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gill vain to a height of popularity, which would render their aequitt o ft; tx.niinisters safe to themselves, and gc far towards obtaining in it the acquiescence of the public. That they may succeed, and be fol. lowed by these results, it is hardly necessary to say I devoutly wish. llor an, THREE o'CLocK, Nov. 25.—.. The gloomy Impressions mentioned in the foregoing have kept down the funds this day—a cir iunistance which fully contradicts the assertion that the public mind is tranquil respecting foreign and domestic affairs. Every body affects to believe that war will not take place, while they are at the same time in. timiic,d by the apprehension of it. The funds opened this day at a si!ade higher than the closing prices of yesterday, but have fallen tle^sly half a Ilene at this moment. HALF-PAST FOUR.—A trifling the has taken place ;but without any thing new to warrant it. FRENCH FUNDS. PAR Is, Nov. 25.—Five per Cents. 921 20c 30c 25c 30c 35c 50c 45c 50e 40c 9-2 f 92115 c 25c. Four per Cents. 781. Three per Cents, 61f 60c 75c 90c 60c 40e 6k 60c 65c 85c. Bank Actions, 166tf. Bente de Naples, GM' 7k 67f 66f 50c 25c 661 10c 66166 f 25c 20c. Rente d'Espagne, 13. Royal Spanish .oan, 60 6011 Rcnte Pcrpetuelle d'Espagne, 48 48/1 49 48iii 4 8 4• Ilaytian Loan, 34513401 3301 3201. • Exchange on London—One Month, money, 251 20e. Three 'Vomits money, 251 10c. EUS•44. ST. PETERSBV RCM, Nov. 7.-1 now sit down to redeem my pro mi,e, and make my excuses. I promised yo❑ to write on my arrival. This I have hitherto been prevented doing - originally through fatigue, and afterwards from indisposition, anti other reasons 1 will explain here after. 31y voyage to Hatnburgb was anything but satisfactory, and when I arrived there the city was all in confusion. I have since seen It called a Revolution in the French papers, but it was nothing more than a mob. My stay there was but abort, and my passage hither was long and unpleasant, so you will see that to the time of my arriving here I have nothing to boast of. When I got to this charming city (for you must allow me to use that term,) nearly the first news I heard was that cholera morbus was making :treat ravages in this country. Day after day sad accounts arrived from -Ist and north, and at length we expected cacti hour to be attacked ourselves. For the last three weeks I have been living in my room Ind have used every precaution—but I think the malady is now being mr under, and may not travel as far as this city. If it had not been for 'till: , cholera morbus, the Emperor would long since have taken active measures for putting down the revolutions of Belgium, Saxony, and Brunswick. You may know enough, at least by report, of St. Petersburgh, to un derstand that politics are not spoken or written about with that freedom aith which they are in England or France, and though somewhat more at liberty than many other persons, yet even among ourselves we Jae not speak too confidently. The Russian Government has viewed with horror the Revolution in France, and the news which has arrived from Poland has, in no respect, ten d e d to diminish its abhorrence. I koow it is the opinion of um people, that the Russian government has got too much to do in Poland to trouble itself about other affairs. I assure you they are very much mistaken in this respect. Nothing would be mac popular in this country than a war with either England erFrance; as to the common people, they have no opinions about politics, cind scarcely know that there is such a country as England or France. Thty know not one word about the French revolution, and evil be to the man that would dare to tell the secret. There are many versions dolt about the way Athalin was received by the Emperor. The most correct one, I think, is that the Emperor expressed his determination to wait to see the result of the French revolution in other countries, before he resolved on what course he should adopt. I believe that Ath alin was the bearer of an evasive, though polite letter, to the King of the French, in which no pledges were made. The secrecy with which every thing is conducted in the affairs of the State is so great, that the ministers never converse about politics, even at diplomatic entertainments, and the empe r n is the only one who sometimes expresses a general opinion, to give t.ti idea of his approbation or detestation of any particular measure. The affairs of Turkey with Russia, I believe, go on satisfactorily to loth parties, and the emperor has no longer any anxiety on that head. Ile is still blamed, however, for not having taken Constantinople • for all alto think about politics, an d g i ve any op i n i on , t hi n k that En gland %timid not snake war for any cause whatever, with any people whatever, except in cue of an invasion. The appointment of a prince for Greece liss lately been the subject of some despatches, but the Belgian insur rection has come to derange every thing. The King of Holland :us undoubtedly a firm ally in the Russian Court ' • but in order to secure its active aid, hi s ma j esty must ma k e a sacrifice of his de wodence upon England. As for that, I beg to ask what has the Dutch king to hope for from England ? But whilst lam thus writing, pa .'l,eice the revolution is finished. If so, so much the better, provided people have profited by it, and arran ged with the House of Nassau. I think that any other