The Sun. — London, England, 1831-04-16 00:00:00

~:~~ :.,~:rj - Ibe Lail of Atalinesbury moved for certain returns 'dative to the Beer till, with a view to show that its effects had been :eve) , pernicious in the agricultural counties, where 'ilt popul a ti on was scattered, although in towns where eke public-houses were more immediately under thecon eroul of the magi s t ra t es , it h a d not d one much injury. file Lord Chancellor said " complaints having been made from different quarters, the Government had tho . ught pro per to cause inquiries to be made, and had applied to the magistrates of the different counties for that purpose. He had heard that evils did result from it in some counties in the south and west, whereas in the north, with which he was more immediately connected, no complaints had been made. He had mentioned this on a former occasion when this subject was started ; and on further inquiry he found that his information was, to a considerable extent, correct. He had also mentioned on that occasion that the evil might be only local and temporary, or that kind of evil which at first resulted from all chanFes, and he hoped that it would be found that the evil Was only tem porary." The very fact of the alleged effects having been ao different in the north, and in the south and west, almost amounts to a proof that Lord Malmesbury remeens, as other men have done before him, post 1 i -c ergo propter hoc. There have bevel disturbance' in the southern and western counties, ergo, the P.M houses have caused the disturbances. Lord Carnarvon said, " the Bill had match ncreased the disturbances in districts where there had been disturbances lately." They may just as well say that the Bill has been the cause of the absence of disturbances in the north. In the state in which the peasantry lately were in the south, what is there whi c h wou ld not b e abused? It would be as rational to say, that because meat is injurious to a man in a state of fever. that meat i, generally injurious. Are the labouring population to be viewed only as insurgents—as cenepirators against pro perty? The Beer Bill was intended for the comenience end comfort of the people, and we ought not to abridge their comforts, and expose them to inconvenience, on ac count of what takes place during extraordinary period.", The Lord Chancellor ruffled a little some of their Lord ships, by observing, " that the magistrates had been ap plied to for information on the subject, and then he was bound to consider the magistrate. as having a certain bias on the subject, since this Bill ttok away from them much of the patronage which they had enjoyed befoete by the power of granting licenses, and so far diminished their iafluence." This is all very well ; but we could have liked to have seen a more decide& opposition to the at.. tempts against the Beer Bill, on the principle. surely it is not intended to abandon a Bill for which So much praise was bestowed on t'ne late Administration ! Any experience, it seems, is sufficient for a conclusion against the enjoyments of the people. A hundred years of op pression are not enough to prove the mischief of the licensing system; but one half-year is enough to prove the evils of liberty. The attempt ought to have at once been scouted.—Morning Chronicle. The impudence of the Scotch freeholders is beyond all bearing. The whole representation of Scotland, as is well known, is a farce, but an expensive farce to Engles:id. The rotten boroughs of England are respectability itself, when compared to Scotch county elections The rotten boroughs not unfrequently were purtheaied by honest and Independent men ; but the Scotch have always been thre. rough-paced jobbers. Examine any division from the time of the Union to the present day, and it will be !mind that every base job, every ruinous measure, has been supported by the Scotch Members, in the proportion of three and four t one. What is it to the people of England, that the men who thus sell themselves for patronage to every Ministee, hold a large share of the property of Scotland. Thin merely paves, that men who possess property, tomtit' covet to possess more, and having no check upon them, put their hands freely into the public purse. The people of England are as much interested as the people of Scotland in clearing out this Augean stable; because their own representation. if good, would be rendered of no avail by the bed compo sition of that of Scotland. The people of Scotland are sager for Reform ; but, forsooth, a number of landed gen tlemen, who no.v possess the monopoly of returning County Members, and are unwilling to lose it, meet in thel different counties, and pass resolutions against the Reform Bill, and the voice of a nation is to pass for nothing against these pretended county meetings. " In Banffshire (said Mr. Kennedy) where there were 4.3,000 inhabitants, a pe ition was agreed to against the Bill, at a meeting where ther e were thirteen persons, four of whom were in favour of Reform and none against it. In Berwickshire, with 33,00:i inhabitants, thirty-three persons met, and then relrainly they were unanimous against the Bill. Then Came Dumbartonshire, in which the petition against Re form was carried, as stated by the Lord Advocate, by thirty- six to twenty-fire Then came the county of Elgin, with 31,000 inhabitants, in witieli there was a meeting of nine persons—Haddineton s with 35,000, in which there were eight in favour, and four against; and Roxburghshire, in which the petition was carried by 4 to' 23. In that county, however, there was a reef meeting of the landholders and inhabitants on the tenet day, and they were unanimous in favour of the Bill. In fact, wherever the real opinions of the people could be collected, *part from those of the voters for the rotten borough sys tem of Scotland, they were unanimous in favour of the Bill. It appeared to him most extraordinary that under such a system to many persons of property should be found to vote at county meetings its favour of the plan of Re fortri."--Sir George Murray chose to feel very indignant at this treatment of the Scotch freeholders—" The lion. Member (Mr. Kennedy)" he said, " sitting tts be did for a vet of close boroughs, had been decrying the counties of Scotland, and applying to them most improperly the s'ame faeguage which he would use with respect to the rotten boroughs of England." Rotten boroughs of England, for sooth! Well, and bad as the rotten boroughs are, have eaeir Members been ever half so bast and so eitne-serving es the County Members of Scotland? The comparison is in favour of the 'often (nroughs. The Member for the rotten borough pays his price to the patron, or to the drunken potwalloppers, and may give an honest vote; but it is an understood matter that every one of the 40 or 50 freeholders who return a Member for a Scotch county, must have themselves and their kin provided for at the public expence, and the Scotch County Member must vote through thick and thin to have food for their ravenous nueuthe for which he is bound to provide. These freehol ders know right well that their monopoly gives them a ready access at all times to the English Treasury; . and they fight for it as p ro ar i s e t focis. Sir George. added, " He could say of Scotland with sincerity, that its county re presentation was as pure and independent as any to be found in England." Conte, come, Sir George, this will not do. You are not talking, man, to Chinese, or to Hin doos, but to Englishmen, who