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it is, that the corruptionists regard the proclama- but firmly, and without the least loss of presence Lion of dissolution as the grave-stone of their of mind, persisted in his motion. Lord Londonderry power ; they see in it the close of their existence ; .igain, though at least six of his friends (among it is the bottomless pit of their perdition. The e horn was Lord Salisbury) tried to hold him down awful and sullen silence in which they received the by the arms and skirts of . his coat, started on his announcement of their majority on Wednesday legs, and in a tone of fury, and darting himself morning, as twilight receded before the rising of across the table as if he woeld strike the Duke of the sun, demonstrated their fears of success. De- Richmond, exelainned, " What, then, the Noble feat was ruin; victory might be equally destructive. Duke is to be the hero of this coup d'elat ?" At Stretched on the rac k o f t hi s excruciating instru- this moment the Lord Chancellor entered and took went of torture—the Reform Bills—the borough- his seat. Lord Mansfield denounced al Atrocious mongers knew not w hi c h way to save their lives. and unprecedented the conduct or Ministers in ad e The passing the Ministerial measure was certain vising the King to dissolve the Parliament under death to the p o litical hueksterers; the rejection of present circumstances. The Lord Chancellor, in a it might afford a ray of hope, if not a gleam of ulti- Intel firm voice, and with great energy of manner, mate safety. As the desperate gambler casts the exclaimed, " What ! unprecedented' for a King of last die, so the adversaries of the people were forced England to exerrise his undoubted prerogative of to run all hazards. The cit kof Regulus was corn- dissolving the Parliament, when the Hoese o' Com fort compared with the agonies of their situation. mono, in a manner unparalleled in the Most factious To the last moment, deceived by bast-minded periods of English liistoto: - , have stopped the sup courtiers, and bewiled by political women, they plies ?" This tel4ignant exclamation was re trusted to the wily plots laid to seduce tie eeived with loud cheers, but the opposition party King from his courage and integrity. Even when seem vociferous in exclamations against the. Mi the momentary discharge of guns, in successive 1 sisters. The King having by this time arrived in peals of thunder, announced the advent of hie Ma- the robing room, the Lord Chaineellor left the House. jesty to save the nation, the wretched dupes still Lord Shaftesbury was again voted into the Chair, doubted the horrible reality. The Gazettealone this amidst a scene of confusion and tumult that rivalled day can satisfy numbers of their political bankruptcy. the noisiest election mob. Certninly no blows were Many regarded prorogation as a ruse. A few short given, but the most viol.ent tones and jestures were months have intervened since the Duke of \Veiling- every where visible, and not even the presence of a ton vaunted the perfectibility of the represents- great number of Peeresses seemed to have the tion. A few days only since Sir R. Peel flattered slightest effect on the passions of this dignified himself that he could produce a pocket Reform to branch of the Legislature. Lord Whatincliffe at smooth the public mind. Miserable was the idea, length moved his resolution, and was followed by despicable the false spirit in which he has cunningly Lord Mansfield in a speech of extraordinary vehe opposed the cause of the people. His maledictions 'Deuce, which did not cease even when the King had against Journalism and Democracy remind us of the entered they House, nor until he was mounting the maniac raving against his keepers. The sun of his Throne. The King, wtele in the robing-room, political power has set never to rise more; he can asked what was doing in the House, and on being no longer make himself the drag-chain of the State told, was observed to assume a resolute air and look. machine. A new patent has superseded his super- The crown was about to be put on, when he took annuated instruments of Government. Europe h a s i t f rom t h e °Meer, saving—" I will put on my crown burst the chains of despotism with which the Duke myself,." He then, with a firm decided step, walked of Wellington, Sir Robert Peel, and her prede- into the House, where the uproar was still proceed cessors had manacled her spirit. The borough- ing : even some of the anti-reforming state officers mongers are irretrievably undone. Sir Robert Peel about his Majesty were heard to exclaim against the became frantic with the vision ef futurity. In The tlTsgraceful insult offered to the King in the exer- School for Scandal, Joseph Surface exclaims to rise of his prerogative. The King, however, Mrs. Candour, " I am afraid his circumstances like all men of real mettle, was only the firmer in are very bad, Ma'am." Mrs. Candour re- proportion to the violence of his enemies. He plies, " Ah! I heard so—but you must tell calmly took his seat : the House was shamed into him to keep up his spirits; every body almost is silence. The speech was then read by his Ma in the same way—Lord Spindle, Sir Thomas Splint, jesty, and it was read in a tone of firmness and dig- Captain Quinze, and Mr. Niekitt—all up, I hear, nifled emphasis, particularly the clause relating to - within this week ; so if Sir Charles is undone, he'll the Bill, which indicated the unmoved purpose of find half his acquaintanc e ruined too, and that, you soul, though he is known to have recently suffered know, is some consolation !" Sir Robert Inglis, in from indisposition. Indeed, it is hardly possible the spirit of a martyr, cha un t e d a funeral dirge over but that the exertions of mind, anxious to subject the grave of the horoughmonger s , Jos e ph Surface to its consideration every part of a most momentous would fain believe in the possibility of a redemption question, and to come to a right decision on the of his dying cause. Sir Robert Pea invokes the whole, must have worn the stoutest body. The country. We invoke the electors to mark with speech will he found in its proper place—in the scorn the desperate infatuation and pretences of Parliamentary report : we presume it is unexcep these men of desperate fortunes. Tt e King, the tionable ; for it is the act itself of dissolution, not Ministry, the people, must