The Sun. — London, England, 1831-07-12 00:00:00

A very interesting pamphlet has just been pub lished in London, under the title of " A Letter from General Arthur Condorcet O'Connor (better known here as Arthur O'Connor) to General La fayette, on the Causes which have deprived France of the Advantages of the Revolution of 1830." A brief introduction states that the manuscript was transmitted to the editor, with the permission of its able author to present it to the British public. lie remarks that " it expresses the opinions of a great party in France; of a party which, there is little doubt, will ultimately be dominant in that country;" but that " besides the interest will belong to this pamphlet as an exposition of the state of public affairs in France, it possesses nearer claims to our attention from the reflected light it may possibly throw upon our own affairs." Arthur O'Connor, in his well-known volume on the State of Ire land, published in 1797, gave proofs of great politi cal discernment, and we are not aware that the causes of the misery of the population of Ireland were ever more successfully explained. In this pam phlet he gives a description of the English system of Government for the instruction of the French, that they may not be misled by the statesmen who wish t o govern France by the corrupt expedients which have produced such disastrous results here. The pamphl et is also possessed of much interest; but that pa r t which more peculiarly relates to England may be useful to us at this moment, presenting, as i t d oes, a faithful picture of the disastrous conditio n , f rom which alone a Reform can extricate us. " I w ill here," he says, " endeavour to describe the Eng lish system, in order to dissuade the F renc h nat i on from adopting it. I consider myself, at least, as conversant with it, as those interested Anglomanists who are so enamoured with its deformities. Born and educated under that system; having filled for years the highest offices in the Administration and Legislature, and passed many years in the intimacy of the greatest men the country has ever produced —such as Fox, Sheridan, Grey, Erskine, Whit bread, &c.—known to all the Opposition of their day, who honoured me with their friendship and confidence—l may, without vanity, pretend to have as much knowledge of the English system as men who have possessed none of these advantages ; or whose information is only derived from a cur sory view, or from what they have read in books. The English system, and the old French des potism, have had the same feudal origin. . . The King, and the Barons, both clerical end laical, who were almost his equals, were all : the people were absolutely nothing. Men as ignorant as beasts must necessarily be treated as such, because they have no means of making their interests respected : such is the principle on which the feudal system rests. As the people acquired some instruction and independence, they took advantage of the quarrels of their barbarous tyrants to obtain some right in the management of their affairs ; not a tumultuous right, but the most precious of all, a representa tive right: This right was not a concession, but came from necessity; but when once the people obtained the right to name their own agents, their interests began to be counted for something. With this right, the nation struggled for her liberty with various success, until, after having punished one despot, and chased away another, it arrived at the Revolution of 1688, from which time the Go . vernment has taken the form and principles on which it has ever since existed. The theory of this system, as fixed in 1688, is that the people shall by their representatives impose the necessary taxes; but the practice hasby two operations completely destroyed this theory ; the one by passing the right of choos ing the representatives from the people to a few in dividuals ; the other by placing in the hands of the executive the nomination of all the agents of the people in Church and State, with enormous emolu ments attached to each post. By these operations the English Government has been totally changed since 1688. Before that time the Crown contested the right of the representatives to the sole power of imposing taxes, and this often by imprisoning them, and by other arbitrary acts ; but it never corrupted them. They were chosen by the people (for before 1688 the commerce of rotten boroughs was un known); they partook of their spoil, and had the same interests with them. If the people were suf ferers, their representatives suffered with them ; if the people were plundered, their representatives had no simnel!! the spoil ; their Parliaments were popular,and enjoyed the confidence of the people,because, by their incorruptible perseverance, they bad been constantly working to extend the liberties of the people— liberties for which they obtained the most express sti pulations, written in the blood of one King, and con firmed by the dethronement of another for attempt ing to annul them. But since 1688, instead of being despotic by its arbitrary acts, the Crown has secured to itself an equally uncontrouled power, by the enormous expence of levying on the whole of those who aro to obey the laws sufficient to corrupt the majority of those who are to make them. By this change the increased burdens of the people became the increased power of the Monarch, au in creased profit to the hereditary aristocracy, and the utter annihilation of the representative democracy. It is in this sense that the partisans of this model systeM maintain, that the fewer the hands into which the national representation is concentrated, the more perfect it is ; and when the Executive has obtained the greatest possible means of cor rupting the representatives by buying up the pro bity and independence of those whose duty it is to defend the people's rights, then is this Government arrived at the beau ideal of representative Government ; then, and then only, the odious, contemptible, people are reduced to a state of wholesome subordination. It is there this Government is said to acquire the reputation of a strong Government ; far it is a fixed principle with the partisans of this kind of represen tative system, that by every right you concede to the people, by so much you weaken the Govern ment ; and that by every right you take from the people, by so much you augment the power of the Government. But these men do not take into the account either the prodigality or the debts, or the ruin, which have invariably been the consequence of the absence of all the necessary controul which it is the object of their system to destroy ; nor the exasperation this abuse of power, and the usurpation of this sacred right of the people to have uncorrupted agents roust excite in their hearts; nor, with July before them, will they see that such a system in France must inevitably lead to a revolution. Let us come to the proof of what I advauce. Like a tree, Government is known by its