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REFORM IN PARLIAMENT.-The Right Hon.
the LORD MAYOR, in consequence of a a Requisitiori for that
purpose, has appointed a Special Court of Common Council to
be held at the'Guild-hall on Friday next, to take into con-
sideration " the propriety of petitioning Parliamet forthwith to
institute an inquiry into the state of the representation of the
people in the House of Commons, and of representing more
especially the glaring inequality that now exists in the re-
presentation of the district comprising the city of London,
the county of Middlesex, the city of Westminster, and the
borough of Southwark, compared with that of the rest of the
Kingdom, as it regards population, property, or taxation—that
district returning only JO Members to Parliament, while the
rest of the kingdom returns 248 ; and to obtain such reform
as may be founded upon the true principles of the British Con-
stitution."

-The six police-men, convicted of manslaughter
at Maryborough Assizo, are to embark at Cork for Botany=
Bay.

BANKRUPTS..
J. Manifold, Kendal, Westmoreland, skinner, to surrender
May 19, 20, June 19, at the King's Arms Inn, Kendal. So-
licitor, Mr. Addison, Verularn-buildings, Gray's-inn.
. .7. Wall, Brentford Butts, broker May 15 22, June 19, at
the Bankrupts' Court, Basinghall-street. Solicitor, Mr. Blake,
Great Surrey-street, Blackfriars-road.
J. Sloggett, jun. Bath, hosier, May 20, 21, June 19, at the
Commercial Rooms, Bristol. Solicitors, Messrs. King and
Lukin, Gray's-inn-square.
E. L. Edey, Charing-cross, coffee-house-keeper, May 22,
June 5, 19, at the Bankrupts' Court, Basinghall-street. So-'
licitor, Mr. Carpenter, Furniyal's-inn, Holborn.
J. Rhodes, Heywood, Lancashire' house-carpenter, May 24,
25, June 19, at the Star Inn, Manchester. Solicitor Mr.
Wheeler, Lincoln's-inn-fields. ,
A. York, Birmingham, baker, April 20, 21, June 19, at the
White Hart Inn, Birmingham. Solicitors, Messrs. Bourdillon
and Hewitt, Bread-street, Cheapside.
C. Douthwaite, Pancras-lane, wine-merchant, May 14, 29,
June 19, at the Bankrupts' Court, Basinghall-street. Solicitor,
Mr. Smithson, Old Jewry.
C. Barnett, Barlow-mews, Bruton-street, near Bond-street,
horse-dealer, May 11, 22, June 19, at the Bankrupts' Court,
BasinghalL•street. Solicitor, Mr. Reynolds, Carmarthen-street,
Fitzroy-square.
R. :CI ortimer Scholefield, Bradford, Yorkshire, manufacturer,
May 11, 22, June 19, at the Bankrupts' Court, Basinghall-
street. Solicitors, Messrs. richer and Sudlow, Thayics Inn.
Joseph Proctor, Wardour.street, Oxford-street, wine-finer.
chant, May 11, 18, June 19, at the Bankrupts' Court, Ba-
singhall-street. Solicitor, Mr. Macdougall, Lincoln's-inn New-
square,

. -
lirilliam
Broady, Old Jewry, woollen-warehouseman, May
15, 22, June 19, at the Bankrupts' Court, Basinghall-street.
Solicitor, Mr. Fisher, Bucklersbury.
Mark Graham, Union-street, Bishopsgate-street, glass-
dealer, May 15, 29, June 19, at the Bankrupts' Court, Ba-
singhall-street. Solicitor, Mr. Leigh, Charlotte-row, Man-
sion-house.

John flaw, New Kent-road, grocer, arty 11, 18, June 19,
at the Bankrupts' Court, Basinghall-street. Solicitors, Messrs.
Watson and Son, Bouverie-street, Fleet-street.
S. Wise and C. Brenchley, Maidstone, paper-makers, May
14, 22, June 19, at the Bankrupts' Court, liasinghall-strect.—
Solicitors, Messrs. Osbaldeston and Murray, London-street,
Fenchureh-street.
D. Crol,T, Old Broad-street, stock-broker, May 25, 22, June
19, at the Bankrupts' Court, Basinghall-street. Solicitors,
Messrs. Tomlinson, Bennell, and Cooper, Copthall-court,
Throgrnorton-street.
W. Emans, Barnsbury-row, Islington, stationer, May 15,
22, June 19, at the Bankrupts' Court, Basinghall-street. Soli-
citor, Mr. Brough, Shoreditch.
'l'. Whiting Oxford, mercer, May 11, 22, June 19, at the
Bankrupts' Court, Basinghall-street. Solicitor, Mr. Miller,
Ely-place, Holborn.

