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dieted for breaking a threshing-machine, the pro perty of Wm. Barnes, on the 22d of November. The Jury found both prisoners Guilty, but re commended Whiting to mercy. William IVhite was convicted of having broken a threshing machine, belonging to John Porter, on the 24th of November, at Benham. There was also an indictment against the prisoner for the robbery ; but no evidence being offered on that charge, a verdict of Not Guilty was recorded. Thomas Willoughby and Charles Rosier were charged with having on the 22d of November, at the ptrish of Hungetford, unlawfully assembled, in company with divers others, created a riot, and de stroyed certain fixed machinery and other property, belonging to Mr. Richard Gibbons. The Jury found both prisoners Guilty, but recom mended Willoughby to mercy. Willoughby was acquitted upon three indictments for robbery, the Counsel for the Crown offering no evidence in support of the charges. Mr. Baron BOLLAND said, this was very merciful conduct on the part of the prosecution. George Sturgis, Joseph Smith, and George Green, were indicted for destroying a threshing machine, the property of Mr. Richard Herbert, on the 23d of November, at Welford. The Jury acquitted Sturgis, and found Smith and (ireen Guilty. Thomas Hanson, Edward Davis, Thomas Cooper, Robert Josey, William Josey, James Willis, James Hamblin, Charles Milsom, George Merritt, and Joseph Tegg, were put to the bar, being indicted for having, on the 23d of November, feloniously broken a threshing-machine, the property of John Frome, of Streatly. Mr. Justice PATTESON charged the Jury, who found Hanson and Davis Guilty, and acquitted the rest of the prisoners. The COURT ordered the prisoners Cooper and the two Juteys to be discharged. Thomas [Janson, Charles Milsom, Edmund Vic cut, Joseph Edney, and James West, were then put on their trial, pro forma, for having destroyed a threshing-machine. No evidence was offered, arid the prisoners were accordingly acquitted. Thomas Hanson was also put upon his trial for having robbed John Frome of .ss. No evidence was offered, and the prisoner was acquitted. The Court then adjourned at half -past six o'clock. WINTER ASSIZES. KINGSTON, SATURDAY, JAN. 1. James Warner, labourer, aged 30, was capitally indicted for wilfully and maliciously setting fire to a flour-mill, at Albury, in the occupation of James Franks. The prisoner was further charged, in the calendar, with wilfully and maliciously shooting at the prosecutor; but he was not indicted on this charge, although evidence of the fact was produced. The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty. Sentence of death was then pronounced upon the ptisoner, the effect of which appeared to make a strong impression in the Court, which WAS crowded to exce►s. The prisoner, who remained perfectly unmoved during the trial, appeared considerably affected when he heard the sentence. The Court was occupied from nine this morning until eight o'clock at night, in trying oine men, chiefly labourers, who were charged with having un lawfully and riotously assembled at Dorking, on the 21st of November last, and disturbed the peace, &c. Four of the prisoners, viz. Samuel Croucher, James Ireland, Edward Anscomb, and John Longley, otherwise Comber, were further charged with hav ing assaulted Samuel Bothwell and William Combos, special constables, while in the execution of their duty on the occasion in question; and William Tay lor, the younger, was charged with having broken the windows of the bench-room of the Justices act ing for the hundred of Wotton; James Hubbard, James "'enfold, William Buckland, and 'Valiant Skillon, sit ere charged with riot only. On the 19th of November a mob of about forty persons paraded the town of Dorking, crying out " Down with the tithes, bread or blood," &c. A representation of the circumstance having been sent to the Magistrates, a meeting was appointed by them at the Red Lion, Dorking, on the 21st of November, for the purpose of receiving a deputation from the labourers and hearing their complaints. Accordingly a great crowd of persons, amongst whom were the prisoners, collected in Dorking, and stood in front of the Red Lion, where the Magi strates had assembled. William Crawfurd, Esq., one of the Magistrates, perceiving a dispositio❑ i❑ the crowd to riut and mischief, went out and told them that they should not be heard at that time The mob thereupon became exasperated, threw stones at the windows of the Magistrates' room, to which they finally lot eed their way, and refused to leave it until some of them were given in charge. The constables, Combes and Bothwell, were as saulted in endeavouring to keep the peace, and the Hon. and Rev. J. E. Boscawen, one of the Magi strates, swore that he considered himself and bro ther Magistrates in danger from the violence of the mob. Upwards of thirty witnesses were called to prove the charges against the prisoners respectively, and it appeared that the military were obliged to be called in by the Magistrates, and that the Riot Act was read. The prisoners Croucher and Ireland were found Guilty of riot and assault, and sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment each. Penfold, Hubbard, Taylor, and Buckland, were found Guilty of riot, and the two former were sentenced to twelve, and the two latter to six months' imprisonment each; and Longley, Anscomb, and Skilton, were acquitted. DE L'ORME, BY THE AUTHOR OF DARN TM—This Novel continues its career of popularity. A work like the present one, in the days of RICHARDSON or FixLniNc, would have made the wits and arbiters of taste say of our known author, as Porr said of JOHNSON'S Paraphrase of Juvenal " whoever he is, he will not re main unknown long." The story is admirably filled up by a succession of adventures and scenes of almost eve!). description. De L'Orme's iatert iews with de Retz, and Lis residence with the Countess de Soissons at Paris—his gaining the prisoners in the Bastille to the cause of the Count—and his desperate adventure in penetrating the den of outlaws and desperadoes, who formed an exclusive society and army among themselves, under an elected chief, whom they called the King of the Huns,—ire all power fully and dramatically conceived. THE:TRUCK SYSTEM.—The colliers i❑ the seigiabourbood of Ruabo■ have manifested lately a dispo sition to riot, its order to put down the system of •' Tommy Siiisps" (i. c. paying workmen in goods instead of money), which prevails in that vicinity. The Den bighshire Cavalry, with Sir W. W. WYNN at their head, Lave been called out to quell the disturbances, and the Staff of the Militia of that comity are also under arms. Many launched, have repeatedly assembled, but their chief object, we believe, is, as we have stated, to put down the truck system. The Magistrates of the neigh bourhood are actively engaged swearing in constables ; and we trust their combined exertions will prevent the disturbances from spreading.—Shrewsbury Chronicle. SCOTCH REFORM.