The Sun.
London, England, 1831-03-21 00:00:00

THE OLD LEAVEN FERMENTING IN

SCOTLAND AGAIN.

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
It will be seen that, in the extreme North, the old ultra
Tories are at their dirty work again ! In the county of
Aberdeen the usual clique of attachs and employes (un-
der the present blessed order of things), who have grown
fat themselves and brought up their broods under the wings
of a corrupt representation, are straining Heaven and earth,
and getting up hole-ane-corner petitions against Reform !
Their great and noble patrons near the seat of war, seeing
the desperate state of their case, may have, perhaps, let it be
understood that any petition, no matter bow got up,.in
opposition, might do good, and accordingly we have seen
all our thick-and-thin going gentry—all our prostrate
political serviles—w ho wish no Reform, who have lived
and thriven on the rotten system, which, by sending up
some fire or six Members around us hereabouts, who sup-
port any measures, and whose voices are never heard
save in registering the edicts of Ministers (till now, that a
liberal Ministry are endeavouring to give the people safe,
rational, and required freedom), I say, such and such-
like are now at work, pandering to the corrupt desires of
those great dispensers of the Rope and crumbs cast to
them by the boroughmongering Governments of the last
fifty years for their venal support. These active worthies
concoct the thing, upon the hint from afar, are going
about, like questing sp iniels, influencing some weak
beads, humbugging others—flattering this one, and
threatening another—till they have manufactured a quer
sort of bead-rull--not of paupers, but of the poor in spirit
as to rational freedom. The thing, however, is too pal-
p tblr abst9rd--they will be beat, and are exposed.

On Friday, a few minutes after twelve o'clock,
J. LINNELL, aged 24, was executed at the new drop behind
the county gaol. The prisoner was found guilty at the
lite AMSIZe.4 of setting fire to a him in the occupation ol
Dl r. T. Heal, at Shu tl nger. ...Northampton Mercury.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

Whatever opinion we may have of the policy of the
tneasure on which the House divided oil Friday,

Ihere can be no doubt as to the disingenuous con-
duct of the majority. The motives which actuated'
Sir R. Peel, according to the report furnished by one
of his followers (for the regular reporters having
been shut out, we can only refer to irregular sources),
would justify a constant and daily opposition to every
Government. Would it rot be more ronly in the
ex-Minister to avow at once that he wishes to be in
office again, and that he will use all means, direct
or indirect, to oust the party now in pos.seFsion ?
Does Sir Robert wi,-h to defeat the Ministers on a
collateral issue, as the lawyers call: it, bscause
he
fears to be at the head of a majority destroying the
measure which the universal voice of England is
daily calling for, and which the Kin' of England is
no less anxious to carry than the humblest of his
subjects ? The straightforward course is the hest,
and to show that we at least have no wish to employ
indirect means, we assert at once, that Ministers
will not resign that they will exert every nerve to
consummate their noble plan of Reform ; and that if
Parliament rejects it, they will appeal tb the nation.
They must, indeed, be fools who imagine that the
people of England will desert the Ministers who"
have brought forward this great measure, because
they may or may not have committed a blunder
on the timber duties. Canada is an important cc-
Inny,and the shipowners are a respectable body -
but the British nation would rather see the Canada:
swept for ever from the map of the western world,
with all the ship-owners dangling from its red and

yellow pines, titan suffer the grand measure of Pot,-
liamentary regeneration to be lost. Sir Robevt Peel

knows well, that out of the House at least there is

scarcely a Tory of any influence who is not a friend

of the till. In Nottinghamshire the Tories alone
promoted the county meeting; in Kent one-half;

and in Staffordshire the chief names are Tory, and

in Derbyshire the Tories would not let one Whig
sign the requisition. The Pet! party, therefore,
must see that no Government could stand on the

principle of Anti-Reform ; and though they, in the
scramble for office, may not hear it, the country, in
a voice of thunder, cries out that no half .Reform
will be tolerated. We are sorry to have to state

that an illustrious person, whose understanding has
never been estimated so highly as his honour, has
been exerting his—certainly not very powerful
efforts—against the Bill. He had thought himself
fit for a ♦ery important office, but to his best friends
this fitness was not so evident as to himself. His
application was refused, and he now undertakes an
enterprise for which we think he is as little fitted—
he undertakes to resist the will of the people of
England ! Risum teneatus?—Titncs.
This evening comes on the second reading of the
Bill for Parliamentary Reform. The principle of
that great measure was so fully discussed on its in-
troduction last Tuesday fortnight, and for six fol-

