25 MARCH 1837, Page 8

SCOTLAND.

Lord William Bentinck has announced that he will not offer him- self as a candidate to represent Glasgow. at the next election.

The Dundee Radical Association, dissatisfied with Sir Henry Par- nell's late Parliamentary conduct, especially nith his absence from the Ballot division, communicated to Sir Henry Parnell. some reso- lutions which they had paesed expressive of their discontent. To this commueication, Sir Henry returned the following reply, addressed to the Secretary.

" London, March 6. 137.

• Sir—I hare to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, coutaining ceitain resole- Sions of a lie Council of the lir:Wee liarlical Reform Association.

" With relei enc.. to the first resulitti ,, $ , . I um quite ready to to %hat is required,— IntunelY• support I he rimless 01 Reform M the greatest practical extent. consistent with keepitr4 out the Tories. But I imay be permitted to sin. that this is it

which ought to be followed by the constituent us well as the representative tasty for many iustances have occurred at el.ctious, where zealous Reformers, by refusing to esppert Itelorm candidates, have treated Tory candidates.

" With respect to the Ballot and Short Parliantent6 I am most anxious to see these measure. succeed: but I regret to find, that in this part of the United Kingdom they Seem net to be supported by public opinion to such au extent as tu justify an expecta- tion that they eau now Ire carried. When they me brought before the I tense 01 Corm MOOS. 1 shall 110 far withhold my support Irons Government as not to vote opahat them.

"1 beg to remind you, that this was the course I took in the last session respecting tbe liallot ; and that the T011,1)115 which I gave for my taking it were sonsidercti by a Meeting of the non electors of Dundee as affording a complete justification of ury

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" With respect to sinecures, the power of granting them has been taken away by Act of Parliament. The same may be said with respect to giving unmerited peustone , to that security has been provided against both these classes of abuses.

"Wilt respect to flogging in the Army and Navy, l am as anxious as ever to see the practice wholly abolished ; but the evidence which was given before the Commission- ers, who were appointed three years ago to inquire iuto the subject, has established • assets.* esese* lie di1uia..,1, to sit vs hat it would not be pracrivable to do a hat with proposed last year in the house of Commons to be done,—naniely, abolish ttle practice of flogging at once in every part of the British empire, and lii armies iu the liehl. with- out t lie rink of putting an end to all discipline in the Army. " ith feapeCI to the extension of the staritge, and more equal distribution of NICIII. term I consider the priuciple on %hick these measures are founded tube right in the abstract ; but I cannot see any reason for the practical applicution of it at this moment, wheu so many other measures of reform are under consideration, anal actually In progress.

To conclude, I beg to say that I feel quite certain, that, giving my support to the present Guy ernmeut. I am exercising the potters of a Member of Parlianieut in the way the test calculated to promote the public good, and in no way inconsistent with what was implied by my being reelected as Member fur Dundee. alter accepting office tender ti,, Crown. "Your obedient and faithful servant.

"11. PARNELL. P.S.—hissing omitted to refer to the pollee taken of the Corn-law. in the remit'. lions, I %vial' to add, that I shall vote for the repeal of thein whenever a nautiou to that affect I. brought before the House of Commons" A rejoinder to this letter, by the Radical Association, contains the following passages.

"Si, Henry states that lie will do what is required in the first resolution -viz, slip. port the progress of Rearm to the utmost practical exteut, • consi3rent wit/1 keepiny out the Tories!' but this is not what was requited. The resolution stated it to be • the duty of the Member for Dundee to support the progress of Reform to the greatest practical extent. whatever effect itch conduct may hare en the Obrernment fiir the time W hile the Association wish the present Ministry supported rather than it Tory one, they do not wish them supported against Heft:ran ; they do not aIsh them silt. ported in crushing the Liberal measures which would give real power to the people, independent of my section of the Aristocracy. • • • • " sir Ileury is in a mistake in supposiog that the reasons be gave for hie conduct in 31335. %Oh rest.ect to the Ballot. were considered as affording ii complete justilicatiou by any politic. meeting in Dundee. The inertia,/ to a hich he :alleles was at meeting or t lie Political Union ; and. although that meeting considered, that under the Citel1111- stances, his cote:mit was so far justifiable, yet it cunilemued the Governnient to which be belongs for the MUM' V. Well they were pursuitig,iu preventing the Itepreseuiatives of the l'eeple horn expressing (twin opinions and annulling them by their votes ; and derimuevri that such great cons:itut Moak (pentium' should be left open : but this has not been dour. The Government has continued to use the pact given it by the People to destroy the measures which they cousider necessary fur geed guserument ;

and the consequence is, that. to • meat extent, it has lost the emifidence of the n, and is thereby utterly powerless agaiust the Lords. .

With regard to the extension of the franchise. and the more equal disttibutiaa Members. which, says Sir Homy, 'are right in the abstract, but I see no reason for their practical application when so many other measures of reform are in progreu,v._ dons sir Henry not see, that the want of these measures prevents the passing of many other measures of practical reform, and that the weakness of the Reformers in tle, Commons encourages the Lents contempluonsly to reject all reffirms ? If this it the case, and that it is cannot by Ilieputed. Is it mat necessary to support these 1111.111Altell at organic change for the purpose of insuring the success of practical reforms? What will be the fate of the motion for the repeal of the Cormlaws, ..n which the mass rg the people feel so strongly ? Nothing but • miserable defeat ; and that just beettase

we went the Ballot, Short Parlintneuts. Equal Representation, and Extension of tha • • Suffrage. • •

"Sir Henry says, '.that he is exercising his powers as • Member of Parliament in the way the best calculated to sail% sure the good of the couetry but here we beg to differ most materially. What lass been dune last session? what sill IIC done this? A grail many good measures will be throw II out by the Mitristry,w ith the help of Sir Hear) in the Commons, and a few lay the Lords, in spite of ihe Whigs; because they hat, almost altogether lost the confidence of the People, by the miserably timid mum which Sir Henry thinks best calculated for the good of his country sir Henry says that be is acting in no way inconsistent with w hat was implied by his being reelected as Member for Dundee, on accepting office maler the Crown : bat we tell him lie is. and that he has deceived the people of Dundee; for proof of which, we refer to tin proceedings which took place at the time of his reelection, wheu he became a nimbi, of the Government.

In conclusion, we will tell Sir Henry, that the people of Dumlee thiuk they have been deceived by him, stud that they know best. lie retired frotn Earl Grey's Govern, ment because it u as acting against bis sentiments, and scud nail go along with the People. Why dues lie then support the present Government. alachi is iolluwing tits course, and making him violate his principles and pledges by neglecting to:mop:at the Minot. Short Parliaments, and voting for the continuance of military torture, against the opinions of the People and the supporters of Government in the Commune? Ihe present Government ought to be supported against the Tories ; but it ought not to be supported against Reform; and the town of Dundee should not be disfranchised

or rniareprerented as Sir Henry is doing ; anti it will be the duty of the Reformers of Dundee to look out for a matt who will act according to Door wishes, anal support Relorm not only in the abstract, but practically to its full extesit,—not namely to keep out the Tories, and in the Whigs, many of whom are 'furies in disguise, but fur the mike of the permanent wellbeing of the country."