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k~ ,~ r. t i f ' ~~ , 1. 3 ) 4.1...rau r e . . $4 • part. 4- 4 ' MEW CONSTITUTION TN DENMARK. ••.ao • Ferick VI. by the grace of GOD, Ringl of Denmark, the Vandals and the Goths, Duke of Nlesviick, Holstein, Stormarn, Ditmarsken, Lauen burgh, and Oldenburgh, make known, that in order ' to place us and our descendants on the throne in a situation in which we may be able always to obtain the most authentic information respecting all that can contribute to the welfare of our true and be luved subjects, and by these means render the 1 1 unicn which attaches our Royal house to our sub jects more secure and permanent, also in order to awaken the public spirit, we have determined to in re:? art , councils of provincial states in our kingdom f I s. , nrhat h, as well as in our Duchies of Sleswick :,nd I Itlstain. In order to carry these intentionsinto effect in a manner corresponding with our paternal views. we have previously taken the subject into due consideration ; and thonOt it has not yet ar t fired to such a degree of maturity as would he re quisite to make it a general and specified legisla tive measure, yet we deem it expedient now to proclaim the ,eneral outline of the constitution we purpose giving to our Danish states. We therefore most graciously ordain,- 1. That two Chambers of Councils of the Provin cial States are to be elected,— one for the counties of Zealand, Funen, Laaland, and Falster, and our island of Iceland ; and • one for all the counties of nothern Jutland. 2. That each of these Chambers are to consist of men elected by their fellow-citizens, and the number of whom we shall forthwith fix upon. The election, for which every proprietor of houses in the towns, or of land in the country, shall be en titled to vote, are to take place in conformity with the specified regulations, and in the manner as will be set forth in one of our future special royal acts; and in consideration of the secure possession with which the tenants of estates are vested, we will likewise include them amongst those who shall be entitled to vote. Ground property will elso be a necessary qualification to the person to whom votes can be given ; and in regard to such of those pro prietors as may at the same time bo in our Rcyal employment, in order that though we have not the intention to exclude them from taking seat in the said Chambers, if they be properly elected, still no person who is in public service, or enjoying a royal grant, commission, or appointment, shall accept of such a seat, before he has acquired our most gra cious acquiescence. 3. We further purpose nominating persons of the university and clergy to have seats in tke Chamber of said Provincial States, and also several other individuals, who, from the situation which they hold, and from their personal qualities, may be deemed especially qualified for the purpose. 4. We stipulate that previous to the issue of any law by which the personal property and rights of our subjects, the taxes and public dues shall be effected, such measure is to be previously laid be fore the said two Chambers of the States, or if it only affects some particular county or counties. before the states of such county or counties re spectively, and the States are to take such measure under their consideration, and report to us on the subject. 5. If the provincial states be induced to desire any alteration in the laws of the kingdom gene rally, or in the laws or institution of their respec tive counties in particular, or if they consider themselves bound to complain of the manner in which the law is exercised, or of the administration of the institution, they may submit their state ment of the case and their proposal to ns, as it will have our consideration, and we will give our reso lutions accordingly. 6. As we think it advantageous that the pro vincial states should partake in the management of the matters of the communities, we request that it may be taken into consideration how this object is to be attained, and that the minutes and par ticular observations in regard to this subject may be stated forthwith. 7. The Provincial States are to meet at our no tice every second year ; but should it be requisite s we shall call for extraordinary meetings. We shall be guided by circumstances to fix each timo upon the period for the sitting of the Chambers, and in like manner announce their dissolution. 