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LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 10, 1832.

It is confidently reported that Ead GREY
and his friends will immediately resume office.
That Lord LYNDHURST applied to the
Duke of WELLINGTON, to Lord HARROWBY,
and Sir ROBERT PEEL to assist in form-
ing a new Administration, but that their yearn-
ings for power and place were overcome by their
better judgment, and that seeing their cause
hopeless, they declined. For this, if it be
true, which we confidently believe, GOD be
thanked, for it will prevent a Revolution !

A great meeting of the Tories was held this
morning at Lord STORMONT'S, but the result
is not yet known.

The House of Commons have this day a duty
to perform urgent, more imperative, and more
essential to the peace and safety of the country
than any imposed on that Assembly since the
Revolution, and dismal indeed will be our pro-
spects if they neglect it. The great majority
entered that House pledged to the Reform Bill,
now twice rejected by the Lords. The people
for more than twelve long months have patiently
waited for the accomplishment of their wishes ;
they pa their trust in their representatives, led on
as they had reason to believe, by a patriotic KING
and a reforming Ministry, and at the moment
they expected the fulfilment of their just and
righteous object, the cup is dashed from their
lips by the intrigues of foreigners, and the base,
deceitful, and hypocritical tricks of a vile

cartion-: Will the people of England sub-
icit to the rule of strangers? Are the
interests of these great kingdoms to be
sacrificed to further the despotic projects of
continental Princes, and to gratify personal likes
or dislikes of individuals as ignorant of our Con-
stitution as our language ? Will the House of
Commons, now the only legitimate barrier to the
inroads of tyranny, and the only hope of the
people, in their utmost extremity, be back-
ward in asserting their rights and the rights of
those whom they have sworn to represent faith-
fully, uprightly, and boldly in the Corn-
inons House of Parliament We have too much
confidence in the.,good sense and spirit of our
countrymen, to' doubt for one moment the re-
sult. We say their good sense, because we are
sure they have eyes to see, and ears to hear, that
the patience of the nation is wound up to the
last pitch ; that confidence in a Reforming
House of Commons is their only hope ;
and that if that confidence be destroyed
by any thing like timidity, or wavering,
or skulking, that patience which they have
so long and so manfully displayed, will be
turned into rage and despair, not silent and
sullen, but loudly expressed, and marked by
deeds which every friend of peace and every lover
of his country must deplore. Let the House of
Commons well consider the position they now
hold in the country—let them remember that
the eyes of every reformer, who has heard
of the deeds of Monday night, is on them
—let them bear in mind that if they
yield, the enemies of Reform mount the
breach in order to smother the spirit of liberty
in a free and a brave people. They now stand
betwixt the people and their enemies—they
form the stay in the breach, and long will they
repent it, if through faint-heartedness or trea-
chery they give way and admit the waters of
strife. The people of this country have set their
hearts on Reform—they are backed (which they
have not been since the ominous days of CHARLES
I.) by the people of Scotland, and supported
and encouraged by nearly the whole Irish na-
tion. There never was on any occasion such a
unanimity of feeling or such a determination of
purpose ; and woe be to those who thwart their
just wishes and rouse their vengeance ! The
present is no time for mincing matters about the
personal acts of the Sovereign, or the intrigues
carried on behind and at the side of the
throne. These formalities are all very well in
holyday scenes or ordinary debates ; but they
will never be allowed for a moment in times
like these to obstruct justice, or conceal the
parties who have taken upon them such awful
responsibility. It is not the character of the
House of Commons only that is at stake—it is
not the peace and quiet of the country or
the fate of the House of Lords—but we
may say, the Constitution itself depends on the
bearing and attitude of the House of Commons
this evening. The highest personage in the
State has hitherto been looked up to with
reverence and love—nay adoration. Let those
who now have the power, prevent men from
being forced on the SOVEREIGN, whose deeds
may involve his character, or diminish that esteem
and love which, till now, dwelt in the breast of
every true friend of liberty. The KING'S name
is a tower of strength, but it is a tower of strength
only when supported by the affections of the
people. All history declares and none more
than our own, particularly that of the STUARTS,
how utterly insignificant, and even to a King, it
is when arrayed against the feelings of the na-
tion, and abused by men who hate freedom be-
cause it would destroy their power and wrest
from them their plunder. Such an event, we trust,
will not happen in our day, and happen it cannot,
if the representatives of the people are true to
their trust. Let their watchword still be the
Bill, the whole Bill, and nothing but the
Bill, and the❑ the people will support, as they
have hitherto supported, a reforming Ministry.
Any other Ministry would set the country in
commotion, and a Ministry formed of Anti-Re-
formers, however they might recant, would only
be looked upon with suspicion and disgust.
The fate of the country depends on the vote of
the Commons this night. If favourable, it will
allay the heartburnings, and appease the anger
of a disappointed nation. If unfavourable, we
can see no relief but from the support and pro-
tection and guidance of HIM " who stilled) the
noise of the seas and the tumult of the people."

