The Sun. — London, England, 1831-03-21 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Whatever opinion we may have of the policy of the tneasure on which the House divided oil Friday, Ihere can be no doubt as to the disingenuous con- duct of the m a jo r ity. The motives which act uated' Sir R. Peel, according to the report furnished by one of his followers (for the regular reporters having been shut out, we can only refer to irregular sources), would justify a constant and daily opposition to every Government. Would it rot be more ronly in the ex-Minister to avow at once that he wishes to be in office again, and that he will use all means, direct or indirect, to oust the party now in pos . seFsion ? Does Sir Robert wi,-h to defeat the Ministers on a collateral issue, as the lawyers call: it, bscause he fears to be at the head of a majority destroying the measure which the universal voice of England is daily calling for, and which the Kin' of England is no less anxious to carry than the humblest of his subjects ? The straightforward course is the hest, and to show that we at least have no wish to employ indirect means, we assert at once, that Ministers will not resign that they will exert every nerve to consummate their noble plan of Reform ; and that if Parliament rejects it, they will appeal tb the nation. They must, indeed, be fools who imagine that the people of England will desert the Ministers who" have brought forward this great measure, because they may or may not have committed a blunder on the timber duties. Canada is an important cc- Inny,and the shipowners are a respectable body - but the British nation would rather see the Canada: swept for ever from the map of the western world, with all the ship-owners dangling from its red and yellow pines, titan suffer the grand measure of Pot , - liamentary regeneration to be lost. Sir Robevt Peel knows well, that out of the House at least there is scarcely a Tory of any influence who is not a friend of the till. In Nottinghamshire the Tories alone promoted the county meeting; in Kent one-half; and in Staffordshire the chief names are Tory, and in Derbyshire the Tories would not let one Whig sign the requisition. The Pet! party, therefore, must see that no Government could stand on the principle of Anti-Reform ; and though they, in the scramble for office, may not hear it, the country, in a voice of thunder, cries out that no half .Reform will be tolerated. We are sorry to have to state that an illustrious person, whose understanding has never been estimated so highly as his honour, has been exerting his—certainly not very powerful efforts—against the Bill. He had thought himself fit for a ♦ery important office, but to his best friends this fitness was not so evident as to himself. His application was refused, and he now undertakes an enterprise for which we think he is as little fitted— he undertakes to resist the will of the people of England ! Risum teneatus?—Titncs. This evening comes on the second reading of the Bill for Parliamentary Reform. The principle of that great measure was so fully discussed on its in troduction last Tuesday fortnight, and for six fol- lowing days, that few doubts can now exist among friends or foes as to its real effects and tendencies, very few speakers, besides, are left, who have not already delivered their sentiments, or the sentiments which they were commanded by their borough task- masters to promulgate; so that a liberal allowance being maths' es t; e usual repetitions of thrice-told absurdities, 20 times refuted, and rejected by all reasonable men, we may hope that one or two more nights, at furthest, will have seen the Reform Bill, under the escort of a large majority, safely landed at the threshold of the Committee,—that stage of its progress at which the enemy has prepared for his final and desperate, but unavailing, enterprise ; collecting, in a single mass, the arms, trappings, treasures, and household gods of corruption—all to perish together. We have heard of a certain ancient Tory, albeit an Ex-Chancellor, who teaches his p ipils and dependents to sing out lustily the old cuckoo note of " revolution." According to this venerable, though not over-devout Jeremiah, we shall have more Lords or Commons ere long. The nation is all mad ; Lord Grey is stark mad; and this raw Chancellor, Brougham, was mad al ways. Away go the Bankruptcy Commissioners! and the never-ending accumulation of unpayttble fees to masters, and masters' clerks,—and the suits ouiliving ten generations,—and all the pretty pick ings of my Lord himself, and his secretaries, and of unnumbered subal:erns, the quintessence of Chan cery jurisdiction—and the jobbing of church pa tronage,—away it flies on the wings of the glorious borough system. Church and State—alas ! Where are ye ? Profusion abroad, peculation at home — heir-looms of Tory loyalists and placemen—pounced upon and demolished at one fell swoop There will be nothing worth living for in the British domi nion, if this career of the devil incarnate of Re form be not stopped. Why, we hear that the veteran purist has actually sent it round through some worthy frequenter of the Court to Queen Adelaide, that her Majesty's draw ing-rooms are already numbered—that the last season of St. James's has almost expired, and that plumes and lappets are about to wave no more. But miserable will be the end of such manoeuvres, as the motives of those who prac tise; thee are at once criminal and mean. The Court of William IV. and Queen Adelaide cannot be made, like former Courts, a field for playing off iniquitous attempts against the people of England. Ills Majesty knows how to nail his colours to the mast, and did not hoist the Royal flag to strike it. The spirit of Reform has now reached, throughout Great Britain, that height from which it may dis dain the yelping ban-dogs of the old vicious Go vernment. The rich and wealthy members of the aristocracy have been warned, on one side, that the proposed - Reform is a democratic and radical revo lution. With becoming consistency, the labouring c lasses have been told that it is a measure for utterly crushing the democracy, by disfranchising the pot• wallopers now privileged to return Members for boroughs. Both these orders of Englishmen, so tenderly premonished of the ruin thus awaiting them, have been perverse enough to laugh at their advisers. A long and illustrious list of bo rough proprietors have come nobly forward to sacrifice their exclusive rthts, and myriads of the unportioned poor who vote have signed