lowing days, that few doubts can now exist among
friends or foes as to its real effects and tendencies,
very few speakers, besides, are left, who have not
already delivered their sentiments, or the sentiments
which they were commanded by their borough task-
masters to promulgate; so that a liberal allowance
being maths' es t; e usual repetitions of thrice-told
absurdities, 20 times refuted, and rejected by all
reasonable men, we may hope that one or two more
nights, at furthest, will have seen the Reform Bill,
under the escort of a large majority, safely landed at
the threshold of the Committee,—that stage of its
progress at which the enemy has prepared for his
final and desperate, but unavailing, enterprise ;
collecting, in a single mass, the arms, trappings,
treasures, and household gods of corruption—all to
perish together. We have heard of a certain ancient
Tory, albeit an Ex-Chancellor, who teaches his
p ipils and dependents to sing out lustily the
old cuckoo note of " revolution." According to
this venerable, though not over-devout Jeremiah,
we shall have more Lords or Commons ere long.
The nation is all mad ; Lord Grey is stark mad;
and this raw Chancellor, Brougham, was mad al-
ways. Away go the Bankruptcy Commissioners!
and the never-ending accumulation of unpayttble
fees to masters, and masters' clerks,—and the suits
ouiliving ten generations,—and all the pretty pick-
ings of my Lord himself, and his secretaries, and of
unnumbered subal:erns, the quintessence of Chan-
cery jurisdiction—and the jobbing of church pa-
tronage,—away it flies on the wings of the glorious
borough system. Church and State—alas ! Where
are ye ? Profusion abroad, peculation at home—
heir-looms of Tory loyalists and placemen—pounced
upon and demolished at one fell swoop There will
be nothing worth living for in the British domi-
nion, if this career of the devil incarnate of Re-
form be not stopped. Why, we hear that
the veteran purist has actually sent it round
through some worthy frequenter of the Court
to Queen Adelaide, that her Majesty's draw-
ing-rooms are already numbered—that the last
season of St. James's has almost expired, and
that plumes and lappets are about to wave no
more. But miserable will be the end of such
manoeuvres, as the motives of those who prac-
tise; thee are at once criminal and mean. The
Court of William IV. and Queen Adelaide cannot
be made, like former Courts, a field for playing off
iniquitous attempts against the people of England.
Ills Majesty knows how to nail his colours to the
mast, and did not hoist the Royal flag to strike it.
The spirit of Reform has now reached, throughout
Great Britain, that height from which it may dis-
dain the yelping ban-dogs of the old vicious Go-
vernment. The rich and wealthy members of the
aristocracy have been warned, on one side, that the
proposed-Reform is a democratic and radical revo-
lution. With becoming consistency, the labouring
classes have been told that it is a measure for utterly
crushing the democracy, by disfranchising the pot•
wallopers now privileged to return Members for
boroughs. Both these orders of Englishmen, so
tenderly premonished of the ruin thus awaiting
them, have been perverse enough to laugh at
their advisers. A long and illustrious list of bo-
rough proprietors have come nobly forward to
sacrifice their exclusive rthts, and myriads of
the unportioned poor who vote have signed
petitions praying for their own complete dis-
franchisement. But who are they by whom
the defence of this unhallowed mockery of all
freedom, justice, and national honour, has been,
in fact, conducted ? Who are the noisy ad-
vocates of the close borough system, and of all
abuses of every nature and form which can in any
manner trace a vile affinity to it ? Why, the cul-
prits themselves are their own proper advocates !
The refractory boroughmongers in the Commons
bully for themselves : those who, to the credit of
tae Peerage, are not Commoners, command their
willing slaves to swagger for them. Mercenary ad-
venturers, close monopolist', disciplined harpies of
all descriptions, shoulder each other on the floor of
the House of Commons, and bellow out responses
of the Newcastle and Beaufort worship. East Wits
monopolists are of the same school ; their only
chance of a revival of the most odious and rapacious
of all tyrannies, one foot of which rests on the neck
of Hindostan, and the other on that of England
herself, is in the continuance of the borough system.
The Bank monopolist joins the cry ; his prey, like-
wise, is the commerce of the people of England,
and a Reformed Parliament, which must give others
a prospect of sharing the fair profits of the money
market with him, provokes his generous indignation !
The Lord Charles's, and that whole tribe of glossy-
, coated vermin, which find their way into Parliament
through the only aperture by which it would be physi-
cally possible for such creatures to creep into the
company of grave and delibetating men,—these are
of course against Reform. Fer them it will be a
true and direful revolution,—a revolution as posi-
tive as that of 1658 was for James 11. and his fa-
mily,—a revolution far more absolute and more ad-
mirable than even those which Lord E !don has
never fulled to predict in the successive bills for the
repeal of the Test Act, for the relief..of the Catho-
lics, and, though la.st, not least magnificent, the pro-

jected measure of Lord Brougham for cleansing, by
one grand influx of the stream of an enlightened
legislation, the dreadful impurities of whole ages of
unpunished plunder, amassed and accumulated by
the foul tenants of that Court over which Lord
Eldon presided se long, and to the tainted winos-
phere of which his organs were seemingly insensible.
We insert this day the proceedings of three of the
most important counties in Great Britain, for the
support of his Majesty's Government, and for the
promotion of this immortal charter of Reform. We
publish, moreover, a brief and significant common-
' tart', in the shape of a letter to a Nobte. Lcial, upon
that far-famed and most edifying V;:odec'tion, the pre-
tended (for a base preterits it is) anti-reform decima-
-1 tion of " the merchants, hankers, and others" of the
city of London, get up within these three days. And
pray who are thebankers, the merchants, and others, by
whom this declaration, in the name of the citizens
of London, has been mannfactut-ecl ? Let us sec.
Banker Attwood ! Bormighbridge Attwood ! New-
castle Attwood again ! How these animals multiply
thernse4Ves. Why, the "do what I please with my
own" breeds as many maggots as a carrion. Then
I comes banker Paltner,--he that sits in the elia'r of
the old woman of Threadneedle-street, and advised
the tux on the transfer of funded property. Next
comes " Merchant" Jemmy Alexander. and " Mer-
chant" Joss Alexander, both great people, for we
find M.P. after their names ; and what after M.P. ?
What think you, reader? Guess now. Why, "by
the powers," as Pat says, Old :Sarum !! ! The
declaration of Old Sarua for the continuance of
Old Sarum! a 'fraud upon the common sense of
mankind. Why, Messrs. Joss and Jemmy, you are
not half so much representatives of the people of
England as you are of the copper faces of Calcutta.
Go back there—go, and snake a few more half
millions. The name of one individual of your family
wilt long be remembered in the East.
" My DEAR, LORD,—The declaration of the Merchants,
Bankers, and others,' of the City of London, which now
' lies' for signature at the City of London Tavern, has been
brought forward mainly by
Mr. Attwood, M.P. for Boroughbridge.
Mr. James Alexander, M.P.
} for Old Strum.
Mr. Jos. Alexander, M.P.
Mr. Asteli, M.P., Chairman of the India Company.
Mr. H. Palmer, Governor of the Bank.
And it has been signed, amongst others, by Mr. Alexander
Baring, 31. P. for Callington. I believe—indeed every
body in the City believes—that the word others' was
added to ' Merchants and Bankers,' for the express purpose
of bringing in Mr. Alexander Baring, who could not sign
as a merchant, he having (as stated in a letter which he
addressed to the Editor of the Times about six weeks
ago) declared that be had retired two years ago from all
interest in mercantile affairs, in London or elsewhere. I
think it very desirable that it should be known who the
chief movers are in this hole and corner' declaration of
the, Merchants, Bankers, and others, of the City of London.
" Ever most truly yours,
" March 19. " E."
Such are the paltry devices practised against the
public spirit of the nation. It is in truth hut get-
ting tip a man of straw and calling it an Englishmar.
There is no life in the wretched scarecrow : pelt it
with a single brickbat, and down it goes. But we
shall put an end to all trifling, by a distinct and pe-
remptory assurance to the Tory mercenaries (there
are among Tories some honest advocates for Re-
form), that they may as well lay down their arms,
or take to their heels at once. Let them do their
worst, they hut throw nut the Bill : what happen-
then ? The Minister will instantly dissolve the Par-
liament. We are certain of it. The King's Go-
vernment will at once appeal to the people of Eng-
land, and then what becomes of the present oppo-
sition to Reform, of your Treasury-borough-men-
and your she county Members? Let them
think of this in tune :—they have our warning.—
Times.

