The Sun. — London, England, 1831-03-16 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. We invite attention to a sensible article froM a Correspondent, on the attempt to defeat the Bank ruptcy Court Bill. Certainly, the opposition to that measure, regard being had to the quarter from whence it springs, is the greatest proof of the ser vice it is likely to render the commercial world. Do merchants, dealers, or traders oppose it t' No ; but those who, through the present law, prey on . mer chants, dealers, and tradesmen. The septtpgirit,— the seventy Commissioners, — t hese and their friends only oppose it ; and Oils it but too frequently happens, that the agency employed i n the operation of any law, think that the law was made for them, and not for the benefit of the country. The oppo sition to the new Bankrupt L aw, which has fa il ed in the Lords, is to be tried in t h e Comm o ns. It is stared that the Chancellor by the new Bill, instead of corn. inissionerships, obtains the disposal of ten judgeships, besides the situations of registrars and assignees. 'Why, whoever thought that the B ill could be carried into effect without officers ? But it is not denied that the proposed system saves a great expense; neither does the Chancellor obt ain this patronage as is asserted. But first of all let us observe, that to 'whomsoever it belongs, their power is straighten e d and confined, that it cannot act in a very corrupt way ; f,,r the class of persons who may be made Judges of bankrupt is extremely limited by th e Bill, and must possess peculiar and defined qualifications. But the fact is, that the patronage rests not with the Chancellor, but with the Crown ; and though no doubt the opinion of the Chancellor may have weight, it is very far from being deci s ive, as w e could prove in a variety of similar cases; for the Chancellor may be consulted on the appointment of Judges in Westminster-hall, but he has not there fore the nomination of those important offices. The patronage of the judgeships and of the registerships is as little that 'of the Chancellor, and as much that of the Crown, as the patronage of the bishoprics. However, the attacks on the Bill spring from private motives. From such only can they spring, for the mercantile interest is wholly for it; and it is for the convenience and security of the mercantile interest oNly that bankrupt laws are formed. Perhaps it is suspected that the Common Law bar may supply a greater number of fit persons for the new judgeships than the Chancery bar 1 Be it so : the administra tion of bankruptcy belongs more properly to com mon law than equity. But let the commercial and trading public look to their Bill. Of one thing we are sure, that whatever opposition the Duke of Cumberland and his party may make to this benefi cial measure, the middling classes throughout Eng land are most anxious to see it in operation. We humbly suppose that this numerous and important body may understand the nature of the Bill as well as the illustrious Prince who heads the minority against it.—Times. Among the favourable signs of the times, is the readiness with which many proprietors of boroughs and corporations have come forward to resign the power, which they feel they are not justly entitled to exercise, into the hands of the people. To the other instances must be added the Duke of Devon shire, who, on Monday night, expressed himself anxious to part with the patronage he possessed. The Marquis of Lansdowne last night presented a petition from the Steward and Corporation of the borough of Caine, in which they expressed that they bad long been of opinion that the elective franchise aught to be extended to householders paying a cer tain aent. Lord Suffield, in presenting a petition from a district in Norfolk, took the opportunity " of stating, that the plan of Reform proposed by his Majesty's Ministers met with his unqualified appro bation." He added, that "he had heard persons who were interested in boroughs and borough influ ence declare, that they felt grateful to his Majesty's Ministers for having brought this measure forward ; it relieved them from the odium and obloquy to which that species of influence subjected them ; and if such persons, who were to lose valuable and beneficial interests by the measure, so highly approved of it, and felt so grateful to Ministers, how much more deep was the obligation under which the rest of their Lordships lay to his Majesty's Ministers, for having freed them from that odium and obloquy which they as part of the aristocracy, shared with those having vantage.' 'lle himself had no such influence, and felt grateful to the Ministry for being freed from the obloquy by a measure which could not fail to be ex tremely beneficial to the country. He had always been averse to that species of influence, and yet he bad been subjected to his share of the discredit which it attached to the aristocracy generally." No man, who wishes to regulate his conduct by princi ples of justice , wo uld think of retaining the power of disposing of the property of the people without their consent, which the possession of boroughs gives him. II a Lordship expresses himself as an honest mat, should express himself; and we do not wonder that he, and others of his order, who think as he does, should be grateful to the Ministry for freeing them from the obloquy which borough property attached to the aristocracy in general. Another Nobleman (the Earl of Shrewsbury) has just published a short pamphlet, entitled, " Suggese lions for the Improvement of the Labouring Poor, addressed to every Member of the Legislature" (and some of his suggestions are well deserving of atten tion), in which he observes, " As far as my know ledge extends, no Administration has ever yet ruled in this country that can justly be said to have go verned with any desire to establish the interests of the people. The whole object seems to have been to extort as much money as possible for purposes of the most lavish and wasteful expenditure; and that always as a question between the privileged orders and the Government, as if the people had neither interest nor concern in the matter. When the people, indeed, were considered, it'appears to have been only in reference to the most convenient method of coercion; the whole history otlegislation in their regard, being one of pains and penalties, disqualifi cati in, and restriction: so much so, that our gaols have been crowded, our colonies have been peopled, our scaffolds have groaned under victims to laws scarce ten years old. But late events, both in this empire and in Europe, hare put a final termination to the career of folly and corruption. The people have at length discovered their real strength; the na tural order of things have been reversed—they lead instead of being led; they have taught the Rulers of Nations that the avenging day, though delayed, is not delayed for ever; that justice, however out raged, will at length re-assert her authority; that the power of the oppressor shall cease, the hand of tyranny shall wither. Let not these lessons be neg lected by those to whom the destinies of nations are entrusted; I am sure they will not be lost upon our present rulers. They have needed no prophet to interpret to them the signs of the times;s—they have themselves prophesied to others. They have foreseen the natural consequences of a long system of misrule, they have even known that effects would be true to their causes; they have a thousand times foretold the predicament in which we now find ourselves, and they are the men to extricate us from it. It is to their sagacity, their wisdom, their principles anti honour, that we must trust for our salvation. As they have been the predictors of our calamities, they are now the harbingers of our regeneration; they are pledged to save th e country, and do i t they must a nd will." The power of the boroughmongers is incompatible with the diffusion of knowledge; and of this truth the boroughmongers have always been tolerably well aware. Th e people, wh a t ever L or d William may think, have no cause to be grateful to the Oligarchy or to the High Church Parsons, their dependents, and tools, for the education which has enabled them to break their chains. " Cor ruption," as our contemporary (the Scotsman) observes, " readily allies itself with ignorance. The disgraceful doctrine, that education is an evil, and knowledge in the mass of the people dangerous, sprung also out of the necessities of the Oligarchy, and was the natural progeny of the borough system." It is recorde of the best Governor Virginia everi bad, Sir Willi d am Berkeley, that, like a true cavalier, be was found "to