The Sun.
London, England, 1831-09-14 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

It is well for the country that that the power of
the Press is great, because it exercises a wholesome
controul over all other power; hut in proportion a
the jest and legitimate exercise of its influence proves
benefiCial to society does the tyrannical or licentious
abus4 of its strength impair its usetaileess, by de-
grading its character and depriving it of public con-
fidence. The recent attempt made by certain jour-
nals to excite the feelings'of the public against the
Duchess of Kent, on the alleged ground of her
Royal Highness having shown a studied instance of
disrespect to the Sovereign, by contumeliously re-
fusing to attend the Coronation, or to permit th.
Princess Victoria to be present, is a melancholy in-
stance of the lengths to which party malevolence cite
go in abusing the authority of the Press to purposes
of personal detraction. The calumnious charge w:
made with a decisiveness of tone, and a pompou.
vehemence of denunciation, which left no doubt
of its truth on the minds of those who ate apt
to consider boldness of assertion equivalent to
authentic proof. How mud they have been
astonished to see the awkward explanations and re-
luctant admissions of error which followed close
upon the unprovoked and unmanly attack directed
against the character of the Illustriou4 female who
is not more conspicuous from her high rank the
distinguished for her beneficent and unobtrusive vir-
tues? Surely, if her sex could not prottct the
Duchess of Kent from insult on the shores of Eng-
land, the consideration that she is the widowed wife
of me of the most amiable and regretted Princes of
the Blood R Tel that death bath taken prematurely
from his family and country, the moral example of
domestic worth which she has given to the highest
classes of society, and the tender interest which she
must feel in that Royal'child who is the object of her
maternal solicitude, ought to have entitled her, if not
to the respect, at lea-t to the forbearance of every
thing in the shape of an Englishman. But no—it
was somehow or other believed that, the most accept-
able act of sycophancy that could be performed to-
wards the present Administration would be to at-soil
her character—to wound her feelings, and render an
object of suspicion and hatred to the public the mo-
ther and guardian of the Heiress Presumptive to the
British throne. The attempt was made, and with
an eagerness that led only to a more signal failure.
If any person in power lent themselves to ir, we can
only say that, though the " age of chivalry is pa-t,"
the sentiments by which Englishmen have ever been
animated in the defence of the fair sex have not alto-
gether died away, and that among a people where
the pride of manliness is not extinct, this warfare
against a woman will be found to be as impolitic as
it is ungenerous. Those who have spoken of this
Illustrious Lady as " the widow of a mediatized
German Prince, whose highest ambition never could
have contemplated the possibility of an alliance wi.h
the Blood Royal of England," and who have dc-
scribed her conduct as " indecent and offensive,"
must have complimented our most gracious Sove-
reign with the possession of a strange moral taste, if
they supposed this abuse of one of his nearest and
dearest relations could be agreeable to him, and that
too at the moment when the feelings of a mother
were painfully anxious for the health of a beloved
child, whose life is connected with the future desti-
nies of this mighty empire.—Morning Herald.
We are most unwilling, at so critical a period, to
embarrass the Government by any recommendations
or reflections which could remotely involve its popu-
larity, or indirectly endanger the success of the
great vital question of Reform in the House of
Lords. But so mar), public and private remon-
strances on the disposition of its patronage have
reached us from all parts of the kingdom, and the
disgusting facts connected with the Dublin election
are se recent and notorious, that we reluctantly
enter our protest, and apprise Lord Grey of the
state of public feeling on this subject, so intimately
and necessarily connected with the stability of his
Cabinet. The Tory party in possession of political
