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tisty:.lg the said Aet passed i ) the first year of Ring Henry the bird hereinbefore mentioned. Arad whereas from the time of the reign of King Henry the Third to the ninth year of the reign of Queen Anne, there was no law to prevent such citizen and burgesses from sitting in Puliament as .night net be in possession of freehold or copyhold estates of the -sinnual value of three hundred pounds. And whereas it is expedient that the laws of England touching he representation of the Commons of England, should be restored to the state in which they stood fur so miny hundred years ; and that cities and boroughs should not be bound down to make choice cot landed men, inasmuch as such landed men may not be always found in the said cities and boroughs, and therefore the electors thereof should be at liberty to elect such persons among them as have the same interests, knowledge, and feelings as themselves: and whereas. by an Act passed in the 12th and 13th year of the reign of his Majesty King William the Third, entitled " An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and the better securing the Rights and Liberties of the subject," it was among other things en acted " That no person who has an office or place of profit under the king, or receives a pension from the Crown, shall be capable °retry ing in the House of Commons," and by the same act it was solemnly declared that the laws of England are the birth-right of the people thereof." And whereas this wise provision for the better securing the rights Ind liberties of the people, has been entirely defeated by an Act passed in the 6th year of the reign of her late Majesty Queen Anne. Be it therefore further enacted, that so much of the Act passed in the ninth yeat of the reign of Queen Anne entitled " An Act for se curing the Freedom of Parliaments by the farther qualifying the ►icmbers to sit in the House of Commons," as renders it necessary for every citizen or burgess to have an estate of freehold or copy. hold of the annual value of £3OO tit sit in Parliament is hereby re pealed, together with all oaths and other regulations afficting such qualification in any subsequent Act or Acts, and particularly those contained in an act passed in the thirty-third year of his Majesty King George the Second, entitled " An Act to enforce and render more effectual the Laws relating to the qualification of Members to sit in the House of Commons," and all those contained in an Act passed in the fifty-ninth year of his late Majesty King George the Third, entitled " An Act for further regulating the qualification of Members to serve in the United Parliament of Great Britain and Ireland ;" and also that so much of the Act panted in the 6th year' of the reign of Queen Anne, entitled " An Act for the security of her Majesty's person and Government, and of the Succession to the Crown of Great Britain in the Protestant line," as enables uy person or persons accepting offices or places of profit under the King to be re-elected, is hereby repealed ; and it is declared that the said enact. meat in the Act passed in the 12th and 13th year of the reign of King William the Third, was meant to extend to all offices or places of profit under the king that then existed, or that should thereafter exist, and the said enactment is hereby extended :to the same accordingly. And whereas it is expedient that no modern Act touching the freedom of election or the eligibility of members to serve in Palle, meat should be suffered to disgrace the Statute Book, if the same shall have been made in any particular case, and from personal motives towards any individual, and particularly where the rights and interests of a large and learned body of men have been thereby improperly affected. And whereas an Act passed in the forty first year of his late Majesty King George the Third, entitled, " An Act to Remove all Doubts respeSting the Eligibility of Persons In Holy Orders to sit in the House of Commons , , ' war passed for a particular ease, against a single individual, and does affect the rights of a large and learned body of men, and by its then ex pea facto operation against the said individual, and all others wbo had taken holy orders, was and lea disgrace to the Statute Book. • Be it therefore further enacted, that the said Act shall be can. celled and taken off the file and records of the Statute Book, or otherwise defaced and obliterated that the same may not be visible in after ages, and the said Act is hereby wholly repealed and de elated to be null and void to all intents and purposes. And whereas it is expedient:and highly necessary that effectual means should be taken to secure the due attendance of the members of the said committee : Be it therefore further enacted, that not has than fifteen members of the said committee shall always be present at each sitting, and