thank God there are no schools or printing." The base Press, the corrupt Press, the odious and abominable Press—to use the epi thets of a distinguished opponent of Reform—and schools, have, at length wrought the downfall of the boroughroongers. Those who wish to enjoy no more than what they may enjoy without injury to others—who are conscious of no inclination to rob and plunder their fellow-subjects —must naturally feel indignant at being held up by the oligarchy and their tools in the House of Commons, as an obstacle to the conceding to the people the power to choose their representatives. No wonder Lord Suffield should be anxious to disclaim all sympathy with the• men who would hold up his order as essentially hos tile to the people. This point is very ably handled in the Scotsman of Saturday last : " Has not every constitutional writer declared that King, Lords, and Commons, all exist solely for the good of the people? And who shall presume to understand the good of the people better than themselves ? Supposing, then, they, as the roost competent judges of their own interest, deem the Crown and the Peerage superfluous or hurtful,—fiat, ought these to be maintained in existence? and secondly, admitting► it were wise to maintain them, would it in such a case be possible ? We are speaking of the deliberate opinions of the people, as they would be ex hibited in a House of Commons representing property as well as persons, allowing to all ranks of men their natural and legitimate influence, and nothing more—not a House which has two Members for an old wall or dovecot, while the ten millions of property in Manchester are unrepre sented ! " But look at Mr. Canning" sophistry on the otter side. a lf the House of Commons were the organ of the popular will, it would sweep away the Crown and the Peerage.' Be it so ! then what is the House of Com mons ? The answer is plain : it is an engine for pre serving the Crown and the Peerage against the wishes of the people ! The re it use of a House of Commons, it seems, is not to give effect to the will of the people, as we imagined, but to prevent that will from operating or being expressed ! A most beautiful and original idea of a re presentative body ! Such, when analysed, is George Canning's description of the• Howie of Commons ; and we have dwelt upon it at some length, because it forms the political code of the Tories generally, and we meet with, it less or more disguised in all the recent speeches against Reform. " The real effect of Mr. Canning's sophistry is to cover corruption and horoughmongering, at the expense of the Crown and the Peerage. First, it assumes that the people are hostile to the Crown and the Peerage, which is false. Next, it affirms that the real use of a House of Commons is to be—not a check upon the Clown and the Aristocracy for the people—but a check upon the people for the Crown and the Aristocracy. Thirdly, it holds up the institution of the Peerage and the CrOkyn, as the great obstacles of Reform, and thus exposes them to undeserved odium, by making them answerable for all the abuses which have grown out of the rotten burgh system ! !" We have no doubt that the Aristocracy will gain greatly by the Reform. They will not, indeed, be allowed to dispose so freely as they have done of the public purse; but being obliged to merit the honours to which they lay claim, the people will never be backward in admitting the value of their services, and in acknowledging their deserts. There is greater danger to an Aristocracy than the being able to dispense with the body of the people.— Morning Chronick. We observe that at the recent dinner of " the gentlemen connected with the shipping and colonial interests," some severe remarks having been made on the mischievous tendency of the dogmas of the political economists, Air. Ward, one of the Repre- sentatives of the City, alluded to the author of the " Wealth of Nations" in language of unqualified censure, and said he " wished that Adam Smith had never lived, or that lie had lived long enough to alter his views." We suspect that Adam Smith was not, like some of our eminent modern statesmen, much disposed to make his principles accommodate themselves to the prevalent notions " by doctrines faihioned to the varying hour." His political faith was as fixed and decided as might be expected from one who had arrived at his conclusions through the laborious inquiries of an intellect at once acute, comprehensive, and luminous. His opinions had consequently a firmer foundation than the shifting sands of expediency, and he had convinced himself before he attempted to convince others. But if Mr. Ward supposes tat Adam Smith is respon sible for the wild paradoxes and mischievous follies of the modern race of political economists, he • • works . . , Writer's as any man need be who is de tennined to avoid the remotest chance of be coming a convert. Adam Smith was not an advocate either for getting rid of the colonies or for breaking down the navigation laws. His doctrine of " free trade" was not the wild and irrational thing which it has become in the hands of the modern econo mists, who, in the blind zeal for their pedantic dogmas, overlook the actual circumstances of the country, to which they would make them applicable. While the former inculcated the principle of free trade, as beneficial to commercial nations in the ab stract, he limited the application of it by a reference to the existing circumstances of the nation. He had never seen a country with eight hundred mil lions of debt, and the consequent weight of taxation which the productive industry of such a country is under the necessity of bearing, and which renders it wholly incapable of entering into free competition with nations far more lightly taxed, and where the cost of production is, of course comparatively less. In fact he bad never seen England as she is at the present day. Yet in speaking of the actual adoption of the " free trade principle" as to foreign goods, he says—" The case in which it may sometimes be a matter of deliberation how far, or in what manner, it is proper to restore the free importation of foreign goods, after it has been for some time interrupted, is when particular manufactures, by means of high duties or prohibitions upon all foreign goods which can come into competition with them, have been so far extended as to employ a great multitude of hands. Humanity may in this case re quire that the freedom of trade should be restored only by slow gradations, and with a good deal of reserve and circumspection. Were those high duties and prohibition: taken away all at once, cheaper foreign goods of the same kind might he poured sofast into the home market as to deprive, all at once, many thousand people of their ordinary employment and means of subsistence." The modern political econo mists never took these circumstances into considera- tion when they broke down the navigation laws, and opened the flood-gates of free trade upon this over taxed country all at once. But they take a pride in despising all considerations of humanity; and hu manity, in turn, despises them. When Adam Smith wrote the above passage, the public debt of Eng land was only about 129 millions ; bad it been 800 millions, as it now is, he would have seen further reasons for using reserve and circumspec tion in allowing the free importation of foreign goods, by which so many thousands have been de prived of" their ordinary employment and the means of subsistence." Now, with regard to colonies, so far was this writer from considering them necessarily inju, rious to the mother country, that 1113 expressly assets the contrary. He is, indeed, decidedly opposed to monopolies of the colonial trade, but considers the trade itself, apart from such monopolies, are inva riably beneficial. Let us hear his own words— " We must carefully distinguish between the effects of the colony trade and those of the monopoly of that trade. The former are always and necessarily beneficial; the latter always and necessarily hurtful. But. the former are so beneficial that the colony trade, though subject to a monopoly, and notwith standing the hurtful effects of that monopoly, is rill upon the whole beneficial, and greatly beneficial, though a good deal less so than it otherwise would be." As to the Navigation Act, we have not space at present to enter into his reasoning upon the sub jeet. It may be sufficient to state the opinion at which he arrived on examining all its provisions. He says that, " though some of the regulations of this famous Act may have proceeded from national animosity, yet they are as wise as if they had all been dictated by the most deliberate