8. We purpose issuing proclamation, by which we shall stipulate the number of members of each Provisional Chamber, the division of the numbers for each county. and the conditions !voiding the title to votes and to be voted for.and likewise state the regulatinns in regard to the proceedings of the elections and in the Chambers. Previous, however, to the formation cf a law to desire these special regulations, we shall as semble several enlightened men from different parts et'our kingdom, to take the subject fully into con sideration, and report on it as their general and local knowledge may induce them. And in ease there should be occasion to alter the regulation which will now be oldaincd at some future period, such alteration ill nct be effected without the advice of the State, agreeably to the 4th section of this Act. Done at our Royal Residence in Copenhagen, this 28th day of May, in the year of our Lord, 1831. Under our Royal hand and seal. (L. S.) FREDERICK. R. stemann, Monrad, Vented, Lessen, kieurulff, Lange, ammo. " The DeviltTrarAam com p com p lains that his pre sent place of abode is worse than the infernal re gions : of course he must be the best judge. Over the stall of a public writer in -la Rue de Bac, at Paris, is the following inscription :—" M. Renard, public writer, advisingcompiler, translates the tongues, explains the language of flowers, and sells fried potatoes."—Fura de Londres. MELANCIIOLY AND FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER.—We have to record another fatal accident on the Thames, owing to the rapidity of the steam-vessels, which has caused the death of a very respectable lady. It appeari that the Endea vour and Diana Richmond ste am-boats were return ing to London on Monday evening, and proceeding at a very rapid rate. About seven o'clock they were off Barnes Elm Reach, when a wherry con taining eight persons was between the two steam ers. The swell of the water was so great, from the velocity of the boats, that we are sorry to say the wherry was lir set. The screams of the unfor tunate persons were most heart-rending, and a number of boats put off from the shore, and every assistance was rendered by the steam-boats. By • great exertions the whole of the party were saved, with the exception of one lady belonging to the Society of Friends,whose name we could not learn. • • 4 • • ••• • ; ' , .1. 4 . 1 k' ; •• ' y et • 4 • . ; 4 : r , f . , ..., t 1 I i.: i , I t t I , i f :. .1 ..i ,r, i r LITERATURE. A Letter Iran General Arthur Condoreel O'Connor to General Lafayette, on the causes which have deprived France qf the advantages of the Revolution of 11180. A brief introduction states that the manuscript of this work was transmitted to the Editor, with the permission of its able author to present it to the British public. He remarks that "it expresses the opinions of a great party in France ; of a party which, there is little doubt, will ultimately be dominant in that country ;" but that " besides the interest which will belong to this pamphlet as an exposition of the state of public affairs in France, it possesses nearer claims to our attention from the reflected light it may possibly throw upon our own affairs." Arthur O'Connor, in his well-known volume on the State of Ireland, published in 1797, gave proofs cf great political discernment, and we are not aware that the causes of the misery of the population of Ireland were ever more successfully explained. In this pamphlet he gives a description of the English system of Government for the instruction of the French, that they may not be misled by the states men who wish to govern France by the corrupt expedients which have produced such disastrous results here. The pamphlet is altogether pos sessed of much interest ; but that part which more peculiarly relates to England may be useful to us at this moment, presenting, as it does, a faithful picture of the disastrous condition, from which alone a reform can extricate its. " I will here," he says, " endeavour to describe the English system, in order to dissuade the French nation from adopting it. I consider myself, at least, as conversant with it, as those interested An glomanists who are so enamoured with its deformi ties. Born and educated under that system ; hav ing filled, for years, offices in the administration and legislature, and passed many years in the inti macy of the greatest men that country has ever 1 produced—such as Fox, Sheridan, Grey, Erskine, Whitbread, &c.—known to all the Opposition of their day, who honoured me with their friendship and confidence—l may, without vanity, pretend to have as much knowledge of the English system as men who have possessed none of these advaatages ; or whose information is only derived from a cursory view, or from what they have read in books. The English system, and the old French despo tism, have had the same feudal origin. The King, and the Barons, both clerical and laical, who were almost his equals, were all : the people were abso lutely nothing. Men as ignorant as beasts must necessarily be treated as such, because they have no means of making their interests respected : such is the principle on which 2Vib 'feudal system rests. As the people acquired some instruction and independence, they took advantage of the quarrels of their barbarous tyrants to obtain some right in the management of their affairs ; not a tumultuous right, but the most precious of all, a representative right. This