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No. 19,154.1 simply again to record our protest. The avowed purpose of this arrangement is to enable " minorities to return repre sentatives"—a principle, or rather crotchet, of which we have more than once exposed the folly. The professed object of those who advocate the representation of minorities will not stand examination ; their real aim still less. Either they seek to smuggle in rational advocates of progress by a pro vision of which they hope Conservatives may not see the drift, or they wish to guard against too great an overweight of sincere and earnest Reformers in public. The former is a subterfuge unworthy of true Liberalism; and besides, certain to be defeated by the retrograde faction who are expert in all such " dodges." The latter would be a " keeping the word of promise to the ear, and breaking it to the hope," of which we should be loth to suspect any Liberal statesman. NOTICE. CHEAP EDITION of LIVES of the QUEENS ENGLAND. 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Doors open at half-past 8 Dancing to commence at 9 o'clock, and ter mate at 11,11 f-past Just published, price 45., free by post, 5s , PHYSIOLOGICAL RESEARCHES into the Causes of Nervous Debility and Gen to-iTrinsry Maladies. spermatorrhosa rationally considered, with unanswerabl• Remarks on the empirical ma , rner these Diseases are treated; being a Guide to Health, Lang Life, and Happiness. By MEDICUS. Sherwood, Piper, and Co., 83, Paternoster-row. R OYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. PATROV—H.R.H. PHI :CE ALBERT. FIE.T EXHIBITION of MAGNIFIED PHOTOGRAPIIIC PIC TURES, prepared by Monsieur Ferriere of Paris; also, COLOURE D PHOTO' ;RAPE C PI.!TURES, each i icture tilling a Disc of One thousand surtertictal Feet. An ENTIRELY NEW SERIES of DISSOLVING VIEWS. LECTURE by J. H. PIPPEE, Esq., on the CIIEVISTRY of thy ' MANUFACTURE of f' APER, and itt DECORATION with COLOURS, including WOOLNOUGH'S ARBLIO, PROCESS and WARREN DE LA RUE'S IRIDESCENT (From. the Morning Advertiser.) Last night Lord John Russell brought in his long-promised bill for a reform in the representation of the people. The measure excited but little attention. It was coldly received by the house, and it will not meet with any better reception from the country. When the bill is viewed in all its bearings, it will be found to be, what we long since by anticipation de scribed it—a measure of reform in name only, not in reality. In itself, therefore, there is nothing to evoke popular feeling in its favour—nothing to excite or agitate the country either for or against it. If the friends of popular progress have little or nothing to hope from it, the opponents of reform have nothing to fear. It will in practice leave matters essen tially where it found them. We doubt exceedingly whether, supposing the measure were to become law to-morrow, it would affect the state of parties, at the next general election, to the extent of a dozen members. There are various reasons why the public will take little interest in the new Reform Bill of the Coalition. But there is one special and weighty reason why the country will care little about it. An impression has gone abroad, that it has not been brought forward in good faith. Right or wrong, the popular conviction is, that it never was meant by its noble author, and those who have given their consent to its introduction, to be carried. The universal belief is, that it is only intended to form a fulfilment, in the letter, of a pro mise made last year by Lord John Russell, and indorsed by Lord Aberdeen, that a measure would be introduced in the session of 1854 for the amendment of the representation of the people. Lord John,!it is said, will feel that he has re deemed his pledge by the simple introduction of the measure. It is painful to think that such loose notions on the subject of morality prevail among our public men. If the general con viction be the true one, that the measure of last night was introduced, not for the purpose of being carried, but of being abandoned, then we are forced to the conclusion that the noble lord who framed and brought it forward is guilty of a breach of faith with the country. If he brought it in at all, he was bound in honour, and in virtue of his solemn pledge, not only to persevere with it, but to strain every nerve to carry it through a successful termination. With regard to the various towns and counties which will be affected by this arrangement, we must refer to the speech of the noble lord.. The adoption of this part of the scheme would introduce great confusion into our electoral system, and play most successfully into the hands of the Con servatives. In all large commercial towns they would be sure to get one of their number returned on the principle of repre senting the minority. And thus a considerable addition would be made to the Conservative side of the House, from populations which have never hitherto, in one solitary in stance, returned other than thorough Liberals. The mode in which the noble lord proposes to deal with the franchise is exceedingly complicated, and will be found very cumbrous when it is sought to carry it out. It would have been far better had the principle of household suffrage been adopted. That would have been simple, and would have been satisfac tory to the public,—especially if there had been associated with it the concession of the franchise to all persons paying a certain amount per week as lodgers. The bill has no preten sions to be regarded as a well-digested, much less a liberal, measure. The friends of popular progress will not regard it as worthy of their acceptan..T. If it does not create deep disappointment in the public, mind, it is because the public expected nothing good from the quarter whence it emanates. It fell still-born on the House ; it will make no impression whatever on the mind of the country. It is just the abortion we expected. It is in all respects worthy the Ministry under whose auspices it has been ushered into existence. This day, Crown Octavo, Eight Shillings, A YEAR WITH THE TURKS. By WARP444TON SMITH, M.A. With a Nap, by J. W. Lowry. London: John W. Parker and Son, West Strand. Just publishe ,, , New Edition price is , THE CURABILITY of CONSUMPTION being a series of Papers, presenting . the most prottonent and important Practic,ll Point in the Treatment of the I*.ea9ll• By FRANCIS 11. RAM ADGE, JLD., LECTURE by Dr. BACHOFFNEIt on WILKINS'S NEW PATENT UNIVERSAL ELECTRE TELPG4APEI DESCRIPTION of RUST'S NEWLY-TIVENTF.D PATENT TUBULAR PIANOFORTE, daily at a quarter past three. Open Mornings and Evenings. Admission, Is.; Schools and Children under Ten years of age, Half-price. 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Kalozdy; Solo, pianoforte (Morceau de Concert), Miss Jula Warman; Song (Dream of the Heart). Glover Mr. A. H Percy ; Waltz (B.riinton). Kalozdy; Song (Bonnie Dundee), Miss Josephine Brougham ; Qu .- drills (Malta), Kalozdy; Galop ( limes), Kalozdy. CONTRACTS FOR FOR AGE FOR HORSES. Department of the Comptroller for Victualling and Transport Services, Somerset-place, 11th Feb., 1854. R. THE Commissioners for Executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, do hereby give notice, that on THIJUDAT, the 16th instant, at One o'clock, they will be ready to treat with such Persons as may be willing to Contract for supplying and delivering into her Majesty's Victualling Stores at DE PTEORD the undermentioned articles, viz.:— HAY (pressed best upland meadow) • • .... 750 loads. OATS • .. . Half of each to be delivered in a fortnight, and the remalnd'r in one week mterwards, or earlier if preferred by the party tendering. A sample of the oats (not less than two quarts) must be produced by the parties.. tendering. The conditions of the contracts may be seen. and a form of the ender obtained, at the said office. No tender will be received after one o'clock on the day of treaty. Every tender must b addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty. and bear in the left-hand corner the words " Tender for ," and must also be delivered at Somerset place. PAINS in the BACK, GRAVEL, LUMBAGO, RHEUMATISM, GOU I', IN DIGESTION, FLATULENCY, NERVOUsNES- 1 , DEBILITY, &c.—Dr. DE KOOS' COMPOUND RENAL PILLS, as their name Renal (or the Kidneys) indicates, are a most safe and efficacious remedy for the above dangerous corn. plaints, discharges of any kind, retention of the urine, and diseases of the kidniys, bladder. and urinary organs generally. 