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CVIII., are requested to be sent to OMAN and CO., Paternoster - row , b y December 24 ; „ ; Pro s p ec t u s es , Bill., &c. to be stitched in the Number, a week from that date. ilvertisers will perceive the advantage of sending their t ertisements and Bills early, as they are placed in the tr in which they are received 1)57 . 0e Publisher.. in resisting the claims of the 'Catirtihes; Sir Robert's reason for opposing the Reform Bill is rather etilieiv " he says, "continue my opposition id ofr last, be lieving; arf dof that this is the first step—not directly for revo lution, but to a aerie. of ehtpiges which will affect the propertY, and alter the mixed Ccrnstineoty of the country; believing that it will be fatal to the authority of the Howe of Lords, and will three on a series of Anther concessions. I f?P. I t OPPOse it to the last, convinced. that though my oppositio n will be :rm./ailing, it will not be fruitless;beeanse the opposition now made Will oppose a bar to further concession:: tireafter.. If the whole' of the House were now to join in giving way, iC have less power to resist future changes. .0x this grOund I stand/ het opposed to any wellconsidered Reform of any of our instittifioncs which the well-being.of the coutrtry demands, but opposed to this Reform in our Constitution; because that shatters the feeling of respect towards it which are founded in pftlerdice, perhaps, or in higher feelings of veneration for all our Institut:nil:" The Right Ht•n: Oentlemarfmerely wishes iitmself to be con sidered as a drag to the of Reform, lest the course should he too rapid. He at the same this' conveys a sort of reproach to the ilenae of Lords, by pointing their attention to the hop°. !icy of separating thormelves from the people. The authority of the House of Lords reiitf!rn that the majority of the Com mons should not be too great. The itiVice given by the Right Hon. Gentleman with regard to Ireland is t - ',l.:rons " It is not; he says, " in the spirit of hostility, thst from the common interest,which I take with the Ministers in the Welfare of thecountry, that I inipkite tie (Thvetnment not to suftr this House 10 separate for the recess iiiiikirttpoelaiming the course they mean to pUrsuenot with respect in Oil, deliberations on the Refornt Billi but with respect lo the proportiOnit efey mean to preserve as to the Members for the different parts of the k.'lrtplst. I say nothing of the justice i_ , !* the proceeding; but I do fear that the course pursued by the Government —though its propo sitions may assume the semblance of justice, and though it may be rerbaps, resolved at length to concede—may pace an instru ment in the rands of those who may use it to strengthen their own popularity, and ernWe them to command an extent of that proportion after the recess. I! say .. nothing of the justice but if it he intended ultimately to coneetiti I say give way at once. the police after Wards told me that what he said was, Fire, fire,boys.“ Itow Many do you suppose were iii the crowd 7---Abbut Were there fir&arnis aniong theM Yost saY that ydii were in the frdnt; add that bef6re the firing eoramericed there, eighteen of the pdlice were kndclsed down in the rear 7—Yes. - Were the police who lie here 'dead some of those 18 7—Yes. Upon your. oath, could you, who were in the' front, see the police knocked down in the rear, know that eighteen was the number so knocked dciwn; or that thOse twelve nien were then killed ?f The witness here " waxed wroth," and was prevented re, plying by the Rev. B. Morris, who said that as the Jury had already come to a decision, he could not see the necessity for such an examination. The Reporter observed that it was for the purpose of obtain ing information to lay before the public, and not for the Jury, that he was putting the questions ; but that he thought that additional information could be elicited, it would be unfair to debar the Jury also of it. Mr. Morris observed that the Jury had agreed on their ver vict. and that further information was then unnecessary. The Reporter (who had noticed some considerable variance between the testimony of the two witnesses; and who did in tend to re-examine Dermody, who had given his direct testi mony in a cool, ungenerous manner) said, that he had not presumed to put a question without the permission of the Court, and begged to know would he be permitted to continue the ex amination. Mr. MArrucws—You have behaved quite courteously, Sir. Reporter—May I continue, Sir ? Mr. MArrucws—No, no, if you please; don't ask any more questions. The inquest here terminated, by the Jury returning their verdict, that the police came by their deaths " by an attack by a considerable snob of people armed with pitch.forks, stones, and other weapons." • ' ' • ' ON THE TITHE SYSTEM. • (Front the Idrkisitty Jouintil of Saluida.) On Wednesday evening, the 14th instdnt, a large party of police, under the command of Mr. Gibbons, Police Chief, sta tioned at Piltown, went out to protect a Process-server, em ployed in the service of latitats . for tithes due to the Rev. Hans Hamilton, of Knoctojther. Early In the evening the city was thrown into the greatest agitation, by hearing that a con flict had taken place between them and the people s in which several of the former, and two or three t - If the latter were killed. A large rrillitity fdrce inuriediately proceeded to the spot, and spent the night scouring the country, and arresting every:per son met with. 1f • o n d ay published, in 2 vols. Bvo. with Por trais, Autograph Letters, &e. 4 EMORIALS of HAMI'DEN, HIS PARTY, and HIS TIMES. By LORD NUGENT. John Murray, Albemarle-street. pen Monday will he published , in One Volume, HE FAMILY LIBRARY, No. XXVI. ib hein, , the HISTORY of the REFORMATION NGLAND. By the Rev. J. J. BLUNT, Fellow of Sr. John's College, Cambridge. John Murray, Albemarle-street. FRENCH PAPERS. —(Cheers.)" We see that the Right Hon. Gentleman hai 'keit reading the History of England and France lately; but not with the aid of Mr. eroter'sspectaOles. If any one point is better esta- The whole enquiry occupied precisely twenty minutes. Two countrymen, identified as having been present, were sent in to the county gaol after the inquest. Unshed than another by lris•.ory, it is, that instant concession of what cannot be refused is always idfer than an opposition with out the means of resistance. Louis XVI., by first inconside- - - - • Darmody swore that the firing took place in the rear ranks t The lane through which the police passed was so narrow, that more than two men could not march abreast in it with ease; and as the police party is said to have consisted of forty-four men, it appears that ten or twelve ranks must have intervened between Brown and those he said were knocked down, beside which it was stated that the people were crowded in, on, and mingled with the police. rately resisting, and then yielding, lowered thevatt.e of the con. cession, and raised in those who extorted the concession ; their ideas of their own importance. The history of Charles the First exhibits the same stupid obstinacy, and the same irreso- fution afterwards. But Si; Robert is dirt only here levelling a p (From the 3loniteur of Friday, Dec. 16.) lit}: contains the fo Is.—The Jo Journal du -Commerce de Lyons of the ,'llowigraph:— I,,,,,_Antwitlistanding the strength of the garrison , con sistin g of lam° to 18,000 men, the smallest portion of which could he th e ' i ttnodated in barracks, the remainder being either lod g ed in Public edifice or encamped in the Place de Bellecour, or guar. to I . Z I on the citizens, especially in La Guillotiere and Vaise, it is remarked that not the slightest disorder or excess has been c4 t htted by the soldiers, and that the m ost p erfect harmony kii,lwhere prevails between them and the inhabitants. We 4 out this happy state of things with the more satisfaction. ' ~.