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ore and keep all the poll-books unopened until the day, unless such day be Sunday, and then till the following, when he shall openly break the seals, thereon, up the number of votes as they appear on the said 9, and shall openly declare the state of the poll, and amation of the Member or Members chosen not later o'clock in the afternoon of the said day : provided that the returning officer, or his lawful deputy, may, fit, declare the final state of the poll, and proceed to return immediately after the poll shall have been closed: Proyided aldd; thst nil nthriinatibn shall be election holden, of any Member for any city or bd. is I church, chapel, or other place of public worship. r rOVided always, and be it enacted, that so far as relates boroughs of New Shoreham, Cricklade, Ayles. East Retford, the Justices of the Peace of the several which the said boroughs are respectively situate, at ' Sessions to be holden next after the passing of this ide the said several boroughs into convenient dis- Qing, and shall appoint in each district a convenient sing the poll at all elections of Members to serve in Parliament for each of the said boroughs ; and that 'lie Peace of each of the said counties, assembled at —.ions, shall have power to appoint (if they shall so other and different districts and places for polling at /cry two years from the respective preceding ap - to be made for that purpose ; and that a list of the and places for polling named in the first and in each appointment shall be lodged with the Clerk of the the respective county, who shall forthwith cause eh list to be printed, and to be fixed on the doors telieraf churches and chapels within the respective ; and the polls at every election for each of the said be taken within such districts and at such places as shall be named in the appointment in force at - such election. 4 • 1 1 d be it enacted, that nothing in this Act contained ' any Sheriff or other returning officer, or the law of any returning officer, from closing the poll pre. ? expiration of the time fixed by this Act, in any case same might have been lawfully closed before the V this Act; and that where the proceedings at any shall be interrupted or obstructed by any riot or open • the Sheriff or other returning officer, or the lawful Of any returning officer, shall not for such cause finally `Noll, but shall adjourn the same until the following some other convenient time as the occasion may re if necessary, shall further adjourn the same until or obstruction shall have ceased, when the officer or his deputy shall again proceed to take the • any day whereon the poll shall have been so ad shall not be reckoned one of the:two days of polling at lon within the meaning of this Act. be it enacted, that from and after the end of Parliament, all booths erected for the con • of taking polls shall be erected at the joint and b e e r Pense of the several candidates, and the sa me erected by contract with the candidates, if they „ .'nk fit to make such contract, or if they shall not )retract, then the same shall be erected by the She • returning officer, at the expense of the several can - aforesaid ; and that all deputies appointed by the She ler returning officer shall be paid each two guineas by and all clerks employed in taking the poll shall be paid by the day, at the expense of the candidates at • : Provided always, that if any person shall be without his consent, then the person so proposing him - _ to defray his share of the said expenses in like a , if he had been a candidate : Provided also, that no t contained shall prevent the candidates or any She returning officer from using or hiring any one or I or other buildings for the purpose of taking the subject always to the same regulations, provisions. in every - respect as are hereinbefore mentioned • to booths for taking the poll. be it enacted, that the Sheriff or other returning of , before the day fixed for the election, cause to be the use of each bobth or polling place at such election, of the register of voters, and shall under his hand / such copy to be true. Atid be it enacted, that every deputy of a Sheriff or officer shall have the same power of adminis ie ‘• is and affirmations required by law, and of ap- Conunissioners for administering such oaths and affir . may by law be administered by Commissioners, as • other returning officer has by virtue of this or Act, and subject to the same regulations and provi asfrerY respect as such Sheriff or other returning officer. - ""d be it enacted, that from and after the end of this trliament, every person who shall have a right to vote of a Member for the borough of Monmouth, in ie towns of Newport or Usk, shall give his vote at • Usk respectively, before the deputy for each of such 'Om the returning officer of the borough of Monmouth Ithorized and required to appoint ; and every person Alive a right to vote in the election of a Member for town or borough, in respect of any place named in dump of the schedule marked (F.) to this Act an ,ive his vote at such place before the deputy for whom the returning officer of the shire town or is hereby authorized and required to appoint ; and . who shall have a right to vote in the election of for the borough composed of the towns of Swansea, , Neath, Aberaven and Ken-fig, shall give his vote town in respect of which he shall be entitled to vote to say), at Swansea before the Portreeve of Swansea, of the other towns before the deputy for such town, Portreeve is hereby authorized and required to and at every contested election for the borough of or for any shire town or borough named in the of the said schedule (F.), or for the borough the said five towns, the polling shall commence on fixed for the respective election, as well at Monmouth ' and Usk respectively, and as well at the shire ,ugh as at each of the places sharing in the election respectively, and as well at Swansea as at each of the towns respectively; and such polling shall continue ai e Jaye only, such two days being successive days , ex - Re e Sunday shall intervene (that is to say), for sev e n Oh the first day of polling, and for eight hour s on the m aY of polling, and that the poll shall on no account ` later than four o'clock ie the afternoon of such and the returning officer of the borough of Mon. d ive to the deputies for Newport and Usk respec the returning officer of every shire town or borough the second column of the said schedule (F.) shall give for each of the places sharing in the election for town or borough, notice of the day fixed for such election, and shall before the day fixed for such re -. cause to be made, and to be delivered to every :y, a true copy of the register of voters for the bo 40nrnouth, or for such shire town or borough, as the be, and shall under his hand certify every such copy 5 ; and the portreeve of the town of Swansea shall give the day of election to the deputy for each of the tougher, Neath, Aberaven, and Ken-fig, and shall in cause to be made, and to be delivered to every a true and certified copy of the register of voters ~ h composed of the said five towns ; and the re ,ies for Newport and Usk, and for the respective .t in the first column of the said schedule (F.) as the towns of Lougher, Neath, Aberaven, and Ken 'ively take, and conduct the poll, and deliver ,e poll-books in the same manner as the deputies ling officers of the cities and boroughs in England , are directed Vicki, and shall have the same powers, • the same duties in every respect, as are respectively and imposed on the said deputies by this Act. be it enacted, that all laws, statutes, and usages ,erce respecting the election of Members to serve in for that part of the United Kingdom called Eng- Wales, shall be and remain, and are hereby de be and remain in full force, and shall apply to the O f Members to serve in Parliament for all the places tr aPowered to return Members, as fully and effec. those places had heretofore returned Members, ex as any of the said laws, statutes, or usages are re- - altered by this Act, or are inconsistent with the pro thereof. at et tl d be it enacted, that if any sheriff, returning officer, , s tint N: s. _overseer, or any person w h a tsoever, shall wilfully ) for - p ‘, 1 ;;: s or disobey the provisions of this Act, or any of oursoild° di respect to any matter or thing which such sheriff , no _,e It officer, barrister, overseer or other person is hereby , loon o f o ' i t , to do, he shall for such his offence be liable to be 'ding. if tat ~,a ° action of debt in any of his Majesty's Courts of Re. dectiOti k el th e . ivelitminster for the penal sum of five hundred 'winds, rhataen o r 1,,,2. 