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LONDON,
MONDAY EVENING. MAY 21, 1832.

The Reform Bill comes on in Committee

this night in the House of Lords. The Antis
will doubtless have some further objections to
offer, will exhibit some further ebullitions of
spleen and rancour; but their objections and their
humours will alike be fruitless, for the Ministry,
and their stanch allies, the people, are both
equally determined. 'We trust, however, that

:he former will not only be resolute, but expedi

tious in passing the Bill through Committee, for
more—much more depends on the speed with
which the measure becomes the law of the land,
than those who are not immediately connected
with commercial transactions can well imagine.
At present almost every species of trade is at a
stand-still—the great manufacturers refuse to
speculate, and the great wholesale houses to in-
crease their stock, so depressing to trade, as, in-
deed, to every other interest, is the state of
suspense in which the country has been placed
by the events of the last fortnight. If Earl
GREY be desirous to add to the debt of gratitude
which the people already acknowledge towards
him, he will use every effort to hasten the
progress of the Reform Bill. Surely there
can be no further pretence for delay on
the plea that the Bill has not been suf-
ficiently discussed ! It has now, in one
shape or other, in principle as well as in
detail, been before the public upwards of
eighteen months, during which period, it has
been the subject of more rigid and searching
scrutiny than any Parliamentary measure ever
before experienced. The people have now,
therefore, a right to expect a prompt and efficient
settlement of the measure. On this point, we
know, they are keenly sensitive, and though now
comparatively tranquil, will not wholly lay aside
their jealousy, till that has become law,
which months since should have become law.
We refer our readers to the resolutions, which
will be found amongst our advertising columns,
passed at a late meeting at Kilmarnock, as also
to a report of a great Reform Meeting, held at
the Isle of Wight, and at other places, for proof
that the people are resolved to have the Bill
passed, unmutilated, and equally anxious to have
it passed quickly.

This forenoon, at twelve o'clock, a deputation
from the city of London, headed by Mr. Al-
derman WOOD, had a long interview with Earl
GREY, at his house in Downing-street.

The rumour of the quarrel between his MA-
JESTY and the Duke of SUSSEX, is the great topic
of conversation at the west end of the town, but
very little confidence is placed in it.

Amidst all our unbounded joy at the fulfilment
of a nation's righteous wishes, there is, as unfor-
tunately there always is, in every cup of human
bliss, some mixture of bitterness. We have
again and again expressed our regret that the
name of the SOVEREIGN should have in the late
convulsion been exposed to such animadversions.
We have stated it as our belief that the KING
had been grossly deceived; that he had ever been
anxious the Reform Bill should pass ; that his
name had hitherto been associated with the Bill ;
that it would be associated with it, and that his
generous and forgiving people remembering this
would in time be disabused, and again set him
up as the idol of their devotion and loyalty. We
are glad to find that our wishes are beginning to
be realized, and that the people are now effacing
those marks of disloyalty which disappointment
and rage had unfortunately driven them to. When
all the circumstances are considered, the people
will do their Sovereign justice. • He trusted to
the false statements of interested parties, hesi-
tated in having recourse to a strong measure till
he sary he could be justified by the voice of his
people, but no sooner did that voice reach is
ear than he acceded to their wishes.. Let not
this be forgotten, and let it not be forgotten that
up; to the resignation of Earl GREY, he had on
every occasion shown the greatest devotion to
.the cause. He dissolved Parliament, dismissed
Earl HOWE, the' favourite Chamberlain of his
QUEEN, forbade all conversation in his presence
on politics by the- Anti-Reformers of his palace,
'and now has crowned his people's wishes, by
giving his Ministers full power Ito carry the

Bill. Would GEORGE M., or GEORGE IV.
have given their consent to such a measure ?—oi
would any member of the Royal Family except
the Duke of SUSSEX ?—Never ! To ‘VILLIANI
IV., then, the nation owes eternal gratitude, and
future generations will couple his name with the
second great charter of our liberties.

