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LONDON EDN ESD AX, JULY 1841.
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IrHE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGA-
ZINE, for AUGUST, price 2s. 6d. contains—
). Lady Chatterton's Home Sketches and Foreign Recollec-
tions-2. Tom Moore and Anacreon-3. Gallery of Illustrious
Irishmen, No. XII., Usher, Part 111., Conclusion-4. Let-
ters from the Coast of Clare, Nos. VI. and VII.-5. Drama-
tic Doings-6. Charles O'Malley, the Irish Dragoon, Chapter
XCVI., The Confidence; Chap. XCVII., The Cantonment;
Chap. XCVIII., Mikey Free's Adventure; Chap. XCIX.,
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The Trenches ; Chap. CII., The Storming of Ciudad Rodrigo
—7. Our Summer Flowers. Third Garland—S. Our Portrait
Gallery, No. XXI., W. H. Maavfell, Author of " Stories of
Waterloo," &c., with an Etching-9. Field Sports-10. The
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The DIRECTORS of the MANCHESTER and LEEDS
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an Act passed in the Fourth Year of the Reign of her present
Majesty, intituled " An Act for enabling the Manchester and
Leeds Railway Company to raise a further sum of money,"
to RECEIVE TENDERS for the LOAN of MONEY, in
sums of not less than One Thousand Pounds each, on interest
at the rate of Five per Cent. per annum, for the terms of five
tor seven years, at the option of the lender, the repayment to
be secured by mortgage of the property of the undertaking
and the rates, tolls, and other sums, arising or to arise by vir-
tue of the several Acts of Parliament passed relating to the
said thilway.•
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for which the same are proposed to be lent, and are to be ad-
dressed to the Chairman, at the Company's Offices, Clowe's-
buildings, Hunt's Bank, Manchester.
Dated this 4th day of June, 1841.
H. HOULDSWORTH, Chairman.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
ALTERATION OF TRAINS.
On and after FRIDAY, the 30th instant.
The Postmaster-General having required, under the autho-
rity of an Act of Parliament, that Night and Day Mail Trains
should be provided for the conveyance of the Mails at certain
hours fixed and specified in his Lordship's Notice, the public
are informed that an alteration in the departure of Trains will
consequently take place on Friday next, the 30th of July.
For the convenience of Passengers to and from Exeter, Ply-
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Cornwall, &a. an Early Train will leave Paddington at Six
o'Clock in the Morning, proceeding to Bath, Bristol, and
Bridgewater, and also to Cirencester, and a late Train up will
leave Bridgewater at Five in the Evening for Paddington, where
it will arrive about Eleven, p.m. Trains down, also will leave
Paddington at Eight o'Clock in the Morning, for Cirencester,
Bath, Bristol, and Bridgewater.
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11 0
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Particulars of the alteration of Trains may be known by ap-
plication, after Tuesday, the 27th in't., at any of the Coach
Offices or Railway Stations.
CHARLES SAUNDERS.
THO MAS OSLER. t. Secretaries.
24th July, 1841.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
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the 26th August next, at Twelve &Clock, for the general pur-
poses of business. The Chair will be taken at One o'Clock
precisely.,
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ROBERT BRIGHT, beputv-Chairman.
The TRANSFER-BOOKS will be CLOSED on the 16th
August, and will not be opened until after the said Half-yearly
General Meeting on the 26th. . .

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been transmitted to one of the Secretaries of the Company at
least five days before the meeting.—By Order,
CHARLES A. SAUNDERS,/
Secretaries.
THOMAS OSLER,

Railway Offices, 2, Princes-street, Bank, London;
Railway Station, Bristol.

LONDON AND BRIGHTON RAIL-
WAY.