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LIFE ASSURANCE; REPORT of the SELECT COM lIITTEE of the ROUSE of COMMONS, and the DEPOSIT SYSTEM—the New and Important Feature of Life Assurance adopted by The DEPOSI r and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY The following is an extract from the Report of the Select Com mittee : - " IHI OBJECTS which persons HAVE IN VIEW IN EFFECTING IN SURANCES upon their lives, are GENERALLY OF AN IMPORTANT AND SOLEMN character, viz., the riovisznirs FoR WLDows AND 01 PMANS after the death otheir NAIIIBAL FsoFscroas ; unlit any ordinary transaction. of trade, a CONTRACT ONCE ENTERED INTO CANNOT BE DISCHARGED OR ABANDONED, if doubts of the stability ef an office should . arise, WITHOUT A BACZIFICE or PEEMIIIMs PAID IN PAST UAW., End the necessi y of effecting new policies in other office , ' at increased rates of pretnium, owing to the greater age of the assured ; persons are thus placed in the ANXIOUS AND UN HAPPY DILEMMA OF BEING COMPELLED TO PERSEVIRE IN PAYING PREMIUMS FROM TEAR TO TEAR, with COME sumpicion and doubt as to the ultimate alvantage of doing .o, os. of INCURRING THE SE -31005 LOBS WHICH UNDER THE MOST FAVOURABLE CIRCUMSTANCES, =ST ATTEND THE ABANDONMENT. OR SALE OF A POLICY." On the DEVOUT SYSTEM a person Is NOT "COMPELLED" to pay front "TEAR TO YEAR," and he does not, it desirous of " ABANDON ING" his Policy, incur any' SERIOUS Loss," but, on the contrary, he may pay such amounts, and at such times we he may find most con venient; he can stop paying whenever he pleases, and he can with draw the whole or part of his premiums. If the whole be with drawn the Policy is cancelled ; if part only, then the value of the Policy is diminished by the assured value of the part withdrawn. A B, aged '2O, opens a deposit policy with a payment of 51., which it will be seen he increases from time to time, and occasionally diminishes. tl. Rig 002.50*C../ . 3 ..0.... .. •••I :1) 4C. C, 1•••• Cl r 0 ti n$ .1. t•••• G. Cm tO OP - ,60.74,-.0 iVC.4 -4f cr, r- ,cl - ".• -4m Hz's C' Q. c. 4 141 ao us •-• en •-• NN W THE STEA.MSHIP HIMALA YA. ~~~- ~~ ~- - ~\_ ~ Secretary's Clerk.--William F. Alexander (1852), of the Penelope, 16. steam-frigate, flag-ship of Rear. Admiral Henry W. Bruce, having been promoted to the rank of Paymaster by the Commander-in-Chief on the west coast of Africa station, and appointed to the Ferret, 8, on the same station, their lordships have con. firmed his promotion and appointment to the Ferret. Clerks.—George J. D. Andrews (1849), from the Poictiers, guard-ship of ordinary *.t Chatham, to the Majestic, 81, screw steam-ship, at Sheerness ; David F. Clow (paymaster of 1846), to .the Poictiers, vice An. drews ; Thomas W. S. Nearne, to the Fisgard, flag. ship at Woolwich ; Richard Munday (1850), from the Impregnable, flag-ship at Devonport, to the James Watt, 91, screw steam-ship, at Devonport ; H. J. C. Mitchell (1850), first clerk of the Dido, 13, on the Pacific station, to the Nile, 91, screw steam-ship, at Devonport; John B. Jackson (1846), to the Bulldog, steam-sloop, at Portsmouth ; John ;Metallic (paymaster of 1853), to the Neptune, guard-shill of ordinary, at Portsmouth ; Walter Lomer (paymaster of 1850), to the Impregnable flag-ship, at Devonport. Masters' Assistants—G. E. W. Yates, to the Princess Royal, 91, screw steam-ship, at Portsmouth ; W. A. Stone, to the Caesar, 91, screw steam-ship at Ports mouth. WOOLWICH, FIB. 13. A number of officers are required to serve as agents for the transports now engaged for the conveyance of troops, which will afford an admirable opportunity of employment to those of an active and energetic cha meter qualified for these responsible duties. The Talbot, 22, passed Woolwich to-day on her way round to Deptford from Portsmouth, to have her stores put on board, preparatory to her proceeding with the Phoenix screw steam-sloop, for the relief of the ships now in the Arctic regions. An order has been received to have a new brass screw propeller cast at the foundi7 here for the Phoenix, one of her former screws being completely destroyed, and only useful as old metal. The detachment of Royal Marines under orders for service in the Monarch, 84, Captain John E. Erskine, left the dock-yard station this morning at half-past eight, on their way to join their ship at Sheerness. Immedi ately on entering the carriages for their conveyance, the band played the national anthem, and it was responded to with the most enthusiastic cheers and waving of their shakos. PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 13. The Caesar, 91, screw, Captain Robb, came out of ths steam basin this morning, and round to the fitting basin, to ship her masts and fore masts, which she has done, and is rigging as fast as possible. The Edinburgh, 58, Captain Hewlett, was placed in No. 2 dock this morning to have her copper, &c., exa mined. She will receive a number of riggers as part complement, and is ordered to be ready for sea by this day week. We believe all the seamen riggers called out this morning will be borne upon her books. The Dauntless, 24, screw, Captain Ryder, bent sails and received her crew from their berthing hulk this morning, and hauled into the stream to adjust her com passes, preparatory to going out of harbour. The Princess Royal, 91 (screw), Captain Lord Cla rence Paget, also bent sails this morning. We believe both these vessels will now go out of harbour to Spit head on Wednesday. The Dragon, 6, paddle frigate, Captain Willcox, has made up the whole of her petty officers from the " rig gers," and will get a good crew. The Bussorah Merchant freightship sailed this after noon for Australia with a draught of the 11th Regiment. She calls at Queenstown for further troops. Rear-Admiral Fanshawe who has been staying a few days with his nephew, the Admiral-Superintendent (Marten) of this dockyard, had a narrow escape from accident on leaving the dockyard this morning for Lon don. by the breaking of the hind axle of his carriage, which was upset by the casualty. The Basilisk, 6, paddlewheel-sloop, Commander the Hon. F. Egerton, got up her steam in the harbour this morning, and tested the working of her engines. The Duke of Wellington, 131, is to he the flag ship of the Commander-in-Chief of the Baltic fleet, and the Nile, 91, will be offered to Commodore Martin in exchange. DEATH OF THE HON. GEORGE POULETT. We regret to announce the death by apoplexy, while hunting with Colonel Wyndham's hounds at Petworth, Sussex, of Vice-Admiral of the Red the Hon. Georgo Poulett. By this accident, the following promotions take place on the active list of flab-officers :- - Vice-Admiral of the White Charles James Johnston to Vice-Admiral of the Red. Vice-Admiral of the Blue Charles Sibthorp John Hawtayne, to be Vice-Admiral of the White. Rear-Admiral of the Red the Hon. William Gordon to be Vice-Admiral of the Blue. Rear-Admiral of the White Sir John Gordon Sinclair, Bart., to be Rear-Admiral of the Red. Rear-Admiral of the Blue Henry W. Bruce to be Rear-Admiral of the White. Captain John Leith (1525), to be Rear• Admiral of the Blue. MALTA, FEL 7. The Himalaya has just been telegraphed. On Sunday last her Majesty's ship Caradoc arrived from Marseilles, having on board General Sir John Burgoyne and a French colonel of engineers, Colonel Ardent, who conducted, in his department, the siege of Rome. The distinguished visitors were received by his Excellency the Governor, who went off to the Caradoc, and accompanied them on shore. Colonel Ardent having expressed a desire to see a re giment in heavy marching order, the 41st was turned out, having just returned from church, and a regiment of finer men, or more neatly clothed and fitted, could not have been selected to do honour to the service. The colonel was highly pleased at their military bear ing and appearance, and expressed the utmost gratifica tion, on one of the knapsacks being opened for his in spection, at the quantity of things stowed in so small a compass, and the exceeding cleanliness of its varied contents. The Caradoc left at 2 p.m. for Constantinople. The following items of intelligence reached Malta by the Triton, which arrived here in four days from Con stantinople. Several officers who have recently received their promotion have arrived by her, and Captain Ste phens, Royal Marines, on whom an operation was re cently performed, having suffered from exceeding cold, has gone to the hospital here for cure. He is not in any danger, however, and will probably speedily recover, under the influence of a milder temperature : " The officers who have joined are—Commander Mends, Trafalgar ; Lieutenant Percival, Fury ; Com mander May, Leander ; Lieutenant Balfour, Sidon ; Lieutenant Paterson, Inflexible ; Lieutenant Coxon, Furious ; and Lieutenant Nott, Queen. General Baraguay d'Hilliers left Constantinople on the 27th ult., to decide upon the spot on w hi c h t o en camp the rench troops expected from day to day at Constantinople. The following may be relied on as a correct report of the army of Roumelia ; head-quarters at Shumla : Re g iments. Men. Total. 