The Sun. — London, England, 1831-03-10 00:00:00

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AND COUNTY OF WILSON THE MAY TO O WN OF NOTTING 14 1, HAM, TO WIT. a MEETING of the MAYOR, thbp. ALDERMEN, COMMON COUNCIL, and thOlt. °f th e T own of NOTTINGHA M , h e ld on t h e s , ,Zof of March, 1831, -: th l beatfollo.wing esolutions were unanimously passed:— 6 C, Corporation, ever alive to the important ques- Z Parliamentary Reform, and feeling the urgent ne eits being no l onger d e l aye d have received kith fi te l i ed deli g h t i ntelligence of they highly salutary plan havi ac ting this great obj ec t w hi c h his Majesty's Ministers final 613'1-0( 4 . views which the A.d -tt!i6ve displayed, i n their resolution to effect tktesoiential measure of relief, entitle them to the admira elld gratitude of their country. e4pl 4t th e following dutiful Address be presented by this tait to ra t lol l to his Mo s t G rac i ous M a j es ty, and be trans ii;'• to the N o b le Recorder for presentat i on. be, d at the following P e titi on to the House of Cammons IttB. ° P t ed, be signed by the Town Clerk, and transmitted tr No n „ °nos Denman a n d Sir Ronald Crawford Fer thtt t 4 ,;,‘" 'st aWeY e Represent a ti ves of Nottingham, With a request 1 01 present it ; an d g i ve i ts prayer t h e i r !IV:lst power ". • To -opy of the Address to the King.) i4lita,,,4 T E KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. 4.7 Y of th e, . the ‘ Mayor, Aldermen, Common Council, and Town and County of the Town of Nottingham, n 141.4..greattntoesapproach Reform ariament i v e .114 14 i. AZ st of introduced into P 1 b . !itteit'leg2!!f,a full and representation of the people as the iltot ke, 0 7. ,_pf m t aintainiig . the at large fulla co s n tn e il n it c y . 7. f t t la oof.tpe Parliament, e a and of securing a permanent Pottat i ltration of the Public Revenue with that economy indis e to the prosperity of the country. y /44 r m. Itt ti ro t 1 !Y renew our expressions a devoted attachment to tsT kap Y si)erson and Government, and humbly . present to I . h`tY the assur4arie a (Air firm confidence in the wisdom f y 6,1- Majesty's Ministers. eta l of vou '`lray, , t . hat . by the en !led and beneficent mea. hglorious Constitution of these ai i ' la Y be in e v stY or b a ß te e ei g a n n t d ts g blessings long preserved. : tinder the Corr:mon Seal of the Mayor ats(l Bur rfNottingham, this Sth day of March, 1831. TO of the Petiti on t o th e H o use of Commons.) Ps. HONOURABLE THE COMMONS OF THE I ELAND KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND Tilt , IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED. ,„ PE TITION OF THE MAYOR, ALDERMEN, TO WN COUNCIL, AND LIVERY OF THE -° WN AND COUNTY OF THE TOWN OF NOT- T r I 2iGHANI 16.7 11--R RN i,LThat your Petitioners have during a long gentlyQ..w4iO4 desired and sought for a Reform in to th t t e ßezr i e i. - Th g arth o e fti tigop l e in Parliament, as essential Ith 01'1: 4 petitioners are convinced that an effective corree ced witiei defects in the Representation cannot be longer de- Lour p e jaftty to the best interests of the State. i tioners have therefore with the most grateful satis.. t that thi s v i ta l measure has been submitted to the 4'ilteri ...°4 of your Honourable House by his Majesty's 0,1,, 1 et* • ltd;tionera hasten unanimously to declare to your Ho puwn ouse their approbation of the great plan of Reform sett:t tn ent. a rt„been auspiciousl - introduced to the notice ot p ie tolintry ) 1' , b which the confidence secured, an it i e m o provilent disposition of the ctrouled, and the stability of the Throne perma -2tlr Pohl:on ed. t ia r e „._,..ers therefore humbly pray that the proposed 4 % 0 , 4 ',Form may receive the earnest consideration and - Your Honourable House. Ci~And your Petitioners shall ever pray, Re. ht, ri under the Common Seal of the Mayor and Bur• - vs of N • L o , e ttalgham, the Bth day of M rch, in the year of 'us 1831, ENFIELD, Town Clerk REVOLUTION IN POLAND. 4,, PUblie tthr, d i nner was given yesterd a y at the Crown and Anchor `"e Marquis Wielopolskoi, the Polish* Envoy, and t, i'lllushed foreigners, interested in the great cause of om. A hundred and fifty gentlemen of the first t; . 1 1 Nt . i l, l Were present ; among them were J. C. Hobhouse , $ Hume, Esq., M.P., J. J. Guest, Esq., M.P. , trid a ,,E ,6 ,91., M.P., J. Wilke, Esq., M.P., Colonel Jones, C. and ! , 09., Dobell, Esq., J. Scott, Esq.,Nichols, arlous other gentlemen of respectability, with whose Were unacquainted. \ t , ast six o'clock, Mr. J. C. Hobhouse, attended by the ti, ro re ce ."elopolskoi and the stewards, entered the room, and 'l'ed with immense cheering. Mr. Hobhouse took the Whe'nd dinner was immediately served up. '4°, 4 dinner was concluded, and the speechification was Mr, ANAp t in i • rtese a t TON rose, and said that he was quite sure that thettrei obt Would regret the absence of the time he for it at thcy :r, , Sir F. Burdett. At the same time he was sure pi:',Prese,, ta ( t ) .`? d rejoice when he informed them that . their Hon. ? o , 0 , wh at t 7 was endeavouring to do for them irl another /is'i N ' in th at ,p were then endeavouring to do for the brave the a ,ee ; in other words, that the Hon. Baronet was t o Ce, by //m a' Ministers to secure the independence of the a full and essential Reform in the House of Wefthe i fou L o a f d ust received a note from the Hon. BaFonet, ine t ot h CoMmons, which he would take the liberty kilytoilhriasnL.lse...Pur:rett begs Mr. Anderton to state the impossi trtetirre r'ang the chair, on account of the very unlooked da„..ftve of the debate upon Reform havingbeen adjourned It is t, 4,!Preve r , in . eCeS SarY, he hope , to state, that nothing else would e `'d ihrri joining th ose who feel as he doe% about the th e ha d ,e of co nun , ons, March 9. " Ms al:,, e 4 ' s o the lic e of si naaure of informing them, that the chair, in Colleague' Purdett, would be very admirably filled by th • J. Ho lm , J• C. Hobhouse, Es OUSE was from indisposition more incompe- It t 4l t e t4 i , n ig o oe otial to address the electors of England upon this 1 4 '4 h eau, ea slorl• He felt that the cause of independence L h ee e n Zf England; and if he had not felt so, he should i,'sr a „ l), eye nte r,_re, but in his bed. As his Hon. Colleague had ( t e er, dm _rlY accidental circumstances from being here, eat whr e rj l r, however inefficiently, to supply his place. iN,,"6 to t o ,!le was then going to propose to them was 1 4 ttli 4, , or 0 .. g l ishrnen on all occasions,—as the throne of Eng 104' hot oh"f of .be on all occasions connected with the th t w ,:t the _3' this empire but of Europe. When he told e toast he was going to propose was the health of bli tl in iheT.Yereign then upon the throne , who was not only it aft„ .. l .. wh o yr_ th oughts on this occasion on the point of forma ttat as also the uppermost in their hearts in the point wool meant William IV —that great Sovereign, for h"nhlt+h~atr,--(Grconsidered in"the future annals of their tr, ea wi add theat cheering),— he was sure that the toast would be t e ar) ano eßlitistasm, and that it would be superfluous in word by way of recommendation.—glear, 'illit..o„rn. er Gentleman then proposed the following it!'irlare`lolnpierli_?st. cause d patriotic ( followed and may his th up on " the of freedom be by every "oh 1.0 e.") ean b.—(Treniendtus cheering, and " three 8••••J‘ 'or i t ' i llotia r ,re,'s a health to the King and the Queen." it' l l S E—The next toast needs no recommendation, If t r noble selves--(Cheers and laughter)—the people, li litOiltiteleautse,,source of power."—(Great cheering.) " 1 th e ‘-"-The next toast is one immediately con wistki of doleo,l of the present meeting. It was one to 0 of h ad not been so hoarse—he should have been , r , e ; , , luir e e_ o lustice; but fortunately for him, it was ohe I ti b th more Prefatory comment. He saw around him ht 7ri e , 4erat td able to give effect to all those sentiments i, ti ofj e , tie ths world every bosom devoted to freedom in . every „e th __ man he was ; and they were only doing an ha W h i 'e i liu ..,"?selves to meet together, to receive enthusi l4livotip to aav `Tons stranger on his right hand.