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ti e power of parcelling the tenements on burgage te .tire as they pleased ; whether this power was not vested, by set purpose and design, in the Lords, who might create 40 voters, 400 as they pleased? He put it to the gentlemen opposite to tell him whether this power was not designedly given to the landed aristocracy, and whether the object of giving it was to create a peculiar sort of Members ? He called upon the apostate Member for Bletchingley, who was to be the high priest at the al crifice of it, and upon the Noble Lord the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and upon his Learned Friend the Solici tor-General, who ought to be chief mourner at its funeral —he called upon them to answer him upon these points, if nobody else would. Now he hoped that he had argued this question properly, as he assured the Committee he hid intended to do, and that he had not gone afloat into the principle of the Bill. perhaps lie had detained them a little too long ; but before Bletchingley was executed, if it was to be executed—before the Chairman put the dismal question, fiat executio, on the borough of Bletch ingley—he had thought it right to say thus much upon it, because it was a burgage tenure borough—because it had not committed the sins of falling off, or decaying, or being changed—and, finally, because, as its last represen. tative would have been a Noble Lord eminent for his ac quirements, and his talents, and his abilities—he was sure he need not say that he meant the Noble Secretary of 1 1 State for Foreign Affairs—he had thought it ought not to he stain and interred without some little eulogistic mention which might mark its fall to posterity. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER was very far from being prepared to admit all that the Hon. and Learned Gentleman had said.—( Hear, hear, from the Mi nisterial side.) But the Hon. and Learned Gentleman had asked why the Government proposed to include in the dis franchisiog clause burgage tenure boroughs? He would answer this question of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman had argued, that as such boroughs were now precisely in the same condition as they had ever been, it was not fair to call them decayed boroughs. But whether they were decayed boroughs, or whether they had always been as badly constituted as they were at present, and consequently could not be said to have become any worse, these were not the questions for consi deration. The question to be decided was, whether they were or were not inconsiderable boroughs—(Loud cries of " Hear," from the 3linisterial side)—for the proposition stated in the preamble of the Bill was, that it was expe dient to take effectual measures to deprive inconsiderable places of the right of returning Members to the Commons House of Parliament, and that the abuses that had lone prevailed in the choice of Members could only be corrected by granting the elective franchise to large and populous towns, and extending it to the inhabitants generally in such places where it was at present limited to a few, and where there were inhabitants enough to form a re spectable constituency.—(Cheers.) The Hon. and Learned Gentleman had said, that burgage tenure boroughs re turned a particular class of Members, and had seemed to think that the Ministers were bound to prove that it was safe and proper to get rid of that class, whose return was rested in the landed aristocracy. On that point he was quite prepared to meet the Hon. and Learned Gentleman. lie wag far from thinking—nay, lie utterly denied—that the continuance of this power would be advantageous to the landed aristocracy of this country. He admitted that it increased the influence of certain individuals cf the landed aristocracy who happened to be possessed of these boroughs, but it certainly did not confer any advantage upon the aristocracy or the landed interest generally.— (Cheers.) The measure which they proposed was much more fair to the community at large, while at the same time it was much more advantageous to the landed inte rest ; for while it gave representation to the people gene rally, it secured also to the landed interest generally, and not to a few persons only connected with that interest, those fiir advantages and that legitimate influence which the possessor of I aided property ought to enjoy. Did the lion. and Learned Gentleman mean to say that the landed ;ntereats, and the interests of the aristocracy, were served or promoted by the existence of those nomination borough? Those close boroughs were an abuse, and as such they brought odium and dislike on the whole body of the aristo cracy of the country.—( Hear, hear.) Instead of being an advantage, then, as hail been contended by the Hon. and Learned Gentleman, the existence of such boroughs con stituted a positive disadvantage to the aristocracy, for as long as they existed the Members of the aristocracy would not stand as well as they ought with the people of England, who called for the disfranchisement of all such close bo roughs.—(Hear.) The Hon. and Learned Gentleman had argued the present matter very fairly—he had not travelled out of the case ; and the ground, as he Ole Chancellor of the Exe'nequer) collected, upon which the Learned Gentleman had retied his opposition to the dis fraechisernent of this borough was, that it was one which afforded an instance of simple burgage tenure, and that it could not lie described as one of those decayed boroughs which the bill proposed to cut oti. Without denying that the tenure in tine leorongli did not differ from that which it had been originally in the first instance, he begged to observe, that this borougL come within the class of those inconsiderable borsughs which, when it was proposed to effect an alteration in accordance with the general and well established principles of the Constitution, it was impossible to allow to remain any longer in existence. But, said the lion, and Learned Gentleman, "You cannot call this a re storation of the ancient principles of the Constitution. This individual borough, ever since it obtained the right of sending Members to Parliament, bas remained precisely is the same sane, and when you disfranchise it, you cannot nay that you are returning to the ancient principles of the Constitution." When they spoke of the Constitution, they spoke of it as a whole, not of its individual parts; and when they talked of re-establishing the representative system upon the ancient principles of the Constitution, they meant that Constitution by width the people of this country were entitled to be fully, freely, and fairly repre sented in the Commons House of Parliament.—(Cheers.) The measure which his Majesty's Government proposed, therefore, was a restoration of the ancient principles of the Constitution, though it might destroy sonic boroughs which had existed up to the present day in the same con dition that they had been at their original establishment. Viewed as a whole, it could not be denied that the measure wee a restoration of the ancient and undoubted principles of the Constitution. lie denied that the principle of the Bill was merely to destroy decayed boroughs, as the lion. and Learned Gentleman argued, The principle of the Bill was to cut off all inconsiderable as well as decayed bet ought+, and to establish the representatioe of the people upon its ancient, comprehensive, and constitutional basis. Sir B. PEEL said that the Noble Lord, in the speech which lie had just made, had opened the discussion anew into the whole principles of the Bill.