Star.
London, England, 1831-10-14 00:00:00

PUBLIC FEELING.

' showed, and fully Zevelaned etc knavery of the iirltigs in
attempting to fells. this bill upon the people. (Cheers.) de
advise.: them to tell the King plainly what they wanted, wed
'via: they would now have. The previous sreakers talky:
of proccedin; by legal measures; but Lord Hiongnath
declared that it was unlawful to combine to resist
the payment of taxes ; end in the same breath he in.
:dratted, that as the laws are enacted by barot/;nmon-
eers, there was a peculiarity in the present case.—(A
tench.) bet them, however. asi ! the speaker, address the
King in spirited I..e.guage, tell him they would have r
thorough reform. elm suppsing tha. they had a House of
Commons returned that was :es pure as it 17U ;VAAL: to 41.1 p.
p is., of' chat use would P. be to the c luntry if the Janda
neering 011earchy in the House of Lords e...re to have tha
power of upsetting its ;woceedings. ( Lou! CtIC4 of 4- DJ:11,
with the Peers, and the Bi,. o et.") He rseelultsl
by geeing, that the people will no. any longer be driven into
the meaket-plat like oullocke. but they emel : arouse them.
and check the growth of these delestic spoilers, who
had the and tcity to call the people idee.s. (Lung an 1 col
tinted cheering.) He moved •e fol!owin, Ile:manic) t
" T:t enacting, truly r.r*weeiatin ; your Majesty's de.
termination to render the peo;d: Ito-ably entree vitt.
till ezercise your loyal prerogative, t.o lee raliirg t t:.e
.trerg.ll of the Peerage, bet by causing z.ri inquiry int.. th •
limits of their power, fen this meeting is inlay av-are t::at uo
ratans wha.eret trill benea, the people if tail, measure of
reform is left to the mercy of the noble House.'
1117. NATHAN BIOADHMIST rose to snood the nmc..l.
men:, and salt the. this we. a nroud day, the prautles. stay
he ever lead in his life. He was no otetor, a:.d iiethap,
did not speik good grammar, but If tie made
• ii.erstood it was all he wreed. Nc tad one request to
teaks to them, as a deltherative assembly. nanichy, not to
put. up their han.is foe any thiq unless they were pen'ertiv
trtisfied with it. He wool show the. " the present
mit isny is all a se. of hypocritical rascals." 11r. Lees. ht
1713, 'urought in n uteri.' bill, bat .et for universal ;
ito I :.ut to strengthen the Arlswerecy, and woutd ..eve
e•ITIC t e same now, het he faith, .he •,eople here too wit .
This preciaos hill am therefore b oug•le it wit's .he till.
qualifications tand a nice piece of legislation i- was to.
woo paid oily M. Ph. 111 d. ne arese aid
Jibe paid the extra farehiu3. toaleica; 101. .7e :ostritiy I -
came iapssessessed of the roost excellent c:m nun sense.
(C'ocers, and laaghttr.) He thri' to -I what i.e called a
hill of intlictint:t. °gable:. the preset: whieth
tai :cd the hurt. '.:gs in the egricoltural counties, anti the
coesequent hanginge, the prosecution uf IVilliam Cohbit:,
of William Car enter, of Henry Hetcexhigtoe, and Cee
Rev. Robert Taylor, anti the iaesent ministry had also,
when out of °thee, mused the repeal of the soon{ gut and
menotra; laroind :,ow, get the mai. of the IL fort•t
hid caused i. to ise re-enacted; and this was the whtistry
they seem called upon to support. They had also given
100,00111. to a foreign wothan whom they knew*lodges a•
ell aboet ; and 12,000 L a year to s little girl .o learn J.
deuce 1/00 her toes, and split her tongue so as to enable
her to talk two or three words at once. (Cocers, aai cri:s
of " sec can do withou. them.") He cum:Jawed by np.
pealing to thee, is the amendment was nut superior to tic
origincl tesointion. (Cheers.)

M'. Cuataw row and addressed the meetiog. He began
ohscrvip3 that oe r...a a i aril-working man, and one t. ho
bad felt seierely the lash of tviosition ! Ile wet determined
to resist those t.ho rntlesvoureti to curtail the rights of the
wu.king.man, an.l to La'.our u• dl he obtained universal.
sui.i:gc. annual ts, rend vi e by ballot. au . tot
a :117 of .t a workiN-classes, nose. meeting would not have
bee., caned : the Ministry wire ci at:tined for their ruin, and
there was a power behind the throne which ittus. be de-
stroyed. lle denied the authority the Lottis to interests
with what liaa been passed by the King an.; Commons. (Mr.
