The Sun. — London, England, 1837-05-05 00:00:00

SIR FRANCIS it DETT'S FRIENDS I ast evening a meeting ut the electors of Westminster in tie interest of Sir Francis Burdett took place at Pen dali's Hotel, Palace-yard. J. ELLIOTT, Esq., Was voted to the Chair. the CHAL{MAN on rising said, if ever there were a time upon which the electors were enlleil upon to do their dut ) to the country, the present was the most urg,tul. 'Mr. JONES BURDF.TT was sorry t/ hAve it to state, that Sir Francis was totally incapacitated from attending the meeting that ev en i ng , i n consequence o f violent indisposi tion. He was for removing ( ~ 11 acknowledged abuses—for supporting all measures which tended to improve the state, - and not destroy its institutions.—(Hear.) . Mr. Wool) said no one was more sensible of the import ance of the - present contest than himself. The Conserva tive Reformers, of slam lie was one, were for preserving and not impiring -the Constitution. Fr o m regard to the past se:-vices of Sir Francis Burdett the electors were called upon to return liiin.—(Cheers.) He concluded 1:1 moving a resolution to the'effect, " That the meeting view with satisfaction the exertions of their friends towards pro curing the return, of Sir Francis Burdett for the city of Westminster." Mr. SlltlTtn seco►lded the resolution. Mr. L. FREEMAN moved that district Committees be formed, and that all gentlemen be requested to lcnd their assistance. Mr. GORING came forward and addressed the meeting amidst the greatest noise and confusion. The meeting was about to be dissolved owing to the great confusion, when Mr. DawsoN came forward and said, that though this meeting was nominally for the friends of Sir F. Burdett, be should be sorry if' gentlemen of different principles were not allowed to be heard.—(Hear, hear, hear.) Let the orinions of the majority be considered. The meetings of Mr. Leader and his friends were held without any interrup tion on their parts, but they were not satisfied with that ; they came down in a body to overwhelm us.—(Cheers.) Mr. JERVIS, M. P., then came forward and said that he had a right to say something, being well known in his own parish. He was encouraged to come here. " I come to the question," continued Mr. Jervis, " whether Sir Francis is to have the support of this parish or not, or whether you will choose Mr. Leader for your representative. If you want a man of assiduity, diligence, and ability, one per fectly independent in fortune and principles, I should say he was the man to select.—(Hear, hear.) I look to his votes, to some of them I object ; for example, he is for a reform in the House of Lords, and to that I am opposed. But shall I not look to the other side ? Shall I not call to reco:lection the former conduct of Sir F. Burdett, and con trast it with his present apostacy ?—(Cheers.) Shall I not remember that be was the very man who attacked and reproached Sir Samuel Remaly for refusing to vote for Universal Suffrage ?—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, these im pressions have not passed away, nor are the events so far distant as to be forgotten.—(Loud cries of Hear, hear.) But what has he done now ? Stung and forced into resigning his seat, he has chosen the happiest moment— be has taken advantage of Sir George Murray's or ganised forces who have returned from the field—his Com mittee has been enlisted in his service. —(Hear.) But, gen tlemen, I say I would infinitely pay a man who differs from me in polities to one guilty of a total dereliction of principle. Therefore do I vote for Mr. Leader, though differing with him on some material question. Should the event of this election be determined in favour of Sir Francis, why, the Tories would parade it as a triumph.—(Much con fusion among-Sir Francis's party, being anxious to disclaim all Connection with the name of " Tory." The Chairman eventually interposed to restore order.) Yes, I say, they would laud it as a triumph ; it would be made a question of principle by the Tory press and party. Sir Francis screens himself under false pretences. For myself, I wave all minor differences, and am content and happy to vote for Mr. Leader. It is purely a question of principle whether you prekr Mr. Leader to a man who was raised on the shoul ders of the people to the honour of being your representa tive, but who has now abandoned and betrayed the trust you so faithfully reposed in him. I know not what excuse to make for such conduct. The most charitable one is to re fer it to old ag e."—(Great uproar here ensu e d, w ith groans, and hi sses , an d execrations both loud and deep.) Mr. WOOD said, that had it not been for the exertions of Sir Francis Burdett, they should have been without reform in the present day. Mr. C. BUI.LER then came forward, but, not being an elector, was prevented from being heard. The clamour which was so often % alluded to as proceeding from Mr. Leader's party was in this instance so successfully held by Sir Francis's party, to preclude the Hon. Member from a hearing. A vote of thanks was proposed to the Chairman, after which the meeting separated at half-past ten. MR. LEADER AND THE ELECTORS OF WESTMINSTER. A Meeting of the friends of Mr. Leader was advertised for 7 or 8 o'clock last Evening at the British Coffee-house, Cockspur-street ; but at about a quarter past 7, Mr. Simpson announced that: m /consequence of the meetinr being much larger than was anticipated, arrangements had been made for adjourning to the Lowther Rooms. A rush was then made to the doors, and in a few minutes a'terwards the persons assembled had removed to the Low ther Rooms. Shortly before eight Mr. Leader and Mr. Chutes Buller took their seats on the hustings. Mr. Sistrsoi, addressing the meeting, stated that the Tories had announced a public meeting to be held at Fen dall's Hotel that. evening, to get resolutions passed to se cure the election of Sjr Francis Burdett. Now, if it were reap}; a public meeting, they could dispense with a few hun dreds to express their opin►on. If it were a public meet ing, they were equally at liberty to go there, and, if they thought proper, they sere equally at liberty to say that Sir Francis Burdett was not the person to represent them. Mr. LEmzEtt had been informed by an active member on the Committee that his presence was required down at the Committee-room in Palace-yard for a short time, and with the per Mission of the meeting he would leave for a few minutes. Mr. Leader, by the consent of the meeting, then left the room, which by. this time was crowded to excess, and the heat was almost iotolerahle. Mr. SIMP.3:Th was about to propose that Mr. Charles Buller, in the absence of Mr. Harvey, should take the chair, when Mr. Harvey entered the room, and was moved into the Chair. Colonel Thompson, M.P., Mr. Adam Smith, Sir William Molesworth, B ut., M.P., Mr. Ward, M.P., Mr. Hume, M.P., Mr. Talfourd, M.P., Mr. Tulke, M.P., Mr. Evart, M.P., Mr. 11. Grattan, M.P., - Mr. M.P., Mr. Il sh, 'M.P., Mr. Rigby Wason, M.P., Mr. Carpue, and many other gentlemen were on the hus tings in the course of the evening. Mr. DANIEL. WHITTLE HARVEY, M.P., having taken the chair, addressed the meeting to the following effect For more than thirty y:ars of his life he had been the pupil of Sir Francis Burdett—he had been a pupil of the Bur dett school. Well did he remember the time when he was scarcely oat of his teens, that he proceeded from this me tropolis qu the occasion of the Middlesex election for forty miles into Essex, and by the aid of four horses, and the a id of buoyant spirits of youth, lie brought up two of the Last men who gave plumpers to Sir Francis Burdett. From trat time to the