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LONDON,
MONDAY EVENTN@. MARCH 26, 1832.

The Reform Bill is to be carried up to the
House of Lords to night, and we are happy to
have it in our power to announce that his
MAJESTY, and his advisers, have taken effec-
tual steps to prevent the destruction of lire and
property, which would ensue throughout the
united kingdom, if the measure were de-
feated. The industry, the welfare, and domestic
peace of a nation are not to be left at the ca-
price or mercy of a small faction of desperate in-
triguers and selfish monopolists—men hardened
in the practical guilt of office, until the seared
conscience nauseates at public virtue, and
commits every state offence as a private right to
a general sacrifice. We are happy in the power
of tranquillizing the public mind by the informa-
tion that patents of Nobility are already pre-
pared, in a sufficient number to ensure the success
of the Bill. The instruments wait but the Royal
sign manual, and should the danger be extreme,
in one half hour a Patriotic Sovereign can exer-
cise his prerogative and be the saviour of the
nation. Many of the patents are in favour of
men esteemed by all parties, and the country
cannot too highly appreciate the evils they will
avert; and the good they will effect to the public,
by their acceptance of the Peerage.

No man in public life ever studied effect more
acutely, and, we must confess, more successfully
than Sir ROBERT PEEL. Throughout the
Reform question he has quietly rejoiced at the
nausea and surfeit of the House, at the buf-
fooneries of WETHERELL, the eccentricities of
SIBTHORPE, the impertinence of such men as

:he CLERKS, DAWSONS, and GOULEURN

tribes, and the drowsy tinklings of a host of
nameless Members. When the impatience
and the disgust of the House were at the
extreme on Thursday night, Sir ROBERT rose
with all the benefits of the contrast, and he in-
creased the superiority of his rhetoric by a few
severe animadversions upon discursive speeches.
The most plausible, and in point of oratory the
most eloquent, but, upon careful examination,
the most shallow and disreputable speech that
Sir ROBERT ever made, was that of Thursday
night. He assumes throughout that Mr.
PITT and other Ministers would have
been liberal Statesman, upon the support of the
Aristocracy and Boroughmongers, but that their
free and patriotic intentions were overborne by
the ignorance of the people. Unfortunately for
Sir ROBERT'S case, Mr. PITT has left upon
record his opinions upon the subject. Mr.
PITT, in his motions upon Reform, wished
to appeal to the people ; and he stated,
in the strongest language, that a Minister
could do nothing for the public good, be-
cause the control of the Boroughmongers
was irresistible. He openly declared that the
system of Government was one of the most
pr(fllgate corruption, and adverting to the
insatiable cupidity of the Aristocracy and borough
Members, he made the memorable declaration,
that without an appeal to the
• • ter
people, it was im-
possible for any honest man to be a Mints .
This declaration has become a bye-word, an adage
throughout England ; and yet Sir ROBERT
PEEL has asserted that Mr. PITT found all the

' cipposition to freedom in the prejudices of the
lower orders. Sir ROBERT forgets that since
the year 1785 the people of England, notwith-
standing the taxes upon knowledge, have made
prodigious progress in every species of infor-
mation, whilst even the Judges, in address-
ing Grand Juries of Assize, have warned
the Aristocracy, that they have been retrograde,
or at best stationary. Sir ROBERT'S vision ex-
tends only to his circle of exdusivism. He re-
minds us of RIP VAN W7INCKLE, who woke
:nit of his forty years' slumber, and proceeded
upon the supposition that the people were just
the same as when he commenced his sleep.
There is not a foreman in a manufactory
of Birmingham, Manchester, or Glasgow,
that would not laugh to scorn the gross igno-
rance of all commercial principles betrayed by
Mr. PITT in speeches which were then reckoned
the very summit of wisdom. Commercial
monopolies—fictitious sinking funds—borrowing
with one hand and paying with the other—the
guinea at compound interest, amour.ting in time
to a globe of gold as big as the earth—the paper
system,—all these and a thousand similar
absurdities which imposed even upon Lord
GRENVILLE, and which, in his old age, he has
denounced as impositions, would not now impose
upon a Manchester weaver, or a London shop-
boy. These intellectual frauds were successfully
played off upon the Boroughmongers by PER-
CEVAL and Lord BEXLEY long after they were
held in derision and utter contempt by the
people. A few rich, trading, borough-holders,
thwarted some liberal commercial designs of
Mr. PITT towards Ireland in 1785, and among
those opponents was Sir ROBERT PEEL'S
father, and yet Sir ROBERT attributes this oppo-
sition to the ignorance and prejudices of the
people. When we reflect upon the debt, the
taxes, the places, pensions, and sinecures—the
delays and expenses of justice, which put the
great body of the English people out of
the pale of all law, and leave them at the mercy
of wrong-doers,—when we reflect upon the im-
mense accumulation of wealth in a few Aristo-
cratic families, and the wretched condition of the
Irish, and of the rural and manufacturing po-
pulation of England, we hardly conceive
it possible that Sir ROBERT PEEL could
have talked to the House of " destroying
the time-honoured system of society, which
harmonized to all gradations of life, and which
blended the security and stability of the *Mo-
narchy, with all the advantages of a popular
Government." Is it possible, that Sir ROBERT
PEEL could have adverted to Ireland, when he
spoke of the Reform Bill subverting " the do-
mination of that religion, which was pure in its
doctrine, and tolerant in its principle r

