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AVACANCY for a PUPIL is now open in the FAMILY of a MARRIED CLERGYMAN, resident Twelve Miles from London, and the number of whose Pupils is limited to Six. He can offer the most satisfactory References to Noblemen and Gentlemen whose Sons have been under his care. Letters to be directed for the Rev. H. S., to the care of Mr. Searle, Bookbinder, 77, Lower Grosvenor street, London. TO BUILDERS. A, Favourable Opportunity offers to any -I- ii- BUILDER or other person, having between Fifteen and Twenty Houses of about a third-rate class, which they may be desirous of letting for a period of one or two years. The Advertiser would prefer Houses situated on the outskirts of the North side of London. For particulars apply at No. 67, St. James's-street. (No. 12,312.) LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 28, 1832. (PRICE 7D.) FASHIONS FOR MARCH. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. (From La Belle Assembler.) OPERA DRESS. FORTY-EIGHT COLUMNS, STITCHED IN A WRAPPER, FOR FOUR-PENCE. THE BRITISH YEONIAN and RURAL GAZETTE. The future Weekly Numbers of this useful Journal will be sold for the above price. To be had at 29, Tavistock-street, Covent garden, and of all Booksellers and Newsmen. *„' The back Numbers may be had separately or in Parts, the Second Monthly Part being now ready. It is composed of pale lemon-coloured crape, over satin to correspond ; the corsage is cut square, low at the back of the bust, and finished with three horizontal plaits. The front is disposed in longitudinal plaits, which meet, but do not cross ; it rises on each side, so as to shade the bosom, and displaying very little of the blond lace chemisette. Beret sleeve, terminated by a manchette, a la Maintenon, of blond lace. The skirt is trimmed round the border with gauze ribbon to correspond in colour, disposed in stars, with a knot in the centre of each.— The head-dress is a Turkish turban, composed of emerald green and ponceau gauze, intermingled with a third kind of gauze richly figured; the end of one of these materials, terminating in a pearl tassel, descends nearly to the shoulder. The hair is parted so as to display the forehead, and arranged in loose curls, which hang low at the sides of the face. The jewellery should be of gold and pearls. BALL DRESS. A blond lace dress over white satin ; a Grecian corsage, or namented with a round knot of white gauze ribbon in the centre of the bosom. Souffiet sleeves; they are of the bouffant form, but divided into compartments, from each of which a knot of ribbon protrudes. The hair is dressed in full curls at the sides of the face, and arranged on the summit of the head in two bows, which form a papillon mend. A bouquet of Bengal roses, tied with rich figured white gauze ribbon, in full bows, and ends that float neterly to the waist, is placed behind the bows of hair, and surmounts them; and a wreath of roses brought low upon the forehead, encircles the head. The jewellery should be gold and pearls. PORTRAIT OF THE BARON VON GOETHE. ERASER'S MAGAZINE for MARCH, 1832, Contains—The Spirit and Practice of the Whig Exe cutive. By an Independent Pittite—The Climax of Ce meteries—London, a National Song—The Stock Exchange, No 111. --A National Ode, in commemoration of the pro posed General Fast—Schiller, Goethe, and Madame de Stal—Theological Library. Life and Times of Wiclif— The Warrior's Steed— A Second Paper, by the Rev. Ed ward Irving on the recent Manifestations of Spiritual Gifts—Gallery of Literary Characters, No. XXII., with a full-length portrait of Goethe—Historical Romance, No. 11. Sir Walter Scott and his Imitators—lnvasion of Portugal—Address to Cupid. By a Modern Pythago rean—Rencontres on the Road. Mary Fenwick—The Elder in Love. By the Ettrick Shepherd—Letters to the Learned Professions, No. I. To the Students of Medi cine. By Gabriel Cowitch—Are we to have New Peers or not?— John Black's Lord Plunkett and John Galt's Archibald Jobbry—Epistles to the Literati, No. 11. Place to Wilson ; Wilson to Place—To the Publisher. By Sir Morgan O'Doherty. James Fraser, 215, Regent-street, London; John An derson, jun., Edinburgh; W. R M'Phun, Glasgow; and Grant and Bolton, Dublin. Price 2s. 6d. This day was published, BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MA GAZINE. No. CXCII. for MARCH, 1832. Contents:—l. Present Balance of Parties in the State The Belgian Question--Abandonment of the Bar riee—Tlae Russian Dutch Loan—Guarantee of the Throne of the Barricades—lll. What caused tke Bristol Riots?— IV. The Executioner (concluded)—V. The Showing up of Strath Lugas—Vl. Gaffer Maurice. By the Translator of Homer's Hymns—Vll. Nautical Adventures—Vlll. Lord Castlereagh and Mr. Canning. Letter to the Editor from the Right Hon. Thomas Peregrine Courtenay, M.P.-4X. The Papal Government—X. Family Poetry, No. 111. The Play—Xl. Chateaubriand. No. I. Itine raire—Xll. The Ministry and their Supporters. Printed for William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and T. Cadell, Strand, London. This day was published, price 61., No. XVI. for MARCH, of THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL of AGRICULTURE, and of the PRIZE ESSAYS and TRANSACTIONS of the HIGHLAND SOCIETY of SCOTLAND. Contents Notes made during a Visit to the United States and Canada in 1831. By Mr. Fergusson, of Woodhill—ll. On the Tea-plant. By Mr. Main, of Chelsea —111. On the Salmon Fishery. By Mr. Buist, of Perth —IV. Method of Preserving Corn in Sheaves, as practised in Sweden. By Mr. G. Stephens, Edinburgh On Wheat not liable to the attacks of the Wheat Ply. By Mr. Gorrie—Vl. On Calculi, and the Mode of removing them, in Domestic Animals. By Mr. Dick, Veterinary Surgeon, Edinburgh—Vll. 