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LONDON,
FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 18, 1831.

, A new number of the Quarterly Review has
just appeared, for the express purpose of enter-
ing its solemn public protest against Reform.
Whether partial or extensive, no matter ;
" Reform," says the writer, " means Re-
volution," and as such is altogether to be
deprecated. The talent shown in this ani-
mated diatribe is considerable ; the spirit
is of the basest—most malignant and most
prejudiced character. It evidently speaks the
sentiments of the most ultra of the ultra-
Tory party, and its logic may be taken as a fair
sample of that which this awkward squad of
statesmen will put forth in the approaching
momentous discussion. The writer sets
out with the proposition, that until within
the last few months the nation was rapidly
recovering its prosperity ; that little or no dissa-
tisfaction existed ; that Reform was never
thought of except as a wild chimera; and
above all, that it was one of the last things that
the people desired should take place. He infers
from this assumption, that the great change
that has lately taken place in the mind of
the public—and he allows that the demand
for Reform is unanimous throughout the
country—must be attributed not to the in-
fluence of necessity, but to the dread of physi-
cal force ; in a word, that the majority of the
Reformers advocate that measure under the base
influence of personal apprehension. Now it re-
quires little sagacity to show that the assumption
and, consequently, the inference of this writer, are
erroneous. In the first place, the commerce of the
country, though it has experienced intervals of
faint improvement, has not of late been recover-
ing to any very beneficial extent ; and secondly,
the question of Reform so far from being a
new question, has been familiar to the
public mind for upwards of a quarter of a
century ; and for the same period has consti-
tuted one of the greatest causes of its complaint,
and formed the object of its most ardent desire.
That the House of Commons never sympathised
with the popular feeling on the subject of
Reform proves nothing but the perfect incom-
petency of that House—as at present consti-
tuted—to legislate effectually for the nation. If
it has lately sailed with the stream, and shown
an inclination towards Reform, its change of
opinion has originated in the conviction that the
time has at length arrived when the question of
Reform may be discussed with least danger, and
the greatest possible benefit to the country. But
on what principle is it that the Quarterly Re-
view now steps forth as the opponent of Re-
form—that same Review which scarcely three
years since, indirectly advocated its necessity by
abusing the intellect of the House of Commons
en masse, in one of its very ablest articles, which
brought conviction to our minds as well as to
those ofhundreds of our brother Reformers. Surely
there is gross inconsistency here ? If the Com-
mons were destitute of sense three years ago,
with what propriety can the Quarterly come
forward three years later and argue that they
stand in need of no Reform ? The ne-
cessity is now three times as great. The
Reviewer superciliously enquires what is to be
got by Reform. How are the nation to be
benefited thereby ? We will tell him. By the
abrogation of the unprincipled Pension List--
except in those few instances where the pen_
sions have been justly earned ;—by the in-
fusion of a more national spirit into the
House of Commons; by the clipping of
the wings of that ravenous bird of prey,
the East India Company ; by a general re-
duction in, and revision of, time present system

The great American Patriot and Liberator,
SimoN BOLIVAR, is no more ! He adds
another to the long list of heroes, who have been
persecuted in proportion as they have benefitted
their country and ennobled human nature. His life
and fortune have been devoted to South
American independence—and now that he
departs from the wide field of his past
triumph and glory, will those who have envied
his career, because they could not emulate his
worth, be the first to weep his loss !

Italian and German Papers have been received
this morning, but we find no mention in them
of the revolution in Italy. The Estates of
Saxony are summoned for the Ist of March, to
deliberate upon a new Constitution. The fol-
lowing are extracts:—

PARMA, FEB. 1.-Her Majesty our august Sove-
reign, by a decree of the 27th of January, has created
a Council of State, of which the Secretary of State is
President. By this decree the ordinary Council of State
is divided into two Chambers, each composed of three
counsellors, one of which is to act as President. The
executive part of the general administraton of the Di-
rectors is divided into four sections, each having a Director
immediately depending on the Secretary of State. These
sections are—

" 1. Ju.dice and general Police.
" 2. The Interior.
" 3. The Finances.

" 4. The roads and rivers (answering to the French
ports et clactusse), which are substituted fur the two de-
partments of the interior and finance.
The posts of Delegate of the Government at Parma, of
the Inspector-General of the Treasury, and of the high
Commissioner of Police are suppressed, and their duties
will be divided among the four sectious, according to their
nature. Another decree, of the same date, appoints the
persons who are to fill up the several offices, and who are
to enter on their functions on the 15th of February.

MUNICH, FEB. 3.—M. Von Horrthal has given
notice that his Majesty the King has not thought fit to
give him, as elected deputy to the Second Chamber, the
desired permission to take his seat in that Chamber.
MUNICH, FEB. 5 —According to the terms of the
Constitution, the Government has disapproved of tne
Deputies Behr, Hornthal, Closet], Count Taufkerch, and
Bertelmeyer, who therefore cannot take their seats in the
Assembly of the States. This time the advocates, also,
will not be admitted except with the consent of the Go-
vernment. Munich has now 78,600 inhabitants.
Some days ago several students were arrested in conse-
quence, it is said, of the depositions of the students already
under confinement, about twelve in number.
WURZBURG, FRB. s.—The Editor of the Journal
calle4 the Baiersch Vnlsblatt, gives notice that the pub-
lication of the Journal ceased, because he will not subject
it tolhe censorship.
The Hanau Gazette contains a petition from the
citizens of Wurzburg to the King of Bavaria, on the sub-
ject of the refusal of the Government to suffer M. Behr,
burgomaster of Wurzburg, from taking his seat in the
Second Chamber, ar their deputy.
DRESDEN,- FEE. 7.—The Estates of the kingdom of
Saxony are convoked for the Ist of March next, chiefly
for the purpose of laying before them the plan of a new
Constitution. As the actual Constitution of the Estates
is guaranteed by the solemn engagements of the Sovereign,
it cannot be abolished and a new one introduced without
the co-operation of the Estates as they have hitherto sub-
sisted, and, therefore, for this only those persons have
been summoned who have hitherto composed the As-
sembly of the States.
DUCHY OF NASSAU, FEB. s.—Numerous recruits are
now being enlisted in our Duchy for the Dutch Govern-
ment As in consequence of the long ::ontinuance of peace
we have now an abundance of young men fit to bear arms,
it has been decided that there were was the less reason to
object to these levies, especially considering the bonds of
affinity between our Sovereign and the Royal Family of the
Netherlands. However, it is stipulated that these recruits
shall not be sent to the coloni...s, but be solely employed
in defending the throne from the dangers of the insurrec-
tion in Europe.
VIENNA, FEB. s.—The Duke of Lucca and the Prince
of Salerno have arrived here th:s week. The Duke of
Reichstadt appeared last week for the first time at a ball
given by the English Ambassador. This week (on Tues-
day) the Russian Ambassador give a ball, at which the
Duke was also present.

Despatches have been received at the Colo-
nial Office this morning from Lord BELMORE,
Governor of Jamaica, and also from the respec-
tive Governors of the whole of the Leeward
Islands.

Despatches have also been received at the
Foreign Office from France.

COMMISSIONERS OF BANKRUPTS.—We
understand that the petition of the bankers, merchants,
solicitors, and wholesale and retail traders of the metro-
polis, for the abolition of the fourteen lists of Commis-
sioneis of Bankrupts, will be presented to the House of
Common.; by Mr. AldermanTuomrsoN on Monday next,
at three o'clock, and a petition for a similar purpose from
the Corporation of London will be presented at the same
time by the Sheriffs of London.