fruits. What has the model system produced in England after 143 years that it has been planted and watered with so much blood, and enriched with so many millions of wealth? When a great national interest is at stake, it is only with great, material, positive facts, that men should attempt to counsel her on the part she should take. Before this system of buying the probity, the independence, the talent, the honour of the national representation was established at the Revolution of 1688, England owed not a shilling." After a view of the debt at different periods, down to the peace of 1814, lie proceeds :—" Such is the mortal wound this model s ystem cf corruption h a s infli c t e d on th e nat i on Such is the inevitable ruin this system nurtures from its birth ' and that hurries it to its grave. Af ter fifteen year s of n profound peace, this grea t, indus trious nation, endowed greater means of capital, of machinery, mercantilean p d e wt . h manufacturing ability than any other the people ever pos . sessed,has been struggling against m s o n n ie st of misery, with out being able to pay off her the view and it is at the moment this system offersrotuos the world such a dreadful spectacle of diniceultlyew of misery, when the English Government itself r wisely renounced this system, and the Crown has as called the nation to its aid against the usurpation, of the proprietors of rotten boroughs; this, I say, is the moment when a set of men in France have the assurance and stupid ignorance to invite Philip I. to separate from the nation, to throw himself iniothe system of ininence, corruption, awl placement, with- support. Compare the materials a French King can command for constructing such a system with the prodigious materials the King of England has at his command, and that when be is forced to renounce this system. Where have we in France the colossal patronage which the dominion over 140 millions of subjects in India afford ?—in the West Indies, Canada, the Seven Islands, the Cape of Good Hope, Gibraltar, &c. &c., where there are so . many thousands of Pro-Consulships to pay the wages of corruption I .—independent of the immense patron age in Church and State in England, Scotland, and Ireland ? But, what is still more important, where is the law of primogeniture ? Where are those le viathan properties that form the basis on which this model system of corruption rests, which, though so great and massy, are this instant trembling under the load of debt and misery that has accumulated to crush them." Well may the author dissuade the French from entering on this system. The country which endeavours to govern through corruption, and in which the power of the governing few grows with the burdens imposed on the many, enters on a course which leads inevitably to ruin. A fortunate accident, the elevation to power of honest men be fore it was yet too late, may save this country from the revolution to which it was fast driving. But we almost tremble at the thought of what might happen, should another accident deprive us of the Bill, while the time for our salvation is not passed. —.Horning Chronicle. A few days ago, we stated the insignificant amount of the assessed taxes levied on the boroughs which are by the Reform Bill to be disfranchised, either in whole or in part. We compared the returns made from these boroughs with the great revenue obtained from the larger represented towns, which only elected the same number of members. A paper has since been printed by order of the House of Commons, giving au account of the assessed taxes paid by the towns included in schedules C and D, or, in other words, the towns included in the lists which by the Reform Bill will acquire the right of returning respectively two Members and one Member to Parliament. There probably never was a more striking contrast presented between the means and resources of any t con sets of places than between those of the condemned schedules, and those of their proposed suce•ssors, as measured by their direct as sessments. Between the assessed taxes of Beeralston, which pays N. 9s , and that of Marylebone, which pays 290,376/. 3s. 9d. the distance is immense; yet the former now sends two representatives to Parlia ment, and the latter has hitherto sent none. As we need not again bring forward the assessments of the disfran chised boroughs, we shall merely state the sums paid by some of the places to which the right of electing two re presentatives will now for the first time be extended. Manchester is stated at 40,0941., Birmingham at 26,986/., Leeds at 18,8001., Greenwich, 21,3411., Sheffield, 12,605/., the Tower Hamlets, 118,5461., Finsbury dis . _ . . xicts, 205,9181., and Lambeth, 108,814/. Some . ol the towns in schedule D, which are to acquire the right of sending one Member to Parliament, pay high assessments, such as Brighton, whose assessed taxes are returned at 31,800/., while the average will be about 4,0001., and scarcely any will fall below 2,000/. In contrasting yes terday the number of houses of the value of 10/. in the old set of boroughs proposed to be disfranchised, with that in the new to which the privilege of representation is now to be extended, we proceeded on a return made to the House of Commons at the beginning of March. We have since received a paper ordered to be printed at the commencement of the present month, entitled "Copies of further information touching the amount of population, and the number and value of houses in towns or alistricts now sending Members to Parliament, or pro posed in the Reform Bill to send Members in future," ' which materially alters the previous statements, and of course varies the number of proposed voters. This change arises chiefly from three causes :—first, from the important addition of counting-houses and warehouses, which were not included in the first draught of the Bill; secondly, from the extension of the right of voting to parishes where the former returns were limited to boroughs ; and thirdly, from the substitution of the results of actual survey or examination to the vague estimates of 1821. These sur veys seem, in some cases, to have been conducted with great care, and to be marked with great impartiality. In most instances the former return has been altered, and as that alteration has almost always been towards an increase, the proportion of boroughs in schedule B, which must re ceive an accession of voters from neighbouring districts to make up the requisite number of 300, will be less consi derable. Thus, fur instance, Wallingford, which by the former return was stated to have only 126 houses of the value of 101. a year, has its 10/. list raised by the pre sent return to 218 ; and instead therefore of requiring to take 174 voters from the districts adioining, the borough will only need 82 to make up its full constituency. In other cases the difference is still more striking, and will render less necessary the interference of Parliamentary Commissoners to establish new limits