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lonahni t'r florysl,ed, tartys. And a sotylte called n p llyeam sitting on his nest with her byrdes, and na plane of Saynte Katherine holdyng a boke and disputing with the doctoures, holdyng a reason in I.er rvehte hande, sayings Madame le Royne ; and the pellycnn, as an answere, Ce cst la signe et du Boy, par ioy, et a tout sa gent, elle mite ea entrut. " The second() course :—Gely coloured with columhyne floures, white potage or eleme of almandes, breme of the see, counger, solys, cheun, barbyll, with ,oche, freshe samon, halyhet, gnrnnrde, rochet hroyled, smelth fryeed, crett , s or lobster leche damaske with the kynges worde or nrouerbe flourished, Vne sans plus; lam prey freshe lanken; flampeyne flourysshrd with a schochon royall, and therein iii crownes of golde planted with flours delyce and floures of camemyll wrought of confeccions. And a sotylyte named a ranter with an image of Saynte Katheryne, with a whele in her hande, and a mile wytb a reason in that other bands, sayeng, Rayne, ma fill, in ceste ill, per ban reson, aues renoun." " The thvrde course."' This was likewise of fish, with " a leche calle:1 the why to leche flouryshed with hawthorne leuys and redde hawys. A marche payne garnyshed wyth dyuers fygures of angelles, among the which was set an ymage of Saynte Ka theryne bohlyng this reason, // cst escrit, pur noir et cit, per mariage pure cest guere ne dare. And Instely a sotyltie named a tigre lokynge in a myrrour, and a man syttynge on horsse backe clene anted, holdyng in his armes a tigre whelped, with this reason, Per force, sanz reason, ie ay prise ceste beste. And with his owne hande makynge a conntenaunce of throyng of myrrours at the great tigre. The whych held this reason, Gile che mirrour, ma fete distour. And thus with al honour was finished this solempne Coronacion." SPIRIT elk THIN Iarg7ISURNALS. TIMES.—Our renders ant public know the objet. lion which we had to the local division of certain coun ties for the purposes of the reform bill. The point is, however. :settled against us : " Dii Acne rortant," there fore. is all that we have row to say upon it. Commissioners arc appointed to carry that division into effect, and for the more complicated business of assignine districts with the elective franchise to borottehs in which the number of °term was not previously sufficient to satisfy the demands of the bill. The persons named are in every respect onex. cep: itinah!e : and though by acting in detached paitiesa!ifferent rules o'prac.iee might in the first instance he adopted, yet in their general communications with each other,ard by what the French call eapprachemens, uniformity will undoubtedly be atta , ned, and all anomalies made to disappear. We appre hend that corporate rights and civic privileges will not enter inta their consideration ; these will remain as before, and Inca l landmarks in that respect continue unaltered. Their olijsct is simple to see on whom the right of voting shall be conferred, aed their 'apart is to be sanctioned by parliament. The commissioners will have, no doubt, a difficult work to pet form, and they have an illustrious example before them of success and honour attending it, in an undertaking soma a hat similar; fir we recollect, that when all boundaries of premises were obliterated and all local tights and jurisdictions emiCancled, by the fire of London in 1666, the celebrated law. er Justice Dale, or a commission of which he was the head.so arranged, defined, and elucidated, every thing, drawing order ont of confusi•'n. that not a single law-suit sprang out of his settlement. We are glad that the bill, by this nomination or the commissioners, seems to he carrying into effect, for so is its success more certain, or the disappointment resultine from its failure would be mote fearful. We hope they will Lavin their work immediately. We cannot conclude these remarks without calling attention to the advantage taken of his pariiamentmy privilege by an hots. member to cast a slur en the character of Mr. B. Ker, one of the commissioners. It would be superfluous to say any thing of the good taste or manly feeling of a person who could, as we are informed, seize such an opportunity of gratifying a private dislike, or venting a personal grudge, on the reputation of the absent ; but we may hint that Mr.l3. Wall ought not to have been the person "to throw the first stone." The public has of late heard complaints enough from him and his family of unauthorized statements, to warrant us in thinking it im prudent in him to assail, on still weaker authority, or rather on no authority at all, the fair fame of others. The regis tration clause was passed last night, after a good deal of dis cussion. We see no objection to the principle of this clause, but think that the proposed machinery will not work so conveniently as its proposers imagine. CHRONICLE.