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are at all events diicunekl in the Supreme Court. Whether, the as, , imilation of the practice in Ireland to that of England will lie an improvement or not, is more than we can say ; but we have no difficulty in saying that the English practice is exceedingly bad, and that it ►s susceptible of many, very many improvements.—Morning Chronicle. Mr. Hume brings on a motion this night in the Ilouse of Commons on which, we are sure,—a , well as generally, on the 'great subject of church property with, which it is connected,—too much at tent:on cannot be bestowed. The purpose of the motion is to address his Majesty " that he will be pleased not to fill up the vacant See of Derry, until a rre re suitable arrangement shall be made by law for the better application of the revenue of the said See." The Irish Committee of the corporation of London are, we understand, to address the King upon the same subject. A more important subject there cannot now be named, nor is there any on which the minds of men have, within our remem brance, arrived at a higher degree of unanimity, to the extent at least of insisting that some very serious and comprehensive change shall be speedily effected, both in the mode of paying the clergy, and in the proportions according to which the fund for their maintenance shall be divided. As for Ireland and her Established Church, no man who has the slightest acquaintanceovith that country supposes that her church can stand five years, with out considerable improvement in the relations be tween the clergy and the body of the people, and in those between the several ranks of clergy among themselves. The Irish church draws too much wealth from the community, and the Bishops and some other favoured individuals take away too much of that gross fund from the mass of the clerical body. The question of tithe—its continuance and appli cation,—and the various proposals of substitutes for it, cannot be entered upon just now : but with re gard to the distriLution of church property, we only ask the reader to reflect for a moment—first, on the revenue of the Irish see of Derry, the revenue of which we do not believe to be at all over-stated at 15,000/. per annum ; and, secondly, on the fact, that hundreds of Irish livings do not exceed from 901. to 1201. per annum, while many a curate does the drudgery of the profession for less than 70/. per annum. The Irish Bishops, with about one twelfth of the Protestant population to superintend, have, on the average, larger incomes than the Epis copal bench of England. Dr. Knox, late Bishop of Derry—a well meaning man, but below mediocrity as to intellect—enjoyed for nearly thirty years a revenue greater than that of Dur ham, and with what advantage to the cause of religion we certainly have never found out. In his diocese, or that of Rephoe, which is adjacent, stands a living, which has in almost every instance been held by incumbents, whose sole recommenda tion was their political influence—the rectory of limey, worth, we have been told, above 2,000/. per annum, and what the number of Protestant souls to he administered, we should like to hear stated on authentic evidence. To the tithes of Urney, as to those of all the other overgrown patrimonies of great families in Ireland, the chief contributors are members of another faith. The Bishopric and the rectory must be remodelled by the existing autho rities of the State, or authorities will grow up, in spite of the State, which will remodel them with a vengeance. Let Parliament look to this in time. 'Wishing well to Lord Grey, and to his brother-in law, who is a Bishop, we trust that the Prime Me r l. ster will not think of bestowing that see, nor Lord Ponsonby aspire to enjoy it, in its existing and un natural magnitude ; hut that, to render the transla tion palatable to the country, and the possession safe and durable, the address to his Majesty may be carried, and not merely carried but complied with, for a considerable reduction of that branch of the revenue appropriated to the maintenance of the Bishop.—Tinress If the people of England be true to themselves. we repeat that they will not suffer the Reform Bill to be corrupted in its core by this clause for the di vision of counties. If nothing else will do, there must be popular meetings every where ; the great towns ought to meet, because here is a direct at tempt to raise a nets interest, adverse to them and the nation,—the interest of the " country parsons," far more terrible than that of borough patrons,which the Bill has destroyed. Above all, the independent intereit throughout the several counties of England (night to meet, god remonstrate manfully against this scheme for its utter demolition. The gentry of small fortunes, and the intelligent yeomanry, bid fair to be politically so ruined by the measure, that we cannot contain our astonishment at their seem ing security erol repose. For Whig or Toro, on such a question, we care not a single farthing. Sit F.ancis Burdett, a gentleman on many accounts most estimable, may, however, b.s 60 selfish as to long to have the return for one-half of I,eicestershire in his own halide, while M the Duke of Rutl an most tea d norni owe,: for the other. r. Littleton, a pec tsble pewit, may regard his seat for Staffordshire as less liable to disturbance, aod more in the nature of a situation for life, with but half of Staffordshire to menage, titan with that great county undivided ; and although it is said that these two gentlemen are 1 among the most strenuous instigators of the un sightly clause, tee do not blame their selfishness, if it be selfishness, oc their shallowness, if k be down right shallowness,—wo only lament that Lord Al thorp and his colleagues should have given ear to their solicitatione. By the way, as asserted in the letter of a correspondent of ours, Northamptonshire its, If appears to be so circumstanced, that if Lord Althorp and Lord Milton bad had their attention somewhat more vigilantly turned to the surmises which uncharitable observers trsiglit possibly (al though, we acknowledge with pica:3l4re, most falsely) form with regard to their conduct au the question, we are of opinion that these two just and high-principled noblemen would have paused for a minute before they had committed themselves to a division of a county, where it is ktiewo that the Spencer interest dominates over one moiety, and that the Fitzwilliam interest overwhelms the other. We beg to be understood as in no sense countenanc ing the remotest insinuation against the integrity or self-denial of either of the above noble persons. The matter is one for their own delicacy to deal with, and in their hands we leave it. 