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In an account of the Life and Writings of Akenside, by Mr. CHARLES BUCKE, wiitten with great spirit and a right understanding of his author, we find some passages which are new to us. Mr. DYSON, the generous and constant patron of AKENSIDE, having passed from Whiggism to Toryism at the beginning of the reign of GEORGE 111., procured his friend to be physician to the young QUEEN. AKENSIDE, however, never appears to have forsaken his principles, or to have concealed them. What sort of favour this allowed him to maintain at Court does not appear. He was also one of the physicians to that excellent establishment, Christ's Hospital. He ex hibited in early youth a taste for drawing. Dr. ROBERT SON, the historian, used to go to the Medical Society in Edinburgh, for the pleasure of hearing him speak. He had a g reat d es i re to get into Parliament. He was fond of the C ast l e of Indolence, of DYER'S Fleece, of FENTON'S Ode to Lord Gower (which he thought the best in the language next to Alexander's Feast!), and svas a liberal praiser of the writings of his con temporaries. He considered GLOVER'S Leonidas, however, a failure,—as he well might. He had a notion, at one time, of writing an epic poem, the hero of which was to be Timoleon. He was indig rant at a company of French players attempting to a t up in L on d on ! He was in love with some young lady Hampstead, who was to marry him, but died. Also with another in some other place, before her, who was taken from him under the same circumstances. Like TuoNtsoti, he was not a good reader of his own verses. BoLus, the zealous admirer of the great men of the Commonwealth, made him a present of the bed which 11lwroN died in, expecting " an Ode" in return, with which the poet, though he is said to have been highly pleased, does not appear to have been inspired. He chal lenged a l awyer of the name of BALLow, who insulted nun rence for the Supreme Being ; and, though supposed to have been a D e i st , f or the Bible. At the age of about r e n'atid-tvventy, he left H am p s t ea d, w h ere h e h a d b een living with his friend, and took up hie abode in Blooms bury -an rest of ivare, where h e appears to have remained for the dente o f 19 life, and to have di e d. Thi s ( an d th e res i- Sir RICHARD STEELE, in the same square, for a ce rtain peri o d) w i ll help to make it classical ground. We may add (says the Plain-Dealer, in a well written ana lysis), as Mr. BUCKE has not noticed the circumstance, that he was buried in the church-yard of St. James's, Pic + cadilly. The only thing known of his collateral kindred that he had a sister who lived at Newcastle, of the /lame Anntsox....... DINNER DRESS. It is composed of ruby velvet, plain corsage, nearly, but not quite, square ; very low upon the shoulders, but rather high in the centre of the bosom, and displaying merely the blond lace trimming of the chemisette, which stands up round the bust. Velvet mancherons, and imbecille sleeves of white gauze zephyr, over white satin beret sleeves. The top of the corsage and the mancherons are trimmed with richly figured gold bands. A trimming of the same description, but broader, adorns the skirt, about as high as the calf of the leg. The head-dress is a Moa bite turban, formed of a scarf of French cachemire ; the ends, and the border of the scarf, are so arranged as to form the trim ming of the turban ; the colours are bright green, deep citron, and ruby. The jewellery worn with this dress should be of emeralds and gold. Sable boa tippet. LONDON MARKETS. PRICE OF BREAD. The highest price of Bread in the Metropolis is 10d. for the lb. Loaf. There are others who sell from y,icl. to 1 jti4. btlow that price. PRICE OF SEEDS.—Feb. 27, New English Red Clover Seed (per Cwt.) —s. 675. fine —8.1035. Old Ditto Ditto New Foreign Ditto. . . 50s. 66s fine —s.lo6s. Old Ditto --..... New White Clover . 36s. 565. fine —s. 665. Old Ditto Ditto _ —s. 465. fine —s. fits. New Trefoil Jld Ditto — —s. 15s. fine —s 18s. Rib Grass 10s. 235. tine 30s. 3.55, English Carraw•ay Foreign Ditto coriander St. Foin Rye Grass Pacey Ditto Linseed, for feeding Ditto, for crushing,,,. Can ary Seed, New— .'" ad _ . —s. —s. 5.35. fine 575. . —s. —s. 645. fine 68s. . —s. —s. fine 345. 38s. r Quarter) . —s. 755. fine 80s. 82s. —s. —s. slew 20s. 9.55. 40s. 455. new —s. —s. —s. 525. fine —s. 58s. 465. 48s. —s. fine —s. . —s. 80s. 92s fine —s. l'itto White Mustard Seed --(per Bushel)— —5. Bs. 10s. fine —s. Brown Ditto . . —s. 10s. 15s. lint —s. Turnip Seeds, Rounds - —s. —s. —s. fine 145. Green and Red Ditto —s —5. —s. fine 18s. Tares, Old —s. 256. 365. fine —s. Ditto New . —s. —s. fine 425. 465. Rare Seed , English, fine (per Last) 224 261. ....Foreign —l. —e. Kent Pocki Sussex Diti PRICES OF HOPS.—Feb,27, Witsex Ditto —..--......._ Farnham Ditto. Fine.— Seconds Kent Sussex Ditto Essex Ditto,. 4/ 15s. 61. 01. te Si. O. 4/ 103. 51. ss. to 5/. 143. 41. 108. 51. 153. to 6!. 15s. . 91. 03. 12/. Os. to 0!. Os. 0/. Os. 71. Os. to 9/. Os. 41. Os. 51. 103. to 61. 103. 41. 4s. 41. 15s. to 51. - Os. 31. 15s. 51. Os. to 5/..125. PRICE OF OIL. Rape Oil, brown Os. Refined 0 Linseed Oil 22 Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand 12 0 Rape Cake, per ton _ 6 0 LEATHER. Per lb. d. to d. English Horse Hides.. 12 15 Spanish Ditto 14 16 Per dozen. _ _ Calf Skins... :36 to 411 b. 15 23 Ditto ........... 50 to 701 b. 17 21 Ditto '7O to 801 b. Small Seals, Greenland 18i 19 Large ditto l2 15 PRICES 0 Per lb. Butts, English 16 21 Ditto, Foreign 14 18 Dressing Hides 13 151 Ditto i6 18 Ditto, light Crop Hides, 1ight,,,.... 12 13 Ditto 4U to 451 h 13( 15 Ditto l5 161 WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKET.—Feb. 25. Hay 555. Od. to 84s. Od. I Clover...-. 65i Od. to 12.05. Od. 28i. Od. to 38s. Od. RAW HIDES. ter Stone. s. d. to s. d. Per Stone. s. d. to s. d. Best Heifers& Steers 2 4210 I Ordinary 181 10 Middlings 0 '2 '2 Market 6 0 each. Polled SHEEP SKINS. 4s. Od. to 6s. Od. J Downs ............. 2s. 6d, to 4s. Od. Shearlings......— Os. Od. to Os. Bd. PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone of 81b. Price of Tallow (as stated by the Talluw PRICE OF TALLOV Town Tallow 525. Od. Yellow Russia 46s. Od White 465. Od. Soap Ditto 44s. 6d. Melted Stuff 37s. Od. Ditto Rough .253. Od. , SOAP, &c. per 1121 b. Yellow 625. Od. Mottled 6Ss. Od. LL bite 745. Od. Graves 16s. Od. Good Graves PRICE OF POTATOES.—Feb. 27. 1. ss. to 31. Os. per ton. 01. Os. to 31. Os. ditto. 1. 15s. to 31. Os. ditto. Ware.......,.... Kidneys —.— Scotch Reds PRICE OF CANDLES. The price of Store Candles, in the retail shops, is as follows : Candles, per doe. 7s. Od. to Ps. Od. Moulds, per duzen—..9B. .KET.