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GENTLEMEN, I N this P u bli c Add ress my f i rst feeling i s to congratulate you upon our common victory, by which the rights of the People of England to send Repre sentatives to Parliament, are once more placed upon the basis of our free Constitution, and by which you have gained for yourselves the proud and well-merited privilege of sending two Members to the House of Commons, and acquired a direct voice in the Legislature. Gentlemen, I most heartily congratulate you ; and if I reflect with pride and exultation upon the humble part that I have borne in the struggle, I trust I shall have your pardon. I do not presume to place myself on a level with those noble and eminent persona by whose talents, virtue, and pa triotism, this great constitutional victory has been achieved ; my merit is that only of having followed their example, and of having given them in this and the last Parliament my zealous and conscientious support. The period is now approaching when you will be called upon by your Sovereign to exercise your elective franchise, and to choose from amongst you your first Representatives in Parlia ment. There is no man to whom such a distinction would not be a proud one, and to none could it be so proud and flattering as to one who, having been so fortunate as to contribute to your right of choosing, might himself be the object of your choice. To him it would be at once the strongest proof of your approbation of his conduct and its best reward. Gentlemen, I frankly avow my highest ambition would be gratified hp being sent to the Reformed Parliament as one of your first Representatives, and such as I am, I respectfully offer myself to you, and solicit your support. My principles in the Reformed Parliament shall be such as I have acted upon in the last and the pre sent. My great end shall be the preservation of that Con stitution, which having been asserted for us in its great principles by the glorious revolution of 1688, is, I trust, now firmly reassured to ourselves and our posterity by the no less glorious Reform of 1892. To these principles I stand pledged, nor shall I feel myself less bound to give full constitutional effect to the Reform we have obtained by a vigilent and unremitting attention to the correction of all abuses by which the just rights and liberties of the people may be impaired, or the great institutions upon which the Monarchy and Constitution rest may be endangered, or rendered less effectual to the purposes for which they were framed—the peace, the liberty, and the prosperity of our country. I have the honour to be Gentleman, with great respect, Your very faithful friend and servant, 49, Upper Harley-street, June 16. WM. HORNE. NEW WORK BY THE AUTHOR OF "DARNLEY." This day was published, in 3 vols. post Bvo. HENRY MASTERTON; Or, THE YOUNG CAVALIER. Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington street. 1:X" • ebe •-•." Se" 4.'4'1 . SM. LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 18, 1832. We earnestly call the attention of the English Members in the House of Commons to an elaborate and most interesting letter in our papir of this day, on the union of Orkney and Shet land. If the author of that letter can substan tiate his statements, we hesitate not to adopt his own energetic language, and say that this union is an undisguised, brasen-fronted, legalized ini quity." 'We do sincerely hope, for the sake of Reform and of his own character, that Lord AL THORP will find some means of giving Shetland a Member, to which it seems to have a much stronger claim than any of the burgh dis tricts and a great many of the counties. What would an Englishman think of the union of Cornwall and Cumberland in one electoral dis trict ? Yet this would not be nearly so pre posterous as the union of Orkney and Shet land, separated as some parts of these pro vinces are by a distance of two hundred and fifty miles, and situated, in the midst of a bois terous ocean. There is, as might be expected, no intercourse of any kind bet veen the natives of the two groups of islands, and they seem to 'entertain the reverse of kindly feelings towards each other. It is, therefore, cruel to yoke them together. W e think besides, that there is an easy remedy for the evil : Let the dis trict of b urghs Wigton be annihilated—it is a disgrace to those who have arranged the details of the Scotch Bill to give two Members to Wigtonshire with only 36,000 inhabitants, while they refuse to give one to a county like Shetland, with nearly the same number, so valuable as a nur sery for the nary—and whi c h sib] ,besid es , cannot pos y be united with any other county, without creating a greater evil than even the want of all representation would be. The union of Peebles with Selkirk would equally accomplish the ob ject, and if that cannot be done, we do pot see why the northern district of burghs might not be re-arranged. Kirkwall might be thrown into Orkney, Wick i nto Caithness, Dornoch into Su therland, and Cromarty, Tain, and Dingwall, added to the Inverness district. As that district stands at present, the town of Inverness virtually returns the Member--it havin g nearly twice as great a population as all the other towns united with it. But the best remedy of all would be to give an additional Alember to Scotland. We can see no charm in the figures 658, and we think with our able correspondent that the " ca pacity of a chapel in Westminster ought not to be the measure of British representation?' If, however, we must have a magic number, let us try 666. We venture to predict there will be found much more virtue in this new number than in the old and stale 658 ; and Ireland, injured, oppressed, misrepresented Ireland, will receive a benefit. The Boundary Bill for England stands for a third reading. The little attention which it has excited proves the unbounded confidence in the Government of those who have supported them, and the complete defeat of their opponents, who would otherwise have found in this measure