The Sun.
London, England, 1831-07-16 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

Ministers, we apprehend, have been too lenient
with the desperate phalanx who call themselves an
Opposition, in yielding a single point to their de-
mands or murmurs. These men have manifestly no
object but the one, which is mere procrastination.
They have not produced the shadow of an argument
upon either the principles of the Bill or its details,
with which the country was not familiar before the
dissolution of Parliament. Their motions, which
they offer as amendments, are chiefly technical on
the face of them : one and all, they are framed in
the spirit of duplicity and chicane. How Mr.
Pitt, or Canning—had either of those men of
powerful talents lived to the present hour—would
have smashed and scattered the whole mountebank
system of these borough serfs! 'Why do Ministers
condescend to argue with them upon fallacies which
those who utter them only throw aside to-day, that
they may be re-hashed for to-morrow ? With the
nation like one man to back them, and eager for Re-
form to become the law, Lord Althorp, we think,
ought to make it a ministerial question, to sit
every morning at ten o'clock, (as did the Lords at
the Queen's trial, and during part of the debate on
the Catholic Bill), and never adjourn except for
Sunday, until the great work would be accom-
plished. The Opposition are now ringing the
changes on the census of 1831, as
.prefersble to
that of 1821. Why what is it to them which
census shall regulate the population ?—..what will
Gatton gain by it ? If the population of the country
generally have increased, then the standard of rot-
tenness must be raised also. If places which had
not 2,000 inhabitants ten years ago, have since
be the limit for schedule A, instead of the former
ad-
vanced to within a trifle of 3,000, then 3,000 must
number. But it would bring delay,—that is the
point really stickled for. There would be fresh
room for questioning the truth of returns,—there
must he more revisions, and fresh netitions and
complaints,—and a recasting of some tew details of
the Bill, so as to occasion three or four additional
months of deelamatioU; and thus the party might
crawl on for another year, and enjoy the privilege
of fretting and bellowing for some further season.
This must not be: the borough-cerporation is not a
national interest to be consulted,—it is a public nui-
sance to be abated. The people of England have
made up their minds that they will not henceforth
be hustled from their own doors by a set of prattling
younkers, who have the effrontery to justify a sys-
tem of corruption, which the law punishes as a se-
rious crime. We adjure Ministers, therefore, to
take a stronger tone with the malcontents; faction
must be met by constitutional power. If a decided
use had been made of all the advantages derived
from national unanimity, on a question upon which
that unanimity becomes every day more confirmed,
schedule A and schedule B would ere this have
been quietly disposed of. A great part of last night's
debate was on an amendment moved by Sir A.
Agnew, who, professing to be a friend of the Bill,
exhibited a proposition which would cut up one Of
its main principles. His motion was rejected by a
majority of 1 l 1. The result of the debate was,that
the horough of Aldeburgh was to stand part of the
clause—that is, was to be. disfranchised The rest
of the clause stands over till -Tuesday.—Times.
The, trials at Winchester, reported in yesterday's
Times, has produced, as indeed was inevitable, a
deep, general, and most painful sensation. Mr.
Bingham Baring certainly, if we may trust the evi-
dence given in open Court, seems to be more Tie-
lified for a Bashaw under the Grand Seigner, than
for a subject of William IV., much less for a British
Magistrate. Mr. and Mrs. Deacle—an innocent and
unoffending couple of respectable-station in life, he
being a country gentleman resident a few miles from
Winchester—were seized in their own house, under
a warrant signed by Mr. Bingham and Mr. Francis
Baring, and- two or three other Magistrates, upon a
charge, which afterwards turned out to be wholly
unfounded, of having abetted, in some way or
other, the rustic mobs of the last winter. The
manner of enforcing the said warrant, and of exe-
cuting the caption of this gentleman and lady un-
der it; has, we believe, no parallel save in the records
of Siberian justi&a of the old West Indian bucca-
niers, or the modern Justinian Don Miguel. After
the constable, followed by two Barings and another
worshipful personage, had entered the house of
Mr. and Mrs. Deacle (the plaintiffs), the constable
told the husband that he had a warrant against
him ; and added, that " Mrs. Deacle must come
too." The unfortunate woman declaring that she
`r
was very poorly," Mr. Bingham Baring, who just
then came in, cried out, " Constable, do your
duty—hand-bolt them." Gracious Heaven ! "hand-
bolt" an unresisting and unarmed man, and a re-
spectable female, who supplicated for mi rcy on
the touching plea of indisposition ! The constable,
who was not a barbarian, hesitated to obey this
brutal mandate, informing the Jury that Mr. and
Mrs. Deacle had both behaved in a remarkably
quiet and civil manner, and had come sip to the
hand.bolts when he (the witness) held them out."