that the chair shall be taken in succession, that ill the expenses of witnesses, and all other expenses necessary for the carrying this Act into full execution, shall be paid in the same manner as in all other Parliamentary inquiries; that in no case shall the time of the said committee be occupied in hearing counsel, nor shall any unnecessary delay take place ; and upon complaint of any member of the House of Commons, it shall be the duty of the Speaker to give such directions under his hand, respecting the sittings of the said committee, and of the attendance of the members thereof, as shall secure the due execution of this Act. And be it further enacted, that it shall be the duty of the said committee to direct how and by what persons the assessments herein before-mentioned may most conveniently be raised and levied on the - electors, and how all other things necessary to give effect to this Aim are to be done and executed, and to report the same tolhe said Se cretary of State, and it shall be the duty of the said Secretary of State to give notice of the same to the proper authortities, and to see that all the directions transmitted to him by the said committee are duly executed and performed. And be it futther enacted, that it shall be in the power of the said committee to send for and examine upon oath such witnesses as they may think proper, and that all the members of the said committee shall themselves take the following oath : " I do solemnly promise and swear, that laying aside all private interests or motives, I will, to the best of my judgment, faithfully execute all the provisions of the Act under which I have been ap pointed a member of the Reform Committee, according to the plain and obvious meaning of the said Act, as set forth in the preamble and enactments of the same, and if it shall appear to me that any improvement can be made in the said Act for the better fulfilling the clear intentions of the legislature as therein expressed, I will not fail to propose that such improvement shall be reported to the House of Commons, or to vote for it if proposed by others; and that in a matter of such importance, as restating to the House of Com mons the perfect confidence of the nation, and securing for ever the rights and liberties of the people, I will consider it my duty to be regular and punctual in my attendance on the said committee, sickness or any other unavoidable cause alone preventing such at tendance." And whereas, in the present distressed and alarming state of the country, it may not be safe to wait for the deliberate investigations and reports of the said committee, as required by this Act : Be it therefore further enacted, that in case of a dissolution of th e present Parliament before the said committee shall have reported upon every city, borough, and port, in the United Kingdom, and that such report shall have been published in the Gaseite, by the said Secretary of State, in manner before mentioned, no writ for the election of citizens or burgesses, shall be sent to the following places, Old Sarum, Chinon, Westbury—.—.—* And be it further enacted, that writs lo place of the before men tioned writs shall be sent by the said Secretary of State, together with a sufficient number of copies of this Aet to the sheriffs of such counties as the King, with the advice of the Privy Council, shall think proper, and the said sheriffs shall be commanded to return such number of citisens and burgesses for such large, populous, un- represented, or inadequately represented towns, the some being-fully able to bear the burden of paying the wages of attendance as afore. said, as shall be specified in the said writs, and the said sheriffs shall be further commanded to give notice to such persons as may be appointed to be the atart►ag officer or officers of such towns or to the inhabitants - thereof; apubllely sr possible, that returns of all lambent to serve in Pallemant are tole , made by the majority of votes of the inhabitant householders of •oath towns, assessed to any r Enumerate here all Ate other close and decayed places whoa daminatien" ward nabs' put Mt end to, by giving the right of • • Voting to all the inhabitant booldieldirs: Ca tan, parochial or parliamentary, and who shall agree to be assessed to the wages of attendance as aforesaid. And be it further enacted, that all the provisions of this Act, a s to the right of voting, right of sitting in the House of Commons, and in respect of all other matters and things therein contained, shall be in full force an& virtue the same u if the said committee had made the reports required by this Act. And with respect to all other cities, boroughs, or ports, which now send a member or members to Parliament, the same directions shall be sent by the said Secretary of State to the returning officer s thereof, so that the elections may be made therein by such inha bitant