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London, England, 1831-08-22 00:00:00

rieusly Mtn beers—the
relereghatiV, sad wafering t.,
us and • most other
The earner. Bat howetands
rotten boroughs are deseroyed..
land, with a few exceptions, are
and to m subservient a cowed
corruption and Iniquity. Not one-third of the clams
of the Dill have yet been disposed of, and, so far from
he substance of the thing being left, Its shadow,
with respect to principle, has absolutely vanished. To
say that this conduct is " keeping the word of promise to
the oar and breaking it to the Mope," is speaking too ft.
vouribly. The word of premier, in fact, has D.l her
been kept to the hope, nor eves to ear We should Inc.
gine there could be en giallo now as to the Lords passing
the Bill, for it will place the whole, or nearly the
whole, representation of the mutely at their disposal, and
at the disposal of the other great landholders If indeed
they do not pass it, they will prove themselves to be the
most disinterested, self-dent log, and patriotic body of It,.
Ablators that ever masted. We observed rite/day, slat
the only way in which the mischievous areas of the
Nlaelulo of Chtindoe's amendment could be counter.
acted, would bete admit 104 householders, who Itsv: not
cotes for to vote for rounds; and we added.
that if the be sincere in wishing to crece an
independent constituency, they would bring holm il a clause
to that effect. We Sod, however, that they have dune ro
melt thing. It is true they have introduced a elate-e to ens.
!de householders of 501. a year to vote for comedic t I tat for
all practicable purposes, they might jilt as well lime dove
nothing at all. But we dislike, and always have di.liked,
the milting the amount of a man's rent the cri•erist of Lis
right of stating. It will he the means of introducing all
sorts of absurMdes into the system of election, and, we have
no doubt, will, in its working, be highly othridevous. We
agree with Lord lithos, that the details of tote bill ought to
have been founded epos the ancient institutions of the coon.
try . this doctrine we have always held from the beginning.
If instead of the ridiculous rent syst•m, the paying
mot and lot had been made the criterion of voting
in boroughs, what a mass of absurdities and moors-
&dome would haws been avoided, while the smarm
landladies of the' emery would breve Wee strictly
tarred. Dot then the small boroughs would have re.
*Mud free, which we now suspect, and not without rea-
l" MI not snit the views of the framers of the Bill. In
11011111,11, all that was necessary to be done waste Increase
MS ember of Members for the counties; to have ad.
UMW copylsolders as well as freeholders to vote for such
1111theers; to have disfranchised the rotten boroughs, and
eldlinethised the large towns; to have done away with the
altetthen for boroughs; to have shortened the period for
elitdons, and provided for voting in districts; and to have
made the right of election in towns depend spec the pay-
ing scot and lot. We humbly conceive that we have here
given, in a single sentence, the owlets of a Reform Bill
which would have given general satisfaction, and saved the
Legislature and the country infinite trouble, anxiety, and
heart-burnings.
I'OST.—We entreat our readers to give earnest attention
• the Protocol of the Conference between 111/ Majesty's ad-
visers and the O'Connell delegates; and then let them say
whether it suits either the dignity of a minister or the inde-
pendence of Parliament that some thirty metrbers should be
permitted openly to wring concessions from the government,
or secretly dictate the measures of administration. Now if an
argument wet, wanting to show thedanger of reform in Ireland
we should find it in the presumptuous language of this Trial
Political Union. Iferen under the present system the Exam
live of this great kingdom must truckle to the commands of
a few Mat Representatives, where will be the extent of its
rill dente, nay, of its servility, when every borough shall
01111 a popular delegate, or an anti-type of O'Connell ?
raids,* experience shows us here the facility and
*ear of combinatioo g we are scarcely less certain
upon the numbers to be returned, under the hill, by
Catholic influence. If O'Connell then, with his few
retainers, can wield at present so great a power, we
boldly assert that no Government hereafter, whether
it resist or concede, will stand for a moment against the des-
potism of an agitator, armed with treble powers and appio
dee for initchieE Honour no less than interatdanands the
cootroul of these haughty demagogues 4 and if the Premier
chooses to surrender at discretion, let hint .orrander what is
his dignity, and his estate, but not the
aubla own, his
ofhiattlliteelaw% and the repose of the kingdom.
