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MINORITY-NOES, 95.

Ansley, Thomas Greene, Joh* Osborne, Ralph
Armstrong, Sir A. Henry, Alexander Palmer, Roundell
Armstrong, R. B. Herbert, 11. A. Pechell, Sir G.
Barron, Sir H.. Herbert, Sydney Peel, Frederick
Blake, M. J. Heyworth, Lawrence Portal, Melville
Blewitt, R. J. Higgins, George Power, Dr.
Bright, John Hobhouse, T. B. Power, Nicholas
Burke, Sir T. J. Hope, Alexander Roche, E. B.
Butler. P. S. Howard, P. H. Sadleir, John
Cardwell, Edward Hume, Joseph Scholefield, William
Castlereagh, Vis. Hutchins, E. J. Scully, Francis
Charteris. Francis Keating, Robert Seymour, IL D.
Clements, C. S. Keogh, William Simeon, John
Colebrooke, Sir T. Kildare, Marquis Smith, J. B.
Corbally, M. E. Lawless, Cecil Smythe, G.
Crawford, W. S. M'Cullagh, W. Somers, J. P.
Currie, Henry Magan, W. H. Strickland, Sir G.
Currie, Raikes Maher, N. Sullivan, Michael
Dawson, T. V. Meagher, Thomas Talbot, J. H.
Devereux, John T. Mahon, O'Gorman Tancred, H. W.
Ellis, John Monsell, William Tenison, E. K.
Fagan, William Moore, G. H. Tollemache, F. 3.
Fagan, James Mowatt, Francis Towneley, John
Fertescue. Chichester Mure, Colonel 'Urquhart, David
Fox, Richard M. Norreys, Lord Vane, Lord H.
Fox, W. J. Nugent, Sir Percy Wall, C. B.
French, F. O'Brien, J. Walmsley, Sir J.
Gibson, T. M. O'Brien, Sir T. Wegg-Prosser, F.
Gladstone, W. E. O'Connell, John Young, Sir John
Goold, Wnydham O'Connell, Maurice
Grace, 0. D. O'Connell, M. J. TEuxas.
Graham, Sir James O'Connor, Feargus Arundel, Earl of
Grattan, Henry O'Flaherty, Anthony Reynolds, John

TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD
REFORM ASSOCIATION.
(EVEZY MONDAY AND WEDNZSDAY.)
Sir,—Afar two nights more debate, the Bill is ;rend
a second time by a majority of 438 to 95. The majority
is the best thing about the whole. It shows the exist-
ence of a deep and extensive feeling; though it cannot
be said to have we shrinking up its cause, There, was
throughout a great from going to the root of
the matter. Things were contested under wrong names,
and without the true names being given in reply. An
uninstructed hearer might have imagined, that the con-
test was purely about the use of the word " bishop,"—
that the Ministers had originated a movement in oppo-
sition to the great operation of 1829 without anything
having occurred in the interval to make a difference,—
that the Pope was a Methodist preacher sitting in Con-
ference alternately at Leeds and at Bristol,—that Miss
Talbot is and is not a postulant,—that our safety is in
the altered tone of the Catholic mind, and that the
Catholic mind has never altered and never can.
Possibly the Catholic representatives made a point of
honour of putting on the worst face instead of the best;
but on hearing their point-blank avowals of sympathy
with everything despotic in Europe, their unalloyed de-
clarations of belief that Order is the submission of poli-
tical arrangements everywhere to the fiat of the Vatican,
it is frightful to think what an element we have ad-
mitted into the regulation of public affairs, made more
fearful by the evidence that what calls itself the Liberal
party in Parliament is, with only individual exceptions,
willing to play into the hands of the new power,
for the chance of arriving at a political position as
the result. A French statesman, after the resto-
ration of the Bourbons, said the word Legitimacy
would lead to as many dangers as ever the word Liberty
had done. Order is the watchword now, and in England
at least we have warning of what the watchword means
or would mean. If opportunity arose, it would mean
the repeal of the Reform Bill, the substitution of the
pseudo-Westminster, and the investiture of the Qaeen
by the authority of the Pope, unless some Charles
Sobieski were believed the more useful card to play. It
may be that the danger is less from the disease being
apparent than concealed. It is clear that with such
a sore in the constitution, England must use more
liberal diet, and take more exercise at home and abroad.
We are on the ground trodden by our forefathers, ex-
cept that the time-serving Penn appears to be in the
ascendant rather than the sturdy Bunyan.
The subject is not to be taken up again till after
Easter. So that there is time for the public to turn it
over in their minds. There would be no great risk in
saying, that they are on the whole quite as competent to
judge of it as their representatives.
I am, Sir, yours very sincerely,
AN OLD REFORMER.
London, 26th March, 1851.

According to the Limerick Chronicle, Sir WUli(tm
Somerville, M.P., iv to be created a peer forthwith.