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PANORAMA OF THE BRITISH EM P 1 It E. BRIGIITON HERALD, MAY 14. We recognize neither good temper, patriotic feeling, courage, nor wisdom in the repeated declarations of Sir Godfrey Webster, that if Parliament do not pass the Reform Rill, the people should rise, and country gentlemen place themselves at their head, &c. We see in this language (language which the hon. baronet used, for the second time, in the course of the proceedings nt the County election, yesterday se'n night) only a mad instigation for the people to resort to fighting, or, in other words. to brute force, to gain their point, in the event of the Reform Bill being thrown out by the Lords. Such conduct may suit, perhaps, the fiery dispuition of the Baronet, and heroes who, like him r having fought against the enemies of their country—whew their penis ess hv drinking intoxicating beverage out of human sculls ; but it is coarse! to which the tax-payers of the country will certainly not at tend. They know an easier and a far better way of managing the mat ter, should the ncentrence alluded to (which we certainly do not anti cipate) take place. a way so Flyable that it would be quite superfluous to point it out. But the Reform Bill must and will be carried. We regret to state that the fruit in this district has been very much injured by the late severe frosts. On Friday night a piece of ice was taken out of a pan in a gentleman's garden, upwards of half an inch thick. On that day the show for fruit on the same estate was estimated to be worth from 4001. to .3001. nod now we are assured by the pro prietor it is not worth 1010. The apl.les and cherries have suffered most. Peaches have also been injured; but filberts not so much. The hops do not appear to be affected, nor the corn. We fear the consequences of this unexpected blight to the farmer's hopes will be very unfortunate. Thursday there was a severe storm of hail and snow. A vessel coining up the river had her decks completely covered with snow, much to the astonishment of the beholders.—Maidstone Journal. We mentioned last week that an empty bottle, corked and sealed, had been sent to sea, a wager having been laid that on its being sunk in the ocean, it would come up filled with water, the cork and seal re maining as before. The result hes proved otherwise, the bottle was lowered quickly into the water about 20 miles at sea, and immediately drawn up ; it was found nearly full of water, the cork had been driven in and was found in the neck of the vessel, reversed. We ore sorry to learn that the proprietors of the Royal Gardens, in, this town, and Mr. Cross, of the menagerie, King's Mews, Lon don, have been unable to come to terms, and that, in consequence, the design of forming a Zoological Garden, &c. is for the present, at least, abandoned. LEWES CORN MARKETS, May 7.—Oats, 11. Bs. to 11. Bs. lid. per per quarter. May 10 —Wheat, (white) 31. 16s. Gd. ditto, (red) 31. 10s. to :ti. 12s. Barley, 21. Oats, 11. 7s. to 11. 103. Beans, 11. 14s. to 11. 16:, Oil Cake, 121. per thousand. CHICHESTER CORN 111.taxEs.—Inspector's Return.— Wheat, Os. 441. Barley, 465. 10Id. Oats. 275. Id. per quarter. DIED—Mr. W. Bayton, eldest son of the Rev. W. Bayton, of Westergare, near Chichester—At the Grove, Sussex, Rosamond, wife of Capt. Dixie, R.N. COLCHESTER GAZETTE, MAY 14. - The result of the contest for the representation of the county has, we surmise, excited no surprise amongst the residents of Essex. But there is a circumstance connected with the late proceedings which all must deplore, and that is, the prominent part which the Clergy have, with bad judgment, played to secure the election of their nominee. Public attention has thus been pointedly drawn to them, and the people begin to enquire if that sacred portion of the community, who thus take the abuses of the state under their protection, have no abuses in their church to reform. While such conduct as this is exibited, it is in tail] to restrain public animadversion. The notice that has been at. tracted towards the Clergy from late events, is entirely of their own seeking, and as they have identified themselves with the interests of the boroughmongering oligarchy, they must look to share the conse. quences of their defeat. BEERALSTON ELECTION MOCKE RT.—The election for this bo rough took place on Monday last, under an old tree in the centre of the village, when Sir James Mackintoth and Mr. Wood being proposed, Lord Lovaine and David Lyon, Esq. were also put iu nomination.— The Portreevc, J. Butter, Esq. M.D. of Plymouth, called for a show of hands, and declared the majority to be in favour of Sir James Mackin tosh sal Mr. Wood. At the close of the poll, Lord Lovaine and Mr. Lyon were declared duly elected, they having nine votes each. These votes all agreed in stating, that they had paid threepence per annum, or more, ancient burgage rent, to the Steward of the Lord of the Do. sough, and that they had been admitted as ancient burgage tenants at the court of the said Borough. They all declined stating the name of the steward to whom they paid their rent, or when they paid it, or to produce any receipts or title deeds. They all, except one , _ declined stating where their property was situated ; that one (Mr. Foote) de. scribed his as being in Paradise. STA DIFORD,--LOIA Thomas Cecil was put in nomination by Mr. Gape and