present there had never been a meeting at which that lion. Baronet presided at which lie '(Mr. Harvey) was not present, in order that he might profit by lus snmvledge, and be strengthened in the cause of well doing by his exatnple. It could not but be matter of re gret to him, having known the Hon. Baronet so long as he had—nay, be could not but feel deeply that the time should arrive when a sense of public duty compelled him to separate from him. The electors of Westminster appeared in self-defence. - They were not disposed to deny the villue of the past exertions of Sir F. Burdett, but they did ho nour to what he had done in past tipte ; they idolized his' memory and the principles which be had advocated ; and whilst they stilled their feelings they did honour to the name and principles to which he bad in years gone by riven his enlightened aid. To defeat Sir Francis Burdett was to evince how great was their sense of his mistaken views, by showing their devotion to that cause to which he had been once the martyr. But the constituency of West- minster wac not an infnntine political body— \Vestmin .s not a it borough —it was as old as the Coo, stitution, and the love of liberty was coeval with its sound. , —( Hear.) But it was their duty" to ascertain the allega tion, " Who is the traitor ? Who has abandoned his prin . ciples?" They saw that in that powerful organ of the press, the Times, the eloquent champion of Sir F. Burdett, they were denounced as revolutioniAs.—( Hear, hear.) If they w erc denounced thus, it was because they adhered steadily o those principles which Sir Francis Burdett had for so • ny years so ably advocated. [Here Mr. Hume entered the nin, and was received with deafening shouts of applause.] lie (Mr. Harvey) rejoiced that his Hon. Friend, the long tried friend of Reform, had just entered the room, because his never-failing recollection would recur to that to which he was about to allude. The Hon. Baronet proposed " that freeholders, householders, and others, subject to direct taxation in support of the poor, the Church, and tie State, be required to elect Members to serve in Par liament." " That each county be subdivided according to its taxed male , population, and each subdivision required to elect one Representative." " That the votes be taken in etch parish by the parish officers - ; and all the elections finished in one and the same day." - And he said moreover —" And I make no hesitation in delivering it as my well digested opinion, that under the operation of this Reform, it would be attended with much less difficulty to .return a whole Parliament than to settle a dispute at a vestry about a parish pauper." Again, he said, " There would be an end to all odious and fanciful distinctions of persons and .roperty—all would be simple and uniform : their weight end influents' proportioned to their intrinsic value—no goa t:wow:mg or disqualifications —no invidious exclusions by :cason of any office, from the bightst IA the 1t Nosh tither .1 the elector or the tlecttilno 'variable, fantastical, liti ;ious rights IA Voting—no possibility of false votes—no reating—no carrying out voters—no charges of any kind-- to expense, legal or illegal—no contested elections. The ople would have a choice without a contest, instead of a con -est without a choice." Sir F. Burdett, in pursuing the de velopment of his plani for Parliamentary Reform, on the oc ,asion to which he had alluded, in reference to the benefits vbich he anticipated would result from the scheme, said— " The benefits that would undoubtedly follow from the idoption of this reform are incalculable. Though lam not one of those who would apply a sponge to the debt of the nation, yet I am firmly persuaded that a re armed House of Commons would introduce such a system of economy, both in the collection and expendi ture of the revenue, as would give instant ease to the subject, and finally, and that at no very distant period, by a due application of national resources to national ob jects, and to them alone, free the people from that enor mous load of debt and consequent taxation under which the nation is weighed down." Again, " These have been the. objects of my pursuit—to them have I always directed my attention ; higher I do not aspire, lower I cannot descend." Were not these the objects which the meeting had in view —were not these- the objects for the attainment of which they were contending ? Did they aspire to anything higher —did they descend to anything lower ? Who was the apostate—who gave up his recorded opinions? Were the electors of Westminster, who, through good and ill—were the freeholders or Middlesex. who were one and the same body in principle —were these persons, who for thirty years had attached themselves to Sir Francis Burdett—were these men now, when the cause of Reform must advance or retrograde, to be charged by their hallowed idol with aiming at floating less than the overthrow of the throne, and the annihilation of property ? Numerous as the elec tors were—strong in intelligence, in the singular locality of their city, the scat of the Court, the resort of men of science, of every occupation in which the industry of man and the arts could be engaged—yet all these were to yield to the effect of the contest—to their success or overthrow ; for there was a singular circumstance attached to this con test, that the nation was not bewildered by being on the eve of a general eliction ; there was no balancing, therefore, a defeat in one quarter against a triumph elsewhere. There could be no paltering of votes—no balancing of interests— no giving a half vote to principle, and another half vote to a friend. Let every voter do his duty—let him vote for one man only. Let every voter remember that the eyes of the country were directed to the result of this struggle. As the fate of Toryism was involved in this contest, let it succeed, and the cause of Toryism would be advanced many steps, and the cause of the Whigs, with their reluctant supporters, would be thrown back, and the Radical cause would have to mourn over the defalcations of its friends and the tri umph of its foes.—(Hear, hear.) The Hon. Gentleman concluded by an eloquent appeal to the assembly, calling upon every man to exert all 'the energies of his body and mind in carrying out the great object they had in view. Mr. Suarsos addressed the meeting at some length, urging combined exertions on the part of the voters. They must recollect that they had no plural votes . to contend against. The question at issue was not whether Mr. Leader or Sir Francis Burdett should represent West minster ; but there was a much higher consideration in the question. The Hon: Gentleman concluded by moving the first resolution :—" Resolved—That Sir Francis Burdett, by his repeated declarations in opposition to the popular measures recently proposed to Parliament by his Ma jesty's present Ministers, and by his insulting and con temptuous letter to the electors, has betrayed the confi dence, and rendered himself unworthy of the future support, of the electors of this parish." Mr. HUME could recommend Mr. Leader, as a gentle man in every way entitled to be honoured by the confidence of the electors of Westminster. The question was not merely whether Nlr.,Leader. or Sir Francis Burdett ought to be returned for Westminster, but whether those great principles, in upholding which Westminster had stood dis tinguished beyond all other cities, should be maintained and carried out. The resolution was then put and carried unanimously. Dr. BAINBRIDGE proposed the second resolution : " Resolved—That John Temple Leader, Esq., having by his conduct during the time that he has had a seat