materials for lengthened discussions. Upon the whole we regret that, considering its extreme importance, it has not been dealt with in a more business-like manner. There can be no doubt that in some particular cases erroneous arrange ments will have been made. The case of Arundel is under correction in a Committee, and we see that the case of Stamford is to be discussed upon the third reading. After the gallant and successful struggle made by the inhabitants, under every species of persecution, to regain their privilege, we should be sorry that a measure for improving the Representation should have the effect of restoring this borough to the condi tion of one of these nuisances which it has been the purpose of the Reform Bill to annihilate. We find that the application of the general rule (which has not, however, been universally acted upon) of adding to old boroughs adjacent dis tricts of towns, has led the Commissioners in its instance to add a street on the other side of the river, from the small parish of St. Martin's in Northamptonshire, containing 1,200 inhabi tants, to Stamford, in Lincolnshire, containing 6,000. The ostensible ground is to give repre sentation to that parish ; but as it chiefly belongs to Lord EXETER, and the weight it will give him, must overwhelm the independent majority in Stamford, it will have the effect simply of depriving that borough of representation, without, in fact, bestowing any real boon on the parish of St. Martin, as the inhabitants can have no will of their own. We hope the Government will see that a fair exception may, under these cir cumstances, be made, and trust that the Reform Bills will not be chargeable with the creation of a rotten borough. The German Papers, received this morning, betray the fear and trembling which have at length overtaken the authorities, in consequence of the memorable meeting at Hambach. In order to deceive the people, they endavour to deceive themselves br affecting that the glorious jubilee of German fraternization in the cause of freedom, was a complete failure ! If that were indeed so, why attempt to put down similar de monstrations of public feeling ? But the thing is absurd. The great watchword of individual and of national regeneration has been proclaimed over Germany—Unite and be free !—and the Holy Alliance of despots may now as well attempt to still the storm, or arrest the ocean tide, as to put down the stirring spirit of liberty which now overspreads the Continent, glorying in the accumulating strength of" liberal opinions." The accounts from Vienna are favourable to the continuance of peace. More confidence is felt on its exchange, where a great deal of busi ness has been done in stock. All the accounts from Ireland agree in stating that the tithe-system there is at end. Landlords and tenants, priests and people, seem unanimous on the subject, and when such unanimity pre vails, no power on earth can succeed against it. Our wonder is, not that such a general feeling should exist, but that it should have been so long dormant, and that a system so injurious to improvement, so injurious to the Church—to the cause of true religion, and to the clergy themselves —should not have been abolished hundreds of years ago. Tithes, in every country, are bad, and, at the risk of offending some of our respectable readers, we have never hesitated in raising our voice against them ; but strong as are the objection s t o th e wh o l e system, they are trifling when compared to those against the mode of paying the clergy of the Established Church in Ireland. There is not now, and we believe never was, any thing equal to its absurdity. The richest Church in the world, with the smallest number of worshippers —an established Church which nine out of ten of the people abhor, and, as if to complete that abhorrence, the people unceasingly harassed to pay clergymen who have no churches, and who often do not even reside in the parishes, are certainly anoma lies without an equal in the world. The Romans, who knew something about con quering countries, never forced their mode of worship on the vanquished—on the contrary, they almost invariably adopted the gods of the people whom they had subdued, and thereby took the most effectual method of gaining their good will ; but England, notwithstanding such an example, and in direct opposition to her own principles of Government in the East, has per severed in a system which history, experience, and common sense, equally denounce. The English Government at one time made it a felony for a priest to say mass ; but finding that no severity can destroy a national religion, they repealed or relaxed such an absurd law, an d sa• tisfied themselves with another little less absurd compelling Catholics to support a hierarchy which the head of their Church, their spiritual leaders, and their own feelings declared to be heretical. It was quite evident to impartial spectators, that such a s y s temcou o ld n n i o n t t s h u e cc s e a e m d e , yet successive Governments went blindfolded and obstinate manner, and attempted to convert a whole nation, not by humouring their prejudice, but by adding fireto u ones zeal. i of the t strongest of hum a n passions—re-iig io . is well known that though the tithe is paid by the tenant, it falls on the l a ndlord at last — yet t he proof of the excellent working of another system in Scotland, and the endless mischiefs which tithes have caused in Ireland, affairs were allowed to go on in the same ruinous course till public opinion revolted against it, and a Reform ten times more extensive than would have satis fied reasonable men, is demanded by the whole nation. Something, it is clear, must be (lone, and done speedily. Tithes are, in fact, abolished ; but we trust that the Govern ment will take care that the landlords are not the only persons who shall profit by the change,—something like the Scotch system, which long experience has proved to be good, ought to be adopted. Let the tithes be valued, and their payment enforced, not from the tenant but