have been enlightened by lists of majorities and minorities. Will you only show us a single instance of a barefaced job, the subject of a vote in the House of Commons, in which the Scotch County Members were not at least three to one in favour of the job ? It is moat monstrous assurance to compare togs ther the English and Scotch county representation. Of all conceivable constituencies, that of the Scotch counties is the worst. It is an impenetrable phalanx of conspirators against the property of the people of the empire. Accident even, except in the case where a single family commands a whole county, brings no alloy to the corrupt effects. In two or three counties, as Forfarehire, Lanarkshire, Argyle. shirts, and perhaps occasionally another, the overwhelming properties of individuals returned the Members, and then the Members, being accountable to no constituency, could be honest ; but in every independent county of Scotland-- th it is, where property is at all divided, the Member who did not vote in such a way as to ensure a command of pa tronage for the constituency, would never have been again returned in his life for an independent Scotch county. The people of Scotland have long been indignant at these doings. It would be difficult to believe (says the Glas gow chronicle of Friday last), if we did not actually wit nest it, that a warlike nation like the Scots, 600,000 fighting men strong, would so long have permitted fewer than 1,400 individuals to make laws for the country. In India 30,000 British keep in subjection sixty millions of 11i ." 00 1. In Scotl an d t wen ty t i mes t h a t num b er o f Bri tish are leept in subjection by an oligarchy of less than 1;1,00." But the cause was assigned by Sir J. Mackin tosh. o The reason why Scotland had increased in pro perty and wealth, under the present system, was not be cause it was a sound one, but because the Constitution of England protected her, and the representation of England was spread over her as a shield, to guard her from the con sequences which might have followed the defect, of her own." In fact, the Scotch syst em could not hold toge ther a day without England. Sir George Cale, strange thought " it w he answered Sir James when he said,aongeantod hear him extol the merits of the English Constitutrin speak of the representation as forming a shield for the pro tection of Scotland, at the very time he was using his u t m ost exertions in support sf a Bill totally is the changin g nature of the Constitution." But forming a representa tion from defects, and thereby improving its character, is not denying all merit to the unreformed Parliament ; whereas the Scotch representation is, as far as it goes, not only without any good, but a positive diminution, as far as it goes, of the sha re of g ood p ossessed b y the English. When Mr. C. Ferguson talked of the voters of Scotch co unties being incorrupti ble as they never bought and sold their votes like the boroughs of England—that they were men of integrity, and independence, and so forth, s we 17 . 1 , translate this character into plain English. The en freeholder does not sell his vote fora few guineas; he is a rich man ; but he does much worse ; he motes the representative obtain patronage for tiet, The venality is nothing compared to such an es4l.--Morning Chronicle. As the time far I .. .rigging the grand question of Reform to its cer.3 . urnmation approaches, the rumours of tricks and treacheries increase. It is now, we find, again asserted that the King will not consent to the instotetio'.. sirould the present Parliament violate its to 'tne country by rejecting the Bill, Are t'heY tire Mends of the monarchy, we ask ?—are They tit' . - riends 'of the King personally, who have rac..sa.l and circulated this reron to his preju dice ? V. say to his preird'.ce, for even they who would rejoice in the defeat of the Bill by any means, would still not fail of Vairning the Sovereign for having suffered it to be tarried thus far by his own sernon; whilst the rest of the country, who are wr.an:ted up, as it were, in the success of the meastrA-e, would vent all their indigna tioa against th ri•!-Abor of the defeat. The King's Minis ters brie firelight in the Bill with his consent aml. af:proba tian : with his countenance, and urrY..- his auspices (for he could have discharged the s. any time,) they have fought it through its Ortl• stages. Is it to be believed that William IV. ia'cipable now of deserting the pledges which this corn'rt gives to his people of his sincerity in the causo of Reform, and defeating the Bill with which he is thus identified, by refusing to allow of a dissolution of Par • liament, should that be netsessary, fo'r the completion of the work ? t*.c ; William IV. i 3 ineapahle of any thing like this ; and he may form an idea of the malignity of the enemies of the Bill, from such a specimen of their treatment of himself, to whom they would impute conduct at which his heart must revolt ; 'and whom. if ".Y.ley could even persuade him to execute the treacnery with which they charge him, they would ttili condemn and hate, for the support which fi'a has already lent his Ministers in in the organkatia'a and partial execution of the project. For oursuN - es, we can hardly conceive, nor would we tvillingly contemplate, the situation of a Kibg of 'Eng land who should now strangle a measure of such vast im portance, with the suttees of which he has, up to this point, appeared to be identified. Let it be recollected, that his Majesty has even dismissed some of his personal servants front their offices for hot sanctioning the measure by their votes in PariJament ; and whoever recollects this will not be apprehensive, we should think, that the same King should now defeat the Bill, by refusing hit per mitsion to dissolve a Parliament by whi , th it should have been rejected. In repelling this v;alumny upon his Ma jesty's fair fame, his eonsittehey, or sincerity, it will be ob served that we sea of the dissolution of Parliament as neces-saer 'ea the success of the measure. The pewter dissolve is undoubtedly necessary; and this the adherents of the boroughmongering system see. The power, unexereised, may be as efficacious as the dissolu • Lion itself. In the same mariner the report that the power has not been granted may lie as injurious as the positive refusal of the possr,r ; and thence it is that the report has been raiskati by those who are reckless of the effect which it •iii have upon the King's character, We would wipe oh . ' the false aspersion from his Majesty's reputation, and ' thus remove a considerabk obstruction to the success of the Tinier, The motion of Mr, Fowell Buxton relative to the anti slaVery question stands for this evening. What the pre cise nature of that motion is we do tint pretend to say—it is sufficient for us to knw that its object is to accelerate th e abolition of a practice which has long stood condemned by the United sentence of reason, religion, and humanity, and which tarnishes our moral character, and is a deep stain upon our civilization. But it is not our cultivated sentiments only—the pure and honest instincts of human nature revolt at a state of slavery, and not the proudest patriot of the classic lands of ancient freedom felt a deeper athortence of bondage and its degradation than - the poor Indian, whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind. Perhaps the greatest triumph of civilized opinion in mo dern times was the abolition of the "slave