wisdom. I Would Mr. Ward wish Adam Smith t o h ave li ve d long enough to alter this opinion, and to co-operate with the political economists of the present day in th e rash folly of sweeping away what the mos " deliberate wisdom" had projected as the founda tion and defence of England's commercial greatness? —Morning Herald. PARLIAMENTARY REFORM BILL. A BILL TO AMEND THE REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE IN ENGLAND AND WALES. [Note —The words printed in Italics are proposed to in the Committee] Whereas it is expedient to take effectual measures for correct ing divers abuses that have long prevailed in the choice of Mem bers to serve in the Commons House of Parliament, to diminish the expense of elections, to deprive many inconsiderable places of the right of returning Members, to grant such privilege to large, populous, and wealthy towns, to increase the number of Knights of the Shire, and to extend the elective franchise to many of his Majesty's subjects who have not heretofore enjoyed the same : Be it enacted, by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that the boroughs enumerated. t in schedule (A.) to this Act annexed, shall cea se, after .he end of this present Parliament, to return Member s to serve liament, and that no writ or precept shall be issued orf d sentve in any lar. ' o P f r a t l h ia e m sa e i n d t boroughs to return Members to serve in any uture (B.) to this Act annexed, shall, after the end o f this present ed p u a l r e m lia e nr , s n e i n n t r r e e a tu ch rn n o f n th e e A sa le i m d b b e n r ro an ng duo more to serve in Parha m e A n n t , t h db e i t t nis acted, en,nn t h e a r t at a ed ft er and t described e d ofi n this scheduleioeent itan this Act annexed, shall each return two Members to serve in Parliament; and that the towns enumerated in schedule 1.),.) to this Act annexed, shall each return one Member to serve in Par. liament. Regis A nd s bh shall, for thea cte p t n h r a p t c!e the towns s of tthis ofA Act be Weymouthtaken and as one c town,ombe and shall, after the end of this present Par li a ment, return only two Members to serve in Parliament. And be it enacted, that each of the towns of Portsmouth, Ro chester, and Kingston-upon-Hull, shall, after the end of this present Parliament, return two Members to serve in Parliament, jointly with the other places respectively, as decribed in schedule (E.) to this Act annexed. ,And be it enacted that after the end of this pr esent Parli a. ment, each of the places named in schedule (F.) to this Act an. nexed, shall have a share in the election of burgesses to serve in 1 Parliament, for the shire, town, or borough to which such place is annexed in the said schedule (F.) ; and that every person hay. ing the right of voting in any of the said places previously to the passing of this Act, or acquiring such right by virtue of this Act, shall and may give his vote in respect thereof at the place in which he resides, before the Mayor or other chief officer of the place, who shall transmit the poll taken before him to the return ing officer of the shire, town, or borough, to which such place may be joined for the purposes of election. And be it enacted, that no person shall, after the end o f this present Parliament, have the right of voting at the election of Members to serve for the town of Carnarvon, in respect of any supposed right.of voting in the place called Criccieth. And be it enacted, that the towns of Swansea, Laugharne, Neat!), Aberaven, and Ken Fig, shall after the end of this pre sent Parliament, for the purposes of this Act, be taken as one borough, and shall return one Member to serve in Parliament ; and no person by reason of any right accruing in any of the places last named shall have any vote in the election of Members for the borough of Cardiff; and that the votes shall in such elections be taken at the town or place within which the pet sons having the right of voting shall severally reside, by the Mayor or other mu nicipal officer of such town or place, who shall transmit the poll taken before him to the Portreeve of Swansea, who shall be the returning officer for tile said borough. And be it enacted, that the persons described in the column of the said several schedules (C.) (1).) and (E.) s h a ll b e the persons to whom all writs and precepts shall, after the end of this present Parliament, be directed, and shall bethe returning officers for the elections of Members to serve in Parliament for the said towns and places. And be it enacted, that no person shall be entitled to vote at the election of a Knight of the Shire to serve in any future Par liament, in respect of any house, by reason of the occupation whereof he or any other persons shall be entitled to vote for any city or borough. And be it enacted, that from and after the end of this present Parliament, every male person of full age and not subject to any legal incapacity, seised of and in any lands or tenements for an estate for life, or for any larger estate of at least the yearly value of ten pounds above reprises, holden by copy of court roll of the lord or lady of any manor, or by any customary tenure, and every person holding lands or tenements by lease for any term not less than years, whereon a yearly rent of not less thanlifty pounds shall be reserved, shall have a right to vote ins the elec tion 9f Knights of the Shire in all future Parliaments; provided that no leaseholder shall enjoy such right by virtue of any lease renewable every year, or which shall have been renewed within two years preceding the registration to be made in manner here inafter directed : provided always that nothing herein contained shall take away or in any manner affect the right of voting for Knights of the Shire, at present enjoyed by any person, and which may hereafter accrue to any person, according to the laws now in force, in respect of freehold property, rent-charges, an nuities, or any other right of voting now by law enjoyed in re lation to the election of Knights of the Shire. And be it enacted, that after the end of this present Parlia ment, every person owning or holding any lands or tenements, situated within cities or towns, being counties of themselves, described in schedule (U.) to this Act annexed (which lands or tenements would, if situated in a county not being a city or town, which is a county of itself, entitle the owner or holder thereof to vote), shall be entitled to vote at any election for the Knights of the Shire named in the said schedule (G.) respectively. Provided also, and be it hereby enacted, that no person shall vote for any Member, to serve in any future Parliament, in re spect to the ownership or possession of any lands or tenements, unless he shall have been seised or possessed thereof for the space of thirty days at least before the registration (to be made in manner hereinafter directed) last before the election at which he shall claim to vote inserted Andbe(ll.) to this Ae thattenactedtannexed, to b i ah neea.chofitee ed hi mannerc d o i u v n id tiesenu enumerated ertehdiL schedule inatter particularly directed, shall in like manner choose and re turn four Knights of the Shire instead of two. to serve in all future Parliaments for the same respectively. And be it enacted, that in all future Parliaments there shall be siz Knights of the Shire instead of four, to serve for the county of York ; that is to say, two Members for each of the three rid ings of the said county, to be elected in such manner andect of by_ thethe same classes and descriptions of voters, and in respect severalsam A e ndbeit to serve for the Shire instead of two, befour Knights of the e r o i a g c h t t o d s o , f t r a t t i 1 i i n g , allas i f f . e t o a c r e h of p. r t l l i i a e i three ii en ; s r there d i g s chat that such four Members county of Lincoln, that is to say, twrotsfoorfthHeopEntds oafnLditnhdescp,a,,rit. of Kesteven in the same county ; and i the said county, and two for the pa s were a separate county, of voting, as if the said parts of Lindsey together were also a descriptionss shall be cho chosen voters,in th e andsa m ieh respect manner And be it enacted, that in like manner a s ti o n p d ar t a h t e e s c a o i o d o pa ty r . ts of Holland and Kesteve l n l in elections for Knights of the Shire for the county .ohof any lands or ampton, by reason of the ownership or possession persons now having or who would by virtue of this Act acquire the r in igl f i u t ot o fu f rs v eo o vu ti at n b : . tenements situate within the Isle of Wight, respect of such ownership or of Wight, and t h at all liaments cease to vote in such election