right was not a conces sion, but came from necessity : but when once the people obtained the right to name their own agents, their interests began to be counted for something. With this right, the nation struggled for her li berty with various success, until, after having pu nished one despot, and chased away another, it arrived at the revolution of 1688, from which time the government has taken the form and principles on which it has ever since existed. The theory of this system, as fixed in 1668, is that the people shall by their representatives impose the necessary taxes ; but the practice has by two operations com pletely destroyed this theory ; the one by passing the right of choosing the representatives from the people to a few individuals ; the other by placing in the hands of the Executive the nomination of all the agents of the people in church and state, with enormous emoluments attached to each post. By these operations the English government has been totally changed since 1688. Before that time the crown contested the right of the representatives to the sole power of imposing taxes, and this often by imprisoning them, and by other arbitrary acts : but it never corrupted them. They were chosen by the people (for before 1688 the commerce of rotten boroughs was unknown); they partook of their spoil, and had the same interests with them. If the people were sufferers, their representatives suffered with them ; if the people were plundered, their representatives had no share in the spoil ; their parliaments were popular, and enjoyed the confidence of the people, because, by their incor ruptible perseverance, they had been constantly working to extend the liberties of the people—. liberties for which they obtained the most express stipulations, written in the blood of one King, and confirmed by the dethronement of another, for at tempting to annul them. But since 1688, instead of being despotic by its arbitrary acts, the Crown has secured itself an , equal uncontrouled power, by the enormous ex pence of levying on the whole of those who are to obey the laws sufficient to corrupt the majority of those who make them. By this change the in creased burdens of the people became the increased power of the Monarch, an increased profit to the hereditary Aristocracy, and the utter annihilation of the Representative Democracy. It is in this sense that the partisans of this model system main tain, that the fewer the hands into which the no tional representation is concentrated, the more per fect it is ; and when the Executive has obtained the greatest possible means of corrupting the Re presentatives by buying up the probity and inde pendence of those whose duty it is to defend the people's rights, then is this Government arrived at the beau ideal of Representative Government; then, and then only, the odious, contemptible people are reduced to a state of wholesome subordination. It is there this Government is said to acquire the reputation of a strong Government ; for it is a fixed principle with the partisans of this kind of representative system, that by every right you concede to the people, by so much you weaken the Government; and that by every right you take from the people, by so much you augment the. power of the Government. But these men do not take into the account either the prodigality or the debts, or the ruin, which have invariably been the consequence of the absence of all the aeceseeig controul which it is the object of their system to destroy ; nor the exasperation this abuse of power, and the usurpation of this sacred right of the people to have uncorrupted agents must excite in their hearts; nor, with July before them, will they see that such a system in France must inevi tably lead to a Revolution. Let us come to the proof of what I advance. Like a tree, Government is known by its fruits. 1, 14 , I What has the model system produced in England after 143 years that it has been planted and wa tered with so much blood, and enriched with so many millions of wealth ? When a great national interest is at stake, it is only with great, ma terial, positive facts, that men should attempt to counsel her on the part she should take. Before this system of buying the probity, the indepen-1 dence, the talent, the honour of the national repre sentation was established at the Revolution of 1688, England owed not a shilling." After a view of the debt at different periods, down to the peace of 1814, he proceeds :—" Such is the mortal wound this model system of corruption has in flicted on the nation ! Such is the inevitable ruin this system nurtures from its birth, and that hurries it to its grave. After 15 years of profound peace, this great, in dustrious nation, endowed with greater means of ctwital, of machinery, and mercantile manufactu ring ability than any other people ever possessed, has been struggling against the extreme of misery, without being able to pay off her