A certain Prince of the Blood, never, indeed, at
any time deemed a Solon, but who, nevertheless,
has hitherto received credit for being a friend to Re-
form and Anti-Slavery, is now, we understand,
opposed to the Reform Bill ; and as there is a reason
for everything, the reason of this hostility is, that
he conceives that he ought to have been a Com-
mander-in-Chief. Ambition is a dangerous passion
for a little man. His Royal Highness, not content
with expressing his hostility to the Bill, is strongly
suspected of intriguing at Court with a view to de-
feat it. It is well that the people on an occasion
like the present, should know who are their ene-
mies, and who eiideavour to stand between them
and Reform. This little Prince hard better take
warning in time. Some friend ought to counsel
him not to put himself forward as opposed to the
just rights of the people, at a time like this, when
no action is indifferent. The people are much
stronger than combinations of boroughmongers,
ship-owners, arid West Indians, leaguing for the
furtherance of their corrupt interests. If there is
one exhibition which more than another ought to
determine the people of England to demand a Re-
form of the House of Commons, it was that of
Friday night, when all principle, even the affecta-
tion of regard for the public interest, was made to
yield to the determination to protect the sepa-
rate interests of the ship-owners and colonies at
all hazards, no matter what the cost to the
country. Weil arid truly was it observed
by Mr. Hume, on Saturday night, that if nine hun-
dred and ninety-nine in a thousand were before eager
for Reform, this ought to make the nine hundred
and ninety-nine a thousand. The country may rely
on the determination of the present Ministers not to
abate one jot of their expressed purpose. This
brings us to the plain practical view of the matter.—
How can Sir Robert Peel and the Duke of Wel-
lington make a Government against the King and
against the people ? Do they think that—
after the interest which the people have every-
where manifested in this question—after the nine
hundred and ninety-nine in a thousand have
left it no longer doubtful what their inclinations are
—they could manage matters better now than three
months ago, when they fled, not from Sir Henry
Parnell's majority, but from their own convicted
incapacity ? The opposition of that day have now
the whole country at their backs. What is the use
of all their intriguing—all their factious combina-
tions in the House of Commons ? We ask them
this plain question—What would be the result of the
Bill being lost ? Revolution. When the present
Ministry came into power, was not the word Revo-
lution in every man's mouth ? They perceived that
the time was come when it was necessary to choose
between Reform and Revolution, and they accepted
office on the condition that a real and not an
illusory Reform should be granted. The agitation
instantly ceased. But is there a man so besotted
as not to perceive that the cause is the hope
with which the people were inspired ? The
present Ministers are not mistaken as to the
cause; they knew that neither they nor arty other
set of men could have succeeded in tranquillising the
public by deceiving them—by telling them we only
used the word Reform for our own ends, we never
intended to keep our word, and we are determined
to preserve religiously all the existing abuses. They
knew that the people of England were not to be
satisfied without Reform, and were to be satisfied
with no mock Reform ; a Reform which left the
cause of the evil *untouched—namely, the power of
the oligarchy to apply the property of the nation
for their own purposes. Their honour and charac-
ter are bound up inseparably with the people, and to
sacrifice the people on this occasion would be to
sacrifice themselves. Can the men who declared
that the time was come when it became necessary
to choose between Reform and revolution, falsify
their own solemn declarations, by declaring that
Reform need not be granted, and revolution need
not be feared ? We know that Ministers have
made up their minds to go through with their sacred
task—that they will not turn their hands from the
plough, and thereby merit' the curses of a nation
now loud in declarations of gratitude towards them.
We know that they are determined not only to pro-
ceed with Reform, but to proceed with the Reform
which is embodied in their Bill ; that their text is,
" the Bill, the whole Bill, and nothing but the Bill!'
In such a cause, backed by the people, they have

nothing to feazi, The bold, the manly course, is
really the wise and the prudent course. If Sir
Robert Peel and the Duke of Wellington really
thought there were any chance of their manoeuvres
having the effect of placing them at the head of an
anti-Reform Administration, their hearts would sink
within them. They know the difference between
the borough mongers and the nation.—Morning

