Star.
London, England, 1831-10-15 00:00:00

FEELINGS IN SCOTLAND ON TDB LEJECTION OF THE

BILL.

GLesoow.—.Such has been the anxiety to ascertain the
fate of the reform bill In the House of Lords, that Immense
crowds of the citizens have within the last two or three days
assembled at the foot of Nelson-street, waiting the arrival of 1
the London mail with the expected intelligence. Monday
afternoon the wLole line of street, from the Cross to the foot
of Candkriggs, was occupied by a dense crowd of the most
respectable people in the city, every countenance expressive
of the most intense anxiety to learn the fate of the measure.
On its rejection being ascertained beyond all doubt, the
people expressed their feelings by a simultaneous groan and
hisses. In the Royal Exchange and Tontine Coffrerooms,
the intelligence was also received with deep groans and uni.
venal hissing.
PAlSLEY.—lntelliger.ce of the fate of the bill being
fully expected in Paisley on Monday night, an Immo: se
crowd awaited the arrival of the mail. One party went out
to meet it with a black and red flag. The black one, of
course. was exhibited, and the music the dullest and most
mournful that could be selected. The disappointment ap.
peared to be very great. Several shops were shut in the
crowded parts of the town, but no manifestation of riot was
exhibited. _ _ .

GREENOCC—Soon after the arrival of the London mall
last night (Monday), the streets became unusually crowded.
A strong feeling naturally enough prevailed on the rejection
of the bill ; but not the slightest approach to any breach
of tranquillity was manifested.
Durante.— When the mail arrived last night (Monday),
there was not a great number of persona on the streets; but
on learning that the bill had been thrown out, strong
marks of dissatisfaction were manifested. The maglattates
Issued a proclamation early this morning (Tuesday), incul.
eating on the inhabitants the necessity of maintaining the
public poste, as being essential to the ultima•e success of
pailian:entary reform, together with a main for railing a
meeting of the inhabitants, to address. his Majesty. A meet-
ing was accordingly held at one o'clock, in the Steeple
Church, at which the Provost presided. The meetii.g
was addressed by the Provost, Messrs. G. Milt+, E. Baxter,
D. Jobson, W. Christie, and J. M. Lindsay. The general
tenor of the speeches was lamenting the decision their Lord-
ships had come to, and recommending an address to his
Majesty. The meeting was numerously attended, and many
could not gain admittance. The front of the gallery was
hung with black flags, in token of mourning, and throughout
the day many of the vessels in the harbour displayed their
colours only half mast high on the occasion. We have
much pleasure in noticing that not the slightest disposition
to riot or disorder has been manifested.
HADDIXOTOX. The fate of the R.form Bill was
heard here with sullen disappointment, and yesterday the
Tuwn Ccuactl met to address the Etcg to continue his Mi-
nisters, and to ex.rt his royal prerogative to carry the IC:-
form through the Lords. The inhabl.ants met for a similar
purpose in the evening, and although intimation of the
meeting was only given four hours before it was held, there
were about Bno persons assembled in the County Hall,
Robert Stewart, Esq. of Alderston, was called by acclama-
tion to the chair.
JEDIWROH, 11711 OCTOB3II.—The news of the defeat
of thr reform bill was received here yesterday, and excited
universally a deep feeling of anxiety and indignation. A
gloom overspread every countenance, while groups of people
were seen at every corner, earnestly discussing what might
be the consequences. The impor,ant question, What will
the Lords do ? has now given place to the equally importan.
and more useful inquiry, What will the people do ?
HAWICZ, Ger. 10.—lnimediately after tbe arrival of dm
London mail here this mort.ing, carrying the melancholy
intelligence of the rejection of the Keform Bill, • re.
quisition was presented to the Magistrates to call a public
meeting again to address leis Majesty, and also to memo-
rialise (hey. The meeting was accordingly held the
same evening, and was numerous and respectable beyond
precedent.
Duos R I ea.—Yesterday (Monday) was a doleful day in
Dumfries—by far the most doleful we ever re:menthes—and
we certainly exaggerate nothing when we say, that the state
of public feeling accorded admirably with the nature of
the weather. Though all was gloom there was 110 con-
vulsion, moral or physical—no rending of the elements—no
chasing into action the lazy vapours that would else, as
Lord Erskine said, stagnate into pestilence; but in their
place a virtuous submission to the powers that be, along with
a fixed and settled purpose to ►rave the wont, should the
wont happen, in defence of the King, the Commons, and
the Country.
Assax.—ln Annan the news excited a very strong sen-
sation—so strong indeed, that Provost Williamson directed
that muffled bells should toll a mournful peal, which they
continued to do during the day.


