The Sun. — London, England, 1831-05-10 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Yorkshire is unanimous for Reform. The will of that great county is declarel in a manner sufficiently unequivocal, by the return of four staunch Reformer. to Parliament, and the speedy, though reluctant re treat of Mr. Duncombe, without venturing to face his former friends. In Devonshire —the first county of the south of England, as Yorkshire is of the north —Lords John Russell and Ebrington have not en countered the slightest opposition. Kent, Sussex, Hampshire, Devon,—and we believe that Dorset may be added,—have thus determined the predomi nant spirit of the vast agricultural districts, forming the southern boundary of the kingdom. Cornwall delays her adhesion only that Sir Richard Vyvyee may, for a few days longer, be forced to exhibit the cause of Toryism in its agonies. The contest for Worcestershire proceeds in a manner not very promising to the anti-popular cause. Captain Lygon has already fallen behind 'Mr. Foley, and bends under the pressure of the next antagonist, the Hon. Captain Spencer. Sir Robert Price and Mr. Hos kins have been returned for Herefordshire. In Buckinghamshire, indeed,—the very citadel of the boroughmongering policy,—Lord Chandos has suc ceeded; but though the cause is defeated in this county, the defeat has been owing to the want of cordiality between the Reform candidates, and not to want of zeal among the people. The Reform can didates in Northamptonshire, bearing the noble names of Milton and Althorp, have already shot out beyond their adversaries, for whom no chance of success can be anticipated by their most zealous partisans. Colonel Tytell stands, as he has done from the beginning, at the foot of the poll for Essex; but in a minority of about 500 votes as com pared with Mr. Wellesley ; and in a minority of pounds sterling, as compared with the state of his own purse at the outset, to probably twenty times that amount. In Huntingdonshire Mr. Rooper still heads the poll. His return, we are told, is certain, and leave no subject of regret but the want of a second Reform candidate for his colleague, though we admit that in such a county it was al most hopeless to expect complete success. The good cause triumphs in Bedfordshire, where Lord -Tavistock holds an eminent place, and Mr. Stuart, Lord Bute's appointee, being left:between 300 and 400 astern, was prepared (according to the letters of yesterday) to give up all further struggle. But Cumberland is likely to afford a test of a pinching nature to the Tories. Lord Lowther, having taken to flight from Westmoreland, has perched in an evil hour upon the neighbouring county, and put himself forth as a rival to Sir James Graham, to whom Mr. Blamire, a gentleman of esteemed character and a friend of Reform, has been associated by the inde pendent interest; and what is the consequence to the he 'r of the house of Lonsdale, in this the very heart of It's family dominions ? Why, that by two o'clock on the third day of the election Sir James Graham had polled - votes MI Mr. Blamire 9;3 Lord Lowther a majority of 500 against the Noble Lord, being 90 mote than the entire number of his own supporters! Now there are worse men going than Lord Lowther, and thousands less capable of doing the public business : nor have we heard that his Lordship is by any means personally unpopular among his neigh bours. Here, therefore, stands another pregnant proof of the resisoless force of Reform. In Weqt moreland itself, the very manor and hunting ground .of the Lonsdales, they have been compelled, after a succession of compromises, to content themselves • with a Refotmer in the person of Mr. Nowell; and had the liberals been aware of their own strength, they might have secured the second Member like wise. Since we wrote the above report of the elec tions, intelligence Vas reached us that Mr. Stuart fulfilled on Saturday last his promise to retire from Bedfordsh're. We therefore congratulate the county that Lord Tavistock and Sir Peter Payne are returned. There is at this moment but one topic of reproach to the Reformers, or of concern for the cause itself, taken in its broad and general aspect Throughout England,—it is, that men appear too much engrossed by the scenes immediately about them, to look around and reflect upon the interests of the country as a whole. The subscriptions, libe ral as they proved in many instances, have never theless not tilled FO eagerly or Xpeedily as we had hoped for. It is true, indeed, that a vast majority of the electors have bravely met the pub lic exigency to the extent to which they were directly called upon, out of their own resources. They have put the Reform candidates to little or no expense in many parts of England, where hereto fore every thing used to be done by pecuniary ad vances from his candidate or his committee. It ought, boa ever, to he recollected, that with the best intentions in the world, tens of thousands of poor voters cannot convey themselves from.distant places to the poll without a serious encroachment oa their scanty means, and a sensible distress to their families. `This, therefore, is an evil which ought to be reme died forthwith. Subscriptions ought to be re-opened in all directions: no candidate ought to start for any town or county in England without contributing a sum of money to the central fund ; nor should any elector above want go up to the hustings who had riot previously thrown in his mite to the receiving box for die fund, not applicable to local p ur p oses through any district committee, but to the gre a t cause every where, as ordered by the stiperinten• dents in London. There is reason to be thankful that so much has yet been done,—that in a 'than of about two-thirds of the gross amount of the House of Commons, a majority of between eighty and ninety has already been secured to Ministers. Now, however, is the moment when eveiy mrve aught to be strained, and such an addition procured to the Reform body, as shall give the House of Lords a lesson of what is required from the formal .aristocracy of the kingdom, by the people, already. luccussful in the appeal to their own repreienta 'fives.