The Sun.
London, England, 1831-10-25 00:00:00

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY;)

HAY MARKETS.—(At per Load of 56 busses.)
CUMBERLAND (LATE ST. JAMES'S.)
Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay .£2 5 to .£2 10
\ew Meadow Hay 2 15 3 lo
Useful Old Ditto
3 10
line Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 3 15 4 5
Clover Hay 4 A 5 10
Oat Straw £1 Bto£l 12 I Wheat ytiaw,,, 114 116
Supply moderately good, trade dull, and prices stationary.
SMITHFIELD.
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Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £2 5 to £2 10
New Meadow Hay 3 0 3 10
Useful Old Ditto 2 15 3 5
r'ine Upland Meadow and ttye-grass Hay 3 10 4 0
C.. ver Hay (extra rine)....£6 o... Generally
'at Straw £ 110 10 £1 121 Wheat Straw 114 al6
A moderate supply, and a sluggish trade; prices as last quoted.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL'S.
THE HERBY, 1832.
9 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Beiram
13 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Dulo.llle,a eOtt
13 to 1 agst Non Compos
15 to 1 agst Mr. Wreford's MargraYe
IS to I agst Lord V.A.eter's Folly colt
20 to 1 agst of (;rattan's Pastille colt
'JO to 1 agst Mr. Vansittart's Darioletta colt
5 to 1 apt Chithey's William the Fourth
10 to 1 apt Duke of Rutland's colt by Trume
OAKS.
6 to 1 ag,t Einiliana.

The New Monthly Ningozine for November,
edited by E. L. BULIVER, Esq., will contoin, among other
interesting articles-1. Address to the Public-2. The
State of the Country-3. The Temper of the House of
Commons-4. Society—b. The Room in r wax..
NINO (lied-6. Discussions in the French Chamber-7.
Ourselves, our Correspondents, and the Public-8. The
World as it is, a Tale-9. SAMUEL ROGERS, aZd his
Works (Portrait)-10. Conversations with an Ambi-
tious Student-11. The Annuals,,U. The Monthly
Commentary.

MR. COOPEAki. NEW WORK, (NU
itususitET.,.,),.--The following New Works were published
this d.i.y by Messrs. Col.nuari and BENTr.u, New Bur-
lington-street " The Bravo," A Venetian story.
By the Author of " The Spy," The Pilot," &c., three
vols.-2. " The English Trauslaiion of Count Lavallette's,
Memoirs," Sceond Edition, in 2 vols. Bvo.-3. 4t The
Smuggler," by Mr. liAiirar, 3 vols.-4. The Third Edi-
tion of " Captain Beechey's Voyage to tha Pacific," fl,rm-
ing the completion of the Polar Voyages, undertaken by
order of the British Govozament, 2 vols. Bvo. with nu-
merous Plates, eng,rr.ved by FINDHN. Als.a.?:;:si ready—.
5. " The .;,:yes of Celebrated Female Sovereigns," by Mrs.
4A XtESON, 2 vols.-6. " Adventiires on the Col alibi*
River, including tbc.' Narrative of a Residence of SiX
Years oa '4;l Western Side of the Rocky Moutitair.o4" 2
vols. " Cavendish, or the Patrici4l/21 at Sea,"
3 vols.

IHE AUDIT OFFICE.,—This is as snug and
delightful a retrez,t as ecy under the borough systv-,
Were a system adopted in keeping the 12atblie ac-
coli.se9 this office might be dispensed wiik. In 1806,
the Ministers of that day set ahol,-,t improving the Audit
Department—and the way ;hay went to work is a very
apt specimen of their peculiar mode of reforming Go-
verniAwnt l.bosew. They crested a Chairman of the Board,
aAlary, 1,500/. ; four new members, esai 1,200/. ; a Se-
cretary (a foreigner), 1,000/. inspectors, each 6001.;
and eight additional I;.,:iaininers ; with numerous ether
appointments, increased the expense frw::: about
1.1.000; :o 38,0001. ; and after all, thz aa,ablishment is
• cow less efficient than under tte oil and less expensive
system.—Morning
There. vita foundation whatever for the repot t
a the earl and Countess of llAttniNc-,•volt having been
grossly insulted at Welford.noble couple slept at the
Talbot Inn, on their way ;rem Elvaston Hall to Londa,
but were not in coy way molested at Welford, ncr Las that
htvillatre
ja the scene of the slightest distwbance.
LORD LONDONDERRY iiN TI-lIRSK.—On
.
Monday last this noble peroonage passed through Thirsk.
Fortunately for bi,iasof, be was not recognised for sou
minutes after his arrival. The whispm hime.ver, freely
Bloated that he was near.
collected, who
vcry intelligibly expressed 'Numbete, sae;,hair estimate of his Lordship's
pOitical copdvt4 hy an unnielodious concert of groans
and hisses, Much to the satisfaction of the spectators,
horses refused to draw off his Lordship's carriage, and one
of them got a leg over the trace. Had his stay been pro-
longed, we are not without fenr that his carriage would
have been minus its windolis,...York Herald.