—There arc now few persons who do rot admit the necessity of some sort of provision for the poor in Ire-lard. The destitution of the people in many parts of that country is so great, and the attempts to meet the evil by means of Mentlicity Associations supported by voluntary subscription have so completely failed, that it is found some compulsory assesssment must be resorted to. Various plans have been proposed, both in and out of parliament, for affording relict' in the last extremity of sit %nog and misery, without coming to an absolute poor-rate. Among others who have came forward with plans of this nature we find General Cockburn, the gentleman who bad the charge of the discharged soldiers located by Government in Upper Canada, and who, bath in his evidence before the Emigration Committee and in his Reports, furnished the most valuable information as to the most beneficial motive of providing for the destitute in Canada. Tile General, in a long and elaborate letter in The Dublin Evening Post of Tuesday last, protests loudly against Poor Laws. " I confidently say (be exclaims)—fear it, English absentee Lords and Irish residing Lardholders— the day Poor Laws for Ireland, or anything like the En gl.sit lam become law, your estates will not be worth five years' purchase." To remedy, however, as far as can be, tic misery •" which (he says) no doubt exists, I propose a law to enable cer•ain Commissioners (acting g rolis, and they can be found) to lay a moderate cess on every it, use in Dublin, and the same in every city and great town in Ireland, for the support of Menelicity Associations like that now in Dublin, which is with difficulty kept up by voluntary subscription. The necessaty officers to be of course paid. Those in the country to enable the Protestant ant! Catholic Clergymen, and Presbyterian, where there is one, with the Churchwardens and any Magistrate residing in ti e parish, to call a Vestry twice a year, a• which every person liable to be assessed may attend and vote ; and to en. able a majority to lay on a co., on housea in small towns or sillages, and on the land, for the support of the desti tute." He adds, " such a system would nut interfete with, or prevent a continuance of our numerous and well-conduct ed Charity School.; and Institutions ; but a more extended poor rate would put an extinguisher on them all, as no one would contribute their voluntary subscriptions, or girt at Geed; y Szrn-ens. if English poor laws were inflicted on us." POST.—The clause containing the appointment of the Riding Commission was discussed on Thursday. Although it hes been remZered by various curtailments somewhat less objectienable than in the first edition of the Bill, yet there remains enough to excite our jealousy and appal cur understanding—our jealousy, because the Par liament will confide to a cluster of officers named in fact by the Minister, though ostensibly by the House, powers without parallel since the days of •' quo war•rauto" in the r. igri of Charles 11.—our understanding, because these TO pt, table though human personages will be expected to acquire a preciseness of information,maintain an impartiality, and exercise a judgment rarely the lot of created beings, and never, so far as we know. of Whigling majorities. To this we must odd our difficulty in believing that three inemits are sufficient for such variety of operations; but as the expenses will not be limited in the Estimates, there is a possibility that, with the best horses and the best advice, they may be enabled to do more than our experierce at present will warrant us in conceiving. The powers gi ten by the first plan of the constitution have certainly been narrowed ; we highly approve this limitation. notwithatarding the ministerial promise to the people that tlwy should have the bill, the whole bill, and nothing but the bill. Yet powers remain as capable of abuse as they are large in extent ; the commissioners, or any one of them, are still authorized to summon any persons or demand ally papers they may think fit ; by interrogating to extort any opinions, to peruse say documents, examine any charters, and canvass the validity of them all. H ER A ED.—Although we approve of the tact which ministers have of late displayed in discouraging any unne cessary discu►aion upon the Reform Bill, as tending to cause thlay, yet we cannot say that we altogether admire the ex tent to which, in some Instance', they seem disposed to carry their prudent principle of nun-resistance. Not to delay the bill unnecessarily is one thing, but to precipitate it, with out answering any plausible objections which may have been urged against particular parts of the measure, is another. We, who have from the first deprecated all excitement relative to the bill, and have argued that. ass measure of reason and jus tice, it should be carried by teat temperas a d ottelligent discussion which best promotes the t►iumol• of reason--are of opinion that if, where captivating sophi• !iy or plausible arguments are used by the adversaries of the me.