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themselr were tr, the delay, the visit, the search, rd vexations to which the ship ping would e`e salt jetted, would be equivalent to the heaviest it npof ,itions. The native merchants of Antwerp h 'aye naturally taken up the proth tion of their co mmercial privileges with zeal. Though their ',town is liable to bombardment every minute,tlie it cry is " Let our persons and property be s,acraficed rather than our rights abandoned." All Belgium echoes the cry, and the King could not yield to the Dutch claim with the least chance of retaining his crown. He has been addressed to this effect by the com mercial body of Antwerp. This same body has sent a deputation to the Conference of Lon don to represent the iniquity of the Dutch pro ject. The English merchants in Belgium have transmitted a petition to Lord Palmerston, our Foreign Minister, to the same effect ; and we hope that such a monstrous Dutch pretension wiii be scouted with the indignation which it deserves. Englishmen more peculiarly have a right to speak in support of the free trade of Antwerp. It was by the association of " Eng lish merchant adventurers" that, in 1446, the prosperity of this great city was founded, and at the most flourishing period of its annals, before Alva's butcheries or Dutch monopolies, we find that English traders gave employment to 20,000 of its inhabitants. The .English mer chants within its walls are still wealthy and re spectable, and our Plenipotentiary at the Con ference should see that neither they nor Belgium can be sacrificed to Dutch jealousy or Orange rapacity with impunity.— Times. The deep interest which the Duke of Welling ton takes in the cause of Don Miguel is very inconsistent with his own conduct when Premier, of advising his Sovereign to acknowledge Donna Maria as lawful Queen of Portugal, though at that time she had not a foot of ground in actual possession within her dominions ; and now she is by her forces in possession, not only of the Azores, but of the second city of Portugal. The Duke of Wellington did not " recognize" Don Miguel when he was in complete occupation of the kingdom of Portugal and the Algarves, ex cept as a usurper. What special revelation has been made to the Duke of the legitimacy of the usurper's title, since the young Queen has taken active measures for the recovery of her lawful do minions, it is impossible to conceive. If the Duke were of the Popish faith, we should be inclined to believe that a monk tand a crucifix had wrought that miraculous conversion of his opinion as to the rights of the belligerent claimants of the throne of Portugal. The Duke states, as a reason why Government should put an end to the contest in Spain by acknowledging Don Miguel, the circumstance that Don Pedro, with all his force, had made no progress in the course ofa whole month. The fact of his occupation of Oporto not having led during the time mentioned to any further result, we do not mean to dispute ; still, by that occupation, the Queen's Govern ment is de facto established at Oporto, and her title as Queen de jure will not be denied by the Duke, who had recognized it himself. Thus all that is requisite to the exercise of the rights of full sovereignty the Queen possesses in the second city of her dominions ; and is that the time in which our Government should say, " We re cognized you, as the Duke of Wellington did, when in power, as the lawful Sovereign of Por tugal. You were then an exile from Portugal, every portion of which groaned under the iron rod of the sanguinary and monstrous dominion of the usurper. But now that you have wrested the second city of Portugal from his grasp— now that you have planted your banner, by the aid ofa handful of brave men, upon the walls of Oporto, we will retract our recognition of your title—we will break the faith we pledged to you—we will throw all the weight of the influ ence of Great Britain into the scale against you,---by declaring that he whom we L aided and denounced as a perfidious usurper, is the legitimate King of Portu gal, and not the treacherous robber of the diatlen) of his niece—not the perjured violator of the Constitution, which he had solemnly sworn to protect." Such conduct as this, on the part of our Ministry, could only be adequately described by stating that it would involve so much of po litical baseness and perfidy as would prove they were qualified for the most intimate union they could form with such a character as Don Miguel —invested as he is with all the attractions of an ianominious celebrity. The admiration of the Duke of Wellington for despotic principles is, unhappily, but too well known to the world ; but on this occasion he has given advice to Ministers which, if in power, we venture to say he would not act upon himself. But the Duke says that, if Don Pedro succeed at all, it must be " by military means, and contrary to the wishes of the inhabitants." This argument against the over throw of one dynasty, and the restoration of another, comes with peculiarly ill grace from the Duke of Wellington, the conqueror, who at the head of foreign bayonets drove Napoleon from the throne of France, and restored the Bourbons, " contrary to the wishes of the inhabitants ;"—for, whatever might have been the conduct of Talleyrand, Marmont, and a few intriguers, the French people never wished to see the faces of the Bourbons again ; yet the Duke restored them by military force, and the wishes of the people were nothing, when weigh ed in the scale against the logic of the bayonet It is only when such a precious despot as Don Miguel is put in danger of his ill-got power that the Duke objects to the use of military means, and thinks that nothing ought to be done except by the spontaneous efforts of the people. But onithenrininigy and the prisons crammed to excess with captives, charged with disaffection, notwithstanding the numbers that have perished on the scaffold, or by the secret cruelties of the dungeon, afford ample proof of the sort of attachment which the better informed classes of the Portuguese, who are not the ignorant slaves of priestcraft, have for