loarotdhesbcaolulnhtyo atoo entitled to t i o choose one Member to serve for the Isle n possession, the L o rds of his Ma- And be it enacted, that a Committee of the li s o lo ns of fo w. r t i h gh e t s . ame shall be holden at the town o f New p ort, in i a th u i d n na th m r ed ee j b e y s ty his 's (for tile 7A lt i f a o i s o t st H y, o noonudrearbblei his royal C s i o g u o n m c i a l, b t o o a be l, s s e h l a e l c l t a w l . for tile election of this Act annexed, shall thereafter be divided, Parliaments ; and whatm ont months manner otehrettaesssianhgt this counties A enumeratedct ,imu i Inquire into s,, and soh e tle h t i e lo rm ( determine in Knights of the Shire to serve in all future made (for any u a n c ibt i o n , g a i ons o f any other purpose of election only), any outlying po county, sh a shall ha have e r any the division vi er of wolfing Ipin the former, and ofi a ,a n t. d . county which may be locally . situate wit .1 . and it shall be shall make a report to his Majesty in Council making lawful for his Majesty to issue his royal proclamations y a t n o d be in h c y or t p h o o r m at o it i such reports shall forthwith be laid before both known the determination and report of the saul 'lament. all elections of said report determine at what places respective l y liaments for the Knights of the Shire to serve in all future Par so divided, shall And be it enacted, that the said Committee shall also in their respective divisions of the said counties, when be bold en. incorporation of hereinbefore the said counties shall have been proclaimed as And be it enacted, that after such division and Committee, Houses mentioned, any person claiming and having the right to vote, atter the end of this present Parliament, for a knight of the Shire to serve in Parliament, shall vote only for t h a t division of the said county in which the property in respect o f which he claiAmsnd be it to votenacted, e shall be that situaan other Committee o te. f his Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Coun c il, t o b e named by his Majesty ,_ pailngld limits and boundaries of all the cities and boroughs _ I , ament s to ' and Wales having the right of sending Member under his sign manual, shall inquire into and determine the with any te and shall have power to annex unto and incorPo ra ., te a within city or borough, any parish or township locally such city orborough or thereto adjoining, or any out y ay ii situate ' it ' l L3 i ng portion of any parish or township which may happen to be lee and shall beyond the limits of such city or borough respecti v ely. on or before the lay . o fof sIIC 1 of this Act, lay before his ( Majesty in Council a r e p or t io i e sty to their determination; and it shall be lawful for his id , determi. issue his royal proclamation, making known the s a c o f which nation and report of the said Committee, from the do l t , . remain passity and limited, annexed and incorporated respectively" proclamation such cities and boroughs bounded said re according to such determination as aforesaid; and the l _ ... „ . next,silai a b ler a te r . '” port shall forthwith be laid before both Houses of Parliall,e,.n of And be it enacted, that the said last-mentioned ConulTT', shall, the Lords of his Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council soa n : within throe months after the passing of this Act, proceed to, a io flex to such cities and boroughs (except those enumerated schedule (A.) as now have the privilege of sendin Members V.; Parliament, but do not contain more than t h ree hundre d houses, of the yearly va l ue o f t en pounds at least or rated to th e relief f the poor, or to th e d u ty assessed on inhabited houses al ten pounds by the year at least, any parish or township within which the said city or boro ug h or any part thereof may lie, or any parish or township adjoining thereto, or any outlying por tions of any other parish or township that may be locally situate within such) city or borough, or withi n such annexed parish o r , township, parishes or townships, as such Committ ee m ay deep' convenient, (for the purposes of election only) ; and every such city or borough shall, jointly with such annexe d parish or town skip, parishes or townships, be a city or b oroug h for the purpo se of electing Members, and return su c h M ember or Members xi they may be entitled respectively to retur n t o serve in all futu re Parliaments ; and the said last mentioned C omm i ttee shall ma ke a report of their determination touching th e sa id annexations, to his Majesty in Council, and it shall be la w f u l f or his Majesty to issue his royal proclamation, making known the said determina tion and report of the said Committee, and the said report shall sorthwith be laid before both Houses of p ar li ament. And be it enacted. that in all elections f or M embers to serve io any future Parliament for cities and bor oug h s, every ma le person of full age, and not subject to any l ega l incapacity, who shall have occupied for 414: months previous to the settlement of the registers which are hereinafter directed to be made, any house within such cities and boroughs of th e c l ear yearly value of t, , ,n pounds, or bona .fide subject to the yearly rent of ten pounds, , or wide!' shall have been for the same time rated to the relief of the poor, or to the duty assessed upon inhabited houses, at a sum and hav e bo be ro e u n g d b u s ly : t. provided egistered a s isv cc a o y r s d , b that o theno ipierrosvoins revisions who hereinafter not less than ten pounds, shall have a right to vote for ' such cities contained civil be admitted to vote at such election : provided also, that every person now having a right to vote in virtue of any corporate right, shall retain such right for his lif e an d on being duly registered shall be entitled to vote, provided every such person shall have resided for six months previous to the time of registration hereinafter directed, within seven statute miles of the usual place of election within such city or borough and pro vided also, that any person now having a roht to ; - i l i l af n te e r t vote by reason of owning or occupying any tenement, shall retain snch right as long as he owns and occupies the same or any other tenement in the skine place, by reason of which owners hi p or occupation a ti o n he will have a right of voting by th e l aws or customs now force, and shall be allowed to vote, if duly reg i stered, as hereinafter di be it enacted, that the churchwardens and overseers of everyparish and township, in part o r i n whole, situate within, e v c Ae t ry e o d d . or by virtue of this Act to be annexed to any city or borough re turning or which shall return Members t o serve in any future Parliament (except those named in schedule (A.) shall on or bO. fore the day of in the present year, and on or before and the day of in each subsequent year, make out an alphabetical list of every male person residing within such city or borough, or annexed parish or township as the case may be, occupying a house of the clear yearly value of ten pounds, or bona fide subject to the yearly rent of ten pounds , or rated to the relief of the poor, or to the duty on inhabited houses, at a sum of not less than ten pounds by the year, and in respect of which all the rents, rates, and taxes shall have been paid up to that time; and another such list, of every male person claiming to vote by virtue of any cor porate, or burgess, or any other right existing in such persons at the time of passing this Act, and shall affix such lists to the doors of all churches and chapels in the several townships and parishes situate within the said cities and boroughs respectively, on the three Sundays next after they shall have been made respectively in this and every subsequent year. And be it enacted, that on the Monday next following the last of the said three Sundays in the present year, and on the first Monday in the month of November in each succeeding year, the returning officer of every city or borough shall sit in some con venient public hall or place (having first given three clear days notice of his sitting, to be affixed on the doors of all the said churches and chapels) for hearing objections to the insertion or omission of names in either of the said lists, and for inquiring into the truth of such objections, and for expunging, retaining, or inserting names according to the best of his judgment. And be it enacted, that the said returning officer shall have full Power, and he is hereby required to 'retain on the said list all names to which no valid objection shall be made and proved by evidence, and