trade," for which Wilbertorce and Clarkson, and their fellow-labourers in the cause of humanity, hail so long contended under the most adverse circumstances, until, at length, the Legisla ture adopted the principles which justice and Christianity had consecrated, and pointed the terror. of criminal law at those Who delve a loathsome traffic—guage and span Akld buy the sinews and the bones of man. But the abolition of the slave trade is, and must continue to be, incomplete until slavery itself is rooted oat. As long as there are slaves in our plantations there will be a temptation to the illicit traffic in the abominable merchan dise of hurrah beings—and that traffic must be productive of more suffering and torture to the wretched objects of a disgusting cupidity than the open and tolerated trade was, because the secresy essential t carrying it on makes it ne cessary to adopt the , Inost cruelly ingenious modes of pack ing the contraband bodies of negroes in the smallest pos sitte, space between the decks or in the hold of the vessel that bears its cargo of misery over the tropical seas, pur sued by the curses of den/ ited Africa. We are aware that the question of the abolition of slavery in our West India isllt'3B has its difficultie., in consequence of the length of time in which the acquisition of slaves has been tolerated, and the property therein said to be acquired; and we also know that the House of Commons, more than seven years ago, passed certain resolutions, not merely declaratory of the sense of the House in condemna tion of slavery, but pledging the Government to adept effectual and decisive measures for ameliorat ing the condition of the slave population in hie Majesty's colonies, with a view to prepare them for a participation in those civil rights and privileges which are enjoyed by other classes of his Majesty's subjects. Now we believe w e are correct in stating that no " effectual and decisive measures" have since been adopted or en- forced in the Weat India islands to ameliorate the condi tion of the slaves, and prepare them for their long deferred emancipation. It is time that something should be done ; but we think the case of the unfortunate woman, Kitty Hylton, which we published, on the authority of an official statement of Lord Goderich, in our paper of Wednesday, sufficiently proves that in Jamaica, where the barbarities occurred of which that woman was the victim, slavery preserves all its original horrors, while the outrages which it stimulates power to exercise upon the helpless objects of its capricious cruelty are as unrestrained by any sense of decency or manly feeling as they are free from the grasp of criminal justice. When we hear the situation of the poor of England com pared with that of the West India negroes, and when we find that a bill of indictment i referred by the Attorney- General of Jamaica, under the directions of the Secretary of State, against the perpetrator of the cruelties upon Kitty Hylton, was thrown out by the Grand Jury, we must say that nothing can be more absurd than to draw such a comparison ; for, however scanty the wages, how ever hard the lot of the poor man in England may be, he has rights which the law practically recognises, and which no man, however great or opulent he might be, could dare to violate as the rights of humanity were violated in the case in question, without having to pay deeply in damages for the wrong, or undergoing the sentence of a culprit at the bar of public justice. Indeed Lord Goderich says— " Were I to assume the judgment of the Grand Jury to he correct, it would follow that the laws of Jamaica afford the slave no protection from such sufferings as are shown by evidence upon oath to have been undergone by Kitty Hylton." Is it not then clearly established that something ought to be done, without further loss of time, to accelerate the extinction of a system so allied to bar barism, and so productive of crime ?—Morning Herald of Friday. We congratulate the country upon the union and firm resistance of the Nobility and Gentry of the county of Northampton to the attempts of the partisans of the Revo lutionary Bill, who endeavoured to get up a county meet ing, at which they might pass their own resolutions, and then palm them upon the country as the sentiments of Northamptonshire. The Gentry attended the meeting, and notwithstanding the clamour and violence, and even danger to which they were subjected, manfully opposed the proceedings of those who supported the Revolutionary Bill. The Sheriff was induced by violent clamour to adjourn the meeting to the Market-place, where it was joined by a promiscuous mob. The Tory Noblemen and Gentle men, feeling that the Sheriff had yielded to an adjournment while the majority in the county hall was against it, would not be present at the adjourned meetirg, but pre pared and signed a protest and a declaration against the Reform Bill. We have further to offer our cordial congratulations to the friends of the Constitution on the admirable declaration of the freeholders of the county of Southampton. This gratifying document is given in an advertisement in our first page, and we beg to direct the attention of our readers to it The county of Essex, highly to its credit, is pursuing a similar course ; some towns in the same county have laudably come forward in the same constitutional spirit ; and, even in defiance of the low radical clamour at Leeds, in Yorkshire, a most spi rited declaration irk defence of the Constitution has been entered . i nto b y the respective inhabitants. We are re j(o>nac.ee dta add th a t t h e true constitutional spirit, which Was the true c h aracter i stic of Britons, seems now to b e every wl, ere rev i ving ; and we may indulge the hope that our beloyed therefore reasonably from the terrible gripe of anarchist, , horrors of revolution, which sooner or later saved the attendant beli inevitable result of the projects of our resent'w:lllinblest the 1 Atoning 120,45, POLAND.-WARSAIS, APRIL 2. (From the Times Private Correspondent.) The bulletin of our General will_hert 4oiVrkunicated to You our glorious success of 41 Vlore yestel;daY•-•Chlr men fought like lions G'Nra. dew" from post, to post ..(49ra rank to rank, tillkettin'g, animating, and encouraging. 1 insls a glorious triumph 0!, could you !have seen our heroes?,—could vou have seen the burning real,.with which Coe recruit hurried on with the old soldier,—and the half-recovered wounded of our great previa,s a"h:,:vement,—how they hurried to the field, you wails' lia, e said, this people cannot die tho death of slav e; —they were not born for eternal bondage. Our citv •iiwe the 25th of February has been changed into a cattip, t've!