the paternal dominion of Don Miguel —a dominion gained by the foutea trench. ery, and only retained by the sword. The Duke adds that " if the invasion should succeed, nothing could be hoped or expected but a con tinuance of the war in that unhappy country, which would spread itself into Spain." Cer tainly, should Spain think proper to interfere in the internal affairs of Portugal, as, by the large army concentrated on the frontiers, she is evi dently prepared to do, if a favourable opporitt- nity - should offer, the war will spread into Spain, and possibly consume in its flames the absolute thrcne of the " pious and beloved" Ferdinand hire elf. If this should happen, the Spanish c-taßs of the Duke of Wellington will, in all possibility, pass away with the absolute throne. Indeed, if it were not for the bayonets of those Bourbons whom the Duke was so instrumental in restoring to the throne of France, against the wishes of the people, Ferdinand must have con tented himself with a Constitutional sceptre, or he must have doffed the regal purple, and in the retirement of the cloister have preferred the glory of the Saint to the honours of the King, by embroidering petticoats fiat. the Virgin.— The Duke,- however, did not raise his voice against the "military means," most treacherously and basely used by the Bourbons to over turn the constitutional system in Spain, con trary to the repeated professions of peaceful intentions made by Louis XVIII., while he was collecting the invading army on the Spanish frontier, under the pretence of establishing a cordon sanitaire against the yellow fever. Nor are the despots of the Holy Alliance at. the present day; whom the Duke so much admires, and to whom our Whig Government have so meanly truckled, less lavish of pacific profes sions, or less ready to take advantage of our cre dulity in silently arranging all the terrible ele ments of war. When we speak of the Spanish estates of the Duke, we should mention that his Grace has a grant of land in the neighbour hood of Xeres, which is expected in course of time to make him one of the greatest growers of sherry wine in Spain. He is therefore not al together a disinterested spectator of the political events of the Spanish peninsula, though we think his love of despotic rule is sufficient of it self to account for his predilections in favour of Don Miguel, just as it led him to become the vindicator, and almost the panegyrist, of the fe rocious tyrant Nicholas, in his violation of the treaty of Vienna, and his infamous conduct to wards Poland. The Russian-Dutch loan job met his approbation, because it served the in terests of a despot ; but even " military means " are reprobated when they are on the side of con stitutional liberty.—Morning Herald. Much has been said about the indifference of electors to the franchise, from their supposed unwillingness to pay the trifling sum of one shilling for registration. A miracle very often ceases to be a miracle when closely inquired into. It did certainly appear miraculous that the same Englishmen who had made up their minds to strange things during the ten days, should, on obtaining the object of their desires, become in stantly indifferent to its value. Some said, Eng lishmen had become so base and sordid that they exclaimed, why should we pay a shilling to be allowed to vote ?—what shall we get by it ? Mr. Cobbett, on the other hand, supposes that the hatred of opposition inherent in English men leads them to show their sense of this im position of a shilling in a way not very compli mentary to their understandings. " This shilling (he says in the Register of this day), whatever Lord Althorp may think of the matter, will be a complete block-up in nine cases out of ten. He s•iys 'that men can set very little value on their franchise, if they will not give a shilling for it.' That is not the thing, my Honest Lord. Men think a great deal of the franchise; but men also think a great deal of an imposi tion ; and they regard this as one of the most impudent impositions that ever was thought of; one of the most barefaced, one of the most villanous impositions ever prac tised upon a people. The freeholders have to pay this shil ling as well as others; and they regard it as a downright robbery, and ask, ' Who is to pocket the money ?' Ido not say that the Ministers intended this as an obstacle ; but I know that it is one, and a most effectual one, too; and that it was their duty to remove it as soon as it was discovered." According to this last supposition, the dee ' tors will subject themselves to the monstrous imposition of Tory representatives, rather than submit to the imposition' of a shil ling. This would be straining at gnats and swallowing camels with a vengeance. An able and intelligent correspondent, who has excellent opportunities of knowing what passes in the minds of the middle classes throughout the country, has, we believe, furnished us with the true solution of the difficulty. The electors, he says, are not indifferent—it is not the shilling they regard ; but they gladly avail themselves of the pretext of indifference, to avoid the necessity of giving a vote which may prove injurious to their interests. The man who cultivates the land of another man, has, from the beginning of the world, been, and always will be, a slave. The farmers are afraid of their landlords; they do not want to be obliged to choose between voting conscientiously, at the hazard of incurring their landlord's displeasure, and voting for their land lords against their consciences. The freeholders, though more independent, imitate this example. The voters in towns know that whichever way they vote they will displease, and consequently lose some customers, and they also, in many cases, would gladly avoid being qualified. Our correspondent says, that he was himself upon a wrong scent, as well as the London newspapers, and inveighed loudly against the indifference of the electors ; but that he quickly discovered his mistake, The interest of the members of a community is the interest of the community, It is by no means a recommen dation of any plan that it calls upon individuals to