monstrous debt ; and it is at the moment this system offers to the view of the world such a dreadful spectacle of dif ficulty and misery, when the English Govern ment itself has wisely renounced this system, and the Crown has called the nation to its aid against the usurpation of the proprietors of rotten bo roughs ; this, I say, is the moment when a set of men in France have the assurance and stupid ig norance to invite Philip I. to separate from the na tion, to throw himself into the system of influence, corruption, and placemen, without having one single material for its corruption and support. Compare the materials a French King can com mand for constructing such a system with the prodigious materials the King of England has at his command, and that when he is forced to re nounce this system. Where have we in France the colossal patronage which the dominion over 140 millions of subjects in India affords?—in the West Indies, Canada, the Seven Islands, the Cape of Good Hope, Gibraltar, &c. &c. where there are so many thousands of Pro-Consulships to pay the wages of corruption !—independent of the im mense patronage in Church and State in Eng land, Scotland, and Ireland ? But, what is still more important, where is the law of primogeni ture ? Where are those leviathan properties that form the basis on which this model system of cor ruption rests, which, though so great and massy, are this instant trembling under the load of debt and misery that has accumulated to crush them." Well may the author dissuade the French from entering on this system. The country which en deavoure to govern through corruption, and in which the power of the governing few grows with the burdens imposed on the many, enters on a course which leads inevitably to ruin. A fortu date accident, the elevation to power of honest men before it was yet too late, may save the coun try from tho revolution to which it was fast driv ing. But we almost tremble at the thought of what might happen, should another accident de prive us of the bill. PANORAMA OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. LEICESTER CHRONICLE. July 9. The meeting advertised in our last week's paper, took place in the Town Hall, at six o'clock on Tuesday evening, and was repectably, though not very numerously attended. A considerable number of ladies were present on the occa sion. Isaac Hodgson, Esq. being voted to the chair, — Mr. W. E. Hutchinson, one of the Society of Friends, rose to move the first resolution. He said, before proceeding with the resolution with which I have been entrusted, it is my dnty to lay before you a few remarks upon the state of education amongst the poor. The blessings of education are now so generally acknowledged, that it seems hardly neces sary for me to say any thing upon the subject. I have sim ply to enquire what are the means provided for the In. struction of the poor, in this large and populous neighbour hood ? Investigation having been made, 1 find we have for this purpose, seven daily schools, and the number of chil dren educated in them, is within thirteen hundred. Our population now amounts to 40,000. Is it reasonable to sup pose that 1300 is the total number of the children of the poor requiring education ? lam unable to state to you pre chicly, but I b.tlieve that 1300 will be found to be little more than a fourth of the number, and hence there is • ne cessity for the establishment of other schools. Mr. Hut. chinson then proposed the first resolution, which was in substance, that after an investigation had been made into the means of education now existing in Leicester, they were found to be inadequate to the number of children requiring instruction, and that it was desirable that other schools should be established forthwith. Mr. Ritzy, after reading two extracts to show the dif ference between education and non.education, expressed his great satisfaction at the system pursued by the British and Foreign School Society, in their mode of teaching the rising generation, and concluded by proposing a resolution. highly approving the plan, and naming a committee for the carry ing into effect the formation of a similar institution in Lei. outer, consisting of the following gentlem e n, via ;—lsaac Hodgson, Esq. Mr. James Cort, M r . C. B. R obinson,e Mr. John Riley, Rev. J, P. Murrell, Rev. S. Wigg, Mr. Joshua Shenton, Mr. John Coltman, Mr. John Ribs, Mr. Frederick Bankart, Mr. S. Stone, Mr. Thome Nunneley, Rev. Charles Berry, Mr. John Worthington, Mr. James Cort, jun. Mr. W. Hutchinson, M r . Thomas Burgess, Mr. Alfred Burgess, Mr. John Kirby, Mr. Winks. ANOTHER DILEADVUL ACCIDENT ?ROM LIGHTNING. —At five o'clock on Saturday afternoon last, the village tef Rasingion was visited by a tremendous storm of thunder and lightning. A ball of fire, which is stated to have been ob. served by many persons, struck the chimney of the poor house, and passed into one of the rooms, whet* a little girl, five years