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education. They are further of opinion that, while the
want of proper securities for discipline in the case of such
students would be the cause of injury to those students
themselves, the evil would extend necessarily, by the
force of example and association, to other students ad-
mitted as at present to reside in connexion with colleges.
"The advantages of such connexion with colleges in
respect to discipline appear to the Syndicate to be justly
described by the University Commissioners in page 16
of their report. They remark that the moral disci-
pline of the University 'is in a very great measure sus-
tained by the internal system of the several colleges.
The domestic constitution of a college contains in
itself a combination of the most wholesome and bene-
ficial influences for this end. In the first place, all
the members of it are subject to a code of internal
laws and rules framed for the maintenance of good order
and decorum and moral and religious habits. Again,
the Master and the Fellows, if they are true to their
duty, stand in the relation of rulers, guardians, advisers,
friends, and examples to the students. As some of the
Fellows are but little removed from the students in
point of age, facilities for personal intimacies and friendly
companionship between the two classes blend happily
with the more grave and paternal authority which the
senior members of the society exercise in their official
functions. Again, the students exert no small or unim-
portant influence on each other. Though sprung from
different ranks, with different fortunes, different pros-
pects, yet, as members of the college, they meet to a
certain extent on a footing of equality. Living under
the same domestic rule ; many of them lodged within
the same walls ; all assembling in the same Common
dining hall ; associating in their course of study and in
the routine of the their daily habits, they are naturally
drawn to each other by attractions of mutual kindness.
While particular individuals and smaller groups form
for themselves their own closer intimacies and friend-
ships, a general spirit of sympathy pervades the whole ;
and there is one predominant feeling not to do anything
that tends to bring discredit on the college, of falls below
the tone of good manners and the standard of honour-
able conduct. In this way social sympathy becomes
auxiliary to moral discipline and academical authority.
The students are at an age when they cannot
be subjected to the minute surveillance and rigid con-
straint exercised in a school, and when, on the other
hand, they are not fit to be intrusted with absolute
liberty and independence in acting for themselves. They
are in a state of transition from the subjection of boy-
hood to the freedom of manhood ; and no system of dis-
cipline can be properly suited to such a state, unless it
contains in itself a mixture of constraint and liberty—
so much constraint as may guard the inexperienced
against the temptations of youth and the dangers of
wasteful extravagance ; so much liberty as may serve to
develope the qualities of their moral character, and pre-
pare them gradually for the weighter responsibilities and
fuller freedom of after life.'

" The opinion of the Commissioners upon the advan-
tages of residence in connexion with colleges is again
expressed in similar terms, but at greater length and
with the mention of details, under the head of ' College
Discipline and Expenses,' in pp. 1,45-149.
"With reference to the'admission of the proposed
class of students, the commissioners remark (Report,
page 143) :
"'lt has been contended that it would be desirable to
modify this usage' (viz., that every student should be ad-
mitted a member of some college before he can become a
matriculated member of the University), ' and to revert
to the ancient practice so far as to allow of matriculated
students of the University not attached to any college or
hall. This question has received our careful considera-
tion, and we are of opinion that it would not be expedi-
ent to adopt any change of that nature in the present
system of the University. It appears to us that one of
the most striking and valuable characteristics of •ur
English Universities is to be found in the domestic sys-
tem of their education, by which habits of order and
moral control are most satisfactorily obtained. . . .
The two systems of collegiate and unattached students
seem to us to be hardly compatible with one another ;
at least we cannot doubt that great difficulties would be
experienced in blending them harmoniously together,
if the class of students not affiliated to some collegiate
body were recognized, and afterwards received any con-
siderable accession of numbers. We come, therefore, to
the conclusion that the extension of the benefits of the
University, so as to embrace a larger number of stu-
dents than at present exists, and more proportionate to
the great increase of our population and national wealth,
must be sought in a corresponding growth of our colle-
giate system, and in such improvements of the existing
foundations as may render them more generally acces-
sible and more practically useful. It has long been the
practice of the University to allow students belonging
to the colleges to reside in lodgings in the town. By
this means great facility has been given for the accom-
modation of an increased number of students, inasmuch
as the power of colleges to accept admissions has thus
been limited only by the extent of their halls and chapels
and their own sense of what was due to a proper provi-
sion for the instruction and superintendence of the mem-
bers admitted.' "