ELECTION OF LORD MAYOR.

' (Concluded from The Sun of yesterday.) 4 , ,
The LORD MAYOR presented himself in front' iii 111.1"
..-.\
-111.4
hustings, and was moat enthusiastically greeted. He ateod
before the- Livery in the unheard-of situation of an in-
dividual who had been twice returned by the Livery to the ‘l•ts)
Court of Aldermen, of which he himself was a member, cr,
so I by whom he had been twice retained as an object
oa whom they would not fix their choice.—(Loud
cheers.) He should nut presume to dictate to the Court of ` '
Al lermen, who had thought fit to object to him be-
cause they said the office of Lord Mayor was not a poli-
tical office. Whether it was so or not, he confidently
appealed to the Livery to say whether or not every indi-
vidual holding that high office had not used it in support
of those principles which he advocated in private life.--
(Cheers.) Many attempts had been made to isduce him
to withdraw from the contest.—(Load cries of " No, no;
you must not withdraw.") If he consulted his own
ease and pleasure, he should at mice have yieklid to the
application, but he felt that in his own person the rights
and privileges of the Livery were concerned—(Cheers)—and
he pledged himself to the Livery that so long as it might
be their wish that he should for a second time till the
office of Chief Magistrate, and that they should think fit
to support him in the struggle for that high honour, so
long- he would stand'forward in obedience to their wishes—
(Loud cheers)—end never would shrink from their cause
until the Livery should prove, by their votes, that they
wished him to do so.

Mr. CIIARLES PEARSON came forward upon the hust-
ings amidst sheets. He had a must agreeable duty to per..
form itt singlmg out one of the Court, Mr. Alderman
Thompson, and offering to that gentleman the warmest
thanks of the Livery for the upright and honourable
manner in which he had acted throughout that election.
(Cheers.) As the decisio❑ of the Court of Aldermen im-
post(' upon the Livery the necessity of embarking in
another contest, he should take the liberty of pointing
out to Sir Peter Laurie what would be the final result of
i is most ungracious opposition to the declared will of the
Livezy. In 1770 there was a certain Sir Henry Bankes,
Knight, sa there was now a certain Sir Peter Laurie,
Knight, both of them Tories and Anti-Reformers, and
Sir Henry Bankes, like Sir Peter Laurie, braved the opi-
nions and opposed the wishes of the liberal and public
spirited Livery. At the first contest Sir Henry lost the
election, as Sir Peter lost his, with a respectable number
on the poll.—(Flear,ltear.) Sir Henry, like Sir Peter,
came again into the field, and was again, like Sir Peter,
beaten, having poll,d no more than 465.—(Cheers.) A
third time Sir Henty came up to the scratch, but his
s reugth been taken away by galloping consumption,
and the poor fellow could number no hive than three
dozen votes, just sufficient to show l'.ow contemptible and
idiculuus were his efforts to be opposed to those of the
Livery.—(Laughter and cheers.) Shortly afterwards the
unfortunate and disappointed man went to his grave with-
out ever obtaining the object of his ambition. His fate
could nut, however, be without some use to those who
came after him, and Sir Peter could read by the lamp of
experience, that if lie imitated Sir Henry's example, he
would also meet Sir Henry's calamity.—.(Laughter and
cheers.) The Aldermen might give a little more
trouble, but the Livery must ultimately triumph.--
Mr. Pearson then referred to the extravagant and ridicu-
lous expenses of the Corporation. He condemned in the
strongest language the gormandizing and guzzling practices
of that body. The dinners given at the Old Bailey he
considered a moat disgraceful expense. He thought it
abominable that while a poor fellow-creature was undergo..
ing his trial (at the public expense) i❑ Court, for stealing
a loaf of bread, there should be tile extreme of carousing
going on above stairs, at the public expense also.—
(Cheers.) He did not see wily second-rate Judges should
be fed at the public expense, when the Lord Chancellor,
the first and most laborious Judge in the land, paid all the
expenses of his table at home or ahroad.—(Cheers.) Why
even the worthy chaplain of Nets gate dined twice a-day,
at three and at five, because, as he said, it was his duty,
to do sow..-(Laughter.) But all these gross abuses must
he removed. The teeth of the Aldermen should be Sled;
there nails should be, however, clipped firat,—(Loud
cheers.) He concluded by moving a vote of thanks to
Alderman Thompson.
Mr. Paattsorr stated to the Livery that the Lord
Mayor was most anxious that the words " obstinately and
indecoroualy," as descriptive of the conduct of his brother
Aldermen, should be owitted.__(Luud cries of " No,
no ; they have acted ' obstinately and indecorously.' ")
The resolution was then carried amidst the loudest accla-
mations.