—A plan of Reform, somevihat like the following, has, we know, in its favour the opinions of many able and honest Scotsmen, and is also sufficiently explicit, while it is free from all embar rassing details :—Let every county continue to elect a Member of Parliament. Let fifteen of the most popu lous burghs elect each a Member. Give a vote for a Member of Parliament to every householder in a county, who Las not a vote in a represented burgh, and who oc cupias house or lands valued at a yearly rent of ten pounds or upwards. Give a vote for a Member of Parliament to every householder in a represented burgh who has nut a vote in a county, arid who occupies house or land at a yearly rental of ten pounds or upwards. Let the rotes in &enrolls be given by ballot. The vote by ballot is per. hap more requisite in Scotland than in any country in Vag worbl. The slavish deference of the lower orders to the aristocracy i❑ many distriets--the power possessed by isoneysd interest, through the instrumentality of the cash credit system--the circumstance that the affairs of all the landowners are managed by law agents resident in Edin burgh, and many other local peculiarities, give facilities to the speedy and effective organization of a system of undue PUBLIC DINNER TO HENRY HUNT, ESQ., M. P., AT MANCHESTER. (FROM OUR MANCHESTER CORRESPONDENT.) On Saturday last Mr. Hunt, having on the preceding day accepted an invitation to dine with his political friends at Oldham, made his public entry into Manchester. About one o'clock he arrived at St. Peter's-fields, corainonly called Peterloo, in a barouche drawn by four horses, and accompanied by Mr. Mitchell, of Preston, Mr. Archibald, Prentice, of the Manchester Times, Mr. Candelet, &c. lie was followed by a party in another open carriage. About 7,000 persons, mostly of the working classes, as sembled to meet and congratulate the Hon. Member on his recent election to a seat in the House of Commons. Mr. HUNT looked well, hut was evidently much fatigued by his recent exertions. He wore a drab coat and a black hut, which occasioned much surprise. He immediately rose to address the assembly, and taking off his drab coat be appeared in a green frock surtout, ornamented with gilt buttons. Silence having been obtained, for the plau dits of the populace on his arrival at the memorable scene of the 16th of August, 1819, were loud and low:, —Mr. Hunt spoke to the following effect. He said be was the same man as he was eleven years ago, and as much the friend of liberty us he was at any former pe riod of his life. He took a brief review of the transac tions of August, 1819, and alluded in strong terms to the carnage which then took place. He was about to take his seat in the Commons House of Parliament, where he should act in perfect unity with Daniel O'Connell.—[This was received with nine times nine cheers and immense ap plause.] No man, he said, was more hearty in the cause of radical Re'orrn than Mr. O'Connell. For himself, he was as zealaus in the cause of radical Reform as ever, and should be as much so in the House as he had ever been out of it. He made the most solemn vows that he would ad vocate the cause of radical Reform till it was triumphant. The fountain of justice should be cleansed, and righ teous judgment administered to all. He alluded in strong terms to the conduct of Naden, the con stable, and others on the dreadful day of the 16th of August, 1819, and asked, " What is become of them now ?" He branded the conduct of the police, the Magistrates, and the yeomanry on that day as cowardly against him and murderous to the people. But, said he, what a great change has taken place in political opinion in Manchester since that period of ignorance and crime. lie was satisfied in his own mind that no Reform could produce any good unless accompanied by the vote by ballot; he would live and die by it. He highly eulogised the new Paper established at Manchester called the Voice of the People, and said he would support it with all his power. It would speak the truth, and honestly advocate the cause of the people, as the Times and Advertiser also did. The voice of the people would be heard, and that to the confusion of the oppressors. But whatever the papers might do for the people, they must still depend chiefly on their own exertions—they must put their shoulders to the wheel, or no good could be ef fected. He was convinced the working classes wanted support, and they must be supported. He stood there as the advocate of their rights, and hoped their voices would ultimately prevail. He had hitherto met with the support of the people, and he had no doubt he should continue to r. ceive it. He would tore his utmost endeavours to merit it. He then solemnly named the pledges he had given to the people of Preston on his recent election. He would support the just rights of his country and also those of the Aristocracy ; but his principal duty at present led him to advocate the cause of the labouring classes. The great question was, will the people have their rights ? —They must have them if they were united in their demands. He thought the present Ministry were so shackled by the aristocracy of riches and birth, that they could not carry the great measure of radical Re form, such as the country stood in need of. When he took his seat in the House, the petitions of the people should not be overlooked or disregarded as they had been. He would present their petitions and urge the prayer of them with all his might. Let them look at the brave and undaunted 3,730 freemen of Preston and on what they had done, their conduct should be imitated by every man throughout the kingdom. His medical adviser had told him he must take care of himself, and reserve his exertions for the discharge of his parliamen tary duties, therefore, in future, he should not be found attending many public meetings like the present. His voice hail been heard by the public, but it would have a tenfold effect when raised in the cause of the people within the walls of the Commons' House. He admired the Con stitution of England as it existed in its purity, and would endeavour to restore it to its pristine state. He saw that he had an arduous task before him, and his heart would ever be with the people of Lancashire—he should to the latest hour of his existeuce remember with gratitude their kindness manifested towards him. He then took off his hat, which he lead hitherto worn owing to the cold ness of the day, and thanked the people fur the flattering reception he had met with from them, both now and nn former occasions. He concluded by proposing nine times nine cheers in honour of the brave voters of Preston. Countless cheers were given with great enthusiasm. ,Ir. MITCHELL, of Preston, then addressed the meeting at great length, but was inaudible to nine-tenths of the assembled multitude. He detailed the proceedings at the late election at Preston, and declared it to be worthy of all praise, and should be held as an example to all who wished for radical Reform. He had suffered in the cause of freedom, arid had been branded as a spy, merely because he had spoken boldly for the rights of the people. He had, however, always been found true to their interests.