the landlord, and we are confident that the great body of the people and the clergy them selves will be benefited by the change. The French Papers contain no fresh news of i mportance. The trials of the late conspirators have already commenced. The Courts are open to the public, and the prisoners have the ad vantage of Counsel. The KING'S representa tive also attends to watch the proceedings. The insurrection in the West seems to be nearly at an end. The latest private intelligence from Paris not only confirms the arrest of the Duke of FITZ-JAMES, CIIATEAUBRIAND, and many other individuals of high rank, but mentions also the seizure of certain mysterious docu ments, which it is supposed, will lead to dis closures of a most important nature. In many parts of the country the people, un able to restrain their joy at the passing of the English Reform Bill, have already commenced the work of public rejoicing. At Carlisle, Leeds, and several other towns in the north, these displays have been of the most magnificent description. Illuminations, too, we perceive, though they hare been adopted on the grandest scale at Worcester and Hereford, have been, in the majority of instances, dispensed with. We hope this omission will become general, and that subscription dinners to the poorer classes, together with charitable donations to help them forward and give them an immediate substantial interest in Reform, will be substituted in lieu of them. An illumination is, after all, a very childish way of testifying national satisfaction. VICE-CHANCERY COURT.-(THIS DAY.) JONES V. JONES. The plaintiff and the defendant in this case were bro thers, and carried on, as was insisted by the defendant, the profession of surgeon dentists, in Whitefriars, Chester, in partnership. The plaintiff, however, asserted that the de fendant was only his assistant. In the course of their con nexion they quarrelled, and an agreement was drawn up between them, by which the defendant, in consideration of being released from a debt of 2801., which the plaintiff alleged was due by defendant to him, release all his claim upon - the business, and undertook not to practice the pro fession of surgeon dentist within the counties of Chester, Salop, or any part of North Wales, under a penalty of 5001. The defendant went to Derby and began to exer cise his profession there, but to the extietne surprise of the plaintiff, on the 3d Nov. he saw an advertisement published in one of the Chester newspapers, stating that the defendant had returned to Chester, and was to be consulted in his profession at premises very near to where the plaintiff lived. This being the case, the plaintiff filed the present bill, for the purpose of compelling the defendant specifi cally to preface the agreement, and for an injunction to restrain him from carrying on his profession at Chester. The COURT in December last granted the injunction ex•parte. Mr. KNIGHT to-day applied for its dissolution, contend ing that the agreement could not he binding upon the defendant, as it was obtained from him under the fear of being arrested for the debt which his brother claimed, that even if it was binding, the city of Chester wad not included in it, and it was a city and county of itself ; that little or no consideration was given for it, because in the result of the proper taking of this account ♦ery little would be found due from the defendant to the plaintiff. Mr. Parts supported the injunction. His Honour the VICE-CHANCELLOR did not see any ground for continuing the injunction, so far as it re strained the defendant from practising as a surgeon dentist in Chester, and ordered it to be dissolved in that respect. With respect to the other parts, the injunction must con tinue. CLARKE V. HOLDWITCH. Mr. KNIGHT applied for the dissolution of the injunc tion granted ix this case, the facts of which we stated at the time. The case had not concluded when our reporter left, and appeared very likely to occupy the whole day. THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON. His Honour the VICE-CHANCELLOR was obliged to suspend the business of the Court for some minutes this morning, in consequence of the hissing and booting at the Duke of Wellington, who passed through Lincoln's-inn on horseback, accompanied by Lord Granville Somerset, to-day, on his way to Sir Charles Wetherell's. The mob collected was very great, and immediately on the Duke's entering the Inn-gates they were closed ; the crowd, how ever, determined to shew their disappprobation of his Grace's principles, immediately turned hack and obtained an entrance to the Inn through the large gates in Side street ; and although by this time his Grace was safely housed in the Chambers of Sir Charles Wetherell, nothing could induce the crowd to retire until they had had another opportunity on kis Grace's return in expressing their opinions. A large body of police were called to gether for the purpose of his Grace's protection. The Duke, on coming from Sir Charles Wetherell's, had great difficulty to get to his horse; ultimately, however, he suc ceeded, assisted by Sir Edward Sugden, who held the bri dle while he mounted, and his Grace rode off amidst a volly of groans and hisses, accompanied with some cheer ing. It is to be deplored that such feeling should have been exhibited to the Duke of Wellington on a day like the present, the anniversary of the battle of Waterloo, COURT OF COMMON PLEAS-THIS DAY, MITCHELL V. BEEBE. Mr. Sergeant WILDL stated the case to the Jury, which was an action brought by the plaintiff, a fashionable tailor, lately residing at No. 16, Soho-square, but now 01 Southampton. street, Bloomsbury, against the defendant, to recover compensation in damages, for having made a vexatious and excessive distraint on his goods and chattels, for rent alleged to be due to him as landlord of the premises held by the plaintiff in Soho-square. Mr. Sergeant JONES (with whom was Mr. Sergeant ANDREWS) addressed the Jury at great length for the de fendant. Mr. Justice GASELEE summed up, and the Jury found for the plaintiff—Damages 1501. CHOLERA MORBUS, OFFICIAL REPORT CENTRAL BOARD OF HEALTH. COUNCIL OFFICE, WHITEHALL.