sacrifice their own interests to the good of the public—that is, to an abstraction—the public being merely the individuals called on to make the sacrifice. Why must the duty of individuals be placed at variance with their interests ? Why must a man be taught that he can only save his country by sacrificing the interests of his wife and children, for whose sake principally that country is dear to him ? The ballot is no longer a problem to be solved. The man who pretends that all these eleetorz ought to subject themselves to dread and uneasiness, or offer violence to their consciences, because it flatters the importance of certain rich men to control the suffrages of the people, is not to be reasoned with. We agree with our intelligent Correspondent, that the ballot must be made a condition sine qua non. It is monstrous to think. that the men best qua lified, from their intelligence and habits ie . - - r t~~us~ stiffer in their triterests from the conscien tious exercise of their right, The ballot is the easy and obvious way of solving the difficulty. Without the ballot, society must be kept in a constant state of feud, The tenantry and free holders in the country, and the tradesmen in town, must band themselves in self-de- fence, to punish all who seek to annoy them on account of their votes. This, however, is a clumsy mode of proceeding ; for the bad passions, when caile4 into play, tend strongly to perpetuate themselves. A Ccotch Paper ( The Caledonian Mercury) stated, the othlzr day, that intimida tion had been carried so far in Scotland, that electors must resort to strong measures of reta liation. The Ballot puts at once an end to all this strife. When a candidate knows that he must remain in ignorance of those who vote both for and against him, he resigns himself quietly to 'the result. But it is ano ther affair when he knows who voted for and who voted against him. He buoys him self up with the hope that such and such per sons will vote for him, and entertaining this ex pectation, to say that he will feel no irritation against those who disappointed him, is to sup pose him more than human, We never doubted that the necessity of the Ballot would soon force itself on the electors called to the suffrage under t h e R e fb rm Bill, They are of the very class most exposed to suffer from displeasing the great. A mechanic or a labouring man may he ignorant, but he is independent ; he may be bought, but he can hardly be intimidated. But a shopkeeper or a tradesman cannot be indif ferent to the loss of valuable customers—Sir John, or my Lord Thomas, may be an excellent customer to the sadler of a country town, who, though he may hold his money in high regard, may deem him a very unfit person to be trusted with the purse of the nation. We have not for some time said anything of the Ballot, because we knew we might thereby have done mischief, and could not have done good. We could not have obtained any attention to the proposition in Parliament ; and by urging the measure at an un suitable season, the good which we have ob tained might have been endangered. But now that the Reform Bill is safe, there is no longer any motive for silence. We have, therefore, no hesitation in following up the recommendation of our excellent correspondent, by a strong in junction to voters to make it everywhere a con dition sine qua non with candidates that they shall support the Ballot. Electors of all opi nions have a common interest in the Ballot. A Tory tradesman and a Tory tenant may suffer from a Whig customer and a Whig landlord, as wellasa Whigtradesman and tenant from a Tory customer and landlord. If the electors are wise, then, they will make the refusing to pledge for the Ballot the unpardonable sin. We have no patience with those who oppose it. They are tyrants in their hearts, whatever their pretences. No honest man ought to insist on a state of things by which men are exposed to the hardship of injuring themselves in their interests, or to the crime of offering up their conscience a sacrifice to their interests. It is not by being mealy-mouthed that the electors will get anything.. They must have no mercy with those who hum-and-ha on this subject, and pretend they have not made up their minds on the question. This is fraud. Every man has made up his mind on it long ago, though every man has not the courage to tell the truth.---Morning Chronicle. We are glad to see the Lord Chancellor at work with the strange jurisdiction now exer cised by the House of Lords. We know not whether he proposes to establish an Appeal Court for all appeals whatever now carried to the House of Peers, or merely to confine his mea sure to the establishing an Appeal Court, con sisting of the Chancellor, the Chief Baron of the Exchequer, the Master of the Rolls, and the Vice Chancellor, to which appeals may be brought from the decisions of any one of these Judges when sitting alone. The House of Peers are de facto in possession of the appellate jurisdiction ; but it has been contended, and with great show of reason, by able writers, that they ought not to possess it. Chief Justice Hale, in his elaborate work on tire Jurisdiction of the Lords House of Parliament, edited by Hargrave, says that the appellate jurisdiction is not right fully possessed. " If this should be (urges Sir Matthew) that the su preme jut isdiction without appeal, the dernier resort, were to the House of Lords, then is the Legislative power vir tually and consequently there also; or, at least, that power lodged in the King and both Houses were insigni ficant. For what if the House will give judgment against an Act of Parliament, or declare it null and void ? If they have that dernier resort, this declaration or judgment must be observed and obeyed and submitted unto irreme diably ; for no appeal lies from their judgment, if they be the Supreme Court. And if it be said, this shall not be presumed they will do; I say, if this position were true, they may if they will ; and the laws of this kingdom have better provided for the preservation both of the King's rights and the people's, than to put them and all the laws of the kingdom into the power of