The National Register.
London, England, 1819-01-31 00:00:00

WALBROOK ELECTION.

The Election of Common Councilmen to serve for this
Wind chord on Wednesday at ilio re o'clock, when the um-
bers on too. gross poll w•re as 1.01101.11,

Mr. E. Heywood ... ... ... 11 Mr. T. Hale ... ... .. 75
.4r. NI. Gibbs ... ... ... 79 Mr. 'l'. N. 'William ... 71
I
Mr. W. Pearce ... ... ... 78 Mr. W. Woodward ... St
Sir Thomas Heil ... ... ... 76 Mr. J. G. Cope ... ... 46
Mr. T. Williams ... ... ... 75' Mr. G. E. Shuttleworth.— Si

The Los it Mayor declared the choice of the ward to have
fallen upon Ihe (list sight gmitlesnen w the list, and they
were 'worn iteordingly.
Mier all the members had concluded their expression of
tlrdiks,
The Lod Mayor addressed the Ward, and in a speech of
•ere consi,teralale length delimited himself from the charges
ti.o been suAde upon hiiii'iy Mr. Gibbons en Monday.
The topics he chiefly dwelt mpo • (nide ps•utietitls of his per-
sonal trim ination on Mr.Gibliti. s, and as we understood Mr.
T. K. Williams, which were by au means sparingly applied)
were, his conduct at the electi,m au the 21• t of December,
and the subject of this refusal of the account•. Upon the
former, he observed, that his only motive in refusing to pit
Mr.Shuttls worth in nomination, was to save tittle, and to
consent the feelings of that gentleman, who hail expressed
his new illinguess to . Upon the subject of the accounts,
lie pledged himself in the most solemn manner, before that
Great Being from whom truth could stet be concealed, that
knot withstanding the teeth to the contrary) the account book
had been produced and laid on the table. (Mr. Gibbons
i iterropting," Butt not the book as required by Act of Par-
-I;ament.") 'flue Lord Mayor said the book which he tout,
and which lie believed the Act to require, was produced, and
that lie was teady t• attest on oath At to his telling Mr.
Depi:ty Williams not to produce the accounts that day, lie
tint deny the fact -4 bat it should be recollected (as %se
understood his Lordship) that these accounts had teen passed
and 'llll.liied by him, and that he would not have dune so
without very minute inquiry if any of them had been dis-
puted ; bat that being passed there was no appeal. flit
Lordship was frequently interrupted in the course of his
speech, as well by the tuinsiltuoas applause of those who sup-
ported, As 1)% ilie equally discordant noises of those who dis-
seated from him.

WEstwtstsTatt IN.FeTion.—A Dinner was given on Wed.
nestlay to Mr. Hohhouse, by the parishes of St. Jane's and it.
Anne. Mr. Hob!muse professed himself ready to be at all times
the organ of the popular feeling, and expressed a hope that the
tine was fasts ppreachlng when tile parliamentiary representa-
tives would be chosen by the free will ut the nation, without
anv rotten boroaglis. Sir F. MI Jett, who was pa csent, ob-
served that although men might not agree upon this er tha
particular iittestion, nevertheless that a 'adieu' reform was abt
solutelv necessary was acknowledged by all. Mr. Thelwali
and Major forrens were among the guests : Major Cartwright
abd his health drank in his ,ib,enee,

St. Astuanw's, HoLnonst —We have been very much gratified
by a sight of the improvements which have taken place in the in-
terior of the pariah church of St. A erirew's, Ile:born. Utility and
ornament have bath been consulted—the first for the advantage of
those whom it,piokt concerns, the poor ; the last fur the gratification
of those by whom it is alone umicrstuotl, persons of good taste. A
Fine of extra-pews has been placed on each side for the parishioners
generally. mid • gallery has been built fur the exclusive ecconlino-
' deli lk of the children of the National School; thus several hundred
' additional riming may now have a convenient sitting ; a circum-
, s mice not mole conducive to individual comfort than to the general
order of the congregation. The ornaments consist chiefly ut small
eh•..dciie's, to be lighted w:th gas. instead of the old cumbersome
Lunches of candles; of a successful imitation of marble painted on
the pillars, which before were of a rough dirty white; and of a rice
but simple colouring, vs hich gi‘es a magnttcent and solemn effect
to ihe soacious altar. The whole has, we undurectuad, Inca effected
alder the ppexihtutdcacc of 1.1. Um:op.

