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London, England, 1831-10-10 00:00:00

.sPIRIT OF THIS pars JOURNALS.

C II RON IC LE.CtiOR of the Reform Bill
by the House of Lords has rouzed the people to
exertions which will strike their enemies with
dismay. The whole country is in motion. Not a
moment has been lost. The poor idiots to think
that the giant energies of this mighty nation were
to be paralysed by their decision ! Preparations
have everywhere been made for meetings. The
parish of St. Mary-la-bonne meets this day, Pan-
cras meets on Tuesday, St. Giles-ia-the-Fields,
and St George's, Bloomsbury, on Tuesday, Clerk-
env ell to-day,the Spitalfields District meets to-day,
the Newington to-day, St. George's in Hanover-
square, and St. Luke's. are to meet, and progress is
making In arranging a meeting of the parish of Is-
lington. Besides these, the Unions of St. George,
Bloomsbury ,and Clerkenwell,meet this day. At these
meetings, resolutions of a most decided character
are to be proposed, and addresses to the King
voted. We understand that in St. Mary-la-
b nne, Pancras. and Clerkenwell in particular, it
is determined to pass a resolution expressing a
determination, should measures not be taken to
ensure the passing of the bill, to refuse payment
of all Taxes. But one most important step has
been determined on. The inhabitants of all the
p ,pulous parish districts above alluded to have
determined on a great demonstration of political
feeline on Wednesday next. That day is to be
observed as a political fast day, a day sacred to the
performance of their political duties. The shops,
are to be closed, and it is agreed that all the inha-
bitants shall assemble in procession to present their
addresses to the King. The Tory Lords will thus

have an opportunity of witnessing in this spec-
tacle of the movement of a whole population,
whether or not the people have become luke-
warm towards the bill. To day the inhabi-
tants of Westminster meet at the Crown and An-
chor at two o'clock. The Common Hall of the City
meets at one o'clock. A requisition for a public
meeting in Whitechapel received the signatures of
98 respectable housekeepers in little more than an
hour. St. Ann's, Westminster, meets this day at
11 o'clock. In another part of this paper will be
found accounts of the manner in which the intel
ligence of the bill was received at Birmingham,
Portsmouth, &c. The committee of the Political
Union at Birmingham met instantly, and issued an
excellent proclamation At St. Alban's we hear
that a black flag instantly waved from the steeple
of the Abbey. We learn from Canterbury that a
meeting takes place this day in that city, and that
the createst excitement prevails. Thus do the
people of England answer the 199 Lords. Their
exertions will rise with the occasion. They will
soon satisfy these men that Englishmen are not to
be trampled on— that they know their tights, and
knowing, dare maintain them. They will too, we
knew, conduct themselves in an orderly and peace-
able manner, as becomes men confident in their
strength and the goodness of their cause, who are
well aware that an united nation is invincible.

