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THE NATIONAL REGISTE.

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MONDAY. FEDIUARY 4.

The recent Meeting of the Freeholders of the
county of Suffolk proved the wish of that body, to
be decidedly in favour of a Reform in Parliament,
end we are sure that wish is reciprocated, from a
conv.etion of its necessity, by every honest man—by
every one who shares not " the loaves and fishes,"
the distribution of which is consequent from the
present state of that Ifouse, which, instead of being,
us it ought to be, the real representatives of the
people, is, in point of fact, merely the Echo to the
measures of Ministers, be they what tiny may.—
This Retbrm, we hole, will be effected without a
rcvolution, because we have a very high authority to
support our own opinion, that "if the House of
Commons be not retbrmcd within its own doors, it
v. ill soon be reformed from without with a ven-
geance." The Session of Parliament now com-
mencing will assemble under more fearful circum-
stances than any other has done in our political
memory, and Economy and ltetret:chment are the
chars on which most be sacrificed every other con-
sideration: these offerings must no longer be confined
to the discharge of inferior Cleriss—it must extend
to all classes; and the example of Louis XVIII. is
worthy of George IV.—when lie addressed the
Chambers on his second restoration, and acknow.

THE NATIONAL REGISTER

lodged the unexampled distress of the country, he
urged the necessity of economy, and aided, that his '
example should not be wanting, for that until the
situation of France should be ameliorated, he would
only receive two-thirds of the amount voted to him
for the civil list. and :aided, that all his Ministers
should be subject to the sant.: reduction.—Let his
Majesty resolve on the same line of conduct, and he
will be deservedly popular—let him order a curtail-
ment of expellee in every department, without ex-
ception, and he will soon be convinced that the
ardent attachment of an English people is a better,
and to ua English end cons!itwional Member of the
House of Brunswick a more appropriate guard than
the mercenary sabres, muskets, and bayonets of a sol-
diery unconstitutionally cooped up in barrack, with
a view to alienate them from the feelings of citizens
of a free state, the greet of which estrangement
was pretty manifestly exhibited both in the murder
at Cumberland gate, and the attempt at murder at
the Knightsbridge-barracks But to return to the
approaching Sessional business—if an entire change
of measures and ministers (which would be hailed
as a blessing by the kingdom at large) cannot be
obtlinA, we hope the present unworthy occupants
of the Treasury Benches will come forward man-
fully, and to their country confess, with the prodigal
Son—" We have sinned against Heaven and against
thee," and as they must still be forced upon us as
our " hired Servants" promise to change their prac-
tices—to consider the present pauperised state of
the Agricultural, Manufacturing, and all other
parts of the community, and to lend themselves to
any measures that may probably conduce to their
relief.

We regret to find that the outrages in Ireland,
so far from subsiding, are in daily increase—a very II
consider ,ble degree of organization seems to exist
among the people, and in some instances they have
even become the assailants of the military.—We
have always consiLred that an amelioration of the
state of the Irish Catholics, and a decrease of the un-
just oppressions they groan under, which we have
repeatedly enumerated, must take place before tran-
quillity can be expected—A special commission may
sit for ever, but will not restore quiet to a CATHOLIC
Kingdom whose inhabitants, after supporting their
own ministers liberally, are compelled to pay tythes
to those of a religion they abjuie abhor.

At Boulogne-sur-Alcr, notwithstanding the great
number of English residents, provisions are still re-
markably cheap, particularly fish and poultry. A
fine hare may be purchased tilt about two francs and
a half (two shillings English) ; a goose for two
francs: fiwls for three francs a pair ; and fish
enough for a large iuwily for about one shilling.—
Vegetables and fruit arc to be had for almost
nothing ; and milk and butter are very cheap.—
Ilonse-rent is comparatively dear. In a family of
fifteen or sixteen persons a furnished house will cost
sixty pounds a year : the landlord paying taxes. It
is calculated that in the summer there are five or
six thousand English in Boulogne and its immediate
neighbourhood. Even at present there are said to
be nearly four thousand. Within the list two
months; two or three enter: Englishmen, who bad
left dear remembrances in their London tradesmen's
books, have tried with success a s:cond edition of
the same scheme upon the credulous people of Bou-
logne. One sprig of fitsimiun has absconded from
that place, tiller incurring debts there to the amount
of two thousand pounds
A few days since, a respectable tradesman of
Exeter applied to a clergyman in the neighbourhood
fir a debt of 501.: the reverend gentleman, expecting
the demand, had previously assembled his tenants,
who owed him 8001 and offered to accept 4001. from
them, on ilday specili,d, and forgive them the re-
maining half. The day arrived—not one of the te-
nants appeared—cud the tradesman's bill remains
unsatisfied. We fear occurrences of this nature are
too general ; and such is the reciprocity of interest
between agricultural and domestic commerce, that
the distress of one must nec,.ssarily re-act on the
other. _ _

A gentleman of Edinburgh, king pressed the
other day to subscribe to the national monument to
be erected in that city, to commemorate the events
of the late war, replied, " I'll do nae sic thing—the
National Debt, i' ►►►y opinion, is monument enough."

