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London, England, 1831-09-29 00:00:00

. party ,
Aienne gnat. Of your so-operation here, but M-.
Allinson 'lnwood. " No.l will not go away."
%Me was evidently dieteintorted at this vulgar inte,•-
/option, and said that Ashmore and his supporter,
ware impatient, because he would not introduce
atattera irrelevant to the business of the meeting
for the sake of causing conks on. He wanted
peace and quietness, but they, as was evident by
their coodact, preferred the indulgence of a vio-
lent spirit to au at and glorious advantages to the
country at large. (Applause.)
SPIRIT OF THIS DAY'S JOURNALS.

TINES.—It is "strange, passing strange,- that
whilst all the counties in England—for it,e ex-
ceptions are so few as. not to be worth rrlticiog
have their Reform Representatives in Parliament,
a youth of contrary principles should be found
even to offer himself for Dortetshire. '
But wild amWtlon loves to slide, sot stand,
And fornme's iee prefers to virtue's laud,"
was said by Dryden with as application to one of
the family of Cooper, the Lord Ashley and Earl of
Shaftesbury of his day ; and the disposition may
be inherent in 'the name or title It would havu
been better not to move and agitate a county
at this olds by a contested election ; it wouiil
have been bettor for the anti-reformers to fight
disk battle with the mere Weeds of cor-
MOO their Malallati“ ZAVRIbeII. even 11411
nemnined PI 41 decided. But
atilt eaglets de le *tided, so far as the
lower amiss of Parliament is camerae!, to rouse
that spirit whieb intuit mightily influence the de-
cision of the }lOlOO of Lords to pass the bill, afier
it has become impossible to add a single vote to
the minority in the House of Commons, seems
little short of itifateation. We had thought this
Mr. Ponsonby would walk over the course quietly
t'sr Doreetshite • but Lord Ashley is on the ground.
We have no doubt but that the success of the tace
will correspond with the wisdom of starting it. If
it be said that the contest is only undertaken t.p
show that the seal of the people for reform is
cooled, this, also, is a'qnsation as much settled ,I 4
the other: the innumerable meetings and petitions
are as clear a proof et the spirit of the country, as
the late division of that of the House of Commons.
The House of Commons bas got rid of the affair
of Mr. Bingham Bering and the Deacles. We
genius wish the Baring* joy of the result. Hie
Abell, however, take knee of the case by merely
stating how the matter- ests. There is in supirort
of our view, the opinion of the judge, the uncontro-
vertad testimony of witnesses giros upon osth, and
the verdict of the jury. We call the testimony
• uncontroverted," because as to assertions givers
out of Court, and statements of general character,
:nrue not worth a farthing, whoa applied to an
al case, and the evidence .concerning it
produced and sifted in a court. of justice. We re-
tain, and so no doubt will every impartial person in
England, the firm belief that the sworn testimony
was true and the verdict just.
Cn RON ICLE.—The Edinburgh petition, in
favour of reform, received 36,159 signatures, a
larger number than ever subscribed any former
petition from that city, though it remained open
little more than two days. The Caledosign Me, -
cury observes, that " if the Peers are inclined to
believe men " apse- their own words, there
writ be no difficulty, we should think, in
persuading their lerdebips,thatthe iwerest taken by
the people of &eland is not a jot abated, but
rather increased. Since our last we have received so
many ration of meetings of communities, eor-
porations,and public bodies,iu all parts ofScodand,
for the purpose of petitioning the Lords, that it is
quite impossible to enumerate them ; but it is
mate evident that, before the end of the week,
the table of their Lordshi. s must groan under the
load of petitions from this country. Nut fever
than twelve petitions we °name go from the pub.
lie bodies in Perth alone." In short the petitions
in favour of this bill, as we have already stated,
may lie considered neolerably accurate ce..aus of
all the male population of age. The anti-reform-
ers form so small a fractional part of the popula-
tion, that the resell is Is irdly affected by them.
This comes of ill-timed taunts. Had t:.e anti-
reformers . held their tongues on the •sub-
ject of the sentiments of the people, the Peers—
many of whom know nothing personally of
what the people think—might have been spared
these formidable demonstrations. Some of them
might have conscientiously believed, that as the
people were silent, there was something in what
Mr. Croton said, in the beginning of the dis-
cussions, that the absence of petitions for Re-
form in any number for many years proved that
the call for it now was not the result of any
settled determination of the people, but a passing
impulse, and that the people had returned to a
state of indifference. Bot, unfortunately, the as-
sertion was made in time to allow the people time
to give a most striking demonstration of the false-
hood of it, before the second readiog of the Bill in
the Howse of Lords. No noble lord can no • pre-
tend to have any doubt that the people are united
and determined on this great question. Tile peer
who votes against the second reading of the bill,
must do so on the ground that the opinions and
feelings of a nation ought not to influence its go-
vernment. He must be prepared to at prove of
the worst despotism ; for if we know any thing of
freedom, it is essential to it that the opinions and
wishes of the people should influence their govern-
ment. He who says that three hundredmen should
disregard the opinions and feelings of a nation, must
be prepared to maintain the principle, that thirty
men, nay that one man, AA aristocrat, may equally
disregard the opitiions and wishes of a nation.
HCRAL D.—The Dutch papers contain the ave-
rage share of trashy detail of the backward-and.
forward jauntings of the Royal family to and
from the Hague—which, from their pertinacity,
we take it, must be, next to his pipe, to the Dutch-
man the best gratification, but cannot' by any
chance interest any other creature whatever. The
more that one sees of this licensed and formal
enyegisteringa-and by an " enlightened Kl•ig"
tool-of the " Perils by would hind" of these
Royal Parsonages; tin flew are we disposed to
sondemn the :cruelty 'aid injustice of that
Philip of 'Spain who
.Jet his son out of the
way for the sole o tore of keeping an albrni„„bs
risbch the heckled • none! everyday, wish' no
/ eater wormy than. rDutch reporteri;" the
torney of Von Illtitjoilbut,the lisenrial."
ut there happens, y a s chairut; to lie
something in theluesentertimos which deserves a
moment's notice. it is -tated that the Princess or