`!it.es a great honour to the good sentiments of the citizens Wluinniate whom so much pains is taken, to the excellent 41, 4 'Pt* the troops, and to the wisdom of the measures taken by tnilitary authorities to maintain discipline. it !uav'be affirmed, w ithout fear of contradiction, that the alt °f Lyons has never been so tranquil as it now is. We th t Or perceive the effects of the arrival of me rchants from is,,,,elglibouring towns, and even foreigners who come to make ki s „."ases against New Year's-day ; and several merchant . s have ' T h ' e tt that business of all kinds is becoming more brisk." e Peho de la Seine Inferieure says—" Since Saturday 14 . 1 . '`ng forty ships laden with divers goods have entered our 11 We learn the at least a hundred others are already in t h e These arrivals must necessarily give anim ation to our and afford employment to the workmen in the port." (Fro m Dm. t g he Messaer des Chambres, 16. —We are assured that M. de Cayes will on (:1 1 ,",.av make a report on the law relative to the peerage t o t he T r h nner of Peers. prep - ,sal of Gen. Lafayette to grant civil rights to all the n refugees in France has been rejected in the bureau by an 74e majority, and will therefore not be read in the Chamber. tr etter from Bourbon of the 15th of August, received by way 14,, t8 t, says—. We have finally abandoned every part of Mada- AA, " 1. , except Isle St. Marie. Our expedition against that island sr ) , vost us de a r both in men and money, and has not produced to g"d result. The troops return to France on b o a rd two tes, 14%4 he ordinance of the 4th of March on the slave trade was ote ad u _igated in the colony on the 10th of August. T his law was that.eu, because it was feared that it might injure property. In Nri,..ate it would have been resisted by force, and Heaven knows Would have been te consequence. But now that all ex ta,i,t4'°lts are known, all h are perfectly tranquil, and the inhabi khi,_theniselves have delivered up to the autho r it ies both the tare s and the blacks brought by a slave ship which landed its ~at St. Joseph on the 11th. lai rti .he colony, however, has now more hands than it wants, hY the introduction of the Indians, and partly in conse tr,,,eef the fall of a number of sugar establishments. At all dUt'it will never recover the losses which it has sustained 'T these two years." (P t•thri the Private Correspondent of the .bforning Herold.) Vir PARIS, DEC. P 7. taa„.l Were thrown into a paroxysm of alarm yesterday by the cir, t &'',2h of a variety of reports of a warlike tendency, all having IV,X_Mon nrigin-an article in a London Evening Journal of iosesday last. ; ht ec t,,j_stomed to the influence, and in many cases the proprietary * tie teal which the Minister N. Casimir Pericr) exercises over IsZzarislan Press, the speculators on the Bourse, and the public "MCe in general, have adopted ideas of one oe. two of your littttse,,..4 Journals that are sufficiently ridiculous. Having ar ''''!' the premises to their own entire satisfaction, the Parisian kolin s deduce from a leading article or simple paragraph in a !I newspaper, that the materials for it hadbeen supplied by ars'flane Master himself, instead of having been picked up in V e itha U the lobbies or waiting-rooms in the neighbourhood of l 11, if haply they had ever existed elsewhere than in the Itii i hrti of the writer • that, consequently, the article or para.. t assal.enqauneguonreallile,rtrii.d beingat ile:Urb4lnislpecMilstit eorinsailliitser eo trinitwere . • oast (a fact incapable of controversion), you will not wonder the funds fell considerably yesterday on the Paris Bourse, to the impression made by the newspaper article above al to,, on the mi n d s o f those sensitive and sensible persons the - 1 1 7•,..,. rs and stock speculators. itt e ,..,"""mory times the Minister would have cared little for the tit ,e..r.Pta of others, than himself, to influence the market; but at ossirs when t o sus t a i n th e prices of the funds is to maintain him- Ithrg: 41 "11 )oei be loses not a moment in contra dictin g in the most `At oed maimer the tenor and the matter of your contempo . s warlike or fear -exciting lucubration. kii,, e Journal des Debats ' oblivious of the tone of courtesy im k te l z to it by the polished Chateaubre, recapitulates briefly the • vae o 7„ , in circulation of evil intentions on the part of Russia, and , that of Jour contemporary in particular, says in 'file ses n ,Ma.-" All this news is false." (Toute ces nouvelles soot „"nly i,:‘ ranee Nouvelle,in a trebly.leaded paragraph, denies not ia o the truth of your contemporary's article, but asserts that kit i Logress towards that desirable end, a general disarmament, • ii nvos h uninterrupted, is rapid, and that a convention for that M eat .! is on the point of being signed, the Ambassadors of the rowers having received full credentials and authority for : 411 4 ., sag er des Chambres contents itself with copying the ithLgentioned paragraph, but in its Stock Exchange article insi_ ' itt;'•" that the fall in the funds on the preceding day was partly • ..irtable to the desire of speculators to realise. til; three (lemi.ofhcial organs of Government) agree, you will his k Perceive, in denying the existence of any cause for appre. • iti,ng war; and two of them go so far as to affirm that the con- Wlw for a general disarmament is on the point of being signed. hir t ,e view they takeof the question it is impossible not to concur. I tlis ' e, ,. as you already know, long since arrived at that conclii- J 44,, ,having been for the last nine months impressed with the nie 7'; ton that France dared notgo to war • that is, that neither '"using nor his Ministers were tired of their wealth or their tek t ra, and that in any case, they would not wage the only , le is Of war in which France could have a chance of success. re", been quite clear, therefore, that (since the arrival of M. r to power at least) there would be no war. Oliti*nocident French Go g miverht, nment, however an , defeatd falsify my wise all the cific predictieo intentions ns. I hi lly not such an accident as that of the Emperor of Russia hung Europe with horror at the barbarity of his inflictions on ,1 4 happy Poland, for the acts of a legitimate tyrant must th io . no idea of resistance to them. There is, however, such a 1 44.4 4 a revolutionary spirit abroad, of which, in Madrid, in I 1 ik 2 in Constantinople, in Munich, in Neufchatel, in Prague, 'y l iutei in Turin, in Milan, in Genoa, In Naples, in Berlin % it,even in St. Pctersburgh itself-an accident might produce %C.c.°. nvenient developement. In speculating, Or rather reckon itherefore, on the continuance of peace, the possible occur. Ihs ti 7,of such a chance must be kept in view it the speculator z not run the possible risk of having all his castles blown td e - l ek by one gust of popular fury. There is nothing else within 4 lo n nipter of accidents to prevent the re.estahlishment, and for p.!_i_ time the preservation, of general tranquillity. kr i ium the consideration of general politics I turn to those of a .4 11,, y his nature. The President of the Council is to make this . 4 0e Promised statement of the causes, progress, and termina jet uf the late revolt at Lyons, which I hope to be able to send la; The Duke de Cayes has finished the report on the Peerage fe,,,,s Which, however. will not be presented to the Chamber of Ng before Tuesday or Wednesday next. M. Odillon Barrot, 10,,i7 sulked, it is said, refused the Presidencyof the Committee N., Leh the Budget has been referred-in his stead M. Schoncn •Oar chosen. The treaty between the Minister and M. Odillon ti nt has, it is said, been broken off. M. Perier has become less tie Zia for the co-operation of the latter, and having allowed 1 1itt"" 414 ,.. ge to be perceived, M. Barrot has withdrawn from con ..tee w i tth the Minister. This is all the gossip, true or false, that ° Oe s ,'._.