to the borough enti tled by their population to retain a part of their elective rights. Thus Ashburton, instead of 31 houses paying 101., as by the old return, is found by a different assess ment to have 327 ; Bodin in 178, instead of 139 ; Brid port 338, instead of 1-16 ; Chippenham 232, instead of 180 ; Dorchester 333, instead of 231 ; and other places in proportion. The constituency of the towns which are to be endowed with the right by the Bill of sending Members to Parliament is likewise altered in these new returns. Though however ;ouch increased, it connot appear very formidable, when we mention, that the number of new qualifications created in the twenty-five great or considerable places included in these returns, amounts only to 53,278 ; and, making due allowance fur houses occupied by females—for houses that are empty, or for cases in which several qualifications . are held in one occupancy, it m a y be estimated at less than 27,000 ; or, upon an average, about 1,000 to each. In this list we find that Manchester has 12,639 houses rated at or above ten-pounds ; Leeds, 6,683 ; Sheffield, 4,572 ; Sun• derland, 2,270 ; Wakefield, 842 ; Bradford, 1083 ; Birmingham, 6,532 ; Halifax, 1,04.4 ; South Shields, 987 ; Tynemouth, 971 ; Gateshead, 795 ; Rochdale, 1,011 ; Warrington, 799; Huddersfield, 1,709 ; Oldham, ; Kidderminster, 473 ; Wolverhampton, 2,125 ; Dudley, 595 ; Stockport, 85/ ; Salford, 1,211 ; Bury, 639 ; Blackburn, 578 ; Bolton-le-Muors, 1,712 ; and Walsall, 750. These more detailed and accurate returns, obtained since the Bill SVOS introduced, do not, it is true, include much more than a half of the places to which the Bill extends the elective franchise ; but they afford a suf ficient proof that the proposed qualification is not calculated to create that democratic and mobbish constituency of which some Tory alarmists endeavour to excite an appie• hension. It is a fact at variance with the reasoning of nearly all the opponents of the Bill—and yet a fact of great importance in itself—that in Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, and the districts of Middlesex, where the constituency will be most numerous, and where con sequently the dangers of too popular a body of electors would be the most to be dreaded, the proportion of householders paying a rent of between 101. and 20/., is less, as compared with those of a higher qualification, than in other places where the population is less dense and the constituency apparently more select. Liverpool, for in stance, by the old return, bad a constituency of 8,787, of whom more than half paid above 20/. In the whole townships of the county of Lancaster, the number of houses valued above 10/, yearly is stated at 28,406, and only 13,04.5 are su low as 20/. In Middlesex, including of course the new constituency of Marylebone, the Tower Hamlets, Finsbury, and the other districts described in the Bill, the whole body of householders paying rent above 101. is stated at 116,047, and only 28,457 pay a rent under 201. ; 43,231 pay a rent of between 20/. and 40/. ; and 44,359 pay a rent or occupy a house of the annual value of more than 401. If property is to be taken into consideration in estimating the fitness of any class of the people to exercise political privileges, or to controul the conduct of those intrusted with the management of the national purse, no higher qualification should be required than that indicated by the payment of a lent of 20/. And a body of householders occupying tenements above that annual value will predominate in the elections of all the great towns, at which an alarm is now pretended to be fslt by the opponents of the Bill.— Times. Some of our cotemporaries have already begun to speculate respecting the retention of Prince Leopold of his pe►►sion of 50,0001. a-year, and the propriety _ . either of his consenting to relinquish it, or of the pension being bought up by the country. The matter is of a rather ticklish nature, and has, no doubt, given rise already to a considerable discussion among Prince Leopold's friends. To his total re linqu►shment of the pension, no one, we believe, ex cept his own immediate friends, either could or would have any objection ; for i►► these times a saving of 50,000/. a-year is no trifling consideration ; but, on the other hand, the elevation of the Prince to the throne of Belgium gives no right to the country to resume its right over his pension, to which he is when only Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg. lt is not likely,however, on the one hand, that h!s new subjects, poverty stricken as they now arc by the events of their revolution, would greatly relish the idea of having a King who was a pensioner of any foreign power: and, on the other, it is a matter worthy of the Prince's consideration, whether the crown of Bel gium is really worth more in the convulsed state of the times than 50,0001. a year for life ? The most prudent course for the Prince to pursue would be, in case he determined, or was compelled, as King of Belgium, to give up his pension, to reserve to him self the right of calling on the country to pay it, in case he should find it necessary to apply for it ; and, on the other hand, the best policy of this country is of course to make the best bargain for itself that it can. We shall be glad to find that the Prince, in a manly and honourable spirit of confidence in his own subjects, relinquishes the pension ; but at the same time there is no compulsion in the matter, and the country, if called upon to pay it, ought in justice to fulfil its agr eement.--Morning Advertiser. C - SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock. THE LONDON GAZETTE OF THIS EVENING: War-Office, July 12. 3d Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Cornet J. E. Dyson to b e Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Sheppard, who retires. E. Evans, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Dyson, July It. 3d Regiment of Foot Guards—Capt. H. Bathurst, from the 9th Foot, to be Lieut. and Capt., vice Douglas, who exchanges, July 12. _ 9th Regiment of Foct—Lieut. and Capt. C. Douglas, from the 3d Foot Guards, to be Captain, vice Bathurst, who exchanges, July 12. 14th Foot—Lieut.-Col. M. Everard, from half-pay, Unattached, to be Lieut.-Colonel, vice Thornhill, who retires, July 12. 20th Foot—Lieut. J. Maclean to be Captain, without purchase, vice Story, deceased ; Ensign E. Dalgety to be Lieutenant, vice Maclean ; Ensign W. Frith to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Waddell, who retires; Gentleman Cadet J. Gates, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, vice Dalgety; H. Wind. ham, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Frith, July 12. 27th Foot—Ensign E. O'Grady to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Hay, promoted ; H. D. Cholmeley, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice O'Grady, July 13. 38th Foot—Ensign W. G. Edwards to be Lieutenant, by pur chase, vice Willes, who retires, July 12. 