The Sun.
London, England, 1836-02-20 00:00:00

COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK

Per Quarter. Wheat. I Barley. Oats. Beaus.

tohbu' rtk......--,... —1.40 45 30 33 20 27 '39 46
'9 .sing.toke ........ 134 45 23 33 19 26 35 40
11:th ' 35 41 28 32 22 29136 44
ilriogewater ---- ,44 56 22 26 20 25 32 34
Bristol----.—... 49 56 23 32 16 '2O 34 28 •
Chesterfield ..-.-•j 40 44 23 34 18 22 14.1 41
th.,rby ..---...--.. 40 43 W. 31 20 e 9 36 48
,Donc„aiter -- 26 41) 21 37 17 24 40 46
Dorchester—,--. 39 :0 —•— '2l- I 40
Excter--..--..., 36 42 24 23 16 18 26 41
Gbucester---- ,I 34 51 26 33 17 32 34 4L
t tungetfura --,.. 27 4t 22 36 14 25 34 40
Leice5ter............. 37 29 24 42
Newhury.---.... 32 44 24 35 I 19• 30 23 43
tlemsey ..... 36 46 26 30 18 22 36 43
shtlitt,SbUry .........«.... 54 , 25 17 41
licpt.t)o Mallet 38' 41 28 3-1 22 27 3,3 23
34 46 24 32 '2l 24 33 44
l'i t0n_.,..---- 42 30 1 is
..... 34 .
farixtouth ---,.., 40 45 22 33 i 23 25 34 :=6
Ycovi! ......... --........ 38 4) L'B 30 rlB 26 ;To 39
i'er I,„,j,ei. s. e. 6.0. 3. d. 5. dls. d. s. d. s. 0. s. 0.
Shrewsbury --... 4 9 53: 3 9 4 1 3 0 4f, 0 0 0 0

Pease

Vtit 40
42 4t
42 48

40 44
31 36
31 -
30 36

s.d. s.d
00 0

1;IRMINGI1A M CORN MARKI.II., Feb. IS.
Wheat, 62 lb.
Parley, 23 6 31 6
Ho. Grinding, 49 lb.
3 0 - 3 2
Oats, 391
23 3 6
Old Beans, 63,,i1b l6 6 18 0
New &R.. ' ,14 0 14 6
1) imperial quarter
New White Boling Pease, 3 imp. bush.
Ditto Grey ditto
11 0 15 0

A considerable sensation has been created at Brighton
by the receipt of the intelligence of tho reoent cruel and atro-
cious conduct of Don Carlos in authorising the murder of the
party of Englfiii who lately fell into his hands—the Mr..Shees,
who thus became a victim to the merciless rant, being closely
connected with a highly respectable family in that town.
Conduct thus revolting to every feeling of humanity cannot
but eventually serve the cause of freedom, by inducing many
to join its standard, from mere detestation of the merciless
conduct of its enemy.

As to the payment of poors' rates and assessed taxes, the Btll
clause enacts, " That every person so occupying such premises,
may and shall be registered in any year if he shall have paid.
on.or before the 20th day of July in that year, all the peer'
rates and assessed taxes which shall have been payable front
him in respect of such premises, during the nine calendar
months next before the Gth day of April in that year."
Clause 9th, New Shoreham, &c., Electors not assessed to
land tax may vote.
• The 10th and last clause runs thus:—" And whereas it is by
the said recited Act enacted, that every male person of full
age and not subject to any legal incapacity, who shall occupy
as tenant any lands or tenements, for which he shall be bona
fide liable to a yearly rent of not less than 501.,, shall be en-
titled to be inserted in the register of electors for the county'
in which such lands or tenements shall be situated : And
whereas doubts have arisen in the case of such lands or tene-,
ments being jointly occupied by more persons than one, in
partneiship with each other, as to the right of such joint occu-
piers to .be inserted in the register of electors be it therefore
enacted, that each of such joint occupiers shall have the right or
voting, only in the case that the clear yearly rent shall be or
such an amount beyond 501., that when divided by the number-
of occupiers, the quotient shall be a sum of not less than 501.:
for each and every such occupier, and not otherwise."

