THE Tories dare not provoke the country by openly opposing

the Corporation Reform Bill. It was read a second time on Monday, without a division. Sir ROBERT Bards was the only Member who spoke the real sentiments of his party. He avowed hi, opposition to the principle of the measure, and denied the right of Parliament to destroy any corporation except on proof of delin- quency. Sir ROBERT INGLIS would have a Parliamentary scru- tiny into the conduct of each separate corporation : he could not devise a better method of maintaining the existent abuses to a period far beyond the termination of his natural life. No doubt, the Tories would gladly follow the course winch honest Sir ROBERT INGLIS advises ; but the " pressure from without " will not permit them. Therefore, " patience perforce with wilful choler blending," they must pass the Corporation Reform Bill : it will be their care to mutilate its principal features, end to destroy its efficiency, in Committee. To what extent they are preparing to proceed in this work, may be asc. relined by a refer- ence to the notices of amendments given in the House of Com- mons last night, by Sir ROBERT PEEL, Lord STANLEY, Sir RO- BERT INGLIS, Sir JAMES GRAHAM, and Mr. SCART.ETT. Should these gentlemen succeed in carry ing their " amendments " in Committee, the bill will be a nuisance, not a measure of reform. Therefore, we say, let the country be on the watch to support the main provisions of the bill as it stands. The battle is yet to be fought ; and the enemy is preparing for action. Eight of the Ipswich bribers were committed to Newgee, by a vote of the House of Commons, on Monday. Sir Ronoster PEEL, Mr. WYNN, and Sir WILLIAM FOLLETT, attempted to stave eff their condemnation; but as all the delinquents pleaded guilty to the .offence of absconding to avoid the Speakers warrant, or aiding and abetting others to abscond, and as Mr. GISBORNE proved that the almost uniform practice was to proceed to inflict punishment on the verdict of the Committee, their effbrts were unavailing, and met with but cool support from their own side of the House. Sir ROBERT PEEL cut a shabby figure in the affair. Ile seemed • (to do him justice) ashamed of the contemptible part he had to perform, as leader of the Opposition. lie acknowledged that lie

was laying himself open to the charge of wishing to screen the bribers, and endeavoured to cover the real aim of his speech by pretending an extraordinary anxiety to apportion the punishment

of the offenders with a scrupulous regard to the merits of each. He was completely answered by Lord JOHN RUSSELL, and took care not to open his lips during the remainder of the long and desultory debate that followed.

They who had the good fortune to be present at that debate, will not soon forget what they then saw and heard. It was the first

time in the present session that O'CONNELL put forth all his strength. The occasion was worthy of the effort. The audacious profligacy of the Ipswich corruptionists called for chastisement :n

the Reformed Parliament ; and it was applied with a degree of

merciless vigour that O'CONNELL alone could use. His denun- ciation of the foul practices by which the last election was

carried—his withering sarcasm on the " right honourable and ju-

dicious- measures then avowedly in operation to secure another Tory victory, in defiance of the House, and its pending prosecu-

tion of the delinquents—his pointed allusion to the backers,

Though they dared not to stand forth as the apologists, of the eons euptioniell—and his steering invocation to the immaculate Benchers of Lincoln's Inn to repudiate from their punctilious society the bribing members of the bar—were all delivered with powers of voice, gesture, and laneueee which lie only can com- mand .

mand who is prodigally gifted as an orator of the highest class.

