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London, England, 1831-04-25 00:00:00

DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT.

(From the London Gazette Extraordinary of April 23.)
BY THE KING.
A PROCLAMATION,
FOR DISSOLVING THE PRESENT PARLIA-
MENT, AND DECLARING THE CALLING OF
ANOTHER.
WILMA:NI R.
Whereas, we have thought fit, by and with the
advice of our Privy Council, to dissolve this present
Parliament, which stands prorogued to Tuesday
the 10th day of May next : We do for that end
liublish this our Royal Proclamation, and do herebY
dissolve the said Parliament accordingly ; and the
Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Knights,
Citizens, and Burgesses, and the Commissioners for
Shires and Burghs of the House of Commons, are
discharged from their meeting and attendance, on
the said Tuesdayuthe tenth day of May next : and
we being desirous and resolved, as soon as may be,
to meet our people, and to have their advice in Par-
liament, do hereby make known to all our loving
subjects our Royal Nvill and pleasure to call a new
Parliament. And do hereby further declare, that
with the advice of our Privy Council, we have
given orders, to our Chancellor of that part of our
United Kingdom called Great Britain, and our Chan-
cellor of Ireland, that they do respectively, upon notice
thereof, forthwith issue out writs in due form, and
according to law, for calling a new Parliament :
and we do hereby also, by this our Royal Procla-
mation, under our Great Seal of our United King-
dom, require writs forthwith to be issued accord-
ingly by our said Chancellors respectively, for
causing the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and
Commons, who are to serve in the said Parliament,
to be duly returned to and give their attendance in
our said Parliament ; which writs are to be return-
able on Tuesday, the 14th day of June next.
Given at our Court at St. James's, the 23d day
of April, One Thousand Eight Hundred and
Thirty-one, and in the First Year of our Reign.
GOD SAVE THE KING.

BY THE KING.
A PROCLAMATION,

IN ORDER TO THE ELECTION AND SUMMON-
ING THE SIXTEEN PEERS OF SCOTLAND.
WILLIAM R.
Whereas we have in our Council thought fit to de-
clare our pleasure for summoning and holEng a Par-
liament of our United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, on Tuesday, the 14th day of June next
ensuing the date hereof; in order, therefore, to
the electing and summoning the Sixteen Peers of
Scotland, who are to sit in the House of Peers in
th: said Parliament : We do, by the advice of our
Privy Council, issue forth this our Royal Proclatna-
tion, strictly charging and commanding all the Peers
of Scotland to assemble and meet at Holyrood
House, in Edinburgh, on Friday, the 3il day of
June next ensuing, between the hours of twelve
and two in the afternoon, to nominate and choose
the sixteen Peers, to sit and vote in the House of
Peers in the said ensuing Parliament, by open elec-
tion and plurality of voices of the Peers that shall
be then present, and of the proxies of such as shall
be absent (such proxies being Peers, and producing
a mandate in writing, duly signed before witnesses,
and both constituent and proxy being qualified ac-
cording to law), and the Lord Clerk Register, or
such two of the Principal Clerks of the Session as
shall be appointed by, him to officiate in his
.name,
are hereby respectively required to attend such
meeting, and to administer the oaths required by
law to be taken there by the said Peers, and to take
their votes; and immediately after such election
made and duly examined, to certify the names of the
sixteen Peers so elected, and sign and attest the
same in the presence of the said Peers the electors,
and return such certificate into our High Court of
Chancery of Great Britain. And we do, by this our
Royal Proclamation,strictly command and require the
Provost of Edinburgh and all other the Magistrates of
the said city, to take especial care to preserve the
peace thereof during the time of the said election,
and to prevent all manner of riot;, tumults, disor-
ders, and violence whatsoever. And we strictly
charge and command that this our Royal Proclama-
tion be duly published at the Market Cross, at
Edinburgh, and in all the county towns of Scotland,
twenty-five days, at least, before the time hereby
appointed for the meeting of the said Peers to pro-
ceed to such election.

