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nwnt to hi* conititoents, and he wa» aware that by doing to they considered the Honourable Member eras conferring a great benefit on them.Mr. HUMEexpecteathai, before this time,he should have heard from the other side of the House that the question was settled, whether or not his Majesty’s Ministers were to have the power to carry the great question of Parliamentary Reform in a way that would give satisfaction to the country. He had just left one of the greatest and /most unanimous meetings on that subject which bad yet been held in the metropolis ; and if any of the Members then preseat had been there they would have seen that the desire for Reform was not by any means abated. He hoped the measure would be passed unmutilated, otherwise the disappointment in the country would be very great He was sorry that he could not withdraw his motion till some specific declaration was made, and he therefore hoped that all Members would be at their posts to-morrow.Mr. J. WOOD rose and said, that the Hon. Member for Dorset (Lord Ashley) had said that there was no wish for Reform in that county. If that were the case, he (Mr. W.) would tell the Noble Lord that that was the only county in England where that was the case. In the North, of England the cry for Reform was loud and universal and must be attended to.Mr, HEY WOOD said that from the agitation abroad, the coury was suffering most severely, and the most fearfal consequences were to be expected from it.Captain LINDSAY said, that as the Bill of Reform had uot passed the Peers, as it had passed that House, because they had not thought proper to alter one of the details,—(Hear, hear)—though they allowed ihe principle, his Majesty’s Ministers thought proper to resign. Where then was the independence of the House of Lords, if they were not to be allowed to alter a Rill sent to them even its smallest details, espe-peOially when his Lordship threatened to swamp that House with a host of vassals, styled Peers.Lord ALTHORPE said it would be most desirable if no gentleman would enter into such a discussion.— (Hear, hear.) The whole country and every gentlemen m that House was aware that his Majesty s Ministers did not go out on a trifling question. The question, in feet, involved the whole principle of the Bill; and every jAmber was therefore aware that his Majesty’s Minis-' tea Could not hold office after that decision.: Imr. BARING would assure the House, that whatever might be the intentions of those whom his Ma-intended to call to his councils, his Majesty a( na oue period has changed from his inten-tibnof redeeming the pledge he had given to the cotnby to grant them an extensive measure of Reform^ fife considered it but just to his Majesty to state this,. . (left sitting.)*
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