ABANDONMENT OF THE REFORM BILL
At a late hour last night we received an assurance, from a source which has never misled us, that at the Cabinet Council held yesterday it was decided that the Reform Bill should be abandoned. It is true that the word ‟abandoned” was not the one which was used. The phraseology employed was, that the measure be ‟postponed” for twelve months; but that, in the circumstances of the case, is synonymous with the abandonment of the bill. Lord Palmerston, we are told, even went so far as to say, that, let the Council decide as they might, nothing should prevent him from voting in favour of the amendment of Sir E. Dering. It is not improbable that Lord John Russell will this day announce to the house the abandonment, or rather as he will call it, the postponement of the measure till next session.—Morning Advertiser.