Star.
London, England, 1831-03-21 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF rHE JOURNALS.

Trairs.—We have heard of a certain ancient tory, albeit an ex.
chancellor who teachei his ',arils and dependents to slug out lustily
the old cuckoo-note of " revolution." According to this venerable,
though not over-devout, Jeremiah, we shall have more lords or com-
loons ere long. The nation is all mad ; Lord Grey is stark mad ; and
this raw Chancellor, Brougham was mad always. Away go the bank-
ruptcy commissioners! and the never-ending accumulation of un.
Payable fees to masters, and masters' clerks,—and the suits out.
hying ten gentrations,—and all the pretty pickings of my Lead him-
self, and his secretaries, and of unnumbered subalterns, the gain-
iessence of chancery jurisdiction—and the jobbing of church patron-
age,—away it flies on the wings of the glorious borough system.
numb and state—alas ! where are ye ? Profusion abroad, pecu-
lation at home—heir-looms of 'for, loyalists and placemen—pounced
upon and demolished at one fell swoop! There will be nothing worth
hying for in the British dominions, if this career of the devil incarnate
of reform be not stopped. Why, we hear that the veteran purist has
actually sent it round through some worthy frequenter of the Court of
Queen Adelaide that Her Majesty's drawing-rooms are already num-
bered--that the last season of St. James's has almost expired, and that
plumes and lappets are about to wave no more. But miserable will be
the end of such manoeuvres, as the motives of those who practise them
are at once ethnical and mean. The Court of William IV. and Queen
Adelaide cannot be made, like former Courts, a field for playing off
Iniquitous attempts against the people of England. His Majesty
knows how to nail his colours to the mast, and did not hoist the
Hoy al to strike it. The spirit of reform has now reached,
tnroughoutflag Great Britain, that height from which it may dis-
dain the yelping ban.dogs of the old vicious Government.
HttALD.—Ministers seem to have been ambitious of rivalling their
celebrated predecessors, of whom it was said by Sheridan, that they bad
bulk a wall to dash their own heads against. It is singular enough
rat, on Friday, the day preceding this discussion, the (midranges of
um"' clubhouse announced, with oracular certainty, the event which
`ubsequently took place ; while the ministers themselves, taking noad-
t, hinge of the warnings and the wishes of their opponents, guiltily 'wed still to meet their fate with as much philosophy as if they actually
courted it. It is the part of wisdom to foresee danger and to avoid it,