Mrs. Deacle being without bonnet or shawl, asked
leave to have them before She was taken away.—
This indulgence was refused to the suffering fe-
male, who, says the constable himself, " is a very
small and delicate woman, and seems to lie in bad
health." Mr. F. Baring remonstrated against
the cruelty employed, and released Mrs. Deacle
from the handcuffs. Well, Mr. Bingham Baring
carried out the poor lady, her head hanging down at
one side of his arm, her legs dangling at the other,
l
to a cart,—a cart without springs fora female inva•id ! She exclaimed against such a vehicle : it was
of no use—she might far better have besought the
animal that dragged it. She asked for her own
horse—. No !" " The road," says a witness " was
very rough;" and what was Mr. Bingham .Qaring's
method of alleviating this soiree of distress to the
,sick woman ? Why, according to the witness, " Mr.
Bingham Bgring made me hasten on Iv She entreated
that the cart might go slower, as the jolting pained
her, but it was driven on at the same rate as ever :
she attempted to rise and get out of the cart; and
on her husband putting out his hand and saying,
t, Sit down, my dear, it is better to be quiet," (Oh,
shame to magistracy and to manhood!) Mr. Bing-
ham Baring rode tip and struck the patient and sub-
missive prisoner a blow with his tic aeon the fet-
tered arm, telling hint to sit quiet in the cart. Now
is this usage for one Englishman to suffer, or for
20,000,000 of Englishmen to permit ? Is this, we
ask, an outrage to .be endured by the King's subjects
from the King's representat've,—a Magistrate ! a
Judge—sworn to administer justice in mercy—sworn
to respect the laws? Why, if such things maybe, where
is thet thus
n is s
Reform manlf and their wives may
bebrutally trampled on, what good, we repeat
can be hoped from any Legislature, or from the best
laws that ever were framed, if the very functionaries
to whom their equitable and temperate adtpinistra-
i
tion is intrusted may this dare to violate them, un-
riaited by the fear of retribution from that qua+ ter
where rests the choice of Magisterial functionaries ?
It is riot within our province to condemn the verdict
of a Jury, but it is lawful to won de; At what we
must forbec.lr to execrate; and when we find that
such transactions as those described above, being
proved before twelve men upon their oaths by evi-
dence uncontradicted and unshaken, were deemed
to deserve no more signal notice than paltry damages
to the amount of flyA pounds I instead of an-
, hundredem,aye, or hundredfive times fifty. W
be
must excused for asking Lord Brougham, in. that
public manner at which no great man was ever yet

displeased, and with a frankness springing from the
unfeigned confidence which we repose in his love of
justice and of practical freedom, can men, capable of
acting as Mr. Bingham Baring is proved by the
course of judicial proceedings to have acted, be re-
tained in his situation as a Magistrate, with any
view to the domestic peace, the comfort, or secu7
rity, of a people calling themselves flee' If open
to prosecution, besides the wretched action which is
reported in the newspapers, we do devoutly trust
that Mr. Bingham Baring may receive a more me-
morable lesson against the perpetration 'of public
wrongs, than the beggarly verdict of 501. is calcu-
lated to impress upon him, with regard to civil in-
juries. We have confined ourselves in the fore-
going article to the facts as stated in our assize re-
port.—Times.

If 'the Reform Bill be to continue moving at its
present rate through the Committee, there will as-
suredly be plenty of time for favouring the Lords with
Nendly advices, anti for their Lordships to delibe-
rate on these advices, before it reaches the Upper
House. When the House had gone into a Com-
mittee last night, on a question arising out of the
first clause—namely, that all the boroughs in Sche-
dule A be disfranchised—Sir Andrew Agnew moved
•hat in line thirteen, there be inserted the following
words :—" Have a share in the election of Members
to serve in Parliament, as hereinafter provided."
The, object of the amendment was to follow out
the suggestion of Mr. C. Wynn, and make districts
of the nomination boroughs, after the manner of the
Scotch and Welsh boroughs, instead of wholly dis-
franchising them. This amendment opened the
door to a long-winded discussion. Lord Althorp
justly observed;" that the proposition of the HOn.