DIVIDENDS.
June 8, W. C. Bligh, Bath, grocer—May 31, J. and J
Green, Warminster, Wiltshire, grocers--May 31, J. Daven.
port, Stockport Etchells, Cheshire, publican—May 11, J. F
• and W. Street, Bucklersbury, stationers—May 29, W. Dowl-
ing, King-street, Tower-hill, grocer—May 29, S. Humphreys.
Charlotte-street, Portland-place, merchant—May 29, 'P. Bren-
nand, Bread-street, Cheapside, warehouseman—June 3, T.
Gray, March, Cambridgeshire, common-brewer—May 29, W.
Hamilton, New City Chambers, merchant—June 3, J. Thur.
bon, March, Cambridgeshire, draper---May 22, J. Webster.
Tower-street, merchant —May 29, L. Williams, Penchurch.
street, merchant—May 29, 'l% 113nchln, Verulam-building ,s
Gray's-inn, dealer.
CERTIFICATES, MAY 29.
P. Moon, 3lirfield, Yorkshire, woollen-cloth-merchant_n
W. Ranken, Langbourne-chambers, merchant-If. Kelsey,
Pall-mall. mininer_j. Leigh, Stringstone, Somersetshire, tan-
ner—R. Watts, Lawrence Pountney-hillonerchant.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
James Adcock and Cuthbert Higgins Curtis, Wellingbo_
rough, Northamptonshire, drapers John Foxton and James
joßi
coeorbitner,:
I(c:itlteetrelL:i
skjt
dy dyer
,rilsattsii,da(
Baines, late of Ludlow, Shropshire, surgeons and apothecaries
R
,tesnVeittd
;11,13:root, and George Brooks,
ohn
• Richard Jones,' Kynaston, near Ito Nathaniel Moran,
Ross, and or„,a,
Ross, Herefordshire, bankers
and copsfata°rrntrie'esrcs°7l(rlsato far as relates
to the said Richard Jones __.J
"o Pool and .Joseph Alexander,
1 College-hill, Upper Tl
Charles Snell and Robert 'l'l'es-st wholesale tea-dealers
:haul, Snettisham, Norfolk, surgeons
apothecaries—William
,7Yford and Charles G. O'Brien,
apothecaries—Hosea Martell and
g, Lincolnshire, common brewers
Richard Carter, Spaldin
--titer, jun., Nether Knutsford,
Cheshire, glovers, tailors, and drapers—Matthew Lowe and
—John Slater, sen. and john
John Buckley, jun., Ashton-under-Line, Lancashire, butchers
, and Geo. Walton, Barnsley,
--Anthony
John Foster, jun. and Wm.
Foster, Liverpool, joiners and builders—Geo. Wickham and
Yorkshire,
1 Moon,inen. In uf)a
Charles Rogers, of Alton, Southampton, mercers and drapers—
aVn. c t Uutrieet s•st ___ .
Robert Bennett, Joseph Reynolds, John Jeffery, and Nicholas
Vivian, of Camborne, Cornwall, merchants (so far as regards
Robert Bennett)—James Hay, \VOI. Johnstone, Fras. Wilson,
John Elder, and James Gall, of Edinburgh—Thos. Mitchell,
Equire Stowell, and John Sowell, of Horton, Bradford, York-
shire, worsted spinners (so far as regards John Stowell)—An-
drew Faulds and Joseph Woodiwiss, of Barnsley, Yorkshire,
iron-founders—Richard Sinister and Anthony- T. Smith, of
Birmingham, button-makers—Elizabeth Last and Maria
Pooley, of Ipswich, milliners and dress-makers—Wm. Ankers
and Owen Glendower Williams, of Great St. Thomas Apostle, •
surgeons, apothecaries, and accoucheurs—John Wyer and
Thomas Webb, of Petersfield, Southampton, ironmasters, sta-
tioners, -gocers, and dealers in corn—George Parker, sen. of
West Bromwich, Staffordshire, and Abraham Parker of the
Oldbury and Tripton Iron Works. ,

SUSPECTED MURDER.