JAN 81

.
FOREIGN IA IVILLICLENCE.

FRANCE.

PARIS, Jan. Si. --The pressure of one of Enoos
Priciest of the Blood at the solemn ceremony cots weird is
the elruick of St. Denis, to the memory of Louis XVI pre-
sented 41i inure tint particularity. Tim Duke of Glut ester,
and suite, of 4 personages, ended ake the Pt ince in military
',inform, were conduct. d by the Grand Muster of the Cere-
motriee to 4 seat in front of the Iletef iota of the Royal Family.
The bench reserved fin the dim i tons travolder was that %Wei
is :earl ally appropriated for the ladies of ins Cunt t hie
Royal /licitness invited two ladies who were on toe second
bench to take their seats item hint. The Prince woos, as
iimorning iiirgnia, black prima: and a ...tape seam, and
appeared deeply affected dosing the itailittg of the pious will,
in which lie list% tied tt lilt iesstili
Hie Royal Highness will set oft on Tuesday sie•t tae Fon-
tainebleau, accompanied by Prince de 'l'alleyrantlothere its
will remain several days.
It is asserted, that eight ;lays ago a cenrim., charged with
very important despatches, this capital for Itmics. It is
net known is hither these deli itches me relative to the eta'
eiesia•tival affairs el France, •r in the Ciironalion
The Elklielin of the 1.411C1. No. l 7, which bas Jost been
published, comas:is a atiyill iii it:n.111(1., dated the hilt install,
Whit. assigns a ptl!kitill Of '20,000 11-411 C% to C lOA %tit°,
in llCsuspenseul dist ;sig nishcil service as Minister tit
A Gcriii.tii a,ir n .r has predicted the %%canny ul the
prevent year. flee syrinx, he says, will cruunrnee early ; the
usenths of March and Ain d will ba vet y tine , all the liars este
will be abundant, the else' i les and prunes alone will tail: the
wine will he of excene;it gnalit), sari • (t. teerriye-
rine, but there will he 11 b wall be
some dry fogs nn the mouth of A isciist, :and the month of Sep-
teinber will have solute very ::01.1 days in it. Those who live
Over volcanoes must be on litrtr gilds there will be many
eruptions, preceded by earthquakes. 'lwo comets will op.
preach oar planet, but not cause auy evil. They will be with-
out tails, and trued 4 ht litu,. Guertts de Bayrcoth.
The cause of tieurral Sitrf4Cllll will nut be tried this assize,
as was expected, as the General has appealed against the in-
dictment.
Fiend' funds.—Jam. 22.—Five per cents. 68f. 20c ; Bank

Stock 1,500 f.
Pas is,Jan. 25. It was erroneously announced in a joarnal
of yesieida). that the CUlintraS of 64,01116nd (Queen of Swe-
den) is ill. The Countess goes out es er day, and enjoys ileac!.
lent ►ealth.—Journal de Peru.
On the occasion of the anniversary of the 21st Jannary, his
Majesty has pardoned seven individuals detained l'ai is i.n
ilitterent coavicti•aa, et which five were for seditious carrel.
sions.
The Baron Braun, banker and director of the theatre at
Vienna, has stopped payment. As this is a very eminent
house, the Austrian Government has pt rolitted bum to dispose
of the theatre by lottery. The number •f tickets wiil be

