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Date of Article: 27/05/1832
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T TOWN " IN TOWN, OUT OF TOWN— ALL THE WORLD OVER." IO 22- MAY 27, 1832 Price RPHE MIRROR OF PARLIAMENT. It is presumed that, with reference to the unexampled inte- rest and excitement which have already been created, and are likely to be called into action for many years to come, not only with re- gard to the great question of Reform, but to those questions of Ec- clesiastical and Mercantile Polity, which, besides the affairs of the Established Church, and the East and West India Interests, involve, moreor less, the well- being of every community in the Kingdom ;— the anxiety of the British Public has been universally aroused to the necessity of securing a permanent Record, without curtailment, favour, or bias, of all the discussions of their Legislature, both on private and'on public business. 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TONGUES OF SUPERIOR QUALITY.- Tongues for side dishe3, or breakfast, Popular Works published by W. R. M'Phun, Glasgow, and Simpkin and Marshall, London. I. PROFESSOR WILSON'S SPEECH, Delivered at the Conservative Meeting, held in Edinburgh, on the 28th November, 1831. This splendid piece of eloquence is published without curtailment or mutilation, and as nearly as possible in the state in which it was delivered by its highly gifted author. It is particularly addressed to the conservative party in Church and State, and is perhaps one of the most eloquent and masterly performances which has appeared on either side of the question. II. New Edition, corrected, first series complete, Five Volumes, 8vo. price 2/. THE GLASGOW MECHANICS' MAGAZINE. Great pains have been bestowed upon tbe present edition of this work in its progress through the press. 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ECONOMY IN HUMAN LIFE.— In Italian. L'Economia della vita umana, di Dndsley. ' l'radotta, Da B. Aloisa. " This is one of those useful initiatory works which tend to faci- litate so much the progress of the student, while it renders his path smoother and more easy. We recommend it to the attention of bolh master and scholar. The private student will, in particular, derive benefit from its perusal. We know of no book better fitted to put into the hands of those wishing to learn Italian than this."— Edin- burgh Literary Gazette. DOUBLE- PATENT PERRYIAN PEN.— The flexibilily of this entirely new instrument is so absolutely na- tural, that the action of the pen " in metal" can now no longer be distinguised from that of the goosequill. Nor does this pen possess the properly of durability in a less eminent degree than that of flexi- bilily. Its construction, also, is such, that it accommodates itself to writers and writing of all descriptions. The packets are of two sizes— the larger containing nine pens, price 3s. ; the smaller, four, price Is. 6d. To be had of all booksellers, stationers, and dealers in Metallic Pens, as also at the Perryian Pen Manufactory, No. 37, Red Lion square.— All the other kinds of the Patent Perryian Pens, namely, the Office, the Classed, and the Varnished, at the usual prices. DUGGIN'S PATENT VENTILATING BEA- VER HATS are acknowledged to be the best kind of Hats everyet invented ; they are exceedingly light, only four ounces and three quarters; will never injure by wet, lose their colour or shape, and will not prevent the egress of perspiration, which has been so much the complaint of Water proof Hats, often pro- ducing Ihe head- ache and the loss of hair. Priee 21s. and 2tis. Drab, Brown, and Lady's Riding Hats at the same pricc. To be had only of the Patentees, Duggin and Co., 80, Newgate- slreet, near the New Post Olfice. N. B. Waterproof Beaver, i8s.; Light Silk Hats, from 9s. 6d. to 18s.; Boys' and youths' Beaver Hats, from 5s. 6d. to 18s.; Gentlemen's and Boys' Caps of every de- scription. ARTIFICIAL TEETH PLACED by Mr. E. BYRNE, 20, Bernard* street, on the most scientific princi- ples, have given universal satisfaction since his commencement iri business. Mr. E. B. unceasingly labours to maintain the increasing confi- dence of the public. Every operation performed by him, and every artificial piece put out of his hands, will bear comparison with the . works of the first men in the profession, u hilst his prices have been fixed on a scale so moderate that he cannot be under- sold by the jnost humble. Mr, B^ irne has a Vacancy for an Out- door Apprentice. BRITISH COLLEGE OF HEALTH, NEW- llOAD, KING'S- CROSS, LONDON. MR. MORISON, the President, and Mr. MOAT, The Vi" e- President, in conjunction with all the Honorary Members, and Country Agents of the British College of Health, being now fully borne out with the conviction, approbation, and indubitable proofs, of upwards of 200,000 individuals ( who had been thrown aside by the Facult3f, and out of the Hospitals, as in- curable) having been restored to sound health by the " Universal Medicines — with all this incontrovertible nia^ s of exidence in sup- port of the Hygeian Theory and Practice, which challenges the con- troversy of the whole body of Medicists, under the old system to subvert, they, the heads of the College, hesitate not to declare, in the face of the Faculty, that this new light must completely change the whole course of the Materia Medica, and introduce a new era in the science of physic: that, in fact, mankind will be taught, in future, a new and certain mode of investigating the nature and cause of Diseases in general, and of possessing a certain and harmless mode of cure, making every individual his own efficient doctor. In confirmation of what is here asserted, the heads of the College mean to insert, in this Paper, a continued series of new cases, from indi- viduals giving their names, residences, and dates of time of cure, all of which have been voluntarily given, and ascertainable as to the facts by inquiry. TO MESSRS. MORISON AND MOAT. GENTLEMEN— Having received a letter from Captain Langley, of the trading vessel Joseph, of this port, who lately arrived at Hull from Riga, I transmit you a copy, which you will feel to be your duty to publish to all the world. " DEAR FRIEND— Respecting the Universal Medicines of tlie British College of Health, which you so fortunately provided me with at Sunderland, 1 have every reason to believe, and indeed I am convinced, that they were the means of preserving my own life as well as some hundreds more at Riga, a great many of which I was an eye witness to. " On my first arrival at Riga, I commenced taking the Pills as a preventive or preparation for the attack, to stay its violence if as- sailed ; by which means a free passage through the body prevented the infectious air from producing that fatal cramp in the stomach and limbs which has caused the death of thousands. On the 28th of May, however, I was most violently seized with that dreadful disorder, and for the first four hours was in a deplorable state ; but thank God, from the precautions I had used, the noxious air passed through my body, with very slight attacks of the cramp, and a few strong doses of the Universals soon restored me to health. All my men ( except one, who was too timid to take the Pills with suffi- cient strength, from the fear of being too violently purged, who died in a few hours) took the Pills night and morning, and were saved. ** To satisfy the poor fellow who died I got him some medicine on shore, but it took no effect in the least, as he ceased to exist soon after, first becoming cold as a lump of ice, and of a dark blue colour. I cannot think the cholera infectious or contagious from the touch, as none of us were affected from handling the corpse. " I left Riga on the 8th of June, and got down to Bauldra the same day, all well, but on the 10th the mate and a boy were both taken ill with this dreadful disease, and for six days were in a dis- tressing state ; but with a close and powerful application of the Pills were restored to full health. " I am happy to say I have every reason to believe that this Medicine alone is all- sufficient to stop the ravages of this dreadful evil, but that its powers are best applied at an early stage, or as a prepar live. The value of the medicine was in the highest estimation at Riga, and great lamentations were made at the scanty supply that could be obtained from me and the rest of the vessels who had supplies from you. Had I had 100/. worth more I could have sold them all, even to the French doctors that were there." The whole of the letters that have come to Sunderland from these vessels- which had supplies of the medicines out, speak with raptures of their efficacy. 1 remain, gentlemen, your humble servant, MICHAEL GARDNER. Bishop Wearmouth, August 1, 1831. To MR. MORISON. SIR— I return you my most grateful thanks for the wonderful cure performed on me in that dreadful complaint, the Cholera Morbus, with which 1 have been attacked in a very serious manner, and which must have proved fatal to me, had it not been for the prompt use of " Morison's Vegetable Universal Medicines," under the direction of your agent, Mr. Poole, in the Liverpool- road, which gave me immediate relief, and, in the short space of five days, a perfect cure. When attacked, my strength appeared to wholly leave me ; my sight was nearly gone, and my body was in a convulsed state all over, with the usual concomitants attending this dire disease; sick Headache and violent purging, with a fright- ful discharge of blood : all of which gave way to perfect cure in five days, and I am now in the enjoyment of full health and strength. Wilh thanks to God for my recovery, and for the be- nefit of other sufferers, and those that may be attacked with this too frequent ( if not stopped in time) fatal disease, you are at li- berty to give my name whatever publicity you please, in order that others may know where 10 apply for a safe aud certain remedy. Anxious that all the world, at this time of excitement, may reap the benefits of my happj experience, I am, Sir, your humble Servant, 49, Thomas- street, Manchester, July 21, 1831. JOHN CARR. The " Vegetable Universal Medicines' are to be had at the College, New- road, King's- cross, London ; at. the Surrey Branch 96., Great Surrey- street, Blackfriars; Mr. Field's, No. 16, Air- street, Quadrant; Mr. Chappell's, Royal Exchange; Mr. Walker's, Lamb's Conduit- passage, Red Lion- square; Mr. J. Loft's, 10, Mi le-. end road ; Mr. Bennett's, Covent garden- market; Mr. Hay- don's, Fleur- de- lis- court, Norton Falgate ; Mr. Haslett's 147, Rat- cliife highway ; Messrs. 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The funds of tbe society provide for its members in sickness, old age, burial, and for survivors at death. The society beg to return sincere thanks to their numerous patrons, including royally, nobility, and many of the first families in the kingdom, for the extensive and generous patronage bestowed on them during ihe last fourteen years, and hope by their humble en- deavours to merit future fa vours; at the same time earnestly solicit a trial, as the only criterion by which the merits and decided ad- vantages of this establishment can be fairly estimated. Every ar- ticle is marked at the lowest ready- money price, and from which no abatement is made; they are all warranted, and, if a fault appears exchanged within 12 months, free from charge of any kind. A printed list of articles and prices will be forwarded on addressing the Secretary, by letter, post paid only. By order of the Trustees, 71, Leadenhall- street, City. THOMAS HASI. EH, Sec. REVIEWS. The Contrast. By the Author of " Matilda." In three vols. Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley. Oh, Mr. Colburn 1 Mr. Colburn 1— if ever man deserved to be burnt upon a pile of " the last new novels," surely thou art he I We speak, however, in supposing this punishment, with much deference to proficients in chemistry, for we are not quite sure that the " last new novels" would burn. That at a parti- cular temperature there would be an affinity between the oxygen of the atmosphere, and the paper on which they are printed, we do not doubt ; but what we do doubt is, whether the lead of the matter might not destroy the tendency to combustion. However, leaving these discussions for the rationale of the more scientific, we assert that if ever individual injured litera- ture, it is this bookseller. Omar, the barbarian, is laudable in comparison : for he merely destroyed a library ; but this man has corrupted the minds of a generation. It must not be supposed that we mean to declare that the false and vicious taste which now prevails in this most important branch of human knowledge, was created by a bookseller ; the seeds of it were in existence when he began his career. Tory supremacy was then unquestioned; and, unconsciously, thousands were prepared to grovel before the despotism of fashion. He had acuteness enough to see the tendency of the public mind, and the pecuniary advantages which might be derived from it; and with an activity in mischief, equalled only by that of the locust, he began to feed and to pamper it with every vicious incentive. The action was reciprocal ; the speculation surpassed all anticipation ; and thus, this par nobile, the passion and the pimp, mutually fat- tened and flourished, until a system was established which has not only corrupted literature, and its sources, but penetrated into our households, and tainted the best feelings of social life. Where is the language which can offer an equivalent word for that precious coinage of English heartlessness— to cut ? It is a simple monosyllable, but it is painfully copious in meaning. It indicates a state of society utterly sophisticated, devoid of every warm, sincere, and liberal feeling. It represents supercilious- ness, dastardly subserviency, prejudice, and frivolity. Yet these are vices which, if not created, have been cherished and encou- raged by " fashionable novels." When an artificial vice has once thoroughly subdued the mind, it exercises a more arbitrary, enervating, and continuous in- fluence over it, than even a natural one. The envious are not always the prey of envy, nor the drunkard of ebriety ; but the man that has been enslaved by factitiousness, is always factitious. With these feelings strong upon us, we confess that we did not take up " the Contrast" with any impressions in its favour.'— Inclined to consider it, as we generally consider books of this description, the offspring of Mr. Colburn's golden suggestions, we felt strangely inclined to alter one letter in its title— to sub- stitute a c for the s ; for " the Contract" would, in the ma- jority of cases, be too correct a designation for these productions. The volume opens with a very flippant advertisement, in a style and taste which few could imagine Lord Mulgrave would have assumed. His Lordship has a strange fear of giving to his book " the family appellation of his hero," or " any two or three mellifluous, though unmeaning syllables, in the shape of a proper name." After reading this remark, it is rather amusing to recollect, that almost without an exception, every first- rate work of fiction has received for its title the designation of its hero, or heroine. The instances of this predilection are almost innumerable, but we will content ourselves with mention- ing, Don Quixote, Gil Bias, Tom Jones, Peregrine Pickle, Cla- rissa Harlowe, Cecilia, Evelina, Corinne, Mathilde, Atala, Caleb Williams, Ivanhoe, and Quentin Durward. Here, however, ends our censure. " The Contrast" is a light, pleasing, readable book. It does not exhibit any of the higher flights of genius ; but the story is prettily conceived, and skil- fully executed. There is so much individuality in the characters that we are half inclined to suspect the majority of them are por- traits. The style is colloquial, and generally unpretending.— Many of the remarks are very acute, and the interest is sustained till the termination ; we cannot say, through every page, for we think some of the rural portions have a tendency to tediousness. In fact, Mrs. Darnell is rather a bore, though perhaps very natu- ral— but nature is not always agreeable. The following extract will speak for itself :— A HONEYMOON. " A Honeymoon 1 ' Tis a strange term 1— an ambiguous de- finition of the period of time which it describes : a singular compound of two incongruous parts— honey and moon. What has the moon, ' the inconstant moon,' to do with that whose ' sweets do pall with sameness ?' Is there any sly sarcasm con- veyed in the term ?— any lurking insinuation, that where a bless- ing has been ' daily swallowed by men's eyes, they surfeited with honey;' and that, as the match- making Friar Lawrence says, ' is loathsome in its own deliciousness ?' But, no— it cannot be. When at sea for a meaning, one seeks the aid of a dictionary to pilot one back to sense, and Johnson defines a honeymoon as ' the first month after marriage, when there is nothing but ten- derness and pleasure;' and as this lexicographical lover had tried it himself, he must have spoken from an experience of his o ma sensations,— for, with all the merits of his laborious com- pilation, he is never known to have given a signification in direct opposition to his own feelings and prejudices. It is a curious image this raises to one's mind— Doctor Johnson passing a whole month in which there was nothing but ' tenderness and plea- sure 1' " For these sensations also must, to exist, have been recipro- cal ; he must have found another who would lavish similar ten- derness on him,— derive parallel pleasure from him. And our wonderment increases that such should have been the impression, which he chose to perpetuate in folio sheets for ever, when one recollects that he was married to a woman twice his own age ; and as it is insinuated by one of his female gossips, he had begun by being in love with his future bride's daughter. Add to this, that his own account of his ride to church does not accord with the immediate prelude to a honied sequel. Johnson about to become a bridegroom, in love, and on horseback, at one and the same time, is an image almost to upset gravity. He states that on their ride from Birmingham to Derby, they quar- relled two or three times about the pace, and says, ' I was not to be made the slave of caprice, and I resolved to begin as I meant to end ; I therefore pushed on briskly till I was fairly out of her sight; I contrived that she should soon come up with me ; when she did, I observed her to be in tears.' " Here does not seem to have been much tenderness on his part, or one would think much pleasure on hers ; but there is no disputing about tastes ; and even after this unpropitious be- ginning, Johnson, upon experience, defines the honey- inoon as ' a month in which there is nothing but tenderness and plea- sure.' There have been, however, others not so well calculated to pamper themselves with such unalloyed lusciousness, who have found the taste of the honey infused with a well- known taint of bitterness; and others may have suspected that some of the wax had, in that honied space, somewhat clogged the wings of time." The manner of expression is sometimes rather obscure ; in deed, in some instances, so very obscure, that we suspect the fault must lie with the printer. Ocacasionally, too, the language is inac- curate. There are no such words as inebriety and responsibility. If Lord Mulgrave will take the trouble of turning to Johnson's dictionary, he will find that these terms are colloquial— we sup- pose that we must not say vulgar, as a man of fashion has used them— corruptions of ebriety, and responsibleness. There are one or two other errors of an equally trivial description ; but as we neglected to mark them when we read the book, we cannot now specify them. The Contrast can scarcely be called a " fashionable" novel. Though many of the scenes occur among the higher classes of society, yet it contains little of the offensive cant of fashion; and treats less of forms, than of actions and feelings. Before we conclude, we must add, in reference to our previous remarks, that theother leading booksellers are not guiltless of pro- ducing the literary debasement we have reprobated. With a supineness perfectly unaccountable, they yielded before the Bur- lington despot's attempts at aggrandisement; and, with scarcely an opposing effort, they allowed the dirty puddle to become a Maelstroom, and swallow all minor opposition in its vortices. They too frequently preferred the safe, but ignoble, course of reprint- ing spelling- books, dictionaries, and various publications for schools, which return a certain annual income, to the honest, and honourable risk of attempting to discover and encourage literary talent; and of thereby earning for themselves a station and name in the world above that of sordid and calculating tradesmen. The Radical: an Autobiography. By the Author of " The Member," " The Ayrshire Legatees," & c.— James Fraser. It is singular, and ungratifying to find in the present day, an author of eminence, the victim of political prejudice. Mr. Gait, we believe, is neither a place- hunter nor a toad- eater ; we know him to be intelligent, affable, gentlemanly, and benignant. Ap- parently unambitious, and devoid of the irritating craving of distinction which instigates the many, he appears more desirous of the respect, than of the admiration of society. He is, then, a Tory, neither through cupidity nor spleen— and yet, lie is a Tory. Had we more knowledge of his previous life, it were curious, and perhaps profitable, to trace and investigate the causes which have effected so undesirable an end in the mind of an individual of so much ability. The style of this little volume is quaint and ironical; but, sooth to say, the matter has not amused us so much as we had anticipated. Perhaps, however, the fault lies partially in our own prepossessions and prejudices ; and the Radical has, and will have, among less captious readers, so many admirers, that we shall not be missed, if we do not rank ourselves among the most enthusiastic. The Fair of May Fair.— Colburn and Bentley. Mrs. Gore is the author of two of the most elegant tales with which we are acquainted—" The Princess's Birth- day," and the " Bride of Zante." They are both quite beautiful; the extra- ordinary playfulness and graceful originality of the one, is as striking as the delightful interest and deep pathos of . the. other. Yet, are these the works that have made their autho* r » name familiar to the public ? No ; Mrs. Gore is only known by the majority of novel- readers as the writer of the i' Manners of the Day," " Mothers and Daughters," " Pin Money," " The Opera," & c. & c. Thanks to Mr. Colburn, and the discrimina- tion of the intelligent generation who are biassed by his para- graphs 1 This lady has talents of the very first order. Elaent^ lyo THE TOW1T, May 27 powerful, and elegant in her diction ; imaginative and compre- hensive in the conception of her plots; and wonderfully clear in the development of them: possessed of great passion, and of greater female delicacy, Mrs. Gore deservedly takes a very high station among the novelists of the day. But she should, might, and must, achieve an even more exalted reputation than she has yet attained. Fashion and Mr. Colburn have been her bane. Circulating among the class which she describes ; with an end- less monotonous variety of characters before her ; an almost unparalleled fertility in composition, and a bookseller first to suggest the subjects, and then to pay for the execution of them, Mrs. Gore has been tempted to depart from those higher walks of fiction which ultimately would most assuredly have led to higher fame and to higher profit. These volumes comprise six different tales,— The Flirt of Ten Seasons ; the Separate Maintenance ; Hearts and Diamonds ; a Divorcee ; My Grand- daughter ; and the Special License. We consider them all as very superior to one or two of Mrs. Gore's recent productions. There is more of nature and less of fashion; more of passion, and less of artifice. The Flirt of Ten Seasons is not only an extremely ingenious, but a highly moral tale ; we could name many a young lady whose attention we would wil- lingly direct to it. But our favourites are, the Separate Main- tenance, and the Special License. Mrs. Gore possesses, in a very eminent degree, the talent of writing short stories. Offering little space for the involution and evolution of plot, the difficulty of investing them with a sustained interest is very great. If the incidents be too few, the tale is tedious ; if too many, the tale is obscure. In her selection of the middle course, Mrs. Gore is generally peculiarly happy ; she always contrives to adapt the complication of her machinery to the extent of her pages. The action does not linger in one portion, and then advance as much too rapidly in another, but proceeds at one regular pace throughout. One feels, in every line, that the author had thoroughly digested her conception before she began to execute it; and consequently that she writes with a truth and a certainty, rarely combined with a fertile and vigorous imagination. These are great merits, and in the subject of our present re- view Mrs. Gore exhibits them to their fullest extent. Cordially, therefore, recommending these tales to the attention of the public, as some of the very cleverest productions of their class, we now take our leave of them, subjoining the following extract: « Rupert had been the friend of Raymond's father previous to his own departure for India. He was a man of what is called ' no family ;' that is, he was the son of a yeoman of some twenty pure descents of yeoman blood. But whereas this twenty- first representative of the Ormes of Barleyholme chanced to be at once a man of no family and the father of one of considerable extent, Rupert, his ninth son, was dispatched to India under the patronage of a Leadenhall- street godfather, at a period when the Pagoda tree, having been less roughly shaken than now, was still prolific of golden fruit. At twenty- one years of age, he was appointed Judge of a district with an unpronouncable name, somewhere midway between Bombay and Calcutta ; where he found himself destined to pass as many more years as he had al- ready breathed the breath of life, among a tribe of dingy heathens, of whom it would be difficult to say whether the idol divinities or their human prototypes were the more hideous. " Residing thus in the midst of fellow- creatures with whom he had neither possessed an idea in common nor could exchange a single observation, it is plain that his own ideas must have mul- tiplied exceedingly, and his own observations waxed most abun- dant. He became a sort of Nepaulitan Jaques,— a free commoner of the mango- groves,— a muser among the paddy- fields,— a Cowper, substituting a cage of tiger- whelps for one of domesti- cated hares,— a bowl of sangaree for the bubbling and loud- hiss- ing urn,— and the lotus of the Ganges for the water- lily of the Ouse. He was an amiable philosoper, walking about with a Welch nightcap and tassel amid the shadows of the banyan trees, and the haunts of the Cabra de Capellas. " But not even the most amiable philosophy is proof against the irritation of bilious disorganization. Cowper himself, the mild Melanctlion, or Shenstone of the purling rills, would have become fretful, and like Shakspeare's soldier ' full of strange oaths,' had they been grilled into a liver complaint, or stewed over the slow fire of Hindostanic earth. At five and forty, Rupert Orme was as yellow as a ripe magnum- honum plum ; at fifty, as brown and as speckled as an Havanuah cigar ; at fifty- five, he was seen scudding laboriously at the regular constitution trot on the Montpelier Parade, at Cheltenham Spa ; and at sixty, he had been refused by his friend Raymond's widow,— was esta- blished as the proprietor of a fine house in Portland- Place,— and ( in spite of his caxon and velveteens) as the favourite friend and adviser of the gifted Margaret." Expenditure in the department of the Lord Steward of his late Majesty's Household. Parliamentary Paper, No. 17, Sess. 1830. 1829. PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. Bread £ 2,565 Butter, Bacon, Cheese, and Eggs .. .. 4,269 Vegetables 679 Butcher Meat .. .. 7,283 Poultry 2,922 Fish 1,325 Ale and Beer .. .. 2,466 Wax Candles .. .. 3,813 Tallow Candles .. .. 720 Grocery 3,222 Oilery 29,264 Fruit and Confectionary Milk and Cream Wines, Liqueurs, Spirits, Corks, Mineral Wa- ters, Bottles, & c. .. Lamps Washing Table Linen Fuel Stationary Turnery 1,446 1,246 7.161 6,758 2,582 7,665 6,697 340 Braziery, Ironmongery, and Cutlery .. .. £ 769 China, Earthenware, and Glass 860 Linen 337 The Royal Gardens .. 13,309 Maundy Expenses .. 272 BoardWages to Servants 3,513 Travelling Expenses of ditto Allowance forTableBeer Salaries to Extra Ser- vants, pay of hired Assistants, & c. .. Board Wages to Yeomen of the Guard Composition in lieu of articles formerly is- sued in kind .. .. 