The resignation of Ministers is an act that
does them infinite credit. It at once stamps
their sincerity in the cause of Reform—of jus-
tice—of the people—of universal humanity.
They might still have remained in office had
they chosen to permit even the partial mutila-
tion of the Reform Bill ; but this their honour
forbade ; and like gentlemen, like statesmen,
like Englishmen (and, therefore, in all respects
unlike Tories), they preferred the sacrifice of
place to principle. For upwards of eighteen
months, in the midst of storm and tempest,
of doubt and difficulty and danger, beset at every
step by the intrigues of false friends and open
foes, have these high-minded men fought, and
with a spirit worthy of a better result, unflinch-
ingly, the battle of the people. Not an hour
have they mispent. Not a chance have they
thrown away. Nobly—perseveringly—patrioti-
cally have they fought the good fight, and now
only retire from the field which they have hi-
therto kept from morn to midnight against over-
whelming odds, when not a chance remains of
victory.
People of England, Scotland, and Ireland
—are men—are Ministers like these to be
shuffled aside ? Men who have perilled their
all in your cause? Men who are vanquished
only in the attempt to set you free ? Never.
We are convinced you entertain too strict a sense
of justice and gratitude thus basely to treat
those who have proved themselves your staunchest,
your most disinterested friends.

But should you—which God forbid !—encou-
rage for an instant the idea of abandoning your
Reforming Administration, mark well, we be-
seech you, what will follow. The Tories will
come into office. Mark this—the Tories,: who

' will unhesitatingly devote the plunder of upward
ni fifty years, to strengthen their own power, and
rivet your chains. Possibly, by way of pacif -
ing you for the moment, these tnen will promise
you a full measure of Reform. Possibly they
will tell you, you shall have all - you could have
had from the Whigs, had they continued in office.
But who are they that tell you this ? 'Why, the
very faction who not three years since refused even
the franchise to Birmingham ! Who not two years
since declared that all Reform was superfluous ! !
Who, not one year since refused to disfranchise
even the six most rotten boroughs in schedule A ! ! !
Will you—can you, put faith in the promises,
even if guaranteed by oath, of such men—men
ho can only come into office by unsaying all
they have said, and undoing all they have done for
the last twenty years—by becoming, in short,
greater apostates than a certain Bishop, and
greater rogues, if this be possible, than "the most
unprincipled man”—you know well whom we
mean—" in his Majesty's dominions ?"
Consider %S. ell the principles of the two par-
ties. Look on this picture and on that. The
Tories have always been behind the age, the
Whigs always equal to, or in advance of, it.
The aim of the former has always been to en-
slave—that of the latter, to liberate. Remem-
ber, too, that all the more popular—all the more
enlightened—and few enough they are, God
knows !—measures of the Tories have di-
rectly emanated from the Whigs. This is the-
only rule we know without an exception. The
repeal of the Test Acts was a Whig measure.
The revision of the Criminal Code was a Whig
measure. Catholic Emancipation was a Whig
measure, and—last and crowning glory—Parlia-
mentary Reform is a Whig measure. The
Tories, it is true, have contrived to smuggle
themselves into these great questions, and by dis-
figuring them, as gipsies disfigure children, have
passed them off as their own. But why was
this ? Was it from principle, or inclination,
or liberality ? No, no. It was the result of
inexorable necessity, a base, grovelling sacrifice
of conscience to place. The Tories well knew
they could not retain power, without throwing
overboard, one by one, all their most the
rished, vaunted political predilections, and like
shuffling, lying renegades as they are, they did
not hesitate an instant. Stick at breaking a
pledge, indeed ! Bali ! Such men would break
a thousand, if they could turn a penny by it.
But their sun is now in the West, and they
know it. The night which has no morn is
thickening fast round them. Yes, the Tories
themselves are frightened at what they have just
done. They are scared at the sound of their
own thunder. At this very moment there is not
a man among them all who is not at his wit's
end. All union, all system, all self-respect,
all confidence is lost. The Ultras will not trust
the Waverers, the Bishops will trust, and are
trusted, by neither party. As for a certain
trimming Ex-Chancellor, he, we believe, is
trusted only by his creditors.
We repeat then—confidently repeat—what we
asserted yesterday, that before another fortnight
has elapsed, the Whigs will be again in office.
But it is the people, and the people only, that
can achieve this triumph. They must be unani-
mous—they must be peremptory—but, above all,
they must be determined. If they lose but a day, but
an hour, the Tories will have slipped into office,
and all will be lost. Now, then, or never is the
time for action. The metropolis has already
commenced the good work. The Political
Union met last night. The City meets to-
day. Ten parishes meet to-morrow. In the
provinces, Portsmouth—Canterbury—Reading
Nottingham—Leicester—Ne wark—Stamford—
are all equally on the alert. Every hour
adds its mite to the great cause. The sum-
mons to action flies from mouth to mouth—
from town to town—from county to county—
north, south, east, and west—and this summons,
we need scarcely add, will bring hundreds—thou-
sands—millions—into the field of peaceful,
constitutional, but determined action.