Extract of a letter from Elvas in Portugal, dated
January 2, ISSN' :—" Having again re-established
myself here, 1 am engaged in collecting wools, and
now make Antwerpt, Aixla Chapelle, and Ver-
viera, what Leeds and Hu(lcrsfield were to ins
before the tax was imposed in England on the im-
portation of fineign wool. I have already sent
large quantities of woe], I have received back one
considerable parcel of cloths, and have advice of
two much larger shipments from Antwerp. I have
besides sold 132 bags of wool for cash, to un Ame-
rican, fitr the supply of their manufacturers."
At a meeting of the Agriculturists of Sussex, of
the Rape of Bramb...r, on Ft-tday last, Sir C. M.
Burrell stated at the meeting, that of Chichester, a
few days since, it gentleman took 43 sovereigns, a• d
not being in the habit of receiving gold, failed in
the necessary precaution of ringing them , upon in-
vestigation it was discovered that 11 of the sove-
reigns were made of platina, and were inninsically
worth only ss. each, though weighing the same as
sterling gold ; and being as well executed, they bade
defiance to detection, except,by their different sound
from the more valuable metal they were coined to

represent.
Very large shipments of British manufactured
Roods have been made, and are still making, to the
Southern parts of the world. This demand has the
merit for the present, of keeping all the manufac.
turcrs at work, but well-informed merchants doubt
whether the result will be equally beneficial. The
quantity going out is greater than the markets are
likely to consume. These goods arc generAy sold
at from 18 months to two years credit, lied it is
known that money has been raised, in more instances
than one, on the property, by the shippers, Leftist:
the vessels have sailed from the British shores.
EARTHOUSEE.—On Tuesday week, übout ten
o'clock at night, many of the inhabitants of Seaton
Ross. Foggathorpe, and Holine upon Spalding Moor,
in Yorkshire, were alarmed by the smart shock of
an earthquake. Neveral families who laid just re-
tired to rest tOt their beds shake under them, and
sonic, in the moment of surprise and uf right. sprang
out of them upon the floer; others, who were still
up, felt their chairs move with them, and some ran
out of doors to see what was the matter: a rumbling
noise was heard, and in two houses the bells rang of
themselves. The shuck was also felt in the villages
of Beilby, Everingham, Allerthorpe, and Melbourne.
A vessel has arrived at Liverrool from Buem s
Ayres, with letters to the 50th October, ten days
later than the advices previously received from the
same quarter; but they do not contain any political
news. Order and tranquillity prevailed, and the
affairs of the Government were gradually becoming
more organized. The markets were glutted with
merchandise, which had induced several English
. houses established there to send cargoes round Cape
Horn, to Chili and Peru ; and this circumstance
will, no doubt, add to the dilemma of the many
speculators who already swarm on all the shores of
the Pacific.
The Austrian Observer of the 18th instant, gives
the following account of a singular commotion
which took place at Constantinople on the 20th of
Dec. and in which the Turkish students figured:—
" It is known that a great number of young men
are educated at Constantinople near the Mosques,
who are dctincd to be expounders of the law.—
Those who belong to the Mosque of Sultan Ma-
hornet 11. have always enjoyed the greatest privi-
leges, and pass Mr the most zealous supporters of
Islamism. One of the teachers, a man of learning,
had lately been banished tar smile indiscreet expres-
sions against tine of the members of the Govern-
ment. When the students heard of the fact, they
assembled in great numbers (2,000), proceeded to
to the palace of the Mufti, and loudly demanded
the recall of their preceptor. To show their peace-
uble disposition they had left their arms behimi.—
This great crowd, however, occasioned some confu-
sion, but the Grand Vizier restored order by pro-
mising them the return of their tutor."
AWFULLY SUDDEN I)EATII.—On Friday last,
Mr. Robert Masson, of Park-place, Islington, (the
senior churchwurden of that parish), attended a sale
by Mr. Shuttleworth, at the Auction Mart, of the
cellar of wines belonging to a gentleman of High-
bury, and while shaking hands with a friend who
had just entered the room, fed back in a fit—medi-
cid aid was instuntly procured, but every attempt at
resuscitation was ineffectual.—The deceased was
highly respected, was in the prime of life, and appa-
rently in very robust health. The shock occasioned
in the rem by this melancholy occurrence was so
great, as to entirely stop the sole for a very const-
able time.
On Wednesday morning, as the mail coach was
proceeding up Framwellgate, Durham, to the North,
one of the leaders, a valuable horse, the property of
Mr. We'd, of the Waterloo Inn, dropped down and
died almost instantly,
A hedge-sparrow's nest, with eggs, was found at
Horsley, near GuildfOrd, last week ; a singular proof
of the mildness of the bt:LIS:•11.