Star.
London, England, 1831-02-01 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP THE JOURNALS.

Casorricsz...—lt is the interest of France and England to be on
friendly terms with each other: and we really do not Dee why the two
countries should go to war because the Belgians wish to be united to
the French. There is a menial difference between one people wishing
to be united to another, and one people conquering another. The Bel.
glans were torn from the French, and it is not unnatural that they should
seize the Pint favourable opportunity to renew the connection. But,
however this may be, it were to be wished that Ireland did not tempt
the French to presume so much as they do on our helplessness. The
French take it for granted, that where six out of seven parts of the peo-
ple of a country are exposed to the mortification of beholding the reli-
gion of the seventh pan established as the religion of the country, with
one-tenth of the produce of the soil, sod immense estates besides as.signed to it, the six remaining puts, who pay for this establishment,
onset be well acted to the Government. Thwe is a cause for every
thiag. When we want to know the cause of the disellietion of Ire-
la4 we may ask ourselves why Scotland is well Abend ? Would
Scotland bare been well Abend if treated as Ireland is treated. Will
Inland ever be well &acted till treated as Scotland is nested I'

! Trust.--It is our deliberate conviction that a reheat of Parlia-
ment is our only security a revolutionary overthrow of the
Church and State of SbgLnd Beyond all question, if the Whitt
Ministers be not now supported, a Tory Government—or rather bastard--
Tory—would stead a good thence of honsediately succeeding to office.
Au Administradon of pure Tories, indeed,--that is, of Tories through
prejudice or fanaticism, but, according to their lights, or blindness,
boosts withal,—could not, we believe, -be formed. The party is itself
fast crumbling to decay. Its numbers are limited —its intellectual capacity
still mere limited—du public feeling estertaiss4 towards It fails not
far short of derision. What're, Cabinet shallseMmt (we speak of an
event which,we touch _
not likely)—whower may supplant that
of Lord Grey, by poisoning the Royal said with chimerical fears of
reform, will be tied to the stake, and complied M act upon a system
adverse to nay species of reform. Then ht Ring William look totted
him, and examine what power an such anithstry summand to support
a scheme of government so antrum., sup by his people. Is
At reseal Perliment to be relied upon ? Newskally not. The
Duke of Wellington* as the swiss of the eosin, massed upon a
harkrun between him and the sallemeath Hat what beeloppmed sines ?
Why, Ragland has spoken: towns and memdes, rich wiper, the middle
classes every here, insisted, net like the whig iiinistme, spirant re-
form, but, as a fres pee* ought to do, thq say with ens vela they twist
omit. If the Ring listens* thessausis el Assume and Mimosas& nee,
his Ms joy lean ass to swim trim be soh en age as this, weal
be to both repeated, in Ilf*ml, a leases which Prorithess seems to
have thawed mint ether mates, expressly that ask may
have the wishes se pelt by it. his sat the imam el a ef En&
I land, es et any essernth, that his peek skull wilki ti sat ten it
be
far his benison that thm shad& moll Ma with semenstmaces or mur-
murs. The people of bend hot a eight to whet they ask—to re-
dress el grievances, and seaq:e whet the abase of power. The
Lto their in Stag hoe a right die same epee Lwhich he
affords them proteedosit and is the destrine of ettramodtadee, that
he can claim no mere. If the people, despoiling of sedans of grievance,
fteso the regular chase* Auld hese hshank he themselves
(and thus ere days la width Ina ebbe. hove ened), what will be
the mournful remit In the =when el a period so heppadmilmes P--Why
the intend Madam of the DMA monarchy will all bath been din.
turbid, and its best iissithedens enbvened, that a mummy hides
might
mod Ufapre a bit meths the experiment of tyrannising ever
Lag

H=uns.--fist alas seems to pervade them load sinks of /Di.
oink, and emniptimi, the pet Coryeratises throughout Ithigknth at
this moroest, left She day ef " reform" may restore to the
people those rigida they fan usurped, and these franchises
they have most gamely abused. In many of those Gironde=
the =lts
achigMeiniakbets of Parliament, which was originally in
the or in the community at large, have, in
bre of timer boss wrested altogether from the perk., and
kept is the dale peommiso of a select few, who Mae a meet prob-
able traille in the art and mystery of repremetasiss. Many of times
usurped's. have bees essibmed from time to time hy amid= of Com-
mittees of the House of Cammesa—for these tribunal have, in
lest themselves to the nanvowleg of the elective &make, at yak in
Arnie those, and thereby aimed much of the pulls abehief, which
only a booed and Judicious phis of reheat can repair. They have
cheese to adept Dr. Brady. aboard translation of the word esemmaritor
in' the aid &men, width trassledos was net the math of ipso-
bet of design. By reetbeg these charters wades the
`• t" thrown upon them from the lantern of the ingadres

