PRINTED BY JOHN EDDOWES, CC& lNffMAJRKETj SHREWSBURY This Paper is circulated in the most expeditions Manner through the adjoining Counties of ENGLAND and WALES. Advertisements not exceeding Ten Lines, inserted at Six Sltilliuqs eat VOL. XXXVIII.— N0, 1943.] WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1831. [ PRICE SEVENPENCE SALOP INFIRMARY. To THE TRUSTEES OF THE SALOP INFIRMARY. Shrewsbury, March 19, 1831. T^ TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that L^ l Tuesday, the third Day of May next, being the Genera! Half- yearly Board, the Truslees are requested to attend in the Board Room of this Infirmary, at Eleven o'Clock in the Forenoon, to elect a Treasurer for the ensuing Year, and to ballot for six new Directors in Lieu of six of the present Directors who go out by Rotation: Also to take into Consideration and determine from wliat Universities, or Schools of Medicine, a Diploma of M. D. shall be a Qualification for a Physician to this Institution; and as to the Qualifications to be required in future for Surgeons and House- Surgeous of the Charity ; and afterwards to elect a Physician to suc- ceed Dr. DARWIN, who has resigned that Office: And further to consider the Propriety of appointing Dr. DARWIN a Physician Extraordinary to the Infirmary, • andiof presenting to him the Thanks of the General Board for his past very long and valuable Services. THOMAS PUGH, Secretary. tgfT The Trustees are respectfully reminded that none can Vote by Proxy ; that no 1 rustec has more than one Vote; and that no Vote can be allowed if the Subscription is in Arrear. To THE TRUSTEES OF TIIE SALOP INFIRMARY. My Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen, JN conseqiier. ce of the Vacancy occasioned *• by the Resignation of Doctor DARWIN, whose inva- luable Services have fot so many years benefitted your excellent Institution, I respectfidly offer myself to your notice as a Candidate for the honour of succeeding him as one of your Physicians. Having studied the Science of Medicine in Dublin, and graduated in Edinburgh, I trust the Testimonials 1 shall adduce will be such as to entitle me lo your approbation ; and should I be so fortunate as to be the object of your choice, I can assure you it will always be my earnest endeavour to discharge the duties con- nected with the Institution, so as to promote its wel fare to the utmost of my ability, and thereby prove myself worthy of your confidence. 1 hare the honour to be, My Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your very obedient humble Servant, IV. II. CRAWFORD, M. D. Shrewsbury, April 13,1831. TURNPIKE TOLLS. J\ ty Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen, f~) lt. DARWIN having withdrawn his A J Valuable Services from your excellent Institution, 1 beg leave Id offer myself to your consideration as a Candidate to succeed him ) and at the same time re- spectfully to solicit the honour of your votes and interest. , My claims are founded on d regular course of Medi- cal Studies ( hiring no Cess it period than ten years ; three of which were spent in the Salop Infirmary, and an equal number in the University of Edinburgh, where I had the hoiwur of graduating. I have subse- quently bei n engaged upwards of eight years in actual practice. I trust, therefore, that I air\ fully \ jMified for a situation so important lo the welfare ot the Establish- ment ; the duties of which, should I have the honour of being elected, I pledge myself most zealously and conscientiously to discharge. I have the honour lo be', My Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen', Yow most obedient humble servant, JOHN WEBSTAR, M. D. Shrewsbury, March Hid, 1831. To THE TRUSTEES OF THE SALOP INFIRMARY. My Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen, OWING to the resignation of Dr. Darwin, a vacancij has occurred in the office of Physician ill your valuable Institution, I beg most respecljidly to offer- myself t6 your Notice. I am willing, my Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen, to rest my claim to your Support . on the strength of my Testimonials,— Testimonials that have beeii awarded after a long Courie of Study in the Schools of Edin- burgh, London, and Paris J to these I may ( JSo add the experience of a fed Years spent in private Prac- tice— I trust I may say succcssfid Practice— in the Town and Neighbourhood where I now reside. I have only to add my anxiour hope, that I may not be considered wanting in respect if I do not wait upon any of the Trustees. My Professional Duties will, I trust, be considered a sufficient excuse for omitting ' what under other circumstances would be a duty I should be happy to discharge. I remain; My Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your respectful humble Servant. IV: WOOD, M. D Newport, 5th April, 1831. \ rOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the TOLLS arising at the Toll Gates upon the Turnpike Road leading from Wem to the Lime Rocks at Bronygarth, in the County of " Salop, called or known bv the Names of Bronygarth and Palmantmawr Gates and Bryngwilla Gate, will be LET BY AUC- TION, to the best Bidder, at the Cross Keys, in Saiiit Martins, on Thursday, the 28th Day of April instant, at Eleven o'Clock in the Forenoon, in tlie Manner directed by an Act passed in the Third Year of the Reign of his Majesty King George the Fourth, " For regulating Turnpike Roads ;" which Tolls produced the last Y'ear the undermentioned Sums, above the Expenses of collecting the same, and will be put up at those Sums respectively: Bronygarth and Palmantmawr Gates £ 155 Bryngwilla Gate J52 To THE TRUSTEES OF THE SALOP INFIRMARY. My Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen, PERMIT me to offer myself lo your Notice, as a Candidate for the Situation of Physician to this Institution, rendered vacant by the resignation of Dr. Darwin. Iam awcire that I am late in thus announcing my intention: and I regret, exceedingly j the consequent impossibility of my having the pleasure of paying you my personal respects, as I am under the necessity of leaving Shrewsbury for a short time previous to the Election. Of my ability and general fitness for the office, it doe's not become me to speak ; ' und I dm quite satisfied in the reflection that it is your province, to receive testimonials of them from other sources on the day of Election. I can with truth, however, a ffirm, thai I have had flattering invitations from severed individuals of the highest respectability lo offer myself as a Candidate. Should I be chosen by you to fill this important situation, I pledge myself to bestow strict personal attention lo the practical duties of my office. I have the honour lo be. My Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your obedient humble Seivant, RICHARD HOPKINS ALLNATT, M. D. Shrewsbury, Wth April, 1831. Wellington District of the Watling- Slreet Road. The Music in Jfzor and Zemira. IIARMONICON F. IIITION, PRICE 3S. f| pflE Proprietors of the HARMONICON H beg to nniioiiuce that, in llie course of the pre- sent Month, tliey intend publishing a SUPPLEMENT N L' M B K li of their popular Musical Journal, contain-- , , ing a Selection of Thirteen of the most favourite Vocal dine, in the County of Salop, on Wednesday, the - 1th unit Instrumental Pieces in the nbove eminently and Day ol May next, fleserveilly popular Opera, by SPOHR, including the two compositions fiotn the " Faust"" aud 11 Jessonda," I of the same author, which are introduced inlo it. The whole arranged for the Piano- Forte, and the words of | the vocal pieces tinnslaled and adapted from the ginal. The Music will be preceded liy a history if | ibe opera, aud an analysis of the Tale upon which il is founded. London: published by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brnwn, and Green, and sold by all Booksellers aud Mnsicsellers iu Town and Country. 1\ TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that I N a GENERAL MEETING of the Trustees of the above District of Road will take place at the FALCON INN, Hay Gate, in the Parish of Wrockwar- RICHARD EMERY, Clerk. Crr- aSe0 tip auction. TO MOTHERS AND NURSES. PEREMPTORY SALE OF A VERY Eligible Freehold. Estate, IN THE PARISH OF GUILSFIELD, Near to the Town of Welshpool. BY GEO. WILLIAMS, At the Oak Inn, in Welshpool, on Friday, the 29th Day of April, 1831 ; rswo verv valuable FA RMS, called 10 me nausiacnon o. i L tLANERBROCHWELL and TY NEWYDD Payment of containing together 213 Acres, or thereabouts ( be^ the • ' Times as they shall | WiXLi^ Whoever happens to be the best. Bidder must at the same Time pay one Month in Advance ( if required) of the Rent at which such Tolls may be Let, and give Security, with sufficient Sureties to the Satisfaction of the Trustees of thesaid Turnpike Road, for Paynv ' ' the Rent agreed for at such Times as they appoint. R. Ellesmere, April 8th, 1831. MORRALL, Clerk to the Trustees. F & mm* AT ACTON REYNALD, iROM May 12th to October 12th, at this following Prices :- Three- year old Horses 5 .0 Two ditto Ditto 4 0 One ditto Dittd 3 0 Barrens or three- year old Cows 3 0 Two- year old Heifers 2 10 Yearlings 1 15 The Money to be paid before the Cattle arc taken out.— To be entered before the 5th of May ; apply to PETER IIOPWOOD, Acton Reynald. MRS. JOHNSON, THE ORIGINAL AND ONLY PROPRIETOR OF THE CELEBRATED « Johnsons American Soothing Syrup," FOR CHILDREN CUTTING THEIR * EETH, BEGS to inform the Public, and es- pecially those Ladies who have honoured her by « * i « i| f the above Medicine, in Preference lo any oilier, fur Infants suffering from Dentition, ( the Pain • Heading which it has immediately relieved, during the Experience of the last Twenty- live Years,) that, finding llie Fatigue of preparing the said Medicine greater than her Health will allow her In continue, and desirous lhat the Medicine may be dispensed in all ils original Purily and Effect, she has disposed of the Secret for making the said Syrup lo her Friends, Messrs. BARCI. AV AND SONS, of Farringdon Sircet, f. oailon, who will faithfully prepare the snine, under Iter immediate Direction. Mrs. Johnson, therefore, earnestly requests all Purchasers to lake Notice, that Ihe Slump affixed lo each Boltle of the genuine •• Johnson's American Soothing Syrup" will hereafter contain the Names of " Barclay aud Sons," without which it cannot he genuine ; ami much F. vil may arise to Infanta from neglecting this Caution, some unprincipled Persons having published spuiious Imi- tations, Price of the genuine JOHNSON'S SOOTHING SYRUP, 2s. 9d. per Bottle, Duly included ; and Sold by all respectable Venders of Medicine. STALLION FOR THE SEASON, 1831. AT the CASTLE INN, Bishop's Cas- tle, Salop, Thorough- bred- Mafe at Ten and a Half Sovereigns ; Half- bred Ditto, Three Guineas; Grooms included : tile celebrated Horse, FLEXIBLE, ( Bred by the Right Hon. the Earl of Egrcmont,) by Whalebone, Dam Themis, by Sorcerer, purchased by- Mr. Weatherby, of the Earl of Egremont, for the Breed- ing Stud of his Majesty the King of Prussia, her Dam Hanna, by Gohanna, Humming Bird, ( Sister to Catherine; Colibri, and Young Camilla, the Dam ot Mandaneand Allegretta,) by Woodpecker, Camilla, by Trentham, Coquette, by the Compton Barb, Sister to Regulus, the Sire of the Dam of Eclipse, by the Godolphin Arabian. Whalebone, Brother to Whisker, Woful, and Web, by Waxy, Dam Penelope, hy Trumpator, Prunella, by Highflyer, Promise bv Snap, Spectator's Dam by Partner, Bonny Lass by Bay Bolton. Darley's Ara bian, ( the Sire of the Flying Childers,) Bverley Turk, and lieing in the Parish of GUILSFIELD, in the County of Montgomery, now in the Occupation of Mr. Higgins, Mr. James, and others. The above Property is situate on a gentle Eihi ence, commanding an extensive View of the Vale of Guils^ field and the surrounding Country; a considerable Part of the Land is irrigable by Streams rpnmng through the Estate, and the Whole is capable of great Improvement at a small Expense. There are several large Coppices of fine growing Trees, chiefly Oak, of from Twelve to Twenty Years Growth ; and a great Quantity of fine thriving Timber on the Estate, which, in a few Ycirs, will be worth a large Sum. The Property is distant from Welshpool 3 Miles, from Shrewsbury 20, and from Oswestry 14, all excel- lent Market Towns, and is near to the Ellesmt? re Canal, and to Lime and Coal. There are certain Moiluses payable in Lieu of Tithe Hay and other small Tithes, the Particulars of which will be stated at the Time of Sale. The Sale to commence at Five o'Clock in the After- noon. Mr. HIGGINS will appoint a Person to shew the Premises : and further Particulars may be had at the Offices of Mr. WAGE and Mr: TF. ECE, Solicitors, Shrewsbury; Mr. JONES, Solicitor, Bishop's Castle; and of Mr. MINSK ALL, Solicitor, Oswestry, where a Map of the Estate may be seen. THIS DAY IS PUBLISHED, Second Edition, 4s. boards, KEY to KEITH'S TREATISE on the GLOBES; containing- near One Thousand Solutions, worked out to the nicest accuracy, and in so explicit a manner as to enable the student to gain a complete and scientific knowledge of both Globes, without any instruction from a master. By 0. VINES, Mathematician and Nautical Astronomer. The NEW SPEAKER ; or, Selections from tbe most Esieeined Authors, in Prose aud Verse. By ESTHEli HEWLETT. Second Edition, 4s. bound. This work includes valuable extracts from the works of Cowpeij llurdis, Foster, H. More, Scott, Taylor, Sic. & c. In its page* instruction and entertainment will be found so combined as to render it at once ac- ceptable and profitable to those for whose use it is im- mediately designed. CAMEUA, or ART of DRAWING in WATER- COLORS, with Instructions for Sketching from Nature ; comprising the whole Process of Water- Colored Drawing, familiarly Exemplified in Drawing, Shadowing, and Tinting a complete Landscape, iu all its progressive stages ; and Directions for Compound- ing and Using Colv> rs, Sepia, Indian Ink, Bister, & c, By J. HASSEL. 5s. boards. 44 If the pages of this little volume are perused with attention, aud the rules which ii contains carefully adopted, the ingenious pupil will find that he can make considerable improvement without the aid of any olher master."— Imperial Magazine, No 70. London -, published by W. SIMPKIN SC R. MARSHALL, Stationers1- Hall- Court. TO BE SOLD BY PRIVATE CONTRACT, rjjpHF. ROOKERY FARM, in the Parish ™ of KINNERLF. Y, in this County, containing Twenty- eight Acres of excellent LAND, with a good HOUSE, Outbuildings, Garden and Orchard well stocked with Fruit Trees.— There is a Quantity of thriving Timber on the Estate. The Farm is 10 Miles from Shrewsbury, 8 from Oswestry, and 2 from the Holyhead Road. Apply to Mr. OWEN, New Inn, Nesscliff; or Mr. JOHN MANSEI. L, on the Premises.— Applications may be made until the latter End of June.. TO BE SOLI) BY PRIVATE CONTRACT, ALL that FREEHOLD MESSUAGE or DWELLING HOUSE, with the Barn, Stable, and other Outbuildings thereunto belonging, together also with about 24 Acres of TYTHE- FREE LAND adjoining thereto, in suitable Inclosures and in a good State of Cultivation, commonly called or known by the Name of MOUNT FLIRT, situate, lying, and being in the Parish of EATON, in thesaid County of Salop, and now in the Occupation of Mr. William Downes, of Ticklerton. And also all those several PIECES or Parcels of LAND, commonly called or known by tbe Names of the Heaths and Bolt Meadow, containing by Estimation 32 Acres, or thereabout, situate, lying, and being at Ticklerton aforesaid, now in the Occupation of Mr. William Evans. The respective Tenants will shew the Premises; and further Particulars may be had of Mr. BROOME, Auc- tioneer, Church Stretton; or of Messrs. COLLINS, HINTON, and JEFFREYS, Solicitors, in Much Wenlock. . Atkinson's Curling Fluid, OR, VEGETATIVE HAIR OIL. BRITTON'S ARCHITECTURAL WORKS. F. Publishers of the following splendid and truly interesting works solicit the attention of ANTIQUARIES, ARCHITECTS, and all classes of CON- NOISSEURS, to their contents, and to the peculiarly faith- ful and beautiful style in which every department has been executed. In archieological information, drawing, engraving, paper, and printing, the Cathedral and Picturesque Antiquities are unrivalled in this or any other country. The whole series may be said to con- stitute a Cyclopcedia of ' the Architectural Antiquities of England. Some of the large paper copies are out of print, and will never be reworked ; and of the small paper only a very limited edition has been printed : whence the purchasers may be certain of good impres- sions. The most eminent draftsmen and engravers have been engaged in the different works, and all the publish- ed critiques both of our, own and foreign countries have uniformly praised them for fidelity, beauty, and varied information. ff^ HIS Article has long been known and A very generally adopted at the Toilet of most 1. ailies of Fashion, ll is generally preferred lo Oils, Extracts, See. for dressing the Hair, making it, how ever harsh, soft and glossy. It also eradicates the Dandriff from Ihe Head, and gives such Slrellgth nud Elasticity to ihe Hair, that il retains ils Curl in Exer- cise or iu lite dampest Atmosphere. Sold. by A ppoint- nient, by Mr J NIGHTINGALE, Mr. W. NIGHTINGALE, Mr. SAMUEL IIULMG, and Mr. J. C HUI. MK, Per- fumers, Shrewsbury; anil by most Perfumers and Hair Dressers in Town and Country, CAUTION. A Variety of Imitations of this Article are sold in the Country ; some mis- spelling ihe Name, nthers ihe Street, & e. The genuine may always be known hy observing the Proprietor's Signature, aud also a small Address Stamp, printed in Colours, similar to a Patent Medicine Slump. No. 39. New Bond- Street, and 4- 1, Gerrard. Street, London, Oct. 1830. MR. VICKERS'S Will take Place at the Farm Yard, NEWTON, o » Monday, the 21 of May, 1831; when will be SOLD BY AUCTION, rpEN or Twelve FAT COWS, in Lots, 1 and above 200 SHEEP, in Lots, about 100 being two Years old, and about 100 Yearlings, and 10 Tegs and their Produce. Also three BULL CALVES, one very early, and Ihe Whole Descendants of Bulls bred by the late Mr. Gwillam, ofPurslow, and from good Cows, which may be seen at the Time of Sale or before. Six of the Cows arc young & Outliers, consequently in a proper State to go on, if not purchased for killing. ... a.., ••• - » - """-- J- " -< w" t ' i The Sheep are Wethers of the Black- faced Sort, the Taffolet Barb, Place's White Turk, Natural Barb Mare. Two year. 0'[ ds are good Mutt< w> and tUe Yeitrlings Waxy by Pot- 8- o's, b. y Eclipse, out of Maria, by kind. Herod. Sorcerer by Trumpator, bv Conductor, hy Matchcm, Dam Young Giantess, the Dam of Eleanor, the only Winner of both Derby and Oaks ever produced. In Flexible are thus united the Blood of Matchem, Herod, and Eclipse, without an unfashionable Cross. Flexible is one of'the best Sons of Whalebone, and was always remarkable for his hard unflinching Honesty. He won eleven Times before he was 5 Years old, frequently with very disadvantageous Weights. Gentlemen Breeders are requested to view his Stock, which are very large, muscular, and proportionate. Amongst others, Thorough- bred, are Mr. Painter's, Stafford, Sir Thomas Stanley, Bart.' s, Mr. Ball's, New port, Herefordshire, all engaged at Stourbridge, 1832, Mr. Thomas Bodenham's, Mr. Clee's ( yearling), also engaged at Stourbridge, 1833, H. Montgomery Camp- bell's, Esq. & c. & c. Apply to the Proprietor, Mr. JAMES BACH, Bishop's Castle, who has Hovels'and Foaling Boxes, and every other Convenience. ANTISCORBUTIC DROPS. PLOUGHM AN'S DROPS. A Medicine prepared hy a Sliromliirc Gentleman Farmer, SUPERIOR TO A 1.1. THE PREPARATIONS IN THE WORLD, For the Cure nf the Venereal Disease, Ihe King's F « il, Scrofula, Scurvy, Fistulas, aud every Dis- order arising from Impurity of tho Bluoit. PLOUGHMAN'S DROPS are well known throughout Shropshire, ami THE indeed throughout the Kingdom at liirge, for Ihe Cure of the nhove Disorders, mid without Ihe Aid of Mercury or nf any Surgical Operation, llint any Comment on llieiv Virtues is quite unnecessary. As a Purifier of the Blood tliey lire unrivalled in their Effects. Anil their Efficacy has been allesleo in numberless Instances; many of litem on Oath before ihe Magistrates of Shrewsbury; thus establishing their Pre- eminence over llio Nostrum* of ignorant Quacks, and over Ihe more established Prescriptions of llie Regular Faculty. In'Cases of FKMAI. IS DKRILITV. TLRN OF LIFE, and auv oilier Affliction of Ihe Body arising from a changed nr vilialed System, the PLOUGHMAN'S PltOPS may lie relied upon for a certain anil speedv Cure. N. li. Doctor SMITH does not recommend a slarv- illg System of Diet : lie allows his I'atients lo live like Englishmen while taking the Ploughman's Drops. These Drops nre lo be had in square Botlles with these words moulded on each, '' Mr. Smith i ploughman's Drops" ( all others arc spurious), al £ 1. 2s. the large, and Ils. the small, Duly in. eluded, al PLOUGHMAN'S IIAI. L, Upton Magna, near Shrewsbury ; also of JOHN Ennowes, antl Conk, • on, Shrewsbury; Causey, Wellington; Yeati s Salt Warehouse, Iron Bridge ; Partridge, Bridgnorth ; Griffiths, Ludlow; Waidsoil, Welshpool; Price, Os westry ; Biingh, Ellesmere ; Evanson, Whitchurch Hurley, Drayton ; Silvester, Newport; Went, Leominster ; Mr. Nix, I, Royal Exchange, London uni! uf all Medicine Venders Stourbridge, 28th September, 1830. GENTLEMEN, ITI1 pleasure'*! send you the following account of a cure performed by your ANTI- SCORBUTIC DROPS upon inv son, aged leu years, lie was dreadfully afflicted " illi a violent dry Scor btll'ic Eruption, almost covering the whole boilv ; upon his neck Ihere was a place as large as the hack of his hand, coffered with scurf ihe eighth of an inch in thickness. I almost despaired ofacure, it was so had, when a gentleman called al my house, anil seeing the liille hoy iu so hopeless n condition, recommended me to try Lignum's Antiscorbutic Drops, prepared hy Mr Lignum, Surgeon, Manchester. I purchased one 1 Is. liialie, and gave them according lo your direction* ; he was much belter before be had finished it ; I per- severed, purchased nnolher bottle, and have now the gratification to inform you he is quite cured, alld never was so hearty since he was born, for which 1 turn you my sincere thanks, and wish you lo make ihis case public, for the good of others. I am, Gentlemen, vour obedient servnnl, THOMAS PAUETT. Brazier and Tinman, High- street, Stourbridge. Witness to ibis cure : JOHN NOCK, Plumber and Glazier, Stourbridge. All applications hy letter to be post- paid. These. Drops are sold in moulded square bottle* at •? S. 9d.