—Feb. 27. COAL MAR Per Ton. Per Ton. Adair's . lBs. Od. Walls End Hotspur—. 19s. 3d. Beaumont l7 0 Walls End 16 6 East Percy.. ,17 6 Walls End Newmarch— 20 3 Ellison (unscreened— 15 6 Ditto Northumberland 19 0 Holywell lB 9 Ditto Peareth---.... 17 6 Pontop Windsor .18 0 Ditto Perkins and Co.— 20 0 St. Lawrence Main.,.., 19 0 Walls End Riddell's..... 20 6 lanfield Townley l7 0 Walls End Wa1ker,.,,.,, 19 6 West Hartley —. l9 0 Lambton's Primose—, 19 9 Willington, 2O 0 Walls End Hetton 22 3 Wylam „18 0 Walls End Lambton...... 22 0 Walls End Bell & Co.— 18 0 Walls End Stewart's 22 6 Ditto Bell,Robson,&Co. 18 0 Walls End Adelaide 20 0 Ditto Bewicke and Co. 20 6 Cowper, Walls End Brown's—. 19 6 Ditto Ilurraton 19 6 Wall,. End Callerton —.. 16 6 Walls End Carr and Co. 18 3 Ditto Clarke and Co. 18 3 Walls End Gosforth 21 6 Walls End Heaton.—._ 20 6 Walls End Hilda --- 19 6 Ships arri , There was a fair dr owpen l9 0 Walls End Elgin-, 17 0 Hartley 2l 0 I.langennech Coal 2B 0 Llangennech Pemberton 23 0 Merthyr Silkatone Field and Co. 17 6 Warde's Llanelly 22 0 ived, 16. generally to-d.ly. The 2d Dragoons have been ordered from Brighton to Birmingham, to arrive at the latter place on the Sth of March. Some detachments (recruits) have been ordered from Croydon to Warley barracks. Twe companies of Grenadier Guards have been removed from London to Chatham. One company of Coldstream Guards, and one company of the Scotch Fusileers, have marched from London to Croydon. lhe 2d Bat talion of Coldstream Guards have been ordered from Brighton to the Tower, to arrive on the Ist of March. THE CANTERBURY TALES, BY THE MISSE4 LEE. —The new and revised edition of this inte resting series of fictions is now completed, by the publica tion of the second and concluding volume in " The Standard Novels ;" the whole of the five volumes of the former edition being comprised in two (at less than a fourth of the original cost), with embellishments from designs by eminent artists. The second volume of the above-named new impression includes the fine story of Kruitzner, which drew such lavish eulogy from Lord BYRON, and on which he avowedly founded one of his dramas. The other narratives in this volume consist of The Clergyman's Tale, Pembroke ; The Scotsman's Tale, Claudine; The Landlady's Tde, Mary Lawson; The Friends Tale, Stanhope ; and the Wife's Tale, Julia. INSECT DUELLISTS !—" By means of tile cricket (gryllus domesticus), which is of an irritable temper, the Chinese indulge their sporting p ropensiti es with facility. Two crickets are put in a China basin, and from its slipperiness they cannot easily get up its sides. The tail of one of them being tickled with a feather, and he being as pugnacious as an Irish jontilman, instantly turns round, and perhaps strikes the other : then the fight begins; if not, the tail of the other is tickled, anti he turns round, and seeing the hostile aspect of the other, strikes him. If these creatures had language, the colloquy would be strictly in the style of the colloquies preceding m os t duels—" You scoundrel, what did you strike me for ?" " You lie, Sir ; I didn't strike you." Satisfaction must of course be had for the lie thus given, and in the case of the crickets, people stand round the basin to see, and lay heavy bets on the result.--Mitrliell's Lectures On ,Animal and Vegetable Life. The outcry raised against Earl Grey by some of the more intemperate Reform Journals, for not inun dating the House of Lords with newly-created Peers for the purpose of securing the success of the Reform Bill, appears to us to be equally unjust and unrea sonable. It is unjust, because those who raise this outcry do not know whether there will, eventually, be any necessity for a creation of Peers at all; and it is unreasonable, because it demands, at all hazards, a certain evil shall be inflicted on the country with the view to the attainment of a good which it might be the very means of defeating ; for who can say that if Lord Grey were at present to create a num ber of new Peers, to ensure the success of his Reform measure, it might not so disgust the independent supporters of the Bill in the Upper House as to Cause them to desert the ranks of a :Ministry that had become so enslaved to popular clamour as to make it impossible for their aristocratic supporters to continue faithful to their cause without consent ing to the degradation of their own order. If we thought Lord Grey's Reform Bill a much more pure and perfect specimen of statesmanship than we really do, yet we should like to see it carried only by honest and constitutional means. We do not hold to that maxim, either in policy or morals, that " call may be done that good may come of it." The evil is certain; the good is contingent. If the bounda ries of the Constitution may be passed for the pur pose or under the pretence of reforming abuses in the State, they may also be passed for the purpose of subverting the State itself. ‘g What to-day is fact, to-morrow is doctrine," says a great political writer. Let Lord Grey create to-morrow a mob of mushroom Peers for the purpose of carrying the Reform Bill, and the precedent will hereafter be pleaded to sanction the worst designs that a bad and ambitious Minister could entertain against the inde pendence of Parliament or the liberties of the people. It has been said that because the King has the power of creating an unlimited number of Peers, therefore it is not unconstitutional to create any number that his Majesty's Ministers think necessary to secure the triumph of the Reform Bill. This is a mistake, and in practice would be of the most dan gerous consequences, inasmuch as it would operate to the virtual abolition of the House of Lords, and consequently to the destruction of one of the three estates of which our Constitution is composed. How, then, can that be constitutional which has the effect of annihilating one of the component parts of the Constitution ? The King has the right of creating any number of Peers he pleases, because, as the " fountain of honour," the Constitution reposes in him unlimited confidence that he will not abuse that great trust, but exercise it in purity of purpose for the reaard of eminent services, and to repair the losses which time occasions in the ranks of the aris tocracy, so that the number of members of the Upper House may neither be scanty nor redundant. If they should be too few, there cannot be sufficient attendance for the adequate discharge of the legisla tive labours of the Upper House. If they should be too ?irony, the honours of the Peerage will sink in public estimation. The creation of a batch of Peers to overrule the deliberative freedom of the House of Lords on any particular occasion is, in reality, an abolition of the Upper House pro tent pore, and, by being often repeated, may lead the country to come to the conclusion that a House of Lords is only a useless pageant, and its proceedings a solemn farce.