30 nfantry ... 3,248 ... ... 97,440 8 Cavalry ... 650 ... ... 5,200 4 Foot Artillery 2,200 ... ... 8,800 11 Horse Artillery 1,200 ... ... 13,200 6 Egyptian Infantry •• • ... 19,488 Bashi Bouzouka and Redifs ... ... 85,872 Garrison at Rustchuk 15,000 ~ Widdin 15,000 „ Varna 40,000 70,000 The greatest anxiety is manifested by the Government authorities for the early arrival of the Peninsular and Oriental steam-ship Himalaya, which it is hoped may reach Southampton not later than the 16th inst. She left Malta on the night of the 7th inst., with the India, and Australian mars. The following letter from a gen tleman on board gives an account of her performances, and, both from the interest attached to her first voyage as well as the important part this steamer may have to play in the approaching extensive naval operations, will, doubtless, be read with attention : "We left Malta at 1.10 a.m. on the 31st of Jaumary, and met with a fresh a n n o ( r i tl a i- r A r - i e v s e t d br in ee fi ze o all the w o ay n u tli p e , 2d inst. a nst.heawevysaw3Wthel' lighthouse at Alexandria, 840 miles distant from i iN n l tt a , l Malta, and, i o n t 6 h l e h h o e u a r v s , y sl s o vv w e e l l d theon forthe n e g r i e n e e f s , the e pi p lo il t ot boats could not get out ; so we sent our boat swain with a boat's clewin the mailboat to fetch the pilot, which, with great difficulty and considerable dan ger was at length done. A small French screw steamer went in a few hours before us and touched twice on the reef. It seems a great want of consideration on the part of the authorities of the port of Alexandria that they do not have such boats for their pilots as, for instance, our Cowes piiotboats, so that they could come out a few miles to sea, and lay to, or cruise about for vessels, for when it is blowing hard on this coast it is most danger ous for vessels to run for the port, unless they can feet certain of obtaining a pilot. " During our run up she frequently went 151, and 16 knots, and at 8 p.m. on February 1 the log was hove and ran off 161 knots, when the line parted ; an d our o ld es; quarter-master, who was heaving the log, said, "she must have been going 17." Her average from Malta to Alexandria was 13.1 knots, and from England 121. We remained just two days in Alexandria, and sailed thence at 5 p.m. on the 4th of February, experiencing, first day, fresh breeze from N., with heavy swell ; second day, light headwinds ; third day, fresh westerly breeze right ahead. She ran up in 671 hours, or 124 knots per hour. The quickest passage hitherto made from Malta to Alexandria was by the Pasha's yacht Faid Gahaii, of 2,400 tons and 800-horse power, eight hours longer than ours ; from Alexandria to Malta, by the Bengal, 70 hoiirs. Her engines ever since leaving Gibraltar have performed most satisfactorily—at noon, February 1, we were, by observation, 365 miles from Alexandria iighthoure, and by two p.m., Feb. 2, slowed the engines for a pilot. _ " 'We shall leave here to-night, and shall, D. 1 -, with moderately fine weather, be in Southampton by the afternoon of the 15th. I think you may well rel this ship's average speed is 12i to 13 knots. Is there an ocean paddle-wheel steamer afloat whose average is as great as this ? The Trieste steamer Calcutta sailed from Alexandria three hours before us. We have a good many Australian passengers and a large amount of gold. The Australian steamer arrived at Point de Galle, Ceylon, 36 hours after the departure of the Ben tinck, so that the Australian mails were detained there ' nearly a fortnight." .rate k) 3s peas eek's od Ls to ling, oats, 60s ,40s in at Ir it; t de- .03; MP, peas, Aved from 0 711 1279 370 xley, is per lwly, as. Od Od Od nt in nice' &ire, ) and ,and 0., 4 land, 9-16. ten. Lunn. 18i • tern, day sria louth ono. --- ben • In fsuld. ;rta'a red 26 Llllist, 16 dsUy 6 day s .1 2 s tattn. %LI MR , I I, at I.: , z CJ :421C1 e .-.1 ell C 4 C.l N H 7 ..e, . . . Cr Cl CI 4 , 1 C 7 itt 4- =-.7, S. , ea 0 . v -44.1 0 0 Ca 4; 0 7). 1 4 , C . . .0 .0 ... Thus AB, in 10 years, has saved and invested at different inter tals various sums amounting to 97/., by which he had been insured In case of death for 2601. 12s. 7d ; but A B reouires 221. ; he draws this sum out, and diminishes the value of his Policy by 60/. Bs. 3d. at different times, leaving him in case of death a Policy for 200 4s. 4d., and during his life a fund of 75/. to draw out at any time, in part or wholly. The first claim settled by the Deposit and General Life Assurance Company was upon a deposit of 101. which a parent made for each of live children, instead of a ding it to an account they had at the Savings Bank. One ,f them died a few days after the 10/. was de posited, and the father received 341. 65., being the amount of the De posit Policy. EXA.MPLE No. 2. Inpposing A B, aged 23, when he opens a Deposit Policy h .s the Means. and continues VOi lINTARILY to pay the same sum every year In the same way as he is COMPELLED to do in the ordinary system. Year. 1 Age. ...... X X. s. d. --------- 23 18 49 6 6 24 ) 8 48 16 0 185 .... •••••••• .••• 25 18 47 18 0 47 4 6 26 18 46 10 6 27 18 28 18 45 17 6 29 18 45 4 0 18 44 10 6 43 17 6 1859 ..... •• ••...... al 18 43 4 0 1860... .... •....... 32 13 1861........ •• •• •.. 31 i 206 7 6 to 90 37 1866 ....... ..... .. 36 ? 90 190 4 6 to 1670.... •• •••••••• 42 to 72 141 3 0 13 1 4 46 ---- -- ---- 432 1,000 4 0 1874 .............. •• 47 i to 108 194 13 6 Sl3BO ...... • • —... 52 to 90 147 18 6 1185...• •• .. •• •• ••• 58 i to 108 182 10 6 1891.......• •• •••• .. 63. i -- -- 73i 1,525 6 6 Th premium or lg /. commencing; at 23 years of age, and paid unon an ordinary Policy (as IT MUST ac) every year till A.A. is 411 year,: old, will secure the sant, sum, viz., 1,00 but if A. B lives *7 years longer (which is the probable ottration of lies at the time he affected the insurance) his Deposit Policy. for t ame nay,ents as for an ordinary Policy of 1,0001., will have increased to 1,5'41. 6s. 6d. Titusnr.s. he Right "onourable the Lord ricount Drumlanrlg, M.P., P.C.. Comptroller of her Majesty's Household. Ma) ,r-General Sir W. Clayton, Bart.. 79, Gloucester-place, Port- man. , quare. • it Tharles Pricei Bart , IRanlier, L Flolse, Southampton. ondon. Vice-Admiral Aycough. Prospect CHAIRMAN. The Right lion. the T.ord Visepunt Drurnianriv. M.P., P.C., Comp troller of her Majesty's Household. CONKTLTING ACTIUM. Francis P Nelson, Eq ., F.L.S. STANIMNO COIINSEL. B. B. Crowder, Esq•, Q.C•, M. P., Recorder of Bristol, Counsel to the Adm'raltv, and Judge Advo c ate of the Fleet. It. Ma'in., Req. , Q C.. M.P., Lincoln's -inn. Chief Office, No, IR, New Bridee-strcet. Blackfriars, Landon. L 09.123 granted at 5 per cent. on real or per3onal security. Annuities on most favourable terms. Diseased lives and lives de , ined by other offices accepted at equitable rates. Nor Proopeetuses and further information apply to the agents i n sountry, or to C. W. Bevan, Riisident ,•ecretary. Agents wanted in all parts of the United Kingdom, N,s,—Lila Assurances effected on the ordinary plan. Me sobigNs, to be tad gratis on app lication at the Publishers by letter enclosing a postage atAmP.) LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 14, 1854. THE NEW REFORM BILL. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. ( From the Times.) The journals of yesterday had probably a more warlike appearance, and were fuller of actual preparations for war, than any the living generation can remember, which is almost as much as to say, since newspapers were what they are. Yet on the evening of that day Lord John Russell introduced, not only with his customary sang-froid, but also with the inti mation that he thought it a very slight affair, a measure of Parliamentary Reform not much less sweeping than that which some twenty years since brought us to the eve of a revolution and anarchy itself. This surpasses even Sidney Smith's well known description of his lordship's audacity. He has not, indeed, taken the command of the Mediterranean fleet, but at the very time when he and his colleagues were sending two immense fleets to the Mediterranean and the Baltic, and hn .mediately after Lord John had explained the conduct of the Admiral in command, he rose again to invite the attention of the House of Commons to the work of its own reconstruction. Very properly he prefaced his speech with a chapter on the pursuit of reform under difficulties, showing how a great man may be baffled in the attempt to pass a good measure, and either never succeed, as in the case of Pitt, or only succeed as Lord Grey did, after repeated attempts, under happier auspices, at an interval of forty years. Prom these splendid examples, the one of failure, the other of late success, Lord John drew the lesson that it was his duty to persevere, even with the risk of utter disappointment, or hope long deferred. Such courage we cannot but admire, and, a s hi s l or d s hip has described the feeling of those w ho wou ld sugges t de lay to consist of one part discretion, and three parts cowardice, we must admit his own purer element to be un tainted with either of those grovelling qualities. As if to re proach this degenerate age with its idle terrors, he intimates that his measure is scarce worthy to be called a Reform Bill; though in so doing he certainly makes us tremble to think what he would be ready to propose worthy of that name, were he not compelled to act with lesser men. For our own part, we think him hardlyjust to his own measure which may well compare in almost every respect with the act of 1832. Indeed, it is wonderful how much that measure las left to be done. That so large a supplement should be possible arguesmuch for the moderation of the elder reformers, and the unreasonableness of their foss. In one important respect the bill leaves the precedent of the Reform Act, and baffles the anticipations of speculative reformers. Dividing the problem into two parts —the distribution of seats and the qualification—it has heretofore been customary to deal with each part so as to meet the conflicting demands of population and property, or of numbers and land, as the opposite poles of the controversy used to be described. The -present bill seems to give up the idea of satisfying antagonistic classes, either as to the distri bution of seats or as to the conditions of the franchise; and, instead of that, to favour territory in the dis tribution of seats, and numbers, money, and edu cation in the alteration of the suffrage. It is a new way of dealing with the question, and will probably cause some disappointment to those reformers who have been ready with their schedules of new boroughs, and wished at least to see the population uniformly represented. Should the bill pass in its present form, however, it certainly seems likely to satisfy the most ardent reformers, even though it does not contain a single point of the " Charter." The in fusion of borough voters into the county constituency, and of operative voters into that of the boroughs, and the addition of votes derived fyom salary, taxes, stock, savings, educa tional test, and almost every possible source, constitute a formidable counterpoise to the influence of home and land. Considering how much the most zealous reformers have lately been obliged to lower their tone, and how little they are disposed to stand upon particular mea sures of reform, we think we may fairly ask them what class of persons deserving a franchise will not enjoy it on the pass ing of the proposed measure, and what interest will not be adequately represented. In our opinion counties and boroughs will become, under this bill, manes of very little significance —at all events, no longer signifying land as opposed to trade, or the landed aristocracy as opposed to the manufacturing population. When every 101. occupier in the country, ex cepting only those in Parliamentary cities and boroughs, will have as good a vote as the owner of ten thousand acres, or the tenant-farmer of a thousand, the town will have little reason to be jealous of the country, and reformers will have small cause to complain of the tyranny of landlords. As a whole month is to be given for inquiry, and as an inquiry is likely to take its character very much from its first start, we will suggest that, instead of comparing the bill with this or that standard or scheme of reform, the better test will be the question—How will it work ? There will be no great diffi culty in estimating the number, the character, and the pre vailing political tone of the new voters added to the electoral districts, whether counties or boroughs. At the first sight there seems but little reason to fear the invasion of any infldence to the interests of the people and the cause of social improvement. At least, we do not see under what provision of the bill it can possibly lurk. On a review of all the classes thrown into the constituency, and especially into those districts which are to have more representatives, or are to be formed into new electoral districts, we must express a conviction that the most thoroughgoing reformers will have ample reason to be satisfied with the actual working of the measure—more so, perhaps, than with the working of their own theoretical schemes. (From the Morning Herald.). Most of our readers will remember Blackwood's admirable series of papers, entitled, " First and Last." To this series Lord John Russell contributed another specimen last night. We had then, in a weary task of about an hour and twenty minutes, the First and Last appearance of a third Reform Bill. The latest specimen of the kind in 1852 was sentenced as soon as seen, and the present one is several degrees worse than that. We have not the slightest idea that we shall ever again look upon " the Reform Bill of 1854." Lord John went through his task with the air of a man who knew that the whole affair was a farce, and who could not, for the life of him, even put on the semblance of feeling any interest in it. Scarcely a cheer of the least warmth greeted him during his course; he sat down in nearly total silence, and in ten minutes afterwards not fifty members were left on the Ministerial benches. The whole affair was seen to be a sham ; and honest men disliked to appear to have anything to do with it. As Lord John entertains not the slightest idea of proceeding with the measure, he is naturally careless what party he insults by it. The first half of the measure is a downright affront to the Radicals—the latter half is just as disgusting to the Con servatives. Together, the bill is such a monstrosity, that it is difficult to believe that Lord John would be willing to pass his own bill into a law, if be were able to do so to-morrow. First, as to the Radicals. They have been insisting upon it, for some months past, that seats taken from towns must be given to towns; that, if thirty boroughs are disfranchised, thirty now boroughs must he created. Now, how does Lord John deal with this claim ? By disfranchisement of boroughs he finds 66 seats at his disposal. All these are claimed by the Radical party for towns. Lord John apportions them thus— Counties ..................... , ............................. 49 London University ......... , ............................. Inns of Court ............................................ 2 Chelsea Largetowns Total ....................................... 