The Sun.
London, England, 1832-04-24 00:00:00

UNION-HAIL.

Two men named Cotton and Graham, both ap-
parently in great distress, were charged with break-
ing a gas-lamp, for the avowed purpose of being
sent to gaol.
The prisoners were observed by a policeman
sitting under agate-way, and as his instructions were
to prevent it, he desired them to move off his beat,
which they expressed great unwillingness to do. He,
hone ever, insisted upon it, and they had scarcely
walked a few )ards before they snatched up stones,
and at the same moment threw at, and broke a gas-
lamp, saying, that they committed the offence in or-
der to be sent to gaol. They also raid that they had
not lain in a bed for the last fortnight, and that,
wearied and tired of looking after work, without
success, they were desirous of being set at work in
gaol, rather than be driven to the extremities they
had recently suffered.
The Magistrate committed them for a fortnight
each, with instructions that they should be passed to
their respective parishes, at the expiration of their
imprisonment. The poor fellows expressed their
gratitude at being sent to gaol.

SHEFFIELD, APRIL 21.

(From the Sheffield Mercury.)

The time is not far distant, when Ministers
will be compelled to make great alterations in the
laws affecting newspapers. Whether owing to a
want of energy, or to a consciousness that the
evil is too powerful to be controlled by Govern-
ment, we know not ; but it is quite certain that
the law prohibiting unstamped newspapers, is
not only evaded in many instances but openly
violated. This is done, too, with the consent of
public opinion ; indeed, so strong is public
opinion against the restrictions that encumber
the press, that the public extend a momentary
sanction to works of the most demoralizing
character, and which can remain in the market
no longer than the stamp duties are kept in force.
Ministers cannot do better than remove the
temptation, if they would prevent the mischief
arising from the circulation of dangerous peri-
odicals. Let the holiest part of the press have
fair play ; let not the risk be all on the side of
sound principles, and the vile trash which is
hawked about London, and which we are sorry
to say is finding its way into the provinces, will
soon be driven from the field. If they cling to
the newspaper stamp duties, the consequences
will be much to be deplored. Magistrates may
attempt to put down the " Penny Newspaper,"
but the moment one is suppressed, two or three
others are commenced ; and we greatly fear that
the evil is too powerful for any legal remedy that
can be devised, short of the repeal of the stamp
duties. The men who are employed upon the
publications alluded to, are, for the most part,
of the most desperate and abandoned character.
They have nothing to fear from the law, for they
have nothing to lose : and they are seeking to
bring about a change that will enable them to
seize upon the property of others. If these men
are to continue in a monopoly which no honest
man of small property would think of sharing
with them, the injury they will do will be almost
incalculable. They will complete what vice
and licentiousness has commenced, and spread
immorality and disaffection wherever they are
read.

We have before us copies of not less than twenty
different publications sold in the streets of Lon-
don as " Penny Papers." The best of them can
scarcely be called harmless, as they tend to fill the
mind with the most insignificant trifles, and the
bulk of them are of the most disgusting and
alarming character. Some of these (and those
of the worst character too) circulate not less
than thirty or forty thousand weekly, and are
read to or by a greater number of persons in the
metropolis, and in some parts of the manufac-
turing districts, than all the daily papers put to-
gether.
What the gin-shops fails to accomplish in de-
moralizing and degrading the poor, will soon be
effected by these publications. They appear to
be the only thing wanting to complete and make
unisersal a change which has been passing like a
blight over the lower classes for the last five-and-
twenty years ; and if Ministers are not pretty
prompt in removing the source of the evil, they
will very shortly find themselves in a position in
which they will be glad to acknowledge and re-
pair the mischief, when it is too late to repair it.
It is a lamentable fact, that those who should
have been most concerned for the prosperity of
the poor, and the preservation of their morals,
are so far removed from them as to be wholly
ignorant of their condition. False notions of
liberty—giving people cheap ale and cheap gin,

