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proceedings should take Owe on their part. Upon
this, Colonel Ev Alta gave notice of a motion for a
Committee, wise made on Tuesday, it being un-
derstood that no opposition was to be made to the
iriotion, seeing that the BARtNos so anxiously de-
sired the inquiry. On Tuesday night, accord-
ingly. the *7Sh_ inst. another petition from Mr.
and Mrs. D EaCIM . having first been presented
(ihmigh not printed in this report), Colonel Eva s
wade his motion for the Committee, which was
rejected by seventy-eight votes against thirty-one;
and, if you read the reasons fur rejecting this mo-
tion, you will find that every one of them is al
reason for the motion. But only look, here is
LDMA Y with a petition got tip at Winchester
and the neighbourhood. which prays for a Com-
mittee; here are the BA RINGS, and MunataT
himself aski. g for a Committee; here are the
Descr.e.s and all that are on their side, and all the
people all over the country praying for the Corn-
mitto, and here is LA ALTIIORP, the patriot
Lord EDRINGTON, the ATTORNEY-GENERAL,
PEEL, GOULBURN, and precious BURDETT, all
opposing the Committee ; and because they think
the BA RTNOS innocent ! Mr. O'CONNELL well de-
scribed them ; beautifully described them. No
MD with one ;pain of sense in his skull can fail
clearly to understand why this Committee is re-
fused. Here is a magistrate and a Lord of the
Treasury, who is also a relation, by marriage, of
Lord GREY : here is BINGH•dt BARING, the son

of the great ALEXANDER, I'rother-in-law of the

heir of the Marquis of BATH, and brother-in-law,
by marriage, of MELLIsti the butcher. Lord
• GREY must wish, one would think, to see the. lofty
Hood of the order of the GREYS cleared of the
hand-cuffing imputation ; and, if he thinks the
Lord of the Treasury innocent of this charge, how
,can he be so wanting to his kin, as well as to his
" order," as to prevent an inquiry which would
make the innocenre of the Lord of the Treasury
manifest? Now, I put this question to each of
my readers individually : I ask him to view the
thing as it lies before him, and then to say, whe-
ther he really believe that the Lord of the Trea-
sury does wish fur the inquiry ; and whether he
'There Lord ALTIIORP, in opposing the Cam-
mitte, pledged his word as a man of honour, as-
serted " upon his honour, as a gentleman, that he
opposed the motion with great unwillingness, be-
cluse he thought that his opposition might have
the effect of preventing, the Member for Ports-
mouth (FRANCIS T. BRING) from SETTING
HIMSELF RIGHT IN THE ESTIMATION OF

TIIE PUBLIC." He declamed this upon his ho-
nour as a GENTLEMAN ! Being reminded that he
voted for a moti n for inquiring into the conduct of
the Manchester magistrates, when he was out of
office, he said there was no parallel in the cases.
In the case of the, petitioners, he said that blame
was imputed only to a single magistrate, whereas,
in the case of Manchester there were several.
This man never could say this. He is not liar and
fool enough to say this: this is the work of some
liar and fool of a reporter, Who was, I dare say,
fishing for something that I will not name, and
smelling strong of gin when he wrote it. Single
magistrate! Why, Mr. and Mrs. Deacle petition
against the two Barings and Long, and three are
not one ! Oh, no ! Lord Althorp never could
say this, and especially as a " man of honour and
a gentleman !"
However, the rejection of inquiry is only ac-
cording to the old practice.of the Whip. They
did just the same in every case brought before
them during the fifteen months that they were in
power in 18k,6 and 1807.
(211 RON ICLE.—Would to GOD that the Tory
Aristocracy of England, now that the &fats
Bill has escaped from the buffoonery and cunning
of a certain place, could see through the objects
of their flatterers stud guides! Would to GOD that
they could see their real interest, to be saved from
the fangs of men hurrying them into the abyss of
revoltrion ! Would to Cilort that the example of
France were not lost upon them ! The Minister

was sacrificed at the altar of corruption : the guil-
lotine and revolution followed quickly in his wake!
, Let the Aristocracy stand before this mirror of
htstory. If Lord Grey falls—can they, the Tories
—denying any thing, govern a nation demanding
every thing? Are they prepared to cast away the
robe of pence—to shot up the temple, and untoof
it ? WEI they immolate their order; will they
become victims to expiate the offences of their tools
and parasites ? Will the Lords Spiritual revive the
r:•,e reasons why Bishops should not sit in Par-
liament, 11341 ? And if Lord Grey should nut fall?
If supported by a Patriot King—" the King's
name a tower of strength"—and a grateful and de-
termined people, what will the Lords gain by throw-
ing out or driving out the measure of Parliamen-
tary Reform? Either the scenes between the
Lords and the Commons must pass again with the
same probaSle results, and the Lords give way, or
ar. ttd.!ition must be made to the number of the
Peur-. The tit at Tarquin of Rome made a hun-
dred st-luatois at once to secure a majority. Sena-
tots, Livy—factio baud dubia regis, quippe
sua ri in Senaturn venerant. In Englane, how-
ever, Peers have been, and may again be made to
avert revolution. The people will not apprehend
danger from that course, but will think every addi-
tion to the number an eventual increase of the ag-
gregate independence. To prevent reform is im-
possible ; it is thus reduced to a question of degree.
Under the present extraordinary and imminent
c min stances, will not the Peers put away their
base flatterers : will they not give fully and quickly ?
We confess we do not despair. The Peers are deeply
interested in its success. Their individual difference
of politic a! power will be determined; they will
gain iii moral and intellectual influence far more then
they u ill lose in boroughs, places, and pensions ; but
Le: t.s nu: deceive ourselves. Already the appre-
. hersi, ns or what is to be expect, d from their lord-
ships have begun to produce their effects. Already
public cre,'it feels the shock. Do not let these lords
integine, that if once the funds fall 8 far 10 per
cent. which they will assuredly do, they can say,
Thus far abaft thou go and no farther. We are all
of us on the brink of a precipice. The time is aw-
fully tinitioue. Several of the gentlemen employed
in manufactur.s, well knowing what serious conse-'
quences • itl flow from any interruption of confi-
uence, have waited on the Duke of Wellington and
other anti-reforming peers, and plainly told them
the consequences they apprehended. 1: remains to
be seen whether these warnings have produced
.•tre etkct. We confess we have our fears.—
? he Scotsman of Wednesday last gives an elabo-
rate calculation of the I roportion of Reformers to
Anti Reformers in Edinburgh, by which they are