'rite editor of en Eveeing Paper is lost, poor simpleton, - in wou• der, at the course we have felt it out duty to follow upon this nefarious clause, and sups there is a mystery about us which , he cannot unravel." The Lord foifend that it should be otherwise! What sage was it who asked a silly fellow, detected in the act of relishing one of his renuirks—" Have I said any thing so foolish that you ran understand it ?" Our course on the Reform question has been clear, and requires no clue but plain sense and public spirit to explain it. We supported the Bill—not because it was the Bill of Ministers, but as being a Bill for Reform. We supported, and ehell yet sup port, Lord Grey and his colleagues,—not as being a Government, but a reforming Government. Where the Ministers forget their principles, and the Bill departs from its original object, we oppose them hoth.—Timer. We cannot too strongly condemn the disposition which exists to raise • gray grievances, when, G o d knows I there tire m r 3 e a n a nd ones more than enough to engage our attention ; instance this is the more repre hensible when, as in the n a ce b lve are about to allude to, injustice is done to fenceless individual, and that indZ e u i s e a e l s e s r a female. and de fenceless than n We are led to this remark by having insinu ations thrown out in the columns of 4 of our contempo raries, to the effect that the Queen'sun sister, the Duchess of Saxe-Weimar, should be looked upon as an object of suspicion here, and as a probable source of political intrigue, because, for sooth, her noble husband holds a command in the army of the King of the Netherlands' If the Duchess's visit to this country have for its object political intrigue, she must be one of the worst in triguers in existence ; for it unfortunately so happens that the King of Holland appears to have neither friend nor sympathizer in any one member of the Bri-1 iish Government ; while the Duke of Saxe-Weimar's military success has apparently given satisfaction to no one here, unless it be to his illustrious consort. But the truth is, the Duchess's visit here has no more to do with politics than that of the Russian Arch duchess, who is at present sojourning for her health on the coat of Devonshire; and she might, with quite as good foundation, he looked upon as an emissary of the Emperor Nicholas to forward his views against the Poles, as to imagine that the Queen of England's sister cannot be a visiter to he English Court without a sinister purpose. — John Bull must be a marvellously strange animal indeed if he is capable of being gulled by such far fetched groundless notions as these; which, in their turn, it may not be unreasonable to suppose are only started by their authors to draw off the public attention from matters of more concern. He would he moreover a heartless and inhuman animal (which it is, not in his nature to be), if lie should allow himself for a moment to be the instrument of wantonly breaking in upon the social intercourse of life, and of imbittering the few moments of affec ,ion which the highest rank, coupled with the seve rances which generally accompany it, is permitted to enjoy. If it were worth while to break a fly upon a wheel, by seriously refuting the absurd and unkind insinuation we allude to, it would be suffi cient to remind our readers, that when the Duchess came to this country with her family two months ago, there was not the most remote probability of the state of affairs in Holland and Belgium assuming the aspect which they have recently put on. But the truth is, the whole is one of those impertinences which in any case would be inexcusable, but which become wholly unpardonable in its want or gal lantry, and in the blow which it aims at the do mestic enjoyment of one who has so justly endeared herself to the British people; and who is well known to value domestic happiness and tranquillity far above all that rank and station can bestow.—Morn. Her. The Anti-Reform Press seem to be in raptures with the King of Holland and his victories.' As the campaign has now drawn to its close, we . may bestow a parting word upon the subject, which is certainly a most singular one in all its bearings. And, first, we must say that we can discover no great cause for triumph on the part of the Dutch King, If we connect his military exploits with the very equi vocal manner, to say the least of it, in which it is now evident that he stole a march upon all the diplo matists. The despatch we published yesterday put us in possession of the vindication of the Dutch King by his own Minister, who contends that the phrase " moyens mililaires" was a distinct and suffi cient notice of the termination of the armistice ; or in other words, that it was tantamount to saying that at such an hour, on such a day, his Dutch Ma- Jesty would put an end to the armistice by carrying fire and sword into the territory of Belgium. Now, can these words,bear such an interpretation, or, if they can, will any one contend that it ought to be left to interpretation, to mere inference, to collect whether blood was intended to he shed or not ? Surely the calamities of war are important enough to call for due announcement and plain speaking before the butchery begins. But the language in this instance was vague, nay, coupled with the fact of existing negociation, - and the fact of a newly-arrived Minister