Star. — London, England, 1831-04-23 00:00:00

While we were engaged yesterday in preparing our Paper for press, uncertain of the exact course Ministers might pursue—whether meet the House till some minor Bills were passed, cr dissolve next week —we, and the whole town, were aroused from a sort of political stupor, by the magnificent fact, which we were the first to announce veaerday. We were aware that Lord WI! A RNCLIFFE, and a party of borough Lords, or their immediate connections, had, in afiected despair of their cause, visited his MAJESTY, to en deavcur to disturb his determination ; and the sinister re porte, which had leen actively kept alive during the last ten 4:1)74 were ominous of the result. We knew also that Mi dieters had obtained a subsequent audience—when in our anxiety of suspense—we heard reports—one, two, three, &c. They were the Park Guns, and our best hopes were then realized. It now appears that his MAJESTY'S firmness bad never been shaken; and that after seine deliberation with minis , ters, his course of action was at once determined ; and, waiving all forms, be at once directed preparation to be tontle for an immediate visit to parliament, to prorogue in person, and announce a dissolution. At one o'clock, therefore, the KING gave orders to pre pare the state carriages, and all their paraphernalia, for , the usual procession. " Order the state carriage," was l;is answer to Ministers—" I will dissolve in person." " It is not ready," was the reply of the officers of the Lcuseltold; "it cannot well be got ready in time." " NEVER MIND," said his MAJESTY, " I WILL GO IN ANY OTHER CONVEYANCE, IN ORDER TO DISSOLVE IT. WHAT MUST BE DONE, SHOULD BE DONE QUICKLY." The greatest bustle now ensued in every department. — The general business of some days was to be done in an hour and a half ; but all participated in the joyful object ; and before half-past two, the four state-carriages were drawn up in the Stable-yard. Others had ordered out the Police, and orders were dispatched to Knightsbridge, for the usual retinue of Guards ; but such was the hurry, that the men galloped singly, or in small detachments, down Constitution bill, and formed lines as they came up. Messengers, in the mean time, were despatched in every direction, to call together the two houses; and, before three o'clock, the Park guns announced the royal procession! The people were taken by surprize. But some thousands speedily assembled, and greeted his MAJESTY with enthu siasm, mingled with grateful and loyal expressions, with cries of " down with the boroughmongers," " kick 'em out," &c. His MAJESTY looked well, and seemed in ex cellent spirits. But nothing could equal the dismay of the FACTION, in both Houses. They became at once seditious and riotous. Their sentence was pronounced,—their per nicious ascendancy was for ever at an end—and they were either desperate, or paralyzed, like men in the hands of the executioner. By two o'clock their Lordships began to assemble. But few of them had the robes at band, with which it is usual to receive the KING. The CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack, but was soon called out to receive his MAJESTY. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY, as chairman of committees, was voted president. The Duke of Btu' now n then moved, that their Lordships should take their seats, as usual, according to precedency. This was deemed offen sive, and led to angry remarks, and great confusion, several speaking together. Great warmth arose between the Duke, Lord LON DON DERRY, the Lord Chief BARON, &C. At length a sufficient degree of silence and order was re stored, to enable Lord WHARNCLIFFE to be heard making motion for an address, imploring his MAJESTY neither to prorogue nor dissolve the parliament, owing to the excite ment through Ireland and Great Britain; but he had scarcely began a comment, calling the dissolution atro cious and unprecedented, when the CHANCELLOR re-en tered, and with great emphasis, asked what there was unconstitutional in a KING of ENGLAND dissolving a Par hatnent, which, without a precedent, drawn even from the worst times, had obstructed the necessary supplies.