HERALD.—The House of Lords may say of
their victory, in the language of Pyrrhus, " ano..
tl►er such victory would ruin us." They have stop-
ped the Reform Bill, but they have not arrested
the progress of reform. .On the contrary, the de-
bate which ended in throwing out the bill has
given additiesnal strength to the principle of re-
form. For the first time since this great question
became a subject of Parliamentary discussion have
the House of Lords, we may say, almost unani-
mously, admitted the necessity of some reform.
With but two exceptions, every noble lord who
opposed the specific measure brought in by his
Majesty's Ministers declared himself a reformer.
Thus the majority of the aristocratic portion of the
legislature, who heretofore regarded reform, in
its mildest shape, as a rank heresy, have de-
clared themselves converts to that " doctrine of
reprobation." They now concur with the people in
the principle, and differ from them only in the
degree. If we look back to the state of the ques-
tion only a twelvemonth ago, this concession will
prove what an extraordinary progress it has made
since that time; while the review of the difficulties
and prejudices which it has surmounted is the best
surety of its final success. Has the cause of re-
form advanced so far by violent means, and by an
illegal assertion of constitutional rights ?—No.
Can violent means and illegal proceedings accele-
rate its progress ?—We answer " assuredly not."
On the contrary, nothing can so certainly retard
the cause of reform, and so effectually promote the
object of its opponents, as degrading this righteous
cause by an association with intemperance.
Those who address themselves on this subject
to the passions of the multitude, and not to
the reason of the people—those wh advise
that the laws should be broken rather than
the legal triumph of the question should be waited
for, are not the friends of reform. Such partisans
should be avoided, as those who only join the ban-
ners to betray the camp. Did the attempts which
certain journalists, writers of pamphlets, and vio-
lent declaimers at public meetings, made so per-
severingly for a long time to overawe and intimi-
date the House of Lords do any service to the
bill ? So far from that, we believe the language
of contempt and tenor, which was so foolishly
or so treacherously employed in professed ad-
vocacy of the bill, did it great mischief. What-
ever interest some of their lordships had in
opposing the measure, and whatever prejudices
influenced others, the mode of attack adopt-
, ed by the intemperate advocates or disguised ene-
mies of reform, called another hostile power into
the field, much more difficult to be grappled with
or overcome than either interest or prejudice—that
was the feeling of wounded and provoked pride.
Their Lordships seemed to think they were placed
in that predicament, that even to allow the Bill to
go into Committee would be to admit that those who
speculated upon their fears had correctly anticipwed
the effects of intimidation. To remove all ground
for the imputation of cowardice, they thought it
necessary not only to throw out the Bill without
going into Committee, but to do so in the most
marked manner. They courted hostility that they
might escape contempt, and took up the gauntlet
which the prophets of revolution had thrown
down. There was little of the wisdom of Legis-
lators in this conduct, but there was a great deal of
human nature ; but it is lamentable that in vindi-
cating their claims as men of spirit—of which no
reasonable man entertained a doubt—they should,
as lawgivers, who ought to be always above the
turbid influence of passion u well as of fear, take
so decided a course to lower themselves in the en-
lightened estimation of the sound and impartial
intellect of the country. But leaving the wisdom
of the decision out of the question, it cannot be de-
nied that the debate did great credit to the talents
of the assembly. Taken altogether, the debate on
both sides displayed far more ability and eloquence
than any which had taken place upon the bill in the
House of Commons. If that irritation and soreness
of feeling to w Bich we have alluded had been ab-
sent, the discussion would have had more of a
senatorial character, and, perhaps, have terminated
in a different result. But we wish to impress it
on the minds of the people that, whatever the
House of Lords have done in opposing the Reform
Bill, they have done nothing but what by law
they had a right to do. That they did not exer-
cise that right in the most enlightened way is, we
think, sufficiently clear. This consideration, how-
ever, does not justify violence, or the adoption of
any proceedings which are against the law. The
emissaries of the anti-reformers are abroad, insti-
gating to acts of a dangerous and unlawful nature,
with the hope of crushing reform. Let the people
beware of bring tempted into a wrong position by
violating the law—with which they must triumph
—against which they are sure to fail.
Times.—Our paper of to-day is dedicated to
the description of that just indignation which is
felt by the British people on the rejection of their
Reform Bill I Every where they are in move
-
meat : we can hardly sum up the various consti-
tuent bodies that are appointing meetings, and the
rapidity of the proceeding is no less remarkable.—
The remedy will be applied almost as soon as the
blow is struck. Re-action, indeed! yes, there is a
re-action ! That is, the same action of insisting
upon reform is repeated, but with ten times greater