In our Paper of Saturday' week we inserted a va.

luable Report from Vice-Admiral Sir PULTENEY
MALcoi.Nr, upon the efficiency of our Packet
Establishment at Falmouth. This subject is of
the very highest importance to the mercantile
interests of the country, and to every branch of
the pubic service, as well as to individuals; and
it appears that the country is indebted to the
excellent arrangements at Falmouth to Captain
KING, " to whose unwearied and praiseworthy
exertions, and excellent regulations are to be at-
tributed, the perfect efficiency of the Packet
Service, and the check to the contraband trade

which existed in it." We are led to contrasi

this system of economy, despatch, and precision,
with that of the days of Mr. PITT, when useless
vessels were hired at an enormous rate, in order
to patronize borough connexions, and in which
the best seamen were protected from the Impress,
and abstracted from the Navy, provided they, or
their relations, possessed any votes in close
boroughs.

Sir PULTENEY MALCOLNI reports, that with
respect to the equipment, repairs and out-fit of
vessels, the service at Falmouth is reduced to

the minimum of expense, and the only altera-
tions he suggests are relative to the substitution
of steam-vessels for packets under canvass. At
present, there are two King's packets and three
hired packets confined to the Lisbon station,
and the Admiral recommends a plan by which
four steam-vessels might be made efficient for
the Lisbon and Mediterranean service, and
secure a regular and rapid communication
with Greece. The consumption of coals is
reduced by one-third, so that a Lisbon
packet can carry fuel enough to last till her
return. The system of steam-packets is pro-

nounced to be the most economical. There
are points in the report which appear to us
at her inconsistent. Why should any vessels
be hired for the service, when the King's yards
can or ought to build and equip much cheaper
and better than individuals ? The service ought
to be either one of contract or of Government
management, and not a mixture of both. Few
persons will agree with the report that Govern-
ment ought to keep a running account of pas-
sage-money with the commanders, exacting one-
half from individual passengers, and paying for
the passage of their own officers. The report
recomtnends that no packet should be allowed to
carry across the Atlantic more than eighteen
:ons of silver, or so much as ten tons of quick-
silver, the present ordinary freight ; but surely
these points might better be left to the discretion
,if individuals, and the rates of insurance. We are
surprised to find that of thirty-seven packets,
thirty-four are sailing vessels. The greater num-
ber of the latter are the old ten-gun brigs, which

ate employed in this service, only because they
are totally useless in any other. This class of
vessels owed their origin to private pa+ronage,
and to the mismanagement of our naval service.
They are now nearly extinct, and will never be
revived.

The following are extracts from Brussels

Papers received this morning :

BRUSSELS, MARCH 23.—Yesterday the English Lega-
tion received a courier from the Hague. He is said to
he the bearer of important despatches. He left the Hague
on the 21st in the evening. At the very moment el his
departure a courier was despatched to London.
M. Vandermi,sen, who usually resides at Paris, has
made an excursion to the Hague, where he appears to
have procured documents calculated to refute Lord Pon-
sonby.
_ _

The Chamber of Representatives, in its sitting yester-
day, discussed the articles of the Budg,t of the depart.
ment of Foreign Affairs. The central sections had pro-
posed red,uctions, more or less considerab'e in the several
items, particularly in the salaries of the Diplomatic Agents
at foreign Courts. More of these reductions were agreed
to, wholly or in part by the Chamber, as appears from
the Wowing table.
The allowances for London and Paris include the sala
ries of a Secretary and Clerk :
Places. Quality.