prevail against rotten the form or the words in which it is conveyed, that corporations, borough p a t r ons, an d ven a l intimidated has excited the wrath of the disaffected ; indeed the voters. The flower of the aristocracy is with us, speech had not been heard, and was unknown, though the bran is exceeding coarse. Every man, when the tumult was raised. But how proper, how therefore, must hasten to the sacrifice of time, irate- just i s th e second clause,—the only one in which rest, and labour. NVe repeat, that virtue must be the topic of dissolution, is handled : how unanswer the polar star of the approaching contest. Threats able its reasonings, " I have been induced to re must be despised, bribes sc o rn e d, devotion to the sert to this measure for the purpose of ascertaining cause must universally ptevail. Above all, it must the sense of my people." And why may not the ever be remembered in the election struggles, that King, we ask, appeal to his people, to ascertain their to the honest representatives, supporters of Re- feelings on so important a question ? It were surely form in the expired Parliament, we we the op- better to do so, than to experience their dissatisfac portunity of _national emancipation. They must tion afterwards; for a people's discontent at last is be protected, supported, shielded from the pillage of no trifle, even to a King, however some of those elections. The first duty of the electors is, the spon- inferior persons may have braved it, who have now taneous and hearty return of the old representatives monopolized the Royal favour, and plundered the free of expence. The private fortunes of men must public treasure for so many years, that they consider be respected, or the public will be deprived of their it as a robbery to deprive them of the free enjoy most trusty arid valuable servants. This is espe- meat of either. But we hope we may look for better cially just and necessary in those instances, and times.—Tinnes. they are numerous, where the old representatives, It has been suggested that some memorial of a voting different ways, necessitates the introduction people's gratitude should be raised on the present of a third man, to depose the evil-doer. The ho nest candidate must be held harmless of cost. In occasion to the patriot King, who has referred it— Le;cester, Mr. Evans must not be visited with so far as those abuses which it is meant to correct the punishment of Sir Charles Having's- Lord Al- will suffer it to be referred—to the British nation, thorp, in the county of Northampton, must be hc- whether it will have a reformed or a corrupt House nourable and cheaply returned. In Warwick, Mr. of Commons—a legislative body purely chosen by Tomes must not share the penalties about to be in- , lie people, or one nominated in part by the Peers. flirted on Sir Charles Greville, In Warwickshire, The money might soon be raised. What shall the Mr. Lawlev must be protected from expenditure. memorial be ? The public sees that colossal figure, when Mr. • Dugdale is ousted by a third andidate. at the south-east corner of Hyde-park, cast from Mr. Tennyson, in Stamford o r Lincolnshi re , should the cannon which was won by our gallant troops its be honOurahly and gratuitously returned. Mr. John a s er i es of co ntinental battles. We care not whither Wood, in Preston, should not he fitted for the per- it is well or ill devised, butt the motive was a noble verse or wilful offences of Mr. Hunt. These are tale, Why might not some work of art of a similar only a few instances of the cruel mulct which will kind b e erec ted at the nottl:-east corner of the same otherwise be levied on the old and most useful Patk, l oo king towards Oxford -street ? It is as friends of the p eo pl e . A s a genera l ru l e , all those proper to record by a lasting testimony the triumphs Members who consistently supported Ministers in obt a i ne d ove r domestic, as over our foreign foes, — the Reform Bill should be returned; hut a strict the victories of our King, as of our most celebrated Catechism should be read, and an equally strict re- Gener a l. The uniformity of the Park, with respect cord of the answers should b e p r e ser ved. All ab- to its ornaments, would thus be preserved. We sentecs on either division should be rejected ; a should like to write the inscription.—Times. good medical certificate is the best proof of incom- The King, yesterday, was most enthusiastically petency to discharge the duties of a representative; cheered by all classes in going and returning to and absence of mind is an equal incapacity with physical from the House of Lords. Above 200 persons, on inability. We again urge union ; let that man be the leads over the portico of the Lords, waved their selected for nomination who unites in his interest hats with repeated cheers; nearly half of them were the largest body of reformers. We urge the whole barristers. The Lord Chancellor and Earl Grey Provincial Press to cultivate dis;nterestedness anti were also received with the most fervent plaudits. immediate energy. Thus the nation will be saved, Proceeding through the Park, on its return, the vast and all will be rescued from the rapacious and de crowds which followed the Royal carriage, and had grading slavery of the infernal boroughmongers.— been huzzaing his Majesty in the most ardent man- Morning Chronicle. nor, suddenly changed this mode of testifying their England, Ireland, and Scotland, attend ! Your joy at the occasion to a loud and simultaneous clap- King came down yesterday to dissolve his Parlia. ping of hands, which lasted, without interruption, went, because, despising the wishes of his people, f ar several minutes. The effect was curious, and and his own Royal wishes, it refused to reform itself, highly animatin g . In the evening many houses and even stopped the supplies necessary for the were illuminated, and the bells were rung in most support of the pubic institutions of the country, of the churches. The King's speech prepares us unless Peers an d boroughmongers might be per- for a speedy dissolution, as the consequence of the mitted to continue in the usurpation of your rights— prorogation. We believe that the dissolution will to nominate theirdependents as mock-representatives be a nnounced in the Gazette of this evening.