power, which, with one short interval they unlit-
terruptedly monopolised for the la't fifty year-,
mainly organised and perfected an intolerable rule,
by promoting all their ultra partisans throughout
the kingdom to offices of influence, profit, honour,
and political power. Prostration and subserviency,
bigotry and party violence, met their sure reward in
the humble and in the higher ranks of society.
From' the Lord Lieuttnant to the parish sexon, who
lowered his Lordship's coffin into the family vault,
every municipal and civil office was filled with " thick
and thin men." The Lieutenancy and Magistracy of
all the counties in England, Wales, and Scotland,
were crammed exclusively with Tor es. Toryism was
the only passport to honours or emoluments. The
Church, the Army, the Navy, the close Corpora.
tions, the Law, India, the Colonies, the Civil and
Diplomatic services of the State, were crowded with
political creatures of the Ministers of the day. Every
man of liberal and independent principles was pro-
-ctibed, and the door of advancement and prefer-
ment closed against him. The law was the only
exception, when the bait of judicial appointments
periodically trapped a few rats to silence an occa-
sional public man who tormented the Minister in or
out of Parliament, or, may be, because a Premier,
could discover no brains among the sincere political
bigots of the legal profession. Doubtless this ex-
clusive system in the disposal of patronage chiefly
perpetuated the baneful and ruinous faction of
Toryism, and, strengthening the extraordinary usur-
pations of the boroughmongers, formed an almost
insurmountable barrier round the citadel of cor-
ruption. Woe betide that unhappy public back-,
slider, who incautiously, or in a frantic moment
of conscientious feeling, perpetrated ottf act of an
Anti-Ministerial nature. A Lord Lieutenant, a
General Officer, a gauger, were summarily sent to
the right about with «6' touch sang froid as the
Doke of Weil ngton ordered the execution of
a deserter. The inundation of puldio opinion, and
the extraordinary political ciscumstances in Europe
which called Lord Csrey to the councils of thenation,
at length burst through the outworks of the Tories.
The present Ministers, in consegeence of the sys-
tem, are surrounded with spied, informers, and false
friends. The court/cry of ministerial power has ge-
nerally continue.; in office all subordinate incumbents
of the several official departments of the State. The
early difficulties of the present Administration, its
mixed charaster and partial dependence on a portion
of a divided Aristocracy, have inclined Lord Grey to
adopt this courtesy to an extreme extent, instead of
limiting it with reference to his own peculiar and
critical situation. Ha now holds the reins of Go-
vernment, repeesented by his bitter political oppo-
nents as Ambassadors and Charges d'Affaires abroad
—Tory diplomatists of Great Britain, deeply in-
volved in all the schemes of the Holy Alliance
Lord-Lieutenants, Magistrates, Clergy, Lawyers,
the whole host of subordinate official men, in every
ctilftlerAtetae advancement of
department and throughout the country, are
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arrayed in bitter and toadisguised hostility against
him ! To tamper with such a position is preg-
nant with inevitable destruction to the Mi-
nistry. " Conciliation," politic" coquetry with
antagonists, are silly and despicable expedients, which
always have, and ever will, prostrate those who
resort to pettifogging tactics. We fear that the old
and staunch political friends of Lord Grey and hie
have too muola reason to complain, as, they loudly
chosen band of followers throug:hroturviteaettlilooenf katilin.liderpAiowdm:
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than during the most fruitful period of their power ;
and it more than usual aeiivity has prevailed in filling
tip the magistracy, and in forming select bands of
yeomaery corps, officered by persons disaffected to
the popular cause. In the meantime Lord Lieu-
tenants and tnen in every office have not hesitated
to place their names at the head of county decla•
rations against the Reform Bill; and in the re-
cent elections, with the Clergy at their head,