— Times. We regret that through inadvertence we have lost a day in taking the notice which we ought of the honourable struggle and noble conduct of the electors of Aylesbury, in their support of theirs and of the nation's candidate for the representation of that borough, Lord Nugent. The Duke of Buck ingham and Lord Chandos - set up Lord Kirkwall to oppose his Lordship, furnishing him with 250 pocket-votes made out of land-tax purchases, and annuities (issuing out of land) to servants and de pendents of all sorts. The faithful and high-minded friends of Reform in Aylesbury, though mostly small farmers and little trad,smen, resisted this at tack with a spiri►, activity, and industry, unparal leled in election contests, and steadily advanced his lordship in two days to a majority of 62. Then tithe Duke and his son, for the mere purpose of de testing their lit ersL.sinded relative, split their pocket-votes between LAW Kirkwall and Mr. Rick lord, a pledged reformer. We rejoice at the suc cess of this gentleman in the abstract, but grieve to see at whose cost Ice is advanced, and are sorry that feelings such as those we have described should meet with their gratification. Mr. Rickford will :not thank his ungracious benefactors, of whose ma :lives he must be aware.--Tunes. another great county has sent two Reformers to Parliament. What has taken place in Somerset shire Affords a very striking proof of the intensity of the fading throughout the country in favour of Re form. 19r. Gordon, a Tory or Anti-Reform can didate, is a very rich man. We understand that he placed 100,00 W. at his banker's for the purposes of the election—that he had engaged all the attorneys and the public-houses, and that he was even willing;!to spend in addition to the 100,0001. at his 'banker's .ailethcr 50,000/. if he had seen the slightest chance of success. But all this wealth was of no use to him. The spirit and determina tion evinced by the freeholders of the great county of Somerset was such, that lie saw there was no opening for him. The Bath Journal of yes terday -contains a very full acco unt of the proceed ings, a ntlgs,of nvhich we have bee n onl y able to give an brd u idg s . alent. A correspondent has al s o tran smitted t an account of this great triumph of Reform, In Cumberland Lord.Lowther does not seem to have' the slightest chance of success, though he has, like many other opponents of the Bill, turned Reformer The'proposer and seconder of his Lordship even ex pressed themselves in favour of a large measure of Reform. Sir James Graham, alluding to his Lord ship's sudden affection for Reform, observed to the assembled freeholders—" He is now at your bar, and if you perform your duty, you will get from him distinctly what he means by a large and extensive measure of Reform." " It is not (he added significantly) twelve months since a borough—l mean that of East Retford—was con victed of what is fashionably called delinquency'—and the meaning of delinquency' you will understand to be this—that some poor cobbler is discovered to have received a few shillings as a bribe for his vote, and is held up to execration, while of the rich briber and trafficker nothing is said. This cant and hypocrisy, this mean and paltry endeavour to cover that system of seat selling, which is notorious as the sun at noon-day, and to expose the two guinea bribe of the poor man ; this gross hypocrisy has done more, I verily believe, than any other circumstance, to destroy patriotism, and sap the foundations of political virtue.—(Cheers.) But to return. What, I say, was the conduct of the Noble Lord on the East Retford case ? The proposition was the most moderate species of Reform that could be imagined. The electors did not exceed two hundred in number, they were the poorest class, and many of them had been convicted of ' delinquency'—the proposition was that they should be disfranchised, and the right of election transferred to the populous and important town of Birmingham. How did the Noble Lord vote on that occasion ? Did he, who is now for a large and ex tensive measure of Reform, support that proposition ? No; he voted against it."—(lmmense cheering.) His Lordship allowed that he was not a reformer from choice, but from necessity; and it follows that he will give as little as he possibly can. Like a dis honest debtor, he would, if possible, pay no part of hie creditor's demand ; but rather than see his effects taken in execution, or himself thrown into prison, he would pay a composition. " The Hon. Baronet (says his Lordship) blames me for coming round to admit that Reform is necessary, after being opposed to it so long. But if I had refused to change, I should have been characterised as obstinate. I see enough of the state of feeling in the country to jus tify me in saying some Reform is necessary." Well, and what then is the composition which his Lordship offers ? " I would disfranchise all boroughs where the patron is found guilty of selling, or the electors of gross corruption." Having made this grand con cession, Lord Lowther, with an amusing self-com placency, observed, " Gentlemen, I am not so ob stinate as to stand against the feeling of the country. Some one in the crowd says I am late, but I say, better late than never." But admitting the possibi lity of proving what is as notorious as the sun at noon-day—the selling of seats by patrons—are we not told by nearly all the oppenents of Reform, that the various interests of the empire can only be re presented through the purchase of seats ? If, there fore, we could convict the patron of selling a sear, and the consequences were the transference of the franchise to a populous place, we should destroy that which constitutes the chief attraction of the present system to the great body of the Anti-Reformers. And, in truth, the staunch Anti• Reformers are much more consistent than the Noble Lord with his Reform. They do not say that it is good per se that Earl A., or Earl 8., should possess the right of nominating Members to Parliament; but that there is no other mode of ad justing the share which the various interests of the empire ought to have in the representation, than by allowing to them free access to the borough market. The various interests will purchase according to the shares of the national wealth which they respectively hold. But if the patrons are not to sell, but to be stow their seats, arid there is no longer to be a pro portion between the extent of the different interests and the share of the representation as determined by their ability to purchase, then why leave the re presentation to the caprice of individuals? There may be a few silly inhabitants in a wealthy town; but if the choice is given to all the inhabitants rated above a certain sum, the return would no longer be governed by caprice, but by the opinion of the most