" It appears by a table printed in the Report of the
Commissioners, p. 145, that on Nov. 14, 1851, while the
number of undergraduate members of the University,
whether actually residing or not, was 1,760, the number
residing in lodgings was 736.
"After describing the conditions under which students
belonging to colleges are allowed to reside in lodgings in
the town, and noticing the arguments which have been
urged for and against the practice, the Commissioners
remark (Report, page 144) We should be unwilling
to interfere materially with the liberty at present enjoyed
by the colleges of admitting a greater number of students
than they can accommodate within their walls. We
think, however, that it would be very advantageous, if
buildings were erected for the reception of students in
immediate connexion with, and under the direct control
of, the collegiate bodies. For such affiliated halls we
apprehend that no fresh powers are required.'
" Upon the same subject, again, the Commisril,,ners
renvtrk (IZepurt, page 19) :—' The system (of
allowing students belonging to colleges reside in lodgings
in the town) if carefully and vigilantly guarded, appears
to be capable of securing, to a great extent, the substan-
tial benefit of collegiate superintendence, and at the
same time aff)rding free and ample facilities for the ad-
mission of. any number of students desirous of the advan-
tages of an University education. An opinion has been
expressed in some quarters that it would be more con-
ducive to the ends of discipline if, in connextion with,
and dependence on, the colleges, there were hostels or
public buildings established for the reception of students
under a system of closer inspection and stricter control
than can be attained while they are dispersed in private
lodgings throughout the town. There does not appear
to be any. impediment to the execution of such a design,
if adequate funds can be provided for the purpose.'"
"The Syndicate concur in these remarks of the Com-
missioners, and would observe that, in cases where col-
leges do not possess the means of building, the purpose
of providing accommodation for a greater number of
their students might be effected, if occasion required, by
hiring houses in the town.
" 111. PROFESSORIAL AND OTHER UNIVERSITY FOUNDA-

szggestions and recommendations of the Commissioners ;-1
and they finally made a fourth report, dated Nov. 30,
1852, recommending such modifications of, or additions
to, the proposed statutes as, after mature consideration,
appeared to them desirable.
" Graces embodying the recommendations of the Syn-
dicate were offered to the Senate on three successive
days in February, 1853 ; and it will be seen in 'the co-
pies of the Syndicate's Reports attached to these re-
marks what the several propositions are, which, having
been approved by the Senate, may be considered, so far
as depends on the University, to form part of its future
statute law.
" A. few matters which it is considered desirable to
regulate by statutes are now under consideration by the
Syndicate of Privileges and the Syndicate of Studies,
hereafter to be mentioned ; and when those syndicates
have completed their labours, and the judgment of the
Senate has been obtained respecting the propositions
which may be submitted by them, the entire draught of
a new code of statutes will be proposed to the Senate,
and, if approved by that body, will be then finally sub-
mitted to the Crown for its sanction.

" V. SYNDICATE FOR CONSIDERING THE STUDIES OF THE

UNIVERSITY.

" The general system of study in the University, in-
cluding as well the course of instruction in the several
branches of learning and science as the examination for
degrees, forms a prominent subject in the Commis-
sioners' Report ; and the suggestions and recommenda-
tions made by them, are entitled to the utmost attention.
" After much deliberation respecting the best way of
bringing this subject under the consideration of the Uni-
versity, the Vice-Chancellor offered a Grace which was
passed by the Senate, Feb. 2, 1853, to appoint a Syndi-
cate ' to consider whether it is expedient to adopt any
measures, and if so what, for augmenting the existing
means of teaching the students of the University by
public professors and public lecturers, and for regulating
and encouraging the studies so taught ; and to report
thereon to the Senate from time to time, until the end
of the Eastern Term, 1853.
" A Grace was subsequently passed, May 25, 1853,
to continue the power of the Syndicate until the end of
Easter Term, 1854.
" The points to be considered being so many and so
important, and affecting [so materially the interests of
the University and. all the colleges, it was thought'de-
sirable to extend the composition of the Syndicate be-
yond the usual number of such a body. The Syndicate
appointed thus consists of 39 members of the Senate,
and comprehends two or more from every college, toge-
ther with the Regius Professor in each of the faculties
of Divinity, Law, and Physic.
" The Syndicate have been engaged in a course of
long and regular sittings during three successive terms
in the consideration of the questions submitted to them,
but they have not yet made any report to the Senate.
" VI. ADDITIONAL LECTURE BOOMS AND MUSEUM S
SYNDICATE.