—(Al hiding to the protracted debate of last night, and the forced adjournment, when the Ordnance Estimates were the Order of the Day.) Cries of the KING ! the KING ! caused the Cite NCEL LOR again to quit the Woolsack to attend his MAJESTY into the House; when Lord LONDONDERRY and others voci ferated for Lord SHAFTESBURY again to preside, and he took his seat amidst deafening cries of " Order ! Shame ! Order of the Day ! the KING !" &c. &c. accompanied by rapidity of motion among their Lordships, threatening gen &c. &c. and a din of loud voices, resembling an elec tion mob. length, Lord MANSFIELD obtained a partial hearing, to denounce the Dissolution, the Reform, and the Ministers; and to declare that the Crown and that House were en 4:,ngered, the National Debt, the Tythes, &c. After pro ceeding in this strain for some time, lie was interrupted by eneral cries of, " the KING !"••••" GOD save the KING !" ac.—tlie great doors were thrown open, and his MAJESTY iu his Royal Robes, with the Crown on his head, tutored with a firm step, and most resolute air. Havin g taken his seat, he bowed to the right and left, anJ requesting their Lordships to be seated, he read the speech (repented to-day in another part of our Paper), with 3 clear voice, and very decided emphasis. While robing he had enquired the cause of the uproar in !lie House, and had wrought himself into a state of very decided feeling ; his carriage, in consequence, was more than usually dignified. On leaving the House, the assembled multitudes greeted him with rapturous enthusiasm, and with shouts and general "lapping of hands all the way to the Palace. It was a proud' vene, and a proud day for this kingdom. What a warm-hearted reply to all the impudent assertions t 1 Boroughmongers and their creatures, that our Pa filet KIM.: had relaxed in his sympathy for his people, o r ''heir cause! What a broadside the ROTA L ADMIRAL has :red into these calumniators! How gloriously he has :mil. them and their hopes for ever. May the people by their conduct every where justify him and themselves ! May they have virtue and energy suth cieut to retina men to Parliament worthy of co-operating for the public welfare with SUCH ♦ KING ! May the latest posterity be grateful to his family for rescuing this generation from its social enemies; and may his family ever respect the principles which entitled WILLIAM ilia GREAT to the National Gratitude ! Our victory under such a leader is now certain ; but we have still the battle to fight ! Every honest man must be at his post, and every man do the duty which is in his power. A General, however great, is feeble without troops—a King without loyal subjects—but Britons, led on by KING WILLIAM, will not fail to STRIKE HOME! We shall now have TIIE Bill—the WHOLE Bill —and NOTHING BUT THE BlLL—and perdition to the churl who is not content ! In the COMMONS . the membere,assembled numerously at an early hour, and the uproar nearly resembled that in the Lords, except that as the Speaker was not called out like the Chancellor, he kept some sort of ascendancy. A petition from Hythe, enabled Sir R. VYYIAN to break out against Ministers and Reform, nearly in the style of Lord MANSFIELD, and embracing prophecies of the same evils, in no measured language. At length he was called to order by Sir F. BURDETT; but the SPEAKER de termined that he was within the rules of Debate. Mr. TENNYSON ventured to differ from the Speaker, who re torted on Mr. 'TENN YSON, and the latter again on the Speaker, which led to,great confusion—all the Members to gether calling " chair," or " order." Lord Join; RussEx.r. interposed, but could not be heard. Sir R. VYVYAN then resumed, declaring that tithes would be confiscated—the House of Lords destroyed— and the Crown itself shaken from the head of the So vereign ! But on concluding his sentence, the first salute I given, echoed through the House, and the cheers, laugh ter, and cries of order, rendered him wholly inandible. Sir R. PEEL, Lord ALTHORP, and Sir F. BURDETT, now rose together, and the cries of the two parties for each, the violent gestures, the hurry, noise, and confussion, ex ceeded what had ever been witnessed in that house. The SPEAKER roared " Shame," and at length was heard Ito say, that Sir R. PEEL first caught his eye. Sir ROBERT then attempted to make himself heard, but the cries and shouts reduced his endeavours to mere dumb show. The SPEAKER oncemore reiterated " shame," and Sir ROBERT PEEL declaimed with impassioned vehemence of language and action, against the incapacity of Ministers, their Reform Bill—the despotism of Demagogues and Jour nalists—and the Dissolution—till Sir THOMAS TYR WHITT advanced into the House, to summon it to the bar of the House of Lords, to hear his Majesty's speech for its prorogation and dissolution. He accordingly attended with about 150 members ; and on his return he read the speech, and the house separated. SPIRIT OF THE JOURNALS. Tistw.s.