respectable inhabitants. Lord Lowther's Reform, then, if even not illusory, would be worse than no Reform. But, as Sir J. Graham justly observed, all this talk about punishing the sale of seats, is vile cant and hypocrisy. The people of Cum berland are too shrewd to be taken in by the Noble Lcrd, with all his cleverness. In Essex, Colonel Tyrrell, who expected great things from the effects of the Saturday night Vestries, and the four hundred sermons in the various parish churches (for Anti- Reform is now the gospel of the great body of the parsons), has not succeeded according to his expec tations. Mr. Wellesley continues to gain on him, and, at the close of last night's poll, his majority was .514. He has no chance; but he threatens to die hard. On being questioned by Mr. Western, whether, as he could have no chance of successdie would continue the contest, he said if he were asked to give an opinion when the contest would terminate, he should say the last hour of the fifteenth day ; and after that he trusted he should riot hear anything more about retiring. We suppose, as he is without hope of success, he will not expend much more money, but keep open the poll to give trouble to the reformers. Mr. Western answered very sen sibly the objection that was made to a coalition between him and Mr. Wellesley, that " it was not he, but the cause, that had bound together in an in diss6luble bond those who would rescue the Par liament from that corruption which had so long de graded it." We are glad to see that the Wor cestershire Colonel Lygon is considerably be low Lord Foley, and that Captain Spencer runs the Colonel closely. We expect to find the next day's poll placing Captain Spencer above the Colonel. This contest is highly cre ditable to the people. All that wealth can do has been done, and will continue to be done, for Lygon ; but the firm will of the Reformers will conquer notwithstanding. The Birmingham Journal states that an active Committee of professional gentlemen sits At Dee's Hotel daily, and liberal subscriptions have been raised towards carrying the voters in the interest of Foley and Spencer to the poll. "We believe (says that Journal) that on Monday and Tuesday five hundred voters will be sent down from Birmingham and the rre:ghbourhood, in the interest of the Reform party, free from all charge to the candielates." This is a call on the metropolis. Every thing ought to be done for the noble-minded R formers of Worcestershire, who have set at de ' fiance such an overwhelming influence. In Cheshire a setere contest is threatened ; but it is stated that the Reformtrs are sure of success. We regret to find that Buckinghamshire proves an exception to the general rule. An Anti-Reform candidate is there at the head of the poll. The Reformers have mismanaged matters in that county. They ought to have made proper arrangements at the outset. The Anti-Reformers will, no doubt, make the most of this solitary triumph. We confess we wish Buckinghamshire could have escaped this disgrace. —Morning Chronicle. - - Papers and letters from Warsaw of the 28th ult. draw a frightful picture of the horrors of the Polish war. The troops on both sides are described as in constant motion and frequent action. Great numbers fall by the sword, but more become sacrifices to fatigue, the inclemency of the weather, want of a shelter, or scanty fare. The Russian officers are said to be in such terror of the Polish peasants, that they cannot venture many paces from their men ; while the peasants, on the other hand, are plundered, hunted from their dwellings, and driven to wander in the woods by t h e R uss i an troops. To increase the calamities of the M uscov i tes, t h e cholera has broken out in their ranks, and heaps of dead are left to mark every encampm ent or bi vouack. The virulence of the distemper is increased by the hard ships to which the soldiers are subjected, and the want of proper medical treatment. Sometimes neither a physician nor a su r g eon can be found to a regiment or brigade. Some of those who pretend to the healing art are only impostors and robbers, who attend the troops to pillage the dyir:g and the dead. The other contagions and epidemical dis eases which are engendered by such privations and sufferings are frightful. The consequence is a total demoralization of the army, continual breaches of discipline, desertion, massacre, and devastation. The whole population of the districts east of the Vistula, within the range of the hostile armies, having suffered all the hardships of war, have des serted their villages, and attempted to cross to the left bank of the river, in hopes of a more secure asylum. Their houses have been demolished,_ their corn-stacks burnt or plundered,—their cattle driven away,—and their other property destroyed. " Yesterday and to-day," says a Polish paper of the 27th ult., " long files of women and children have been passing through the streets of Warsaw, with their effects, as they will not expose themselves a second time to the horrors of war." The fields of ihe peasants must this year remain uncultivated, where the hoof of the invader still treads on the soil; and a long train of other calamities must follow in the rear of devastation. The Diet has decreed the advance of 1,000,000 florins to relieve some of this distress, and to compensate some cf these losses; but what is such a sum for such an object ? Th e Russian General Diebitscli, when he entered Po land, promised to respect property, and to protect pi aeeable citizens. He engaged to pay for every article which he wanted, and to molest none but those with arms in their bands. He has not kept one of these engagements. He has pillaged provi sions where he might have purcha-ed them. Hi s troops have destroyed whole towns or villages, o ut of mere wantonness or revenge. Since his repulse before Praga on the 25th of February, he has acted on the principle that every thing done against the Poles, however cruel and barbarous, is done in favour of the Russians. Even the churches have been profaned, because the religion of the two nations differs as much as their civil institutions. The Castle of Pulawy, so celebrated for its gran deur, its scientific collections, and its library, was attacked and ruined, although inhabited at the time by the Princess Czartoriski, a lady of nearly nine!) , years of age, and a near relative of the wife of the Grand Duke Michael. In short, the Russians seem resolved to make the contest a war of massacre and devastation; and unless