to assist in that negociation for peace, it was unintelligible in the sense in which it now appears that the Dutch King and his ulster would have it understood. Not one of the Ministers of the conference so understood it. They supposed it to have applied to means or " measures adopted only in the interior of Holland ;" in short, to any thing rather • than the resumption of 'hos tilities. And well might they suppose so . when the spirit of the negociation was peace, and• when the very purpose for which' they - Were as sembled was to Communicat e with a newly-appointed Minister, for the furtheratice of that object,' We are aware that there is a class of politicians to whom, such a proceeding will appear to be a master-piece of diplomatic ambiguity, and who, without any bad feeling but the love of finesse, which is bad enough, will be delighted to see bloodshed steal, as it were, into a parenthesis in the midst of a pacifiC docu ment. But this school is going out fast, as manly knowledge advances; and it is scarcely worth while to purchase the contempt of the whole world-for the applause of an insignificant and expiring faction. Our attention was drawn to this subject chiefly by, finding that the military success of the Dutch King was hailed with a shout of triumph by the Anti- Reform Press; and we think it of importance that they should take the triumph subject to its fair abatements, and, above all, to the stolen march of diplomacy by which its commencement was distin guished.—Morning Herald. The day following the memorable" exploit" which may be said to bare begun and terminated General DaMe's Belgic campain, the Government of Liege i-sued a proclamation, gravely stating that " the army of the ileuse had not been beaten." This announcement, to which no doubt the future histo rian will be greatly indebted, was echoed by the Courtier dc la ;diem:, which, with something of a triumphant air at the discovery, exclaimed, " No t the army of the Meuse has not been beaten." It appeared it .only run away, and its running in prefe rence to,fight;oLf was explained by showing that the gallant army did trot gy from the field through cow ardice, but through /cur, inasmuch as there " was no apparent cause" for their flight, and their " spirits were unditnioished." We suppose we must, in this` passage, underhand the word " spirits" in the least spiritual sense, for the heroes cf the Meuse had cer tainly no time to empty their canteens. The Courtier also informed its readers,with exceeding great naivete, that it had l.eeo " assured by several officers and sol diers their retreat swap in no way caused by Me enemy, and that they had Gallica the ni, , ,sht-drum for one hour and a half."—Gallant souls ! But Corporal Trim would have told them it would have been more to tl:e purpose if they bad beaten the Dutch even for half that time. Some may think that the distinction taken by the Belgic editor between cow ardice and causeless fear is a distinction without a difference ; certain it is, however, that the Belgians, on that o;.;crecion, were not beaten—for why ? They did not stay to Le Lenten, 'We wonder the authors of the proclamation, and she learti;!d editor of the Courrier, did riot tell ue that, although the army of the Meuse had actually run away, they had still beaten the. : enemy. This could have been easily proved on the pri:4;ipi,e of strategics laid down by that renowned warrior Itudibrai, whose style of military heroism seems to have served as a cipdel for most of the Belgian Generals. That great au. thority has it-, For, when the shrift becomes a chase, He wins the fight who yips the race; and upon the strength of this indisputs.4'la maxim the " army of the Meuse" may claim the palm of victory. The celebrity, however, which they ob tained by this rapid mode or beating an enemy has since been sivalle,d, if not surpassed, by the army of the " Scheldt," and thus Kling Leopold has had his elevation to a kingdom celebrated by better raping than one sometimes witnesses at NeWmaritet. Now we may ask how it happens that the Belgians have become all at once so distinguished for the Nadi brastie art of winning .victories? It is not long since the inhabitants of Brussels, chiefly the work ing classes, without a King and without any re gular leaders, drove the flower of the Dutch troops out of their city after four days' fighting, although the town had bean surprised, and a great portion of the higher classes and the (rvic Guard acted in a manner that betrayed their cowardice or trea chery. In every part of Belgium, too, where, subs sequently to that event the Dutch troops and the Belgian popultr ion came to actual conflict, the former gium wer with e worsted, tie t nor could they retain any post in Be!. exception of the strongly-fortified citadel of Antwerp. We may, therefore, ask how it happens that, with a Ki ng at theirheaS who laya claim himself to the character of a warrior, with plenty of officers, and some who boast of hard service in the " tented field," the Belgians should run away atthevery sight of the Dirteb troops who had eo lately _I I.)it ..- yf_ =1.7,1r retreated before them ? It seetiitiitr!Tftd; difficulti to'l explain why an enemy so lepenoi - - chased out of Belgium should now, by their very•looks, strike a terror into the hearts of their Belgic: 'conquerors which extinguishes all manhood—all sense of shaine —all feeling of disgrace—and makes qbe4acied cause of national independence in their hands dege nerate into a contemptible burlesque ! We have been told much of the enraptured enthusiasm with which they received their new King. Did their courage eva porate in that fervent homage to Royalty ? The King, whom we were told they absolutely " adored," while they cried in the same breath " Death to tile Dutch," they permitted to be within an ace of fall lag into the hands of these very Dutch, from whoni he only escaped by the swiftness of his steed. This is a rapid shifting of the political scenes from the enthusiastic loyalty of one • week to ' the gro tesque panic of the