PARLIAMENTARY ABSENTEEISM.-It is our purpose, next week, to give, as
far as the materials admit, a correct table of the absentees on the various divisions on the Reform Bill. Those who cannot show most satisfactory reasons for their absence, will, we hope and trust, be dealt .with, by their constituents, as they ought to be. There are quite enough of Reformers, if they prove true to their principles, to compel justice both from the Anti-Reformers and the Ministers,-if with the latter compulsion should be necessary. If they do not prove true to their prin- ciples, there are plenty of good men, from which to pick and choose. There will be another dissolution in months, go matters us they may. Let the members bethink them of this ; and if the members forget, let the people bethink them of it. AMENDMENTS ON THE BILL.-There are four more notices of motion on the Reform Bill since our last Number. Unmarried females, being deity qualified, to have a vote-SEVERN. Welsh counties to re- turn two members each-same member. Toxteth Park, Lancashire, to have one member=WasoN. Stoke-upon-Trent to have two members- LIT TLETON.
"TILE OLD REGIMENTALS."—In a letter, which we would have inserted we had room, Mr. BERNARD; the author of this clever and pleasant little piece, informs us that we were mistaken in assuming that the piece was taken from the French ; and indeed he gives us the anecdote, from a note to the Universal History, on which it is founded. We thought we had met with the story before ; but our assumption of a French origin for the Old Regimentals rested mainly upon the neatness of the construction of the piece, its point, and lively dialogue, which we (un- justly) believed to be too good to be English.
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