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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The certainty that the Reform Bill is now
site from the attacks of foes, as well as from the
vacillation of lukewarm friends, has diffused a
satisfaction and joy throughout the metropolis,
and its neighbourhood, which might have been
partially anticipated, but which was never ex-
celled, or even equalled, on any former occasion.
Among all classes, whether zealous, or only hit-
and-bit, Reformers, there is but one feeling.
prevalent ; and even with regard to the conserva-
tives, we believe it may be honestly stated of
the most moderate of them, that thew are not ill
pleased that the question between them and us
is no longer a matter of uncertainty. The
House of Lords we believe to be now, in fact,
the only spot of any magnitude, in the mited
kingdom, where a rancorous opposition
to the will of a great and united people
will be found to dwell ; but thanks to the King,
to Earl Grey, and the people, that opposition
has now become as powerless as a withered arm,
and may as safely be treated with scorn, as its
opposition cannot fail to be productive of amuse-
ment. To alter the Bill in any of its essential
provisions is now beyond their power ; and as
their speeches may find few other readers than
themselves, the public, we are confident, will
not refuse them the indulgence of making them
as long as the patience of their hearers, their
own lungs, and their inclination to exercise them,
may permit. In what, manner the glorious re-
sult, of which we may now consider ourselves as-
sured, in consequence of the declarations of
Lords Grey and Althorp on Friday last, may be
realized, the public, as we observed on Saturday
last, does not care one straw. Provided the
result be realized—provided the fetters with which
the people have been bound during the last cen-
tury be struck off—provided Gatton and Old Sa-
rum, and such respectable, motherly, but some-
what decayed, places, be pol4ically razed to the
ground, and more goodly, because more youthful
and vigorous, structures be established in their
stead—provided the Tory snake be .destroyed,
and the English lion restored to his freedom and
place in society—we say that, provided these
matters be accomplished, the people of the united
kingdom are perfectly indifferent whether it shall
be by so many Peers leaving the House, follow-
ing the example of Lord Carnarvon, who has
threatened to inflict the punishment of his ab-
sence upon the House, or by so many Peers
walking into it. It is all the same thing to John
Bull, to friend Pat, and Cousin Sawney. They
have a long and heavy bill to settle with the
oligarchs, and payment they will have of it,
even to the uttermost farthing of the debt ; but
whether it be in the King's coin, or in goods of
equal value, they care not. From all that has hi-
therto appeared, however, there is reason to believe
that the payment will be made partly io the one
way and partly in the other—that a certain
number of the present House of Peers will stay
away from the discussions on the Bill, and that
for those who will not, an equivalent will be
given to Ministers in the shape of a new crea-
tion. So far so well. —Morning Adv.
The symptoms of Reform at Court are not
encouraging. The Duke of Sussex, the friend
of the people—the honest and consistent sup-
porter of liberal principles, and Reform, has
been excluded, by his Majesty's order, from
his presence and his Court. Colonel Fox
(Lord Holland's son), married to one of the
daughters of the King, and who so properly
resigned his post, has not, as it appears by the
Conservative Sunday Gazettes, been allowed to
resume it. His Majesty, it is said, has dis-
covered the inconvenience of employing Members
of Parliament, or persons engaged in politics,
in his household (!), and has appointed Colonel
Bowater, a Tory, and brother-in-law to the
Privy Purse, to succeed to Col. Fox. By
whom are these acts of gracious kindness
towards the popular party and their friends
advised and sanctioned ? Lord Grey surely
cannot have deserted his Illustrious Friend the
Duke of Sussex, who has constantly honoured
him with his political support and unvarying
friendship. Lord Holland's son ought not
to be the first and only victim of the recon-
ciliation
,between the King and his Ministers.
i;jthe COurt. thus in'du;an-to ti-iespaaysk. iTt.!
and vindictive feeling towards those whose
only fault is attachment to the great cause of
the nation ? By the faction behind the throne,
who, during the interregnum, advised the rejec-
tion of the petitions from the Unions of Bristol
and Birmingham. Was the offence for which
the Duke of Sussex is punished, that of present-
ing, in the most respectful manner, one of these
petitions ? These are not proofs of the power
which Lord Grey and Lord Althorp assured
Parliament was secured to them as the condition
of their return to office. While these persecu-
tions are going on against the friends of Re-
form, we hear of no removals amongst those who
have been permitted so long to remain in pos-
session of office, to the injury of the cause and
the discredit of Government. Lord Hill and
Lord Fitzroy Somerset still linger at the Horse
Guards—of course, only till arrangements are
made to relieve them—but the public will
not endure the infliction much longer. We
should like to inquire also, with the respect
which is so much due to his character, and
which we so sincerely entertain towards him,
whether the Lord Chancellor has had sufficient ex-
perience of the good effect which his unprecedented
kindness has produced on the conduct of his
disinterested friends, the Bishops ; and whether,
in future, as during his past tenure of the Great
Seal, he intends to place at their disposal all
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livings, within his patronage, under the value of
several l
formers on this point, he would take some other
means of ascertaining the qualifications
of those
who are recommended for
Wales especially, where the
livings are small,
the people cannot understand the preference
which has been unfortunately given to Tory can-
didates. We suspect that Al • •
Ministers will find
other proofs, beyond those we have stated, of
the restless and angry temper of the
who have been baffled in the late intrigue at
Court in the proceedings in the House of Lords
this day. The seceders are taunted in the Con-
servative Press for meanness and
servility. A
private letter from his Majesty, entreating his
friends to fulfil their promises of b
a staining from
further opposition, is published without the least
regard for respect or decency. Reports are
spread, that Lord Grey, beyond
stipulating
for
power to y carr the Reform Bill, has required a
p • romise for the creation of forty Peers to
strengthen his party in the House of Lords, after
the Bills shall have passed. It is quite evident
that a violent and unrelenting opposition will be
persevered in by Bishop Phillpotts, Lords Car.
narvon, Londonderry, Wharncliffe, and othe'r