‘am assured, be picked up to.day in the precincts of the ca. 1, - z.si the Chambers. kei ii. 7 visit of M. Perier to Don Pedro yesterday has occasioned ntti a rulation. It is said that the Minister called to announce , ~.._" "x -Emperor in the most respectful form, that the French 'tke,, - `httrent could ' not allow even him to conspire against the the t e h tllinent of Don Miguel while a resident in France, and i l s ts m _ Must forbear from following up his preparations for the ‘ 4 , , , ,t1 of his daughter's kingdom while he . shall remain on the N oe territory. me intended expedition is a matter of such to e 'et), and the proceedings respecting it are so little sought tie,Joncealed, that it would not be surprising if the object IN t . s ?)' report to the visit of the Minister of the Interior were %i t !' One ; but that it will interfere with the views of the Ex hrer there is little chance. hiy Ove been so much hurried as to preclude the possibility of i :8 present, on either day, at the proceedings in the extra re of Leause now at issue, in which the parties are the heirs at toetri'ne late unfortunate Duke of Bourbon, the Countess de , arv b ,_ (late Miss Dawes, of Oxford-street, fruiterer), and 'lna ~.` Philip , King of the French. I propose , however, to at lilt. '''...!he future progress of the suit, and shall give you the re. gltr:f_l_o Prejudge the case would be unfair-that I shall not, ore, attempt; but as a warm adherent to the citizen King, 4 / 1 ,31. 1 k permitted deeply to lament the impression produced on ted: world here by the nature of the documentary evidence al . ' read in the cause. I P.S.-HALF-PAST THREE. Nrj„ te ..gret not being able to give you the communication of M. nair• iii ,.to the Chambers respecting Lyons. At three o'clock he Np 0 ,...._ - '• Yet commenced. I do not, however, deem it of sufficient Ao es i ii i r ee to wait for it at this stormy period of the season, and lie 2 , 13 er the arrival of your express in time for your purpose. to-s wi rly fact, if it be one, that I have heard respecting the thre w n hleation is, that, in discussing it, the Minister of War C 00, _Ns inkstand, the other day, at the President of the • % 'lie ! arrival of General Romarino in Paris has caused a great otia m At this moment the students at the Schools of Law itla r 4 s ea icine are at his residence, in the Cite Bergere, with an Fa g 0 7 ,. recn F UNDs.-PARIS, DEC. 16.-Five per Cents. 98f. 10c. „.. FPV I . a - n4 7 0c., 2 80c. 96C 97f. 90c. SOc. 97f. 70c. 60c. 50c. 60C. 65c. 60c.; 9e.. n 0,... n .yelf Per Cents., 90f. 30c. ; Four per Cents., 82f. 25c. otle. 56 0. Thy Per Cents., 69f. 40c. SOc. 50c. 45c, 50c. 69f. 70c. titock i:h s i n[ii , .7 ;:. pe e . 35c. 30c. 69f. 20c. 30c. 35c. 30c. ; Bank I,an „ Naples, SOL 79f. Ode. 60c. '7oc. ; Royal % 59 59% lA • gisip, % % ; Rente Perpetuelle d'Espagne, 59 3 ,S %. Exchange on Via %14 5 9 5 9 4 1 / 4 59 59 % 59 58% 59 na y. 2.5& 30c. : three month s, n, one month, paper, 25f. 35c. ; mo. "jeers Authentique. p aper , 25E , 20,. ; money, 2.5 f. 20c. 7,_ Itharen FuNDIS.-PAltin, L.. 80. 75 e . 80c. 75e. 70,. 65e DEC... 17.-Five per Cents. 97f. 70c. ks 55e. 54),. 97f. fO,. 55,. . Three • 97f. 50c. 5.5 c. 60C. 55c. 50c. 55c. :• k 50e. gif 4oc. W . ee per Cents., 69f. 45c. 50c. 55e. .584,5 f • 55c. • ' Rank Stock, 1,847 f. 50c. 1,850 f. 1,.. • LRente de Naples, 79f. 70e • 50 0. 40c. 79f. ; Royal Spanish 11 --n . 491 14 ' 79 • Rente P ,%14 4 5. ,- 5 ,4 s _ 1 iPerpetuelle d'F.spagne 59% %. H, 4an 275 f. EX h' i oli i t .on 6 do s n 9 39 li s( ' ) 59 % 1 / 4 q ; Hayti= to o „“ _ _ c ange _ month, paper, 20,- ....... .YA zaf. 35c. ; three months, paper, 25E 2 0 ,.. ; "-fours Authentique, money, 25.. to ' 1 0 7 it, ill ....... Our reporter, on proceeding to the inquest next morning, went to the spot where the transaction occurred, and by his minute inquiry and observation, together with the accounts which previously reached town, and that In the Erfening Post of Thursday, which seems to be from an authentic source, but written immediately after the occurrence, we are led to con clude that the followng are the facts—(by reference to our re port of the inquest, it will be seen in what this statement differs from that of the witnesses) :—A large body of people accom panied the police throughout the day, and made several demands to have the process-server delivered to them, that he might be forced to eat the latitats, but resorted to no violence. About two o'clock the party reached a wild part of the common of Carrickshock, three miles from Knoctopher, and were proceeding in narrow files through a lane, the loose stone walls to which were so low that the lane might be said to form an uninterrupted part of the common. Here the pro cess-server was again demanded, with a promise that no attack on the police would be made ; of course he was refused to be delivered up, and then a young fellow darted in, seized him, tried to drag him from the police, and was immediately shot— some say with a pistol, bY Mr. Gibbons, who at the same time gave an order to fire. A number of shots succeeded—two country men dropped dead--and the great body of the people instantly closed in and killed Mr. Gibbons and eleven of the police. The act was instantaneous, and scarcely occupied the time we have taken to relate it. Such is the only account universally told and believed, till, on the inquest, one of the two witnesses, an intemperate, and, we are informed, a prejudiced man, stated that the police were klled before instead of after the firing. When our reporter visited the spot, the bodies of the police had been removed to the Kilmaganny barrack, and those of the countrymen by their friends; but sufficient evidence of the slaughter remained in the large red patches visible where each body dropped, while the disgust of the observer was increased by a number of pigs engaged in feeding on the clotted blood. Not a human being was visible on the wild mountain side; ter ror seemed to have driven all from the battle scene ; and, had not the crimsoned lane recorded the tragedy, nothing could have led an observer to suppose that a few hours before had seen that spot covered with thousands, engaged in a brief but despe rate deed of blood. It is a curious fact that in the first series of the " Tales of the O'Hara Family," our distinguished townsmen, the Messrs. Banim, have recorded a similar catastrophe, three miles from this spot, and which occurred fifty-five years before, between the forefathers of those same people and a party of the King's troops. But it is more remarkable that the cause was the same—the tithes—the accursed tithes that now, as then, are devastating the country, subjecting it to plunder, and staining it with blood. Some of our readers will recollect the occurrence to be that of a mock funeral, which met and put to death a party of dragoons, who had taken a person charged with bury ing a tithe proctor alive. The same oppression that ground the people then, still weighs them to the earth. The tragedy of that day has been re-enacted, after five-and-fifty years, by the descendants of the then actors ; and let but our rulers do as their predecessors have ever done, and the church militant continue as rapacious, insolent, and domineering as at present, and the mountains' sides of Ireland must often again, we fear, become the theatres of the bloody;drama. In the barrack of Kilmaganny we found the bodies of Mr. Gibbons and eleven of his men, stretched in rows on a floor, and nearly all exhibiting the most appalling appearance from wounds inflicted about their heads. 