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Several uised in the con a violent blow on y open, and Mr. much cut about Ise the use of one ideavoured to de arly an hour, and be got to come t the Castle, and luperintendent oil clerk to the Ma ►f the Lowthers, in excuse for his le riot, forsooth ! could have Com• ing of their little o go home, were lake their appear ty man that they and thlt if they t least they re on. About ten Jackson and Mr. arrived, and I themselves to cell the disturb t several gentle• a without moles ] of hostilities for the colliers had nselves with the zing coals. These ognizsnce of some al in front of the !k—the windows, the house were ijured ; but they rutrance. About Its came atnongst ne. The answer —" curse you fir ll the mischief we ort us!" About rse. The damage rend persons h a ve has been struck is not expected ;tate of great ex• ►ubt but that the parters. It is lasting good. L!e for ever. -CONDUCT 11 right thinking '.!h the University ie candidates for t has come to our Jere a contest ho s is or in countie 4 o )st decided party e people and the the Clerical Cor ong, been the ad' ), and an insult sting Mr. Spence ( the borough. 'lergy could she/ c of the nada , of showing that inters which will , r consideration of :he people freely lin ion of their con' niter at Gateshead e of the feelingso f onduct and sittia d call the public ergy in the late tal observation iC in almost eyed der them, %vete Mr. Bankes, the and that it «'a ° dic duty in the, ich overcame ab dependants. ere 156 clergyulf ° itnpers for tikes . 41 lcraft . 12 or Reform. Calcraft ! I way for t ie with them ; and g danger to the danger alleged :mselves, and 1 0 s,ive them fret J. NV. Patten, I. V. Tebbs, Esq., fo mar,-square, the 13d3r _ . t, the lady of 'S IT ' .1' square, N. J. Knatefr Bart. to Mary, Ode! 'all, in the c rn,ti shire. by of Baden, Captijtort heir presumptive h, :mid his MajestY Alb er ti ne de B° , - j 11 Count Rapp, l'e try, M. Mason, f 6 j . ghter of the late , Esq. Dalian Tower' 'Eurrswood, itrand, Mr. Gilbert' :•!, youngest daughtes. 9, Charles, e ld e st 1.;0 -- ,r - 0 1 YOUNU, AT - oNvoN, - 5 THEP OPRIETOIIS OF EAST INDIA STOCK. LANES AND GEIiTLEMENt puiE advice of my Friends, and the informa• it ;ion I have obtained since my recent arrival in 4Rland, i n duce me thus early to announce my intention nffer ing myself as a CANDIDATE for a SEAT in the irection of your Affair., so soon as I may become leg.ll'y gall fled to do so. I shall in due time have the honour of soliciting your ' t e . , and Interest, and of explaining noire fully the :luncis on which I shell rest for your support. I will .41y state on this occasion that I have been employed a period of thirty-one years in the Civil Service in ')gal, and that during the last five years, whi!e. I was a ember of the Supreme Council, I twice ofiViated as 1 1 ,-President, and once (for some months previ ousl y to ,c 1 William Bentinck's arrival) as G,wernor-General. I have the honour to be, with great respect, Ladies and Gentlemen, your most obedient Servant, London, June 1, 1831. ~,. W. B. BAYLEY NIEW SPORTING MAGAZINE, for JUNE, price 2s. 6,1. Contents :—Partridge Shooting, with a Plate by Webb, len a Painting by A. Cooper, 11. A.—The Road, by hshwood—Nim South's Tour—Archey, by Toxophilus See -Ho, on Coursing—Letter on Horse-dealing—The s2-hunter—Anatomy, &c. of the Horse, by Richard 4wrence—Fly Fishing, with a Plate, by Scott, from a tinting by A. Cooper, R.A.—Fine Arts : Sporting Pic ores in Somerset House—On the Preparation of lant ers for Grass—Tipping Boys at School, by Tip-and 15 ---The Contested Election—Racing : Newmarket ~eond Spring and Epsom Meeting:—General M onthl y :Lsee : Colonel .101liffe's, Mr. Ra'nh'Llnibton's, and dte Northumberland Fox Hounds—Mr. Sullivan's Stag L i l'ends—The Turf : Races to come ; Races past ; Dur -4131, Chester, York, St. Albans, and Liverpool Meetings Ashdown Park Coursing Meeting—Fine Arts—Cricket h Pigeon Shooting—Aquatics—New Sporting Club— "i,tory of the Saddler—Bettings—Hay and Corn Markets "-Notice to Correspondents—Racing Calendar. A lso, i 'l• 1. published n May, of which the following are a few t i the Notices The New Sporting Magazine, No. 1. A well-itna !'ned and well got 'up work. There is as much variety the subjects of the articles as could be anticipated in a jsgazine devoted exclusively to Sporting. Nim South's ttur i s likely to beccine a main attraction. It is well I ''ritten, and is highly capable of graphic illustration by 3 ter hand. The Magazine will be sure of becoming a L svourite in the sporting world. It is illustrated by one 0 11.I e , Barraud's most celebrated pictures, capitally en by J. Webb, and Landseer's Dead Red Deer as I °l ol rendered by J. R. ,Scott." —Morning Post, May 11. " The New Sporting Magazin« is the best of its class i l k remember to have seen. The re is a zest for all sports 'l' land, air, and water, manifested in these pages, which Ni t uninitiated readers will enjoy' ; besides that, the Editors, aiming at the pietureque and descriptive, are also tsterers of the doings far and near , of the s p ortin g world. The engravings are good, and the whole publication evinces I P'rit and taste."