seal and determination. In looking over the
elements of which the fatal majority is composed,
attention fixes first, and principally, on the Bi-
shops. These reverend Lords have more to do
with the people than the other Peers; their func-
tions, and those of their less elevated brethren, are
discharged with and among the people ; and yet
through them it is, that a bill for the establish-
ment of the people's rights has been lost ; for had
they voted on the other side, twenty in number,
the division would have been about equal. There
are other opponents to the measure whom we
should not have expected to find on that side of the
question. But let not the country, from these de-
falcations, entertain any doubt of the unbending
firmnest of the King and his Ministers. Be-
tween Lord Grey and the Chancellor there
is the moss perfect union of sentiment,
the closest cohesion ; and if the people mean
to have an useful and substantial reform, to
them they must stick. If his Majesty, which none
can doubt, be bent upon imparting to a grateful
people the blessings of a free representation, it
can only be through the instrumentality of those
who, as a Ministry, have been the first to bring
in and stake their political existence on a great
measure of reform. This part ef the question
deserves particular attention at the present time,
for the Opposition are now creeping out with
an insinuation that they will bring forward
some bill of reform. They bring forward a
bill of reform. How long have they governed
this country ? With but a brief intermission,
for a much longer period than the memory of any
living man can trace back : and yet did they ever
think of reforming or purifying the Lower House
of Parliament ? HAVC they not heaped all insults
and all persecutions upon reformers? With them
" the system worked well." It it clear, therefore,
that if they bring in a bill of reform, it is only for
the purpose of baffling the question, and giving
the people a mock reform instead of a real one.
The accounts from the country, wherever the re-
jection of the bill was known, have been frightful.
Even the operations of trade are suspended, from
an apprehension that men's minds are about to be
agitated by passions which will leave no time for
barter or commercial speculation.

Posr.—The hitherto peaceable and praiseworthy
conduct of the multitude having disappointed the
hopes of those who vainly supposed that their in-
flammatory language would intimidate the noble
and manly defenders of the Constitution in the
House of Lords into au acquiescence in the Revo-
lutionary Measure, they, finding their mischievous'
efforts completely frustrated by the returning good
sense of the people, are new in their utter defeat
having recourse to the most reprehensible expe-
dients. Inflammatory placards yesterday dis
graced the walls of certain districts of the
Metropolis ; calls for parochial Meetings were
extensively published ; and the Revolutionists
went so far as to require the peaceable and
well disposed tradespeople to close their shops
in aid of the mischievous intent. But the po-
pulace, who since the inflammatory excitement of
their feelings has in moments of sober reason sub-
sided, will not now lend themselves to the views of
the enemies of the constitution ; and by such cre-
ditable conduct render themselves worthy of the
proud and enviable character of Taus BRITONS,
not forgetful of the important fact, that it is to
our present wise institutions we exclusively owe our
national greatness and prosperity, and have become
at once the envy and the admiration of the whole
civilised world. Certain it is, at least, that no
manifestation of popular feeling has throughout
the whole of the discussions or to the present hour
been displayed ; and unless therefore the arts and
corruptions of faction should succeed in seducing
them from the commendable path of rectitude they
have of late pursued, no tumult need be appre-
hended either in the metropolis or in the provinces.
POST.—By the time that our paper of this
morning comes before the public the intelligence
of the important decision of the House of Lords
on Saturday morning will have been conveyed to
the remotest corner of England, cheering wherever
it goes the hearts of the true friends of the British
Constitution. Murmurs we expect to hear from
crowds who have been deceived and betrayed by
those who taught them to expect consequences from
this bill which, bad it been made law, it never
could have effected ; threatening. fierce and loud
will proceed from an insolent, degraded, and
revolutionary press, whose violence has received ,
the reproof and been treated with the con-
tempt which it deserves; speeches in abundance ,
will be poured forth by parish orators and mob de-
claimers, whose egregious vanity carries them
forward to the discussion of subjects which their
limited capacity denies them the power of compre-
hending. All these will shew themselves like
bubbles upon the surface of society for a little
time, but the really sound and thinking portion of
the people, those who have property to guard and
leisure and capacity to reflect, will sincerely re-
joice that they have been delivered by the firmness
of the House of Peers from the wild and destruc-
tive scheme of a Ministry in alliance with the
mob. We cannot believe that in any quarter
of the kingdom the decision of their Lordships'
House will be received by the people at
large with much surprise. Wherever the
speeches made on the previous nights of
the debate bad been read, wherever the
unanswerable argumenti and convincing eloquence
of the Lords who opposed the bill had been con-
sidered by the people, we cannot think they could
hare expected any result but that which has taken
place. And the more they consider that result, the
reasons upon which it was founded, and the indi-
viduals who brought it about, the better satisfied
will the people be with it. Upon the reasons which
induced the Lords to throw out the bill it would be
useless now to dwell ; they are already before the
public, developed in language which we should in
vain try to equal, and which we cannot adequately
praise. But we would ask the people to unsider
who they are who have taken the lead against this I
bill, and how great a claim they have upon general
respect and confidence, even if their decision were
not accompanied as 'it is by arguments of such
weight and cogency. In whom should the people
place confidence if not in those who by their learn-
ing, their genius, and their experience, have
arrived at the head of the various professions in
which they have laboured, outstripping the ablest
of their competitors ? Of these were the fore-
most of the opponents of the Ministerial Reform
Ball composed. The bead of the Church, the
Atehbishop of Canterbury, against whom calumny
itself never dared utter a word of reproach,