—England, Ireland, and Scotland, attend Your King came down yesterday to dissolve his Parliament, because, despising the wishes of his people, and his own Royal wishes, it refused to reform itself, and even stopped the supplies necessary for the support of the public Mad. tutions of the country, unless Peers and boroughmongers might be per mitted to continue in the usurpation of your rights, to nominate their dependents as mock-representatives of the people, and to sell the power of making laws and:imposing taxes. This is the purpose for which the King of England—William, the more than conqueror—William, the restorer of his people's rights—came down yesterday to dis solve the Parliament. The scene was a sublime one, so far as re. lated to his Maja#y, and will form a bright page in the histo r y of the country. The conduct of his enemies and yours was no less remarkable ; and after an exordium so suited to the solemnity of ! the occasion, we hardly know bow to descend to the description of the miserable tumults springing from the disappointment of criminal hopes, of impotent malignity, raving against just and constitutional control, and of petty plots, blasted in an instant by the regal presence. The House of Commons was in a state of uproar, but it was in the House of Lords that this confusion was most conspicuous, and chiefly among those who had been enriched through the munificence of the immediate predecessors of that Sovereign whom they insulted, or by the plunder of that people whose most sacred rights they would continue to usurp. The King of England, we say, was insulted yesterday on the very steps of his throne, and by whom? By starving artisans?—by an unlettered mob ? No—such men have co entrance there ; but his Peers who ought to have been bowing at his approach, and closed around his person in respectful silence. But we must descend to particulars— we must mention names. It appears, then, that in the absence of the Lord Chancellor, who was in attendance open the King, Lord Shaftesbury, on the motion of Lord Mansfield, took the chair, or the woolsack. Lord Wharnaffe then rose to propose his resolution: the Duke of Rich mond rose to order and moved th- standing order that peers should take their proper places—he saw a baron sitting in an earl s' seat. On this motion the Marquis of Londonderry rose with indescribable vehe• meow, and—amidst an uproar chiefly occasioned, as it seemed, by the Mends of the noble Marquis, some restraining, some cheering him— insisted that the Duke of Richmond was out of order. Lord Lyndhurst spoke to the same effect. The Duke of Richmond warmly, but firmly, and without the least loss of presence of mind, persisted in his motion. Lord Londonderry again, thou •h at least six of his Mends (among whom was Lord Salisbury) tried to bold him down by the arms and skirts of his coat, started on his legs, and in a tone of fury, and darting himself items the table as if he would strike the D. of Richmond, ex claimed, " What, then, the noble Duke is to be the hero of this coup (fetal fin At this moment the Lord Chancellor entered sad took his seat. Lord Mansfield denounced as atrocious and unprecedented the conduct of Ministers in advising the King to dissolve the Parliament under pre sent circumstances. The Lord Chancellor, in a loud firm voice, and with great energy of manner, exclaimed—" What ! unprecedented' for a King of England to exercise his undoubted prerogative of dissoir. ing the Parliament, when the House of Commons, in a manner unpa ralleled in the wont factious periods of English history, have stopped the supplies ?" This indignant exclamation was received with loud cheers, but the Opposition party were vociferous in exclamations against the Ministers. The King having by this dine arrived in the robing. room, the Lord Chancellor left the house. Lord Shaftesbury was again voted into the Chair, amidst a scene of confusion and tumult that rivalled the noisiest election mob. Certainly no blows were given, but the most violent tones sod gestures were every where visible, and not even the presence of a great number of Peeresses seemed to have the slightest effect on the passions of this dignified branch of the Legislature. Lord Wharndiffe at length moved his resolution, and was followed by Lord Mansfield in a speech of extra ordinary vehemence, which did not cease even when the Kura had en. tend the House, nor until he was mounting the Throne. The King while in the robing-room, asked what was doing in the House, and on being told, was observed to assume a tesolute air and look. The Crown was about to be