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London, England, 1841-07-15 00:00:00

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LONDON:
THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1841.

The present plan of registering voters is a
scheme of the authors of the Reform Act. It is
intended to facilitate the exercise of the right
of voting, and to keep that right exclusively in
the hands of the electors constituted under the
Act. The principal object, however, was to en-
force and secure the limitations of the franchise.

It must be admitted that it has facilitated
taking the poll. The Reform Act, by register-
ing the voters, has prevented disputes and im-
proper personation, riot, and turbulence. Nu-
merous as have been our riots at Nottingham,
Carlisle, Dublin, Waterford, &c., there would
have been more confusion and disturbance, had
there been no registration of voters. So far the
registration of voters has been useful, but its be-
neficial results might probably have been ob-
tained by a much simpler system of registration,
could such a system have been connected with
the varied franchises which the Reform Act left
in existence.

The other intention of the framers of the
scheme has also been effectual. The limitations
to the franchise, with the exception of creating
fictitious qualifications, against which no system
of registration can guard, have been enforced.
Lawyers have been engaged to see them put
into execution, and party warfare, under the
guidance of paid agents, has been carried, by the
advice of the great Conservative leader, into the
Registration Courts. The Tories have fought
their battles there with success. From this part
of the scheme a consequence has ensued which
neither its authors nor the public.anticipated.
The political rights of the community have been
placed at the mercy of jobbing attorneys. We see
a long list ofLiberal voters registered at former and
present elections, from which it results that the
contest between principles of Government has
been mainly decided by the skill of Tory agents
in placing partisans on the register, and the
neglect of Whig agents in performing the same
duty. The people, it appears from this, cannot do
it for themselves. The system is so cumbrous
and complicated that they cannot secure by their
own exertions the rights the Constitution intended
to bestow, nor protect themselves against the
craft of the wily attorneys of their political oppo-
nents.

From this circumstance it is to be inferred that
the present system of registration is erroneous,
and it will become some of the Liberal Members
to devise and bring forward a plan for improving
the registration. Let them teach the Tories how
to make good and useful laws. That the voters
should be registered is indispensible to the easy
and peaceable exercise of their rights; but they
should be enabled to ensure their own registra-
tion without the assistance of a lawyer, or putting
themselves to much inconvenience. It seems to
us a misapprehension of the nature of the points
to be ascertained to appoint lawyers of any de,

scription to revise registers. Revising Barristers
and Courts of Revision are a mistake. The rights
to be settled are not complicated rights of pro-
perty, but mere occupancy, residence, and rate-
paying, which the overseer of a parish should be
competent finally to decide, without the assist-
ance of professional men. We trust that some
independent Member will six once turn his atten-
tion to the subject, with a view of simplifying
and improving registration, which is a very
useful part of the Reform Act.

We learn from Manchester that a National
Conference of Ministers of all religious denomi-
nations, on the subject of the laws restricting
the food of the community, is to be held in
Manchester, commencing Tuesday, August 17,
1841.

This has been brought about principally by
the instrumentality of Mr. GEO. THOMPSON,
who has already made himself celebrated by his
advoCacy of the cause of the slave in both he-
mispheres. He convened a meeting by a circu-
lar, of which the following is a passage :
The aspect of public affairs, at this juncture, is fear-
fully ominous of collision and animosity between the
different classes of the community, and seems to demand
the prayerful interposition and co-operation of all who
desire the peace of our population, and the prosperity of
the empire.
Our consultations have brought us to the unanimous
conclusion, that the attention of the religious public
should be immediately directed—
To the effects of the monopoly in food ;
To the principles upon which the law of that mono-
poly is based ; and
To the most legitimate and Christian means of obtain-
ing an equitable settlement of the question, without
civil convulsion, and without injury to the just interests
of any class of our fellow-citizens.
Twenty-eight ministers attended the meeting,
who came to a unanimous resolution that a con-
ference was desirable, and that it should be held
between the 15th and 22d of August. A Com-
mittee, appointed to carry the resolution into
effect, have issued an address to the ministers of
all religious denominations throughout the
United Kingdom, of which this is a portion :
We are surrounded by scenes of want and misery,
over which our heart- have long mourned with the power
of affording little, beyond the consolation of mere words.

The conviction has been forced upon our minds,
that the sufferings we deplore, and the calamities we
would avert, may be traced, in a great degree, to the
operation of the laws which produce a scarcity of the
necessaries of life, by circumscribing the bounties of
Divine Providence.

