Star.
London, England, 1831-05-13 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF MR JOURNALS.

TIMES.—For Irish members, or Scotch, or any others, to work
mischief against the general interetts of the state, we must suppose
them to act in a trained and pr:meditated combination. New, what
evidence have we from hi •h history of the poedbility of suet a leaseey
When way it known that a large body of Id.b Members of Parliament,
or indeed Irish Aentlemee out ot Pailiantent, ever combined for any one
sy tem, or even measure, of polity, except when receiving their kb .
puke irom the nation et lathe? Of the latter exception, tee slate of
Ireland from 1781 to 1783 mey be quoted as an example. And
what was then the moving poet ? W by, the oppression practised
upon Ireland by the Mini•tets of G.urge the Third, whom the
common opinion of mankind hax long condemned. as it has vindicated
and honoured the patriotic spirit of the Irish. At no u.her time, foe
I no other end, do we recollect any tendency towards a strict snipe
amongst Irish gentlem.n, as a body. It is hardly to be pr. mmed that
even that sage statemian, tile discarded member for kiterpotti, coif
deny to Irishmen the privilege of uniting for the redress of grievances;
nee will any man, with half an idea to guide him, allege that it would
not be safer for the empire to have a combination of Irishmen of pro.
perry opposing the Minister on the floor of the House of Commons,
than to provoke them, by an exclusion from Parliament, to meet in
College-green and pass resolutions for a repeal of the Union. The fact,
however, s•, that acre such a crisis to arrive.—s :re all the member
for Greet Britain to rote on one bide any queb ion affecting deeply the
LIMN:b., or passions of Ireland. and all the lrith members en the other,
—it 'mild indicate a collision between theltwo:countries, to et rime, that
nn pathamentary dietribusion of vote.. or mesterei of put ely
five activity, could arrest it. The question must then be settled else.
where, and pbyyical more than any other prepon.t.r.nee must deride be-
tween two hostile redoes. For the it4l4se.es which ie henceforth to re-
turn Irish members to Parliament, we feel no particle of apprehension.
HERALD.—We are told that, when Parliament meete, Sir Robert
Peel, or some one with his concurrence, is to I t the country into the
secret of the details of a qualified measure. If this ehould really be the
case, we can only say that sucji a step will afford another striking in.
suttee of that miserable system of postponement and delay which has
charecterisrd every act ot the party from whom the main opposi.ion to
reform has annneted. A statesman's mind should b. in advance dills
age—_should take the lead and give the toee to every measure of im.
provement instead of which the party to which we allude has been
dragged and dragoon, d into every thing; and, as in the case of Catholic
Emancipation, so on the measure of Ref cm, concession is only wrung
from them, and is yielded with a reluctance which lakee from it the
slightest merit, or even appeatanut of sincerity. The truth is they
have no plan. Their "qualified measure" Is mere moonshine. There
is not a sold among them elite can define what It means; nor have the
opponents of Reform In Parliament hitherto meant any thing but a
desire to cling to the rotten.borough system as their sheet anchor and
their only hope. Till. is the true point upon which the country is at
issue with them. On chi. point the whole worth of Reform rests. The value
of what Lord J. Buts& Bill lire& bears no comparison to that which it
takes away. In removing the Jacobus which has so long weighed
upon the vitak of .be coun.ry, it will, of its. If, alone give a new
pulse to our national exigence. On this point DO "qualified measure"
must, or can, be heatd of; nor do we envy the hardihood of any man
who would seriously ventere to offer one. No, a full, not qualified,
measure is what the country demands ; and all the pions constitutional
alarms of those who hare so long basked in the sun-bine of a contrary
system will neither hate the effect of (righting the i.le hem hs pro-
priety, nor of one Immo). admitting a doubt that the country shall not
now enjoy the fruits of die victory it has so nobly won.