next. In reminds one of a melo dramatic exhibition, followed by a farce. There ap pears but one way of solving the mystery :of the Dutch campaign in Belgium—Me treachery of the Belgian leaders. Sure we are that the people, who have never before been stained with the taint 'of cowardice, have been made the victims of the black treachery of some parties, whose treason may yet be made as manifest as its results at present are. S•milar treachery almost ruined the Dutch them selves on the invasion of their territory by the armies of Louis XIV., when their leaders and Ma gistrates delivered up post after post, and town after town, without firing a shot. Did the Prince of. Orange know that similar preparations had been made for his conquest of Belgium ? Time will tell. —Morning Herald. Among the amendments of the Reform B II to be proposed in Committee we think that of Colonel Davie) worthy of particular attention, as obviating one very obnoxious feature of the measure. It is as follows : " That in cities and boroughs where there are not three hundred electors within seven miles of the place where the elections of Members have been usually holden, the oc cupiers of houses of a yearly value of less tha' ten pounds, and not less than five pounds, shall he entitled to vote at the elections of Members to serve in Parliament for such city or borough :—That in cities or boroughs, the population of which exceeds 30,000, the occupier of no house of a yearly value of less than twenty pounds Shall be entitled to vote at the election of Members to serve in Par liament for such city or borough." Nothing can be more reasonable than the first part of this proposition, whether on the score of conve nience or justice. The five-pound householder in a small borough is a person much the superior in re spectability and station to the tenor twenty pound householder - of 'London. The objection to the pro vision of the Bill as it at present stands is, that in being applied without variation to large and'small towns it deals very unfairly between them ; for, while in the metropolis and its -suburbs it will have tie effect of bringing up whole mobs of the lowest rabble to the poll, in many parts - of' the country it will so confine the franchise that it will be exceed ingly difficult, if not impracticable, to find the re quired number of voters. It is supposed for in stance, and we believe the fact to be so, that the county of Wilts does not contain within -its boun daries a silffic'ent number of . . JO/. householders to supply 300 to each of the boroughs to be re presented. In nearly every'case the voters must be drawn from a very inconvenient distance; arid it is from this circumstance combined with the fact that the five-pound renter in a small borough is - to the full as respeCtable a person as he who pays 201. in London, that we think the first proposition of Co lonel Davies a decided improvement in the Bill. But the second, viz., that in places where the popu lation exceeds 30,000 the franchise shall not descend lower than to the occupiers 'of 201; houses, is a yet more valuable amendment. Unless it is desired that two O'Connells, two Hunts, nr two Cadd eg sh ou ld be presented to - the House of Commons from every large town in the kingdom, this amendment will be adopted; for in all these cases the election will be exclusively in the hands of the ten-pounders, or, in other words, of a set of men for the most part little if at all above the condition of paupers, arid of the worst description of anarchiats,infidels, and levellers.—Morning Post. THE ANTI-REFORMERS AND THEIR VEXATIOUS OPPOSITION TO THE BILL. (From the Bristol Liberal.) The vexatious opposition of the Anti-Re formers to the passing of the Bill, arises merely from a desire to annoy Ministers. Colonel Evans observed, on Wednesday evening, that " the . Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow, and other Political Unions, were holding conferences for the purpose of deciding what should appear to them to be the best course to be adopted, should those who were opposed to the Bill continue their opposition, for the purpose of delay." The gallant Colonel alluded, with pointed and just sarcasm, to the atrocious Six Acts. Any mea sure calculated to abridge the liberties of the people nas hurried through the House with in decent haste; while, on the other hand, any mea sure of a popular character was retarded in its progress to law, by impertinent witticisms, and frivolous anecdote, by the self-eulogies of Sir Robert Peel, the sneers of Croker, " one half of whose political life strangles the other," and the irrelevant buffoonery of that prosing Fabius, Sir Charles Wetherell. Divorce Bills, Pension or Dundas Bills, Corn Laws, and all other Aristo cratic measures, were passed without the shadow of opposition—and yet, a great public measure, a measure designed for the benefit of the people, though viewed in all its bearings, discussed and re-discussed usque ad nauseam, is unnecessarily delayed, in compliment to those who are alike the enemies of Ministers and of Englishmen. Earl Grey and Lord John Russell, (we must be honest) want a little ofthe energy and decision of character that belong to Wellington. The Sun adverts with justice to the passing of the Catholic Bill, and remarks " lithe Duke of Wellington, by a mere shoW of energy, could carry the Catholic question against the sense of the ceuntry, or at least with no very overwh e l m i ng i h c laratien in its favour, we do not see why the present Ministers, now that the people are unanimously with them, should not carry the Reform Bill with equal, or even superior, energy." _ _ The people and Ministers are in striking con trast—the former, on the recent occasion of the elections, acted with a promptitude and e nergy in the outset that forbade opposition ; and in most places, where the franchise was unre zi4icte4, scared their enemies from the contest — look at Bristol, the favoured seat of Toryism. — The Ministers have not followed u p th e glo rious example, but, on the contrary, procras