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London, England, 1831-12-17 00:00:00

REFORM BILL.

On the motion of Lord JOHN RUSSELL the order of day
for resuming the adjourned debate on the second reading of the
Reform Bill, was then read, and
Sir ROBERT INGLIS rose, and after passing a high com-
pliment on the speech of Mr. Croker, observed that he was not
at all inclined to follow the precepts of the Noble Lord oppo-
site or his supporters. He had observed that by the present Bill
the same men would be returned as at present. That proposi-
tion he begged to deny, for he had no hesitation in saying the
Home, under the present Bill, would become the depository of
democrats, and would alone be governed by the will of the people.
By the operation of that measure, eight hundred millions of pro-
perty will either be wholly expunged, or greatly reduced, by
those who, it had been admitted, would not be the real repre-
sentatives of the people. He, however, did not look so much to
property as to higher interests—looking also to that great dete-
rioration of property. A Noble Lord last night had twice stated
is his speech, that every body now admitted the necessity for
some Reform in Parliament. Now even if he were to ad-
mit—which he could not—that a Refonn was inevitable,
he would never admit that it was needful.—(Hear, hear, from
the Opposition.) No measure like that proposed by the Noble
Lord (Russell) was called for by the people, and the attempt to
introduce it had been productive of derangement to the interests
of the country, and would eventually tend to their destruction.—
(Cheers from the Opposition.) The Bill, although altered in
some of its details, appeared to him in all its substan-
tial properties the same as the former Bill. Its great
principles were disfranchisement and enfranchisement,
without the slightest evidence of a necessity for it, such was the
Bill " at the beginning,.is now," and he feared there was no hope
of its amendment.---(Laughter.) If it should eventually pass
that House, he hoped that those to whom a reference had
so often been made—he hope i the House of Peers,
in the same spirit with which they rejected the formerßill, would
reject the present one.—(Cheers from the Opposition.) From the
first he had protested against the principles of the Bill—principles
which now for the first time in the history of the country
had been introduced into that House. He protested against con.
fiseation without remuneration, without trial, and without any
thing to justify it. From the first to the last he had not
heard any Member of the Government give any states.
man-like view, first, of the necessity of the proposed
measure, and secondly, of the effects which would follow it.—
(Cheers from the Opposition.) If any Hon. Gentleman could get
up and say that he was wrong, he would be glad to have his re-
collection refreshed, but during a discussion of now nearly nine
months, he had not heard on the part of Government any
general view of the evils of the existing system, and of the
benefits to result from the alteration. The Noble Lord oppo-
site, on its first introduction, stated that his object was restora-
tion ; on the second introduction he had discovered for the
first time that the Constitution was seriously decayed ; and now,
on the third occasion, the Noble Lord stated that it would re-
store to the people their just rights. He (Sit 11. Inglis) denied
that originally the people had the right to return Members, and if
the House now gave the people what they had not got before,
could it be said that they were restoring the people their just
rights? The Honourable Baronet, the senior Member for
Westminster—(1 laugh)—had slated that the people had
the same right to be represented as the Peers had to
their House. The Honourable Baronet might, perhaps,
go a little further and say the people had a right to a division of
property.—(Laughter.) If the argument of that Hon. Baronet
had any weight, why should the'peison who paid W. a year rent be
deprived of the privilege ehjOyed by him who paid WI. Reference
had been made to Lord Somers, but that great man, who, so far
from being an innovator, rested hit great fame en his zeal in
maintaining the principles of the Constitution—(Hear)—Lord
Somers—whose successors the old Tories were—valued with
his heart's blood those principles which were now sought to be
destroyed.—(Hear,•hear, hear.) It had been said that for the
last seventy years the 'people had seen so much of bribery
at elections, that they had lost all confidence in the pre-
sent system. Now, he asked, would it be contended that
the present Bill would prove an adequate remedy for such an evil I,
Let the House imagine what would he the expense of the
number of polling-boothsand poll-clerks employed at various parts
of the county at a single election. He bad higher objects in view
than the mere expence of an election. While the these made,
by common consent, the production of a qualification a mere
form, it was by no means, undesirable that the future
Members tvho would be brought into the House by the
proposed measure should give some test that they were possessed
sof some stake in the country, before they were allowed to legi.
slate on the fortunes of others. He never contended that
that House was, or ought to be, the strict representation
of the people. If there be no such right as the right of actual
representation, the question whether this or that ewninu'
nity be represented by having a King's writ sent to•
them, was not necessary to be much discussed. The
whole question, was whether the present system be
or be not practically beneficial. Until those who brought
forward the measure stated the practical effects of it, he
should think they had not discharged their duty to their
King or country. He contended that the Constitution, as it
was at present, had produced more blessings to the people
than any other was likely to produce, and he would prove that
the Constitution, as it existed now, was in the main the same,
but practically changed from what it was formerly.—(Hear,
hear. Could any man possessed of common sense fail to see,
)
that by the change in the value of money, that which
perhaps in the first instance gave the elective franchise, was im-
measurably smaller than now ? The constituency had in-
&eased fifty-fold. There was that principle of elasticity
in the Constitution which applied itself to all the changes
of the trines.—(Hear.) It applied itself not only to the
constituency, but to the representation. LoOk at various parts
of the country during the late elections. It was said last night
by an Honourable Baronet (a Member for Hertfordshire)
that the new representatives of the county of Worcester
were unconnected by birth or property with that county ; and he