— 4s. fill. & lis. each, by John Lignum & Sou, Surgeons, & c. 63, Bridge Street, Manchester; also hy Eddowes, Shrewsbury ; Smith, I ronbridge ; G. Gilt. in, Bridgnorth; Pennel," Kidderminster: Cnltinuil, Stour- bridge; llintnn. Turner, Dudley; Smart and Parke, Wolverhampton ; Valcliline and Thrnsliv, Walsall ; Botterworth, T. 8c W. Wood, Hudson, Beilhv nud Knott, Birmingham ; Merridew, itnlbisnll, Coventry; Banff h, Ellesniere ; Painter, Wrexlinin ; Poole and Harding, Monk, Chester; Butterwurth, Nantwich ; Reeves" Midillewicll ; Lintlup, Sandbaeh; Davies, Norihwich; Bell, Allrincham; Clave, W. & A. Gee, Stock port; Wright, Macclesfield; Lowe, Leek; llor- ilern, Chenille ; anil all respectable Medicine Venders in every Market Town. Of whom also niav lie bad. Mr. Lignuln's Improved VEGETABLE LOTION, forull Scorbutic Eruptions, price ' is. 9d. duly included. Mr. I. ignnm'* SCURVY OINTMENT may now be had of the above Agents, price ls. 9d. each Pot, duty included. Also will be offered at the same Time, a BLACK WAGGON HORSE, seven Years old, belonging to Mrs. Thomason, of Astoll. " Newton lies ou the Road from Bridgnorth to Shiffnal, about 3 Miles from the former Place. Implements, modern and genteel Malio- qany and Oak Furniture, prime Fea- ther Reds, capital Brewing < § • Dairy Utensils, § c. $ BY GEO. WILLIAMS, Oil the Premises at LEIGHTON, one Mile from Welshpool, on Tuesday and Wednesday, the 3d and 4th Days of May, 1831, file Property of Mr. M AI- RICE JONES, retiring from Business. 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This day is published, the Second Edition, price 5 bound, r| PH E ETON GREEK GRAMMAR, w as used at the College of Eton ; wilh the quantity of the Doubtful Penultimate Vowels, 011 which th Pinuiiircinlinu depends, both in Latin and Greek, anil numerous Explanatory Notes iu English, incorporating the most important Improvements of the Port Royal, Matthiu:, Jones, Valpy, and others; wilb the justly- esteemed and well- established ETON PLAN; for the IJse of Schools and Piivate Learners. From ihe Maim, script uf a lale Member of the University of Cambridge, Iiy his Brother, the Rev. J. BOSWORTI1, M. A. F. A. S. Also, by the same Author, 1. An INTRODUCTION to LATIN CONSTRU ING; or, Easy and Progressive Lessons for Reading; 10 he used by the Pupil as snon as ihe first Declension has been commilled to memory ; adapted 10 the most popular Grammars, hut more particularly to that used iu I lie College, nl Eton. 41 It Edition, ' 2s. fid. bound. 2. LATIN CONSTRUING ; oreasynnd progressive Lessons fi mil Classical Authors; with lfules for translating Latin inlo English ; designed to tench the Analysis of simple and compound Sentences, and the method of construing Pliaulrus and Nepos, as well a the higher Classics, without tbe help of ihe English Translation. 3d Edit. 2s. fid bound. Chairs. Mahogany Dining Tables of large Size ( 111 line Condition), Oak and Mahogany Pembroke Tables, 12 Mahogany Chairs, with ' 2 Arms to match ( modern Pattern), " fine Chimney Glass, Prints, Paintings, Fire Irons, capital Kitchen Wardrobe ( of Oak banded with Mahogany), excellent 8- Day Clock in Oak Case ( taste- fully ornamented), Kitchen Tables and Chairs, Brewing and Dairy Utensils, which are numerous and in tile best possible Confiition, and all are for unreserved Sale. tfgS" The Furniture mav be viewed on Monday, the 2d of May, from Ten till Four o'Clock. The First Day's Sale will commence at Ten o'Cock with the Implements, as described ill Catalogues; the Furniture at Half past Twelve, commencing with the Parlour, then the Bed Rooms; the Kitchen Furniture, Brewing and Dairy Vessels, the Second Day, Particu- lars of which may'be had 011 the Premises, or from the Auctioneer, Chirbury. MONTGOMER YSHIRE. BY MR. DAVID GWILLIM. 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A CONCISE VI EW of ANCIENT GEOGRAPHY ; Willi Biographical, Chronological, and Historical Notes; and seteil neal illustrative Maps : designed as an i nsy introduction lo the Rev. Dr. Butler's Skeich of Ancient Geography ; with the Names of Prisons and Places carefully accented, In direct ihe Protitluci- | ation. By IV. BOND. 4s. fid. sewed. London : printed for W. SIMPKIN SC R. MARSHALL, [ Stulioners'- llalLConrl. HOUSE OF LORDS— MONDAY. The Earl of HAKE- WOOD took tbe opportunity o, expressing his sentiments decidedly against ' tho sweeping measure of Reform proposed in Ihe Bill that had been brought forward by Ministers, and said he could not conceive how any person not willing to bring great injury on ibe country could have chosen tbe present moment of excitement In Europe to bring forward such an ill- digested measure. His Lordship then complained of tho government permitting many of the newspapers to put forth the language they had recently adopted, which was of a nature clearly menacing the parliu ment, and which did all but menace tbe ciuwn: and from tlie mode in which Ibe language was employed, it behoved Ministers to disavow their sanction of such sentiments. The Earl of LIMERICK then complained of a breach of privilege lhat affected himself In parii. cular, which had been committed by tbe Times newspaper ; and Ibe paragraph from the newspaper was read, in which his Lordship was commented Upon in Ibe most indecent manner, as au Irish ab- sentee landlord, and was charged with having Opposed tbe giving relief lo the poor of lhat country. — After some discussion, Ihe printer of ibe Times was ordered to attend at the bar of the House ou the morrow. In answer to a question by Lord ROLLK, it was staled by Lord GIIEY, that certain documents re. lating to tbe proceedings of the individuals as- sembling at the Rotunda, London, had been placed before the Attorney- General. HOUSE OF LORDS- TUESDAY. REFORM HI LI,. Ill referring ( 0 a petition that bad been presented, the EARI, of WESTMORELAND said, lie had not before addressed tbeir lordship's upon the Reform Bill ( as it was termed), and be intended now to express plainly bis opinion of that measure. Hi* objection to Ihe measure was nut merely that it was revolutionary, but that it was a revolution. It greatly outstepped any conceivable necessity for alteration. Professing to be founded upon the principle of population, it disfranchised whole masses of ( he people. Professing to be founded upon ( he principle of property, it left tbe whole body of funded proprietors, of commercial proprietors, aiiil of colonial proprietors, wholly without representation. He bad been taught to revere certain principles as tbe essential elements of the British constitution. The first of these was that what a man possessed by law he could not be divested of without some charge being proved against liini. Another principle of the Constitution was that the poorest man in the land was as much entitled to tbe protection of the law as the highest, and lie must always maintain that to dis- franchise the people of England, as the bill did — to disfranchise every man in England who was not either a freeholder, or a person falling under some of tbe fanciful limitations created by Ibe bill, was expressly contrary to the principles of ihe British Constitution. This bill affixed a mark of ballotisni and degradation 011 all the lower orders of the people. No man, whatever services lie might have rendered to bis country, if he could not rent a house of £ 10 a year, would have Ihe elective franchise when the bill caine into complete operation. This was against the principle of Ihe British Constitution, and whenever the people became fully aware of the true character of Ibe measure, he was persuaded it would excite their warm eat indignation. He was aware nothing in the world was perfect, and that no man of good sense would refuse to listen lo improvement. Tbe British Constitution had 110 doubt its imperfection* and anomalies, and be had attended carefully to many plans for their correction ; but it hail never yet been his good fortune lo meet with 011c of those schemes of improvement which did nottireate imper- fections and anomalies much greater than those they were intended to correct. The bill proposed to dis. franchise all the close boroughs. This also was against the constitution of England. Non mens hie sermo. The words were those of Junius, who had argued tbe subject of close boroughs very fairly. If it was right to disfranchise those boroughs to- ilay, who could tell whom it might be held right to dis- franchise to- morrow ? lie perfectly agreed with a noole lord who had recently addressed the huuse ( Lord Callhorpe, we believe), that the bill affixed a mark of disgrace and degradation upon parliament as now constituted, and he almost doubted, if this bill should pass into law, whether all past legislation must not of necessity be revised. Under tbe present form and principles of government his late Gracious Master George tbe Third, and Ibe Gracious Prince bis successor, had been enabled to carry on the affairs of Ihe country with so much success that during tbeir reigns it seemed to have attained the pinnacle of glory and prosperity. And since the con- clusion of the late war, what had this stigmatised and insnlted parliament accomplished r It. had remitted 110 less, he believed, than twenty five millions a- year of taxes, a degree of relief much greater than any other ,, f I of the nations of Europe had experienced on the return of peace. It had repealed every law which in the slightest degree touched the liberty of the sub- ject. It bad effaced every remaining distinction between the various classes of his Majesty's subjects. DR. JAMES'S POWDER. r| HHIS celebrated Medicine is invari- 12. ably adopted by Physicians; and for those who cannot obtain medical advice, with each packet are enclosed full directions for its use. Its efficacy is most ain if freely given on the attack of Fever, Measles, Sore Throat, recent Cold with Cough, and other Ju- 111111 itory Disorders. In Hhenmatism and Chronic Complaints it has performed the most extraordinary ps, when used with perseverance. Dr JAMES'S POVVDEU. continues to be prepared by Messrs. NEW- BURY, from the only copy of the process left by Dr James in his own hand- writing*, which was deposited wiih their grandfather in 1746, as joint proprietor. In packets 2s. 9d . and 24s. Dr JAMES'S ANALEPTIC PILLS afford constant relief in Indigestion, Hilious and Stomach Complaint Gouty Symptoms, recent Rheumatism, and Cold with* light Fever, and are so mild iu their effects as not to equire confinement. Dr. JAMKS'S ANALEP'I MLLS are prepared by Messrs. NKWBKRY, from the uily recipe existing; under Dr James's baud, and sold by them in boxes at 2s. 9d. and 4s. 6d. at 45, St. Paul's Church- Yard ; and their Agents in most Country Towns. The name F. Newbery" is engraved iu each Government stamp. SNOWDON. ' jpo COVER, this Season ( 1831), at the " Raven Hotel, Shrewsbury, the celebrated Grey Horse SNOWDON, Thorough- bred Vlares Five Guineas, other Mares Three Guineas, Groom's Fee ( Five Shillings) to be paid at the Time. SNOWDON was got by Skiddaw ( own Brother to Golumpns, Hedley, and Wanderer,) out of a Delpini Mare, her Dam Miss Cogdenby Phoenouienon, Youii" Marske, Silvio, Daphne, Regulus. SNOWDON is allowed by experienced Judges to possess as fine Symmetry and Sirength as any Horse in the Kingdom, with excellent Temperand robiist Health For his Performances on the Turf see the Racing Calendar. ° Good Grass ( and Corn, if required) for Mares at Pimley, two Mil es from Shrewsbury, and every Care taken of them. . AU Demapds to be paid at Midsummer, or Half- a- Guinea extra to he charged. When he recollected those benefits conferred upon the country, he could not doubt that the British nation, as a whole, notwithstanding any temporary laniour that might he excited, would remain attached nd grateful to the legislature which shed upon it so any blessings. PRIVILEGE. Mr. John Joseph Lawson, the printer of the Times newspaper was called to Ihe bar, and ex- pressed his regret that the obnoxious paragraph hould have appeared in that publication— Mr. Lawson, in answer to questions put to him, declined tatlug who was the editor of the paper; and ho further said that he did not know the persons who were registered as its proprietors.— He was then ordered into the custody of the Usher of th © Blaclc ltod. CIVIL I# IsT. Earl GRF. Y, in bringing; this subject before the House, took occasion to point out the alterations made by Ministers under this head, which, though they would not produce any immediate saving of onsequencc, would ultimately be of importance to the country. The Duke of WELLINGTON, in reference to the reduction of salaries proposed in the plan n > w before their Lordships, said, he believed it was generally admitted that, unless the persons who held high offices had large fortunes, they were ruined. Such was the case with Mr. Pitt, Mr Perceval, and Mr, Canning; and in the latter case he himself had had the office of proposing" a provision for the family of Mr. Canning-, who had been ruined by being in oiHce, And yet with this fact notorious, it was now pro- posed to reduce all the salaries of government; allho' every body who knew any thing- of the- e unatter* must be aware, that the first year's salary of an officer of state was absorbed in his re- election, patent, and. other incidental expenses It. was delusion to dwell upon presumed savings in Ihesj departments, and those who knew the nature of the pension list knew that, with few exceptions, those pensions were granted to the parties for services to the state per- formed either by themselves or their relatives. Their payment, too, was no burden upon the country ; for the country, in lieu of the payments made on account of fhe civil list, received the income arising from the hereditary property of the CJOAM, which was £ 850,000 a year, a d to which, but for an arrangement long since made with the Country, the King was as much entitled as was any one uf their Lordships to their hereditary estates. HOUSE OF LORDS— WEDNESDAY. A petition from Mr Lawson, the printer of the Times newspaper, was presented, expressing his regret that he had given offence to their Lordships, and to tbe Earl Limerick iu particular; and after some discussion the petition was ordered to be taken iulocotisii'- ipratton on the morrovy. SALOPIAN JOU1RMAI4 AM ® COlilRIlEH OF WALI! HOUSE OF COMMONS— WEDNESDAY. Mr. BFLL presented a petition from tbe county of Northumberland'" Against 1 ho Reform Bill. It was signed by the Diike of Northumberland, the Bishop of Diirhatn* the bishop of Exeter, and eight other Peers, hy sixty magistrates of the county, and by about ficVeir- hunih- ejl others of the principal gentry, cle'e y? ftnd freeholders. . , ILGUSE OF LORDS— TITURSDAY, •. In presenting. a petition against reform/- from Corkj the Luke' » f YVFLLINGTON observed, . that by passing the bill) Parliament Would- ila^ i bis MajV^ tV opeiVtO the-/ inability ' of Hujjpoiting the oath he had taken, because the measure of reform was calculated to. sap the, foundation of the Fnite- sJant ( chUicli in Ireland. „, JLOJRI) W. H 4P QUJ^ UO. N, TO4. UIR- L GR- EY Whether the report was true that Parliament was to be immediately dissolved ? Earl GREY declined answering the question. Lord YVHARNCLIFFE then gttve not ice that he should to- morrow ( Friday) move an humble addr< ss to his Majesty, prayhig; him. not : t, o; dissolve the Parliament in the present excited State of the country. The Earl of Y\ IN. CIU. LBF. A- said, though he was. friendly to the Rt- form Bill, as regarded England, lie thought Tt would ' endanger the Church Establish- ment in Ireland. 1 '' 1 h^ rEai'l of CXfcNARVoN, in presenting a petition from iVevv'bury agnrnst the B 11, observed that THE IN 131VIDtJ AL WHO AVOULUj UNDER THE ClRCl M- frTAVOFS OF TIM: C0U S'l RY, ADVlSE THE KING To i* I; S£ OLVE TH K PAH I. I AM ENT, HAD 1 ITH ER A FOOl/ s HEAD, ON IMS SHOULDERS OR A TUAITOR'S HEART . JIN• HIS BOSOM J — ( Chevrsj— AND ATJY ADVICE TO THE KING TO St CH AN FFFl CT > VOCLD BE VIRTUALLY^ ADVISING THE KING TO ABDICATE His THRONE.—-{ lArud erics of hear ) " Mi'. I. aw so n, the printer of the Times, was brought to the bar, aiid aficr a reprimand froiir the Lor<| ' t? Ktai? Mtof, wAs'ofderi'd to be discharged on pay- ment of the fees. HOy. SE OF COMMONS—' THURSDAY, } Sir Kt N'l ^ tmoved that the RepoVE of the Liver- p() ol'J^ h; ction: C< » uinu( tee be adopted, and that a bill • i) e; foHh{ led upon it for the purpose of amending the representation of that. toWH. General GASCOYNE expressed, his belief lhat the charges of corruption were unfounded; ami MR. J. WOOD anil Earl SF. F- dcciaredi- that the corruptions were extensive, Systematic, and flagrantv • Sir R. VYVY^ LN, after, some prefatory remarks, said he wished to Vnow if, because the House bad resisted it plan which went to destroy the foundation of a| l. the institutions of the coilntry, they were to be sent back to their constituents? . On the second reading of- the reform bill: lie ( the Hon. Bart)' had declared, thatin the event of the bill being lost, he would bring- forward a plan t<> strengthen and amend tlie repre- • spntation— and his resolution would have been fo the e, fi^ ct of admitting to a participation in the elective franchise tljose interests which had grown into import- ance among the wcaNh and. industry of the country, due regard being paid to the dignity of the < crown, tfie liberty of the people, the mainteijanee of otir in- slitutions, and the wealth awl vast, importance of our colonial possessions Under the present circumstances of the c6tintry . be could not bu. regar « j a dissolution as tiie first, great blow\ wli: ich'. n » ii.^ in- c^ iiably-- l, ead to the destruction of the Monarchy. He wished to know, therefore, if his Majesty's Miiiisters Intended to proceed with the bill> or to obtain- a dissolution of Parliament ? ; . I. ORD ALTHORP. said IT WAS NOT THE INTEN- TION OF: UJI NIR TF. RS TO- PR OC EEL>. WITU TH E BILL ; but lie declined answering t he second question. Mr H. DAVIS had no objection to be sent back to bis constituents, but, when he got amongst them he wduld boldly, smd without fear, though they should lie displeased with him, assert that, the measure was a revolutionary measure. He " was glad, indeed, that ttie Bill had been Withdrawn* for in his judgment it went to overthrow the institutions of King, Lords and Commons. Mr. D. commented at some length/ upon the detail*, of the Bill, and concluded by expressing his astonishment- that any set of Ministcrs1 Could risk advising a dissolution in the present excited state of the country.. ;•,-.....:••• .- • Sir R. PEEL wris safjsfied, if time were given, the present excitementHfoVf'efoMi tvoiild^ die away. A dissolution . of the Parliament was in his opinion Unjustifiable.".. " iYJiv PORTMAN thought that Ministers would act wfSfrly in appealing to. tlie people. Mr. RROWNLOW and Mr. WYSE denied that the disturbances hi Ireland originated in political matters Mr. . () Y'ONNFLL s; » id the peaceable conduct of Iceland might, be relied on. If a dissolution took place, the 59 Irish members who voted for the reform won hi be increased to 80. ' j^ ir X. APLAND complained that, the independent members were not avowed time to consider all the bejiriiig^ ofifhe biHv ; : Mr. RARING said, though he bad been a moderate reformed. foiii25 years,; if ii new Parliament were to have J. he billi, . the whole bill, and nothing but the Hilj, he should promise it his Opposition, his whole opposition* and not lung . but opposition. After several other meinbers hail spoken, Mr. W. BANKF. S moved an adjournment of. the debate. Lord ALTHORP said, not one. gentleman had spoken to the rryil question before the House, and he should therefore resist au adjournment by every means in his power. ...- Tlie House then divided for the adjournment 164 ; against it 142. Majority against Ministers 22. PROROGATION AND DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT. At one o'clock on Friday afternoon, orders were sent down ti) the House of Lords that his Majesty would come down that afternoon, in person, to pro- rogue parliament, with the view to an immediate dissolution-. The necessary preparations were gone through as speedily as possible and - their Lordships began to assemble soon after two o'clock. Many of t hemwwere robed, but, the greater portion were not so, on account of lb& ' suddcrtncss^ df the announcement of. tlje- KnigV intention to • go- down ih person, The number of Peers in' attendance was exceedingly numerous; and a considerable Riimber. of, Peeresses were seated on the opposition benches. On his Majesty's entrance lie took his seat oti the throne, wearing the crown and bearing the sceptre, and sur- rounded hy a numerous body of the Royal Household. The Su'ord of State was bo. me by Earl Grey, and the . Lonl'" Chancellor stood atthe King's right hand, holding the piu. se. His Majesty wore the uniform Of an ' admiral, and appeared in gbod health. The Com- mons were immediately summoned to the bar, and about one hundred members speedily made their appearance-,; The Speaker, in presenting the Civil List and other bills, briefly addressed Hie King, and the royal assent was- declared to them in the custom- ary man tier .— His' Majesty then in a firm, distinct, and audible tone j read the following Speech from the, throne:— ( wdr GenllenYwt;- I have . come( to- meet you for the Purpose Of pro- roguijig. tfeis - Karliam. ent; with a view to its immediate Dissolution. • ... 1 have Ueeu induced - taresort. to'til- ji- s mensure - for tlie - purpose of dsd6* rtairiirfg tlie'sense of riiy [ jeo| ile. in the \ yay in . whitth it can be ' most" 1 constitutionally and - autlieuiically Gxpiesi- ed, on: the expediency of making- such . qli5W3g- es in, - the representation-- as•• circniHsStances ma- y appear, to- tequiw:, and. whifth,: founded, upon. the . acknowledged , princip'eS;. of tb. c- Constitution, may., teud. at oncej[ of.\ ipJXQi( Vt) ie . juste. rights and orotja^ atiy^ s of the crown.*. arid to give security to. the. Libertiesjot>' the. People. y G'Crttfrmrnnf'the tfouse bf Commons, ' \' ' T tlr. tnk you for ' the pVovisWo y ou have. made for tlie maintenanee of the- h'Orio'hr' and' dignity' of t. life tro vvri", a: id I offer you my special" ar^ kYtoHVle'dg- ments for the arrangevppnts - you- Mave niade for the state aud cOmiort , of my. Royal Consort; I have also t. o thank- yoU;. for the supplies wlii. ch you, have; fii- rnished. for the. publip^ service. 1 bave observed with satisfaction your en- deavours to introduce a. strict ecoiiromy into - every branch ' of ( fiat seVvice, and, I. trust that.' the early atten- tion of ft'liew rarliatr^ cnt, whic'H r'shaij ^ u'tlhvith dii'ec.\ to be called;- will be applied to'tlie pi'oScciVt^ T. of that' important subject. M& rfJftrdis, aftdt- G'Mllemen, • • ; - • I ati^ vhaqipjj td< 1ir# orm you that, tlie friendly inter-- coutw w^ icn subsists- £ tf? t. ween' myself ahtl ' foieigii powers affords the. best- hopes of tbe' contiuifance of. pea ce,. to; the, i,- rtvhjch^ nvy friiost- auxious: tyj/ Xbf& fcxtpd Gpndym^; \ » In reso'lving . tp y- ecu/. to ihgj sense of my. people in the p'eseiit ' circumstances.' of the . country," I have Been, i iflvieiVc.