Witness ourself at Westminster, this 23d day oi
April, 1631, and in the First Year of our Reign.
GOD SAVE THE KING.

THE GENERAL ELECTION.

WINDSOR.—The proposal for a meeting to consider
the propriety of returning the worthy Members for this
borough to the next Parliament, free of expence, as sug-
gested by our correspondent, W. R., should not be lost
sight of. Some such testimony is due to the upright con_
duct of those gentlemen, while the exhibition of some-
thing like independence and public spirit is sadly wanting
to rescue the town from the degrading position in which it
has been recently placed, by the meddling interference of
the hirelings who would fain convert it into a rotten bo-
rough. On the announcement of the dissolution, we un-
derstand that our worthy Mayor expressed his firm re-
solve that our late representative, Mr. Ramsbottom, in
consequence of his naughty interference in political mat-
ters, shall no longer be a representative of this borough in
Parliament ; but that he, Mr. Mayor, will elect himself
to the vacant seat. This may be relied on, as our distin-
guished Chief Magistrate has been to. Sir Herbert Taylor
on the subject.— Windsor Express.
HAMPSHIRE.—Sir James Macdonald and Mr. Le-
fevre, in compliance with requisitions signed by a very
large body of freeholders, have avowed themselves candi-
dates for the representation of this county; and being
" of known attachment to the great principles of Reform,"
we trust they will be triumphantly returned. No inti-
mation has as yet been given of Sir W. Heathcote agai❑
presenting himself ; Mr. Fleming, however, will enter the
arena. Mr. Fleming will commence his canvass in Ports..
mouth, Portsea, and Gosport on Monday next, when, if
we do not greatly err, he will meet with as little success
as ever betel an unpopular candidate. The general eon..
jecture appears to be, that Sir W. Heathcote will retire.
A meeting of the freeholders and friends of Reform, resi-
dent in these towns, will take place on Monday evening
next, at six o'clock, at the Beneficial Society's Hall, Port.
sea, to consider the measures to be pursued to insure the
return, of Sir James Macdonald and Mr. Lefevre.-•-
Hampshire Telegraph.
LEWES.—A number of the inhabitants of Lewes have
this week enrol'ed their names in a club, which they de-
signate the " Union Club," and which has been formed to
support Sir Charles Blunt at the next electian for that
borough.—Briyhton Herald.
SUSSEX.—The Hastings Iris states, that should
Sussex return four Members, in all probability Sir Godfrey
Webster and Mr. Herbert Curteis will be elected for the
eastern part.

ESSEX.—Mr. Western's friends are, we hear, forming
committees in the principal towns, and will begin a can'
vass as soon as possible. lie will himself, we understand,
go round the county of Essex directly, and avail himself of
every opportunity to communicate with his constituents.
NEWARK.—A letter front Newark says--" The
Duke's :Member, Mr. Sadler, was burnt in effigy for his
into
the to the Reform Bill, and thrown hissing hot
the Trent."

HUNTINGDONSHIRE.—The Huntingdon Gazette
states, that an independent candidate will offer himself for
the suffrages of the electors of that county, in opposition to
Lord Mandeville, in the event of Lord John Russell or Mr.
Hooper declining to offer themselves.
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NORIVICH.—Mr. R. H. Gurney and Mr. Robert
Grant have announced their intention to offer themselves
again for Norwich.—Becks Chronicle.

BERKSHIRE.—It is reported that Mr.Throckmorton,
of Buckland-house, will be a candidate for the county al
the next election.

CAMBRIDGE.—Mr. Cavendish's friends have already
taken measures to secure his le-election for the University
of Cambridge.