—(Loud cheering.)—He thanked the meeting for the patient hearing with which he bad been indulged, and proposed nine time nine cheers for Henry Hunt, Esq . ., the undaunted champion of freedom, and M. P. for Preston. The cheering that followed was loud and long, and con cluded in the universal clapping of hands. The meeting now separated, nearly three o'clock,in perfect good order. From the carriage in which Mr. Hunt addressed the as setnbly, waved a flag, bearing the inscriptio❑ " Vote by ballot." From another carriage was hoisted a banner in scribed " The time is come," and " The voice of the people." THE DINNER. At five o'clock Mr. Hunt and his friends sat down to a substantial dinner, given in honour of Mr. Hunt's re turn for Preston, at the Spread Eagle Inn, Hanging aitch. Eighty-five tickets at five shillings each were taken, the parties paying in addition for their wine. The dinner would have been more numerously attended but that many were pre-engaged to dine at the York Hotel, at a sumptuous entertainment given to Dr. Bowring, Editor of the Edinburgh Review, and which took place on the same day and the same hour. Mr. WHITTLE, Editor of the Manchester and Salford Advertiser, was in the Chair. The cloth having been removed, The CIIAIIOIAN rose and lamented that on such an occasion, the celebration of the first triumph of liberty, Mr. Grundy, who was to have taken the chair, and who was well known to all as the champion of liberty, was absent. The fact was, that gentleman resided in the country, and could not attend from the shortness of the notice he had received of the intended meeting. He begged the indulgence of the company, and pleaded his own inability adequately to discharge the duties of the situation which had devolved upon him. We had long been dinned with the cries of legitimacy, but lie advocated the cause of true legitimacy. He concluded by proposing the following toasts:— " The people, the source of all legitimate authority." —Nine times nine. " The King, and may he always understand that his power derived from the people, should be always exercised for them." " May the Peers in seeking to preserve their own right, preserve ours." " A prompt and radical Reform in the Commons house of Parliament."—(The toast was drank standing, with immense applause, and followed by, " One cheer more.") " The brave Electors of Preston—the 3,730—wh0 so nobly stood up fur their rights.—(Continued cheering.) Mr. MITCHELL returned thanks, and said they were the bravest men in England, and not one of them would feel less grateful for the honour conferred on them than him self. Much of the success attending the election arose from Mr. Grimsbaw, the Mayor, destroying the old sys turn of voting, and yet he was a Tory. The town was one parish, and men should not be put to the trouble of finding their districts, which in some cases was imprac ticable. This declaration of Mr. G. gave general satisfac tion to the 7,000 persons assembled at the Corn Exchange, and was hailed with the bliout of, " Victory is ours !" Stanley had on former occasions filled the booths with his creatures, but on the recent occasion the independent free men filled the booths, and en the first day polled more than I ,200 votes, while Stanley polled but little more than 500! He then declared the particulars of the election, which have already appeared in The Sun Paper. He charged Stan ey's poll-clerks with gross misconduct, in falsifying the votes given, and which had been detected by the vigilance cf the freemen in the interest of Mr. Hunt. He was proud of being at the head of the brave freemen—it had satisfied him for all the odium which had been cast upon him for many years. It was the poor weavers and the brave spinner who hal trlit:eil the victory.— He apologised for having, on a former occasion, been rash in his expressions at a meeting at Man chester. He on that occasion thought the darling of Preston had had not been used well at Manchester ; be therefore in his wroth, dealt his blows right and left, and that without discrimination. He had since shaken hands with, and begged pardon of those whom he had unwittingly offended, and they were now friends. It was with pleasure he announced, that no man had been discharged from his employment at Pres ton for the vote he had given. The masters had declared they never would interfere with the votes of their servants.—(Cheers.)—He concluded hy thanking the company for their kind indulgence, and said that the inhabitants of Preston intended to keep open a subscrip tion, in order to secure purity of election in the borough. Mr. WALKER alluded briefly to the once prevailing opi nion, that Mr. Mitchell had acted as a Government spy, and flatly contradicted the foul imputation. The CHAIRMAN then proposed " The health of honest Nicholas Grimshaw, and all penitent Tories." It was said that in heaven there was more -ej,ticing over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety-nine just persons who need no repentance. The toast was drank with applause and laughter. The CHAIRMAN then, after al:udima to Mr. Hunt's former persecutions, and lauding his political consistency through both good and evil report, proposed " The health of Heory Hunt, Esq., the faithful Representative of the People in the Commons House of Parliament."—(Loud and reiterated plaudits far many minutes.) Mr. HUNT professed that he could not find language sntheiently strong whereby he could convey his feelings or express his thanks. He believed all present to be equally friends to freedom and radical Reform as himself. He should number this amongst the proudest days of his life. The triumphant support of the 3,730 was enough to make any man vain. Fur himself he rejoiced in it as enabling him to be of greater service to his country than hereto fore. He was sure his heart was made of the right material, and that he should never deceive his constituents or the people of England. He was now 57 years of age, and possessed the sante principles he did 11 years ago, when he first visited Manchester, and he was too old to change them. His recent visit to various towns in Lanca shire convinced him that the time was come when some thing could be done for the people. He had stood nine contested elections, and never bribed a man to the value of a pot of porter. It had been said to hint, " Why not buy a seat in the House ?" but he hal always replied, " No, I will wait till the time shall come when I can be elected freely." For twenty years the town of Preston had been under the influence of the house of Derby and the Horrocks's. He lauded the conduct of the repentant Tery, Mr. Grirnehaw. He had never seen any thing in his conduct inconsistent with an honourable cha racter. lie alluded to the firmer mode of district voting, and confirmed what Mr. Mitchell had said on that subject. The freemen of Preston had done them selves immortal honour, and conferred on him an inestimable obligation.—(Hear.)