in the House of "Commons, and by his declarations on the hust ings, as well by as his written address:to the electors, shown that he entertains opinions in consonance with those of-the majority of the householders of this parish; the inhabitants present declare that he is a fit and proper person to repre sent them, and they pledge themselves to give him all the support in their power." Mr. WARD, M.P., in seconding this resolution, said he had double pleasure in seconding the resolution, from the respect which he entertained for Mr. Leader. He begged [ to bear his testimony to the indefatigable zeal of that Hon. Gentleman in aiding all questions involving the ex tension of popular power. • They could not find a fitter man for their champion. The Hon. Gentleman, in an able speech, deprecated the apostasy and singular conduct of the late Member for Westminster. With reference to the question immediately under consideration, if the election went against the Liberal candidate, he could not but look to the fatal effect which such a result must have on every question now at issue ; and the electors of Westminster must throw their weight into the scale to avert such a calamity. Mr. LEADER hoped that he might be blessed with strength, with energy, and with sufficient ability to fight their battle as it should be.—(Hear, hear.) He must confess he was not very old ; but he was old enough to dis tinguish between right and wrong, and to have acted upon his own opinions for three or four years. He did not know what some persons might consider to be a proper age ; but he was old enough to do that which he had already done, namely, to advocate the people's cause ; that cause he had advocated as zealously and as sincerely as any man. Yet, in spite of this complaint that he was too young, he would not ask again at what age a man was fit to be a Re presentative ? , Some might think a man of sixty-five years of age was better than one of five-and-twenty. Now, the question which be and those whom he was addressing had to deal with, was not as one between Sir Francis- Burdett and himself, but it was one at issue between the supporters of Liberal Institutions and the'upholders of arbitrary rule ; it was a question between a free responsible Government and the old system under which they had so long 'groaned in the time of a despotic Tory rule.—( Hear, hear.) It was a contest between the many who thought that they should hare a fair share in -the legislation, and the few who thought that they were born to govern and the people to obey.— (Hear, lielr.) He had already published to the electors a brief statement of his political opinions. He was now, as he ever had been, what was commonly called a Reformer: But he must observe, that there were m my sorts of Re formers. There mieht be many, for instance; who ob jected to some of the Reforms which he desired to see carried into affect—there might be some who might wish for what was termed 'moderate Reform—some persons there were who were what were called moderate Whigs. Now these shades of difference existed, and he would say that in nine out of ten cases they might argue, and if the difference remained only on the tenth case they would not refuse to support a man who agreed in principle and detail on the others. fic was aware that not only in Westminster, but elsewhere, the opinions of the Radicals were much maligned, because there was a timid party to abuse them. Ile knew it had been objected to himself, that be bad talked very openly in public meetings, and had said that he thought it would be for the good govern ment of the country that some understanding should be come to between the peoi - de and the House of Lords. This declaration had been urged against him as a great crime. Many maintained that this doctrine was revo lutionary and must tend to anarchy—that he sought to pull down everything—to create a general confusion in the cottntry. And all these allegations were made because he had.said that the House of Lords had fur a long time past stood in the way of the best interests of the people, and had obstructed the legislation of the country. The House of Lords had risked the danger of a civil war in Ireland, by re fusing to the 'lrish people those rights to which they were , ntitlerl. Now, when he spoke thus of the House of Lord::, this ‘v.es the very "ergs of his Redicalisni. 'He was glad to fiod that so far from being disappointed in his deck ration, it seemed to be the general feeling of that assembly dm-. the House of Lords had been opposed to the best in terests of the people.—(Loud cheering.) There was no thing revolutionary in that doctrine ; there was nothing un constitutional in it. Their opponents were talking a great deal about the Constitution—they had become very fond of the Constitution. But he should like to hear their de finition of the Constitution He believed that by the term' constitution they meant the upholding all pensions, plu rality of voting, voting by proxy, &c. But when he talked of the House of Lords in this way, and declared it to be not revolutionary to do so, did they not recollect that only a few years ago, when any man spoke of reform ing the House of Commons lie was immediately held up by the aristocracy as a raark for every man to shoot at as a visionary—as a supporter of new fangled laws. Then they were told that the Constitution was the moat perfect system of Government that human' wisdom could devise. Certain Statesmen told them that the Constitution was the perfection of human wisdom! But was that the opinion of the people of England ? In those times when they called for a reform of the House of Commons, they wire called violent Radicals who desired to see confusion, and to cause a general scramble of property. But did they not ulti mately reform the House of Commons? He found that Lord John Russell had said something- about " relaxing" the Reform Bill. He was delighted whorl he heard this, because certain persons supposed that the Refortn Bill was ex Gail measure, They must also got 6(1 or that sposoltss; tttipiti rogitiatinti tit a jiftip;ikty qdalitication for Members. WOre men's intellects tp be maasured by the acre, or their good sense by the pound sterling? Again, they must have the duration of Parliaments limited, in order that the repre scntatis es of the people might be called before their consti tuencies much oftener than they now were. But one chief ob ject which they must keep in view was the vote by ballot. Without a system of secret voting the elective franchise was a mere mockery ; it was worse—it was a curse.— (Hear, hear.) He never could hare believed the extent to which intimidation was carried on. He had seen its effects in Bristol, where many most respectable merchants were compelled to vote against their consciences. But even in Westminster, where be had thought intimidation unknown, and where the will of the people was supreme, he found that my lord tbk and my lady that., and the , young ladies paraded Regent -street and Bond street canvassing the tradesmen. To attain tile three great objects which he re commended, he would say, " Agitate, agitate, agitate !" _ _ fill they should compel the Legislature to adopt a great measure of Parliamentdry Reform embodying those mea sures.—(The Hon. Gentleman sat down amidst thunders of applause and cheering.) Cul. Thompson, Mr. Ewart, Mr. Tulk, Mr-Carpue, and Mr. llarvey, each addressed a few words to the meeting. Three cheers having been given for Mr. Leader the meeting separated at a quarter past eleven, long before which time the heat was dreadfully oppressive. 