while it is that of heedless rashness to persist In error till its conse-
quences arc inevitable. Ministers ought to have known that, in addition
to the opponents of this particular measure, their bold and valuable
effort on the subject of reform must have raised them up a host of per-
sonal enemies, who will leave no means untried to prolong their own
existence by ending that of their executioners. They ought to
have known that the unextinie hate of the boeoughmongers,
and of that lively class of their Representatives who are now doomed to
breathe the:air of St. Stephen's for the last thne, would leave no stone
unturned to wreak their patriotic vengeance upon those who propose to
deprive the country of their invaluable services; and, knowing this,
which at least every body else knew, it was their obvious policy—not to
say their duty, to have not only pressed no doubtful measure, but to
have staved off every discuselon which could, by the most remote
possibility, affect the ultimate fate of that one great question, upon
which their own fate, and, what is of infinitely gutter consequence, the
happiness, the tranquility, and prosperity of the whole country, so
essentially depends. The error, however, has unfortunately been com-
mitted ; and it only remains or the Ministers to repair it in the best
way they can. That they will resign we cannot persuade ourselves to
believe. Such a step, at the present critical moment, would be an act 1
of political insanity and suicide.
Porre—From the first moment that we beard the Revolutionary
mature described to the House of Common Lord John Russell,
we held the opinion that it was a desperate expedient resorted to by the
o
Ministry,/ in order to overwhelm, by mans popular excitement, the
universal stntiment which existed respecting their groom incapacity for
the practical affairs of Government. Among many reasons for this opi-
nion, the strongest was, that we knew the provisions of the proposed
bill to be directly opposed to the principles which the Ministers had
previously advocated, and we therefore could not doubt that they were
actually proposing a measure contrary to their owngbellef of what
was for the country's welfare, in order that by any means, even
per nefas, they might continue to hold the reins of government. Lord
John Russell, until now, was the eulogist of close boroughs I At page
261 of his book on the English Constitution, he says—" In this man-
ner (by means of close boroughs) the greater pert of our distinguished
statesmen have entered Parliament, and some of them, erhaps Sir
Samuel Romily and Mr. Homer, would never have found-admittance
by any other way. The use of such member to the house itself, and
to the country, Is incalculable." What, then I are we to abolish those
members so incalculably useful to the house and to the country ? But
Anther, Lord John Russell's "objection" to any " broad general plan
of Reform" was " the danger it would bring with it to
every other institution." Has that danger, then,— passed
away ? If it had away, his lordship ought to have ahewn in
1 what manner. Lord John Russell has written that to declare the pri-
vilege of the small boroughs to be forfeited would be a violent mea-
sure; and adds, that " we ought to have as good, and as strong, and as
cogent reasons for disfranchising Old Sarum, as we had for expelling
James the Second." That is to say, we should have as cogent a rea-
son for disfranchising the closest of the close boroughs as we had for
revolution • and yet when SIXTY boroughs are to be utterly disfran-
chised, and roar r-sievsx more deprived of half their privilege, this
same Lord John Russell affects indignation that such a measure should
be called revolution ! The arguments which Lord John Russell has
printed will, we doubt not, prevail against the measure he has proposed ;
and as he falls be may feel that an arrow feathered from his own wing
has brought him down.
Mmes.—Whatever opinion we may have of the policy of the mes.
sure on which the house divided on Friday, there can be no doubt as to
the disingenuous conduct of the majority. The motives which actuated
Sir R. Peel, according to the report furnished by one of his followers
(for the regular reporters having been shut out, we can only refer to
irregular sources,) would justify a constant and daily oppraition to
every Government. Would it not be more manly in the ex-
Minister to avow at once that he whams to be in office again,
and that he will use all means, direct or indirect, to oust the
party now in possession? Does Sir Robert wish to defeat the ministers
on a collateral issue, as the lawyers call it, because he fears to be at the
head of a/majority destroying the measure which the universal voice of
England is daily calling for, and which the King of England is no less
anxious to carry than the humblest of his subjects ? The straightfor-
ward course is the best, and to show that we at least have no wish to
employ
n. our indirect means, we assert at once, that Ministers will not
res • that they will exert every nerve to consummate their noble plan
of eforn i ; and that if Parliament rejects it, they will appeal to the
nation.

ClizowicLE.—The'country may rely on the determination of the
present Ministers not to abate one jot of their ezpressed purpose. This
brings us to the plain practical view of the matter. How can Sir Robt.
Peel and the Duke of Wellington make a Government against the King
and against the people? Do they think that—after the interest which
the people have everywhere manifested in this question—after the nine
hundred and ninety-nine in a thousand have left it no longer doubtful
what their inclinations are.—they could manage matters better now than
three months ago, when they fled, not from Sir H. Parnell's majority,
but from their own convicted incapacity ? The opposition of that day
have now the whole country at their backs. What is the use of all their
intriguing—all their factious combinations in the House of Commons ?
We ask them thls plain question—What would be the result of the Bill
being lost ? Revolution.

THE LORD CHANCELLOR'S LEVEE.
The Lord Chancellor held his second Levee oo Saturday e
The tollowing noblemen and gentlemen amongst many others at
vZI
The Dukes of Devonshire and Norfolk.

Starquisses—Cainden, Bristol, Clanricards.
Earls—Carlisle, Spencer, Tankerrille Essex, Denbigh, Balboni,
St. Vincent, Northesl, Amherst, Westmorland, Carnarroo, Aberdeen,
Clarendon.