—(Hear.) Ile must enter his protest against the doctrines whiela bad been laid down by the Noble Lord, The Noble Loin said that when they looked at the measure as a whole, they would see that its object was to give to the people a full and fair representation in Parliament, and that as such, it might be justly described as as a restoration of the ancient principles of the Constitution ; for that those principles were, that the people should be fully and fairly represented in the Commons House of Parliament. Now that involved the fallacy that the people of this country ever bad the right which it was proposed to give to them by thin Bill. Be would deny that the phrase, 'd the people of England," ever meant the people if England as they were polled - by this Bill. What was meant by the peopte of England, when we spoke of the representation of the peeple of England in ancient three, cousietal in the great corporate bodies, and those great classes of the community to whom the franchise was intrueted, and of whom the Members sent to Parliament were the representatives. But she word " people" was never used then as it was in the preeeet; 13i11, —it was never used so as to mesa ten-pound house holders who bail never hitherto possessed a right to that franchise which it was now proposed to give them. He would swot': that the elective franchise, as it Lad been eata blished in England in former times, had never existed in the form in which the present Bill proposed to establish it, but in a much better, more practical, and more beneficial form. Ile was far from dstying that a sentiment of die,eatis faction had been expressed throughout the country with regard to what were called nominal en boroughs ; but that dissatisfaction, and that clamour with reepect to those ho rough., he f,n, justified in attributing entkelv to the manner in which this measure had been brought furriarti by the Government, under the sanction of his .Majesty. The :Ministers themselves had excited the clamour which they pleaded as one of the grounds for disfranchising those boroughs. So far as burgage tenure boroughs were con• corned, they certainly could not be described as any usur pation on the rights of the people. It was said that the pos session of such boroughs could not be advantageous to the aristocracy, and, indeed, the Lord Advocate of Scotlend l ie d argued upon a former night, that as the right of re turning Members from such boroughs wrs vested in indi viduls, it was not probable that at was exereised for the benefit of the general body, and that in fact the possession 1 of such boroughs was disadvantageous to the interests of the aristocracy at large. But though the power might Le vested in the hands of a single individual, was it to be supposed that it ever would be used by him for the pro motion of his individual and personal interests—(Cries of oh ! oh !)--and not for the promotion_ a_ritedsupport.4 interests of the general body to which belongs . d ?_ If for instance, they should give Members to Birmingham, was it probable that those Members would attend only to the interests of Birmingliam„ 00, ppe to the intereets-of. the iron manufacture at large? Now those nomination boroughs served the same purpose exactly with respect to the property and interests of the aristocracy in general. He epeated that he could not avoid taking this opportunity to enter his protest against the doctrines which had been put forward by the Noble Lord who had just preceded him. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that it was easy to talk of fallacies as the Right Hon. Baronet had done, and it was easy to describe as a fallacy that proposition which bad been put forward by his Majesty's Ministers. That proposition, however, though the Right Hon. Ba ronet might choose to denominate it a fallacy, was one which had been adopted by the people of England, and it was those persons only who were connected with that pro perty which it was proposed to put an end to, and who appeared determined to die in the last ditch in its defence, that thought proper to charge the great majority of that House, and of the people of England, with acting upon a delusion.—(llear, hear.) The appeal which hail been made to the people of England on this subject had been made at the instance of the opponents of the Bill, and now that the people had answered that appeal, so as not to be misunderstood, they were, forsooth, to be told that they were labouring under a delusion. He, for one, could not see the force of such an argument as that, nor did he think that it required any answer. The Right Hon. Baronet, in assigning the reason for the dissatisfaction which he ac knowledged had been expressed Ihroughout the country with regard to the nomination boroughs, had clearly con founded cause and effect. The King's Government, in stead of producing that dissatisfaction as had been asserted by the Right Hon. Baronet, had found it already in exist ence.—(Hear, bear.) When it was found that general irritation and universal discontent prevailed throughout the country at the existence of those boroughs, was it not the duty of his Majesty's Government to attempt to apply a remedy to such a state of things?—(Hear, hear.) He must say, that if the burgage tenure was in the first in stance given by the Crown, in the favour, and for the ad vantage, of certain great individuals, it was, in its very origin, an abuse; but there could be no doubt, at all events, that if the power of returning Members, which had been given by the Crown to the burgage tenants, had been afterwards, through the means of his wealth, purchased by an indivi dual, it was by an abuse of his wealth that such an indi vidual obtained the power of returning Members to that House.—(Hear.) Was population, in regard to represen tation, he begged to ask, to go for nothing? The extension of the franchise to the ten-pound householders was in strict conformity with the ancient principle of the Constitu tion. Even if, in the instances of boroughs where burgage tenure existed, the right of returning Members had been given originally by the Crown to some of the great men o( the realm, was that representation afterwards to he made a matter of bargain and sale in the market?—(Hear, hear.) Even supposing, as he had just said, that that power had been originally granted by the Crown to great men of the realm, when they died incumbered, perhape, with debts, that species of pros erty passed into the hands of persons different from those whom the Crown hail intended to hold it.—(Hear, hear.) Thus by sale that property passed out of the hands of the original owners,—by sale it was in many instances taken out of the hands of the aristocracy,— and unless it was to be contended that it was right and lawful thus to go into the market and buy up the con sciences and votes of men, the existence of such a species of property as that could not be defended. If burgage tenure, therefore, had ever been good, its good principles had been in that manner destroyed ; but the principle of it had been always bed, and when an effectual Reform was about to be made in the representation of the people, it was impossible to allow boroughs of that description to re main in existence. It was said that those boroughs were useful as a barrier against the passions of the people, but tvould it be said that the great borough-proprietors had no passions to gratify, or no self-interests to promote ? (Cheers. ) The passions of the people never came into operation all at once, sinless a great general and crying grievance existed.