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LONDON,
FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 7, 1835.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER has at length
announced his Budget for Friday next, the 14th inst.

We are glad to see that the Reformers of Liverpool,
acting on the suggestion that we threw out a few days
since, have come to the resolution to have nothing more to
do with the House of Lords, in the way of petition, on
the subject of the Corporation Bill. We hope their ex-
ample will be generally followed up by the community, for
their Lordships are clearly incorrigible. Supplication is
thrown away upon them. Remonstrance is thrown away
on them. Nothing short of a resolute display of power,
on the part of the people, can produce in them the slight-
est conviction. And the determination to put forth this
display, is apparent in all quarters. Precisely as we anti-
cipated, the spirit of agitation is everywhere at work, never
to be allayed, until their Lordships, in the exercise of a
novel discretion, have come to the resolution of doing jus-
tice to the country. The people are not to be hood-winked,
by the professed anxiety ofan Aristocratic faction, to preserve
the " privileges of freemen." They know well that it is a
mere lip-phrase, got up for the sole purpose of deluding
them. When the sky falls and it rains larks, then may we
expect to find the House of Lords sincere in the advocacy
of constitutional principles, as established on the basis of
the Reform Bill. But till then, never. Look at their
present course of conduct. What is its aim? Convic-
tion ? No—Delay ! The evidence they are now so vaunt-
ingly bringing forward on the Corporation Bill, has no
earthly object but, by wearying out the patience of the peo-
ple, to defeat the measure. The parties who adduce it are
all more or less interested ; their Lordships have not
been enabled to bring forward even so much as one dispas-
sionate witness. This farce must not be permitted longer
to continue. It is a wanton tampering with the forbear-
ance and intelligence of the community, and proceeds on the
assumption that they are not qualified to take a right view of
their own interests. Again, then, we repeat our exhorta-
tion to the people—meet, petition, remonstrate. Kneel at
the footstool of the Throne, and implore it to rescue you
from a domination which is yours, and its, worst enemy.
Insist on your Representatives being determined. Tell
them you have all your wits about you, and that you will
allow of no rats—no deserters from the popular cause. Say
the same to the Government which you have elected to pre-
side over your interests. Bid them, one and all, stand as
firm as MELBOURNE to his post ; and sure as to-morrow's
sun shall rise, the victory shall be yours. True, the Lords
may procrastinate, but they cannot destroy. True, they
may bark, but they cannot bite. Even delay, however,
must be put an end to, for in public, as in private matters of
business, procrastination is never unattended with hazard.

Another act of the farce" which our hereditary legisla-
tors have got up for the amusement of the public, passed
off yesterday. Sir CHARLES WETHERELL, as usual, played
the principal part, and it is but justice to the merits of the
unbelted knight of the cap and bells to say, that if his ob-
ject be to render himself and those before whom, and for
whose benefit, he is exhibiting, ridiculous and contemptible,
he has hitherto been eminently successful. Only think—and
keep from laughing if you can—of the grotesque impu-
knee of this superannuated buffoon in assuming a right
to put what questions he pleases to the witnesses, and in
hallenging the right of the judges to interrupt and check
him ! Was extravagance ever carried beyond this, except
At ‘. Bartl'my" fair ?

Of the evidence, as it is called, brought forward yester-
day, i is unnecessary to say more, than that it is exactly of
the same character as that which was given on the former
days, and entitled to just the same measure of credit—
that is, to none at all. Two or three town clerks
solemnly declare upon their oaths that the Corpo-
rations of which they are the servants, and on the
continuance of which their livelihood depends, are with-
out spot or blemish—that no possible fault can he found
with the manner in which their affairs are administered ;
and by this evidence the Lords are to guide them-
selves in dealing with the Corporation Reform Bill.
One gentleman, an Alderman of Norwich, swears that, so
perfect is the Corporation system of that city, that " he
could not even stiggest an improvement in any department I"
Another, who combines in his own person the offices of
Town lyric to the corporation of St. Alban's, Clerk to
the Magistrates, Clerk to the County Magistrates, Coro-
ner, Ti•irktt.it'lti tpu ti?:43/tii; 1.4 the igarna»
ration, disapproves very much of any reform by which
these offices shall be disunited ! ! And a third, the
Town Clerk of Marlborough, Mr. MERRIMAN by name,
states, not at all in the way of a joke, but on his Bible oath,
that " there are decidedly not ten persons in the town who
have expressed a dislike to the Corporation." ! ! Doubt-
less this sapient personage polled the inhabitants of Marl-
borough before he ventured to swear to the truth of his
statement. He could not surely trust to guess-work in a
matter of such importance.

But enough of these Corporation trielzs. The people of
England view them in tTie proper light. They now see that
an abominable attempt is making to strange; 1 the Copora-
tion Reform pip in that House, through wL ich no good