1 7 before whom such action shall be tried may find gh of P 0 4s rliet for the full sum of five hundred pounds, or for et , by 0 1 1 4' sum which the said Jury shall think it just l ec tiolk, t S hould pay for such his offence ; and th e de expepAel I Q 111 such action being convicted shall pay such p enal km d ilirvif tot t a l s arded, with full costs of suit, to any party who m a y such el, lost 4e lame ; without prejudice, however, to the right of e pla ce A t, l' grieved by the same misconduct of such Sheriff, re into CW,, ft L,cer, barrister, overseer or other person, to recover hveri ;eo,# k i t rges in an action on the case, for a false return or any re qui9 'NO r et ance, as he may be entitled to at common law or by officeri b i k 4 ° a n Y statute now in force. it, and ~ 4 red be it enacted, that if any person named in any regis of esc'lo 1 1 1 4 , _ ° d• to be made under this Act, but who at the time of • tv - -- ,10 les, M A ); • tt shall be in the enjoyment of any office by law dis. tb... ehi Ey spa', •ve • him from giving his vote in the election of Members 4 k a ny ,a, ' , all ~.p a rli a ment, shall presume to vote in such election, , sh, d l st!? bt u* liable to all penalties and forfeitures to which he ect of SS Of iii l lt biect for the said offence by any law in force at the descriv'' sfit n te o isli election, in case this Act had not been passed ; and sppen t ° . ji,CO es , a Petition to the House of Commons for altering the as aforr;olti t ' q h it ; setting aside the election in which such pe rson :tate ll_t 4 jto t ss, „ e voted, his vote shall be struck off by the Corn ace of s' A is It ith .7_ such sum shall be by him paid to any petitioner as i d the v v ot .'rk All s 'so .s Mittee shall seem just. orotigi t ; trot, t klly °be it enacted, that if any person shall falsely and de- I any ° I of h., t i 2 s aUnte the name or character of any other person ivisili t , h - c re shall be -inserted in any register required to be days 0 , (4 r to t e er this Act, and shall thereby vote or attempt to vote Alice; it eio ? It ch other person in the election of any Member to place*" eve ; or if any person after having voted at any ide at ' i ll oh s ..' u t again vote, or attempt again to vote at the same erks id 0 4 .4 ery Person so offending shall be guilty of a misdc heir 6 9 itZa and being convicted thereof, shall be for ever aclosed,o/ 150 e,,,, disqualified from voting in any election shall 0;0/ she ll t Of any Member to serve in Parliament, anent oy .. be liable to such fine, • not exceeding fifty iclosed .9 to._ °r to such imprisonment, not exceeding six months, eceive d I ill sate Co u rt before whom he shall be convicted shall think fit ; oll.boo, 5et,,,.._ of a petition to the House of Commons for altering or t 01 tht ;_e or setting aside the election in which such person Aggro c voted, his vote shall be struck off by the Committee,. tha t . raeeive and keel m 'I day, unless following, wh • Colt that up the num ' books, and sh ' Pr oclamation of o'clock in • I; that the rett: Cher t hink fit, declare tiny t he return imi ag , 3' closed : Pro, i el cic•Ction hol !re . hi any church, P rovided alway o 0 s everal boroug Iliad East Retfos ani all Sh in which the ute f the -"11 r Sessions divide the ss I 11 "`: ._ ll4 polling, and te a< ", taking the y 9 . Parliamen or ' ' of the Pea vet • Sessions, • ut) other and d the of every twc t to be madl pe , ,nag PPnda placesoint :ndts ef the respec ge 'V such list to o knierai chug •ce h; and the p !clue • It s shall be tali as shall have • - wke of such eles s ue' s tud be it em b re: * event any St te at I to aI !Y the expirati h t a • t he same mi ' qt this Act, ling shall be rots erild e. the Sheriff the Of any retun !tuna t 4 Poll, but s t co o for some oth ,uch 1, 41 4 ! lf necessi per ; .`yrvUption or midge / .1 °fficer °r elld any day nay dial' not be such S ection within Attel be it es Yor pr esent Park es di • of taking le isle e 'cliense of KrligP be erected -.ink fit to Ittcpath contract '. • et Pi e ther returni as aforesaid `' o ther return! Parr " t and all cle guinea by :e 0 g oction : Pr a fter Without h' t del "e liable to dc eo Lad if he ha( ge rein contai nth)* o ther return t h _ e ho uses or of Cul 'I A sub n jec ; ( w 7 "%II , ties iev for 'Tard to boot t op. - And be it en a Y' An ' l before ...LA he the use of le rc7 tc PY of the the 71 . ,is erY such 4'" AOd be it Est oft tW I • th e • oaths may by aonftthP q*tr i ettler fr or othe IA Act, and at no ) 1 . 4t e u lery resp o pertl dbeit er coo r Parli men e wo e , - .Dotson of s ,ntakid t' of Qf the tows and or U s k re veh • -oln the x r to authorize "gall hav e ar i row t l . ls ' k t hir e t own at Pu ' rt eolutnn of . 'hall give A ct+— "ace, whom , is hereby p erson who and - for the ions 0. 4 er, Neath , the , Pgr_. town i n rs and .9 to say), at in P` * each of the de t he said Po th er; and at ' h, or fo if ea column of 19 fix of the a 11 bN • a xed for nu -I . e * Port and of borough spP 011) th most respe c t! h tt:t,-er towns sucb,to days " II ,ors * h e re Sundi adroit the fir ty 507 k t i t ar day of pc i : 51 4 ' 4°7: anlatde' any ' h all give ace ' d the ref any 111,' 1 the tee , :he P r At o , ..ePtlty for I r .1 111 t own 're electio ,ve , e e lection 4 le pew , , ‘lWety, a t tl blo itnhcol7o , b„ mote _ .;. a nd se r sdll.°ll°' 4 44 Y be, nm°l e and t da: , er the Of 'l b Loughe or Sh -mi tt (of d. cans ' ei P t llt;PtstY ato n the bor ough the ' e deputies le fi nal ; " ed in t , e d `o the to , e,soitt . I , 4 , lll r r e spect , i , rho el l ' t the ps le re Clo , Otiirming the : I....rsbefore fun_ct ,j az i, ' oven the: ! 1 Y "• - o j and im theY„ it s' And be the force res MeauLa t for t after/ w , '"'A Wales to b e . 4 and e p le :;" ?demi aka Npower b°r° r 44 if thaw f t° far tho 'test °II or " altered Satu r. ',,P l k the reof . irtic e ti; o oo An d be it ' le r o°, ()verso! is wul'f 4 . "e rse or d ) for __ and such sum shall be by him paid to any petitioner as to such Committee shall seem just. 77. And be it enacted, that where the Committee appointed to try the merits of any petition complaining of an undue elec tion or return of a Member or Members to serve in Parliament, shall award any sum to be paid in any of the cases mentioned in this Act, such sum shall be recovered in the same manner as costs are directed to be recovered by virtue of the Act passed in the ninth year of the reign of King George the Fourth, in tituled, " An Act to consolidate and amend the laws relating to the trial of controverted elections, or returns of Members to serVe in Parliament." _ _ _ 78. And be it enacted, that all writs to be issued for the election of Members to serve in all future Parliaments, and all mandates, precepts, instruments, proceedings, and notices conse quent upon such writs, shall be and the same are hereby autho rized to be framed and expressed in such manner and form as may be necessary for the carrying the provisions of this Act into effect; any law, statute, or usage to the contrary notwith standing. 