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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, MAT S. The Earl Of SHAFTESBURY at On the Woolsack in Ihr iirieore of the LORD CHANCELL.R. A comber of Private Bills were brought ap front the Commons by Lord O'SSORY, Mr. Velt.)osN, and Mr. FINN 1 ILA. Lord DACRE presented peAtivos from Hemel Hemp 4tead and St. Alban's, ins ‘avour of the immediate aboht.on o f slavery, and several in favour of the principles of Mr. Sadler's Factory Bill. A potion was presented from the Presbytery of (ial- Pmway against the new system of education in Irelsnd, by :noble Lord whose name w.s not known, The Duke of RICHMOND presented a pettitloh kom the Political Union of Lewes, praying OA% t b Aeir Ltd ships would pass the Reform Bill with Ont mutilation or delay. The Earl of ABERDEEN 'presented a petition from Presbytery of &hen), - - en, aga:nit the new system of education in Ireland. Lord KING r , ,esented a great number of petitions frT.sn places in E",gland and Ireland, against tith.s, and one :r m Tull more, against the punishment of death for a.,) , other btfence than murder. The Bishop of BRISTOL presented a petition from Saffron Walden, against cruelty to animate. The Duke of WELLINGTON presented a petition from the Corporation of Warwick, against the Reform Bill. The Earl of HAREWOOD presented a petition from a plate in Yorkshire, praying., that if the Reform Bill r insed into a law, t►at coonty might not be divided. Lord MELBOURNE postponed tte committal of the Irish Tithe Bill oa account of the number of amendments which required consideration. The Archbishop of ARMAGH hoped that until a de cision was come to, the clergy would be assisted, as :tarty of them in the disturbed districts were setrering great dis tress. The most Rev. Prelate bete entered into a long history of the opposition to tithes. The Earl of WICKLOW *aught some day ought to he appointed for going ire^ t. Committee on this 11‘11, whi was one of the great irriportanee. Lord lIELBOrtiNE fixed it for Friday next. The Hon , t then adjourned till to .morrow, HOUSE OF COMMONS ) ALIF S. Sir M. S. STEWART presented petitions from the Glasgow Chamber of Commt.rce, and from the Magistrate% and Tools Council of Greenock, in favour of the E lin beret ttnd Glasgow Railway MIL Sir. C. D'UNDAS presented a petition against that On t}te motion of Mr. CATEL, the Newcastle and Car lisle Railway Bill was read a secott Ihne, and ordered to be committed. Mr. M'KINNON d ented a petition from the Vest), f St. Marylebono, praying for compensation for the loss of burial fees in the event of the passing of the General Cemetery Bet. Mr. W. ELLIS presented a petition from the Leicester shire Political Union, praying for &repeal of the taxes in neempapers and on other publications. Mr. HUME begged to ask the Hon. Member fer SP. Ives., if it was his intention to bring on the motion, of which he had given notice, to repeal the duties en news papers and other publications. Mr. L. BULWER said it certainly Was his intention, and he regre'ted that circumstance% over which he had no control, Fad prevented his bringing on that motion at as earlier period. - Mr. O'CONNELL presented a petition ftotta fifteen 'respectable farmers residing in the patielt of hmly, in the county of Tipperary, who complained that they had been esomenitted to prison, where they ' , mined for five months, revert the evidence of a anhorned witness, who swore that they were implicated in an attempt to murder some other person, and at the following assizes they were discharged for want of evidence. Their innocence was attested by their fellow parishioners, and Also by seven magistrates. The whole of the circsmstances had been reported to his Majesty's Government ) and he (Mr. O'Connell) now gave notice that be tretild, at a future period, move for a select Committee to inq lire into the whole case. The petition was ordered to lie on the table. Mr, O'CONNELL then presented a petition from Richard 011orau, of Dublin, who stated that his brother, who had possessed about 6,000/ , disposed of all of it on various charitable institutions, and gave 6001. to a monastery in France, to which he went to reside ; that while them he was obliged to work at daily labour, and eventually was banished that kingdom, without compensa tion for the lore of his property. The circumstances ex hibited a total disregard of the liberties of a British subject by the King of Prance, and the petitioner was justly en titled to what he required, viz., a compensation for the money invested in the French monastery. The facts had been laid before his Majesty's Government, at whose roggestion the present petition was presented, and the Hon. and Learned Member gave notice that he would very soon bring it formally before the House.—The petition wan cedered to be printed. The Hon. an I LEARNED MEMBER then presented a petition from the Royal Callege of Surgeons in Dublin, praying that the Anatomy Bill might not he extended to Ireland. Alio from a certain parish in Ireland against the tithe system. Mr. SPiIING RICE moved for the issue of a new writ stir the town of Chester, in the room of Mr. Cnnliffe Offle7, deceased. Mr. JAMES JOHNSTONE presented a petition from the Presbytery of Stirling against the Irish education Bil!. The Honourable Member gave notice, at the lame time, that be would, present a similar petition from the Presbytery of Edinburgh. Lord SANDON presented a petition from certain Li verpool merchants, relative to the distressed state of their ITade with Brazil. Mr. HUME eupported the prayer of the petiti.m. Captain GORDON presented several petitions ag&ns• tne Government plan of Edncstion for Inland ; and among others one from the Provincial Synnd of Ross, corn posed of upwards of fifty clergymen and e'ders of the Church of Scotland. CORN LAWS. Lord MILTON postponed his motion relative to the Corn Laws till May 17• Lord ALTHORP stated that it was not hia intention to bring forward the subject of the Bank Charter to-night, be therefore poNtponed it till Thursday next. Sir J. NEWPORT presented a petitiun from certain householders of Waterford, relative to the vestries of Ireland. Mr. GOULBURN presented a petitiim sign ed by t} e minister and churchwardens of a pariah in Nottinghan•, against the Irish Education Bill. USURY LAWS. Mr. M - KlNNONraoved for leave to bring in a Bi!! for the partial abolition of the L'•ury Laws. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER slid that he had no objection to the motion, but when the Bill came before them, it would be his duty to ermine it. Speaking as a❑ individual Mem!.er of the House, it was well known that be was 'avourable to the abolition of the Usury Laws. Leave was then given to bring in the all. COURT OF REQUESTS. _ _ . Mr. HUNT moved fur a return of CAge6 decided in the Curt of Requests in London or one month, with the ek peneei of each,salaries ofofficers, Lc. He thought this return higkly nrcess try, on account of the injustice and oppres. 