(From the Glasgow Chronicle of Friday last.)
On Wednesday night a meeting of the Referrn
Association was held in the lower room of the
Trades' Hall, Glassford-street, for the purpose of
addressing the King, and petitioning the House of
Lords to preserve the integrity of the Reform Bill
in its fullest extent. William Sterling, Esq. was
called to the Chair. The room, long before the
hour of meeting (eight o'clock) was crowded to
suffocation, and hundreds had to go away who could
not gain admittance, although the meeting was
called as one of the Association only. The windows
were thrown open, and a large crowd, though it
rained all the time, collected on the outside were
thus enabled to hear the proceedings.
Sir D. K. SA141;4'001) rose to propose an address
to the King. The present was one of the most ime
portant crises that had yet occurred in the histOr4ei
of this great measure, which for eighteen montht;
bad fixed the undivided attention of all elaseee in
the country; and never before was the, people sP
loudly and imperiously called on to assemble mid to
act with vigour in its favour. Same there %vac',
however, who had expressed a reluctance t 6
meet on the present occasion ; and he was
not surprised at the repugnance which many
felt for such public exhibitions—the repugnance
was not unaccountable which many felt, in
these unquiet times, to the glare and bustle of po-
pular assemblies. All who consulted their own ease
and comfort—who dreaded the serpent tooth of
calumny—and the fierce enmity of party on the one
hand—and on the other the treacherous defection,
or the cold support of seeming friends, must feel re-
luctant to come forward and join in the struggle,.
when they will inevitably be exposed to bosh the
one and the other ; but he who was detertnined not
to shrink from his duty—who was resolved ;Panty
to act for the public weal—who, having once p:2t his
hand to the plough, would not look back—such
man would disregard his natural repugnance to pub-
licity, and would meet with his fellow-citizens, time
after time, till they bad achieved the victory, and
won the prize for which they had so nobly and mar
fully fought. However reluctant, therefore, he
really felt to come before the public—and notwith-
standing the many misconstructions of his former
language and conduct, he had thought it right that
they should meet now, were it only to congratulate
themselves on the progress which the ceuse of Re-
form had made—were it only to thank the King
and his Ministry for their unflinching adherence to
the cause, and to thank the Peers, who, even at dile:
late period—at the eleventh hour—had, howevee'
tardily, come forward, and showed a willingness to
concede some little indulgence to the wishes of the
people.—(Cheers.) Aid he heartily wished that
this were all. But though the Bill on which
they had set their hearts had attained a stage
which it had never reached before, lie could nor
help putting the question—was it out of danger ?
He wished from his very heart that the contest were
over; but though none could be more willing than
he was to hope for the fulfilment of the sanguine an-
ticipations of some, who in the height of their re-
joicing, conceived the victory already won—he must
express his own forebodings—he must state his be-
lief that at no period in the history of this vital
measure—elated as he was at its present advance-
ment—did there mingle with his joyful feelings so
many misgivings—so much alarm—lest these hopes
should after all be disappointed. No man ever
more wished his anticipations to prove true, than he
longed for his to prove false and groundless. But,
sta.! he had many fears. Not even when the Dill
was first promulgated, and when the country paused
for a moment to collect its voice, and to raise it
with a burst of approbation; not even when it was
thrown out of the Commons by a majority of eight,
on the sidewind motion of the Member for Liveie
pool ; not even when spurned by the Peers ; net