79. Provided always, and be it enacted, that nothing in this Act contained shall extend to or in anywise affect the election of Members to serve in Parliament for the Universities of Ox ford or Canibridge, or shall entitle any person to vote in the election of Members to serve in Parliament for the city of Oxford or town of Cambridge in respect of the occupa tion of any chambers or premises in any of the colleges or halls of the Universities of Oxford or Cambridge. 80. And be it enacted, that throughout this Act, wherever the words " city or borough," " cities or boroughs," may oc cUr, those words shall be construed to include, except there be something in the subject or context manifestly repugnant to such construction, all towns corporate, cinque ports, districts, or places within England and Wales which shall be entitled after this Act shall have passed to return a Member or Members to serve in Parliament, other than counties at large, and riding, parts, and divisions of counties at large, and shall also include the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed ; and the words " returning officer" shall apply to every per r son or persons to whom, by virtue of his or their office either under the present Act, or under any former law, cus tom, or statute, the execution of any writ or precept cloth or shall belong for the election of a Member or Members to serve in Parliament, by whatever name or title such person or persons may be called ; and the words " parish or town ship" shall extend to every parish, township, vill, hamlet, dis trict or place maintaining its own poor; and the words " Over seers of the Poor" shall extend to all persons who by virtue of any office or appointment shall execute the duties of Overseers of the poor, by whatever name or title such persons may be called, and in whatsoever manner they may be appointed ; and that all provisions in this Act relative to any matters to be done by or with regard to Justices of the Peace for Counties, or Sessions of the Peace for Counties, or Clerks of the Peace for Counties, or Treasurers of Counties, shall extend to the Justices, Sessions, Clerks of the Peace and Treasurers of the several Ridings of York shire and parts of Lincolnshire ; and that all the said respective Justices, Sessions, and Clerks of the Peace shall have power to do the several matters required by this Act, as well within places of exclusive jurisdiction as without; and that no misnomer or in accurate description of any person or place named or described in any schedule to this Act annexed, or in any list or register of voters, or in any notice required by this Act, shall in anywise prevent or abridge the operation of this Act, with respect to such person or place, provided that such person or place shall be so designated in such schedule, list, register, or notice as to be commonly understood. 68. Provided always, and be it enacted, that if a disso lution of the present Parliament shall take place after the passing of this Act, and before the - day of i n the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, in such case such persons only shall be entitled to vote in the election of Members to serve in a new Parliament for . . any county, or for any riding, parts, or division of a county, or for any city or borough, as would be entitled to be inserted in the respective lists of voters for the same, directed to be made under this Act, if the day of election had been the day for making out such respective lists; and such persons shall be en titled to vote on such election, although they may not be registered according to the provisions of this Act, any thing herein contained notwithstanding ; and the polling at such election for any county, or for any riding, parts, or division, of a county, may be continued for fifteen days, and the polling at such election for the city or borough may be continued for eight days, any thing herein contained notwithstanding. (Far the Schedules, see the next column.) COURT OF CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY. The LORD CHANCELLOR heard appeals to-day. :MINCIIIN V NAUCE . ..... Mr. PEPYS appeared for the plaintiff, and was assisted by Messrs. DUCKWORTH and Humeitaics. He stated :that the bill had been filed by their client for the purpose of obtaining a de cree to compel the specific performance of an agreement to pur chase the Crown Hotel in Portsmouth. The cause came on to be heard before the Master of the Rolls. and his Honour referred it to the Master to enquire whether or not a good title could not be made. The plaintiff took exceptions to that report. The Master of the Rolls overruled the exceptions, and de creed that a good title could be made. There was very considerable obscurity about the title, but ever since the year 1775, the property had been dealt with as if it had been the freehold of a person of the name of Eames, mentioned in a deed of that date, as the heir-at-law and devisee of the testator, Joseph Eames. The will of Mr. Joseph Eames was not to be found, and the plaintiff's case was that as there had been no ad verse claim to the parties claiming and holding under that deed of 1775, until this time, the presumption was, that no adverse title could be produced,and that, therefore, the plaintiff ought to be compelled to take the title, such as it was. Sir E. SUGDEN appeared for the defendant, and in support of the appeal. He contended at length that the Master of the Rolls was wrong in ordering his client to take this title. He admitted there had been an undisturbed possession for the last sixty years but inasmuch as there was a hiatus in the title previous to the commencement of that period, inasmuch as the deed of 1775 recited a will of the previous owner, but did not set forth its particular contents—inasmuch as that will was not produced, and inasmuch as by that will, if produced, it might appear that a title different to any thing which was now shewn, was given. The Court ought not in a case of such doubt to order the purchaser to part with his money under the risk (which he must run) of having the property taken again out of his hand at any moment, and without the possibility of his having the power of recovering back the money he had paid. Mr. PRESTON followed on the same side. Mr. PALEY appeared for Miss Charlotte Rands, the infant heiress of a deceased gentleman, who, should the Court be of opinion the agreement ought to be carried into execution, would be entitled to the benefit to be derived therefrom. After the ex tensive arguments of the gentlemen who preceded him, he con tented himself by expressing his entire confidence in his Lord ship's doing that which would secure to his client her justand in disputable rights. Mr. HUMPHRIES replied, in the absence of his two leaders, with considerable ability, but The LORD CHANCELLOR deferred pronouncing judgment till he had had the opportunity of looking into the authorities. COMMON PLEAS. -(THIS DAY.) ANDREWS v. THORNTON.—LIBEL. This was an action brought by Captain Andrews, of the ship Vittoria, against the defendant, for a gross and malicious libel. After hearing the particulars of the case, the Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 1201. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. There are this week moderate arrivals of all descriptions of Grain, and not much Flour. The Wheat trade remains in a very dull state at Monday's terms. Barley is also very heavy, and hardly maintains last quotations. Beans and Pease are again rather lower. Oats remain very heavy, but the factors will not submit to take less money. The Flour trade remains exces sively dull. ARRIVALS. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Flour. 1,491 qrs. 888 qrs. I 1,895 qrs. 2,s2Bsacks. 