'ion that took pl ice in them. When the returns were bef. , re them he trusted his Majesty's Ministers would are sufficient t v justify an inquiry into the subject. Mr. .1. CAMPBELL regretted the returns were not extended to other Courts of - the same description in other parts of the countrN, where the abuses were equally great. Mr. LENNARD expressed a similar regret with the Hon. and Learned Gentleman who spoke last. The Hon. Member complainel of the Commissioners not de voting sufficient time to the decisiun of the causes brought before them. It was itnpolsihle juvice could be satisfac torily administered when 170 causes were disposed of in one Court-day. Sir ROBERT PEEL observed, with reference to the Bill he brought in some years back upon this subject, tirat the cause of its delay was the nece•sity of waiting for the report of the Law Commissioners with respect to im prisonment, withont which the subject could not be fully gone into. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he was fully impressed with the necessity of improving the law for the recovery of small debts ; but thought also the question of imprisonment must be gone into. Mr. HUME thought they ought to have the pro ceedings of these Csi , .rts fur a whole year, instead of for 3 month only. That would enable them to see what amount wos left in hand at the end of the year, of sums unclaimed by parties to whom they were ordered to be paid. Mr. HUNT admitted that mere extended returns would be useful ; but as some klt objection to such voluminous returns, he hoped that what he moved for would answer the object he had in view. An order for the returns was then weed to. CHURCH OF ENGLAND. M. HUME moved for a return of the names of as s person bolding mote than clue benefice or dignity in th. Cburch, end what thr,se beneiees were, their reu::, .vbether they employed euratete, and if so, the salaries i a:(1 them, with an account of the duties to be performed. Sir R. INGLIS Pail that this was a most 'aguish...it,' motion, and certainly seeking information of a Da?vire which was never sought except when the parties of a lom it was required asked for the assistance of the State. Prr haps the Hon. Member would think it expedient. Ott Un sideration, to qualify it. Mr. GOUL - BUAN wfsltett tO /rook *better a'n\- ar rangement bed bet Made with ,west tale rues of the tleatretite of Down alit Mt. TANLEV no information to 4.ffer with re.pect:l; eanery of Downe ; but the gentleman recent!yAii'.Ointed to Raphoe, had accepted it on cenditien ofreie.iving only the emoluments to be desired Thom the parish of Raphoe, amounting to one thousand four hun dred plunds per annum. the others, from parishes :he Deanery, the ltrotme from which was 1.4.01 1 i., *et* 'towed on separate incumbent., Mr. HUNIE said that tie hill width het come down to them from the Loral to legaliie pluraiitiet, made it importe.nt that they shourd have sock a iettirn As he now moved Par,before them. He had al ti perhaps, from the prejudices of Acettion, pluralities, ,the abo mination nT the church of England. When he saw 'the good effects of the really, paito6.l conduct of the Scotch clergy, he conl.l not has; thanking that were similir conduct, to N pursued by tl.e Eeg lieh clergy, the liWs . Many who were now executed for crimes inlght be saved. In Engl Ind the abuse of non rtbidence existed to a very great extent. In the Parlia mentary Paper No. 271, there was a return, consistine of the Diocesan Reports ; and from them l tt aripeet-ed . tlittt there were in England 10032 bene&ea. •e, was Wormed that the real number *as /2;40, hut he would take it as stated in these .rl.'cirte. 00f that number 2 619 were non tesidents by exemption, :2,147 were non-residents by license, and 1,354 were non-residents wi bout licenie ; making altogether 6,120 non-residents. Of that number there were 1,590 who did duty in one of their beneces, which left 4,413 resident members tf thi‘rch of Eng lend. He insisted that not thitty miles as now proposed, bet that lest tbst ten 'Milts, ought to be the limit for , holding teleralititesl for that if a man resided even fifteen 1 `mitts then his benefice, he was completely useless for many of the purposes for which a clergyman was required. Under thole circumstances, he should move the postpone+ ment of the consideration of the Pluralities' Pill entil the returns he sought were laid on the table. There was an other subject of complaint nottletcted with this, and that was the entail stipend given to the labouring curates. He had its his possession a list of 100 individuals who did not rective as much as'was paid to many journeymen carpen ters in London, at the sane time that their rectors or vicars held rich benefices which they never attended. Such a sernte of things ought not to continue. There were 162 curates at salaries under 160/., and in the whole Church of England there were only 84 persons receiving more than 1601. for doing duty as curates. In the diocese of Lincoln there were 440 clergymen holding one benefice each ; 250 holding two benefices, and '76 dividing among them 304 benefice., of which ten persons held 42 pieces of pre!erment. He hoped, therefore, that he had laid suffi cient ground for the papers be moved for. Mr. TREVOR r,bjected to the proposition, and maved the previous ques•ion as an amendment. Mr. H. GURNEY thought such an inquiry as un justifiable as the investigation of any man's private affairs. Mr. HUNT r marked that the last, however objection able, had been done by the Income Tax Bill. Mr. WAYLAND did not wish to resist an inquiry into the value of livings that had no incumbents, and where the duties were discharged only by &pop. . Mr. CAMPBELL contended that the information was necessary, with a view to the P ura6lies' Bill, which was about to come before this House. Mr. SHIEL supported the motion. Dr. LUSHINGTON thought that the production of :Le papers would remove existing prejudices, and elucidate .et., which had been much mistaken. Sir T. BARING did not intend to oppose the motion, although he could not concur in the arguments by which it was supported. Mr. RUTHVEN wished the return to be extendel to Ireland. Mr. STANLEY nbscry that ev. n more extensive re turns applicable to Ireland ha 4 already Leen moved for by the Hon. Membvr for Middlesex. Sir M. W. RIDLEY wished the information to be laid upon the table, with a view to the Pluralities' Bill. The gallery was cleared for a division, but none took place, as the motion was acreed to. The dropped orders were then disposed of and fixed frr various days. The Poor Allotment Rill went through a Committee. ANATOMY BILL. Mr. WARBURTON brought up the report on this Bill ; the amendments were aereed to, and the third read ing of the Bill was fixed for Thursday next. SCOTCH REFORM BILL. Mr. C. FERGUSSON presented a petition from Poi t Glasgow, complaining of the alteration in the Sco!ch Re form Bill, by which the fr4nchise was to be confined to Greenock alone, instead of that place sharing it with Port Glasgow. Mr. HUME presented a petition from the Dissenters of Bedminster, against tithes, and praying for the total se paration of the Church and State. Mr. FYSHE PALMER presented a petition from Reading, in favour of the Bill for abolishing the punish ment of death. Lord NUGENT presented a petition from Horsham, to the same effect. _ _ Mr. WARBURTON presented a petition from the Committee of the National Political Union, in favour of the Anatomy Bill. The House then adjourned, at Half-past Eight. ST. M A 11YL EBON E.