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LONDON and SOUTH-WESTERN I WA RALY. co T he SPECIAL MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS of this "ANY. nn TUESDAY NEX e, the 26th inst., will be held at t he LONDON TAVERN, Blshopsgate-street, at 12 o'clock prceisely. By order, WYNDHAM HARDING, Secretary. York- Offices, 23d October, 1852. OFFICE OF THE GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANM Horseferry-road, Westminster, 23d October, 1852. DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That, Pursuant to the eth By-law of this Company, FRANCIS WITHAM, Esq • he present :Ind A LEXANDER LUARD WOLLA STON, Esq., t Auditors, JOHN WILLIAM SLOPER, Esq., e severally given me Notice, in writing, of their intention to s td for the office of Auditor at the Election, which will take place 14ae Company's Gas-works, Horseferry-road, Westminster, on the sth day of November next. By order, CHARLES BURLS, Secretary. THE OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, 6th October, 1852. PRINCIPAL OFFICERS of Her That t hey are ready to DISPOSE OF, to such persons as may NT A Z;Ing to Tender for the same, a quantity of old IRON 011°- 4 IYoolwi c , SHOT and SHELLS, in Store at the Royal Arsenal h Upo n which have been divided into lots, and may be viewed a pplication to the Storekeeper at that place any day (Sundays -";'.l)ted) Previous to the day fixed for the delivery of the Tenders. ,fLyatalogue of the several Lots may be obtained by persons will plllts, become purchasers at the Storekeeper's office, Woolwich ; the is 1.,113a1 Storekeepers at the Tower ; and at the Secretary's Office saw 411 1 4, a 11 , where the Tenders for the whole or any number of the Lots are to be delivered on or before Wednesday, the 27th bast. By Order of the Board, G. BUTLER, Secretary. CONTRACTS FOR COALS FOR ANTIGUA AND BERMUDA Department of the Storekeeper-General of the Navy, Somerset-place, 22d October, 1852. r I: 11 E COMMISSIONERS for executing the ,„ °Moe of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED KT-NO NA4 of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND do HEREBY GIVE th:„. (4 CE, That on TVESDAY, the 9th November n ext, at 1 o'clock, c will be ready to treat with such persons as may be willing to ,ontract for supplying and delivering into Store at her Majesty's SO al Yards at Antigua and Bermuda the following quantities of 1 / 1 1 1 WALES COALS, for the service of her Majesty's Steam "eMelS:— ANTIGUA.... • • 600 Tons. BERMUDA .. • • .1200 „ „Thethe officne. Conditio of the Contracts an d a F orm of the Tender may be "'al s 40. 41 0 Tender will be received after O ne o ' c l ock on the day of treaty, 4 , i"tk allY noticed, unless the party attends, or a n agen t f or hi m d u ly onsed in writin. raiElvery Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admi 3', and bear in the left-hand corner the words " Tender for p uLtExi by •'' and must also be delivered at Somerset-place, accom: a letter, signed by a responsible person, engaging to be e ' Q ins bound with the person tendering in the sum of 2001. for the - lue the Contract of the Contract for Antigua , and in the sum of 4001. for Lae Contract for Bermuda. LAURENT'S GRAND CASINO. • . • &RGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street, t. ames's, Lessee' Charles Emele Lau r en t, Onslow House, Brompton-road, +4 ensed pursuant to Act of parliament, 25th of King George 11., Bu r i n Are Re-opened for the Winter Season. 0 . ._ g th e recess the R ooms have been entirely Re-decorated, by , 0 urtgryer, regardless of cost. Eton, M, Matchless Band every evening. ''Lon. M. Boulcourt. Principal Cornet-a- Admission—ONE SHILLING. boors 2S . fii, 4 °Pen at Half-past Eight o'clock. Dancing to commence at ~....____&______l terminate at Half-past Eleven. TO ARTISTS, INVENTORS, &c., &c. The Directors of the ItOYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION, re LPe PATRON—II. R. H. PRINCE ALBERT, kid eb„..—Y give notice that Deposits of General Interest are received The described to the public, free of expense. ttet r n i ,... bi Lion, and all the popular Lectures as usual ; including Crispe on Ballooning and the Prospects of Aerial 'ree;i B - ' ll , , illustrated by a beautiful Model of Poietvin's Parachute, Lan m ?,ußio Rope, Diagrams, &c. I N th e „ e ek of Mr. Buckland's Lecture on Music, in which he will b A frtii, -.aonal Song on the Death of Wellington. 13 .; Schools and Children under Ton rars of age, bINNERS, S UPPERS, and WED -41, es sr BREAKFAS TS BAL provided in Town or Country, by 44en, . DIN(; Cornhill. including Wines, and the hire of plate t 3 gouts ; tables, tents, awnings, dancing hollands, ser 9 b 1 uses, &c. Ball-rooms lighted. Instrumental Music pro 'n "'um of Fare sent per post, for any number, or one of the 44A nte : I ra upon parties, if required. A pagniticent display of 1 for selection, decorated in a new and elegant style. ransienne novelties in Wedding Stationery. Messrs. PIIRSSELL'S, CORNHILL. NPR Cll ANT'S and TRADESMAN'S 111 3TITAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 6 . Chatham-place, Blackfriars, London. 111171ITEES. krez e r 7 Es q . Ferguson, vid rgusson, Esq. tollet es Advantages offered by this Society. n uisPutable, except in cases of fraud. ...ces of every description effected. Non-ibrfeiture of Policies. .. 4 .411 - e',,,, r8 Who find it inconvenient to pay their Premiums as they 1, 44 ' 4 3' have a credit on application to the Board. to US granted in connection with Life Assurance. e fre i The t his Table shows the Bonuses declared on Po e ed with this Society prior to 9th March last : Thomas How, Esq. ! co. -- ' , ..Ms Society prior to Stn mann last : Pr q . 4, T , s . A ge Amount . Daid . when Annual Sum Bonus now \......... Assur e d . Premium. Assured. Added. 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English German, Dutch, Spanish, and Itali an , i n Envelope', 2s. 6d., or post-free, for Forty-two Stamps, L P-PRESERVATION; an 4ta rr , '' lla lYtical Investigation of the Physiology and Functi ons o t th e 4 get in the bearings in which that important subject affects (L k , eadth and happiness of Man, with its Disquahfications and Impe vhl4ttill tracing their origin to the effects of juvenile solitary habits, t 7llr6l,7,:;apj u t ii ratleal clingt i e y s, or close study . follred t Zpr n ac; s,,ZPulssanee, Nervous Debility, Local Weakness, Spermatora i cea, , 1 4tr I f T,' and all diseases of the Urinary and Generative System. bY 50 coloured Engravings, on the Anatomy of the Repro ' e Sans and their relative conditions in Health and Disease. 17, By SAMUEL LA'MEET, M.D. B EDFORD -SQUARE, LONDON, btl t „,.„-ledicine, Matriculated Member of the University of Edin -I,l4:`,.“enorary Member oft he London Hospital Medical &Delet'', Th--tutiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c., &c. t h oes,..,_ e ssential object of this treatise is to point out the fearful o_ quences resulting from irregularities and excesses, which 1%.1t and more misery in Youth, degradation in Man '4'44. 7 1 Premature decay at all stages of life, than, perhaps, any ,lopt ea 4 % of disease known to modern pathologists. The treatment 1;1110018 4.s founded on experience gained in the most celebrated t re medicine both in this country and in continental Europe. the knowledge thus acquired are here condensed under 78;t1b,' s onal supervision of Dr. La'3lert, himself one of the few IN c i e , qualified physicians who have devoted their whole and un -I.ex.y.;.,,Litidies to this important branch of medical science. In short, th e '''' - ularity relating to the treatment of the diseases incidental g qttl, generative ate - system, and the means of immediate relief and c ure are described in detail. The professional reputation !tfl ft , t'a Mert, w h o has t a k e n the most distinguished medical nar,,Vernie honours at home and abroad, is in itself a sufficient 711, 'ee that those who may place themselves under his care t Z i verY instance meet with that delicate consideration and At s. e secrecy which are so requisite in the treatment of these ," by the Author, and may be had of J . Gilbert, 49, Pater -40)133" Ilannay, 63, Oxford-st r eet ; St arie, Titchborne-street, 1: 41 1 3 s, ; Mann, 23, Cornhill •or tree by post for fbrty - two tP`AIII the author, who may be consulted personally, or by fr om Tan till Two. and from Six till Eial. 1111 '01t Jost —,„ - TANT MEDICAL AND 2l9, S B lT e ß ge G n l t C 4 AL tree Z O Lo li n l y o , a. Pubushed, by IL Bailliere, No I. Second Edition, with Additions, hi cloth, price 55., by post free, ss. 011_ TRUEthe & FALSE SPERM.ATOIiII(E&; View to the Correction of wide -spread Errors Citri tr Z tl. a e to the Treatment and Cure of Sufferers from Debility of the Y System, or Sexual Hypochondriasis. cai 1) Taus la ted from the German of Dr. PICKFORD. eortill'ickford is known to English readers by h e l l anions to German medical literature. This is the first his frequent practi reaolaforrns us, that he has addressed himself to the non-medl - ex. ' We trust this may not be the last. if he shall itriy be in his W E , , other equally flagrant evil which it mar The c orrect."—London Medical Gazette, May 30, 1851. `,', l, 4tr as ,„ e ditor has conferred a great boon on the sufferers from this —1 malady by translating this little book, and by laying ba re ire a T t l ii 44 cals practices of unqualified adventurers, who profess to l a to t g as e of which they know nothing, with no other object ltn ices. 1 their own purses. The difference between true Sperma 11%brat:bd the various forms of disease which resemble it are Y described, and thus a safe guide is offered for the bynof the malady "—Medical Circular May 5, 1352. Q r, h t a i ;ve delayed so long upon the contents of the preliMinslrY, e ka „. at we have scarcely left ourselves space for any notice of blect s I' te P c ally treated of by Dr. Pickford ; but the moderate 0 , which the brochure' is sold, pl aces it w ithi n th e re ach of , s,i Bs Z Interested in the matter."—Dublin Medical Press, April No. 11. T IT , lityo., in cloth, price 3s. 6d., by post free, 45. 1114 '' CURE OF STRICTURE OF TILE URETHRA, on Prind km at once Simple, Safe, and Efficient, in even its most Inveterate 011,,413Parently . To which , PRACTICAL IlciEßVATlONSlntr actable ON TIIE TREATMENT is OFadded SPERMATORR- A 1 - 1 1( CAUTERIZATION; its Inefficiency and Danger. ~ ° Member of the Royal Colleg COURTENAY, e of Surgeons of England. 1 1°J 11 s e who complain most loudly are those only who know not s to use thehasbeen common i n struMent4 with all kinds of violence, an iadiff erence a~u t t ii the simple cure of diseases, and a passion for operations and 64cveT1sf--"In Übe Q ewes arid horrors of surgery."