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come its advocate. Some of them wished to know whether
be was prepared to say any thing on the subject of
the ballot. All that he had heretofore said or done
had shown that he had been unfavourable to it, and

from conviction he was still not disposed to vote in favour
of it.—(Cheers and hisses.) They asked for secret voting
at a time that they were calling out for publicity on every
other subject. They asked that the votes of their represen-
tatives should be made public. He considered that he had
as good a right to know who voted for him, as they had to
know how he voted in the House of Commons. If they
wanted the Ballot, petition for it, and call upon the Legisla-
ture to grant it.—( Will you support it ?) He would be in
his place in the House, and either to oppose and support it,
as its necessity should be established or otherwise. The
Hon. Gentleman then said that the question of Irish Cor-
poration Reform had been most unjustly disposed of by a
majority in the House of Peers. If the present Ministry
remained in office, they would feel it incumbent on them to
bring that measure rgain before Parliament at the next Ses-
sion. He should feel it his duty to support it, and give to
their Irish brethren the same municipal privileges as have
been lately granted to the English and Scotch.—(Cheers.)
That the supreme legislature of the country, upon the
question of the Irish Church, had the power to appropriate
any surplus arising from the revenues of that Church to
other than ecclesiastical purposes, it was absurd to deny.
He had supported, and would continue to support, that
measure which applied such surplus to the purposes of ge-
neral education.—(Cheers.) Upon the subject of Church-
rates, he himself was a Churchman, but he should be pre-
pared, from principle, to vote for their total abolition. The
Hon. Gentleman sat down amidst continued cheers.
Colonel DAVIES, upon presenting himself to the meeting,
was received with loud cheers, which lasted for some time.
They had met there that day to give a practical denial to
the broad assertion that had gone forth, that there was a
re-action among the operatives of Worcester in favour of
Toryism.—(Cheers.) When he looked around him and
saw that large building crammed to excess—when he was
aware that many hundreds more would have been present
bad there been room—when he witnessed that immense
assemblage, he was astonished that any one could have
asserted that there was a re-action.—(Cheers.) A re-
action indeed ! he only wished that the Tory party could
witness that meeting, and it would at once demonstrate to
them that in the bosoms of the citizens of Worcester there
still was an ardent and patriotic desire for Reform.—(Cheers.)
A spirit was abroad, and men would no longer take anything
for granted because Government had willed it. They might
as well attempt to throw back the source of their noble
river as to stem the tide of public opinion.—( Cheers.) The
House of Lords had acted a part ill becoming them, and
prejudicial to themselves and the country.—(Cheers.) They
had rejected every measure sent up by the House of Com-
mons that tended to benefit the country. The House of
Lords were disposed to cut -off root and branch of the Irish
Corporations, and leave that country without any Corpora-
tions at all. The resistance of the House of Lords to the
appropriation clause ought to leave a blush of shame upon
their cheeks.--(Cheers.) He was a sincere Protestant, and
he hoped to die so, and he would not support any measure
that would injure the Protestant Church ; but he considered
that the appropriation clause, so far from injuring the Pro-
testant religion, would have a tendency to promote it. They
said the Irish people were bigotted from ignorance. If so,
they should be instructed ; they would then see, and be
enabled better to judge, which religion they would adopt.
The Tory party had kept them in greater darkness than
any other. The Lords had pursued a line calculated to
injure themselves and the country, but the people of Eng-
land were no longer disposed to submit to it. No, the people
of England would rise as one man, and break the bonds by
which the Lords would enthral them.—(Cheers.) He was
aware that be was touching upon tender ground when he
spoke of a reform in the House of Lords.—(Cheers.) That
was a subject upon which there was a difference of opinion,
and he should not then enter into a discussion upon it. He
however would say that, in the present state of society, he
much doubted whether such an organic change could be

made without a convulsion throughout the empire. The
people, however, had the remedy in their own bands, as the
House of Lords looked to,the extent of the majority in the
House of Commons. If they wished for good Government
they must send liberal men to Parliament. If they wished
to sec the grievances of the Dissenters removed—if they
wished to see justice done to Ireland, and the Irish people
contented and happy, they must return liberal men to Par-
liament. If the electors did their duty, the victory would
be gained.—(Loud cheers.)
The MAYOR proposed the health of the three Liberal
Members of the county, who had ever been at their posts
in the hour of difficulty and danger, and faithful ever among
the faithless found.—(Loud cheers.)
Mr. COOKES, M.P., retuned thanks. After adverting
to the proceedings of the House of Lords during the last
Session, he said that the cry was, reform the Lords. And
though he could not sec how a responsible Chamber could
go on with an irrespcnsible one, yet he could not perceive how
the evil could be remedied. He recommended them to
back their wishes by petitions, and the Lords must yield.
Capt. WINNINGTON and Mr. HAMMOND, the other Mem-
bers for Worcester, returned thanks.
A variety of other toasts were drank, and numerous
speeches made, and the meeting separated at a late hour,
greatly pleased with the proceedings of the day.

