The Sun. — London, England, 1831-05-06 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The rapid triumphs of the cause of Reform ren. der it almost impossible for us to present a bare re cord of them : to observe on all that passes, ►s wholly beyond our power. Cambridge offers the single exception to the uniformity of the national feeling on the subject of a redress of grievances. On this point we have already submitted a friendly ; 'but, it is to be feared, a fruitless warning. The supporters of Messrs. Peel and Goulburn seem re solute t• convince the English nation, that so far as rests with a large proportion of the Church of Eng land, grievances shall not be redressed, nor abuses remedied, nor the horoughmongers brought to a reckoning, nor the public rights and liberties pro tected ; but that the best interests of the King and people of England shall yield implicitly to the sel fish prejudices of a certain number of clergymen, most of them individuals of secluded habits, and very little acquainted with the bearing of political ques tions upon the welfare of the nation at large ;—that, in short, whenever the great body of the community, including the most intelligent and distinguished classes, desire to consummate any vast political im provement, they must expect to find an inveterate obstacle in those to whom the education of the youth of England is intrusted, and upon whom the most munificent public endowments have been lavished. We wouli ask the clerical partizans of Messrs. Peel and Ooulburn, without the least ill will, whether they do not see all around them proofs that the Eng lish nation, from Northumberland to Cornwall, has decided in favour of Reform ? We would ask still ft:rther—whether they do not see proofs es, erywhere, that the new Parliament will pass the Reform Bill by an immense majority?—that every great town will have it—that every county, even those hitherto the most enthralled by the Tory oligarchy, will in sist on the Reform Bill,—that the old Tory inte rests have disappeared in all directions—that all the cannties where an election has yet been held, have turned out the Anti-Reform candidates—and that in many, as Lancashire, Hampshire, and Kent itself, the Toiy pretender has fled the field at the very apprehension of a contest ? What follows ? Why, that the clerical party, in so far as it has embraced the Anti-Reform party, is sure to be utterly defeated —quite powerless as to any resistance it can offer to the course of Parliamentary Reform. In the name of common sense, therefore, why make ene mies of those with whom it is so hopeless to con tend ? We put it to the worldly wisdom of such as are governed by worldly motives,—as all men are to a great degree who have given their votes in alarm for the temporalities of the Church,—would it not be better for them to conciliate and engage the affections of the country, than now, at a crisis of such prodigious interest as the present, to rouse and exasperate its resentments ? We declare in the most earnest manner, and with unfeigned grief, that if the Established Church has not of late years been so secure as formerly, those dangers most become, beyond calculation, at once more general and more imminent, from these specimens just afforded of the little sympathy to be looked for between the Clergy as a corporation and the bulk of Engli-h society. But as they sow, must they reap ; and we drop the ungrateful subject. The Liverpool election is over, and the Tory General Gascoyne, who, on the close corporation interest, was returned by that great borough for five or six and thirty years, has been compelled to resign the ineffectual struggle. The ineo'ence of these people is on a par with their real insignificance. There never existed a Member of Parliament more indebted to fortuitous connexton, and less tt personal distinction of any kind, for his 195,:= hold of that seat which gave him hi"eh mfr} M Canning and Mr. Huskisson for to ile ag ues. On the late occasion of his motion against Ministers, the old General and his cronies reckoned on a total discomfiture of the Bill and of the King's Government. The dynasty of the boroughmongers was to have been restored by his prowess. His whole air was that of a conqueror. What is the result ? He forced the dissolution of Parliament, and the utter extinction of his party, with that of the system by whose instrumentality they had flourished. The public may judge of the public feeling at Liverpool from the numbers which voted for the respective candidates. 'While Me-sri. Ewart and Denison had about 1,900 each, General Gascoyne mustered exactly 610. Lord Lonsdale's candidate, Colonel Luhington, has been kicked out of Carlisle, Messrs. Howard and James, two staunch Reformers, coming in. Mr. P. Maxwell Stewart, new Member for Lancas ter, is likewise a thorough Reformer. In the Monmouthshire boroughs, the last hold of the House of Beaufort, Lord Worcester is on the point of succumbing to Mr. Hall, a strenuous advocate of Reform ! A Somerset beaten in Monmouth ! Only 60 voters remained to his Lordship, and 9.5 to his adversary. But, last and mo't memorable, we have to announce that Sir Edward Knatchbull— yea ! Sir Edward Knatchbull !—has surrendered at discretism to the men of Kent. The Tory Baronet's Committee have given in for him. The loaves and ashes, and Ministerial snuggeries of all kinds, have departed from the house of Knatchbull. How the ancient mouth-piece of ultra " country gentlemen," the patriarch of life-and-fortune-men, will now look round and wonder! To say that Reform is already carried in the House of Commons, would be but a feeble representation of the returns already sent up. But the grand object ought to be and must be, such a majority as will bring certain Peers to their .enses, showing at a glance the perfect lunacy of their striving by offensive yells or grotesque gesti culations, to drown a nation's voice, and stem the torrent of necessity. We repeat, that a large majo rity in the Commons must now be the object of all thinking men.