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London, England, 1831-05-05 00:00:00

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LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 5, 1831.

Onr readers Hill find in another column some ac-
count of the speeches delivered by those twin-stars,
the Castor and Pollux of modern oratory, Messrs.
HERRIES and DAWSON, at Harwich, The former
of these gentlemen, after lamenting the circumstances
under which he addressed his sixteen electors,
" which circumstances," as he classically remarked,
" were different to what had ever before existed in
the whole existence of this great country," went on
to comment at length on the nature and principles of
the Reform Bill, which was, of course, base, partial,
and unconstitutional; swindling, tricking, and
jesuitical ; prodigious, atrocious, and diabolical.
By it, the country was to go to ruin, the aristocracy
to the dogs, and the Church to the Devil. It was
a measure, in short, by which " every thing was to
be sacrificed and swept away !" Not so, thou most
fortunate of clerks, hut vilest of logicians, not so !
The Bill will sacrifice nothing but the unconstitutional
perquisites of the boroughmongers ; nothing but that
which it would be disgraceful in Ministers to allow
longer to remain. " Every thing," Mr. HERRIES,
is a comprehensive term; but if you merely apply
it to your own and your family's snug pickings out
of the public purse, t hen, we say,that the sooner these
are swept away, even to the last farthing, the better;
and if we had no other motive for advocating the Re-
form Bill,this alone would determine us to support it to
the very best of our ability.• What right, Sir, have you
or your family to draw one sixpence from the
public purse ? What services can you or they plead
in justification of such recompense ? Your father,
we be:ieve, was a great warrior
.in the city train-
bands, and distinguished himself in many campaigns
at Finsbury, Hounslow, Wimbledon, &c., but we
never heard that his country was a gainer by these
heroic exertions; and it is really " too bad" for the
people to be compelled to pay one man and hi.s de-
scendants for the " will," when so many thousands,
infinitely more deserving, are left unpaid for the
" deed." As for yourself, you are a mere cypher
in the political world. You may be a great man on
'Change, still greater with a pen stuck behind your
ear, in a counting-house ; but as a Statesman, as an
orator, you are the feeblest of the feeble—the dullest
of the dull—the narrowest-minded of the narrow
minded—the quintessence of absurdity—the Cory.
phceus of common-place. GOULBURN'S intellect is
small, DAWSON'S stinted, but your's is absolutely
invisible. You seem sent into the world for the sole
purpose of showing with what a limited stock of
brains a politician may set up in trade.
After BERRIES came Dawsort. This is strictly
according to precedent. At all shows, when the
clown has left the stage, the mountebank always
follows. The Right Hon. Gentleman raved as
usual about the servile venal Press, and the infamous
trickery of Ministers. The " infuriate populace"
too came in for a share of his regard, as if there
ever existed, even in the worst of days, in the worst
of countries, a populace—nay, even a mob, a gang,
a herd, however drunken, ignorant, or ferocious—
more infuriate, or more unadulterated in its vulgarity
than that which blustered in the House of lords,.
within hearing of its Sovereign, on the day of the
dissolution When we are told of mobs, we
always think of this matchless sample, which
combines the pugnacious vivacity of Donny-
brook Fair with the classic dialect of Billingsgate.

One of the chief merits we find in the Reform Bill,
is the extinguisher which it throws upon the far-
thing rush-light intellect of such " things" as HER-
SUES and DAWSON. It absolutely annihilates them.
Wben once it has passed, there will be no more
spouting to sixteen electors at Harwich. No more
Chancellors of the Exchequer, whose sole claims to
that high office are, first, their subserviency ; se-
condly, their profound ignorance of the first prin-
ciples of grammar and logic. All these rushlights
will be put out. Humbug will be compelled to
descend ; talent be invited to rise to its pro-
per level. The people will be governed by

men whom they can trust, not by tricksten, stock-
jobbers, clerks, and blockheads.

Countrymen, remember this, and, at all hazards,
persevere in the discharge of your duty. Already
you have effected wonders ; but much yet remains
to be done. Though the goal is in sight, you are
still some distance from it. On then, with speed
unabated—with muscles unflagging—with spirit
unsubdued. All Europe watches you as you pro-
ceed, and puts up prayers for your success.

We regret much to observe the state of the poll
at Cambridge. We regret it, because we feel con-
vinced that it will go far to lower the high character
of the Church, whose sons are thus avowedly rang-
ing themselves in the-ranks of a faction, in opposition
to the interests of the community. With anguished
hearts we predict that the success of Messrs. GouL.
BURN and PEEL at Cambridge,Will give a blow to the
Protestant Establishment from which it may possibly
never recover. People, we fear, will begin to ques-
tion the expediency of contributing so much, so
very much, to the welfare of a church, in which in
moments of peril, they have found not supporters,
but bitterest foes. But even in the midst of these, our
apprehensions, one consolation remains. The Lon-
don University will now, no doubt, secure its long
expected Charter, on the principle that it is at least
as worthy as its more fortunate, but less deserving
predecessor at Cambridge.