argued from that, that Worcestershire was decidedly favour.
able to Reform. He (Sir Robert Inglis) could, however,
make another use of that circumstance, namely:---that it was
a most convincing proof of the power of the people to choose
a representative from any part of the country—a power which
was not in existence two centuries ago. The Honourable
Baronet also adverted to the last elections for the county
of York, as proofs of that argument He thought it was clear
therefore that there was now a larger diffusion of the popular will
than formerly. The Noble Lord opposite did not affirm that the
Reform Bill would send representatives to that House, who
would have any interest in upholding the institutions of
the country, but it had been repeatedly stated that the
people were dissatisfied. He wished the Hon. Member opposite
to state in svhat shape it appeared the people were dissatis-
fied. Would is be said, look at the result of the last
general election ? Did the House feel sure that the people
now held the same opinions, and looked with the same eager.
ness to the Bill as they did six months ago. Although he
would not say that there was actually what was technically
called a re-action, he was fully convinced that there was a
very considerable subsidence of public opinion respecting the
measure. Was it to be contended that the petitions of
the people prove their anxiety to have this Bill and no
other ? He would ask if there had not been other occasions
on which the people expressed as strong a will, and yet that
will was not granted ? That House were to consider that the
people had only a life interestlin the Constitution of which theythe
representatives were the trustees, and they were not to suffer an
injury to the Constitution, but to see that it was transmittedto pos-
terity uninterrupted. lild the intelligence ofthe country demand
this alteration ? He denied it. Did the Noble Lord mean
to state that the Universities demanded it ? On the
contrary, they were strongly opposed to it. There was
another topic, although of minor importance, and that was,
that both by principle and precedent the Noble Lord was
bolind in sweeping away existing fights togive compensation. The
Hon. Baronet then entered into the question, and contended
that it ought to be granted in a similar manner to that adopted
at time Union of Ireland with England, in which case no less
than one million two hundred thousand pounds were granted
by way of compensation, He then proceeded to state, that until
the Noble Lord had shewn that there was not perfect freedom and
security under the existing system, he had no right to
derange it, and he contended, as had been stated by the Hon.
Member for Preston, and as had been proved at various meetings
in the North, that the present Bill would not satisfy
the wishes of the people. He doubted whether the grant-
ing or the refusing the measure would prevent agitation—
in refusing it the House would prevent the necessity of
making farther concessions—but in granting it they would
then give the means of enforcing further concessions.
In granting it all the great interests of the country would be
attacked—the state of the Church—funded property—the law of
primogeniture, and last of all the House of Peers, which
as a corporate body was already destroyed, to all intents
and purposes, in the judgment of many persons. He
admitted that there was danger in refusing Reform, but he
was convinced there was greater danger in concession. Under
the existing system—the people have' received greater blessings
than ever fell to the lot of any country in the world—such
comforts, such wealth, such freedom, and universality of em-
ployment (although he admitted the prevalence or want of em-
ployment) were never before combined in any country.
It was very rarely they could find in the history of any
country such evidences of civilization as prevailed in Eng-
land under this degraded, this despised aystem.—(Hear, hear.)
There was no shore that was not tributary to our comforts,—no
sea but had witnessed our victories,—no sword had been drawn
but had been drawn to conquer, and sheathed but to spare,—
but if this Bill passed, it would be attended with great danger
to the highest institutions of the country, and to the perpetual
derangement of all our social comforts.—(Cheers.)
Mr. S. WORTLEY was anxious to address the House at this
period, not so much from a desire to enter largely into the
merits of the question, but from an anxious wish to state
his reason for voting upon the second reading of time Bill.
From the first introduction of the measure he had given
it his most decided opposition in every one; of its
stages, and be did so without hesitation, because he
believed it was totally unnecessary, and that it was pregnant in
all respects with great danger.—((Loud cheers from the Opposi-
tion.) He was also desirous that the people should have
aim ample opportunity of re-considering its probable effects.
He had hoped that he should have been able to give his Majesty's
Government more support than he did last session, but he had
been bitterly disappointed. Ile had looked carefully at the Bill
with a desire, if possible, to find something to change his opinion,
hut he could not do it. He admitted that there were many
points in the new Bill that might be considered as improve.
ments. He was prepared to say that the test of population in the
present Bill, though not quite unobjectionable, was, without
doubt, an infinitely better and juster criterion than that adopted
in the previous Bill. He was ready also: to admit, that it was
better to take the arbitrary number of the boroughs contained
in the schedule of the former Bill, than that they should
say that there should be such a. given amount of population.
In the next schedule there was considerable improvement, as
there was a restoration of the ancient Constitution, from the
Bill of last year. There was still a representation by two Mem-
bers continued to certain places. But what was more important
was the abandonment of that principle which formed an essential
part of the former Bill, which gaverepresentation according to the
size of several places. There was also another important alte-
ration in time abandonment of Commissioners. That every one
should be able to decide for himself was an improvement. Then
came the enfranchising part, schedule C. He there found there
were a number of those places, which by the former Bill
had had single representation allotted to them, were taken
from thence and put among those which were entitled
to a double representation. But the Hon. Member had great doubt
whether the advantage, or otherwise, of this part of the Bill pre-
ponderated, the representation of the commercial interest being
considerably increased, and that of the agricultural, lessened. The
intention of Government, however, to confer on those places a
corporate Constitution was certainly a great improvement. There
was another point to be noticed, which was the concessipn made
in favour of ancient institutions, and in his opinion the man who
looked with coniempt on them, very much mistook their real
value. He (Mr. S. Wortley) considered that the course taken
by Ministers last Session, of decrying all the country's institu-
tions, was an evil, the effects of which would be long felt.
Another improvement was, the obtainir g at once, without
any question, a proper returning officer. He would! not trouble
the House by detailing all the parts of the Bill, but he would
mention two other points, first the preserving to the free-
men, by inheritance and servitude, those rights proposed by the
former Bill to be taken from them ; and secondly, the advantage
a faith would be derived by the retention of those rights. By that
retention they were not bound to fix any number for the con-
stituency of the smaller boroughs, and it would preclude
the necessity of including within the limits of that argument a
great number of the smaller districts. He (the Honourable
Member), however, notwithstanding these improvements,
could not get over his objections to the great principle
of the measure, and he, therefore, would not take on
himself the responsibility of voting for the second reading. He
could not consider the changes made essentially altered the Bill
from the one introduced before. At the same time he must be
allowed to say that he was not one disposed to pursue a course
inconsistent with that desire of bringing this question to some
sort of arrangement, so greatly desired by all. He had no hesi.
tation in saying that their Lordships had fully justified
themselves in rejecting the last Bill—(Loud cheering).—
and he never recollected a political step that he had
taken with which he was more satisfied than his vote on that
Bill. He thought it the duty of all to ascertain whether there
were not some means by which the agitation of the country
could be avoided. He had heard expressions which had
given him a hope that there might be a disposition on the part of
Ministers to consider whether greater improvements might not
be effected in the present Bill in the Committee,
(LEFT SITTING.)

