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PIRIT TIM PUBLIC JOURNALS. It is dee to ourselves to remind the public, the Governmen- Inca, and the Opposition in both Houses of Parliawreit, of the resolute heal and untired perseverance with which for many weeks past we have been adjuring his Majesty's Ministers to Ave' t the evil which manifestly threatened the Reform Bill, by _ _ a timely creation of a sufficient number of Peers. bur voice at the outset was heard almost alone ; but The seriousness and sadness of the presage, and, as public attention began to be rou-ed, the conviction not only that the danger was 'near, but that the resulting calamity might he immeasurable, gradually gained a thousand echoes to the cry, and an intriediate addi. tion to the House of Peers, or ruin to the 8111, disgrace to the Ministers, and, worse than all, a pattoXysm of just and north). trollable resentment amounting to convulsion tteen*inut the country, at last presented themselves to the ehitire tation as the only alternatives width could by possibility dissolve the dread. ful crisis. The Ring's 'Ministers 41 1 / 4 f. hot act upon our solid. ration. Tb'z.: Bill and the Ministers are now undergoing the joint age' y of a trial before the same House. Of Lords from whicl. both in lately - received an unrecire . iftil condemnation ane, it behoves honest men, withinthls Aloft infeeral of twenty_ 'our hours, which may, or may tot, elapse before the solemn question ~hall be decidi:d, to look abtlft them a little and inquire where thq , ate. We here 'dismiss every topic of 44E1Vnie to the existing Government, Having said what IWO! serve to justify ourselves, we shell merely repeat our trfdiffi s inished con fidence in the perfect honour and siek - eiiitr with which Lord Grey has matte up his mind to soursi't htinself of his ancient, his recent, and consistent pledges to the people of Engloud; aid, lamenting that he should, by a policy less prompt St au we had hoped for, have matted the Reform Bill te irie.ir the cruel risk which now, too plainly, surrounds that inestimab'e measure, we will sustain the Noble Earl To the last, if, even at this almost his midnight hour, he will st mut upon the breach and deal One death-blow to the enemy. Parties have within these few days been so nearly balanced, and the rests O both sides so well sifted and considered, that we believe there was not, up to the moment of moving the order of the day for the second read ing, a 4fiCerence of more Clan two or threw names between the calculations of Ministers and their adversaries. The retrolution of Lard Grey to meet the second reading without resorting to th•! King's prerogative was notoriousl founded on the pro mises of certain, so called " moderate" Anti-Reformers, to admit the necessity of some Reform, by an acquiescence In the second reading of the Bill. Although these same Noble Lords had not on a former occasion shown much scruple about treating the House of Commons with Agnal disrepect by a peremptory rejection of the principle of a Bill, which in ail Its details had been assiduously laboured, and finally ftwroved, by that assembly, they, the half-reformers, hars since displayed signs of grace, by admitting that the voice of the nation de. )nanded a proof of deference which had been denied to the body assuming to be its repre.sentatiVes ; and therefore, that in the case a the present Bill, they u•o tad vote for as second reading. tb‘ this understanding, as w•e have obsti'ved, Lord Grey pro.. ceeded to the second reading of the Bill which had passed the House of Commons. How has this compact between the Gowen`.. Inca and the moderate Lords been dealt with beetle tittl'a.anti reformers ? As might be expected.:Tbe Duke uf Buckingham took occasion to give notice of a Bill, which was, according to his view of it, to satisfy the country I—that is, he would brig in a Bill for " enfranchising tertain (how many and riaat ?) great towns,—for consolidating (that is, Scotehifying) cer tain, small boroughs,—and for extending the elective fran chise," how much? In other words, We have the names of enfranchisement, disfranchisement, 'and a more extended qua lification,—those names to which, as Lord Grey well Z . x. pressed it, the stigma of " revolution" was frets . The first affixed by the Tories; and these vague words, to he travestied ed libitum in the concoction of the Nob* DUke's Bill, are to appease the appetite of the people nt ►_he United Kingdom f.-1 , a definite, substantial, and thorough Reform. And froht What quarter comes this poisoned garment, proftertki as a boon to the nation ? Even from the Duke of Buckingham, a man who poured out large phials of Holy Alliance wrath upon the head of Mr. Canning, for daring Witt kindly (Mr. Canning did no more towards Spain and Portugal,—a man who is himself a baroughmonger on a large scale. This, thee, is the Solon upon whom the people of England are to rely tbr a new and per. manent code of legislation, by which their dearest rights are t 6 be defended from local tyrants. This vile system, `Which has lung been the curse of Scotland,—this corm:A partnership of a whole tribe of paltry and abandoned boroughs, each re taining (otherwise it would have be ...1. so stated)—each retain. ing its present machinery of some half-dozen, or from that to half an hundred slavish and prostrate electors,—this slay do well enough for the Duke of Buckingham,—it May serve pretty exactly for a model of that sort of gag.atid--bayonet Govern ment, which seems to be the beau ideal of political corium. nities in the mind of certain other noble and gallant Dukes; but will a wretched patchwork of this nature.—tealnied though it he varnished over, and nicknamed " ittihrm," but aich as would approximate the Constitution of England rather towards the principles held in reverentSe at St. Petersburgh than in England,—will such a Bill, we sal., be received by the British nation otherwise than as a fraud upon their understandings, alit' reachery to their rights S' It has, however, a different and a closer, as well as more business-like bearing than any upon the nation at large. The notice of the Doke of Buckingham is in. tended to catch certain halfsasid-half Peers, who swallon though with wry faces, the principle of Reform, and 'would compound with their consciences for the least imaginable quan tum of Retbrin that could be proposed or carried. It is hoped by the Duke of Buckingham to indite* this party, by the vague notice of a measure, called, though ever so absurdly, a " Refbrre Bill," to vote against the second reading of the present pill, on a speculation that my Lord Duke of Buckinghatii is hereafter to come forward with one, forsooth, more acceptable to the people of England : If these half Relbrrn Lords be so seduced by his Grace of Buckingham, then is the Bill for this second time lost. They, too, are lost in another sense. But the Bill is retrievable, so will not be their reputaiion for hien of fair dealing and integrity. Nor let the ultra " no" Reform Peers presume that the whole lightning or popular indignation will fall upon the defeated Minister. Lord Grey will be half pitied, though half reprobated at the same time, by his countrymen, as a feeble and vacillating friend : the ultra-Tories, the great stand ing causes of the mischief, will be loathed and execrated. For them there is no redemption. They ate set down by the Erg lish nation as its lasting and incurable enemies. They can never ru e England ; there is an end of all that. On the other hand, sad and disastrous as would be the case of the Adminies tration in the event of this Bill's overthrow, 4 or Lortl Grey and his colleagues we can see a glimmering of restoration. The day after the second reading shall be thrown out, let the Par liament be prorogued until nerd Monday. In Friday's Gazette let the names of 70 ne telt new Peers be published. Three days afterwards bring the same Bill into the Lords : let not a single rlsuse of it be altered, but work it vigorously through the House of Peers; send it, after a third reading there, to the Commons, and we shall obtain our Reform, the nation will sesame its tranquillity, and a liberal Ministry may still remain in office. The debate was adjourned ti!l this day. It will be seen that Lords Haddlegton and Gage, who voted against the -econd reading on the last occasion, have given a reluctant con sent to support it now.