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London, England, 1835-06-24 00:00:00

LONDON. WEDNESDAY EVENING. JUNE 24, 1835

FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

CROWN OFFICE, JUNE 23.

MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS NIESOINT PARLIAM TNT.
IPSWICH.—James Morrison and Rigby Wason, Esqrs., in the
room of Robert Adam Dundas and Fitzroy Kelly, Esqrs., void
election.
Hutt.—Thomas Perronet Thompson, Esq., in the room of Da-
vid Carruthers, Esq., deceased.

Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Lincoln.
Royal North Lincolnshire Militia.
H. Thorold, Esq., to be Captain, June 19.

WHITEHALL, JUNE 17, 1835.
The Lords Commissioners for the Custody of the Great Seal
have appointed Thomas Benn, of Rugby, in the county of Warwick,
Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chan-
cery.

WHITEHALL, JUNE 18.
The Lords Commissioners for the Custody of the Great Seal
have appointed Valentine Davis, of the town and county of Haver-
fordwest, Gent., to be a Muter Extraordinary in the High Court
of Chancery.

WHITEHALL, JUNE 19.
The Lords Commissioners for the Custody of the Great Seal have
appointed Richard Clitherow, of Horncastle, in the county of
Lincoln, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court
Chancery.

DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY.
JAMES HUTTON, baker, Piccadilly.
JOHN WATTON, surgeon, Upper Bedford-place, Middlesex.

BANKRUPTS.
ROBERT SMITH, brick-layer, Kent, to surrender, June 30,
at one, and August 4, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Groom, Abchurch-lane, official assignee ; Smith and Dry, Lin-
coln's-inn.
CHARLES PEARSON, chemist, Greenwich, July 2, and
August 4, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Canning, Basing-
hall-street, official assignee ; Pearce, Phillips, and Bolger, St.
Swithin's-lane.
GEORGE SIMMONS, surgeon, St. Pancras, Middlesex, June
30, at three, and August 4, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Belcher, official assignee ; Billing, Cheapside.
GEORGE EXT ON TURNER, auctioneer, Cheltenham, July
4, and August 4, at eleven, at the Elephant and Castle Inn, Bath.
Mantle, Great Surrey-street, London ; Hardy, Bath.
EBENEZER HANCOCK, hackneyman, Sheffield, July 7,
and August 4, at ten, at the Town Hall, Sheffield. Battye, Fisher,
and Sudlow, Chancery-lane, London ; Sambourne, Sheffield.
WILLIA CLARK, hop-merchant, Kingston-upon-Hull, July
8, and August 4, at eleven, at the Kingston Hotel, Kingston-upon-
Hull. Wilkinson, Hull; Meredith and Reeve, Lincoln's-Inn,
London.
JAMES GREENWAY, merchant, Plymouth, July 9, and
August 4, at ten, at the Royal Hotel, Plymouth. Tucker, Exeter;
Shaw, Holborn, London.
PETER LEE, scrivener, Winchester, July 15, and August 4,
at twelve, at the office of Mr. Frederick Caiger, Winchester.
Caiger, Winchester ; Bridger, Finsbury-circus, London.
JOSEPH WRIGLEY, woollen-cloth merchant, Knowl,
York-
shire. July 14, and August 4, at four, at the George Inn, Hudders-
field. Sandau, Old Jewry, London; Jacomb and Tindale, Hud-
dersfield.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

