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London, England, 1831-08-15 00:00:00

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SPIRIT OF THE. PUBLIC JOURNALS. practical operation by degrees, Be the vacancies of long notice in the Ger:se/he and in the eieuntY paper, tice of the exclusion in another light, the statement (ranters of the Bill" that the atistocratic influence DISTRESSED IRISH. .
- -hose preferments occurred. In this respect the ree and service at their last place of reeidente; Rut proves that Chelsea exceeds in populhtions trebles in should be increased in the counties' " because the
We last night received Dutch Papers to the 12th farmers of the Church must, of necessity, be what then it is hard that gentleiben who go abroad for assessment, and nearly equals in- number of houses, democratic power has gained re' much from the ex- Sr n,TO THE EDITOR
Having so fre ly observed yOF THE SUN.
-qour warm wive-
August. An Eatraordinare' Supplement to the ,et not a very popular designatiea of the Reformers pleasure' should be obliged to take the trouble of eight out of- the untouched boroughs which shall tension of the elective franchise, and the representa-
••acy for the poor and distressed Trish, and your generous
Hague Journal of Friday last contains the commu- .ef the State-that is bit-and,bit Reformers. By knowing what is going on in their absence. Lord continue to send each two Members to Parliament: tion being given to towns &e. We have uni• '
mil charitable feelings towards the poorer clas,e4 in gene; •
nieetion by the Minister of Foreign Affairs to the emnmencing the Reform with the See of Derry a Plunkett talked of the liberty of the subject, and Thus this great suburb of the metropolis, which only formly held it as our opinion, that from, the con-
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States-General of Thursday, August llth, of a letter beginning will be made with a 'la re 6it. That more of the idle common theta which are always claims one representative; possesses more than the struction, and above all from the extension of tht raft
See,.. being now vacant, and its revenues at the in the mouths is,'F men of his kidney, when the basis of property and population on which sixteen franchise to various modee of property not hereto- widelyrtchierchueaatd
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from the London Conference to Baron Verstolk,As so much his been stated unde
hsPosal of the i9ese-e, no private interests, no (deject is to enable the great to injure the poor. Meitibers are nominated in other places. The paper fore enjoying it, the fair and general influence of -ion towards the poor labourers, the following few fact
slated 5:11 August, calling for a suspension of host]-
i individual rights of properay, clash With ahy plan for Lord Wynford only proposes to Ao in Viigland what before we varying the elements of the reasoning, hut property-of independent property, as cotitradis- ave lately come under my observation, when the public
lilies; the answer of Baron Verstolk to the con-
ference, dated the Hague, Bth August ; and the I'l be* legislative arrangeM•ent as to the future ap- is done in Scotlaed e'ever'e:- day. A Scotch gentle- still directing the facts introduced to the same result, tinguished from a turbulent democracy on the mit nay judge hove far these poor creatures are justified in the
substance of a communicetion from the French ' elication of those :avenues. The argument of a nunl thirty go abroad for pleasure as well as an Eng- shows that on no one ground which will admit any hand, and from a condensed and overgrown mo., ipeosition they still make to such characters as are capable
if the following unfeeling con lust to their fellow men whit
Charge d'Affaires, on the Sth ;of a letter from the listuthaece of " vested interests " does not bold lishinan; but if he leaves property behind and tie- other place to a share in the representation, can nopoly on the other-would receive a prodigious
a ippen unfortunately to fall within the I oil' of their
ister of Foreign Affairs at Perils, stating, that ie 1 here ; but, if the Bishopric be't'.:ll.c`a more conferred, elects to pay his creditors, the law soon makes up Chelsea be justly excluded. But without enlarging inclease. Even the parties exercising the right of
cyranny. A rich landholder, not 100 miles from Eamon-
cons
equence of the denunciation of the arrnietice, unconditionally, on eny aspirant, it may be many for his neglect. We do not believe there is a single further on the subject, we beg to recommend the electors for towns will hold their queltflcations under
ton, holding sit. hundred acres of arable and pasture lan h
Belgium had applied to the King of the trench for veers befert A similar opportunity is offered to the country in Europe, with the exception of lelngland, facts which we have just stated to the attention of the lords of the soil, and tv'ill choose representatives
f course is obliged during the ha • and corn harvest 0
assistance; and that if the Dutch army did not im- , Crown and Parliament of disposing of its supei- where a man meet...sett of property can set his the authors of the Rill:-Tisees. mplo a tolerable number of
ia the )inotle which he an, }p
l The fll jog
immediately return within the lines fixed in the ar- ' duous wealth to some better purpose then the ag- creditors it defiance. in every (giver cotintry it is r
I'he division of counties ought not to be allowed, on aey but democratic principles. nut what was
the profeseed object of the Bill'-whet the grand Iseel:rota people.
have :La'
mistice, it would have to combat the trench army etandisement of a single individutele and Ae a Chris- supposed that the 'Matt who posseeses property', and and if the people of England be true to themselves, polized nearly the whole of the land in the Irish, have
The communication concluder, with an account of •!lam Pastor, who teaches the doctt-ihe that " a man does not pay hiS creditors, is a diehonest man, en-
it will not. This abornineble clause would, so far necessity for any Reform whatsoever, in " the ee es"
of his Majesty's 'Ministers themselves ?-titiless, in- Thought proper to regulate during the busy summer month.
the determination which the King had taken in con- cannot serve tiod and Mamh\on." We do not, titled to no ferLearatice. But Englund being an as 54. Members are contented, be a stultification ofpoor ,urn's wages, viz., for stout able men 2s. per
sequence of this last proceeding. In the letter from , however, advo-cete the appropriation of any part of aristocratical country, a very dishonest fellow may the entire princi le of the Bill. Enormous, and in deed, it was (what, of course, we cannot conceive the
it to have been) their game to the dust in "the 'lay, win, two pints of porter, females are allowed ler
the conference of the sth August, the Five Pleni- The wealth of the Church to the purposes of the be a perfect gentleman, and may find apologies even
tome res 'Ppolitically peers dangerous, as been the.
has -'
, eyes" of the people of England, Why, the national with one pint of porter, without either milk or garden to
porentiaries, referring to the letter of Baron Verse ' State until the working Cler,- shall, out of the su- in the Legislature.-Morning Cl/troeticie. growth of individual wealth in this country,one among
stolk of the Ist August, in which he speaks of the perfluities of the riot preferments, be adequately we Eter-Jte.t 16 learn that Lord Brougham's Bill the foremost duties of the Legislature is,midoubtedlv, the interior of the country have the advantige of; too grievance was, aristocratic goner,-more pro- pr (elute vegetable, or any other privilege the labourers it!
perly speaking, oligarchic power,-and to talk of
provided foes A respectable maintenance, and a se- " mere popularity" having too much weight in the 't),leo=lplaehazse:ltoef irt.,,nighty tot moister the earth withrt:
intentions of his august Master to support by mill- for the establishment of proper bankruptcy tribunals, to counteract that accumulating poison, by every
wet
dare i
ast stopped;o.e
tar measures (mesures militaires) the negotiations curia y from sordid want, is the right of ihoee who is in great danger of being defeated by a combine- effort to reinforce those means of confederation pot- county representation under the present system, is a
Ito leave their' work, itntsesior as,.