The Bishops of Chichester, Lichfield, Bristol, Lincoln, Bath and
Wells Winchester, Chester, BLords—Dude, Ellenborougha,nErrnham. Arden, Maryborough, Kil.
ken, W. Poulett, Nugent, Belhaven, J. Stuart, Foley. Mahon, Beres.
ford, Hill ; the Speaker of the House of Commons, the Master of the
Rolls, the Attorney-General, the Knight of Kerry.
Members of Parliament—Sir C. Wetherell, Sir J. Scarlett, Sir R.
Heron, Sir A. Grant, Sir R. Wilson, &sr J. Wrottesley, Sir J. Stuart,
Sir J. Burke, Sir W. W. Wynn, Sir W. Heathcote, sir T. Ackland,
Sir G. Robinson, Sir J. IV. Gordon, Sir J. Macdonald, Sir G. War-
render, Sir K. Lloyd ; Col. Sibthorp, Col. Chichester, Col. Hughes,
Col. Baillie ; C. Dundas, Milbank, Bouverie, Moore, V. Stuart,
Lumley, Gorden, J. Smith, Jones, Irving, S. Bourne, Sykes, C.
Wynne, Hughes, Kemp, Ponsonby, J. E. Taughan, Duncombe,
Wilkes, and Ruthven.
The Lord Mayor, Sir J. Barnett, Sir E. Stanley, Sir R. P. Jodrell
Sir J. Sewell, 'ir J. Smith, Sir A. Carlisle, Sir C. Robinson.
Marten in Chaneery—Dowdeswell, Wingfield, Stephen.
King's Counsel—Bell, Agar.
Serjearit--Taddy, Heath, Bleteweather, Scrim, Lewes.
Messieurs—Linch, Preston, Wilbraham, Bacon, Wray, K. Parker.
Sidebottom, Blutray, Barlow, Blunt, &c.

MS.

HANDEL'S sublimo Oratorio. The Messiah, was well performed on
Friday last, at Drury-Lane Theatre. Mrs. WOOD gave " Rejoice
greatly" with infinite spirit ' • and HINMAN. in " Comfort ye" and
" Thy rebuke," was beyond praise. He was rapturously encored in
the difficult uir of ' Thou shalt dash them." He was also loudly
hailed at the Theatrical Fund Dinner, and sung The Boy of Biscay
with such energy and effect that a universal call for a repetition fol-
lowed. The Lent Performances will close, after a most successful
season, on Friday next, with a Orand Selection, at Drury-Lane Theatre.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Maus A mean Tait; fiti-=.flublintitrViateift;ri, 4; Guern4ey and
Jersey, 1; Flanders, 1.
DeaL, Mac 19 and 40—Wind N W.—Arrived the transport.
No. 8, from the westward, with loss of mitten-mast. Arrived from
the River, and remains, the George and Ann, convict ship, for Ports-
mouth. Arrived the Wm. Fiddle, and the lunk*. from China.
POSTSMOUTIII, MMILIII 19 and 20.—Arrived his Majesty's ship
Savage, from Plymouth. Sailed the Mary Ann, Jacks, for New South
Wales; Lad Nugent, %Visible, far Madras and Bengal; Doke of
Roxburgh, 8r0w,,, for Madras and Bengal; and Myths, Sheppard,
for Bombay and China.
PU3100711. MA RCM 18 and 19.—Wind & and &R.—Arrived the
Exmouth, Warren. from London for Van Diemen's Laud. Sailed the
Magnet, Watkins, for the Cape of Good Hope; Herefordshire, Hope,
for Bombay and China ; Arab, Amity, and Orestes transports, for
the Mauritius ; his Majesty's ships Yost and Ganges, for the Medi.
neao ; and Argyle, Stevens, for Van Diemen's Land.
Feu/oyez, Blanca 18 and 19.—Wind S. to &W.—Sailed the
Goldfinch packet, for Rio Janeiro and Buenos Ayres • Magnet packet,
for Lisbon; his Majesty's ship North &ar, for Bermuda; and the
Camden packet, for St. Domingo, Jamalea, Mexico, and Havanoab.
TOZIAT, Molten 18.—Sailed the Summitry, Steven., for Ceylon.
'SUIT, MAME 17.—Arrived the Tom and Mary, Payne, from
Honduras, and Swift, Duheaume from Cadiz.
GIMUISIT, Mason 17.—Arrived the Hope, Clieguds, from Mar-
seilles, and Urania, Le Page, from Mos.
LIVISPOOL, MAME 19.—Arrived the Wens, Richardson; Mount
Vernon, Fes; and Sappho, Raterbrook, from New Orleans;s; Wal-
them, from Savannah ; and Canada. Macy, from New York.
The Britannia, Thompson, from Waterford to Liverpool, sunk near
the Sherries 12th inst. CM. drowned ; cargo eupeeted to beam&
The Paddy Carey, M'Xeseock, from Charleston to Liverpool, was
driven on shore In Dingle Bay 18th law. and would be totally wrecked.
Crew saved ; cargo expected to be saved.
The Clyde, Wakeman, from Greenock to Bristol. caught Sr. at
Holyhead all Thursday, and insomnia'. Only a part of the quarter-
deck, and some crates of glass tinder it. burnt.
The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have appointed
Lieutenant Stratford, R.N. late Secretary to the Royal
Astronomical Society, to be the Superintendent of the
" Nautical Almanack."