1,346 -- 5,470 5,540 - brls. English Irish Foreign ..... “ We find that we committed an error in stat ing, that the number of boroughs in schedule A was re duced in the new Bill to 51. The number is precisely the same as before-56. Five boroughs, formerly in sche dule A, have been disposed of elsewhere, and their place has been supplied by others. In noticing the qualification in towns, we find that we did not sufficiently distinguish the value from the rating. Every one who occupies a house, or house and warehouse, &c., of the value of 101. yearly, shall have a right to vote in behalf of such tene ment or tenements, provided he is rated—not at 101.—for the rating is well known to be generally much below the actual rent—but rated at any sum whatever to the poor rates. The only question will be, whether the person oc cupies a house, or house e.-• warehouse, &c. of the value of 101. a year, no matter what the rent, or what it is rated at. Thie is, no doubt, a great improvement in the complicated provisions with regard to the qualification in the former Bill. We are glad to find that there is no di minution in the number of boroughs in schedule A, though we could have wished schedule B had also experienced no diminution of numbers. But our strongest objection is to the perpetuation of freemen. by birth and servitude, which *will lay the foundation for much corrupt traffic. However, if these alterations have—and it is understood they have— gained over many Anti-Reformers to the support of the Bill, the • peopie will upon the whole have cause for satis faction. Many Anti• Reform Peers had become sensible that a settlement of the question could no longer be de layed, and were only anxious for a colourable pretext to separate themselves from their more obstinate associates. In truth, we believe we may say that the enemy's camp is now fairly divided. In such ease the success of the Bill is certain.-3forning Chronicle. The Right Hon. Sir ANTHONY HART, whose death was announced on Wednesday last, was a na tive of the island of St. Christopher, in the West Indies, and received his education at Tonbridge school. He was called to the Bar in the year 1781 by the Hon. Society of the Middle Temple, of which he was elected a Bencher in 1807. In the same year he was appointed one of his MantsTy's Counsel ; and in 1813 Solicitor-General to her late Majesty Queen CHARLOTTE. On Mr. CAN NING'S elevation to the office of First Lord of the Trea sury in 1827, Sir ANTHONY lIART succeeded Sir JOHN Leacn as Vice-Chancellor of England, and near the close of that year he was raised to the office of Lord Chancellor of Ireland, which he filled with the greatest ability and .integrity until the resignation of the Duke of WELLING - tort in 1831. • SCHEDULES TO WHICH THE REFORM BILL PEFETIF. SCHED ULE A. BOROUGHS. COUNTIES. Aldborough Yorkshire Aldeburgh Suffblk Amersham Bockinghamsh Appleby Westmoreland Bedwin (Great) Wiltshire Berealston Devonshire Bishop's Castle Shropshire Blechingley Surrey Boroughbridge Yorkshire Bossin ey Cornwall Brackley Northampton Bramber Sussex Callington Cornwall Camelford Cornwall Castle Rising Norfolk Corfe Castle Dorsetshire Downton Wiltshire Dunwich Suffolk Fowey Cornwall Gatton Surrey Gi instead, East Sussex Haslemere Surrey Hedon Yorkshire Heytesbury Wiltshire Higham Ferrers Northampton. Hindon Wiltshire Ilchester Somersetshire East Looe Cornwall West Looe Cornwall Lostwithiel Cornwall BOROUGHS. COUNTIES. Ludgershall Wiltshire Milborne Port Somersetshire Minch ead Somersetshire Newport Cornwall Newton Lancashire Newtown Isle of Wight Hampshire Okehampton ley onshire Orford Suffolk Plympton Devonshire Queenborough Kent Romney (New) Kent St. Germain's Cornwall St, Mawe's Cornwall St. Michael's,/ Cornwall or Midshall Saltash Cornwall Old Sarum Wiltshire Seaford Sussex Steyning Sussex Stockbridge Hampshire Tregony Cornwall Wendover Buckinghamsh. VV eobly Herefordshire Whitchurch Hampshire Winchelsea Sussex Wootton Bassett Wiltshire Isle of Wight Yarmouth /Hampshire SCHEDULE (B.) BOROUGHS. COUNTIES: BOROUGHS. COUNTIES. A ru ndel Sussex Malmestury Wiltshire Ashburton Devonshire Midhurst Sussex Caine 'Wiltshire Morpeth Northumberld, Christchurch Hampshire North Allerton Yorkshire Clith, roe Lancashire Petersfield Hampshire Dartmouth Devonshire Reigate Surrey Droitwich Worcestkirshirei Rye Sussex Eye Suffhlk St. Ives Cornwall Grimsby, Great Lincolnshire Shaftesbury Dorsetshire Helston Cornwall Thirsk Yorkshire Horsham Sussex Totness Devonshire Hythe Kent Wareham Dorsetshire Launceston Cornwall Westbury Wiltshire Lisk card Cornwall Wilton Wiltshire Lyme Regis Dorsetshire Woodstock Oxtbrdshire SCHED PRINCIPAL PLACES TO BE BOROUGHS._ rLE (C.) Manchester (Lancashire) RETURNING OFFICERS. The Boroughreeve and Con. stables of Manchester The Two Bailiffs of Birming. ham The Mayor of Leeds Birmingham (Warwickshire) ***l Leeds (Yorkshire) ;reenwich (Kent) Sheffield (Yorkshire) Sunderland (Durham) D e vonport (Devonshire) Wolverhampton (Staffordshire) I The Master Cutler 'Constable of the Manor of the Deanery of Wolverhampton Tower Hamlets (Middlesex) Finsbury (Middlesex) Marylebone (Middlesex) Lambeth (Surrey) Bolton (Lancashire) The Boroughreeves of Great and Little Bolton Bradford (Yorkshire) Blackburn (Lancashire) Brighton (Sussex) Halifax (Yorkshire) Macclesfield (Cheshire) Oldham (Lancashire) Stockport (Cheshire) Stoke.upon-Trent (Staffordshire) .Stroud (Gloucestershire) 'The Mayor of Macclesfield 'The Mayor of Stockport SCHED [LE (D.) PRINCIPAL PLACES TO BE BOROUGHS. RETURNING OFFICERS. Ashton-under-Lyne (Lanca shire) Bury (Lancashire) Chatham (Kent) Cheltenham (Gloucestershire) Dudley (Worcestershire) Frome (Somersetshire) Gateshead (Durham) Huddersfield (Yorkshire) Kidderminster (Worcestershire) The High Bailiff of Kidder minster The Mayor of Kendal Kendal (Westmoreland) Rochdale (Lancashire) Salford (Lancashire) South Shields (Durham) Tynemouth (Northumberland) Wakefield (Yorkshire) Walsall (Staffordshire) Warrington (Lancashire) Whitby (Yorkshire) Whitehaven (Cumberland) The Boroughreevc of Salford The Mayor of Walsall SCHEDULE (E.) County in Shire Toyvns Places sharing in the Election of which such or Principal Boroughs are Members. Boroughs. situated. Amlwch Holyhead, and sharing with Beaumaris Anglesey Llangefni Aherybtwith Lampeter, and sharing with Cardigan Cardigan Adpar Llanelly sharing with Caermarthen Caermarthen Pwllheli 1 Nevin 1 Conway •sharing with Caernarvon.... Caernarvon Bangor I Cricceith J Ruthin Holt sharing with Denbigh Denbigh Town of ;,Wrexham Rhyddlan 1 Overton Caerwis Caergwrley sharing with Flint St. Asaph I Holywell Mold J Cowbridge Merthyr I ydvil Aberdare Llantrissent Llanidloes 1 Welsh Pool Machynlleth . 1 .sharing with Montgomery .. Montgomery Llanfyllin Newtown j Narberth 1 sharing with Ilaverfordwest Pembroke Fishguard Tenby Wiston" sharing with 'Pembroke Pembroke Town of Milford Knighton Rhayder Kevinleece sharing with Radnor Radnor Knucklas Town of Presteigne SCHEDULE (F.) COUNTIES TO BE DIVIDED. Cheshire Hampshire Somersetshire Cornwall Lancashire Staffordshire Cumberland Leicestershire Suffolk Derbyshire Norfolk Surrey Devonshire Northumberland Sussex Durham Northamptonshire Warwickshire Essex Nottinghamshire Wiltshire Gloucestershire Shropshire Worcestershire Kent • SCHEDULE (G.) C o unties at large in which Cities Cities and Towns and Counties thereof. and Towns and Counties thereof are to be included. Caermarth en Chester Coventry Gloucester Kingston-upon-Hull Lincoln London Newcastle.upon- 'Tyne ; Worcester York and Ainsty: Caermarthenshire Cheshire Warwickshire Gloucestershire East Riding of Yorkshire The Parts of Lindsey, Lincolnshire Middlesex Northumberland Worcestershire North Riding of Yorkshire THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE 0' CL CR. Jamaica Papers. to the 20th of October, have been received at the North and South American Coffee-house, but they are ra ther