•:, roan stood forth as a defender, and wore his tinifor. ; redoubled activity reigned through all the ttillitiry branches, the , enthusiasm w as superb ; mats but of his country. e had before our little,leakosies, and our share of personal weaknesses ; but after the glorious day of the 25th of February, all were merged i t , t h e sacred cause—each man fought and acted as lf,Uppit big S.ll~ie arm reposed his country's hono u r.. Our attille";• splendid • it is French, yet we bo as t o f it• 10 4 .. ',Ve want fire arms. G ood God, is there ally tunde cfi . uppis mg us with them ? Th e pur suit is .ktill 110. our country is every where risen, and Diebßg:h will find assailants in every village. Lithuania is striking her blow, and the march through Poland is not the passing of the Balkan—he will not have quite leisure enough for the use of his rich Turkish pipe i , and perfumed Whole bacco—nor even for hi s b ran dy p un ch : Our Generalissim o, Skrzynecki,himself' a like ha Nn 6 atitiioli of eo rn nt C en, he hi e trlen t t t d he has sho w n Muscovite Masses. Thirty-eight thOusa congregatedhdPoleshas•e tbeahetein, back one hundred thousand RuSsiant, who masses under the walls of Warsaw ; an d now twenty-fo ur thousand men ate chasing and prostrating twice their number at the point of the bayonet, from fortified positions, deefned im pregnable without heavy artillery. Do not believe what the Berlin Papers say of the humanity of our invaders —the barbarity of the Russians extend s to torture. I declare to you , upon m y honour, that I have i;;tl., on the skirts of fields of contest, wounded Poles, Whose eyes were torn out, merely because they had resleted like heroes. Women have been, on the Muscovite line of march, brutally violated and carried off,—whole. families have been dispersed, and many home into Russia under base pretenc e s. They saw horror and devastation wherever they show themselves. They have even taken away a lady to Pulawy, from the very apartment of the Princess Ctartoryski. Heavens l••• —see if it is possible to get us arms : the campaign is only begun —no fear now of a cob', de main upon Warsaw. PRICES OF STOCKS TI-115 Bank Stok - • • 1 9 014 3 Pej C.etd.. Red ...77y. 8 71. i 8 3 per Cent. Cons l9 8% 9 3},', per Cat . Ditto Red 87 1 4% New 3% per Cent 6% 7 3 per Cent Ann. 1726 4 per Cent. 18 4 26 • 95 Bank Long Ann to expire Jan 5, 1860 • Ocl. 10, 1859 l6li Jan. 5, 1860 Jan. 5, 1880 April 5, 1880 Jan. 5, 1870 FRICES OF FORVIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds Brazilian Bonds — THIS DAT AT ON! O'CLOCK. Neapolitan . 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THE COURT JOURNAL of this dayf April 16th, contains an accurate Description o HER MAJESTY'S DRAWING-ROOM, with an Al phabetical List of the numerous PRESENTATIONS, and full particulars of the LADIES' DRESSES—RoyaI Movements of the Court—Diary of an Invalid—l'm not a handsome Man—Paris Fashion and Chit Chat—Taglioni and Laland—Wedded Life in the Upper Ranks—with the usual Varieties of the Week. Published by W. Thomas, at the Office, 19, Catherine street, Strand, and regularly supplied by all Booksellers and Newsmen, POSTAGE FREE. COURT CIRCULAR. Their Majesties entertained the Duke and Duchess of Cumber land, the Landgraa ine of Hesse Homburg, the Princess Augusta, and a select party at dinner, on Thursday evening, at the l'alace of St. James's. Prince George of Cumberland joined the Royal party in the evening. The Duke and Duchess of (timberland, the Landgravina of Hesse Hombvrgy tlit , Duchess of Gloucester, the Princess Augu stay the Princess Sophia, and the Princess Sophia Matilda, p4ld visits yesterday to the Queen. Their Royal Highnesses par took of a dejeune with their Majesties. Earl Grey, the Duke of Devonshire, and the Duke of Gordon, had audiences yesterday of the King. The King and Queen left town a quarter before five o'clock yesterday afternoon in a travelling chariot and four, with out riders, escorted by a party of Lancers, for the Palace at WinMor. Prince George of Cambridge and the Ladies in Waiting on the Queen followed in a second carriage and four. His Majesty will give grand dinners at the Palace at St. James's on the 21st and tr;th inst. The latter dinner is to the Bishops, Irish as well as English. The Duchess of Cumberland, attended by Miss Cooper, visited the Duchess of Kent and the Princess Sophia on Thursday, at the King's Palace at Kensington. A numerous deputation of noblemen and gentlemen connected with the West India interest, including the agents for the colonies, had a long conference yesterday with Earl Grey and Viscount Goderich, the Secretary of State for the Colonies. The deputation was composed of the Marquis of Chandos, Earl of Harewood, Viscount St. Vincent, Lord Saltoun, Lord Rolle, Lord Seaford, Lord William Pawlett ; Members of Parliament, Sir E. Hyde East, Sir A. Grant, Sir J. Reid, M. Shawe Stewart; Messrs. Irving, Stewart, Bernal], Arcedeckne, Marrvatt, Baillie, Malcolm, Hart Davis, Burge, D. Lyon, W. Lyon, Hon. Edward Cust Dottin ; also Sir William Windham balling, Mr. Colville, Mr. Rose Fuller, Mr. Anthony Browne, Mr. Mayers, Hon. A. Frances, and Mr. Colquhoun. Viscount Howick, one of the Under Secretaries of State for the Colonies, assisted at the conference, which lasted upwards of an hour. Summonses were issued yesterday to the Cabinet Ministers to attend a Cabinet Council, which was appointed to be held at a late hour last night. The Russian Ambassador was occupied a considerable time yesterday afternoon with Viscount Palmerston at the Foreign Office. PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. POPULATION, ENGLAND. RETURN, from the Population Returns of IS of the POPU LATION of the under-mentioned Places, not now returning MEMBERS to PARLIAMENT; distinguishing the Num bers in respect of the Borough, and of the Parishes and Town_ Chips or Hamlets in each Place. Population. Brighthe'mstone Parish "4 429 Bolton-le-Moor : Township of Great Bolton - .2,037 Chapelry of Little Bolton 9,258 -31, 4 295 --• • • -- • • Blackburn Parish 53,350 Bradford (Yorkshire) Parish 52,954 Cheltenham Pat ish 13,396 Dudley Parish 18,211 Frome Selwood Parish 12,411 Gateshead I'arish 11,767 Huddersfield Parish .4 .2.0 Kidderminster Town 10,709 The entire Parish contains 15,296 Kirkby Kendal Town 8,981 Macclesfield Town 17,716 Stockport Township '21,726 The entire Parish of Stockport contains 44,957 South l fuel Is Chapelry ....8,885 West( e „„.,. Township...7,6lB -16,503 Tynemouth Parish 24,820 The Parish of Tynemouth includes the Town ship of North Shield. Whitehaven. Town 12,408 Workington Parish Harrington Parish 1,815 --21,471 .Whitehaven is a Township in the Pari,h of St. Bees. _ . Walsall Parish 5,504 Walsall Foreign Township...6,4lo 11,914 S M. PHILLIPPS. %Vhitehall, April 11, 1831 POPULATION (SCOTLAND) BURGHS. CORRECT RETURN OF THE POPULATION OF EACH CITY and ROYAL BURGH in SCOTLAND, having a VOTE in the ELECTION of a MEMBER of PARLIA MENT ; as also of the towns of PAISLEY and GREENOCK, from the Population Returns of IS VI ; distinguishing in each case whether the population given be that of the Burgh or Town exclusively, or of the Burgh or Town and Parish toge ther ;—A like Return of the Population of the Parishes in which the Suburbs of the Burgh of PERTH arc situated, in cluding that of BRIDGEND ; and distinguishing, as far as possible, the Population of such Suburbs from that of the rest of such Parishes. N.B. The Cities and Burghs sharing together in the Return of a Member are placed between brackets. {Aberdeen, Burgh and Parish 26,48-I Inverbervie, ditto 1,092 Aberbrothock, 0 ditto 5,81; Montrose ditto 10,338 Brechin ditto 5,906 * Including the town part of the parish of St. Vigeans, Aherbrothock contains 8,972 inhabitants. (Ayr, Burgh and Parish 7,455 Irvine, ditto 7,007 Ilothsay, Burgh Campbeltown, Burgh 11,445 Parish 2,571 9,01e1 llnverary, Burgh and Parish 1,137 (Trail, ditto I Kilrenn), ditto 1,494 Anstruther, East, ditto 1 ,090 1 1 Anstruther,West, ditto 429 IPittenweem, ditto 1,200 1 Dumfries, Burgh and Parish , 11,052 Sanquhar, Burgh 1,357 - Parish 963 Wanlockhead, Town 706 --- 3,826 Annan, Burgh and Parish 4,196 Lochrnaben, ditto 2,651 Kirkcudbright, Burgh 2,595 -- Parish 782 -- 3,377 'Dysart, Burgh and Parish 6,529 Kirkaldy, ditto 4,452 Kinghorn, ditto 2,443 Burntisland, ditto 2,138 Edinburgh, City (ancient and extended Royalty) 1:38,235 'Elgin, Burgh and Parish 5,308 Cullen, ditto 1,452.. Banff, ditto 3,855 Inverary, Burgh 735 - Parish 394 - 1,129 Kintore, Burgh 312 -- Parish 745 -. 