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London, England, 1831-07-12 00:00:00

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.)

HAY MA RK ETS.—( A t per Load of 36 Trrage7.)
CUMBERLAND (LATE ST. JAMF's,s.)
Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay ........ 10 to 15
slew Meadow Hay 3 5 3 10
Useful Old Ditto
Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 4 10 5 0
Clover Hay 3 10 5 10
Oat Straw £1 12 to £1 141 Wheat Straw... 111 2 0
Supply but moderate, trade dull, and prices stationary.
SMITHFIELD.
Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay .£2 10 to £2 15
New Meadow Hay 2 10 3 10
Useful Old Ditto 3 0 3 15
ine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay..
C!over Hay (extra line)..,Xs 15...Geoerally
:at Straw .......t. I Bto £1 J 2 ( Wheat ,traw 1 16 2 0
Best Clover Hay Is. per load higher ; Straw 2s. per load lower
than last quoted; prices otherwise stationary. A good supply,
and a dull trade.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.)

WINCHESTER, Jura( 11.

This Circuit commenced on Saturday last, when Mr..
Justice TAUNTON anel Mr. Justice ALnEnsost,,opened the•
commission fur the county of Hants, in this city. Yester-
day their Lordships attended divine service in the cattle-
dial, and Mr. Justice Taunton took his seat this morning,
at nine o'clock, in the Nisi Prius Court. There were
twenty-four causes in the paper, several of which are spe-
cial Jury csnses. Shortly after his Lordship had taken
his seat, application was made to him to appoint a specific
time for the trial of one particular cause, when he stated
that be should not consent to any such thing, he should-
have every cause called as it appeared in the list, and if
the parties were not ready he should direct them to be.
struck nut; it would make attornies more active, and tend:
to the general good of those who had cases to be trig.
In consequence of this rule laid down by the Learned
Judge, several causes were struck out, and those persons
whose causes stood some way down- in the list were not
prepared. 141 r. Justice Alderson presided in the Crown
Court, which was not opened till ten o'clock. The at-
tendance of Magistrates was very numerous. His Lord-
ship, in his charge to the Grand Jury, stated that 11'
Majesty had been pleased to call the Parliament together at
this unusual season of the year, and in his speech had
particularly directed their attention to a contagious disorder
which was now prevalent on the continent. It was not
improper, therefore, that the Learned Judge should call
their attention to the quarantine Laws, in which
-very effort was made to prevent any disorder being,
brought into this country. The Quarantine Laws
were all brought into one statute, the 6 Geo. IV..
c. 78., the 2#l section providing regulations foe.
putting vessels in a state', of quarantine, where the Pt ivy
Council should threat, In the 17th. 18th, 19th, and 2O) ,
-ections, it was provided, that if the commander of 7 ny
vessel liable to the Quarantine Laws, should quit his
vessel, or permit any seaman or passenger to go on 'shore,
or did not cause his vessel to be conveyed to the apr
place, he should he liable to a penalty of 4000 .';'minted
and if
any pilot, or other person going on. board, allovid endea-
vour to go again on shore, any person might vnnpel them
to return on board; and any person offending should In:
liable to six months' imprisonment and a pe.teity of 3001.
He mentioned this, because he understood there had been
in this county a breach of those laws, and that a Magis-
trate had acted with great promptness, for which he re-
ceived the thanks of his country ; as M tgistrates were em-
powered to issue their warrant for the apprehension of
those who would thus starry a pestilential disorder iat
every man's house, it was one of their most itnplrt.tot
duties, as it might cause the death of thousands.