—A preliminary meeting of the inhabitants of this pyrish was held yesterday, to take into consideration the present eventful state of public affairs. Arrangements were made for a general district meeting of the parishes of St. Marylebone, Pancras, and Paddington. The Lord Mayor has summoned a Common Council for to-morrow, and a Common Hill for FridAy, at one o'clock, to consider the course to be pursued respect ing Monday night's vote. A meeting of Merchants and Bankers is talked of at the Mansion- House on this subject. REFORM BlLL.—Yesterday morning a very numerous and highly respectable meeting of the inhabitant householders of the parish of St. Andrew, Holborn, was held in the inquest- room, in St. Andrew's-court, to con sider the most expedient course to pursue with reference to the defeat of Ministers on Monday night on the subject of the Reform Bill. Jamas MANSFIELD, jun., the senior Churchwarden, took the Chair. Mr. Toone, Mr. FEARON, Mr. WHITE, and several other gentlemen addressed the meeting, after which it was unanimously agreed to address his Majesty, to exercise his royal prerogative by the imme diate creation of a sufficient number of Peers to carry the Brett conservative measure with the least possih e delay. Thanks were voted to the Chairman, and the meeting adjourned. It appears from an official return, that the amount of penalties received on the seizure of silk goods in the year 1827 was 2981. ; this sum Was received by com promise. The amount in 1828 was 520/, also by com promise. In 1829 no penalties were recovered. The penalties altogether in 18S0 amounted to 6001., and in one of the cases out of which these penalties arose the full penalty was paid on the proceedings being commenced, in the remainder by compromise. In 1831, 30/. was re ceived by compromise ; and in 1832, 20,0001. was re ceived by compromise for the penalties incurred. DINNER TO THE MESSRS.LANDER.—Yes terday the gentlemen and tradesmen of Truro and its vici nity entertained the distinguished African travellers, the Mews. LANDER, at Pearce's Hotel. The chair was taken by flumritay WILLYAMS, Esq., at five o'clock, when thirty-five gentlemen, the brothers, RICHARD and JOHN LANDER, and Mr. JAMES LANDER., who resides at this place, sat down to a dinner comprising every delicacy of the season, and which was served in that style of excel lence for which PEARCE his lon, been distinguished. After the cloth was drawn, and " The King" had heel+ given from the chair and drunk with every mark of loyal respect, the chairman, in an appropriate speech, gave the healths of the adventurous and successful travellers, whose discoveries hail conferred so much honour on their native coun•ry, and would doubtless prove so highly important to the cause of humanity and the interests of commerce. Of the hazards and the advantages of these discoveries, the townsmen of the Messrs. LANDER were most proper l;. sensible ; they felt themselves honoured in the success of an uudert +king so arduous, and they were then met to give a public expression to the feelings of admiration and re spect with which they regarded the great achievement 01 their fellow -townsmen. The toast was received with great appl inse, and was drunk with three times three. The Messrs. LANDER returned thanks in appropriate addre.ses, which were received with every demonstration of respect. Several other gentlemen addressed the company in the course of the evening, which was spent in the enjoyment of the highest conviviality and harmony. We regret that the lateness of the hour prevents us from giving a fuller report on this interesting occasion, which did as much tio flour to the feelings of the company as to their distinguished pelts.-- West Britint, May 4. REFORNI BILL. DIVISION ON LORD LYNDHURST'S MOTION IN THE COMMITTEE ON THE REFORM BILL, MONDAY, MAY t, )8'6, 6 . FOR THE POST PONENIENT .Setitpk..TLE A. (;ioaon ro s t. 151 116 Bill BA ROVA. Slielinerstiale Clanbrassil (Earl of Rodrn) rafili3ofougli Wigan (Earl of Hal carkaA) Douglas of Douglas Meldrurn (Earl of Aboyne) . Bi3ston "tiValsiiighant :Sheffield (Earl of Montagit Ravensworth I Willoughby Je Broke ring ti.§ j Bexley Kerr ( Marq. Lothian) ISaltoun Colville Hopetown (Earl of) Ntaryborough De Roos !Gage De, Dunstanville Rolle Manners Dufferin i Wallace Grantham Arden Stuart de Rothsa, Carbcry Monson Forrester Bagot ' Grantley Cowley Southampton Carteret Kenyon Lichfield and Coven. try Rochester Salisbury Bristol I Bangor Exeter Gloucester ' Carlisle Oxford Llandaff Worcester Lincoln Kililioke BARONS. 'Howard de Walden Oakley Selsey Byron Ponsonby, of lino killy Glenlyon Lyttleton Lillord Alvanley Ducie Napier Somerhill (Marqurss of Clanricarde) Ormonde (Marquess of Ormonde) Kenlie (Marquess of Headfort) Mendip (Viscount Clifdcn) Ros.ie (Kinnaird) Say and Sele Audley Dunmore (Earl of Dunmore) Sherborne Barham Granard (Earl of Granard) Howden Stafford Firherwick (Marq. of Donegall) Clifton (Earl of Darnley) Montfort Templemore Mostyn Willoughby d'Eresby Braybrooke Wenlock BISHOPS. London Chester St. David's Chichester FROM LAST NIGEIVS GAZETTE. WHITEHALL, MAY 5, 1832. The King has been graciously pleased to order a writ to be is sued under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Bri tain and Ireland, for summoning Robert Wilson, of Did lington and of Ashwellthorpe, in the County Norfolk, Esq., to the House of Peers, by the name, style, and title of Baron Berners, he being eldest coheir of the said Barony, as lineally descended from Jane, daughter, and eventually sole heir, of Sir John Bourchier, the last Lord Seniors, and which Barony was created by writ of summons in the reign of King Henry the Sixth. WHITEHALL, MAY 7, 1832. The King has been pleased to order a conge d'elire to pass the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, empowering the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral Church of Hereford, to elect a Bishop of that See, the same being void by the death of Doctor George Isaac Huntingford, late Bishop thereof; and his Majesty has also been pleased to recommend the Honourable and Reverend Edward they, Doctor in Divinity, to be elected by the said Dean and Chapter, Bishop of that See. ADMIRALTY-OFFICE, MAN' '2. Thisday, in pursuance of ills Majesty's pleasure, the Earl o f Dundonald was promoted to be Rear-Admiral of the Blue, taking rank next atter the Honourable George Heneage Lawrence Dundas. WAR-OFFICE, MAY MI.:MORAN - DUX—The half-pay of the under-mentioned officers has been cancelled from the Bth instant, inclusive, they having received a commuted allowance for their co,umissions : Ensign L. B. Rainsford, half-pay 7th Garrison Battalion; Lieut. G. Paton, half-pay Cape Reganent ; Lieut. R. H. Farmer, half pay 77th root ; Chaplain J. Webb, half-pay Nl.DonnelPs Regi ment ; Ensign A. Henry, half-pay 58th Foot ; Ensign J. Ryan, half-pay ist Black Garrison Company; Lieut. J. Jackson, half pay Bth Foot ; Ensign W. Powell, half-pay :Z7th Foot; Ensit.,m Gillmore, half-pay -, 11) Foot; Ensign J. D. Bentham, half pay 90th Foot ; Lieut. W. Kershaw, hall.pay 43d Foot. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. JOHN GIBBON, jun., City-canal, Poplar, mast-maker. BANKRUPTS. JOHN APPLEYA RD, Leeds, dyer, May '2:l, and June 19, at two, at the Commercial-buildings, Leeds. Battyc, Fisher, and Sudlow, Chancery-lane; H ar gr e aves, Leeds. WILLIAM WAREING, Hollowell, Northampton, miller, May 21 and June 19, at eleven, at the Goat Inn, Northampton. ('apes, Raymond's-buildings, Gray's-inn ; Lucas., Edwards, and Freeman, Long Buckby, Northamptonshire. RICHARD CREAGHE andCONSTANTINE CREACHE, Dublin, merchants, May CM, and June 19, at two, at the Claren don-rooms, Liverpool. Blackstock and Bunce, King's Bench walk, Temple ' • Woods and Son, Liverpool. JOSEPH EV ANS, Chester, needle-maker, May and June 19, at eleven, at the Old Nag's Head Inn, Chester. Faulk ner, Chester. GEORGE SHEPPARD, Almondsbury, Gloucestershire, victualler, May `26 and June 19, at two, at the Rummer Tavern, Bristol. Poole, Greenfield, and Gamlen, Gray's-Inn-square, London ; Parker, Bristol. ED W A RD COPE, Birmingham,' iquor-merchant, May 15,19, and June 19, at twelve, at the Royal Hotel, Birmingham. Nor ton and Chaplin, Gray's-Inn-square, London; Ingleby, Bir mingham. THOMAS WALKER, High-Holborn, tallow-chandler, May lti, at one, and June 19, at ten, at the Court of Bankruptey. Knigh tley, Argyll- Chambers, Regent-street. ROBERT WHITWORTH and JAMES BENNETT, Wil clerswood, Horwich, Lancaster, cotton.spinners, Mar :11, 2'2, and June 19, at two, at the Palace Inn, Manchester. Kershaw, Manchester; Johnson and Weatherall, Temple. JOSEPH TEMPLE, Kingston-upon-Hull, common-brewer, May 13, 16, and June 19, at eleven, at the Kingston Hotel, Kingston-upon-Hull. Walmsley, Keightley ; Parkins, Chancery lane, London; Dryden, Hull. THOMAS WILLIAMS, Newport, Monmouthshire, rope spinner, Mar 2'2, and June 19, at one, at the Commercial Rooms, Bristol. White and Whitmore, Lincoln's Inn, London; Bevan and Brittan, Bristol. BINGHAI'd YOUNG, Downham-market, Norfolk, common brewer, May 16, at seven, 17, at ten, and June 19, at ten, at the Castle Inn, Downham Market. Voodward, Bouverie-street, Fleet-street,London. GEORGE COOPER, Exeter, stationer, May 12, 19, and J une 19, at eleven, at the Old London Inn, Exeter. Rhodes and Beevor, Chancery-lane, London; Brutton, Exeter. JOSEPH DILLON and ALFRED STEWARD, Mincing lane, wine -brokers, to surrender May 17 and June 19, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Paterson, Old Broad.street. JAMES COCHRANE, Waterloo-place, Pall-Mall, bookseller, May 16, at ten, and June 19, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Beart, 25, Tokenhouse, Lothisury. JO RNBLACKFORD,Devonport, watch-maker, May 14, 13, and June 19, at eleven, at Elliott's Royal Hotel, Devonport. Walker and Richards, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London ; Black more, Devon port. JOHN HEAWARD, Hillhouse, Spotland, Rochdale, Lan cashire, farmer, May 19, 22, at t en , and J une 19, at two, at the Palace Inn, Manchester Cl ar k e , Ri c h ards, and Medcalf, Lin coln's Inn-fields, London ; and Whitehead, Rochdale. WILLIAM COLE FAULKNER, Dublin, merchant, May and June 19, at one, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool Blackstock and Bunce, King's Bench-walk, Temple, London ; Woods and Son, Liverpool. JOHN ROGERS, Rochdale, Lancashire, draper, May 24, 25, and June 19, at nine, at the Palace Inn, Manchester. Coate, Manchester ; Adlington, Gregory, and Faulkner, Bedford-row, London. Middlesex, DIVIDENDS.hay T. Geeves, Hendon,lesmati, May 29, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy —P. JollifF, Poole, merchant, May " 9 , at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy—J. Woodingham, jun., Church-street, Kensington, surgeon, May 30, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy—M. Molineux, Hertford, cabinet-maker, June 2, at ten, at the Court of Bankruptcy —W. Hall, I'. S. Hall, W. J. Hall, Crosby-square,: packers, June s,tat half.past ten, at the Court of Bankruptcy—T. Neighbour, jun., king-street, West Smithfield, wine -merchant, Nlay 29, at a quarter past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy —C. R. Burford, upper char lotte-street, Fitzroy-square, payer-hanger, May 17, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy-IS. Hadley, jun., Milford.wharf, St. Clement Danes, coal-merchant, May 31, at the Court of Bank ruptcy—F;• Thompson, a Thompson, and T. G. Thompson St. Martin's-lane, linen -dra p ers, Sta y 29, at half-past ten at theeourt o f Bankruptcy—J. N. Chapman, Bridgewater, Soinersetsh ire, M a y 19, at one, at the office of • 3lessrs. G regor y an,: linen-draper, Smith, Bristol — G . T. Whitfield and J. fiargant, Whitchurch, Shropshire, sil k - th r owsters, June t, at twelv e , at the White L i nii Inn, Whitchurc h ..._,J. Gibbins W. W. Smith:and W. Goode, Birmingham, • t bankers, June 6, a eleven, at D ee ' s R oya l H o t e l, Birmingham—W. '• Rule. Chacewater, Cornwall, grocer, May 3 0 , at one, at the Bush Tavern, Bristol—R. Mitton, Storth, Lit.th waite, Yorkshire, cluth-merchant, Nay fln wn at eleven, at the White Horse Inn, Huddersfield—NV. Knight, St. Neot's, I tin,. tingdonshire, draper, May ill, at eleven, at the Falcon Inn, St. Neot's—T. Ityley, oventry, dyer, May 30, at eleven, at the Craven Arms Hotel, Coventry—W: Williams, St. Wollos, Mon mouthshire, coal:nitre/Wit ' ai; ten, at the chambers of J. G. Smith, Esq., Bristol—F. Wragge, Preston, Lancashire, stationer, May V, at eleven, at the office of Mr. W. Ch.trillcy, Preston—H. Guest, Manchester, woollen.draper, June 4, at nine, at the Star Inn, Manchester—R. Jenkins, Newport, Monmouth shire, coal-merchant, June 4, at ten, at the office of Messrs. Prothero and Phillips, Newport. CERTIFICATES, MAY 6 :9. C. Murton, Great Newport-street, Long-acre, bookbinder— W. Bissill, Quorudon, Leicestershire, bowl-manufacturer—B. Hor ner, Bilton with Harrowgate, Yorkshire, joiner—J. Mullowny, Bristol, merchant—W. youell ) Crspbtoft ) Ketit; breWer-- - -P. Young ) Frtit hte."ol-streit, sail-tnaktr—J. Edmans, Strand, cheesernonger--J. Lowe, Warringtoh, Lancashire, currier—l. T. Berguer, Pickett-Street, Strand, printer—J. Ackerman, Bru ton, SomersetPhire, wopllen;draper—J.,,L Bakflwell; Cheapside, warehouseman - D. Smith, Mayfiela,Staffordshire,cottoh-spinner PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. F. Moore, jun., and T. Lambert; Albany-road, Kent-road, clarified sugar makers—J. Nichols and Co., EarLcourt, Crap bourn-street, Leicester-square, printers—T. Cole and Co ,so far as regards T. Cole—T. jenkinson and. Co., Liverpool; manufac turing chemists—H. Jackson. and J. W., Rolipin,soa, West Smith field, tailors—J. Bumpus and J., Griffin, Skinner-strett, bo'ok. sellers—J. Lerch and Co., Manchester, cotton.spinner—J. and 11. Russell, Coulsdon, Sttrrevi farmers..