the great Powers of Europe intervene, greater horrors must he perpetrated in Po- laud than in Greece or any part of Turkey. The ac counts received of the state, position, and recent operations of the armies, in these papers, are more vague and contradictory than those to which we alluded yesterday. Reports from Berlin assure us that the Lithuanian insurrection has been put down, and that %Vilna is perfectly loyal and tranquil. The Austrian Observer mentions, in a letter from Brody, that General D .vernicki, after his first success, had been defeated in Volhynia. These statements are contradicted by the Polish Journals. It seems, however, certain that the Polish Commander-in- Chief has been forced to make the retrograde move ment for which be had prepared his troops by his address of the 18th ult., to which a e yesterday alluded. The following is the manner in which this event is accounted for in the Warsaw Papers : " The successes of General Dwernicki in Volhynia have been followed by a general rising, and the inhabitants are being rapidly organized into light troops to barrass the rear of the enemy's army. This has probably occasioned some uneasiness to the Russian Field Marshal, and induced him to rouse himself from his late inaction. By bearing down en masse upon our right wing, he has forced Skrzy necki to make a retrograde movement, and fix his bead. quarters at Milosna. No serious engagement has taken place since the victory of the 10th. Many persons who believe themselves well-informed are convinced that the present demonstration of Diebitsch is intended to mask a retreat across the Bug. The mortality in the Russian army is fearful." The Diet has passed a law, declaring, that as the Lithuanians and Volhynians are their brethren, and have shaken off the yoke of oppression after their example, they will make common cause with them, and support them by every means in their power. This luw decrees that every part of the ancient kingdom of Poland that asserts its independence shall belong again to Poland as before its dismem berment. The following letter from St. Peters burgh will show how the contest is viewed by the Russians : " ST. PETERSBURGH, APRIL 14.—The impression of grief and indignation that has been caused by the news of the criminal enterprises of the Lithuanian insurgents, can be compared only to that which was caused by the inva sion of the French in 1812. Every body here warmly resents the insult which the Polish and Lithuanian insur rection offers to the Russian power ; and the whole nation demands that a severe chastisement shall give satisfaction fur it : it demands the uncontlitional submission of the rebels, and the incorporation of Poland with the Russian empire. Never was a war more popular, and it would he dangeross for the Emperor to show indulgence : he would run the risk of losing the affection of all his people. The fair sex shows the greatest enthusiasm, and exercise, an influence similar to that of the Polish ladies at War. saw. Young men of the first families e nlist as volunteers, and the Emperor has just ordered Goner tl Czernitscheff to form immediately an army of 150,000 men, to support Field-Marshal Diebitsch. A separate army is sent to Lithuania. May the Poles consider that they cannot, with impunity, defy a mon•trch who commands.so,ooo,ooo of men, and that they cannot avert their ruin except by com plete suhnuission."— Times. To-day the election for the metropolitan county takes place, which will add two more Reformers to the number of county Members already returned, under the most unequivocal pledges to support the great measure, in teference to which the King, in a spirit that becomes the Sovereign of a free people, has called for the authentic and c onstitutional ex pression of public _opinion. The days are gone when it was a subject of difficult, and fierce, and sometimes dangerous struggle to have a single po pular candidate returned for Middlesex. There Was a time when hired ruffians attempted to settle the question of " free election" by brute force, and armed with bludgeons, mounted the hustings, at tempted to seize the poll-books, and assaulted the independent freeholders with the most savage vio lence. It is true that two of those ruffians were afterwards convicted at the Old Bailey of the murder of one of the uneffending voters; but though the administrators of the law did their duty, the sword of justice S mote them not. While the laws de nounced the extermination against the invaders of properly, even to the amount of a few shillings, those destroyers of life for a . pulitical object were. protected from all punishment ; for, tinder the ad vice of a corrupt Ministry, they received his Ma jesty's free pardon. Would such a Ministry have themselves escaped punishment at the hands of a Re formed Parliament ? Surely not. To poison the foun rain of justice is one of th e. most ser i ou s crimes that men in pow er can comm i t aga i nst soc i e ty ; but it is the stat e of vassa l age to w hi c h t h e C ro wn and the Parliament hav e b een re d uce d b y t h e u surped task-masters authority of the boro u gh p ro p r i etors t h at h a s ren dered the responsibility of all suc h Mi n i sters a s sub mit to be the slaves of the lc s -masters of the peopl e but a fiction. We believe, if any man had now the hardihood to offer himself to the freeholders of Mid dlesex on anti-Reform principles, he would find that " the schoolmaster" had effected greater things than the bludgeon-man since the times to which we have alluded. His attemp., we imagine, would not dis turb the good-humour of the people—it would ra ther pro coke their mirth. They would admire the simplicity of one who could suppose that the tee tropolitan county at the present day wou ld f a il so far in intelligence, virtue, and patriotism, as not to set as noble an example to the counties of England that have not yet returned representatives, asLor don, Southwark,. and Westminster did to the cities and towns of the realm. But who can wonder at the progress of liberal and enlightened principles it) the county within which is situate the fountain head of commerce, literature, science, and the arts, when Yorkshire has returned four reformers--whe o the counties of Leicester and Cambridge have thro wn off the y o k e o f t h e h ouse of Rutland—when Hamp shire has returned to o reformers—when the counlY) as well as th e b oroug h , i n fl uence o f t h e Dube of Beaufort has not been more triumphant than that of the Noble Dictator