The Welshman

We know from authority on which we may depend, that there is no truth whatever in the reports which the Tory faction re insidiously propagating of an intended Dissolution of Parliament. No doubt Go- vernment would considerably increase its strength in the Commons bv another general election; but from the adhesions that have gradually come in from the waverers, and some of the more moderate of their former opponents, they will he enabled to open next Session with greatly increased majorities. It will be seen by the Gazette of last night that Parliament is to be further prorogued to the 17th of December. It will then be prorogued till the beginning of February, when it will meet for the dispatch of business.—Sun. St. James's Palace is undergoing a thorough re- pair, and the corridors, staircases, &c., will be pain- ted and decorated previous to the arrival of their Ma- jesties for the ensuing season. The Chapel Royal will shortly be closed, as it will be entirely re-mo- delled, and rendered more covenient for the accom- modation of the household. Accounts from Gibraltar, of the 5th ult., received on Wednesday, by way of Lisbon, state that an Eng- lish merchant resident there had been condemned, on a charge of participating in the slave trad?, in a fine of 10,0001., and to three years imprisonment with hard labour. The last part of the sentence was remitted. As no direct accounts have arrived, and there may possibly be some mistake, we forbear from mentioning the name of the party.-7ii;ies. On Monday, i\Jha$$'homa§ Doyle, a young man about 26, lost his life by being choked while dining with his sister-in-law, in Lucas-place, St. Pancras. While in the act of eating he laughed at something said by a child, and immediately rose from the table, apparently in great agony, and ran into the yard. [lis sister-in-law followed him, and seeing him nearly black in the facc from suffocation, she at tempted to put her fiirtgcT down his throat, but could not relieve him. A medical man was sent for, but, before he could arrive, the unfortunate man was dead. The sum of 22,000/ voted by Parliament to meet the expenses of the Revising Barristers this year, will, it is imagined, fall very short of the amount which their lengthened labours will entitle them to. Great preparations are making at the Palace for the reception of their Majesties, who will arrive here rn Monday next, and remain till the latter end of February, or the beginning of March. Some parts of the interior have been considerably improved and alterations are now being made for the convenience of the Royal suite, on which workmen are employed late and early, in order to get them completed before Monday next. Their Majesties will be accompanied, we understand, by the Duchess of Gloucester, the Landgravine of Hesse Homberg, the Princess Au- gusta, and Prince George of Cambridge, who will remain here during the sojourn of their Majesties. We understand that their Majcs'ies have been in- duced to change their usual day of travelling to Brighton, to Monday, in consequence of the bus- tle occasioned on the Sunday in the household by L Saturday's arrivaL-Brighton Gazette. MANCHESTER AND LEEDS RAILWAY.—The ip- tention of constructing a railway from Manchester to Leeds is revived under the most favourable circum- stances. In pursuance of this object, a meeting was held at Manchester on Wednesday, at which a sub- scription was resolved upon to raise the sum of 800,0001., in shares of loot. each and such was the spirit evinced, that no doubt exists of the amount being subscribed without difficulty. A s ilver penny of William the Conqueror was dug up last week in a field near Brighton. It bore the usual inscription of "Pillem Rex Anglor."—Brighton Gazette. WITTY PERVERSION.—Dr. Williamson, Vicar of Moulton, in Lincolnshire, had a violent quarrel with one of his parishioners of the name of Uardy, who showed considerable resentment. On the succeeding Sunday the Doctor preached from the following text, which he pronounced with much emphasis, and with a significant look at Hardy, who was present —" There is no fool like the fool Hardy." CORNWALL.—On Tuesday last the annual day as prescribed by charter for the ele:tion of a Mayor for the borough of Liskeard, passed over in silence for the first time since the recollection of its oldest inha- bitants. Not one of the old corporators could be seen parading the streets as they were wont to do in their Aldermanic gowns and Sunday-going clothes no ringing of bells no court! no presentments no sumptuous dinner! no wine! no song no supper! Alas! how truly astonishing on them the effect of Lord John Russell's purge, and how truly verified the declaration of one of their own body at a recent party, "That they had eat their last corporate din- ner." -D!!VOllport Telegraph. CONSUMPTION OF SPIRITS.—The official account issued from the Excise Office, of the quantity of spirits permitted out between January 5, 1S34, and Janury 5, 1835, shows afalling off of one-fifth in the home consumption" of spirits The merest drabs and wrecks of ooth sexes are now the chief dram- di inkers. When they are conspicuous as the only class, people will be ashamed to enter the gin dens. POST-OFFICE EXTRAORDINARY.