The Sun.
London, England, 1831-10-10 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

" What have the Lords done?" is now the ques-
tion. The answer is, they have done what they
can never undo. They can never replace the House
of Peers on its old foundations in the respect and
confidence of the people. A gulf has been opened
by the Peers between them and the British nation.
Their Lordships have proved, in the face of the
country, their resolution that it shall be governed by
means and for ends which all the people of England
but themselves have deemed to be inconsistent with
the public welfare. The people of England say that
they are trampled on by mock legislators whom they
have not appointed to make laws for them, and
plundered by harpies whom they have not autho-
rized to take their money ; and that such things are
net right, and ought to exist no longer. The Lords
imply, by their vote on the Reform question, that
it is lawful for the people of England to be so tram-
pled on and plundered, and that to give the people
the free choice of their own law-makers, and an effi-
cient controul over their own property, would he to
leave too much power in their hands, and to place
the aristocracy at their mercy, although nothing is
or has been claimed by the Commons; but that the
said aristocracy should henceforth be satisfied with
those privileges which the Constitution has dis-
tinctly asssigned to it, and should be restrained
from usurping the representation of the people,
and with it the aforesaid power of ruling and of
robbing them, besides exercising freely the legiti-
mate and undoubted rights of Peers. Now this is
a broad and peremptory line between the House of
Lords, consisting of about 400 persons, and the
Commons, or rather the nation, consisting of
22,000,000 of persons—that is, about 5,500,000 of
adult male Englishmen—the latter being cordially
supported and encouraged by the King; and in an
evil hour for the Lords is it that they, or the majo-
rity of them, should have drawn so ostentatiously
that unnatural line of demarcation between them-
selves and the rest of the community, which inspires
the people with hatred of the character of their body.
The mixture of incredulity, dismay, and other feel-
ings which pervaded the metropolis during Satur-
day and yesterday, we should vainly attempt to de-
scribe. Heaven avert such calamities as were antici-
pated, even by the calmest minds ! But who can
wonder that they haunt the bosom of every indivi-
dual alive to the manifest wants of his country, and
not unacquainted with the resolute spirit of Eng-
lishmen, once roused and put vigorously into action
We will not re-argue the question of Reform, or
the principles and bearings of the Bill now lost.
There was, upon the whole, a higher order of ability
exhibited in the Lords than by the other House of
Parliament; and in the former were poured forth from
the Lord Chancellor some strains of eloquence, in
defence of the Bill, overpowering, matchless, and
immortal. But let it be well impressed upon the
country, that the greater number of the objections
proffered by Anti-Reforming Peers to the Bill
brought in by his Majesty's Ministers, and passed by
a large majority of the House of Commons, were
either founded by Peers professing an acquiescence
in, or indeed an anxious wish for some Reform on
general principles which would render all real Re-
form impracticable, or were directed against the de-
tails of the Bill, by Peers who professed a concur-
rence in the principle of that very Bill, yet would
not let it enter a Committee, wherein those details
might properly and regularly have been amended
Such was the fair, arid upright, and manly treat

ment which the charter of the—s
year 1831 received

at the hands of the Tory Oligarchy on the morn-
ing of Saturday last. As for the late measure, pro-
posing to found the elective franchise on numbers
as contradistinguished from property, Lord Brougham
demonstrated to the meanest understanding, that
one of its great consequences would be to sub-
stitute property for numbers—for numbers such as
those exemplified under the present system, where

freemen in towns, and pot-wallopers in boroughs,
vote by thousands without being able to show
that they are raised one degree above pauperism.
But it is useless to go further into comment on the
Bill. The nation willed it. The Lords forbade it.

Will the nation give way, or will the Lords ? At
all events, one misfortune is inevi►able. The
people, about to meet in every county, city, and
town throughout the empire, and in a temper of
mind for which they are not now the parties nsost
responsible, will ask of each other questions which
never before were agitated by assemblies of English-
men. They will ask, " who and what are the
Lords, that they should oppose both King and
country ? Does the Constitution warrant them in