•sure, the only reply of Ministers is by the suet co . e of a sweeping majority, the accelerated velocity wi•ich the Bill gains Con e by in its progress through the Ilot•se mar b • dearly pur chased by the effects which unansu ere.l les to•s often produce upon public opinion. The NIL is •rs s'lolll.l t.ot tall into the mistake that the whole people or:. di4Ld into refor mers and anti-reformers. There is a L rge •.cl.tss, who may be said to have no fixed minion on the sithj.it, and who wait to hear discussion, and to be convinced by er ter t. It is very easy for the violent supporters of theßill to say " hurry it on at all hazards; but we say " let there be no unne cessary delay, but let there be all neeessarg ta• eussion"— so will those he convinced who wool; otherwise be disgusted. clod an accession of converts will be gained to the measure through every step of its progress. Tue class of persons of whom we speak have been permitted of late to hear scarcely any thing but %hat falls from owe side, and they naturally begin to saspect the. when Ministers content themselves with saying nothing it is only because they have nothing to say. The prudence of not aiding the opposition in their attempts to procrastinate the great measure that is now before the house is obvious, but the reasoning part of the public will always recognise the difference between vexatious and legiti mate discussion ; and the opposition would do themselves as much mischief by provoking the one, as the ministers may sometimes do by avoiding the other. If they have the confidence which, they ought to have in the great cause which they have championed, they should act fearlessly, upon the principle that the more it is discussed, and the better it is understood, the more acceptable it will eventually he to the country—(tt is we say, retaining our opinion of the injurious cobsapenees of the division of counties, and the admission of fatal r.nant• at will to the elec,ive franchise.) But Ministers seem at present to act upon the opposite prin. ciple, anti-to aprreNend that unless a decision on each provi sion of the b.ll be pvcipitaterl, the ultimate success of the measure must be endangered. Nor should Ministers sup. pose that an int nression tor good or for evil is not to be made on the tlouse of Lords--or, at least, on many members of that house—by the disc ission of the principles and details of the bill in the House of Commons. They should bear in mind that the publication of the debates in the Lower House put their Lordships, wiehin a few hours after they are uttered in possession of every argument used for and against the bill is every stage. Thus every discus sion of the bill in the House of Commons may be considered also a discussion of it in the House of Lords, inasmuch as it must make a mural impression either for or against it among the hereditary legislators, who will hereafter have to decide upon it. Let not, then, the ministers, by following the ad vice of intemperate, injudicious, or Insincere friends, fur nish the adversaries of the Bill with the most plausible of all the objections that can be advanced against their own measure, and thus render them more formidable titan their own wisdom or talents could make them. We know all that may be said—and a great deal has been said —as to causing delay; but it is impossible that a great pro portion of the people of k;ngland should not reason thus— If the measure be a good one, it cannot suffer by such de lay as is reccessary to refute the arguments used against it, or become the less likely to be generally approved by its being more fully and clearly unfolded to the sober reasott:and calm good sense of the country." IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. 1101.75 F. OF LORDS, SEPT. 2. Several private Bills were brought up from the Commons. SCCLWASTICAL COURTS' SILL. The LORD CHANCELLOR, pursuant to notice, brought in a Bill to make Members of Parliament amenable to the process of Ecclesiastical Courts. The Noble and Learned Lend stated the existing distinction in the juris diction of courts of equity and courts of christian, commonly cakd ecclesiastical courts. In the former, costempts of court were punish.d by commitment of the offending parties. The courts of Chancery and Exchequer could compel a de fendant to rut in his answer to a bill, or obey the orders of the court on pain of necessary sequestration. The power given to judges in civil courts was sufficient to protect the public in the prosecution of their legal claims, but the eccle siastical courts were in a different state. The process of these courts could reach 'to higher punishment than excom munication, by which the offending party was excluded from the body of the church, and disabled from bringing any action at common law. The writ czcommuniecto pictr,lo might be directed to the sheriff for apprehending the party and keeping hint until delivered by the writ ex conimnicato ddikiando, after he had conformed to the jurisdiction of the church. Thus it appeared that courts christian could only proceed against the soul by excommuni. cation. That, however, was a mere brestunsfulnren. which Lord Stowe' took away by an Act passed in the 54th of George the Third. As the law stood, members of parlia ment, by virtue of their privilege, might defy all the pro ceedings of courts christian, so that those courts could neither touch their souls nor bodies. There existed this monstrous anomaly—at least a thousand persons, including all the lords in that house, were free from eccles iastical ju risdiction. It might be said that It was of no consequence, because members of parliament would not fall under cede. siastical censure; but he had to remind their Lordships that the proceedings in ecclesiastical Courts were