—A workman in the employ of H. Kelsall, Esq., Rochdale, whilst en- gaged in sorting a bag of New South Wales wool, discovered in it a parcel, containing four letters. They were wrapped in a part of an old newspaper. Each letter was sealed and directed, and there was a slip of paper, and on it the following appeal:- Friend" whosoever thou art, please to forward these letters to their destination, for unfortunate prisoners, who have no other means of sending, and are desi- rous of hearing from their relations. By so doing you will greatly oblige the unfortunate prisoners, and we shall ever be in duty bound to thank and pray for you. Please to put them in the nearest post-office.— Your humble—Prisoners." Two of the letters were for Sussex, one for Ireland, and one for Staffordshire. They were sent as directed. EARL SPrNCER.-NVe are authorized to contra- dict the statement in the Northampton Herald that Lord Spencer is in receipt of a I)ensioii.-Sun. RAMSGATE, OCT. 26.—The answer to the numer- ous inquiries to-day at Albion House for the health of the Princess Victoria, is that her royal highness is going oru favourably. She joined the party in the drawing-room last night, to hear the usual Sunday evening performance of sacred music; and although she was wheeled in, on account of local iveaktiess in her ankles, she looked well, and was in excellent spirits. The weather has been unfavourable for out- door exercise, but it is hoped the princess will sHortly resume her carriage airings, and also her wallq, as her feet are gaining strength, though not very rapid- ly. The Duchess of Kent is in excellent health.. STAGg COACH ACCIDENT, AND PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE.—On Sunday last as the Emerald, Bath and Bristol coach, was proceeding through Marlborough Forest, the rain beat against the horses with such violence as to frighten the leaders, and they became quite unmanageable. The coachman finding such to be the case, was in the act of getting down tojay hold of their heads,when they suddenly turned round. Every person was expecting momentarily the coach to upset. Mr. Gould, a gentleman, occu- pving the box-seat, unbuckled the reins which held the leaders, and they running off at a furious rate, soon came in contract with a gig, and with such violence that it was broken to pieces, and the three horses lay on the ground in a lifeless state. The coach shared the same fate as the gig. In the scram- ble from the roof all escaped unhurt, with the excep- tion of a few bruises. THE SILENT SYSTEM.—We understand that the introduction of the silent system into our county gaol has had a most beneficial effect in keeping it clear of offenders, especially of those guilty of minor crimes. The irksomeness of the system is found to be inco- lerable, and convicts on leav ng the gaol have been heard to declare that they will take care never to subject themselves to it again. It is doubtless in some measure owing to this circumstance that there has of late been such a remarkable diminution of crime in this county.-Herrfonl Journal. THE HOLREACH DELIXCILENT.—A Court of Inquiry was held at Waiiriieet, on Thursday, to dis- cover the extent of the embezz emeuts of the Stew- ard of Bethlehem Hospital estates, who recently fled from Uolbeach, Lincolnshire. It was reported that they amounted to 20,000/. exclusive of several for- geries. SUPPOSED MURDER. — The neighbourhood of Abingdon has been for these two days in a state of great excitement, in consequence of the disappear- ance of Mr. Thomas Townsend, coal-merchant, of that place, who on Wednesday took a boatload of coals to Sutton, and having finished his business; left that place about half-past six o'clock in the even- ing. He had, it appears, been to several public- houses, and at one of them, being rather fresh, as it is termed, stated that he was fearful he should be murdered before he got liotpe he however proceed- ed, and met Mr. Pullen, of Sutton, on the bridge near to the paper mills lie expressed the same ap- prehension to him, and begged him to return and accompany him as far as Culham. Mr. Pullen, how- ever, said there was no danger, as it was so earlv, and told him Herring, the postman, was just before him. Soon after this he was met and passed by a wo- man and a boy, and another person, who left him on what is called Sutton-moor. This is the last that is kno.vn of him. In the morning his hat was found in a dry ditch on the moor, and a pocket handkerchief with an eel in it in a dry ditch on the other side of the canal, belonging to the rick-yard of Mr. Join; Mundy, of Culham. In the evening about sever o'clock, or soon after, cries of murder" were dis- tinctly heard, exactly from the place where the hand- kerchief was found, and Mr. Mundy's shepherd having retired to rest, heard these cries, and looking out of the window, saw a light exactly at that spot, and heard a subdued voice exclaim, "Curse me, Carter," with other words that he could not distin- guish. The facts that have already transpired ap- pear involved in great mystery, but these are all we know at present. The river and canal have both been dragged with great assiduity, but the body has not yet been found.-O.rfurd Journal. On Sunday evening, about nine o'clock, whilst the Lord Beresford steam packet was at anchor in Guern- sey Roads, a French Chasse-maree, of about 150 tons, laden with wines and brandy, drove from her anchors, and run foul of the Beresford. Four men, who composed the crew, (the Captain being ashore) jumped on board and, by thus ahandonmg their vessel, suffered her to drift on the rocks near Glatney, where in a short time she became a complete wreck. This kind of cowardly conduct is, as has often been remarked, peculiar to the French sailors English- men would have been ashamed of such a dastardly abandonment of the property of their employer. The noble bearing of the crew of the Pique offers a lesson in this particular deserving all commendation.