The Tories were aghast at the blow : they felt that it struck them and theire. Their faint smiles and uneasy Increments betrayed the bitter feelings which they underwent. Repeated collies of cheers from the Liberals of every shade, and on both sides of the Chair, repaid the exertions of the orator; and when Le at down, the House rang with reiterl'eei platidits. • • In On unlucky moweet PEIA:EV I. low to reply to " the Member for Ireland." It. was plain that the Colonel vas primed, and his friends were anxious that he should go oft It seemed to be arranged atimog the set who played themselves round about the gallant ex Secretary of the Ordnance, that he should join issue with O'CONNELL. Aecordingly, he produced some extracts, which he had copied from the 21./irr3r of Parliament, and which, as aco,:NET.I. said, list 1 inirar:dou.dy slipped into pocket. From these documents it appini red, that a Committee of the House had charged Mr. II uosoN, all Irish banister. with the crime of bribery at the Dublin elect in of I s31. Thi; (Ir. HunsoN is now the Irish Atuirney-General's "devil "--- a subordinate law adviser of the Governmuut. Coloeel PERCEV AL MI, ilk changes on the enormity of appointing this convicted briber to -so important an office; aed, after the fiishina of the Orangemen, eletr!.,e1 O'Coer- srs:m. with the sin et this, as of all the other appointment;eiof Lord MELnoua NE and his colleagues. This ar2mmentani adtlinminein afforded the Tories great delight ; the continuance of which was, howevell! very- brief. In his reply, O'CoxNELL sprang upon the Colonel as a tiger from an Indian jungle on the last attendant of a Nabob's palanquin. Ile declared that Mr. Huoeoer had been prosecuted by Attorney-General BLAceeuesE; but that, so tit- terly unworthy of credit were the witnesses, that the Grand Jury —even the prejudiced Dublin Grand Jury—ignored the bill : and yet this fact had been suppressed!—he hoped to God that Colonel PeetcsvAL did not know it. The poor Colonel, white as a sheet, protested his utter ignorance of this sequel to the prosecution. He and his friends were astounded : an attempt was made to parry the attack, by discrediting °Vote- NE LCS account of the proceeding's; and Mr. DisvostsitEn J ACK-. SON declared that he, though iii constant practice at the time in Dublin, never heard of the bill against Mr. HUDSON having been ignored : but Mr.JAcesoer did nut Mtn( (helloes.: how the pro- secution had ended. Mr. Su iw, however, while he stated his dis- belief of any bill having been sent up against !Ur. lluds'on, ad- mitted that bills which were preferred against usher parties for the sanie offence had been ignored, and that the prosecution of Mr. IluosoN fell through. The Tory papers make much of this technical inaccuracy of O'CoN NE LI. althoagh he may Intro been mistaken as to tl:e actual throwing out of the bill against Mr. II roses, and drew upon his imaginatimi for the details of the process, it is allowed that his statement was substantially correct. Mr. HuesoN was not prosecuted—because it was felt that even before an Orange Grand Jury the indictment could not be main- tained. Our Repreeentatives got through the (list part of the week very easily: having taken a whole holy day en Tuesday, and more than a half of one on Thursday. Last night, however; they made amends, by the rapidity with Mile!' they dieeussed, and deepatched without, dicussien, a number el important soI j 'cts.Mr. THOMAS DUNCOMill; (7.:"scanterl on themission of 1. .td Etec'er and its con- sequences; and will be rewarded for his exertions by a copy of the convention which appeared in the newspapers some weeks ago. Mr. Fowl: I.L B (-mese moved for a Committee to sanction the suspen- sion of the payment of the twenty' millions to the slaveholders; and was answered by Si rGEoeeE Gams, in a very able speech, calculated to obtain the confidence of the house in the management of the Colonial Department, and to increase Sir GEORGE'S own reputation as a good man of business: Mr. BUXTON himself appeared to acquiesce in the propriety of leaving the settlement of the com- pensation question in the hands of Ministers, and withdrew his motion. The Sugar-duties were renewed for another year. Mr. SPRING RICE scenic(' hampered by a kind of promise which Sir ROBERT PEEL had !given to the West Indians, that they should enjoy their partial monopoly for some time longer; otherwise, from the tone of his specedE we feel certain. that the duty on East and West India sugar would have been equalized.. It.would have been only decent in Sir ROBERT PEEL, knew.hie'preeai ious tenure of office, not to have in any way. hound his successor in re- spect to these duties. We are glad to see that the 'slaty .on, Coffee will be the same frem yhatever colony it may be imported:

this is an earnest of Ali. 'bees futhre .

Mr. Ilusie's bill for diMinishing the expense of elections of Members of Parliament, was read a first time.last night, andWill be read again next Friday. We trust that this measure at all events will pass in the present session.

Besides the subjects we have iudicated, there was a great deal of conversation on petitions and motions, of minor moment but con- siderable interest. The House on Thursday manifested its sense of Mr. NDREW JonetsToN's behaviour, in a (Danner so marked, the st have felt mortification and shame. - Mr. jolt ssi. before the House an important and intere:eting*0 lition of lay patronage in the Chureh of ...imp:mt-

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went of his speech was the signal fur the retirement of Members to the Lobby ; and the House was counted out. This was done with the avowed intention of letting Mr. JOHNSTON understand his real position among the National Representatives. He is not one of them : ho is disclaimed by his former constituents, who would compulsorily eject him from the House if they had the legal means of ejectment : he has therefore no mission to perform in the Legislature; and why, then, should the slightest atten- tion be paid to what he says or does ? Any weight or impo. tance he ever possessed, more than the hand loom weavers with whom he corresponded recently (in moral dignity the poor weavers are greatly his superiors), was derived from his being a Representa- tive of the People. As plain ANDREW JOHNsTON, his opinions and his sayings are utterly worthless and contemptible; and what is he now, but the titular, not the recognized, Member for St. Andrew's? Since he has not the honesty to keep his promise to his constituents, let him learn from the treatment he experienced on Thursday, that his wisest course will be to preserve an igno- minious silence.

Mr. ROEBUCK has exhibited himself to considerable disadvan- tage this week, by a splenetic, tot ercharged, and undiscriminating attack on the periodical press. Ile styled all journalists " hired assassins," and declared that the whole newspaper press was a " mere mass of cowardice, blackguardism, corruption, and treachery." This was very absurd in Mr. Roenuex, find the House laughed at him. Though the press is not what it ought to be, it is not universally, or even generally, such as the Member for Bath pictured it. It is of little consequence to newspa- per writers what he may say or think of them ; but it is right that Mr. Ronnie:KS constituents should know, that by frequent displays of petulance and conceit, and habitual abuse of public men who stand very well in the opinions of the great body of Reformers, his usefulness as a Representative of the People is most sensibly impaired. No person of common pru- dence would intrust any measure to his management, notwit hstand- ing lie has talent, information, and industry, far above the average amount in Parliament. He has made himself so unpopular in the House, and has needlessly provoked such a mass el' ill-will out of doors, that he injures oftener than serves the cause which —very honestly, we have no doubt—he desires to forward. We should not have made these remarks had the silly attacks on the Rpress been a solitary exhibition of petulance on the part of Mr. OEBUCK ; and it is only with a friendly feeling we now tell him, that unless he curbs his temper, assumes a more gentleman- like bearing, and acquires a juster sense of his own rather insig- nificant position in the House of Commons and the country, be never will be of much estimation or use as a senator, whatever public services he may render as a writer of clever pamphlets and essays.