—Atias, May 5. " We have just seen the First Number of the New °Parting Magazine, and can confidently state that it more than %stains the promises held forth in the prospectus. Many of t he Articles are from the pens of Writers well known in the Sporting World, and if it continues to be conducted With th e same spirit and ability as are displayed in the Present number, it can hardly fail of success. The em hellishments by Landseer, and others, are really beautiful." "-Age, May S. " The New Sporting Magazine, No. I. Baldwin and Crad ac k. This is another addition to the list of our monthly periodicals, and a promising one it is in every 40 Pect. The price is moderate—the matter varied and entertaining, and the embellishments of the first order. They are two in number; one, which furnishes an excel lentlikeness both of Man and Horse, representing John Ward e , Esq., seated on his favourite horse, ' Blue Ruin,' and ac c ompanied by his favourite dog; other, Dead Red beer, We have no room for extracts, but can confidently recommend the work to those of our readers who take plea sure in Sporting Anecdotes and Sporting Pictures."— Morning Advertiser, May 13. 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Japanned book shelves 0 6 0 Rosewood ditto Loo tables !upwards)... 0 0 0 All featherbeds warranted free front dust and smelL ••• Old Furniture taken in exchange. THE ELECTIONS AND THE TORIES (From the Englishman's Register.) We are beginning at last to breathe free . after the intense excitement of the elections al over the kingdom. The contest has been sharp but short, and the victory of Reform has been complete even beyond the most sanguine hopes of its advocates. But it was a noble principle which forbade Romans to triumph over Romans : the pride of conquest and the ignominy of de feat, bad as they are in every case, are above all to be forborne when our adversaries are our countrymen. We have been delighted therefore to witness the honourable and kindly feeling which has been shown on both sides in some of the late elections. It was cheering to see that the manly and touching address of Mr. Bankes, when resigning the contest for the county, was not lost upon the electors of Dorsetshire ; and that those of Cornwall, while resolute to give their votes only to a Refbrmer, could still respect and regard the ability and virtue of Sir Richard Vyvyan. These things encourage the hope ex pressed in a former number, that as soon as the struggle was decided, the people would distin guish between their honourable and conscientious opponents and the mere mercenaries of the Anti- Reform cause, and that they would gladly avail themselves of the services of the former as soon as the complete success of Reform should enable them to do it with safety. Yet although many individuals of the Tory party will, as we hope and believe, be Members of a reformed Parliament, still it cannot be doubted that, as a party, the Tories are, politi cally speaking, from henceforth perpetually humbled. No man, indeed, can foresee what changes may be reserved for us in a course of years, and m a ny o f th e e l emen t s o f T or yism may again be seen in the ascendant ; but the old form of common English Toryism, whether in its earlier shape of devotion to Church and King, or in its later character of an attachment to aristocracy, is become now a thing of other days —it will influence the fortunes of this nation no more. We confess that this total overthrow of a n enemy lately so formidable has wonderfully lessened our hostility towards it. One cannot strike a man when he is down : and it was dif ficult not to be softened even towards Napoleon himself when he was a prisoner at St. Helena, and to think more of his actual degradation than of the fearful and systematic wickedness of hi s prosperous days. We can fully trust ourselves now to sketch the Tory party of England with fairness ; and as their political life is at an end the following remarks may serve for their epit ap h. 'We have seen the Tories, at one period of our history, strongly opposing a war with France—and at another earnestly supportin g one. We have seen them , in the time of the Stuarts, half coalescing with the Roman Ca tholics, and in our own days most strenuously resisting them : and yet they have been always perfectly consistent. Bu t what they have never supported are popular principles—what they l When o i r a , ve in al t s l ' e a i y r s (slltvetaidillayngreusaigstee,d,, change. has beet!, Reform, d F e r s a p n o c t e is w m •a , s supportert b he ot g h rea c t iva aild religious, they re garded her with favour ; when she set up a Go- LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 2, 1831. vernment founded on revolution, whether it were A republic or a tyranny, they struggled against ter to the death. Thus again there was a pe riod when they were friendly to the Roman Ca