2,783 Sundries and disburse- ments 8,212 357 301 2,622 2,230 Amount paid .. £ 93,597 Board of Green Cloth. 1830. THOMAS MARRABLE. 15th September, Specification of articles, the cost of which is above 500?., pur- chased in 1815 for the Prince Regent. From a Parliamentary Paper :— AclockforCarltonHouse £ 735 A pair of girandoles, do 525 Two pair of candelabras, • - ditto 1,575 Two cabinets for do. .. 1,000 One do. do. .. 500 A twenty- four light lus- tre for ditto .. .. 840 A Gothic lantern for do. 556 Do. do. do 556 A pair of bronze satyrs, do. 525 TO CARLTON HOUSE. An oval salver .. .. 502 A brilliant star .. .. 558 An ornament for plateau £ 787 A plateau 1,876 A sabre 596 Two ornaments for dessert 1,196 Two pictures of the P. Regent set in diamonds 1,435 A brilliant star .. .. 3,155 Do. do. badge .. 1,045 Do. do. star .. 690 Two ornaments for dessert 1,126 A brilliant George .. 1,517 A rich chased stand for sideboard .. ,. 583 A brilliant badge .. 3,353 HOUSE OF LORDS, MONDAY, MAY 21. Lord Amesbury ( late member for Berkshire) took the oaths and his seat. Dr. Grey was introduced by the Bishops of Bristol and St. David's, and took the oaths and his seat as the Bishop of Hereford. After several petitions had been presented, The Duke of NEWCASTLE inquired whether a letter, which appeared in a Morning Paper, purporting to be from tbe King to Earl Grey, was authentic? Earl GREY replied that it was not. Oil tbe Duke of Newcastle giving notice that he intended to bring forward, attlie earliest opportunity, the motion of which he had be- fore given notice, respecting the creation of peers, a lengthened and desultory conversation took place, in which the Marquis of Cleveland, Lords Ellenborough, Wharncliffe, and Gage, the Earls Grey, Eldon, ltoden, Wicklow, Malinesbury, and Winchilsea, and the Lord Chancellor, and the Duke of Buckingham, took apart, Tbe House having resolved into committee, Earl GREY moved that schedule C stand part of tbe bill. Lord ELLENBOROUGH moved an amendment, which he prefaced by a long speech to the effect that tbe following towns Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Sheffield, Sunderland, Wolver- hampton, Bolton, Bradford, Blackburn, Halifax, Macclesfield, Stoke- upon- Trent, Stockport, Stroud, Frome, Huddersfield, Kid- derminster, Warrington, Whitby, Hull, and Tynemouth, should be substituted for those enumerated in schedule C. The LORD CHANCELLOR replied ; and after some observa- tions by Lords Wynford Wharnclide, and Scgrave, and the Earls of Winchilsea, Haddington, and Darrdey, tbe amendment was negatived without a division, and the original question agreed to. The question was then put that Manchester stand part of sche- dule C. Agreed to. The following places were also ordered lo form part of schedule C :— Birmingham and Leeds. On the question that Greenwich stand part of schedule C, Lord ELLENBOROUGH moved an amendment, that the word Frome be substituted for that of Greenwich, which, after a few words from the Lord Chancellor and Earl of Winchilsea w as nega- tived, aud the original question agreed to. Sheffield and Sunderland were ordered to stand part of the sche- dule, without observation. On the question that Devonport be inserted in the schedule, Lord ELLENBOROUGH suggested that an adjournment should take place, on account ofthe apparent indisposition of the House to proceed further. ( No, no.) Lord DURHAM thought that they might proceed as far as Wol- verhampton. Lord WYNFORD wished the House to adjourn. ( No.) The Duke of NEWCASTLE said it was quite a mockery to proceed with the bill when so little attention was paid to it. He thought it would be better to agree to tbe bill at once without fur- ther discussion. (" Hear," from the Ministerial benches.) Lord ELLENBOKOUGH said he was sorry to hear that cheer from the other side. For his part be was disposed to discuss the bill with the utmost fairness ; but if he were prevented from doing so, he would tell noble lords that it should not pass for six months. On the question that Devonport ( Devonshire) stand part of schedule C, Lord WYNFORD rose to propose that Devonport be struck out of the schedule, with the understanding that it should be united to Plymouth. After a few words from Earls Grey, Morley, and the Marquis of Salisbury, the question was put and carried that Devonport stand part of schedule C. Wolverhampton ( Staffordshire) was also placed in schedule C without opposition. The House then adjourned at 12 o'clock to Tuesday. TUESDAY, MAY 22. On the motion of the Bishop of DURHAM, the Durham Uni- versity Bill w'as read a second time. Lord MELBOURNE moved that the Irish Tithes Bill be com- mitted on Wednesday. PEERAGE CREATIONS.— The Duke of NEWCASTLE moved for a copy of tbe King's letter to Earl Grey in which his Majesty was pleased to invest the noble earl with a carte blanche power to create peers (" bear" and a laugh) in order to carry the reform bill through that house; and of two letters to certain noble lords, recommending tlieni to abstain from all opposition to ibe bill as the only mode of preventing the necessity of the noble earl's acting upon his Majesty's permission. Earl GREY said, with respect to the first of the supposed letters moved for by the noble duke, the only one which he could be called upon to notice, all he could say was, that it must be plain upon the face of it tbat if such a letter did exist, it must be a private one ( hear, hear) from his Majesty to one of his ministers, and as such it must be equally clear that it would be highly unfitting and in- decorous to produce it. He therefore trusted the noble duke would not have his motion put from tbe chair, as, if it were, it must be en- tered on tbeir lordships'journals. The Dulje of CUMBERLAND was sure that his noble friend was not aware of the true character and intent of the motion, other- wise he would not hesitate a moment in withdrawing it. The letier must be, on Ihe face of it, a private one ; and be would ask, whether any gentleman cuuld conscientiously produce a letier addressed to him in his private capacity ? Besides, the motion would bear, under existing circumstances, a factious character, which, after the events of Ihe last few days, it was desirable to avoid. From these events it must be plain that tbe sooner the reform question was settled the better ( bear, bear); and God forbid that, however strong might be his own objections to the noble end's measure— and they were im- movably strong— tbat be should offer it a factious opposition. ( Hear, and a laugh.) He was anxious tbat ibis should be known to the country ; for he declared before God and man, tbat he bad never considered the bill in tbe spirit of factious opposition. The Duke of NEWCASl'LE would bow to the sense of the House. The motion was accordingly withdrawn. REFORM BILL.— Their lordships then again resolved into committee on the reform bill, and proceeded with schedule C, commencing with the motion tbat tbe borough of the " Tower Ham- lets" do stand part of the said sclie ule. The Earl of Carnarvon opposed it, declaring that opposition was vain, as the independence of the House was gone ; but Lord Ellenborough declared that if he stood " alone" he would divide the committee on it. Lord Durham strongly defended tbe proposition. After some discussion, their lordships divided respecting the Tower Hamlets. Tbe numbers were— For enfranchising that district as a borough, 91 | Against it, 36. Majority ill favour of ministers, 55. The other metropolitan districts were then enfranchised without any divisions oil the propositions ; and the remaining items of schedule C were afterwards adopted. The committee next proceeded to schedule D, containing the list of places henceforth to return one member each ; and the places proposed were adopted. In tbe course of the discussion on this part of the bill, the Earl of WINCHILSEA look occasion to say, the noble earl ( Grey) bad alluded to bis ( Lord Wincbilsea's) con- duct on that fatal measure, the Catholic bill; but tliat measure had not been carried in the same dictatorial manner as this. He would assert, that there was an end to independence on that ( tbe oppo- sition) side of tbe house ; and it was under that impression that in- dividual members had left tbe house. ( Question.) " 1 am speak- ing to the question,'' said the noble lord; " let the individual who calls ' question' stand forth and face me." ( Order.) Lord LYTTELTON rose to order. The cry of " question" came from his lips; for when he heard the noble earl proceeding to dis- cuss, in terms sufficiently strong, a question not before the House, sitting, as he ( Lord Lyttelton) did, next to the Earl Marshal, and first peer of the realm, aud finding this most offensive subject intro- duced in so disorderly a manner ( Here the noble lord was in- terrupted by cries of " order.") ' After a few words from Earl Grey, the debate proceeded. Lord KENYON, after stating bis objections to Oldham being included in schedule C, went on to say, but when, indeed, they considered tbe object and the tenour of the bill, the matter became quite immaterial; for the intent of the bill was, that the monarchy should be destroyed, by forcing the measore on * reluctant Sove- reign, by a threat, that if he would nut consent to the bill, he should be left alone, without any ministers to conduct his affairs : conduct so unmanly, so atrocious Earl GREY.—" So atrocious ! I will ask your lordships whether this is language fit to be used in this house ? ( Cries of' hear, hear.') For my own part, I reject the terms used by the noble lord with contempt and scorn." ( Loud cheers from the ministerial benches.) Lord KENYON.—" I rise to repeat the words. I consider the conduct of tbe noble earl unmanly and atrocious, to call upon the Crown to do tbat which would destroy the independence of a branch of the legislature. ( Cheers from the opposition.) Whether the noble earl think these terms justifiable or not, as this House lias not yet lost the privilege of freedom of speech, I repeat, it is a most atrocious act to call upon tbe Crown to exercise its prerogative for the purpose of destroying the independence of one branch of the legislature. After tbe terms used by the noble earl ( Cries of " Order," and Hear.") Earl GREY.— I again say, that any thing . more unparliamentary ( cheers), any thing more disorderly ( cheers), than the manner in which the ru ble lord has thought proper to apply those words to me I never heard since I have had a place in this house. ( Loud cries of " hear" from the ministerial side.) It is for your lordships to act as you think proper; for me, I shall be content to repel these terms with all the indignation ( cheers), with all the scorn ( cheers), and with all the contempt I can express. ( Loud cheering.) But I have a right to complain, that on a question which lias no relation to the subject referred to by the noble lord, topics of this nature should be introduced. ( Hear, hear.) Let him arraign my conduct; I am ready to justify it: I am ready to show that 1 have done no- thing inconsistent with the duty I owe to my Sovereign and to my country; nothing inconsistent with that debt of gratitude which is due from me to a Sovereign who has treated me wilh a degree of kindness and confidence whieh I have never before received from a sovereign. ( The noble earl spoke with some emotion). I reject this imputation, therefore, as 1 reject every other imputation of the noble lord. The Duke of CUMBERLAND assured tbe House that his sole object in rising was, to implore noble lords to tranquillize themselves, and to consider the situation of the country. ( Hear, hear.) He should have nothing to do with the discussion if this proceeding in the bouse were continued. He certainly did not approve of the bill; but God forbid tbat he should oppose it in such a manner as would be productive of more harm than good. ( Hear, hear.) He therefore implored Ihe House not to be irritated, but to con- sider calmly what they were doing. He could assure them that he had no other object at heart but the salvation of his country ; and he believed that Ihe only way in which that object could be effected was, by dispassionately considering the question before tliein. After a few words from the Earls of Suffolk and Darnley the conversation dropped. It being then twelve o'clock, the chairman reported progress, and obtained leave to sit on Wednesday. WEDNESDAY, MAY 23. IRISH TITHE BILL.— Lord MELBOURNE moved the order of tbe day for the committal of this bill ; aud after a few words from the Earl of Wicklow and the Bishop of Lorxlon, tbe bill went through committee without amendment. Report on Thursday. Lord KING and the Marquis of DOWNSHIRE presented se- veral petitions against the tithe system. On the motion of Lord AUCKLAND, the civil departments navy bill was read a second time. REFORM BILL.— Tbe House having resolved itself into com- mittee on the reform bill, the question that Dudley stand part of clause D, was, after some objections made by Lord Ellenborough, agreed to. It was also agreed that Frome ( Somersetshire) stand partof sche- dule D, without an observation. On the question being put, that Gateshead ( Durham) stand part of the bill, The Marquis of LONDONDERRY objected to Gateshead,' and declared thai there was remarkable partiality shown for Dur- ham, the preponderance of representatives being given to that part of Ihe country where Lord Durham had property and influence.— He moved, as an amendment, that " Stockton- upon- Tees" be sub- stituted for " Gateshead." Lord DURHAM resisted the proposed change. His lordship admitted that he had had much to do in preparing the details4> f the bill — but he hoped it was unnecessary for him to say that the in- crease of personal influence had in no way biassed his labours.— Gateshead had a claim that placed it within the limits of this bill. Tbe amendment was eventually negatived, and Gateshead, it was agreed, should stand part of schedule D. Huddersfield, Kidderminster, Kendal ( objected to by Lord Ellenborough,) Salford ( objected to by the same noble lord,) South Shields, Tynemouth, Wakefield, Walsall ( objected to by the same noble lord,) Warrington, Whitby, Whitehaven, Merthyr Tydtil, and Aberdare, were then agreed lo. The clause was then agreed to as part of the bill. The next clause, that Shoreham, Cricklade, Aylesbury, and East Retford", shall include certain districts, was agreed to, after a few words from Lord Ellenborough and the Lord Chancellor. ' Ihe next clause, that Weymouth and Melcombe Regis return two members jointly, was agreed to, as well as the next clause, enacting tnat the boundaries of certain existing boroughs be settled. The next clause, and the schedule E, specifying the places in Wales which are lo have a share in elections for the shire- towns, were agreed to as part of the bill. The clause enacting that the boundaries of certain places in Wales be settled, was, after some observations from Lord Ellenborough, agreed to. The next clause, that Swansea, Loughor, Neath, Aberabon, and Ken- fig, form one borough, and the electors not to vole for members for Cardiff, was then agreed to ; as well as the next, the description of the returning officers for Ihc new boroughs. The clause 12, that there shall be six knights of the shire for Yorkshire, was agreed to. Lord ELLENBOROUGH then proposed a clause, giving six knights of the shire to Lancashire, two to each of the southern di- visions, which were manufacturing districts, and two to the northern division, which was agricultural. The LORD CHANCELLOR said that this clause wouldrender it necessary to disfranchise other boroughs. (" No.") He thought the clause unnecessary. A large proportion of agricultural voters had been carved out from the counties for boroughs. As the bill now stood, tbe members for Lancashire would be more agricultural than at present. After some observations from Lord Wynford, the Marquis of Salisbury, the Lord Chancellor, and Lord Wharncliffe, She com- mittee divided on the motion, when there appeared— Content .... 15 | Non content . . . . 70 Majority against Lord Ellenborough's clause, 55. Clause 14, that certain counties shall he divided, and return two knights for each division, with schedule F, was then agreed to. Clause 15, that there shall be three knights of tbe shire for cer- tain counties, enumerated in schedule F 2, was then put, and agreed to. Clause 16, that the Isle of Wight be severed froin Hampshire, and return a member, was agreed to. Clause 17, tbat towns, which are counties of themselves, be in eluded in adjoining counties for county elections, was then agreed to. On clause 18 being put, which enacts that no freehold for life shall give a vole for a county, unless it be worth 101. a year, ex- cepting present 40s. freeholders during life, l lie Marquis of SALISBURY begged to ask the noble earl ( Grey) on what ground he proposed to take away the franchise of the 40s. freeholders for life. Earl GREY.— My answer is, the rights of freeholders are pre- served for life. ( A laugh.) After some observations by the Lord Chancellor, Lord Holland, the Duke of Richmond, Marquis of Londonderry, Lords Wynford and Ellenborough, the clause was postponed.— Adjourned. THURSDAY, MAY 24. The Duke of NEWCASTLE said he wished to alter the terms of the motion of which lie had given notice, and he would, there- fore, with their lordships' permission, give notice of a motion on the subject of the undue creation of peers, for to- morrow week? and he moved that their lordships be sumiarmed for that day. Several petitions were presented relative to the Government sys- tem of education in Ireland, as far as the appropriation of a Par- liamentary grant is concerned ; and they led to much desultory conversation. Lord KING said that these petitions were useless effusions— an opinion in which the Marquis of LONDONDERRY said he did not coincide. SLAVERY.— The LORD CHANCELLOR presented a pe- tition, which measured half a mile, and was signed by 135,346 persons, praying tbeir lordships not to inquire further into the ex- pediency of abolishing the odious system of negro slavery, but to adopt measures for its immediate abolilion at the earliest period compatible with tbe substitution of judicial restraint for the present system of irresponsible power over the negro. Lord SUFF1ELD, on presenting 21 petitions for the total and immediate abolition of slavery, said, that he for one entertained no very sanguine expectations from the committee's labours, as it was mainly composed of noble West India proprietors, who examined only such witnesses as made out a case— necessarily partial and ex parte— for themselves. After some observations relative to the formation of the committee, by tbe Earl of Harewood, Lord Rolle, Viscount Goderich, the Duke of Richmond, Lord Napier, Earls of Selkirk and Ellenbo- rough, and Lord Holland, the petitions were laid on Ihe table. REFORM.— The House went into committee on the reform bill. The LORD CHANCELLOR proposed a verbal amendment in clause 18, wilh a view to secure the privilege of bona fide 40s. free- holders, while it excluded annuity votes. After a long conversation up„ n the strict legal and technical construction ofthe clause, in which the Marquis of Salisbury, the Lord Chancellor, Lord Wynford, the Earl of Malmesbury, and the Earl of Radnor participated, the clause, as amended, was agreed to. Clause 19, which extends the right of voting in counties to copy- holders, was then agreed to. Clause 20, which extends the right of voting in counties to lease- holders and occupiers of premises ofthe clear yearly value of not less than 10over and above all charges payable out of the same, was also agreed to. Clauses 21, 22, and 23, which enact respectively what should be deemed and taken as charges within the intent and meaning of the act, rendering it unnecessary that county voters should be as- sessed to Ihe land tax, and making a provision with respect to trus- tees and mortgagees, were severally agreed to without an obser- vation. On the question being put that clause 24, which enacts that no person shall be entitled to vote at the election of members to serve for any county in respect of- any freehold house or premises, occu- pied by himself, which would confer on him the right of voting for members to serve for any city or borough, stand part ofthe bill, Lord WHARNCLIFFE moved an amendment, which, after a reply from Ihe Lord Chancellor, and a few words from Lords Hol- land, Wynford, Seagrave, and King, the Earls of Malmesbury, Warw ick, Haddington, Radnor, Carnarvon, and the bishop of Lon- don, was negatived on a division, the numbers being— For the amendment . . 23 | Against it ... 84, Majority iri favour of the original clause, 61. At the suggestion of Lord WHARNCLIFFE, who stated that heintended to move an amendment which would lead to a length- ened discussion, the Chairman reported progress, and obtained leave to sit again to- morrow.— Adjourned. FRIDAY, MAY 25. Previous to their lordships resolving into committee on the reform bill, there was a good deal of conversation occasioned by an inquiry made by the Marquis of Londonderry regarding the Newcastle re- form meeting ; one of the speeches at which he read to their lord- ships, and in which speech, according to the noble marquis, there was uttered much treasonable language, and thai, too, in the pre- sence of a friend of Earl Grey ; he therefore inquired whether the noble earl had in any way sanctioned such language ? Lord GODERICH expressed a hope that Lord Grey would not answer any such inquiry. Lord WYNFORD gave it as his opinion that if such language were allowed, all treasonable as it was, the Government of the coun- try must be considered to be in the hands of political unions, and he denied the legality of these unions. Earl RADNOR complained of the language that noble lords chose to adopt, charging conduct as being treasonable, and indivi- duals as being traitors, without any sort of trial being had. Such conversation was, from tbe beginning to the end of it, illegal, injudi- cious, and unjust. Lord WYNFORD replied. Earl GREY said that the inquiry of the noble marquis was quite unjustifiable. He asked what there ever had been, in the whole course of his public life, to warrant any one in putting such a question lo him, not forgetting its implications? The chairman of the meeting lo which reference bad been made, he knew, and he respected his character; but as to the sentiments that had been read from the newspaper by the noble marquis they were such as bad not his sanction. If the noble marquis had any complaint to make, let bim bring it forward in a distinct motion, and then the ministers would know what they had to answer— not that he con- sidered that bouse to be a proper place for such discussions. The Duke of CUMBERLAND said be thought that no mam could impute to Earl Grey participation in tbe feelings of tbe speeches to which allusion had been made. After a few words from tbe Marquis of LONDONDERRY the conversation dropped. Their lordships then resolved into committee on the reform bill, beginning with the 27th ( the 101. qualification) clause, which, after some observations by Lords Wharncliffe and Wynford, the Earla of Malmesbnry and Ellenborough, was agreed. The several remaining clauses of the bill ( up to 79) were then read and agreed to. The Chairman reported progress, and obtained leave to sit again on Wednesday next, to which day tlieir lordships adjourned, at a quarter past 12. o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS, MONDAY, MAY 21. ' Lord R. GROSVENOR read the answer of his Majesty to the Address moved by Lord Ebrington. He said, his Majesty, in an- swer, says—" The state of public affairs since the 10th of Slay will sufficiently account lo the House of Commons for any delay which has occurred in reluming an answer to their address. He trusts that tiie object of that address will appear to his faithful Commons to be accomplished, since the necessity of any change in his councils has been avoided." The LORD ADVOCATE moved the order of tbe day for the second reading of the Scotch reform bill. ALLEGED LIBELS.— Lord STORMONT rose for the pur- pose, as he stated, of bringing forward his complaint respecting the stale of the public press, and inquired whether the Attorney- Gene- ral intended to institute any prosecutions to repress tbe evil. The ATTORNEY- GENERAL replied in the negative, and added, that those prosecutions would only have the effect w hich the noble lord bad himself anticipated, of giving increased circulation to the articles prosecuted, and, of course, extending their power lo dc. mischief. Tbe hon. and learned gentleman proceeded to show, that in abstaining from prosecution he followed the example set by Sir John Copley, Sir C. Wetherell, and & ir J. Scarlett, when they respectively held the office of Attorney- General. lie referred to tbe series of libels which were published in the Morning Journal against his present Majesty, then Duke of Clarence, for his vote on the Catholic question, not one of which was prosecuted. At last, after all these gross libels had been passed unnoticed, a prosecution was instituted by Lord Lyndhurst, for an article which cliargedjiim with having sold the office of Solicitor General to the hon. member for Si. Mawes ( Sir Edward Sugden) for 30,0001.— a charge which no Lord Chancellor but Lord Lyndhurst would ever have thought it worth his while to notice. At the time that prosecution was insti- tuted the Morning Journal was in arrears with the Stamp- office t » the amount of 800!., and on the very evening before the trial came on, the property of the concern was about to be seized for that debt. Tbe prosecution, however, having given notoriety lo the paper, a host of Tory Dukes and Lords came forward wilh large subscrip- tions in support of their favourite paper. The hon. and learned gentleman then proceeded to say, tbat if ever there was a publica- tion which was deserving of prosecution, it was the Times newspa- per of Friday last. ( Cheers from the opposition.) That paper May 27. T i l l ! T O W I 1 7 1 had utterly falsified what had occurred in another place, anil had put forward, as the report of a speech, what could be nothing but a base and malicious invention of some abominable libeller. ( Cheers and laughter from the Ministerial benches.) This writer actually had the impudence to say that a noble and learned lord, a criminal judge, had not only advised the prosecution of an article which ap- peared in a previous number of the Times, but said that he would not form part of an administration which would allow that paper to go without being prosecuted. This language was put into the mouth of an individual who held the highest legal office in the State in 1829, when the audacious attacks were made upon his present Majesty, to which he had recently alluded, without calling for any interference of the part of the Government. This was the conduct imputed to a judge who might be called upon to decide, at the Old Bailey, whether the paper denounced as a libel was so or not. The abominable reporter of the Times, on Friday last, made the noble lord say that he ( the Attorney General) was guilty of misprision of treason, in not proceeding against the supposed libeller. This again, he begged the House to observe, was the language attributed to a judge before whom he might have to defend himself from such a charge, with what chance of success he would leave to the House to consider. ( Hear, hear.) It should not be forgotten that in case of a writ of error being brought before the House of Lords, either in the case of misprision of treason or of libel, it would be the peculiar duty of the noble and learned judge, thus atrociously misrepresented, to advise their lordships as to the course which they should pursue. He was sure that the whole report was a foul and atrocious libel, and he pledged himself to proceed against its author as soon as the noble and learned lord would declare upon his oath that there was ho truth in it. ( Cheers and laughter.) A long and desultory conversation was here entered into, during which SirC. Wetherell, Sir R. Peel, Mr. Williams, Lord Althorp, and other members took part, but which, as it led to no practical result, we forbear giving. SCOTCH REFORM BILL.— The order of the day for the se- cond reading of the Scotch reform bill was then put. The LORD ADVOCATE stated that it was similar to that of last Session, and enforces tbe 101. qualification. SirG. CLERK and Colonel LINDSAY said, although the measure might be irresistible, they retained all their . previous ob- jections to it. Mr. F. PALMER and Mr. A. JOHNSTONE supported it, ob- serving that persecutions had failed to put down the demand for reform. Mr. C. FERGTJSSON supported the bill. After various remarks from several other members, the bill was read a second time, and ordered to be considered in committee next day, for the purpose of introducing amendments. DIVISION OF COUNTIES BILL.