.lmost to a man opposed the popular 'candidates
The continuance of such men in offices of im-
portant political power and influence, their noto-
nous continued exclusion of their liberal neighbours
from participation in local offices, is unnatural and
anomalous, and displays a suicidal infatuation. Is
it possible so to tickle the Peers into toleration of
the Reform Bill ? Can any men of sense or obser-
vation believe that a single individual will abate one
jot of opposition to the hated measure ? Will Lord
Shaftesbury, for instance, in his lucrative and in-
fluential office, oppose Ministers more vehemently
or injuriously if displaced than he now does openly
and viciously ? Will the-Duke of Buckingham, the
Marquis of Hertford, Lord Verulam, the Dukes of
Beaufort and Rutland, Newcastle and Northumber-
land, Lord Powis or Lord Clive, or the Scotch
Lords, less oppose or injure Ministers, because
allowed to remain dominant in their several counties,
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to which we have above alluded, we subjoin the
following list of the present Lord Lieutenants in
Eneldnd and Wales :

Bedford--Lord Grantham
Berks—Earl of Abingdon
Bucks—Duke of Buckingham
Cambridge—Earl of Hardwicke
Cheshire—Earl of Stamford and
Warrington
Cornwall—Earlof Mount Edge-
cumbe
Lord Warden—Marquis of
Hertford -
Cumberland—Earl of. Limsdale
Derby—Duke of Devonshire
Devon—Earl Fortescue

Dorset—Earl Digby
Durham—Marq. of Cleveland
Cust.Rot.—BishopofDurhant
Essek—Viscount Maynard
Gloucester-,-Duke of Beaufort
Hereford—Earl. Somers
Hertford—Earl of Verulam
Huntingdon—Duke of Man-
chester
Kent—Marquis Camden
Lancashire—Earl of Derby
Leicester—Duke of Rutland
Lincoln—Earl Brownlow
Middlesex---Duke of Portland
Monmouth—Duke of Beaufort
Norfolk—Hon. J. Wodebouse
Northampton—Earl of West-
moreland

Northumberland—Duke of
Northumberland
Nottingham—Duke of New.
castle

Shropshire—Earl of Powis
Somerset—Marquis of Bath
Southampton—Duke of Wel.
lington
Stafford—Earl Talbot
Suffolk—Duke of Grafton
Sun, y—Lord Arden
Sussex—Earl of Egremont
Tower Ham'ets--Dukeof Wel.
lington
Warwick—Earl Brooke and
Warwick
Westmorland—Earlof L-msdale I.

Wilts—Marquis of Lansdownel
Worcester—Lord Foley
YORKSHIRE. c'
East Riding—Earl of Carlisle
West Riding—Earl of H arewo Od
North Riding—Duke of Leeds
WALES.
Anglmea—Marquis of Anglesea
Br con—Duke of Beaufort
I Cardiganshire— * W. Edward
Powell. Esq.
'esrmat then shire—l Al. Dvnevor
Carnarvonshirc—Lord W. De
Eresby
Denbigh— • Sir W. W. Wynn.
Bart.
Flint—Earl Giosvenor

Cilamo•gan—Marquisof Bute
Merionethshire— •Sir Watkins
Wm. Wynn, Bart.
:Montgomeryshire—Lord Clive

Oxford—Earl of Macclesfield Petnliroke-:• Sir J. Owen, Bt.
Rutland—Marquis of Exeter Radnor—Lord Rodney
Two-thirds of these Noblemen are avowed ene-
mies of all Reform ! We see a father and son, Lord
Powis and Lnrd Clive, tLe rulers of nearly a hun-
dred miles of England and Wales. Lord Warwick,
the head of his county (which returned its six
Members to Parliament all pledged advocates for
the Bill), signs a declaration against it, and con-
tinues the omnipotent disposer of all the county pa-
tronage contingent on the:Lieutenuntcy ! Earl Talbot,
in the same station and opposition in Staffordshire,
we have before had occasion to allude to. Tne Doke
of Northumberland is dominant in the county of
the Premier, and the most active, though silent,
opponent of the Ministry ! Lord Lonsdale, like a
Getman Prince, reigns powerful in Westmoreland,
where Lord Brougham, the fountain of the Magis-
tiacy, is powerless and defied ! The puke of lb tit-
land, defeated in Leice.tershire, with the sanction
of Ministers punishes his political opponents. Lord
Westmorland rules the county of the Chancellor of
the Exchequer. The. Marquis of Exeter in Rut-
land! In Scotland the picture is much the same,
Toryism rampant and paramount in an eminent de-
gree. 'The 'folloWing are the Lord Lieutenants
across the TwePti