petitions praying for their own complete dis franchisement. But who are they by whom the defence of this unhallowed mockery of all freedom, justice, and national honour, has been, in fact, conducted ? Who are the noisy ad vocates of the close borough system, and of all abuses of every nature and form which can in any manner trace a vile affinity to it ? Why, the cul prits themselves are their own proper advocates ! The refractory boroughmongers in the Commons bully for themselves : those who, to the credit of tae Peerage, are not Commoners, command their willing slaves to swagger for them. Mercenary ad venturers, close monopolist', disciplined harpies of all descriptions, shoulder each other on the floor of the House of Commons, and bellow out responses of the Newcastle and Beaufort worship. East Wits monopolists are of the same school ; their only chance of a revival of the most odious and rapacious of all tyrannies, one foot of which rests on the neck of Hindostan, and the other on that of England herself, is in the continuance of the borough system. The Bank monopolist joins the cry ; his prey, like wise, is the commerce of the people of England, and a Reformed Parl i ament, which m us t g i ve others a prospect of sharing the fair profits of the money market with him, provokes his generous indignation ! The Lord Charles's, and that whole tribe of glossy , coated vermin, which find their way into Parliament through the only aperture by which it would be physi cally possible for such creatures to creep into the company of grave and delibetating men,—these are of course against Reform. Fer them it will be a true and direful revolution,—a revolution as posi tive as that of 1658 was for James 11. and his fa mily,—a revolution far more absolute and more ad mirable than even those which Lord E !don has never fulled to predict in the successive bills for the repeal of the Test Act, for the relief .. of the Catho lics, and, though la.st, not least magnificent, the pro- jected measure of Lord Brougham for cleansing, by one grand influx of the stream of an enlightened legislation, the dreadful impurities of whole ages of unpunished plunder, amassed and accumulated by the foul tenants of that Court over whi c h L or d Eldon presided se long, and to the tainted winos phere of which his organs were seemingly insensible. We insert this day the proceedings of three of the most important counties in Great Britain, for the support of his Maj e sty' s G overnment , an d f or th e promotion of this immortal charter of Reform. We publish, moreover, a brief and significant common ' tart', in the shape of a letter to a Nobte. Lcial, upon that far-famed and most edifying V;:odec'tion, the pre tended (for a base preterits it is) anti-reform decima -1 tion of " the merchants, hankers, and others" of the city of London, get up within these three days. And pray who are thebankers, the merchants, and others, by whom this declaration, in the name of the citizens of London, has been mannfactut-ecl ? Let us sec. Banker Attwood ! Bormighbridge Attwood ! New castle Attwood again ! How these animals multiply thernse4Ves. Why, the "do what I please with my own" breeds as many maggots as a carrion. Then I comes banker Paltner,--he that sits in the elia'r of the old woman of Threadneedle-street, and advised the tux on the transfer of funded property. Next comes " Merchant" Jemmy Alexander. and " Mer chant" Joss Alexander, both great people, for we find M.P. after their names ; and what after M.P. ? What think you, reader? Guess now. Why, "by the powers," as Pat says, Old :Sarum !! ! The declaration of Old Sarua for the continuance of Old Sarum! a 'fraud upon the common sense of mankind. Why, Messrs. Joss and Jemmy, you are not half so much representatives of the people of England as you are of the copper faces of Calcutta. Go back there—go, and snake a few more half millions. The name of one individual of your family wilt long be remembered in the East. " My DEAR, LORD,—The declaration of the Merchants, Bankers, and others,' of the City of London, which now ' lies' for signature at the City of London Tavern, has been brought forward mainly by Mr. Attwood, M.P. for Boroughbridge. Mr. James Alexander, M.P. } for Old Strum. Mr. Jos. Alexander, M.P. Mr. Asteli, M.P., Chairman of the India Company. Mr. H. Palmer, Governor of the Bank. And it has been signed, amongst others, by Mr. Alexander Baring, 31. P. for Callington. I believe—indeed every body in the City believes—that the word others' was added to ' Merchants and Bankers,' for the express purpose of bringing in Mr. Alexander Baring, who could not sign as a merchant, he having (as stated in a letter which he addressed to the Editor of the Times about six weeks ago) declared that be had retired two years ago from all interest in mercantile affairs, in London or elsewhere. I think it very desirable that it should be known who the chief movers are in this hole and corner' declaration of the, Merchants, Bankers, and others, of the City of London. " Ever most truly yours, " March 19. " E." Such are the paltry devices practised against the public spirit of the nation. It is in truth hut get ting tip a man of straw and calling it an Englishmar. There is no life in the wretched scarecrow : pelt it with a single brickbat, and down it goes. But we shall put an end to all trifling, by a distinct and pe remptory assurance to the Tory mercenaries (there are among Tories some honest advocates for Re form), that they may as well lay down their arms, or take to their heels at once. Let them do their worst, they hut throw nut the Bill : what happen then ? The Minister will instantly dissolve the Par liament. We are certain of it. The King's Go vernment will at once appeal to the people of Eng land, and then what becomes of the present oppo sition to Reform, of your Treasury-borough-men and your she county Members? Let them think of this in tune :—they have our warning.