—No one before him self had been returned to Parliament, who had avowed himself a radical reformer, the friend of Annual Parlia• relents, Universal Suffrage, and Vote by Ballot. It was this that caused the general joy which had bees maui fected at his return. There was no city, town, village, or hamlet in England, that had not heard of Henry Hunt, and did not know that he was a radical reformer. He pledged himself never to abandon his principles, and said he never would sit still and see the petitions of the people treated in the scandalous manner in which they had heretofore been treated. He had attended some very scandalous meetings, and at St. Giles'e had wit nessed most disgusting scenes, but none he believed so bad as the assembly he was about to meet. —(Laughter.) Some of the Members speaking of hint had said, " let us have that chap in the House of Commons, and we shall know how to manage him," but the devil a bit did they endeavour to get him there. Armed with the voice of the people, he would make the corrupt ones tremble, and laugh the other side of their faces. He was delighted to see on the present occasion so many young men united with the old Reformers in receiving him as the champion of radical Reform in the manner which they had dose. He then p lid a handsome compliment to Mr. Mitchell and his brother electors of Preston. He found on his arrival at that town half-a•dozen persons who had been imprisoned in the cause of freedom hard at work for hint. Stanley, on his defeat, had written to the Editor of a London paper to say, that an insignificant artizan, e. draper, and a tailor, bad upset the noble house of Stanley !—(Cheering.)—He also had bee; denounced as a spy ; " yes," said he, " and by G—d Fe always was, and airy aye would he, a spy on behalf of the people of England." He stated he should proceed to-mor row with Mr. Mitchell to Wolverhampton, and also that he had received an invitation from the Political Union' if Birmingham, to be conveyed by its members to that pa triotic and flourishing town. With gentlemen, he could at all times conduct himself as a gentleman, and he knew how to treat blackguards in their• own way. The hire lings dare not offer him a bribe, for they know he would throttle the villain who brought him their message. He had taken a fee front the people of Preston—it was their affections, and he would ask none other. He thought it inconsistent in Members of Parliament to attend public meetings and there speak very differently to wl,at they did in the House. If he found he could not do any good in Parliament, he would next summer go to Pres ton and resign his trust for a man younger and possessing more talents than himself. He should annually, if he retained his seat in the House, go to Preston, call a meeting of his electors, and ask them it he had acted ac cording to their wishes, and if he found he had not dune so, he would then resign his trust. He hoped the people of Manchester would soon intrust him with plenty of petitions for Reform. He would support any plan of Reform brought into Parliament by Ministers, so that it included the Vote by Ballot, however limited it might be. As soon as this was carried, he would then go for the whole• He was for universal suffrage, and should be so till he saw written by the hand of God on men's foreheads, " This is to be a slave, and that a free ruan !" Alluding again to the bloody tragedy of Peterloo, he hoped petitions would flow from Manchester, praying even now for an investigation into that horrid affair. He thought a clerk should be appointed him to arrange his parliamentary concerns, the same as was allowed O'Connell from Ireland, by which means he should have time to attend to his Parliamentary duties and the numerous petitions entrusted to him. He could not do his duty without it. The expense must either come from his own pocket, or those of the Radicals of England. He con cluded by expressing his general thanks for the honour conferred on him by the people of Manchester that day. lie felt he should incur their disapprobation. He wished all a happy new year.—(Great applause. )—The Chairman then proposed the health of Mr. Mitchell, Mr. Irvine, and the other members of the Preston Committee. Mr. Muctirm. returned thanks, and was evidently 'inch affected. Other healthy followed, and thanks returned, and the meeting separated evidently pleased with the proceedings of the day. THE IRISH YEOMANRY.—TIIC Evening Mail as , terts that Government have determined on calling out the Irish Yeomanry.—Dublin Morning Register• REPEAL OF THE UNION—THE ORANGE stew or THE Nor.TIL—We have been informed that a meeting to petition for a repeal of the Union has been held in Loughgall, county Armagh, and that the proceed ings were conducted by Orangemen alone. We under stand also, that it is in contemplation of the Orangemen of Armagh to hold a public meeting in a short time, for a similar purpose.—Dublin Morning Register. THE ENGLISH BEAR HUNTER.—Mr. LLOYD'S highly amusing work on the Field Sports of the North of Europe, a second edition of which has just ap peared, has, it seems, not only been translated into the German and the French, but also into the Swedish lan guage. In the introduction to the last-mentioned version the following eulogy is passed upon our adventurous coun trymen :—" Of his wanderings through the forests of Weruiland and Fimnark, as highs up asithe very extremities of these wilds, he has furnished us with narratives remind ing us indeed of the legendary tales of our youth. The indefatigable zeal with which this young Englishman, fol lowing the bent of his disposition, alone sought eut and pursued the bear, the tyrant of the Northern forests, has fairly obtained fur him throughout the whole of Scandina via, great and universal celebrity under the designation of the English Bear Hunter. Persons can now go by the railway carriages to any of the intermediate places between Liverpool and Atinchester. This accommodation was rendered necessary by the discontinuance of most of the coaches which ran between the two towns. The fifes of the first cl ass coaches on Saturday next will be reduced to 55., and the ,econd class to 3s. 6d. Extract of a letter from Grambusa, dated s a y. 1 5 ," I landed with a party of seamen last ni g ht, and was the first to hoist the English Jack on the walla of the strong fortress of Grambusa. Three different flags are flying on the walls—English, French, and Russian. Before we took possession, the Candiots tried several times to t3l,a it from the Greeks. hut they could not succeed." THE BALLOT. (From Mr. Wakely's new Sunday Paper published yesterday. ) The Title which we have adopted, declares in oNx wont), our political creed. It announces that we are Reformers in the fullest acceptation of the term, and that we maintain the great and just principle, that no plan of Reform can effectually relieve the people er give stability to a popular government, unless it include VOTE BY BALLOT. We contend, that while the present system of election affords the means of influencing a voter by direct compulsion, or by pecuniary temptation, the mode of vot ing BY BALLOT would afford the best, the only