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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNAL S Mr. Stanley introduced last night into the House of Commons the Bill for Reform in the constituency and representation of Ireland. Though the relative proportion of Members to sit in the united Parliament from the three great divisions of the empire might have been main tained as fixed by treaties, " the sister island is allowed, by the new arrrangement, five new Mem bers, we shall not say at the expence of England, but certainly in diminution of its former repre sentation. This concession does not, however, satisfy the Irish Members, who, having been ' offered five additional representatives, now de- mand five and twenty. Ireland, it is alleged, contains nearly 8,000,000 of inhabitants, and therefore ought to be represented in the United Parliament by more than 100 Members. But if population were to be the measure of Par- liamentary delegation, Ireland ought to send not only 125 Members, but 225 across the Channel. Possessing a third part of the popu lation of the United Kingdom, which by the late census amounts to more than 24,000,000, it ought to have a third share in the representa tion. Is this amount claimed P—or rather is it not at once abandoned, in order to proportion its number of Members more nearly to the ex tent of the resources which it brings to the general stock of the empire, or to the relative share which it bears of the public burdens ? In this latter respect the just shale of Ireland in the general representation would sink as much below its present number of one hundred Members, as a regard to its population alone would raise it above that number. We shall at present say nothing about the natural resources or physical capabilities of Ireland, if governed on a different system ; but we just state what it brings to the common treasury, the best test of immediate use to England, and its relative addition to the strei gth of the empire. Ireland, then, be it known, does not contribute to the revenue of the United Kingdom four millions (as stated by Sir H. Parnell, only 3,800,000/0, out of the 50,000,000/. which is raised on the people of the United Kingdom. Thus, while its repre sentation is at present somewhat more than a sixth, its taxes are not a twelfth part of the re venue of the empire ; while its population is a third, its contributions to the State are not a twelfth. We shall revert to the subject to-mor row. The Scotch Reform Bill was brought in and read a first time, after a few short speeches, which, however, presented no remarkable topic; but in the discussion both on the Irish and Scotch Bills, it is evident that the English and Scotch Anti-Reformers intend to combine with the Irish Reformers in opposing the Reform Bill for Ireland. Will the Irish Members walk with open eyes into so manifest a snare ?—Tiriaes. We thought we had so fully explained the in crease of the Peerage which is to take place, that the most perverse captiousness could unravel no thread of our statement to hang a hope upon. The King then, we will again publish in the most explicit terms, is most anxious to make, and will most undoubtedly make, a sufficient number of new Peers to ensure the success of the Reform Bill in the Upper House. If this fact can be made known in any clearer expressions than those which we have used, we will thank the enemies of the measure to impart them to us, and in those expressions we will repeat our assertion. Why, then, it is asked, are not the Peers made Why should they be made (we reply) before the time? We see many reasons why they should not be prematurely made, but none why they should. Ministers are desirous of cer tainty on the point how many will be neces sary ; and that this is no easy point to ascer tain with respect to the members of an assembly who cannot be interrogated like children at their catechism, or witnesses at the bar, is but too obvious from the experience of last Session. "Many do not now know how they will vote : others are not certain whether they shall vote at all, or absent themselves. How, then, can the numbers of pros and cons be yet calculated with certainty ? Ministers, from delicacy to the House, are desirous not to flood it with un necessary Members, though every new creation will perhaps elevate a man of as estimable a character as any already in the House : but they are equally determined net to suffer the measure to fail from an insufficient creation of Peers. They merely wait, therefore, till they can pro portion with exactness the force to be employed to the resistance to be overcome ; and the knowledge of this fact, which may be assumed as such with the fullest conviction, may, we should hope, tend to weaken the opposition by showing its uselessness.—Times. The Reform Bill for Ireland was introduced last night by Mr. Stanley, with a speech cha racterised by the same power of reasoning and expression which has hitherto di-tinguished the Parliamentary efforts of that gentleman. It was already known that in Ireland considerable dis satisfaction was felt respecting the proportion, or rather the disproportion, of additional represen tatives, as compared with the number allowed to England under the new measure. Mr. Stanley exhibited great ingenuity in the attempt to get over this difficulty ; but, however his reasoning may be estimated by others, it did not afford sa tisfaction to the Irish Members, who, one and all, protested against the arrangement as partial and unjust. After many of them had delivered their sentiments in opposition to this provision of the Bill, Sir Robert Inglis declared himself " unwilling to interrupt the harmony in which all the Members for Ireland who had yet spoken— however adverse their general political opinions— had joined to find fault with the measure which was then under their consideration." Sir Robert has an excellent ear for music—he delights in an Irish conc er t, an d h ere he had it to his heart's content, for no sooner had the Right Honour able Secret ar y sounded his key, than the whole orchestra from Dublin struck up a tune