— Times. A certain Prince of the Blood, never, indeed, at any time deemed a Solon, but who, nevertheless, has hitherto received credit for being a friend to Re form and Anti-Slavery, is now, we understand, opposed to the Reform Bill ; and as there is a reason for everything, the reason of this hostility is, that he conceives that he ought to have been a Com mander-in-Chief. Ambition is a dangerous passion for a little man. His Royal Highness, not content with expressing his hostility to the Bill, is strongly suspected of intriguing at Court with a view to de feat it. It is well that the people on an occasion like the present, should know who are their ene mies, and who eiideavour to stand between them and Reform. This little Prince hard better take warning in time. Some friend ought to counsel him not to put himself forward as opposed to the just rights of the people, at a time like this, when no action is indifferent. The people are much stronger than combinations of boroughmongers, ship-owners, arid West Indians, leaguing for the furtherance of their corrupt interests. If there is one exhibition which more than another ought to determine the people of England to demand a Re form of the House of Commons, it was that of Friday night, when all principle, even the affecta tion of regard for the public interest, was made to yield to the determination to protect the sepa rate interests of the ship-owners and colonies at all hazards, no matter what the cost to the country. Weil arid truly was it observed by Mr. Hume, on Saturday night, that if nine hun dred and ninety-nine in a thousand were before eager for Reform, this ought to make the nine hundred and ninety-nine a thousand. The country may rely on the determination of the present Ministers not to abate one jot of their expressed purpose. This brings us to the plain practical view of the matter. — How can Sir Robert Peel and the Duke of Wel lington make a Government against the King and against the people ? Do they think that— after the interest which the people have every where manifested in this question—after the nine hundred and ninety-nine in a thousand have left it no longer doubtful what their inclinations are —they could manage matters better now than three months ago, when they fled, not from Sir Henry Parnell's majority, but from their own convicted incapacity ? The opposition of that day have now the whole country at their backs. What is the use of all their intriguing—all their factious combina tions in the House of Commons ? We ask them this plain question—What would be the result of the Bill being lost ? Revolution. When the present Ministry came into power, was not the word Revo lution in every man's mouth ? They perceived that the time was come when it was necessary to choose between Reform and Revolution, and they accepted office on the condition that a real and not an illusory Reform should be granted. The agitation instantly ceased. But is there a man so besotted as not to perceive that the cause is the hope with which the people were inspired ? The present Ministers are not mistaken as to the cause; they knew that neither they nor a r ty other set of men could have succeeded in tranquillising the public by deceiving them—by telling them we only used the word Reform for our own ends, we never intended to keep our word, and we are determined to preserve religiously all the existing abuses. They knew that the people of England were not to be satisfied without Reform, and were to be satisfied with no mock Reform ; a Reform which left the cause of the evil *untouched—namely, the power of the oligarchy to apply the property of the nation for their own purposes. Their honour and charac ter are bound up inseparably with the people, and to sacrifice the people on this occasion would be to sacrifice themselves. Can the men who declared that the time was come when it became necessary to choose between Reform and revolution , falsif y their own solemn declarations, by declaring that Reform need not be granted, and revolution need not be feared ? We know that Ministers have made up their minds to go through with their sacred task—that they will not turn their hands from the plough, and thereby merit' the curses of a nation now loud in declarations of gratitud e towards them. We kno w that they are determined not only to pro ceed with Reform, but to proceed with the Reform which is embodied in their Bill ; that their text is, " the Bill, the whole Bill, and nothing but the Bill!' In such a cause, backed by the people, they have nothing to feazi, The bold, the manly course, is really the wise and the prudent course. If Sir Robert Peel and the Duke of Wellington really thought there were any chance of their manoeuvres having the effect of placing them at the head of an anti-Reform Administration, their hearts would sink within them. They know the difference between the borough mongers and the nation. —Morning Chronicle. All England is loOkinf.Y.., with intense interest to the important measure, of which the second reading comes on this day. As to the people, they have shown in the most unequivocal manner in what light they. view the measure. To chronicle even the names of the places where meetings have been held approving of the Ministerial plan of Reform, is no easy task ; but nothing more easy than to narae the opponents out of the House of Commons, who have ventured on an expression of hostile sentiments. In London, an aOdress has been got up against the 80l by •some of the merchants and bankers. In like manner, a hostile meeting has been concocted at Edinburgh by the Duke of Montrose, which took care to exclude reporters ; but the names of the gentlemen who attended may be soon run ov er, a n d it may be said of all them, that they have special good reasons for disliking Reform. The country never was perhaps so united on any question, as on that which now engrosses its attention. That Pa liamentary Reform should be in worse odour in the House of Commons, than out of doors, is quite natural. The love of life possesses us to the last ; " for who . . . this pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, without casting a longing lingering look behind I" The known dislike of a great part of the House to sign their own death-warrant, has led to all mariner of conjectures as to the result of a trial of strength. Of course, it is' likely that Ministers and the Opposition should agree in the estimates of their respective forces. Some, too, sup pose, that a division will not take place on the se• cond reading, in order to protract the existence of the House, and in the hope that some favourable in cident may occur, while the Bill is passing through the subsequent stages. Now that the people have so decidedly passed sentence of condemnation on the usurpers of their rights, it is but a sorry argu ment on the part of the boroughmongers to say, we are determined to be your representatives whether you will or not ; we are determined that you shall not dispense with our guardianship. It is happily observed in an article on Parliamentary Reform, in the forthcoming number of the Westminster Review (with an early