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London, England, 1831-04-22 00:00:00

inexpeeted events should perchance ultimately cheat the people
f Reform in the forthcoming Parliament, would oppose the
reform Bills to seat themselves for seven years. Such men are
solves in cheeps' clothing, untrusty servants, and should be die-
barged. Some Members omitted to vote on the first division,
see which way the wind blew, and voted with Ministers on
he second division. Some vice versa. All these men of doubt_
ul character should be accurately weighed. One instance, if
•orrectly reported in. the Division List, peculiarly strikes us.
ir; Dugdale, the Member for the county of Warwick, our
eaders will remember, pledged himself, on the searching inter..
ogatories of Mr. Parkes, at the recent Warwickshire County
sleeting, to vote for the Bill and the Schedules A. and E. It is
low enough explanation that this Honourahle Member disap-
mroved of the reduction in number. General Gascoyne's motion
:as a cunningly-devised ambush for the destruction ofthe Bill—a
set notorious to every Member of the House of Commons. All
,Lemberg who, in this vote, changed from the support of the Bill
n the second reading, to the motley grout, who enlisted under
he banners of the General, should be cashiered, as having dis-
;raced the public service. Mr. Dugdale was in the Commons,
:nd neither voted nor paired off! Can a large and populous
*minty, about to receive two additional county Members, and
wo representatives for', Birmingham, silently return Mr. Dug-
late ? No excuse can justify this a,,sence without leave."
'f returned in the new Parliament, such persons, be it remern-
hered, will again absent themselves when Ministers revive their
ills ; ill-health will not justify the evil doers and absentees ; it
my ailbrds additional proofs of inconmetency for the trust.
Many other instances of similar back-sliding may be named.
Svery voter throughout the kingdom should post the division
lists in his hall, and in ". the high-ways and bye-places." Ca-
"echisms should becomposed and read to recusant Members.
1. Did you vote?
2. Howalid you vote ?
a Why did you vote against us?
4. Why did you not vote?
5. Why should you not be dismissed from your trust ?
Where local men cannot be found of moral and intellectual
aptitude to succeed these sham representatives, men of high
public character should be invited by requisition. County voters
of every parish should immediately, at the instance of the most
active and public spirited, meet and associate and arrange to
marshal their opposition. A few short weeks and the sacrifice of
time and private interests will be ended. The struggle is for po-
litical life to avoid revolution. Above all things union must be
the watchword of all reformers throughout the empire. Personal
ambition, petty jealousies, old feuds, political differences of opi.
akin on other subjects, must all be merged in support of the com-
mon cause. Let the county imitate the noble example of its ca-
pital town, where the influence of Lord Warwick will be success..
Why opposed by the subStittition of Mr. Bolton King for Sir C.
Greville. and re-cue itself from the shameful bonds of political
degradation.—Morning Chronicle.
In both Houses last night Ministers were asked, whether they
intended to dissolve Parliament? Lord Wharncliffe put the
question in the Lords. Earl Grey declined giving an answer;
on which Lord Wharncliffe gave notice that he would to-mor-
row (this day) move an ..humble address to his Majesty, not to
exercise his undoubted prerogative in dissolving the Parliament.
Another Noble Lord (Carnarvon), on presenting a petition from
Newbury, stated some objections to the Reform Bill, observing
that " this might still be amended, as he supposed they would
be allowed to exist for twenty-four hours more.—(Earl Grey, or
' some one on the Ministerial Bench, shook his head.) That ap.
',eared to be doubted. Why then (he said) he who would advise
his Majesty to sign an order for dissolution, under such cir-
cuniStances, would have a fool's head on his shoulders, and
a traitor's heart in his bosom. It would be like advising the
King to abdicate his throne." Lord Grey treated this tirade
as it deserved to be treated—he took no notice of it. His
Lordship does not seem to be aware that strong opinions
are apt to be ridiculous when the pretensions of the utterer are.
not supported by the estimation in which his judgment is held.