security for his independence and integrity. Foiled in the outset of his career, the corrupt candidate for Parliamentary ho nours would no longer endeavour to obtain them by means which are disgraceful to himself, and destructive to the rights and liberties of his countrymen. On the exalted 'vantage ground of Tits BALLOT, then, we take our stand ; and, confident in the strength of our position, and the justness of our cause, we shall attack the boroughmongering Tories o❑ the one side, and the bo roughmongering Whigs o❑ the other, until their tottering battlements are levelled with the dust. Ceaseless and unsparing as will be our assaults on the friends of corruption—against whom we entertain a na tural hatred—no man shall have reason to complain of our mode of warfare. Our weapons shall be those of inde pendence and impartiality, and while " THE BALLOT" shall, on all occasions, be the zealous advocate of the civil and political rights of the people of ENGLAND, it will ever be the fearless and uncompromising promulgator of TRUTH. BULLION CHARGES. The attention of some of our merchants who carry en business with South America, Mexico, and the West Indies, is again directed to the heavy tax imposed on the convey ance of bullion, in the shape of a per-tentage to the Ad miral on the station, and the commanders of our ships of war. It seems that their representations on the subject were favourably listened to by the late Ministry, front whom very strong hopes of same relief at least were en tertained ; but the subject was necessarily passed over among the important matters which occupied public at tention shortly after the meeting of Parliament. They have now renewed their application to the Board of Trade, with the head of which, Lord Auckland, they have had an interview in the course of the week, and they are the more sanguine now about a favourable result from the liberal principles professed by the present Ministry, which has the advantage besides of possessing members perfectly conversant with the question. Ia proportion as the hopes of the merchants are raised of obtaining a remission of this tax (injurious, as they contend, not only to them, but to the community at large), the fears of the individuals who derive the benefit from it are excited, and they seem determined not to submit to the loss without a bard struggle. From some documents which we have seen, and which are brought forward by those who resist any relief to the merchants, we suspect that their case is a very lame one. The best illustration that can be given of this will be the selection of one of these documents, which we ac cordingly annex as a curiosity in its way. It exhibits what actually took place with regard to the freight of one packet, the Rinaldo, from Mexico to England, out of which 8391. 17s. Bd. fell to the share of the Admiral on the station, who incurred no other trouble in the business than that of receiving the money : Rinaldo, J. A. Monne, Commander. Freight on gold and silver, valued at 222,8391.38. Sd., s. d. from Vera Cruz and Tampico to England 4,456 12 3 Carriage .£BB5 9 9 Bank charges lit 8 9 Deficiency in dollars 1 13 6 941 12 0 3,515 0 3 Commission B7 17 6, 3,427 2 9 One-fourth for the Admiral Deduct one-fourth of boat-hire paid by • Lieutenant Moore, at Tampico £l3 3 9 One-fourtk of Consul's Commission at Tampico and Vera Cruz 5O 5 5 72 8 £74 7 Freight received at Ilavannah by Lieut Moore on 75,900 dollars landed there from Tampico and Vera Cruz .£227 14 0 Commission 5 14 0 £222 0 0 One-fourth for the Admiral 5.5 10 0 Total .£3917 8 The above statement was brought forward, it appears, to show that the Admiral shared a portion of his profit ith the Consuls at the different stations, and did not, therefore, derive all the advantage that was generally sup posed. The Consul's share is, however, but a small de duction ; and we are assured, farther, that when the specie is delivered in any British possession, the Consul gets no fee whatever. When the freight consists wholly of gold, the per-centage being the same, it forms necessarily a heavier tax on the merchant, and turns out a more pro fitable adventure to the naval officers employed on such service.— Times. MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS.—The com munity will be not a little gratified, to say nothing of the surprise wl'ch will inf a llibly b e e xcited, by a narrative (for so gi<rine a recital can hardly be called a novel) just published, entitled as above, the subject of which consists of the rival mancauvres adopted by two living matrons to fix one of their numerous daughters on a celebrated bache lor Duke. The relative situations of all the young ladies, as developed in the story, is said to be full of the most amusing perplexities, and to abound in what dramatists call " effective situations." The back phrase "published by authority" was never more fitly applied than it might It ion be in the presen nce, as would be seen were we at liberty to make the name o f the author who is the last person w. , ould be vessel to have written such a book. STRONG OPEPON IN FAVOR OF THEATRES. —Play-houses are more necessary in a well-governed com monwealth than schools : for men are better taught by ex ample than precept.—Sir Thomas Overbury. PROPHECY O.F LORD BYRON.—Iii his journal, under the date of January 13, 1821, Lord Bvuox writes—" Dined—News come—the Powers mean to war with the peoples. The intelligence seems positive—let it be Fo—they will be beaten in the end. The King-times are fast finishing. There will be blood shed like water, and tears like mist; but the peoples will conquer in the end. I shall not list see it ; but I foresee it." MECHANICAL POWER OF COALS.—It is y well known to mode oitieers that there is virtue in a bushel coals, proper! e.umed, to raise seventy milli ons of pounds weight ;lot high. This is actually th e average effect of at gine at this moment working in Cornwall. The ascent of Moat Blanc from t!- - : valley Chaniouni is considered, and with justice, as the mcst toilsome feat that a strong man can execute in two days. The combustion of two pounds of coal would place him on the summit. NUTS FOR THE LAWYERS.—(From a cor respondent.)—Mr. ARNOLD'S petition for the extension of his period of performances is, indeed, a windfall fo4 the lawyers. For the last fortnight they have been prepaking the necessary documents, and making extracts of varous licenses, and correspondences connected therewith, ,from the books in the LOAD CHAMBERLAIN'S Jffice• There have been no less than between one cud two thousand brief sheets made for the opposition only. It will be seen' from this that the most determined opposiion will be made by the Patent Theatres. NOVEL FEAST.