'MY. Gibbons was killed by a stab from a pitchfork, which, after passing through his hand, en tered his side. Most of the wounds seemed to be indicted by similar weapons, and Dr. Peel, the medical man who looked at the bodies, said that only one death was caused by a bayonet wound. Beside the twelve whose bodies were before the Jury on the inquest, the process-server has died, and we are informed another policeman, which, with two countrymen shot, make the whole number of sixteen deaths ascertained. There are, beside, eight or ten of the police wounded, some very seriously, and one of whom is not expected to recover. The number of countrymen injured is unknown. About eleven o'clock on Thursday, the county Magistrates began to assemble at the Kilmaganny barrack. Among the gentlemen in attendance, we observed the Marquis of Ormonde, Earl of Ossory, W. Morris Reade, William Bayly, John Power, Joseph Greene, C. H. Tuckey, Pope, J. Jones, S. Matthews, Esqrs. the Rev. B. Morris, &c. &c. These gentlemen held a private investigation which lasted upwards of three hours, and called in several of the police, it is supposed for examination. It is also presumed that this inves tigation was so minute and perfect, that nothing remained for the Magistrates to do at the public inquest where few of them at tended—where but two witnessrs, and both of one party, ap peared and were permitted to tell their tale as they thought pro per, without being questioned or strictly examined—yet the re port of the inquest will show how materially even those two disagreed. THE INQUEST. At thirty-five minutes past one, the private investigation ter. minated, and the Rev. Benjamin Morris, Samuel Matthews -- Pope, and H. Jones, of Mullinabra', Esqrs., J.P.'s, took their places as Presidents of the court of Inquest. The follow ing were then sworn on the Jury :—James Moore, Adams, Charles Hayden, Robert Power, John Hayden, Thomas Mur phy, Robert Braithwaite, David Cassen, John Ebbs, Edmund Power, Daniel, and John Tobin. John Brown, policeman, was the first witness called up, and sworn. He was requested by Mr. Matthews, the acting-Magis. trate, to state what he knew of the manner in which James Gibbons, Police Chief ; J. Wright ; Wm. Budds ; Edward Boyle ; John Prescott ; James Dickson ; Charles Carroll ; John Lemon ; Thomas Egan ; John Fitzpatrick ; Joseph Whittaker ; and Robert Fitzgerald, whose bodies lay before them, came by their deaths. Brown—The men came by their deaths in consequence of the process-server they were guarding being knocked down, and an attack made on the police by a mob armed with pitchforks and other weapons ; an immensity of stones were thrown, and eighteen of our men knocked down, before the police fired. Mr. MAi - rHEws—Gentlemen of the Jury, you have heard the testimony of the witness. Are your minds satisfied, or have you any questions to ask him, or do you wish any other witness to be called up ? Here the foreman asked Brown a couple of questions, to which he replied—that he belonged to the party of police who were in the action ; that they were the men in the rear ranks who were knocked down ; that, then the front ranks fired about twenty shot, by which they opened themselves a passage to escape ; that those shots were not fired till after the process-server was left for dead ; that, besides stones, the people were armed with pitchforks, shovels, and things shaped liked knife.blades, but seemingly made for the occasion, and placed in the ends of sticks'; that, before the battle, he heard frequent cries from the people that blood should be spilled; and that the attack was principally made on the horse police in the rear, where the greater portion of the 'nob was. The Court then decided that it was not necessary to take down the evidence in writing,—that it was sufficient to have it heard by the jury ; and again desired to know whether the jury were satisfied, or wished for further evidence. Mr. Jones of Mullinaborough said it might be as well to have the evidence of a second witness, as a corroborative testi mony ; and on this suggestion, James Dermody, policeman, was sworn.—Having been de sired by the Court to state what he knew of the transaction, he said—l know how the policemen came by their deaths. .We were protecting the process-server, when the mob said they would not harm the police, but to have the process-server given up to them. Mr. Gibbons expostulated with them, read the passage in the King's speech relative to tithes, and requested they would have patience, &c. Two stones were thrown, and an attempt made to snatch the process-server from the party. One of the horsemen was knocked down, and then several stones were thrown. The firing took place in the rere, witness was near the front. (This witness was not asked, and did not state, whether the firing took place before or after the police were struck down.) The Court again inquired whether the Jury were yet sa tisfied, or thought it likely they could agree upon a verdict ? Upon one or two of its members saying they believed so, it was directed to retire and deliberate, and was proceeding to do so ac_ cordingly, when the reporter of the Kilkenny Journal, address ing the Magistrates, said, that as this unfortunate affair was one which would excite intense interest, he had been sent out to take such a full report of the proceedings as would enable the public, through the medium of the Press, to arrive at a perfect knowledge of the transaction and the circumstances which led to it. He added, that from the great brevity of the inquest, and the paucity of witnesses, who were both policemen, and gave only one version of the story, that he felt he had not re ceived that degree of information which would satisfy the public mind, and requested to know would the . Court permit him to put a few questions to the witnesses. After a short consulta tion, Mr. Matthews, with much courtesy, expressed the assent of the Court, but directed the questions to be put through some of its members. The following dialogue then took place : Reporter—Where did the firing take place ? Brown—ln the second or third front file. Did the police receive orders to fire ? I thought I heard Captain Gibbons say, "Fye, fye, boys," to the mob i but some THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. There was a moderate arrival of all sorts of Grain last week, but a fair quantity of Flour. This morning there is not much Wheat fresh up, but a good supply of Pease and Beans. The Wheat trade still continues heavy; fine samples have obtained last week's prices, but other sorts are cheaper. Barley, if prime for malting, is no lower, but other qualities are still almost un saleable. Beans are more plentiful than of late, and are Is to 2s. per quarter cheaper. Boiling Pease do not maintain their late quotations, and Grey are le.to 2s. per quarter cheaper. Oats maintain the terms of this day se'nnight, with a moderate sale. The Flour trade remains extremely heavy, but the top nominal price is unaltered. PRICES ON BO Wheat, Red (old) -a. -s. -White (old) -s. -s. ---- Red J 831) ----- Fine sss. 585. Superfine 633. 665. ----White (1831) 4Bs. 565. --- Fine 575. 645. -- Superfine 6Bs. 745. -Foreign free 50s. 78s. aye Barley 24s. 305. ----- Fine 325. 345. - Superfine New 355. 40s. Malt s6s. 605. - Fine New 63s. 665. Pease, Grey New 375. 395. -- Maple New 4os. 41s. - White 36s 40s. ---- Boilers 42s 455. , ARD OF SHIP. Beans, Small (new).......5. -8 . (old) —B. Tick (new)....35s 375. • (old) .... 40s. 425. Harrow ( old).. 435. 395. (01d).. 435. 455. Brank 42s 455. Oats, Feed 20s. 225. New 2os. 228. Poland 245. 275. New .2s. 255. Potatoe —s• —s. ----- New ads. 28s. --- Scotch - Irish 30s, . 24s 265, Flour Town (per sack) 5Ss ()s. -- Seconds 5N 55s . _ . North Country 50s. 545, Bran Ss. 04, ARRIVALS or GRAIN IN ,ST W P IK. o r . (TV e " , l F ro m Whence. . ;,-; r r sis S i'. •:= r. ---------. - Qrs. Ore. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Scks. Aldhorongh '74 741 27 56 -- Bideford — 410 -- Bridport Boston - -- 356 -- -- -- Clay — 120 11 700 Cowes — 377 Emsworth - -- -- -- 315 1 Colchester- -- 90 80 445 597 58 1150 t Harwich 126 56 1286 430 106 54 0 Leigh 741 111 -- 55 244 128 30 N Maldon 762 441 80 -- 406 397 1608 Exeter Gainsborough — 2 Hastings Hull lOO 20 150 I pswi ch 44 107 1390 246 (54 516 KKent 746 ___ 475- 967 220 316 35% 593 Liverpool 199 467 Lynn 3O 493 40 Newhaven — — l3 650 31 Penzance P enr y n 127 51 P oo l e — 100 90 8 237 Portsmouth Southwold S toc kt on lO 100 10 50 0 W eymou th — 100 500 Woodbridge 157 511 63 1 0 L 75 Aberdeen _ 1120 _ Arbroath _ 360 10 Banff 7O 59 1075 llerwick Dundee — —.-- -- 10 Glasgow Inverness ...... Leith — 61 375 3 3902 3550 5127 4519 3187 1225 1393 IRISH. 1 Belfast Dublin Limerick Londonderry Sligo Waterford Wexford - -- 448 -- -- -- Folmar'. Archangel Copenhagen Goldgnerlinie - Hamburg 2Ol 00 413 51 —. Kiel ll9O 14 _ Koning sberg .... WO 270 Odessa Riga — -'— oo .... St. Petersburgh 11346 -- Coastways 369 —49 C --- Total 119831 QUAN AGGREGATE Rye, o—Tares, : 1 3640 1 'TITY 0 inseed,3 stard 54 5127 I F OTH' 112364 ER KIP •Rapesci dB, 530. 4316 'DS 0! d,452. 