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is probable that some concession will be made,
though to what extent, or with what effect upon the
strength and duration of the Government, time
alone can determine. If there be any feature in the
Speech calculated to provoke discussion in the pre-
sent temper of France, it is to be found in the allu-
sion to the cause of Poland. That allusion is dis-

tinct as far as it goes, for it avows an endeavour on
the part of the French Government to put an end
to the struggle, by an offer of mediation, and an en-
deavour to induce similar offers by the Great Powers.
But the question is, whether the intense interest
with which the people of France regard the Polish
cause, as a scion of their own revolution, will be sa-
tisfied with mere unsuccessful negotiation ? Unfor-

tunately, as events have occurred, the last accounts
from the seat of war arriving as a sort of com-
mentary upon that portion of the Speech, it would
have to be considered at the moment when the ex-
citement was at its height in Paris--a circum-

stance far from favouring the dispassionate con-
sideration of the question. The two topics to
which we have just referred are not only the
most important to France herself, but are
looked at with much anxiety by surrounding nations
and by the people of England amongst others. It
is true that in some of the minor arrangements, such

at the destruction of the fortresses on—the frontiers
of the Belgic territory, our own Legislators may find
matter more congenial, because more available to
the annoyance of the Ministry at home. The ques-
tion put by the Marquis of Chandos in the House
of Commons last night, as to whether the destruc-
tion of these fortresses had received the sanction of
Great Britain, seems to be a preparation for some
attempt of this nature. We shall, probably, hear
that France is placed in a most alarming attitude by
the arrangement ; but, until we have heard his Lord-
ship's reasons for believing so, we shall continue to
rank it amongst those inferior regulations with which
as a nation, we have little or nothing to do.
Upon the whole, the speech contains great variety
of matter, and is unusually communicative for a
King's Speech, the great art of such compositions
having been, from time immemorial, to touch a sub-
ject without disturbing it. The pacific tone which

it breathi s is one of which we cordially approve;
but who can undertake to say, on looking at the as-
pect of affairs in the north of Europe, that the pa-
cific disposition of Government may not be over-
borne by imperative necessity from without ? We
shall be happy to find our neighbours settle into
tranquillity, and apply themselves to the improve-
ment of their political institutions, under the au-
spices and in the spirit of peace; but while a bar-
barous despotism continues its aggressions the best
feelings of the human heart are put into a troubled
motion ; and no one can pronounce how soon even
war itself may become a mild alternative, as com-
pared with the evils and the insults of tyranny.—
Morning Herald.
We are truly gratified to find that the dilatory
mode its which the Reform Bill has hitherto been
carried through its different stages, has at length
begun to arouse the suspicions and indignation of the
people, and that meetings have been held in different
quarters, for the express purpose of desiring his
Majesty's Ministers to press forward the measure
with greater vigour and determination than have
lately characterized their efforts. Such meetings
were absolutely called for by the circumstances
of the times; for while, on the one hand, his
Majesty's Ministers have betrayed a greater lack
of rigour in the prosecution of the Bill
than the sanction of the Sovereign, and the
united voice of the people, would have amply
justified, their opponents have not been slack in
throwing in their teeth the unfounded charge that
the people of England had ceased to entertain
any anxiety respecting the fate of the Reform Bill.
That assertion has now partially met its refutation,
and will, we trust, in a few days meet it even more
amply than it has vet done. It would well become
the inhabitants of yet done. It WOUI(l well become
the inhabitants of Marylebone, Lambeth, the Tower
Hamlets, Greenwich, and its adjoining districts, the
Finsbury division of the metropolis—and, in a word,
the inhabitants of every city and town to which the
power of electing representatives is to be given by
the present Bill—to meet and to address his Ma.
jetty's Ministers on the subject. The state of trade,
and the near approach of the Coronation, render such
a course highly desirable and proper.—Morn. Adver.
The remaining boroughs on the proscribed li-t,
amounting in number to nineteen, will probably be
disposed of this evening, and the question naturally
arises—what has been gained from that pretended
concession to the demands of justice by which
Ministers permitted each borough to be taken sepa-
rately into consideration ? Most justly was the
whole proceedings denounced by Sir C. Wetherell
as a mere mockery of justice. Apparently the
case of each particular borough has been submitted
to investigation ; but die disgraceful fact is, thut the
Ministerial party entered upon the contest with a
fixed determination to render the discussion a nullity,
to reject all evidence, and to stifle the voice of reason
by the sheer weight of o pledged majority. How
otherwise can be explained the condemnation of Apple-
by, Minehead, and Plymptou,whose respective claims
to one Member, according to the scale adopted in the
Bill, were established upon the incontrovertible evi-
dence of facts ? Ministers, probably, consider them-
selves necessitated to pursue this violent course, in
order to retain the countenance and support of their
Radical Allies throughout the country, and truly the
parties are worthy of each other; for while a liberal
Government denies inquiry and treats facts with
contempt within the walls of Parliament,-the friends
of free discussion in the city of London summon
their representative before them to answer for his
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conduct,ledge, or
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happened to know that it was reasonable. But if
Ministers are unable to adduce any reason, drawn
from the principles even of their own Bill, why
the boroughs of Appleby, Plympton, &c. should be
still less are they able or
defendwil-
thegeneral principle upon which they
wil-
ling utterlyn disfranchised,
invade the rights and privileges of the boroughs so
arbitrarily sentenced to lose one or both Members.
it is asked, what right has any individual to nomi-
nate a Member ? What right, we ask in return, has
a man to vote ? Property gives the right in both
cases. The voter whose income does not exceed
501. a-year has us much political influence in propor-
tion to his property as the patron of one or more
boroughs who is worth forty or fifty thousand a-year.
But to level all such distinctions is the indubitable
tendency of this Bill, which gives to pauper 10/.
householders an equal political weight with the first
subjects of the land, and prostrates rank, intelligence,
and property before a numerical majority of the
population eager to grasp the privileges and avail
themselves of the power that is offered them.—
sillo riling Post.

Mr. CURTIS has just published a fifth edi-
tion of his excellent Treatise on Diseases of the Ear. This
edition contains much new and useful information, and
will be found highly interesting to those afflicted with any
defect of hearing.

SUPPOSED MURDER.—The neighbourhood
of Hampton Court, Wick, and Teddington, has been in a
state of great excitation during the last week, in conse-
quence of the ensanguined habiliments of a female having
been discovered in a ditch in Bushy-park, about 200 yards
from the Queen's-lodge, The bundle contained every
article of dress necessary to a female, all of which were
more or less
stained with blood. Blood was also traced
from the spot where the bundle had been deposited to a
no
considerable distance; and at many places in its track the
grass and earth appeared to have been torn up, or vio-
lently removed by some person or persons in a violent,
roo
at mortal e (
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further discovery
. The ponds near to
the most
place probably
to-
wards the elucidation of the mystery has yet been made.
It is said that a soliliees wife has been absent from her
home since Tuesday night last, and no one has heard
have beena m
dragged,
tiding, of her. Bushy-park has lately been infested by
rascals who have committed numerous paltry depreda-
tions; they are supposed to belong to the local banditti
denominated " The Teddington Gang."-- Observer Cor-
respondent.