Peers of the temperate party. The arts we have
adverted to are intended to recall those who have
declared their intention of retiring, to rejoin their
ranks, and every thing appears, to us at least,
who are uninitiated in the mysteries of their ar-
rangements, unsettled and unsatisfactory. We
scarcely know whether we should lament this
state of things. A liberal creation of Peers will
solve all difficulties, and must take place, sooner
or later, to secure the downfall of the Tory
faction. We are not, therefore, amongst those
who regret the additional difficulties which are
threatened by these proceedings, and which must
compel Earl Grey, without further delay or he-
sitation, to have recourse to the exercise of the
prerogative, which his Majesty has pleased to
place at his disposal.—Morning Chronicle.
The ship has righted, aad again in safety
pursues her way through the waters. The Bill
is now invulnerable, and the peace of the coun-
try is secured. The King's conduct, which was,
we doubt not, throughout the whole of those
painful differences with his Ministers, founded
on the most conscientious sense of duty, was
kind and graceful at their close. His Majesty,
we have reason to believe, confided, on Friday
last, to Lord Grey, his full sanction and autho-
rity for the creation of as many Peers, as, in the
Noble Earl's judgment, might or may hereafter
be necessary for the maintenance of the Reform
Bill in all its principles and provisions. See,
then, to what a condition the wretched intriguers
of the last four months have reduced themselves,
and by what means. It may be useful to fix
upon the minds of the
people of England
the true image and impression of these men s
principles. What has been the governing mo-
tive of the Duke of Wellington, Lyndhurst, C2r-
narvon, and the rest of them, throughout ? Was
it the love of a reformed Pailiament ? They
would hardly be suspected of that, even did no
precise evidence exist upon the subject. But
the Duke of Wellington's original and frantic
denunciation of. Reform, whether great or small,
the fierce and savage resistance to the Reform
Bill, in principle and detail, exhibited by the
whole faction in both Houses of Parliament,
and at every stage of the measure—dropped, it
is true, by the Anti-Reforming Peers, just so
long, as there remained the glimmering of a hope
that they and their House of Commons under-
strappers might succeed in getting up a Tory
Government, but resumed, and with redoubled
rancour on Friday evening, when all such
bright visions had irrecoverably vanished ;
these facts demonstrate, with sufficient clear-
ness,
that the Duke of Wellington and the
few who still bow down to worship him, have not
sinned through any excessive or inordinate at-
tachment to the great cause of reform. Is it,
then, the hatred of reform by which, per se, the
'Wellington faction have been actuated ? Un•
questionably not. Otherwise they would not
have stipulated with the King, and pledged
themselves (in the amiable person of Lord El-
lenborough), to give the country an extensive
measure of reform, or have made it the condi-
tion of their undertaking the Government. If,
then, it be neither the love nor hatred of a re-
form Bill (although there be among them much
hatred of the measure and no love) which pre-
vailed with the Conservatives in the late melan-
choly transactions, what is the key that shall dis-
close to us their spring and moving principle ?
The appetite for power is that key. It is that
which opens to us all their secrets, reconciles all
