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LONDON,
WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 19, 1833.

We understand, from good authority, that
Ministers have no uneasiness as to the disposi-
tion of the KING on the subject which now
engrosses the public mind, and that his MA-
JESTY omits no opportunity of exerting his
influence for the prevention of a hostile collision
between the two Houses of Parliament. To a
creation of Peers, however, for the avowed
purpose of carrying any particular measure, the
KING is still supposed to entertain great objec-
tion ; and it is understood that two Members
of the Cabinet have equal repugnance to such a
mode of proceeding. It is urged, that as not
less than sixty new Peers would suffice to secure
a majority to Ministers, and that, as in the
event of a change of Ministry, the Tories would
create at least thirty new Peers, if the Whigs
should have previously created sixty, the aristo-
cracy would have a much more prominent
character in the Legislature than was ever
intended, until, with successive changes of ad-
ministration, they would outnumber the House
of Commons. If new Peers be not created,
however, and the Tories should persist in their
opposition to Lord GREY on all matters of
reform, there will be no alternative between
some forcible act of legislation by the KING and
the Commons, without the concurrence of the
Lords, or the resignation of Ministers, and an
almost immediate convulsion in the country.
The serious consideration of this view of the
subject is said to have shaken the resolution of
some of the opponents of Ministers, and there-
fore it is by no means improbable that the Lords
will content themselves with some unimportant
modifications of the Irish Church Reform Bill,
and allow it, so modified, to pass into a law.

We have received a file of the Oporto Papers
,0 the Bth inst. They contain no notice of the

illf.ess of SARTORIUS, and are entirely silent as
to the operations of the belligerents. There are
in them, however, a great many orders of the
day, and other official announcements indicative
of an intention to move early. In a number of
►he Chronica we find a long account of the pre-

tended flight of Don MIGUEL, founded upon
nothing more than his temporary absence from
his usual place of residence, for the purpose of
communicating with Don CARLOS. Captain
NAPIER had seen Don PEDRO very frequently,
and met with a most gracious reception. Sir
JOHN MILLEY DOYLE, of whom we have
heard but little here lately, appears to be in con-
stant attendance on Don PEDRO, with whom
he is evidently a great favourite. Several ves-
sels, laden with naval and military stores, which
had been sent out on speculation, had arrived off
Oporto.

Since writing the above, we learn that private
information has been received from Oporto,
that on the 12th inst. the troops had began to
embark to the number or 6,000 men under the
command of Don PEDRO, in steamers, and
other vessels of the squadron. The EMPEROR
proceeds with the expedition to Lisbon, and
their determination is to take that city by a coup
de main. General SOLIGNAC, during their ab -
senc e, remains at Oporto to defend the city in
case of an attack by the Miguelites. We are
assured that we may place confidence in the
above information.

We understand that there is some difference
of opinion among the leaders of the political
unions in the north as to the course to be adopted
in the event of a hostile collision between the
two Houses of Parliament on the Irish Church
Reform Bill—the most influential and respect-
able portion are determined to support Ministers
against the Tories whatever may have been their
disappointment hitherto, and there is every reason
to believe that, in order to maintain the appear-
ance of union, this policy will soon be acted upon
by all who have the slightest degree of influence
over these political associations.