tinate the accomplishment of their own measure by replying to irrelevant declamation and to sophisms, fully exposed on the first few nights of, debate. Earl Grey and his colleagues should remember that the heart sickens at " hope de ferred," and that accordingly the Bill must lose in popularity by unreasonable delay. If vexa tious opposition continue, the Reformers of Bristol should again be in the field, and prove by the unequivocal expression of their senti ments, that their wish for Reform does not arise from temporary excitement, but from a deep settled conviction that the measure in question is the only means through which England can recover her energies, or preserve her rank among the great nations of Europe. The people are even now in a state of political servitude, taxed and tithed, and withal abused. Will they be base enough to hug their clia;ns, and silently acquiesce in the wish of their oppressors ? No, never! trfi!o fin t..,t 10 HACKNEY- COACT! BILL. tAY)S OF A BILL TO - CONSOVDATE AND AMEND THE LA WS RELAT ING TOIiACKNEY-COACHES, AND THE REGISTER ING AND NUMBERING OF WAGGONS, CARTS, AND DRAYS, USED ,IN THE METROPOLIS; AND ALSO TO PLACE THE COLLECTION OF THE DUTY ON SUCH HACKNEY-COACHES UNDER THE MA NAGEMENT OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF STAMPS, ANI) TO TRANSFER THE COLLECTION AND MA. NAGEMENT OF THE DUTIES ON HAWKERS AND PEDLARS IN ENGLAND FROM THE COMM ISSIONERS OF HACKNEY-COACHES TO THE COMMISSIONERS OF STAMPS. Certain Acts declared in force until the sth day of January; 1832, and after that time repealed. Acts passed in the Parliament of Great Britain, from the 9th of Queen Anne to the 57th George 111., quoted, for licensing and regulating hackney-coaches, and to be repealed after the sth January, 1932. Former licences to cease, and the plates relating thereto to be delivered up to the Commissioners of Stamps, and, jo default thereof, a penalty to be inflicted of 40s. for every plate on the persons neglecting to deliver up the same. Grant of stamp duties specified in the schedule annexed. Definition of a hackney-coach :—Every carriage, with two or more wheels, which shall stand or ply in any road, &c. within five miles of the General Post-office. Hackney-coaches not to be kept without licences from the Commissioners of Scamps, nor without plates, not without having certain particulars painted thereon. Licences to be granted by the Commissioners of Stamps or their authorised Officers. oininissioners in granting licences to give preference to the former holders of hackney-coach licences. Not to grant less than three licences to one applicant, until the expiration of three years after the commencement of the Act. Pro viso, in case the number of licences granted and in force be less than 1,200. Persons possessed of licences at the commencement of this Act, to be entitled to new licences without payment of the duty thereon. Persons applying for hackney-coach licences to sign a re quisition for the same. What shall be r, pecifi efi in licences. Notice to be given to the Commissioners of Stamps by proprietors of hackney-coaches, of any change of their places of abode. Penalty for neglect to give notice, 40a. Names and places of abode of the proprietors of hack ney-coaches, and the numbers of the plates granted to them, to be registered at the Guildhall of the city of London.-- Penalty for refusal or neglect, 40s. Duties,.in what manner and to whom to be paid. Mode of discontinuing licences. Plates to be delivered up on the di4continuance or re vocation of such licences. Carriages, horses, harness, &c., liable to duties and penalties. Duties recoverable by distress. In what manner plates are to be placed npon hackney coaches. Penalty for concealing plates, or opposing or en deavouring to prevent persons inspecting and taking the ❑umber thereof. Commissioners may change plates. Where plates have been wilfully obliterated, a new licence shall be required. Penalty for keeping, using, &c., a hackney-coach without licence, 101. Or without plates. Or for not delivering up recalled plates. Penalty (nt drivers of carriages plying for hire as hack ney-coaches without plates, 10/., and if not paid the offender to be committed for three calendar months. Carriages having thereon plates provided under this Act to be deemed hackney-coaches. Forgery, &c. of hackney-coach plates, a mi,demeanour, to be punished by fine or imprisonment. Names of Keprietors to be painted on hackney-coaches in legible characters of black and white. Penalty for default, lit Drivers of hackney-coaches to be licensed. Penalty on proprietors and drivers, if the latter be em ployed without licence, &c. Proprietors of hackney-coaches to be summoned to pro duce the drivers. Penalty en the proprietor for neglect or refusal, 40s. On neglect to appear and prodnce the driver, the proprietor may be convicted. Penalties to be" paid by the proprietors of hackney coaches unless the drivers be produced. Justices to determine dispwes between hackney-coach proprietors and their drivers. Watermen to he licensed. Penalty on acting as a waterman without a licence, 40,. Penalty on the publican employing an unlicensed water. man, 40s. Numbered badges to be worn by drivera and watermen. Penalty, 40.. Particulars of licences to he entered in books to be kept at the Stamp office, and such entries to be evidence. Procuring any licence in a fictitious name a misde meanour, fine, or imprisonment. What distance hackney-coachmen shall be compellable to drive. Hackney-coaches standing in any street to be deemed to be plying for hire, and the driver thereof refusing to go with any person liable to a penalty of 404. Compensation to be made to hackney-coachmen im properly summotlid for refusing to drive when under a previous hiring.