— The division of counties bill was read a second time, and on the motion of Lord John Rus- sell, was ordered to stand committed, pro forma, on Friday next, for the purpose of introducing some amendments. The order of the day for the committal of the Roman Catholic Marriages ( Ireland) bill was discharged, on the understanding that the subject would be taken into consideration by tbe Irish law authorities.— Adjourned at half- past one. TUESDAY, MAY 22. After several petitions in favour of the reform bill had been pre- sented, Mr. ROBINSON brought forward his motion for a com- mittee to inquire into the state of the commerce and trade of the country, contending that the " reciprocity" plan had been attended with most injurious consequences— that our example had not been followed by any manufacturing Power— neither by France nor the United States— and that it ought no longer to be persevered in to the injury of the ships, colonies, and commerce of this country. The motion was discussed at great length, and opposed by Mr. P. Thomson, Mr. Hume, and other members, and negatived without a division. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER then moved for a Committee of Secrecy, to inquire into the expediency of renewing the Bank of England charter, and to inquire into the mode of con- ducting banks of issue in " England and Wales." His lordship said, he purposely abstained from going into his own views of the question— that he had had no communication with the Bank of England— that he proposed the labours of the committee to be limited to the expediency of renewing the charter, and the character of the banking system ; but that he purposely excluded the ques- tion of the standard of value. He should not propose the question connected with 11. note issues ; but he did not see how it could be precluded from the committee's consideration. After a conversation in which several hon. members took part, the committee was appointed. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at three o'clock. WEDNESDAY, MAY 23. The House, a few minutes before four o'clock, was summoned to the bar of the House of Lords, when the Royal assent was given by commission to twenty- six bills. The House was occupied for several hours with the presentation of petitions, and the remarks of hon. members thereon, which were chiefly against the granting of further supplies till the reform bill be passed. The petitions were from all parts of the kingdom— from Birmingham, Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Surrey, Edinburgh, & c.; the members who presented them mostly expiessed their approbation of the prayer, and their determination to support it. Amongst the petitions the most remarkable were two presented by the LORD ADVOCATE ; one was from a meeting at Edinburgh, which had been signed, within the short space of two days, by more than 38,000 persons, with the additional designation of their professions and places of residence. The other was from the county of Perth, and bore 27,000 signatures, among which were the names of seven Scottish peers, and a large proportion of the magistrates of the county. The remainder of the evening was devoted to the consideration of the Norfolk Assizes Bill and the Liverpool Franchise Bill, both of which were read a second time. The House adjourned at two o'clock. THURSDAY, MAY 24. After the presentation of a good many petitions on the subject, Mr. F. BUXTON brought forward his motion respecting colo- nial slavery. Since he gave his notice, he said he had altered the terms of his motion ; they now were declaring " that it is the duty of the British Legislature to put an end to tbe existence of slavery throughout the dominions of Great Britain ;" and then moving " That a Select Committee be appointed to consider and report npon the safest and speediest mode of effecting the extinction of slavery throughout the British Colonies." The hon. member ear- nestly pressed the motion on the house, as a crisis had arrived when something must be done, and as the increase of mortality in the West India Colonies showed the destructive character of the system. Mr. O'CONNELL seconded the motion. Mr. K. DOUGLAS complained of the hon. member for Wey- mouth, for having altered the terms of his motion since he had first given notice of it. With respect to the grounds urged by the hon. member, they did not appear to him ( Mr. Douglas) to be sufficient to justify the house in assenting to the formation of this Committee. He hoped that the King's Ministers would consider themselves so far bound by the resolutions of 1823, as to feel it to be their duty to act up to the spirit of them; and that they would not throw this question as one of agitation on the vain fancy of the country. He trusted that they would act with that disposition which ought to belong to all Governments— viz. that of seeking the preservation of the rights and property of all parties. Mr. MACAULEY replied to the hon. member ( Mr. K. Dou glas), and concluded by saying, I shall give my best support to the motion of my hon. friend. I shall do so, because I feel that this continued waste of life, without example and without parallel, is a foul blot to this country, and because I hope that the adoption of this resolution may remove it. ( Cheers.) Sir R. PEEL said lie thought that, before this debate was carried any further, it was extremely advisable that the noble lord should state what were the intentions of the Government. Lord ALTHORP said, in agreeing to this resolution, he should not be pledging himself to an immediate extinction of slavery; because he believed that iu the present state of the slave population, ucli a step would not be expedient; but still he thought that means could be taken to bring tbem to such a situation ; and the sooner that was done, the sooner would the Legislature of this country be able to do its duty by executing that which was due to humanity and justice. ( Hear, hear.) He did not see any objection to the insertion of some words, to show that there was no intention what- ever to injure the planters. He hoped his hon. fiiend would see no objection to the insertion of some such words, setting forth that the Colonists had a fair claim to compensation, should their interests be injured. Mr. FOWELL BUXTON begged leave to say, in reference to the suggestion of bis noble friend, that he could not adopt any such words, and if they were proposed by any other honourable member, he should feel it his duty to divide the house on the subject, though be stood alone. Lord ALTHORP said, he was sorry that his hon. friend would not agree to his proposal. He should, however, not propose to add all the resolutions of 1823, but only words to the effect, " in conformity to the resolutions passed by the House of Commons on May 15, 1823. ( No, no.) A discussion here commenced which occupied the rest of the night, and in which, Sir G. Murray, Lords Howick, Sandon, G. Bentinck, Sir C. Wetherell, Sir R. Price, Sir F. Burdett, Mr. Hume, Mr. G. Knight, Mr. O'Connell, Mr. Baring, Mr. Burge, Air. Warburton, Sergeant Wilde, and Dr. Lushington took part. Mr. FOWELL BUXTON replied, and said that he thought the resolutions of 1823 were the true cause of the delay in the eman- cipation. He felt extremely embarrassed by his situation, and concurred with his learned friend ( Mr. Sergeant Wilde) that there should be two resolutions. He would propose, therefore, to add to his own resolution—" That such compensation be granted to the planters as will not prejudice or delay emancipation.'' He would go so far to meet the noble lord; but he would rather preserve his original resolution. Lord ALTHORP could not consent to a proposition so different from that which the honourable gentleman had first brought for- ward. He was at a loss to see how the additional words which he ( Lord Althorp) had proposed could occasion the delay which the honourable gentleman supposed. A division then took place :— For the original motion . . .90 For Lord Althorp'e amendment . . 163 Majority . . . 73 On our return to the gallery, we found the Speaker reading a list of names; but Lord ALTHORP rose and said that although the division on the wording of the motion had been in his favour, yet as the ap- pointment of a committee on the subject was a most important mat- ter, he was desirous of taking more time to consider who were the most proper persons to appoint. ( Hear.) The appointment of tbe committee was deferred. Tbe other orders of the day were then disposed of, and at twenty minutes to three tbe house adjourned. FRIDAY, MA V 25. Mr. Labouchere inquired whether the salary of the Governor of Madras, no< v 16,000(. was to be reduced ? Mr. C. Grant replied that it was to be reduced to 10,000(. Mr. STAN LEY then moved the second reading of the Irish Reform Bill, and proceeded to point out the essential features of the bill. To those hon. members who objected to the bill because it did not go far enough, he would say, " Do not reject what is ac- knowledged to be a reform, at least to a certain extent." He ex- pected tbe bill to receive the most uncompromising opposition from a certain party, on tbe ground that it would endanger Protestant institutions, by giving too great a preponderance to the Catholic interest. He would meet that objection at once, by saying it was no argument in 1832— it was inconsistent with the whole spirit of our legislation— it was inconsistent w ith the system which was per- fected by the great legislative measure of 1829. ( Hear.) From the moment that measure passed, all distinctions between Pro- testants and Roman Catholics were removed. That measure was advocated on the ground that it left no question behind; but if Parliament were now to act upon the principle of exclusion, there would still remain a Catholic question to be settled. ( Hear.) He trusted that English Members Would not consider the interests of Ireland as distinct from those of England. Had the Irish members given a cold and reluctant consent to the English bill, or had they given it their frank and generous support 1 ( Cheers.) The principle of reform was tbe same, whether it was applied to Eng- land or to Ireland. If it were just here, it roust be just there. He entreated those who considered themselves the advocates of the Protestant interest, to reflect upon the danger to which they would expose that interest by defeating this bill. There might then in- deed be some foundation for tbe argument which was used in favour of the repeal of the Union— namely, that in a British House of Commons English interests were treated in one way, and Irish interests in another— that in England the Government ruled by the voice of the people, and in Ireland by stifling it. He concluded by moving that the bill be read a second time. ( Cheers.) Mr. LEFROY opposed the motion, and moved that it be read the second time this day six months. Lord CASTLEREAGH seconded the motion. Mr". O'CONNELL, in tbe course of a long speech, said, in the name of the people of Ireland he demanded equal privileges with tbe people of England. In their name he demanded that they should be amalgamated with tbe constitution for the first time since the English Government commenced in Ireland. He claimed for his countrymen a measure which, while it took nothing from those by whom it was conceded, would add to their moral and po- litical rights. The 101. franchise in respect to houses was likewise, he contended, much too high, and he would appeal to the judg- ment of hon. members whether, instead of bein< » the instrument of reform, it would not be productive of corruption. A noble lord ( Castlereagh) had talked something about Sangrado and bleeding. She bad experienced it too. He was sorry that the noble lord, of all men, should have introduced the question of blood. The sur- viving friends and relations of many a victim would scream when they heard the name of the noble lotd mentioned in conjunction with bleeding. ( Hear.) The hon. member concluded by saying, be generous iu their offering— let the manly and munifioent spirit of Britons enter into their measure of reform. The time had arrived for concentrating the three countries. England was free, Scotland was free, and let them, he implored them, make Ireland free also. Mr. SHEIL denied that the whole of tbe boroughs would be thrown into the hands of a Roman Catholic democracy, and he challenged those who made the assertion to produce their proof. Hon. members talked of maintaining Protestant ascendancy ; but the ascendancy they would maintain was that of an aristocracy less tolerable far than the aristocracy of birth— a religious and sec tarian aristocracy. ( Hear.) The surest way to prevent tbe agi- tation of the repeal question was to grant to Ireland an efficient measure of reform, and he believed that the great body of the people of England were now determined that Ireland should have such a reform. It was important that this point should be con- ceded, because the moment such a measure was agreed to, an end would be put to those jealousies which had too long subsisted be- tween England and Ireland. In conclusion, the hon. gentleman said, he, in the name of his country, called for the same bill for Ireland as was about to be given to England. He demanded only justice— im- perishable justice. At that moment, when a minhter had given up his office in order to preserve his honour, and had returned to it amidst a nation's applause— at that moment when the monarch and his people were alike actuated by the same feelings— at that moment it became England to act an exalted and generous part. ( Hear, hear.) " We have shared with you in your perils, let us now share with you in your success." ( Hear, bear.) The other hon. members who took part in the debate were Mr. Crampton, Mr. Shaw, Mr. Ruthven, Mr. C. Gordon, Mr. G. Dawson, Mr. H. Gratton, and Sir R. Peel. The latter right hon. bart. said, if he believed the bill would confer real benefit on Ire- land, he would be the first to adopt it; but no proof bad been offered to show that it would be attended with the slightest advan- tage, and he would therefore vote against the second reading. Mr. STANLEY replied, and the house divided, when the numbers appeared—• For tbe second reading 246— For the amendment 130— Majority 116. Adjourned to Wednesday next. PUBLIC MEETINGS. NATIONAL POLITICAL UNION.— A general meeting of the Union was held on Monday at the London Tavern, when a re- solution was unanimously adopted to congratulate Earl Grey on his re- appointment to office, with power to secure the passing of bills to reform the representation of the Commons House t) f Parliament; also a resolution of thanks to his Lordship, and his colleagues, for the endurance, zeal, and ability with which they have fought the battle of Reform in Parliament. Several gentlemen, amongst whom were Mr. T. Duncombe, M. P., and Col. Jones, addressed the meeting. GREAT MEETING OF THE WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE.;— Wednesday, at noon, the largest meeting ever held in York- shire within the memory of man, took place at Wakefield, for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of ad- dressing the King on the fearful crisis of the national affairs. The hustings were erected on a fine open space of ground in the Ings, and at the lowest calculation there were 115,000 persons present. There were 45 bands of music in attendance, and upwards of 500 banners and flags were displayed. So much excitement was never before produced by any public meeting in this county. Reformers of all ranks and classes went by thou- sands from the nearer towns, and by hundreds and fifties from the remoter parts of the riding. The feeling of alarm and bitter indignation which existed a week ago had all passed away, and in their stead the highest joy and exultation prevailed. The hustings, calculated to hold 600 persons, were crowded with respectable persons. The view from the hustings was most im- posing ; the principal approaches to the Ings from the towns were seen filled by dense masses, constantly advancing and swelling the numbers gathered round the hustings. The ter- races and open places of the town, and the windows of the houses which looked upon the place of meeting, were likewise filled with spectators, many of whom displayed their zeal by hanging out flags. In the absence of Sir Wm. Cooke, who was expected to preside, the chair was taken by Joseph Holdsworth, Esq., Chief Constable of Wakefield, Neither of the County Members attended. John Hardy, Esq., Recorder of Leeds, proposed the first resolution, declaratory of the satisfaction of the meeting at the return of Earl Grey and his colleagues to office, and Sir F. L. Wood, Bart, moved an address to the King, on the recall to the administration of Lord Grey, both of which were carried by acclamation. After being addressed by J. Marshall, jun. Esq., Joshua Bowen, Esq., President of the Leeds Political Union, Godfrey Higgins, J. Wood, and G. B. Brown, Esqrs., the vast assemblage slowly and quietly separated, after singing " Rule Britannia," and giving three cheers for the people, and three for the ministers. BRITISH AND FOREIGN TEMPERANCE SOCIETY.— A crowded and highly respectable meeting of this Society took place on Tuesday last, in the large room at Exeter Hall. The Bishop of London in the Chair. The secretary read an abridgment of the report of the committee, by which it appeared that 200 public meetings have been held, with the assistance of deputa- tions from the society, besides many others throughout the country ; that more than 55 auxiliary societies had been formed, and that so extensive an interest had been excited, that nearly 1,000,000 of the publications of the society had been printed in London alone. Attention had been awakened in the army and navy; several regimental societies formed, and 400 Greenwich pensioners have given up their grog, influenced by the example of the two gallant admirals, governors of that establishment. The report holds out to the supporters of the society, the hope of producing in 15 years a saving to the country of 300,000,000/. sterling, besides a relief of a vast catalogue of burdens and miseries. Upon the platform we observed four or five prelates, who took part in the proceedings of the meeting, together with some of the most popular of the Dissenting ministers, the Soli- citor- General for Ireland, Sir John Webb, Captain Brenton, R. N., and Mr. Broughton, the magistrate. On the Bishop's re- tiring from the chair, it was occupied by Lord Henley. We understand about 150/. was collected. SCOTTISH HOSPITAL.— On Saturday, the annual Spring fes- tival of the Scottish Hospital and Corporation was celebrated at the Freemasons' Tavern. The President of the Society, the Duke of Gordon, took the chair, supported by the Earl of Darnley, the Marquis of Graham, Lord Saltoun, and several other noblemen and gentlemen. Though the company was not numerous, the contributions of the evening amounted to up- wards of 500/., among which were donations from his Majesty, her Majesty, the Duke of Gordon, the Duke of Montrose, the Marquis Graham, the Earl of Darnley, Lord Saltoun, Sir G. Murray, Mr. Braham the singer, & c. ASYLUM FOR FEMALE ORPHANS, LAMBETH.— On Wednes- day the friends of this charity dined together at the Freema- sons' Tavern, Great Queen- street. The chair was taken by the Treasurer, Sir John Dean Paul. After the customary toasts, the Chairman, in proposing " Prosperity to the Female Orphan Asylum," took occasion to advocate the claims which this old and deserving Society had upon public support. By means of this charity, upwards of " two thousand deserted females have been sheltered and protected from vice and want." DUBLIN MEETING TO ADDRESS EARL GREY.— Monday a numerous and highly respectable meeting was held at the Arena, Lower Abbey- street, for the above purpose. Leland Crossth- waite, Esq. took the chair. Mr. Woulffe proposed that an ad- dress to Earl Grey should be adopted by that meeting as the address of the citizens of Dublin. Irishmen, Englishmen, Scotchmen, all concurred in this— that we must, that we shall have Reform. ( Loud and continued cheering.) The question of tithes— every local question— must remain in abeyance until that great object which was so paramount to all others, and so indispensably necessary, Parliamentary Reform, should be ac- complished. ( Cheers.) He concluded by proposing the adop- tion of the address.— Mr. Ronayne moved an address to the re- formers of Great Britain, and those men who belonged to the Political Unions of that country.— Sir Robert Harty, amid loud applause, seconded the adoption of the address.— Mr. Lawless addressed the meeting at great length. After other gentlemen had spoken, W. Murphy, Esq. was called to the chair, and thanks were voted to Mr. Crossthwaite. The meeting broke up, giving repeated cheers for reform and other popular objects. SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF CHRISTIAN KNOW- LEDGE.— On Monday a meeting of the subscribers to the above Society was held at their rooms in Lincoln's Inn Fields. The report stated that it had been ascertained that 300,000 cheap publications issued from the presses of the metropolis weekly, and not one of them was of a religious tendency, but, on the contrary, many of them contained attacks on the most ancient and valuable institutions of the country. One, however, which it was contemplated to imitate was the Penny Magazine, which sold 100,000 copies weekly. The total amount of property rea- lized by all these publications was estimated at 25,000/. per annum. It had, therefore, been suggested to the Society that the diffusion by it of cheap religious publications, would not only be attended with a great moral benefit, but could be attempted without any considerable risk to the Society's funds. The re- port concluded by recommending that a sum of 2,000/. be ap- propriated towards this object, and that a managing committee be appointed. The resolution was put to the vote and unani- mously adopted. NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE EDUCATION OF THE POOR.— Wednesday the annual examination of the children, in the Central Schools of the Society, at Baldwin's- gardens, Gray's Inn- lane, took place. After the examination the annual report was read, which, among other valuable information, contained the following— viz., that a recent inquiry into the state of edu- cation, showed that there were between seven and eight hundred thousand children of the labouring classes now under education in Church of England Schools, one- half of which were in union with the National Society. It appeared also that 6,7067. had been granted by the Committee the last year in aid of building 156 new school- rooms, capable of containing 17,000 children. PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE. PARIS, MAY 22. Letters from this at present are mere necrologies. When two such men have perished as Cuvier and Perier, who can talk or think of aught else; and yet the former is mentioned but with contempt; for in these days we can look at and judge of a man merely in a political kind of view; and all Cuvier's scientific discoveries go for naught at a time when society itself is nothing other than a big political convention. As to poor Cuvier, the fault lies not with him, but with Napoleon, who dragged him, whether he would or not, from the closet of the naturalist to make an administrator of him ; administrator or minister is the word— for as to a statesman, he could not tolerate the character. Since that day Cuvier could never look at politicsbut as an abstract science, in which he was to instruct others and enrich himself. Buonaparte, the Bourbons, Ultras, Liberals, all was one to Cuvier, provided he was in place ; and it is said that when the High Church was uppermost, Cuvier consulted his friends as to the advisability of abjuring Protestantism. The other day Louis Philip made him a Peer, and he was so tickled with the honour, that his scientific laurels and pursuits were both disregarded for a full month. Then comes Perier. I attended his funeral, and bid you be- lieve not a word of the sorrow that our most honest- meaning journals have depicted. There was not a spark of that enthu- siasm which escorted the remains of Foy, and even Constant. The populace shouted not. Our youth in general detest the pacific, the pusillanimous spirit, they say, of the late Minister ; and they swelled not the cortege. As to those who did show zeal, it was the zeal of selfishness ; for I promise you, there was not a funeral oration which might not be termed a ma- noeuvre of intrigue. Of the men who dispute Perier's place and spoil, not one is worthy to take it, save, perphaps, Barrot, if he be honest. He certainly has the talent; but at this moment he stands alone, what no individual can do with safety amongst us. Soult is far too jealous of him to admit him into political partnership, yet their coalition is the only means of helping either to the summit of affairs. As to Louis Philip, he would prefer to plod on with poor Augustin Perier, a respectable manufacturer, with the opi- nions indeed, but neither the talents nor energy of his brother ; and it most certainly required all the latter to stand not only the brunt of popular outcry against his pacific measures, but the petty and low intrigues, in which the Court of the Citizen King abounds quite as much as his legitimate predecessor. Madame A , that indefatigable intriguer, has a Minister of her own to serve. But it is to be hoped, that he has quite sufficient sense of his incapacity, to remain where he is in the household. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRANCE.— The French papers of Tuesday contain no news of importance. It is stated in one of them, that the Charles Albert, which carried the fortunes of the Duchess of Berri, has been declared lawful prize, though the proprietors allege that it belonged to Sardinian subjects. The captors found on board 28,000 francs ( or 1,120/.) in money, besides some other articles of value. The prisoners are to be transferred from Ajaccio to Toulon, to be tried. The lady, thought at first to be the Duchess of Berri, turns out ( it is said) to be the wife of a Royalist ex- Receiver- General at Auch. If this be true, the real would- be Regent of France has escaped. The Messager cles Chambres speaks of the distribution of money among the Carlists, and traces its source to the Emperor of Russia, who is alleged to have transmitted about 200,000/. to Holyrood, through Count Orloff. It appears that the marriage of King Leopold with the eldest daughter of Louis Philip has been finally determined upon. The two Kings are to meet at Compeigne immediately. The Duke de Choiseul has already set out for the frontiers to receive the Belgian King. According to a letter from Madrid in the Constitutionnel, dated the 15th inst. a plot for poisoning the King and Queen of Spain had been discovered in that capital. The departure of Prince Otho is postponed ; the intended journey of the King, his father, into Greece, is put off altogether, and appearances would lead us to believe that the endless diffi- culties which opppose themselves to the enthronement of the Bavarian Prince will not be overcome. It is said that the limitations between Turkey and Greece form the chief obstacle to the accomplishment of the mea- sure adopted by the London Conference. This is no great obstacle, and if no others present themselves, the new King of the Greeks may take bis departure with perfect security. Most people are, however, of opinion that every thing depends on the will of the Greeks, who from all appearances do not wish to have any sovereign at all. It is asserted that the government has received information that within the last fortnight there have been spread through the departments a number of agents with commissions from Holy- rood, headed with the words Foi— Esperanee, who receive a regular pay of 70 francs a week. GREECE.— Letters from Nauplia, dated the 11th instant, state that Count Augustus Capo d'lstrias has resigned as Presi- dent of the Greek Government. This was brought about by the success of Colletti, at the head of the Roumeliot party : he was stationed with his adherents beyond the Isthmus of Corinth, at Megara and Perachora, and the passes of the Isthmus were oc- cupied by the Moreot troops. Colletti forced his way through, them, and, first marching upon Argos, made his appearance at the gates of Nauplia. Iu this state of things a general wish pre- vailed for the establishment of a Provisional Government on a broader basis, and which would embrace all interests. Count Augustus Capo d'lstrias, as already stated, then resigned, his government was dissolved, and a new Provisional Government was to be framed immediately, to conduct the affairs of the country until the arrival of the Prince destined for the throne of Greece. TITHES.