We think we may be permitted to say that, to no
body of men ought such momentous questions to be
submitted with a better prospect of a calm, an enligh-
tened, and an honest solution, than to that body which
we desire to convene—a body composed of men who.
while deeply sympathizing in the wants and woes of the
poor, profess to respect the just rights of all, and to be
guided equally by the feelings of a disinterested bene-
volence and the dictates of an uncompromising morality.
We cannot doubt that the decisions of such a body would
exercise a benign and beneficial influence over the na-
tion at large. _ _

Unite INCith us in an effort for the common weal and
general safety. For a while let us lay aside our sectarian
and partizan differences, and, on the hallowed ground of
Christian charity, assemble for the purpose of bettering
the condition of famishing multitudes.
As the friends of humanity, let us plead the cause of
the poor. _ _

As the expounders and defenders of the principles of
immutable justice, let us protest against laws, under
whatever form, which deny to our necessitous fellow-
countrymen a share in the bounties which the Creator
has provided for the wants of all his creatures.
As the ministers of religion, let us remove, if it be pos-
sible, the causes which are engendering a frightful amount
of immorality and impiety.
As patriots, burning with a love of country, let us make
an effort to put away the occasions of disaffection and
animosity, and to restore peace and harmony to a now
unhappily distracted people ; and may the blessing of
God rest upon our meeting !
We rejoice very much to see this important,
moral, political, and religious question taken up
by these earnest and sincere men. Their appeal
will, we trust, be responded to from every part
of the kingdom, and congregations who take a
deep interest in the question, and are fortunate
enough to have a pastor who agrees with them
in sentiment, should depute him to attend at
Manchester on their behalf. Before the solemn,
devout, and fervent convictions of such men, the
shallow sophistries of a STANLEY, the hollow
and disgusting plausibilities of a PEEL, and the
common-place niaseries of the herd of vulgar
publications, put forth to serve a temporary party
purpose, or taken up without a moment's reflec-
tion, will vanish like the foul mists of the night
before the rising sun. Even if the Confer-
ence should do nothing else, it will bring
together, personally acquainted as the several
pastors must be with the actual condition
of the people, a greater body of testimony
to their sufferings than could by any other
means be collected. It will be sure also to give a
religious sanction to the great struggle in which
the people have embarked, and make the abolition
of the Corn-law a religious question in every
part of the empire.
And why should it not be made a religious
question ? Every duty of man is connected with
religion, which is of no earthly value if it be not
a guide to actions. The clergy of the Established
Church take it upon themselves to preach up
the duty of obedience to the law. Would they
dare to tell men they ought to obey a law which
enjoined parricide or infanticide ? They would
not, because they know that doing so would
expose them to universal scorn and horror.
The preaching obedience to the law implies,
therefore, an obligation to ascertain that the law
is just, or the preachers may peril their own
souls. Our Bishops in Parliament lie under a
double obligation—the obligation which they
share in common with the lay legislators to
make laws exclusively for the public welfare, not
for the enrichment of individuals, and the obli-
gation, which is exclusively their own, to take
especial care that the law be just before they
venture in the name of religion to enjoin men to
obey it.
To discuss the great question of the Corn-
laws on the grounds of humanity and justice,
will get rid of these objections, founded on most
imperfect information as to prices, fertility of
soil, and cost of production at home and abroad,
which are only introduced by the bread-taxers
to perplex and harass their opponents, and stave
off an unpleasant conclusion. Suppose there
were all the difference of the cost of raising
wheat between England and the Ukraine which
some persons have represented, suppose that
there are regions of boundless fertility, ready
to pour their produce into our country, by what
right does the Legislature withhold that pro-
duce. from the millions of people who want it,
and who are willing to pay for it. Suppose that
two, or even ten millions of acres were to
he put out of cultivation by the abolition of
the Corn-laws, what have all those sup-
positions to do with the plain and un-
deniable facts, that the Corn-laws were passed
and arc now maintained to keep up rents, and
that they annually doom a great number of our
people to hunger and starvation ? What have all
those fear-born fancies to do with the fact that
the law is unjust, and such a law as no Legisla-
ture can with safety make, for it violates all the
principles on which any Legislature asks fir, or
can claim, the obedience of any people ? The
Conference will make short work; we trust, with
mei ely political and party objections, and
.set
the example of deciding questions of legislation
by the great principles of right and wrong, not
by the imagined expediencies of men as much
interested and as selfish as ever lived.