ALTERATION of TIME from and after July 5.
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passengers, parcels, horses, and carriages. The trains will
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GENERAL MEETING of the PROPRIETORS of
this COMPANY will be held, pursuant to the Act of Incor-
poration, on MONDAY, August 9, 1841, at the London Ta-
vern, Bishopsgate-street„ at One o'Clock precistly ; at which
Meeting certain Shares, upon which the Bth and 9th calls re-
main unpaid, and have been in consequence thereof declared
forfeited, under Minutes of the Board of Directors of 19th No-
vember, 1840, and 6th of May, 1841, will be submitted for
confirmation of such forfeiture.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of this COMPANY will be
CLOSED 26th July, and remain closed till after the Meeting.
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THOMAS WOOD, Secretary.
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CAPT. CIIAMIER'S NEW NAVAL NOVEL.
—lf " Tom Bowling" were to be judged of merely by its
title, it would excite high interest and expectation in the
reading world ; but when we state that it blends in the
most characteristic manner many of the most brilliant
naval events of the late war with the personal character
and career of its hero, Tom Bowling, it will command
unusual attention and curiosity. Many of the most illus-
trious names in our recent naval annals aro introduced
incidentally to the reader in connexion with the hero.
among them Nelson, Collingwood, and Jervis ; and they
are, by the personal knowledge of them possessed by the
writer, made to figure in a very characteristic manner.
But the charm of the work, after all, will be found in its
rich and racy pictures of the low life of the British navy
—that branch of it (as the most aristocratic of its officers
would readily confess) on which so much of its wonder-
ful successes depended. In depicting sea life between
decks, and on the forecastle, Capt. Chamier has been
surpassed by no one of his rivals in naval writing, and he
has never displayed the faculty more successfully than in
the instance of Torn Bowling, " the darling of our crew."
SUICIDE.—The town of Ledbury was thrown
into a state of excitement on Wednesday evening
last, by Mr. Thomas Taylor, a retired tradesman
of the place, committing suicide. He had been long
suffering from dropsy, and was nearly at the point of
death. He had shown symptoms of temporary derange-
ment two or three days previous,. and while his attend-
ant was arranging something in the room, he nearly
severed his head from his body with a clasp knife.—
Cheltenham Journal