,he resistance to the univer,al desire ? If so, does

the Constitution supply us with a remedy for the
abuse of such power of resistance ?" These ques-
tions are likely to be asked,—these points are likely

to be mooted. What may be the result of them is
another matter, and a matter of no small anxiety.
But %%Ito is to blame? Not the Ministers—not
the House of Commons,—not the nation,—not the
Sovereign. They are to blame who exert against all
four a power not bestowed upon them for any such
pernicious purpose. With regard to my Lords
the Bishops, what a chapter have they opened
against themselves ? Look at the division :
had the 21 Bishops who voted against the
Reform of Parliament—had they voted as they
ought to have done, and as on lay questions their
predecessors have usually voted, for the measure of
the King's Government, the Reform of Parliament
would have been carried, instead of being lost, by a
majority of one vote! Will, therefore, no questions
occur to the people of England, touching my Lords
the Bishops?—will nobody ad:, what business have
they in Parliament at all ? Will any man from this

time forward have the hardihood to reply, " the
Bishops are useful votes in Parliament, as being re-
gular Supporters of the Crown'?" Supporters of the
crown, after such an exhibition of pervet sexless ! No.
Then who can devise a fair answer to the question
—" What right have these Tories, ex officio, to
make or mar laws for the people of England ?"
Let them confine themselves to superintending the
souls of the faithful, and let them begin with their
own. But the remedy for an anti-national com-
bination of lay Peers, is a creation of others. In
this case it is indispensible. In this case, if Lord
Grey has not courage for a measure commandingly
enjoined to him by the people of England, he is
unequal to the crisis, and is undone for ever as a
public man. The majority is forty-one. Create
sixty Peers ; who will gainsay it ? Not the na-
tion,—they cry out for it ; not the King,---his
manly mind assures us of an eager concurrence.
Create Peers then,-7-reinforce the ancient -Lords of
England, who are to be found where they ought
to be, on the side of their King and felluv.i-objects.
Thereby weaken the upstart, modern, Pitt peerage,
who are to be found, where their author intended
they should he, nearly without exception, on the
side most adverse to the people. Thus a liberal
Ministry will be strengthened—thus a Tory admi-
nistration, which already gasps for a return to
power, will be paralysed. y It is a wholesome and
patriotic object. Ere many hours pos,ibly lave
elapsed, the public will be roused to a full apprecia•
tion of last Sattirduy's woik, by intelligence from
the neighbouring counties. Meantime we may
state, in the
not strongest terms, that the Ministers
will
ineend
desert their post in this awful crisis. Be-
fore
of the week Parliament will be pro-
rogued, and the whole attention of the Government
will be directed to the means best suited for carry-
iri the Bill, The public be assured that the ,
may

