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London, England, 1833-10-03 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY EViNING, OCTOBER 3, 1833.

CORPORATION COMMISSION.

• GRANTHAM.--011 Friday the Commissioners
(John Buckle and George Long, Esqrs.), opened
'he Commission in the Borough and Soke of Gran-
tham. The limits of the Borough were stated by
the Town-clerk to be twelve miles, consisting of the
ancient Borough and thirteen detached villages, and
that the right of election of Alderman lay in the
twelve corn-burgesses and the second twelve. One
of the Commissioners, however, said, by the
Charters it appeared to him that all the burgesses
and inhabitants of the Borough had a right to vote.
The Alderman is Chief Magistrate, and has a salary
of 100/. a-year; but no incidental emoluments.
'l'he Duke of Rutland is Recorder, and his deputy
must be a barrister. The right of freedom is birth,
servitude, or grant or purchase (50/.) in the Bo-
rough, but several instances of refusal on political
grounds, were stated. The Town-clerk sits as Re-
corder, and taxes his own costs ! The gaoler,
who is also bailiff, and summonses the. Juries,
stated that there was no gaol chaplain, and that the
prisoners were without the attendance of a clergy-
man ! The allowance to the prisoners for food was
but fourpence each per diem, which was considered
n•ufficient. The Chamberlain was a member of the
Court which audited his accounts. The Com-
missioners after hearing several witnesses, proceeded
to investigate the matters in the petition of Earl
Elrownlow, Lord Huntington, and others, which--
was presented last session to the House of Commons.
Sir Robert Heron described the present system exist-
ing in the Borough, and stated he had known many
instances of the escape of felons from the frequent
necessity of applying to the Magistrate in the
borough for warrants. He suggested the propriety
of a concurrent jurisdiction. Other evidence
was given to show the necessity of an altera-
tion in the system of jurisdiction. The Court
next inquired into the patronage of the coporation,
and went into all the details. It appeared they
were trustees of the Free Grammar School at Gran-
tham ; that Mi.. Ostler was the receiver, and the
Bishop of Lincoln the auditor, and as such signed
and passed the accounts yearly. Harst's Charity
School at Corby, and the Keybearer's Charity at
Grantham, were also vested in the corporation as
trustees. In investigating the objects of the Key-
bearer's Charity, a curious fact was elicited—the
donor having provided that twelve bottles of wine
should be supplied to every alderman to make a
yowl for his lady ! ! The Commissioners con-
cluded the investigation, arid then proceeded to
Lincoln.

LINCOLN. -On Monday Messrs. Long and
Buckle commenced their investigation into the cor-
poration of this city. The jurisdiction of that body
extended over the city, and county of the city;
four villages—viz., Can wick, 13, anston, Bracebridge,
an i -Waddington, had been added by the Reform
Act. The ancient city extended over 3,650 square
acres. Any or all of the officers of the corporation
were removeable by the common council, on proof
of misgovernment or misapplication of the corpora-
tion property. There are about 507 resid,nt, and
700 non-resident freemen. The income of the cor-
poration was 6,0001., but it was in debt 30,0001.
It appeared that one person, who should have been
mayor in his turn, had been passed over from hav-
ing appropriated the corporation and charity funds
to his own use, but he was not expelled the corpo-
ration. The inquiry was resumed on Tuesday.

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PARIS.

(Private Correspondence, from a Morning Paper.)

TUESDAY, 4, O'CLOCK P. IL

The motions of the Carlists in the southern and

western provinces continue to occupy attention, and
to give rise to extraordinary measures on the part
of the Government wherever there is any danger of
anything serious being attempted by them. Letters
from Toulon of the 23d ray, that all the officers of
the National Guards have received notice to be
ready to act in case of a landing of the Duchess de
Berri. The whole garrison of that place was in
motion, the posts were doubled, and the officers en-
joined not to quit the corps-de-garde. At Marseilles
hands of Carlists had been formed on the 23d,
when, as well as on the following day, the public
peace was disturbed by their appearance. The
patriots had lost no time in assembling, for the pur-
pose of taking the law into their own hands, and
teaching the deluded adherents to a desperate
cause how greatly they have mistaken their
strength, and misconceived the feeling of the
country. Nocturnal riots had occurred in the
streets, blows in abundance were exchanged,
and serious wounds had been inflicted. The
" patriots," as might have been expected from
the immense superiority of their numbers, have re-
mained masters of the field; but the authorities had,