—On Saturday ;.New Yearj Gift was presented to upwards of four hur4Kl distre47-. and destitute sailors in the shape of a plains plentnul dinner, consisting of roast be e f; plum pud,., potatoes.' bread, and beer, by the Sailors' Rest Saiety, at thelir Asylum in Cannon-street-road, St. Georgel in tae Yast. The poor fellows seemed to enjoy their meatwith 'peculiar fi e zest, having very k ee n app e tites. There werescome of al' countries and colours among them, and at theVitie of , least they testified their gratitude in their own peculiar manner, by giving three most hearty and deafening cheers in honour of their benefactors. Seventy orphan children of sailors were also entertained in the same hospitable way, and the whole scene was not less gratifying than new. THOMAS GOODMAN, the young man con victed of arson, who was ordered for execution on Satur day last, and whose case we brought before the public in our Paper of Thursday, advising the consideration of his case, on account of his youth, and the recommenda tion to mercy by the Jury, has received a respite for a fortnight, to give a s opportunity for inquiry into the cir cumstances. We have already s t ate d t h at lie does not deny his guilt, but there is great reason to believe he was a dupe. As to DYKE and EwEN, w e un d ers t a nd that the doubts which we expressed of their participation in the crimes for which they suffered are pretty generally shared by those who have inquired into their cases. With regard to Ewes, in particular, circumstances will probably soon transpire which will prove that Lord MELootiaNz did not exercise a sound discretion in declining to have the execu- tion atavml to allow time for inonirv.—.. Mornino Herald. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRENCH PAPERS. (Paris Papers of Frid,ty.) EXTRACTS FROM THE PROJECT OF LAW UPON THE ELECTIONS OF THE CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES. Art 1. Every Frenchman enjoying civil and political rights, and arrived at 25 years of age, shall be entitled to lw sn elector ; he will also fulfil the other conditions laid down by this law. 2. All the most respectable citizens of each arrondisse ment are to exercise the right of voting until they have amounted to double the number of electors inscribed on the lists which were closed on the 16th of November, 1830. 3. Members of Geseral Councils of departments,, Mayors, and Deputy Mayors of towns, with a population of 6,000 inhabitants, are also electors. As also members and correspondents of the Institute, and members of learned bodies, instituted or authorized by the law. 4. Retired officers of the army and navy, with pensions amounting to 1,200 francs at least, and who have resided three years in the electoral arrondissement, shall have the right of voting. 5. Doctors of law, physic, and sciences, and belonging to these faculties, shall be electors, after three years' re sidence in the electoral arrondissement. 7. The direct taxes which confer the electorial right are —land taxes, those on property and furniture, window and door taxes, patent taxes, &c. 9. Those contributions cannot confer the right of voting, unless the property has been in possession of the elector for a year previous to the election. CHAPTER IL...RELATIVE TO RESIDEVCE. ART. 11. The residence of every Frenchman must be in the electorill arrondissement where he is permanently settled; however, he may transfer it to another arrondis sement, where he ie paying direct taxes, and upon condi tion of his making a declaration, six months before, to that effect. CHAPTER THE ELECTORAL LISTS (LAW OF 2D JULY, ARTICLE 1.) 14. The list of electors, whose contributions are fixed by the law, and the list of electors under the 3d article, are permanent with the exception of the additions and inscriptions which may take place upon the annual revision. 15. These revisions shall take place every year in the month of July, and shall be conducted by the Mayor and Prefect of each canton, in conjunction with the Mayor of the chief town ; and the Commissioners of taxes being present, they shall proceed to mike the necessary revision, after which the corrected list is to be posted up in different parts of the town. _ _ 22. No addition can be made to the list after being thus publiied, without special permission from the Pre fect given in a Council at the Prefecture. OF THE SUPPRESSION OF THE GREAT COLLEGE. 33. The Prefect, upon proper notice, shall make the prescribed amendment. 34. The collectors of direct taxes will be required to send in an exact list of the names of those who are liable and capable of payable taxes. 35. A copy of all those lists shall be given to a printer who may apply for them. CHAPTER Iv.-or THE ELECTORAL COLLEGES. 37. The number of Deputies of each department will bit regulated by a scale which forms part of the present law. 3S. Each Deputy shall be elected by an Electoral Col lege. 39. The division of departments into Electoral Arron dissements is regulated by a table which forms part of the 40. The Electoral Colleges are to he convoked by the King. They shall meet in the town of the Electoral Ar rondissement which the King shall appoint. They will be pret-ludc. , d from interfering in-my other matter but the election, and they are forbidden to enter into any discus sion or any deliberation. 4L The electors shall assemble in a meeting i.a t 11.• ac roodissement, in which their number does not exceed 600. When it amounts to raoce, the CollegesEallbe divided into alctilna, each of which cannot be less than 300. Each section shAil concur specially in thenotnicAtiuri the Deputy, who is to be elected by the Coßev. 4 , 2. The President of the Tribune! of the First Instance, or, in hie ,:beence, the Mayo:, shall be President of the 1144 e. C! . *APTETt zumrtuTy. No one shall be eieeLed to the Ci hi , . of Deputies who is not thirty years of age, and who does not pay 500 francs for direct taxes, except in cases mentioned in the 33d Article of the Charter. 61. No authority but the Chamber of Deputies can be a judge of eligibility. 67. Members of the Chamber of Deputies shall not re ceive any salary or indemnity. (From the Gazette de France, dated Saturday, Jan. 1.) Patois, Dac. 31.—. M. Gendebien, Envoy from the Belgian Government, hod yesterday the honour of an audience of the Kine. He was presented to his Majesty by the 111inister for Foreign Affairs. The audience lasted three quarters of an hour. It appears certain that M. Odilion Barrot remains Prefect of the Seine, and that the resignation which he tendered has not been accepted. The Ex-Ministers, Messrs. de Polign4c, Peyronnet, Chanttlause, and Guernon Ranville, have been removed to the Castle of Ham. Several carriages with post-horses came to take them from Vincennes at ten o'clock in the evening of the 29th. In the carriages were Lieutenant• Colonel Delpiec, who is appointed Governor of the Fort of Ham ; Lieutenant-Colonel Lavecat, of the National Guard of Paris ; Captain Guibout, an officer attached to the Department of the Minister of War, and a superior officer of the National Guard. General Daumesnil delivered up the prisoners to Lieut.- Colonel Delpiec. Immediately Messrs. Ile Polignac and Chantelause got into the first carriage, and with them Lieut.