Aberdeere,—Duke of Gordon Inverness—Hon. Francis Wm.
Argyle—Duke of Argyle Grant
Ayr—EarT Of Glasgow - Kincardine—Viset. Arbuthnot
Banff—Earl of Fife Kircudbright—Visct. Garlies
Berwick—Earl of Horne Lanark—Duke of Hamilton
Bute—Marquts of Bute Linlithgow—Earl of Hopetoun
Caithness—F.arl of Caithness Orkney and Zetland.
Clackmannan—Earl of Mans- Peebles—Earl of Wemyss
field Perth—Dui, e of Atholl
Kinross—Right Hon. W. Adam Itenfrew—Archibald Campbell.
Dumfries—Marquis of Queens. Esq.
berry Rose—Sir J, W. M.Kenzie,
Dutnbarton—Duke of Montrose Esq.
Edinburgh—Dukeofßuccleugh Cromarty—R, B. E. Macleod,
Elgin—Earl of Moray Esq.
Nairn—Wm. Brodie, Esq. Roxburgh-- Ma,-quis of Lothian
Fife—Earl of Rosslyn Selkirk—Lord Montagu
Forfar—Earl of Airlie Stirling—Duke of Montrose
Haddington—Marquis of Sutherland—Marquisnt Stafford
Tweeddale Wigton—Viscount Garlies.
Int Ireland, the Government, by the introduction
Of a municipal system of most doubtful policy, but
of undoubted imperfection, has the opportunity of
appointing to the intended Lieutenancy Noblemen
and gentlemen of enlightened patriotism, and where
non-residence, we- trust, will be an in,.upetablv ob-
jection. But Minitters must " take the bull by the
horns," to use a vulgar, but a homely, phrase. A
cr-sic is approaching in their fate and in the desti-
nies of the nation. " He that is not for me is
against ire." The legitimate power of the Premier
must be boldly and magnanimously used. A majo-
rity in the House of Louis can only be achieved by
the most decided and courageous course. We will
further remind Lord Grey, that the Reform Bill, if
passed by the pressure of public opinion, will, never-
theless, expose "him to the certain and vindictive
future opposition of the Tory party. To punish
hiru, hut, above all, to defeat the ends of Reform,
will be the combined and re-united plot of the Anti-
Reform aristocracy. Lord Grey's Administration
can only stand on the foundation of the people. The
Whig party, as a country party, is extinct. The
magic nicknames of faction and family intrigues
have passed away. No more management of the
House of Commons. The rising generation of
all ranks are illuminated, and are rescued from
the delusions of prejudice and ignorance. The cur-
tain of liberty in Europe is but just rising from the
stage, and the sun of freedom as yet dawns only on
the edge of the horizon. Lord Grey must go on ;
he must-fill every office under the influence of
Government with men attached to his principles.
Those who have disinterestedly and generously
sacrificed their worldly interests to independence
and patriotism in the forlorn days of Toryism espe-
cially, havo a right to participate in the fruits of
arduous and generous public exertions. Public
opinion has called Lord Grey to his present respon-
sible and merited power from respect for a long life
of political wisdom and integrity; let him deal out
the same measure of grateful justice to those who,
fighting by his side, have promoted his reward, and
let not the black stain rest on his Premiership,
that he who was not indifferent to provision
for his own family was yet insensible to the
claims of the friends of liberty, who placed him
in power. We could say much more on this
subject; and state many astounding facts whch have
been communicated to us, but we shall by this time
be fully understood, and we repeat, that justice,
policy, self-preservation, the vital interests of the
country, demand from the Ministry more confidence
and trust in their real friends, with less fear and
deference for their enemies and double-faced parti-
sans. Why should Ministers fear the Peers ? They
may and must dilute the opposition of the Lords
with a yet more copious addition to their numbers.
Lord Grey has to manage them after the Reform
Bill is carried ! Let him publicly avow that all those
not with him must retire from office; we know of
old what a small proportion would avail themselves
of the privilege of retirement. But it is intolerable
to witness the undisguised opposition of the Tory
possessors of the Magistracy and Lieutenancy of the
country, who are not only undermining the Govern-
, merit of the King, but re-constructing their old and
base domination. The effect of this absurd tolera-
tion and truckling to political enemies, may not
occur to men of noble families, Cabinet Ministers