—(Hear.) Vie t; ,o veryl,Tat in the present struggle now going on in *4tii s to entl ewia „ om was illustrious—(Cheers)—and even if the ore of who was then their guest, had not adventitious k t tee d th at "RI him to their notice, still the fact that he t!latetl that and hitherto unfortunate nation which had tqte at ° le thi e :Land which at that moment was contending, Oilu t 9'eeri nn 7 ° rthY of contention,—national independent:e 40 , le reecs2.-would be sufficient to entitle him to their Ytlov Pe?"°n• There were some questions on which were to men and countries—where politics and ty.44able to identical terms—to touch ; but since he ~O f `,t read the history of Europe, he had found po ll, c dt, eh, \;lle a t . h ear Weeping over the loss of independence by 4t h to ait diff er , )l hat was an atrocity on which there N,74 c , Which I ,nce of opinion among the people of England. 4 1,44, Polan'e,lvas then about to propose was—. The lode *otitild o • violated by fraud ; may it be restored by l 'OhNst d , be rec e i v es by libeity." He had no doubt that the tat al s o, with the enthusiasm it merited; but in ( Af th at i i,ntch was going forward in . Poland, it was Of t n ! br. could give her was their good wishes. oi aed ‘ ,"&ring. 4,Nie t 'ANfpf t "ley have re ft thee of all except a grave, &c." th r Ytne E LI , (the e pt . too we l l to p he knew the . spirit of iie ry esent corn o to doubt that the same indignation o,o°-- ( Ii Papy felt on account o f . the injuries of I,Oftsjuld h ave to tglistimen, from the patriot King on the e humblest peasant in his dominions, still 4.,),Otßealvet tfeefltt..grieved and humiliated had their present sijlthet'Totratio o tnis land of liberty without receiving some ' 1 11.: 4 8 t co h'" w arks toOf English sympathy.—(Hear.)—After se efellow:. the same effect, Mr. Campbell conclude d . I' a l : a triot.`" toast—" lie Marquis Wielopolskoiand his ~.ur illustrious guests." tr _li att hey wri`NIELOPOLSKOI then returned thanks in 'lshi ch perhaps, wish to know the f a te of the rtde leth si r e wa , had n. r!cently been fought un d er th e walls of t, n lation to say th a t h e h ad not yet received an trio th e sate, u pon it. The last news which he had re -1~t,;"49a L in g Ile which had appeared in the Journals y hut eveniev . ed that hitherto his countrymen had ~ t i , h _). ,c d ti e... touchd if they had, much remained for them ,et I , r v"at victory wo ul daner.still to vanquish.. 7 (Cheers.)— ~, was :. still attend upon their banners; Oti 'vb ieh a gainbt th o betide them or not, they were still e enemies of Poland.—(Hear.) The in- P o j 4 n l i o'" e fo ihrm lntie l ting took in the cause of Poland ha t , ' were brace] eni , of the foundations on which the he company must have heard of co:;e of Polanculrl;der the walls of Warsaw ; the Poles tr„opelferors, for ‘l',l4ParterEven shoulad ..of them who had fought there were _ R ea their R ua • they be unsuccessful,which Godavert, ~h k h ? t who re, which ian. invaders would have to conquer the 0' of h e 'll. . did th was . in array in the different provinces. h, Eh? ~0 4 r,,,n , z national guard consist'? Of every man tr t ies Pere t th e 71 All were ready to wield the sabre, or if (t rre. to use the knife against their Cal 11:',e of 'uld h..'ear.) The same regular troops which the Niideneticle fought at Warsaw, theywould find in of 44 11 viw b o e_ii .e ; d y . whicT they different villages of Poland ; and the would have experienced from the in- Illa. ",arsaw they would experience from the walls of that the Russians, even if 4 5 t e, 111 7 4,,, , 1.0 4 :1 1,,, ,,teih 01d e fatigued by the resistance with which on e Tillage into which they might enter. t oregarizaLVrganization of the Russian 1 4* ' k z! . l.4 h a bra vo rd '"ence of Polan. I° Ple o t f h the arin ol d sh tt.Ci-otclies,cofonr t h ers e p n e lp. wcre entrusted w e lth tne ed command of t lt ii to .. esc rit at ot Prince Radzivil, he said that when I tt s' . ! 41 ,W h a ic s h Diet, he had made the same speech to A but ilzi pr ,::4l, o, oi t i i that very account, r tilt 4 s o pee l h e a r , c a o t s t n o g I t i l o s t c;! , i e m o ra t t i les on th e l field a in sp a e rs c : c r h u d e i s or o e f of,''saa y ' t all the energies minds of his hearers. " 1 have de ..leingies of my life hitherto to Poland, 44:ht:It,ortYeevs.erisi)edheove.o,t.e t hem to the same sacred cause to the last language found an echo in the 4 olis ; they knew that it was the language of "led. b u t had ehragdt a l e w ro a ent of his career, the Prince had a 3.'s Marched right onward in tl.e , No. 12,010. oath of honour.—(Cheers.) All the warriors of Poland (and their valour was not unknown to Europe) had gone forth to battle with him ; and if they should unfortunately be conquered, still there would remain to Poland her courage and her despair. —,Cheers.) He had spoken—and it was a p a inful thing for a atrict to speak—of the pos s ible c o nquest of his country, but he hoped for better things. He hail received intelligence that Li thuania was in insurrection, and that she had determined to share the fate of the duchy of Warsaw.—( Hear.) Nor was such in occurrence at all surprising • for the revolution of Poland was not a revolution of the higher, of the lower classes. It had been said, politically speaking, that Poland was obliterated for ever from the map of Eiirope.. Politically' speaking, it might be so, but the nation or Poland, by the grace of God, still survived, a vital member of the European Community.—(Hear, hear.) They had been told in their journals that Austria, Prussia, and France, had Consuls in Poland, but that England had not. Why that was so, he could not tell ; but this he could say, that the people of Poland were any thing but indifferent to the good-will of the people of England. It would, perhaps, not be unpleasing to them if he explained in a few words the effect of their revolution. The people of England had been accustomed to talk of the anarchy of Poland—and unfortunately its anarchy had almost become proverbial. Corrected by their misfortunes, and by the two dismemberments which they had suffered, the people of Poland had acquired a stable love of liberty and an unanimity of purpose, which, if she had always possessed them, would have rendered Poland impregnable against the attacks of her enemies. The Poles have been guilty of many faults for On. past, but they had corrected them nobly for their future destiny. —Sheers.) As to the assertion that their revolution was a re volution of the nobility, and not of the peasantry and the people, he had only to remark that such an assertion was not correct. For many years past the nobles of Poland had emancipated their peasantry, and placed them under the protection of the law. 'The oppression which, under the Government of Alexander, had fallen upon the lower classes of Poland, had ceased to exist. It had ceased voluntarily ; for though the will of Russia had hitherto been the law of Poland, it ought to be recollected that the emancipation of the peasantry was the work, not of Russia, but of the Polish nobility. In point of fact, the Russian noble was no more to be compared to the noble Pole than the Polish peasant was tobe compared to the Russian noble. It was owing to the union of interests which had at last been effected between the nobles and the peasantry of Poland that the late revo !ution had Leen effected, and that Poland had resumed its exiss fence and station among the nations of Europe. He had re marked, that in the proclamations of General Diebitsch, it had been averred that the polish nation had been seduced into in surrection by the frantic behaviour of a few young men. Ac cording to this statement, all the exploits of the three first days 'ulster the walls of Praga must have been performed by 300 young men. He did not mean to deny that young and ardent spirits had commenced that revolution; but it was by their having struck on a chord which vibrated to the heart of every Pole, that they had crowned the revolution with success and themselves with glory. An attempt had been made to prove Poles a disunited people. It had been said that Chlopieki was not true to the cause which he had espoused ; it was said, that we had clubs amongst us quarrelling as to the mode of administering our Government. He thought that nobody would deny that under every Govern ment there were men, some of whom were young, others old ; some of whom would go too far, and others not far enough. Still, ad mitting this, it did not prove the Poles were untrue to themselves. The events which had recently occurred under the walls of Warsaw proved, that if, from an error in judgment, Chlopieki had not gone with the nation in her civic career, lie hail fought for her as an individual, as if he had been fighting under the walls of Saragossa.