dean of Windsor, Registrar; sir George Nsyler, which exists in the country upon the subjer, make it quite evident Garter Principal King at Arms; and Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt, Usher cf that the bee t le of R e f or m i s won i n t h e H ouse o f C om mon s . A the Black Rod. moderate degree of foresight would have shown the Tories that eir 2 been the event of a general election—with the King- ::fe The Chapter was opened by reading the statute under . gove r nmen t , and the people, --all united in favour of this one great which the Order is held. measure. The Principal King at Arms retired to an adjoining room, '' But it is evident that it is not to the understandings of this party and introduced Earl Grey to the Sovereign, who conferred the honour that " coming events cast their shadows Left re." of knighthood upon his Lordship, with the sword of state. The Earl " Nor is the experience of the past less a sealed book to ti7e Tories then retired, when his Lordship was elected a supernumerary Knight than the prescience of the future. They have seen, both in our of the Order. own history, and in that of other nations (ay, and recon.ly too) the The two junior Knights present (the Duke of Richmond ruin that has followed upon the determination to stand by old abuses, and the Marquis of Exeter) left the Chapter-room. and introduced and the refusal of timely concession to the reasonable wishes of the Earl Grey, the principal King at Arms carrying the garter, reoond, people. And what use have they made of these exampl. s? Why, and badge, upon a crimson velvet cushion, Prince Loopld then pre- they refused, only last year, to transfer the right of sending members ertr„i th e corru p t borough of Retford to the flourishing and indepen. rented the Earl to the King, his Lordship kne e ling on his riehe knee. when his Majesty was graciously pleased to place the garter round his dint town of Birmingham. .Thus verifying, politically, the left leg. I •r . -urge of scripture, that," seeing, th e y d o not see ; an d h ear i ng t h ey The noble Earl then rose, and the Chancellor pronounced do not understand." It is to Inc members of the Upper House of Parliamen t that w e the following admonition: " To the honour of Gon omnipotent, and in memorial of the blond would principally address the following observations; and fur this tea inanyr St. George, tie about thy leg, for thy renown , this noble gar- t , his faithful Commons, to : wear it as the symbol of the most illustrious Order, never to be son, that, as we have before stated., the Kin anti the Pe epic, being all united for the success of the reform bill, the Peer. are at present the only branch of the legislature, as well as the forgotten or laid aside, that thereby thou may'st be admonished to be 1 eairy body in the ram whose opinions arc not declared upon this em us; and having undertaken a just war, in which thou shalt tie ininnonnt subject. We trust they will not attempt to disturb thc all engaged, thou may'st stand firm, valiantly fight, and successfully cooquer" unanimity of t; eir countrymen by an unseasonabl e cr intemperate op. positron to their wishes. The noble Earl then knelt again upon his right knee, when To such persons we wend.] say, what do you expect to obtain by a the Sovereign was pleased to place the blue riband upon his leik shoul- continuance of your ungracious position to the wishes of the people ? der, and after rising the following admonition was pronounced : I t i s impossible that you can hope, with King, Ministers. Ed Coin. " Wear this riband about thy neck, adorned with the image of the mons against you, to prevent the measure of reform ikon) taking effect. blessed martyr and soldier of Cnairr, St. George, by whose imitation When Sir Joseph Jekyll d;ed, he left his fortune to pay the national deb:. " Sir," said Lord Mansfi e ld to o ne of hi s re l a ti on ., " Si r J ost p h provoked, thou may'st so overpass, both prosperous and adverse advert. tures, that, having constantly vanquished thy enemies, both of body and was a got d man and a good lawyer, but his bequest is a very foolish soul, thou may'st not oely receive the praise of this transient combat, but one—he might as well have attempted to stop the middle Lodi of be crowned with the palm of eternal victory." Blacktiiars Bridge with Iris full-bottomed wig i. . So say we to sliese Each Knight then shook hands with his Lordship, and opponents of Reform—and we particularly beg the attention of Lced congratulated him upon his election. The Chapter then broke up. Mansfield's descendant to the ape phthegm of his anceror. The House Yesterday was the birth-day of Prince George of Cum- of Lords can no more step