their inconsistencies, brings " yes" and "no"
into delightful unison, and identifies black with
white. The Duke of Wellington declared, first
of all, against reform, because he liked the
rotten boroughs better, and fancied, fond
oligarch ! that by " opposing " the national
outcry he could " end " it, without the
loss of office. When the Whigs brought in the
Bill, he resisted it furiously, for the sake of
turning the new Ministers out, and succeeding
them. He set on foot an infinite variety of Court
intrigues and manoeuvres, for the same disinte-
rested purpose. He prepared and inflamed the
House of Lords to such a pitch, that the passage
of the Bill through that House became impos-
sible, and then, taking the Government on its
other flank, he raised a corresponding cla-
mour against an addition to the Peers, the
only remedy for the evil which he himself
had created. The King, having imbibed
the terrors invented for him in a thousand
'panes by the agents of Toryism hovering round
his pafitce, fen $4,,. final snare which they had
laid, and consented to his honest Mini3tcr'o
signation. Then was played off upon the people
of England a dose of duplicity the most nau-
seous, perhaps, and disgusting that ever was
practised. We were told gravely that Lord
Lyndhurst, nay that the Duke of Wellington,
was " wholly unprepared" for the distress and
embarrassment in which they found the Sove-
reign, and which had been caused, as all the
world is satisfied, by their own intrigues and ma-
chinations. We were told that the Noble Duke
must " stand by" his forlorn Sovereign—God
save the mark !—as if the King's solitude had
not been his Grace's work, and that he could
not show his face again if he had not agreed to
comfort and cheer up his Majesty by a contempt
for principle—a disregard of public character—.
a violation of pledges—an adoption of what he
had himself called " revolutionary" policy—and
au insatiable and wolflike plunging after power,
which we do solemnly declare stands foremost,
in our opinion, among the state profligacies of
the most corrupt age. If the Duke of Wellington
wished to relieve the King, without exposing
himself to indignation, why did he not say, " I
cannot, for my conscience and honour's sake,
introduce such a measure as my own, but, since
I know that the country must have Reform, I
will not oppose it as the act of your Ma-
jesty's present Ministers ?" Thus would
the Duke of Wellington have appeared
an honest man, and would have been
at least a discreet one. But in no one respect
does his conduct bear examination ; and the
pretence of loyalty for " twirling round,"—as
Sir Robert Peel (while renouncing such apos-
tacy on his own behalf) expressed it,—" in a
ginnou_s,frommi
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a moment," was one which would justify in a
statesman the perpetration of any crime, how-
everosfov 4e. nng a rival Minister in his service
atjbploonw: hfer whole,om h itchhe Toryd
ofanc
hearts it is destined ever and entirely to recover.
For one individual, and one only, viz.—the
Duke of Wellington—we feel a regret not in-
spired by the downfall of any of his colleagues
or associates. He has done great things, and
li is country, had he been contented with those
exploits of which the fame will never perish, or
with the high fortunes to which they had raised
him, would have revered, perhaps idolized, his
memory. Alas ! how is it with him now ? We
have here glanced at the integrity of the Tory
faction—we may touch upon their party wisdom
by and Times.