Alderman Ttromrsox came forward amidst the most
tremendous cheers. He declared that it would be highly
•‘ obstinate and indecorous" in him not to feel most grate-
ful to the Livery for the very distinguished mark of favour
they had conferred upon hin+.—(Alderman Ti:minim, on
retiring, received three cheers. )
Mr. STRYILNS, of Bishopsgate, then appeared, and was
loudly applauded. How long the conflict might continue
nobody knew, but of one thing there was a dead certainty,
--the Livery would fight the battle vigorously and reso-
lutely to the last.—(lnitnenee cheering, and cries of " No
doubt of it ; we'll hash the Aldernieu.")
The thanks of the Nall were then voted unanimously to
the Sheriffs, and Alderman CoWAN returned thanks for
his colleague and himself.
The Hall was then about to be dissolved, when there was
a loud and general cry of " A rote of thanks to the Lord
Mayor for his spirited, vigorous, and independent conduct."
It was soutu time before Mr. Stevens prevailed upon
the Hall to give three times three cheers for the Lurd
Mayor, instead of the vote of thanks, which he declar,cl to
be quite unprecedented on such an occasion, as well as
liable to considerable objection on the pat t of the Chief
Magistrate. The Hall then resounded with acclamations,
afterthere
whi:hhe Hall w
wasanans then dissolvediversalgroanf.or the Court of

The LORD CHANCELLOR is expected at
Brougham-hall on Sunday. WILLIAM BROUGHAM, th•
Mernoer for Southwark, arrived on Sunday last.-_Car-
lisb• Journal,

It is reported that the Archbishop of CAN-
TER/WILT and Lord HARROWItY are endeavouring, by their
friends in the city, to induce the merchants and other in-
fluential persons there to make some deearation in favour
of a plan of moderate Reform. To divide the Reformers
is now the aim Of their political opponents ; and if they
can, by their friend Mr. fiuwr and others, draw away
from the Bill the good wishes of a portion of the It formers,
and by exciting an apprehension among the firmer, that
Reform will lead to an alteration in tire Corn Laws, they
may, undoubtedly, diminish the number of zealous ad-
vocates for the Bill. The great aim of the honest Re-
formers should be to unite all parties everywhere in sup-.
port of the great and practical measure of Reform proposed
by the Government, and thus to defeat the stratagems of
their enemies.

DRURY•LANE THEATRE.--King John was
las.t night perfortned at this theatre, on which occasion,
Miss Plinues performed the part of Constance in a style
of very superior excellence. Mr. MACREADY was the
King John,.

A duel took place on Saturday between the
lion. F. GREYILLY, the rejected candidate for Pembroke
shire, and J. Joxits, Esq. the M.P. for Carmarthen.
They met At Tavern Spite, when Mr. GAZYILLE fired at
Mr. Jortss, who dischargedjiis pistol in the air, but would
make no apology, stating that the firing might go on as
long as his antagonist pleased. The parties were then se-
parated.