— Times. Tile debate which is to end in the SecOnd reading or in the rejection of the Refbnn 13in commeuced last night in the House of Lords. It will be resumed to-morrow, when it is expected that another adjournment will take place—so that their Lordships are not likely to come to a division before Thursday, as there can be no doubt but that Wednesday's debate will rim far into the morning of that day, We need not refer our readers to the report of this interesting discus sion—it will be the first of their thoughts : they will turn to it with avidity, not to learn what arguments could be urged for or against the measure—those they have heard a thou sand times before—but to catch, if possible, from the tone of the debate, some cheering anticipation as to its ultimate issue. There were some good and some bad symptoms to be col lected from that tone. But, before we say any thing of the inferences to be drawn from the debate itself, we should mention that the friends of Ministers reckon confidently on a small majority in their favour. The Courier of last night speculated on a majority of fourteen, but the numbers, we have since heard, vary from eight to eleven. This does not look ery sanguine, it is true ; but, perhaps, the moderation on which the estimate seems to rest will be considered to make rather in favour of its credibility than against it. As for the symptoms of success or failure to be collected from the tone andeertamstasices of the discussion, though all reasoning upon them must necessarily be very uncertain, it is impossible, in a case of so much anxiety, to avoid speculating on the suggestions which they seem to dictate. One of the peculiarities connected saith this discussion was the first appearance of the Duke of Buckingham as the author of a new Reform Bill. It is a pretty strong testimony to the progress which Reform has made when we find Noble Dukes coming forward with Bills to amend the representation. The Duke of Buckingham does not deny that Reform is necessary—at least that it is expedient, because demanded by the voice of the people; but he has found out that the Reform which the people want is not the Reform proposed by Ministers—not the Reform which has succeeded in combining together thoegzhis 'sever could agree in any single plan before—not the Reformissehich the House of Commons ha., sanctioned by a large majority, but a Rgiorm as like it in sound, and as unlike it in sense, as ingenuity can contrive to fabricate. Of some such Reform as this the Duke of Buckingham has given notice; but we have very little fear that the promise Will operate to the disadvantage of the present BilL The speech of Earl Grey is that, of course, to which public attention will be roost eagerly directed. It was a calm, cautious, well argued, and clearly d e t a il e d expos i t i on o f t h e p r i nc iples and provisions of the measure. Far from rejecting, his Lordship has declared himself open to all suggestions from the opposite party which do not defeat any of the leading principles of the Bill. Ile has declared himself willing to reconsider the extent to which the principle of enfranchisement has been carried, to reconsider the 10/. qualification, and other details. But the most important declaration of his speech—indeed the most im portant declaration that has been made during the whole of these debates—is contained in the following passage, towards the conclusion of his Lordship's address:—" On the one hand, I have not shrunk from bringing forward the measure; and on the other I have not, in compli ance with an unreasoning spirit, suffered myself .h to be forced into the adoption of means for carrying it hic should only be resorted to in the very last necessity." . From this statement it is evident that, if his Lordship. anticipates defeat in any stage of the Bill, he is in possession . of the . means and waits only for the moment that shall require and justify their application It is to be inferred, however, from some o t spes.ches last night, that the anti.reformers will make . a grea effort against the Bill in its present stage. Some of their Lord. shi?s seem to think that the people out of doors are as great sticklers for etiquette as themselves; they seem to think that all the people want is a more respectful sort of rejection than that which the measure experienced before ; and with this ;ow Lord Ellenborough wait 'Out _terirkfa w move, as an amendment, that it shotld bb 'twat that day six months. But it it not a.point:of ecinette or netemony thatthelaeople look to at all \%hat they want is the Bill, modified, if you pleese,in the true sense of modification, but not mutilated, not extin r,dshed. The Bishop of purhain stiovrtti the cloven foot in this 'a bate. He is one o?the'reftir'thers who will not vote for the Re form Bill even on*fft second reading. But we need not trarelhe tone of the cr.s?.ussion any farther, as every one Al: be anxious to saticfy his own mind by the perusaltif e report himself. We shall only add a rumour that, Niched us, without vouching for its authenticitr. Ws the course which Ministers intend to pursue. bi►l they expect to carry, as we have almttly &tato-1,1)y a small majority. In the Committee it IS said they expect to be beaten on some points of stifikitnt impoitarke to cause their rejection b,y the tothhityris;. and At the iettkrn of t ie Bill front the trOttlbtsans to the tOtda, their amend ments teßtted, aeKlie 't44. prerogative, it is supposed, N( P.l take place'whiChVi.o state of the two Houses of Parliament with tispea'e. each other, and of one of them with rit - Ve . ct to the public at large, will be considered it justifying and re quiring. We give this as Ofi*l. '',V the speculations that have been communicated ' 9 ,!' ; but, from all we have either heard or read, wettterine strongly to consider the measure safe, though we •_ :Minot pronounce it out of danger.—Morning Herel4 Before the discussion on the secomk readilig Of the Reform Bill commenced last night, Ott IYAIe of Buckingham, in pre- senting a petithht fr'o certain freeholders of the county of BucktAiiiinl against the Reform Bill, took the'ofpOr l t4.ity of "giring notice that— .. In case the second tteaditrvb`' L in'e Reform Bill now before the House should be Res'Atii - ed, as he sincerely wished and con fidently hoped, kt w'ould be, it was his intention, on Monday next, to bring 's' t: Bill for giving two representatives in Parliament to thhet. forge towns which, by their opulence and constrierelal im portance, were entitled to be represented, aithingh at present they were not represented. This weniti,be:the Orst object of the Bill. A second object of the }3lllreontd be to conjoin and conso lidate certain borough* e..vb of whicb now retArted tw' gem hers to Parliament, so as to return.two Mrnbers or the conso lidated bbroughs ; the purpose of thre being to prevent the in totlvenienc of an addition to eft present numbers of the House of Commons by the introduction of Members for places not be fore represented, And a third provision of the Bill would be to extend the elective franchise to persons not now entitled to tote, so as t-J prevent the abuse of the elective franchise hi Wittier& In order to prove that he was seriously resoivid to bring in this Bill in the event which he had n... - dnilolied, he proposed that the notice should beenteted ill the books, and that the Lords be summoned for Mottltly UAL" By adopting the plan of Reform sketched by Mr. norace in his pamphlet, just published, his brace of Bucking ham no doubt thinks he shall be sole to extriate the opponents of the Bill from the diflidu'lly in which they placed themselves last year. Thy moment the Reform Bill was rejected, the two pantie: of qualified Reformers, and out and out Anti-Reformers, found together only by the tie of opposition rtt the Ministerial Bill, burst from each other, being able io agree oh no other