^ 1 Glily by - i pntehia! ahxipiy t'or'.' tn'e content- lnent atid ppirtess df my strb'reots; to promo! e'wlVich, I r ly withiconfrdeitfe on your continued and zealous arsistaheo^' "' ' As s'Oon as his Majesty had concluded, the Lord Chancellor declared the Royal pleasure that the Parliament should be prorogued to the 10th of May • uext. The King then descended from the throne and immediately retired. The members of the Commons withdrew to their own house, and the Peers gradually separated. Previously to the arrival of the King, the House of Lords presented an unusual scene. In th£ absence of the Lord Chancellor, who was in attendant* on his Majesty, the chair was taken by the Earl of Shaftes- bury, and amidst great confusion and vehemence of language and manner on the part of. several peers on a point of order, Lord WharneblFe^ rose. to. propose his Address to the King, impIOrihgvhim not to exercise hi.%# o4ouhted prerogative of-' dissolving''" parliament, wli'icb under the 1" present, excitement of the public mind was'likely , tp . be atfended with the most disn aitr( kis COns'equejiCes.''' ' - At- this mometii the Lord Ch'aiicellor entered and took his seat, and the Earl of Mansfield denounced tlie conduct - Of Miiristers as unprecedented and atrocious in advising the King to dissolve the parlia- ment, under existing circumstances. The Lord Chan- cellor with great energy of gesture replied—" What, when the HouS'eof Cpmmonsin a manner Unparalleled in the most factious periods of English history, have stopped the supplies!" The King had by this time reached the robing room ; the Lord Chancellor again left the house, and the Earl of Shaftesbury was again called to the chair amidst a repetition of the former confusion. Lord WHARNCLIFFE then moved his Address, and was followed by the Earl of MANSFIKLD in a speech of extraordinary vehemence, which did not terminate until his . Majesty was in the act of ascendi ng the throne. His Lordship said that in an interview with the King, he had stated to his Majesty that if he gave his assent to a dissolution for the sake of the reform bill, it was a measure so pregnant with danger that he was certain an attack would be made on the c edit of fhe country ; on the privileges and, then : on the existence of that house, and lastly on the piivi'eges of fhe crown itself— privibges which w° re inseparably connected with the happiness of the people." . The House of Commons; also^ presented a scene that perha ps was never before witnessed. The Speaker took the chair, in full state robes, shortly after two oVloeff, at which time from four to five hundred mem'ers WRR- present. Sir R. VYVYAN and Sir ROBERT PEEL both addressed fhe house at. con siderable length, deprecating tire dissolution and general policy of Ministers in unmeasured terms. The expressions of assent and disapprobation'were beyond precedent loud and conflicting, and the Speaker was- several times obliged to speak to order with uncommon earnestness Of manner Both the Hon Barts. declared in the strongest language that England had been placed by the.- conduct of the government on the very verge of revolution. Sir Robert Peel had n() t concluded when the announce ment- of. the arrival- of his M; ap^%: rn'; the House of Lords was . made at the'bar. A number < f t e mem- bers, preceired by ker^. itrimediately . w . Ti - hew ; nntUon their fefurn'the ITo. y at Speech. wa § read at the ti^ ey & ri:&:; fhcf^ membtrs immediately left the house without any further demonstration of fee liny. Although a general expectation prevailed that Par- liament Would be prorogued, few persons were aware that the King intended to go through the ceremony himself ; audit was not until the actual preparations were observed, that, the public were apprised of the fact,. So unexpected indeed was bis Majesty's visit, that at half- past one o'clock the door- keepers of fhe House of Commons were in utter ignorance of the King s intention, and at that time, at the House of Lords, upwards of twenty workmen were engaged in putting tile throne in order to receive the King. His Majesty proceeded in the usual state, the Master of the Horse ( Earl of Albemarle) and the Groom of the Stole ( Marquis of Winchester) accompanying him. The state carriage was preceded by tilted carriages and six, in. which were the Officers of the Household and other attendants, arid the whole was escorted by detachments Of the Royal Horse Guards Blue. The streets ffirotJgh which the procession parsed were lined with spectators, and his Majesty was most en thusiastically cheered both 00 his way and on his return. The park guns . continued to fire, and the bells of the different churches were rung, while the procession was in motion. The King returned to St. James's Palace about four o'clock. This afternoon, at three o'clock, a Privy Council assembled at St. James's, at which his Majesty signed the Proclamation, dissolving the present Parliament, and appointing h, new one to meet on the 14th of June next. Cije Salopian ' journal. WEDNESDAY, AL'RIL 27, 1831. fgr The Sale of Allotments; Cottages, & c. at Llan- ( Vmam, advertised in onr 1st page to take place on Wednesday, the 4th of May, is unavoidably Postponed ti Friday,' the 13th. IliT The Sale of Mr. Victors^ Stock at Newton, advertised in our 1st page, will lake place by Mr Bi- oou". . - " The letter of" A CONSTANT LIRAPRA," to whom we feel obliged, would not, we think, i. be of sufllcient interest, in consequence of the time that has elapsed sinfe the date of the publication to which he alludes. - The Auricula and Pdlyanthtis Shriw, with other articles, unavoidably postponed, shall appear in our next. .. . > BIRTH. On the 5th inst. at Holt Rectory, Norfolkj the Lady ofthe Rev. William Henry Parry, of a son. MARRIED. On Thursday last, at Meole, by fhe Rev. R. C. Vaughan, Mr. Charles Vatigban; of Kingsland, to Lucia, second daughter of tlie late Robert Hale, Esq. of the former place. On the 19th inst. Lieut. Tudor, R. N. to Margaret, second daughter of the late Robert Cartwright, Esq. of Oswestry. On the 14th inst. at Leamington, the Rev. G. Pease,- brother to .1. Robinson Pease, Esq. of Hessle Wood House, Yorkshire, to Jane, youngest daughter of the late John Swinfen, Esq. of Swinfen, Staffordshire. DIED. On the 10th inst. Jarrett, only child of the Rev. . fames Volant Vashon, Rector of Salwarpe, Stafford- shire. On the 8th inst. aged 83, Mr. Bishop Cfanmer, a medical practitioner of Wiveliscombe, Somersetshire, and a lineal, descendant of tll6 Protestant Martyr, Archbishop CVanmer. • C/ n the " 2oil inst. in the 50th year of his age, Mr. Thomas Dyas,- late of the Abbey Foregate, inf'ns town. On Thursday last, at Paikgate, after a short illness, Mrs. Mary Coekrauc. Visiting Clergyman this week at the Infirmary, the Rev. W. J. James House- Visitors, Mr. William Atchei ley and Mr. Samuel Asterlev- Additional Subscription to that ChUrity. Thomas Borough, Esq C/ tetw'ynd, aug- mented from £ 2. 2s. to .£ 3 3 0 Rev. Jolm Hunter, Benbow House....... 2 2 0 On Sunday last, two sermons were preached at St. Chad's Church, in this town, for the benefit of St. Chad's < Jrrls' School, and the lioys' Sunday School; that in the morning by the Rev. Webster Huntley, M. A. Vicar of Alberbury ; and that in the evening by fhe Rev. Richard Phayre, B. A. Curate ( tf Smelhcotf. -— The collections amounted to the very handsome sum of £ 61. 5s. Additional Subscriptions and Donation to the ' Girls* School. DONATION., A Friend, by Mr. W. R. Stokes £ 1 .10 0 .. SUBSCRIPTIONS. - '• . Miss Ilpdgcs, by fhe Rev. . LE. Compson 0,40 6 Mrs. Brown, by Ditto 0' 10 0 At fhe sale of Mr. ftavenshaw's stocfc at Ucking- ton, on the 19th instant, by Mr. Sirfith, about 200 pure Leicester. Ewes with their. 4iu » bs sold at- from 55s. to 07s. a couple: Of the }> ure He re for si o ek3 cows with their calves, and heifers with .- their calves, fetched from £ 25 to £ 37.— On this occasion, Mr. Ravenshaw exhibited, as the best recommendation of his stock, 19 silver cups, awarded to him as prizes, by Agticuitural, Associations* for superior animals bred aiid. fed upoti his farm. We regret to. slate, that a calaniifous: fire ( sup- po- ted to have originated in the carelessness of some sU ldleis, who had previously been at work on the THE REIORM BILL— DISSOLU- TION OF PARLIAMENT. It will be seen by the Parliamentary Report., in otir 4th page, that the fate of this measure has been decided in tiie House of Commons : and that it had been lost before its incongruous parts liad come within the crucible of fhe Committee. Truly was it observed of this project, by a writer, addressing himself to Earl Grey—" Reform, properly so called, the schcme before parliament is not, because reform, in the acknowledged acceptation of the word applied to political or religi us questions, means not only a change for the better, but a restoration of some previously existing state of things. Now whether this change be for the better or the worse, it certainly is not a restoration ; for there is no period in which such a constitution as you propose has been the constitution of the land. It is therefore an untried change ; it is literally an experiment, and urgent, indeed, must that necessity be* which can justify the ministers of the British crown in hazarding an experiment of such magnitude when the subject is the British constitution. And what is the necessity for such reform? Will it alleviate the distresses of the mercantile and agricultural interests, or render either shopkeeper, mechanic, or peasant, more industrious, more moral, more religious, more contented, more attached fo his hearth, or his home ? It will do none of these things; it will, on the contrary, inflame the hopes and inspire the brazen eloquence of the factious ; it will, eventually, add the sting of disap- pointment to the suffering of tbe needy." To those who " would wish to trace the other effcefs to be anticipated from such a measure, we would suggest a consideration of the facts and reasoning embodied in the masterly speech of Mr. Sadler ; and we would, at the same time, urge upon all persons that feel an interest in their country's welfare, as abstracted from the momentary feelings and party views of the day, the necessity for expressing their determination to uphold and maintain those land- ma: ks which were erected by our ancestors, and to prevent the annihilation and confiscation of those privileges and immunities which, where, they have been earned or inherited, are, or Ought to be, equally the. inalienable right of every Englishman, whether lie be the occupant of the mansion or of the cottage. We have said thus much on fhe general question. The events of the last few days have, however, opened upon the nation with an appearance of the most important character. His Majesty has been advised to dissolve the Parliament, * for the purpose 4 of ascertaining the sense of his people, in the Way in ' which it can be most constitutionally and au- 1 thentically expressed, oiV the expediency of making * such changes in the representation as circumstances '. may appear to require* and which, founded upon ( the acknowledged principles of the Constitution, 4 may tend at once to uphold the just Rights and * Prerogatives of the CrOwn, and to give security to 6 the Liberties of the people.' For the vjews taken in each House of Parliament, ; of this momentous question, we refer to our reports ; and we now appeal to every loyal and independent | Freeholder and Burgess within this district, for such an . expression of their sentiments, supported by the return of Representatives determined to oppose the present Ministry, as shall convince His Majesty how much he has been wronged, and how much his confidence has been abused, by the men to whom he has delegated supreme authority at this crisis. We are of that class who would honour the Crown though it hung on a bush ; and we unhesitatingly declare our belief that if the proposed measure of Reform be Carried, the Crown of Great Britain will very shortly be without a bush to hang upon. We need not a > peal to past ages for proofs of the horrible un- certainty of what is ridiculously tertiled popular . WALES, MARRIED. On the 15th inst. John Waters, Esq.. banker, nf Car- marthen, to Harriett, eldest daughter of Richard Thomas Dixie, Esq. of GeHydeg, Carmarthenshire, and niece of the . late Sir William Willoughby Wolstan Dixie, Bart, of Bosworth House, Leicestershire. On the 26th ult. at St. Mary's, Islington, W. Hohvell Short, Esq. eldest, ion of the Rev. Lawrence, Short, of Ashovcr Rectory, Derbyshire, to Elissa- Mdriit DeClma G riffles, fourth daughter of SirGcorge Griffles Williams, Bart, of Ltwynywormwoodj Carmarthenshire. On the 10th inst. William Davies Elliott, Esq. late of Easton, Somerset, to Janet Willis Davies, only daughter of George Stone Evans, formerly of Trocdorllwyn. DIED. On the 17th inst. in Park- Place, St. James's, in the 56th year of his age, Sir Thomas Mostyn, Bart, of Mostyn, in Flintshire, and M. P. for that county,— Sir Thomas Mostyn was the representative. of the principal line of the ancient family of that name and place, and being the last lineal male descendant of Sir Roger Mostyn, of Mostyn, created a Baronet in 1660, that Baronetage is extinct, unless the issue of Sir Roger's uncles were included iu the patent. Sir Edward Mostyn, Bart, o'f Talacre, is the representative of another liiie of the family, descended from Sir Edward Mostyn, created a Baronet in 1670. Sir Thomas Mostyn died unmarried; anil his nephew, Edward Mostyn Lloyd, Esq. ( son of Sir Edward Pryce Lloyd, Bart. M. P.) will succeed to the Mostyn and other ex- tensive estates in the Principality, and, it is said, to tile bulk of the late worthy Baronet's remaining properly not otherwise settled.— Mr. Lloyd, in consequence; takes the name of Mostyn. On the 17th inst, Mrs. Margaret Conway, of Den- bigh, in her 81st year. On fhe 18th iust. in the 86th year of her age, Mrs. Boydell, of Croeshowel, relict of the late Thomas Boydell, Esq. of Trevalyn Hall. HonsF.- STEALLJFO. — We have much pleasure in recording the prompt and praiseworthy exertions of the Welch Pool Association . for tbe Prosecution of Felons, by whose instrumentality the three persons suspectcd of stealing horses from Welch Pool, on Sunday night, April 17th ( as advertised n our last), have been apprehended. As soon as it was known the three horses were lost, and sup- posed to be stolen, persons were sent in pursuit n every direction, with positive instructions, in the event of any information being feceived by either of them relative to the route ofthe thieves,- to spare neither expense nor trouble in causing them to be apprehended. Davies, an active police officer at Welch Pool, in consequence of intelli. gence o i the road, traced one of the men towards Rugeley, thenee through several bye- ways to Church Langton, in Leicestershire, where on Wednesday he secured him, with the three stolen horses in his possession, and conveyed him to Welch Pool. The other two hatfe been £ inc£ apprehended at Uttoxeter, in Staffordshire, with the bridles and SaddfcS in their possession.— If the like spirited exertions were made when horses are stolen as have been On this occasion; we think horse- stcalers would abandon the practice. It is nine years since a horse belonging to a member of the YVelch Pool Association lias been stolen, when by similar praiseworthy exertions the thief, with the horse in his possession, was apprehended at Northallerton, in Yorkshire, upwards of 200 miles from the place where it was stolen. of Mr. Skitt, at Longswood, near Wellington, in this county, on Tuesday night, the 19th instant.— Eight valuable horses; wiih the stabling, 60 strikes of malt, with a quantity of implement timber, & c. & c, were des roved.— We have ihiicli gratification in adding that Mr. Skitt waS insured. LONDON, Monday Evening, April 25, 1831. PRICKS OF FUNDS AT THE CLOSE. Red. 3 per Cents. 78 3 per Cent. Cons. 79| New per Cent. —- per Cents Red. 87J 4 per Cents. 94 J Bank Stock — New Ann. — India Bonds —- India Slock — Excheq Bills —- Consols for Account 78^ p emi es) took place in the outbuildings on the farm ( applause. rl he same body of reformers that escorted ^ » 1 " 1 Louis XVI in triumph on an occasion nearly similar to that which gained for William the Fourth the approbation of the populace of London on Friday last, after the lapse of a few fleeting months led that monarch to the gOtllotine! — No man can fathom the secret workings of men's rninds ; and therefore while we feel ourselves bound to acquit many respectable persons, engaged in tlie present struggle- as" partisans of those by wlioni the ReforOv Bill was brought forward, of any more intention to do injury to the rights of the Throne or the liberties' of the ptople than ^ We ourselves profess, yet we warn tlfffm to take heed thai; they are not made the unwary instruments aiid Willing victims' of meir who,, to use an" apt. parliamentary phrase, have traitor's hearts" in their bosoms,£— Thaf,; offences will cdine, we are taught by an authority that, although it. cannot' be disputed, is, unhappily alike for the religious; fhe? mbral", and political state of the cduotfy, too little regarded in these times: and by the same authority woe We regret to state that Earl Grey is labouring under severe indisposition.—:- Globe. DKATII OF THE DUCHESS OF WELLINGTON — We regret to, announce the death of this amiable and distinguished lady, which melancoly event occured at Strathfieidsay, at ten o'clock yesterday morning.— The Duke of Wellington le& town in the evening, on hearing the melancholy inte'. ligence. Official accounts were received on Thursday of fwo new actions between the Russians and fhe Poles, in which victory was again on the side of the latter. The first dispatch is from the Polish Commander in- Chief, Skrzynecki, and is dated " Head- quarters, Siedlec, April 10." If. states that the Polish army obtained a considerable victory" on the preceding day, and that, it had taken several cannons, and 3000 or 4000 prisoners. A second account, dated " Warsaw, April 11,"' says— Another affair has taken place at Wengrow, under General Uminski, who had passed the river LiwicC, in which he captured 000 Russian guards* the Choicest bf the army ; and ob- tained possession of several magazines. Samarfia and Lithuania, it is added, had been in a state of re vol'; since 1he 29th ult. and a revolution had taken place inVolhvnia In the Irish Court of King's Bench on Thursday last, in the cau^ e the King v. OrCannell and others, the traversers were called to receive the judgment of the Court. They all answered to their names with the exception of Mr. O'Connell amf Mr. Lawless; and an order was afterwards made " that those wlio bad appeared might come up oti the 3d of May, then to move in arrest of judgment." In consequence of Messrs. O'Connell and Lawless not appearing, it is understood that they are debarred from moving such arrest. The whole conduct of Ministers is marked by a selfish devotion to their own private interest and emolument, regardless of the welfare. of the country. Witness fhe inordinate hiisfe wilh which Lord Grev seized upon the spoils of office, to bestow them upon his own relations, ' to. the exclusion of all talent and experiancc. Witness the expedient to which Lord Brougham - has resorted in order to provide for himself an increased retiring salary and an enormous patronage, at the expense of the country. Witness the tenacity with which Ministers stuck' to £ 12,000 a year, which a Financial Coriiftiittee of the House of Commons recommend fo be lopped Off from the salaries of certain Great Officers of State. And, lastly, look at their recourse to a Dissolution, in order to piolong their continuance in office, regardless of the consequences to t| » e safety and tranquillity of the Country. Our readers will be delighted to hear that every hour brings intelligence of some ancient borough having thrown off the yoke, and asserted firm reso- lution, to vindicate on this great occasion the rights and privileges which have. descended from generation to generation,' and will continue to do sO in spite of all the zealous hostility of a small band of revolu- tionary Oligarchs. Sal. tash, llchester, Camelford, are already declared and secured. Let the flame spread I lfifinst. What corporate body will be tempted to commit a suicidal act of folly and meanness, merely to gratify the person or persons who, having long profited by its attachment, are now avowedly devoted to its destruction. We firmly believe that there is hqrdly a Whig Lord's Borough in England which might not be wrested from his murderous gripe at this moment— for this occasion— if an honest man would appear boldly in its market- place with " the Bill, the whole Bill, and nothing but the Bill," in his hand. , Salt ash, llchester, and . Camelford, make a pretty- fair one day's " Budget of Reform."— Albion We are happy to have it in pur power to commu- nicate the gratifying intelligence, that his Majesty dines in the City on the 10th of May next.— Morning < hronicle, April 26. GENERAL ELECTION. Tt will be seen, by a reference to our advertising columns, that Sir Rowland Hill and Mr. Pelhatn again oTer themselves as candidates for the representation Of th s county; that the 3d of May is the day of nomination; and that the election is fixed' for Monday, the < Jth of May. Mr. Jenkins and Mr. Slaney are also a^ ahi Candi- dates for the representation of- Shrewsbury, and are actively' canvassing the bdrougb;— The election* is fixed for Friday ncx^ Mr. TboiSiits' Whitmore declines offering himself for Bridgnorth?— We request particular attention to his excellent" addVess? Sir Watkia" 1 Wililaitis Wynn, Bart, offers himself again for Denbighshire, as does the . Right Hon. C. VV. Williams- Wynn for Montgomeryshire. Mr . Wilbraham Fgeifon having declined the repre- sentation '. of Cheshire, Mr. George Wilbraham is a Candidate for that comity.— Sir Philip Egerton retires from the City of Chester, and Mr. F. Cunliffe Oflley is a candidate for the votes'of the citizens. Sir John Hanmer, Bart, and Mr. E. M. Lloyd Mostyn are candidates for the representation of Flintshire. Mr Ormsby Gore has again offered himself for tlie Carnarvonshire Boroughs.— Lord Charles Paget is also a candidate. Two anonymous advertisements appear in otfr columns, calling upon the Freeholders of Shropshire and Montgomeryshire to reserve their votes, and stating that, supporters of Parliamentary Reform will offer themselves as Candidates.— Who the Gentleman alluded to are we know not: tlifi a0(? rtisement re- lative to Montgomeryshire was forvynrde. il/. tot"$ js by a gentleman of high respectability in that county : the other we received from the Chronicle^ Office. 