— The Second Report of the Select Committee on Irish Tithes has been printed. It repudiates the idea of any portion of church property being held in trust for the poor, and recommends that the composition for tithes should be compul- sory. The report suggests, that in future the payment of tithe should fall upon the landlord and not the occupier, and that the State should eventually become itself the proprietor and collector of a perpetual land- tax to be substituted in place of tithe. The report concludes by recommending the abolition of Church cess, and a new valuation of Church property. BANK OF ENGLAND CHARTER.— The following are the members of the Secret Committee appointed " to inquire into the expediency of renewing the charter of the Bank of England, and into the system on which banks of issue in England and Wales are conducted:"— Lord Althorp, Sir R. Peel, Lord John Russell, Mr. Goulburn, Sir J. Graham, Mr. Herries, Mr. P. Thomson, Mr. Courtenay, Colonel Maberly, Sir Henry Parnell, Mr. V. Smith, Mr. J. Smith, Mr. Robarts, Sir M. W. Ridley, Mr. Attwood, Sir John Newport, Mr. Baring, Mr. Irving, Mr. Warburton, Mr. G. Phillips, Mr. J. Morrison, Lord Morpeth, Mr. Heywood, Lord Ebrington, Mr. Lawley, Sir J. Wrottesley, Lord Cavendish, Mr. Alderman Wood, Mr. Strutt, Mr. Bonham Carter, Mr. E. J. Stanley, and Mr. Alderman Thompson. Five to be the quorum. van 322 THE TOWUf. May 20. TO THE PUBLIC. The Proprietors respectfully inform the public, that they have determined on giving to the subscribers for THE TOWN a beau- tifully executed MAP OF ENGLAND; comprising the divisions and boundaries of Counties and Towns, as laid down under the Reform Bill brought forward by his Majesty's present Ministers; together with the latest Statistical and Geological details. This Map will appear in six parts, the First of which will be ready for delivery in September, and a Specimen immediately. The subsequent parts will appear every alternate three months. The parts, when completed, will form one entire Map of five feet long by three feet seven inches wide, and may be either bound together or separately. To ensure the object of their wishes, a handsome and most useful present, the Proprietors have gone to the unusual expense of having it en- graved on steel. The Public are invited to send in their orders forthwith, as no one will be entitled to this splendid work of reference unless a subscriber for three months. THE T OWN. LONDON: SUNDAY, MAY 27, 1832. The English Reform Bill pursues its resistless, and but feebly resisted, course in the House of Lords. The Irish Reform Bill has passed through its first stage in the House of Commons, on a division of 246 to 130. The Tory party is absolutely disjointed and divided against itself. It will be owing only to the fault— to the imbecil lity of the Whigs, if they do not exercise the same con- tinuance of power which has been exercised by the Tories during thetwo last reigns. The course ofLord GREY is ob- viously to fling himself frankly and fearlessly upon the people, and to act with reference to the court upon his own recorded principles. The man who spoke the follow- ing in 1812, should not capitulate with an adverse house- hold and secret influence:— " He ( Lord Grey) concluded with declaring, that every other 41 object of the system of ministers sank into insignificance com- " pared with one to which he should freely allude,— the de- " pendence of the ministry for its existence upon an unseen " influence, which lurked behind the throne ;— a power aUen to " the constitution, but become unhappily too familiar to the " country ;— a disastrous and disgusting influence which con- " solidated abuses into a system, and prevented either public " complaint or honest counsel from reaching the royal ear ;— " an influence which it was the duty of Parliament to brand with " signal reprobation; and for the destruction of which it was " his rooted, unalterable principle, and that of his friends who " acted with him, to have an understanding with Parliament " before they took office under the crown." Lord GREY should further and immediately clear the public service, not only of adverse chiefs, but of perfidious subalterns.— We could name to his Lordship some employ- ers whose secret reports led the Tories into their delusion of a reaction, and momentarily unseated Lord GREY. There are lords and gentlemen in this country who seem to look upon the English people as the most easily besotted of mankind. It is true the past furnishes some excuse for their opinion ; but they exaggerate, and should learn to distinguish between the past and the present. Lord WICKLOW, speaking in his place of the Irish Tithe Bill, expressed his high displeasure at the delay in carry- ing through that bill. Now, what is the notorious fact?— It is, that the measure has been impeded by a factious opposition, whose object it has been to harass and impede the Government in this and every other measure— which has kept the attention of the Government and the country perpetually engaged by the Reform Bill, and yet prevented that Reform Bill from advancing— which put Reform in jeopardy by a parliamentary manoeuvre, and suspended the powers of Government for ten days by a Court in- trigue— which represents as unjust and pernicious this very Tithe Bill, with the slow progress of which the Govern ment is reproached! It may be said, that Lord WICKLOW, perfect stranger as doubtless he is to faction and intrigue, knew nothing of all this ; or perhaps his Lordship has been misreported, and never really used an artifice of rhetoric in debate so shallow and so foolish that the most trumpery lawyer, in the most trumpery assault case, would have disdained it. " Tithes," says Lord SALISBURY, " are a property to • which the title of the clergy is the same as that of the Noble Baron ( KING) to his rents; and if the former were regarded as an odious and oppressive tax, the Noble Baron's tenants might regard the latter also as odious and oppressive." His Lordship would do well to reflect be- fore he again throws out an indiscreet suggestion, and puts his title to his estates upon so perilous an issue, Neither the capitularies of CHARLEMAGNE, nor lhat latal gift of CONSTANTINE— " Ahi 1 Constantin di quanto mal' fu matre " Non la tua conversion, ma quella dote, " Che da te prese il primo ricco padre—" < hese, we say, are titles which will hardly bear handling at this time of day. Lord SALISBURY discharged another gun at Lord KING, which tempted Lord BEXLEY to essay a joke, for the second time in his life. The first trial was in the lifetime of the late Mr. WHITBREAD, who said his Lordship ( then Mr. VANSITTART) was as proud of it as a hen with one chicken. His little Lordship said, in a voice half- speak ing, half- whistling, that Lord KING " should make no re- flections on the clergy unless he paid all his debts in gold This is not pointed, and scarcely even intelligible, but the intent was, to remind Lord KING that several years since Jhe had given notice that his rents should be paid in gold Now llie real position of Lords KING and BEXLEY at the time was this: The latter, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, aided by the eloquence of " honest old GEORGE ROSE,'' persuaded Ihe House of Commons to reject the counsel o& Mr. HORNER and the Bullion Committee, and adopt the resolution that a one pound Bank note and a shilling were equivalent to a guinea, at a time when guineas were no toriously bought and sold for twenty- eight shillings each in Bank paper. Lord KING issued his notice to bring the question to an issue, and not, as the saint glozingly in- sinuates, to exact or oppress. Lord LONDONDERRY returned, for the hundredth time, to Northern partialities under the Reform Bill; and Lord DURHAM, for the hundredth time, with a consideration and forbearance, abo\ eall praise, for the constitution of the Gallant Marquis's mind, went through the fatigue of an- swering him, with now and then a sigh, evidently from a conviction that the hundred and first would leave as little impression as the first answer upon the faculties of the gallant Marquis. Mr. C. DUNDAS censured the Colonel of a regiment for attending a reform meeting. Suppose he were to follow up his own principle, and exclude military officers from sitting in the House of Commons to vote into ( heir own pockets thc money of the people. At the same time Sir GEORGE MURRAY, who has more eloquence and discretion n debate than usually falls to the lot of a soldier, pro- nounced a panegyric, in the worst taste, upon the services of the Duke of WELLINGTON to his country. When simi- lar claims were made for the Duke of MARLBOROUGH, and lhat great General, but unprincipled and paltry Politician, was compared with SCIPIO, SWIFT put the matter in a way which may be applied in this case. The Duke of WELLINGTON vanquished thc enemy in Spain and France, and restored FERDINAND VII. and Louis XVIII, for which services he received a dukedom, Strathfieldsay, and above 500,000/. SCIPIO saved Rome, and was rewarded with a triumph; cost— nothing: and a crown of laurel; cost— a penny halfpenny. To talk of a man's services to his coun- try is always low- minded, and is, in this instance, absurd. It is the Duke of WELLINGTON, on the contrary, who owes eternal obligations to the valour of British troops— the liberality of the nation— and the favour of the Govern- ment. Sir GEORGE MURRAY must have too sagacious, and philosophical a mind, not to know well that had the Duke of WELLINGTON never been born, the national genius, and the emergency, would have supplied for the occasion, as great, perhaps a greater general. There is about Lord ELDON'S recent appearances a strange mixture of the craft of petty- fogging, and the dotage of advanced life, which neutralizes the respect or pity which would otherwise be accorded to his old age. He would say, and if they were to be the last words which he " might ever utter in that House he would assert it, that if the " prerogative of the Crown was exercised contrary to the duty and " trust placed in it by the Constitution of the country, by which " only the King reigned, it was a departure from the right of the Crown." This is the fiftieth lime, at least, that Lord ELDON has threatened the nation with his last words, and we sin- cerely wish he may live long, as, assuredly, he is disposed, to give many more last words. But mark how slily he puts " the Constitution, by which alone the King reigns, n place of a prescriptive, gradual, abusive usurpation w hich has at last made the King reign by, and for the be- nefit of an Oligarchy, not by and for the People. There were Judges, including Lord BACON, who declared that the Star- chamber, and imposts by prerogative, were iden tical with this precious Constitution by which the King reigns. How sensitive and Constitutional, of a sudden, some Lords have become in Ibeir jealousy of prerogative, where it is to be exercised in accordance with the demands and rights of the people. The Duke of NEWCASTLE threatens a discussion of the prerogative of making Peers, The fewer Peers the belter, undoubtedly, if all made the same use of a Peerage winch has been made by him. The Duke had a long minority, during which his boroughs were sold to the best bidder, and the proceeds duly car- ried for the minor's benefit, to the guardianship account. Upon coming of age it does not appear that he any longer sold his boroughs for money, but his first act was an at- tempt to bully the late King, then Regent, into conferring the Governorship of Windsor Castle upon General CRAU- ruRD, whom the Duchess, his mother, married, and who already had a pension of 1,200/. a year, for the joint lives of himself and the Duchess. His more recent doings as a borough owner are too notorious to be mentioned. Lord KENYON had the reputation of being a simple- minded person of no education, and a natural bigot. Of his simplicity and bigotry he gave proof in his Church and State partnership with that loyal, and immaculate book- seller, Mr. JOHN JOSEPH STOCKDALE; though he proved not quite so simple when he tried to evade the claims of some dozen printers, who had given the sweat of their brow on the securities of his Lordship and the partnership. But no one expected to see him exhibit himself a pugna- cious champion of Aristocracy, by the side ofLordWiN- CHILSEA. The latter is said to be descended from the dancing Chancellor, HUTTON, and the mercurial quality in the process of time seems to have changed from the heels in the progenitor to the head in the descendant; but my Lord KEN VON should recollect, that though his family boasts two Lords, it does not yet count one gentleman. There is really something intolerably insolent, if it were not supremely ridiculous, in Ihe tone assumed towards the peo- ple by such men as Lords TENTERDEN, WYNFORD, and KENYON, whilst the Hereditary Nobles of the country whose names belong to its history, are ranged on the side of the people and their privileges. We sincerely abjure, and abhor the trade in slaves, and in the abstract, the existence of African Slavery. This monstrous remnant of barbarism, and rapacity, is universally abhorred by the existing generation of our countrymen— but there is a momentous considera- tion which should be kept in view. It is this— our prede- cessors of the last generation had not the same feeling. The opulent, enlightened, moral, religious, mercantile in- habitants of our out- ports, and the majority of our Parlia- ments, including the Lords Spiritual, sanctioned and maintained the traffic in slaves, even after the commence- ment of the present century. A n anomalous, perilous, and, indeed, unnatural state of the community in our West Indian colonies, has been produced by a system of legisla- tion so recently abandoned. The Colonists are under the influence, not merely of their interests. They have power in their hands, and, like all despots, they are afraid. They fancy, and not without reason, their lives threatened by re- bellion or the dagger, whilst the slaves are actuated by hope, hatred, and vengeance. No sweeping measure!— nothing but the most delicate, and maturely considered course can be adopted with safety in a state really more dreadful to the imaginations of men on the spot, than actual wars to their senses. We believe that there is a re- action in Parliament in favour of the Colonists ; that more allowance is made for them— and that there is a disposition togive them security for their lives, and compensation for the loss of properly, to which ultimate abolition would expose ( hem. We will throw out a suggestion with reference to compen- sation. It is, in a word, that the duties on Colonial pro- duce should be lowered, and lhat this scale, together will) the voluntary contributions of Abolitionists, should be made the basis of an adjustment between the Imperial Parliament and the Colonial Legislafures. The Duke of SUSSEX has, it appears, relapsed into his habitual stale of disgrace at Court. This is not the country in which a Court disgrace can disturb the opinion of the public or the tranquillity of the individual. Women, very allowably, and some few men, more weak than women, may set an extraordinary value upon the entree to levees and drawing- rooms, and upon the gewgaws which figure there. II is said ( to give one instance of the weaker sex) hat Sir ROBERT WILSON sacrificed the representation of the Borough, and his political existence— at least, the occasional apparition of his name in Ihe newspapers— to the hope of obtaining, through the influence of the Duke of WELLINGTON, restitution of the baubles with which his coat was decorated by the Emperor of RUSSIA and King of PRUSSIA. We hope, but know, not whether he has succeeded — the gallant " partisan," as Ihe Duke of WELLINGTON called him, is wholly forgotten. But the Duke of SUSSEX is of a different stamp. He knows that the loss of Court favour is amply compensated by the increased confidence of the country. The circumstance, however, is to be regretted; and the sooner the interdict is withdrawn, the better for those who have imposed or suggested it. It shakes, and we sincerely believe without just grounds, the opinion w hich the public entertained of the KING'S good nature, his domestic affections, and his wish to maintain relations of union and cordiality with all the members of his family; and it contrasts suspiciously with the KING'S forbearance and placability towards the Duke of CUMBERLAND. Even those who feel no very extraordinary share of reverence or affection for that " Illustrious Prince," as my Lord WYNFORD calls him, saw with pleasure the indulgent virtue of the heart with which the KING excused or over- looked the intriguing and provoking tracasseries of the " Illustrious Prince" ever since the KING'S accession to the throne. The KING is, with whatever frailties of cha- racter, personal or political, a true Englishman, and would be a good representative of the national character were he merely a private gentleman, or a simple admiral or captain in the navy. He can have no predilection for those " Germanisms" of the Duke of CUMBERLAND which are constantly oozing through his moustaches. The KING will most assuredly recommend himself, or, rather, he will do justice to his own natural disposition, by manifesting an equal placability towards a Prince who is the friend of every liberal art, as well as of freedom and the people. The Paris Papers of Thursday evening have arrived, and private letters of the same date. The Papers state that the Carlists are still intriguing in the south, but that the Government is strong, and no apprehensions are en- tertained. The private letters are of some interest. It appears that the opposition deputies have had a meeting in Paris, at which they resolved on drawing up an Expose of the circumstances of the country. The following is an extract of one of the letters. " The day before yesterday most of the Deputies at present in' Paris, who desire a change of Ministry, met at the house of M. Lafitte. The principal motive for this step was the news of the honourable re- establishment in their functions of Lord Grey and his Colleagues, which has been a death- blow to the hopes of those who, on the anticipated return to office of the Duke of " Wellington and his clique, saw their ardent desires for place and power about to be accomplished. The first speaker who address- ed the assembly did not attempt to conceal the disadvantageous position in which the return of Lord Grey had placed the pre- sent opposition here ; and he founded his argument for the ne- cessity of adopting some energetic measures to overthrow the Perier system principally on this fact. Every deputy came pre- pared with his suggestion as to what should be done. One was for an address to the King, representing to his Majesty how much better it would be for him to change his Ministers, and to place the addressers in their places. Another wishing to give more extended effect to the good advice of the assembly, was for an address to the whole nation, with a similar view ; and a third wished to go further, and to have in the manifesto a full, true and particular account of all the grievances to which France has been exposed since the memorable 13th of March, the only cure for which was to be a policy directly opposed to that system, and to be directed by the memorialists. After a pretty consider- able skirmish of oratory, it was at length agreed that a commit- tee should be formed to arrange something, in order that it might not be said that the Opposition had met, parted, and done nothing. A committee was, therefore, formed, and it was under- stood that in the interval of the next meeting, they should draw up an expose of the circumstances of the country." The French funds are steady. On Thursday, the Five per Cents, closed at 96f. 85c., and the Three per Cents, at 70f. It appears certain that there is a large Spanish force on the frontiers of Portugal, and that Ferdinand is deter mined to assist Don Miguel. The ships which have been ordered by our Government totheTagus, have troops on board, and a large quantify of Congreve rockets. The instructions are, to commence hostilities against Don Miguel if Spain should interfere in his favour. The Portuguese question continues to occasion some diflerence of opinion in the British Cabinet. Two of the Ministers are for recognizing at once the Conde de FUN- CHAL as the Ambassador of the Regency— the olhers, we understand, contend that such recognition would be a gratuitous act of intervention between the King de facto and the Queen de jure, as a very few days must decide whether the cause of Don PEDRO is really the cause of the nation. There is, we think, nothing to be gained even by Don PEDRO by a recognition of his Minister under existing circumstances. By this time his expedition is or ought to be near Lisbon, and another week will prove either that the Queen his daughter has the wishes of the people at large in her favour, or that ignorance, fanaticism, and bigotry, are in such strength on the side of the usurper, as to defeat all the attempts made to dislodge him. The only reasonable argument that has been urged why a formal recognition of the Conde de FUNCHAL as the Am- bassador of Donna MARIA should take place immediately, is the injury which the Queen's friends may incur in a pecuniary sense, should the British Government cause it to be thought that it is indifferent to the success of the patriots. Of the loan of two millions, only 8 per cent., or 160,000/. has been paid, and it is feared that if accident, either by tempest or otherwise, should occur to destroy the present expedition, it would be impossible to pre- pare another without such recognition, as the subscribers to the loan, doubtiiig the chance of success in the ab- sence of the sanction at least of the British Government, would prefer losing the 8 percent, paid to risking more in the enterprize. This is a strong point, but we should hope lhat Ministers will see the necessity of adopting the cause of the Portuguese Patriots, and that tbey will not allow Ihe defeat or dispersion of the first Expedition to be conclusive of the fale of Portugal. We continue to receive frightful accounts from Poland. Oppression is there at work with a busy and heavy band; and the slightest manifestation of patriotism is rewarded with the knout, death, or imprisonment, or but too frequently with, what is even worse than death, a journey to Siberia. Well authenticated as are the accounts which we have re- ceived of Russian barbarity, yet we could hardly expect our readers to believe them, for they are revolting to nature and horrifying to humanity. The best and bravest of the patriots of Poland are torn from their families, and condemned to walk barefooted to Siberia, thtir means of purchasing little comforts on the way being first taken from them. In two instances Polish officers of rank, after a mock trial, were chained to a cannon and shot in twain; and manacled bands of fifty or a hundred, many of them nobles, are met with on their way to undergo distant confinement. And all Ibis cruelty is Ihe work of a sovereign who de- sired his ambassador to declare to Lord PALMERSTON that the nationality of Poland should be respected, and that all Europe should be astonished at the magnanimity of the autocrat. Magnanimity, indeed ! and we, a free, a christian people, have been indirectly a party lo such atrocity. Why did not we, when we were applied to by the French go- vernment to join in a remonstrance to Russia, concur in that very proper course ? Was it fear of a war with Russia, or a jealousy of the French nation, that prevented us ? Neither, we trust; for, crippled as Great Britain is, it ought never to be said that we are unable to go to war in defence of liberty, or that we are jealous of the growing fame of a government which can only become and remain great by the display of political liberality. But, atrocious as the conduct of Russia is, it is infinitely to be preferred to that of Prussia. The Russian emperor, with the exception of the assurance given by his ambas- sadors here and in Paris, that the nationality of Poland should not be destroyed, has never professed to feel a sym- pathy for the Poles, or to have any other desire than for their destruction. Prussia, however, pretended to be neutral, and to mediate in favour of the Poles, and yet at the same time assisted their enemies in the supply of arms, for tbe purpose of annihilating the sons of freedom. Now that the struggle is over, there are five thousand Polish soldiers in Prussia who were promised an asylum there. What is their condition? They are without clothing— without a roof above their heads— and without other food than the scanty allowance which they derive from the charity of the peasantry. Disgusted and disheartened at the cruelty of their treatment, many of them listened to the treacherous promises of amnesty from the authorities of Poland, and returned lo their native country, where they had no sooner arrived than they were forced into the Russian army. These unfortunate men then deserted, and returned to Prussia ; but the christian- like government of that coun- try would not brook so gross a breach of discipline as de- sertion, even though they were Poles escaping from the tyranny of the Russians, and attempts were made to drive them back to Poland by Prussian bayonets; in this at- tempt many poor Poles were covered with wounds. But neither wounds, nor the prospect of death, could shake them: " Never," said these poor men, " will we re- enter Poland except with arms in our hands to re- conquer liberty!" Brave, but wretched— persecuted, but noble Poland! Shall Englishmen, who are just rushing to the enjoyment of a liberty which has been so long withheld from them, abandon you, their instructors in the path of glory, to the fate which has befallen you? Forbid it, Heaven! England and France, in cordial union, will, ere long, kindle the torch of freedom, and demand the emancipation of a race of men whom we may be proud to imitate in actions which dignify mankind, and which make resistance to usurped authority, righteous and holy. To- morrow their Majesties intend honouring with their pre- sence a ball to be given by Earl Grey. We were sorry to see the pictures of Lord Mulgrave disposed of at prices, so infinitely beneath their value, at the sale last week ; we regret this the more, as it appears like a deprecia- tion of the works of some of our best artists, and it looks strange that one of Wilkie's chef d'eeuvre should be sold in, London for a much less price than a picture of his found at Munich, at a public sale some years ago 1 REPORT OF CHOLERA CASES IN THE COUNTRY.— New cases, 117; dead, 37; recovered, 26; remaining, 218. Total eases, 10,335 ; total deaths, 3,867, May - 20. THE TO WW. 173 TOWN TALK. We do not find in any of the Parliamentary reports the ex- planation given by Lord Mulgrave of Lord Kenyon's intem- perate personal attack upon Lord Grey on Tuesday night. " It was not," said Lord Mulgrave, " perhaps generally known in the House, that the Noble Lord ( Kenyon) had that day been attending a dinner party at the Freemasons' Tavern ( Cuff's), and his Parliamentary duties having called him away sooner than agreeable, he was merely shewing his eagerness to go to cuffs." It is stated that the late fracas which took place in the neigh- bourhood of Russell- square, is not the first that has occurred during a three months' unfortunate union. In a former one, however, the refractory son- in- law confined his ravings within doors, but they were not less wounding to the supercilious and aristocratic feelings of the learned papa, who, having thrown out some hints that his son owed every thing to him, received the retort courteous by a full expose of his pedigree, and cer- tain other disagreeable but irremediable family matters. Lord Ellenborough modestly assured the House on Monday night, that should his scheme succeed, " the country would be grateful, after it had recovered from its present delusion." We can assure his lordship that " the country will feel grateful even to him, if he will but resign his enormous sinecure of 10,000/. per annum, drained from the pockets of the people." When Sir E. Sugden said that " if he were to accept office it could only be at a great loss and inconvenience to himself," he was perfectly sincere. The " loss" of his present practice would be followed by the " inconvenience" of retiring from the Woolsack, before he was well " warm in his seat." UNPROFITABLE PLURALIST.— Lord Roden declares himself " the organ of the Protestant interest of Ireland." Unlike Hamlet, his political opponents find that they can both " fret him and play upon him." His lordship forgot to add, that he officiates likewise as his own bellows- blower. THE MYSTIFIED MAN- MIDWIFE.