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London, England, 1836-06-07 00:00:00

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measures of Government, iovitine; them to a (Tate:,
with the Secretary of State for the ;Tonne Dep noinent,
this day, at the•l?orten-ofEee. The object- of this
proceed:llg is to i-ee the reforming portion of the re-
peeseotatoves of the people en oppornmity of Imeoring
and offering their opioion upon a proposition Kiel:
Lord John Russell moans to submit to their consi-
(7:crating, in rieTaitl to the mutilations which the Irish
Tifooicipal -Reform Bill scig ereci in the House of
Loyds. From whit has alretnie been declared in the
er Hotter,. by Lords Lensdc.,vne awl Holland, and
in thoe Commons by the Home Secretary, it must be
evident that neither Lord John Russell nor the other
litirembes( of the Cabinet have the remotest iotention of
coucedimn the principle, that Ireland is entitled to and
roust obtaio, sooner or later, the benefit of corporate
crovernmcnt in a reformed plan. Such a co:lces-
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sion to the spirit of faction would be an abandon-
ment of honour, integrity, and sound policy, which
not even their bitterest enemies would really expect.
however unscrupulowly they may talk, at die hands of
the _lsdministration: Ey what means Ministers hope
to achieve their twofold purpose, of maintaining their
principle, nod yet avoiding a collision, we are not as
vet enabled to statc with positiveneSs. Various ru-
mours are, as usual, in circulation. That which pre-
vails in well-informed circles attributes to Government
an intention of proposing a compromise, by means of
which, withont swerving from the principle of the
Bili as passed Lty the House of Commons, another
opportunity maybe afforded the House of peers of
revising, as it were, their judgment, and reversing their
most unjust and mischievous decree. Lord John
Russell's proposition, it is said, will be, that the Com-
mons; should -amend the " amend:l-lents," and intro-
duce clauses preserving and reforming the •Altlni-.
eipal system in all the cities and tared:• toWns ip
Ireland. Whether• this; proposition-should• it the
one.which Lord John 'Rqa'sell means .to lay
_before 1.116
meeting of Members of Parliament this day—be judi-
cious, or whether the Commons will sanction it, or
whether the Peers are as yet sufficiently sensible of
the perilous path into which, following their new Men-
tor, Baron Lyndhurst, they have plunged, or finally,
whether the nation would acquiesce in such a compro-
mise, were the terms assented to by both branches of
the Legislature—these are topics for future considera-
tion. It may be as prudent, therefore, to suspend all
judgment till we know what course Ministers have ac-
tually chalked out to themselves in the present critical
circumstances of the country. In the meantime we
may mention, that a large meeting of Tory Peers has
been held at Lord Harrowdev's, at which the pro-
priety of flinging Lord Lyndhurst's pernicious coun-
sel to the winds, and meeting the Commons half-
way in the path of conciliation, was discussed, and,
as we have heard, unanimously resolved uport This
report gathers credibility from the obvious fact, that
those Members of the House of Lords who possess
property, and are therefore interested in the peace and
prosperity of the empire, must—however strong their
Toryism, and however violent their hostility to Ire-
land—feel alarmed when the subsidence of passion
allows the exercise of reason, at following; headlong in
the train of a reckless adventurer, for whom peace has
no blessings, and to whom convulsion might open a
way to aggrandizement. Without, however, offering
any opinion as to the propriety of a compromise, we
trust that whatever the number of towns to whieli cor-
porations shall be given, the class of mischievous func-
tionaries for whom such tender regard has been shown
by Lord Lyndhurst, under the guidance of the active
Town-Clerk of Cork, will -no longer be anywhere per-
petuated, to the oppression and injury of the inhabi-
tants.—Morning Chronicle.