notwithstani4g- the- value of such aid, found it, of
course, necessary to interfere, and great exertions
were making, at the time the last letters were
written, to restore order. It was reported at Mar-
seilles that three of the Duchess of Berry's mo,t
active agents and most faithful friends, Messrs.
Menars, Kergorly, and Sala, had arrived in that
city for the purpose of concerting with the leaders
Of the party the mode of landing of the Duchess.
The strictest search was making by the police for
these three persons, but at the last date of the letters
the place of their abode had not been discovered,
nor was it, in fact, ascertained that they had really
come to Marseilles.

According to letters from Geneva, all tLe dili-
gences going from Switzerland to Lyons and Gre-
noble had been, during the previous fortnight, filled
with Carlist emigrants of 1830, all of whom had
suddenly taken it into their beads to return to
France, and were directing their steps towards the
provinces of the south.

In conformity with the plan adopted by the writers
for the Carlist papeii .`,;who were in the secret of
the plans formed the Duchess had, last year,
determined on coming to France, the same organs
of the party are now exerting themselves to divert
attention from the real motions of the chief drama-
tis persona of the new tragic farce which is to be
performed in France, by giving out that some are
gone to Venice, others to Vienna, and others (the
Duchess herself among these) have taken the most
direct and shortest road to Prague. But this is
stale manoeuvring, and there is no longer the least
chance of anything being obtained by it. No one
in the country is likely to be deceived again, as to
the real intentions of the party ; and if those inten-
tions happen to be changed, it will probably be be-
cause their universal notoriety has led to precautions
which must render their execution as hopeless as it
may be impossible.

We are told by some of the papers published in
the western provinces, that the gendarmes are again
abroad, arresting travellers on the high roads, and
requiring the exhibition of their passports. It is
much to be deplored that such a practice, which
was one of the most odious and oppressive under
the regime of the restoration, should have been re-
newed under the Government which has sprung out
of the barricades. There is not a greater delusion
than that which is practised on the French public
by the system of passports and their pretended
utility. They are professedly meant as a means of
detecting highway robbers and c-iminals, and yet
everybody knows how greatly passports are in the
reach of every applicant, and how impossible it is to
refuse them even when required for the worst of
purposes. But, if easily obtained, the annoyance to
which the necessity of being provided with them sub-
jects all travellers is as great as if their possession
was the only means of proving that the beater
is not a throat-cutter, or one who has escaped from
the galleys. There cannot he a greater drawback
on the unquestionable right of motion which every
free man possesses, and therefore on public liberty,
than the system of passports as it is still suffered to
exist and is practised in this country; nor can a
greater proof than the existence of such a system
be adduced to show how small has been the pro-
gress of liberty in France after forty years of almost
incessant struggles to obtain it. We have seen that
the want of genuine passports did not, last year,
prove of any detriment to the motions of the chief
instigators of civil war; and we may yet find that
their absence may be a source of great annoyance to
the most peaceably inclined, but not of embarrass-
ment to the instigators of civil war.
We have no foreign news to-day of any import.
ance. The French funds have fluctuated a good
deal to-day, owing again to transactions connected
with the settlement of the month's &tccount.

FRENCH FUNDS.—PAni,,, SEPT. 30.

Five per Cents., 102 f. 30c. 35c. 4i c.
Three per Cents., 75f. 45c. hfic. 70c
Bank Actions, 1,7201.
Rente de Naples, 91f. 10c.
Roman Five per Cents., 90.
Rente d'Espagm, Five per Cents., 16M.
Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 41,A
Royal Spanish Loan,

Reiite rerpet. d'Espagne;Five per Cents., 69
Belgian Loan, 1831, 96%.
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 25f. 45c. • money, 25f. 40c.
Three months, paper, 25f. 35c. ; money, 25f. 30c.
—Coors Authentiryue.
FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIS, OCT. 1.