point. His Grace has tm4 liaised a standard found which he hopes to rall tll Who oppose the Bill from thnse who Would go all lengths short of a Reform which *Gold ti*stroy corrup tidn, down to the most determined Anti-Reformer. Even the Duke of Wellington has fcr some time been preparing for an escape to a mid;lt. course, having declared, that though he still rernlined of the opinion, that an unreformed Parliament Nris better than a Parliament however slightly reformed, yet A would no longer be possible to avoid solilei;brt of Reform. We have now, thereftwe, t* ieibrm standards unfurled— hat of Minister; matt teat of the Duke of Buckingham. In open- ing the debates hal Grey availed himself of this demonstratibit of Nit Opposition, which, he observed, freed hit from the necessity of showing " that the pencil - 4e of the measure was entitled to their LvstShipa' adoption, as it was ad mitted by those wht bad generally spoken and acted against Reform, t!.'ll some Reform was indispensable." The oppo ts eals of Reform had shifted their ground, as the Noble Duke meant to present a Bill founded on the three grand princ,ples of dis franchisement, enfranchisement and extension of suffrage, " on which the present Bill rested, and which they who op posed it had assigned as the groUnds on which they Character. lied it as a measure not of Reform bid of revolution." There is now, therefore, properl :to Conservative party, for all are prepared to giVe something ; the difference between the par. ties nr6+: is the extent of concession. They who would fohnerly concede nothing will now give something in order to avoid giving as much as their opponents have offered. Lord Grey retorted on them the ehatge of revolution. "If exten sion of the tight of Voting—if disfranchisement and enfran chisensento said his Lordship, "be not Reform, but revolu , tidni by what process of reasoning does the Noble Duke come to the conclusion that his own Bill, founded on them, is not revolution but Reform ?" As great tat has been made of re volution to terrify weak iiiinds, the distinction drawn by his Lordship betters Reform and revolution may be of use to Wet than the Duke of Buckingham. " What (said his Lordship) may be his notion of Reform, as distinct from revolution, I know not; hut I cannot conceive that adopting these principles entitles the measure to the character of a revolution. A Reform in Parliament undoubtedly supposes a great change In the principles of the consitution of Parliament; and it supposes a great change made in the mode in which the people arc represented. But all changes ate not revolution. The change, in effect, is to be made by the acknowledged authorities ; —it is to be mrde in accordante with the principles of the Con stitution ;—it is to be &he by an Act of Parliament—by the corn bine.l will of the three branches of the Legislature—King, 1 ords, and Commons. This is only to be passe d after lon g and mature deliberation, and passed by the acknowledged and known forms of the Constitution, with the assent of the acknowledged authorities of the State of three co-ordinate branches of King, Lords, and Commons." His Lordship added—" 1 always under stood the designation of Revolution was given to great changes, either in the succession to the Monarchy or in the institutions of the country, carried into effect by force, and against the wishes of the authorities of the State." _Earl Grey's speech was upon the whole mild and conciliatory. A considerable part of it will not be so palatable perhaps to the country in general, as to the assembly to which it was addressed. He was at considerable pains to show their Lord. ships that the landowners would still have greatly the as cendancy under the present Reform Bill—that in the neigh bourhood of many of the towns were gentlemen of landed property, who possessed considerable property in them, and the representation would be chiefly under their influence. " My Lords (said his Lordship), I think that there is a mistake of s this point. I beg leave to remark, that it is generally pre sumed that the character of the elections of those places will always resemble what it has been during a time of popular excite ment. Your Lordships must not judge of what will generally be the case by what occurs when the question of Parliamentary Re form agitates the country.—(Hear, hear, hear.)" There is, no doubt, much truth in this. The difference will not be so much in the class as in the individuals of the class. There is a material difference between a rich man buying the suffrages of the poor, and a rich man returned to Parliament by men who deem him fit to represent them in the great council of the nation ; and on proof of unfitness, or want of principle, can, at a new election, supply his place by another. We trust that the effbct of the Bill will be to raise the moral qualification of the candidates for the representation, and that there will here after be less effrontery in the advocating of measures hostile to the interests of the community at large, and offensive to the feelings of the people. His Lordship impressively warned their Lordships not to mistake the character of the present silence of the people. " My Lords, I admit that we have of late heard none of that outcry on the part of the people which first marked the progress of the Bill. In its place, a fearful silence at present prevails—a silence which may, perhaps, lead some foolishly to imagine that the people are no longer looking at this question with the same feelings of interest. But I c aution your Lordships to beware You how you form that opinion. may rely upon it that though the people are silent, they are looking at the deliberations of this night with no less intenseness than that which has marked them from the very first day of the agitation of this question.—( Hear.)" He concluded with an allusion to the attacks of which he had been the object. He had been unjustly accused, and the sub ject of undeserved suspicion. " As, on the one hand (said his Lordship), I have been deterred by threatened difficulties from proposing this Bill—so, on the other, I have not suffered my self to be forced by clamour into the prosecution of it, by means to which I could not in my better judgment consent." He who seeks an end, must seek the means to that end. if his Lord ship's judgment would not allow him to consent to the only means by which the end he sought could be attained, it is un sound. It is of no use for his Lordship to pray that "if mis fortune is to follow the measure, it may be confied to one—that he may be the sole victim of it." He may be the victim of it, but he will assuredly not be the sole victim of it. His Lord ship has committed to his care the interests of a great nation, the peace and happines of many millions, who may, by an error of his judgment, be plunged into misery unspeakable. His Lordship may ultimately succeed, but the intelligent part of the nation are at a loss to understand by what means he can suc ceed. Earl Grey is not conducting his own affairs, but the affairs of the nation, and they whose affairs he thus conducts doubt much the efficacy of the means employed to conduct them to a prosperous issue. His Lordship may be right, and their misgivings may turn out to be unfounded ; but if he err under such circumstances, heavy indeed will be his responai. bility, though that responsibility will be but a slight atone.. went to a suffering nation. The Opposition was opened by Lord Ellenborough, who descanted at great length on the many advantages of an unreformed Parliament, from the classes of individuals who found their way into it through rotten bo roughs; and eulogized the Parliamentary proceedings of late years. " Let them (said his Lordship) tell the nation what a reformed Parliament would agree to, at their instance, which Parliament, as at present constituted, refused to d o nor f or r Pass laws for the benefit of the whole community, athe benefit of the aristocracy — s ave the people from being pillaged by those who nominally represent them. A reformed. h Pasa ment will not be wholly co m p osed of Members possessing abso. lute wisdom, but