We will give the remainder of the Debate in a Second Edition.)

DUTCH AND GERMAN PAPERS.

THE HAGUE.
SECOND CHAMBER OF THE STATES-GENERAL.
BITTING OF DEC. 10.
A Royal message was received, with a project of law for re-
newing for one year the law of 3d Nov. 1930, for checking and
punishing seditious and ill.disposed persons; and that of Dec. 1,
1831, for trying such criminals. Numerous petitions were pre-
sented chiefly relative to the proposed financial measures.
THE HAGUE, DEC. I3.—His Royal Highness the Prince of
Orange arrived at Bois-le-Duc on Saturday morning; on Sunday
he went to Nimeguen to take leave of their Royal Highnesses
Prince and Princess Albert of Prussia. Prince Frederick set out
for Bois-le-Disc yesterday:evening.
Yesterday his Excellency, the Minister for Foreign Affairs made
a new communication in the name of the King to the States-Ge-
neral, respecting the political affairs of the kingdom. Nothing is
positively known of the contents of this communication. Report
says "That his Majesty has, within these few days come to a deci-
sion on the twenty.four articles, and the protocols of the London
conference relative to them, and that he has resolved to reject
these articles as they are proposed. It is said that in the answer
every thing is examined, and the reasons explained why the King
can or cannot accept it. The King's report is said to have been
sent to the respective Courts, and the substance of it to be that
the King, however well-disposed to accede to every equitable
proposal which may lead to a final arrangement, considers the
articles in question as incompatible with the interest of the na-
tion and with his dignity, and consequently as inadmissible. The
objections are reported to be three. 1. Against that point rela.
tire to Luxemburg, respecting which his Majesty, as Grand
Duke, can decide nothing without the concurrenceof the German
Confederation. 2. Against that part which relates to the debt,
his Majesty being ready to abide by the preceding arrangements.
3. Against the permission given to the Belgians to navigate our
canals and rivers. Our Ambassador at London is authorised to
negotiate with the conference for a new treaty of peace, or for
modifications of the 24 articles, conf ,rmable to these objections.
Our Government expects the answers from London and the other
Courts."
It is said that the Minister communicated also a note from tbe
German Diet, in which the King is requested to acquaint the
Diet, by the 15th of December, of his resolution respecting the
acceptance or the rejection of the 24 articles. The Minister, it
is added, gave also the answer to this note of the Diet.
is understood that the Chambers resolved that the docu-
meta communicated shall not yet be printed.
AMSTERDAU, DEC. 13.
Actual Debt, 2% per cent 39N to 40%
Amort Syndic, 4% percent 64 4 to 64%
Ditto, ditto 3% per cent.
Voluntary Loan, 6 per cent 86.74 to 874
B ERLI N.—CHOLERA
New cases. Recoveries. Deaths.
Dec. 8
9
Remain seven patients.
Total number of cases from the commencement, 2,228; deaths,
1,405 ; recoveries, 816. •
At Konigsberg, on the Ist and 2d of December, there were
only three new cases (all on the Ist) eighteen recoveries, and
four deaths. There remained 22 patients. Total at Konigsberg
since the. commencement—cases, 2,191 ; deaths, 1,314; recove-
ries. 855.