the Lords, though otherwise their justice should be unquestionable. " The truth is, it is utterly inconsistent with the very form of a Gov.rnment, that the supreme power of making laws should be in the King, with the advice of both his Houses of Parliament, and judgment should be in one of the Houses with the King and the other. A supreme power of making laws should be thus in the King and monarchical; and the supreme decisive power or jurisdic tion, and dernier resort, should be radically in the Lords, and so ari,tocratical. Therefore, it is not only a fact, true in our Government, but it is most necessary, that the su preme decisive power or jurisdiction, and the dernier re sort, must be where the legislative power is. And it is impossible it should be otherwise, unless we wholly dissolve the legislative power of the whole body of the Parliament, King, Lords, and Commons, and put it into the House of Lords ; who, by their supreme decisive power, without appeal, and as the dernier resort originally radicated in them, may at their pleasure render the legislative power idle, vain, and insignificant. " And by this, which has been said, any man with half an eye may see the great inconvenience of lodging any ju risdiction at all in the House of Lords singly, except touching their privileges ; and upon what great reason this jurisdiction came to be disused by their noble ances tors, whose sense of the common good of the King and kingdom, yea, and of their own posterity, did at last re linquish the exercise of jurisdiction singly for some hun dreds of years. And it is this : " The High Court of Parliament, consisting of the King and both Houses of Parliament, are certainly the only Supreme Court of this kingdom, to whom the devolution of the last appeal, or dernier resort, sloth belong. And the Lords are a constituent part of this Supreme Court ; without which, as no law can be made, so now final un appealable judgment can be given. Though it cannot finally and without appeal be given by them, so it cannot be given without them. If, therefore, the Lords should have a power of jurisdiction, an appeal must necessarily be to the whole Parliament, King, Lords, and Commons. And yet the Lords, without whom such judgments cannot be re pealed, should, if they should have or exercise such a judicial jurisdiction, be prejudiced necessarily by their own judgment, and an anticipation of that determination, which (as parts of the true supreme power) they must now revers: s * • • • • 4, " And all this inconvenience would be remedied, if, ac cording to the ancient course in wri,s of error, and ac. cording to the method propounded, as well in writs o . . error as appeals from decrees, a certain select number of the Lords, - with the Judges, were commissionated by the King to examine, Lear, and determine errors in judgment and decrees. For that would not engage the whole House ; but they would be free to give their judgment upon ap peals to the whole Parliament." _ _ Sir il'Atiw thus IN po wer - "---•- " or a Further appeal to the whole Parliament, in perspective. No man would now wish to see such a farther staae of appeal. The appellate jurisdiction of the House of Lords is only tolerable so long as the Lords leave the decision to the Chancellor and one or two judges, like the late Lord Redesdale, who are qualified to assist him. The Lords never take part in a decision without doing mischief. Cases have occurred, and we could name them, in which certain Peers, who never attended ap peals on other occasions, took a part ; but the decision, for various reasons, was not supposed more upright by the unusual assistance given by such Lords. It is, we conceive, disgraceful to a civilised country, that appeals in the last resort should be to a body of men, who, if free from suspicion (and they are not always so), cannot possess the necessary qualifications. Any Peer, without knowing anything of the cause, but a great deal of the parties, may not only vot e him,- self, but procure others to vote. Responsibi lity is diluted in the proportion in which it is decided. The Lord Chancellor's decision is likely to be far better than a decision in which the whole flouse should vote, and better than if any ten were to vote. A tribunal, to be respected, must possess both qualification and respectabi lity. It is necessary that the Scotch should have a Court of Appeal out of their country ; for the peurervidum ovation Scotoruni requires to be kept in check by England. In fact, the community is too small to afford at all times an unprejudiced tribunal. But then the people of Scotland ought not to be thrown at haphazard on hereditary Judges, with or without qualification. Of some of the Judges to whom the Scotch have been handed over of late, their total igno rance of Scotch law is what is least to be ob jected to in them. A large body of men cannot act as a tribunal ; and as the jurisdiction can only be exercised by few, it is better surely that the few should be obtained by selection, on ac count of qualification, than by accident. We would as lief take the mode of settling causes in some of the forest Cantons of Switzerland, namely, seize the first three men who happen to pass along the road as Judges, than take Judges at random from the House of Peers. 'When ever they have interfered they have done mis chief ; the good has been done by their non-in terference. We are pleased, therefore, to see the Chancellor grappling with this abuse. If the remedy do not go far enough, it will lead to further attempts.