1 1 111: SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1837. ADJOURNED COUNTY DAY. gativcd, consider 'The bound to support the Mit-f:s tofi‘-il rficasiii•e. The, Tories, in fact-- - -i101e33 they ate inclined to go the whole hog—need not flatter them selves with the prospect of a victory, or the prospect of place. The minds of the Liberal Members are made up, and they will, or they ought, to vote for the Government Measure. It may be all very well for ' Mr. Sharman Crawford and other impracticable gentle men to vote that a nuisance is a nuisance, and that it shall be immediately abated ; but it partakes more of the character of a Statesman to reflect upon the dan gers attendant upon such a course, and to act, not as his wishes would dictate, but. as circumstances will permit him.—Morning Advertiser. To-night the House of Lords will be invited to pro ceed to the consideratioi, in Committee, of the Irisl► Municipal Bill. We suppose, from the intimations given by the Conservative leaders on the second reading of the Bill, and from time manner in which those inti- [nations were teceived by their opponents, that there can be little doubt as to the course which will be taken by the House of Lords on this occasion. The Con servatives Nvill propose to put aside dr.! Municipal Bill until the Tithe Bill shall be upon the table ; and the Destructives, grumbling and growling according to their nature, will acquiesce without a division in the post ponement. We'have already expressed, respectfully,. our opinion of the policy adopted in this matter by the Conservative Peers. We will not repeat the argu ments by which we have enforced it. If the friends of good Government and social order shall be able, by the tactics they have preferred, to force on their reluctant adversaries the two measures in an amended form—the Municipal Bill, guarded by provisions for the adequate representation of the Protestant mino rity in the Town-councils, and the Tithe Bill, denuded of the clauses in which it is proposed to embody the new principle of legislative robbery—we shall readily and joyfully acknowledge the wisdom of their proce dure. But if the Irish Municipal Bill is to be post poned, without any reasonable anticipation of such fu ture amendment of its provisions as should enable an honest man to give it. his support, and if precedence is to be extorted for the Irish Tithe Bill, without any sufficient prospect of such amelioration of the principle as will enable both Houses of Parliament to assent to its enactment, we confess we are inclined to say, with Lord Brougham, that the scrupulousness of our friends is a farce. However, the Conservative Peers have fought the battle of the Constitution hi therto with stout courage, with sound discretion, and with admirable success. It is not fit that we should doubt hastily the manliness, or the prudence of any determination which they, upon consideration, hare formed. We are content to abide the event. If the fate of the Municipal Bill is to be regulated by the fate of the Tithe Bill, we shall not have long to wait ; for we suspect the Conservatives in the House of Commons, after one division against the new-fangled fraud, will %taste very little time upon the logic of Lord Morpeth and the statute of Henry the Eighth.— Morning Post. MIDDLESEX QUARTER SESSION Yesterday being the day to which the county business had been adjourned from the meeting of the 20th April last, there was an extremely large attendance of Magis trates ; there could have been hardly less than fifty present, amongst whom we recognised—Geo. Byng, Esq., M.P., Col. Wood, M.P, ; Hughes Hughes, Esq., M.P. ; John Wilks, Esq., M.P. ; Sir J. S. Lillie, Sir Charles Forbes, Bart. ; Sir John Gibbon, Bart. ; Sir James Williams, Sir Peter Laurie, Mr. Hall, Mr. Smith, Mr. Stock, Mr. Halswell, &c., &c. At twelve o'clock Mr. Sergeant ADAMS took the Chair. The CHAIRMAN said before they proceeded to have the report of the Committee read for borrowing money for en larging the County Lunatic Asylum, be thought it light to submit certain resolutions adopted at a special vestry meet ing of the parish of St. George, Hanover-square, on the motion of the Right Hon. G. R. Dawson, seconded by the Earl of Darlington. The following are the resolutions : " I. That the vestry having again had under considera tion the subject of the extension of the Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell, lament that their former memorial to the Ma gistrates, objecting to the proposed extension, has proved ineffectual. " 2. That it is the opinion of this vestry that the sum of 20,0001. to be imposed upon the county of Middlesex for the extension of the Lunatic Asylum at Harwell, is not at present necessary. " 3. That the above resolutions be transmitted to the Clerk of the Peace, for the purpose of being submitted to the Magistrates of the county of Middlesex at their next meeting. _ _ " 4. That the above protest be communicated to the parishes of St. James and St. Alarylebone." PETER LAURIE, Esq., moved that those resolutions be referred to the Committee.—Agreed to. The Clerk then proceeded to read the Report. The Committee had caused a case to be prepared and laid before the Attorney-General and Mr. Manic, .who, in a joint opinion, advised the raising of the required sum by a mortgage or mortgages on the county rates, according, to the 9th of Geo. IV. chap. 49. On the motion of Mr. HALL the Report was received. Captain Actmost then moved that the sum of 20,0001., or so much as might be required, be raised by a mort gage on the county rates, and referred to the Committee for Accounts and General Purposes, to receive tenders for lending the same in one or more sum or sums, and in such proportions and at such times as might be required. After some discussion Captain Acklom's resolution was put and carried unanimously. On reading the Report'of the Committee relative to the Metropolis Improvement Bill, a lengthened debate arose regarding the right of borough representatives to act as Commissioners of Sewers. Mr. STOCK said the Members for the Tower Hamlets were not competent ; they were excluded by the Act. Mr. H. HUGHES observed that the Bill was only read a second time last night, and he apprehended the Session was rather too far advanced for it to make any further progress during the present sitting. The constitution of the Com mission was not one that he could accede to. • The CHAIRMAN said it had been admitted upon all hands that there was a great error in the framing of the Bill. Mr. WILKS thought that if -such an error existed, the Members for the Tower Hamlets, Dr. Lushington and Mr. Clay, were perfectly competent either in out of Parliament to take care of the interests of their constituents. Sir PETER LAURIE would not wish it to go forth that they were turning this Bill into ridicule. Colonel WooD said he had had a communication with Alderman Wood upon this subject, and was informed that the intended improvements were to be effected by a tax upon coals. Now, as the Government had given up the tax upon coals, he thought it would be unkind on their part to recommence 1 hat imposition. It was a bad way, he con sidered, to improve London to tax its coals.