at any of these times did he experience more fearful
forebodings as to the fate of this Bill than now filled
his mind. He had no suspici .n of the integrity of
the author of this measure. He had the most deep-
rooted confidence in the fidelity of Earl Grey; he
felt certain that no treachery was meditated by him
towards the country. All that he deemed neces-
sary for the safety of the Bill he would do ; and he
was cheered by the bold and manly manner in
which some of his Noble colleagues had pledged
themselves to the most important part of the Bill.
But he could not but remember that human judg-
ments were fallible, that different opinions were
held upon the principle of this Bill, and he dreaded
the danger that might arise to its entireness and
unity. He had never raised the cry of the "Bill,
the whole Bill, and nothing but the Bill ;" the term
was one he had never used on any public
occasion. Not that he was not for the
whole Bill; but he had an aversion to cant phrases,
and did not wish to be the hundredth re-echoer of a
cuckoo-cry. But what he had never called for be-
fore he would call for now; and he would say that
he demanded that Bill, the whole Bill, and nothing
but the Bill, in its essence and in its spirit.—
(Cheering.) He would have nothing but the life
and essence of that Bill.—(Cheers.) There was
one great condition in the Bill which could not be
compromised—that part of it which extended the
elective franchiseto those viho had hitherto been
shut out from it—and on this the principle of the
measure rested. Was there anything in the history
of this Bill, so far as it had gone, wh ch could lead
to the conclusion that it was not the Bill which was
first promulgated 2 He would laugh at those who
would say that it differed from the one first intro-
duced. The microscopic eye of a lawyer might
detect discrepancies, but these were of no moment.
The vital essence of the Bill was the opening up to
the community the power of managing their own
affairs, the extension of the elective franchise, and
the disfranchisement of nomination burghs, aptly de-
nominated rotten. What was it to him the shift-
ing of a borough from one schedule to another, or
leaving out altogether some which had been there
before—or what was it to him if some alteration
were made in the representation for a few English
counties? These were not the principles of the Bill ;
they were no features of the banding which the
country had loved and dandled so much before.—
(Cheers.) But the Bill, though it had not yet lost
its sameness, might lose it soon. Did they believe that
those Noble Lords who had consented reluctantly to
the second reading of the Bill would not concentrate all
the energies of their opposition on the most essential
condition of the whole ? Sir Daniel then adverted
to the opposition which would, without a doubt, be
mustered by the Duke of Wellington, who, it seemed
to him, like the Indian who believed the qualities of
his fallen enemy to be transferred to himself, had
imbibed the the anti-British spirit of the conqueror
whom he had overthrown in the field. Would not
the Lords of the Right Rev. Bench too, of whom
he would speak tenderly, but of whom he mu t
say that, though tremblingly alive to the danger,they
seemed fatally blind to the best method of escaping
it ;—he would ask that Meeting what would they
do with this Bill without the 101. franchise? Would
they have it ? No. He for one would fling it in
the face of any Minister who would offer it without
the grand principle of a 101. franchise.—(Cheers.)
Many a taunt had been thrown out against this part
of the Bill. Why have 101. ? it was asked. The
question might as well be put—why have 15/. or
20/., or 30/. ?—and put with equal sense. It was
.aid this qualification would open a wide field for
iribery and corruption. That he stoutly denied;
Ind the instances of popular elections already exist-
ing in the country could be pointed out as the best

