Star.
London, England, 1831-10-05 00:00:00

SELECTIONS OF ON DITS.

RZLATITT TO TNT LORDS •SID TNT ITTOSIN SILL.
The Humane Society have ranted many a pension,

To We-preservers of every man's Invention ;

I claim their bounty for the heirs 4 him, who now

Stands, like a martyr, on tha beetling brow

Of the steep precipice on which our Lords are tottering.
Stop, cries the saviour, with enthusiast spring;

Stop, let me try first; and If my neck be brokin,
Coniddsr, my dear boar. your lamp-black speeches spoken.
He says. and plunges—cracks Ids lordly neck so:stiff,
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By Unite Old by name to the last a WAUt.CLITF.

October b. E. F. G.
It was not for some hours last night after the
usual time that the vast mass of petitions almost all
of them praying for reform, with the exception of
a few hole-and-corner petitions, which prayed for
the contrary, were sufficiently disposed of, to make
way for the adjourned debate.
The Bishop of London's proxy will, it is con-
ceived, be given against the bill, as he cried " Not
content" wt en the bill was proposed to be read a
first time.

It is stated to-day on 'Change, that the preaont
Ministry will not be aide to maintain themselves,
and that Peel will be first Lord of the Treasury,
and the Duke of Wellington will act under him.
It is also surmised, that if the Bill is lost and a
new creation of Peers is made, and the Bill after-
wards carried, it will be so cut down in the Com-
mittee that the present Ministers will be obliged to
give it up.
It is pleasant to leaf n, from satisfactory sources,
that there are yet strong hopes of Tun BILL
passing into a law—that the tables ate turning—
that the hearts of the Tories are dying within
them—and that, though tome profess their willing-
ness rather to lose their heads on the block than to
yield—others have resolved to fight while they can,
but rather to run away than to 'risk a victory. We
applaud the resolution of the latter, as equally dis-
creet and patriotic.

At a numerous and respectable meeting of the
householders ofSt.Mary-la-bonne, hell at the Port-
man Arm., Quebec-street, last night. it was una-
nimously agreed, in the event of the Lords reject-
ing the Reform Bill, that the householders should
go in a body to the King, with an address, praying
him to retain his Minister!, and promising to sup-
port him in any measures he may adopt to give the
people the Reform Bill, and to form a National
Guard, should he require it. It wac further agreed
that notice should be sent to other London parishes,
to request them to do the same.
The reports in circulation respecting the proba-
ble issue of the Reform Bill, were more favourable
last night than on the night before. One state-
ment was that Ministers calculated on a small
majority for the second reading; another antici-
pated a prorogation on Friday next, to give time
for the creation of some mew Peers ; and a third
ascribed to the Lords Spiritual the preponderating
power by which the result of the question is likely
to be determined either for or against the 'People.
These reports, though at variance with each other,
are, upon the whole, mote propitious to the cause
of reform than the prognostics by which they were
preceded. So much for the authority of rumour,
which is always an i.•dustrious speculator in cases
of importance like the present.
Lord Winchilsea last night repeated the common-
phrases we have so often heard during the progress
of the measure. He decla• ed himself a reformer—
but a reformer opposed to the Bill of Reform, in
which he could see nothing but revolution. In
fact it was on the rotten boroughs be seemed to
rely for the safety of the Constitution itself ; for it
was only by putting a little honesty here, and a
little knavery duos, that he expected to keep up
that nice balance of interests upon is hich our
liberties, as a nation, depend.
The discussion on the Reform Bill, in the House
of Lords last night, exhibited the singular feature
of three speeches on one side, and only one on the
other. The three speeches were made against the
measure by the Earl of Winchilsea, the Esti of
Hatrowby, and the Duke of Wellington. This is
a prodigal use of ammunition, of which the oppo.
sition may stand in need in the futute part of the
conflict.

The most important feature of the debate last
nights as the speech of the Duke of Wellingten.
This speech has been represented by all who herd
it as one of the least effective, the least intel-
ligible that ever fell from his lips since be became
a member of that house. Every body knows that
the Duke is no orator; but he is a man of
spirit and decision, though neither of these qua-
lities shone in his anti-reform speech it I .st night.
Our reaJers will find much matter for specuakt.on
its the speech I f the noble duke; and we would
re'er them particularly to the version N Well beg ire
of his own remarkable dec.l station arcs Oct all re-
form when the people took the alarm. and the ad-
ministration hippily fell to pieces.

DEAL, OC r. 4. —The squadron of ships of war,
which were ordered for the Downs, have not yet made their
appearance, but are hourly expected. The Sag frigate
Captain Si; F. Trosbridp, which arrived from Partsmoum
on Sunday, is to fear: a pan. la additkn en the vessels said
to form the squadron in the Downs, is the Galatea frigate.
NUT YOSt TUC LADICS.—Amoug the many
annoyances foe which " man la made to mourn," we con.
sides the daily owe of shaving to be the forestays: ; and whet.
this is accompanied by • bad raw en a tetder skin the
amirris patsy reminded, that laying alive by the bases
iraltajoe mvage snot of a verity be uo tries. He de-
sense w of the hums* nos, the male pan of it, escludmi
always Jews, Ticks, sod Dandies, who am alleviate this
evil How dm thialla heat accomplished by Air Johnston's
invokes twenties of dm Dialoged Paste, let ow rapiers
asps. and bs sodded. Dot we on. am, for on, owe sheet,
that doss the &paths odsheated Packwood, we have met
with sathiag es &Aitken at our toilet of a moralog as 31r.
Johastow's lease Strap, N sparkling with diamonds."—
North Alfrihm, 15th &plank?, 11M