—(Hear.) Mr. M'WILLIAM was proceeding to address the meeting in a very sensible, but rather irrelevant strain, when lie was called to order by Sir Peter Laurie. The CHAIRMAN said there was not one word about coals in the Bill. Mr. M'WILLIAM had no intention of blowing the coals. --(Laughter.) lie had found them already lighted. The Report was then received. Mr. HuGttEs HUGHES then rose to bring forward his motion—" That in future every applicant to this Court for the renewal or grant of a licence for public dancing, music, &c., under the Act of the 25th Geo. 11., cap. 36, be required to state in his petition the precise dimensions, in length, breath, and height, of the room or rooms in which it is pro posed that such public entertainment shall take place ; and that this resolution be immediately advertised in the usual Morning and Evening Newspapers, and a copy sent by the Depnty-Ckrl; of the Peace to every individual now holding a licence from this Court., and otherwise made public, as that officer may see fit." It appeared to him (Mr. Hughes) th it was for the prevention of such places that power was given to the Magistrates to regulate the granting of licences to those whom they considered properly qualified. His object was, that the Act should be properly carried into effect. He never attempted to limit its fair and legitimate operation. l le did not decide on its expediency or inexpediency ; but w hilst it existed, he resolved to carry it into effect. He was prepared to enforce it to its utmost extent. Plans of pre mises sought to be licensed according to the taste or choice of the applicant, would be produced from time to time to that, Court, and in every case they would be told whether the place applied for was for public dancing or public a musements, and. from its description they would under stand that it was not a lOw pot-house to which they were granting a licence. If from the length and breadth and height they saw that it was not a contemptible place, then they would know whether it ought to be licensei or not. No doubt impressions would be made abroad that this Court was attempting to limit the enjoyments of the poor, but he deprecated every false impression of the kind. In cases where licences had been already granted, and persons had been induced to make an outlay to meet the wants and requirements of the public in their neighbourhood, he would be unwilling to withdraw them, but he certainly would not repeat the grant. • Sir JAMES WILLIAMS seconded the motion. Sir CHARLES Foust* would give the motion his most decided opposition: the worthy Member must see that what he had in vieo was utterlyimpractleable, Suppose for im!tantlei that the licriec applied for was for music and dancing in a garden, they Might furhished . certainly will the length and breadth, but how was it po,isiljle the^ could get the height.—(Great laughter.) He hoped the by *iras net far distant when every one, no matter how poor their station in society, might enjoy their recreations unmolested, when every person wishing fir those amusements, and in compliance with the Act applied to that Court, would re-, ceive its sanction without distinction, lie should wish to see them enjoy themselves and entertain their neighbours, as long as they did so peaceably and harmoniously, The Worthy Baronet concluded by moving an amendment that the words after the figures 36 be left out, and that the words" Shall receive the same" be substituted. • Sir JOHN SCOTT LILLIE seconded the amendment. He could not see as they had, a free trade in spirits and beer why they should not have the same in music and in dancing. Mr. IIALswELL entirely approved of the original mo tion. Ile only opposed licenses when he conscientiously believed they ought not to be granted. Ile hoped, how ever, that the Hon. Member would withdraw his motion, with the understanding that it should go to a Committee. It was a strange anomaly, that according to the present regulations, there could be no masquerade or theatre, or other place of public amusement upon one side of Oxford street, whilst - upon the other those things were all allowed. Lieut. FITZGERALD imagined that the original motion was contrary to the Act of Parliament. Licenses were granted not to the house but to the man ; if the man left the house the license did not remain to his successor. The CHAIRMAN apprehended that the last speaker was right and wrong, the license was granted to the man for the house. Mr. 11. HUGHES said he wanted to limit the grant of licenses to proper persons, He hoped his Hon. Friend would withdraw his amendment. Sir C. FORBES—lndeed I shall do no such thing. Mr. HUGHES—The Surrey Magistrates under this Act licensed none but public theatres, yet the Middlesex Ma gistrates were asked by this amendment to license every one who applied.—( Hear, hear, from Sir C. Forbes.) Sir C. FORBES said the lion. Gentleman alluded to the practice in the county of Surrey, where no licence was granted for music and dancing. Now the Hon. Member must have forgotten Vauxhall. What will he say when I tell him that even in New South Wales no licence for mu sic and dancing was required. He stated this on the au thority of his relative, the Chief-Justice of New South Wales, whose opinion on the subject was, that it caused great inconvenience. Sir PETER LAURIE said that Sir Charles' supported his amendment with perfect consistency and good humour. As to the latter part of his argument, he would reply that when the population here was as thin as in New South Wales, they might then think of granting licenses indiscri minately, but whilst they supplied New South Wales with a population, they should be cautious to whom they gave those privileges. Colonel Woon, M.P., would just trespass upon them for a very few moments. The Hon. Baronet had stated that he would persist in his amendment. Now he hoped that if the Hon. Mover would withdraw the original 'no tion, that he would consent to withdraw the amendment. It would go forth to the public on the wings of the press, that they wanted to restrict the pleasures of the poor. Now in this dense population, it must be admitted there were few amusements for the lower orders, and when they could allow it, the Magistrates should be anxious to extend the privileges as far as possible. -He would vote against both the original motion and amendment. Mr. M'WILLIAM was about to deliver some observation upon the subject in debate, when he was called to order. The CHAIRMAN—I think you are travelling farther than you ought. Mr. M‘WHAAANt—But if I am travelling right I should be heard. The CHAIRMAN (very abruptly)—No, you are travelling wrong. Now, Sir John Gibbon. Air. M' William sat down. Sir J. GIBBON expressed his approbation of the original motion. Mr. HUGHES wished to alter it as regarded the height of gardens.--(Laughter.) Sir C. FORBES objected to any alteration. Mr. SIMPSON moved an amendment, that the words " do produce a certificate from a district surveyor of the sta bility of the place sought to be licensed," be introduced after the figures 36, and do stand part of the original motion. After a few observations from Mr. BYNG, Sir J. S. LILLIE, and others, the motion was carried by a majority of 20 to 8. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, MAY 4.