living in the squares of the Metropolis; but it is
nevertheless a subject of loud reproach throughout
the country, and comes home to men's daily feelings
and interests.—Morning Chronicle.
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fate of the Bill in the House of Lords. We under-
stand that a member of the Ponsonby family is to be
the Reform candidate. The freeholders of Dorset-
shire gained very great honour by their exertions in
the late contest ; but it is hardly necessary to tell
them, that the importance of the approaching con-
test is, out of all proportion, greater than the last.
The eyes of the people of England are upon them.
If they are now lukewarm—if they betray the cause
of the country at this crisis—the name of a Dorset-
shire man will be a reproach. But it is impossible
that the spirit which actuated the electors during.
the last election should now be extinct, and that
the men who acted so nobly will now sit down
tamely to bear the reproach of traitors to the
cause of their country. No ; they will rally round
the Reform candidate, and nobly perform their duty.
Let no man deem his exertions insignificant. Every
freeholder should act as if he considered the success
of the election to depend on his exertions alone.
We can never conceive so meanly of any portion of
Englishmen, as that having made a great exertion
to effect the salvation of their country, they should,
before that object has been accomplished, exhibit a
careless indifference with regard to it, or, with the
fickleness of children who have laid aside one toy
for another, veer round to the support of the cause
against which they so recently made such vigorous
exertions. This surely is not in accordance with
the English character. The Dorsetshire men will
feel as they ought the sacredness of the obligation
they contracted at the last election to their fellow-
countrymen, not to desert till victory crowns their
efforts by the passing of the Reform Bill. They
seiltinot allow themselves to be pointed at with the
fing?; of scorn, as men who in the struggle were
false- to the great cause. They will be true to the
last, and spurn from them every man who insults
their understandings by soliciting them to consent
to remain slaves—to surrender their liberties and
their properties to the proud and insolent borough-
mongers. We are sure we need say no more to
prove to the freeholders of Dorsetshire the neces-
sity of doing their duty at this eventful crisis.—
elioining Chronicle.
A sort of earnest of what we may soon expect in
the House of Lords was afforded last night, in an in-
cidental discussion on the presentation by Lord
Radnor of a petition, signed by two individuals in
the name and on the behalf of an extensive Political
Union. Lord King having observed, that if the
people were quiet, "it was in the confidence that
the Reform Bill would pass; and if it should not
pass, then the enemies of the House would say that
it was high time to consider what was the use of the
House," Lord Wynford rose to order, and said that
he considered it disorderly to say that it was a
question whether the House was of any use. His
Lordship contended that he was perfectly in order,
and that "he only said, that in case the Bill did
not pass, the adversaries of the House would for
that reason make it a question whether the House
was of any use; and it was their Lordships' duty
to take care that no such pretence should be afforded
them to make it a question, more especially as he
was sorry to say that this House had no great cha-
racter to lose." This raised something like a storm.
Some Noble Lords were for taking down the words.
The Marquis of Salisbury said " it was clear that
atrocious attempts were made to influence the
minds of men, of well-meaning men, against that
House." On second thoughts the motion was with-
drawn ; and this was wire. Those who are most
sore about reflections on their character have, gene-
rally, very little to lose, or such as might be lost
with advantage. It is in the Old Bailey where dis-
cussions as to character are most edifying.—Morning
Chronicle.
It was remarked in Monday's Advertiser that
" the passing of the Bill is, at the worst, but a ques-
tion of time. Pass, at last, it must, and be acted
upon by the people of these realms ; and we really
cannot bring ourselves to believe that any majority
of the Peers can be found so thoroughly ignorant of