66 More utter disregard of the pretensions of the Radical party could hardly be shown. A second affront is inflicted upon them by one of the many " crotchets" whidh are introduced into this precious production. Lord John gives in to the novel idea of giving some representation to minorities. He adopts the plan of a late pamphleteer, of giving three mem bers to a large town, or division of a county, but allowing no elector to give more than two votes. In this way 5000 elec tors would return the first two on the poll, but a minority of 4000 would return the third. This is an idea particularly abhorrent to the Radicals, who enjoy nothing better than to triumph over the Conservatives, when they can, by mere b r ute force. But having in this way shown his disregard of the wishes and feelings of his Radical allies, Lord John next turns to the Conservatives, and does his best to render the measure loathsome to them. Half-a-dozen crotchets of the most absurd kind are introduced, any one of which ought to condemn the measure. Take an instance : that the metropolitan boroughs are low enough, Radical enough, and have enough of King Mobinthem, is a fact which even the Times itself has fre quently asserted. Yet Lord John proposes to make them much worse. "Is it possible ?" some of our readers will ex claim. Oh, yes ! quite possible. As the law now stands, every voter in a metropolitan borough must have paid some rates and taxes. Lord John gravely proposes to sweep away every regulation of the k ind. A man i s (we supp ose ) mere ly to be rated ; though why even this formality should be de manded, if the payment of rates isto excuse him, we know not. What rational motive can be assigned for this change ? Has any one ventured to surmise that the constituencies of the metropo litan boroughs are not low enough, but that they would be im proved by a larger infusion of the democracy? The " crotchets" of this bill are too many to be enumerated. One member is to be given to the " London University," which is not, we believe, Stinkomalee" itself, but a still More modern invention, which at present is to be found in lodgings, up two pair of stairs, somewhere about Somerset House, All people having salaries of 100/. a-year are to have votes. Are the clerks of a Lombard-street banker, or of Messrs. Morrison and Dillon, in Fore-street, more independent of their employers than the farmers of Sir Thomas Acland or Sir John Yarde Buller? Yet, when the farm tenants were enfranchised by the Chandos clause, the Whigs and Radicals told us that we were only making some thousands of dependent and servile voters." For our part, though we hate all shams, we must admit that the present is a case in which the Government cannot do any thing else. To act with truth and honesty is more than they can venture to do. To be in earnest, the y must pledge office, and power, and everything upon the carrying thi s measure. But this they cannot do, and do not mean to do. They have not the slightest intention of either dissolving or resigning. In short, the bill is only " brought in" to be taken out again. It is a mere waste of time ; in short, a farce (From the Morning Chronicle.) Lord John Russell was fully justified in stating last night, at the conclusion of his able, comprehensive, and statesman like speech, that the provisions of the new Reform Bill had not been suggested by any party motive. Not only i s th e measure marked, at every point, by an earnest and single minded desire to improve the constitution of the House of Commons, but the changes which it proposes are so v ar i ous i n their character, as well as so considerable in number and im portance, that it will not be easy, without elaborate calcula tions, to estimate their probable erect on the balance of poli tical power. The counties are to receive a considerable addi tion of representatives, but the county constituency Is to embrace a new class of voters from the smaller towns in the district ; and it will consequently, as Lord J o h n R usse ll pointed out, no longer present that " special character " which has operated so injuriously on national interests. In the larger counties and towns, the minority is to be furnished with the means of securing a share in the representation ; and, consequently, there may not improbably be a Ministerial member for Manchester, and a Liberal member for Dorset shire. Mr. Drummond himself might have allowed that the franchise given to clerks and salaried officers will tend to raise the character of ordinary constituencies ; and it is certain that the Inns of Court will never return a member holding opinions so dangerous as to be incompatible with a seat on the bench or with the office of Solicitor- General. In a word, the measure presents little scope for that narrow and vulgar criticism which can only judge of political changes as they may affect the petty in terests of faction. It must be estimated as a whole, with reference to its collective and ultimate effect on the character of the constituencies and of the House of Commons ; and thus regarded, it will, unless we are greatly mistaken, be cor dially welcomed by the country as a scheme, alike honestly intended, judiciously conceived, and ably constructed, for MR. SIMS REEVES will positively appear TO-MOttROW at the WEDNESDAY CONCERTS, Exeter Hall. Admission, Is., Is. 6d., 2s. 6d., ss. TO THE PROPRIETORS OF EAST INDIA STOCK. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, [TAD it pleased Parliament to preserve the present constitution of the Court of Directors of the East India Company, I should, whilst honoured with your support, have continued to be a member of that body, so long as Providence vouch safed to 13 e health and unimpa'red faculties. But the Act of last es ion has prescribed that the number of Directors shall be immedia•ely roluced to fifteen, exclusive of three to be named by the Crown. and that the first three vacancies in the fifteen shall be also filled up by her Majesty. Al though, from the kind feeling manifested towards me by my col leagues, 1 could with reasonable confidence have offered myself for election as one of the fifteen, yet I must confess that at my advanced age It would not be satisfacwry to my feelings to occupy a position so important to your interests, which might otherwise be more per manently filled, and not less benificialll . The Act has imposed upon the Directors and ex-Directors the selection from among themselves of the reduced bu number. This is a task which I would be des irous of avoiding, a public man, long connected with India, and deeply in terested in its good government, I cannot reconcile it to my sense of pr rriety to shrink from the performance of this im portant duty, however painful and invidious. I shall, therefore, re main until the close of the official year to assist my collesgues in their endeavour to make the beat selection of members for the new Court. Permit me to express to you my deep sense of gratitude for the confidence with which you have so long honoured me. It has been my endeavour faithfully to execute my trust. 1 resign it, not with out regret, having always felt a deep interest in the duty it involves, and I shall to my latest hour cherish an earnest solicitude for the pros nen - 0 of our magnificent empire in the East, and the happiness and welfare of its vast population. I have the honour to be, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your faithful humble Servant, East India House, 9th Feb., 1814. TO tIN LOCH. THOMAS SALT and CO., EAST INDIA PALE ALE BREWERS, BURTON-ON-TRENT. STORES. London 22, Hungerford-wharf. Liverpool .. 52, Henry-street. Manchester • • ........ 37, Brown-street. Birmingham ••.. 26%, Bull-street. Bristol . Back Hall, Baldwin-street. Nottingham .. • • 14, Milton street. Dublin • • 4, Crown-alley. Diinburgb. 17, Downie place. Dundee 13, New Inn Entry, High-street. RESIDENCE TO LET, at HILLINGDON, wit , in one mile of the West Drayton Station.—A -.commo dious H' iUSE, co , sisting of three sitting•rooms and six bed-rooms, with stable, garden, shrubb , ry, &c., called COLHAM HOUSE. Land adjoining may be had at Michaelmas next, if required. This residenc , which is situated upon the road from West Drayton to Haves. was for some years occupied by the late Sir Doorge Cockburn Apply to Thomas Brown, upon the premises; John Francis, Esq., solicitor, I, New Boswell court, London; or Benjamin Jones, Esq., solicitor, Llanelly, South Wales. PJRSSELL'S BRIDE CAKES, 1 to 10 Guineas; Dessert Cakes, Is. to 10s., viz., Dundee, Madeira, School, and Savoy Cakes; Swiss and French Pound Cakes, Is. Gd. per lb. ; Swiss and Italian Pastry, for evening parties, Is. to 35. per doz. ; 16 sorts of Almond Cakes, Ratifies, and Maccaroons, 2s. per lb ; Rout Cakes, 3s. per lb.: Mixed Cakes, Is. 6d. per lb. ; Mixed Biscuits, is. 2d. per lb.; Biscuits in bags or boxes, 14 for Is., viz., Arrowroot, Brown, Digestive, Milk, Abernethy, German buddy or Captain's Biscuits ; Mince Pies, 4s and 6s. per doz. ; Jellies and sow's, 4s per qt.; Creams and Ices, 6s per qt.; Made Dishes, Raised Pies, Hams, Tongues, Fowls. Caution.