5 MARCH 1831, Page 1

We intended to give the Reform Debate in a somewhat

different form, but we did not anticipate that it would have exceeded two or three days at the most. The excesSive length has compelled us, towards the close, to cut down not so much what was least valuable, as what was last. We shall, we hope, have leisure and space next week to balance arguments rather than merely to narrate them-unless the debate run through next week also, which is not impossible. And we stall attend to interests that have in this Number been postponed.