As we foresaw yesterday, a desperate rally was made last
night by the different sections of Anti-Reformers against
the clause for abolishing in future the separate class of
Freemen. The House of Commons, however, by one of
the most honest votes on record, looking to the number of
Members whose motives were liable to misconstruction on
such a point, supported the Government against the fac-
tious combination opposed to them, and has saved what may
almost be termed the most important provision in the Cor-
poration Reform Bill. Lord Stanley and Sir James Gra-
ham particularly distinguished themselves in the course of
the debate, and we refer to their speeches for the removal
of any doubts which may still be entertained, in any quar-
ter, of the real attachment of these professing friends of
liberality to the cause of Reform. Mr. Wakley, Mr.
Robinson, the Member for Worcester, and Captain
Berkeley, were the most distinguished deserters from
the ranks of the supporters of Government, on this
occasion—and, unfortunately, gave their aid to the
Tories and the Dilly in this combined attack on
their friends. Sir Robert Peel did not speak, and it
was observed that his countenance displayed any thing
but disappointment at the result of the vote. The
Right Hon. Baronet cannot desert his tail. It has been
said of other leaders that they are often forced out of or
beyond their own course by their followers, and we mistake
sadly if Sir Robert's conduct last night was not a case in
point. He is much too wise not to foresee the consequences
of a contrary decision. Corporate rights being extinguished
by the Bill, what particular virtue or claim can the separate
class of Freemen bring forward to entitle them to an ex-
clusive right of franchise, which may not with equal fair-
ness be urged for another class of the community, equally
respectable in occupation or property? A new and ex-
clusive class of electors is to be created, either because they
happen to reside in some place where apprenticeship is to be
so proved, or because it is expedient to encourage the marriage
of Freemen's daughters, or because they happen to be born to
the enjoyment of that high privilege and dignity—hereditary
voters, like hereditary legislators. The Tories have a won-
derful respect for the wisdom of both. The supporters of
Household, indeed of Universal Suffrage, may not find so
much fault with the Tories and Dilly on this occasion. Sir
Robert Peel knows too well what an argument the future
enfranchisement of freemen, having no superior claims to
this privilege to other classes of the community, must fur-
nish to the advocates of the most extensive suffrage, to ap-
prove in his heart of this factious attempt to injure the
Corporation Reform Bill. He had no objection to embar-
rass the Government, but we suspect he will not regret
having escaped from the dilemma which the success of his
friends would have involved him. We observe some people
in the pay and employment of the Government actually en-
gaged in opposition to the Government. Does Sir J.
Dalbiac think such conduct a proof of loyalty and devotion
to the King, or is he encouraged by the Court to oppose the
King's Ministers in the House of Commons ? Why does
not the Secretary at War relieve him from his troublesome
duties of Inspector-General of the Cavalry in the Home
District ? Some officers enjoying such places would not
think it consistent with their characters to remain in them,
if their principles differed from those of the Government by
whom they were paid. If Sir J. Dalbiac thinks differently,
the Government may probably be able to find some
equally competent officer, who will not think the support of
his Majesty's Government too great a burden on his consci-
ence for the value of the appointment. Mr. Walter and Mr.
Forster voted with the Government. The castigation bestowed
on Sir J. Graham by Lord J. Russell was richly merited. The
Right Hon. Baronet yielded, he said, with reluctance to the
alteration in the Reform Bill by which the franchise was con-
tinued to freemen ; and he would now give the municipal
franchise to the same objectionable class, because, forsooth,
the Member for Southwark exclaimed, " Reformers, be
comforted ! in this clause I see the seeds of further change
in the aapresentation of the people." If every measure is
to be opposed, not because it is objectionable in itself, but
because it may lead to further changes, why did Sir James
support the Reform Bill ? The same arguments were
urged against the Parliamentary Reform Bill, which he is
now urging against the most important clauses in the Mu-
nicipal Reform Bill.
" Really (said Lord John) when his Right Hon. Friend
spoke in that tone, he (Lord John Russell) might ask him
whether he meant to say that his Majesty's Government were
not bringing tiarward their Bill for Municipal Reform honestly
and fairly to the purpose ?—( Hear, hear.) He might ask his
Right Hon. Friend whether he meant to say that all this ma-
chinery with respect to Corporations was only a mask to con-
ceal some greater change in the Reform Bill ?—(Hear, hear,