copy of w hich we have been favoured), that " If a Parliament subject to popular influences had en gaged in wars, it would at least have engaged in wars for popular interest and not against them. It would certainly not have engaged in them for the direct purpose of k eep i ng up the power of fingering the public purse, and of aban doning it only when it had become difficult to find the means of discovering anything more to take. This power of fingering the public purse, is what is denominated ' pro tecting people from themselves'—preserving them, to wit, from the ignorant impatience of parting with their money, whirls they might otherwise give way to. It requires little observation to be convinced, that this pretext of protecting the people from themselves,' as advanced to prove the necessity of lodging the power of taking money in a certain number of proprietors of rotten boroughs, is on a par with a plan which should propose to pre serve travellers from the self-indulgence which some men are apt to give way to in their various halts and resting-places, by establishing a ' protecting' corps of gentlemen of the road who should ease them of the means of evil. The proof that one party are unable to take care of themselves, and that the other are the proper judges of bow far they may he trusted to their own discretion, is as absolutely absent in one case as in the other. Not one of the party to be protected can be found consenting to the plan. Nothing ever made the necessity visible to any man's optics, except the personal prospect of being one of the party that was to profit by it. Nobody has ever asked the boroughnaongers to take care of him; it is a purely voluntary piece of charity, as far as regards every body but themselves; a simple act of supereroga tion, deduction made of the gratification which virtuous eff'rts produce to the performer. Imagine a political teacher standing up and saying, Whoever will be saved, it is in the first place necessary that he make himself some rotten boroughs.' Calculate the probability of demon strating, to any men in full possession of their natural faculties, that a step towards a proper representation is to introduce a number of individuals who shall represent no body but themselves. This is all the holy ground of po litics ; the sacred precincts of unrea son, within which it would be sacrilege for common sense to set its foot. Would that the boroughmongers could at once make up their minds to part with what it is impos sible they should be allowed to retain. They can not withstand an united nation ; and if they could but consider the matter calmly, their menaces of resisting to the last are really ludicrous. They re sist ! It is well for them that the people, confi dent in their strength, are not easily provoked...— Morning Chronicle. We look upon the defeat which Ministers have sustained on the subject of the Canada timber du ties with mingled feelings of satisfaction arid regret —of satisfaction, that the ricketty and deformed bantling of that incomparable and incomprehensible Statesman, the Right Hon.Poulett Thomson, which Lord Althorp had so strangely and unwisely taken to dry nurse, should have expired so soon after its birth—of regret, that any thing should occur that may in the smallest degree embarrass or impede the progress of that one great measure on which the public expectation is at once so warmly and so rea sonably fixed. On this occasion the Ministers seem to have been ambitious of rivalling their celebrated predecessors, of whom it was said by Sheridan, that they had built a wall to dash their own h eads a g ainst. It is singular enough that, on Friday , the da y pre ceding this defeat, the quidnunc: of e ver y club house announced, with oracular certainty, t he event which subsequently took place; while the Ministers themselves, taking no advantage of the warnings and the wishes of their opponents , quietly stood still to meet their fate with as much philo sophy as if they actually courted it. It is the pact of wisdom to foresee danger and to avoid it, while it is that of heedless rashness to persist in error till its consequences are inevitable.. Ministers ought to have known that, in addition to the opponents of this particular measure, their bold and valuable effort on the subject of Reform must have raised them up a host of personal enemies, who will leave no mcrs untried to prolong their own existence by ending that of their executioners. They ought to have known that the unextinguishable hate of the boroughmongers, and of that lively class of their reps e sentatives avho are now doomed to breathe the air of St. Stephen's for the last time, would leave no atone unturned to wreak their patriotic vengeance upon those who propose to deprive the country of their invaluable services ; and, knowing this, which at least every body else knew, it was their obvious policy—not to say their duty, to have not o nlY pressed no doubtful measure, but to have staved off every discussion which could, by the most remote possibility, affect the ultimate fate of that one great quest'on, upon which their own fate, and what IS of infinitely greater consequence, the happiness, the tranquillity, and prosperity of the whole country, so essentially depends. The error, however, has unfortunately been committed; and !t only remains for the Ministers to repair it in the best way they can. That they will r esign we cannot persuade ourselves to believe. Such a step, at the present critical moment, would be an act of political insanity and suicide. The question , after all, upon which they have suffered themselves to be defeated, is comparatively a very trifling one, and such as none but the mere interested slaves of faction can contend ought to compromise the exist ence of any Government. That the event may lead to the retirement of one, if not more of the in efficient occupiers of particular departments, is what nobody would deplore ; but this, at the most, is all which it ought to produce in that way. That it should lead to an immediate dissolution of Parlia ment would be still more unadvisable, and for this plain reason, that what. Parliament has , done upon the occasion is in itself right, and will, we have no doubt, be so considered by the right-judging and reflecting part of the community. No. However mortifying the circumstance., Minis ters have brought the visitation upon themselves, and instead of resenting the correction, they are hoesnd to kiss the rod. Besides, were a dissolution to take pl ace p rev i o us to the votes of