personages whose opinions they
sent. This is the more necessary, as_it is Well knowo
that the presence of M. PISCATORY, the French Aent'
in Greece, has given the greatest uneasiness •to the
arc -;ipposed to repre-
Porte, which suspects him to be in some mysterious waY
connected with the Parisian Philhellenic Society,,,
no
stranger to the projects of the Spakiote Chieftains.
It was known in Paris on Monday that the new treatyd
in
for preserving the peace of the East would be
signe
London by the representatives of the Great Powers,
France includd, on uesday.
The exiled e
BishopT Pof AMPELCINA and the ropes
Nuncio, lately expelled from Spain, having been ordered
out of Bayonne by the French authorities, left thar: city
for Pau on the 10th.
h 'ottla
v
It was reported at Toulon that the ~. renc w
shortly evacuate their military hospital aromahon ~ _
The Friedland, ship of the line, sailed Cherbourg
for Toulon on the 10th.
the—titTlehseofQ;loatrilduiei
snensedstatess
et ho a, t
dEe s pcaartsterroo hpaiss t
tmj
,de abolisheds e i
a.
Real, and de Roda, and those of Counts de Casa-Ayala, Buis
de Castilla, and de Fuente Roja.
The 'Hague journal informs us that Prince COtistintitlde
of Russia entered that city on the 7th instant, attended frIINy
,th .
Russian Admiral Lutke and the Imperial Ambassador,
High:
11'
de Maltit a. The King went out to meet his Inaperial
ness on the Leyden road, and entered the Princes carriage.
According to a letter quoted by the Constitutionnel, the young
Grand Duke's visit to Holland has for its object the band of th!
Princess Sophia, of Orange, which some journals have as.
to have been solicited for the Prince de Joinville. , '
The National published, some time averal'articles
in favour of the Fortifications Bill. • M. Cabe„ foritteriY, a
Deputy, published several pamphlets maintaining In Telt:
opinion, and combating the arguments, of the journals n
~
reply to one of these, published by the National on the 10°
!
ult., M. Cabet conceived that his good faith was called in %ne.
t
tion, and required the journal to insert an answer din by
ITT). The editor refused, first, on the• ground that the the
l_eaput2,'s article was no answer to that which appeared ° fiat
V tional, and secondly, because M. Cabet had made diecited !.,
attack. Upon a persistance in this refusal, M. Cahet
Thomas, the responsible editor, before the Correctional.
,jr,
banal. The ease was heard on Saturday, when, after a I°4
debate, the Tribunal imposed a fine of lOtlf. on the defendaft:.
ordered the judgment to be published in the Notiond, toget"ea
with the reply of M. Cabet, with certain amendments he fa
consentedti to, on condition that he paid fur so maiohtd. 'the aar:
cle as exceeded twice the length of that to which it is -an
t,_
saver. M. Thomas was also ordered to pay all the ts CO.'f the
proceedings.
M. Paul Delaroche has finished the tainting of the ,sern„ii;
dome which forms the ceiling of the amphitheatre ikir,.,.
des Beaux Arts, and has just left Paris for Vichy • "c:i°Allin- ay.
:_. the ~..c.
ments forming the borders id. this large surface are now g 0.17;
Thr -,s, representing_the,l::.ne,