Bill is merely postponed. It is understood that
Lord Wharncliffe will this evening bring forward a
series of propositions on the subject of Reform,
which it is supposed will be but feebly supported
even by his own party.—Times.
Our Paper of to-day is dedicated to the descrip-
tion of that just indignation which is felt by the
British people on the rejection of their Reform Bill I
Every where they are in movement : we can hardly
sum up the various constituent bodies that are ap-
pointing meetings, and the rapidity of the proceed-
ing is no less remarkable. The remedy will be
applied almost as soon as the blow is struck. Re-
action, indeed ! yes, there is a re-action ! That is,
the same action of insisting upon Reform is repeated,
but with ten times greater zeal and determination.
In looking over the elements of which the fatal ma-
jority is composed, attention fixes first, and princi-
pally, on the Bishops. These reverend Lords have
more to do with the people than other Peers; their
functions, and those of their less elevated brethren,
are discharged with and among the people; and yet
through them it is, that a Bill for the establishment
of the people's rights has been lost; for had they
voted on the other side, twenty in number, the di-
vision would have been about equal. There are
other opponents to the measure whom we should not
have expected to find on that side of the question.
But let not the country, from these defalcations, en-
tertain any doubt of the unbending firmness of the
King and his Ministers. Between Lord Grey and
the Chancellor there is the most perfect union of
sentiment, the closest cohesion ; and if the people
mean to have an useful and substantial Reform, to
them they must stick. If his Majesty, which none
can doubt, be bent upon imparting to a grateful
people the blessings of a free representation, it can
only be through the instrumentality of those who,
as a Ministry, have been the first to bring in and
stake their political existence on a great measure of
Reform. This part of the question deserves parti-
cular attention at the present time, for the Opposi-
tion are now creeping out with an insinuation that
they will bring forward some Bill of Reform. They
bring forward a Bill of Reform ! How long have they
governed this country ? With but a brief intermis-
sion, fora much longer period than the memory of any
living man can trace back: and yet did they ever think
of reforming or purifying the Lower House of Par-
liament ? Have they not heaped all insults and all
persecutions upon Reformers ? With them " the
system worked well." It is clear, therefore, that if
they bring in a Bill of Reform, it is only for the
purpose of baffling the question, and giving the
people a mock Reform instead of a real one. The
accounts from the country, wherever the rejection
of the Bill was known, have been frightful. Even
the operations of trade are suspended, from an ap-
prehension that men's minds are about to be agi-
tated by passions which will leave no time for bar-
ter or commercial speculation. The Reform Mem-
bers of the House of Commons met at Willis's
Rooms on Saturday, as we stated would be the case
in our journal of that day. They were about 200
in number, though the call was so sudden; and it
is said to have been unanimously agreed among
them, to propose resolutions in the House to this
effect :—" That it is expedient to declare their tile
altered and undiminished adherence to the great'
measure of Reform. That it is their determined
purpose to stand by and to stipport the King's Mi-
nisters in the present crisis of affairs."—Times.
The House of Lords may say of their victory, in
the language of Pyrrhus, " another such victory
would ruin us." They have stopped the Reform
Bill, but they have not arrested the progress of Re-
form. On the contrary, the debate which ended in
the throwing out the Bill has given additional
strength to the principle of Reform. For the first
time since this great question became a subject of
Parliamentary discussion have the House of Lords,
we may say, almost unanimously, admitted the ne-
cessity of some Reform. With but two exceptions,
every Noble Lord who opposed the specific mea-
sure brought in by his Majesty's Ministers declared
himself a Reformer. Thus the majority of the
aristocratic portion of the Legislature, who hereto-
fore regarded Reform, in its mildest shape, as a rank
heresy, have declared themselves converts to that
" doctrine of reprobation." They now concur with
the people in the principle, and differ from them only
in the degree. If we look back to the state of the
question only a twelvemonth ago, this discussion
will prove what an extraordinary progress it has
made since that time ; while the review of the diffi-
culties and prejudices which it has surmounted is the
best surety of its final success. Has the cause of Re-
form advanced so far by violent means, and by an
illegal assertion of constitutional rights ? No. Can
violent means and illegal proceedings accelerate its
progress ? We answer " assuredly riot." On
the contrary, nothing can so certainly retard the
cause of Reform, and so effectually promote the ob-
ject of its opponents, as degrading this righteous
cause by an association with intemperance. Those
who address themselves, on this subject, to the
passions of the multitude, and not to the reason of
the people—those who advise that the laws should
be broken rather than the legal triumph of the
question should be waited for, are not the friends of
Reform. Such partisans should be avoided, as
those who only join the banners to betray the camp.
Did the attempts which certain Journalists, writers
of pamphlets, and violent declaimers at public meet-
ings, made so perseveringly for a long time to over-
awe and intimidate the House of Lords, do any
service to the Bill ? So far from that, we believe'
the language of contempt and terror, which was so
foolishly or so treacherously employed in professed
advocacy of the Bill, did it great mischief. What-
ever interest some of their Lordships had in op?
posing the measure, and whatever prejudices in-
fluenced others, the mode of attack adopted by the
intemperate advocates or disguised enemies of Re-
form, called another hostile power into the field,
much more difficult to be grappled with or over-
come than either interest or prejudice--that was
the feeling of wounded and provoked pride.—
Their Lordships seemed to think they were placed
in that predicament, that even to allow the Bill
to go into Committee would be to admit that
those who speculated upon their fears had correctly
anticipated the effects of intireidation. To re-
move all ground for the imputation of cowardice,
they thought it necessary not only to throw out
the Bill without going into Committee, but to do
so in the most marked manner. They courted hos-
tility that they might escape contempt? and took tip
the gauntlet which thy: prophets of revolution had
thrown down. There was little of the wisdom of
Legislators in thiS conduct, but there was a great
deal of human nature ; but it is lamentable that in
vindicating their claims as men of spirit-----of whi;ll
no reasonable pan entettained a dimbte—they should,
as iaw-givers, ought to be always above the tur-
bid influence of passion as well as of fear, take so
decided a course to lower themselves in the enligh-
tened estimation of the sound and impartial int.:-.l!ect
of the country. Rut leaving the wi§.ionct Of Ole de-
eisien oaf; of the question, it cannot be denied: that
the debate did great credit to the talents of the as-
sembly. Taken altogether, the debate on both sides
displayed far more ability and eloquence than any
which had taken place upon the Bill in the House of
Coreseons. If that irritation and screitet,s of feeling
to which we have aliudeci had been absent, the dis-
cussion would
cussion would have had more of a senatorial charac-
ter,
perhaps, have terminated in a different re-
But we wish to impress it on the minds of the

