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vendors and vendees,cestui que trust, and trustees in pos• session of any of the above qualifying estates, subject to the restrictions applicable to the same. In order to be registered, it is required of freeholders and copyholders to be six calendar months, and of lease holders and occupiers to be twelve calendtr months, next previous to the Ist of July in each year of registration, in the receipt of the rents and profits, or in actual occupation of their respective estates, as the case may be, except by descent, success i on, marr i age, marr i age s e ttlement, devise, o . r promotion to any benefice or church, or to any office, In which cases they are admitted to put their names on the list then next to be made out and to vote at the election. VOTERS IN CITIES AND BOROUGHS. The following classes of persons are to be registered as voters in elections for cities and boroughs, if they be not subject to any of the legal incapacities mentioned in Table I. Ist, As owners or tenants of any house, warehouse, counting-house, shop, or other building, within the new . boundaries of the city or borough, or place sharing with it In the election, of the clear yearly value of 101. 2nd, Occupiers of any house, warehouse, &c., which, .together with land, a l so i n t h e i r occupat i on, as owners, or If as tenants, then under the same landlord of whom the house is held, of the yearly value of 101. 3rd, Occupiers of such premises in immediate succes sion within the year. 4th, Joint occupiers as owners or tenants of the like Premises being of such clear yearly value as shall when di vided give 101. for each occupier ; if of less value, none of them are to be registered. Occupation of the premises, single or in succession, for twelve, and residence for six, calendar months next previ ous to the last day of July in the year of registration, in the city or borough, or in the place sharing with it in the election, or within seven miles of either, are required. The premises are to be assessed to the poor's-rate, Where there are rates, during the year's occupation, and such rates and the assessed taxes payable out of them, up to the 6th of April next preceding, are to be paid on or before the 20th duly. Occupiers, if not rated, may claim to be, and upon Claim made, and payment or tender of these rates, their mimes are to be put on the rate by the overseers, or for be glect, or refusal, they a r e to be deemed rated from the tlr au of claim made. This class is admitted to vote under the New Act in all Places, cities and boroughs in England and Wales ; and in the new boroughs they are to be the only voters, except in the borough of Swansea and its contributary districts, Where freemen are to vote. 1. As inhabitants paying scot and lot. 2 . Inhabitants householders, and potwallers legally settled. 3 . Inhabitant householders and potwallers. 4. Inhabitants generally, resident within the city or borough. To all those the right of voting is still reserved as long as their qualification continues, according to the former laws and customs, if they had a right to vote at the passing of this Act (7th June, 1822). To be registered, they must be entitled to vote on the last day of July in the year of registration, as fully as if that were the day of election and this Act had not passed ; and must have resided six calen dar months next previous to that day within the city or borough, or within seven miles from the place where the poll for it was usually aken. In the boroughs of Wales, residence is required for the same time in any of the con tributary places, or within seven miles thereof iu case the qualification be in such place. Omission of the names from the register for two successive years is an absolute dis qualification, unless occasioned by receipt of parochial re lief, or absence in his Majesty's service in the navy or army. Freemen or burgesses, or freemen being liverymen of the c i ty of London, having a right to vote a t th e pass i ng o f the new Act. In order to be registered they must be qualified to vote on the last day of July in the year of re gistration as fully as if that were the day of election and this Act had not been passed : the residence required is th e same as of the last class. B urgesses or freemen made or admitted since the I st March, 1831, or eve n after, in any other right than by birth or servitude, or in respect of birth, unless the right be derived from one who was, or was entitled to be, a free. Ines befor e t h at day, or from one who since that day has or hereafter shall become a freeman by servitude, are not entitled to be registered : to be like voters in cities and borough,. _ In ri g ht o f b urgage tenements or freeholds acqu i re d be fore the se con d d ay of March, 1831, or coming a f ter t h at day and before the eighth day of June, 1832, by descent, succession, m arr i age, marriage settlement, devise, promo tion to a benefice or office. This franchise cannot be now acquired in cities and boroughs which are not counties of themselves : all that bail been said of the class of « inhabitants, &c." in respect to the requisites for registration applies to these. VOTERS IN CITIES AND TOWNS, COUNTIES OF THEMSELVES. The classes of persons entitled to he registered as voters in cities and towns being counties of themselves, are The five classes described in the table of county voters, with the like limitations of annual value, and like restric tions and exceptions as to actual possession and time of Possession, In right of hurgage tenements or freeholds, with or without any superadded qualifications, within the new boundaries of these corporate counties: of these is re quired, in order to be registered, possession or receipt of the rents and profits for twelve calendar months, unless the qualification came by descent, succession, marriage, marriage settlement, devise, or promotion to a benefice or Off ice ; and residence for six calendar months next previous to the last day of July in the year of registration within such city or borough or seven statute miles thereof. This class differs in no respect from those described under the same head in other cities and boroughs, except that in the latter they are not to be continued, but they are to be p ermanent voters i n t h ese cor p ora t e count i es. I All the classes of occupiers that have been described in the table of voters for other cities and towns, subject to the like limitations and restrictions as to annual value, oc cupation, and residence. All those that are described as inhabitants in the second table of voters for other cities and boroughs, sub ject to the like restrictions and conditions. Under the several restrictions and conditions as in other cities and boroughs. a * • • • a To this analysis of the various rights of voting, whether already existing and newly modified, or now im parted for the first time, it may be useful to add a further notice of the principal requisites of the statute, which are, as has been already observed, property of a certain value, possession, and residence. In the franchise for the coun ties, whether freehold, copyhold, or leasehold, the statute requires that the voter's property should be of a certain annual value, above all rents and charges, and what those charges are not to include, it has also declared. There is 110 deduction of that sort from the value of the qualifica tion required in cities and boroughs. There being no provision in the statute for ascertaining the value in either case, the best rule that 'can be adopted by those officers whose duty it will now become to decide upon ,such questions as may arise on the p oint, is that which was 'aid down by the Committee on the Bedfordshire election. 