—(THIS DAY.) DAILY REPORT of CHOLERA CASES. COUNTRY. Remaining at last Report, 331—New Cases, 211—Deaths, 8 6 Recovered, 99—Remaining, 375. Total Cases since the com mencement, 11,823—Deaths, 4,461. (Signed) AVM. MACLEAN, Secretarr. HOP INTELLIGENCE—(THIS DAY.) —The letters received this morning from mostly all the different hop counties agree in representing that such is the state of the hop plants that a most abundant crop is expected. The duty has in consequence risen from 135,000/ to 150,000/., and backers are to be found even higher. The market fur hops is very dull in consequence to-day. No danger is now apprehended from the fly. We are given to understand that a vigorous canvass is to be made in Alorpeth and its neighbourhood , this day, amongst freeholders, for the purpose of pledging them to vote, free of all charge, for Lord Howtcx, and Mr. BILGE of Linden, as Representatives in Parliament of this northern division of the county at the ensuing elec tion. It is supposed that more than three-fourths of the votes will be secured for this desirable object. —Tyne Mercury 9 ORKNEY AND ZETLAND. TO THE RIGHT HON. LORDALTHORP. My LORD-There is not, I am persuaded, in the wide circle of the British dominions, a man whose heart revolts more than your's does against everything that wears the form of injustice or oppression ; and yet, incredible as it may seem, you are about to commit, in the face of the public, an act of the most flagrant injustice and the gross est oppression. You are about to sanction an enactment in the Scotch Reform Bill, infinitely worse than the worst of the abominations, which it is the object of Reform to annihilate. Those abominations arose out of the gradual and silent abuse of institutions originally good ; this starts at once into life and vigour in the disgusting shape of un disguised, brasen-fronted, legalized iniquity. How your Lordship could bring your pure and upright mind to consent to a proposition se monstrous as the representative union of Orkney and Zetland, is a mystery which can be solved in no other way than by supposing that you are totally unacquainted with the situation and circurnstrnees of these countries ; and when I contemplate the partiality exhibit ed in the concoction, and the disingenuousness lurking in the phraseology of the provisions by which this unnatural union is to be effected, I think it no breach of charity to suspect that the truth his been industriously concealed from you. Unhappily, too, fur the cause of justice, those by whose verdict this case is to he decided, are equally in the dark as to its merits. Of the 658 Hon. Members who are sitting in deliberation o❑ the Scotch Reform Bill, I ventur e to assert that not more than one ever set a foot in Zetland, and that all of them (with two or three exceptions) are as innocent as sucklings of any knowledge respecting it that can lead them to a rational decision. They will be guided, in this instance, solely by their confidence in your Lordship's high character, and it is therefore of no small importance to the Zetlanders, that all false impres sions on the subject should be removed from your mind. If, by the observations which I have now the honour to submit to your Lordship, I shall in the smallest degree contribute to this desirable end—more especially if I shall show that the union of Orkney and Zetland is directly in the teeth of every principle for which you have so nobly struggled i❑ passing the English Reform Bill through the House of Commons, I flatter myself I shall perform neither a useless nor an unacceptable service. Let me, in the first place, request your Lordship's attention to the geographical situation of Zetland. This is the more ne cessary, as it has never yet found its proper place in any map of Scotland—for map-makers, in imitation of their betters, have treated this remote province very scurvily. Finding that to place it where it ought to be would much extend the map, and fearing that this elongations would be unsightly, if not expensive, they have either crammed it on a reduced scale into the mouth of the Moray Frith, or stuck it into a gap among the Hebrides on the opposite side of Scotland. The northern extremity of Zetland is situated in N. latitude 61. 15., and the meridian of Greenwich passes through it. The capital of Orkney in N. latitude 58. 59., W. longitude 3. 23. ; the distance, therefore, between these two places is within a fraction of 200 Eng lish miles, and if allowance be made for sinuosities in the course occasioned by winds, tides, rocks, and other ob structions, it is no extravagant calculation to state it at little short of 250. Now, my Lord, this is the distance which the humane framer of the Scotch Reform Bill con demned some of the Zetland electors to go in a few days, and without any adequate means of conveyance. Why it is a feat for a full grown whale--no mermaid could by any possibility achieve it; but to impose such a task on Christian men is quite nnmerciful—no man possessed of bowels could think of it. But it may be said there is an alternative. True, there is an alternative. If th e Zetlander has not the robur et cos triplex circum pectus—if he is ❑ot bold enough to commit his six-oared skiff to the mercy of the Northern Ocean, he may reach Kirkwall by a safer, though a little longer way. Let us then take an individual elector, and accompany him on his tour from Zetland to the poll in Kirkwall, and back again. And we may, perhaps, pick up by the way, a few reflections tending to edification. I shall take a Burrafirth freeholder, whose local habitation is 126 miles nearer the pole than St. Petersburg. Turning his face to the meridian sun, he traverses the island of Unet, 12 miles in length ; he then crosses a rapid tideway, and is landed on the shore of Yell. After another march of 16 miles through moss and moor, he reaches another tideway, much wider, and still more rapid than the former. Being