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London, England, 1837-07-14 00:00:00

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Earls of HATtnowny and HADDINGTON acting as

assitants, and petrol-ming their parts to admiration.
The object of the Bill in question was one of cFml
siderable importance to thy, clettiVe tights of the
people. ()ye of the greatest blemishes in the Reform
Att is the clause which precludes the elector from the
exercise of the franchise, unless he shflll litkr Oniti Up
rates and taxes to the sth of Anril. Not only is this
enactment ainura in itself—for there is ac little con-
nection between the payment of taxes and the right of

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS -ruin DAY AT ONF trOIitYCIC
Afttrinn Bonds -
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voting, as there is between REDEsDA LE and common

sense, PEEL and sincerity, LYNDHURST an prin-
ciple, or any other two things of the most opposite
nature—but it is positively and extensively mischiev-
ous. It greatly limits the franchise, or to speak more
correctly, disfranchises a large proportion of the elec-
tors, and that by no means the least respectable per.
tion of them, who from inadvertence, the tricks of col-
lectors, or other causes, fall into arrears, and do not
become aware of the circumstance until- it is too late

PRICES OF SHARES THIS I.):',Y AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Paid. Per Share
(treat Western Railway Company 45 51 2%
Brighton Railway Company (Stevenson's) 5 24.414
Brighton (Rennie.) ..........•
Manchester and Birmingham Railway 5 fil,
London and Westminstel. Bank 2O 19.4

PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, JULY I.
3 per Cent. Consols 9IA Grand Canal Del s. 6 per ccut. 87%
Ditto Reduced — 1 Ditto, 4 per cent .-
3 per Cent. Stock 97 Hibernian Bank
Ditto Net, 1S:30
3'4 per Cent. Debentures...— 9,) N 4 National Insurance Co —
Bunk Stock — City Debentures, 4 per cent... --
Royal Canal Stock
Grand Canal Stock — per cent —

At the Operative Conservative Dinner, which took
place on Wednesday last, at Bolton, Lord FRANCIS
EGERTON made a speech, which the Morning Post
of this day tells us was " admirable as a piece of
finely reasoned eloquence." We have perused this
vaunted oration, and feel that we should be guilty of

to remedy the evil. The books of the tax-gatherer and
rate-collector are closed on the 20th of July—a fad
of which we here beg leave to remind our readers—
and for those whose names are not found written
therein, there is no admission to the register. A
moment's reflection is all that is necessary to convince
any man who will be convinced, that the payment of
rates and taxes is a matter entirely between the payer
and the collector. If arrears accumulate it is obviously
the fault of the latter, whom the law has armed with
full power to recover the amount from the defaulter.
The sole qualification intended by the Reform Bill
was the occupation of a house not under 101. of annual
rent, and whoever is in possession of this title, has a
bona fide right to vote for a representative in Parlia-
ment. That is the spirit of the Act, which, in the
case before us, is completely sacrificed to the letter. It
cannot be maintained by any rational man that the rates
and taxes are part of the qualification, though that was
the only argument brought forward by Lord RE-
DESDA LE for throwing out the Bill, because, were it
so, the qualification, as far as the taxes on which it
depends are concerned, would be done away with by
their repeal—which we trust is not a distant event—
while as regards the Poor-rates, it:would oscillate as they
increase or diminish, instead of being fixed and sta-
tionary, as the Tories are always exclaiming it ought
to be. The law, as we said before, has provided a re-
medy for default in those payments. Let this re-
medy be applied, and if the elector is not in
the station, as to property, which the Reform Bill
intended him to be, he will be obliged to quit the
house, whose attendant expenses he cannot sustain,
and to occupy one more suitable to his means. Thus
all evasion of the 101. qualification will be completely
prevented, and the Reform Act rescued from the op-
probrium of being the screw of the tax-gatherer.
But it is to the moral to be drawn from the con-
duct of the hereditary House of Legislature that
we would chiefly direct the attention of the coun-
try. We see, from the spirit of the proceedings
in that House last night, that it is as determined as
ever to resist every thing that wears the form of justice
to the people. The measure which the Lords rejected
last night did not, be it observed, repeal the rate-pay-
ing clause. It was of a far humbler character. It
merely threw back the payment from the sth of April
to the sth of October preceding ; thins relaxing a
little the rigour of the enactment by a few months of
grace. But it would have, in some degree, extended
the franchise in practice, and here lay ho ... .. „,
o
ratter. It i intweatoarCTsaiNnvsaks directed.liberal It w
its tendencyat
hat
toe Ibecause
a popular rie.t., %bat lt-re-ctived its
s
death-blow at their hands. Let the Reformers of
Great Britain bear this in mind, when they go to the
non at the approaching election. Let no man flatter
himself with the delusion that the Lords are a bit
more disposed to yield their opposition to liberal mea-
sures, during the present reign, than they were during
the last. They hate everything that smacks of liberty
with a most perfect hatred ; and unless the Reformers
exert themselves with all their might--unless they
return to the next Parliament such a majority as shall
make the Lords look to their coronets, it will avail no-
thing that our youthful QUEEN has been educated in the
school of Reform, and is embued with a sincere desire
to extend its blessings to the nation over which she reigns.
Hcr MAJESTY will be unable to carry her gracious inten-
tions into execution ; and we shall continue in the same
state of hereditary obstruction as to national improve-
ment in which we have been for some time past. A
large majority in the next House of Commons, we
repeat, is the only thing that will keep the Lords
in awe.