arrangement would lead to a war. The exact cause or reason why the Emperor has commanded troops to proceed to Po. Jolla and Volhynia is not known. The inclosed Gazette will show you Coe order, and we know little more. Yet it is said that it is part of a large system of military operations, which will be completed in the spring. That the Russian Court does not contemplate imme diate war, I think I may confidently affirm ; but in the spring you may be assured an attempt will be made to establish Germany, iisony, and Belgium in the same position as before the French revo lotion. I do not believe there is any intention on the part of the Russian Government to interfere for Charles X. or even for die Duke of Bor- , 1:lux, provided that the new French Government shall not meddle in tie affairs of Belgium. The news of the arming and marching of forces in Russia must not excite too much alarm. It is too late in the rear all over Russia to attempt any measure before the sun returns—but 'lien he cornea back to us, I would by no means say so. The political ; , art of my letter has, I hope, been long enough to suit your purpose. fo speak with co nfid ence i s i mpo ssible, and I am obliged to take great :sins to form a correct opinion myself. Public opinion is not known :we, and only in diplomatic circles are persons sate, and there each .)-ie has his own views and opinions. The cold of S:. Petersburgh has not yet annoyed me. To be sure I in used to all sorts of climates, and for twelve years of my life seldom knew what it was to feel the warm tun. lint I have felt colder and Inure wictelted at London and even Paris, than I ever did at Stockholm, bristiana, or St. Petersburgh. I will write to you as often as certain ' , Jeans of certain conveyance present themselves. Sometimes this will 0: often, and at other times not for a month. But my letters will always reach you ; and when you do not hear, attribute it to there being nothing to say. or else to my not having a certain means of conveyance. You • - derstand me. Remember me, &ie. &c.--Lellee in the Chronicle. SPIRIT OF TILE JOUIINALS. CIIRONICLE.—The condition of the labouring classes throughout Ei. l :l,ald is very unequal ; but in general it may be said to have been Imam!: what humanity might have desired it to be. Berkshire and Bin kinghanishire are, perhaps, t h e very worst counties. But it is a unmake to suppose the labourers have not always been miserable in these Lila some other counties. The lice. David Davies, Rector of Barkham, who published a quarto volume on the State of the Labourers in flumbandry, gives minute accounts of the income and out-goings of a ' , umber of labourers in 1787, and shows, o:at allowing nothing for cot tage tent, fuel, clothing, &a. the nects‘ary weekly expenditure of a la bower at that time, allowing only one pound of bacon in the week, exceeded the income ; so that a la:gc part of his expenditure must of necessity have been derived from other sources than wages. " Our progressive population," he observes " has added to the number of dependent poor, the his of the Poor Laws showing that an increase of population has been always accompanied in this country by an in creased number of poor." In the last forty or fifty years, he says the . .dvin , cr in the price of provisions had been fully one.third, whereas the .elearce in the price of labour in the same time had been "in some places from five to six shillings, in others from nix to seven shillings a sock, and in some places a little more than this; that is, the advance 111. , been only a sixth or a seventh part of the present price. And even this small advance is apparent, not real : for the additional shilling is cal equivalent to certain advantages which labouring people formerly enjoyed, but of which they have been gradually deprived ; such, for ~.':ante, as a mess of milk or broth for breakfast, an allowance of small '`'Cr. and the like." In all the districts where the people are now coin -.ming outrages, misery seems to have been the ordinary condition. tale the discontent, of late, to have been caused not by greater y, but by the impulse given by a comparison of their condition with that of which they hear or read elsewhere. TIMES. , The present parliament was elected by a nation bent rem. cutely on reform' of Parliament. The late Minister was at once .curled from his seat, from the moment in which he betr a y e d a spirit in :itacal to that vast object on which England had become decided and natumous. The existing Ministers owe to their promise of a reform sole chance which awaits them of being able to carry on public burl : ~ s without a dissolution of Parliament—a measure which, beside en- Lagering the public peace, might grievously oppress and embarrass the ,hpresentatives col counties in all parts of the kingdom, and, under the .'went anti-union phrenzy among the Irish, might inflame that dente -Pipe-ridden race to open insurrection. If we were invited to cam *ti a statesman —much more a down statesmen on this most vi. .1 question, —we should say, l et t h em propose at the earliest dal, to Parliament, a resolution embracing come broad and '^tquirocal principle of reform in the House of Commons, from which -either they nor their successors could afterwards dare to flinch; but t tot details of any kind be forced on precipitately, lest they might not , 4 11 deliberate an d scrut i n i s i ng examination. By too soon sewn. r •t ntling a compl ete system of Parliamentary reform, the principle itself :4 1 4 be brought into discredi t ; b ecause t h e public and the leg i slature "luid have to set aside or alt er t h at w hi c h Ministers had got up in As cordial friends, therefor e , to that great principle s we would r "gia with a s p ec i es o f amelionition which mus t o p erate p ower f s lly to 'tore objections against a rvfonn of Parliament t i self, in the breasts thqse wh o now resist that principle as much from mercenary and sorad, as from arbitrary or aristocratic motives. Begin with temom leo reform—cut away the pabulum of foul ambi. Lion, the prey of rapacity, the stimulus to corruption, and half your works as Parliamentary reformers is already done. We shall touch but briefly en the various heads of retrenchment which must offer themselves to a bold and patriotic statesman, and leave our hints to tight theio own way with the community. Ministers ought to cut down their own large salaries at the outset. The Lord Lieutenancy of Ireland ought to be got rid of as expeditiously as the forms and in. tricacies of public business will permit. The Duke of Northumber land some time since made a liberal sacrifice of at least one.fourth of the income of that unwieldy office ; and by way of illustration of the view which we have above brought forward, the extinction of the whole will be in so far facilitated, as the place of Lord Lieutenant must be henceforth less an object of desire to needy noblemen, and of conten. tion among the different interests which a cabinet has to consider and con ciliate. We have heard, but cannot affirm positively, that Lord Anglesey will be the lastbordLieutenant,and his appointment is but a preliminary to the almost immediate abolition of that ancient but worn-out rank. It has been alleged on respectable authority, that the Vice-Treasurer ship of Ireland had been improved by the Duke of Wellington into a place of considerable labour and efficiency ; at least, we have been told ' that its late possessor, the Knight of Kerry, neither found it a sinecure nor made it so. If, however, the business can be done through clerks, without the cost of a salary f 2,5001. per annum, the public has an undoubted right to the benefit of such a saving. The public boards are kept up at an enormous and needless expense. The Duke of Wel lington tried his hand at them, and did something, but not half enough. Instead of being what the lively audacity of Mr. Canning's imagination represented them, so many cradles for infant statesmen, they arc, in too many cases, but easy chairs for decrepitude, or pillows whereon helpless and high-born beggary may indulge its contempt for those on whose bread it fattens. Lords of the Admiralty—of the Tree sury—Commissioners of the India Board, of which the whole business is done by the Chief Commissioner alone--Commissioners of Excise and Customs, and. Stamps, and Navy Board, and Victualling Board, and Woods and Forests, and Hackney Coaches—all might be diminished by at least two-thirds of their number. So the diplomatic service, pruned as it was, and to a considerable extent, by Lord Aberdeen, will admit of a much greater retrenchment, and the public business be incomparably better executed than at present. What do such men as Sir C. Bagot and Lord Burghersh do as art equivalent for their prodigious salaries ? The dignity of Great Britain is not best upheld by fine laced liveries, nor her character by fashionable manners; nor arc her right and interests best understood or defended by ignorant, feeble, frivolous, or arrogant personages, because they may happen to be the expensive nephews, brothers or sons of courtiers. Again, was there ever such a nest for vo racious vermin as the royal household, in its several ramifications of complex and barbarous superfluity ? What use has the King of Eng land for a set of lords, by way of menial servants about him—hereditary legislators, judges, over a free people—yet domestics of a limited mo narch, at so many thousands each per annum, for wearing out their lives in irksome yawning attendance on a king, who feels oppressed by their contiguity to his person. Then we have the Duchy of Lancaster, with a huge salary--must that abuse of the public treasure be continued ? The Lieut.-Gen. of the Ordnance, condemned not 12 months ago, by the whole liberal opposition in Parliament,— what becomes of that? To change to another branch, for they are many, of the extravagance visible in all our institutions—the salaries of the Judges—raised, as they professed to be, on account of the high prices of all articles of consumption, ought they not to be lowered after the fall in price of every thing that was the sub ject of sale or purchase,--every thing, we may well subjoin, but justice Itself, which costs as much as ever? We had as good Judges, and as speedy redress of wrongs, when the Judges salaries were but 3,5001 per annum, as now when they are 5,5001. Atileast 1,0001. a-year ought at once to be struck off the pay of those learned personages. Then for the army,—kept up, as it is, to its present standard, on the plea of sending portions of it to rot away periodically in our numerous colonial garrisons ! What need have the colonies of garrisons of regular troops, more parti cularly since the liberal policy of our relations with America will have the effect of imptoving their condition? This paper has frequently re commended that the interior police of our island colonies should be left to a militia, paid by themselves ; and that whatever additional defence was demanded should be provided for by an increase to our naval squadrons stationed in all quarters of the globe. This arrangement would admit of a reduction of one-sixth of the standing army of Great Britain. We repeat, let the Ministers reform Parliament by all means, and let them begin by a sweeping economical reform. Ciraowietz. —We believe it is certain that Mr. Charles Wynn has been named Secretary at War; and that Lord Sandon is to be the Secre tary of the India Board. It is understood that the plan of Reform contemplated by Ministers will prove of a far more extensive nature than many persons have surmised. POST.