—Morning Chronicle. The Lord Chancellor, since he came into office, has been pretty constantly employed in preparing the public, by anticipatory flourishes of the trumpet, for the important and beneficial alterations he intends to accomplish in every department of the law, and more especially in the high Court over which it is his good fortune to preside. We think werecollect a speech of his in the House of Lords, almost coeval with his elevation to the Woolsax, of some six hours' du ration, that speech being an abridgment merely of a preceding one addressed to the House of Com mons, in which he promised to establish Local Courts for the recovery of debts in every part of England. With respect to this nothing is yet done, and the project seems to be abandoned, so that all the talk went for nothing ; unless, per chance, it might have had the effect of rendering some very simple persons less contented than they were before with the existing provisions for the administration of justice. The Noble Lord has made, we believe, some dozens of speeches on the subject of Chancery reform, each differ ing essentially from that which preceded it, and each promising that some very magnificent and comprehensive measure would speedily be brought forward. It is perhaps a fortunate circumstance that the doings of the Noble and Learned Lord bear so small a proportion to his sayings. Ex cepting the establishment of the new Court of Bankruptcy, in respect to which, we are informed, the commercial world do not in any degree sym pathise with his Lordship's feelings of parental fondness, and which imposed upon the No ble and Learned Lord the onerous duty of exercising immediately patronage to an extent greater than would, in all proba bility, have fallen to his lot for several years were he so long to retain possession of the Seals—with this exception, we know of nothing that the Noble Lord has yet done, unless we are also to reckon the abolition, which was lite rally forced upon him, of a few sinecure offices, in exchange for the contingent and precarious patronage of which he obtains the solid personal advantage of an additional thousand a year from the moment he quits the Woolsack to the day of his death. It is very well for the Lord Chancellor, if he can find no better employment for his time, to talk heavy pamphlets, and as many successive and amended editions of them as he likes, in the House of Lords ; but nei ther the country at large, nor even the mem bers of the legal profession, can derive much benefit from, or be expected very attentively to consider, any exposition of reform to be made next year, when it is known that the projector is much too ingenious a person to entertain next year, with any degree of exactness, the same views which he has unfolded this_ year. The opportunity which a change of the plan would afford to make a new speech, and to get him self praised afresh in the Newspapers, presents a temptation in itself more than sufficient to in duce a vain man, like the Lord Chancellor, to in vent, if possible, some variation or other in the scheme which he has once unfolded. There is one part of the project which the Noble and Learned Lord unfolded on the last night of the Session of which we incline to think he will be as tenacious as can be desired. Now that Par liament has made a provision which he deems sufficient for the sustentation of the Great Seal, the Noble Lord is suddenly struck with the gross and pernicious anomaly that the Lord Chancellor should be an officer removable at pleasure. This is an exceeding.y good notion of the Noble and Learned Lord, and we advise him by all means to stick to it. The provision was made by the House of Commons, with re ference expressly to the precariousness of the office of Lord Chancellor, and to the multipli city and diversity of its present duties and re sponsibilities. This the Noble and Learned Lord contrives very dexterously to overlook. But he shall here speak for himself:-- "He was aware that if the measure stopped here, though great improvements would have been effected, :still that enough would not have been done ; for it was his fixed opinion, and one by which he was desirous to be un derstood that he should abide firmly, in spite of objections from quarters that were entitled to much respect, and who were opposed to him on this point, that these great changes were absolutely necessary in the constitution of the high office which he unworthily had the honour to bold. He was convinced that we could not much longer remain with that great, not to say gross or grievous, but certainly strik ing anomaly, that the highest Judge in the country —a Judge who might often be called on to decide between the subject and the Crown, and on the rights of the Crown itself--was a Judge removable at the pleasure of the Crown, and yet that to him, sitting alone, was entrusted not only the disposal of property, but the settling of thm amount, anti that that Judge was, whether he willed it or not, a political as well as a Judicial character ! It was only necessary for him to fill their Lordships' minds with the re,sons with which his own was so strongly impressed to make him certain that they would agree with him that much longer this anomaly could nut last. What was then to be done ? To separate the functions now exercised by this high officer —not to let him be at once a Judge sitting alone, a Judge removable at pleasure, the Speaker of that House, an official adviser of the Crown, and performing that which was incident to the Speakership of that House ; functions that ought not to be exercis e d al one , b ut with the advice and assistance, and under the control, of others. If this were done a great anomaly would at once be put an end to; and this might be done without any increase of pa tronage, and without the expenditure of nne shilling of the public money. His opinion was, that the provision made by Parliament for the sustentation of the Keeper of the Great Seal was most amply sufficient, and that that Officer of State and great Equity Judge should be im moveable." This is speaking for himself indeed, and to the purpose ; nor can any body now doubt that t h e Noble and Learned Lord is a very provident and excellent manager of his own affairs. This eminent person procures the passing of an Act, creating a new jurisdiction in bankruptcy, by which he obtains the immediate enjoyment of much valuable patronage. But the same mea sure deprives him of kes and emoluments to a considerable amount. Some delay then takes place in providing the proper compensation for this loss of income, and during this interval the Noble and Learned Lord proposes extensive al terations in his Court, saying nothing, however, of the necessity of making his office an office for