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aili Sir A. Clifford, Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod.
His Royal Highness was knighted by his Majesty with the
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The Prelate then signifled to the Chapter the Sovereign's
royal Will and pimtb-0.. The Stigragei tern thereupon col-
lected by the Prelate (lit-Online *lilt (..1.:`.; jUrilor knight's
companions and %veio by him presented to the King, who
'vas platnu to command him to declare, and he accordingly
tt.clared, his Royal Highness Prince George of Cumberland
had been duly elected a Knight of the most noble Order of
the Garter.

The Knights Olen Made if -second election, arid his Royal
Highness Prince fleorge of Cambridge was in the samo
mannet declared a Knight of the most noble Order.
Then, by the Sovereign's comthibid, Prince George of
Cambridge was received at the door of the Chapter-Room
by the Dukes of Grafton and Buecleuch, the two junior
Knights, preceded by Deputy Garter bearing the Ensign of
the Order upon a crimson velvet cushion, and by Black Rod.
--Prince George of Cambridge kneeling near the SOvereign,
and Deputy Garter presenting on his knee the Garter, his
Majesty, assisted by the Dukes of Cumberland and Cam-
bridge, buckled it on the Prince's left leg, the Prelate pro-
nouncing the following admonition :
" To the honour of God omnipotent, and in memorial of the
blessed martyr St. George, tye about thy leg, for thy renown, this
Noble Garter ; wear it as the aymbol of the Most Illustrious rder.
never to be forgotten or laid aside; that thereby thou may'st be
admonished to be courageous!. and having undertaken a just war,
in which thou be engaged, thou may'st stand firm, valiantly tight,
and suceesOntly conquer."
Deputy Garter presented, in like manner, the Riband with
the George ; and his Majesty, with the assistance of the two
Royal Dukes, put the same over the Prince's left shoulder,
the Prelate reading the following admonition :
" Wear this riband about thy neck, adorned with the image of
the blessed martvr and soldier of Christ, St. George, by whose
imitation provoked, thou may'st so overpass both prosperous and
adverse adventures, that having stoutly vanquished thy enemies,
both of body and soul, thou may'st net only receive the praise of
this transient combat, but be crowned with the palm of eternal
victory."
The Prince kissed the King's hand, and received the con-
gratulation of each of the Knights.

The Chapter having concluded, at seven o'clock the
Knights were again called over, and a procession was made
back to the Royal Closet, in the same order as before.
The King afterwards gave a state dinner to the Knights and
Officers of the Order, and a large party in St. George's Hall.
The Hall presented a very magnificent appearance; the long
table on which the dinner was served was covered with splen-
did services of plate ; the plateau, composed cf a great num-
ber of candelabra and epergnes of silver gilt richly embel-
11'.lied, had for-the centre piece the St. George Candelabrum.
The King took his scat opposite to this Candelabrum. Be-
hind his Majesty, in a recess, were grouped the regimental
colours and the silver kettle-drums of the Royal Regiment of
Horse Guards guarded by some of the regiment. The Queen
sat on the other side of the table, between the Royal Dukes of
Cumberland and Cambridge. At the back of her Majesty
were suspended the regimental colours of the Horse Guards,
some of whom were on each side.

The bands of both regiments were stationed in an elevated
orchestra at the end of the Hall, and played " God save the
King," as the illustrious party entered and took their seats.
The Ladies were in Court dresses, and the Noblemen and
Gentlemen wore their respective uniforms, and the ensigns of
their several orders of knighthood. Prince George of Cam-
bridge appeared in the uniform of the Foot Guards, and with
the collar and other ensigns of the Order of the Garter.
After dinner several healths were given, and after each toast
salutes were fired by the Royal Artillery on Cumberland-
terrace. The regimental bands played alternately during the
evening. _