to insert in such list the name of every male per. son of full age, not subject to any legal incapacity, who shall ap pear to hav e een residing for sir months at least within such city or borough, or such annexed parish or township, and to have either been in the occupation of such house, as aforesaid, for six months at the least before the Monday on which the said return ing officer shall commence his sittings, or to be entitled in some other right, hereby saved, or not hereby affected, to vote at the election of Members of Parliament to serve for such city or borough ; and shall expunge from the said list the name of every person who shall be proved to be a minor under the age of twenty-one_ years, or incapacitated by any law or statute from voting for Members to serve in Parliament, and of every person who shall be proved not to have been for the time aforesaid the occupier of such house as aforesaid, or not to have made good thepaymept of all rates, rents, and taxes, or who shall not prove himself entitled in some other right to vote in the election of Members to serve for such city or borough ; provided that no person's name shall be expunged without one clear week's notice first given to him or left at his residence; and no per son's name shall be inserted without three clear weeks' notice to the churchwardens and overseers aforesaid, of his claim to have his name inserted, and without such notice being affixed for the three Sundays preceding the said Monday on the doors of all churches and chapels within the parish wherein such per son shall reside. And be it enacted, that the churchwardens and overseers of every parish and township shall make an alphabetical list of all persons claiming to be entitled, by reason of the ownership or possession of any freehold, leasehold, or copyhold, or customary lands or tenements, situate within such parish or township, to vote in any election for a Knight of the Shire to serve for the county wherein such parish or township lies, and shall on or be fore the day of in the present year, and en or be fore the day of in each succeeding year, cause such list to be affixed on the doors of all the churches and cha pels within such parish or township, or if there be no church or chapel, then to be fixed up in some public and conspicuous si tuation within the same respectively on the first three Sundays in the month of September of each year ; and on or before the twenty,fifth day of September in each year shall send such list to the high constable or high constables of the hundred wherein such parish or township lies, who shall forthwith transmit the same to the clerk of the peace of the county. And be it enacted, that the Judges named i n th e l as t commis sion of assize for each county, immediately after the passing of this act, and in each succeeding year the Judges of assize for each county, when travelling the summer circuit, shall nominate and appoint (subject nevertheless to the approbation of the Lord High Chancellor, Lord Keeper, or Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal for the time being) a barrister to revise such lists, and decide upon all objections to the omission or insertion of the names therein respectively; and that such barrister so appointed as aforesaid, shall give public notice by advertisement in the county newspapers, that he will make a circuit of the county for which he shall be so nominated and appointed, and of the several times and places at which he will hold courts f r that purpose, and he shall hold an open court for that purpose at the times and places so to be announced; and that such barrister shall be paid for discharging the duty so cast upon him, out of the at the rate of not snore than or less than for every day that he shall be so employed; provided always, that no barrister so nominated and appointed as aforesaid, shall be eligible to serve in Parliament for twelve months from the time of such his ap pointment for the county for which he shall be nominated and appointed. And be it enacted, that the said barrister shall inquire into and determine all such objections as aforesaid, and shall expunge the names of all persons who shall not have owned or held the lands or tenements in respect of which he claims to vote for the space of thirty days at the least before the first day of holding the said court, or who shall be incapacitated by any law or statute from voting in the election of Members to serve in Parliament, and shall insert the name of any person who may, to the satisfaction of such barrister, prove himself to have owned or held such lands . . and tenements as may entitle him to a vote in the next ... en;ang . election, and who shall not be proved incapable, by law, of v otin g in the election of Members to serve in Parliament ; provided that no name shall be expunged or inserted without such notice and publication as is bereinbefore required in respect to the lists to be made for cities and boroughs. And be it enacted, that such returning officer and such barris . ter so holding their respective courts as aforesaid, shall have power to administer an oath to all persons making objection to the insertion or omission of any name in such list as afore said, and to all persons objected against, and to all witnesses who may be tendered on either side, but that the said hearings shall not be attended by counsel ; and that such returning officer or barrister shall, upon the hearing in open court, finally determine upon the validity of such claims and objections, and shall in open court write his initials against the names respectively struck out or inserted, and sign his name to the several lists so settled. And be it enacted, that such lists shall, when so settled and signed, be tacked together and form one list for the county or division, city, or borough respectively - arid the list so signed by the said barrister shall be t ra n sm itt e d the clerk of the peace of the county for which he shall have been appointed • and the list so signed by the said returning officer shall be by 'him kept and handed over at the expiration of his office to the person suc ceeding him in the same; and that theclerk of the peace and the returning officer respectively cause copies of the same to be printed at the expence of the county (which shall be delivered to all persons applying, on payment of stxpence for each copy,) and that such lists shall be the lists of electors to vote after the end of this present Parliament. burgesses for the severalunties, ancrdivisio"ns o counties, cities, lists shall be made respectively at any eleCtimi which may be holden after the said day of in the present year, and before the first day of December in the next year, and the lists to be made in each succeeding year shall be the lists of the electors to vote at any election to be holden after the first day of December in each succeeding year respectively. And be it enacted, that in all elections whatever of Members to serve in any future Parliament, no inquiry shall be permitted at the time of polling, except as to whether the person claiming to vote be the same whose name appears in such list, and whether such persons shall have previously voted at the same election, and no such person shall be excluded from voting at any such election, except by reason of his refusing to take the oaths or make the affirmation required by law. Provided nevertheless, and be it further enacted, that by peti tion to the House of Commons complaining of an undue election or return of any knight, citizen, or burgess, any petitioner shall be at liberty to question the correctness of the lists which shall ' have been settled by such barrister or returning officer, and to prove that names were improperly retained, inserted, expunged or omitted at the registration that shall have taken place next before the election or return complained of ; and the Committee before whom the merits of any such petition shall be tried may inquire into the same, and alter the poll taken at such election according to the truth of the case, and direct the return to be amended accordingly ; and in case of corruption, partiality, or wilful misconduct, may order such costs to be paid to the peti tioner by such barrister or returning officer as such Committee shall think reasonable. And be it enacted, that the Sheriff's of the counties directed hereby to be divided, shall fix the several days of election for Knights of the Shire for the several parts, ridings, and divisions of their said respective counties, and shall preside at the same by themselves or their lawful deputies. And be it enacted, that at all contested elections of Members to serve in all future