Members being c omm i tte d on th e subject of Reform, how complet e ly would they be plating the game of their opponents. Do not let Ministers then distract themselves with minor matters; let them at present look only to their one great measure, and stand or fall with that. Then they g ill indeed have the merit of having lived or died nobly ; but to quail under the insidious candour of Sir Robert Peel, and fall by the hand of Mr. Poulett Thomson, would indeed be a fate which would betray a want of cou rage unparalleled in the annals of political warfare. —Morning Herald. On Saturday, at noon, the llouse of Commons re-assembled, but only for the "previously arranged and avowed purpose of receiving petitions; indeed there was but one order of the day, and that was postponed to Monday's meeting. The Speaker had no difficulty to " make a House," as it is termed; there were, at twelve o'clock, three times as many Members as were requisite for that purpose. The House presented an appearance which of late has ceased to be extraordinary. Almost every Member had by the side of him large bundles of petitions ; and it was a sort of exception that any Member rose to present fewer than 10, or 20, or 50 or GO peti tions. The Saturday which preceded Lord J. Rus sell's motion for leave to bring in the Reform Bills was deemed a remarkable day in consequence of the immense number of petitions presented ; but the Saturday preceding the second reading of the Bill for restoring the representation of England—which second reading stands for this night, quite equalled its predecessor in that respect. In spite of every effort to keep down conversation—and there was but little, the presentation of the petitions occupied the House from noon till a quarter-past six o'clock in the evening ; and as many Members whose names were on the Speaker's paper (as having petitions to present) did not answer to their manes when they were called, there must still remain many petitions to be presented. Colonel Sibthorpe, on presenting petitions from Lincoln and other places, spoke of having been abused and misrepresented by the " vile Press" (of Lincolnshire, it was under stood). The Gallant Colonel declared that he was l a Reformer, but not a radical Reformer; and de plored the " vacillation" of the Ministers on some of their budget measures. Sir W. Ingilby observed, that the Gallant Colonel had very unnecessarily heated himself—that the " march of mind," even in the quarter of the kingdom represented by the said Gallant Colonel, had given a useful hint or two to its representatives; aid he doubted not, ere long, if further hints were requisite, they would be plentifully supplied. Mr. Hume said he was not much in the habit of defending any Ministers, but that he could not avoid declaring that the op position which had appeared against them on Friday night, and, finally, on Saturday morn ing, was of a more " factious" character than any thing he had ever witnessed in that House. He felt persuaded that the country would not fail to perceive its odious character, and its real merits. 1k considered that there had pre viously been ninety-nine very good and substantial reasons in favour of Parliamentary Reform ; but that if the hundredth were wanted, the last division had furnished it. Mr. Curteis disclaimed having opposed the Ministers on " factious" grounds. He resisted their proposition as the conscientious oppo nent of what were termed the principles of " free trade." Mr. O'Connell considered that Mr. Hume's description of the opposition was perfectly accurate. He added that not only were England and Scotland in favour of the Ministers, but that Ireland, for getting it a wrongs, real or imaginary, sent forth its applauding voice in support of those Bills which sought to destroy boroughmongering influence, and aristocratic and corrupt nominations to seats in that House, which ought to be " the people's House." Sir J. Graham, at the conclusion of the sitting, pre- sewed many Reform petitions; and the Attorney- General (Denman) also presented various petitions, amongst them one from the English Bar, approving of the Ministerial plan of Reform, as " calculated to increase the security of the throne, the stability of property, and the welfare of the people."—Aforn ing Herald. This evening the second reading of the Bill for a Reform in the representation of the people comes on in the House of Commons; and whatever may be its fate, it cannot be asserted of it, on the one . hand, that the people are not for it, or, on the other, that they will not ultimately carry it at any cost.— Since the last number cf this Paper made its appear ance, there has been a meeting at Plymouth, in favour of the Bill—a meeting of Hampshire to the sam e effect; and also of Essex and Surrey—a meet ing at Northampton, and a meeting at Shrewsbury, and a most unanimous meeting in Dublin—meetings in fact upon meetings, and so numerous that we have not even space to name them in detail ! But meetings, it would appear, produce no effect upon the iron nerves of the supporters of corrup tion and misrepresentation. They will not listen to the calm voice of reason—they will not see in the present temper of the country a stronger argument for Reform than all the reason ings against it which could he adduced, and, we regret to add, that they are determined to resist the measure to the last, and in all its stages! Well, be it so. Good seldom comes with out a proportionate alloy of evil, and that alloy the opponents of Reform are determined that the country should taste before it enjoys the unspeak able benefits of Reform. And what is this but an argument for additional exertion, additional vi gilance, and the adoption of more determined measures on the part of the people ? Are three or four hundred individuals to lord it over the people of England, Scotland, and Ire land ? Why do the occupants of Treasury bo roughs still continue to retain the privilege of uttering nonsense, after the party which gave the boroughs to them have ceased to have any power in the State ? Why do they not imitate the King's son-in-law, Sir Philip Sydney, and resign at once, because they are opposed to the policy of their new patrons ? Nothing so base said vile was ever known, as their continued occupancy ef their seats; but there is a purge preparing for them, and even while we are writing may have been finally deter mined on. The whole crew must go out; and where is the place that will confide in them ?