A deputation from Norwich had a conference with Vis-
count Althorp on Saturday, at the Treasury.

SUPPORT OF MINISTERS.
SECOND ESSEX COUNMVIIMETING TO SUPPORT
MINISTERS.
REPORTED EXPRESSLY FOR THE STAR.
A second county meeting, larger even than the first,
though distinguished by the absence of all the Tory and
Church and King Gentry, took place on Saturday, in the',
i front of the Shire hall, Chelmsford, the High Sheriff, W.
Davis, Esq. presiding. At noon the business was opened
by Sir Francis Vincent, in an able speech of some length,
eho stated the policy, justice, and necessity of the measure
of reform proposed, with much clearness of diction. The
petition was then read by Mr. Disney, a gentleman residing
at Ingatestone, and was seconded by Mr. Sheen, a respect
able dissenter of Hatfield. Mr. Western, the Whig Mem-
ber for the county, addressed the meeting in a very powerful
speech, in which he described with much feeling the length
of the struggle, and brought to our recollection the many
a hard battle for reform, religious liberty and catholic eman-
cipation, which he had fought with such consistency for
nearly 4') years in parliament ; and which great objects were
now almost achieved by the united efforts of all liberal men.
Mr. Wellesley followed, and after making some remarks on
the absence of the Whig Member at the last county meet-
ing, at which he (Mr. Wellesley) was present, he assured
his friends of his cordial support of parliamentary reform.
Mr. Lennard, M.P. for Maldon, addressed the meeting at
some length in able terms, and made some remarks on the
abuse of the foolish word " aristocracy," with which we
were much pleased ; while he drew an accurate picture of
the constitutional distinction of the three estates of King,
Lords and Commons. Mr. Western, in reply to Mr. Long
Wellesley, made an able, because truly just, defence of his
conduct in being absent at the last meeting, by saying that
he could not then know what the plan of Ministers would
be, but now knowing it, was eager to support it. Mr. Tower
made some observations in support of reform, which from
the noise of the crowd escaped us. Dr. Forster addressed
the meeting with much energy, and proclaimed himself an
uncompromising advocate for reform, although he was no
Whig, but a Liberal, which he represented as being a less
equivocal and aristocratic form of whiggery, and he took
this occasion to observe, that as his head was very
warm within, and the air very cold without, he
hoped the Sheriff, seeing that he could not disguise an
honest Poll with a Whig, would allow him to put on his hat
e addressing the crowd. He then said he gave the peti-
tion his cordial support ; but must be allowed, in doing so,
to say that he did not pledge himself to agree with all the
minutiae of the 13111, some of whose clauses were not suffi-
ciently liberal ; and he also objected to the subdivision of
counties into small shires, which he regarded as likely to
contract local and aristocratic interests, and to limit and dis-
organize the constituency of counties, and to abolish that
spirit of general emulation, which led to the choice of ex-
cellence; but he said he should make no factious opposition,
and trusted to the amending power of the committee, and to
the wisdom of the assembled council of Parliament ;
and he ended by hoping that this efficient Reform would lead
to a sweeping retrenchment, and to the abolition of those as-
sessed taxes which pressed so hard on the industrious classes.
—He then assured the meeting, that in giving way to Mr.
Harvey, M.P. for Colchester, he merely made his own grape
shot give way to the heavy artillery of his learned friend,
who would wind up the battle against corruption, by direct-
ing his great cannon against boroughmongers.—Mr. Har-
vey rose, and in an able speech gave an outline of his poli-
tical creed; and professed himself friendly to reform, both
in Church and State. He said his hon. friend Dr. Forster
deserved a prize for having thrown a new light on the Re-
form question. Thanks were now voted to the Sheriff, and
the Meeting dissolved.—We understood that the Sheriff did
not sign the petition. Col. Tyrell, the Tory M.P. was pre-
vented by business, we understand, from attending the
Meeting ; otherwise he would have been present. It is re-
markable, that for once in Essex, a great County Meeting
has been held, attended by all liberal men of every diversi-
fied party, and has ended in complete unanimity.

