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London, England, 1831-03-08 00:00:00

worth, will besome positive objections among the electors,
impudence, neediness, and profligacy, will be the tine re-
their duties as Legisiators."
commendations. The national character for hoetestys
12ar4=, Wealth, And reeral
steadiness, and contempt of mere enthusiasm, must there-
fore have been produced, and preserved by close and nett ,re
boroughs ; i. e., the mouse has brought forth the moun-
tain. If the opponents of Reform were asked whether
they would recommend the adoption of the borough
system to any other country seeking to establish a repre-
sentative Government ? they answer at once in the
negative ; for when their personal interests are not
concerned, they canna! venture to uphold its mani-
fest ab ur lity ; here they find it, here they are benefitted
by it, and, p, r fas et nefas, they will resist a change.—
In fact, many of these persons consider a representative
form of Government, in itself, a positive evil ; and their
real opinion is, that the less the Members of the house of
Commons are influenced by the people the better. Prost n
is more grateful to such opponents than the best consti-
tuted electoral body; they view the people of England
collectively as a mere mob, they do not object to satur-
nalia, but they abhor the rational and independent exercise
of their franchise by the middling classes. We have been
'mused by the anxiety which the anti-rJormore, lorde of
I tree estates, or proprietors of boroughs, and the no less
disinterested romagers of corporate franchise, express for the
danger that will he incurred by the stockholders. Should
the present Bill pass, how will the stockholder be repre-
sented ? we are triumphantly asked. Now he applies to seine
Mr. Freshlield or other solicitor, and honestly buys, on 11
transfer of some of his Consols to a noble proprietor
or ignoble cerporation, the right of watching the fate of
the remainder of the House of Commons ; but if no
such means of direct purchase existed, there could be no
persons in that House, who were in the slightest degree
interested in the payment of the dividends; this state-
ment is certainly unanswerable, and its unanswerable
fove consists in its perfict accuracy. The stockholders
are a class entirely by themselves; they never live in
towns—they never have houses in the country—they ne-
ver employ their income in giving employment to others—
they never exchange the courtesies. nor perferm the cha-
rities of life ; in short they are wholly disconnected from
the rest of their countrymen, and have no means of ob-
taining influence or consideration. Is all this consistent
with fact ? Is it tolerable to Cowmen sense ? And yee
of such stuff is the Opposition made up that is apposed
to a plan of Reform that extinguishes abuses, satisfies the
pe ple, and while it extensively eters forms, and local dis-
trib tion, touches no one great I eneiple upon which Mo-
narehy is founded.—Morning Herald.
The debate on the Reform of the representation was
again adjourned last. night. The early part of it presented
nothing reinark.ble beyond an attempt on the part of one
of the Opposition Members to draw off the attention of
the House from the great question under it.; consideration
to matters of minor moment ; and in the subsequent part
of it we are at a loss to
,find any thing worthy of the

slightest observation, with the sole exception of the speech
of Li rd flowiek, which did him the highest credit,• and
was listened to with great attention, and the denounce-
ment by Sir George Warrender, an opponent of the Hifi,
of a cabal formed to oppose it. The existence of this
cabal we stated yesterday, as well as the o'.jec:s which
it had in view ; but the reformers have nothing to fear
from it. The illustrious personage from whom the
Reform measure derived its origin, and who continues
to head it, is alone sufficient to destroy this cabal ; and
we therefore confidently leave it to his fostering care and
protection. In the meantime we as confidently ask the
Opposition Members what they really hope to obtain by
the:r opposition ? Do they think they can save the rotten
boroughs ? Du they hope to make head against the nine
hundredth and ninety-ninth in every hundredth part of
tie population of this country ? Or do they make opposi-
tion merely for form's sake ? If they hope to accomplish
the first object, we can tell them that the rotten boroughs
are already considered as disfranchised, and that we have
never known such an expression of indignation towards
any persons, as towards those who now sit for rotten bo-
roughs, and who have still the effrontery, in despite of per-
petual usage, to sit fur them, after a change of Ministry. 'lbis
is a nuisance of the worst kind, and which would have
justified the Government, even before now, in dissolving
the Parliament ; and we really cannot conceive how they
should, especially on such an important question, have
tolerated it so long, or committed the decision of that
question to persons who have no more real right to decide
upon it than the owner of a freehold pigsty. However,
if the question be carried, that is enough, or rather the
only thing we look to ; and if carried the greater will
be the triumph. At a later hour in the night the debate
assumed a more animated aspect ; and the House had the
satisfaction of hearing one of the most logical, searching,
and unanswerable speeches ever delivered in it. It was
Mr. It. Grant, who rose and replied to the opponent; of
Reform ; and though from want of space we have been