answer to the allegation ; and the fact dettionatraied,
that if was from these places .the most able and
honest members aver. returned.--(Cheers.) It was
said, " Raise the qualification to 151." That wes a
very small addition, and would make very little dif-
ference. He would not enter into any discussion
about the relative proportion of small stuns to
greater—or the evil that such small taus might
effect when taken in certain views ; three pence
was counted a small sum ; but the imposition oftlfi-ee
pence on the pound of tea lost to this Country the
empire of America.—( Cheers.) Get eft the 10/. voters
in this very place, and you lose more than one-third
of those who would othemise get the franchise. If
you make it 15/. the franchise will be lost to 2,500
men. If you raise it to 201. 'our rotera avill lose
two-thirds of their number. he was certain he
would be borne out by every landlord in sayiess that
the 101 householders were a class every way as
respectable, intelligent, and independent as the
householders of IV. Bet, after ail, the best argu-
ment in favour of the 10/. fra.nehise is, that it has
been promised to the country. Lord J. Russell, on
the first introduction of this great measure, promised
that the electoral tpralification should be extended
to that class of his Majesty's subjects ; and it woulal
not do now to say that the King thoteght thq
should have it—that the Ministers thought they
should have it—and that the Commons admitted
they should have it ; but that as the Lords would not
allow them to have it, therefore they should be shut
out from the exercise of the privilege. if they, in
the blindness of their minds, should shut the door
against that respectable class of the community, he
hoped that such a storm would be raised on the
outside as would shake the eddice till the portals
opened and admitted them to their rightful privilege.
He hoped they would agitate—he for one would not
cease to aeitate—till this essential part of the Bill
was gained. One mode, and that the most consti-
tutional,was to go to the foot of the throne, to thank
his Majevy for his patriotism in firmly and nobly
adhering to the cause of his people—and humbly to
implore him to use his prerogative in getting this
measure passed unmutilated, and undefaced. As
to the means of passing this measure, however, he
was averse to make large additions to the Peerage;
he would still much rather have the Bill carried into
law by conversions than by creatiorv—an exercise of
prerogative that ought never to be enforced except
on the most rare emergencies. He had sympathised
deeply with Earl Grey alt along in his backward--
Dees to
_TESQ7.I to this great constitutional prerogativeof the :sown. Instead of blaming %aim, he sympa-
thized in the moderation arid dignified calmness
evinced by this wise and diagnitied statesman. The
of the Constitution was above all things to
be equally maintained. Another reason why he was
averse to a creation of Peers was, that it would in-
crease their number. If they made a Peer, they
made an honourable family; and iehen they made
air honourable family, they made persons who might
eventually have to be supported by the purse of the
State. The Lords were too powerful already—he
did not mean that the Order was in the Constitution
too powerful—but in the framework of society.their
influence was too great. He was afraid that this in-
fluence on the state of society was fast reducing our
country into the two great distinctions, known in
certain ancient communities by tile names of Patri-
cian and Plebeian Society seemed fast dividing
into these two classes, and the most bitter opposi-
tion was beginning to manifest itself betwixt them.
If, then, they were to raise men from the rank of the
Commons, they ran the hazard of converting them
into illiberal patricians. Yet let them call upon the
King and his Ministers to use estery means, consis-
tent with the safety of the State, to insure the pass-
ing of this Bill into a law, and to implore them, that
whatever they do, they do it (prickly. Time was
now of the utmost importance in the consi-
deration of this measure. All the interests
of the country were suffering, and trembling on the
brink of ruin during this delay. Those great inte-
rests which connected us with every country on the
face of the globe were all in danger; he need but
name the pregnant words—Corn, Currency, Church,
East Indies, West Indies, and like the hand-.,vriting
that appeared 0., the wall of the eastern Monarch's
palace, they called on them to rise and take measures
for their protection and prosperity, or our fortunes
and national distinction were gone for ever. On
looking back upon the proceedings of the present
and last session of Parliament, it was found that all
the attention of the Legislature had been bestowed
upon this one topic, Reform—a great and important
question, it was true, and deserving of tile most
serious consideration of that august assembly, but
all other legislative measures were necessarily ex-
cluded. The Learned Knight concluded his speech
with again calling on the meeting to implore the
Legislature to cast an eye on the suffering people—
suffering in their persons and purses, and without
delay to pass the Reform Bill into a law. Armed
with such appeals, their petitions must be trium-
phant. He read the address to the King.
Mr. JOSEPH MILLAR seconded the address, which
was carried unanimously.
Mr. THOMAS DAVIDSON proposed a series of re-
solutions, adverting to each as he proceeded. He
insisted upon the 101. franchise being retained.
Householding was the acknowledged constitutional
franchise, and 101. was only received as a compro-
mise by the people. He differed from Sir Daniel
Sandford, and thought that a creation of Peers was
the only way of passing the Bill.
The Resolutions were seconded by Mr. M'Aneev
without any remarks, in consequence of the crowded
state of the room, and the uncomfortable situation
of those placed in the open air.
Mr. Trioares MUIR read a petition to the Lords,
which was seconded by Mr. Joliet TACT, who re-
marked that he differed from Sir Daniel in the re-
verence he felt for the Peerage. Those who, like
him .(Mr. Tait), were placed at the base of the
social system, did not much revere the Corinthian
ctroital; though Sir Daniel Sandford, who was
half way up, might look upon it with great venera-
tion. He hoped that the time would come when
hereditary Lords would not be counted part of the
constitution of the country. He did riot object to
titles for life, when they were given as an honour
for service done to the country. The Bill was re-
ceived as a compromise by the working classes,
though it would exclude almost the whole of them
from the franchise, aid, though they looked upon
those below 10/. as respectable, and comparatively
speaking, as intelligent as those above it.
Mr. THOMAs ATKINSON, in proposing that the
Address and Petition be intrusted to Earl Grey,
delivered an animated address, laudatory of the cha-
racter and attainments of his Lordship. As to Mr.
Tait's creed, that the House of Peers ought to form
no part of the British Constitution, of course he
need not say that it was no part of the creed of this
Association', though, to the expression of that (see.
individual opinion on the subject, they
could have no objection.
The meeting then separated, after giving cheers
for the King, the Ministry, and the Bill.