BERLIN DEC. ).
St. Schuld Sch. 4 percent. ................ ........... . r 4
Prussian En,glih Loan, 1818, 5 percent... 100%
Ditto Ditto 1822, 5 per cent. lOO%
..__

Ditto Ditto 1830, 4 per cent . B9
VIENNA, Dec. I.—Private letters from Moldavia say that
the Porte has refused its assent to the Constitution drawn up
under the influence of the Russian Government for Moldavia
and Wallachia.
HAMBURG—CHOLERA.

New cases. Recoveries. Deaths.
Dec. 7,8, and 9
Remain
Total from the commencement, 844.—Deaths, 472.—Reco.
veries' 371.
INIHAMBURG, DEC. 9.—BoasEN HALLE, HALF-PAST Two.—
The supply of Wheat in the market has been somewhat larger
than for some weeks previously; prices nearly the same; tine
parcels, however, brought better prices.
Wheat; Aniudt, white ll5 Wei
to ght. Rix-dollars.
122. 125 to 134
r
to
-- Silesian and Bohemian 120 to 125 125
to 134
_,.. Meeklenintreh
118 to 124 lIS to 140
Holstein, red 118 to 125 115 to 136
_.--. Lower Elbe 116 to 123 115 to 136
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
HAMBURG, Dec. 9.-13.8 ; two months. 13.634.
BERLIN. DEC. 6.—Three months. 6.263,fi.
AMSTERDAM, Dec. 13.-11.90.—Tw0 Months, 11. 82 5.10. .

THE AUTHOR of TuFMAINE.—We are
r:-quehted to state that the Court Journol of Saturday
will contain, in addition to an unusual variety of original
pipers on topics connected with high life, a most interest-
ing description of Gilston Park, the beautiful seat of the
distinguished author of " Tremaine."

EVC

LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 17, 1831.

CHOLERA NIORBUS, OFFICIAL REPORT.

COUNCIL OFFICE.—(TEAS DAY.)
DAILY REPORT of CHOLERA CASES,
SUNDERLAND, DEC. la, 1551.
Remained at last report IR
New cases 8

Total
Dial
It motercd 5

Remaining at this date, 8 o'clock, A M l9
From the Commencement of the Disease, on Oct. I]6, 1631.
Cases, 464.—Died, 159.
NEWCASTLE, DEC. 15.
_ . . •

Remained at last report
New Cases

Total. 46
Died lO
Recovered 2

Remaining at this dale, 8 o'clock, A.M 3l
From the Commencement of the Disease, on Dec. 7, 1831.
Cases, 61.—Died, 23. •
NORTH SHIELDS, Dac.\ls.
Remained at last report 1
New cases
Died 0
Recovered
Remaining at this date 1
From the Commencement of the Disease.
Cases, 3.—Died, 2.
SEGHILL COLLIERY, DEC. 15.

Remained at last report 2
New cases 0
Died 0
Recovered 0
Remaining at this date
From the Commencement of the Disease.
Cases, 4.—Died, 2. .
WALKER, DEC. 15.
Remained at last report 2
New cases 0
Died.
Recovered 1
Remaining at this date 0
From the Commencement of the Disease.
Cases, 2.—Died, 1.
SEA HA M, DEc. 15.

New eases 3
Died
Recovered
Remaining at this date
From the Commencement of the Disease.
Cases, 3.—Died, 1.
(Signed) WM. MACLEAN, Secretary.