- 21forning Advertiser. In looking at the question of Reform, there is ore point of view in which it has not been sufficiently considered, and that is the effect which a measure in itself so essentially revolutionary, jacobinical, and subversive, will have upon the minds of foreigners. Amidst the violence of civil commotions in coun tries separated from us only by a narrow channel, England retained her stability, strength, and union, her power and prosperity resting on the sale pillars of her Constitution and commerce. The one be came the envy and admiration of the whole world —vas made the theme of praise in every quarter of the globe; whilst the other served as a proud illus tration to those benefits enjoyed under its benign influence. Our glorious institutions were accord ingly supposed to be as firm as the sea-girt islands in which they were planted ; unassailable from without, and secured within by the strongest associations prevailing in the breasts of an e nlightened and grateful people. Hence was it that public confidence, shaken in other parts of Europe, remained unimpaired among us. Hither were the fortunes of individuals sent who were flying from rapine and desolation. Our country thus became a place of safety to all nations; but what will they now say, when they behold us convulsed with the solution nf a great political question, in which every malignant passion, har boured in the human breast is displayed ? Will they not conclude that we are inoculated with that revolutionary mania that has brought the nd is greatest calamities upon Spain, Portugal, and Italy, and again at this very moment going the rounds of other parts of the Continent ? Will not the agitators, ac tively cngagad in France and elsewhere, venture to boast that what is doing among us may be attributed to the efficacy of those doctrines which they have sedulously put forth, in order to create animosities between Sovereigns and their people ? At this awful moment, when on every side the horizon is obscured, are we not affording to our enemies that triumph in which they will most exult ? Are we not barbing an arrow which they will hereafter wield to our de struction ? Does it not therefore become us to pause, when on every side we see the spirit of inno vation spreading with a desolating rapidity ? We h w a i v i long h civil institutionsbeen d o ! a e r ;e r d our y happinesscountry had thereby become the great emporium of modern trade; how, then, is it that we do not bend in grateful acknowledgment for the va lua b le benefits which have thus fallen to our lot ? Why do we wish to risk experiments, when we have a certain good already in our possession ? In even - part of the Continent is it not already exultingly re-echoed that the English are on the eve of revolution ? To destroy is an easy task, and within the meanest ca pacity ; but to rebuild requires a combination of ta lents and an extent of views which nature distributes only with a spating hand. Theoretically, some of our brightest characters have been Reformers ; but when attempting to act, they trembled at every thing that could fundamentally disturb the stablished order. Mr. Pitt, even when a youth, saw abuses which had gradually impaired the represen tation of the people. This he discovered with the eyes of a mature Statesman; many of his opinions upon this subject were in fact imbibed from the lessons of his own father; but when an awful responsibility came to rest upon his own shoulders, and lie hail the opportunity of looking the danger full in the face, he shrunk from an undertaking which he was convinced could not fail to involve us in one indis criminate ruin. His former friends and associates then eagerly said of him, in palliation of Lis con duct," that the French Revolution had intervened— that it had caused a great fermentation in the minds of men—that it appeared to have given to the zeal of some British Reformers a tinge of republicanism ; and that the effects and consequences of that great event had read an awful lesson to the whole world !" And are we in less hazardous times at this moment ? Is the contagion less alarming? .No reflecting man can think so. We therefore say that the country is in danger; and it is the duty of every honourable Englishman—every father of a family who feels that the dearest duties are those of patriotism—to fly to its assistance, and manfully raise his voice in defence of those institutions which have gained us the con , fidence and respect of all nations, and mainly con , tributed to our happiness and prosperity at home.— , Alorning Post. LENT ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. EXETER, MAncir 19. SEDUCTION.-.CAPRON V. BALMONT. The defendant in this case is an attorney, residing at Brampton, in this county, and the plaintiff keeps the Tiverton Hotel in the same place. The action was brought to recover compensation for the injury sustained by the plaintiff in losing the strvices of his daughter, who had been seduced and become pregnant by the defendant. Mr. Serjeant WILDE stated the case, and men tioned that the present was the first instance in his experience where the defendant had the indecency to appear in person to conduct his own defence. The Learned Serjeant called into the box the young lady who had been the cause of action, and whose name was _ _ Mary Anne Capron—She deposed that she was the only daughter of her father, and is now 18 years of age. She became acquainted with the defendant about three years ago. Six weeks after their first acquaintance he began to make his addresses to her and spoke of marriage. She declined the offer, but he nevertheless continued to visit her father's house two or three times in a day for about aix months after. He spoke to the mother upon the subject, and said that he liked the witness, if the father had no objec tion ; but as the mother did not approve of the proposal, it went no farther. He continued after this to visit the house as the suitor of the young lady. Came as frequently as ever, and often stayed all day. He usually sat in the bar, and frequently dined with the family. This went on until the Ist of January, 1830, on which day he begged of the witness to call at his lodgings, as he had some curious wine, of which he wished to send a bottle to wit ness's father. The witness did, in compliance with this request, call upon the defendant. The other pernon soon retired, upon which, after some conversation, the defendant being alone with the witness, put out the light. Witness going to the door found it fastened, and the defendant immediately began to take liberties with her, which ended