Chronicle.
All England is loOkinf.Y.., with intense interest to the
important measure, of which the second reading
comes on this day. As to the people, they have
shown in the most unequivocal manner in what light
they. view the measure. To chronicle even the
names of the places where meetings have been held
approving of the Ministerial plan of Reform, is no
easy task ; but nothing more easy than to narae the
opponents out of the House of Commons, who have
ventured on an expression of hostile sentiments.
In
London, an aOdress has been got up against the 80l
by •some of the merchants and bankers. In like
manner, a hostile meeting has been concocted at
Edinburgh by the Duke of Montrose, which took
care to exclude reporters ; but the names of the
gentlemen who attended may be soon run over, and
it may be said of all them, that they have special
good reasons for disliking Reform. The country
never was perhaps so united on any question, as on
that which now engrosses its attention. That Pa
liamentary Reform should be in worse odour in the
House of Commons, than out of doors, is quite
natural. The love of life possesses us to the last ;
" for who . . . this pleasing anxious being
e'er resigned, without casting a longing lingering
look behind I" The known dislike of a great part
of the House to sign their own death-warrant, has
led to all mariner of conjectures as to the result of
a trial of strength. Of course, it is' likely that
Ministers and the Opposition should agree in the
estimates of their respective forces. Some, too, sup-
pose, that a division will not take place on the se•
cond reading, in order to protract the existence of
the House, and in the hope that some favourable in-
cident may occur, while the Bill is passing through
the subsequent stages. Now that the people have
so decidedly passed sentence of condemnation on
the usurpers of their rights, it is but a sorry argu-
ment on the part of the boroughmongers to say, we
are determined to be your representatives whether
you will or not ; we are determined that you shall
not dispense with our guardianship. It is happily
observed in an article on Parliamentary Reform, in
the forthcoming number of the Westminster Review
(with an early copy of which we have been favoured),

that
" If a Parliament subject to popular influences had en
gaged in wars, it would at least have engaged in wars for
popular interest and not against them. It would certainly
not have engaged in them for the direct purpose of keeping
up the power of fingering the public purse, and of aban-
doning it only when it had become difficult to find the
means of discovering anything more to take. This power
of fingering the public purse, is what is denominated ' pro-
tecting people from themselves'—preserving them, to wit,
from the ignorant impatience of parting with their money,
whirls they might otherwise give way to. It requires
little observation to be convinced, that this pretext of
protecting the people from themselves,' as advanced to
prove the necessity of lodging the power of taking money
in a certain number of proprietors of rotten boroughs,
is on a par with a plan which should propose to pre-
serve travellers from the self-indulgence which some
men are apt to give way to in their various halts
and resting-places, by establishing a ' protecting' corps
of gentlemen of the road who should ease them of the
means of evil. The proof that one party are unable to
take care of themselves, and that the other are the
proper judges of bow far they may he trusted to their
own discretion, is as absolutely absent in one case as in the
other. Not one of the party to be protected can be found
consenting to the plan. Nothing ever made the necessity
visible to any man's optics, except the personal prospect of
being one of the party that was to profit by it. Nobody
has ever asked the boroughnaongers to take care of him;
it is a purely voluntary piece of charity, as far as regards
every body but themselves; a simple act of supereroga-
tion, deduction made of the gratification which virtuous
eff'rts produce to the performer. Imagine a political
teacher standing up and saying, Whoever will be saved,
it is in the first place necessary that he make himself some
rotten boroughs.' Calculate the probability of demon-
strating, to any men in full possession of their natural
faculties, that a step towards a proper representation is to
introduce a number of individuals who shall represent no-
body but themselves. This is all the holy ground of po-
litics ; the sacred precincts of unreason, within
which it
would be sacrilege for common sense to set its foot.
Would that the boroughmongers could at once
make up their minds to part with what it is impos-
sible they should be allowed to retain. They can-
not withstand an united nation ; and if they could
but consider the matter calmly, their menaces of
resisting to the last are really ludicrous. They re-
sist ! It is well for them that the people, confi-
dent in their strength, are not easily provoked...—
Morning Chronicle.
We look upon the defeat which Ministers have
sustained on the subject of the Canada timber du-
ties with mingled feelings of satisfaction arid regret
—of satisfaction, that the ricketty and deformed
bantling of that incomparable and incomprehensible
Statesman, the Right Hon.Poulett Thomson, which
Lord Althorp had so strangely and unwisely taken
to dry nurse, should have expired so soon after its
birth—of regret, that any thing should occur that
may in the smallest degree embarrass or impede the
progress of that one great measure on which the
public expectation is at once so warmly and so rea-
sonably fixed. On this occasion the Ministers seem
to have been ambitious of rivalling their celebrated
predecessors, of whom it was said by Sheridan, that
they had built a wall to dash their own heads against.
It is singular enough that, on Friday, the day pre-
ceding this defeat, the quidnunc: of every club-
house announced, with oracular certainty, the event
which subsequently took place; while the Ministers
themselves, taking no advantage of the warnings
and the wishes of their opponents, quietly stood
still to meet their fate with as much philo-
sophy as if they actually courted it. It is the pact
of wisdom to foresee danger and to avoid it, while
it is that of heedless rashness to persist in error
till its consequences are inevitable.. Ministers ought
to have known that, in addition to the opponents of
this particular measure, their bold and valuable effort
on the subject of Reform must have raised them up
a host of personal enemies, who will leave no mcrs
untried to prolong their own existence by ending
that of their executioners. They ought to have
known that the unextinguishable hate of the
boroughmongers, and of that lively class of their reps e-
sentatives avho are now doomed to breathe the air of
St. Stephen's for the last time, would leave no atone
unturned to wreak their patriotic vengeance upon
those who propose to deprive the country of their
invaluable services ; and, knowing this, which at
least every body else knew, it was their obvious
policy—not to say their duty, to have not onlY
pressed no doubtful measure, but to have staved off
every discussion which could, by the most remote
possibility, affect the ultimate fate of that one great
quest'on, upon which their own fate, and what IS
of infinitely greater consequence, the happiness, the
tranquillity, and prosperity of the whole country,
so essentially depends. The error, however,
has unfortunately been committed; and !t
only remains for the Ministers to repair it
in the best way they can. That they will resign
we cannot persuade ourselves to believe. Such a
step, at the present critical moment, would be an
act of political insanity and suicide. The question,
after all, upon which they have suffered themselves
to be defeated, is comparatively a very trifling one,
and such as none but the mere interested slaves of
faction can contend ought to compromise the exist-
ence of any Government. That the event may
lead to the retirement of one, if not more of the in-
efficient occupiers of particular departments, is what
nobody would deplore ; but this, at the most, is all
which it ought to produce in that way. That it
should lead to an immediate dissolution of Parlia-
ment would be still more unadvisable, and for
this plain reason, that what. Parliament has
, done upon the occasion is in itself right, and
will, we have no doubt, be so considered by the
right-judging and reflecting part of the community.