not con. fined to divorces a asensa et tb.oro and nullity of marriage. I Death, the lot of all men, was connected with making wills. A younger son might wish an elder brother to prove a will made in his favour. If the person holding the will was no a Member of Parliament, he might be compelled to prove it; but if one of their Lordships, being an elder brother, kept back a will, no power could compel to bring it into the Ecclesiastical Court. if he committed a contempt, there was no remedy. There were many other cases in which Mem bers of Parliament were not amenable to the ecclesiastical law, and he might say such a state of things never existed in any country. That there should be ten or eleven hundred pounds beyond the reach of the law was must lamentable. A member of Parliament might be sued for alimony, and suffer the party to starve, because the Court could not compel him to answer. The commis sinners of legal ii.quiry had come to a resolution on this subject, but the noble and learned lord wished to avoid de lay, and pass a bill, applying a remedy during the present session. His object was to place ecclesiastical mats on the bailie footing as the Court of Clianceiy, namely, within the provisions at the acts of William the, Third and George the Thiel. The bill would allow the ecclesiastical courts the poser of sequestration in contempt or disobedience of the orders of those courts, and place them, with respect to contempt, on the same foundation as courts of equity. The bill was then read the first time, and ordered to be printed. The Duke of RICHMOND presented a petition from the Roman Catholics of Galway for extension of the elective i franchise. POaTUGAL. Tim Earl of ABERDEEN gave notice that on Monday present a petition from the merchants and ship owners engaged in the trade to Portugal, and endeavour to call the attention °lbis Alajebty's Government to the present state of that country. CAPE WINE DUTY. Lord ELL ENBOKOUG II presented a petition from the metchants anti shipowners carrying on trade to the Cape of Good Hope, against the proposed duty on Cape wine. The petitioner stated that the wines from the Capes would not bear the proposed duty. The noble lord understood thst it was not the intention of his Majesty's Government to maintain the proposition for increasing the duties ou Cape wine, consequently he had little to say on the sub ject of the petition. Viscount 6 ODERICII said the noble lord was correct in his observation. It was not the intention of Government to persist in their proposition to equalize the duty on Cape wine. At the same time, the noble viscount was ready to defend their original proposal. The duty was to be raised from two and sixpence to two and ninepence. He certainly should consider it fair to give to the growers of wine at the Cape all the relief in his power. The proposed small ad vance of duty would have no effect in injuring the growth of wine at the Cape. It was bat justice to himself and col leagues to say, that he did not consider the proposition fur equalization of wine duties open to many of the objections which had been made. Lord ELLENBOROUGH expressed a hope that the Noble Lord Viscount would extend his inquiry to the state of the laws under which the trade of the Cape is now carried on. Ships from India and China were to stop at the Cape for refreshment and not commerce. The petition was read and laid on the table. JURISDICTION OF THE COURTS OF LAT. Lord PLUNKETT brought in a bill to extend the pro em of the Courts in England to Ireland. The Noble and Learned Lord observed, that the jurisdiction of the Judges in England did not extend to Ireland, although both were parts of the United Kingdom. The object of the bill was to make legal proceedivg in England or Ireland extend to de fendants who may go to Ireland from England, and vice versa. The bill way read the first time. • The house adjournol to Monday. HOUSE OF COMMONS. - - _ Mr. Aid. W 001) presented a petition from the water men of the river Themes, praying for a better regulation of the Pined of the steam beats on the Thames. Mr. A. LEFROY presented a petition from the clergy of ihe diocese of Armagh against the grant to Maynooth College ; and three petitions from parishes in the Queen's county in favour of the grant. Col. TORRENS was ashamed that any body of Protes tant Clergy could be found to object to the grant to Maynooth College. Mr. LITTLETON presented a petition from a great va riety of tradesman in the metropolis, praying that the laws for the scrvance of the Sabbath might be enforced, not on religious wounds, but because, by having Sunday a market day, they were obliged, either to follow their callings on that day, or to lose their fair share of ;milt. He thought Inas ' sera paying their workmen on any day but Saturday would have the best effect. . _ Mr. MILKS and Col. TiRRENS supported the prayer of the petition. Mr. SADLER thought the observance of the Sabbath was most conducive to .he well being of the people : and he hoped the lion. mentber for Stafford would follow up the pe tition by bringin6. in a hill on the subject. Al.. SADLER ~witted a petition from Selhy,in York ?hire. against the panislile Cm of death for forgery ; and a Petition front Quecn's