1 e that case the following resolution was adopted : That t he value of the freehold, in right of which the owner votes, is the rent which a tenant would give for it, and s ot what the owner occupying it himself may possibly acquire from it.' The same principle is applied in the rating of property to the poor's rate, and it may not be an Unfair rule of value here also, the inquiry not being what the value of the property may be to the voter himself, but Whether is comes up to the general standard of value esta hlieheal by the Legislature. A bona fide rent may be con sidered a fair criterion of value, though it is not conclu sive. Personal chattels on an estate cannot be considered as constituting part of its value, but when the value of the land is raised by the amount of things erected on it, or to ~ Connected therewith as i n l ega l contemp l at i on t o fall within the meaning of a tenement, then they do form part of the value. +s, The Bedfordshire Committee also resolved that a mort gage on a freehold shall be considered to invalidate a vote if the interest paid by the voter reduces the value of the freehold below 40s. per annum ; and the Middlesex Elec tion Committee concurred in that resolution. These rule, and resolutions may, in the absence of better, be safely adopted in judging of the value of the qualification under the new Act, and they are applicable to voters in boroughs as well as counties. If the amount of value i s t o be made UP from different buildings , or from buildings and l an d jointly, both must be held under the same landlord, or the voter must be owner of one or both. The actual value is babe regar e d in all cases, and in boroughs the overseers ~ power (sec. 51) to inspect tax assessments and p o or -rates, and may use them to as.ist th e m in forming t heir judgment. These, however, are not always safe guides, as the standard of rating and assessment varies in differ en t parishes and townships. Th e receipt of parochial relief or other alms which 4 are been heretofore held to disqualify a voter in a city or boroughboro ug h is continued . by the 36th section as a ground of i mqualification, in the same cases in which the existing '' t v's and usages of Parliament held it. The decisions on th at subject of disqualification are various and conflicting, (I the best rule of ascertaining who is and who is not f qufiell, is Which necessarily implies indigence, d those a par ' le ipation in which no such inference can be drawn, In some cases it has been held, that the relief, to disqualify a voter, must have been afforded for the purpose of supplying him with the ordinary means of subsistence. If afforded on occasions of public calamity, as in the case of a pesti lence, or of inevitable accident, the relief will not d;squa lily. When derived from private charities, the relief has been held to disqualify only where the charity has formed part of the parish funds for the relief of the poor, and has been al inaged by the parish officers, and applied to the purposes of the parochial poor, in the same manner as the poor rate itself. Relief given to the families of militia men during the time of actual service does not disqualify. In no case Is the franchise destroyed by parochial relief or other alms—it is only suspended, and is restored as soon as the voter recovers the capacity to exercise it indepen dently. This was not at any time held a disqualification in a county voter, whilst the freeholder—the only voter beford the Act 2 W. IV., c. 45—continued in possession of his freehold of the yearly value of 405., nor does the statute extend it now to any class of county voters. The terms " owner," " holder," " occupier," " pos. session," " actual possession," and " actual and bona ,fide occupation," mentioned in the statute, may occasion not a little difficulty in some cases. The owner, as applied in the 26th section, means the freeholder in fee, or in tail, or other proprietor of an estate, which he may neither hold nor occupy, but out of which he receives rents and profits. The holder seems here to apply to copyholder, or may mean him who holds under the owner, and in whose possession the estate is, although he does not occupy it. lie who occupies may be the owner and holder also, or a third person, different from either. The words ac tual possession and actual occupation may be generally un derstood to mean the same thing. The latter occurs in the 18th section, to define more strongly the corporeal possession there meant. The words there exclude all in corporeal freeholds, which exclusion would not be effected by the words actual possession, as they might be construed to designate an estate in possession, contrasted with an es tate in remainder or reversion. The nature of the several estates of the voters being defined in sections IS, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23,24, and 25, the eighteenth enacting that no person shall be entitled to vote except he is in actual oc cupation, the 26th enacts that no person shall be registered unless he is in actual possession r r receipt of the rents and profits, &c. The words actual possession are here used in a more general sense than actual occupation. POLICE OUTRAGE-THREE PERSONS WOUNDED. (From the Kilhenny Journal.) On Friday evening, about six o'clock, in Castlecomer, and after the greater part of the people who attended the fair on that day had left the town, another slaughtering match of the people by the police took place. The fol lowing are the circumstances, as collected by a person from our office : The town had been perfectly tranquil all day, till about six o'clock, when a drunken Wexford man, who had a cheese-standing in the fair, went up to a door at which five police from Websborough were standing, and said something, it is thought abusive, to them. The police went in, and closed down the door. The drunken man knocked at it with a stick, and immediately one of the police opened it, and knocked hint down. The man arose, and knocked down the policeman, and the other four police in the house then came out, again knocked down the man, and commenced beating bias with the heavy ends of their bayonets, but made no attempt to take him prisoner. While thus engaged, another policeman, acting as Co- lonel Osborne's servant, ran to the spot with a musquet and bayonet, which he had raised in the act of stab bing the man, when Mr. M'Loughlan, the post-mas ter, seized the gun, and called on him to desist, remark ing that the gun was cocked.