—John Boll's Surgical proof of hie vie" 11 (mr . ue Y) as eees e sfuU.y treated, as bad h e 's any .;h7 history Of a great many h c Mr. Syme adduced, eaSe a 4nlticd4roef et'::elesveix" 7'i.and eL on which he had operate No. ix. had resisted, for a ail and xvill• Tuari; the"treatment by station, and was finally 14 a c jed in as many Week Bat cases sviii. and alit. appear, both Rra.v. r . atie e , severity, and complication. of syluPteme , of and c l i no y r a t i f e " tr"ZiaTi character than any detailed by I Str _.. S rl e .fy Pretn t edoPted by Mr. Courtenay proved emwe successful." .‘7...........:___4aLr Lizars on the Treatment of Stricture. NEW WORKS. 0 11 . CULVERWELL'S ,„ p ow , c ar valho, 1 47 To be had of Sherwood, 23, Paternos ter - row Onesert;,eet-treet; Mann, 39, Cernhill ;or direct the author ; ' Shilling each ;by post, le. 6d. ENJOYMENT OF LITE. "nealth, Recreation, and Rational Use of Time ." tusaiaTExrs:—Early Rising—sp r i ng an d s um mer Niornlnr s l 'orr ci L ls about the Environs of London—The rams, Lan 11.10-13,, Fields, rligh- roads, and other pleasant s ' s kesr d Rambles —The Sea—London at Night—Evenings e—The Drama—On Eating, Drinking, Sleeping, Ba thing' 'cat, Ease, Occupation, &c., 800. FOMENTS FROM THE MOUNTAINS. Two you. VoI KE . I. TO THE LAKES ; SKETCH OF EDINBURGH, &C, Tlrt , Vol. DES OF KILL kRNRY ; REMINISCENCES OF DUBLIN, dr.o. M. WHAT TO EAT, DRLNIE, AND AVOID, poZI4A That three score years and ten our course may ran." th;'oPular review of almost every form (cause and cure) of nor itated health and enfeebled constitution, that hara,ses bit,Lang. besets the man of pleasure, business, or study, and ere ati:n2 old saa ; with tables and rules for the diet and physical rep '', of cry -day life. Iv. THIS PASSIONS. "What passions hurt the body—what improys, Truths as refined as Athens ever heard." tent ßtta4 ,'°T Life's pilgrimage, from infancy to old age. The au; „ o ,'„tba Passions. Chastity and its infringements . The casual 4,:.acentiousness and dissipation, with illustrations graphic, nal' 'ver, and reraediative. Advocacy of early marriage,. ---- V. THE MARRIAGE STATE. To be or not to be, that is the question." .. Plich dltsaistit :—Laws and obligations of nature, society, t,;‘.on regarding marriage, to be observed by either sex. Time an 11"„ °1,, e, on both aides, as to age, temperament, complexion, and and reli t, - Wrc, to secure healthy offspring, with the art of rearing them. r,'lllical defectiveness and its removal. Sterility and its conversion. f ey, & e. 1 l i t 3, R. J. CULVERWELL, M.D. (1841), M.R.C.S. (1827), L.S.A. 24). Twenty-five years Medical and Forensic Referee 4rs. Reception hours daily till Five. Evenings, seven till 44. Argyll-RUM, Rei giltitnees in these 10, 7,6 d; Dlbs per bushel ; to 345; to 1-1, litto, t o Od ; m peck , each, Os Ito lOri; 1; hens, tcks, do. , r pair, 7e (present lozen, OJ )f 14lbs, ,rk, large )s to OF. I to 9d; al, 1s 3J 1; barley prices of Bcaas. 360 oa 343 4d 33 s Oi , 703 sold 448 sold 277 sold 37 sold lacy. —2O stir -20 do 1-00 do -00 do per cat re; 9 oats; weeks-- pi g s, 292• t. 23. 19. era 14s 6a; Od ; thirdh I to 105 6d; to 005 pe r , 'an, 4/ 70 6 "` Od; a -versify' Stzaw--F°" 00s to 0 0 ° isf 6d to Od; ttter, 9d t° ed. CO' os • Cul° 4 ~ is per cw . lion. bl e s s ; veal 4 1 per lb. o°l 31 Os pay t° - . 30. per Aeon is to 00s; r ° " Os to 1111 0 t 32 ss; Yelt iv 00. t • calf skr foci; 1r ton. fir E'S. doing to•d,gl; the folloP". eshire, 6 dl! lonian, M y g 19 ; L to orthern 1(1, and d, p.; Midltio r, rn and 1-) ov° i raterford I ra ther qu jet, , ; Caledoni a Hand Rai Wed Eastern An ore actiVes ;transacte a 32 and ;No r 77 ; Elste° ti le change incept onary, ° t he since y es h e York 1111 0 Midla° t$ ,i rk . and ; 3, 3 i u l " ent.), % d". sere rost•o° vrb_l° what wl.•' )O1 • • ' mpt. mpt. ith.. ith mpt. mpt. mpt. ith mpt. mpt. mpt. I .. mpt. ad . rapt., Ith.. it".. mpt. mpt. mpt. Ar'r 'i v ed Oct. ' 26 ,, Arrive" 5 2 4 O. Nov. Li l'"ca• Oct. ' 29 DaIlY • - Nov. 1 6 6 Nov. i" iCovl 9 Oct. - 3 'o Oct. , Nol• 0; 14 Tu. Nov•••e4 s oy Twic Nov. l o t, Tacib, r oS o 5o 6 , 1 10 0 f ic 2 4 Nov Nov 2 6 Nov , , 2 6 Nov, `Nov 24 1 'Nov OM Is t c a l ; 110.4 r. I l Oct. 99 N • , , Io 1 1•Tof• Arriv e Nov' 2 Nov. ire s. Taol•lito ovel b9be spiced P, S ,, p 10 invits be tw of )3 1 e mem e „ a gtl ibute P — no lo she 00 0 40 as tom i° l o o, Harriady y of Sab b yht hrringto e u . l o! the Be , an d , rrifoot, _,4 y, 900 3° a pe ypocris4,o4. Lady on l id a nd 0P o w E-nirnue3 00 fit Ildorrhole Alowll9, 14°4; ~ the 111f8 st, D e lgtsl4. Chew s, --- c o tto:i E" J. r cotto,- - ' th b ter 64 etas . of ALI° g of bte r dati ast Vscl% ,clanls , oleo' to ew' 6 0 )t . M e ico. ~ of eld est gins , f East ow, ° beloved TO 014 %; , :11;t1 , N°. 18,730.] LONDON, THE FIFTLI AND CIIELPER EDITION T HE RIGHT HON. B. DISRAELI'S POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY OF LORD GEORGE BENTINCK. Revised, in 1 vol. post Bvo., price 10s. 6d. bound, Is now ready. Colburn and Co., Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough street, To be had of all Booksellers. BETTS'S PATENT BRANDY. The highest medical authorities recommend Brandy and water as the best customary beverage, and particularly as an efticient pre ventive of diarrhceatic complaints at this season. They equally con cur in preferring BETTS'S PATENT BRANDY as the purest and most wholesome. It is unequalled for preserving fruits, home-made wines, &c. Sold throughout the Kingdom, by respectable wine and spirit mer chants, in glass bottles, protected by the Patent Metallic Capsules, and at the DISTILLERY, 7, St►IITIIFIELD-BAILS, in dozens, bottles and cases included, at 18s. per gallon ; or in stone jars of two gallons and upwards, at 16s per gallon, pale or coloured. J. T. BETTS and CO, French Brandy Distillery, 7, Smithfield-bars, St. John-street. GREAT WESTERN and CITY JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY. Provisionally Registered. Capital. 300,0001.. in 15,000 Sharer, of 201. each. Doposit, 21. per Share. This Railway is intended to commence at a point adjoining the Station of the Great Western Railway Terminus at Paddington, and passing thence under the Grand Junction Canal through certain fields in the line, will cross the Edgware road upon an arch near the Kilburn Turnpike-gate, then over the London and North-Western Line near the Kilburn New Station, and proceed northward until it forms a junction with the projected line of the North and South- Western, Hampstead. and City Junction Railway, and thence by it and the East and West India Dock Railway to the City, affording to the traffic on the Great Western Line direct communication with the City by Railway. The proposed line will afford railway accommodation to the entire large and populous district lying to the west of the Regent's-park, including Bayswater, Paddington, Maida-hill, St. John's-wood, and Kilburn. The survey of the ground has shown the line to be free from en gineering difficulties, and can be constructed at a very moderate cost. Application will be made to Parliament in the ensuing session for an Act to authorize the construction of the line. Detailed prospectuses of the undertaking, with the names of the Directors are in course of preparation, and will be ready in a few days. Lithe meantime, applications may be made to the Solicitors, Messrs. Davies, Son, Campbell, and Hand, 17, Warwick-street, Regent-street. 25th October, 1852. BLAIR'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC PILLS. The following testimonial is another. proof of the great effi cacy of this medicine : "157, New Bond-street, London, October 12, 1850. " Sir,—ln acquainting you with the great benefit which I have ex perienced by taking BLAIR'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC PILLS, I feel that I am but performing a duty to that 'portion of the public who may be similarly affected. " About twenty years since I was first attacked by rheumatic gout in my hands and feet. I had previously been subjected to every va riety of climate, having served in Canada in the 19th Dragoons, and in Spain, under Sir John Moore, in the 18th Hussars. I always pro cured the best medical aid, without obtaining any essential relief, and my sufferings can be appreciated only by those who know some thing of this disease. " It was during one of those paroxysm', between twelve and thir teen years ago, that I was recommended to try BLAIR'S PILLS. I oat no time in procuring a box, and before I had taken that quantity the pain had entirely ceased, and in a few days I was in perfect health. " From that moment, whenever I feel any symptoms of the dis ,ease approaching, I have instant recourse to this medicine, which to me is so valuable, that were it not that the days of magic have ceased, I should certainly attribute the relief I obtain to that cause. Moreover, I rejoice to say that my health has not in any degree suf fered, but on the contrary I believe the tendency of BLAIR'S PILLS is towards its improvement. " I have recommended the Pills to many friends, and the result has always been of the most gratifying character. " I am, Sir, yours respectfully, "GARRET FOSTER GILL. ." To Mr. Pront, 229, Strand." For every description of Gout and Rheumatism, Sciatica, Tic-dolo reux, &c., &c., BLAIR'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC PILLS are a sovereign remedy, contain neither mercury, opium, or any other dangerous drug, require no care whatever in their use, and ter ra pidity of cure and complete safety have not their equal in the world. Sold by Thomas Front, 229, Strand, London ; and all respectable Medicine Vendors. Price is. 9d. per box. Ask for BLAIR'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC PILLS, and observe that "Thomas Front, 229, Strand, London," is impressed upon the Government Stamp. . 1852. - ;•.: ~q4* l i . i. •00- - ) 440, • ,1, -- ~ • ~,, . iz. i (( c(1.1 • C. 4:9 1 ( " 4 - 4 i 44. . - ," ------.. ... is:4l' i. \ , .-:- '.4k''''' 11( 5 , , ,',W,,_ ~?7A14, _ .....,. ~. # 4 I( /14 44 .11 . '' _L . ...pr0.:4.,,, ~. •-. 1 ~ - - '-, v;;:' - Z4Lr.' , , . , ~1 ~ ~),_. 0 v ; ~,,,,, T,. • , 4,-,4. ‘L,*, •• ~ , ~.:, .erkiop' ~,,... -\' ‘.t: ' i t , it y :.•.,--,„,.... ~,., • , N ., 1 ~e. ,--- •-: - -- . „.,f,...__ ; ,i%•••• i„,,, 4"7.11'.' '.°s +o.7 .°. : "--11 ::::tI,..—, / 1„..,...\..,.N*\ . : ' -?... c v . -' _.... --._-_ \ . i-,-,. , "J ,, . z .,-, ~..,A.,. ..------- or-r: • N. .;--___,---"--..,,,---v:-,::,.. / 1 . ,. it, •........ [PRICE SD. THE WEST GLOUCESTERSHIRE ELECTION RIOTS. On Friday the trial of the body of men charged with rioting at Bridgegate, Gloucestershire, on . the occasion of the late contested election, beating the police, obstruct ing the voters on their way to the poll, and extorting money by intimidation, came on before the Gloucester shire court of quarter se9.sions, and created intense inte rest throughout the county. On the bench and in court were the Hon. Grantley Berkeley, the unsuccessful can didate, and there was a numerous attendance of magis trates. The prisoners arraigned, and against whom true bills were foeod were 21 in number. Their names WOTo Joseph Wiltshire, Philip Britton, Thomas Wilcocks, William Stone, Joseph Franklin, Richard Williams, Si meon Weaver, Joseph Iles, James Goodwin, William Brain, Benjamin Miller, Jonas Davis, George Davis, William Burchell alias Lovell, George Hendy, Charles Lovell, Robert Freake, David Arnold, Aaron Rogers, Thomas Godwin, and William Wilcocks. They were charged with having, on Monday, the 19th of July last, at the parish of Wick and Abson, together with divers othsrs evil-dispoaed persons, unlawfully, riotously, and wantonly assembled to disturb the peace ; and that they then and there made a great noise and disturbance, and assaulted and beat Thomas Hazel], Henry Knight, Fs Broad, W. David, Thomas Wood, Charles Breakspear, William Hardy, and Rumsey Laughby, of the Glouces tershire police force, while in the execution of their duty; and also assaulted and beat F. B. N. Dickenson, Esq., one of the magistrates for the said county. Two other prisoners, William Osborne and William Jenkins, who are charged with highway robbery and extorting money from the voters, are left for trial at the assizes. The prisoners all pleaded not guilty. Mr. Skinner and Mr. Pigott, were counsel for the prosecution; and Mr. Cooke and Mr. Powell for the prisoners. The evidence was very voluminous, but the principal facts as deduced from the testimony of the witnesses for the prosecution —chiefly magistrates and policemen—may be put in a narrative form. It will be remembered that at the elec tion for the western division of this county, party feel ing ran very high. The candidates were the old mem bers, Mr. Hale, in the Conservative interest. and the Hon. Grantley Berkeley in the "Liberal Protection " interest. The latter gentleman being opposed by Mr. Nigel Kingscote in the Liberal and free-trade interest. On the first polling-day, Monday, July 19, a large body of men armed with bludgeons and hurdle rails, attacked the committee-room of the Protectionist candidate, throwing stones and breaking the windows. There wore only a few police:on the spot, and after making an ineffectual attempt to disperse the mob, which, according to the account of one of the officers, numbered a thousand people, they were obliged to beat a retreat over the fields, and were followed a considerable distance across the country by the mob, who pelted them with stones, beat them with sticks, and tore the clothes of some of them to rags. Mr. Mirehouse, a magistrate, read the Riot Act;but the mob paid little attention. Some of the police were carried away for dead, but subsequently recovered. The police called upon the people to "aid and assist" them, but they held aloof or refused. The conduct of one woman, how ever, the wife of a policeman, named George, was most courageous. Placing herself between the mob and the police, she fought nobly in behalf of the civil force, and kept them back, for they were sufficiently manly to refrain from striking a woman. The magistrates pre sent, Messrs. Mirehouse, Dickenson, and Hughes, sent for the military, but they did not arrive ; and the mob was quelled soon after the disappearance of the police. Some of the mob had yellow cards, Mr. Kingscote's colours, in their hats. The prisoners were marked by the police, but were not apprehended until Sunday night, the 15th of August, a month after the election. The trial was brought to a close at 8 o'clock on Saturday night. The jury, after a patient investigation, found the prisoners guilty of a common assault only. The Chair man sentenced two of the prisoners, Osborne and Jen kins, to 12 months' imprisonment ; Brum, Davis, and Lovell, 9 months ; T. Wilcox, Britton, Iles, Jones, Davis, Arnold, and Wiltshire, 6 months ; and Treake, Rogers, two Godwins, W. Wilcox, Miller, Hendy, Stone, Burchill, and Weaver, 4 months' imprisonment. PUBLIC ADVANTAGES OF A GREAT TRADE. W . MOSES and SON'S business is the surest AA • illustration of the above ;at the present time they are in possession of an immense Stock of MATERIALS, embracing every novelty of the season, ordered from the earliest samples produced by all the famous manufacturers in the world, and supplied to E. MO ' - • -- SES and SON at prices on which considerable advances have since been made. From this circumstance the Public will derive the advan tage of CHEAP WIN TER CLOTHING. From the magnitude of E. MOSES and SON'S trade, the Public is also presented with every novelty in style, and every invention, associating Elegance and Comfort, amongst which is the CLIFTON WRAPPER, exclu sively the production of E. MOSES and SON. This neat and gen tlemanly article of attire may be worn as a COAT or OVERCOAT ; the peculiarity of its cut renders it easy, and other admirable ar rangements entitle it to rank with their other conspicuous novelties for AUTUMN and WINTER OVERCOATS, and every kind of Winter Clothing, FURS, HATS, CAPS, &c., &c., better and cheaper than can be bad elsewhere. OUTFITS For AUSTRALIA, for INDIA, for AMERICA, or any part of the World; for Captains, Officers, or Private Gentlemen; for Profes sional men, Mechanics, or Farm Labourers, universally celebrated for their suitability, completeness, and cheapness, obtained imme diate on application to E. MOSES and SON, who maintain a sepa rate department in their magnificent Establishment entirely appro priated to Outfitting and supplying all articles required by Emi grants, better in quality, and far cheaper than any goods which can be offered by other Houses. Full Lists of OUTFITS, and all necessary information relative to iffilivi i ?L vessels, coat of passage, &C., may be had on application , CAUTION.—E. MOSES and SON regret having to guard the public against imposition, having learned that the untradesmanlike falsehood of "Being connected with their Establishment," or " It's the same concern," has been resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reasons, they beg to state that they have No CONNEXION WITH ANY OTHER HOUSE IN OB OUT OF LONDON, except their own Establishments, as follows : London City Zstatnistiment, 154, 155, 156, and 151, Minorite, 83, 84, 85, and 85, Aldgate, opposite the Church, all communicating. London West-end Branch, 506, 507, 508, New Oxford-street, 1, '2, and 3, Hart-street, all communicating. Bradford (Yorkshire) Branch, 19, Bridge-street. Sheffield Branch, 36, Fargate. Merchant Tailors, Clothiers, Hatters, Hosiers Furriers, Boot a nd Shoe Makers, and General Outfitters for Ladies and Gentlemen. The Establishments are closed from sunset Friday to snussi, on saturdays, when business is resumed till Twelve o'clock. A. new Book, entitled " The World's Pharos," containing the Emigrant's Assistant, fall list of prices, and directions for self-mea surement, may be had on application, or post-free, to any part of the kingdom. -- - A handsome Almanac for the year eliding 1852 can be bad, gratis On application. Ici I'on parle Francais. I Qui si parla Italian. Hier spricht man Deutsch. Aqua se habla Espanol. THE DEPOSIT AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, 22, MOORGITE-STREET, LONDON. By the Deed of Settlement the Directors are empowered to appro priate one-tenth of the Profits to the relief of aged and distressed Shareholders, Depositors to the extent of Five Pounds, and Parties who have paid Five Years' Premiums, their Widows assuredaiid Orphans.fo r Life, LONDON BOARD OF DIRECTORS. R. Yellowley Barnes, Esq., 11, City-road, Finsbury. Captain G. N. Clarke, Junior United Serv.ce Club. George Coode, Esq., Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law. Stephen Craoknall, Esq., 11, New-square, Lincoln's Inn. George Knox, Esq., 15, Connaught-square, Hyde-park, and Tar Lodge, Tettenhall Wood, Wolverhampton. Alexander Maclean, Esq„ Harrow-on-the-Hill. W. K. M. M`Clintock, Esq., 8, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park, and Hampstead-hall, Londonderry. Rev. Robert Collier Packman, Rector of Langdon Hills, Essex, Minor Canon of St. Paul's. William Prinsep, Esq., 8, Hyde-park•place West. Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law, Dr. Scanlan, 21, Upper Seymour-street West, Hyde-park. Major Sperling, 14, St. James's-square. . AUDITORS. William Jones, Esq., Accountant, 3, Guildhall-chambers. F. J. Bigg, Esq„ 126, Strand, Actuary and Secretary to the Medical Legal, and General Life Office. BANKERS. Sir Charles Price, Marryat, andC.;.;i:King William-street, London PHYSICIANS. David Lewis, Esq., M.D., Finsbury-place. E. Scanlan,Esq., M.D., 21, Upper Seymour-street West, Connaught square. SURGEONS, H. T. Chapman, Esq., F.R.C.S., 16, Lower Seymour street, Port- man-square. Michael Teevan, Esq., M.R.C.S., 44, Gloucester-road, Hyde-park gardens. INSPECTOR OF AGENCIES. F. P. F. Stronsberg, Esq. SOLICITORS. Messrs. 11111 and Mathews. St. Mary-axe. The novel and striking advantages of this Coinpany, when com pared with these of ordinary Life Assurance Societies, will be readily perceived by the following example and table. Suppose a person aged 20 commence by depositing 101. with this Company, and continue to do so every year till he arrives at 50, Ile will havepaid to the Company 3001., for which he will hold a policy for 6951.125. 4d., payable to his representatives in case of death. Should he, however, =live 50, and become unable to pay,* or not be desirous of continuing his payments, he can either retain his policy, and still remain assured for 6951. 12s. 4d., or he may cancel his policy, and receive in cash 3821. 175. Od., being 821. 17s. Od. more than he has actually paid in. TABLE. When with- Number Equivalent Sum of drawn, the of years Age Sum of value of the m 01167 that excess re assured at ad- money paid policy at each may be eeived in the vanced to the age, in the withdrawn above the Coro- period. Company event of at any time actual pany. at each age. death, at each age. amount paid. Z s, d. £ a. d. £ s. d. 5 25 50 139 2 7 51 10 8 110 8 10 30 100 268 8 1 106 17 11 617 11 15 35 150 MB 810 166 17 4 16 17 4 20 40 200 499 8 4 232 10 4 32 10 4 25 45 250 601 12 6 297 9 7 47 9 7 30 50 300 695 12 4 382 17 0 82 17 35 b 5 350 782 0 2 468 3 3 118 3 40 60 400 861 10 10 559 10 7 159 10 45 65 450 935 0 9 65 5 16 5 205 16 N 70 500 1.003 7 3 754 15 6 254 15 -------------------.