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Or, the DAYS of HENRY QUATRE.
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THE GIPSY.
LIFE and ADVENTURES of JOHN MARSTON HALL.

MARY of BURGUNDY.
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LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 8, 1836

A Reform dinner, which was attended by all the
rank and intelligence of the neighbourhood, took place
on Tuesday last at Pershore. On this occasion an-
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other Member of the House of Commons expresse
himself, boldly and unequivocally, a convert to the
imperative necessity of Peerage Reform. This new
proselyte was Mr. HOLLAND, who adopting Mr.
GISBORNE'S view of the subject, stated that he
thought the Lords should no longer have it in their
power to mangle and throw out those Bills sent up to
them from the House of Commons which did not
happen to hit their fancy ; but that they should have,
instead, the power only to suspend them ; so that the
people and their Representatives might be able, during
the interval of such suspension, calmly to reconsider
the subject. This—as we remarked at the time when
Mr. GISBORNE first broached it—is an ingenious
idea, with one only drawback, namely, that it is not
sufficiently decisive as a remedy. It enters into a
compromise with the grievance, instead of boldly
opposing it face to face. However, there will be time
enough, months hence, to discuss this proposition ;
our chief anxiety at present is to see the great point
established, that the House of Lords requires Reform ;
which once settled, the details of the question will
follow as a matter of course. Were we to be asked,
who of all public men now living has done the most
to impress the people with a stern sense of the neces-
sity of Peerage Reform, unhesitatingly we should
reply, Lord LYNDHURST. He it is to whom we
are indebted for this conviction. But for him we
might still have entertained doubts of the pro-
priety of the measure ; but his uniformly perverse
conduct last Session has left us no other alterna-
tive than to fling distrust to the winds. Oh,
that we had but a few more such Statesmen among
us If one LYNDHURST can do so much, what
would not two do ? His Lordship, as is well known,
was once a " Whig and something more." Is not that
predominant
significant " something more " the
feature of his political character ? Does no inherent
desire to further the progress of the " revolutionary
principle" influence him in his present course of con-
duct ? Once a Jacobin, always a Jacobin, says the
adage ; and really when we see Lord LYNDHURST
taking such incredible pains to disgust the country
with the House of Lords, and branding a
whole na-
tion as " aliens," for no other reason, as it should
seem, than to make them still more inveterate in their
opposition to the Tory faction—when we see this, %sic
feel more than half convinced of the truth of the adage,
and that the old Jacobinical leaven is again actively
fermenting in his Lordship's mind.

The Church authorities of Bungay St. Mary have
acquired a notoriety that will not die with the present
generation. It is their fate, if ever it was the fate
of mortal men, to be " damned to everlasting fame."
Their atrocious cruelty displayed in the persecution of
an upright man who would not bow the knee to Baal,
excited the burning indignation of every honest and vir-
tuous mind, and gave an impulse to public feeling on
the question of Church-rates, which years of abstract
discussion could not have produced. Not that we
mean to underrate discussion. On the contrary, we
regard it as a most powerful instrument of improve-