44th Foot—Staff-Assistant Surgeon A. M`lsaac, from the half pay, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Browne, appointed to theNi Foot, July 12. 51st Foot—Major J. Campbell to be Lieut.-Colonel, by pur chase, vice Synge, who retires; Capt. W. H. Elliott to be Major, vice Campbell, July 12. 60th Foot—To be Majors, by purchase—Captain C. R. P. Tem pest, vice Grey, promoted ; Captain J. B. Thornhill, from the 65th Foot, vice Chichester, promoted, July 13. To be Captain, by purchase—Lieut. D. Fitzgerald, vice Tem pest, July 12. To be Lieutenant, by purchase—Second Lieutenant R. Atkins, vice Fitzgerald, July 12. To be Second Lieutenant, by purchase—Gentleman Cadet J. Morris, from the Royal Military College, vice Atkins, July 12. 65th Foot—Capt. J. R. Stepney, from the half-pay, to be Cap tain, vice Thornhill, promoted in the 6th Foot, J u l y la 69;11 Foot—R. Sutton, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Kinchant, promoted, July 12. 73d Foot—Captain R. Anstruther to be Major, by purchase, vice Grewe, promoted, July 12. Lieutenant H. W. Bamford to be Captain, by purchase, vice Anstruther, July 12. 98th Foot—R. P. Wallis, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Bayntun, who retires, July 12. UNATTACHED. To be Lieut-Colonels of Infantry, by purchase. Major IL Drove, froth the 73d Foot; Major C. Chichester, from the 60th Foot ; Major Hon. C. Grey, from the 60th Foot, July 12. To be Captains of Infantry, without purchase—Lieut. D. M. Haslewood, from the 14th Foot ; Lieut. H. Mansell, from the 14th Foot, July 12. To be Captain of Infantry, by purchase—Lieut. L. J. Hay, from the 27th Foot, July 13. To be Lieutenant of Infantry, by purchase—Ensign R. li. Kinchant, from the 69th Foot, July 12. MEMORANDA. Cornet Johnson's commission, in the 7th Dragoon Guards, has been antedated to February 'X, IEIO, that being the period he was appointed Riding -master to that corps. Cornet 11 Phillips' commission, in the '7th Light Dragoons, has been antedated to ..25th March, 1828, that being the period he was appointed Riding -master to that Regiment. The date of Lieut. A. N. Campbell's promotion, in the 92d Foot, has been antedated to Bth April, 1831. The under-mentioned Officers have been allowed to retire from the service, by the sale of unattached commissions, viz. :—. Lieut.-Col. J. W. O'Donoghue, half-pay Unattached ; Major- General J. I'. Murray ; Lieut. T. Wright, half-pay 14th Foot, July 12. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Middlesex. E. Halswell, Esq. to be Deputy Lieutenant, June 18. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Suffolk. R. N. Shawe and T. 'l'. M. Neale, Esqrs. to be Deputy Lieu tenants, July 1. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Ayr. %i. pure, A. Kelso, J. S. Cunningham, and 'l'. Brown, Esqrs. to be Deputy Lieutenants, July 5. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Not tingham. Royal Sherwood Foresters or Nottinghamshire Regiment of Militia—J. G. Hewitt, Gent. to be Ensign, June 28. Clumber Troop of Sherwood Rangers—K. I)owland, Gent. to be Cornet, vice Gera' King Holmes, promoted, June 15. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. WILLIAM LEWIS, Reading, retail brewer. DANIEL WACE, Newgate-street, grocer. THOMAS DAVIES, Swansea, rope-maker. BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED. THOMAS FULLER DROUGHT, Ilminster, Somerset shire,druggist. JAMES TOMS, Kensington, Middlesex, grocer. BANKRUPTS. HENRY FLINT, Liverpool, boarding-housekeeper, to sur render July 19, at three, 20, at one, and August f 3, at two, at the Court of Commissioners.' Watson and Broughton, Falcon. square, Aldersgate-street. JOHN NAYLOR, Milk-street, Cheapside, woollen-ware houseman, July 15, at twelve, 19, and August 23, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Fisher, Aldersgate-street. JAMES CLARK SMITH, Lower Deptford-road, Bother. hithe, merchant, July 19, at three, 9, at one, and August 23, at two, at the Court of C o mmi ss i oners . L ong , St a pl e -Inn, Holb orn . JAMES SUVI'ON, Andover, nurseryman, July 19, 26, and August at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Everest, Epsom Surrey; Stevens, Hatton-garden, London. JOHN ISAAC BARBER WRIGHT, Liverpool, druggist, July 25, 26, and August 21, at two, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool. Williams, Liverpool. • RICHARD FAUX, Rordeslev, Warwickshire, hop-merchant, .July 29,20, and August 22, at twelve, at the New Royal Hotel, Birmingham. Took and Carr, Bedford-row; Capper, Binning him. JOHN GOODE, Wilderness-row, Gowen-street, July 19, 25, and August 23, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Fawcett, Jewin-street. DAVID JONES, Waunfaur, Monmouthshire, grocer, July 25, 26, and August at one, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liver. pool. Willis, Watson, Blower, and Willis, Tokenhouse-yard ; and Mason, Liverpool. WILLIAM WHITE, Newent, Gloucester, corn-dealer, July 19, '46, at eleven, and August 23, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Henderson and St. John, Lancaster-place, Waterloo-bridge. ELLTA II SOLOMON, B a th, j ewe ll er, J u l y 20, '2l, and gust 23, at eleven, at the Elephant and Castle Inn, Bath. Makin. son and Sanders, Temple ; Hellinge, Bath. JAMES MORRIS CHAPMAN, Bridgewater, Somersetshire, linen-draper ' July 25, 27, and A ugus t 23, at one, at the office of Gregory and Smith, Bristol. Blower, Lincoln's Inn-fields, lAm. don ; Gregory and Smith, Bristol SAMUEL KITCHING, Leeds, victualler, July 25, 27, and August 2.3, at eleven, at the Court-house, Leeds. Makinson and Sanders, Middle Temple, London ; Fralen, Leeds. JAMES COOPER, Aylesbury-street, Clerkenwell, oil and colourrnan, July 15, 22, at twelve, and August 23, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Berkeley, New-Square, Lin. EM PE RIA L PARLIAMENT OF THIS EVENING. HOUSE OF LORDS. LEFEVRE'S DIVORCE BILL. The House was occupied till nearly Six o'clock with the address of Mr. Serjeant Mereweather on behalf of the petitioner for this Bill, and the examination of witnesses, when the further consideration was adjourned for a week. Mr. BERNAL and others brought up the Lunatics' Bill, and several pt ivate Lord MELBOURNE, according to notice, brought up the Report of the Coulin:ttee on the Irish Deputy Lurd Lieu tenant's Bill. The ;Marquis of LONDONDERRY then rose to refute the attacks which he considered had been made against him by Lord Plunkett, and was addressing the House :•lien our Reporter left. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The gallery doors were not opened until nearly Five o'clock, in consequence of the House being engaged in ballotting for Committees to decide on the Great Grimsby and Monmouth elections. On the motion of Lord BELCRAVE the Bill for the establishment of a chapel of ease, to be called the Gros venor Chapel, in the parish of St. George, Hanover square, was read a third time and passed. Mr. C. FERGUSSON presented a petition from the inhabitants of the parish of St. Pancras, praying that that parish might he allowed two representatives of its own. The lion. Gent. said if property and population were to be the le Iding principles of the Reform Bill, the parish of Sr. Pancras was fully entitlsd to return two Members, for it actually paid in assessed taxes double the amount of 131 boroughs named in schedules A. and B. The petition was read and ordered to be printed. Mr. HUNT rose to present a petition most numerously signed, which had been agreed to yesterday at a public meeting of the working classes, held in Portman-inarket. The Newspapers varied the accounts of the numbers present from seven thousand to twelve thousand pers,ins, but he was assured there were at least twenty thousand pre sent. The petitioners complained that, being the producers of the wealth cf the country, and being a very extensive class they were excluded from any share in the representation ; . . for a repeal of those acts which had shackled the Public Press--condemning the late prosecutions against the Press. A very Learned Gentleman had stated some years ago that every person who expended even 181. a year, paid 81. out of it for taxes. These working classes paid the greatest portion of the taxes, and yet they were excluding them from voting for representatives. The petition was read and ordered to be printed. Mr. HUNT then gave notice, that in the Committee on the Reform Bill, lie would move to substitute for the clause relative to the 10/. franchise, that a clause be inserted that all householders paying taxes should be entitled to vote ; and that if that motion were lost, he should move that all persons excluded from voting should be exempted from paying taxes, and from serving in the militia and the navy. Also he would move, that after the 31st of December, 1831, all Peers who should be proved to be guilty of interfering in elections should fur the first offence pay a fine of 10,000/., and be im prisoned in the Tower for the space of one year; for the second offence a fine of 20,000/. and two years' impri sonment in Newgate ; and for the third offence be degraded from the Peerage, the title be declared to be extinct, and to be transported for life.—(Great laughter.) He had before given notice to the same effect, but withdrew it. He would now, however, put the House to the test. Sir J. BLAKE presented a petition from that part of the county of Durham, called North Durham, praying that it might have one Member of its own to represent it. Mr. PERRIN presented a petition from the wine merchants of Dublin, praying that there might be no further addition to the duties on foreign wines. Mr. O'CONNELL supported the prayer of the petiti tioners, and said that the petitionn contained a curious fact, vie., that in 1789, when the duty was very low, the consumption was such that it produced a revenue of sixty thousand :pounds ; since then the duty had been consi derably raised, and the consumptiod had become so reduced, that the revenue from wine kad decreased four-fifths. Thus showing that an increase of duty by no means pro duced an increase of the revenue. Several other Members supported the prayer of the pe tition, which was then read and ordered to be printed. Mr. PERRIN then moved for the returns of the quan tities of soap exported from Eugland to foreign countries. —G rd e red. Mr. WRYLAND having been elected for the county of Oxford, and also for Weymouth, to make his selection to sit for Oxford; he therefore moved for a new writ for Weymouth—ordered. Dir. LITTLETON presented a petition from the Staf fordshire potteries, expressing the gratitude of the inha bitants for the Reform Bill, and praying tiist they might have two Members instead of one. The Hon. Member concurred in the prayor of the petition, and said he would bring the subject before the Committee. Mr. BUCK presented a petition from the Corporation of Exeter, praying that the qualification for voters in the Reform Bill might be raised. The Honour able Member also presented petitions from the Catholics of county Westmeath, against the grant to the Kildare street Society. Also a petition from the worlcinc . eoach - makers of dahlia, complaining of the Legislative- Union. Mr. BODKIN presented petitions from the Magis trates, Clergy, and Landholders of Galway, complaining of the famine and distress prevalent in that district. Also, a petition from certain merchants and ship-owners against the tax on marine insurance, and from the merchants of the city of Tuum, praying that under the Reform Bill, they might have a share in the Constitution. Mr. WILKES presented a petition from the fritbo'- ders and inhabitants of a place near Lincoln, and from Li berton, in favour of the Reform Bill ; also a petitio from the Protestant Society for the protection of rai l iou, liberty against the imposition of unnecessary oaths. Thy Hon. Member gave notice that he should in Committee on the Reform Bill, move for a proviso to prevent the on tinuance of any Parliament for a longer term than 11 tee years. Lard INGESTRIE presented a petition from certan Prestant clergy in Ireland, complaining of illegal coin. binations in resisting the payment of tithes. He would not enter into the subject of tythes generally ; the subject was undoubtedly difficult and delicate, but of this he was certain, that if tithes were due, being esta blished by law, the petitioners had a right to them, as in disputably as any person in the country bad a right to their property. He begged to ask the Hon. Secretary for Ireland, whether his Majesty's Governtment had in contemplation any measure to facilitate the recovery of tythts. An Hon. Member whose name we could not learn, assured the House, on his own personal knowledge, that there was nothing like illegal combination to resist the levying of tithes as had been represented by the petitioners. Mr. STANLEY was stare the House would agree with him that a subject of such magnitude as that introduced by the petition was not one, which, however, worthy of consideration, could well be discussed on the presentation of a petition. It was asked whether the Government had this subject under their consideration, and were prepared to bring forward any specific measura, for the remedy of those grievances of which the petitioners complained. He could assure the House no off! ject was more anxiously under the consideration of Government than the existing system of tithes. But that was was a question which, looking at it in any point of view, presented mnch difficulty and great delicacy. He rejoiced that this mat ter had been brought forward in this manner by the Irish Protestant Clergy. He certainly only lamented that while the petitioners acknowledged the assistance they had received front Ministers, in the enforcement of their due rights —an assistance which he hoped would never be withheld from them—that at the same time, however, when they sought a change of system, no specific remedy had been proposed for the adoption of Government. While on the one hand no man was more strictly at tached to the Established Church, or was more anxious that it should continue in the possession of its legitimate property. On the other hand, however, no Member of that House was more anxious than him self to see existing abuses corrected, and that that which long the undoubted right of the Church might be levied with as little inconvenience as possible to those persons from whom it should be raised. He would much deceive the House howover if he pretended to say thrt the Govern ment had under its consideration any specific plan, which it was proposed to lay before this House for the remedy of those grievances. Its anxious attention was turned to the question, and he hoped it would be satisfac- torily adjusted. 