Mr. Phillips; Col. Chaplin, by Capt. Chadwick and Capt. Gossip ; and Chas. Tennyson, Esq. by R. Newcomb, jun. proprietor of the Stamford Mercury, and Mr. Ashby. After a show of hands Lord T. Cecil demanded a poll ; at the final close of which, at one o'clock on Tuesday, the numbers were, for Lord T. Cecil 390, Mr. Tennyson 356, Col. Chaplin 302. The two former were declared duly elected, and were chaired. This great triumph or the popular interest at .Stamford in the election of Mr. Tennyson, has resulted from the vir tuous spirit and perseverance of the middle and humbler classes of the town, in opposition to the long established influence of the Marquis of Exeter, aided as that influence has been on the present occasion by an immense expenditure of money, (said to be not less than 14,00014 and by still more questionable means, —such as the introduction of numer ous pugilists, and other persons f that description, from London, GRAN THAIL—Here the notorious Lord Huntingtower has generally returned two members ; and being dissatisfied with 'Messrs. Welby and Chohneley's voi l e in favour of the bill, he nominated his two relatives the hon. A. Talmah and hon. F. Talnaash ; but Mr. Welby and Col. Hughes have been returned. BASSET LAw.—ln this hundred, to which the franchise of East Ret ford was extended, the Duke of Newcastle's nominee, the hon. A. Dun combo, was defeated by Lord Newark, son of Earl Manvers, and the hon. H. Vernon, son of the archbishop of York, both sound reformers. HADLIOGH, MAY 9.—Our markets were but scantily supplied. The Wheat trade had a dull sale at the prices of last week, and the inflicts did not appear inclined to purchase, unless at a reduction.— Barley likewise experienced the same *dullness, and was full is. a quarter lower. Malt was not much asked for. In Oats, Peas, and Beans there is little or no variation. The Cattle market was well sup plied. Higher prices were asked, and, in choice stock, was obtained. COLCHESTER MARKET, MAY 7.—Prime samples of Wheat main. tain their prices, good Barley for malting is also enquired afar, and dearer : per quarter. White Wheat, 76s:to 78s; Red do, 70 to 74s ; Bailey, 38s to 455; Oats, 28s to 325; Pick Beans, 30s to 32; Horse Beans. 34s to 36f; White Peas, 38s to 44 s ; Grey do, 32s to 38a. MARRIED.—At Wisbeeh ' Joseph Ridgway, Esq. of Pembroke Place, Liverpool, to Julio, only daughter of Mr. John Dawson.—At l'ostwick, the Het,. W. Graham, of Exeter College, Oxford, to Helen, daughter of Robert Gilbert, Esq.—Mr. B. Prew, of Aidgate, High street, to Alattlia Dyer, niece ot John Abbot, Esq. Forest Gate. DIED.--At Beccies. 78, Mrs. Ann Sharpin, ,relict of the Rev. Edward Sharpin, late of Swaffham.—At Bury, 86, Mrs. Cole, relict of W. Cole, Eeq. formerly of Drinkston.— 53, Mr. John Ruirell, of Great Coggesball.—Mrs. Grace Kenna, mistress of the Lancaaterlsn School. MANCHESTER ADVERTISER. During the latter part of this week, the weather has been unusually cold. On Thursday night the snow fell in abundance towards Buxton, and yesterday we bad several alight showers of hail and snow in this town ; indeed, but for the presence of the sun, the weather bad been as sharp and piercing as it usually is at Christmas. James Smith and Samuel Smith, spindle manufacturers, of Tottlngton Lower End, were summoned to show caase why tbey should not be convicted in the penalty of 101. for paying the wages of Joseph Green wood in goods instead of money. The case tested on a payment of 4s. made in goods on the 11th April; but on cross-examination, it turned out that these goods were delivered to William Butterfield, a striker to Greenwood, in part of his wages, and not Greenwood, conseqz a liz Messrs. Smith were not liable to the penalty. The ease was die It was admitted that there were upwards of lOL due to Chossiwood foe wages, which had been paid out in truck, and be took out a . summons to recover 9L 19s. lid. On Saturday Mr. Heywood went to Liverpool, where a meeting of his friends took place at the Music Hall, at two o clock; and notwith standing the shortness of the notice, several hundred gentlemen were present. The chair was taken by L ord: Molyneux, who bad that morn ing arrived from London, at the suggestion of his father, the Earl of Sefton to become the champion of reform, in case it should be the wish of the county that he should La put forward. On hearing what had taken place, however, Lord blolyneux at once withdrew his pre tensions, and expressed his willingness to lend his best exertions in pro moting the return of Mr. Heywood. He addressed the meeting, re commending Mr. Heywood in the highest terms to the choice of the freeholders. The meeting was also addressed by Mr. W. W. Currie, Mr. William Rathbone, Mr. J. B. Yates, Mr. W. Earle, Mr. Joseph Ashton, Mr. J. A. Yates, the Rev. W. Shepherd, and one or two other gentlemen ; and resolutions were passed, pledging the meeting to sup pose Mr. Hey ovod, and to execute their best exertions to secure his re turn twee of expense to himself. The Liverpool Mercury of yesterday, speaking of General Gascolgne's unpopularity, says:—From the time of his arrival omongst us until the hour ot his expulsion, he has been subjected to every speci es of mortification which it is pcssible for public opinion to inflict. He could not move without a numerous body guard of special constables; and all his movements were accompanied by a general and most discordant