1710 PULS -Bran) SMITHFIELD MARKET This day's supply of beasts was great and good, but though it is considered to have been that of the great Christmas market day, neither greater nor of better quality, than that of this day se'nnight, especially when it is considered that about 800 of the beasts were turned out unsold from last week's market. The supply of small :cock was rather limited, but fully equal to the demand. The trade was dull throughout, at but little if any va riation from Friday's quotation. At the cattle show, those of the price beasts that have been sold have pro duced about 4s. Bd., of t.ie prize sheep ss. to ss. 4d. per stone. PRICES PER. STONE OF BLAS. TO SINK THE O R d. a. d. to a. d. toe. d. Inferior Beasts 2 4 2 6 Large Lambs 0 0 0 0 Second quality ditto 3 0 3 4 Prime small ditto 0 0 0 0 Prime large Oxen... 310 4 0 Large coarse Calves 310 4 6 Prime Scots, 8ce..... 4 2 4 6 Prime small ditto 410 5 4 Inferior Sheep 26 2 8 Large Hogs 4O 4 2 Second quality ditto 3 0 3 4 Small Porkers 4 8 2 Coarse.woolledditto 310 4 2 Suckling Calves 125.t0445.ea 5 sh. S suthdownWethers 4 6 4 0 Quarter old Pigs I2s. to 18 s. each. SUPPLY, AS PER CLERK ' S STATEMENT. Beasts. I Sheep and Lambs.' Calves. 15 igs. 0 3,549 16,880 140 About 1500 of the beasts came up the St. Alban's road ; about 700 up the other northern roads; about 400 (including Irish) from the western and midland districts; about 200 from Nor. folk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire; about 180 from Kent and Sussex ; and most of the remainder from the marshes, &c in the neighbourhood of London, including about 800 left un sold on Monday and Friday last. ThEWGATE AND LEADENHALL MARKETS. At per stone, by the Carcass. I. d. to s. d. I . d. toe. d. fleet 2 6 4 u 1 Veal ... 3 8 5 310 5 0 0 Mutton.... 2 8 4 2 Pork NEWCASTLE CORN MARKET —Dec. 17. We had rather a large supply of Wheat from our farmers to day, for whic h the deman d was stea d y , at about last wee's prices, w ith little business doing either in ship or granaried par. cels. Our finest parcels of Oats sold readily, but fo r other quali ties the trade was dull. The B arley trade has been very heavy for some days, at a decline of Is. to 2s. per quarter on all but the best qualities. Malt dull, and lower 2s. per quarter. Rye goes off' in small quantiti es ; Beans, Pease, and Flour withoutolcl. change. New. Wheat, Northumb erland 525. 645. ...... 58s. 635. - Norfolk and Suffolk 56 5. 63 s ...... . —s. ' — ''' S. Berwick and Scotch 545.'60s ....... — B . — s. s• Fore i gn 50s. WA ....... —s. Rye, Norfolk and Suffol k — s. — 5....... —s. — s. e ., Foreign 33s. 07s ..... .. —s. '"''' If Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suffolk 345. 378 ...... —s. - - s• Jo , Grinding and Feeding .4s. 9.65.. ..... —s. —s• Malt, Norfolk and Suffolk 62 5. 64 s —s. --s. R Beans, Small 40s. 42s --s. —4. 3 Tick .38s. 40s —S. — 4 . Pease, White 425. 46s — 4 . —' --- Gray 38s. 05...—. —s. --. 8 . Oats, Northumberland, Potatoe .6s 288. •••••11. ...."'• Feed .2s 23s —s. —s. ..—s. —s —s. —s - Foreign The Duke Of WELLINGTON is so much in disposed that the annual festivities at Stratlifieldsaye, it is apprehended, will not take pace at the ensuing Christmas holidays- , NDON DURING I. What will our Tory friends say now to re-action within doori Out of doorsit has long since been given rip. But hoWr had the House of Cornrdons delivered itself ? It has read the RefOrrri Bill a second time by a majority of exactly two to one, and in a House of 542 Merithers. This majority is greater by abOve 54 Votes than that which passed the Bill and sent it to the House of Lords lest session. It exceedi by 26 votes the majdriti of last session for the second reading. It equals the Whole amount of the Minority of Saturday night. The numbers being as fol. loo's :—) - 4 For the second reading • " 324 Against Majorit; - ' ' — —•- 162 162 Adding the four;tellers, the total number dt lileinfrets present was 490 ; which, with 52 who paired off on both sides, W ill gi , 'e us the sentiments of 542 Members of the House of Commons— not quite, though not far below, the highest number of the last session. This hi: a great service rendered to the country—an inestimable soured Of eneeurigenient, tranquiliiiyi rmd comfort. This vote, declararry of-the unimpaired solicitude of the if dust of Commons to *cure a' mighty act of justice for the people, w ill enhance th 'l,ighout , Great, Britain tlio spirit Of cheer : . f u lness proper : the season for the celebration of which the labours of P i irt are now suspended, and the represen tatives of the natlinviiioerseil to their several homes. May those among them wildhive hOgiVrabli fulfilled their trust be hailed by their constituents with becoming applause and gratitude ! After such a division, it is clear that Reform can no longer be with held. It is clear, we say, that when so powerful a majority is backed by such unanimous determination as confessedly inspires the whole people of England, there is nothing to resist the for midable confederacy but some exertion of physical force. Whence, then, is such an enemy to be dreaded, or by whom employed? It is a chimera! Yet there are those WhO think not so. There are men struck with total blindness, or those by whose imperfect vision nothing save monstrous or unreal objects are perceptible. In looking over the list of Saturday night's division, we observe small symptoms of amendment on the part of the Tory aristocracy. Sir George Warrender's is the only name which cannot be found in lists of former ma jorities,—the aggregate of this majority exceeding the minority in a greater degree than on former occasions, because of the diminished attendance of the opposition ranks. But, coming to individuals, Lord Clive and his brother were absent,—intentionally, as is supposed, that they might avoid the division. The Duke of Northumberland's Members, Lord Chandos, Mr. Wortley (Lord Wharncliffe's son), and Mr. Granville Ryder (Lord Harrowby's), voted in the minority ; so that it may be fairly presumed that these Noble Lords, who have been so recently professing their conversion to the main principles of the Bill, have relapsed into their ancient invete racy against Reform. Sir Robert Peel's' language was also conclusive as to his uncompromising obstinacy. The question comes, therefore, not " what will the Lords do ?"—that, we fear, is too plain—and the nation must in that quarter be pre pared for the worst. The question is, will King and Ministers do their duty ? We do not meanfinally, for that will be of course, but promptly, without hesitation. Will they prove at once their sincerity, energy, and wisdom ? There is but one course,—let the truth be proclaimed throughout the empire,—there is no other course but a creation of Peers—a bold and powerful creation of liberal Peers or Great Britain, before the summer returns, will be one scene of blood and terror. If Ministers, so supported, as they are now supported, by the people and the HoUse of Commons, and by a regard to their own fame and honour;= if they were not to press emphatically and solemnly upon their Sovereign the extreme necessity of the case which has actually arisen, and the paramount importance of an immediate exer cise of the prerogative, —it follows that they are a set of men, whom it would be labour thrown away for press, or Parlia ment, or the British nation to befriend,—that they would do nothing effectual for the country, which has done so much for them, —nothing to satisfy, nothing to secure it, nothing to ar rest; but, speaking negatively, all on their part that could • produce a state of anarchy and ruin. Will this happen ? We fear it not. Lord Grey just touches the goal, and attains an - eminence to which no preceding Minister dared aspire. It is physically and morally impossible that he should fail now, at the very threshold of the temple. Mr. Lambert, Member for . the county of Galway, declared that he would mark, by his • absence from the division, his disapproval of the principles on which Ireland was governed.