-Colonel Delpiec and Colonel Lavecat. In the second were Messrs. Peyronnet and Guernon de Renville, and with them the other two officers commissioned to ac company them to the place of their destination. The escort was composed of two squadrons of hussars, who were relieved between La Villette and Le Bouget by two squadrons of chasseurs. Detachments were also stationed on the road to the fort of Hans, where the prisoners were to arrive on the 30th at noon. While the carriages were passing through Paris to go to Vinceanes, a inao, without being observed, got upon the seat behind one of them. He was taken at first to be the servant of one of the officers who accompanied the prisoners. It was not till they got to Vincennes that be was found to be a stranger. He was immediately arrested and put in prison. He was the bearer of several letters. News has been received this evening that the Ex-Mi nisters bad arrived at their destination. The Conclave which commenced the 14th December, will not be of long duration. It is hoped that the new Pope will be elected by Epiphany at the latest. Cardinals Rudolph (Archduke of Austria) and Fesch are out of the question, being ineligible from their situations. The Cardinals qualified for the Papacy in public opinion are Gregorio, Paces, Capillari, Oppizoni, and Zurla, and people weigh, at this moment, not the incontestible merit of each, but his preceding career, his alliances, his family, &c. in order to choose him who shall appear to combine, in the highest degree, the qualities which are essential for this, opposed to the prosperity of the Church, and the triumph of religion in all states. Public opinion seems especially to point out Cardinal Zurla, one of the most pious and learned members of the Sacred College. TheEmperorAlexander, just before his pro motion, bad selected him for the important commission of surveying the limits of his empire. England admires his scientific work, On Marco Paulo, and the Ancient netian Travellers, two vols. folio, published in 1818.— "uce has always appreciated his virtues and his talents, tliSe good spirit which is observed in all his works, esppkialiy his Latin Theology. Cardinal Capillari enjoys tl,:e same reputation for, his extensive knowledge and ex /alted piety. FaArix roar, DEC. 27.—1 t is said that the Lithuanian tromps have asked to be led against the insurgents, in order to be able to give proofs of their fidelity to the Em peror. There have lately been some fresh disturbances at Warsaw : on the opening of the churches, the people went in crowds to prevent the Clergy from reading the usual -prayers for the Emperor and King, and his family, and forced them to pray only for the welfare and independence of Poland. But the National Guard interfered, and 6- vine service proceeded as usual. (From the Constitutionnel.) EXPLANATION OF THE ELECTION LAW.- SPEECH OF M. MONTALIVET. Such, Gentlemen, are the essential parts of a project of law which we submit to you--those which may b considered as its principles. We have endeavoured to em body and animate the device of the revolution of 1830— order and liberty. We have endeavoured to do as much for one as for the other of theme principles, for the solution of them, well combined, contains all our present, all our future happiness, and France claims both with a powerful voice. Whatever may be the decisions of the various par ties, it will not be denied that our work is one of frank ness without one of timid apprehensions, and adventurous condescension ; and, above all, without any Machiavalian projects in the hack-ground. The great principle of the iut of the ;Win it its ow , le laid ,terfereuce i 3 tLu down broadly and truly, in the eleraeuts of our politic: fabric, as that which gives life to all the other principles. Every ministerial interference has disappeared from tL electoral labours, and in consequence from choosing tb representatives of the people ; all the restrictions whicl impede the free exercise of the right of choice are re moved ; the bases of the franchise have been extended t. that degree which appeared to us compatible with the interest of a great State, of which tranquillity at house is necessary to its independence and its strength abroad. The intellectual power, the most direct representative of civilization, and of which our successive reforms have been the fruit, has recovered the place which belongs to it in the Electoral Colleges, for by the new Charter the de gree of eligibility has been lowered. Finally a direct an 1 immediate representation is assured to the different local interests, without the general interest being likely to suffer, and in this better distribution of electoral power, the gene ral representation gives to the Chamber of Deputies a greater number of Members than at present, even includ ing the double votes, which in place of creating a more extensive expression for the country, on the contrary counterbalance to the profit of some, and restrain to the injury of all, the representation of France. To those who still think the law tuo restrictive, not withstanding so many rods have been opened or widened, we say, look to England, and tell us if you have the right of voting so lowered, that it can be purchaseJ ? Has general prosperity made sufficient progress? Is educa tion sufficiently extended to allow the right of voting being carried further There, for example, where he who receives it would regard it as useless, and society as dan gerous. Gentlemen, though France is firm under our feet, prudence is yet a duty for all, and particularly fin the Government. The conquests of liberty are immense, and they are well worth guarding by some precautions; if the present leaves for the future something to accomplish, our regeneration is so fruitful as to bring it about without trouble. Those who may be terrified by the liberality of our electoral system, we will remind that all the rights of our revolution have not been destroyed by other rights. Prompt, like victory itself, it was magnanimous; like cle mency, it is composed if an equal sentiment, of an equal passion for order and liberty. At the least symptom of trouble—at the least cry of alarm, the society turns to the threatened quarter. Since we have been enfranchised, has not liberty taken upon herself the task of repressing die order and anarchy? We can—we ought to be confident, with a revolution, unique in the history of the world. Look at the citizen soldiers, who have, under your eyes, solved that problem hitherto inexplicable of order and liberty, and who have augmented the glories of July by the virtues of December. At this sight, Europe laid down much of her mistrust of liberty, and all France, which on every side applauds the National Guard, will not conceive any against the liberal consequences of a revolution , which has such pledges to give of its prudence and wisdom. You are assisting, Gentlemen, to develope the system of government; you see gradually rising all the institutions of which its origin was the promise. Very soon it will have planted the principle of popular election in every part of our social system. The nation will interfere in every thing—by means of the National Guard, it will de fend both the soil and the town ; by the electoral law, it will controul the constitution ; by the law of