chorus of hisses and groans. Aware, probably, that his appearance upon 'Change would have been the signal foe the mer chants there assembled to turn their backs upon him, he never ventured to chew his face in that quarter. None of his townsmen had the hardihood to mount his colours; and if any one bad ventured to canvass in his behalf, the experiment would have been attended with be utmost personal hazard. doe/sidle Council Chamber, and the Lard Provost and others on com ing end were forced to retire back, until the Higb Constables, ins body, ion' a passage for them into the street. The Lord Provost, amour. =by a Mend, went arm in arm down the middle of the High. 1111110•11 by the constables and a body of police. The hooting ad Wig of the people was incessant; and in crossing North Bridge, we are told his Lordship had nearly fallen a sacrifice to his ill-tinted temerity. The populace rushed in upon the constables, and the Provost was on the point of being tossed over the bridge. On arriving at Leith-street, the police came into collision with the people, and the latter commenced throwing stones and other miasiles. The Lord Provost was severely injured, and was forced to take refuge in Mr. Christie's shop. While his lordship was sheltered in his shop, Mr. Gibson Craig, in a speech of considerable length, remonstrated with the mob qn the folly of their conduct, and earnestly advised them to disperse; but with no effect. Mr. Adam Black addressed the assemblage to the same pur. pies, but equally in vain. Shortly a ft erwards a large body of police men, with the Sheriff and Captain Stewart at their head, came to the 'spot. On their arrival, the latter gentlemen were received with vollies of stones. The Sheriff exhibited great firmness, and having obtained silence, he proceeded to read the Riot Act. The people, however, stiii continued to act tumultuously, until the police made ado eserate y, and in part drove them away. A party of the 4th yal Irish Dra. goons was instantly called from Piershill barracks, and under their pro tection the Lord Provost reached his house in Hillside Crescent. The city being still in a stir, three companies of the 79th Highlanders were stationed in the yard f the Assembly Rooms, and another party in the Royal Exchange. The Dragoons also arrived in the High Street about six o'clock. The Lord Advocate and his friends, on leaving the Council Chamber, were loudly cheered. His Lordship had given orders for his carriage to be in waiting at the head of the Mound ; but before he arrived there, the people had got notice of the arrangement, and the horses were taken from the carriage in a trice. Front the bustle and noise of the thou sands who accompanied his Lordship, it was with some difficulty that he and Mr. Gibson Craig could be got stowed into the carriage • but after being seated, his Loldhip gave orders to the driver to pro ceed, not having understood that the horses were dispensed with, and that he was to be conveyed to his residence by the manila strength of thou. sands of his admirers. The populaceat first intended to convey him all the way to his estate, four miles off In the country • but they were dis suaded by the assurance of his servants , that his Cordship intended to proceed no farther than his residence in Moray Place, and thither be was rapidly conveyed amidst the cheers of the people. GLasoor, Alain 3.—Our grand procession took place yesterday, and very grand it was, and it has been got well over. Never was so great a crowd of people assembled in Britain, and never was a crowd so innocent, and so perfectly good-humoured. The general meeting of the whole in the Green, whither they first resorted from all quarters of the town, and its populous vicinity, was beyond all expectation magnificent and imposing. The whole Green, from the Court house to its easterly extremity, from Monteith Row to the river, was thronged with processionists drawn up in regular divisions, according to the corporations to which they belonged, or the dis trict or town or country from which they came, and with an equal throng of delighted spectators, old and young, male and female, rich and poor. Thousands of showy banners floated in the air, with end lessly varied devices and inscriptions, and were mingled with some times ingenious and sometimes amu sing end ludicrous emblems of the trades and professions of the bodies who bore them, while the welkin resounded with the music, coarse enough, indeed, sometimes, but still the music of mare bands than you would have thought all Scotland could have furnished, and with the eager acclamations of perhaps two hundred thousand cheerful voices. The procession set off from the Green about one o'clock, passed by the end of Great Hamilton-street, to the eastern end of the Gallowgate, through that street to the Cross and the Trongate, by Buchaunan-street and St. Vincent-street to Blythswood-square, again to George-street and to the High-street, down which it turned to the Cross, where each separate body, as It arrived, filed off to its proper quarters, and where the affair concluded without any accident, or any circumstance whatever, to mar the satis faction which the whole inspired. This living stream proceeded in ranks and files of five, and as closely following one another as was consistent with preserving any thing like order, yet the first division had completed the whole line, (probably from five to six miles,) and had gist to the end of it at the Cross, before the last division bad reached to that point, from the point of departure at the Green, and a stop of about a quarter of an hour was necessary to allow those in the rear of the line, to get forward in order to make way for the bodies at the head of it. The first division passed High.strect at four o'clock, and it was not till six when the last reached the same point. I heartily wish that our King and his Ministers bad witnessed such an expression of public delight in their great measure. The weather for the last few days, however favourable for the labours of the field, has been so cold and bleak, particularly in the mornings, that we may well say in the words of the poet ! : - of Wiciaw ELECTION.