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
GOODWOOD RACES—Tel:spay.
In consequence of the extraordinary number of races
it was originally intended that they should commence
each day at twelve o'clock; subsequently, however, it was
decided that the start should take place an hour later.
This arrangement may probably suit those who by the
adoption of fashionable usages sit flown to dinner about
the time reasonable peoPle 'are thinking of their pillows.
but protracting the racing until late in the evening,
will be found generally inconvenient. The change
is made still more objectionable- by the introduction
of heats, abominations to be tolerated only at places
where it is necessary to make a. little money go a great
way, but quite out of character at so aristocratic a meet-
ing as Goodwood, where the quantum of sport each day
is more than sufficient to gratify the most inordinate ap-
petite ; the sooner they are abolished the better. Owing
to the alteration we are not only compelled to forward
our express minus several races, but to curtail our re-
marks on those decided. Briefly stating, therefore, that
the weather was favourable, that. the company now as-
sembled on the course as numerous as, under circum-
stances painful to dwell upon, could have been expected;
.we will proceed with the racing in the order it male off.
The Craven Stakes of 10 sovs. each. 3 yrs, ist ; 4 yrs,
Bst 41b ; 5 yrs, Bst 101 b ; 6 yrs and aged, Bst 121 b.
One mile and a quarter. (9 Subs.)
Mr. Etwatl's cby Mulatto—Melody ...(J. Day, jun.) 1
Mr. Goodman's Belgrade 2
Mr. M. Jones' Portrait, 3 yrs 3
Lord G. Bentinck's Naworth, 4 yrs 4
Lord Exeter's f by Reveller, 3 yrs 5
Duke of Richmond's ch h Bulwark, 5 yrs 6
Betting.-10 to 6 agst Melody, 5 to 2 agst Portrait,
took the leadsitt
ant 4to 1 agst Belgrade. Naworth made the running
to the turn, when Portrait took it up, and kept in front
to the distance. Melody colt t,
followed by Belgrade-, and •Won easy. Y a length.
The Levant Stakes of 50 sovs. each. 30 ft. for two yrs
old. Half a mile. (11 subs.)
Mr. J. Sadler's Passion, slbs extra (Conolly) 1
Duke of Richmond's Eaglesfield 2
Lord G. Bentinck's Misdeal 3
Betting-7 to 4on Misdeal (taken), 2to 1 agst Pas-
sion, and to 1 agst Eaglesfield. Misdeal made play for
about 300, yards, and was then headed by Passion, who
went on at a great pace to the distance, where Misdeal
gave up. Eaglesfield made his rush at the Grand Stand,
but was beaten by a neck very cleverly.
The Drawing Room StakeS of 25 sovs. each, with a bonus
of 10 sovs. each ; for three yrs old colts, Bst 71b ; and
fillies, Bst 21b. The second to receive 100 sovs. out of
the stakes, and the winner to pay 25 sovs. to the Judge.
D.S.C. 27 subs to the Sweepstakes, and 16 to the
bonus.
Lord Albemarle's Ralph (Robinson) 1
Lord Exeter's Cesarewitch
Lord G. Bentinck's Mustapha 3
Mr. J. Sadler's Defy 4
Betting-2 to lon Ralph, 4to 1 agst Mustapha, and
Bto 1 agst Cesarewitch. Defy made the running at
starting followed by Cesarewitch, the others lying be-
hind • theyran so till near the turn or the straight
finish, where Mustapha went in front, and made play to
the distance, where Ralph passed him, had the rest of
the race to himself, and won in a canter by two lengths.
Match-50 sovs. h ft. One mile. ' •
Col. Gardnor's Dismal Jemmy, Bst
Mr. Goodman's Mungo Parke, Bst 71b....... ............. 2
5 to 4 on Dismal Jemmy, who won easy, by half a length.
Sweepstakes of 300 sovs. each, h ft, for 4 yrs old colts,
Bst 71b, and fillies Bst 21b. Queen's Plate Course.
(19 Subs.)
Col. Anson's Black Bess (Nat) 1
Mr. Bowes' Black Beck . 2
Lord G. Bentinck's Capote 3
Lord Westminster's Launcelot
Betting-6 to 4 agst Black Bess ;2to 1 each agst
Black Beck and Capote, and 10 to 1 agst Launcelot, who
had " a leg."
Capote went away with a lead of several lengths, fol-
lowed by Launcelot, Black Beck third, and the mare last.
In making the turn at the Clump, Launcelot broke down,
and the second place was taken by Black Beck; in rising
the hill to the last turn, Capote gave way, and Black
Beck took the lead, which he maintained to the distance,
where the mare challenged, and won cleverly by a length.
The pace was very good for the first three miles, but
slow at the finish.
The Ham Stakes of 100 sovs. each, h ft, for two yrs old.
T.Y.C. 41 subs.
Mr. Wreford's cby Taurus, out of Victoria (J. Day) 1
Col. Peel's c by Colonel, out of Hester 2
Duke of Richmond's f by Elis, out of Baleine
Mr. Gregory's Barrier 4
The following also started :—Mr. Greatwicho's West-
phalian, Lord G. Bentinck's Firebrand, Lord Exeter's
Albion, Lord Lichfield's c by Bay Middleton, out of Zil-
lah and Col. Anson's Elopement.
Betting-5 to 4on the Hester colt, 3to 1 against Ba-
leine, and 6 to 1 each against Elopement and Barrier.
Firebrand made play for a quarter of a mile, and then
resigned to the Baleine filly, who was joined at the dis-
tance by the favourite and Barrier. These three ran
nearly head and head till within ten strides of the chair,
when the Victoria colt rushed in and won by a head.
It was one of the finest races ever seen. The winner
was not mentioned in the betting.
The Goodwood Club Stakes of 10 sovs. each, for three
years old and upwards. Craven Stakes course. To
be ridden by members of the Goodwood Club. (Eleven
subs.)
Lord Bentinck's b g Naworth 4 yrs (Lord Maidstone) 1
Mr. Gardnor's Dismal Jemmy, 4 yrs, lOst 101 b
Mr. Osbaldeston's Curry Comb, 4 yrs, llst 51b
Captain Rous nd cby Taurus—Perfume, 3 yrs, lOst slb 4
5t04 on Curry Comb. Dismal Jemmy made the run-
ning to the distance, where the others closed with him,
and a fine race home was won by a head only.
Sweepstakes of 500 sovs. each, 200 ft, for 2 yrs old colts,
Bst 101 b, and fillies Bst 71b. T.Y.C. (4 Subs')
Lord Chesterfield's c Johnny Fan (31bs)
........(Nat) 1
Duke of Beaufort's cby Camel--Miss Craven's d (31b) 2
Lord G. Bentinck's b c Flytrap (allowed 31b) 3
Betting-6 to 4on Miss Craven colt, and 2to -1 agst
Johnny.Faa. A remarkably fine race between the first
and second, and won by a head only. Flytrap was
beaten off.
Three other races were not run when our account left
the course.

LATEST CUP BETTING ON TIIE COURSE.
4 to 1 agst Mr. Greatrex's Pocahontas, 7st 111 b—t.
4 to 1 agst Mr. Johnstone's Charles XII. Sst 131 b.—t.
3 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's Maroon, Bst 51b—t.
10 to 1 agst Mike of Orleans' Nautilus, 6st 121 b.
Lantara is declared not to start.

