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London, England, 1831-09-03 00:00:00

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LONDON,
SATVIWAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 3, 1831

By our Parliamentary report of this day, our
readers will learn with great gratification, that
there is every probability of the Reform Bill
passing *rouh Committee by Wednesday next.
Lord ALTHORP'S obserFations on this head, in
reply to Mr. CROK ER, will be found welj
worthy cf attention.
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1 the Upper House last night the. LonD
CHANCELLPP. brought in a sill (which Way
read a first time) to extend to the Ecclesiastical
Jurisdiction Courts the same remedy against in-
dividuals having Parliamentary privileges, which
fire Chancery and Common Law Courts possess
at present. Wg, 7.e delighted to find his
Lordship thus actively puEhiilg the spirit
pf inquiry into every department of law.;
simplifying what is obscure, rectifying what is
,unjust; and rendering rational what is absurd?
KL4II the sagacity and d,eterm,ined perseverance
of a patii-ot (7,14 a statesman. Equally gra-
tified are we to find that his s‘ervi,,ces a,rol
appreciated, as they should be, by tbil
public ; and that he is already spoken of as
o in.e of the best and wisest Chancellors
that
iever grow the Woolsack. The Herald
of this morning says, " it itaa beoi proposed in
the city that the speech of .o.rd
0)1 yriday, ip the Court of Chancery, (Shonlo
,be printed is letter; k?f gold. We can only
;ay that he richly deserves :Ili, :,:nd more
, than A, the dilinction which the pan':

can bestow on him." So say we, and so,
we are convinced, say the majority of
the people of England. Lord BROUGHAM
is a Reformer in the Most enlightened and com-
prehensive sense of the term. He does not he-
sitate, nor pause, nor go two steps back for every
one that he takes forward, but pushes right on
to the goal, regardless alike of the sneers—the
shrugs and the remonstrances—of the inter-
ested, the distrustful, and the timid. He
knows that gigantic abuses require a giant's
power to remove them, and this power he is
both able and willing to apply. Yet he is neither
rash nor precipitate, but tempers zeal with sa-
gacity, and courage with discretion. Hence the
public, which knows how to appreciate such
rare and high qualifications, goes along with his
Lordship in his Reforms, and will walk side by
side with him, assisting and encouraging him as
he proceeds, to the termination of his glorious,
but arduous undertaking. To the proposal for
printing his late speech in characters of gold,
we give our hearty, unqualified assent. Such a
document deserves to be so distinguished, as a
triumphant proof of what can be effected by
diligence, energy, and perseverance, when applied
in a fitting spirit to fitting ends.

In the House of Commons last night, in the
Committee on the Reform Bill, the House pro-
ceeded as far as the 30th clause, which is in
reality making progress. We Congratulate the
country on this change for the better in the
movement of the Bill, and hope that it will
continue unabated till the measure is fairly
launched into the Lords. The most com-
plicated and difficult portions of the Bill
are now disposed of : we may therefore rea•
sonably look forward to a speedy termination
of discussion. The majority of the remaining
clauses are such as afford little or no scope for
debate, not even though those tried and veteran
tacticians Messrs. WETHERELL, CROKER, and
Co. exercise their utmost ingenuity. Within a
fortnight the Bill, we have little doubt, will
have passed the House of Commons. If not,
in a trying season like the present, we shall have
more illnesses, if not deaths, among Hon. and
Right Hon. Members.

St. Petersburgh, German, and Dutch Papers
have been received this morning. The two for-
mer contain some particulars respecting the ope-
ration of the Russian brigands in Poland. The
St. Petersburgh Journal is, of course, wroth
with the Polish patriots, whom it courteously
styles " vagabonds," and states, what we have
no doubt is an arrant falsehood, that " they
marked their way through Lithuania by
plunder and excesses of all kinds." The
Prussian State Gazette, doubtless with equal
veracity, mentions that a general wish prevails
among the Polish peasantry, that the Russians
may soon come to relieve them from their in-
tolerable burdens, for that they are weary of the
war, the advantage to be gained by which they
cannot at all comprehend. It is very likely, forsooth,
that the Polish peasantry should desire the visi-
tation of a Ru's4sian army, which has already treated
them with such special humanity, by plundering,
imprisoning, and torturing them by hundreds
Nothing can be more natural than that they
should be • anxious for a renewal of such
atrocities ! The same Journal then pro-
ceeds to state that the Russians are tri-
umphant on all sides, and that Warsaw must
soon return to the domination of the EMPEROR.
By later information, however, we learn that ne-
gociations are being entered into between the
Poles and the Russians, the latter of whom are
almost at the gates of Warsaw. The mere fact
of these negociations going forward, is a clear
proof of the weakness of the Imperial power ; for
when did Russia ever yet negotiate with an enemy,
except when she was too weak to play the part of
the despot and the bully ? - What, NICHOLAS
enter into treaty with the rebellious Poles from
motives of humanity ; and this too, after the
publication of foursuccessive Manifestoes,smelling
of blood and ominous of slaughter ! No, no,
the motives for his negotiation can deceive
no one. He has been frightened into the busi-
ness. The bully has descended from his stilts,
and stands on his own proper footing as a