of such s , dulcet discord" as must have enchanted every Anti- Reformer. Thelrish Members had all agreed to differ from the Minist er , and lik e men of ho nour, and, as Sir Robertlnglis wds insin ß uated, like musicians, they k ept their words Sir Robert was so hi g hl y pleased' w i with the Irish Members, he did not seem to have given them the same satisfaction upon his part. On the contrary, he was handled somewhat roughly by Mr. Sheil, who raised a l aug h at his expense, and showed with what perfect ignorance of Irish affairs the Hon. Baronet was prepared to legis late for that country. Mr. Croke% and the other Anti-Reformers, took advantage, as might be expected, of the harmony of the Irish Members to denounce the Bill. The Irish Members were ail right; they had never been so right before. Their demand for additional Members was quite reasonable and proper. Why ? Not because it was desirable that Ireland, Scotland, or Eng land, or any part of either country, should have more Members than at present, but because it was desirable that they should ask for something which might by possibility prevent them from getting any thing. Such was the line of argu ment adopted by the Anti-Reformers. But will the Reformers shut their eyes to the absurdity which they commit in forming a coalition of this nature against the general measure to which the whole country is looking forward with anxiety We can scarcely think they will persist in such a measure. The Scotch Reform Bill was after wards introduced by the Lord Advocate, and underwent a severe criticism also. The general tone of the debate, however, upon both mea sures, was far more temperate than we were ac customed to the Session before. 1 his was a gratifying feature in the discussion. Perhaps a few more conversations will bring the different parties to a better understanding, and prevent those strange coalitions from taking place which are more anomalous in their character than any thing that has yet been charged against even this much-abused Bill.—Morning Herald. The Irish and Scotch Reform Bills were brought in last night. Mr. Stanley, in intro ducing the Irish measure to the House, had a fling at the agitators. The excitement which they had caused was, he said, " additional difficulty thrown in their way by those who had promoted commotion, and occasioned commotion through out the land—(Hear, hear.)—by men professing good-will towards the cause of Reform, and who had industriously contrived, at every step, to throw the most serious obstacles in the way of Reform.—(Cheers.) But, notwithstanding this strong reason for abstaining from change, he said that it; in reason and justice, and not because of, but in spite of, the agitation which prevailed, they considered the measure would be adviseable, they should not hesitate nor refuse to act fairly towards Ireland." The proportion of Members for Ireland and Scotland is to remain the same as in the last Bill. In the counties, instead of a twenty years' lease, fourteen years are taken ; and instead of taking rent as a criterion, the beneficial interest is to be taken. Mr. Stanley stated several particulars regarding the hands into which the franchise was likely to go : " It appeared," he said, "by returns respecting the constituency of the counties, published in 1830, that the whole body of Irish freeholders, as contemplated by the Bill, amounting to 53,152, of whom 22,000 were regis tered as 501. freeholders ; 10,000 as 201. freeholders ; leaving of the lowest class (those of only 101.) little more than 20,000! And this he thought might also tend to satisfy those gentlemen who were terrified at the idea of a Catholic constituency, and who apprehended that the Protestant institutions and establishments would be over- turned by the change they proposed to make i❑ the repre s,ntati,,n. But let them only consider that in Catholic Munster, out of 15,382 freeholders there were 7,382 fifty pound freeholders, 3,113 twenty•pound freeholders, and only 3,9( 0 ten-pound freeholders. While in Protestant Ulster, where the lower clas , es were, with few exceptions, Protestant, out of a total of 15,658 freeholder•, 8,535 were ten-pound freelidders. Therefore, when the ma's of the population was Protestant, there was a majority of ten-pound freeholders ; and where the mass of the property was Protestant, and the population Catholic, there was a vast majority of fifty-pound and twenty pound freeholders to overbalance the Catholic ten-pound voters." There is to be no disfranchisement of bo• roughs, as there were, properly speaking, no boroughs like Gatton and Old Sarum in Ire land. The remedy was to extend the franchise in the existing boroughs " In England the right of voting was to be extended to all lona fide ten-pound householders ; in Ireland there would be some difficulty in ascertaining this point. He did not think it would be unreasonable to propose, that in the great towns where there were local taxes, such as for paving, lighting, &c., the individual should be obliged to show be had paid them up within the last half year before he should be privileged to exercise the franchise. He did not speak of church, cess, or Ministers' money, which might be liable to objection. In the counties of cities and the counties of towns, which, in addition to the be rough, comprehended an agricultural district, he resolved to propose the combined right of the ten pound house holder in the towns, and the freeholder and leaseholder in the country, which he intended to add to the ten-pound voter of the town, and this without depriving him of his vote for the county at large, thus retaining for him the double vote—that for the county and that for the town— which he enjoyed before." With respect to freemen, however, they are not to be perpetuated. He proposed to retain actual and inchoate rights, but not to continue them. In Ireland freemen were an objectionable class of voters. They were made merely because they were Protestants, and to exclude the Ca tholics. Mr. Leader contended that Ireland ought in fairness, estimating her :importance compared with England, to have 161 