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TILE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1831.

and integrity of the Bar ; but where so much discre-
tionary power of a political bearing rests in the Revis-
ing Barristers, we object to the chances of their deci-
sions being in any wanner warped by the political bias
of their patron Judge. The best remedy for this, ho*-
ever, would be to simplify the nature and process of
its
outline qualification, define it more specifically, trace
outline broadly and distinctly, and leave -not those
purposed to be enfranchised by the ReforM Act cx- '
posed to frivolous and harassing impediments, inter-
posed by political opponents. In many instances, we
are glad to perceive, the Revising Barristers have re-
ceived, for their impartiality and attention, the thanks
of both parties ; but where such diversity of opinion
exists as to the intention and meaning of the Reform
Act, those entrusted with its administration should be
removed, as far as possible, from even the suspicion of
undue influence. Under the existing system the elec-
toral body is almost completely at the mercy of the
Overseer and Revising Barrister. There is scarcely
any qualification so secure that it may not be vitiated
by either of these functionaries. Nor is the exer-
cise of this power imaginary. Instances have oc-
curred, during the present registrations, wherein the
Overseer, from personal animosity, has omitted to place
claimants' names on the rate-books, even though served
with notice, and in consequence of these omissions
the claims were disallowed. That the Revising Barris-
ters are not always disposed to allow their authority
to remain a dead letter was proved last week, by one of
these gentlemen telling a voter who complained of the
trouble to which he was exposed by untenable objec-
tions, that unless he answered questions temperately
his name should be expunged. Is this a state of
things that should be suffered to continue ? Is a
citizen to be stripped of his political rights through
the petulance of a Revising Barrister ? In some
cases claims have been rejected in consequence of the
omission of a letter, such as " House" being written
instead of " Houses ;" in others, the whole qualifica-
tion has been alloyed to be inserted. In the county
of Northampton, last year, several liberal voters were
disfranchised because the street in which they resided
was not specified. A similar objection was this year
taken against several Tories in Huntingdon, but- the
Barrister refused to entertain the question. We
could multiply these instances far beyond the limits
we could afford to their insertion. We shall, how-
ever, for the present conclude w ith a hope, that
where the evil is so manifest and its operation so ex-
tensive and detrimental, that one of the first acts of
the approaching Parliament will be to provide for its
retnosal.—Morning Advertzser.

quire and deserve—will clash for an instant with
the main object of securing office for as many Whig I
Lords and Gentlemen as possible." In all this we
fully concur ; and we have fairly stated our opinion—
liberavimus animam nostram.. But, having done so,
we feel bound in fairness to admit that, in the present
case, there is a mitigating point in the conduct of "the
conclave at Bowood." " Neither Mr. Grote. nor Mr.
Ward, nor even Lord William Bentinck, will have a
voice" in it. We confess we can sympathise with the
feelings that.must have led to this decree of exclusion.
The unbearable prosiness of the first, the empty pow-
poSity of the second, and the absolute nothingness of
the last, would be a severe trial fur real patriotism.
By all that was ever possessed—or rather pretended to
--by the Whigs, we can well understand that it was
far too much to be encountered. We must he candid.
Whatever we may think of the political principles of
my-Lord Lansdowne and his guests, we do not alto-
gether find fault with their personal tastes.--Morn-
ing Post.

WHEAT AND FLOUR IN FRANCE COMPARED

WITH LONDON

NiVIIRAT.—The highest price of the best wheat in Paris, is
30 francs per 1 hectolitre, which is equal to 464. per
English imperial quarter. The highest price of the best
Essex and Kent wheat in London, is 645. per quarter, show-
ing fine wheat to be 18s. per quarter dearer in London
than in Paris, or upwards of 40 per 'cent. ; and that the same
money which will in London buy but eight bushels of wheat,
will, in Paris, purchase 11 bushels of the finest quality.
FLoun.--The highest price of flour of the " first mark" in
Paris, is 52 francs per 159 kilogrammes, which is equal to
325. 9d. per English sack of 280 pounds. The highest price
of the best " town made" flour in London, being iss. per
sack, shows fine flour to be 225. 3d. per sack dearer in London
than in Paris, or nearly 68 per cent. ; and that the same money
which in London buys but 280 pounds of fine flour, will in
Paris purchase 470 pounds of the very best quality.