--- - Eackney-coachtnen'inay ply for hire and shall be com pellable to drive on Sundays. Rates and fares to be taken by hackney-coachmen. Back fare payable by night. By day. Limits of the metropolis defined for the purposes of this Act. Persons refusing to pay the driver his fare, or for da mages, may be committted to prison. Penalty on hackney-coachmen refusing to go for or ex acting snore than the legal fare, 40s. No agreement with the driver of any hackney-coach to pay more than the legal fare to be binding. Sum paid beyond the proper fire may be recovered back, and the driver punished. Driver not to charge more than the sum agreed for, al though the distance be exceeded, 40s. Penalty for demanding more than the sum agreed for, though less than the legal fare, 40s. Number of persons to be carried in a hackney-coach to be painted thereon. Penalty for neglect to paint, or for refusal of the driver to carry the number so painted, 40s. Deposit to be made on coaches waiting. Penalty (au the driver refusing to wait or to account for the deposit, 40s. Proprietors of hackney-coaches to provide check-strings; drivers to hold the same in their hands; penalty 20s. Property left in hackney-coaches to he deposited at the Stamp-offi ce. Penalty for permitting persons to ride on any hackney coach without consent of the hirer, 20s. Penalty for stauJing with a hackney-coach across any street, or with two coaches in a breadth, ur within right feet of the houses. Feeding hackney-coach horses in the street. Refusing to give way. Obstructing any other driver, or depriving him of his fare, 20s. penalty. hackney-coaches may stand two in a breadth in certain places. Punishment of hackney-coachmen leaving their coaches unattended at places of public resort. Punishment of hackney-coachmen or watermen misbe having. Licence may be revoked after conviction. Commisrtioners to give notice of the revocation of licences. The owners of waggons, carts, &c. driven within five miles of Temple-bar, to enter their names and places of abode at the Stamp-office ; and to paint the same and number thereof upon such waggons, carts, &c. Register books to he cipen.for inspection. Penalty for driving any waggon, &c. within five miles of Temple-bar, without having the name, &c. of the owner, and the autnber of the registry painted thereon. Such waggon, &c. may be seized and detained until such penalty be paid. And on non•payment of such penalty on conviction, such waggon, &c., may be sold to raise the same. Duties and penalties how recoverable. Where and before whom offeuces shall be heard and de termined. Mode of proceeding for penalties before a Justice of the Pe ice. Convictions and warrants to be drawn up according to the forms in the schedule (I)). Justices may issue warrants or summonses to compel the appearance of hackney-coachmen and watermen to answer complaints. Penalty on witnesses neglecting to attend, or refusing to give evidence, 51. Service of Justice's summons. Penalty on constable refusing to serve a summons or execute a warrant. Justices may mitigate penalties. Distribution of penalties. Informants or complainants not disqualified from being witnesses. Limitations of actions in proceedings against person• acting under this Act. Venue. Notice of Action. Ge neral issue. Tender of amends. Construction of the terms used in this Act. Duties granted by 50 Geo. 3, c. 41, on hawkers and palms, to be paid to Commissioners of Stamps, and to be deemed Stamp Duties. Powers, &c., of Act 60 Geo. 3, c. 51, and of any other Act or Acts relating to duties on hawkers and pedlars, to be of as full force and effect as if repeated and enacted in this Act. Commencement of the Act. Ast may be altered this Session, DONEGAL ASSIZES, Aug. 5. MURDER OF MR. AND MRS. L YTLE. Patrick Stewart was charged with the wilful murder of John and Martha Lytle, near Doregal, on sth September, 1830. Prisoner is a stout young man, with very heavy eyebrows, and appears about 20 years of age. He seemed quite unconcerned. The Court was thronged to excess. William Wray—Proved his having lived a servant with Mr, Lytle, the deceased; the oid man's hair was grey; there were only the three in the house, his master, mistress, and himself; before he went to bed observed two men coming up towards the house; they stood at about ten yards from the door; went in and told his mistress there were two men about the house; his master was then in bed ; there was a room at each end of th e kitchen; witness slept in one, his master and mistress in the other; went to bed, arid was awoke by a noise as if breaking the door ; heard afterwards the noise of persons in the house ; heard them going to his master's room, and one of them ask where was his master's money ; knew the Stewarts before, and thinks it was James, the younger, who asked for the money ; understood his master to say he had no money ; his master then called out, " William, rise, we will ull be murdered ;" was afraid, arid did not rise ; after his master called out, one of them came into witness's room ; iden tifies Patrick Stewart, the prisoner as the person ; he came forward and inquired of witness where his master kept his money ; nude no answer; prisoner then struck witness on the skull with an iron weapon ; before he did so prisoner said it would be better for him to tell than be murdered ; after they left the room they asked his master to give out his money ; he said he would if they would save his life ; witness then heard blows given as if with a hatchet; heard his mastergroan; heard his mistress crying; after the blows of the hatchet were given, they came back to witness's room; his master, before the blows of the hatchet, said, " Jemmy Stewart, aie you going to murder me after being with me to-day ?" James and Alexander Stewart, who have been tried, were the persons who came into witness's room the second time ; they struck witness as if with an iron bar; they then beat witness until he was insensible; can't say how he (witness) was preserved ; heard them disputing about money in the kitchen before they went away; was not then able to rise; is perfectly sure that the prisoner was one of those in the house; when he recovered from being insensible perceived that the house was on fire; all was burned but his room, and lumps of fire were falling from the roof of it before witness was taken out; knew Francis Elliott that night, when he came to the house, by his voice; had lived in the same townland with the Stewarts, and knew them perfectly. John Lytle—Was called upon the morning after the murder. Ran out, and towards his father's house. The room in which his father slept, and kitchen, were then burned ; the roof had fallen in. The other room had not then been burned, broke open the window of that room, and saw 'William Wray lying in his bed, and the room blitzing. Saw his father lying on the floor of the other room. No person could venture into the house from the fire.