Members; and he contended that it would be the highest injustice to meddle with Old Sarum in Eng land, if they abstained from destroying the six teen or eighteen equally rotten boroughs in Ire land. Mr. Huthven also contended for the des- traction of the Irish rotten boroughs, and in sisted that Ireland ought to have thirty-two ad ditional Members instead of five. Mr. Croker, of course, endeavoured to fan the discontent and jealousy of the Irish Members. " In his opi nion it behoved every Scotch and every Irish Member, before he consented to disfranchise a single English borough, or to enfranchise a single English town, or to divide a single English county, distinctly to understand that satisfactory justice would be done to Scotland and Ireland." A very pretty quarrel if well managed. Lord Aithorp, in proof of the improvement of Ire land, observed, that while the excise of England had diminished, that of Ireland had increased. The Lord-Advocate, in proposing the Scotch Bill, said that in principle there was no difference whatever between the last and the present, nor was there any material alteration in the details. In the former Bill, Port Glasgow had been united to Greenock ; it was now intended that it should be separated. There was no difference in the franchise, with regard to counties, only so much alteration with regard to boroughs as to render the measure in some degree conformable to that of England. The Scotch Members were equally loud with the Irish in their demands for more Members.—Morning Chronicle. The Reform Bill comes before the Committee this evening, and general attention will be again directed towards that first and most important clause, the injustice and tyranny of which was so ably exposed by the conservative party last Ses sion. The proposed system of disfranchisement, which seems so very palatable to the Radical part of the community, is not only founded on gross injustice, but is also pregnant with certain and incalculable mischief. Through those boroughs which at one fell swoop our Reforming Mi nisters would consign to destruction have found their way into the House of Com mons men whose talents have been an ho nour to th e i r kind, and whose names are interwov en with the brightest periods of the history of our country. Under the new Con stitution, how e v er , there will be but one road to .he Ho use o f C ommons eligible for th e Senate unless whim h a e nd wi c l l l i p )r l i e c ( e ige ofthe people, how e v er a b sur d , and him self to supp or t every unless he e possesses sufficient nerve to b rave the st'''. wealth , hustings. It will exc l u d e t h e popular and talent from the Legislature ; ttl e o doors f l of mass mo the I louse of Commons will be against all who will not debase themselvescose by imitating the present Ministry in the culti ration of low popularity ; all who cannot face ' popular assemblies, however splendid their ac quirements, however extensive their knowledge, however great their interest in the country, w ill be debarred from contributing to the welfare of the State by their wisdom and advice. In short, talent and property will be deprived of its just influence, and the natural consequence must soon: follow—the abolition of property itself. The tendency of the Ministerial measure is to shake all that is stable, to desecrate all that is holy, and to prostrate all that is venerable and great. It is opening the flood-gates of demo cracy, the mighty and irresistible torrent of which threatens, if unchecked, to sweep away the altar and the throne.—Morning Post. It is now confidently reported that the Bishops, we mean the Anti• Reforming Bishops, do not mean either to attend the discussions in the House of Lords on the Reform Bill, or to vote on any of the readings. We should be glad to have better authority, than mere report, for the fact stated ; and there can he no doubt that both his Majesty and his Majesty's Mi nisters would also be much satisfied with evi dence to the same effect on which they could rely. We have reason to believe, however, that although something like a determination to the effect mentioned has been adopted by the bench of Bishops, neither the one or the other have the slightest intention of relying upon it, and that the new creation of Peers will take place without taking the matter into account. This is the best policy. The King and his Ministers have been deceived once ; and assuredly, with the means at their command of preventing a se cond deception, they would be inexcusable were it even barely possible to inflict such an injustice upon them.—ilforning Advertiser. COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. Yesterday a Court was held. As there were many new members, during the discussion there was not quite so much order or regulariry as usually marks deliberative assemblies. TILE STANDING ORDER AGAINST BANKRUPTS, COM- POUNDERS WITH CREDITORS, &C. Mr. ALDERMAN presented a petition from cor tain inhabitants of Cripplegate without, praying the enforcement by the Court of the 17th standing order, ‘vhich prohibits from sitting upon a com mittee of the Corporation any member who has been a bankrupt, or has compounded with his cre ditors for less than twenty shillings in the pound, or has been guilty of fraud. The petition was referred to the Committee of General Purposes. THE POLICE OF THE CITY OF LONDON. The most important subject upon the paper was that respecting the police of the c►ty of London, of which Alderman Wood had given the following notice :—" That it be referred to a Committee to consider the present state of the day and night police, the evening and night patrol, and nightly watch within this city; and that the said Com mittee do report whether any alteration ought to be made either in that part of the police paid out of the Corporation fund, or that paid by the public; and in that case to report what plan they %% ould rt commend for the establishment of a more efficient force by day or night, and what would be the pro bable expense of such force." Alderman WOOD briefly represented the neces sity which existed for an efficient police force in the city of London. He wished for a Special Com mittee, and most distinctly expressed his objection to refer the subject to the Watch Committee. This latter observation seemed to excite much disapprobation. Alderman VENABLES seconded the motion. Mr. R. TAYLOR begged to assure the Court that the Bristol Magistrates had acted badly, because they were a rotten self-elected body—a body chosen in the teeth of the people.