—Morning Herald. The proceedings in the House of Lords last night were somewhat remarkable for the tone assumed by the Duke of Wellington. A question had been put to Earl Grey on the subject of tithes, by the Duke of Buckingham, in the answer to which the Noble Earl observed, that " it was no matter of reproach to the existing Ministry that they had not been able to settle in one year a question which had been under consideration for many and many years, and which no Ministry had ever yet been able to bring to bring to a satisfactory conclusion." His Grace chose to think that this observation re flected on his Administration, and he began by dilating on the good effects produced by the Tithe Composition Act ; after which his Grace exclaimed, " Now we find that we are to entertain the question with a view to the formation of a new system. My Lords, what is the cause of this ? My Lords, the cause is the encouragement which has been given to agitators to disturb this country.—(Loud cheers.) I can tell the Noble Earl, that as long as encourage ment is given to agitators, you may double and treble the regular army in Ireland—you may heap measure of severity on measure of severity—but you will not succeed in putting down agita. tation on this question, or upon any of the others which may follow it." This is pretty well for a gentleman who declared that he was in heart as much opposed to Catholic emancipation as ever; but the agitation in Ireland had reduced him to the alternative of either conceding it, or attempting to coerce the Catholics, and then came the fine touch as to his horror of civil war. His Grace may have forgotten some of these declarations; but he may rest assured that the Irish treasured them up; and, therefore, if his modesty will allow him, when speak ing of agitation, he may place himself at the head of it. On being called on to make good his charge, the Duke of Wellington repeated the usual twaddle about Mr. O'Connell—the answer to the address of a Political Union—the publishing the order for the line of march in the Government newspapers which the various columns of the mob took to St. James's after the Reform Bill was thrown out by the Peers. The Duke and his friends are strongly inclined to forget that they did not deliver over either England or Ireland to their successors in the most satisfactory state. We remember when the most patient of all patient people—the peasantry of England—had risen in the home counties and were roaming in bands up and down the country, breaking machines and firing stacks, Sir Robert Peel declared in the House of Commons that Government could afford no aid. All this is quite out of mind—we hear nothing of the city dinner declined from alarm, Ssc. Earl Grey, however, reminded his Grace of them. But there is a motive for dwelling on agitation now. His Grace, and those who vote with him, contemplate once more revolting the people of England with the spectacle that was exh►bited last year, and they wish to badger Ministers into admissions, which may be turned against them in cooling the zeal of supporters, both in Ireland and this country. The people of England are not disposed to violence — they, perhaps, err in putting up too patiently with the insults of their enemies. While it lasted the debate was very warm, arid we may infer from it that the proceedings about to commence will not be over and above distinguished fur coolness. — Murnin g Chronicle. Mr. Croker made his speech on naval affairs last night, of which he gave note of preparation some days ago. The debate was of some length, but we have not space at present for a notice of it.—Morri ing Chronicle. During the tedious progress of the Reform Bill through the Committee we have been hitherto sparing of our remarks, from a conviction that no thing t hat we could say would have the effect of accelerating the progress of the measure, the only point respecting which the people felt much inte rest. Whether this or that small borough shall be placed in schedule A or schedule B, might be a mighty matter to some great proprietor in the neigh bourhood, but was a matter of indifference to the public. But the time has come when the friends of Reform can no longer be indifferent.— The conspiracy against the people, which has been so long maturing its projects, is now about to act. This may be said to be the first of a series of desperate engagements between the friends and foes of Re form for all that is valuable in the Bill. This night the Marquis of Chandos, backed • by the open and secret enemies of Reform, attempts to deprive the metropolitan districts of the Members assigned to them. In another column we have expressed our selves somewhat more in detail on the projects of the Anti-Reformers in the two Houses, and the engage ments which have been entered into between the Tortes and pretended Reformers, but real enemies to Reform, to give encouragement to the opposition in the House of Lords. We refer our readers to that article, and we shall here confine our remarks to the movement of this evening. We can make allowance for the imperfections which Ministers have been obliged to leave in the system of re presentation, knowing the strong interests op. posed to them, and the impossibility of prevailing over all of them. But . we are not the less sensible tlntt the concession of the franchise to so many small INyoughs is a great evil. If the object of a good