—Times. The earliest of the English county elections, that of Buckinghamshire, is now just commencing, and we need not remark how deeply the cause of Reform is interested in the expulsion of the Marquis of Chandos. To accomplish that great objeet, all minor considerations and personal preference towards either of the reforming candidates must be unre servedly sacrificed. The voters for Mr. Smith must also vote for Mr. Grenfell; the voters for :\ir. Gren fell must also vote for Mr. Smith. This, we repeat, is the only true way to secure the triumph of Re form. To vote for either Reformer singly, is to give only half a vote in favour of Reform. The cause which the voters, both in Buckinghamshire and else where. Are now fiAhring is their cause, not that of the candidates ; and we trust that the union among the voters in favour of Reform, and of the two R-- formers, will be heiriy, unanimouF, and universal. Like the rest of the boroughmongering breed, Lord Chandos has transformed himself from an Anti-Re. former into a sham Reformer. This imposture is too gross and palpable to delude any reasonable man. It has not yet succeeded, so far as we are informed, at any single election; and we are sure that the free holders of Buckinghamshire will not be the first to run their heads into the snare.—Tintes. Every day brings with it fresh triumphs. The Liverpool people have not been long in enlightening General Isaac Gascoyne, as to their sympathy with the rest of their countrymen. The Gallant General, finding that the better part of valour was discretion, quitted the field, so that Liverpool has returned two Reformers. At the final close of the poll, the number; were — Mr. Wi;liagn Ewart l9lO Mr. John Evelyn Denison 1685 General Gascoyne So mach for having the ambition to obtain a bad pre-eminence. In the county of Kent, Sir Edward Knatchbull, with all the Tories and high Church men at his back —notwithstanding his snivelling the twelfth hour about his conversion to Reform — bas, as we confidently anticipated, been forced to abandon all thoughts of contest. W were gratified, yesterday with the following address to the freehol ders of Kent, dated Maidstone, May 5 : " The Central Committee for conducting the election of Mr. Hodges and Mr. Rider beg to acquaint you that Sir Edward Knatchbull has thought proper, on the advice of his Committees, to retire from the contest for the repre sentation of the county. " Our Committee, however, earnestly recommend that no relaxation should take place in our exertions till the election is finally closed ; 38 it is just possible some new candidate may enter the field." There cannot be a stronger proof of the intense feelings in favour of the Ministerial plan of Reform than what has been afforded by Kent. Sir Edward Knatchbull and his father have represented Kent time out of mind. Sir Edward is a clever man, a good and attentive man of business, and may be said to have alone (for Mr. Honywood was inactive) managed all the county business; and he must therefore have made many friends. The men of Kent, so far from having been led by any over whelming influence, had even difficulty in persuading a gentleman devoted to Reform to enter the lists, and give them an opportuni , y of manifesting their sentiments. Mr. Thigh refusei, without a guarantee that he should be indemnified for the expense of a contest, so little was he aware of what was passing in the minds of the men of Kent. Fortunately Mr. Rider was of better faith. He was assured by those who knew the sentiments of the men of Kent, that the hostility of the Tories and Parsons (for throughout the country the Clergy to a man are, as they always have been, opposed to all Reform, whether in Government, Law, or Education,) would be but as dust in the balance—that all that was wanted was a candidate—and that the yeomanry of Kent would crowd to the poll to his support. Against the determination of the people, all those hostile interests, all that money could do, was really nothing; and the men of Kent will have done themselves great honour by returning gentlemen to represent them free of expense. This is really choosing representatives. The election of Surrey yesterday, without a contest, gives us two reformers for that county. Mr. Leach, who pro posed Mr. Denison, said justly, " their two repre 'entatives had voted for the Bill, and that was the one great point which ought to occupy the atten tion of the constituency of England at the present general election. He hoped that his brother elec tor.; of Surrey would do all that became them, and would unite with their fellow•countiymen all over England in now returning such Mt mbers to the Commons' House, as would f.iree the Bill through that assembly with such a majority as must influence the oilier House to accept the measure, however distasteful to them; or adverse to their supposed in terests." This is truly the great point to be con stantly kept in mind ; and the people have shown, wherever they have had an opportunity of express ing their sentiments, that they have kept it in mind; for, as Mr. Denison observed, " from Cape Ness to the extremity of ( all were agreed as to the vital necessity for Parliamentary Reform." The strange address from Mr. Henry Drummond, which, whatever the intention of the framer of it, had clearly a mischievous tendency, was alluded to by Mr. Hawse. " There was one gentleman," he said, " in particular, who might be considered the highest authority to he found in their county, opposed to the principles of Reform—a gentleman distioguished for his commanding abilities, for his great fortune, for his pre-eminent benevolence, and for his un stained character. It was, therefore, with great humility that he (Mr. H.) presumed to differ from such a man. The gentleman of whom he spoke was opposed to Parliamentary Reform, on the ground that it might lead to revolution. Such, no doubt, was his conscientious belief ; but he (Mr. Hawes) must, in common with the united population of the empire, take leave to differ from him. He feared re volution ! There was no danger of any such thing. Had not the members of his Majesty's Govern ment as large a stake in the country as the gentle man in question ? Had they not as much know ledge ? Were they not possessed of as much expe -1 rience, ,and were they not, with the King himself, neither more nor less than a body of reformers ?" Mr. H. Drummond's justification of the course he took was by no means satisfactory :—" On the sub ject of Parliamentary Reform he always had (he said) adopted the same course with that which he felt it his duty to pursue with reference to colonial slavery, and he would now show that his conduct had been consistent throughout. Whenever he met any one who said slavery should be abolished, then he was prepared to enter with him into the details; but when he met those who only talked of that gradual removal, the object of which was only to gain time, in order eventually to prevent abolition, then he would contend for abolition in the abstract. It was not until the principle