householders, as aforesaid. And all the provisions of this Act in respect of towns and coun ties, and all other provisions of this Act, shall be in full force and virtue. And it is hereby declared, that nothing in this act shall be con strued to extend to the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, or Dublin, and that all cities, boroughs, ports, or towns In the United Kingdom that do send a member or members to serve in Parliament, are intended to be included in the provisions of this Act, and are Included accordingly. IMPERIAL PA ktLIAM ENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS—SATURDAY. Thee being only 27 members . present at four o'clock, the SPILAILER declared the house adjourned to Monday. PARLIAMENTARY NOTICES. NOTICES GIVEN ON FRIDAY, FED. 19. 1. Sir James Graham—Resolution condemnatory of the mode in which the office of Treasurer of the Navy has recently been filled up (on the motion for going into Committee of Supply.) [Monday, 22d February.] 2. Mr. Jephson—To move for certain papers relating to the post. ponement, from the last Summer Assize at Cork, of the trials of persons charged with a conspiracy to murder. (Tuesday, 23d February. 3. Sir George Clerk—Navy Estimates. (In Committee of Sup ply.) [Friday, 26th February.] 4. Mr. Robert Grant—Petition from certain British-born subjects of the Jewish persuasion, for the removal of civil disabilities af fecting them. [Deferred from Monday, 22d February, till Tues day, 2d March.] 5. Sir Charles Wetherell--Copies of the several informations filed ex officio by tl%e Attorney-General against Mr. Alexander, the editor of a paper called the MoraingJournai—Copies of the seve ral Judgments entered m att hint upon the records of the above informations, and how are were entered—An exact Minute of the words in which each' ry pronounced their verdict against him upon each of the above inf6Vmations—Exact Minute of the terms in:which any of the Juries expressed a recommendation of him to mercy. [Deferred from Thursday, 25th February, till Tuesday, 2d March]. 6. Mr. Sadler —Return of all Prosecutions for Libel, by es officio information in that pan of the United Kingdom called England, since the ac cession of his present Majesty. [Deferred from Thurs day, 25th February, till Tuesday, 2d March.] 7. Mr. Edward Davenport—Motion upon the distressed state of the Country. [Deferred from Wednesday, 3d March, till Friday, sth March.] • 111A.-781-I,ITY [Of 93 on Colonel Daviees Amendment on the Army Estimates. Althorp, Lord Graham, Sir J. Roberts, A. Attwood, M. Guise, Sir B.W. Bickford, W. Baring, F. Gordon, R. Rumbold, C. Baring, B. Hume, J. Rice, S. Blake, Sir F. Howick, Viscount Sibthorp, Colonel Burdett, Sir F. Hobbouse, J. C. Smith, W. Bernal!, It. Heathcote, Sir W. Smith, Hon. R. Bentinck, Lord G. Ingilby, Sir W. Stanley, Lord Bright, H. Jephson, C. D. 0. Stanley,i Hon. E. 13rownlow, C. Knatchbull, Sir B. Bt.Sefton, Lord Birch, J. Labouchere, H. Shirley, E. J. Burrell, Sir C• Lambert, J. Townsbend, Lord C. Blandford, Marquis of Lamb, Hon. J. Thomson, P. Button, T. F. Ilildmay, Sir P. P. J. Vytyan, Sir R. Buck, L. W. Mond, J. B. West, Hon. F. R. Benett, J. Pdarjoribanks, S. Webb, Colonel Calvert, C. Marshall, W. Western, C. Cavendish, W. Macauley, T. B. Warburton, H. Carter, J. Idorpeth, Lord Whitmore, W. Clive, E. B. Macdonald, Sir J. Wilson, Sir R. Cholmeley, IL Martin, J. Willoughby, H. Denison, W. J. Nugent, Lord Wrottesley, Sir J. Davenport, R. Ord, W. Weidman, Alderman Dick, Q. O'Connell, D. Wood. C. I Duncombe, Hon. W. Palmer, F., Wood, J. Duncombe, T. PaUmer, C. N. Wood, Alderman Dawson, A. Poyatz, S. Wyvill, M. Encombe. Viscount Protheroe, E. Fitzgibbon, Hon. R. Ponsooby, Hon. G. Teller. Fergusson, R. C. Pendarvis, E. Davies, Colonel Fane, J. Philips, G. R. Paired off. Fazakerley, N. Parnell, Sir H. Sykes, D. Forteseue, Hon. G. Robinson, Sir G. Guest, J. J. THE EVENING STAR. • - sellr, i */ :' •l e - " . 1 ~„:" - ealt , • vp• , i re 0 4 ' eft* PVCATOS LON I) )N. ,RUARY 22. AT TWO O'CLOCK. Do. Do. Jul.& Jan.l9/ South Sea Stock 1021 New Annuities 92 3 per Cent. 1751, £lOOO Exch.Bilis 77 8 £5OO Ditto 77 8 £lOO and £2OO Do. 77 8 Bank for Acc. 2191 Cons. for Ace. 921 / 1 TWO O'CLOCK. Do. Acc. 261 Do. 100, 29 Run. &ls. 1822, 5 pr Ct. Do. 1111, not Sp. Bds. 5 per Ct.131:1 1 Drs. Ace. 131 1 1 Sp. Bds. 1823, S per Ct. 91 1 Do. Ace. 91 Fr. Ras, 5 per Cc. 1091. 