A very interesting pamphlet has just been pub-
lished in London, under the title of " A Letter
from General Arthur Condorcet O'Connor (better
known here as Arthur O'Connor) to General La-
fayette, on the Causes which have deprived France
of the Advantages of the Revolution of 1830." A
brief introduction states that the manuscript was
transmitted to the editor, with the permission of its
able author to present it to the British public. lie
remarks that " it expresses the opinions of a great
party in France; of a party which, there is little
doubt, will ultimately be dominant in that country;"
but that " besides the interest will belong to this
pamphlet as an exposition of the state of public
affairs in France, it possesses nearer claims to our
attention from the reflected light it may possibly
throw upon our own affairs." Arthur O'Connor,
in his well-known volume on the State of Ire-
land, published in 1797, gave proofs of great politi-
cal discernment, and we are not aware that the
causes of the misery of the population of Ireland
were ever more successfully explained. In this pam-
phlet he gives a description of the English system of
Government for the instruction of the French, that
they may not be misled by the statesmen who wish to
govern France by the corrupt expedients which have
produced such disastrous results here. The pamphlet
is also possessed of much interest; but that part
which more peculiarly relates to England may be
useful to us at this moment, presenting, as it does,
a faithful picture of the disastrous condition, from
which alone a Reform can extricate us. " I will
here," he says, " endeavour to describe the Eng-
lish system, in order to dissuade the French nation
from adopting it. I consider myself, at least, as
conversant with it, as those interested Anglomanists
who are so enamoured with its deformities. Born
and educated under that system; having filled for
years the highest offices in the Administration and
Legislature, and passed many years in the intimacy
of the greatest men the country has ever produced
—such as Fox, Sheridan, Grey, Erskine, Whit-
bread, &c.—known to all the Opposition of their
day, who honoured me with their friendship and
confidence—l may, without vanity, pretend to have
as much knowledge of the English system as men
who have possessed none of these advantages ; or
whose information is only derived from a cur-
sory view, or from what they have read in
books. The English system, and the old French des-
potism, have had the same feudal origin. . .
The King, and the Barons, both clerical end laical,
who were almost his equals, were all : the people
were absolutely nothing. Men as ignorant as beasts
must necessarily be treated as such, because they
have no means of making their interests respected :
such is the principle on which the feudal system
rests. As the people acquired some instruction and
independence, they took advantage of the quarrels
of their barbarous tyrants to obtain some right in
the management of their affairs ; not a tumultuous
right, but the most precious of all, a representa-
tive right: This right was not a concession, but
came from necessity; but when once the people
obtained the right to name their own agents, their
interests began to be counted for something. With
this right, the nation struggled for her liberty with
various success, until, after having punished one
despot, and chased away another, it arrived at the
Revolution of 1688, from which time the Go-
. vernment has taken the form and principles on
which it has ever since existed. The theory of this
system, as fixed in 1688, is that the people shall by
their representatives impose the necessary taxes; but
the practice hasby two operations completely destroyed
this theory ; the one by passing the right of choos-
ing the representatives from the people to a few in-
dividuals ; the other by placing in the hands of the
executive the nomination of all the agents of the
people in Church and State, with enormous emolu-
ments attached to each post. By these operations
the English Government has been totally changed
since 1688. Before that time the Crown contested
the right of the representatives to the sole power of
imposing taxes, and this often by imprisoning them,
and by other arbitrary acts ; but it never corrupted
them. They were chosen by the people (for before
1688 the commerce of rotten boroughs was un-
known); they partook of their spoil, and had the
same interests with them. If the people were suf-
ferers, their representatives suffered with them ; if the
people were plundered, their representatives had no
simnel!! the spoil ; their Parliaments were popular,and
enjoyed the confidence of the people,because, by their
incorruptible perseverance, they bad been constantly
working to extend the liberties of the people—
liberties for which they obtained the most express sti-
pulations, written in the blood of one King, and con-
firmed by the dethronement of another for attempt-
ing to annul them. But since 1688, instead of
being despotic by its arbitrary acts, the Crown has
secured to itself an equally uncontrouled power, by
the enormous expence of levying on the whole of
those who aro to obey the laws sufficient to corrupt
the majority of those who are to make them. By
this change the increased burdens of the people
became the increased power of the Monarch, au in-
creased profit to the hereditary aristocracy, and the
utter annihilation of the representative democracy.
It is in this sense that the partisans of this model
systeM maintain, that the fewer the hands into
which the national representation is concentrated,
the more perfect it is ; and when the Executive
has obtained the greatest possible means of cor-
rupting the representatives by buying up the pro-
bity and independence of those whose duty it is to
defend the people's rights, then is this Government
arrived at the beau ideal of representative Government ;
then, and then only, the odious, contemptible, people
are reduced to a state of wholesome subordination. It
is there this Government is said to acquire the
reputation of a strong Government ; far it is a fixed
principle with the partisans of this kind of represen-
tative system, that by every right you concede to
the people, by so much you weaken the Govern-
ment ; and that by every right you take from the
people, by so much you augment the power of the
Government. But these men do not take into the
account either the prodigality or the debts, or the
ruin, which have invariably been the consequence
of the absence of all the necessary controul which it
is the object of their system to destroy ; nor the
exasperation this abuse of power, and the usurpation
of this sacred right of the people to have uncorrupted
agents roust excite in their hearts; nor, with July
before them, will they see that such a system in
France must inevitably lead to a revolution. Let
us come to the proof of what I advauce. Like a
tree, Government is known by its fruits. What has
the model system produced in England after 143
years that it has been planted and watered with so
much blood, and enriched with so many millions of
wealth? When a great national interest is at stake,
it is only with great, material, positive facts,
that men should attempt to counsel her on the
part she should take. Before this system of
buying the probity, the independence, the
talent, the honour of the national representation
was established at the Revolution of 1688, England
owed not a shilling." After a view of the debt at
different periods, down to the peace of 1814, lie
proceeds :—" Such is the mortal wound this model
system cf corruption has inflicted on the nation
Such is the inevitable ruin this system nurtures
from its birth' and that hurries it to its grave. After
fifteen years of
n profound peace, this great, indus-
trious nation, endowed greater means of
capital, of machinery, mercantileanpdewt.h manufacturing
ability than any other
the people ever pos.sessed,has
been struggling against
msonniestof misery, with-
out being able to pay off her
the view
and
it is at the moment this system offersrotuos
the world such a dreadful spectacle of diniceultlyew of
misery, when the English Government itself r
wisely renounced this system, and the Crown hasas
called the nation to its aid against the usurpation, of
the proprietors of rotten boroughs; this, I say, is
the moment when a set of men in France have the
assurance and stupid ignorance to invite Philip I.
to separate from the nation, to throw himself iniothe
system of ininence, corruption, awl placement, with-