representation is to afford adequate protection to property, a system of representation is bad in so far as it gives to a number of small places an in fluence to which they are not entitled on the score either of wealth or population. To buy from the few the means of plundering the many, is the busi ness of the boroughmonger. We should have re joiced, if every hope of carrying on this business, in time to come, had been annihilated by a Reform based on the property and population of the country ; but, considering the point from which Ministers started, we have rather been disposed to feel satis faction that they have proceeded so far, than disap pointment that they have net proceeded further. But our satisfaction would indeed be converted into bitter disappointment, were the project of refusing Members to the metropolitan districts to be rea lised. The metropolis, from its wealth, its popula tion, the immense interests which require protection, will still,compared with the rest of the kingdom, be very inadequately represented by the additional Members which it is now proposed to give. To exclude the metropolis is a deep injury to the whole empire, for it lowers the scale of property and po pulation in the representation, and raises the scale of places suffered to retain the suffrage without any title from wealth and population. The amount of the assessment to the house tax in the county of Middlesex is alone half as much as that of all England. Whether we take property or popula tion for our guide, the present Bill does not by any means give to the metropolis a fair pro portion of Members. There are many of the large manufacturing towns of the North possessed of a large population, but of comparatively little wealth. Paisley, for • instance, with a population of 58,000, pays only 3,589/. of assessed taxes. The parish of Lewisham, in Kent, with a population of only 9,659, pays 7,9211. of assessed taxes—more than twice the amount of Paisley. Even the poorest of the new metropolitan boroughs—that of the Tower—containing Shadwell and Bethnal-green, pays 93,1511. of assessed taxes—three times the amount of Manchester and Salford, and five times the amount of Leeds. The people of England are deeply interested in the metropolis possessing an adequate number of representatives; for, as we have said, the great evil to be guarded against in representation is to prevent a small and a poor con stituency from having more influence than a nume rous and a riot constituency. Whether, then, we consider wealth or numbers, the proposed addition to the metropolitan Members is far below the fair pro portion. But there is another consideration equally deserving of attention. It will be readily allowed that if the metropolis is richer proportionably than the rest of the country, it is still more distinguished for the in telligence and information of its inhabitants. They possessbe advantages entrusted v peculiar t oth r ems e , I who ves ought . If they h t t cannot o have it ? We therefore consider the indisposition to concede additional representatives to the metropo lis as a fair test of the sincerity, or insincerity, of a Reformer. There should be no mistake on this re o v f e a u ll t th t o h s e e m w e h t o ro c p l o h l i i g s t p o o i r t i h t . e o N o k r r e r u k p i t i o s s s; s t t h e e m, anxiety to p from having its fair influence in Parliament; and we are prepared for all manner of subterfuges on the part of the sham reformers in the House of Com mons. Those who dare not vote in favour of the motion of the Marquis of Chandos, and yet are favourably disposed to it, will adopt a shuffling course—they will be absent. They will, however, be marked; and they may be assured that they will not succeed in deceiving us. The enemy are now on the alert, and it becomes the people of England to be also now on the alert. The Anti-Reformers are mistaken if they confound our disgust at their recent conduct with apathy. We will show them of what mettle the people of England are made. Their big talk, their attempts to varnish over their selfish aims by professions of independence and dis interestedness, will avail them but little. Disguise it as they will, their aim and object is plunder— plunder. They wish to riot in luxury, and to con demn the poor toil-worn labourers and mechanics of this country to the wretchedness which is their present lot and portion. Good God ! is it not enough to make men lose all patience to hear indi viduals like Lord Eldon, with one foot in the grave, boasting of the happiness and prosperity of the people of this country under the present system, at a time when every stranger who visits the island is struck with the misery which stares him in the face in every part of it ! It is a glorious Constitution for such men as Lord Eldon; but to the poor starving artizan—obliged in this severe climate, and with food twice as high as in other countries, to work for wages not higher than are paid abroad—the Consti tution will not exactly appear in the same light. It someis moret time, protection—that re , 0 t h reept o c v ei o e a uvt we htah shallt Lords look atth o e o kp andeop withe Bishops should n t:n s e receiveanxiety )xio eu tl dy not engr oss a ll t h e care of the Legislature. Once to the result of to-night.