LONDON, MONDAY, OCT. 10.
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Oxig o'CLoci, This Day.—Tbinnometer. $4. Ba.
muster. 29-00. Weather, dandy. whb rain. Wind B.W.

Tb. excitement of Saturday was far less than
that of yesterday and to-day ; for the division took
place twelve hours sooner than had been expected,
and it was in itself so absurd, so insolent, and so
useless, that it crested mingled feelings of con-
tempt, astonishment, and indignation. The state
of the weather served to smother the irritation, and
give men time to deliberate on the means of rem-
vering the blow, which at first had stunned them.
In spite of sinister reports, no one could seriously
persuade himself, but that prudence and regard to
character were a security against such an issue.
No time was, however, lost in depriving the ad-
verse faction of the advantages of their foolish-
stolen march. The LORD MAYOR, with com-
mendable activity, called together the COMMON
COUNCIL, and they passed some very appropriate
Resolutions, tending to re-assare Ministers of their
confidence, andsetting an example to all other public
bodies throughout the Nation. The Patriotic Ma-
jority of the. Hoes; of Commois s, owing to there
being nopitting that day, held a Special Meeting

at Willis's Rooms, and passed other Res°link!,
showing that the spirit of the Country would in no
degree be abated by the manceuvre which had been
played off against the people. In the meantime hand.
bills were distributed as soon as they could lin
printed, calling meetings of the several district 4
and parishes ; and while we are writing this article,
at least a dozen very numerous ones are assem-
bled in different parts of the Metropolis. In some
parishes, spontaneous meetings took place pre-
paratory to those of this day. Individuals also, iu
all parts of the town, have displayed in their win-
dows, placards and various marks of their disgust
and indignation, and many shops are shut up,
especially in Southwark.

All these manifestations of intense excitement
created no small alarm in the constitutional con-
servators of the peace. Peel's police were moving.
in great activity, and some regiments in the vici-
nity were drawn closer to the Metropolis—among
others, the 9th Lancers were billetted in and round
Chelsea.