THE LATE ROBBERY OF NINE HUNDRED SO-
VEREIGNS.—The person respecting whose ambiguous con-
duct at Gravesend a paragraph appeared in several daily
papers during the past week proves to have been in no way
connected with the above extensive robbery. In conse-
quence of the paragraph above-mentioned, Mr. Ford sent
Skinner, his office-keeper, to Gravesend, who, on knocking
at the house where the party was supposed to be secreted,
and finding the person denied, went to the Mayor and pro-
cured a search-warrant. On their doing so, the sister of
the person suspected stated that her brother was at Green-
'lithe, and offered to go and fetch him. She did EO, in a fly,
but on their arrival he proved not to be Edmund Potts.
During the last week numerous communications have been
received by Mr. Ford, and also by Fletcher and Ballard,
the Bow-street officers, relative to the party who committed
the robbery.

The county- constituencies of England and Wales
are dads' slandered by the slavish journals of our mi-
serable O'Conueilite Ministry, becatise they rejected
the nominees and adherents of a faction leagued togs-
thcr by an unnatural -sympsthy,- and an unhallowed
comi:act, to destroy the institutions, in Church and
Stateto which. England owes her political and morel
superiority among the nations of the civilised werld—
a moral and political superiority- which, we are sorry
to say, has bctin a good deal impaired since the
Whigs came into office, and which, should they con-
tinue any considerable time longer to exercise their
malignant influence, from the high places of power,
upon the destinies of the empire, would be broken
down eitogether,
• • . "•Aad, Ill•the baseless feric cf a vision,
-- LNkve-not a wreck behind."

In a discussion upon the coal ficids of Lancashire,
Dr. W. Suiith remarked, that the specimens of coals exhi-
bited by Mr, Pease, would point out a mode by which coals
could be touched without dirtying the fingers—what are
technically called the top and bottom being the soiling
sides, hut the cross cleft is clean--The President said, it
was a thin layer of mineral charcoal that caused the soiling.

An unfortunate accident occurred at Blair colliery,
West of Fife, on Wednesday the 4th inst. The person
whose .business it was to ascertain the safety of the mine,
with a Davy lamp, incautiously went into the mine without
using his Davy lamp, the fire-damp exploded, damaging the
workings, and killing him and his son. Fortunately none
of the other men bad gone to their work. With- ordinary
precaution, and by the use of the Davy lamp,. the mine is
perfectly safe.
The Americans, like others, can make merry witit
nation':: woes. The following is a bit of their lin p‘iy-
tnents wit :—" When the poet, or mor:dist, or '.viraii
war, wrote Thi,4 is a world of change,' the r ITik. had not
suspended specie payMents."- . . ,