se composition includes eight groupes, - l3. °low•
cipal schools of painting—the Roman, Florentine,
'rti latter
German, Dutch, Flemish, Spanish, and French. s' e__, andY
being in the middle. M. Delaroche has been three "
eaeceived
a half in executing this undertaking, for which he ho r
80,000 fr. 8,,, of the
Extensive paintings on the walls, entablature, '1
Church St. Louis d'Antin, are now executing
Brezard and Abel de Pujol. Charnber
The sculptured pediment of the portico at the .
..,,g, the
of Deputies, executed by M. Cortot, is now unee°e,'s'eowipo-
work being entirely terminated. In the middle oft metres,
sition is a figure of France, the height of which is 5 ijwith the
or 18 feet 9 inches English, standing on a pedestal, and
right hand resting on a copy of the Charter. Fez.° group °I
tice guard her on either side ; on the left hand is athe army.'
figures representing navigation, the nary, industrpilat group,
peace, and eloquence ; and on the right is a sal arts, the
consisting of commerce, agriculture, eloquence,
Seine, and the Marne. ,e, place
Some improvements in the paving are now ta"Aeroains
on the Place du Louvre, opposite the Church by 11e,srs.
of t.‘.‘-'und oar
l'Auxerrois. A quantity. of human bones have been le
longed t°
the surface, and it is conjectured by some that they b!..4.
persons massacred on the Eve of St. Bartholomew, Fa's- Seine, of
A new trial was made a few days since, op the
weigh
M. Leclerc's boats, made of water-proof cloth. The_raeo oa
scarcely 40 kilogrammes, or 801bs. each, and with
movesin men
with
bexotarradorddrianwarnyocemleorriteyt.hanA3courri3otsfe:ctenweater. They One
wa'of the boats, being purposely deprived of its whialtniaes,l'eacwirdenass
expected, upset by the wind when above the Pont " „lying
sel, upon which a man on the left bank of the river c,s edge,
another which was folded up, hastened to the water. e
leanunfolded it, launched it into the stream, picked 11P this gooa
who was in the overturned boat, who was of collightoess,
swimmer, took to the boat itself, which from
could not sink, and brought them safe to shore.
done in a few minutes. si Boa' at
The total number of eggs hatched by the fenlirse,he shell
the Garden of Plants, is eight, the first breaking 6'l" e laid.
During this period the mother lay coiled up
taking place on the fifty-seventh day after they 50e; jeer
on the•etgbmo, from
ing them at an equal temperature, and defending the Sot
any attempt to touch or take them away. As e°°° °toe e°ll
egg was broken the mother left them for the first , jobs"
ate, which she had net done during the whole periods' . The
tion, her meal being a rabbit and four pounds a beition ar
young serpents all got through their shells, an °Pert other ;
parently of some difficulty, within four days front eaerke their
they were about twenty inches long, spotted exactly In hiring
Its All this arse
mother, and endeavoured to exercise their tiny jaw 9 that thi'
anything that lay in their reach. It is well Snow° been M
class of serpents are ot venomous. The y have siucae_wrnie, of
a thriving state, are very agile, and are beautiful 5
their species. less th"
The National states that, on Wednesday, n° t vree
1.400 killogrammes (2,8001b5.) of unwholesome °tat° the
seized in Paris by the authorised inspectors, and ten
Garden of Plants to teed the beasts. roor'ivg
The Gazette de France states that yesterdaY lora
some boatmen drew out of the Seine the body eisie enisl
lady of great beauty, who had apparently ceasedititt roan",
a short time. She was dressed in black satin, a had chi'
her neck a diamond necklace of considerable value; supposed
has yet been obtained to her identification ; but it 15
she drowned herself from being crossed in love. `t
Two malefactors were aested, the niht before la,s'
rested, aibnyt
the police, as they had forced a man into a' corner Pearl, was
Eustache, and were about to rob him. Upon one of tl,' eciby'
found the following oath, written by one of them, and ,5i face
of
theni both with their own blood :—" I swear in t, I will
the sun which enlightens me, and by my own life, thaith InY
never betray the oath I am about to take and sign, with
..et
blood. I engage, that en the day of my liberation '
..d never
out with Grivelet. I swear to love him as a brother, tin to eV
desert him in distress. I henceforth devote '9'l oath,
I
friend Jean Baptiste Grivelet. If I ever betray hftsi become
give him a right of life and death over me ; ands.', „op me'
perjured, may all the most horrible maledictions. %IA:.
Done in double, and signed with nay blood and wit . ~,,
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" JULES CASIMIR BEUFFLEN. • gne'''.
An inhabitant of Villejuif, near Paris, havingticee the
himself to be thrashed by his wife, a few diaP treat' in°
young men of the neighbourhood determineu to
partlyby re.-
with a charivari; but the Mayor interfered, and
fnreg Sig,
rnonstrances, partly by threats, induced them text worn
intention, at least for that evening.. Earl/ the ,our'
however, the charivarists, being reinforce
wards of 9.,'-i.
rounding villages, renewed the project, and Kora! tbe 31s)°
persons assembled to carry it into execution. AgallA with re'
interposed, but his advice and commands were
,'damn
and
ts°