Baronet was to unite two or three nomination bo-
roughs together, and allow them to,return one Mem-
ber. He theri could make the return of that
Member depend, not on the people, but. on a
little society of boroughmongers.—( Hear, hear.)
The proposition would not give to the people of
England any increase of representatives, but would
tend to make the proprietors of boroughs form a union
among themselves, leaving to them, when they did
so unite, the power of nominating Members to that
House." Poor Sir John Malcolm, who, though
an old man, is a young Member of Parliament, spoke
as usual about it and about it, boasted of his own in-
derendence, and looked down on those who had
given pledges. lie would rather be as he was than
the colleague of Alderman Venables (Alderman
Thompson); though he did not wish to restrict po-
pular elections, which he regarded as the safety-
valve of the Congitution. lie would not admit
that the details were agreed to because the principle
was carried, and thought Ministers would repent if
they should alter any part of the Bill except by
reason. More of such apposite and shrewd remarks
were delivered by Sir John, who did his part in the
great object of the Opposition—wasting time. We
may here observe, that in the number of the Quar-
terly Review for July, published the other day, delay
is laid down as the tactics of the Opposition.
" Shall we not take example (says the writer) from
these convulsions (in France) ? Shall we not even
be induced to take time—a few months or weeks,—
to see how Reform works with our neighbours, be-
fore we commit ourselves to the perilous experi-
ment ? Can our remaining in our present position
for only six months involve any public evil? If
the opinion for Reform be well rooted in the
public mind, it will advance and become stronger
during the interval ; if, on the other hand, it be.
of a nature to be rendered less satisfactory, less
popular, by reflection and consideration, is there any
man mad enough to say that it ought to be passed next
week, because if you wait till nest year it will be
universally scouted ? The minority in the Com-
' mons will do its duty; but if it should be unable to
reject or even to delay the fatal Bill, the Lords will
not be wanting in theirs." Can any man mistake
the meaning of the Opposition after a week spent
in sham debates on the very first clause of the Bill ?
Delay they deem victory ; and they are bent on de-
lay. They may succeed in stirring up a war in the
course of a year. A hundred accidents may take
place. Rousseau says he beard Hume in his sleep
exclaim, " I hold Jean Jacques." The borough-
mongers, in their dreams, hold the people of Eng-
land in their grasp•—they buoy themselves up with
the hope that the people will never be able to break
from them. The tedious discussion terminated in
a division. of 316 to 205, or 111 against the mo-
tion. But still nothing was done. Wrangling and
jangling ; one Member of the Opposition affecting
a little candour—another going on a different tack,
till an hour when further proceedings became im.
possible. An unprofitable discussion took place
again on whether the Committee should report pro-
gress, or continue debating to no purpose. The
Opposition, so anxious for delay on Tuesday nights
opposed Lord Althorp's proposition to restmae last
night. After the interval of this day, to-morrow,
and Monday, the Opposition will be fresh for con-
test on Tuesday next. They have hitherto been
successful to their hearts' content. People of Eng-
land, you must be blind, indeed, if you do not see
the game which the Opposition are now playing.—
Morning Chronicle.

A singular case of oppression and inhumanity
was tried at Winchester on Wednesday last. A
Mr. Deacle, the con of a clergyman of the Church
of England, and who had himself been educated at
Oxford, during the rustic insurrection of last year
had been arrested, and conveyed to prison, with his
wife, on an accusation of having urged on and en-
couraged a thob. The accusation was, we presu...ee,
utterly groundless; for, when tried at the last As-
sizes, they were acquitted without even being called
on for a defence. But the peculiarity in this case
is, that this Mr. Deacle, thus educated and con-
nected, and to whose respectability testimony was
borne by the Rev. Mr. Rogers, was, according to
the evidence, treated in a way which we would fain
believe is without example in England. The defen-
dants, Mr. Francis Baring, Mr. Rie,gharn Baring,
the Rev. Robert Wright (Magistrates), Seagrim,
an attorney, and another, were charged With great
and unnecessary cruelty to Mr. and Mrs. Den
the manner of exectuing the warrant, bat a verdict
only was found against Mr. Bir,gharn Baring for 50/.