people that, whatever the House of Lords have done
in opposing the Reform Bill, they have done nothing
but what by law they had a right to do. That they
did not exercise that right in the most enlightened
way is, we think, sufficiently clear. This considera-
tion, however, does not justify violence, or the adop-
tion of any proceedings which are against the law.
The emissaries of the Anti-Reformers are abroad,
instigating to acts of a dangerous and unlawful na-
ture, with the hope of crushing Reform. Let the
people beware of being tempted into a wrong posi-
tion by violating the law—with which they must
triumph—against which they are sure to fail.—
illorning Herald.
The rejection of the Reform Bill by the House of Lords
has roused the people to exertions which will strike their
enemies with dismay. The whole country is in motion.
Not a moment has been lost. The poor idiots, to think
that the giant energies of this mighty nation were to be
paralyzed by their decision ! Preparations have every-
where been made for meetings. The parish of St. Mary-
lebone meets this day, Pancras meets on Tuesday, St.
Giles-in-the-Fields, and St. George's, Bloomsbury, on
Tuesday, Clerkenwell to-day, the Spitalfields District
meets to-day, the Newington to-day, St. George's in Ha-
nover-square, and St. Luke's are to meet, and progress is
making in arranging a meeting of the parish of Islington.
Besides these, the Unions of St. George, Bloomsbury, and
Clerkenwell, meet this day. At these meetings, resolu-
tions of a most decided character are to be proposed, and
Addresses to the King voted. We understand that in St.
Marylebone, Pancras, and Clerkenwell in particular, it is
determined to pass a resolution expressing a determination,
should measures not be taken to ensure the passing of the
Bill, to refuse the payment of all taxes. But one most
important step has been determined on. The inhabitants
of all the populous parish districts above alluded to have
determined on a great demonstration of political feeling on
Wednesday next. That (lay is to be observed as a politi-
cal fast day, a day sacred to the performance of their poli-
tical duties. The shops are to be closed, and it is agreed
that all the inhabitants shall assemble in procession
to present their addresses to the King. The Tory
Lords will thus have an opportunity of witnessing
in this spectacle of the movement of a whole po-
pulation, whether or not the people have become
lukewarm towards the Bill. To-day the inhabitants of
Westminster meet at the Crown and Anchor at two
o'clock. The Common Hall of the city meets at one
one o'clock. A requisition fora public meeting in 'White.
chapel received the signatures of 98 respectable house-
holders in little more than an hour. St. Ann's, West-
minster, meets this day at eleven o'clock. In another
part of this paper will be found accounts of the manner in
which the intelligence of the Bill was received at Birming-
ham, Portsmouth, &c. The Committee of the Political
Union at Birmingham met instantly, and issued an ex
cellent proclamation. At St. Alban's we hear that a
black flag instantly waved from the steeple of the Abbey.
We learn from Canterbury that a meeting takes place this
(lay in that city, and that the greatest excitement prevails.
The following strong placard was posted up there :
" REFORM! OR REVOLUTION!!
Fellow Citizens!—At last the crisis is come! The insolent
Boroughmongering Tyrants in the House of Lords have pre-
sumed to reject the Bill proposed by a patriotic Ministry, sane-
! tioned by your Gracious Sovereign, and received by yourselves
with gratitude and exultation. Will you submit that two
hundred individuals shall make slaves of millions ? Can Eng-
lishmen be so degraded as tamely to submit to this arrogant
usurpation of their rights! Assemble, then, immediately! Ad-
dress his Majecty—state your entire confidence in his present Re-
forming Ministry—pray him to exercise his Royal Prerogative
in creating Peers to any amount sufficient to carry the Bill—and
assure him of your determination to stand by his popular Throne
to the last extremity ! •
° At these meetings, to express your opinion more decidedly
on the politics of this momentous crisis, you can resolve to pay
no more taxes! in the event of an Anti-Reforming Ministry
being appointed; you can resolve, in consideration of the part
taken by the Bishops and Clergy against the people, that you
will will pay no more tithes ! And remember, fellow-citizens,
that a public meeting, in other times—and that meeting was the
English House of Commons—resolved that ' the House of Lords
was a nuisance!' How far your opinion coincides in this respect
remains to be seen. A REFORMER."
Thus do the people of England answer the 199 Lords.
Their exertions will Ilse with the occasion. They will
soon satisfy these men that Englishmen are not to be
trampled on—that they know their rights, and knowing,
dare maintain them. They will too, we know, conduct
themselves in an orderly and peaceable manner, as becomes
men confident in their strength and the goodness of their
cause, who are well aware that an united nation is in-
vincible.—Morning Chronicle.
The meeting of the Members of the House of Commons
on Saturday was attended by above 200. The resolutions
agreed to were moderate in their tone, but decided in their
object. Lord Ebrington is to move an Address this day
in conformity with them. The great point has not been
neglected, of recommending the necessary means for en-
suring the success of the Bill. We are now arrived at a
crisis which demands promptitude and decision on the part
of Ministers, and firm, but prudent conduct on the part
of the people. \ire are sorry to perceive, from the follow-
ing paragraph in the Caledonian Mercury of Thursday
last, that apprehensions seem to be entertained of the in-
terruption of order in the West of Scotland :
" ARMY IN SCOTL A Na—The first division of the 47th regi-
ment, consisting of the flank companies, under the command of
Major Sadler, marched on Tuesday for Glasgow; the second divi-
sion, Under the command of Major I)undas, marched yesterday.
The 90th, now on their passage from England, relieves the 47th in
our garrison. The depot of the 93,1 regiment marches from
Glasgow to l'aisley, there to be stationed with the depot of the
25th Foot. The depot of the Ist Royals marches from Glasgow
to Perth, where it will be stationed along with the depot of tho
71st Light Infantry. From the above it will be seen that nume-
rous bodies of troops have been ordered to the counties in the
west of Scotland. The Royal Artillery marched early this morn_
circumstance that rarely occurs, except in
ing for Glasgow, and they were obliged to press horses to draw
their ordnance—a
countries which are the scene of war."