tholics ; but never have they shown one spark of favour to the Protestant Dissenters. France has been, as we have seen at different times, then i•riend and their enemy ; but towards America they have ever shown one uniform spirit of coldness and aversion. But two years ago, when the Russians were fighting against Turkey, ind professing to assert the liberties of Greece, the Tories with one consent maligned then mo tives, undervalued their armies, and regretted their triumph :—now that these same Russians are fighting against the liberties of Poland, the Tories are magnifying their resistless power, and eagerly anticipating their victory. The dislike" of change which marks the Tories as a political party is in itself one of the most universal feelings in human nature. Some few nations may offer an exception ; but, generally speaking, both nations, and classes of men, and individuals, shrink from the trouble of alteration. Amongst the multitudes whei'erv,so loudly for political Reform, how many are there who dis like all changes by which their own habits and practices are altered ! The change of the style—the change of the weights and measures —improvements in farming—improvements in machinery—nay, in many cases, improvements in health, cleanliness, and domestic comfort, are either rejected, or slowly and unwillingly re ceived by the multitude, because it requires some trouble, some effort, some interruption to their old habits, to adopt them, or accommodate themselves to them. This common feeling the Tories apply to political matters for this further reatson also—because they belong mostly to that class of society who are well off tinder things as they are ; and the indolence which shrinks from the , trouble of change has, in their case, nothing but a liberai zeal for the good of others which could counteract it. But if men will endure rags, a nd dirt, and clumsiness, rather than make an effort or break their old habits, how much less will they desire any change, when their own actual condition is not one of suffering but of enjoyment ? Another point which marks the Tories as a party, and which no less marks a great propor tion of those who abuse them the loudest, is their horror of general principles, and their ad herence to what they call practical, straight-for ward, common-sense notions. This indeed is closely connected with their dislike to 'change: but as it has formed a very striking feature of their public policy, it is as well to consider it apart. It is this feeling which has made them so long resist all amendments of our law, which has led them to detest free trade and political economy, and to delight in a paper currency. It is this same feeling which has made even the religious men amongst them so ill fitted to make our Government and our institutions agreeable to the spirit of the Gospel. They do not find it said in so many words in the New Testa ment that slavery is a wicked thing, and there fore they argue that Christianity does not con demn it. Rightly understanding that oaths are not in all cases unlawful to be taken, they have never made out the general principle of Christ's words—namely, that to require oaths of men has a tendency to make them careless about their bare word—and that therefore it is most blame able in persons in authority to impose a single oath without the strongest necessity ; and that it is their duty to endeavour that in time none may be necessary at all. So with wars and with public measures in general ; because from the situation of the first Christians the New Testa ment could not contain any direct rules upon these matters, and because the Tories are slow in catching the spirit of a system, and in apply. ing general principles to particular cases, we have seen re igious Tories maintaining , the Lot tery and the Game Laws ; and we have not seen them alive to the wickedness of war, i n ninety-nine cases out of every hundred ; nor, while justly inculcating the duty of obedience on the part of the subject, have they been equally alive to the no less binding duty of a watchful, a self-denying, and a reforming attention to the public welfare on the part of the Government. In this love of the letter, rather than of the spirit, the Tories and the multitude strongly sympathize with each other. In fact, it is but a common weakness of our nature, and they are but exceptions who are free from it. The Tories i-are but another name for the multitude amongst the richer classes—the common run of human characters, with their faults and weaknesses, and also with a large portion of their virtues and re spectable qualities. I have spoken of their faults —I will as fairly speak of their excellencies. As they are slow in improving upon general principles, so they are quick, dexterous, and de cided, in practising the particular thing before them. They are good in administration and in action ; so that if we were living in a perfect world, or under a perfect political system, I should wish to see none but Tories in public stations, whether civil or military. Again, as