We entreat our readers to peruse with the at-
tention they demand, the proceedings of the Na-
tional Political Union last night. At this great
meeting, the question of the propriety of con-
tinuing to pay taxes was taken into serious con-
sideration, when hundreds of members announced
their intention of not paying one farthing more,
till justice was awarded to the people. Will
this stop here, or will the epidemic spread ?
Alas, we fear it will, and that the office of tax-
gatherer will, ere long, become as complete a
sinecure, though not so lucrative, as Lord
ELLENBOROUGII'S Clerkship of the Fees.
But the most effectual was to secure Reform,
.will be for the House of Commons to come to
a determination to withhold the Supplies, 'till a
patriotic Whig Administration again preside
over the councils of the country. This, if no-
thing else, will bring the Tories to their senses.
To this point, therefore, the people must de-
vote their attention. • But above all, they
must keep a keen eye on the conduct of
their representatives. There are rats among the
Reformers in St. Stephen's, and the only sure
way to detect the vermin, is for every town, city,
and county, instantly to direct its representa-
tives to refuse all Supplies to any but a stanch
Whig Reform Administration. This, we re-
peat, will bring the Tories to their senses.
This will make the pensioners quake ; the
sinecurists stand aghast; and, by a necessary
consequence, paralyse the Bishops and Pluralists
of the bloated Church establishment.

Lord LYNDIIURST is reported to have been
sent for by the KING. An Administration
framed under the auspices of such a man will
not last a week.

The proceedings in both Houses of Parlia-
ment were last night full of interest. Earl GREY
in the Upper, and Lord ALTHORP in the Lower,
House, formally announced the resignation of
themselves and their colleagues. This alarming
catastrophe—for catastrophe we may well call it
—is wholly owing to the refusal of his MA-
JESTY to create Peers. Such a refusal, so un-
expected, so decisive, will, we fear, create as

much disclatisfactioti as Astonishment throughout
country. Till now, the people always imagined
King WILLIAM the FOURTH was a
staich Reformer at heart. It will cost them
►many a bitter pang, to be compelled to give up
the flattering illusion.

The French Papers mention the capture of
the steamer Carlo Alberto, on the 3d instant;
on the Mediterranean coast of France, which
had on board the Duchess of BERRI and cer-
;:iiin Quixotic royalists who hoped to raise the
South of France in favour of the ex-Royalists.
The Princess, it appears, has been suffered to
go about her business, her adherente'llave very
properly been shipped off for Corsica.

The following are extracts from German
Papers, receeived this morning :

VIENNA, APRIL 28.—Count Alexander, of Wurtem-
burg, sun of Duke William, who art ived here a few days
ago, is on the point of marrying a daughter of Count Fes-
tetics. The illness of the Duke of Reichstadt is said tobe
still such as to give ground for uneasiness ; the indispo-
sition of the young King of Hungary has ceased.
Letters from Alexand,ia of the end of March, received
by way of Trieste, do not yet announce the fill of St. Jean
d'Acre, but agree in stating that it will not hold out for a
fortnight longer. Mehemet Ali has ordered a very consi-
derable levy, which will render his regular army very for-
midable, as it is said already to consist of 60,000 infantry
and 25,000 cavalry. These letters state the losses of the
Egyptian army in Syria, hitherto, at 5,000 men in all.

LORD LYNDHURST.

(From the Morning Chronicle.)

There is no doubt that the immaculate Lord Lyndhurst
was selected as the first person to be consulted by his
Majesty on the present imminent position of his affairs,
and that he was in attendance at St. James's more than
once after the Levee yesterday afternoon. Lord Lynd-
hurst! !! That name so honourably connected with so
many extraordinary associations both in private and public
life, on recent occasions ! His public principles, like his
coat, are none the worse frequent turning. Will he forget
the exordium of his speech on Monday night, in intro-
ducing the amendment on the Reform Bill, which has
lel to all this confusion, with as much facility on the
question of Reform, as he did his famous Philpott speech
on the Catholic Question ? And we suppose, if he is to
be selected as Minister, he will, according to ancient prac-
tice, choose the worthy Bishop for his colleague, as keeper
of the King's conscience and his Great Seal ! But we
had already heard that the Noble Judge and the Right
Rev. Prelate formed, with the tame Elephant, the Com-
mittee who framed the amended Reform Bill, of which
the latter was so inopportunely delivered after the division
on Monday.
We scarcely believe that the Noble and Learned Lord's
accession to the high office to which he aspires will be
hailed by any portion of the people of this Empire—ex-
cept possibly by his —. We fear that it may be im-
possible for the new Ministry to avail themselves of the
services of a late Noble Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, on this occasion.