was conceded that he thought it at all beneficial to enter into the detail; ; and when impracticable details were presented to the mind, then he demanded a concession of principle. Such precisely was the course which he had ever felt bound to pursue with reference to the great question of Parliamentary Reform. He had been a reformer, but not to the extent of the Bill ; and he was opposed to its details, as cal culated to destroy the fundamental principles of th e Constitution." Well, then, let us take the case of abolition of Colonial Slavery, on which Mr. H. Drummond has set his heart. " When he met with those who only talked of that gradual removal, the object of which was only to gain time, in order eventually to prevent abolition, then he would con tend for abolition in the abstract." But let us sup pose a Ministry prepared to abolish Colonial Slave!) , —let us suppose the principle conceded—a measure introduced, with some of the details of which he did not altogether agree—let us suppose, moreover, that that Ministry, having been opposed by the slave abolitionists, like those described by Mr. H. Drum mond, should find it necessary to dissolve Parlia ment, and throw themselves on the country. When the people, bent on abolition, were crowding in all direct'ons to the poll, to return determined abolition ists, would he, Mr. H. Drummond take that time to publish an elaborate address to enlighten his brother freeholders, in which, after a few common place declarations of approbation of Reform, he would play the game of the gradual-renewal men, " whose object is to gain time, in order eventually to prevent abolition," by proclaiming that the de tails of the Bdl were such as to render the measure, under the pretext of abolition, a confiscation of pro perty, and invitation to massacre ?—Would he cavil about the technical meaning of the language used in describing the conduct of those who were endeavouring, by a factious manoeuvre, to prevent the measure of abolition from being carried ? Would he, instead of unmasking the notorious hypocrites who were in their hearts averse to the abolition, and who merely admitted the principle, in order to counteract upon the men who were gene rously throwing themselves in the breach, deter mined to stand or fall with the measure, and pro claim them to the country as men without principle ? Yet this is precisely wbat Mr. Henry Drummond has done in the parallel case of Reform, to which he professes devotion. He tells us even, " that he agreed with his friend, Mr. Leach, that triennial Parliaments might he more expedient—(Hear)-- and for many reasons, into which he should not now inquire , it might be necessary to have re course to the ballot at elections.—(Hear, hear.") Yet this admirer of triennial Parliaments, hater of rotten borough., and advocate of the ballot, endea vours at a critical period of a general election, to turn the current of popular feeling in favour of the anti-reformers! Mr. Henry Drummond is, we be lieive, a very good man ; his heart may be very good ; but we cannot say much for his head. Out upon such friends of Reform, say we. W e should be sorry to rely on him in the case even of abolition, if matters w ere to come to the push. He would be finding out that the Ministerial Abolitionists were men without principle, when they were exerting them selves to the utmost for his cause. At Chelmsford yesterday, Colonel Tyrell found it expedient to de clare himself also a Reformer. " I le was willing, " he said," to admit that there we re too many rotten boroughs, and he regretted that the preceding Go vernments of the country had not taken time by the forelock ; but the fault of the proposed Bill was, that it went too much the other way." Precisely as we anticipated. The old story of the drummer and the soldier whom he was flogging—one time too high, and another time too low. The soldier would rather have had no flogging, and Colonel Tyrell no Reform. However, "he was most anxious that an honest, just, and fair measure of Reform should be submitted to the House of Com mons; but at the same time he begged to state, that he had been fifteen days before the county, and durin g the whole of that time he had not been once asked his opinions on Reform." Of course the Parsons would not a:k him ; and as for Reformers, it would be like asking Bill Soames what he thought of Botany Bay. Sir Robert Peel, too, is now a friend of Reform.—Morning Chronicle. It appears that a meeting of the friends of Mr. Ward took place yesterday, " for the purpose of hearing that gentleman's explanation respecting the course which he pursued at the late election;" Cr rather, we may say, for the purpose of censuring the Ex-Member for not entering upon a hopeless con test. The promoters of the meeting had also another object in view—viz., the letting off their spleen against the Press in general, and against the Morning Herald in particular. " The conduct of the Press," says one of these City So'among, "on the occasion of the election, was most scandalous. The Morning Herald represented that Mr. Ward had given notice to all his tradesmen that he would withdraw his custom from them if they did not vote for him." The Herald made no such statement. It merely said that such a report was current, which was true ; but the writer himself declared that he did not believe the rumour. Gentlemen, when they bring charges against the Press, should take care to speak the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. The same Solomon goes on to say that the Herald stated that any person who should vote for Mr. Ward was not a moderate reformer, but a traitor to the cause. Was not this scurrilous ? We answer—No ; it is not scurrilous, but literally just and true. He who deserts his cause, whether it be the cause of Reform, or any other cause, and joins the enemy of that which he professes to sop port, is neither more nor less than a heartless traitor, and ought to be denounced as such. But we are not surprised that Mr. Ward's friends should be angry with us. They know full well that we did the cause some service when we came out with a denunciation against those trimmers, who thought that they might be allowed, unobserved and un blamed, to serve two masters. An aturry enemy's censures are frequently the best praise—and as such We feel exceedingly obliged to Mr. Cooke for his abuse. He has unwittingly complimented us, and we thank him. At the meeting in qnestion Mr. Ward avowed himself to be a man, like the Duke of Wellington and Mr. Peel, who cared but little