it will not la y itself open to the reproach which Sir Robert Peel and Mr. Herries addressed to an unreformheck ed Par li amen t—that instead of the repre sentatives being a c on Ministers, Ministers we re a check on the representatives ; and that they were obliged to choose Committees of the most virtuous Members, to shelter themselves under their reports from the rapacity of the body. A reformed Parliament must be less rapacious than a Parliament chosen by borough propri etors. His Lordship found out, too, that the Church of Eng land has its supporters only in the very rich and the rabble—that the educated classes are almost all dissenters, and as the rabble have no surlYage under the Reform Bill, enemies of the Church of England only would find their way into Parliament " The House of Commons (said his Lordship) would be r eturned by the Dissenters here, by the Presbyterians in: Scotland, and by the Catholics in Ireland." A fine compliment, truly, to Mo ther Church, and an explanation of the hostility she has always shown to education. According to Lord Ellenborough, the moment a man ceases to be poor and ignorant, he ceases to be a churchman, except he become rich enough to be made a Lord. The Bishop of Durham declared himself not against Reform, but against Earl Grey's version of it. He saw no evil, however, in an unreformed Parliament, bribery and corruption being no evils according to the Right Rev. Father in God. We are ire glad, however, to hear the Fathers of the Church recording their sentiments in this manner. The debate was closed by the Marquess of Londonderry, who delivered himself of one of his usual eftlssions. So much for the first act of the discussion. . . . . The adjotirnment at half-past twelve must have been welcome 1 Dile of BICkINGHAM, it is true, spoke with both to their Lordships and their audience, for the discussion, : up4h the whole, was languid -Morning Chronicle. confidence of the defeat of the Bill, but •,,, ‘:,,, The debate in the Hpuse of Lord; Ernich is to decide km- Lord GREY was not confident even of the vocably, ‘. axe" or "‘lb," the question of revolution, com. bentitn e n t s of the Duke of WELLINGTON, who, menced noSte.day evening, and will probably occupy two or three days more. Lord Haddington took this opportunity of however, appears to have made no secret of his proclaiming himself one of those who, by voting for the second feelininfrs. Lord r, uttEt's frieitds, who bare tan:- reading, are about to desert _ their former prititipleal rose the 5 ; ' k 4,4, , esteem of their friends and hitt* the bbnitmit Of their line- vatsed the Iloilse of Peers, must either haVe mies. It trertildt ib cittell niiii , fi the r esent case, .We found . hate heard *hat the diaviie're hare kb, sa,, thpir iniserAle apologia for AWorkkiik what they condozion,.pl4.lq lite.- every Member a. reserved equivocator or an absolute mute, or they themselves must be muting *h6ttlley abhor—for euttipg their throats to save their lives—are already before us. It is beyond the reach' defog' tt i enee more secret than the tongueless mutes of the Sub . or of skill to recommend by any thing like is..rlirient a conduct lim e Porte. Last night the wildest conjectures and so feeble and . .. so eroAtid - .ls theirs, and we accordingly find bet! Haddington on this occasion, degenerating the most contradictory statements were floating from the higher line of intellectual oratory, in which his talents naturally place him, to a strain of shuffling, shifting apology, amongst those whose rank and political connexions such as Lord Althorp or Sir James Graham would almost be would in ordinary cases procure them certain ashamed of. Such speeches cannot possibly ponvlnde.pr iris: lead any of the other et nserVitire Peers; and we I * , *.* ftill)' information of the strength of parties. Very trust; thitt those ti-ble l'irsona es will be . equally uncoritarni plausible list's' were handed about, proving, ac nated by the unwarranted and unworthy fars to which alone cording to the p ar tisans who possessed them, is to be attributed the tergivers a tion of the n stavererls. There is, in trittfi, no danger nod , o9Sed to the honourable and con- that the Bill would be lost or won, and the ma seientioikeelr':lSaike of t heir duties by the Peers. The malevo. . OT.. lone and therage of the Times is indeed unabated ; the good es on either side were stated with a variety will of that organ of the Ministers to support their of numbers, which only showed the prevailing measures by violence and outrage is nothing diminished, „ 1•• The manner but its power over the brute force of the ,muttittlfle ii gnoratiee Upon t he suoject. i no longer the swim :fhe iladicais have d i s co- and tone of the different speakers were vered the fal i seliad and treachery of the Whigs ; and tf..e * inud, and itohes, and brickbats, those most anxiously watched, and, we must con rassila arg l udielits which the Times could (and did) set in mo- fess, that the effrontery and guilty confi ten last year, under the direction and in behalf of its noble i knee were all on the side of the neutrals and learned patrons, will no longer fly at its bidding The ( hands that wield those Whig persuasives would be as ready and Ultia-Tories. We must leave Lord now to hurl them at the Times and its employers as they were last year to assail the Tbries with them. The conservative GREY under his fearful responsibility for thirty- Lords who, uhder such a change of circumstances, should now six hours—for in that time the battle will most ktiail in the good fight would indeed be deserving of all con tempt. That those Who bravely huffeted the storm when the probably be decided. In the meanwhile, the *aims rose mountains high should abandon the ship when she rides in Sisiotth water would remind us of the folly of the Gas- country may enjoy whatever consolation can be con who, being offered his choice of two punishments—to derived from the fact, that Bishops, Tory Peers, bear a hundred lashes or to pay a hundred marks—chose the stripes, but when he had borne ninety-nine of them paid the ultra boroughmongers, and all classes and con ' fine rather than endure the one remaining stroke.—Morning (116011 S of the aristocracy, and to the third and Post. ' - - -.--: fourth generation, confess that some Reform is IRELAND. necessary. The exceptions to this acknowledge ment are the Duke of WELLINGTON, the Ox ford petitioners, and a few semi-lunatics in both Houses of Parliament. LIST OF THE MINORITY O THIRTEEN WHO VOTED FOR MR. CRAMP'ON'S AMENDMENT ON ONE OF THE CLAUSES OF THE IRISH TITHE BILL. Clerk, Sir G. Jones, - Cole, Lord Lefroy, Dr. T. Fitzgerald, Sir A. La toy, A. Hayes, Sit E. Maxwell, H. Holmes, Wm. Shaw, F. Somerset, Lord G Vyvyan, Sir U. Young J. LIST OF IRISH MEMBERS, USUALI NISTERS, WHO VOTED IN THE M SAME AMENDMENT. Browne, J. French, A. Burke, Sir J. Jephscn, C. D. 0. Callaghan, D. King, Hon. n. Carew, R. S. Leader, N. P. Chapman, M. L. Mullins, F. Doyle, Sir J. M. Messrs. Bainbridge al X OPPOSING MI UOII.ITY ON THE M'Namara, W. ti, O'Connell, M. ilutliven, E. S. Rice, T. S. Shell, R. L. id Duneombe (Englisi ported Ministers. Members) also sup- 7- E MINORITY MOTION OF MR LEFROY, . SALARY OF nik/. A YEAR 'HE REGISTRAR OF DEEDS LIST OF OF SIXTY-TWO, ON THE THAT AN ADDITIONAL SHOULD BE GIVEN TO T IN IRELAND. ENGLAND. Baring, F. T.—Portsmouth • Benett, J.—Wiltshire Bentinck, Ld. G.—Ring's Lynr. Bernal, R.—Rochester Btarnire, \V.—Cumberland Bouverie, P. P.—Downton Bulwer, E. L.—St. Ives Calvert, C.—Southwark Carter, J. B.—Portsmouth Chaytor, Sir W. It—Durham Chichester, J. P. B.—Barnstaple Curteis, H. B.—Sussex Denman, Sir T—Nottinghamsh. Dundas, T.—York Ellice, E.—Coventry Evans, W.—Leicester Fox, Lieut.-Col.—Caine Gisborme, T.—Stafford Hudson, Thomas—Evesham Ingilby, Sir W.—Lincolnshire King, E. B.—Warwick Knight, R.—Wallingford Macdonald, Sir J.—Hampshire Marjoribanks, S.—Hythe Palmer, C. F.—Reading Poyntz, W. S.—Ashburton Bickford, W.—Aylesbury Robinson, Sir G.—Northampton !Cooper, J. B.—Huntingdonshire Scott, Sir K D.—Lichfield Sebright, Sir J.—Hertfordshire Spencer, Hon. F.—Worcestersh. Stanley, E. J.