On the motion of Lord ALTIIORP, that the Re-
form Bill be read a second time last night, :Lord
PoRCHESTER proposed an amendment to the effect
that it be read a second time that day six months.
A long discussion followed, which enabled Mr.
MACAULEY—the legitimate successor of HENRY
BROUGHAM in the House of Commons—to deliver
one of those stirring and efftctive speeches which
indelibly imprint themselves on the mind of those
who read, not less' than of those who hear them.
The Hon. and Learned Gentleman argued with
his usual felicity—and his are not the state; trite
arguments a thousand and a thousand times repeated
—in favour of the great question, and insisted that
"by fair means or by foul, either through Par-
liament or over Parliament, the measure of
Reform must be carried." Mr. CRoKEIt at-
tempted to neutralize the effect of the Honour-
able and Learned Gentleman's eloquence—'s ith what
effect, we leave those to judge who are best ac..
quainted with the style and substance of the Ex-
Secretary's oratory. The Right Hon. Member
was specially vindictive on the subject of democratic
influence : " he could demonstrate," he said, " that
democracy was the cause of all the mischief that had
disturbed the land." Indeed ! What a notable dis-
cove. y ! And with what peculiar propriety it proceeds
from the lips of a man, who himself has only just
sprung from the democracy, who has neither birth—.
ancesrry—connection—nor superior intellecual qua-
lification to boast of ; who but yesterday a
grub, is to day a butterfly, but even in this,
his first clumsy attempt at flight, still bears
about him undeniable traces of his origin. Mr.
CROKER sneering at the democracy ! Oh for a
forty-horse power of laughing! So doth Mr. Wig-
gins, the tinker, sneer at the " wulgar" origin of Mr.
Higgins, the tailor; so doth my Lord's gentleman
object to my Lord's gentleman's gentleman, that he
is " low," and "not noticeable in polite society. Had
the taunt about democracy proceeded from an indi-
vidual of ancient descent, of high rank, and aristo-
cratic connexions, though it had been still in bad
taste, it had been more endurable; but for
Mr. CRoKER— who in order to show what
a fine gentleman he had become, professed igno-
rance the other day of the topography of Rassell-
square—for this " person," we quote his own super-
' cilious expression as applied to Lieut. DRUMMOND,
to come forward and denounce with ultra-fastidious-
ness, the democracy—the respectable, influential de-
mocracy of three kingdoms ;—can any thing be
more arrogant—more offensive—more outrageously
and insolently preposterous ? The Right Hon.
Gentleman, we presume, would bring back the
good old days of Ultra Tory ascendancy, when the
" democracy" were hewers of wood and drawers of
water, and the aristocracy stood over them with the
whip, the scourge, and the branding-iron. But he
may dismiss all hope on this score, Despite his
own exertions, and those of a thousand such " small
deer," the just influence of democracy must and will
make itself felt, not to the restriction, not to the de-
triment, but to the support and the security of all
legitimate aristocratic privileges. Let us hear no
more then of this vulgar slip-slop brawling against
democracy ; those who throw stones should not live
in glass-houses; those who spring from the lower
or middle orders, and whom a series of lucky acci-
dents, dexterously improved, has raised above their
just level, should not rail at the class from which
they sprung. Possibly Mr. CROKER is desirous of
ingratiating himself with great Lords and Dukes;
of showing how strongly (and naturally) he sympa-
thizes with the aristocratic prejudices of the House
of Peers; how completely be is identified with them
in thought, habit, and sentiment ! The idea is in-
genious, but, under the circumstances, ridiculous.

Dutch Papers mention a report that the KING has
resolved to reject the twentv•four articles, and that his
objections to them were three :—First, against that
point relative to Luxemburg, respecting which his
MAJESTY, as Grand Duke, can decide nothing with-
out the concurrence of the German Confederation.

—Second, against that part which relates to the
debt, his MAJESTY being ready to abide by the pre-
ceding arrangements.—Third, against the permis-
sion given to the Belgians to navigate the Dutch
canals and rivers.

CHOLERA AT NEWCASTLE.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

The official report of this day states that there are eight new
cases, seven deaths, and thirty cases left under treatment. I
mentioned yesterday that three patients went to the hospital ;
to-day there are two more, making five in all : two of them aro
very likely to recover, the others are more doubtful. It is
much to be regretted that some of the poor people attacked
refuse to be taken (or their friends for them refuse to allow
them to be taken) to the hospital. The accommodation and
attendance there is so much better than they can have at their
own houses, that by removal, in almost every case, to the
hospital, the chance of recovery is much increased. Instead of
being confined to the New Road, or Sandgate, as at first, the
disease has made its appearance in the Castle Garth, and New.
street, Pandon, Pandon Dene, and to-day at the foot of the
Dog Bank. The cases at the river side, I regret to state, are
also increasing. Yesterday I said there were two cases at Dent's
Hole; to-day there are five new cases there; two of them, Mrs.
Stephenson and Mrs. Emmett, are dead ; the remaining three
are considered mild cases. It is proper to state there is a great
deal of filth at Dent's Hole. There are two fatal cases (a ma❑
and his wife) also at Byker.bar, about a mile from New.
castle, on the road leading to North Shields; the name
is Nicholson. The husband died this morning, after little more
than twelve hours' illness. The old woman Donkin, the keeper
of the dead.house here, whom I mentioned in my letter of yes-
terday, as having been employed in laying out the dead bodies
of two persons who died, died herself in the course of last night,
and is included in this day's report. I repeat my firm persua-
sion, that cases are admitted into the report that are not of ma.
lignant cholera. This is now in some degree admitted, and ex-
cused on the ground that the admission of such cases causes a
great number to be stated in the report as recovered : and that
theputting the malignant cases only into the report, would pro.
duce more alarm, from the large proportion of deaths that take
place amongst them. I doubt, that if there are thirty cases set
down in the report as malignant, it is plainly more calculated to
produce alarm than if there were fifteen. But alarFci or no alarm,
the truth should be stated.
Newcastle, Thursday night, Dec. 15.