Five per Cents., iwr. 50c 40c. 30c.
Three per Cents., 75f. 65c. 60c. 50c.
Itente de Naples, 9lf. 50c.
Roman Five per Cents., 90%.
Itente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 41%! 40%.
Royal Spanish Loan, 831.
Itente I'erpet. d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 69% €9.
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 25f. 45c.; money, 25f. 40c.
Three nionths, paper, 25f. 35c. ; money, 25f. 30c.
—fours Authentique.

EXTRAORDINARY ESCAPE.—On Tuesday
night last a respectable lad, on a visit at a Louse in
Sydney-parade, Bithwick, being suddenly awoke with
some fancied atirm in the house, threw open the sash,
and springing out, fell down into the garden beneath, a
depth of upwards of 30 feet ! The ground being soft
below, he fortunately escaped without the slightest injury.
._Bath Journal.

DREADFUL ACClDENT.—Yesterday after-
noon, about 4, o'clock, as some workmen of Mr. Tippet,
,hip-smith, at Lirnekiln-yard, were engaged in making a
knee or staple out of a 'nabs of iron, they met with the
following dreadful accident :—A knee or staple is so
formed that two of the sides run down the ship's sides,
whilst the top is intended to support the deck. Five men
had been engaged in forming one of these knees, and
whilst they were, by means of an iron rod, turning the
Last portion of the bar, which was red hot, the rod gave
way in the solid metal, and all the men fell back with
great violence on a bar of iron behind ; two of them,
named Thotnas Smith and John Bradshaw, were most
seriouslyinjured—Smith having his skull fractured, his
arm broken, his shoulder dislocated, and five of his ribs
broken; Bradshaw had his skul fractured, and they were
both insensible. The other men were more or less hurt.
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PRICE 71).)

PARTY at the RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR'S

Prince and Princess Lieven gave a grand party at Ash-
hurnhain House the night before last, in honour of the
approaching union of the Noble families of Cowper and
De Grey (el-decant Grantham), by the marriage of the
eldest son of the former (Viscount Fordwich) with the
eldest daughter and heiress (Lady Anne De Grey) of the
latter family. Tae noble suite of apartments were thrown
open on the occasion, and presented a very brilliant appear.
ance from the profusion of rich chandeliers and mirrors of
the largest magnitude. The household appeared in their
splendid state liveries of imperial purple, embroidered with '
silver lace. Covers were laid for 30, and the folloing
were amongst the dinner party, viz., Prince Esterluzy,
Viscount Palmerston, Earl and Countess Cowper, Earl
and Countess De Grey, Lord Melbourne, Lord and Lady
Ashley, Viscount Fordwich, Lady Anne De Grey, L iily
Mary Vyner, Prince Paul Lieven, Baron Wessenberg,
Hon. Captain Vyner, Mr. and Mr•s. Gorge Lamb, &e.
In the evening Princess Lieven received a select party,
consisting of about 30, including the Earl and Countess of
Jersey, the Prussian Minister, Baron Bulow, Baron and
Baroness de Blom'', Lord Villiers, &c.

EVIDENCE OF MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS
AT CORONERS' INQUESTS.—A few days ago Mr. Gode-
I kb, of Chelsea, refused to give his evidence before Mr.
Stirling unless he were paid. Not low since a very
eminent member of the long robe, on being consulted on
point, gave it as his opinion that the Coroner could
,41111W1r1 any fine whom he-believed capable if giviog any
information as to how the deceased had come by his
death, and that he could oblige the witness to speak as to
mere matter of fart; but no prof,ssional man, and of
course no surgeon, can be found to give an opinion with-
out remuneration.—Aredtcal Gazette.