COBBETrB bEGISTER.—BesoIum enePOLAI/De
—I have got my prayer : die French ate in Belgium. w!th
an apper.nt resolution not to come out of it again. my rem
sons for this prayer I have stated over and over again, and
more partisolerly last week. lam no arisen of the wield.
It is quite enough for nes to think shout what is best for
Magleod. Ireland, and Scotland. I do net like those whose
philanthropy is so enlarged as to look, as Romseau said. to
Tartary for objects of affection sod anuniisseration, while
their own coon are starving. or existing on ass-weed
and nettles. Irne; approve of any ere ato urge our Go.
vannient to interfere at all in the affairs even of Poland : it
Is too distant, too out of the way of our affairs, that we
should take one single meal front a weaver er a plough ten
for the sake of doing good to the Poles. Our great folly
has been that of foreign interference : we cannot interfere
for good, In such a case as this. *hie the interference is sore
to bring burdens upon ourselves in some way or other.
But if we have the freedom of Poland &namely a• heart,
what is so likely to effect it as the pustessiou of B:lgiten
by the French? We have only to stand still and mind our
own affairs: let the French alone, end they will mow down
the despots. I think more of any one of the nine or seven
mouths of the Mississippi than I do of all the kingdom. of
the continent put togetha, France excepted; and let l.rr
alone upon the land, and she it oo Mere an object of terror
to us than any of the rest. The boroughmongers seem to
be monstrously anxious to get the Minialera into a Wile by
some means or issether. They know that, an:edgy oth.r
things, a war would dims the reform bill into. suite of coo.
&SW ; t loge that, amidst both stoppage, hales of pa-
ng, Exchequer-billing, and wheat at
sr a all would be uproar and contwout, and
ris2
the die berisegbe ht escape In tine bustle. In short, the
are Ike the fellow that was going to be
for neuder, sod who prayed devoutly &r an club-
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HOUSE OF COMMONS, Lessee SO.
The SPEAKER took his seat at twesty-adnutes after
twelve o'clock.
Mr. JAMES presented a petitio s from the Bankers,
Merchants, and other inhabitants of Carlisle, fur a revision
of the Criminal Code, and for the abolition of the punish-
ment of death, in cases of house robbery, unaccompanied
with personal violence.
Mr. BENETT presented a petition from Horsham,
complahilog of the great felon of Irish labourers, and pray-
ing for the re-estabiiihmeet of poor laws in lrelaod.
LORD 48UT1131/1111111 OF 11111LanD au..
Mr. STANLEY moved the third reading of the Lord
Lieutenants of Ireland Bill.
Sir J. NEWPORT rose to support the bW, as establish-
ing a responsible authority between the people and the go.
vernment. •
Mr. O'CONNP.LL rose to move that the bill be reed a
third time that day three smooths. The deft of the bill
would be to set up in every county in laland a 'p.a., of
despot, through whom dome all communicatioes to govern.
meat could be made—the star by whose light every minor
politician should have to OM his mums, or glee up his ex-
pectations of arriving in the peaceful haven of nunisterial
favour. Ireland was not in aOW for such powers to be en.
trusted to any, as those with which lord lieutaisets would be
invested. Public opinion was decidedly against the bill, and
its introduction would most materially aggravate instead of
allaying the spirit of petty, which was now the bane and
curse of Ireland.
Sir It. MUtiGRAVE seconded the easeadaseat.
Sir R. PEEL was not blind to the &Mathieu which the
bill might create; but in the balance of evils, as the mea-
sure was calculated in no mean degree to remedy a state of
things whirl bad for the last twenty or thirty years been
very much complained uf. he would certainly sappers the
The Lord Chancellor had no means of aateriaining
de dlefaaera of magistrates, and the bill held mat in ea-
=l:6t to residency. The powers were Weed, con-
-liiit it was muck better to give large powers to one
eavogedlie person, thee to have many porous she were
ErfarL. And if a good prima Ma ease could be
lahlishal ef abuse. by aduilesooss or exam:taus
, corrupt motives, that house wadi exercise a motel
over the lard Dadaism la die most remote county in
Wed. •
4eldd ALTHORP eeLl the iissemsre had wet very general
INIC fmm e
feerdwystbilsilfrilelandr. WALKER ate rgen were
ordered Ilk withdraw,_ be
Mr. 0 CONNELL stated, be should not now press the
question to a division, as he malarial lie hid a 'Smutty

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