III the following letter to the Secretary of the Hull
Reform Asso- elation, a copy of which appears in the Hull Advertiser of yesterday, Mr. Hutt has given his opinion to his constituents of the result of' the late session. It will be found to coincide very much with our own. Now is the time for a free interchange of sentiments between Re- formers and their Representatives in the House of' Commons.
" TO THE SECRETARY OF THE REFOR0 ASSOCIATION, HULL.
" Gibside, enth August 1836.
5ia—The Parliament is prorogued ; rind I have at length returned to the country, to enjoy a temporary relaxation from the business to which my time timid exertious have been deveteil since time beginning of this year.
" I wish that it were possible to speak w ith t atisfitction of the result of the session, In Curt, there hate betel seateely any results beyowl business of course. As to legis- lative improveineut, this has been almost a lost session—lost in preparing measures of Reform to he rejected by the Lords. In 1S35, we accomplished a great deal : we re- moved the a 'lomaty of a Tory Speaker in a Reformed House of Commous : we out- oted the Tories ill a Parliament elected under their own auspices; firld dismissed them from power. not by a Court intrigue as they had dismissed Lord Melbourne the t-ear befure. but by means the most coustit Mimed and legitimate; and we effected—that is, we diit tae propose merely. but we accomplished—t hat change in the Municipal Cor- porations of line land, which will be commemorated w ith satisfaction through all the annals of hereafter.
l'housb time Lerds rejected many of our tills in 1835, still that session was by
no missals lost. Bat what have we to show this y 1lS the result of our labours from .Luntary to September, except the 'Nth( Bill, in which the selfish interests of' the Tories prevailed over their destruetive passions? There is but Use worth which supplies the answer—nothing I This year. the Lords seem to have taken as a principle of action, to reject all suggestions of Reform made by the Commons at the instance of Ministers; and not because of ally objection to those suggestions in them- selves, but because they orieitiated with NI Misters and were approved of by the COM- MOOS. TO defy awl insult the Reformed Heim. of Commons, appears to have become the sole object of the Unreformed t I o Ise of Lords. Encouragel, I ant sorry II) think by seine of the 111inisters, the Lords consider themselves (who are legislators by accident, and responsible, accordime to Sir Robert Peel, to nobody on earth.) as " eeequal anti coordinate '' (1 quote t he words of a Minister) with tlie nerresentatives of the Nation. Acting on this belief:hey are pleased to declare, that as the house of Contemns wiil not proceed with a Stinistry acceptable to them, so they w ill not pitt up it Ii a Minist; y si hich is siipported by the House of Cemmints. In order to harass and thwart a Ministry agreeabie to the Cominone, and al-o, it would seem. to take vengeatme on the Commons tor rejecting a 'fury SI ry, the Lords have brought legislation in the British empire to a dead stand. Great Britain has no constitution : mess thing detistuls ou the caprice of a few noble Louis. A list of the Referm own- sures which the Commons have proposed this year, would be a catalogue of affronts which they ha% e received rrom the Lords. I have hardly any report to make toreyontto,
but ol il1.310s to the Natioual WI:resent:dives :11111 itijories the :cation. I have no good measure even to name, n Rhein feelings of sLante and Milieu:diem I 113
hope to hold out tar the future, crept in the pnepeet Nerve Reform. "As the Lords have put a stop to the usee of Parliament, all other miestiens are ab- sorbed in this oue—itew is the machine of Government to be again set in motiou is1VItat philosophers and practisal stateAnett have equally predicted, has now COMO i0 11:MS: real Representation of the Peuple has psoduced, nut collisiou merely, but permanent opposition of the two Chambers, The peel session nand have convinced most persons, that an ilurefertned 110use or Lords is incompatible with a Reformed House of Com- mons—that they canine snbsist together. Is the Reform Bill, then, to be repealed: or the Lords to be reformed ?—this is now a practical questiou. Until this question shall be settled, the proceedings of Parliament must consist of proposals by one branch of the Legislature to be rejected by the other. The working 'at the Constitution, if working it slay be called. is become truly ridiculous. With ehatever patience this may for the moment be endured, the country will not long submit to so mischievous. FO ab- surd a state of things. The only remedy for it—deprecate it as you may—is in further orgabie change, 011e way or the other. About the direction which such change will take, 1111 :Ma I are not disposed to doubt. As the Rotten Boroughs cannot he restored, the Ileuse of Lords must be purified. Peerage Reform is now the only eptestion. e Which side the present Ministers will take, seems to be doubttul. The policy of Lord Grey's Government, after passing the Reform Bill. was to conciliate the Lords at all events —to mopes° nothing that was likely to bring on eollisiou between the two House!. Lont Grey falling through this poticy, Lord Alelhourne advanced mute step besond it. Ile toak otlice resolved to propme good measures—reforms agreeable to the Nation—without regard to what might be the pleasure of the Lords ; but also without amity plan for overcoming Lordly opposition to hie proposals of reform. The necessity had not then arisen for lieei■ling upon the question m, Peerage Itelbrm ; and it was therelbre possible that Lord Melbourne's Ministry should contain 'lessees who object to all Maher organic change, But the CNSC is now altered. Either Lord Melbourne must take another step, or the Country will require another Minister. This is my deliberate conviction; and I express it with an earnest hope that Lord Melbourne will not be Mend wanting on this great occasion fur the exercise of states- manlike qualities. lf, unhappily, it should prove otherwise—if nothing be done by Ministers with a view to prevetaing another such absurd session as that which has just closed—I shall not he found next year amongst the supporters of Government. or am I singular in this iuteution. Many earnest Reformers in the Commons are weary of attending to sapport proposals ef reform vritielt end itt nothing; and I ant but one sur of a powerful party whet, I say, that the course which I may pursue next year depends altogether upon what may then be the policy of Ministers. "We cannot permit the 'Codes, with a permanent minority in the House or Commons, to exercise the sante influence over the Government of this country. as when they possessed dm Rotten Boroughs. We had another object when we carried the Reform Bill. To that great object tie will adhere, whatever organic changes the promotion of it may render necessary. This declaration may be stigmatized as Revolutionary, and as tending to convulsion; but it is Conservative in the best and truest meaning of that term. 'flue most revolutionary of all things, is an acknowledged nettoual abuse suffered to maintain itself ; and the strongest possible incentive to politicel convul- sion is a great public grievance which plight be removed, but Which legislators are determined to uphold.
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