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LONDON,
WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 14, 1831

The death of the Right Hon. J. CALCRAFT
having occasioned a vacancy in the representa-
tion for Dorsetshire, one of the BAN KEs's, fa-
ther or son, will of course offer himself as can-
didate. Possibly, too, he may expect to suc-
ceed. But this must not be. The freeholders
must unite to a man against him. They must be
astir, early and late ; on the watch in every
nook and cranny of the county ; form
themselves into associations ; appoint Com-
mittees and Sub-Committees ; for on the issue
of the contest for Dorsetshire will, in no slight
degree, depend the success of the Reform ques-
tion in the House of Lords. At present the
majority of the Peers—who are about as well
acquainted with the real state of the country, as
the Hon. Member for Preston with the com-
monest rudiments of grammar—entertain a no-
tion that the people are disgusted with the
Reform Bill, and that consequently it may be
thrown out with impunity. If, then, the free-
holders of a populous, influential county like
Dorsetshire, resolve on returning either of
the B&NKES'S, they will strengthen this
illusion, and give the House of Lords a
plausible pretext for rejecting the measure alto-
gether. But will they commit such an act of
political suicide ? Never ? Their past con-
duct vouches for their present. Night and day
they will bear in mind, that the cause of their
country is entrusted to their hands ; that Dor-
setshire is another Clare, destined to carry
a greater Emancipation Act ; that if they
waver all is lost, if they persevere all is
gained. The present is a tremendous crisis.
The eyes of a mighty nation, resolved
at all hazards to be free, are fixed on one cardi-
nal point—Reform ; their attention is directed
to one instrument by which its success may be
ensured—the election for Dorsetshire. Never
was county so honoured! The Dorset free-
holders actually have it in their power to eman-
cipate not only themselves, but their country.
The voice of a unanimous
nation calls on them
to do so. It implores them as husbands, as
fathers, as frn4s, as citizens, sternly to do their
duty, and earn the deathless gratitude of a
regenerated people.
Passing from particulars to generals, from
the inhabitants of one county to those of an

entire nation, we call on the people promptly
to meet, and energetically to express their
determination to obtain Reform. To exclaim
in a voice of thunder that may penetrate the
inmost recesses of the House of Lords, and
startle even the deafest Peers on their well-
cushioned seats, WE WILL BE FREE. Unless
they do this, they will even yet be defrauded of
Reform. Plots and counterplots, we can assure
them, are hourly going forward among the aristo-
cratic ultras; secret meetings are in progress ; pro-
mises, in the event of a change of Ministry, are
flying about as thick as the dead leaves on a gusty
autumn morning ;—intrigues, in short, of all
sorts and fashions are at this very moment in
activity among the Peers to defraud the people
of their rights. Let the latter 'then meet, and
remonstrate, and thereby defeat their Jesuitical
machinations. It is more incumbent on
them to do so than ever. Events are fast
hastening to a crisis. The torrent is bear-
ing us irresistibly onwards. We are al-
ready within the rapids. The two hostile armies,
the Reformers and the Boroughmongers, like the
Poles and the Russians, are daily drawing closer to
each other ; consequently not an hour is to be lost.
Meet, then countrymen, meet, supplicate, re-
monstrate ; lift up your voices from one end of
the kingdom to the other, that they may be heard
even above the din of the storm that is brewing
against you. Reform or Revolution ; bear this
perpetually in mind, for this, at the eleventh
hour, is the true state of the question.

Our readers will find by our House of Com-
mons report that four new Members are to be
added to the House, one for each of the Welsh
counties of Denbigh and Carmarthen ; and one
for each of the towns of Ashton and Minchin-
hampton.

From the thin attendance of Members, the
Government were on Monday evening nearly
placed in an awkward position in regard to the
Bill for the Encouragement of Sugar Refineries.
This Bill, which is the same as has been renewed
annually since 1828, has for its object the pro-
motion of manufacturing industry at home, by
giving facilities to the admission of foreign sugars
for refinery, a branch of trade which has of late
years increased considerably in Germany, the
Netherlands, and other parts of the Continent.
The effect of the Bill has been to augment the
trade in England also, and much capital is already
invested in it, on the faith of the permanence of
the law for its encouragement. To have in-
terrupted the progress of the Bill would, there-
fore, not only have been injurious to a valuable
branch of industry, but would seriously have
affected those who had risked their property on
the faith of its continuance as usual.