of Newark—when Devon has unceremoniously dismissed her long-cherished Ay land—when Kent has rejected the addresses of her Knatchhull, and a Lowther trembles for his politi cal existence in Cumberland 2—Morning Herald. The election for the county of Buckingham has terminated in the triumphant return of the Marquis of Chandos, who, at the final close of the poll, num - bered more than five hundred votes over his imme diate opponent, and more than eight hundred over Mr. Greufell. Highly gratifying as is the success of so able and faithful a champion of the Constitution, the result of this election is yet more important in another point of view. We believe we may say that it has been the first popular election which has not been disgraced, and rendered in fact inconclusive, by dastardly and ferocious violence directed against the Tory candidate and his supporters. To the high honour of the county of Buckingham (for honour able it is in such times as these) this election has been peaceably conducted; no intimidation, no bru tality has influenced it, and what is the result ? A more decisive and perfect victory by the constitu tional candidate than any that the revolutionists, even with all their murderous violence to aid them, have hitherto obtained. We fearlessly assert, and defy contradiction, that this one free and fair elec tion speaks more the sense of this enlightened na tion than the scores which have been decided either by deterring all opposition from shewing itself, or crushing it by brute force where it did appear.— Morning Foal. We do hope that some of the anti-reformers have glanced at the list,—the glorious list,—of subscrip tions which appeared in yesterday's Paper, in order to convince themselves how amply the people ap prove of the Reform Bill, and how strenuously they are determined to support it Thst list contained subscriptions varying from fifty pounds to one shil ling; from persons of all ranks, of all ages, and of both sexes; and what stronger proof can be pro duced of the unanimity of public feeling on the subject. But we will not waste another word upon the anti-reformers; for it is not because they are not convinced of the necessity of Parliamentary Reform that they oppose it; but because they know that Reform will put an end to thefr unjust encroachments on the liberties of the people, and their unjust usurpation of all places of trust and emolument in the State. What we are anxious to do, is to stimulate the public to fresh exertions in the cause,—to urge them to con thine their subscriptions in aid of the cause of Re form, and, by one great effort, to prevent the ne cessity of any future exertion. Large sums of money have been already suhscribeJ ; but nearly the whole has been already expended, and more is imperatively required for contests which are still pending, or about to commence. Let not the victory therefore be con sidered es ga'ned; but, on the contrary, let every one continue to contribute, as if defeat were still possible. Above all, let the plan acted upon by one parish,—that of collecting from door to door, — be vigorously acted upon in all; and we have no doubt that an amount will be subscribed amply suffi cient to insure a glorious triumph, and to crush for ever the power of the boroughmongers.—Morn.Advt. HYTHE ELECTION. FROM A CORRESPONDENT. At this ancient Cinque port there was no contest; the popular candidates, William Fraser, Esq., and Captain Monypenny having, from a fear of in any way preju dicing the Reform question, declined opposing Messrs. Marjoribanks and Loch, who, whatever may be their pc•- litical sins of omission in general, have, on this particular question of Reform, voted in accordance with the wishes of the people. It is, however, somewhat difficult to ac count for the course pursued by these last-mentioned gen tlemen. For years they have enjoyed a seat in Parlia ment, by the votes of the non-residents, and have evinced a proportionate disregard for the residents, from whom, indeed, they had received no favour beyond patience and long suffering. But now that they see the thing, as Cohbet calls it, about to fall, they are rather pathetic in their appeals to the inhabitants, while the ill starved nonresidents have the satisfaction of find ing themselves about to be disfranchised by the men whom they have so long supported. With the popular candi dates of course they could have no .chance of better for, tune, yet it is confidently asserted that they -would rather have returned these gentlemen, than the " false hearted swains" who have so wobilly deluded them. Mr. Fraser, however, aware that while one portion of the non-residents were sullenly preparing to commit political suicide at llythe, the remainder were in London, on the look-wit for an Anti-Reform Menik.r, thought it more ad visable to permit the immediate return of two Members pledged to the Reform measure, than by keeping open the poll to give time fur the production of an Anti-Reformer, whom the non-residents would naturally have elected. Thus Messieurs Alajoribanks and Loch were left to go through the ordinary farce of being elected by the immaculate non-residents, most of whom are in the employ of the first-named gentleman either at St. Margaret's or at Dover. Immediately after this due election, the constituents set off for their respective abodes —an example which the Members followed in a few days, leaving the town almost unob,erved and wholly disre garded. The exit of the popular candidate, on the contrary, was truly a triumph—banners were streaming, music playitu, and from almost every window bouquets of flowers were thrown into the carriage by the fair pa triot-I of flythe. Mr. Fraser's return at the ensuing election is looked upon as certain. • DUTCH PAPERS. THE HAGUE, MAY 4.—To-day the Council of State as%embled ; the Prince of Orange presided. MAy s.—His Majesty has resolved till a change is made in the tariff of duties in India, that foreign cottons and linens imported into India front ports of the Netherlands by ships sot furnished with Dutch papers, shall pay a duty of 121 per cent. ad valorem. A project of law for modifications in the tariff of customs was laid to-day be fore the Second Chamber of the States General. APRIL 23.—Eighty-seven ships had already arrived at Riga on the 18th. FRONTIERS OF GALLICIA, APRIL 20.