The Sun.
London, England, 1831-10-19 00:00:00

VESTRIES' BILL.

On the order of the day being moved for receiving the
report of the Select Vestries' Bill,
Lord FALMOUTH moved an amendment, to be intro-
duced at the end of the Bill, to the effect that the provi-
sions of the Bill should not apply to patishes in which the
number of rate-payers did not exceed 600.
Lord MELBOURNE requested that the consideration
of this amendment might be postponed for the present,
promising to consider of it.
The Bishop of LONDON proposed an amendment, to
the effect that when the places where vestries had been
usually held were found inconvenient, they might be held
in other places. This (as we understood) was agreed to.
The LORD CHANCELLOR still thought that the
adoption of this kind of select vestries should be in the

voters who chose to attend. It would be utterly impos.
Bible to get 7,000 of the rate-payers of St. Pancras to at-
b nd. He would, however, postpone his amendment on
that head till next year.
Some other minor amendments were introduced, and
the report was received.
Tie 13111 was ordered for a third reading to-morrow.
In about en hour the LORD CHANCELLOR returned to
the Woolsack, and the Yeoman Usher of the BlAck Rod
announced a message from the House of Commons.
Mr. Bernal, the Attorney and Solicitor-General, awd
nearly twenty other Members of the house of Commons,
appeared et the bar with the Bankruptcy Court Bill, with
~tveral amendments, to which they desired the concur-
rence of their Lordships, and also with the Crown Land
Enclosure Bill, and the Embankments' (Ireland) Bill.
The Crown Land Enclosure Bill wes read a first time.
On the motion of the LORD CHANCELLOR, the
amendments in the Bankruptcy Court Bill were ordered to
be taken into consideration to-morrow (this day).
Adjourned at a Quarter after Seven o'clock.

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LITERATURE.

WESTMINSTER RE VIEW, No. 30.
The present number, wiiich we regret not to
have had an opportunity of notiei:T before, is full
of character and energy. There is not an inferior
article, or one that does not broach mill elo-
quently enforce some new, moral, political, or
literary opinion, in it. The first, entitled " Po-
litical Adventurers—Mr. Canning and Mr.
Huskisson," is admirable ; full of truth, full of
force, full of argument, full of sincerity. It
should as speedily as possible be reprinted in a
cheap and commodious form, and circulated
by thousands among the people. The chief
object of this eloquent essay is to show the mis-
chievous results that have ensued from the po-
litical system, as expounded And acted on for
the last fifty Sears and more, by the High
Tories. The writer is manifestly master of his
subject, and does not mince matters. ,Oa the
political character of Mr. Canning, however, we
cannot but think that he is unnecessarily severe.
He forgets that, from earliest life, this accom-
plished statesman was the unwilling victim of a •
system which it was the favourite object of the
only independent portion of his life, if not to
abrogate, at least to ameliorate. " The Right
of Tithes" is an article admirably suited to the
present temper of the times ; and will, we are
sure, be read with all the attention it deserves.
" Croker's Edition of Boswell's Johnson" is a
less fortunate paper. It is throne:tout too eulo-
gistic, too general, too little discriwinating in
the style of its remarks, and will not bear
a moment's comparison with the unrivalled ana-
lysis of the same work by Mr. Macauley in the
last published number ofthe Edinburgh Review.
" France and the Revolution," thougft the
subject be now somewhat hacknied, will still
greatly interest and instruct the mind of the
reader. " Spasmodic Cholera" is replete with
valuable practical information on the subject of
this first of bug-bears. The writer clearly leans
to the opinion that the cholera is contagious as
well as epidemic, and proceeds from an un-
favourable condition of the earth. The follow-
ing are among the remedies he prescribes for this
formidable and extraordinary pestilence :
" If the patient be seen as soon as be is attacked, a vein
should be opened in the arm, and blood should be a 1..-
stracted in proportion to the violence of the symptoms,
and the powers of the patient. At the same time a pill,
composed of twenty grains of calomel and two grains of
solid opium, should be taken, and instantly followed by a
draught, composed of one ounce of camphor mixture, one
drachm of laudanum, and one drachm of eether. The
entire body, but more especially the extremities, should
he rubbed with warm flannel, or flannel steeped in spirits
of turpentine; and bottles, containing hot water, are to
be applied to the feet. If these measures succeed in
affording relief, the pill and draught may be repeated in
the evening, and half an ounce of castor ail should be
given on the following morning; after which no further
danger need be apprehended. But if the iymptowns re-
main unabated, and, as often happens, no blood can be
obtained by the lancet, from twenty to thirty leeches
should be applied to the pit of the stomach ; time pill and
draught should be repeated every two hours, until the
spasms relax, and after the leeches have done bleeding, the
bowels should be covered with a mustard poultice or a
blister. As soon as bile appears in the evacuations, strong
hopes of recovery may be entertained, and half a drachm
of compound jalap powder, mixed up with two ounces of
peppermint water, may then be given to solicit this secre-
tion, and be repeated if necessary. The attack, if violent,
seldom continues longer than from twelve to twenty hours ;
but inflammatory action is not unfrequently set up after-
wards in the brain, stomach, or other important organs,
which requires both skill and watchfulness. As medical
assistance, however, can always be procured before the
case has progressed so far, these accidental consequences
may in general be avoided."
Prospects of Tory Re-action" is a spirited
and intelligent essay, though it takes rather too
desponding a tone. The cause of Reform, that
is, of some sort of Reform, is safe, and can no
more be staved off, than can the incursions of
the Atlantic by Dame Partington's mop. Of the
remaining articles we have only room and time to
say that they will each bear perusal, especially
the review of D'lsraeli's " Young Duke," which
is as dainty a piece of sarcasm in its way as we
ever read.