SPEECH OF THE DUKE OF WELLING-
TON, WHILE MINIx7I7:, ONHEFOR3f. -•

" But the noble earl had recommended the sure-
, dieut of Par/ion/oaf/I.y Ajorm, and reloathed
that he did not think that the Governmc t was as
yet prepared with any plan on the stilij The
noble earl was right, for certainly the Gwernment
was not prepared t‘ith any plan for Parliamentary
Reform. I will go further, and say that I never
hear (that ahy conntry,?rer hos; .! more ;,n proved or
inure satilactory ,cpicfentatio., tho ► this count,y
enjoys at this moment Ido not mean to enter
upon that subject now, as it is prt.bable we shall
have abundant oaortunities to coneitier it after-
wards ; but I do say that this country his now a
Le,xislature more cal, ttloted to waiver all the
purposes of a good LcgiNlatnre t u c (my other
that can well be devis, d—that it possesses, and
deservedly possesses, the confiden”e of Ilo• coun-
try, and tliAt its discussio•or have a powerful in-
thi,:nec in tie country. And I will say further,
that if I had to form a Legislature, I would create
one—not (.4putl in excellence to the present, for
that I could not expect to lg. oble to do, but
zotacthing as neirly of the game description ;Is
possible. I should form it of men poss;:ssed of
a v..iy large proportion of the property of dm
country, in which the landholders -113uld have a
great preponderance. I, therefore, am not
with any measure of Parliamentary Reform, nor
s'tall any measure of the kind /c proposd UV
THE GOVERNMENT AS LONG AS 1 11010 MY
PnEsr.vr POSITION."
SPEECH OX TUESDAY. THE 4th Oer. 1.4c7'

I have referred (says • his Grace) to that wi.;cli
was the state of the country at the moment when
the King declared from the throne his intention
to dissolve the Parliament I must say, tiro .3ince
that time the question has materially chancel:its
aspect, and that change hes been effected chiefly
by the course which his flujesty's Ministers
thought proper to adopt. It is quite u'wiutts also
to me, that :cltterer may come of this measure,
not much time will elapse before the subject will
be brought again under yore• consideration ; and
though I earnestly recommend to your Lordships
to vote against the second reading of this bill, yet
I would intreat that your decision be su yirea as
,lot N pledge you to any other question or propo-
sition connected with the Refi►rm wh:ch may
hereafter be proposed by any noble Lord, whe-
ther in public or in p► ivate ; your Lorkkhips will,
by thus refraining from pledging your:elves. he
enabled, when the question is regularly brow:lit
before you, to term a correct judgment, and to
render great service to the country.

LITERATURE.

The all-engrossing subject which has, since the
commencement of the month, occupied the mind
—the pen—th: tongue, of all who can thi,.k,
write, or speak, within the British empire, has
thrown us much in arrear with our literary no-
tices. We have, however, n t been so entirely
absorbed in politics as to hare denied ourselves our
usual feast on the Magazines and other periodi-
cal publications, and we shall now endeavour to
point out what has struck us as their merits; and
first we find—

Froser's Maga:int.
Distinguished by its uvual aulanye of wit, wickedness, and
wisdom. Its character is peculiar, for when even we cannot
approve we often admire, and are almost always amuse!.
Admirers u we arc of the prcaent Chancellor, we canton
assent to the appreciation of his talent as given in a paper in
Ilia Magazine; and yet the paper in question, it must be
acknowizegcd, is ably written. The author of the critique
on the principal Pccn in the House of Lords, is too fond of
sayitt; a good thinA to be very Wm in his adherence to the
true :hill. Tu make amends for obliquity of vision on po-
litial qu.ations, there arc io Fraser some beautiful articles
of Lieu literary merit, both in the lines of &dal and moral
disquiaition.

The Eroolishuhttes Mooring
Is a publication of quite a different stamp. The con-
duetois of it, in taking u that imprint the head of De Foe.
have prov.ll them.elvca to have appreciated accurately the
literary tikliti they could bring into action. The two first
pulitic..l ankles—one on the Consequence of Resistance of
tl.t. Peers to Rdonn....and the other ot. Priniogenitive Rights,
arc a tbird with all the plain bold truth of the author of
the taste-bore English ran—arid puhaps a tale posseasing
WM, strongly il.e truth, or, at lee.t, isact verisimilitude of
die .author of Rehinv n Cm•oe, than that in this 'impala*
intitkil Th.: Water Whelmal,"—is not to be found In
the whole compass of ludas literature. There are several
other eac..llentizticks widen the shole it is a good number.

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. That doubt
has just been cleared up. The English aristocracy,
to the great, oy of its enemies, has sacrificed the
last occasion of substitetin; new and popular foun-
dations to the old tied worn-out rage for territorial
riches. We say. tint the Reform Bill will pass.
The energetic will of the English people is a awe
guarantee. History, it is tree—and a history,
ales! but little removed—warns us that peop!c,
even with the most energetic will, may see itself
despoiled of it dearest liberties by Political Charla-
tans. But our confidence in the fall, that is to say
in the legal condemnation—of the English aristo-
cracy, reposes upon a foundation more solid—the
certainty that its interests and its material power
have received a mortal stab. The fact is, tilftt the
English Peerage is ruined—even in that element
of its which we of the Continent regard the most
solid and most surprising, namely, its opulence!
With all its majorities—its rights of inheritance—
he monopoly for its younger branches of all the
places in the Church, the State, the army, the
navy, India and the Colonies—in which the En-
glish aristocracy could shelter the greater part of
its members from poverty, by employments of
enormous profits—these Vice-Royalites, of which
4. possession of five years was sufficient to repair
an age of dissipation ! Prodigality is inherent to an
aristocracy,and4 trade and the lucrative professions
are interdicted to it, the state, the taxes, and the
civil list are the only sources where the fortunes
of the nobles can be made. Let a country. before
establishing an aristocracy by its votes, remember
that it may cost it in subsidies as much as in igno-
miny. The English Peerage is a proof of it. It
possesses the third of the lands of Great Britain ;
it would not even possess the twentieth, if its
debts were paid; however, for two ages, tl.e
public debt and all the revenues have passed exclu-
sively through its hands. But, in the war with
France, the English aristocracy cut the trunk to
save the branches. It carried the debt to the