No. However mortifying the circumstance., Minis-
ters have brought the visitation upon themselves,
and instead of resenting the correction, they are
hoesnd to kiss the rod. Besides, were a dissolution

to take place previous to the votes of Members
being committed on the subject of Reform, how
completely
would they be plating the game of their
opponents. Do not let Ministers then distract
themselves with minor matters; let them at present

look only to their one great measure, and stand or
fall with that. Then they gill indeed have the
merit of having lived or died nobly ; but to quail
under the insidious candour of Sir Robert Peel, and

fall by the hand of Mr. Poulett Thomson, would
indeed be a fate which would betray a want of cou-
rage unparalleled in the annals of political warfare.
—Morning Herald.
On Saturday, at noon, the llouse of Commons
re-assembled, but only for the "previously arranged
and avowed purpose of receiving petitions; indeed
there was but one order of the day, and that was
postponed to Monday's meeting. The Speaker had
no difficulty to " make a House," as it is termed;
there were, at twelve o'clock, three times as many
Members as were requisite for that purpose. The
House presented an appearance which of late has
ceased to be extraordinary. Almost every Member
had by the side of him large bundles of petitions ;
and it was a sort of exception that any Member rose
to present fewer than 10, or 20, or 50 or GO peti-
tions. The Saturday which preceded Lord J. Rus-
sell's motion for leave to bring in the Reform Bills
was deemed a remarkable day in consequence of the
immense number of petitions presented ; but the
Saturday preceding the second reading of the Bill
for restoring the representation of England—which
second reading stands for this night, quite equalled
its predecessor in that respect. In spite of every
effort to keep down conversation—and there was but
little, the presentation of the petitions occupied the
House from noon till a quarter-past six o'clock
in the evening ; and as many Members whose names
were on the Speaker's paper (as having petitions
to present) did not answer to their manes
when they were called, there must still remain many
petitions to be presented. Colonel Sibthorpe, on
presenting petitions from Lincoln and other places,
spoke of having been abused and misrepresented by
the " vile Press" (of Lincolnshire, it was under-
stood). The Gallant Colonel declared that he was
la Reformer, but not a radical Reformer; and de-
plored the " vacillation" of the Ministers on some
of their budget measures. Sir W. Ingilby observed,
that the Gallant Colonel had very unnecessarily
heated himself—that the " march of mind," even
in the quarter of the kingdom represented by the
said Gallant Colonel, had given a useful hint or two
to its representatives; aid he doubted not, ere
long, if further hints were requisite, they would be
plentifully supplied. Mr. Hume said he was not
much in the habit of defending any Ministers, but
that he could not avoid declaring that the op-
position which had appeared against them on
Friday night, and, finally, on Saturday morn-
ing, was of a more " factious" character than
any thing he had ever witnessed in that
House. He felt persuaded that the country
would not fail to perceive its odious character, and
its real merits. 1k considered that there had pre-
viously been ninety-nine very good and substantial
reasons in favour of Parliamentary Reform ; but
that if the hundredth were wanted, the last division
had furnished it. Mr. Curteis disclaimed having
opposed the Ministers on " factious" grounds. He
resisted their proposition as the conscientious oppo-
nent of what were termed the principles of " free
trade." Mr. O'Connell considered that Mr. Hume's
description of the opposition was perfectly accurate.
He added that not only were England and Scotland
in favour of the Ministers, but that Ireland, for-
getting it a wrongs, real or imaginary, sent forth its
applauding voice in support of those Bills which
sought to destroy boroughmongering influence, and
aristocratic and corrupt nominations to seats in that
House, which ought to be " the people's House."
Sir J. Graham, at the conclusion of the sitting, pre-

sewed many Reform petitions; and the Attorney-
General (Denman) also presented various petitions,
amongst them one from the English Bar, approving
of the Ministerial plan of Reform, as " calculated to
increase the security of the throne, the stability of
property, and the welfare of the people."—Aforn-
ing Herald.