— Lord Vain, in reply to the Premier, lately said, " The Noble Earl had covered himself with an embryo from which his obstetrical ingenuity could extract nothing." This abortion of his lordship's brains has puzzled the faculty; and the accoucheurs protest against his Ex- Excellency's invasion of their province. The nurse could have taught him better. The Marquis of W is engaged in commenting Smith's " Wealth of Nations," and " Malthus on Population." The notes are said to possess all the perspicuity and political acumen that might be expected from the noble author. Mr. C. Kemble has protested against Covent Garden Theatre being leased to M. Laporte, in order, it is supposed, that he may retain the management of it in his own hands. Mr. Monck Mason, it is reported, purposes to violate one of bis pledges to his subscribers, by producing Robert le Diable on the off nights; thus withdrawing from them whatever benefits may accrue from its performance. We shall recur to this subject. Difference between the dancing of Taglioni and Heberle :— Heberle often rises from the earth, emulating the lightness of the Zephyr— but Taglioni always seems to descend to it the very personification of a floating Grace. Definitions from the dictionary of an Anti- Reformer :— Liberty of the Press The power of libelling. Reform An attack on social order. Whigs inthe\ 9thCentury.. Democrats. Tories Conservators. Why is it that all the world— that is to say, the London world — laugh at Lord R y ? He is well informed, good- natured, and, according to our ideas, inoffensive ; and yet friends and foes combine to laugh at him. To be sure he laughs with them ; for meet him when you will, he is always smiling ; and if, as we suppose, he joins the laughers against him, he must be the mer- riest man going, and live in one perpetual giggle. We can find no heavier crime alleged against him, than that he sacrifices somewhat too often, and too largely toBacchus, and is addicted to the telling of long stories, and retailing obsolete bon mots— vices rarely pardoned in the circle in which his Lordship moves, where the inherent dullness of each individual renders it necessary to expose that of any pretender to more than the ordinary routine of common places. Each member of the circle to which he belongs, is anxious to prove by the only means in bis power ( the detecting dullness in others) that he can discriminate the degrees of that epidemic, and suffers less from it than the person he attacks. To prove that we are passing wise, We point where others' folly lies. THE OPERA.— Who is that pretty but pale woman in the op- posite box, asked Lord , the other evening, of his friend Sir J . I have been abroad the last three years, and know no one. That, said Sir J. is Lady S ; " call her not pale, but fair." She is beautiful. What eyes,— full, dark, and lus- trous. She would be quite perfect, were it not that she has a little too much of the moon face of the Sultana ; but this is re- deemed by the soul beaming expression, and that " pale hue of thought" that marks her face. She is the daughter of a gifted, if not a noble house ; and as the aristocracy of talent is now allowed, she may boast of having brought into the noble family she has entered a lineage as remarkable for genius as theirs is for birth. The lady with her is her sister, a sort of Fuseli likeness of Lady S. A noble head, but wanting that feminine softness that ought to characterise female beauty. Mrs. N— t— n's face is nearly Grccian ; the mouth alone is defective in beauty, though full of character, and that character is lofty and grand, indica- tive of the talent that marks the owner, and which promises one day to soar to the wide expanse of genius. The other lady is Mrs. B d, a sister grace; uniting much of the charms of her sisters, with a vivacity that seems wanting in the first, and a feminine delicacy that is not visible in the second. The dinner given to the Earl of Mulgrave by the Garrick Club went off much better than could be expected under the political change that had taken place, which, it was supposed, would in- fluence the destiny and the destination of his Lordship. That which was meant to be an adieu was turned into a rejoicing at his stay ; and the unexpectedness of the event, which allowed so short a preparation, did not prevent many brilliant and happy specimens of eloquence being given on the occasion. The man may surely be considered as highly favoured whose departure was to be signalized by a feast, aud whose stay is marked by re- joicings ; this must have consoled his Lordship under what he at that moment, along with so many others, experienced, " Quanta mayor es la fortuna, tanto es menor secura." And now that his friends must be restored to power, he will depart for Jamaica without any fear of being recalled, the Whig government b? i » ) g more likely to be more permanently fixed in office than pver. POLITICAL PASTIME. THE FALLEN ANGELS. " I declare before God and man, I have never considered the bill in the spirit of factious opposition."— Duke of C d's Speech on Tuesday. To what extremes is faction driven, When Arthur bows " to kiss the rod," C— r v— n sues to be forgiven, And C— mb— 1— d appeals to God 1 DUST TO DUST. " I feel myself trampled in the dust by the miserable situation in which the House has placed me."— Duke of N— c — e's Speech. " In dust I'm trampled 1" Clinton cries. " ' Tis turn about 1" John Bull replies : " Too long, ' tis said, you've trod the poor " To earth ;— now, ' chacun a son tour,' " And in your case, confess you must, " Clinton, ' tis only ' dust to dust.' " MODEST MERIT. " The little honesty I've got, " I'd rather keep ;" quoth Vain: And of the estimate, God wot 1 There's no one can complain. " NO STAKE IN THE STATE." " You've no stake in the state," said Tom Duncombe to Croker. " Arrah, Tom, put such balderdash out of your pate; " Sure you wouldn't be calling,— my tight little joker,— " My three pretty pensions no stake in the Stake." HERALDIC ILLUSTRATIONS, i. " Loyaulte n'a honte."— By the D— e of N— c— tie. From " Loyaulte n'a honte," I learn It is,— despite my Borough boors,— No shame for Loyalty to turn Unruly tenants out of doors, li. " Libertas in Legibus."— By Lord W— f— d. " Libertas in Legibus"— Wilde used to say, Whene'er ' gainst my judgment he dared to " shew cause," Was the motto my doctrine most fit to display, That the Judge had a right to make free with the laws. HI. " Aperte vivere voto."— By the Earl of W— ch— 1— a. " Aperto vivere voto"— thus My motto I translate : I vote the Whigs forthwith to us The Treasury abdicate. IV. " Tien ta foy."— By Earl B— th— t. " Tien ta foy," translated truly, By placemen of profound pretensions, Whose precepts I still practise duly, Means simply— B— th— t, keep your pensions. INTERCEPTED LETTER, FROM THE COUNTESS OF TO LADY . The papers will have apprised you of the melancholy turn affairs have taken here, but they cannot give you any idea of the total bouleversement that we are in. All the links of the chain of society are broken ; private independence, following fast in the footsteps of odious reform, have caused our ancient liege subjects to rebel, and our difficulty now is, not as formerly to exclude, but to entice, people to come to us. I blush while I confess the humiliating fact, that those who in past days pestered us with entreaties, showering billets on us, and douceurs on our porters, now saucily refuse the proffered favour of tickets for Almack's ; and that once select arena of aristocratic power, the ad- mission to which served as diplomas in the profession of fashion, is robbed of its splendour, shorn of its beams, and, instead of being a theatre where our power was displayed to the content- ment of the few and mortification of the many, is now " fallen from its high estate," and simply become a place where those who can get partners, dance, and those who cannot, sit down. It would grieve you to see Almack's at present; the room half empty; four or five sisters of one family making part of the heterogeneous company, names unknown and unknownable two seasons ago ; young men about town, of no sort of promise, except to their tailors, with subalterns of the Life Guards and Blues, big with the last steeple- chase or review. These, these, my dear friend, are the present set at Almack's. How different from the once courtly circle that we assembled there ? What most provoking is, that they seem to laugh and amuse them- selves with aS much nonchalance as if the Lady Patronesses did not exist. None of that respectueux empressement that for- merly marked the manners of the young men of fashion. Mais, helas ! we have no young men of fashion at Almack's at pre- sent ; all those whose birth and station entitle them to that distinction are to be found either at the Upper or Lower Houses of Parliament, or at the Clubs. All this is the work of reform, that modern Briareus, whose hundred hands are employed in destroying our power, and establishing that independence that must be the bane of all refinement. All this we owe to Lord Grey, whose weakness in listening to the many- headed monster, public opinion, is unpardonable ; but he must suffer for it, as the approbation of the country at large can be but a poor consola- tion for the lost favour of our circle, which comprises all that is most recherche and fashionable. You may suppose I have done my utmost to prop our fallen dynasty, but in vain. My salons are nearly empty, while all the world flocks to Lady Grey's re- ceptions, or to Lansdowne House ; and when I hint that I have limited my circle, an incredulous smile may be detected on the countenances of my few adherents, who are, for the most part, composed of renegade Whigs, expelled from the Ministerial par- ties, and who, I fear, seek my coterie as a refuge for the desti- tute. The climax of all my chagrin is, that W , even he, the great Duke, and greater Captain, acknowledges that he re- spects public opinion, and has made known this weakness by refusing power. This has been a dreadful blow to me, as I considered the odious reformers departed for ever; and what adds to my mortification is, that the whole of the Ministry and their friends seem as little elated by their triumph as if they had never doubted it. The K , too, seems to think only of his subjects at large, instead of attending to us, the elite of the country. This is a dreadful state of things, and you will, I am sure! join us in the cry that England is ruined. Adieu 1 If my nerves permit me, from time to time you shall hear all that is going here. Toujpurs et pour toujour?, affectionately yours. NATIONAL GALLERY, WESTMINSTER. [ Continued from our Paper of May 13.] If to engross— nay, to absorb— the attention of all men, of all parties and of all conditions, in the nation and throughout Europe, be the triumph of Art, then has the Exhibition of the Grand National Gallery, near Palace- yard, attained to the very acme of success. We now resume our critical notice of the principal subjects, which, in the words of our daily contemporaries, " the pressure of more momentous matter has hitherto withheld." No. 63. " The Serpent tempting Eve." From the CURZON Collection. A capital picture: not unworthy the inscription it bears from Milton :— " Wonder not, sovran mistress, if, perhaps, Thou canst, who art sole wonder 1 much less arm Thy looks, the heaven of mildness, with disdain ; Displeased that I approach thee thus ****** So talk'd the spirited sly snake ; and Eve, Yet more amazed, unwary thus replied." We are at a loss, however, to account for the introduction of the two cockatrices, with serpent tails, in the train of " the wily adder," whom all the ancient authorities concur in representing as gliding, unattended, into the presence of the " sovran mis- tress" :— " One wonders how the devil they got there." No. 70. " The revels of Bacchus." Lloydd. From the KEN- YON Cabinet. A spirited production, but disfigured by anachro- nisms. What, for instance, has the uprooted orange lily to do in such a scene ? And how comes the principal satyr to bear so extraordinary a resemblance to old btockdale, of Harriette- Wilson- celebrity ? No. 55. " Notice to Quit." Tallents. From the NEWCASTLE Gallery. This is a curious painting; and by a rare and perilous effort is made to embrace two distinct subjects. In the fore- ground a freeholder and his wife, and family of ten children, are turned out of their cottage. The agent, who seems to obey his mighty master's behest with alacrity, exhibits the " notice to quit," on the back of which is written, " Have I not a right to do what I will with my own ?" The unfortunate victim of aris- tocratic authority bends to the decree ; but pressing to his heart a paper, on which is inscribed " The Reform Bill," he seems to exclaim, " And I, too, have not I a right to do what I will with MY own— conscience and birthright?" In the background a strange scene is exhibited; for there we see the arbitrary aristo- crat lying in the dust, whilst his own partisans are trampling on him. The design is clever, and the execution most effective. No. 10. " A Green Gage." By Henry Hall, an obscure artist. This picture is from Lord GAGE'S gallery. There is a softness about the fruit that, though highly characteristic, is extremely difficult to manage in its green state. No. 69. " Dicky Gossip." From Lord TENTERDEN'S private Collection. The arrogant expression of the barber's face, as he runs out of the shop where a new mode of shaving has been adopted, is ludicrous in the extreme. We can almost fancy we hear him exclaim, " The order of barbers is degraded, and I cut the connexion 11" No. 45. " Bull- baiting." From the EXETER Exhibition Capital 1 This promises to be one of the most popular of the modern works of art. The artist has, with great skill and the happiest tact imaginable, caught the lucky moment for producing all the most striking effects of contrast. The relentless persecutors of the noble animal have just succeeded in worrying him into a rage, and are cheering on their dogs, when the bull breaks loose from the old and rotten bonds to which he submitted from igno- rance of his own strength, and now turns upon his tormentors, whose inhuman exultation is instantly changed to piteous moan- ing and dismay. The transition from brutal triumph to craven terror is exquisitely managed. No. 75. " Jeremy Diddler." From the MARLBOROUGH Gal- lery. There is great fidelity to nature both in the design and colouring of this sketch by Churchill. No. 59. " The Peacock in pride proper." From the RUT- LAND Collection. This, we presume, is a piece of family vanity to illustrate the crest of the noble house of Rutland. It is well done notwithstanding. The empty pride of the bird, and the gaudy glitter of the tail in the sun, are ingeniously hit off. But it is by no means a good subject for public contemplation, since it only the more forcibly, and somewhat painfully reminds us, that all such outward show is " vanity and vexation of spirit," when there is no intrinsic merit, grace, or charm, to justify the attempt at display. No. 46. " Ancient Pistol." From the WINCHILSEA Exhi bition. Another anachronism. To give a local interest to this picture tbe artist has introduced the gable end of the Red House at Battersea, when the real scene lies at the Bore's Head in East- cheap, as we learn from the inscription:— " Oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer- cakes, And hold- fast is tbe only dog, my duck." See HEN. V. act 2, sc. 3. No. 57. " Cantwell." From Lord RODEN'S Collection. An excellent painting, in which, either by accident or design, the painter seems to have had his patron in his " mind's eye." As a companion to this picture, we have No. 58. " Mawworm," from Lord BEXLEY'S breakfast room Liston ought to study this head before he plays the character again. No. 42. " The Snake in the Grass." From the Earl of Ma- STER'S private Exhibition. This is pronounced by all parties to be a chef d'ceuvre. Indeed it is said that considerable sums were lately offered for it; but some question as to the title, stopped the sale. No. 10. " The P'idlar Boy and the Tartar Witch." Stewart. From the HOLDER7* KSSE HOUSE Exhibition. This picture would do credit to the pencil of Wilkie. The passionate petulance of the pedlar as he grasps at the half- crown which the witch holds between her teet'n, and the almost convulsive tenacity with which she " does him battle" ( as Lord Winchilsea phrases it), are as ludicrous as auy thing ever yet put upon canvass. The pedlar boy bears a striking resemblance to a nobleman, whose pecu liarities hav; acquired for him the sobriquet of Vain- glory, and the female figure reminds us strongly of Mrs. Davenport in Juliet's Nv, rse. No. 90. " The Starved Apothecary." From Lord SIDMOUTH' Saloon. Though the subject is rather repulsive, it is astonish ing how the artist has softened down the harshness of the features without; destroying the applicability of the motto:— " Need and oppression starveth in thine eyes, The world is not thy friend." [ The LOWER CHAMBER in our nexl.] PARLIAMENTARY DRA WINGS. LORD LYNDHURST. " Rem, quocunque modo Rem." The fate of Lord Lyndhurst would reconcile one, in an access of misanthropy, to this perennial maxim of the base minded, which the Roman satirist has transmitted and stigmatized as prevailing in his day. Sordid prudence would assuredly not have made Lord Lyndhurst more deserving of respect, but it would have deceived the superficial, imposed on the vulgar, and flattered the vile, by a congenial quality. To maintain political independence without pecuniary independence, is one of the most difficult achievements in public life. It demands a force of character which has been denied to Lord Lyndhurst by na- ture. The instinct of money- making must be born with us. It is rarely if ever acquired. Lord Lyndhurst has never known it — and hence the wreck of reputation which he has unhappily and irretrievably made. The son of a painter, of respectable talent but no fortune, he has risen to the first rank of the pro- fession of the bar and the British peerage. Like the air- balloon, he has risen by the specific levity of his character, losing, in his ascent, more and more of grandeur and interest in the eyes of the people whom he left beneath bin. He has never gained further elevation in the sphere without flinging away a virtue or principle. Such is the misfortune of being born without the instinct of money- making— such the baleful influence of pecu- ' niary necessities. But this is premature and tantamount to prejudging,— we wili begin at the beginning. John Singleton Copley, the son of an American citizen and artist, had neither diligence nor genius for his father's profes- sion— he failed to obtain the petty place of corresponding se- cretary to the Royal Academy, of which his father was a mem- ber— he became a student of Cambridge as a forlorn hope. An American in feelings and in national amour propre, he looked around him upon the monarchical constitution of society and go- vernment in England with a sentiment of republican superiority. The scenes which he witnessed, and the social distinctions in the midst of which he was placed at Cambridge, irritated his demo- cratic pride, humbler station, and consciousness of superior merit. The perusal of the Greek and Roman classics— the spirit of antiquity— purified and exalted his imagination and his prin - ciples. He left the University of Cambridge an ardent untram- melled enthusiast for liberty. He was next called to the bar. Neither a plodding student nor a grave charlatan— nor a profound lawyer— nor a brilliant advo- cate, but gifted with quickness of faculty in the highest degree ; with that sort of genius which is called cleverness, and which up plies the place of knowledge, he succeeded at the bar, with- out much eclat, until he became a Sergeant. Enthusiastic, and enlightened, he won the friendship and kindness of the more generous spirits of his profession. Engaging in his manners, and unenvying in his feelings, he conciliated those who were less successful, and less endowed than himself. In the circle of the bar he was a favourite. The first occasion in which he conspicuously distinguished him- self, was the trial of Watson, for high- treason. His defence of the prisoners displayed more skill than eloquence,— he was neither fervid nor figurative. In one passage only, he aspired to the rhetorical in the use of a Scriptural allusion— took fright at his own daring— hesitated— lost his self- possession— mis- declaimed a passage, which he had elaborately composed, and failed to turn his period, or complete his sense. The speech, however, was an adroit and successful defence; and as his liberal opinions had pointed out Sergeant Copley as the fittest counsel for the ac- cused, the ability with which he acquitted himself, pointed him out to the Minister as one, whose talents would be useful, and whose virtue might be overcome. Careless, if not prodigal,— accessible, if not devoted to the vanities and pleasures of life, the income of his profession was but an imperfect supply ; his wants went far beyond his means. He aggravated the difficulties of his position by a marriage, which tome would call imprudent, others romantic, and all must ad- mit to have been generously disinterested. His necessities placed him at the disposal of the Ministry,— he became solicitor and attorney- general. His conduct as a law- officer was marked by great forbearance, especially towards the press,— a power, necessarily unpopular, and sometimes necessarily odious, was exercised by him in a manner the most discreet and mild. His courtesy to the bar, and especially to those whose junior stand- ing, or inferior station, might subject, and has often subjected, them to the insolence of office, or other vulgar supe- riorities, was not only unabated, but encreased with his professional advancement. But he had deserted his principles and his friends— he had deserted to a Ministry which he des- pised— be lost the grace of disinterested carelessness and thought- less dissipation, winch political independence and liberal opi- nions give to pecuniary distress. The friends and admirers who hitherto vindicated and sustained, now abandoned him as a rene- gade, to his fate ; and he was exposed at once to the obloquy of corrupt tergiversation, and the humiliations of straightened fortune. It is with the virtue of politicians as with that of women : II n'y a que le premier pas qui coute. Sir John Singleton Copley became Master of the Rolls. The representation of Cambridge tempted his ambition. The probability of his be- coming Chancellor of England, and consequently the dispenser of the sacred gifts of the Church, made the Doctors at Cam- bridge sensible of his Protestant zeal, piety, pjid other merits ; and he abandoned the last shred of liberal opinion which was still supposed to adhere to him. The young Brutus of Cam- bridge— the more mature Gracchus of the Bar— the man who combined the reason of the philosopher with the ardour of the enthusiast— who knew no bounds to the freedom of mind in re- ligious or speculative inquiry;— this man came forward to give his bartered vote and bigot speech against the emancipa- tion of the Catholics ! There is something of melancholy ano- maly in his manner of wading through this miry passage of his life. Public principle, public consistency, the sense of public shame, wer e gone— but the guise of the bigot could not overcome. t| ie clearer and better reason of the man :— he search,^ Jjis mind and found it wholly unprovided with the ar. jioury of intolerance, and finding his own interior reason tj10 other side of the question, he took up and turned int^ ^ speepi, a paTty pamphlet of the hour, written by a reverend . pamphleteer, • who has since fought his way, like a Swiss merr, itoary) under tjje banner of every party iu the State to the epis i^ ach. * THE T O W Iff. May 27. pamphlet was an attack upon Mr. Canning, written with the bad faith of a sophist and- scurrility of a priest. Sir John Copley did not scruple to discharge it in all its malice against Mr. Canning, his friend, in debate. That minister retorted by reading a law opinion of Sir John Copley, which proved that he plagiarized the pamphlet without coinciding with it, and left him prostrate in the dust Who could have envied him at that moment the representation of Cambridge. Mr. Canning's personal character was generous and forgiving. Upon his accession to the head of the administration, he made Sir John Copley chancellor, with the title of Baron Lyndhurst. That minister died when he was yet but a few months in office. The Duke of Wellington soon succeeded. Lord Lyndhurst con- tinued chancellor. There was in this nothing to make his character and position worse or better than before ; but when, at the Duke's nod, he turned round to vote for that measure of emancipation, which but a year or two before he had opposed with such strenuous hypocrisy, instead of being regarded as a converted bigot or reclaimed profligate, he was regarded only as a crouching politician, who was ready to advocate intolerance or liberty, with no guide but his interest, and a conscience which he was as much afraid to look into as into the state of his ac- counts. But Lord Lyndhurst had reached the utmost height of his ambition— he was Chancellor of England. " Where have you been ?" said an acquaintance to Mr. one day in Lincoln's Inn. " I have been," said the epigrammatist, " seeing and hear- ing the most miserable man alive." He had come out of the Court of Chancery, and meant the Lord Chancellor Lyndhurst, then sitting in his Court. There was really no exaggeration in this description of the supreme Judge. His countenance be- trayed the uneasiness, the agony of his situation. It is not necessary to state his private troubles, or his public source, of mental distress, without the Court— in it he sat like a victim to he worried and humiliated by the technical experience and low- minded, low- mannered triumphs of the Sugdens e tutti quanti. Another shifting of the scenes in the drama of administration brought him down from his perch. Toany otherman itwouldhave been like descending from the pillory to freedom and the use of his limbs. But in proportion to the comforts of his release in one quarter, the pressure increased upon him in another. In brief, the Whig Ministry in a moment of mistaken prudence, or still more mistaken pity, afforded him the degrading refuge of the chief seat on the bench of the Exchequer— and he has repaid them by becoming the tool of an intrigue, as deeply marked by perfidy and meanness as any since the days of Lord Bute. Lord Lyndhurst's character has undergone a complete change. He now hates liberty, the people, every thing generous and en- lightened. The grace of manner which originally charmed in him, the disarming vestiges of shame and regret which were after- wards observable in his tone and demeanour, have given way to an abandoned defianceof opinion and his degradation. Theexpression of his countenance has been metamorphosed with his character— but we will conclude this sketch by a few traits of the orator, which have not undergone the same unfavourable change as those of the politician and the man. Lord Lyndhurst has fine external attributes as a public speaker. His person is tall; his action is graceful, easy, and dignified; his voice is clear and melodious; and although his countenance is now deficient in moral expression, and there is false- hood in his smile, and a glitter of triumphant duplicity in his eye, its intellectual intimations are powerful, and thought resides upon it. He has a great command of pure diction, which flows in equal clearness and abundance from " the well of English undefiled." It is not wrought out in parenthetical involution like Lord Brougham's; and although it wants the copiousness and fire of that distinguished person, it has some advan- tages in its peculiar perspicuity, and that transparent quality through which the thoughts of the orator are distinctly seen. The great excellence of Lord Lyndhurst consists in the masterly manner in which he states the most complicated facts, and dis- entangles circumstances the most intricate and confused into order and regularity. His statement of the case of Miss Foote was a master- piece of the art of advocacy. His arguments are • brought forward in a perfect array— they are distributed and mar- shalled with the greatest skill, and move in the mind of his audience according to the best system of rhetorical tactics. Is Lord Lyndhurst, with all these merits, a great orator ? The an- swer must be given in the negative. He wants the great quality, without which superior eloquence cannot exist, and which com- pensates for the absence of so many other attributes,— that deep and fervid emotion, which beaxs whole auditories away, and which was the characteristic of the public speaker to whom all times have given the palm of superiority. Lord Lyndhurst does not produce any strong excitement. Heleadsand conducts hisauditorsthrough the path that may lead to conviction, but never hurries and pre- cipitates them along with him. There is no nobleness of senti- ment, nor gorgeousness of expression, nor elevation of thought, in his speeches. You are not struck by him, as a good man. He has said nothing which any one remembers, or cares to re- collect. No lofty notion, no splendid sentence, no beautiful phrase, is preserved. There is neither high morality nor kind- ling emotion, nor brilliant imagination, in his oratory. These are the attributes that make men remembered in their graves. Lord Lyndhurst has those which render him conspicuous before he shall descend into it, and will be interred with him— but not in Westminster Abbey. A PAGE FROM THE DIARY OF ST. JOHN LONG. —— " On their own merits modest men are dumb." So says the sage and philosophic Pangloss:— so acts the most distinguished disciple of Esculapius, Galen, and Hippocrates,— St. John Long. For my own part— though I say it, that should not say it— Jus- tice has already been done to my deserts ; and Fame with her thousand tongues has trumpeted forth my past transcendant tri- umphs through all the quarters of the globe. Satiated with success, I should now repose beneath my laurels, did not my philanthropy get the better of my modesty, and render it in- cumbent on me to assert my claim to the gratitude of the whole nation for the miraculous cures I have wrought, in the cases of those illustrious individuals whose alarming complaints have lately excited the most powerful sensation in every corner of the kingdom. I contemplate with conventional complacency the great and grateful duty of future ages in commemora- ting the signal services of the man, to whose unrivalled skill the country owes the restoration of such mighty men as C— n— rv— n, C— b— 1— d, W— c a, W— 1— gt— n„ L— dh— st, L— d— d— y, & c., & c. Talk of " healing mea- sures"— think of my inhaling system! Talk of Catholic Sir Henry Lushington, who has resided for some years at Naples, as Consul- General for his Britannic Majesty, with the ample salary of 1,400/ per annum, is recalled. Mr. Goodwin has departed for Italy to succeed Sir Henry in the character of Consul, but with a reduced salary. The Duke of Wellington appointed Lord Burghersh to the diplomacy at Naples, a few days previous to the breaking up of his administration in November 1830 ; but Earl Grey, we believe, refused to ratify the choice, and Mr. Noel Hill still remains accredited as Minis- ter at the Court of the King of the Two Sicilies. " The Metropolitan Magazine'" is, we observe, making rapid progress, and increasing constantly in the variety and interesting nature of its contents. The last number contained a poem by the Editor, Mr. Campbell, author of " The Pleasures of Hope," and the number for June will, we understand, contain some beautiful verses, by Mr. Thomas Moore, author of " Lalia Itookh," addressed to a lovely young Peeress on her marriage. With sueh attractions, it cannot be doubted but, that this Ma- gazine must speedily take the lead in all literary and fashionable circles. Emancipation— think of my rub- rification 1 Mine are the only genuine " healing measures" for agitation or irritation. But, not to imitate the declaimer in Aulus Gellius, " Qui ver- borum minutiis rerum franyit pondera," I hasten to submit to the consideration of an admiring nation, the documentary evidence upon which I claim the confidence, and the gratitude of the country Tuesday, May 15.