The glorious struggle made by the people of
this country has not only secured our own liberty
but the liberty of the world. England has for
centuries been looked up to as the western star,
of liberty—that star has been obscured for a
moment, but now shines forth more bright than
ever, and scatters joy and gladness among the
nations. What madness in the friends of des-
potism to provoke a great people to show their
strength, and raise a cry of liberty which shakes
the despot on his throne, and tells even the Rus-
sian slave not to despair ! Unhappy Poland !
How would that voice have cheered thy brave
sons in battle—how it would have nerved the
arm, and raised the courage, of the bravest of
the brave ! Let them not, however, despond.
The day will yet come when the wrong•, the
oppressions, and the ignominies, inflicted on
that people will be avenged, and the united
voices of the inhabitants of Europe will
compel their Sovereigns to respect treaties
to which they stood pledged in the face
of the world. England and France are now
united and free. They have nobly led the way
in attacking the strong-holds of despotism, and
they kill be followed. The learning, the ge-
neral intelligence, and the free spirit of the
German people, will not long submit to the
bayonet and the sword. 'When the German
states rose like one man against the tyranny of
BUONAPARTE, most of them were promised free
Constitutions. How these promises have been
kept, the experience of the last eighteen years
but too sadly shows. Instead of Constitutions
they are forced to maintain large standing armies
in times of peace ; Austria, Russia, and Prussia,
have leagued together to smother the spirit of
liberty, and a Wellington Administration
was only wanting to make their triumph
certain. By the firmness of our united
people that calamity has been averted, and now
the day of regeneration is come. The people
of Prussia have been more anxiously looking
if possible than ourselves to the fate of the Re-
form Bill, because they saw it'was the only means
of forcing their Sovereign to redeem the pledge
he gave in 1814. Most of the other German
States are imbued with the same feeling, and
the petition of the haughty but brave
Hungarians in favour of the Poles, show
that they will not be backward in the cause
of justice and liberty. Portugal, too, under a
constitutional Government, will keep alive the
spirit of freedom in the Peninsula, and the little
fortress of Ancona, with its French garrison,
will protect it in Italy. At no other period of
history was the prospect of general liberty and
civilization so cheering, and GOD only grant
that Reform may be as peaceably achieved
in other countries as it has been in this.
well might the Anti-Reformer exclaim
against the expedition of DON PEI) RO—
against the capture of Ancona, and the separa-
tion of Belgium and Holland—and well might
the three Sovereigns withhold their sanction to
the treaties signed by their Ambassadors. They
were all so many blows struck against tyranny.
Every day convinces us more and more that
Austria, Russia, and Prussia held back be-
cause they were informed from a very high
quarter that the Bill couldnot pass, and that they
at last signed the Treaty with a reserve, enabling
them, in case of its rejection, to commence a
crusade, not only against France and Belgium,
but against the liberty of the civilized world.
The voice of a free people crushed the attempt,
and that voice will be responded to.

The news from Paris up to Saturday afternoon
will be found in another part of The Sun. It is
not important. The place of M. CASIMIR PE..
HIER does not officially appear to have been
filled up; and probably the return of our Mi-
nistry to power may facilitate the adjustment of
affairs in Paris.

The accounts from Brussels and Holland are
more warlike in appearance than they will turn
out in reality. If the Duke of WELLINGTON
had been successful in his late operations, we
should have war in Europe in a month ; but now
that Earl GREY resumes his post, we have no
fear of any serious attack from the Dutch, how-
ever much they may bluster against the Bel-
gians. The speedy settlement of the English
Reform Bill is the surest guarantee of peace arid
public liberty throughout Europe—the world.

We have this morning received Dutch,
German, and Hamburg Papers of late dates.
Their contents are of more importance to the
parties concerned, than of interest to English
readers. The cholera still lingers in several
parts of the Continent, though in a subdued cha-
racter. It appears that the Turks have suffered
a defeat by the Egyptians in the vicinity of St.
Jean d'Acre, but have obtained a victory over
the Bosnians. The accounts from Vienna state
that the health of young NAPOLEON,who was re-
ported to have died some time ago, is improving,
and no doubt is now entertained of his speedy
recovery. The news of the defeat of Lord GREY
on the Reform Bill, appears to have given a
complete shock to the monied interests, so far as
we yet learn, all over the continent, but the
happy tutu which affairs have taken, will, no
doubt, cause a corresponding reaction. At
Hamburg the sensation has been very great :-
THE HAGUE, MAT 16.—1 n consequence of the ac-
counts from Great Britain and Ireland, the quarantine re-
gulations for the prevention of cholera were extended as
follows :—The west coast of England, from Preston to
the river Ribble, to and including Carnarvon and the
Isle of Anglesea, are to be considered as suspected ; and
Liverpool and the river Mersey, Flint on the Dee, and
the river itself as infected ; the Isle of Man, and the
coast of Ireland from Cork to Belfast inclusive, are to be
considered as infected.
Prince Frederick and Prince Adalbert are gone to
the bead-quarters.
We learn that our Government has taken the necessary
precautions to prevent the introduction of the cholera by
land.
Bnirmx, MAY
17.—T0-morrow there is to be a grand
review of the first division of infantry, under the command
of Lieut.-General Van Geen on the heath near Tilburg.