—ilforning Chronicle. A certain notorious Journal, at once the tool and the terror of the Ministry, has returned to the ques tion of additional Reform Peers, and, in its usual style of c h aracteristic arrogance, menaces the poor Premier with ruin to himself, and utter extinction to his party, should he " falter" in his hazardous pro gress, or hesitate to annihilate his" order," by inun dating it with an influx of new creations. The Newspaper alluded to is well known to have the same regard for the interests of the people that a puritanical orator feels for the simpletons who are attracted, by his loud anti confident manlier, to re pose their faith on his assertions as on the breathings of an oracle. The crafty preacher is sufficiently aware that t h e most effect i ve mode o f ca j o li ng hi s hearers to their weekly contribution is to frighten them with a glowing and overcharged description of a future place of torment; and the knavish Journa list, in like manner, hopes to increase the number of his purchasers by alarming them with hints of some undefined calamity, the nature of which he alone can disclose or mitigate. He has not the honesty to discuss the vaunted provisions of the Bill, but talks wildly in general terms of the rights of the people and the dignity of freedom. The only made in which the measure could ope rate beneficially for the mass of the people would be by enabling the rural labourer, the industrious mechanic, and the working manufacturer, to purs chase their food and clothing, the implements of their trade, and the comforts of their dwel lings, on easier terms than at present. But the most noisy of the revolutionists have not yet had the effrontery to assert that such can be its result. Hence the increased and increasing lukewarmness towards it which is gene rally felt throughout the country. With respect to the liberty and equality which Radicals so industri ously proclaim that Reform is to establish, the only intelligible sense in which such terms can be re ceived is an impartial administration of equal laws; and in what single instance can it be shewn, through all the gradations of rank and property, from the highest in the scale of aristocratic distinction to the meanest pauper who receives his parochial allow ance, that the sanctuary of justice has in this country been polluted, or the broad shield of its protection withheld ? A Catholic Duke, when closely pressed to justify his support of the Reform project, is stated to have replied in these terms :—" I at present influence the return of five Membena ; after the Bill is passed I shall continue to do the same, from the weight of my property." Now, if this be true, what Reform wilt the Bill produce ? The Duke, indeed, sadly de ceives himself if he imagines the Radicals ( a ft er their accession of strength by the enael...ents of the Bill) will allow him to retain any species of property entire or undivided; but we cite this in stance merely to shew the mistaken principle on which certain disinterested patriots have tendered their devotion to the ruling powers. The Whig faction, after the first deplorable exhibition of their incapacity, soon perceived that they had no alterna tive but to lay down their authority, or to govern by agitation. They chose agitation ; they chose to govern in no better capacity than that of the rabble sycophant, who fawns and cringes to the very offscourings of vice and brutality. They have reason to be frightened at their own act; but they are still impelled by that feeling of desperation which pro claims, they are so deep in mischief, " Returning were as hopeless as go o'er." It is to the sound part of the Legislature, inspired and animated by the renowned leader—whose corn manding genius all Europe has acknowledged—that the nation eagerly directs its hopes. They have only to present a united front, and once again they will become invincible.—.llforning Post. We give, in another column, the circular which, it is alleged, has been sent by Lord Harrowby to his Tory companions in arms against Reform, in excuse of his determination to vote for the second reading of the Reform Bill. An Evening Cotemporary says, respecting this document— ' " We are authorised to state that the abstract of a circular letter, purporting to have been sent by Lord Harrowby to his Tory friends, which we have copied from a Morning Paper, is not a correct representation of the circular which was actually sent. That Lord Harrowby has used arguments which those would not have used to whom he is politically opposed, is doubtless the fact ; but we believe Lord Harrowby to be a man of too much good sense to have written precisely in the terms which have been ascribed to him. We hear, however, that by one means or another a considerable majority has been obtained for the second reading of the Bill in the Lords; and if any ma terial alteration should be made in Committee, we doubt not that thoSe reformers to whom the management of the affair has been entrusted, will take care to restore the Bill to its original efficiency before the third reading." That the " abstract " may not be altogether cor rect, may be safely admitted. Lord Harrowby may not have used the words attributed to him, or written in the precise terms which are represented to have been used by him; but that he did use the arguments employed in the circular, and that he did address his anti-Reform companions' in the spirit of the circular, is not denied ; and what, after the pub lication of such a document can the public possibly think of Lord Harrowby and his friends ? The Noble Earl has had the credit of being not only a moderate man in his political views, but also of be ing a liberal man; yet to what do his liberality and his moderation amount ? Why, to simple expe diency, and nothing more! He would allow the Reform Bill to be read a second time, and counsels his friends to follow his example in that respect; but with what views, and for what ends, and for what reasons ? Not because he approves of the Bill, but because he disapproves of it—because his belief is, that "Lord Grey has full power from the King to create Peers to any extent, and that he will have an unanswerable justification for resorting to that strong measure if the Bill is a second time re jected "—because no modification of the clauses of the Bill could then be expected ; and because, if al lowed to be read a second time, its great principles may be demolished, and its spirit extinguished, in the Committee ! Such is the liberality and mo deration of the most liberal and moderate Tory on the Opposition benches ! lie will vote for the se cond reading, because, if he do not, a rear - guar d o f new Peers will compel the passing of the Bill as it is; but he is determined, if he can, to Burke it in the Committee! And what are we to think of the remainder of the crew? Is these any tie that can bind them ? Is there any faith, after such an ex pose, to be placed in their pledges ? Lord Grey must be, which he is not, and which he never was, the veriest simpleton, or the veriest knave, on God's earth, if, after such conduct on the part of his oppo nents, he can hesitate for one moment in determin ing to pursue the only true line of conduct which can possibly secure either the safe passage of the Bill through the House of Lords, or the existence of his own Administration; but Lord Grey is neither the one or the other—if his hairs are grey, his spirit is as young as when he was the Hotspur of the House of Commons; and we doubt not, therefore, that the tricks, stratagems, and hypocrisy of the Anti-Reformers will be met by him in a manner which will satisfy every friend to Reform. It is not credible that having the ball at his foot he should not drive it home, or that being opposed in a manner that no other Prime Minister, but Canning, was ever opposed in this country, he should not turn upon his enemies, and, with his King and country at his back, effectually rout them.