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ALTIIORP MILTON ... 2488 • • ... 2128 CARTWRIGHT • • • ... KNIGHTLICY Committee Room, Calm:oat-street, May 22. .4. 2009 1418 ADMIRALTY OFFICE, May 14, 1631. NOTICE is hereby given, that a Session of Oyer and Terminer, and Gaol Delivery, for the Trial of Offences com• mitted on the High Seas, within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty of England, will be held at JUSTICE HALL, in the OLD BAILEY, LONDON. on FRIDAY, the 17th of Junes next, at Eight o'Clock in • the Morales. _ _ And afl Sheriffs, Gaolers, and Emend Prisons, is 'boss custody any prisoners, charged with offences committed on the high eras, or within the said jurisdiction may be, are ►ereby required to transmit a copy of the commitment of every suck prisoner to Mr. CHARLES JONES, the Solicitor of the Admiralty, at his Office, No. 10, Lan caster-place, Strand, London, in order that the necessary measures may be taken for removing all such prisoners to his Majesty's Gaol of Newgate, for trial at the said intended Sessions. And all Mayors, Justices, Coroners, and other Officers, before whom any inquldtions, informations, examinations, or recognlzances, may have been taken, touching any Nu h offences, are required to transmit the same forth. with to Mr. JOHN CLARK, the Clerk of Arraigns of the High Court of Admiralty of England, at his Office, at the Sessions House, iu the Old Bailey, London. GEORGE ELLIOT. COMMISSION AGENCY WANTED. THE Advertiser, who has a respectable connection in several of the most populous Towns in Cornwall, wishes to under take, for any Wholesale House in the WINE and SPIRIT TRADE, to SELL on COMMISSION, the Terms of which shall be stated by the Advertiser, who will give his own Bond to a certain amount ; the same to be lodged with respectable, but indifferent parties. All letters shall be attended to, if addressed " F. It. A. Penryn, Cornwall." TWICKENHAM. TO be LET FURNISHED, for six or eight Weeks, from Midsummer, or early in July, a good FAMILY HOUSE, with Coach House, Stables, and large Garden. Letter to be addressed to T. W. to be left at the George Inn, Twickenham, Middlesex, where Cards to view may be had. THE BEST AND DIOST DURABLE HATS IN THE KINGDOM. nOW DEN, Waterproof Hat Maker, 17, and 27, High Street, Bloomsbury, most respectfully informs his numerous Customers and Mends he has opened the House (17) nearly opposite St. Giles's Church, partly in consequence of the increasing demand fee Hats aids manufacture, and partly to counteract an opposition forming by some individuals known by the cognomen of Jews, who have crepe into the trade and dubbed themselves Hat Makers, vending an Article which the unsuspecting Purchaser might imagine, from a casual survey, to be Intrinsically good, and thereby materially injuring the long-esta blished fame he has enjoyed, from the circumstance of many occasional customers not being acquainted with the precise situation of his houses. BowDEN needs only to add, that from the extensive patronage be has already received, (and which be with gratitude views daily extend. ing) he is convinced that all articles purchased at his houses have given that satisfaction which it ever has and shall be his study to deserve ; asking as a favour from the public, and his more immediate friends, that they will please to observe his Establishments are only Two in that Street, via. 17 and 27, which Houses he has endeavoured to ren der conspicuous, thereby to avoid disappointment. CI Old Hats covered with Silk *OM 6s. to Ss. N.B.—Shopkeepers and Country Dealers supplied on the most ad. vantageous terms. E BALSAM OF CAPIVI, CUBEBS, &c. A substitute for this hitherto Important, but most nauseous class of Medicines, which has hitherto been s desideratum amongst Medical Men, has at length bees found in the JAVA BALSA M, from which is prepared the JA•A PILLS, Being the only successful attempt to produce In a solid form an effi cient and agreeable Medicine; the specific properties of which are al ready extensively known, and fully relied upon, in all cases of Mucous Secretions from the Bladder and Kidneys, and every other case in which Capivi, Cubebs, Ste. have usually been employed. Persons going abroad will And these Pills the most portable and valuable Medicine hitherto offered to public notice. They will, keep in all climates, and may be taken with perfect safety under all circumstances, until the cure be complete. Hospitals, infirma ries, and Private Practitioners, may be supplied with the Liquid Balsam. front which these Pills are made, by application, post paid, to the Agent. The Java Pills are sold in Boom, price 21. 