Shutticw:ath here interrupted :he spiaker. and confusion e
seed, b.. he cot& Lot be heard.) Mr. Curran conti-utd—
it wes chi first thre they had met here for the discussion of
thei- and he hoped they would not be put town as
they had beet at e: c meeting its the 51a.tor Court.roont.—
He hi ew toady operatives e. ho were working at the rate of
14 hour:. a day for a stervir..; suhsistence. and it was right
that the Kind should be male acquaiteed with the condition
of the people. In the reign of one of the Edwards, every
man h:.d a vote, and after ,t sting tett, it it practice for 150
years, L. there acs, mar e.ho will say it is impracticable, or
that. his a .sertien. was untrue ? people must not now
b- tad that they were not educated inottet for the exercise
to their rights. ilc for ore hoer t:.t.y hr.d anowledgr enough,
and t.ere detcro.in.nl to be. frze.—(Lruu cite:ring.)

Mr. SHUTTLZMOKTH ;Flo rose a.. 41 olis•rv.d, that in
cousequet•ce of die ithlispotltiou a Mr. tir;•wood, who h
butte tothpelled to tease to.: ..tectinj. ac had rise- to
I solicit licir attention, and tau proceeding to observe upon
the amendir tnt •hic.i hat. been proposed, bst was inter-
, rupteil.
Air. DYES then rose to mote another amendment. His
amendment, Lc was sure, embodied the universal sentiment
of the peopl3 in favour of reform, athl the t.eeeuity of a
new creed. o of Kers to wog the. bill. (Loud er'es of
" No, no; sio Peers ;" and great confusion.) Mr. Dyor
conelcd.4 by observing, lust there coos t ethiri, in his
amendment but w: et every honest .4e...ft woultt vibrate to.
(laved ate" of " No Peas. no Bishops.")
Afte: fut.hze wiry al.crattion, t%e resQlutier, anal the
anicodmert o; the opt/mires (whiea re hz,ve before cx-
plainett) were pu., such C.* elev.:nice: was carried amid
shoutitig, w.:ving of .ta.s, u d cis „ log if h..xa The
c:lnirninn cos freqaertly ceiLd or. n by (s'. wv•o go. top
the n;:c.tio., not to put tit:. ian.rdment, Ls no: a tiling *U-
lu the ten-. of the Giousition; but the m;e:it •;at uld suf.
flit nothiag to Lc 'u. until the smentahtnu tint put,
anti there was audi at argry anti t:eterntined spirit shown
by the molitude, the.. if be hod resiste.i d thasclvad the
meeting, t conacquzi ce wool.: .13v.. been vzry dangerous.
In the course of the 1.1%7m:4:L21;6,8er:rat missiles were Saul; in
the eir.etio of ..se ;.r.. sem; persona ...-throwly earned
havinLi tbuir cy:s k.:t ekeu w. vir ehairotato
&riots all this, a regula atroi • Li:earthed i. to the tidy of
tne toccin., sr...et, wit.; tr:miniiiiths bludgeons, which .I.y
curia( t n t. tir rsowLters, nut fee a. it. purpose I:: do not
know. as i•ie sat. 14 o us: Jed. o. ~... W.. pest: whnescd
awn al:zruit.g ,:.b..1141, ~..qtitLde t testa ted,
_burn.
log, we :**l say, Li... ferocity, err the vas. artoith they
filled. J'howsra ser.44l wagbons locke dew, from the great
preasuie upot .bun, au pawn, we u.licve, was butt.,
-It .he co. elusion of We tne.tiug a tut. of thar.ks to the
Chairmaa in. 1111 impartial era ratribti4 um cur. war carried
by acehunajos ; at. Me. 11.0oks awl Mr. Pettisen ~ere
carried off we isr. urn is triumph upon the shouleers
People, alien tocy tracesi ly cuss cited.
I'wux vox —rue exettaltenc in this tOlitOCOlllegllClli on
the rijuctitio cat the bill by the I. 4rds was intense. A re-
quisition was in colisciptcnce addressed to the Bailiff, tc.