—(Loud cheers, and great confusion.) No Magistrates could render any service to the public except they had the confidence of their fellow-citizens.—(Hear, hear.) Several members made some observations, but the confusion which prevailed prevented our reporter from herring a word they uttered. Alderman Wool) would not have the matter re ferred to the Watch Committee, because he wished for an efficient day as well as night police. The condition of the day police was deplorable; there had been nothing done as to the prevention of crime by day, and still an expellee exceeding 40,000/. a year \YR= incurred to protect the citizens. Alderman VrNAnLEs said, that all the points ad verted to by Alderman Wood were in the report (lawn up by him, at the period he had alluded to. Mr. HARMER rose to move, as an amendment, that the subject should be submitted to the Watch Committee instead of a Special Committee. Mr. LEGGE seconded the amendment. After some further discussion, Alderman Wood's motion was negatived by a large majority. TRIA JUNCTA IN UNo.—This celebrated motto w.,s curiously verified in a parochial meeting last week, in which a female, brought up to filiate a❑ illegiti mate child, ingenuously offered the parish officers their choice from three gay Lotharios, two of whom, a surgeon in practice, not a hundred miles from this town, and a farmer of rep ctahility, residing within the same distance, had long since passed the meridian of their days—the third a sturdy labourer, who was more than suspected to be the fortuna.e hero, escaped the usual punishment, the guilty con science of one of the other parties having offered a douceur of fifty pounds to the female to place the laurel on another head than his.—Deccmport Telegraph. _ . _ A few nights since a young lady, whose friends are residing on the Marine Parade at Dover, during the temporary absence of her female attendant, in a fit of de lirium, leaped out of the upstairs window and fell into the area, and though much bruised she contrived to ascend the stairs of the court, and walked from thence across the beach to the edge of the sea, where she was found almost in a state of nudity by a gentleman, who, having kindly wrapped his cloak round her, cause.' the night police to convey her to the watch-house, and place her by the fire. Here her friends, after an anxious and diligent search, dis covered her, and Lad her conveyed home in the family carriage and every attention shown her ; but whether front the effects of her fall, the severity of the weather, or from both, she only survived up to Monday last. We have seldom had to record a more affect ing instance of the sudden termination of life than oc curred at the village of Askam Richard, near this city, last week. An aged couple, of the name of RFNNISON, had long subsisted on the pittance afforded by the parish. On Wednesday the husband arose and prepared breakfast for his partner, which he carried up to her in her bed. On approaching the bedside, he found that, in the short space since he had left her, the mortal struggle had passed. In his grief at this sudden bereavement h e was h eard to exclaim that " he wished the Loan would provide a place for him also." His prayer was heard—for before the close of the evening he was called to " where the weary are at rest." Their remains were interred in one grave on SA• turd my last.— York Courant. EXTRAORDINARY BIRTII.—Near the town of Bromsgrove are four sisters, named MARIA, MARY, SARAH, and ELIZA RICHARDSON, the produce of one birth, who were born on the night of the 23d March, 1919, and have now consequently rr.ained the age of nearly 13 years. The event, as may readily he supposed, cursed a considerable stir among the neighbours, an d t h e Rev. Mr. Ihncs, minister of the place, arose and baptized the children on the instant, considering it improbable that they w, uld survive till the morning. The ruin whose family increased so prqd igiously was at the time a labourer, who worked upon the roads for one shilling a day ; an d both before and since this quadruple birth his wife had borne other children singly. They then occup i e d a wretched hovel, but the presents which they received from visitors, who flocked from all parts to see them, enabled them in a short time to remove to a wore comfortable dwelling, arid placed them in easy circumstances. The four girls were all living so lately as last week, healthy, and rather genteel looking children, so much alike in ap pearance as not to be readily known apart, except by per sons accustomed to tbeni.—Hall Packet, REFORM in the COUNTY of DONEGAL. (From the Dublin Freeman's Journal.) GREAT TRIUMPH OF PUBLIC FEELING AND DEFEAT OF TILE CORRUPTIONISTS. LETTERKENNY, JAN. Is.—The corruptionists received such a defeat here yesterday as I think will effectually save this county from any future factious attempt to dis turb the harmony and concord that happily exist amongst its people. Pursuant to a requisition, addressed to the High Sheriff, yesterday was fixed for a meeting of the gentry, clergy, and freeholders of this county to petition against Reform, and give expression to public feeling upo❑ that question. The people of this county were determined to repudiate this attempt to misrepresent Protestant feeling, and to repel such an imputation upon their loyalty. Accordingly measures were taken to give scope to the exhibition of genuine Protestant feeling, and in the teeth of the discomfited corruptionists to proclaim that in no part of the empire has his Majesty more loyal subjects, nor hie Ministers more firm supporters. The Rev. Mr. Boyton, of Trinity College, had come down a few days previews, and had been using all his efforts