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London, England, 1836-10-15 00:00:00

periors, with the power lodged by the Constitution in
our own hands, to succumb to our inferiors, who have
nothing but the prejudice of habit to back their pre-
tensions ? Not so. Having the authority, it is our
duty to exercise that authority, and either to force the
Lords to retrace their steps, or else to make such in-
novations on their Institution as shall preclude
the possibility of its perpetrating any very se-
rious mischief for the future. One of these
things we must do—and that, ere another year
has rolled over our heads ; for such is the pre-
sent state of affairs, that to halt is ruin—to re-
trace our course a moral impossibility. As for the
" sooner or later "—a phrase, by the bye, of which the
CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER 15 somewhat too
lavish in his speech—we are not in a condition to rest
satisfied with such vague and distant assurances
of improvement. Our wrongs are pressing—prompt,
therefore, must be their remedy. Doubtless, if Mr.
SPRING RICE were labouring under an excruciating
fit of the gout, he would not apply to that physician
who should promise him a cure " sooner or later ;" but
to him who should go at once to work in a vigorous,
unflinching spirit. And in this spirit must Ministers
also go to work, if they desire to retain their influence
with the people. They must act up to the expec-
tations they themselves have held forth. The Re-
form Bill being their's, it is their's to put the
right interpretation upon it. If Peerage Reform be
imperative—and who can gainsay it ?—Peerage Re-
form must be granted. Evade—trifle with—the ques-
tion as we may, again and again it must recur to us,
and derive fresh strength from every discussion. We
are not now on the banks of the Rubicon. We have
passed it. Shall we halt, then, in our career ? No,
we must on ; but not like the specious tyrant of old,
to the destruction of a country, but to its moral and
political regeneration.

The Reformers of Stockport gave a public dinner
on Wednesday to their excellent Representative, Mr.
HENRY MARSLAND, which we are happy to state
was very numerously and respectably attended. A full
report of the proceedings appears in the North Cheshire
Reformer of yesterday; but owing to the crowded state
of our columns, we have been under the necessity of
abridging most of the speeches. It is not a little re-
markable, that most of the gentlemen who spoke on
this occasion, dwelt more upon the urgency of a fur-
ther Reform in the Ho'use of Commons—a more ex-
tended suffrage, and the Ballot—than upon the Reform of
the House of Lords. They appeared to think that
the Reformers want additional strength in the House
of Commons—that the people do not exercise a suffi-
cient control over their Representatives—and that
we can only hope to attack successfully the abuses
of the Peerage, when all that is necessary to be
done in the way of a complete Reform of the
Commons has been accomplished. It is appa-
rent, from the report of their speeches, that Mr.
MARSLAND, Mr. POTTER, and Mr. HINDLEY
entertain such a conviction. We think differently
from these gentlemen on the great question of Peer-
age Reform—honest and straightforward Reformers
though we. know them to be. The Reform of the Lords
is the first great thing needful. It ought to form the
rallying point of the whole Reform interest, inasmuch
as there can be no difference of opinion respecting it.
The Ballot is a most important measure—we have
constantly advocated its adoption ; but as differences
of opinion upon it exist among the most enlightened
Reformers, it ought not to be made the test of a party
in such a political crisis as the present. What we
seek—what all honest Reformers seek—is a measure
respecting which there is, and can be, but one opinion
among the Liberal interest—and that measure is,
the Reform of the Upper House. It may be ob-
jected, that demanding so much will be followed
by the loss of reforms really attainable, among which
may be classed a further reform of the Lower House.
This is not the fact. The more the people ask the
more they will get ; and to insure respect for their peti-
tions, let them begin by asking something which all
may unite in demanding. Let the reform—the speedy
reform of the Lords be the universal watchword of
Whigs and Radicals, and we shall have nothing to fear
from the intrigues of the Tories.

`We have much pleasure in extracting the following
short article from the Liverpool Telegraph, a new
paper just started on liberal principles in that town.
The writer puts the tendency of the Municipal Elec-
tions in its true light, while he exposes the affected
disinterestedness of the Tories as to the result. Like
a certain congenial personage—" they believe and
tremble :"

" The Reformers are up and stirring, and their exertions
are worthy of the occasion. Perhaps there never will a period
occur again, when the result of the Municipal Elections will
exercise such an important influence on the character and des-
tiny of a Ministry. Conscious of the danger of connecting the
present elections with political considerations, the Tories affect
a disinterested desire to keep the character of the councillor
free from the taint of the political partisan ; and yet with ad-
mirable consistency insist that the principal claim of their can-
didates for public support consists in the circumstance that
they are good Conservatives. The hypocrital denial that the
present contest involves political consequences, is too bare-
faced to deceive even the most unthinking; and the Reformers
are acting most judiciously in applying political tests to the
different candidates, in order to show the enemies of the
people the real nature of that re-action which the Tory press
has trumpeted forth to their delighted readers for the last
twelve months.

" The Reformers have it now in their power, by a masterly
use and combination of their resources, to set the final seal to
Tory self-delusion, by lessening even the meagre number of
Conservatives who found their way into the Council, by acci-
dent, at the last election."

The French Papers of Thursday have just been re-
ceived by express. The following telegraphic dispatch
appears in the official columns of the Moniteur :••••
BAYONNE, OCT. 11.—Gomez has entered Übeda, in the
Guadalquivir, where he has found resources of every kind.
The Captains-General of Seville and of Grenada, are to
collect troops at Ecija. Troops come from Caceres and from
the camp of St. Roch.
Rodil is still at Rude.
Alaix is marching by way of Ofeja. The Carlists announce
that Sanz entered Oviedo on the 29th. This news requires
confirmation. On the 10th General Lebeau returned to Pam-
peluna. The English attacked the position of Amezagana on
the Bth, without any result.
Annexed are extracts from the Journals t—.

PARIS, OCT. 12.—The news of the capture of Cabrera
seems to be confirmed. At the beginning of this month, it
was said at St. Sebastian that the Carlist Chief had been
taken prisoner in Aragon, and that his band afterwards
dispersed.
If we may believe private letters, the band of Gomez had
entered Andujar, and was to continue its march to
Argona a town situated in the environs of Cordova.
A courier from Estremadura arrived at Madrid on
the '4th, and brought the news that the Captain General of
Andalusia had declared that province in a state of siege. It
was reported at Valladolid on the 30th Sept., that the band of
Carlists which lately entered the valley of Soba had just ex-
perienced a defeat from the division of General Peon. A
letter from Alicant (to the Garde National de Marseilles) says
that a ship called La Reine des Anges, bound from Marseilles
to Oran, having touched at a little port in Spain in the
oc-
cupation of the Carlists, had been plundered.
PARIS, OCTOBER 13. General Denys Davremont left
Toulon two days ago. His ostensible mission, as has
been said, is to take the command at Oran. His real
mission is clearly to explain to Marshal Clausel what
the Cabinet requires, and on what conditions he may
retain his command. In the first place, he must address
an apology to the Minister on the subject of the offer of his
resignation, as the Cabinet does not think fit to have condi-
tions prescribed to it. Then General Davremont is to report
to the Marshal, that what is to be done in Africa is to pre-
serve, not to conquer. If the Marshal thinks fit to compre-
hend the state of the question, and if the consents to give the
General the letter demanded for the Ministers, we may expect
that M. Davremont will not make a long stay in Africa ; but
as it is possible that the Marshal will refuse, General Davre-
mont has in his pocket an ordor of command (un Ordre de
Connandernentl, which he will produce....-,journal du Coot-
merce.—Messayer, Oct. 13.

We have received by express advices from Madrid
o the 9th inst. The following are extracts from letters