USELESS GOVERNMENT OFFICES.—The
parade of useless offices is most ridiculous in the counties
palatine of Durham and Chester, and the Duchies of
Lancaster and Cornwall, arid the principality of Wales.
These have ali separate establishments, sufficient for the
Government of a kingdom, while their jurisdiction is con-
ened to a few private estates. There arc Courts of Chan-
cery, Ecclesiastical Courts, Chancellors, Attorney-Gene-
rals, Solicitor. Generals, Privy-Counsellors, Registrars,
Cursitory, Prothonotaries, Auditors, and all the other mi-
micry of Itityal Government, They bring nothing into
the public treasury, but greatly add to the patronage of the
Crown, whose dignity they degrade. In one part of
kingdom the Sovereign is no more than Prince of Wo.les;
go to the North, and he dwindles into the Duke of Lan-
aster; turn to the We and be appears in the bumble
clisracter of Earl of Chester ; travel a few miles further,
the Earl dieappears, and he pops up again as Count Pala--
tine of Lancaster.—Morning Murtild.
A pamphlet, published by RIDGWAY, shows
incontestably that the Reform Bill was rejected in ti.
Lords by the Bishops and representative Irish and Scotch
Peers, exclusively, setting aside the votes of which th
Vaeas-are would have been cart-bed. We cannot improve
'l)e reasoning in the extract on the existence of so strange
an anomaly as the fact,. that England is not to have Reform.
because it fails to lie the pleasure of the Peerages of Ire-
land and Scotland.

THE NEW BRIDGE (AVER THE DEIL—We
dnderstand the experkse of constructing this isagnincel't
bridge, the largest stone arch in the known world, will
be defrayed by the Marquis of Wzr,saxtssrea, who inten 'a
to make it a present to the city of Claesterß to be for ever
toll free.... Chester Courant.

