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to coMUUsaroNDBnra.AN8WKR* v ______p. ..p., — mi p.wuhrt lt;iu u«Ivned boa Worcmu. _. .-.irt |0iuU'“« * d*fc*»lv»lxossz «»•-■ «•—- u«--•sjWTOwsrfe. ts-M: «srs£«®sFaieol pal o= ie d«*?»• ' oU art.' bl. aertaat '•2. ••-•-•Vs. wau'coafbra U... bradoa n *Ult*«™ *•• in the 8aib*r «f?£££■ »2»flMMd U.. rhrastt. .f “f»«^ ■•111#. IBUUI«U bu pmrii-.- *»• ---•’•• 6uOTfiWgSrsDid Ca/UoBa. brawn Bare#** area Bat ••«■ _ pw\sarAi«*nthtn-S I* *■** ®* tL« IlcoacafOl ID lft*«. »^fAr- .k# tnutn7a^l «t*K »****• 41 Worertut. »4T# #»T WW «• PB‘U#g§SSESafe®s?as5gs®n„ oo -.h. Bui.-..-Jratta. ►.«lt;»••. al.d.ottrac. «*. »•*»«•lt;*• '»*- * ,. blllSeU'S life in lowlion.SUNDAY, MARCH 27. 1831,Tbe second reading of the Grrat Reform Bill look place on Wednesday morning, sflrr an adjourned debate, by the small majority of one To have passed Ibis itage Is uiu ally considered decisive of the fat* of a measure •, bul lb. maj.rlly was loo small to allow of any certainty of ultimate success. At the same time It was such as to dlsap-joint the hopes of the Opposition. Buoyed up by having Irfeated Ministers on the preceding Friday, though their rictory was obtained by a strange combination of parties, hey calculated, up to the very momeot of the: defeat, on i considerable majority. Tbe result, when the decUloo was leclared. a: four o'clock on Wednesday morning, proved to he world thst many Members, who were anxious to get rid f Reform by a side-wind—for that was the motive for tbe actio os opposition to lbe Timber Duties oo Friday—had vot the cuuiagc openly to vote against that great measure, -onsldering how the House of Commons Is at present ron-itituted, and considering that no less than 130 of the Kng-Ish Members alone, who voted against the Bill, are the epreientatires of the Boroughs which it 1s proposed to dl»-ranchlse, to whom we may add ten for Scotland and twenty or Ireland, who will infallibly lose a seat In Parliament y the operation of this Bill, making—Independently f those who are lodlrsctly Influenced by the appre-lenslons of pecuniary losses—K0 of the Opposition abose existence this Blll puU In danger . considering tbese hlr.gs. we must siy that the Members of the House of Commons who are In any degree representatives of the people are almost as decidedly In favour of Reform as arf he people themselves.' This, in the present state of that House, Is an unanswerable argument for the necessity of Reform. Of tbe County Members, who, generally speak-ng, are Independent representatives, no leu than III out A 188 were In favour of the BUL This U a s.re Indication that should the Ministers be obliged, as Is expected, to dU-lolve tbe Parliament to accomplish their object—and they are apparently hurrying forward the necessary business that they may be able to take that Important step—they will then be sure to carry It through with a triumphant majority. Por soch an event the people ought to be prepared. The friends of the measure must not. it ii said, slacken tall,” and they mast, one and all. resolve, should a dissolution take place, to return no Member, however great bis talent* and long his connection with his constituents, and however realously oo all other points he msy bare attended to Utelr 'merest*, who will not pledge himself to vote for the Great Measure Let it be remembered that, under suck circumstance*. the next Parliament will necessarily be a very short one, and theiefore, the separation of old and tried friends, whenever St may take place, will be only temporary; but the people will not be true to themselves If they tend one man to Parliament, In caae of a dissolution, who will not pledge himself, heart and soul, to promote the success of Lord John Russell * BUL Lei them remember too, that one of the arguments most pertinaciously urged against the measure, and against the people on all occa-“ions. Is, that they are a fickle aod unsteady crew, that hielr dtsire for Reform Is momentary, that It has been begotten by the acts of the present Ministry, aod that when Lords Grey and Broughsm cease to agitate, the people will cease to petition for Reform. The people must convince these politicians by perseverance that their opinion Is as erroneous as their power Is weak. They tried to agitate the people. on the subject of Catholic Emancipation ; they set to work every possible engine, from a Lord Bishop and a Royal Duke, down to the loweal door keeper of a public office. In order to get up s No-Popery cry; and they did this only, as has been happily said, that they might become themselves the emancipators Their own signal failure on that occasion should hive taught them, that tbe people of England are not like the dtlxens of Athens and Rome, to be set In motion at the voice of a demagogue. Even the eloquence of Sir Robert Peel would not now move the stones of Route to rise and mutiny.” The day of arators is passed -the