FURTHER EMIGRATION OF RECRUITS
FOR THE SERVICE OF DONNA MARIA, THE YOUNG
QUEEN OF PORTUGAL —Yesterday afternoon about 400
recruits raised by Captain Symes, for the service of the
Queen of Poi tugal, left the dept at the Queen's Head,
Orchard-street, Westminwer, acd proceeded to Rother•
hithe, where they embarked for Gravesend, under the
superintendence of Captain Symes. They all appeared to
be fine able-bodied men, and in excellent Fpiri:s. They
will he put en board a brig, named the 7'hunderer, at
Gravesend, engaged by Don Pedro's agents to sail for
Lisbon, and she will leave the river this day. The recruits
on going on board are immediately clothed, anti receive a
month's pay in advance, 21. ss. During the whole of
yesterday afternoon the agents at the different depots were
actively engaged in taking in men, as fresh instructions
have been received to raise another regiment for the ser-
vice, to consi.t of 1,000 men, who will immediately
proceed to Lisbon. The detachment which sails to-day
will be under the command of Colonel Kelly.

The highest price of wheaten flour of the first
quality at Paris is 48 francs per 159 kilogrammes, which
answers to 11. 10s. 2d. the Enellsh sack of 280 Th. ; and
the highest price of wheaten flour of the first quality in
London is 21. 121. per sack. It therefore appears that
wheaten fl,,ur is full 72 per cent, dearer in Loudon than
in Paris, and that with the sum of 21. 12s. a man may
buy 4831 b. of fine flour at Paris, whereas with the same
sum he can only buy 2801 n. in London.

There is every probability that Lord John
Scott's coVerts, near Dunchurch, will be added to the ex-
ten,ive hunting country possessed by the Warwick Hunt,
A meeting of the Cimmittee of the Hunt will be held in a
few days to consider this plan. Through the exertions of
two or three individuals in Leamington, assurances of pe-
cuniary support have been obtained The present master
of the hounds is W. P. Thornhill, Esq.

On Friday a public dinner was given to Sir
David Btird, of Newbyth, Baronet, in the Town•hall of
Iladdington, on the occasion of presenting him with a
piece of plate, purchased by the subscription of 7,000
freeholders of that county, in testimony of their high ad-
miration of the manly and independent manner in which
he stood forward to support the liberal interest at the late
general election. The plate was publicly presented in the
Rev. Mr. Hogg's meeting-house, at two o'clock. A large
assemblage of people were present, and not a few ladies
graced the meeting with their presence; among others,
was Lady Ann Baird, of Newbyth, who was loudly
cheered. The plate presented is a splendid silver table
centre-piece, about two feet eight inches high. On one
side is inscribed as follows :—" This expression of public
feeling emanates from 7,000 individuals of the county of
East Lothian, whose voluntary contributions were limited
from one penny to one shilling." Another side is in-
scribed thus :—" Presented to Sir David Baird, of New-
bytl , Baronet, as a testimony of approbation and respect
for his honourable and independent conduct in the late
struggle to represent his native county and the cause of
the people in the first reformed Parliament, A.D. 1832."
The America frigate, of 50 guns, cut down
from the old '7l of that name, is in a great state of for-
wardness. She is fitted with Mr. Roberts' improved new
round stern, which is, however, so disguised, that it has
the appearance of the old square stern, without losing the
properties of the round stern. The Lords of the Admi-
ralty inspected this ship in their late visit, and expressed
their great satisfaction at its appearance.

Thursday, the 19,h, as the household goods
of Thomas Hicks, Esq., of Kenilworth, were being re-
moved to aiiother residence, the second son, a child about
three years and nine months old, took a small bottle out
of a basket, and tasted its contents. The liquid proved to
be oil of vitriol, procured to clean grates, and although the
little innocent had taken but a small quantity, its effects
threw him into great agonies, and caused his death in a
few hours.—Leamington Courier.

A wicked act of incendiarism was perpetrated
in Northumberland a few days ago. A small dwelling-
house on Thrunton Moor (the property of Lord Ravens-
worth) was maliciously set fire to at midnight ; and what
aggravates the crime is that three men were sleeping in
the house at the time, and must have been burnt to death
had not one of them fortunately awoke. As it was,
their clothes and tools were destroyed.