By the Express from Paris we have received the
Following. :

The Posen Gazette of the 20th ult. contains the fol-
lowing article :
" It is said that the Grand Duke Constantine, who at
first refused to act against the Poles, has at length accepted
the command of a division, in which there are 60,000
Finlanders. On our side we expect in this neighbour-
hood 60,000 men to arrive towards the end of the month,
in order to protect our frontiers. They will form two
corps, which, together with a third already at Posen,
will be under the command of General Gneisenau."

The Nuremberg Correspondent has the following,
dated Bucharest, April 1 :

" The Russian troops in this principality have received
orders to march back again beyond the Pruth. This
change in the cantonments is ascribed to the events in
Poland. Our town, however, will still have a Russian
garrison. This appears to prove the confidence of the
Russian Government in the Porte, and serves to refute
the reports that the Porte had changed her sentiments to-
wards Russia. It is certain, however, that Turkey has
suspended her payments to Russia."

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(From the Times.).

'We have just received by express all the Paris journals
of Tuesday, together with a packet of other foreign jour-
nals, and letters from our private correspondents to the
latest date.

From our Paris Correspondent we learn, that on Tues-
day two couriers arrived, one from Warsaw, despatched by
the French Consul on the 24th ult., and another from
Nienna, with further despatches from Marshal Maison,
which were deemed of sufficient importance to induce the
French Government to assemble a cabinet council for six
o'clock on Tuesday evening. The fresh armaments of
Austria have caused some uneasiness at the Court of
France ; but the explanations accompanying them are en.
tirely of a pacific tendency, and the latest news at the dif-
ferent embassies in Paris on Tuesday was, that the military
demonstrations of the Austrian cabinet did not necessa-
rily imply any new chance war.
The news by the courier from Warsaw had not, accord-
ing to our private correspondent, transpired in Paris at a
late hour on Tuesday. Some persons from this circum-
stance inferred that it was unfavourable. The glorious
efforts of the Poles, it was feared, must at length yield to
the greater resources of their implacable foe : still, while
such heroism is displayed by a brave people, we must not
yield to feelings of despondency, still less of despair. We
cannot possibly find room for any extracts from the French
Par ers. _ _

FRENCIT FUNDS, PARTS, MAY 2.-Five per Cents , 86f. 90c.
87f. 90c. 87f. 86f. 9,1 c. 87f. 84if. 90c. 'Mc. 841 c. 86f. 90c. 87f. 86f.
95c. 90c. 85c. 90c. 87f. Bif 90c. 87f. 87f. 20c. 881. 87f. 75c. 60c.
50c. ; Loan of 1831, 86f. 85c. 90c. 87f. 10c. ; Four per Cents.,
72f. ' • Three per Cents., 50f. 20c. 40c. 60c. 75c. 90c. 75c. 90e. 85c.
90c. 601. 601. sc. 10c. 25c. 30c. 40c. 50c. 601. 35c. ; Bank Stock,
1,5001 1;4951. I,soo.;Rente de Naples, 661. 50c. 75c. 67f. 50e.
75c. 68f. ; Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 12% 13 13% ;
Royal Spanish Loan, 631114 14 IA:, ; Rente Perpetuelle
' d'Espagne 4914 50 49% 50 49% 14 50.-Exchange on London,
one month, paper, 25f. 10c. ; money, 25f. 10c. ; three months,
paper, 24f. 95c.-fours Authentique.
FRENCH FUNDS,-PARIS, May 3.-Five per Cents., 87f. 60c.
88f. 88f. 125 c. 50c. 25e. 10c. 9°c. 25c. 881. 20c. 10c. 88188 f. 87f. 80c. 70c.
89f 8,9 f. 10c. 88f. 88f. 10c. 25c. SSE 87f. 90c. 8"c. ; Loan of
1831, 88f 88f. 60c. ; Four per Cents., 72f. ; Three per Cents.,
60f. 60c. 75c. 61f. 61f. 25e. 50c. The. 50c. 40e. 6l f. 60f. 90e. 80c. 61f.
60f. 90c. 6 if. 60f 90c. 61f. 61f. 40c. 60f 80c. 61f. 61f. 25c.
61f. ; Bank Stock, 1,500 f. 1.520 f. ; Rente de Naples, 69f.
69f. 25c. 40e. 75c. 50c. 69f. 25e. 69f. 681. 50c. ; Rente
d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 13 13y4 13; Royal Spanish
Loan, 6454 % %14 ; Rente Perpetuelle d'Espagne, 5016 51 50%
51 50% 51 50% 51 511/ 51 ; llaytian Loan, 275 f. Exchange on
London, one month, paper, 25f. 10c., money, 96f. 10c. ; three
months, paper, 241 85c.-Cours Authentiqut.