1831.
Males. Ferns. Total. Total.
PArsisu of Sr. GEORGE, ----
HANOVER-SQUARE.
In-wards.
Hanover. square 95031 11892 213951
May fair .... 6662 8386 15948 f
Out-ward. 58209
Belgrave 13622 16668 30090
St. James's 18196 19211 374071 37053
St. Martin- in-the-Fields... 12366 12829 25195' 23970
TILE STRAND UNION.
St. Clement Danes district, in-
cluding the Liberty of the Rolls
and the Inner and Middle
Temple
St. Mary-le-Strand and the • i 26220
Savoy district 5575 6145 11720
St. Anne's parish
St. Margaret's
St. John's l3OOO 13218 26218 22640
109321 1207811229703 200306
Increase since 1831
Excess of females over males
Parish of Paddington .............. 10687 14394 25081 14540
Parish of Marvlebone
Parish of St. Pancras. 71347 58200 1295471103548
Parish of St. James, Clerkenwell 266% 30008 56706 47634
Parish of St. Mary, Islington.. 24229 31344 55573 37316
Parish of St. Leonard, Shore-
' ditch 39537 43907 83444 68564
Parish of St. Luke 24062 25703 49765 46641
Parish of S!. Matthew, Bethnal-
green ..•..........•.• 35546 38477 74025 62018
WHITECHAPEL UNION.
Nine parishes 33350 36408 71758 64141
STEPNEY UNION.
Mile-end Old Town ......... 20115 25190 45305 33892
Limehouse 9611 9727 193381 15695
Ratcliffe 5599 6271 11870 9741
Shadwell .................. 4853 5147 10000 9554
Wapping 2468 2097 4565; 3564
St. George-in-the-East 19678 21853 41531 38505
St. Giles-in-the-Ftelds ........ •• 25479 28771 54250 52007
Saffron-hill Liberty
St. George the Martyr 3647 4249 7896
St. Andrew Holborn (about). ,0000, 27334
424907 464842,909749;65430

TOTAL RETURNS.
1841.

909749

765430

City of Westminster ......... 229,703 I
Metropolitan parishes 909,749 S 1,139,452
1831.

974,466
Metropolitan
716648 5,94360}
Excess for the city of
City of Westminster 209,036
o f
l s4lpa overrisi parishes s
1831,
Westminster and the above metropolitan parishes.
Ditto of females for 1841, 50,996, without referring to
the parish of St. AndrewHolborn.
With the exception of Wapping and Saffron-hill
liberty, in all parishes there aro more females than
males. Saffron-hill contains many lodging-houses
for the accommodation of men only ; while Wapping is
a rendezvous for sailors. The excess of females in Is-
lington is accounted for by the great number of ladies'
schools. Including the City of London and the southern
metropolitan parishes, there is little doubt that the in-
crease of population will exceed 200,000

THE REFORMERS OF RENFREW.

SHIRE.
(From the Rqfremshire Reformer.)
DINNER TO MR. WALLACE, M. P. FOR GREEN
OCK, AND MR. P. M. STEWART, M.P. FOI
RENFREWSHIRE.

Tuesday night, about 200 of the Reformers of this
town and neighbourhood sat down to dinner, in the As-
sembly Rooms, in celebration of the triumph of Reform
in the town of Greenock, and the county of Renfrew.
Provost Baine in the chair. _