par is
ie,.iitise
immediatelyt lose poor creatu
wli',ch his Plenipotentiaries were commissioned to devote themselves to the llAiis of the altar. A tion of the law Lords, who, to do them justice, have sessed by men of inferior fortune, which form their direct insult to the common sense of the country, such wart the consequences of the fro
Open at London, observe that they should have fair distribution its!.' toe wealth of the Church would always been against all law lt•eforrta of any moment. natural and only instrument of resistance to the though Lord Althorp would be the last man deli- that scores of these unfortunate beings, in e immediate
berately to offer such an insult. IF, indeed, there neighbourhood in which I live, were actually in the MOO
understood that these measures would be adopted not once! be an act of justice to the "labourers in tes 1
We e have ealwtets had apprehensions for the fate of tyrant leviathan of each separate district throughout
the vineyard," but of inconceivable advantage to were, first, any such thing in existence as a legit]- deplorable state of misery anti starvation; and a few: da)l
only in the interior of the territory of Holland,this Bill, knowing, as we do, how pertinaciously the land. This great good might bid fair to be ace
if public report did not inform them .het tettilities the interests of religion.-Moreing Ye:TVs. the Aristocracy of this country cling to every thing complished by the destruction of petty boroughs', the mate oligarchy, which there is not; and next, whet back no less than nine poor fellows were committed t°
all the world knows was not the case, if there had prison only for what is called stealing from the different
against the Bel lens had recommenced ; and It csnnot, we imerk, be denied by any bode in the shape of sPoil, and that they have long looked extension of elective franchises, the abridged duos- fields a few potatoes, which I have every reason to suprne
been any thing like a fair equilibrium in the old
they call upon Baron Verstoik to obtain from that the wheele 'range of the domestic interests of a on the seventy-four Contmissioherships as a fund for lion of polls, and those several contrivances for
Parliament between the oligarchic and the public were to save. the lives of their starving wives and children.
the King orders that all hostilities may cease. Ire natioe present no topic to the cognizance of the the proeielon of their younger branches, unable to frustrating the direct power of money over the repre-
the answer, Baron Vcrstolk endeavours to show that Press of more importance than the system reed admi. aupport themselves by their talents or their industry. tentative s.ystem which the authors of the 1111 have interest, as a point to start from in the readjustment GiiirialnG, TtiTill,ois this t(iiarib,er:vondiired at ! what is it that man
his letter could not fairly receive the construction nistration of justice. That this shoida 'be the cese is These Commissioners-the Septuagint, as they have held out to us; but no human malice ever devised of powers, we might be able to imagine some ex-
starve"' 'in the midst of' ile tot desperation,
biitthis and
dallsuffeor
case for Lord Althorp 's idea of the usefulness of re- polite have to endure! for the
put on it by the conference; et-Ideal:baits to justify obvious, for opt ate sort of laws which a nation been termed-have been most essiduons itt cane nn engine for neutralizing and defeating all such is, thesepared
the great!. part of them, sans cereozonie, are discharged,
the conduct of the King of Holland; and conclude. possesaeta, Ana the mode in which they are ad- vassing those with whom the decision rests, because beneficial purposes, so complete as this county- inforcing the aristocracy. As it is, they are too
strong ; as it is, a great deal too much wealth has
with the de.elaration, that as a Constitutional 510- ministered, depend the rights, liberties, property, they apprehend that Lord Brougham will do that grinding'-scheme. Suppose there be 6,000 electors consequently are either left as en appendage to the work-
been collected in the hands of 100 or 200 families, house, or if denied that privilege, to the merciful conse-
narch reigning over a free people, his Mejeety ran- and lives, of the individuals who eonetitute its so- which was recommended by one intimately convey- for a whole county, of which 2,000 are to
hot adopt any course but such as is in tree ring with ciety. The Enetieb !ewe have been called by cant with the systems of other countries, arid whose be found among the tenantry and dependents and, by inevitable consequence, too much power also. quences of a severe winter, and oftentimes left to perish :
This is an evil not perhaps to be avoided while the unheeded by those they have enriched by their hard labour;
the spirit of the nation, and untattimously sanctioned lawyers the "perction of reason;" so has the close work has been for •three yeala in the hands of all of a certain Nobleman, and this Nobleman a
laws of inheritance remain as they now exist in taking into consideration their rent for their miserable
by the two Chambers of the national representa- and corrupt state of the representative system been legal Reformers. " Now," says the writer alluded person not generally esteemed or confided in
his England. Let Lord Althorp, therefore, arid his abodes of from 2s. 6d. to 3s. per week, I will leave the
tion. After announcing the determinatioe of ' described be the borough Lords as the very excel- to, " that the present bankrupt and commercial for his public . principles ; he .seta op
- nominee for the corn , which, so long as it re. colleagues beware lest, by unnatural and even au- aristocracy, and the avarictivoill,
.ranee to assist Belgium, which tresietnnee had knee of the Constitution, Thme Who bestowed code is of the most complicated and entangled na itt:ip
calculating
ctivarpledriitorltifie the a
dacious attempts to clothe with new means of op- ,arijamir,ittoticioentemplaeteof; butial,otdrulsrtfli
not
been assented to by the conference, and the offer the praise, in both instances, were actuated by the ture, end in many respects wholly unfit for mercantile , mains undivided brings 4,000 electors ugainst .his .a. reformedling I
pression the already tremendous arm of the
of a fleet made by England also accepted by the same metive--the consciousness that the thing purposes has long beets the subject of loud soul just 2,000, and returns a popular cendidate by a majority suffer such a state of things mtPue•hPlon longer England swill
; ifag's
oligarchy, they provoke the nation itself to con-
conference ;he states, that before recotnmencing praised " worked well for themselves." The House complaint, and I cannot help thinking that the evil of 2,000 suffer ea. Split the county, and what I shall leave every sensible and reflectigna mind to judge re
eider how much might be gained, by a radical
hostilities, among the various consequences, the pros of Commons repeatedly, and year efter yeair, denied has been considerably augmented by the administration happens ? Wily, the bulk of his es! ate being left the cons quences that inevitably must ensue.
Reform of that branch of our Legislation which Tile
babilitv of such aid being given to Belgium Was cal- that any Reform was netensal'y, and negatived pro- of the bankrupt laws by equity Judges. Equity bawl in the same electeral dis•rict, he has the whole, or above is but a very faint account of the be
Culatea on, though it was deemed one of the least positions that wouia have pledged the House only to a succession of decisiorit upon the everevarying almost the whole body of his own 2,000 voters to has fostered the inordinate monopoly of riches, rending scenes of distress I have lately witnessed.
and whether a less feudalizing law for the deecen, sir, I should not have trespassed so lone upon yoll
probable " Should," he observes, n a French take into consideration the most moderate plans transitetions of men, become a most subtle and ab- support pin against the 1,000 electors coestituring
of pioperty might not rid the " independent into- valuable time, but think it my duty to make known totbe
army enter Belgium, that of the Netherlands .should for improving the representation: et the (ley hits struts science, which is thoroughly understood but the independent interest of that moiety of the
rests" of a burden which has weighed heavily upon public the suffei ings of our poor fellow creatures.
retire into our ancient territory. In this result, also, come when that House is tteup•fed, almost to the by a very few even of its professors; and the Caato count and is enabled to ride rotigh-ehod over
history and impartial posterity will judge, that in the exclusion of ell ctl)er business, in adjusting the de. cellors having many motives for malting bankruptcy public opinion. But this is all fair in the eyes of them. Mr. Hughes Hughes warned Ministers of I remain, Sir, ~
,
midst of enervated Europe, Holland unanimously tails of a swee 'of Reform, gonlythe adopted 'childofthe G• Seal, h been the Aristocracy-theyd • b dthey
ping plan
WILLIAM BATES, a Small Freeholder. a
a counterpoise to the rotten comity system. We
supported the head of the state, maintained its an- means of reconciling the constitution end practice backward in applying equitable rules and principles avow it. We measured last Saturday the merits of e Lake Cottage, near Edmonton, Friday Eveniuo. •
too, advise them, and most earnestly, to beware. . .
dent reputation in defence of its right; that it of Parliament with the demands of public opinion, to the cases to which it has given rise. The con- the e.unty-mongering clause, by repeating the names
There is not an argument in Lord Althorp's speech •
'lever hesitated to speak freely and to act freely in It is some years. now since we first endeavoured to sequence has been, that every great question in of its most strenuous partisans in the House of Com- COUNTRY CORN MARKETS.
of which the prototype may not be found in those of
the most critical circumstances that perhaps ever oc.. prove) through the agency of the Press, the nece,- bankruptcy has beets drawn within the vortex of one mons on the previous Thursday, which happened to
eurred to a state; it undertook one of the most city of legal Reform. In the field which both civil Court, arid the niceties and distinctions of a science be those of the bitterest opponents of " the 8i11,,, Goulbure, Wetherell, and Stigden, on behalf of rot- - DURING LAST W EEK.
