Providence Patriot, Columbian Phenix

...formed with more promptitude than a batch of Peers could be made by the old one, because there is more sincerity in all quarters.

Yet there was no want of sincerity in the Members of the expiring Ministers towards each other. Their common fate testifies their integrity. Lord Brougham mingles his fortune with that of Lord Grey, from whom he will not be separated in his resignation; and the general determination to resign, evinces their unbending attachment to the question of Reform.

From the United Kingdom, of 13th May.

Great Question of Reform. The vote of Monday night in the Lords, in which Ministers were in a minority of 35 upon what they considered the vital principles of the bill, may be literally said to have unhinged the whole system of business in the City, whether in reference to the funds, to banking, to commercial affairs, or to any kind of transactions between one Englishman and another, or between the English merchant and the foreigner.

The most intense interest and anxiety are manifested in all quarters at the unexpected stop to the proceedings on the great measure, and most direful consequences to the country are anticipated. But though amazement and agitation, and terror, were the prevailing feelings—though their chief was beaten, they did not give themselves up to despair; steps were instantly taken on all sides to convene meetings, and to prepare addresses to the King and to the House of Commons, suited to the emergency.