Star.
London, England, 1831-06-27 00:00:00

THE REFORM RILL.

The following trill be found a pretty accurate
summary of the other alterations now introduced
into the bill :
"'the right of votiog in counties is extended to lease-
holders for 7 years, and whether deienninable on lives or nut.
" In caw of property mortgaged, the mortgagor in pos-
session is to have the vote. Thiel is so now AS to freehold.
The period of possession for a freeholder or copyhulder
is to be six months. instead of 30 days, as in the former
bill ; and for leaseholders, one year instead of two years.
" The period of possession to be dispensed with in the
case of property coming by descent, will, See. This is the
law at present.
" BOROUGH VOTEIL—Land occupied in conjunction
with a house, watehouse, or countitv-house (held under the
same landlord), and amounting altogether to the annual va.
hue or rent of 101. shall confer a vote
" No vote to be acquired by a tenant, if his rent is pay-
able more frequently than once in every half year, or if his
landlord compounds for the poor rates ; but where, under
any local act, the landlord is li tblc for the rates, the tenant
may claim to pay the rates, and thus @quite a vote.
" Parliamentary Commissioners to be substituted for Com-
mittees of Privy Councillors.
" torsTaartox.—The lists to be published on two
Sundays iesteral of three, on or near the church-doors.
" Lists to be kept by the overseers for public inspection
gratis..

" Time for revision of lists enlarged ; the period now
allowed is from the 10th of October to the 25111 of November.
More than one barrister may be appointed in large counties.
" In boroughs the town clerk h to turnish the overseers
wi h the list of freemen.

" Power of inspecting tart assessments and rates, for the
purpose of ascertaining the value and occupancy of property.
" The voter, at the time of pulling, may be required to
swear that his qualification I 3 still subsisting.
•. Form of oath as to qualification, identity, and the fact
of his not having previously polled.
" Scrutiny before the returning office► expressly taken
away.
" POLLING IN COUNTIVL.—COUIItieN to be divided by
Sessions into districts, and a central polling.place to be ap.
point (1 for each district.
" Booths to be allotted fur the sevetal parishes in each
district, and no man to vote except at the booth allotted for
the parish in which his qualification is.
" Peralty for personating an elector, and for voting twice
at the same election.
" Chambers in the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge
not to give a right of voting for the city of Oxford or the
town of Cambridge."

GREAT DOINGS OF THE OPPOSITION-AND
WHAT NEXT ?

A fiery amendment of the Lords' Address,
abusing the tri-coloured Ministry and the jacobin
Reform Bill, were the least with which we were
threatened. The King was to have been al 'ruled,
the Whigs displaced by the Feebles, the Refoiru
Biil burnt, the press gagged, the habeas corpus
suspended, the soldiers called out, and the whole
colintry conservatively convulsed for the preser-
vation of boroughniongering. How have these
mighty promises been fulfilled ? With what arms
did the new opposition attack the great measure ?
These questions will be answered by the following
notice of the important topics which occupied the
House of Lords for 12 consecutive hours following
the delivery of the King's speech :

LOUD RLLEINBNKOUGH
Objected to the King's speech being read until arter the
reading of " some bill." The first reading of the select
vestries bill moved, and the bill read a first time sword.
ingly ; spoke against the formal commencement of the Ad.
dress, insisting on the third instead of the first person plural;
objected to the address being at once voted by the house,
without the previous sanction of a committee ; repeated the
objection ; again repeated the objection ; spoke at length
on the same subject (rose gad spoke sir times.)
7116 EMIL OF WINCHILIII4I

Explained at length, why, being a Tory, he bad become a
Whig, and was now once more a lory ; the main reason of
the last change being some • toasts' drunk at some dinner
somewhere north of London.

TAR ill•auutsOT LONDONDERRY
Rose and spoke live times--four times on points of reform
and order, and at great length on his broken windows.
THE DUKE or CUMBERLAND
On his Royal Highness's attachment to freedom.
Tun Duna or GLOCESTZR
Yawned.

THE RAIL or FALMOUTH

On one of his ancestors, w whom allusion is made In Bubb
Duddington't Diary.
LORD WRAINCLIFFE

On the conduct of the last House of Commons in " refusing
the supplies"—on the dissolution, the Lord Mayor, the IL
luminations. and Mr. Coblrett's broken windows in 1814.
I'he EARL or MANSFIELD (the intended Premier of the
Feeble,)
On the illuminations, the dissolution, the Lord Mayor, Mr.
O'Connell, and the difference between stopping and refusing
the supplies.
LORD FARNHAM

On the connexion ‘if the Government with The Tim
newspaper and Mr. O'Connell, and the interference of the
Government in the Irish elections.
THE EARL Or EODEN
On the personal character of Lord Farnham, and the state
of Clare, which his Lordship likened to " the tranquillity of
soupowder."—Speciator.

The same Ministers who were present at the con-
ference on the affairs of Belgium on Saturday afternoon,
again as.embltd yesterday afternoon, and Itel.i a coils:renew
at the Foreign Office with Viscount Palmerston, after the
breaking up of the Cabinet Council.

The-SPani ,h Minister transacted business at the
Foreign Office on Saturday.
1 he Princess Augusta entertained the Duke and
Dueness of Gloucester, the Landgravine of Hesse Hum.
burgh, and • select party at dinner yesierday, at her resi.
sider.cc,in St. James's Palace.

St. James's Palace is, we understand, to be en-
tirely reinstated, and the ground on which that
part of the building stood which was burnt down
is again to be built upon. Buckingham Palace is
for the present entirely given up as a Royal resi-
dence. Their Majesties and the large suite ap-
pended to the Court want more accommodation,
both for domestic purpose and those of state, that.
is afforded by the Palace as it now stands ; and
the King, with a kind feeling towards economy,
suggests only such additions to it as are likely to
answer the end, and be least expensive to the
country.— court Journal.
On the subject of " l'rivate Bills," the House
of Lords, on Friday, adopted Resolutions similar
to those previously sanctioned by the House of
Commons—namely, to permit the progress of those
Bills brought forward last Session, slime no altera-
tion in theta had taken place. At the same time,
their Lordships ordered to be prepared for them an
account of the number of all the Private Bills
which were in progress :n their House on the 22d
of April last, distinguishing them by classes, and
specifying the stages to which they had sevelally,
advanced ; and also of such Bills as had passed,
but not received the Royal assent.
The King of Sardinia has dismissed his General
Staff, and abolished the Royal Guards ; by which
measures he will effect a saving of nearly two
hundred thousand pounds a-year in his expendi-
ture. A few days after his accession, Taffiuo, the
director of the police, handed his Majesty a long list
'of names of Carbonari, and other suspected per-
sons. This Charles Albert immediately tore to
pieces in Taffiao's presence, and then turned his
back upon him, exclaiming angrily—" How dare
you, Sir, attempt to play the fool with me ?"