Asked by Reduced Granted
the Minis- by Central by the
ter. Section. Chambers.
Paris. Min. Plen. 30,0006. 22,0006. 22,0006.
London. ditto. 42,500 31,500 31,500
Berlin. ditto. 22,000 18,000 18,• 00
Vienna. Min. Resid. 10,000 10,000 14,000
Petersburgh. ditto 16,000 15,000 16,000
Brazil. Charg. d'Aff. 10,000
Spain. ditto. 6,000
Italy. ditto. 5,0.0
Sauden. ditto. _ 6,000

VIENNA, Maitcli 13.—1 n a political point of view,
our city may now be one of the most interesting places in
Europe, at least the negociations which will lead to the
breach in the consideration of the amicable relations of the
European States, seem to centre here, and, in fact, the
communications between Foreign Cibinets and ours were
never so frequent as they are now. Great anxiety is felt
respecting the issue of the affairs of Italy. Persons who
are in general well-informed believe that some may be
found to arrange all the points which affect individual in-
terests. The most simple means to promote the general
tranquillity would he, if M. Perier would be sensible that
he has acted precipitately, and adopted a measure which
is disapproved by his friends, as well as by his enemies.
For in whose favour, and to what end, has the expedition
been sent to Ancona, as the Pope has formally refused
the offer of French troops, and the French Ministry declared
it was entirely for the interest of the Papal See, and for the
re-establishment of order in the Roman Legations that it
sent I ,500 troops ? If M. Perier had any secret object it
must be very closely concealed, since none of the French
journals allude to it. Yesterday, however, a Secretatv of
the Foreign office at Paris arrived here with despatches,
and a speedy arrangement of all the differences respecting
Rome is now spoken of. It is not known whether the
French troops will immediately leave Ancona, and it is
probable that this point is not positively settled. Our
funds remain steady.
The Ottoman Moniteur, of the 18th of February,
gives some account of the negociations with the Viceroy of
Egypt, to induce him to desist from his attack on Syria.
He made such demands, in reply, that they could not he
granted : but it is still to be expected that, with his age
and experience, he will weigh the consequences of persist-
ing in his disobedience, and be sensible of the patience and
the forbearance of the Sultan, for which he is indebted
entirely to the recollection of his long-tried fidelity, and
the unwillingness of the Sultan to spill the blood of his
subjects. Should he unfortunately persist in his disobe-
dience, the punishment cannot be delayed. The Pachas
of Koniah, Cesaria, &c., are ordered to assemble their
troops at Aleppo.

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

The estafette from Paris this morning, brings a mixture of
news—first, in relation to the affairs of Belgium, it states that
the Secretary of the Russian Ambassador, sent to the Hague to
consult with Count Orloff', had returned to Paris, it is said,
with unsatisfactory news, and that the King of Holland conti-
nues obstinate. On the above subject, we have received the
following by the French mail, which arrived this morning :
They write from the Hague, that every thing was ready for the
immediate departure of Count Orloff for London ; and it was
generally thought that the affairs would be amicably settled,
but all on a sudden, the departure of Count Orloff was stopped,
and his destination changed from that of London to St.
Petersburgh. Also, the express from Brussels states that
the negociations have been broken off and the King of Hol.
land refuses to ratify the treaty. If we may venture our opi-
nion on the aforesaid intelligence, and the information we de-
rive from respectable quarters, we look upon it as a Dutch
Stock-jobbing report, and if we can rely on the source of our
informants, we still have every reason to expect that in a short
period our former information of the affairs being settled will
prove correct. Secondly, the despatches received from the
French Ambassador at Vienna at Paris is said to be highly sa-
tisfactory. They write from Bologne to the 15th of March that
orders have been received at Rome, prohibiting all jour-
nals, French, English and even Italian. All letters
were opened, and if they contained information they
were burnt. It was reported, on the return of a courier
from Vienna, one hundred thousand Austrians were going
to assemble on the line of the Po.
They write from Madrid that orders were sent on a sudden
to the numerous corps proceeding to join the army of observa.
Lion in Portugal, for some of them to return and proceed to the
Py rennees.

The Commander of St. Jean d'Acre has succeeded in getting
in a convoy into that town, of ammunition and provisions.
Halifax Papers have been received at the North and South
American Coffee House, to the 24th of February. They do not
contain any news.