-R. Lamb and F. Fames, Nottingham, hatters—J. White and .1. H. Richardson, Dent's Hole, near Newcastle-upon-Tyne, fire-brick manufacturers—J. Oliver, sen. and jun., Newark-upon-1 rent, Nottinghamshire, mercers—T. Jones aced J. Yeomans, Manchester, calenderers— W. Godwin, I'. Rowley, and J. Johnson, Bursiem, Staffbrdshire, earthenware-manufacturers—W. and E. Oxenbould, Birming ham, wire-weavers—T. R. Coates, J. Harrison, and R. Gay, My ton, Kingston-upon-Hull, drysalters-,J Bilton, J. pucka, and J. Brigg, Hotton, Yockshire 4 corn - millers, --A. Stumbles and P. N'cisPer, Sti 4 tichdalse,, fli , i , onshirc; wine-nierChadia--.1. II Fisher and T. ' lllicdES, Davies-56mq, Orcisventir-square, itt'drineysT. Turner and G. Henderson, Halifax, Yorkshire, linen-drapers— J. W. Graxebrook and G. Munro, City-road, iron.merchants. Majority against the Reform MAJORITY. EARLS. &lkirk 1 - Lurovvby Beverley IMount FAgcuml, .ile ` aoh rlyinduth AAbingdon, ialdegrave !fllentrall rowb, ucail BrocrinloAr Warwick StaMford Lpnldale Clrford. Marclesßeid 'Leven and Melville Elgin Graham (Duke of Montrose) Jersey Aylesford iTankerville ISidmouth iGordon (Earl of Aberdeen) Arbuthnot Strathallan Combermere Maynard Gort Sidn.y„ . OA RONS. Dalhousie, (Earl of Dalhousie) Tyrone, ( Marquess o: Waterford) Feversham Redesdale Lyndhurst Wyn ford Oriel (Viscount Fer rate') rliennroilgh Ribblesdale Wharncliffe Clanwilliam (Earl of Clanwilt . ain) Penshurst Melross (Earl of Had dington) Dyncvnr ARCHBISHOPS. Canterbury York Armagh DUKE‘. Cumberland Gloucester • Yt'Alknttoh BuCkirlihaffi Ned Castle Doy Act. . • Nortbu Mantbeiter maagneasEs. Twecddale Thomond Salisbury sute,, Choltnolideley Camden Bath Bristol Exeter Abercorn EARL Shaftesbury Mnrtrli k tlF ; Limerick Stradbroke Norwich (Duke of Gordon) .Nfalmesbury Bradford Charleville D , cin i tAr ia f p likt at Mansfield Carnarvon Wicklow Falmouth Ilarewood Dartmouth Vane (Marquees of Londonderry) Eldon nigh i Live hamp St. Germaine Westmoreland Bathurst Winchilsea Delawarr Talbot DUKES. Sussex Grafton Bedford Somerset Richmond Devonshire Norfolk St, Alban's Brandon MARQUESSES. Lansdowne Cleveland Winchester Oueensberry fiastings itutt.s. Amherst Pomfret Oxford Manverg Minto Hillsborough ( Mar• qUess of Downshire) On.lsw Grey Morley Mulgrave Denbigh Camperdown Chichester Albemarle Gosford Cowper Craven Huntingdon Burlington Lich field Romney Suffolk Derby llchester Munster P iscousis. Hood Goderich Bolingbroke MINORITY. VISCOUNTS. Leinster (Duke of Leinsterj Granville BA BONS. Brougham Monteagle (Mar quess of Sligo) Durham Crewe Lynedoch Dacre Rosebery (Earl of Rosebery) IFing . all (Earl of Fin. Holland Chaworth (Earl of Meath) Auckland Dundas Teynharn Sefton (Earl of) Hawke Poltimore Dover Suffield Sundridgo (Duke of Argyll) Yarborough Cloncurry Panmure Clifford Stourton Boyle (Earl of Cork) Ludlow (Earl of Lud. low) Melbourne (Viscount Melbourne) Di n orben Erskine Howard of Effingham Wellesley (Marquees Wellesley) Middleton Petre Gower Foley REFORM BILL. (Prom the "jury and Norwich Post, May §.) By the liher4lity and extraordinary exertions of the pro priet rs of The Sun evening paper, we have received (within 10 hours after its occurrence) the intelligence of the defeat of Ministirs, on a direct trial of strength. (From the Bury and Suffolk Herald, May 9.) We are indebted to the courtesy and extraordinary despatch of ?he Nun newspaper, for the decision of the Lords on the Reform bill. That paper contains sit co lumns of the debate—arrived, by express—at our office yesterday (Tuesday) morning, between the hours of nine and ten, although the division did not take place till 12 on the night preceding. TO THE. EDITCIi OF THE . SIR,—We have to thank you for the copies of The Sun received this morning, containing the late division. Requisitions are now signing for a meeting of this coun'y and borough, to address the King to make Peers. I remain your obliged servant, Reading, All 8. F. P. COWSLADE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—By your extraordinary exertions V:e inhabitants of this town and neighbourhood were put in possession of the result of last night's debate on the Reform Bill so early as ten o'clock. This forenodn the sensation which the information created was so striking, that even the Duke of Wellington, %ad he witnessed it, must have been convinced that no reaction has taken place on the subject of Reform at Leicester. Groups, canvassing the measure, and expressing their united conviction that the BM would be lost unless new Peers were immedi itely Made, were everywhere to be seen; while persons of all ranks were flocking from diffe rent quarters of the town to ascertain the nature of the reports in circulation. An extract from Earl Grey's speech, together with an intimation given in The Sun, of the probability of sixty new Peers being immediately announced, having been exhibited in the window of the Chronicle Office (the Editor of which had been politely furnished with a copy of the Paper), gave the people great hopes that the in asure would not be defeated. On the whole, they thought the division thus early come to favourable than otherwise to the Bill, furnishing, as it did, such an indication of the feelings of the Tories to wards it, as left even Earl Grey no longer any ground for hesitating to make n.w Peers. A public meeting is called for to-morrow morning, at eleven o'clock, to ad dress the King for that purpose, which there cin be no doubt will be numerously attended. Leicester, May 8. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sta,—lt is really nauseous to read the assertions put forth by the Boroughmongering Journals and their f 119,9.• eters, the lordly pensioners in club. assembled, that the nation has become indifferent about Reform, and that in Scotland particularly the people now care little or nothing about the Bill. Such assertions are the most impudent and barefaced falsehood•, and the writers and spouters of them know lull well that they are so. Let such whole sale dealers in untruths turn their eyes to Edinburgh, and there 60,000 men will give them the lie direct. In this city we have had no public meeting to be sure, because the people think they are better employed attending to their business ; but the desire for the success of the Bill in this place has not been at any time since its first introduction into Parliament, so deep and general as it is at this mo ment ; and as a proof of this we to-day send up a Peti tion to the House of Lords, bearing the signatures of nearly 10,000 men, praying their Lordships to pass the Bill without mutilation. I trust Earl Grey will not be backward in using every constitutional means to get this Bill speedily proclaimed the law of the land, and to give peace to the country ; for should it again be thrown our, or rendered useless in Committee, you may rely upon it that the time is not far distant when a much greater measure of Reform must be conceded to a disappointed and enraged people. What is the evil (if evil it be at all) in the creation of half-a-hun dred Peers compared with the unspeakable evil of a national convulsion ?—I am, dear Sir, your very humble se. yaw., Merdeen, May 4. REFORMER. PORTSMOUTH, MkY 8. (FROM OUR CORREerONDENT.) O❑ Sunday, orders were suddenly received for that fine ship the Britannia, 120 guns, to prepare for sea, with every despatch. On Monday, 250 marines were ordered to prepare to embark on board her, at a moment's notice. On Tuesday, orders arrived for the Talavera, 74 guns, to prepare and be ready to accompany the Britannia. I also saw a letter from Plymouth, stating that the Caledo nia, 120 guns, had received similar orders, and was ex pecting to take on board 250 marines belonging to the Plymouth division. Joined with the above, it reported that 500 marines from the remaining division of Royal Marines, will also embark, making in all 1,000 men. It is not known for a certainty where they may be bound ; but it is generally said their destination is Lisbon, to de mand instant revenge for the outrageous assault on our Prime Minister's nephew at Madeira. We have heard some slight mention of a trim. con. af fair at Portsmouth. The parties implicated are young subalterns in a gallant corps, stationed at that place. A court of inquiry was held on Monday, the result of which was received at the head-quarters in town on Tuesday. It is pretty generally rumoured that a court-martial must be held. The immediate neighbourhood of Portsmouth was thrown into some considerable degree of constirnstion on Tuesday morning. A report of a murder having been committed on the preceding evening, and that the body had been thrown into a deep moat surrounding the walls and town of Portsea, was spread early on that morning. On hearing of the circumstances, numbers of persons re paired to the spot. Among them I saw the Mayor, and the editor of the Herald, who had, on searching, found a piece of brain, and a piece of skull, which was pro nounced by a medical gentleman present to be part of a human skull. A large quantity of blood was found among the grass, and a violent scuffle had apparently taken place on the edge of the moat, which was dragged, but nothing found. In the meanwhile it remains enveloped in mystt•ry FROM A CORRESPONDENT.