— TheD— E ofW— ll— T— N did me the honour of consulting me professionally. His Grace was then labouring under the most distressing symptoms of the Jailing sic/ cness; and magnanimously declared that even the State Physician had declared his case hopeless ; but he still had that confidence in the pursuit of a rigorous system, such as he un- derstood mine to be, that he resolved to place himself under my care, well knowing that mine was a kind of kill or cure practice, to which he had always been particu- larly partial. I immediately proceeded to satisfy myself of the actual state of the patient, and I found that an intermit- tent bill- ious fever had superinduced the most alarming indica- tions. The tongue was foul— very foul; the pulse wild and irre- gular ; the eyes inflamed and dilated ; and the brain disturbed. As no time was to be lost, I set to work secundum artem, and applied my lotion, tempered with an infusion of fox- glove, about the region of the heart, whilst his Grace inhaled a decoction of Prussic acid. Though very sore and irritable for some days, the illustrious sufferer was in less than a week able to leave town, change of air being indispensable to his preservation, as well as a total relinquishment of State affairs. So pleased was the D F. with the certainty of success which my system affords, that, before I had finished the first application he, sent for Lord L-— d— h— s— T, who was afflicted with a most inveterate com- plaint of the chest, accompanied, to an extraordinary degree, hy the tic- doloureux. His Lordship's professional advisers had contented themselves with administering occasional doses of the decoction of Bend- wich, but with no success whatever. I rubbed in my lotion with an infusion of quick- silver in the palms of the hands, whilst his Lordship inhaled freely a preparation of henbane, and he was greatly relieved. Having dressed the wounds with golden ointment, and covered them with court- plaister, he is now somewhat better, but it is doubted whether he can ever recover his strength. May 16.— Had this morning the high honor of being consulted on the case of the D— E OF C— MB— D, who seemed in a state of imminent danger, from ossification of the heart.— Change of air was all that I could conscientiously recommend ; the patient being so thin- skinned, as not to be able to bear rubbing in. The D— E OF G— c— R was affected by the mumps, in the most extraordinary manner that ever came under my observation. He did and said the silliest things imaginable, with an air of gravity that was quite astonishing. My lotion, with the syrup of penny- royal, did the business. The D— E OF B— GH— M applied to me as a dernier resort. His complaint was a prodigious enlargement of the liver.— The obesity and oiliness of his body rendered the rubbing in ineffec- tual at the seat of the disease ; hut remembering the old adage that " a fat belly makes a lean pate," I applied the lotion to the Temple, with so much effect, as to make a decided impression : a thing that many people thought to be impossible on that part. The E— L OF W— N— H— A exhibited a violent rash when he called upon me:— he is now nearly convalescent. Lord W— NF— D was suffering much from Wilde- fire, which seemed to have worked itself into his system. I did my Best ,- and by making him inhale a decoction of hempseed and gas, orouglit him to himself : but his imagination has been haunted y halters and lamp- posts ever since. Lord L— D— REV was afflicted with flatulency, almost to burst- ing, when I first saw him. His tongue was remarkably foul, dry, and furred; and his pulse at 190 or thereabouts. Appre- hending a brain fever, I departed from my usual practise, and bled him copiously ,- after which I rubbed in my lotion; and he inhaled Townsend's drops. Lord H— WE was severely afflicted with Locked Jaw, when he drove up to my door. In half an hour, with hard rubbing in, and inhaling a decoction of Broom, he was out of danger. The following Noble and Learned Persons have, within the week, been cured of the various maladies attached to their names :— Lord T— T— D— N, the spleen ; Lord K— N— N, dropsy and brain fever; Sir JAMES S— L— TT, St. Vitus's dance ; and Sir R— B— T P— L, vertigo. The last was a most distressing case. The patient had once made a turn round, that completely upset him ; and even his most intimate friends were afraid of his turning again, when he applied to me. But I gave him such rubbing in with the juice of the shamrog, and made him inhale so freely of a decoction of rue, that, for the present at least, think he may itand upright, and is " fit to be trusted alone." CRAMAR'S CONCERT, & c. We attended Francois Cramer's concert last Monday ; there was a very full and fashionable audience, but as usual a great lack of variety in his musical catering. To the lovers of instru- mental music it might have been a treat, but to the admirers of " the human voice divine" it turned out a very sleepy affair. The concert opened with Beethoven's Sinfonia in D, which oc- cupied nearly an hour, and although executed in a masterly manner, appeared to have a somniferous effect upon the greater portion of the audience. Then followed Haydn's Sinfonia, No. 10, almost as lengthy, and Moscheles scampering over his " Re- collections of Denmark," as if aware that they were not worth dwelling upon. The company were favoured between the heaviness of the instrumental by Miss Cramer's light vocal powers— a duet with Phillips and two solos; she certainly showed her judgment by fixing on songs requiring no great compass of voice, but she looks so amiable, smiles so prettily, and makes so many apologising curtsies, that one cannot be angry. Mrs. Knyvett sung with taste and good expression, " From Silent Shades," and Miss Stephens from II Penseroso. These, with Phillips's Bacchanalian song ( more suited to the - Freemasons' Tavern) and a silly, common- place ballad by Parry, jun., made up the sum of the evening's entertainment, except, and we purposely except it ( as an Oasis in the desert) Maurer's concertante for four violins, admirably performed by those promising young men Blagrove, Seymour, Patey, and Musgrave. Such precision, such just and finely drawn tones, and such equally elegant and rapid execution, we have seldom met with: it was to the ear as the effect of hut one mind and hand acting upon the four instruments— it is certainly in itself a tasteful and well arranged composition : and we observed with pleasure Lindley and Mori, those great masters of the bow, lend- ing a willing ear to the performance, and heartily joining in the well- merited applause it elicited. What could have induced, last Thursday night, the elegant Inverarity to have made the selection she did for her benefit—- The Lord of the Manor and Black Eyed Susan ? The former would have passed off without much observation had the per- formers studied their parts ; but the prompter had no sinecure. The singing, though there was Braham and Sheriff, was very mediocre indeed, except Braham's song of " A man's a manfra a' that." We cannot help again regretting that Miss Inverarity did not make a better choice than Black Eyed Susan as one of the at- tractions to her benefit. The character is foreign to her style of acting, which is more suited to the display of the graceful vivacity of genteel comedy, than of the lachrymose and somewhat coarse tenderness of the sailor's wife. The singing and acting of the song of the " Dashing White Sergeant" was full of graceful espieglerie, and was deservedly encored. We were happy to see that her friends mustered strong on the occasion, and feel confident that with a more judiciously chosen bill of fare at the next benefit, she will muster still stronger. MAY.— Where has May hid her vernal tints, and budding flowers ? Like a cold and calculating coquette, she has hitherto withheld her sunny smiles, till within these last few days, and given us her tears only, perhaps with the idea that, like all deferred en- joyments, hers will be but the more prized for having been long waited for, and, arriving late, they will be, like all sublunary pleasures, of short duration. The ancients hailed the approach of May with fastings and rejoicings, and shall we moderns give her a less joyous reception here in this peopled wilderness of brick and mortar, which she renders more bearable during the brief period of her reign. Our Parks, and even the circum- scribed plots in the middle of our squares, those verdant spots that are " like angel visits, few and far between," own the bland influence of this renovating month, and expand their vivid greens and delicate lilacs with a host of " Spring's sweet offerings" to our gladdened eyes. Now arrive the heavily laden coach and barouche, teeming with young and lovely women, fresh and blooming as the flowers of May ; their cheeks emulating the lily and rose, country air and early hours having renewed the bloom that a London season had faded. How beat their hearts with bright hopes and expectations of what this coming season may produce ? How many who, chilled by disappointment, retraced their weary journey last July or August, casting many " a long- ing, lingering look behind," with hearts less free than hands, now return, hoping to be no more packed three of a side in the front seat of the family vehicle, but picturing to imagination the new chariot, with all the improvements of modern luxury, iu which, tfite- a- t£ te with some prize in the lottery of wedlock, they may be whirled from the metropolis. What gay visions of balls, routs, d^ jeunes, and dinners, float before their mind's- eye, to be succeeded by the brilliant marriage that is the end and aim of all, with dreams of blonde veils, orange- flower and wedding- favour decked postilions, followed by the eyes of admiring crowds— and how many are doomed to disappointment ? Fair ladies, May is the month of your triumphs ; your bloom is now like your hopes, still unfaded; but as certain as the tender green and delicate buds that now wear nature's brightest livery will in a few fleeting weeks be scorched by the sun, withered by the dense atmosphere, and soiled by the dust, so will your lilies and roses be faded by late hours, heated rooms, impure air, aided by hope deferred, which not only maketh the heart sick, but clouds the brow, dims the eye, and pales the cheek. Seek, then, to strike the blow that is to decide your destinies ere May be passed. Soon may the rapid transfer of property at Crockford's gilded salons force the young and lavish heir to propose only at ecartti, and engagements may be made for yachting, or shooting parties in Scotland, that preclude the chances of engagements for life. Wait not till July comes, when the feelings of the men are as janes as your looks, and their purses as dilapidated as your ball wardrobes. ENTERTAINMENT AT THE MANSION- HOUSE. The Lord Mayor gave an entertainment on Wednesday to Mr. Attwood and the remainder of the Birmingham and Man- chester Deputations, who waited upon the Court of Common Council to present a vote of thanks passed at a recent public meeting in Birmingham. The Egyptian Hall was filled with the principal advocates of reform in the Common Council and in the City; and amongst other distinguished persons we noticed Lord Ebrington, Sir F. Burdett, Mr. Byng, M. P., Mr. Hume, M. P., Mr. Duncombe, M. P., Alderman Wood, M. P. & c. After the usual loyal toasts had been drank with appropriate honours, The Lord Mayor, in a neat and appropriate speech, gave " the health of Mr. Thomas Attwood." Mr. Attwood returned thanks, and concluded his speech by saying that he was willing to devote his life to the maintenance of peace and order ; but, at the same time, if that hour should come when an attempt would be made to violate the liberties of the people, by measures of despotic tyranny, unquestionably he would not be the last to endeavour to repel force by force. ( Applause.) The Lord Mayor proposed the health of Lord Ebrington. Lord Ebrington remarked that the events of the last few days had taught the people two important lessons— it had taught them to know and despise their enemies, and also directed them to those friends in whom they could place confidence. The Lord Mayor next proposed the health of Sir Francis Burdett. Sir Francis Burdett said he did not consider it necessary to glance at extreme measures on the part of the people, for in his mind the proper course would be, rather to know how to mo- derate their satisfaction at the triumph they were about to achieve. The healths of Mr. Byng, Mr. Hume, Mr. Alderman Wood, Mr. Duncombe, Mr. Parkes, of Birmingham, and the Polish Count Czsapsky, having been drank, these gentlemen returned thanks. Other toasts were proposed, and the hospitalities of the Man- sion House were not concluded till a late hour at night. EXTRAORDINARY PERFORMANCE BY STEAM POWER On the occasion of a scientific gentleman lately visiting the Liver- pool and Manchester Railway, some extraordinary performances were effected. On two occasions, a load amounting to 100 tons was drawn by one engine from Liverpool to Manchester, a dis- tance of above 30 miles, in an hour and a half, being at the average rate of 20 miles an hour. An eight- horse waggon, on a common road, is capable of carrying only eight tons in a day. Consequently it would take 100 horses, working for one day on a turnpike- road, to perform the same work as was here accom- plished by a single steam engine in an hour and a half on the rail- road. It is said that no former performance effected on the rail- road has come near this result. PRIVILEGES OF PARLIAMENT BILL.— Wednesday morning, shortly before the adjournment of the house, a bill wa3 brought in and read a first time, for preserving the dignity and independ- ence of the House of Commons, by causing the seats of insol- vent members to be vacated, by preventing the election of in- solvent persons to serve as members, and by removing difficulties touching the rights of creditors against bankrupt members. The reformers at Edinburgh have resolved to erect a column to Earl Grey, in commemoration of the great victory obtained during the past fortnight. We hear that Lord Breadalbane, who happens to be at Edinburgh, has subscribed 100/., and his son, Lord Ormelie, 50/. Boxes have been placed in the most public situations, and it is expected that a large sum will be raised by shillings and sixpences, and even smaller sums, as a general ap- peal has been made to all the reformers in Scotland to aid the subscription. Letters have been received from Mr. Joseph Woolff, the issionarv. dated at Tabruz, in Persia ;>. !,,[.- A,.. " A FELLOW FEELING MAKES US WONDROUS KIND." Amongst the petitions presented to the House of Commons during the last week was one from Sir C. S. Hunter, and several bther Aldermen against Cruelty to Animals, and particularly reco. mmending an improved method of bringing calves to market! SINGULAR OCCURRENCE.— We learn from Rome that the cele brated Linguist, Mezzofanti, has become insane, and in his sayings mingles together all the different languages he is acquainted with which produces a most singular effect.—• Gulignani's Messenger. The Rev. E. Irving continues preaching in the open air, on the Tenter- ground, where every Saturday morning [ he expounds the Scripture prophecies to the Jewry, and declares their resto, ration to Palestine to be at hand. NAVAL AND MILITARY LIBRARY AND MUSEUM.— WTe are _ ad to perceive that the Naval and Military Library and Mu- seum, in Whitehall- yard, which has been instituted as " a cen- tral repository for objects of professional art, science, and natu- ral history, and for books and documents relating to those studies, or of general information," is in a fair way towards permanent prosperity and success. The members of both the services, for whose accommodation and instruction the institution has been commenced, have come forward with becoming zeal in its support. It appears from the annual report, that the society musters already nearly 2,400 members, and no better eulogium can be conferred upon it than that contained in the words of Sir J. C. Hobhouse, who presided at the late annual dinner of the members of the institution. " To those amongst you," said that hon. baronet, " who have been instrumental in the formation of this institution, I will say, that a just posterity will tender you its gratitude for the results of your present labours, and in the meanwhile, your own approving consciences will amply repay you for the toil and anxiety of so noble an enterprise. Go on, therefore, and flourish ; and, after having stood foremost in the ranks of conquest, prove to the world by your bright example, that the best result of the triumphs of war is the power and the will to propagate the arts of peace." Missionary, Persia, in July last. Mr. Woolff found at Angora ( the ancient Galatia) a great number of Armenian Catholics, and a Bishop of that communion, who treated him with much kindness. From Angora he went to Tokat, and then to Trebisond, by way of Nixa, the ancient Neo Cesario. After remaining in the house of the British Con- sul, Mr. Brant, for a short time, for the recovery of his health Mr. W. proceeded to Erzeroum. On the road he found whole villages deserted by their Armenian inhabitants ; for it seems that 15,000 Armenians emigrated from these parts into Russia, with the return of the Army of Field Marshal Paskewitch. " Ill' sick and fatigued," says Mr. Woolff, " I arrived at last at the' hospitable camp of Captain Campbell, the British Charge d' Affaires, where I found also Mr. M'Neil, his assistant. They live in tents 20 miles from Tabruz, in consequence of the plague which is raging in that city. I have already made arrangements for my departure for Bokhara, Balkh, Samarcand, and Cabul. HORRIBLE MURDER IN FRANCE.— A most atrocious murder was committed on Thursday night, at No. 177, rue Montmartre. The assassins having entered the apartment of M. Desgranges', went to the room of his son, a young man twenty years of age, and at once beat in his skull with a blow from a hatchet. They then proceeded to the chamber of the parents, whom they treated in the same barbarous manner. Madame Desgranges expired under these blows, but her husband still survived yesterday, though his life was considered in the greatest danger. The physicians who attend hope, however, that he may so far recover his senses for a time as to give some account of this brutal assassination and to lead to the detection of the perpetrators, who when th. bloody deed was done, broke open a secratary, and took out a quantity of money that was deposited there. They afterwards lit all the wax lights in the apartment, and gave themselves up to debauch having stuck in the necks of the bottles, and in the glasses, the remnants of their abomniable orgies. It having been reported to the police that Madame Desgranges had some time ago complained of a female servant having received men into the house at night, this woman has been taken into custody.— Paris Paper. ' THE CELEBRATED HORSE ECLIPSE.— Previous to his run- ning for the King's Plate at Winchester in 1769 Mr. O'Kelly gave Wildman 650 guineas, for half a share of him, and after- wards purchased the other half for 1,100 guineas. He was the winner of eleven King's Plates, carrying 12st., in all except one. The fame of Eclipse as a Stallion was so great, that O'Kelly, when asked in 1779, what sum he would take for him, is reported to have replied that the price of his Stallion was 25,000 guineas down, an annuity of 500/. for his own life, and the privilege of sending six Mares to the Horse annually. He also stated that he had realized 25,000/. by him. Eclipse died at Cannons, on the 28th February, 1789, aged 25 years, and, according to the precedent of the Godolphin Arabian, cakes and ale were given at his funeral. METHOD OF DESTROYING GARDEN LICE.— It is stated in the Journal des Connaissances Usuelles et Pratiques, that M. de Lestwitz, Director of the Patriotic Society of Silesia, a distin- guished naturalist, has discovered that if from eight to ten drops of whale oil be sprinkled at the feet of plants where the garden lice take refuge, and an equal quantity of water, these insects are all destroyed, together with their nests, containing many thousand eggs. M. de Lestwitz succeeded also in destroying all those upon his trees. COTTON ITSELF AGAIN.— It is stated in the commercial letter from Liverpool, that " Cotton has experienced the reviving ef- fects of Lord Grey's restoration ; the demand for it has been extensive, and the sale has amounted to 3,000 bags and up- wards." From this it appears that under Lord Grey, cotton is cotton,- but that during the late political struggle it changed its nature, and, sharing the fate of the Duke of Wellington, was worsted.— The Original. LENGTH OF GENERATIONS.— It is a curious fact, that the present Duke of Montrose is the third in descent who has pos- sessed the family titles during the long space of 148 years namely, since 1684 ; and it is, perhaps, as curious, that the family titles were possessed by as many persons during the thirty- one years before that date. May 27. Till TOWS, 17 5 ROYAL AND FASHIONABLE MOVEMENTS. Their Majesties spent the day at Kew on Tuesday, where they arrived about one o'clock, and enjoyed some excellent drives in the gardens. In the evening their Majesties had a select party at dinner, at the Old Palace. Among the company were— the Duchess of Cumberland, the Princess Augusta, Prince George of Cumberland, Prince George of Cambridge, Earl and Countess of Errol, Lord and Lady Frederick Fitzclarence, Sir Wathen Wal- ler, the Rev. Dr. Blomberg, & c. The Royal party broke up at ten o'clock. His Majesty gave his annual entertainment on Wednesday to the members of the " Nulli Secundus" Club, who are or who have been officers of the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards. The members all came in uniform coats of the club, viz. blue, with black vel/ et collars and white buttons, with the original im- pression of the regiment. Although the entertainment was not state, it was given with much splendour. The Banquetting- room was most brilliantly illuminated : a long table extended down the centre, with a cross- table at the top. A large candelabrum was introduced in the middle of the sideboard with very good effect. On dinner being announced, the King left the ball- room, where the company had assembled, and proceeded to the Banquetting- room, preceded by the Master of the Household and the Comp- troller of the Household. The drums and fifes of the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards struck up the music of " Oh, the roast beef of Old England," and continued playing till the King and party had taken their seats. The band of the same regiment attended in an adjoining room, and played various pieces during the evening. Thursday was the birth- day of the Princess Victoria, when Her Royal Highness entered her 14th year. The bells of the parish church of Kensington announced the return of the day. At 12 o'clock, the Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria received visits from, and the congratulations of, all the members of their Royal Highnesses' household. In the afternoon their Royal Highnesses were visited by their illustrious relations. The Duke of Sussex came before 2 o'clock, and later in the after- noon the Queen, with Prince George of Cambridge, the Duke and Duchess of Cumberland, with Prince George, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, the Princess Augusta, the Princess Sophia, and the Pfincess Sophia Matilda. During the day, the calls were without intermission at the Palace, by the Foreign Minis- ters and their ladies, and the nobility and gentry, to offer their congratulations on the occasion. In the evening, the trades- people of Kensington testified their attachment by a brilliant illumination. Their Majesties gave a Juvenile Ball in honour of the occasion in the evening, at the Palace at St. James's. The Duke of Devonshire has suffered under an annual indis- position for some years past, known by the name of the " hay fever." As the hay season advances, his Grace will reside at Brighton, by the advice of his medical attendants. The Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury gave a most splendid rout on Wednesday evening, at her house in Arlington- street, which was attended by his Royal Highness the Duke of Glouces- ter, the Duke of Wellington, and nearly 500 of the haut- ton. The Duke of Wellington quitted town on Wednesday for Strathfieldsay, where it is understood his Grace will remain until the Reform question is settled. It is understood that the Earl of Mulgrave, Viscount Gran- ville, and Lord Erskine, are not expected to depart for their re spective destinations until after the third reading of the Reform Bill in the House of Peers. ALMACK'S.— The fourth ball for the season was given on Wednesday night, and was attended by a more numerous com pany of distinguished fashionables than any during the present season. About five hundred and forty persons were present. Dancing commenced at 11 o'clock, to the music of Collinet's exquisite French quadrille band, and did not terminate until a - late hour in the morning. Thursday a very numerous meeting of members of the House of Commons was held at the Foreign- office. Three hundred and sixty members had received summonses : nearly the whole of the Irish members were present. Sir Francis Burdett, Mr. Hume, and the whole of the Cabinet Ministers who are members of the House of Commons, attended the meeting. CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE. At a General Ordination bolden in the Cathedral Church of Norwich, on Sunday last, the following persons were admitted into the Holy Orders of Deacons and Priests:— DEACONS.