After the -usual toasts of the " Queen," " Prince
Albert," " the Princess Royal," &c.
The CfrAiiiNtAsz Said; the toast he had now the honour
of proposing was one which he was sure would meet
with a warm and heartfelt response from this as-
sembly. It was " her Majesty's Ministers."—(lmmense
cheering.)„, He found that it happened not unfre-
quently with the Ministers of the Crown, as it did with
private individuals, their faults and omissions were
brought into view, while their good deeds were laid aside
and forgotten.—(Hear.) The better rule, in his opinion,
r was, to keep in view the good deeds of persons in their
situations, and to receive every fair and reasonable ex-
cuse for their omissions.(Applause.) If they acted
upon this rule, they would find that her Majesty's pre-
sent Ministers, and their immediate predecessors, who
pursued the sane line of policy, had conferred the greatest
benefits upon the country that had ever been received
from any Ministry whatever.—(Hear, and cheers.) He
needed, certainly, to tnention no more than the Reform
Bill, which had first' invested them with the right of
sending a Member to Parliament; the Municipal Corpo-
rations Bill; the complete opening up of trade to India
and China; the - abohtion of colonial slavery; and last,
though not least in the enumeration, the establishment ofa
uniform rate of postage, to convince every reasonable man
that the Ministers who had introduced, defended, and car-
ried these measures, in spite of the most virulent opposi-
tion, had thereby established a just claim to be enrolled
amongst the greatest benefactors of their country.—
(Great cheering.) But of all the praiseworthy acts
of the present Government, there was not one
which called for a greater measure of gratitude
than that for which the late House of Commons
voted them unworthy of its confidence.—(Great
cheering.) He referred to the proposal to allow to the
people of this country a more free and liberal system of
commercial intercourse with foreign nations.—(Loud
cheers.) There was no measure within the power of
the Legislature which was calculated to confer upon
the country such substantial benefits or to meet the
exigencies and overcome the difficulties in which they
were placed, by the extravagances of the Tories in i
former days, than the establishment of entire
and unbounded freedom of trade.—(Cheers.) He
meant such freedom of trade as would permit every
man to carry the produce of his labour to the best
market, and bring back in return whatever he liked,
subject to.no restriction or prohibition, but such as
was actually necessary for the purpose of revenue. He
maintained that those who wished a change in the present
exclusive system wished to take no advantage of those who
were opposed to them. They were of opinion that the rule
which ought to be adopted for the guidance of all, was
simply this ; give the merchant and manufacturer a fair
field, and no favour, and this was all they required.
No tme could deny that this was a just and manly rule,
but it was not a rule which the monopolists would sub-
mit to. They wished to be hedged round with what
they were pleased .to call protection; that is, they insisted
on being allowed an unfair advantage over their fellow-
citizens ; or, to speak in language which he was not very
fond of using, but which was not more plain than true,
they insisted that all other classes of the community
should be plundered for their benefit.--(lmmense cheer-
ing.) That the rich man should be deprived of a por-
tion of his wealth, and what was worse, that the poor
man should be robbed' of a portion of his scanty earnings
—(continued cheering)—to enhance the value of their
monopolies or swell their rent rolls.—(Cheers.) The
toast was drank amidst loud and long continued cheering.
The CHAIRMAN said the toast he had now the honour
of proposing was one of the two leading toasts of the
evening, being the health of their excellent and much
respected Representative, Mr. Wallace.—(Great cheering
which was again and again renewed as the Chairman was
about to proceed.). Ho was sure they were all
most happy to meet with Mr. Wallace on this
occasion, and to offer him their most sincere
and hearty thanks and congratulations on his
being again elected to represent the town of Greenock,
in Parliament.—(Hear, hear.) There was only one
particular in Mr. W.'s public conduct which he would
advert to, which was his meritorious and successful
exertions on the Postage question.—(Great applause.)
The former Post-office tax was a tax upon knowledge of
every kind, and was to the poor a complete prohibition
of every kind of written communication with absent
friends, thus rending asunder the dearest ties, and sti-
fling one ot.the purest and most virtuous enjoyments of
which their nature was capable.—(Cheers.) The advan-
tage and enjoyment opened up by the penny postage
could not be estimated by money ; it was in point of fact
above all money and all price—(Great cheering)—and
had Mr. 'Wallace never done more than to carry that
measure, he had thereby earned a claim to the lasting
gratitude of the whole country.—(Renewed cheering.)
The toast was received with the greatest enthusiasm.
Mr. WALLACE (when the cheering had subsided) said
he rose with the greatest satisfaction to address them on
the present occasion.—(Cheers.) If lie were to say he did
not, he would not be giving the honest expression of his
heart. It was an honour of which he was indeed proud,
he being elected the fourth time to represent in the Com-
mons House of Parliament such an intelligent, enter-