e^ormou• amount we now see it, and rende:•ed

that system of general economy necessary, which,
for ten years, has suppressed gradually pensions
fif and employments. The Government can no longer
nourish the impoverished members of the nobility.
The fall in the price of corn has reduced their re-
venues one half; and it is the ruin of their private
fortune which renders them at this moment so
hitter at the prospect of losing their political privi •
leges. Formerly a majority was obtained in the
two houses, by means of places and pension,. '
A purchased majority is no longer possible.—
In one word, things are arrived at that point that
the House of Lords must perish,or that of the Com-
mons be effaced ; there is no need to say which of '
the two will sink.
Le Messager des Chambrcs.—The Bill has '
been rejected by the Upper House. This is a vic-
tory for the Opposition ; but the only result of it is
that they have gained a little time, for, by their
own acknowledgment, the main question continues
untouched. A reform is called for by the whole
nation; the Duke of Wellington himself declares
it ; foreseeing that, if the check experienced by
Lord Grey should cause the reins of Government
to fall again into his hands, he could only retain
them by reproducing the work of his predecessor
in a new shape. It is much easier to ruin our ad-
versaries than to do better ourselves, and we shall
not be surprised at finding the Oppositon ember
rassed by its own success. Taking things at the
worst, we cannot help anticipating from the re-
jection of the Bill a most signal catastrophe. in
which not only the House of Lords, but a portion
of the aristocratic families of the country, will be
ingulfed. We are willing to hope however, that I
the cause of Reform may still triumph, by the
means of the Parliament, withont recourse being
had to violent measures, which may destroy all the
conditions of a Representative Government, even ,
when their object is to maintain it.
The Journal des Debars.—We have received
the London Journals to-day by express. Mei,
contents are up to 11 o'clock on Saturday night.
In the midst of the mass of contradictory reports
with which the English papers of the Bth are fillee
no reference is made to the possibility of our dis-
cussing the results of the great event which has
just taken place. Every thing will depend on the '
decisions which this week must disclose. England,
France, and all Europe, have their eyes fixed on
William IV. and Lord Grey, who hnld in their
hands the destinies of their country, and, perhaps, 1
the future mainstay of civilization and liberty. May
Heaven grant that their courage shall not forsake
them in this great crisis !
Le Tempe.—With respect to Europe, the pre-
sent situation of England—the calm, but firm and
decided energy of the people—the support which
Earl Grey finds in the immense majority of the
country—all prove that the triumph of the aristo-
cracy in parliament is by no means sure or formid-
able. The aristocracy has, no doubt, some chance
of attaining power ; but, from what is passing—
from the sentiments expressed by the people, and
their intention of refusing to pay the taxes—we have
no doubt that it would meet with great embarrass-
ment and obstacles. The struggle at home might
become serious enough to prevent it from enter-
ing upon a warlike system abroad.
La France Nouvelle says that the error of the
Opposition has been looking at the reform as a
question of privilege, and as a concession made by
Ministers to popular clamour, instead of opening
their eyes to the real and deep-:opted desire fur
the measure which exists in every class of the
country. It adds that there can be no doubt et
the Ministry standing its ground, supported as it is
W by the King and the country.
•It La Gazette de France.:—lt must not be for-
gotten that it was the Duke of Wellington who
carte emancipation of the Catholics of Ire.
la twithstanding the opposition of the striate.
teary. Thus a Tory Ministry, which could alone
sin the emancipation of the Catholics, may
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C2stotidiewee.—The rejection of the Reform.
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I' ; . 'FREA'CII OPI\IONS (IN THE /EJECT
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.ii • \TATIONAL.—The_
friend‘ of liberty have
I,'; •, 7 e,plore the rejection of the Reform Bill, i
rartisans of the aristocracy who have to
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fnr the favourite order. Reform itself
i . adopted ; Reform will be accomplished.
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I . that point there is not a shadow of doubt
only question is to know whether the 1
104 aristocracy, by the spirit of wisdom as
• • ''' cession, at this crisis, would not renew
1.",- .. heart of the people those sentiments of gl
t 1 and respect which have belted for more
1:• ' century and a half—since the revolution of 1
and which material sufferings and y
impatience had tended to disappear. Tha
t;; ii.