the success of reform, than Sir Joseph heel:end, when his Royal Highness entered his 13th year. Their Ma- Jekyll's bequest could pay the national debt, or his wig impede th e current of the river Themes. Many o f th e p ersons we are now a dd ress . jesties, and the whole of the members of the Royal Family, sent to ing are, doubtless, like Sir Joseph, good men ; a nd s o m e of t h e m, lik e congratulate the Prince on the auspicious event, and all of them made presents to their youthful relative. The day was celebrated at Kew hint, man he rod lawyers—but their conduct, like his bequest, is with every demonstration of rejoicing. A dinner was given to all the exceedingly foolish. Nsy it is wo rse than fo o li s h, i t i s d angerous i n poor men and women in the neighbourhood, and a variety of prizes the extreme. It is, doubtless, impossible for the House of Lords no were distributed to the successful candidates in the rustic spons, which stem the tide of reform—but in attempting to do it, the rash set may endanger their own safety, and with theirs that of all of us, who are, were contended for on Kew-green during the afternoon. The Duke and Prince George of Cumberland were present to witness the games. to a certain degree in the same boat with them. Their Majesties gave a grand dinner in houour of the day If the Tory Lorlis had any chance of being able, by their opposition to it, to prevent the progress of reform, we should not be surprised, M the numbers of the Royal Family, and some of the Foreign Ambits. with the view they take of that question, at their exerting themselves odors end Ministers to meet the Duke, the Duchess, and Prince George strenuously against it. But is this the case? We will put it to the ef Cumberland, who came from Kew for that purpose. In the evening there was a concert. understanding of any one of them, whether there is even a possibility The establishments of the Duke and Duchess of Cum of their resisting successfully the current of public opinion, which cow aat , so strong l y 0 ,,, way. barbed, both at Kew and in town, were regaled with excellent dinners. Buttrehy, it may be asked, do we suppose that any set of men can The King gave audiences yesterday to the Duke of act thus madly—simply because of their previous conduct? Because Devonshire, Earl Grey, the Duke of Richmond, and the Bishop of they have never cone.ded any thing to the wishes of the people, till all Bristol. the grace of concession was gone—because they have never seen the Prince N. Esterhazy, accompanied by Prince Paul Eater- si gns of the times—because they have never been warned by the past, hasy, called yesterday to pay his respects to their Majesties, on his ar- or alive to the future. rival in this country; and also visited the different branches of the But they are now playing a deeper and more hazardous stake than Royal Family. they ever did before. They now find themselves, not opposed to ii party, but fact to face with a united; people. In such a position, we Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent entertained a large n. and distinguished party at dinner yesterday at the Palace at Ken- moat respectfully warn them of the consequences of an unwi s e re s ist- VIM. Those consequences are such as we tremble even to think of. singto But we will hope for better things of the hereditary legislators of Eng- At the King's Levee on Wednesday, Messrs. Widnall, land—we will hope, that, " wise in their generation," they will see, at Watts, Parrott, Dark, Butler, Fearnley and Pickman, (a deputation length, the necessity of uniting with the people, instead of opposing of the inhabitants of the parish of Paddington), a loyal ad. them—of placing themselves at their head, where they ought always dress to the King, and were individually presen to His Majesty by t o b e , i n the march of improvement—and of directing, rather than his Grace the Duke of Norfolk. thwarting their endeavours to amend and strengthen the constitution. A Cabinet Council was held at 4 o'clock yesterday after- It would seem, by the language we sometimes hear as proceeding neon, at the Foreign-Office, which was attended by the Lord Chan- from the Lords, that a very inadequate estimate is formed, at least by cello, the Marquis of Lansdowne Earl Grey, Lord Durham, Via. many of their lordships, of the extent and vehemence with which tine count Palmerston, Viscount Goderich, the Chancellor of the Ex. desire of reform pervades and possesses the people of this country. chequer, Lord Holland, Sir AMR Graham, and the Duke of Rich. The general election, just over, one should think, might convince mood. any reflecting mind how universal this feeling is. The mere numerical The Right Hon. Charles Grant, the only minister absent , returns are sufficient for the argument. But the kind of pl aces has not yet returned to town Prom Scotland. 