7o the Editor of the Salopian Journal, SIR, — Tn the Shrewsbury Chronicle of the last week, I observe a letter addressed to Thomas Whit- more,- Esq. M. P. for Bridgnorth. It is one of the leading features of fhe present day, and particularly on the subject of Reform, that any Gent'emen not prepared to go all lengths with those who favour the measure, are in a manner excommu- nicated by that party, placed beyond the limits of common civility, and considered fit objects of the most virulent attack, both as to conduct and charac- ter. A more striking illustration of this has not, I think, appeared,, than in pne passage of, | lje letter above mentioned. The passage I mean, is the one • alluding to the rating of Mr. W.' s own residence. Did the writer not know the true circumstitnees, or did be designedly conceal theni ? If the former, he ought fo Have been better informed, before he pub- lished such a remark— if the latter,- it ; di^ lpses a degree of knavery of the most shaiiieful kind.;. That the public . may be nncle^ eiye( T^' I ^ g. tojstate the real circumstances, as. received frooviig; highes^: authority, 4bbtifh' Vot^ ft- Jifi Mr. VV. or h\ k friend's.—- A geneiaP survey whs; ordered) by GpVermrtent, for tire purpose of adjusting tire' House and^ Wmdow Duties, at the { ime Mr VV Vrriansion witsi approach- ing to completion; but finding it iii an unfinished state, the surveyor did not think it right to;; m^ ke any alteration from the assessment on the oli| house ( which was .£ 20 per annum);, though frqm ' the ad- vanced state of, the building, he. ^ as enabled* to piit a proper charge for the increased number of windows. — Before any further survey took- place^ the Bill allowing compositions at the former assessments was passed. Under tlm Act a compositi n was entered into on these premises, and by repeated renewals of the Act it so continues to the present time. How this can be construed, or tortured to convey any such reflection or imputation as appears in the Chronicle, is inconceivable. It cannot for one mo- ment be supposed, that Mr. W. would influence, or endeavour to influence', the surveyor, on such an occasion. Indeed, the probability is, that Mr. VV. was wholly unacquainted with the circumstance, and therefore if any blame attaches, it is to the surveyor, or to the laws of the country in such case made and provided. How disingenuous then, to make such use of circumstances, to serve the purpose, of party, and, assassin- like, to strike a blow- at that which is dear as life. I remain, Sir, A LOVER OF JUSTICE, AND A FRIEND TO MY COUNTRY. denounced lijibn those by whom those offences do come: and we feel ourselves free to declare that we hold those men fo be responsible for all the calamities that may be brought upon the country in the struggle evidently commencing, who have been the promoters and supporters of the measure of anarchy just thrown out of the House of Commons, They are now, in and out of the metropolis, moving every engine for the purpose of carrying their point; and if those who profess themselves to be the sup- porters pf the British Constitution, permit, by their own neglect and supineness, the revolutionary party to gain the ascendancy, let them not be surprised if, when their day of calamity comes, their very op- pressors cast their present cowardice and apathy in their teeth, as an aggravation of the demerit which shall have involved them in the revolutionary spoliation. In the language of an able contemporary, we repeat our appeal to our countrymen — We put it to the anfz- revolutionist party throughout the country, whether they ought not to meet the efforts of their opponents by similar efforts — by efforts which will be much lighter to fhe anti- revolutionists, because theirs is the wealth of the country— and efforts which they ought to make with more alacrity, because they have most to defend. It is true that every one who 4ias wife, or child, or occupation by which to live, even the poor possession of life itself, is interested to resist a course which must inevitably end in confusion and slaughter, if not interrupted in time ; but the possessors of properly will be the earliest and more certainly selected victims. The earliest, for tithes and dividends, including savings' banks and life assurances, will fall first; then, the great manu- facturers and merchants—( their story is told in Paris, Brussels, and Antwerp);— next the landed, gentry and farmers— that is, if land and farms be worth any thing after free trade, of which the authors of the Revolution Bill are the especial patrons, shall have run its full career. What madness, then, in clergy, capitalist, or farmer, to be now sparing of that which in a few months may be worthless, or worse than worthless,— the only evidence of guilt,— fhe passport to fhe lamp- post, as wealth commonly proves revolutions. If, by want of funds, any one candidate from among the number, who have been found faithful in the late parliament*, be defeated upon the hustings, or driven from the hustings, or obliged to squander his own property ih the^ contest, deep will be the responsibility, bitter tlie repentance, of those who, having the means to prevent such a loss, shall not prevent it. It. is now idle to talk of a seat in parlia- ment as a step to wealth : it. is, on the other hand, even where elections cost not a farthing, a certain expense ; and. are men to be expected to fling away that property, of which they are before God but trustees for tberr^ fa^ nijies, in desperate strife with a radical corispiriw:^ and a revolutionary subscription ~ Well may they say of whom such extravagant expectations are entertained, " Revolution can bring but ruin. I will not anticipate my share of the general calamity, and devote myself for those wlm, exposed to equal danger, will not bear an equal part in the sacrifices necessary to avert it." Such a reply, however, we trust will never be provoked ; but that, in this crisis of our country's fate, EVERY ENGLISH- MAN WILL DO HIS DUTY. TO THE Gentlemen, Cferyy, and Freeholders of the County of Salop. IN compliance with a Requisition, signerf hy several respectable Freeholders, to convene a Public Meeting- for the Purpose of nominating two fit and proper Persons to represent this County in the ensuing Parlia~ ment, 1 appoint TUESDAY, the Third Day of May next, at the Shirehall, in Shrewsbury, at Eleven o'Clock in the Fore- noon, for the Purpose of such Nomination. EDWD. JOSEPH SMYTHE, Sheriff. Acton Burn ell, 20//* April, 1831. SHROPSHIRE, ) SIR EDWARD JOSEPH ( to wit J* J JL SMYTHE, Baronet, She- riff of the County of Salop* having feceived His Majesty's Writ, under the Great Seal of Great Britain, for the Election of Two Knights to serve for this County in the Parliament to be holden at the City of Westminster on the Fourteenth Day of June next, do, in Obedience to. the said Writ, aud of tlie several Statutes in that Case made, hereby proclaim and give PUBLIC NOTICE, that at a Special County Court, which will be holden at the SHIREHALL* in the Town of SLM'ewsbury, in and for the said Connty, on MONDAY, the Ninth Day of May next, at Ten o'Clock in the Forenoon, pursuant to the Statute in that Case mtfdfc and provided, 1 shall proceed to such ELECTION, when and where a[ i Persons interested therein v\ ilf be heard* are to give their Attendance accordingly. Dated this 26th Day of April, 1831. Sir EDWARD JOSEPH SMTTHE, Baronet, Sheriff. TO THE Loyal arid Independent Freeholders OF THE COUNTY OF SALOP. TONTINE HOTEL, IRONBRIDGE. THOMAS JONES > EGS respectfully to return Tlinnks to . P the Nobility, Gentry, and the Public, for the kind . Support experienced during his Residence at the Talbot lun, Atcham; and to inform them, he has taken and entered on the TONTINE HOTEL, IUONBRIOGE, where lie hopes to be favoured with their further Sup- port, assuring them it will be his Endeavour to give Satisfaction, by rendering the Accommodations com- fortable in every respect. fi^ r Well- aired Beds ; and Wines and Spirits of the best Quality.— Neat Post Chaises with able Horses arid careful Drivers. The recent Alterations in this Road, by which the Hills are much reduced, and particularly the one to Broseley is entirely avoided, together with the pic- turesque Scenery, renders this Line decidedly prefera- ble'to Travellers. A NEW DISCOVERY IF- JDIB HffiEl TTIEIMmio T& the Nobility, Gentry, and Inhabitants of Shrewsbury and its Vicinity. MESSRS. CRAWCOUR ( of theoki- established Firm of CRAWCOOR a- nd SONS'), Surgeon Dentists, Brunswick House, Commercial Road East, London, respectfully announce to the Nobility and Gentry that, iu Consequence of the very numerous Applications for their Professional Services, they have been induced to postiionp tlieif intended Departure for ONE WEEK LONGER, until which Time they may be consulted ( as usual) on all Cases of DENTAL SURGERY and MECHANISM, at their Residence, Mrs. BROWNE'S, Straw- Hat Manufacturer, High- Street.- INVALUABLE MINERAL SUCCEDATFEUM. Messrs. CRAWCOUR and SONS, the sole and original Proprietors, invite the Attention of the Public to their CELEBRATED MINERAL SUCCEDA- NEUM, for filling Decayed Teeth, which continues to give such universal Satisfaction, and is highly recom- mended by the Faculty of London and Paris. The Nature of this celebrated Mineral Snccedanenm is such, that the Cavity which retains it will, in the Space of a Second, become as hard and as durable as tile natural Enamel, and, by its Means, arrest the Progress of further Decay, or any unpleasant Effect of Atmosphere, &- c.— The Operation is performed in about 2 Minutes, without the slightest Pain, Inconvenience, or Pressure. Patronized by the most distinguished Nobility of Great Britain, Ireland, and France. Incorrodible Teeth, incapable of Discolouration, or Corrosion, which, when fixed in the Mouth, either SINGLE or in SETS, cannot be distinguished from those placed there by the Hand of Nature, giving a youthful Appearance, and likewise guaranteed to masticate and articulate Dissenting from the Practice of all other Dentists, Messrs. C. use neither Wire nor other Liga- ture, but fix the Teeth on a peculiar Principle, so. as to support the adjoining ones, whilst Pressure on the Gums is avoided. Natural and Silicious Teeth fixed 011 the above Principles. They also fasten loose Teeth in a Manner singularly efficacious, even in the most hopeless Cases, whether arising from Age, Tartareous Concretions, or Disease ofthe Gums. Messrs. C. particularly invite the Members of the Faculty to witness the Operation of Filling Decayed Teeth, & c. Charges the same as in Paris. Hours of Attendance from Ten till Five. Dated April 16th, 1831. Genttcmen, JN conset/ vence of the Dissolution of Parlia- mcnt, I again solicit arenewal of that confidence which you have on severalfotxHet. occasions reposed in me. In the fulfilment of so important a Trust, it has been my anxious endeavour to pursue that line of conduct which, acceyrditig to my firm conviction, is, at this eventful period, best calculatted to guard and strengthen our invaluable Constitution, io conduce to the safety of the Empire, and to protect, the Rights and interests of all classes of the com- munity: and I trust your support ut the ensuing Election will evince your approbation ofthe princi- ples by which I have been guided. The High Sheriff has fixed Tuesday next, at Eleven, for the Nomination, when 1 hope for the favour of your attendance. I have the Honour to be, " Gentlemen, Your obedient humble Servant, ROWLAND HILL. Hawkstone, April IZth, 1831. TO THE Nobility, Gentry, Clergy, & Freeholders OF THE COUNTY OF SALOP. GENTLEMEN, J IS the sitnatioit of Representative for the Counly of Salop, it has been my satisfaction to witness Harmony ttnd Unanimity prevailing as much among the different classes of inhabitants within it as in any other part qf his Majesty** dominions, nor, do I add, has it been less blessed with its share of Provincial Prosperity • if it has been my concern, that, in the unbiassed attention my feeble efforts have enubled me to gite to its concerns, such advantages as its merits require have not been the result, it has not arisen from a desire of personal gratification or want of inclination: it is, therefore, with confidence that the offers are again renewed to you, to represent your interests in Parliament; and that whatever may be the result of that application ( it being the end and not ihe means that is io be looked to, namely, the Inviola- bility o f the Just Rights and Privileges of English- men J, whether that result is unfavourable or not to the individual who now addresses you, it will be his duty to submit, and ever to acknowledge wiih gra- titude the sense of obligation felt for past favuurt conferred on, Gentlemen, Your truly obedient and faithful Servaut, J, CRESSE'IT PELHAM. April 20,1831. MARKET HERALD. The German paper--, in a letter from Nuremberg, stale that the property of Duke Charles of Brunswick has been sequestrated at the instance of the States of : lie Duchy. CHESHIRE— A Declaration, stating that the par. ties whose signatures are attached thereto, regard the Reform Bill lately proposed by Ministers as " so dangerous in its principles, and in its tendency so destructive to the welfare and prosperity of the countrj," that they are re- solved to use every means iu tlieir power to prevent a Bill founded on such unconstitutional grounds passing into a law, has been signed by the Marquis of Cholmondelev, the Earl of Kilmorey, Viscount Combermere, Lord Kenyon, Lord Dflamere, Lord De Tablev, and a great number of ( he principal gentry, clergy, and freeholders of Cheshire. SHREWSBURY. In our Market, on Saturday last, llie price of Hide « was 3Jd. per III.— Calf Skins 5d.— Tallow 4d. Wheat, ptt. its.) Us. W. to 12s. 2il llarley ( 38qt..).. « s. Oil. to 7s !> d Oats ( 57qts.) On. Oil. to 7s. ( id. CORN EXCHANGE. APRIL 25. The supplies of foreign wheat, barley", and oats, are immense, upwards of 80,000 quarters having arrived. The supply of English continues very short, and prime qualities of the above articles are therefore, full as dear as this day week, but all the inferior kinds of grain are nearly unsaleable. Very little business is doing in any description of grain here. We can quote no alteration in beans, peas, or any other article oi' grain. Wc may here observe that lower prices considerably would be taken for the inferior grain to effect sales, but none can be made. Current. Price of Grain per Qr. as under:— Wheat 72s. Oil. lo 78 « . Barley .' 12s. Halt Wis. While Peas 4. r> s. Beans ' Ills. Oals 20s. Pine Flour ( per sack) 60s. Seconds UUs. Average Price of Corn in the IVeck ending April 15, 1831. Wheat 70s 8.1. I Oats 27s. 2.1, Barley 4 Is. 8d. | Beans 3!) s Id SMITH FIELD. Beef, for the best meat is 4s. 2d. to 4s. 41. per stone . and ; V! utton, for prime young Downs, fetches 4s. 6d. to 5s. Veal, for the best e'alves, is 5s. 6d. to 6s. per stone- and dairy- led porkers are 4s. fid. to 5s.. CATTLE AT MARKET. Beasts 2,819 I Sheep 17.010 Calves 135 I Pigs 1C0 ( hi. to 40s. Od. to 00s. Od. to 48s. Oil. lo 42s. Oil. to 24s. Od. to G5s. Od. In OOs TO THE Gentry, Cleray, and Freeholders of the County of Salop. T701J are requested not to promise your Vote and In terest at the next Election for the County till the Day of Nomination, as a Gentleman will then offer himself, who will pledge his Honour to support the King, his present Ministers, Reform in Parliament, and Economy in the Expenditure of Public Money. TO THE Worthy and Independent Burgesses OF THE TOWN & LIBERTIES OF WENLOCK, GENTLEMEN, J DISSOLUTION of Parliament having taken ' ™ place, I hasten to in form you that it is my intention again to solicit the Honour of your Suffrages at the approaching Election, which xs fired to take place on Friday next. I trust that my conduct has hitherto been such as to render me worthy of your continued' Support, and I remain. Gentlemen, Your very faithful and obliged Servant, GEORGE CECIL H ELD FORESTER. H'illey Park, April Tvl, 1831. TO THE Loyal and Independent Ilurgesseft OF THE BOROUGH OF WENLOCK. Gentlemen, ' I1HE Dissolution of the present Parlia- ment has again pluced in your hands the exercise of your Elective Privilege, and 1 hasten to present myself, for the fourth time, as a Candi- date for the Representation of your Ancient and Loyal Rorougli. My best claim upon your favour is a confident hope that / have honestly and independently dis- charged my duty in Parliament, by supporting, on all occasions, the Purity of the Constitution and the best Interests of the People. I have the Honour to be, With grateful attachment. Your obedient humble Servant, REILRY THOMPSON. Berkeley Square, 22d April, 1831. TO THE BURGESSES OF THE BOROUGH OF MONTGOMERY. Gentlemen, ' ... . r jIS Majesty having been pleased to dis- ' ' solve his Parliament, I again, induced by your former kindness and favour, humbly and earnestly solicit your Suffrages, to reinstate me as your Representative for Ihe Rorough of Montgo- mery. I am. Gentlemen, Your most obliged and faithful Servant, HENRY CLIVE. 25(/ i April, 1831. CHEAP PAPER HANGINGS. B. PEARSON, UPHOLSTERER, BEG ® Leave to return his best Thanks for the numerous Favours lie has received - and Vjcjrs to inform his'Friends and the Public, lie has just feCeit- ed his Spring STOCK of PAPERS, including a great Variety of Patterns of the newest Fashion, from the first Houses in London, and which lie can offer at very- low Prices. Bed G lazed, Ground Ditt<) - Variety of Borders/ equally low. ' " Ev& ry Description of Window Blinds, including the new'Frdnch Sun Shades, made to Order, with every Article in the Upholstery Business, executed in the newest . Style. Clareinont Hill, Shrewsbury. Bed- coom Papers from 3d, per Yard; 3itt<; from 7Jd. per Yard ; a numerous TO THE Worthy antl Independent BURGESSES OF SHR E WSB UR Y. GENTLEMEN, '/ HE reception I have met u- ith on my return am mgsi you. has hem most gratifying lo me, not only as regards your good- will towards myself personally, hut as a proof of your apprnvdl of my conduct upon the Great' National Question which engrosses the public attention. The course I have pursued hps been the result of a sincere conviction that the measure proposed bu his Majesty's Ministers , is fraught ivi/ h danger to ihe Constitution, and sub- versive of the hereditary rights of individual Electors — right's whi'cjf Englishmen have ever guarded with jeatous care. At the same time I'am, and have uni- formly avowed'myself, a friend to the Extension of ihtrHtfcSte Franchise to large unrepresented towns, mid tn siich a correction of the system as will give tn property and ihielligr> nee a more general and equal weight ill. the choice of Representatives. Tn these principles I pledge mysel f ; and whilst I feel an honest conviction that I am thus, most effectu- ality serving my Sovereign and my Country, 1 harp ihe additional gratification of knowing that my con- duct has been in accordance with the opinions of a great majority of my Fcllow- Towjismcn. • 7 remain, Gentlemen, Your obliged and faithful friend and servant, RICHARD JENKINS. Shrewsbury, April 2Gtb, 1831. TO THE Loyal aud Independent Burgesses OP SHREWSBURY. O UN n r. Mv. s". f REG to iktlnle you most gratefully for Ihe numerous and hearty promises of support which I have received in the course nf my Canvass. Of old frieiids scarcely, ant has left tne,'< tnd many new ones have volunteered their lamest suffrages. This success I attribute not to * iny humble pretensions of my oicji, bift to the independent expression nf opinions ' you approve. To those opinions f shall adhere until i'Cusnn convinces me, / am. wrong, Judging nf other • men's feelings by my own, 1 believe great, populous, • and flourishing communities should be represented in • Parliament, instead of paltry, decayed, and intfgni- • ficant places ; that in the choice of Member's the free • voice of intelligent industrious thousands should he . preferred, to the nomination of wealthy individualr, : nor Can I credit the assertion, that the diffusion of the . privilege nfvotiiig. mil render men less grateful, con- tented, or loyal than before. On these opinions I rest, • my claim tn your support, and feel no doubt of the suctcss of a cause which you have made your own. I remain, Your obliged and faithful Sermnt, ROBT. A. SLANEY. Shrewsbury, April 26th, 1831, TO THE Worthy and Independent Burgesses OF BRIDGNORTH. • GENTLES'IEN, CiNCE my Address of the 22'/ instant, ctrcltm- . stauc- es./ urve occurred which have induced me to determine not lo offer myself a Candidate to represent ynn . in Parliament on the present occasion ; and in ' surrendering ihe Trust committed to my hands in the yvnt TSOF), and continued to the present time, I have the'mtisfaclimi of kiinwing that I return it as pure . and'^ ttrt'snltiM'Hs rt^ the ilu. y it . was first entrusted tn : me. It has'btitni my Constant endeavour tn discharge my duty towards you honestly, faithfully, and inde- pendently ; and in no' instance more so than in the Fates I Jiave feccnlly given nn the Measure which has led io the presenJ. Dissolution of Parliament; a Mea- sure, in my opiniorf, fraught with imminent danger tn the existing Constitution of England, ami which, if persisted iti, must end in its final nvcrthrnir, and in tlie subversion of all the best Institutions of the Coim- ' try. 1 trust, however, that the eyes nf the People will lie opened to ils baneful effects before it lie ton lale, and that they will not suffer themselves tn beledaway by the absurd and visionary schemes of Political Economists and Speculative Theorist*; but that this highly- . favoured Country may saon'be restored in that sound ' and healthy state which has far. sn long a period caused it to be the envy and admiration nf the world.-. Most cordially and sincerely thanking all those kind Friends, who for. the last twenty- five years have uni- formly afforded me their Support, and assuring them that, although nn- 1/ m. gcr their Representative in Par- liament, I shall at all times be most anxious to promote their best Interests, I have the Honour to remain, Gentlemen, Your most obedient and faith fid. Servant, THOMAS WHITMORE. A/ Hey Park, 15th April, 1831. .. TO THE Worthy and Independent Burgesses op LUDLOW. THOMAS COLLEY, TAILOR AND DRAPER, CASTI. E STREET, AKES this Opportunity of returning his sincdre Thanks for past Favours, and begs Leive most respefctftilly to inform the Nobility and Ge itry of Shropshire and tbe adjacent Counties that, he is just returned from London, where he has selected a choice Assortment of Goods suitable to the present Fa liion, to which he begs the Favour of their Inspec- t on. Tl SLOP PAGE OJY THE LVIJVALS FOR REPAIRS. BF. G to inform their Friends and the Public, that the Canals will be closed on Mon- day, the! 16th nf May, at DAy- broak, for the usual ANNUAL REPAIR'S, and will continue closed tor one Week. TO THE Gentlemen* Clergy, and Freeholders OF TTFF. COUNTY OF DENBIGH. Gentlemen, rrlS Majesty having been advised nnex- pcctcdly to dissolve the late Parliament, / hare again to solicit your Votes, to put me in the proud situation of your Representative. After the very long connexion that has subsisted between us, and the many favours / have received at your hands, it is useless for me now to make professions, and all I have to state is, that should you be hind enough to Re- elect me, I shall endeavour fo prove my gratitude to yon by continuing ail lion st and diligent discharge of the Trust you have reposed in me. I have the honour to he. Gentlemen, Your most obedient humble Servant, WATKIN WILLIAMS WYNN. JVynnstay, April Villi, 1831. ...... TO THE Worthy and Independent Freeholders OF THE COUNTY OF MONTGOMERY. Gentlemen, TOURING Thirty- two Years you have uniformly accepted, with indulgence, my en- deavours in your Service, and those who differed from me on particular Questions have been fre- quently the foremost to manifest confidence in my integrity and approbation of my general conduct. Encouraged by this long continued kindness, I presume, for the twelfth time, to solicit the honour of representing you in Parliament, assuring you that, if yon. think fit again fo commit to me that high Trust, it shall still be faithfully discharged cording to the dictates of my oivn judgment, uninfluenced by interest, by fear, or by partial affection. 