life. After this Parliament proceeds to abolish all that is contingent or uncertain in the emolument of the office of Lord Chancellor, all that de pends upon the multiplicity and variety of its dunes, and provides in compensation for this source of income, and for the fees in bank ruptcy previously relinquished, a fixed and invariable salary, calculated upon the presumption that the office was to be held, as heretofore, during ple a s ure , an d th a t i ts duties were to remain essentially the same. Im mediately upon this, the Lord Chancellor's pro jects of reform, hitherto only in the bad, expand and deck themselvesto the magnitude and splen dour of full-blown perfection. It is now discovered that no reform of the Court of Chan cery can be good for any thing which does not relieve the Lord Chancellor of half his present duties, and secure him in the enjoyment for life of that office for the proper sustentation of which Parliament had so sufficiently provided. The admirable order in which these disclosures, and projects, and events succeed to each other, and all contribute to the accomplishment of the main design, cannot have escaped the most careless ob server. After the more important matter which we have been attempting to explain, it is scarcely perhaps worth while to notice the deception which runs through the speech of the Noble and Learned Lord whenever he adverts to the new offices to be created in pursuance of his scheme of Reform. All the salaries to be cut off are so much clear gain to the public ; but the new offices to be created, and the appointments to which no doubt are to be made by the Noble and Learned Lord himself, are not to cost the country a farthing ! What, then, it will be asked, are the persons so appointed to work for nothing ? Not so : they are to be paid out of funds in the Court of Chancery, at the disposal of Parliament. And this a man so acute as the Lord Chancellor describes as not costing the country a farthing. We remember the time when Mr. Brougham could have detected a more ingenious sophism than this. " Funds at the disposal of Parliament," he would have said, " derived from whatever source, are funds ap plicable to the diminution of the public burdens, and when they are expended it is the country, and the country alone, that really pays the cost." —Morning Post. MARKET INTELLIGENCE . LONDON MARKETS. (From the London New Price Current of yesterday.) SUGAR. —The demand for British Plantation Musco v ides has been steady all the week ; the purchases are con • siderable ; they are estimated at 3,300 hhda. and trs. ; the prices are without the slightest alteration; the sales would have been more considerable, as the trade are with out stock, had it not been the calculation that the supplies on Tuesday next will be extensive, on account of the re cent arrivals. In the Refined Market there is more firm nese, on account of the small stock at market ; purchases cannot be made on such low terms as during the last week. —Some business was done last week in large Lumps, at 645. or 295. 6d. on board, but since then 645. 6d. has been paid for similar quality ; 31s. 6d. is offering for fine Crashed, and 325. for delivery in a month; these prices, however, have been refused. Although the prices of the raw article have been rather declining of late, while Refined goods have been meeting a more ready sale, and at an advance of Is. on low goods, and treacle and bastard Sugars are admitted by refiners to bring fair prices, still there appears to be no encouragement for them to work to any extent; the Market, therefore, for the present, is likely to continue with a short supply. EAST INDIA SUGARS.—The purchases by private con tract are 600 bags yellow to mid. white Siam 205.. a 235. 6d. ; 750 bags Manilla 225. a 235. 6d. MAURITIUS SUGARS.—The sales this week (till this day) were confined to small parcels for home use, at former prices. This day by public sale 7,544 bags Mauritius, from 495. a 585., all sold brisk and full prices. FOREIGN SUGARS.—There have been no sales of Fo reign Sugars; 275. have been refused for a good parcel of yellow Havannah. At public sale 83 chests mid. to good white Pernams were taken in Is. 6d. above the Market prices, 265. a 30s. COFFEE.—The British Plantation Coffee has sold nearly on the same terms as last week, the fine qualities, a shade lower, the ord. a shade higher. In Foreign or East India few transactions are reported. The purchases by private contract are a small parcel of Brazil at 605., and 200 bags. fine ord. coloury Laguira 645. ; 58s. has been refused Mr Batavia, and 595. for pale St. Domingo. At public sale 711 casks 101 bags Jamaica, good and fine ord. 78s. a 81s. 6d. ; Havannah, low to fine ord. 635. a 64E6—This day by public sale 110 casks British Planta tion, all withdrawn ; 314 bags Havannah, fine to fine fine ord. from 635. to 685., all sold, about former prices ; 236 bags Brazil, good ord. coloury all taken in at 595., rather lower. RUM, BRANDY, AND Hord.ailDs.---In Rum there is little variation. Brandy still in good demand for the home trade. In Geneva no transactions of any consequence re ported. By public sale 118 puns. Rum from St. Tho• mas's, for exportation only, average strength from 1 to 4 over, sold at Is. 6d. TALLow.—The prices of Tallow are a shade lower; the Market is dull at the decline. Lusa PROVISIONS.—The parties connected with the Irish trade were thrown into the greatest state of alarm and confusion yesterday, by its being discovered that a clause has been smuggled into the New Duty Act, by which fo reign provisions may be warehoused here free of duty for exportation, or for the use of ships outward-bound; this will completely destroy the great provision trade with Ire land. The Butter Market continues in the same depressed state as noticed in our last, but with very little fluctuation in prices ; fine Friesland at the quay may be quoted 84s. a 869., and Leer, Emden, &c. 70s. a 89s. per cwt., as to quality; Limerick we nominally quote '79s. on board, 80s. a 82s. landed; Cork 78s. on board, 80s. landed; Water ford (as to repute of brands) 745. a 78s. on board, 765. a 80s. landed, and Carlow 78s. a 81s. on board, 78s. a 83s. lauded ; Newry is still offering for shipment at 744., and Dublin at 765. on board, without finding purchasers.