1,057 'Forfar, Burgh and Parish h,Bs/7 Perth, Burgh 19,068 Dundee, Burgh and Parish 30,575 Cupar, ditto 5,892 St. Andrew's, ditto 4,8519 *Fortrose not stated. Inverness, Burgh and Parish 12,264 Nairn, ditto, 3,328 ,Forres, ditto 3,540 'Glasgow, City and Suburbs 147,043 Renfrew, Burgh and Parish 2,646 Rutherglen, Burgh 4,091 ••-•• Parish . 849 - 4,640 Dumbarton, Burgh and Parish 3,491 'Haddington, Burgh and Parish b,255 Dunbar, ditto 5,272 North Berwick, ditto 1,694 Lauder, ditto 1,845 ..Jedburgh, ditto 5,251 'lnverkeithing, Burgh and Parish 2,512 Dumferrnline, ditto Queensferry, ditto 690 Culross, ditto 4434 ,Stirling. ditto 7,113 . Stirling parish is partly in the Shire of Clackmannan ; the entire parish contains 7,314 inhabitants. rKirkwall, Burgh 2,212 Wick, Burgh and Parish 6,713 Dingwall, ditto '2,031 Dornoch, Burgh 630 [ - Parish 2,4.70 3,100 Tain, Burgh and Parish ,, i stii ... . __ .- Selkirk, Burgh and Pari s h { Peebles, ditto 2, • 701 Linlithgow, ditto 4,69'2 Lanark ditto 7,065 { Wigton, Burgh and Parish 2,04'2 Stranraer, ditto 2,463 New Galloway not stated. Whitehorn, Burgh and Parish 2,361 Paisley, Burgh, consisting of three Parishes contains 26,42 6 i n h a bitants; and the Suburb, comprised in the Return of Abbey Parish, contains 11,620 inhabitants. The three Parishes of Greenock together contain 22,0% inha bitants. The Population Returns of 1821 do not name the S u burbs of the Burgh of Perth, nor state in what Parishes they are situated. Whitehall, April 11, 1831. S, M. rfuLurPs. Ebb -14 fr--- . ....,.. ' 3. ' Attu® , LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 16, 1831. There is a certain class of legislators who seem born to entertain the community at the expence of themselves; who seem brought into the world, in fact, for no other purpose than to put in jeopardy whatever cause they may think fit to espouse. The Duke of NEWCASTLE is clearly one of these unfortunates. He is the very _Harplot of the boroughmongers. The Marquis of EXETER is not to be despised as a scion of the same " untoward" school ; and it would ill become us to pass by with indifference the claims of Lord HUNTINGTOWER to a similar honour; but the great Master of Climber Park and Sir C. WETHERELL, combines, in his own illustrious person, the qualifications of both these Noblemen. His Grace observed last night, in ,a speech—which, considering he had only taken three weeks to prepare it, might be pronounced eminently felicitous—that a more independent gen tleman than the Hon. Member for Boroughbridge, was not to be met with in the House of Commons. On this the following characteristic colloquy en- . sued : The Duke of Iltcumoxn—Suppose Sir Charles Wetherell were to vote for theplzut of Reform introduced by Ministers into the other House, how long would he continue Member for Borough bridge ? The Duke of Nnwr ASTIR —IIe would not be allowed to retain his scat if he did so.—(A loud laugh.) NOW it is evident from this, that by the term in dependence, in a political sense, his Grace implies the unqualified obedience of all Hon. Members to the boroughmongers who place them in Par liament. Sir C. WETHERELL, for instance, has no right to have an opinion at variance with that of the Lord of Clumber ; the public principles of the one must be also those of the other ; both must bray to the same tune, and with the same agreeable power of modulation, " Ass," in short, must " intone to ass." This, ac cording to the spirit of his Grace's logic, is the only true definition of independence. The right of pri vate judgment is a farce, a manifest slavery ; there can by no possibility be any real independence between an Honourable Member and his patron, where the ene does not command, nor the othe r implicitly obey. We fear his Grace will find few lexicographers to agree with him in this definition ; though at the same time, it must be confessed, a lite rary dictionary is very different from a political one. At any rate his logic will have this good effect ; it will show the reformers of what stuff their oppo nents are made, and teach them duly to appreciate them. By the term "independence" the boroughmon ger implies neither more nor less than slavery ; on the same principle, and to the same extent, that by the prosperity of the country he means the sinecures and pensions bestowed on himself and his slaves. How grateful ought we reformers to feel to Providence, for having raised us up such staunch friends to the cause, as the Duke of NEWCASTLE, the Marquis of ExETER, and the unparalleled Lord HUNTINGTOWER The following insidious paragraphs from German, Papers received this morning, plainly indicate the desperate state to which the Russians are reduced by the chivalrous bravery of the Poles—and the appre hensions of Austria and Prussia, lest the contagion of liberal principles extend to all the Polish provinces. To obviate this dreaded event these despotic Powers endeavour to interpose their friendly aid, on pretence of stopping the effusion of blood, and " to prevent the dissolution of a country (Poland) which, under whatever form it may be, must remain subject to the Russian Sceptre !" But this is not so clear, Prince METTERNICH, as you may have heard ere now by the downfall and capture of that military butcher DIEBITSCII. By Monday next we sincerely trust to be enabled to confirm the entire destruction of the Russian army in Poland. The spirit of insur rection extends at this moment over a popula tion of twenty millions in the Polish provinces; and does NICIIOLAS hope to coerce that multi tudinous movement by barbarous and bloody mani festoes ?—Never FRONTIERS OF SILESIA, 111.kacir 31.—1 t is very generally believed that the great Powers, moved by the heroic efforts of the Poles, have been inspired with a desire to take some steps in their favour, and to induce the Em peror of Russia to chew some indulgence to a nation which has, indeed, committed great faults, but has many excuses to allege for its illegal conduct. It is believed that the Emperor will not be displeased at a mediation which m ust correspond with his own humane feelings, and save from destruction a nation and a country belonging to him, whose preservation and prosperity are as much for the interest of Russia as of the Poles themselves. It is difficult to calculate what sacrifices must be made by both parties if the contest should be prolonged ; and it cannot be dissembled that if the honour of the Russian Crown requires that it should make itself obeyed and respected, it is equally important for it to prevent the dissolution of a country which, under whatever form it may be, must remain subject to the Russian sceptre. It is affirmed that the Emperor has no longer any intention of incotpotating the . kingdom of Poland with the Russian empire; he will have it placed under a distinct Govern ment, with free institutions, and if he has not yet formally explained himself to this effect, the reason is to he sought in the vicissitudes of the fortune of war; which have kept the Poles from repentance and submksion, which were demanded at the very outset in too positive a man ner. Now that the Polish Diet has several times shown itself disposed to negociations, to which Count Diehitsch was not authorised to accede, the mediation of friendly Powers, on being assured of the mare favourable senti ments of the Emperor, might be of the happiest effect in leading to an amicable arrangement. It is greatly to be wished, that the intervention of the Powers may lead to a happy and speedy conclusion, as the Poles are ieady to fight to the last, and rather to perish than to survive the disgrace of seeing the name of their illustrious nation effaced from the list of European states. They receive pecuniary assistance from several quarters. Many Polish officers on foreign service have left to assist their distressed countrymen. VIENNA, APRIL 20.