ANDOVER
FRIDAY, JUNE 23.
The news of the decease of our excellent and revered Sovereign cast a veil of gloom over the loyal inhabitants of this town, and in testimony of respect for departed Royalty, the shops have been partially closed; while an insensible stagnation in business for a while succeeded the announcement of the melancholy intelligence. But, however, lugubrious our reflections may be at the present moment in contemplating the national calamity, our hopes are not distrustful of the benevolent, and liberal character, which her Majesty Victoria carries with her to the throne of these realms. Nurtured in the lap of Constitutional Principles, and taught to regard the opinions and feelings of the people at large, we hope her affection for the maintenance of popular rights and immunities, will prove a stimulus to the progress of Reform principles. Are the Tories so blind has two fancy that they can, through the thundering Leviathan, the "Times," beset the path of the Queen and the Duchess of Kent with such impediments in the shape of vulgar abuse, as to interrupt the advance they have, and will make in the estimation of the people of England? Like drowning men catching at straws, they cling with clutching tenacity to the fond hopes of regaining lost power. May successive ages "prove the contest vain," and may
| ________ ____"The tongue Of hollow counsel, the false oracle Which from the birth of Monarchy hath rung Its knell in princely ears," |
Ne'er poison with its venomous tincture the better feelings and disposition of her Majesty Queen Victoria!
PETERSFIELD.—Most of the inhabitants have shown their attachment to our late revered Monarch, by partly closing the Windows, and by having the great church bell tolled muffled, on the arrival of the melancholy news.