(locum. hits to .on ten, a 44.ecting on Tue:day. A. twelve
the nutithers far exctivtling the liroits of the linthlh.lll, the
usual place of astemeling, the meeting proceeded to the
Assize Hall, which was completely filled.
Dr. KINGLAIL, in r. speecti full of energy, constitutional
doctrine, at d spsnopri..te noodles intro:weed a petitieni
i. ortlud it resolotions uhie., acre read to the °
Mr. 11. J. Lothar supported the paitioa proposed by Dr.
lough lee.
fire lee:. STD.% T.T SMITH rote srd fuel most
ttCeply r. iCil h., oth:ri l lac., beater-t, 1 y ruitit%
me tr.° Houser oi l'arhan.ent tai ceu.sun wi.h taco toner,
it will hispetic •h. 1.. blic oilsioese, end uia,ini It the ; uhlic
rasprizty. I .eel 1..111 :. C. ortholan, • cannot hut
blush .n re: so OM ay cif .intries or c .urca arraya :against
the ensiles utti al/pint-or of the people. . feel ir mere trap
all, beca..-: 1 b. raft t it will row ttie sect.* or (molly Latree
beta: en the at roc .ay and tie gnat INISS 41 the pet ere.
eli: lora u. the WA I tau not re.l, a: t. tor ti.e t .rt 4.1
all possible rasa. 1: —be cg.:r I hay. au rte slighter. kits
it is loan I isiut n. 4 mo.e. So lit, boor: tio exfuratioo 44 the
winter, that drip bill *id iiassoitatt l oaf. that tile annual tax
rung tvjl parr.—etx! rre. .e. c.nals.y than .his nu man ca..
save, .01 Franklin Lila its there car: be. t.. 0 thirg, certain
in this rid—deato am: ,axes. As for the l o sbii,q cat
the kli :Ise of 1... a. pies-run° cJe long t It& no
men' 1 hold is to he the mos. vitae. nvlor .hut eter emir&
irks h man imauinaJon. do lof to be taxies; ect-
ful, boc the u..caipt of the Lords to sit; the pnyte-r u
litirrm, rehlir.ds rile v. ty It teddy of de: goes. ',tor... or .e4:-
niostit, an. o: the tun Let of tut exc...:e^t Alfa. l'artosi.
too os that t cession. la the 111. e: or 0,424, there re. to ti
great flood .1.00 that to. e—t•ie tide r. se to t.. 1 11.1.70.1101..
neight—the naves 'Too intus.s, art! every uling
was 11111111.1'.31ed 1.1. h thiante.ion. In a .unis, a this sub.
lime and ..errible storm, Dame Per:3ll3am, ho it ted upon the
beach, was scar at the doe. of .4. house w.th map and pra-
wns, trundling he. mop, sq.tecsi .g out tilt rea-ww.er and
vigotous:y pantos; sway the Atla..tie Ostsn. The Atlantic
war roused. Hrs. Plll/1116100.11 spir.t SeS op, but 1 seed
not tell you that the coatieet wieqral. The Ailentic
Ocean best Mrs. l'artingten. bite was exc.:l:est at a slop
or puddle, but she &bawd not have meddled w,th a tempers
Gentlemen, be at your ease—b: q•tiet a. d steady. You will
best Mfr. Partiugton. They tell you, gentlemen, in we

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PUBLIC FEEI4I.\ G.
debates by which which we have beet) lately oceupied, that
this bill is not justified by experience. I tlo not think this
true, but if it were true, nations are sometimes compelled
to vet without experience for their guitTe, Aid to oast to
their own sagacity for the anticipattoo of consequences,
'lhe instances where this country h. v. been co,. pell.td so to
act have been so =trendy successful. that I sec no elute for
fear, even if we were acting in the ma met impomil to n.
by our enemies. What pteudents and whit experience
were there at the Reformation, a the country, with
eat unanimous effort pushed out the Pope a -el his grasp_
ing and ambitious Clergy ?—what e:eperieno Then at
the Revolution we drove away our a-etcot ntee of Kings,
end chose another family, more eonget.ial to onr free
rrinciples ?—aad yet to those two cent., emit). ,ty ;,,
experience, and unguided by precedents, we ce-e .11 our
domestic happiness and civil and religions fr.. dont : and
having get rid of corrupt priests and cle•K:: kings by our"
sense and our courage, are we now to he intimulat ti by the
awful danger of extinguishing boroughrm net r‘, et d shaking
from our neck the ignominious yoke felt, ti tSzir li.r.eness
has imposed upon it ? Go oh, they y. as you have
done for these hundred years last pest. I an..v.r, it is
impossible—five hundred people, in- and read
where one hundred wrote and read fifty yenrs a The
iniquities and enormities of the boreugtt system are now
known to the meanest of the people. You liar: a dif.
ferent sort of men to deal with:.-you must change because
the beings whom you govern are changed. After all, and
to be short—l must say that it bat alweys app. a-e-1 to me to
be the most absolute nonsense that we canut be a great, or
a rich and happy nation. without soften:lg onr.elves to be
bought and sold e. cry five years like a ps,:lz of negro slaves.