to make the affair go off as well as possible. Colonel Conolly arrived the day previous, and I have been informed that the other county member, Sir E. Hayes, bad been for the last three weeks scouring the country for a muster. Twelve o'clock was the hour of meeting, and an im mense number of persons were assembled outside the Court-house, the doors of which were kept closed. The Rev. Mr. Boyton, Colonel Conolly, Sir E. Hayes, anti a ?ew tnore, judging that the storm was gathering, remained in conclave at the inn until after two o'clock—at which hour the Court-house was opened, and instantly filled in all parts. Shortly after the High Sheriff appeared on the bench, and announced that it had been moved, unts'ele, by Sir James Stewart, and seconded by Mr. Doherty, that the meeting should adjourn sine die. This announcement was hailed with tremendous acclamations, and the few of the ultras that had ventured to appear, slunk away amid a vehement expression of the indignation of the peoi le. It was at once determined on the spot to hold a counter meet ing the county in favour of Reform, and the Court-house being insufficient to eontain the assembled thous olds, a tem poral y pl ttforni of tables was formed in the large space oppo site the Court-house, and the chair having been taken by a gentleman of great wealth and respectability, a series of re solutions, and an address to his Majesty in favour of Re form were adopted, amid a tremendous exhibition of in tense public emotion. Amongst the former, and received in a highly flattering manner, was a vote of thanks to the proprietor of the Freeman's Journal, for his co-operation and assistance. No praise can be too great for the conduct of the Protestants and Pi esbyteriaos of this town, who re c-ived, with uncommon feelings of disgust and abhorrence, the attempt to dissociate them from their Catholic neigh bours, and to revive those pernicious discords and party feuds, of whose disastrous results they have had too ample an experience. The high and generous state of Protestant feeling and sentiment in the North is not sufficiently un derstood. So far as I have witnessed here. I have never seen any thing to surpass its vehemence and intensity. PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ABSTRACT of the BILL for the AMENDMENT of the LAW relating to the ESTATE of a TENANT by the curtesy of ENGLA ND : Clause I.—Actual seisin shall not be necessary to give a title as tenant by the curtesy. ll.—Husband shall be tenant by the curtesy, notwith standing there may have been no issue. lll.—Where there shall be issue of a former marriage, the estate by the curtesy shall extend to only one moiety of the hereditaments. IV.—The Act not to extend to gavelkind, or borough- English, or copyhold hereditaments. V.—Act not to take effect where the wife shall have died before the Ist January, 1833. REAL PROPERTY. ABSTRACT of a BILL for the LIMITATION of ACTIONS and SUITS relating to REAL PROPERTY, and for simpli fying the Remedies thr trying the Rights thereto : No land or rent to be recovered but within twenty years after the right of action accrued to the claimant, or some person whose estate he claims. Where advantage of a forfeiture, or breach of condition, shall not be taken by a remainderman, he shall have a new right when his estate comes into possession. Reversioner to have a new right. An administrator to claim as if he obtained the estate without any interval after the death of the deceased. No person to have a new right after a tenancy at will, or by sufferance. No person, after a tenancy from year to year, to have any right hut from the end of the first year, or last pay ment of rent. Where rent, amounting to 20s. reserved by a lease in 'writing, shall have been wrongfully received, no right to accrue on the determination of the lease. A mere entry not to be deemed possession. No right to be preserved by continual ( Possession of one co-parcener, &c. not to be the possession of the others. Possession of a younger brother not to be the possession of the heir. Ackno Nledgment in writing given to the person entitled, or his agent, to be equivalent to possession or receipt of rent. Where possession is not adverse at the time of passing the Act, the rights shall not be debarred until the end of five years afterwards. Persons under disability of infancy, lunacy, coverture, or beyond seas, and their representatives, to be allowed ten years from the terminatioß of their disability or death. But no action, &c., shall be brought beyond furty years after the right of action accrued. Nu further time to be allowed for a succession of disabi ities. Scotland, Ireland, and Man, Jersey, and other adjacent islands, not to be deemed places beyond seas. When the right to an estate in possession is barred, the right of the same person to future estates shall also be barred. Where tenant in tail is barred, remaindermen, whom Le. might have barred, shall not recover. Possession adverse to a tenant in tail shall run on against the remaindermen whom lie might have barred. Where there shall have been possession under an assur ance, I y a tenant in tail, which shall not bar the remain ders, they shall be barred at the end of twenty years after the time when the assurance, if then executed, would have barred them. No suit in equity to be brought after the time when the plaintiff, if entitled at law, might have brought an action. In cases of express trust, the right shall not he deemed to have accrued until a conveyance to a purchaser. In case , ' of fraud, no time shall run whilst the fraud re main, concealed. _ _ Saving the jurisdiction of equity, on the ground of acquiescence or otherwise. Mortgagor to be barred at the end of twenty years from the time when the mortgagee took possession, or from the last written acknowle4gment. . . . No hods or renti to be recovered by ecclesiastical or eleemosynary corporations sole, but within three incum bencies, and six years or silty years. . . Nu advowson to be recovered but within three incum bencies or sixty year.. . . . Incumbencio after lapse to be reckoned within the pe riod, but