Star.
London, England, 1831-05-06 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF TIM JOURNALS.

ul M S.—The rupid triumphs of the cause of reform render it almost
Impossible for us to present a bare record of them: to observe on all
that pages, is wholly beyond our power. Cambridge offers the single
:xception to the uniformity of the national feeling on the subject of a
redress of grievances. On this point we have already sabmitted a
friendly, but, it is to be feared, a fruitless warning. The supporters of
'Messrs. Peel and Goulbum seem resolute to convince the English na-
ion, that so far as rests with a large proportion of the Church of Eng-
.and, grievances shall ,sot be redressed, nor abuses remedied, nor the
botoughmongers brought to a reckoning, nor the public rights and
liberties protected ; but that the best interests of the King and
people of England shall yield implicitly to the selfish preju-
5-es of a certain number of clergymen, most of them individuals
of secluded habits, and very little acquainted with the bearing of politi-
cal questions upon the welfare of the nation at large ; that, in short,
whenever the great body of the community, including the most intelli.
gent and distinguished classes, desite to consummate any vast political
improvement, they must expect to find an inveterate obstacle in those to
whom the education of the youth in England is intrusted, and upon
whom the most munificent public endowments have been lavished.
What follows ? Why, that the clerical party, in so far as it has embraced
the anti-reform party, is sure of being utterly defeated. quite power.
less as to any resistance it can offer to the course of Parliamentary
Reform. in the name of common sense, therefore, why make
enemies of those with whom it is so hopeless to contend? We put it
to the wordly wisdom of such as are governed by worldly motives,—as
all men arc to a great degree who have given their votes in alarm for
the temporalities of the church,—would it not be better for them to
conciliate and engage the affections of the country, than now, at &crisis
of such prodigious interest as the present, to rouse and exasperate its
resentments? We declare in the most earnest manner, and with un-
feigned grief, that if the Established Church has not of late years been
so secure as formerly, those dangers must become, beyond calcula-
tion, at once more general and more imminent, from these specimens
just aforded of the little sympathy to be looked fur between the
clergy as a corporation and the bulk of English society. But
sa they sow, must they reap ; and we drop the ungrateful subject.
PO/T.—We lose no time in stating that the handbill, purporting to
have been issued by the Lord Mayor, on the day of the last illumina-
tion, upon which our comments regarding his Lordship were chiefly
founded, proves, by the explanation of the evening paper from which
ft was copied into the Morning Post, to have been a forgery--a fact
which, In justice to his Lordship, we are happy to acknowledge and
publish. The respectable evening paper (the Standard) from
which the pretended handbill was copied, after stating that the
forged paper was received by the Editor in manuscript, thus proceeds:
We believe that the handbill was a forgery,circulated merely to compel '
the reluctant to illuminate under the influence of fear. If no such hand-
bill was circulated, it was a fraud (like what we are hourly compelled
to guard against,) designed to place the anti-revolutionist Journals in
an awkward position. We know not what interpretation may be given
to this explanation; as far as we are concerned, it is but recital of
what we said, before the Lord Mayor chose to vindicate himself In the
C urt of King's Bench ; and as his Lordsip did not think proper to set
the public right about the handbill, it is we think a fair justification of
the Morning Post.' It was the handbill which thus obtained publica-
tion that formed the ground of his Lordship's application to the
Court of King's Bench, on Wednesday, as will appear by
the following statement of the Attorney-General, as copied from
a verbatim report of his speech in the Times of yesterday :
' I have read (said the Learned Gentleman) the handbill which is stated
in the Morning Post to have been extensively circulated in the city,
in the name of the Lord Mayor, and the editor's observations upon it,
which, notwithstanding the strength of the language, might excite no
very great surprise, supposing in Lordship bad told the public 'that
the City police had orders to confine their are to keeping the
eartiage.ways free, and that they could not be expected to protect the
premises of those who formed an exception to the general rejoicing.'
But your Lordship will hardly believe that the result of the most
careful inquiries with regard to this handbill is, that no such thing
ever in fact existed, and that no such notice was ever printed or circu-
lated to that or the like effect, until it was printed in the Morning Post.'
The rrimake in the last sentence relative to the pretended handbill hay-
kg originated with the Morning Post, is so satisfactorily explained by
the respectable and candid Editor of the Evening Paper from which we
copied it, that we deem it unnecessary to add any thing from our-
selres upon the subject ; and shall therefore conclude, as we begun,
vh the expression of our sincere pleasure at being enabled to do
justice to the Lord Mayor on the occasion. We bear no enmity
to any man living. We act only upon public principle, regard-
less of all personal consideration ; and that our animadversions
n regard to the Lord Mayor were not founded in any unfriendly feeling
orsystematic opposition to his Lordship, is admitted even by our old
friend the Courier, which last night contains the following remark very
conspicuously displayed We (says the good-natured editor) remem-
ber. that when we (the Courier) censured Mr. Key for his silly tins'.
ply in the affair of the 9th of November, the Post praised him to the
sitte.." Such will ever continue to be the rule of our conduct. What
We approve we applaud—what we disapprove we must oppose and
condemn.