entrap for a poor's rale in Ireland. Mr. TYRRELL pr,seme,l three petitions from Suffolk against the use of mola•ses in distilleries. Mr. MORTON presemeti two petitions from Gloucester. shire, the bill for altering the law of settlement by hir:ng and Lord Kl LLEEN presented a petition from the Catholic CLrgy of Ulster, praying for a gram for the education of Ca holic poor; a petition from a parish in Meath for an atnentlmLot its the law of toanicge between Protestants and Catholics, praying that la.:Magee hetwcen Protestants and Ca hdies celettra.ed by Catholic Priests might be legalised. Mr. O'Crnncll, Sir John Newport, and dir. Wilks, sup ported the prayer of the petition. Dr. LUSHINGTON was persuaded there never was a law more practically unjust than was the marriage law of Ireland ; it would not be suffered to exist in England eight antLforty hours. He hoped Government would provide a speedy and eliiciera remedy. 181011.111. Lou' ALTHORP moved, that the house resolve itself into a Committee on the Reform of Parliament Bill. Sir R. VYVYAN said in the absence of the Noble Sere. Lary fur Foreign Affairs he hoped the Noble Chancellor of the Exchequer would say whether the four protocols that had appeared in the public papers respecting Belgium were au thentic. The most important was the last, by which the French troops were to remain in Belgium for six weeks after the Dutch troops had withdrawn. If France had given an assurance to this country that her troops should be with drawn from Belgium as soon as the Dutch troops should withdraw, and now continued there after the Dutch troops were withdrawn, his Majesty's Government would have to answer to this country for she honour of England. Lord A LTHORP said the protocols related to pending negocia don-, and if any hon. gentleman in this country wish,d to involve this country in a war, the course taken by tho ha - .gemlemasi was that:which he would be likely to take. Tie h, n. gentleman must excuse hint if he declined answer ing his inquiries. Col. WOOL) gnve notice thi - a he would take the sense of the house on tht. 29th:clause of the reform bill. The hoose resolved itself into a committee. The CHAIRMAN read clause 25, and said it was pro. posed to omit it entirely. Agreed to. The CHAIRMAN then read a new clause, to be the 25th in the bill. provioing for the approval of both Houses 1 of Parliament of the repotta of the Commissioners for the division of counties and extension of boroughs, and addrts sing the King to make ptoclamation of the same. The clause was agreed to without any observation. ' The CHAIRMAN read the 28th clause, giving power to she Commissioners to call for the attendance of witnesses, and the inspection of papers, except charters and muniments of till; and to examine witnesses on oath. The'clausc was agre.d to. The next proposition was, that all the words of the 27th clause in the old printed copy, be left out, for the purpose of inserting others. Before the Chairman read the words proposed to be in serted, Lord ALTHORP said, the object of the clause was to put the boroughs of Shorehatn, Cricklade, Aylesbury, and Fret Retford, on the footing of all other boroughs. A very long conversation followed on the amendment. On the question being put from the Chair, Sir THOS. FR REM ANTLE rose, and proposed as an amendment on the amendment, that the clause be altered to ha form in the original draft of the Bill. Lord I. RUSSILL said a few words in explanation. Mr. CROKEIt insisted that the House should be divided on the question, and consequently strangers were ordered to withdraw. While the doors were closed, the Committee continued a debate for some time. On the division the numbers I were— Noes . Ayes ••• • ••••• •• • • •• 102 Majority for Ministers.......... 73 The clause was then put as amended, and carried without • division. Tb: question was then put that clause 28 be omitted in the bill, which was carried without a remark. The CHAIRMAN having read part of clause 29, Colonel WOOD laid the plan of registering voters and of establishing different polls, was the same as that proposed in the year 1827 by the noble lord, which was pronounced to be impracticable by Mr. Tierney, and which, in fact, was abandoned. He asked, how was a tam-resident freeholder to know whether his name was on the list of voters ? He must keep a person on the spot to inspect the list, doubtless at no small expense. tie contended that the whole machi nery was extremely expensive. The drawing up of the lists, their verification by the assessors, and the re-printing of them, would be extremely onerous to the counties and pa. riches. He presumed the assessors were to be paid out of the county purse? .4 g Lord A LTHOkP.