—We have just heard that on the 18th General Rudiger had an action near Rommel, on the Styr, in Volhynia, with General nwernicki, and took about 1,000 prisoners. At the same time the Russians destroyed the bridges in his rear, by which he passed that river, so that his retreat may vety probably be cut oft General Roth, with part of hie corps, is at Kaminiel Podolsk. General Kaisaroff, with the third corps of the army, is in Dubno. Four regi ments, which form his vanguard, are already in Krzemieniec. Hence it appears that the Russian forces in Veihynia and Podolia are more than sufficient to hinder the farther advance of the Poles in those provinces. In general, according to all accounts that are received from Volhynia, the Poles do not seem to make much progress there, as their attempts to induce the inhabitants to rise have hitherto met with little success. LEMBI:RO, APRIL 20.—0 n the 18th, in the morning, we heard at our post, to the northward of Leszniow, io the direction between Berastecko . and Dubno, a brisk fire of musketry, which continued from five to ten o'clock in the morning. As the thick forests along the frontier bin der us front seeing any thing, and the inhabitants of the neighbouring villages kept themselves concealed, we received the first account of this action by way of Rudzwillow and Brody. General Dwernicki, who according to preceding accounts, intended to remain on the left bank of the Styr, suddenly laid a bridge over that river in the night of the 17th, near Boromel, passed over the right bank, and intended to advance to Dubno. At day break, it is said, he met with the Russian column of General Rudiger, near Krasna. A brisk action commenced, in which the Russians brought forward a considerable force with numerous artillery, which compelled Dwernicki to retire over the Styr, with the loss of 500 prisoners. The cossacks are said to have already occupied Beresteko and Borotnel. There are no further accounts of the proceed ing of the Poles. While this was passing on the Styr, the banks of tie Bug were occupied alternately by the Russians and Polish troops. On the 16th a Polish corps, stated at eight thousand men, which is probably exaggerated, is said to have passed the Bug near Pidseczna, above Krylow, and to have advanced towatds Wludimiz. Next day one thousand Russian cavalry passed, at Krylow, over the Bridge laid by Dwetnicki across the Bug, and having burnt it, returned to Uscilug, where a consid era bl e R uss i an corps, under General Dawidoff, is said to have arrived. An account from Lemberg, of the 21st, gives farther par- 1 titulars of this action. The Poles, besides a great many killed, are said to have lost above one thousand prisoners. The castle of Count Czatzki, at Bourne!, who had joined Dtvernicki, is said to have been much damaged by the Russian artillery.: LIVERY REFORM DINNER. About 250 of the Livery of London dined to ' gether at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, to celebrate the return of four Members, pledged to the cause ofßeform, to represent the city of London in Parliament : GEORGE GROTE, Esq., in the chair. At half-past six o'clock, the Chairman, accom panied by Alderman Wood, Alderman Waithman, Alderman Thompson, and Alderman Venables, Mr. Hume, Mr. Hobhouse, Mr. C. Calvert, and Mr. W. Brougham, entered the room, a m id st l ou d c h eer i ng . Due honour having been done to the repast, and Non nobis, Pontine, sung by the professional gen tlemen present, — The CHAIR3IAN rose to propose the health of his Majesty William IV., with four times four. The toast was drank with the most impassioned applause. The CHAIRMAN next proposed "The health of the Queen," which was drank with three times three, anti much cheering. The CHAIRMAN in proposing " The health of the Duke of Sussex, and the rest of the Royal Family," observed, that the honour of his Royal Highness's presence on this occasion had been expected. His Royal Highness was, however, prevented from being present, as he was obliged to attend his Majesty on Monday. The mast was drank with acclamations. The CHAIRMAN then proposed " His Majesty's Ministers, and the cause of Reform."—(Cheers.) The boroughmongers might call the proposed Re form a revolution. He, on the contrary, looked upon it as the means of changing a bad government into a good government.—(Cheers.) The columns of the newspapers presented daily a series of phe nomena truly astonishing. Refcrm was every where triumphant.—(Cheers.) Places which had long been governed by close corporations were now thrown open. He understood also, that at the nomination of Members to represent Wells, out of 13,000 persons present, not more than five or six hands were held up in favour of the Anti-Reformers. —(Cheers.) They would now heir no more of a Whig or a Tory Administration. The best title that could be given to the men now in power, was "The Reform Administration of 1831."—(Cheers.) The toast was drank with due honours. The CHAIRMAN now proposed " 'l'he health of their excellent Chief Magistrate," whose conduct, as an uncompromising Reformer, he warmly eulo gi,el.—(Cheers.) The toast was received with loud applause. The LORD MAYOR said , he felt great pleasure in meeting 30 many of his fellow-citizens, who were assembled to celebrate the triumph of that great cause which at present agitated the count)) , from one end to the other. He did not at all wonder that the horoughmongers united against the Re formers in the vain hope that they would be able to stem that torrent of knowledge and intelligence which was so rapidly gaining ground throughout the land ; because they knew that by it the corrupt system which they supported would be overturned. —(Cheers.) They called this a revolutionary measure. Now he would say, that if to support principles which were calculated to secure the pros perity of the country was revolutionary, he should always rejoice in assisting such a species of revolu tion—(Cheers), acid he firmly hoped that those whom he had the honour of addressing would unite, heart and hand, in upholding those prin. ciples.—(Cheers.) The LORD MAYOR proposed" The health of their worthy Chairman," as a firm, consistent, unflinching Reformer—one who was pledged to maintain those great principles the triumph of which they were as sembled to celebrate.—(Cheers.) The toast was drank with cordial applause. The CHAIRMAN, in returning thanks, observed, that if any act of his had tended to the success of the great cause, he must view it as the proudest circumstance of his life.