75 Exchange 251.65 e. SHAKES, TWO O'CLOCK. PAM rill &Haag. Anglo Mexican (iss. at XS pm) 100 100 3811 Bolanos 300 300 46S Brazilian Company 20 5 91 1 United blez, (iss. at £1 pm.) 40 z9t o 161 1171 MONDAY, F: PRICE OF STOCKS Bank Stock 2191 4 per Cent. Red. 93 2i 3 per Ct. Cons. 921 t 31 per Ct. 1818, Se per Ct. Red. 1001 k 3 per Cent. 1021 21 4 per Ct. 1826, 105/ Long Ann. 19 11-16th. 1 Do. 30 Years, 19 7.l6ths FOREIGN FUNDS Brasil Bds, 5 pr Ct. Ditto Acet. 691 Bds.6 per Ct. Do. Bds. 1824, Do. 100, 23 Greek Bonds, 5 p Ct. 361 71 7 Do. B. 1825, 5 pCt. 37 81 Ditto Acc. 371 81 8 1 Mex. Bds. 5 per Ct. Do B. 1825,6 p Ct. BRITISH AND FOREIGts The Duke of CUMBERLAND has arrived at Mzu . awes Hotel in Paris : the house at Versailles, in pre paration for this Prince, is nearly ready. His Royal Highness is not expected any more in England. The Cemmissionership of Excise, vacant by the catastrophe of Lord GRAVES, it is said, is to NI abolished. ____ The letters of Mr. O'Cos Num., Mr. Cu/ALTON, and Mr. SINCLAIR CuLLsai, announcing their adherence to the Birmingham POLITICAL UNION, will be read with interest. It affords us great satisfaction to state, that Sir-FRANCIS BURDETT has, also, followed the noble example set by Lord BLANDFORD; and has given in his name, as a member of the same popular Association. The Times of this morning says, that the reduction of one million on the whole mass of the national burdens by Ministers, is as much as they—the Ministers=" dare to propose on their own responsibility, while uneompsllsd by the people."' He ought, rather, to have said, as much as they mean to propose, until the people let them see that they are in earnest. Yet this reduction—our contemporary adds—speaks well for the willingness of Go vernment, to effect the most extensive relief for the country. We say, it speaks volumes for their deter mination to do nothing for the country, but what the country shall compel them to do. All the great establishments are kept up, unreduced : the old system of expenditure is pertinaciously retained. But it is become ridiculous, to talk of what they will do for the people—evident as it has long been that they will ride the people, till the people turn upon them. The votes in the House of Commons, du ring only this first fortnight of its session, proclaim in emphatic language the calamitous hopelessness of the public cause within. The interests there are too much separated from the great interests without, to make unsel fish and pure legislation possible. It is not in human nature, for any body of men possessing the privileges which our oligarchy possesses, to strip themselves of spoil in which they have so long luxuriated, and ordain resti tutions by which they alone would be the losers. We must not expect it of them. Seeing, then—as we do clearly—that there is no hope fur the people, but in the people, why should we suffer our attention to be distracted one hour by the feints of a cor rupted Government, who have no sympathy with the country which they oppress, and no aim but to perpetuate their power ? For so long as the people continue tame, passive, and acquiescent in the wrongs which are inflicted on them, so long will the system of grinding taxation—supported by Mi nisterial enactments, and a Ministerial army—press them in misery to the earth. The attitude must be assumed by the People : firm, imposing, but constitutional—let them form only the moral square, and the battalia of corruption shall recede before them. Petitions to Parliament—Reso lutions in public assembly—Addresses to the Tn RON a— these are their legitimate weapons : with those let them begin the warfare. The victory will not be dubious : it is only for the People of England to will, and they must obtain it. Who could withstand them ? It is because they have been disunited, hitherto— divided in opinion, about the GREAT NECESSITY on which, at last, they aro all agreeing—hugging them selves in the vain delusion that their unparalleled suffer ings would be relieved—it is because of this disunion and this credulity, that things have reached such a mon strous acme. But the period of their distress and their degradation is in their own power, and—if they be but true to some ancestral recollections—their immediate prospect is equally bright and animating. A Meeting of the Inhabitants of this Metropolis is now holding at the Egyptian Hall, in the Mansion House, to consider the unexampled misery which pervades the country, and petition the Parliament and the Throne for a redress of grievances. The seizure of Le Globe, one of the best written and influential journals of Prance is an important event, and will not a little sine to hasten the dinouement of that drama for which we have been long preparing our readers. Some notion of the talents with which the French Globe is conducted may be formed, when we state that ROYER COLLARD CHATEAUBRIAND, MONTLOBIER, and FIEF EE, are among the most frequent of its contzibutors. We regret that want of room pre vents our giving the article which has led to the seizure. It is entitled " France and the Bourbons in 1830." The object is merely to prove that Sovereignty resides in the Peer LE, and that they are competent either to change dynasties, or adopt any form of govern ment which may be most conducive to the ge neral interest. Le National, la France Nouvelle, and the Journal du Commerce, having adopted the same line of argument, a violent controversy has arisen between those journals and the Gazette. We shall have occasion to recur to passing events among our neigh bours very soon ; at present we have only time to say that these events will be of the highest consequence, both as they regard France and the rest of Europe. We give, in our first page, the proposed Bill of the Mar quis of BLA N DlO RD ) for restoring the virtual influence of the People in the Commons House of Parliament. It will be read with great interest by all those, who can appreciate the pure patriotism in which it has been originated. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. MAILS ARRIVED AND DUE THIS MORNING. 2 Dublin .. 0 1 France . 0 0 Lisbon ..... .. 0 2 Waterford ..... 0 1 Fhinders 0 0 Jamaica 0 1 Duero. at Jersey 0 0 Holland . 1 0 Sweden 2 0 Leeward Islands 0 0 Hamburgh .... 5 0 Malta . 1 To the present hour no speculations of the least importance are going forward in the Fund': indeed, our arrivals are so scanty this morning, and the Express having arrived from Paris, which is void of interest, with the exception of the preparations foe the expedition to Algiers, causes a dulness in the Market ; and Consols, which left off Saturday at 02j i for the Account, opened at the NM price. The Foreign Market I. also very languid. RALF-PAST ONE. •Although the Consol Market is rather heavy since the early part of the morning, the cause has not been the effect of T a h n us p ry olitlat in formation. It is owing to a that there will be a delivery of Stock on Settling day, which takes plate next . Con sols have been at 92i mites, and see at present 921 buyers; for the Account next time, 921 f. They are chiefly making up against the Account day. By accounts in the Augsburg Gates, it appears that at present the Russian Navy consists as follows :—The Baltic fleet consists of 15 sail of the line, some of which are in the Mediterranean, and 13 frigates, with several sloops of war. In the Black Sea, 10 sail of the li six frigates, seven sloops and brig s building at St. Penn burgh,ne, nine sail of the line. The total of the Roden Navy is 310 ships, of various classes, carrying 4,000 guns, with 33,000 semen. Accounts have been received at Par* by the Brasilia:l Legation there, that his Brunton Itsjstry is entirely recovered from the late accident, and that he it N passed at the 14th at 25th Dee. to the Chapel of Solna IMAM& 'As Qum at Portupi end Primo lawchhaberg have also samovold. A Para IL Mom, has arrived at Paris. It la said the bb attralsa is to sisals of Rots the recognithis of the' Pardo dirridiese, row& as to ecalsact a lean with a peat alirtAmmo • rades audtst Cheek Sunk improved l per teat. i i= ZrsW* hit tan lower Seem Pads, it hes trot ct al lets.ln the Cori aags into woe a mail lamb at Wheat, but sot So in Aver, end wads was brisk i - Ass stroplis Whist sold fib ir at • palm The Bads, trade autism wpm, ea Dons sad Pak supported last risk's quotation. • , ~~ THE GREEK QUESTION. TO LORD HOLLAND. MY Lonn,—l ought to have reminded your Lordship, that previous to the Duke of WELLINGTON'S mission a second application was made to Mr. CANNING, by the Provisional Government, and conveyed to England by a national vessel-of-war. This took place in 1824, and ex cited so much jealousy on the part of our neighbours, that French agents were despatched to Napoli de Ro mania for the purpose of inducing the Greeks to call i n a son of the Duke of Orleans se their future sovereign. True to the sentiments of attachment expressed in the communication of Ro DIU 9 and MAVROCORDATO, how did the people of Greece receive these overtures ? Is it necessary to state that the assembled Congress, after de liberating on the subject, as well as the general state of the country, made a spontaneous offer of the Protectorate to England ? From this moment, till the victory of Nava rin, nothing could exceed the enthusiasm of the whole na tion with regard to us. Among other proofs, the appoint ment of Gen. CHURCH and Lord COCHRANE to command the fleets and armies of the confederacy, are particularly worthy of remark. As to the nomination of CAPO D'ISTRIAS, it arose entirely from the necessity of put ting an end to these internal dissensions, which divided the country at a moment when its salvation depended on the most perfect union. One of the earliest acts of the present Ministry, an act which betrayed its natural hostility to freedom, and a deplorable ignorance of the real interests of the country, was to designate the triumph at Navarin as " untoward." From that tine to the present hour, our policy towards Greece has been marked by equal impru dence and irresolution. It was repeatedly urged by those who had studied the Greek question, as it regarded the projects of Russia, that England ought to labour by every possible means to render Greece a barrier to the ambition of that Power. What could have