Star.
London, England, 1831-05-12 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE JOURNALS.

TIM/M.—The Reform Bill.—The last Parliament was dissolved,
and the new one summoned, expressly for the purpose of carrying the
Reform Bill into a law—of making it an organic part of the Constitu-
tion of Enland ; and this will precede all other questions. Ao Evening
Paper (the Cowrie') details, ea if from authority, the method in which
the new bill is to be tarried, and the modifications which Minimum's
allow, or not allow, to take place in its provisions. Ministers, of
course, do not mean to press the bill forward without the proper din
cussion, in a Moose of Commons chosen as freely and as extenduly
by the people as it is possible a House can be chosen under the moot
corrupt nomination system; and the greet majority of the member'
being dearly weaved upon an effie,acious, and, as it is called, "a sweep
big bill," there is no danger that •he Reform will be frittered away is
their hands. But in the mean time we 'mat beg leave to state, that
the evening patter in question has no knowledge whatever of the inten-
tions of A:blister. on ;•'e subject; and that if its readers take any thing
which it states, as jinni authority, they will be egrebiously instate.
As nothing will be allowed to delay the consideration of the bill, 50 no.
tbing will be aduitted capable of impairing its vigour. It will beat
the last as at the first, a decisive measure, such as will satisfy all tea-
amiable people; and the assurance of that fact may lull suspicion sad
allay impatience.
MERALD.—Edinlturgh Eleetion.—The solemn fame, httitkd
" the ELICTION of a representative for the City of Edisdnergh,—
whichibas been lately pertormed on the boards of the Council-thanker
of the northern tuetiopolitt, but not with applause, is a ludicrous sum
plification of the select system of mock npretentation which insults the
common sense of Scotland. The adores j abuts are the members Glib,
Town Conned—a grave and sapient body—who are presumed by the
lodating Ltu s, to be the only portion of the inhabitants of Edin
who have %efficient discretion and integrity to be intrusted wilt
race of choosing a person to represent the eapi;al of Scotian
in the 'et*
I halve wisdom" of the empire. This electoral body,lllte select narks who
have saddled the parishes of London that have been blessed with their
protection with far greater debts titan those of gratitude, are perpetaand
by the operation of the convenient principle of self-election; and, ft
eft
sequendy, their wisdom and virtue are kept hermetically soled,
ore so transmitted horn one generation to another, without any sell"
tore with the adulterating influence of public opinion. Happy Sinn
burgh ! All Greece could furnish, in her brightest days, but " sena
wise men," while the result of the late election proves that the Sofa
capital contains seventeen 1— that being the number of tors in the
Town-Council who have chosen a Dundee to resist the tide of Before%
as it rolls in its majestic course to sweep away the grew mounds sod
rotten berried; of corruption, which enabled the children of marl,
who were " wise in their generation," to climb to the golden pinuneke
of:power. So far Edinburgh is protected against the 'missive yolks.
don of reform. The seventeen sages of the Town Council have, io
the
eventful crisis, proved themselves faithful to their prindples, and
trur
to their established reputatien. They had to choose between the
her to alent
of a Jeffrey' tarnished by an alliance with reform, and the ing
virtues of a Hondas, 4 chanced by a steady adherence to the family doc-
trine, that the best mode of Government is that which considers frui
as the only urine foundation of power, and that the pockets of the mg
are only held in trust for the fingers of the privileged few. thornsr
wonder that the name of Pandas should have a charm with thet
going supporters of the old 'lntent which bore for them such riot
fruit. That system was, indeed, ;heir " garden of the liespniker,
which the dragon of cotruption vigilantly watched, and the name
Dundee is associated with the moat enchanting retailer:don of id.'
items veitall; y.
POST.—The Ministerial Journals express great iodigfati(43
rheas wo should have ve•ttured to suggest the probability of the Wien
Mensun- tieing very considerably altered before it will be again subnar7
ted to the I.egiatature, and concur unaniontualy in the assertion that
hi to undergo no hinge whatever, and that the hustings' clamour "
"the Hill, the whole Bill, and nothing but the Bill," is an authonty so
high in the estimation of Ministers as to require on their part the tl°
strict and literal obedience. This information, if we could helirte
it, woold give us unqualified satisfaction for it would ate
us, that a ministry at once the most incapable and the most mirchievoute4.
that ever existed in Ragland, is rapidly approaching the tern.tta
ties of its career. We are told that the cause of reform has Oh° 11
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