—(Cheers.) He begged leave to propose " The health of their Representati ves." The health of Mess's. Wood, Waithman, Thomp son, and Venables was then drank with fervent applause. _ _ _ - Mr. Alderman WOOD said, Reform was rapidly triumphing. He was introduced, at an early period, to the corporation; and if he said that at that time there were ten Reformers belonging to it, he believed he went to the utmost extreme. At present the case was widely'different, for he did not think there were now ten men in the e.rporation who were not Reformers.—(Cheer , .) He would, though he was satisfied with the 13111, go farther if necessary, even to the extent of vote by ballot.— (Cheers.) He had the pleasure of voting on the question of Reform, not with seven, ten, or seven teen persons, but with 301, and he believed that the time was fast approaching when he should sup port it in company with 401.—(Cheers.) Mr. Alderman WAITHMAN said Ministers had done their duty nobly; they had made a call on the country, oil if it had not been answered, those who were appealed to would have been unworthy of the name of Englishmen.—(Hear.) The people had, however, answered that call gloriously. Corruption was driven from its strong holds, and when they saw with what tenacity the boroughmongers adhered to the rotten system, they must be convinced that nothing but union of the King, the Government, and the people could insure then-yedress.—(Cheers.) Mr. Alderman THOMPSON'was happy to say that the considerate measure proposed by Ministers in the late Parliament would be carried beyond a doubt —(Cheer,)—and the happiness and prosperity of the people would be secured by it. Mr. Alderman VENABLES said, in his opinion, all power emanated from the people, and from thence he inferred that all Governments should be for the benefit and happiness of the people.—( Loud Cheer. , ..) The present was the cause of the people, and it should always have his conscientious support.—(Cheers.) He grewly approved of the Bill, and more especially because it would add to the Constitution 500,000 persons, taken from the middling classes of society. The CHAIRMAN then proposed " The health of Joseph Hume, Esq."—(Cheers.) Mr. Hume had faced the boroughmongers in their own house, where [bey were all powerful ; he had bearded the fero cious animals in their den—(Laughter)—and the thanks of the country were justly due to him. The toast was received with marked approbation' Mr. IltnuE returned thanks. It gave him much pleasure to find the cause of Reform hitherto so triumphant in various contests, and it would render him still more happy if it were possible to befit the Marquis ofChandos.in Buckinghamshire.--(Cheers.) His own trial would come on to-morrow in Mid dlesex. Imitating the example of the city of London, he and Mr. Byng would act together. They would proceed to the hustings in the same carriage, in order to show that R e f ormers s h ou ld b e un i te d.—(CheerF,) The CHAIRMAN proposed the health of ' 6 Sir F. Burdett" (who was unavoidably absent), and "J. C. Hobhouse, Esq.," which was drank with enthusiasm. Mr: 1108110 USE, in returning thanks, observed, that it was true he had not run so long a career in the cause of Reform as some of those gentlemen who preceded him had done; but still he had been long enough in that den, or menagerie, alluded to by the H on . Ch a i rman , to k no w what sort of anima's inhabit e d it—(Laughter)—and he had ha I some share in paring the 'r nails and extracting their fangs. —(Laughter.)—On every side—north, south, east, and wes--he saw nothing but triumph. All were following the great example of the city of London, There was however, unfortunately, one exception,—.- that was in the case of the pious and learned voters of the University of Cambr'dge.—(Laughter.) Now, vl wishedbaodenhteseetary ( if such there were) might wish it, the es'ablishment as ill as any male such a proceeding w ould have greatly rejoiced him. —(Cheers.) But he owned that he himent4 to see such a decision p roceedin g from such a boo/3. a decision which showed that they had no sympathy' with the people of England.—(Cheers.) If here after a struggle should take place for the preseivation of that venerable establishment, might it not be said to those who had thus decided, " When the WO / of England sought their liberties, we round you gr 4 ranged against them : what right, then, have yoUt ° call upon us for succour ?"—(Cheers.) It was Iv mentable that a body remarkable far their ;nail' Bence should thus attempt to place a drag-chain 011 , the gre a t mac hi ne o f R e f orm, an d i n or d er to ret o its course to the destined goal. He was confiden t the Bill would be carried in the next Parliament bf a great majority.—(Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN then proposed " The healths Mr. C. Calvert and Mr. W. Brougham, the tO Representatives for Southwark," which was drtui with great spirit. Mr. C. CALVERT had been all his life a Reformer', Lie was this day electrified when he entered the room ; for there, in 1793, he was present at one el, the first Reform meeti ngs .—(Ch eers .) H e s h o al' not trespass further, but c tll on his Hon. Colleague' Mr. Brougham, (who, he hoped, would prove him' self a good broom in sweeping out those animals that had been alluded to,) to speak his sentiments. Mr. W. BROUGHAM thanked the assembly. Hi! Hon. Colleague had summoned him (Mr. Brougham) before the meeting, as the beiom that was to sweep away certain ferocious animals who had been me' tioned once or twice; but he believed that his la' boor would be very light, for the people of Bag' land seemed inclined to leave him little or nothing to do.—(Cheers.) He was of opinion 'that when , for the first time, he went tb Parliament, he should find none of those wild beasts to assail.—(Cheers.) The meeting then separated. LONDON MARKETS. PRICE OF BREAD. The highest price of Bread in the Metropolis is 1034 d. fot lib. Loaf. There are others wh o se ll f rom 3 01 . to 1 - 34 d. bela y that price. PRICE OF SEEDS.—May 9. Vew Engll!!tßed Clover Seed (per Cwt.) —s. 70s. fine —s.lo s '' —s. —s. fine —s. 525. 70s fine —s. —s. fine —s. -"S„: -40 s. 6os. fine —s. 50s. fine —s. 6„ 5 . 5 " —s. 20s. fine —s. wr Cew Foreign Diti Old Ditto New White Clover, Old Ditto New Trefoil Bib Grass --- Carraway I or2ign Ditto coriander St. Foin —s. 15s. 20 5 ' 10s. 255. fine 30s. 3 5 . —s. —s. 50s. fine 5 6 °' —s. —s. 565. fine 58 6 ' —s. 60s. fine —s. 6"31' Quarter)---. —s. 75i.. fine SO - 3". 8:29. __ Rye Grass . _ ...—..,—... —s. —s. new 208. 2 58 ' Pacey Ditto .. 40s. 455. new —s. --°' Linseed, for feeding —s. 50s. fine .—s. 5 0 ' Ditto, for crushing 443. 