'Were` it to dcueud upon the will of our preeiat M.-
nicre, acting in accordance with the wishes of their de-
struative allies, -popish, Socinian, and infidel, Eta;land,
whose monarchy has flourished like its native oak amid
the sunshine and storm-of ra thousand years—England,
country of old and glorious assoeliitiOns, would be
cemalately despoiled of the noble institutions which
‘aistoin anti patriotism had coinhined to create, and
would be left as bare of the venerable memorials
ancient. grandeur and rc norm as New Holland or
Van liemen's Land. But, happily, all appearance::
indicate that the incapable, corrupt, and thoroughly
un-English Government of the Whigs is rapidly draw-
ilia towards an end, notwithstanding the dishonest use
winch they have made and continue to make of the
Queen's name, as if the eireinastance of her Majesty
allowing the Ministers whom she found in office at hr
accession to meet the new Parliament, were to be taken
as positive and convincing proof that the Sovereign,
who is the supreme head of - the Church, sympathises
with those who avow their intention to inflict upon it
a " heavy blow ;" and that she who has solemnly pro-
fessed lice respect and love for the Constitution, isrrily
anxious to promote the schemes of those who have
bartered their principles for the support of the dema-
gogue who advocates the destruction of this Peerage-
and the dismemberment of the empire ! Every body
recollects what freedom was taken with the Queen's
name hr Lord John Russell in his electioneering letter
to that vice-regal vassal of- O'Connell in behind, the
melo-dramatic Niulgrave. Every body also recol-
lects the " rhetorical artifice," by whicli the Qaeen
was described as "an excellent writer of election
squibs ;" but every body may not be as well aware of
another and more recent Whig-Radical testimony borne
to the active interest alleged to have been taken by her
Majesty in the success of the faction that wage the
war of Vandal violence against our glorious institu-
tions in Church and State. We allude to what was
said by a Mr. Hovcnden, who actedies chairman at a
dinner lately given to the Whig-Radical Members for
the borough of Marvlebone. On that occasion the
chairman of the meeting said (we quote from a Minia-
terial paper)—'; To their young Queen they (the
Whig-Radicals) were indebted for having rendered
them at the late elections the assistance which they
mach wanted. The nearly-equal division of parties
told them that the result might have been very-diffe-
rent if the weight of the Crown had riot been thrown
into the opposite scale." This is a pretty strong ad-
. mission of the force of the re-action which the-" re-
jected of Middlesex" so stoutly deities, although his
own case affords one of the mostaremariaabls instances
of it. When we are told upOn-Whig-Radicall auth"6-
rity that the result of the elections might have been
very different if the weight of the Crowe had not been
thrown into the opposite scale, we must take it-as an
admission that the weight of the CroWn.was.uied to
stifle the voice of the country. If it were so used, it •
certainly was not very successfully employed for that
purpose, as Ministers discovered when they lost 23
out of 2-1+ county contests, and were thrown entirely
on the support of a spurious Irish majority.—Morn-
ing Herald.
In the columns of our honest Contemporary the
Spectator we find the following
4. While the heads of the two parties, rivals for office,
are laying their schemes, the people at large are left to guess
how the country is to be governed. Aristocratic intrigue
has more to do with it than their wishes or interests. Their
representatives will not be consulted. Neither Mr. Grote,
nor Mr. Ward, nor even Lord William Bentinck, will have
a voice in the conclave at Bowood. The policy of the Go-
vernment will be in accordance with the views of three or
four Whig noblemen, who look tis the supremacy of their
party, and care for little else but that and personalaggrao-
disement. There are a few Commoners, it is true, in the
Cabinet ; and one of them, Mr. Poulett Thomson, is
Member for a large constituency ; but not the least weight
is attached to anything .he may urge, even supposing that.
he could summon courage to say a word in behalf of his
constituents, and risk his exclusion from the coteries of the
grandees. At the Bowood meeting of Ministers it is not
credible that any consideration of what is due to the people
of England—of what they require and deserve—will clash
for an instant with the main object of securing office for as
many Whig Lords and gentlemen as possible."

The result of the revision of the lists of .voters for
the rape of Bremhser and hurough of New Sho:0-lonis :greets
an alterstion i.n th,3t oonbtitur'acy i=s favOnn or the Li:icral
cause to the extent of 100 voters. Nearly 5... s claims base
been stshstactiated, 50 or mlre rsbj-Ttions ro Tory voters
supported. The return of Mr. &In./sons, and the defeat
of Sir C. nity now be eni:sidered ; his mi-
nority on the poll was 140, chiefly accounted for by his
I.ltencss in coining forward, and the fact of many elr•ctors
who have now pieilged themselves to him having previously
promised their support.
On Saturday night, when the mail coach was about
three miles to the eastward of Perth on the Dundee road,
it came in contact with a carrier's; cart. The carrier had
fallen asleep on the top of his cart, and the horse left to
itself had gone to the wrong side of the road for the
passing of the mail. We have not ascertairied'the exact
manner in which the coach struck the cart, but the effect
was, that the body of the vehicle was entirely detached
from the carriage, and left sitting on the road. On the•
separation, the driver, who held the reins, was pulled from
the box and fell on his head on the ground. He was
severely injured. Happily no other accident happened.
The horses continued to run forward with the wheels, &c.,
and halted at Rossie Hill, the place where they are usually
.changed.—Dundee Caul kr.
An on dit is current, which, if true, demonstrates
a marked progress in the severity of theatrical morals. No
:actress of the Theatre Francois will have any thing to do
with the. part of Messalina in the new tragedy of Caligula.
Mr.. Lavcrick, of the Gordon Arms, Portshead,
has this week caught two white rats, which he intends
presenting to the British Zoological Society.—Sherbourne
Journal.