—'Cheers.) That was indeed satisfactory in telligence, for it tended to disperse the delusions spread abroad by the enemies of Poland. After all that he had stated to the meeting, he was sure that it would see that there were other points on which it would be unbecoming in him, holding the si tuation which he did for his country, to speak out more plain'y. Poland was in possession of resources into which discretion for bad him to enter. Though the people of England wished well to his gallant countrymen, there were subjects which he could not explain even to them. Every thing connected with his mis sion to England would, sooner or later, be developed in the Ca binet, and would undergo the ordeal of public opinion, that or deal to which the Ministers of England were also obliged to sub mit. He and his brave compatriots were acting in the face of all Europe. Europe would enter into an examination of their actions, and on the verdict which Europe must pass they must rest their approval or condemnation. He did not doubt the friendly disposition of England to his country. Why should he ? The liberties of England and of Poland dated their origin at the I same period. They were co-equal in point of duration, would to God that they had been co-equal in their successful opera tion!—(Cheers.) He would not go farther back into the his- tory of the causes which had annihilated the liberties of Po land than the Congress of Vienna. The meeting well knew who was the Minister of England at that time. It was Lord Castle reagh. The Poles knew the disposition of the people of England towards them. The Poles knew that the people of England wished for the re-establishment of the kingdom of Poland. The Poles knew that the people of England wished that justice —a tardy justice, it was true—should be done to their sufferings ; and they likewise knew that it was Lord Castlereagh and a Noble Duke who was with him at the Congress, and another Noble Lord whom, after the fashion of the British Parliament, he would not name, that prevented that justice from being rens dered to them.—(Hear, hear.)—lt was determined in that Con gress, that as the re-establishment of the kingdom of Poland could not be effected without the probability of exciting a war between the Allied Powers, it should remain partitioned among them, but that the best part of it should be left, tinder certain limitations, within the grasp of Russia. What, then, was the difference between the past and the present condition of Poland ? Poland had laboured under great oppression—against that op pression she had revolted, and appealed to the decision of the God of battles. She had overthrown the great Colossus, which so long bestrode her, and she was now struggling to prevent her self from being crushed from its fall —(Cheers.)—Owing to the war in Turkey, and the policy of Russia against France, and he might add against Belgium, the difficulties which Lord Castle reagh had found so insurmountable, in his endeavours to re. establish the independence of Poland, had all disappeared. Al. though he was not so much acquainted with the affairs of Eng land as he wished to be, he believed that the opinion of the world was not held matter of indifference by there as a people. The people of Poland had now shed their blood for their country ; her Nobles had sacrificed and were sacrificing their fortunes in her behalf ? and both had found assistance and sympathy in a nation neighbouring on the shores of Britain.—(Hear.) The Poles could not help entertaining hopes that something would be done for them in England also, if she still were what she was once represented—the friend of freedom and the last asylum of libertv.—Sheers.) The Poles hoped that the people of England would assist them by their subscriptions, not merely as a proof that they sympathized with their sufferings, but also as a token that they were ready to afford them all the assistance in their power.—(Hear, hear.) As to the probable fortunes of Poland, he had only a word to say. The Polish nation, in every disaster which had yet befallen it, had shown itself greater than the disaster which had crushed it for a time. From every disaster they had yet risen, and they had now risen for the last time and must conquer or, which Clod avert, be exterminated.— (Hear, hear.) All the hordes of Russia were now hounded on against them. The Poles trusted for their defence against them on the justice of their cause—on the arm of every man who remained in their country—on their local resources—on their ancient valour—on the recollections of their past glory and independence.—(Cheers.) They trusted also in the protection of heaven, never denied to the innocent; for they had done no other injustice to the Russians than express a determination not to be their slaves.—(Loud cheers.) A word now as to himself. England was a country with which he was connected by histori cal recollections. In the records of his family, he had found that an ancestor of his had been Ambassador from Sigismond 111. of Poland, to James I. of England. Let him be permitted to remind them of this ancient connexion between then—(Cheers) —for their kindness on the present occasion was likely to render the memory of it indestructible.—(Cheers.) He knew not what fate might soon betide him, for every cannon-shot which now sounded from the walls of Praga and Gruschotf—those walls, which a Souwaroff had once deluged with blood, and which a Diebitsch was now attempting to render memorable by a similar atrocity,—might fall on his father, brothers, uncles, and friends, whom he had embraced perhaps or the last time, and leave him a lonely sojourner on the face of the world. But come what might, he should not regret the part which he and they had taken, but would, to the last moment of his existence, exclaim that it was better to die a freeman than to live a slave to Rus sian barbarism and to Russian violence. The Noble Marquis concluded by giving as a toast, " Prosperity to England, and a recommencement of the ancient connexions between England and Poland."—(Loud cheers.) Mr. WILES rose to propose the next toast; in doing so he could not but congratulate them upon the enthusiasm with which the glorious cause of Poland had been hailed by that as sembly. He was sorry that we in England were far behind, in our effbrts to affbrd succour to the Poles, those great men in France who had taken the lead in that course, and to whom the civilized world were indebted for the example. He alluded to Lafayette, Casimir Perrier, and those other great men in France, who had more than three months ago formed them selves into a committee, not to give the Poles encouragement by festive banquets, but to combine all men in their cause, and to send substantial succours and funds to that noble and suffering race. The mere mention of the name of the patriarch of liberty, Lafayette, was in itself calculated to call up the most pleasing and extraordinary associations. He concluded by proposing the following toast, which was drunk with great enthusiasm :—" La. fayette, and the friends of Poland in France. Tile French na tion. May the triumphs of freedom so nobly won, be perfected in peace, and perpetuated in prosperity." Count LABORDE returned thanks in the French language. He complained that the Government of France had been much too timid in affording assistance and encouragement to the brave Poles, who had risen to rescue themselves from a detestable and degrading slavery. Another French Gentleman also returned thanks in French. a • ••••••...1 SAGII.1,4•••••• 11" ISA l••..l• •••••••••.. • Mr. HUME said there was no friend to liberty in England who would not wish to assist the brave Poles; but while they reflected upon the wrongs of Poland, they should not forget what they had endured at home. While Poland had been suffering under an odious domination, could it be said that England had been free? They had seen a war waged by the Government of this country for 25 years against liberty in Europe, anti they had suffered se verely from the effects of it. He (Mr. Hume) dreaded the word interference, seeing theevils which hadarisen from it. Hewould not at present divert the attention of Englishmen from their own afiliirs at home. They were now engaged in a contest for their rights and liberties, which had been filched from th em by an garchy, which had ruled and domineered over them for years. He trusted that the brave Poles would come out of the present struggle completely triumphant, for victory to them would be victory to us ; and he had no hesitation in saying, that the glorious and never-to-be-forgotten revolution in Paris—(Cheers)—the struggle in Poland, and the struggle in Italy, would all con tribute to enable England to free itself from the thraldom of ages, and to put an end to that system of misrule which had laid this country prostrate in the face of Europe. But they could do nothing in the way of interfering for the cause of freedom abroad, until they had asserted their own rights at home, and when they had achieved success in the glorious cause in which they were at present engaged, then they would be ready and able to afford that assistance which was demanded from them abroad. He should conclude by proposing the following toast—.. Belgium. Her in. dependence and her happiness."