We believe we may congratulate Sir ANDREW
AGNEW—which we do with a sincerity that cannot
fail to gratify his benevolent feelings—on the flattering
prospect that exists of his retiring, at the end of the
present Session, into the calm bosom of domestic feli-
city. Mr. MURRAY of Broughton has announced
his intention of opposing him for Wigtonshire ; and as
this gentleman is a firm, zealous Liberal, well known
to the elector:J, and much respected by them, we enter-
tain little or no doubt that he will succeed in relieving
th lion. Baronet of those worldly senatorial duties which
must long have weighed, like a heavy burden, on his
apostolic spirit. If Sir ANDREW has any sense of
gratitude—if a familiar acquaintance with the Savings
of a sinful Parliament, and the Doings of a sinful
generation, have not made him callous as the nether
millstone to friendly and affectionate impressions—he
will not fail to appreciate properly the kind intentions
of Mr. MURRAY ; for conceive what a satisfaction it
must be to one of his way of thinking, to be enabled
henceforth to pursue his pious meditations uninter-
rupted ! We always liked Sir ANDREW. There
was an airy sportiveness in his manner—a jocund
vivacity in his " Divinity Lectures" in Parliament,
which were invariably characterised by an utter
abhorrence of cant and fanaticism—and; above all,
a winning grace of style, and unpretending sim-
plicity of spirit in his Sabbath Bills, that made
us love him, despite his Toryism. While, there-
fore, on his own account, we congratulate the Hon.
Baronet on his inevitable retirement into private life,
we bewail it most bitterly, so far as we ourselves are con-
cerned ; for who shall compensate us for the loss of those
dazzling flights of evangelical eloquence which electri-
fied the Senate, and brought conviction to the minds
of all who read them ? Will a Twiss or BORTH..
WICK, or even a SIBTIIORP, recompense us for the
retirement of an AGNEW ? Alas ! not so. But
granting
that it were possible, still these great Parlia-
mentary luminaries would have no opportunity of af-
fording us this desirable compensation, for--Heaven
knows with what anguish we record the fact !—they
are themselves on the eve of extinction. Yes, they
are destined, in a few weeks, to follow the Wigton-
shire Baronet into the privacy of domestic life ; for
they, like him, have their considerate MURRAYS of
Broughton, who are willing—nay anxious—to relieve
them of the labour-Jaf Parliamentary attendance, and
are morally sure of success.