many of our natural feelings are great obstacles in the way of improvement, so there are many also which are far better and more ennobling than the mere hard intellect that despises them. Among these - are a respect for noble birth, and the dignity which, even in very ordinary minds, is often derived from the con sciousness of being born and bred a gentleman. Such also is local and patriotic affection, and an attachment to names, customs, and places, around which time or association has thrown a charm. Such too is the frank and cheerful love of sports —the entire abandonment of the mind at times to a state of childlike simplicity and enjoyment —the shrinking from the pride and pedantry of being eternally Wise ; these are all beautiful points aa i ble piredj..uKdiicne; men a in the character o f the Tory country gentleman, which re d eem a l arge mass o f i gnorance a nd really and all cr these oeara s m thingssde lightful the oldblm ciereh.al cont rast to the hardintellec tualism or fa nat i c i sm o f t h e i r a d versar i es. so prep on d erates, These eleme n t s o f t h e T ory part y are m ixed, of course, individual i ri infinitely memt)ers o different. In rent psorompeorttliloei good and the and the evil is so qualified by natur a l ability or moral d ofchange goodness, is haorrdclyircmuourie stances, that th e a than a mere ballast to the zeal for improvement ; the dislike to the • ones and general principles becomes only a safeguard against extravagan' speculations, and against the fault of living in •he clouds, instead of doing with an ardent spirit he world's daily business. Had men like these predominated in the Tory party, never should we have had our present Reform Bill, and for the best of all reasons—because we never should have needed it. Had those pious, wise, manly, and liberal Tories, of whom there happily still exist many in England, been able to give the tone to :he general character of Toryism, I could have Nished their pity to enjoy a perpetual ascen dancy as heartily as I now rejoice in its defeat But the comfort is, that the more we purify our institutions the more safely and usefully may we employ the Tories to administer them, as, while their good qualities will be as valuable as ever, their faults will be powerless to do mischief. PRICE 7D. OXFORDSHIRE REFORM DINNER. ryvrOP.l), MAY 31. A very numerous and respectable body of the sup porters of Mr. Harcourt and Mr. Weyland, the ‘lembers for Oxfordshire, met to-day for the pur pose of celebrating, by the very English and in a ll respects constitutional means, a dinner, the triumph ,vhich the cause of Reform has gained in this county, where, until very lately, an overbearing aristocracy and an illiberal clergy have carried all be- rove them. This dinner excited allitional interest, from a r e port which has prevailed for sonic days past in the county, that Mr. Harcourt was about to be raised to the Peerage. The report appears to have gained many believers, and the Marquis of Bland ford actually commenced a canvass for the county upon the strength of it; while, on the other hand, h e friends of Lord Norreys, the unsuccessful and Anti-Reform candidate at the last election, made their appearance also in the field, and prepared to contend with the Noble Marquis for the honour of representing the county, which honour they of course imagined that Lord Norreys had greater claims to. The report, however, turns out to be a pure fiction The dinner was hid out in the Town-hall, which was very tastefully decorated, and presented a most gay and agreeable appearance. Thomas Lewis Coker, Esq. presided, and MI supported on cue side by Mr. Harcourt, and on the other by Mr. Weyland. As soon as the cloth was removed, The CHAIRMAN, gave " The King, God bless him."—(Drank with four times four, and the most enthusiastic acclamations.) " The Queen," and " The Royal Family," were drank with the same honours as the last toast. The Cumniirsse would next give them " The Wooden Walls of Old England."—(Cheers.) Drank with three times three, as also was the next toast, " The Army." Mr. WETLAND, in a very neat and appropriate speech, proposed the health of Mr. Coker, their Chairman. (Much cheering, and drank with three times three.) The CHAIRMAN was ready to attribute this to nothing but to the zeal which he had shown in the great and glorious cause of Reform—(Much cheer ing)—and he could only say, that he, in common with every other freeholder, should be most happy to do every thing in his power to promote a Bill, which, he was convinced, would secure all the insti tutions of the courtly, would allay discontent, would preserve to the King his prerogatives, and to the Lords their privileges—and which, last, but not leant, would give to the Commons a full, free, and fair representation in Psrl ament.