—Tinzes. of the people, and to sell the power of making laws A statement appears in the Standard of last and imposing taxes. This is the purpose for which night, that his Majesty's Ministers " waited upon the King of England,—William, the more than his Majesty this (Friday) morning, and again ten conqueror—William, the Restorer of his people's desed their seals of office." We can state in the rights—came down yesterday to dissolve the Pattie- moet positive terms, and without fear of contradic ment. The scene was a sublime one, so far as re- Lion, that the idea of their having event once offered lased to his Majesty, and will form a bright page in to resign is altogether without foundation.—Times. the history of the country. The conduct of his enemies and yours was no less remarkable ; and, after Mr. n exordium so suited to the solemnity of the occa - cellos; Brougham, offers himselfthe brother of the Lord Chan for the Borough. His first sion, we hardly know how to descend to the desert p- is address is to be found in our journal of to-day, and tion of the miserable tumults springing from the dis- as proper as his success is most probable. We appointment of criminal hopcs,of impotent malignity, do not hear of any opponent but Mr. Bulwer, one raving against just and constitutional controul, and of nliqs. There was one of them who offered presence. plots, blasted in an instant by the Regal love f those two brothers who have made som e to Bulwer, as presence. The House of Commons was in a himself for the borough of Hertford, and during the atate of uproar, but it was in the House of Lords contest was strangely smuggled away, with his own that this confusion was most conspienons, and chiefly consent, by Lord Salisbury, to make way for his among those who had been enriched through the Lordship's own man, Lord Ingestrie. This Bulwer munlifieenee of the immediate predecessors of that east up in the Pembroke Cabinet of Medals. It is Sover e i gn w h om thee insulted, or by the plunder of not he, we believe, who now aspires to the Borough, that p eople whim most sacred riguets they would but his brother. Great efforts, as we have said be continue to usurp. The King of England, • we say, fore, it the made in purse, as well as by personal yesterday on the very steps of was insulted arone, and by w h om ? By starv i ng art i sans ? the Reform , question a fair tilts] with the nation be by art unlettered mo b ? No—such men have no to be carriedinto full effect. We hear of a Right entrance there : b ut his Peers, who ought to have Hon. Baronet who has subscribed largely, and of a been bowing at his approach, an d closed around his Noble Duke who says he will sacrifice his whole for person in respectful sil ence. Bat we must descend tune to aid the other side. Let us ho p e t h at the to particulars—we must mention names. It ,ears The people of then, that in the absence of the Lord . Chancellor,a the United Kingdom must bestir themselves. It present will be the last struggle. who was in attendance upon the King, Lord Shaftes- will not be " a long pull;" but „ it must be " a bury, on the motion of Lord Mansfield, took the chair, or the Woolsack. Lord strong pull, and a pull all together. —Times. Wharnelitle then rose The Session of Parliament was yesterday brought to propose his resolution : the Duke of Richmond to an abrupt conclusion by a prorogation intended rose to order, and moved the standing order that its the precursor of an immediate dissolution—by an Peers should take their proper places—he saw a ,act of th e S overe i gn aut h or i ty str i ct ly w ithin the Baron sitting in an E arl's seat. On this too-Constitutional prerogative of the Crown, and there don the Marquis of Londonderry rose with in- tore liable to censure no otherwise than as it affords anewd proof of what was already, indeed, abun chieflydescribable vehemence, and—amidst thean furpiernodars the determination of his Majesty's occasioned, as it seemed , of the Noble Marquis, some restraining, ining some pt_areenste.Ynast:aldepis'seirbsieto moment, regardless s e office t h o e > cheering him—insisted that the Duke of Rich- - h I mond was out of order. Lord Lyndhurst spoke to welfare and tranquillity of the co untry , an d o f t h e t he same effect. The Duke of Richmond warmly security and dignity of the throne. When we look hack to the pro( eedit.ga of the expired or expiring Parliament, we do not, upon the whole i ace Much reason to regret its preMetUre and sudden dissolu tion. it tan never be forgotten that it was this Par liament which expelled from office the conservative Administration of the Duke of Wellington, and in stalled in power the revolutionary Administration of Earl Grey. Nor can wt deina it an tinstlitable rc ?ribution fot this act of thoughtlessness and folly, that the Patna Mont should be the first victim of the Revolutionist Ministers it had created, when it re fused to be implicitly guided by them in the dan gerous career of Revolution. But it is impossible to speak in terms of adequate indignation of the men who have deliberately condemned this country, and, above all, Ireland, to a severe and alarming crisis of agitation, strife, turmoil, and danger, merely for the sake of retaining office a month or six weeks longer, although we entertain a very confident ex pectation that thejesult of the approaching General Election will be to give us a Parliament incom parably more firm, ardent, and uncompromising in the defence of the Constitution of En g l and — a Par liament representing with far greater fidelity the pro perty, intelligence, and patriotism of the land, than that which Ministers, from this selfish and despicable motive, have so unceremoniouslv dismissed. The Regency Bill—a measure which, in common with the country, we sincerely hope may never come into actual operation—was the first important Act of the late Parliament, and we think we do not err when we say that this is the only positive enactment on which any claim can be advanced on its behalf to the gratitude of the country. This Act was framed with an anxious regard to the security of the throne, to the welfare and dignity of the Royal Family, and to the satisfaction of the nation, by the Duke of Wellington's Administration; and how well it is calculated to attain its important ob jects may be gathered from the remarkable fact, that its progress through its final stages in Parliament took place under the auspices of a rival and jealous Ministry, without an attempt to make the slightest alteration either in its