—John R. Purssell, 162, Regent-street, and 20, Ludgate-hill, only. EUROPEAN COURTS. ENDLESS embassies and fruitless negotiations have occupied the Courts of Europe for some time. Whether th c •nstAlAtion of the " Great Bear" is an unlucky one, we must lease for the consideration of all observers ; but the soundest policy has been pursued by the patrons of the establishments of E. MOSES and SON, who have negotiated affairs of dress on a scale of unpre cedented magnificence and economy. The war of elements is totally subdued by the attire manufactured by E. Musks and Sox, and ail the advantages of a comflete v story are secured by an artistic fit which combines fashion and comfort. As ambassadors to the Court of Fashion, E. Mons and Sox are the most successful negotiators which the commercial world has ever acknowledged—they have produced styles of dress which have gained them universal reputation. Their present facilities for exe cuting the commands of noblemen, merchants, men of business, labourers, and all other sections of society, possess an indescribable ampletude, associated with superior quality, infinite variety, and the most economical charges. Liveries, sporting dress, military and naval costumes, are made by E. Moses and Sow with the greatest uniformity and precision. Hats, caps, boots and shoes, hosiery, shirts, ladles' and children's c'othing of the mo=t elegant and serviceable kind, is ftutnished by E. Moms and Sox at considerably lower prices than are customarily charged. The wholesale department of E. MosEs and Sox's business is highly advantageous to merchants, captains, and emigrants. Their cloth ing, boots and shoe., outfits, &c. Ere., are the best shipments which can be made to Australia or any part of the world. Full lists of outfits for ladles and gentlemen. and ship-sailing in formation, may be had on application, or post tree. CAUTION.—E. A10:-ES and SON regret having to guard the dublic against imposition, having learned that the untradesman-like elsehood of " Being connected with .their Establishment," or " It's he same concern," has been resorted to in many instances, and for , bvious reasons, they beg to state that they have N . O CONNEXIOt4 WITH ANT Ovate HOME IN OZ OUT Of LONDON, except their own Establishments, as follows : London City Establishment, 154, 155. 156, and 157, Minories, 83, 44,85, and 86, Aldgate, opposite the Church, all communicating. London West-end Branch, 506, 507, MS, New Oxford-street, 1, 2 and 3, Hart-street, all communicating. Bradford (Yorkshire) Branch, 19 and 20, Bridge-street. "41ieftleld Branch, 36 Fartfate. Colonial Branch, M• lbourne, Australia. Merchant Nilo. Clothiers, flatters, Heelers, Furriers, Boot and Shoe Makers, and General Outfitters for Ladies and Gentlemen. IMPORTANT —Should any article not give satisfaction, it will be exchanged if desired, or, if preferred, the money will be returned without hesitation. All goods are marked in plain figures, the lowest oriee, trom which no abatement can be made. The Establishments are closed from sunset on Fridays to sunset on Saturdays, when business is resumed till 12 o'clock. A new Book, " The Epitome of Comfort and Economy," contain ing full lists of prices, our system of self-measurement, Esc., /cc., nay be had on application, or post-free. A handsome Almanac for the year ending 1854 can be had. gratis on application. 141 l'on perle Francais. titer arricht man Deutsch. G R A Qui si parla italiano. Aana se habla Ewan° VESEND STAR PACKETS. cal] at the Grays, Greenhithe, and Purfieet Piers. 1 at the Piers as underlined (weather permitting , NI TERRACE PIER, GRAVESEND. • other Packets The Packets ,a l l FRO: SUNDAYS. vE K liberalising, strengthening, and purifying our representative government. The majority of the House of Commons may possibly, in some cases, be dissatisfied with provisions which seem to limit popular influence in elections ; but they will see the prudence of abstaining from any collision with their opponents, in opposition to a comprehensive and well conceived amendment of our electoral system. The total or partial disfranchisement of small boroughs is a gain which may well reconcile those who profess zeal for reform to any shortcomings which they may discover, or imagine, in the general features of the scheme. The new members for larte constituencies may not be personally superior to the nomi nees whom they will displace ; but, on the other hand, they cannot fail to be at least equally competent to their duties. Should the counties be shaken out of their ancient custom of confining their choice to local magistrates, the House of Com mons, as well as the electoral system, will be greatly im proved by the changes which are about to take place. Three considerable modern townS are to be allowed single represen tatives, and the populous district of Chelsea and Ken sington is to receive the full honours of a metropolitan borough. It may be hoped that a district abounding in wealthy and intelligent residents will not sink to the Parlia mentary level of Finsbury or Marylebone. The proposed enfranchisement of the University of London will be re garded as a boon by the medical profession, who constitute the great majority of the graduates. The Inns of Court have, perhaps, less reason to complain of want of legislative influence ; and it is not impossible that the seats allotted to the bar may, before the conclusion of the debates, be trans ferred to some urgent claimant. The franchise to be con ferred on the educated classes, as such, wherever they may chance to reside, is a much-needed improvement in the re presentative system. The influence of the best portion of ' , the community will be further increased by the extension of the franchise to all recipients of annual salaries to the amount of 1001. to all persons charged with the income or assessed taxes, and to the members of certain professions. It is not impossible that even the metropolitan boroughs may be in duced to require higher qualifications in their representa tives, when their most intelligent inhabitants are for the first time admitted to the franchise. Small fundholders, and prudent men who have deposited their money in saving banks, will also tend to raise the character of the consti tuencies ; while the enfranchisement of 61. householders in boroughs, subject to the condition with respect to length of residence required for the municipal franchise, is a mea sure alike popular and judicious. Among the many valuable provisions of the bill, none are more impor tant than those which facilitate the admission of the better class of workmen into the electoral bodies. We have great satisfaction in finding that the plan of enabling a minority to obtain that share in the representation to which it is justly entitled is to be adopted in a limited number of constituencies. No more prudent method could have been devised for the introduction of a principle which, although manifestly sound, is a novelty in the Parliamentary system. In municipal elections, the same result has been obtained by the division of boroughs into wards; and the aristocracy of the provincial West-end return as many councillors as the crowded residents of the poorer parts of a town. The Minis terial proposal, however, to confine each elector to two votes out of three may tend to the advantage of all parties in their turn. There certainly appears no reason why the Parliamen tary discussions on this wise, moderate, and statesmanlike scheme should not proceed, whatever may be the external circumstances of the country. It is one which in no way appeals to the passions and prejudices, but to the reason and the sense of justice of Parliament and the community. If Ministers have been able to prepare such a measure in the midst of the harassing anxieties of a protracted diplomatic dispute, Parliament may surely deal with it in a spirit of calm and dispassionate deliberation, even though the country should be engaged in the vigorous prosecution of war. (Front the Morning Post.) " Went to the House of Commons with C., between four and five. Lord John's speech (I could not help feeling) somewhat feeble and diluted, except in one or two passages." Such are the terms which, on the 21th June, IR3I, Moore jotted down his impressions of Lord John Russell's greatest effort in favour of his first Reform Bill. They coincide curiously with those produced upon ourselves by his exposi tion of his third scheme on the night of February the 13th, 1854. The noble lord advocated but dispiritedly the bill which he is to usher into Parliament, and to support through what cannot but be a stormy career. The house received it lan guidly enough, and nothing ensued upon its enunciation, save a few vindications de rigueur of freemen by members whose electoral strength lies largely among that particular class, and a little string of questions from a few Scotch and Irish mem bers as to the measure which is to be meted to their respec tive countries. In fact, it is abundantly evident, from the tone and manner