the public feeling—so little alive to a sense of jus-
tice—and so destitute of regard for the peace of the
country, and the existence of their own order, as to
be brought, by any motive or consideration what-
ever, to reject a Bill which has received the sanction
of ninety-nine out of every hundred of the popula-
tion." Alas ! we fear that we judged but too fa-
vourably of the patriotism and clearelieadedness of
the majority of that venerable body ; for, if we
have trot been greatly misinformed, there is a
union of Anti-Reform Peers in embryo, whose olb•
jest is to throw out the Bill, and whose ground
of hope is, that the country has cooled upon the
subject, and that they may safely resort to
such a proceeding. They consider themselves to
possess a majority of some thirty Peers, in oppo-
sition to the declared wishes of the King, the
Commons, and the country, and of this majority it
is now said, that they are determined to make that
use which cannot fail to distress the King—to in-
volve the country in confusion, and finally to plunge
it into a revolution, of which, although every one
can ascertain " from whence it would come, no one
knows " whither it would go." But will a majority
of them be really so insane as to put in practice
such an expedient, and that, too, with all the lights
of our own previous history as a country, and
all the lights of the present age, and of the
spirit of the present times, to guide them ?
We repeat what we said on Monday, that
we really cannot persuade ourselves, notwith-
standing the strongest affirmations to the con-
trary, that such will prove to be the case. The rights,
privileges, and immunities which the Members of
the House of Lords enjoy as Peers—as a sepa-
rate and distinct branch of the Legislature—not
to speak of the influence derived by them from their
extensive wealth and property—are things of no
small value in themselves, and quite sufficient, it
must be allowed, to gratify the vanity and ambition,
as e ell as to satisfy the rational desires of any body
of the kind ; and are we to believe that they will
not only endanger the tranquillity of the country,
19 u t also, what is evidently dearer to some of their
Lordships, the continued possession of these sub-
stantial benefits to themselves and their descendants ?
And will any one have the hardihood to tell us,
that these rights and privileges would not be en-
dangered by the throwing out of the Reform Bill ?
Has any of the body the vanity to imagine, or
the blindness to conceive, that the country,
when foiled in its Constitutionai endeavours
to procure a redress of its grievances, would
not have recourse to the measures without the
letter, but not beyond the spirit, of the British
Constitution ? And when it has thus gained the
great object of its ambition, would it, does any one
imagine, sit down calmly under the insults which it
had received, and the unpardonable provocation it
had met with ? Would it tamely submit to the
weapons which had wounded it remaining in the
hands of its sworn and inveterate enemies, or, like a
foolish people, alike unmindful of the lessons of the
past, and the possible dangers of the future, furnish
them with fresh arms to assail it ? We shall not
answer these questions ; bat, lest there should be
any one so foolish as to imagine that in the event.—
which Heaven protect us from f—of the Reform
Bill being thrown out, there could be a possibility
of a struggle for even one day, between the Re-
formers and Anti-Reformers, it may be worth while
to state that there are no grounds to authorise such
an imagination. The country is not divided, as
it was on the Catholic question, on that of
Reform—there is not a strong party on one side,
and a nearly equally strong party on the other—
no—it is only the Legislature, not the gauntry,
that is divided. The count!), is united, and bound
up in one solemn determivation, even as one manes-
its whole physical force, as well as almost its whole
intellect, ore on the gide of Refozm ; and where
then could there be a possibility of a a.truggle ?
Could a few Peers and Commoners put down the
whole country either by force or bfy pehrsuasion
However, as there are some persons oohs
the qhues-
then of Reform, let the country again set em
right—let there be meetings, petitioese and semen.-
etrarsees,—end let it be clearly pp4ye(4 without de-