9d. and 4a. 6d. each, and may be had of H. Liddell, 14, Grosvenor-street, west, Pimlico, Sole Agent to the Proprietors; of Messrs. Sutton and Co. Bow Church. yard ; Messrs. Meacock and Hulse, Noble -street, New Post-of ce; Mr. Sanger, ISO, Oxford-street; Messrs. Nix and Co. front of Royal Exchange ; Mr. Grounds Threadneedle-street • Mr. Gifford, 104, strand; Mr. Colk, 29, F leet - street ; Mr. Balmer, 92, St. John street road, near the Angel, Islington ; Mr. Chalk, 47, Minories ; Mr. Willmott, 85, St. Margaret's-hill, Borough ; and Messrs. Shattleworth and Scamper, 140, Leadenhall-street, opposite the India House. Each Box has the signature of the Agent (H. Liddell) Oa the Stamp. New and Improved r dic loos. GOSS'S WORKS. Twentieth Ration, Ss. each. ./EGIS OF LIFE.- 1. T H E " Hominem paging mare uplt. u Our page relates to man."—Maanax. A Non-Medical Commentary on the indiscretions arising from Human Frailty, in which the nature, symptom., and baneful effects of Self-abuse, Intemp. ranee, and Libertinism, &A. are fully developed ; %oh Practical Observations on Sexual Debility and Mental Irrita tion, with some interesting Observations on Vegetable and Animal Life: in Part 11. Is a series of Cases illustrative of the preceding sub. sects, explaining them in a familiar manner. By GOSS and Co. Consulting Surgeons, London. " Natura beads Omnibus ewe dedit, si quis cognoverit uti."—C.eavistas. " Since Heaven to all the fund of bliss supplies, Its frugal application marks the wise." 2. THE SYPHILIST, a familiar treatise on disorders arising from Lues l'enerea, Gonorrhea, Stricture, &c. with a variety of remarks oc- , curing in a moat extensive practice each section explained by cases. HYGEIANA, a non-medical analysis of some complaint' inci dental to females, as Lencorrhrea, Nervous Irritation, &e. In which are offered some important admonitions on the peculiar debilities attending their circumstances, sympathies, and formation. The subject of ate rility is especially dwelt upon. Interesting and important cases illus trate the subject. " Quo fugit Venus ? Heu! quove color decant ?" Hor. Lib. 4, Od. 12. " Whither flies Love? Ali 1 where the charming bloom r The above may be had of Sherwood and Co. Paternouer-row, Lon ;B6,Trongate, Glasgow ; 9, Caltometreet, Edinburgh; R'rigisteon, Birmingham ; Duffield, Bath; Reid, Bristol . ; Weller, Chel.enham ; ' Loder. Brighton • Wood, Huntingdon ; Hatt C am b ridge ; Trew. 1112 n, Exeter ; Bacon and Co. Norwich ; Deck, .Ipswieh ; Hobson, Leeds; Gore and Son, Liverpool ; Bowler, Manchester; Platt and Todd, Sheffield ; Slitter, Oxford ; Brodie and Dowding, "Aiken' and of all Booksellers—Price Ss. eakh. Messrs. GOSS and Co. are toile consulted, as usual, every day, at their house ; and Patients in the remotest parts of the Country, eon fa• treated successfully on describing minntely the case t and eicinsing a re. mittance for advice and Medicine, which e au be forwar4l to any part of the w or ld. No difficelty tan occur. as dm medie4ie _ e_will be enure!y paoked and carefully protected from observation. GOSS and Co. M. R. C. Surgeons, No. 11, Bonet:le-street, Fleet ttreet, London. . 1..•IMIIIII•ummeal. N°. 13,791. MR. DYSON'S SPEECH ON REPORAf. This popular oration has been published as a pamphlet, but the author forgot us, and we never heard of him till chance threw his pamphlet in our way. It is a pennyworth of plain food, not to be despised by the moat refined palates, and we have pleasure, though excluded from his changeable constellation, in presenting its substance to the readers of our fixed Star. Stick to the Bill—it is your Magna Charts, and your Runnymede. King John made a prescot to the Barons. King William has made a similar present to you. Never mind, amnion qualities, good in:com mon times. If a man does not vote for the BUI, he le unclean—the plague spot is upon him—pus h him into the Lazaretto of the last ces tory, with Wetherell and e r—parify the air before you approach him—bathe your hands in chloride of lime, if you have bean contami nated by his touch. its hr from its being a merely theoretical immvanent, I put it , to any moo, who is himself embarked in a pratt or has eves la the same situsulen, if oho mak inileansa of Hmongitmongors has last' perpetually thwarted hke in Ms lawthl career of ambition, and probs. atonal emolument P " I have been in three general engagements at sea—been twice wounded—l commanded the boats when the French frigate, the Astrolabe. ess cut Gat so gallantly." Then you are made a Poet Captain ? ' No. I was very near it, but—Lieutenant Thom son cut me out, as I cut out the French frigate; his father is town clerk of the borough, for which Lord F— is Member, and there my chance was fi nished." In the same manner, all over England, you will find great scholars rotting en curacies—brave captains starving in gar. rets—profound lawyers decayed and mouldering in the Inns of Court, because the parsons, warriors, and advocate' of boroughmongers must be crammed