for anything said of him by the Press. He said that " he had been applied to by several gentlemen connected with it, to know how they could serve him ; his answer was, that the best thing they could do was to let him alone ; he wished to be allowed to jog on his own way." We have no doubt that Mr. Ward would have liked to have jogged on his own way into Parliament—and it is not surprising that he should be angry with the Press for not letting him alone. But we have bestowed too much time upon this drivelling affair. A little weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of teeth, ought to be freely allowed to a miserable and vanquished enemy. The Liverpool people have nobly redeemed their character in throwing the " Ould General" over board! ! We are not sorry that we applied a little wholesome coercion to the electors. That it was calculated to do them good is evident from the friends of Reform reprinting it, and that they de served it their former acts amply testify. We un derstand that ,Liverpool has been represented by one of the family of Gascoyne since the time of Charles IL—Morning Herald. We lose no time in stating that the hand-b;lls, pur porting to have been issued by the Lord Mayor on the day of the last illumination, upon which our comments regarding his Lordship were chiefly founded, proves, by the explanation of the Evening Paper from which it was copied into the Morning Post, to have been a forgery—a fact which, in jus tice to his Lordship, we are happy to acknowledge and publish. The respectable Evening Paper (the Standard) from which the intended hand-bill was copied, after stating that the forged paper was re• cei red by the Editor in manuscript, thus proceeds ; " We believe that the Land-bill was a forgery, circu lated merely to compel the reluctant to illuminate under the influence of fear. If no such hand-bill was circulated, it was a fraud (like what we are hourly cmnpelied to guard against), designed to plice the anti-revo'utionM Journals in an awkward position. We know not what interpreta tion may be given to this explanation ; as far as we are concerned it is but a recital of what we said, before the Lord Mayor chose to vindicate birrisei in the Court of King's Bench ; and as his Lordship did not think proper to set the public right about the hand-bill, it is, we think, a fair justification of the Morning Post." It was the hand-bill which thus obtained publica- tion that formed the ground of his Lordship's appli cation to the Court of King's Bench, on Wednes day, as will appear by the following statement of the Attorney-General, as copied from a verbatim report of his speech in the 'Times of yesterday : "I have read (said the Learned Gentleman) the band bill which is stated in the Morning Post to have been ' extensively circulated in the city,' it, name of the Lord Mayor, and the editor's observations upin it, which not withstanding the strength of the language, might excite no very great surprise, supposing his Lordship had told the public that the City police had o rders to confine their care to keeping the carriage-ways free, and that they could not be expected to protect the premises of those who formed an exception to the genera rejoicing.' But your Lordship will hardly believe that the result of the most careful inquiries with regard to this handbill is, that no such thing ever in fact existed, and that no such notice was ever printed or circulated to that or the like effect, until it was printed in the Morning Post." The mistake in the last sentence relative to the pretended handbill having originated with the Morning Post, is so satisfactorily explained by the respectable and candid Editor of the Evening Paper from which we copied it, that we deem it unneces sary to add any thing from ourselves upon the sub ject; and shall therefore conclude, as we begun, with the expression of our sincere pleasure at being enabled to do justice to the Lord Mayor on the occasion. We bear no enmity to any man living; We act only upon public principle, regardless of all personal consideration ; and that our animadversio ns in regard to the Lord Mayor were not founded in any uafriendly feeling or systematic opposition to his Lordship, is admitted even by our old friend the Courier, which last night contains the following remark very conspicuously displayed :—" We (says the good-natured Editor) remember that when we (the Courier) censured Mr. Key for his silly timi dity in the affair of the 9th of November, the post praised him to the skies." Such will ever con tinue to be the rule of our conduct. What we approve we applaud—what we disapprove we must oppose and condemn.—Morning Post. Of all the tricks resorted to by the Anti-reform faction, the most impudent, the most unblushing and the most disgraceful is that of endeavouring to pa's , hemselves off for Reformers upon the people, over whose necks they have rode during the last half century, and to whose patient petitions for Reform they have constantly turned a deaf ear ! Yes, the very men who have constantly averred that the Bri tish Constitution was purity itself—that it worked well—that it " was the very envy and admiration of surrounding nations"—that it could not be im proved or amended—and that the transfer of a fran chise from a rotten and corrupt borough to a city of immense population and wealth, was too great an inroad upon the sacred edifice to be deliberately thought of—yes, these men now come forward and declare themselves to be Reformers—some to a greater, some to a lesser extent —nay, aver that they have always been Reformers, and that they will wil lingly support a moderate Reform I And what is the object of such shameless and barefaced attempts at deception ? Why to get themselves returned to the ensuing Parliament, in order that they may de feat the very measure of which they pretend, for the moment, to be supporters—to seize the whole power of the Government, and to crush, by means of it, the very people who support it for their mu tual protection ! This is the object, aim, and end, of the mock moderate Reform party—of the crew on whom, and whose families and cousins, have showered down, for half a century, all the high place; in the state—all the pensions, and sinecures, and fat livings; and who, by the passing of the Reform Bill, will sink into the insignificance which their want of talent end principle so richly merits, and from which, but for a corrupt Parliament, they never would have emerged ; but the people have been taught—taught by sad experience—how little reliance