sistance, and he was obliged to order a party of geatTio, se'
disperse the assemblage. Numbers prevailed Or at)), D 1511,1%
the armed force was put to flight. Fortunately,
.., get e!
trate, at the commencement of the disturbance, hafft of inth;
Secretary to Paris to require the aid of a detect:in:lir:teeing ot
tary, which soon arrived, and at once, by thY.ised 01,1
their bayonets, struck terror into the rioters, and caused catifk*
to scud away in all directions, but not before a few' w
and sent to the Prefecture of Police. ore it,
It is affirmed, and the Journal of Lyons seen" to jibe leadsPd
that Cabrera has obtained from the Ministry, entire 4
that he has resolved to fix his residence at Lyons.' I
• ,
de France• ' the disrl,
The Temps says—The Embassy to Vienna is et been oee
of Marshal Sault, but it is affirmed that his son basso' ch_..9e
come by the objections made to him, and that he 0 the fee'.
Rome, that M. de Latour Maubourg will be raised t ea-
age, and alentdtelSrlf.rdoemilAlonnastebialloofrejmualyin2:t his post. ,al pertly,
a
ear_so Plitle.
tions recommences. We hope when that, the art's:
.he fill'
Marquis of Dalmatia, who, it is said, is appointen tO eeosing
bassy at Rome, will put an end to these persecutions,
.!',/
as
the proceedings which are pending to be suspeacteliluodene, P
The journal Voce della Verita, published at
0. tiuother!
ceased to appear. This journal in its concludinetaneousye;
takes care to state, that this resolution has been ellcilb isfitti'sti,
but it is reported that Lord Holland, the new Eng '
souired tP
at the Court of Tuscany, Parma, and Modena has r-sitoraneeei
suppression. The Duke, it is said, has yielded only afsw joonla
for the Voce della Verita warmly recommends 0... TAeria, lr,,
which is to succeed it, by the name of Paper ot this
of which the first number will appear on the 6th of thie '''
—Le Commerce. ogle
A letter from Semlin dated the 29th of June (10 the
et
burg Gazette of the Bth of July) says— ken plaee„,,
"An insurrectionary movement has just te which 'S ,
Goluba, a little town in Servia. This movement,saddeo "eii
speedily suppressed, becomes important, by
ethe t re bite
parture of the Princess Mother Lubizza, a d pia: 1:0 rotre-r
resembles a flight, and by the arrest of Gaia, uncereral ? so
Michael, and brother to Princess Lubizsa. '
persons of distinction have been arrested,' so
doubt that this attempt had a degree of political iror'
Le Commerce. .
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thatl‘
sion of the Budget. It approved of the e."1",.e josjoin
first six months of 1841. and
orerjected by a litrb rsititiell.
all the amendments having their object titre/ foree re
of the salary of the REGENT. .A- nnsit3the Bales
10,000 men is to be shortly concentrated in . 0,
Islands. •ve the ,
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Letters from Seville, of the 29th June, FlFltentcs ,;
lowing details of a most destructive fire at'broke olOro'..
Andalusia :—" On the 23d of June asidefire ,oels 1)0.,
the Calle de l'Entendiemento, and
.sandthe ettia
gross in spite of the zeal of the authori
e,
_ens ce .
dons of the inhabitants that the devourinag_.oifino. setae,a.,i
not be prevented from extending- to the
Id.Jositilde'plor,
tebtn
San Francisco, which soon presented a ndred al° wos
spectacle. In less than four hours one fun
, and icotild
houses became a prey to the flames, ,0...,
not until night that the exertions of the lire, wili
so:, ,
succeed in arresting the progress of theelihood of thou
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destroyed the hopes and means of liv The po.b 141'0
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doubt
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relief of the sufferers, which we .ho rich in
rendering them houseless and destitute.
ponded to generously and promptly.eoJ ''
0 to 1.16
tants of the fertile province of Sevill •it, 26 1-3.
cash.
Bourse heavy, and Five per Cents. t

We have received both the Paris Journals of Monday
and news from that capital of Tuesday's date, brought
by Extraordinary Express. The latest intelligence from
Toulouse announces the restoration of tranquillity in that
town without any more bloodshed. To quiet the people
the new Prefect, M. MAHUL, had issued another procla:
mation apprising them that they were in error in sup-
posing that the Government ordered returns of windows
to be made for the purpose of increasing the taxes.
The Moniteur of Tuesday publishes the promotion of
ten French Admirals, among whom is Mt BAUDIN, pro-
moted to the Maritime Prefecture of Toulon.
On the 6th instant the French squadron under Admi-
ral HuooN, was off Cape Sardier, on its way to the Gulf
of Juan, where it was to perform evolutions. France is
preparing for some new aspect in the affairs of the East.
The Debuts continues to oppose the insurrections of
the Christians in the East. The tone of these articles is
not such as to satisfy us that this Journal is sincere in from C°ll'
condemning the rising of the Christians in Crete. We nna, cos'
merely see in its cautiously worded periods, the dread We have received, by way of Vie beat
The $11142.1*4
which Cotta organs entertain of committing those high stantinoplo of the 24th ult.

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