—(Hear, hear.) With regard to the Bill which was now under the consideration of the House, it was riot to be supposed that a perfect measure could be devised by the wit of man ; but when honest men were brought together in a cabinet—(" Hear, hear," from the Ministerial, and laughter from the Opposition, side of the House)—to act upon principles which they had always professed, they had been able to bring forward a measure which, though attacked by a good deal of criticism and of ridicule, had been such as to satisfy the country at large. When he spoke of that measure having satisfied the country, he spoke of it as a whole ; and he begged to say, that the cuckoo note of " the Bill, the whole Bill, and nothing but the Bill," was quite as good as that which had been raised by those who were Reformers since last March, or who even talked of being Reformers all their lives, and who now said, " We are for Reform, but we are not for such a Reform as this Bill proposea."—(Cheers.) lie would not designate this measure as a restoration of the ancient principles of the Constitution as established at any particular period, but lie would say that it would be justly described as a recurrence to those principles of the Con stitution which had always existed. Sir R. PEEL observed, that the observation of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman as to those who were Re formers since March last, could not possibly apply to him (Sir R. Peel), for he had never been a Reformer all his life, and he had never been a Reformer since March last. He had quitted office on the question of Reform, and he was opposed to the present measure, and he should con tinue to give it his opposition. With regard to his charge against the present Ministers of having excited the clamour which prevailed by the unexpectedly extensive plan of Reform which they h id brought forward, he begged to sty that lie believed that that plan went much further than the one which the present Lord Brougham had announced his intention last summer of introducing. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL had applied the ob• servations referred to to the Right Hon. Bironet. It was satisfactory, at all events, that the present 'Ministry could not be charged with having promised more while in oppo sition than they had done when in office.—(Hear, hear.) 111.. A. BARING said that lie was not liable to the charge of having been a Reformer only since the month of March last, for lie had been a Reformer all his life. It was his veneration for the Constitution which induced him to oppose his feeble resistance to this measure. The ar gument of the Attorney-General lie understood perfectly well. Ile understood that this was to be no restoration of the Constitution settled by the revolution of 1685, but we were to have a revolution of 1831.—(Hear, hear.) People were taught to think bitat the former Constitution was not suited to the present time, and they wished to try a ticket in the lottery of constitutions, and see if they could draw a prize. They were perfectly con sistent. But on what plea had this nie Isure been recom mended from the throne ? Not that there was to he a new Constitution, but the King, it was distinctly stated, called the Parliament together for the purpose of consi dering the expediency of a Reform in the representation; and he added, " you will carefully adhere to the acknow ledged principles of the Constitution."—(Hear.) But the Attorney-General had not pretended that the principle of representation by numbers and no property was that re commended by the Crown, as conformable to the prin ciples of the Constitution. A representation by numbers would never consist with the constitutional influence of the Crown. He defied any person to show an instance of monarchy co-existing with such a system of representa• tion. What was the French House of Commons, which was even now tending, to extinguish their House of Peers, compared with our now representation? In short, we were launching upon a wide sea of, experiment.—( Hear.) The Uon. Gentlemen opposite might ha the best Consti tution-makers the wcrefet had ever produced ; but they had produced ono which it was impossible fur any thinking man to say could work well. if any security could-be provided, lie was no enemy to Reform; but he was averse l i to such a violent change. The Constitution of this country consisted of the King, the Howie of Peers, and the House of Commons, and the House of Commons was returned half by the people and half by the aristocracy ; and was it not a total change. in the Constitution that the whole should be returned by the people?.—(Hear.) Hitherto the people had been like a man fighting with one hand tied behind him ; they said " loose the other hand ;" but it had been hitherto answered, " no, you are a violent and desperate fellow, and we must keep you as you are." An increase of power in the hands of the people would be destructive, not of the aristocracy alone, but of the very people theiroselstee.—(Hear.) The people ba l no right to that degree of power, fnr an instrument Was pot to be put into their hands, with which, if they shag:gilt proper, they could tear the whole fabric to pieces ;--just as out of kind.. nes. to a child, we kept out of its reach instruments with which he might injure himself. If any gentleman doubted what would be the effect of more power lodged in the hands of tho people, let them look round, sl monumentum quceris (:ircgmspice. Had the power of the people in that House been so reduced that it was necessary to recon s(ittiriolucmtceiitt,ineiiciveoci,lrtotelr.er‘ovtfloiteigh7ivhe,Eadt.hebehem:nqiungeoiryr)eerh: The Noble Lord aadgaitniti:ttaitlieied people. But But it was the merit oC the flouse of Commons, as it was " now constituted, that it miti ga t e d t h e democ • t power in the country. lie (Mr. Bari ng ) on l y hoped that when we had the new Constitution, the Noble Lord would find be could do his duty to the Crown and t o the Constitution without bringing about him a great ma ss of .the re presentation, who would not be looking t o what b, their honest opinion was for the interest 'of - Ale Country, but voting - , as 3 great many did, with . the consciousness, that if they did not vote in a parti cular manner, before the sun rose there would be some Committee appointed to inquire into their conduct. (Loud cheers from the Opposition.) If we were to have a Constitution in which the action of the people was so immediate and so intense, it was contrary to all our ex perience of history to suppose that the country would not fall into agitation.—( Hear.) The present influence of the aristocracy in that House was a conservative principle, inasmuch as it tended to support, not the interests of a single Peer, but the aristocracy generally , against the de mocracy. With regard to the open buying and selling which had been talked of, where was the great practical danger of this ? Some great merchant might be willing to pay 4,000/. or 5,0001. for a seat, or some East Indian, having lived long abroad, and possessing very valuable in formation, by this means found his way into the House, where his information was useful. But it was absurd to say that they were not as capable of doing their duty, and as likely to have the interests of their country at heart, as those who went about among ten-pound householder s, ex aggerating all the defects of the Constitution, promising all such things at could not he performed, and erecting themselves into censors, and thus found their way by hypocrisy and deceit into a seat in Parliament.