—Jer- sey Argus. Within the last week, a coal porter at New Ross had a quarrel with a Graigue lighterman, whom he challenged to fight. The boatman replied—"I will not fight you, but I will do a day's work against you for iffteen-pence." MATRIMONIAL MISERIES.—A trial took place, a short time since, before the Supreme Court of th-» State of Maine (U.S.), which developed a good many curious family matters, and furnished much amuse- ment to those who have a taste for the uncurtaining of marital mishaps. Mrs. Vance instituted proceed- ings against her husband, Mr. Vance, for the purpose of obtaining, in the first place, a divorce; and, se- condly, a competent alimony from the pocket of her caro sposo. The male creature" in the suit was a poor old gentleman of some seventy winters, who had some time before taken into his head to marry a young wife of only twenty. The lady's inducement to become a party to this frosty transaction, was stated with great delicacy and succinctness by herself —she married Mr. Vance for his money, and upon the principle that the hide and tallow of an old ox would buy a young steer any time." Mrs. Vance, however, seemed tired of waiting for the hide" of her husband in the ordinary course of nature, and sought some of the tallow" through the instrumen- tality of the law. She brought her suit accordingly. The charges against Vance were extreme cruelty. He had bruised, bitten, kicked, pinched, thumped, and pushed his better half. All this she proved. On the other hand, the venerable respondent proved that his wife was in the habit of leaving his bed in the night to smoke a cigar The lady, however, met this by a replication. She brought testimony to prove that he had a most unhusbandly fondness for cats, and was, moreover, addicted to onions. This last enormity, we believe, settled the case. The Court could not stand that, but immediately granted a divorce a mtnsa et thoro ordered the husband to pay 100 dollars, by way of cost, and the yearly sum of 200 dollars during the lady's life, for her mainte- nance, payable quarterly. CAPTAIN BACK'S EXPEDITION.—Mr Richard King arrived at the York Hotel, 131 idge-street, BIxckfriars. He was the companion of Captain Back to the North- ern regions. Having tianspoited on sledges a weight of ).,i)ui)lbj. across nearly the whole line of the Great Slave Lake, and built a boat on the Slave River as slender as possible, to insure her being carried over Portage La Loche by his own crew of eleven men, he embarked on the 10th June, heavily laden with pro- visions and baggage, the lake being still fast; and having prepared wheels at Chcpewyan, passed the Portage in four days. The distressed state of the Company's posts, and occasional bands of Indians labout ing under "influenza," detained him some time; but on the 23d of A.ugust he reached York Factory, Hudson's Bay, without having met with a single loss, either by disease or accident. On the 21th Septem- ber he sailed for England in the Fur Company's ship the Prince Rupert, and arrived off Hastings on 27th inst., where he took the mail for London. TITHES-On Friday, at an early hour, the Court- house was crowded to excess—every avenue leading to the interor of the court thronged with anxious expect- ants, all waiting to hear the result of the tithe processes, which were served in such numbers, and were to be tried before the assistant barrister, Wm. H. Curran, Esq. The first cases called on were those ot the Rev. Mr. Armstrong, rector of Moylough, and of his father-in-law, the Rev. John O'Rorke. In letter A alone 1 11) dismisses were granted against this reverend gentleman. No less than five thousand processes were served, and the attorneys engaged for the people are so unreasonable as to 'pray' dismisses in every case. A thousand pounds will not be able to met the deman.il.— Gahvay Patriot. CANINE ATTACHMENT.—A few Sundays since a Reverend Divine going to do duty for a neighbouring incumbent, at a village not many miles from the metf-Qpolis, was followed by a faithful dog on disco- vering which, to avoid what happened, he had his faithful follower, as he thought, safely secured by the side of his horse in the Vicai's stable. In the course of the service, however, Rover contrived to ma ke his escape, and made his way to his master, who had just ascended the pulpit, placing his head and paws upon the cushion in token of his satisfaction, to the no small dismay of the pieacher, and the amusement of his tittering congregation. THE TITHE CRUSADE.—As November approaches the clerical incendiaries are preparing to set the country in a flame. Every paper we open, every letter we receive from the provinces, is sure to con- T vey intelligence or tne titne war. l,attitats, pro- cesses, decrees, executions, distraints, impounding, and canting, are the order of the day. It will be seen, however, by our extracts from a Galway paper, that the reverend men of war have leceived a check in that quarter. Thousands of civil bills were dis- missed by the Assistant Barrister, and all for the tithe clainis And who were the plaintiffs? A Be- resford, and *t the old and married clergyman, whom a special jury of men of fortune, most of them Protestants, found guiltv of seduction; and was charged by his victim with polluting the temple de- dicated to the worship of the living God! Hitherto the opposition to the hateful tax has been partial and very moderate in the province of Connaught; but the service of5,00() processes for one Quarter Session, in one county of Connaught, for the tecovery of tithes, demonstrates that a great and salutary change has taken place in that province in this regard.