—No, by the State. Colonel %I - I/OD—Well, that is no diminution of the ex pense. Individuals omitted in the list must undergo much expense and litigation in the courts to have their names in. serted. The Committee of the House of Commons, before which the accuracy of the lists was to be questionable, would be another source of expenditure. The candidates would be obliged to retain paid agents in the counties or boroughs to watch the lists, and sue that their friends were inserted. He was afraid such would be his case at least. But how was the identity of the persons presenting them selves at the poll with those named in the lists to be ascer tained ? After some observations with respect to the multi. plicity of polls, which he thought would add to the expenditure in elections, he concluded by proposing, that the poor-rate should be the test of the elector; this would supersede the necessity of a register, and of the thirty register clauses, which be proposed to the house to ne. ative. Lord A LTIIORP, alluding to the expense of the drawing up of the election lists, said di: overseers drew up similar hats, jury lists, and population returns, for instance, at a very small cost. In the case of one place containing 400 inhabi. tants, the population return cost only 71. (Hear.) Thc non resident freeholder must have a tenant residing on the free. hold, who would, of course, inform his landlord of the omis sion of his name, without any other expense but that of a letter sent by post. But it was not likely that in the agricul tural districts the overseers would omit any freeholder.— The expense of the barrister would be much diminished st•bsequently. As to candidates being obliged to retaia paid agents, he was sure no candidate would be without some intell.gent friend in the different parishes who would wil lingly overlook the lists without any pecuniary consideration. —He admitted that at first some expense would be occasioned, but it would be considerably diminished when once the ma. chinery should have been act at work. The two great sources of expenditure under the present system, the conveying of electors and the detaining of the voters objected to at the place of election, would be almost entirely extinguished.— On the whole there would be, at least in the long run, a great diminution of expenditure. (Hear.) Sir E. SUODEN said the bill would let loose about three hundred barristers upon England annually, for the teems preliminary to the Insertion of names omitted in the lists could be gone through only by professional men. The bill bad been rightly called a lawyen' bill. Be doubted whether there were a sufficient number of banisters so well acquainted with the laws relating to real property as to be competent to sit in the courts. Individuals would make it a trade, under the name of undertaken and performers, to inspect the lists and see that the names of electors were not omitted ; these individuals would become the medium of corruption between the candidates and the voters. Owing to there being se veral places of election, which would prevent candidates from knowing how they stood on the polls, and to the restriction of the election to two days, all the freeholders would be required to vote; this would occasion no slight cxpence. He asked where were the vehicles which were to convey the vo ters to be found, all the. elections taking place simultane ously ? Really the whole country would be thrown into an admirable confusion. Mr. Sergeant WILDE could not understand how short. ening the distance the elector would have to go to the poll, and shortening the time of taking the votes, could increase the expense. (Hear, hear, hear.) His learned Mend ap peared to think there could not be a sufficient number of competent barristers procured for the putpo.es of the clause. Of all the complaints against the profession he had ever heard, this was the first time he heard it urged against them that they vete not sufficiently numerous. He thought that objection (like all the other objections to the clause) was wholly untenable. The expense would be insignificant, and the motive for captious objection would be removed. Shortening the time of election would cut off the greatest temptation to corruption. Instead of fortunes being ex hausted as at present by contested elections, they would in future be determined at a small expense, and on public grounds. (Hear, hear.) Sir CHARLES WETHERELL argued that the in creased places of t. king di,: poll would increase expense, and demoralize the people. r.LI TT L ETt IN supported the clause.becau se it promised advantage to the rich and to the poor. It might frequently happen that a Gentleman of two, or three, or four thousand a year might be most eligible for the representation of a county, but all gentlemen of that scale of formne were now effectually extruded by the expense of elections, which this clause in the hill would (factually remedy. Mr. CHOKER was confident that, though the clause ' would prevent expense at the poll, it would cause a perpetual canvass, an annual contest, and on the whole an expense greater titan at present. Fur this reason he should oppose it. The clauses belonging to registration boa nothing to do with the principle cf the bill, and might be made a separate bill. Mr. G. LANGTON said, if the clause passed, it would degrade county representation; and he would then rather re. rr(s:nt a city—Bristol or Bath—than the county of Somerset. After the bill passed nothing should induce him to re turn to public life, from which he had before retired, and only came forwar d to bear his part in that great measure of (lightened legislation, for every clause of which that has passed he voted, except that for dividing the counties. Mr. NORTH was friendly to the registialon, but