The National Register.
London, England, 1819-03-15 00:00:00

CAMBRIDGE UNI vs ESITY:
—smeees—
The Hon. Berkeley Octavio. Noel, son of the Baroness
Barham, (a Peere,s iis her ono right,) has beets adeoittail
Nobleman 111 Trinity-college.
Mr. G. Cole, 01 St. John's-cellege, is admitted Bachelor
of Arts.
The Rev. Vilnius! Gray, B. A. has been instituted. on the
pre.entation of Charles Duticorebe, E.q•
to the Rectory
of Kirby Misperton, in York.hire, vacant by the death of
the Kev. Juin' Dere Thomas, D. D.

On Saturday morning last, about two o'clock, a fire
broke out in the workshop of Mr. Charles Crow, situate
in Stamp Office Row, Yarmouth, which consumed the
same, together with the valuable stock of cabinet goods,
workmen's benches, tools, &c. An adjoining -house
was also considerably damaged. The houses on the
north side of Regent-street were in imminent danger;
111 r. Palsnefs 'house took fire several times, and,
with perhaps many others, was saved only by the plen-
tiful di-charge of water from the engines, the great ex-
ertions of the firemen, and the prompt assistance of
friends and neighbours. The buildings, stock, fond-
tore, &c. &c. were all insured in the Phenix Fire
Office, excepting only the workmen's tools, to the value
of aeloo. no part of which were insured.
Norwich Word Elcceions.—lt appears probable that the
representation of the Long Ward, that high honour for
which so much beer, gin, and perhaps blood, was last
year spilled, will again he contested. At least the dis-
appointed candidates, Messrs. Mitchell, Cullen, and
Beckwith, have announced their intention to take the
field. They do not appear disposed to enter very hearti-
ly into the contest, and we much doubt whether this
announcement is not something like certain applications
to Parliament for private bills, to be acted upon or no,
as times and circumstances shall appear tojustify.—
There is something novel and certainly ludicrous iu their
Address; they are grown on a sudden quite pure—quite
determined to stand on their characters—resolved to resist
that spirit of corruption—and to make a stand against
those scenes of bribery, drunkenness, and depravity,
which disgraced former contests. They trust there are
independent freemen enough in the Ward, to skew that
it is not to be carried by a long purse. Now we scarcely
believe it possible for these gentlemen to have penned
their handbill with a grave countenance, but we hold it to
be quite out of the question for any man of either party to
preserve his gravity while reading Nlessrs. Beckwith,
Mitchell, and Culley's determination to maintain invio-
late pad!, of thrtion.—Our opinion of the last contest
for ties Ward is not, we helicve, forgotten by many of
our readers. 'We always protested against the employ-
ment of such means as were then resorted to by both
parties ; but for men who stuck at nothing to obtain or
preserve their ascendancy ; who owed their temporary
elevation wholly and solely to corruption used in every
form, and to almost unlimited extent, who never had
any claim from rank or talent to the situations they held,
whose whole dependence was upon the money with
which they purchased their seats; for these men now to
assume the language of virtuous indignation, only serves
to pmve that the pockets of those who formerly thought
it worth while to supply their prodigal and profuse ex-
penditure, are now closed against them. To serve the
purpose of a party, we shall not varnish over thegnilt
of bribery and corrupt influence; by wl soever prac-
tisc.l, we have always felt it to be our duty to denounce
it, and whatever may be the triumphs of those with
whom we generally act and associate, we shall always
think them dearly purchased at the vs:pence of that in
dependent and high • Jed feeling which ought to ant-
mate the mind of every freeman when he is called upon
to exercise his elective franchise.
Committed to Walsinehant Bridewell, by R. Norris,
Esq. James Alcoek and Thomas Balls, of 'l'oiirecs, ser-
vants in husbandry, charged with todonionsly stealing
and carrying away from a barn at Toftrees, one sack con-
taining two Bushels anti a half of wheat in the chaff.

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LON DON, MON DAY, MARCH 15.
'Three o'Cloch,

The Paris papers of Thursday last have arrived,
but they contain nothing of much interest/ The
Monitcur has an article on the late creation of Peers,
which it defends, not so much on the ground of pro-
sent necessity, or as a measure calculated to answer
a temporary purpose, as on the grounds of general
and permanent policy. " A temporary embarrass-
ment," it says, " in often the indication of a want

in social order, which had been long foreseen. The

present eircumstonees, therefore, are not the Calla
of what is done, but they become the symptoms of
what ou;:iit to be done." The part of the budget
reiati%e to the expenditure was to be cenm.unicated
to the t hamber of Deputies on Thursday. The
memoirs of Las Cases eve been wind It is said
ti,at M. Arn..ult. who was banished fur his adhe-
r;:ree to Laonaparte's government, during the hun-
&e
Jays, stud wl,w4u tragedy of Gernianicus excited