—Hindon Strickland, G.—Yorkshire Strutt, E.—Derby Stuart, Lord D. C.—Arundel Thicknesse, R.—Wigan Thomson, Rt. Hon.C. P.—Dover Throckmorton, R.—Berkshire Tomes, J.—Warwick Tracy, Charles—Tewkesbury Venables, Ald.—London Vernon, G. J.—Derbyshire Villiers, T. H.—Bletchingly Warburton, H.—Bridport Webb, E.—Gloucester Wilks, J.—Boston Williams, W.—Monmouthshire SCOTLAND. Dixon, J.— Glasgow, &c. Johnston, J.—Dunfermlin, &c. PRICES OR STOCKS THIS Bank Stoce 194 1 4 % 3 per Cent. Red. 8 23 %% 3 per Cent.Coro 83% 3% per Cent Ditto Red 90 89% 90% New3%per Cent ...... 90% 91% 3 per Cent. Ann. 1726 .... -- . 4 per Cent. 1826 -9 9M% Rink Long Ann to expire Jan. 5, 1860 16% 7-16 Oct. 10, 1859 l6 5-16 Jan. 5, 1860 - Jan. 5, 1880 - April 5, 1880 - Jan. 5. 1870 IRELAND. Callaghan, D.—Cork, City of Doyle, Sir J. M.—Carlow Co. Duncannon,Vis.—Kilkenny Co. French, A.—Roscommon Co. Grattan, J.—Co. of Wicklow Lamb, G.—Dungarvon Lambert, J. S —Galway Co. M'Namara, W. N.—Clare Co. O'Connell, M. D.—Co. of Clare Ruthven, E. S.—Downpatrick White, H —Co. of Dublin Wyse, T., jun.—Tipperary Co. TELLERS. Hume, Joseph—Middlesex ISheil, it. h—Co. of Louth DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. New S per Cent. India Stock Unto Bonds South Sea Stock par Old Annuities New Ditto 1 per Cent. Ann. 1751 .... -- Ex. Bills, .£1,000...... 13 19 on ...... 13 12 pm. Ditto Small ............ 12 14 pm. Ditto Commercial . ........ —pm. Ditto Advertised ...... pm. Bank for Account .......... India for Account ......... 199 Cons. for April 11 .... PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O ' CLOCK. Austrian Bonds .... ....... — Peruvian Bonds .............••1034 Belgian Bonds Ditto Account ............... Ditto Scrip Ditto Account 3i Pm .1 Ditto Account ........... .. Brazilian Bonds 43-X% 1 Regency Scrip .......•• Oli dis. Ditto Account — i Ditto Account ......... ... Buenos Ayres Bonds ..... .. 22 1 Prussian Bonds ................ 99 Ditto Account . Ditto Account .. .. ........... Chillan Bonds Ditto Account Russian Bonds, 1822......••• Columbian Bonds ...... Ditto Account New Loan ..................... 92 % Ditto Bonds, 1824 - ........... Danish Bonds 6634 Spanish Bonds, 18'31......... 14 Ditto Account..... ....... Greek Bonds 154 ! Ditto Bonds, MO ......... Ditto Bonds, 1 825 Ditto Account 29 . Exchange ...... —f C. Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent —l --:4 per cent...». —f --- c• Ditto Account I Exchange ...... —f — c• Ditto, 6 per cent — ;Dutch Scrip 42% Ditto Account 3l 30%4 ' Ditto Account ............ 4.2%% Neapolitan-- ......... —i French Scrip ..... ............... FOREIGN EXCHANGES ON LONDON HAMBURG, APRIIA.--13. 12 3 4 ; two months, 13. UN,. 9rocKnomd, MACCH 30.—Ninety days, 13 36. CHRISTIANIA, MARCH 28 hree months, 6 32. ST. PIC rIRSRURcH, MARCH 41—Three months, 10%. LEiestc, MARCH 30.—Two months, 6 IG. BREMEN, APRIL 3. —Two months, 61 . 714, 618. BANK OF ENGLAND, Aram 5, 1832. THE COUR OF DIRECTORS OF the GOVERNOR and COMPANY of the BANK of ENGLAND Live Notice, That a GENERAL COURT will be held at the BANK on THURSDAY NEXT, the 12th of April, at Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon, on Specia' Affairs relating to the Charter. JOHN KNIGHT, Secretary. *nit rtir LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING. APRIL 10, 1832. The discussion of last night upon the second reading of the Reform Bill, is ►►ot pre-eminently calculated to tranquillize the public mind. Lord GREY'S speech was an eloquent demonstration that the Bill was free from the objections urged against it, and that it was a measure essential to the peace and well-being of the country. His ' Lordship's speech may be termed superfluous, for the necessity of the Bill has been fervently felt and earnestly acknowledged by all independent people ; and to attempt to convince those who see only through the medium of habits fostered in cor ruption until they have become a second nature, is equalled only by the effort to stop the current of the ocean with a bullrush. Lord ELLEN BOROUGH gave a summary of all the common place arguments that have been urged in favour of every part and parcel of corruption in theory and practice, and he moved for the absolute re jectio❑ of the Bill. His speech was considered able, but merely in relation to the person from whom it proceeded ; and the circumstance that the Tory party could trust the negative proposi tion to such an order of talent, gave rise to an opinion that the Opposition were too secure of their victory, to care about the management of the combat. The public must be struck at the air of doubt, conjecture and apprehension which pervaded the speeches of the debaters. The Hamburg Papers mention that it is reported important negotiations are on foot respecting the restitution of Algiers to the Porte. The follow- ig are extracts : HANOVER, Mkecit 4.—We learn on good authority, that the opening of the Session of the General States of the Kingdom, which was before fixed for the 30th of April, is put off till the 15th of May. It is inferred from this, that the Mi nisters have not yet prepared all the measures that are to be laid before the States, and especially that the revised project of the Constitution can hardly be expected back from London by the end of this month. Lieut.-General Baron Von Dornberg will shortly return to his post as Ambassador at St. Petersburgh. _ . - - . STOCKHOLM, Mx RC n 27 —Letters from Liebau to several mercantile houses here, say that orders for brandy were ex. petted there from Denmark, and this is supposed to be a con firmation of the previous account of the collecting of a large stock at Bornholm. It is calculated that our revenue will lose above 500,000 dollars by the prohibition of the brandy distil eries till October, and it is expected that the import duties on several articles will be increased. BRUNSWICK, APRIL 3.-We have received, from autho rity which may be fully relied upon, the following news : " The Dutch merchants have looked with much attention to the plan of the Belgian Government to construct an iron rail. road from Antwerp to Cologne, and it is positively resolved at Amsterdam, in case the plan should be carried into effect, to construct an iron railroad from Amsterdam and Rotterdam, through Holland, to Cologne, and to have it completed before that from Antwerp can be finished. Some great houses at Amsterdam have declared, that, if necessary, they will take the whole expenses on themselves, notwithstanding the pres sure of the times, because Antweep must not have any advan tage over the Dutch commercial cities." COPENHAGEN, APRIL a-A Royal proclamation of the 18th ult. makes some modifications in the quarantine regula tions, so far as they are applicable to cholera. By the first section only bed.feathers and beds, human hair, and the hair of animals, rags, and second.hand clothes, are to be consi dered and treated as susceptible of infection. It appears that last year the number of deaths in Laaland and Falater exceeded that of the births by 83 per cent., and in Zealand by 41 241ds per cent. In the other provinces the births exceeded the deaths, it is true, but there is still an excess of deaths of 21,', per cent. for the whole kingdom. CONSTANTINOPLE, MARCH 10.—(From a letter.)