—Free- man's Joiti-n- I. Out North American Colonies have the broad At- lantic between us and them, while on their flank they have four-and-twenty Republics,—half a dozen of the mo,t spirited, powerful, and popular in their consti- tutions, being their immediate neighbours,—and the whole united by a Federal Government into a bold and powerful nation of 14 millions of people, and whose numbers within the life-time of many of us will exceed the piesent population of the United Kingdom. With such neighbours, it must be quite evident that the possession of discontented colonies across the Atlantic, will be like the possession of some scatteied gairisons 3,000 miles in advance of our resources, and at the very fountain of the resouices of a rival and it may be of an enemy and that, consequently, instead of being sources of strength, they v.-i it be sources of weakness, distrac- tion and apprehension. Oui obvious policy will then consist in assimilating the government of our colonies, as nearly as is compatible with tlwir connexion with the mother countiv, to those of the American States in their neighbourhood. Our colonies have no natu- ral bias in favour of the inequality, extravagance, and pageantry of monarchical and aristocratic; insti- tutions and if they find themselves worse governed and in possession of a smaller share of libeity than their neighbours, whose example is perpetual I "before their eyes, we may rest assured that there will be no means of contenting them, except by placing them, as far as circumstances wili admit, upon an equaiity with those ncighbouis.— IVestminstvr Review: !jj¿¿¡ II of Canada. IMMENSE COAL FIELD.—A Saxon geologist has discovered an enormous seam of coal in Eub.jea, and estimated its possible extent to amount to 35 millions of cwt. The importance of this sable trea- sure is so much the greater to Greece as the Mediterra- nean has hitherto been supplied with coals exclusively from England, and the Greeks already see in vision the transfer of the coal trade from the pits of Lambton to the Isles of Greece. Independently of this commer- cial speculation the Greeks congratulate themselves on having it thus in their power to erect and cai-i v on independent manufactories of their own. Farther investigation is reported to have brought to light extensive supplies of copper, lead, sulphur, and iron.

NEW YORK POLICE.—OCT. 5.—AN IGNOBLE TERMINATION OF A NOBLE SPREE.—The public were some weeks since advised, through the Press, of the arrival at Boston of a splendid yacht, belong- ing to the Marquis of Waterford, in which its noble owner and others of the British nobility were passengers. The arrival of those distinguished vi- siters in this city was also duly announced, and the hospitality of our citizens were not slow in being ten- dered them. Yesterday the Marquis of Waterford, Hon. John Beresford, Lord Rosslyn, and Col. Dun- das, dined with one of the most estimable citizens, and bore evidence on leaving, we are informed, of his usual unbounded cheer. The exhilaration of spirits imbibed by the guests, incited in them pre- dilections for a "spree and sundry unfortunate wayfarers who haplessly came in the way of their midnight migration homeward, received, probably for the first time in their lives, striking testimonials of the force of a nobleman's passion. Passing down Washington-street, near Morris, they attacked, unmercifully beat, and nearly denuded, an inoffen- sive passer-by. Two street lamps that had the pre- sumption to stand by order of the Mayor and Cor- poration, were next assailed and demolished, as was a neighbouring window, which, lacking a shutter, ex- posed its nakedness to their heroic canes, stones, and other missiles. About this time a plain republican watchman, named William Carter, found himself suddenly in contact with these noble revellers, and undertook to arrest the progress of their demolitions, and the chivalrous enactors. This plebeian inter- terence did not appear to sit well on the noble sto- machs of the noble gentlemen, and they gave token of their dissatisfaction by a copious discharge of hard names, angry oaths, and peltings with their fists-at the same time putting the offending Charley in the knowledge of who it was he was interfering with. The unsophisticated watchman, however, had never received any instructions to spare Lords or Marquises of any kind whom he found trespassing, and giving an alarm rap, two other of the same school came to his assistance but before they arrived, he had not only suffered much in body, but also in mind, by reason of the comparative nakedness to which the fray had reduced him. When his comrades came, they made a simultaneous charge on the Marquis, the Lord, the Colonel, and the Honourable, and compel- led them to fly. The latter, springing into a boat, converted the oars into bludgeons, and resumed the contest but the watchmen proved too many for them, and they