TITHES.-DREADFUL MASSACRE IN

THE COUNTY OF KILKENNY.

FREEEMAN'S JOURNAL-OFFICE, DUBLIN, THURSDAY.
We have this morning received the following melancholy it
telligence from a friend in Kilkenny;—

" Kilkenny, Six o'clock, Wednesday Evening, Dec. 14.

"We had a dreadful scene in our county this day. Mr.
D- has just returned from the neighbourhood in which it
occurred, Castle Morris, the residence of Captain Pratt de
Montmorency.
" A party of forty policemen went out this morning, under
the command of Captain Gibbons, chief constable, with a man
named Butler, a process server, to serve subpcvnas for the
Rev. Dr. Hamilton's tithes on the union of Knocktopher.
The party were attacked, about the hour of one o'clock in
the afternoon, at Kilkeasey, by about two thousand persons.
Captain Gibbons Butler, the process server, and twelve of
the police were killed, and four more so wounded that
there is little hope of their recovery. There are many
more badly wounded--all the arms of the police were
broken into pieces, and left with the slaughtered bodies.
Two of the police escaped to Knocktopher, and one got into
Kilkenny. Immediately after his arrivol, Mr. Joseph Green,
Chief Magistrate, with a party of dragoons, proceeded to the
house of Dr. Hamilton. The assailant party were armed
with pitchforks, prongs, spades, &c. The police were only
able to fire about ten shots. Three of the mob are said to
have been killed. The attack was made suddenly in a lane, or
bohreen, with a wall at each side of it, and the arms of the po-
lice were at once rendered useless. Mr. Morriss Heade, a Ma-
gistrate, proceeded about three o'clock to the place, and had all
the bodies removed into Kilmagany.
" I write the above in a hurry for post. The same report goes
from Mr. Tuckey, the Inspector of Police here to the Govern-
ment. Should there be any thing of moment. I shall write to
you to-morrow. I understand the moment Captain Gibbons
gave the order to fire, the police were knocked down, and
their arms taken and broken. Poor Gibbons had a large fa-
mily. An attack on Dr. Hamilton's house is apprehended this
night. Mr. Green, the chief resident Magistrate, has stationed
himself there with a party of dragoons."

LA TEST PARTICULARS, and EXECUTION
of JO FIN WILLIAMS HOLLOWAY, fur MURDER.

Yesterday morning this criminal was hanged on a temporary
scaffold erected in front of the gaol at Horsham, in the presence
of a larger assemblage than was ever before congregated in this
town on any similar occasion.
On his retiring to his cell on Thursday, he threw himself on
his knees, and his agonised cries, groans, and invocations to the
Deity, to save him from impending damnation, could be heard
throughout the prison yard. The prisoner, during the rest of
the day, prayed at various times. He was alone with Mr.
Nate, who was once his employer, for some time, and stated
that his third confession was all false, and he made it to save
Kennett. His first confession he declared to be true; and as
Kennett had been saved from capital punishment, he would in
his dying moments confide to him (Mr. Nate) the whole truth.
He then asserted "that Kennett was in the house when he
slipped the cord over the head of Celia, his wife, and assisted
him in strangling her. And she was also present when he cut
off the head and separated the limbs from the body." He also
communicated to Mr. Nate that he had seduced several women,
and had attempted to violate two others. He had robbed a
man of his watch and money in a barn, and was tried for the
offence and acquitted.
The following is an extract of a statement written by Hol-
loway to Mr. Nate, describing his attempt to violate one of the
young women above alluded to. He induced her to go out on
an excursion to sea, in a boat with him

" She was true to her appointment. The morning was foggy,
and I took the boat right out, and kept pullong right out for
some hours after we lost sight of land. She became alarmed at
last, and on my attempting to take advantage of her, I found
my mistake ; for she told me boldly, that before she would com-
ply with my wishes she would leap overboard. Her determined
spirit so confounded me, that I could not look her in the face,
and I rowed her to land and took leave of her."

At half-past four o'clock yesterday morning, the Rev. Mr.
Wetherby and Mr. Nate arrived, and were admitted to the cul-
prit. He told them " that he felt, notwithstanding the hor-
rible crimes which he had been guilty of, that through divine
grace he should be saved from eternal damnation, which he
so justly deserved, for he had cried unto the Lord, who had
mercifully heard him." He continued his devotions till nine
o'clock, when he adverted for the last time to his forced
marriage, and railed against the overseers of the parish of
Ardingley. He had written (he said) an account of the whole
affair, which he hoped would be a warning to overseers not to
destroy the happiness of young persons as they had done his.
He, however, freely forgave them, and he hoped God would
also. Soon after eleven o'clock he took the Sacrament.