— (Cheers from the Opposition.) There could not lie a better proof of the practical effect of the new system than the ex hibition which had taken place in the city of London. It was an error to suppose that corruption was to be found in limited constituencies only. Look at Liver. pool, where there was a large constituency, and where there had been the grossest corruption. Was corruption worse where a seat was at once purchased, than where thousands were bought shamelessly to give their votes? In a great many of the places to be thrown open by this Bill, there would be the greatest mass of e lectioneering corruption.—He had no intention of going into the ge neral question—(A loud laugh)—all he would say was, in the words of Mr. Canning, whilst such a spirit of inno vation and wild desire of change was abroad, cling to your institutions ; you know what they are, but you do not know what may be substituted for them. The present Ministers told us likewise, that there was a spirit of rest lessness abroad, but they recommended that we should throw our Constitution overboard.—(Hear.) That was the difference between the advice of Mr. Canning and of the the present Ministers.—( Hear.) He (Mr. Baring) was ready to support moderate changes; he was a hit-by-bit Reformer,—he was sorry to confess it ;—he was for cau tion. One of the most remarkable circumstances of this case was, that what in other cases were considered vir tues,—temperance, prudence, and caution,—were re garded in this case as marks of a weak mind.—(Hear.) The bit-by-bit Reform of the Criminal Law by the Right Hon. Baronet, showed advantageously beside the vast promises of improvement made by others, which bad come to nothing.—(Hear, heir.) He would give repre sentatives to large towns, which might be done without the danger of shaking the fabric of the Constitution. The lion. Gentleman talked about the opinion of the country on this question ; there was not one who travelled in it who could not be sensible that the great leading eircum st ince which had determined the mass of the people was that the proposition came from the Crown.—(Hear, hear.) " I do not like it," said one,." but I am quite sure that the King would not recommend what would endanger the Crown and the Constitution.—(Cheers.) Should' the Crown unfortunately listen to the advice of the Democracy, it was quite clear to his mind, that if the declaration which had taken away the breath of his Hon. Friend (Mr. John Smith) in favour of annual Parliaments and universal suffrage, were left to the people in the same way, it would produce the same effect.—(Hear, hear.) 3lr. R. GRANT justified himself from some remarks of the Hon. Member who had spoken last respecting his speech on the hustings. He would not enter into time question before the House, nor attempt to answer the speech of the Hon, Member. Mr. 3IABERLY had never witnessed such a departure from the question as had been shown by the Hon. Member for Cillington, who had delivered a speech which had been uttered three times before. He had entered into the gene ral question when the question before the Committee was the disfranchisement of Bletchingley.—(Hear, hear.) If they went on thus, the question would not be brought to an issue in 1831. Mr. DENISON could take it upon him to state, that the feeling of the wealth and intelligence of the county of Surrey was unanimous in favour of the principle and de tails of the Bill, and that they considered that, so far from i s tendency being destructive of the existing orders autl institu! ions of the country, it would be their best preser vative.--(llear.) All that the people wanted was, that that House should be virtually the House of Commons, and nut a deputy chamber of Peers. An HON. MEMBER agreed with the lion. Member, and contended that the Bill was based on the ancient practice and usages of the Constitution. . _ . Sir C. WETIIERELL should not divide the Committee on the present clause, having effected his object of opening the question of burgage tenures. The question was then put " That Bletchingley stand part of schedule A" and carried in the affirmative with out a division. Bletchingley, therefore, so far stands disfranchised. The next clause read by Mr. BERNAL was, that "Bo roughbridge stand part of schedule A."—(Laughter.) Sir C. WETHERELL did not rise to detain the Com mittee with a lengthened defence of the borough which he had the honour of representing, as he had already an ticipated all he could say by way of defence when defend ing the cause of Bletchingley. He had undertaken that defence, as he had stated, because he was fearful that if even left to its own proper representatives, poor Bletch ingley would be without even a half-mourner at its fu neral.—(A laugh.) As he had, however, on that occa sion taken it upon him to personate the No:de Foreign Secretary, he hoped that as that Noble Lord was a stout champion of free trade and reciprocity principles, and act ing upon the good old adage of " one good turn deserves another," the Noble Lord would do as much for him now and defend Boroughbridge.—(Laughter and bear.) The Hun. and Learned Gentleman then repeated his argument lgainst all burgagc tenure boroughs, like Boroughbridge, being disfranchised, as stated by him with reference to Bletchingley. Lord PALMERSTON regretted that he could not re ciprocate the kind office for Boroughbridge which the Hon. and Learned Gentleman had performed for Bletch ingly ; and that all be could do would be to assist in cot►- signing them to the one tomb with equal funeral honours. laugh.)—The Hon. and Learned Gentleman's bur gage tenure argument was a fallacy, so far as the preamble of the Bill was concerned, because that preamble had not a syllable touching " restore the Constitution," and merely stated that " it was expedient to correct certain abuses which had crept, in the course of time, into our repre sentative system."—( Hear.) Mr. ArfWOOD would on the present occasion content himself with denying the right to disfranchise Borough bridge, leaving to Ministers all the responsibility of the con sequences •f their audacious and most unconstitutional measure. The question was then put and carried in the affirmative, without a division, that " Boroughbridge stand part of schedule A." Mr. BERNAL then read " That the borough of Bossi ney stand part of schedule A." Mr. WORTLEY said, that as he could not question the general accuracy of the amount of population under which Bossiney was proposed to be disfranchised, he would not divide the Committee on the present question. — (Hear, hear.) All he would say was, that his family never exercised any influence, other than the legitincote influence of property, in that borough, and that it was not a nomination borough, and never had Leen an object of traffic.—(Hear, hear.) The question was then put, and carried without a di vision, that Bossiney stand part of schedule A. Mr. BERNAL next read the clause that " The boroughs of 13rackley stand part of schedule A," Captain BRADSHAW said, MS it was true that, ac cording to the population returns of 1821 (but not those of 1831, which made the population two thou sand one hundred),. Brackley fell under the line of dis franchisement laid down by the Noble Lord, he would imitate the conduct of the Hon. Member fur Bossiney, and not divide the Committee.