were conducted, prisoners of war fairly captured, to the watch-house. When the police office opened this morning four silly-looking young fellows, somewhat the worse for the night's debauch and the encounter, were placed before the bar, and the Marquis of Waterford, ion. John Be- resford, Lord ltosslyn, and Colonel Dundas, of the Royal Guards, answered to their names. The Ma- gistrate, Justice Hopson, straightway informed them of the offences of which they stood charged, which .they in no very mild terms denied, and made some high-toned remarks which served to put the Magis- trate on his "reserved rights." He soon made out a commitment for them, and they were escorted to Bridewell by some 15 or 20 watchmen. Here their ill-brooked degradation led them into a squabble with the keeper, in which the Noble Marquis was floored, as was also one of his companions. Here they remained several hours, hut were finally liberated through the interference of his honour the Mavorand the British Consul, after paying Carter, the watch- man, 20 dollars for injuries received, and listening to a most cutting rebuke from the Magistrate.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE OF DC r. 30.1 DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. W m. Ilenry till)", SkVoiul. Glostersliire, woollen draper. BANKnCTCIK SUPERSEDED. Christopher Carnes, Liverpool, "-lass-merchant, &c. George .1JuWIIS, Tick-hill, Yorkshire, dealer. BANKRUPTS. Charles- Flight, St. James's-street, tailor. Richard Noble, jun., Upper Bclgi ave-place, Piinlico, corn-chandler. John Topp, Charles-street, Commercial-road East, coul dealer and grocer. \V m. Holman and John Ho!man. Devonport, drapers. Kiehard Serace Sax by, Chingford, Essex, miller. Samuel Stocker, Baptist-milis, Gloucestershire, vic- tualler.. v From the London (ittzettc of Aov. 3. BANKRUPTS. Thovias Saville Flude, wine-broker, Trinity-square. Richard C. Heigliam, beer brewer, Norwich. William Henderson, iron-master, West Bromwich, Staffordshire. •John Lvuton, innkeeper, Cambridge. David Frazer, Carolina Coffee-house, Birchin-lane. William Polley, shoemaker, Cuion-street. Southwark. !I J. S. Sharpe, spirit merchant, East Retford. W i'.liasn liiiglies, hotel-keeper, Cheltenham. WiUiam Davies and Morris Davies, timber-merchants, I Oswestry. Salop. Henry Coates, cattle dealer, Colchester. I Hanior Rich, tea broker, St. Mary, Newington, Surrey.

I spirit of -tf journal*. I [FROM THE MOKNING CHHONICLE.] I Saturday last closed the Parliamentary Registration of England and Wales—the most severely-contested elec- ever conducted by opposing political parties, under any Representative Government. The two great contending forces of this moving nation— the h'rjbruters and the anti-H ef'nrtni-rs — a re therefore now fairly arrayed on the field of battle, fully prepared respectively for the next dissolution of Parliament. The result of the recent conflicts in the Registration Courts is generally and decidedly, with very few exceptions, in favour of the Liberals. Of this faet we have before us the most indisputable proofs; and we have reason to know that some shrewd calculators for tbe Tories are equally well informed of the large numerical gains of the Reformers by the scrutiny of the old registers, and the addition of a new liberal constituency in England. In Scotland, it is notorious tl;at-oii a of "profit and loss"— several county seats will be rescued from the Conservatives, who now temporarily enjoy them; and 011 a new election the entire representation of 1 he Burghs will be Liberal. Ireland, which is daily gaining by the enlightened Government of Lord Mulgrave, and the (le- oi the Orange faction, will certainly improve its in any new Parliament. Tim*, there- fore, we are happily delivered from all danger of a return of the Tories to power. No heterogeneous coalition of disappointed or dishonest public men, seeking office, or restoration to office, at the sacrifice of their integrity, rou'd be maintained no .Administration, compounded by Sir Robert Peel of rank-Tories hypocritically profes- sing conformity to liberal policy, for the purpose of cheat- ing the people, can possibly a\ail themselves of tlie Re- form Acts of 1S32, to defeat the objects of the recent legislative amendment of the Representative system. I lie last Registration just chmed, has placed the cause of Reform beyond the reach of the faction which so long mison'rn'd thenation. The important results of the ii;itioll. tll4? 1.4-sti"ts ,f tIlV tically are [ii.)st foi- probable gains in Scotland and Ireland, different circumstances affected the constituencies of England and Wales. Scotland, in IS2, bursting the fetters of her previousmnck-represett-"■ tation. and delivered from the Arist»»cracv and self-elected Burghers, who had j*nrei. iiatui ally turned the Scotch Reform Act to the best at-- count, and moreover further acquired in 18i.3 the popu- lar power of Municipal Reform. Ireland, the unhappy land of bitter party dissensions, was also represented as liberally as the existing electoral systerti allolk. lint in England and Wales the Registration had never been systematically or actively attended to by the Libe- ral party. The general election in 18"2. tile p;issiiig of the R¡>form Bins, was almost a passive contest be- tween the two opposite political classes of theSta'e. We should say that both over-estimated the democratic power of the English Reform Act. The Tories also, de- pressed