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ten boroughs. Another absurdity in the construe- Wheat. Barley. Oats....
...11e:....,'1,*
magnanimous enterprises recorded in history, and and criminal justice presented foe impaovement we already too relined, have been multiplied until the and of every proposition of enlarged Reform.l'er Quarter,
lion of the Bill was adopted on Saturday. It will Ashburn .w.,...,-.-. 72 82 41 47 95 34 40 41
was able in a few days to compel a eettntry, contain- have laboured, at least, with perseverance, and riot perception and comprehension of them require the Having tried it. by this personal standard, let us now
be seen that some of the counties are to return three
ing a population double of 11S OW'n, and which had altogether unsueeessfully• It cannot fail to be in deepest thought and meditatioie and the speedy arid take another belittle. cl, and see by what sort of 11.1stihngstoke --- 1 700 77t(i) gl :00 '24 g?„, lg
dared to provoke and to calumniate the courage of the recollection of our readers that we exposed the immediate' decision of questions connected with arguments it was supported ; for much are we mis- Members to Parliament, arid that such counties are Briagewater -- i5B 72 25 3) 22 26 28
interior in size arid population to Rose, to which 38 40 `-
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its soldiers, to renounce all hope of saving itself expensive and absurd fictions of thz law L-the them is become altogether impossible." And yet taken, if there be not found in the advocacy of the I=r7M-----.1 N teit
four lembers have bean allotted. ut te treble- Derby ----4-1 68 72 - - 29 32 4 4)8
bY its OWII resources." The woeels enervated sham plc3s-the redentlatre verbiage and technical the strongest opinions against the preterit system rotten boroughs ystem and the rotten county syeeetn
Europe appear highly ludicrous in the mouth harbarisme of Special pleading-and, over and over are those expressed, by the Commissioners theni- just the same alliance of principles as of persons. membered county is not to be divided, as the [)seizes
iczase ste*T• Iso 3,1 r 8 336 t 1 T, g 46
of the Minister of State like Holland, of which again, called the attention of the public and of Par- selves. In fact, the separation of the bankrupt busi- Mr. 11. Hughes on Thursday evening introduced
that are
will be. It therefore follole's Dorche:ter-e...-- 53 7.1 al 40 11'2 ‘X 40 4,1'
that are electors inhabiting small counties will have r-...;''
the population, though orderly mind industrious, 'lament to those gross and disgraceful defects j 9 our nets froth that of the Chancery has been advocated, his amendment of the pernicious clause in question, e.oettite'rester !If.(1 t;: alO 2,-1.; 40 22 3il 40 4,
the choice of three representatives each; while those util n ger ford ........... 52 71 - - 24 32 38 4,4
!Willie spirited, and characterised by an enligh- syetem of Civil Justice long before lht present Lord not merely by Commissioners, but , by several by the following clear, straightforward, and manly
of Yorkshire, Lancashire, Devonehire, &c. must ; iv
y-- 7 - 46 757 72 345
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tenet' charity unknown in any ether countro, are not Chancellor's memoranle speech of six hours outhe of the most. distinguished lawyers of the country, speech, which, we trust, will endear the Hon. Mem-
content themselves with two. There never, surely, fernery ..-----.4.. 60 66 31 38 26 31 - 44
ccrtainl,y possessed of many military requisites, not- same subjett, and before there was in existence Sir 'Samuel Romilly, in the debate on the bet to every friend of true Reform throughout Er
ig-
withstanding their triumphs over the Belgians. The a Law Commission to investigate and report Vice-Chanrere WI, saw no necessity why the land. We reprint the etpeech, because it is short, was so much clumsy blundering fuss, undertaken sittre,f,t,(o'tb,,,,r,Yallei_ 7, 2 a•-4 1) 2s '27 ; 44
32 4. 46
. for an end at once so mischievous and so foolish. She'rborne .......---. 60 68 32 40 tr 28 38 ,
Dutch, having among them many rich individuals, ❑upon the state of the law, with a view to ReForen. Judge of bankrupt cases should be the Lord Chan- though invaluable e---
have obtained what an outlay of money can always We could now, if it Were neeesearY, show, '.ber' re- .cellor. Mr. Wm. Courtenay, then a COMMissioner " Mr. H. Hughes was so strongly oppoSed t'o the clause A cerrespondent, who is unfortunately, or says he .
fror,Tn 4 1), -38 40 F2cB) -,
g 73 ta I
obtain, an urine' (thoegh we dare say the soldiers verting to whet wt: evrete at that time, that we had of -Bankrupr, said, in the, course of the debate on as it then stood, that he would take the sense of the Corn- is, a " Senator," asks us how we are to guard Per Bushel. s. d. s. d. a. d. rot. a. d. s, d. IL ci. -6
Shrewsbury ....-.. 9 3 98, 6 6 7 9 SIS 6 0 0 „...." 1
are nearly all Germans, for the day-labourers in pointed eut many of the blemishes and absurdities. the same Bill, he was far from agteeinfwith those mince on an amendment which he would propose on it. against the possibility of coalitions between great
His main objection to the propcoition to divide counties families at the different extremities of the same WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.---Aug. 5 „al/
HollaNd are mostly Germans) ; and having taken in our law which Lord Brougham afterwards ex- who thought that a separation of bankruptcy causes
into districts was, that whereas by their disfranchising county. We answer that we are not bound to the best wuasaltsa large supply s,Tspplfrofu%aVrtheeratiothwies morndnlg,fb9t ': -.fie,
the due time and pains to discipline, it, thy have posed, with his peculiar forces end etre, Bence,- in his from the Chancery would yield no material relief.
clauses they put an end to the nomination system in close overcome difficulties which are inherent in the no. scriptionsqwere unsaleable.* %ea(iii, are still her:waynsalen. eir:f°erili;tl
obtained those advantages over the undisciplined justly-celebrated speech. We mentilori this merely Sir L. Shadwell in his evidence before the Chan. per stone, and Shelling 6d. to Is. per load 01040
boroughs, while. by the present clause they would convert lure of thing:, and which, therefore, must be put up
..laotlt',ire 4(1.
bands of Belgium, which regular troops in the field to sheltie that the view which we took of the state of eery Commissioners;'d dthe •of
tecomrtten e . creatioh aßapeseed offering. Wheat harvests now in full ope!3`..
their county districts into divisions as, completely within with. To such coalitions the country is already sub- in this district.