not incumbencies after promotions to bishoprics. Pet sons claiming an advowson in remainder, Sze., after an est ite tail to be barred when the tenant in tail would have been barred. No advowson to be recovered after 100 years. At the end of the period of limitation the right of th e party out of possession to he extinguished. Receipt of rent to be deemed receipt of profits as against the lessee. Real and mixed actions abolished (except for dower, quare impedit, and ejectment.) Saving the rights of persons entitled to real actions only at the commencement of the Act, who may bring them in the time during which they might have entered, if their right of entry had not been taken away. No descent, discontinuance, or warranty, to bar a right of entry or action. Non-user of profits or easements for twenty years to bar the right thereto, except in case of disability. Money charged upon land and legacies to he deemed satisfied at the end of twenty years, if there shall be no in terest paid or acknowledgment in writing in the meantime. No arrears of dower to be recovered for more than six years. No a rrears of rent or interest to be recovered for more than six years. LONDON -BRIDGE.—The eastern side of the new bridge is rendered every day almost impassable by the crowds of persons who step to witness the taking down of the old one. This operation proceeds with ap parent rapidity, though it is still thought that the greater part of the present year will have elapsed before it is com pleted. The great diffirulty hitherto has been to keep the water-way clear, which has thus far been successfully ac complished. Nothing surprises spectators;more than finding that the old bridge, instead of consisting of solid masses of stone, its main ingredients consist of rubbish, showing a very different species of masonry to that which has re placed it. NORTH OF ITALY. REPRESENTATION OP THE PAPAL LE- GATIONS TO THE SEE OF ROME. MOST BLESSED FATHER,—The undermentioned inhabitants of Bologna, desirous to see tranquillity and order assured to your State, and established for the common prosperity of all, think themselves bound to present humbly before your blessed throne some respectful remarks which appear necessary to obtain this important end. The general desire of the people, as much before as since the recent political disturbances, has always been that a Monarchical Government, more con formable to the new customs, just, economical, and tolerant, should be substituted for the present system of a temporal and pontifical Government. This ar dent desire arose from the knowledge of the general wants which still exit; therefore it would be a great error to suppo,e that those disturbances were created by the few who were condemned to the misery of an exile. Of this there is sufficient proof, considering what has been the state of inquietude in the provinces in the doubt of obtaining the wished for ameliorations. Admitting, therefore, that your people have no other desire than to obtain permanent institutions (so much the more necessary where the Sovereign is elective), which may supply the place of those enfranchised privileges which were assured to the various cities of the State by the ancient pontifical charters of the constitution, which do not take from the rights of the Sovereign Pontiff, and which are not in contradiction wits► the interests of the other Powers—thus the undersigned implore the follow ing conditions :- 1. That the Ecclesiastical and Civil Power,shall be separated, and established as a fundamentul maxim, that all the employments and offices of the temporal Government shall become secular. 2. That the administration of the communes and provinces shall be regulated by common and provin cial Councils. 3. That the Communal Councils he elected by persons in the classes approved eligible—restricted, however, by a census, stating their conditions, rank, and capacity. 4. That the Provincial Councils shall be elected from the Communal Councils. 5. That there may be near the Pope a Council of State, composed of individuals of all the provinces, in proportion to the number of the respective popu lations, chosen by the Sovereign from the lists formed of the Members of the Provincial Councils. 6. That three years after their formation . a third of the Common and Provincial Councils, not ex cepting the Council of State, to be renewed in the above-mentioned forms, and thus, every succeeding year, by turns, the Councillors that go out may be re-elected. 7. That the Council of State must carefully watch the good conduct of the different Ministers, give its consent to the emanation of laws—to the imposition of taxes and tributes ; and should be consulted by the Sovereign in all those cases which form, in a themselves.tempera t e monarchy, the attribute of the Councils 8. That the same Council of State shall propose to the sanction of the Sovereign the reform necessary for the division of the territory, and for the restriction of the number of commons as well as the regulation for the a dministration of the provinces and commons. 9. And that the same Council may be called upon by the Provincial Council for the wants of the pro vinces, by means of the respective Councillors by which they are represented in the same Council of State. 10. That after the proposed Council of State shall be named by the Sovereign, various Commis sions, composed of individuals from the different provinces, who shall be bound to compile with care the projects for the new laws, and to propose the Reform necessary for those already promulgated, warning in a special manner-Ist, That the civil laws may be rendered uniform for all, without ex ception or privilege. 2d, To reform the system of mortgage, to accord it with the civil laws, taking from it those defects which render it impracticable. 3d, That all the civil judgments shall be preceded by an attempt at juridical conciliation. 