—General Chlopieki has heel, here for some days ; it is said he will try the effect of the waters in the neighbourhood of Baden. The report that negociations are on foot f o r the ami cable arrangement of the affairs of Poland gains ground. It is said to-day that the C,binets of Berlin and Vienna have undertaken the mediation, and will each send a nego ciator to Warsaw. These pacific reports, and the favourah , e news from our army in the Papal States, have caused our Bank Shares to rise to-day to 985. The two negotiators above alluded to are said to he General Langinau fir Austria, and General Muffling for Prussia. The Canada Papers continue •of very great inte rest. We have before us this morning the Cana dian COUrani to the sth ult., which contains another communication from the Governor lo the liouse of Assembly, in consequence of which latter communi cation the House had asked for copies of his Excel lency's instructions from the British Government on the subject. As it was supposed these were confidential, his Lordship would not be able to make them public without permission of Ministers. Ii:- deed, private letters state that his Excellency had refused, and consequently this unfortunate Civil List question again began to assume an unpromising ap pearance : AYLMER. Governor-in-Chiet: The Governor-in-Chief having in his Message of the 23t1 inst. communicated to the House of Assembly the commands of his Majesty, received through the Secretary of State for the Colonial Department, regarding the question of finance, which has for • so long a period engaged their attention, thinks it necessary to enumerate in detail the several branches of the revenue which it is deemed expedient to exempt from the operation of the pro posed arrangement. This further communication appears to his Excellency to be the more desirable, as it will remove all grounds for future dis cussion, when the adjustment of the main question shall have taken place, and as it will enable the House of Assembly to enter upon the consideration of this important topic with a hill and precise understanding of the views of his Majesty's Government. These views are now exhibited by the Governor-in-Chief to the House of Assembly, in that spirit of frankness and good faith which characterizes the instructions he has received, and which cannot fail to improve the confidence of the House of Assembly in the good intentions of his Majesty's Government. The Revenues to which the Governor-in-Chief alludes are the cassia' and territorial Revenues of the Crown, and arc classed under the following heads:— I Rents, Jesuits, Estates. 15. Droit de Quint. U. Rent of the King's Posts. 16. Lods et Ventes. 3. Forges of St. Maurice. 7. Land Fund. 4. Rent of the King's Wharf. !8. Timber Fund. If the funds derived from these sources operated in any degree as a tax upon the people, or tended, either in their nature, or in the mode of their collection, to impede or impair the prosperity of the province, his Majesty's Government would have hesitated in proposing to retain them at the disposal of the Crtwn. They stand, however, upon a perfectly different ground from taxes properly so called. They are enjoyed by the Crown, by virtue of the Royal prerogative, and are neither more nor less than the proceeds oflanded property, which legally and constitutionally belongs to the Sovereign on the throne, and as long as they are applied not to undue purposes of new patronage, but to objects which are closely connected with the public interests of the pro vince. It is not easy to conceive upon what grounds of abstract property, or of constitutional jealousy, the application of them, according to his Majesty's commands, under responsible advice, can he impugned. Castle of St. Louis, Quebec, Feb. 25, 1831. On the motion of Mr. Young, an address was voted to his Ex cellency for a statement of the gross annual amount of the casual and territorial revenue from 18IS inclusive, distinguish ing the amount annually received under the heads in the pre ceding message. On the motion of Mr. Cuvillier, an address was voted to his Excellency for copies of any despatch or despatches, or of such instructions as his Excellency may have received from his Ma jesty's Government in England, concerning the finance affairs of this province, to which his Excellency refers i n hi s M essage to the House on that subject, of the 2.1 d inst. and of this day. Mr. Secretary Glegg had transmitted the following Message from his Excellency:— " The Governor:in-Chief transmits to the House of Assembly an estimate of the expellees of the Civil Government for the en suing year, and he takes this opportunity of drawing their early attention to the total amount of this estimate, which will be found to be very considerably less than the estimate of last year. " To the estimate now transmitted will be found annexed a statement of certain items, which were included in last year's estimate, and which are now omitted in conformity with the in structions received by the Governor-in-Chief from his Majesty's Government. " The items of charge above alluded to are No. 1 to 13, and lib: Excellency thinks it proper to remark upon each of these numbers." There are strange rumours abroad respecting the motives that could have induced a certain 1-lon. Mem ber of shining and matchless talents to rat upon the great question of Reform. A certain Noble Marquis has: betted five thousand to one that he can assign the true reason. We regret to find that, in alluding a few days since to the Reform Bill, we mentioned the Mar quis of HERTFORD as having become an advocate for it. This was a mistake: it should have been the Marquis of HEADFORD. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY ) DAY AT ONI O'CLOCK. New 5 per Cent. India Stock Ditto Bonds 3LS pin. South Sea Stock ........... Old Annuities. New Ditto 3 per Cent. Ann. 1751 Ex. Bills, £1,000...17 19 17 pin Ditto. ...........s(h 19:17 pm Ditto Small lB 19 17 pm. Ditto Commercial pm Ditto Advertised —l m. Bank for Account....., l2OO India for Account ...... •• Cons. for Ma,' 26. ...... ..7SN % H:37 Eitchantre —t. NGE YESTERDAY. Leghorn 477,i Genoa 3 60 Venice 46 Malta 46 Naples 39 Palermo peroz. 118 Lisbon Oporto Rio .laneiro Bahia 25 Buenos Ayres — Dublin, '2l days' sight 1 Cork BULLION, PER OZ. £. S. d. Portugal Gold, coin 0 0 0 Foreign Gold, in bars 3 17 NI New Doubloons 0 0 0 I New Dollars Silver bars, standard 0 0 0 COVENT-GAR. There was a moderate suppl! the trade was steady. Prices of about the same as on this day se DEN MARKET. ly at this morning's market, and both Fruit and Vegetables were 'nnight. sd. ;.d. - sd. s.d Potatoes (cwt.) Ca'bages (12 heads) 1 0 2 6 Apples 3 0 8 0 Ditto Savoy I 3 2 0 Large Onions 2 6 4 0 Ditto Red 4 0 10 0 Span. Chesnuts (peck) 6 0 10 0 Horse Itadish(bundle) 5 0 10 0 French ditto Rhubarb .. . Brocoli 1 0 2Oi French Walnuts ....... 