people listen to reason they know from experience how heavy have been the calamities inflicted on them by the boroughxiongars, and they will prove by their conduct, that the desire for Reform will be unabsted till Reform be granted. Sir Robert over-rates the power of his class, from thinking more of the Influence of politicians In former than la present times. His mind has been so much embued at schoal withwhat has been, that he falls to notice what la Butthe Repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts ; Catholic Emancipation; the Abolition of the Punishment ofDeath for Forgery i a reformation of the Game Laws; a Reduction of Expenditure; a CurtaUment of theSalaries of Official Men ; and now Reform of Parliament, which have ail been forced on the Government and on the Legislature, in the very teeth of all the agitation against those measures which all the Clergy and all tha minions of Government could excite, ought to have long ago convinced Sir R Peel thut to stir up the whole people Is far beyond the power of an Individual ; and that a general sentiment-like that which now pervades the nation, can only be generated hy the perception of a general and flagraot abuse like that which the Right Hoinurable Baronet Is anxious to support. The Ministers are. therefore, much more Innocent of causing the present demand for Reform, than those who have so long maintained a system condemned by all principle, and demonstrated by a mountain of national debt, by our crammed goals, by our peasantry being all paupers, by the practice of preying cn one another, which pervades the whole society, from the very highest to the lowest, and by the uneasy, constrained-and irksome situation of the whole people, to be os Injurious to the national welfare as it Is contrary to sound principle.Since the Bill for Ireland was brought in on Tburiday evening, tbe Iscariot* have found out another objection, which sets In a strong Ught the canting hypocrisy of those who pretend to oppose the whole measure because It disfranchises potwalloppers and drunken non-residents. The Irish Bill, like the English Bill, gives the right of voting to all the Inhabitant* of boroughs In Ireland who pay 10J-a year. This Bill disfranchises nobody but thirteen electors In each one of seventeen boroughs who have hitherto on-Joyed the exclusive privilege of electing the Members for these boroughs, several of which contain upwards of 30.»0* Inhabitants. It was to be expected that those who found fault with the English Hill because 11 injures the people, should have been deUghted with the Iriih Bill because It tends ao much to extend the franchise. Contrary, however, to this expectation, they have made a dead aet at 1| already, and condemn it lustily because it gives the powar of electing representative* to the great body of the people ol Ireland. It happens, unfortunately, for our Judases, that the people of Ireland are Catholics , and, being Catholics, they matt not have votes, for fear that they should have an equal share of representation with their Protestant follow-coantrymen. But the Members of thr Hoase of Common, are the representatives of the people ; and, whether they are Catholic* or Protestants, they ough to elect the representatives, or the name ought to be changed. If they are th« representative* of the Protestant Choreh—of Church property, or of any other promocked by regime®Udvn wh.se great merit, accprd-. log to the Tories, consists in not representing the people. The Tories how want to terrify the oaUoo -1th a • sort of «.No Popery cry, begotten In tho Irish Bill. The Church la endangered, they say. by the admission of Catholic* to vote ; hot the people will probrbly find In this circumstance, the charth, like the borough system, being no longer an Idol of their*, an additional reason for supporting the BUL At lent they will not aufferthemscNe* to be frighten ed from their love of Reform by the b.gbeor of Papacy, dressed up and thrust abroad by those who would disfranchise the whole Irish people because they are Catholics, while they pretend to blabber over the extlnctjOB of a few Pot-walUpper*.If we hare to mount in these debates over much Ingenuity perverted to a bad object—ovei much bare-fated pan-dering of self-Ulerest to the judgment—over many men Calling their own base love of place aod power the national good—and over the many cowardly factious Intrigues of those who svant the courage to be open foes—yet have we also to rejoice over maoy instances In the supporters of the Bill of noble patriotism, and of a readiness u» sacrifice private Interest to the public good. Sir Bandfoid Graham. • we are Informed, without saying * word, or claiming any merit whatever, gave a vote on Tuesday night, which tended to deprive himself of 35.0001.. the sum we have heard paid by him for the borough of Ludgershall. In like manner the Dukes of Devonshire and Norfolk, the Marquea* of