2 which have chosen men pledged to the bill, and the kind of men who have so been chosen, cast a light equally strong upou the sa m e Our Readers will peruse with an interest seldom produced matter. For all England there are eighty-two county members. These s by the details of mere Court Pageantry, the above particu- if any, are supposed to be chosen by the landed interest—the arist. craey. lure of investing, the present justly admired Prime Mi- In the county elections, if any where, is the influence of the House of Lords felt. At any rate, those Lords whom we address as enemies to nister, Earl Grey, with the Blue Riband, and other insignia reform, cannot deny this ; for their argument is, that the influence which of the Most Noble Order of the Garter—of which Order he they enjoy under the present system, will be taken away by the ch a n ge , has thus been admitted, by especial invitation of his Majesty, and surely they can never mean to rest their power in the House of a Supernumerary Knight. It is understood, that the Blue Commons upon the rotten boroughs, and admit that they have nothing to do in county elections. Well—how many country gentlemen, RDR . Riband was expressly conferred in the words of his mica of the bill, have been returned to resist it, by the landed interest, Majesty, " to mark publicly his approbation of Lord under the law of elections as it now stands, and as those Lords areup- Grey's conduct, and for the same reason he had mead to wish it may always continue ? El led) , six—or abo ut an purposely chosen this time to confer the honour." The eleventh of the who county representation . What counties return these six ? Not Yorkshire—not Lancashire not Lincolnabire—not honour was tendered to the Noble Earl on his first tak- Chester—nor Devon—nor Somerset—nor Kent—nor Essex—nor Nir. ing office, and then respectfully declined. His Majesty has folk—nor Leicestershho—nor Oxfordshire—nor Cumberland—sees—but since had the public merits of the Premier confirmed by ex- the close-bo r oug h counties of Westmoreland—.Monmouth --Bucks perience, and that opportunity having been afforded, the re- (where sup posed friends to reform proved more friends to their family po int u, an t)— d a uetingdonshire, where one reformer greatly headed the petition of the distinguished offer could not be longer refused d might, with all ease, have accompanied hint—and Salop, where s a g entleman was returned friendly to all other liberal —and may be considered as a compliment of the highest kind paid by the King, notonly to a virtuous statesman, but measures, and therefore kindly retained, notwithstandirg his unse to the sentiments of his subjects. countable aberration upon the RIM important of all. In every one city or borough which has any thing like a popular e lection, b ot h c..adi. Mr. Burge, the agent for Jamaica, bad an interview yes- elites, and in London all four, were returned in favour of the bill. today with Viscount Goderich, at the Colonial-office. The anti-reformers, following their principal leader, Sir It. Peel's The Prussian Minister visited Viscount Palmerston yes- example, attempted to , gain the freemen, and especially the r.on-resi. terday, at the Foreign-office. dents, whom the bill certainly disfranchises. These poor, but honest and spirited men, indignantly turned away from the appeal to their in. wrested feelings, and joined in declaring for the whole bill, and for those who would carry it through. See, again, the havoc which the prevail. log sentiment has made sarong the strongest and most arciently nits. !dished family in•eresta—all have been swept away before the untveraal tide of reform. The Duke of Newcastle goes to " his own," but " his own knows him not ;" and two reformers are returned fur :s ewark, where one could not pin admittance a few months before with all his seal and all his talents ; and in both Bassetlaw and the county of Notts st large, his Grace, who returned two members Lot autumr., row re turns no more. His parliamentary interest is reduced to four rotten borough seats, where no man, save himself, interferes. The Duke of Beautan's own brother, and his eldest son, justly popular not h men, and highly distinguished in the career of arms, are both flung l lit, be cause they stand against reform. Their kinsman of Rutland loses Loth his county heats, tool his relative loses both his also at Grantham. The Percy of Northumberland is signally overthrown by the Prime Minister's son, who, last autumn, had not ventured into the field 1 and above all, the Lowther it fluence, against