__.___ previous payments to pay the pre oaysemienn:nbleecome -------- * in eases of ordinary Life Assurance, is too obviou s proefmLir of 'edtrshtoeontPsh,oetlihScey"rewifeootYrule.,d o l : P liMi Sea t a e n d d in a c il omes, ' or whose raderiTpufene:bm:Peedeanttsoonmcoo circumstances , fnutintaregentitmetothateildr annual s ar e continue Who, from fear f being una nu hianteeh:rttohenitedgvlanectetagd estooafvudsail thishemstitnetilvoe: otheroovfetrheanbyenetl to require comment, Every description of ordinary Life Assurance business transacted. Policies from 10/. to 5,0001., on every known principle of Life As surance. Policies not void on account of suicide. other " Diseased" lives, and lives " declined" by offices, accept ed. Premiums maybe paid in anyway most convenient to the assured. Annuities and Endowments granted upon more favourable terms than in most offices. Half-premium Assurances during thee trm of seven years. Half-premium are granted on every description of Real or Personal Secu rity, upon terms more advantageous to the Borrower than in any similar institution. Indisputability of -Policies. To put this ' matter beyond a doubt, the common declaration as to the health and habits of the person assured will net be inserted in the Policies. Medical referees are paid by this Society in all cases for their pro fessional reports. Commissions are allowed to all parties introducing bus i n ess to this Society, on a most liberal scale. Detailed Prospectuses, with Tables, in illustration of the peculiar features and advantages of the Deposit system, calculated by F. G. P. Nelson, Esq., expressly for this Company, may be obtained on ap plication to any of the Company's Agents; or to C. W. BEVAN, Actuary and Secretary. N.B. Clergymen and Ministers of all denominations are particul arly invited to examine the principles of the Deposit system 0 , assurance. __ ti iwd Igidial Pita All put!' o r the !juindera, THE FATAL DUEL AT EGITAM. The remains of Mons. Frederick Cournet, who was killed in the fatal duel near Inglefield-green, were in terred yesterday afternoon, in Egham church-yard. Great numbers of Frenchmen arrived by the 11.33 train at the Staines station, and proceeded to Egham, when they partook of refreshment at the King's Plead and Catherine Wheel inns. They then walked to the Barley Mow, at Ingletield-green, where the body of the deceased was lying, and where the necessary arrangements for the funeral had been made by Mr. Oades, of Egham. Soon after one o'clock the procession started, and pre sented a most novel and imposing pearance. The corpse was borne on the shoulders of x countrymen of the deceased, and the distance bei omething more li than a mile and a half, five different parties relieved each other on the way. At the head of the procession was carried a large red flag, hung with black crape, and mei., ..e. ruseriptiou, -- nepumique Democ.e,e l e. et Sociale." About 150 Frenchmen followed, their heads uncovered, and their whole demeanour showing the sincerity of their sorrow. Amongst those who took part iu the melancholy ceremony were MM. Ledru Rollin, Schee'cher. Savoye, Ferrier, Felix Pyat, As trix, Rolland, Xavier, Duvrier, Martin, Bernard, and Pfleiger, formerly representatives of the people in France, and several political writers, including Delus cluge, Cakaigne, Naquet, Recherolles, and others. The grave was dug at the further end of the churchyard, and by the time the corpse, with the procession, arrived at the spot, every part of the burial ground, and the ap proaches to the church, were crowded with spectators. Colonel Salway, Captain Seymour, Sir John Cathcart, W. Newnham, Esq., and several others of the neigh bouring gentry were present. No burial service was read, but after the coffin had been lowered into the grave, Monsieur Delescluge pronounced the following doge in French :—" Citizens, in the presence of justice this day arrested—in the presence of an instruction commenced —every one will understand the sentiment of high deli cacy which obliges us to be silent before this grave, around which so many regrets and sympathies are crowded. The feeling must be indeed imperative which compels us to be silent. What, however, would be the use of breaking that silence? To speak of the cruel loss whichdemocracy has just experienced! Is not ever true Republican conscience acquainted withCourhet ? That great heart—that soul so protoundly sympathetic— that daring so heroic in danger, which at the age of nineteen illustrated one of the most brilliant careers in the French navy. What true republican conscience dues not know the eminent services which Frederick Cournet has since rendered to democracy, and those which he would have rendered her still ? Yes, Cournet was a great and courageous citizen and the name which he leaves to his son as his only fortune is one of thote which will remain as the symbol of political honesty and of an unlimited devotion to the cause of the people. On his deathbed one thought alone ocoupied Cournet—the republic and the revolution. Let us give him, then, the only farewell worthy of him by repeating the last words that fell from his lips—Wive la Republique, de mocratique et sociale: " A loud cheer from the assem bled mourners then broke in upon the solemnity of the scene, the red flag was furled, and the churchyard was speedily deserted. The friends of the deceased efter wards re-assembled at the Catherine Wheel, which re sounded with their ejaculations for another hour or two, and then the red republicans departed, as they came, by railway for London. THE DUKE'S MAGNANIMITY.—An anecdote appo positely distinctive of the two great warriors of modern times is thus stated :—At the battle of Dresden, Na poleon perceived a group of distinguished officers ride up to a conspicuous point, were they paused , and appeared to be making a reconnoisance. Pointing to the place, he called out to the officer directing a battery of artillery close at hand—" Jetez moi une douzaine de boulets, la Ila fois ! Ii y a pout, etre quelques petits generous !" " Throw a dozen bullets yonder all at once. There are perhaps, some little generals among them I" He was obeyed, and Moreau was killed. At Waterloo , the colonel commanding the Britis h artiller y observed to the duke—" I have got the exact range of the spot where Bonaparte and his staff are standing. If your Grace will allow me, I think I can pick some of them off." " No, no," replied he, " generals-in-chief have something else to do in a gteat battle besides firing at each other." THE DUKE ON CHURCH PATRONAGE :The fol lowing anecdote of the late duke, is both " good" and " true." On a vacancy occuring, some years ago, in a see in Ireland, a clerical dignitary, who thought he had peculiar claims on his grace's interest, wrote to him as follows:—" My dear duke. One mord from you, and I am bishop." Prompt came the reply, "My dear — Not one word !" IRISH BIITTEIL--Th o rapid 'increase in the Iris: butter and provisio n tra d e w i th E ng l an d i s attracting much attention, as th e exports f rom Cork, Lime rick , nt and other ports are becoming greater, Perh a P;; /e any former period. In fact, this most valus a BOUM° is now quite revived, and has become once mor e The traffic of great wealth to the agrictltural claseseasn. evidence of enor mous increase in the produce of butter in i the far greater extent of pasturage in in former years. districts where tillage had prevailed almost e xclusively of husbandry, i On account of this change in the h s y stem a. been caused by the comparative little inconvenie h n e ce continued " exodus." decrease of population, and t il POOR-LAW UNIONS.— PRODUCTIVE LA1301:11 . t issued by the executive council A circular has just beentlessnul: convening a conference of of the Poor-law Associa t ion, guardians of the poor, ministers members of othersParliamee favourable to the principle of sub stituting,of religion. and unions, productive employment for in Poor-law total idleness or accompanied b mere relief, either i and useless taskwork. The objects of the y degrading con ference are to be confined to collectin g an d b r i ng i ng -- ender consideration the various methods in use , i n Eng lish or Irish unions, for usefully emp l oy i ng the poor re ceiving in or out-door " relief," with the pecuniary and other results, beneficial or not, arising from their adop tion, and to consider and adopt means for promoting the general enforcement of productive and healthful labour, a nd otherwise furthering the purposes of the Poor-law Association. Viscount Goderich will preside . at some s portion of the proceedings. - _.:.. al ' .., t-Iti V 4 . ,... jr - Virrel V MONDAY ;ft 4"V •''' '''' , 4l. (FM CC ° N 611 , , , OCTOBEP 25 ___ LONDON AND PARIS.-A CONTRAST. If anybody wants to realize the charms of thismetro polis lot him spend a week, such as t he week before last, at Paris, and return for a week, such as last week, to London. There ho will find the air itself, if not every where balmy, yet always exhilarating, brightening up every face, giving elasticity to every step, and so clear that from the top of the Arc do Triomphe, or the heights of Montmartre, it seems possible to count every chimney and every attic window in Paris. Here he passes at once into the atmosphere of a brewhouse end the odours of a stable. He breathes in steam, ho sees through smoke, he walks through mud, and he smells the sewer. As ho forces his way through the princi pal thoroughfare he is alternately stunned by the incessant noise and brought to a standstill by the utter inadequacy of both the pavements and the car riage way. There were times last week when to get from Charing•cross to the London-bridge station would take nearly as much time as a journey by the express from Landon to Brighton, or to Oxford. Paris, of course, has its disugreeables, for though not a port, nor the seat of manufacture, except for articles of luxury :and taste, it is a garrison, and a hundred thousand soldiers are a blessing not without some drawbacks. But in Paris immense efforts have been made, and are still making, suf ficient to satisfy the strongest craving for improve ment. The congested centre of that metropolis is being perforated by splendid thoroughfares, opening the great national and municipal palaces to one another, and giving a clue to the intricate labyrinths that surround the Hotel de Ville. Under the banks of the Seine vast sewers in tercept and carry off what we as