—The election - of this borough fixed for sd Wedneay last. At an early hour in the morning, a large assembly of persons had congregated in the streets, which they paraded, scam ponied by a band of music and numerous flags. About half-past nine the mayor (Thomas Darwell, Esq.) three of the candidates (Messrs. Kearsley, Potter, and Hardeasde), and the legal gentlemen (Mean. Norris, Foster, Brandt, and Hall), accompanied by a number of other gentlemen, assembled at the Royal Hotel, and prepared to set out for the Court-house. In a short time, however, a large body of the popu lace, apparenly in a very excited state, surrounded the inn, and de clared that illr. Kearsley should not go to thehustings. The candidates befog proposed and seconded, they all, with the exception of Mr. Kearney, addressed the electors; but such was the noise in the court, that it wes with great difficulty either they or the counsel could be heard. The commencement of the polling was also the signal for acts of violence ; for those electors who voted for either Mr. Kearney or Mr. Wilbraham were pointed out to the mob, who treated them in the grossest manner, tearing their clothes, and dragging them in the kennel. —ln the evening, when the result of the day's poll was known, the mob proceeded to commit the greatest excesses. They proceeded to the house of Mr. Kearsley, and demolished all the windows. After wards they went to the house of a Mr. Smalley, a tallow-chandler, and a warm supporter of Mr. Kearney, whose windows they also de molished, and removed property out of his premises to the amount of nearly 2001. in value, which they burnt in the street before his house. Among the gentlemen who also experienced rough usage at the hands of the populace, was Sir Robert Holt Leigh, Mr. Norris, (Mr. Kears ley's counsel) Mr. Wilbraham, and Mr. Gaskell, the solicitor. The next morning the polling was resumed, the military having been drawn up to protect the voters and the other persons concerned. It was an nounced in the course of the morning that Mr. Wilbraham and Mr. Hardcastle had resigned. About one o'clock the poll was declared to be closed, when the numbers were— Mr. Thickness. - 40 Mr. Keanley 24 Mr. Potter 8 The two former were then declared duly elected. In the afternoon Mr. Thicknesse was chaired about the town, being attended by from 10,000 to 12,000 persons; but Mr. Kearsley did not venture to go through the ceremony. Mr. Potter is the Manchester Patriot, who might have been returned either for the county or for Liverpool, but in this cor rupt hole had no chance. Mary Ann Hungerford, a little girl who had been apprenticed by the township of Great Bolton, to a person named Thompson, a blacksmith, complained to the magistrates of ill treatment. It appeared that the t&ther of the complainant was at present an inmate of she workhouse, and that her half-brother had come forward in her behalf, in conse quence of the repeated information which lie had received, respecting the ill usage of hie sister. She was compelled to go through the streets as late as 12 o'clock in the evening, selling cakes, and unless she dis posed of a certain quantity, she was on her return shamefully beaten by her mistress; and so notorious had this become to the neighbourhood, that persons who knew her frequently purchased the whole of her stock, in order to save the poor creature from punishment One witness de scribed the screams of the child, when her mistress was beating her, to be more like the yelling of a dog than the screams of a human being. It was also stated that she had not been to a place of worship or Sunday school for six months. The case was completely made out against Thompson*s wife, and Mr. Allen ordered the indentures to be cancelled ; and as the child had gained a settlement in 'Attic Bolton, Thompson was ordered to give up all clothes belonging to her, a nd paid 11. to wards procuring her another situation, and 4a. 6d. costs. The decision gave great satisfaction ; and we could not help being struck with the contrast between the squalid and dirty appearance of the unfortu nate apprentice, and the jolly looks of the sixteen stone Mistress Thompson. A ISousce Wnrsnea.—Sometime ago, an old industrious woman, residing in this neighbourhood, said to her husband, as he lay boring. I ing in bed one morning, " Get up, theau lazy thing, theau ; aw wondur hew theau con sleep i' thy bed, un knows theau owes folk so mich brass." " Hum," replied the fellow, "aw wondur heaw thoose can sleep an owe it too," Wakefield Corn Market.