been more conducive to this grand object than the establish ment of such institutions as those suggested in the motion of your Lordship ? Instead, however. of a plan which it was so self-evidently our in terest to pursue, we have thrown every obstacle in the way of a final settlement of the question. Among the errors which might be enumerated, none is more glaring than the project of restricting the limits of the new state. The impolicy of this measure can only be ex ceeded by its cruelty. It is notorious, my Lord, that the ill-fated people of Epirus, Etolia, iEnboa, Attica, and Candle, whom the Duke of Wellington and his colleagueg wish to exclude from independence and consign to the Turkish yoke, have made greater sacrifices for its attain ment than even the inhabitants of tho Morea. I have no language to describe a scene which took place at Hermione in 1827, when a report reached that place stating the intention on the part of Mr. CANNING to confine the limits to the Peloponnesus. The wholeof the deputies from Western Greece and Livadia hastily assembled, and after deliberating with tears in their eyes on the horrid fate which was about to be imposed on them, they swore to perish a thousand times rather than again submit to their old tyrants. Resolutions to this effect were drawn up and a letter despatched to Captain HAMILTON of the. Cambrian, intreating that he would communicate their intentions to the British Government. Such were the feelings of the Greek patriots in 1827. I shall only add my firm conviction, that they are, if possible, more intense at this moment, when it is superfluous to state, subsequent events have greatly increased the animosity which prevailed before. And here, I would ask Mr. PEEL, who is reported to have said in reply to the motion of Lord JOHN RUSSELL that, if the territorial limits are less extensive, the compensation for the more confined limits will be found ample, what can compensate for a return to the cruelest bondage ever imposed on human beings ? Does the Home Secretary imagine for an instant, that those whom he thus consigns to their old slavery, will not become the victims of Turkish ven geance ? That the recollection of their heroism during a period of eight years, will not excite the resentment of their barbarian task-masters ? The opinion of all those who know any thing of the Turkish character is, that if a return to the yoke were not followed by the extermination of the intended victims, their slavery would at least be rendered more intolerable than ever. With regard to the intention of excluding Candia, when nearly two-thirds of the population is Christian, the foregoing observations apply with still greater force. But I must take another opportunity of recurring to this most painful subject. I have the honour to be, &c. February 20. B. COUNTY FIRE OFFICE.—An Annual General Meet ing of the Proprietors of this Office took place at their House in Regent-street last Thursday, at which Earl Ferrera presided. After the reading of the Accounts had been gone through, and a return of 20 per cent voted to all parties insured, one of the Directors took oc casion to remark that this was the twenty-third Anniver sary of the establishment, and they had never yet failed to return at least 20 per cent. This was more than had been dono by any other Office, for a continued series of years, even when the premiums were much higher, and the means of improving them at interest better, than they now are. These returns had naturally caused the public to give a preference to the County Fire Office, which, as naturally, was not agreeable to the Manager, of the Offices which made no returns ; and this led to an agreement among those offices, about five years ago. so to reduce the premiums that they should have no pro fits ; when, consequently, there s,ould be no returns. — This rash expedient bad completely failed in its object. No increase had taken place in the business of the Offices which had devised it. They had uselessly sacrificed some score thousands of pounds upon it, and nearly a third of the Offices had been actually ruined or broken up through it. But the County Fire Office had "'rode on the whirlwind" unhurt, and continued to return 20 per cent. How this was done puzzled a great many. The secret appeared to the speaker to consist in a stesay application of the principles of industry and economy. They had no jobs—no influential interests to feed. For the first thirteen years the Board of Directors and Audi t= had acted quite gratuitously, and now the annual allowances for-the whole, they saw bi Elie accounts, Imetnatedi say to 2731. If this were compared with the lath at whbffi thi Direbtant of some of the new Fire OE. loos paid tbsoinebres foil tb s eir services, even from start ing ease light wadi be thrown on the different restate to t he abauebeidere in cue office and another. • 74.•••• . -.