put on, when be took it from the officer, saying— " /will put on ay Crown esyse(f." He then, with a firm decided step, walked into the House, where the uproar was still proceeding: —even some of the anti-reforming state officers about his Ma ksty were heard to exclaim against the disgraceful insult of. fered to the King in the exercise of his prerogative. The King, however, like all men of real mettle ' was only the firmer in proportion to the violence of his enemies. He calmly took his sear ; the house was shamed into silence. The speech was then read by his Majesty; and it was read in a tone of firmness and dignified emphasis, particularly the clause relating to the bill, which indicated the unmoved purpose of soul, though he is known to have recently suffered from indisposition. Indeed it is hardly possible but that the exertions of mind, anxious to subject to its consideration every part of a most momentous question, and to come to a right decision on the whole, must have worn the stoutest body. The speech will be found in its proper place in the parliamentary report; we presume it is unexceptionable; for it is the act itself of dissolution, not the form or the words in which it is conveyed, that has excited the the wrath of the disaffected indeed, the speech bad not been heard, and was unknown, when the tumult was raised. But how proper, how just is the second clause—the only one in which the topic of dissolution is handled : how unanswerable its rea sonings. " I have been induced to resort to this measure foe the par. wee of ascertaining the sense of my people." And why may not th e King, we ask, appeal to his people, to ascertain their fee lings on so Im. portant a question ? It were surely better to do so, than to experienc e their dissatisfaction afterwards ; for a people's discontent at last is n, trifle, even to a King, however some of those inferior persons may hags braved it, who have now monopolized the Royal favour, and plundered the public treasure for so many years, that they consider it as a robbery to deprive diem of the free enjoyment of either. But we hope we may now look for better times. Poter.—The scene of excitement and eistasios which prevailed in both houses of parliament yesterday was se enteisedinary and unpre cedented as the occasion of it. Lod limislield's speech will be written in the beans of all true friends Otis awry, and reflect eter. nal honour on his memory. The effect pledssed by his last sentence on those who caught it, amidst the noise did sisals which prevailed, was truly sublime. " GOD save the crown," he said, with a tone and emphasis to which no description can do justice, as William the Fourth, with the crown upon his head, approached the throne of his fathers. The only emphasis laid by his Majesq upon any part of the Speech was on the word " a pp ear ." What his Majesty's feelings may have been we know not. With those of at least four• fifths of his hereditary Councillors a sensation of pity was mingled with a constitutional and personal veneration. May don, indeed, the GOD of our fathers, save him from the snares which his own fa miliar friends and servants whom he trusted have laid for him ! The dictatorial, the arrogant, and the disrespectful manner evinced by the Lord Chancellor, has not been equalled since the day when Cromwell dissolved his Parliament ; an d t h e impression of reverence for the King, whose prerogative he announced, contrasted strangely with the disgust occasioned by his Minister's manner of making that an nouncement. With lodecotous haste his Lordship rushed from the Painted Chamber into the House, interrupted Lord Mans field, nearly overturned Lord Shafte sbury, and, after stating that Parliament was to be dissolved, because "in an unprecedented manner" it had stopped his Majesty's supplies, he rudely turned his back upon their lordships. That there are precedents for stopping sup plies is historically true • that the supplies were not stopped by the House of Commons on T hursday night, in carrying an adjournment of the house, is positively true. The rea l reason, and the people of Eng land should to a man be made acquainted with the fact, was, that Par liament had refused to reduce the number of English Representatives. —Colonel Davies stated this broadly and truly on Thursday night, atgl for the sake of Reform itself, be deprecated it.