290,000.
TIP- Kim; of Wurteraberg, in respect to the memory of hie
late Veen, has ordered the scheol for young ladies, founded
by the Pitiless', to be called the School of Catheiine.
A letter frusta Narbonne says, that " a soldier of the Legion
of die Aside, who had obtained his leave of absence, and was
going borne, was attacked near Durban by a flock of wolves,
that fur some time bad %milieu ated in that ueiglibutirliocd the
greatest ravages. The 111511 seemed to have vigor-
ously defended hiniseli with bjsaword, hilt he could not resist
the cumber• of Ins eut•suet. A WWI Wit% il,llll dead by the
male of she mangled and hall-devuured body of tilts unhappy
soldier. The Sub-Pretert, Mistimed of this cruel e►ent, hiss
aides ed a genes ..t bottom in this dist' t."
Their prevails at Peiersourgli, as also at Stockholm, a tem-
perature 011 mild, that the oldest iiiiiassit•sits -an remember
no ex:simple et it. Several (term and Wllll6ll pill tot th leaves,
and even dowels, at Christmas ; hut the want of snow and ice,
ill depria tog commerce, the mules, and agricuilt:fC of their
usual menus of carriage, throws a great gloom over tile Maus-
trtuns daises. 'the lazy emcee even common's of tile wea-
ther, as it prevents Inot from enjoying ihe siiveision of till
sledge.
'flue Russian Government refuses to pturhave the ingo•s of
gold and silver at the exorbitant price required for tuem
the English, so that these speculators muss take them to soma
other Mal ket.
As article frurn Sichallhaufen moaning rather a 'Angular fact
with regard to the attempt of the Jeanne to et.t.,,ltsts them—
selves in Switzerlandlau attempt which is truly it, scribed as
a brand of discord thrown into the country, the ;witticisms
consequences of which it is impos,ihle to calculate. It seems
that all limit elidew.Olifs to establish themselves in any at the
011110118 have completely finked ; end that tne only
territerie• in which they have gained a touting ore those of
rriuoarg and Valais, where, however, the) ospertence
etrorg opposition, which uut all the menaces of tile autburi
ties ran intimidate. . . .

The new systetu of customs established in Prii,ia is en.
forced with a degree of rigour which i,. the came Arlieral
complaint. For some weeks Lbw the end of , tile
gates at the city of Mitnsts•r •.:111t j :111d t•Mlditlft.l—
patrols traversed the city 4eliadatrines and sionaaters s
etipied themsels es iu si are.i.ing the mulch:tune t•-,
arc. and even private huu%es, in or der I. make sli,cove.
rtes,
French ir
undi, Jan. 23.-5 per Cents. 6!-..f. COc.
The ex,imises of the pinnies made by the ii,c.l.brrs of the
Imperial Family trf ltunita ale ,eta to iltuvittat 10 acs era;
lions of frittlCS. . _

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I)eiiag the year 11SliS, there wile ,Coi•ei,liagre 3,245
births, mud 8,068 deaths, of whicht were suicides.

Account from Spain make meitib,n of a cons' !racy in l'a-
leirsia, against General Lho, the Governor of the province,
which ended by displaying the spirit of that officer in am ad-
vantageous light, lie proceeded with a force to at rest the
guilty, whom he found assembled in cousiderah.e 1111111 i 01:11---•
One of tliem, an officer, .14onctl hint in the aim • slag.
ger, when the General ran him, will' his swore, the
bon:y.4lld killed him on the spot. Father Cyr silt, Go iret•l of
•he oildelters, has been ordered to quit the STaidsii capital;
and r, putt say., that lieu Pedro Cevailos is once more re.
ailed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
file assonance we lately gave to the public, that Lord Cork-
raise had riot ised in any part of the.provinces ofS'euezue:•
is born out uy a letter, dated 1.11,.! begin ii ii g at lyevt.,oh, r, !ruin
,slaigaretta. It appears the whole has veer' a rues de &Arr.,' oa
toe part of Admiral Brion, connected sills ass importasit oper-
ation he had 1/1 view j and for this pus pose he availed lina-
self of the arrival of amotiter Naval (am is that quarter...
Morning Chrunkte.