—A petite piece de efreonstanee was got up last night in the House of Lords, in which Earl Grosvenor and the Lord Chancellor performed the principal characters. Earl Grosvenor called upon the noble and learned lord to repel the imputation of inconsistency which had been cast upon him for joining an administration with which, a day or two before,%he declared it to be an utter impossibility that he should have any thing to do ; but the task was too difficult even f or the inge nuity of the noble and learned lord, and he prudently resolved not to un dertake it. So far indeed was he from attempting to repel the charge, that he confirmed:it in terms the most express ; for he at once:and frankly, confessed that his conduct had been such as not only to warrant the as tonishment it had excited in others, but to astonish even himself. His inconsistency could not be denied. And, therefore, as the next best thing that could be done, the noble and learned lord attempted to prove that it was meritorious. He had been constrained to be inconsistent, not by " gewgaw splendout of office" (rank and station cannot yet es cape his sneer), but by pure patriotism—by an ardent desire to serve his country—by the hope of increased power to do good to his fellow-citisens. These are, no doubt, very good reasons for his acceptance of office, supposing them to he the true reasons. But they are equally good reasons why he should not have affected to disclaim and despise office two days before he accepted it. To make sense of this explanation it is necessary to suppose that between the disclaimer and the acceptance of office some negotiation took place, the result of which was to con. fer upon the noble and learned lord a greater share of power in the State than has usually accompanied the Great Seal. We sincerely hope therefore that the explanation of the noble and learned lord is the nonsense that it seems. The first speech of the new Lord Chan cellor was received by the Peers present without the least sound in dicative of approbation —a circumstance unusual, if not, as we rather believe, unprecedented. This was a pretty significant intimation to Lord Brougham--and we hope he will make haste to profit by it— that he has much to learn or to unlearn before he can be an accept able or effective speaker in the House of Lords. OXFORD, Nov. 27. In consequence of the spirit which has shown itself in the neighbour hood of this city, and in some more distant parts of the county, the ma. gistrates of the city and county assembled here on Wednesday last when many special constables were sworn into office, and every precau lion taken to ensure such speedy communication with all parts of the county as we trust will have the effect of preventing the occurrence of such serious mischief as has lately taken place in different parts of the kingdom. We are thankful that the cowardly, the diabolical dispel tion which has prompted some wretches to destroy the very staff of life, the kind gift of Gob for the presigval ion of mankind, has not far 'mead in this county; that JO has been co:lfined to its extremity. It must be the very act of the arch-demon, of that all-destroying, envious spirit which our great poet has so well described as leading man to his own ruin, that has produced the horrible destruction of that article on which all of us, high and low rich and poor, depend for existence. IVe im plore all those who wish for the welfare, the happiness, the comfort of themselves, their families, their connections, their fellow-creatures, to use all the faculties, all the powers, physical and mental, which they possess, to avert the evils that threaten them; to put a stop, by their influence, their advice, their exertions of every kind, to that dreadful, that malignant spirit which has gone abroad ; to teach the labouring and the suffering peasants, that the destruction of the property of their employers tends to their own ruin ; that it will inevitably in. volve ell classes of society in misery; that it will render it Impossible even for the moat opulent and most benevolent to relieve the d of the poor. Should the Almighty, to punish the sins of the land for the destruction of his choicest gifts, visit us with a famine arising from an unproductive season ; what a dreadful situation shall we be placed in ! Il'hat then will the miserable, the infatuated wretches feel, who have destroyed the food they will in vain seek for ? How can they ex pect ; indeed how can they possibly obtain relief, for money cannot re produce what has been burnt ! From our youth we have heard the poorest, the most uneducated persons exclaim against those who wasted even a piece of bread ; and now we read of men who destroy that which would make thousands of loaves of bread, and maintain hundreds 1 1 of families. GOD protect us from the spread of this devas. tating, this malignant disposition, which will bring those who possess it to misery in this life, and deprive them of all hope of happiness in that which is to come. It is warring against their GOD end their neighbour ; and will assuredly bring upon them dreadful punishment. Should any inclined to foster such a spirit read these our observations, we hope they will profit from them. They are written in charity and good wishes; they spring from a determination to do all the good our means enable us to effect ; they are published as a warning to all who read them ; they proceed from a certainty of the evils that must follow a continuance of the diabolical practice of the incen diary, and from a conviction that our King, our Government, our Clergy, our Country Gentlemen, and our wealthy citizens, will, without delay, do all that can be done for the benefit of the poor, and particu larly for the alleviation of the sufferings of the agricultural labourer. Thursday evening a thrashing machine was set fire to at Steeple Barton, in this county, but as the owner had fortunately removed it from the vicinity of his ricks and buildings, no loos was sustained beyond the destruction of the greater part of it. The machine was the property of Mr. Barnard, a member of the Deddington Prosecuting Association, and a reward is offered for the apprehension of the incen diaries. Great praise Is due to the Magistrates, C. Cotterell Dormer and James Lechmere, Revs. and to many neighbours of Steeple Aston and Heyfotd, fir the activity they displayed on the occasion. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, Nov. 26. SLAVERY. Lind hoden, the Bishop of London, the Duke of Bedford, Lord St. Germain's, Lord Wh arnc liff e , an d Lord Dundas, presented petitions against slavery from various parts of England. PARLIAMENT•R itErokx—THE LOAD CHANCALLOIt'S DE. CLARATION. Earl GROSVENOR, having a petition to present on the subject of reform, was desirous of making a few observations on that subject. De clarations favourable to reform in parliament had been made in that house by a noble earl, and he should not have introduced the subject on that occasion, had he not heard of certain rumours of a change of opinion on the part of a noble and learned lord, whose splendid talents had made him a powerful advocate for reform in the other branch of the legisla. turc. The noble earl could rot well avoid adverting to topics in which the political conduct of the noble and learned lord on the woolsack had been introduced. A painful notice had been taken of a supposed departure from principles. It had been said that the noble and learned lord, by accepting the seals, had acted in opposition to all his assertions in another place. fie thought it was right to give the noble and learned lord an opportunity, if the noble and learned lord thought proper to take it, of atatirg whether his sentiments on the subject of parliamentary reform were changed. If the noble and learned lord should declare his opinions unchanged, he should hail the declaration with great satisfaction, because his majesty's government would then ap. pear to be unanimous in the pursuit of a line of policy which must prove beneficial to the country. Would to GOD, said the noble earl, the prin. ciples of government, recentl:. developed by a noble earl (Grey) had been acted upon at the commencement of the reign of George I V. instead of the reign of William the Fourth. The country might then have b.:en re leased from many evils it has since endured. In addition to the ques tion of Parliameatary heform, there was another to which he would di. rest the attention of the noble and learned lord. He alluded to economy in the public expenditure. In order to reduce the burthens of the peo. ple, and make improvement in the system of tithes, he would go as far as any one. His hope was that the noble earl would carry his measures for the relief of the public to the utmost extent. With regard to negro slavery, he could never cease to call fur Its abolition, at:d his hope was that he should see the period arrive when slavery would be no more.-- The noble earl concluded by placing his petition in the hands of the clerk. The LORD CHANCELLOR then rose. The most profound si lence prevailed. He said—My Lords—l have listened with great at. tention to the few observations which have been made by my noble friend upon these two questions that must be considered of paramount importance, whether we regard the interests of the empire, or the public duties of statesmen to the entire world. I am obliged to my noble friend for the opportunity he has afforded me, but as many other opportunities will occur, and at no very distant period of time, it prevents the neces sity of my declaring m) opinions at present. That my opinions are known to my noble friend on the topics to which he alludes may be true—that they may be known to other noble lords in common with many of my fellow citizens is, indeed, very probable, and I hope is not for my disadvantage. That any Noble Lord should know so little of me, I hope is not the case, as for a moment to suppose, that in any circumstances in which I can be placed upon this earth, my opinions, my feelings, my prin ciples, my wishes in favour of both these great