old, was instantly killed. A man also, who was on the premises, was so severely hurt from the effects of the electric fluid, that we understand there are very slender hopes of his recovery. Two other children, besides the little girl mentioned above, were also struck by the lightning, but were very slightly injured. The premises were set on fire but through the exertions of the inhabitants of the village , the flames were speedily got under. About a month ago, a terrier dog, belonging to the firm of Messrs. Armstrong and Clark, drapers, of Spalding, ap peared unusually wild, and before he could be secured, bit Area of the family. The animal was afterwards quickly destroyed. On Sunday week, an interesting boy, son of Mr. Armstrong, six years of age, complained of being unwell, and continued in an alarming state till Wednesday, when strong symptoms of hydrophobia appeared. The child continued all night in most excruciating agony until six o'clock on Thursday morning, when death put a period to its sufferings. Junes* or Asstxt.—Mr. Baron and Mr. Jug. ties dam , the one • very tall, the other a short man, once going the same circuit, an ignorant rustic at a country town, hearing them styled " Judges of Anise," boldly d e . murred to the appellation, declaring u his reason, that he never saw two men less o site in his life. LxiczavEn,Jo LT S.—Wheat, 79s 7d; rye,oos ; barley, 41s 6d ; oats, 315 ; beans, Cie ed ; pesa,Ma Mae flours ; standard wh eaten, Ms to 60s; household, 49s to Ms ; quar. tern loaf, wheaten, led ; ditto, household, 9d. NOTTINGHAM, JULY 9.—Wheat, 7ls 6d ; oats, 27s ; rye2.4Ss. .HARRIED.—R. Cave, Esq. of Stanningtoa, Northum berland, to Emily de ashen* eldest daughter of R. Nor man, Req. of Melton Mowbray. —The Rev. J. Taylor, of lbstock, to Mary, only child of the late W. Jackson, gent. of Barton Fab4.—Sir Bellingham Beginald- Graham, Bart. of Norton Conyers, to Harriet, third daughter of the late Rev. R Cottam, A.M. DIED. —At an advanced nee, much rtted, Elisabeth Anne, wife of Charles Lftviae Smith, Esq. of Enderby HalL—At New Suenton, 74, Janina, wife of Rev. W. I Pickering..—At Croton, near Brig, 71, the Rev. Francis Jennings. HERTFORD COUNTY PRESS, July 12 An adjourned meeting was held at the Eases Arms, Wat ford, on Tuesday, to take into consideration the removal and re-building of the present inconvenient and unsightly market-house to a more convenient and eligible spot at the back of the present building that has recently been cleared by the late calamitous Ste, which entirely demolished the whole of the houses standing on the new site of ground. Mr. Luton, the architect and surveyor residing in the town, laid before the meeting plans and designs fot the new market house and town-hall, with the view of which we were much gratified. The elevation next the road has a facade of lonic columns to the upper story, mounted on a basement with Doric columns, which forms the entrance to a spacious and noble market-place : over the market is a granary and a town.hall of good proportion, and rooms adjoining for the Magistrates. Court of Requests, and other purposes. The Commencement Ball in the Town-hall, Cambridge, was well attended, under the Stewardship of the Earl of Sandwich. The Lord Bishop of Lincoln will hold his next Ordina tion at Buckden, on Sunday the 25th September. Candidates are required to forward their papers thither to his Lordship, before the 12th of August. On Tuesday last, being Commencement Day, the follow. ing Doctors and Muter, of Arts were created Doctors in Divinity—The Very Rev. George Davys, Christ's Col lege, Dean of Chester, and Rector of All Hallows, London Wall.—Rev. Edward Everard, St. Pe.l ter's College, Chaplain to the Household at Brighton.— . Rev. John Griffith, Emanuel College, Prebendary of Ro chester, and Vicar of Aylesford.— Re v. Alldeney Darken, ' Fellow of St. Peter's College, and Head Master of Blun dell's School, Tiverton, Devon.--Rev. Matthew Irving, Trinity College, one of his Majesty's Chaplains in Ordi nary, and Prebendary of Rochester.—Rev. Thomas Bur net, 'Christ's College.—Reverend John Sharpe, Sidney Ca. lege, Vicar of Doncaster, and Domestic Chaplain to the Earl Clanwilliam. Doctors in Physic —Edward Morton, Esq. Trinity Col. lege.— Henry John Hales Bond, Esq. Corpus Christi Col lege —George Burrows, Esq. Caius College.—John Reid Curie, Esq. Caius College.