There is an anecdote in old Hierocles, (well
known to every school-boy) of a " Scholastikos"
or " foolish fellow," who, when the vessel where-
in he happened to be embarked was labouring
in storm and tempest, with breakers right a-head,
and the rest of the crew were each laying hold of
masts, beams, casks, and other floating sub-
stances, caught fast by the anchor, in the saga-
cious hope that it might be the means of float-
ing him safe to shore. Lord ALTHORP, we
regret to say it, is just now pretty much in the
predicament of this " foolish fellow." The
Bishops are the anchor to which he clings as a
protection from the hurricane which is whistling
about his ears ! He thinks—good, easy man—
that by lashing himself to the Episcopal Bench
he will be flaated triumphantly over all his diffi-
culties ! Never was so extraordinary an instance
of hallucination. The political influence of the
Bishops is confessedly one of the greatest griev-
ances under vatich the country labours, and no
Minister can attach himself to their interests
(at least in their capacity of legislators) without
sinking with them. However deep be the sea,
on whose troubled surface Lord ALTHORP'S
crazy vessel now floats, let him but lash himself
to the anchor, and he will be sure to find the
bottom. A tom-cat, with a big stone tied
round his neck, would sound the depths of a
horse-pond with far less celerity.
We regret—deeply, bitterly regret, his Lord-
ship's declaration last night. To say the least
of it, it is ominous of ill consequences. He
cannot but by this time be aware that the Epis-
copal Bench are the deadliest and most perse-
vering enemies Reform ever yet had to en-
counter; that they are Ultras in the most
obsolete and obnoxious sense of the term ;
and that any attempt to make them converts to
ecclesiastical reformation, is as hopeless a task
as to wash the blackamoor white. When Lord
ALTHORP can extract sun-beams from cucum-
bers, then may he hope to make sincere prose-
lytes of Bishops.
The continuance of this clerical body in the
House of Lords is a scandal on the Protestant
religion. It is impossible that bigoted politi-
cians can make good Christian pastors. It is
at variance with every principle of common sense
that those who have so many temporal duties to
attend to, can properly discharge their spiritual
ones. They cannot serve both God and Mammon.
They cannot touch pitch and not be defiled. They
cannot mix themselves up with the meanness and
rancour of party spirit, and not feel themselves
disqualified thereby for entering on their aposto-
lie duties in the fitting Christian spirit of humi-
lity. It is essential to the interests of true reli-
gion that the Episcopal Bench should experience
the doom (as we care not how soon) of the
money changers in the Temple. The House of
Lords should be disembarrassed of their presence
forthwith.

What has occasioned the late unprecedented
spread of dissent . throughout the country ?
What, but the negligence of the heads of the
Established Church, who, instead of en-
couraging the clergy of their dioceses, by
their constant residence among them—instead
of personally superintending the interests of
the vast flocks committed to their care—
have been for years in the habit of figuring
among the aristocratic circles in the metropolis,
declaiming as politicians in the House of Lords,
and throwing the whole weight of their influence
into the scale of intolerance. The consequences
of this evil example are obvious. The inferior
Clergy make a point of alleging the negligence
of their superiors as an excuse for their own, and
their flocks, thus deprived of the privileges for
whiCh they so dearly pay, are ready to throw
themselves into the arms of the first dissenting
pastor who may present himself to their notice.
But though scarcely heard of beyond the walls
of their own palaces as active labourers in the
apostolic vineyard, the Bishops are known to all
the country in their character of Ultra politicians.
Here their notoriety is spread far and wide. The
people are well aware that they are—ever have
been—and ever will be, the firmest, because the
most self-interested, supporters of all intolerance ;
that they can swallow a Tory camel, though they
would strain at a Whig gnat.
Are these then the men on whom Lord
ALTHORP would fix his ready grasp ? This
the anchor to which, in his extremity, he would
lash himself ? Will he who has only one " loaf "
and " five small fishes" to give away, delude
himself with the hope of being able to satisfy
the cravings of that bench which has so long
fattened upon Tory rations ? Why, the attempt
of Don to seduce Sancho from Ca-
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macho's " flesh-pots" by the bribe of a pleasant
evening ride, was reason itself compared to this
insane project !
But it will fail, and so Lord ALTHORP will
find, and this at no distant period. Between
the Whigs and the Bench of Bishops a gulph is
fixed, which one party, at least, can never pass
with safety. There can be no lasting alliance
between two classes, where neither is sin-
cere. The Bishops may succumb for a time ;
but it will only be for the purpose of reserving

their energies for some more suitable
They will crouch, but it will only be
tiger in the jungle, to make ready for
spring. Whatever they be as men, as
there can be but one opinion respect!;
Were• they even to be so inclined,
cannot change their nature. AWh
sphere—like a polar region to one bo
the tropics—is too inclement for thei
Lion. They were reared under a Tory
and under a Tory climate they must live

Colonel EVANS brought forward
last night for the repeal of the 27th
the Reform Act, which requires the pi
rates and taxes up to a certain period
elector can give his vote. The reasons
in support of his motion were that it
many people from voting, that candidal
the rates and taxes and thereby torrid
voters, and that it gives undue power to
lectors of rates and taxes, who are persoi
to interest themselves in election tactics.
respect to the first objection, it is a simp!
But so it is, true to say, that the ReforUl
does not give universal suffrage ; but ti
assertion of that, truth is no argument for
away with the qualifications required by d
For ourselves, we are desirous of seei
establishment of household suffrage;
are persuaded that the qualifications requi
the Reform Act, exclude many of our
citizens, particularly in country towns,
the enjoyment of rights they are most corn
to exercise. But we should require sot
more than merely being in a house to ei
man to vote. A trun ‘6O sy" pa'
and tlxes, and am therefOre entitled to
the election of those who are to dispose of
taxes," cannot reasonably quarrel with t'
which requires that he should show,
voting, that he really has paid his rate&
taxes. We think with Lord ALTHORP
there are few who, in future, will be unal
vote from this cause alone.