thought the mode proposed by the clause was defective. Lord ALTHORP was cut.fident that the registry and taking the poll at different places would greatly diminish the expense of elections. The resolution was agreed to without a division. The clause, as amended, was then agreed to. Clause 30, which provides that persons entitled to vote. whose names have not been returned by the overseers, shall he entitled to give notice of their intention to claim a tight of voting, being put— After some desultory conversation, in which Sir C. WE. THEZELL, lllr. Witas, and other Hon. Gentlemen, took part, this clause was also agreed to. The CHAIR3IAN then reported progress, and obtained leave to sit again this day. GAME HILL On the third reading of the Game Bill, Mr. BIABEHLY moved as an amendment that any per son holding 300 acres of ground be entitled to appoint game keepers. After some further remarks the gallery was cleared for a division, none, however, took place, the amendment conse quently lost. After a few verbal alterations, the bill was read a third time and passed. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at HALF•PAST Two o'CLccK. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. RUSSIAN, PRUSSIAN, AND DUTCH PAPERS.-RECEIVED THIS DAY. ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 16.—Admiral Gabriel Sarytscheid died here on the 11th with symptoms of cholera. He was member of the Imperial Aca demy, and many other learned societies; he began his naval career in 1780, accompanied Billing on his voyage, of which he published an account, as rear-admiral. He gave a description of the Gulf of Finland, and the first correct plan of St. Peters burg, and was engaged during the last 10 years in composing a history of all the ports of Russia, which is nearly finished, and we hope will be printed. CHOLERA. On the morning of the 12th of August there remained 342 patients. August. New Cues. Recoveries. Deaths. 12 20 49 8 13 19 66 9 14 10 26 7 15 9 16 6 Remain, on the 16th in the morning, 213, of whom 120 are likely to recover. A Supplement to the St. Petersburg Gazette contains a report from Count Paskew•itech to the Emperor, dated Lowicz, August 5, giving an ac count of the march of the main army up to that date. His 'Majesty also received a report on the entire evacuation of the Government of Lithuania by the Polish rebels, who had penetrated into it. This report states the defeat and retreat into Prussia of the corps of Gielgud, Chlapoxski Roland, and Simavoweki, and the escape of Dembinski's di vision, which, says the report, fled with such pre cipitation that our troops, .with all their efforts, could not overtake it. The object of the rebels to kindle the game of rebellion in Lithuania, have totally failed ; the com munications with the army in Poland are restored, and of 20,000 men that the rebels sent into Lithu ania, hardly 4,000 men, among whom are very few regular troops, have returned to Poland. The greater part are vagabonds, collected by Manjewicz, Przedecki, and other traitors, that like the rebel Rustrizki, marked their way with plunder and excesses of all kinds, proving to the inhabitants what was to be expected from such bands.—St. Petersburgh Journals, Aug. 16. BERLIN A co. 26.—Two reports from the Russian head-quarters, dated Lowicz, 13 and 14 1 August, give very long details of the operations of the Russian army on its advance from the Vis tula towards Warsaw. The first report affirms that the Russians no Where met with any resistance from the peasantry ; that the general arming of the people ordered by the chiefs of the patriots has not succeeded ; that the country people are weary of the war, the advantage to be gained by which they do not understand, but of which they severely feel the hardships. Nothing can equal the wretched appearance of the poor people, who have been torn from their rural labours ; many hundreds of them that were taken by a detachment of Hulons were overjoyed on being ordered by the Field Marshal to return to their homes ; and a general wish prevails that the Russians may soon come to relieve them from their intolerable burdens. After detailing the operations, the first report says, " such is now (August 13) the state of affairs; on the one side the patriots have concentrated their force (about 50,000) between the river Rawka and Blonie, behind them is Warsaw with its forti fications, its barricades, and 100,000 inhabitants. On the other side, the Russian main army, unde r Field Marshal Paskewitsch, is concentrated abeu t Lowicz, not stronger than the enemy, but an army of chosen troops inured to hardships and to aar. eager for the combat. New forces are advancinz on three different sides ; on the North, Generdl Baron Kreutz, with the troops which have victori ously ended the contest in Lithuania ; from Bizete Lituoski, Baron Rozen, with the troops assembled there; from the South, General Rudiger, who ha s probably passed the Vistula. Thus clouds are col. lecting round the rebellious capital which will aeon be reduced to itself, the authors of the insurrection, and the army. The second report details the passage of the Vistula by General Rudige r , before whom all is flying in terror and confusion. He had dispersed the enemy's troops, disarmed the landsturm, and was advancing rapidly to the Piliza, so that he would soon join the main army, and act together with it against Warsaw. The Russian head-quarters were still at Nadarzyn on 20th August.