ITURTIIER PAIITICULAR9.I

On Friday two null, eatil about 34 years of
age, named W. Spencer, and S. Johnson, were brought before
J. ScalyEx and J. WOOLLEY, Esqrs., Surrey Magistrates,
charged upon suspicion of having murdered Mary Wilkins,
wife of Henry Wilkins, a carman, in Bermondsey. The de-
ceased was found in the Surrey Canal on Saturday (Ist inst.),
with marks of violence on her person.

Henry Wilkins said,—That the last time I saw my wife was
on last Friday evening, at her mother's (Slr. Horsley), Grange_
road ; I left her theret arid never saw her alive after. My
landlady and me stopped up till nearly twelve o'clock ; I then
,
retired to bed ; I made. inquiry at .her mother's and different
places, and Could get no information about her.
tlizabeth Horsley said—My came to.
daughter, the deceased
; past o n
Saturday morning
five o'clock, to in-
my hoUse on Friday, as I have been intrmed, about nine in'
the morning, and stayed all day; the lodgers told me that she
lie::
husband
d2cOallmedinautt:yaiflteour
57,,
.little k
quire whether Mary had. been there : he said she had not been
home all night. Tuesday morning early I went oat to inquire
about my daughtei in the Kent-road, I met a woman who
asked me if I had heard of a piing woman being found in the
canal. I then went to the Lord Nelson, and found a body
which I discoVered to be, my daughter. I never.heard of my
daughter's husband striking or ill-using her, but they some-
times quarrelled.
Olive 'Westward deposed, that Johnson and Spencer came
several times after the deceased at her lodgings. She told wit-
ness that Spencer had been to sea for two years, was just re-
turned, and was a single man—she had known him since she was
12 years Old, and that he would have had her—he did,not mind
dying for her now, for that he would shoot Wilkins; that hek
had brought her home six shawls, and many fine things ; she