Post.—The struggle for the University of Cambridge is drawing
rapidly to its close, and all anxiety u to its result is dispelled by the
noble and disinterested demonstration of opinion which has already been
made. At the termination of yesterday's poll the numbers were as follows:
Peel ... . 784
Goulburn
Cavendish 806

Lord Palmerston
it Lord Palmeraton's express desire the poll is to be kept open until
melte o'clock this day. Whatever may he his Lordship's motives in
making this request, we most sincerely rejoice that it has been acceded
toby the Vice Chancellor. Our only desire is, that on this important oca
cation the fullest possible opportunity of recording their sentiments
should be afforded to this enlightened constituency.
Braatn.—ln reference to the King's declining, on Wednesday last,
to receive, according to previous appointment, the invitation of the
Civic Authorities to dine in the city on the 20th instant, the Courier of
bat evening had the following statement The public will be glad
to know that the general health of our excellent Sovereign is good,
and that, notwithstanding the malady with which he is afflicted, he
would make an effort to meet the citisens on the 20th instant, as at
inn proposed, but for the consideration that, as he would have, in
such cam, subsequently to visit the city on the opening of the new Lon.
don.bridge, it is considered that the two intended visits may be blended
in one.' The question is not now as to the general health of
his Majesty, but whether be is at present labouring under any particular
Complaint which would make it either dangerous or inconvenient to
Olney from St. James's to Guildhall on the 20th inst. and dine with
the Corporation, as he, but a short time ago, intended, and as the civic
authorities were given to understand. The Courier says he is &Masi
with* malady, but that he would make an effort to meet the citing'.
to the day proposed, if it were not that Ins will have to visit the City on
the opening of London.bridge, and wishes to make the one visit answer
the putpose of two. Though some considerable interval of time is
likely to elapse between the 20th of May and the opening of London.
bodge, and though the purposes of the two visits are quite distinct, yet
if this reason or excuse had been given when the subject of the civic
atettainment was revived, for not accepting at present, the visit to
Guildhall, we should not have questioned the right of the Sovereign
Consult his own taste or convenience in such matters. No such
two or excuse, however, was given. The 10th of May was first
4Thed—afterwards the 17th, and it was finally settled, with the Royal
ticitot, that the dinner should take place on the 20th. The noose.
queue was, that the Committee of Gentlemen who so ably conducted
the arrangements for the dinner on the 9th of November were strain set to
ant to make preparations. Now we assert again what we did yesterday,
th't the Lord Mayor received a letter from the Secretary of State for the
Borne Pepsi taient the night hcforethe levee, which communicatioo caused
his Lordship and the sheriffs to desist from waiting upon the King to
ire their Majesties the formal invitation to dinner, for the day of which
King had previously signified his approval. We say that, in the
lunication of the Secretary of State, the reason given for the pos.
postponement of his Majesty's visit was the returning symptoms of
but not the slightest intimation was then given, or at any former
relative to the opening of London.bridge, as a reason for that
Inept. We can also state, with confidence, that no decisive an.
-in has vet been given, in any way, to the Civic Authorities,
king will not dine at the Guildhall on the 20th instant.
POST.—The ,t movement" is now fairly launched by the King's
and upon their heads be the tremendous responsibility of the
ip awful consequences which are to ensue! The weakest un.
must forsee the nature and character of those consequences ;
e,rt sagacity orb unable to estimate the disastrous extent of
ndtt what haw, under what dynasty, hereafter, the Ministers,
of this Revolution, may be made to answer for it, we can.
to foretell ; but all our histories of the destruction of
mununitias inform in that the authors of the ruin are inn-
e fin( to peri,h under it. If the property and intelligence of
t.oa be not speedily roused to action, and be not vigorously com-
w;thout delay to defend the laws and institutions which bold to-
the frame of ti.is magnificent community—the happiest and the
CllO known in the civilised world—the chance of saving it will
tri!i• and all the blessings which it is capable of conferring upon
es vo,o now live and prosper under it, will have been sacs+.
to'.e t r reckless rapacity of a faction, the most ambitious of power,
4.1 %St capable of toting it, that ever forced its way into the LOWY
any nation in the world.

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