—(Cheers.) 9lr. BEHR, Secretary to the Belgic Legation, returned thanks in French. Mr. O'CONNELL said, that a toast had been put into his hands which was eloquent itself—that toast was Italy,"-- Italy, which reminded us of the earliest recollections of our boyhood, and recollections too of so high a nature, that they could not be tarnished or diminished by the familiarity into which education brought our minds with the great events of that country. Was it necessary to say any thing to recommend the toast of Italy—the guardian of literature, the nursing mother of liberty, and the cradle of religion ? Rome had given to the world a splendid andlpractical instance of the benefits de. rivable from the establishment of the democratic principle. That princip e was e.tablislied in Rome for centuries ; and while it existed, Borne was always successful against its real foes. In modern times, too, the commercial city of Venice had given an instance of the beneficial effects of that principle; and they should not forget that in the middle ages little republics were spread throughout Italy, exhibiting the beam of liberty throughout her hills and mountains. Revolution was now ,preading in Italy, and that beautiful country was it length LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 10, 1831 (bout to assert its rights. He trusted that the twiliDd was not far distant when the church there would be separated from the State—(Long and continued cheering)—f or as every country that appeared to him an adulterous con nexion. They were told, too, that Spain was about to rise, and :le hoped that they would soon hear of Ferdinand having been triven from his throne. Ile trusted that victory would crown the efforts of the brave and suffering Poles. In England they were now contending against the oligarchy ; they had it at bay, Ind the contest was going on. They had on their side a patriot King, and a Ministry which had the courage to strike a constitu tional blow at that oligarchy.—(Cheers.) He must say that the Ministry had magnanimously and honestly performed their duty —;Cheers;—that Ministry had offered up as a hecatomb—he sup_ nosed an Irishman might be all , wed to call 60 a hecatomb—( A laugh`—the instruments of their predecessors. The present Mi nistry threw off the Dukes and Marquises, and appealed to the )eople.— (Cheers.) Would not the people of England assist the King and his Ministry in such a contest ?--.(Cheers.) To do so 'hey must not content themselves with an expression of their sympathy, or with the presentation of petitions. He would advise them to associate for the purpose—to elect deputies the parishes in London—to have deputies elected in the various counties, and sent up: to London, and thus to make a lemonstration of the popular opinion which the Aristocracy could not resist. They might not expect to coax the Aristocracy to give up their power—they might as well expect to coax the birds off the bushes —;A laugh.) The people should rally round the King and his Ministers legally and constitutionally, hut firmly and determinedly. The question was, were the people to continue to be swindled out of their rights. Let the people but exert themselves as they ought, and they must carry Reform, and until that was carried, and the institutions of the country renovated, 'she never would be able to go to war, even in the holiest and best of causes. He hoped that the march of freedom would continue uninterrupted in every quarter of Europe. He concluded by proposing—' , Italy—her uniotend independence." The Chairman, Mr. Hobhouse, Mr. Hume, Mr. O'Connell, and the other Members of Parliament present, then retired, in order to attend the Reform debate in the House of Commons. Mr. CAMPBELL having been called to the chair, M. ROSSITIER returned thanks for the honour which had been done to his native country, Italy. Colonel JONES, alter a few preparatory observations,'proposed as a toast—" Spain—May the day-star of liberty dispel for ever her night of despotism." Mr. ARGUELLAS returned thanks. . ....... The next sentiment was " Portugal." Song, ,4 Fall, tyrants, fall." Mr. C. B. SHERIDAN said, that having toasted the other nations of Europe which had triumphed, or were struggling in the cause of liberty, he had now to propose to them a health which they would drink with still deeper delight, because it would be a delight not chas'ened or lessened by the contempla tion of those chances of warfare which might . be expected in other countries. The toast was " Their country." They were engaged at present in an important conflict—not with battalions of grenadiers ur cossacks, but with battalions, of boroughmon gers ; and they had to fight, not against cannon and grape-shot. but against the trumpery arguments of those same borough mongers. Their high mightinesses the boroughmongers had joined battle with the people, but he trusted that the people would overcome them. (Hear, hear.) He would give them " Our country ! Her interests are the interests of liberty—her happi ness, the happiness of the world." Mr. BUCKINGHAM proposed the health of his Majesty's Ministers, and that they might long remain in power, and be deserving of the confidence and support of the people, which was toasted amidst much applause, and shortly afterwards the company separated. SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, Seven a' Clock. IMPERIAL PARUAM ENT THIS EVENING. HOUSE OF COMMONS. There having been a ballot to-day for a Committee for Tregony, and there baying been considerable difficulty in getting Members, the gallery was not open till past Five o'clock. revnnes alone, and upon this principle he supported the I,EFT SPEAKING. HOUSE OF LORDS. Growenor's Relief Bill Was read a second tin e, com mitted, reed a third time, and passed. The Frauds on Creditors' Eill was read a third time, and passed. The Army Mutiny Big was read a second time, and ordered to he committed to-morrGw. The Earl of LIMERICK presented a petition from the soap.boilers of Limerick. complaining - of distress. The Duke of RUTLAND presented a similar petition from the ship-owners of Se irbotough. The Rail of HARDWICKE presented a petition from Cambridge in favour of Parliamentary Reform. In doing so the Noble Earl expressed himself in favour of the measure. Lon! CAWI)OR presented a petit on from Pembroke against the malt tax. Lord TENTERDEN gave notice of his intention, on Tuesday next, to move for leave to bring in a Bill to liroit the duration of moduses. The Earl of FIFE could not refrain from taking this opportunity of complaining of the hurried manner in which 'Lorl Wynford's Bills were passing through the house. He (Lord Fife) considered those Bills extremely oppressive in their nature, and requiring great deliberation before their Lordships allowed them to pass. Lord WYNFORD thought the Noble Earl had mis taken the objects of the Bill. So far from being oppres sive, they were brought forward for the express purpose of affording creditors an easy mode of getting payment of their debts from dishonest debtors. He denied that the Bills had been hurried through in the manner alluded to by the Noble Lord. Earl GREY presented a petition from Birmingham in favour of Parlimentary Reform, agreed t at a meeting which was attended by upwards of 15,000 persons. Also petitions firm St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, from Perth, Newton Bushel, and several other places to the same effect. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE presented a petition from a parish in Ireland, pray ing for a repeal of the Union. Lord CALTHORPE presented a petition from the magistrates, bankers, and merchants of Birmingham, praying for a Reform. In doing so, he observed, he was friendly to a moderate Reform, but was n-it prepared to coincide in so sweeping a measure as that proposed by his Majesty's Ministers. Lord DURHAM presented a petition from Houghton-le spring in favour of Reform. Sir A. GRANT, Mr. Alderman WOOD, Mr. FKESIIFIELD, and others, brought up the Census Ireland Bill, the Printed Calico Drawback Repeal Bill, the Bankrupt Laws Amendment Bill, and the London Bridge Approaches Bill, which were generally read a first time and ordered for a second reading to-morrow.—Adjourned. PRESENTATION of the CITY ADDRESS TO THE KING, AND HIS MAJESTY'S ANSWER. At an early hour yesterday there was a large assem blage of the Common Council at Guildhall, anxious to show their attachment to their Sovereign, by attending on the presentation of the Address of the Corporation ; hut it was remarked that a much smaller number of Aldermen were present than assembled duting the days when Loans, Contracts, Knighthoods, and Baronetciee, rewarded those who attended with courtly Addresses. Aldermen Wood, Waithman, Copeland, Farebrother, Venables, Kelly, and Cowan, were the only Aldermen who accompanied the Lord Mayor with the Address; but there was a most numerous attendance of Common Councilmen, about one hundred and forty, followed by a Deputation of seven Liverymen, to present the Address agreed to at the Com mon Hall. His Majesty was dressed in regimentals, and looked remarkably well. The Princes Talleyrand and Ester hazy, and other distinguished foreigners, were spectators of the scene ; and the King was surrounded by the Lord Chancellor, Lord Grey, and the rest of his Majesty's Mi nisters, together with the Lord Chamberlain and the usual attendants. The Duke of Sussex stood on the right of the Throne, and appeared to take a lively interest in the business of the day. To show the feeling that prevails upon this important question, we may observe that Mr. James Richardson, of the Ward of Cripplegate, the gentleman who has lately contrived to acquire for himself a large portion of unenvied notoriety by opposing the Re solutions at the Common Hall on Monday, and at the Meeting in his own Ward on the following day, enjoyed the full honours of his singularity by going to Court without a companion in his carriage, la consequence of which we understand the greatest unanimity prevailed. The Recorder read the following Address to his Ma jesty:-.... " TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. " THE HUMBLE, DUTIFUL, AND. LOYAL ADDRESS OF THE LORD MAYOR, ALDERMEN, AND COMMONS OF THE CITY OF LONDON, IN COMMON COUNCIL ASSEMBLED. " MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN, " We, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, most humbly approach your Majesty with the warmest sentiments of loyalty and attachment to your Majesty's sacred person and Go vernment. We beg to assure your Majesty, that having long entertained a deep and increasing conviction of the necessity of a Reform of the representation of the people in the Commons House of Parliament, we which have yciu lockedr ia tor je w s a ty rd ,, w is i i th in t i h st e er g s r : a o t u e l s d t anxiety to the course adopt in reference to that important subject, and we now feel ourselves imperatively called upon humbly and dutifully to ex press to your Majesty our entire satisfaction at the principles of the measure that has been introduced under their sanction to the Hon. House of Commons. We beg leave further to repre sent to your Majesty, that your Majesty's Ministers having en tered office under a distinct pledge to bring forward efficient measures of Reform in the representation of the people, we de. layed to express any feeling up n the change which then took place in your Majesty's Councils until those measures were sub mitted to Parliament; but being now satisfied that the plan pro posed under their sanction is calculated essentially to upheld the dignity of your Majesty 's Crown, and to promote the tine inte rests and happiness of all classes of your Majesty's subjects, we feel it to be our duty humbly to expr ess to your Majesty our c onv i c ti on that your Majesty's Ministers have fully redeemed the important pledge made by them on their accesrance of office, awl have thereby entitled themselves to the unlimited confidence of the country. " We therefore beg leave humbly to tender to your Majesty our grateful thanks for your Majesty's paternal care in the selec tion of an Administration animated by a sincere desire to adopt, in the reformation of our institutions, a system that will unite all classes of your .Majesty's subject s , preserve an d strengthen our internal security. uphold the honour an d di gn ity of your Majesty's Crown, and promote the happiness and liberties of by order of the Court, you: , Majesty's h l7: : l i e l i anjedes:y " HENRY WOODTHORPE." read, in a distinct and emphatic manne r, the following reply o I return you my warmest thanks for this dutiful and loyal Addrev •' 1 receive with the most lively satisfaction the assur ances of your loyalty and attachment to my person, together With the declaration that the confidence which I repose in my present Ministers sis also felt by the citizen s of th is grea t an d w ealthy metropoli. " You may rest assured that I shall always consider the mea sures which may be proposed to me, either in my executive, or m y legislative capacity, with reference only to their tendency to m aintain the honour and dignity of my Crown, to support the true principles of the Constitution, and to promote the union an d happiness of my people." A Deputation of the Livery, headed by the Lord mayor, with Aldermen Copeland and Waithman, at. tended at the Levee, and presented the Address voted at the Common Hall, which his Majesty was pleased most graciously to receive.• LITERATURE. Messrs. COLBURN and BENTLEY have just issued a general Catalogue of their Standard Publications, which may be had gratis on appli cation of all Booksellers. It contains upwards of 400 Narks, comprising :-46 Books of Travels-33 Historical Works-31 Biographical -7 0? Private Correspondence -12 On the History of Napoleon-28 Poetical and Dra matic-24 Military Memoirs and Sketches-15 On So ciety and Manners-29 On Philosophy, Politics, Morals, Criticism, &c.---16 On Domi•tic Economy, &c.-8 On Education-44 Novels and Tales illustrative of Modern Life and Manners-30 Historical Tales and Romances__ 10 Illustrative of Irish History and Manners-42 French Historical and Biographical Works ; and 34 French Novels. When the plan of' the Ministers was first communicated to the KING at Brighton, the large Reform which it included staggered the KING greatly; but after wards, on considering the measure, his MAJESTY signified his entire assent. This was done in a letter extending to seventeen Pages, which was, we understand, one of the m o st a papers th at h ave b een l ate l y produced.' —Brighton The Snile Gazelle. sett,itlee . pe, tender to his Majesty's ship Asia, Lieut. Purcell, sailed on Monday for Newhaven, with orders for the Fry Onyx , Rio Janeiro, , Lieutenant Da wson , w hi c h vesse l sa il e d on with despatch e s f or R e a r -Admira Baker, C . B. Commande r -in-Chi e f on t h at stat i o n. i d yfox SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. There is Ito doubt that if the nation be true to itself, and insist on the co.operatioe o'f those who call them selves representatives of the people', in protncting the unanimous wishes of the people on this great question of the Reform Bill, the good cause will triumph cord pletely, as well as speedily. Mere confidence of success will not ensure success, but may mach endanger it. Let every meeting, therefore, throughout the kingdom, adopt resolutions the strongest that language can convey in favour of the Bill—the Hill in all it s parts—which sing William and his honest Ministers have recommended. Let this be done instantly—let it be done unanimously ; and, to prepare for the worst, lest Committees be everywhere formed without a moment's