— Prime fresh small singed Bacon meets a ready sale at 545. a 555., but the general run of Waterford cannot be quoted over 51s. a 535., nor Limerick over 50s. a 525. per cwt. landed. Bale and tierce Middles, as well as Bladder Lard, sell slowly at our last quoted prices, but for fine small Limerick Hams there is a fair de mand at 765., although Belfast cannot be quoted over 569. a 645. per cwt.—ln Beef and Pork very little busi ness doing, and by an Act of Parliament, which only A— ....I. a. oso, at.. Dish Provi sion Trade is likely to be seriously affected (as far as re gards Beef and Pork in particular), by the taking off cer tain restrictions upon the export of foreign provisions in bond from this country, and which heretofore existed as a protection to the Irish trade. RICE.-About 1,200 bags good Bengal white sold 15s. 6d. a 165., former prices. INDIGO.—There is little alteration in the prices, or in the demand for Indigo. It is expected the next sa'e will consist of 7,000 chests. In addition to the declara tion for the sale at the East India House, ou the 2d of Oc t )ber, there is a further declaration this week of 1,310 chests, including the parcel withdrawn at the July sale. The sale is expected to be about 7,000 to 8,000 chests, but it is toe early yet to speak with any certainty as to the extent of it. There is nothing whatever doing in the article. DRUGS, DYES, &c.—.At the East India House.—Lac Dye—The Market continues much depressed ; 32 chests of the marks C and E and M B sold at the East India Company's sale this morning at is. per lb. Safflower— A parcel of S 6 bales fair quality sold this morning at 6/. 10s. a 11/. per cwt. ; the small stock of this article makes it go off pretty freely when there is any brought for ward for sale. Cochineal—Some few small parcels haste been taken for the St. Petersburgb market at about 7s. per lb. for Silvers; the a rticle ? however, continues in a very dull state. . . _ HOPS.—The duty fluctuates violently ; early in the week it rose to 160,0001., then to 105,0004 ; to-day it is 115,0004 TO A CCO• —The Market continues dull ; offers are made for cargoes at low prices, but they are not accepted. TEA.—Boheas, in large chests, are at 3F. 1O d. per 11. duty paid, while Congou chests have become scarce in the market at 4s, per Ib. The demand fiT other sorts continues limited. ' , ann.—There has been a little business doing in Va lentia Raisins at the peicea quoted, and a few small parce!a of red Smyrna Raisins have been taken off; Currants alio continue to be inquired after, and the holders are very fia in their prices. SALTPETRE.--:Saltpetre is rather higher, 338. a 358.,, Smcirs.—Th ere are more i nqu i r i es for Pepper, at sr About 700 bags of Pimento have sold at former price ordinary and middling SP. a 6P. This day by publi sale, 201 bags Pimento, 6d. a 61d., all bought in. Th i day, by public sale, 98 barrels Ginger, all sold from 51. 59 to Si. Ss. PRICE OF SUGAR. The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, compOt e c : from the Returns made in the week ending the 14th day June, 183'2, is 2Ss. Ofd. per Hundred Weight, exclusive of tbi r i Duties of Customs paid or payabl e t h ereon on the Importati"n thereof into Great Britain. Kent PRICES OF HOPS.—Aug. 17. • 4/ 15s. 51, ss. 41. 10s. 51. Os. 41. 12s. 51. 5:, 71. Os. 10/. Os. Essex Faraham Ditto, Fine Kent Bag, Sussex Essex viii to 5/. I to 51. t to 51. 1r to 01. Seconds . 01. Os. 51. Os to 71, , , 41. 4s. 4/. 12s to 51. t . 41. Os. 41. Bs. to 4/. 1 . 01. Os 01. Os. to 01. Old Duty laid at 145,000/. PRICE OF OIL. Rape Oil, brown 6s. Itefi Linseed Oil Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand Rape Cake, per ton - fined ~..... WH !TECH APEL HA YMARKET.—Aug. 16 Hay 455. Od. to 90s. Od. 65.. Od. to 110.10' 4 365, Od. to 42.. Od. PRICE OF POTATOES.—Aug. 17. 1,04•44444... 4 2/. 10s. to 3/. 55. per ton_!.." YItICES 01 , Per lb. d. to d. Butts, English 15 21 Ditto, 14 184 Dressing 12 14 Ditto 16 18 Ditto, light Crop Hides, light 12 13 Ditto 40 to 451 b. 13e 14e 14j 16 LEATHER. Per lb. d. 10 ) English Horse Hides.. 12 Spanish Ditto 14 Per dozen. Calf Skins.. 36 to 41 kb. 15 Ditto 50 to 701 b. 19 r Ditto 70 to 801 b. 17 Small Seals, Greenland 174 12 RAW HIDES. rer Stone. s. d. to s. d. P i 6 I Zest Heifers& Steers 2 4 2 6 Ordinarye r Stone a. d. 0 2 2 Market 6 0 es 4 . SHEEP SKINS. Short Wool Od. to Os. Od. I Lambs 2s. Od. to 2 6 . 1 Od. to Is. 4d. - • 64, PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone of 81b. Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow Melters)--. PRICE OF TALLOW, SOAP, &c. per 1121 b. ~ town Tallow ............... 455. Od. Yellow 50ap....................., 609., Yellow Russia 433. Od. M0tt1ed........ Vs.' _ sos. 0 White .. 425. 6d. White ............... Soap Ditto 4 l s. 6d . Graves ‘,.. 511.(1 6 g• A ' :Nlelted Stuff--........_ 345. Od. Good Graves ........* Ditto Rough....---- 225. Od. PRICE OF CANDLES. The price of Store Candles, in the retail shops, is as followS; A , Candles, per doz. 7s. Od. to Ss. Od. I Moulds, per dozen --qt," COAL MAR Per Ton. s. d. kdair's Bensham Main 18 0 East Percy.. Felling 17 6 Holywell 19 0 Kenton We5t...,,,.,,,,,,.,,,,,,, 19 6 Ord's Itedhugh 17 6 Pontop Windsor 18 6 Willington Wylam 17 9 Wall , En.i Callerton 18 0 Ditto Bewicke and Co.— 20 6 Ditto Blake l9 0 Walls End Carr and Co. 18 6 Ditto Clarke and Co--. 18 3 Walls End G05f0rth......,, 20 6 Walls End 20 6 Walls End H0t5pur..,.,.,,,. 19 19 0 Ships arrived since KET.—Aug. 17. Per Ton. 7 9 Walls End Hilda. 4; Ditto Killingworth €1 Walls End Newbiggen If Ditto Northumberland.. „„ 1 6 Walls End Riddell's ..... _,,,z 1 " 6 Walls End Walker., 0 Lambton'sPrimrose....-7 . g Walls End Hetton 21 Walls End Lambton 2 : 6 W. E. Russell's Hetton... 