departments and communes, in which the same principle of popular election will prevail, the nation will watch over the nar row but snore immediate interests of every district. Thus will gradually be completed the patriotic task at tributed to the Government of the King by the Charter of 1830, in which are planted all the germs of a complete organization for liberty, and out of which there are no pro misee to make, nor condition's to impose. Thee will the hzsis already immovable of a throne elevated on the suf frages of all the people of Frame:, be snls.rged red strength-. ended, and on it seated one of those. pure poiitical - probl ties which allows of no doubt as to the execution of a pre mise, and no hope for any legel pretension. Thee, for the f.ret time in the elorld, that magnificent spectacle of a , revolution, which is not l.eerd of beyond itself, except to attain its end, will be continually Riven—of a revolution which has not seeded measeres of e.see t .eicr, s.zeeesne dinary tribunals, to secure the triumph of its priatn . ples ; so true is it that the revolution of elely is nothing else than the spontenceus, unanimous movement of a whole people, sericealy and soiemnly resuming a sceptre which it appears to have, from fotgetfulnees only, left on long in the hands of Princes who used it to inflict blows. It is in the hands. 4 a King, who is an honest roan, that the nation has now placed this sceptre, end the nation will cow re pose secure of the: feLure, to provide for which this King is charged. FRENCH FUNTS...-PARIII, DEC. 31.-Five per Cents., 93f. 10c. 15c. 10c. 20c 25c. 3Cc. 35c. 40c. 30c. 9:if. 25c 30c. 25c. 20e.. 1.5 c. loc. sc. 10c. 30c. 93f. 40c. 30c. 40c. ; Four per Cents., 76f.; Three per Cents., 61f. 90e. 62f. 15c. 62f. 61f. 95c. 6`2.f. 30c. 25c. ; Bank Stock, 1,515 f. 1,510 f. 1,515 f. ; Bente de Naples, 63f. 70c. 4.c. Royal Spa. nish Loan, 63!, ; ltente Perpetuelle d'Espagne, 50X S !i 59 50.,4 I 5s ; Haytian Loan, 32.0 f. Exchange on London, one month, paper, 25f. 49c three months, paper, 25f. JOe.- Coura Authentique. ST. PETERSBURGII PAPERS. Sr. PITERSBUGII, DEC. 15.—The Journals of this city contain the following news : " Since the reports, dated the 2d instant, sent to his Majesty the Emperor by hie Imperial Highness the Cesarewitsch, the contents of which were published on the 11th, his Majesty has received no further commtthica tion directly from his Imperial Highness. Accounts, however, have been received from different quarters, that the spirit of insurrection spreads more and more in the kingdom of Poland, and that in consequence of this the Cesarewitsch, with the Russian troops under his com mand, had been obliged to make a movement towards the frontiers of Volhynia. " A private letter in ' . .s ice gaYsii ti. , fol lowing particulars of th. , Address c ..- Emperor on the Bth, to the assembled officers. After his Majesty hse, communicated the even's in Wersaw, adding that seders to march had already be:. sent to Lithainiau r•.irpe, the Ist corps of infantry, with tiree divisions of tine gre nadier corps, and the 3d- corps of reserve of the cavalry, his Majesty, looking at the officers who stood round him, added, I hope, if it she uld be necessary for me to march out with the Guards, they will prove on this, as on all other occasions, their attachment and devotedness.' When the aeclaniatiens with which the faithful warriors re ceived this snack of his Majesty's conidence had a little subsided, the Emperor, swabs, zunotion viziLle in Lis countenance,: pronounced these remarkable words : I beg you, Gentlemen, not to be hostile to the Poles, they are our brethren. The blame of the insurrection lies with a few ill-disposed persons. I hope, with God's assistance, that all will end for the best."' On the 10th his Majesty addressed the following Ukase to the directing Senate : " Considering the present state of affairs in the kingdom of Poland, I judge it to be necessary to unite the civil and military Government in the adjoining provinces of Volhynia and Podolia, and have therefore been pleased to appoint my Adjutant-General Potemkin, to be pro tempore military Governor of those Provinces, exercising at the seine time the Civil Government with all the privileges and duties attached to it. (Signed) " NICHOLAS." _ . It is known, by the accounts received, that Count Za ruoyski, President of the Polish Senate, has been obliged, in consequence of the disorders at Warsaw, to take refuge in Brzese Litewski. On the 9th instant, Rhea the drama " Juryi Milos towski" (or the Russians in . 1612) was performed in the great theatre, loud acclamations burst from the audience at the words of Juryi, "Hail to Russia's lawful Sovereign ! Destruction to all traitors to their country !" The buzzaing was repeated still mere loudly after the actor, at the desire of the public, had repeated the passage with much emphasis and feeling. Field-Marshal Count DiebitsCh SAbalkanski arrived here from Berlin the night before last. The Adjutant-General Chrapowitzki set out for Wilna on the 9th. The Adjutant-General Chrapowitzki is gone to Scitomir, and Adjutant-General Kleinmichel to the mili tary colonies of the grenadier corps. On the morning of 7th November, there were still 354 persons sick of the cholera at Moscow, of whom 205 were expected to recover. New Cases. RwcovereJ. Died. Nov. 7 23 36 8 l5 l4 6 9 17... 46 8 - 10 l6 26 l3 Remained sick on the morning of the 1116, 275. The navigation closed here on the 2d. It commenced an the 2Sth April, and continued sixteen days longer than last year. The foreign steam-boats arrived twenty times ; 1,303 passengers arrived, and 1,082 left by them. The number of ships arrived was 1,423, and their total produce 120,000 lasts. There were among them English, 745 ; Netherlands, 11S ; Prussian, 107 ; French, 92 ; Swedish, 19 ; North American, 4S ; Russian, 30. Sailed from Cronstadt 1,460, of which only !even were in ballast. Among the principal exports were tallow, 3,539,543 pools; hemp, 1,352,055 pods; flax, 495,106 pods; potatoes, 24,756 barrels. BERLIN, DEC. 24. The Minister fur Public Instruc- tion, &c., has chosen four physicians to go to Moscow; and farther into the interiur of Russia, to study the cholera morbui in all its fortno. BERLIN EXCHANGE, DEC. 21.-FUNDS.--SC. lebilid. i 96 ; ditto, (Cent. 75.- BuussEt Count Vila mission sioners to i Desire will M. Chat matic Corn A Britis with despw messenger 1, The Kin ships detai p!pere. Tb ring for Lo On Sund Maestricht. retreated. The Dutch prisoners. Ixc. 30 pointed Adr it is laid, 11 It is said Van Geen T his repo rt (29th) we has marches second inn hitherto, wi have recei ve N, In this of the Bud l 36,626,721 DEC. 29 P° l4l :--TI giv e to the " 1. Th basis they 1 Powers at 1 " 2. If; bas been, a "3. If, conditir been take❑ stated time " 4. If t negociation, may facilita nt the two Roha affairs prey the reports tend to elm to the natio The Pi ei Department "lent. 1%!. Robai Committee, Count de elver, the When the p the Con,ro on Whiert ti On all si answer of t 11. arc, M. 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