The bp ettator
FEBRUARY 18, 1832
THE clauses of the Reform Bill have passed the Committee. The Schedules will be discussed on Monday. By Monday sennight, in all probability, the Bill will go up to the Lords. It is now generally believed that it will pass that House without material alteration. The Reformers, therefore, need not abate one jot of heart or hope. The confidence of the King in his Ministers is unabated; the Ministers are resolute in their determination not to dis- appoint the People. The Moderates have, it is said, come in when they could do no. better: Lord GREY holds in his pocket a commission which would have enabled him to dispense with their assistance had it not been proffered; he has had one hundred and seventy applica- tions for peerages; and, sooner than the Bill should suffer damage, he will doubtless make the whole!
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