—Henry Burton, Esq. Caius College. An accident of the most dreadful nature occurred a few days ago, of which the following are the details : —Mrs. Britten, a widow lady residing at St. Ives, accompanied by three of her daughters, the eldest not more than eighteen, left home in a four-wheel pony chaise, and had proceeded as far as Houghton Hill, when part of the harness broke as they were descending, which caused the pony to hasten his speed ; the ladies becoming alarmed, immediately jumped from the vehicle, and Mrs. Britten and her eldest daughter were taken up in a lifeless state, and the two others dread fully injured. They were conveyed to the village of Hough ton, and medical aid procured, but it was unavailing in the cases of Mrs. Britten and her eldest daughter, who died very soon after the accident happened. The other two dough. ten are considered out of danger. Wheat straw is, at the present time, so scarce at Bishop's Stort ford, that the stable keepers litter their horses with pea-haulm. A woman, fur many years a pensioner on St. Peter's pa. rish, St Alban's, died on Saturday morning at the advanced age of 101! HERTFORD, JULY 2.—There was a thin supply of all sorts of grain. Wheat, which has fallen in price Is. ptr load since the preceding market, averaged about 435. Bar ley sold from 32s to 34s per quarter, according to quality. Oats varied from 24. to 30s per qr. Peas may be stated at 26s per load, and Beans at 255. MARRlED.—Christopher William Puller, Esq. to Emily, youngest daughter of Win. Blake, Esq. of Danes bury, Herts. DIED—At Furneaus Pelham, 21, James Benow Bur ford, eldest son of the Rev. T. W. Burford, D.D.—At Childwick Bury, Georgians Matilda, wife of Stephen Smith, Esq. 30.—At Edmonton, Mary, the wife of Charles Cooper, Esq. PAISLEY ADVERTISER, July 9. The trial trip of the Locomotive Steam Engine— the " St. Rollox,' took place on the Glasgow and Garnlirk Railway on Saturday, amid the cheering of a considerable concourse of strangers, who appeared to be equally astonish. ed and 'blighted with the spectacle. Having bad the plea sure of witnessing the starting of the steamer, and ex periencing the agreeable sensations produced by a whirl through the air at the rate of upwards of twenty mile an hour, we must say that now that the utility as well as safety of such a mode of conveyance has been thus clearly demon strated so near our own doors, the sooner the line is extended to Edinburgh the better. Such an undertaking would very soon clear itself, while it would administer to the comfort and convenience of the population of the whole country. The carriage for the passengers, the " Isabella," is:a hand somely constructed machine, divided into three nicely cushioned compartments, fit to accommodate eight persona l each ; and when it is mentioned that the " St. Rollox " is only meant to propel passengers,and that the engines for the conveyance of coals and other goods, are to be of a much' more powerful description, after what the one in question accomplished on Saturday, when it dragged sixty-six tons with the greatest ease, and with half its power, what will the others not be capable of accomplishing P The railway, in some places, is not yet finished; but when fairly com pleted, we have little hesitation in saying, it will add greatly to the credit of Mr. Grainger, the engineer, and to Mr. Thomson, the contractor, who, we have heard, has been ap pointed manager for the company. The undertaking through. out, appears to have been of a very arduous nature; while, in some places, cuttings had to take place of twelve and fif teen feet, in others, the line had to be raised in proportion. We are , therefore, glad it has been brought to so successful a termination • and that the proprietors will be amply re munerated, there cannot be a doubt. The sailing of large bodies of emigrants from hence for North America is now becoming so common place an occur rence, as scarcely to call for a passing notice. But, in con. dilution of our record, we may mention that the Camillus, which sailed on the 3d instant, for New York, carried out one hundred and thirty passengers ; and that the Deveron, M'Gill. cleared out at the Custom-house here on the 4th intent, to sail from Crinan on Wednesday, with three hun dred and two emigrants for Quebec ; uniting the numbers previously given, those wiU give a grand total of nine bun. died and eighty-six emigrants who have taken their passage for New York, and two thousand three hundred and eighty. seven for Quebec this season—in all, 3373. But this, after all, dfinds but an imperfect idea of the extent to which emi gration has been carried. We find from a Quebec paper of the 4th ult. which has just come into our hands, that the number then landed at Quebec amounted to no leas than 20,126, of whom 2737 had arrived within the compass of the previous week. It is impossible to guess at the gross number that may be expected to leave this country in the present year, to settle on lands beyond the western main • but we may safely predict it will not fall short of 100,000 souls. We are informed, from a correspondent in Skye that from the islands of North and So ut h Ulm, Benbecula, iind Barra, there are many hundreds of souls immediately about to emi grate to North America, under the superintendence of Ar. chibald Slacniven, Esq. SHAWL TRAWL —A correspondent in London, for whale letter we are unable, from its length, to find room, wishes us to call tha attention of our manutactuters to an unfair practice which prevails in the shawl trade. It is this : when a new and expensive shawl is brought to market, one is bought, scot to some manufacturer, who copies it, and makes a greatly inferior article to have the same appearance; sells, of course, at a lower price, and thus deprives the ori ginal inventor of the rewards of his ingenuity. One person, whom the writer calls the big Welshman,' is peculiarly guilty: he considers it very hard, that, after paying from live to twelve pounds for a pattern, that it should be filched away in this dishonest manner. DNA or Max. SWTHIERLAND.