support. Compare the materials a French King
can command for constructing such a system with the
prodigious materials the King of England has at his
command, and that when be is forced to renounce
this system. Where have we in France the colossal
patronage which the dominion over 140 millions of
subjects in India afford ?—in the West Indies,
Canada, the Seven Islands, the Cape of Good
Hope, Gibraltar, &c. &c., where there are so.many
thousands of Pro-Consulships to pay the wages of
corruption I.—independent of the immense patron-
age in Church and State in England, Scotland, and
Ireland ? But, what is still more important, where
is the law of primogeniture ? Where are those le-
viathan properties that form the basis on which this
model system of corruption rests, which, though so
great and massy, are this instant trembling under
the load of debt and misery that has accumulated
to crush them." Well may the author dissuade the
French from entering on this system. The country
which endeavours to govern through corruption, and
in which the power of the governing few grows
with the burdens imposed on the many, enters on a
course which leads inevitably to ruin. A fortunate
accident, the elevation to power of honest men be-
fore it was yet too late, may save this country from
the revolution to which it was fast driving. But
we almost tremble at the thought of what might
happen, should another accident deprive us of the
Bill, while the time for our salvation is not passed.
—.Horning Chronicle.
A few days ago, we stated the insignificant amount of
the assessed taxes levied on the boroughs which are by
the Reform Bill to be disfranchised, either in whole or in
part. We compared the returns made from these boroughs
with the great revenue obtained from the larger represented
towns, which only elected the same number of members.
A paper has since been printed by order of the House of
Commons, giving au account of the assessed taxes paid by
the towns included in schedules C and D, or, in other
words, the towns included in the lists which by the Reform
Bill will acquire the right of returning respectively two
Members and one Member to Parliament. There probably
never was a more striking contrast presented between the
means and resources of any t con sets of places than between
those of the condemned schedules, and those of their
proposed suce•ssors, as measured by their direct as-
sessments. Between the assessed taxes of Beeralston,
which pays N. 9s , and that of Marylebone, which
pays 290,376/. 3s. 9d. the distance is immense;
yet the former now sends two representatives to Parlia-
ment, and the latter has hitherto sent none. As we need
not again bring forward the assessments of the disfran-
chised boroughs, we shall merely state the sums paid by
some of the places to which the right of electing two re-
presentatives will now for the first time be extended.
Manchester is stated at 40,0941., Birmingham at 26,986/.,
Leeds at 18,8001., Greenwich, 21,3411., Sheffield,
12,605/., the Tower Hamlets, 118,5461., Finsbury dis-
. _ . .