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE.—On the 10th
of September Jeremiah Boyse, son of Mr. W. Rope, of
Saltmills, in this county, aged 11, having been corrected
at school, fled home. His father ordered him to return,
and followed at a distance to see he observed his directions.
When the boy arrived at Campile bridge, his unhappy
father saw him leap on the battlements, and plunge in-
' stantly into the stream. Assistance was afforded, but in
vain—those who exerted themselves brought up a lifeless
corpse to the wretched parent.— lVeaford Conservative.
THE IRISH BEGGING Box.—The tribute
levied by O'Connell from the poor peasantry of Ireland,
as a reward for his " patriotic" services, and which in
some previous years amounted to ten or twelve thousand
pounds, is likely to experience a sad diminution this year.
A meeting was lately held at Carrick-on-Suir, pursuant
to a requisition signed by thirty•fmr persons, for the pur.
pose of adopting measures to raise the tribute, when
fourteen persons attended ! This looks " squint" to the
bugging box ! The Dublin Evening Post, in allusion to
this public anee-ing, says, " Thank God ! the reign of
the most frightful tyranny and terror that was ever exer-
cised over a suffering people, by a knot of the most un-
principled schemers that ever mocked a deluded pock., or
disgraced a country, is at an end—the jicl:als of Daniel
can no longer hunt down their prey, and plunder the
people in the name of patriotism."

ACCIDENT AT KING'S COLLEGE.--Yester-
day afternoon, as the masons were removing several large
blocks of stone, which had just been landed by the con-
tractor upon a temporary platfbrm over the river, in front
of the east wing terrace of Somerset House, one of the
principal timbers of the platform unfortunately gave way,
and we are concerned to state that five of the workmen
employed in the removal were precipitated into the river,
together with Mr. Martin, the contractor's son. They
were all, however, fortanstely rescued from a watery grave
with the exception of one of the working masons, named
William Hannah, who, we regret to add, has left behind
him a wife and three children. Very great ctedit is due
to several of the workmen, who, at the risk of their own
safety, ventured upon Caine of the floating planks, and were
the happy means of saving the lives of their master and
four of their fellow labourers. The foreman of the masons,
we regret to add, had one of his arms fractured, and was
immediately conveyed to St. George's Hospital, but the
others, happily, received 11 o material injury. The body
has since been found, and lies at the Cheshire Cheese,
Surrey-street, to await the Coroner's inquest.

MIDDLESEX INTERMEDIATE SESSIONS.
OCTOBER 2.

(Before B. ROTCH, Eq., M P., and a Bench of
Magi‘tratep.)

Henry (calling himself John) Palmer, a young
man attire,l in the very height of fashion, was played
in the dm.k to plead to a charge of having, with
John Minter Hart, and John Kinnear, late a
Brighton banker, feloniously stolen. nn the 2d of
August, ten bills of exchange, of 500/., the pro-
perty of Francis Dugdale Ashley, E•tp
There were eight counts in the indictment, vary-
ing the offence.

The prisoner, in a very audible and firm tone,
pleaded not guilty.
Mr. PRENDERGAST applied to the Court to admit
ie prisoner to bail. He bad been taken Into cus-
tody on a charge of conspiracy (the same trans,!c-
rim)), and admitted to bail by the Judge. To
render his bail nugatory, the parties concerned for
the prosecution had preferred another bill of indict-
ment for felony, to which he had just pleaded.
Mr. CHADWICK JONES opposed the prisoner's
he'ng admitted to bail, in consequence of the very
grave and imporant charge he was called upon to
:,newer, and .hoped that if bail should be accepted it
would be ample and solvent to make him appear to
answer to the indictment.
The Chairman, B. RoTcn, Esq., M.P., observed,
lie was of opinion that bail ought not to be taken.
The Bench concurred with the Learned Chair-
man, and the application was refined.
Mr. PRENDERGAST inquired when the trial would
take place ?
APer some consultation with the Bench, the
CHAIRMAN ordered the trial of the prisoner to take
place on Saturday next.

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