REPRESENTATIVE PEERS FOR SCOT-

LAND.

The following is the Report of the Lords' Select
Committee appointed to take into consideration the
laws and regulations now in force relating to the
election of the Representative Peers for Scotland,
and to report their opinion thereupon to the House;
and to whom were referred the petition of John
Francis Miller Earl of Mar, (presented to this
House on the 23d of August, 1831), pray-
ing their Lordships that they will take the
premises into their consideration, and find and
declare that the petitioner's list, containing the
names of the Peers for whom the petitioner meant
to give his vote to be the 16 Representative Peers
for Scotland, ought to have been received, and his
votes reckoned at the general election of the sixteen
Scottish Peers to serve it► Parliament, which took
place on the 3d of June last; and that their Lord-
ships will take such proceedings and make such
order in regard to the rejection of the petitioner's
lists and votes by the Lord Clerk Register or his
deputies, as to their Lordships shall seem just and
becoming :—and the petition of the most lion.
Mary Marchioness Dowager of Downshire and
Baroness Sandys of Ombersley, praying their Lord-
ships to order that Alexander Humphrys Alexander
may be required to show by what authority he as-
sumed the titles and claimed to vote and did vote as
Earl of Stirling at the election of a representative
Peer for Scotland, as mentioned in the petition;
and that, until he shall by due course of law have
proved his right to the titles and dignities, he may
be enjoined not to presume to use the same, or
again to exercise the privileges thereof; or that
their Lordships will be pleased to make such other
order therein as to their great wisdom may appear
to be most proper for the protection of the rights
and privileges of the Peerage, and of the honourand
dignity of this House ; and to whom were also re-
ferred certain papers relating to the subject matter
before the committee :--

The committee having met, and brought their in-
quiries -to a close, agreed to the following report,
which embodies, in the shape of resolutions, the opi-
nions which they recommend to the early attention of
the committee for privileges and of the House :-
1. That the committee are of opinion that fre-
quent irregularities have prevailed at various elec
tions of representative Peers in Scotland, producing
very injurious effects, in consequence of the claims
of persons to vote as heirs to peerages standing in
the list or roll of the peerage of Scotland made at
the Union, and called at the,e elections, which
peerages may he and often have been proved to be
extinct, or not in the persons so claiming them, and
that further regulations are expedient effectually to
prevent the reception of such votes at the said
elections. _

2. That the committee are of opinion, that no
person who at any election of a representative
Peer or representative Peers for Scotland
has voted previous to the date of this reso-
lution being agreed to, either in person, by
proxy, or by list, at the same, under any protest
made since 1801 that he 'is not entitled to the
Peerage by which he claims to vote at the said elec•
tions, or against whose right to the Peerage by
which he claims to vote at the said elections any
petition since 1801 has been presented to the House
of Lords, or the descendant of any such person,
ought in future to be allowed to vote at any elec-
tion of a representative Peer or representative
Peers for Scotland until on claim made on his be-
half his right to vote at the said elections shall have
been established by the House of. Lords.
3. That the committee are of opinion, that in
future no person or persons, excepting those who
have voted previous to the date of this resolution
being agreed to, at an election of a representative
Peer or representative Peers for Scotland, in per-
son, by proxy, or by list, without any protest, since
1801, that he or they are not entitled to vote at the
said elections, or against whose right to vote at the
said elections no petition since 1801 has been pre-
sented to the House of Lords, ought to vote at the
said elections until he or they shall produce to the
Lord Clerk Register, or his deputies, a certificate
in the form annexed, from the Lord High Chancel-
lor, Lord Keeper or Commissioners of the Great
Seal of Great Britain, stating that in his opinion he
or they are entitled to vote at the said elections, or
until his or their right to vote at the said elections
shall have been adjudged by the House of Lords.
4. That the committee are of opinion, that the
right of every person who has voted or may claim to
vote at the said elections, shall be subject and liable
to every objection to which the same would have
been subject and liable, had the foregoing resolution
not been agreed to ; and that every person claiming
to vote at the said elections, to whom a certificate
from the Lord High Chancellor, Lord Keeper or
Commissioners of the Great Seal of Great Britain,
entitling him so to do, may have been refused, shall
be empowered to prefer his claim to vote at the said
elections to the House cf Lords.