to saturation before there is a morsel of bread fur the man who does not sell his votes, and put his country up to auction ; and though this is of every day occurrence the borough sys tem, we are told, is no practical evil. Who can bear to walk through a slaughter-house ? blood, prince, stomachs, entrails, le" tails, kidneys, horrors—l often walk a mile about to avoid it. What a scene of disgust and honor is an election—behold the base and infamous traffic of principles; a candidate of high character reduced to such means, the perjury and evasion of agents; the de testable rapacity of voters; the ten day's dominion of mammon, and Belial. The bill lessens it; begins the destruction of such practices; affords some chance, and some means of turning public opinion against bribery, and of rendering it infamous. But the thing I cannot, and will not bear, is this : what right has this lord, or that marquis, to buy ten seats in parliament, in the shape of boroughs, and then to make laws to govern me ? And bow are these masses of power re-dis. ttibuted ? The eldest son of my lord is just come from Eton—be knows a good deal about &nem, and Dido, Apollo and Daphne, and that is all; and to this boy his father gives a six hundredth part f the power of making laws, as be would give him an horse, or a double barrelled gun. Then Vellum, the steward, is put in; an admirable man ; he has raised the estates, watched the progress of the family road and canal bills—and Vellum shall help to rule over the people of Israel. A neighbouringeountry gentleman, Mr. Plumpkin, bents with my Iced, opens him a gate or two, while the hounds are running —dines with my lord —agrees with my lord—wishes be could rival the South Down Sheep of my lord—and upon Plumpkin is conferred a portion of the government. Then there Is a distant relation of the same name, in the county militia, with white teeth, who calls up the carriage at the Opera, and is always wishing O'Connell was hanged, drawn, and quartered—then a Waster, who has written an inter esting article in the Quarterly, and is very likely to. speak, and refute IPCulloch and them eve people, in whose nomination I have no more agency, than I have in the aeinination of the toll ' keepers of the Uosphorus, are to make laws for me, and my family—to put their hantls in my purse, and to sway the future destinies of this country; and when the neighbours step in, and beg permission to say a few words before these persons are chosen, there is an universal cry of ruin, confusion, and destruction;—we have become a great people under Vellum, and Plumpkin—under Vellum and Plumpkin, our ships have covered the ocean under Vellum and Plumpkin. our armies have secured the strength of the Hills—to turn out Vellum and Plump. kin is not reform, but /evolution ? Was there ever such a ministry? Was there ever before a veal ministry of the people? Look at the condition of the country when it was placed In their hands s the state of the house when the incoming tenant took possession : windows broken, chitin** on fire, mobs round the house threatening to pull It down, roof tumbling, rain pouring in. It was coinage to weepy ht: it was a miracle to save it ; it *ill be the glory of glories to enlarge, and expand it, and to make it the eternal palace of wise and temperate freedom. Proper examples have been made among the unhappy and misguided disciples of Serrog a rope has been round O'Coonell's legs, and a ring inserted in Cobbett's nose.:lThen the Game Laws ! Was ever conduct so shabby as that of the two or three governments which preceded that of Lord Grey? The cruelties and enormities of this code had been thoroughly exposed, and a general conviction existed of the necessity of a change. Bills were brought in by various gentlemen, containing fame trifling alterations io this abominable code, and even these were sacrificed to the tricks and manteuvres of some noble Nimrod who availed himself of the emptiness of the town in July, and dung out the bill. Govertunent never stirred a step. The &Inas of the pri sons, the wretchedness and demoralisation of the poor, nevet came across them. The humane and considerate Peel never once offered to exted his tees over them. It had nothing to do with the state of party, and some of their double-barrelled voters might be offended. In the mean time, for every ten pheasants which guttered in the wood, one English peasant was rotting in gaol. No sooner it Lord Althorp Chancellor of the Exchequer than he turns oat of the bowie a trump. pery, and (perhaps) an insidi ous bill for the improvement of the Game Laws; and in an instant,•ffere the assistance of Government fbr the abolition of the whole code. It is not the power of arietoaaey that will be destroyed by these measures, but the unfair power. If the Duke of Newcastle is kind, and