This evening the second reading of the Bill for a
Reform in the representation of the people comes
on in the House of Commons; and whatever may
be its fate, it cannot be asserted of it, on the one.
hand, that the people are not for it, or, on the other,
that they will not ultimately carry it at any cost.—
Since the last number cf this Paper made its appear-
ance, there has been a meeting at Plymouth, in
favour of the Bill—a meeting of Hampshire to the
same effect; and also of Essex and Surrey—a meet-
ing at Northampton, and a meeting at Shrewsbury,
and a most unanimous meeting in Dublin—meetings
in fact upon meetings, and so numerous that we
have not even space to name them in detail ! But
meetings, it would appear, produce no effect
upon the iron nerves of the supporters of corrup-
tion and misrepresentation. They will not listen
to the calm voice of reason—they will not
see in the present temper of the country a
stronger argument for Reform than all the reason-
ings against it which could he adduced, and,
we regret to add, that they are determined to
resist the measure to the last, and in all its
stages! Well, be it so. Good seldom comes with-
out a proportionate alloy of evil, and that alloy the
opponents of Reform are determined that the
country should taste before it enjoys the unspeak-
able benefits of Reform. And what is this but an
argument for additional exertion, additional vi-
gilance, and the adoption of more determined
measures on the part of the people ? Are three
or four hundred individuals to lord it over
the people of England, Scotland, and Ire-
land ? Why do the occupants of Treasury bo-
roughs still continue to retain the privilege of
uttering nonsense, after the party which gave the
boroughs to them have ceased to have any power
in the State ? Why do they not imitate the King's
son-in-law, Sir Philip Sydney, and resign at once,
because they are opposed to the policy of their new
patrons ? Nothing so base said vile was ever
known, as their continued occupancy ef their seats;
but there is a purge preparing for them, and even
while we are writing may have been finally deter-
mined on. The whole crew must go out; and
where is the place that will confide in them ?-
21forning Advertiser.
In looking at the question of Reform, there is ore
point of view in which it has not been sufficiently
considered, and that is the effect which a measure
in itself so essentially revolutionary, jacobinical, and
subversive, will have upon the minds of foreigners.
Amidst the violence of civil commotions in coun-
tries separated from us only by a narrow channel,
England retained her stability, strength, and union,
her power and prosperity resting on the sale pillars
of her Constitution and commerce. The one be-
came the envy and admiration of the whole world
—vas made the theme of praise in every quarter of
the globe; whilst the other served as a proud illus-
tration to those benefits enjoyed under its benign
influence. Our glorious institutions were accord-
ingly supposed to be as firm as the sea-girt
islands in which they were planted ; unassailable
from without, and secured within by the strongest
associations prevailing in the breasts of an
enlightened and grateful people. Hence was
it that public confidence, shaken in other
parts of Europe, remained unimpaired among
us. Hither were the fortunes of individuals sent
who were flying from rapine and desolation. Our
country thus became a place of safety to all nations;
but what will they now say, when they behold us
convulsed with the solution nf a great political
question, in which every malignant passion, har-
boured in the human breast is displayed ? Will
they not conclude that we are inoculated with that
revolutionary mania that has brought the
nd is
greatest
calamities upon Spain, Portugal, and Italy, and

again at this very moment going the rounds of other
parts of the Continent ? Will not the agitators, ac-
tively cngagad in France and elsewhere, venture to
boast that what is doing among us may be attributed
to the efficacy of those doctrines which they have
sedulously put forth, in order to create animosities
between Sovereigns and their people ? At this awful
moment, when on every side the horizon is obscured,
are we not affording to our enemies that triumph in
which they will most exult ? Are we not barbing an
arrow which they will hereafter wield to our de-
struction ? Does it not therefore become us to
pause, when on every side we see the spirit of inno-
vation spreading with a desolating rapidity ? We
hwaivi long
h civil
institutionsbeen
do!
aer;e r
d oury happinesscountry
had thereby become the great emporium of modern
trade; how, then, is it that we do not bend in
grateful acknowledgment for the valuable benefits
which have thus fallen to our lot ? Why do we
wish to risk experiments, when we have a certain
good already in our possession ? In even- part of
the Continent is it not already exultingly re-echoed
that the English are on the eve of revolution ? To
destroy is an easy task, and within the meanest ca-
pacity ; but to rebuild requires a combination of ta-
lents and an extent of views which nature distributes
only with a spating hand. Theoretically, some of
our brightest characters have been Reformers ;
but when attempting to act, they trembled at
every thing that could fundamentally disturb the
stablished order. Mr. Pitt, even when a youth, saw
abuses which had gradually impaired the represen-
tation of the people. This he discovered with the eyes
of a mature Statesman; many of his opinions upon
this subject were in fact imbibed from the lessons
of his own father; but when an awful responsibility
came to rest upon his own shoulders, and lie hail
the opportunity of looking the danger full in the
face, he shrunk from an undertaking which he was
convinced could not fail to involve us in one indis-
criminate ruin. His former friends and associates
then eagerly said of him, in palliation of Lis con-
duct," that the French Revolution had intervened—
that it had caused a great fermentation in the minds
of men—that it appeared to have given to the zeal
of some British Reformers a tinge of republicanism ;
and that the effects and consequences of that great
event had read an awful lesson to the whole world !"
And are we in less hazardous times at this moment ?
Is the contagion less alarming? .No reflecting man
can think so. We therefore say that the country is
in danger; and it is the duty of every honourable
Englishman—every father of a family who feels that
the dearest duties are those of patriotism—to fly to
its assistance, and manfully raise his voice in defence
of those institutions which have gained us the con-
, fidence and respect of all nations, and mainly con-
, tributed to our happiness and prosperity at home.—
, Alorning Post.

LENT ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

EXETER, MAncir 19.
SEDUCTION.-.CAPRON V. BALMONT.