carefully infuse into our river, though in Paris there is not the same neces sity for such an arrangement as in the care of a tidal stream which twice n day brings back its load of abomi nations. Among other points in which Paris sets us an example, it is now more than half a century since a corpse was interred, or an animal slaughtered for food, within a (Darter of a mile of the barriers. The result of these and other arrangements is, that Paris is a city a man is happy to live in all the year round, even when he has other alternatives. Its suburbs are sought rather for cheapness and quietness, and for schools, by reduced gentlewomen, by aunts, and grandmothers, than by men and families. Though dissipation and poverty shorten life there even more than tier°, at all events Paris is an enjoyable city, and its inhabitauts are con tent to make it their constant home. We only contrast the condition of the French and the British capitals just to show how much can be dune in spite of the great difficulties and hindrances inevit able to a place always on the verge of revolution, and enjoying only a fraction of our commerce and wealth— how much, on the other hand, may be lett undone in the wealthiest, freest, and quietest metropolis in the world. It is little to the purpose to talk of this or that foreign city, or toexpatiate generally on continental dirt, for whist fair comparison can there be between this city of millionaires and towns where silver, if it exists at ail in an unalloyed form, is as precious as life-blood? There is no occasion, however, to go to contrasts at all. Every engineer, every mechanic, will tell us, what in deed is obvious on the smallest consideration, that whatever is necessary to the health and comfort of a city ii a mere question of £. s. d. if it is possible to make one street a good one, to make one house perfectly clean and sweet, to do one hundred yards of drainage effectually, to supply one house with a sufficiency of pure water, it is possible to do this for the whole city. Among ether uses designed in the existence of palaces and mansions, Providence, doubtless, intends that they shall be specimens of what may be done, and that, beginning from these, we shall go on to do the like for whole cities. Buckingham Pa lace, we trust, by this time has been rendered a healthy and cornmodi - 0u 7 3 residence, in spite of some consider- . . able difficulties. That once achieved, there is no reason why every tenement in St. Giles's or Bethnal-green should not be made as salubrious and agreeable, as fur as it goes—nay, more so, seeing that the very cellars even of the notorious Church-lane are at a higher level than the not of Buckingham Palace; but it is a matter of demeustration that there need not be one single nuisance, either public or private, in this metropolis, and that the heart of London might be as sweet as the South Downs. London might be made the very healthiest spot in the world, for even that apparently insuperable evil, the smoke of our coal fires, besides that it is more of an eyesore than a real mischief, may bo reduced withi❑ very bearable limits. The obstacles to improve ment, then, are moral rather than physical, and the an tagonists we have to deal with are not so much the ele ments of external nature and the necessary conditions of humanity in masses, as certain foes within the camp— the selfishness, stupidity, and indolence of man, or rather of sumo men. The worst of it is that the more talk there is about it, the more legislation, and the more there is that professes to he done, the less we have in the way of actual results. For example, there has been no end of discussion about intramural interments, and an Act was passed, now many months since, which was expected by the credulous panne to stop tnem altogether. iNo such thing. To the best of our information the spade is busy in every burial ground of this metropolis, and parsons, clerks, sextons, beadles, grave-diggers, and all the rest of the sable fra ternity, aro burying all the faster because they think their time short. Really they have no occasion to give way to these gloomy apprehensions. Strong in the power of prescription, and mighty in abuse, they may safely trust in the weakness of laws and the imbecility of Parliament. Twenty years will find them still unmo lusted, still gathering fees from corruption, and reaping a harvest from death. The next generation will see our graveyards only heaped a yard higher, and their walls only bulging a little more, and of somewhat deeper stain. The Hest generation will see the Thames still unnaturally turbid, and its mud banks still crimson under the July sun ; it will still be greeted at every step with the vapours of death as cending from grates,areas, cellars, and the whole surface of a soil saturated with sewerage and impregnated with gas. The next generation will still find our paving in heaps for three months every year, our great thorough fares at a dead lock ton times a day, our ears stunned by a traffic nine-tenths of which could be carried swiftly and silently over rails, Holborn-hill without a viaduct, and the metrapolis in general only getting worse and worse, because, as long at least as we continue to prosper, it must become larger and larger. To what purpose, then, is all this, if so far there has been nothing but talk, and for the future there seems nothing but discouragement ? Is it nothing, then, that the metropolis still want the muster mind who is to render it the monument of his useful services ? On all sides ambitious patriots are asking for something to be done. Everywhere you meet your Hercules panting for his labours. Atter all, homely as it may appear, what arena so worthy as that in which we live ? Tho control of fifty colonies, the adjustment of the European " balance of power," the regulation of trade, and all the other functions of an Imperial Government, have their several glories, but also their difficulties and theirmis haps. Moreover, these are matters in which political sentiment and party spirit are sure more or loss to thwart the greatest talents and best designs. But the internal improvement of this metropolis is a work which will surely reward the statesman with some degree of suc cess, and which promises a comparative exemption from merely factious obstacles. At the present rate of in crease, the population of this city will amount, in thirty years to that of an independent second-class State, and ought to confer as much glory on its restorer as Hol land, or Belgium, or Denmark, or Portugal could on its greatest deliverer or statesman. We seriously com mend this consideration to some of the many Ministers unattached who aro going about town asking for em ployment, and unable to get it in more usual channels. Of course it cannot be disguised that the task requires even more judgment than courage, and we cannot pro mise to back up every great scheme for the improvement and better management of this metropolis simply be cause it is a great scheme. Projectors must take their chance of that. We have only to proclaim that the work is still to be done. London waits for its great tedile. There is still to come the man, who will not, indeed, " find it brick and leave it marble," but who may render it the most wholesome, agreeable, and convenient place of residence in the world, and that not merely for the ten thousand fashionable families who occupy one quar ter of it for the season, but for the half-million families who are confined to it all the year round.—Tinier. AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATH IN A RAILWAY CAR RIAGE.—On Monday last, Mrs. Timbre% a passenger by a 9 30 a.m. express train from London was, on the train approaching Warrington, observed by ono of her fellow-passengers to lean back as if dozing, but upon its arrival at the station it was found that she was dead. HARDY WOMEN.--A very singular exhibition took 1 place yesterday in the bed of the river opposite the spot I. where the horologe-hill stood in days of yore. There • were,lwe should say, at least two dozen of boats, and six 1 times as many women in the water around them, Some ' of the damsels were nearly arm-pit deep, with scarcely one straw more than their busts above water. All were busy—all were feeling for mussels with their feet, and, when found, stooping down till their chins touched the water, so as to secure them with their hands ; but, in some cases, chin deep would not answer, and then over head and ears was the order of the morning. Sticking among the clay, treading upon sharp mussels barefooted, and working past the middle in water for hours, one would have thought enough to produce wry faces and chattering teeth; but nothing of this was seen, for all was gay and merry as a marriage bell, teaching the spectator s th a t h a p p i ness i s c o m mon to all conditions of life; and also realizing the old proverb, that " one half of the world does not know how the other makes a liveli hood"—Montrose Standard. WEST RIDING MILITIA.—The number of men wanted for this branch of military service is 3,760; thil is for the West Riding, and exclusive of the number wanted for the Ai nsty, which would increase the num b er b i is r notin e a ch definitely regiment, mentioned by som e f ew hundreds. Supposing t h e 3,760 to constitute three regiments, as at present intended, it will give for one regiment 1,264, and for the other two, 1,253. settled but whatat present shall thebe theen exact_ number robins& is going on for throe reg i ments on l y, v i z ,, t h e it, 2d, and 3d. TILE UNITED STATES. (From the Times Correspondent.) NEW YORK, Oct. 9, half-past 10 a.m. My letter on the Lone Star movement reached this country just as our leading journals had become aware of the extent of that society, and somewhat in , formed iu regard to its operations. I had derived my information when I wrote from what I believed to be authentic sources, and I am sorry now, in addition to what I had before stated, to be obliged to communi cate oter facts, which not only corroborate all that I said, but which impart a still deeper signification to this matter. Your remarks on the same subject were immediately copied into some of our newspapers, while others gave the substance of them in their own editorial articles ; but my letter by the last steamer will have already informed you of a gross outrage perpetrated upon our flag by the authorities in Havan na, and you will find in nearly all our Atlantic journals of the last week earnest language concerning that occurrence. I need not tell you that the recent occurrences in Havacnah, as well as the remarks of our most promi