To the surprise of many, an illustrious Duke, who for
many years has been attached to, and often voted with,
what is called the old Whig party, upon the question of re-
form, is said to have given his adhesion to the ex-Ministers.
The Duke of Sussex has openly declared himself the friend
of Earl Grey's measure.—Court Journal.

A letter from Uttoxeter, of the 17th says—" We are to
have a county meeting in the next week in favour of reform,
and there is already a powerful aristocratic influence at the
head of the requisition to the Sheriff. It consists of the
Marquisscs of Stafford and Cleveland, Lords Shrewsbury,
Anson, Gower, Sandon, Uxbridge, St. Vincent, Stafford
(Jerningham), with a host of baronets and esquires. No-
thing can be more popular than the measure is in this part
of the country. In the town of Bilston, consisting of 16,000
inhabitants, not a dissentient voice has been heard. A
county meeting for Derbyshire, on the same subj..ct, takes
place on Monday."
The Liverpool Tories have got up a petition, praying for a
modification of the Reform Bill. They profess themselves
favourable " under existing circumstances, to a moderate and
equitable reform ;" but they are opposed to Lord John Rus-
sell's bill, fearing that it may " ultimately be the cause
of greater evils than it proposes to remedy." The troth
is, that the promoters of this petition are hostile to,
all reform, and that they merely pretend to desire
a modification of the bill for the purpose of assisting to de-
feat that great measure of justice. They stand, however,
in a fearful minority among their fellow-townsmen : their
petition, which was agreed to at a hole-and-corner meeting,
not having received above 300 signatures in u day and a
half! The petition recently sent from Liverpool in favour
of the ministerial plan of reform received, in two days,
above 12,000 signatures. So much for the opposition
of the ultra-Tories of Liverpool to reform. But they
have not confined their exertions to one petition alone.
The corporation also held a meeting on Saturday, at
which it was resolved, by the majority of the Common
Council present, who professed themselves friendly to
•' a moderate and equitable reform," like the hole-and-
corner petitioners, to petition against the clauses in the bill
which they feared would, by affecting corporate rights, pre-
vent them from obtaining jurors to serve on juries at quarter
sessions. Thus the corporation of Liverpool, which is com-
posed for the most part of ultra-Tories, is friendly to re-
form, and merely require such a modification of the bill as
shall not interfere with the course of justice, burge►ses alone
being eligible to serve on juries in that borough. They do
not, however, wish for any reform ; and they, like the other
ultras, hope to contribute to defeat the bill, by stating their
selfish objections to its enactments. They have a willing tool
in Gen. Gascoyne, one of the representatives of the borough,
who, from having been a violent and bigotted Tory, pretends
to have become a moderate reformer.— Times.

The East India Company's ships Dunira and William
Fairlie arrived off Portland on the 18th instant, they left
China on the 18th of November, and St. Helena on the 2d
of February. The Macqueen, Edinburgh, and Berwick-
shire, were to be despatched from China on the 25th of
November.

Colonel Tremenbeere, Aide-de-Camp to his Majesty, has
been appointed Colonel Commandant of the Chatham Divi-
sion of Royal Marines, vice Col. Savage, appointed Deputy
Adjutant-General.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, 111Akcal 19.
PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.

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Petitions were presented in rave= of Rebell' and in favour of bard
John Russell's bill, by Mr. Alderman Wood, from the Wards of Corns
bill, Cripplegate Wi:hout, Aldgitte, aid Aldersgate; by Colonel Aber.
c.omby. front Alloa ; by Sir George Robinson, front Northampton ; by
31r. Buck, from Exeter; by General Palmer, tour petitions hum the
parishes in Bath; by Sir Al. Shaw Stewart, (ruin Greer.ock ; l.y Mr.
Patrick S cwart, from the town of Lancaster; aAI by Mr. Halt. trout
Stayley-bridge. Lancashire.
Sir W. RAE took n.e opportunity of slating, that by the new till at
least thirty-nine boroughs in Scotland would be disfranchised.
31r. HUNT presented a petition from Callan, Kilkenny, against the
present title system. The Honourable Gentlemen also present ti pe-
titionsfont the weavers of Padiham, Lancashire, and front lit:st,ing.
Cornwall, in favour of ballot and short Parliaments. The 11011.,ttl able
Member also presented petitions from lililberon, Lancashire. for the
repeal of the duty on newspapers; from aplace in Carmarthen, against
the tithes ; from the working butchers of Taunton, against the t tit on
horses; and also from several societies, for the repeal of the tax wa
newspapers.