—We have a moderate arrival of grain to this day's market, but a very thin attendance of buyers. Fine samples of wheat are taken off slowly at Is to 2s per quarter under the rates of this day se'nnight, but for middling and inferior descriptions no buyers can be found, though the holders are willing to submit to a still fur ther reduction. Making Barley met a dull sale ; the greater part of the supply consists of foreign, for which there is very little demand.— Oats are &halfpenny per stone lower. Shelling has also declined Is per load. Dry Beans maintain former prices, but damp parcels meet no attention. Wheat, per quarter of 601bs per bushel—Norfolk and Suffolk, red, 64s to 69s ; ditto, white, 70s to 74s ; Yorkshire and Lin. colnshire, red, 60s to 653 ; ditto, white, 65s to 691 ; Foreign, red, 64s to 68. ; ditto, white, 71 to 735. MARRIED—The Rev. B. W. Pullen, to Catherine I* Z3* II U. . Didabury, only daugther of John Boylance, Esq. of Grove House—At the --- and ;tinter lingering chills the lap of May." Friends' Meeting House, It. Abbate, of Liverpool, to Hannah, only On Thursday and Friday there were hail showers of some minutes' daughter of John Worthington, of Salford—Mr. Isaac Wilson,of duration, and on the morning of both days the pools we re cris p ed with Nottingham, to Elizabeth, third daughter of the late Mr. Thomas led. Ice, and the whole surrounding hills, not excepting Criffel, powdered drop, of Whitehurch, with snow. On Sunday and yesterday the Wamphray hills were again DIED—At Killingworth, Mrs. Isabella Gasceign. Though the white, and, altogether, we fear the late severe and inclement weather great north road is not three miles distant, she never saw it in her life— bodes no good to the gardens. The gooseberries suffer readily from Mrs. Mary Gibson, relict of the late Mr. Joshua Gibson, of Hepaton. frost, and though espaliers may now be out of the reach of danger, the stall, near Halifax, 85—At the Parsonage House, Gorton, 66, the standards everywhere are so profusely covered with blossom, that we Rev. James Gatiff—Suddenly, Mr. C. F. Hulse, organist to the church fear our ps4.pects as to a superior fruit crop, are again destined to be of the United Brethren at Fulneck. His talents, particularly in that blasted to a great extent. The tender stems of early potatoes have been department to which he was more expressly called to devote his atten- completely blackened by the frost, and as vegetation must again spring Lion, were of a very eminent order, and his knowledge both of musical from the root,they will be thrown a fortnight and more later than was authors and of the theory of the art, such as is rarely required. expected. Various other seeds and herbs have been more or less ID. DUMFRIES COURIER, MAY 10. jured, and speaking generally, considerable injury done to the kitchen garden. The election of the member for Edinburgh took place, May 3, MARRIED The Rev. John M'Robert, Ellon, Aberdeenshire, le in the Council Chambers. The Lord p r o vost i nt i mate d to hie col. Cathuine, only daughter of the late William Copland, Esq. Glasgow. leagues, that they were now to proceed to the business of the day, and that this, he considered, was now the proper time for receiving the —John Dunlop, Esq. Haddington, to Jessie, daughter of Willis* Dunlop, Esq. Edinburgh. petitions from public bodies, in favour of the Lord Advocate, and he DIED. —James Patterson, Esq. of Nunfield, 73.—John Wightmas, proposed that the first to be received was that which, on account of its E a+ o f c ontanee , go, magnitude, he considered entitled to the precedence ; it was that from acM21•110111! the inhabitants. The petition, which resembled a web of linen, lapped OLD BAILEY SESSIONS-516Y 14. and tied up with pink tape, was hauled to and read by the clerk. The The case of Sauna Dexter, for the crime of matricide, came Maim petitions of the different public bodies were then presented from the morning, and created a strong sensation in the court. It occupied needy inhabitants of Edinburgh, signed by 17,400 person. five hours : but very little was elicited from the witnesses beyond The Lord Provost said he rose with very great pleasure in having the what has already appeared in the police reports, and in other statements honour of proposing Mr. Robert A. Dundas as a fit person to represent in the newspapers. The prisoner was a stout strong man, above the the city in Parliament. Looking back to the days of the late Lord Mel. middle size, freckled with the small pox, and of a coarse cast of counte . what had he not done for this city—what had he not dons for :mace. Mr. Adolphus conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Clarkson ,Scotland, and the country at large? (Cheers, mingled with hisses.) appeared for the defence. On the one hand, they had this gentleman; and, on the other, they Mr. ADOLPHUS opened the case by warning the jury to dismiss from had the right hon. Francis Jeffrey, Lord Advocate of Scotland, (im. their minds whatever they may have read of the prisoner and of the mense cheering, re-echoed from without,) who had the honour of being crime for which he now stood indicted. The deceased, Jane Markham, the favourite among his fellow-citizens ; but, before many years passed was the mother of the prisoner at the bar by her first husband, and was over his head, he hoped the gentleman he had the honour to propose the widow of her second husband at the time she came by her death— would be as great a favourite as the other. This