al was,•s obtain „ i over such opponi nts. An this is, those laws which constitute the system of Cieit 3its- nbw Court, which should dispose of and decide 'the
influence of the rich' landholder.-(llear.) Indeed, •
t Ithe ' • , b• a Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Suftblk...-s. 575. to 615. fine 61:
very well, and we feel no die position to detract from tice in this country could net have been very •everything ' bankruptcy. M C k d •
incor- in r, Cooke, e, . tiring so paramount would be this influence if the clause as it jec , Jut country is not eet su ;era to tne more
the patriotism of the Dutch (we believe them to rest when it had the coniirmati 'fon o so splendid and many years a Commissioner of Bankrupts', was of then stood passed into a law. of tha ' teat ro ri.tor of certain and far more crying grievance of the return --- Yorkshire -8. ss. to 58s. tine sv'
Whit,. -s. 545. to 63:5.. fine 69.
be more attached to their country than any other! ho eh an authority. But we did not deal with the opinion that the jurisdiction of bankruptcy might the division, that they must have recourse co the bailor as of a county Member by the fiat of one individual not --- Foreign, Red s 52, to 575. fine
Deople of Europe); bust however brilliant tiseir Coel Justice alone •; we were also of opinion that the be totiteniehtly taken away from the Court of a ProteCtion to the less wealthy freeho:ders of the neigh- requiring a jobbing coalition with any county friend,
Barley, Norfolk and Sudolk s 58.1. to &,3,. fine tOe•
245. to 9.2 g tine 36°'
first attempt in the held of glory, it !Mild have Criminal Justice of England greatly Wanted Reform, Chancery, and a new Couit substituted, Mr Bick- bourhood.-(Elear.). For his own part lie should prefer and setting at defiance the more salutary coalition of _ Lincolnshire 23a. to 3os. fine V>.
been fully 118 becoming, had the contented them- Reform both it: its peintiples- and its practice. In eriteth stated, he thought the jurisdietion over their retaining 25 of the close borough* of schedu!e A, to independent adversaries.-Times. ---- Yorkshire Wold
--- Foreign
-a.B. to -s. tine ""4*
the system of chess county divisions of ,the present clause.
selves with their laurels without setting down all that field of improvement, too, we have laboured. bankruptcy might easily be subtracted from the We have understood that some friends of the Scans, Small 36s to 395. I.lnel
He objected, besides, to intrusting any •set of Commis- . --- 'rick 3ss. to 38s. fine 4
Europe as enervated. God knows, there is but too The fate which Sir Robert Peel's Forger': Bill, 'Court of Chancery. The late Lord Chief Baron Reform Bill-more addicted to pleasure than to Oats, Potato ..li. to ~.,7,. fined ‘,..,.
great a disposition at all times, in Europe-, to fight •; which we were the first to expose, met on the third Alexander could not say whether the public
would sinners, or any Ministry, with the irresponsible selection - Poland -a 225. to 95e. tine.:--
disposed to their ease
of districts anti divisions with which the clause would arm business, and more consult , - Friezland and Small -s. 20s to 245. tine Vn°'
and if the hostilities, so madly recommended by the reading in the House of Commone-the vast buntings be satisfied without going to the Chancellor ; hut 1 1 tett. to 1314 d. per Stond:
them. As an amendment, then, on the clause, he would than to fulfil their trust-are grumbling that during -
Shelling'aling 3-)A. to 365. Od. per Lig
King of Holland, had drown'French, Prussian, and of petitions presented then and since, ' for the he could himselfobjection to it as a measure
praying
. , the present discussions they are deprived of their mart 36s. 425. line 46a per I°,l,
Austrian armies into their territories, the Dutchmen effective amelloretlon of our Criminal Code-prove to establish a tribunal for that purpose without ap- iprezors, propose
tur Kni tts of the SI-Cr • tead f ' ' •
g T . . . i e, In,
~ o two, won- Rapeseed
usual time of relaxation, and see their Saturdays
might have found, to their cost, that they were that public opinion has gone along with us in de- peal, We know that the Bill of the Lord Chan- out .an • '
y district or division arrangement.
enything but enervated. The sarcasm towards the mending the abolition of sanguinary law. But it cellor is founded upon the schemes of the Com. After this plain speaking there comes a reply, or added to the business-days of the week. Such SCOTCH NIARKE'e
close against the Belgians will greatly Provoke them, seems that we have not given in all quarters equel rnissioners themselves. It may be asked eivity theY rather a series of admissions, and of anti•constitu• Members deem their Parliamentary labours a greet „on -
Wheat. Barley Oats. Beans. 0.3.3,/
and King Leopold ought to f. el greatly obliged to satisfaction, Not thinking it sufficient to confine shout(' oppose what may be considered their own. tional observations, which, we grieve to pro- hardship, and would not obey the roll-call were - 40
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The division of counties ought not to be allowed,
and if the people of England be true to themselves,
it will not. This abominable clause would, so far
as 54. Members are concerned, be a stultification of
the entire principle of the Bill. Enormous, and in
some respects politically dangerous, as has been the
growth of individual wealth in this country,one among
the foremost duties of the Legislature is, undoubtedly,
to counteract that accumulating poison, by every
effort to reinforce those means of confederation pse,-
sessed by men of inferior fortune, which form their
natural and only instrument of resistance to the
tyrant leviathan of each separate diatrict throughout
the land. This great good might bid fair to be tic,-
complished by the destruction of petty boroughs, the
extension of elective franchises, the abridged Jura.
tion of poly, and those several contrivances for
frustrating the direct power of money over the repre-
sentative system which the authors of the BJI have
held out to us; but no human malice ever devised
en engine for neutralizing and defeating all such
benefic:al purposes, so complete as this county-
grindingssehetne. Suppose there he 6,000 electors
for a whole county, of which 2,000 are to
be found among the tenantry and dependents
of a certain Nobleman, and this Nobleman a
peon not generally esteemed or confided in
for his public . principles ; he seta up his
nominee for the court y, which, so long as it re-
mains undivided, brings 4000 electors against
.his
2,000, and returns a popular candidate by a majority
of 2,000 suffrages. Split the county, and what
happens ? Wiry, the bulk of his esi ate being left
in the same elects ral dis-rict, he has the whole, or
almost the whole body of his own 2,000 voters to
support hint against the 1,000 electors constituting
the independent interest of that moiety of the
county, and is enabled to ride rough-shod over
public opinion. But this is all fair in the eyes of
the Aristocracy—they desire no better, arid they
avow it. We measured last Saturday the merits of
the county-mongering clause, by repeating the names
of its most strenuous partisans in the House of Com-
mons on the previous Thursday, which happened to
be those of the bitterest opponents of " the Bill,"
and of every proposition of enlarged Reform.
Having tried it by this personal standard, let us now
take another standard, and see by what sort of
arguments it was supported ; for much are ice mis-
taken, if there be not found in the advocacy of the
rotten borough system and the rotten county system
Just the same alliance of principles as of persons.
Mr. 11. Hughes on Thursday evening introduced
his amendment of the pernicious clause in question,
by the following clear, straightforward, and manly
speech, which, we trust, will endear the Hon. Mem-
ber to every friend of true Reform throughout Eng-
land. We reprint the ,speech, because it is short,
though invaluable
Mr. H. Hughes was so strongly opposed to the clause
as it then stood, that he would take the sense of the Com-
mittee on an amendment which he would propose on it.
His main objection to the proposition to divide counties
into districts was, that whereas by their disfranchising
clauses they put an end to the nomination system in close
boroughs, while by the present clause they would convert
their county districts into divisions as completely within
'the influence of the rich landhulder.—(llear.) Indeed,
so paramount would be this Influence, if the clause as it
then stood passed into a law, of the great proprietor of
the division, that they must have recourse to the ballot as
a protection to the less wealthy freeho:ders of the neigh-
bourhood.--(Hear.). Fur his own part he should prefer
their retaining 25 of the close boroughs of schedu!e A, to
the system of doe county divisions of the present clause.