I heft: I am not a very rash man, but I world latmeh boldly
into this exp:timent without any tear of conseque-tces, aryl
I believe there is not a man present who would !tot cheer-
fully embark with me. As to the enemies of th' Bill,
who pretend to be Reformers, I know theta. IMI eve,
better than you do, and I earnestly caution you alainst them.
' You will have no more of reforrer titan th y are compelled to
grant, you ill have no reform at all if they can nvoidit.-..
You will be hurried into a war to turn your attention fr:tm
reform. They do not understand you ; they will not be-
lieve in the improvement you have made ; they think the
knelish oi the present day are as the English of the titnes of
Queen Anne or George the First. They know no more of
the present state of their own country than of the itlte of
the Esquimau Indians. Gentlemen, I view the ignotance
of the present piste of the country, with the most s.ttions
concern, and I believe they will one day or another r. then
into conviction with honor and dismay. I will omit no
means of rousing them to a sense of their danger ; fur this
object I will chrerfully sign the petition proposed by Dr.
Kinglike, which I consider to be the wisest and most mo-
derate of the two. (Reiterated plaudits attended the delivery
of this address.)
BICKHAM RITCOURT, Esq. commented on the evils to
be apprehend front the reform bill, if it had not been re.
jetted, &c. (Great tumult prevailed during the delivery of
several parts of Mr. RA address.)
The Nev. Strostav SHISH said, as my learned friend has
read me a lecture, I hope I shall at least be indulged with
permission to answer his most prominent He
has asked me whether it is a des pot ic act to create n.tv peers ?
I answer him plainly it is not—and I ask him in what
other way the abuse of the negative entrusted to tne House
of Peers can be corrected? If the King abuses his ne-
gative power, the supplies may be stopped. If the
House of Commons abuse their negative they may be di,.
solved, and in what other way is the misuse of the negative
in the House of Lords to be checked? What is a despotism.
he says—with a lecturing triumphant air—if this is not des-
potism ? I will describe to him what a true despotism is
it is when boroughmongen, who have usurped the just
rights of the people cannot be diminished, nor have their
numbers added to, but remain for ever the same usurping
assembly—that I all a real despotism. As. to my learned
friend's stale argument of our having grown rich and great
under that abuses, I shall only remind him that this very
argument was used by Sir John Shelley for the continuance
of the game laws. Have we not grown rich and powerful,
said that eminent baronet, under the game laws? What
rashness and madness to alter the game laws ! I really
thought better of he originality of my learned friend than
to imagine he would have derived his logic from such an
example.—(Loud cheering.)
A. Caoss, Esq. spoke in support of the object of the
meeting.
The resolutions and petitions were then put and carried
unanimously.

NOTTINGHAN..—Rvorts from Nottingham up to Wed-
neaday; and It Is with great satisfaction we state, that the
town and its neighbourhood were at that time quiet. On
Tuesday afternoon 16 persons, who had been apprehended
in Wollaton Park (Lord Middleton's seat), were escorted
through the town on their way to the county gaol, by a
guard of the 15th Hussars. A mob which followed the
prisoners attempted a rescue, and violently attacked the
soldiers with stones. One shot was fired by a soldier at a
mai who had just thrown a stone. The man was wounded,
bat not dangerously. The mob were checked by this pro-
ceeding. and thepriemers cony:led to the gaol. Poselamai
i dons have b:enissued by the Mayor and Magistrates, re.
spiting matters of families to keep their servants and ap.
prentices within dome, and to unite in putting down all
attempts on property and the public peace.