J. Briggs, of Wattefinid, has this year reaped two
crops of beans from the same seed. After the first crop
had been gathered, the stems, which were left standing, have
since blossomed, and produced a second crop.
_ _ _

Saturday morning, about one o'clock, the foundery
of Mr. Paterson, Penicuick, was discovered to be on fire ;
so rapid was the spread of the conflagration, that in little
more than an hour, nothing remained but the bare walls.
The premises are fortunately insured.—Edinburgh Courant.
.At the Registration Court held at Chichester on
Thursday, the Revising Barrister gave judgment in the case
reserved from the Arundel Registration, on the claim of his
Grace the Duke of Norfolk to be placed on the list of voters
for the western division of .the county. His Grace's name
was inserted.—.Y Gazelle.
Accounts from .St. .Bartholomew's, in the West
Indies, state the hurricane of the 2d August did very great
damage in that island. A-letter says • that in twenty-fire
minutes alone 200 buildings, including the Government
Honse, were-reduced to a heap of ruins, and above 100
others very much injured. The Governor and his children
escaped from the falling house ; 14 persons were killtd, and
many scierdy hurt-
Tile quantity of :. pig-iron manufactured in England
and Waled jrr 1740 was 17,000 tons ; in 1827 it had in.-
creased to 700,000 -tons ; and- within the last few years it
has been—eugmented more than- 20 per cent., owing to the
great demand for rails both-at botne and abroad.

A
riATCHMENT.-A countryman unacquainted
with London, seeing a coat of arms hanging in the centre of
a house, inquired of an Irish acquaintance who was walking
with him what it meant: " Oh," replied Pat," it's axi n."
" A sign l" said the. other ; " I can't make head nor tail
of it. What do they sell?" " They don't sell anything,"
says Pat i " it's. only a sign that somebody's dead that fives
there."

We are told that a fly lays four times during the
summer, each time eighty eggs, which makes three hundred
and twenty ; and it is computed that the produce of a single
fly, in the course of the summer, amounts to three, millions
eighty thousand three hundred and twenty-nine.
A VERY EXTRAORDINARY TAILOR.—EarIy on
Sunday morning last the road near Burnley barracks was
enlivened by the following scene. A refractory tailor of the
97th regiment, on his way to the black-hole to atone for
some delinquency in solitude and fasting, escaped the escort,
and, dashing by the sentinel, came into the road with a
dozen soldiers at his heels in hot pursuit. The thimble
knight was not long before he took to the fields. Unen-
cumbered with belt or bayonet, he cleared the hedges and
ditches admirably, and rapidly gained ground, when both
pursuers and pursued were lost in the distance. He after-
wards led them an aquatic chase, twice through the canal,
and finally disappeared in a neighbouring forest. No
tidings of this distinguished tailor have since been heard.—
Blackburn Gazette.

Now there is much truth in this, though it is not
new. From the year 1688 to the present moment
we do not recollect any great public measure pro-
posed by the Whigs that was not originally concocted
by some half-dozen or so of the Whig Aristocracy,
for the promotion of what the Spectator, with great
justice, calls their " personal aggrandisement." But,
to pass over these by-gone matters, the people have
never been so much as thought of in any one of the
misnamed improvements introduced by the Whigs of
late years. It would puzzle the most acute of that
party, we suspect, to show a single instance in which
the people are a jot the happier in consequence of
Whig policy, or Whig legislation. Nor will they be
a jot the happier now, whatever may be the result of
the " Aristocratic intrigue" in progress—or about
to be so—at my Lord Lansdowne's seat at
Bowood. No : the country may rest assured, with
the Spectator, that " no consideration of what is
due to the people of England—of what the re-

THANKSGIVING.—The Presbytery of Ayr, at
their meeting on Wednesday last, ordained that the 16th
of next month, unless a different day be appointed by the
Synod, shall be set apart within their bounds as a day of
Thanksgiving to Almighty God, for his distinguished good-
ness, manifested in the late favourable weather for the
harvest, and the"plentiful crops with which the year has
been crowned. The motive which has prompted this
measure must be approved of by the whole community, as
there has hardly ever been experienced a more auspicious
summer and autumn for bringing forward and securing the
various fruits of the earth ; and the crops, if they do not
exceed an average in point of quantity, have never on the
whole been surpassed in regard to the quality of their vari-
ous produce. This much may suffice for the motive which
has called forth this public thanksgiving, but we are sorry
to say that we cannot express ourselves so unqualifiedly es
to the mode which has been adopted for testifying it. But
we think to have appropriated a Sabbath for this purpose
weld(' have answered the object in view much more effec-
tually, and have coincided better with the wishes of the
public at large, than to select, as has been do,ne, an ordi-
nary weekday from their usual necessary avocations.—
Ayr Observer.