We cannot too often recommend to the people, to con-
fine themselves within the limits of law and order. So
long as the present ]Ministry remain in
that all will go well, Earl Grey has
office, there is
he will stand or fall with the Bill, that
hdg
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willnn c( it
lysf,tui:pa•
pi
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measure less efficient, and that the
moment he sees no reasonable prospect of carrying it, he
will quit office. The recommendation of the Duke of
Wellington to Noble Lords in rejecting the Bill, not to
pledge themselves to any other scheme of Reform which
t.l.lietp"A much auke is driving at,
attention.
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purpose. He was
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pronounced sentence of
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settled
though he soon changed his mind. He bad a greet borr?r
of civil war when he proposed to co;lcee the Catholic
claims, and in the rep* d:scucsion he seemed eager to
cut dawn the people of England. His change in the case
of the Catholics, leads many persons to suppose that be
would be equally ready to change in the case of Reform :
and so, no doubt, lie would were be to see any prosty;':t ;f
obtaining
the confidence of the country. ilia we can
hardly bring ourselves to be:deve tiot he really supposes it
nossiblo for him to regain the confidence of the country ;
'awl, therefore, perhaps, the famous distinction between
his opinion as a Minister and as an individual i;dicative
of a disposition to recant his Reforr-t,., op:nions, and his in-
timation on the subject of pledges, may be taken as a• sort
of feint, having for object to alarni Alinisters into a depar-
ture f:orn t4eir R. rather than a purpose to take the
places of the present -Ministers. Indifferent as his Grace
may be with regard to principles, he cannot shut his eyes
to the difficulties which the
present temper of the country
opposes to his acceptance of office. In fazt, 1.1;.5 retail to
power` would be the sign?(ri....,f we,'alution'; and he must
know iLat, 44.5 darn not take office. lie, nor no man
of his party, is e9ual to the emergency. Ministers have
no choice: They must not tamper with the impatience
of the people. The House of Lords must hie supplied
with Peers in numbers ecual ;0 i,le 1,0:46 ',:;f the mi"tr'
Morning V/tr9niqc, ' Y
The Revolutionary Journals wear the emblems of
mournientng, a assume the language of keen re-
indi
gnation, upon the rejection
of the Reform
Bill by tio„!. House of Lords.
,
To tho'e Wll9, are aware that this rejection
has been certain from the beginning, that
for thelast fortnight at least it has been known
to be certain by every man of ordinary information
upon the passing topics of the day, and that none of
the Revolutionary Journals could by possibility have
r
o.
been ignorant the
and
tu .Axed unalterable determi-
"tion of the House 4 peers, all this show of sorrow
and resentment must appear ludicrouq,if it were not
too obvious that it is intended for purposes of mis-
chief. We have no doubt that the Revolutionary .
Journals are now, just as sincere in their manifests- 1
tions of surprise, regret, aria anger on the rejection '