in her seduc tion. She then went home alone. His attentions continued afterwards until the plaintiff's pregnancy, which she communicated to the defendant. He promised to marry her at any time if she concealed the facts from her father and mother, but did not mention any particular time for the marriage, and in a month afterwards he ceased altogether to speak of it. Witness then threatened to tell the story to her father, but defendant threatened to murder her if she did. He subsequently spoke to her about a house which he had taken, and to which he wished her to come from her parents. He said he could not marry her for some time, and, as the birth of the child would be a great disgrace to him, he wanted the witness to take something to procure abortion. Th e witness refused to do so. He then offered to pro- cure the drug for her and she spoke to him no more. Her father knew nothing of her situation at this time. She told her mother three days after the last conversation, that she was pregnant by the de fendant. Witness had heard the defendant say that his profession brought him in 5001. a-year. On the cross-examination the witness admitted that she had been at the defendant's lodgings on se veral occas'ons before the day on which the seduc tion took place. The birth of the child, and the services of the daughter in her father's hotel were proved. Mr. C. F. WILLIAMS, for the defence, could not deny that the seduction had been effected, but con tended that, in the circumstances of the case, the damages ought to be very moderate. Mr. Justice PARK summed up the evidence, and commented in very strong language upon the con duct of the attorney, in appearing to defend himself in an action of that nature. The Jury, after a short consultation, found a ver dict for the plaintiff—Damages 2001. The calendar contains some cases of a very heinous and not usual character; but the trials which have taken place in the criminal Court yesterday and this day were entirely destitute of interest. DERBY, MARCH l s. The business of these assizes commenced yester day,. the Commis s i on h av i ng b een opene d t h e even ing before. Eleven causes were entered for trial, one of which was an action brought by a clergyman of the name of Akroyd against Mr. Pole, the magi strate, for false imprisonment. It was settled out of Court. The calendar contained the names of 52 prisoners, 11 of whom were included in one indict ment, charging them with a riot and an attempt to shoot a p erson o f t h e na me of Bowden. Owing to the non-appearance , however, of the principal witness, an accomplice, who has absconded, the pro secution was not proceeded with at present. THETFORD, MARcir 18. Mary Whitwell, aged . 24, was indicted for the wilful murder of her own infant daughter on the 15th of May last. Mr. Evers sta►ed the case. On the 15th of May, two teen met the prisoner walking on the public road in a direction leading from the village of Loddon to that of Yellerton. She had been lately delivered of an illegitimate child; and when met on the day mentioned she had the child in her arms, and a bundle in one of her hands. She entered into conversation with the men. Iu the evening of that day she was met by other people tin from Yellerton to Norwich, at which time she w ere was without either citild or bundle. Two men on the 15th of June, at work near the spot where the prisoner was met on the 15th of May, and their dog discovered the body of an infant child lyi n g under a hedge close by, quite dead, and having been_ apparently so for some time The dog got holddof its dress with its teeth, and drew it out from h o l d d er the hedge. The body found had on a dark gre e t ; hat, similar to the one observed on the head of , t e child when in its mother's arms on the 15th of Ni'D where t he and at a short distance from the place dead hdy was found, there was a similar bundle to that which the prisMier Was tarcving, on that day c i On being apprehended, she de c lared thk r iheP not been in Norfolk for the last two years.d going in a direc parish of Yellerton buried the body, and then eau Fe e the prisoner to he committed, to answer the charg e of mur,h ring it.' The prisoner was acquitted. e The prisoner imme burst into a pas siont" flood of teals, though she had during the inved i g a. tion maintained an appearance of much apathy t The Learned JUDGE then addressed to her a mos solemn and :effecting admonition, and she left th e dock deeply moved. ALARM AT ST. MICHAEL, CROO LANE CHURCH. A crowded congregation assembled yoterue; (Sunday) morning at the above church, on the O casion of the celebration of divine service for t" L e last time, preparatory to the pulling down of the edifice for the approaches to the New Lond°,l'.' bridge. A sermon was to have been preached Pc the Rector, the Rev. Dr. Dakins, for the benefit ° Bridge, Candlewick, teal Dow ate Ward schools' and the church, which was erected by Sir Christ pher Wren, and is peculiarly neat and handsoole' with numerous tablets on its wall. to the me rr< of the dead, presented at the commencement' of t he service a very interesting spectacle. All the Ped.,l; and the different aisles, were filled to excess. "."0,- charity children, accompanied by the organ, 611 with impressive effect, "Before Jehovah's aw ' i ey Throne," in which they were joined by the of numerous individua l s in the congregation, w"°-,,,r feelings were evidently touched with the soleollmdt of meeting for the last time in the church. Jtj :d about the conclusion of the reading of the sec ° 7l, lesson, part of the mortar in the cornice of these,„'d ing over the altar where the rector was station.' fell down. Immediate a l arm seized the congreri: Hon, and the larger portion, under apprehells'°. that the church was falling, rushed with terror towards the door. For several minutes the ser es h i r and thronging for escape were appalling) v tn i t i e s strenuous efforts were made to compose the ro of those who remained, by assuring them that °l,Eit danger was to he apprehended. The Rector tej into the reading desk, where he earnestly entresji, the congregation to return to their seats, aed rected the singing of the 93d psalm. This h ad partly proceeded, and the congregation was g radus er re-asembling, when a second and somewhat 1311 4 fall of mortar from the same spot instantaneou-Le renewed the terror, and compelled the service to co abruptly concluded, to the great injury of the cool lection for the charity, and the regret and dismay the persons assembled. ble It has been stated that great blame is attribattig, to the city authorities, in consequence of their P; D , mitting the excavations for the Lendon-bridge co proaches to extend so near to the church, before,e, time that it could cease to be used for divine se,t vi o r and it is particularly to be regretted that the ' je e r mittee of the Corporation have imtimated their jo t ; 0 1, tion to withdraw their promised contribution of bee to the charity schools in aid of the sermo n,bec t° e s t r as they allege, greater haste was not adopted to v he removing the monuments from the church; but,;oo, Rev. Rector cheerfully acceded to an applice to made to him in the vestry-room by the truste es ," 01 preach his intended sermon next Sunday m00 015 :10 St. Magnus church, for the charity, which has ri , o s materially suffered in its funds from the nti ti h le ge houses lately pulled down for the Londo n -Pt ' approaches. _V • Loss OF THE TEETH.