prising, and wealthy a community as the inhabitants of
Greenock ; and he was no less proud that the principles
which had first induced the constituency to choose him,
and which he had uniformly supported in the situation in
which they had placed him, were those very principles
upon the strength of which they had again returned him
to Parliament. It was most satisfactory to him that after
a nine years' trial, it had been their pleasure again to put
him forward to . defend those principles, and to bring
them, if possible, more generally into operation. The
system of progressive Reform had been a principle which
he (Mr. Wallace) had always endeavoured to act upon,
and for the first three years of his Parliamentary life, im-
mediately after the Reform Bill, reform was progressive ;
but he was sorry to say that for the last six years the Re-
form Bill might be said to be in a positive state of abeyance.
He thought that the present Government had not suffi-
ciently progressed with reform when they had the power
to do so.—(Hear.) Ile would not conceal the sentiments
which he entertained, and therefore had expressed
boldly that ho considered the Ministers were them-.
selves much to blame for the situation in which they
found themselves placed. But at the same time he was
not blind to the fact that in numerous instances they had
been prevented by their political - opponents from
proceeding as they really wished.--(Hear, hear. Mr.
Wallace here read and commented upon extracts from
the speeches of Sir Robert Peel to his constituents at
Tamworth, and to the Merchant Tailors' Corporation of
London, showing that the constant and uniform endea-
vours of that statesman and the party of which he was the
leader, was to arrest the progress ofevery liberal measure.,)
From the time when the Doke of Wellington had been
invested with all the offices of state, the hopes of
that party, permanently to regain office, had increased
daily, and nothing had been left undone which could
bring them to that condition. They would all recollect
that Sir Robert Peel had succeeded to office in 1835,
that he was.beat upon the address, upon the Speakership,
and other minor matters, and latterly, that he had been
again forced to resign on the appropriation principle of the
Church of Ireland Bill. Since that time the cry of regis-
ter, register, had been constantly reiterated, for the pur-
pose, as Sir Robert Peel avowed, of restoring what
he called the just influence of the aristocracy in the re-
presentation of the country. They all knew what that
meant, and most successfully did they prevail in urging on
the Government to its certain fate—the just influence of
the aristocracy truly ! What right had this class to any-
thing beyond their votes as individuals, any more than
the great body of the people who lived in the towns and
cities of the empire ? but, acting under this determinati6n
their numbers had gradually increased, till now, he be-
lieved they would have a clear majority of nearly eighty.
He would ask if this would have occurred if the Liberal Go-
vernment had secured to the people household suffrage, tri-
ennial Parliaments, and especiallty Vote by Ballot ? Could
they have driven the constituency into corners, and
forced them to have voted against their conscientious con-
viction, if the voters had had that protection ? He was
convinced that they would have been able to do no such
thing ; but the present Ministry had undoubtedly for a
time lost the opportunity of securing Liberal measures,
and they would have to abide the result. At the
Tamworth ;public dinner.'"on the 7th of August, 1837,
which took place immediately before the general elec-
tion, Sir Robert Peel, in the course of his speech, spoke
as follows to the constituency of that town :—The Con-
servatives," he said, " were determined to use all their
power to preserve the just influence of the aristocracy in
reference to the representation of the country ; they had
manifested their' strength in the last Parliament, and
would return above 300 to the next. He rejoiced at the
very large return which had already taken place of Con-
servative Members ; for by it they would be enabled to
prevent any encroachment upon the Constitution, and
give encouragement to the Government to oppose suc-
cessfully the questions of Household Suffrage, Triennial
Parliaments, and Vote by Ballot. They should, there-
fore, ren.o.nber that they (the electors) had a duty to per-
form. The advice which had been given by some per-
sons was, ' agitate; agitate, agitate ;' the advice which
he would give them would be, • register, register, regis-
• ter.' Let them be always prepared for an election, and
by these means. they would have the inestimable
advantage of protecting their, own property and
their own libertb and they would have also
the gratifying satisfaction of knowing that they
had not allowed the rights and privileges which ought to
descend to their posterity to be injured." And so say I,
said Mr. Wallace. Let us always be prepared for an
election, and the sooner we have another the better. He
held in his hand a communication from a friend in
onsery
Lon-
don,
which contained list of all those C •ve.s I
ati
had driven Reformers out of coun„_
1.4e0 and the burghs,
throughout the kingdom, and it surprised him to see a
number of excellent men who had been ousted, to allow
those who had the support of the landed interest to get
into Parliament, although they possessed no qualification
for the situation whatever, but that of being prepared to
rob the people by means of the Corn-laws.—(Great
cheering.) With few exceptions these new Members