The defendant in this case is an attorney, residing
at Brampton, in this county, and the plaintiff keeps
the Tiverton Hotel in the same place. The action
was brought to recover compensation for the injury
sustained by the plaintiff in losing the strvices of
his daughter, who had been seduced and become
pregnant by the defendant.
Mr. Serjeant WILDE stated the case, and men-
tioned that the present was the first instance in his
experience where the defendant had the indecency
to appear in person to conduct his own defence. The
Learned Serjeant called into the box the young lady
who had been the cause of action, and whose
name was _ _

Mary Anne Capron—She deposed that she was
the only daughter of her father, and is now 18 years
of age. She became acquainted with the defendant
about three years ago. Six weeks after their first
acquaintance he began to make his addresses to her
and spoke of marriage. She declined the offer, but
he nevertheless continued to visit her father's house
two or three times in a day for about aix months after.
He spoke to the mother upon the subject, and said
that he liked the witness, if the father had no objec-
tion ; but as the mother did not approve of the
proposal, it went no farther. He continued after
this to visit the house as the suitor of the young
lady. Came as frequently as ever, and often stayed
all day. He usually sat in the bar, and frequently
dined with the family. This went on until the Ist
of January, 1830, on which day he begged of the
witness to call at his lodgings, as he had some curious
wine, of which he wished to send a bottle to wit-
ness's father. The witness did, in compliance with this
request, call upon the defendant. The other pernon
soon retired, upon which, after some conversation,
the defendant being alone with the witness, put out
the light. Witness going to the door found it
fastened, and the defendant immediately began to
take liberties with her, which ended in her seduc-
tion. She then went home alone. His attentions
continued afterwards until the plaintiff's pregnancy,
which she communicated to the defendant. He
promised to marry her at any time if she concealed
the facts from her father and mother, but did not

mention any particular time for the marriage, and
in a month afterwards he ceased altogether to speak
of it. Witness then threatened to tell the story to
her father, but defendant threatened to murder her if
she did. He subsequently spoke to her about a
house which he had taken, and to which he wished
her to come from her parents. He said he could
not marry her for some time, and, as the birth of the
child would be a great disgrace to him, he wanted the
witness to take something to procure abortion. The
witness refused to do so. He then offered to pro-
cure the drug for her and she spoke to him no more.
Her father knew nothing of her situation at this
time. She told her mother three days after the
last conversation, that she was pregnant by the de-
fendant. Witness had heard the defendant say
that his profession brought him in 5001. a-year.
On the cross-examination the witness admitted
that she had been at the defendant's lodgings on se-
veral occas'ons before the day on which the seduc-
tion took place.
The birth of the child, and the services of the
daughter in her father's hotel were proved.
Mr. C. F. WILLIAMS, for the defence, could not
deny that the seduction had been effected, but con-
tended that, in the circumstances of the case, the
damages ought to be very moderate.
Mr. Justice PARK summed up the evidence, and
commented in very strong language upon the con-
duct of the attorney, in appearing to defend himself
in an action of that nature.

The Jury, after a short consultation, found a ver-
dict for the plaintiff—Damages 2001.
The calendar contains some cases of a very
heinous and not usual character; but the trials which
have taken place in the criminal Court yesterday
and this day were entirely destitute of interest.

DERBY, MARCH ls.
The business of these assizes commenced yester-
day,. the Commission having been opened the even-
ing before. Eleven causes were entered for trial,
one of which was an action brought by a clergyman
of the name of Akroyd against Mr. Pole, the magi-
strate, for false imprisonment. It was settled out of
Court. The calendar contained the names of 52
prisoners, 11 of whom were included in one indict-
ment, charging them with a riot and an attempt to
shoot a person of the name of Bowden. Owing
to the non-appearance, however, of the principal
witness, an accomplice, who has absconded, the pro-
secution was not proceeded with at present.

THETFORD, MARcir 18.
Mary Whitwell, aged. 24, was indicted for the
wilful murder of her own infant daughter on the
15th of May last.
Mr. Evers sta►ed the case. On the 15th of
May, two teen met the prisoner walking on the
public road in a direction leading from the village of
Loddon to that of Yellerton. She had been lately
delivered of an illegitimate child; and when met on
the day mentioned she had the child in her arms,
and a bundle in one of her hands. She entered into

conversation with the men. Iu the evening of that
day she was met by other people
tin from Yellerton to Norwich, at which time she
were
was without either citild or bundle. Two men
on the 15th of June, at work near the spot where
the prisoner was met on the 15th of May, and their
dog discovered the body of an infant child lying
under a hedge close by, quite dead, and having been_
apparently so for some time The dog got holddof
its dress with its teeth, and drew it out from
hold der
the hedge. The body found had on a dark greet;
hat, similar to the one observed on the head of
,t e
child when in its mother's arms on the 15th of Ni'D
where the
and at a short distance from the place
dead hdy was found, there was a similar bundle to
that which the prisMier Was tarcving, on that dayci
On being apprehended, she declared thk riheP
not been in Norfolk for the last two years.d
going in a direc-
parish of Yellerton buried the body, and then eau
Fee
the prisoner to he committed, to answer the charge
of mur,h ring it.' The prisoner was acquitted. e
The prisoner imme burst into a passiont"
flood of teals, though she had during the invediga.
tion maintained an appearance of much apathy t
The Learned JUDGE then addressed to her a mos
solemn and :effecting admonition, and she left the
dock deeply moved.

ALARM AT ST. MICHAEL, CROO

LANE CHURCH.