The witnesses for the prosecution, whose evi-
dence, notw;thstanding a severe cross-examination
by a formidable list of Counsel, wet not, accor-
ding to any of the reports wbielt we have seen,
in the least slialien, deposed to the cruel treat%
ment of Mr. and Mrs. Deacle; as did even the
two constables who executed the w7,r;ant, and
female servant of Mrs. P,cucle. Lewingtun
represents these men,-,we will not call them
gentlemen, t;:eause wealth does not make a
gentlternan—as having displayed a brutality of
conduct, for which there was not even a colour of
justification. " On coining into the house, Mr.
Bingham Baring said to me, Constable, do your
duty, hand-bolt them' I hesitated to do so; but
after a time I hand-bolted Mr. and Mrs.; Deacle to-
gether. They had both behaved in a remarkably
quiet and civil manner, wici came op to the hand-
bolts when I held them out. Mrs. Deacle had at
this time neither, bonnet nor shawl, and requested
that she might be allowed to have them before she
was taken away. Mr. F. Baring said they could not
wait. Mr. B. Baring then said to mo again, ' Do
your duty ;' and Mr. F. Barioz said he did not see
any necessity for carrying the lady hand-bolted.
She ie very Small and delicate, and seemed in bad
health. Mr. F. Baring finding that there was no
key to open the bolts, which were spring bolts,
tried Mrs. Deade's 11;ad with the bolt, and
it came thre,,,,,g'si, and she got free. This, even on
;he supposition that Mr. B. Baring believed than
guilty, was a gratuitous and unfeeling insalt to a lady.
But this is not all. " Mr. E. Baring and one of the
constables then brought out Mrs. Deacle to the cart.
.sho said she would not go in such a conveyance,
and asked to have her own horse, but this was re.
fused. There was no spring to, the cart. The road
was very rough, and Mr. B. Baring made me hasten
on. Mr. Deacle, who was handcuffed, Mrs. Deacle,
and I were in the cart at this time. Mrs. Deade
begged that the cart might go slower, as the jolting)

. . . . . .
•I;itressed her somuch that shiveonid. nor possibly •
continue it. As the cart continued on at the slime
rate, she made an attempt' o 'rise -and get out-of the -
cart. gr. Deacle put out his hand; and said to her,
` Sit still, ray dear, it is better to be quiet.' .Upon •
this Mr. B. Baring rode up and struck- Mr. Deacle
a blow- with a stick upon the arm, directing' him to
sit quiet in the cart. Mr. Deacle loOked very ear-
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unmanly conduct of Mr. Bingham Baring, in re-
fu.ing to allow Mrs. Deacle to have her horse,
said to him, " Good God I Sir, let the lady
have her horse, and I'll hold the bridle, and be
answerable with my life if the lady goes away." To
this Mr. B. Baring answered by once more exclaim-
ing, "Do your duty, Sir." The small amount of
almages given excited very general surprise in the
Court; but we suppose, where a family like the
Barings possess among them a large division of a
county, it is no easy matter to find a Jury that have
courage to do their duty. We dare to say, an ana-
lysis of the Jury would sufficiently explain the ver-
lict. No evidence was called for the defendants. '
no extenuating circumstances were proved; and the
conduct of the defendants, especially Mr. Bingham •
Baring, seems inexplicable. However, so long as
people will put up with these things, and Juries will
give such verdicts, we can hardly wonder that there
should be Bingham Barings. As law is admini-
stered, we often think of. the preference given by the
ingenious President Dupaty to the substitute for
law among the modern Romans, to what passes for
law in most countries. " A great man who can
oppress, and a mean man who can revenge •himself,
are nearly on equal terms." Still, with all those
advantages on the aide of Mr. Bingham Baring-' we
are far from considering his situation enviable. But
this is probably Greek to him.—Aforn. Chronicle.