PRISONERS' COUNSEL.
The subjoined is the Bill brought in by Mr. Ewart for en..
abling prisoners to make their defence by Counsel or Attorney:—
" Whereas it is just and reasonable that persons accused or
offences against the law, should be enabled to make their full.
answer and defence to ail That is alleged against them ; be it
therefore enacted, by the King's most excelleut Majesty, by
ard with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and
Temporal, nd Commons, in this present Parliament assem-
bled, and by the authority of the same, that from and after the
pissing of this Act, all persons tried for felonies shall be ad-
mitted,b after the close of the case for the prosecution, to make
full answer and defence thereto by counsel learned in the law.
" And be it further enacted, that in all such cases of felony
and likewise in all cases of treason, misprision of treason or
misdemeanor, if, after the close of the case for the person or
persons accused, the counsel for the Prosedution shall make any
reply, the counsel for the person or persons accused shall be
admitted to answer it.
" And be it further enacted, that on trials for felony or misde-
meanor, if the person or persons accused be without the means
of retaining counsel, they may request the Judge or presiding
Officer of the Court before whom the trial be had, to assign
Counsel to defend them ; and such Judge or presiding Officer
shall, with the consent of such counsel, assign him or them to
conduct the defence of the person or persons accused, without
fee or reward.

" And be it further enacted, that all persons accused before
any Justice or Justices of the Peace of any offence against
the law, shall be admitted to make th eir answer and defence to
such accusation, and to ht.ve any witnesses examined or cross-
examined by counsel or by attorney attending on their behalf.
"And be it further enacted, that this maybe amended, altered
or repealed by any Act or Acts to be passed in this present
Session of Parliament."

MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS ACT AMENDI.
MENT.

The following is a summary of the provisions contained in
the Bill :-

Clauses 1 and 2 enacts that elections are not to be set
aside because of defects in title of presiding officer ; nor be-
cause held on a wrong day.
Clause the 3d declares the election of Aldermen good,
though the whole number be not elected together.
4. II no Mayor, the Councillor elected by the greatest
number of votes shall convene a meeting for supplying va.
cancies among the Councillors.
5. The Mayor or Councillor shall convene a meeting of the
Council to supply vacancies in the office of Alderman or
Mayor.

6. If the Council fail to elect, the Burgesses shall elect
the Mayor and Aldermen.
7. Elections before Mayor or Councillor alone, until elec-
tion of Assessors shall be valid.

8. Five and 6 W. 4. c. 76. s. 43. in part repealed ; two
revising assessors to be chosen as the Burgesses' two audi-
tors are.

9. If Councillors were elected without contest, the Council
is to decide who are first to go out of office.
By the other clauses liberty to resign Corporate offices, on
payment of the fine for non-acceptance is given, subject to re-
mission by the Council, in whose discretion this power is
placed.
The 11th declares that the Sessions of the Peace are
rightly holden, although no Justices of the quorum may be
present.

- By clause 12 the powers given to the Councils of certain
boroughs, to try prisoners, are in some respects enlarged.
Proceedings on quo warrant° and mandamus, by the 13th
clause, may be discontinued on payment of costs.
The 14th declares Berwick-upon-Tweed a county, to all
intents, but for Parliamentary elections.
By the 15th, and last clause, it is declared that—
No part of the liberties of any borough, town, or city
named in the said Act, which shall not have been included be-
fore the passing of the said Act within either the Municipal
or the Parliamentary boundary of such borough, town, or city,
shall be taken to be within the metes and bounds of such bo-
rough town or city by virtue of the said Act : • Provided al-
ways, that no election of Councillors, Auditors, or Assessors
heretofore made, or any other proceeding whatsoever, in such
borough, town or city since the said twenty-fifth day of De-
cember, shall be liable to be questioned after the passing of
this Art, by reason that any such part of any liberties may
have been taken to be part of such borough, town or city under
the provisions of the said Act.

