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and •-i•Rifortuets are determined to spare no pains
or • tee c.• to effect the return of a Bankes (William,
sae es. . ncartl) for that county, with a view to in.
titian et; r'-e fete of the till in the House of Lords. We
• r • nil t:.at a meml.er of the Ponsonby family is to be
ern., candidate. The freeholders of Dorsetshire
Fete— ry great honour by their exertions in the late mi-
te,• t hut it is hardly necessary to tell thorn, that the im.
nee 'eye of the approaching contest is, out of all proportion,
,:n•awr teen the last. Tee eyes of the people of F.nglnAl
are ?Ton them. If they ere now lukewarm—if they be.
arty the cause of the country at this crisie—the name of
4 Dorsett&ire man will be a repteneh. But it is impossible
t' itt the spirit which actuated the electors during the last
i;ction should now extinct. and that the men who
:.r rd so nobly will now sit dawn tamely to bear the reproach '1
traitors to site cause of their ceentry. No ; they',
v. 11 rally rotitel :he reform candninty. and nobly perform
t• c r duty. let no man deem his eeertions insignificant.—
Seery freeholder :should act es if he censidered the success
re the election to depend on his exertions alone. IVe can
never conceive so meaoly of any porti:n nt Englishmen, as
tnat having made a great exertion to effect the salvation of
mir country, they should before that object has been ac.;
coinplished, exhibit a careless indifference with regard to it,
tie with the fickleness of children who have laid aside ore
toy for another, veer round to- the support of the cause
against which they so recently made such vigorotts exer.
lions. '1 his sorely is not in accordance with the Englishl
' ehurecter. The Doreetshire men will feel as they
ought the sacredness of the obligation they contracted at
the last election to their fele e.terintrymen, not to desert
till victory crowns their Ants by the passing of the Re-
form Bill. They will not allow themselves to be pointed
et with the fisher of scram as men who its the stntggle
were false to the great cause. They will be true to the last.
and spurn from thent every man who insults their under.
standings by soliciting them to consent to remain slaves—
to sarrender their liberties and their properties tit the pmud,
tel insolent Boreughmongers. We are sure wit need say,'
no more to prove to the Freeholders of Deesetshire the De.
evesity of doing their duty at this eventful crisis.
A sort of earnest of whet we tray aeon expect in the',
House of Lords was afforded last night, in an incidental
discussion on the presentation by Lord Radnor of 4 petition,'
signed by two individuals in the name and on the behalf of
an extensive Political Union. Lord King having observed,
that if the people were quirt, et it was in the confidence
that the Reform Bill would pees ; and if it should not
pass, then the enerne:s of tire House would say that it was
high time to catodder what was the use of the (louse ?"
Lord Wynfortl ruse to crier, and said that he cnn.
site ed it disorderly to say chat it • was a question wire.
tier the House was deny use? His Lordship coeterded
that he was perfectly in order, and that he only
raid, that it case the bill did not pass, the adversaries of the
house would for •hot testiest make it a qnestion whe:her the
Leese was of uuy use; and it v.es their Lordships' duty to
take care that no Seel pretence should be afforded them to
make it a quos lam more especially as he was sorey to say
that this house had no great character to lose." Ti,is ia!sd
winching lake a storm. Some Noble Lords were for taking
down the words. Tne Marquess of Salisbury said it war
clear that a:recstur attempts were made to inflame the minds ;
of men, of well-nu:lring rn-n, against that house." On
sec nl theugets the motion was withdrawn ; and this was
wise. Tooth! who ore most sore ab tot reflections on their
eltaracter have, einerally, very little to lose, or such as might
be lest with advantage. It is in the Old Bailey where dis-
emedotis I a •o cherarer lure most editying.
Lard John tineteil, en moving the ter:her ceeeide ration
of the Reform Bid has: briefly roticed the few amend.
merits, or imitations, a itich the government thought it re. I
quittiee to prop,se. It is intended to give an additional s
member to race of two counties of Weles—Ca.rntarthen-
shire and Denb:ehshire—the former, in 1821, contain-
g upwards rf Meth*, and :he /aver 71;00 inlia.
b.tan:s. Two p 1 se. a, also, arc to have each one men-
bee— in Lancashire, and road
and 3liachin.liampton, in the county of Gloucester.