—I left Exeter yesterday (Tuesday), and on my way to town this morn ing met a galloping express, the chaise covered with pla cards announcing the melancholy and vexatious intelli gence of the defeat of Ministers on the Reform Bill. Town after town, as we passed along, the streets were thronged with people of all classes; business was quite suspended, and the universal cry was, send deputations with a peti tion to the King (for it is useless addressing the Lords), and implore his Majesty to grunt the petitions of the peo ple, by making at least fifty Peers, and strangle the far tious opposition of the Tory Lords and Bishops to the will of himself. the Commons, and the unanimous voice of a patient but determined people. His Majesty must—he cannot do otherwise—he has said he will, and we well know he has the courage to do it, since the blind fanati cism of the Bishops and Tory Lords have driven him to it as a dernier resort.—Civis. ALTONA, HAMBURG, AND LUBECK RA L wAy.—A proposal has been lately published by Mr. MAGI:us KLEIN for making a railroad between the above towns, the estimated cost of which is 800,0001., which, it is stated, will produce a much larger profit than the Liver pooland Manchester railroad. Thirty thousand tons of goods at present piss from Lubeck to Himburg, and. when there shall be a railroad conveyance, the quantity, it is confidently expected, wil; greatly increase. a-d the pas sengers ix imutvnse. PROCLEDINGS RELATING TO THE REFORM BILL. TVENfMtIVStER MEETING. A special meeting of the electors and inhabitants of Westminster was held last evening, about eight o'clock, at the Crown and Anchor Tavern in the Strand; and al though notice had been given through the medium of the Evening Papers only a few hours before, so many attended the call at this crisis, that there was not apace in the mom where the inhabitants met for half of those who attended. The Chair was 'ditch by T. MURPIIt , Esq. The CifAIWSAN eitplained the object of the meeting in an energetic speech, showing that the time fur wavering or hesitation oil the part of the people should now cease ; for their Bill had received a deathblow, and it was now to be proved whether oligarchs or the people should govern the country. DANIEL WAtEftEtn, jun. Esq. rose to propose an Address to his Majesty. fly the pretended adherence of lukewarm friends, Reform was in more danger, than by the bold front of a determined enethy. 'thus had it proved in tie House of Lords, Where the Wharnclifte and the Harrow' y party had borne the semblance of support to the Bill, by voting for its second reading, solely that tl:ey might strangle it in the Committee. The eri.is now makes reflection turn to thc Government of the country ; for perhaps at this moment the pr . , sent Ministry is no more; and the fate of Re!Oirn in its proposed extent is dooratd td despAir or destrtictiou A Military Govern ment may be formed ; but Will the ',Mile of this Cotintry ever subtdt to a Government like that which depose Charles the Tenth of France? Will the people of Eng land submit to a despotic Administration like the Polignac of the continent?—(Great cheers, " 2110, no,") Or will they sabihit to have their liberty and privileges invaded when the Power rests in their 0/0 hatidti? But the time has come for action, not for talking solely j the eyes of the people must be turned to the remedy in their own hands, and must seriously think (however painful the re solution may be) about the non-payment of taxes—(Loud cheering.) He, for one, would not after the next quarter day, pay any taxes.—(Cheere.)—and though, as an indi vidual, his amount of taxes might be trifling, he hoped that such a stimulus would be given by such and similar examples—and such a precedent eatabli.hed throughout the country, that the odium or the burden would not fall on one or two, but would become so general as to be irre. sistible. H. B. CHURCHILL, Esq., warmly seconded the motion. He was not disappointed in the turn the Bill had taken, nor did he much regret it ; but now the people must watch narrowly the Waverers in their pretended guise of friend ship, and the Absolutes in their attempts to domineer and resist the wishes and determination of the people. In the Waverers (should they, by sad destiny, take the helm of Government), the people should he prepared with the non payment of taxes, and present them buttoned breeches; but for the Absolutes or soldiers, the people should prepare their powder and melt their lead.—(Continued cheering.) The Address was unanimously carried. '‘ THE ADDRESS OF THE UNDERSIGNED PERSONS, ASSEMBLED AT THE CROWN AND ANCHOR TA VERN, IN THE STRAND, MAY 8, 1832. . 6 MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MAJESTY , 'We, your Majesty's faithful subjects, bCg leave to express our .hanks for the kindness and goodness of your Majesty towards Cie people , by li, countenance and support given . to your Mi .•••-• ' •rird, and carrying through the House of COVIIMOUIh the Al for Reforming the Representation of the Yeople—particulaily for the energy and determination your Ma jesty displayed in the dissolution of one Parliament adverse to the measure, and the prorogation of another, when the Bill had been rejected by the Lords. " We beg also to express our anxious apprehensions lest the Bill should again be rejected, or should be mutilated by the Lords; and in expressing our apprehensions, we beg leave to add also our sincere conviction, that should such a rejection or mutilation occur, the country and Government will become a prey to tumult, anarchy, and confusion, terminating in the utter extinction of the present privileged rders of society. " We therefore most urgently implore your Majesty to exert the prerogative vested in the Crown for the good of the nation, and to save us on this occasion from the impending evils, by cre ating a sufficient number of Peers, not only to secure the passing of the Bill, but to enable your Ministers to conduct the Govern. ment so as to insure the prosperity, and promote the peace and happiness of the people." A deputation was appointed to wait as soon as possible on Lord Melbourne with this address, which was signed by all present. Mr. GEoacc RocEas had intended to move resolutions to a similar effect, and others, called for by the present emergency. For the present he would confine himself to moving, " That it is the opinion of this meeting that an immediate creation of Peers should be made, sufficient to secure the passing of the Reform Bill unmutilated, abso lutely essential to prevent the eountty from failing into a state of anarchy—and, steonilly, that it be therefore re commended to every town, parish, and hamlet, to hold meetings, and for every inhabitant of such place to attend those meetings, for the purpose of praying his Majesty to create Peers to meet the present exigency." In the pro gress of his remarks, he said the tax-gatherer had called at his house the other day for his taxes, but he told him to call after the Reform Bill had posed.