of the Bill, as they were the other day in the expres-
sion of their confidence that the Lords would not dare
to reject it. The one hypocrisy is a necessary conse-
quence of the other; and both have arisen, as well
as the whole conduct, past and present, of the Mi-
nisterial incendiary Press, not from a desire to serve
the people, who have in troth been scandalously de-
luded and betrayed, not from any regard to popular
rights, or any impatience of corruption and abuse,
but with the single object of screening the egregious
blunders and manifest incapacity, the flagrant disho-
nesty of their patrons, the Ministers, from public
animadversion. Ministerial incompetency, the proof
of which consists in a multitude of particulars, was
safe enough so long as the public mind could be en-
grossed by one exclusive idea. The unprincipled
and ignorant budget of Lord Althorp, the selfish,
oeomfamanilyy
o f grasping,G r emercenary,were m ore ot
hdai on u ss
ocffiu peiide
ty o
tof tdh
Ministry to destruction ; and the present Mi-
nistry could not have sustained itself under the
load of public reproach, which these follies and
abuses could not have failed to bring down upon
its head, had not the whole lower orders of the
people been excited into a senseless enthusiasm in
its support, by means of a delusive and impracti-
cable project of detnocratic revolution. The source
and origin of the Reform Bill are not to be sought
in any desire of the Administration to Reform
and purify our national institutions, for had these
been the objects a practicable measure would
have been proposed, but in the previous dis-
grace which had overtaken that Administration
in the attempted confiscation of funded property,
in the hungry eagerness of Lord Grey's family to
prey upon the public purse, and, for the purpose
of concealing them during a period of public deli-
rium, the more extravagant and impracticable the
project of Reform the better. The Ministerial Press
abetted this wretched artifice, for it could not but
know that it was merely an artifice, in the expec-
tation probably, for it seems difficult to imagine any
other motive, of being permitted to share the
unmerited and iniquitous gains it was intended to
multiply and prolong. Nor can it be questioned that
the lamentation, and surprise, and resentment ex-
pressed so loudly by the hireling writers of the Ad-
ministration upon an event which all persons, least
of all excluding their patrons or themselves, must
long have foreseen, is but another artifice, or rather
a continuation of the same, and that the object now,
as before, is to smother the proof of Ministerial in-
capacity or crime. The division of Saturday morn-
ing is a noble proof of the firmness, the patriotism,
the high-minded integrity, the calm and lofty cou-
rage of the House of Lords. It is a proof that the
Brtish Peerage is what every man not belonging to
the lowest, the most ignorant, and brutal class of de-
mocrats always believed it would turn out to be,
whenever the day of trial arrived—an essential bul-
wark of the British Constitution, an indispen-
sable barrier to the rights, the welfare, and
the happiness of the people. This is a tri-
bute of gratitude to the House of Lords which,
in speaking upon the subject, we have felt it
impossible to omit. But does this glorious divi-
sion prove nothing more than this ? Yes; beyond
all question it proves Earl Grey and his colleagues,
who, with the single exception of the Lord Chancel-
lor, are admitted on all hands to be good for nothing,
except in the character of Reformers, to be utterly
imbecile or utterly insincere even in that. Had they
been capable and honest Reformers, is it possible
that they could have brought the question of Reform
into the position in which it now stands? Can there
be a stronger proof of the want either of skill or of
sincerity than the attempt to accomplish any purpose
whatever which is inconsistent with the very nature
and constitution of the instruments and means by
which alone it can he completed ? An able and honest
Chancellor of the Exchequer proposes schemes of fi-
nance with a view to their beingadoptedby Parliament,
and with a careful view to the character and con-
stitution of Parliament, and his measures are passed
accordingly. An able and honest War Minister in his
department does precisely the same thing with pre-
cisely the same result. Why, in the name of com-
mon sense, are Reforming Ministers to be alone
exempt from this test of ability and integrity ?
The fact at least is indisputable, that cur Reform
Ministers have done nothing fo; Reform, while
under the banner of pas:.-,ion they have done much
for themselves. In a position in which no man of
ordinary capacity could have failed to know the
House of Lards, they have proposed a meAs4re of
Reform which that illustrious assembly has felt it-
self compelled to reject by a large majority, Brought
by their incapacity and disregard to public faith into
a position in which it was necessary to their official
existence to agitate and convulse the country, in
order to collect around them a body of blind and
reckless adherents in the House of Commons, they
devised a scheme of Reform admiablx adapted
to this end, and they have succeee,ed in surrounding
themselves with adherems of this description. In
serving themselves as a party they have done much.
In serving the cause of Reform they have accoms
plished nothing. We leave the inferertoe, a. we
think we safely may, to the good sense of the com-
munity. When we look at the past conduct of these
men it is dreadful to ;egeot on the important results
which depend on the next steps they may take.
The questions whether the two Houses of Parlia-
ment shall be in a state of active conflict-.,whetlaer
convulsion, devastation, and misery,. gtikl overspread
the country—whether the i;:0;1.0r- of civil war shall
be inflicted Rpqn t.iishappy and prosperous com-
ronnity7--7whether the House of Peers shall be
abolished, or, what is ten thousand times worse tbaa
abolished, degraded and enfeebled for ove.;, by an,
excessive exercise of the prerovive of creation—
all these questions are !icsw absolutely at their dis-
posal, from tj3y poWer in the House of Comma-As
they acquired at the late electior„ means
of their abortive and treacherous t:-.lteme of Reform.
How will they use this tzeioendous pOwer '.16
length to which iArcy ambition and, Cupi-
dity
Lave carried them alreAds, see and lament.
ho‘Yev,rs ca ;p;,% ho served by plunging the
country into 3 violent revolution. It remains to !,,e
seen Whether the resentment of party v,:i!„!, also in
their minds be paramount to exer.:i. Mier conside.
rat i on.—Mor n ing, Post._