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obliged to give lii4 speech briefly, our readers will see
enough in it to warrant the commendation which we have
bestowed upon it.—Morning Advertiser.
Reform now spreads like wil.lfire. There may be a
question as to lime, but no question as to the result. From
one end of the country to the other there is but one feeling,

one thought, one anxiety, one determination, on the sub-
ject ; and need we say that it is in favour of the King, of
his Ministers, and of the Reform which they have pro-
.

posed ? Yesterday a meeting of the Livery of London
was held in the Guildhall, for the purpose of supporting
his Majesty and his Ministers. A meeting also took
place in Marylebone for the same purpose. On Sa-
turday there was a meeting cf St, Leonard's, Brom-
ley, in the same cause. Yesterday there was a meet-
ing of the parish of St. Dunstan, and requisitions
and appointments of meetings are before us in
such abundance in the metropolis and its neighbour-
hood, as well as reports of meetings already held in
various towns, boroughs, and cities, that we actually
have neither time or space to name them. This day
there are to be meetings in the wards of Cripplegate—and
on Thursday the great district of Lambeth is not only to
bold a meeting, but to determine the day for a general
illumination ! -This is right. The enemy is strong
w lhin—the opposing force must b.! equally strong without.
The former calculates on de`eating the Reform which all
England calls for—the public must show by legal, peace-
able, but energetic, conduct, that it will have it. We
wish we had sufficient space left to give the opinions ex-
pressed by the provincial Press, and the enthusiasm mani-
fested throughout all parts of the country on the subject;
but we have not, and for once we must crave credit with
oar readers when we state that it is even greater than
here, where no one can walk the streets without hearing
the matter agitated by those who are passing along them.
—Mornivg Advertiser.

The members of the Worcester Political
Union met yesteril iy for the purpose of agreeing to a
formal expression of their approbation of the new Minis-
terial plan of Reform, and of conveying their thanks to
the authors of it. _ _ _

The authorship of the New Novel, t, The
Premier," which is so impatiently expected by the public,
is atttionted, we know not with what justice, to an indi-
vidual who feels much disappointment at the late change
in the administration, and is resolved to expose some of the
hidden movements of the State machine.

•- - -
On Friday last Mr. SHEIL, a barrister, and a
nominee of the Marquis of ANGLESEA, was returned for
the borough of Milborne Port, in the room of Captain
BYNG, who had vacated his seat.— Western Flying Post.
The bencliers of the King's Inns, Dublin,
have voted 10,0001. to erect chambers for the attorneys of
Ireland in the metropolis.
The following story is in circulation :-
4, When a Noble Lord tendered his resignation, as Lord in
Waiting, an Illustrious Person said to him, ' _ , I
am sorry to lose you, but I am at issue with the borough-
mongers, and I'll be-at them.'"—We do not know what
truth there is in this story, but it is characteristic of
the frankness and sincerity of the Illustrious Person
alluded to.
On Wednesday morning, at half-past two,
a.m., by moonlight, ISAAC STUBBS, keeper to C. It. AT.
TALBOT, Esq., M. P., of Margam, shot a large sea nee
at Cwm Malog, in that parish. His wings extended
measured, from tip to tip, seven feet eight inches and a
half ; his length from the point of the billatioldthheeexut,reeigmhietdy
brown; but
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mixture bird
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and rust co'our.
His legs were of a bright yellow, short, and remarkably
strong ; the joint at which the claw springs from the toe
was as large as the joint of a stout man's finger, and the
claws were neatly as formidable as those of a tiger, very
sharp, semi-circular, and near two inches long. This bird
is readily distingui.hablc from the Golden Eagle, the
Black Eagle, and the Osprey. The legs of the former
two are feathered to the feet, whereas this was only
feathered to the knee. The Osprey also has pale blue
legs, has a difference in the claw of the outward toe, is
not nearly so heavy, nor so large a bird. A bird of the
same kind was shot by the same person, and in the same
Cwm, in March, 1528, and was noticed in our paper at
ICincreous Eagle or Pygargus; butotlitis.,r...,dikoitis
the
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whiteness of its tail, and genera int 1
that time. The only other eagle seen in Beiasit_iii,,!_snot:rie