In the House of Commons the question was put by Sir Richard
Vivian. After a little preluding on the subject of the Liverpool
election, a resolution respecting which was the question before
the House, Sir Richard, impatient of farther delay, struck at
once into the more attractive matter of the Reform Bill and tile
dissolution. "By their conduct," he said, " they (Ministers)
had thrown the people of England into a state of great excite-
ment, and he trusted that what they had donewould fall on the
heads of only a few Members, and that they and their gracious
Sovereign would not, at some future period, look back upon the
present step as the first that led to the destruction of the Mo-
narchy.—•.(Hear, hear, hear.) The question which he wished to
put to the Noble Lord was, Is it the intention of his Majesty's
Ministers to proceed with the Bill, or to advise the King to dis-
solve Parliament, because the House of Commous has not con-
sented to reduce the number of English representatives r' "
The answer of Lord Althorp was, " I have no hesitation
in stating, in answer to the first part of the Honourable
Baronet's question, that having taken into consideration the
necessary effect and consequences of the vote of the House
the other night, it is not the intention of his Majesty's Go-
vernment to proceed with the Bill.—[The dead silence which
had prevailed during the Noble Lord's statement was here in-
terrupted by the loudest cries of bear, hear,' from all parts of
the House. When they had sobsided, the Noble Lord proceeded.]
—lt wouldbe inconsistent with my duty to give any answer to the
latter part of the Hon. Baronet's question."—(Hear.) The
meaning of destruction of the Monarchy, and the other combi-
nations of words repeated ad nauseain, mean destruction to
boroughmongering, and exclusion from Parliament of those who
are hostile to the people. " The project (said Lord V,alletort)
for dissolving Parliament at the present moment he considered
highly criminal. He compared it to the design of putting a deadly
weapon into the hands of a madman." Aye, aye, Lord Valietort,
you have your reasons, no doubt, for wishing the feverish excite-
ment of the people would subside. The people are mad, and you
are wise, exceedingly Wise, and you will soon .reap the benefit of
your wisdom. The Judas Iscariots were numerous in the House
last night. Mr. Maurice Fitzgerald stretched out the hand of
fellowship to Mr. Hunt, who has become an immense favourite
with the Tories. "He (Mr. Fitzgerald) agreed with the Hon.
Member for Preston, that the effect of the Bill was to exclude the
lower classes of this country from their share in the representa-
tion. Ile was opposed to such a change, and he should take his
stand-as detsidedly against the disfranchisement of the consti-
tuency of Preston because they werespoor, as he should against
the other part of the measure, which went to deprive property
of its just influence in this country." No doubt, you would
rather have things to remain as they are ; and provided you are
allowed to retain the rotten boroughs, and thereby put your
hands into the public purse you would consent to the existence
of two or three constituencies like that of Preston, which could
have no perceptible influence in the votes. And do you really
think the people are so stupid as not to see that you are laughing
at them ? The Scotch Members, the everlasting jobbers, would
have no more objection than:yourself to the franchise being eon_
tinued to constituencies like that of Preston. Ali no, Mr.
Maurice Fitzgerald, you are better known than you suppose you
' ate ; and your constituents of Kerry will require no ghost to tell
them your motives for voting in favour of General Gascoyne's
motion. Sir. R. Peel, too, good honest man, " deeply lamented
that Government had determined to dissolve the Parliament,
on account of the hazard to which he feared they would sukect
the country." Hazard to whom ? Ministers, Sir Robert, tive
the people with them. There would have been hazard, indeed
had the people seen themselves deceived in their well-founded
expectations, by the intriguing and caballing of a set of public
plunderers. . One would suppose that the bad success of all the
former attempts of Sir Robert and his party to mislead time people
with regard to this .question—after the display of unanimity
throughout the nation, of which there has hitherto been no ex.