questions, alwaysof ex. teems, and now of urgent importance to this empire, could suffer change, or that any thing could even induce me to abate one iota of the seal which swells my bosom in these matters. At least 1 trust there be but few who know so little of me, even from report, as to suspect me of such change. It is painful to me,l and the more so from the unex pected appeal of my noble friend, that now, when for the first time, I have the honour of addressing your Lordships, excepting in your judicial capacity, I should be called upon to treat a subject in every way of such inferior importance as myself. (Hear, hear.) Nevertheless, as my noble friend says, misrepresentations have gone abroad and remarks of an unfriendly nature touching the con. sisteney of my public conduct have been made elsewhere, and that therefore, be was anxious to give me an opportunity of setting right the one and repelling the other, should I now shrink—or rather let me say —should I decline offering a few words in deference to your lordships, and I may add, out of respect to myself, after the call which has been made on me, it might wear the appearance of shrinking, not from the expression of my opinions to correct misrepresentations, but from the attacks which have been made on me, if, indeed, the observations to which my noble friend alludes were intended as attacks. Sufficient, however, to say very briefly that I bear and shall bear with perfect equality of mind everything that may be said of me in any quarter whatsoever—that I am not at all surprised—but the contrary—that a person respectable for hind knowledge and talent—nay, even distinguished for the exercise of that knowledge and talent, has been led into errors of me, from ignorance of my character; and that I bear, with an equal mind, what has been said by that individual, under the influence of mistake. lam not astonished at the observations which have been made by persons in another place, for they cannot be more asto nished (and, as a matter of astonishment, I understand the oh. serrations, to which I allude, were introduced, and Ido not say they were intended as an attack)—they cannot feel greater astonishment than I myself do, at my consenting to my elevation to the distinguished place which 1 now hold in his Majesty's Councils. My lords, lam not surprised at their astonishment, and only say that I share It with them; for they cannot be more stricken with wonder than 1, at this late period...at this eleventh hour—l should have overcome my repugnance to resign my high station, as representative for Yorkshire, than I was myself, when I did overcome that repug. nance. That 1, who, up to that time when I stated my intention of not severing myself from the representation of Yorkshire ; which intention, by the bye, 1 never did state; but when I am said to have made that statement, I no more contemplated that possibility of my being prevailed upon to quit the station I held for that I now occupy, than I, at the present moment, faney I shall ever go back to that House from which the favour of his Majesty has raised me. I need not add, that in changing my station in Par. liantent, the principles which have ever guided me, remain un. changed. When I accepted the high office to which I have been called, I did so in the full and perfect conviction, that, far front disabling me to discharge my duty to my country—far from rendering my services less efficient, it but enlarged the sphere of my utility. The thing which dazzled me most in the prospect which opened to my view, was not the gewgaw splendour of the place, but because it seemed to afford me. if I were honest—on which I could rely; If I were consistent—which I knew to be a matter of absolute ne cessity in my nature ; if I were as able as I was honest and consistent— a field of exertion more extended. That by which the great seal dazzled my eyes, and induced me to quit a station, which till this time I deemed the most 'proud which an Englishman could enjoy, was, that it seemed to hold out the gratifying prospect, that in serving my king I should be better able to serve my country.— (Hear, hear.) The petition was then read, and laid on the table. REGENCY TULL. On the motion of Lord LYND HUBS r the Regency bill was read the second time, news. Ms. On the motion of the same noble and learned lord, it was ordered to be committed on Tuesday next, to which day the Lords were summoned. LAW REFORM RILL!. Lord TENTERDEN moved the second reading of the Administra tion of Justice Bill, which was read the second time accordingly. The noble and learned lord then proposed the third reading of his five Bills for amending the practice in the Common Law Courts. Mtn a few observations front Lord ELLENBOROUGH, who wish ed for further information respecting the amended law as it applied to India, the Bills were severally read a third time and passed. Their Lordships then adjourned till Monday. LleEßPont. ELECTION. —The polling commenced at the usual hour on Thursday morning, and continued with great spit ii until 4 o'clock in the afternoon. The numbers then stood thus t—Denison. 