xicts, 205,9181., and Lambeth, 108,814/. Some.ol the

towns in schedule D, which are to acquire the right of
sending one Member to Parliament, pay high assessments,
such as Brighton, whose assessed taxes are returned at
31,800/., while the average will be about 4,0001., and
scarcely any will fall below 2,000/. In contrasting yes-
terday the number of houses of the value of 10/. in
the old set of boroughs proposed to be disfranchised, with
that in the new to which the privilege of representation
is now to be extended, we proceeded on a return made to
the House of Commons at the beginning of March.
We have since received a paper ordered to be printed
at the commencement of the present month, entitled
"Copies of further information touching the amount of
population, and the number and value of houses in towns
or alistricts now sending Members to Parliament, or pro-
posed in the Reform Bill to send Members in future,"
' which materially alters the previous statements, and of
course varies the number of proposed voters. This change
arises chiefly from three causes :—first, from the important
addition of counting-houses and warehouses, which were
not included in the first draught of the Bill; secondly,
from the extension of the right of voting to parishes where
the former returns were limited to boroughs ; and thirdly,
from the substitution of the results of actual survey or
examination to the vague estimates of 1821. These sur-
veys seem, in some cases, to have been conducted with
great care, and to be marked with great impartiality. In
most instances the former return has been altered, and as
that alteration has almost always been towards an increase,
the proportion of boroughs in schedule B, which must re-
ceive an accession of voters from neighbouring districts to
make up the requisite number of 300, will be less consi-
derable. Thus, fur instance, Wallingford, which by the
former return was stated to have only 126 houses of the
value of 101. a year, has its 10/. list raised by the pre-
sent return to 218 ; and instead therefore of requiring to
take 174 voters from the districts adioining, the borough
will only need 82 to make up its full constituency. In
other cases the difference is still more striking, and will
render less necessary the interference of Parliamentary
Commissoners to establish new limits to the borough enti-
tled by their population to retain a part of their elective
rights. Thus Ashburton, instead of 31 houses paying
101., as by the old return, is found by a different assess-
ment to have 327 ; Bodin in 178, instead of 139 ; Brid-
port 338, instead of 1-16 ; Chippenham 232, instead of
180 ; Dorchester 333, instead of 231 ; and other places
in proportion. The constituency of the towns which are
to be endowed with the right by the Bill of sending
Members to Parliament is likewise altered in these
new returns. Though however ;ouch increased, it
connot appear very formidable, when we mention,
that the number of new qualifications created in the
twenty-five great or considerable places included in
these returns, amounts only to 53,278 ; and, making
due allowance fur houses occupied by females—for
houses that are empty, or for cases in which several
qualifications
.are held in one occupancy, it may
be estimated at less than 27,000 ; or, upon an
average, about 1,000 to each. In this list we find
that Manchester has 12,639 houses rated at or above
ten-pounds ; Leeds, 6,683 ; Sheffield, 4,572 ; Sun•
derland, 2,270 ; Wakefield, 842 ; Bradford, 1083 ;
Birmingham, 6,532 ; Halifax, 1,04.4 ; South Shields,
987 ; Tynemouth, 971 ; Gateshead, 795 ; Rochdale,
1,011 ; Warrington, 799; Huddersfield, 1,709 ; Oldham,
; Kidderminster, 473 ; Wolverhampton, 2,125 ;
Dudley, 595 ; Stockport, 85/ ; Salford, 1,211 ; Bury,
639 ; Blackburn, 578 ; Bolton-le-Muors, 1,712 ; and
Walsall, 750. These more detailed and accurate returns,
obtained since the Bill SVOS introduced, do not, it is true,
include much more than a half of the places to which the
Bill extends the elective franchise ; but they afford a suf-
ficient proof that the proposed qualification is not calculated
to create that democratic and mobbish constituency of
which some Tory alarmists endeavour to excite an appie•
hension. It is a fact at variance with the reasoning of
nearly all the opponents of the Bill—and yet a fact of
great importance in itself—that in Liverpool, Manchester,
Birmingham, and the districts of Middlesex, where the
constituency will be most numerous, and where con-
sequently the dangers of too popular a body of electors
would be the most to be dreaded, the proportion of
householders paying a rent of between 101. and 20/., is
less, as compared with those of a higher qualification, than
in other places where the population is less dense and the
constituency apparently more select. Liverpool, for in-
stance, by the old return, bad a constituency of 8,787, of
whom more than half paid above 20/. In the whole
townships of the county of Lancaster, the number of

houses valued above 10/, yearly is stated at 28,406, and
only 13,04.5 are su low as 20/. In Middlesex, including
of course the new constituency of Marylebone, the Tower
Hamlets, Finsbury, and the other districts described in the
Bill, the whole body of householders paying rent above
101. is stated at 116,047, and only 28,457 pay a rent
under 201. ; 43,231 pay a rent of between 20/. and 40/. ;
and 44,359 pay a rent or occupy a house of the annual
value of more than 401. If property is to be taken into
consideration in estimating the fitness of any class of the
people to exercise political privileges, or to controul the
conduct of those intrusted with the management of the
national purse, no higher qualification should be required
than that indicated by the payment of a lent of 20/. And
a body of householders occupying tenements above that
annual value will predominate in the elections of all the
great towns, at which an alarm is now pretended to be
fslt by the opponents of the Bill.— Times.