ample—after the spirit of forbearance which men of all shades of
opinion have manifested towards each other, for the sake of fur-
thering this grand• healing measure—the aspect of the people
more than ever united in their approbation of the Reform mil,
would have had the effect of damping the eagerness of the cant-
ers in the House. To Produce an iinpression on the country by
their speeches of-last night, was out of the question. Yet faction
seemed feohave new life infused into it. Without having spoken
a word on the Liverpool case, all those who succeeded Sir
Ridhard Vivian, latmched out into declamations connected
with the-general question of Reform, and the policy of a dis_
solution in the present state of the country. Having spent
'the night in debating—not the question, but all sorts of ques_
lions—Mr. ei illiam Bankes moved the adjournment of the
House at one o'clock. There is a reason for everything.__
The object of the adjournment was solely to prevent the bring_
fug tip the Report of the Ordnance Estimates from the Com-
mittee of Supply, and by this means the Opposition conceive
they Shall be able to prevent .the dissolution with which they
have been threatened. We wish our readers to attend to the
vote on this motion' f Mr. Wm. Bankes. The adjournment was
carried by a majority of 154 to 142. Can 'there, we ask, be a
stronger instance of factious orsition than that which has
been manifested in this case? ere there no other justification
of the dissolution, the conduct of the Opposition, List night,
would furnish an unexceptionable one. It is obvious that ined,
who can one day propose resolutions for an alteration of timber
duties, aid the next oppose the same resolutions, when proposed
by their successors, Who regard no • principle, and think only of
throwing the country into confusion, reckless as to the means
by which they may an»oy their opponents, because Ministers are
determined to redeem their pledges to the nation, ought to be
sent, with as little delay as possible, to account for their conduct
to their constituents.
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verpool case; whilst the Opposition, having in view the step
they took, kept their iliends in the House, and thus obtained a
majority. These tridks, however, cannot be repeated. They
will not avail much those who resort to them. The nation
not to be cheated out of Reform by this sort of sharp-practising.
—Morning ('hrOilicle:

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It would be useless either to give an analysis of the debates last
night in the House of Commons, or to make any comments upoil
the procegdings; The dying sp^eches were made —the dissolu-
tion is on the eve of accomplishment, if, indeed, the Pr°'
elamation for that purpose, has not already been actually printed,
,-t-and•weinay add,' that one and all of those who opposed the
-Voltam Billyare.bethinking themselves how they can best 'ex-
plain their votes ! The times are wondrous strange, and we Won-
der not, therefore, at the caution of the anti-Reform Members in
taking time by the forelock, and endeavouring to whisper a kind
word into the ear, and a kinder feeling into the hearts, of their
former electors than has hitherto prevailed. The attempt 3.1;17
potent and useless. The people will have none but these who
have vo,ed either for " The Bill—the whole. Bill—au”
nothing but the Bill," or who will pledge. theinselVes to do 0:
To conclude—the mantreuvre resorted to in the House of Coro.
mons last night—that of adjournnient on a question Wtlie li
not discussed,,and which only furnished a peg on which to /)"g
an attack. on the Ring's Ministers—will not escape the attention
of-our readers. Hew the anti-Reformers expose ,themselves'
and how applicable to them is the classical phrase, quens
cult perdere pries dementat ! It is even said that in their rage
several anti-Reforming Peers have got up an humble Address to
his Majesty, praying him to dismiss Lord Brougham from Vhw
office of Speaker of.the House of Lords ! A mok-hill raisin,
itself against a mountain—a Satyr kicking at Hvoertop;,"2o/74
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ter., as a lost cause in the House of Commons as at preset'',
stituted—they have tendered their resignation in proof of their
patriothan--and their patriotism demands a similar devotion on
your part, not to their interests, tut to -our ovit I The'. "1: been firm mid fcstvadfast in the good cause, perdcvering even
the end ;" and shall it.he said that' those for whom they have
sacrificed their 'east and peace ofroilid;atict for whom they hal!.
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decided exertion-__and they will exert themselves im-
mediately in order that their unanimous wishes may
be speedily accomplished. Southwark has already offered a g!0-
riotui example by calling on one of its representatives to res_;gtre
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