principles or its details. The settlement of the Civil List, on the accession of a new Sovereign, was another of the important duties which devolved upon the late Parliament ; and it vet,; in the discharge of this duty that Parliament thought proper to ivithdraw its confidence from the late and bewow it upon the present Ministers. It is to be lamented, that in consequence of this trans fer of Parliamentary confidence, the Crown has been deprived of a portion of its former indepen dence, and reduced to the necessity of an annual application to the House of Commons for some im portant branches of the civil expenditure of the State, always granted heretofore for the life of the reigning Sovereign. Another consequence of this transfer is still more to be lamented. The House of Commons has been induced to pledge itself to re duce considerably the pension fund, the fund of Royal bounty, at some future and uncertain period, as the lives of the present pensioners may happen to Ell in ; while, by a dexterous juggle, the present Ministers, the authors of this prospective economy, have secured to themselves, for a much longer period than they can hope to retain office, the enjoyment of unimpaired patronage in the nomination of new pen sioners. A third consequence of this transfer of Parliamentary confidence we suppose many of those who had the chief hand in promoting it lament a great deal more than we do : it is the event of yesterday. The Regency and the Civil List Bills having been the only positive enactments of the late Parliament, and the substitution of a revolu tionary for a conservative Administration, the only successful exertions of its political influence in the State, it follows of course that its fame must rest chiefly upon its negative merits—upon what it has refused to do, not upon what it has done. If it were possible to believe that any assembly of six hundred and upwards of British and Irish gentlemen could in any manner be collected to gether who would concur in such project as the Budget and the Reform Bill of his Majesty's Ministers, then it must be admitted there is some degree of praise jusdy due to the late Par liament for rejecting both. The Budget was a tissue of absurdity and injustice. It sacrificed the most important national interests, and violated the public faith in a manner the most direct and express. By it the most solemn and binding treaties were disre garded—the welfare of the colonial and shipping in terests of Englund vitally assailed—the public cre ditor condemned to spoliation, contrary not only to the spirit but the le.ter of a Parliamentary guarantee as strong and explicit as words could make it. This disgusting medley of absurdity the late Parliament had the virtue to reject with becomit ' r scorn and in dignation. Its dissolution does not afflict us never theless, for we think Earl Grey, Lord Althorp, and their colleagues, might safely be entrusted with the nomination of a Parliament of their own, upon the single condition that the number of Members for England and Wales should not be reduced, if the only danger to be apprehended were that it might, by possibility, be found capable of voting for such a budget. Wo have much too high an opinion of the integrity of our countrymen to believe that Ministers could find in the whole country the materials for packing such a majority. But the late Parliament had the merit of defeat ing the Revolutionary Bill, in defiance of popular clamour, arid in defiance of the Ministerial threat of dissolution, to which popular clamour was calculated to give additional terrors. This is the redeeming circumstance in the conduct of the late House of Commons, and it cannot be denied that it manifested in Ibis instance a degree of courage and of probity which 'ought to cover a multitude of sins. In ap preciating the conduct of the House of Commons it is necessary, however, to recollect the surpassing enormity of the measure it was called upon to resist. The Reform Bill was a measure,the obvious tendency of which was, and the certain effect of which would have been, to abolish for ever, in all but the name— to deprive for ever of real power or influence in the State, the Aristocracy and the Crown of England. It was a Bill to convert the Government of Eng land into a democratic oligarchy. It was a Bill de priving the landed interest of England of all but an illusory share in the Legislature, and leaving the monied, the colonial, and the commercial interests without any share whatever, real or apparent. It was a Bill leading, by necessary consequence, there fore, not merely to a legislative disregard of the most important national interests, but to the universal confiscation of all kinds of property. These were the real and evident character and tendencies of the Bill. It was a Bill, too, the authors of which had plainly overlooked its true character and effects in their mere eagerness to pursue party objects. This made it still more disgusting and contemptible. The Ministers, men of rank and property, could not wish to establish in the land a sheer democratic Government, or to prepare the way for a general con fiscation. But what they might wish was the establish ment ofa permanent Whig oligarchy,and t heßill affords abundant evidence that that this was the object,and that in the headlong pursuit of this object they had merely missed their way, and blundered into the precipitous truck of democracy and confiscation. If we look at the evidence afforded by the Bill as to the objects of its authors, we find, first, that of 168 seats in the House of Commons to be abolished, no more than thirty-three, just fifty-one less than the just propor tion, are Whig seats. Second, we find that the se parate districts of twenty-seven counties, to which the right of returning two Members each would have been given, was in each instance to be cut off o of b f the te Vs P 'l r d i g vy from the b o dy o f t h e count y ; by w h o m ? By a Committee Ministers, ncil, w that h o is would uld certain n nominees no doubt, as in duty bound, have shewn, in this parti tion of the counties, a proper regard to the great Whig families and properties. Ministers, without being very sanguine, might eventually calculate that 40 out of 54 , new County Members would by this contrivance be permanently attached to the Whig interest. They would thus obtain an advantage— s lasting advantage over their great opponents, the