The debate of last night affected the most im-
portant point of the Bill—namely, whether any of
the boroughs in schedule A should be entirely dis-
franchised or not, and the division was sufficiently'
triumphant to 'satisfy every one that any divisions
on the other clauses of the-Bill will be of little con.
sequence. At eleven o'clock there were 525 'Mem-
bers in the House, 316 and two tellers voted for
schedule A, and 205 and two tellers against, leaving
a majority of 111. There is no reason why the ma-
jority should not have been 130, as only two or
three of those Members who voted for the second
Ile 'ding, voted against Ministers last night, the de-
crease arising entirely from the negligence of Mem-
bers in not attending or in pairing off. We would
offer a word of advice to the absent Members,not to
be too confident in the strength of the Ministers, and
thereby become indifferent whether the majorities
are 90 or 150. It is true the Bill in all its points
will be equally carried by the smaller majority, but
the effect in the country and in the House of Lords
will be very different. Some of our contemporaries
were elated at the small majority, 97, which Mini-
sters had on Thursday, on Sir Robert Peel's mo-
tion to leave out the word "erich" from the first or
disfranchising clause; but we are informed that
there were only four cr five Members who have
voted for the Bill in some of the different stages who
voted with Sir Robert Peel on that division, viz.—
the Hon. Charles Wynn, Mr. John Weyland, Col.
Thomas Wood, Sir tieorge Staunton, Sir George
Warrender, and Mr. F. Lewis—so that the small
majmity of 97 rose entirely from bad attendance.
These diVisions all take place in the Committee on
the Bill, and the Members occupy different sides of
the House, which is so crowded 'that little accuracy
can be expected, in taking the lists of the majority
and minority, compared with the futility which
exists when one-half of the Members go 'out of the
Hon on a division, and are counted as they come
in. The attention sshich constituents pay to the
votes of their representatives renders it important
that some means be devised for taking accurate lists
of every division that shall take place on the Bill.—
Morning Herald.

We understand that there is a petition at present
in the hands of Lord Morpeth, which his Lordship
intends to present to the House of Commons, if
possible, on Monday next, relative to the Manchester
and Leeds Railway Bill. It appears that the Bill in
question bad proceeded as far as the Committee,
where evidence was received in support of the
preamble, and that after several days' examination
the Corrna'ttee signified to the Counsel that =lb:
cient evidence had been prcduced. On a future day,
however, the same Committee came to a decision
that the preamble had not been proved, they having
previously declared the sufficiency of that proof,
and prevented the parties from tendering any fur-
thqx proof as unnecessary. This is but one of many
instances which serve to show the slovenly manner
in which Committees upon Private Bills are in the
habit of doing business—and we rejoice that an op-
portunity is likely to be afforded in the present case
of bringing the subject before Parliament. It will
have, at least, this good effect—it will teach these
Members who use the Committee-room us a mere
lounge, that when injury follows from their neglect,
the party suffering is not left wholly without a re-
medy. An appeal to the House will give publicity
to the circumstance, and little more can be wanting
to ensure the correction of a bad tidbit where opinion
has any controuL The errors of Committees arise
chiefly from the uncertain atteudance of Members—
one set of men undoing one day what another set of
men had in their absence, and without their know-
ledge, done the day before.—Morning _Herald.

The duty of a city correspondent to a newspaper,
in our apprehension, does not merely consist in giv-
ing an account of reports, and the price of the funds,
but also in detailing the feelings and, opinions of the
citizens upon any subject which may happen to oc-
cupy the public attention. With this view of our
duty we cannot help alluding to the 'case of Mr.
Bingham Baring, a Magistrate of Hampshire, a
Member of Parliament, and the gentleman for
striking whom, during the late riots, a youth of the
name of Cooke was recently hanged. Mr. Bingham
Ltaring, as our readers have probably read in this
day's :Morning Herald, has been tried for and can.'
victed Of an assault under circumstances that have
exeited in the public mind feelings which we could
not describe if we would, and dare not describe if
we could. The truth is, that if the facts or this
ease had not transpired in a Court of Justice, and
if they had not been uncontradicted by the defen-
dant, we should not, we could not have attached
any credit to them, becau.e we never could have
believed that an English gentleman, and that
gentleman too filling the honourable and highly-
responsible situation of a Justice of the Peace,
could have so conducted himself. As we have
before intimated, we will not attempt to de-
scribe the feelings which this affair has excited;
hut to those who have not read the trial a mere de-
tail of the principal facts will be quite enough to
enable them to form a correct idea of what the
public must think of it ; and to those who have
read it no help of any kind will be necessary to en-
able them to come to a correct conclusion. It ap-
pears then that Mr. Bingham Baring, and his brother
Mrtgiatrates, thought it necessary, in the exercise of
thew duty, to issue a warrant against a gentleman
and his lady, of the name of Deacle, on a charge of
exciting the labourers to riots and disturbancs, for
which offence they were tried, awl honourably ac-
quitted. It further appears that Mr. Deacle is a gentle-
man that had taken his degrees at an English Uni-
versity with honour, and that hia wife is a delicate
woman, and was at the time of the arrest, in an ill
stata of health. having stated these facts, we shall
proceed to give the particulars out of which arose
the cause of action. It seems that Mr. Bingham
Baring, and some other Magistrates, -accompanieci
or followed the constable to the house of Mr. Deacle;
that, on presenting.the warrant, Mr. Deacle deoi!d,
that he had been guilty of the charge; that, on they
le_to!