TRUCK SYhTEN.
Mr. HUNT presented a petition from certain labourer who had
been in the employment of sir. Cobbett, complaining of haer:.g been
paid in truck. Tne Hon. Member took the opportunity of mating,
that what he had raid of a man, by the name of Riley, having beta
confined to a c 4.11 in York gaol, and a brother reformer having been re.
moved Into the cell after Me had cut his throat, and before the blood wan
dry, the which statement had been contradicted by Sir E. B. &ugden—
the Hon. i►lcmb.•r took that opportunity of mating, that he had seen the
relations of Riley, who were respectable tradesmen In London, and they
ante ready to prove his statement at the bar of the House.—Petition
hid on the table.

Dlr O'CCrSiRE LL defended Mr. Colthett, and observed, that Irish
labourers would reckon a man who fed them with meat, bread and
cheese, a great beneractor.

SEER LICCWCES.
Mr. EVANS presented a petition from certaiu per.ons being li-
censed to sell beer unda the new act, against the magistrates of Lei-
cester, who had refused to allow them to continue their tied' milieuu
they took out their freedom. They complained of the magistrates
exercising a species of espionage over them. The Hon. Member stated
that be had nap the opinion of the Attotney-General on the subject,
who had stated that these people could not legally be compelled to take
out their fre:dom.

REFORM.
Lord EBRINOTON presented &petition from the county of Devon,
agreed to unanimously at a meeting of the county called by the High
Sheriff, In favour of the ministerial plan of reform ; also a petition
to the same effect from 2,000 owners and occupiers of land in the
south of Devon ; and also petitions to the same effect from Dartmouth,
Tavistock, Topsham, and about thirteen other plans in the county of
Devon ; and slab a petition to the same effect front Liskeard, in Corn.
wall; also a petition from the shipowners at Bideford, against the ad-
ditional duties on Canada timber.

Sir It. INGLIS presented a petition from a place in Galway, pray-
ing for the extension of the Galway franchise. He also moved for a
return of the expenses of Blectlon Committees ; alto of the expenses of
building gaols in England and AVales, since the year 1800, watch were
ordered.

Col. SIBTHORPE presented a petition in favour of the 31 iniste.
rial plan of Reform from the city of Lincoln ; also a petition to the sane
effect from the Bail and Close of Lincoln.
Alf. HUME took the occasion of the presentation of these lavt peti-
tions to remark that, although not much in the habit of defending
ministers, he felt himself called upon to say that the ministers had
last night been extremely ill used. Their object was a diminution of
taxation, and yet they had met with the most factious opposition that he
had ever witnessed. But they hail to carry on the government wall ma-
terials formed by the preceding Ministers, and those who held what were
called the Treasury boroughs voted against them. The public ought to
take notice of this, for in additionto the ninety-nine arguments in favour
of reform, this was the hundredth, and perhaps one of the strongest.
Mr. O'CONNELL took the same view of the question of Reform,
and observed, that on that point the voice of the whole empire was de-
cidedly with Ministers and yet they had been out voted last night by
the aid of those who had not the race to retire when they could not
agree with their principles, as 'WAS the custom with the nominees of pri-
vate proprietors.
Ale. HUME presented sixty-nine petitions in favour of Reform, from
Rutherglen, Kintore, from a place in Sussex, from St. Dunstan's Step-
ney, Edmonton, Fulham, from the Tower Hamlets, from Hawick, in
Scotland ; the five latter in favour of the Ministerial plan—and from a
variety of other places.
Mr. O'CONNELL, adverting to what hid fallen from Mr. G.
Dawson, denied that he was, or ever had been, an advocate for annual
parliaments—he was an advocate for triennial parliaments, as estab-
lished at the revolution, which the right hots. gentleman had so often
called " glotious," and to the principles established at which he ought
to be the last to object. lie (31r. O'Connell) was also a friend to uni.
venal suffrage ; but upon that point he gave way to the pending mea-
sure of reform, because he thought that it was calculated to produce
the same ends—good government and cheap institutions. He had been
also charged by the right hon. gentleman with being an enemy to the
protestant church, and wishing for its overthrow; but he denied this
accusation also. He respected the hierarchy of the church of England,
as a faint image of that of his own church, and he was only opposed to
its enormous temporalities and overgrown wealth.
Mr. DAWSON begged the House to compare the statements of the
Hon. Member for Waterford in the House of Commons with the state.
menu he had repeatedly thundered against the Protestant Church and
Parliament out of it. He was surprised that not only the Hon. Member
for Waterford, but his friends, the Members for Preston and Maidk-
sex, should give up their plans of Reform for the milk-atul-water
Wee now before the House.