Tories, of 26 Members in all future Parliaments. And'in the third place we find that a* Committee of the Privy Council, that is, a body Of MO absolutely re:r nominated by Ministers, were to have the power of supplying the deficient constituency of all the bo roughs left in existence in which the number of 10/. renters is below three hundred, by adding to each, for the purpose of representation, any adjacent pa rish or district. Of boroughs so circumstanced as to fail within the operation of this clause the number is no less than 85. Thus in 85 places the nominees of the present Ministers were to liar e had the power of selecting, from any point of the compass they might like best; such an addition to the constituency as could not fail to influence very considerably all future elections. They would no 'doubt have pre ferred in all cases the adjacent district in which Whig property and influence was most predo minant. Thus the Whig Ministers might fairly reckon upon a permanent advantage to their party in Parliament, over that of its great political opponents, of something like fifty Members. So that in the whole the Bill would • have probably given a permanent increase of votes to the Whigs, relatively to the Tories, of about 127 votes in the House of Commons. Can there be any longer a doubt as to the objects of the Bill, or can it excite surprise that this object was regarded so en tirely by Ministers as to blind them to the real ten dency and certain effect of the measure, which would no doubt have been to augment the power of the Whig and diminish that of the Tory party, relatively to each other, but at the same time to overwhelm and destroy both, and with them all the institutions and all the property of the country, in the title of democracy and the giant rage of confiscation ? This is the measure for resisting which Parliament has been dissolved. It has died the martyr of Ministe rial vengeance for refusing to sacrifice the Crown, the Aristocracy, the Church, the whole Constitu tion, the whole property of England, to a sweeping democratical revolution, which Ministers were only tempted to propose by their blind recklessness and headlong eagerness to increase the Parliamentary influence of their party, and thus to retain that poli• tieal power which by manifold blunders and delin quencies they had justly forfeited. To doubt that the approaching election will give us a House of Commons still more decidedly opposed than the last to the Ministers and their revolutionary projects of selfish ambition, would be an insult to the good sense and patriotism of the country. Strenuous efforts must, however, be made by the friends of the Con stitution. In the desperate circumstances to which the infatuated 'Ministry has reduced itself—the pri vate means of its Members—the contents of the Ex chequer if necessary, will not be spate,' to secure the return of their abettors. We call upon the leaders of the Anti-Revolutionary party to be equally active —equally united—equally unsparing of their wealth in the great struggle which is at hand. Everything that is dear to them as patriots or as men is staked upon the issue.—Morning Peat. The scene of excitement and confusion which prevailed in both Houses of Parliament yesterday was extraordinary and unprecedented as the occa sion of it. Lord Mansfield's speech will be written in the hearts of all true friends of the country, and reflect eternal honour on his memory. The effect produced by his last sentence on those who caught it, amidst the noise and disorder which prevailed, - wits truly sublime. " God save the Crown," he said, with a tone and emphasis to which no description ran do justice,as William the Fourth, with the Crown upon his head, approached the throne of his fathers. The only emphasis laid by his Majesty upon any part of the Speech was on the word " appear." What his Majesty's feelings may have been we know not. With those of at least four-fifths of his hereditary Councillors, a sensation of pity was mingled with a constitutional and personal vene ration. May God, indeed, the God of our fathers, save him. from the snares which his own familiar friends and servants whom he trusted have laid for him! The dictatorial, the arrogant, and the disre spectful manner evinced by the Lord Chancellor, has not beep equalle4 since the day when Cromwell dissolved his Parliament ; and the impression of re verence for the King,whose prerogative he announced, contrasted strangely with the disgust occasioned by his Minister's manner of making that announce ment. With indecorous haste his Lordship rushed 'tom the Painted Chamber into the nouse, inter- rupted Lord Mansfield, nearly overturned. Lord Shaftesbury, and after stating that Parliament was to be dissolved because " in an unprecedented man ner" it had sopped his Majesty's supplies, he rudely turned bi 3 back upon their Lordships. That there are precedents for stopping supplies is historically true ; that the supplies were not stopped by the House of Commons on Thursday night, in carrying an adjournment of the House, is positively true. The real reason, and the people of England should to a man be made acquainted with the fact, was that Parliament had refused to reduce the number of English representatives. Colonel Davies stated this broadly and truly on Thursday night, and for the sake of Reform itself he deprecated it. Let the nation, therefore, weigh well this point, and decide between those who would retain or curtail those Members who henc.forth must be our chief safe- guard against an undue and dangerous prepon derance of nominees of Mr. O'Connell. Through the medium of those nominees he now offers to sup port loci preserve the Ministers, in whose hands his lawless violence has placed him, and they have ac cepted, in an evil hour, the aid of their convicted prisoner. With them, not him, rests the guilt and responsibility. With the people of England it now rests to shield us from the consequences. If true to themselves, all may yet end well ; if false, fare well Crown Church— State—Peerage—Public Faith—and National Honour.