Parliaments, except elections for counties and divisions of counties, the poll shall commence on the day of nomination, or on the day next following, or at the latest on the third day; and that the number of hours during which the polling shall proceed "shall on the first day of polling be seven, and on the second day eight ; and that the poll shall on no ac count be kept open later than four o'clock in the afternoon of such second day ; and the final state of the poll shall be declared not later than two o'clock in the afternoon of the third day atter the poll shall be opened ; and the returning officer or officers shall return the Member or Members to serve in 'Parliament by virtue of such election immediately after the final state of the poll is declared. And be it enacted, that if on the day of election of a Knight to serve in any future Parliament for any county or division more candidates shall be proposed for the choice of the electors than the number of vacancies to be tilled up, and a poll shall be demanded, the polling shall commence at nine o'clock in the forenoon of the next day but ono after the day of election, in the several places to be appointed as hereinafter directed by the Ma. gistrates for taking polls ; and the final state of the poll shall be declared at noon of the sixth day after the said day of election. And be it enacted, that the Justices of the Peace for each county assembled at the general Quarter Sessions to be holden next after the passing of this Act, and after such royal procla mations as hereinbefore mentioned, making known the divisions and incorporations of the said counties for which, after the passing of this Act, Knights of the Shire shall be elected to serve in all future Parliaments, or at some special sessions to be by them appointed, an d of which at least there shall be given ten days' public notice, shall consider and shall have full power to appoint convenient places within such countie s a nd di v i sions f or taking the poll at all fhture elections of Knights of the Shire to serve in Parliament for the said counties and divisions respec tively, in such manner that no person shall have to travel more than fifteen miles from the property in respect of which heclahns to vote ; provided that no county or division of a county now entitled or by this Act empowered to send Knights of the Shire to serve in Parliament shall have mire than fifteen places ap pointed for taking the poll for the same respectively. And be it enacted; that the said Justices of the Peace shall have the like authority to appoint diffbrent places, at the end of t w o years from the first appointment to be made for that purpose, and that a list of the polling places to be soappo i nted shall he lodged w ith the Clerk of the Peace of each county ; and that the names of such places so appointed shall be inserted on lists to be affixed on the door of the churches and chapels within each county and division immediately after they are so made according to the last appointment, and the polling at election shall take place accord_ ing_to the list last lodged, in c on f orm i ty to this enactment, with the said Clerk of the Peace. And be it enacted, that every election of Members to serve In a n future Parliaments for all cities and boroughs in England shall be held, carried on, aHd concluded in some one place, and under the superintendence and controul of the same returning officer or officers ; but there shall be appointed for taking the poll at such election different booths for diffrent parishes, districts, or places, so divided and allotted as to the returning officer or officers shall seem most convenient, of which division and allot ment public notice shall be given, so that no greater number than so hundred shall he required to poll at any one booth. And be it enacted, that, after the and of this present Parlia ment, all booths to be built for the convenience of taking polls such booths shall b e erected b y the Sher i f f or ot h er s h a ll be erected by contract with the c an did a t es , or if th e y can . not agree, returning officer or officers at the joint and equal expense of the several candidates; and that the clerks employed in taking the po ll shall be paid one guinea by the day by eac h o f the candidat es at such election ; provided always, that if any person shall be proposed without his consent, th en t h e person so propos i ng hi m l s hall be liable to defray his share of the said expenses in like man ner as i he it had been a candidate, it enacted, that the number of hours during which the poll for any county or division shall be taken on the first day shall be seven, and on the second day shall be eight ; and that no poll shall be kept open later than f our o ' c l oc k in the aftern oon o f ih c second day. And be it enacted, that the poll-clerks, at the close of ea c h day's poll of an election for any county or livision, shall enclose and seal their several books, and shall in open courtdeliver them so sealed to the Sheriff orto his deputy ~ residing at such poll, who s h a ll give a receipt for the same; and the Sheriff' or his deputy who so receives, shall, on the commencement of the poll per son from whom he shall have received them ; and on th e final on the second day , deliv er them back so encl ose d and sealed to the al close of the poll, the said Sheriff' or such his deputy shall keep the said poll.books so unopened, until the re -assembling of the court on the sixth day, when he shall openly break the seals thereon and cast up the number of votes as they appear on the said several books, and shall openly declare the state of the poll or polls, and shall make proclamation of the Member or Mem. tiers chosen. And be it enacted, that so much of an Act passed in the 20th year of the reign of King George the Third, intituled, " An Act to remove certain difficulties relative to voters at county elec tions," as requires the names of freeholders to be placed on the land-tax roll, shall be, and the same is hereby repealed and all laws, statutes, and usages now in force resp e ctin g th e erection of Members to serve in Parliament for that partof the United King dom called England and Wales, shall be and remain and are hereby declared to be and remain in full force, except so far as they are repealed or altered by this Act. And be it enacted, that if any sheriff, returning officer, bar rister, or any person whatsoever, shall wilfully contravene or disobey the provisions of this Act, or any of them, with respect to any matter or thing which such sheriff; returning officer, barrister, or other person, is hereby required to do, he shall for such his offence be liable to be sued in an action of debt in any of his Majesty's Courts of Record at Westminster for the penal sum of and the Jury before whom such action shall be tried, may find their verdict for the full sum of or for any less sum not less than which the said Jury shall think it just that he should pay for such his offence ; and the defendant in such action, being convicted, sha!l pay such penal sum so awarded, with full costs of suit, to any party who may sue for the same, without prejudice however to the right of any party grieved by the same misconduct of such sheriff, returning offi cer, barrister, or other person, to recover such damages in an action on the case for a false return, or any other grievance, as he may be entitled to at common law or by virtue of any statute now in force. And be it enacted, that if any person named in any of the lists so as aforesaid required to be made, but who at the time of any election shall be in the enjoyment of any office now by law dis. qualifying him from giving his vote at the election of Members to serve in Parliament, shall presume to vote at such election, he shall be liable to all penalties and forfeitures to which he would have been subject for the said offence by any law in force at the time of the passing of this Act, any thing herein contained not. withstanding; and in case of a petition to the House of Com mons, for altering the return or setting aside the election in which such person shall have voted, his vote shall be struck off by the Committee, with such costs to be by him paid to any pe titioner as to such Committee shall seem just. And be it enacted and provided, that nothing in this Act contained shall extend to or in any wise affect the election for Members to serve in Parliament for the Universities of Oxford or Cambridge. And be it enacted, that throughout this Act wherever the words " city or borough," " cities or boroughs," may occur, those words shall extend to and include all towns corporate, cinque ports, districts, or