contrary, his conduct had•beea h
Dr/cuffed air:
handcuff them—that be accordingly
together—that Mrs. Deacle wax
Deacle and his- lady
d r
aftervvar s elegised from the- handcuff—that the pri-
Mr. Baring peremptorily ordef.etde
the constable

Boners behaved ilea remarkably civil and quiet man-
ner—that Mrs. Deacle was not allowed, though ill,
to wait for her bonnet and shawl. That Mr. Bing-
ham Baring took her in his arms and put her into at
coal-cart, letting her legs dangle one way and her
head the other. That in this coal-cart they were
conveyed several miles towards the gaol. That, in
consequence of the Magistrates ordering the horse to be
kept trotting, Mrs. Deacle said she could not bear the
jolting, and wished to be allowed to ride on horseback.
That Mr. Deacle put out his hand, and said to her,
"My dear, sit still—it is better to be quiet;" where-
upon Mr. Bingham Baring struck Mr. Deacle with his
stick. Such is a faint outline, and only a faint outline,
of the evidence given on the trial. Now we ask, as
every body does ask, is this man to remain upon die
list of Magistrates ? Will the present Lord Chan-
cellor suffer such a person to administer the laws of
the country a week after the facts of the case have
transpired ? We say no ; we are perfectly satisfied
he will not. But it appears to us, that the Magis-
tracy of the country generally stand greatly in need
of a thorough _purgation. The majority of them,
we have no doubt, are highly honourable and useful
men, but it is as clear, that there are many ignorant
persons among them, totally incapable of performing
the important duties with which they are entrusted.
Why, it was but the other day that a Police Ma-
gistrate committed to gaol, contrary to all law, a
poor foreigner, who had been guilty of the offence
of being robbed; and in this day's Times news-
paper another police Magistrate, Mr. Walker, has
absolutely advertised that after the Ist of August
his office will be shut against all applicants for an
order of relief under the poor laws—thus setting
the very laws which he is sworn to administer, at
defiance. Can these things be suffered under the
government of a Reforming Administration 2—We
should think not.—Morning Herald.
The revolutionary workings of the system upon
which our Reforming Ministry has entered have
long been clearly observable and painfully contem-
plit'ed by the friends of the Constitution ; and that
the humiliation and ultimate destruction of Royalty
was part and parcel of that system could not be
doubted by the discerning or sober portion of the
community. But we are free to confess, that with
all our apprehensions upon this unpleasant subject,
we did not contemplate so speedy an approach of
the degradation of the supreme head of Royalty and
the State as we find officially announced in the
publication of another Supplement to the London
Gazette yesterday evening. Our readers, on re-
ferring to the Morning Post of Thursday, will
find that his Majesty's Proclamation regarding his
Coronation commanded all the usual, necessary, and
to the public highly gratifying ceremonies, to be ob-
served on the occasion. But, by the Supplement to
the London Gazette of last night, it will be seen that
his Majesty's evil advisers are again catering to the
Radical faction, and have resolved upon a direct
degradation of that Throne which it was their
bounden duty to uphold, by stripping the approach-
ing Coronation of the Sovereign of all those state
appanages which have hitherto distinguished that
magnificent ceremony. Till now the ceremony of
the Coronation has been one worthy of the country's
greatness, and befitting the dignity of the British
Monarchy ; but now, forsooth, Republican simpli-
city is to be the order of the day, and the consum-
mation of the compact between the King and the
people of the proudest and most powerful country
in the world is to dwindle down into a mere forma-
lity in Westminster Abbey.—Morning Post.
The discussion in the House of Commons, last
night, partook, in every respect, of the character of
the debates during the previous part of the week.
The same factious opposition was displayed by the
Anti-Reformers—the same silly inanity and tedious
harangues were lavishly bestowed upon the House.