by recent defeat, and by the memorable national election-of 1831, did not put out their full force; they did not contest many counties where Liberals walked over the. ground they abandoned almost in despair their oid co-ctioni:aring arts of bribery, treating, intimidation, and other corrupt means; they relaxed their undoubted property"in(!uence"overthe!ar)dedtenaniry;a)idthc liberal returns in Christmas, 1832, under these circum- stances, exceeded the real power gained by a Parliamen- tary Reform, undoubtedly imperfect as a faithful expres- sion of public opinion. In 1833 and 1831, the Reformers, lulled into a destructive and deceitful security, most grievously neglected the registration of those years. In the meanwhile, the Tories, entertaining the design of regaining ine exucuin c pinver or tlie Male, playing on the King and the Peers against the people, and attempt- ing the regeneration of Toryism, covertly, and by their superior means of local azeiici- through "municipal seif- eleeted officers, by the influence of hired attorneys, land stewards, and parish clergy, in those years exclusively added to the Registers of the English and Welsh coun- ties. M e have before us ample evidence of these facts, and we know, moreover, that in a majority of the EII- glish cities and boroughs, the registration was wholly neglected by the Liberals. The Court manoeuvre of last autumn was then played off on the nation, and when Parliament was dissolved, and the Reformers taken by surprise and off their guard, we never doubted that the new ilonse of Commons would contain 250 rank Tories. Imposition on a credulous constituency also, placed in the present Representative Assembly many political illl- postors, waverers. and — wolves in sheep's cloth- ing, against whom the electors, at the next bust ngs, will be fully prepared. The temporary accession to office of Sir Hobert Peel—the rm/y member of the Tory party who could have been used for the pl it—and the gain of the Conservatives" in the new House of Commons, emboldened the Tories, who thence resorted to a re- organization of their clubs, and affiliated societies throughout the country. The Reformers, thus insulted and roused, instantly took the field, and. on the speedy overthrow of the mock-liberal Cabinet of Sir Robert Peel, founded their counter-association. The artful It-aler of the Tories saw the impending danger; lie pronounced at the City dinner the alarming and novel doctrine to the Tories, the battle of parties must henceforward be fought in the Registration Courts," a new reading of the Constitution to their dull understandings. Now a fair conflict has taken place, the more satisfactory to all reflecting Reformers, because the Tories have done their best and their worst." The two contending classes have fought the first battle in the contest, which must end in the signal defeat of Toryism. We write advisedlv from a lIIas of information before us. and from indispu- table data. The result of the rrgistration just closed has placed Iie ij,'Itioll(it cause (!f lief inn beyond all possible danger. The great majority of claims, the test of calcu- lations, has been considerably in favour of the Liberals, and tlie avern? results of the objections of the two par- ties have enabled them to maintain the It had long been obvious that no additional force could accrue to the Tories from the great preserve of their county franchise, the tenants-at-will, as that class had been generally fully registered in 1S33 and 1834 whereas the 3 833 and 18.U non-registered qualifications of the Reformers, and the continual increase of small freeholds in their interest, left a preponderating increase of liberal claims beyond doubt. In the citit-s and boroughs the Registers have been actively silted by the local Reform Association. The last Register, 18.31, contained a list of numerous non-resident freemen (freemen living more than seven miles froui the places of -Ieetiull). who either voted for the Tories, or were fraudulently perso lated at the December general election, but who are now ejected from the town-registers. A considerable increase of ten pound household qualifications has also taken place du- ring the last two years in the towns—an additional gain to the Liberal cause. The extraordinary increase per cent, on the county constituencies, in some parts of En- gland, would scarcely be credited. In a question number; the Reformers always triumph. We are, there- fore, now prepared for a dissolution ot Parliament at any time or under any circumstances, whether by a l iberal or Tory Government though we have reason to believe I that Sir Robert Peel feels the utter honelessnesis of erect- ing a Tory Administration. Events have fully demon- strated that the people have politically profited' by every attempt of the Conservatives" to stay the inarch of Re- form, anil such will be the inevitable result of any new conspiracy to give the Court or the Hereditary Peerage the supiemacy over a Reformed House of Commons. By the t%-i*aiit iiiti'it)rity" of tiie i)t-eseiit House of Commons. Sir Robert Peel has been tried and found wanting, anrl a new Parliament would still less advance his personal designs, or thefactious desire of the Tories to destroy the Whigs. In the meanwhile, the last base means of acting on the electoral body possessed by the Tories, tLe self- wim ,M|| n M- -T elect Corporations, are about to be destroyed. Thp po- pnlar Town Councils, aided