4fis. —s. fine -- 4. Canary Seed, New .. —s. 70s. fine —a. 95 6 ' 1•Itto Old ....... —s. —s. ,—s. fine .... 4 ' White Mustard Seed—.....(per 8u5he1)......... —s. Bs. 16s. fine-.. 4 ' Brown I)itto —s. 83. 178. fine — 4 ' Turnip Seeds, Rounds - . .............„. —s. —s. —B. fine 14 0 ' Green and Red Ditto —s. —a. —B. tine 18 8 ' Tares, Old —s. 255. 365. tine -- 4 ' Ditto New —s. —s. fine es. 4m' Race Seed, English, fine (per Last) 361. M....-. Foreign —l. ---4 NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL MARKETS. At per stone, by the Carcass. 5. d. tog. d. Beef lO 4 4 I Veal Mutton 34 50 P or k Lamb ss. Od. to 7s. Od. 534 dB4 1°155111°6 PRICES OF HOPS.—May 9. no•O. 7l 16s, 91. Os. to 13/. 71 lils. 81. 4s. to 81. 12s. Essex Ditto 7l. 16s. 81; 124. to 9/. (V. f atttlam Ditto, Fine O/. Os. 14/. Os. to 181 Os. Seconds 0/. Os. 9/. Os. to 13/. Oa. 31. Os. 71. Os to 91. Os. 6/. 15s. 71. 7s. to 71. 15s. 71. Os. 71. 15 s. to Si. 85' Kent Pocket Sussex Mit( Kent Bags..., Sussex Ditto Essex Di tto . PRICE OF OIL. Ripe Oil, brown 63. Refined 6 L.nseed Oil 23 11 10 7 Linseed Oil Cako at the Mill, per thousand Rape Cake, per ton WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKET.—May 7. Hay 40s. Od. to 84s. Od. I (lover 01. to 1108. 344. Od. to 38s. Od. PRICE OF POTATOES.—May 9. 01. Os. to 41. Os. per ton. 31. ss. to 31. 15s. ditto. 01. Os. to 41. 19s. ditto. 31. ss. to 31. 10s. ditto. ... Kidneys Scotch Reds ...--, Marsh Champions..— Oxnobles and Sham RAW HIDES. Per Stone. s. d. to s. d. Per Stone. s. d. toe. 0 gest Heifers& Steert.2 6 2 8 Ordinary 110 2 Middlings. .2 2 2 4 Market Calf 6 Seat, SHEEP SKINS. Long Wool 4s. Od. to 6s. Od. Short W 001..., 30.0 d. to 4s. IA Is. 6.1. to Is. 6d. PRICES OF Per lb. Butts ......-50 to 561 b... 16 l)itto ----CO to 661 b... 17 23 Dressing 14 16 Fine Coach slides 17 18i Ci op Elides, 35 to 40Ib. 13 141 Ditto 40 to 451 b 14 151 Ditto —. 15 17 LEATHER. Per lb. d. to 14 Tanned Horse Hides.. 15 !'" Spanish Ditto 18 :"'" Per doren. Calf Skins,..36 to 4tkb. 15 lq Ditto 50 to 701 b. 20 '" Ditto —... 70 to 801 b. 19 Rl Small Seals. Greenland 211 ." MINING INTELLIGENCE. Tons. Cl' Quantity of Copper Ore sold at Itedruth last Thursday 4,460 0 Average Pr0duce............,........ 8 11 Quantity of fine Copper ................-- _ . 3.56 Amouut of Sale, 22,1211. 10s. Od.—Average Standard, 961. 83. uu. SCOTCH MARKETS. EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET.--May 3. Per Sack of 2801 b. Imp. Per Stone 01 14ib. Imp., 4 First Oatmeal £2 5 0 First Oatmeal... £o ,', g Second ditto 2 3 0 Second ditto , Barleymeal ll4 0 Barleymeal 0 0 Peasemeal 1 14 0 Peasemeal Pot :Barley—No. 1, per cwt. 145.-2,1, 165.-3d.205.-I'oail_2>-% EDI NBU Wheat. First 76s Od Second 62s Oct Third OH CORN MARKET.—May 4. Barley. Oats. Pease. Besot 42 Od 303 Od 43, Od 43 , 0 `„ 37s Od 27s Od 403 Od u ,, s tf, 32s Od 22s 8d 37s Od 37s IN 1 PRICES OF PROVISIONS, &C. Beef, per 1b..,, Os. 4d. to 08.7 d. Fresh Butter,lb. 18.01 to IL 9 4 ' Mutt0n............, 0 5 0 7 S a lt Ditto—...... 1 0 011 0 Vea1,..,,,,,.,,,,,,.,.,, 0 4 0 8 Ditt o, per cu t. 98 0 108 n Pork—.-----... 0 4 0 6 Eg gs , per d oe. 0 7 0 ` o ' Lamb, per qr. 4 0 6 0 O at S traw(kp ' .) 8 6 9 0 fallow, cwt.... 38 0 40 0 Wh ea t Ditto—, 7 6 S Quartern Loaf 0 9 010 B ar l e y Ditto . ,7 , 0 0 • a Potatoes, 17;lb. 0 0 0 5 Hay, per 5t..... 1 9 1 ' We understand Sir JOHN BECKETT arrived in Kendal, on Wednesday morning, incog. no doubt t ° assist the Lowrxxx, party in the extremity to which they' were I educed.—Kendal Chronicle. REFORM MEETING AT KENSINGTON. Yesterday a meeting was held at the King's Arms, Ket!' sington, for the purpose of thanking his MAJESTY for 1 1 recent magnanimous conduct in appealing to the sense ° the people on the subject of Reform. Sir JOHN Searl LILLIY took the chair, at the unanimous request of th e meeting. Mr. HOME moved the first resolution, to th e effect " That his MAJESTY'S magnanimous conduct 11 appealing to the sense of his people by the dissolution 'Parliament has entitled him to the lasting gratitude of evert Englishman, and to the admiration of the world." T he Hon. Member said, the Constitution as it was, li:in!. Lords, and Commons, was the best institution which to' country could possess, and he would support it in all it° power and splendour. The aristocracy ought to b e the high-minded part of the community; they ought, if re' quired, to stand up and defend the people against 01 : KING; and if the people should infringe, then they °ugh to stand up and protect him. With these, we should ett; joy all that could be enjoyed by a rational and intellige n people. The resolution was unsnimostsly agreed tn.' Colonel JONES said he hai'ed with pleasure the measure. of Reform that had been proposed : although it did 1 10/ go so far as he cou'd wish, yet he should be a wicked Man if he did not support it. He eulogised the conduct of hi. MAJEsTy, who had sail he would rather part with hi s crown than n , t carry the Reform Bill. Several other gill' denten addressed the meeting to the same effect. Poor General CIASCOYNE may be said to have made what is called " a hash of it." There was n°i thing in the G enera l' s pos i t i on, e i t h er as regarded hicosel or his constituents, which called upon him to take a PnY minent part upon the Reform Bill, while, by his ill . discieet and uncalled-for interference, he actually put as end to the Parliament, and, with it, to his own Polio' mentary life. This is being out.Generalled in a doubl e sense. We think we may now positively assert that Ireland, at least, will nobly perform the duty which el owes to the KING and the Government on the occ asion 0 the present elections. Not only is it certain (Jude% from all we can hear or see) that she will send into th e coining Parliament as great.a number of Reformers as , " did into the one that is passed; but we will venture 0 predict, confident of being borne out by the fact, that the Ministry will gain considerabty by the disolutlon. - ' Ditbiitt Times. N QUEST ON THE BODIES OF SIR J . YORKE, &C.--WINCHESTER, MAY 7.—An inquest W held yesterday, by the Coroner, at Hamblerice, on vieVi of the bodies of Sir JOSEPH S. YORKE, K.C.l 3 :', Captain MATTHEW BARTON BRADBY, R.N., Capto, THOMAS YOUNG, R.N., and J. CHANDLER, seaman, wfr were drowned b y t h e upsetting of the Catherine, a yach', Hof about 14 tons burthen, near ,Browndown Point. be' twten Portsmouth and Hamble, about f9ur o'clock 01/ Thursday afternoon. Verdict—" Accidental Death." 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