— Thomas Burningham, A. B., Trinity College, Oxford ; John William Chambers, A. M., St. John's College,- Oxford ; William Wilcox Clarke, A. B., Wadham College, Ox- ford ; William John Coope, A. B., St. Mary Hall, Oxford; Win. Corbould, A. B., Emanuel College, Cambridge; Geo. Coulcher, A. M., Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; James Edward Dalton, A. B., Fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge ; John Hindes Groome, A. B., Pembroke College, Cambridge; John William Hamilton, A. M., Trinity College Cambridge; Alfred Hanbury, S. C. L., St. Mary Hall, Oxford ; Thomas Williams Hughes, A. B., St. Edmund's Hall, Oxford ; Henry Churchman Long, A. B., Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; Algernon LangtonMassingherd, A. B., Trinity College, Cambridge; Wm. Molson, A. B., Queen's College, Cambridge; John Nelson, S. C. L., Trinity Hall, Cambridge; Thomas Starling Norgate, A. B., Gonvill and Caius College, Cambridge ; John Penleaze, A. B., Magdalen College, Oxford ; John Pyemont, A. B., Lincoln College, Oxford ; William Vickers, A. B., Queen's College, Cam- bridge ; Sayer Stone Wormall, A. B., Queen's College, Ox- ford ; Josias Gardiner Webster, A. B., Exeter College, Oxford ; Daniel Constable Whalley, A. B., Pembroke College, Cambridge. PRIESTS.— George Baker, A. B. Corpus Christi College, Cam- bridge ; Henry Bird, A. B., Corpus Christi College, Cambridge ; George Brettell, A. B., Exeter College, Oxford; Richard Cox, A. B., Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; Frederick Evans, A. B., ditto ; William Hall Graham, A. B., Exeter College, Ox- ford ; Robert George Lewis, A. M., Wadham College, Oxford ; Charles Lloyd, A. B., Jesus College, Oxford ; Luke Flood Page, A. M., Corpus Christi Coll. Camb.; William Francis Rhodes, A. B., Trinity College, Cambridge; William Sprigge, A. B., St. Peter's College, Cambridge ; Henry Cooper Smith, A. B., Christ College, Cambridge; William Thomas Thompson, A. B., Jesus College, Cambridge; John Thomas Eliot West, A. B College, Cambridge' OLD BAILEY SESSIONS. Christ REV. SYDNEY SMITH UPON REFORM, eye. A BREAKFAST PARTY. " ' It is the bounden duty,' said Lord Stayinmore, ' of every man who has been bred up in due estimation of the unparalleled blessings of our invaluable constitution, to make his immovable stand at once, arresting these erratic changeson thevery threshold of their progress, nipping in the bud these flowery projects of al- teration, choking and damming up, as 1 may say, this mischiev- ous current of public opinion, even at its fountain head.' " Lady Gayland, for the sake, of herself as well as her hearers, had much rather have met her antagonist on some field where her wit might have given her more vantage ground of position, than on the wide and level plains of political discussion, and here she was, therefore, determined not to be forced into a general action ; but as she retired, she could not avoid a skirmishing diversion ; and taking up his last words, ' Stop, indeed, the current of pub- lic opinion at its fountain head !' she continued. ' That puts me in mind of an incident I remember hearing last year amongst the Yuoddliny hills of Switzerland. Shall I begin— Once upon a time ' " ' Oh, pray do,' exclaimed simultaneously half the break- fast table. " ' You have, most of you, seen those German Stu— dents in the U— niversities who are sedentary in the winter, but peripa- tetic all the summer, with waists like wasps, and faces like sheep, all lank locks and learning. One of them was taken to see the source of the Danube, when, whilst he pressed his palm against the bubbling spring as it oozed through the cleft of the rock, he exclaimed, in a fit of geographical grandiloquence, ' I wonder what they'll think of that at Vienna ?' What do you think they did think of that at Vienna, Lord Stayinmore ?' " ' Amusing I but how applicable ?' condescendingly notified Lord Stayinmore, avoiding the question himself by interposing another. " ' Oh, my dear Lord,' replied Lady Gayland, * if it is mine to adorn the tale, it is not mine to point the moral ; but, how- ever, if you will make a Cassandra of me in spite of myself, and insist upon my ' laying bare my prophetic soul,' I should say that, if whilst you think you have the power, yon attempt to impede the natural flow of popular feeling with these political bungs, Singlecot and Bankcumwall, which you have now at your fingers' ends, they will only be the more inevitably borne down with its headlong career ; and that the majestic stream of public opinion, swollen on all sides by tributary springs, will flow re- sistlessly onward, bearing on its triumphant waves the united wishes of a liberal government and a grateful people ; and any such opposition as you now threaten, will then no more be felt, than was the impression of the pigmy fingers of the German stu- dent in the diminished waters of the Danube at Vienna 1' " Lady Gayland had warmed with her subject, and had rattled on more than she had intended ; but she had tact enough, in the midst of her rhapsody, to perceive evident intimations on the part of Lord Stayinmore, that the impression she was making was far from agreeable. He made, first, a nondescript sort of a noise, between a short cough and a long groan ; his chin sunk within the loose folds of his ample neckcloth, and his broad chest swelled against the closely- buttoned breast of his well- padded coat. Suddenly checking herself, she therefore added, in a more • playful tone, ' But, as Beatrice says, I pray your Grace, pardon me, I was born to speak all mirth, and no mitter.' " ' No matter, indeed, Ma'am,' said Lord Stayinmore, with a forced effort to maintain his courtesy—' I can sincerely affirm that it is no matter. Could any one oblige me with the evening paper ?' he added, anxious to escape. " ' Here It is,' said she, handing it over to him with equal empressment,- then turning to Mr. Spencer, ' A nemico che fugge fa unponte d'oro,' as the prudent Italians say ; and in default of gold, I pay in paper currency.' "— The Contrast. A meeting of the inhabitants of Taunton was held at the Town- hall on Monday, to consider the expediency of petitioning the Lords to pass the Reform Bill. Dr. KINGLAKE opened the proceedings, and submitted a petition to the meeting. The Rev. SYDNEY SMITH then addressed the meeting, with his usual eloquence. In the course of his speech the Reverend Gentleman said—" But there is another method of attacking the bill, through the authors of the bill, which I am by no means prepared to treat with so much charity, and that is the opinion of those who tell you that the present ministry are sacrificing the Bible, and sacrificing the Protestant faith, because they are in Ireland doing all they can in their new plan of education to put an end to those hatreds between Catholic, and Protestant, by which that unhappy country has been so long afflicted. At this very moment Catholics and Protestants are fronting each other with arms in their hands, and the least error on the part of Government would deluge Ireland in blood, and what, gentle- men, is the remedy for these religious hatreds, so deeply fixed in the minds of the Irish common people, and so fatal to the prosperity of the empire ?— I will tell you what the remedy is, and where I learnt the remedy. I did not learn it in my study, and certainly I did not learn it in the University where I was bred, but I learnt it on Waterloo Bridge, and the price I paid for it was a penny. There is a man on Waterloo Bridge, with a cage containing many animals; I saw in the cage a cat living among mice, a hawk with sparrows perched on his back, a weazel lying down among rats, and a very grave owl associating with tom- tits; they all lived together with the greatest har- mony ; there was no inclination to eat on the one side, nor dread of being eaten on the other. ' The method by which I have brought all these animals to live together ( said the ex- tinguisher of antipathies) is not by punishments and forced obe- dience, but by putting them together when very young, and by breeding them up from the earliest time in the same cage.' This man should have been the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. The only method of reconciling Irish Catholics and Protestants is by breeding them up in the same cage— by blending them from the earliest infancy, in the same school, and by calling in the force of habit to extinguish that deep hatred which nothing else could extinguish, and by which the safety of the whole British empire is endangered. I honour the ministry who have adopted such a scheme of peace; I honour the Archbishop of Dublin who has so boldly followed their instructions. He has his infirmities as well as those who object to his infirmities. But he is an able prelate, and an honest prelate, and let those of his own order, who hate him, remember that he has evinced his ability by something better than the malignity of his disposition, and gained his elevation by other means than the sacrifice of his principles. I totally deny the charge that there is any neglect of religious education in the new Irish system ; a more false and infamous charge was never made ; I could very easily prove to you, if it was not too great an intrusion upon your time, that the scholars of both persuasions are very carefully instructed in the scriptures, and I firmly deny that it is any dereliction of the old and great Protestant principle to say, ' I will select for you such portions of the scriptures which I think may best suit you when you are young ; and when you are capable of judging for yourself, I will then put the Bible into your hands,' and then, and not till then, say to you in the true spirit of Protestant freedom—' Now exercise your judgment; do not be guided by the comments of men— let the book of God speak for itself.' But the truth is, these objections against the ministry are ( when made among the upper classes of society) not honest objections, they are the artful manoeuvres of bad men who know better— who want the Bible to be so read that it may keep alive religious hatred ; they are the objections of men who appeal to your love of religion, in order to extinguish your love of liberty— who praise Martin Luther because they hate John Russell— and who would exalt you into fanatics, that they might the more easily mould you into slaves." ( Applause.) In conclusion, he said, " One word before we part, for an old and excellent friend of our's— I mean Dame Partington. ( A laugh.) It is impossible not to admire spirited conduct, even in a bad cause, and I am sure Dame Partington has fought a much longer and better fight than I had any expectation she would ; many a mop has she worn out, and many a bucket has she broken in her contest with the waves. I wish her spirit had been more wisely employed, for waves must have their way at last; but I have no doubt I shall see her some time hence in dry clothes, pursuing her useful and honourable occupation, and retaining nothing but a good- hu- moured recollection of her stiff and spirited battle with the Atlantic." On Wednesday, James Brennetn, a landscape painter and an artist, was indicted for uttering a forged bill of exchange for 20/., with intent to defraud Messrs. Venables and Co., linen- drapers, of Navarino House, Lamb's Conduit- street. This singular case has been frequently published. It will be recollected that Mr. John Venables swore he cashed the bill for the- prisoner, who was a perfect stranger to hiin. The next morning he discovered the bill was totally fictitious, and meeting with the prisoner a few days after, he gave him into custody. He was sure he was the same person. An apprentice was called, who deposed to the identity of the prisoner. On the part of tbe defence, several highly respecta- ble witnesses were called, who completely proved an alibi. Seve- ral bad come from Dublin to speak to his respectability and cha- racter, and some proved that they were actually silting in tbe same room with him at the time that Mr. Venables alleged he came into his shop. The alibi being thus clearly established, the Counsel for the prosecution declined to proceed. The Recorder told the Jury to return a verdict of acquittal. Mr. Brennan complained, with justice, of the conduct of the Magistrate at Hatton- Garden, Mr. Laing, who demanded such excessive bail— himself in 400/. and two others 200/. each. Lucy Biddls was indicted for stealing from the house of her mas- ter, property to lite value of 300/. Joseph Farrall stated that on Saturday evening, the 14th of April, he saw a hackney coach stop at the front of Mr. Nixon's house. He saw two men come out of the house, carrying some- thing which he heard chink ; they got'into the coach, and then drove off. He saw the prisoner, who had a child in her arms, shut the door after the men had gone awav. James Nixon stated that he lived at 19, Southampton- street, Bloomsbury ; the prosecutor lodged with him, and the prisoner at the bar was his servant. On the morning in question, he went into the City at her tlesire to procure a passage for her to Sydney.— When he returned, he found that his house had been robbed of property to the amount of 300/. He inquired where the prisoner had been. She at first said that she had been in the kitchen all the evening, but afterwards, that she had been round the square once or twice. The Jury found her guilty. THE WILL FORGERS.— On Monday, Elizabeth Peacock, alias Portsmouth, and Cornelius Driscoll, were indicted for forging and uttering a will purporting to be that of John Shields, with intention to defraud William Shields. John Shields was a seaman on board the Eliza, and in Ihe year 1830 he went to New South Wales, and died Oil the homeward- hound voyage. The prisoners shortly after- wards produced a will, which left the female prisoner whole and sole executrix. The will was proved to be a forgery. The Jury found the female prisoner guilty of uttering the forgery, but ac- quitted the others. On Tuesday " Ihe female, Peacock, " and Dris- coll, were again placed at the bar, with Andrew Morgan, W. Dal- ton, and Robert Tiglie, and indicted for forging the will of an old man, named Robert Lionel Friend, with intent to defrand the next of kin of the sum of 500/. The furgery was discovered at Doctors* Commons, and the principal evidence against the prisoners was an accomplice, named Pringle. The prisoners were found Guilty, with the exception of Tighe. The details of the evidence have already been published in the police reports. MA IMING.— On I hursday, James Pearee and Edward Mansfield two sailors, were capitally indicted under Lord Ellenborough's act, for having, on the night of the 14th of May last, maimed Henry Dear and Sarah Cokpee, with intent to do them some grievous bodily harm. The evidence being conclusive against both of the prisoners, the Jury returned a verdict of Guilty— Death. There were two other indictments against each of the prisoners for larcenies committed by them on the same day ( the 14th of May), but they were not gone into. SENTENCES.— The se- sions having terminated, the Recorder passed sentence upon the various prisoners. DEATH.— Andrew Morgan, John Dalton, Elizabeth Peacock, Thomas Fuller, and Cornelius Driscoll, for forging wills and testa- ments; George Jones, for burglary ; John Grafton aud William Dancer, for robberies from the person ; Daniel Elliott, Samuel Croson, James Crayford, Robert Jones, George Robinson, Henry Godfrey, John Bates, and Elizabeth Martin, for housebreaking and larceny therein ; James Pearce and Edward Mansfield, for culling and maiming; Patrick Cain, Richard Browne, Henry M'Namara, and Lucy Biddle, for stealing goods and money above the value of five pounds in dwelling- houses. To BE TRANSPORTED FOR LIFE Thomas Smith, John Sel- wood, William Hurst, Sarah Bentley, and Anne Wood. FOR FOURTEEN YEARS. — F. liza Tulhill, James Brodie, Joseph Genii, William Jones alias Bartlett, Henry White, John Suge, Joseph Evans, James Townsliend, Frederick Jones, John Flood, George Palletl, Mary Brown, Sophia Johnson, Mary Green, Anne Gallagher, John Edward Parr, Thomas Gascoigne, John Jones, John Hntchins, John Lawrence, Henry Samson, Fanny Burr, William Haynes, William Weare, Henry Cotton, John Chapman, Joteph Boorton, and William Johnson. A very considerable number were sentenced to seven years' trauspoitation, and others to various terms of imprisonment, from two years down to seven days.— Several juvenile offenders were sentenced to be well privately whipped and discharged; thirty were liberated by proclamation. The Court adjourned to the 5th of July. illegitimate children, one of which, if not both, there was every reason to believe had been destroyed by her. The magistrate asked her where her sister resided at the time she was supposed to have destroyed her infants'! The young woman said she lived in service at Bath. The warrant was then directed to be issued for the removal of the prisoner to the workhouse. HATTON- GARDEN.— On Wednesday, a young man of fashionable appearance, was charged with defrauding Mr. Wil- liams, of the Angel Tavern, Clement's Inn, of 9/. A short time since the prisoner entered the tavern wilh a very dignified air, and calling for the landlord, informed Mr. Williams that lie was a com- mission agent under Don Pedro, and having come to London on important business, he should, during bis stay, reside at his tavern. Mr. Williams thought he bad fallen in with a good cus- tomer, and remained under this delusion for several days. Dur- ing that time the prisoner was so liberal in his orders for the best that the tavern afforded, and he ate and drank so voraciously, that he began to suspect that he was entertaining Dando the second. The bill having amounted to nine pounds, Mr. William! took an opportunity of presenting his little account." The pri- soner " promised to pay," but he quitted the place suddenly. Mr. Williams next heard Ihat the prisoner was at White Conduit- house, Pentonville, and there he found him smoking an Havannab and sipping some brandy and water, which had been supplied to him at the expence of " mine host." Mr. Williams asked for pay- ment of his bill, and the prisoner wrote several letters to a Gallant Colonel at the west end, to the Honourable Mr. G. , and other persons of distinction. They all said they would give no as- sistance, as the prisoner had been so thoughtless and extravagant, that be had tired all his friends.— Mr. Serjeant Sellon said that the affair was only a debt, and Mr. Williams must bring his action. - Mr. Williams stared with astonishment. " Why, Sir," said he, ' he has been cheating various taverns; at a bouse in Fleet- street he drank 16s. worth uf liquor the oilier evening in three hours, aud he was found climbing over tbe back wall to escape payment." The prisoner, in reply to Mr. Laing, said he had been an ensign in the army, and he was now an officer under Don Pedro; his uncle was Admiral D n, and lie had a relative at Portsmouth, a commander of a- tnan- of- war, who would pay the money if he was " on the spot;" the prisoner said he would give Mr. Williams a bill.— Mr. Williams turned up his nose at this offer, and the magistrates having stated that the transaction was a debt, the pri- soner was discharged. MOST DISTRESSING CASE.— On Thursday Eliza Simmonds, a good- looking girl about 18, and John Webb, a reputed thief, were charged under the following distressing circumstances by a man named Simmonds, the girl's father:— Mr. Simmonds, who is a master ironmonger in Clerkenwell, said his daughter absconded from him about a week ago. On Tuesday he was overjoyed at meeting her ill Hatton- Garden, but she refused to go home with him, as she was going to be married to Webb, on whose arm she was leaning. He, in consequence, gave them bolh into custody. Mr. Laing asked if he had been robbed?— The father, who was much affected, said, " Yes, I have been robbed of my child." Mr. Laing said such a case did not come within his jurisdiction ; and he discharged both the prisoners. The father said, " Mine is a hard case. That man ( pointing to Webb) is a commcn utterer of base coin— lie now sends my daughter out to pass bad money, and she will assuredly be ruined. 1 have four children ; she wm my darling. 1 have spent 500/. upon her education, and that fel- low has inveigled her from me." The girl said she would not go home again— she was deter- mined on ihat. Mr. Laing then told the father to exercise his controul over his daughter; and on the parties getting into the street, Mr. Simmonds seized hold of his daughter. She clung to the iron railings, and on Webb's instigation kicked anil bit her wretched father. He then followed her some distance,, and again laid hold of her arm. She struck him most violently, and threw him on the ground. A policeman then came up, and took her to the station house, while Webb ran off. The unfortunate fattier had both his eyes black- ened, and his lip was bit through. POLICE. A paragraph has been inserted in all the papers, stating that a great portion of the Scots Greys had enrolled themselves as mem- bers of the Political Union of Birmingham, and were to be seen parading the streets wearing the Union badge. The whole of this story has been promptly denied. A part of it, however, is true; and it is perhaps better that that part should be clearly explained. A few of the Scots Greys, hearing much of the Unions, and anxious, probably, like all men of their profession, to catch at any thing which breaks the monotony of a soldier's existence, presented themselves at the rooms, and required to be enrolled a - members. Their request was in the first instance refused, under the fear of violating the law, or under the im- pression that it was the result of some design of their enemies. The opinion of an eminent counsel was, however, taken on the point, and all doubts being removed, some of the soldiers were subsequently permitted to become members; but when the mat- ter came to the knowledge of their officers, it was immediately reported at head- quarters, and orders as promptly arrived for the removal of the regiment. MANSION- HOUSE— Kitty Welsh, an elderly lady, whose daily avocations lie iu the vicinity of Billing- gate- market, was charged by a little Frenchman, who rejoiced in the magnificent nomenclature of Monsieur Alexandre- Jules- Apollon Rubencon, with having bestowed upon him a portion of that plain English in which the ladies of Billingsgate excel, and otherwise acting inde- corously, without any just cause or provocation. Monsieur Alex- andre- Jules, & c. was walking peaceably down Cannon- street at a late hour on Friday evening, when his compassionate feelings being aroused by the sight of one of the fair sex lying, as lie presumed, asleep on the step of a door, he stepped up like a good Samaritan, to inquire into her tale of woe ; but his humanity was dispersed in a twinkling ( as the lady had only been overcome wilh liquor) by a volley of oaths, followed up by a dowse on the chaps, which set hiseyes a watering, aud took away his comprehension for a short period. Betaking himself to his heels, in order lo recover from his astonishment, his chagrin was revived at finding the lady in full chase, vociferating epithets of no very complimentary description. She was, however, stopped by a policeman, and Monsieur Ru- bencon immediately gave her into custody. The Lord Mayor asked Kitty, who was an old acquaintance, and who had hardly recovered from lier intoxication, why she had acted in such au outrageous manner? Kitty, who was a compound of fillh and ugliness, and, moreover, some 20 years beyond that " certain age" of the fair sex, declared wilh the greatest effrontery, that the complainant had made pro- posals of an amorous description to her. " Is it true what she says?" said Mr. Hobler, laughing, " that you have a penchant for her?" " Sacre Dieu I said Monsieur Alexandre, reddening with indig- nation, " Jesu Marie ! den for why she say I have von penchaut— ha, ha 1 very goot— very dam goot 1" The Lord Mayor disbelieving the defendant's defence, find her 5s. for being drunk, and, in default of payment, directed she should have a short imprisonment. BOW- STREET.— Wednesday Mr. Thomas applied for an order to remove Sarah Drew, ( lately in the employ of Mr. Justice, baker, in Brydges- street), who is in custody on the charge of attempted child- murder, from her master's house to the workhouse. After Mr. Thomas had made this application, a decent- looking young woman, strongly resembling the accused Sarah Drew, and who staled that her name w as Mary Drew, and the twin sister of the unfortunate woman now in custody, presented herself before the magistrates, and said that she had no doubt her sister intended to murder her babe. She also added ( and her avowal struck every one who heard hei with horror) that ber sister had before had two DESTRUCTION OF MESSRS. BARCLAY'S BREWERY At half- past five o'clock on Tuesday evening the neighbourhood of Park- street and the Borough market was thrown into a state of ° reat excitement, in consequence of a rapid fire breaking out on the platform between the mashing tuns of Messrs. Barclay and Perkins's brewery. The stokers and several other men, who were at work near the spot, exerted every means in their power to suppress the flames; but, owing to the immense building being composed prin- cipally of wood, their efforts were unavailing. In a short period the building, both exterior and interior, about the three coppers, presented one sheet of flame. The brewhouse engines were imme- diately put in operation, and were soon assisted by several belong- ing to the different Assurance Companies, attended by a considera- ble body of firemen. About half- past six o'clock Mr. Charles Bar- t'sy ( who had been sent for) arrived from the House of Commons ; at this period the fire was truly terrific, threatening destruction to the surrounding buildings; the Sun floating engine arrived about seven o'clock, and, after the hoses were arranged, commenced throwing nearly a tun of water a minute upon the burning pre- mises. At half- past seven o'clock, a breeze getting up, the flames appeared to spread towards the hop and malt storehouses at the back, and shortly afterwards the rear of Mr. Perkins' dwelling- house, in Park- street, ignited, and the furniture was immediately removed, and scattered in all directions. A number of men were also engaged ill clearing away an immense quantity of hops and malt. The crowds of people that were assembled on the London and Southwark bridges rendered them impassable. At ten o'clock the fire was got under. The whole of the brewery department, in- cluding the various and extensive utensils, is entirely destroyed; together with the engine- house, and the gable end of the hop warehouse; and also the rear of Mr. Perkins'house, which is en- tirely gutted. The property is insured in different offices. The brewing season being nearly terminated, the disaster will not be so severely felt. Had the accident occurred a few months back, Messrs. Bar- clay and Perkins' loss upon the whole would have been almost in- calculable DARING ROBBERY AT THE EXCISE- OFFICE.— Between Satur- day evening and Monday morning, a most daring robbery was committed at the Excise- office, in Broad- street. The villains must have been well acquainted with the numerous apartments, for they forced open and ransacked all those rooms aud desks occupied by the head and chief officers of departments, from the board- room downwards, without,, however, approaching the hall, near which there were a superintendent and three watchmen con- stantly on duty, who, were relieved every four hours. In addition to the precaution of locking every room door when the business of the day is over, and the clerks leave the office, there are strong doors securely fastened, in the different galleries, separating suites, of rooms or offices from one another. None of these gallery doors were forced,, but the do « \ rs of the different offices within them were broken open, the desks ransacked, and every thing valuable, including private monies belonging to the clerks and officers of the establishment, carried off. Among other valua- bles, was a fowling- piece belonging to Lord George Seymour, one of the commissioners, taken out of the board- room, some silver spoons, great coats, towels & c., belonging to the different clerks. As large sums of money are daily paid into the Excise- office, and paid over weekly into the Bank of England, the thieves mo. doubt expected an immense booty; hut they never attempted the strong- room, where the cash is safely deposited every evening, consequently they failed in their principal object ; nor does it yet appear that any public property has been purloined. A coroner's inquest was held on the body of Captain . George Burdett, R. N., on Tuesday last at the Castle Inn, Brighton. It appears that Captain Burdett sent a prescription to a chemist's shop to be made up ; the shopman, however, by mistake put the libel upon a linement, a preparation from the oil of tar, which, the Captain unfortunately took. He consequently became very ill, aud died on Sunday morning. The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against Heath, the shopman, who is at present at large, he having been discharged by his master on account o£ his culpable neglect. THE TOWH. May 27. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. An attempt has been made to explain away the extraordina y proceeding observed towards the Duke of Sussex, on account of his having presented the Bristol petition, by stating, that there • was no intention of excluding him from Court. The truth, we understand, is, that the King himself at first saw no offence in the conduct of the Duke of Sussex, but that at the instigation of the Duke of , he was induced to send a message to the Duke of Sussex which was intended to amount to an exclusion from Court, and a determination to suspend all further inter- course, as well social as political. We are glad, however, to hear that the toad- eaters of the Court faction have taken alarm, and that the Duke of Sussex will soon be invited to resume that in- tercourse which was interrupted only by treasonable meddling. It is supposed, that in consequence of the King's birth- day, and the restoration of King Charles, preventing the House of Lords sitting on Monday and Tuesday, the Reform Bill will not be got through the committee before Thursday It is thought that it will be sent to the Commons the beginning of the follow- ing week, aud receive the Royal assent on Whit- Monday, which would indeed be a glorious day for rejoicing. The Chevalier de Lima, the Charge d'Affaires of Don Pedro, has, we believe, received an intimation from Lord Palmerston, that it would not be wise to press the demand for the recognition of the Conde de Funchal upon the Government at this moment. The Conde, however, has the strongest reason for believing that the recognition will not be long delayed. ITALIAN OPERA.— The Cenerentola was performed last night for the debut of Tamburini. He appeared in the part of Dandini. His success was complete and merited, but not brilliant. He is a singing bass, or baritone rather— somewhat deficient in depth and force, but of great flexibility and delicacy of tone, especially in the upper notes. His passages of effect were given with perfect skill and taste, without the least ap- proach to affectation or effort. The first concerted piece in the first act of the opera appeared to exhibit him with the great- est advantage, and was encored ; but the well- known duo with Galli, in which he discovers himself, though it did not obtain that distinction, was a better display of her vocal and comic powers. His style is chaste, and his acting peculiarly free from farcical exaggeration. Donzelli re- appeared in the part of the Prince, with all his energy of manner and eclat of lungs, and was received with his usurd success. Galli performed the Magnifico with clearness and effect, but has neither a just nor humorous conception of the character. Madame Cinti was the Cenerentola, and sang with much sweetness and good taste. The finish was given by her with exquisite touches and turns of exe- cution— less brilliant and surprising than one or two others who have sustained the part within the last two or three years, but equally if not more pleasing. The quality of her voice, however, is such as to be sometimes crushed by the vivacity of the vocal aud orchestral movements in the concerted pieces. COUNTR Y M ISC EL LANE A. AN onn SHOT..— A few days ago a poor person, of the name of Partridge, applied to the parish authorities of a town not an hundred miles from Newport Pagnel for relief, and on being re- fused, went home, borrowed a wheelbarrow, and put two of his children ( a boy and a girl) into it; when he wheeled them to the overseer's door, and inquired if his worthy was at home ; being answered in the affirmative, after a few bows and scrapes, he begged to present him ( as he understood he was fond of game) with a brace of young Partridges; when he shot them in the pas- sage, and wheeled off! 1 The Duke of Richmond has signified his intention of lowering the rents of his tenantry immediately 25 per cent. The Hon. Captain M. T. F. Berkeley, R. N., of Berkeley Lodge, Bosham, has declared his readiness to follow his noble brother- in- law's example. DEATH BY LIGHTNING.— On Tuesday week last, D. Powell, Esq., of Loughton, a gentleman of great respectability, was riding in one of his fields, when, being overtaken by a storm of hail, he went under a tree for shelter; shortly afterwards a heavy clap of thunder broke over his head, and the lightning struck him whilst sitting on his horse, and killed him instantly 1 The whole of one side, and his boot, were very much burnt. The steeple end of High Rooting church was destroyed by the light- ning about the same time, and several trees have been splintered at North Weald. A penny subscription has been set up in Bath to present Earl Grey with a gold cup, of the value of fifty guineas, as a tribute of gratitude for his unflinching perseverance in the cause of liberty. WORKING CLERGY.— The curate of one of the most populous parishes in the diocese of Durham, who is still living et diu vivat, has filled that situation thirty years. During nearly two- thirds of the time he read prayers every day, read prayers and preached twice every Sunday, sometimes thrice, and performed all the oc- casional parochial duties, both on Sundays and during the week. It is calculated that he has baptised and buried, in propria per- sons, the whole population ( 20,000) once over. He has had nine children, has been forty years in the church, and for three- fourths of that period never received more, upon an average, than 40/. per annum 1 TORY SPORTING, OR A SHOT AT THE REFORMERS.— A most mysterious and lamentable occurrence took place at the return of the procession from Renfrew. Two individuals belonging to Glasgow, who are both married men, and said to move in rather a respectable circle of society, took their station at one of the windows of an inn near the bridge, and fired off a large cavalry pistol, loaded with slugs; three children were severely wounded. It is impossible to conjecture by what motives these men were animated in thus wantonly perilling the lives of their fellow- creatures. The deed was unquestionably premeditated, for they had more than once called at an inn requesting a window which commanded a view of the procession, and avowing an intention to fire amongst the crowd. When the police serjeants appre- hended them they found a great quantity of slugs upon their persons, and the arms with which they wounded the sufferers concealed in the vent of the room in which they were sitting. The business is undergoing further investigation. The windows of the house opposite are riddled by shot, and some of the ban- ners were likewise injured in a similar way.— Scottish Guardian. A HORSE IN A CHINA SHOP.— On Wednesday last, one of the horses, after being released from the Colchester Defiance coach, was left by the horse- keeper to find its way to the stable; but being blind on one side, unfortunately walked into Mrs. Smith's glass and earthenware shop, and broke several articles. Mrs. Smith, on finding such a weighty visitor closed the door upon him and refused his delivery, till, she said, some remunera- tion was made for the damage already done ; but soon she found her customer too weighty, which was proved by the floor giving way. The horse being alarmed on finding one part of his body in the cellar and the other in the shop, struggled hard to extri- cate himself; but, " the more he struggled the more the crockery broke," and it was near twenty minutes before he was released from his critical and dangerous position; considerable damage being done in the shop and likewise to the horse.— Essex Standard. Au extraordinary instance of the voracity of a rat occurred on Saturday last at Whittlesey. A child of Mr. Garman, seven or eight years of age, whilst sitting in the nursery, was seized upon by one of these animals, just below the cheek, and it hung for some time, until taken off by the child's father. So fast was the animal's hold, that one of his teeth was broken in the skin of the child !— Stamford Mercury. We regret to hear that the Bishop of Peterborough has been shamefully insulted by some of the lower orders in that city, whilst he was riding out. In his private life, we believe, a more charitable man than the Bishop does not exist.— Stamford Mercury. TO WN MISCEL L A NEA. LIVE SOULS.— A clergyman at Oxford, who was very nervous and absent, going to read prayers at St. Mary's, heard a show- man in the High- street, who had an exhibition of wild beasts, repeat often, " Walk in without loss of time. All alive, alive, ho 1" The sounds struck the absent man, and ran in his head so much, that when he began to read the service, and came to the words in the first verse, " and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive," he cried out, with a louder voice, " shall save his soul alive 1 all alive 1 alive 1 ho 1" to the astonishment of the congregation.— Entertaining Press. It appears from an official return, that the duty received in Great Britain on playing cards in 1827, when the duty was 2s. 6d., amounted to 20.864/. 12s. 6d. The duty on each pack in 1828 was Is., andthegross receipt 17,365/. There has been a gradual falling off in the gross amount, and last year it was 14,4001. 2s. In Ireland, the duty in 1827, when the rate was 2s. 6d. a pack, amounted to 1,001/. 12s. 6d. In 1829, the rate per pack being Is. the duty amounted to 4031. lis. Last year it was only 108/. 18s. EPISCOPAL TRADING.— Dr. Copleston, Bishop of Llandaff, who is also Dean of St. Paul's, is or ought to be resident three months in the year, to attend during that time morning and evening at the Cathedral, and to preach every Sunday afternoon. His income for such duties is about 40/. per week. Now how is the duty supplied in the absence of the very Reverend ? Two Canons, Mr. Watts, and Dr. Birch, are paid five shillings each for attendance ; one guinea for the sermon, and 3s. 6d. for the sacramental duties ; so that Dr. Copleston, is paid 40/. for doing what can be, and is very often done, for 4/. lis. ( id. Will this admit of reform ? SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KKOWLEDGE.— A charter of incorporation has been granted by his Majesty, on the petition ofW. Tooke, Esq., F. R. S., to this society, the objects of which are thereby designated to be to cause to be composed, compiled, and written, treatises and works and elementary tracts on or relating to arts, sciences, and letters ; and also causing to be made, engraved, and constructed, prints, maps, plans, models, and instruments, to be printed, made, and published, in an eco- nomical manner, and to be sold at a reasonable price. The Lon- don general committee is by such charter recognised as the go verning body of the society, and of which committee the Lord Chancellor is constituted the first chairman, Lord John Russell the first vice- chairman, and Mr. Tooke is named as treasurer of the society. LORD MILTON.— It may not be publicly known, that during the late crisis, one person, and that one of high station and rank, was ready to set a patriotic example in resisting a Government opposed to the just rights of the people. When the tax- gatherer called on Lord Milton last week, he requested the tax- gatherer would call again, because he was not certain that circumstances might not arise, which would oblige him to resist their payment. Colonel Fox, son of Lord Holland, who resigned his post as ecpierry on the resignation of Ministers, kissed hands at the Levee on Wednesday, on being appointed Aid- de- Camp to the King. It is stated that Lord Monson, the proprietor of Gatton, is about to be married to Miss Backhouse. A CHEAP CHATEAU.— A Paris Paper states that a poor shoe- maker, named John Bordas, father of six children, residing at Pron, near Fort l'Ecluse, has, by a ticket, purchased for one franc, gained the prize of the Chateau d'Arcuel, estimated at 200,000 francs. CHANGE OF COSTUME.— Most of the Bishops have abandoned both their wigs and silk aprons, and are no longer distinguishable in appearance from the rest of the clergy. INCOME OF RELIGIOUS AND CHARITABLE SOCIETIES.— From a tabular statement lately published, we learn that the average annual income of societies in this kingdom, with religious and philanthropic views, amounts to the large sum of 619,645/. IN- DECENT.— Many of the Tories claim respect only on ac count of their illustrious birth. Taking into account their late fall in public opinion, they may certainly be said to be distin guished for their descent.— Figaro in London. AIM- A- TORY.— So low does the Tory party stand in public es timation, that many proprietors of schools in the neighbourhood of London, have been forced to abandon the name of prepare- a- tory, by which they were accustomed until lately to call their es- tablishments.— Ibid. GOING INTO TRAINING.— The Court Journal says, " Trains are likely to be dispensed with by ladies at Court, as being often productive of great inconvenience."— We are glad of this, for it was a train laid by the females that recently had the effect of tripping- up the Ministers.— Ibid. SILVER HORSE- SHOES.— It is mentioned by Beckmann, that when the Marquis of Tuscany, one of the richest princes of his time, went to meet Beatrix his bride, about the year 1038, his whole train were so magnificently decorated that his horses were shod, not with iron, but with silver. The nails even were of the same metal ; and when any of them dropped out, they belonged to those who found them. It is well known that an Ambassador from England to France once indulged in a similar extravagance, to exhibit his opulence and generosity ; having had his horse shod with silver shoes so slightly attached, that, by purposely curvet- ting the animal, they were shaken off, and allowed to be picked up by the populace. The reception of the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry at St. Bride's had by no means the effect of intimidating the Bishop of Carlisle from preaching a charity sermon on Sunday in the New Church, Hackney, for the support of the parish schools. The congregation was not numerous, and chiefly composed of ladies, the children of the charity, and the parish authorities. After the Bishop had ascended the pulpit and commenced the sermon, a number of gentlemen took up their hats and left the church. Of the forty- four English Peerages created during the reign of the late King only ten of the possessors of them are reformers : these are the Marquis of Clanricarde ( Baron Somerhill), the Marquis of Ormonde ( Baron Ormonde), Viscount Goderich, the Earl of Rosebery, Lord Durham, the Earl of Fife, Lord Glen- lyon, Lord Ranfurly, Earl Gower, and Lord Seaford. Wednesday, Mr. Bartley, of Covent- garden Theatre, received through the two- penny post, an anonymous letter, inclosing fifty- pound note, for the benefit of the orphan children of the late E. J. Parsloe. Laporte has become the Lessee of Covent- Garden Theatre. There were only two competitors ; himself and Captain Polhill, and the rent they offered was nearly equal; but Captain Polhill wished for the option of taking it for one, three, or five years ; whereas Laporte has signed an agreement for seven years, subject, however, to his approval of certain covenants. Laporte is to have possession of the theatre about the 4th of July. The Trustees of this valuable property negociated with Mr. Laporte. Professor Lindley delivered his third Lecture upon Botany applied to Horticulture, at the Establishment of the Horticul- tural Society, in Regent- street, on Wednesday. The great room of this Society was crowded with ladies. The table in front of the Professor was decorated with an abundance of fragrant flowers and shrubs, which were distributed amongst the ladies at the close of the Lecture. EXPORTATION OF BULLION.— Several vessels have lately left the port of London with large quantities of specie on board for the Continent. The Sir William Curtis, a sloop belonging to Mr. Rothschild, left the St. Katharine's Dock on Tuesday morn- ing, at an early hour, with bullion to the amount of half a million and upwards on board ; it is said for Hanover. It has been since reported that the destination of the vessel was counter- manded ; and that she is now in the river, in the possession of the Custom- house officer. A rumour has also prevailed in the eastern district of the metropolis, during the last five days, that the Comet, a Government steamer, was stopped by an order ' from the Treasury as she was about to leave the river with a million and a half of sovereigns on board.— Herald. SPORTING INTELL1GENCE. NEWMARKET SECOND SPRING MEETING. MONDAY. The Rubbish Stakes of 10 sovs. each. T. Y. C. Three subs. Mr. Forbes's Roulette, 3 yrs, 7st 1 Sir R. Dick's Fuga, 7st 7ft 2 3 to 1 on the loser. Won by two lengths. Sweepstakes of 100 each, h. ft. ; for three- yr- old colts, 8st 7ft; and fillies, 8st 41b ( 3ft allowed). A. F. Three subs. Mr. Henry's Margaret 1 Lord Stradbroke's c. by Truffle— Arethissa 2 6 to 5 on the loser. Won by a head. The Posthuma colt has been purchased by Lord Tavistock for 700gs. and half the Drawing Room Stakes if he should win. Ludlow has been backed at 14 to 1 for the Great St. Leger. TUESDAY. Fifty Pounds ; for 3- yr- old colts, 8st 7ft; fillies, 8st 4tb. R. M. Lord Tavistock's c. by Woful, out of Posthuma 1 Mr. S. Day's Lady Fly 2 Lord Berner's c. by Emilius, out of Rotterdam 3 Three others were not placed. Won by a length. Handicap Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each. T. Y. C. 6 subs. Sir R. Dick's Miss Mary Anne, 3 yrs, 7st 2ft 1 Mr. Wagstaff's Landrail, 5 yrs, 8st 7tb 2 Three others not placed. Won by half a length. Handicap of 10 sovs. each. T. Y. C. Five subscribers. Mr. Stonehewer's Zany, 4 yrs, 8st 9ft 1 Lord Wilton's Bras de Fer, 4 yrs, 8st. 21b 2 Lord Mountcharles's Carwell, 4 yrs, 7st 13ft 3 6 to 4 agst Zany. Won by nearly a length. The Rubbish Stakes of 10 sovs. each, for 3- yr olds. D. M. Mr. Cooper's Sluggard, out of Black Polly, 8st 1 Lord Uxbridge's the Hermit, 7st 13ft 2 Lord Orford's Rosanne filly, 7st 2ft 3 General Grosvenor's Santillane .. 4 7 to 4 agst Sluggard. Won by a neck. WEDNESDAY. Handicap Plate of 50/. A. F. Won by Mr. Prince's Amphictyon, beating Varna, Variation, Protocol, Christina, Whiteboy, and Peter Pindar. THURSDAY. Sweepstakes of 25 sovs. each; for colts, 8st 5ft, and fillies, 8st 2ft, then two yrs old. T. Y. C. Colonel Peel's Young Rapid 1 Sir M. Wood's b. c. by Camel 2 Lord Lowther's St. Julien 3 5 to I agst Young Rapid. Won by a length. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each ; for 3 yr olds, 7st 5ft ; 4 yrs, 8st 7ft; 5 yrs 8st 12ft ; 6 yrs and aged, 9st. T. Y. C. Mr. Wagstaff's Landrail, 5 yrs 1 Lord Burlington's c. by Godolphin, 5 yrs 2 Lord Clarendon's ch. f. by Reveller, 3 yrs 3 Mr. Shard's Mayfly, 3 yrs 4 Won easy. Fifty Pounds. T. M. M. The winner to be sold for 200gs. Lord Beroer's br. h. Whiskey, 4 yrs, 8st I Mr. Prince's Amphictyon, 4 yrs, 8st 2 Won cleverly by three quarters of a length. Winner claimed. The Jockey Club Plate of 50/. B. C. Sir M. Wood's Lucetta, 6 yrs, 8st 9ft 1 Duke of Grafton's Oxygen, 4 yrs 2 4 to 1 on Oxygen. Won by a length. FRIDAY. This day's intended sport has ended in smoke ; the Gold Cup, which has so often and so ineffectually been put in the list, did not fill. After this we presume there will be no further attempt at a fifth day's racing in the Second Spring Meeting. STAFFORD RACES. The Member's Plate of 50 sovs. with 10 sovs. for the Second. Heats, twice round and a distance. Mr. E. Peel's g. f. Cis, 3 yrs, 6st 10ft 12 1 Mr. Painter's br c. by Smolensko, 3 yrs, 6st 1216 .. 6 12 Mr. Cooke's b. m. Sally Maps, 4 yrs, 8st 2 3 3 Mr. Applewaite's b. c. Lindley, 3 yrs, 6st 12ft.. .. 3 0 0 Mr. Spencer's b. g. Bobby, 4 yrs, 8st 4 0 0 Mr. Beardsworth's b. c. by Middleton, 6st 121b .. 5 0 0 Hunters' Stakes of 50 sovs. for horses not thorough bred. Heats, twice round and a distance. Mr. Robins's b. m. Shepherdess, 4 yrs old, lOst 2ft .. 1 1 Mr. Sirdefield's b. g. Napoleon, 3 yrs, 9st 3 2 Mr. Harding's gr. M 2 3 Mr. Booth's Grey Leg, 5 yrs, list 4 dr THE DERBY.— 6 to 1 agst Trustee, 6f to 1 agst Mixbury, 9 to 1 agst Margrave, 10 to 1 agst Perion, 11 to 1 agst Beiram. THE OAKS.— 9 to 2 agst Whimsey, 5 to 1 agst Advance, 63 to 1 agst Emiliana, 9 to 1 agst Dryad, 13 to 1 agst Elfred, 16 to 1 agst Lady Fly ; the rest as before. York Spring Meeting commences to- morrow; and Epsom on Tuesday week. GAME.— The season has been hitherto very favourable to the breeding of game of every description, and the appearance of many leverets in this district, at such an early period, shows it to have been peculiarly so for the hare. No fewer than six leverets were discovered in one nest on Roxburg Moor, on Tuesday week ! Now, admitting that few instances are known of more than three or at most four young ones being found to- gether, yet as the doe never associates with other females, nor will allow even a form or a nest to be made near her quarters, the surest inference is that the whole six were the produce of one doe.— Kelso Mail. CORN EXCHANGE, May 25. We have not much alteration to notice in Wheat from our last, but the market is very heavy. In Barley and Oats there is scarcely any change, and in Beans and Peas the alteration is of no extent. Imperial Weekly Average Six Weeks' Average, which regu- ) lates duty Duty on Foreign Corn Wheat. Barley. Oats 61s lid 33s lOd 21s 2d 61s 5d 34s 3d 21s Sd 25s 8d 10s lOd 15s 3d PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed from the returns made in the week ending May 22, is 26s. lid. per cwt. exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the Importation thereof into Great Britain. SMITHFIELD, MAY 25. Per stone of 81b. ( sinking the offal.) Beef 3s 8d to 4s Od I Veal 4s Od to 4s 8d Mutton 4s 6d to 4s 8d | Pork 5s Od to 5s 2d Lanib 5s Od to 6s Od Head of Cattle at Market. Beasts - 394 1 Calves - 297 | Sheep - 9,340 | Pigs - 130 Hay and straw, per load. Hay, 31. to 41. IPs. | Clover, 41, to til. | Straw, 28s. to 40s COAL EXCHANGE, MAY 25. " Killingworth, 19s 9d— St. Lawrence Main, 19s 6d West Hartley, 17s 6d— Wall's End, Bell, Robson, and Co., 18s. Od— Northumberland, 19s 6d to 20s— Perkins, 20s to 20s 6d— Rus- sell's, 22s— Lambton Primrose, 22s to 23s— Slew- art's, 22s 3d Hartley, 18s— New Flocton, Milne, and Co., 17s 6d— Ships ar- rivt'd since lasl market day, 20. PRICES OF THE PUBLIC FUNDS. Bank Stock Reduced 3 per Cents. - • Consols, 3 per Cents* • • — for Account.. • —• 3g per Cents. • Reduced per Cents.- New 3i per Cents. New 4 per Cents Long Annuities India Bonds Exchequer Bills Mon. Tues. Wed. Thur. Frid. — 205 -,> 06 205 8+ f 84J 84* 84J 85^ » 5# 851 K5jf 85 2 85* 85f 85f 85J — 91* — — 92 » n 91* 92 918 92 93 93* 93 93* KIOJ lOOj lOOf lOOf lOOf Iti* 16 161 lti"- par par par par par 12 10 12 11 11 Satu. 199J 84J 85| 91f 91f 93 lOOf 16 par 12 COURSE OF EXCHANGE, MAY 25. Amsterdam, 3 months, 12 Ditto, short, 12 2 Rotterdam, 3 months, 12 Hamburgh, do. 14 1 Paris, short, 25 90 Dilto, 3 months, 26 10 Frankfort, ditto, 1- 55 Vienna, ditto, 10 13 Trieste, ditto, 10 to 14 Madrid, dilto, 35| Cadiz, ditto, 35f Bilboa, 3 months, 35J Leghorn, ditto, 47J Genoa, ditto, 26 5 Naples, ditto, 40J Palermo, ditto, 121 Lisbon, 30 days' sight, Oporto, ditto, 47 For. Gold, in bars, 31. 17s. 9d. New Doubloons, 41. 15s. 9d. New Dollars, 4s. 3Jd. 47 BIRTHS. Ill Baker- street, the lady of Major H. D. Campbell, of a daugh- ter.— At Hampton Court, Ihe wife of J. C. Baird. Esq. 15th Hus- sars of a soil. — At Kinnaird- house, Perthshire, the lady of Col. Sir Nell Douglas, K. C. H. of the 79th Highlanders, of a daugh- ter.— The lady of Cap'., Barrow, H. C. ship George IV., of a son. — The Lady of Theophilus Thompson, M- D. Keppell - street, Rus- sell- square, of ason— At Mosknuw, the lady of Lieut.- Col. Graham, of a sou and heir.— At Branston, the lady of the Rev. G. E. Gilletj rector of Waltham, Leicestershire, of a daughter. MARRIAGES. At Trinity Church, St. Marylebone, Major Henry Smith, of the Madras Army, to Maria, eldest daughter of the late Josiah Webbe Tuckett, Esq., of Berbiee.— At St. George's, Bloomsbury, Capt. J. Barnard Smith, of the Hon. East India Company's Service, to Maria, daughter of T. Baylis, Esq.— At Finchley, Walter Hughes, Esq., of Lothbury, solicitor, to Emilia, daughter of Win. Pell Row, Esq., of Finchley.— At Halton Chapel, Cheshire, the Hon. R. B. Wilbraham, to Jessy, daughter to Sir R. Brooke, Bart,, of Norton Priory. DEATHS. John Taylor, Esq., for many years proprietor and editor of the Sun newspaper.— At Cheltenham, T. Coote, Esq., many yearr Chief Magistrate of Newfoundland.— At Liverpool, William W. Fraser, Esq. Inspector- General of Hospitals,— In Cleveland- square, Georgians Emma, infant daughter of C. Calvert, Esq. M. P. At College- house, Clapton, R. Bremridge, Esq., late of the Common Pleas- office, Temple.— At Hertford, Charles Wm. Baikley, Esq. — At Greenwich, George Watson Smith, of New Bond- street, in the 31st year of his age. AGKNTS TO THIS PAt'Ell — Aherpavenny, Watkins Kxeter, Townsend THE LONDON GAZETTE. 2.] [ From the Gazette of Tuesday, May INSOLVENT. Thomas Taylor, of Goff's Farm, Northchapel, Sussex, farmer. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. Samuel Rickard, John Dockray, and Thomas Pinder, Leeds, machine- makers and worsted spinners. BANKRUPTS. William Songster, Holland- place, Lambeth, Surrey, builder and baker— Thomas Greenhill, Great Dover- street, Surrey, flour- dealer — R. obert Stainton Dixon, Fore- street, Lambeth, and Durham- street, Vauxhall, Surrey, flour- factor— William D. Graham and John Tate; Newcastle- upon- Tyne, linen- drapers— J. Vose, Serle street., Liri- coln's- iim- fields, boot maker— T. S. Barnes, Cheapside, warehouse- man— R. and W. B. Bywater, Cheshunt, Herts, grocers— J. Or- be! l, jun., Walsinghatn- place, Lambeth, flour- factor— John Cr& ft, Brunswick- row, Queen- square, wine- merchant— C. Botham and C. Bnnsden, New Bond- street, milliners— S. Bousfield, Heaton Norris, Lancashire, saddler— T. L. Wilson, Pocklington, Yorkshire, tanner — J. Harding, Nailsea, Somersetshire, baker— W. Swainson and T. Mustell, London, warehousemen— J. D. Gorely, Bath, brush- maker — J. Mansfield, Billingborough, Lincolnshire, mercer— Hannah Leach, Rochdale, flannel- manufacturer. [ From the Gazette of Friday, May 25.] INSOLVENT. William Lunn, St. Mary- at- Hill, London, slopseller. BANKRUPTS. Thomas Mitchell, Strand, hosier— John Laws, Great Yarmouth, linen- draper— J. and Z. Harling, Brixton- road, bakers— T. Ward, Col- chester, innkeeper— H. Mould, Chertsey, Surrey, grocer— J. Colli- > ver, Helston, Cornwall, hatter— H. and C. Battersly, Hindley, Lan- cashire, cotton- spinners— J. Dodson, Great George- street, Bermond- sey, merchant— R. Thompson, Old Street, St. Luke's, dealer in hard- ware— T. Franklin, Portsea, baker— W. Grant, Jermyn- street, Westminster., cabinet- maker— H. Hargrave, Hull, straw hat manu- facturer— R. Gibbon, Wateringbury, Kent, brewer— T. Joynson, West Wycorub, Buckinghamshire, lace- dealer— T. D. Thorpe, Manchester, linen-. draper— S. B. Fry, Bristol, hosier— K. Liver- sedge, ALmondbury. Yorkshire, clothier— J. M. Worthy, Exeter, and J. D.. Worthy, St. Thomas the Apostle, Devonshire8 merchants, J. Wilson Xuothill, YuilkshUe, blanket- manufacturer. Acton, Birch Arundel, Mitchell Ashlord, Tunbridge Alnwick, Davison Barnes, Chant Brixton, Harpur Brighton, Jones Bristol, Westley Bath, Williams Basingstoke, Lowman Broadstairs, Barns Boston, Noble Boston, Brook Bil mlngham, Cooper Bridgewater, Dean Barnsley, Ray Birmingham, Mansell B rati lord fnkersley Blackburn, Rogerson Blandford, Ship Bevei ley, Garuliam Bedford, Mayle Brentford, Dtew B rem lord, Norbury Battel « ea, H'tchin Camberwell, Purser Falmoutb, P. help Froine, Jones Fulham, Banks Gravesend, Couves Glasgow, M'Phun Greenwich, Allen Godalmiug, Stedman Guildford, Russell Newcastle, Harrison Newcastle, Home Newark, Brdges Oxford, Slatter Pointer's End, Bi'ten Peterboro', Chad well Plymouth, Bartlett Portsmouth, Caiter Preston, Wilcoxnn Gainsborough,.!. Drury Portsea, Woodward Grantham, Preston Hackney, Wales Hanweil, Bailey Homsey, P- wter Hastings, Glazier Hereford, Vale Houuslow, Thorn rson Halesworth, Tipple Hudder- field, Lanca- shire Hull, Perkins Hamps'ead, Lindsey High VVycomb, King H phgate, Bage Holloway, Sievens Ipswich, Root Istiugt ) it, Pritchard Do. Giove, Jackson Kings< aml Uichards Chester, Evans Kingston, Lnulley Colnbrook, Baily Chert sev, Wet ton Cheltenham, Tliointon Kew, WaU Coventry, Horsl'all Kendal, Fen ton Cambridge, Smith Lewes, Sarby Carlisle, Cockburn Loughborough, Adams Chichester, Simther Leeds, Baines and Co. Canterbury, Cowtan Liverpool, Willrner Colchester, Swinborne Leamington, Bettison Petworih, Phillips Perth, Sidey Reading, Lamb Ramsgate, Sackett Rochdale, Hartley Richmond, Woodman Southampton, Rose Stoke Newmgton, Wales Speenhamland, Messrs*. Hall and Marsh Shrewsbury. 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