With regard to the second objection we
observe, that the voters who require a.bt
4/. or 5/. before they give their vote, wily
trive some other means of obtaining it from
didates willing to give it. The old
lowed the rates to be paid at the very
of the election, which certainly tempted
didates to pay them ; but now that thi
required to be paid some time befori
we think the objection altogether removed
is to say, as far as any objections, resting
the willingness of candidates to bribe au
electors to be bribed, can be removed witho'
adoption of the ballot. We now come
last objection urged by Colonel EVANS.
must confess we are utterly at a loss to see
peculiar power is given to the collectors of I
If parties comply with the provisions of the
the rate collectors are utterly void of
to molest them in any way. If partit
not pay their rates, the collectors have no
power over theta under the Reform Act.
for rate collectors having it in . their povvel
influence electors, by granting them the i.
genre of time, it is clear that that power 11,
continue, whether the payment of taxes be a c();i
dition of voting or not. Indeed the prod
sions of the Bid curtail the power of grantteb,
the indulgence of time and, of course, the infia
ence of collectors. We are surprised that c
lone) EVANS and the twenty-three gentleni,
wt.° voted with... kiln' did not- see that the en
cif his proposition, would unreality be to ino •
the discretion, and therefora the power of tile.
officers of the revenue department. We 'e.
they lost sight of stilestantial advantages to
grasping at a shadow. -
Colonel EVANS has, we see, given notice ~
a fresh motion to change the word " Octoher..it
for " April," in the 27th clause. As eel')
people who, from temporary circumstances,
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not have been able to pay their rates up :
late a period as is now required, this may bole;
relief, and, as far as we can see, will not be Itsl/,:
to the objections we have urged against the vas
Lion of last night.

Another blow was aimed last night at the iv''
q;itous monopoly of bread, by Mr. FRYER, the
Member for Wolverhampton. His motion
to repeal the present Corn Laws, with a vie/ t°
the establishment of the duty of 1791, whe:/,
as the Hon. Member observed, the value
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money was about what it is at present. It
the
people by the way, that-as the numbers of te
people have increased, and of course as IP ('
want of more food has been felt, our sellers °
food have been careful to exclude supplies from'
abroad. The reason is obvious. There
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was nothing to be gained by prohibiting
the entrance of foreign corn into England,
long as corn was cheaper in this country o°l
was abroad, and we were, of course, exporte'',,
;'
but directly population began to press hard tiers
the home supply the price rose. The cultival°
saw that the reason of the rise in price was tbs
comparative scarcity of supply, and that the 9
had only to restrict the supply to raise the Prlo
still further. Having the power, and
scruples of conscience, our landed P,11,!
prietors at once commenced their 0106
ing experiments. Their ignorance, howeveir
being in exact proportion to their knavery, thhes,,
operations were for some time counteracted wot
causes, the operation of which they had ;A
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foreseen. At length, however, they sueceeueo
in raising the duties so high that corn rose g°
starvation price. The people, however, thatllsks
to buy it, thought that this was carrying the icin.
too far, and accordingly began to show srlirir'.
toms of au inclination to knock the sellers °lv.:
the head. With a sigh, the landowners c°o4
sented to reduce the duties, but framed tiled
upon a nice calculation of what degree b,,
starvation the consumers of corn would 513'
mit to. John Bull is a Jong-snarl4s()
brute : it takes much to move him 011,
action ; and his masters have reaped the fe:-.1.00
of their cunning in tolerably quiet submissies,;
to their last decrees. When he grunwqee'
they call out against " unsettling the Vita
tion," in so loud a tone, that he is qur.
bewildered. He thinks " unsettling the Vol,
tion," must mean something dreadful). is,
though he cannot exactly make out what 't,
When he comes to find out that the "set lit
meat" means stinting him in his allowancelbet
will resolve to overturn it, and have allot
which will permit him to have his bellyful'.
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