—A respectable-(7'th e ing female, verging on fifty years of age, applie d t. o o° B Magistrates at Union Hall on Tuesday, for the a sSI- a t hit of an officer under these circumstances : —She g a te lo is she re-ided in the Brixton-road, and had beer. r obbe' she set of artificial teeth that cost her thirty gni:Va g :, Rift' suspected that a lady, as Ito boarded in the same h° ll— a her, had stolen them. " Three days ago , " continuebeolt applicant, " she was without a single tooth in 6 th diP" and since I have missed my teeth, she appears St nor table with a complete set in her jaws. I o°°°,.; ' t, b ° ever, positively swear that they are the set I have 1°,1.,,0tt from the manner in which her cheeks are plunir, ou t° have little doubt they are mine. I took the Eull'lloo° my mouth on Monday night, after supper , left went up u In a g t a h i e n, interval they the dressing-glass, which stood on the table in 11' ' w itlio tl i ber, anti went down the next . morning to breakfast tim e susPo te ce fro;:i were taken. k n e n b . od d sleeps on the same floor with me, and her abs e° t t breakfast on the morning in question excited g ° tb, g of surpri , e, and has induced me since to believe firlicsagl she is the thief."—The Magistrate deplored the APP_ A loss, but said he could not assist her, and she ITO'''. the office evidently disappointed. 1 ist° fr ltr THE TUILERIES.—In this nevi novel, a prominent figure is assigned to n ' ° ,:, r io ° g hommes marquans at Paris in 1792 and 3 ""i k ofi t 4r , wildest period of the Revolution. DANl'Ol4' s r, BA RRERir, COLLOT DI-lEllllOls, PETION, lAS:pceee6„jr JUST, antIIIOBESPIERRE, are slieWn irithe in .; fta- o f their nocturnal political orgies, and in . them s" eli c :ree r pt sway during the " reign of terror." The e arly , 30 ,1 t .he realTtfhaust and the of NAPOLEON BONAPARTE is also vividly sketcbeatriy to ! ,4 destroyer of dynasties himself introduced fonli lis d t oac h , o r reader, " dans son interieur." The intense I rt h the ' e i 0 examples of the human affections struggling " It o „ t alb iti m e• rors of the time, and making, as it were, " 3 . - ( 10 0 ;ire the shady place," have been turned to the mos t " o cee s r e , ous account in the present work—while th e ,, r tlarr o i , pictures given of the Palace of the Tuileri es row' he ij o f t t bo siding auspices of MARIE ANTOINETT E an" for able JOSENIINE, present no common attractio. 0, readers whose taste inclines to brilliant descripo° BIRTS. 0 " On the 18th inst. in Upper WobHurn.place, - Mrs . 330 ~, st te of a son. ,i of i l''' On the 16th inst. the wife of Mr. C. G. Ireland o' nlll/3"' Bloomsbury, of R daughter. lite r ' o. • i At Brighton, Lady Susan Dotha, of a dAii ! ; 4 / • • °. On the 18th inst. in Wimpole-street, th e lady . ''' a„-," r' c son Esq., of a daughter. Cl e di, l b On the 18th inst. Mrs. William Yield, o f V eil' AC a daughter. T) O O' Cs l ' r. On the 12th inst. at Orangefield, county o f .„, It. lady of R. B. Blakiston, Esq., of a son. - sir P . On the 13th inst, at Feltham-hill, the lady 0 1 rte . ' Bart., of a son. 0 ( el MARRIED. e scl , 1.. ,( 7' On the 19th inst. at Hastings, G. B. 131"0"1,1:7,kteli, vo Broad-street, to Ellen, third daughter of 1 5 . ''' , v oili mj ij , Charlton, Kent. ~ 1-IP . 0 V' , N 7 • ~ & , i ,c On the 18th inst. at Alverstoke, Hants,., G. oerv , •‘, 0 „or only son of G. Hallam, Esq., of White Barns, ta°',D, ; eldest daughter of Captain Prevost, R.N. vs 4, _, ,1 0 1 , e , en, On the 15th inst. at Edinburgh, S. Long , `', o V 0 ,, I : i 'dtc ' Hon. East India Company's establishinenttocrsnlte,ooolo third daughter of the late A. Long, Esq c ° f ~,,,ird, .',.ir. C ' p- On the 17th inst. at Itchmond, Mr. U. A b l t il er of • or jl Oll Worcestershire, to Catherine, eldest dang i latto , . 0 0, Ivy-house Richmond. , re toi t._,,it . t , son t o i f t t h h e e 1 R 7 t e h y. i n i, s t. N a v t a S lt t o . .11! a o r f t i N n On the ' lBth in t. at Kennington, Mr. ... - f prin. v e ble' mongers'-hall, London, to Miss M. Backler,' f: ‘ ,.. II „,_,3f, ~ s ip daughter of Mr. D. Elston of the Old 11ai1eY,,,d00n,...01 , i, On the 15th inst. at St. Mary Mountshaw,_.,',', y I. 1" ec f.!,: , of Mr. S. Davies, of Wells, Somerset, to Al..yieilcb• t he q t os , ter of the late Mr. T. Hidden, of Lambourn, o e. VP Esq., of Middle Park, Eltham. g e sthl ° tAil gY' J. O i t n . s t s h e e r , 1 6 0 t f h l i ,e n i s g t n . m a t o S u t t . h G , etoorggsa;L:douvgefi'ecir o f f.sslocallti is g r i a i . . On the 17th inst. at Chatham, Mr. 11. ___ i j , to : ,sr , f. l ik ullg t :tAi>t h,- ,.ib l i t u a.• and son Gf Mr. J. Heath, of Bishop Stortto. of bi' ter of \V. Ashenden, Esq. o f Chatham. h ter ::: DIED. daug . the 10 ~ In Baker-street, Portman-square, Maria , . , hire , .orr'• cellency the late Governor White ti,refor ° ' for t On the 17th inst. at Garnstone, A. — rpT , ..i3O Frances, wife of S. Peploe, Esq. .w . Cole , ciiil o l ,/, On the 28th ult. at Brunswick, H. t; cant Sep' of Consul at Warsaw. ;,.. the :i dol , „, c' On the 7th inst. at Maison Rey, late Chn,,, ~,ise-' in his 324 year, second son of the late A-' , • Ber.'"itich — , Yorkshire, and late curate of Maidenheadpilwad J. Dell, or On the 18th inst. in her 89d year, Dirs. 'sir. Mark lane. ase ) c , Pt be n t i On the 15th inst. inst. at Westhan), „„ce, _ st •fc Royal Exchange, aged 73 I. 3Wr ' el I ''' • _......!--. IRA.A7attl.omßr Lawrence, e oa s sr t si o n n e e ar o ur PRINTED PRINTED AND P URL! gil gp BY id 1.)11....",/d0p0t.4., SuN-Orricz, STllo4°' kT of bit iitPres, Rue t tY en t 0 . 4 the bY Paa, r. T. hi "e, th e bia pe ii' 4Bl lre meet of