wafted across this at the peril of his life, he follows a sheep- track over hill and dale for 20 or 30 miles, arrives at Lerwick, and ships himself in the packet for Leith, where, after a voyage of upwards of 300 miles, we shall suppose him safely arrived. He now turns his face to the north, takes his staff in his hand, and wends his way to John o'Groat's, 250 miles more. Then launching on the gentle bosom of the Pentland Frith, which is 12 miles broad, he lands in Orkney, crosses a large island, a broad ferry, and a goodly portion of the mein land, when his eyes are at last blest with a sight of the Orcadian capital. Here, if he is not too late, he enjoys the unspeakable gratification of giving his vote for a man of wheat he knows as much as he does of the man in the moon, and setting out on his journey homeward, re traces every step of his former way, till after a pilgrimage of 1,260 miles he arrives at his hyperborean home many pounds lighter, and some months older than when he left it, admiring the impartial distribution of the elective fran chise, and thanking Heaven and a Reforming Admini stration, that after ages of " masterful oppression," the Zetland udallers are admtttd to the privileges of free-born Britons. This, my Lord, is no joke. In sober seriousness this is the only way that the inhabitants of the two coun ties ever communicate or ever can communicate. The natural result of this state of things is, that they have neither acquaintance nor intercourse with one another. Their interests are in many points diametrically opposite, their habits are uncongenial, and the only feeling they entertain in common is one of mutual antipathy. Into the causes of this unhappy feeling I do not now mean to enter; but this I must say, that no measure could be contrived better calculated than this to aggravate and perpetuate it. Upon what principle of reform, then, is it that two countries so situated, are to be forced into a political union ? Is it not in defiance of every principle of reform, humanity, and common sense ? . _ _ It may, perhaps, be argued, that as the provisions in the original Bill have been altered, and the votes are to be taken in Zetland as well as in Orkney, there is no ground of complaint. If this argument proves any thing, it proves too much, for it goes directly to the conclusion, that any districts, however distant and dissimilar, may be joined together for representative purposes. Now, had a Member of the House of Commons stood up, and with a grave face, proposed to take a slice from Cornwall, and another from Cumberland, and to form them into one elective district, how would such a proposal have been received ? Yet it is rational, and even moderate, compared with the other, for the inhabi tants of these two counties have many interests, feelings and habits in common ; they can arrange their communications with the utmost precision; and although they are separated by the whole length of England, that is not much more than a third of the real—the separat ing distance between Orkney and Zetland. The next point to which I would crave your Lordship's at tention the right of Zetland to a separate representative ; and I trust I shall be able to convince you that bad Zetland been ever so intimately connected with Orkney, instead of being divided from it by half the German Ocean, it would have been contrary to the principles which have been ap plied to other parts of Scotland to refuse it a separate Member. And here I cannot avoid noticing the un worthy artifice to which the ingenious person who framed the Orkney c l auses h as resor t e d, i n or d er t o d eprec i ate t h e claims of Zetland. In the first edition of the Scotch Bill, Zetland is honoured with the rank of a county. Whether this admission was likely to throw diffi culties in his way, I know not—whether it was ima gined that Honourable Members would be less reluctant to sanction the union if they were given to understand that Orkney and Zetland were only constituent parts of the same county and not distinct counties, I will not take upon me to say ; but it so happens, that in the four succeeding editions of the Bill, we hear no more of the county of Zetland. In stead of this, we find such beautifully contradictory phra seology as th e following County o f O r kn e y and Shet land, " County o f O r k ne y," an d, t o crown all, " Ork ney, i ncludin g Shetland." And upon what pretext are these absurdities vindicated? Because, forsooth, the two counties are under one Sheriff, as if that was at all uncommon in Scotland. Now it is an undeniable fact (and no one knows it better than the framer of the Bill), that Zetland never formed any portion either of the Earl dom or the county of Orkney. It was ceded to Scotland by a . separ a t e treaty; i t h as a l ways b een a Dominion by itself ; it has its separate Sheriff Court, its Courts of Registry, and of Admiralty, its Commis sioners of Supply, &c. ; in short, it has all the ma chinery of a county, and it has never united with Orkney in any one common act. Vi ewe d ecc l es i as ti ca lly, i t pre sents the same abhorrence of any connexion with that county. Until within the last two or three years, when it was erected into a synod, it exhibited the singular ano maly of a presbytery communicating directly with the General A ssem b ly—an anoma l y w hi c h would not, have existed, h a d i t b een poss i ble to con nect it with the synod of Orkn e y. But while I blame the unf airness displayed by the fr amer of those clauses , I ca nnot but admire the ingenuity o f t h e contrivances by which be has attempted to reconcile i mposs ibili t i es . He has fought the battle against nat ure w i t h d aunt l ess s pirit and unwearied pine verance. Foiled in his three first attacks, he returns a fourth time to the charge, weilding the most pon lerous ind powerful weapon that the whole armoury of art could supply. Actuated by the chivalrous ambition of being the first, in this ago of improvement, to apply the omnipotence of steam to legislative purposes, he