—lm. portant negotiations seem to be on foot respecting the restitu tion of Algiers to the Porte. According to the expressions of the Reis Effendi, he does not doubt that France will restore that province to the Porte; and some persons are even already mentioned as candidates for the post of Dey. The negotia. tions in the affairs of Greece seem to be at a stand. The Reis Effendi has laid the proposals of the Ambassadors of the three Powers before the Sultan, who received them favourably, but has not declared his resolution. Hussein Pacha arrived here on the 7th instant from Adrianople. It is said he will also be employed in the expedition against Mehemet Ali. The fleet has not yet sailed. The list of changes, promotions, &c. in the offices of State was published, as usual, a few days after the Bairam. There are but few alterations in the more important offices, but there is a hatti-scheriff of the Sultan, which declares that the Governments of Egypt, Candia, and Jedda, shall for the present re. main vacant, to be disposed of according to the future conduct of Mehemet and his son Ibrahim. This shows how unwilling the Porte is to believe the rebellion of this Pacha, though: an impartial observer cannot doubt it ; the excuses of Mehemet are made merely to gain time to attain their object. The Porte hesitates and tries all imaginable means of conciliation to avoid a contest, the issue of which certainly ap pears uncertain. It was lately reported that St. Jean D'Acre had fallen ; but as no official account has yet been received, it is probably a premature report. The armaments are continued with unabating activity. The Grand Vizier has not yet ar rived; it seems that the affairs of Bosnia, which the Sultan has ordered to be settled as soon as possible, require his presence for _ _ . a time at Monastir. The Sultan has intimated to Prince Mi losch, if he desires to hasten the incorporation of the six dis tricts with Servia, to furnish a contingent of troops to the Turkish army employed against Bosnia.—Hamburgh Papers, April 7. AU GSBU RG, APRIL S.—Letters from Corfu, of the 14th of March, speak of a protocol, published at Napoli by the Mi nisters of the three Powers, to put an end to the civil war in Greece. They say that Count Augustin Capo d'lstrias has the title of Governor, but that the Government was called upon to publish a general amnesty, if it would avoid the dis. pleasure of the three Powers. This was done, and seemed for the present to have restored tranquillity. The telegraph at Corfu had announced the arrival of four ships of war in the Adriatic. AUSTRIAN FUNDS. VIENNA, MARCH '29. M • Rot 30. Five per Cents. Four per Cents. Bank Shares 1143 14 ll4O Allgemeine Zeitung, April 4. - HAMBURG, APRIL 6.—BORSEN-HALLE, HALF-PAST. Two o'CLocx.—The arrivals of Wheat are considerable, and the heavier sorts found ready buyers for exportation to France. . Inferior qualities, however, were with difficulty disposed of. In Rye no alteration. Weight. Rix-dollars. Wheat, Anhalt, white ll5 to 122.....118 to ItB ---------- red 117 to 127 110 to 127 --- Marks l2O to 125 122 to 134 ------ Mecklenburgh ----- Holstein, red 118 to 125 110 to 128 During the week 275 lasts of Wheat have been imported and 394 exported, and the stock on board 1,800 lasts. End of April. Anglo-Danish Loan, S per Cent. — 64 Anglo-Russian Loan 94% Hamburg ditto B6 Russian Inscription, 5 per cent B6 14 Ditto, ditto, 1831 8554 Polish Bonds lO9 Austrian Bank Shares 1130 Ditto Metalues N e w Austrian 4 per Cents 76 Hamburg Reporter. The French Papers of Sunday are chiefly filled with details respecting the ravages of the cholera. All doubts are at an end with respect to the nature of the disease with which C. PE RIER was attacked. It was a decided case of cholera ; but the President of the Council is fast recovering his health. The pestilence w a s augmenting in point of numbers ; but the deaths were daily diminishing; and it was hoped the worst was over. Paris was per fectly tranquil, and the Government were re• doubling their vigilance with respect to sanatory measures to be adopted against the cholera Some little uneasiness was felt in Paris with re spect to the new movements of the Austrian and Papal troops in the legations. This morning the Duke of Richmond had an audience with the Chancellor of the Exchequer at hit office in Downing street. rs ..; ,• • ,-; a. --. .• • ~,b ,a • .... .g ....: t 5= ... •-• 14 o . r, o Q Districts. 'E .6- C.) 0., = ...) C.) a •-•(-) a 2, 1 .: Z g 1 ! r. :674 I: i '—.ice i -- -- City W 0 4 2 1 0 11 11 Afloat on the River Limehouse Bromley Poplar 3 0 0 I 3 23 11 Bermondsey 27 7 3 4 27 191 81 Deptford S ou th w ark Newington Butts Camberwell Lambeth Christchrch Westminster 7 1 1 1 9, 64 36 St. Martin's 2 0 0 01 0 5 3 St. George's, Hanover.sql 1 01 0 1 1 15 10 Chelsea Paddington Canal. ...... 0 0 0 0 0 I 3 2 17 14 9 6 St. Pancras I Marylebone St. Giles'. Whitechapel II 3 1 1 si 85 50 St. George's East 8 0 0 0 1 I 51 28 W a p p i ng St. Botolph Aldgate Bethnal Green 2l 2 4 4 2 49 29 Wandsworth St. Luke's 24 16 '1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 11 Spitalfields I 0 1 1 01 0 1 111 2g lt 4 Brentford Total 1 —l I 1 1— 1174 139 2 4 1 43 1174 1 2201 11148 1 Cases from nlaces before reported I 83 i 65 Total 1174 I Cases from places before report, (Signed) :ed 0ta1... ACL; ,EAN, 12214 11213 , Secretary. THE FUNDS -(THIS DAY.) CITY, T WEL VE 0' CLOCK. The only arrival this morning is the Hamburg steamer, which does not bring any information of importance. The stock market there was heavy, but towards the close there appeared some buyers for Russian and Danish securities, discount 4 per cent. for the first rate paper. 'I he Metalliques at Vienna on the 29th March were 87%, Bank Shares, 1143 K. It is stated that Sir Stratford Canning has been successful in his negotiation with the Porte, and that no objections will be made by that power to an extension of the territory of Greece. Accounts from Belgrade of the 19th March, state that St. Jean d'Acre has been taken by assault, and the whole of the garrison put to the sword The Dragoman of the Grand Vizer has brought orders to Prince Milosch and to the Pasha of Belgrade, that mea -1 sures have been taken with Russia to put down the Bosnians, and to incorporate the six districts to Servia. ' They write from Ancona, of the 18th March, that a vessel arrived there from Corfu in three days, bringing accounts that a protocol had been published by the Minis ers of the three Powers at Napoli di Romania, which has put a stop to the civil war in Greece, and obliging the Government to grant a general armistice. Four ships of war have entered the Adriatic. THE FUNDS. 'Die great excitement of the public this day is the debates in the House of Lords, and the whole of their attention is occupied in perusing them with the greatest anxiety for the result of this grand and most important question. To-morrow being settling day in the Consol market, the job bers and brokers are winding up their accounts ; anti we cannot as yet say whether it will be a Bear or Bull account until after the Pulls and Calls are adjusted. Consols opewed at the same price they left off at yesterday, 83% ✓ s for the account. HALF-PAST ONE. The general topics of conversation the whole of the morning in the City, are upon two important subjects, the Reform B 11 and the cholera at Paris. On the first subject a book might be filled with the various opinions of its passing the second reading, and indeed we have conversed with persons generally of the first information, who are, at present, much puzzled in regard to the result. It is now said that it will pass the se cond reading with a majority from eight to ten. On the second subject we cannot do better than to lay before our readers the tbllowing private letter which we have received from Paris, by the estafette this morning : " The cholera makes great progress here, 7SO new cases yesterday, 284 deaths, total 3052 cases, 1198 deaths. Thus we have already exceeded the cases in London, many who were full of boasting are now quite dull about it, and the wind is so cold to-day that I expect the next bulletin will con tain more then 1,000 new cases ; still I do not fear, 1 shall take every precaution, and trust in Providence." Consols have continued the whole of the morning at 83% % for the Account, with scarce a bargain doing, 83% %, for next time ; indeed, no business or speculations are thought oat pre sent, or will there be any until the important question before the House has terminated. In the foreign market, Dutch Stock improved in the early part of the day to 42N, at present it is 42%. In other securities nothing doing. 7 IMRE O' CL 0 CK. Ginsols for Account 83/3. ROYAL GAME.—Not long since, the Ex King was enjoying a ramble in the vicinity of Salisbury Craigs accompanied by one or two friends belonging to his suite. His Majesty carried a gun, and being recognized by some boys, they naturally imagined that his intention was to kill game. There being, however, apparently nothing to shoot at, the boys seemed anxious to assist so illustrious a personage, by eagerly fixing their eyes upon the rugged cliffs as if determined to spy out a wing for the royal sport. At length one of the urchins—his eyeballs glancing fire, and his heart bounding for a shot—ex claimed, "Eh King King there's a sparrow !"