—Morn ing Advertiser. We published yesterday a version of Lord Har rowby's letter to his Tory friends. The contents of that document were calculated to convince every friend of Reform of the necessity of keeping a watchful eye upon the movements of their oppo- nents; and we have no doubt that the knowledge of his Lordship's views will have that effect. We now warn the honest supporters of the Bill that other dangers overhang the measure; and we cau tion all true Reformers in the House of Commons against absenting themselves from their posts when Lord Chandos introduces his notable scheme for getting rid of the metropolitan Members. Treachery and weakness are at work even in the camp of the Reformers themselves, and their first efforts will be directed against this essential part of the measure. An active canvass, led by the son of a Noble Duke, was, we understand, carried on all yesterday, for the purpose of obtaining votes in favour of the motion of Lord Chandos. The Members applied to were assured that the Ministers were lukewarm on this point; nay, they were even told that to vote in favour of the motion of Lord Chandos would be considered as an acceptable service to the Govern ment ! Fortunately, however, the persons to whom these assurances were given, knew that they were false ; and that, instead of the Government being inclined to give way on this point, the most urgent applications had been made to the supporters of the Bill to attend in their places and defeat the attempt of the Noble Lord to get rid of this vital provision of the measure. Now we warn the Reformers,that among the persona who conducted this canvass there were some who profess to be supporters of the 4- Bill, and we warn trust' . that , the eyes of their const. AMA of the whole body of Reformers, both in our-bekirliametir, will be fixed upon their co. Jet iti:%uight in the debate upon the motion of Lord Chandos. But the intrigues of mischief, working, we are willing to be lieve, upon well-meaning weakness, have not stop. ped at this device. Another trick has been resorted to, and foremost among those who are conducting this new manceuvre we again find the same busy personage, of whom we have already spoken as lead ing the canvass yesterday for votes in favour of the motion of Lord Chandos. The object of this other scheme is to procure the signature of Members to a written declaration, which binds the subscribers to support, on the return of the Bill to the House of Commons, certain amendments which, it is pre tended, are anticipated from the part of the Lords. There is already handed about for signature a paper couched in these terms :—" In the event of the Lords making some alterations in the Bill, such as erpunging the metropolitan 111 - embers, altering and adapting the qualification to different towns, retain ing schedules A and B, with two or three alterations of boroughs, will you sign a declaration to support the Bill, as amended, on its return?" ,Ye have the number —aye, and the names too—of theßeformers(!) who have been seduced into putting their names to this document, and we would publish them at once, but that we are convinced that their signatures must have been obtained by some such grossly fraudulent misrepresentation as that by which it was hoped to entrap votes in favour of the motion of Lord Chandos. We content ourselves, therefore, for the present, with a bare revelation of the nature of the plot. Reflection, and the views contained in Lord Harrovrby's letter, may open the eyes of these de luded victims of anti•reforming craft; but if not, if the exertions of Government be paralysed by the desertion of their friends, and if the representatives of the people peove false to their trust, then let those who have the power stay the tide of so sweeping and so searching a reformation of Parlia mentary corruption, as may justify the apprehen sion even of those consequences which are insanely attributed to that wholesome measure of Reform now before the Legislature, and which has already been coquetted with, longer, perhaps, than may yet turn out to be prudent.—Times. POLICE INTELLIGENGE. MANSION-HOUSE. The Justice-room was completely crowded yesterday' with hotel and tavern-keepers from all parts of the me tropolis, to prefer charges against an individual who, for the last six months, has carried on a most extensive and successful system of plunder at their expense, and who was fortunately apprehended for a robbery committed at the City Hotel. The plan pursued by this individual was to enter a tavern or hotel late in the evening with a great coat or cloak on his arm, and a carpet bag, apparently well filled, and pretending to have just come off a coach from the country—to take a bed for the night, and in the morning to visit the bed-rooms of the other cus tomers, from whence he generally contrived to carry off a good booty. His success is the more remarkable, as his appearance is remarkably vulgar, and it is reported that he has been a cab-driver. Upon being placed at the bar, he gave his name James Wilson; and Mr. Oliver, the proprietor of the city hotel, stated, that the gentleman to whom the property belonged, which was stolen out of his bed-room, was now in Sussex; but he should write to him to come to town, when no doubt a clear case would be brought home to the prisoner. William Cole, the waiter, said, the