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LONDON,
TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 24, 1832

It is almost superfluous to contradict the ab-
surd rumours daily, hourly, put forth by the
Ultra portion of the Press, respecting his MA-
JESTY'S " disinclination" to create the requisite
number of Peers to ensure the safety of the
Reform Bill, lbrthe reports are so very ridiculous
that they cannot but defeat their object. Lest,
however, any one should be found willing and
weak enough to give them cretlit, we now de-
clare, on competent authority, that Earl GREY
has received his MAJESTY'S express commands
to create as many new Peers as may be deemed
necessary to render the triumph of the Bill no
longer a matter of doubt or uncertainty.

The Reform Bill was again discussed in
Committee last night in the House of Com-
mons. The principal question of the evening
was, whether the number of boroughs returning
one Member to Parliament should be decided
upon at 30, or left unfixed and undetermined.
A majority of 98 gave it in favour of the
former opinion. Several other clauses, as far as
No. 7, were conditionally agreed to. 'We hope
Ministers will allow no influence to divert them
from their resolution of pressing the Reform
Bill through Committee. Divide et impera
should be their motto. Let them divide
but not declaim. It is morally impossible
than anything novel—or anything even approach •
ing to novelty—can now be adduced, in the way
of argument on the Reform question, and in-
deed if such a miracle could, by any possibility,
occur, certain we are that the people would take
little heed of it, for the divisions in the House
of Commons are now the only points of debate
looked to with interest by the people. As for
the quibbling and special pleading of such small
wits as CROKER and Co., they actually operate as
emetics on nine out of ten of the reading com-
munity. Previously to the House going into
Committee on the Bill, some cursory remarks
were made on the subject of the tithe system in
Ireland, from which it is evident that it is all up
with the Irish Protestant Clergy, who can
only recover their exorbitant dues by sabreing
one-half the population, and transporting the
other half..

The Anti-Reformers, those " masters of the
sevenfold face"—as POPE styled the incurable
dunces of his day—have not yet been shamed
out of their darling habits of intrigue and
quackery. A gang of those worthies have, as
will be seen by the communication of our
Warwick correspondent, been making desperate
efforts to get up an Anti-Reform peition in that
town. For three days has this petition been
hawked about from house to house, yet it has
only obtained seventy-four signatures, among
which appear the names of two notorious thieves
(martyrs, we suppose, to their political integrity),
one of whom exhibits his honoured person
in the town gaol, and the other in the House
of Correction ! Besides these respectable Ultras,
the signatures of five parsons also figure in the
petition ; as also those of six attornies, and seven
attornies' clerks ! What Ministry, even with
the back of ATLAS, and the shoulders of
BRIAREUS, can bear up against the influence
of such names ?

The feeling of compassion for the fate of the
Bristol and Nottingham rioters, and the hope
that their present sentence may be commuted
into one less severe, is daily extending itself'
among the people. We trust Government will
be induced, without loss of time, to turn its at-
tention to this painful subject. The punish-
ment of death is an awful one, and should never
be inflicted, except in cases of aggravated de-
linquency.

The German Papers are again setting up the
pretensions of Sardinia with respect to the colo-
nization of _Algiers by France. We have al-
ready exposed the absurdity of such an in-
significant naval Power as Sardinia feeling
either alarm or indignation on the subject.—
As to the threat, in the event of war break-
ing out, of Sardinia taking part against
France, the French army would soon settle
that point by dictating terms in the Pa-
lace at Turin. We suspect the true motive
to be, that the Germans are jealous of the ex-
tension of French commerce in Africa.

It appears that taking the population is at
present the order of the day on the Con-
tinent, as well as in this country. The
POPE has ordered the population of the
Eternal City to be taken, in which there
appears to be 5,000 Jews ; but his Holiness
does not allow them to have any souls !
LEGHORN, JAN. B,—What I lately stated to you is
fully confirmed—the Sardinian Government makes ob-
jections to the colonization of Algiers, and has taken
official steps on that account. The sending of a French
Governor, in the person of the Duke of Rovigo, seems in-
deed to show that little regard is paid in Paris to these
objections. However, under present circumstances, it
cannot be indifferent to France to break with Sar-
dinia, and we may expect that great advantages will
`,e given to the latter, if it should he irrevocably decided
to convert Algiers into a French colony. Since the re-
moval of the former dynasty, the situation of Franc,, as fir
as concerns its foreign relations, has become much more
unfavourable. It is well known how eagerly French di-
plomacy, immediately after the revolution in July, endea-
voured to make sure of Sardinia, and be on good terms

with its Government. Many circumstances at that time
defeated the plane of the French Government, and it was
with difficulty that it succeeded in obtaining some con-
fidence at Turin. Can we suppose that it now feels itself
sufficiently s•-cure in its foreign relations, to neglect the
most important connections with its neighbours, and to
excite hostile feelings against it in a country which is in-
deed small, but, from its geographical position and the
spirit of its inhabitants, is able to take a decisive part in
the affairs of the world, and this fo- the remote and pro-
blemafeal advantages which it is hoped to attain by the
possession of Algiers? To what dangers would the
southern departments of France be exposed, if that
country, being engaged in a general ww, should see Sar-
dinia and its army on the side of its enemies ?
Ho E, DEC. 31.—The populati,n of Rome appears by
the official returns to b • now 150,666 souls, exclusive of
foreigners, and also of the Jews, whose number is about
5,000, but whose souls :ire not reckoned. Prince Cannra
arrived here yesterday from Nettles, and had an audience
of his Holiness. Letters from Naples say that the beau-
tiful Prim esa Marie Antoinette. now seventeen years old,
who was formerly intended for the Infant Don Sebastian,
will robably he married to a young German Crown
Rince, an-1 that her younger sister, Amelia, who is
scarcely fourteen years of age, is designed for Don Sebas-
tian. Her p rait has already been sent to Madtid. The
y ung Crown Prince of Bavaria, who is now here under
the name of Count We:denbels, will stay some time longer,
and then go to Naples.
VIENNA, JAN. 12.-5 per Cent. Metalliques 84};
4 per Cent. 741 ; Bink Shares 1112.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.)

Their Lordships were occupied the whole of the morning in
hearing arguments upon demurrers, none of which possessed
the slightest public interest. In one of them the Lord Chief
Justice took occasion to complain of the expence to which parties
were put by the length to which declarations and pleas were
extended—many counts in some of the declarations, and many
of the pleas, being wholly unnecessary. His Lordship said it
distressed him much to witness such unnecessary expence.