Reform Bill, allowing She lived a very secluded life, in Foster-lane, Bethnal.green, and carried it all its perfection, was very far short of producing all the good that on the bainess of a broker. She was advanced in age, being upwards was expected from it. He then alluded to the line drawn for fixing the of 87, and was considered as a person of property in her neighbour. qualification of voters, and argued that there was as much room for cot- hood, as it was known that she possessed money in the Saving s Ba nks, ruption under the pro psed system as the present. a small sum due to her in debts, and a leasehold property of about Trades Councillor Chambers then rose, and briefly addressed the thirty pounds a year. It would be for the Jury to say whether a Council in support of the Lord Advocate, contending that the Town desire to become possessed of this property had not induced Council were bound to listen to the prayers of the numerous petitions the prisoner to deprive the parent of her lite. On the 7th of March which had been presented in support of his Lordship's claims. last, in the evening, the deceased was alive and appeared in good health Deacon Gairdner seconded the nomination of' the Lord Advocate, in and spirits ; on the next day (Tuesday) it nu oved that the de. a very able and impressive speech. ceased had not opened her shop, and, in fact, the house was abut up ; Treasurer Anderson then proposed the Lord Provost as a fit represen- but as she was often absent for a whole day, attending to sales, the wive for the city ; and Old Treasurer Neil seconded the nomination. neighbours did not suspect any thing from the house not being opened. But the Lord Provost disclaimed their votes, declaring he was not a On the following morning the prisoner, accompanied by a lad, went to candidate. the house of his mother, and knocking at the door without being let in, The vote was now called for, and given as follows : he at length burst it open, and entering the house, he was beard to ex- For Mr. Dundas . 17 claim that his mother bad been either murdered or bad hanged her. For the Lord Advocate . . 14 self. It would be for the jury to decide whether this exdama. For the Lord Provost . . 2 don had not been uttered before the prisoner could have seen The vote having been declared, was received with groans and hisses, the body. It was afterwards discovered that the murder had and though Mr. Dundee repeatedly attempted to address the Council, been perpetrated by blows inflicted with an iron weapon, and not a word could be heard for clamour, both within and without the there could be no doubt that the murderer had afterwards hung his Connell-room. victim up, in order to lead to an inference that she had committed About eleven o'clock, crowds of people began to assemble in the suicide. Upon the prisoner being questioned as to his having any High-street, in front of the c ouncil Chamber, and the great square of suspicions of who had committed the crime, he declared that be bad not the Exchange was shortly afterwards crammed with anxious chums.— seen his mother for a fortnight. It would be proved, however, that On the antral of the Lord Advocate's canine at half-pest eleven, aen Friday night before the murder, s quarrel bed taken plate between loud and universal hum burst from the assembled multitude, while the deceased ands person who threatened her with violence and the neat leVeffrey for ever, " " Down with Dundee I" rung in his lordship's door neighbour who hand the lang ua g e used would identif y .sirs, until he had elbowed his way into the Council-room, which was the prisoner as the party uttering it. She recognized his voles toy aptly baptized " the Cage of every unclean Bird." His opponent, distinctly, having frequently heard the prisoner quietening kis said, was in the Royal Exchange at an early hour in the morn. with the deceased about het not giving him her property. On big, and breakfasted there with several gentlemen of his own "caste." the day preceding the murder a boy bad heard two men talking near During the time the election business was proceeding, the High Con. the house, and one of them had whispered to the other that the mussy stables stationed on the balcony of the Council Chamber, very politely was hid behind the clock. This man who would be identified as the gave intimation to the people below how matters were propenting prisoner, was afterwards seen on the night of the murder carrying away among the electors, and these annunciations were cheered or hissed as a bed from the house. This was a train of circumstantial evideeee matters went favourable to the man of the city's heart, or otherwise.