930; Evart, 918. Each candidate, both yesterday, and to-day, polled the same number of votes. The most shameless bribery and corruption, it is said, prevailed. The sum of 100 sovereigns was, we are told, given 'for tallies of 10 votes, whilst some Individual voters got not leas than lb sovereigns for a single vote. If the contest goes on at the same rate, 60 1 0001 . will be expended by Messrs. Denison and Rani. LAW REFORM. It appears by the Votes of the House of Commons, that the folio wic,g are the five Bills of which Mr. Campbell gave notice on Thur.day :- 1. A Bill fur establishing a General Register for all Deeds and In struments affecting real Property in England and Wales. [AVednesd.ty, 18th December.] 2. A Bill to amend the Law respecting Inheritance and Deseent,and to allow Parents to succeed as Heito their Children, and collateral Re lations to succeed as Heirs to each other, though of the I.alt-blood. [After Christmas.] 3. A Bill to amend the Law respecting Dower and Ccurtesy. [After Christmas.] 4. A Bill to Altai's)! Fines and Recoveries, and to subs.itute other Assurances in lieu thereof. [After Chtistmas.] 5. A Bill to amend the Laws regarding Prescription art'. I.!ntitation of Actions respecting Real Property. [After Christmas.' POSTPONEMENT OF THE KING'S VISIT T.) VIE CITY Yesterday the Lord Mayor, anxious that his fellow citizens should be correctly informed, as soon as possible, on the sbbjtct of hi. Mejes. ty's intention to visit the Corporation at Guildhall, waited upon some of the ntembers of the Government, and reques:cd to know whether his Majesty would, on an early day, confer on his faithful subjects of the City the honor so earnestly desired by all. To this request Ministers, we undi rstand, replied, that his Majesty, with all possible good wishes and feeling towards the Corporation, felt it necessary, in consequence of the long nights and severe weather, to postpone his intended visit for the present. His lordship was at the same time given to understand, that t,o doubt, in the spring, his Majesty would most cheerfully honour them with his company. The Royal entertainment committee, upon hearing this answer, im mediately determined to open the hall to their fellow.citizens on Monday and Tuesday next, after which it will be dismantled. It is said that a new contract is to be entered into immediately lot the use of the deco. rations in the spring. rHE COURT CIRCULAIt.) 1:ar1 Grey had an auditnee yesterday of the King, at his Palacz in Sr. Janies's. Iler Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Cathe rine Jenkinson, Prince Leopold, and the Duchess of Devonshire, dined with their Majesties on Thursday. The Duchess of Kent and the Duchess of Cumberland, visited the Quern yesterday at the palace at St. James's, and partook of a dejeune with her Majesty. The whith: of the Foreign Ambassadors and Ministers resident at Court paid their respects to Viscount Palmerston yesterday afternoon at the Foreign Office, on the occasion of the Noble Viscount enter. ing on the duties of his office as his Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Their Excellencies came in full Court dresses, wearing the stars and ribands of the different Orders of which they are Knights, and were severally introduced to his Lordship. There were present the Austrian. French. and Netherlands Ambassa dors; the Russian, Prussian, Spanish, Swedish, Neapolitan, Sardinian, American, Bavarian, Mexican, and ‘Vurtemberg 31inisters ; the Danish and Brazilian Chargk d'Afftires. A Cabinet Council was held et foot o'clock yesterday afternoon at the Foreign Office, which was attended by Earl Grey, the Marquis of Lans downe Lord Durham,Viscount Palmerston. Viscount God cr i c h,Vi scount Melbourne, Viscount Althorp, Lord Holland, the Duke of Richmond, the Earl of Carlisle, and the Right lion. C. Grant. The Ministers re mained in deliberation till a quarter past five o'clock. The Ambassador from the Netherlands had a conference with Earl Grey yesterday Sir J. Shee has been appointed one of the Undcr Secretaries of State for Foreign Affairs, in the room of Lord I)unglu. FASHION 6 FOlt DEM FULL Dates.—A dress of rose-coloured Grenadine gauze ever satin of a corresponding colour. The corsage, cut low and squate across the bust, is plain behind, and arranged in drapery on the upper part of the bust in front. Beret sleeve, surmounted by a deep Gil of satin points. A row of white blond lace goes from the point of each shoulder in front, round the back part of the bust. A broad bouillon of the material of the dress, surmounted by s row of satin points, which fall partially over it, goes round the bottom of the skirt near the edge of the border; it crosses on the left side, and one end is brought nearly to the knee, where it is attached to another rouleau by a white rose with its foliage; this second rouleau, arranged in a similar manner, at a considerable distance from the first, terminates also in the drapery style with a flower. The heed.dresa is a beret, composed of the same material u the dress, and ornamented on the inside *of the brim with bows and coque, of ruse. coloured gauze riband. The crown is decorated on one aide and behind, with full knots of riband; a white esprit, and a long, curled, rose. coloured ostrich feather, inserted in one of the knots, droop to the left side. Caaaraciz Daess.