places within England and Wales which shall be entitled, after this Act shall have passed, to re turn Members to serve in Parliament, other than counties aed divisions of counties, and also to the town of Berwick-upon- Tweed; and the words " returning officer" shall apply to every person or persons who by virtue of his or their office, either under the present Act or under any former law, custom, or statute, has, or have had, and shall have, the right of returning writs or precepts for the election of Members to serve in Parlia ment, by whatever name such person or persons may have been called ; and the words " parish or township" shall extend to every parish, township, vill, hamlet, district, or place maintain ing its own poor; and the words " churchwardens and overseers of the poor" shall extend to all overseers of the poor in the se veral parishes, townships or chapeiries, villa, districts or places, by whatever name or title they may be called, and whether ap. pointed under the Act for the relief of the poor passed in the forty.third year of her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, or under any local Act, or according to any peculiar custom, or in any other manner whatever. SCHEDULES TO WHIC SCHEDL Boroughs, Counties. Aldborough Yorkshire Aldeburgh Suffolk Appleby Westmoreland Bedwin, Great Wilts Berealston Devonshire Bishop's Castle Salop Bletchingley Surrey Boroughbridge Yorkshire Bossiney Cornwall Brackley ~ Northampton Bramber Sussex Buckingham Buckingham Callington Cornwall Cameltbrd - Ditto Castle Rising Norfolk Corfe Castle Dorsetshire Dunwich Suffolk Eye Ditto Fowey Cornwall Gatton Surrey Haslemere Ditto Hedon Yorkshire Heytesbury Wilts HighamFerrers Northampton Hindoni Wilts Ilchester Somersetshire East Looe Cornwall West LOOO Ditto Lostwithiel Ditto Ludgershall Wilts Malmesbury Wilts Midhurst Sussex II THIS ACT REFERS. ;JLE (A.) Boroughs. Countks. IX'borne Port Somersetshire Minehead Ditto I Newport Cornwall Newton Lancashire Newto(Ha nt wn Isle of Wight s) Okehampton Devonshire Orford - Suffolk Petersfield Hants Plympton Devonshire Queenborough Kent Reigate Surrey Romney, New Kent St. Mawe's Cornwall St. Michael's, m. ,,, or Midshall Saltash Ditto Old Sarum Wilts Seaford Sussex Steyning Ditto Stockbridge Hants Tregony Cornwall Wareham Dorsetshire Wendover Bucks Weobly Herefordshire Whitchurch Hants Winch ilsea SusseX Woodstock Oxfordshire Wootton Basset Wilts Yarmouth rlsle of Wight (Hants) SCHED' Boroughs Aniersham Arundel Ashburton Bodmin Counties. Buckingham Sussex Devon Cornwall. IULE (B). Boroughs. Counties. Lymington Hampshire Maldon Essex Marlborough Wilts Marlow, Great Bucks Morpeth Northumberld. Northallerton York Penryn Cornwall Richmond York Rye Sussex St. Germain's Cornwall St. Ives Ditto Sandwich Kent Shaftesbury Dorsetshire Sudbury Suffolk Tamworth Staftbrd& Warw Thetford Norfolk Thirsk York Totness Devonshire Trurs Cornwall Wallingford Berkshire Westbury Wilts Wilton Ditto Wycombe Bucks Bridport Dorsetshire Chippenham Wiltshire Clitheroe Lancashire Cockermouth Cumberland Dorchester Dorsetshire Downton Wiltshire Droitwich Worcestershire Evesham Ditto Grimsby,Great Lincolnshire Grinstead,Ea' st Sussex Guildford Surrey Helston _ Cornwall Honiton" Huntingdon Hythe Launceston Leominster Liskeard Lyme Regis Devonshire Huntingdon Kent Cornwall Herefordshire Cornwall Dorsetshire Places. Manchester ocrxraD , Til..,t; (C.) Parish or Township. Township of Manchester Township of Salford Townships of— Chorlton-Row Ardwick Beswick Hulme Cheatham and Pendleton, Lancashire Parishes of— St. Philip and St. Mary, Returning Officer.' The Boroughreeve of Manchester Birmingham The two Balliffil of the Town of Birming ham in Biriningham Aston, Warwickshire The Borough and Liberty of Leeds, Yorkshire Parish of Halifax, York-' shire Parishes of— Greenwich ; St. Nicholas and St. Paul, Deptford; Woolwich, Kent Townships of— ' Sheffield Ecelesall Brightside Nether Hallam Upper Hallam Atterclitfe, Yorkshire 'Parishes of—. . Sunderland Bishopwearmouth and Monkswoannouth, Durham The Town of Devonport Parish of Stoke Damerell Leeds 'The Mayor of Leeds .Halifax Greenwich . Sheffield !The Master Cutler Sunderland Devonport Township of Stonehouse Devon Parishes of— Wolverhampton Wolverhampton Bilston, and Sedgley, Staffordshire Parishes of the Tower Division, Ossulston Hundred, Middlesex Parishes of the Finsbury Division, Ossulston Hundred, Middlesex Parishes of— St. Andrew, Holborn, & St. George the Martyr Saffron Hill Hatton Garden Ely Rents St. Giles in the Fields, Tower Hamlets Finsbury ..... St. George, Blooms bury, Middlesex , Parishes of— St. Marylebone St. Pancras, and Paddington,, Middlesex St. Maly, Lambeth St. Mary, Newington Bermondsey Rotherhithe Surrey SCHEDULE (D.) Parish or Towashsp. 'Parish of Brighthelro. stone, Sussex Townships of Great and Little Bolton, Lanca __ shire Parish of Black burn, Lan cashire Parish of Bradford, York- , 1 shire Town of Cheltenham,, Gloucestershire Parishes of St. Edmund' and St. Thomas, Dud ley, Worcestershire Town of Frome, Somerset, Parish of Gat es h ead, ' Durham Parish of Huddersfield, Yorks hire Town of KiddermitiVer, Worcestershire Town of Kendal, West- 1 morland Town of Macclesfield, Cheshire Town of Stockport, Lan cashire The Town of South, Shields, Township of Westoe, County Dur ham Parish of Tynemouth, Township of North Shields, Northumber- land Town of Warrington, Lancashire Town of Whitehaven Town and Parish of Workington Parish of Harrington, Cumberland Borough and Foreign of Walsall Mayor DULE (E.) Places Annexed. Portsea, County of Southampton Chatham and Stroud, Kent cult Sculcoates, Yorkshire. SCHE ghs. I Marylebone Lambeth Borough. Bnghthelmstone: Bolton-lc-Moor. Blackburn Bradford , Cheltenham—, Dudley Frome .............. Gateshead......... Huddersfield. Kidderminster. Kendal ......... ,Macclesfield .....,I Stockport ...... . South Shields... Tynemouth ...... Warrington ~ Whitehaven Walsall Cities and B Portsmouth. Rochester Kingston-upon-I 'Constable of the Ma nor of the Deanery of Wolverhampton Returning o,olcer. The Constable The Conctables ',Constab. of the Manor Bailiff Mayor Mayor High Constable SCHEDULE (F). Places sharing in the Shire, 'Towne or Election of Principal Burgesses. Borough. Holyhead. Beaumaris ........•. Aberystwith Lampter Cardigan ......... .. Ad Llane par lly I Caermarthen ...... . Pwllheli Newin Conway Caernarvon ....... . Bangor ........... _ Ruth in llolt Wrexham.... ............. Ithyddlan Overton Carwis Caergonly. Flint ................ Holywell •••• Llandafy Cowbridge Merthyr Tydvil,... Cardiff............. Aberdare Llantrissent Llanidloes 1 Welsh Pool Machynleth }Montgomery Llanfylling Newtown Narberth ••• St. David's Fishguard Haverfordwest . Milton Hay- Gi a niorg , t 3 ' manterae rr Pembroke wen Tenby Wiston 1 Pembroke... ...... Knighton Ryador Kevinleece....... .......... Ftadnor Knucklas Presteigne.. . Perab r°/le !Rau ° JLE (G). iht P el Counties for whith as holders, CoPYhold‘rildr. Leaseholders are 0 Somerset Kent Cheshire Warwick Devon Gloucestershire Yorkshire, East RODS Staffordshire Northumberland Norfolk Nottinghamshire Dorset Southampton Worcestershire d ing Yo r k s hi re , North I.— Counties of Cities or Towns. Bristol Canterbury Chester Coventry Exeter... Gloucester Kingston-upon-Hull Litchfield Newcastle-upon-Tyne Norwich Nottingham Poole Southampton Worcester York SCHEDI Counties to Return e Chester Gloucester Cornwall Kent Cumberland Lancaster Derby Leicester Devon Norfolk Durham Northumberland Essex JLE (K) !ach Four Membel u alk Northampton , s o rra, Nottingham stiie%.,K Salop Somerset Wi l r o ite Southampton Wo Stafford FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST 111°111] nucen 4 Office of the Lord Chamberlain to the Queen, . 0t: St. James's, March 15, 1831. he r 10 1 ,,e The Officers of the Army and Navy, attending h er r."' t Drawing-room, on the 24th instant, win appear in tive uniforms, with regulation trowsers. : 0 t he And all other Gentlemen are exp ec t e d to appear Court dresses, with breeches and buckles. to Office of the Lord Chamb er l a i n t o th e Q uee n, Queen PS St. James's, March 15. REGULATIONS TO BE OBSERVED AT THE DRAWING' _ AT ST. JAMES'S.PALACE. W n.riPt The Ladies who propose to attend the Drawing-ro o "' to l tb on Thursday the 24th of March instant, are requestedlot . ee j two cards with their names thereon written, one to be debt s Queen's Page in attendance, and the other to "` t he P; to the Queen's Lord Chamberlain, who will annoutic e r to her Majesty. And those Ladies who are to be Prr e fr hereby informed, that it is absolutely necessary that "' s holxl e ot with the name of the Lady who is to present thent,, , sent in to the office of the Lord Chamberlain to I .l o oPli o n, before four o'clock on Tuesday, the W.d of March I r oboDoe order that they may be submitted for the Queen's APP rob i e s s t i o, it being her Majesty's command, th a t n o presentatil n Drawing room shall be made through the Lord C l ' the i rss unless the name of the Lady presenting, with that o ve te.toie to be presented, shall appear on the card to be d! ' in to before directed, corresponding with the names sen t Office of the Lvrd Chamberlain to the Queen. No Lady can be received by h e r M ajes ty, but in c°P.