introduced a steam-engine into one of the Orkney clauses of the fourth edition of the Reform Bill, in order to ma nufacture for the natives of Orkney and Zstland new and improved sets of interests, habits, feelings, duties, wants and wishes. Shades of Bolton and Watt, exult for joy ! Clap your hands ye indwellers in Soho ! Shout aloud ye wights of Warwickshire, and wash your smsky faces for a holyday ! Attwood, Scholefield, and Parkes sing io I Triumphe! for Birmingham Unions. But, alas, for human frailty ! The Bill-framer, though a champion bold, had not screwed his courage to the sticking point. It is supposed that, on second thought, he had some mis givings as to the working of the machinery, and dreaded an explosion in a certain quarter; for the fourth edition was withdrawn, and when the fifth was produced the engine teas gone. The high pressure mechanism, however, was left behind to suit, as it best could, some less active power. In that edition are embalmed as a precious memorial the days, the hours, and the minutes, which had been so nicely adjusted to the cranks of the steam-engine ! May not this, my Lord, be aptly termed the ultimo thule oflegishtion ? Of the extent of Zetland, the authors of the Encyclo paedia Britannica say, that, " according to the best com putation which they have been able to form, the Zetland Isles contain near three times as much land as the Orkneys. They are considered also as equal to the island of Madeira (550 square miles), and not inferior to the provinces of Utrecht, Zealand, and all the rest of the Dutch island , taken together." Its population, according to the census of last year, appears to he 29,392 ; but as the census was taken while many of the seamen were abaent at the Green land fishery, the average number (about 1,200) frequent ing that fishery, must i❑ fairness be added, which will raise the amount to 30,592, giving an excess of 4,447 over the census of 1821. Now, my Lord, when it is kept in mind that Zetland is not a manufacturing, but a maritime, district, subject to a constant drain of its population, this must be allowed to be a most ex traordinary ratio of increase, and it very signifi cantly indicates what this remote and neglected pro vince might be under the fostering care of a liberal and enlightened Government. In point of population, there fore, it has the advantage of thirteen or fourteen Scotch counties (not reckoning their boroughs), and if the bo rough population included in counties be reckoned, it is still superior to eight; and here I may remark, that if Zetland were to get a representative to itself, it would not then be put on a footing of equality with the other counties of Scotland, because they have all a double, and some a triple, representation, as they contain boroughs, whereas there is no borough in Zetland. Look at Fife, for example it has three representatives, and a substantial fracion of a fourth. Wilton, too, has plundered Zetland without mercy; it contains only 36,000 inhabitants, and it returns two Members, one as a county, and another for its three rotten boroughs—New Galloway, which does not appear in the population returns, and cannot be seen on the map without a microscope, being thrown in as a mere blind to hide the grossness of the job. If its population be com pared with that of the borough districts, it is superior to 12 nut of the 14 districts. Of the wealth of Zetland it is not easy to speak with accuracy, but the gross produce of its indus try is estimated, by those beat able to judge, at 300,0001. per annum. It is, however, as a nur sery for the navy that this county is particularly valu able, and that it ought to be particulary encouraged. During the last war it furnished at one time to the British navy no fewer than 3,000 seamen—not the sweepings and scouringa of gaols and workhouses—but men inured from infancy to the hardships and dangers of a seafaring life, and no less noted for their sober and orderly con duct, than for their hardihood and intredity. This, then, is no mean contribution to the power of a State whose prosperity depends so much on its naval resources. If, then, every county and every district of burghs can pro duce a superior claim to a separate Member, and if the capacity of a chapel in Westminster is to be the measure of British representation, the Zetlanders will yield to their hard fate with the beet grace they are able ; but if that cannot be done, I appeal to your Lordship, as an English man, a noble Englishman, a man who feels as well as knows what liberty i=, and I ask you is it in human na ture that they should submit without wincing to be lopped off from she body politic, to gratify the capricious humour of this Bill-manufacturer ? Is it in human nature that they should tamely acquiesce in the insult and injustice inflicted on them, by giving a Member to Peebles with its 10,000, and another to Selkirk with its 6,1)00 inhabitants. These two counties lie as it were within a ring fence, they dre divided only by an imaginary line, and a great portion of the one is actually embraced by the other. Nature in • tended them to be one, while she has placed everlasting and insurmountable barriers between Otkney and Zet land. To follow out her intentions, your Lordship will find to be in this, as in all other cases, the safest and wisest course. It will not, surely, be said, that this can not be done, because these counties are in possession of the right of representation, and Zetland has never enjoyed it in any degree whatever, for this would be to say that the existence of a grievance is an argument for its conti nuance—a doctrine which, however it may have suited the views of former Governments, can receive no quarter from the present Administration, for it strikes at the very root of Reform. It is neither Peebles nor Selkirk that iK entitled to use this argument, but Orkney, for its rights are not to be shared with neighbours and friends, but in vaded by aliens and enemies. It however has a remedy which it will not fail to use. Its soil is much mote