delay, fur managing the e'ec tions of known friends to Reform in all countiese cities, and open boroughs throughout both islands, that if—an event, however, which we do not apprehend the Bill should be thrown outon the second reading, or if Ministers should be beaten in the Committee, even on the very .smallest of its details, a dissolution may be at oiler resorted to, with an absolute assurance that a new House of Commons will be constituted so as to carry this glorious measure with a high band and by a large majority, within a few days of its assembling. We know that the scheme Of` emit faction is to die in the last foul ditch. We know that the plot is to worry Ministers, and to wear out the public, by petty cavils at every provision of the Bill, —by unceasing objections, and amendment., and divisions, all directed to the purpose of mutilating the Reform, and filching same one or more of its innumerable benefits from the people. It is therefore essential tkat not one point should be yielded to the public enemy by the Supporters of the measure. As one of our contemporaries has well advised, let them not he satisfied with carrying a Bill of Reform, but THE one and only Bill—that which is now before the nation. In its favour the people are unanimous and enthusiastic. An important admission was made by the Member fur Preston in the House last night,—v'z. that even those who were a fortnight ago the most obstinate and thoroughpaced pit tisans of the ballot, are now so grateful for what the Government has dune, and so en tirely satisfied and contented, as one and all to have given up their favourite project of the ballot, and to refuse to bear a syllable against the measure. If this Le not a triumph for the King of England and his Ministers, then never yet had English patriots a triumph. We solicit at tention to our report of the city address of felicitation and gratitude to the King at the levee yesterday, and to his Majesty's most kind, hearty, and gracious accept trice of the loyal sentiments of his subjects. The foreign Minis ters, who were witnesses of this scene, so characteristic of the relations between a British Sovereign and his people, may write home to their several Courts, if they please, a lesson useful, however unpalatable, to the ears of despotic rulers. In the House of Commons the first stage of these discus. sions has terminated, and the three Bills for England, Scotland, and Ireland, have been brought in. Mr. Per ceval opened the debate of yesterday with a love of borough. mongering and an execration of the press which were equally consistent and respectable. This gentleman ought to retire on what he has got. The nation will say nothing about his sinecure, if he will show his sense of its forbear ance by ceasing to calumniate its institutions. The effronti ry of the Members brought in for close boroughs,—the hired tools and vassals of trading Peers,—who presume to re prehend and abuse the people of England for their eagerness to sweep off the filthy vermin which devour them, is almost beyond all patience ; but their day is near its close. This time twelvemonth what will have become of them? Even now (though not exactly as the poet meant it) "you may read their history in a n ttion's eyes."— Times. Lord John Russell's. Bill was brought in last night, read a first time, an ordered to be read a second time on Monday week. But the discussion for the night did not close with this. The Lord Advocate, at a late hour, moved for leave to bring in the Bill applicable to Scotland, and this opened up a fresh discussion. The spirit displayed by several of the corporations affected by the proposed Deform leads us to anticipate the happiest results from an election, should it become necessary to dissolve Parliament. There are conjunctures in the history of a nation, when one generous feeling seems to pervade the whole mash of the population ; and this we take to be one of those conjunc tures. Every other consideration, in the case of an election, will he absorbed in the national cause, and men will bees much ashamed of contributing by their efforts to aid the oppo sition to the great measure of national regeneration, as of being traitors to their country, or of taking money to admit the enemy into a native town under siege. We are not afraid of men when enthusiasm has the ascendant; for then selfish motives yield to the prevailing passion. There are degrees of popular odium which fee men hare nerves to brave. The boroughmongering crew, like some of the fallen angels in Pandemonium, may " Sit on a hill retired." and brave the national feeling ; but they cannot act with out tools, and these tools have their friends and associates among the people. Mr. Benett presented last night a peti tion in favour of the Ministerial plan of Reform, from Caine, signed by the whole Corporation ; and similar peti tion from Devizes. Lord George Lenox presented a similar petition from the town of Chichester, signed by the whole Corporation; Captain Bouverie presented a similar peti tion from the city of Salisbury, signed by a majority of the Corporation. These are favourable signs. That the boroughtnongers should be pleased with the spirit which now estimates the whole population is not to be expected. They complain of the tone of menace pervading the peti tions and the speeches at public meeting.. When this handful of men talk of dying in their last ditch, can they expect that the nation should hear this indifference to the general tranquillity unmoved ? The warmth of the people is the natural hatred of a people attached to order against those who threaten to disturb the peace. Thus the people of Stockport offer to the Government all the assistance in their power for the overthrow of the boroughmongere. At the meeting of the Birmingham Union on Monday, attended by large bodies of men from the populous vicinity of the town, particularly from the collieries, Mr. Attwood (Thomas) ebeerved—" Thanks to a patriot King, the wicked Oligarchy which has so long domineered in this country has fallen. He said fallen because the fiat by which they must fall was gone forth ; their doom was irrevocably sealed, for there was no power that could stand against the united efforts of the King, the Ministers, and the people—(Tremendous cheering.) At tNe call of the King they were ready to rally round his throne, and they would take care that, during their lives, nothing should hurt him.—(Cries of ' we are ready !—we are ready.')—He hoped they would net be wanted to act in any but a peaceful way; but still, if the oligarchy determined to throttle the mea sures which had been introduced, the King had only to call on his subjects, and they were ready.—(Loud cheers.)"—These men evidently mean what they say. Another speaker, Mr. William Pare, the Secretary, ex claimed, " Woe to the boroughmengers, if they should, in their madness, defeat this Bill, and compel the people to take up arms to wrest their liberties from their grasp._. (Loud and repeated cheers.)" —Everywhere throughout the country the feeling is equally intense. At the Shef field meeting, on Monday last, the language was bold and determined, and the - Sheffield Iris, usually a very mo derate of the paper b , o e r x o p u r g e h s m ses on i grs d t e sel f thus urin g this wi discussionregardtotcon i borough interest, we say, has spoken out—Let the people speak out in addresses to Government—let every man sign his name to such addresses, and let that signature be the record of his patriotism to his country, his loyalty to his Sovereign, and his attachment to the British Constitution. Th e man who thinks all things are best as they are—that there needs no Reform, has a right to his opinion ; but we d o no t wrong hi m b y asserting, that he is worthy to change places with the veriest slave in the West Indies —especially with any one who should think negro slavery the very perfection of human institutions." With the spirit which is abroad, they must be bold men indeed who think they can prevent the Ministerial plan of Reform from being carried into effect. Lord Stanley, who at first had his apprehensions as to the success of the measure, expressed himself last night confident of suc cess. " Many of those (said his Lordship) who had never dared to express an opinion before—who had been trans ferred from band to hand like so many cattle—were now beginning to understand their rights, and to assert and exercise them.