When we stated a short time since that money had
become a scarce commodity in the coffers of the Con-
servative party, we did not suppose that a few days
would cite& us -to exhibit a practical illustration of
the truth of our statement. We are, however, in pos-
session, at thie moment, of facts which not only confirm
the accuracy of our previous conjecture, but also lead
us to the conviction that it will be difficult, if not im-
possible, to remedy the existing deficiency. The total
exhaustion of the Conservative treasury has driven the
managers of that most unconstitutional stock-purse
to an expedient which practice has made as familiar
to them as it is odious and onerous to those who
are its victims—in a word, a whip has been ad-
dressed, in the usual form of a Carlton circular, to
certain wealthy adherents of the faction, calling, in
terms the most instant and urgent, for pecuniary
assistance, as the greater portion of the persons who
were to be subjected' to this periodical bleeding were at
the moment in town. The answers to the application
are, in many instances, already received, and arc, gene-
rally speaking, unfavourable. We shall select, for the
edification of the uninitiated, a few of the more remark-
able cases, sufficient to justify the remark, that an ex-
traordinary re-action has taken place in what was very
recently the head-quarters and the treasury of Toryism.
The circular begginer-letter was addressed, among
others, to a young Nobleman of the highest rank—
the bilerality of the Nobleman alluded to, as well as
his devotion to the cause, had, upon a former occa-
sion, been sig testified
by the extraordinary do-
nation of twenty thousand pounds in a single cheque
--to the Feeiqal)!dieatioa his Grace bas given a mt-
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gativc, the increase of his family as a pruden-
tial reason for what the begging-letter writers call hi
unseasonable and shabby economy. Again, anothes
application was made to a young Nobleotan of a very
high, but not the highest class. The coursse pursuear
by this salon of aristocracy upon a former emefgency
was so oriejnally and prodigally generous, that a refuqa:
at this moment could never have entered into the
calcolation of the applicants. To the first call,
made a few mooths since, his Lordship responded by
sending a cheque on his hankers, to which his name
was affixed, hut the sum was left in blank, to
be filled up at the discretion of the Finance
Committee of the Carlton Club ; and when that
wily clique declined the responsibility of fillip,
up the blank, and req-oested his Lordship to fix
the amount of his own donations, the cheque was
re-enclosed, g.:vin^ them a credit for four thousand
pounds Will be believed that a partisan so liberal
and so enthusiastic could in a few paltry months he so
completely metrunorphoeed as to- return a (h.ect 112ga,
tive to the pre:;ent more pr._!ssing aOplicatimi—and
vat
such is tile melancholv fact—the Marquis now gives—
his good wishes. tVt; shah not at preent
stances which unanswerably prove eltho. that the re-
sonrees of the faction are exhausted, cr tiiot the zeal
of their leaders has cvaporeted—we would rather hope
that the reluctance exhibited upon the present occasion
is time result of the progress of juster views and a mote
accurate estimate of the real state of conflicting opi-
ne instances we have se!ected,,althong,ll the
most remarkable, are by no means the only indications
of Tory defections in high places. For Oil: moment we
have said enough to show the notorious Finance Com-
mittee of Pall-mall that their inanceuvres are neither so
secret as they suppose, nor their success so signal as to
excite much apprehension. --Morning Advertiser.
This day is biz with die fate of the House of Lords;
and yet, strange, to say, we believe their Lordships
are a,,-; composedly attenaing to their ordinary ;vocations
as if nothing very awful resoecting their future autho-
rity in tins realm were about to take place. This day
Lord John Rues ell is to call around him that sagacious
and moderate body of
of oliticians—the Radical Mem-
bers of the House. (Commons, to confer •?vith them
upon the course to be taken regarding. the asne::d-
unents of the House of Lords in thelrish';':orporations
1111. If, when it comes to the point, these considerate
and liberal legislators—liberal we may call them, for
they would willingly take upon themselves all the labour
cof legislating for, and governing this country—if even
riow their valour and their indignation he as great as
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ever, respecting the
House of Lords, what thunder may
wie not expect from this consultation? We can easily
imp gine the weight of argument, and the fire of
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eloq ucnce with which these sages will be prepared
to s,tiow the presumption of time Peers in venturing
to judge for themselves—in not adopting,
with
tine deference, the mature decisions of legislators so
practise, I and so profound as the Radical Members of
the Hou. se of Commons. What are .the Peers, that
they shou 41 presume to exercise their understanding

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