of the house that the representative body entirely agree with their constituencies that—be the bill good or be it bad—the present time is a singularly inopportune one for bringing it under discussion. As regards the character and merits of the scheme, apart from the question of its op portuneness, its supporters will, we suppose, designate it as comprehensive, and its opponents may well describe it as multifarious and destructive. Among the latter we are dis posed to rank ourselves. The act of 1831 involved, if it did not distinctly enunciate, the principle of making population the basis of representation buip to a limited extent only, and that, not at the moment apparently, a very dangerous one. There were many places whose industry had passed away, whose population had dwindled, and whose members conse quently represented only a shadow or a tradition. There were other places which, from hamlets and fishing villages, had grown into large towns and wealthy cities, busy with com merce and replete with active and productive capital. It was consistent only with common sense that, suppos ing there to be an invincible constitutional objection to any enlargement of the House of Commons, representation should be transferred from the shadow to the substance ; and, had the operation been conducted on distinct and constitutional principles, there would have been no ultimate hazardous pro gress involved by the undertaking. Unfortunately, Lord. John, for convenience probably in the first instance, adopted population as the measure of claim to representative privileges; and the admission, however modified, of this principle has compelled the author of the Reform Bill of 1831, as we al ways predicted it would, to adopt, now in 1854, that theory for which the Radical party have so long and so steadily struggled—the theory, namely, of proportional representation, taking mere population as its basis. This is, indeed, the main feature of Lord John's scheme. The accordance of repre sentation to the Inns of Courts we cannot approve of. As well, it seems to us, might electoral rights be given to the Shipowners' Association, to the Railway Companies' Clearing- House, or to the Clergy Mutual Assurance Company. As for the advantage of having more lawyers in the house, it will give us no great pain, and will inflict on the nation no great loss, to forego it. The extensions of the franchise which the noble lord proposes we equally object to, as unfitting and un called for. That for which Lord John claims the credit of being Conservative, is a mere sham, and can never have any sensible influence. The number of ? graduates of our Univer sities, of Government and of commercial clerks, who are excluded by the existing form of franchise, we take to be very insignificant, and even if they numbered three times what we conceive them to do, would be nothing in the scale against the mass who will rush in by the opening practi cated by the lowering of the county franchise to 10/., and of the borough to a muncipal 61. rating. Neither do we see any security for Conservative principles or Conservative ten dencies in the 501. savings bank provision, upon which Lord John appeared to lay considerable stress. Judging from the vast sums of money which they have expended, there was probably scarcely one of the men lately out on strike who could not have qualified under it; and supposing an election to have occurred in October last, with Lord John's bill in full operation, what class of men does he think they would have returned to the House of Commons—a Lord John Russell, or a Mr. Cowell—a Mr. Spencer Walpole, or a Mr. Newton—a statesman and an upright gentleman, or a plat form spouter and an ignorant socialist. There is one more proposed alteration in our existing system of which we have yet to speak—the most uncalled-for and the most unjusti fiable. We mean, that by which it is intended to exempt, in future, members of Parliament, accepting office under the Crown, from submitting their new position to the approval of their constituents. No one has advocated more strongly than ourselves the proper independence of representatives, or opposed more constantly everything tending to the establish ment of a system of delegation ; but this long-existing con stitutional usage involves no such thing, and only gives to the constituency that proper control which they ought to have over their representative, and assures them against the possibility, without their own connivance, of their influence being converted, by their member, into a means of personal advancement for himself. Let Lord John Russell consider well before he lays upon the table of the house, in the shape of a bill, the scheme of which he, last night, gave a pro gramme, He may depend upon it, Mr. Drummond is right _ _ —the measure contains that which must be, sooner or later, destructive, and exhibits no reason in the world for stopping where it professes to conclude. (From the Dailg News. ) The great feature, and the very great merit, of Lord John Russell's new Reform Bill is, that it proposes a large exten sion of the suffrage. The reduction of the county franchise to 101., and of the borough franchise to 61., are bold, sound, and excellent propositions. In places like the City of Lon don, St. Pancras, Marylebone, Islington, Southwark, Lam beth, Izensington, Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool, and many others, a 61. franchise must be practically equivalent to household suffrage, and certainly a 10/. franchise in counties must " within the pale of the constitution" all those who are above the grade of mere agricultural labour. All this is excellent, and thoroughly worthy of support, and if the scheme ended here, nothing better could have been expected. But the bill goes much further. Its great and good features are damaged by an unhappy crotchet—that of seeking " to represent the minority." This is the drawback ; and it will be the duty of reformers to decide whether or not a large ex tension of the franchise shall or shall not be taken as a suffi ciently great and sound instalment of reform—a sufficiently bold step in the right direction—to cover, like charity, a mul titude of minor sins. At present we have about a mil lion of voters, and we may now consider that we are offered a scheme which will certainly, if carried out, add some hundreds of thousands to their number. Indeed it seems probable that the effect of the GI. franchise in towns, and the 101. franchise in counties, may about double the number of persons entitled to be placed on the electoral rolls as compared with those now ac tually registered. With this extension we are asked to combine certain crotchets more or less acceptable to certain cliques. What shall we do ? Shall we take the bill or reject it ? To take it would in all human probability strengthen the Liberals in the House of Commons sufficiently to enable them at an early future again to revise our modes of election. To reject it would still leave us with the undiminished force of a just cry for Reform. All the sham Reformers—all those who have " bought " their seats in the House of Commons, and who want of course to keep them as long as possible, will denounce the Bill as a bad one. They will, under cover of a demand for a better measure, do all in their power to inflict a mortal wound on the Government Bill for the simple reason that to pass lit would send them again before their constituents for re-election. The array of the different sets of interested M.Ps. against the scheme, joined with the open hostility of those foes of the people, the Tories, may secure a very formidable phalanx in opposition to the New Reform. But the pub lic, for their own sakes, must not be hoodwinked. Theirs is the task to weigh the promise against the disap pointments—the good against the evil—the extension against the crotchets, and to decide whether they will or will not require their representatives to vote for the measure. After all that may be said against the measure, the real ques tion is, Will it, or will it not, be found, after careful criti cism of the various provisions, that the good outweighs the evil ? That is the point at issue. Considering the quality of the house to which it is presented, is it as liberal a scheme as could be brought forward with any chance of success ? Against the proposal that each elector in constituencies re turning throe members shall only vote for two, we have COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, the Princess. Royal, Princess