—His Majesty's ship Thunder, Captain Owen, was paid off into ordinary this morning. The Columbia steam-vessel arrived yesterday afternoon from Woolwich with 100 tons of powder on board for the use of the troops employed on the north coast of Spain. As all his Majesty's vessels are ordered to discharge their powder at Spithead, before coming into the harbour, the entry of this vessel with such a quantity on board, and her laying there for 20 hours, occasioned no little surprise and alarm, and her departure this morning was viewed with great satisfaction by all classes. The Sparrow, ketch, Lieut. Lowney, went out of har bour on Sunday, and has been cruising daily to try her rig ging. The result is reported to be so unsatisfactory that she is expected to come into harbour tomorrow to undergo some alterations. The examination of Gentlemen for the rank of Lieute nants is ordered to be conducted in future at the building lately used as the Royal Naval College. The examination will be as usual, in the presence of the Commander-in- Chief, Rear-Admiral Superintendent, and Captain Has tings, R.N., of his Majesty's ship Excellent ; Mr. Starake, Schoolmaster of the Excellent ; and Mr. Jeans, late second Mathematical Assistant at the Royal Naval College, will be the examiners. The Benbow, 74, and Hazard, 16 guns, are expected to becommissioned shortly. The former is reported to be for the flag of the new Commander-in-Chief in_the East Indies A London thief, of any notoriety, after having been a short time in Sydney, would scorn to place himself, or his assigned wife in so mean a vehicle as a gig ; nothing less than a carriage and pair is commensurate with the rank VI felony to which they have arisen in Australia. A better idea of the effect of all this upon a stranger cannot be conveyed than by the following anecdote of an, oflicer who visited New South Wales on leave of absence from his regiment in India:— 'Having gone with a friend, in a gig, from Sydney tie the races at Paramatta, they were passed on the road by many genteel equipages, including close carriages, curricles, and landaus. In answer to the stranger's questions, his companion informed him that one brilliant .‘ set out" belonged to Sam Such-a-one, who bad been a convict, but was now a flee man, and a man of fortune ; that another was the property of a convict, who kept a draper's shop in Sydney, but was assigned to his wife, who had brought out with him a large sum of money; that a third belonged to a ticket-of-leave man, who had obtained that indulgence almost immediately after his arrival in the colony— and so on. At the race-course, where " all the beauty and fashion" of felony was assembled, the stranger's astonishment was-complete at the number of instances in which he obtained similar answers. After some gravi; reflections on so singular an exhibition, be ironically remarked, that he thought he had better return as soon as possible to India, for the purpose of there committing some crime that should subject him to a short sentence of transportation ; for it really seemed to him that it was the best way of getting on in the world.—Mudie's New South Wales. In the high-Tory going parish of St. Mary-le-Wig ford, yesterday, a somewhat silly but sharp attack was made upon the pockets of the parishioners in the shape of a Church rate. We are happy to say that the broad principle so openly avowed at the parish church of St. Peter's at Arches, of clos incr the purse until the measures of Government should be adopted, was again made the banner of a sturdy and successful resistance ; the rate was refused by a majority of 34 to 11.— Lincoln Gazette. . _ _ - - The following melancholy intelligence has been re ceived from Tilsit, under the date of the 15th ult. :—The great disaster which visited our district ( Meiderung, low marsh ground), in the year 1829, has been repeated to-day, in a dreadful manner. Though we have latterly had a considerable fall of snow, and heard from Russia that there had been a still heavier one there, we did not believe that the -eater in the Memel in a short time, attain such an amazing height as it did this morning. Yesterday the height of the water .being 17' feet, the ice that covered the river began to move ; in the course of the night the water rose to the height of 21, 1 - feet, that is, only six inches lower than 1829. When we saw this mass of water, nearly a mile (four and half miles) in breadth, fall suddenly several feet, this fore noon, we but too justly apprehended that great damage had been done below, and, in fact, we learn this evening, that on the left bank of the Russ, and the right of the Gilgc, five breaches in the Dike have taken place, by which the whole of the fertile Delta, called the Kaukelmer Meiderung, between the two streams, containing perhaps a hundred villages, is laid under water to such a depth that, of most of the build ings, only the roofs are to be seen above the waves. The whole extent of the disaster is not yet known, but it. must be so much the greater as it came almost unexpectedly, and the wa ter has carried with it very extensive masses of ice. The causeway-dam, through the valley of the Memel, which was only completed last autumn, has stood admirably, though the water in some places nearly reached the summit. This day, at noon precisely, a prisoner, who was crossing the Pont- Royal in the custody of gend'armes, availing himself of a moment of inattention on the part of his keepers, rushed to the parapet, and plunged into the river. He imme diately disappeaied, and at five this afternoon his corpse bad not been found.—Paris Paper of Saturday evening. As a proof of-the extreme coldness of the season, it may be recorded, that the first Swallow was observed in the neighbourhood of Truro on the 25th instant, more than three weeks after their usual time of appearing. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS The meeting of the electors of Westminster favour able to the return of Mr. Leader at the British Coffee house was so numerous that an adjournment to the Lowther Rooms became necessary. The large room to which the meeting adjourned was soon crowded to excess, and the heat was intole rable. This shows that the inhabitants of West minster are fully alive to the importance of the struggle, and resolved to do their part manfully. They see that the eyes of all England are now fixed on them—that the fate of the great question of Reform is in their hands. Should Sir Francis succeed in ca joling the electors, the Tories would, without - hesita tion, place the victory to the account of a change in the opinions of the- people, not merely of Westminster, but of all England. A heavy responsibility, there fore, rests on the men of Westminster. The elector, who now lags, who does not perform his part, is a traitor to the sound cause of liberty and constitutional govern ment, and unworthy of the privileges of a freeman. But we will not insult the men of Westminster by the supposition that at such a time as this they will be lukewarm or worse. While we see. and hear the crowded meetings, -the eagerness of the respectable in habitants to perform their part satisfies us that Sir Francis has formed a most mistaken estimate of the electors when he supposes he can drag them along with himself into the mire of Toryism. . Sir Francis might have taken warning from the apostate journal of which he is the idol, and which endeavoured to transfer to the Tories the three-fourths - of the people of England whose political opinions it pretended to guide. At first the feeling towards him was that of regret that he should have disgraced the once honoured name of Burdett ; but that regret has been succeeded by a feel ing akin to resentment that lie should have thought so meanly of the electors as to suppose that he could carry them at will to the Tories, and make them partners in his disgrace. We refer with exultation to the list of Mr. Leader's Committee in our advertising columns. The list is headed by General_ Sir Ronald Ferguson, the Chairman, and fifty-nine other Members of Par liament, Whigs and Radicals, and contains a number of the inhabitants of Westminster most distinguished for respectability and talents. With such a demon stration of the interest taken in the struggle by all classes of Reformers, we cannot allow ourselves to doubt of the success of Mr. Leader. Still, however, much depends on organization, and in that we trust the Committee will not be wanting. Sir Francis Bur dett, in his latest address, places his attachment to the Church in the foreground. We quarrel with no man for attachment to his Church ; but Sir Francis, like his