There will be also three regiments of cavalry uni/er
M ,jor-General Post. The Prince Field-Marshal, Prircc
Frederick, and Prince Adalbert will be pres-nt. The
other divisions of the army will be reviewed on Saturday
and Monday, and it is said that the forces will afterwards
go to Bergen-op-Zoom to man the firet in the Scheldt.
AMSTERDAM, MAN' 18.
Actual Debt, 9.3/4 percent 4234 to 4314
Amort Syndic, 4% per cent 7214 to 1314
Ditto, ditto, 314 per cent.
Voluntary Loan, 1831, 6 per cent. 951,i to 9634
—Dutch Papers, May 19.

BELGRADE, MAI-3. —The guns of the fortress announced
to-day a complete victory obtained on the 20th of April
by the Grand Vizier over the army of the insurgents posted
between Novibagar and Sienieza, which latter place is oc-
cupied by the troops of the Government, which, in about
four days, will probably be in possession of Sanajero, the
capital, as the whole force of the Bosnians has, in con-'
sequence of their defeat, retreated behind that city.
Meansime a Servian corps, of about eight thousand,
men, has at length passed the Drina, and, though in-
structed to confine itself to defensive operations, has alsol
had a successful engagement with a small corps of the in-
surgents. The Servians, according to Turkish custom,'
sent 40 heads to Prince Milosch, as tokens of their victory.
VIENNA, MAY 9.—The improvement in the health of
his Highness the Duke of Reichstadt continues, and no
doubt is now entertained of his complete recovery.
VIENNA, MAY 10.—Five per Cents. Metalliques
87 15-16 ; Four per Cents. 77 ; Bank Shares 1,1431,
—Allgenzeine Zeitung, May 15.
HAMBURG, MAY 1 5.---BORSEN -HALLE, HALF-PAST
Two o'CLocK.—Tbe sensation produced in our money
market by the check which the Reform Bill has expe-
riencd in England, has been most unfavourable. Not
much business has been transacted in the public funds
to-slay, but prices fell, and the market closed, generally
speaking:, rather heavy, at those quoted below. Discount
3 per cent.

End of May.
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 6614
Anglo-Russian Loan
Hamburg ditto B7
Russian inscription, 5 per cent. B7
Ditto, ditto, 1831 85%
Polish Bonds lOB
Austrian Bank Shares 1151
Ditto Metalliques
New Austrian 4 per Cents 77
—Hamburg Reporter.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

LIVERPOOL SPRING MEETING.

FRIDAY, Mix 18.—The Kirkdale Stakes of 20 sovs. each, h. tt.
with3o added, for 3 and 4-yr-olds. Once round and a distance.
Mr. Nanney's Kitty Fisher, 3 yrs (Spring) 1
Mr. Hope's Whittingham, 3 yrs 9
Stand Cup, value 100 sovs., added to a Sweepstakes, of 10 sovs.
each, for all ages. Twice round and a distance.
Mr. Beardsworth's Colwick, 4 yrs
Mr. Mostyn's Her Highness, 4 yrs 2
Mr. A. Bowers's Sir John, 4 yrs 3
Free Handicap of 30 s vs. each, 10 ft.. with 20 added. Twiceround.
Mr. Shepherd's Revolution, 5 yrs (Shepherd) 1
Mr. Miles's The Cardinal, 5 yrs 2
The Great Liverpool Stakes of 25 sovs. each, 10 ft. Twice round.
Mr. Jones's Tommy Tickle, aged (Lear) 1
Mr. Hobson's The Admiral, 6 yr. 2
The Ormskirk Plate, value 100 sovs., the second horse entitled to
20 sovs. out of the Plate. Heats twice round.
Sir R. W. Bulkeley's Pickpocket, 4 yrs (Nicholson) 1 1
Sir T. Stanley's Lawrie Todd, 5 yrs 0 2
Mr. R Turner's Clinton, aged 3 3
Mr. Nowell's b. h. by Walton, aged 2 0
The meeting was numerously and respectably attended. The
racing was excellent, and passed of without accident.