— When the fire had subsided he went in. His father's flesh had been hurried off the bones, and he was dead. Saw his mother's body also; she was also burned. The persons who assembled got a ladder and took off the thatch from where William Wray lay, and Francis Elliott went in and lifted him out. He was shockingly cut, and all bleeding. Other witnesses were called, and the Jury re turned a verdict of Guilty. On the Clerk of the Crown inquiring what he had to say for himself, why sentence of death and execution should not be passed upon him, the un fortunate man came forward and exclaimed, " Thank God, when I die I will die as innocent as the child unborn." The JUDGE then put on the black cap, and said,. the melancholy duty remained for him to pronounce the sentence of the law—" That you, Patrick Stew art, be now taken from the place where you stand to that from which you came, and from thence, on Monday next, to the common place of execution, and there be hanged by the neck until you are dead —that your body be then given to he dissected and anatomised, and may God have mercy upon your soul!" Prisoner—" It can't be helped, thank God I'll die innocent." He was immediately conveyed to his cell. THE DEBATES. Then he would talk—ye god; how he would talk!" LEE' a ALEX♦NDRR. If Alexander talked as often as the nominee Members on the Reform Bill, well might Statira invoke the gods in commemorating his conver sation. Sir Robert Peel and the rest of " the crew," as the Standard calls them, have ex pressed a strong desire that the Bill should be " fully argued ;" and the following summary will surely satisfy the most sceptical that their wishes have been accomplished. We have not entered into any calculation of what was said previous to the motion for going into Committee on Tues day the 12th instant. Since that day, up to the conclusion of last night's debate, no fewer than 180 Members have spoken on the Bill. Of these one-half were Anti-Reformers ; and of that number 66 were close borough Members. Out of the whole number of speakers, which, from the nature of the debate, has been very great, 85 have not spoken above once, 80 not above six times. These may be called the very moderate. Of those who have not exceeded 10 or 15 speeches, and who may be called the moderate, there are 15. Of the moderate, only three are Reformers. Taking out from the remainder, whom we may designate the frequent speakers, Lord Althorp, who, as leader of the House, and Lord John Russell, who, as introducer of the Bill, are necessarily obliged to answer every ques tion, frivolous or important, there remain but two Reformers, namely O'Connell and Stanley ; these have spoken, the former 21 times, the latter 21 times. The others—all of them Anti-Reformers stand as follow :—Sugden, 18 times ; Hunt, 20 times; Praed, 22 times ; Pelham, 28 times ; Peel, 48 times ; Croker, 57 times ; Wetherell, 58 times ! Now we would just put it to any man of common sense, in the House or out of it, whether such an infinity of gabble from half a dozen of men be meant and intended for the conviction of the doubting, or the instruction of the ignorant, or the persuasion of the perverse ; or for any pur pose except the waste of the time and the pa tience of the people of England. Sir Robert Peel raised a debate on clause first, by a motion to leave out a word. On every word of clause first, he afterwards assisted in raising a debate. The same gentleman raised a debate on clause second, by proposing to change a word ; and on every word of the same clause he has assisted to raise a debate. Clauses first and second are, if any clauses can be so denominated, of the very essence of the Bill. Its principle, had his motion on either been carried, would have been eow' does whole annihilated. Yet its principle had already been debated and carried by no less a majority than 103b6e,r Peel,th second o r es r a e n a y d n A g iem . bNr of the House of Commons, imagine that the people of England will patiently allow them to g o on de bating every clause of the Bill as they have done these ? Do they imagine that the people of England will patiently allow them to dispute the principle of the Reform Bill on every c l ause , and the details, not clause by clause, but word by word?—that they will allow the only Bill for their universal benefit introduced into Parliament for the last two hundred years, to be pretence of discussion, in a fashion It? Bill against them was ever treated on an)' tence whatever? Do these men imsg l ° 4 they are to hoodwink the people with IP of deliberating, where all except those 0 19 i an interest in delaying justice are * O O vinced, and only ask for judgment ? 1 sons whose seats are condemned-,-whPF to sit at all is disallowedwhose righto ll dared to be forfeited—should get upr, after night, and hour after hour, to if,' others, equally delinquent, the sentenee 3 ,` passed on themselves, is a me a sure of Os ° of which no other assembly that e ver c ° gated could furnish an example.—Spectati LONDON MARKETS. PRICE OF BREAD. The highest price of Bread in the Metropolis 10 - 41b. Loaf. There are others who sell from Sid. te l l' that price. --- PRICE OF SEEDS.-Aug. 15. Kew Englishßed Clover Seed (per Cwt.) -s. 704 I' „_„ : Old Ditto Ditto -5..-8. fin:, Sew Foreign Ditto s2s. 71)s 14 " - ,, Old Ditto New White Clover. 4os. 60s. ~g - , Old Ditto Ditto_ ....... .-s. 50s. One, New Trefoil 31d Ditto - -s. 15s. 61 3,1 Rib Grass .