POITEMOUTIL, OCT. 12.—Thh day, in consequence of
a requision most numerously -nd respectably signed, a
mewing .00k place at the New Town Ball in Las town, for
thr purpose of taking i •to considusion the propriety of
addrasing hie Maje,ty in consequeuee of the rejection of
the Reform Bill by :he Hours of Lords, to express the
deep coneera commie let! by the event, and at the same
Wise the coaidence entertait,ed in site petrithism and in.
tegrity of his Majesty's Ministers; rod to beseech his
Majesty, in :he extras: of nit rtlal prerogative, to adopt
such measures as may he necessary to the said Bill being
a,a,u brought before Parliament, and to promote the pass-
ing of the same into a law; and for the consideration of
such other other legal and canetitotioeal means as may be
set.isable at the present rhos. The doors of the Hell were
thrown open aboet 12 o'clock, and by oue, the appointed
time, it was crowded to excses. In tact, a more complete
refutation to the fel,* and unjuq calumny, that the people
had grown indifferent to the Bill end to the great cause of
Reform, could not be urged, :he mceJng being greater than
any on former occasion. J. Carter, Eaq. Mayor of the
Borough took the Chair.
DANIEL. HOWARD, Esq. proposed the first resolution,
and in doing so, said they had met at a time when great and
genial excit.ment prevailed from end of the country to the
other; and upon the firmness and good conduct r f those
who took part in the proceedings of this and similar meet.
logs, the peace, happiness, ant prosperity of the country de-
pended. The Rev. Mr. Bin seconJed.the first resolution,
and was followed by al gertlemee. whose firm, tem-
perate, sand eloquent appeals to the loyzlty and patriotism of
the meeting, met a respond In er:ry burom.
The meeting was unexpectedly rehlretsed by a person
from thee owd, who. although a stranger in the town, primed
him>elf smst cunr,n•ant wi it the subject of reform, and
pointed out, in a speech the most eloqueut and impressive,
the 'troy I enefits that must result to the country from the
Reform 1111 passing into a law. Th, effect produced by
the flow of language, the elegance of diction, the depth of
argument and the beauty of metaphor, by this mechanic
was electrical.

J. H. CAnrsa. Esq. in addrtssing the assembly, mid he
had attended the mewing mither for the porpnvc of thinking
nur vpeaking. He had amok expetionce long ago that they
'thew huw .o spook and het.: ¶o :hint:. It not he heard this
day was worthy of the attention of the proudest audience in
England. Ho ahoti!ti.t the Wave of Lards bad made a
two-fold egregious error—onc ir. h iitving that the people
had tot a olid v.nel peen- onset desire for reform, the othq
that tiny will misuse the power the a lame franchise would
give earn, nn•i that the consequence., would be anarchy and
confuvion. the first was an ettor of fact, and the latter an
error of judgm-nt.
F. BARING. Esq. suifil be st.crileal. not to teach, but to
learn. He had no new pledge to make—no mew a pinions to
give. lie hod e,ever listened with so much phasure before
at any similar ,enesting. He had head speeches by whith
the most eloquent izignt have be;, instructed, and the wisest
be made more wive. lie regarded the recent dtteat of the
bill bet as a prelude to victory, and vindicated the political
character of Lord tarty and his Ministry, and extolled them
for their wise said patriotic measures. •
Ross.—The freeholders end inhabiiants held a publis
meeting on Monday, io constquer.ve of the rejection of the
Reform Bill by the Lords' which was far more numerously
and respectably attended than even their former reform
meetings, and• petition to the King was unanimously re-
solved on, assuring his Majesty of the unabated loyalty aid
attachment of his people, and praying him to continue his
present 31inisters,-and hit immediate adoption of suck steps
as he in his wisdom might cunsida most conducive to the
speedy and effectual triumph of Reform.