5. That the committee are of opinion, that in ad-
dition to the union roll or list now called, another
toll or list of Peers of Scotland ought to be made,
and in future called at the said elections. That such
additional roll should comprise the Christian lames
and titles of those Peers who have voted at former
elections without any protest since 1801, that he
or they are net entitled to vote at the said elections,
or against those whose right to vote at the said elec-
tions, no petitions since 1801, has been presented to
the House of Lords. And the said roll should con-
tain also the Christian names and tides of those
Peers who from time to time obtain a certificate or
certificates from the Lord High Chancellor, Lord
Keeper or Commissioners of the Great Seal of
Great Britain, entitling them to vote at the said
elections, or who, by judgment of the House of
Lords, are declared to be so entitled : from which
last list or roll the election of a representative Peer
or representative Peers for Scotland is to be made.
6. That the committee are of opinion that the
Lord Clerk Register of Scotland should be ordered
to prepare a list or roll of the Peers of Scotland, as
described in the foregoing resolution, and to trans-
mit a true copy thereof, signed by himself, to the
clerk of the Parliaments, within one calendar month
after these resolutions shall have been agreed to ;
and be ordered also to prepare and transmit a similar
roll or list, signed in the same manner, within 14
days after the commencement of each session of
Parliament.

7. That the committee are of opinion that a copy
of these resolutions should be transmitted to the
Lord Clerk Register of Scotland, with directions to
conform thereto, and to forward a copy of the same
to each Peer of Scotland; and that whenever a royal
proclamation is issued for the election of a represen-
tative Peer or representative Peers for Scotland, it
will be expedient at the same time to pub;ish in the
London and Edinburgh Gazettes the provisions and
regulations contained in the 2d, 3d, and 4th resolu-
tions.

8.
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specting the voting for the representative Peers for
Scotland, ought to be rescinded.
9. That the committee are of opinion, that as
Peers of Scotland are not enabled by the laws now
in force to quality in Ireland for the purpose of
voting at elections of representative Peers for Scot-
land, it will be expedient to allow the necessary
oaths and declaration to be taken in the same courts
of law in Ireland as those in England wherein the
said oaths and declaration may be administered,
which extension of the law, it appears to the com-
mittee, will require legislative enactment.
10. That the committee are of opinion, on taking
into consideration the petition of the Earl of Mar,
that the statement therein contained is worthy of the
attention of the committee for privileges; and that,
in order to remove all doubt with regard to the ad-
missibility, at the elections of representative Peers
for Scotland, of a list written throughout by the Peer
subscribing it, but without witnesses, it is expedieni

for the House to declare what is the construction of
the statute on this point.

Forin of certificate to be signed by the Lord Chancellor,
Lord Keeper, or Commissioners of the Great Seal of Great
Britain.

tc Upon the application of A., - of _, I hereby
certify that the said A, - of _, is, in my opinion,
entitled to vote at the elections of representative Peers for
Scotland."

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO USE.