—(lmmense laugh ter and cheers.) Upon the same principle of " call again to-morrow" for the taxes, The CIIAIRAIAN said he was in a similar situation, and had postponed payment; so chat when the tax •gatherer last called on him, he said all the neighbourhood had followed his example—" I'll not pay any taxes (answered they) till Mr. Murphy pays his."—(Cheers.) Mr. WILLIAM CARPENTER announced to the Meeting that he also bad refrained from paying his taxes ; amid trusted that, instead of Meetings wasting their time in useless addresses and petitions, that every one of them would come to the resolution—and that surely and soon— of not paying taxes till the Bill be passed. (The resolution was loudly called for ; but at the sug gestion of some of the more prudent of the auditors, its consideration was postponed till the general meeting, to be held this day, when many have promised to sign a resolu tion that they shall refrain from paying taxes, and shall mutually assist each other.) The resolutions proposed by Mr. Rogers were adopted ad interim, and a deputation—the Chairman, and Messrs. Wakefield, Churchill, and Detroiser—were appointed to present the address to Lord Melbourne. COMMON HALL. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORD ALAYOR. We, the undersigned Liverymen of the city of Lsnd on, do request that your Lordship will be pleased, at the ear liest possible period, to convene a Common H a ll, f ur t h e purpose of petitioning the King to exercise his prerogative in creating any number of Peers which rmy be requisite to insure the immediate passing of the Reform BR in all its principles unimpaired, as the only means of securing the liberties of the ptople, and preserving the tranquillity of the country. The above requisition, numerously and most respect ably signed, was presented to the Lord Mayor yesterday evening, at six o'clock, by a deputation, consisting of Mr. Williams, Mr. Newell, Mr. Fearon, Mr. Dillon, Mt. Wil kinson, Sec., when his Lordship was pleased to appoint the same fur Friday next, at twelve for one o'clock ; and would have named an earlier day, but a Requisition for a Court of Common Council, for the same object, had previously been presented, which his Lordship had iti,reed to call on Thursday. Another Requisition, w hi c h has already re ceived numerous signatures, is about to he presented to the Lord Mayor, embracing, in addition to the above object, petitioning the House of Commons to withhold the sup plies until the Reform Bill Lecomes o law. In the Court of Arches yesterday, Sir JOHN NictroLL granted the prayer of Mr. GARLICK, for a divorce from his wife on the ground of adultery with a Mr. WEST, her medical attendant. No opposition was made by the wife. Lord BERNERS, who, we understand, will be shortly introduced to his MAJESTY on the occasion of his accession to the Peerage, gives his vote, we hear, in fa vour of Reform, the politics of the Noble Baron asaimilat ing with those of his kinsman, the Earl of ALBEMARLE, who will probably present him to the KING. The son in-law to the Noble Master of the Horse, Mr. SienaEN soli, M.P. for Westbury, was Counsel to Lord.BEILNERS during the recent investigation of his Lordship's claim to the boniiurs of Nobility. The Barony of Berner, to which his Lordship has established his claim, as the eldest co-heir, has been dormant since 1 ' 7 73. At Paris, in the early part of last week, the speculators at the Bourse were astonished at a sudden ad vance of 25 cents in rentes. At first nobody could divine the cause, but at length it was explained that the Minister of the Interior bad actually eaten a cotelette. An express S w lt a r s ifmormaedcioantefilryindaetsiponatcolfiedthtios the p p r y e s n i e w n s ite . of o the tie Mini re turn of the messenger, it was discovered that the cotelette had been eaten by M. D'AnnoUT, and not by M. PRIER. On this announcement the funds again fell 30 cents. RED BONES FROM CHOLERA.—M. BEGIN was congratulating ons of the attendants at an hospital on the quantity of teeth he should be able to collect in conse quence of the epidemic. " T hey are good for nothing,' was the reply, "in consequence of their red colour." M BEGIW ascertained that the case was the fact, and then ex amined the bones of a corpse, of which the teeth were di. coloured. He found that every one of them presented th, same curious phenomena. He exhibited fragments of dif ferent hones to the Medic el Academy, all of which appeared as if injecreh, and as if the persons bail died of a violeti inflammation of the boned. —Gazette hiedicalt, COURT CIRCULAR. A Cabinet Council was held at eleven o'clock yesterday morning at the Foreign-office, which was attended by the whole of the Cabinet Ministers, except the Earl of CAR LISLE (Wl4O has been confined to his repidenee in Gros venor-place, by indispo‘ition, for some time past) and the Loan CHANCELLOR. The Loan CHANCELLOR BUI,Se. quently j dried the other Ministers. The Council broke up about three o'clock. Directly afterwards Etil Gaav, accompanied by the LORD CHAN. CELLOR, left town for the Palace at Windsor, to have at% audience of the KING. The Duchess of IcEwr and the Princess VICTORIA ro for some time yesterday at Mr. FOZARD'S riding-school. The Princess AUGUSTA returned to town on Monday nizht, a'ter dining and spending the evening with theic .MAJESTIES, at the Queen's Lodge, in Bushy Park. The Duchess of GLOUCESTER, and the Princesses Au. GU,TA and SOPIIIA, took an airing in a carriage yester:tay in Hyde Park. The Duchess of KENT and the Princess VrcroatA. walked and drove for some time in Hyde Park on iiiiondays Prirtice TALLEYRAND, the French Ait:bassadoe ; flfJ Baron de IlritssiNiuitC. the Austrian Minister, on d special rniss'oA EiirOn B&Low, the Pritssian Mini.tetz Count MATusciiEwiTi, thi 1 11uariln INinistir, on a special mission ; and the Austrian Charge d'ffa had a cod forence with Viscount PALMERSTON yesieigi rtt ti. 44 Foreign-office. The Bavarian Min'ster transacted business yesterday at the For ign- o ffi ce w i t h Vip:count PALMERSTON. Despatches rot. the Governirs of the We.t India Islan IS were sent off from the Cdlonial.oglal on MoAday night. Earl GREY, accompanied by the Loan CalaNhitt)(! . ., returned to tow n a b out a quarter past ten o ' c l oc k fi s t night, after having an audience and dining with his MA JESTY, at the Palace at Windsor. Soon after his arrival in town, the Noble Eat' proceeded to the Foreign-office, where a Cabinet Council was held, at which all the Cabi net Ministers, egeept the Earl of CARLISLE, were present, having assembled between ten and eleven o'clock. The Doke of WELLINGTON w.s in the orchestra of Co. vtnt-gard,.n theatre last evening, to witness the perform• ance of The Hunchback. t f io ' n re ta nt s e u r p d p e o n rt t t h o ei w r n pres an en d t e it: i h g a n b ed it a a r n e t s s olu o d r e ;I f h h a e v hers, should they come forvard for that division of Ken: after the passing of the Reform Bill. They have ales adopted resolu.ions of confidence in Ministere, and a re. commendation of the creation of Peers shou'd that stepba necessary to carry the Bill. Mr. GORING (who has just attained his 106e1 year) was born at Chertsey, in the county of Surrey, eta the 23rd of April 1732 ; his descendants in the sec nut generation consist of two sons and five daughters, whose united ages amount to 434 yeas ; in the third generation, there are 20 grandsons and 14 grandaughters ; in the f urth generation, 23 grew-grandchildren. Mr. GoRIN was by trade a tailor, and hss resided all his life at Chert— sey ; he was a most excellent pedestrian, and very fro.. quently walked to London and back in the course of the day, transacting his business, which he called " a step up to town," and not long ago he took one of these " steps* to see his friends. He is in the possession of all his facial• tie., and prides himself on the excellence of his teeth.