" The present state of the University with regard to
museums, laboratories, and lecture rooms for the use of
the professors, is described by the Commissioners in
pp. 115-124 of their report ; and they recommend
measures to be taken for obtaining a site erecting the
necessary buildings.
" With a view of adopting some practical measures
for the supply of urgent wants in this respect a Grace
was passed by the Senate, Feb. 2, 1853, appointing a
Syndicate 'to consider whether any and what steps
should be taken for appropriating to the use of the Uni-
versity the site of the Old Botanic Garden, and to confer
with the trustees of the Botanic Garden thereon ; also to
consider whether any and what steps should be taken for
erecting additional lecture-rooms and museums.'
" The Syndicate made a report to the Senate March 7,
1853, on the first of the questions submitted to them,
communicating an arrangement, to which the Governors
of the Botanic Garden had expressed their willingness to
consent, for appropriating the site of the Old Botanic
Garden to the use of the University free from trusts and
conditions to which it was subject, and recommending
that the necessary steps should be taken to procure by
competent authority the confirmation of that arrange-
ment, and the appropriation of the ground.
"The report was confirmed by the Senate March 11,
1853, and the Syndicate were authorised, in conjunction
with the Governors of the Botanic Garden, to take the
necessary steps for the above purpose.
" A further report made by the Syndicate Oct. 2!sth,
1853, informed the Senate that upon application to the
Court of Chancery an order had been made July 29,
1853, directing that the above-mentioned arrangement
should be carried into effect, and that upon the comple-
tion of that arrangement the land and premises consti-
tuting the site of the Old Botanic Garden should he and
continue vested in the Chancellor, Masters, and scholars
of the University, released and absolutely discharged of
and from the trusts created with respect thereto.
"The arrangement, involving the outlay of a large
sum of money by the University, has been since com-
pleted, and an apple and eligible site has been thus
obtained, applicable for the erection of the required
buildings.
"The Syndicate have recently, December 31, 1853,
made a further report, containing detailed recommenda-
tions respecting the nature and construction of the pro-
posed buildings, and recommending the employment of
an architect to prepare plans and an estimate for the
execution of the work. A copy of this report is attached
to these remarks.
" VII. SYNDICATE FOR CONSIDERING THE PRIVILEGES
OF THE UNIVERSITY, AND ITS RELATIONS WITH THE
TOWN.
" The. Commissioners, in their report, make mention
of a memorial received by them from the mayor, alder-
men, and burgesses of the borough of Cambridge con-
cerning certain privileges of the University which affect
the relations between the University and the town.
"The Commissioners sent a copy of this memorial to
the Vice-chancellor, with an intimation that they *ere
ready to receive any remarks which the authorities of
the University might desire to make respecting it. As
this memorial involved matters deeply affecting the dis-
cipline and good government of the University, the Vice-
Chancellor offered a Grace which was passed by the
Senate, March 26, 1852, appointing a Syndicate to take
the memorial into consideration and to make such re-
marks thereon as they might deem fit for the purpose of
their being transmitted to the Commissioners. The memo-
rial, as well as the remarks of the Syndicate thereon,
have been printed by the Commissioners among the evi-
dence attached to their report. kPp. 35-46.)
" The Commissioners having considered the statements
of the University and the town respectively, have made
several important suggestions and recommendations
(Report, p.p. 5-9) respecting the matters which affect
the relations between the two bodies.
" With the view of submitting these suggestions to
the consideration and judgment of the University a
Grace was passed October 29, 1852, appointing the same
Syndicate to consider generally the privileges of the
University.
"The Syndicate proceeded to consider carefully and
in detail the several suggestions and recommendations of
the Commissioners, but they have not yet made any
report to the Senate, in consequence of a proposal made
by the council of the borough for a conference between
committees of the two bodies.
"A Grace was passed by the Senate, February 2,
1853, giving the requisite powers to the Syndicate ; and
the Council of the Borough having also named a com-
mittee for the purpose, several conferences have been
held, with the view of making arrangements- for the
adjustment of the relations between the University and
the town, which arrangements, if satisfactory to the two
bodies, may be finally confirmed by a special act of Par-
liament.
"T.C. G. GELDART, Vice- " FRANCIS FRANCE.
Chancellor. "JAS. ATLAY.
" GILBERT AINSLIE. " FRAS. MARTIN.
"H. PHILLPOTT. " JOHN MILLS.
" 11. W. CCOKSON. " A. TRACKER.
" JAMES CARTMELL. " G. M. SYKES.