1 remain, Gentlemen, Your most qrateful and attached Servant, CHARLES WATKIN WILLIAMS WYNN. Llangedwin, ' Hoth April, 1831. TO THE FREEHOLDERS OF TilE COUNTY OF MONTGOMERY. you a Votes are requeued not lo promise your s at the approaching Election,, as a Can- didate who will support Parliamentary Reform will offer himself before the Day of Election. A MONTGOMERYSHIRE FREEHOLDER. 15th April, 1831. TO THE Worthy antl Independent Electors OF BRIDGNORTH. Gentlemen, AS in ihe present posture of public affairs a Dissolution of Parliament appears inevita- ble, I feel it my duly to lose no time in informing you it is my intention again to offer myself as a Candidate for the distinguished honour of repre- senting your interests in Parliament. Attached as I liare long been, to the Principles of Reform, / hare given a cordial support lo the Mea- sure lately introduced info the House of Commons upon this subject', and should / he fortunate enough to be again returned to Parliament through your means, I shall steadily pursue the same line of policy. I have the Honour tn he, Gentlemen, Your obliged and obedient Servant, W. W. WHITMOR. lt London, April 22,1831. TO THE Gentlemen, Clergymen, OF THE . COUNTY OF FLINT. itnd Freeholders Gentlemen, HIS Majesty having been pleased to dis- solve Parliament, we take the liberty of again offering ourselves to your notice as your Repre- sentatives. The peculiar importance of the Ques- tion lately under discussion requires from iis as a duty towards you to state fhe grounds for ike course we have pursued, which we come prepai ed openly find fully to give amd to justify. We think it due to ourselves at once to avow that ire are not opponents to Reform. We objected to the Rill lately before Parliament, particularly those portions of it which reduced the number of I'lnglish Representatives in the House of Commons; established one right of voting in all Cities anil Boroughs, to the extinction, either imme- diately or eventually, of existing rights ; destroyed, lo a sweeping extent, old and established franchises, and placed in the hands of select bodies of the Prfcy Council decisions respecting County Divi- sions, and the extent and power of Roroughs, which ought, ice submit, only to be settled by the open and scrutinizing examination of Parliament. Reing satisfied that great risk would have ensued to the Constitution, und that the Country would have had reason bitterly to lament its effects, from which no retrograde movcmci. t wonlil have pre- served it, if the Bill had passed into a law, we opposed its progress. We were at the same time ready to admit, in accordance with public opinion, that alteration in the state of this Representation was called for, and, as fdr as dspended upon us, to have, acceded to it, upon such principles as would have least interfered , with general rights, and strengthened those Institu- tions, which, although capable of amendment, hare been, and a re, we firmly believe, the best which any • nation has yet devised; and which hare brought Great Brit an to the proud eminence upon which she stands, nnd secured to us the greatest extent of Civil Liberty, and protection of persons and pro- ) pcriy known, and have justly excited tlie admiration of the world. • Upon these principles, and wilh these vicu- s, and upon our determination to act up tn tlicm, we solicit a continuance of that support with which you have heretofore honoured us. . The Day 6f Election is fixed for Friday, the 29th ' instant,' at Eleven o'Cloch, when wc request the honour of your attendance and support. We have the Honour to be, < Gentlemen, With great Respect, Your obliged and faithful. Servants, CLIVE, R. II. CLIVE. , Dinharn House, 25th April, 1831. HODNET MARKET. r|^ HE Inhabitants of HODNET and its H Vicinity respectfully announce, that there will be a MARKET held in the above Place on TUES- DAYS for the Sale of Corn, Butter, Poultry, & c. to commence on the 10th of May next. It is expected that this will prove a good Market, as several large Corn Dealers, Higglers, and other Buyers have promised their Attendance; the Public, therefore, may depend on meeting with good Prices for their Produce. S1 STo fic Hct, And entered upon the Ist of May next, IX NEWLY- ERECTED DWELLING HOUSES, each Consisting of a Parlour, a Kifch'- en, two good Bed Rooms up Stairs, Attics, and Cellar- ing, together with other requisite Conveniences; and a neat Garden behind.— For further Particulars enquire of Mr. JOHN GRIFFITHS, of Llanyinynech, the Owner. N. B. Mr. Griffiths begs to inform the Public, that he still holds the same Premises as he did at the Com- mencement of his Business: € W The Advertisement in a former Salopian Journal, announcing the Premises to let on the 1st of May, was inserted by li Person who had no Authority to let.' them at that Time, as they are now and will con- tinue to be in the Holding of Mr. Griffiths till May, 1832. TO CONTRACTORS. ANY Persons desirous of contracting for erecting a Stone Bridge of two Arches over the River Clun at Broad ward, tn the Parish of Clungun- ford, in the County of Salop, oil the Road leading from Bishop's Castle to Hereford1, are requested to send Proposals to the Clerk of the Peace of the County of Salop, at the Shirehall, Shrewsbury, on or before Friday; the 20th Day of May next, sealed up and endorsed " Proposals for building Broad ward' Bridge." A Plan and Specification ofthe Work may be seen ( in Application to tile Cierk of the Peace; or to the County Surveyor, at the Canal Office, Ellesmere. The Contractor must be provided with proper Sure- ties for the! due Performance of the Contract, and for upholding the Bridge for the Term of Seven Y'ears after its Completion! LOXDALE, C. P. Shrewsbury, % th April, 1831. tip auction. TWO STACKS OE CAPITAL HAY. BY MR ™ SMITH. At the PArk Inn, Atibey Foregate, Shrewsbury, on Monday, the 2d of May, 1831, at Five o'Clock in the ^ TACK Afternoon; LOT I. of excellent HAY, containing about 11 Tons, of the Growth dfl829. LOT II. STACK of capital HAY, of the Growth of 1830, containing about II Tons. The same is standing on a Piece of Land near Lord Hill's Column; and for'further Particulars apply to Mr. BIIOCAS, Castle Street, or THE ATCTIONEER. A liberal Credit will be given fdr the Payment, and six Months for the Removal.' SHiP'l'ONi BY MR. BROOME. On Tuesday, the 3d Day of May, 1831; AT. L the FARMING IMPLEMENTS in Husbandry, & e. Sc. with all the valuable HOUSEHOLD GOODS and FURNITURE, , tc. Sc. belonging to Mr. DAVIES, of Shipton, in the County of Salop: consisting of 1 Road Waggon ( fiearly new) with Iron Liners, 2 Ditto Ditto, 1 broad- wheel Tum- brel, 1 double Ploitgh; 1 single- wheel Ditto, 2 Hand Ditto., 2 Pair of Harrows, Pair of Twins, 1 Roller; Malt Mill, tic. tic. The HOUSEHOLD Goons and FURNITURE consist of Fourpost and other Bedsteads, Feather Beds, Bolsters, and Pillows, Blankets, Quilts, and Counterpanes, Bed anil Table Linen, China and Glass, Oak dining and ntlier Tables, Oak, Elm, and other Chairs with Hair Seats, a handsome Oak Beaufet,, Oak Dresser with Drawers, aud Pewter Frame, Ash Ditto and Shelves, a large Kitchen Grate, Parlour Ditto, with a large Assortment of Kitchen Furniture, & c. Src.; likewise, 2 capital Cheese Presses, several Trams, and Cast Iron Wheels, Spindles, Rope, and Draw- well Bucket, Sc.. THE At. cnoNKER begs Leave to assure the Public, that the Sale will. begin precisely at II o'Clock in the Morning, as there is a great many Lots to sell, and will be all sold without the least reserve, as Mr. Davies must leave . the Premises that Night. BOTEVYLE. Gentlemen, JF vnder ordinary circumstances I should * feel a considerable degree of diffidence in pre- senting myself to your notice, A perceive the peculiar difficulty in making a public address at a time when a recent Domestic Calamity engages my thought^ aud when I may be charged as wanting in feeling or offending against propriety. I am in- ducedV hou ercri to bring myself before you, by the advice of several persons whose opinion deservedly carries great weight, with it on. all subjects, and, if I have erred, I trust that on a doubtful point your candour will put a. favourable construction on my conduct. Pursuant, therefore, to their suggestions, Ttakc this early opportunity of offering myself as a Can- didate fbr thk Representation of this County in Parliament, vacant by the decease of my late Unc'e, Sir Thomas Mostyn— a name, at the mention of which, you will, I dm sure, sympathize with me in that dtcp and sincere regret which I feel for the loss of a man so loved and esteemed by h is relation*, by his friends, by his constituents, and by his coun- trymen. 1 am well aware how defective my pretentions are as compared with those of su< h a predecessor, and that the best ground on which / rest any claim fo your countenance, will be by endeavouring to follow, though / cannot hope to emulatey so excellent an example both, of public and private worth. I venture then, not, / trust, presumptuously, yet not wholly without confidence, to solicit your Suffrages at the ensuing FAection, professing as / do the same principles irhich for a period of more than thirty years have been honoured by your support. Firmly persuaded of the imperative necessity of economy and retrenchment, a friend to extensive constitu- tional reform and civil and. religious liberty all over the world, and to an early and final extinction of that slavery which contaminates our Colonies to the scandal of our national character and contempt of all morality and religion, / found my hopes on those principles and your approbation of them. Horn, brought up, and resident in the County of Flint, my own are so intimately interwoven with its local interests, that while it would he my desire to promote them, it would also be my study to make myself more intimately acquainted with them by a free and unreserved intercourse with all classes of its inhabitants. I have thus, Gentlemen, briefly, but I hope clearly and. respectfully, stated the grounds on, which / venture to make this appeal to you. I shall do myself the honour of paying my respects fo you, in person, so soon as circumstances will permit, and if I should be so fortunate as through your kind conn, tenance. and support to attain this high object o f no ( llaudable ambition, let me request you to believe that I will endeavour to evince my gratitude in. the best manner that I shall be able, by proving myself not unworthy of your choice. I have tie honour to be. Gentlemen, With the sincerest Respect, Your most obedient humble Servant, E. M. LLOYD I\ 10STYN. April 23rf, 1331. T\ Y MR. BROOME, On Wednesday and Thtirsdif, Ihe' - 1th and 5th Days of May, 18.31; \ LL the valuable LIVE STOCK, Im plements in Husbandry, Grain, , tc. with all the valuable Household Goods and FURNITURE, Brewing And Dairy Uteiitsils; Hogsheads, Half- hogs- heads; aiid sntallcr Casks, & c. & c. the Property of W. P. FREME, Esq. of Botevyle, in the Parish of Church Stretton, in the County of Salop; who is leaving the Farm : consisting of 9 capital Dairy Cows and. Calves, 3 Barrens, 1 two- year old Bull, 1 yearling Ditto, 6 four- year old Bullocks, 1 three- year old Ditto, 6 Year- lings ; 1 clever Grey Gelding, rising five Years old, got by Snowdon, out of a Sultan Mare, likely to make! a capital! Hunter; 3 three- year old Fillies, very piomis- ing ; 1 Gilt, 11 Store Pigs; 2 narrow- wheel Waggons, 1 narrow- wheel Cart, 1 Gee- Ho Plough, 2 Pair of Harrows, a Portable Thrashing Machine ( 5- Horse Power), 4 Fodder Cribs, Waggon Chains, Ditto Ropes, Pikels and Rakes, 3 Ladders, Stone and Wood Troughs, Wheelbarrow, Malt Mill, Corn Screen, 8 Cyder Hairs, Grinding Stone, Sieves and Riddles, Scales & Weights, Winnowing Machine, with a Number of small Imple- ments; also a Quantity of threshed Barley, and 16 Bags of Oats, & c. Tbe Household Goods and Furniture consist of Fonrpnst and other Bedsteads, Feather Beds S: Bolsters, Mihogany Wardrobe1, Ditto Sofa, 3 Ditto Tables, and Chairs with Hair Seats, Wash- hand Stand and Ware, Oak and other Tables and Chairs, Floor, Stair, and Bedside Carpets, Wire and other Fenders, Fire Irons, 30- Hour Clock, 1 Alarum, Oak Screen, Steel Irons, F( at Ditto, Italian Ditto, Brass Candlesticks, Sc. with alaige Assortment of Kitchen Furniture, lliewingand Dairy Utensils, 11 Hogsheads, Halt'- liogsbeads, and smaller Casks, Sc. & c. The Live Stock, Implements, and the threshed Grain will be sold the First Day. The Sale to begin precisely al Eleven o'Clock each Morning. F" TO BUILDERS, SFC. ANY Person desirous of contracting for the Whole or any Part of the Works in the Erection of Twenty Houses and other Buildings; near the Gaol at Shrewsbury, may inspect tile Plans and Specifications at the Salop Connty Gaol, any Day after the 25th Instant. Scaled Tenders to be delivered, free of Expense, to Mr. FAI. I. OWS; Architect, Birming- ham, nr to tlieiCare of Mr. W. H. GRIFFITHS, County Gaol, oil or before May 2,1831. The Proprietor will not pledge himself to accept the lo^ est/ Thiiler. APRIL 8; 1831. Turnpike Tolls to be Let. NOTICE IS HEREBY G1VF. N; that the TOLLS arising at the Turnpike Gates called or known by the Names of Wenlotk Gate, Posenall Gate, Willey Gate, Linley Gate, Buildwas Gate, Burton Gate, Beambridge Gate, and Sliineton Gate, all in the County of Salop, will be LET by AUCTION, to the best Bidder, either together or separate, and for one or three Years as shall be then agreed upon ( to commence the 24th Day of June next), at the Red Lion Inn, in Broseley, in the said County of Salop, on Wednesday; the 1st Day nf June next, between the Hours of Three and Six o'Clock in the Afternoon, in the Manner directed by the Act passed in the Tlrrd Year of the Reign of his present Majesty King George the Fourth, entitled " An Act to amend the General Laws now in being for regulating Turnpike Roads in that Part of Great Britain called England;" and which Tolls produced last Year the following Sums: viz. Wenlock Gate. Posenall Gate. Willey Gate... Linley Ga e Buildwas Gate Button Gate Beambridge Gate Shineton Gate 215 ;;;;;;;;;; £ 121 210 . 91 . 36 . 29 above the Expenses of collecting the same, and will be put up at those Sums respectively. Whoever happens to be the best Bidder or Bidders, must at t( ie same Time give Security, with sufficient Sureties to the Satisfaction of the Trustees of the said Turnpike Roads, for Payment of the Rent agreed for at such Times as they shall direct.— Persons willing to become Sureties, are requested personally to attend at the Time of the Biddings. HIRAM IIARTSHORNE, Clerk to the Trustees ofthe said Turnpike Roads. Broseley, 25th April, 1831. N. B. At this Meeting new Trustees will be ap- pointed, in the Stead nr Place of those who are dead, or have declined or become incapable to act. up auction. ALBRIGHTON HALL, THREE MILES FROM SHREWSBURY. LIVE STOCK, IMPLEMENTS, HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, & C. BY MRTTTSDALE, On tlid Premises itt Albrigliton Hall, near Shrewsbury, in tile County of Salop, in the Second Week in May, ALL the LIVE STOCK, implements in Husbandry, brewing and Dairv Vessels, Part of the Household Goods and FURNII URE, and other Effects, of Mrs. EI. SMORE, who is leaving tlie Earth. Particulars in next Week's Paper. WATF. RS UPTON- - near High Ercall. Farming - STOCK of Horses, Coles, Sheep, Pigs, Implements, § c. A BY MR. TISDALE, On ttie Premises at WATERS UPTON, near High Ercall, in the County of Salop, on Friday; the 29th Day of April, 1831 ; LL the LIVE STOCK. FARMING IMPLEMENTS, I> rowing and Dairy Vessels, Part of the HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, and other Effects; the Property of Mr. THOMAS TIMMIS, who is leaving the Farm. The STOCK comprises 13 capital Dairy Cows calved and in- calf ( prime Milkers), 5 two- years old Heifers, 4 two- years old Bullocks, 5 Yearling*;' 8 very useful Waggon Horses Md Mares ( two in- foal), Grey three- years old Filly, a capital fonr- vearp old Bay Gelding, useful as Hack or Hunter; 8 yearling Ewes lambed and in- lamb, 5 yearling Wethers. 1 capital two- years old Rain ; 2 Sows, Gilt in pig, 13 Store Pigs, 1 Boar. IMPLEMENTS, &- c.— One very capital new- built nar- row- wheel Waggon with Harvest Gearing complete, 1 narrow- wheel Ditto with Ditto, 2 broad wheel Tum- brels, 1 narrow- wheel Ditto, double- wheel Plough, 2 single Ditto ( equal to new), 3 Pair pf Harrows ( one BY MR. BROOME, On Tuesday, the 10th Day of May, 1831: ARMING IMPLEMENTS, House- hold Goods and FURNITURE, beldngiiiir to the late Mr. BISHOP, of Rowton, near Craven Arms, in the County of Salop: consisti g of an excellent Broad- wheel Waggon, Sack Waggon, 5 Wheelbarrows, Straw Engine, Turnip Hoes, Paling Irons, about 60 Bags, Sievesand Ridel les, with a Number of small Implements, & c. also a Lot of Hurdles. The Household Goods and Furniture comprise Four- post atld other Bedsteads with Furniture, & c. Chests with Drawers, Dressing Tables, Linen Chests, 10 Ma- hogany Chairs with Hair Seats, 6 Elm Ditto, Fenders, Trays, Knives and. Forks, Dining and other Tables, Dressers and Drawers, Glass, China, and Earthenware, 4 Prints, a Map of Shropshire, with a Variety of Parlour and Kitchen Furniture, with Brewing and Dairy Utensils, and about 30 Hogsheads, Sc. Sc. III^ . ' • : C , ' TVTTN Paling Irons, 2 Waggon Ropes, Sieves, Riddles, Pikels, Rakes, Mattocks, Spades, Shovels, Sharavpls, Iron Cro\ v, Hopper, 2 Cranks and Chains, Corn Coffers, long Lad- der, Malt Mill, Grindstone, Felloes, Cow Chains, Quantity of Bags, Fishing Net, Half- Strike, Pig- troughs, and numerous Implements of Husbandry; Quantity of Turnip Seed ; 2 excellent Stone Cheese Presses, with all the capital Dairy and Brewing Vessels, Harvest Bottles; some Household Furniture, 2 excel- lent Furnaces and Grates, Kitchen Grate wilh Oven and Boiler, Pit Grate, Crane, Sc. SC. " The Sale to commence at Half- past Ten punctually. ON SATURDAY NEXT. Al? THE SHAWS FARM, NEAR t, 0PriNGt0N, SALOP. BY MR. ASHLEY, On Saturday, the 30lh Day of April, 1811, at the SHAWS FARM, in the Parish of Loppington; IHE choice Mock of DAIRY COWS. 1 Barrens^ calvins; ITcifcrs, Bulls, nnd Stirks-, and of jjie niRNlttJRfi, and other Kfleets, of Mr. Part , , JOSEPH BATHO, who is giving LIP a Farm: Comprising- 9 excellent Cows, 6 three- years old Heifers calved arid in- calf, ' 2 Fresh Barrens, two- years old Bull, 1 yearling Bull, 2 Stirks 3 Oak Dining Table, Oak Stand,* 2 larfce Oak Sitting. Screens, Pair of Oak Bedsteads, Fire Screens, 4 Harvest Bottles* large Stool, Pots* Frying Pan, Earthenware, Nile to begin at Eleven o'Clock precisely. LOTOM• PARK LEY\ X70R YOUNG CATTLE, from the . 16th of May to the lGtK of October, 1831.— Fo'r Particulars apply to Mr. FRANCIS, Loton Park. €( REDUCED COACH FARES. A. t:. P. 0 2 3- 1 1 2 19 4 3 28 6 0 28 FREEHOLD PROPERTY. BY MR. HILL, At the Bell Inn, in tlic Town of Oswestry, in the County of Salop, on Friday, the 13th Day of May, 1831, at Six o'Clock in tin- Evening, subject to Con- ditions then to be produced; A N excellent HOUSE, lately erected, t\ called BRYN MORDA, with suitable Ont- offices, Garden, and other Appurtenances thereunto belonging; together with all those NINE MESSU- AGES or Dwelling Houses, nearly adjoining the last mentioned Premises, with their respective Members and Appurtenances. The above Premises are situated at Morela, in tbe Parish of Oswestry, and are now in the Occupation of Mr. Joseph Warren and his Undertenants. BRYN MORDA is very pleasantlv situated 3 Quarters of a Mile from Oswestry, on the koad from that Town to Welsh Pool. The House contains two Parlours, Store Room, Nursery, Kitchen and Back Kitchen, 5 good Lodging Rooms on the second Story, and 4 on the third, and good Cellars and Out- offices. In Front a Garden slopes from the House towards the South, which renders it a very pleasant and agreeable Situation. Mr. WARREN will appoint a Person to shew the Premises; and for further Particulars apply to him, or to Mr. MINSUALL, Solicitor, Oswestry. 3 15 2 30 0 31 MIE Public is most respectfully in- - formed, that a very considerable Reduction in the Fares to London has taken Place by the following Coaches which ieave the TALBOT HOTEL. SHREWSBURY: The' EMERALD. Light Post Coach, every Morn . ing at Half- past Eight, through Birmingham and Coventry, arrives at the Golden Cross, Charing Cross, London, punctually at Seven o'Clock the following Morning. Inside Fare, £ 2. 2s. Od.— Outside, £ 1. Is. 0,1. The ROCKET, very fast Post Coach, to London, every Morning at Eleven o'Clock, by Way of Ox- ford, calls at the White Horse Cellar,' Piccadilly, and arrives at the Spread Eagle, Gracechurch- street; pre- cisely at Half- past Eight the following Morning. Inside Fare, £ 2. 2s. 0d.— Outside, £ 1. Is. Od. The TRIUMPH, Post Coach, to London every Evening at Ten o'Clock, to the White Horse Cellar, Piccadilly, Blossoms Inn, Lawrence Lane, and White Horse, Fetter Lane, London, where it arrives the following Evening at Seven o'Clock. Inside Fare, £ 2. 2s. 0d.— Outside, £ 1. Is. Oil. N. B.— Reduced Fares have taken Place by all the Coaches which leave the TALBOT OFFICE , to different Parts of the Kingdom.