— Let the nation, therefore, weigh well this point, and decide between that would retain or curtail those members who henceforth must bar our chief safeguard against an undue and dangerous preponderance of nominees of Mr. O'Connell. Through the medium of those nominees he now offers to support and preserve the ministers, in whose hands his kith*, violence has placed him, and they have accepted, in an evil 'hour, tiseald of their convicted pri•oner. With them, not him, rears the guilt and responsibility. With the people of England it now rests to shield us front the consequences. If true to themselves, all may yet and well; if false, farewell crown—church--peerage—public faith—and national honour. HElALD.—Thursday night orders were issued for the preparation of a Commission, giving the Royal Assent to the Civil List and other Bills, with the view of preparing for prorogation on Tuesday next.— Before this step was resorted to it was intended to pass the Ordnance and other &domes, the resolutions on which had not (and have not) been repotted to the House • but after Lord Wisarncliffe's notice and the adjournment of the Gnomons on a division against the Mi nisters, a different course was resolved upon. That division, by the way, was unexpected, and ought to be explained. On Thursd ay mora ine the Ministers, having determined to abandon the Reform Bill, as far as the present Parliament is concerned, had no occasion to send round the customary Treasury circular, requiring the attend since of their friends; but the Opposition, not knowing of such inten. tion to give up the Bill (or, knowing it, not acting on such knowledge), sent round a very praying circular to their friends to attend on that evening. Consequently they bad a very full attendance, and stuck to their places, while their opponents were not alike active in at. tendance,, not calculating on any division. Suddenly Mr. W. Henke* moved the adjournment of the house—the result is known to the public. That not only disposed of the debate on the resolution de. claratory of the corrupt state of the representation of Liverpool, but stopped all other business, and, amongst other matters, the presen tattoo of the report of the Committee of Supply on the Ordnance Estimates. This was deemed tantamount to "a stoppage of the sup plia," and it will be seen, by our Parliamentary report, such object has since been avowed. Thus the Ministers were pressed to resort to immediate dissolution (if dissolution were to take place at all), in. stead of waiting a few days to get through the remaining estimates.... This being.their new position, it is star al that the Ministers assembled, and came to the determination of forthwith proceeding to the King, and of stating to his Majesty the impossibility of proceeding, even for another day, with the present Parliament ; and that, unless there were an immediate prorogation, with the view to early dissolution, they must tender their resignations ; and, it is added, they tendered their resigna tions accordingly. The King, we understand, then declared himself to the following effect :—" I see the difficulties with which you are beset. I approved of your bringing in the Reform Bill—and I am desirous that the Country, as well as the present House of Commons, should have the opportunity of expressing its opinion on this important measure : it is only fair—fair to myself, to you, and to the people, that it should be so. 1 say, then, dissolve the parli ament immed ia tely, and short as the notice is ; but, to set at rest all surmises as to my feelings on the subject, I will go and prorogue the parliament in person," Perhaps a more remarkable instance of decision never characterised the conduct of any of our Kings. It was, however, altogether his Majesty's own act. Circumstances show the accuracy of our information. The etiquette is, thatthe King should not prorogue the parllament,with the view to dis solution, in person. It is deemed an ungracious act to dissolve a parliament and, therefore, that is a proceeding performed "by commission." No minister could have proposed such a proceeding to his Majesty ; it was so contrary to all former proceedings that none could have thought of suggesting it the bare statement of the mode of proceeding in such came is sufficient to show that the merit of it rests with his Majesty alone.