—This geraleroan, late Editor of the Edisaburgh Observer, had been for wane time in rather indifferent health, and sailed on Thursday night in the Aberdeen steam boat, fur the purpose of joining the For : farshire militia, in which he was an dicer, and sufferedlx tremely during the voyage from sea sickne ss. He was landed at Montrose at about two o'clock, and conveyed in a ear -1 riage to the Inn, where he expired in about halt an hour. The contemputariee of. the deceased gentleman all join in bearing ample testimony to his literary talents and high moral worth. The Scannas says--" We are unwilling to permit the grave to close over one whose time was so usefully spent for the public, without bearing our hum. ble testimony to his merits. • Though personally unac quainted with Mr. Sudiedand, we have been familiar with his writings, u Editor of the Observer, foe many years, and from these we are able td a pp rec i ate his character, we think, with considerable accuracy. He was evidently gifted with high taint* which were always exerted. under the &Manes of hanburable feelings. He poisemed considerable 4sogq of know/aka; a lively flact, alwert plated by a sound judirtaiat ; a du taste, which hadbeej carefully improved by cultivation, and a great nmste r y language. The moral constitution of bis mind was of it order. He loved truth and principle too much to paw n vulgmlar error or prtudice, and was indeed a stranger to a p, r arts, to guWtm7, boasting, and reckless exagge rat i t „ , He rarely engaged in controversy, and when he did, e, fair and generous adversary, who never laid aside for s. n „. meat the urbanity and the high feelings of a gentlem at. His political views were liberal, but moderate, and ee al . thing be wrote on politics, morals, or literature, bore tl., stamp of sincerity. It would be well for the country the power of the press was always wielded by hands w pure." There are five candidates in the field for the Chair of Church History :—The Rev. Dr. Burns, of Paisley, t h, Rev. Dr. Brown, of Langton, the Rev. Dr. 3lackay, at Laggan, and the Rev. Mr. Aitken, of Minus. MILKING Paicza.—The Minimum Table of price, adopted by the Paisley Shawl Manafacturers, has been us great benefit to the Operatives, and has given general saM. faction to both parties. However, a manufacturer lately offered work below the table price, but, by a few operativ es calling on the manufacturers committee, some of these g t e. tlemen waited on the individual, and showed him the M. tility of the attempt, and be promised to abide by the table. The first who reduces prices below a standard pins nothing by it, for no sooner is he down, than th e others follow. It is therefore surprising that any one should make the attempt, when he is sure to incur public odium, without the possibility of gaining the smallest advantage, THE WEATUZIL—That well-known newspaper chu te , ter, ' the oldest inhabitant,' might tax his memory in vain, for a summer in which more favourable weather occurred. On several mornings during the week, frost has been oh. seeable, but not to such an extent uto prove injurious. The want of rain was just beginning to be felt a llttle, when, at half-past one this morning, a refreshing shower came on, which will tend still farther to invigorate the already luxuriant crops, that are every where waving the joyous signals of approaching plenty.: PAISLEY, JULY 9-oauunl, per peck, 14d. to 161 d; Peazemeal, do. 1&1; Etarleymeal, do. I4d ; Quartern Lew', 1 8d. to 9d ; New Cheese, per lb. 5d ; Old do. do. Bd. to 7d; New Potatoes, per peek, 2s; Old Potatoes, lid; Eggi, per dozen, 7d. to 8d ; Presh Butter, 11d. to 12d ; Powdered do. 10d ; Salt Butter, Bd. to 10d ; Beef Steak, per lb. gd, to itel ; Beef for roasting, per lb. 6d. to 7d ; Beef for boil. ing, sd. to Gd ; Dittman, 6d. to 7d ; Veal, do. 3d. to &I; Shoulder Hams, per stone, 9a. to 9s. 4d; Lamb, per qr. 2s. 6d. to 41; Lamb, per lb. 4d. to 6d. POLICE REPORTS. GUILDHALL—Thomas James Dentin, a clerk at the West of England Insurance Office, New Bridge-street, sar brought before Mr. Alderman Cowan yesterday, charged with embezzling money which had been paid to him in account of the Company. Mr. Anderson said that be was the' agent to the Con% pany, and he had employed the prisoner u one of his clerk,. The prisoner hid confessed he had embezzled 1501. and 331. but witness believed