they can place on men who have so often and so fatally - deceived them, to give the slight est credit to such deceitful professions: and we verily believe, that were the Duke of Wel lington himself in a situation to be returned to the House of Commons, he would stand a much fairer chance of election than the Peels and Goulbuins, et id genus omne, on whose minds the lightning of Reform has struck with such sudden and irresistible force. No, no. The people are not to be gulled in this way, Mesars. mock-moderate Reformers ! They know you, and they will have none of you. They will not intrust you with rights and liberties, on which you have constantly encroached, to the injury of the Crown, and the almost total extinction of the Constitution of these realms,—they do not believe your professions, and they will not have you for their representatives ! Their test is the Bill, and not Reform, in the shape and size that you would grant Reform; and unless you are prepay; to sup port it, which we verily believe ye would, if you could thereby regain office and its emoluments, your exclusion is fixed and irrevocable, Procul abeste, profani.—Morning Advertiser. SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock. THE LONDON GAZETTE OF THIS EVENING. Office of the Lord Chamberlain to the Qneen, St. James's-Palace May 5, 1831. In consequence of the great inconvenience resulting from the cards of Ladies to be presented at her Majesty's Drawing-room, being sent into the Office of the Lord Chamberlain to the Queen aft r the time appointed in the Gazette; notice is hereby given, that no cards will be received after two o'clock on Tuesday the 10th instant. _ . The 28th of May being appointed for the celebration of the King's Birth-day, no presentations will take place at her Ma jesty's Drawing Room, 'Office of Ordnance, May 5, 1831. • Royal Regiment of Artillery—First Lieut. L. Talbot to be Se cond Captain, vice Patti!llo, deceased ; Second Lieut. A. Tylee to be First Lieutenant, vice Talbot, April 1 ; Second Lieut. C. J. Dalton, to be First Lieutenant, vice Pickard, retired on half-pay, April 29. Crown-office, May 6. MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE NEW PARLIAMENT. POOLE.—Benjamin Lester Lester, of the said town of Poole, r sq. ; the Hon. William Francis Spencer Ponsonby, of Can ford-house, in the county of Dorset. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE.—Sir Matthew Ridley, Bart.; John Hodgson, Esq. WORC ESTER.-Thomas Henry Hastings Davies, Esq. ; George Richard Robinson, Esq. Nortwicii.—The Right Hon. Robert Grant, Judge Advocate- General of his Majesty's Forces; and Richard Hanbury Gurney, of Hethersett, in the county of Norfolk, Esq. BERN+, icrt-t - eos-TwEen.—Sir Francis r. lake, of Tihuouth-park, in the county of Durham, Bart. ; and Marcus Beresford, of No. 71, Wimpole-street, in the county of Middlesex, Esq., a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army. EXETER.—Lewis William Buck, Esq. ; and James Wentworth Buller, Esq. '(z , strili DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. JOHN MACLAGHLAN and DONALD MACINTYRE, Sun-court, Cornhill, merchants. JOSEPH VANDERSTEEN, London-road, Surrey, tinman. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. ROBERT WHITFIELD, Acre-lane, Brixton, Surrey, Ame rican-merchant. BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED, WILLIAM JUBBER SPURRIER, Poole, from Maya to 27, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners, at two. BANKRUPTS. JOHN FREDERICK MEYER, Poland street, Oxford-street, victualler, to surrender May 17, 20, at two, and June 17, at three, at the Court of Commissioners. Noel, Carey-street, Lincoln's Inn. JOHN WILLIAMS, Stepney, victualler, May 10, at twelve, 27, and June 17, at the Court of Commissioners. Vandercom, Comvn • and Crec, Bush-lane, Cannon.street. THOMASMAS PO WELL LA NS DO WN, Clutton, Somersetshire, victualler, May 111, 17, and June 17, at twelve, at the White Lion, Bristol. Henderson, Surrey-street, Strand; Goolden, Bristol. WILLI AM HA RISON, Pickering Marshes, Yorkshire, horse-dealer, May 23, 24, and June 17, at eleven, at the White Swan Inn, York. flicks and Marris, Gray's Inn-square; Walker, New ,Balton. ORLANDO ELI READ, Kingston-uponfflull, draper, May 18, 19, and June 17, at nine at the Palace Inn, Manchester. Brackenbury, Manchester • Hurd and Johnson, 'I emple HUGH LELAND, Ashton, Lancashire, maltster, May 24, 25, and June 17, at one, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool. Massey; Liverpool ; Adlington, Gregory, and Falkner, Bedford row, London. JAMES KNIBB, Worcester, bookseller, May 19, 20, and June 15, at eleven, at the Unicorn Inn, Worcester. Becke, De vonshire-street, Queen-square, London • France, Worcester. JOHN SAN UM, Gravel-lane, Southwark, victualler, May 10, at one, 17, at eleven, and June 17, at nine, at the Court of Commissioners. Heathcote, Coleman-street, London. ROBERT SHARPE, Budge-row, ironmonger, May 17, at eleven, 27, at ten, and June 17, at nine, at the Court of Commis sioner. Hodgson, Broad-street-buildings. JOHN SEAGELL, Beckenham, Kent, victualler, May 13, at twelve, 17, and June 17, at one, at the Court of Commissioners. Sheppard, Thomas, Lepard, and Williams, Cloak-lane. ILLI AM H AST,Vine-street, Minories, London, merchant, May 10, at three, 17, and June 17, at two, at the Court of Com missioners. Hudson Old Jewry. CHA RLES KING,' Ipswich, Suffolk, innkeeper, May 12, at six, 23, and June 17, at eleven, at the Coach and Horses Inn, Ipswich. Few, Hamilton, and Few, Henrietta-street, Covent garden ; Prettyman, Ipswich. ROB ERT DAVI ES, Li t tle Pulteney-street, Middlesex, broker, May 13, 2.1, and June 17, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Young, Devonshire-street' Queen-street.: ALEXANDER CHRIESTIES, Sheffield, millwright, May 12, 13, and June 17, at eleven, at 'l'attershall and Iloole's offices, Sheffield. Tattershall, Garden-court, Temple, London ; Tat tershall and Hoole. Sheffield. MA RMADUK E WILLIAM DEANE, Richmond, Surrey, tea-dealer, May 14, at eleven, 24. and June 17, at tell, at the Court of Commissioners. Davison, Cheapside. JOHN FULLER, Swansea, tailor, May 16, 17, and June 17, at one, at the Commercial Rooms, Bristol. White, Lincoln's inn, London ; Bevan and Brittan, Bristol. THOMAS ROBINSON, Anchor and Hope-alley. St. George in the East, tallow-chandler, May 13, 17, and June 17, at one, at the Court of Commissioners. Thomson, George-street, Mi nories. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY ELECTION, FRIDAY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. FINAL CLOSE OF THE POLL. Goulburn Peel Cavendish Lord Palmerston 6OB BRUSSELS AND BRAZIL PAPERS. BaussELs,MAy 2.—General 13 , 11i,ird gave yesterday a grant dinner in honour of the Pie of the King of the French. Lord Ponsonhy, the President, and many Mem bers of the Congress, the Ministers, the General•in-Chief of the Civic Guards, as well as the Authorities of the city and province were present. The following three toasts were proposed . By Lord Ponsonby—" The King of the French." By the Minister for Foreign Affairs—" The Royal F on ily of France." By General Belliard—" The Regent, Belgium, its in dependence, its prosperity, its happiness." The Emancipation says—" We regret to have to speak to the public of ourselves. We do so, however, because what we have to say is connected with an important and generally interesting question. We have been repeatedly warned within these three days that a plot was brewing against our press and offices, which plot is represented to u s, as the people obeying their anger, and reduced to the misfortune of doing justice to themselves.' We are not told for what. Our language may have displeased a party tired of our frankness. Whether they endeavour by menaces to obtain our silence, or really think seriously of executing their threats, no matter. Unalterable in our conviction, we shall not be silent at any price, or in fear of any danger." Rio DE JANZIRO, FEB. 17.—The American ship Talma, arrived on the 12th inst., having on braid E. A. B ro wn, Esq., Charge d'Affaires of the United States of America at this Court. This gentleman has lattly filled the honourable situation of Governor of the State of Ohio and Senator in Congress. It appears not yet to be the policy of the Governments of his Inperial Majesty and of the United States to exchange Ministers Plenipotentiary, but the Government of the United States has certainly complimented that of his Im perial Majesty, by sending a gentleman who has held (with the e xception of the Presidency and Vi ce -P res id ency) the must distinguished stations within the gift of the American people. EXCHANGE. Spanish pillar Dollars Its. 2 21,0. Spanish Doubloons 36,000 a 36,400. Dills in London 2u 12 a 90 D. S. Silver Coin 133 a 134 per cent. 800 rein 100 Cents. or 6234 d, sterling at par. GENERAL ELECTION. B U CKIN G HAM SHIRE. This election, which commt need yesterday, has thrown the freeholders of the county generally, and the inhabitants of Aylesbury in particular, into a fever of excitement. It is not at all extraordina'y that such should be the case, when the importance of the crisis, and the great magnitude of the ques tion at issue, are considered. Besides, it must be borne in mind that 13 years have elapsed since a contested election occurred in this town. The last contest for the county of Bucks occurred 47 years ago, between Lord Grenville, Sir J. Au brey, and Lord Verney : the two former were re turned. Yesterday the scene was gay and animated, and presentedanerg, m tuh:ic,great clamour, usual a ceonz u ran: nd a ents of electioos— bngreat At eleven o'clock, the High Shurdr, H. A. Uth %%au, Esq., proceeded to the Court-house, acccm pauied by the candidates, and a peat number of the gentry and freeholders of the county. Mer the usual formalities, The Murqu's of Chandos was put in nomna•ion, and seconded by J. D. King, and C. Chester, Esqrs. Mr. J. Smith was proposed by Mr. Watts, of Hanslope, and supported by Lord Nugent; and Mr. Pascoe Grenfell was nomina.ed by 'Maurice Swabey, Esq., and seconded by Mr. Wing, of Aylesbury. Mr. TIPPER, of Horton, put three questions to Lord Chandos—Whether it was true, that at the last election he had employed 800 stavesmen to ter rify the freeholders, and preveat their attendance ? —What was his plan of Reform ?—And whether he was friendly to the abolition of negro-slavery ? The Marquis of CHANDOS denied having em ployed stavesmen, as stated, at the last election.— He professed himself a friend to moderate and Con stitutional Reform.—(A freeholder, " Aye, but where is your plan of Reform ? we should like to know it.") He would not be put down by popular clamour, he would follow the dictates of his con science, and, as an honest Englishman, endeavour to promote the good of his cowry. He was for extending the elective franchise, giving representa tives to large and populous places, and disfranchising every borough that should be proved to be corrupt. He approved of many points in the Reform Bill, and had no doubt, that on the re-assembling of Par liament, a Bill might be framed such as would meet the approbation of Constitutional Reformers, of whom he was one. A violent clamour had been raised against him on the subject of the slave ques tion, but most ungroundedly, for he told the elec tors, as an honest man, that he was for the abolition of slavery. He asserted that the charge adduced against him of being a friend to slavery was unjust, false, and diabolical. He was equally disposed to do his duty both by blacks and whites. After speaking in terms of the highest respect of the two Hon. Gentlemen who were his fellow-candidates for the honour of representing the county in Parlia ment, the Noble Lord expressed his determination to go through the poll in perfect good humour, and he hoped and trusted just►ce would be done to all parties. Mr. J. SMITE{ appeared before the electors as a candidate for their suffrages, with a view to the ho nour of representing that county in Parliament. About ten days ago he was preparing to proceed to the city of Chichester, which he had represented in the last Parliament, when he received a great num ber of requisitions, signed by some of the first per sons of thL county and by a considerable number of freeholders, calling upon him to become a candidate for Buckinghamshire. The ground of those requi sitions was, that the parties thought he was what he always asserted himself to be—the friend of civil and religious liberty, and of Reform in Parliament. He had for many years of his life looked forward vtith anxiety to the moment when a real and effec tive Reform of Parliament should take place, and no language could describe his delight when he heard the present plan proposed by Lord John Russell. That plan abolished and totally extinguished all those boroughs throughout the kingdom with a very small number of inhabitants, and with a represen• Cation (in many instances, but not in all) relative to which there was the same sort of traffic as took place in the market of that town in beasts, corn, and