void ci intelligence. We extract the following We understand the meeting of delegates from the several parishes, to take into consideration the state of this island, will shortly assemble either in this or in Spanish town." BARBADOES. The sloops West Indian and St. Cyr, despatched to Barbadoes with supplies for the sufferers, have returned, by which we have received Barbadoes Papers of the Ist of October. It is truly gratifying to find that the suffering population have had their miseries alleviated. Supplies of provisions and lumber had ar rived at Bridgetown from the colonies of Trinidad, Demerara, Berbice, Antigua, and Dominica ; as also assortments of dry and salted provisions, to the supposed amount of about 25,00 0 dollars. A gentleman who has lately arrived at Jamaica from Trinidad da Cuba, states that the slave trade is carried on openly, and that while he was there a sloop entered the port and reported her cargo. Finding there was no danger from our cruisers she pro ceeded a short distance from the town, and landed 542 slaves. Two brigs had a few days previously landed about the same num ber. It is strongly suspected that these vessels belong to British capitalists THE FUNDS. We have no arrivals as yet of any consequence ; but our Funds seem to improve. Consols, which left off yesterday at 83% if, opened at 83 3 A ; at present they are at 83% to 84 for the account. 1 4 his is attributed to the French prices coming higher. BALF-PAST ONE. Consols are at preseat 83% 84 for the Account —ln the Fo reign Market little doing, Consols 83% 84. THREE 0 CL 0 C.K. FOUR O'CLOCK.—CLOSING PRICES. Consols ....... Danish Ditto for Account 838 4. Greek, 1825 — Brazilian Bonds.. 448 Mexican, 1825 561 Buenos Ayres.... -- Peruvian Chilian Ditto •• Russian lOO •••• Columbian, 1824 -- Spanish l4l HOUSE OF COMMONS.-(THIS DAY.) Nothing of importance took place up to the time of our ;oing to press. The Duke of BuccLEUCH has returned to Montague-House, Privy- gardens, from Dalkeith Palace, an express having reached his Grace on Monday last requir ing his immediate presence in the metropolis. His Graces journey from the North is supposed to have reference to the rumoured accommodation of the principal points in dispute between Ministers and their opponents on the sub ject of the Reform Bill. [IS DAY AT ONZ O'CLOCK. PRICES OF THE STOCKS Ti Rink Stock 5191 2 3 per Cent. Red l32y, % 3 per Cent. Cons. 3'per Cent. 8 9 34 1): tto Red 8 9% 'O4 New 3%per Cent shut 3 per Cent. Ann. 1726 - 4 per Cent. 1826 99% se Bank Long Ann to expire Jan. 5, 186' 1034 7-16 Oct. 10, 1859 163.4 Jan. 5, 1860 Jan. 5, 1880 - Aprils, 1880 Jan. 5, 1870 - New 5 per Cent. — India Stock Ditto Bonds 4 3 dis. South Sea Stock Old Annuities — New Ditto shut 3 per Cent. Ann. 1751 Ex. Bills, XI,OOO 5 6 rm. Ditto . ... ...WO 5 6 pm. Ditto Small Ditto Commercial. pm. Ditto Advertised — rm. Bank for Opening — India for Account — Cons. for'Jan. 19 83% 4 3,', PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT C:III O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds — Neapolitan Brazilian Bonds Peruvian Bonds ....... ........ £ uelos Ayres Bonds — Portuguese Bonds Cnuian Bonds — :Prussian, Old + olombian Bonds —'Ditto, New Ditto, 18'24 Oanish Greek Bonds — , 1823 1334 ritto, 1825 G natimala —l— Exchange N' os.ican Bonds — !--- 3 per cent, Of. —c. 'itto, 1825 — '— Exchange...... 25: 30c. fric ltc -Mt+ LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 14, 1831. CHOLERA INIORBUS, OFFICIAL REPORT. COUNCIL OFFICE.—(THIS DAY.) DAILY REPORT of CHOLERA CASES, SUNDERLAND, DEC. 12, 1831. Remained at last report New cases Total, Died Recovered Remaining at this date, 8 o'clock, )4,r 2B From the Commencement of the Disease, on Oct. 28, 1831 Cases, 441.—Died, NEWCASTLE, DEC. 12. Remained at last report 4 New cases Total .. Died Recovered . . Remaining at this date, 8 o'clock, A.M 8 Front the Commencement of the Disease, on Dec. 7, 1831. ,Cases, 16.—Died, 7. NORTH SHIELDS, DEC. 12. Remained at last report New cases Died 0 Recovered Remaining at this date 1 From the Commencement of the Disease. Cases, .'2.—Died, 1. (Signed) WM. MACLEAN, Secretary. P. S. Two cases are reported to have occurred at Seghill, about ten miles, and one at Wideopen, about seven miles, from New• castle. We refer to another column for an official com munication respecting the cholera, as also some re gulations recommended for general adoption by Drs, RUSSELL and BARRY. The new Reform Bill has been published, and appears in another part of this day's Sun. Any trivial inaccuracies, therefore, that may have acci dentally crept into the newspaper reports of Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S speech on Monday night, from which, in our yes . erday's notice, we derived our materials, may now be corrected by the reader, who will have the official report before him to set him right. Lord ELLENBOROUGII brought forward his mo tion last night in the House of Lords, for copies of a correspondence which had taken place between the Canton Factory and the East India Company, on the subject of certain differences which had existed between the two parties. In justification of his motion, his Lordship observed that there never wa s a moment at which the interests of this country, as connected with China, were in greater peril than at 1 the present. He trusted, therefore, that Ministers would not take any decided steps, least of all, any aggressive ones, until they had fully and impartially sifted and deliberated on all the circumstances of the case. his Lordship added a hope that offi cial information would not be refused, except on the strongest grounds. Earl GREY le plied that he thought by complying with the motion, and producing at the present moment, the information required, he should be acting prejudi cially to the public service; when, however, the fitting season arrived, he would make a point of granting all the information that could be desired. He trusted, therefore that, under existing circumstances, the Noble Lord would not press his motion. The motion was accordingly withdrawn, after which their Lordships adjourned till Thursday. There was no House of Commons last night, not withstaOing Mr. PERCIVAL had given notice of a motion for the appointment of a day of national fasting and humiliation. Honourable Members seemed, naturally enough, to think that a national fast was a matter of supererogation, as there was quite fasting enough in the country already. Pro bably Qr . ! the same principle the Ultras objected to the *ointment of a day of humiliation, as every day was-one of that character to them. Mr. PER CIVAL, therefore, was neither able to propose a fast nor a humiliation—a sad disappointment—which we trust will net press too heavily on his d e vo u t and sensitive spirit. The expedition against Don MIGUEL will carry with it the warmest wishes for its success, of the friends of civil and religious liberty throughout the globe. Whether the force equipped be adequate to its object, and whether its conduct is likely to be such as to ensure a triumph, are questions upon which it may be yet premature to hazard an opi nion. But we cannot witness its departure, without an ardent hope that GOD may prosper an attempt to upset the most detestable tyranny that has ever afflicted any country upon the earth's surface. The KING'S speech alluded concisely to the impos sibility of recognizing a person whose recent conduct towards British subjects has been contrary to inter national rights, and of a piece with his former perfidy and criminality. We are sure that Lord ABERDEEN, if consulted, would have suggested to his friend, that the worst possible way to regain the good opinion of Great Britain, was to pursue the course of insulting and outraging the persons and property of British subjects, that has of late been followed at Lisbon. But at a time when an