were not known to the country, but as they could vote,
they would be exceedingly useful to the party to which
they were attached. It had been asked how the Minis-
ters of the Crown would act on the opening of Parlia-
ment. That was a difficult question to answer, but he
thought it would not be very difficult to say what course
Sir Robert Peel would take. He (Mr. W.) believed he
would put off the consideration of what should be
the proceedings of Parliament till the month of Feb-
ruary. In That way he would keep the country in
a state of expectation, and if by that time symptoms of a
revival of trade should appear, then on the popularity
which such a circumstance would give him—for he would
take all the credit of the increased improvement to the
Conservative Government—he Would attempt to carry
on the administration of the affairs of the nation.—(Hear
and cheers.) But he hoped it would be borne in mind
who had placed the country in,the situation in which it
now was. Who were the advisers of the Crown when a
national debt of 800,000,0001. had been incurred, which
debt Sir Robert Peel had, by the Bill which he passed in
1819, making them pay in gold what was borrowed in
paper, increased in value 40 per cent. The Corn-laws
was the next resort of that statesman, to enable him to
keep up his popularity with the landed interest, and
which had the effect of supporting that interest under
the previous enhancement of the national debt, but
had pressed the people into the earth. He confessed,
in one point of view he was not sorry that the To-
ries had gotten such a large majority, as it had been
a complaint with Sir Robert Peel before, that there
was no use to develope his schemes of ameliora-
tion when there was no chance of them being car-
ried. Now, however, he had the power, and he trusted
that they would soon be favoured with his wonderful
measures, if he had any such to bring forward, as there
was no doubt he must consider 80 a sufficient majority.
But after all he was afraid there was no good in store,
and if he did anything, it would just be by doing in an
underhand, bit by bit way, some of those very measures,
in place of adopting that bold and magnificent manner,
winch had been lately proposed by the present Govern-
ment. After referring shortly to several other subjects,
he resumed his seat amidst great applause.
The CHAIRMAN next gave the health of their very dis-
tinguished and respectable guest, Mr. Patrick Maxwell
Stewart, the Liberal representative of the county of Ren-
frew.—(lmmense applause.)
Mr.. P. M. STEWART, on rising, was received with
cheers. As his Hon. Friend Mr. Wallace had said there
perhaps never was a time when the representatives of
the people of this free country had to go forth to such a
struggle as that in which they were now engaged ; and,
therefore, he would say, let those who, like t'him, had
come forward to represent the liberal and unfettered
opinion of this country put on their armour, and draw
their swords, and cast away their scabbards.—(Great
cheering.) He was determined to get those measures
for which he contended, regardless of the men who
Haight bring them forward.—(Cheers.) But when he
said that, he asked them to recollect the position
in which they were placed ; to recollect what Ren-
frewshire had done in this great battle of opini
which had just gone past. There never was an election in
which opinion was so freely brought to bear as this ;
analysis of the poll would show them that men of all
parties had met and offered up their own political dif-
ferences, in order to enforce the maintenance of those
opinions promulgated by her Majesty's Government.—
(Cheering.) And he might ask, would it not startle
their opponents to find on what vantage ground
they stood ? to find a country such as this, extensive in
all its interests, and deeply involved in the success of
the commerce, manufactures, and the agriculture of the
country, would it not startle them to find that Renfrew-
shire had made the choice it had done of four representa-
tives ? First and foremost Greenock, the fourth town in '
point of importance in the United Kingdom, sending up
his honourable friend Mr. Wallace, who had ever been
the advocate of free trade.—(Cheers.) Then, coming.
next, the neighbouring town of Kilmarnock, penitent
for what she had done—(Greatcheering and laughter)—
repentant, he said, of her former transgressions, and
returning a man who had not the nautical skill to make
him famous in boxing every point of the political com-
pass—(Cheers and laughter)—chasing from her his
once Liberal friend, Mr. Colquhoun, and placing
in his stead their honest, substantial, business-
like friend, Mr. Johnson.—(Great cheering.)
And then Paisley, the centre of gauze and
manufacture, sends a man well qualified to represent its
manufacturing and trading interests—all parties meeting
to run to the poll, and place Mr. Hastie at the head of
it. And then last, but not least, was the great county
of Renfrew itself, for want of a better, placing him in
the situation of its representative, whoa he offered his
services with trembling and fear, and to his astonishment,
now bringing up the rear of their four representatives.—
(Great cheering.) It was not, he was bound to say, the
fault of the electors of Renfrewshire if Liberal principles
were not duly represented and manfully enforced.—(Loud
cheers.) These, he held, were striking features in this
election, and might startle their opponents a little. By
the way, he would ask them to look what Scotland had
done throughout this great struggle. Scotland, though
somewhat diminished in her majority, had yet a number
that stamped her mind to judge and her freedom to act.
—(Loud cheering.) And she was now, among all the
nations that formed the component parts of the United
Kingdom, standing proudly forth as the defender of
free and liberal opinions. She had sent, out of her fifty-
three Members, a majority of nine to support those mea-
sures which her Majesty's Ministers had promulgated.
In the counties, which were thirty, they had ten who
represented Liberal principles and an improvement' In
the Corn-laws, and twenty who opposed them, In the
towns, which numbered twenty-three altogether., they had
21 who had decided in favour of the Liberal measures.
—(Cheering.) And what was the inference to be drawn
from this fact ?—and whence this boasted majority in
behalf of the wrong cause ? Scotland, where elections
had been free and uncontaminated in her towns, and in
some of her counties, as in Renfrewshire, had stamped
with her own impress of intellect and independence the
principles which she had avowed.—(Cheering.) And
Ireland too He should like to see what she would do
in the face of those unprecedented steps which were taken
to repress, her energies. The Hon. Gentleman, after
one or two further observations, proceeded to make
some remarks on the Church question, repeating his for-
mer statements in defence of the spiritual independence
of the Church, and sat down amidst loud cheering.
Mr. STEELE then proposed the health of Mr. Hastie,
M.P. for Paisley ; and also the health of Mr. John-
ston, M. P. for Kilmarnock. Drank with all the
honours.