prisoner came to the hotel on the 30th January, and asked for a bed. He had a carpet bag, which witness offered to carry up st firs, but the prisoner refused to let him have it, neither would he allow his hoots to be taken. In the morning the prisoner came down, and after discharging his hill left the house. He had been gone away only a very store time, when a gentleman, who was stopping there, discovered that his room had been entered, and a quantity of wearing apparel, and other articles stolen. A chambermaid on going into the room where the prisoner had slept, found a quantity of cabbage leaves, the contents of the carpet bag. Roe, the officer, had searched the defendant's lodgings. He found a carpet bag, a large number of clothes and hair brushes, and a gown, which witness would identify. Mary Grimes, servant at the Blue Posts, Holborn, said the prisoner came a few months ago, and was accommodated with a bed at the house. He said he had Just come from the country, and be had a carpet bag with him, which he would not allow any one to touch. In the morning he went out, and on going up stairs witness found that her box had been broken open and all her clothes stolen. The prisoner bad, however, left two cabbages in her trunk, in lieu of the clothes. Mary Murphy, chambermaid at the Ship, Lime•street, said about six months ago the prisoner slept at the liouqe ; he had on then a blue cloak, and he carried a carpet bag. It was discovered that a gentleman's sleeping-room hal been entered, and independent of articles of clothing, 451. in sovereigns were taken. Under the prisoner's bed were found a couple of large cabbages. Mr. Thomas Edwards, of the King's Arms, Newgate street, said the prisoner slept at his house some time in November last. He had a carpet-bag and a cloak, which he would not let any one touch. When he had left the house the following morning, a lodger discovered that som e wearing apparel bad been abstracted from his room. The prisoner had left a large quantity of cabbage leaves by way of security for the stolen property. Mr. William Hitchcock, landlord of the Old Bell, Hol. born, was positive that the prisoner was the same person who slept at his house some time in last November. He had then a blue cloak and a blue carpet-bag, which he ap peared to take special care of. After he had settled for his bed in the morning, a customer discovered that his great coat and an India-rubber cloak had been stolen, and in their place four large cabbages had been left. The LORD MAYOR directed that the prisoner should be remanded for a week. He is a young man, dark hair and whiskers, sallow complexion, and has a wife and two children. A conversation took place at a political club-house at the \Vest-end of the Town on Saturday, which led to a bet as to which of two Members of the House of Commons who weae named, made the most efficient opposition to the Reform Bill; the bet, to prevent trouble of deciding on the merits of the parties' orations, was to be decided on the length of their speeches delivered during a giving period, which was accordingly measured in a morning paper, when it appeared that the speeches of one where, taken together, seven yards and a quarter in length, and those of the other six yards and a hay; consequently be who bet on the former won the wager. CHILD MURDER.—.OII Saturday MARY WELLS, a married woman, aged thirty-five years, was fully committed to our county gaol, from Weedon Beck, on the serious charge of having, according to her own confes sion, poisoned her son, an infant about a year and a half old, by administering arsenic to it in the month of August last. She states that she obtained the poison by watch ing a shepherd who was anointing some sheep, and perceiving him to drop a paper, she went and picked it up; and knowing that its contents must be arsenic, as that poison is used for dressing sheep for the fly, she took it home, and gave it to her child with some food ; the usual eff,cts followed, and the child died on the following day. No suspicion was at that time excited of foul play, and the child was regularly laid out and buried without any inquiry being made ; but we un derstand that the woman who laid out the child now states that its appearance was somewhat unusual, yet not so much so as to lead her to suppose that any thing was wrong. The prisoner, we are informed, made the con fession shortly after returning from witnessing the funeral of a neighbour's child. She described herself as having been miserable ever since the commission of the deed ; and the circumstance of the funeral had so forcibly recalled her child to her memory, that she could keep the dreadful secret no longer, and therefore relieved her mind by snaking a circumstantial confession to Mrs. REBECCA FACER, the keeper of the poor-house, where she was maintained, and to a female named ANN RODDIS. This was on the Friday afternoon, and on the following day the depositions of these females having been taken before the Rev. J. SEAG RAVE, one of the county Magistrates, the woman was fully committed for trial at the approaching assizes. We believe, at p r esent, there is no evidence a gainst h e r b e y o nd h e r own eoniession. We have not heard iv Nether it is intended to disinter the body, but we should think it of importance that this should be dune, in order to detect, if possible, the presence of the poison, which according to her own confession, she administered. The self-accuse d was married , but her husband bad fur some time past beenin Ireland ; and th e deceased child was born at a p eriod alter his absence, w it impossible . he could have be e n its .atlier. motive whi ch can be assi , .med for ti e per petration be readersol e of the e dreadful cr i me. It is right to state that it i s the opinian of some persons in the village that the woman is insane. Just published, in Bvo. price 7t3. 6d. boards, SUBSTANCE of SEVERAL COURSES of LECTURES on MUSIC, read in the University of Oxford, and in the Metropolis. By W. CRO rcH, Mus. Doc. ; Professor of Music, Oxford, &c. London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Co. By the same Author, in 4to. with 63 Plates, ELEMENTS of MUSICAL COMPOSITION, 21s. boards.