subdi vided than that of Zetland; its voters are far more numerous, and they will combine, as it is natural they should, to exclude the intruders from any share is the election. To many the union of Orkney and Zetland may appear a very unimportant question—to your Lordship, no question can be unimportant which involves a great principle. If it is intended that the present measure of Reform should be final, this foul blot must be removed from the Bill ; if it is not removed, the Zetlanders will continue to bring their grievances before Pdrliament, and to claim their rights as long as an honest Member can be found in the House of Commons. They cannot brook to be yoked in mockery to the triumphal car of Orkney. With that country they have no sympathy, and although the words of an Act of Parliament may tie the two provinces together, yet in every thing that constitutes union, civil, social, or political, they must ever be, as they have ever been, utter and entire strangers. I have the honour to be, my Lord, Your Lordship's most obedient servant, THULENSIS. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK Accounts from Brussels state that Sir Robert Adair has received a courier from London, announcing that the sixty four protocols would be now sent him which are to fix the time for the evacuation of the Belgian territory by the Dutch troops. Accounts from Warsaw state, that a new citadel is going to be built there, to be named the Emperor Alexander. Information from Frankfort announces that everywhere in the Rhenish circle, even in the small villages, the tree of liberty is seen ornamented with the French colours. The following romantic account of the Duchess de Berri appears in a French paper :—" Every day she is seen galloping about from place to pile' in disguise, having with her some men of confidence, who serve as her guides ; sleeps at night in the woods, or in some obscure cabin." Our arrivals this morning are of a scanty description, consequently we have not any important news to commu nicate at present. A letter is in town dated Paris, Satur day night, which states that the Duchess de Berri made her escape from La Vendee in disguise ; this may be possible, as we have beard some days since that the French Government seat to her a confidential message to take to her heels, but this will not be the case with General Bourmont, who is anxiously sought after. No account as yet of Don Pedro's expedition. Consols opened at the same price they left off on Saturday, Slit for account, went up to 84j; at present they are 841 i, with a heavy market. The estafet, from Paris brings the renter 68f. 40c. HALF-PAST ONE. Up to the present time we have no account of Dun Pedro's expedition to be depended upon. Consols still continue heavy ; in the early part of the morning they were done at 84i for the account, since which they have receded to 84i ; at present they may be quoted 84 with little doing. The state of affairs be tween Belgium and Holland has a considerable weight o n s K ve in s g ho o u f ld H n o o ll t an b d e a t r ket French there e i pays the little Market. attentionNV e tuon the rs t and t h Protocols, a and e army a n n m t h a i r n c g h d into Belgium g; prees . surprised In e t Foreign again Aa much the same as on Saturday. 7 BREE O' CL 0 CK. Consols for account 841. FOUR O'CLOCK CLOSING PRICES. _______•,. - ... .....--- Consols Ditto for Account 84i it Greek, 1825 29* Brazilian Bonds 45i Mexican, 1825 — Buenos Ayres... Peruvian ... ..... Cbilian Ditto.... Russian — Columbian 1824 ..... Spanish ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LONDON DURING LAST WEEK. C co 7 : 4 From Whence. 2 g- .°--: F g .;? r , ,• Qrs. Qrr. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. ;cks. Aldborough 2OO 4 30 _ Alemouth Boston Chichester Clay Cowes Colchester l5 50 527 160 481 11 Harwich 1 Leigh 338 lOri Maldon 265 140 479 Exeter — 228 Goole 505 740 Hull - — Ipswich 3O 2 1272 46 401 Kent 859 51 121 4 117 1 Si 740 Liverpool ...... ... 1524 1 Louth Lowestoft Lyme — 9,1 Padstow lBO 180 —5 Poole 190 1— --- ---- 8772 --- 14 --- 1 8. 7 1 Portsmouth Spalding Southwold '273 Stockton — 430 Wells l2O Wislmach 254 _ 21 Woodbridge lOO _ _ 75 Yarmouth 4O 548 1195 50 1460 Aberdeen — 720 _ I Ban fr — 2634 _ nerwick Cromarty 4356 826 3391 8316 810 1 45 7053 I RISE. Cork — 594 Dublin Dundalk — 1117 ... 3 Galway lBO 1364 '24 Kilrush — 133)6 Limerick , Londonderry Newry Sligo — 1312 Waterford — 1910 200 Westport Wexford FOREIGN. Copenhagen Dant= Kiel 470 _ _ Koningsberg Lubeck B4O _ _ Memel Pillau 1134 _ _ Riga 950 Rostock 22010 _ _ Stettin Wolgast. Coastways......... 2 , 1 Total... 19915 1100 3391 '25421 810 45 7527 AGGREGATE Rye, 24—Tares, 119915 QUAY] 0-Lil MUsi f 1100 TITY o inseed, dant. 0- I 3391 i , F OTH 0--R, 1'25421 I EA KU :apeseed Is. IV. I 810 KDS OF 1,: F PULs .Brank, 1E• ATTACK upon the DUKF. of WELLINGTON. This morning the Duke of Wellington visited the Bank of England on horseback. On his return, he was recog nized when opposite Bow Church, in Cheapside. A crowd immediately collected, who began to hiss and hoot at his Gr ice. They followed him up Holborn, and increased as they went ; getting bolder by numbers ; some of them then began to call out " Down wids him," and one more daring than the rest got Lold of the hriclh., and seized the Duke by the leg. attempting to pull bins from his horse. Luckily for his Grace, as well as for the people themselves, the police arrived to his assistance, and rescued him, merely In time. He then procee , led without further interruption down Chancery-lane to the Champ ers of the worthy Knight, Sir Charles Wetherell, in Stone-buildings, Lincoln's Inn, the crowd still fol lowing. By this time information had been conveyed to the Station-house in Covent-Garden. and Mr. Thomas, the superintendent, with about 100 policemen, arrived soon after; his Grace immediately came out and proceeded through the inn into Carey-street, when the gate was shut and the crowd obliged to go round by another one, this ruse did not however succeed, for they soon again made up to the Duke, but now found him completely guarded by the police, Mr. Thomas and an inspector leading the horse, and the men forming a guard around him ; the police being now too strong for them, they contented themselves with hooting. The procession, as ;hen formed, marched as far as St. James's-street, when the crowd being dis persed, his Grace went on to Apsley Housn alone and un molested. He did not appear to have received any mate rial injury. A sad change this to what the Noble Duke has seen in former days on the 18th of June. SHIPPING INTEI.LIGENCE-(THIS DAY.) FROM LLOYD'S DEAL, JUNE 17.