—- All Parcels for- warded by the above Coaches for London, will tie left at the Office nearest, to the Address, by which an im- mense Saving will be effected in Time and Porterage. Performed by the Public's very obedient Servants, JOHN JOBSON & Co. Extraordinary Novelty unit Quick Conveyance. N' JOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that. a MEETING of the Creditors of JOHN THUR- LOW SCOTT WARING, late of BACGHTON, in the Connty of Chester, Lientenant in the Army, an In- solvent Debtor, who was, in or. about the Month of September last, discharged from the King's Bench Prison, under and by Virtue of an Act of Parliament made and passed in the seventh Year of the Reign of his late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled, " An Act to amend and consolidate the Laws for Belief of Insolvent Debtors in England," and whose Demands have arisen since ttie Month of March, 1826, will be held on Monday, the 2d Day of May next, at Eleven o'Clock in the Forenoon precisely, at the , Nel- son Hotel, in the Bull Ring, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, to approve and direct whether all . or any ofthe Estates in which the said Insolvent hath a Life or other Interest shall be offered for Sale by the Assignees under the said Insolvency, and in what Manner, subject to tbe Claims and' Incumbrances upon the sameand to' assent- to or dissent from the said Assignees' commencing, prosecuting, or defending certain Suits at Law and in Equity, touching the Estate and Effects of the said Insolvent; and on other Special Affairs. STOLEN. Late nn Saturday Night, April 23rr/, nr eclrh/ nn Sunday Morning, from the Stable at CEFN RUG, a CHESNUT HACKNEY, about i \ fifteen Hands high, four White Legs, White Forehead, and blemisheef on both Knees, rising 6 Years old. Whoever will give Information of the Offender or Offenders, shall, upon Conviction, receive a Reward of Five Pounds frnui WALTER POWELL JONES, Esq. of Cefn Rug, near Corwen, and a further Reward of Five Pounds from the Corwen Association for the Prosecution of Felons. P. S. A fresh Saildle and Bridle were Stolen with the Horse. CoiiWEN, April 25th, 1831. DESIRABLE FREEHOLD PROPERTIES, SITUATE IN TUP. TOWNSHIP OF TREWERX, In the Parish of Bultinglon, and in the County of Montgomery. BY SAMUEL DAVIES, At the Royal Oak Inn, in Welch Pool, nn Monday, the 9th Day bf May, 1831, at Four o'Clock in the Afternoon, jn the follow iug, or such other Lots as shall be agreed upon a;' tlie Time of Sale: ® LOT L ( INSISTS nf a MESSUAGE or Tenement with OUTBUILDINGS, and the following Pieces of fertile Arable and Pasture LAND, called by the. Names, and contain by Admeasurement the several Quantities under- mentioned, viz. The House, " Buildings, and Fold Field below Ditto and Patch over Road. Big Wheat Field ( now Wheat) Part of Mod Galla lleinpyarel, Kelnlloody Leasow, and Upper Cow Pastille Cow Pasture, below the Road ( now Wheat). Kelnhoody Ditto < > f>|' I " ' T. OT II. Consists of a MESSUAGE, now occupied as two Dwellings, with G ARDENS, and a Picce of excellent Arable LAND adjoining thereto, and to Part of Lot I, and contain together ( with the Scites of the Build ings) about 3 Acres ( more or less). All the above Land is of an excellent Quality, most desirably situated for Building Scites, being near to good Stone Quarries, and adjoin the Turnpike Road from Shrewsbury to Welsh Pool. The Timber to be taken to by the Purchasers at Valuations. Lot 1 is now in the Occupation of Mr. John Meredith and his Undertenant, William Harries, and of which Possession may be had at Michaelmas next. Lot 2 is now in tlte Occupation of Mr. William Meredith ( the Proprietor) and his Tenants, William Pritchard and John Pool and of which Possession may be had at Lady- day next The Tenants will shew the Lots; and further Parti- culars may be had by applying to Mr. JOHN SMITH, of The Heldre; Mr. WILLIAM MEREDITH, of Uppi ' gton; of THE AUCTICNEER, Welch Pool; anil of Mr. MOORE, Solicitor aud Land Agent, Shrewsbury, at whose Off ce Maps may beseen. 28 0 23 H MESSRS. JOBSON & CO. AVING made Arrangements with the Directors of the Manchester and Liverpool Railway to forward Passengers for Manchester, the Public are most respectfully informed, the BANG- UP COACH leaves the TALBOT HOTEL, Shrewsbury, for Manchester, at Half- past Five every Morning, by which Conveyance Passengers will have the Option of Travelling by the Railway without any additional Charge to the already very reduced Fares. N. B. Passengers by this Conveyance arrive in Liverpool at One, and Manchester at Half- past Three the same Day, Two Hours earlier in Manchester than by any other Conveyance. TEN POUNDS REWARD. SHROPSHIRE TOimiElD g ® ( DHIEWo FORTY POUNDS REWARD. Burglary, Highway Robbery, House breaking, Murder, Si Horse- stealing. WE, the undersiwneel, having entered into a Society, called The Shropshire United Society, do hereby offer the above Reward for tho Apprehension and Conviction of any Offender or Offenders who shall henceforth commit any of the above Crimes upon us. Part of the Reward to be immediately paid upon the Apprehension and Commit- ment to Prison, antl the Remainder after Conviction. THOMAS ALCOCK, Moreton Corbet, Salop, Treasurer. Mr. John Harris Rev. Mascie Domville Tay- lor New House. Mr. Francis Lee Oak Gate. Mr. Win. Wellings Preston Brocknnrst. Mr. Benjamin Deakin Mr. John Kilvert Mr. John Powell Mr. Thomas Henshaw Sansaw. Rev. Dr Gardner Vlr; John Lee Sliawbnrv. Rev. W. S. Marvin Mr. Thomas Drury Mr. John Minor Mr. T. H. Minor Mr. James Harrison Mr. Henry Harris Mrs. Elizabeth Harrison Mr. Edward Foulkes Mr. Job Clowes Mr. Benj. Colley, The Park Stanton. Mr. Caleb Powell One House. Mr. Peter Deakin Sowbath. Mr. William Astley Wytheford Magna. Philip Charlton, Esq. Mr. William Hampton Wythefoid Paiva. Mr. Peier Light Wooelstile. Mr. Samuel Minion Walton. Mr. Richard Poehnorc Mr. John Webster Somer Wood. Mr. Ceoige Shingler Osbaston. Mr. Vincent Roeleuhurst. PAPER HANGINGS. W I L L t AM S M I TII, BOOKSELLfift, Sc. tRO. XBRIDGE AND IVEN LOCK, RESPUI TFUI. i. r informs his Frietiels ami the Public, that lie liaS received the* Spring Patterns of PAPER HANGINGS, in great Va. ielv, suitable for every Description of Rooms, Entrances, Sc. in Gobi. Flock, Satifts, and all the commoner Kinds, from 3s. to 3| d, per yard. Rootns hiing in tile tnost expeditious Marnier, and d. I t'd shortest Notice. ® ST Papering undertaken by contract, if preferred. Acton Reynahl. Andrew Vincent Corbet, Esq. Mr. William Fowler Astley. Mr. Richard Minton Mr. J. Bishtou Minor Mr. John Colley Bessford. Mr. John Davies Battlefield. Mr. John Walmsley Black Birches. Thomas Bayley, Esq. Ditto for Wytheford. Clive. M r. John Meares Mr. Charles Harding Edgeboulton. Mr. Thomas Foulkes Mr. John Henshaw Mr. Thomas Onslow Grinshill. Mr. John Kilvert Mr. John Wood Mr. John Leeke M r. John Jessop Mr. John Matthews Mr. Win. Enibrey Wood Ilardwick. Right Hon. Rowland Lord Hill Haston. Mr. George Hilditch Holbrook. Mr. Benjamin Deakin Muckleton. Mr. Thilip Ireland Mr. Thomas Edward Mr. Joseph Wellings Most on. Mr. Wm. Harris Lee Brockhurst. Mr. James Heatley Moreton Corbet. Mr Thomas Alcock Mr. Wm. Powell, The Mill The ANNUAL M FETING of this Society will be held at the Elephant and Castle Inn, in Shaw- bury, on Monday, the 1st of May next, where ail the Members are desired to attend at 12 o'clock, to pass the Treasurer's Accounts, and on other particular Business. No Business will be atfendel to after Two o'Clock.— Dinner at Two o'Clock. THE PRESS. We pefeeivp that, among tho rest of the nrtyn. meats adduced in favour of the . Ministry and of their scheme of Reform, tbe unanimity w it tl whivh the great majority of the metropolitan and other newspapers hafce advocated the measure, hit" been urged as n proof of the propriety of the schema, and ofthe tut ' rest which the great majority jjf tfin people feel for its success !— Those who have n. eil this argument forget tbat, although it may be true tbe majority of persons in large towns anxious tor the suffrage, and where Ihe great bodies of poli- ticians are to be found, may be eager lo posses* what thev conceive to be a benefit, regardless of the robbery and infringement inflicted in other places nnd on other persons by fhe scheme lo which they giVe their support, yet it bv no means follows that the majority even of the wealth and ihtelligence of those towns, nltich less the number* scattered over the face of the country, . who form the great bulk of tbe property as w. e. ll as of the population, coincide in the plans thus magnifu d by the excitement got up and maintained in populous places.— Another reason why those who, residing in obscurity in the metropolis, and alike unknown to, as regardless of the true interests of, the put) lie, snatch at, and carefully fall in with, every movement of the popular will, is, that they w rite for profit— and of course adopt that view of every question which, for the season, will turn to the best account. A correspondent, to whom we are indebted for a communication on the subject, which is rather too lengthy for publication iii a weekly paper, observes that there is a league of interest between a large portion of the press aud the excitement upon which it feeds; and where it has no settled purpose and definite object in war- ring against establishments, it has, in the nature of things, an interested bias operating to stimulate excitement and to favour change. Many of these writers can with much truth plead the apology of t ie dramatist:—• Hard is his fate, who, here hy fortune placed, IMust watch the wild vicissitude of taste, With every meteor of caprice must play, And Catch the new- blown bubble of the day : Deem not our choice what is our evil fate, It is our bread men's minds to agitate. Let, however, popular orators and popular writers burn incense to their idol, Popularity, as profusely as tbey please, it will yet remain trnp that legislation is the legitimate offspring of right and reason, not of the arbitrary will either of the' monarch or of the multitude. All approach to the monstrous principle that might is the measure of right, cannot be too earnestly deprecated. The maintenance of right and equity is the most im- portant end of government. Tbe best constituency- will be that which, by a duly diversified distribu- tion of parliamentary strength, shall afford to every class the most effectual security for just and equal government. THE REFORMERS. The following is a copy of an address published in the town of Hastings by a gentleman who aspires to the honour eif representing that borough in Parli; i. nient. The only merit that it has is its candour : the' writer clearly and openly states his views, which arc, beyond all question, the real intentions, however thov may be masked, of those by whom the present revolu- tionary movement is propelled, anil of those by wliom the late Reform Bill was most earnestly supported : Tn the Inhabitants nf Hastings and St. LeonartF>. G ENTLEMEN-— Having lately been privately'' requested by some individuals in Hastings to offer myself as a Candidate for the honour of representing yon in Parlia- ment, and as I unfortunately have the honour of lieing personally known to so few among you, I beg leave now to state what my opinions are: — 1. I profess myself to be a Radical Reformer of all abuses. 2. I support the Reform Bill introduced by his Ma- jesty's government—" The Bill, the whole ' Bill, and no bing but the Bill." 3. Afler this Bill shall have become the law of the land, I think that the votes ought to be taken by ballot; that lie duration of parliaments ought to be shortened, and that persons paying rates or taxes ought to possess tie right of voting. 4. 1 detest all monopolies, and more es|> ecially that ofthe East. India Company. 5. I am an advocate for free trade; I consider the ta-: upon the importation of foreign corn a wicked robber v of the people, an injury tn the farmer, and detrimental to the interests of the landowners. 6. I have a rooted aversion to the law of Primogeni- ture, and cniiseqiiently a deep dislike to an hereaitarij legislature. 7. I think the taxes ought to bo so arranged as to fall as lightly as possible on the working classes. Such, Gentlemen, is the general outline of my political principles. I have therefore only to state that if it be your wish to find a representative who will feat- lesslv and honestly advocate such opinions, I shall have mucfi pleasure in coining forward at any time, provided I am honoured wilh a public invitation ; but if these opinions be not in accordance with your own, or if yon i nagine that your interests will be better represented by men whose political sentiments are less strong than mire, I must respectfully decline the honour of being a candidate. It remains, therefore, Gentlemen, entirely with yourselves to decide whether I am to come forward or not. I remain, Gentlemen, your faithful Servant, HOWARD F. LP1I IN STONE, Jun. University Club, Pall- mall East, April 15. We shall not say much more nf Mr. Klphinstonr. The recent cant about the " middle cla » - « fV is now lieciiuse their votes are wanteel) conveniently trans- ferred to the " working classes but happily tin- working men of England know a hawk front a hand- saw, and can as heartily despise the humbug cry, of " no taxation," and of pretended regard ( just at this moment put forth) for the w poorer classes," as du any of their more wealthy countrymen. They know full well, that when the landowner and the farmer shall be brought low, the tradesman and fhe'labourcr will be equally prostrate: the honest nice hank1 or artisan who pursues bis employment with diligence, in the hope of maintaining his family in elecent comfort and respectability, dues not now need to l » e informed tbat the depression of agriculture and the nncon trolled admission of every article of foreign produce and manufacture will ruin his employer, and rediM'i' himself and his family to a state of destitution.— Such men ns Mr. Elphinstonn, instead of being sent to the House of Commons, should go to school again ; for- if they do happen to be out of the hands of their nnrse, it has liecn very justly observed, Ihey are not proper persons to walk about without keepers. In the list of the members who voted in tlie ma- jority for General Gascoignc's motion, on the 101b instant, are Sir Rowland Hill, Bait R. Jenkins, Vis. count < live, Hon. li. II. Clive, Hon. ( J. C. W. Forester, T. Whilmnre, F. II. Cornewalt, E. Rogers. Sir W. W, VVynn, Bart. Right Hon. C. W. W Wymi, Sir It. W. Vaughan, i. art II. Clive, W. O. Gore', T. F. Lewis, C \ V. G. Wynne, R Price. In the Minority were J. C. Pclbam, R. A. Sidney, W W Whitmore", P . IS Thompson, R. M. B. ehlnlpii, Sir E. P. Lloyd. P Pi vse, VV. E. Powell, Sir R. \ V. Bulkeley, Earl of Uxbridge. Mr. Littleton and Sir John Wrottesley, Bart, again offer their services to Ibe freeholders of Staffordshire ; and Col. Lygon and the Hon Mr. Foley for Wo rec- ti' shire. In opp sition to the gallant Colonel, " Sir Thomas Phillips, Bart, of Middle Hill, nnd John Richards, Esq of Walsall Grove, near Stourbridge, have declared themselves. Col. Lygou's friends tire gnid to he concerting vigorous measure's to secure his re- election. Mr. Ahcrnethy, the celebrated surgeon, who has long been seriously indisposed, died at liis residence ul Enfield, on Wednesday. SS5W*. Si « SALOPIAN JOURNAL, AN © € OUHIEIl OF WALES. imperial $ aUtament HOUSE OF COMMONS— MONDAY, lit FORM rail. The house having, as announced in our la* t . lour, nil, assembled iu great numbers at an early hour and the preliminary business having been got tliro',, Lord Joit. Sl Itussn. L ruse to move that the House should p. i into a Conuniltee on the Reform Bill. In doing this, his Lordship took occasion to stale the alterations uhioh the Ministers propose to make in fhe Bill, and which were as follotv :— Five boroughs- to lie taken out of schedule A, and added to schedule B— viz. Aldborougb, Buckingham, Okehampton, Mahncsbury, aud Keigale. F. ight to be taken out of schedule li— viz. Chippen- liini, Leominster, Northallerton, Tamworth, Truro, Morpeth, VVeslbury, and Wveombe. These bOroHgbs having established their right to exemption ( as was shown by the corrected return presented to parliament) under the rule laid flu » ft 611 the introduction id" lite hill, by having pioved that they rciipectively contained, within the parish of their name, more than 2,000 and 4,000 inhabitants in 1821. Light members to be added to ihe following counties, hai nig a population from 100,0( 10' to T50,000 inhabitants :— Bucks, lieiks, Cambridge, Dorset, Hereford. Hertford, Osforil, Glamorgan : oue to each. Set en members to be added to the following large towns :— Oldham, Bui y, Rochdale, Whitby, Wake- field, 8a lib id, Stoke on Trent ( Potteries): one to each. Halifax is lo he rentricled to the township, and to return Onl) one meftiber, the parish being 25 miles in • extent. The boroughs now admitted from schedules A and B ( five of one, and eight of the other), were origifially iheltuhd in these schedules from the confused word- ing of the pariiamen'ary census of 1821, which did not, in their casts, accurately distinguish and poinf out where parts of their parishes were in other 1 hundreds and counties. Sons of freemen, who will have been entitled to the privilege of freemen, on their coming of age, born before the introduction of the bill, and apprentices, having entered into indentures, in the same manner, will be entitled to it, if they take out their freedom, are resident, and registered under the provisions of ihe bill. General GASCOYNE, after Observing that the care with which Irish and Scotch inemb rs watched every measure, so as to endeavour to ths'ow every burden off their own country upon England, ren- dered it peculiarly requisite to maintain for the latter its superiority of numbers, concluded by itiovingj as an amendement to Lord John Russell's motion, 44 That it is the opinion of litis House, I'hat tiie total number of knights, citizens, and burgesses, returned to parliament for that part of the united kingdom cbt'. ed England and Wales, ought not to be diminished." Mr. SADLER rose to second the motion of General Gascoyne-, and proceeded at great length, and in luminous detail, to expose the absurdity ami utter want of justice and foresight' that characterised the ministerial projeC£ He first took occasion to contrast the. former moderate proposals of Mr. ( now Lord) Brougham and Lord John Russell with the wholesale and sweeping measure now brought forward. The Hon. Gentleman then entered into a renew of the nature of the representation of the kingdom from the earliest period of British history to the present day, and proved that the aristocracy and select bodies of the country had always mixed theii* interests in the formation of the House of Commons, and he showed that by this [ means alone could property be duly protected, and collision between the Several orders of the state be prevented. If they took away the inflii- Mice thus possessed by property, ( which, whether in large or small masses, was always looked upon with envious eyes by many,) and rested their security on ancient gifts or title deeds, — upon " inky blots and rotten parchment bonds1'— they would tear oft' their seals as it was now proposed to do by those ofeorpo- ratibii charters. The consequences of such a course wert'certain, and close at band : and they must pre pare, in some form or other, for a repetition of those Agtarian struggles which long disturbed and at length destroyed Rome : such spoliations had recently beep witnessed in a neighbouring country, where property, bereft of its political influence, lost its rights, and only served to mark out its possessors to certain destruction. Respecting the borough representation, under the shallow pretence of lopping off decay, the ministers proposed utter destruction ; for although they faked of equalizing and altering the constituency, the real meaning of their plan was revolution. He would not now touch upon the entire system thus sought to be changed, the very discrepancies of which, according, not only to the highest political authorities, but also, to that of the noble mover of the bill now before the house, had had the effect of giving to the house, the country, and the world, many of the brightest names fhat had adorned tbe page of history;— yet the destruction of that system would henceforth close the doors of parliament, against that intellectual superi- ority, which, without accidental advantages, is long in making itself widely known \ and which, were It to put forti its pretensions, woi'ifd be rejected in favour of those declaiming demagogues, or lotty patriuians, for whom the new system alone provided admission — a system also which would expel from their seats any one, however elevated by talent or distinguished hy > irltre, that will not bow down his conscience and fris judgment to the popular opinion of the day,— a plan, in short, which would henceforth deprive the country of its able advocate.*, and posterity of its best guides. The honourable gentleman then proceeded to showjiy a reference to historical facts, that one class of boroughs— the small or iVomiiYation boroughs — intended by this bill to be totally abolished, had Bent lo Ihe HouSe not only the brighlest ornaments of Parliament aud the greatest benefactors of the country, but the very men by whom the House of Brunswick was placed on the throne, the very men by whom the Bill of Rights wis fraifted, and the very meii selected to originate a variety of other the most important statutes and measures of the house, as well as those who had successfully re- sisted acts of the most fatal tendency that would otherwise have injured and disgraced the country. The constitution of the country, and especially the representative branch of it, instead of having gradually decayed and become rotten, had acquired greater purity and strength ; and more faithfully represented at this moment the real voice of the people, than it ever did at any preceding period of its history : k had attained this by the operation of time and the force of circumstances— by the diffu- sion of knowledge and the increase of wealth— by the multiplication of freeholders in counties— by the minuter divisions of property, and of voters iu large represented towns— by the growth of popula- tion— and, where corruption had been convicted, by the tDinsfer . of, the, franchise to large masses of the people.— And yet this was the moment that had been chosen for the work of demolition ! Now that the constitution was the admiration of surrounding nations, the model of all the free institutions in the world, and the just pride of all true Britons, it was to be destroyed. Now that it was iu its greatest purity and vigour, it was to fall, not because it was weak and decayed, but when, like its native oaky it had braved unshaken the tempest which had swept and desolated all around, and. stood the monarch' of surrounding nature. / That there were anomalies in the constitution could not be denied ; nor was he adverse to the adoption of any real amendment thai was consistent with its original form and structure. But what did the present political projectors— the ministers— propose? Why to destroy much, and fo remodel the remainder of the const itution ; and they excited the people to the work of demolition, as though it were another Baslile— as though it were a dungeon of slavery instead of a temple of freedom. Yet, in overturning the present system, the proposal of the ministers reversed the very basis on which it pro- fessed to be founded : and he would venture to as- sert, that a greater mass of absurdities, a more naked and disgusting violation of all arithmetic, as well as reason and justice, wus never before sub- mitted to that house since ils foundation. Pursuing this portion of his subject, Mr. Sadler said — " The noble lord, as far as l could understand his prospectus, professes to base his national repre- sentation on property, with reference also to popu'a- tion. We. shall submit his scheme to both tests, in regard to the two great and essentially distinct masses. of society among us, the town and country inhabitants j attending first to that criterion to which he and others have appealed with such visi- ble complacency, property. Having done away with all that influence which he has deemed cor- rupt, and established a more direct system of re- presentation, what are the natufe of the proportions lie seeks to establish ? Adverting to the last parli- amentary returns which give the particular items of the property tax of England, which were those of 1810, I find the rental of the houses, warehouses, factories, & e. in both town aud country, given at £ 13,010,546. Now it is quit. e obvious that no in- considerable part of this sum belongs to the country, m. uiy, and among these the most valuable houses iu the kingdom, being certainly in the country districts. But to let that pass. What was the rental of the lands and cither profits appertaining to them at that period, exclusive of the tenants' tax ? £ 32,589,303. It is quite clear then, that were the value of the houses and warehouses situate in the country parts deducted from the former sum aucl added to the latter, that the property of the country districts would appear, as it certainly is, more than thrice in amount that of the towns. Then as to population. In the cities and towns given separately in the census of 1820, the inhabitants amounted to 2,920,095: those iu the remaining or country districts, to 8,341,342, very nearly three times the number. 