Alice, Prince Alfred, the Princesses Helena and Louisa, Prince Arthur, and Prince Leopold, left Windsor Castle for London at five minutes before three o'clock yesterday afternoon, pro ceeding to the South-Western Railway station, where a guard of honour of the Scots Fusilier Guards was on duty. The Royal suite consisted of the Marchioness of Ely, Lady Caroline Barrington, the Hon. Eleanor Stanley, the Hon. Beatrice Byng, Lord Camoys, Col. the Hon. C. B. Phipps, Col. the Hon. Charles Grey, Mr. W. F. Cavendish, Major-General Buckley, the Master of the Household, and Mr. Gibbs. A special train conveyed the august party to Vaux hall, where her Majesty and the Royal circle entered seven of the Queen's carriages and proceeded to Buck ingham Palace, where they arrived at three minutes before four o'clock, escorted by a detachment of Lancers. The Queen and Prince were received at the Palace by the Earl Spencer, Lord Ernest Bruce, Lord George Lennox, Colonel Wylde, and Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. A. Gordon. The Earl of Aberdeen had the honour of dining with her Majesty last evening at Buckingham Palace. The Duke of Buccleuch has left Montagu House for the north. Lord Dalkeith, M.P., and a family circle, dined with Lord and Lady Cawdor last evening, in South Audley-street. Lord Henry Montagu Scott, ac companied by his relative, Lord Schomberg Kerr, after a tour in Australia, whence their lordships proceeded to our settlements in China, shortly return to Europe. The Marquis of Anglesea, we hear, was so far re covered on Saturday evening as to be able to receive a family circle at dinner. Lord Paget, his lordship's grandson, has arrived in town to take the oaths and his seat for South Staffordshire. Lord Brougham is daily expected to arrive in Grafton street, from his chateau in the south of France, to re sume his Parliamentary duties in the House of Lords. Viscount and Viscountess Canning will entertain several of the Ministers and a distinguished party at dinner on Saturday next, in Grosvenor-square. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. RAILWAY BILLS IN PARLIAMENT. Yesterday the following bills were declared to have complied with the standing orders of the house : Hertford, Ware, and Welwyn Junction. London and North-Western and North Staffordshire Railway Companies (for traffic arrangements). Caledonian Railway (Lesmahagow branches). London and North-Western and Midland (for traffic arrangements). Severn Valley Railway. The Great North of Scotland Company's Bill (for de viations and level crossings) was declared " not" to have complied. RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURN. LONDON AND SOUTH-EASTERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic re turn for the week ending Feb. 11, 1854 . £12,190 11 6 Corresponding week last year 10,827 19 11 Increase in 1854.. £1,362 11 7 THE PRESTON STRIKE. PRESTON, FEB. 13. The diminution in the number of hands chargeable upon the Trades' Union funds has enabled the Power loom Weavers' Committee to advance their pay to-day from 4s. to ss. per bead. This, as may be supposed, has diffused great satisfaction amongst the recipients. The weavers' income this week from the various districts is 2,2701., the following sums being included in this amount ;—Blackburn, 670/., Stockport 240/., Preston 151/., Ashton-under-Lyne 1401., Glossop 1301., Over Darwen 115/., Oldham 951., Church Parish 70/., Tint wistle 60/., Great Harwood 60/., Staleybridge 52/. lls. 10d., Accrington 421., Droylsden 311., Compstallbridge 30/., Bolton 29/., Clitheroe 25/., Chorley 22/., Heywood 20/., Burnley 201., all the other items wer e und er 20/. In addition to the relief contributions, the emigration fund as been raised to 81/. lls. 6d. It was reported to day at the pay-table that the hands of three other mills have resumed work at prices which are deemed satis factory, but as yet I have been unable to obtain authen tic information upon the subject, An important placard. a copy of which is annexed, has appeared this morning. The following resolution was carried unanimously at the most numerous meeting of power-loom overlookers ever held in Preston : " Resolved—That the power-loom overlookers of Preston are opposed to all strikes ; but we are of opinion that to secure our own personal safety, and to preserve our families from the indignation of the public and the perpetual in sults of our neighbours, it is our duty , a s well as ourinte rest, to take no active part between the contending par ties ; and while we are prepared to pay all due deference and render all necessary obedience to our employers, we have a strong conviction that we are best serving the ulti mate interests of the said employers by . preserving a strict n eutrality; at the same time, beseeching both parti es t o come to a speedy and reasonable settlement of the p resen t dispute, so that our town may resume its former quietude and prosperity. " By order of the power-loom overlookers of Preston.-- February 13, 1854. There was an immense gathering of the unemployed in the Orchard at noon to-day. Mr. Luke Wood, of Stockport, presided. Addresses were delivered by Messrs. E. Swinglehurst, Waddington, Wadman, Gallaher, and Cowell, of Preston ; Grimshaw, of Great Harwood ; Walton, of Blackburn ; and Lawless, of Warrington. Several speakers severely censured the conduct of certain clergymen, who, it was alleged, had endeavoured to persuade a number of young women at tending their schools, or places of worship, to resume work. Mr. Cowell contradicted a statement that a large number of weavers had returned to their employment at the mills of Messrs. Hovist and Miller. The speaker remarked that it was not likely they would go to work at that establishment, where they could only ears, on an average, Bs. 9d, per week, whilst they were allowed 58. for playing. It was announced that 100/. might he ex pected next week from Sheffield, and that some of the delegates were about to visit Leeds and other towns in Yorkshire. Before the close of the proceedings, Mr. Grimshaw called for " three cheers for the 10 per cent. and the downfall of cotton lord tyranny." This appeal having been responded to, three cheers were given for the factory operatives of England, after which the meeting separated. COMMON SENSE for SIXPENCE ! A Book for Young Men. By a Physician. For the public la and and the suppression of quackery. Numerous anatomical descriptive engravings, price 6d.. through all Booksellers, in a sealed et tvelope, or sent post tree for 6 postage stamps. SILENT HINTS on Certain Subjects; a Medical Mentor for the MI lion. centalning numerous prescriptions and directions by which mpiric'sm and Quack. ry are defea'ed, and all usual re mediea superseded. 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Yesterday evening, between the hours of five and six, a fire broke out at Claussen's Patent Flax, Hemp, and Jute Company's mills, situate at Bromley, near Bow new church. The property covered a large extent of ground, and comprised the principal mill, the machine-houses, the devil linesrooms, the drying-houses, and a large warehouse probably 50 feet wide and nearly 80 feet deep—whilst in front of the premises were packed in the open yard, under marquees, several heaps of hemp, jute, and flax, each stack being as high as a common dwelling-house. The last-named property was worth some thousand pounds, and the principal portion has been reduced to ashes, besides the destruction of machinery and goods in the mills. The fire was first discovered by a boy who was em ployed in the mill, and who stated that his attention was directed to an exceedingly small body of fire in one of the front warehouses. At that time the fire was travelling along the ceiling and appeared to be feeding upon the loose dust that had accumlated round the joistings. The boy at once sounded an alarm, and in the course of a few minutes a strong body of police belonging to the K division came up from the Bow station, under the direction of Mr. Su perintendent Howe and Inspector Ellis. The police and the various hands employed on the works at once made a vigorous attempt to get some of the many bales of goods in the warehouses removed to the open yard, in which endeavour they succeeded ; but unfortunately their exertions were of little avail, as nearly everything they could remove has been consumed. Information of the outbreak was sent per the electric telegraph to Lon don for the aid of the engines. 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