He objected, besides, to intrusting any set of Commis-
sioners, or'any Ministry, with the irresponsible selection
of districts and divisions with which the clause would arm
them. As an amendment, then, on the clause, he would
propose that the counties mentioned 'should, in future,
return four Knights of the Shire, instead of two,' with-
out any district or division arrangement."
After this plain speaking there comes a reply, or
rather a series of admissions, and of aoti•constitu•
tional observations, which, we grieve to say, pro-
ceeded from Lord Althorp. We read there that—
firs-, " the one or two large landholders, in a divi-
sion of a county would have a much greater chance,
indeed certainty of being returned for the divisions
in which their property lay, than they could have of
being returned for the whole county at large ; but
he was sure that that influence could not be so pre-
ponderating as to warrant the apprehension of its
being abused, and that it would be neutralized by
the other division into which the county would be
parcelled. The arrangement, besides, lie was pretty
certain, would preclude those partial compromises
which took place between the large proprietors and
the independent interest irr the larger counties."
Now if there be a moral certainty, as is, indeed,
affirmed by Lord Althorp, that one individual will be
returned,and by weight of property alone, fora division
of a county, in spite of all independent opposition,what
becomes of Lord John Russell's argument in defence
of the general principles of the Bill,—that it woe"'
compel the aristocracy to found their claims to public
confidence on their personal qualifications and vir-
tues, as well as on the influence of mere wealth ?
man a " certainty" of his re-
It
tfiinr property
thenp therewithouterry
gives
i as no i
regardny t oneh
moral
thing a
selection,
pretensions of
it
any
kind, is
mere self-nomination, as in the case of Gattan, and
the country gains nothing by the Bill. But, says
Lord Althorp, " absolute power in one division of a
county would be neutralized by the other division
into which the county will be parcelled." On the
contrary, what happens in one-half of the county
will be apt to take place in the other. The ex-
amples of the autocrat who, rules the eastern or
northern will be imitated brhirn. of the west or
sotith,---7.both autocrats may se of the same political
faction, and both sticklers for. condensed power, for
lofty privilege, for .places and pensions, or any other
article of. Tory creed. How, then, will one divi-
sion neutralize another..? Quite the reverse,—one
must aggravate the, other ; each will be a diminu-
tive German state, scourged by its petty tyrant.
Then the frequent compromises which now take
place between the large proprietors arid the
independent interest will be got rid of. Truly
we doubt it not. The overgrown aristocrat, even
under the present vicious 'allotment of the franchise,
is forced ,to compromise with the independent in-
terest'rbecausesof. the extent of surface and numbers
over, and by . means of which a contest must be
maintained..._ Halve-.the county, deducting from the
sum total of the electors likewise those of them
who will henceforth vote. for towns, and verily we
shall get rid of " compromise ;" but how ? Because
in that case the autocrat will stand above the ne-
ce sity of any compact with the dependent interest.
He need not bargain for any thing, because he need
-acrifice nothing. He will have it ali his own way.
It will be for the broken down " independent
VNerichestol'a's,t,oofcrtahvee
dcsoyn,d-ittoionss, purannd forusuntil
hailiwm the
e,
lay
down our arms. But, secondly, Lord Althorp, to
our amazement, states that the increase of the
in
aristocratic
the i
eyes" is, nfluenocf e
the
frs _anticipatedframers
s ofrfot mthaett this
ei
ilao)souporb.le,.
jeetion -at all ;" and further on, that he considered it
re
an evil "of the present system" that
should be the means of returning Members for
counties, of:entimes strangers, to the exclusion of
gentlemen of retiring habits, holding large property
in the county, and well qualified to represent its
interests. Here, then, we are let behind the curtain
by his Lordship. it is " no objection with the

sant with the systems of other countries; aid whose
work has been for three Beats in the hands of all
legal Reformers. " Now," says the writer alluded
to, " that the present bankrupt and commercial
code is of the most complicated and entangled na-
ture, and in many respects wholly unfit for mercantile
purposes has long beets the subject of loud and just
complaint, and I cannot help thinking that the evil
has been considerably augmented by the administration
of the bankrupt laws by equity Judges. Equity has, by
a succession of decision)! upon the ever-varying
transitetions of men, become a most subtle and ab-
struse science, which is thoroughly understood but
by a very few even of its professors; and the Cams,.
cellors having many motives for malting bankruptcy
the adopted Child of the Great Seal, have not, been
backward in applying equitable rules and principles
to the cases to which it has given rise. The con-
sequence has been, that every great question in
bankruptcy has been drawn within the vortex of one
Court, and the niceties and distinctions of a science
already too relined, have been multiplied until the
perception and comprehension of them require the
deepest thought and mrditatioe; and the speedy and
immediatt deCision of questions connected with
them is become altogether impossible." And yet
the strongest opinions against the present system
are those expressed, by the Commissioners them-
selves. in fact, the separations of the bankrupt busi-
ness frorii that of the Chancery has been advocated,
not merely by Commissioners, but , by several
of the most distinguished lawyers of the country.
Sir Samuel Romilly, in the debate on the
Vice-Chanceri, I.lill, saw ho necessity why the
Judge of bankrupt cases should be the Lord Chan-
cellor. Mr. Wm. Courtenay, then a Commissioner
of -Basskrupr, said, in the, course of the debate on
the same Bill, he was far from agteeinf with those
who thought that a separation of bankruptcy causes
from the Chancery would yield no material relief.
Sir L. Shadwell, in his evidence before the Chan-
cery Commissioners; recommended the. creation of a
htw Court, which should dispose of and decide
everything in bankruptcy. Mr. Cooke, . during
many years a Commissioner of Bankrupts, was of
opinion that the jurisdiction of bankruptcy might
be conveniently taken away from the Court of
Chancery, and a new Court substituted. Mr Bick-
ersteth stated, he thought the jurisdiction ever
bankruptcy might easily be subtracted from the
• Coort of Chancery. The late Lord Chief Baron
Alexander could not say whether the public would
be-satiSfied without going to the Chancellor; but
he could see himself no objection to it as a measure
to establish a tribunal for that purpose without Bp-
pea i We know that the Bill of the Lord Chan-
cellor is founded upon the schemes of the Corn.
missioners themselves. It may be asked •why they
should oppoSe what may be considered their own,
offspring ? We wish we could give an answer at all'
creditable to them. The fact is, that the very men
whose schemes have been acted on, turn round only
whets they have a suspicion that the :fudges may be
selected from other ranks. However, this open sacri-
fice of principle at the shrine of interest may lead to
results they do not dream of. The opinions and
schemes of these gentlemen may, perhaps, in due
time be brought forward, and they will then he com-
pelled before an indignant public to reconcile such
schemes and opinions with their present active can-
vass against the Bill. But the Law Lords have, no
doubt, another object in view. They hate the
Bankruptcy Bill, and they hate the Parliamentary
Reform Bill. The plunderers, whom these two
Bills would disturb, are strong in the House of
Lords; and they believe, that through the Bank-
ruptcy Bill they will smite the Parliamentary Reform
Bill. We warn the public to be on their guard.