1 am aware that there are in large town6 and places not separately given in the Abstracts, a population to the amount, perhaps, of an additional half million ; but a rectification of a contrary nature Will render any calculation^ btl that ground wholly unnecessary : the unrepresented towns having pre- cisely the same share iu the county representation, as the rest of the freeholders, and being proportion- ably more numerous. Now, then, let us see how the noble, lord, in his new scheme, proposes to re- present these two great classes of the community. Why, to less thin one- third pf the w ealth— to about one- third of the nuiftbers, he actually proposes to give within three of doubfe ( tie number of repre- sentatives In round numbers, to thirty millions of rental," and to nine millions of people, he aflots, in- cluding: the addition of this evening, 149 members of parliament; while, to about ten millions of rental, aud three ipillions of people— being a sort of con- stituency also of w hich he professes his dislike,-— he allots 295 members-, giving, as 1 calculate, indivi- dually six times as much influence to him that hap- pens to live in a town as to him that lives iu the country. Nor, sir, is thifi all. The distinction this bill attempts to establish between the nature and amount of the qualification demanded from an elector in fhe country, compared with oue that lives in the town, is, if possible, still more objectionable. The former regulation might possibly be construed into neglect— this amounts to positive insult. Not to allude to the grievous mistake into which the noble lord has fallen in taking the rated value of houses in towns as their actual rental, a mistake which will silence all his boastings as to the middle classes, iu which he professes to have placed the franchise—- let us inquire why, while the townsman renting a house of £ 10 the year, has his vote given to him, a countryman who rents ten times or a hundred times that amount for the same term, is to have none? Sit, 1 if we are to debate about new constitutions, regulations like these would be better laughed at than argued against, only they are of too insulting a nature fo be made matter of mirth, and too unjust to be endued. Sir, the noble lord who. has expressed himself so strongly as to city Constituency, and dra'wn not long ago a somewhat exulting comparison between the farmer of Norfolk and the elector of Devizes, will find it difficult, I think, to convince the former that he is very sincere iu his preference when he gives the latter a vote, and allows him none, though lie hapten times over the amount of the qualification required from the townsman. " It may, however, be, an^ is sfrgued, that the aristocracy, will obtain that influence under the projected constitution which they possess in the present one, by representing the towns and boroughs in their respective neighbourhoods, when thus open- ed ; and that consequently the agricultural interest will still have, though indirectly, its fair shate of influence. Those who thus argile know little of the constituency which they are creating. The quali- fications of a £ 10 rental is demanded from a town voter; and 1 could tell you what the qualification will be that a town voter will, in a great majority of instances, demand of his representative; it will I not be that which will exactly comport with the | views and interests of the latter. But, sir, if the [ neighbouring' gentlemen will not promise largely enough, or bid sufficiently high at the auction of popularity, those will speedily be found that will. And the idea of the fair balance of rnflueuce be- tween the town and county interest, destroyed by this bill, being thus restored, would turn out to be, like the rest of its provisions, a mere delusion. If we examine the two great grand divisions of their scheme, that relating to the counties and that re- lating to the towns, separately, and without the slightest reference to each other, we shall still find our astonishment, not to say indignation, increased. I shall add nothing to what was so admirably ad- vanced by the hon. and learned member for Wey- mouth, as to the monstrous and unconstitutional pougr claimed for the crown, and consequently by ministers, in empowering certain privy councillors itinerant, to go forth as political engineers and draftsmen, to cut up and parcel out the ancient divisions of the empire, as settled since the time of Alfred. This departmental scheme also is, like most other of the provisions of this bill, borrowed from the revolutionary movements of France; but, waiving this consideration, let us consider its effect. 1 know enough of several of these counties myself, to be certain, that in many cases this partitioning will, in point of fact, either constitute much of what is meant to be county representation, to all intents aud purposes fovvn representation— the town free- holds in populous districts preponderating so greatly — or otherwise it will render the representation what is now called close, placing it under the com- plete control of some great proprietor of the district section. I am aware that the latter observation may be turned against my general argument by the ad- vocates of this bill, who in the same breath satisfy the people thai it will deliver tliem from the influ- ence of the aristocracy, and the aristocracy that it will deliver the people into their power; who try to convince the country population that it will gain upon the town, and the town again that it will gain upon the country, in this new system of borough representation, and by this distribution of these demi- semi county members. The fact is, new in- fluences would be created throughout, inconsistent with each other and ruinonS, in their conflicting effects to the interests of the entire community. But a closer inspection of the new arrangement w ill show us more clearly its gioss injustice, not to say its disgusting partiality. 44 Much more might be advanced against the scheme of connty representation now proposed to us, but 1 fear 1 should trespass too long upon the time of the house were 1 to pursue this part of the subject any farther. 1 shall therefore proceed to make some observations upon the plan of town representation developed in this bill, which is still more partial and incongruous than the other parts of the measure. 44 God made the country* and man made the town/' says one of our best w riters, after Bacon ; but as the noble lord, notwithstanding his written opinions to the contrary, has lavished his principal attentions on civic representation, let us follow his proposition to this part of its details. And if iu the constitu- ency of the county districts, and the towns com- paratively considered, the most opposite principles have been adopted, regarding the latter, none what- ever seem to have been regarded. The claims founded on ancient right, on amount of population, on important avocations and pursuits, seem alter- nately to be respected and insulted, while the most arbitrary and yet ridiculous rules have been adopt- ed, which have received the previous condemnation of those who have adopted them, and which it is impossible to justify upon any known and recog- nized principles of justice or equity. The noble lord who has previously written as to the difficulty of disfranchisement, now proposes to disfranchise wholly, and at once, 00 parliamentary boroughs; and to deprive of half their ancient privileges 40 others. Of the 159 seats thus obtained, not indeed by surrender, but by legislative force, he proposes to give eight additional to the metropolis, 26 to certain large towns and parishes, and 18 to as many other places. 1 need not pursue the detail further than to say, that England is to be deprived of 71 representatives, Wales is to have one, Scotland five, and Ireland three additional members; the house being thinned by the total extinction of 62 seats, and that wholly at the expense of England. And first, sir, one. word as to this addition to the members for the metropolis. Without again calling to aid the constituency of large cities, 1 shall mention one objection tvhich, 1 think, admits of little dispute. The circumstance of the parliament of this country being, in later times, constantly holdeu in the metropolis, gives an advantage to its population in- finitely exceeding that possessed by any other portion of the communifyj even supposing that it were totally unrepresented. In these days more especially, when public opinion is so much urged on the one hand, and yielded ( o on the other, the facility and effect with which this opinion is made to act on the legislature, individually and collec- tively, gives, 1 repeat, the population of the city which happens to be the seat of legislation an ad- vantage which it is not easy to over- rate. If you add to this advantage a corresponding share of direct influence, you run the risk of rendering it overwhelming. When you draw around the seat of legislation a circumvallation, if 1 may so speak, of a constituency thus accumulated, directed as in all probability it must be, the consequence is easily predicted. London will become the Paris of Eng- land ; than which a greater curse could never be- fal the peace, liberty, and property of the country. 44 The original foundation of the right proposed to be destroyed tyi So many cases, was not placed upon mere numbers. To determine therefore re- garding that right, upon any such principle is un- constitutional as well as unjust; but if such' were made the test of its validity, it would in almost every case be found ad strong as at the first;— stronger indeed ; the population of most of the boroughs now selected for extinction being more populous now, both positively and relatively, than they were at iheir creation. But to determine con- cerning the ancient rights of corporations and boroughs by an arbitrary scale of population, and t, o attempt to disfranchise a freeman or his children, because he has not a given number of neighbours, is quite as unjust, and not a whit less absurd, than were you to determine any other of his legal claims by the same evidence. " It were, indeed, an endless task to exhibit the strange and irvefconcileable elements which this bill has attempted to incorporate— the glaring incon- sistencies from which, as a paper constitution, it might have been free. 1 shall no longer dwell upon the unfairness with which it has overlooked some $ reat interests; and the injustice with which it has destroyed others. Among the last 1 cannot refrain from noticing with regret the prospective and total annihilation of the political privileges long exercised by many of the humbler classes of society— it having always been a matter of exultation with me, that the constitution of England, while securing the rights of the crown and the interests of fhe higher orders, made room als'b in its representative system t') r the humblest rank ab6ve that of paupers-^ for those, who to use the metaphor of the learned Lord Advocaie, are beneath the firmament of a ten- pound rent, which he deems to be in a state of Stygian corruption aud darkness. A better insight into the structure of society would, 1 think, have convinced him that in that repudiated class, for such it now seems to be by our modern liberals, there is often as much patriotism, and always as much purity, as in any above his firmament/ even though he mounted to it as high as the stars and garters of society. Deeply should 1 regret the hour which should deprive those honest and industrious artizans, who contribute to the comfort and support of every other class, and who furnish their full- quota to the service of the state, of all political existence, and leave them totally without a voice in the councils of the country. " I am not going to contend that the constitu- tion we enjoy is theoretically perfect, or that prac- tically it has been administered in the best possible manner : still 1 think experience decides that Ihe proud boast of successive generations of our patriots — that England possessss the most free, happy, and efficient form of government existing on the face of the earth— is just; and that it has been productive uf the happiest effects, is fully justified. It has preserved this country in security and internal peace, amidst the , riiin of empires and the fall of thrones. When the foundations of fhe social system of Europe were broken up, and the lawless floods of democracy fose and overwhelmed the proudest elevations of society under one wide and stormy abyss— when all seemed darkness above and tempestuousness around, then was the British constitution seen, like a sacred ark, mounting triumphant in the storm* and preserv- ing for a world reversed to peace and order the elements of loyalty, liberty, and law. Again, sir, the same portents seem returning ; the cloud seems gathering and darkening in the distance, and the roar 6f the desolating floods is heard from afar; and this is the very moment that we are wanted to quit the ark of our safety, and trust ourselves for preservation io the shapeless raft which an inexperienced crew have suddenly provided f6r us. We are exhorted to desert and deliver over to destruction our constitution, in order that another system may be erected on its ru ns. But what an experiment! If it succeed, it were difficult to suppose that the country would become greater, and grow more prosperous than it has under the constitution bequeathed to us by our ancestors? if it fail, dreadful indeed must be the consequences. The history of the world presents but few and doubtful instances of free communities sur- rendering their institutions in hope of some undefined advantage to their liberty and happiness by some great and undefined change ; but it is crowded with cases where such a course has . led to their degrada- tion, slavery, and ruin. all times such attempts have been found dangerous; at the present moment, when almost every government of Europe seems sliak- en. to its very base, and many have already tottered to their fall, the present attempt seems presumptuous in a tenfold degree. It might have been lioped that the events of the last fifty years would have instructed us. as to the value of our settled institutions, and united us all, hand and heart, in their preservation : for the condition proposed to us by the present bill is clearly only one of transition. A proposition which is, on the part of its promulgators, one of compromise, and, on that of its most zealous supporters, accepted only as a large step to further changes, can only be the precursor of further undefined changes :— Throutrh what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes and changes it must pass, I shall not attempt, to prognosticate; but as to its final result, should it be adopted, few rational men din entertain much doubt. Tne catalogue of com- pliances which must be made, and of changes which must ensue, should this measure pass, are, I should think) sufficiently apparent in the minds of tho. se who hear me. The steps by which we must descend to the catastrophe may not be precisely seen, but the termination is certain, nor can it be remote. 44 If there be the least utililty iu the other branches of the legislature, the royal and aristo- cratic power of the state, ttie present constitution of the House can alone preserve it. 1 will not attempt to prove by laboured arguments what must be abundantly clear without any ; but if any doubt remain on the mind of any one who'; hears me, I will resolve that doubt by an authority, second in point of information to none now among us, and the more to be attended to, inasmuch as he is one of the members of his Majesty's present government. ' Ihe author of that admired work, the 44 Vindicice Gallics*," when advocating parliamentary reform upon the direct, and not virtual principle of repre- sentation, thus delivers himself upon this momentous point :—." The powers of the King and Lords ( says 44 Sir James Macintosh) have never been formidable " in England, but from discords between the House 44 of Commons and Its pretended constituents. Were 44 the House really to become the vehicle of the 44 popular voice, the privileges of the other bodies, 44 in opposition to the sense of the people and their 44 representatives would become as dust in the 44 balance." If, then, iu this reformed system, not only the Lords Temporal, with all their their powers and privileges, and the hierarchy of the chunh, representing as they do their own order, but the sovereign himself would become as dust in the balance, when weighed iu the balance with this reformed Mouse of Commons, can we suppose that such unwieldy and ( to a certain degree) expensive parts of the system would be retained, their functions having become totally superseded and their very existence useless? No, sir, with a House of Commons thus reformed, on the authority of the honourable member of his Majesty's government I have just quoted, the fate of the peerage and of the monarchy is sealed. The next sweeping reform— and it could not be far distant— would wipe away this expensive dust, and give to the government of the country, not the essence merely, w hich it would have the moment this bill should pass, but the very name of democracy. Let then his [ Majesty's present advisers, supposing ( which God forfcid) this measure the opinion of the noble lord, as to the quality of should puss, approach their sovereign with this bijl, and practising on his generous and unsuspecting nature obtain his assent— at the moment his royal hand shall inscribe the fatal act, it will require no peculiar strength of mental vision to perceive the image of another hand, shadowy indeed, but darken- ing into reality, and inscribing its portentous cha- racters upon the tablets of the history of this ancient monarchy, MENE—" Thy kingdom is departed from thee." . 44 The revolutionary scheme now brought forward by ministers is fraught with present danger and future destruction to the country. The unanimity with which it is said to be received, when the various objects of its promoters are considered, is of itself portentous, and is like, the boding calm which is the precursor of elemental warfare. The consequences of adopting this measure will be soon apparent. When you shall have seized upon the rights and franchises you purpose to destroy, • ther interests than those which you thus unsparingly attack will next await their fate. It is not the franchises aTofie which will be seized, it is the property with which th'ejr are Connected, which some hardly more daring reformers will treat also as a trust unjustly acquired and injuriously retained. For myself, though in a humble rank, 1 have evet* been and shall alvyays remain to the utmost of my power a defender of the rights of property, as well as I trust those of poverty ; both of . which, 1 think, are threatened by this mea- sure. But ficts like these endanger tlie whole social system The noble lord has urged us in a threaten- ing tone to proceed with this bill; 1 conjure him as earnestly, himself to desisi He appeals to the mo- mentary excitement which has been suddenly and intentionally raised, and which is as rapidly subsiding. The people of England like not sweeping changes, nor dangerous experiments; their sober judgment is in favour of their ancient and happy institutions, which they may indeed wish to have improved and perpetuated, but which they will never consent to see mutilated and destroyed. The projectors of this sweeping and revolutionary change assure us they will stand or fall by their constitution. Let them. For myself, I will stand or fall by tbe constitution of England. 1 second the - motion of the gallant ge- neral."—[ Mr. Sadler sat. down amidst loud cheering.] The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, said it was impossible to misunderstand the nature of the gallant general's amendment. It ^ as the first of that series of motions by which it was intended to interfere with the progress of the committee; and which, if agreed to, would be fatal to the bill, or, at least, so detri- iliental to it, as to render it impossible that it should be proceeded with. Lord Stormont, General Duff, Lord Loughborough, and Colonel Wcod supported General Gascoyne's amendment, which was opposed by Mr. Fergusson.— The debate was then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS— TUESDAY. REFORM BILL. The debate on General Gascoyne's amendment was resumed — Mr. BUL# ER and Mr J. CAMPBELL opposed the amendment. Mr. FA& E considered the bill before the House as calculated to substitute visionary schemes for the system which had cOnferHb'd firandeur and happiness on England. He did not envy the heart of that man who had conceived the Bill, for it was founded on corruption and traffic, and was directed to the basest passions. Mr. \ VILBRAHAM opposed the amendment. He denied that there was any thing. of a revolutionary tendency in the measure : the bill sent away 160 drones, and gave 115 working bees in their stead* Mr. CHARLES DOUGLAS supported the ameod- ment.-^- Mr. HAWKINS, at great length, gave his support to the bill, as a measure called for by the Spirit of the times and the state of the country ; and he concluded by calling upon the house to in- scribe themselves on the page of history as the first recorded example of power correcting its own usurpation. Sir. G. WARRENI> ER said he should vote against the amendment, although lie was not favourable to the bill.