which Mr. Brougham had thrice stood, and thrice stood in vain, when all he desired was to wrest one seat from the " great boroughmor.ger," is now completely destroyed in all its strong-holds, The Lowther member for Carlisle is defeated—Lord Loather himself yet mere signally beaten in I umber. land—and he who would not before lis:en to one liberal number for Westmoreland, is fain to accept one seat for his own too, in order to avoid the certain loss of both. These are the doings of the Bill, and they are wonderful in our eyes. These surely are not times for the privileged " order" to set them. selves against the whole current of public opinion. Were the lov e of Reform a plant of yesterday's growth, it might be safe to prune it we. Icesly, and even to pluck it up. But that which was a few years ago but as a grain of mustard-seed, and the least of plants, is now grown to a tree in which " the fowls of the air build their nests." The truth is, that this great question has been conribually making progress. Among these short-sighted men, the first place is, on every account, due to Sir R. Peel—a man who bad once, in his youth, gotten en. tangled in a question of the like kind, which he afterwards so bitterly repented having ever touched, and had no right, in his riper years, to commit a second blunder of the self-same description. Yet did even he show himself shortsighted enough to announce himself the irrecoos cileable foe of Reform, at a moment when all were becoming more or less its friends—and he stoutly resisted giving to Birmingham the abused franchise of convicted ketford. This year he has only followed op the same error—but how deeply does he now repent him of it ! How fervently does he wish the last year of his life could be blotted out I In this wish we must say be has ourselves for probers. His rashness has our blame—perhaps, rather our regrets more the. any thing else. His abilities are valuable to his estuary —. his saviors have been very considerable—and It Is As is hope that they rosy become sgain available. But ter the pre. sent be has placed himself in a Muslims when be really Private letters from Naples confirm what the English papers said some time ago, of a great attachment felt by the King of Naples for an English lady, but insurmountable obstacles have arisen on both sides. This lady (51isa Matilda Strachan, who is 18 years of age), quitted Naples with her mother. Princess Butera, so celebrated for her beauty, her riches, her wit, and her misfortunes, ditd lately at Naples. She contracted a second marriage with George Wilding, a Lieutenant in the Hanoverian la'lke, who received front her the title of Prince Butera. This Prince is at Vienna. His Grace the Duke of Wellington arrived on Saturday at Widmer Castle, and it is reported that he will remain there until the meeting of Parliament. The Marquis of Douro, Mr. Croker, and some other friends are with him. The name of Charles X. is not found in the list of those persons who receive the decorations of July ; the ea-King complains of only having obtained the reverse of the medal —FiLiaro. General Mouton treats Liberty as if she were a sheep. It appears that it is not the Arch-Duke Michael that is expected at tsidmouth. but his consort, the Arch-Duchess Helene, with the Princess Ganrin, Countess Nesselrode, and upwards of 40 attendants, for whose accommodation four houses on Fort Terrace have been engaged. The Courrier des Pays Bas says, that in the event of Prince Leopold accepting the Sovereignty of Belgium—an event which it declares quite probable—the accredited Ambassador of England at that Court will be Lord Poneonby, who will, it is thought, consent to give up his embassy to Brasil. In the event of his not seceding, two other individuals, Sir Brooke Taylor and Mr. Calcnft are mentioned. The Gazette of last night contains an Order in Council for making Road Harbour, in the Island of Tortola, a free warehousing Port. Some slight attempts have been lately made to repair that part of the New.road between Battle-bridge and Islington ; but the road-menders in this case, like bed tinkers, in repairing one bole, have, in most instances, made a larger. The York City Magistrates have given the parochial overseers an intimation that, in passing their accounts, " all charges for eating and drinking will be disallowed." An investigation is in progress at the General Poet-office, to detect the cause of the non arrival of pen sent by post. The Duke of Leinater and Lo n r:leloncurry have beea sworn bias members of the Privy Council in Ireland. It is intended to put Mr. Long Wellesley in nomination as Provincial Grand Master of Freemasons for the county of Sues, vice J. P. Heneywood, Esq. deceased.