obliging to his neighbours, he will probably lead his neighbours ; if he is a man of sense be will lead t h em more certainly, and to a better purpose. All this is as It should be ; but the Duke of Newcastle, at present, by buying certain old houses, could govern his neighbours, and legislate fur them, even If he had not five grains of un derstanding, and if he were the most churlish, and brutal man under heaven. The present state of things renders unnecessary all those impor. tent virtues, which rich and wcll.burn men, under a better stem, would exercise for the public r ood. Th e D u k e o f Newcastle Omen. tion hint only as an instance), Lord Exeter, will do as well, but either of those noblemen, depending not upon walls, arches, and abutments, for their power, but upon mercy, charity, forbearance, indulgetfce, and example—would pay this price, and lead the people by their affections; one would be the (hod of Stamford, and the other of Neirark. This union of the great with the many, is the real healthy state of a coun try ; such a country Is strong to invincibility--and this strength the Borough system entirely destroys. Cant words creep in and affect quarrels ; the changes are rung be tween revolution and reform ; but, first settle whether a wise govern. went ought to attempt the measur e - -whether any thing Is wanted—whe ther less would do—and, neeltig settled this, mere nomenclature becomes of very little consequence But, after all, If it is revolution, and not re form, it will only induce me to revive an old political toast in s two. fold meaning and with two-fold pleasure. When King William, and the great and glorious revolution are given, I shall think not only of escape from bigotry, but ixeuiptioo from corruption g and shall thank Providence, which hassled: us a second King 'William for the destruc tion of vice, as the other, of that name, was given us for the conserve ion of freedom. All the former political changes, proposed by these very men, it is said, were i ild snd gentle, compared to this ; true, but are you, on Sautiday night, to seize your apothecary by the throat, and to say to him, :tunic compounder, fraudulent posologist, did not you order me a dranfitf this Medicine on Monday morning, and now you declare. shot nothing short of an ounce can do me any good "' " True se would he of the phials reply, "lost feud id not take the drama se day mort;M:i—that trinkets all the difference, my dear Pk j tf PRI done as 1 *debited you at first, the small gnantlty of medicine have sullied i and Instead of being in a night-gown and slippers stairs, you would have been walking vigorously in Piccadilly. Do as you please—and die ii you please ; bus don't blame me because On despised my advice, and by your own igmoa st ee a nd o u tl aw knee entailed upon yourself ten-fold rhubarb, and unlimited infusion of 'emu. There will be mistakes at first, as there are in all charism AU yotilig 'Baia will itttagine (as soon aa thhi bill is !pried) that they will be tootandi miwrititt School' bays belie* that _Gunnar and &lines 'bandied, so ' - - down i• The &Sporn! desolind vale sn& that obtain tarts must ultimately come ,in price ; the > tal and strienat are sure of double pay; bad pests will expect • & fte their 'epics: Pooh will be disappointed, as they always are; reasonable men, who know what to expect, will And that • very merlons good has been obtained. MONDAY EVENING, MAY 23, 1831. PRICE 71). What good to the hewer of w ood and tie drawer of water ? How is he benefined, if Old Sarum is abolished, and Birmingham members created ?" But if you ask this question of reform, you must ask it of a great number of other measures ? How is he benefitted by Catholic Busaneipation, by the repeal of th e Corporation and Teat Act, by the revolutions of 1688, by any great political change ? by a good go. veromeot ? In the first place, if many are benefitted, and the lower orders are not injured, this alone is reason enough for the change. But the hewer of wood, and the drawer of water are bene fited by reform. Reform will produce economy and investigatior ; there will be fewer jobs, and a less lavish expenditure; wan will not be persevered in for years after the people are tired of them ; taxes will be taken off the poor, and laid upon the vkb ; demotic habits will be more common In a country where the rich are forced to court the poor for political power; cruel and oppressive punishments (such as those for night poaching) will be abolished. If you steal a pheasant, you will w punished, as you ought to be, but not seat away from your wife Wm and cla far seven years. Tobacco will be 2d per pound cheaper. Candles will fall in prior. These last results of an Improved govern ment wilt be felt. We do Dot pretend to abolish poverty, or to prevent ,sitracheilmem ; bat if