11r. LEFROY expressed his satisfaction at the state ments of the Right Hon. Secretary for Ireland, as he considered it would be the means of allaying a good deal of irritation. 311.. J. GRATTAN deprecated the collection of tithes by force ; if they were to be so collected, it was high time for the Government to interfere. He trusted Government would make this tax tributary to the relief of the Irish poor. . _ _ Sir C. WETHERELL concurred with what had been stated by the Right lion. Secretary for Ireland, but that he was not aware that that dissatisfaction existed in Ire land on this subject which had been alluded to. Captain GORDON considered the resistance to the payment of tithes in the south of Ireland, did not origi nate with the unfortunate affair at Newtonbarry. Mr. O'CONNELL strongly denied that any resistance had been made to the payment of tithes in any of the southern counties of Ireland, not excepting Clare. The only thing that was done when the cattle were dis trained upo, was to brand them " tithes" and then no person would be found to buy them.—(Laughter.) The clergy had the law all on their side, they had the law of distress, the Exchequer law, and they had the military and in the case of the clergyman at Newt,mbarry had de manded tithes three half years iu one year, which wes rather too much even in Irelaud.—(Lond and con tinued laughter.) He strongly deprecated the introduction of the military, for whom there was no occasion whatever. The Roman Catholics in Ireland, so far from wishing to withhold remuneration to Protestant Clergymen, would wish to see them abundantly paid where they bad duties to perform, but there were some parishes iu which not a Roman Catholic was to be found. (LIFT SITTING.) CHOLERA MORBOS.—The following para graph is extracted from a letter which has been received in Leith from a most respectable merchant, resident in Hamburg :—" I can assure you that there is nothing to apprehend, nor are we in the least distress that that dire•• ful malady will reach us. The precautionary measures that have been taken may lead those who are at a distance to be suspicious without any cause for its existence." TILE AUDIENCE OF TILE COBURG DESIG NATED " THINGS,' BY KEAN.—On Monday night KEA N was playing Lear at this theatre, when the gods conducted themselves very uproariously , and one man threw a p i ece of orange at hi s feet. After the curtain had f a ll en , there w as a general call for KEAN. Ile came forward, evid ent l y i n great anger, and said that, whatever .. talent b e p ossebscd, he consideredsuch lfasdek nowing mbeirig obliged t o appear before ( pointing to the ga ll ery). Cheers issued from the pit, which, the gall ery not knowing what had been said,'re-echoed. thhiirirngses INA V AL 11\ 1 isLLICITENCE. (From the Portsmouth Herald of Sunday.) PORTOIOUTII, JULY 9.—His Majesty's steam vessel Messenger, Lieut. Aplin, came in on Thurs day from the river, with fifty supernumerary seamen for the squadron at Spithead, and for ships fitting out in the harbour, and proceeded immediately with the Salsette and Sybille frigates, from Spithead (which bad been previously towed out of harbour, jury-rigged, by the Alban steamer) to the quarantine depot in the Humber, there to lie as lazarettes. The Starling and Linnet (late tenders to his Ma jesty's ship Wellesley) arrived on Thursday from the river, with volunteer seamen for his Majesty's ships Caledonia and Asia, and have since been dis mantled and laid up in the basin, during the tempo rary absence of the Wellesley. His Majesty's ship Volage, 28, Captain the Right Hon. Lord Colchester, having been refitted at Spit head, was paid wages on Wednesday, and sailed on the following day for Rio Janeiro, with dispatches for Rear-Admiral Sir T. Baker, K.C.8., Comman der•in-Chief on the South American station. The Britomart, transport, Lieut. F. Bardwood, agent, sailed on Wednesday for Fernando Po, taking out Colonel Nicholls, as Commandant, and a detachment of Royal Marines, and twenty-four civil artificers. Lieut. Sullivan, appointed to command the Plumper gun-brig, went out passenger in the Britomart. The Surrey, male convict ship, arrived on ThurA. day, from Deptford, to receive two hundred male convicts at this port, under the superintendency of Dr. Browning. The convicts will be embarked to. morrow. The Hope, transport, Lieut. Ryder, agent, sailed yesterday for Leith, conveying Lieut. Wentworth and his family from this port, to join his station as resident agent at Leith ; she will return to Graves end, with a detachment of the 79th Regiment from Aberdeen. At Spithead—The Surrey, convict ship. In Harbour—Spartiate,Winchester,Royal George, Samarang, Tweed, Victor, Charybdis, Columbia, Imogene, Recruit, and Cracker: PROMOTIONS, APPOINTMENTS, &C.—Commander J. W. Gabriel, of his Majesty's ship Columbine, is promoted to the rank of Captain. Corn. H. 0. Love is appointed to the Columbine, vice Gabriel. Com. P. Blackwood is appointed to his Majesty's ship Imogene, which was commissioned on Wed nesday. Lieuts. H. Lyster, V. Pickey, and H. E. Eldridge, are also appointed to the same ship, as well as Mr. T. Shears, Purser. Corn. W. A. Agar is appointed to his Majesty's ship Arachne. Mr. J. Warwick is appointed Purser to the same ship. Lieuts. J. V. Fletcher and G. Beaufoy are ap pointed to his Majesty's ship Curacoa, vice Dick son and Duncan, both sick. Lieut. J. Watson is promoted to the rank of retired Commander at seven shillings a•clay. Lieut. A. Smith (b), is appointed to his Majesty's ship Winchester. Lieut. F. H. Holman is appointed to his Majesty's Revenue cruiser Sprightly, vice Byne, deceased. Mr. W. Rowlett is appointed Purser of his Majesty's sur veying sloop Beagle. Mr. E. B. Rowley, Assistant Surgeon, and Acting Surgeon of his Majesty's ship Hyacinth, is confirmed in the rank of Surgeon in that ship. Mr. T. S. Taylor, Assistant Surgeon of his Majesty's ship Prince Regent, is appointed to his Majesty's gun-brig Conflict. Mr. S. Brown, Assistant Surgeon of his Majesty's ship Asia, is appointed to the Prince Regent, vice Taylor. Lieut. C. H. Kempthorne is appointed to the Coast Guard Service. Lieut. J. F. Stirling is appointed to his Majesty's ship