A crowded congregation assembled yoterue;
(Sunday) morning at the above church, on the O
casion of the celebration of divine service for t"Le
last time, preparatory to the pulling down of the
edifice for the approaches to the New Lond°,l'.'
bridge. A sermon was to have been preached Pc
the Rector, the Rev. Dr. Dakins, for the benefit °
Bridge, Candlewick, teal Dow ate Ward schools'
and the church, which was erected by Sir Christ
pher Wren, and is peculiarly neat and handsoole'
with numerous tablets on its wall. to the merr<
of the dead, presented at the commencement' of the
service a very interesting spectacle. All the Ped.,l;
and the different aisles, were filled to excess. "."0,-
charity children, accompanied by the organ, 611
with impressive effect, "Before Jehovah's aw'i
ey
Throne," in which they were joined by the
of numerous individuals in the congregation, w"°-,,,r
feelings were evidently touched with the soleollmdt
of meeting for the last time in the church. Jtj:d
about the conclusion of the reading of the sec°7l,
lesson, part of the mortar in the cornice of these,„'d
ing over the altar where the rector was station.'
fell down. Immediate alarm seized the congreri:
Hon, and the larger portion, under apprehells'°.
that the church was falling, rushed with terror
towards the door. For several minutes the sereshir
and thronging for escape were appalling) vtnities
strenuous efforts were made to compose the ro
of those who remained, by assuring them that °l,Eit
danger was to he apprehended. The Rector tej
into the reading desk, where he earnestly entresji,
the congregation to return to their seats, aed
rected the singing of the 93d psalm. This had
partly proceeded, and the congregation was graduser
re-asembling, when a second and somewhat 13114
fall of mortar from the same spot instantaneou-Le
renewed the terror, and compelled the service to
co
abruptly concluded, to the great injury of the cool
lection for the charity, and the regret and dismay
the persons assembled. ble
It has been stated that great blame is attribattig,
to the city authorities, in consequence of their P;D,
mitting the excavations for the Lendon-bridge co
proaches to extend so near to the church, before,e,
time that it could cease to be used for divine se,tvior
and it is particularly to be regretted that the 'jeer
mittee of the Corporation have imtimated their jot;01,
tion to withdraw their promised contribution of bee
to the charity schools in aid of the sermon,bect°
estr
as they allege, greater haste was not adopted tovhe
removing the monuments from the church; but,;oo,
Rev. Rector cheerfully acceded to an applice to
made to him in the vestry-room by the trustees," 01
preach his intended sermon next Sunday m00015:10
St. Magnus church, for the charity, which has ri,os
materially suffered in its funds from the ntitihlege
houses lately pulled down for the London-Pt'
approaches.
_V •

Loss OF THE TEETH.—A respectable-(7'th e
ing female, verging on fifty years of age, applied t.oo°B
Magistrates at Union Hall on Tuesday, for the asSI-a thit
of an officer under these circumstances : —She gate
lois
she re-ided in the Brixton-road, and had beer. robbe' she
set of artificial teeth that cost her thirty gni:Vag:, Rift'
suspected that a lady, as Ito boarded in the same h°ll—a
her, had stolen them. " Three days ago," continuebeolt
applicant, " she was without a single tooth in 6th diP"
and since I have missed my teeth, she appears St
nor table with a complete set in her jaws. I o°°°,.; '
t, b°
ever, positively swear that they are the set I have 1°,1.,,0tt
from the manner in which her cheeks are plunir, out°
have little doubt they are mine. I took the Eull'lloo°
my mouth on Monday night, after supper, left
went up
u Ina
gtahien, interval
they
the dressing-glass, which stood on the table in 11''witliotli
ber, anti went down the next .morning to breakfast time
susPotece fro;:i
were taken. kn e nb.
od d
sleeps on the same floor with me, and her abse°
tt
breakfast on the morning in question excited g° tb,g
of surpri,e, and has induced me since to believe firlicsagl
she is the thief."—The Magistrate deplored the APP_A
loss, but said he could not assist her, and she ITO'''.
the office evidently disappointed.
1 ist°frltr
THE TUILERIES.—In this nevi
novel, a prominent figure is assigned to n'°,:,rio°g
hommes marquans at Paris in 1792 and 3 ""ikofit4r,
wildest period of the Revolution. DANl'Ol4' sr,
BA RRERir, COLLOT DI-lEllllOls, PETION, lAS:pceee6„jr
JUST, antIIIOBESPIERRE, are slieWn irithe in .; fta-of
their nocturnal political orgies, and in. them s"elic:reerpt
sway during the " reign of terror." The early,
30,1 t.he
realTtfhaust and the of
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE is also vividly sketcbeatriy to !,4
destroyer of dynasties himself introduced fonlilisd toach,or
reader, " dans son interieur." The intense Irth the 'e i 0
examples of the human affections struggling "Ito„talbitime•
rors of the time, and making, as it were, " 3 .-(100;ire
the shady place," have been turned to the most "oceesre,
ous account in the present work—while the,,r tlarroi,
pictures given of the Palace of the Tuileries row' he ij
of t tbo
siding auspices of MARIE ANTOINETTE an" for
able JOSENIINE, present no common attractio.
0,
readers whose taste inclines to brilliant descripo°

BIRTS. 0 "
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On the 16th inst. the wife of Mr. C. G. Ireland o'
nlll/3"'
Bloomsbury, of R daughter. liter' o. • i
At Brighton, Lady Susan Dotha, ofa dAii!;4/• • °.
On the 18th inst. in Wimpole-street, the lady . '''
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son Esq., of a daughter. Cle di, lb
On the 18th inst. Mrs. William Yield, of Veil' AC
a daughter. T)OO' Csl' r.
On the 12th inst. at Orangefield, county of
.„, It.
lady of R. B. Blakiston, Esq., of a son. - sir P.
On the 13th inst, at Feltham-hill, the lady 01 rte.'
Bart., of a son. 0( el
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Broad-street, to Ellen, third daughter of 15. ''' ,voilimjij,
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Ivy-house Richmond. , re toit._,,it .t,
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of Mr. S. Davies, of Wells, Somerset, to Al..yieilcb• the qtos,
ter of the late Mr. T. Hidden, of Lambourn, oe. VP
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and son Gf Mr. J. Heath, of Bishop Stortto.
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Yorkshire, and late curate of Maidenheadpilwad
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