— which he submitted to the jury as sufficient to convict the primmer, When the Lord Advocate was addressing the Council, every cheer in. although he was bound to confess that no marks of blood were found elde the house was responded to by the people, and the intuaing on on the prisoner, nor was any of the property of the deceased traced to several occasions was tremendous. On the name of an anti-rearm his possession. Bailie being announced as addressing the chair, the hisses of the pop. A great number of witnesses were examined, to prove the learned lam soughed through the old walls like a whirlwind, and were followed counsel's statement. by a deep, unanimous groan, which could be compared only to the Frederick Apr, a surgeon, deposed, that he examined the body of rolling of a hollow thunder. The effect was really unique, and created the deceased. Her dash had i been occasioned by two violent blows great merriment. The crowd continued to increase on the streets and on the beck of the neck. There was a contusion over the eye. He In the square, as the day went on, and various conjectures were abroad did not believe that the deceased had been strangled. The rope round as to the probable result of the election. The inhabitants now know her neck, in his opinion, must have been applied after the murder. well the desperate rottenness and servility of our burgh system, but still ibr the defence a number of witnesses were examined, to prove they cling to the hope that the Council would not, on their political- that Ike prisoner had always behaved affectionately towards his mo death-bed as it were, subject themselves to the execrations of the public, ties e au be bore an ercellmt character; and that on the day of the by acting in the teeth of the whole community. This hope kept the he had been the whole of the afternoon and evening at the Swan people cheerful and good natured ; but as soon as the tenninadm ad never having quitted it fora time sufficient to get to the the election was announced, a loud burst *Cowered°. Mewed doe ow = i rth se e deceased. pleasant announcement, mingled with threatening expamakop maw Mr. Judas LITT Liwaz summed up the evidence with great wd the authorities and the unpopular member. "A rope I amps satoossi, otad commented upon the want of any apparent motive to in das !" " Burke the Provost !" •• Burn the Belies," and dollar j 1 both. pitman to commit the murder, as none Of the property of the sentences were bawled nnisesitatiogly. A rush was than soh to 111, *mod led bees traced to him. The Jury returned a verdict of Not ffieffity. • POLICE REPORTS. a a n t d th in e Maxims-Dor sz.--Johm APCab. was charged with having r i , , ,,i ‘,. the London Institution Library, in Finsbury Circus, of s everal v ; le. able books. The prisoner obtained admission to the library thro ue l, favour of a member, whose ticket for the Institution he has for man y months back had the use of. His apparent studiousness and co ni ,. ‘ ,, attendance in the library was often noticed, and long as die librarian. have been missing books, their suspicions, from his respectable app ear . ance,and the auspices under which he gained admission to the Institution, never once attached to him. At length, finding the shelves thinning the subscribers, very fast, and not being able to produce several works inqui re d f or LI HBleacwkas's.reemitYa.nr:aledi 4u3intri: Mr. Maltby, principal Librarian, and Mr. u peo4 sTilibi i .. librarian, commenced an inquiry at the pawnbrokers in the neighbour. hood, and succeeded in tracing out 48 of their books, pawned by rh e prisoner, In his own naniTriaimafteer receive effacing the ore the t l h n an sti 2a tuti a on v - d s l t n a m m e p : following pawnbrokers r tb — Mr. Sowerby's, Chiswell.street i and Mr. Jacob Russell's, Fore-strcet ; a n d m in oe n e o eu ttan bo ce e on did e, th on e Friday. Bow-svascr.—Saturday, as Mr. Halls was about to leave ti Bench, a gentleman arrived at this office, for the purpose of o'otainio, the assistance of the Magistrate, to discover the perpetrators of a ro i;', I bevy committed at the house of Lady Nelson, on Friday night. applicant stated, that the jewels in which Lady Nelson appeared a: 11. t last drawing-room were of the value of 80,0001. and these were 41! within reach of the thieves. _ _ Mr. Halls expressed his surprise that an earlier intimation of the robbery had not been sent to the office. The gentleman replied that the truth was, Lady Nelson was so alarmed at what bad occurred, as to render her incapable of taking any step to recover the property ; and indeed, strange as it might appear, her Ladyship had not a single in. dividual of her acquaintance in town at the time, except himself, and he knew nothing of the circumstance until he called at the bouts by chance that evening. Two of the new police establishment bad beer called in, but the gentleman said he had been informed that they had done nothing:the whole of the day but sat in the kitchen romping with the maids, laughing, and eating and drinking. Mr. Halls, after making some observations on the manner in which the New Police took up cases of this description, sent a messenger far Ruthven, and desired him to make all haste, and proceed with the gentleman to the residence of lord Nelson. Towx-HALL.—Skinner, the elder, appeared to sustain several in. formations laid against hawkers for trading without licenses; some es whom had taken out licenses lut year, hut being poor, were unable to renew them. There were five in all, three of whom the solicitor con. sidered himself warranted in calling upon the Alderman for conviction s against, which being unable to pay, they were committed for thrw months. THAMES PoLicz.