by the recent examples of (jre?t Yarmouth, Ipswich, and Yor?, will p<fe<ta?!!y defeat bribery and corruption. We mar, therefore, safely congi atnlafe the country on the recent successful exer- tions of tie Reformers, the rf-'?t of which will thus anif)i,. re;;?iy We are well aware of the personal sacrinrcs of their recent a't?tio:) to the registration, and of the grievous defects of the system. Bnt in a little tune, good government will be safely established. Next session the machinery of the Reform Bills, the imperfec- tions of wliicli we shall hereafter demonstrate, must ne- cessarily be improved. Perhaps that discussion will not fie so to t i(- P,,i?rs a, t? he so offensive to the Peers as the controversy on the constitution of the ( pper House of Parliament. We are sure that any Reformed House of Commons, will abate the nuisance of the existing system of rezistration. [FROM Til P. SAME.] It is to be remarked of the Tories, that before any battle is fought they have always the victory in their hands; but, by s mie inexplicable legerdemain, it slips from them. By a b^ppy dispensation, they enjoy their triumphs before tlie event, and when the event gives tbe triumph to the opposite side, the Tories have yet the satisfa: tioQof <ikt>«n-erU»g that the world's at an v end. One day all is gained by teem, and the next all is lost tb Soviet- To-day they have all the elements of strength engaged in their cause, and to-morrow the whole social fabric is failing to eureless ruin. T^>w the property and s ?ww the property and tlie bulk of the nation are Conservative, and anon a revo- lutionary multitude are carrying all before them. They u™ "III,},, u;tl, ;»i o a • t1" UJUU. i ¡llll1fJ .111"' IUH.1 1-'aJaUJ:"II-, UI Ü. umi a Ut':}Ji11J'. Their hopes and thdr tprror are alike musorv. At this instant they are rejoicit? in the Ikitration: They see a va t array of electors for them, as they last year saw a certain majority of the House of Commons, until the votes on the Speakership and the Address dissipated their day dreams. But how else can they have their triumphs? If they cannot have their triumphs upon the event, what better can they do than take them at the only time when they can be boasted, namely, before the event ? Before the battle they certainly do make minced meat of their antagonists. The Registration is then Tory, the Reformers low in numbers, lower in pro- perly. lowest in intelligence—" dogs without saints," as Haiji Baha would say—are swept away, scattered like chatf before the wilHi; visions of commanding Tory majorities then rise in the rapturous speculations, and Tory Ministers mount securely upon them. Then comes a general election, down tumbles the whole pile of cas- tle-building, and the ruins of it are called the ruins of the country. As the desert has its mirage, so the barren waste of Tory politics has these illusive appearances to cheat the thirsty wanderers on their way. When the fine prospect, the promise of all enjoyment vanishes, the disappointed wretches fling themselves down, and launch into all terrible forebodings. Like this appears to be the illusion that mocks the wandering in the arid de- serts of Opposition and Tory party otf from the refresh- ing supplies they were so long accustomed to draw from the public purse. At present, according to their fond custom, they claim the Registration as their own but when the matter comes to proof, this joy, as usual, will change to wailing. We have stated the general result of the Registration from the sources of information open to us, and the Tories, of course, meet the statement with a denial, and a boast of success, precisely as, at the last general election, they disputed our calculation of the Liberal returns to the present Parliament, and claimed the majority as their own, till the matter was brought to the test of voting. For the present, the con- fidence on the one side is balanced by the confidence, real or affected, on the other; but the habit which the Tories have of reckoning without their host will be re- membered by the public, which will thence know how to value their boasts. But besides this reason for dis- jre ieving the ever ready but never durable boasts of the Tories, there is (notwithstanding what the Standard says to the contrary) the inference to be drawn from the great number of claims objected to by the Tories, which must be proport innate to the greater number of claims made by Reformers. For example, let us suppose that in a certain borough the claims objected to by the Tories were 300 the inference from this is, that the proportion of claims by Reformers was to the proportion of claims liy Tories as 300 are to SO. We may then suppose that the Tories have been, thanks to lawyercraft and all sorts of shabby advantages, rather more successful than the Reformers in their objections, and the Reformers would jet have ?majority out of their far greater Dumber of N-?!t I& 4, 'thi,, which on6e stat6d h so obvi- iluiwAn fnTJosseswua Of certain information, we have no n"d of wfereace. [FROM THE SrN.] A recreant Morning Contemporary, whose well re- membered apostacy obliges it to be double-dutiful in the cause which it now .I %(-ates- itie, rely to prove its sin- cerity—has, for upwards of a week past, endeavoured to humbug its readers with what it calls Extracts from Evidence taken before the intimidation Committee." Among the many evils attendant upon political apostacy, not the