peace, economy, and justice, are the results of refines, a another of small benalha, or retiree of benefits which sprier small to us bat not to them, wilt 'case to millions of the people; and the connection between the existence of John Russell, and the reduced price of bread and cheese, will be as clear as it has been the object of his honest, wise, and useful life to make it. Don't be led away by such nonsense; all things are dearer nodes a bad government, and cheaper tinder a good one. The real question they ask you Is, What difference can any change of government make to you ? They want to keep the bees from bussing and stinging, in order that they may rob the hive in peace. Work well ! How does it work well, when every human being, in doors and out, (with the exception of the Duke of Wellington) says it must be made to work better, or it will soon cease to work at all P It is little short of absolute nonsense to call a government good, which the great mass of Englishmen would, before twenty yams were elapsed, if reform were denied, rise up and destroy. Oi what use have all the cruel laws been of Perceval, Eldon, and Castlereagh, to extin guish reform ? Lord John Bassett. and his abettors, would have been committed to jail twenty years ago for half only of his present reform : and now relays of people would drag them horn London to Edinburgh; at which latter city we are told by Mr. Dundee, that there is me eager ness for reform. Five minutes before Moses struck the rock, this gen tleman would have said that there was no eagerness for water. There are two methods of malting alterations : the one is, to despise the applicants, to begin with refusing every concession, then to relax by making concessions which are always too late, by offering in 1831 what is then too late, but would have ban cheerfully accepted io 1830, —gradually to O'Connellise the country, till at last, after this process has gone on for some time, the alarm becomes too great, and every thing is conceded in hurry and confusion. In the mean time, fresh conspiracies have been hatched by the long delay, and no gratitude is expressed for what has been extorted by fear. In this way, peace was concluded with America, and Emancipation granted to the Catholics; and in this way the war of complexion will be finished in the West In. dies. The other method is, to see at a distance that the thing must be done, and to do it eflictually, and at once ; to take it out of the hands of the common people, and to carry the measure in a manly liberal manner, so as to satisfy the great majority. The merit of this belongs to the administration of Lord Grey. He is the only Minister I know of who has begun a great measure in good time, conceded at the be ginning of twenty years what would have been extorted at the end of it, and prevented that folly, violence, and frames, which emanate from a long denial and extorted toweled.* of jam.; doe to great masses of human beings. I believe the question of tefetm, or any dangerous agitatioo of .t, is set at resdor thirty a forty years; and this is an eternity in politics. Boroughs are not the power proceeding from wealth. Many men, who have tio boroughs, are infinitely richer than those who hares-but it is ,be artifice of wealth in seising hold of certain localities. The bororghnionger is like rheumatism, which owesit newer, not so much to the intensity of the pain as to its peculiar position; • little higher up, or a little lower down, the sane pain would be trifling; but it Axes in the joints, and gets into the bead quarters of motion and acti vity. The boroughmonger knows the hoportanoe of srthlsie positions; he disdains muscle, gets into the joints, and lords it over the whole ma. chine by felicity of place. Other men are as rich—but those riches are not fixed hi a critical spot. I lives good deal with all ranks Lod descriptions of people; I am thoroughly convinced that the party of Democrats and Republicans is very small and contemptible; that the English love their institutions —that they love not only this Kings Oche would not love hint ?) but the kingly off:ex.-that they have ao hatred to the Aristocracy. iam not afraid of trusting English happiness to English Gentlemen. I be. Rea that the half million of new voters will chase much better for time public, than the twenty or thirty Peers, to whose usurped power they succeed. If any man doubts of the power of Reform, let him take these two memorable proofs of its omnipotence. First, but for the declaration against it, I believe the Duke of Wellington might this day have been in office ; and secondly, in the whole course of the debates at county meetings. and in parliament, there are not twenty men who have declared against Re form. Some advance an inch, some a foot, some a yard.