friend Sir George Sinclair, means by attachment to the Church an attachthent to its abuses. Of this we are certain, that all those Churchmen who profit by these abuses, and who opposed the Reform Bill because they thought it would strike at them, will now sing the praises of Sir Francis Burdett. He, who was the black dog of the Clergy, will now be their idol. The well-fed dignitaries will be among the mokt zealous of his canvassers. Sir Francis Burdett now holds out the right hand of fellowship to Orangemen, and would oppress the Irish because they happen to be Catholics. Yet the Hon. Baronet, who has now such a horror of Popish priests and Popish Members of Parliament, at the dinner at the Crown and Anchor on the 23d of May, 1819, told us that " Ireland has lately revived those hopes which have been a hundred times defeated : she has again lifted her imploring eyes towards Parliament for a redress of those grievances which are imposed by tyranny, and which maxims of State equally odious and absurd, which hypocrisy long detected, but nevertheless prac tised, would still endeavour to perpetnatc." - Sir Francis now attempts to 'sow divisions among the people of the three kingdoms ; but when he was a Reformer he exclaimed, " Let me • be allowed to recommend to our fellow-subjects Irish, Scotch, and English—to feel that their interests are common ; and that when any of them seek for partial benefits for themselves to the exclusion of others, they not only will gain nothing for themselves, but, on the contrary, only favour the delusion, and betray the mutual cause of all." Alas, that Sir Fran cis should have himself proved the betrayer whom he • pourtrayed I Again we recur to the theme—that this Is not a contest between Sir Francis Burdett and Mr. Leader, nor, as the Times says, will the representa tion alone be determined by it. Mr. Harvey well ob served, that the fate of Toryism was involved in the contest : let it succeed, and the cause of Toryism would be prodigiously advanced. It is, indeed, im possible to overrate the importance of the struggle ; and the maledictions of every lover of his country and its prosperity will rest on the timid or lukewarm Re-', formers who fail to do their duty at this crisis. The Tories, as a matter of course, will support the apos-', tate ; but every Reformer who either votes for Sir Francis, or does not vote for Mr. Leader, sanctions the apostacy.—Morning Chronicle. We rejoice to state that the, canvass of Sir F. Bur ' Jett proceeds with vigour, and'promises the most triumphant success: Respectable men of all parties stand amazed at the precipice to which wild and reck less adventurers, like Mr. Leader, would hurry them. Those who have property to lose, • and at the same time judgment to direct them, can see no end to the long vista of revolution which has been opened by the Radical orators and candidates in all their specehes and written addresses to-the people. It is not, therefore, to the upper or middle classes that the exertions of Sir Francis Burdett's committee ought to he most ac tively directed. It is to the humbler description of the constituency—men who are more likely to have been duped by the quackeries of the movement. It is to the small streets and obscure habitations of the working Westminster, that inquiries, w arn i ngs , population of and intelligent advice should be most strenuously con• veved. It is quite true and almost self-evident; as Mr. -I,e'ader, inn a tit of 'unaccountable frankness, assured his hearers, two or three nights ago, that the poor man is still more sdeeply than the affluent interested in the maintenance of the laws and in the stability of our institutions, as employment is. ever scarce in days of trouble : but Mr. Leader left untold the corollary to his proposition, viz., that every elector who felt its truth ought to vote for Sir Francis Burdett. A spirited and striking address from the Flon. Baronet's Com mittee was published yesterday, and is repeated this morning : it is of the right stuff. Rumours are now abroad and credited, that Mr. Leader, discovering his chance to be below zero, has resigned in favour of Lord Milt on . W e wonder whose resignation " will come next ?---Times. There are no greater calumniators of Mr. O'Con nell than those who suppose for a moment that he will not vote with Mr. Sharman Crawford for the total abOlition o f tidies in Ireland. He is bound by hi s pledge at th e Corn Exchange to do so, and he will redeem it. At the same time it is but reasonable to expect that Hr. Crawford will be in an overwhelming minority of some 42 or 50, or thereabouts, in a House of at least five times the number ; and that Mr. O'Con nell will, upon finding Mr. Crawford's resolution no- THE QUARTERLY REVIEW' THE DISSENTERS. ,~. D lir the last Number but one of the Qua: terly .Revicas, which ileeitlOut has just thrown in my way, there is an ex traordin.iry assertion as to the Church, which it seems right to notice, not only because it is proper that praise or blame ilienld rest in the quarter to which either is due, but that the Choreb, or those of its friends who take their cue from the Qadrierly Review, should not be de ceived as to whom they have to deal with, namely, whether with a few skilful Unitarian agitators (as 1t would assert), or with masses of persons, less skilled ana prudent perhaps in their operations, but in othe r respect! more formidable adversaries. The passage to which 1 allude is this This was the growing temper of the Church till the movement of the Reform Bill. Then all at o nce Dissent assumed a new Lone. A section within it— tbat which had gone fo-thest f, om Christianity, and therefom. was imbue(' with most wilfulness, and aversion to restraint —assumed the lead. This consisted mostly of Unitaria ns, men not without education, &e," whose infl uence and its causes and consequences the Reviewer proceeds to de' scribe in language which might be more appropriate if there was fact at the bottom of it. But it WWll larly enough happens, that riot only is this theory lun true, and without foundation, but the 'reverse is exac, t t the fact. It might with considerable with be said, In a the Unitarian Presbyterian body of Dissenters for 50 yea" perhaps bcf,re the repeal of the Test and Corporation itet!' (or before the Reform Bill, if the reader chooses thattletel preference), did take a certain degree of lead both in and. o!lt ' Parliament in managing the general Dissenting affairs, Ili eventually obtaining complete success in what they had cots; sidered as their aims. Not only their personal talents el: c ipacity for business, but their comparative proper t y social station, and their lead in municipal and parliamental representation, induced tl.ii state of things. But the dire reverse has been the case from the time the Reviewer da,,,ee as the period when their assumed influence commenced. ieo the change which then took place several eircums teflee r contributed. Unfortunately the successful assbrtion hele Dissenting liberties, which relieved the parties frog' t.ty bond of common pressure, and ended the pressing flee ce ° ,I felt by the popular sects for the active business, habits , a° l proficiency of these its allies, gave free scope to theologiee and doctrinal antipathies, which now for the first time int .. .. er fered with the harmony of the united bodies, and overca":. old associations and gratitude for past services. Moreo the opportunity was taken, by some zealots, for lega l P ro ' . 