—?horning Post. MARKET INTELLIGNNCE. LONDON M A RKETS. (Front the Lon•tos _New Price Current of yesterday.) SucA R. —The supplies of Sugar have been very incon siderable, which has given the market an appearance of dullness, on account of no buyers appearing except those who are entirely out of stock; there is no alteration in the prices. The Refined Market remains steady, there are few goods left on sale. The prices of all descriptions of Refined Sugars are very fully maintained this afternoon, and a good deal of business has been done, particularly iu the low and mid. descriptions of Lumps ; for the fine de scriptions also, entitled to the double Refined Bounty, the inquiries continue numerous, but the quantity on baud in the Market at present is very small. Of Crashed a few sales of the mid. and fine descrip'ions have been made. The estimated sales this week 2,000 hhds. and trs. ; the Market this afternoon is languid. EAST INDIA SUGARS.--About lii,ooo bags Mauritius Sugars have been sold this week, generally Is. lower, making a reduction of Is. 6,1. a 2s. within ten days; good brown 455. to 475., up to 565. and 59.. for the best. In Bengal Sugars little doing, on account of the declaration of sale by the East India Company. FOREIGN SUGARS.—.The purchases by public sale and private contract have been about 1,000 chests of Havannah; the white ►vent off higher, good and fine, 365. a 395. ; the great proportion was, however, old Sugars, 22'. a 245. ; the sales of Brazil above 300 cheats, brown and yellow Rio, 15s. a 20s. 6d., Bahia grey white ordinary, 20s. a 23'. 6d. ; white Rio, 245. 6 , 1. a SOs. ; brown and yellow Bahia, 16s. 6d. a 20s. This day at public sale 62 chests soft Havannah sold at former prices, 225. 6d. a 235. 6d. ; 24 cheats Rio, white, 28s. 6d. ; inferior, 255. 6d. a 261. 6d. COFFEE.—The Coffee 111 trket is not so brisk as last week, owing chiefly to nearly the whole stock of Foreign having changes! hands. There were two public sales of Coffee this week of the new crop, which proved of fine quality, and sold Is. a 2s. above the valuation ; the other sale went off a shade lower ; middling Jamaica sold ex ten,ively 545. a 55.. ; fine middling up to 7Ss. a 81s. The purchases of Coffee by private contract are limited ; we believe there are no sales of Brazil or St. Darning° ; some parcels of Sumatra at 315., and Batavia at 395., are reported. By public sale this day 140 casks British Plantation, 200 bags damaged Brazil ; the damaged Brazil 395., full prices, also the Jamaica; the Berbice descriptions are a shade lower. Rum, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.—The Rum Market has been very heavy, and the purchases reported quite in considerable ; there are several parcels, taken formerly on speculation, which are hanging over the Market for sale, which is the chief cause of the heaviness ; there arc ex tensive orders in London for shipping, but the buyers ap s EWC: ATE AND LEADENHALL MARKETS. At per stone, by the Carcass. s. d, to s. d. s. d. toe. d. Beet " 6 3' 8I Veal '3 4 5 8 3 3 , :tt0n... Lamb .. ss. 4d. to 6s. 9d. pear in no hurry to execute them. Brandy and Geneva are both dull. HEMP, FLAX, AND TALLOW.-The Tallow Market early in the week was in a very depressed state ; for arrival in September the price was 315., and for parcels here 455. ; the great speculators were reported to be .t;uyers, the Market immediately rallied, the advance was at a late hour 2s. a 2s. 6d., and for arrival the price still 3is. 6d. a 40s. In Hemp or Flax there is no material alteration. INnlco.—Since the conclusion of the sale the market has rather a heavy appearance, only a few lots picked have realised a profit of 2d. a 3d. per lb. This day's sale 56 serons Guatemala Indigo, Sobras 4s. Bd. a ss. 5d., 80 Cortes 3s. Id. a 3d., mid. and ord. ditto 2s. a 35., all sold. PIMENTO.-Pimento is steady, good quality sells at sd. ; 117 bags to-thy, mid. quality CoxToN.—The mirket is languid. The purchases for the week are 150 Bengal, qcl. a 4ad ; 600 Surat, 4-4-d. a sil. ;20 Madras, 4ild.; 10 Bowed, 61d. Thin day at public sale 121 bags St. Domingo Cotton, fair quality, sold 6id. and Sid. SMIT tiFIEL MARKET ts, Calves, and Porkers, was li- Milch Cows, rather great. The Veal, was somewhat brisk; with ly Monday's prices. Mitch Cows short-horns, with:her small calf, ICCS. Yesterday's supply of fat Beast mited ; of Sheep, Lambs, and trade with Mutton, Lamb, and I Beef and Pork very dull, at near] were rather drooping, ao useful producing 20/. in but few instant PRICES FIEI4. STONZ OF L, s. d. to A. d. Inferior Beasts 2 4 2 81 Second quality ditto 2 8 3 0 Prime largo Oxen 3 8 4 0 Prime Scots, &c , 4 0 4 4 Inferior Sheep 2 8 3 2 Second quality ditto 3 0 3 6 Coarse-woolleilditto 4 2 4 SouthdownWethers 4 8 5 0 SUPPLY, AS PICK CI Beasts. 'Sheep and Lamt 582 7,000 ,CS. TO SINK VIZ OFFAI.S. s. lo s. d. Large Lambs l'rime small ditto 5 0 7 0 Large coarse Calves 4 0 4 6 Prime small ditto 5 9. 5 8 Large Hogs "I 6 310 Small Porkers 4 6 410 Stickling Calves las. tn 3•2 , . ea, h. Quarter old Pigs 12s. to 18s. each. .ERK ' S STATEMENT. Calves. Pigs. I 144 l4O PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed from the Returns made in the week ending April 19, is 275. per cwt., exclusive of the duties of customs paid or payable thereon on the importation thereof into Great Britain. Kent rockets. Sussex Ditto FMK Ditto Fan..ham Ditto, Fine Seconds Kent J4'.g Essex Ditto— Sussex Ditto PRICES OF HOPS.—April '22. 71 10s. 91. O.R. to 13'. 03. 71 os. 71. Ms. to 81. Os. os. 8!. Os. to .91. Oe. Os. 121. Os. to 181 Os. O. 8/. Os. to 1?.1. Os. Os. 81. Os. to 91. Os. 10 . 71. Os. to 71. 10s. Os. 81. Os. to 81. PRICE OF OIL. 11,pe Oil, brown ..flO/. Cs. Refined 6 Linseed Oil I.inAeed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand 12 0 Rape Cake, per ton WHITECH APEL HAY 51 ARK ET.—April 21. —....-.. 60s. Od. to fidg. Od. I (lover Od. to 1103. Od. Od. to 384. Od. PRICE OF POTATOES.—ApriI 22. Kidneys Scotch Iteds Marsh Champions-- Oxnobles and Shaws to 41. Os. 'ditto. to Al. 10s. ditto. 31. ss. to 3!. 10s. ditto. q• ton. RAW HIDES. Per Stone. a. A. to s. d. Per Stone. e. d. to s. d. Mest Heif,rs & Steer,2 8 3 0 Ordinary 110 2 0 4 2 6 Alat Ica Calf 6 6 each. SHEEP SKINS. Long Wool —.... 4s. Od. to Gs. Od. I Short W 001...-. 33.0 d. to 4s. Od. Limbs Is. 6.1. to 2s. 3(1. PRICE OF The price of Store Candles. in I Candles. per doz. 7s. Od. to Bs. Od CANDLES. :he retail shops, is as follows : . Moulds, per dozen --9s.fKi. COAL MAIC Adair's 21s. Od. Beaumont _ 23 9 Bensharn Main ..--. 21 6 East Percy.** `22. tiolywell 24 6 Kenton West '27 6 Killingworth 27 6 Liddell's M, , in 24 0 Ord's Redhugh --.... '22 6 t'eiaw _ '25 0 _ Percy Bensham .. '26 0 Pontoir Windsor--. 