JAN. 31

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.

TUESDAY, JAN. 26.
tAtd Oundat took the mho and hi■ seat.
Cu roDy OF T.IE KING'S PERSON.

.
Lord HoLzats 0, on the order of the May being moved fur
a seeded re ;dint of the bill to provide for the custody of the
King's person, •vea perfectly willing to 4eknowiellee, ilie
grimed nip irtiament having recognized the principle, whii her
right or wrong, that the eare of the King's pet 4..0 shoilid he
separated fro so the executive government, that the trust
couli net tie better disposed of than it was by this hill. Hut
besides the seprration of the trust, the bill involved another
principle, which Itol,wheu the quotation was before !h., wised,
bees the vubject 11111011 OitirCtiOrt with many nob!. Loudv :
he meant the tod•bli•lsinent of an imprints in imptirio, by
giobig ?he pervoo who ha i the care tit the Kitalcs person an
estensi.e p.itronAge. fie tbought that th•dr Lordships ought
hot to pea the prevent lull, until they aiicerialit7il the oat ire
;if the pat rona4e which was to OR vested is the Duke of York.
As he had already observed, he had no objection to the object
of the bill, bin wished, tor the sake of recitlari!y lo Nair
Lordships' proceeding,, 111,11 40.11 t. explanation be given
011 lite point to %titbit lie had alluded. •
The of LIVER ',urn. hod uo ohjectiou to give the es.
planation which the noble Lord required,. It was intended
that the est .4 1)1i liirnent vhotild node, go a rednetion, and the
proposition which No. to be made would he founded on a
principle of reduction ; but as to the detail+ of that rodnction,
they hat Ila C01111,9:1011 with hr present bill. They would
tome nest before the other house, :tad would in the usual
coarse .f aroitz'it under the consideration of
their I. iiislops. I.; thee, i1W4,1 toile, all that he contended
for wet, that whatever that establishment !night be, it tricot,
if their Ler Iships agreed to the pre tent bill, to he placed
seder the control of the Ihikr of York.
The toll was then read a sec./lid time, and ordered to be
Committed on Thursday.—Adjourned.

