'be Apettator
MARCH 26, 1831
WHAI. if it were an ordinary case, might be termed the grand stage of the Reform Bill, is
safely pissed; the Bill was read a second time on Tuesday, after a two-nights' debate, more remarkable for its want of novelty and want
of logic than for any quality of positive good or evil. The majority of ONE, viewed in rela- tion to the materials of which the minority was made up, and to the principle included in the decision, is not unimportant. Of the 301 who voted against the Bill, there were not fewer than one hundred who were directly Interested in its failure—men who were equally impelled by gratitude to their patrons and love for themselves, to oppose it, It is also to be remarked, that in the debates which preceded the second reading, no one in the House raised his voice against Reform, but against the Mini- sterial plan of Reform only, So that the great principle for which the King, the Cabinet, and the Nation contend,' may be looked on as unanimously conceded in a House (including the twelve that paired off, and the tellers) of 617 members, the greatest number that ever was congregated within the walls of the Commons House since its institution.
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