Mr. LUMSDEN returned thanks.
The CRAIRMAN gave successively " The Church of
Scotland" and the " Dissenters of Scotland," and each
of the toasts was drank with all the honours.
Mr. WALLACE was next called upon for a toast, and
gave " An earl?' and complete revision to their Commer-
cial Code." the toast was responded to with great
applause,
Mr. STEWART proposed " Prosperity to the trade of
Greenock," which was drank with great applause.
Mr. Scorn RUSSELL gave " The Memory of James
Watt," which was responded to by the company with the
greatest enthusiasm.

- Mr. A. GRAHAM gave " The health of the Chairman,"
which was received with great approbation.
The CHAIRMAN returned thanks.
Several other toasts having been proposed, the party
broke up.

SCOTLAND.
FAST-DAY AMUSEMENTS.
(From the Glasgow Argus.)
Thursday being the day appointed by the General
Asembly as a fast, to be held all over Scotland, in the principal streets of this city, including Trongate, Argyle-
street, Buchanan-street, Queen-street, nearly all the
shops were shut ; but, in the suburbs and the secondary
streets, matters were entirely reversed, not one in twenty
being closed. Almost all the public
works,
tooop, were
s and
going as usual. The partial shutting up
of sh
warehouses which took place, had the effect of throwing
idle a large number of the citizens, the great majority
of whom, judging by the crowded state of the
steam-
boats and railway trains, instead of going to
church, must have betaken themselves to the
country. As we stated in our last would be the case,
the business of the Police Court proceeded as
usual, and the Commissioners of Police, regardless of
the injunctions of the Assembly, sat and transacted their
wonted secular business. The Post Office runners, too,
were employed in the unsanetified labour of delivering
' letters and newspapers through the city • and, had it
not been for the closing of the
places of business in the three principal streets, the ringing of the bells, and the '
Overburdened state of
the conclusiy ur railwa and boat omit nib
wasuseoven
s, no
one ,could have drawn
on that the c 'nominally engaged in the work of humiliation any d fasting.
As to the attendance in church, from all we can learn,it 1%0171
sorry enough many who are regularly in their pews
..s
Sabbath having seized the opportunity of enjoying a), ),,,,_
recreation at the sea-side. The steamers on the y.)suoe,
were, all filled to overflowing, some of them so much
rs
had access.
that, from fear of accident, great numbers of passengers
left them at the nearest ports to which they
n into serious
throocwcur _
at Nor were the fears of danger altogether groundless. In
some instances the passengers were
red
alarm ; and a case of collision, which
nigh been attended
with consequences t
Gou-
rock, where the two steam-boats,
other, were literally packed, had we
The different rail-
waysruly disastrous. The
of jaunt-
ing well nigh
crossed each
in turn also enjoyed anGreenock equal
evening
trains up-
ing customers, One of the
warda had no fewer than 35 carriages,.trip yielding to the
this one held about 1,000 passengers, which must have
proprietors, who have madedesecration, somewhere about
the enemies of Sabbath
themselves famous of late as
100/.
)1._.....0n Thursday evening,
FAST-DAY RF.CREATID
while a respectable
of the " Sh ddings
neighbourhood
Paisley road, in the
d two fellows in holiday attire
working man was walking on the
'Toll," he was attacked
let loosey by the Assembly's Fast),
(seemingly P
knocked down, and kicked, without
man-
ner. lie was struck,
d to call forth such extraordinary
and abused inel\sthaielskinost cowardly and unprovoked
having said one word
unable to account for the as-
saulttreatment, and is w
but for the holiday which
had been given them,
proba-
bility,
have
tr rently employed..
; the fellows wereintoxicated ; and, in all proba-
wouid been very di e , . . .

AIRDRIE.—The appearance of Airdrie this day de-
serves to be noticed. Not one-third of the shops were
shut, and even some of those that were shut were doing

business within. Coaches and carts were going as usual ;
masons, and wr:ghts, and weaver; were at their work ;
colliers and miners were seen returning from their employ-
ment ; men were breakingstones on the highway ; Airdrie
mill went on in its ordinary way. We have not heard
particularly how the quoad .sacra churches (the only
churches where there was a public service) were at-
tended ; but, judging from the numbers that appeared
to be going and returning from church, there must have
been merely a handful in those places where they met to
mourn over the difficulties of the Church. We over-
heard a country woman, passing through the town, say-
ing to another, "Weal, this is the most comical fast-day
that ever I saw." Since the above was written, we have
heard that there were twenty-four persons in one of the
churches.

EVENTIqG SUN.