Star.
London, England, 1831-04-04 00:00:00

SPIIIIT OF THE ✓sURN4I,S.

Timm—There is ore truth of which all men tn111;now be convinced,
and of which the importance is unquestionable, viz.—that the opposition
to reform has been ft um the very beginning confined to a particular body
n• men, who are by no means numerous—who have no natural or per-
ntarcilt stake in the country, or influence over it—men whose clamour
has been so monotonous—whose interest in the prolongation of
existing abuses is so obvious, their argument in &knee
o: them so utterly void of all claim to the attention f
::ittsonable beings, on grounds of national utility, of political justice,
1r of common ben:e, and whose manifest motives, therefore, have so
linit sympathy with those of the people of England generally, that
..ny change in the position of such enemies to reform, taken as a mere
..,not of individunls, would pass away altogether. unfelt and unnoticed
7 the public. We repeat, that the boroughmongers form no fixed or
definite interest in the community, independent of that single morbid af-
•iction of the State which has placed under their clandestine, their en-
.. Anal, and unrecognized control, a large portion of what ought to be.
—because the constitution understands it to be—the representation o:
ihe people of England.
POST. --Whoever has observed the signs of the times, and reflected
epon the principles and the manifest and avowed designs with regard to
the Church of England 01 those who have put themselves forward as the
popular leaders in support of the Revolutionary Bill, must be satisfied
that this measure is of a tendency the most pernicious and destructive
to that establishment, which., under DIVINE PROVIDENCE, has been the
means of preset- ng to the nation the light of pure Christianity. The evi-
dence that hostility to the national religion is one of the characteristics of
the projected Revolution, would be conclusive, if it consisted merely
of what we know respectin; the men who most anxiously advocate the
measure. The destruction of the Church of England is an object
which, consistently with their professions, their lives, thwir writings,
and their speecin:s. it would be impossible for them, in promoting any
great and important Constitutional change. to have for a single mo-
ment overlooked. The Etenthams and the Humes, the Taylors and the
Carliles, comprehend all the claims which the Revolutionary Bill of
his Majesty's Ministecs has to their peculiar and unqualified favour.
HIRALD.—The elective franchise in Liverpool, at present, is limited
to the Mayor, bailiffs, and freemen of the borough, not receiving alms.
The freemen are the persons who obtain that qualification by birth
or apprenticeship, and the right is chiefly confined to journeymen
shipwrights, their sons, and those who have served an apprentice-
ship to them ; while the great body of the householders, who pay
the taxes, and serve all the public offices, have no more right to
nterfere in electing the persons who are to represent the interests
of the town in Parliament, than the natives of the Sandwich Is-
lands. This gross anomaly. the Reform Bill will cure. It will, in
he first place, cut off the non.resident voters, who are always
brought up to the hustings nice cattle to the market, at so much per
:lead ; and to whom, it wits proved, about 6,0001. independently of their
expetmes, were paid at the late election. It will, in the next place,
privent any freeman, for the future, obtaining the elective franchise,
.no shall not be a householder at 101. yearly rent, and will thus cut off
two of the greatest sources of corruption—nomresidence, and that depen-
lent poverty, which is the most obvious to venal temptation. Then.
and nut till then, can any candidate for the honour of representing Li-
verpool, hope to obtain the " most sweet voices" of the Liverpool electors
on the ground of any other merit than that of adopting lek,o's advice,
Put money in thy purse."

THE THEATRES.
The increase of Theatres in London appears to keep pace with what
is called the march of intellect," as may be judged front
the following list of those that will be open this evening:—Covent
Oatden, Drury Lane, Italian Opera, French Plays, (Haymarket The-
atre) Surrey. Garrick (Goodman's-fields) Coburg, Astley's, Sadler's
Wells, Pavilion (East London) City Theatre, (Milton-street, late Grub-
street) City Vaudeville (Smithfield) Qr.een's(the Tottenham) New I est
Londcn (Ratcliffe highway.) Besides the above, there arc two thea-
tres at present closed, the Olympic and English Opera ; by which it
appears that London has at present sixteen houses for theatrical per-
formances.
We a-e authorized to contradict the report that the Colosseum was
about to pass into the hands of the Zoological Society, and to state that
it was entirely without foundation. From the distinguished patronage
of her Majesty, and the novelties which have been recently added to that
delightful exhibition, it has been more attractive than ever.
Paganini's las. concert took place on Sunday in Paris, immediately
after which he was to leave for London.
The minor establishments —like the majors, whose intentions we have
already noticed—show no "backwardness in coming forward" at this
festive season, to enliven the town with their various and splendid novel'
ties, which, in fairness to them we will briefly enumerate: and fore.
most, The Surrey, which, on this occasion, produces three new ones ;
—the first, romantic, entitled " The Headsman ! or, The Axe and
the Sword; the second, melo-dramatic, called " The Dog of the
Convent ;" and the third, pantomimic, by Mr. Barrymore, yclept
" The Enchanted Grove ; or, Harkquin and the Spirit of the Golden
Waters," interspersed with the performances of Michael Boai, the chin-
melodist, and the Northern biffleur. Astley's commences its campaign
with a drama founded on Byron's poem of " Maxeppa ;" scenes in the
circle by twenty male and female equestrians; and a tali of blood,
called " The Negro Murderer." The Coburg, as usual, deals
in the horrific and sanguinary. A new romantic drama, intitled
" The Black Spider ; or, the Field of Terror ;" a new pantomime,
called " Harlequin's Holiday ; or the Easter Offering," and a new
melodrame, " The Man Wolf ; or, the Loup Germs of the Oden-
wald," are this evening's amusements ; besides which the interior has
been re-decorated, and a new and splendid emblematical act-drop will
be exhibited.—Sadler's Wells has also undergone renovation, and will
perform, for the first time, " Radar, the Raven ; or, the Scourge of
Denmark," and " The Jovial Mourners," succeeded by " The Bri-
gand's Wife."—M The Adelphi, the Singers of the Alps, 11
Dimwit, Antonio, and others, 'will furnish a variety of enter.
tertainments.--The Queen's Theatre has two novelties; the first
a farcetta, from the French, called " Double or Quits;" the
I second, a melo-dramatic military spectacle, intitled " The
French Spy," in addition to two of its established favourites, t
" The Danish Wife," and " The Merry Wives qf Barbican."—'
In Milton-street, Fore-street, will open the New City Subscription
Theatre, under the management of Mr. CHAPMAN, late of the Totten-
tenharn-street Theatre, with various novelties, sod an effective com.
pany ; amongst whom may be enumerated Mesds. Fax WILLIAM and
CHAPMAN, and Mr. JOHN REEVE. The performances are four, the
first of which is musical, viz. " Moments of Mystery ; or, the Widow
Bewitched," " First Impressions," " Misehief Making," and " The
Quadrupeds."