Some of our cotemporaries have already begun to
speculate respecting the retention of Prince Leopold
of his pe►►sion of 50,0001. a-year, and the propriety

_ .
either of his consenting to relinquish it, or of the
pension being bought up by the country. The
matter is of a rather ticklish nature, and has, no

doubt, given rise already to a considerable discussion
among Prince Leopold's friends. To his total re-
linqu►shment of the pension, no one, we believe, ex-
cept his own immediate friends, either could or would
have any objection ; for i►► these times a saving of
50,000/. a-year is no trifling consideration ; but, on
the other hand, the elevation of the Prince to the
throne of Belgium gives no right to the country to
resume its right over his pension, to which he is

when only Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg. lt is not
likely,however, on the one hand, that h!s new subjects,
poverty stricken as they now arc by the events of
their revolution, would greatly relish the idea of having
a King who was a pensioner of any foreign power:
and, on the other, it is a matter worthy of the
Prince's consideration, whether the crown of Bel-
gium is really worth more in the convulsed state of
the times than 50,0001. a year for life ? The most
prudent course for the Prince to pursue would be,
in case he determined, or was compelled, as King of
Belgium, to give up his pension, to reserve to him-
self the right of calling on the country to pay it, in
case he should find it necessary to apply for it ;
and, on the other hand, the best policy of this
country is of course to make the best bargain for
itself that it can. We shall be glad to find that the
Prince, in a manly and honourable spirit of confidence
in his own subjects, relinquishes the pension ; but at
the same time there is no compulsion in the matter,
and the country, if called upon to pay it, ought in
justice to fulfil its agreement.--Morning Advertiser.

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SECOND EDITION.
SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock.

THE LONDON GAZETTE

OF THIS EVENING:

War-Office, July 12.
3d Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Cornet J. E. Dyson to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Sheppard, who retires. E. Evans,
Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Dyson, July It.
3d Regiment of Foot Guards—Capt. H. Bathurst, from the
9th Foot, to be Lieut. and Capt., vice Douglas, who exchanges,
July 12. _

9th Regiment of Foct—Lieut. and Capt. C. Douglas, from the
3d Foot Guards, to be Captain, vice Bathurst, who exchanges,
July 12.
14th Foot—Lieut.-Col. M. Everard, from half-pay, Unattached,
to be Lieut.-Colonel, vice Thornhill, who retires, July 12.
20th Foot—Lieut. J. Maclean to be Captain, without purchase,
vice Story, deceased ; Ensign E. Dalgety to be Lieutenant, vice
Maclean ; Ensign W. Frith to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Waddell, who retires; Gentleman Cadet J. Gates, from the
Royal Military College, to be Ensign, vice Dalgety; H. Wind.
ham, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Frith, July 12.
27th Foot—Ensign E. O'Grady to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Hay, promoted ; H. D. Cholmeley, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice O'Grady, July 13.
38th Foot—Ensign W. G. Edwards to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Willes, who retires, July 12.
44th Foot—Staff-Assistant Surgeon A. M`lsaac, from the half-
pay, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Browne, appointed to theNi
Foot, July 12.
51st Foot—Major J. Campbell to be Lieut.-Colonel, by pur-
chase, vice Synge, who retires; Capt. W. H. Elliott to be Major,
vice Campbell, July 12.
60th Foot—To be Majors, by purchase—Captain C. R. P. Tem-
pest, vice Grey, promoted ; Captain J. B. Thornhill, from the
65th Foot, vice Chichester, promoted, July 13.
To be Captain, by purchase—Lieut. D. Fitzgerald, vice Tem-
pest, July 12.
To be Lieutenant, by purchase—Second Lieutenant R. Atkins,
vice Fitzgerald, July 12.
To be Second Lieutenant, by purchase—Gentleman Cadet J.
Morris, from the Royal Military College, vice Atkins, July 12.
65th Foot—Capt. J. R. Stepney, from the half-pay, to be Cap-
tain, vice Thornhill, promoted in the 6th Foot, July la
69;11 Foot—R. Sutton, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Kinchant, promoted, July 12.
73d Foot—Captain R. Anstruther to be Major, by purchase,
vice Grewe, promoted, July 12.
Lieutenant H. W. Bamford to be Captain, by purchase, vice
Anstruther, July 12.
98th Foot—R. P. Wallis, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Bayntun, who retires, July 12.

UNATTACHED.
To be Lieut-Colonels of Infantry, by purchase.
Major IL Drove, froth the 73d Foot; Major C. Chichester,
from the 60th Foot ; Major Hon. C. Grey, from the 60th Foot,
July 12.
To be Captains of Infantry, without purchase—Lieut. D. M.
Haslewood, from the 14th Foot ; Lieut. H. Mansell, from the
14th Foot, July 12.
To be Captain of Infantry, by purchase—Lieut. L. J. Hay,
from the 27th Foot, July 13.
To be Lieutenant of Infantry, by purchase—Ensign R. li.
Kinchant, from the 69th Foot, July 12.