—" Yes, by J—," said the ruffian who held it, " and loaded, too." Up to this time, none but those mentioned took part in the transac tion ; but a crowd now collected, and two women in it threw stones at the police, who were beating the man, and immediately a Sergeant Ne►bitt, of the Castlecomer police, ran up, seized a gun, rushed towards the crowd, which bad returned back, struck the first per'on he met, and immediately fired ! Another policeman then pur sued for several yards a man who was running away, overtook and struck him several times with his gun, and, fired at him ; while a second policeman, named Foster, who came up, was beating him on the bead with a pistol ! A fourth policeman was seen to fire his gun at an empty-hand ed man; and, so close, that the persons who noticed it thought the man must have been killed. Seven or eight shots were fired in all, after which the police party made a general charge with bayonets, cleared the streets, pursued the people, and, in two instances, made attempts to stab a boy and a woman who would not tell them in what direc tion persons ran whom they were pursuing, and one of whom, a boy named Ryan, had been dangerously wounded above the hip. Two other persons were wounded also ; one by a ball passing through his wrist ; and the other an idiot child named Connolly, five years old, by a ball, in the foot. Two balls entered the window of a public house, traversed a room which had been filled with people not five minutes before, but from which the proprietor bad fortunately sent them, when he perceived the disturbance commencing. Mr. Turkey held an investigation next day, at which some of the policemen and one military sergeant were exa mined. SALE OF THE GARRICK THEATRE.- ICsterday, at the Mart in the city, by the direction of the assignees, under a decision of the Insolvent Debtors' Court, the Garrick theatre was submitted to public com petition. This establishment was erected in 1531, near to the spot where GARRICK immortalized himself as the hero of SHAKSPEARE'S heroes nearly a century since. The theatre occupies a considerable space of ground as a leasehold for 20 years from Christmas last, at 701. annual rent. It contains eight private boxes; the public boxes will accommod.te 250 persons, the pit 700, and the gal lery 400 ; the stage is 30 feet deep by 37 wide ; and there are five chandeliers, lighted by gas from gas meters on the premises; together with scenery, wardrobe, and dressing rooms, saloons, &c.—the property, scenery, and fittings included in the purchase. The first bidding for this pro perty was only 5001., and so great is the depreciation of theatrical property, that the Garrick Theatre was knocktd down for 900 guineas. Letters from Modon state, that " On the 25th of June, about eleven o'clock at night, several violent shocks of an earthquake were felt in that town ; the vi brations lasted thirty seconds ; candlesticks and Limps were upset, and the beams of a room inhabited by a French officer fell in, but the latter, who was in bed, for tunately escaped unhurt. Some persons fled into the streets almost naked, and the soldiers quitted their barracks. The sky was serene, and the sea calm ; but on the preceding day, at the same hour, a storm raged, although storms are extremely rare at this season. The same earthquake was felt at Navarino." CHOLERA.—We regret to announce that this awful malady has at length appeared at Taunton. A va grant from Exeter was seized with the symptoms of the disease, in a house in Shuttern, at midnight, on Wednes day last. Medical aid was not procured until 9 o'clock the following morning ; the usual remedies were applied, and a temporary revival took place--but the patient gra dually sunk, and died on Tuesday. He was buried within 24 hours. This case has, of course, occasioned great alarm.— Sherborne Journal. GROUSE.—The sportsmen who have visited the moors in the Peak of Derbyshire, for the purpose of grouse shooting, have been very successful, and scarcely any tolerably good shots have been disappointed in produc ing a respectable bag of game. The birds are very for ward and strong, and more numerous than have been wit nessed for many seasons past. We are glad to hear that the moors set apart by Lis Grace the Duke of DEVON.. SHIRE, at Buxton, for the accommodation of gentleme❑ visiting that salubrious watering-place, are likely in future to produce a good supply of grouse, as it is intended that the utmost attention shall be paid to their breed and pre servation.—Derby Reporter. --- - An extraordinary " lusus nature" has offered itself to our nstice within the past week. At the residence of Thomas Patton, Esq., at Bishop's Hull. A rat of a light grey colour, with long soft fur, has lately become so domes ticated as to come from its place of concealment and pick up the crumbs under the servants' table. A day or two since it unfortunately fell into the claws of a cat, from which it was with some difficulty rescued, but the animal was dead, and is now in the possession of the above -named gentleman, stuffed.—Sherborne Journal. On Tuesday RICHARD CARTNIALE, a horse-breaker, and who had frequently met with severe accidents, met his death in a singular manner. In riding a young horse down the entry of the Castle Inn, in Market. street, Lichfield, which he persisted in doing, not withstandinz this remonstrance of the landlord, 111 r. Cox, he struck his forehead violently against the top of the door frame, which is Very low ; the horse was startled, and CARTMALE, who was an excellent rider, fell. The ver tebt x ntar to the neck were dislocated, and the spinal chord seriously injured. He lingered for nearly two days, and then died. It was one of the peculiarities of this case, that life having ceased in his legs, the 'poor suffe-er died in the belief that they were broken.