- with the above regulations. „tow St. James's Palace, March 11. o ftn” the The King has been pleased to appoint the Earl 0f.,... of the Lords of his Majesty's Bedchamber in Orditr o room of the Earl of Roden, resigned. fi r' St. James's Palace, March 7. His Majesty has been pleased to appoint Charlets IiSP..4 .„ 0 Esq., an Exon of his Majesty's Body Guard of Ye ° ;;; b igew" Guard, in the room of William Russ Whyting, Esq., '" Downing-street, March 14. „ o int„. o rl The King has been pleased to nominate and 4 P b ydiliolt Admiral H. Digby, Companion of the Most HonourL sir Order of the Bath, to be a Knight Commander of inbair' Honourable Military Order, in the room of Rear-A Edward Berry, deceased. Downing-street, March 14. st`'" Iga% i , The King has been pleased to appoint Sir Murraiuisacit C. 8., to be Lieutenant-Governor of Prince Edward , the Gulf of St. Lawrence. " . War-Office, March 15. fro ~,( A' 7e' 2d Regiment of Life Guards--Captain J. N. Re'"AsuS' half-pay, to be Captain, v i ce W. Milligan, who ex ,te ceiving the difference, March 15. O . 's% ,„, 1,- 11,a.!,,,i Royal Regiment of Horse Guards—Cornet W. .--i3O be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice George Aug - §OO d Viscount Fordwich, who retires upon half-pay New 11. P" Veteran Companies, March 15. ilsta id ' 2d Regiment of Drag oon Guards—Cornet and A— AO Addison to have the rank of Lieutenant, March 1 5 -,, 1 4 .'" 7th Dragoon Guards—Serj ean t_M a j or Johns-,, AD' master, to have the rank of Cornet, March 15, ob,. 15. 4th Regiment of Light Dragoon s —S urg eon D. gare" from the 26th Foot, to be S urgeon , v i ce Thomlu ..ossto, 7th Light Dragoons—H. Phillips, Gent., Itia l " e t hi have the rank of Cornet, March 15. r . t a in, to 9th Light Dragoons—Lieut.- G. Vesey to be l e ajag o ,,, o t, chase, vice Ramsden, who retires ; Cornet J. , on , v - Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Vesey ;R. E. Futle'" ' ~,,e, be Cornet, by purchase, vice Meikl am , March 15. nett '''' 11th Light Dragoons—C. P e t erson , G e nt., to be CO Colonel, by purchase, vice Bowers, chase, vice M'Donough, who retires, March 15. D ieute l ' s l ; 13th Light Dragoons —Major R. Brunton to be • 1 11/ 000 0 15th Light Dragoons—Second Lieut. D. w h ose prom tl/ half-pay of the Royal Marines, to be Ridin taken place, Dec. 31. frota r S B o wne! nd o . , s e g . tn aster a.. half vice Lieut. G. Lawson, who returns to his foe March 15. 2d Regiment of Foot—Lieut. Hon. F. Cavendish,,,. sealY oef by purchase, vice Lawson, who retires ; Ensin l il i c ner, , Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Cavendish ; 11 . ' a • 16, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Sealy, March 15. „„, Vet o r 4th Foot—Captain D. Mahon, from half-paY '',,,, ese"" IS Regiment, to be Captain, vice J. Gordon, vi " . " irde e6 March 15. r the I te ,c g h 15 , 23d Foot—Lieut. G. Dunn, from half-pay 0 - AL. -- e t be Paymaster, vice Griffiths, placed upon half-RaYt o , th a 26th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon W. Bell, 51 .,u,',.. the ' 0 re Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Perston, appointed ,'-' to Dragoons, March 15. Coot , 48th • ,„De 30th Foot—Major H. E. Robinson, from the _,, t e 1 Major, vice Cramer, who exchanges, March 15. notn F. 'ts" 3lst Foot—Lieut. J. Valentine, from half-paY ,";, riv• tl' Lieutenant, vice Travers, whose appointmeot ..- al • 4 pace, March 15. fro til* str 1). re 33(1 Foot—Staff Assistant-Surgeon J. Tully, ,•-• w ig) Foot—Staff to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice It K ing ' r ell o6 , Fu 'e o upon half-pay, March 15. -thoilt Poe Pp. 37th Foot—Lieut. F. Herrick to be Captain, WI - to D e vice Eastwood, deceased; Ensign G. W. FrancklYn, to 5 , tenant, vice Herrick, Nov. 23; W. J. Morritt, Ge n h e Ap, sign, by purchase, vice Francklyn, March 15. ,e 9 to st o . r, 40th Foot—Staff Assistant-Surgeon J. L. Ha r r o t, 3 1,)1 0 sistant-Surgeon, vice Bell, promoted in the Wth ~,_ to _ ic o 48th Foot—Major H. Cramer, from the 30th F o ' ' b syl,', ; vice Robinson, who exchanges, March 15. PO ret ir s se, 63d Foot—lleut. R. Travers, from half-paY , wh e o rc a .,,b ; Veteran Companies, to be Lieutenant, vice Grov',' taken P plf",•• Ensign D. M'Carthy Stubbeman to be Lieutenants tasoiv vice Pole, whose promotion, by purchase, has 0° V ice J. S. Adamson, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchas e ' pa man, March 15. to b e Atli' ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE—Brevet to be O s _ 84th Foot—Ensign J. Lacy, from the half-paY , . 0 01 vice M. V. Abbott, who exchanges, March 15. cap oid" -- f G. Procter to have the rank of Captain in the Aru" of 0 'the C°U° 00 0 ' —s. Arst Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of - FC N A V oq a m. l , k mt e oi r s , sbi E eo s o si ds . i t t st o iog b o e ed d it b to y , ..., ists e tt!:, E. H. Lechmere, Esq. to be I)eputy Lieutenandt • fl . . f l a i l. i ' . Esq. to be ditto; W. Trow, Esq. to be ditto; '' A itto; —• 0 1 the rarLoch Worcester. r7d. jFu..s ditto;nlq ~. , t, ERs t o jeq, b g. i e hmt d .oe i L t i i atoen;do:llfistt.to W.oW4 Feveblan2Bd Oxfordshire ; E s s r I i Esq. to be ditto ; H. Chamberlain, Esq. to be fp , t 1 to. J. La dit n l; : " , befste::: , „r he ' __ i n , LieutenAlt t r -ri es Oxford. .. m titi, Cr,, 5 0 J. The Hon. F. G. Spencer to be Deputy Lieut..zg. r.--„, 0 0; i . S E : q r . i , ek t ' o la b ri e d - ,: i i t • Brown, Esq., to be ditto ; J. Bayley, Esq., to be: ev d ; j i- rt t° :: . .P. , : ft.. .;,,. : : ° 0 1 ;e, r H rf Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Churchill, resign 2 g, „ty s y e t, 4.-- . • Gent., to be Cornet, vice Walker, promoted, . ~ t he Commission signed by the Lord Lieutenan t 0. 11 4 ' 1 . Middlesex. nt, 3e otl ' William Beetham, Esq. to be d Deputy Lieutena .„,,, Con °tl of tir‘ Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant . itt ton e Sussex. IL IPIII ald T. Sanctuary, Esq. to be Deputy Lieutenant; csf- Esq. to be ditto, March 5. r/ Yee 2 6. of Watlington Division Troop of Oxfordshire . ~,,,b. .„ty —J. H. Tilson, Esq. to be Captain Commandants .. cow of the OP Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant Id ° Derby. Yeomanry u t o n Mare s c q . .:. ~ i ; , .. VC '— Derby. r ; te nant' _.,,,,. to 11. Arkwright, jun. Esq. to be Deputy ..- , •e u ft P' B o Ve Esq. to be ditto, March 4. n„ B. Leac re .61A, t Old Militia of the County of Derby- -- . Belchers6r - , 0 1 be Major, vice Bilbie, resigned, Feb. 2S; '• Mara' 00 0 Captain signed Morley, b yG the Lord t o b Lieutenant,t to .- 0t • the C A... . Commission ~„ Southampton. C en of North Hants Yeomanry Cavalry—. Short, he Cope ti jutant on constant pay, Feb. 19. t o ft t " . L. De e ' Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant .....f...• '"l.ie li- Somerset. Genf , Ilminster Division Troop of YeornanrY 'g o t ' G ot- w J cho let" ' Esq. H.P. to be Captain ; T. B. Uttermoret ‘-' tenant ;J. S. Lean, Gent. to be ditto; J. N I .., 01, fr -44. to Wimborne Troop of Volunteet Cornet, Feb. 28. T. 2 ,.... c 1 i , , , 0 Martock Troop of Yeomanry CavalrY'''lnt g ar COO" be Captain ;S. Bridge, Gent. to be Licute na . ' o f the di , Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant i 3 , NI. 07 0- e llt. Dorset Cava r b e C Hon. F. m, b A e l d l Far' ham, r.- s —q. to be Captain ; E. Castleman, ,7' „ tr ,J• t ' L o b e Feb. 21. „ Cav— Gen- , i t • el' Blandford Troop of Volunteer IC eottlen T l ~;r on,,nd ,-- y eo rnanr,!,,, ot . to quharson, E sq . to be Caetain . J. J . Farqu. - te s be n. - 7, 4. First Lieutenant ; H. W.. 8. Ptirtrnan, e b.. o f AY r ' tenant; F. T. Farquharson, Gent. to be Carrie?... ce onti,„ f ilo?! Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenan.t of t t e ir ao t ; o .l l,e ilitW , the * Esq. to be ditto, Dec. - .9; °Archibald Lord Ke n l4. be P .- lto J an. it to Ayrshire Yeomanry Cavalry—Cornet D. ‘-"'" • ' aM E' C ci• a t thcar be t tpoebePud): d itt o, t .4°. C : 4 o" 4 :Bororix °4l are situate. 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