other commodities. He was one of those who brlieved that although Reform could not he expected to rt move all at once the evils that afflicted us, yet that the beneficial effect of the Bill would speedily be experienced by every man in the British dominions. Mr. PASCOE GRENFELL, after thanking his two friends who had proposed and seconded him, stated that his notions and construction on the subject of Parliamentary Reform were all comprised in the Bill of Lord John Russell. He expressed his adherence to it because of the destruction, annihilation, and disfranchisement of sixty rotten boroughs, and the diminution of representatives in certain other boroughs, which it might not be amiss to call half rotten. That was one of the great features and main principles of the Bill,—would the Noble Lord vote against that part ? Was he prepared to support it ? Another important part of the measure consisted in the extension of the elective franchise to 500,000 in dividuals at present destitute of the privilege. Those were the great features of this healing and compre hensive measure. It was unnecessary to go into the details. He would state some facts of the rotten borough system, in order to show how it worked.— A rotten borough was a description of proper y which the possessor could dispose of in precisely the sa m e maiiner as any otter species of property, and send whom he pleased into the British House of Commons as Member for it. This was equally con trary to the spirit of the Constitution and injurious to the interests of the people. Boroughs were made available in two ways,—first, seats in Parliament were sometimes sold for 3,000/. or 5,0001. ; or, secondly, they were used as means to obtain peerages for rich commoners. The system was a foul stain and blot on the Constitution,and the sooner it was got rid of the better. There was one other subject on which he could not avoid saying a few words. He had come forward certainly in a very different way from candidates generally. He had determined, and should not swerve from the resolution, neither to encumber himself nor ruin his family by incurring the expense of an election con test. Nevertheless, it was his firm determination not only to proceed to the poll, but to continue on his own principle to take that poll so long as it should be the pleasure of any one of the persons interested to keep it open. The limn SHERIFF having called for a show of hinds, declared it to he favourable to the Marquis of Chandos and Mr. John Smith. Mr. P. GRENF'ELL demanded a poll. The Sheriff adjourned the meeting till half-past one o'clock, when polling commenced, and was briskly continued till half -past six, when the numbers were declared as follows : The Marquis of Chancloi - 446 31r. J. Smith _ - 160 Mr. I'. Grenfell - _ 119 ESSEX COUNTY. The election for this county coremenced at Chelmsford on Thursday. The two reforming can didates are Mr. Western and Mr. Long Wellesley ; and opposed to them is Colonel Tyrell, who sat for the county in the lately-defunct Parliament. About half-past ten o'clock Colonel Tyrell, accompanied by his friends, arrived on horsebAck, and took his place on th e hosting, amidst loud hisses from the assem bled multitude. Mr. Western, with a long caval cade of his supporters, followed soon after, and was welcomed with very general applause. Sir Felix Agar, the representative of Mr. Wellesley, during his absence in Cornwall, accompanied by Mr. Wel leslev's eldest son, and a numerous train of his friends, then approached , and. was greeted w i t h long continued shouts of approbat io n. Theti F :tu v il ip,srrevilimrinacrxehafvolzabred and proposed en gone through Sir Charles Collis Western as a fit and proper person to represent the county of Essex in the ensuing Parliament. Mr. DLsNEY seconded the nomination. Mr. WESTERN came forward amidst vary general I applause, and addretised the electors. He should at once advert to the great and important point which his Majesty had tendered to them for their decision, —he meant the Bill of Reform which had been brought forward by his Majes'y's Ministers.—(Hear, hear.) He had been the long-tried frend of Parlia mentary Reform, and he had proved himself the devoted friend and supporter of this particular Bill. —(Loud and general cheers.) It war, upon that ground that he now asked for their suffrages. The question which they had to decide now was whether they would have " the Bill, the whole Bill, and nothing but the Bill."—(Loud cheers, and cries of "No moderate Reform," No boroughmongers," &c.) The Reformers throtwhout the country had now got what they had long wanted—a centre, and a point of union, and ler them not, by the slighest division amongst themselves, swerve from the great standard which had been furnished to them in the measure introdiicA by his Majesty's Government. That measure had bt en hailed by almost the unani mous appsobation of rite entire population of the country, and to that measure they should steadily a lhero.—(Cheers.) if they confided in his Ma jr•sty's present Government, sod he was sure they did—(Cheers)—let them support that great mea sure which had been introduced by them, and let them respond, as became them, to the appeal made to them by their gracious and magnanimous Mo narch.—(Applause.) In conclusion, the Hon. Gen tleman called upon them for three cheers for the King, which were loudly and enthus'astically given by the immeroe multitude assembled in from of the hustings, Mr. IlttAmsToN, on his rising to propose Colonel Tyre!' as a tit person to represent the county of Essex in Parliament, was received with hisses, mixed with cheers from Colonel Tyrell's party. He proposed him on public grounds, as a tit object for their choice. He had proved himself in the House of Commons an able speaker, and a useful repre sentative.—(Groans and his4es.) Mr. H. SMITH seconded his nomination. Colonel TYRELL proceeded to address the elec tors amidst considerable noise and confusion. He had this charge to prefer against his Majesty's pre sent Ministers, that when they had it in their power to pass a measure of Reform, which would not only satisfy those who ditTered from him (Col. Tyrell) on the subject, but which would have satisfied all reasonable, honourable, and just men in society, they had thought fit to throw this Bill like a firebrand amongst the people of this country.