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merit to adopt, and which nevertheless cannot be
expected from the present Administration by any
one who has watched its past conduct, or obtained
any knowledge of its partialities, sympathies, or
connections. To uphold the majesty of the law,
and to show to all who may he disposed to violate
it that no force or ebullition of rabble violence shall
be permitted to interrupt its proper and regular ad-
ministration, is the duty of Government at all times,
hut this is peculiarly the duty of Government, at a
moment like the present, when a di-position is ma-
nifested to set law and authority at defiance. If
this be so, and we suppose none but revolutionists
will dispute it, Government ought unquestion-
ably to send Sir Chalks Wetherell again and
immediately to Bristol, for the trial of such of
the prisoners as have been taken after the
rabble Reformers had set them loose, and to
prepare such a manifestation of the strength of
the national authorities as to strike terror into the
hearts of all who might be disposed to offer
outrage or contumely to this Learned Judge in the
discharge of his elevated functions. This duty we
feel confident Government will not perform. And
why ? Simply because the Reformers of Bristol,
who began the tumults, which have in their natural
regress disgraced and devastated that city, are the
friends and allies of Ministers ; and the latter are
unwilling to mortify and humble these wet thy friends
and allies for sake of matters for which they care
comparatively so little as law, order, the dignity of
Government, the peace and welfare of tle commu-
nity. .Again ; an extensive conspiracy was formed
e other day in one of the parishes in the liberties of
Westminster for the purpose of interrupting the
performance of Divine Service in the Parish Church
on the ensuing Sabbath, and of insult ng a PI eLite
of the Church of England who was to have preached
a Charity S.-Tmon. This, we suppose, Government
need not be told was an offence on the part of every
man who entered into the conspiracy that is punish-
ahle,both at Common Law and in the Ecclesiastical
Courts. It is evidently the duty of Government
to inquire after these offenders, to seek evidence of
their guilt, which, with respect to the leading cul-
prits we take upon us to say might easily be pro-
cured, and. to bring them to condign punishment.
No attempt of the kind has been or will be made,
Why, again we demand, this abdication of the func-
tions of Government ? The answer is simple and
easy. The conspirators are the staunch friends and
allies of Ministers, the great promoters of the Re-
form meetings, committee-men of that consummate
Reformer Sir Francis Burdett, safe and select per-
sons, with whom, had not Mr. Wakley prevented
it, the wily Baronet intended to pack the council
of his Political Union—housekeepers, forsooth,
who move or second resolutions among parochial
knots of revolutionists in vestry assembled—indi-
viduals who would pull down the British Peerage
to their own level, and trample upon every class of
society that they fancy to be below their own. How
can any reasonable man expect his Majesty's Mi-
nisters to inflict punishment upon such good friends
of the Administration and the Bill, or to intimate
even an opinion derogatory to their character, their
principles, or their feelings ? Once more. A se-
ditious placard has been posted and circulated for
a fortnight throughout the metropolis, intimating
in express terms that the King of England is
an usurper, and the kingly office itself an
unjust invasion of the rights of man. The au-
thors of this treasonable publication are known.
They do not think it necessary indeed to practise
any concealment, but, on the contrary, boldly avow
their production. Have any of them been appre-
hended ? By no means. Several of their number
have been honoured by confidential interviews with
his Majesty's principal Secretary of State for the
Home Department, and whether they took choco-
late or wine with the Noble Secretary we are not
accurately informed. What is certain is only that
not one of them retired in the slightest degree dissa-
tisfied with his entertainment. To impugn the
title of the Sovereign is no doubt an offence for
which the laws of England, and of every Monarchy
upon earth, has provided a suitable, or at least a
sufficient, punishment. But the laws of England
are permitted to sleep, or such of them at least as
are intended to protect the Royal authority ; and
again, if the reason be demanded, we can only solve
this as we have salved the preceding enigmas. The
men who have made themselves obnoxious to these
laws are ardent Reformers, firm friends of the Mi-
nisters of the day, movers and seconders of Ad-
dresses to the King, to thank him truly for his li-
beral desire to extend the constitutional privileges of
his loyal and faithful subjects !-211-orning Post.