r_tlii:ee thousand guineas have been OW, by
Mr. ATmoor), of Birmingham, to r .:tly.;Ano'SiNs‘EN,
as a retaining-fee, and two, enepsand guineas to Mr. JER''
VIS, the seco.;-'d cxY4nit). I4r. Arrwoon is the defendant
in a sui; institated agaiust him by one of the Mining COM.
panies. The sum sought to be recovered is upswAs
five hundred thousand pounds.

A Mrs. HIPKSs,
011 Tuesday, charged her
husband at et po'Aice.caTo with having assaulted her. The
Pur worhla4's eyes were blackened, her teeth knocked out,
and her face cut and swelled. To the husband';promise
of amendment the Magistrate turned a deaf ear, until the
wife, interposing, said, "
he wilt, Your Worship, I will forgive
him, for, as the Reform Bill will pass this week,
no doubt, amend."

QUEEN CHRISTINA OF SWEDEN.--It is ra-
ther extraordinary that no life in English of this splendid
patron of the arts, whose praises have been sung by Fat-
CAJA, and other distinguished poets, should have ever
sees the light. Mrs. JAmENoN's new work, " The Lives
of Celebrated Female Sovereigns," announced for imme-
diate publication, will, it is said, contain many new and
curious facts relative to this eccentric Queen, particularly,
as regards her visit to the Court of Louis XIV., her re-
sidence in the Papal dominions, and the death of her j
Chamberlain, 111014ALDISCIlle

" A thousand pounds.—Aye, there you touch me
nearly !"
For the Duke, who is singular in the admiration of his
felicitous distinction between the Minister and the man in
his memorable declaration against all Reform, we cannot
think of it without being reminded of the Bishop, who,
excusing his vicious habits by saying that they were in his
character of Baron, was met with—" That's all vastly
well, but when the Baron goes to hell, pray what will
become of the Bishop !"
Exeat Aula
Qui volet ease Pius virtus et summa potestas
Non coeunt.

REFORM BILL.