However, after a greater exhibition of the power of
talking against time than was consistent with the
quantity of sense betrayed in the course of it, the
Committee of the House did at last get into Sche-
dule A of the Bill, though not without a division.
The numbers were—
For the disfranchisement
Against it 2:15
Majority

The Anti-Reformers, however, do not appear to
be satisfied with this vote, large as the majority is;
for Sir R. Peel, the leader of the rotten squadron of
the rotten and nomination boroughs, has already
intimated his intention of re-trying the principle of
the disfranchisement of boroughs, as soon as the
House comes, in the course of the Bill, to the case
of a borough under two thousand inhabitants, re-
specting the population of which, or the pa-
rishes adjoining it, there is no dispute. The re-
sult cannot be doubtful; but we do certainly
consider his Majesty's Ministers somewhat to
blame in giving such a license to the Opposition.
The principle of the Bill—or rather all the principles
—have been already decided thrice ; first, by the
recoud reading of the Bill—secondly, by the Bill
being allowed to go into Committee—and, thirdly,
by the carrying, on 'rhuriday night, of the original
question in opposition to the amendment of Sir R.
Peel. Such, at least, has been the practice of Par-
liament ; and why the understanding should be de-
parted from in this instance, except to afford an
additional opportunity to the Anti-Reformers to ex-
pose themselves, we do not know. However, we
would advise his Majesty's Ministers to have done
with this extra civility, and push forward the Bill,
and to bold no terms with those who have not kept
faith with them. Let them be as firm as a rock, and
as guileless as doves ; but let them be wise as ser-
pents ; for the enemy is full of stratagem, and diffi-
culties, if not dangers, surround them on every side.
—Morning Advertiser.

On Thursday a new writ was ordered for
Downton, in the room of JAMES BROUGHAM, Esq., who
has vacated his seat by accepting that very venerable office,
the Stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds.
The eldest son of the Earl of VERULAM, Lord
GRIXSTON, has been returned, under the patronage of the
Luke of NostruumBERLAND, fur the borough of Newport,
in Cornwall.
The Bishop of EXETER has presented the
living of Rockbeare, Devon, to the Rev. HENRY NICHOLLS.
Lord NELSON, who had no great love for
lawyers, was once heard to remark that whed he was at
sea he felt himself to be his own master, but that when on
shore he could not so much as build a pittstye without the
leave of his attorney.
The following are the Commissioners to the
Loan for Employment in Ireland :—Mr. Buacoywa,
Chairman; Messrs. B. T. OTLEY, RATCLIFFE, and
FITZGERALD. They sit permanently in Dublin.
The Honourable HENRY FITZROY has, in a
letter, dated the 9th inst., announced his intrntion of be-
coming a candidate for the repre.entation of the city of
Worcester, in the event of a dissolution of Parliament.—
irorcester Journal.
An action for defamation, arising out of the loss
of a valuable cluster of diamonds, at a fashionable party given
some time ago by a distinguished leader of haut ton, will
shortly occupy the attention of one of the Courts at Law.
The party seeking redress is a Noble Lord, and the defen-
dant is a Lady of rank, who appears likely to sutler in
addition to the loss of her diamonds. _ _

The suit lately instituted in the Ecclesiastical
Court by Lady CAROLINE N ELD
decision in her favour. N E has terminated by a
Notwithstanding the various ru-
mours that her ease was destituteovi of foundation, it appears
that no reply whatever was even attempted on the part of
the Counsel retained by Mr.
NELD:d Morning Paper.
A correspondent says, the idea of the funerals
beingeace will of
by water is
at the New General Cemetery
truly classical. The nautical h
rowed by Charon, and the Paddington C'anaolfbcecooumrsee thel'e
British Styx.
A steam-boat is now regularly plying between
Toulon and Rome, which performs the voyage in about
thirty-six hours. The French Papers say the scheme bid,
fair to put the Alps quite out of fashion.
Died, yesterday, the 15th instant, at his house
in Wirnpole-street, in his 80th year, General LOFTUS,
Colonel of the 2d Dragoon Guards, and Lieutenant-Go-
vernor of the Tower of London.
The first result of the late contest for the
office of Sexton at Tewkesbury was a determination on
both sides to bury all their feuds in oblivion : the losing
cand;clats even offered to bury his opponent for nothing.