St. Vincent. Lieut. A. Smith is appointed to his Majesty's ship Winchester. Lieut. J. E. Lane is appointed to the Swan cutter. Mr. M. Heath, Second Master of his Majesty's ship Briton, is appointed to the Prince Regent. Lieuts. R. Mayne, J. Thompson (a), L. A. Robinson, and J. Hyett, are appointed agents for transports, to join their respective ships at Deptford. Mr. W. Thomas, Clerk, late of his Majesty's ship Herald, and Mr. Boucher, Clerk, are ordered to fill up va cancies on the West India station. Mr. D. Jones, Clerk, is appointed to his Majesty's gun-brig Re cruit, on the new establishment as mentioned in a former Herald. Mr. H. D. R. Henning, is ap pointed Supernumerary Assistant-Surgeon of his Majesty's ship Asia. Second Lieutenant M'Killop, of this division of Royal Marines, is removed to the Plymouth division, vice Sturgeon, whose promo tion we noticed in last week's Herald. Mr. D. A. Dorratt is appointed a Second Lieutenant of this division of Royal Marines, vice M`Killop. Messrs. F. B. Hankey and G. N. Hoare, Mid shipmen of his Majesty's ship Winchester, were found duly qualified in navigation, on being specially examined at the Royal Naval College on Monday last. The following Midshipmen were examined in sea manship on Wednesday last, on beard his Majesty's ship Spartiate, in the presence of Captain Lord Colchester of his Majesty's ship Volage, and Com manders Bertram and Ellice, of his Majesty's ships Tweed and Victor, and found duly qualified for Lieutenants, viz. :—Mr. M. Falcon, of his Majesty's ship Briton; Mr. C. M'Donnell, of his Majesty's ship Galatea; Mr. Don P. Dumaresq, of his Ma jesty's ship Prince Regent. His Majesty's ship Imogene, 28, was commis• sioned on Wednesday, by Captain P. Blackwood, it is supposed for the Mediterranean station ; for her officers see appointments. His Majesty's gun-brig Recruit, late tender to his Majesty's s hip A s i a , i s or d ere d to b e commis sioned at this port by Lieut. T. Hodges. CROSSING THE HELLESPONT. (From the Life of a Sailor, in the Metropolitan for July.) The next day was calm and warm ; we had not a breath of wind, " and the ocean slumbered like an unwearied child." Lord Byron and Mr. Eken head landed on the European side preparatory to swimming across. The cutter attended upon them, and they took w the water about half-past nine o'clock. The actual distance across from fort to fort cannot be more than a mile and a quarter at the very utmost : I should rather be inclined to delare it is not more than a mile. Above Sestos there is a narrow point of land which projects into the Dardanelles, and below Abydos there is a similar formation of coast. The current, as I before mentioned, is rapid ; now to cross the strait it would be necessary to pass over at least six miles of ground, for crossing in a straight line is impossible. Mr. Ekenhead took the lead, and kept it, arriving on the projecting point below Abydos in an hour and ten minutes; Lord Byron arrived about eight mi nutes afterwards. As the distance swam has been mightily exaggerated, it may here be as well to state that a mile an hour is about the distance a good swimmer can accomplish; and that therefore this very wonderful feat, merely because few people have undertaken it, dwindles down to no such very Herculean task, when it is consi althou a g t all theydis d istressed; were ssed; swept on the b y tliedered from the time emp l oye d that neither Byron nor Ekenhead could h ave swam more than a mile } ‘ le ' a t d e i r d survive of the c urrent at least six miles of distance. a N n e d i t ha quarter, not long e r partyseemed con trary, Mr. Ek en h ea d remained splashing about in the ‘until his companion arrived. greatnhiarrived.undeProtaokringfel,loawi never saw himself immortalized in verse. On our return to Malta, he heard of his promotion to the rank of Captain of Marines, a lank not easily at tained, and having offered, it is supposed, an unu sual libation to Bacchus on his good fortune, he somehow managed to tumble over the bridge, which separates Nix Mungare Stairs from Valetta, and was killed on the spot. The verses which celebrate the great undertaking, written in May on board the Salletle, have no reference (except in the note at tached to them) to Mr. Ekenhead; but in " Don Juan" we find mention of it in the line— " Leander, Mr. Ekenhead, and I did." The Dublin Evening Mail has announced that there are to be no Orange processions on the 12th of July. This augurs well for the future peace of Ireland. LONDON MARKETS. PRICE OF BREAD. The highest price of Bread in the Metropolis is 10d. for 0%! 41b. Loaf. There are others who sell from 34d. to I%cl. below that price. PRICE OF SEEDS.—JuIy Kew Englishßed Clover Seed (per Cwt.) —s. '7os. fine ...LIDS& Old Ditto fine —45.."" 4 : .slew Foreign Ditto s2s. 708 fine 1,1 7 Old Ditto 40s. Ms. fine —s. 7d• —s. 50s. fine —S. 20s. fine —s. New White Clover, Old Ditto Ditto—,-. New Trefoil --s. 15s: in; —6 " 10s. 255. fine 30s. „, —s. —9. 509. fine Dog' —s. —s. 565. fine , 5 ,.. 134 —s. 60s. fine —B. ti.'"„• .(per —s. '7sa. fine 80s. RA• —s. —B. new 20s. `2. 5 '• 408. 455. new —s. 50s. fine—s. Do' Ditto, for crushing Canary Seed, New. —s. 70s. fine —B. 4 7 . 58 ' 'itto Old —s. —B. —s. White Mustard Seed...,—.(per —s. Rs. 165. fine Brown Ditto .. --e. Bs. 17s. fine -- 8 * Turnip Seeds, Rounds —s. —s. —s. fine 1 48 . nn.l Red Ditto •••••11. —e. tine 188- -s. 255. 365. tine -. 4 - -8. —6. fine 425. 44% Rib Grass English Carraway Foreign Ditto Coriander St. Foin Rye Grass Pacey Ditto Linseed, for feedin; Tares, Old Ditto New, Rat e Seed, English, tine (per Last) 361. 38/. Foreign PRICES OF HOPS.—July 11. Kent Pockets 6/ 12s. 71. 19s. to 91. 90. Sussex Ditto Bssex Ditto 6l. 6s. 71. Os. to 81. 08. Farnham Ditto, Fine - 01., O. 9/1 0;. to 151: CL Seconds 01. Os. 61. Os. to 9/. Os. 31. Os. 51. 12s. to 81. Os. 5/. ss. 61. 155.:t0 61. Os. 51. 153. 61. 6s. to 71. Os. Duty laid at 140,000/. Kent Sussex Ditto Essex Ditto.. PRICE OF OIL. Rape Oil, brown 1.5 i. 6s. Refined X 37 6 Linseed Oil 24 10 10 10 6 0 Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand, Rape Cake, per ton WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKET.—JuIy 9. Hay 501. Od. to 90s. Od. I Clover Od. to 110 s. Od. 325, Od. to 365. Od. New PRICE OF POTATOES.—JuIy 11. 10i. to 41. 10s. per ton. RAW HIDES. Per Stone. s. d. to s. d. Per Stone. s. d. to I . (I- Best Heifers & Steers 2 6 2 9 Ordinary ................. 110 2 0 Nliddlings -9 2 2 4 Market Ca1t.............. 6 6 each. SHEEP Long Wool ..,....... Os. Od. to Os. Od. Larnb5—.,...........,...... SKINS. 1 Short W00L...... Os. OcL to Os. Od. Is. 6d. to 2s. 3d. LEATHER. I Per lb. d. tod. Tanned Horse Hides.. 15 17 Spanish Ditto ...—......... 19 QS Per dozen. Calf Skins, `36 to 44111 18 20 Ditto 50 to 701 b. 21 24 Ditto 70 to 801 b. 19 21 Small Seals, Greenland 21 211 CET.—July 11. Walls End Hotspur..... 275. Cd. Walls EndNewmarch... 2S 3 Ditto Northumberland 29 3 Ditto Pearetli 25 0 Walls End Riddell's... 29 3 Walls End Hetton 31 6 Walls End Lambton....... 