The Memorial Bordelais, in giving an ac-
count of the debate on the second reading on the Reform
Bill, mentions the following Peers as having taken part in
it :—The Duke of WIINCHELZEAU, the Duke of Duciat,.
E H.N, Lord FALMOU LT, the Bishop of LONDOIT, the
Marquess of LuNnowx, and Lord KEMIGON.
LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY EVENlNG.—Arrived the
Grace, from Antigua; the Earl Grey, from Alessina ; the
_,Eschylus and Lalla Rook/t, from Alexandria, Egypt ;
the Elisabeth, from Barbados ; the Jamaica, for St.
Petersburgh ; and the General Brown, for Londonderry
and New York. Off the port, the Lima packet, the
Janney, and the Matilda.

On Tuesday last, at Wheal Gorland Mine,
while three horses were wo' king at the whim which was
drawing up buckets filled with ore, the chain to which
one of the buckets was attached broke, in consequence of
which the whim ran tibund the contrary way, carrying
the horses back with so much force that they were killed.
A boy named Esnir, who just at the moment had come
into the wbiin4ound to speak to the boys who were
driving, was also struck and killed on the spot ; but the
other lads fortunately escaped, without any it.jury.—
Cot. n übia

OPENING of the NEW BRIDGE at STAINES,

Yesterday having been fixed by his Majesty and
his Royal Consort as the day on which they would
lirens'ar with their presence "the opening of the new
'oridge at Staines, eleet. -:own tad its vicinity presen-
'ted an utrit'etta'tiy gay and bustling appearance.
nei'ore we proceed to describe the cerernony of
the opening of the bridge, it may be m well for the
information of many ',eT cur readers to say a few
words of the rrtderenors of the present new struc-
ture. The !first we have mention of ire the " archives"
of Staines, was a wooden t`eidge, said to have been
erected in 1-2-, constructed of piles of oak driven
into the bed of the river, and covered win planks.
The ancient inhabitants of 'F_.ta:ties seem to have
been very econorniral i the article of bridges, for
we hear of rree'ieW erection from that period down to
17942; I'3:lt from that time to the present t!-i';iir de-
scendants have more than made el) ;or the niggard.
liness of their forefatheet, Laving had not less than
four new hri:4l;2s 11 succession, and on nearly the
same Within the last thirty-eight years. In
and 1795, a new bridge, of three serneircular
arches of stone, from the design of the celebrated
Paul Sandby, was erce%ed; but, from some defect in
its construction) it 'lasted only five years, when it
was replaced by a very elegant bridge or one arch, of
ISO feet span, of cast iron, Prom the design of the in-
genious Mr. Thomas Wilson, the architect of the
celebrated bridge over the river Wear, at Sunder-
land, The design was attributed to the noted
Thomas Payne, author of the of Man; but
the arch designed by. him was cast in 1790, by
Messrs. Walkers, at Rotherham, whence it was
brought to London, and erected at the bowling-
green of the Yorkshire -Rtibgo public-house-, near
bisson-grove, where it was exhibited to the pub-
lic; but PieJtte not being able to defray the ex-
petit; the' arch was taken down and carried back to
Rotherham, where parts of it were afterwards used
in the Sunderland 131.idge, and, it is supposed, in
the Susines bridge. This last bridge, like its predes
eexsoe, Was not destined to last long, for it had
ss-careely.been opened one month when it was deemed
necessary to close it to the public, the arch having
sunk in a very alarming degree. His late Majesty
King George 111. was said to have been among the
last to pass over it. In this emergency the late Mr.
Rennie was consulted, who pronounced the bridge
altogether dangerous, and that the abutments had
yielded from the want of strength. No alternative
retrained but to remove the iron bridge entirely, and
purchase the old wooden bridge, which was kept
up until a new one of wood was built. That
bridge, which is the present old bridge, con-
tinued to stand with various repairs and alterations
until 1828, when, in consequence of the decay of the
piles, and the continual heavy expenses required to
uphold it, the Commissioners determined to build a
new one of more durable materials. Messrs. G. and
J. Rennie were therefore applied to for designs, and
a 13t11 was brought into Parliament to authorize the
Commissioners to raise fund,. Accordingly, the
Bill having passed, and the design having been ap-
proved of, the works were commenced in the spring
of 1829. and on the 14th of September following,
the first stone was laid by their Royal Highnesses
the Duke and Duchess of Clarence (their present
Majesties); since which the works have been carried
on to their present completion under the direction
of Mr. G. Rennie and Mr. Brown, the superin-
tendents, and Messrs. Jolliffe and 'Nikes, the con-
tractors.