The enemies are indefatigable. Nothing will deter
them but the indignation of a• people alive to their
motives. If.the publi: yield to such a base.—such
an unprincipled combination—they have only them-
selves to thank for it. Good God ! only think of
the traders Of this great commercial country being
sacrificed for the base object of keeping up seventy.
four sinecures for the spawn of the Aristocracy. If
this Bill is defeated, we consider all attempts at
Law Reform hopeless,—the abuses will be immut-
able. We shall return to this subject, 'if we find
that our apprehensions are but too well founded.—
Morning Chronicle.. . . • •
A correspondent has gent us a statemenr,,corttaitu.
ing recta, which plead powerfully in favour of the
right.olChelsea to be admitted into a. share of the
new representation. Why it should not have been
received into schedule D,- when Greenwich, with
the neighbouring towns, was admitted into schedule
C, it would be difficult to explain. .• Its exclusion
could not be owinglo the.iliSignificance of its po-
pulation,—to the small number of its respectable
householder',—to the' trifling amount of its direct
contributions to the State—or. -to the sa'isfactory
Share which it possesinnetrirOhe representation of
any other district.- -Its-population -in the standard
year of 1821 amonnted.to
.26,860, and that it has
not beets falling off since is evident from the pre-
sent census, which gives if 32,371. In the former
year, therefore, it exceeded in population any one
of the towns in schedule D, which are by the 13111
entitled t0...0ne representative each. It even
amounted to snore than the total of any two out of
eleven of the towns in this schedule,—we mean
Bradford,. Bury, Cheltenham, Frome, Gateshead,
Halifax, Huddersfield, Kendal, Wakefield, War-
rington, Whitehaven. While its claim is thus
strong in point of population, the next test of
right, namely, its assessed taxes, 'places it even
higher in the scale than the census of its inhabi.
mtg. It pays, in assessed taxes, 23,169/., being a
larger amount than that paid by any one of 212, out
of 217 places now sending Members to Parliament.
Take another mode of estimating the comparative
amount of its direct contributions. It will be re-
membered that schedule B contains boroughs of be-
tween 2,000 and 4,000 inhabitants, which are al-
lowed- still to retain their privilege of sending one
Member to Parliament. ' Well, Chelsea,' which
only' claims the privilege of sending one representa-
tive, payi more assessed taxes alone, than thirty-five
out of the forty-one boroughs in that predicament,
and exceeds in population the united numbers of
thirteen places on the same list, To put the injus-

the praise, in both instances, were actuated by the
same motive--the consciousness that the thing
praised " worked well for themselves." The House
of Commons repeatedly, and year after year, denied
that any Reform was neteasal.y, and negatived pro-
positions that would have pledged the House only to
take into consideration the most moderate plans
for improving the representation ; yet the day has
come when that House is occupied, almost to the
exclusion of all Cider business, in adjusting the de-
talk of a sweeping plan of Reform, as the only
means of reconciling the constitution and practice
of Parliament with the dematids of public opinion.
It is some year! now since we first endeavoured to
prove) through the agency of the Press, the neces-
shy of legal Reform. In the field which both tivil
and criminal justice presented rot: improvement we
have laboured, at !east, with perseverance, and not
altogether unsuccessfully. It cannot fail to be in
the recollection of our readers that we exposed the
expensive and absurd fictions of th's law—the
sham pleas—the red./relent verbiage and technical
harbarisine of Special pleading—and, over and over
again, called the attention of the public and of Par-
liament to those gross and disgraceful defects in out
system of Civil Justice long before tht resent Lord
Chancellor's nuance:at:le 'speech of six hours °lathe
same subjent, and before there was in existence
a Law Commission to investigate and report
upon the state of the law, with a view to ReFortn.
We could now, if it were nateqarY, show,
.by re-
verting to what wt *rote at that time, that we had,
pointed out many of the blemishes and absurdities.,
its our law which Lord Brougham aftencards en
posed, with his peculiar force and 'tlo'qtience,- in his
justly-celebrated speech. We mention this merely
to show that the view which we took of the state of
those laws which constitute the system of Civil Jus-
tice in this country could net have been very incor-
rect when it bad thz confirmation' of so splendid and
legh en authority. But we did not deal with the
Gv.l Justice alone ; we were also of opinion that the
Criminal Justice of England greatly Wanted Reform,
Reform both in itr principles and its practice. In
that field of improvement, too, we have laboured.
The fate which Sir Robert Peel's Forgery Bill,
which we were the first to expose, met on the third
reading in the House of Commons—the vast hutnbets
of petitions presented then and since, praying for the
efftctive amelioration of our Criminal Code—prove
that public opinion has gone along with us in de-
manding the abolition of sanguinary law. But it'
seems that we have not giVitti in all quarters equal
satisfaction, Not thinking it sufficient to confine'
ourselves to the discussion of abstract principlesi
we have taken particular instances, and illustrated
the practice by individual eases. While labouring
to improve a principle we did not think it un-
worthy of the Press to try to Silt:Ye a life. We have
contributed to the saving of some; and if we had
been more successful, although an inhurnan system
would have been disappointed of some additional
victims, justice would not have been defrauded. It it
impossible to treat of patticular instances of the objec-
tionable execution of the law without sometimes
touching on the conduct of the individuals to whom its
conduct is intrusted. We have had occasion in
this way to advert to Lord Melbourne, and have
thereby displeased the Courier, which has un-
dertaken to become the " schoolmaster" of •the
Press, and as if to verify Lord Brougham's
adage, gives lectures de omnibus rebus et quibus-
dant aliis t the " burden" of all which is that every
matt that once becomes invested with Ministerial
power, becomes from that moment infallible and
immaculate. It is a prudent, but not an English
motto, that " power can do no wrong." The
Courier says that we return to the subject of ca-
pital punishments " too often and too fastidiously."
There is a story, we believe, in " Joe Miller,"
touching a Clergyman, who, on being accused by
some of his parishioners of having " toe often
preached the same sermon," told the, remonstrants
he should not. have occasion to do so any longer
when they " ceased to practice the same aims."--So
we assure our cotemporatv, that if our observations
on the Criminal Law, and the way ,it.is sometimes
carried into effect,,give pain to him and his patrons
at the Home Office, we shall desist from them alto-
gether when men shall cease to be hanged for crimes
that do not deserve death, or for crimes of which
there are strong grounds to believe them innocent.
Lord Melbourne himself did nor, we are sure, ac-
cuse us of fastidious humanity in endeavouring to
save the lives of the French Ex-Ministers—but
what were the crimes of any of those whom.he has
executed compared with theirs ?Hilforning Herald.
The sympathy with unprincipled men, provided
their faults are those of gentlemen, which is displayed
by even distinguished Meunbrrs of the Legislature,
reflects no great honour on Parliament. Every one
knows that nothing is more common with the higher
ranks of this country than their leaving their cre-
ditors at home unsatisfied, while they. Jive in luxury
on the continent, on property possessed by them in
this country. Lord Wynford has been endeavouring
to correct this evil, and another—that of.persons
possessed of property remaining in prison and setting
their creditors at defiance; and the opposition he re-
ceives is quite edifying. " It was a great hardship,"
said Lord Plunkett, " on persons not in trade who
went abroad, not to avoid their creditors, but for
their amusement, or for some other motive. (Lord
Wynford—They might remain at home till they
paid their debts.) It might be proper that they
should so remain at home; and if the Noble and
Learned Lord could find some proper means to keep
thetas:at home, he should be glad of it ; but this
measure was too harsh. The effect of the Bill would
he, that a private gentleman going abroad without pay-
ingr
had h
actual
se t du,eiarl sfltots
forts
omoGtfii
ocgtdah;itesobfgetaltii
he pdedrereoacaell
eableseasdnreis
inkse.grnuat pl
yN.at
g,
o,a,‘ vi
with
hseot t
uhhhgeiehn
rich
he
rf
spendthrifts tohr
the poor creditors whom they defraud by their eh-
,ence, and often involve in ruin I Lord Wynford
does not propose to attach their property till after a

of which the prototype may not be found in those ot
Goulburn, Wetherell, and Sugden, on behalf of rot-
ten boroughs. Another absurdity in the construc-
tion of the Bill was adopted on Saturday. It will
he seen that some of the counties are to return three
Members to Parliament, and that such counties are
interior in size and population to those to which
four Members have be-ti allotted. But the treble-
membered county is not to be divided, as the
quadruple-membered will be. It therefore folloZvs
that the electors inhabiting small counties will have
the choice of three representatives each; while those
of Yorkshire, Lancashire, Devonshire, &c. must
content themselves with two. There never, surely,
was so much clumsy blundering fuss, undertaken
for an end at once so mischievous and so foolish.