—(Hear, bear.) He could assure the Committee, that his family never exercised any influence in that borough but that which property be ,towed upon them. " s”aciaaatcr. was then put and carried, " That Brack ' ley stand part of schedule A." Mr. BERNAL next put the question—" That the bo rough of Bramber stand part of schedule A." Sir C. WETHERELL hoped that the Noble Lord would stop at that stage for the present, and allow theme, on the Opposition side of the House, a little time to bury the numerous slain of the evening. —(Ilea, and a laugh.) There they bad the defunct bodies of six or seven boroughs before them—a radical feast to a vengeance—(Laughter) — the sport of one short evening—(Continued laughter)— and it was not too touch to ask for a little delay, to enable all parties to digest their corporation repast.—(A laugh. ) The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER hoped that the Hon. and Learned Member would make no ob jection to going on a short time lodger..—(Near.) The question was then put and carried, " That the bo rough of Bramber should stand part of schedule A." Sir It. PEF.I. said, that it would be advisable to fix a limit to the debate, since a long discussion would take place on the transfer of the borough of Downton from schedule B to schedule A. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that he did not propose to go further than Downton that night. On the question "That the borough of Callington stand part of schedule A," Mr. BARING rose amid great laughter. He would not detain the Committee with many observations, as the population of the borough was clearly under the line taken by the Noble Lord according to the census of 1821. He protested that he had never given a farthing in money to any voter of that borough, nor got for any of them places either in the Excise, or in the Customs, or in any other department of Government. It was therefore impossible for any man to impute to this borough any impurities of a personal nature.—(Hear, and a laugh.) Mr. CROKER if he wished to make any additions to this schedule, need not move the insertion of the borough according to its place in the alphabetical list. If so, he would postpone proposing the addition of any boroughs to this schedule, until the Noble Lord had reached the ter mination of his schedule. Lord J. RUSSELL assented. The question was then put and carried, " That the bo rough of Callington stand part of the schedule." On the question " That the borough of Camelford stand part of schedule A," Mr. MILBANK stated, that when he last went to Ca melford, to visit his constituents, his constituents told him and his Hon. Colleague, that they had determined unani mously to gire up their exclusive privilege, because they felt that such a sacrifice was demanded from them by their country.---(Cheers from the Ministerial benches.) Sir R. PEEL thought that he was now entitled to take credit for the fact, that these boroughs were not always influenced by corrupt motives.—(Cheers from the Oppo sition.) The ATTORNEY-GENERAL though that upon the same evidence he too was entitled to take credit for the fact, that the reaction which the Right Hon. Baronet had asserted to have commenced, had no existence in this bo rough.—(Cheers from the Ministerial benches.) Sir R. PEEL—That might be, because the Hon. Mem ber's visit was so soon after the dissolution. Sir C. WETHERELL—So, then, this borough of Camelford is a felo de se.—(Cheers and laughter.) It must he hurled, therefore, in the cross roads--(Laughter) —and the Hon. Members for Camelford must have the honour of driving the stake through at its heart at the performance of its disgraceful obsequies.—(Cheers and laughter from the Opposition. )—I must call out " Fie, he, upon suicidal Camelford."—(Laughter from the Mi nisterial benches.) Mr. MILBANK was not at all surprised at the obser vations of the Hon. and Learned Member for Borough. bridge. He had got the key to them the last time that he passed through that place; for the people there had told him that they were afraid, if this Bill passed, it would be the death of the poor old gentleman who represented them. —(Roars of laughter.) The question was then carried, " That the hot ough of Camelford stand part of schedule A." No observations were made on the question being put and cart ied " That the borough of Castle Rising stand part of the saute schedule." The CHAIRMAN then put the question on the borough of Corfe Castle, amidst great laughter. Mr. W. I3ANKES rose in its behalf, amidst loud and long vollies of laughter. Whatever might be said here after of the fate of Corfe Castle, it should not at least have those disgraceful obsequies performed upon it which his Hon. and Learned Friend had just bestowed on the borough of Camelford. Tlie justification for the extinction of Curie Castle could not be that it was either a decayed or a decaying borough ; for the last 10 years there had been an increase of 200 in its population, making its present population no less than 1,700. He would not trouble the House with any further observations, as he could not take this borough out of the operation of the principles of the Bill. The doom of Corfe Castle was then sealed, amidst deafen ing cheers from the Ministerial benches. The CHAIRMAN then reported progress, and obtained leave to sit again to-morrow. The Queen's Dower Bill pawed through the Commit tee.—Report to be received to-morrow. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at Half-past Twelve o'clock. THE KING'S LEVEE. His Majesty, accompanied by the Earl of Errol, arrived at twenty minutes before two o'clock yesterday morning at his Palace, St. James's from Windsor, escorted by a party of Lancers. Shortly after his Majesty's arrival he held an Investiture of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath. The Members of the Order present agreeably to their sum monses were— His Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland, the Duke of Wellington, the Earl of Rosslyn, Lord Hill, Sir James Kempf, Lord Bowden, Sir J. Doyle, and Viscount Comberinere. The Officers of the Order were•-- Sir George Nayler, the Genealogist of the Order; Algernon Gretille, Esq. Bath King of Arms; Captain Seymour, Registrar and Secretary; 0. F. Belt; Esq. F.S.A., Gentleman Usher of the Red Rod; and Brunswick Herald. The names of the Knights were called over. On their leaving the Robing-room they formed themselves in procession, preceded by the Officers. and proceeded to the Throne-room, where they were ushered into the presence of the Sovereign, making their obeisances as they approached. The King then signified his commands that the Right Hon. Sir John Byng should be invested with the insignia of the Order of the Bath. The Gentleman Usher of the Order and the two junior Knights then retired and introduced Sir John to the King, when his Majesty was graci ously pleased to invest the Right Hon. Sir John Bying with the Red Riband, and presented him with the Star of the Order. His Majesty afterwards held a Levee. At the Entree Levee the Prussian Minister had an audience of the' King, to deliver a letter from his Excellency's Sovereign. There were also present—. The Russian, Austrian, and French Ambassadors; the Spa nish, Danish, Swedish, Neapolitan, Hanoverian, Mexican, and Wirtember,, ,, Ministers; the American and Brazilian Charge d'Ailliires, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Secretaries of State On- the Home, Foreign, and Colonial Departments, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Earl Marshal, the Commander of the Forces, the Master of the Horse, the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen Pensioners, the Captain of the Yeomen Guard, the Vice-Chamberlain, the Master-General of the Ordnance, the Master of