Cleveland. Earl Grosvenor. the Earl of Radnor, Mr. John Smith, the banker, and Mr. Russell, the Representative for Durham, have all come forward, and have not merely given a warm and a ready assent to a Bill which will deprive them of patronage. power, and mone,-thry have also strenuously exerted themselves to promote It. snd have rejoiced In It* success. Mr. Russell loses no less than four Members. Mr. John Smith sacrifices two, tbe Karl of Radnor the Duke of Norfolk. Earl Grosrenor. and the Marquess of Cleveland, each sacrifice* two. In the midst of an almost total dure-gard of generosity and patriotism, when vile and base and dishonest selfishness pervade* tlmost all cUs.es. not excluding the Hierarchy with lU extortion of tithes and lu multiplied pluralities, aod not excluding the Nobility with Its long list of pensioned wives and mothers.-ln the midst of general profligacy, It Is pleasant to And these bright aod brilliant examples of iclf-aacri6ce. It »*s a custom among the Greeks, when any man deserved well of his country, to Inscribe bis name In some public temple ; •nd we would recommegid that some such acknowledgment of the national gratitude should commemorate the virtue of *he men whose name* wc have just mentioned. We would not erect unmeaning statues, which rrrvtno purpose but to nourish a bate aod servile crew of flatter el» In stone , »e i paint a pictuir In order uperttulon A to do honour Oiiquerorr . we would in-;n legibly on a plaiu tablet, be able to read thrm, andwould not commission an artist t« to encourage an art drvoted to at to the triumphs of blood-stained c scribe the names of these great in. to that our young children should *h* Ignorant among our pcaple desire to learn that they also might read them ; we would record. In plain and simple language, the cunduct we admire ; and that isblet we would place In the front of some house In the public street, that the natlcnal gratitude might not be hidden, like our statues. In churches, and that stranger* might not he taxed by a greedy priesthood when they desire to see the monuments we hove erected to the great men among our fathers. Such a monument would, we believe, bo an ample compensation to these Noblemen and Gentlemen for the sacrifice they have made, it would be worthy of them, and worthy af the nation. It would make other men virtuous ; and If the Duke of Devonshire. Of any other Duke, contemplated getting a remuneration, by getting a Urge salary, as ha* been stated, we would psiot bis name up as a public plunderer on the opposite side of the street, snd thus deter future Dukes from Imitating a had examplePatcx* op thi: Pcxtrt—8a Tvs dat—Three per Cent Consols, 79J; New 3J per Cent*. 88j ; Consols tor 12th of April, 791 *. At tbeae prices the Market left of! steady.^We rrcelved yesterday morning, through the /‘mourn State Gairllr of the 21st of March, snd the Hun,burgh Rr. porter, accounts frcm Warn* to the I5ib Instant Notwithstanding the evident disposition of the former journal to place In the most favourable light the operations of the Russian army, It finds Itself unable to say mote than that General Diebltach had, In consequence of the breaking up of the Ice on the Viitula, been prevented from reaping tbe advantage of bis victory ov*r tbe Poles before Praga. The Hamburgh Rtpcrltr, however, gives us Intelligence of a more agreeable description. It Informs us that tbe Inhabitants of PodolU have risen ; that the enthusiasm against the Russian dominion 1* becoming more ardent as well as more general, A that the Nobles had unanimously resolved to emancipate their serfs, and place themselves at their bead. It la also the declared Intention of the Noble*, and of the Government, to give, after the termination of the war. portions of land to all those so gloriously engaged In the de fence of Poland; thus, at once, to elevate and Improve the coodltion of the lower classes of the Inhabitants ; and. by emancipating and making landowner* of them, to atiach them to the Interests of their country, and identify them with Us liberties and well-being.WiKoaoa—‘The duecn attended divine service at St. Georges Chapel on Sunday. Her Majesty was accompanied by Prince George of Cambridge ; and the following members of th* royal suites were In attendance —Lady Howe. Mist Bagot, Miss WUson, Sir Frederick WaUon, Sir Herbert Taylor, and the Ree Mr. Wood. The Hon. and Rev Mr. Gust, tbe Canon In residence, performed the service The troops belonging to the Second Regiment of Life Guards and the First Battalion of the Colditrearo Guards were Inspected In the Castle Yard by his Majesty, attended by l»rd Hill and Lord Pltzroy Somerset. In the afternoon the King and Queen drove out In a close carriage, followed by a numerooi cortege, consisting of the Royal mite snd the visitor* at the Castle. The Royal pirty proceeded through Maypole Gate Into the Great Patk, where they continued their drive