A correspondent, who is unfortunately, or says he
is, a " Senator," asks us how we are to guard
against the possibility of coalitions between great
families at the different extremities of the same
county. We answer that we are not bound to
overcome difficulties which are inherent in the na-
ture of things, and which, therefore, must be put up
with. To such coalitions the country is already sub-
ject, but the country is not yet subject to the more
certain and far more crying grievance of the return
of a county Member by the fiat of one individual not
requiring a jobbing coalition with any county friend,
and setting at defiance the more salutary coalition of
independent adversaries.—Tintes.
We have understood that some friends of the
Reform Bill—more addicted to pleasure than to
business, and more disposed to consult their ease
than to fulfil their trust—are grumbling that during
the present discussions they are deprived of their
usual time of relaxation, and see their Saturdays
added to the business-days of the week. Such
Members deem their Parliamentary labours a great
hardship, and would not obey the roll-call were
they not sure that by avoiding muster, or by being
absent from a division, they would be considered as
deserters, and drummed with disgrace from the
House at the next election. We are sorry that we
can neither sympathize with the distress of these
would-be truants, nor justify any attempt to remove
their alleged grievances. With all the hours and all
the days devoted to the discussion, the Bill has
hitherto made but small progress. The disputatious
dispositions of its opponents have kept pace with the
new arrangements for accelerating its march ; and
wt re not the rule strictly adhered to, of continuing
the discussion an additional portion of hours every
week, the House might not arrive at its last clause
till the last day of the year. In the mean time the
usual business of the country is at a stand, or attracts
less attention that it ought—the minds of the people
are either irritated with impatience, or agitated with
suspicion—the criminal hopes of corruption are re-
vived, and plots are hatched to adjourn the com-
pletion of the measure, that its enemies may take
the benefit of the chapter of accidents, or its friends
be led to relax their vigilance from a feeling of their
harassing fatigues. The Members who complain of
hard duty should have considered their task before
they accepted their trust. Unworthy of the fa-
vour conferred upon them by their constituents,
they ought instantly to resign, if they grudge ad-
ditional labour, or an extended period of a.-
tendance in fulfilling their high mission. The people,
who are in earnest in the good cause, whatever
their representatives may be, would forgive their re-
tirement, but cannot tolerate their neglect. Yet,
after all, what is this mighty amount of toil, or this
alarming sacrifice of timi, which is required of the
pledged supporters of Reform ? Is it more than
most men would devote to their private affairs, or
spend in the advancement of their private fortunes?
Are no other persons in the world obliged to attend
their duties on a Saturday, but Members of the
House of Commons in the unfortunate predicament
of discussing the national rights ? To hear some of
them talk, one would be led to think that they con-
sidered Saturday a day as sacred to rest as Sunday,
and that Reform had broken in, not only on a pre-
scriptive right, but a religious privilege. With this
idea they look upon Lord Althorp as ordering
a sort of sacrilege, in requiring their attendance
for some hours before they disperse to their din-
tier-parties on Saturday afternoon. The Jews,
we are told by Josephus, sometimes refused to
defend _themselves, if attacked on the Sabbath, and
from a regard to the fourth commandment, allowed
their forces to fall an easy prey to their enemies.
Are our jobbing politicians prepared to imitate this
Jewish example in the present national struggle,
and, in order not to break their religious repose, are
they resolved to abandon the cause of Reform to the
fiends of corruption ? Let us hear no more com-
plaints from Hon. Members of the hardships of their
extra work ; or let us apprise them that their con-
stituents will give them plenty of leisure when they
make the next application for their suffrages. But
we have heard of representatives of the people, even
more to blame than these Saturday grumblers.
Friday was the 12th of August, and we know
of more than one honourable Reformer already on
he moors, pursuing other game than the game of
their constituents, and pairing off for other objects
than those of the 1311. These grouse-killers will,
we trust,. be remembered in the day of reckoning.—

DURING LAST WEEK.
Wheat. Barley. i Oats. WOO*,
Per Quarter. ,It
Ashburn --- 72 Br 2 144 47 25 34 40
B:tsingstoke 60 76 i3O 40 124 32 40
1.1:d h 48 70 30 40 28 32 40 ;;
Bridgewater --. 58 72 26 3) 22 26 28 4g
56 64 "38 40 22 28 35 or
Chesterfield 64 70 --26 112 41i 4.)%
Derby 63 29 32 43 Ag
Devizes --. 166 70 28 33 33 40 it
Doncaster ... 60 76 28 36 20 33 9 43
D0rche5ter........... 53 7'i at 40 112 `X 4O
Exater O2 70 37 42 41
Gloucester---... 40 64 23 40 22 30 40 46
n ger fo rd ......... 52 71 24 32 38
Leicester . 75 44 29 46
Newbury
Romsey .....--..... 60 66 131 38 26 31
Shaftesbury .... 65 I 35 -- 41
Sheldon Mallet ... 60 till 134 40 23 32 4,./ 46
Sherliorne .. 60 63 32 40 .22 28 38
Taunton 72 31 20 38 4(1
Yeovil ...» 64 fib 38 40 28 31 38 i.fl
Per Bushel. s. d. a. d. 18. d. 8. d. a. d. 6. d.l a. d.
Shrewsbury 9 3 9 8( 6 6 791 5 8 681 0
WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.—Aug. S. „,,e0
There was not a large supply of Wheat this morning, bt.lt

Aberdeen ........ 52 02 'kl 23 27 — •
Berwick....... 40 44 25 21 23 30 32
Coldstream 43 46 '24 19 22 34) 31
r u pa r —.......... 4') 70 29 28 29 38 40
Dundee --.—• 48 60 92 - 2 B 2B 3') 34
Elgin --.. 50 58 30 33 24) 26 19 21
Inverness--. 1 44) 5'2 3'2 31 9.2 '26 34 35
Kelso .--. ' 42 49 26 27 20 23 29 32
Kirkaltly—.. 1 42 49 27 31) 2.5 32 45 48
Perth —. 40 58 21 27 23 23 :1,2 24
The size of the measure varies throughout the i,.........,
EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET. —Aug. 9. rye
We had a :arge supply of Oatmeal at this day's roa oP
. hich met with a -mall demand at a reduction of 6d. on tile.g?
for the best, and 2s. on the second. Retail at last week's P 1
Per Sack of 2801 b. Imp. Per Stone 01 141 b. 1,0„43%;
First Oatmeal £2 3 6 First Oatmeal ..... ..... x"
Second ditto 2 0 0 Second ditto
‘, , V
Barleyineal 1 14 0 Barlcvmeal ' 1
Peasenseal
I'easemeal
P.