Were it not for the injury that it has done to
the trade of the country, we would not regret the conduct
of the Peers and Bishops in rejecting the Reform Bill.
Their decision on this case has added new energy to
the cause of Reform, in all parts of the country,
but particularly in Paisley. The great county meet-
ing which is to take place there on Monday, will be
held on the seine piece of ground (Common Hill)
as the first Reform meeting that ever took place in
tic town, which was in 1792, on the suspension of
the Habeas Corpus Act ? and the hustings on this occa•
sion will stand surrounded with bands of music and
adorned with fltgs, within a few hundred yards of the
same spot, where the repudiated Reformers of that pe-
riod addressed their townsmen from au old cart. The
inhabitants are making active preparations for the
meeting in all parts of the town. On Thursday night
meetings were held in several of the quarters to make
arrangements for walking to it in procession. In Char-
leston, Townbead, Sandholes, and Fergualie quarters, t:.e
people have been particularly busy. In the Sandholts
quarter, the resolution was to march to the ground w:th
drums beating and colours flying, with all the para-
phernalia pertaining to ancient order. And in Fergusir
quarter, the inhabitants met and agreed unanimously to
join the County Political Union in a body, which they
did on the spot ; and also to walk to the meeting in the
same manner as that just described.— Glasgov. Even. Post.
A USEFUL DISCOVERY.—In the latter part
of last week the drain or ditch which conveys the foul
water from Edinburgh through the meadows lying be-
twixt Meadowbanks Tower and Restalrig, was much
swollen with the rain that had fallen, and overflowed its
banks at several places. The lower part of Mr. HAMIL-
TON'S garden, at Sunnybank, was deluged with the fruc-
tifying stream, and on the waters abating he was sur-
prised to discover that they clntained other than ferti-
lizing properties. They were on tkis occasion strongly
impregnated with the refuse lime of the gag-works; and
in searching through the loose soil of the garden, Sum-
moned up myriads of worms from all quarters, which
were destined never to return to their holes. The solo,
tion had dozed the poor creatures so effectually, that in a
short time the whole mass expired, apparently in great
agony. This is a discovery worth notice. Mr. HAMIL-
TON is of opinion that the gas-water will do no harm to
the soil, and if this is found to he the case, and means
devised to destroy its offensive smell, perhaps the dis-
covery of its use in destroying worms will be of gicat be-
nefit to the horticulturists and gardeners in the neigh-
boarhoud.....scorenan.