—So sudden and unexpected was this determination on the part of his Majesty, that it was not known at the House of Lords, and then only as • a very great ram," till one o'clock in the afternoon. The king proceeded to the house escorted by a detachment of the Royal Horse Guards (Bloc), aud, unexpected as was the event, immense crowds of people assembled, and they everywhere hailed his Majesty with enthusiastic shouts. Porr. —The Session of Parliament was yesterday brought to an abrupt conclusion by a prorogation, intended as a precursor of an im. mediate dissolution—by an act of the Sovereign authority strictly within the constitutional prerogative of the Crown, and therefore liable to cen. sure no otherwise than as it affords a new proof of what was already, in.. deed, abundantly clear, the determination of his Majesty's present ad. vixen to maintain themselves in office to the last possible moment, re gardless alike of the welfare and tranquillity of the country, and of the security and dignity of the Throne. When we look back to the proceedings of the expired or expiring Parliament, we do not, upon the whole, see much reason to regret its premature and sudden dissolu tion. It can never be forgotten that it was this l'arliament which ex pelled from office the conservative Administration of the I)t.ke of Wellington, and installed in power the Revolutionary Administration of Earl Grey. Nor can we deem it an unsuitable retribution for this act of thoughtlessness and folly, that the Parliament should be thelfint victim of the Revolutionist Ministers it had cr ea t e d, when - it refused to be implicitly guided by them in. the dan gerous career of Revolution. But it is impossible to speak in terms of adequate indignation of the men who have deliberately condemned this country, and, above all, Ireland, to a severe and alarming exists of agitation, strife, turmoil, and danger, merely for the sake of retaining office a month or six weeks longer, although we en tertain • very confident expectation that the result of the approaching General Election will be to give us a Parliament Incomparably more firm. ardent, and uncompromising in the defence of the Constitution of England—a Patliatner.t representing with far greater fidelity the pro. perty, intelligence, and patriotism of the land, than that which Minis ters, from this selfish, and despicable motive, have so unceremoniously dismissed. CITY. ONE O'CLOCK. The noble resclution of his Majesty has given universal satisfaction throughout the City ; the turmoil in the House of Lords last night is looked upon with disgust. Console, which left off yesterday at 74 79, opened atl the same price ; since which the market is not so good ; and I they are at present 781 i , for the Account, with little or nothing doicg. We have no further accounts, as yet, from the theatre of war. There is not a feature in the Foreign Market worth ob serving at present. We have no arrivals this morning from any quarter of consequence. _ CITY. Tiro O'CLOCK. Up to the present hour we do not hear of any arrivals. Nothing is talked off in the city but his Majesty, who is praised beyond imagination for his noble conduct. Consols have been done in the early part of the morning at 781, . went up to 79, and are at present 78i j for the Account. The Bank broker has again been selling Exchequer Bills, which has caused them to recede to ss. premium ; at pre sent they are from ss. to 6s. premium. Money is becoming scarce, a great deal is going out of the country for purchases of corn and flour. In the Foreign market nothing doing. One of the most numerous and splendid meetings winch ever took place in the Metropolis, is at present assembled in Exeter Hall, to support the abolition of West India Slavery, Lord Saville in the Chair; and Sir James Mackintosh, Dr. Lushington, and other distinguished persons, have already spo k en most eloquently pn the subject. THE GEVERAL ELECTION. NEWS FOIL C.ivinairEs AND • • SIR ROBERT WILSON AND T I UE 11t;IMUGH SOUTH WARR. Yesterday, in consequence of a requisition. a copy of which app .4 " 11 In The Times of Thursday, a public meeting was a?pointen to be held in the Town-hall of Southwark, in order to enable the electors to Inkr into consideration the conduct I,f their repn-sentative, Sir R. who, it wan alleged, had broken Li* faith with his consti•uents, had violated the principles upon his pl dge of which he had be. n select (1, independently of local connexions, to repiescnt tha borough in Parlor- Hameln. A very stormy meeting was anticipated on tht• newton ; hit at half after 9 o'clock on Thursday night the high bailiff receive , ' following letter: " Southwa.k. April 21 " Dear Sir—Mr. Wilson has been deputed by Sir I(ll.tri Wilson to make a request to the requisitionists to have the me, tin a t the Town HaU postponed from to-morrow to Saturday next. U der :rise Bin cumstances, we hare to request, on behalf of the ree,y , ithtt 6.4. that you will consent to the meeting taking place or. Siturilay, II) for II o'.:lock, Instead of to-morrow. " We have the honour to be, &e. " .1011 v EL Ll 3, "H WU rIJ. "G.R, t O::NER. " To John Holmes, Esq. High Bailiff of the Borough of Southwark, &c." In consequence of the above letter, at an early how on the en .uing morning the following notice was issu e d to the inhnbitants Towa.Htll, A prtl 22. • Sir Robert Wilson having requested that the titeetieg of the the tas of Southwark, appointed to be held at the Town-11211 this die, should be postponed, I do hereby, with the.consent of the req.