Pot Barley—No. I, per cwt. 145.-2 d. 165.-3t1.9.0.—P05il

We are glad to observe that Mr. Hume has
given notice of submitting to the House of. Cores
mons to-morrow night a propo-ition for an Ad-
dress to the King, praying that his Majesty will
be graciously pleased not to fill up the present
vacant See of Derry until a mere suitable ar-
rangement shall have been made by law for
the better application of the revenues of the
said See. This is a most important subject, for,
though the motion relates but to the revenues of a
single Bishopric, it involves the principle of a
Reform in the Church. It may, and probably
will, be said that this is too important a question
to be agitated at this crisis, when the atten-
tion of the House of Commons is engrossed
by the gill more momentoes question of Par-
liamentary Reform; but te little calm consideration
of the subject will, we should think, convince all
persons, whose minds are accessible to reason, that,
if Church Reform is to take place at 1111,4 cannot be
better commenced than in the instance which Mr.
Hume has chosen, for one of the most prominent
examples of redundant wealth connected with rpiii-
tual preferment which the present system presents
is the Bishopric of Derry. les revenues are stated
to be 16,0001. per annum, but they are, probably, not
under 20,000/. In this, we believe, we speak within
limits, for we have often heard them estimated at
considerably more than the lastenationed sum ; but,
allowing them not to exceed 16,0001., it is surely
too much that the State should confer on owe
Bishop emoluments equal to the salaries of three
Judges of the Court of King's Bench, The ques-
tion of Church Reform—we confine ourselves to
Refoint of the temporalities of the Church—cannot,
like Parliamentary Reform, be made the subject of
vae general measure, which shall be capable of exe-
cution as sown as it becomes a law ; and for
this reason—Reform of the temporalities of the
Church has to deal with property which is le-
gally, and, in . our opinion, inalienably vested in
those already in possession. That property cannot
be disturbed or divested out of them without griev-
ous injustice being committed—and no Act of
Parliament can sanction depredation upon private
rights. Now, in regard to property, no obstacle
presents itself to Parliamentary Reform—for the
property which borough proprietors arrogate for
themselves 'in the, elective franchise is no pro-
perty at all. It is not supported by law—it
has been acquired in defiance of law--no action
will lie to protect it;--nay, the very proofs,Of the
cxerc'se of such " rights of property" could only be
proofs of acts that would subject the "proprietor"
tigatron of the law. There is no-
thinto Oectrelc PS- , .
- lertfvfo ent an Act, which` is passed
g,.074a c feerre, the "'on of proprietary boroughs,
tp cow& into actual 7... .tio,n'
‘to-morrow. Not so
fez-#..0, Church Ite* Supposing a lawwenroe
IrclAsaedio•dayl(ol-ott! that, fpr the future,
shOUld'i have more than 6,00 W
0)4447' ferenue,, and no Bishopric more than
titree thousand_ pounds, it mold only come into

EDINBURGH CORN MARKET—Aug. 111 61
We had a middling supply of all kinds of Grain to-dlt
sales are still dull. Wheat the same top, and '2s. down 074
average. Only one parcel of Barley returned, at 31910,
down Is. 4d. on the top, and the same average. Pease an.

the same as last day.
Wheat. Barley. Oats.
First ti4s Od 32s Od 3Os Od
Second s4s Od —s 0.1 2tis
Chird

Pease. ;
sell
40s Od 41)
3.4 Od ,39pd
S6s 0:1

,VISIONS, &C. V
'' 9
Fresh Butter,lb.oi,ft to l. 0
0
Salt Ditto,—.... 0 S 0
Ditto, per cat. 74 0 0"0
Eggs, per doe. 0 8 s 6
OatStraw(kp..) 7 0 16
Wheat Ditto.. ti 6 0 i
Barley Ditto .... 6 0 I
Hay, per 81....1 0
M A RKET.—Aug. 10. VI
till, and prices are rather j,

PRICES Or PRO
Beef, per lb. Os. 3d. to Os. 7d.
Button 0 4 0 7
Vea1..........0 4 0 8
l'ork----- 0 4 0 6
Lamb, per qr. 1 0 3 6
['allow, cwt.... 33 0 37 6
Quartern Loaf (1 8 0 0
Potatoes. 1711 b. 0 6 0 0
GLASGOW CORN
Our Giant market has been (II
than last week.
Wheat, per 2401 b. s. d. S. d.
British, old :10 0 to 32 0
----- new
Canada, free 2B 0 29 0
Irish
Barley, per 3261 b.
English — 0 0
ieottish 26 0 0
Irish

V
Oats, per 04lb. fid.
to',.i,
Irish
British
.1.- Yr
Beans, per o.„), o 01,
English .......
,Scottish
Pease, Scottish
FOittunri,eaple,
rpaoer 14b0.1.b 4l; 0
i
CORNWALL. MARKETS. le'V;
.di,
Taueo—Wheat (average) 245. Od.—Barley, 12.5.--,,ri „../
Sr. ACsTELL—Wheat, —s. to 24s.—Barley, —s. to I.P,
0:. to 10s. 0,1. 001/
Bon xtlN.-..Wheat (average) 211. o,l—Barley, I Is. 6 ,1.1,,
Lit, pamwrox—Wheat (average) 275. Od.—Barley, Is. '
10, 6d.—Beef, s.l.—Mutton, ,l.
~01,
fIELSTON--Wheat, M.—Barley, 12.5. Od. 10." 0,
PENzaxec—Wheat, 255. to 27s.—Barley, —O. to ,d, t,o i
N. to Os. o:l.—lleef and Mutton, 4sl. to .51.—Pork, 31 i
Butter, 11d. per Its. ~d• 414°'
IAsKEARik--,Wheat, —s. Oil. to :Ira—Barley, its. -- ' .or
to 9s. Od. .../
ST. Cott'Mß—Wheat, ?4s. to 233.—Barley, Ifs. to
and Mutton, 4d. to :kl.—Veal,4%d.—Lamb. sd.
........."'7,
.L. 7-.-. __--
-
Blus RTHS. f NCI,,-
„,1
On the 12th inst. in Great Rsell-street, the lady 0- •
Esq., of a son. r
.1.
On the 12th inst. in Russell-square, the lad), of ?(
Esq., of a son. C s'lld'
On the lUth inst. at Ramsgate, the Countess of 3 JP
daughter. lk Cl
On the llth inst. Mrs. P. Johnston, Cheyne-Walk'
, oe,
a daughter.
MARRIED. I‘o4l
On the 13th inst. at St. Paul's, Covent-garden," 0,
Robins, of the Piazza, to Miss Marian Losack, of ' f,.0
Bedford-square.
On the 11th inst. at St. George's Hanover-8(10:f; !4:1,/,
Clifford, youngest son of C. Clifford, Lg., of Chcl.e..3ilice,co
second daughter
lo3fiatchkeirßaerrs'... 1a1,.,d1 I.Si
ihneipstheerrdo,f oifor.l,..Dol)c"
Chelsea. liart*' JO'
On the 11th in.t. at St. George's, Hanover-01 oat
~
Davies, of Myrt:e-hill, Carznarthensiire, to •ftle'' I
Place-y-park, in the same county. • ..,..c O'
On the Ilth inst. at Little.Stukeley, Hunts, ti's,,i3O,
Alford, M. A. Rector of Ampton, Suffolk, to
daughter of the late J. Barber, Esq. .l'
DIED. at ° oh
On the Ilth inst. Naomi Dorothea Stow, the v.yll
Esq., of Croons-hill, Greenwich, and of St. F'1..1.11. ~,I,
don, and third daughter of the late J. Ilurdis, )A'"stra,", I
On' the 11th inst. suddenly, Mr. S. Leigh, of Agard ',O
On the 9th of June, at Ballechin, l'rince oy 0,
North America, Mr. James Hope Stewart, f9"la
in Perth. .....
On the 11th inst, In Montagsvoquare, Chatle',
C. Cox, Esq.

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