4th, That the proceedings shall be rendered simple and econo mical, and shall not oblige the inhabitants of the provinces to have recourse to distant tribunals. sth, That all immunities, asylums, arbitrary punish ments, and the custom of proportioning them to the evidence, shall be taken from the criminal laws, and shall be rendered common to all crimes, without dis tinction; and that all the tribunals shall have the same rule for penal proceedings; that the publicity of all discussions shall be established, excepting only those cases which may be detrimental to public morals. 6th, That the laws of finance shall be di rected to prevent contraband, to protect commerce and indu stry, ti i ons g of laws tile police system shall of acco rding to the different wants and situations pia y va . extend principally to p revent crimes b y ba nishm e nt, That the lawboliss of f ng and as much as pos sible idleness and mendicit y , and it .te 7 tli th e provi nces, rrha to establish a prudent regulation on the press. 11. That when the works of the above mentioned Commissioners shall be compiled and published, they shell be examint d before the Tribunals and tile Provincial Councils, and then discussed in the Council of State, alter which they shall be presented to obtain the sanction of the Sovereign. 12. That another Commission, presided by the Minister of Finances, shall propose a plan of liqui dation and assurance of the public debt, and that, after wards discussed by the Council of the State, it shall be presented for the sanction of the Sovereign. 13. That after the proposal of the Minister of Finances, the tributes of the different provinces shall be rendered common and indistinct to all, and espe cially for the duties on grinding corn, arid the duties on consumption; that the system of administrations be abolished, and that the necessary reductions be made at the expence of the State; and that every year the accounts of the expenses of all the Ministers shall be discussed and presented before the Council of State, and made publicly known. 14. That the system of common and provincial administrations shall be extended, except to Rome and its marches, and also those subsidies necessary for the charges of the State on extraordinary occasions. 15. That the judicial power shall be entirely dis tinct and independent of the administrative power, in such a manner that the Judges and tribunals shall only correspond with the Sovereign by means of the Minister of Justice. 16. That the system of promotion shall only be given by merit and long services, in all the military and civil employments, as also in the common, pro vincial, and State situations. 17. That to the present regulations on public in structions shall be added the necessary reforms, ac cording to the opinion of the Council of State, and the different Colleges of the Universities. 18. That Civic Guards shall be established in the towns and country ; and that from henceforward all foreigners shad be excluded from receiving pay in the military service, to enable the State to offer an honourable career to many youths of merit. 19. That a general amnesty be granted to all per sons who are accused of taking part in the late po litical disturbances. Such, most blessed Father, are the concessions which ca►► satisfy the wishes of your subjects. Such are the institutions and the Reform which will pro cure you the admiration of the world, the love of your people, arid will serve more than any other means to consolidate the Pontifical authority, to pro mote the prosperity of the State, and to assure you in history the glorious title of founder of a new era. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.-Yesterday being the adjournment-day of the Middlesex Sessions, a full bench of Magistrates assembled on the bench with Mr. CoNsT, their Chairman, at the Sessions-house, Clerkenwell.i After dispo s in g of a trifling case of assault and two indictments for keeping disorderly houses, the Court was occupied during the rema i n d e r of the day in hearing an appeal in which the parties were the United Service Club, appel lants, the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, and others, respondents. MRS. SIDDONS. n On the 10th of October, 1782, Mrs. Siddons made her second appearance on the boards of Drnry-lane, after an interval of seven years ; but she had left so little impression behind her, from the characters she performed during the season of 1775-6,—so slight a recollection remained of her among play-goers,---that she now stood before a London audience under all the circum stances usually attendant upon a first appearance. There were no comparisons to institute between what she was and what she had become. Isabella, in Southern's tragedy of that name, was the character she selected ; and her perform ance, judging from the language of contemporary criticism, was even thus early cast in a mould which she never saw reason to alter, during the thirty years she continued to represent it. This fulness of perfection is the exclusive attribute of genius of the highest order. Inferior minds strive to produce complete effects by laboriour study, and successive improvements ; superios ones seize at once what they design to do, and execute what they design with the same rapidity. It is the flight of the arrow, which goes directly to its mark. And any one who has a clear re membrance of Mrs. Siddons, will recollect that there was a uniformity in her style of personating all her characters, instead of a perpetual effort to strike out new beauties ; the natural result of a vivid conception in the first instance, re- • aulated afterwards by profound judgment. It is unnecessary to add that her success was decisive. The public had never before beheld an actress whom nature had so prodigally gifted. She combined all the separate excel lencies of her predecessors and contemporaries, and added to their common stock her own ex clusive endowments. Mrs. Siddons was ma jestic, Mrs. Crawford pathetic, Miss Younge enthusiastic ; the voice of the first was melo dious, that of the second harsh, that of the third tremulous. As to features, Mrs. Yates was after the antique, but she had little flexibility; Mrs. Crawford was even handsome, but the expression of her countenance was rather satirical ; of Miss Younge the features wanted prominence and re-, lief, and the eye had little colour. In their style of acting they differed considerably. Mrs. Yates • studied to be graceful; Mrs. Crawford was ve hement, and threw her arms out from side to side, struck the bosom, &c. ; Miss Younge had ac quired the temperance in action which Shak speare recommends, and in every motion was correct and refined, delicate and persuasive.