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London, England, 1831-09-13 00:00:00

made two tardy marches, without effecting any of
the objects which carried him there. Further, that
the rainy season is commencing, in which his
troops are not so well lodged as the Poles; and
without magazines, he is obliged to depend on fo-
raging in an hostile country.
The last event, therefore—the occupation of the
whole of the right bank of the Vistula, from War-
saw, to its entrance into the Prussian territory—at
once severs the Russians from Russia, and enables
the Poles to outflank them in all their positions.
In fact, it completely turns them, and pats it in
the power of the Poles, at their own time and op-
portunity, to intercept their communications, and
assail their rear. This length of Vistula, of which
the Poles command :one side, is full 100 miles
in extent; and the Russo-Prussian accounts admit
that this circumstance has created considerable em-
barrassment. It seems that General Rosew, on
the Prep side, advanced within a short distance of
Warsaw, but afterwards fell back twenty or thirty
miles, and as is pretended, in consequence of
orders—proving that theßussians are in no strength
on that side ; and, therefore. that their boasting
about an assault on Warsaw is an empty gasconade.
In another part of our paper, we give an extract
from the Ccrerrier Francais, illustrating the trick
played by the French Ministry, in their report of
the vengeance taken by the Warsaw populace on
the traitors, whose punishment the law bad too
long delayed. They copied, It appears, a treache-
rous Warsaw Journal ; and no doubt intended it as a
lesson to the French populace. The London papers,
unwittingly fell into the snare; and the Poles who,
under such circumstances, merit the most charitable
interpretation, have, for these two days, been be-
spattered with epithets which ought to be exclu-
sively reserved for the pestiferous barbarians who
are their merciless assailants.

By the Dutch Mail to-morrow, we hope to re-
ceive information of more decisive character ; at
least through the medium of the patriotic Brussels
Papers.

In defiance of all the speculations and prognos-
tication on the subject, we are thoroughly per-
suaded, that the Reform Bill will be carried by a
competent majority in the House of Lords ; and
what is more, with far less difficulty than in the
Commons. The talents of its supporters in that
House, are far greater than those who upheld it in
the Commons. There is Lord Gale, Lord
Baououem, Lord Gontatcu, the Marquis of
Lensnownz, the Marquis Wet.t.w.irr, Lord
HOLLAND, the Duke of Sussex, the Marquis of
Lord DURHAM, &C. &c. leading
a phalanx of full one hundred peers, who are sa-
tisfied that the measure is essential to the peace and
prosperily of the canary. Then there's the influence
of the KING'S Household, constituting a body of
twenty-five more. To these are to be added
eighteen of the twenty-one new peers, and proxies
assured by them, to the amount of forty more.
We compute also, that the new Irish Lieutenancies
have secured another five-and-twenty.votes ; and
that full ball the Bench of Bishops will be on the
same side. This makes an aggregate of two hun-
dred and twenty-one, who are likely to support
the bill. The house consists of about four hundred
efficient members ; and if all vote, which is not
likely, the majority of twenty-one would leave
one hundred sod seventy-nine for the minority—
being an absolute majority of forty-two. We are
aware that party feelings have reversed these num-
bers; but we claim at least equal authority. At
the same time, our calculations may be varied by
Cital01111WICIMI; yet we infer from the wisdom of
Ministers, that if the numbers stated an not pretty
near the truth, more Peers would have been
created at the Coronation ; for we are convinced,
that his MAMITT and his Ministers are deter-
milled, at every reasonable sacrifice, to have the
Bill carried. Nor is the power of the King to
create new Peers otherwise imperative ; for the
pride of the order would lead to political conces-
sions, rather than permit its importance to be sunk
by an inundation of new titles— a consideration
which will neutralise many prejudices against the
principles and provisions of the BiU.

It is worthy of special notice, that in the present
popular celebrations of the Coronation, the only
obstructors, or lukewarm persons, have been the
Members of Corporations, who exist by Royal
charter, or Magistrates, who derive their dieting-
tion directly from the Kin n. This fact merits
the notice of the higher authorities, and is another
proof of a principle which we have often enforced,
that close corporatioos ought universally by one
sweeping act of Parliament to be thrown open,'
and lists of Magistrates revised and purged. The
country calls loudly and unanimously for this
measure ; and in its operation on the people it
would be as agreeable as the Reform bill itself.
It is the next great abuse to strike at, and much
perplexity in passing the bill would have been
saved, if these base, narrow-minded, and corrupt
depositories of power bad been previously corrected
and improved. They have been the fixed enemies
of the bill—they are the rooted enemies of all
reform--and they exemplify their chagrin by their
conduct during the late 1110thIllarnik rejoicings in
compliment to our patriotic Soy Bauer , merely
because be is a patriot, and no party with them and
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