—Timcs. The language of the Tories in the House of Commons has undergone a marvellous change. There is no longer the triumphant air and tone of Sir Robert Peel, congratulating him. self and the country on the vast improvements which the stub born resistance given by himself and followers to the last Re form Bill has enabled or compelled the King's Ministers to in troduce into the present one ; that dangerous ground is now abandoned, as tending to weaken the opposition to the new measure, and thus to commit the common blunder of witty people—viz. that of sacrificing one's friends for a joke. No ; in the same way as the once favourite cry of " reaction," has given place, though rather comically, to that of " increased de. lusion on the part of the people," the charge against Minis ters of 0 h a ring adopted valuable amendments" from the op position, has been soured into that of having brought forward a Bill "even more democratic" than the last, and such "as would not enable even the least hostile Anti-Reformer to re turn his sword into the scabbard." Such is the account given of this Bill by Lord Porchester, an able and vigorous opponent of R e form, who, therefore, throws upon Sir Robert Peel the task of justifying his own self-glorifications on the essential difference between the two measures, not merely by his arguments, but his vote in support of Ministers. It is exceedingly odd that clever men should not be ashamed of uttering seriously before the world absurdities which, in private conversation, would be given up as too flat and stupid to be listened to. Here is Lord Porchester asserting that the Reform Bill will separate power from property, and thus destroy the State. Now is this not a little too bad when addressed to an assembly which contains two Members for Old Sarum, and not one for any or all of twenty great commercial towns in Eng land, whose capitalists possess among them three-score millions of money at the very least? Does it not seem passing strange that the present measure, whose sole object is to restore to pro. pertY the power which fraud or force had succeeded in wresting from it, should be accused of effecting their separation ? If the rights of property be looked at honestly by men wish ing to form just opinions, will they not admit (supposing property to be the constitutional basis of English power) that men should, ceteris paribus, have power in some thing like the ratio of their property ? Yet could we name peers of enormous wealth, who from the caprice with which representative and elective privileges are now dis tributed, cannot sensibly influence the return of a single Member to Parliament, while others, without a tithe of their rental, can nominate half a dozen. The possession of boroughs by mere adventurers have been well described as one of the characteristics of the present system, and is felt to be among the most burdensome and offensive of the grievances which call for redress. What connexion is here between property and power, except in so far as the power of nominating representa tives leads directly to a transfer of the national property into the hands of one who enters Parliament for no other end than plunder ? The notoriety of facts cannot be contended against by the Anti-Reformers, any more than the nature of things. The war by which we are threatened is not, as alleged by Lord Porchester, one between " property and numbers," resulting from the Bill—but between right and usurpation, if the Bill be refused; and in that case those who take part in the usurpation will find themselves engaged in an unequal contest with property as well as numbers. The Lords who persist in their enmity to Reform may discover ere long that they have sacrificed or en dangered the lawful interests of the Peerage, for the sake of enabling a small portion of it to oppress and rob the nation with impunity. As for the reproach made against the framers of the Bill, that they have served the commercial interest at the expence of the landed, it seems to have been dictated by the same blindness as misconceived the bearing of the measure upon the rights of property in general. In lieu of the borough Members, who might be merchants, manufacturers, attornies,— any or every sort of speculator, who could raise 4,0001. for a seat, that he might sell the vote it gave him for a profit of 500 per cent., —the counties have received an addition of near 70 Members, all to be returned by the proprietors of land, while of the remaining 72 there are at least five-and-twenty, that from the new construction of the elective franchise for the smaller towns and boroughs, must derive their seats from a preponderancy of constituents belonging to the landed interest; and of the 13 new Members for Scotland and Ireland, more than half will be similarly elected. If even we were obliged to state an objection against the nature of the elective qualification throughout the whole kingdom, we should be apt to say that it was too exclu sively under the controul of the landed proprietary, being almost all based upon the occupancy or enjoyment of certain portions of the soil, or of houses which go with the soil.—Times. The majority yesterday morning in favour of the second reading of the Reform Bill was 324 to 162, exactly two to one. This great increase looks well. It is quite evident, from the tone of those who continue to oppose the Bill, that they believe it must soon become the law of the land. Mr. Croker's speech was clever. The Right Hon. Gentleman has much talent and more ill-nature ; and if giving pain to opponents were the great object of public speaking, he would carry away the palm from most competitors. But he is deficient in the power of per suasion. The speech of Friday night, the best he ever de livered, failed to show how Reform could possibly be refused with any hopes of success. He showed what happened to Charles I. and to Charles X. ; but he did not show how either of these Monarchs could have been successfuL Mr. Croker, too, has :one great defect as a speaker—he never throws his hearers offtheir guard, they never for one m oment imagine him in earnest, and is playing constantly under a susp icion that he s playing some trick with them. Sir Robert Peel's speech was rather a defence of his own political life, than an argument against the Bill. He gave the Cabinet history of the Catholic Emancipation Act, and allowed us to see that, but for him, the Bishops and George the Fourth would have been successful 0- blow at Mr. Croker, but paying a high compliment to Mini sters, who, instead of allowing the Reformers to extort Reform bit by bit, considered what was due to the nation, and conceded it at once; thus preserving their own character for honour and consistency, and tranquilizing instead of irritating the people by an absurd and unintelligible opposition. But Sir Robert ought to have read history a little earlier and he would then have obviated the necessity of those strictures from Mr. Macauley, which appear to have stung him to the quick. Mr. Stanley made some excellent observations on Mr. Croker's quotations from Hume, and proved that the hostility to Reform, and not his concessions, proved his ruin. His con cessions were the fruit of the power of the people, and not of his sense of justice.—Morning Chronicle. The second reading of the Reform Bill has been carried, and carried still more triumphantly than upon the former occa. sion ;—we may say upon the former occasion, for the principle was the same, though the Bill was different. A majority of 162 out of 466—that is, a majority of two to one—settles the dis pute about reaction. The debate itself occupies so much space, and will necessarily attract so great an interest, that we shall leave it to its own impression, aided by the powerful com mentary of a division so overwhelming as that which the Commons of England have attached to it in their name. This large increase in favour of the principle of the Bill in the Commons, be it remembered, where it has been most thoroughly sifted and discussed, may be expected to pro duce a considerable effect on the other House of Parliament We do not mean an unbecoming, an intimidating effect, but the legitimate, constitutional, and national effect which the deci sion of one deliberative body ought to have upon the conside- ration of another—that of rendering it more cautious, to investigate every argument, and take care that, if not on the same side, it should. at all events, be on the right side of the question. Our readers will perceive, on referring to this me morable debate, that the speeches of the Anti-Reformers are confined chiefly to criticisms respecting the details of the Bill; and that the principle, which was the real question, is either evaded altogether, or disposed of, with the assistance of pro phecy, in a manner that supersedes the use of reason. The Reformers were as triumph ed in argumentation as in nume rical strength.