least painful is the ever-recurring necessity of out-heroding Herod in foul-mouthed abuse of the deserted party. Moderation is so liaole t suspicion, that the un- happy being who, front tf-e most sordid motives, re- nounces his principles, linds himself compelled to assume a violence of gesture and an angriness of tone, in order to bring his new associates to place any confidence in him. As it is with so is t with public jour- nals and journalists. Hence the furious outcry which is now soiigiit to he araiiist the Catholic priesthood hy the chiefs of Printing-house-square. Our chivalrous Contemporary has been always distinguished for uncom- mon skill in such sort of warfare. Wholesale abuse, especially when tiie objects of it happen to be women and priests, is a weapon which our Contemporary wields with the most consummate skill. The Roman Catholic hier- archy need not, however, alarm itself. The thunder of Priiiting-house-sqnare is accompanied by no bolts preg- nant with destruction. The noise is the most dangerous thing about it; in all else it is as impotent as the penny- cracker shots with which schoolboys annoy old apple- women. Tlie Catholic clergy, though stigmatised as "stoied and surpiiced desperadoes," are not more on- eourteously treated than were tlit-, li-Lsh Protestant priest- hood some two years since, when our Contemporary fought behind a brickbat" buckler. As his memory is not the most tenacious on these points, we shall, in the course of a day or two, endeavour to refresh it with some delectable specimens of liish Chuich vituperation, ex- tracted from the leading columns of the ttiis-leading Journal of Europe." And after all, what is the charge against the ( atholic Priesthood ? Undue interference at elections. ell, and what is there in that which can sound strangely in Protestant ears? What the Catholic Priests do in Ireland, Protestant Priests have done for centuries in both bngiand and Ireland. Who was it set the example of such interference? Not the Catholic Priests certainly for thirty years ago they had no motive strong enough to induce them to neglect their pastoral duties for a place on the hustings. And when they first came forward, they did so to protect their flocks from the intimidation of heartless landlords, and fox hunting, ecclesiastical Magistrates. They sought not the contest —it was forced upon them and if they are now too many for their opponents, it only proves that no power is equal to that which is derived from the spontaneous affection of a whole people. The Catholic Priesthood stood, and stands alone, its members are neither Peers of Parlia- ment—nor great landed proprietors—nor the sons and brothers of Nobif-nien-Tior the matrimonial allies of great families—nor members of county clubs-nor Ma- gistrates—nor Grand Jurors. If, then. labouring under so many disadvantages, it be able to foil the Conservative interest, all we need say is, that such interest is proved, IllY tilt. very circumsiauce, to oe diametrically opposed to I the wishes of an overwhelming majority of the Irish people. For let it not be supposed that the wealth and power of the Protectant landlords and parsons are with- out great influence in Ireland. On the contrary, the great poverty of the people exposes them to corrupt in- fluence, and their dependence for support on agricultural labour, places them within the oppressive grasp of the Landlord and the Magistrate. The poor man only flies to the protection of the Priest when he has made up his mind to sutler any persecution, rather than submit to the degradation of perjuring himself to advance the cause of a party who triumph in his ignorance, his helplessness, and his misery. We would not have it inferred from this, that we are favourable to the political interference of priests in whatever relates to the civil government of this or any other country. Indeed, our conviction is, that nothing short of the most urgent necessity can jus- tify a priest in taking any part whatever in politics. But if such necessity exists any where it is in Ireland, and in favour of the CathoiicClergv. Their religion has been most barbarously assailed by ignorant senseless fanatics and with a refinement of cruelty, their flocks have been dragged to the hustings, to exercise their political privi- leges for the destruction of that faith, for the maintea, ance of which they were branded as outcasts among their own countrymen. The Catholic Priests are not to blame tor having resisted oppression with the only weapons of which the Government had not, because it could not, have deprived them. To abate the evil we must begin hy abolishing the cause of it. Let the Government con- stitute itself the faithful guardian of Catholic rights, and we shall hear no more of ecclesiastical menaces delivered in the pulpit or A Prot'stant priest has not a whit more right to take any part in politics than a Popish one and so to lay the a e to the root, we must begin by relieving our hierarcny trom the onerous, and to them we doubt not, most pai iful attendance in the House of Lords. Our next m .st be to confine the duties of the Magistracy solely to sec i ar p mwns, so as to deliver the Priesthood from tie distractions attendant upon the constant exercise of such fu- c ions; an I after we have gone thus far to remove the beam out of our ow eye, we shall possibly be better qualified to judge of the size of the mote which atihets the Calholies of Ireland.