—Staffordshire Ad vertiser. ^lt 1. COURT CIRCULAR. His MAJESTY went in state yesterday to the House of Lords to prorogue the Parliament. The Royal procession was formed at the Pabee at St. James's, at half-past 1 o'clock, and left directly after the KING entered the state coach, escorted by a detachment of the Life Guards, in the following order :—A carriage drawn by six hays, contain ing Messrs. MARTINS and LEWIS, and another Gentleman Usher, and Mr. CHARLES HANCOCK, Exon of the Yoe/Lien Guard ; the second carriage drawn by a set of bays, con taining tke Page of Honour, the Groom of the Robes, the Silver Stick in waiting, and Sir HILLGROVE TURNER, the Groom in waiting; the third carriage drawn by six white horses, containing the Comptroller of the House hold, and the Clerk Marshal; the fourth carriage, drawn by a set of black horses, containing Lord HILL, as Gold Stick in waiting, and the Master of the Robes; the Mar shalmen, two and two; 12 of the King's footmen in state liveries ; a party of the Yeomen Guard in their coronation uniform, two and two; the state coach drawn by eight cream-coloured horses. His MAJESTY was habited in an Admiral's uniform, and wore the star and riband of the Order of the Garter, and the star of the Order of the Bath. Opposite to his MAJESTY sat the Earl of ALOE NIARLE, as Master of the Horse, and Viscount ASUBROOK, as Lord in waiting. Some of the Yeomen Guard and of the King's footmen walked by the sides of the carriage.— The Earl of BELFAST, as Vice-Chamberlain, conducted his MAJESTY to the carriage from the state-rooms, and re ceived the KING on his return. The whole of the sets of horses were tastefully ornamented with ribands. The Band of the Guards, stationed with the Guard of Honour in the Flag. court-yard of the Palace, played " God save the King" as his MAJESTY passed. 11Ir. ROE, the Chief Magistrate of Police, was in attendance at the entrance to the Palace. The KING returned to the Palace at 5 minutes past 3 o'clock. His MAJESTY wore, on his return, a broad tippet of ermine, over an ample cloak of purple velvet. On passing through the Guard-chamber, which was lined by the Yoemen Guard, the KING was rapturously recognized by those assembled in the large Court-yard of the Palace The Duchess of GLOUCESTER and the Princess SOPHIA pent the day yesterday with the QUEEN, at the Palace at St. James's. The KING gave audiences yesterday to Earl GREY aLd Sir JAMES KEMYT• Their MAJESTIES left town in an open carriage and four, with outriders, at half-past 5 o'clock, escorted by a party of Light Dragoons, for the Palace at 'Windsor.— The Duchess of GLOUCESTER, attended by Mademoiselle D'ESTE, preceded their MAJESTIES in a carriage and four. A meeting respecting the affairs of Ceylon was held yesterday at the Colonial-office. There were present Vis count GODERICII, ViSCOUIIt ALTIIORP, Lord AUCKLAND, Mr. Under-Secretary HAY, Messrs. STUART, BRANDE, COLIBROOKE, CaatEnot , t, and Mr. PENN, agent for Ceylon. The Earl of BEL}IORE and Lord NUGENT had interviews with Viscount GODERICII yesterday at the Colonial-office. CREDITORS OF THE DUKE OF YORK. The Committee appointed to act on behalf of the cre ditors of his late Royal Highness the Duke of York, and by whom an advertisement has been inserted in all the papers, requiring the creditors to send in an account of their respective demands, assembled yesterday in St. James's-place, when, we understand, a list of upwards of a hundred creditors, all tradesmen, was produced, the ag gregate amount of whose debts exceeds fifty thousand pounds. Some of the persons have become bankrupts since the death of his Royal Highness, and others are re presented by their widows, who, with their families, have been plunged in the deepest distress. It does not appear that the Committee have received any confirmation of the statement put forth in the Court Journal of Saturday last, announcing that arrangements were in progress for liquidating the debts of his Royal Highness. The judgment creditors—that is to say, those who took legal proceedings against the Duke, and would grant him no indulgence— have all been paid in full; but those who trusted to his Royal Highness's honour, and were satisfied with his re peated promises to pay, have been left to the mercy of his successors. It has been stated on the most unquestionable authority, that in the last afflicting interview which took place between his late Majesty George IV. and the Duke of York, on the death-bed of the latter, that the Duke, in a voice scarcely audible, expressed the greatest anxiety for the liquidation of his debts to his tradesmen, when the King pledged himself in the most solemn manner that they should all be satisfied ; this assurance seemed to give the Royal sufferer the highest satisfaction, and, as he said, re lieved him from a heavy weight of affliction. There is every reason to believe, had his late Majesty lived, this pledge would have been redeemed, and indeed, rumour states that, under this impression, a considerable portion of the personal property of the Duke was at his death con veyed to Windsor Castle. The Committee, there is reason to believe, have been put in possession of a good deal of information o❑ this subject, whether well or ill founded remains to be proved. Of the power of his late Majesty to relieve the memory of his brother, for who n, it is known, he entertained feelings of the deepest affection, from the stigma of dying insolvent, there can be no doubt, for independent of his personal property in Windsor Castle, Brighton, and other Royal Palaces, he is stated to have accumulated in hard money upwards of 600,0001., ,ind to have died richer than any Sovereign in Europe. By his will made some years before his death, he left this property to his next heir, in which situation the Duke of York then stood, and had his Royal Highness lived, no doubt every claim against him, whether arising from his unfortunate predilection for play or otherwise, wou'd have been fully satisfied. The Committee, which is composed of tradesmen of the highest respectability, and to whose exertions their fellow-sufferers are looking with deep interest, have determined to leave no means untried for bringing their trust to a satisfactory issue ; and, upon arranging the materials with which they hare been fur nished, intend calling a public meeting to submit such plans as shall be most likely to attain the end in view. Another meeting of the Committee is appointed for Wednesday next. I❑ the interim it is expected the ca talogue of claimants will be greatly enlarged. A great proportion of the creditors have already proved their debts before a Master in Chancery ; and loud complaints are made of the cruelty of putting them to this expense if no intention exists of their meeting their demands. All the bonds, tainted with usury, or arising from gambling tran sactions, have already been set aside, anti those who now seek the performance of the promises by which they were deluded are all bona fide claimants, some holding bonds, and others appearing as simple contract creditors. The Royal cavalcade to the House of Lords yesterday was exceedingly brilliant; but, notwithstanding that attraction and the extreme fineness of the day, not one.tenth part of the number of individuals who usually assemble on such occasions was present. His MAJESTY, in his progress to the House, was well, but by no means enthusiastically, received. The novel to which allusion was lately made, as coming from a very high and distinguished quarter, will, we understand, certainly appear in the course of a week. It is to be entitled " Self-Guidance ;" and, from the peculiar nature of the story, the character of the hero ine, and the rank of the authoress, it cannot fail to excite much attention. KILLING TWO BIRDS, &C.