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contrary, those only who complain of them ex-
ercising their rights, and who are unwilling to
give pledges. The Bill confers upon a great
proportion of the population, the right
of choosing their Representatives, and
how, let us ask, are the people to deter-
mine the fitness or unfitness of the candidates
to represent them, but by the opinions which
they entertain—the declarations which they make
—and the pledges on particular questions which
they are inclined to give ? The people neither
have the right nor the inclination, to compel any
one to represent them in the Commons' House
of Parliament, and, in consequence, they can
only exact pledges from those who arc willing to
give them ; but they have the right to send re-
presentatives to Parliament, and if that right
means any thing but a mockery—a delegation
of uncontrolled and irresponsible power—it as-
suredly means that the people should send such
persons, and such persons only, to Parliament
as shall fairly and honestly represent their feel-
ings, wishes, and sentiments. And what is the
meaning of the exaction of pledges but the ef-
fecting of a species of insurance, that those
whom they may choose as representatives shall
truly and fairly represent them ?—Morn.Advert.

The cholera has visited Canada. It broke
out first at Quebec, in a lodging-house occupied by emi-
grants, and spread so, that on the Ilth ult. not less than
60 case's occurred, many of which proved fatal. Mr.
SAUNDERS, a merchant residing in the upper town, was
among its victims. The brig Carricks, from Dublin, had
lost not less than 42 passengers by the disorder during tie
passage out. The greatest consternation and alarm pre-
vailed in Quebec and Montreal. Upwards of 25,000
emigrants had arrived during the season.
THE COLLIERS AND THE COAL-OWNERS

IN THE NORTH. —The Magistrates of Northumberland
and Durham have held a meeting, in which they have re-
solved to represent to Government the absolute inefficiency
of the present police force to put an end to the outrages of
the pitmen. If the Legislature does not speedily devise

some means to put an end to these combinations of work.
men to overa've and dictate to their masters, the same

system will soon extend itself to other parts of the coun-
try, and prove of the most serious injury to commerce of
every description.

LIVERPOOL, JULY B.—Wind at noon, N.W.,
fain—Arriveil, the Hindostan, Essex, Homer, and
Henry Lee, from New Orleans; Nouvelle Adeline, from
Marseilles; Pacific, and Washington, from New York;
Sarah, from Newfoundland ; Laura, from Demerara ;
Ellen, from the Mediterranean ; Henry Hoyle, from
Oporto; Jamaica, from Jamaica; Protector, Tamerlane,
and Hamilton, from Savannah ; Hellespont, from New
Orleans; Mary Ford, from St. Andrew's; Celia, from
Savannah; Marion, from Mobile; Hannah, from St.
John's, New Brunswick ; Factor, from Smyrna ; Agnes,
from Africa. Two ships, one bark, and one brig, off the
port at a quarter past eight o'clock. Etna, and Emerald
Isle, from Dublin; Town of Drogheda, from Drogheda;
Ann, from Newport; Peace, from 'Waterford; Good
Intent, from Poole ; Queen Adelaide, from London-
derry ; Hibernia, from Belfast ; Lion, from Glasgow ;
and George IV:, from Newry.

A DOG ATTACKED BY CHOLERA.—We
hive learned from an authentic source that a singular in-
stance of the spreading of this fatal malady to the canine
race has just occurred in the vicinity of the cholera hos-
pital in Townsend-street. Whether the animal lay in the
bed of any deceased inmate of that place (a conjecture not
improbable), or how the distemper was contracted, is
not positively known. The following particulars have
reached us :—The animal was a large mastiff; he was at
tacked in the street, about one hundred yards from the
Depot gate. He whirled about, as if shot, and became
attacked with violent spasms, his frothy tongue lolled out ;
two medical gentlemen examined the animal, and in-
stantly pronounced the case to he one of decided Indian
spasmodic cholera. They directed him to be shot by a
publican named JEFF, who refused to destroy the property

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of any one without the consent of the owner. A labour-
ing man, however, not so scrupulous, went for a pistol,
intending to destroy him; before he returned, collapse had

taken place. The dog died within half an hour after he
was attacked. A physician who saw the body declared it
was capable of imparting greater infection than the dead
bodies of 20 human beings. The dog was accordingly
instantly interred.—Dublin Times.
A TAILOR NEARLY SMOTHERED.—On