Amiingst the company were the Duke of Cumberland, the
Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George of Cam-
bridge, the Duchess of Saxe Weimar, Prince Ernest of
Philippsthal, the Saxon Minister, the Hanoverian Charge
d'Affaires the Dukes of Wellington, Newcastle, Norfolk,
Leeds, Rutland, Northumberland, Richmond,- Buccleuch,
Dorset and Grafton; the Marquisses of Winchester,-Welles.
ley, Ailsa, Conyngham, Anglesey, Camden, Hertford, Bath,
and Exeter; Earl and Countess Jersey, Earl and Countes
Denbigh, Earl and Countess Brownlow, Earls Howe, Cavan,
Albemarle, Westmoreland, and Lonsdale ; Viscount Ash-
brook ; Bishop of Winchester ; Lord Hill, Lord and Lady'
de Lisle, Lord and Lady Frederick Fitzclarence, Lord Elphin-
stone ; Sir Thomas Seymour and Lady Clinton ; the Vice-
Chamberlain, Baroness Ahlefeldt, Baron Knesebech, Sir Her-
bert and Lady Taylor, Sir Henry Wheatley, Lady Beding-
field, the Treasurer of the Household, Sir James Reynett, Sir
Augustus Clifford, Sirs Charles Paget, George -Seymour,
William Woods, C. Thornton, and B. Stephenson ; the
Comptroller 'of the Household, the Deans of Windsor and
Hereford, the Rev. J. Wood (preceptor to Prince George of
Cumberland), Colonels Keate and Jones ; Captains Hay and
Campbell ; Mademoiselle D'Este ; Misses Hope, Johnstone,
Begot, &c.

MUNICIPAL REVORM BILL.

WINCHESTER.

A public meeting, for the purpose of petitioning the House
of Lords to pass the Municipal Reform Bill unimpaired, was
held at the Guildhall, Winchester, on Tuesday last, in conse-
quence of a requisition to the Mayor, very numerously and re-
spectably signed.

ADAIi YOUNG, Esq., the Mayor, was in the Chair. He
could not but look with great anxiety at the hostility mani-
fested by the House of Lords towards the Municipal Reform
Bill, a measure which had received the approval of nine-
tenths of the people of England, had passed -the House of
Commons almost unanimously, and had only been opposed
by the most bigotted of the Tories. It was the duty of the
people, at the present moment, _to be firm, and to show them-
selves worthy of those rights the. Bill would confer on them.
—( Cheers. )
JAMES THEOHALD, Esq. proposed the first resolution.
The resolution having been seconded by Mr. WILLIAM
FLIGHT, was carried unanimously. . .

ROBERT BIRD, Esq. proposed the next resolution, to the
effect that the meeting had seen with great dismay, the dis-
position recently manifested by the House of Lords to throw
out that great remedial measure.
This resolution having been seconded, was passed without a
dissentient voice.

Mr. W. ARROWSMITII proposed, and Mr: VINCENT EARLE
seconded the next resolution, to the effect that a petition
should be presented to the Lords, begging them to pass the
Bill without delay or mutilation.
Mr. PARMITER, in proposing the next resolution, said, one
great objection of the Tories to the proposed Bill, was the
qualification clause. Now he (Mr. Parmiter) knew from his
own observation, that a person had been placed in the situa-
tion of mayor of East Retford, who could not even write his
own name ; and yet this was the Corporation that the imma-
culate Duke of Newcastle was so anxious to protect, and who
was one of the protestors against the Corporation Reform Bill.
Mr. H. MOODY proposed the next resolution. The Cor-
porations, originally so beneficial, had, in modern times,
been perverted from their original purposes ; and in no city in
England had their abuses been more glaring than in Win-
chester. They had witnessed the Corporation of Win-
chester spend in pampering their own appetites the revenues
bequeathed for the maintenance of the widow and the
orphan ; they had betrayed the liberties of their fellow
citizens into the hands of the Duke of Buckingham, who
had declared that he considered the people of Winchester
as much his property as the deer in his park.--( Applause.)
After some allusions to the conduct of the Corporation in
1831, when they had proposed a Refc'emer and elected a
Tory, he called on the meeting, by the partiality which
had been perpetrated on tint 'very bench on which the
Mayor then sat, by the so?::-elected system under which they
had so long suffered 'in this city, by the robbery of the fund
of the widow and the orphan, to call for the extinction of the
present CorKration.
Mr. 11i'.J013Y then read the resolution, which was to the
cErect:nat the meeting considered it a point of duty at the
Pr :.sent crisis, to entreat the Ministers to be firm, and not to
retreat from the posts to Which they have been called,by the
voice of the country.

The resolutions- and petition having been unanimously
adopted, it was agreed that the petition should be signed by
the Mayor, in behalf of the meeting.
A vote of thanks was then given to the Mayor ; nine times
nine cheers for his Majesty's Ministers, and the meeting
separated.