-hut nobody stands still—nobody sari, we ought to remain just where we were—every body discovers that he is a Refonna and has long been so and appears Infinitely delighted with this new view of himself. Nobody appears without the crekede-- bigger or less—but always the cockade. An exact and elaborate census totalled for—vast information should have been laid upon the table of the House—great time should have been gives: for deliberation." All these objections being turned into English, simply mean, that the chances of another year should have been given for defeating the Bill. In that time the Poles may be crushed, the Belgians °ennead, Louis Philip dethroned; war may tur all over Europe--the popular spirit may be diarted to other objects. It is certainly movoking that the Ministry foresaw all these possibilities, and deterwined to model :he iron while it was red, and glowing. It is not enough that a political institution works well practically:. It must be defensible ; it must be such as will bear discussion, and not excite ridicule and contempt. It alight work well, for might I know, if like the savages of Onelashka, we sent out to catch a King : but who could defend a coronation by chase ? who can defend the payment of 40,0001. for the three hundreds part of the power of Parliament, sad the re-sale of this power to Government for places to the Lord WE- Hams's, and Lord Charles's, and others of the Anglopha s i P Teach a million of the common people to real—and such a Government (work it ever so well.) must perish in twenty years. It is impossible to Tx:- sonde the mama of mankind, that there are not other and better methods of governing a country. It is so complicated, so wicked, such envy and hatred accumulate against the gentlemen who have fixed them selves on the joints, that it cannot fail to perish, and to be driven as it is driven from the country, by a general burst of hatred and detestation. I meant, gentlemen, to have spoken for another half hour, but I am old and tired. Thank me for ending—but, gentlemen, bear with me for another moment; one word more before I end. IAM old, but 1 thank God 1 have lived to see more than my observations on human nature taught me I had any right to expect. I have lived to see an honest King, iu whose word his ministers can trust; who diadeins to deceive those men whom he has called to the public service, but makes coo mon cause with them for .he common good, and exacices the powers of a ruler for the dearest interests of .he state. I have lived s to see a King with a good heart, who, surrounded by nobles, thinks of common men ; who loves the great mass of English people, sod wishes to be loved by them ; who knows that his real power, a lee fads that his happiness is founded on their a ff ection. I have li ved to see King, who, without pretending to time pomp of superior Intellect, has the wisdom to see, that the decayed institutions of human policy re quire amendment; and who, in spite of clamour, interest, prejudice, sod fear, has the manliness to carry these who changes into immediate execution. Gentlemea farewell r shout for the King!, • LORD CHANCELLOR Tli URLOW.--When it was resolved to deprive Lord Thurlow of the seals, none of the Ministers seemed willing to be the person to demand them, (which it was desirable should be done personally,) from the ungracious reception which it was sup posed he would meet with. At last Lord Melville was prevailed upon to undertake the task. Readopted the following plan for that The evening beibre, he sent a note to the ahasealloc, infamies that he proposed havlag the honour of bessideting with hie neat day, and that he had some very peetteldst beeline se utile biro. On his coming eettereerning, Lod Thole* said W Nth, " I know the business en width Yew have came. You than laves the and Beale. There they ww,• (pointing*. a table en width he bedpans& them,) " and there is yaw breekfaet,"—wf which they partook vinyew• ciably together. Lard Melville said, that be never saw Lord Tilde, in brUer humour, and they parted apparently very good Mende. 11111111111 M LAW OF ARREST. The Common Law Comm are now engaged upon this important branch of our laws. We have been furnished with a copy of the questions which they have submitted to some of the leading members of the profession : I. In cases where you are employed to recover debts for which the debtor may be held to hail, do you usually proceed by bailable or ser viceable process, and what is the proportion of the one to the other ? 2. What are the dreumstances that Induce you to lases bailable in preference to serviceable pprr ? 3. In particular, is process usually resorted to from itprre. bonito at the debtor will abscond, or from what other motive ? 4. Whet bailable process is resorted to, in what stage of the pro ceedings is payment most frequently obtained ? 