—The Cabinet de Lecture says, that a tailor was recently placed in the witness-box, on a trial at the Court of Assize, and that it being remarked he held some papers in his hand, the Pre sident said, as the trial required oral testimony, he must put aside " his notes." Holding them forth to the bench, the tailor replied, they were only handbills, with his ad dress, &c. Avhich be meant for the jury. Yesterday morning, between 9 and 10 o'clock, a person residing in Adelphi-street, Hutcheson -town, and who at one time was connected with a respectable firm in the city, in a fit of insanity threw himself from the win dow of his own house, three stories from the pavement, in consequence of which he was so seriously hurt that he died in the course of the forenoon. He alighted upon his head, which was dreadfully shattered. He has left a wi dow, who was yesterday confined to bed from the effect of some serious injuries inflicted by her infuriated husband on Friday, when, it is said, he attempted to throw her out of the same window whence he himself took the fatal leap. A neighbour, who interfered, and succeeded in saving the life of the unhappy female, had a portion of one of his fingers bitten off by the madman, whose aberration of in tellect was caused, it is affirmed, by intemperate habits.— Glasgow Courier. INTEGRITY OF JURORS.—II is said that one of the jurors to try the traversers charged with trespass, in connexion with the prostration of the cholera hospital at the Black Rock, declared himself in these terms : " I am sworn to stick to my party, and I will die sooner than find for Saurin." If the fact he so, his name should be published by his fellow-jurors. There is no obligation on them to keep it a secret. It is Grand Jurors alone who are sworn to keep their own secrets and those of their fellow-jurors. The oath of a Petit Juror does not bind him to secrecy. He is only sworn to try the issue, and give a true verdict according to the evidence.--Dub lin .Pueliet, SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. GOODWOOD RACES, AUGUST 16. Chichester, Wednesday. The following are a few additional particulars of the Goodwood Stakes Changeling made first running, Lucetta and Lucy, with two or three country nags, immediately behind. On com mencing the circuit of the bill Lucetta took up the work, Shark being now very forward. When the horses had completed the round of the hill, The Screw had obtained the ►ead, Changeling second, Lucetta third, and Shark closely laid up with them : in this order they ran till the turn for straight running, where Changeling resumed the lead, which he maintained to the distance, and here Shark, Lucetta, and Changeling were together, the rest having nothing to do with the race. About half a distance ance from home, Shark, who had then a very fair chance for the race, was observed to stop suddenly ; and, on in quiry, it turned out that he had broken his leg. Of course the struggle now rested between Lucetta and Changeling; it was amazingly severe, the mare winning by a head, solely through the physical superiority of her jockey, Robinson. Changeling was very cleverly ridden by Nat; Sarpedon, by G. Edward ; The Screw, by S. Mann ; Shark, by Pavis ; Lucy, by Chapple ; and the others by lads. The dead heat for the other sweepstakes was remarkable for its severity, and for the extreme stoutness of the Duke of Richmond's colt, Hyder, who made the running, and at half a distance from home was in evident distress. His blood, however, was of the right sort ; he struggled nobly, and, although Olga reserved her effort till within a few yards, he managed to make a draw of it. Olga was jockeyed by Conelly, and Hyder by Boyce. The weather was fine, and the company numerous and fashiomble. A melancholy accident occurred last night on the Mid hurst road. A gentleman of very large fortune, named Deannet, resident at that place, was on his return from the races, driving a spirited horse that bad not been pro perly broken into harness; he took fright on descending Cocking-hill, ran away, and threw out Mr. D., who was dreadfully injured, and died the same night at half-past eleven. Mr. Deannet had been more than once cautioned against driving the horse, who had on more than one oc casion evinced a restive disposition. The deceased gentle man was highly respected. The following is a statement of the betting on the Race-course : DONCASTER ST. LEGER. 8-1 to 1 agst Mr. Vansittart's l'erion 9 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Margrave (taken) 9 to 1 agst Mr. Watts's Nicotris 11 to 1 agst Mr. Richardson's Fang 11 to 1 agst Mr. S. L Fox's Julius 11 to 1 agst Lord Kelburne's Retainer 12 to 1 agst Lord Cleveland's Trustee 12 to 1 agst Mr. Beardsworth's Ludlow 18 to I agst Mr. Bulkeley's Birdcateher 20 to 1 agst Mr. Walker's Francesca Thursday. The Gold Cup, value 300 sovs., and 460 in specie. Lord Chesterfield's Priam, 5 yrs. 95t.131b. (Conelly) 1 Lord Exeter's Beiram, 3 yrs., 7st. 101 h The tollowing not placed. Mr. Gully's Lady Fly, 3 yrs. Mr. Sadler's Jocko, aged. Mr. Ridsdale's St. Giles, 3 yrs. Mr. Greatrex's Flounce, 3 yrs. Mr. Forth's Scandal colt, 3 yrs. Mr. Sadler's Delight, 4 yrs. Won by a length.-6 to 5 agst. Priam ;sto 2 agst. St. Giles; 8 to 1 agst. Beiram (all three taken) ; 8 to 1 agst. Lady Fly ; 12 to 1 agst. Jocko and Flounce. Match, 50. T. Y. C. Lord Uxbridge's Hermit, 3 yrs., Bst. Illb Lord Jersey's Fingal, Bst. 71b 2 Match, 50. T. Y. C. Duke of Richmond's Casador, 3 yrs., 7st. 9lb 1 Mr. Cosby's Sketch Book, 5 yrs., Bst. 71b 2 The Members' Plate was won in two heats by Lord Exeter's c. by Partisan—Fawn. Match, 50 sovs., 25 ft. T.Y.C. Lord Tavistock's Schoolmaster, 7st. 101 b Mr. Cosby's Giantess, Bst. 71b 2 The dead heat on Wednesday between Hyder and Olga was run again, and won by Olga after a sharp race. WORCESTER RACES, Aua. 16. The Severn Stakes of 5 soya. each, 25 added. One mile and a quarter. Fourteen subs. Mr. E. Griffith's Thorngrove, 5 yrs, Mr. Miles' The Cardidal, 5 yrs Mr. W. Acton na. b. g. Harry, 5 yrs 3 The Gold Cup by Subscriptions of 10 soya. each, to be paid in specie. Three miles. Thirteen subs. Sir E. Blount na. b. g. Thorngrove, 5 yrs. A dead heat ran, beating Harry and Cardinal. The County Members' Purse of 50/. Mr. T. Pickernell's Sportsman, 3 yrs. Mr. Darling's Ambassador, 5 yrs 2 2 Mr. J. Haywood's hr. m. by