The Report is to be taken into farther consideration this
day, anti it was seated by Lord Althorp, that he hoped and
trusted the third reading would be definitively axed for
Vonday next. These are some objects which ought not to
be cuneidered too curiously, and aniong them is the crea-
tion of Peeve Sir Richard Vyvyan was pleased to call the
last male Peers faggots. In Tom Jones, the King of the
Gipsies, among oilier matters which puzzled him in our
Christian Connuoawealth, notices the distribution of ho-
t:ours: 1' Ma are often, hear dat sham is de consequence
and de cause too of many of your rewards. Are your rewards
and punishments, den, de same thing ?" We look not to
the means, but to the end. The fairest dowers owe their
rich tints to a liberal allowance of ordure. The fairest Peer-
ages have had their origin in foul and impure sources.
POST.—Gross disrespect and abusive expressionstowards
the House of Lords might, perhaps, have been expected
from the Times and those other Journals which exist only
by pandering to the vile appetites of the very lowest class of
the people. But that we should heat the language which is
properly addressed to the pottheuses of the Metropolis
adopted and repeated within the walls of the House of
Lords itself, we never could have anticipated. Such,
however, was the case yesterday evening. Happily,
ll:ere is but one Member of their Lordships' House
capable of so demeaning himself, but that there should
be even one must be a subject of general regret.—
That Henry tiro:lloAm, Esq. M. P. and the present Lord
Chancellor ore nut the same man is evident enough. But
which is the true man, or whether there may vet be sonic
third or fourth man under the sante external form, to be
brought forty eel as future eitcunistances may require, are
questions s bleb amazingly perplex all the politicians and
philosophers of the day. The more indulgent class of
observers soy, that having reached a higher pinnacle,
the noble and learned Lutel has obtained a clearer
view, and this accounts fur his new aversion to be 1414
1*:;1:1 it sanctions crime, and his new perception
or the value of Lord Eldon and the Bishops; the more
ey meal remark that to be formidable was the way to the
%Voel,ack. alai to be harmless is the way to keep there ;
and:: all s: eat to agree that, with whatever motive, this
thstmguislnd functionary is investing himself as speedily
as ji Ise /et that the case was really urgent of all the preju.
dices and peculiaries which would be likely to obstruct his
admission 111:o a Tory Cabinet.
11 E RA I.D.—The Paris papers of Sunday and Monday,
out a domestic point of view, are not without interest ; and if
the notices they contain of Polish affairs are as authentic as
r.re exinlirating, they would be really important. But
aseulacy and certainty of intelligence seem to recede upon
this subject, just at the same rate that our extreme anxiety
ritteua us nearer to it ; and, notwithstanding the num.rous
details which thicken upon all sides, we are as much in the
dub as ever as to the actual situation of the belligerents,
upon whose mimes hangs the independence of Poland.--
Tleae papers claim—and with a confidence which gave the
assumption currency throughout all Paris on Saturday—two
green: victories for the Poles over their enemies, one upon the
20th, by Skrzynecki over Paskewitsch, in which the whole
of the main body of the Russians is said to have been routed
f:0.1: before Warsaw; the other by GM. Roxichi over ltudiger,
o•o.e to the south, the fruits of which are said to have been
4,000 prisoners and eight pieces of cannon. The date of this
1 est is not given, but in the general statement it seems to be
lic same which we reported some half dozen days ago, from
German Foyers. Unfortunately these brilliant victories
Lave been anticipated several days by German arrivals,
which gas e them no countenance, for the sources of the
Parisian information was Berlin and Hamburg Papers to
the 30tit of August and 3d of September, whereas we have
I, id the same journals to the laver dates of the Bth and 10th
it.siont. We arc afraid that we must, however reluctlantly,
reject the reports in the French papers, and are therefore
again thrown back upon the meagre and unsatisfactory de-
lode which We 111.tAisht.d in our last, as the latest and moat
plausible acceurts tionn Poland. Warsaw was then safe,
bet tic atf.ids e f i:s defenders were far from being so pros.
plow, as they ;re here represented.

BIPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
HOUSE OF LORDS, SEPT. 13.
The Ilnuse sat this moining at balf-past ten o'clock to
hear Scotch appeals. The Lords in attendance were the
Loan CHANCELLOR, Lord SELnist, and the Bishop of
Conc.