—(Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN said, that in proposing to them to drink Earl Grey and his Majesty's Ministers, he would boldly, because he could most truly, assert, that the present Ministry were peculiarly entitled to the gratitude of the country for the very efficient, plain, and intelligent measure of Reform which they had produced. (The toast was then drank with three times three and much cheering.) The CHAIRMAN would call upon them to fill a bumper, and to make roof and rafter echo with " Harcourt and Weyland." (Drank upstanding, with three times three, and a liter al and long-con tinued fulfilment of the Chairman's exhortation with regard to " roof and rafter.") Mr. HARCOURT (who was received in a manner more enthusiastic than it is possible for words to describe) had lately seen in one of those newspapers which did not fail with as much diligence as dis ingenuousness to attack the private scharacters of those individuals who proclaimed themselves supporters of the Reform Bill, while at the same time they displayed equal diligence and equal dis ingenuousness in depreciating and in misrepresenting the Bill itself,—he had lately seen, he said, in one of those newspapers a paragraph to this effect, namely—that the freeholders of Oxfordshire had done well to elect him now, because they knew little of him; and with this assertion was coupled a pre diction of the writer, that as the freeholders of Oxfordshire came to know more of him (Mr. Har court), they would not be so satisfied as they were at present with the choice they had made.—(Cries of " No, no.") He did, however, trust that this prediction, as applied personally and individually to himself, would be found as wanting in accom plishment as he had no doubt the predictions of the same prophets with regard to the more important subject of the measure of Reform itself would turn out to be.—(Cheers.) The Reform Bill would pass,—the country had decided that question.—(Much cheering.) Yes, the Reform Bill would pass in spite of the loud and angry clamours of those who were opposed to it; and by the salutary operation of that measure, the anxieties of the timid, and the terrors of the bigoted, would be dissipated as the morning dew disappeared before the rising sun, while the Constitution would not only not be destroyed, but would survive wi; h infused vigour and with new and increased energy. (Cheers.) Nothing would perish by the operation of this great measure, except those parts of our system which were corrupt, and which, for the safety and security of the whole, ought to be re duced; nothing, in a word, would perish by the Reform Bill except that which every true lover of his country desired to see altered, if capable of alteration,—or destroyed, if too bad to be capable cf amelioration.—(Cheers.) It had been commonly said in former discussions upon the subject of Reform, and it was known that the argument had had great influence upon the House of Commons, — that the Reformers were not numerous, and that so far from being unanimous, scarcely any half-dozen of them could be found to agree upon a system of Reform. Now he asked them whether the Re formers of the county of Oxford had not contributed their part towards the proof that the Reformers of Eng4trid were not only numerous; but very nume rous in proportion to the general body of free holders and other electors ?—(Cheers.) He be lieved that in the Parliament now about to meet them, there would be foun l only six county Mem bers who would oppose the Reform Bill. Then, as to unity of feeling with regard to a system of Re form, he did not mean to pretend that every mat, who declared himself in favour of the Ministerial measure of Reform said or thought that the mea. sure was the best possible measure that could have been framed; yet all the Reformers that he ha , spoken to, all the Reformers in every part of the county which he had canvassed, had declared themselves contented and satisfied with this mea sure such as it was.— (Cries of " We are.") lie Ilan met with no man who desired a further concession than the Bill made; he had met with no man who required more than the Bill gave, except in some of the details, which were matters of no importance at all. This was much for the representative of a county to be able to say. —(Hear, hear.) H. thought, however, that he, as the representative of that county, might say more. He thought he might also say, that with regard to any fears of bad feel ing towards the Monarch, or towards the Govern ment of the country, such apprehensions, if the) were entertained of the freeholders of Oxfordshire, were utterly vain, visionary, and groundless. — (Cheers.) With these observations he should have ceased to trespass further upon their time, had it not been that aince he had entered the room, it had been suggested to him there was a point upon which he ought to say a few words to them. - He had been absent in the southern part of the country, and during his absence he had found that art address had been made and published to the freeholders of Oxfordshire, intimating that a vacancy was likely to occur in the representation of the county at an early day. The report to which he alluded, -and which he found had prevailed in that county, al though it had not yet penetrated to that part of the 'stand in a hich he had been residing, M as, that he was shortly to be elevated to the honours of the Peerage. Now he was one of those who believed that honours of that description did ;,0t befaii men but with their own knowledge at least, . if not a their own solicitation.