—(Hear.) He apprehended that a very few days would elapse before some Hon. Members who repre sented boroughs would find calls made upon them such as they had never heard before." Mr. Perceval, who opened the debate in a strange speech, opened up peculiar views of the Deity. "He had (he said) passed many sleepless nights thinking of these things, and he was humbly thankful that God had permitted him to do so much." Now, let us see what he has been permitted to do, for which he is so thankful. " With respect to the reason for these rotten boroughs, he could (he said) give lo Pe Ce] • onr. Besides beiog parts of ore geetral ' whirle,/ - the existence of those Loi - oughs furnish e d , ;n - to that very carious problem—the extreme expo Ccrrstitution, by which it was enabled to ada ittostaest. circumstances of the times and the interests of socWo3 . lla the ititer.sts in society were represented in money —the ge tters! ?epresentation of va:ue ; and are these boroughs could be obtained fur money, all interests became, by these meant, represented in society. Thus all found eiCreSS to Parliament through the money they possessed ; and co every inte- I'M, however it might grow and expand, found access to Parliament, and was represented there. There were also the nomination beroughe, maid he could find a rearms for them." But mane/ cannot be represented by means of !here rotten borough., nithout e commission by the peracme who receive the money of bribery,' end if the bribery oath he taken, of perjury. The Right Hon. Gentleman is tharrkfol that God has permitted him to defend the commission of bribery And perjury. But, with a singular inconsistency, while he ad; ocattv the ne ceseity of a system, to the working of which bribery is in dispertaable ; he says that bribes) , which produces so much good. which gives tos the best and most valuable part of tire Dritish Constitution, is an evil. " There was anctlier evil belonging to t , e present system that of bribery; which the present Bill did not touch, and would not cure. That was a moral evil, and moral evils were never to be cured by an exteevegant mechanical yroce.e." But If the moral evil were to be cured. adieu to the British Constitution. If the prayers of tire Right Finn. Gentleman fir the conversion of sinners were to be its successful as his prayers for permission to defend rotten boroughs with success, what would be the use of his rotten fir:roughs on which money could have no influonce ? We have always advocated e hat we considered good Government, and this the Right Hon. Gentleman terms republican, the plunder of the people through the cots-411)6mi of the few being, according to him, essential to Monarchy ! Mo narchy is much obliged to him. The Right Hon. Gentle man has obviously mistaken our exposure of the absurdity of the usual theory of the Consti.otion of three Powers halm:icing each other - for an argument that a Second Chamber of great lanillmoldere cannot exist wish a Muse of Commons. As the Lord Advocate observed—what is a Peer but a great landholder ? Unfortunately, many of them are neither landholders, nor moneyholders, but beg gars, and much of the dissatisfaction of the people has its origin in this cause. Lord John Russell made an able reply.—Morning Chronic& • It appears to us, after a careful perusal of the debates in the House of Commons on the subject of Reform, that the only proposition advanced by the opponents of the plan of the Ministers deserving attention is that every interest being represented under the present system, what need, is there of alteration? Does not Westbury supply us with' an agent for West India plintets ? Does not Old Sarum take equal care of us in Indian indigo and cotton ? Can Birmingham require a better advocate than Matthias from Boronghbridge? And why is it so? Because as Jew or Gentile nig become possessors of money, so they may traffic in seats in Parliament. But, to deal with the question gravely, let us ask these close-borough, optimists what is the House of Commons? Do they contend that it is at the present days Committee of intelligent gen tlemen summoned by the King at his good pleasure to ad vise him in matters of finance? or if they reject— which,. by the bye, they seem much disposed to do—the authority of the King, will they assert that it is, or ought to be, with a few exceptions, a Committee nominated by the Aristocracy, without reference to the King or to the people ? We care little what the House of Commons may have been in time reign of the Edwards or the Henries; nay, es e do not dwell much upon what it was nearer our, own timer, but we know what it ought to be now. The, House of Commons should, in its sum, be the represents-, ' tion of the people of England, and its members should individually represent certain bodies of that population, by whose direct election they should hold their seats in the National Legislature. We boldly affirm that any other constitution of the House cannot, will not, and must not subsist through the nineteeth century. Sir R. Peel has done himself great credit by sweeping away many vexatious fic tions of law, and he may rest assured that the people of Eng-, land will follow up the example, and no longer tolerate 5c- tionsofcorporaticuis, or fiction; of hurgage tenure. In the one . case acknowledged law, as well as practice, was on the side of fiction ; hut on the other the practice is directly opposed to positive and recent enactments. To us it is a, subject of deep r. gret to witness the sad display of selfish-, ness, on the part of the nominees for close boroughs, in their opposition to Reform. We would not go the length of calling upon them to retire from the discussion ; but, as it is a real representation alone which confers the authority , to speak the sentiments of the people, we put it to their sense of decency, whether they ought not to be silent when the question at issue is whether they and their patrons are to continue the exercise of a right which is as much a usur pation upon the rights of the King as of the people? The wish and the indispensable want of the King is to he made acquainted with the opinions and wishes of his people : these he may learn front their representatives, fairly and freely chosen; but surely he is not likely to be as well informed by nominees of a few proprietors of boroughs. If the usurpa tion be thus established as regards the King, the case is still stronger for the people. The English nation is not, as some are pleased to think, still in its nonage; it really can walk alone without the leading strings of young or old nominees of borough-owners. It has judgment enough to select, without direct interference, men of property, talent, an character, to be its representatives ; and, even were it true that the tutelage has been beneficially exerted, nations, like individuals, will, when arrived at years of maturity, insist upon the exercise of their inherent and indefeasilsle rights. We caution the people against the cry of moderate Reform, raised by some of the most bitter opponents of all Reform. The addition of a few Members for the principal trading and manufacturing towns now unrepresented—the depriving non-residents of the right of voting—and the shortening the duration of elections ; th( se are the tubs which it is proposed to throw to the whale ; but even such alterations as these would never have been entertained, bad not the honest and wise measure of the present Ministers been brought forward. What the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel would have done is matter of history, and, had they remained in office, in, all probability, the House of Commons would have been already involved in a contest with the people of England. Let us examine these measures of moderate Reform. The compact squadron of close boroughs could bear, without danger, an addition of ten Members to the regular force of which the rest of the House is composed—the striking off the non-resident voters, while seats are marketable, is a direct paving to those who are purchasers ; and so far reformers and anti-reformers, though fur different reasons, go together. / This remark applies equally to shortening the duration of elections, by which the expenses of the candidates would be le'sened. But do any of these measures touch the great and just demand of the people to be directly and really represented ? Not in the least. Hail such al terations