lay, that when a people are determined to be free,
they will have their freedom, at whatever sacrifice
of toil, conquest of difficulties, or risk of danger.—
Morning Advertiser.

Since writing the above, we have been gratified
beyond description by finding that the Livery of
London, in redemption of their former privileges,
and in justification of the patriotic feeling by which
they have been always actuated, are about to as-
semble in Common Hall, for the purpose of peti-
tioning the Lords to pass the Reform Bill without
delay. A requisition has been numerously, as well
as respectably, signed by the Livery, requesting the
Lord Mayor to convene a meeting for this purpose;
dud there fs as little doubt of his favourable decision
in the matter as there is of that of the Livery,
always the staunch advocates of Reform, and always
willing to sacrifice their individual interests for the
public good. It will be a glorious Reform meet-
ing, we doubt not, and all the true friends of Re-
form will make a point of being present ; but this
meeting will not alone be sufficient—the metropoli-
tan districts must meet—the whole country must
—and give the lie to the cruel assertion, that its
feeling in favour of Reform has cooled. Up, Eng-
lishmen, and be doing ! Your rights—your just
rights and privileges are at stake—and if ye do not
stir now—all may be lost !—Morning Advertiser.
The Livery of London have very properly taken
the lead, in moving, by petition, the House of Lords
to pass the Bill about to be transmited from the
Commons. The Livery of London ! 'We wish the
House of Lords and the people of England to know
precisely who the Livery are. The Livery of Lon-
don have frequently been confounded with the Cor-
poration of London, though they are distinct bodies.
But, which is of more consequence, the Livery of
London are, as regards the City Representatives in
Parliament, the only constituent body—the only body
entitled to choose or vote for the Representatives ;
and as by the Reform Bill their privileges will be
abridged, and their numbers be diminished, how
noble is their unanimous support of a Bill by which
this is to be effected ! What an example to the Lords
themselves to relinquish privileges to which they
have no just claim or title, the nomination of -Mem-
bers in the Commons House of Parliament ! Our
Paper of to-day contains the requisition to the Lord
Mayor to call the meeting, with which his Lordship
will, we have no doubt, joyfully comply. And
now, by an easy transition we pass from the Livery
of London to the people of England—from the
sample to the substance of British metal. People
of England, you are well aware that the House of
Lords have hitherto had the Mouse of Commons
—that which should be your House of Commons—
in their pocket,.. For example, the Marquis of
llertford has, we believe, had seven Members of
the House in his pocket: he could carry them
shout with him ; he could stake them at a gaining-
table, if he frequented such places. Other Peers,
and even other Commoners, could do the same.
They have your house in their pockets. Do you
wish for a people's House of Commons, or a pocket
House of Commons ? Your enemies say, you wish
still for a pocket House of Commons, and not for a
people's House of Commons. Meet, like the Livery
of London, and tell them which you wish for,
and which you are determined to have, cost what it
may. Notwithstanding there never was an House
of Commons (chosen, as it has necessarily
been, under the trammels just described)
which so nearly represented your will and
wishes as the present House of Commons, and
notwithstanding this House will transmit the Bill
for a Reform in Parliament to the other House by
a vast majority, that other House, it is said, will still
doubt of your inclinations (we know not why) unless
you meet yourselves, and inform it, by petition, that
you will no longer have a pocket House of Com-
mons. Meet, then, we say ; meet and tell the
House of Lords, as it wishes for information on the
subject, that you will henceforth choose your own
representatives yourselves, according to the tenour
of that Bill which is about to be presented at their
Lordships' bar. It is not often that we attempt to
move you, and never when we have made the at-
tempt have you frustrated our wishes, or failed of
your public duty. But now you must meet, or you
are treacherous,—you betray your faithful and labo-
rious adherents in Parliament. The Bill has passed,
or all but passed the Commons. Do you mean
to desert it ? Ask yourselves the question. No :
let it float into the House of Lords, borne by the
breath and acclamations of millions,—or it may sink,
—the Lords may reject it. They may say it is not
your Bill, you wish for the continuance of a pocket
House of Commons; and in that case a pocket
house of Commons is all that you deserve. " The
game's a-foot :" Reform and King William be the
try. An unexpected death has thrown open the
county of Dorset for a contest. A Bankes—we
know not which of the family—starts as a candi-
date for a pocket Parliament. We do not say that
he is a pocket Member himself; but he means to
vote for pocket Members and for the system. He
is to be opposed by Mr. Ponsonby, the present
Member for Poole, who is for people's Parliaments.
We shall see which the freeholders of Dorset will
choose. But let not the Lords be deceived. We
oust, and are convinced, that they will hear the
voice, and sympathise in the feelings of the people
of England. But were it otherwise, be they as-
sured that their rejection of the Bill will not pre-
vent a thorough Reform of Parliament. Were we,
indeed, desirous of vast changes—did we look to
the adoption of wild theories, or the subversion and
confusion of existing powers and influences—the
first step to such innovations would be the rejection
of the present Bill by the House of Lords.—Times.