At eight o'clock in the morning the scaffold commenced
erecting in front of the gaol, and the preparations were con-
cluded by eleven. Black cloth covered the front of the scaf-
fold, which was directly opposite the large folding doors in the
right of the gaoL The executioner arrived from London on
the preceding night. The Under Sheriff; Mr. Palmer, and his
officers, arrived at eleven o'clock, and at a little after twelve
o'clock delivered the convict into the hands of the Sheriff.
The executioner proceeded to pinion the criminal's arms.
Holloway closed his eyes, and said," Lord, I am ready," which
he repeated several times. He turned round, and took hold of
the Bible with both hands, kissed it again, and again said
"blessed word." While he was being pinioned, he whispered
to the executioner, " Mind, you have promised that I shall
have time to speak," and the executioner replied " You shall."
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Mr. Nate asked him if he died in peace with all mankind ?
He replied, " I do, I die in peace with all men, no one has
injured me that I know of, if they have I forgive them.—l die
justly." He ascended the scaffold with extraordinary firmness.
There was a distinct expression of disapprobation on the part of
the crowd. The culprit fell upon his knees and prayed for a
short time. The executioner then fastened the rope to the
beam, and Holloway stepped forward (the cap over his eyes),
and addressed the multitude as follows. He spoke in a firm
tone of voice, without the least appearance of trepidation, and
so silent were the spectators at the time, that every word was
distinctly heard :

Now, my dear friends, I need not tell you that sin has
brought me to this untimely end. As sin has brought ale to this
untimely end, I would intreat you to be aware that there is not
one among you. who, if he follows a life of sin and folly, may not
be brought to the same condition: for when you trifle with sin,
you know not where it will end. I know I suffer ju,tly : 1 have
spilt innocent blood; but, however deep my guilt, I hope in the
mercy of that God who has said to the penitent, all your sins and
blasphemies shall be forgiven you. Therefore turn from your
sins, and the Lord will forgive you. After such a warning as
this you now witness, you will have none to blame but yourselves
if any of you should be overtaken in sin, and follow courses
which lead to certain destruction. Consider seriously what I say,
for in a short time the eye that now sees you will see you no
more, and in a few years you will be in eternity. May the Lord
bless you and keep you from sin, by which I am brought to this
dreadful end, and may God Almighty, through the Lord Jesus
Christ, receive my spirit!"
After he had finished his speech, he retired bask on the plat-
form, and the drop fell. The struggles of the culprit conti.
thied for some minutes. He had told Mr. Nate, in gaol, that
if he felt a full assurance of salvation at the time of his " de.
parture," he would raise up his hands as a signal, but he drop.
ped without giving the sign. After the body had hung a short
time, a most revolting scene took place. A countryman, with
a sort of wen upon his forehead, ascended the scaffold, and the
hands of the corpse were untied by the hangman, and the coun-
tryman rubbed them against his forehead, under the absurd
notion that the death sweat would remove the excrescence.
Some disapprobation being expressed, the countryman sneaked
off. Shortly afterwards one of the " Ranters," who had stood
on the scaffold while Holloway was executed, got upon the pri.
son wall and addressed the crowd. This fanatic declared that
the soul of Holloway was saved by his being brought to the gal.
lows. The Under Sheriff and Governor of the gaol put an end
to his address, and the multitude dispersed.

At one o'clock the body was cut down, and having been
placed in an oblong box, was delivered to a young surgeon con-
nected with the Brighton Infirmary, to which place it was in-
stantly conveyed, where a public exhibition of the body of the
murderer will take place.

COURT OF CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)

NEWTON v. MANNING.

Mr. Augustus Newton, at the sitting of the Court,
claimed the indulgence of his Lordship to make an application
in this case in which his Lordship gave judgment on Thursday
last. It will be recollected that this was the case in which Mr.
A. Newton applied for the committal of his brother, for having
'abetted in the removal of one of his sisters, a ward in this Court,
out of its jurisdiction, and also an order on his father, requiring
him to use his utmost efforts.to bring back the young lady from
France.. The Lord Chancelroltdecided that in the very peculiar
circumstances of the case it was not proper that he should
interfere. When the case was argued, several letters (exhibits)
were produced by the plaintiff, Mr. Augustus; among the rest
one marked D from his sister Camilla, to himself. They were
handed to Sir Edward Sugden, the Counsel against the applica-
tion, that he might inspect them. That letter had never been
seen since it was seen in the hands of Sir Edward ; and the first
complaint the plaintiff now had to make was of the non-return
of that letter to his solicitor.
Sir EDWARD SUGDEN recollected perfectly well having
read the letter. It was a letter written in a peculiarly
lively, jocular, and able style. It began with this expression—
., It is always a word and a blow with you, my troublesome
brother," and ended with these words--P After all this confu-
sion one might think we were going to discover the source of the
Nile, or the Northern Passage," alluding, we believe, to the
plaintiff's request that the ladies should go with him. If I hear
anything more about it, I shall not stir a step, as I am Cain." The
Learned Counsel had the most distinct recollection (as was al-
ways his habit when originals were handed to him) requesting
the solicitor of the plaintiff to take back his exhibits, but he
could not distinctly say that that letter was in the parcel which
was then taken back by Mr. Dean. This, however, lie declared
upon his honour that he had never seen the letter since, and that
lie knew nothing of it whatever now.
Mr. Augustus Newton regarded this as the most important let-
ter of all that he had.