—Morning HVldd. The Reform Bill was reacts' second tune in the House of Commons yesterday—Sunday—morning, at one o'clock, after a division, which exhibited one hundred and sixty-two against the second reading—and three hundred and twenty-four in favour of it—in other words, a majority equal to the whole mi nority opposed to Reform I Triumphant in every respect as this majority was, it would have been still greater but for the reluctant absence, in some cases, and the determined absence, in others, of many Irish Members. Some of these gentlemen consulted their private interests and convenience in preference to their public duty—and others, through a pretended sulkiness that nothing had been done for Ireland—but, in plain terms, that the Government had done nothing for them—determined to remain in Ireland, in the hope that the Ministers would be more kind, and send for them, as redeeming angels, in their hour of trial. God help their silly brains to a little sense England and her Bill can not only do without them, but better without teem than with them ; though let us tell them,by the way, that their mode of advocating Irish interests is not precisely the way to advance them. Of the debate which took place on Satur day, we have not much more to say than we observed on that of Friday. In the latter, the speech of Mr. Macaulay was the leading speech of the night—grave, elo quent, and argumentative—full of point and cutting satire, and only not so effective as it might have been, on account of the extreme rapidity with which it was pronounced by the Hon. Member. Croker's—which was the only other speech worth notice, and which is only worth notice because it has been cried up by the organs of his party, as " admirable," " striking," " exhausting the whole subject," &c.—was one of the most flip pant, top-whipping sort of things, that ever was listened to in a British House of Commons—a thing that might have passed off with numberless cheers in Peel's drawing-room, or Murray's back parlour, with an Anti-Reform audience, but which would not have been listened to by any body of men who take reason for their guide, or consider argument superior to sophistry or misrepresentation. On Saturday the debate exhibited an equal lack of talent on the part of the Anti-Reformers :—but no lack of argument—keen and cutting—on the part of the reforming ma jority. Mr. Slaney made an admirable speech in favour of the Bill, and so also did Sir H. Willoughby. The speeches on the other side were those of Sir R. Inglis, who appears to have no other objection to the present Bill than that it is just as Reforming as its predecessor—of Mr. Stuart Wortley, who has no objection to a bit-and-bit Reform, but does not like a sweeping measure —of Colonel Sibthorpe, who complained loudly that Ministers had shown a disposition to hurry on! the discussion of the Bill, and expressed a hope that the Bill would be anatomised during the recess—of Mr. B. Wall, who said nothing of any mo ment—of Mr. C. Pelham, who advised the withdrawal of the Bill —of Mr. Praed, the rising young Tory Statesman, who could find nothing worth answering in the speeches of his Majesty's Minis ters, or rather, as some people think, nothing that he could an swer—of Col. Lindsay, who thought there were no practical evils in the old system, although the country is now groaning under a weight of taxation which is destroying its life, its industry, and its commerce—and of Sir Charles :Wetherell, who appears to have profited by his visit to Bristol, and never once mentioned the subject of reaction, although lie maintained that Ministers, and Ministers only, were to blame for the spirit and persever ance with which the people demanded a redress of their griev ances. Peel's speech, which, with the exception of Hunt's, which no one would listen to, closed the debate, consisted almost entirely of an attempt to clear himself of the stigma of having ratted on. various great questions, and of being ready to rat on the Reform question, with the exception of a solemn adjuration on the dangers of Reform. We have given the Baronet's defence at full length, as well as his solemn adjura. tion. The former will amuse every one, be of what party he may—the latter reminds us strongly of Liston, when in the character of Maunvorm he declares to his laughter-loving au. dience—" Ye shall seek me, but ye (shall not find me—ye will try, ye infatuated wretches, to seize me by the skirts of the coat; but I shall prevent you. I shall throw you all off: I shall wear a spencer, and fly away." To be serious, however, the speech of Mr. Stanley was, out of all question, the best speech of the night, for pith and vigour—bold and energetic—most sarcastically cutting—and if we may use the expression, " leav ing not a wreck behind," to which any of the opposition party could furnish a reply. We have looked with pleasure on the progress which this young Statesman has made; but we never had so much occasion to admire him as in his speech of Satur. day last. Let him but study his points, and the Crokers and Wetherells will become smaller men, in the course of a very few debates, than they have hitherto attempted to make them selves. It is not altogether unworthy of remark that Peel and Hunt—Arcades ambo et canere pares—closed the debate. They seem to chime in admirably in their opposition to the Bill ; but cui Lona F Does Mr. Hunt think th a t P e el will ever stand godfather to a Bill which has for its principle universal suff r age.—Morning Advertiser. The champions of the Constitution have "fought the good fight" with manly energy and spirit ; and though overpowered for the moment by the mere numbers of the delegates of fac tion, their ultimate success is certain. That a happy re-action in the public mind has of late extensively taken place upon this vital question, the results of the many important county and city deliberations hitherto published in our paper most proudly proclaim ; and it is therefore nothing short of insult to com mon understanding to say that the vote in favour of the Revo lutionary Bill obtained on yesterday (Sunday) morning was de claratory of the sense of the nation. The immense superiority in debate of the opponents of the measure is the circumstance which (now that all anxiety and eagerness for the fate of the ' measure itself on the part of the public is at an end);loas chiefly attracted attention:,; The Reformers throughout the metro polis, so far from attempting to deny what is indeed much too conspicuous to be disputed, hang down their heads with shame, and shrink from any obsertations on the subject, dread: ing nothing so much as to hear how Croker dernolished lihcatl lay,how Mr. Sfmiley dwindled into nothing when contracted with Sir R. Peel, and how Lord Plirchester, Lord Mahon, Sir E Sugden, Mr. Wall, Sir Charles Wetherell, 'and many others . of the champions of the Constitution challenged, but challenged invain, any coninCtent antagonist to step forth againsethein. We do not hesitate to express our belief that the . _ impression produced upon the country by these two days of triumphant de bee will be such he to complete the rescue of the Constituti( n from the danger which hong over it. The retainers of the Revolutionary Administration, the pledged Members of the House of Commons, who have purchased their seats by the sale of freedom, honour, and conscience; may still cling to Minis.. ters and vote as they command, but their cause neverthe less has received a vital blow, from the effects of which it never can recover. How tame, how feeble, how vapid, anal spiritless the apologetical harangues of the Ministerial advo cates, by 'Which they strove to defend the numerous and im portant changes introduced into " the Bill, the whole Bill, and nothing but the Bill," when