—Robert Quail, master of the brig Alert, !yin, in the St. Katherine's Dock, from the Gold Coast, was charged with stabbing William Biggen, a seaman, on the 9th of December last, oft Acors, on the African Shore. Some trifling dispute had occurred, when the defendant swore at Biggen, and run his sword.atiek left thigh, close to the groin. A struggle took pl.we, and the defend ant cut him on the shoulder. Biggen put his hand up to defend him self, and caught one blow, aimed at his head, but his hand was se. verely cut, and his hat was pierced. The defendant was ordered to find bail. The total number of visitors to the Horticultural Gardens last year was 224,745. MEDICAL BOTANY: The medico-botanical society of London has offered a gold and silver medal for the best essays on the questions, What is the vegetable substance which could be employed with success in the cure of hydrophobia? and ' on the medicinal qualities and uses of any indigenous plant which is not yet sufficiently known, or ou new uses and applications of any other indigenous plant.' We regret to have to announce the decease of James Maze, Esq. of the house of Peter Maze and Sons, of Bris tol, who had gone from Alexandria with a party to explore the Pyramids; he had ascended one, and in attempting a second, without a guide, was precipitated from a great height to the ground, and on his friends coming to the spot, they found him a corpse. He was a gentleman of amiable and excellent character, and formerly consul for France at the city of Bristol. LORDS ELDIN AND ELDON.—Mr. John Clerk (after warde Lord Eldin), in pleading before the House of Lords one day, happened to say, in his broadest Scotch accent, "In plain English, ma Lords." Upon which Lord Eldon jocosely remarked, " In plain Scotch, you mean, Mr. Clerk.' The prompt advocate instantly rejoined, Nee matter! In plain common sense, ma Lords, and that's the same in o . languages, ye'll ken.—.. Legal Observer. On Wednesday last the labourers in the employ of the Commissioners of Woods and Forests began cutting down several of the trees in the Birdcage-walk, in St. James' s Park, and levelling the ground, preparatory to letting the same on building leases for the intended new crescent about to be erected there. The houses are to be what is culled " first-rate," to correspond with those on Carlton-house terrace, on the opposide side of the Park. In addition to what we stated on this subject last week, we now learn, that the Right Honourable the Speaker of the House of Commons is about to retire from his distinguished station. The reason hinted at we find to be a defect of vision in his right eye—whether in a political or a physical signification we shall not seek to determine. Mr. Littleton, . the late member for Staffordshire, is spoken of as likely to be his successor.—Court Journal. At Chatham, on the 14th inet. the lady of Major Wolrigr, of the Royal Marines, of a son.—At Lymington, on the 12th inst. die lady of Capt. Bernard Yeoman, R. N. of a daughter. MARRIED. The 14th inst. J. White, Esq. surgeon, of Dartmouth-street, Writ mlnster, to Frances Cato Hoe, only daughter of C. Waite, 11. 11. of Hope-lodge. Woodford, Essex.—The 12th inst. at St. Luke's, Oid• street, Mr. N. Felstead, of Stamford-hill, to Miss Mary Smut, of Islington.—Tbe 14th inst. at Allhallows Staining, Mark-lane, Mr. H. A. Graves, of Hackney Road, to Miss E. Davison, of Billiter-street. DIED. The 11th inst. at Hastings, in Sussex, John Burt, Esq. of Ashford, Kent, in the 24th year of his'age—the 11th inst. aged 38, at Winllan Llansahnfraid, Montgomeryshire, Jane, youngest daughter of E. Ed munds, Esq —at Hampstead, the 13th inst. MTS. Elizabeth Sotheby. aged 82, relict of Mr. Sotheby, formerly of York-street, Count-pr. den—of the hooping• cough, on the 14th inst. Anne Maria, eldest daugh. ter of W. J. Newton, Esq. of Argyle-street, aged 8 years —at Nanle. on the 23d ult. 91. Kecting, Esq. aged 75, formerly collector of the I revenues in India—the 12th inst, at St. Lawrence, near Ramsgate.Eleanor , relict of the late J. Foote, Esq. of Lombard-street, in he 78th year. CORN-EXCHANGE—THIS DAY. Although our supplies of English Wheat are abort, yet the ro tviP abounds so much, and the quantity of American Flour being so rat that we find an extremely d ull - market, at a reduction of 21. per quarter from the prices of this day se'onight. Barley also meets with a rel heavy sale, at a decline of Is. Oats being very great in supply', are 2f. lower. Beaus are in demand, and fully maintain last week's terra Peas have no alteration. Flour is selling on lower terms, and we es• pest an alteration in the nominal pa ices. Whest.new,Kent, Essex 70s 74a ' Peas Grey . 36e 4 01 Old .—s —s Beans, Small . . 401 gl , . Suffolk. (White) . 68. 72s Tick . . Xis 381 Norfolk at Sue (Red), 62s 68s Oats, Potatoe . 28s 38' Rye . 30s 34a Poland . Ns iB+ . Barley, S4a 361 ..Fine 42s 47s Feed . . 24+ 2f 4 Peas, White . 40s 42s Flour, per sack, . . Ilk 6 4 4 Boilers . . 43s M I Rapeseed . 236 .£3B Pa Is st 1 •ea' Wheat, English (qrs.) - 3,818 Irish . . . 43 Foreign - . . 39,623 Barley, English . . 1,951 Hum. Foreign . . 1..11 4 Oats. English . 12.4 Irish - . VP Foreign - 20.3 13 English Flour (sacks) 6 .213 _.....---- SMITHFIELD-THIS DA' CATTLI AT BIAREZT : Beasts, 2,963—Sbeep, 18,280—Pip,120—Calee 4 , 00 • Beef ....... 3e 8d to 44 44 Pork ...... 4s Od to 3 Mutton 4s 4d be Od l Lamb be bd 2 ,1 Veal.. 4e 01 bs Od Hay (per load), £2 10e. to £4 Os. Clover,43 lbs. to Straw, Al 1345. to #1 lis. COAL-EXCHANGE—THIS DAY. Ships arrived daring the month the week BestWl2, Newcastle, & Sunderland Coals.. 41 O .l a 4.16:06 Inferior sorts Ships at Market, EIOI HIGH WATErATD3 An. gm Al be. 54e. Afternoon. ninon s hinted and rubliabed by lonal Blarwt. at (be :oar &erica, No. 1, Pktett-place, Temple Bar. iS r'II , I 0, I~; i ( ,~ i