The new bridge consists of three very flat seg-
mental arches of granite. The middle arch of 74
feet span, and the two side arches of 66 feet each ;
besides two side arches of 10 fret each for the
towing-paths, and sx brick arches of 20 feet span
each—two on the Surrey side, and four on the
Middlesex side, to allow the floods to pass off. The
whole is surmounted by a plain bold cornice, and
block parapet with granite, with pedestal for the
lamps, and a neat toll-house.
The approaches to the bridge on either side form
gentle curves of easy ascent. The cost of the bridge
and approaches is about
.41,000/.

The appearance of the new bridge is very light
and elegant. This is owing chiefly to the slight
dimensions of the piers, which are smaller in pro-
portion to the span of the arches they support than
those of any bridge in England. As the approaches at
each side are arranged, much of the effect of the
bridge is lost. It is not seen from the Middlesex
side until the passenger is nearly on it.
We have already noticed the gay appearance of
the town. Much of this was contributed by the
preparations on and near the bridge. These were
of the most tasteful description. Two very splen-
did triumphal arches were erected, one at each end
of the bridge. Tilese were composed of laurels and
other evergreens on a wooden frame-work, and deco-
rated with stripes and knots of bunting, so as to ap-
pear at even a short di,tance regular and solid archi-
tecture. On the top of each was a flag staff, on
which Royal standards were hoisted as soon as their
Majesties arrived. From various other parts of the
bridge a variety of flags and colours were floating in
the wind. At two o'clock the band of the 9th
Lancers, in their new uniforms, marched into the
town and took up a position about mid-way between
the two bridges; a detatchment of the same regi-
ment, about the same time, passed over the new
bridge and on to the Egham-road, on which they were
to act as an escort to their Majesties. At the south
side of the bridge some companies of the Grenadier
Guards were stationed to receive the Royal visitors
on their arrival. Three o'clock was the time men-
tioned for the arrival of the Royal party, but it was
four before they approached the barrier at the Surrey
side. Their Majesties were accompanied by a nu-
merous suite. They were received at the barrier by
the commissioners of the bridge, bearing white wands.
As their Majesties advanced on the bridge, they
were greeted with loud and continued cheers, which
they graciously acknowledged by repeatedly bowing
to the crowd on each side as they passed along.
When their Majesties had passed through tile second
triumphal arch and entered Staines, they were met
by a deputation of the inhabitants, headed by the
Rev. Mr. Govett, who, in the name of his fellow-
townsmen, delivered the following address :

'4 TO HIS MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY KING WILLIAM THE

FOURTH'.