Doctor, they have practically ',done them into English" in a way which
squally violates the mennuction of language and the principles of the
Constitution. Thus, is many imams, what Camerae saurpatioa
began, Leghdative ignorance or ememdlin Va senepleietli, and the rights
which. from Uwe immemorial, had to the nmeemeity of the
boroughs, ham bees tramierred toe few wins rawly enjoy
cue/lades Vamoose ef me or two debates * peat fandlies, who
nominate tea Moms whom the venal deans ere Amsted to
return : and yet seek beemighe an said le be ted ! We
are aware that sue originally crearsssfoir a useful
purpue, and Met Weems in maw times of our history
Produce* MIN highly boosildal to die nation. They ware $
peva. amid by Royal aridemity, when the feudal system
at its Wake to amotereet the power at the Mil Berms, who often
ree,d twwstun Be the lemeeign lama The Morten which ea-
franchised 1111 P jadlM of wide oneesidng some ash or made at a
time when the coltivatess of the sell wore the vaimis and serfs of the
Aristocracy, raised up greet and_ powerful bodies of men, whom im-
munities and privileges wore bayed fens, and ettendned by, the
King, and whose Weems wire in esilielen with the Lords of the
feudal system. But time atopeoste bass hew 'Wired their use-
fulness—dory have samtived dee mettosiltp whisk meted them.
They engirt to have boss swept away with the Andel system oat of
which they pow. They have sot only closed Mbe mmdel, but
they have sem* bosoms a some et Fill fothasal W
etetY• The !Impales of the elestim nmeniee is one—the inrying of
local taxes. whit& act tan eals egonniered the most dioesputable
manner, is samba. The dimmimet the fundeetpdalic shields, is •
third grievance, for which mmy orthose Coqemdens me enewesabla.—
and, generally speaking, the ezemplee et extrwmpansetpdsdhei-
potion, venality, and corruption, wind* they exhibit in pia
ceedings, have most injurious memetimmese on the mosaicdes park
at large. They are, in short. the admit Aspepo OWN of the State,
and can only be cleansed by the beam of a .womb. sedum
Posy.—The Than of yesterday renews its sup~eas in behalf
of the gentle Whig Reformers, whose lima is said to depend
upon the toleration of honest Radicals. The diandarii appeals to the
honest feeling of Protestant Tories in behalf of the sense kneed Cabinet
against the thunder of the Ti.... The Courier meddles de hi favour
ot a somahing which it professes not to understand. and goonods all its
lopes upon the assumed assistance of Peel and Wellington.—
The liny Chronicle assures us that the mountain has,
after many throes and pangs, been fairly delivered of a bantling,
which is already gone to Court, to be approved of by his Majesty.—
The Banothase, whose hostility to Brougham is at least candid, assures
as that, du people will never allow another men's child to be fathered
on them, &oink:sienna:, it as • Tory wolf in Whig clothing—a de-
' formed transformed, whose sole merit will be novelty, but whose birth
may tend to perpetuate the Grey family job to the twentieth generation .--
Titus on the last day of the first month of the °SEAT TEAR Owe, we
are assured by all the Government Press that to prop an honest Cabinet,
radical end protestant tortes, royal favour and the popular will, are in-
dispensably necessary. Yet, strange to say, each party must be on its
guard against the other each must overmatch the other—each must
nevertheless tolerate the other, and be at one and the same time poll
mein herdi, as the French are to Lord Palmerston, in order that an
honest cabinet may hold together in spite of oind and weather. The
Reform bubble may burst, but woe to its projectors. Earl Grey must
either attempt to preserve or pull down the Constitution. The par-
ties who surround him must make their choice between Gon
and BOA but of both he cannot long secure the favour and
support. To please the ruses and people he must sacrifice his order.
To stand by that order, he must go against the stream which he
professes to follow—against the people whose sovereignty he is bound
to obey. In either case he must stand a convicted Quack. The
great something will prove a little nothing, and the credit obtained upon
false pretences, once blown upon, will render his Government as unpo.
pular in England as it is popular among her foreign enemies. Abetted
he may be loved, because he is not feared. At bane he may be feared,
but he cannot be loved ; and be will never earn his country's confidence.