Kitty IVelsh, an elderly lady, whose daily ma-
t ons lie in the vicinity of Billingsgate-market, was
charged by a 1 ttle Frenchman,who rejoiced in the mart-
niticent nomenclature of Monsieur Alexandre-Julee-t
Apollon Robencon, with having bestowed upon him
•4 portion of that plain English in which the ladies
of Billingsgate excel, and otherwise acting indeco-
rously, without any just cause or provocation.
Monsieur Alexandre-Jules, &c., was walking peace-
ably down Cannon-street at a late hour on Friday
evening, when his compassionate feelings being
aroused by the sight of one of the fair sk lying, es
be presumed, asleep on the step of a door, he stepped
up, like a good Samaritan, to inquire into her tale
of wo ; but his humanity was dispered in a twink-
ling (as the lady had only been overcome with li-
quor,) by a volley of oaths, followed up by a dowse
on the chaps, which set his eyes a-watering, and
took away his comprehension for a short period.
Betaking himself to his heels, in order to recover
fridm his astonishment, his chagrin was revived at
finding the lady in full chase, vociferating epithets
of no very complimentary description. She was,
however, stopped by a policeman, and Monsieur
itottencon initnediately gave her into custody.
The LORD MAYOR asked Kitty, who was an old
acquaintance, and who had hardly recovered from
her intoxication, why she had acted in such an out-
rageous tnanner ? Kitty, who was a compound of
filth arid ugliness, and, moreover, some twenty years
beyond that " certain age" of the fair sex, declared
with the greatest effrontery that the complainant had
made proposals of an amorous description to her.
" Is it true what she says ?" said Mr. Hobler,
laughing, " that you have a penchant for her ?"
" Sacre Dieu !" said Monsieur Alexandre, redden-
ing with indignation, "Jesu Marie ! den for why
she say I have one penchant—ha, ha! very goot—
very dam goot !"
The LORD MAYOR disbelieved the defendant's
defence, fined her five shillings for being drunk, and
in di-fault of payment directed she should have a
short imprisonment. 4.4 ~-::
B 0 IV- STREET.

M. Laporte, the late manager of the King's
Theatre, came before Mr. MINSTIULL, the sitting
Magistrate, for the purpose of asking him if he could
give him assistance in recovering a manuscript opera
from the possession of Mr. Monck Mason, the pre-
sent lessee and manager, which he improperly with-
held.

Mr. AliNsuuLt, was afraid he had no power to
interfere in such a matter, but he should be happy
to hear the circumstances from the applicant.
M. Laporte stated that, during the latter part of
the time he was manager of the King's Theatre,
he purchased a manuscript opera, for the music of
which alone he paid 301., and when he gave up the
theatre, it was left among some other productions,
his property. He had applied repeatedly to Mr.
Monck Mason for the restitution of this particular
opera, and had shown him clearly that he was the
proprietor of it, but he refused to give it up, and he
therefore asked the Magistrate if he had not the
power to compel him to do so ?
Mr. MiNsiium, really had no such power. The
case might be one of considerable hardship, but it
was not of that nature to warrant the interference
of a Magistrate.
M. Laporte said, the matter would have been
managed much more expeditiously on the other aide
of the water. However, he was much obliged to
his Worship for the attention which he had paid to
his statement. The applicant then withdrew.

MARLBORO UGH STREET.
A respectable-looking man named Pike, in the
service of Sir F. Weston, Treasurer to his Majesty's
Household, appeared to answer a charge of affilia-
tion made against him by a young woman named
Mary Ann Radford. On the female being sworn,
she pointed out the defendant as the father of her
child. The defendant denied, in the most positive
manner, the possibility of such a charge having any
foundation in truth ; he had been in her company
but once, and he was ready to swear that he had
never been familiar with her. The female as strongly
protested that he was the father, and assured the
Magistrate that she was never acquainted, either be-
fore or since the unfortunate transaction, with any
other individual.

Mr. DYER inquired how the defendant became
acquainted with the young woman. He replied
that he came up from Windsor by the same coach
with her, and in the course of conversation he dis-
covered that she was a fellow-servant of an acquain-
tance of his. The day being exceedingly wet, he
took compassion on her, and gave her something to
keep out the cold; and on their arrrival in town,
he accompanied her to her mother's house. lie de-
clared that was the only time he ever saw her.
The latter part of this statement the young
woman dened. She said that the defendant told
her to call upon him at a house in Pall-mall, and on
doing so he invited her up stairs into a large room.
It was in this place she lost her virtue, and it was
the only time she was acquainted with the defendant.
The defendant again most positively asserted that
it was untrue, and he wished to be sworn.

Mr. DYER observed that swearing him could have
no effect. He had only one course to pursue, and
there being nothing to impugn the evidence of the
female, it must be taken.

The defendant said it was a very hard case; he
had a wife and five children to support, and hoped
that the magistrate would act leniently.
It was decided that the defendant should pay
2s. 6d. per week, and 3/. 16s. expenses.