The West India interest called for enquiry
into their condition before renewing the Bill,
but assigned no satisfactory reason why a bene-
ficial measure of a distinct character was to be
impeded, because a difficulty exists in generally
improving the prospects of the Colonists. It is
the clear interest of the people of this country
that the trade of sugar refining should be pre-
served here, instead of being driven to Hamburg
or Antwerp ; and if the Colonists have declined
to attempt the operation themselves, it is the
more reason why they ought not to complain of
foreign sugars being availed of for the purpose.
The Colonists have, we think, good grounds to
call for a reduction of the duties on West India'
produce, as part of a general measure favourable
to the British consumer of similar produce, from
what country soever, but beyond this the Go-
vernment are bound, by their duty to the British
consumer, to resist all claims for favour, like
the bounty on West India refined sugar, which
are injurious to the interests of the public.
If the assertion that the Bill afforded an en-
couragement to the foreign slave trade were
capable of proof, it would certainly be a strong
objection to it, but the allegation does not appear
to be well supported. In a reformed Parliament
the claims of the Colonists will receive their due
attention, but not before. At present the Colo-
nists are grievously oppressed without the mother
country being benefitted—and it is morally im-
possible that such a state of things can long exist.

The following are extracts from Brussels Pa-
pers received this morning :
BaossEr.s, Sztr. 11.—General Belliard and Sir R.
Adair left Brussels yesterday to go to Antwerp. A
French Cabinet messenger arrived here yesterday with des-
patches from Paris, and set out again soon afterwards
with despatches for the Hague. The 39th French Regi-
ment of the line, which is at Namur, sets out to-morrow
on its return to France, and will he in garrison at Quesney.
The regiment belonging to the brigade of General Tho-
loze was at Tongres.
On the Bth in the morning a French Regiment of Light
Cavalry arrived at Namur. It is to go into cantonments in
the environs of Dinant, without doubt to complete a
sanitary cordon, which is to be formed by the French troops
on the eastern frontier from Montomedy and Longroy.
Accounts from Alaestricht say that trees continue to be
cut down for the purpose of pallisading and fortifying that
town.

The Noord Star gives an extract from a pamphlet pub-
lished last month at Amsterdam, and of which translations
into the English, French, and German were to appear soon
afterwards. It is a kind of manifesto of the people of the
United Netherlands to the nations of Europe.
Avr, SEPT. B.—The inhabitants of this town are
greatly burdened by the number of soldiers quartered on
them in consequence of the unintercepted p usage of troops
belonging to the army of the North on their return to
France. The first brigade of cuirassiers of the division of
General Gerard arrived to-day. The French garrison of
the citadel is very considerable. It is commanded by
a young Colonel of a very active disposition ; the troops
are as if the enemy were close at hand ; the gates are not
opened in the morning till the approaches to them have
been reconnoitered.
VIENNA, Auc. 30.—His Majesty is coming to Schon-
brunn to give audience as usual. Though preparations
are making for the reception of the Imperial Family at the
Belvedere, the Emperor is said to be resolved to reside
during the winter at the Imperial Palace called the Burg.
The health of the capital is good, though signs of cholera
have appeared.
Experienced physicians here have observed, that for some
time past all serious disorders begin with symptoms cha-
racteristic of cholera, which seems to indicate climate in-
flonice. Though we cannot expect that Vienna will re-
main exempt from the visitation of this disorder, we may
reasonably hope, from the judicious measures of the Go.
vernment, and the readiness of the inhabitants to second
them, and their regular mode of living, that its ravages
will be less extensive and of shorter duration than in other
plsees, In Hungary, the case is different. The exces-
cessive repugnance of the people to all obedience, and the
notion that the physicians wanted to prison the sick, have
led to dreadful annoyances. In the district of Brison for
instance, out of nearly 6,000 sick, not one recovered. The
same has been the case in Larb, where out of 20,000 inha.
bitants, 800 died ; in Comma, Debreczyn, &c. It may

readily be supposed, that the physicians keep at a distance
when their exertions are rewarded by showers of stones.
Near Bruck, on the Leytha, a band of a hundred smug-
glers lately attempted to force their way through the mili-
tary cordon. A formal battle ensued, in which the smug-
glers were totally defeated; many of them were killed, and
fourteen who were taken prisoners were executed. As
they were well armed, the troops suffered not a little from
them resistance.