6 0 10 0 Celery Turnips 12 bunches).. 16 . 2 6 Eng. Grapes (per lb.) 1 0 3 0 6 C arro t s 3 7 0 Foreign 0 8 1 0 Young Carrots 6 0 8 0 Sea-kail (pummet) .... 0 9 1 6 Coleworts or Greens 1 6 2 6 Endive 0 8 1 0 Young Onions 2 0 3 0 Small Sallad ............. 0 2 0 4 Leeks 1 0 1 6 Radishes (12 hands)... 1 0 2 0 Turnip Radishes 2 0 4 0 TurnipGreens(basket) 0 4 0 6 New Oranges (100) 5 0 10 0 Brocoil Sprouts 0 6 0 9 Seville Oranges 8 0 12 0 Pine Apples (lb.) lO 0 in 0 Lemons 8 0 14 0 Cucumbers (brace).... 6 0 12 0 Asparagus ..., 4 0 10 0 Strawberries (ounce).. 0 0 1 0 French Beans' 1 0 2 0 HAY M A RKETS.—(At per Load of BS Trusses.) CUMBERLAND (LATE ST. JAMES'S.) Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £2 5 to £2 10 New Meadow Hay 0 0 0 0 Useful Old Ditto 2 10 3 IS Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 4 4 4 10 Clover Hay 3 5 5 5 Oat Straw XI 10 to £1 14 I Wheat Straw— 1 18 2 2 SMITHFIELD. Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £2 10 to £2 15 New Meadow Hay 0 0 0 0 Useful Old Ditto 3 0 3 18 Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 4 0 4 4 Clover Hay (extra fine)....£s 10... Generally Oat str a w X 1 12 to £1 16 f Wheat Straw 1 16 1 18 PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed from the Returns made in the week ending April 19, is 375. 5%d. per cwt., exclusive of the duties of customs paid orpayable thereon on the importation thereof into Great Britain. , The SPEAKER is not to issue his warrant for a new writ for the Liverpool Election, till the 30th April. A Proclamation appears in the Gazette of last night, relative to a new coinage. In addition to the usual pieces, double sovereigns of the value of forty shillings are ordered to be coined and issued. On the one side the Knic's effigy, with the inscription " Gulielmus D. G. Britanniarum Rex. F. D.," will appear, and on the other the armorial ensigns of the United Kingdom, with the words, " Decus et Tutamen." Yet mean, cruel, and atrocious as every ci vilised mind must consider the doctrine, that Ireland has no need of Poor Laws, or some equivalent for them —hate ful and abominable as is such a screen for inhumanity— there are men, or things with human pretensions, nay with lofty privileges, who do not blush to treat the mere proposal of establishing P fund for the relief of the diseased or helpless Irish .vith brutal ridicule and almost impious scorn. Will any man credit that an Irish ab sentee lord could say what he is reported to have uttered in the House of Peers last night, when Lord ROSEBERT presented a petition, praying that a compulsory tax on land might be introduced into Ireland, towards alleviating her poor? We shall not name him, because the House of Lords is armed with a thing called a " Bar," and other disagreeable appendages. But there are Members of that House who surprise nobody by declaring their indifference to " popular odium,"—especially when they are at such a distance from Ireland as to ensure the safety of their persons. Times. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCL-(T1-11SDA V.) FROM LLOYD'S. DIE 1,, .1 !MIL x`.ll'.—Arrived the Cato, Law. rence, from Teneriffe ; the John Pink, Nixon, from Jamaica ; the Navarino, Harris, from Elsinore; and tile Richmond, Bowers, from Virginia., PLYMOUTH,. APRIL 14.—AYizni N. to 4 .C.E.—Arrived the Adrian, Sadler, from Btarha; and the A:exachler, Waltel - s; &ft% Naples. FALMOUTH, APRIL 14.—Wind N.E. to N.NE. with fresh gales.—Arrived the Jess-, Gilmore, from Naples. DARTMOUTH, APRIL 14.—Arrived off port the Anna Dorothea, from Pernambuco. The wreck of a vessel, apparently a French chaste maree, bottom up, was fallen in with on the 10th instant, near Portland, bearing N.E. distant about_ eight leagues. SCILLY, APRIL 13.—Arrived the Levant packet, from Sicily; and the Catherine, from Gijon. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 14.—Arrived the James Grant, M'Ken zie, from Maranham ; the Nester, Shannon, from Charleston ; and the Mexico, Tellerson, from Virginia. The Robert James. Hayfic a, has pot back to Carthagena leaky, havingbeen on shore, GREENOCK, APRIL Rl—Arrived the Ceres, M'AndrewF, from Demerara. BELFAST, Aean, 15.—A brig was observed on shore on Elliot's Keys, in the Gulf of Florida, on the 2:3d of February, by the Logan, Campbell, arrived here from Jamaica. WARREN POINT, Aram 12.—The Juno, Patterson, from Alicant, to Newry, which was on shore near Carlingford, has been got Mr, and it is expected without damage. I'ADSTOW, APRIL 11. —The Isabella, Campleman, has put in here rather leaky. Arrived off Holyhead the Peru, from Mobile. LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY). C 0 UET OF CrIANCI:EI7. TWORT r. JEFFREY. Sir EDWARD SUGDEN moved for an order to dissolve an injunction which had been granted ex-parte in February last.— The injunction was to restrain the defendant from cutting down ornamental and shelter timber. It was obtained on behalf of Georg,. Larkin, an infant, and the remainderman of the estate in question. The estate was described to consist of a mansion house, park, pleasure-ground, out-houses, offices, and RI) acres of land. The parties who were restrained from felling the timber were the assignees of the tenant for life, who had become involved. The Learned Counsel stated that nothing could be so futile as to represent this estate in the flourishing terms that had been used. A cloud of surveyors had come fbrward on behalf of the defendant, swearing that the mansion-house was, in point of fact, only a firm-house two stories high, of a brick front, brick back up to the first floor, and then weather boarded. That no timber whatever that had beets cut down could be con sidered as ornamental, and that those trees which they were about to cut were what they had a right to fell. Independently of this, the injunction had been obtained irregularly, inasmuch as the affidavit on which it was g ranted was dated the 24th of January, and the bill was not date d till the 26th, therefore the Court would have to dissolve it. Mr. ROUPELL complained that the present motion had bean taken unfairly against his suggestion. lie felt satisfied that he should be able completely to contradict the statements made by the defendants, and that therefore he ought to have time to make his affidavits in reply, the defendants not having thought proper to move upon their answer. '1 he question was not whether any person might think the timber was on amental, a shelter or not, but whether it had been planted and left for ornamental and shelter timber, and he should be able to satisfy the Court that it was. As to the allegation of irregularity ill obtaining the in junction, it bad been made improperly. and with a view to pre judice the plaintiff's case, because he (Mr. R.) had sent for the certificates into Court, and they showed that the whole was regular. Sir EDWA RD SUGDEN opposed further delay, as the sea son for cutting down timber had nearly expired, and the pro perty in question was only forty miles from London. The park and pleasure grounds, consisting in the whole of 300 acres, were divided into no less than 94 fields. The LORD CHANCELLOR'S opinion was that time ought to be granted for answering the affidavits of the defendants though that time should be as short as possible, and conse quently the Court ordered the affidavits to be filed by Thurs. day next, and the case to come on again on Friday. FRIDAY THOMPSON r. BARCLAY and Co. and POWLES and Co. The LORD CHANCELLOR gave judgment in this case. It came into this Court by way of appeal from a decision by his Ho nour the Vice-Chancellor, upon a demurrer put in by the defend ants to the plaintiff's bill, which demurrer his Honour allowed. Mr. Alderman Thompson (the plaintiff), in his bill charged that he had paid various sums of money to the defendants, in conse quence of fraudulent representations made by them respecting a contract for a loan to be made to them by the Government of Guatemala, in South America.