MEMORANDA.
Cornet Johnson's commission, in the 7th Dragoon Guards, has
been antedated to February 'X, IEIO, that being the period he
was appointed Riding-master to that corps.
Cornet 11 Phillips' commission, in the '7th Light Dragoons,
has been antedated to ..25th March, 1828, that being the period he
was appointed Riding-master to that Regiment.
The date of Lieut. A. N. Campbell's promotion, in the 92d
Foot, has been antedated to Bth April, 1831.
The under-mentioned Officers have been allowed to retire from
the service, by the sale of unattached commissions, viz. :—.
Lieut.-Col. J. W. O'Donoghue, half-pay Unattached ; Major-
General J. I'. Murray ; Lieut. T. Wright, half-pay 14th Foot,
July 12.

Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Middlesex.
E. Halswell, Esq. to be Deputy Lieutenant, June 18.
Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Suffolk.
R. N. Shawe and T. 'l'. M. Neale, Esqrs. to be Deputy Lieu-
tenants, July 1.
Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Ayr.
%i. pure, A. Kelso, J. S. Cunningham, and 'l'. Brown, Esqrs.
to be Deputy Lieutenants, July 5.
Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Not-
tingham.
Royal Sherwood Foresters or Nottinghamshire Regiment of
Militia—J. G. Hewitt, Gent. to be Ensign, June 28.
Clumber Troop of Sherwood Rangers—K. I)owland, Gent. to
be Cornet, vice Gera' King Holmes, promoted, June 15.

DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY.

WILLIAM LEWIS, Reading, retail brewer.
DANIEL WACE, Newgate-street, grocer.
THOMAS DAVIES, Swansea, rope-maker.
BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED.
THOMAS FULLER DROUGHT, Ilminster, Somerset-
shire,druggist.
JAMES TOMS, Kensington, Middlesex, grocer.
BANKRUPTS.
HENRY FLINT, Liverpool, boarding-housekeeper, to sur-
render July 19, at three, 20, at one, and August f 3, at two, at
the Court of Commissioners.' Watson and Broughton, Falcon.
square, Aldersgate-street.
JOHN NAYLOR, Milk-street, Cheapside, woollen-ware-
houseman, July 15, at twelve, 19, and August 23, at eleven, at
the Court of Commissioners. Fisher, Aldersgate-street.
JAMES CLARK SMITH, Lower Deptford-road, Bother.
hithe, merchant, July 19, at three, 9, at one, and August 23, at
two, at the Court of Commissioners. Long, Staple-Inn, Holborn.
JAMES SUVI'ON, Andover, nurseryman, July 19, 26, and
August at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Everest,
Epsom Surrey; Stevens, Hatton-garden, London.
JOHN ISAAC BARBER WRIGHT, Liverpool, druggist,
July 25, 26, and August 21, at two, at the Clarendon-rooms,
Liverpool. Williams, Liverpool. •
RICHARD FAUX, Rordeslev, Warwickshire, hop-merchant,
.July 29,20, and August 22, at twelve, at the New Royal Hotel,
Birmingham. Took and Carr, Bedford-row; Capper, Binning-
him.

JOHN GOODE, Wilderness-row, Gowen-street, July 19,
25, and August 23, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners.
Fawcett, Jewin-street.
DAVID JONES, Waunfaur, Monmouthshire, grocer, July
25, 26, and August at one, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liver.
pool. Willis, Watson, Blower, and Willis, Tokenhouse-yard ;
and Mason, Liverpool.
WILLIAM WHITE, Newent, Gloucester, corn-dealer,
July 19, '46, at eleven, and August 23, at ten, at the Court of
Commissioners. Henderson and St. John, Lancaster-place,
Waterloo-bridge.
ELLTA II SOLOMON, Bath, jeweller, July 20, '2l, and
gust 23, at eleven, at the Elephant and Castle Inn, Bath. Makin.
son and Sanders, Temple ; Hellinge, Bath.
JAMES MORRIS CHAPMAN, Bridgewater, Somersetshire,
linen-draper' July 25, 27, and August 23, at one, at the office of
Gregory and Smith, Bristol. Blower, Lincoln's Inn-fields, lAm.
don ; Gregory and Smith, Bristol
SAMUEL KITCHING, Leeds, victualler, July 25, 27, and
August 2.3, at eleven, at the Court-house, Leeds. Makinson and
Sanders, Middle Temple, London ; Fralen, Leeds.
JAMES COOPER, Aylesbury-street, Clerkenwell, oil and
colourrnan, July 15, 22, at twelve, and August 23, at eleven,
at the Court of Commissioners. Berkeley, New-Square, Lin.

EM PE RIA L PARLIAMENT

OF THIS EVENING.