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Mar- . guess of Huntley, Hine, from China—sailed 10 t h January, from the Cape 17th, and from St. Helena Ist ult. ; and from the River, and remains, Atlas, Hunt, for Mauritius. PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 17.—Wind W.--Arrived the Britomart, from Rio Janeiro. Off port, the Victoria, Geddes, from Pernambuco. Soiled the London, Wimble, for Madras and Bengal ; and Planter, Fraser, for New South Wales. FALMOUTH, JUNE 16.--Wind S.W. frt.sh.—Arrives! the Camerton, Hewitt, from Bahia; Elizabeth, Tonking,: from Lisbon ; Ramora steamer, bound to St. Nfich.ael'?, put back leaky, and machinery damaged. Sailed 0 , 4 Echo steam-packet, for Lisbon ; and Leonidas transport, for Cork and Halifax. JERSEY, JUNE 15.—Arrived the Betsey, Black, fr,nt Naples ; James and Ellen,from Cette ; Sarah, Hudson, from Bordeaux ; and Pal's, Miller, from Copenhagen. HASTINGS, JUNE 17.—Arrived the Symmetry, Ste vens, from Ceylon ; and Nonpareil, Allen, from Smyrna. STANDGATE CREEA, JUNE 17.—Arrived the Grace, Brew', from S:nyrna. GUERNSEY, JUNE 15.—Arrived the Crawford, Der-. SOD, from Antwerp. LIVERPOOL, JUNE 16.—Arrived the Nimrod, Baisetr, from New Orleans ; Catherine, M'Donald, and Mary Cum ming, from Mobile ; Forth, Hunter, from Savannah ; Monte Zuma, from Philadelphia; Blucher, Shellwood, from Demerara; and Seaforth, Roberson, from Jamaica; the Edward, Joseph, from Charente. Off port the John, Heyer, from Bengal ; Victoria, from Barbados; Fanny, Ennell, from Lisbon; and the Jersey, from Oporto. Gitzstioctx, JUNE 15.—Arrived the Cacti!: a, Hepburn, from Demerara ; Laurel, Ta't, from Trinidad ; Vernon, from New Orleans; Crown, Howell, from Charleston; and the Clyde, Robertson, from Halifax. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY). CORN EXCHANGE. In the preceding week the arrivals of all kinds of Grain were moderate, except of Oats, which were again large, chiefly from Ireland. This morning there are few fresh supplies, but the market presents a good show of most kinds of Grain, and the weather being tine, causes most articles to meet a dull sale. Such parcels of Wheat as are good and dry found buyers readily at former prices ; in other qualities there was little doing. Barley, for grinding, is rather dearer. Beans and Pease meet with very little demrnd. The Oat trade remains without alteration from last week's quotations. The arrival of Flour is less than of late, and there is a fair demand for good qua week's terms. lines at last PRICES ON BOARD OF SHIP. Wheat, Red (old) -s. -s. Beans, Small (new LYhite (old) --Red .1831) ... 545. 51/Is. - Tick (new) - Fine......... 60s. 645. • (old) Superfine.. 655. 665. - Harrow (ni -White (poi). 565. 60s. • ---- (01 - Fine 623. 68s. - Superfine 7os. 745. Foreign free 50s. 765. 31s. 38s. 265. 325. 12s. 345. New 345. 50s. 625. 60s. 645. 12s 34s ew.... 355. 375. '32s 345. 345. 38s. —s. S. —S. 33s 355. 40s. 42.5. ew) 365. 28s. Id) 40s. 445. —s. —s. 17s. 20s. 193. 255. Brank Oats, Feed New .. - Poland New Potatoe New Rye Barley - Fine - Superfine Malt - Fine New , Pease, Grey Nevi ---- Maple Ne - White .... - Boilers 235. 255. 265. 275. S 22s 245, ck) 55s tiOs. 50s. 555, 'try 465. 50, 103. 11s. - Scotch - Irish 1 Flour Town (per sa , - Seconds - North Coun Bran SMITHFIELD MARKET This day's supply of Beasts, about 300 of which were grass fattened Hunts, was limited, though more numerous than that of this day se'nnight ; of Sheep, Lambs, Calves, and Porkers moderately good. Prime Scots and Norfolk home,breds—in boil of which there was a manifest falling off in quality, but wind' formed a considerable proportion of the supply—sold somewhat briskly; Durhams, Lincolns, and other large Beasts, of wind there was very few, and Townsend cows, which were rather nu mernus, sold very tardily, at a depression of 2d. per stone. With prime South Downs Sheep, and prime Lambs and small Calves, the trade was somewhat brisk, with large coarse-woolled Sheep and Lambs, as well as Porkers, very dull, at Friday's quo tations. TRIM FZK STONZ OF SLIM TO SINK THI OFFALS. s. d. to s. d. s. d. to s. d. Inferior Beasts 2 0 2 2 Large Lambs 0 0 0 0 Second quality dittos 10 3 0 Prime small ditto... 4 '2 6 0 Prime large Oxen... 3 8 3 10, Large coarse Calves 3 4 3 6 Prime Scots, &c..... 310 4 2 Prime small ditto... 4 4 4 6 Inferior Sheep 2 2 2 4' Large Hogs ...... 3 6 3 II second quality ditto 2 8 3 0 Small Porkers 4 '2 4 8 Coarse-woolled ditto 3 8 4 0 Suckling Calves 12s to 30e . SouthdownWethers 4 4 4 6 Quarter old Pigs 12s to 18s.each. - - SUPPLY, AS FER CLERK'S STATEMENT. Beasts. !Sheep and Lambs.' Calves. I Pigs. 2,152 1 18,4t0 231 2OO About 20 of the beasts came up the St. Alban's road ; about 10 up the other northern roads; about 30 (including Irish) from the western and midland districts; about 1430 from Nor folk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire ; about 80 front Kent and Sussex ; and most of the remainder from the marshes, &c. in the neighbourhood of London NEWOATE L.b ........................,.. AND LEADE.4IHt,":S6IV.I., ............. K . Ef t : 4 6 At per stone, by the Carcass. I a. d. toe. ds• d. tos. d e dee?, inferior ....... '2 2 2 6 *Moe., inferior ... 2 4 2 --- middling . ... .. "2 6 210 ----- middling.. a 0 3 4 —..... prime large... 3 2 3 6 ---- prime 3 8 4 0 -- prime einalL.. 3 0 3 8 Nit , large 1 2 4 '2 Veal ..... ..... ........... 9 2 4 6 --small .. 3 G