Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1832-02-07
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Minority 2S2

Majority 252
Exactly two to one. Thi, maiorit is greater by
above sO votes, than that which pass ed the bill
md sent it to the House of Lords last session; it
exceeds by 26 votes, the ma orty of last session
Tor the second reading.
The Reform bill now introduced, differs from
tho preceding in some particulars. The number
OF boroughs SCI which shall cease to return mom-
bers, are in both tho same, but five boroupbs
which in the first bill included in thus number
are, by the present bill. allowed to return ono
member In the second place, the numbc of DO.
roughs which are TO return one member has been
reduced from Ill to 30-fve of these arc not TO
return any member, and the remaining six to
continue as formerly, returning two In the
thi!u place, the representation of England
VIII now consist of 500, instead of All as by the
former bill. In the fourth place, by the present
OIL, the frccholdcrs in cities and boroughs, which
are counties in themselves retain their votes undis
'urocd In the last bill they limited to their
respective towns, and merged in tho household
: qnalihcaiion.-No frceholders for life, after the
existing lives arc TO have vote on less than u
freehold of Clio valuo. The necessity Of a lease to
confer a vote on n tenancy of ESQ is restored TO
Sbe present bill. The fifth difference which we
I'll mention, is that creating the El0 house qua
ration. a house of e value whatever rem or
..sc is paid will enttle the tenant to a vote, pro-
vidcd 1t he egistered--provided the tenant shall
have occupied the premises II months previous to
da'eto be named-and provided he has paid his
Poor-rate or taxes up TO certain time prior 10 the
election. In cases where the landlords pay the
Poor-rates the tenant may demand to be rated.
Inc only other part of importance in which the
Two bills differ relates to the privileges of burgess
os' irecmen, or livery men, which by The late
sure were TO terminate with tho existing genera.
tion but which by the present. arc 10 be preserved
on the former footing.
On the first reading of this bill, the Anti-R
formers loudly sxuted, and tainted Ministers with
having been compelled 10 give up many Of the
principles for which they had contended at tho
previous session. On its further progress, howev-
or, they altered their tone and denounced the bill
an sui calculated TO produce tho most disastrous
consequences. 1t would be futile to speculate
here on the reception the present bill will meet
with from the House of Lords for in London
even, they seem to be at a loss to form an opinion
on TINS head. One journal says nothing is to be
expected from the Peers, and urges the creation of
sufficient number of Peers to carry the bill.
another alleges that Il change has taken place in
the sentiments of the Lords, and that they will
pass the bill in is present shape.
Tho situation Of Ireland is represented as dis.
tressing in the extreme. We give below the &C
count of a dreadful massacre in the county Of
Kilkenny. The exaction of tithcs seems to be the
exciting cause at present, Of the distracted state
OF that country. Motions have been made in both
Houses of Parliament by Ministers, for the APP
pointment of committees to inquire into the sub
Ject Mr.. Stanley, the Irish Secretary, pointed
out most !orciby, the disastrous consequences
which follow in certain districts the squables per-
petually TAX place between the 1.-THE payers and
uthe-receivers. He observed, that after go
Vernment had made of all possible means 10
goods had been seized and other compulsory
surcs adopted, still nothing effected, for it
was found impossible to dispose of the seizures
alter they had been made. In Ireland the purcha-
ser OF such goods from that oment n marked
man; and even after they shipped for Eng
land, customers could with difficulty be obtained,
so that it has become absolutely and mpcratively
necessary that Government should interfere,
adopt some plan TO remedy the evil and apportion
his fair NEED OF justice - tho payer well tho
receiver of tithes.
AT last too, the British Government seems to
have applied Itself in good earnest to the subject
OF Irish Education The measures to be adopted
towards realizing and extending system of school
instruction which shall combine the advantages of
moral and literary with those of religious know
Iedge,-which may bring together tho offspring of
Protestant and Catholic parents, and train them up
in habits of mutual affection, free from all faint of
religious jealousy, by enlistng the clergy of bo
scots in Jealous cooperation for the improve
nent of their respective flocks and thus eventually
obliterating all traces of that perverton of the
name of Christianity to factous and malignant
purposes, which has for centuries been s'the ragin
hectic in the blood" of Ireland, those measures
are announced and pretty much detailed, in a let
ter from Mr.. Stanley to the Duke of Leinster
\ bearing upon it the formal stamp of authoritative
communication.
Earl Grey, in reply to questions put tc
him on this subject in tho House of Lords observ
& ed that there disposition the part o
the East India Company, or of Government, t.
interfere with the Chinese by armed force unlcs,
convinced of the justice and necessity of such in
reference; and that at present, Government were
} not in possession eff sufficient information.
, The question respecting the British Corn Laws
was introduced in the House of Commons by Lor,
Milton on the 18th.
On the 9th of January commission e
meet in Bristol for the purpose of try ing the in
dividualS concerned in the late riot there. Their
had been some Disturbances among the collicrs
and many new acts of ncendarsm in dificren
| paris of England, though they do not appear t.
have been very serious. The crime Of Burking
still occupies much space in the English Journals
and a bill had been brought into Parliament
adopt measures for supplying the AnatomcG
Schools, though it not thou cht prudent t
act upon it at tho present moment
The Cholera has extended not only to Newcas
tie, but to Shields, which is at the mouth of tn
Tyne, and about miles from Newcastle, and t
different coal mines in the neighborhood.
WATERroRD, Dec 15.-Thc Rev Mr., UcnIil.c!
/ /. clergyman of high Tory principles, intimatet
some SHORE time since, to the farmers of his parish
that he would, in consequence of their neglect
paying up the tithcs, issue summonscs again
them, and enforce the immediate payment of b
dues i'll Il Court of Law. The farmers, determine
TO resist, caused a notice of Mr.. Hamiltons nlcn
ions to be communicated through the several az
Joining parishes, and requested that the people
fhosc places would assist the Fayhale men
preventing MIR. Hamilton from carrying his threat
into execution. Accordingly, on Wednesday morI
ing, most formidable body of the peasant
between 5000 and 1000 repaired TO The appoin
place. On Tuesday night and Wednesday morr
rng the bells Of the different chapcls in that di
trict rang for what purpose it is unnccessaI
10 mention.
About ] o'clock on Wednesday morning Chi
.eonslablcs Gibbons and Brown, with 80 Of the p
lice and accompanied by that obnoxious charact'
TO the peagantrv of Ireland a process serve
marched into Ballyhalc. Tho bitches along I'll
road and the adjacent field, were completely cove