HOUSE OF LORDS.
LEFEVRE'S DIVORCE BILL.

The House was occupied till nearly Six o'clock with
the address of Mr. Serjeant Mereweather on behalf of the
petitioner for this Bill, and the examination of witnesses,
when the further consideration was adjourned for a week.
Mr. BERNAL and others brought up the Lunatics' Bill,
and several pt ivate

Lord MELBOURNE, according to notice, brought up the
Report of the Coulin:ttee on the Irish Deputy Lurd Lieu-
tenant's Bill.

The ;Marquis of LONDONDERRY then rose to refute
the attacks which he considered had been made against
him by Lord Plunkett, and was addressing the House :•lien
our Reporter left.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The gallery doors were not opened until nearly Five
o'clock, in consequence of the House being engaged in
ballotting for Committees to decide on the Great Grimsby
and Monmouth elections.

On the motion of Lord BELCRAVE the Bill for the
establishment of a chapel of ease, to be called the Gros-
venor Chapel, in the parish of St. George, Hanover-
square, was read a third time and passed.
Mr. C. FERGUSSON presented a petition from the
inhabitants of the parish of St. Pancras, praying that that
parish might he allowed two representatives of its own. The
lion. Gent. said if property and population were to be the
le Iding principles of the Reform Bill, the parish of Sr.
Pancras was fully entitlsd to return two Members, for it
actually paid in assessed taxes double the amount of 131
boroughs named in schedules A. and B.

The petition was read and ordered to be printed.
Mr. HUNT rose to present a petition most numerously
signed, which had been agreed to yesterday at a public
meeting of the working classes, held in Portman-inarket.
The Newspapers varied the accounts of the numbers
present from seven thousand to twelve thousand pers,ins,
but he was assured there were at least twenty thousand pre-
sent. The petitioners complained that, being the producers of
the wealth cf the country, and being a very extensive class
they were excluded from any share in the representation ;

. .
for a repeal of those acts which had shackled
the Public Press--condemning the late prosecutions
against the Press. A very Learned Gentleman had stated
some years ago that every person who expended even 181.
a year, paid 81. out of it for taxes. These working classes
paid the greatest portion of the taxes, and yet they were
excluding them from voting for representatives.
The petition was read and ordered to be printed.
Mr. HUNT then gave notice, that in the Committee on
the Reform Bill, lie would move to substitute for the clause
relative to the 10/. franchise, that a clause be inserted
that all householders paying taxes should be entitled to
vote ; and that if that motion were lost, he should
move that all persons excluded from voting should
be exempted from paying taxes, and from serving in the
militia and the navy. Also he would move, that after
the 31st of December, 1831, all Peers who should
be proved to be guilty of interfering in elections should
fur the first offence pay a fine of 10,000/., and be im-
prisoned in the Tower for the space of one year; for
the second offence a fine of 20,000/. and two years' impri-
sonment in Newgate ; and for the third offence be degraded
from the Peerage, the title be declared to be extinct, and
to be transported for life.—(Great laughter.) He had
before given notice to the same effect, but withdrew it.
He would now, however, put the House to the test.
Sir J. BLAKE presented a petition from that part of
the county of Durham, called North Durham, praying
that it might have one Member of its own to represent it.
Mr. PERRIN presented a petition from the wine-
merchants of Dublin, praying that there might be no
further addition to the duties on foreign wines.
Mr. O'CONNELL supported the prayer of the petiti-
tioners, and said that the petitionn contained a curious
fact, vie., that in 1789, when the duty was very low, the
consumption was such that it produced a revenue of sixty
thousand :pounds ; since then the duty had been consi-
derably raised, and the consumptiod had become so reduced,
that the revenue from wine kad decreased four-fifths.
Thus showing that an increase of duty by no means pro-
duced an increase of the revenue.
Several other Members supported the prayer of the pe-
tition, which was then read and ordered to be printed.
Mr. PERRIN then moved for the returns of the quan-
tities of soap exported from Eugland to foreign countries.
—G rd e red.