( From de Times. )
The Cambridge reply to the Ministerial inquiries on
the subject of University Reform will be found to jus-
tify the anticipations we expressed respecting it about a
fortnight ago. On 'three out of the five points sub-
mitted, conclusions are excusably delayed, but the first
and most important point of the academical constitu-
tion receives particular notice. Of this constitution and
of the real questions involved in its amendment, it is
now time to give the public some idea.
The University of Cambridge is incorporated under
the title of " the Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars" of
the said University. The Chancellor is an elective
officer of exalted rank, but whose duties are performed
by deputy ; the Scholars, as being in statu pupillari,
have no share in the government, but the " Masters,"
under which terra is included all complete graduates in
any faculty who keep their names on the College boards,
meet for business in an assembly called the Senate: The
Senate is divided into two Houses, one composed of
members above five years' standing; and the other of
members below that mark. Legislation is carried on
by propositions termed " graces," which are laid before
the Senate, and on which the two House's decide, sepa-
rately, by a majority of votes, so that one House serves
as a check upon the other. The Senate, however, is
not a deliberative body ; it can only say "Yes" or
" No" to the actual propositions brought before it.
For the purposes of government the University sta-
tutes provide a vice-chancellor, being the chancellor's
deputy, who is the chief magistrate of the community,
and a council, styled in its Latin designation, the " Ca-
put." The Vice-Chancellor and the Caput are elected
annually for one year's service, the latter being com-
posed of five representative members, one from each of
the three faculties of divinity, law, and physic, and one
from each of, the two houses in the Senate. Every
grace or motion before being introduced to the Senate
must be first considered in the Caput or Council. and
must pass it without a dissentient vote—the Vice-Chan-
cellor being President of the Council ex officio. The
general reader will probably be not a little perplexed to
understand what features of this constitution can have
excited so much dissatisfaction, or provoked such a-de-
cided condemnation as the Ministerial rescript conveyed.
Undoubtedly the framework is narrow compared with
the expansion of the University, but the " main ele-
ments', of the community do certainly, with one excep-
tion, appear to obtain " effective representation," and
the system in itself is exactly that which has been ap-
proved in all similar cases by the experience of centuries.
We have only to change the scholastic names of " Vice-
Chancellor" and " Caput" into the more familiar
titles of "Mayor" and "Council," and we get precisely
the government which every corporation requires.
What, then, are the circumstances which, to the great
satisfaction of the University, have extorted from
Ministers so direct and imperative a demand for reform
in,this one particular ? The answer can be very clearly
given.
The University includes 17 endowed foundations
terined " Colleges" or "Halls." These foundations are
administered respectively by bodies of their own officerd,
and the first of these officers in position and, stattitable