Bustard, 6 yrs 3 3 TVOLVERIIAMPTON RACES, AUGUST 13. A Stakes of 50 sovs. each, h. ft. One mile and a quarter. Mr. Beardsworth's Wolverhampton Sir G. Pigot's The Grand Falconer Sir W. Wynn's Kitty Fisher 3 Mr. Yates's Cantab 4 The Tradesmen's Purse of 100 sovs. added to a Sweep stakes of 20 sovs. each, 15 ft. Twice round and a distance. Mr. Bower's Sir John, 4 yrs Mr. Yates's Hope, 4 yrs 0 Mr. Tome's The Burgess, 6 yrs 3 Nineteen declared forfeit and paid five sovereigns each. Mr. Cooke did not name. The Wrottesley Stakes of 5 sovs. each, to which were added 20 sous. Heats, once round. Mr. Ilayne's Co'wick, 4 yrs Walked over. The Ladies' Purse of 50 sous. Heats, once round and a distance. Mr. Burton's b. c. by Caton, 3 yrs 1 1 Mr. Nanney's Captain Wattle, 3 yrs 2 3 Mr. Painter's Decoction, 3 yrs 3 dr Mr. Harding's Garland, 3 yrs Mr. Tome's Port, 5 yrs 0 2 Tuesday, August 14. The Chi Hinton Stakes of 25 sovs. each, for 2-years-old. . . New Course, straight half mile. Lord Warwick's b. c. by Centaur 1 Mr. E. Peel's Frenzy Mr. Tome's b. c. by Sir Grey 3 A Sweepstakes of 30 toys. each, 20 ft., for 3-yrs.-old. One mile and a quarter. Mr. Beardsworth's Checter Mr. Giffard's Hokee Pokee The Cleveland Cup of 100 soya., by subscription of 10 sovs. each ; the surplus in money, to which will be added 501. from the fund. Thrice round and a distance. Mr. Beardsworth's Halston, 4 yrs 1 Sir E. Smythe named Traveller, 6 yrs 2 Mr. H. Pigot named Fag, 6 yrs 3 A Free Handicap of 10 soya, each, 5 forfeit, with 20 added. Heats, twice round. Mr. Hopkinson's Napoleon le-Grand, 3 yrs... 1 1 Captain Barton's Sailor, 6 yrs Mr. Morris's Gauntlet, by Bedlamite, 3 yrs 2 3 Mr. Bailey's Milkmaid, aged 3 4 Wednesday, August 15. The Stand Purse of 50 sovs., added to a Handicap Stakes of 20 soya. each, 16 ft. Twice round and a distance. Mr. Giffard's Kahnia, 6 yrs Mr. Morris's Gazelle, 6 yrs Eight paid forfeit of 5 soya. each. A Plate of 50 sovs. for all ages. The winner to be sold for 2501., if required. Heats, twice round and a distance. Mr. Gore's Jasper, 5 yrs 4 1 1 Mr. Giffard's Kalmia 1 2 d Mr. Beardsworth's Warwick, 4 yrs 2 fell LEEDS AUGUST JI — LEETING, Aucusr 15. Produce Sweepstakes of 50 sovs. each, h. ft. One mile and three-quarters. Mr. Gascoigne's b. f. by St. Patrick, walked over. A Free Handicap Stakes of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft., with 20 added. Mr. Gascoigne's br. f. by Champignon, walked over. The Leeds Stakes of 10 sovs. each, 20 added, was won by Mr. Woolmer's b. f. by Figaro, beating 3 others. A Handicap Stakes of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft., 15 added, the second horse to receive 36 gs. Two miles, 9 subs., was won in 3 heats by Mr. H. Alilward's b. in. Hippona, 5 yrs. 10st. 31b., beating Tommy Tickle, Jerry Hawthorn, and Jessy. 3 drawn. Maiden Plate of 50 sovs. for all ages that never won 50 sovs. Two mile heats, was won by Mr. Gascoigne's br. f. by Champignon, 4 yrs., beating 4 others. A favourite hound, the property of a Protes tant juror, who was sa id t o h ave b een f avour able to a conviction at th e l ate tr i a l s o f th e i n di v id ua l s c h arg ed with murder of the police, was entrapped by some of our civi lized peasantry, an d t h en was su bj ec t e d to the horrid p r ocess of fl ay i ng ! ! T h e m i screants a ft e r having skinned the fore-quarters from the neck down, permitted the mutilated victim to find its way to the habitation of its master ! ! A f ew d ays a f ter t h e perpetration of the aboveinhuman act, the gentleman to whom the dog be longed received a threatening notice through the post-- office here, couched in language of the most deadly im port ; the consequence of which has been, that he has left this country, and has repaired to England to seek a shelter from the violence of our ferocious peasantry..—KilAenny Moderator. THE MOORS.-SCARCITY OF GROUSE. (From the Caledonian Mercury.) For the following interesting communication we are in debted to an accomplished friend, who is also an experi. enced and skilful sportsman : "MY DEAR SIR,—As you like to instruct your readers upon most subjects, I write to instruct you as to the actual state of the game this season, regarding which very er roneous reports have been generally circulated. These re ports were all received by me cum nota, as I knew, from past experience, how little reliance they are entitled to ; but what I have now to state you may depend on as the report of un temoin occulaire, having in person made the observation. " In May last, there was a very heavy fall of snow in the north, which proved most destructive to the game, be cause owing to the open winter, the birds had begun to hatch early, and were then upon the nest. A few nests survived this misfortune, but they were very few, and are now strong and ripe for the sickle ; but with rare exceptions there was an almost total destruction then. The effect of this was, that when the storm disappeared, the birds countinued to sit upon their eggs till instinct informed them that their cares were futile; when they began to lay a second tim?, some sooner and some later of course. The consequence of this is, that at the present moment, with the exception of a very few full grown covies, the crop of game is found in all stages, from the hen hatching upon the nest to the cheeper with black feathers in the tail, the stage at which they are held to be a lawful prize to the sportsman. _ _ _ " This year, then, I hold to be the worst for true sports man, and the worst for the game, which has occurred for many a day. An old sportsman will kill none but well grown birds, and will not raise his piece against an old bird, when his experienced eye informs him she is leaving a young brood dependant on her tender care. To kill in this case is ruthlessly to extirpate a whole covey ; but with those who hire a shooting quarter for a season, and with very young sportsmen, this feeling does not prevail ; so that although the number of birds killed this year may not be great, the destruction of game as applicable to future seasons will be severely felt. " To one class of sportsmen this will be a jubilee year; for, to the Cockney, the sports will be prodigious. If Ponto understands hie vocation he will fill his toaster's bag without any waste of ammunition ; and his massacre of the innocents will be no alloy to Tim's enjoyment. " Though my personal observations have been local, I think you may hold it to be applicable to Perth and Aber deenshire generally. This place is one of great local celebrity; it was formerly possessed by the late Lot d Kin naird, upon a nineteen years' lease, to whom I succeeded upon a liferent tack. It is bounded by Fellar, the Duke of Athol's crack shooting lodge, by the Invercauld estate, and the. grounds of Mar Lodge ; and upon all these muirs the keepers make the