PENSIONS.—As some doubts have been entertained whether
the duties on certain offices of Pensions, payable according to
former Acts, were continued by that passed in the 4th year of
his present Majesty's reign ; a Bill has just been brought in
for continuing and making perpetual such duties which will
remove those doubts.

COURT OF SESSION ( SCOTLAND).—The number of cases in-
stituted in the above Court in 1835 appears to have been 1,818
in the Outer-house ; 554 decrees in absence have been given,
and 649,fina1 judgments pronounced in litigated causes.

A HYPNOLOGIST.—SUCK is the title chosen by a
person who advertises the people of Liverpool that he " may
be consulted on his system of procuring sound and refreshing
sleep without the aid of opiates, or medicines of any kind."
Though there is no medicine here, our hypnologist gives his pa-
tients a dose.—Literary, Gazette.
The small pox prevails to an alarming extent in
Dorchester at the present time.
INCENDIARISM.—We regret to state that on
Thursday evening a bcanstack, the property of Mr. W. Long,
at East Sutton, and containing about twenty-two quarters,
was set on fire and totally destroyed. It was insured, therev,
fore no loss will be sustained by -Mr. Long, who has neverthe-
less, with the aid of his neighbours, very laudably offered a re-
ward of 100/, for the detection of the offender. The circum-
stances under which this fire has occurred, are particularly
painful. On the day before the fire upwards of 101. were
distributed to the poor of East Sutton in provisioa, besides.
which other donations of a similar kind have been made
during the winter, and the same amount, we _ understand,
will again be distributed in a few weeks. There has been
.consequently no occasion for complaint---inuch less any excuse
for this atrocious crime. —Maidstone .Journal.

THE MUNICIPAL CORPORATION OF TIIE CITY
OF LONDON.—Yesterday ',lie Committee of the whole Court
of Common Conner. met, for the purpose of discussing cer-
tain proposition, for the Reform of the. Corporation of London,
the Lord Mayor in the chair. Sir Chapman Marshall renewed
his ari-indment of Friday list, that the- ComMittee should.
ad;:ourn until the Report of the Commissioners should be read.
Mr. Bayliss was of opinion that such a motion was calculated
to bring the Committee into utter contempt. The amend-
ment was put to the vote and negatived. It was then agreed
that the constituency should be of one uniform description,
and to consist of freemen householders ; that the number of
wards should be twenty-five ; and that there should be two
days for nomination and one for election (one day for nomina-
leirsas l, Mr.
l yand
nomina-
tion in Common Hall, and another for nomination in wa.-d-
-mote.)
should be by ballot, and was followed by Messs's. Gal!owpy,
A Pritelizrd then moved that the polling in all c ses
Johnson, R. Taynol lor, the Lord Mayer, Mr. Bayliss, Mr.
spoke
in Charlesfav our l o
Fletcher, opposed the motion, which, when put to the vote,
w aSlost by a majority of 8,.7-the number's being for the intro-
duction of the ballot, 30; against it, 38. The Committee
then adjourned. •
IMPORTANT TO ALL THOSE AFFLICTED WITH
(„0,,,,, oa RucuusTtsm.-One of. the most important discoveries,
mo-
dern times, connected with menicine, is tlit. admirable of
and ItheumAism, now so generally known as BL k nis,Peeity., for Gout
RHEUMATIC PILLS. Gout is a complaint with • h GOUT AND
pennons—riei and poor—old and young— which all classes of
grave and
afflicted. The same remark applies to rheumatic gay—are liable to be
diseases a a similar nature. The Vol. v extraordinary affections, and all those
Leon ettbeted by the use of this invaluabi cures which have
the•e Pills one of the mo3t ,e. specific, have justly rendered
Popular
discover ii tor relieving the afflicted, it.nti highly-estinaated medicines ever
and certain health. The liii•li testi .
4nd restoring the sufferer to speedy.
of extraordin ty cure they h• - Tonials of their efficacy, and
Justifythelases
in strongly rreurnmeggun, Mein
a% c effected (mtich we have seen), us
Lbottrin,; und,r tl :-* ` to the especial notice of all those; who are
maladiei—tiou -., • distressing
.: ~,,:;..k.and deinntating effects of those