ON READING THE TITLES OF THE NEW
PEERS IN FRIDAY'S GAZETTE Baton Dunneore,
Baron Poltimore, Baron Tem plemore."
_ .

A voice of thunder greets my ears,
Repeated o'er and o'er and o'er ;
It says—More Peers, more Peers, snore l'eers ;
And England echoes—Mon•, more, more! J. 13.

At the Drawing-room on Monday an occur-
rence took place, with reference to the reception of a lady
of title, which has given rise to much conversation in the
higher circles. A Peeress (not recently married), whose
conduct in private life has ❑ot always been of the strictest
moral character, despite of the remonstrances of her
friends, would be present on this occasion. Her MAJESTY,
we understand, treated her in such a manner as to evince
in the circle of the Court that determination to discoun-
tenance doubtful characters, even in the highest rank,
which was so deservedly lauded in the demeanour of Queen
ci/ARLoTTE.—Morning Paper.

TIIE ROTHSAY CASTLE.-It is now ascer-
tained, beyond all doubt, that the number of passenger♦
on board this steamer, at the time of her sailing from
Liverpool, exceeded one hundred and ten, to which must
be added the Captain and mite, two seamen, the engi-
neer, the steward and his wife, a black boy, and four
musicians, making in the whole not less than one hundred
.and twenty-two souls, probably more, as many persons
are supposed to have gone on board the ill-fated boat with-
out registering their names. Out of these only twenty-
two have been saved, leaving a certain total of one hundred
and two individuals who were swallowed by the remorse-
less waves.—Chester Chronicle.

On Saturday afternoon, as some children were
playing together on the steps of a house in Brighton, one
of them, having some damsons, said playfully, to a little
boy naed CHARLES HOLFORD, Open your mouth and
shut your and see what God will send you." The
boy immediately hei back his head, and, shutting his
,ears, opened his mouth, wheii the other dropped a plum
into i,L, which slipped into his gullet, and stuck fast, and
before medical assistance could be procured the poor little
(allow was a corpse. An inquest was held the next day
on the body—Verdict 4cci4ntal death."
ANTIaUVry Op FIGURE
interesting art is or very ancient ipvention, and appears to
have been practised by the Cgyptans at a very early
period. HanonoTus speaks of a curious breast-plate or
,c,uirass, covered with linen, which was sent by King
AT,..iki.4; to the Laeedemonians, and which was highly or-
namented Witilp7Jrnerous figures of animals woven into its
texture. The historian ;adds, that each of its apparently
threads was actually compoed of 300 filaments, which,
under a careful examination, were ail distinctly visible.—
Pr. Lardner's Cabinet C;ielorcedia, Vol, XXII.

MARTIN'S ILLUSTRATIONS of the BIBLE,

We have just seen the two latest published en-
gravings of this fine artist's illustrations of the ear-
lier portions of the Scriptural history. The first
engraving pourtrays the remorse of Adam and Eve
after the commission of their first fatal offence,when
they discovered that they were naked, and clad
themselves in vine-leaves; the second, their expul-
sion from Paradise, which was
" With dreadful faces thronged, and fiery arms,"
while all earth was in uproar, and the war of destruc-
tion among animals was already in full activity. No-
thing can be sublimer than the character of these
two Illustrations, except the subject of them, to
which Martin has done all possible justice. The
countenances of Adana and Eve are in the finest and
purest style of expression, and the scenes by which
they are "surrounded have an air of grandeur and
immensity which this consummate master of space
can alone give to his landscapes. Altogether, the
prints are worthy of Mr. Martin's established repu-
tation.

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