—A lavender coloured satin dress; the corsage made in the style of a canezou, is disposed in deep plaits behind, and ornamented in front of the bust with folds in the style of a fan. The sleeve is excessively wide as far as the elbow, from whence the fulness is disposed in deep folds; they are confined to the arm by three satin bands; placed at regular distances. The jockees are very large; there are two pelerines, the one small, the other of moderate size; they are trimmed, as also are the lockets, with English black blond lace; three narrow rouleaus, put close together, surmount a black blond flounce attached to the upper edge of the hem. Black velvet hat, 'loud with rose-coloured satin. The brim is, comparatively speaking, of a mode rate size; the crown low, and of an oval form. The first is trimmed on the inside with rose-coloured gauze riband. Quilling' of blond net, tied under the chin by full bows and ends of riband, form the brides. The crown is decorated with two uncurled ostrich feathers, inserted in a bandeau of black gauze riband, and knots of riband placed on each side. THE DUJ .(1 IiTH URA It is understood that preparations are already making for the depot. tore of the Duke of Northumberland from his Government, and that his Graces househould is busily employed in their respective ditties. On the retirement of his Grace we would say one word. Having succeeded, and at a period of the highest excitement ever remembered in Ireland. to a Chief Governor, the most popular and beloved that Ireland ever had, he yet, by the mildness and consistency of his public ' conduct, by the urbanity and kindness of his demeanour in private, by strict impartiality, and by the ready disposition he had at all times evinced to promote the welfare of Ireland, made a deep impression upon the good will of the people. It was in vain that the Orangemen carped at him ; while the attacks of the Iced r ef the other faction filled the public with loathing and disgust. H leave this country, having had the honour (honour even to his high r irk) of having been the Viceroy who first administered the Cons itution to all the people of this realm. His amiable and admirable Duchess can never be forgotten by the poor of Dublin, u the dispenser of princely ben7ficence. This exalted pair, therefore, will leave Ireland with the blessings of the poor, and with the hearty prayer and good wishes of all men who value public virtue and private worth. The Duke of Northumberland's government has firmed an epoch in the History of Ireland. In his time, all the people were made free. His administration has been distinguished by impartiality in the disposal of patronage, as well as in the administration of the law. lie was assailed, of course, by the vulgar extremes of both the factions—but he had p. thered round him public men and private individuals of the first eminence in the country, and of the most liberal politics. The regrets and esteem of these men would be an answer, if one were deemed net evsary, to the calumnies of both factions. Of his Duchess, even the base na ures of the faction are shamed into reluctant homage. She has—the richest reward that mankind can bestow—the blessings of the widow, the or. Phan, and the desolate, to attend her.—Dublin Evening Peal. \ CIVIC RETRENCHMENT AND RCONOAI V. The following discussion took place lute on Thursday in the Court of Common Council, and shows the spirit with which it is intended to fol. low up the principle of a radical rettem. Mr. Roar ars (the Deputy of Fartingdon Ward) presented a peti tion from the proprietors of some old houses at the Fleet-street end of Fetter-lane, near the site of St. Dunstan's Church,offiring the Nyace of ground occupied by those houses at a fair price to the Corporation, and representing that by the purchase the lane could be widened consideras bly, to the great convenience of the public. Mr. Joxss (the Chairman of the London Bridge Committee) said the best course that could be adopted would be to let the parties inter. rated know that there was no likeliliotal that any inaprovemoit Ismael take place. In fact, if the tomb, could afford it, they would proceed to remedy the painful source of obstruction at the corner of Colman ' street, where the omnibuses and stage coaches were in constant colliWon. 111 r. Pies.coux mid that Farringdon ward had, in the removal of 4t. Dunstan's Church. obtained 10,0001. from the city funds, and he thought that ward ought to have a little decency. (Laughter.) Mr. BLacere said the alteration had been proposed for the benefit of the public, and not for that of the Ward. As the buildings were in a dilapidated state, a better bargain could, no doubt, be made now with respect to them, than if new buildings were erected. The present was the only chance the City perhaps would have. Mr. Deputy DAW said that an offer had been made already, and re. lected. Mr. PEA RSow said that things began to look well in the City. Re'. trenchment had already begun ; by docking off 20 per cent. from the sa lary of one of their first officers. He hoped it would go on. He had to prove the strange absence of the principle for a series of years, in things in which it ought to h a ve s h own i tse lf, an d t h e n i ggar dliness exhibited where liberality ought to bp seen, to contrast the sums used, In improving the City, and in decorating the Mansion-house. Is My years It had cost the Cits 55,0001. for iniprnvements, while within the same number of yeses the expesves attending the decorations of the Man, sion-bouse amounted to 125,0001. (Hey, hear, and laughter.) Mr. Frowns said that if the City dinners were reduces 25 Ter Cent. the improvements suggested would be paid for in five years. After a few words from Mr. TAYLOR and Mr. *Triter's, tto Re. port was then referred to a Committee. • I I. r i I 3 I a