8. Where the debt is paid or settled after arrest, in what proportion of cases is it paid or perfected before settling bail above ? IL Where bail above is perfected, and the defendant pleads to the declaration, is the suit productive to the creditor in general or otherwis.? 7. In what stages of the cause where the debt is recovered at all, la it moat usually recovered where the process is merely serviceable? 8. Are you aware of any instances, and are they frequent or other wise, where the power of arrest on mane process has been abused for vexatious purposes, either by arresting where no sum was due, or wiltre less was due than the sum for which the debtor was arrested; or where, the debt being due, the process was resorted to without sue dent cause ? 9. Are you aware of any instances of inconvenience endless of credit sustained by debtors who have been arrested, and who are solvent but unable to procure ball ? If you are, state them ? lA. Do you know, or have you reason to believe, that debtors are frequently put to great expense to obtain indulgence from Sheriffs officers, and persons sployed to execute process, and that extortion Is sometimes practised by officers on debtors in their custody ? 11. Is the system of bail productive of perjury, and in what manner, according to your experience ? 12. Does it, according to your experience, °prove to encourage Uti. Ration and multiply twits, and In what manner P 13. Is it frequently attended with the inconvenience of subjectind rdatives or hinds who have become bail to the payment of the debt of the principal? 14. Do you in there ere its say other respects consider the rights of arrest on mine process as productive of hardship or oppression to the debtor ? 15. Do you know any instances, and to what extent, where debtors on arrest have bad recourse to the insolvent Aet, for the fraudulent purpose of withholding their property ? 16. Are such frauds easily practised 17. In your judgment, is the Insolvent Coon effective for enforcing a fair distribution of the Insolvent's property, or in what respect do you consider the proceedings to be defective ? 18. Are arrests in some instances procured by debtors themselves, for the purpose of obtaining the benefit of the Insolvent Act ? 19. Do you consider the power of holding a debtor to bail on means process advantageous, and if so, in what respect ? Or do yo u c on s id er it to be otherwise, and if so, for what reasons P 20. Do you think it might be altered or modified with advantage, as to the amount of the debt in respect of which the debtor may be beld to bail ? Or by any limitadon as to the nature of the debt ? tif by any limitatioo as to the elan of persons subject to arrest ? Or the drcumstatiess under which it ought to be allowed—such as t h e apple heusion of a fraudulent removal by the debtor, of his person us pro perty, and by requiring some such special cause to be sworn to as ground for agraWng ? 21. Can you suggest any other means of improving the present sys tem of arrest on mane process? 22. In your judgment, might process of attachment against the goods or other property of the debtor b: conveniently substituted for rouse against the person either absolutely, or at the option of the elleihor ? Is. Do you think it desirable in cues where the plaintiff has not thought proper to arrest a defendant in the tint instance to allow him a discretion of bolding him to bail in a subsequent stage of the pro ceedings ? 24. In your opinion, should a ftaudulent removal of goods after judgment be punishable as a aims ? These questions look very like an inclination to put the public in the wrong. Nothing in truth can be more absurd than to refer to lawyers reforms of the law. We know that the law of arrest is the harvest of the professien ; and who but law commissioners would have sought front the pro fession any information on a point which is likely to de prive it of a full third of its emoluments ? Perhaps, how ever, this was all Mr. Hume could effect in a Parliament constituted like the last. - Some of our conti-mporaries in their avidity for news, hare Levu propagating scan dal ous repona about a Fiat commoner, and his right bouourable wife, for which we consider it out duty to state them is it* foundation. Stich abases of the press are meet in. jurious .0 its useful liberty. his our, rule newer to obtrude prime affairs, which do not affect .he intercom or the public. The Lame Duck at the Stock Exchange the other day to the tri t e o f nearly amillion, at one time wax a leader in the house, and a Weida in he same for some considerable loans. The Totiett in the small part of the public preen, of which they lure the command, are woods-Kay smsderially ming. I nant, and wonderfully amusing; but we think they bed batter hus band their resources, for ti•ey must soon take a lung farewell