The Sun.
London, England, 1835-10-24 00:00:00

reason, is by returning an overwhelming majority 0f
Reformers to the House of Commons. This is true'
so far as it goes; but when, and how is such a majority
to be obtained ? Is the country to be put to all the
hazard and commotion of another election ; or is it t°
wait patiently till the seven years duration of Pai'lif
ment has expired? Either notion is preposterous;
for
in the first place, another million of Tory money, Nvil
the party too being constantly on the alert, and pow
sessing all the energies which desperation lends eves:
the feeblest, might produce nearly, if not quite, the
same disastrous results as were witnessed at the last
election ; and secondly, the country, in its present
eager and feverish state, would no more consent to Wart
six years for an improvement in the hereditary legislly
ture, than an Alderman would consent to wait six day 9
without his dinner. If the Lords are really to be re
formed, they must be reformed without loss of tio.;
Either the emergency is pressing, or it is not. If
is, then not an hour should be lost in preparing for it
if it is not, then there is no need to waste that time ill
its discussion, which might be devoted to more
rative matters. For ourselves, we cannot but .thin ic
that a Reform in the Upper House is among the ye rY
first questions that should be entered on at the ensul 0g
Session. Till some satisfactory deciSion be come- t°
on this subject, vain will be all attempts to further the
March of improvement. It may still creep indeed, but
it will never be able to proceed at a rational pace, for
the Lords will be constantly throwing up some obstacle
or other to check its progress. As for waiting..--as the
reviewer discreetly suggests—till the old Conservatives
have dropped off, and more promising shoots of ariste:
cracy have supplied their places; this is about as absurd
as to wait, like the bumpkin in Horace, on tho banks
of a river, till the flood has rolled by, and left a dry
chatinel for crossing.
In the " Memoirs of Sir James Mackintosh," "e
have a fine Whig flourish on the public and private
deserts of one who, for a long series of years, was one
of the most efficient contributors to the pages of the
Edinburgh Review. Sir James was an eminent wee
certainly, but he was far from being the prodigy the/
it is here attempted to be shown he was. The very
highest praise we can accord him is, that he was the
first of the second-rate order of minds. He has
written no one work, like Hume, or Burke, or Be'''
tham, or Mill, that can honestly be pronounced the
best of its class. His " Vindicix Gallicz" is alreatV
forgotten ; the select few only know or care anythin
about his vaunted Supplement ; and as for his Os'
tory,- it cannot be compared—notwithstanding .the
prodigious flourish of trumpets with which it 'was'
ushered before the public—in the graces of style, t°
Hume's England ; in the power of compelling the
reader's attention, to Robertson's Charles the Fifth;
or in its profoundness of research, and luminous
expositions of character, to Gibbon's Rome. The
best things Sir James Macintosh ever wrote, were his
characters of Lord Somers, Swift, Hume, and Johnson'
which were all composed hastily, but with inimitable
grace and accuracy of delineation, during his voyage
home from Bombay. His character of Dr. Johnson'
in particular, is the best we have yet seen of that greet
moralist and lexicographer, more especially that por".
tion of it which defines the quality of his critical file'''.
ties. The few remaining articles in the Number, we
must, from want of space, pass without commen:,
The ablest is the one on the " Newspaper ta%
which, at some more leisure period, we may make the
subject of comment.

"• BUENOS AYRES, JULY 31.-26th year
Liberty, 20th of Independence, and 6th of the Argent''.
Constitution.—The Government, under this date, directs
and decrees as follows :—Art. 1. From the publication of
the present decree all communication, epistolary and e°11:1
mercial, is closed between this province and Cordova 'l°4
otherwise resolved. Wherefore no person shall de,"
hence for that province, but all who choose will be perm.' j
ted to come hither. 2. Let this decree be communieatlo
to those whom it may concern, published and inserted in t'
official register--Rosas."
On Saturday, we were shown by Mr. John SeoO'f
English-street, a remarkable freak of nature, in the sbaPek°„
a twin egg, or rather a small fitted into a large one, and "/
a hand o greater nicety than that of the deftest workman'
A pretty thick streak of white separated the inner portio:
of the large shell from the outer of the small one, and lb'
latter was firmly and compactly formed. Truly, N•Si
Scott's poultry are wonderful birds ; and, what is best e
all, this wonderful story is one of undoubted trutb.----M°l-
- Courier.
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REGISTRATION.—We have not heard th,l eXa
i • result of the revising barristers' courts for the ncrther:
division of Nottinghamshire, which only terminated 'al;t
evening ; but it is with very great satisfaction we learn
the immense number of Tory objections in Broxtowe lutt
not impaired the majority gained over them in Bassetlal,
but that the Reformers gained from four to five litoldfc.ii
votes in that division. The Conservatives may now
their teeth, or do as they like, but the glory is departed'
—Nottivgbam Review.
As a lad was emptying a privy, attached to the Star
Inn, he took out a substance which proved to be the bodi
of a male infant. It was carried to the workhouse, where'
in the course of the forenoon, an inquest was held, and fro:
the testimony of two medical gentlemen, it appeared
have been a six or seven months' child, and to have hee.t
dead about a fortnight, but they could not tell whether
had been born alive.—Norwich Mercury.
STOPPING A CORPSE.—On Sunday week, a Pets
son of the name of Hannah Barnet, who lodged vvitt' -
Mrs. Needham, of Gillygate, in the suburbs of this citYfi
.. threw off this mortal coil," without taking the needful,
preliminary in the eyes of Mrs. Needham, of settling bed
demands for attendance, &c. The relatives of the deeeal
undertook the charge of the funeral, and provided we
coffin, &c. Wednesday morning, at nine o'clock, was ,a 1);
pointed for the last rites to be performed, and the prie;
and his assistants were punctually in attendance. 1°,5
tolled the solemn bell, and yet the funeral train appear-
not. Inquiries were made as to the cause, when, lo !
Needham had put in her claim for waiting, &c. ; and Wati,e
not resign possession of the corpse, until she was paid "tBs
uttermost farthing." After long altercation, the knell Wit
tolled a second time, but still the inexorable creditor, 11;.
yielding as the grave, refused to give up her dead. s,
magistrate was applied to, but, under the circumstaneer,
he declined interfering. Ultimately, however, we naclF4
stand, some arrangement was made, by which the remar„
of the departed were permitted to be conveyed to the na
row house, to rest in peace.—York Courant.
On Saturday evening the inhabitants of pondee
r!
were again appalled by the thrilling report of another Mild
der. On inquiry, we have ascertained that a girl na6et
Elizabeth Finnigan, about twenty-three years of age, ,1„
with her death in a drunken brawl in a house in Blinsh3' r
street, West Port. Euphemia Soot, wife of Alexanieer
Falkner, mill foreman, West Port, has been taken tIP 5
the murder, and an investigation of the whole affair %v.'s,
taken before the Sheriff on Monday. The general belief Id
that there is no positive proof of this individual having aWe
her death to violence from others.—Dundee Courier.
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