A me2tina of several gentlemen of this city and
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ne:glacourhood- was held yesterday to take into considera-
tion the utility and practicability of the Railway scheme
from Hull to Lincoln, and thence to Nottingham, when
measures were idopted highly favourable to the undertaking,
and it was determined to call a public meeting upon the
subject so soon as the requisite information in detail can be
laid befo;.e them. Among the, gentlemen present were the
Mayo',• of the city, Sir F. E. Bromhead, Bart., Stapylton
Smith, Esq., the High Steward, R. Mason, Esq., Town
Clerk, Dr. Beaty, T. Merrywtather, Esq., E. Fowler,
Esq., Messrs. Williams, Wetherell, Blyth, &c.—Lincoln
Gazelle.

LONDON AND PARIS PAPERS.—The London
newspaper press, daily and weekly, is conducted with great
talent. The " journalism," to use once more Sir Robert
Peel's favourite expression when speakieg of newspapers—
tle Journalism of no other part of the world displays equal
ability. The Gazelle de France, and two or three others
of the Paris papers, are perhaps conducted with as much
talent as any of the London journals ; but taken as a whole,
they are much inferior to the English metropolitan press.
4:ts regards thc,., general character and size of the newspapers
of the two countries, the superiority of the English to the
French is immeasurable. A French journal contains no
accounts, worthy of the name, of the proceedings at public
meetings, in courts of law, or at other places. Numerous
circumstances of importance are hourly occurring in Paris,
and throughout France, of which no notice is taken in the
newspapers. There is no such thing as general intelligence
in the French journals ; and the debates in the Chambers
are given so briefly that one reporter might do all the duties
of that department of the paper himself. An editor's la-
bour in gettini, up a French journal, is mere amusement
compared with' that of the editor of a London paper in pre-
paring it for publication. With respect to the size, again,
the French papers look absolutely pitiful by the side of the
London-journals. Those who have seen an English paper
sixty or seventy years back, will have a very good notion of
the appearance of a French paper of the present day. There
is at least six times as much matter in a London newspaper
as there is in,One of the Paris journals.—The Great Me-
tropolis.

" The present volume of Mr. Bentley's Standard
Novels,' " observes the Spectator, " contains that capital
sketch of Oriental manners and Persian history, Zobrab
the Hostage,' and forms—what does the reader think ?
the fifty-finirth number ! and some, as in the case of
Beckfcrd's Vathek,' containing three works. By the
beard of Aristotle, father of criticism, the fact is a bib-
liopolic wonder ! Whatever our age may be in other
respects, who can deny that it is rich in prose fiction ?
Nearly sixty novels, published at a cheap rate in a uniform
shape, and all stamped with marks of public approval before
they appear in the collection. What an encyclop-ndia of
interest and amusement ! What a galaxy of famous names,
both of past and present time !—Horace Walpole, Godwin,
Inchbald, Porter, Lee, Galt, Austen, De Stael, Theodore
Hook, Cooper and Buhver, Mrs. Shelley and Mrs. Gore ;
and last, not least, Washington Irving! What a library
even for a circumnavigation, or a winter or two in the Polar
regions !"
The intelligence from Naples confirms the audacious
attempt of Miss Penelope Smith, who has entreated the
Prince of Capua to crown her Queen of Sicily. It was
rumoured that M. d'Houdetot, the King's aide-de-camp,
had been ordered this morning to set out in all haste for
Naples. The General was at a quarter to two at the Mi-
nistry of Marine, regulating the departure of several vessels
intended to reinforce our naval station on the coast of Si-
cily.—Bon Sens.
A most important improvement has been effected in
the harp, by which all performers on that fascinating in-
strument will be enabled to produce, with great facility,
the harmonic sounds and effects on any portion of the strings
at their pleasure. This desideratum with all amateurs will
enable them to execute even whole pieces, if they wish, in
those delightful sounds, and will not prevent the harp from
being played in every manner which is in use at present.
The Sentinelle Picarde, in an account of the
late escape of the 13 political prisoners from Doulens, gives
the following additional circumstances :—" M. Reverchon
bad the misfortune to break his thigh in falling from the
wall, and M. Desvoix lamed himself by injuring his heel.
M .Caussidiere might have effected his escape, but remained
m order to assist his two unfortunate companions. Messrs.
Baune and Beaumont, in spite of all solicitations, refused
to make the attempt."