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ment."

The same diplomat's' observed that William had fore-
told at that time what was to happen in 1832 ; and it is
for that reason he so completely di:regards the protocols of
the Ginrerence. _ _

The plan of Marshal Gerard, approved by the Govern-
ment, in case it shall lie expedient to cross the Belgian
frontier, is to march straight forward on Amsterdam,
leaving aside the citadel of .Antwerp, and thus compel the
King of Holland to withdraw his troops from Belgium,
and to pay a Leavy war contribution. It is generally
thou:s;ht tiot the Fiench army sent on that expedision will
amount to 100,000 men, sulTortol by a considerable
carps of reserve, to keep she Prussians in check, and that
Louis Philippe wil repair Brussels to 1010-tv the move-
ment of the army.
The ..4os, 01 thdgitim and that of France are the san.e,
and Leopold acted wisely in asking for the hand of a

French Princess. Nevertheless, his marriage will secure
to him the possession of his crown., if the obstinacy of the
King of Holland leads to a war. Peace is indispensable
for the consolidation of Louis Philippe's throne, which, in
the event of a war, will he placed in imminent danger,
and Leopol.l's sceptre would necessarily share the fate of
the Frenelkliing's.
Should a war break out in Europe, Germany will be the
first to espouse the cause of republicanism. This state of
things is wholly owing to the improvidence of the German
Princes in 1811 and 1815. At that time the King of
Prussia and the Emperor of Austria were the fir t to en-
courage sk-cret associations, such as those of the Tugen-
bend, Burschenbund, and others. The dogma of the
sovereignty of the people and independence of nations was
openly professed in these societies, who swore death to the
tyrant (Bonaparte). The German Princes then profited
by the enthusiasm of the youth of the country, and flat.
tered them with the hope of the establishment of constitu-
tional Government Charters, liberty of the press, &c. to
encourage their animosity against the French ; but when
Napoleon was overturned, they soon forgot their pro-
mises.

Now those same Sovereigns are exerting their utmost
efforts to sobdue the very men who saved ►heir thrones in
1814 and 1815. But if war once commences in Europe,
the Germ in people will avenge themselves of the ingrati-
tude of those Princes who betrayed them in so shameful a
manner.

LITERATURE.

COMPLETE ELECTION GUIDE.

THE REFORM ACT, 9. WM. IV. CHAP. XLV. DISSECTED,
ARRANGED, AND ILLUSTRATED BY A COMMEN-
TARY ON ITS VARIOUS PROVISIONS, WITH RE-
FERENCE TO THE GENERAL LAW AND PRAC-
TICE OF ELECTIONS, DIRECTING ELECTORS,
CANDIDATES, AND OFFICERS, IN THE PROSECU-
TION AND EXERCISE OF THEIR RIGHTS, AND
THE PERFORMANCE OF THEIR DUTIES. WITH
THE BOUNDARY ACT, 2Sr 3W. 4 C. 64. BY GEO.
PRICE, ESQ., OF THE TEMPLE, BARRISTER
AT LAW. LONDON: JAMES RIDGWAY, PIC-
CADILLY. 1832.
We have carefully examined the Complete
Election Guide, and cam safely recommend it to
all those who wish to possess a manual to direct
them in the way they should act. Many similar
publications have lately issued from the press, but
the present appears to us to simplify the many

technicalities of the Reform Act, so as to render

them clear to the comprehension of those who
are not learned either in law or election matters.
As the author has stated his views so clearly in
the preface, we cannot do better than give his
own words :
" The object is to render the reading of that statute
,nore readily intelligible and more easily legible generally ;
but particularly to the official agents required by the Act
to administer to its operation, and to such persons as may
be interested in the provisions and would avail themselves
of the benefits of this
" The means by which it has been attempted to accom-
plish that object are principally these :—Every division
(by section) of the statute has been again separately dis-
•ected and broken, by aid of paragraphs, into the several

littinct and often different enactments contained or emho-

died in each, with a marginal sum of the substance of
every integral provision opposed to eich enacting or pro-
viding clause.
" Appended to the Act so dissected and di.played is ac
analytical Commentary, embracing, comprehensively and
.uccinctly, the principles and practice of the new election
law, with a minute reference to every sentence of the 'ta-
tute, calculated to establish the accur tcy or expose the er-
rors of the explanatory passages.

" The Commentary is composed of •propo,itions for
guidance in practice, made up of the various and often
numerous provisions, applying to one and the same sub-
ject, found scattered in disjointed and distant clauses of

the Act, but Ii re collected together and united and at..
ranged under the proper head or topic to which each fairly
belonge.

" Thus the several sections of the Commentary are con-
fined to single subjects, following progressively, yet not
ervilely and inconsequently, the provisions of the Act, but
as each step is to be taken in order of t;nte, from the first
necessary to registration down to the last measure required
to mature the right to exercise tire elective franchise, and
the course of appealing from the adjudication of the revis-
ing barrister to the House of Commons.
" The severil pages of the Act are all headed with a
running title of the substantial matter of the contents of
-actil, and the statute and the commentary aro made to
rtfer mutually to and from each other, wherever on the
,ne in n d the treatise explains or expounds the sections of
the Act, and where on the other the Commentary is sane-

tioned and justified by the terms of the Statue.
" The mere wording of the Statute has been advisedly
varied, and other langu tge has been used, with a view to
explain and enlarge the meaning of the legislature, instead
of coasting cautiously al ing each separate enactment in the
very course, and in the very terms of the Act.
"In executing the design of this undertaking brevity
has been mainly consulted. The Act itself is given at
large and in full, lest any omission should give to that
most inestimable work the semblance of an abridgement;
or the forms and schedules and the provisions merely tem-
porary and no longer of use would have been omitted.
" Respect for authority has induced the preservation of
the directions to overseers from the office of Secretary of
State for the Home Department.
" Time order in council making a temporary alteration
in the dates of the proceedings for the present year, has
however been excluded ; because it is but temporary and
has already partly passed away ; and because the change it
has effected may be stated and disposed of in one sentence,
simply by observing that the tittles appointed by the statute
for every act of duty required at the hands of official agents
have been, for the year 1832, postponed to the same nume-
rical days of the mouth next after that which had been
appointed for each.

" The short forms preser bed have been introduced into
the body of the analytical commentary, although printed
as originally in the Act ; because, occupying as they do
but very little space, they convey too much practical in
formati,,n to be referred to in a distinctly detached Ap-
pendix.
To the new law promulgated by the Act has been
added the substance of the existing laws of election, pre-
setved by express provision. That has been done to make
this compendium a complete guide to general election bu-
siness in all its progressive stages.

" Such is the substance of the plan and object of the pre-
sent publication, in which the practical utility of a di,see-
don of the Act, aided by a commentary on its application,
for the purposes of election business, has been alone con-
sulted."