--4 Hear, end laughter.) H e did not believe that it had ever happened in the an nals even of the most extraordinary dispensations: of royal favours, that a man went to bed a eommoner, and without the suspicion of waking arty thing else but a commoner, whereas upon getting up m the morning he found himself a Peer.—(Hear, and laughter.) He had never heard of such things hap pening to other teen, and he had no reason, there fore, to expect that they would happen to him. could only confidently assure them that the idea of asking for such an honour had never even occurred to him ; and farther, he could assure them with equal confidence, that no such idea was ever likely to occur to him as long as that confidence and that support which he had received from them was -letei nued to him, and to deserve the continuance of that: confidence, and of that support, ehould be the endea vour of him Cheers.) He did not know whether it was necessary for him to add, that no mistake on this subject could have resulted from there being any ground for supposing that such an honour was intended for his father. If it had been reported that his father was likely to receive such an honour, that report was equally as untrue as the report which had been circulated with regard to himself. lie trusted, that after this explanation, no future misun derstanding could arise upon this subject.—( Hear.) Mr. WEVLAND ( who met with the same enthu siastic reception as his Hon. Colleague) said the time was now close at hand when the pledgee he had given them would be put to the proof ; he was ready to stand the trial. He had promised them that he would vote for the Bill, the whole Bill, and nothing hut the Bill--- . -(Cheers)—and he would mike good that promise.—(Cheers.) He did not pretend that; a measure of such vast importance as this was in all respects perfect. That there would be modifica tions and alterations in the details of it was very likely ; but he pledged himselfeo support. no %Itera tion in the measure which had not the sanction of the Noble Lord who introduced the Bill, all , l of that Noble Lord's colleagnes.—(Cheers.) This was the great and engrossing question ; but there were other questions also upon which he should have to vote, and upon which, as far as he wa- able to do so, he had made known his sentiments to them. He was a friend to economy and retrenchment, and in enemy to all useless places and unmerited pen sions.—(Cheers.) It was consistent, as well with the interests as with the character of a great nation, that the public servants should be generously re warded ; but he did say that it was a shame that inefficient men should be put in places which re quired abilities, and that men who rendered no set v ce to the public should he supported by the pub lic money.—(Cheer=.) He would not deta'n them longer than to thank them once more for the many, and repeated, and distinguished marks of kindness, which he had received at their hands, and which he assured them he should remember with pride and gratitude to the latest hour of his existence. " The Lord Lieutenant of the County,"—" The High Sheriti,"—" The Members of the City of Oxford,"—" The Mayor,"—and "The Prosperity of the City of Oxford,"—were severally drank with due honours. The CHAIRMAN then proposed " The Oxford and local Committees throughout the county,"—a body of men to whom, as well individually us collectively, the cause of Reform was deeply indebted. Mr. EATON returned thanks, and concluded by proposing the following toast :—" The ladi,s of our most excellent County Members, Ladv Elizabeth Harcourt and Lady Johnstone."—(Dran . k with three times three, and, many times repeated, " One cheer more.") Mr. HARCOURT returned thanks for Lady Eliza beth Harcourt, as also did Mr. Wayland for Lady Johnstone. Mr. HARCOURT proposed the health of Mrs. Coker, the lady of their Chairman, and the ladies of Oxfordshire.—(Drank with acclamation.) Mr. COKER returned thanks on the part of his lady. With regard to the ladies of Oxfordshire, whom they had done themselves the honour of toast ing, it could hardly be expected that he should return thanks for them, for to do so would require the gift of many tongues indeed. If they were riot tired of the ladies, he would give them The ladies of the city of Oxford."