The LORD CHANCELLOR remembered reading a copy of
the letter, and he had paid so much attention to it that he could
almost himself, from a recollection of it, say what was or what
was not a true copy of it.
Mr. Dean, the plaintiff's solicitor, said that on looking
through his exhibits, which he had taken up off the table before
Sir E. Sugden, in about an hour after he had left the Court, he
found the exhibit D missing. He could not say that that letter
might not have been lost out of his bag, though it was not likely.
Mr. Thornbury, solicitor for the defendants, had never had
either D," or any one of the originals, in his house; nor had
his clerk. When Mr. Dean and the plaintiffcalled at his office,
on the following day, he put the whole of the papers into their
hands, with a request that they should look carefully through
them, to ascertain for themselves if the letter had got among
them, and they did not find that it had.
Mr. Dean said that he had a copy of the letter, which herouM
Swear to be a true copy.
Sir E. SUGDEN, after reading the copy, said he would•have
no objection whatever to sign a.note, pledging his conviction
that it was a true copy ; and if it was consistent, he would also
make an affidavit to the same of
Mr. Flather made a similar statement.

Mr. A. Newton would have no objection to take the copy
as the original, provided the Learned Counsel would verify it to
be true copy.
The LORD CHANCELLOR would not permit them to make
an affidavit. They had stated and offered to do all that could
possibly be required of them. There was nothing more common
than that at the bar the papers of one gentleman should get into
the possession of another, and that those papers should subse-
quently be returned to the right owner. The plaintiff had now
just as good an exhibit of the letter marked D, as if he were in
the possession of the original; but still, if he thought proper, he
might have from the Learned Counsel the note which they had
offered to sign, and also an affidavit from Mr. Thornbury and his
clerk, stating that they neither had nor knew any thing of the
letter in question.
The plaintiff expressed himself satisfied on this point, and now
claimed the indulgence of the Court whilst he passed on to as.
other, namely, what had been said by his Lordship in giving
judgment respecting the handing up of an affidavit to the Court
which had not been used at the bar.

The LORD CHANCELLOR told him it was perfectly un.
necessary to say a word upon that; nobody was to blame for
what had been done in that respect—it was a mere mistake—no
injury had been done—the irregularity would not be committed
again, and there was an end to it.
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-TM; plaintiff's next complaint was against the printer and
publisher of the Morning Herald, and he had to pray that his
Lordship would order them to be punished for having misre-
ported what his Lordship had stated in judgment, and which
was calculated to prejudice him.
'The LORD CHANCELLOR could really hear no such com-
plaint, nor any such application. He knew what the plaintiff was
about to detail if permitted to go on, tut he could not hear him ;
thus much he would say, that what he had stated with respect to
the parties retiring from this Court without the slightest an-
peachment upon their characters or motives, applied solely and
exclusively to the ward, Miss Caroline Newton, and her father.
Sir EDWARD SUGDEN pronounced this part of the plain.
tilt's application as totally irregular. He had certainly seen a
report of the judgment in the public papers. He had not
read the whole of it. What he had read was yer-
fectly correct. He had not read the whole of it, be-
cause having been in the case and having been present
when judgment was delivered, it' could not have been
interesting or edifying to him to have gone through it; but thus
much he felt bound to state, that speaking generally, he was
astonished at the accuracy with which the proceedings in this
Court were reported in the public papers. 1 have never .een
continued the Learned Counsel) one report put in in malic
The LORD CHANCELLOR—PerfectIy free from it—per-
fectly tree from it.
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Sii• EDWARD SUGDEN—I declare, I never recollect seeing
a single case in which I could detect any thing like malice in any
report I ever saw of the proceedings in this Court. It is dittkult,
of course, at all times to be perfectly correct, particularly if the
reporters are not lawyers themselves, there may have been some
slight inaccuracies therefore at times, but never any thing put
down in malice.

The LORD CHANCELLOR—CertainIy, since I came into
this Court, I can say, that I have never seen any thing more free
from malice, and generally speaking, more accurate, than the re-
ports I have seen of what has taken place here.
The plaintiff then bowed and left the Court.