31 3 Walls End Lyons 30 0 Walls End Stewart's .... 31 W. E. Russell's Helton 31 6 W. E. Cleveland Helton 26 0 Norwood's Helton...—. 27 6 Walls End Teta. 30 6 New Floekton, Mine, and Co. 26 0 Stone Coal Retell), ..—. 47 0 Panfield Moor 29 0 Norwood HlSbon small 27 0 Davison cm! 20 0 Old Etherley 5ma11.... 20 0 Ps sold. 57-Unsold. 21%. PRICES OF Per lb. to 561 b.... 15 21 to 661 b..., 15 Dressing 14 16 Fine Coach Hides 17 181 Clop Hides, 35 to 401 b. 121 131 Ditto... to 451 b. 14 151 Ditto _ 15 lti/ COAL MAR. Adair's 265. 6d. Beaumont _ 25 6 Bensham Main 25 6 Hebburn Main 23 0 HO .......... 27 0 Kenton West 28 0 Killingworth...... 27 3 Peisw wwwwwww o.wwwwwwwww 25 3 25 0 WeNt Hartley 6 Willington.. 3 26 6 Wall's End Bell & Co.— 28 6 Ditto Bell,Robson,&Co. 03 0 Ditto Bewicke and Co. 36 0 Wall. End Callerton...... 25 0 Walls End Carr and Co. 26 6 Ditto Clarke and Co. 26 6 Walla End Gcsforth ...... 29 6 Walls End Heat0n......, 30 3 Walls End Hilda 27 0 ships at market. '78%---.3151 NEWCASTLE CORN MARKET—JuIy 9, Our farmers' supply of Wheat to—day was moderate, but, with the few coasting arrivals, seems equal to the demand, and though there was little life in the trade, prices for fresh good qualities were supported, but in other descriptions scarcely any thing do ing. Tha arrival of Oats from the North lately have been large. this, with the favourable weather, has made that trade dull. Grinding Barley in moderate deinand. Malt steady sale. Fine Rye sells well. Little doing in Beans or Pease. Flour without change. _ New, Old. Wheat, Northumberland oos. 74g —s. —a.' Norfolk and Suffolk. C )a. 74.1 —s. —a. Berwick and Scotch 50s. 586 —a. —a. Foreign 525: itla --a. —S. Rye, Norfolk and Suffolk ale. Ns —a. —s. Foreign Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suflblk —a. --a —s. —a. Grinding and Feeding .4s. 28.1 —a. —a. Malt, Norfolk and Suffolk Ms. 725 , —s. —g. Beans, Small 40s. 41a —a. .--a. Tick 37,.3 9 , —4. —a. Pease, White 40s. 44s —a. —a. Gray Oats, Northumberland, l'otatoe ...... t.)9s. 31a --s —s. ---. Feed 2tis :Ss.-- . —B. —a. Foreign —a. —, —s. —a , Flour, Fine (per sack) —t. --s sos 525. W A K kil , l ELI) CORN M Ait KET.-July 8. The supply of Wheat this morning was small again, the best fresh samples go off very slowly at nearly last Friday's prices, but there is no demand for secondary and inferior descriptions at any tolerable price. The prices of Oats are Is. per quarter lower. No material alteration in other Grain. Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Suffhlk 525. 593. to 625. fine 675. Lin. and Cam. s2s. 58.3. to 61s. fine 63.1. Yorkshire 565. 61g. to &4s. fine 61/s. - White sfis. 61s. to fAs. fine 695. - Foreign, Red 50s. 565. to 60s. fine 65E. --., -. White 565. 603. to fAs. fine 695. Barley, Norfolk and Sufiblk --- Lincolnshire 233. to 30s. fine 323. Yorkshire Wold 29s, to 30s. fine 323. Foreign -s. to -s. fine -4. Beans, Small ----- Tick Ills. to 395, fine 41s Oats, Potato 24s. to 28s. fine 30s. - Poland -s. 235. to 265. fine `-'lts. - Frieziand and Small -s. 21s. to 9.55. fine 275. - Mealing l2d. to 14d. per Stone. Shelling 3ss. to 365. Od. per Load. Malt 39s. 445. fine 483. per Load. Rapeseed STEPHEN Soucno lame pauper, 80 years o f age, was brought before the Magistrates at Abingdon, on Monday, when an order of filiation was made against him for the maintenanc e of an illegitimat e child that day sworn to him by a young woman. The old fellow did not seem at all abashed by his novel situation, but, on the contrary, chuckled and seemed quite pleased ; observing, on being checked for his recklessness, " that he who was without sin should cast the first stone." On being unable to pay the sums mentioned in the order, amounting to 1/. 16s. 6d. he was sent to the House of o,orrection for three calendar months.— Oxford Journal. TIIE INFLUENZA.—The troublesome com plaint styled influenza prevails very generally in Launces ton and its neighbourhood. In many eases whole families hive been affected. At Liskeard and at Falmouth this disorder also prevails ; and one day this week we witnessed its effects in Truro upon a person near the barracks, who suffered severely, with a strong inclination to vomit, but he could expel nothing from his stomach. The symptoms here, we understand, have universally been fist soreness of throat externally—great pain in the head—.the usual symptoms of a cold, with more than ordinary running, at the nose—pains in the sides and various parts of the body. It causes, in some instances, extreme debility, lout has not been in any case mortal. Bleeding has been resorted to by some, but • purgatives seem the chief requisites, and have been quite successful. Three or four days or a Week is about the time of its duration.— Cornwall Gazette. HIGHLAND WIT.—Who is there that has travelled the West Highlands and does not know RORY Molt, the rattling, roaring, ready-witted, warm-hearted, big-fisted Highlandinan, that keeps what her nainsell calls the "Travelling Emporium?" surely none. A cockney, one of the most troublesome and supercilious of the genus, who, during a residence of three days had been the pest and torment of waiters, chambermaid, boots, and in fact the whole tail of the inn, having at last made up his mind to depart, he marched up to RORY with his bat set ob liquely on Lis highly-frizzed poll, a cigar in his mouth, and his bands doubled on his haunch bones, " I say, landlord, I vants a "That's what I can't give," says Roar," all the horses are out, and I could not get one for you were it to save your life." " Oh! me, landlord, that answer von% do for me, I'm going off, and what the —aml to ride on, pray ?" "Just," replies RORY, cocking his eye sky-wart, " ride upon your owes Impudence it will carry you farther than any horse i n Argylesbire."—Scots Times. BIRTHS. On the 10th inst. at Cheltenham, the lady of Major Wm. Robertson, Bombay army, of a daughter. On the 10th inst. in Welbeck-street, the lady of Capt. White, R. N., of a daughter. On the 10th inst. the lady of John Walter Hulme, Esq., of a daughter. On the 9th inst. at St. Jo M hVs t , l l4 t rir D yfe c b i o le n i e se i a : It. Bishop, Esq. of Drury-lane Theatre, to Ann, eldest daughter of D. V. Itiviere, Esq.. of Cirencester-place, Fitzroy-square. On the Bth inst. at Glasgow, the Rev. IL L. Berry, A. M. of Mill-hill, near London, to M t a h r ie la cit t o l y iir d d a, d ig a i t i t t g e i r it o e i r of J. laurie, Esq. of Laurie. Es O q u o t i ll i e m it lust, to o t 3 S i t a . ry r:largaret's, Lothbury, J. W. J. Gole, #3f New-road, St. George's, Middlesex. On the 9th inst. at St. Pancras New Church, Mr. M. Fotlier gill, of Martin's-lane, Cannor-street, to Maria, daughter of the late Mr. A. Chifney, of Queen? Elm, of Hever's-wood, Sevenoaks, aged 60. .. DIED. ' ill' St. James's-square, Sir G Montgomery, North Britain, M.P. for the county of On the 10th inst. in Cadogan-place, Mrs. E. 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