22 3 fantield 23 6 Wy lam 24 0 Walls End Bell and Co. 23 6 Ditto Bell Hi:Arson &Co. 0 WallsEndllewicke&Co. 30 6 Walls End Brown's* 27 0 Wall. End Callerion- 23 0 Walls End Callcrton & I , 7l%—April 22 Walls End Gosforth—. 31s. Od. Ditto 6 Wall. End D0t5pur........ 27 6 Ditto Jesmond----- 24 6 Walls r.lnd Newinarch..- '29 6 Ditto Northumberland `..)7 0 Ditto Perkins and Co.—, 28 0 Ditto Itidd,ll's 31 0 Walls End Russell's.— 30 0 Ditto Walker 30 0 Russell's 29 6 Walls End Hettou 34 0 Walls End Lyons.-- 30 0 Walls End Butter Knoll 25 6 Norwood's Hetton 26 0 Walls End 29 0 W. E. 26 6 cpwpen 2 3 0 Ord mixed -,--..... 21 6 Walls End Carr and Co. 2 0 Ditto Cramlington..--- T:2l3' 0 arils at nuerket. 26 0 Hartley New Flockton, Milne and Co. Silkstone 2'3 6 Wall's End Elgin '2l 6 Callerton and Montague mixed 17 6 po Bokt, 3h5 —u mow. 117 N. MONTHLY REPORT OF CORN, BY THE COMMISSIONERS OF HIS MAJESTY'S CUSTOMS. An Account showing the Quantities of Corn, Grain, Meal, and Flour, imported into the United Kingdom in the Month ended Ist April, 1831, the Quantities upon which Duties have been paid for Home Consumption during the same Month, and the Quantities remaining in Warehouse at the close thereof. (Published in conformity to the 6th sec. of the Act !Jth Geo. IV, c. 60.) Species of Corn, Grain, Meal, and Flour. Wheat Barley Oats Rye Pease Beans Maize or Indian Corn Buck Wheat Beer or Bigg Total of Cern and' Grain Wheat Meal, or Flour Barley Flour Oatmeal Rye Meal Indian Meal Total of Meal and Flour Species of Corn, Grain, Meal, and Hour. Wheat Barley ()ats Rye Pease !leans Maize or Indian Corn Buck Wheat Beer or Bigg Total of Corn and Grain Wheat Meal, orl Flour Barley Flour— Oatmeal Rye Meal Indian Meal Total of Meal and Flour Species of Corn, Grain, Meal, and Flour. Quantities Imported in the United Kingdom in the Month ended April I, MI. The Produce of, and Int. Imported from ported from, Foreignßritish Posses. Total. Countries. sions out of Europe. Qrs. Bus. Qrs. Bus. Qrs. Bus. 210,842 2 133 4 210,975 6 32,510 3 32,510 3 3,737 1 3,737 1 15,900 15,900 5 3,616 3i 3,616 314 , 1,538 1 1,538 1 2,506 5 0 4 2,507 1 '4:83 4 283 4 270,935 ON 131 0 271,069 07 , 4 Cwts. qrs. lb. Cwts. qrs. lb. Cwts. qrs. lb. 213,180 0 20 2 0 13 213,182 1 5 420 4 2 0 ,213,184 220 I 2 0 13_213,186 3 5 quantities charged with Duty 1 sumption in the United Ki Month ended April 1, 1831. for Home Con mgdom in the %V heat Barley Oats Rye Pease Beans Maize or Indian Corn Buck Wheat Beer or Bigg Total of Corn and Grain ..... ....... Wheat Meal, orj Flour Barley Flour Oatmeal it ve Meal .......... Indian Meal Total of Meal an, Flour ............ By order of the Commissioners, T. WHITNIORE, See. Custom-House, London, April 21, 1831. . . The Produce of, and Im- Imported from ported from, Foreign British Posses- Total. Countries. sions out of Europe. Qrs. Bus. Qrs. Bus. Qrs. Bus. 356,299 5 , 355 3 356,655 0 104,266 5 104,266 5 304 2 304 2 35,677 1 35,677 1 4,168 2 4,168 2 401 4 401 4 7,890 2 0 4 7,690 6 1,122 0 1,122 0 510,129 5 355 7 510,485 4 Cwts. qrs. lb. Cwts. qrs. lb. Cwts. qrs. lb. 453,840 3 20 20 3 11 453,861 3 3 453,840 3 20 20 3 11 453,861 3 3 ! Quantities remaining in Warehouse in the United Kingdom on April 1, 1831. The Produce of, and 1m- Imported from ported from, Voreign British Posses. Total. Countries. sions out of Europe. ------- Qrs. Bus. Qrs. Bus. Qrs. Bus. 3,128 4 34 5 3,163 1 3,709 5 3,709 5 04,012 5 24,012 5 528 3 528 3 692 2 1 ,i 692 21,4 2,168 2 2,168 2 31,239 5 1's 34 5 34,274 2% Cwts. qrs. lb. Cwts. qrs. lb. Cwts. qrs. lb. 14,281 3 14 959 2 7 15,241 1 21 20 0 0 20 0 0 855 0 15 855 0 15 1 - 3 01 3 0 11,283 2 14k 1,834 2 22 16,118 1 8 POLICE INTELLIGENCE, GUILDHALL. Mr. Nash, of Cateaton-street, attended yesterday before Sir PETER LAURIE (who sat in the place of Mr. Alderman Waithman), to show cause why be refused to pay for the carriage and porterage of a parcel from Carlisle. The porter at the Three Cups, Aldersgate-street, stwed the refusal to pay. Mr. Nash said he objected because the parcel had been taken to Liverpool, and there shifted from coach to coach to enhance the charge, instead of bringing it direct from Carlisle to London. The parcel, which weighed but 3ibs., had been charged 4d. carriage; that is, 2s. 10d. for the 100 miles Iron Carlisle to Liverpool, and only 2s. 6d. for the <OO miles from Liverpool to London. An over charge of at least Is. 6d. had been made at Liver pool. The practice of sending parcels thus cir cuitously, instead of direct, was as great a grievance as the increase of charge. Sir PETER LAURIE said the evil was one of im portance to the mercantile world, but he did not know that it as in his power to apply a remedy. Ile fault was with the coach-office at Cid.lisle, and not the innkeeper in London, who was charged by the coach proprietors with the amount he had de manded of Mr. Nash. The charge must therefore, be paid. (7eorge Jones, Thomas Jones, and John Adams, who were stated to be three of the " swell mob" of pickpockets, were charged by John King, a City officer, with attempting to steal a lady's reticule yes terday forenoon on London-bridge. John Wallis, of the Albany-road, bookseller, de posed that two of the prisoners stepped. before the lady to stay her progress and distract her attention, a bile the third cut the strings of her reticule with a Small penknife. King corroborated this statement. There were tivo gangs (one comprising fifteen persons) working up and down on each side of the way from the bridge to the top of Gracechurch-street, and the prisoners were part of one of the gangs. He could not take them all at once. Sir PETER LAURIE said he should be satisfied if he went on bringing three at a time. Cowtan, the inspector, identified the knife as the same that was found on Adams a week ago, whep he was in custody for reticule-hunting on Ludgate- hill. His brother-in-law was apprehended by Daniel Forrester, on Thursday, on suspicion of stealing a lady's purse, with 31. lOs. in it, which was detained. Sir PETER LAURIE committed the prisoners to hard labour for two months. W ORSHIP- STREE T. AN OLD GRUDGE.