-tic:ion &its, postpone such meeting until to-morrow (Saturday) the 23d instant, at 10 for 11 o'clock in the forenoon precisely. "JOHN HOLNIES, High Bailiff" The early publication of this notice prevented any great [mother people repairing to the Town-hall; and those who did meet ;It quickly diverted on reading the notice of the High Bailiff. Mr. Brougham, the brother of the Lord Chancellor, offers himself for the borough. We do not heir of any opponent but Mr. 8i0e. , „ one of those two brothers who have made some talk as novelists. Tbt was one of them who offered himselt fur the borough of Hertford, on during the contest was strangely smuggled away, with his own cons: u•, by Lord Salisbury, to make way for his Lordship's own nian, I. it,: ingestrie. This Bulwer cast up in the Pembroke Cabinet if Medal , . It is not he, we believe, who now aspires to the borough , but his broth, r. Great efforts, as we have said before, must he made in purse, as weil .Is by personal exertions. if the kind intentions of the King to give the re form question a fair trial with the nation be to be carried into effect We hear of a right hon. baronet who has subscribed largely, and of a noble duke who says he will sactifice his whole lottane to aid the toner side. Let us hope that the present will be the last struggle. The people of the United Kingdom must bestir themselves. It will tint I.e " a long pull ;" but it mutt be " a strong pull, and pull all together." Sergeant Wilde arrived in P oo l e on Sunday, and commenced a eir - vas, in hopes of representing that borough in case of a dissolution. Tie learned gentleman, it is said, has many of the burgesses already eit. gaged in his interest. As one means of pierenting the return of many of the anti-reformists who may appear in the field, while new interests are delibetattne, a general rule should Lie adopted, not to make promises, till it is saes. mined who arc die candidates ; and if an anti.retorniist has entrapped an honest man into a promise, it would be a fair case for casuistry, whether a promise to an unworthy pence is in any respect obligatory. It would be most amusing to be lei behind the *cruets amorg the borough-traffickers at this moment. After the equally short Parliament of 1807, a member for one borough complained in bitter languag e to the writer of this paragraph, that though he paid 4,0001. but eight months before, he found himself shut out unl as he came down with a second 4,0001. ' I had no other chance of indemnity," said he, "so I submitted ; but I hope the King won't die;" (George the Third was then ill), " for if so I'm done completely." Another, on the same occasion, uttered bitter reproaches on the poor voters. A The rascals," said he'' ought to get but -51. in six or seven years ; but do you know, not one would conic to book till I paid him his 251., though they had each fleeced me out of the same aunt only a few months before 1" What a sorry speculation then the present occasion 1 Avarice on one aide and calculation on the other. Voters have a fixed price, yet the poor devil of' a candidate is now only wanted in Parliament to vote his own death. This can be but a six months business. No chance of in. detunity, therefore, and no interest gained with the ministel 1 We suspect, consequently, that there will be no candidates for the boroughs, or that patrons who pay their voters will lose all their money ! HOLE AX CONNIE PETITION IN PASEX.-.•A number of trig natures will be found in the Esse: Standard, the Tory paper for the county, which signatures require some explanation : the fact is, the Tories of Essex hare been getting up a Petition again., the Pelona • Bill!