—Prussian State Gazette, 29th Aug. inclusive. THE HAGUE, AUG. 30.—His Excellency Mon seignor Cafaccini, Internuncio from the Papal See to the King of the Netherlands, arrived here yes terday from London. By the Admiral do Rinter, we have accounts from Batavia of 4th May. All was tranquil in Java. M. Louis, one of the two Belgians, who was arrested by order of the Governor-Genoral, had been embarked on board a ship, and enjoined never agai►► to set his foot in Java. This news necessa rily proves the falsehood of the report of the in surrection of the Belgians in Java, published by Van de Weyer in the English newspapers. AMSTERDAM, AUG. 30.—Actual Debt, Two and-a-half per Cent. 36k. 37 ; Amort Synd. Four and-a-half per Cent. .581. 59. Exchange on London—ll. 92 5-10ths. 11.90; Two months, 11. 87 5-10ths 11. 85.• -Dutch Papers, August 31. FRANCE. The nomination of the Members of the Chamber of Peers is to belong to the King. Their number is to be unlimited. The dignity of Peer is to be conferred for life. It is not to be transmissible by the right of hereditary succession. This is the pro ject of the Ministers, as submitted to France, and the people regard it as anti-national, impolitic, and unjust. The Deputies of the Commission ap pointed by the Bureaux to examine the Pro ject, and report thereon, aro M. Viennet, Deputy for the Department of Herault, a supporter of the Casimir Perier Administration. M. Devaux, Deputy for the department of Cher, neither ministerial nor anti-ministerial, but of the Berenger party. M. Berenger, the talented and zealous reporter of the commission which prepared the " insolent" Address to Charles X. now of that independent party which is neither decidedly ministerial nor decidedly otherwise. M. Daunou, Professor of History to the College of France, Deputy for the department of the Seine. He is anti-ministerial. M. Guizot, Doctrinaire, Professeur a la Faculte des Lettres de Paris. A zealous supporter of M. Perier, whose system he claims the honour of in venting ! A new Deputy, M. Lherbette, Deputy for the department of Aisne. He belongs to the France of .1u1y,1830, and will speak and vote accordingly. M. Keratry, of the party of M. Royer Collard. He courted the Restoration till it rejected him, and now belongs to the juste milieu, he is between being respected and disliked. The Bth Bureau has named M. Ganneron—a Deputy of l'aris, decidedly ministerial, and thinks that the test of national greatness is to have 3 per cents, at 82. Baron de Schonen,Councillor to the Royal Court of Paris ; Commissary for arranging the Civil List; one of the Members of the Extreme Gauche. He was always distinguished for his almost Ultra- Liberalism. M. Guizot and M. Ganneron are the only two objected to. The Ministerial project is anti national ! The journals of the people are all op posed to it, and the journals write for the mass and for public opinion. The Constitutionnel, the Cour rier Francais, the Natio 414 the Globe, the Jour nal du Commerce, the Tribune, and the Revolu tion, are all opposed to it. The Temps disapproves of the project, but desires an hereditary peerage. The Debats is of the same opinion. The Me*. sager des Chambres and La France Nouvelle, ass both in favour of the bill, simply because it is a Ministerial measure, and because they are paid so much per month. It is impolitic, because it is an apology for an hereditary Peerage, and a presage of a speedy re turn to that system. It is an absurd attempt to deceive the public, which can be seen through and despised. And it is also unjust—because it places France under a government in which the King must have a vast preponderance of power; to the revolution, because it proposes to leave to the King and Peers the right of deciding on their own privileges with reference to the Peerage, when the revolution, as popular, had the right of deciding this for itself; to the Peers, becauses it proposes to leave them in a state of uncertainty as to the fate of their titles; and to the Deputies, because it deprives them of their right, as a constituent assembly, to Irse the 23d article of the Charter.—Morning PA a is.—The Commission appointed to the project of law on the Peerage has M. Berenger its President, and M. Secretary. It was completed yesterday election of M. L'Herbette for the fifth " Letters from Augsburg, received y Paris, state that 4,000 Bavarian troops had repaired to the frontiers of Austria, to fi sanitary cordon. The Chamber of Peers will meet on the 31st of August, at two o'clock, in ceive a message from the crown. We have received no late news from The Nuremberg Courier of Peace and the following : " Private letters from mention that the deputation that has gone quarters was empowered to conclude Russian Field Marshal the negociations for a long time been secretly carried opinion is the more probable, as every have hitherto obtained from Warsaw the Government and the people had , confidence in the integrity of Skrzynecki. 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