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nominated by Ministers, were to have the power of
supplying the deficient constituency of all the bo-
roughs left in existence in which the number of 10/.
renters is below three hundred, by adding to each,
for the purpose of representation, any adjacent pa-
rish or district. Of boroughs so circumstanced as
to fail within the operation of this clause the number
is no less than 85. Thus in 85 places the nominees
of the present Ministers were to liar e had the power
of selecting, from any point of the compass they
might like best; such an addition to the constituency
as could not fail to influence very considerably all
future elections. They would no 'doubt have pre-
ferred in all cases the adjacent district in which
Whig property and influence was most predo-
minant. Thus the Whig Ministers might
fairly reckon upon a permanent advantage
to their party in Parliament, over that of
its great political opponents, of something like fifty
Members. So that in the whole the Bill would •
have probably given a permanent increase of votes
to the Whigs, relatively to the Tories, of about 127
votes in the House of Commons. Can there be any
longer a doubt as to the objects of the Bill, or can it
excite surprise that this object was regarded so en-
tirely by Ministers as to blind them to the real ten-
dency and certain effect of the measure, which would
no doubt have been to augment the power of the
Whig and diminish that of the Tory party, relatively
to each other, but at the same time to overwhelm
and destroy both, and with them all the institutions
and all the property of the country, in the title of
democracy and the giant rage of confiscation ? This
is the measure for resisting which Parliament has
been dissolved. It has died the martyr of Ministe-
rial vengeance for refusing to sacrifice the Crown,
the Aristocracy, the Church, the whole Constitu-
tion, the whole property of England, to a sweeping
democratical revolution, which Ministers were only
tempted to propose by their blind recklessness and
headlong eagerness to increase the Parliamentary
influence of their party, and thus to retain that poli•
tieal power which by manifold blunders and delin-
quencies they had justly forfeited. To doubt that
the approaching election will give us a House of
Commons still more decidedly opposed than the last
to the Ministers and their revolutionary projects of
selfish ambition, would be an insult to the good sense
and patriotism of the country. Strenuous efforts
must, however, be made by the friends of the Con-
stitution. In the desperate circumstances to which
the infatuated 'Ministry has reduced itself—the pri-
vate means of its Members—the contents of the Ex-
chequer if necessary, will not be spate,' to secure the
return of their abettors. We call upon the leaders
of the Anti-Revolutionary party to be equally active
—equally united—equally unsparing of their wealth
in the great struggle which is at hand. Everything
that is dear to them as patriots or as men is staked
upon the issue.—Morning Peat.
The scene of excitement and confusion which
prevailed in both Houses of Parliament yesterday
was extraordinary and unprecedented as the occa-
sion of it. Lord Mansfield's speech will be written
in the hearts of all true friends of the country, and
reflect eternal honour on his memory. The effect
produced by his last sentence on those who caught
it, amidst the noise and disorder which prevailed,-
wits truly sublime. " God save the Crown," he said,
with a tone and emphasis to which no description
ran do justice,as William the Fourth, with the Crown
upon his head, approached the throne of his fathers.
The only emphasis laid by his Majesty upon any
part of the Speech was on the word " appear."
What his Majesty's feelings may have been we
know not. With those of at least four-fifths of
his hereditary Councillors, a sensation of pity was
mingled with a constitutional and personal vene-
ration. May God, indeed, the God of our fathers,
save him. from the snares which his own familiar
friends and servants whom he trusted have laid for
him! The dictatorial, the arrogant, and the disre-
spectful manner evinced by the Lord Chancellor, has
not beep equalle4 since the day when Cromwell
dissolved his Parliament ; and the impression of re-
verence for the King,whose prerogative he announced,
contrasted strangely with the disgust occasioned by
his Minister's manner of making that announce-
ment. With indecorous haste his Lordship rushed
'tom the Painted Chamber into the nouse, inter-

rupted Lord Mansfield, nearly overturned. Lord
Shaftesbury, and after stating that Parliament was
to be dissolved because " in an unprecedented man-
ner" it had sopped his Majesty's supplies, he rudely
turned bi 3 back upon their Lordships. That there
are precedents for stopping supplies is historically
true ; that the supplies were not stopped by the
House of Commons on Thursday night, in carrying
an adjournment of the House, is positively true. The
real reason, and the people of England should to a
man be made acquainted with the fact, was that
Parliament had refused to reduce the number of
English representatives. Colonel Davies stated this
broadly and truly on Thursday night, and for the
sake of Reform itself he deprecated it. Let the
nation, therefore, weigh well this point, and decide
between those who would retain or curtail those
Members who henc.forth must be our chief safe-

guard against an undue and dangerous prepon-
derance of nominees of Mr. O'Connell. Through
the medium of those nominees he now offers to sup-
port loci preserve the Ministers, in whose hands his
lawless violence has placed him, and they have ac-
cepted, in an evil hour, the aid of their convicted
prisoner. With them, not him, rests the guilt and
responsibility. With the people of England it now
rests to shield us from the consequences. If true
to themselves, all may yet end well ; if false, fare-
well Crown Church— State—Peerage—Public
Faith—and National Honour.—?horning Post.