the whole amount of his depredation, was little short of 1,0001. However, he should confine himself now to proving enough to warrant a commitment to ' the sasions, where he ohould addue other cases. He called Mr. Charles Proctor, of Proctor's Hotel, oppo s it e A r . ley's Theatre, who dep osed that, on the 11th of June, 1830, he paid the prisoner 01. ss. on a policy, taking his receipt, and that he paid him a like sum on the 7th of June last. Mr. Anderson proved th.rt these two sums had not been accounted for. Mr. Alderman COWAN asked the prisoner what answer he had to give to the charge ? The prisoner replied he would not say any thing at pre. sent ; but he should feel obliged If the Illagiatrate would remand him for as long a term as he could, as he thought he could make up his accounts. Mr. Anderton said be did not desire an immediate nom. mitment, and if the Alderman thought fit to indulge the prisoner, he should not object to it. The Alderman, on the suggestion of the prisoner, re. manded him fora fortnight. THAMES PoticE.—Yesterday, Hannah Kenney am charged with stealing seven sovereigns, 34 Spanish dollars. and an order for the payment of 30L on Forbes's bank, in Scotland, the property of alts. Jane Smith, on the high sea,. The prisoner was the wife of a soldier of the 41st regiment. During the voyage a box belonging to the prosecutrix sou broken open, and the money stolen; suspicion fell on the prisoner on account of her previous infamous character, hay. lag been expelled the regiment. The prisoner's box was searched, and seven sovereigns, the exact number loft, also a half sovereign, and two of the Spanish dollars, were found. On the arrival of the vessel at St. Helena, the prisoner sou taken before the governor, when the wife of another Goldin, named Al`Gleen, swore to having seen the prisoner take the property. /lir. Broderip committed her to Newgate for trial. l'xtox.uet.t.: a respectable-looking woman, named Maloney, the mother of six children, was charged with shop-lusting. Thomas Jones, shopman to Mr. Prior, silversmith, of Newington Causeway, stated that, on the preceding evening, tle prisoner requested to look at some fashionable ear-rings ; while lie was in the act of stooping to produce another tray, containing rings, he saw the prisoner hastily snatch up a gold ear-ring, and also a gold finger•ring, out of one of the trap which had been placed on the counter before her, and con ceal them in a white pocket handkerchief. Tne prisoner was tw.omitted. The following is a summary of all the threat• ened Amendments in the Committee on the Reform Bill : To H•VE A VOTE IN Co trwriEs.-501. Te nants at will, who have been one year iu posses sion.—Colonel Sibthorp. 1001. Leaseholders on leases of five years.—Mr. Portman. Owners of freehold, or copyhold, or leasehold, in auy town or borough, although the same shall confer an oc cupier a vote.— Mr. H. Hughes. 501. renters, although uuder no specific tenure.—Marquess of Chandos. To HAVE A VOTE IN BOROUGIISo—NOD-resi• dent freemen during life.—Mr. Trevor. Owners of freeholds in boroughs: 51. renters where there are not 300 voters within seven miles of tho borough; only 201. renters where a borough con sists of 30,000 or upwards.—Colonel Davies. Omission of rack-rent paragraph, clause 16 ; addi tionof Schedule D to Schedule C.—Lord Milton. There are other notices on the books regarding the Scotch and Irish bills ; but as those bills are to be postponed (instead of all proceeding paripasso till the English bill is " got through," to adopt the language of Lord Althorp, it is unnecessary to detail those notices now. The above notices cat out no trifling work for the Commons; and, should Lord Milton's and Mr. Trevor's motions be carried. where shall we find " the bill—the whole bill— and nothing but the bill ?" CHOLERA Mohacs.—The Gazette d'Asti• burg of the sth contains an article upon a new spe cific against the cholera, strongly recommended by Dr. Hahnemann. This specific is camphor, ar plied in very strong doses. Dr. Hahnemann be lieves that the miasuses of the cholera proceed from very small insects which escape the eye, %bid' attach themselves to the hair, to the skin, and to the vestments, and whose influence is deadly. The vapour of the camphor being mortal to these sects, as for all °duo, Dr. Hanemann prescribes the following recap." To rub all the parts of the body with camphov, and envelope it in a campbo• rated cover. To cause strong doses of camphor to be evaporated in the chamber of the diseased. Dr. Hahnemann feels convinced, that not one afflicted would sink under the disease by folio"' ing_this regimen. Notice was yesterday posted at Lloyd's, that no vessel from Great Britain to any port in the pc , partment of the Seine Inferieure, will be permitted td enter, unless provided by a regular bill et health. It is sussed by the Acting Consul Genera of France. 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