Saturday morning, about one o'clock, as CORNELIUS DRA-
PER, a tailor, of No. 13, Orange-street, Red Lion-squsre,
was returning from Chelsea in a glorious state of intoxi-
cation, he had unfortunately to pass Cheyne-walk, close to
the river; here he tacked to the left and right, when un-
luckily standing too long upon his starboard tack, be
pi.ched head foremost off the bank. It was nearly low
water at the time, and he fell a height of about ten feet
into the mud, where he rolled about for some time, until a
policeman heard a moaning noise in the mud ; he went to
the spot, and, in order to render the unfortunate tailor
assistance, he jumped down to assist him, little thinking
that the mud was nearly six feet deep. The policeman,
finding himself unexpectedly up to his neck, shouted for
assistance, when several policemen came up, and with
great exertiors both parties were hauled out of the mud by
ropes. The tailor was in a most deplorable condition, and
nearly exhausted ; he was conveyed to the station-house
and scoured, and some brandy was given him, when he
vomited a large quantity of Thames mud which he had
swallowed. He was afterwards carried to the White
Horse and put to bed, The surgeon said that if he had
been half a minute longer in the mud he must have been
suffocated.

Many years ago, Mr. WALTER BOYD ad-
vanced a considerable sum of money to the Duke of Oa-
LEANS, father of his present MAJESTY, who being a cre-
ditor of the late Duke de FITZJAMES, transferred that debt
as a collateral security to Mr. BOYD. In consequence of
the revolution and the confiscation of the properties of
the two Dukes, this debt remained many years unsatisfied.
The mother of the present Duke de FITZJAMES having
returned to France from emigration, NAPOLEON restored
to her the use and enjoyment of her late husband's pro-
perty for her life, with the reversion to her son, who,
upon her death, entered into possession of his paternal
estates sous benefice d'inventaire, that is taking upon
himself the responsibility of his father's debts no further
than the amount of the property would go to pay. The
respective debts having remained unliquidated, Mr. BOYD,
at the request of his MAJESTY, and on his guarantee, in
which he was joined by Madame ADELAIDE, instituted
proceedings against the Duke de FITZJA3IES, for the re-
covery of that which was due from his late father to the
deceased Duke of ORLEANS. These proceedings, com-
menced many years 4go, have been procrastinated, till at
length they reached the Court of Cassatien on Thursday
last, which confirmed the liability of the Duke de FITZ-
JAMES to pay the debt of his late father, now amounting
to 277,000 francs, and ordered him to deliver in, on or
before the Ist of November next, an account of the pro-
perty inherited by him and come into possession from his
father ; and, in default, the Court declared him liable to
payment out of his own estates and effects.

That the dignity of the House of Lords has
greatly fallen, every one feels and must acknowledge. Men
come in from the Courts and other places below, more ac-
customed to talk, and occupy the whole arena. The most
busy and most noisy men must not be taken to be the
most able, or the most intelligent. If the Lords lose their
dignity, they lose their power. Dignity is power in
certain cases, as BURKE said. It is certain that Lords
without dignity will not long survive. They are sup.
ported by opinion and respect; if they fail, all is gone•
In blind feudal times the respect for a Peer might be too
great. (See " Tom Warton's observation in his Chapter
on the Poetry of Queen Elizabeth's age.") We can-
not new-make human nature—we cannot take cold
abstract philosophers of a whole people: to venerable and
historical descent people will look, reason as you may ;
and boast as they will, men will not look up to the son

of a chimney-sweep as to a PLANTAGENET, a TALBOT, a
STANLEY, a HOWARD. There is most distinguished
and venerable blood among the Lords; but they who
made all the bustle among the Lords on the late occa,ion
had it not, and these were they who thus became pro-
minent to the notice of the nation. The desire of tno-
nopoly of their new-got elevation was thus so striking,
that it coul.l nut but fill the public with disgust. They
!oust have been very short-sighted not to keep up appear-
ances a little better. The tenour of their whole argu-
ments went to provoke the people to inquire into their
history, which they ought to have known would not very
well bear research. The ancient free constitution of
France was destroyed centuries ago in a somewhat similar
say. Official Peers, lawyers, Sce., were substituted for
the ancient peerage and feudal chiefs, who were entitled
to a seat i❑ the assembly of states; and the French Par-
liament superseded that assembly.— Times.