POSTSCRIPT.
BASI7RDAY MORNING.
It has been publicly stated that there is to be no Reform Bill next session. Mr. Gilpin, Secretary to the Poor Law Board, in a speech to his constituents at Northampton, undertakes to contradict this. He announced that, although he was emphatically not of the Cabinet, and could know nothing definitely of their plans, yet he had every reason to believe, speaking by permission but not on authority, that it was the inten- tion of Lord' John Russell to introduce into Parliament, in the ensuing session, a Reform Bill, similar in its general provisions to that of last session, but with some modifications. The failure of the last bill was attributed to want of earnestness, both in and out of the House ; but it was a positive fact that there was a strong desire on the part of the people of England for a Reform Bill, and it was considered most advantageous to discuss it while the minds of men were calm enough on the subject to give it an impartial and unprejudiced consideration. He called on the people to send in peti- tions by the thousand to the House of Commons on the subject. It is now said that Lord Edwin Hill, M.P. for Downshire, is to be the new Conservative 'Whip."
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