attempt is actually making on behalf of the legitimate Sovereign to restore to her her usurped rights, and when a con siderable population in the Azores is de facto under the sceptre of Donna MARIA, there are the strongest reasons against renewing with the Usurpe r those relations which have hitherto been so properly suspended. The Tory party is constantly asserting that MI GUEL is the choice of the people, and that the rights of Legitimacy ought to give way to the popular will. This is the language of the same party which maintained a twenty years' war against France for the restoration of Legitimacy, against the wishes of the French nation, and which et this hour, is op posing, tooth and nail, the universal voice of the people of England for Reform in Parliament. When the people are so ignorant and stupid as to be duped by the Priests, the Tories ety out that the people's choice ought to be respected, but when they have sense enough to desire their rights and consti tutional liberty,l the cry is then—save the country' from Democracy and Revolution T. The truth is, as the English friends of the Por tuguese monster well know, that the Clergy and Nobles have so great influence over the lower order , in Portugal as to induce them to support MIGUEL but all the _enlightened classes, and especially the mercantile men and manufacturers in the large towns, particularly in Oporto,. are eager to be re lieved of the tyratrt, and to enjoy the blessings of a constitutional government. The progress of time is adding new force to the truth in all countri.-s, and the Constitutionalists are not likely to abandon tho•c hopes which are, without doubt, sooner or late! destined to be fulfilled by the dethronement of tht , Usurper, and the placing of the Constitutional Crown on the head of Donna MARIA, its rightful CHOLERA 11TORBUS. CENTRAL BOARD OF HEALTH, COUNCIL OFFICE, WHITEHALL, 13TH DEC. 1831. Sta,—Agreeably to the intimation given by this Board in the concluding paragraph of their Circular, dated 14th ult. I have the honour to transmit the subjoined "Sanitary Instructions for Communities supposed to be actually attacked by Spasmodi;, Cholera," with some observations on the stature and treatment of the disease, drawn up by Drs. Russell and Barry. Every individual being deeply interested in the preservation of the public health, it is the bounden duty of all to endeavour to arrest the spread of disease at its very commencement. In order to attain this important object— lst. The most efficient arrangements should be made by the Local Boards of Health, and other authorities, to obtain the earliest, and most correct intelligence of every suspicious case which may occur within their jurisdiction. 2d. All unnecessary communication should be prevented, as Car as possible, between the infected and the healthy. 3d. As space, cleanliness, and pure air are of the most vital consequence, both to the recovery of the sick person and to the safety of those about him, the patient labouring under spasmodic cholera should either be placed in a separate well-ventilated apartment of his own house, if it aftbrd such accom modation, and be attended by as few persons as the circumstances of his case will admit, or be induced to submit to an immediate removal to such building as may have been provided for the re ception of persons whose circumstances will not afford the advan tages at home, of space, air, and separation from the healthy. 4th. When an individual shall have been attacked with this disease, and placed under the most favourable conditions, as already pointed out, both for the recovery of his own and the safety of tlic public health ; the room or apartment where he may have been attacked, and horn which he may have been removed, should be purified by scrubbing, Lime -washing, free ventilation,- and fn• migation by heated sulphuric acid and common salt, with black oxyde of manganese, or the same acid with nitre, or when these materials cannot be obtained, by strong vinegar thrown srlson heated bricks. The bed, bedding, and clothes, should be immersed in water, washed with soap, and afterwards fumigated as above sth. To correct all offensive smells, chloride of lime may be applied; but great caution is recommended in the use of this material, its fumes continued for any length of time, having been found highly prejudicial to health, snore particularly in delicate persons. 6th. A number of steady men, proportionate to the district in which they are to act, should be appointed to lime-wash and purify, as ordered above, under the direction of medical autho rity, such apartments as may be pointed out by the Inspectors of the Local Board. 7th. Those who die of this disease should be buried as soon as possible, wrapped in cotton or linen cloth saturated with pitch , or coal tar, and be carried to the grave by the fewest possible number of persons. The funeral service to be performed in the open air. Bth. n is of the utmost importance to the public health that an Improved diet, and flannel clothing, at least flannel belts and woollen stockings, should be given to the poor. No person should ever allow himself to sit down and get cool, with wet feet. The most particular attention should be paid to keeping the feet dry and warns. Repletion and indigestion should be guarded against; all raw vegetaldes, acescent, unwholesome food and drink to be avoided. Tem perance should be most rigidly observed ill every thing. In short, no means should be neglected which may tend to pre , serve individual health. The neglect of any or all of those eau= dons would not of themselves produce the specific disease Called ' spasmodic cholera ; but such neglect would most assuredly di,s pose the individual living in an infected atmosphere to he at tacked by this disease, when most probably he might otherwise have escaped. The most effectual means by which this disease may be pre vented from extending, is to enable the poor, who arc generally the first attacked, to oppose to its influence, as far as practicable, and private charity will, it is hoped, not tail t o produce. those ameliorations in diet, clothing, and lodging which public OBSERVATIONS ON THE NATURE AND TREAT. MENT OF THE DISEASE, DRAWN UP BY DRS. RUSSELL AND BARRY. Of tha two great classes of functions performed by the organs of which man is Composed, one only Is attacked in this disease. The operations of the senses and of the intelligence are either left untouched, or are affected but in a secondary manner. Those functions, on the contrary, by which existence as a liv ing is preserved ; those complicated poWers, by means of which we are for ever appropriating and converting into a part of our selves portions of the matter around us ; are all and at once de ranged by the attack of this terrible malady. 'Nutrition is anni hilated; respiration becomes difficult, irregular, and ineffi t cient ; the involuntary muscles no longer perform their task the voluntary are drawn into contractions by other powers than the will ; the blood ceases to circulate; its p h y sical properties are atered; its serous portion is suddenly throzsm out upon the intestinal mucus surface of the body the secretions Are all arrested; the animal heat is no longer produced. Under such rapidly destructive, and almost universal derange ment of function, the most energetic efforts should be directed to produce what the disease has rendered nature unable to keep up, vii.- Ist. Fluidity, heat, and motion in the blood. 