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power, though not necessarily so in knowledge, influ
ence, or experience, is the Master. The Masters of the
several foundations collectively are called the " Heads"
of their respective houses, and it is into the hands of
these college officers, to the exclusion of every "main
element" in the University constituency, that the whole
government of the University has fallen. The choice of
the Senate in the election of the Vice-Chancellor and
Council was confined to certain restrictions, which gave
to an upper class of electors the power of " nominating."
Two persons were nominated for the Vice-Chancellorship,
of whotn the Senate selected one, and two " lists" were
proposed of the Caput, from which that body was formed.
Originally, the nomination for the Vice-Chancellorship
was confided to the Doctors in the several faculties,
and, as these graduates were in those days a consider-
able and independent body, there was some reason in
the regulation. Gradually, however, the heads of col-
leges, who were mostly doctors themselves, eliminated
the independent doctors from the nominating body, and
confined this privilege to their own small class exclu-
sively. Having done this, they passed a rule of their
own, deliberately providing that no person but one of
their class should ever receive a nomination for the
office in question. The consequence was, that the chief
magistrate of the University ceased to be a representa-
tive officer, that the choice of the Senate was utterly
nullified, and that this important appointment went in
rotation through a small body of 17 individuals, who
monopolised its advantages most completely.
The University Council was just as effectually de-
molished by the same process. Of the two " lists"
provided, one was given in by the Vice-Chancellor, arid
it soon became prescriptively the list adopted. The heads,
therefore, after establishing the Vice-Chancellorship as
a perpetual inheritance in their own class, nominated
every single member of the Caput. This, however, was
of no great importance, for as a single negative vote in
the Caput could stop all legislation, and this the
heads always possessed in the person of their own
nominee who presided, it was of little consequence how
the rest of the Council were supplied. But the results
did not stop here. •The Heads, who every year appointed
one of their own class to the Vice-Chancellorship, were
by no means disposed to part with their own power for
the interval. The claimed to be the Vice-Chancellor's
"natural advisers," to be by him consulted on all occa-
sions ; and they thus substituted themselves as the
acting " Co. uncil " of the University, monopolizing the
initiative in all its business, and demeaning themselves
as the true) University representatives, to the utter de-
struction of the statutable Council, the members of which
were left without any more connexion or communication
with the Vice-Chancellor than the other members cf the
Senate. , This system has now been pursued for so many
generations that it would be unjust to attach any per-
sonal imputations to those who are at present carrying
it out, but the reader will admit, we think, that a more
perfect example of political appropriation was never
brought before him.
Some of the deliberative business of the Senate is
transacted by means of committees termed "Syndi-
cates," and the authority claimed for the conclu-
sions thus- • established is sometimes imposingly
paraded. The point will illustrate very conveniently
the manner in which ,the University constitution,
as at present interpreted, is found to act. A
Syndicate is "appointed by the Senate," but, as the
whole proposition to this effect must come from the
Heads, they, in fact, possess in every committee the
controlling .voice of. their own Vice-Chancellor, who is
always made to preside, as many places for themselves
as they choose to take, and the nomination to all the
places which remain. The Senate, it is true, can reject
the proposal for appointment, but only at the cost of
getting no Syndicate at all. It can also reject a report,
but only at the cost of getting no report at all. As it
is not a deliberative body, and as no amendment can be
moved to any proposition, the class monopolizing the
initiative in all proceedings can always reduce it to the
alternative of taking their measures or none.
After these explanations of the University consti-
tution, the reader will not be unprepared to find
that the University proposals for its amendment,
though purporting to issue from the whole com-
munity, are somewhat defective in providing for this
community's emancipation. They simply recommend
the establishment of a new representative Council,
according to regulations which we shall examine
on another occasion. This, in point of fact, is nothing
but a restoration of one department of the constitution--
that of the University Council—to something like its
proper functions, nor would there, in reality, have been
any great necessity even for this, if the existing Caput
had been formed and elected as it still might have been,
and treated by a representative Vice-Chancellor as his
real and proper Council. We do not enter more par-
ticularly at present into the further bearings of the new
proposal, but what every reader will at once discern is,
that it deals with only one-half the abuse—viz., that
concerning the Council, leaving that concerning the
chief magistracy entirely unamended ; that it still pre-
serves the elements of unconstitutional monopoly, to
conflict with the elements of self-government and free-
dom ; and that, when a true University Council has
been once established on such important and compre-
hensive foundations as those now suggested, it will as-
suredly be both disposed and entitled to undertake a
good many duties beyond those to which it is designed
to confine it.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST. NIGHT,

FOREIGN-OFFICE, JAN. 14.

The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. John
Duffy as Consul at Galway, for the United States of
America.

WHITEHALL, JAN. 16.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint Alex. Currie,
Esq., advocate, to be Sheriff of the shire or sheriffdom of
Forfar, in the room of James L'Amy, Esq., resigned.
DOWNING-STREET, JAN. 17.
The Queen has been pleased to make the following ap-
pointments for the colony of Van Diemen's Land, viz.,
Francis Smith, Esq., to be her Majesty's Solicitor-General ;
Edward McDowell, Esq., to be Crown Solicitor and Clerk
of the Peace ; Edward Johnstone Manley, Esq., to be Co-
lonial Auditor ; and John Forster, Esq., to be Accountant
of Stores.

Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint John
Murray, Esq., and Captain John M'Court, to be members
of the Legislative and Executive Councils of her Ma-
jesty's Forts and Settlements on the Gold Coast, during the
temporary absence of H. W. Firth and James C. Fitz-
patrick, Esqrs.
ST. JAMES'S-PALACE, DEC. 29.

The Queen has been pleased, on the nomination of the
Right Honourable Lord Foley, to appoint Henry Robert-
son, Esq., one of her Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gen-
tlemen-at-Arms, vice Shield, retired.
CROWN-OFFICE, JAN. 16.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.

County of Gloucester—Eastern Division—Sir Michael
Hicks Hicks Beach, Bart., in the room of Henry Charles
Fitzßoy Somerset, commonly called Marquis of 'Worcester,
now Dike of Beaufort, summoned to the House of Peers.

twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official
assignee, Basinghall-street ; Braham, Chancery-lane.
Henry Green, baker, Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk, Jan.
27, and March 3, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Stopher,
Cheapside.
Henry Holman Wood, victualler, Bognor, Sussex, Jan.
27, at half-past one and March 3, at one, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-
street ; Apps, Gray's-inn.
James Lewis Lane, brewer, Norwood, Jan. 27 and Feb.
28, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official
assignee, Abchurch-lane ; Corselis and Hainber, Brabant-
court, Philpot-lane.
Henry Griffiths, tailor, Birmingham, Jan 31 and Feb.
28, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Whit-
more, official assignee, Birmingham ; Ashurst and Son,
Old Jewry ; Motteram and Knight, Birmingham.
Joseph Camm, miller, Quorndon, Leicestershire, Jan.
27 and Feb. 17, at ten, at the Birmingham District Court.
Harris, official assignee, Nottingham ; Huish, Donning-
ton, and Motteram and Knight, Birmingham.
Edward Rose, lace cap manufacturer, Nottingham, Jan.
27 and Feb. 17, at ten, at the Birmingham District Court.
Harris, official assignee, Nottingham ; Coops, Nottingham.
Thomas Frudd, innkeeper, Chorley-row, Manchester,
Jan. 30, at twelve, and Feb. 28, at eleven, at the Leeds
District Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds ; Marshall,
Barnsley ; Bond and Barwick, Leeds.
William Brunton, joiner and builder, Bradford, Feb 3
and 24, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Young,
official assignee, Leeds ; Harle, Leeds.
Cornelius Bowe Palmer, commission agent, Newport,
Monmouthshire, Jan. 31, and March 1, at eleven, at the
Bristol District Court. Hutton, official assignee, Saint
Augustine's place, Bristol ; Cathcart, Newport ; Bevan
and Small-street, Bristol.
James Frame, stationer, Liverpool, Jan. 27, and Feb.
23, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Bird, offi-
cial assignee, Livbrpool ; Bremner, Liverpool.
Mackinsey Bowell, publican, Manchester, Jan. 28 and
Feb. 23, at eleven, at the Manchester District Court. Lee,
official assignee, Manchester ; Cobbett and Wheeler, Man-
chester.

DIVIDENDS.
At the Court, Basinghall-street.

H. Rose, Manchester and Salford, common brewer, Feb.
7, at twelve—C. J. Webb, Leadenhall-street, silversmith,
Feb. 7,-at twelve—T. Holmes, Belgrave-street South, Pim-
lico, and Hereford-square, Brompton, builder, Feb. 7, at
one—H. N. Ginder, St. Martin's-court, Ludgate-hill,
licensed victualler, Feb. 7, at one—J. Slater, Friday-
street, Cheapside, warehouseman, Feb. 8, at one---W. Cob-
bett, Bear-gardens, Surrey, plumber and lead merchant,
Feb, 7, at two.

In tho Country.

E. Harper, Stamford, draper, Feb. 17, at ten, at the
Court, Nottingham—F. Turfrey, Abergavenny, Monmouth-
shire, brewer, Feb. 9, at eleven, at the Court, Bristol—J.
Robson, Durham, miller and flour dealer, Feb. 10, at
eleven, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—A. McKer-
row, Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorkshire, draper, Feb. 8, at
twelve, at the Town Hall, Kingston-upon-Hull.