—Scotsman. On Friday a fight took place among a parcel of Irishmen, in that sink of infamy called the " Pandiken," in St. Giles's which ended in the death of a child. At the above place -about a dozen persons live in one room, and a row taking place, one of the combatants placed his child under the table fos safety ; but, during the afftay, a ,kettle of boiling water was knocked into the lap of an old blind man, who not relishing his unwelcome visiter, threw the kettle from him on to the child, which scalded it in so horrible a manner that it died in dreadful torture sometime after. It has' been communicated to us that Lord O'Neill means to vote for the second reading of the Reform Bill in the Lords, and to support its clauses in Committee, should it ever reach such a stage. We can scarcely credit this. Neutrality is the least we expect from him, and we can assure his Lordship, whatever he may think to the contrary, that we should be very reluctantly driven to the adoption of that course which we conceive to be our duty, and which we shall most as suredly pursue, in the event of his acting contrary to our expec tations. We give him the warning in time, and we trust he will profit by the intimation.—Dublin Evening Mail. MELANCHOLY AFFAIR.—Among the vic tims of cholera at Canonmills, were a husband and wife, who suffered and died nearly at the same instant of time. An of fectionate daughter, who was in place, hearing of the dan gerous illness of her parents, arrived hurriedly to endeavour to sooth the bed of affliction, but just before her arrival, both pa rents had sunk under the direful disease. Their coffins were brought, and the corpses carried off shortly after their demise. m ; h ' h ee e nmt d to a or u t g th h we t oe door,, s. in h e a a nn s .d t h a stat e looked ft eo od f e mind e n h ho d escribed,ceer o hands fof o , r loed seized ° each side of her head, an d tore away two handfuls of hair! The unfortunate girl, as a measure for her own safety, was conveyed to one of the h os p itals in a state bordering on insensi bility, and died shortly afterwards. It was ascertained by sur. gical examination that she had died of a broken heart.— l y r t h to r t e e t w o s ' a b e d Up p r Scotsman. A physician going down Regent-street with a friend of his, said to him, let us avoid that pretty little woman you see there on the left, she knows me again, and casts upon me looks of indignation. I attended her husband, and AM I understand, you had the misfortune to despatch him." " On the contrary," replied the doctor, " I saved him." At one of the Assize towns on the Midlanc Circuit, the Judge was left to try the prisoners by himself, the Ear, having, it is said, struck for n r's? of wages. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(TITIS DAY. FROM LLOYD'S PORTSMOUTH, APRIL S.—Wind E S.E.—Sailed the Sir F. M`Naughten, for Swan River. PLYMOUTH, APRILS.—Wind E.S.E ' strong gales.—Arrived off port—the Archimedes, Hathaway, from the South Seas; Catharine, JaqUes, from Valparaiso; Ge,rge Canning, Paine, from nine,- and Eliza Milne, from Oporto. FALMOUTH, APRIL B.—Wind E., fregh and squally.—Sailed the Opossirm packet for the Brazils, and Hermes, steam-packet, for Ihe Mediterranean.. HOLYHEAD, APRIL B.—Arrived off port, the Ann, Hut. chinson; from Mobile. LIVERPOOL, APRIL B.—Arrived off port, the Mary Ann, from Lisbon. LANCASTER, A PRIL B.—Arrived the Patriot, from Charente. GREENOCK, APRIL 7,—Arrived the Uxbridge, Wylie, from Faro. The Hercules, Thurf, from Rotterdam, was driven on shore near Mundesley, yesterday.—Crew saved. The Betsey, schooner, of Dublin, was fallen in with in lat, long. 33 , dismasted and abandoned. The Pallas, Terry, from Newcastle to Stettin, was on shore at Hoganas on the 3d instant, and had three feet water in her hold. ,HELSINOR E,. A t;alf,3.,The qharantipb restriction); itnposed on vessels arriving at thir and other porta in Denman., are in a great measure entirely removed; as vessels in ballast coming even, from an infected port, are admitted to a free communication with the shore, provided their passage has exceeded five days. Vessels with cargoes, except the same consist of ;he usual enu merated articles, will be likewise admitted to pratiquc. CHOLERA NIORBUS, OFFICIAL REPORT. OF HEALTH. HALL.-(THIS DA Y.) iOLERA CASES. trj goo ?-§g ;.) 8 28 9 0 CENTRAL BOA COUNCIL OFFICE, WI DAILY REPORT o Places and Dates. *." Goole, Yorkshire, April Si Ely, Cambr. April 9 Portobello, April 7 Leith, April? Edinburgh, April 7 Water of Leith, April 7 Greenock, April 7 Glasgow, &c. April 7 Paisley, April? Pollockshaws, April 7 Busby, April 7 Larbert, April 7 Bothkinner, April 7 Perth, April. 7 Total Total from places where I and from which no yeti received rand LONDON.-APRIL 7, FIVE 1 5 71 1 disea have i 7B I .5e 11 1 78 :as c( n thi: OLD BAILEY.-(TIIIS DAY.) OLD COURT. Michael Macdouough, a person of very respectable appear. ance, was indicted for having, on the 9th October, 18'29, forged a bill of exchange for 2004 with intent to defraud Joseph Fletcher, Edward Fletcher, and John Myery Halls; there were other counts charging the prisoner with the intention of defrauding Robert Machin and John Christopherson. Mr. John Myer Halls deposed, that he was in partnership with Joseph and d vard ,rletclier, as Merchants and High rac:, tors. The prisoner was in his coanting-hciiist„io Xionincligeft lane, a short time before the present transactibh •;i .Peratili • brought witness a letter on the 9th October, 1829, (now Pre:: duced) containing a bill for 2001., purporting to be drawn by James Anderton ; he never afterwards saw the prisoner until about a fortnight ago, when he was in custody, charged with ob taining money under a false bill of lading, and also with this offence. Witness did not know James Anderton, nor did he ever make any advance of money upon the bill. The wit ness produced the bill. He did not see the prisoner on the occasion of the letter or the bill. Witness's partners had pre viously advanced the prisoner 5001. The prisoner had since shaved off his whiikers and adopted the use of a wig, but wit ness was positive that he was the peisim ivhb called at his, wit ness's office, just before the 9th of October. Mr. Francis Dawson Watley, clerk in the house of Fletcher and Co., stated that he knew the prisoner's person. Previous to the receipt of the bill and letter, he saw the prisoner at the prosecutor's office, but nothing passed then respecting the bill. Witness had never seen him write, but had done business with him upon AdmittPtl to,be In his hand-writing, par ticularly in the latter end of Septetni;er; •771rn be bought a bill of lading, with his endorsement on it, and On wl- . Ail frit: nest's employers advanced him the sum of 5001. The endorse, ment on the bill produced was written by the prisoner; but he did not believe that the bill itself, or the acceptance, was in his writing. The letter which contained the bill witness believed to have been written by the prisoner ; when he called at the prosecutor's office, he had his own light hair and light whiskers, but when witness saw him in custody a fortnight ago, he wore a dark wig, and had no whiskers at all. Cross-examined by the Prisoner---Had minutely compared the letter with the indorsement on the bill of lading ; would swear positively that the letter and the indorsement on the bill was the prisoner's writing. Mr. Edward Fletcher, one of the prosecutors, saw the pri soner at his counting.house in September and the beginning of October, 1529 ; on the latter occasion he called relative to a pro fessed shipment of gocds, and not respecting the bill of exchange. He never again saw him until he was in custody. Witness saw him write his indorsement on the bill of lading, on which witness advanced him 500/. ; witness had no doubt that the whole ' • of the body of thetill