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LONDON. TUESDAY; NOT. 30.

A 310210 the many devices resorted to by those
who seek to raise obstacles in the way of Repre-
sentative Reform, none is better calculated to
effect the purpose than that which would fain array
the jealousy of county against town. A good while
ago the design of this line of defence against the
progress of political improvement was formed by
Mr. Dtaamtu,—not the present Chancellor of the

Exchequer, but the rersitile leader of the compact
and obstinate party called Tories, now no more.
Since the practical disbanding of that old garrison
of corruption, the blowing up of their tumbrils, and
burning of their reactionary Sags, this and other
outworks of obstruction hare been almost entirely
deserted. Indeed, they seem to be only uow
held by a corporal's guard, who march up and
?awn, and atter shrill blest' of alarm at intervals.
If we were quite sure that Mr. Nt.wDZOATZ, Mr.
BINTINCK, and the few impeuitents who adhere to
them, were curtails of recruiting their limited forces
Bum Tory rank, alone, we should hardly think it
worth wine to direct our observation to their pro-
ceedings. The mars of their former comrades hare
obviously made up their minds to stand no more
starvation sieges for the honour and glory of an obso-
lete cause. They hare forded the waters of Jordan,
tweed the fruits of the long-promised land, and will
not be readily frightened or lured into retracing Um*
steps by the mournfal croak of any pelican ef
the wildereem

Bat as misfortune is said to make strange
bedfellows. so a sejnarn in the desert brings men
into strange company. We fear there are sun
who ones called themselves Whip that need bet
little persuasion to join their standards in an Anti-
Reform crusade with the desperate Tory remnant of
which we have spoken. They are even now nego-
tiating terms of agreement, and settling on cones
pses-words and ensigns for their anti-liberal and
anti-national organisation. It is no nee certain
timid sad plausible friends of ours winking and
mulching and frowning at us, and begging us for
heaven's lake to my nothing about it, but
keep up We old mutter sad mumble about
Liberalism, and general tendencies towards
progress, and the supreme importance of
having aim bat men of the right breed in office and
power. We will keep no secrets that it concerns
the peoples& large to know. We believe that oaths
present monseot the elements of a factious sad for-
midable conspiracy against all Parli►mentary Reform
are actively in motion ; we are unfortunately not in a
condition to doubt that men who hare long worn the
mask of Whiggery are preparing to associate them-
selue for the secompii,hment of this unworthy object
with men whom they have all their lives, been abusing
as enemies to progress ; and we cannot shut our eyes
to the feet that this band of deserters from two
hitherto hostile camps is preparing to take posses-
sion of the entrenchment already referred to as can
affording scope enough for their joint efforts.
" County against Town" is a cry of which we shall
hear a good deal more before the battle is fought and
won. An attempt is made to persuade the counties
that they were robbed and cheated in 1832. Out of
496 members in England and Wales they were
allotted bet 169 seats, while the remaining 337 were
given to cities and towns. " Thus," exclaims Mr.
Newneos74, " we are at a disadvantage of more
" than two to one." We mast say that a more dis-
ingenuoua and indefensible min-statement of a now-

ri;us state of facts it has seldom fallen to our lot to
deal with. In every sense and in every aspect
the impression sought to be crested by this
array of unreal figures is wholly and en-
tirely incorrect. The House of Commons, as re-
constituted by the Act of 1832, does not consist, for
any purpose, local or general, permanent or special,
imperial or partial, of the misleading number 496;
nor can that arbitrary number be shown in theo-
retical logic or practical legislation to hive any
specific existence whatsoever. The number of
County Members in the existing Parliament is 233,
and not 139. as pretended by the honourable
Member for Warwickshire; for the Parliament is
the Parliament of the United Kingdoms, and how-
ever the representatives of England, Ireland, and
Scotland may occasionally ditagree, in victorious
affecting their respective nationalities, upon the
topics which sometimes divide the sympathies
of county and town, nobody will seriously as-
sert that the Scotch and Irish County Members
are distinguishable in their legislative leanings from
their English colleagues. To this aggregate of 233
we might, were it worth contending about, fairly
add the six members for the three Universities of
Oxford, Cambridge, sad Dublin. They are in the
main returned by the gentry and established clergy,
and not by resident, in towns, or by men identified
with the industrial classes, whose loth-lice is pre-
dominant there.

But we can afford to waive any minor act-off in
the account, because the broad and substantial
answer remain, to be drawn from an analysis
of the remaining portion of the House of Com-
mons. Let as glance for a moment at thi.. Out
of 393 members who in a non-natural sense
are stated by our Anti-Reform opponents to
represent the interests of towns, it is scandalously
notorious that several scores of them represent
nothing but their noble and honourable fathers,
grandfathers, brothers, uncles, cousins, or other re-
latives to whom the hamlets and ♦illages belong, for