same report. In ordinary years, I used to kill forty brace between ten o'clock and five with ease, but this year I would not back myself to kill fifteen brace. " Gleulochsie Lodge, Spittal of Glenshee, Aug. 9." BRISTOL, AUGUST 14. (7R014 A CORRESPONDEVT.) I sit down to write you an account of this day's Reforvs dinner, on Brandon Hill, Bristol, the result of which I am sorry should afford me as much regret to detail, as you will feel to read. No doubt you are aware that a nu merous body were invited to attend at a public dinner, raised by subscription, on the aforesaid Brandon Hill ; that body was to consist, principally, of those who sup ported the measure of Reform. But mark you the con sequence:— We, of " The Trades," of which I am one, being of the Society of Printers, were individually presented with a ticket of invitation ; from which we were taught to expect, as well as from hand-bills publicly distributed, that we should all sit down, and enjoy ourselves with a plenitude of meat and pudding, and afterwards make the air resound with a series of warm and loyal toasts. On arriving at the bill, we found tables. &c. erected for the accommodation of, 1 should think, nearly ten thousand persons, and expected to take our seats in order, accord ing to our tickets. There was certainly some system adopted, insomuch that the tables were portioned off, cor responding with the letters of the alphabet,—the order of which the various parties complied with, all bringing their implements for feeding, such as knives and forks, plates, &c. ; but as there was ❑o one to arrange agreeably to the numerical order, in all other respects, we were huddled together indiscriminately, with scarcely elbow room, while, in many parts, twenty or thirty feet of table barely contained an occupant. 'With this aspect of affairs, be fore grace was announced, a great part of the animal substance (laid out upon the tables in several con venient pieces) was in progress of dissolution, and at length there was no restraint to persons stealing the meat from off our platei, or women carrying it away in their aprons. As for the beer, after the first supply, it was only by physical power you could get any more; and in a short time the casks were seized and surrounded by dis orderly ruffians, who, for want of better vessels, were ready to catch it in their hats, or snatch whatever jugs came in their way. In the midst of all this confusion, many of the trades prepared to leave, among which the printers took an early opportunity; and all thoughts of pudding and toasting were at an end. In an hour after, the hill presented a most disorderly scene—various parties were engaged in hurrying to fights, while not a table or bench remained standing, which, I must explain, I believe were taken down by the proprietor, for their security. You will perceive from this, that the confusion which happened was owing materially to the bad management of the directors ; for if they had acted up to their pre-con certed arrangements, or bad provided force to keep the people off, which, with mere common sense, they might have anticipated, it would have been comfortable. As it is, the various trades are now enjoying themselves in their own way at their societies' houses. HANGING the BODY of COOK in CHAINS. (From the Leicester Herald.) The body, after hanging the usual time, was taken into the gaol infirmary, and was laid upon a plank, and two bricks placed under his head, his clothes on, and his head was shortly after shaved, preparatory to being tarred. On Saturday afternoon the culprit was put on the gib bet, which is 33 feet long, and placed in Saffron-lane, not far from the Aylestone toll-gate. The body was dressed in the ,acne clothes that he was hung in, black coat, black waistcoat, white duck trousers, and a pair of white Berli❑ gloves. His face was covered with a pitch plaster, and over it was placed the cap he suffered in. The irons are strongly fastened, and, in order to prevent the legs from dropping, two iron shoes are constructed, and which are fastened to the other iron work. On Sun day an immense concourse of spectators lined the road to the gibbet. (ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS.) _ . The following passage (Judges, xix. 29, 30) was cho sen by Cook as the one from which he wished the con demned sermon to be preached : " And when he was come into his house, he took a knife, and laid hold on his concubine, and divided her, together with her bones, into twelve pieces, and sent her into all the coast of Israel. And it was so that ail that saw it said, there was no such deed done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt, unto this day ; consider of it, and speak your minds." The father of Cook is a native of Ansty, in this county, and left that place 35 years ago, to serve as a substitute in the Leicestershire militia, for the parish of Woodhouse Eaves, from whence he went to Ireland with the regi ment, and there married a female of the sister kingdom, by whom he had the culprit and several other children. The grandfather, by the mother's side, was tried for mur der during the Irish rebellion. Cook, the murderer, was born at Ansty. His mother is dead, but his father is living in this place. He had also several brothers and sisters residing in the town or neighbourhood. He served his apprenticeship with the late Mr. Johnson, bookbinder, in the Wellington-street, to whose business be succeeded at his master's death, which took place about eighteen months ago. It is a remarkable fact, that the seal which is affixed to the indictment of Cook, for the murder of Mr. Paas, was engraved by that gentleman, and actually bore his same. REMOVAL OF THE GIBBET. We understand an order was received yesterday (Tuea• day) morning, at the Under Sheriff's office, train the Under Secretary of State, remitting that part of the sen tence which ordered the murderer Cook to be hung in chains. * Cook here chose a most inappropriate text. The woman had been murdered in Gilead, under circumstances of pecu liar atrocity ; and the cutting the body in pieces, so far from in any way resembling the crime of Cook, was done by the Levite, in order to stimulate the people of Israel to punish the crime as they did. The deed, which is spoken of with so much horror by the sacred writer, is not the mutilation of the body, but the barbarous and revolting murder of the woman. Residence is not requisite to the qualification of a freeholder, SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. At length the Constituent Parliament, having terminated its labours, is prorogued to the 16th of October. Before that day it is probable it will no longer be in existence. If the Reform Bill will at all work, recourse will hardly be again had to a Parliament which stands self condemned before the country. The speech from the