of all their usual means of replenishment. During the time the British squadron lay off the Tagus, awaiting the answer of Don Mead to the demands of the English government, a British resident, a merchant at Lisbon, received a request from Dun Miguel to wadi on biol., and was questioned as to his Aare opinion of what would be the result if the demands in question were net fully complied with, especially if he thought reprisals would be made, or the forme from Terceira be assisted by the British squadron in 'heir descent upon Porttopil ? To the farmer he answered In the affirmative • to the latter he replied that, what% they might not assist, but that probably they would not prevent. THE NOST DILIOENt BISHOP IN ALL ENGLAND ! Who is the most diligent biskiip and prelate in all England, and passel all the rest in dein his eillett ? I ma tell, for I know who he is ; I knew him well but sow methinks I see you listanag and hearkening that I should name him. There is one that passeth all the other. and is the most diligent prelate and preacher in all England. And will you know who It is ? I will tell you : it is the Devil. He is the most dili gent of all other ; he is new oat of his diocese; he is never now tat .; ye shall never find him unoccupied; he is ever is his parish; be keep& residences' all times; ytt shall never find him out of the way, call for him when ye will; be is ever at home ; the noel diligent preacher in all the realm. He is ever at the plough ; no lording nor Mitering _may his& him ; he la ever applying to his business ; ye shall never tind him idle, I warrant you. And has office is to binder religion, to maintain superstition, to set up idolatry, to teach all kind of ' Popery.—Biehep Latimer. GOD SAVE THE KINO.—On en Indictment on the statute 1 Geo. I, cap. 6. sec. 1. (the Riot Act,) foe a capital felony, in remaining together for one boar after the making of the proclamation under that imitate, it appeased that sheet 260 perms. had assembled together in a riotous manner, and had threatened to break thrashing machines, when Dr. Josef, a magistrate, read the proclamation from the Riot Act; but in reading it, he omitted to read the words "Goo save the King," at the conclusion. Mr. Baron Vaughan and Mr. Jus. dm Alderson held that, as those wads at the end of the proclamation were omitted to be read, the charge amid not be supported. Their lordships directed an sequittaL Res. v. Child, c. and p. 244. SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE'S DESCRIPTION OF LORD Bvitox.-.-His vivid (mod dash dark) grad emm et thought swab • ern the imightations and sable as bad to the before we ecru. tin's. the man ; but who Is lam us Mir the Utter, the former be comes an object of aggemiteasies mid disgust and, accordingly, Les ter's system never moirted its truth more foodbly than in Lord Byron's countenance, in width you see all the charepter. its keen and rapid genius, ha psis h ip t:lli s sace, Its peolipty sod ks likettness.—its original symmetry dietorted the peesismOde high etemiegled merriment and seorn—ths dear adage% *law the .still eyes bright sod rikehaitar, the mese lady ewe, the aestill anste4 fonned--the swath well formed, bet Id* ad -wawa earn ID dainful e itS smile, x f p = i Z N a l t the warners, and its and dia by the amnia doses if the chin which springs as eyes km the opue if the tarn adallp—the hai; dark and curling, bet boobs In its growth s all this pstmes to you the poet and the mss, mid . the gesersi yea is sided by a thin spare form, and, as yea may have bassi, by ejlefermity of limb. THE DEAD ALIVE.—On Snootily night, ,114 r. Gallaher, the celebrated ventriloquist, observed • two iSide osuntry-looking fellows canyon &cola out to Borali.ftwo. Wha Agri Rem the bridge at Harold's-aces, they um* to teat thesegta, ilia Gal. later pretended to be walking - jib* by thee, when be threw his mime into the Gomm and oleaketwia at way was beard to issue, followed by cries of " Ohl author 1 is it into the. anal you're goin' to throw me ? Let It bad imMilk to Burke me, but you must be after drownin' me too f" " What hi the meld U that t" said a person who was passing. "Is that. the question you're maim' ?" said the voice from the coffin: " let me mat o' the noun, you man drels, and though I ea half choked, I'll boa the eweofyes.. wsiuen and the other conte on." " Oh ! good Chriaiiima," • poor woman elle wok sew lititareed by the Miles " 'ter es a dead men Is the coin who mews to light hie two tourdorwea . A wellwil was kinmedistely eellestei—the two peer eantrynat an sawed se neaseetisoists, wed him set until the edits as speed and naustool; that they was pematell so with their..bwedew Jesse she wad wee dlepeedog, voise Bibs coffin was hosed to &claim, " Now, boys, die sit die tremble I gave you, I hope you wOO% forget to bury me fir,