SCOTCH REFORM BILL. - In moving the committal of the Scotch Re-
form Bill on Monday, Government will propose several amendments to correspond with the alterations made in the English Bill. We also un- derstand, that, notwithstanding the refusal of Lord Arrnone to give a specific pledge on the subject, Perth will obtain a separate member ; Selkirk and Peebles will still continue to return a member each ; Bute will also retain the same privilege,-thus adding three more representa- tives to Scotland. The Crail Burghs will be joined with Cupar and St., Andrew's, and return a member ; and Forfar will be added to the Brechin district.
Inasu REFORM BILL-We are happy to he able to announce, on what we consider good authority, that three additional members will be given to Ireland. We have not yet learned their distribution.
PEERS' PROXIES.-We repeat, with considerable confidence in our au- thority, what we stated a fortnight ago, that numerous changes have taken place in the proxy-book ; and that many Peers (our readers would stare at the names-which, however, for various reasons, we choose for the present not to mention) who were supposed to be most deeply gaged against the Bill, are now to be numbered among its supporters. The process of transfer from Anti to Pro still goes on. In all such cases, the last are in the greatest hurry ;, the number of deserters is ever in the in- verse ratio of the force of the army whose standard they abandon. Be- fore the second reading, we may therefore anticipate a mighty falling off from the enemies, and a proportionate addition to the friends of the Bill. It will pass-it must pass-we see it in their faces !
THE PEOPLE OF SCOTLAND AND THE BILL.-The letter of " Fiat Justitia," inserted in our last number, has brought us, by this morning's 'post, several letters of approval from Edinburgh and other parts of Scot.. land. One correspondent takes a very proper distinction in reference to the disturbances during the elections. He shows, that in none of theta were any of those who will- be voters under the Bill at all implicated- that they were ebullitions of the mob solely. He argues from this cir- cumstance, very justly, that so far from the riots, greatly exaggerated as they have been, tending to prove that the Scotch will not use Reform wisely, they prove the direct contrary.
We have received a number of communications respecting the meet- ings in Scotland, where a zeal, equally honourable to the people and the cause, is expressed as generally as it is felt. We an extract from one of these letters, dated the 21st instant:- " The inhabitants of Edinburgh are again aroused on the subject of the Reform Bill. Already the Merchant Company has met, and strongly represented, in a peti- tion to the Lords, the consequences that will ensue if their Lordships should throw out or injure the Bill. On Thursday, a general meeting of the inhabitants was to be held to petition the Lords and address his Majesty on the same subject. And the Edinburgh Political Union-which, besides a number of the ablest of the younger Edinburgh lawyers, and many of the moat respectable of the mercantile men, in- cludes nearly the whole working classes-is to hold a great meeting on the afternoon
that the news arrives in Edinburgh of the Bill having pissed the Commons. One of the boldest and ablest of the Edinburgh newspapers, the Weekly Chronicle, has de- fied the Anti-Reformers of Edinburgh to meet and obtain five hundred signatures to a petition against the Bill; a challenge they have not dared to accept. The same spirit pervades the whole of Scotland. '
The Goldsmiths' Company, says another communication, have pea. tioned the Lords ; and petitions have been forwarded from a number of the burghs, and will be speedily followed by petitions from the whole. In the advanced guard, Haddington, Kinghorn, and Dumfries, are con. spicuous.
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