0 ceedings, which, in their harassing and injurious effe cts one party, and the passions they obviously tended to W e in the other, have produced alidnation in other resPel b Again, the Reviewer might surely have seen that the i r o creased influence of popular bodies in the large towns hi had a completely contrary effect to that which he asser i ßi for it has proportionally brought forward the weigh t , s e s the popular sects, and made less prominent ill.. weight of property and station, and the moral infinel:, of those who formerly took the lead. There has also be e : difference of opinion among those who used to take an e .. Live part in Dissenting affairs as to the policy of nually urging upon Administrations placed - in trying cumstances, the pressure of measures which were probswrie beyond their strength to carry through, and which /1% calculated to arouse old and deeply rooted antipatbil s interests still very powerful, and perhaps under-rated 'it', many who were for warfare on all points. However , erb e . ever the reasons, the fact is directly the reverse of the PI viewer's assumption. Since the repeal of the Test AS O Corporation Acts, and the passing of the Reform Bill' parties to whom he gives the lead have gradually withdreelj or been discarded (if that be the more correct phrase)' ell; have taken, it may be said, no part in the operations of rio central bodies, except in seeking the extension of liberty it the Catholics, and in continuing to press on, give all t ,, b ; ( l assistance and support in obtaining, the Acts lately' pa' for the redress of the great practical grievances with reg to the Marriage and Registration Laws. A PRESBYTERIAN UNI'r'ARIAg• EXCEPTIONS from the EXCLUSI PRIVILEGE of the POST-OFFICE. Letters sent by a private friend in his way, jourriel',l". travel, so as such letters be delivered by such friend to 4 " Part thom they shall be directed. the Letters sent by a messenger on purpose, concern. o g private affairs of the sender or receiver thereof. Commissions, or returns thereof, and affidavits or w ri f tl ; processes or proceedings, or returns thereof, issuing out ° court of justice. to Letters sent out of the United Kingdom by a prigs ves . sel (not being a packet-boat). Letters of merchants, owners of vessels of merchandis4.6 or the cargo of loading therein, sent by such vessels of in' o chandise, or by any other person employed by such own:. fi for the carriage of such letters, according to their respeo:oo direstions, and delivered to the respective persons to vvu they shall be directed, without paying or receiving hire reward, advantage or profit, for the same in anywise. Letters concerning goods or merchandise sent by cf.A mon .known carriers to be delivered with the goods 01 0 such letters concern without hire or reward, or other Pip or advantage for receiving or delivering such letters. But nothing herein contained shall authorise any rit• to make a collection of such excepted letters for the r pose of sending them in the manner hereby authorised. sr. SPECIAL PROHIBITIONS.—And the following perso o e co p expressly forbidden to carry a letter, or to receive o r 1 ,0 lect or deliver a letter, although they shall not receive "" or reward for the same ; (that is to say) Common known carriers, their servants or agents, e s o v a letter concerning goods in their carts or waggons , of their pack-horses, and owners, drivers, or guards of swr coaches. es° Owners, masters, or commanders of ships, vessels, s ,_,. t 000 boats, or boats called or being passage or packet - 7, p sailing or passing coastwise or otherwise between por" places within Great Britain or Ireland. or between t: fr i , from a port or ports within his Majesty's dominions or t , of tories out of the United Kingdom, or their servan s of agents, except in respect of letters of merchants, own er ships or goods on board. f Passenger, or other person on board any such shiP' sels, steam-boat, passage or packet-boat. boss tl The owners of, or sailors, watermen or others, on s i o t a ship, vessel, steam-boat, or other boat , or barge, P4 t ei or reps-sing on a river or navigable canal within the u Kingdom, or other his Majesty's dominions. Incsn Pooß.—Colonel Thompson suggest s Oil' examination whether the great chance of relief for the 0 ,0 ner% e and sinew now running over for want of occupation, °boll not be in the removal of the bars to English industry 'cot, are created by the prohibition of commerce through th e e ted Laws? If the demand for muscle were decupled at n jetli commercial and manufacturing town from Glasgow to I,°', where could it be found ready.-made ? 0, PATENT LEVER W A TC 1: 11 6 9 0 a ti With silver deuble.bottom cases 6 16 a With silver hunting cases This celebrated construction (the most accurate o n co t , watch can be made) is offeted, with the latest improve.'aool, i. c. the detached escapement, jewelled in four ;,40 . er hand to mark . the seconds, hard enamel dial, and maintainiqi to continue going while %villain. - ° up, at the above price , 1)1 I'. COX SAVORY, A Working Silver and Goldsmith, 47, Cornliill, Low .° N.B.—Second-hanl, Watches purchased in exelia:E.e.;,.." . „ DIED. . tg fl At. Haghley Hall, on the 30th ult , Lord Lvtt elton• , b re' On the 24th ult., aged 68, John A . delbirt 31ouchet, 53° ' : 0 of Bank Chambers and Maids-hill. per tir On the Ist inst.., Francis Pctt, Esq., late of Ilitehim, of A V 4: '' his 39th year. t P 4 ' On the 2tl inst., at Park Village, aged 71, John ioo et Jamaica, and late of Brixton. I jri Isor' On the 2,1 inst., Dr. John Alexander Fletcher, of s ---4 Cli' Chelsea, aged 39. , ~ of On the Ist inst., Sarah, wife of Thomas Rhoades, 1 ' 54 ' i ,te chester, aged 75. o f tbe' On the Ist inst., at Paris, Anna Jane, eldest daughter „eel ico i , Hon. A. Cochrane, Captain, R.N. ' On the 3d inst. at Mortlake, Surrey, Henrietta 3 1 1:1'. 13' John Scott, Esq., '31.D., and only daughter of the late leau, Esq. i 1 4°. , ~, o j o ~ .5, oo t London: Printed and Published by_3IURDO 1(( ji the c 112, Strand, at The Scut Office, No. 112, Sti ll "' -I' of Middleses.—Friday, May 5, 1837. s ' BIRTHS. A 00°' On the 2d inst., at Holmwood, Berks, the Countess of '" of a daughter. lady, of - o On the Ist inst., in Montagu-place, Montagu-squar e, th S. Steward, Esq., of a son'. f Or On the 27th ult., at Widey Court., Devonshire, the 101° tain T. R. Baker, of the Royal Fusileers, of a daughter. pct' On the Ist inst., at Iron Acton, the lady of Charles ItaY' 1 , of a son. Fredc ric On the 4th inst., in Norfolk-street, the wife of John ~, Isaacson, Esq., of a daughter. ---". MARRIED. I P 4 t h On the 3(1 inst., at St. Mary Abott's, Kensington. J°: l °uis four- Watson, Esq., of Manchester-street, to Margaret Loa' I ° daughter of Richard Ford, Esq., of Notting-hill. . ,_, t o„, On the 29th ult., at St. Marylebone Church, John, 6'; For:;,,- the late John Wimbridge, Esq., Purveyor to his Majel owl " to Sarah Jane, daughter , of the late A. Mating, Esti- , °` fer Edmund's. o , s o On the Ist inst., at Shoreham, Robert Davis Rea, Dsg;'ilie per Thames street, London, to Jane, youngest dau;; liter oi 00E, C. Child, H.q., of Warnham, Suisex. Gro' ce o o On 3d in. - 4r., Mr. John Anderson, of Green-s t r uci, Ph r square, to Miss Isabella Osborn, third daughter of Henryl well Esq., of Tulse Hill. ,sol, On the 4th inst., at St. Marylebone Church, ll ° h . e . r ,, t 13t t0. 1 ', ' !, Jukes, Esq., 8.A., of Corpus Christi College, Cambr,i(iiroe:b,r4 zaboth Margaret, eldest (laughter of the late J. P. 0 6e 4et of Devonshire-street, Portland_ I- )lace. a ell' o il On the 4th inst., the Rev. Thomas Pennant, to n1'1;10001' youngest daughter of the late .1. Clarke, Rector o f linq ,t, 0 neice of the late Sir Anted Clarke, K. C. 13. _ . I c .: l r e ' re ot' On the 3d inst., P. J. Salmons, of Upper Wilulfri,,ere Cecilia, second daughter of S. M. Samuel, E , q., o f i'