nent newspapers, not only confirm the truth of all my statements in reference to the Lone Star Order, but they corroborate to au unexpected extent the tendency of public opinion in this country as I foreshadowed it. The truth is, that this is likely to prove a very ugly business for us all. I entertain apprehensions about it which I cannot shake oft I see a drift of public feeling among the American people which be tokens the precipitation of events that I think every friend of this country would try to avert. But there is something else that I regard as still more impor tant. The present Captain General of Cuba is the worst enemy Spain has inspired, perhaps by loyal zeal for his Sovereign and patriotic feelings for his coun try, he is pushing things to such an extreme that he is waking up the indignation of that very class of our people who will thus be hurried into a policy which, but for such outrages, would meet with no favour except from the Lone Star men and their intimate adherents. The treatment which several of our officers and vessels had already experienced afforded some theme for talk about national insulf, American power, Republican empire, &c. ; but all this would have slipped by, and men of sense and discretion would have every where either overlooked or palliated what had been done; but the late aggres sions and insults to the Cornelia and the Crescent city have excited universal indig na ti on . Th e B r i t i s h peo ple have never submitted very tamely in any period of their history to insults on the sea, and it should never be forgotten in any judgment which English men form about Americans, that we are only Anglo- Saxons, much resembling our fathers in p as t ages and oar brothers of 1852, on the other side of the At lantic, in our good and our evil things, But it would be strange enough if the vast differenc e in our history should not work some modifications also in the deve lopment of national character and popula r f ee li ng. The Americans have grown to be more sensitive on this subject of interference and aggression on the ocean than even Englishmen are Themselves. I regret very deeply all that has happened in our relations with Cuba since the first larding of Lopez at Cardenas. I did not lament his first repulse, nor did I meach regret on the whole, the final state he suffered,, nor did I much regret the fate of my own countrymen, any further than my humanity might have been sti rre d by the brutality of their deaths. But Ido not desire to see my country irritated into a new and precipi tate launch upon the territories of our neighbours. Heaven is leading us fast enough, without h av i ng the unholy impulses of bad passions to derive us on. Like all other Americans who take time to reflect, I wish my country to spread her dominion no faster than she can extend it by the arts of peace or by friendly negotiations. For these reasons, I regret deeply the course the Captain General of Cuba is taking ; for it requires no gaze of a seor to foresee what will be the result. And then suppose the up shot of the matter—what would be a war with Spain to us ? She was too weak 30 years ago to repress the independence of her American colonies, and if she has now to contend for the supremacy of the last of them against the whole force of the llaited States, we shall only witness a spectacle which we would not wish to contemplate.---the final degradation of one of the oldest and most venerable States in, Europe. How much were it to be desired that at the present moment some friendly power would wia:isper wise counsels in the ear of the Cabinet at Madrid! It would seem now that unless the present Captain assissst :s reef-ilea_ and his niece filled ' , lse. :ese man, Cuba will be revolutionized, and the sem of the Antilles lost to Spain for ever. There is a ferocity about his administration which recalls .se uvenirs of barbarous times, and his recent atrocities have cur dled the blood of our people with horror s and filled them with indignation. The Webster movement has gained in c arnestness and intensity during the last few days. There have been several mass meetings in Boston, and in other portions of Massachusetts, and every new speech that is pronounced goes to show that the brew ih between the Scott and Webster men of the United States can not be healed. Two evenings ago, at the last great Webster meeting in Faneuil-hall, " tins cradle of American liberty," were the most im pi• essive and powerful addresses in favour of the D.?olaration of Independence had been pronounced thrve -fourths of a century ago, Mr. Curtis, one of the most eminent of the Boston lawyers and citizens, closed. an impas sioned, learned, and powerful appeal of tin •ee columns by the following peroration : "Entertain no vain regrets for him whom you are now seeking to honour from motives emin o utly honour able to yourselves. For your country, far a wronged and injured people, for a neglected constitution, you may grieve (sensation)—but not for him. :(f the efforts which you and others aro now making cannot be crowned with success, he assured that th e residue of that life will be all that your fondest 'V fishes could make it. (Loud applause.) You will see an old age adorned with letters, sustained by roligic n, dignified by the noblest of human pursuits, surrounded by the affections of a grateful people, and exensi sing, by the mere force of intellect, en influence exec° ding that of his own previous life. You will see the ;retirement of a statesman whose resources of personal b appiness are as ample as his power of public usefulnes s. You will see that great orb go down to the west , aal skies un clouded and serene. Its last rays will rest on you. The later wisdom of advancing years that, will go forth to mould the opinion of the world will be lattered to you. In the midst of you ,defended by your gig dance, encom passed by your care, he will remain, and :his fame will be to you and yours :3 possession which neither time, nor accident, nor human caprice, nor hurnitii malice, can touch or take away." They are having I see, morover, le: sis numerous but equally resolute meetings in favour crf Mr. Web ster in other parts of the country, and o !rtainly this movement must seriously affect the fortunes of General Scott. A very large number of newspapers in every part of the country have, durisn K the tour of General Scott through the west indulged', in the se verest strictures upon his course. They do not hesi tate to say that it is a gross violation of pi tblic decency that the Commander-in-Chief of the American army —our little Duke of Wellington—should, when a candidate for the highest civil office, and: still in the exercise of the highest military power le sown to our constitution, choose such an occasion as this to travel thousands of miles with an imposing Finite, and at great public expense, mere ly to m ale political speeches in his own favour, under the pretext of performing a public duty. No wonder that the Bugled° Republic should ask, as it does in the follow ing paragraph , " THAT SITE FOR A. MILITARY HOSPITAL.. —When Will General Scott find that site ? He has been march ing and countermarching, traversing and re -traversing State after State, electrifying his Whig friends through out the country with his 4aiusurpassed eloquenc e ,' and his wisdom, which exceeds Newton's and .Lock e , a , , a ll about a site for a military hospital. We should no t wonder if that evasive, dodging, unfindable site should keep out of the General's sight till the time drtws near for him to be cited to embark for the Salt River country. Let us not be understood, however, as insinuatiug that the Whig candidate is on an electioneering tour, i ns t ea d of looking for that site. No, no, he denies that at every place where he stops. Ile is certainly in pursuit of that site, which, like an iynis fatuus, lures him from pl ace t o place, first one course and then another, sometimes ap pearing nearly within his reach, and then flitting aga in away into another State. A very slippery thing is that site which the General is pursuing ; and we sometimes doubt whether ho will ever got within the sweep of his sword of it." Many newspapers have made themselves merry at a thousand peculiar remarks's:if the illustrious General on his tour, and it has already grown into a proverb that a`Scott-man must of necessity " love that Irish brogue." The General himself made use of this ex pression while addressing a crowd in Ohio. Upon which the Neu, York Sun makes the following com ments : " While the General was addressing a crowd at Cleve land, Ohio, and telling bis auditors bow glad he was to be with them, some son of Erin, whose tongue, it seems, betrayed its nationality, with genuine Irish hospitality told him he was welcome. Quick as thought the Gene ral exclaimed,— ' I love that Irish brogue. I love to hear it.' " O'Connell himself never excelled that bit of blarney. We expect the Irish brogue to become quite fashionable in political circles at least; and, should Scott be elected to the presidency, office-seekers will doubtless practise the brogue so a 3 to be able to come round' the Gene ral." It is well known that the General had been for merly a furious " native American ;" that he had written very energetically against allowing foreigners the rights of citizenship until they had been in the country 21 years, or until they had served five years at least in the American army or navy. The hero shows that he feels the necessity of being particularly obsequious to the sons of the Emerald Isle, and they certainly cannot complain that he is not so. There is not much local news of interest. Mr. Howard, the late proprietor of the Irving-house in New York, one of the most popular and magnificent of our American hotels, has recently sold his esta• blishment, and it is supposed that he intends to visit London, and open an hotel there on the American system at an expense of half a million sterling. Mr. M'Kay, of East Boston, has nearly completed a clipper ship, which, it is supposed, will surpass in size and sharpness any merchant ship now afloat. She is to be 300 feet long, have a breadth of beans of 50 feet, with 28 feet depth of hold, three decks, and a register of 3,400 tons. She is to be diagonally braced with iron, and built as strong as the best ocean steamers. Those who have seen her say that the beauty of her model exceeds that of any of our vessels hitherto built. She is not made on contract, but will be offered for sale when completed. You will have observed that there have been seve ral very perceptible ups and downs in our money market during the last