2d. Regulated action in the voluntary, and involuntary muscles Lastly, but above every other consideration, renewed energy in the nervous centre, the source of all vitality and function. No remedy at all approaching to the nature of a specific has been as yet discovered for the disease. In fact, no one mode of cure can be usefully employed under all the circum stances of any disease. The grades of intensity, and the group ing of the symptoms with which spasmodic cholera makes its attacks, vary with the conditions of the subject ;, ii. treatment. therefore, must vary with those grades and conditions. The leding preliminary symptoms generally are, either diarr lima, spasms, apoplectic vertigo with nausea, imperfect vomiting, or various combinations of these symptoms. When the diarrhoea affords time for distinct treatment; it ought to be arrested at once by the most proinpt and eftiClent measures ;—by opium in moderate doses ; astringents ; local bleeding by leeches, if the subject be plethoric ' • by cordials s td sulphate of quinine, if there be cold sweats ; by confining the patient strictly to bed, and keeping up heat; by diet ; by emetics. Should spasms be the first and leading symptom, subnitrate of bismuth, cupping along the course of the spine, cordial, and anti spasmodic medicines, opium, frictions, and dry warmth are in dicated. But when the patient is suddenly seized with vertigo, nausea, coldness, loss of pulse, blueness of the skin, shrinking of the features and extremities, with more or less watery discharges and cramps ; constituting an aggravated case of the worst type whether this state shall have come on without warning, or shall have supervened upon either, or both of the preliminary sets of symptoms already mentioned, time must not be wasted upon inert measures. Such a patient will inevitably perish, and within a very few hours, if the paralysed vital functions be not quickly restored. Let him then be immediately placed between warm blankets ; and should no medical person be at hand, let two table-spoons full of common kitchen salt, dissolved in six ounces of warm water, be given immediately, and at once, if he be all adult. Let dry and steady heat be applied along the course of the spine, and to the pit of the stomach, (if no other means be at , hand,) by a succession of heated plates lor platters. Let the upper and lower extremities be surrounded with bags of heated bran, corn, ashes or sand, and assiduously rubbed with a warm hand, and a little oil or grease to protect the skin. Energetic, complete vomiting will probably be pro duced by the salt ; and perhaps bilious purging, with tenesmus. Should a medical man be on the spot, a moderate bleeding, if it can be obtained, would be desirable, previously to, or imme diately after the administration of the salt, or of any other emetic which may be preferred. The extensively deranged action of those organs, whose nerves are, chiefly derived from, or connected with the spinal marrow ; the anatomical characters found about that great source of vitality, after death, in many cases of this disease; together with the success stated by Dr. Lange, chief physician at Cronstadt, to have attended the prac tice mentioned below, founded upon these views, in twe;ve out of fourteen aggravated cases, fully justify the following re commendation . 4 In cases such as those just described, let the cautery be freely applied to one or two, or more places on either side of the spine, as if for the purpose of forming good sized issues. Should the heated iron have produced any excitement of the nervous power, and the salt-emetic have caused any portion of the bile to flow through its proper duct, a great step will have been accomplished towards recovery from the stage of collapse. Cordials and opiates judiciously administered ; sinapisms and other external stimulants, mercurials, with mild aromatic ape rients, which the intelligence and activity of British medical practitioners will not fail to adapt to the actual circumstances of each case, will conduct the patient safely to the stage of re action. The organs during the collapse of this disease, probably owing to deficient vitality, often gives no indication of having been acted upon by repeated doses of certain powerful medicines, which under other circumstances would have produced the most pronounced effects. It is, therefore, suggested that this tempo rary insensibility of the system could not inculcate the adminis tration of such repeated quantities as could, by accumulation, when the organs begin to recover their vitality, give rise to un favourable results. Thirst being a most distressing symptom of this disease, the quality and temperature of the drink should perhaps be lett to the choice of the patient; but the quantity taken at a time should not exceed tour ounces, and should be acidulated with nitrous acid, if the patient will bear it. Should the disease prove extensively, and rapidly epidemic in a large community, it would be prudent to establish stations at convenient distances from each other, where medical assistance and medicines might be procured without the risk of disappoint ment or delay. The details of these arrangements are left to the wisdom of Local Boards of Health. As the symptoms of the consecutive stage of feverish re-action in cholera differ but little, if at all, from those of ordinary typhus, except perhaps in the greater rapidity with which they but too often run to a fatal termination ; and as this kind of fever is treated in no part of the world with more success than in Eng . land, the entire management of this stage of the disease is left to the zeal and science of the profession at large. Attentive nursing, and assiduous, well-directed rubbing, are of the utmost importance ; a strictly horizontal position, howoer, must be maintained until the heart shall have, partly at least, re covered itaaction. An erect or even se mi-erect position, dun_pg the collapse, has been often observed to produce instant death . Warm .baths therefore, for this and other reasons, are worse than useless : evaporating fluids,and indeed'alliroisture applied to the skin,seem to be contradicted for obvious reasons. Hot air baths, so con trived as to be applicable in a recumbent posture, and admitting access to the patient for the purpose of friction, may be of use. I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient servant, E. STEWART, Chairman. Bets, it is said, are in favour of Mr. Jortz , r WILSON CROKER that be will deliver more yards of speech than even Sir CHARLES WETHERELL, on the Reform Bill, enriched also with an incomparable brogue. „ . LITERARY PRESENTS.—The following very useful and interesting works, peculiarly adapted as gifts for Christmas and the New Year, have been recently published by Messrs. COLBU EN and BENTLEY Tales of Classic Lore, written by a Lady for the Instruction of her own Daughters, 3 vole. 245. bound-2. Practical Wisdom, or the Counsels of Eminent Men to their Children ; with nine miniature Portraits, 58. bound-3. The Etonian : the joint production of the highest and most talented of the Eton Scholars : 3 vols. 18s. bound-4. 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We have received this morning by express the Paris Papers of Monday, from which the following are extracts : (From the Temps of Monday.) ROME—It is a difficult thing to force a Government full of prejudices to make popular concessions, what reason could not accomplish interest has obtained, a loan has been taken by a certain powerful house at very liberal conditions, and under certain prospect of ameliorating the situation of a certain class of people ; it it is true that the house in question has stipulated for the liberties of his brethren in the Papal dominions, and thus converted a matter of business into an act of philanthropy, if this be true, we say such noble conduct ought to be highly honoured. Upon these principles the system of loans, public credit, and circulating medium, which is one of the great progenies of civilization, produces immense benefit on public li berty. It would not be difficult to prove by sundry histories that money is one of the first levers of liberal institutions. Metternich increases his loans in Austria • 50,000,000 Mil ins are to be raised again immediately. Perhaps he is not aware that these loans will induce the Austrian Government to think at last of liberal institutions, because loans must lead to publicity of accounts, and from that to freedom of the Press, to political meetings, and representative Governments. The Duke of Orleans and Soult have arrived at Paris this day. LYONS, DEC. B.