—(Drank with appropriate honours.) Mr. HARCOURT then proposed the healths of" Nlr. Pe rs and Mr. Stonor," who had proposed and se conded him on the day of nomination. Mr. PEERS returned thanks. Several other toasts were then drank, after which he meeting separated. A CITIZEN SIXTY YEARS AGO. The following is an amusing and well drawn )ortrait of a citizen sixty years ago : it appears in a novel called Atherton, written with no in- considerable humour and spirit : v;:.Bryant himself was •a neat, quiet, orderly sort of a man, regular as clock-wolk, and steady as rime, the rely pink of punctuality, and the essence of exactness. He had been in business nearly forty years, in the same shop, conducted precisely in the same style as in the days of his predecessors: he lacked not store of clothes or change of wigs, but hi, clothes and wigs, and three-cornered hats, were so like each other, that they seemed as it were part of himself. His wig was brown, so were his coat and waistcoat, which were nearly of equal length. He wore short black breeches with paste buckles, speckled worsted hose, and very large shoes with very large silver buckles. He was most intensely and entirely a citizen. He loved the city with an undivided attachment ; he loved the sound of its bek, and the noise of its carts and coaches ; he loved the colour of its mud and the canopy of its smoke ; he loved is November fogs, and enjoyed the music of its street musicians and its itinerant merchants : he loved all the institutions civil and religious ; he thought there was wisdom in them there was wisdom in nothing else ; he loved the church and he loved the steeple ; and the parson who did the duty, and the parson who did not do the duty ; and he loved the dell:, and the sexton, and the parish beadle, with his broad gold laced hat and cane of striking authority; and he loved the watch men and their drowsy drawl of past umph reciock ;' he loved the charity schools, and admired beyond all the sculpture of Phidias, or the marble mi racles of the Parthenon, the two full-length statues about three feet each in length, and two feet six inches in breadth, representing a charity boy and a charity girl, standing over the door of the parish school ; he loved the city companies, their halls, their balls, though he never danced at them, their dinners, for he never missed them ; and above all other companies he loved the stationers, and its handsome barge, and its glorious monopoly of al manacks ; he loved the Lord Mayor and the Man sion-house—it was not quite so black then as it is now—and he loved the great lumbering state coach and the little gingerbread Sheriffs' coaches, and loved the Aldermen, and Deputies, and common councilmen, and liverymen. Oat of London he knew nothing ; he believed that the Thames ran into the sea, because he bad read. at school that all rivers run into the sea, but what the sea mot be did not know and did not care ; he believed that there were re gions beyond Highgate, and that the earth was ha bitable farther westward than Hyde Park corner ; but he had never explore] beyond those remote dis tricts. What was Hammersmith to him or he to Hammersmith ? He knew of nothing, thought of nothing, and could conceive of nothing more ho nourable, more dignified, or more desirable, than a good business properly attended to. lie was proud of th e c l os e and personal attention that he paid to his shop—somewhat censoriously proud ; he might be called a mercantile prude, or shop-keeping pedant; and when a near neighbour, who had a country house at Kentish-town, to which he went down every Saturday, and from w hence he returned every Mon day or Tuesday, came, by a variety of unavoidable or unavoided misfortunes, to make his appearance in the Gazelle, with a Whereas' prefixed to his name, Mr. Bryant rather uncandidly chuckled and said, I don't wonder at it. I thought it would end in that. That comes from leaving things to boys. " Much as Mr. Bryant venerated the city and all the city institutions, yet he was by no means ambi tious of its honours. His motives of abstinence were of a mixed nature. He had fears that the dignity of Common-councilman, which he had oc casionally been invited to aspire to, might interfere with hi s domestic comforts and put Mrs. Dickinson (his housekeeper) out of her way ; and he had some slight apprehensions that he might not be successful if he should make the attempt ; and then, as in the course o f his life he had seen many promoted to that honour, whom he had once known as m children and apprentices, and whom he still regarded as boys, though some of them %vete upwards of thirty years old, he affected to make light of a dignity that had become so cheap. AGRICULTURAL REPORT FOR MAY, much f ba t r b l e ey pr r e e s m en ai t n m ed on to th b . e P ian o ! into the ground in the middle somewhat forward, and the sowing tatoe planting has been so i n . as also sheep-shearing, on the of turnips has commence( . may say, thus endcch the last ope rationconclusion of wbieh we of us who have tbcreby got clear of a pro lation to many , Upon backward lands, icted and expensive line of uperdtions. But as a draw back, the most important view is not very cheering, not only of the spring season, and with no slight self gratu from the lateness of .he season, kit from the imperlect culture of the lands, and the enormous load of weed vege tation, accumulating and fostering in their bowels; a profitable stock lying perdue for the benefit of years and year s to come. ' Th e