— Their rival, as we have said, had all their sepa sate excellencies united, with all that they had not. There was no invidious but to curtail her of her full perfections in every requisite that imagination could devise.—Annual Biography and Obituary for 1832. THE MARKETS. SOUTHALL M ARK ET.—Jan. 18. This dariimarket exhibited a gOOO supply of Beasts, but that of small stock was limited, and it was tolerably, though not to say numerously, attended by buyers ; the trade was dull through. out, at the following prices per stone of 81b. to sink the ofials : Beet 3s. Od. to 4s. 4d. 4s. 0.1. to s s . 6d. Mutton 4 0 50 1 Pork 4 0 5 0 The foregoing quotations are prime Veal Cd. per stone higher, and prime Pork 2d. per stone lower, than on this day se'nnight ; prices otherwise stationary. Beasts, 307; Sheep, 1,952; Calve, ' 30 ; Pigs, 53. A considerable number of the Beasts left the market unsold. RUMFORD MARKET.—Jan. FE s. d. to s. d. e. d. a. d. Beef 2lO 4 0 Veal Mutton '1 8 4 8 Pork Suckling Calves from 14s. to 3iis ; Quarter old Pigs I2s to 18s. each. Supply moderately good, and trade dull COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE. WEEK. Vl. , heat. I Barley. Oats. Beans. Per Quarter. s. to s. a. a. a. to s. a. a. Blandford 63 98 25 43 Brigg 52 56 27 83 15 20 32• 36 Cambridge 6.3 94 18 20 Chard— 56 62 32 38 18 22 33 38 Huntingd0n........... 58 67 27 39 18 23 28 38 Long Sutton—.. 50 62 17 23 32 40 Louth 56 58 28 38 18 24 30 33 Lynn. 5l) 64 28 :36 16 24 32 at Newark 58 64 34 40 17 28 31 40 Nottingham 54 63 22 42 21 24 38 . 46 Peterborough 50 62 34 38 15 24 28 35 Plymouth 56 65 26 34 20 24 67 43 27 43 Sleafonl 65 70 36 38 22 28 41 43 Uppingham 52 64 30 38 18 26 30 40 Wisbech 52 62 20 23 22 35 CORN Wheat, Norfolkand Stiffi,lk, 601bMARKET.. York. and Lincoln. 601 b. Barley, Norfolk and Sufblk Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Grinding Beans 63lb. Oats, Potatoe --Mealing, For. 12d. to 13(1 En Shelling Rapeseed, English, 161. to 241 Foreig .—Jan. 17. ..... 545. to 653. 52g. to 638. if 325. to 31s • 343. to 355. z 21s. to 235. Nis. to 438. 295. to 323. ig. 11}4d. to 13d. per Kt. 31s. to 328. per load. —4. to —l. per last. LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE—Jan. 17. Wnevr, English, White, per 701 b. ----- Red 8 9 9 0 Scotch, Welch, and Manx Irish, White 8 4 8 7 Red 8 3 8 6 --- Foreign 9 0 9 4 OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b 3 2 3 4 Irish _ Foreign BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter 36 0 38 0 —. Scotch and Irish, per 601bs. -- Feeding 3 10 4 0 BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter 4O 0 44 0 Irish, &cc. Foreign PEASE, English, per Imperial quarter 43 0 45 0 Foreign Elmira, English, per 2801 b. 4B 0 49 0 Irish OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2401bs 27 0 28 0 INDIAN CORN, per 4401 b. lO 0 34 0 Itys, per imperial quarter MALT, per Imperial quarter IMPORT OF G for the Week ending Jan. 16. Wheat. Oats. Barley Flour. Oatmeal Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Foreign, Scks. l Loads , 21,451 18,918 1,872 200 8,397 8,419 The Highland Society of Scotland met on Tuesday in Edinburgh, the Duke of BuccLEucu, the Pre.l sident, in the chair. Laxly MACKENZIE, of Gairloch,! was elected a member without the ceremony of a ballot. Thirty-seven new members were admitted, among whom were the Hon. JAMES MURRAY, Sir JOHN FORBES, Sir, JOILN GORDON SINCLAIR, Sir RALPH ABERCROMBIZ, ANSTRUTIIER, and Sir JOHN 111ALcot3t. The honorary' silver medal of the year has been awarded to the Ettrielz, Shepherd, for a Report on the Agricultural State of Se-e, kirkoaire ; and a similar reward to the Earl of MAR, for' i plantations for shelter made on his estate of Forest. ANECDOTE OF MADAME MALIBRAN.--- , 1 At New York, GARCIA'S daughter, then new to the stigel • appeared at the opera, and performed with great succest several difficult characters, such as Tancredi, Malcolm, in La Donna del Logo, Desdcinona, &c, Relative her performance of the latter character a curious anecdol is told. GARCIA played the Moor of Venice, and si the rehearsal he considered his daughter's perfoimance cold that he decl are d hi s d eterm i nat i on to stab her in good earnest at the catastrophe if she did not evince a little more spirit. This threat, in the mouth of a very severe mast . ter, was taken seriously by Mademoiselle GARCIA. If had a good effect. The performance was sublime. M the conclusion, her father, in a transport of joy, over , whelmed her with praises and caresses. BIRTS. On the 16th i ns t . at Cheltenham, H the lady of W. 11. Gomondtl Esq., of a son. On the 15th inst. at Fulham, the lady of the Rev. John Nelsons of a son. MARRIED. On the lith inst. at Mortlake, William, eldest son of J. UM` win, Esq., to Charlotte Margate, widow of the late J. Insingers Esq. and youngest daughter of F. Reeves, Esq. of East Sheets Surrey. On the 18th inst. at the residence of the bride's father, in Mot. bury-square, Mr. A. L. Vogel, of New-street, to Phcebe, daughter of A. Isaacs, Esq. DIED. On the 17th inst. Judith Sarah, the wife of Mr. W. Stevenk of Hatton-garden, and eldest daughter of the late Mr. S. Kipp formerly of Beceles ' Suffolk, aged til. On the 17th in s t. at Tottenham, Thomas Rowney, Esq. id his 75th year. On the 14th inst. at Queen's Elm, Brompton, John Cassell.' Esq., of George Town, South Carolina, United States of Ala" licit, aged 02. On the 15th inst. in North Wales, Mr. W. Roberts, of High" street, Southwark, aged 38. On the 14th inst. '1 Stevens, Esq., of Cross TorringtoN , Recorder of Exeter, PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY MURDO YOUNG, AT 7114 , SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND, LoNnoN.' ,