—(Groans and hisses, and cries of " Nonsense.") He accused them. of preferring a paltry political triumph to the pass ing of a measure %% hich would have satisfied all the various interests of the country. He (Colonel Tyrell) was opposed to the present Reform Bill upon this amongst other grounds—that it was cal culated to injure the agricultural interests, to which he had always been a sincere and devoted friend. The lower classes were led away by the delusion that this Bill would operate to their good, and would afford them cheaper food and batter living; but he would &try that it would be followed by any such effects. He professed himself an advocate for the disfranchisement of those Corporations and of those close boroughs which had been notoriously bought and sold, but he would not go so far as.the Bill did, a , :d consent to disfranchise those Corporations and those close boroughs against which no charge whatever bad been brought. People talked of the buroughmongers. Why, the greatest boroughmonger in the House was Daniel O'Connell, and it was delightful to witness the co‘ quetry there between him and the Hon. Gentleman now present (Mr. Harvey). By the measure which they had brought forward, the Whig Administra tion had called to their aid all the mock loyalty in the country.—(Great hissing.) Those persons who had been all their lives endeavouring to make the poor dissatisfied with their lot, now turned round, and accused their opponents of sedition and dis.- loyalty. In conclu,ion, he thanked them for the hearing which they had affirded to him. Sir FELIX AGAR rose to propose Mr. Long I,Vel‘ lesley, the friend of the people, the friend of the Cons itution, and its true supporter. It was on these grounds that he had proposed him at the last elec:ion,—it was upon the same grounds that he now proposed him as a fit person to represent thl s county in Parliament. In conclusion, the Hon. 1.34' ronet celled upon the electors to vote for the mall who would support the Bill, the whole Bill, and nothing but the Bill.—( Cheers.) The Rev. Mr. GEE seconded the nomination. Mr. HARVEY being generally called upon, pro ceeded to address the electors. He was anxious to be present on this occa.ion, lest his absence should be construed into any want of attachment to the cause, in reference to the honourable individual villa had been just proposed fur the choice of the electors. The Hon. Gentleman then proceeded at some length to answer the speech of Colonel Tyrell. The gallant Colonel, he said, had mixed him up with the great Irish ag tator, and had endeavoured to excite a rell giou, feeling, by nsinuating, thar in the event of ths Reform Bill passing, the House of Commons would be fined with Ca.holic Members from Ireland. But if the people chose Catholics or infidels, the thing could not be helped; neither he (Mr. Harvey) n or the G a llant Colonel could prevent it ; for it was for the people to do as they thought fir.—(Cheer.) H . tb.erto that town and that county had been die' tinguished for loyalty ; but now the Tories and the fox-hunters of Essex had come forward in a factious opposition to their Sovereign. The speech which they had that day heard from the Gallant Colonel had been alreedy made three times,--namely, at Rumford, Braintree, and Colchester ; and they had this day been furri'shed with a fourth edition of It' The Gallant Colonel had objected to the Refortn Bill as being injurious to the agricultural interest' Now he (Mr. Harvey) thought that the Bill, if It did any thing, went too far to protect the agricul' tural interest. It was not alone that none of the present county Members would be disturbed by the Bill, but their number would be greatly increased' They now had a measure based upon the principle of overthrowing the aristocratic oligarchy of tlo?s country, and he trusted that they would give it the unanimous support. It was said that there was a coalition between Mr. Wellesley and Mr. Western' He (Mr. Harvey) hoped that there would be one ' —(Cheers.) He was glad to see the names of Wo . i i lesley and Western placed together on every we l l from one end of the county to the other,—frofts., Harwich to Stratford, near London.—(Applause ' There was no doubt of the success of the R e boil candidat es.—(Cheers.) A show of hands being then had, an immense, majority was held up in favour of M r . W estern an d Nlr. Wellesley, and an exceedingly small proportio n in favour of Colonel Tyrell. The HIGH SHERIFF declared that the show O f hands was in favour of Messrs. Western and - Wel' lesley.—(Loud cheers.) Colonel TYRELL then demanded a poll, to whic h they immediately proceeded. The polling continued with unabated activity up to seven o'clock, when it closed. The n umber' s then stood as follow : Western - - - - - 424 Wellesley - - - - 416 The Court was then adjourned until ten o 'eloci‘' to-morrow (this) morning. C 0 L CHESTER, MAr 5. The result of this contest affords another triunW b for the friends of Reform, as, up to the present ollcr ment, for the last century, the corporation of th i , 9 town have hitherto had the power to return their own nominee to the House of Commons. The rs' stilt also will have a most important effect on th e contest for the representation of the county; in fad , if the Anti-Reformer Sanderson had been triumphal ° here, it would have almost been decisive of the success of Colonel Tyrell for the county, who come, f or ward supported by t h e same i nterests . The poll closed at twelve o'clock as follows : Harvey - Mayhew Saunderson - . 616 599 523 _, PFIJ ...... IKTBD m AND Punom) BY MURDO YOUNG. AT 'o' SITN °MCI, 112, brithsn, Immoiv. - u li rREEHI Co nmod'ou Son-in-L (I At Garraw•a an With a Von CCM Sit In the (wet The Liou , e i sitting room kitchens in f at the back, present, er required. To be vie lays maybe street; at C street. 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Nig Situate wit comprising the Glebe 1 Rent Churl Tithes, as WITH Ul In the adjc nearly Of excellen Plantation, THE M Placed on well calculi having exc ext•nsive re and Oiltbu from the Drives ; th with party greens ; a i choice Frti is nearly en advantage I nor l idle ded with fi ornamen tet being rend, wild fowl, gible Farm tural-build speetable tt estimated a THREE 1 THE AL With right with the it: The PER: SENTA TIIRE The prep The DA ampton an borough, viost direct centre of tl The M son, the gal particulars ton ; Thre King's Ile; Hotel, 13irc Dunstable: Windsor; Gardiner, Garrawly': Mr. Reid, Alansion, a Dll. NI azew.ate rA Vrietor, al scorbutic t disorders o the ANTI, Drops. A attended n gradual wL pation, ex( blished an GILEAD. The abc Cornhill ; ford-street 33, White' dere of Pa' price I Is. four small the words the stamp.