—. Windsor Express. VOLCANIC ISLAND.—In 1783, off Ryke.. yse, or Bird Island, a singular submarine phenomenon or. eurred ; the s , a appeared covered with a light bluish flume ' through an Went of more than a mile ; it lasted several hours, and occaNioned a very great consternation among the inhabitants of the neighbouring coast. When the flames ceased a small island appeared on the site, the sur— face of which was covered with pumice-stones and volcanic ashes. The islet has since disappeared.— United Service Journal. At this moment there are 32 frigates in course of construction in the ports of France :—viz. at Brest, three of 60 guns, and five of 52; at Toulon, one of 60, and three of 52 ; at Rochefort, two of 60, two of 52, and one of 46 ; at L'Orirnt, five of 60, two of 52, and one of 46 ; at Cherbourg, two of 60, and tvo of he ; and at Servan, three of 52 guns.—Hampshire Teleg-aph. POETS.—Professor WILSON, in an article on " TENNYSON'S Poems," contained in the number of Block wood for the present month, ssys Thus all men, women, and children, birds, beasts, and fishes, are poes, except versifiers. Oysters are poets. Nobody will deny that, who ever in the neighbourhood of I"restonpans beheld them passionately gaping, on their native bed, for t e flow of tide cooling again to awaken all their energies, from the wide Atlantic. Nor less so are snarl. See them in the dewy stillness of eve, as they salute the crescent Dian, with horns humbler indeed, but no less pointed than her own. The beetle, against the traveller borne in heed less hum, if we knew all his feelings in that soliloquy, might safely be pronounced a WORDSWORTH. Thus are we all poets—high and low—except versifiers. They, poor creatures, are a peculiar people, impotent of good works. Ears have they, but they hear not —eyes have they, but they will not see—nay, n iturslists assert that they have brains and spinal narrow, also organs-of speech; yet with all that organizat:on, they seem to have but little feeling, and no thought; and but by a feeble and monoto. ncus fizz, are you made aware, in the twilight, of the use less existence of the obscure ephemerals." CUT AND DRIED.—Some thirty or forty years ago, it was not. an unusual practice to hang up pro vincial newspapers in the printing offices to dry two or three days before the time of publication. REMARKABLE CIRCUMSTANCE.--A few days ago, a shopkt-eper in this town receiv, d a parcel by a person who, on being questioned, re! - used to divulge the name of the individual by whom he had been employed to carry it. On opening the parcel, two enclosures to two tradesmen presented themselves ; one containing the aura of 5/. and the other 6s. 6d. A letter also accompanied the parcel, couched in the following terms :—" Please to tell the persons it is theirs ; and that at tke resurrection of the just they w ill k now w h o i t i s t h at t h e gospe l o f Christ has caused to remit them their own."—Doncaster 'Gar. On the Ist of May it rained very hard. The little sweeps who had left their cellars in the morning, as black as could he wished, returned home washed all over. They were quite mad : the rain had so disfigured them, that they pretended they were not known again.— The Parrot. LORD MILTON AND HIS TENANTS AT MatiroN.—The following paruraph appeared in the Yorkshire Gazette on Saturday last We have re ceived several communications from ;Mahon, verbal and otherwise, statinl, that several widows on the property of Lord MILTON have received discharges, in order that they may be replaced by good and true and independent ten-pounders. Lord MILTON seems determined to do press wb what be will with his own ; but w e d are say t h e Whi g will not ,'* - e to say one word against the acts of his liberal Lordship." We have undoubted authority for stat ing that the above communications are grossly and wilfully false, and that not a single notice to quit has been given for the purposes above-mentioned; ih corroboration of which it may be stated, that no widow has actually quitted any house on Lord Ferzwimaaat's Milton estates during the present year.—Leeds Mercury. FRENCH POST-OFFICE.—The Moniteur of tt t a lT b e lishment of a daily cor respondence France and England have ‘ o ‘ le j tti rt cle E s ng iv ii :ti b ch jqu hTv li e l hr( F eti r hst ne a rne c y t:ioi jeu c n : rcxi n eti t : a bt) i ey n da s :at t gna h anf e eiuntnts f ee t t i e l .si l ,t o ehtt w ehw i a n ,e arisen from persons employed in the French Patst.offieee who, yielding to the influence of c:rtain speculators, find it their interest to conceal for two days out of the six such news as may arrive from abroad. This allegation is com pletely false. It may he proved by the correspondence which has taken place on this subject that the French Ad ministration, for a long time sensible of the inconveniences attached to the present mode of transmitting despatches from England, has e m b raced every opportunity of entering into arrangements with the English Post-office, and has frequently made overtures on the subject, which have b r ,eo recently renewed. It would not suffice to establish este fete frotn Paris to Calais on the six ordinary days in the week, instead of four, but it is necessary that there should be also regular despatches from Dover to Calais on the same number of days, for which the acquiescence of the English Government is requisite. Besides, the visit to I' iris of persons belonging to the British Post' office has been a further cause for the renewal of the propositions of the French post ; and as these propositions are founded i 1 justice, and supported by conditions of perfect reciprocity, there is every reason to hope that in the end they will be listened to." In reporting the conversation of Dr. Jolts- SON, BOSWELL, the Doctor's celebrated biographer, re lates that the latter once said, in reference to the pleasune of the table, " Sir, a man who does not mind his stomach can hard:) , he expected to mind anything else. For 1 1, , part, I attend to the gratification of mine very studiously. This is great authority ; but unless be has the guidance of a skilful cook, the lover of g oo d eat i ng must study is vain. Let such resort to the Dictionary of Cookery, by DOLBY, who, in the new edition of his celebrated work, has put forth fresh claims to populari•y. His Dictionary, , with its numerous improvements, roust be considered th 4, rest (because the lost practical) of ruodera books.