Sir J NEWPORT called the Right Ilon. Gentleman to order, on
the ground that he was imputing to the Hon. Member for Waiertord
that that lion. Member had falsely stated his opinions
Mr. O. DAWSON did not impute any thing like falsehood to the
Hon. Member for Waterford. He (Nit. 0. Dawton) had a right to en.
tertain his own opinions as to the motives of that Hon. Gentleman.
Mr.W EBB presented a petition with the same ;stayer from 'lea kes.
bury, and it was supported by Mr. Philpotis.
;'Mr. BERNAL presented a petition from the mayor and corporation
of Rochester, praying that the reform bill might not be passed into a
law. The boo. gentleman observed, that be had explained to the mayor
and corporation, that notwithstanding this expression of their opinion,
he should feel himself bound, with ail due respect, to vote in savour of
the measure. (Hear.)
The LORD ADVOCATE presented 40 petitiors from different
parts of Scotland, in favour of the reform b.ll. One-third of them came
nom corporations which at present enjoyed a monopoly, and this
proved the desire entertained by them of sacrificing their exclu►ive
rights for the general weal of the country.
Mr. GROSVENOR presented a petition from the inhabitants of
Chester, which was the oldest town lu the kingdom. Ills colleague and
himself had pointed out to the classes of the Corporation the 'filets that
this bill would produce on their rights and privileges ; but that made
no difference in their sentiments, for after a full and mature consi.
devotion of the subject, they gave this petition their unanimous sup.
port—(Hear.)
Sir T. FREMANTLE said he had been astonished at finding that
Buckingham was placed in the list a boroughs to be disfranchised. since
he found in the population returns that the strict limits of the town con.
tanned 2,774 inhabitants, and the whole parish and Lorough 3,4110 in.
habitants. '.7he noble lord, with whom he bad had an interview, ad.
witted that the case was a strong one; and he wished that admission to
be made public, as it would give great satisfaction to the inhabitants of
Buckingham.
Mr. STANLEY had seen the Noble Lortl this morning, and totk
that opportunity of stating that the caw of this particular borough was
under consideration.

Sir J. BURKE presented a petition fromßallinakill, in the county of
Galway, complaining of distress ; another front the Chamber of Com-
merce of Galway, against the lowering or the duty on batilla ; and a
third from a parish in the same county, fur better distribution of the
funds for the education or the people. He also presented a petition
from the members of the bar, hinchownent' anti merchants of Galway,
in favour of the measure of Parliwinentaryßeform, for which he felt
most grateful to his Disjetiry's Ministers, and to which he should give
his must cordial support.
Mr. KENNEDI presented several petitions from the Corporation
of Ayr, the Trades' House of Glasgow, the Goldsmiths of Relit:burgh,
and various other corporations and boroughs, in favour or the measure
of parliam.otary reform now introduced into that house...a measure to
which ho should give his most cordial support.
Mr. WA lIBUItTON presented a petition from Stockport, praying
to be allowed to return two Meillbefll ; but they observed that they
would not raise any opposition to the measure, that Alinisten bad done
it foe the best, and deserved tire rot:Wenn and support of the people.
The honourable member also presented a petition fr‘m the Chamber of
Commerce in Greenock, against the tat on steam boats.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL peossond a petition for re.
form from 390 barristers. Be also presented a similar petition from
Bishop's Auckland.'
Adjourned at a (garter past Sta.
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The naval expedition to the Schalk, which we announced
en Saturday, is with the perfect miocurrence of the French
Government and the rest of our Allies : so that if the present
Ministry in France keep their places, peace will not be
broken. It cannot, however be concealed, that the new
cabinet of Louis Philip is not more popular than the last,
but an event which was expected to take place SaturdLy
will either " make or mar them." Times.