—The defendants, Barclay and Co., were charged in the bill with putting themselves forth as for the said loan on the part of the Government of that State, which was formerly a colony of Spain, but then revolted from the dominion of the mother country, and her independence not recog nized by the Government of this country. The bill also charged the defendants, Powles and Co., with having represented themselves not to be parties to the said contract of loan. By those repre sentations the plaintiff was, as it was stated, influenced to make purchases of scrip of the loan, and was also influenced as to the price he should pay for that scrip. The bill further charged those representations to be untrue, and that the defendants, who put themselves forth as unconnected with the loan, were actually connected with it. his Lordship, after repeating that he was bound by former decisions, affirmed the order of the Vice-Chancellor, and allowed the demurrer. But, in dismissing the appeal, he was glad of the probability that his judgment would undergo the revision of another tribunal, where the ad vantage of the learning of the other Judges could be had. Decision of the Vice-Chancellor affirmed, and appeal dismissed, but without costs. VICE- CHANCELLORS COURT. His Honour the VICE-CHANCELLOR took pleas, demur rers and further directions to-day„ none of which involved an'• point of public interest. The Court, having proceeded through the whole of its papers for the day, rose at half-past twelve. COURT OF KING'S BENGH. The Court this morning preceded with the new trial paper. COHEN AND OTHERS r. EMMERSON AND OTHERS. This was an action brought by the plaintiff's, owners of a smack of sixty tons, against the defendants, owners of one of the Liver. pool and Dublin steam-vessels. The action was brought to recover the value of the smack and cargo, which was run down in the river Mersey Cas was alledged) by the negligence or inattention of the Captain of the steam vessel. '1 case was tried betbre Mr. Justice Parke at the last Assizes for Lanca shire, when a verdict was returned for the plaintiff, the damages to be settled out of Court. Mr. Serjeant CROSS this morning applied for a rule to show cause why the verdict shou'd not be set aside and a new trial granted. The first ground on which the Learned Counsel founded his application was that the verdict was against the weight of evidence, as there could be no doubt from the testimony of the witnesses that the accident occurred in conse quence of the Captain of the smack changing his course, of he had not done so the vessels never could have come in con tact. The second ground was, that the verdict was in opposi tion to the summing up of the learned Judge. The Court granted the rule on payment of costs. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. IRVING AND OTHERS v. WA KRINGTON AND OTHERS. Mr. Serjeant TADDY moved for a rule to show cause why the verdict obtained in this cause should not be set aside, on the ground that evidence, proving conspiracy, had been improperly admitted : and also that an action of trover could not be main tained, as the transaction was a bona fide mercantile one, and therefore the plaintiff had no other remedy than to prove under the commission of bankruptcy which had been issued a few days atter the delivery of the wool against the defendant.— Rule granted. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Up to the present time we are quite barren of any Continental information. No foreign mails have arrived, or any ship-letters of consequence. Consols, which left off yesterday at 78% for the Account, opened at the same price, and went up to 783( buyers. Since which the market has been rather fidgetty, and Consols are at present 7814 , 31., with little doing. The success of the Reform Bill, which at present is rather regarded by the ;pe culators as doubtful, in some degree operates on the market. As yet we do not hear of an express from Paris, although one is expected. In the Foreign Market little or nothing doing ; Exchequer Bills have improved to 14 16. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock, 199% :200 Ditto, Reduced, India ditt•, Ditto, New, 88% 3 per Cent. Cons. 7844 Ti Four per Cent. 11926) 95 1 ,i Ditto, for the Acct. 78% % India Bonds, 3 5 3 per Cent. Red. 77% Exchequer Bills, 17 19 3% per Cent. 86% 7 HALF-PAST ONE. The Lisbon packet, which was to have sailed on Wednesday last, has been detained by Government. It is supposed they arc waiting for despatches from the French Government, and it is said she will take out despatches of importance from our Go vernment. Although an express has arrived from Paris, it is as yet kept s. secret, and none of the contents have transpired, nor do we sup pose they will. Consols have been done at 78.4 in the early part of the day, and are at present 76% %, and for Money 78%, with little or nothing doing. In the Foreign Market Spanish Bonds arc % per cent. higher, owing to 50,0001. having been purchased; nothing doing in other Foreign Funds. THREE 0' CLOCK. Consols 78k. It is said that the proposed alterations in the Reform Bill are intended as a sort of rat-hole, to enable the enemies of the measure to make their escape without too much exposing themselves. \Ve should not at all be eur surprised if this should turn out to be the real object of the intended change • and that, in fact, the Ministry, and some of the leaders of the Opposition, have come to an un derstanding on the subject. But, be this as it may, the proposed alterations are really such as might fully justify those who were opposed to the details of the Bill, rather than to its principle, in now giving it their support. If any thing of this kind has taken place, the Ministers have acted with a great deal of policy, inasmuch as they have conciliated their enemies, while, at the same time, they have rendered their Bill more popular.—Morn. Herald. BIRTHS. On the 15th inst. in Chapel-street, Park-lane, Mrs. R. Wel lesley, of a son. On the Bth inst. at Heysham, Lancashire, the lady of T. J Knowlys, Esq., of a son. MARRIED. On the 12th inst. at Swindon, A. S. Crowdy, Esq., of Swindon, Wilts, to Miss Hannah Sheppard. ®On the 14th inst. at St. Mary's, Bryanston-square, G. Drum mond, Esq. to Miss Marianne Portman. DIED. On the 7th inst. in Bruton-street, Jane, Countess Dowager of Carhampton. On the 14th inst. at Brompton, Matilda Countess de Clairvillef aged 57. On the 15th inst. at the Public Office, L a mbeth : street, after Esq., On the e S l t o o t n h e in H s o t u i s i, e e P h a i r i k d Park, East Grinstead , il Cecilia. t b a short illness, the resident Magistrate of that d istrict, M atthei Wyatt, Esq., of the Inner Temple. On the 13th inst. at Langley, Newbury, Berk, T. Pocock, Esq., aged 81 years. On the Bth inst. Mrs. Elizabeth Tyler, the . wife of C. Tyler) Twysdefl , Esq. ; as also on th e 3d inst. ' Frances , the infant child, three days after its birth. ece wife t is .et. x s AND ‘t my ,t24 It I) II , O LO2, Y D O O U N. NG , AT 10 0, - SUN OFFICE, 1 12 , . ( I