the Ceremonies, Garter King of Arms, Viscount Coin bermere (Gold Stick in Waiting), the Comptroller of the House hold, Lord Glenlyon (Lord in Waiting), and the Hon. Sir 11. Blackwood (Groom in Waiting. At the General Levee were— DUKES—Wellington, Richmond. Marquis of Tweeddale—Earl of Carnarvon. VISCOUNTS—VaIIetort, Ferrard. LORDS—Saltoun, F. Fitzclarence, Kensington. Bishop of Cloy ne—Hon. Edward Herbert. • SIRS—E. M. Macgregor, Bart ,C. Constable. Deans of Clonfert and Ripon—Rev. Doctor Elrington, Rev. Principal Macfarlane. Zl l ll Bottler, it:s V te a o v u a rw s t o , u C r 7,. J N. Fitz- E. ' George Stewart, Meikle, V. Fitzgerald, H. Broadoo,l, Robinson, MESSIEURS— of Sir ,o p y k a i t n , so ß n A. H. Moreton. ADMIRAL—Sir R. Otway. GENERALS—Sir John Byng, Sir Geo. Bingham, Sir Jasper Nicolls, Sir Thomas Iteynell, Sir A. Bryce, Pigott. COLONELS--Tynte, M.P. Pakenham, Creagh, Needham, At Sir Charles Th or nton, M'Donald, It. H. Johnson, Everard, Bad co Wynyard, Chichester, Savage, Dufferin. MAJOnigths_am, Jones , nstruer, erguson, Macdonald. CAPTAINS--Hon. E. B. Wilbraham, Badeock, R.N., W. H. Daniel, R.N., W. B. Hamilton, R.N., Sir N. 'Willoughby, It Edwardes. CO N., aDIANDERS—Blanckley, John Sykes, Henry Slade, Michael Quin, H. Colpoys. LIEUTENANTS—V. Jones, R.N., W. Morris, R.N., Bing ham, Wright. The following were presented to the King : The Bishop of Cloyne, by the Bishop of Ferns Mr. Boteler,on his appointment to be one of his - Majesty's Counsel Dean of Clonfert, by Marquis Wellesley Hon. Edward Herbert, by the Earl of Carnarvon Lieut.-Gen. Sir John Byng, on appointment to the Grand Cross of the Bath and on his return from Ireland Captain Edwardes, Mkt Regiment, by Lord Kensington Major Anstruther, 73d Regiment, on promotion Mr. Simpkinson, on his appointment as one of his Majesty's Counsel Colonel Tynte, M. P., on .his appointment to the command of the West Somerset Yeomanry, by Lord Melbourne Major General Sir J. Nicolls, on his return from service in India, and on his appointment as Commander of the Bath, by Lord Hill Major-General Sir G. Bingham, K.C.8., by Lord Hill Mr. Vesey Fitzgerald, on his return from the Continent Mr. Meikle on his return from India, by Mr. Russell Mr. George Stewart, by Lord Glenlyon Mr. Richard Wilson Fitzpatrick, by Lord Holland Mr. Vavasour, by the Earl Howe Rev. Principal Macfarlane, of Glasgow College, on his being re appointed one of his Majesty's Chaplains in Ordinary for Scot land, by his Grace the Duke of Montrose theby 1341tahjoRrZienteeenrat: Lieut.-Colonel Needham, Grenadier Guards, on his promotion, :no b: Lord Hill by Viscount Combermere Colonel Creagh, Slot Regiment, A.D.C. to his Majesty, by Sir James Kempt d ttl,ieuts...lt..:acecr:o.oeloootn Lieut.-Colonel Elrington, :Dirloa. by the ntezb2el Highlanders, a p gpph of irFni promotion, appointed t ri t e : Eu Lieu tieut.-Colonel Chichester, on promotion, by Lord 11111 .°llh.vE Dundas Major Ferguson, by Lord Hill - Caplatir ,t . air Robert Otway Captain the Hon. C. B. Wilbraham, Coldstream Guards, by Lord Skelmersdale 1 Lord Hill c C i p , t ii a n i t a t n i d 3a e i r lc i o i f a k n , , l k t R.N., on . a J i o 4 h ,o n i his majesty's p rylades, by Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Hardy LicutCommanderV. it. Vice- A Admirald ntthi,rea ilcon.r R. Viscount Pal. C o mmander Henry Slade, by Sir James Grah am C on nnander Michael Qui n, on his return from service, and pay_ m e i n g off the Windsor Castle, by Sir James Graham - Lieut. W. Morris, R.N., by Rear-Admiral Sir T. Hardy commander H. Colpoys, of his Majesty's ship Winchester , b of fi m ube es Grahamr Albemarle, Jam es Graham s Sir ill, the Earl L i eu t. Bingham, RA., by Colonel Bingh am ca stainr D Lieu t. Wright, R.E., by Colonel T. Jones. His Majesty gave audiences to -- Inc rston, and the Duke of Norfolk. F,radnii Daniel, Sir James l Grcy, Soon after the breaking up of the Court, the King left n to honour with his presence the grand entertainment givenbythw- t he Duke and Duchess of Bucleuch, at their seat at Richmond. ont The Duchess of Cumberland went from her residence at Keµ. to be present at the entertainment, FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRENCH PAPERS. The Palls Papers of Monday contain no intelli gence of importance. The following are extracts from the ilfessager des Chambres of Tuesday : " VANNES, JULY 14.—Ninweea Swiss, almost all of them officers, have been arrested in this town. They were pointed out by a telegraphic despatch. It is said they intended to attempt an insurrection in Bretagne. The vigilance of the Government has prevented them from beginning to carry their plan into execution. One of the recruiters, who came post to Vannes, and is supposed to be a person of importance, has been arrested, just as he was walk ing with an individual whose residence had been subjected to a domiciliary visit. This must have led to no result of consequence, except the removal of a bundle of papers which was contained in the portmanteau of that individual. The arrests con tinue, in the midst of perfect tranquillity, and to the great disappointment of the Carlists of the country. " PARIS, JULY 18.—General Dubourg was ar rested on the 14th of July, at five o'clock in the morning, in a medical establishment to which he had retired on account of his infirmities. He was still in bed when the summons was announced to him as suspected of a plot tending to overthrow the Government. His first order was converted by the Juge d'lnstruction into a mandat de depot for a plot against the safety of the State, and the distribution of cartridges. " We have spoken of the arrest of several supe rior officers at the Hotel des Invalids. Besides M. Rinant, Secretary to the Governor, we hear to-day of writs issued against MM. Delisle, Col. Rousseau, and Bengeons, Adjutant-Major. " It is affirmed - that the'Government has taken measures to proscribe, according to Article 132 of the Penal Code against false coinets, the persons who have been concerned manufacturing, intro ducing, or circulatiu g in Paris five-franc pieces with the effigy of Henry V." FRENCH FUNDS-PARIS, JULY 18.-Five per Cents., SBf. 10c. sc. 88f. 871. 90c. 95c. 90c. 95c. 85c. 87f. 95c. 80c. 95c. 80c. 75c. 70c. 65c. 60c. 55c. 37f. 60c. 55c. 60c. ' • Four per Cents., 72t1 ; Three per Cents., 58f. 25c. 57f. 80c. 90c. 85c. 95c. 58f. 5790 c. 571. 80c. 75c. 70c. 60c. 70c. 75c. 60c. 75c. ; Bank Stock, 1,547 f. 50c. • Rente de Naples, 68f. 25c. 68f. ; Royal Spanish Loan, 624‘, ; Rente Perpetuelle d'F,spagne, 49 48% sj %49 48;zi %. Exchange on London-One month, paper, :25f. 10c. ; Three months, money, 24f. 95c.-Cours Authentique. There was a further slight depression in the French funds on Tuesday-the real cause, the stag nation of business in Paris, and the general holding • back of bona fide capitalists ; that assigned by the jobbers was, that Holland was going to war with Belgium; but there was no foreign news in the French capital on Tuesday to justify any alarm. Donna Maria of Portugal was permitted to laud at Brest, after two days' quarantine. She set out with a suite of forty persons for Cherbourg, on Monday, to reside with her step-mother. The French troops in Algiers had something like a battle w'th a host of Bedouins, who came down upon them at Belida. The French loss was 500 men, the Arabs some thousands. FRENCH FUNDS.-PARIS, 19.-Five per Cents. 87f.70c.:65c. 60c. 65c. 60c. 50c. 60c. 50c. 40c. 87C 35e. 40c. 45c. 50c. 40c. 35c. 30c. sc. 56c. 87f. 45c. ; Loan of 1831, 876 65c. 40c. ; Four and a Half per Cents. 