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are really in a perplexity to know
w hat course we should adopt, be*reen our own
desire to urge, with whatever power we possess,
the cause of reform, and the multiplicity of our
communications to which we must dedicate space
on the subject. Suffice it for the present to state,
that all England is in movement to heal the mis-
chief that has been done by the rejection of the
bill. We think we are cot going too far when we
say, that even the authors of the wrong itself are
(at least many of them) anxious to repair their
unhappy error, and unite themselves to these
whose wise measures have been delayed, not
frustrated. We may roundly assert, that in'
numbers all England calls out for the Bill :
in intelligence also, in knowledge, and in
principle, we may repeat the expression,—
all England calls out for the Bill. The proceed-
ings of public bodies, however, demand the first
attention. The bankers, merchants, and traders
of the City of London met yesterday at the Man-
sion House, in pursuance of the requisition of which
we before spoke, to express their feelings on the
rejection of the Reform Bill, to testify their grateful
confidence in his Majesty's present Administration,
and to take other step, of a similar nature. Are these
gentlemen revolutionists? Are they indifferent
to the peace of the country ? Have they nothing
to lose ? Where, on the contrary, are we to find
equal intelligence? With what country of the
world have they not dealings ? Of what history
are they ignorant ? Yet they, with every source of
information open to them which man can possess
respecting the course of human affairs,—they urge
the passing of the Bill without abridgment or
modification, as the only means of securing the
present tranquillity, and consolidating the future
happiness, of the people. There is one subject
slightly touched on by some of the speakers, to
which we would most warmly solicit attention, and
that is the danger of delay. Ministers, undoubtedly,
have many things to look to, but Reform is the
chief : this obtained, all the rest will follow; but
the rest, however happily executed, may be undone
unless reform takes place. The enemies of reform
obviously study and impose delay. They hope to
obtain their end by the same method as the Ro-
man Consul, " qui cunctando restituit rem."
They look to the chapter of accidents,—and who
can tell what time may bring forth ? But time
can have no effect upon that which is done and
past. We hope, therefore, for the speedy con-
summation of the measure, and for the country's
return to a peaceful and settled state. Of yet more
importance, if possible, than the meeting of the
peat commercial body in London yesterday, is
that of the county of York on Wednesday. We
cannot hero repeat the sentiment of the various
speakers. We must therefore point attention to
the report of the proceedings, and above all to the
resolutions, where it will be observed despatch is
recommended with the same eagerness and firm-
ness. Some official leaders, who hare been
worked almost beyond their strength, must, how-
ever, have time for relaxation ; but we believe
the length of the prorogation will not exceed
three weeks or a month. In allusion to the
subject connected ,with the assembling of large
bodies of people, we may say without hesitation
that so far have the letters of Lord Althorp
and Lord John Russell been from having any un-
due effect on the population of the manufacturing
districts, that they have actually tended most es-
sentially, by mitigating disappointment, to produce
patience, and of course peace. It is most unjust
to tax those noble lords with any attempt to excite
disturbance or stimulate to fury ; their assurance,
or assurance equally authentic, that the bill must
pass, was necessary to calm the disposition to riot ;
and the country is obliged to the noble lords for the
part they have taken. These are not days in which
the substance of security is to be sacrificed to form
or etiquette.
CuRONICLE.—We are sure that the rejection
of the Reform Bill would bring aristocracy into
great odium on the continent. We foresaw that
the French would feel like mariners, when, on the
sudden dispersion of a fog, a dangerous rock
appears before them. The administration of M:
Perier had evidently gained ground in public opi-
nion, in consequence of the exertions made by him
to preserve the peace of Europe ; and after the
failure of the opposition, in the recent attempts
against him, his influence must have been on the
increase. But the same love of peace which pro-
cured for M. Perier support from the piddle clas-
ses, led them to oppose the Peerage, when they saw
a majority of 199 Peers in another country expose,
for their own interests, a great nation to the chance
of revolution and anarchy. Accordingly, instead
of the majority on which M. Petier counted, the
Chamber of Deputies bare, almost by acclamation,
rejected an hereditary Peerage, the majority being
238,0 r three hundred and twenty-four to eighty-six
—Although in England jurisdictions are not at-
tached irrevocably to certain estates, yet jurisdic-
tion is considered as an adjunct of landed property.
The power of naming the landholders to be vested
with magisterial authority, is de facto vested in the
Lord-Lieutenants of countie., and the Lord Lieu-
tenants are with few exceptions creatures of the
government in being when they were respectively
made. When a party has been sixty or seventy
years in office, the whole lieutenancy and magiste-
rial authority of the country is opposed to the mi-
nistry who succeed them. We see the results of
this in county elections. We will answer for it
there are twelve Anti-reforming magistrates for
one liberal magistrate in Dorsetsliire. In order
that the king of this country should have fair play,
Lieutenancies should change, as a nil: ter of course,
with Ministers, and Magistrates should, instead of
forming a collective Judiciary, connected with
ownership of land, become a regular judiciary and
police. In this way no faction would be able to
beard the Sovereign, and set the nation at defiance.
When the representation becomes more perfect,
there will be far less of the affected jealousy of the
Crowe, which has so long served as a pretext fur
giving individuals power to oppress the people,
without the dread of being called to account for it.