ST. ALBAN'S.—This borough will be contested. The
sitting .Members are Lord Grimston and Mr. Tennant.
Sir Francis Vincent, Bart., is the new candidate. He is a
•taunch reformer, and exceedingly popular in the borough•
MALDON.—There is a fine opening in this borough for
do enterpi ising candidate, in lieu of Mr. Quintin Dicl•
who, it will be recollected, has uniformly voted again°

Reform ; and if the county of Essex should have thenumber
of its Members ultimately increased to four, Mr. Leonard
will, in all probability, be returned by the freeholders, so
that the seat for Maldon might be considered as on a per•
manent footing to a new comer—good behaviour, of
course, permitting.
HARWICH.—Messrs. iierriea and Rawson have gone
to Harwich to canvass that Ministerial borotigh against the
interest of Ministers. Two independent gentlemen, in-
dignant at this unhandsome conduct, have started on their
own account to defeat this shameful attempt to use the in-
fluence of the patron against the wishes and objects of the
patron. if Messrs. Herries and Dawson wish to open
the borough to general competition, they should vote for
the Bill. Now they are Using weapons put in their hands
against those who furnish them. They ought to have re-
signed their seats.

BEDFORD.—The borough of Bedford, it is supposed,
will not be contested ; the two present Members, Captain
Polhill and Mr. Whitbread, both reformers, having re-
ceived the strongest assurances of support. Mr. Stuart,
(who has voted on every occasion against the Reform Bill)
will be strongly opposed for the county ; and requisition,
are signing in all parts of Bedfordshire, inviting their old
Member, Colonel Macqueen, to come forward.
DOVER.—Sir Robert Peel will not, it is rumoured,
stand at the coming election for the borough of Tamworth,
of which he has hitherto been the half-patron ; it is added
that he means to start for Dover, in which place he ex-
pects the support of a considerable body of freemen, through
the influence of his Noble Friend the Duke of Wellington,
the Warden of the Cinque Ports.
DERBY.—We rejoice to hear of the anxious and active
measures which have already taken place in the independent
county of Derby, for the return of two honest and honour-
able men to the next Parliament, who will pledge them-
selves to support Lord John Russell's Reform Bill, and
nothing but the Bill ; and that able Counsel are actually
returned to support such Members, &c. This is as it
should be, and will, we have no doubt, operate as a bright
example to counties in general.
DERBYSHlRE.—Arrangements are already making
to secure the return of Lord George Cavendish for Derby-
shire, together with another candidate in the place of Mr.
Monday, who shall be pledged to support the whole Bill.
TAMWOR l'H.—We have received a letter from Mr.
John Robbins, stating that, in consequence of a severe do-
mestic calamity, be was compelled to relinquish the high
honour about to be conferred on him by his friends, the in-
dependent Reformers of Tamworth ; but that he had re-
commended to their notice his independent and patriotic
friend, Mr. Thomas Attwood, of Birmingham.
WARWICK.—The county of Warwick' is certain to
be contested. Sir Eard!ey Wilmot, Sir George Chet-
wynd, Mr. Lillingstone, and Mr. Lawley are mentioned
as candidates.
GREAT YARMOUTH.—A very numerous meeting
of the merchants, bankers, ship-owners, traders, and inha-
bitants of the borough of Great Yarmouth, was held at
the Apollo Bowling
,Green on Saturday, to receive their
highly respected and esteemed Members. Mr. Alderman
Barth, Mr. Shelly, and Mr. Murray, addressed the meet-
ing, and happily Colonel Anson arrived at its commence-
ment, and was greeted with the loudest acclamations, Mr.
Rumbold, from indisposition, not being able to reach
Yarmouth till the next day. There was a procession
with band and colours of many devices (one, " Our
beloved King, and 0:d England for ever,") to the Com-
mittee rooms, where the dense crowd was again addressed
by Colonel Anson and the gentlemen of the Committee,
who are in the highest spirits, and there is every reason
to anticipate that the late Members will be returned, even
if there should be an opposition, by a most triumphant
majority, as the cause of Reform is rapidly gaining ground
n this borough..