79f. ; Four per Cents., '7lf. 50c. 9.5 c. ; Three per Cents. 576 60c. 55c. 60c. 75c. 60c. 5' )c. 40c. 35z. 25c. 571. 35c. 30c. 35c. 30c.; Bank Stock, 1,560 f. ; Rente de Naples, 68f. 67f. 75c. 50c. ; Rente d'Espagne, 1.44 ; Royal Spanish Loan, 63 63% 63; Itente Per petuelle d'Espagne, 49 48jd 49 487 i ; Haytian Loan, •':)sf.-Ex.. change on London, One month, paper, 25f. 10c. ; three months, money, '24f. 95c.-Coors Authentique. REFORM DINNER. Yesterday the statue of Major Cartwright, of which we have already given a favourable notice, was erected in Burton-crescent, and in the afternoon a dinner, attended by between 500 and 600 persons, was given at White Conduit-house, Pentonville, to commemorate the efforts of that persevering Re former, to obtain for the people a full and fair repre sentation in the Commons House of Parliament. Mr. HUME took the chair, supported by Sir F. Burdett, Mr. O'Connell, and other Members of Par liament. The Hon. Chairman successively proposed the following toasts:—" The People, the only source of legitimate power."—" The King, we bear him the loyalty of lovers of liberty."—" The memory of him whom we have met to celebrate this day, that virtuous Reformer, Major Cartwright, the firm, con sistent, and persevering advocate of universal suffrage, equal representation, vote by ballot, and annual Parliament P." The great cause,—good and cheap Government." The Hon. Chairman said, that he saw no impropriety in proposing " The People," as the first toast. He did, indeed, con'ider that it ought to have the precedence of all other toasts, because the wealth and prosperity of any country depended upon the industry and talents of the large mass of the population.—(Cheers.) He was satisfied that every rightly-reasoning man must come to the conclusion that the chief object of all govern ment ought to be to promote and secure the happi ness of the greater number.—(Cheers.) The King was the executive magistrate of the country ; but he regretted that many persons considered a King as a person possessing almost magical powers. The slightest attention to the history of this country would show, that the King was not to be con sidered as above all coutroul. He was chosen E,y the people to discharge certain functions, which the well-being of the State required to be performed. With respect to William IV., nobody could deny that he had conducted himself in a manner perfectly in unison with the feelings of the people.—(Loud applause.) The Hon. Chairman then called the at tention of the meeting to the public conduct of the late Major Cartwright, and characterised him as an honest, disinterested advocate of Reform, and a virtuous and humane member of society.—(Ap plause.) He said that Major Cartwright became convinced at an early age of the necessity of Reform, in consequence of the following declaration, which he heard made by the Noble proprietor of Lyme Regis to the independent electors of that place : " I have bought you all, and by I will sell you all."—(Hear, hear.) The toasts proposed by the Chairman were re ceived with loud cheers. Sir F. BURDETT proposed " The freedom of na tions, brothers of the same great family, we are equally interested in the happiness of all."—(Ap plause.) He said he had great satisfaction in pro posing this toast, because he entirely concurred in the sentiment conveyed by it.—(Hear, hear.) The independence of one nation could not be overturned without affecting the independence of another; and the triumph of liberty in France had assisted the triumph of liberty in this country.—(Hear, hear.) There was a contest now carrying on in Europe, which was not regarded with indifference by the people of England; he meant the glorious struggle which the brave and ma gnan i mous peop l e o f P o l an d were making for the recovery of their freedom. — (Loud cheers.) He thought that notwithstanding the embarrassments in which this comm./ was placed by the effects of the boroughtnongering system, now happily about to be destroyed for ever, the Go vernment would be warranted in wisely and pru dently taking measures to secure the independence of the brave but unfortunate people of Poland, who were at the present moment fighting in the cause of all free nations.—(Cheers.) The Hon. Baronet also advocated the expediency of establishing an in timate intercourse with France ; for he thought that Euelani and Fiance united might set the world at defiance. Mr. O'CONNELL proposed the following toast : with id theth a t th "Belgium, may she escape unscathed through the wholefurnace p of eo p t l h e e of lzl l y gla A nd lliance. i sympathized Bel gians, but he regretted that a portion of the public press had endeavoured to m isrepresent the conduct and conceal the wrongs of that nation._(Hear.) The H on . and Learned Gentleman sat down amidst much applause, after po intin g out at considerable length the injuries which he stated Belgium had re ceivod at the bands of the King of Holland. 51r. HUNT next presented himself to the meet n Pres ton, however, continued to occupy for near l y a n h o ur meet ing; but it is impossible to give an adequate idea fpoera racof immediatelythe uproar r e a a n t d e d. ih confusion, N o v n h . . ch Memberhi s appearance the position which he had tiler) upon the top of one of the tables, though scarcely a word he addressed to the meeting was allowed to be heard. He con cluded what we suppose must have been a very long speech, by proposing some toast respecting the Press, a great portion of which he declared to be corrupt. _ . Colonel JONES (the Vice-President) complained that Mr. Hunt had taken upon himself to propo;e a bast, which the Committee of Management had placed in the hands of Mr. Wooler.—(Hear.) Mr. HUMS said, "that he had had handed the toast to Mr. Hunt, not being aware that Mr. Wooler was in the room. Order having been r,stored, " Vote by ballot," " The United States," and other toasts were drunk. About half.past nine o'clock, Mr. Hume and the other Members of Parliament departed to attend !heir duty in the House of Commons ; but the meet ing continued together for some time afterwards. MR. LONG WELLESLEY. Dover-street, July 20, My DEAR. LORD,—d am informed that being in con tempt, I cannot address the Court publicly, I therefore b e g leave to address you as a private individual. I need not, I hope, add, the great respect and kind feeling which I have entertained for many years towards your Lordship still Conti rues to exist. With great respect, then, fur your superior judgment, I beg to call your attention to the exact state in ~hich I find myself placed with regard to the exercise of my paternal rights over my children. The view I take, and which I now submit to your Lordship, is one which it was my intention to have proceeded to state to you, when you committed me for contempt, and which in your private room I did not think, in the temper in which both Sir E. Sugden and Mr. Courtenay were, I could then do without prejudice. You will be good enough to recollect hinted, that although I have reason to believe that Sir E. Sugden entertains the same opinion as myself, and that ; both the Mis es Long and Mr. Courtenay have received Counsel's opinion to the effect, that neither the one nor the other, or both, are the custodice of my children, and that my paternal right has reverted to me in the same way that the Misses Lung became possessed of nay children in 1 825 ; and if the two younger childre❑ be wards of the Court at all, which they will be found not to be, inas much as the Court has no property to deal with which , they can apply for