POST.—The efforts of the Radicals, so artfully
. contrived to create tumults in ti-c capital, are
' completely exhausted ; the discontents which they
temporarily excited in some quarters have alto,
gether subsided, on the returniug good sense of
the populace; and the metropolis is now free
from all symptoms of tumult and disorder, malgre
the apologies which certain persons have almost
daily offered for those outrages,which they, in their
• utter discomfiture had so insidiously promoted. The
revolutionists, by means of their tumultuous meet-

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ings, end-rivoured to show that their mis-
! chievous preiictions were net alto. ether vcid, and
the vile sabtlety to which they *exerted, in pacific
diggui:e. to effect this purpose, wag every way
worthy of the enemies of the constitution. The
people, we aro convinced, are at hArt truly loyal,
and never depart from the path of rectitude but
when instigated by the evil revolutionary spirits,
who are the curse of the state. On all occasions,
the aural delusion practised upon them being
exposal, they never fail to repent a their error,
and to return ta their wont«l obedience to the laws
and respect for aocial order. The truth of this
observation is sur.lciently demonstrated by the pre-
sent traequil state of the metropolis; and thus have
all the 2l.Jetz, of the revolutionary faction (with
peace on their ton-. I:Cg, but mieehief at their hearts)
been colapkuly frustrated. Upon this result we
caneot deny ourselves the hi3h satisfaction of con-
gratulating not only the metroFolis but the whole
erapire. Our accounts from the country by yes-
terday's lost are of the most favourable descrip-
tion. The effurts of the radicas at Bristol, Mau-
ch.,:ster, Ginsrnw, and various other places have
cora pletely fail .11.
Hen A Ll).--The only article of interest which
the Paris papers contain—and they admit that ia
vastly inferior in their estimation to the fate of our
Reform Bill here—is the division in the Chamber
of Deputies upon the long-discussed question of the
French Peerage, whether in future it is to be hero-
di;ary or not, for that is tho only issue as 'et
tried, the suggestions for supplying a sort of peerage
in the room of the present system being left as a
matter for ulterior consideration. This division
took place on Monday last, after a discussion of se-
veral days. The original motion was the ministers',
and it proposed the extinction of tho hereditary prin-
ciple of the peerage, but giving to the King the
nomination of fit and proper persons to enjoy the
honour during life. No less than six-and-twenty
amendments have, in the course of the debate,
been roode to this proposition, embodying various
suAestions fur filling up vacancies occasioned by
deaths, modes of elections, &c. but though, by the
usage of our Parliament, these several amend-
ments ought to hare been put from the Chair in
an inverse twee: to their being proposed, the Oppo-
sition hail the tact to prevail upon the Chamber to
waive such a course, and to proceed to the ques-
tion of " hereditary or no hereditary" at once.
The result has been, that the be.editary principle
has been proscribed by an overwhelming ma-
jority, there being, out of a House of 410 Mem-
bers present, only 86 for the Peers, and 324
against them,—thus giving a majority of
238 against an hereditary House of Lords in
France. It is quite true that, some months ago,
and during ape lest general electiou for D:puties,
an excitement orevailed it the public mind as
general throu3lem. France, and almost as strong,
as has been felt in this country for the reform bill;
and away of dm candidates were required to pledi;o
themselves to vote agaidat the heredity of the
peers. Bet, with all these known prepossessions
by a large body of the Deputies, the amount of the
majority oyon the question seems to have taken the
public nod the Journals by surprize, and they all
concur in attributing it to the news which had but
just then reached Paris of the ontrre;* committed on
popular feeling by the English aristocracy here, and
by the irresistible conviction which that circum
stance is said to have forced upon the minds of the
representatives of the people, that au hereditary
I:ouse of Lords, not taken from, but on the con-
trary, some of its members boasting of their isola-
tion from, the penele, was naturally and necessarily
an enemy to the enjoyment by the people of those
privileges which their weight and usefulness in the
Stete fairly entitled them to claim. We have in
another column given extracts from several of these
Papers, with the view of showing what is the bent
of public feeling in France with respect to " the
Bill," as the papers familiarly call it ; and we may
add, that wore than one of these Journals pledge
themselves that, whatever other ultimate results
the late vote of the House of Lords may produce
elsewhete, it has certainly been the death warrant
to the extinction of the Peerage itself in France.

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