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London, England, 1836-10-18 00:00:00

the futile attempts to pare them down afterwards, with
a view to accommodate them to the will of an asse:n-

bly which cast them froth it with derision. But the
inference which he draws from. these facts is curious in
the extreme :—namely, that the Reform of the Peers is
not the question by which the relative power of the
two Houses ought•to be. tested. The Hon. Member
for Dundalk talks of the supplies. This is very well,
as a last remedy. When everything else fail, the
Commons can close the public purse. But why hurry
a great commercial nation to the brink of a revolution-
ary precipice, as a means of effecting what may be as
well accomplished by a less dangerous agency ? It
would never do to have recourse to the stoppage of the
supplies on every occasion when the Peers might
threaten to turn refractory. The evil must be plucked
up by the roots. The House of Lords must be re-
modelled on the elective principle ; and that too in the
course of a very few years. We cannot go on much longer
as we have gone on since the passing of the Reform
Bill. If there be not now, as there was in 1718, a
Lord SUNDERLAND in the Upper House, prepared
to bring in a Bill for a reform of that branch of the
Legislature, the Royal prerogative is ample enough to
supply such a deficiency—even to the extent of
securing the passing of it when introduced. This is
the ground upon which the Reformers ought now to
take their stand. Let them leave the stoppage of the
supplies to the collective wisdom of their repre-
sentatives.

We are very far from blaming the Hon. Mem-
ber for Dundalk, or any other Member of the
House of Commons, for complaining of the tardi-
ness and apparent irresolution of the Cabinet. But
the way to quicken the forward movement of Minis-
ters, is not to create schisms among their sup-
porters. The Reformers must conquer by their
Union, not by their differences upon questions
already disposed of by the Legislature. Ministers are
placed in a very peculiar position ; and at the present
moment they can do nothing unless the people impel
them forward with a force absolutely resistless. To
cite the extortion of " Magna Charter " the " Bill of
Rights," and the independense of the ," Irish Parlia-
ment " by the armed volunteers of Duncannon, as ap-
plicable to the mode in which reforms are to be sought
by the people of these countries in 1837, is
childish in the extreme. Public opinion has fortu-
nately replaced the use of cold steel in legislation ;
and the fewer references we make to the customs of a
barbarous age for precedents of this kind, the better it
will be for all parties. The tide of public opinion has
now set in against the abuses of the Lords—these
abuses must be removed, or the whole Institution will
be swept away.

HULL AND SELBY RAILWAY.--The Eastern
and Western coasts of England will be connected by
this undertaking, which will complete the communica-
tion by Railway between Liverpool and Hull, two of
the principal sea-ports of the kingdom ; the former
being the outlet of the manufacturing districts to the
East and West Indies, America, &c., whilst Hull is
the port from whence goods are exported to, and im-
ported from, Holland, Hamburgh, Belgium, Germany,
Russia, and Prussia, a trade which is rapidly increas-
ing, and which the facilities this Railway is calculated
to afford, will considerably increase. The Engineers
of the Company, Messrs. WALKER and BURGEs, are
engaged in staking out the line, &c., preparatory to
advertising for contracts, and the Directors are already
in treaty for Locomotive-engines. From the Report
of the Directors, it would appear that few Acts of Par-
liament, opposed as this was, especially by one land-
holder on the line, have been obtained at such a com-
paratively moderate expense ; as the Directors had a
balance of nearly 30,0001. in hand, they have an-
nounced their intention not to make any call during
the present year. The accommodation which has been
given to persons travelling by the great number of
steam-boats, six of which, of large dimensions, are en-
gaged in the trade to Hamburgh alone, the same num-
ber to London weekly, in addition to others to Rotter-
dam, Leith, Dundee, Newcastle, Whitby, Lynn, Yar-
mouth, &c., in addition to the numerous vessels on the
Rivers Humber, Trent, and Ouse, cause an influx of
strangers into Hull, which has been estimated at
1,000 daily. These benefits will be considerably in-
creased when the Hull and Selby Railway is completed.
The accommodation afforded by the three commodious
Docks in Hull has been found so insufficient to meet the
wants of the increasing trade of the port, although one
was opened only seven years ago, that a meeting of
the inhabitants has recently been specially convened by
the MAYOR, to devise the best means of providing fur-
ther accommodation—one or two more Docks being
imperatively called for. Few undertakings will prove
more beneficial to the manufacturing districts than the
Hull and Selby Railway, as a journey which has ge-
nerally occupied two or three days to and from Hull,
will be accomplished in one day, when this undertaking
and the Railway between Manchester and Leeds (also
in progress) are completed. We heartily wish both un-
dertakings all the success which the enterprise deserves,
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