-..-. „. _ 10s. 255. fi n e, English Carraway Seed -g. .-I. ' 0 hsts.i Foreign Ditto • ...... .--6. .--3.7.-- ,„.4 Coriander ....5. 60a. 411..- fl St, Foin (per Quarter)-........ .-.5. 755..6 4 _14 Rye Grass Pacey Ditto Linseed, for feeding -s. Ms. On e Ditto, for crushing 44s. 465. . . 4' Canary Seed, New -s. 525, 5 t o ''itto Old . --11. .--"5..."" 6 ?„ ' v White Mustard Seed.-(per Bushel)..-. -s. 12s. 1 ,,. , '' v Brown Ditto --..--„_.......,_. -s. 85. l""vo Turnip Seeds, R0und5,.............. . ...-3. ••••-.S. .." 46 1 0 Green and Red Ditto tip. Tares, Old -s. 255. 3 6, ' 40 , Ditto New - Rare Seed, English, tine (per Last) '221. 2V. ....... F0re! ..... /' PRICES OF HOPS.-Aug. 15. it, Kent Pockets -,.. 64 Os. 74- Os. tg e i, Sussex -Ditto . 51. lOs. • 64. Ot. tn 'o I int' Ditto . 61. Os. 61. 12s. 0 ,0 Farnham Ditto, Fine Ol. Cs. • 01. 05.enk Seconds , 01. oa. : 41. Os "r 61. Kent liags-......... -- . 31. Os. sr. Os. to Sussex Ditto Essex Ditto Duty laid at 145,0004 . -.....:„...-, PRICE OF OIL. 0 Ripe Oil, brown ............331. 65...,....., Refined... o 2 o t Linseed Oil ........................................................r , _ 'P Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand ........ 0- 4) Rape Cake, per ton, .............'_/ PRICES OF Per lb. d. to d. 8utt5..........50 to 561 b.... 15 21 Di to 661 b.... 15 23 Dressing Hides--... 14 15; Fine Coach Hides 17 181 Crop Hides, 35 to 401 b. 12j 131 Ditto 40 to 451 b. 141 16 Ditto . 151 17 LEATHER. Per lb. 1 4 Tanned Horse Hie' 19 Spanish Ditto Per dozen. 13 Calf Skins...SO to 41: ~ 0: 1 Ditto 50 to jit Ditto to mn4 l Small Seals. Green.....*Y" RAW HIDES. Per Stone. e. d. to s. d. Per Stone. I Rest Heifers & Stoen2 S 3 0 Ordinary 2 2 6 Market SHEEP SKINS. Long Wool --. Os. (Id. to Os. Od. I Short OS. Ckl • 2d. PRICE OF POTATOES.—Aug. 15. New Potatoes WHITECHAPEL HAY MA RKE'r.....AlitTI ) Hay 60s. Od. to 84s. Od. 01. 1 ' s. Od, to 365. Od. COAL MARKET.—Aug 15. Beaumont 265. Od Walls End HotsP,..'• Bensham Main 2& 9 Wall* End Newnssir j Dean's 2.5_. 0_ PIRO. NOrthumben'r, Ellison Main Bean 20.- 6. - Ditto Peareth.':, Felling 25. 0: ..... Ditto. Perkins and „"- Garesfield 24 9 Walls End Itiddeln"; 24- 6 Ditto Walker Kenton West 27 6 Lambton Primrose, Killlngworth 26 II Walls End Hatton •P' . l, Ord's Redhugh .23 9. --Walls kind Lam Shipcote 26 0. .Walls End Lyons 4r,; South Holywell 24 6. .Walls End Stewas l 4p: lantield , - 27 .6.. W. E. Rtissell'sHe t Townley -25 Wes End- Fees-...e•: West Hartley —..-- 26 I.Nacw.tod'.; NettDO PaziL Willington 23.3:.. Wylam -25 Walls End Bell & C 0.... -28 .3.. Dittol3,ll,l2.obson,&Co. 26 Ditto Bewicke and Co. .22: 13... Walls End Brown's- 26 6 Ditto (unscreened)--. 26 6 Ditto Burraton 26 9 Wall,. End Callerton ....... 24 0 . l)ittn clarke and C 0.... 26 0 Walls End Gosforth 20 6 Walls End Heaton_. 30 0 Walls End Hilda la 0 pi at market, 140--Sh Whetton Paric myth New Floekton, Ca Silkstone Field and 07 ,,, Walls End Hear: A d NorwoodllettorilT,! lanfield Moor Gosforth smalL Ps sold. 10'2 --1/130' SCOTCH MARKETS ,13 H A DIM NGTON CORN MARK ET.-7.Attlif!! Sales of Wheat continue heavy, and prices t0 6 7l current, and average prices about 2s. per quarter 10_ 7, week. Barley sold readily, and the supply was 1 1 1,4 the demand ; the best price was lower, but current prices were fully as high as last week. A good ,UPI sales uncommonly heavy, and prices very much on a Pease and Beans brought nearly the same prices o., P i e One parcel of New Wheat brought 405. , ; two p 40 1,"4,1 Barley 265. and :la, ; and five parcals of New Oats, 245., 255. and 275. Wheat. Barley. Oats. ' First 6os Od 35s Od 30. Od Second: sos Od 333 Od 27, Od Third 42s Od 2.3 s Od • 244 at vre were 372 qrs. of Wheat in market,2l:ll6 S 4 Usasold.-0 Grey'. Average 2l. 118.7 d. 9.l2tht* DA LKIETH CORN MA !Mgr.—Auk or There was a middling supply of all kinds of firain v , ket of this day, which met with a dull sale, at near l. prices as those of this day se'nnight. Wheat. Barley. Oats. First 64s Od 32s 5d 325 Od Second Third s2s 041 '26s Od 24s Od HENRY GRATTAN, Es evening Mr. GRATTAN, M.P., retur, his triumph in Meath. Jfe was, ❑po, town, immediately recognised and for by a large concourse of persons, whop his drawing-room window. He pl the patriotism of the people of Meath, sacrifices to achieve another victory Ireland. Mr. GRATTAN stated he in his power to the popular candid was loudly arid enthusiastically Ghee who, at the conclusion of his addresi to their several homes.—Dublin Saturday. Pease. 4O OA 363 Od Od wiaerein At Cracow, from sixty to buried daily. Out of ten patients three only survive. When the malady not last more than twenty-four hours, than ten. So great is the horror in taken to the hospital, that the sick, fact of their illness made known, wi►. the streets, where they are often found This is the ease with at least a quart' prey to the disease. —French Pape ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.---' a young female, named JANE COLLINS, re st , - 04 ,00 street, Blackfriari-road, threw her se lf off Mite r od bs d near eht. where l r i et e hse t h i m es pfeeolttlh,seaer‘newlwhseaersmdneeosetcaeanntd)do bargemen, e a ragiefirno, They s ht so utli to the place, and conveyed her to the station" 00 surgical aid was afforded her. With the e%cl p l s v e i r o i t u n s t shock, a w n e d r e a slight the o n s in e j q u u r e r, n , cteo of her serious effects were the consequence of this would appe ar f rom some p a p ers f ou nd on she o '4, had be e n d eserte d b y a g e nt l eman t o who , " !; es ce attached. She was conveyed to her reoulrif morning. At th e p o li ce s t a ti on s he receive:L e li attention. B I H On the 13th in s t. at G r e a t My RT less, the .„„„nteo of a dau g ht er . ~e ar On the 13th inst. at Betchworth Castle, lady of D. Barclay, Esq., of a son. On the 14th inst. the lady of Sheriff Poland, °f 0! survived only a few hours. . of On the 13th inst. in Nottingham-place, the 13 d ) Esq., of a son. MARRIED. 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