— Sir R. WILSON, although he was anxious to support the views of Ministers on this question, could not oppose the amendment now before the House. Mr. C. W. WYNN congratulated the House upon the extraordinary ability displayed by an honourable member for a clo. se borough ( Mr. Hawkins, of Saint Michael's), who, but for such modes of . gaining admission into parliament, might never have enjoyed an opportunity. When such were the consequences of the present system, who would not wish that it should be perpetual? It was riot possible for any constituency at all times to return representatives equally excellent; but, looking back to the history of the House of Commons, he saw that men of the most splendid abilities had first fostered their talents in close boroughs, and had afterwards been deservedly chosen for populous places. Some individuals seemed' possessed of hereditary ability, but the great mass of the House was unquestionably of a contented medio- crity of tab nt. Nearly all the great characters whom he had seen, or of whom he had read, had com- menced their career, and had originally entered the House through the channel of a close borough. Without going into particulars, he would look to general results, and he would appeal to the govern- ment of the country for the last century as a proof of the excellence of the present system of representation. If, on the other hand, a century of misgovernment could be shotfn, he would admit it as an irrefragable argument in favour of reform. During that period what country had enjoyed more general happiness— more public and individual liberty ? In what country had a more rapid progress been made in arts, manu- factures, and literature? Had any nations met the same dangers, endured the same struggles, and tri- umphed with the same glory. The government had beeri fconstafttly supported by the confidence of par- liament and the suffrages of the people. He did not deny that upon this subject the feelings of the people had been excited, but their good Sense was now awakened, and they had returned to their reliance upon the House of Commons as at present consti- tuted. He agreed with those who said that times of" peril and pressure were not the fittest for discussing a question of this sort; but he saw no reason to antici^ pate any such evils in a time of profound peace and growing prosperity. With regard to the bill itself, he regretted that so much had beefi attempted in it since the effect was, that the details had not been sufficiently examined ; and he condemned the test of population, which had been resorted to, * is the criterion for conferring the elective franchise. During the thirty years he had sat in parliament, lie had paid great attention to the different cases of corruption brought before the house; and when it was proper to do so upon strong proof, he had supported the extreme of disfranchisement. It was observable, however, that corruption had, in various cases, been established not against the lowest class of voters. At Cricklade, Aylesbury, and Retford, it had been proved against the householders. Those who had resided in houses often pounds a- year rent and upwards, had been shown, in many instances, to be the most cor- rupt ; and what security was there that 200 out of 300 voters in each place contemplated by the bill under consideration, would not be very willing to accept £ 20 a piece for their suffrages? It. had been . said that the general effect of the reform would be to get rid of 115 drones, and to replace them by as many active and intelligent members; but his expe- rience rather showed that the best men of business and the most efficient members of parliament were not usually those who represented counties or popu- lous towns. Splendid talents wonld unquestionably make their way, but he begged to call the attention of the house to the case of the late Mr. Huskisson — a man not remarkable for the brilliancy of his abilities, but who invariably secured attention by his habits of business, and by the depth and accuracy of his know- ledge. Instances of the same kind were frequent, and showed the necessity of some mode of introducing such useful and able men to public life. He was certainly of opinion that the present number of close boroughs was larger than necessary, but the pro- posed measure was infinitely too sweeping. He was disposed to approve of the plan of throwing the small boroughs, where it could be done, into districts — not depriving them of their share in the re- presentation, but calling upon them to exercise it conjointly. Such a system prevailed in Wales, and it had worked well, and a bill was: before the house for extending it to Scotland. Let fhat experiment be made in one or two places first, and if it, succeeded, next year it might be carried further. For the reasons he had stated, unless stronger argu- ments than he had yet heard were brought, forward, he was willing to adhere to what was established if only because it was established ; the onus of proving the propriety of a change rested upon tho^ e wlio advocated it. Sir G. CLF. RK, Sir JOHN MALCOLM, nnd Sir ROBERT PEEL supported the amendment, which was opposed by Mr. BERNAL, Mr. ( VCONNELL, and Mr. HUNT. Mr. STANLEY said he had listened with astonish- ment to the arguments of his right honourable friend the member for Montgomeryshire ( Mr. C. W. W. Wyun). That right hon. gentleman had pursued the extraordinary course of arguing, on that occasion, against the principle of the bill, although he had formerly expressed himself favourable to it. ( Hear, and No, from Mr. W. IV. Wynn.) He begged pardon, he thotight his right honourable friend had done so; but at all events his right honourable friend, if not cognizant of the original framing of the bill, had been consulted by the noble lord, and advised with and listened to on the subject of the provisions of the bill for at least ten days before it was intro- duced in that house. He could not, therefore, avoid expressing his astonishment that his right honourable friend should now give so strong an opposition to the principle as well as to the details of a measure with which he had been previously so well acquainted. The right honourable gentleman, among other argu- ments against the bill, had declared his objection to their taking up the principle of population in their distribution of the franchise. Now, the government did not take population as a principle, but merely as a test, for the purpose of discovering whether the place to which they were disposed to give the fran- chise was above or below that rule of importance and consequence which would entitle it to obtain the right of returning members to parliament. But then the right honourable gentleman ( the member for Mont- gomeryshire) said that population was no test of fhat. He ( Mr. Stanley) admitted that it was not an unvary- ing test, but yet, at the same time, it enabled them iri many cases to ascertain the real condition of fhose places to which it was necessary that their inquiries should be applied. The right honourable gentleman the member for Montgomeryshire, had Objected to the destruction of the nomination burghs, and repeated the old arguments on the benefits which the house derived from these burghs, through the facilities thev afforded to the entrance of metit and talent into that house. He admitted that argument to its full extent, but he Was satisfied that there would be as good an opening for virtue, and talent, and knowledge, after the bill passed as there was now, and he was tpiite sure that there frould be no indisposition on the part of the people to avail themselves of their assistance. The arg{ im<? nt was, at the best, a mete artjumentuvi ad hominem, and he was not disposed to deprive the right honourable gentleman of the advantage of it. He was sure, however, that there would be no want of talent in that house if the bill received its assent, and he really had no fear even that it would bccome too pure. While he was on this part of the question, he might say that he had received, not three hours s; nce, a letter from a number of respectable persons, begging him to offer himself, in the event of a general Election, as a candidate for the county of Montgomery. He hoped his right honourable friend would not be alarmed. He had no intention to avail himself of the offer thus so liberally made to him ; but he mentioned it for the purpose of shewing that these persons, of whom there were so many distinguished by much greater powers than he could pretend to, would have no difficulty in getting into the house, and thjit they would find constituents in many places ready to come forward and afford them an opportunity of serving their country in that house. He held that, indeed, to be one of the great benefits of the bill, that men of virtue and knowledge will have an opportunity afforded them of getting into that house without purchasing their seat, or being indebted to the favour of a patron. The right honourable gentleman ( fhe member for Montgomery) seemed to think that the members for the house should be increased rather than reduced, and that they should keep pace in that increase with the grovyth of the population and prosperity of the country. Every one who knew any thing of the conduct of business in thaf houj? e, and particularly in the committees up stairs, must be sensible that numbers retarded the despatch of affairs, and that business was better done by those who represented targe bodies of constituents than by those who merely represented their own opinions The right honourable gentleman said, however, that the business of that house, was principally transacted by the members of the rotten or nomination boroughs. He ( Mr. Stanley) denied that it was so; except on some occasions, when members of that description were canvassed for peculiar interests, or wh^ n they were, called onto attend to the wishes of some of their constituents, or to obey the commands of their patron he appealed to all who heard him whether the teai business of the. house was not transacted solely by the members for counties. He did not speak of public business when he said this. He knew that the greater part of the public servants in that bouse were generally members for those boroughs. He believed, indeed, he could mention cabinets in which almost every member sat for a nomination borough. He alluded solely to that business which was intimately connected with the interests of constituents. The right honourable gentleman ( Mr. VVynn) founded his chief objection to the bill on the further demands to which it would give rise, and the continual excite- ment whjch it must keep up among those who would prefer these demands. And how did the right hon gentleman propose to allay that excitement, and to • top those demands? Why, by not, giving, for the present, above one- third of that which he admitted would be requisite to produce a temporary tran- quillity, while he at the same time admitted that something must be done. The argument, he con fessed, was not very logical, but it was the right honourable gentleman's, and they were bound to take it. for its worth. One word as to the rotten boroughs. What was it that they were about to disfranchise? Not the representatives of the people of England, but those who either purchase a seat in that house f. ir money, or owe it to the favour of a patron. The rotten boroughs, in fact, belonged to no country, and it was mere mockery to talk of the proportion of the members of Ireland or Scotland, when it was in the potfer of any one who pleased, or possessed the means, to enter that house for one of the rotten boroughs of England. He had already occupicd the time of the house much longer than he originally intended. He would Conclude, therefore, by repeat- ing what he had said frequently before, that the proposition now before them was a most insidious attempt to get rid of the principle of the bill, and secure the destrlictioil of the measure proposed by his Majesty's government. It was clear to every man, fhat on the vote to which the house would come that night hung the question of Reform \ and he warned the timid, although, perhaps, sincere Reformers, that however they may be led to judge of the nature of the question before them by any spccious arguments, that this was the time when they were called on to show their desire for Reform. He would tell them, and he would tell their constituents, that by the vote of that night they were either losing or gaining the first opportunity ever afforded them of gratifying or of defeating those highly raised and highly excited hopes of the people, that, they would at least possess a House of Parliament really representing the feel- ings, the wishes, and the interests of every class in the country. Mr. C. W. W. WYNN, as he had been personally alluded to by the right hon. gentleman, expressed a hope that the house would permit him to say one or two words in explanation. The right hon. gen tleman, whom he had the pleasure of calling his friend, had charged him with having altered his opinions with respect to the Reform Bill, with having acted in a manner which he certainly could not have supposed that right hon. gentleman would have supposed him likely to act on such an occasion. The right hon. gentleman stated that he had seen the Reform Bill ten days before it was presented to that house, and that he had been advised with and consulted on its provisions. The bill was certainly shown to him on the Saturday preceding the week on which it was brought in, and he then expressed his objection to it to the noble lord who framed it. On that same evening he went still further, and expressed to the noble earl at the head of the Trea- sury his doubt whether he could support the whole of its provisions. He told that noble lord that it was impossible he could pledge himself to support it, but that he would wait until its^ details were ex- plained more precisely, as he had not been consulted until the plan was completely settled. The reason why he did not speak more decidedly at that time was, because he had not had an opportunity of reading the bill more than once, and he was anxious to hear the opinions of those with whom he had always acted on previous occasions in opposition to some of those strong plans of reform which had been more than once urged on their attention. For these reasons he deferred, until a future day, saying more on the subject of an opposition which he, of course, considered to carry with it the immediate relin- quishment of office. If il was meant to be insinu- ated that he had acted unfairly in not immediate, ly tendering his resignation, lie could only say, that he was most anxious, if he could find it possible, to avoid opposing the bill. He felt that he was bound to do so, as much from the feelings of private regard as fr om respect to tbe opinions of a large body of his constituents, who entei tained opinions favourable lo reform. He wished, therefore to support th* bill; but ou the most mature consideration he found he could not. The announcement which the right hon. stent, had just made with respect to Ihe county of Montgomery, was no news to him. He had hoard of the intentions in the right lion gentleman's favour some time ago ; but he could assure him he was not afraid to meet him on tbe hustings at the election for that couniy. Two- aiid- thirty year* of honest and 2ealous service iu that house would, he hoped, prove sufficient to plead his cause with effect to the great body of bis constituents. To their im- partial judgment on his conduct he fully trusted and he feared not the result. Mr. STANLEY disclaimed all intention to imputa any act of unfairness to the right hon. gentleman the member for Montgomery. All he said was thin, that lie felt surprised his right hon. friend could have any doubt for a week, or for a day, respecting- the principle of a bill which he had that night condemned so strongly. Sir J. MURRAY said that the right lion. gentleman had spoken of the bill as likely to give that house better members for fcounties; but it would not be easy to find more honest and able representative* than they already possessed in the person of Ihe member for the county of Montgomery. One ofth « main objections he had to the bill was ( hat which' he had expressed before, that it would open thq door id all kinds of changes. Mr. NORTH observed, that he foresaw when he first read the original bill) and he would . undertake to say that every lawyer in the house agreed with him, that the bill would never be presented for the appro- bation of the Crown. Whatever might be thought of the fitness of its end, the means by which that end was to be obtained were so manifestly insufficient, that it was impossible that any government, after due consideration, could think of adopting the bill as it was originally introduced. It showed distinctly that those by whom it had been prepared had not fathomed the depths of the subject to which it referred. Every page of it betrayed marks of doubt, haste, and imbecility. It bore 011 its face the proof of the inability of its author, and lie might apply to it the language in which a great writer had described ( he feeble and rickctty offspring of the subject of his satire: " Got . while his soul did huddled notions try, And born a shapeless lump, like anarchy." On a division the numbers were— for General Gascoyne's amendment 299— for Lord John Russell'* motion 291— majority against Ministers 8. ftttucellancous Entelligence. EXTENSIVE FAIHJRE(.— The chief topic of con- versation in Birmingham, during the present week, has been tbe failure of Mr. U L. Chance, the glass- merchant, of London; and Mr. Ba'dams, the exten- sive working chemist, of this town. The obliga- tions of the former are said to amount to at least £ 200,000, while those of the latter will approach nearer £ 300,000. Both failures were known in Birmingham on Saturday last Various reports arc afloat as to the immediate cause of these stoppages— fhe same cause has doubtless, operated in both. Mr. Badams drew largely upon Mr. Chance, and it k said that not less than £ 75,000 of these acceptances are now afloat. The House of Richards and Macintosh, of London, were the first to strike the blow againkt Mr. Badams; they took possession of all his works yesterday week, by an execution under a judgment bond for £ 52,000. In addition to this security, it is said that the same house have heavy mortgage's upon Mr. Badam's property. All our bankers are, we believe, more Or less sufferers, and two or three ti » a very heavy amount.— Birmintiham Journal. CAVTION TO TITI'. UNWARY.— A gang of impostors and cheats having for some time past taken up their abode in this city and neighbourhood, we feel it our duty to put the public upon their guard against their operations. These worthies have tbe garb and ap- pearance of seafaring men, and are constantly on the look out for such persons as seem likely to be tempted by a display of real India handkerchiefs, ( purposely manufactured in this country,) and brilliant gold wateli- chains and seals, which are nothing more than common metal, gilt over We have heard of several instances of their success, but the following adventure dbes not appear to have been quite so . fortunate. One of the party, last week, caught hold of a simple- ton, residing near this city, and undertook to procure for him 601bs. of tobacco at 2s, a lb ; and . under due precautions to evade observation, two parcels, stated to contain tlie stipulated quantity of " the weed," were delivered to the purchaser, the latter paying down £ 3. 10s. in part, with a promise that tbe remainder of the purchase- money should be forth- coming in a few days. On conveying his bargain home, hotfever, he found, to liis dismay, ( hat the parcels contained only about a quarter of a pound' of tobacco, the remainder of the bulk being made up by stone;, segs, & c artfully packed up. The honest merchant, however, was apprehended on Saturday, and after two of ( iiree examinations at the Tolsey. was yesterday committed for three weeks* amusement at the tread- mill, as a cheat, uuder the salutary provisions of the Vagrant Act.— Gloucester Journal. It appears that one of the proprietors of the Regent coach has been apprehended by a warrant of tbe Sheriff, on suspicion of being concerned in the robbery of the Commercial Bank box in that coach.— The allegation is, that he was the person who was dressed in female apparel, and in the coach at the time of Ihe robbery. This individual is an innkeeper on the Edinburgh road. The driver of the coach is Still in custody. No traces of the money have yet been discovered.— Caledonian Mercury. A case was tried a few days ago, nt Maryborough Assizes, Queen's County, which excited some merri- ment. Mr. Pigott, of Cappard, brought an action of ejectment against a tenant, in the course of which it came out in evidence that the person for whose life the ground had been lsased to the defendants was dead for some years, and they dressed up an old beggarman, whom they placed, if not in the shoes, at least in the bed, of the deceased, where he repre. sented him for a lwgth of time. To render the delusion more complete, the room was darkened, the old gentleman's hat and wig laid on a chair beside his bed ; lest the tongue of the begsrarman might betray him, he was instructed to grunt " umph," as the sole and suflicient response to all the kind in- quiries of his neighbours. A nOBBER SHOT. A Coroner's Inquest was held last week at Church Minshull, Cheshire, 011 the body of William fcaoks, who bad been shot by one of the watchmen employed by Mr, Brereton, of that place, to watch his mills.— It appeared in evidence that the deceased and his accumplice in the robbery ( who has escaped) had actually entered tbe mill, and were called upon to surrender before the watchman fired ; and that when the deceased was brought wounded into Mr. Brere- ton's house, a flour bag dropped from under his great coat. Mr. Brereton's mill had been so frequently robbed before that he was under the necessity of employing watchmen to protect his property.— Tho Jury returned a verdict of Justifiable Homicide. The Rev. Mr. Clenientson, the clergyman of the parish, attended the wretched man, who thus fe! l a victim to his propensity for crime, with the mo. t unremitting attention, from Sunday afternoon until within a few hours of his death. He seemed during the solemn moments of exhortation and prater to suffer deep mental agony; and as he was sensible to the last, there is reason to suppose that he would have made some disclosures respecting his accom- plices, had it not been for undue influence exercisid over his mind. The deceased bad latterly been em- ployed at brick- making, by which he usually earned 30s. and 35s. per week ; and on the fatal day in which he bad proceeded to crime, he had received, from bis employer, 30s. for the labour of the week— thus demonstrating that it was not 011 account of poverty that lie pursued his lawless course. He was considered a kind of champion in those pugilistic contests which disgrace the neighbourhood of Wins- ford and Over ; and there is much reason to infi r that he was deeply implicated with the gaiig who have so long infested those pints.