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that one should be given to Chatham, so as to
render that town quite independent of Roches-
ter,—and that another should be given to the
county of Monmouth. The consequence was,
that there would only be 30 boroughs in sche_
dule B, instead of 41, and thus in schedule C,
instead of 12 Members, there would be 22. In-
stead of there being 69 places, as by the old
Bill, there would only be 49 places returning
one representative each. According to the scale
now founded on the joint test of the number
of houses, and the amount of the assessed taxes,
the thirty boroughs which would come into
schedule B would be—Eye, Lostwithiel, West-
bury, Wilton, Midhurst, Launceston, Peters-
field, Woodstock, Malmesbury, Marlborough,
Droitwich, Lyme Regis, Dartmouth, Thirsk,
Shaftesbury, Totness, Arundel, St. Ives, Rye,
Morpeth, Northallerton, Caine, Clithero, Hel-
ston, Christchurch, Marlow, and three other
places. In schedule D two Members would be
given to Bolton, Brighton, Bradford, Blackburn,
Macclesfield,Stockport, Stoke-upon-Trent, Ha-
lifax, and Stroud. By these amendments it will
be seen that the disfranchising portion of the
Bill has been curtailed ; that schedule A, which
before contained fifty-six boroughs, will now
only contain fifty-one ; and that schedule B,
which contained forty-one boroughs, will now
contain no more than thirty. With respect to
the census, his Lordship in future proposes to
take houses instead of persons, as the test of
population cannot be so strictly relied on. On
the subject of qualification, little or no altera-
tion is to be made in the spirit of the 101. fran-
chise, though as regards freemen—and this part
of the rftw Bill is certainly no improvement—
the franchise is to be continued to them for,
ever, provided they possess it by birth and
servitude, and provided also they reside
within the city, or borough, or within seven
miles of the place of voting. We hope
the conciliatory disposition evinced by this last
amendment will satisfy the Anti-Reformers ; the
more staunch Reformers will not, we apprehend,
at all relish it, for it cripples that portion of
the Bill which next to the schedules A and B
should have been left precisely as it stood before.
However, the preservation of the ten-pouud
franchise is a great good ensured : we
had, we must confess, our misgivings
on this point, and are glad to find they
have been proved causeless. Altogether the
new Bill, if not an improvement 1011 the old one,
except in detail, still preserves a great portion
of its former sweeping and efficient character,
and as such, we hope and trust will be gratefully
received by the community.

The new Reform Bill, after being read a first
time last night, was ordered to be read a second
time on Friday, when, in the event of its being
read on that day, Lord ALTHORP announced
that the House would adjourn over the Christmas
Holidays; Lord J. RUSSELL undertaking to
name, before the recess, on what day after the
Holidays the Bill would be committed.

The following most important intelligence ap-
pears in the Herald of this morning :—" We
have just received the following important com-
munication from a gentleman who left Madrid
on the evening of the 6th inst. The following
are the words of our informant :--4" A revolu-
tion broke out at Madrid on December 6, du-
ring a review, where the troops were ordered to
march to the frontiers of Portugal. A con-
spiracy having been discovered a few days before
amongst several militia regiments, they were, in
consequence, disbanded—the Marquis of SAM-
BRANO has been shot—King FERDINAND has
been made a prisoner in his own Palace, and is
not expected to survive another day, having been
previously poisoned. The Palaces of the Mini-
sters have been destroyed—the fury of the popu-
lace is directed towards his KING, his Ministers,
and the Clergy—the Convents have been pil-
laged, and the Priests driven from the capital.
Two regiments of the Body Guard have been
entirely cut to pieces. The general cry is,
Down with the Church and the King,' and
Long life to the Constitution and Cortes,'
which were to be proclaimed the following day.
On our informant leaving Madrid, it was reported
that the KING was dead ; but if not, he has
ceased to govern Spain." We know not what
degree of confidence is to be placed in this ru-
mour, and can therefore only hope that it is true.

The following are extracts from German
Papers received this morning :

VIENNA, DEC. I.—His Eminence Archbishop Prince
Firmian died here the day before yesterday, universally
regretted, after a long and painful illness. On Saturday
his remains will be interred in the metropolitan church
of St. Stephen, where all the Clergy and most of the
Bishops from the neighbourhood will by present. The
accounts of the disturbances at Lyons caused a sensible de-
cline in our Funds to-day, which, to judge from the great
amount offered for sale, may fall still more, and thus del.:),
the negociations for a new loan, which were nearly con-
cluded. The Constantinople mail, of Novembei 10, has
arrived to day, but it brings nothing official respecting the
submission of the Pacha of Scutari: it was, however,
already known at Constantinople that negotiations for the
surrender of the citadel had commenced. On the other
hand the Porte had received news from Trebisond that the
Pacha of Wan had rebelled against the Government.

This news excites the more surprise, as such an
event was not at all to be expected after the defeat of Daud
Pacha, of Bagdad. This probably was the only ground
for the reports in circulation, which ascribe this rebellion
some to Persian, some to Russian influence.
The first number of the Moniteur Ottoman was pub-
lished at Constantinople, on the sth of November, and
will appear regularly once a week.
The cholera bad greatly abated in Smyrna, and wholly
ceased in Alexandria. It is reported that the plague rages
with great violence in Tauris, Sultanieh, and Teheran.
Accounts from Prague say the cholera had appeared
there, on the 29th of November, and that two persons
bad died of it.

--.-. ...
VIENNA, DEC. 1. —Five per Cent. Metalliques, 86 ;
Four per Cent. ditto, 78 ; Bank Shares, 1,137.

Lord FITZROY SOMERSET held a levee this
day at the Horse Guards.
There were no arrivals at either the Foreign
or Colonial-offices.

We were informed this morning upon un-
doubted authority that all proposals put forward by the
Opposition party have been rejected by his Majesty's
Ministers, who are determined strenuously to carry the
wishes of the people into effect.
At Bungay an Anti-Reform petition, which
lay for signatures at the King's Head for a week, had only
three names attached to it. _

The Duke of DORSET has arrived in Harley-
street, from Drayton Park, Northamptonshire.