hear.) If his Right Hon. Friend did not mean that, he would
ask him why he talked of their doing that indirectly, which
ought to be done directly.—( Cheers.) The clause then
under consideration, and to which his Right Hon. Friend had
taken so strong an objection, was, as he (Lord J. Russell)
would show, a necessary consequence of their adopting the
new franchise. If that were so, then he said, that neither his
Right Hon. Friend, nor any other Member in the House, had
a right to say that they were introducing it for the sake of
altering the Reform Bill."
Mr. Charles Buller showed very happily that Lord San-
don was now playing at second-hand the part played by
Mr. Henry Hunt, who was equally eloquent in support of
the poor man's right, when he was seeking to injure the
Reform Bill.—Morning Chronicle.
It was said of some of the Roman tyrants, that to de-
serve well of the State was a sure passport to their enmity
and condemnation. It would seem now to be the policy of
the Whigs that to deserve well of them is as certain a pass-
port to the mortification and ill usage of the individuals to
whom they are indebted. They seem to adopt the sar-
castic aphorism ascribed to Machiavel, " Look well after
your enemies ; your friends require no looking after. Si-
lence by reward, the first ; friendship is sufficient reward
for the last." Whig Ministers, however, go even farther,
in order, probably, to show their full sincerity of belief in
the above beautiful system of rewards and punishments. In
some cases they appear to think it necessary, not only to
reward their enemies, but to punish their friends. For the
latter to see their foes rewarded is bad enoi,gh. The people's
advocates may, indeed, say to the Tories, in the words of
Achilles—
" Thine in each combat is the wealthy prey ;
But ours the heat and labour of the day :
My prize, as small, oh, tyrant ! matched with thine,
As thy own merits when compared with mine."
We are sorry so soon after the Whig Ministry, by the
generous and unsparing aid of the people, had stormed the
hastily thrown up entrenchments of the Tory encampment,
and planted their triumphant banner on the deserted prce-
torium of the routed generals—we are sorry, we say, to be
obliged to dash the fountain of that brilliant triumph with
a bitterness of commentary which mortification naturally
engenders. We allude to the recent appointment of
Colonel Lindsay to the command of the Fifeshire Militia,
by the Tory Lord Lieutenant of the County, Earl
Rosslyn, and to the unsatisfactory answer given to
Mr. llume's indignant query on the subject by Lord
John Russell. It was an answer couched in the worst
form of the equivocating phraseology of predominant
Toryism ; it was worse, for something like a sneer
was intermixed with the affected grimace of official im-
possibility. Often while we were in the heat of the
great battle—of which we may say " quorum pars maxima
fuimus," and which resulted in the re-substitution of the
Whig Ministry for the Tory interlopers—it was thrown in
our teeth by many staunch supporters of the pqpular cause,
that the triumph we should gain for the people would be a
useless victory—the sceptre barren—the wreath withered.
It was predicted that the Whigs, on being replaced in
office, would again disappoint the people ; that they would
again " forget their creators ;" that they would again kick
down the ladder by which they had mounted, and forfeit
every pledge to which they were honourably bound. On
their behalf we then denied the imputation, and we still,
although with many conscientious qualms and misgivings,
venture to deny it ; but acts like this appointmen of Col.
Lindsay, if repeated, will cut the ground from ut nder the
defence of their friends, and we shall have to wait in stern
silence the completion of the wretched web of sophistical
policy they are weaving, by the restoration of Sir Robert Peel
to power amidst the contemptuous apathy of the people.
That dark thread runs through the whole flimsy woof. The
measure pursued in this instance, is, it is true, only one
pledge of a fallacious and mischievous line of policy, but it
is nevertheless a pledge ; it is regarded so by the people—
and it is rousing universal indignation, astonishment, and
excitement throughout the whole of the liberal classes in
Scotland. What ! Appoint a Tory opponent who three
times at elections opposed their staunch friend Captain
Wemyss—impart to that opponent the means of a fourth
time opposing him successfully—nurture him with antesngth
destructive to themselves and to their friends,—d place
him in a position where he may rival the exploits at Rath-
! cormack, at Manchester, and at Wolverhampton, by bring-
ing the sabre and the bayonet to put down the arguments
of the people. Considering that all the counties of Scotland
swarm with the creatures of Tory Lord Lieutenants—consi-
dering that all the offices of Government swarm with the
allies, spies, and abettors of the late Government, all eager
to trip up the heels of their present hated masters, and
by defeating all their designs, to restore the masters