few weeks. The time is ap• proaching which I spoke of last spring in one of my letters, when the first symptoms were becoming visible of a monetary crisis in this country. I remarked at the time that this was inevitable, and that it would come before a long period had passed. The enormous extension of paper money, the immense multiplication of cur barking institutions, the pro digious number of loans effected by our railroads, canals, builders, real estate holders, and speculators of all grades, the influx of gold from California, even the impetus given to our trade by the Australian move ment, and, in a word, the unwarrantable expansion of our enterprizes of all kinds throughout the world, must to every shrewd and forecasting mind have indi cated the inevitable approach of a commercial revul sion. But the moment of its arrival I have never believed to be so far off as those men have who have been most mixed up with the agitation. Our credit in Europe is good—perhaps it never was better. But your capitalists ought not to shut their eyes to the present state of things in this country, and I hope these few remarks, with my former letter that I have alluded to, may have some tendency in arresting an unwa rrantable expansion of public and private credit, for may Heaven save us from a recurrence of such disgrace as we suffered in the days of our all but uni versal repudiation! MONUMENT IN LIVERPOOL TO THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON. A meeting of the inhabitants of this town was held at noon on Saturday, called for the purpose of giving the inhabitants an opportunity of expressing their feelings upon the great loss the country has sustained in the recent demlse of his Grace the Duke of Wellington. The Worshipful Mayor, THOMAS LITTLEDALE, Esq., presided, and the meeting was attended by a large number of the gentlemen, professional men, and trades mon of the town, of all creeds and parties. The MAYOR, en taking the chair, said ho had much pleasure in calling a meeting for such an object, and to show how great the feeling was in the town, he would mention that three different memorials had been got np in one day, bat they were now merged into one, the more expressively to convey the general and undivided opinion which existed. He hoped the same unani mous feeling would actuate them now, and that a me morial creditable to the town would be erected. (Cheers.) CHARLES TURNER, Esq., M.P., rose to move the first resolution, and said ha regretted it had not fallen to a more capable person to propose it ; but ho felt th a t no eulogium was required, as the name of Wellington would live as long as the records of this great empire existed; and so long as the name of Englishmen existed upon the earth, so long would generations of his country men recount his deeds with pride and admiration. (Ap. plauie.) He concluded by moving the following reso lution.—" That this meeting, desirous of testifying the high estimation in which the character of the late Duke of Wellington was held by the inhabitants of this borough, and appreciating those great talents which, during his long life, were unsparingly devoted to the service of his country—resolved, that a public subscrip tion ho opened for the purpose of raising to his memory a column, surmounted by a statue, to be placed, by per so-;nn of the Council, in some suitable situation of the t3wn." ((:beery.) WILLIAM BROWN, Esq., M.P., seconded the resolution. He said, whatever difference of opinion might prevail as to the policy which had involved us in Continental wars, there could bo none as to the military merits of the Duke of Wellington. No man ever evinced a greater love of country; nor was more careful of the lives of the soldiers under him, always attending to their commissaries. N o man had ever shown more patriotism than he had done. Ho had been the faithful counsellor of her Majesty, great in war, groat in the senate, and his name would live in the hearts of his countrymen. He hoped there would be no backwardness on the part of the burgesses and inhabi tants in subscribing funds for such a monument as should be a credit to the town, and show to the nation that we appreciated his qualities. There never was a man who had acted through life with more disinterestedness than the Duke—who never, in the course of his difficult and arduous career, ever attempted a job. It was impossible for him to say anything of his merits which faithful his tory would not record. (Loud applause.) The resolution having been put from the chair, and carried unanimously, a committee was appointed to ma nage the details of the proposed memorial, after which, on the motion of F. B. Horsetail, Esq., M.P., seconded by Archdeacon Brook, Mr. F. E. Moss was appointed Treasurer. Mr. ELIAS ARNAUD related that, in 1830, he was one of a deputation who called upon the Duke to invite him to visit the town, and ho had on that occasion expressed himself in the highest terms of Liverpo o l, an d, w i t h t h e gallantry of a soldier, said . , he should bo highly delighted to see the "Lancashire witches." The Mayor having vacated the chair, Mr. Brown was called thereto ; and on the motion of Mr. L. Mozley, seconded by the Earl of Sefton, the thanks of the meet ing were voted to the Mayor, who briefly acknowledged it, and the meeting separated. PROPOSED REPEAL OF THE CATHOLIC RELIEF }SILL.—At a meeting of the Manchester Protestant and Reformation Society, held in the Free-trade Hall, Man- cheater, on Thursday evening—the Rev. Hugh Stowe in the chair—the following resolutions were passed:—' That the grant to Maynooth, so utterly wrong in prin ciple, has been abundantly shown to be no less injurious in practice, more especially iu the cond uc t of th e May nooth-trained priesthood during the late general elec tion; and that, therefore, a petition to the House of Commons for its repeal bo adopted. 2. Th a t it i s hi g h time to move for the repeal of the Relief Act of 1829, as utterly incompatible with the liberties of this coun try, the rights of Protestants, the free action of the Le gislature, and the safety of her Majesty's Throne. The meeting was a very large one; but there was a large pro portion of the sofor sex. The speakers included, besides Mr. Stowell, the Rev. Pierce Connolly, late Roman Ca tholic priest, and chaplain to Earl Shrewsbury; Rev, H. W. M'Grath; Rev. Mr. Richardson, Rev. James Bard sley, Rev. Mr. Trail, and Rev. G. T. Parke. CAMPBELL THE POET.—Dr. Beattie, the biographer and friend of the poet, has addressed the following letter to the Inverness Courier, describing a graceful tribute to his memory on the part of a French gentleman, who now inhabits the house in which he died at Boulogne-sur- Mer:—" At Boulogne my first visit was to tho house where Campbell died, and which, after seven years' ab sence, brought back many recollections connected with the closing scene. Over the door of another house in Boulogne, in which Le Sage (author of Gil Blas) ex pired, there is a tablet recording that event. I had long thought that the death-place of Campbell was entitled to a like distinction, and now was the time for carrying it into effect. The house is now occupied by the President of the Civil Court, a man of letters and a cordial adm irer of the poet, and no sooner was the design mentioned to him than he cordially applauded it. I then consulted with Mr. Hamilton, the consul, and we fixed on the fol lowing brief inscription, similar to the one dedicated to Le Sage:—" Ici est mort Thomas Campbell, auteur des Plaisirs de l'Eperance. xv. Juin sincccxu v. It is engraved on a tablet of black marble with gold . letters, and is affixed to the outer wall of the chamber in which he died. I was gratified by observing the respect paid to the memory of Campbell by the Frenc h, partic• ularly by the distinguished official who occupies the house. He has taken pains to preserve the rose-trees and shrubs and flowers which the poet admired and cherished during his brief sojourn; and ho delights in presenting visitors with a rose from i the poet's tree.' The chamber is held sacred; and when I tell you that even the small pieces of cloth with which I had stuffed t he crevices to exclude sound during the poet's short slum bers are undi▪ sturbed, you will join with me in thanking the worthy French man, who, in doing honour to the memory of Campbell, has complimented the whole country. THE CRYSTAL PALACE.—The offers of large sums made by several parties for monopoly of the " pickings" to be found beneath the boards of the Crystal Palace )ver e a ll refused by the Contractors, Messrs. Fox and Henderson, who generously gave permission to the 1 ,bourers employed upon the spot to appropriate to themselves any " treasure trove" which they might chance to light upon in removing the planks of whith the flooring was composed, and in turning up the surface of the turf below. These findings have been quite godsends to some of the men employed upon the works. Co i ns o f copper, silver, and gold, crochet purses, studs, rings. lockets, &c., have been turned up d a il y, to say noth i ng o f gold and silver headed canes, and other miscellaneous articles ; and one day last week a poor man was fortunate enough to stumble RNLI a purse =taming between 71. and Si. C • • //z ti ELEOVION PETITIONS. (From the Daily:News ) Just after the Elections there Nrals very great talk of petitions, but as the time draws on for theirepresenta don, those best informed upon the subject begin to let out that after all there will be but a few. It is to be the old story over again, " Great cry and little woel." Par liamentary agents have found out that the corruption was, after all, below an average. Somo even go so far as to assert that so pure a general election never came under their notice. It would serve a good purpose, if those gentlemen were every one of them summoned before a specially appointed committee of the House, arid required to produce the statements and notes of evi dence as to every case that had been laid before them, and to declare the several considerations upon which they had decided on not proceeding with each particular petition. Some, no doubt, would be fotind to have been abandoned as a matter of compromise, some because ex posure in this particular instance would really fur the future place the representatives in the hands of the honest, and deprive the agent of his long-held power to put up some one to be plucked at every election; others, beeaue it had suddenly become more advantageous to stop the petition than to go on with it ; and a goodly number would be found to have been abandoned because there was no