as sixty to one. " Yet," observes our contempo-
rary, " Edinburgh is justly held to be the head-
quarters of Toryism ; and we sincerely believe that
the proportion of Reformers is even higher in the
rest of Scotland. We ask if history presents such
an example of ao unanimous people ?" Observe
only how the people are congregated together in
the North of England ! Sy the late census, Lan-
cashire alone contains 1,335,600 inhabitants. The
two hundreds of %Vest Derby and Salford contain a
mill;on of inhabitants. These peaceable men may,
by one fatal vote, be thrown out of employment.
But will the Lords gain by all this misery? We
have been favoured with an early copy of The Edin-
burgh Review for September, in which there is an
article on the House of Lords and Reform, well
deserving of the attention of their Lordships.—
" The position of their Lordships (says the Re-
viewer) may be summed up in a few words. There
is no man of common understanding whn now
doubts the Bill must pass. Even its most violent
opponents have openly admitted, long ago, that
Schedules A and B are their inevitable fate, and
that the reign of the rotten boroughs is at an end.
Then can human folly go further than to postpone
the period for a few months, and prolong the agi-
tation into which the bare announcement of this
delay would fling the community ? Or can any-
thing be more certain, than that when the people
shall regain the mastery, it will no longer be the
Bill, and nothing but the Bill, that will suffice.
Half a year hence it may be any thing but the
Bill."

HERALD.—The Ides of March are come, and
though we are not alarmists, there is surely enough
in the present aspects of the country to induce the
most serious reflection. Faithful and zealous ad-
vocates for reform, from the first moment the
question was mooted, we have felt it to be equally
our duty to take our stand for constitutional re-
form in opposition to that unknown and indefinable
change which must spring from the movement of
physical force. The ultimo ratio Regains ie a suf-
ficient affliction to mankind ; but the Whew ratio
poputorum is infinitely more fearful; and deep is
the responsibility of those who are endeavouring to
conjure up that appalling curse. It is, indeed,
one of the worst signs of the times that the pub-
lic mind has been poisoned into a familiarity
with the ideas of revolution and civil war, in
the event of the Reform Bill not immedi-
ately receiving the concurrence of the House of
Lords. How dreadful an alternative to so inade-
quate a cause! Will the instigators of this fatal
doctrine' suffer the multitude to pause but for a
few days upon the prospect before them ? Will
it tell them to look the horrors of civil war in the
face—the prostration of the industry of the coun-
try—the destruction of its commercial prosperity
—the desolation of its fair fields—and the mas-
sacre of tens of thousands of its people ? These
are the results so madly and impiously invoked—
every peaceful and happy home violated by brute
contention—rivers of blood made to flow, and a
great nation ruined. These are contemplated with
desire by some, and with indifference by others,
as not merely the possible, but the probable, con-
sequences of a measure—we mean the rejection of
the second reading of the Reform Bill—which is
likely to ensue within 48 hours of our publishing
these remarks. To us it seems almost a dream
that, standing upon so awful a precipice, both
Peers and people should be *swept onward by an
insensate impulse, and no calm and rational voice
interposed to allay the fury of debate, and obtain
a truce from the stormy passions that have been so
dangerously inflamed, till common sense, and the
first of all instincts—that of self-preservation, shall
have exercised their influence upon the crisis at
hand. Frequently hare we addressed ourselves to
the property and consideration of our fellow-citi-
zens ; and again we call upon them to abjure the
rage of either faction in the state, and, with the
energy of true strength and power, to effect a full
and ample reform of the Constitution by the Con-
stitution, and not by destroying it.
Porr. —The Debate, the momentous Debate,
big with the fate of Old England's happy Consti-
tution, and of the Realm itself, commences this
day in the House of Lords. It will last two, if not
three, days. We look to the result with anxiety,
but not with doubt or fear—firmly persuaded as
we are that the tem,.erate deliberation and
wise decision of the peers will reverse the
award of the delegates sent in a moment of
excitement to the House of Common,. In a word,
our glorious Constitution, at once the envy and
the admiration of the Universe, we have not the
slightest doubt, is perfectly safe in the protecting
hands of the House of Lords. It is at least quite
certain that the atrocious Revolutionary Bill will
not be suffered by their Lordships to pass in its
present form. Of the particular course to be pur-
sued on this vitally important occasion we cannot
accurately speak; bat it is not improbable that the
destructive measure will be got rid of by an amend-
ment, to subs itute, instead of the anomalies, the
innovations, and the outrageous injustice oI its pro-
visions, the plain, intelligible, and rational proposi-
tions, simply, that the populous towns of Birming-
ham, Manchester, Leeds, and Sheffield, shall have
each two representatives, which plan may be effected
without any alteration in the present constituted
state of the House of Commons by the disfranchise-
ment of four of the moat insignificant boroughs.