—Yesterday Law, a journey man carpenter, residing in the district of this office, was charged with a , saulting a respectable-looking man, named Johnson. The complainant stated that on Wednesday even ing, near Finsbury-square, he accidentally met the defendant, who owed him an old grudge. Themo ment defendant saw him he exclaimed, " There!s the rascal I have been looking out for so many years," and instantly followed up the words by aim ing a tremendous blow at his face, from the effects of which he fell, and lay for a few moments in sensible. A witncsc, who was passing at the time, corro borated his statement, adding that complainant's face was streaming with blood. Mr. BENETT to the prisoner—What have you to say to this ? Defendant—(lmpudently)--What have I to say ? why the case is this, that when I met him he called me bad names, such as being a thief and a coward ; and being' born of English blood, I could not keep my temper, so I hit him, that's all. The complainant denied most positively having used the offensive language imputed to him. The Magistrate, on finding the evidence on the other side against him, told him he was wrong in using such language, and that if he chose he might indict the defendant at the sessions, for which pur po,e he would hold him to bail. The complainant left the office evidently dissatis fied with the result. It is stated, on the authority of letters re- - ceived in Cork, that the I e isantry, to the number of several thousands, had collected on. Tory Hill, in the county of Limerick. So menacing was their appearance, that the Gemral of this district left Cork yesterday for Limerick, directing, before his departure, that a troop of , the Carabineers should be in readiness to proceed to Charle ville at a moment's notice.—Cork Reporter. FACILITY OF SWIMMING.—The lighter the body is in relation to its magnitude, the more easily will it float, and a greater portion of the head will remain above the surface. As the weight of the human body does not always bear the same proportion to its bulk, the skill of the swimmer is not always to be estimated by his success ; some of the constituent parts of the human body are heavier, while others are lighter, bulk for bulk, than water. Those persons in whom the quantity of the latter bear a greater proportion to the former, will swim with a proportionate facility.—Dr. Lardner's Cabinet Cyclo pedia, Vol. XVII. DR. JOHNSON AT BANGOR.—Few of the ' present inhabitants of this city are aware of the fact of its hiving been honoured by a short visit from the great lite rary lion of his day, Dr. SAMUEL JonNsoti. Such, however, was the case, the Doctor having, in the summer of 1783 or 1781, come into North Wales, in order to meet and return to England with his friend Sir JOSEPH (then Mr.) BANKS, who had been some time engaged in an ex amination of the Snowdon mountains. Arrived at Bangor, the Doctor fixed his head-quarters at the house of a widow lady of wealth and respectability, to whom he brought letters of introduction, and who then inha bited the house now occupied as an inn, and bearing the sign of the Vaynol Arms. Here Mr. BANKS found the Doctor on the day after his arrival, and being to dine with him, the lady of the house was at no small pains to provide a mess worthy to be presented to the two lions. Among other delicacies she prepared an apricot tart, then a great rarity in this quarter, and for which the fruit was furnished from the Bishop's garden. At dinner, the lady, in the pride of her heart, could not refrain from addressing the Doctor:—" Dr. JouNsoN, knowing you to be fond of an apricot tart, I have made one, which I hope you will do me the pleasure to partake of." " Have you, indeed, my dear Madam," exclaimed the Doctor, his eyes kindling with pleasure, " I am very fond of apricot tart ; and in proof of his assertion, he instantly seized the dish, dragged it towards him, and with one hand lifting off the paste, with the other fed himself with the fruit until he had fairly emptied the dish, on which he then carefully replaced the paste, and shoving it back to its station in the centre of the table, said to his astonished hostess, " There, Madam, is your tart, which looks as before I touched it." —North Wales Chronicle. PROOF SPIRIT.—If oil, which rises to the surface of the water, be mired with alcohol or some other spirit, it will settle at the bottom. A weaker spirit is heavier, bulk for hulk, than a strong one, and its strength may be so far reduced that it will no longer float on the surface of oil, but will sink below it ; this is the test which fixes the strength of proof spirit. All spirit which floats upon oil is said to be above proof.—Dr. Lardner's Ca binet Cyclopedia, Vol. X VII. BIRTHS. On the 16th inst. at St. Omer's, the lady of Captain Clifford, Of a son. On the 20th inst. at Staindrop, county of Durham, the wife of Captain It. J. Castel!, of a daughter. On the 21st inst. in York-terrace, the lady of W. Morgan, Esq., of a daughter. MARRIED. On the .Ist inst. at St. Marylebone New Church, J. S. F. Tay lor, Esq. to Harriett, youngest daughter of the late J. Wad. dilove, Esq. On the tllst inst. at St. Marylebone, Mr. A. Knapp, of Ciren .7.e,ter-place, Marylebone, to Priscilla Bielefeld, daughter of J. Bielefeld, Esq., of St. Martin's-lane. On the 20th inst. at St. Pancras, R. W. Knapton, F•mi. of Hamilton-place, New-road, to Caroline, eldest daughter of B. Lacy, Esq., of Pentouville. On the 20th inst. At Clifton, Gloucestershire D. Jamieson, Esq. of Great Winchester-street, to Mary , eldest daughter of the late C. M'Nish, Esq., of Savanna-la-Mar, Jamaica. I - - . DIED. On the 2_d inst. in Whitehall-place, Lady Wetherell, wife of .iir C. Wetherell, M.P. On the 2lst inst. in Rodney-buildings, New Kent-road, D. Johnson, Esq. aged 79. On the 20th inst. Mr. B. Corcoran, of Mark-lane, London, in he 80th year of his age. • On the '2lst inst. Elizabeth Eyre, the relict of the late Rev. Thomas Ash. On the inst. at York-terrace, Regent's-park, Mary, th e .vife of IL Small, Esq. On the 2ith inst. at Enfield, J. Abernethy, Esq. F.R.S. 'AT Tis a NURDO- YOUNG, A ND PUBLimic SUN OVVICE, IN, STRAND, LONDON. CAM' THE REr at the Brit CHA TO THE HOLDE Your Downie TO THE OEM THE honour of eentatives My put self an un public ex' support of People," a of " the preseotati which, foi Constituti and Prerc liberties u If by y I pledge i the Cons self with Shipping convinces insure the citizens. Upper T TO THI TOM AIOU' BRC HIo. sion of Reform. Never confident cause is , of our Monarch The v tranquil] ment, th your feat - We most gr found ra the last, been sue will seen Commit The Bit daily where E To the FR] GE A P Ja- ti I no lc Represe either t views c cult, ai tingnim confide f~ I pall-i pomii count any d o ppor tueutg