first said his vessel lay at Gravesend, 'then that hw lOdged in
Blackfriars-road ; that she had left him at herfatleces, to sleep
there that night;, he was come to take her to France with him;
witness reminded her that she was married now—she said,
" Where I am he will be." Witness added, that on examin-
ing the corpse, she should not think, from the appearances that
she had destroyed herself; there were Marks on both arms,
particularly the left, as if she had been squeeied by some one;
there was also a mark under one of her ears.
Stephen Somers sworn.-1 live at the Wheatsheaf, Lombard-
street, in the Mint. I have seen the deceaSed repeatedly at my
house about three months since; she had not, been.there since
till last Friday night ; she came about half-past eight or nine
o'clock, in company with the two prisoners ; they all left my
house about half-past eleven o'clock. The Woman seemed to
he a little intoxicated ; I noticed it to my wife. Spencer seemed
quite sober ; Johnson appeared to be a little in liquor, I think
the deceased was not so far gone as not to be able to find her
way home. I did not see which way the deceased or the
prisoners went on leaving my house. I don't know whether
they separated or not ; and did not hear any thing more of the ,
deceased
house thateasedtill3 shelon day or Tuesday, when it was mentioned at
my was found drowned. On. Saturday morning
the prisoners came to my house together, and stopped about an
hour. I observed no change in their dresit. I did nbt hear
them say one word about the deceased. • -
Ann Spencer, the wife of Spencer.—All I know is, that my
husband was out last Friday night. We have been married
nine years, and I never knew him to be °tali night betbre, all
night : sometimes he would get in liquor with his companion
Johnson ; but he was always a good kind Husband, and regular
in coming home to his meals and his bed. On the Friday, at
half-past two o'clock in the afternoon, he came home, washed
himself, and put on a waistcoat and another hat. Ile then said
that he was going out, but would shortly return. I next saw
him on Saturday morning, about ten o'clock. He appeared a
little in liquor, and said dint he had been at Johnson's, and
that he had got there at a little after two o'clock that morning.
At the Pitt a Head a woman told me my husband had been
drinking with the deceased on the Friday night at that house.
Elie. Johnson, the wife of the other prisoner, said—My
husband and Spencer came to our house about two o'clock on
Saturday morning, and remained there till half-past five ; they
then went out, and returned at seven o'clock : my husband was
in liquor ; Spencer was more collected.
The Magistrates asked them whether they wished to state
any thing, but told them that they were not bound to do so un-
less they thought proper.
Spencer said—On Thursday afternoon, I and my shipmate
Johnson were out ; and on coming down Tooley-street, in the
Borough, I said " We may as well go and see if Susan is at
home ; ' and he went and came back, saying that she was not.
(Here the prisoner said that he did not wish to state any thing
more at present.)
Neither of the prisoners attempted to give any account of
themselves from the time they left the Wheatsheaf until they
reached Johnson's house—an interval of two hours and a half.
The Magistrates postponed the further investigation.
On Saturday morning, at eight o'clock, the investigation of
this mysterious circumstance was resumed in the Committee-
room of Camberwell Workhouse, before JAMES SCRI YEN,
EN., JOHN Nirooer.Ev, Esq., Criarti.Es Gomm's-, ESq.,
GEORGE ALLEN, Esq., and other Magistrates of the County.
The prisoners, Spencer and Johnson, were brought from
Camberwell-cage, in which they had been confined during the
night, attended by a considerable number of the inhabitants._
The only additional evidence of importance was the following :
Gideon Lewis, constable of Camberwell, sworn.—l never,
desired any man on Saturday last to go and search for things
supposed to be stolen. I heard, on Friday night, that a gentle-
man's carriage had been robbed of an imperial, and that
two men had been seen with it in Peckham-fields, by the canal-
bridge. On Saturday morning, about a quarter before six,
a man came to my wife, and said he thought there had
been a robbery committed on the bank of the canal, for he
had found some linen. The person was a man about 45 or 50
years of age; he had an olive-coloured smock-frock on, and I
think he had gaiters on, but I am not certain. Underneath
the frock he had a sort of corduroy coat on, like a game-keep-
er's jacket ; he said his name was Johnson, that he came to
London to see the steward of Sir Charles Carew, M.P. He said
that he had been down in Cornwall some length of time, look-
ing after a salmon fishery belonging to Sir Charles, a short dis-
tance from I3odmin. He described the mode of catching sal-
mon. I accompanied the man towards the canal. On arriving
within twenty yards of the halfpenny hatch, he said, " This is
the place where I found the basket." The basket had a large
pillow-case in it, without a mark. We went to the spot where
he found the basket, and he wished me to get a rake, saving he
was confident there was some property there. I told him that
I doubted it. He said he had seen no persons about, except
two men, then at a distance, whom I knew to be employed there.
I thought the man might be a little disordered in his mind. I
watched him ; he went to a house near, and brought out a rake,
like a hay-rake, and worked it backwards and forwards in the
canal, just in the spot where the basket was found, which was
about twenty yards from Back's house, on the same side.—
About thirty yards from the spot the body was found, the same
side of the water. hut on the other side of the gate. I left the
man on the bank of the canal. Back came to me between 12 and
one o'clock on Saturday, and informed me they had found the
the body of a young woman in the water. I went to the Lord
Nelson and saw the corpse, and noticed marks on the left arm ;
the marks were much alike, and appeared to have been caused
by the pressure of fingers. I heard that the landlord had search-
ed the body, and therefore did not do so. An Inquest after-
wards sat on the deceased. On Wednesday, between 12 anti 1
o'clock, I and Sedgley apprehended Johnson at a public-
house on Saffron-hill. We asked him a few questions, desired
him to speak guardedly, and held out no promise of favour.—
He said that he was out on the Friday night till two o'clock in
the morning, and he was in the company of Spencer. He did
not say that a woman was in their company, but he said, " he
did not know where the woman went to ;" and he said, " that
Spencer knew more about it than he did." Sedgeley took
Johnson to Camberwell. I went to Hackney, and found that
Spencer had left his employ to go to the Pitt's Head, Grange.
road, Bermondsey. On my return from Hackney, at half-past
six o'clock, Spencer was at the Pitt's Head. I took him into
custody. I cautioned him against saying any thing to his own
prejudice. I told him for what he was apprehended, and he
denied knowing any thing about it. lie said afterwards,
" that he had been with the young woman, and had had a bit
of fun, or a fuddle ;" he also said that they went to a public-
house in the Mint, where they drank together, and that he
parted with her at the top of the Dover-road. He afterwards
said that it was very late, and they went to Johnson's house,
and sat up. I think his words were, " We left her at the top
of the Dover-road." I have made inquiry for the man that
was raking the canal, but have not been able to learn any
thing of him. He was a stranger to me, but was as familiar
as if he had known me for years. The marks on the arms
of the deceased when I saw them were of a blue cast; she
had then been taken out of the canal about an hour and a
half.