petitioner in the field able to afford such expense as would content a parliamentary agent. It is utterly in vain to say that on investigation th e cor ruption turns out to have been small. We may su r e l y appeal from any such ass er t ion to all who took a u active part in the contests. It was not the mere excite ment of the moment that spread the re port of unex ampled corruption. It was the re r e exception that wherever there was a contest unfair means were used, and in those places there are plenty of people to be found who make no secret as to how the election was lost or won. There were rumours on the polling dap in several places which have not since died away, hut have become corroborated and confirmed; and we arc not with out itistancest in proof, that if the whole number of pe titions be few, tke smallness of the number is not the result of the r ereness of corruption, or of any insuper able difficulty se to getting at the facts, but is in many, it not in most instances, owing to the enormous cost of petitions. As elections are at present conducted, a can didate—even where, in a moderately large constituency, he fights a fair bank—must make up his mind to pay heavily his way to Parliament. It is a read to be passed in any case only by a considerable scattering of gold and silver. A man may have ambition or love of some cause enough at heart to spend tne money in an open coetest; but when he is beaten by bought votes, it is another matter to spend as much more as the electido cost him in a patriotic effort to unseat the buyer of the seat. The bribery-beaten candidate may reasonably enough consi der that it is the duty of the Parliament to weed itself of its corrupt members, and that the nation or the con stituency, and not the individual, should pay the cost. It is in vain to cry out against corruption, so long as its punishment is guarded against by an enormous fire upon the prosecutor. No petitioner need look to spend less than five hundred pounds, and he may be plucired to the extent of one or two thousand, and then have the satis faction of knowing that the corrupt electors are still in full force, and that he has no better, if not is worse, chance, of being returned then before. As elections now stand—even in tho most flagrant in stances—members lire left in the full enjoyment of their purchased honours, and constituencies in undisturbed possession of a national trust, which they systematically betray. Those acquainted, for instance, with the myste ries of the management of the franchise at Maidstone, know that when an Election is on foot a certaiu club of voters meet in a private parlour in a public house to talk over the merits of the candidates—and pipes are smoked, and the weather gone over, and crops discussed, and beer and gin and water tippled—and by and bye, through, it may be, some mysterioua 'hole in the wall, there appears a 5 in chalk on a little black board over the fire-place; the eyes of the company find their way in that direction one atter another, heads are shaken in dissent, and on pee the drinking, and the smoke thickens, and the conversation becomes political, and in stead of the 5 appears a 7. No one notes the change; the chances of the candidates are gone into with some zeal; the nominee at the club is no favourite yet; if he be an old member there are no end of complaints against him; he has been a member so many years, and still there's a malt tax, and the hop duty is neither abolished nor changed to an acreage. If a new candidate, he is unknown, and they neustbe cautious how they take new men. AlO comes out upon the board; faces brighten; there's a long pull at the pipes; every glass is filled as if by some common impulse, and the chairman gives the health of the candidate, and then, old or new, there are speeches and cheers, his committee named, and his election is safe. The mysterious ten has done it all. It is notorious that at the last election positive evidence of bribery in the shape of cheques fell into the hands of the opposing party, and led to a compromise, by which one of the Derbyite candidates was withdrawn, and a section of the Liberals and the Tories agreed to a walk over. At the last moment, however, an independent portion of the constituency resolved to resist the compromise—brought forward a man of their own, Mr. Lee, and polled for hill', but without success. A the close of the election a peaion was very urgently spoken of, but after a time the zeal cooled down. The question began to be asked, what good could come of it ? Mr. Lee might unseat his opponent, but his supporters would, by no fair means, win in the face of the figures over tho mantel-piece, and the instructions to snonkeeners am? others from the county round. The honest few could not afford amongst themselves to face a petition. The cost of the petition protects alike the bribers and the bribed. Those who have the money have nothing to gain by its onpenditure, and those who have not, though they feel the disgrace of such a representation, have no remedy. Tradesmen in the metropolis combine to prosecute swindlers, who would escape in numbers, if the charges were to be borne in each instance by au individual. Surely the public are deeply enough inter ested in having an honourably chosen Parliament to raise a fund for the unseating of those who by corrupt influences deprive the honest electors of their voice in the state. Maidstone is far from being a single instance. Colchester, at the last election, went, there is little doubt, knee-deep into its old practices. There is no lack of proof of bribery, and open-housekeeping. Mr. Hard castle was defeated by these practices, and would, in all probability, have petitioned, but the vacancy at Bury St. Edmunds gives him a chance of getting a seat at less cost than by petition at Colchester, and so no one means to pay. fur exposing the doings of the Chief of the Woods an a Forests and his colleague, and their allies of the Eastern Counties Railway. At Bury St, Edmunds a petition was determined upon, and Stuart must have lost his seat. The appointment to the vice-chancellorship, however, leaves the seat open, and no one with sufficient funds has any longer an interest in the exposure of the member. B'ut surely, if a general fund had beeu subscribed for the purpose, the Vice-Chancellor would have found a petitiun between him and the Chiltern Hundreds ; and the public would have bad an opportunity of ascertaining how far his appointment might he considered in the light of a pre ventive to detection. At Rochester enough is known of monies paid, loose votes picked up early on the polling-day, and grumbling over unfulfilled promises of places and payments to unseat both the present members ; but It is so well known that the same corrupt means would be used again, and would return any other men of the same politics, whilst the present Ministry continue in office, that probably the late membe rs would conside r it a mere idle waste of money to petition. But other constituencies, earnest and honest, and whose votes are neutralized by those bought and coerced seats for no cheater should surely be ready to contribute to throwing the borough open to another contest, and so again and again, until it become an ascertained fact that it is mere money thrown away to attempt to bribe in Rochester. Then there is Ipswich, from which Mr. Adair's vote, for the ballot and reform, is to be neutralised by Mr. Cobbold's thick and thin support of Lord Derby, be cause Mr. Hobhouse does not see his way through the expenses, first of a petition, and then of another con tested election. And yet no one in Ipswich pretends that Cobbold gained his seat by fair means ; unless the power of some thirty public-houses, more or less belong ing to his brewery, and the forces of his bank be fair means. It would be absurd for an individual to pay tho double costa of the seat, or chances of the seat forelfps wich ; and it is scarcely to be looked for tha . t s t a h li : h iv e most active of the Liberals, and on whom 11 labour of the elections, should tax rally has no less heavy an amount. The country themselvesfa to so itself. The beer p u gr purging i i n u egd of an interest in the matter than Jpsw g i e e n h b : ip of , t w h i r ch w . rong done the ef a t v t:he people, and it is shop and bank-bought scat is means against the great mass h for Est the their interest and their duty, of another kind, looking Parlia- Yarmouth is a case honestment, t o partsubscribe o f the constituencyf o punishment o f —and with such knowledge as any one who has occasion—there is no doubt that Mr. gated the _practices plipd matter, may have of the f l e iv tu es r t n i on , gain the seat by a scrutiny of the votes; M • is all modes of but a scrutiny_ procedure against a sit ting the most . expensive. Counsel exert their ingenuity in contriving delays; they will spend a day, or perhaps more, over the cross - examination of a single gi t ah h tenl ey ig w h i t ll make long speeches upon a class of witness; e s l a ; nothing;o f points kee p s i e n em ganw i d n i g tan l l yel witnesses srheaesi these ie e n d d taoy f w o g for theth , a e purpose, n d petitioner sending and for iei a tf r e n ts d hh i n e t g ee :t i t Int mony. The present system of elections is altogether vicious. The candidate, even where the election is to be pure, comes forward to prey expenses himself, or else, as in some few instances, his party subscribes, and pays, and so on the face of it he occupies the position of one seek ing a direct advantage for himself, and not the advantage of the electors and the country. If esspense be essential to the choice of a representative, it assuredly should be borne not by the candidate, but by the constituency. It is oue of the public constitutional acts of the borough or county to chose members of Parliament, and if booths are to be erected, committee-rooms engaged, poll clerks, messengers, &c., employed, the charges should be met by the borough or county,'antl not by the returned mem bers and beaten candidates, and so also in the case of petitions against the return. If there be bribable elec tors in a constituency, it is the interest of the conslititu eney to be rid of them, just as it is *lair interest to be rid of pickpockets or burglars; acd the member or can didate should no more be called upon to pay for the ex posure and prosecution of bribers and receivers of bribes than a person who has had his pocket picked to be called upon to pay the cost of transporting the pickpocket. If bribery is to be put an end to, there must be an end of levying the cost upon the petitioner. 4"'"