Mr. WRYLAND having been elected for the county
of Oxford, and also for Weymouth, to make his selection
to sit for Oxford; he therefore moved for a new writ for
Weymouth—ordered.
Dir. LITTLETON presented a petition from the Staf-
fordshire potteries, expressing the gratitude of the inha-
bitants for the Reform Bill, and praying tiist they might
have two Members instead of one. The Hon. Member
concurred in the prayor of the petition, and said he would
bring the subject before the Committee.
Mr. BUCK presented a petition from the Corporation
of Exeter, praying that the qualification for voters
in the Reform Bill might be raised. The Honour-
able Member also presented petitions from the Catholics
of county Westmeath, against the grant to the Kildare-
street Society. Also a petition from the worlcinc.eoach -
makers of dahlia, complaining of the Legislative- Union.
Mr. BODKIN presented petitions from the Magis-
trates, Clergy, and Landholders of Galway, complaining of
the famine and distress prevalent in that district. Also,
a petition from certain merchants and ship-owners against
the tax on marine insurance, and from the merchants of
the city of Tuum, praying that under the Reform Bill,
they might have a share in the Constitution.
Mr. WILKES presented a petition from the fritbo'-
ders and inhabitants of a place near Lincoln, and from Li-
berton, in favour of the Reform Bill ; also a petitio
from the Protestant Society for the protection of rail iou,
liberty against the imposition of unnecessary oaths. Thy
Hon. Member gave notice that he should in Committee on
the Reform Bill, move for a proviso to prevent the on-
tinuance of any Parliament for a longer term than 11 tee
years.

Lard INGESTRIE presented a petition from certan
Prestant clergy in Ireland, complaining of illegal coin.
binations in resisting the payment of tithes. He
would not enter into the subject of tythes generally ;
the subject was undoubtedly difficult and delicate, but
of this he was certain, that if tithes were due, being esta-
blished by law, the petitioners had a right to them, as in-
disputably as any person in the country bad a right to their
property. He begged to ask the Hon. Secretary for Ireland,
whether his Majesty's Governtment had in contemplation
any measure to facilitate the recovery of tythts.
An Hon. Member whose name we could not learn,

assured the House, on his own personal knowledge,
that there was nothing like illegal combination to
resist the levying of tithes as had been represented by
the petitioners.

Mr. STANLEY was stare the House would agree with
him that a subject of such magnitude as that introduced
by the petition was not one, which, however, worthy of
consideration, could well be discussed on the presentation
of a petition. It was asked whether the Government had
this subject under their consideration, and were prepared to
bring forward any specific measura, for the remedy of those
grievances of which the petitioners complained. He could
assure the House no off! ject was more anxiously
under the consideration of Government than the
existing system of tithes. But that was was a question
which, looking at it in any point of view, presented mnch
difficulty and great delicacy. He rejoiced that this mat-
ter had been brought forward in this manner by the
Irish Protestant Clergy. He certainly only lamented
that while the petitioners acknowledged the assistance they
had received front Ministers, in the enforcement of their
due rights—an assistance which he hoped would never be
withheld from them—that at the same time, however,
when they sought a change of system, no specific remedy
had been proposed for the adoption of Government.
While on the one hand no man was more strictly at-
tached to the Established Church, or was more
anxious that it should continue in the possession of its
legitimate property. On the other hand, however, no
Member of that House was more anxious than him-
self to see existing abuses corrected, and that that which
long the undoubted right of the Church might be levied
with as little inconvenience as possible to those persons from
whom it should be raised. He would much deceive the
House howover if he pretended to say thrt the Govern-
ment had under its consideration any specific plan, which
it was proposed to lay before this House for the
remedy of those grievances. Its anxious attention was
turned to the question, and he hoped it would be satisfac-

torily adjusted.
11r. LEFROY expressed his satisfaction at the state-
ments of the Right Hon. Secretary for Ireland, as he
considered it would be the means of allaying a good deal
of irritation.

311.. J. GRATTAN deprecated the collection of tithes
by force ; if they were to be so collected, it was high time
for the Government to interfere. He trusted Government
would make this tax tributary to the relief of the Irish
poor. . _ _

Sir C. WETHERELL concurred with what had been
stated by the Right lion. Secretary for Ireland, but that
he was not aware that that dissatisfaction existed in Ire-
land on this subject which had been alluded to.
Captain GORDON considered the resistance to the
payment of tithes in the south of Ireland, did not origi-
nate with the unfortunate affair at Newtonbarry.
Mr. O'CONNELL strongly denied that any resistance
had been made to the payment of tithes in any of the
southern counties of Ireland, not excepting Clare.
The only thing that was done when the cattle were dis-
trained upo, was to brand them " tithes" and then no
person would be found to buy them.—(Laughter.) The
clergy had the law all on their side, they had the law of
distress, the Exchequer law, and they had the military
and in the case of the clergyman at Newt,mbarry had de-
manded tithes three half years iu one year, which wes
rather too much even in Irelaud.—(Lond and con-
tinued laughter.) He strongly deprecated the introduction of
the military, for whom there was no occasion whatever.
The Roman Catholics in Ireland, so far from wishing to
withhold remuneration to Protestant Clergymen, would
wish to see them abundantly paid where they bad duties
to perform, but there were some parishes iu which not a
Roman Catholic was to be found.