2 : 6 Walls End Stewart's..» 24 0 Walls End Stobart's _,I I 0 Walls End Tees Vt., 6 Cowpen lv 0 Hartley— 21 „„ Llangennech Pemberton P , 6 I Tantield Trader 16 last market-day, 50. COUNTRY CORN MARKEL'S DURING THE WEsli,' Wheat. Barley. Oats. Per Quarter. Ashburn- Basingstoke .w..... Bath 62 66 60 73 44 F 5 54 70 56 60 58 64 64 66 52 63 48 65 48 65 65 69 54 64 47 71 28 34 28 39 26 29 34 39 Bean, 38 43 39 31 4 28 , 86 22 27 2 0 24 21 28 22 26 20 23 21 26 24 26 18 28 16 25 20 22 19 26 21 28 20 28 - 23 20 32 23 27 - 27 20 26 22 26 Bridgewater Bristol - Chesterfield Derby - Devizes — Doncaster Dorchester.„,—,,,«. 30 33 29 33 30 34 30 34 32 34 27 38 25 35 G10uce5ter............... Hungerford ........... Leice5ter............... Newbury y Romsey Shaftesbury Shepton Mallet Sherborne, Taunton Yeovil 40 66 56 62 56 56 63 56 64 58 72 58 63 s. d. s. d. 90 96 38 30 38 Per Bushel. 32 39 30 36 35 32 36 s. d. 5. d. 50 60 120 26 ;5 s O . seli 36 s. 'll l• 00 ° ShreWsbuii..... The amount of stamps paid on marine instli rance in the year ending Jan. 5, 1832, was, in LandoM: 169,0171. 1.. 3d ; in Great Britain elsewhere, 53,8061' 13s. 3d ; in Ireland, 2,6691. Bs. 2d. On Wednesday, on the Woodbridge estate , St. James', Clerkenwell, and adjoining the new-intend line of street, from F arr i ng d on - street to I sl i ngton, was l a rd the foundation stone of Woodbridge chapel, by the Re f ' EDWARD ANDREWS, LL.D. of Walworth, from design ; by THOMAS PORTER, Esq. architect, for the church and congregation of the late St Bartholemew chapel, u nder the pastoral care of the Rev. RICHARD Luxix, when 01 energetic and talented oration was delivered by the Rev EDWARD ANDREWS. Nothing can present a more extraordinary appearance than the remains of the stone work of the old London Bridge. The workmen are employed, day 101 night, throwing the stones, as they loosen, and hoist the up with levers, into lighters. About one half of the river ill cleared, and the tide flows of course with less rapiditY than it did before the removal of the arches. The vie ° . from the parapet of the new bridge is interesting. It tg, not yet ascertained what effect the rem ova l o f t h e piers 0 ` the old bridge will have upon the ebb and flow. COLTING MAGISTRATES. --The practice of coking Magistrates, which has existed from time i ns " memorial, as will be seen by the following extract from A letter addressed to the Clerk of the Peace for the counti of Essex to the Chairman of the respective benche s throughout the county, is about to be discontinued " At the last General Quarter Session it was, after dinner, proposed that the custom of celting, hitherto in practice: shall he abolished, and th a t eac h M ag i strate , on the fir st dining with the Justices at Quarter Session, shall bee; pected to advance the sum of six guineas towards a fen for providing ro o d wi ne ; an d th at , on t h e fi rst d a y of die d next General Session, such proposal shall be discussed I n determined."—Essex Independent. ANECDOTE OF THE LATE LORD O R FORP . —Among his experiments of fancy was a determination to caun drive drs four itohness these he red-deer a nh de shhaod r tr reduced uerende i yt n a os perfect disci s i n steadcriopad line ; of bfuotr, ib e% 8; un fore tunately, as lie was one day driving to Newmarket, the ir h ears were saluted with th e cry o f a pack of hounds, 03'1 soon after crossin g th e roa d i n t h e rear, caug h t scent .3 the " four in hand," and commenced a new kind of chase , with " breast high" alacrity. The novelty of the Bee ne was rich beyond description : in vain did his LordshiP, ' exert all his c h ar i o t eer i ng s kill — i n va i n did hi s we ll-traine a grooms energeticaly endeavour to ride before them; rein', trammels, and the weight of th e c arriage, were of n , effect, for th e y wen t w i t h th e ce l er i ty o f a w hiriviin.o and this modern phaeton, in the midst of his electrica l vibrations of fear, bid f a i r t o ex p er i ence th e fate of h is namesake. Luckily, however, his Lordship had been accustomed to drive this set of fiery-eyed steeds" to the Ram Inn,anwhich wasmost fervent t prayers happ il y a and Newmarket, i.his which Lordship's st ejaculations had been ardently direct e d. I n t o the Pr' hand, th is they suddenly bounded, to the dismay of ostlers and stable.. boys, who seemed to have lost every faculty upon the occasion. Here th e y were l uc kil y overpowered, ell the stags, the phaeton, and his Lordship, were all hasten" taneously huddled together in a barn, just as the bounds appeased in full cry at the gate. 1311iTHS. On the loth inst. at Newbattle Abbey, the Marchioness of i".: (4 thian, of a son and heir. On Isth inst. at Waldershare Park, the Couutess of GU II ford, of a son. On the 15th inst. at Qoleorthn H a l l, Leicestershire, the LadY of Sir George instW. Beatnnont, Bart, of a son. • oft On the 15th at S tackpole-court, the Countess of CasVa of a daughter. Hansard' On the 16th inst. in Betifora.square, Mrs. Luke G. Hans of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 15th in s t . at Dunsford in the county of Devon, l be Rev. Dacres Adams Vicar of Pinhoe, to Anna Maria, eldes t daughter of Baldwin Fulford, of Great Fulford, Esq. On the 13th inst. at Guernsey, Leonard Smith, Esq., to El iga. beth, daughter of the late N. B. French, Esq. l On the 14th i nst. at Tottenham Church, A Lieutenant-Genera rte . Armstrong, to Mary Esther, second daughter of Thomas - midorus Russell, of Cheshunt . park, H er t s , E sq., an d a DJ' „eal descendant of the Protector Oliver Cromwell. dOn the 16th i ns t . at St. Pancras New Church, M r . Edwa rd Reid, of Cres cen t -p l ace, Burton-crescent, to Mary Ann, daughter of Mr. Joseph Gunning, of Judd-place-east, New.roa DIED. 'On the 17th inst. at W a l wor th, I n th e 7 3 d year of his age , DV Frederick F., - rdinando, late of the Bank of En g l an d . to re On the 15th inst. at her house in Baker-st reet , P ortman- s9 „ in her 105th year, M ar y, w id ow o f t h e l ate Michael White, ~, Governor of 111ontserrat. J an On the 16th inst. in Trinity- square, Southwark, Mrs. Pelling, widow of the late Mr. Th omas Pelling, of Newingl°ll causeway, aged 72. On the 14th inst. at Little Hampton, Charles Ogilvy, Esq. the On the 16th inst., in the 15th year artier age, Frances, daughter of J. H. hope, ri g ., Manchester square. 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