—but observe, not at a public meeting, but in a sort of .rivate way. The plan ha s been concocting for some time, and at length, after the most assiduous efforts, they have succeeded in getting a few names, —the whole of which are either the names of Tory parsons and country squires in the Blue interest, of of their servile dependents, who have been induced to swell the catalogue with their names. We have only this morning seen the list; but we are informed by persons from the spot, that the secret manner in which the thing was got up has die. gusted every body, even the moderate opponents of the Reform Bill. The thing will, however, do good, as it will point out who are friends; and who ate enemies, to liberal principles. For this pur pose, we would recommend that the list should be printed, side by aide, with the list of patriots who signed the requisition, a motel% ago, for a meeting in favour of the reform measure.—From a C': c. chaster Correspondent. We understand that the whole of the Catholic and Dissendeg popu lation, high and low, in England, Ireland, and Scotland, are unani mous in favour of the reform bill; and are determined to exert themselves at the next election to get those candidates alone re turned to Parliament, who wW pledge themselves to support the full measure of reform. The Catholics feel this to be an act of grati tude to those patriotic and liberal men, who obtained, foe them the measure of emancipation; as well as a solemn duty imposed on than to oppose bigotry In every shape, and to prove that those who falsely charged them with bigotry, in order to deprive them of their rights, ve nally the bigots themselves. The fact really is this—the Church party, who are the abusers and monopolizers of the tithes, are the constant toes of every project that tan lead to any inquiry. dlr. I. Balfour is a candidate for East Lothian, on the retirement of Lord John Hay; but an advertisement requires the voters to withhold their promises. Lord John Russell is Invited to oppose Mr. Duncombe foe York shire, and he is said to have given his conditional assent. dlr. Rolfe, Recorder of Bury, is a candidate for that town. 1148 Electors invite Mr. 3laberly to stand for Northampton, in or. position to Sir E. Gunning. Colonel Johnson is a candidate for Lincolnshire. Mr. R. A. Oswald is a candidate for the county of Air. Mr. Pendants and Mr. Pater are the candida es fur Cornwall, and both are popular. Lord Edwanl Somerset and Sir W. Guise, are exerting themselves in Gloucestershire, and every endeavour will be used to throw out the former. Mr. Northmore, of Cleve, is a candidate by invitation fer Scm r tt. shire. Mr. Dennison is spin a candidate for Liverpool, in opposition to General Clascoyne • and Slr . Evart stands also. On Nionday we ek, a meeting of the electors of the town of N..t. tingham, was held in the great Exchange-hall, for tie purpose of Af. fording Sir Thomas Denman and Sir It. C. Faguwn au opportunity of meeting their constituents, previous to the re-assembling of Parit.t. menu The number present was estimated at from eight hundred to L , thousand. A most numerous and highly respectable meeting was hold. n at Os Hop Pole Inn, in Tewkesbury, on Wednesday week, fur the purpose of forming a district committee, to assist in till cting the return of an independent representative for this county, in the place of Lord ! d. ward Somerset, on the ground of his opposition to the Bill for Pat La. mentaty Reform. Sir John 31alcohn, ban. was on Saturday week, elected member for the borough of Launceston, in the room t f Sir Wilioughby Gordon, hart. who, as we stated last week, had act-troll the ehiltern hundreds, in consequence of his having voted in favour of the rrt..rm hill, in (Ito sition to the wishes of the patron, the Duke of Nertitumberl.:l:d. A requisition from the island of Pothole, 4.4l4lressed to Sir Jane■ 3locdonald and 31r. Shaw Ltfevre, to offer thenvolets as candidates for the county of !fonts, was sent to throe gentlemen on Thursday, signed by 275 freeholders, who jimmied their votes fr.e of all expense. FROM " THE WEEKLY TINES."—ADVANCE. TKOK WINDOWS TO CHISNEYL—As among numerous ravage notions of the present day, so in the early times, as well of this couo.ey as ed icts , ibe smoke was left to escape by the door. Of course this scold fre quently be too dense, even fur those ceco,toodcd to its axes's. Hence the invention of Windows, that is, of passages through which the wWsd might drive, to effect a more rapid dispersion of the smoke, tsars vita possible by means of the door alone. Ultintwely, from nu itirg ti c uniform direction which the stream of smoke took tthen tie wind beat through the window, or vice reran through the door, the plan of a Chimney suggested itself. The window, which then gave place to the chimney for the expulsion of so eke, was new employed merely for dot admission of light, but did not lose its orie;n-1 name. 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