" We, your Majesty's most loyal and dutiful subjects,
the inhabitants of the ancient town of Staines, beg
humbly to approach your Majesty, not in the idle language
of flattery, but with the honest sincerity and cordial at-
tachment of Englishmen, to express to your Majesty our
most grateful sense of your Majesty's kindness and con-
descension in thus visiting our town.
[" We presume to congratulate your Majesty on the
completion of this bridge, conlmenced and finished under
your Majesty's auspices.
" We look back with feelings of pride and veneration
to the history which informed us of the visit of King
John to this ancient town on the eve of the signing of the
great charter of our liberties and rights, and we trust that
this your Royal visit will live in the grateful remembrance
of ourselves and our posterity.]
" And we, your Majesty's loyal subjects, devoutly pray
that Divine Providence may long preserve your Majesty
and your Majesty's Royal Consort to reign as well over as
in the hearts and affections of your Majesty's meat loyal
people."
To this address his Majesty returned a most gra-
cious answer, but not having been sufficiently near
to hear it, we can give only its general import as it
was stated to us by a gentleman who had heard it.
His Majesty began by expressing the sati,faction
with which he received this dutiful address from
the inhabitants, in whose welfare,
as having long
known them, and been a resident in their neigh-
bourhood, he felt much interested. He then went
on to observe, that he had, when a subject, laid the
first s,otie of the bridge, and that it now gave him
sincere pleasure as a Sovere;gn, to conclude a work
which he had then commenced. Adverting to the
allusion made in the address to King John, his Ma-
jesty expressed a hope that his subjects would
always find him sincerely devoted to the maintenance
of their liberties and the promotion of their best
interests.

The conclusion of his Majesty's reply was fol-
lowed by loud Alid continued cheers from those

around, which were immediately caught up and re.
peated by the crowds without the barriers.
Their Majesties and suite, followed by the Com-
mi•sionere, &c., proceeded on foot to the centre of
the old bridge, from which they t.-ettimed in the
same way bßek, ever the new bridge, to the place
where th-. 31; ta;TiageS were waiting-. On their way
through the town they were received with loud and
continued cheers by the iMmese crowds through
which they passed,
His iNi4jesty was dressed in plain clothes. On
his return to the bridge he appeared to be some-
what fatigued. The Queen seemed in very good
health, Her Mjestv appeared to take much inte-
rest in the gay and lively scene by which she was
surroundeil.

The attention of their 11,-lajesties was attracted on
the bridge I.:y the appearance of a very aged inhabi-
tant of Staines, Mr. Goring-, who, it was said, had on
that day completed his 100th year. The old gen.
tlernan, though, as might be expected, very feeble,
still possessed his faculties, and had even more of
bodily energy than usually falls to the lot of persons
of his advanced age.
On the retirement of the Royal party, the Com-
missioners and their friends, to the number of nearly
100, proceeded to the Clarence Hotel, where a
splendid cold collation was served up in the ball-
room, which was most tas•efully fitted up and deco-
rated for the occasion,

COLLIERY DISTURBANCES IN THE

NORTH.

A MAN SHOT AT HETTON.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
Newcastle, Sunday, April 22, 1832.

In my letter of yesterday, I stated that a party of
the London police, with other men properly trained by
them, proceeded to eject the unbound pitmen at Het-
ton, who by their bonds, which expired on the .sth of
April, agreed to quit their houses on the 19th.
Though they had not left their cottages on the 19th,
to make room for other workmen, who will accept
the terms offered by the Hetton colliery owners,
they offered no resistance yesterday to the police.
From twenty to thirty families were ejected in the
course of the day. At night, the pitmen collected
together in great numbers in front of the empty
houses, kindled large fires, and kept occasionally
letting off guns. About midnight, a man of the
name of John Evrington, who was a bound
man, while going from his own cottage to the house
where two other bound pitmen lived, he was shot
at, but the contents of the piece did not take effect,
In returning to his own house, he was again fired at,
and killed upon th,‘ spot. This is a lamentable state
of things. I fear other lives will be lost before the
disputes between the coal-owners and the colliers
are settled.