The language of the Council of the Birmingham
Political Union ought at this crisis to be the watch-
word of every Reformer. "We (say they) will
stand by Lord Grey. That illustrious Statesman
has declared, that the Bill of Reform shall become
law in all its essential principles and provisions. The
whole history of his life forbids us to distrust his
word. The strength of an united nation, which he
wields, forbids us to distrust his power. Therefore
we will stand by Lord Grey. And if by any pos-
sibility he should be driven from power, we will
carry him back upon the shoulders of the people."
We have again and again expressed our thorough
conviction of the honour and integrity of Ministers.
But were they ever so much inclined, they cannot
now detach themselves from the cause of the people;
because, if the Anti-Reformers were to succeed,
they would never forgive Ministers for what they
have already done, and they would consequently he
singled out as the first victims. Ministers can only
hope to succeed by the support of an united people
The union of the people has already converted
Lords hostile to all Reform into moderate Re-
formers; the disunion of the people would soon
re-convert the moderate Reformers into enemies to
all Reform. Whatever, then, preserves the union
of the people, diminishes the number of Anti-Re-
formers in Parliament. To concede anything to the
Anti-Reformers, with the view of coaxing them
into a support of the Bill, would throw discord into
the camp of the Reformers, who have all agreed to
waive their differences, and to rally round the Bill ;
and would, in reality, increase instead of diminish
the number of Anti-Reformers in Parliament. We
must never lose sight of the truth, that Reform is a
hitter Bill to the majority of the Lords, for it strikes
at their corrupt interests; and that the knowledge
that the people are determined to have the Bill, and
that while it is impossible to resist an united people,
it may be dangerous to try their patience too far, can
alone convert the minority into a majority. That
Ministers are as fully impressed as men can be with
the necessity of persevering in that to which they
owe the confidence and support of the people—
namely, the Bill—we have the best reason for be-
lieving. But while we say this, we cannot help
expressing- our regret, that at that critical time
when men were filled with alarm and apprehension,
and when a signal could have roused the country
from one extremity to the other, and when the ap-
palling majority of 41 led many persons to conceive '
the House of Lords an insurmountable obstacle
in the way of Reform, Ministers did not make
sufficient allowance for all this, and were not at
sufficient pains to guard against the erroneous in-
ferences which the ignorance of the people as to
the real intentions of the Government might lead
them to draw. If it is of importance to keep the
people right, it is of importance to use the right
means. Now the course to be adopted for keeping
the people right can never be too simple and straight-
forward. Everything like diplomatic mystery is
only calculated to mislead them. We are, there-
fore, sorry that Earl Grey, when the delegates from
the metropolitan parishes waited on him, did not
at once express himself in such a way on the subject
of their memorial as to leave no reason for the in-
ferences which have been drawn from what passed
at the interview. We at e new satisfied that "Mi-
nisters never once entertained the idea of proposing
a Bill differing in any essential respect from the Bill
of Lord John Russell, and that they did not intend
that Parliament should not meet on the Ist of
December at the very latest; but admitting that the
inferences drawn by the delegates were erroneous
inferences, still it is obvious that his Lordship could
not have been so explicit as he ought to have been,
or seventeen men could not have left hint with the
impression that Parliament was prorogued till after
the beginning of January ; and that in new modelling
the Bill an endeavour would be made to make it more
palatable to the Lords. Earl Grey might think that a
long political life of unsullied integrity and the noble
manner in which he had fulfilled his pledges, the first
opportunity that presented itself, ought to have ob-
tained for him at this time the full confidence of the
people, that he would pursue the course hest 'cal-
culated to ensure the success of the great cause.
But, however this may be, it is, at all events, wise
to neglect no rnsans of securing the confidence of
the people. We regret, therefore, that sufficient
pains were not taken to guard against misconcep-
tion, both with regard to the terms of the Bill and
the duration of the prorogation. For tire soul of us
we cannot conceive why there should have been so
much philandering about the prorogation, especially
as it was impossible that any reserve on this sub-
ject should not lead to misconstruction. We are
sorry to see that already mischief has resulted in
one or two places from the above circumstances,
which might easily have been avoided. For in-
stance, at the Reform meeting at Hull, on Monday
week, art amended address was carried by a large
majority, in which it is stated, " That we have
heard with the deepest indignation which it is pos-
sible for a betrayed people to feel, that your Ma-
jesty's Prime Minister has declared his determina-
tion not to Reform the Upper House of Parliament,
nor to attempt the restoration of the representative
system in the House of Commons until January
next."
" Our record of this meeting (says the _Rockingham)
is made with sorrow and regret. As far as the requisi-
tionists are concerned, it was a failure ; not from any
neglect on their part, but from the fact that a large con-
course of the lower classes bad been collected by art indi-
vidual, who has obtained a great influence over them, and
persuaded them that it was right to go great lengths in
their demands upon the Legislature. The temperate ad
dress to the King, so ably proposed and seconded by the
Rev. Miles Popple and Mr. Buckton, of course did not
please them, and they rejected it in favour of one proposed
by their leader. Regretting as we do this result of a well-
meant endeavour to obtain a temperate expression of the
feelings of the public, we are still of opinion that what
passed will not be without its effect on that class of weak
and self-important persons who have taken so prominent
a part in the rejection of the Reform Bill. What we some
time ago predicted would be the case, has come to pass.
The question is now asked, ' Of what use are the Lords?'
and not only asked, but answered in portentous language,
that they are not merely of no use, but mischievous ex-
crescences on the body politic. The address that was car-
ried describes an hereditary aristocracy as a disgrace to the
times, and the Bishops as violating the principles of the
Christian religion—that religion of which they are nomi-
nally the superintendent Pastors."
There is in this great injustice towards Ministers;
and we trust, for the sake of the great cause of
Reform, anti the credit of the people, they will see
the necessity of supporting their best friends, which
Ministers unquestionably are, and not allowing them-
selves to be betrayed into measures that will afford
a triumph to the Anti-Reformers. It is by time
alone that we can hope to succeed in carrying Re-
form. We are convinced that Ministers will pro-
pose the Bill of Lord John Russell ; and let us,
therefore, rally round them, as the only means of
obtainti:gs, that blessing. There is a meeting in the
Borough th ig evening, and we trust that the people
will then see the propriety of avoiding all occasion
of discord. The advice of the Council of the Bir-
mingham Political Union, to stand by Lord Grey, is
the best which can he given. We have never at-
tempted to blink the difficulty of obtaining for a
Bill, differing in no essential respect from that of
Lord John Russell's, the suffrages of a majority of
the Lords. The majority of the Lords, for obvious
reasons, never can like a really efficient Reform Bill;
and

" Convince a man against his will
lie's of the same opinion still."
We should as soon think of persuading, the class
who live in the aletropolis. by the violation of the
laws, to give their suffrages in favour of an improved
administration of police and justice, as of persuad-
ing men who live by corruption to support a Re-
form which shall secure alt economical Government.
Let the array of the Peers be purged," sap, our
contemporary—(the Scotonan)—" Let every hurgit
proprietor be set aside, every pensioner, every sinelitist, every man who has got his family quartered
on the country through the present corrupt system
of representation, and we shall cheerfully abide by