been voluntarily offered, and had opportunities for making them been anxiously seized, the people might have submitted to a longer tutelage; indeed they might have felt a sort of confidence that as every year must, from the inquiring spirit of the times, hart brought the abuses and corruption of the representative system into more public and disgraceful notice, the Hume of Commons would have, of itself, shaken off the techni calities by which measures of amendment were often de feated and always delayed ;—but East Retford destroyed all such hope, and surely there never was an instance in which the infatuation of the unjust proved so providen• tial. To that, and to the Duke of Wellington's off-hand declaration against all Reform, we are indebted for the honest measures of Reform now brought forward by the, present Ministry, under the sanction of our patriot Mo narch. Sir Robert Peel must know that the time is gone by when he might hope to have pleaded the people of England out of their reasonable demand,. He must quit the interested wordlings by whom he is surrounded, and steer his Parliamentary couree by the changeil upset and foreboding signs of the times•—Morning Herald. In the New Monthly Magazine, just issued, an ample apace is allotted to the ermsideration of public affairs, which now exercise, generally, so absorbing an influence. The fourth paper on the " Speakers and Speeches in Parliament" enters into a spirited analysis of the public pretensions of Mr. HUNT, Mr. O'CoNNELL, Sir HENRY PARNELL, and Mr. O'Goastax MAHON ; and gives a running commentary on the recent transactions within the walls of St. Stephen's. " The Political Aspect of Ireland," forms the subject of a strong and scrutinizing. ar ti c l e . The "Sketches of the English Bar" are conti nued in an Essay on the character and talent of the pre , Sir THOMAS Dxsistax. Among General, the object of so much present omitted— an interesting communication country brine given, in which the Russian there is illustrated by some striking anec- A character , of the Grand Duke CONSTA N• continentalSyeenolsntxateitanxiety, a,p t ntoidi r : n ts e hi t tln Y o ale: ;: tet G i c , TINE is graphically exemplified. ATTORNEYS.—It has recently been made a question whether an attorney is liable to the militia ballot. It seems that. formerly they were exempt, but since ti e servire may be commuted, by paying a fine or procurin; substitute, it is no longer demised personal, n_d therefore he exemption in this respect _l3B Crased;i Case, 2 W. ]91. 125. Law of Attorneys and COB! M, 137, o , n 9 G PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. Mr. BAYLEY presented a petition from the city of Bristol upon the subject of Parliamentary Reform. As his constituents were exceedingly sensitive and anxious upon this .great question of Reform, lie hoped the good humour of the House would be extended towards him in affording him an opportunity of stating to what extent he concurred in the player of the petition, and with his Ma jesty's proposed measure of Reform. He was extremely glad to have this opportunity, as he had not spoken in the course of the important debate that had al ready taken place, and his constituents were no doubt desirous of knowing to what extent he concurred with the measure. The petition lie now pre sented was only signed by the chairman on behalf of the whole of the meeting, as the persons coin posing the meeting were desirous that their sense of the measure should be conveyed to the Legislature with the least possible delay. He was aware that the petition could only be received as the petition of the individual signing it, but he wished the House to understand and believe that it was signed by that individual on behalf of a most nume rous, meat res pectable, and very numerous meeting._ He perfectly agreed,, he must say, with the principle of the Bill—(Hear, hear, from the Ministerial side)—as far as the disfranchisement of a large number of com pletely rotten boroughs went. He completely concurred with it as far as regarded giving to the close corporations of large towns votes, such as Bath. He likewise agreed with it in the endowing, as it were, of great and new commnni ties—such as Birmingham and Manchester. •He could not agree with the proposed Bill in respect to its giving an addition to the county Members. Hate Bill was passed, as it stood in this respect, the county Members would carry every thing their own way; and he should have hereafter to call on Hon. Members who had raised their voices against the corn laws to support him in hie moat unqualified opposition to this part of the Bill, inasmuch as it it were passed in the shape in which it now was, it would be impossible to obtain an alteration in the Corn Laws. He had had commvnicatious with his constituents, and he found that by the proposed measure, no less than between 3,000 and 4,000 of them would be disfranchised, and the part of the Bill which went to the taking• away of their votes he should likewise u•e every possible means in his power to oppose. Mr. H;bAVIES said he had had the honour of pre. renting a petition from a very large portion of the inha tants of Bristol expressing sentiments directly opposed to the proposed measure. There was one part of the Hou. Gentleman's statement who had just addressed the House, in which be cordially agreed, that was the part in which he had expressed his surprise, in which a large body of voters was proposed to be disfranchised. He knew that the three great branches of the Legislature might de prive every subject of the realm of rights, but that was sot the principle on which the present measure had been brought forward. He had stated his opinions at length upon the Bill, therefore he should not go over the arguments now again ; but whenever the Bill should come to be read a second time be should give it his oppo sition. At the same time he was far from saying there were not parts of the representation requiring amendment, and whenever what he should consider a proper measure was brought forward in that House for that purpose it should have his support, hut he was directly opposed to the sweeping and revolutionary Bill that had been introduced by the Noble Lord. The petition was ordered to be brought up and laid on the table. It cordially approved of the measure of Re. form proposed by his Majesty's Ministers. On the motion of Lord ALTHOBr, the Calico Duties Bill was read a third time. Mr. WARBURTON, in support of his Bill to prohibit the growth of tobacco in Ireland, needed only to re-. fer to the circumstances attending the measure in order to induce the House to support it. Previous to Easter last year, the then Chancello r of the Exchequer gave notice of a Bill for Promoting the growth of to on for eign imported tobac c o :l e i'. e d d u . ty per pound. t i th u f e e i c t ° d i . o n ty But certa i n M em b ers ofthe United Kingdom to be permitt e d on p a yi ng c ontinuing as it was at S s . a pound, and the cultivation whom he (Mr. W.) was one, having expressed their opposition, the Chancellor of th e Exchequer was induced to reconcile the matter, and proposed that a Select Committee should be appointed to take the subject into their conside ration. After a minute investigation of the subject, that Committee bad come to the following conclusion :—That uoo fatoht revenuea t commodity so it was expedient to extend to Ireland the prohibi tion which already existed as to England and by a protecting duty of 600 or '7OO Scotland. Indeed the ocouolotirvdaitoigontoofthesurcehp proposition, therefore, was too mon strous representations n article tati o s surd for a moment to be elver .pciurotludb cent. nt tained by oily a.n a witnesses , b T the House. The revenue now collected imported was about 20 ,000,000 lbs. on tobacco was nearly three millions sterling, while u it l y d not, he wai sure, endanger so large easilyin permitting l c r o e l l l e a c n t d e , d, on la t y sernpro teot_ whilegreat extensionthe cultivation of Ex t o t i f se i t wou l officers.d a t tT l hni The e accountg wholeHo wo House growth Lord ALTHORP agreed in thinking it w as awes _ sary for protecting the revenue to abolish the ai protect ing g the du Le o time cause monstrous, growth of tobacco in Ireland. It was indeed contraty to any g enera l pr i nc ipl e to prohibit the culti vat i on of every article, b u t it wa s a question of rev enues and of PRICE 7D.