till after five o’clock. On Monday their Majesties took an airing In the Great Park, aod oo Tuesday set ont for London.Their Majesties left town for Windsor on Priday afternoon.HU Majesty's Levee, on Wednesday, vu numerously attended. A vast oumher of Addresses io favour of Reform were presented.Her Majesty held her third drawing room on Thursday, which, a* usual, wa* attended by all the rank and faihlon tn London. In the evening, her Majeaty attended the Concert of Ancient Muatc at the Hanover-square Roams.The next Drawing-Room does not take place till the 14th of April-The Prince of Orange and suite quitted London on Sunday morning. In the Batxvter ateam-vessel, for Rotterdam. His Royal Highness was accompanied to the vessel by n large party of the Nobility—Ladles and GentlemenAn elopement has taken place from under th« root of s certain Doeheti, which ha* caused some talk,—as the young lady was a protegee of her Grace, and was admitted to associate with tt* sisters of the Duke. Tbe gallant is attached to the Italian Opera, and Is a dancing master, of about five-and-thirty, of aome personal attractions. The Ducheas and her household are nut a little astonished at this event, as the young lady was remarkable for the strict rrrrnu of her manner*.The state of Lor$ Holland's health gives serious fears to his friends. Sir Henry Halford Is hi* chief physician, and Mr. Brodle his surgical attendant. Hi* Lordship 1* better than he was last week.The gallant veterans of the Egyptian army and navy cele-brated by a grand dinner at the United Service Club, on the 21st of March, the anniversary of that glorious day, and the fall of their Immortal Chief Abercrombie- General I-rd Bereaford In the Chair. Lords Ho wile n and Cavan. SlrJ. Doyle, Blr W. Houston, Ac., were present.On Tueaday, a concert was given at Hanover-square Rooms, for the relief of the labouring poor. It wa* under the direction of Mr. Montague Bourgoyne, was well attendedThe Colosseum, with aQ Its wonders. Is now tbe centre of attraction for the fashionables who take their healthful drives through the Regent's Park, and with the Dtorama affords ample scope for pleasing recreation.The Queen'* Baxaar, In Ox/ord-street. has now liecome a fashionable lounge, and affords attraction of no ordinary character, which, during the approaching fine weather, must secure public patronage. Tde views In the Panorama and Pbyslorama, is well as British Diorama, are executed with wonderful troth aod spirit, and afford abundant amusement. from the various Interesting Objects which are presented. Spacious rooms have been erected contiguous to the Baxaar for concerts, Ac.The lobbies and ell the avenues leading to the House of Commons, on Tuesday nlgbt, were excessively crowded; and when It was announced that the second reading o’ the Reform Blll wa* carried, the greatest enthusiasm manifested Itself. The shout* of applause that followed were tre-mendons. and a* the different Member* who It was known were favourable to the measure left the House, they were loodly cheered. The passage along to the street continued lined with people anxious to bear tbe result, and they highly compllrormed several of the popular Member* as they passed «• their carriage* 1 but when Lord John Russell was dU-•owred. the neigh boor hood of the Speaker and the Mace eonld not Induce the spectator* to restrain their enthusiasm ; they raised tbe loudest shouts, which were continued till his Lordihlp had passed to his carriage. More hearty and eo-thuslostlc cheers were never heard.Utt* of the Majority and Mtoority on the Reform Question are now bat circulating throigh the country—the Majority In red and the Minority In block Ink. God help tbe poor block sheep when the day of retribution come*. Large orders have arrived In town for rotten eggs. What have these to do with rotten boroughs t6t*hdx*d Novxls, a Coura.MO.v to tub WavanLar Novxca.—The Second Number of thl* interesting publica-Jtaa. ahlih U io i|pw on tt* ialora»ni. wtU ronuio tt* wbol* ot OoC-la'i etWtmrt •tnrv at “ C*i«» Wtlllaw*.- anoat IB* »*»loo« n**K*a thal fesv* bra *o«*rt*Jt*c \m *ran«ue* wllh lb* oitanart ttu* tt* mtlia which ouDltciur aun»iulikt* U* proiai p*itrt. lb* »'*n at * nrdui rtUrt «cC q»Ii*iw caH.rtioo of *o bool Hen.o rad K-wrara rsrmldwU* UtUaa o. 7* r.a**-U.i U u *•*. .a*.r-jaraU* l* iMtt |W lb* unlv Us .chool of rwldlM. Bmoli.U. and fltraj-ncratt poMU eUl-a ot oo «o»»«n or Or. Tt hra bra loo bi®* Us cuatara to rrjirt ihraa latte* pradaeMoH aa esalulralT (■tlhtt. .U-rta rrratraarpO,. rt tt. Warwly Na,«U( it. alradacfl ...t.•t Brriaa ot Us cwratry. Th* forthcmlij aerln of “ Sundart Kor.li aadlamaama* will as dost) ptra u. Maasisf dU*.lll., Ula lUaalaw. rad ml athltlilaa. u araasaMm. a oaraMlao of ■lt;■*# from ahta»■ bwa seuUj vail nBactrt, aid who* wll rad bawaac bar* MS’ntsN hr Wttim law El smualalaac* far all-
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