the award of the Peers. But a decision pronounced
on the question of Reform by those who have
ravened upon the abuses which Reform would de-
%troy, is not entitled to the respect due even to the
resolutions of drunken porters !' " But the ques-
tion is not how we shall convince them, but how
we shall manage them ? It is clear that either they
must give way, or the people must give way.
That a whole nation, united in demanding its rights,
should give way to 200 corrupt Peers and Bishops,
who possess no power except what they derive from
the support of the people, is too absurd to be enter-
tained for a moment. The people certainly will not
yield. Well, then, the Peers must yield ; and the only
question is, whether they shall give way quietly, or
whether they will carry their madness so far as to
agitate this country to its centre. They must see
that it is only necessary for the people to refuse pay-
ing taxes to decide the question with a hostile Go-
vernment in one instant. The most that the
oligarchs can promise themselves is a little delay.
But is there no danger to them as well as to all of
us in that delay ? The stagnation of trade and
other consequences of the prolonged agitation, by
extending distress among the middle classes, may
throw workmen out of employment, and cause ex-
plosions which will be placed to the account of the
Anti-Reformers. Do not let them trifle with the
patience of the people. As the banker at the
Dundee meeting observed, all the mischievous con-
sequences produced by delay will be charged upon
the hack of the Bill. They may raise the storm,
but though they may not be the only victims, they
will assuredly be victims of it. And here we
must again enforce the necessity of organising
the country without delay, as the best means
of preserving tranquillity, and curing the refrac-
tory Lords of the delusion that they can hold
cut with impunity. It is gratifying to learn that the
recommendation to organise is being acted on exten-
sively in the metropolis and vicinity. We hear of
several places already which have made considerable
progress. By making the most of the interval be-
tween this and the meeting of Parliament, we may
contribute materially to the progress of the Bill.
Let us never forget that Ministers can only succeed
through the support of the people. It is said that
Lord Harrowby and the Archbishop of Canterbury
are endeavouring to get up a moderate Reform party
among the merchants and traders of the city. Alt
moderate Reformers are either fools or knaves. The
moderate Reformers are only Reformers, because
they think they cannot hope to prevent all Reform,
and they therefore wish to make it as inefficient es
possible. This point is admirably argued by our
contemporary (the Scotsman) :—" Twenty orators
(he says) who have derided Reform all their lives,
now declare, that if Ministers had brought in a
more moderate Bill, they would have given it their
support ! Well, let us suppose them sincere ; why
are they willing to grant now what they would so
lately have refused ! Because they would make a
small sacrifice to appease the people, who are unani•
mous in demanding Reform. And why are the
people unanimous ? Because the Bill is not a mode-
Irate,that is, a delusive measure, but one which goes to
the root of the evil, destroying corruption, and render-
ing the Commons' House the organ of the people's
interests. If Lord Grey had brought in a Bill, sup-
pressing some ten or twelve nomination burghs, and
extending the franchise to as many large burgh-,
leaving every thing else in strait quo, what would
have happened ? First, the people, knowing well
that the disease was too deep-seated to be reached
by such a process, would have received it with great
indifference. Next, the grand argument of the oli-
gatchs, the danger of innovation, and the wisdom of
letting ' well' alone, would have applied just as
much to the smaller Reform as the greater ; while
the one argument, which has made these worthies
moderate Reformers, would have been wanting—
namely, the necessity of conceding something to ap-
pease the people ! Who is so blind as not to per-
ceive. that Earl Grey's moderate Bill would have
been treated with still less ceremony than his re-
volutionary measure ?' Ninety-nine parts in the
hundred of the reasoning—if reasoning it can be
called—of the oligarchs is addressed to the igno-
rance of the people. A thousand times have we
wished that men studied politicsl science in their
