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Ansley, Thomas Greene, John Osborne, Ralph
Armstrong, Sir A. Henry, Alexander . Palmer, Bounden
Armstrong, R. B. lierb,rt, 11. A. Pechell. Sir G.
Barron, Sir 11. Herbert, Sydney
Blake, M. J. Heyworth, Peel, Frederick
Lawreneit' Portal, _Melville
lilewltt, R. J. Higgins, George Power, 1)r.
Bright, John Hobhouse, T. B. Power, Nicholas
Burke, Sir T. J. Hope, Alexander . Roche, E. It.
Butler. P. S. Howard, P. H. Sadleir, John
cardwell, Edward Hume, Joseph - Scholefleld, William
Castleroagh, Vis. Iluoliins, E. J. Scully, Francis
Charteris. Francis Keating, Robert Seymour, H. D.
Clements, C. S. Keogh, William Simeon, John
Colebrooko, 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 Mogan, W. 11. Strickland, Sir G.
Currie, Itaikes Maher, N. • Sullivan, Michael
Dawson, T. V. Meagher, Thomas , Talbot, J. 11.
Devereux, John T. Mahon, O'Gorman Tattered, 11. W.
Ellis, John Monsell, William Tenison, E. K.
Fagan, William Moore, G. IL Tollemache, F. J.
Fagan, James Mowatt, Francis Towneley, John
Fortescue, Chichester Mure, Colonel Urquhart, David
Fox, Richard M. Norreyi, 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
Geoid, Wnydham O'Connell, Maurice
Grace, O. 1). O'Connell, M. J. TELLERS.
Graham, Sir James O'Connor, Feargus Arundel, Earl of
Grattan, Henry O'Flaherty, Anthony Reynolds, John

TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD
REFORM ASSOCIATION.
(avasY MONDAY AND WEDNESDAY.)
Sir,—After two nights more debate, the Bill is read
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 well fought up its cause. There was
throughout a great shrinking from going to the root of
the matter. Things were contested under wrong name.,
and without the true names being given in reply. An
uninstructed bearer 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;
hut on bearing 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 now 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 Queen
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 de,ease being
apparent than concealed. It is clear that Kith 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 bo 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 William
somerTille, M.P., is to be created a peer forthwith.