their maintenance, and at this moment, at all events, there being no such provision for any one of the children, neither Mr. Courtenay or the Misses Long having any authority from the Court, or the means of ad ministering to their pecuniary wants, from any fund made applicable to that purpose by the Court. It is not a matter to me of surprise that even so gifted an individual as yourself should be perplexed by the many orders, counter-orders, hearings, and re-hearings, which have taken place in the cause regarding nay children in the course of so many years; but if you will be kind enough to refer to the order of Lord Eldon of the 9th November, 1825, then the order of 1827, and the subsequent orders • in the Master's office, you will find that I now stand in precisely the same situation which the Misses Long were placed in at the dea'h of their sister; with this additional circumstance—that I am a parent not in succession to my eldest son's estates, which the Misses Long are. I am fully aware that Sir E. Sugdeu very craftily has kept these orders from your Lordship's view ; and I am inclined to believe that Mr. Courtenay has also given you a wrong impression of them. Ido not mean to say that Sir E. Sugden has done any thing which fair profftsional , manc4uvre will not sanction ; but I must remind your Lordship very respectfully, that your mind has been directed to the consideration of my conduct solely ex-parte by an opposing counsel. I make these observations to your Lordship at this mo ment, as from what I ran learn of your speech in the House of Lords, you still seem to consider that 1 have acted, in contempt, and remain in that contempt of the orders of the Court, which I contend I have not done ; and you also appear to be under the extreme misconception that I en• tered the hisses Long's house with force and violence, or by any measure approaching to abduction. I . presume your opinion of my having entered the house of the Misses Long with constables, with sticks and stave , / &c., is taken from the affidavit of one Henry Bicknell , the affidavit alluded to by your Lordship on Saturday laser and which your Lordship gave me time to answer. That affidavit is false, and I doubt very much whether the best answer for me to give it would not be to refer to former • affidavits made by this man during the progress of the Beaufort cause, in which, by documentary evidence, he was convicted of the most wilful false swearing, How ever, fortunately for myself, the facts in that affidavit can hy disproved by the most credible witnesses, and my as sertions demonstrated to be true from circumstances con , ., nected with distance, time, and locality, which distinctly prove that my daughter never came away with me at all . (although I certainly accompanied my eldest son), but with her brother, and did so of her own free will. Six or seven persons who dined with her at my house at eight o'clock, she having left the Misses Long's at half past five, will hear testimony to her happiness at what had occurred. I must, my dear Lord, think it rather bard upon met to be sent before the world, and, in both Houses of Par liatnenr, to be treated as if I had acted no better than 3 madman, in taking, vi et armis, a ward from her legal guArdians, and then going to beard a Judge upon hie bench, that Judge Leing the Lord High Chancel or of Ear land, and yourself. Now the fact is, that when your Lordship gave me time to answer the affidavit of Henry Bicknell, and asked are upon the word and honour of a gentleman to answer ccr.. taro questions, from the knowledge I had of the forms Cf . the Court of Chancery, I certainly apprehended no core sequences could arise to we from such reply beyond that which would attach in private life to any gentlema❑ rib° is guilty of untruth.--1 have the honour to be, my dea►' Lord, your Lordship's very obedient servant, - - W. L. WELLESLEY. To the Lord High Chancellor. COBURG THEATRE.—A variety of enter . tainin performances will take place, we understand, a t this theatre on Monday night, for the benefit of Mr. BOWES, the box keeper, who is in very general favour with the frequenters of the Coburg, by his polite and cos' . stant attention to them. Among the pieces selected for representation is a comedy founded on the popular draws ,! of the Widow of Corohill, and written in Mr. We(' CRIEFF'S best and most mercurial style. The other enter - tainments are equally attractive, and will, we are con' vineed, attract a crowded house. The monument to Major CARTWRIGHT , opp ,, site his late residence in Burton-crescent, was o pened yesterday morning to the public. A number o f re' spectable individuals were present at the ceremonP amongst whom were Sir F. BURDETT, Mr. HOD 1101.10; Mr. HUME, Mr. O'C ONNELL , M r . W oon , Genera l JOMNSON, Colonel JONES, the Canon Rixco, and other Reformers. The statue is of bronze, and eight feet inches in height; the resemblance to the deceased is sat° to be striking. MR. COKE, or NORFOLK.—This venerabl e gentleman, at the wool dinner at Thetford, on Fritho made what may perhaps be called his farewell speech t° his constituents. On his health being drunk, be a' l ' dressed the company at some length. He said, as for r t litics, his career was now nearly drawing to a close ; bt he thought his constituents would acknowledge that b l " course had been honourable and consistent. The measure. that had been of late carried through Parliament had be en e the measures, the policy of which h e h a d thr ou gh l if t supported. He congratulated them on the new pos e d which was now about to be placed in their .hands, a ° , which would render the county of Norfolk more influent l , l6 , than it bad hitherto been,--a power which he trusted I'" yeomanry would never abuse. Mr. Coxe here took oec tt ; aim to apologize for his absence at a similar meeting ° t Watton; but they would recollect that it was on tba evening that the division on the second reading of t lje Reform Bill took place ; and he was sure that would ope: rate as his excuse. Five-and-twenty years azo he bad dr tacked himself to Fox and liberal principles ; he had O r , vived, it was true, a very pestilential air, and the atoll phere in which we had hitherto moved was to be rareti e° —(A laugh.) Nevertheless, at his time o f lif e , at his yea rs : , , his health might continue from mo t VI to month, and er a 1 , half-year to half-year, but he was confident that no one s t, Isis age could do their duty p ro p er l y as a pu bli c serva ° e , • He had no intention of again offering himself for the r io presentation of the county ; an d w h en t h ey cons id e red t fatigue of hitting till six an d seven o ' c l oc k i n t h e m orni°'; as on a late occasion they had done, he was sure that al e of his constituents who wished him well could deal° ; t should do so; he s h ou ld t h en ret i re to l ea d a mor e te r ; r e , and domestic life. At a subsequent period of the eve ol , when returning thanks for his colleague, Sir W. FoLt ir he said—" As to how the House of Lords would act r! d ay tive to the B i ll, h e did not t hi n k they would ac t so f ibs , " 0 as to reject it—he did not think it possible for 001 1 1 b , act sr against th e i r own i nterests ; b ut if t h e y di' ' to e should move a strong reso l ut i on—an d h e h a d moved ' o e strong ones its his time—which he should not at ti•at t express." KING Hip ezultati a ennti alitbori tion a l g PrieNt their z, choirec. and her, and trot ag fi ne a e;teh oti t h r ough With tree s durable an ~ T his up tl l 'Y i n le iJ ti t , tin, 4°).411"°