for 2001. was in the prisoner's writing. Witness had inquired for the supposed drawer, James An derton, and could find no such person. The letter was, in witness's opinion, written by the prisoner. The bill pur. ported to be addressed to Messrs. Robert Makin and Co., suer. chants, of LiverpooL The letter was then read ; it was addressed to the prosecutors, and stated that, in expectation of the arrival of the ship William, (the vessel by which the supposed goods were to come, covered by the bill oh lading on which the prosecutors had advanced 5001.), he would soon be in London ; that a Mr. Coates, of St. Martin's lane, had undertaken to pay some money for him to various persons, and, to pay those demands, he en closed the '2OO/. bill, requesting the prosecutors to give Mr. Coates a check for the amount of it. The bill was also read—it was at 90 days' date, signed James Anderton, addressed to Messrs. Makin and Co., Liverpool, end purported to be accepted by Makin and Co., payable at Messrs. Dennison and Co., bankers. London. In cross-examination, the witness said he found out Mr. Coates, and subpoenaed him to attend ; he never heard of the prisoner having suffered in his commercial pursuits by Ins, postures practised on him. Never heard of the prisoners haVitig been ill of a fever so as to account for the loss of his hair. Mr. Gabriel William Meyer, clerk to the firm of Robert Makin and Co., of Liverpool, stated, that the acceptance on the bill of exchange, was not written either by Robert Makin or of his partner, John Christopherson, No such person as James Anderton transacted business with Makin and Co. nor did he know of the existence of say such person. Witness had known the prisoner for nearly twenty years, in Liverpool, and the prisoner knew wit ness as being in Makin and Co.'s office. Prisoner's father lived in Sligo, and he introduced the prisoner to Makin and Co. as one of the firm of Morgan, Macdonough, and Co. The father was in the corn trade. The father did business with Makin and Co. but the last time the prisoner did business with Makin and Co. was fourteen years ago; since then he had frequently seen the prisoner in the streets of Liverpool, until about two years ago. Cross-examincd—Prlsoner's father made consignments of grain to Makin and Co. and it was usual for Morgan, Macdo. nough, and Co. to draw for the proceeds, or in some instances to ship goods in return. Mr. William Coates, of St. Martin's-lane, had known prisoner for three years; he knew there was such a house as that of Fletcher and Co. ; he took a letter directed to them, at the re quest of the prisoner in October, 1829, but could not swear it was the one produced. Did not recollect whether prisoner stated for what purpose the letter was to be sent. Cross-examined—Did not recollect that the prisoner re quested witness to get any money from Fletcher and Co. Un derstood the prisoner had been embarrassed, and that he was ar rested by Mr. Nightingale, a tailor, and committed to prison. Prisoner was released upon signing a deed of assignment to his creditors of all his property in Dublin. Witness attested the deed. Understood the prisoner to be a particular friend of Mr. Dawson, M P., but never heard he lived in Mr. Dawson's house ; witness might have interfered in elections, but was not in the habit of negotiating for seats in Parliament. The Jury found the prisoner Guilty. The prisoner was then placed at the bar upon an indictment charging him with defrauding the same prosecutors on the 30th Sept. 18Z, of 500!. by means of a forged bill of lading. This case was proceeding when our reporter left. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, APRIL 9. APPEAL. AGAINST AN ORDER OF AFFILIATION. TOE OFFICER , OF bT. MARY, HACKNEY, RESPONDENTS, AND JAMES MONTAGUE, ESQ. APPELLANT. (Concluded from The Sun of yesterday.) The CHAIRMAN (Mr. Marriott) gave his opinion. The case was not one of ordinary importance, or one of private im morality. Either on Mr. Montague's side or the girl's, there was gross, wicked, and diabolical perjury. In his opinion the girl could not have endured such repeated examinations and cross-examinations, were she not supported by truth. There was another remarkable fact. Mr. Montague went to the mo ther of Ann Dyer to tell her to take away her child. He, on that occasion, asked, " Did she find out the father 2" and was charged by Mrs. Dyer as the ruin of her daughter, when he ought to have been her protector. What was his reply ? " Oh, good God in Heaven, is this brought against me ?" She looked in his face, and said,—" You should have thought of him before." Yet, to that woman, who charged him thus, who parried his question, and returned it as a dagger into his breast, he afterwards sent his neice Miss Turkington. A conspiracy was asserted to have been formed, but it was was without an adequate motive. At to Dean, if the inquiry was not continued, the law of perjury was at an end. Unhesitatingly, then, he pronounced Mr. Montague the father of the child, and voted for the affirmation of the order. The votes of the Magistrates were then collected and declared to be—For affirming the order, 14; for quashing it, 1. About six magistrates declined voting. On this announcement there was no marked sensation either way in the Court ; if any, it was one of slight surprise. After some discussion, the costs (given against appellant) were fixed at 50/. ; eight voices being for 501., and seven for 301. Mr. Montague immediately paid the money, and in much excite ment declared his intention of indicting the parties either for a conspiracy or perjury, as he should be advised. NEW PEERS. —A countryman met one of his neighbours the other day, and seeing that he was gaping for political news of some description, accosted him thus : " There is every reason to believe we shall have a new batch of Peers immediately." " How so, how so ?" said the other in breathless expectation, " Because I saw a jargonelle in bloom yesterday I"—Scotsman. STEEPLE CHASE.—An exploit of this sort was achieved near this town yesterday, between a !flare, the property of Captain Baxter, rode by Mr. Grice, of Sundorn, and a horse of Mr. Jones's, jun., of Shelton Cottage, rode by Mr. Davies, moister, Frankwell. They started from a place called Feather-bed Lane, and scoured across a rough uneven country, taking various tremendous leaps with facility, till they reached the Old Heath, where the mare won the match cleverly, with the horse close beside her. A great crowd was present.- - Shrewsbury Chronicle. ORDER OF THE DAY.—(By Buonaparte when First Consul.)—" 9:2d Floreal, 10th year.—" The greno. -- dier Grobbin has destroyed himself in' consequence of a love affair. He was otherwise a respectable man. This is the second event of the ki n d t h at has happened in the corps within a month. The First Consul has directed, that it shall be In serted in the order of the day of the guard, that a soldier ough t to know how to subdue sorrow, and the agitation of the pa.s - ; and there is as much courage in enduring with firmnes , the pains of the heart, as in remaining steady under the grape shot of a battery. To abandon one's self to grief without re sistance, to kill one's self in order to escape from it, is to dl (torn the field of battle before one is conquered. (Signed) " BUONAPARTE, First Consul.' 11111 TII S. On the 7th inst. at Brighton, the Hon. Mrs. George Dawson Dauer, of a don. On the 7th inst. at her house, in Sidrnouth-sreet, Regent square, Mrs. Charles Roworth, of a daughter, MARRIED. On the 3d inst. 4 17, Ainslie-place, Lieutenant-Colonel, the, Hon. Geor g e R a lph Abercr om b y, son of the Right Hon. Lor a Abercromhy, to Louisa Propel, youngest daughter of the Hon' John Hay Forbes, one of the Senators of the College of Justice. DIED. On the •.2.1 inst. in Percy - street, Charles NVilliam Peg ler, in his 30th year. On the 10th ult. at Ch arm I)h iJr outh, Dorsetshire, aged 62, 8" relict of the late Major Ballmer, of Lymington, Hants. 0 ,1 On the Bth inst. Elis a b et h , Wife of Mr. s. P. Ealt, of Is ~ PRIVII'D AND PUBLISHED B MURDO YOUNG, ATl ll° SUN OFFICE!, 112, SIABAND, LONDON. § I 811