we compare them with the fierce denunciations which in former debates upon Reform were • levelled against the Constitution" of England, and against all who were bold enough to adhere to and defend it. The abatement of energy within the walls of Parliament in the cause of Reform is in proportion:to the languour which:prevails without. And what was the real question which the House decided by the division of Sunday morning ? That it assents to the principle of the Bill' it will be said. This is true,' only upon the condition that nothing is a principle of the Bill but the simple proposition that sonic measure of Reform is expedient. The authors of the present measure have given a flexibility of meaning to the word principle, by contending, as ther have been compelled to do, that this measure does not deviite in principle from the last; which in effect reduces the value of the second reading to this, that the Bill has passed a stage in• which it could net be altered. Will the men who voted through thick and thin with Ministers last Session, because they were pledged to the Bill, the whole Bill, and nothing but . the Bill, be now` eicsially united in`resisting alteratlinis in Mat s. - ters of detail of the present Bill? Will the Ministerial pha lanx be firm and unanimong in affirming now some score or two propositions which a few months ago they so obsequiously ne gatived ? Having then been dragged through the mire by the neck, must they noW of necessity be willing to be dragged through the same mire by the heels ? And if the House of ComnielTes notwithstanding the vote of yesterday has reserved to itself the saniCextent of discretion in dealing with the present Bill, which Ministers, Without one violation of the principle of the Bill, as they tell us, have exercised upon the last, how little are we' Yet enabled to judge of the kind of Reform to which'. the House of Commons, to say nothing for the present of the Upper House, may eve ntnally agree ? The relative number of 101. houses and amount of agstasaed taxes in boroughs has been sub stituted for positive populatin as the basis of schedule A. The question, therefore, whether any of these, or any other imagi nable bite* is the best, is an open question, • The number of boroughs in schedule B, of the boroughs to be disfranchised, is considerably redneeth The question, therefore, whether the present or any other number of boroughs is the best that can be assigned to either of the disfranchising schedules is an Open question. The qualification for the elective fran chise in eennties, cities, and boroughs has been considerably altered—altered so much as in every instance to modify, and in many to transfer (Mtn one class of persons to another, the effec tive controul of the elections. Every point relating to the elective franchise in counties, cities, and boroughs is therefore an open question. The number of Members of which the House of Commons was to consist, and the proportionate part of that number WIWI was to have been assigned respectively to England, Ireland, and &Wand, are altered. These are still, therefore, open questions. The relative share of the represen tation which was to have been given to the agricultural and ma nufacturing interests severally is altered, This again is an open question: Ministers and their friends will scarcely, we imagine, pretend that the same questions which did not involve any essential principle of the Bill; so long as the Bilihad to be dealt with in the Cabinet, do involve essential principles of the measure now that it is about to be dealt with by the Coln mittee of the House of Commons. That they can blow hot and cold Upon occasion we know: and if there was nothing but their consistency at stake our confidence would be considerably abated ; but we think Minister's will hardly venture upon such an indignity to the House of Commons as would be implied in the pretence that the House is bound by the second reading within any narrower limits of change than Ministers themselves were bound by their pledge to adhere to every essential prin ciple of the former Bill. If the Committee of the House of Commons will but act as freely with the present measure as his Majesty's Ministers have acted in metamorphosing the last into the present, they may yet send up to the Peers a Bill, not bene ficial indeed, for we refuse to acknowledge that any Reform will be beneficial, but as inocuous as can be imagined.—Morn. Post. LITERATURE. THE COMIC ANNUAL. FOR 1832. Of all the numerous Comic Annuals that have come out this year, and as a matter of course will go in the next, this is incomparably the best. It is full of puns, but still fuller of sterling humour, such humour as Foote and even Swift (had Swift even known what it was to be lively without being caustic) might have been proud to own. Mr. Hood is a humourist of a class that must always be popular. He never bites, he only tickles, though it must be confessed his tickling is sometimes of that outrageous character that must seriously dis compose the midriff, and even affect the safety of the sides. His " Pugsley Papers" have nearly caused us to split with laughter, but we are cha ritable and pardon Mr. Hood the injury we have sustained at his hand , , in consideration of his good intentions, and that there was no " malice prepense" in the case. Every one who wishes to go safely hrough the perilous fogs of December—pray why did not the " Comic Annual" make its appearance before the late detestable weather set in ? and enable him self to set the cholera at defiance, should peruse the "Pugsley Papers "—the best quiz on the bulky Evelyn, Pepys, Warburton, Parr, Wyndham, and Garrick Papers, we have yet met with. The idea 's eminently felicitous, and is worked out with equal felicity. It is in fact the gem of the volume. The " Bailey Ballads" are also amusing, and the song on " John Day," the fat coachman, is one of those quaint conceits in which Mr. Hood, though he has had a host of imitators, still shines unrivalled The " Plan for writing Blank Verse in Rhyme" is ingenious rather than humorous; it will however yield much entertainment. The wood-cuts are as capital as ever. If there be a better pictorial pun than that entitled " Aladdin, or the Wonderful Lamp," we at least know not where to find it. Mr. Hood is himself the designer, as well as the illus trator, of some of the best; the remainder are from the pencils of Messrs. Branston and Wright. Alto gether the volume is fully equal, if not superior, to any of its predecessors, though we cannot help fancying it is somewhat curtailed in its 'dimensions. FISHER'S DRAWING SCUAP-B 0 OK. LONDON, 1831. The shape and size of this Annual—for we take for granted it is meant to be one—are admirably adapted to the display of its embellishments. There is plenty of sea-room for them, and the space is made the most of. Ihe plates are thirty-six in number, embracing every possible variety of subject, marine sketches, portraits, and landscapes of bill and lake, meadow, moor, and mountain. These are all illustrated in verse by Miss Lando n, who is some times remarkably fortunate in her illustrations, and never below mediocrity. Among the landscapes we may select for special praise the enchanting view of the Lake of Windermere, the scenes on the banks of the Ganges, and above all, the exquisitely finished sketch of the Vale of Lonsdale. Of the Portraits, t hat of Hannah More, is decidedly the best. It is full of expression, character, and delicacy; and though weknow not whether it be equally effective as a likeness,we feel strongly inclined to take for granted that it is so. We must not omit to notice the grace ful appearance of the volume, which is handsomer and of ampler dimensions than any Annual we have yet seen. Mr. RAYNER, the actor, is the proprietor of the New Theatre, late BARKER'S Panorama, in the t str4ne. It is, we understand, quite finished, and the interior of ,t is very beautiful. It consists of pit and b(aes only— no gallery. The house, when full, will bold one huaertd and thirty pounds, at the usual prices of admission. ~- itto. Mt,/ ...,.~"~ i 1 I , 6 •o loa , 40 58 .4) 29 ss e a l l 30 ti• r il bad' . 4 wield rad L t D m Lt°4-„