All this may be amusing sport to those who
play the game of politics, and who draw froth
public industry in pensions, salaries for nominal
employments, and emoluments in nameless variety,
their ten or twenty thousand per annum, and who
hope in the revolution of the wheel of party, to add
to these enormous and insulting gains; but the
wholo affair is WORSE THAN DEATH to tens of
thousands of families, who, after struggling since
the panic, have for the last twelve months endured
Ls hope, and of seeing all their interests in a state
of destructive abeyance, calculating in some steadi-
ness of trade, and restoration of confidence, in the
passing of the bill.
Nine months debate and convulsion have been
almost past endurance; and we have repeatedly
felt it our duty to compliment the virtues of the
nation on its forbearance, in which personal suffer-
ing has yielded to loyalty and patriotism ; but to
have the cup dashed from their lips, and by those
for whom they have no particular respect, by
which they are plunged into hopeless difficulties,
and into a renewal of discussions and intrigues
with which they are wearied, demands the most
active sympathy. The people are not such
fools as to suppose, that the harvest will double
its produce, or the clouds shower gold, when
the Reform Bill has passed ; but it has
been a point on which expectation has
rested, and till accomplished, arrangements
of all kinds have, as an indirect effect, been sus-
pended.

The intelligence of the rejection did not, of
course, reach the populous manufacturing districts,
till late on Saturday night or Sunday morning.
We therefore have at present few accounts of the
effect in the country. In another column, we in-
troduce a letter from Derby ; which, though not a
town of the first order, has displayed a feeling that
is likely to spread to the greater towns in its rid.
nity ; for it may be regarded as the centre of the
commercial and manufacturing population of
the Kingdom. At Bath, we learn that the
information was received by a general closing
of shops ; and it will be seen, by our information
from Essex, that a general mourning is meditated,
though it will be observed, that the clergy in rural
districts, have had the insolence and indiscretion to
direct the ringing of the bells. We lament on
this subject,that the Establishment should wantonly
volunteer an issue on this question ; for strange
and unwise as was such conduct, the clergy of many
London churches yesterday indulged from the pulpit
in very gross exultations, and in libellous observa-
tions on Reform and Reformers.

With reference to ulterior proceedings, it is un-
derstood that FIFTY-TWO new Peers are to be
called up—about THIRTY eldest Sons of Peers
who voted for the Bill, by writ, and the remainder
are to be creations by Patent.
The Prorogation did not take place, u at first
proposed, on Saturday, owing to certain Bills be-
ing before the Houses of the most pressing nature,
as the Custom House Bill, the Select Vestries, &c.
&c. which the sung& of parties has already de-
layed from twelve to fifteen months, after they had
twice advanced to their last stage.
There are various reports about the day of pro-
rogation, and even as to its duration. It is, how-
ever, expected in two or three days for 3 weeks;
and as soon as the Lords are augmented the Bill
will be brought again into the Commons, passed,
and then sent back again to the Lords. This is
the general impression, and confident expectation.

We have given place to some foreign intel-
ligence, and we have to-day an express eras
Pats; but our own domestic affairs so entirely
supersede the interest on foreign politics, that
we forbear to obtrude them on our readers. In
truth, our Paris letter is almost entirely devoted
to speculations on the consequences of any caprice
of the House of Lords ; and it appears, by
this letter, and the foreign journals, that the
critical state of Great Britain absorbs the attention
of all the Continental nations. How ,will this
anxiety be increased, when the decision of the
Lords is known ! The whole affair places the
credit and interests of the country in a very
hazardous position.

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PUBLIC FEELING.

RIOTS IN DERBY.

The accounts from Derby, received this morn-
.ng, are of a most alarming character,—serious
riots having broken out there in consequence of
the rejection of the Reform Bill by the House
A Lords. As soon as the news reached Derby,
ocat crowds of persons assembled in the public
streets, and commenced attacks upon the houses
)1* persons known to entertain hostility to reform.
The magistrates and the police were wholly unable
restrain the people. They attacked the county
Ind town gaols and released the prisoners.—
fhey then renewed their attack on the houses
;If persons opposed to the present Ministry, and
destroyed the windows and much property. The
military were called out, and it is said seven persons
had been killed and many wounded. The streets
of Derby were so crowded, that it was scarcely
possible for the coach, which reached London this
morning, to pass through them. The utmost alarm
prevailed. A special messenger arrived to Govern-
ment with despatches from the public authorities of
Derby with the information. But few particulars
are at present known be ond the above.