month of April, bating a few days, has been suffi ciently lauded. The commencement of the-present month we fear, balanced the account of profit and loss too heavily on the adverse side. Deluges of rains, u ith the wind on the unfavourable side of the compass, succeeded by sharp frosts, ice. and snow. The fruit trees, laden with the most promising show of blossom and bud, were the first an d greatest sufferers. Much of the wall-fruit is irre coverably cut off, and in the great orchard counties, where u pon a 'arm, the fruit, had the season proved genial, might have realise(' 5001. or 60W., two or three frosty nights have in prospectu caused a defalcation to the amount of two thirds. All the corn and the pulse crops and the artificial gr asses have shared, more or less, in the. calamity. The wheat, happily the most hardy, as most important, has stood the shock, with least injury ; but some of the poor, hea vy land wheats appear yellow and rough, and that which is worse, to look forward, a nidus is provided for the incubation and prolific increase of the blight insect. The wheats, nevertheless, on all good dry lands, are strong and luxuriant, and with a genial blooming season will, no doubt, produce a profitable crop. Oats have resisted the atmospheric attack, as most hardy, with the least injury. Barley has suffered much, and beans, peas, most of all ; a nd, it is said, there is a considerable breadth which it will be advantageous to plough up. It is not possible that the hops, the most sensitive of all our crops, can have escaped. Monthly Magazine fo'r June. A swarm of bees, passing over Bridgewater on Thursday, alighted on the sign of the Globe Hotel. This sign is a large hollow globe, made of tin. The busy insects found a small hole in it, which they entered, and have actually taken posse lion of the inside of the sphere. IRELAND. THE AFFRAY AT CASTLEPOLLARD. On Tuesday liuGtt DtxoN, Esq., the Coroner of the country of Westmeath, proceeded to Catle pollard, to hold an inquest on the nine unfortunate people who were shot on Monday, the 23d. The examination of witnesses having concluded, the Jury returned the following verdict :--" That the de ceaed Patrick Dignam died by a gun-shot wound . inflicted by Serjeant Mills; that John Slevin and Mary Kiernan came by their deaths in the same way, by shots fired by Serjeant Mairs and John ['odd; and that the other persons came by their deaths in the same way, by gun-shot wounds, in-' dieted by a party of police, eighteen of whom have been identified, with Chief Constable Blake at their head, aiding and abetting." The Coroner made out a warrant of committal against the eighteen po licemen identified, including Mr. Blake, their Chief; and at a late hour on Saturday evening the whole party were conveyed, handcuffed, to Mullingar gaol, guarded by a strong military esc THE EAST INDIA TEA SALE.--Y esterday 'he sale of teas by the East India Company commenced at the India-house. The present declaration is the largest that has ever before been issued, amounting to not less than 6,300,000 lbs. weight. Of Bohe 14 thete were announced for sale 1,700,000 lbs. ; of Congou Campoi, Pekoe, anti Soucliong, 5,200,00011a5. ; of Twankay and Dyson Skin, 1,130,000 lbs. ; and of llysoo, 270,00011 m. The last declaration was 7,900,00011)s. The sale was very fully attended yesterday, and the Boheas were first put up. The demand was heavy, and prices gave way about 4d. per lb.; hut towards the close of the day's sale min e briskness was observed at rather higher prices. The average• decline was Irons 3d. to 4d. per lb. Nearly 7,000 chests passed the sale yesterday. Some good qualities realized Is. Bd. per !b., exclusive of duty (95 per cent). The consumption of teas is rapidly increasing, and the competition in the trade greater at present than at any other period. Since 1811 the consumption of tea in this country has increased .one-third. The present sale will not conclude for many days. HORRID OCCURRENCE.—About twenty years ago a farmer in Strathglass came to his death in a , nanner which left little doubt of his having been mur dered, and it was currently reported in the country at the time that the deceased'e wife was concerned in the perpe :ration of the crime. No investigation was, however, instituted, and the unfortunate woman died seven years ago in a state of urmtal derangement, and was interred in the church-yard of Boleskine. A son of the unfortunate pair has for several years traversed the country in a state of insanity, and was discovered in the morning of Satur lay se'unight in the church-yard of Bo!eskine, wi.ere he iiad been busy at work all night. The poor maniac had lug up his mother's coffin, scattered the bones on the tombs, and, horrible to relate, he was, when first dis covered, in the act of tearing asunder the sinews wi h his teeth. 111 any efforts were made to induce de . s i s t . o ti charged with powder way fired it!ele4' .. ind to tike bins away , but 4ithout eire.ct,a,uent the usual m e ans of alarming turd renderirt,c „ tr r In ;creosol. . f