youth, as they study grammar, arithmetic, or che-
mistry. Were such quibbles, and sophisms, and
rank fallacies, as constitute the whole armoury of
Anti-Reform argument, addressed to any sensible
man Gil a business matter, he would never dream
of replying to them ; he would grasp a poker,
and knock down the impudent knave who insulted
his understanding by utteritsg them !" Moderate
Reform means delusive Reform. Lord Har-
rowby would extend the franchise, but he would
keep the rotten boroughs—that is, he would keep
that which renders the other utterly worthless.—
Moderate Reform is the appearance without the
reality. The question is simply this—shall the bo-
roughmongers or the representatives of the people
controul the expenditure of the public money ?
liither the boroughmongers or the people must pre-
vail ; thy moderate Government is the continuance
of the government of the boroughmongers.
No
matter what elements they mix up schedules A and
B with, the boroughs in these schedules, if not
disfranchised, will poison the other ingredients. On
one subject all honest men seem now united, and
that is, that the ;Bench of Bishops will never be
able to raise their heads again. The Scotsman sar-
casticaliy observes, that while so many are willing
to plead the cause of darkness and despotism gratis,
the services of the Bishops may be dispensed with.
'‘ People ask (he says) whether; in a liberal age, the
Bishop., as a body, have not been as illiberal as the
Muftis of Conatantinsple,—whether, since the Revolu-
tion, they have ever, collectively, given one vote in favour
of the rights of the people? Whether the Bench have not
invariably been the promoters of intolerance and arbitrary
measures, and the enemies of education aad 1,-alowledge.
Finally, they ask, whether there is any national foliy on
record equal to this, that while so many are willing to
plead the cause of darkness ~z.nd despotism gratis, the
people of England pay away a quarier of a million per
annum to 36 m,71), as a premium for suppoith;g ignorance
and intolerance, foe impeding social improvement, apt]
curbing the march of the ilurnan mind ! Such, they say,
ie the end the order has practically ;...'trved, whatever was
the object of its institution! These arguments may or may
not be sound, but they are in every body's =stall
in this inquiring city; sad we expect by and by to see
petitions sent up, praying Parliament to suppress the Epis-
copal 13etiels as a nuisance !"—Morniag Chronicle.
An address from fifty Justices and six Clergymen
of the county of Cavan, to Lord Farnham, arraign-
ing the conduct of the Government in not making
him Lord Lieutenant of that county, has Leen pub-
lished in the Irish Papers. The exercise or the
Royal authority is terined by depositaries of that
authority, unwise, arbitrary, and, unjust. Such Jus-
tices should 4t once be struck out of the Commission.
" Who (says the Dublin Morning Register) are theta
Justices and Parsons? They are a portion of the few by
whoa;, or for whom, Ireland has for so tuat,ly ages been go-
verned. They express the sentiments of every man in Ireland
who cslls himself, par excellence, a Protestant. They are
a true sample of eight-tentha of the Magistracy, nine-tenths
of the yeomanry, and almost the entire Church. We do
not want the f,tavernment to make war upon the worthy
people. We have doubt upon earth that the Gover,a-
meta is disposed to act justly, :a:partially, and forbearingly
towards them. But we must be pertoi4ed to say, that it
well becomes the Government, when they are lieriharating
upon a course of in..aanres to be pursued in Ireland, to re-
collect that the acknowledgments which they are certain
of receiving for their best intended acts from the few are
such as are contained in the doeumeists ,efore us.—
Morning Chronic/:.
There has been foisted into the Brighton Gazette
of Friday last (which by some accident we did not
see till yesterday) a paragraph with an address; pro-
fessing to be that of the clergy of the diocese of
Chichester, " numerousV signed," on the depar-
ture of the Bishop to a better bishopric; and the
inhabitants
of a s
ants of Brightonsimile;
are said to threaten another
address
kind. We should be sorry to
be provoked on public grounds to institute an in-
vestigation into the conduct of the person thus ad-
dressed, but all know what has been his proceeding
on the Reform Bill, and it is surely unwise in
him to obtrude himself upon notice at this time,