POST.—The Bing does not dine with the Lord Mayor, bemire his
health is not good ; and, he desires it to be distinctly understood, for
that reason alone. His Majesty, then, it is insinnated, would have
dined with a Load Mayor who has enrolled himself in'the ranks of the
radical faction—a class of persons who rest their cause exclusively on a
sperm of violence and terror; with a Lord Mayor, who, so far from
discountenancing by nay means in his power, an invidious di..
play of a particular set of opinions, at a period of great excite.
ment, sant tinned that display, took a prominent put in it him.
self, and thus inspired a lawless rabble with additinnal spirit and
resolution to perpetrate violence upon the property of all the inhabitants
who pr, mimed to think and act for themselves. Yet his Majesty, we
sae to understand, ftels no displeasure, and declines dining in the City
simply on account of his health, which, thank GOD, if we may judge
from daily experience, gives no cause r any such apprehension as is
here Implied, in the minds of his loyal subjects. No; the truth is
apparent to all; and the attempt to disguise it is universally pronounced
to be absurd. The letter is the letter of his ministers, whose purpose us
served by the excitement that prevailed and the terrorism that was can.
menced in the me.ropolis ff/th ult. which example has been followed up
wkit 4;4,, .• ,he Cuu....7 101.. cnetw•rawahea.• J.
the ford Mayor Is thin. Tiszr tt (told have taken the King to dine is
the City. if they could hove molted that stern stuff of which the hearts
of the Prince- of the UntIPS of Brunswick are composed. This is s
sample of what we are to expect from them, which is consistent withal'
their other sets anal conduct, with their applause of the tri.colouted
standard, and with the use of it in their electioneering processions. We
entreat our countrymen to attend to the signs of the times, and to the
dangers that thrown them.

Dinners were given, yesterday, by Lord Montagu, in
Hamilton-place ; Lord Yarborough, in Arlington-street ;
Lord Clonmell, in Upper Brook-street ; Mr. Arcedeckne,
in Grosvenor-square, &c.
The Duke of Buccleuch entertained a large party to
dinner yesterday, at Whitehall Gardens.
General Comte Woronsow, the Countess Woronrow, fa-
mily, and suite, arrived yesterday at the Pulteney Hotel,
Albemarle-street, from Russia.
A Lisbon Mail has arrived off Falmouth : letters and
papers will not be up until to-morrow, but it is supposed that
Government have received their despatches.
It is said that some of the largest promisee to the Anti-
Reform Fund, now that they discover the hopelessness of
the speculation refuse to " cash up," and that some of
the candidates, who embarked on the expectation of going
" scot free," are left " to pay the piper themselves.
Sir James Macdonald, the new Member for Hampshire,
has a small estate at Lyn, near Petersfield, and is scarcely
known to the gentlemen of the county. His soccer has
been entirely owing to the old families not being able to
produce a single scion worthy of representing the count'
upon reform principles. Lord Porchester, the son of the
Earl of Carnarvon, might have walked over the comae, hid
it not been for the Noble Earl's new and unaccountable hoe
upon the reform question.
The predestination of the King's visit to the city is ex-
plained in a manner which we conceive will satisfy them*
captious. The truth is, that his Majesty is always ladle-
posed, more or less, at this trying time of the year; and
we are sure that the late easterly winds have bad that effect.
that the most robust might hesitate ere they pledged them-
selves to the fatigues of a public dinner, of which they w
to be the object.— Times.
We understand that, though in every instance where oP.
plication is made by persons claiming compensation from
the hundred for damages sustained from rioters, the Jim'
tices are required to appoint a Special Petty Session for
hearing the claimants, within thirty days after notice has
been exhibited by the High Constable of the division, the
Magistrates of Marlborough-street propose to adjourn Me
Special Session which they have fixed for the 4th of Just.
for hearing the cases which occurred in their district o
the night of the 27th ult. from time to time, in order
that, should any actions be brought where the damage on
that occasion exceeded 301. they may hare the benefit of
the decisions which may take place in the superior Como:
under the law as it now stands ; and that in the event 01
their ultimately considering such claims can be entertained.
they will, for the convenience of the public, adjourn to the
Guildhall, Westminster. It is understood that the Senior
United Service Club, some of whose windows were den!"
intend to bring the matter, with all possible enr4l-
- before the Court of King's Bench.