The CHAIRMAN (Mr. Scriven) having consulted for some
time with his brother Magistrates, asked the prisoners if they
had any witnesses who could prove in, what manner, they em-
ployed their time after the left the Wheat-sheaf public-
house, tiThwo o'clock on the saturday morising. The prisoner
Spencer said, they had gentlemen in attendance to speak to
their charactax.

The Magistrate said, that the ease was involved in much
mystery, and strong suspicions of foul play attached to the pri-
soners, in consequence of the marks of violence upon the body
of the deceased, they being the last persons seen in her com-
pany previous to her death.
The prisoners said they were innocent of the murder.
The Magistrate said, that he hoped they would be able to
substantiate their innocence, but he and his colleagues were
of opinion, that justice demanded a more solemn investiga-
tion of the cause of the young woman's death. They there-
fort committed the prisoners tu. Horsemonger-lane, gaol, on
suspicion of the murder of Mary Wilkins, and directed them to
be brought to Union-hall on Wednesday next, for final exami-
nation before the police-magistrates of that office.
The mother of the deceased said the body was not interred,
and that the marks on the arms and side of the neck had be-
come more discoloured.
The Magistrates ordered a surgeon to examine the body,
prior to its interment, and directed that he and Mr. Pritchard,
a surgeon in the Kent-road, who saw the body before the Jury
sat upon it, should attend at Union-hall when the examination
takes place Summonses were issued to compel the attendance
of other witnesses, whose evidence is expected to be important.
The officers were ordered to use all diligence in their power to
apprehend the man seen raking the canal; and the Magistrates
were of opinion, that publicity of this case in the newspapers
was important, and likely to aid in its developement, as it was
pregnant with suspicion.

EniTon--Nly feelings on the subJect- of
removal of the LoOnsir STONE ire in perfect 'accierditice
with your respectable Correspondent, A. P. A
vous, Wanton, and I may add wicked, act, was never At, 'per-
haps, committed by any one bearing the rank and mime
Olditer, and employed in the service of Government. ThIS
man, , •
neglecting his duty, is stated to have taken all his Men
from their regular employment, and occupied their Whole itterb,
tion and their ihOle strength, in the destruction Of the igrositet
natural curiosity afforded by Cornish, or any of the -neigh-
bouring Counties; and thereby deprived two or three .indui
trious poor families of the principal part of their subsist";aoit
conducting and explaining to travellers what they. had picked
up of this great curiosity. It is said, and I should supposenot
without foundation, that whilst employed in this wanton Mis-
chief, the smugglers, whom this man was employed to watch,
took advantage of his absence, and smuggled a large quantity
of their goods. This neglect of that duty, the only one for
which he and his crew were employed at 411, partakes even of
absolute criminality, and adds greatly to the heinousness of the
offence. As he is probably under the orders of the Board Of
Customs or Excise, I hope and indeed believe that the public
in general will join with toe in opinion, that a strict inquiry
should be Made into the circumstances f this mischievous and
unprincipled act, :and if found to the extent and under the cit..
cumstances reported. 11, besides, Its stated in the Papers, he
bears a commission in the Naval Service, and it may became a
matter for the consideration of those Noble Lords who prioide
over it, whether he might not be placed on what is usually
termed their black list, to meet all applications that might here-,
after he made for the employment of a party of that deseriptiOn
in so honourable a service. A. B.