It would appear from a paragraph in a respectable
evening contemporary, that certain good-natured and
harmony-loving Peers, who, nevertheless, mistook
their role of peace makers so far as to speak and vote
against the Reform Bill, have been striving to bolster
up some attempt at a petition from individuals in the
city in favour of "moderate" Reform. About the
Archbishop of Canterbury, who is described as one
of the bolstering parties, nobody troubles himself at
all, except to ask what made the worthy gentleman
a politician ; but with regard to Lord Harrowby,
who seems also to be putting his band to the same
rather awkward undertaking, we must desire the
noble Earl to look round him a little, and bethink
himself what it is he can expect. Lord Harrowby
wants a moderate Reform, not because his Lordship
would, if left to himself, be a moderate Re-
former, or any Reformer, but because the less
the Reform the less the evil in the eyes of the
noble Earl ; and his Lordship sees as shrewdly
as most men,that ton Reform he must come in spite
of him. What, then, are Lord Harrowby's notions
of " moderate" Reform ? Why simply one which
did not disfranchise rotten boroughs, and did not
enfranchise any 101. leaseholds. If we remember
right, he called the first " confiscation," or some-
thing like it, and the second he thought a letting in
of the democracy : that is to say, the noble Lord
would take nothing from plunderers, and would give
nothing to the plundered; arid his moderate Reform
is one by which he dreams of satisfying the indig-
nant people, without producing the shadow of a
change in the relations between them and the oli-
garchy. But what monstrous assurance is it of the
Tories to exclaim against the "disfranchise-
ment" of close corporations and of rotten bo-
roughs ! Disfranchisement implies the preceding
enjoyment of some free privilege or indepen-
dent right. Can the borough and corpora-
tion vassals—about whom such a factitious
clamour has been raised by the Tory minority of the
House of Commons, and by the majority of the 199
Peers and ecclesiastics,—can they be said to have
enjoyed any franchise, or to have had the capacity
of forfeiting any right ? Were there ever such slaves
known to history since the days of the wretched
Helots ? Franchise !—Not a voter of them dares
to wag but at his tyrant's bidding,—not an elector,
under borough or close corporation bondage, can
breathe but by the task-master's decree. Arid to
what end is such degradation inflicted on these no-
minal constituents of the House of Commons ? Fur
no end but that the borough-holders and corporation
chiefs may sell the voices (the free voices !) of these
their servile and prostrate menials, to the Minister
for the time being, and get in exchange places, pen-
sions, colonial sinecures, colonial governments,—
money on any or on no pretence, so it be the people's
money, no matter,—nay, the people's disgrace, toe,
by the defilement and depreciation of public honours,
stars, garters, peerages, and other dignities,—the
highest and noblest species of national property
being trucked by the Minister against the foul
abuse of borough and corporation monopoly.
And yet these political slave-merchants inso-
lently inveigh against the measure as a disfran-
chisement of those whose electoral rights they
(the borouglimongers) have for ages trampled on,
forgetting that if there exist a chance of escape from
servitude for the borough vassals themselves, it
must come from that great source of political rege-
neration whence now spring the hopes of the entire
people of England. Moderate Reform is a plausible
phrase. The nation considers, and considers justly,
the Bill itself to be a scheme of " moderate"—that
is, just and rational—Reform. It is vain for Lard
Harrowby,—a man in other instances not easily de-
ceived,—it is vain for his Lordship to play tricks
upon his own sagacity, and to flatter himself that
he can prevail upon the people of England to take
as little as it may suit his convenience, and that of
Tories like himself, to surrender, when they have
already the bulk of their own rights within their
grasp. The fiat has gone forth, and who dares
now recall it ? The boroughs must be hencefor-
ward satisfied with their share of the representation
of the United Kingdom in Parliament. The people
ask no more than their share. A Bill adjusting
these proportions will be accepted, and nothing less,
by the nation. Therefore the two schedules must
stand part of the Bill,—the enfranchisement of
towns, &c., must stand part of the Bill,—and the
qualifications of freeholders, copy holders, and lease-
holders for terms of years, must be left unimpaired
in their actual force arid efficacy. Such a Bill will
not please Lord Harrowby and the unfortunate
waieinee-on-Providence-Prelates, we are aware. They
have told us so; but no other Bill, we can assure
them, will be held for less than a legislative outrage
by us, the English people.—Tines.
We have already commented more than once on
the Royal speech on the prorogation of Parliament.
There are, however, two points in it which cannot
be too strongly or too frequently impressed on the
public mind. The first is the King's firm declara-
tion of being unaltered in his own wish for Reform;
arid, secondly, his assertion (which coming from
him carries additional weight with it) that the
people are all for the Bill, " The anxiety which
has been so generally manifested," &c. This is,
as it were, a solemn recognition, on the part of the
highest estate in the realm, and upon the most so-
lemn occasion, of the anxiety of the people for Re-
form,—a paternal aelenowledtement, on the part of
the father of his people, of the universality and in-
tenseness of their feeling upon this great constitu-
tional question. The King declared himself un-
altered in his own feelings : what then becomes of
all thew 'eack-stairs stories—that he was wavering
—that he was in his leeaet against the Bill—that he
had his fears about the result—that ha heel thoughts
of trying other men and other measures—all those
" Lies of th,e day, just buoyant on the flood,
Then number'd with tl.e puppies in the mud,"—
Thoae fables which were carried about by Chamber-
leins, and Vice-Chamberlains, and Ladies of the
Bedchamber, and Necessary Women, and all those
retainers of a Court (end ,there are such in all Courts),
who are in favour of old corruptiaes end old abuses?
Why do we call attention to these expressions of
the Sovereign Not because we had ever our-
selves any, even the siigheect, doubt of his Majesty's
sincerity, and of his real and deep-(ootd anxiety
foe Reform, but because we know that many very
worthy persons were influenced by these inventions,
which from time to time were renewed, and we
only wish to warn such persons against being dee
ceived in a similar manner in future. As long as
they see the confidence of the King continued to