Throne contains little to which it is necessary to direct attention. The great orga nical law of Reform, the laws relating to tithes in Ireland, the Foreign Relations of coun try, the defalcation in the Revenue, and the re ductions in the expenditure, are the topics touched on in it. His Majesty concludes with a recommendation to the Members of both Houses to attend carefully to the preserva tion of the public peace and the maintenance of the authority of the law in their several counties. One passage will be variously construed. " I trust that relief from any real causes of complaint will be sought only through legitimate channels ; that all irregular and illegal proceedings will be dis countenanced and checked." Irregular is a wide word. We trust that regularity will not be sought for through illegality. Thus we take leave of the most important Parliament, perhaps, in our history. We are greatly mistaken indeed, if, in consequence of the great work happily brought to a completion, a new era will not commence, in which the country will run a glo rious career of improvement. To the Ministry who have achieved this great work the country owes a heavy debt of gratitude. Faults they have committed, no doubt : their work is de faced with many imperfections (and this was in evitable in a first attempt) : but it is not for us now to dwell with illiberal censoriousness solely on their deficiencies. Let us avail ourselves of their measure to effect as many improvements as we possibly can in our institutions—to remove as many abuses as we possibly can. Let us show that we deserved the measure by the use we make of it. We are far troin wishing that gratitude to Ministers should induce us to sufTer from them hereafter more than we should have suffered from others. But let us at the same time not be more unjust to them than to those who have all along been enemies of the people, and enemies to all improvement. Now that the causes of agitation are in a great measure over, the people will return with confidence to their usual avocations, and British enterprise will, no doubt, be rewarded with deserved success. We despair not of the resources of the country, and we trust that Ministers will ever show themselves mindful of the dread responsibility which attaches to those who plunge this country into war which may be avoided. Peace will enable our public men to pursue the inquiries necessary to enable us to legislate with effect on several most mo mentous subjects, with regard to the prosperity of the empire. From a Reformed Parliament everything is to be expected. Should, however, the hopes of the nation be disappointed, the causes of the disappointment will have become apparent, and the people may afterwards allow for their want of foresight. But, in the mean time, let them act as if every thing depended on the composition of the Parliament about to he chosen. It will be strange, indeed, if, after the destruction of schedules A and B—if, after the introduction of so many new and important boroughs—if, after the conversion of Scotland from one great rotten borough into a wholesome part of the representation—the new Parliament should not, in spite of all the efforts of Tories and Conservatives, contain a sufficiency of honest and intelligent men to carry on the great work of improvement of our institutions and re duction of our expenditure.—Morn. Chronicle. Yesterday the King, in person, prorogued Parliament —never, most likely, again to meet under the laws by which its elective branch has been hitherto returned. A new session, indeed, of the existing House of Commons, afterthe dis qualifying statute which it has itself passed,— after " the self-decaying ordinance" to which it has voluntarily submitted,--after declaring that up wards of 140 of its members have no right to occupy their present seats, and ought, in the lan guage of Cromwell to " make way for honester men," or at least for men more honestly chosen, after transferring the right of legislation to the same number of members, coming from places never before represented at all, or but inade quately represented,—after announcing that for (he good government of the country, and the safety of its institutions, new classes of electors must be admitted, new qualifications must be created, and new electoral districts formed—after, in short, enacting the Reform Bills, by which t he constitution of the House is to be materially changed, it would be absurd, if not illegal, to sup pose that the same grotesque assemblage of rotten borough usurpers, and real popular representa tives, should again come together, except for some merely executive object, or from some unfore seen contingency, in which all considerations of the character of the members, and the origin of their mission, would be forgotten or overruled by the necessity of the case. It requires almost nothing more than the foregoing incidental re mark on its chief labour, to show, that the im portant session, which has just terminated, will he one of the most renowned in the annals of England, and therefore that his Majesty only acted in unison with the grateful feelings of his people and of posterity, in making the Reform Bill the first and the chief topic of his speech. The necessary brevity of an address from the throne would not, of course, permit the King to allude to the difficulties which the measure had to encounter, or to describe all the benefits which it is calculated to produce ; but we have no hesitation in saying, that from the enactmant of the Reform Bill, the session of 1832 will be as memorable in history as the Convention Parliament, or the Path/ anent of the Act of Settlement. It has accomplished, without social confusion or civil bloodshed, a mighty political revolution. It has wrested usurped ;rower from the hands of an arrogant and domineering oli garchy, to lodge it with the great body of the people. It has conferred upon the pro.. perty, knowledge, and intelligence of the country, that control over the national re. sources, and that privilege of adzipti:p; the laws to their interests, which has hitherto been engrossed by the prejudices, selfishness, and corruption of a boroughmongering faction. It has reinstated men in their rights,—it has attached them to the constitution, by making them sharers in its benefits,—it has rendered civil convulsions almost impossible, by providing the means of a legislative adjustment of differ ences between antagonist parties,--and it has opened a path to all the social improvements of which an active and enterprising people are sus ceptible. But if we are entitled to anticipate a great part, or any eonsidtrable part, of those securities and blessings from the important act of Reform, how gratifying must it be to reflect not only on what it has given us, but from 'what it has saved us. In revertin& to the history of