WEDNESDAY.
CRIMINAL LAW

Lord ifor.t.awn wished to call their Lordships' attention to
a petition *Wel; he held in his haul on the state of the crimi.
nal law of the con nn ry. It wa• from the Lord Mayor, Alder.
men, and I :ommon Council of (hi city of London ; it related
to o.:• ~t the most important as .1-rts all %shirk the LettiA-
btu. Pcunhd be addressed, and tht, farts it contained wetr
calculated to awaken in their Lordships' minds the
serious c He wished that this subject had fallen
into Aoki hauls in this Howe, and wits e!ail to lee that it was,
taken oil in another place. 'Ole improvetiteat of the rriitooal
law was of toe greaie.t importance to the welfare of the
country; oat, the great loss the cause of
hottmots and imprevenwnt had ren•utly experienced, he
hoped soon to see the object of the petitioners accomplished.
Toe Earl of LIVERPOOL did not intend to oppose the motion.
The only point to wich h► was anxious to call their Lordship.'
attention was a mere mutter of fart, involving the consider
titian of bow far the increase of crissocs during vie tail years
pointed out in the petition, may not have ari,ru troic the
nitration in which th► country was placed by tto.r.liange from
War to peace.
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The Marquis of LANSDOWN could not concur in the view
talen by the ordsle Earl. Last year a statement of the num.
Der of eitovietions and punishments for a series of years bed
been laid before the House. It appeared front t liar statement,
that the increase of crimes cont.) not he attributed to the
change from war to peace; for it would be found that they
had not only increased alter the war, hintditring the peace.—
Ore predominant raiser of the increase he held to be, the
State of the prisons. From the want of proper principles tot
the regulation of the goals, and Irons the term of sufficient
machinery for euforting the laws respecting their regolstions,
they had become schools for vice, end serve.' to 'trepans the
youth who once entered them for the commission of greater.
ensure. He hoped that the subct would he sti icily and
proosolly insestizateti by their Lurdehips, aud that they
would tale into their serious coosideratiou how far a diotiou-
Hots of putiislioneot was likely to lead to a decrease of crimes.
Kist: alluded to the report before their Lordships
relative to the Hama of preventing the forgery of Batik-notes,
and oh d, that if they raeonl to put a stop to ih. lament.
able etrects of forgery, they must remove the reuse There
were very few instancesof the forgery of country Bank motes,
while executions for the forging Bank of Ete.dand notes were
aninerous. The reason was, Oct. the Cutnontitiou .f cotton y
isankeis occasioned a vigilant intention Ito the part of each
house to the inane of its notes. If many forged notes were
suffered by nunnery smokers to get into cire-sistsons It would
affect their credit. Hence they were constantly on the watch.
Hal the Bank of Enticed, havens no co attention, d. I um
feel the beeessits of the same vigilance. Tit reined, lisl%, be
Proposed that the right of i.isswing nisi. nod 100 11011141 i mites,
to the tunuopoly.of which the Batik of Esclisul had ito claim
by their charter, should he gives to tue other Loniloo
bankers.
The petition was ordere Ito lie on the table.
cliiTouy OF THE KIN&M PElt.lo7sl
The House resat% eJ into a committee Oil the bill to provide
for the custody of his Majesty's person.
Lord ft oLL 4D111) ,as very roloetant to offer any opposition
to the further progress of this bill ; he oegged, however, to
be uit 1-r-inaJ as offering no objection wivitever to the pre-
positloo for Oaring the costody of his .Majesty's person in the
Doke of York. Dona?, the greater part of the ti,oss
the Windsor este Mutilate:A had lasted, he had been of optoion
that it was in no way iteressary to the comfort and dicntty
the person fur whose use it wee pretended to be inassitmssesl,
but in at it was ni, unnecessary toss den on the people; and he
Should be happy In fild that the .ruble Earl had cum. user to
bit Opinion.
The Eat I of Liver' mil thnuelit that, as their Lordships were
agreed oil the pit mikiiie the Duke of York Casts,
kersolta.thwro e.,ua I ',edict hbjs.rtion to the other parts of the
bill. lie had .1:del y',..tt-rilar.lll4l I:tert foetid lie US iliffP4ie
of the estaalt,'lm.at ; out U. +tit, runt guff, that
svh..irser ant I tsstrut, it tt.t.it all to be placed Nude,
the motel and re tiou of ,he ensiira Persona.
The Esrl of I.lVriiPool. t':ea sam had now to prom?

to till up the Wanks. and to nw%r the a pliniiit.ocut sa a lit Tuber
of eGuorii, to I'l.l I) t:ie %dit•Aucy occasioned t, the death
of ,he Lot it Chies 3,:sttec. tie should 'belt fore niov• this
evitaiutmrut ("flub') Jelicries Pratt, Marquis of Carideo.
The bill, wilt the buienAutents, was thou slimed to, tad
-,,0t Jeri"' to be tervitcd.—Adhoutsed.

THI NATIONAL REGISTER.

THt•RSDAY.
Tho Doke of Suiscx took th oatitu anti his seat.

The Duke of MONTRONE brought down the an:wer of the
Prince Regent to the address on the speech of the 11,,,rds Coin-
mo.ioners, eittire.sim, in the usual tetnis his Royal Highness's
satistaetion at the iliniful•nd loyal addreslef their Lordships,
Tae Eall of iturrnmuay reported the bill for the (moody
of his Majesty's person, which, with a verbal amendment
rowed hy Lord Liverpool, was orderuil to be engrossed, and
• esd a iuir I time to-morrow.—Artiourited.