—The Chamber of Commerce has addressed to Government the following demand : I. The te-establishment of the duty of transit, at the rate of per cent. 2. The establishment of a premium of 2 per cent. on all silks exported from France to a foreign country. A private letter from Lyons of the Bth states—" That the ho rizon has not as yet cleared up, their situation is much the same. From the imposing attitude of the troops in that city and its environs, the work-people still manifest great agitation, and postpone all their objects until the ltith instant, in case the Go vernment does not grant them the tariff they have promised." FRENCII FUNDS.—Three per Cents., 60f. 40c. end of the month. The Morning Herald of this morning denounces the report respecting the revolution in Spain, which appeared in its columns yesterday, as " an impudent and deliberate fraud, very plausibly and artfully con trived, and, we regret to say, but too successfully practised against us." Canton Registers to the 16th of.TZtly have been re ceived at the North and South American Coffee house, but their contents are anticipated by ac counts of the 29th, inserted a few days ago in The Sun, and stating that the differences between the Company and the Chinese had been amicably settled. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY FROM LLOYD'S. ...,,... DEAL, DEC. 13.—Wind W.S.W. and squally, with thunder and lightning.—Arrived the Langford, Barton, from Sligo. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. I3.—Wind W.S. W. and squally.— Sailed the Wonder and Hope transports for Deptford. FALMOUTH, DEC. 12.—A violent gale with heavy squalls from S. to S.W. with every appearance of a rough night.—Ar rived the Sappho, Mullens, from Quebec; and Colleria, Hawes, from St. John's, New Brunswick. RAMSGATE, Dec. 13.—Arrived the Warrens, Martin, front the Mauritius. . _ TORBAY, DEC. 12.—Arrived the Olive Branch, Franks, from Lisbon. - - 104,./4•• PENZANCE, DEC. 12.—Arnved off port theDorothea,—, from Rio Janeiro. LIVERPoOL, Dec. 12.—Arrived the Alcona, Hore, from Lisbon ; Broke, Crosby, from New Orleans, after being on shore; Mountaineer, Dodd, from Quebec ; and Augusta, Russell, from St. John's, New Brunswick. DUBLIN, DEC. 12.—Arrived the Pursuit, Seller, from Tene rifle ; and Pluto, Frilo, from Lisbon. CORK, DEC. 11;—Arrived the Cabinet, Field, from Quebec; and I)ouglas Town, Allen, from Miramichi. NEWRY, DEC. 12.—Arrived the Princess Charlotte, Roach, from Quebec. The Asia, Berry, from St. Petersburgh to Hull, was driven on shore the 20th ult. in Oland, and not expected to be got off: The Britannia, Richardson, from Malaga to Dublin, was on shore near Bray, on Monday. 'The Phoenix, Dennis, from Amsterdam to Hull, was driven. on shore off Saltffeet on Sunday night ; crew saved. The Hannah, Jackson, with despatches from China, sailed the 29th of July, has arrived in the Downs. The Reynard packet had not arrived at Jamaica the 19th of October, from Carthagena. The Duke and Duchess of ARGYLL have arrived in Upper Brook-street, from Brighton. Lady GEORGIANA PAGET, who is understood to be affianced to Lord ADOLPHUS FITZCLARENCE, is at present resid ing with their Graces. The Duchess of ARGYLL is mo ther to Lady GEORGIA NA, by her first marriage with the Marquis of ANGLESEA, and which union was dissolved by the Scotch Courts in 1810. COURT WITS.—A novel has been announced under the title of " Sir Ralph Esher," from the pen of Mr. LEIGH Huwr, the scene of which is laid in the very heart of the Court of CHARLES the Second; while the characters are, with few exceptions, the actual personage., male and female, who formed a coterie which had no precedent, and has never been imitated. In endeavouring to preserve the lively wit of CHARLES'S cavaliers and dames, and to depict the singular incidents which arose in those merry days, the author is understood to have care fully eschewed all which could by possibility offend the most fastidious in morals. CAMBRIDGE, DEC. 11.—I write to inform you of a most extraordinary circumstance that took place here last night,—viz. the attempt to blow up our po,,t office by means of gunpowder ; but I am happy to say, for the ends of justice, the vile perpetrator is safely lodged in our town gaol. A Mr. BRAKE, a student of Trinity College, was absolutely taken in the fact. On Tuesday last, the Post-master discovered a packet containing gunpowder in the letter-box, and a cigar that bore marks of having been ignited. On Thursday another packet was found in the box, with a slip of touch-paper at the end, and which had been lighted. On these accounts he got two police men from town, and had them stationed in the office to be ready, and two more to be in the street to make observa tion. Our post closes at half-past nine in the evening. About balf.past eight a person in the costume of the Uni versity was observed to be looking about him at the letter box, and observed to apply a lighted cigar to a piece of paper which he held in his hand. He dropped the paper parcel in the box ; at this moment the police-man inside broke a pane of glass in the Post. office window as a signal, and the officers on the watch outside instantly secured the man, who proved to be a student of Trinity College. He was committed to our town-gaol that night, and to-mor row is expected to be fully committed for trial. There was about two ounces of powder in the parcel, which was folded up like a letter, but sewed at the ends, and a touch paper about nine inches, communicating with the inside ; a string was tied round the middle, with which be suspended it in the letter-hole while he was lighting the touch-paper. I must tell you, that about half an hour previous to his detection he was seen to walk up to the office, but thought himself observed ; the Pest-master's son observed and followed him, saw him enter a shop, light his cigar, and walk up to the box, &c.—Times' Correspondent. LIBRARY OF MODERN FICTION.—The very interesting publication, so long announced, under the title of " The Modern Novelists," in fifty volumes, a selection of the best recent works of fiction from the pens of the most eminent authors, will be ready for delivery in the course of the present week. It is to be published at only 6s. per volume, bound. It will contain the works of Mr. WARD, (the Author of " Tretnaine,") Mr. LISTER, (the Author of " Granby,") Mr. THKODORE HOOK, Mr. HORACE SMITH, Mr. GRATTAN, mr. BiILWER, &c. &C. ; and as the impression of this cheap and unique collection is limited to 250 copies, those who are desirous of procu • ring sets should transmit their orders - forthwith to their respective booksellers. SALUTATION IN BoitEmlA.—lf you meet a peasant in Bohemia, you pass for a heathen unless you say to him, " Blessed be the Lord !" or in case he salute you thus, unless you answer, "In eternity, Amen."' STATE OF TRADE. ---The trades of this town are generally in a more alarmingly depressed state than has been known fur many years. In one of our most staple trades—the manufacturing of buttons—there is tittle doing ; while our numerous brass-founders com plain loudly of the general, and, indeed, ruinous stagna tion of business. Failures are almost daily occurring, and unless some efficient measure of relief speedily takes place, serious results may be anticipated before Christmas. The general impression in Birmingham, as in London, is, that an alarming crisis in the commercial world is fast approach. ing, —Birmingham Jour, al.