RIOTS AT WORCESTER.

SUNDAY MORNING, FIVE O'CLOCK.

A public Reform meeting was held yesterday in this
city, and it was expected, from some manifestation of
feeling on the part of the lower orders, that a popular
commotion would t Ike place. The meeting passed off
well, and, with the exception of a few men of the lower
orders in the streets standing about in groups, there was
nothing to indicate any thing like a riot. Unfortunately,
however, a fire accidentally broke out in one of the by-
streets, and this served as a beacon to gather the ill-dis-
posed. A number of boys at first congregated, and
showed some signs of mischief. As it became dark, how-
ever, men began to join them, and a great number of
strangers were observed among the crowd. They con-
fined themselves during the evening, up till about half-
past eleven o'clock, to parading the streets and shouting,
groaning, hissing, and other demonstrations of riotism.
The special constables, however, about 200 in number,
whom the Mayor had taken the precaution to swear in
yesterday, were amply sufficient to prevent any attack
upon the public buildings, which seemed to be the chief
objects of their attention. At about half-past eleven a
much greater number of strangers arrived, nearly amount-
ing to 200. They began however, as they increased in
number, to get bolder, and on some of them commencing
an attack on the windows of the Town• Hall, two of the
offenders were taken. This, however, appeared to infu-
ri rte the mob, who attempted to possess themselves of the
iron railing, and other acts of violence. The two pri-
soners were lodged in the gaol, whither they next went
masse, uttering the most horrible yells. The Mayor,
Mr. Clifton, however remonstrated with them, and end:a-
voured to persuade them to go home. They solemnly
promised to do so, on the liberation of the prisoners.
The Mayor consented, and turned out the prisoners, and
the mob then became more impudent than ever. A troop
of the 7th Hussars arrived from Droitwitch, however,
just in time to disperse them, the Mayor having read the
Riot Act, and the constables being beaten into the hall.
The mob then began pelting the troops, who, on receiving
orders, immediately charged, and dispersed the rioters
with the flat part of their swords. The mob pelted
stones, and ran up the alleys. Fifteen were taken, but
none seriously hurt. A company of the 91st foot has
arrived, and, although every thing appears quiet now,
nearly all the inhabitants are afraid to go to bed. I shall
write again to-morrow, as the coach is starting.

CURE FOR THE GRAVEL.—A writer iu the
Political Examiner recommends the free use of honey for
the cure of this painful disorder. A gentleman who had
been afflicted with it for some years experienced imme-
diate alleviation by sweetening his tea with honey. He
recoinmevded it to the writer, who also bears witness to
its efficacy.— Vermont State Gazette.

Orders were received here (Portsmouth) t.O-
- to place the coal vessels from Sunderland in quaran-
tine as they arrive; consequently two vessels (the cargoes
of which had been sold), lying off the Hard, were Mum-
diately placed under restriction, and removed to the
Mother-bank. This measure evidently results from some
fatal cases of the cholera which have occurred at Sundel-
land and Newcastle, and ate attributed to an indiscrimi-
nate intercourse with some vessels from Hamburg, though
it appears the crews of these ships are perfectly healthy,
and no evidence is given that the parties who died have
had any communication with the foreigners. By the
Newcastle Paper (an extract from which we give in a
preceding page), it will be seen that even in the instance
which has caused this immediate alarm, the two physicians
and surgeon who attended the case declare it was not o'
foreign origin; and it is shown that the sufferer alluded
,to had been previously ill. A medical gentleman of ems•
nence has also received a certificate this morning from
Sunderland, to the effect that the eases which h ve oc-
curred there are those of the English eholera.—Hamp-
shire Teleyraph.