The Sun.
London, England, 1832-05-03 00:00:00

KENT COUNTY REPRESENTATION.

Although the success of theßehirtri Bill in the House of
Lords is still a matter of speculition, yet the Kentish po-
liticians have already began a " trial of fence," if not of
actual hostility. The present representatives of the county
(Mr. L. llodgs s and Mr. Rider) are stanch reformers,
and the latter defeated the Tory faction, at the last general
election, in the person of Sir Edward Knatchbull. In
the event cf a dissolution of Parliament, Mr. Rider's
rTe-election is to be strongly opposed by the West-Kent
ries, who have set up Sir William P. Geary, of Oxen-
heath---a very young gentleman, who has recently emanci-
pated himself from port and polemics at one of the Uni-
versities. The Knatchhullites have rather impudently in-
duced this ambitious youth to address the freeholders. In
his tnanifesto he expresses his admiration of our " match-
-I!'vs Constitution," and hints his determination of up-
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.Idiug the falling principles of Toryism. Money, itis
sand, will not be spared to carry his election. A Con-
mitative privy purse it stated to be getting together, and
the parsons are moving heaven and earth to elevate the
Purple banner. But, in spite of long and ecclesiastical
exertion, Sir William's hopes of success are but very in-
different. If the Kentish freeholders stick to their prin-
ciples they will not deceit the men who fought their
battles in the House of Commons. So much for West
X,nt. Iu the Eastern district a host of candidates is
named. Sir Edward Knatchbull will come forward, as a
!natter of course: and the other candidates, Sir Edward
Dering, of Sunendm Park, (the proprietor of the rent. a
borough of New Romney), Sir William Conway, and Sir
n Maxwell Tylden, (the two latter are out-and-out
fnnners), are said to- be sounding the freeholders in
Can•erbury and its neighbourhood. Sir E. Knatchbull's
s.uccess is pretty retain, because the Tories muster strong
In East Kent ; but his Achates, Sir E. Dering, (a very
amiable Anti-Reformer), will have a severe battle to fight.
11, however, the freeholders are united, he may he beaten
from the field,--a " consummation most devoutly to be
wished" by every friend of a liberal Government.
NAT

lONAL POLITICAL UNION.

ne council of this 'Union sat in Committee last night
(Wednesday) on a petition to the House of Lords in fa-
vour of the Reform Bill, and an address to his Majesty,
requesting him, in case of necessity, from an apprehension
jof any danger of that measure being either mutilated or re-
ected by the Lords, to exert his prerogative in such a
creation of Peers as will eventually secure the enactment
of the Bill in i's integral state.
A conversational discussion on the different clauses of
ae petition was greatly protracted; yet elicited no new
arguments in favour of the Bill, though determinedly ex-
pressive of the feelings of the Union concerning the pru-
dence. indeed the necessity, of having the different details,
as well as the reforming principles of the Bill sanctioned
by the Lords. In discussing the 101. clause, many argu-
ments for the propriety of which were adduced, it was'con-
sidered a very great grievance by some of the speakers,
that there should he connected with that clause the neces-
sity of every person so enfranchised having previously paid
any rates or taxes, to which he may be liable, in order
that he may be enabled to vote at any election for a
Member of the House of Commons. This subject was
considered of such importance as to merit being the topic
of a separate petition to the House of Lords ; for it was
thought probable that it would originate duplicity and
bribery, as well as almost nullify the privilege of the elec.
tor. Concerning the Metropolitan Members—it was
urged in favour of that clause, that whatever may be taken
as the basis of the elective franchise, London was not only
fairly entitled to ti e additional Altrobva proposed to be
given to it in its distributive districts, but actually entitled
to a greater.

The prayer of the petition was, that the Lords would
not make any alteration in the principles of the Hill. The
address, being warmly discussed as a whole, and clause by
chute, was evtntually lost, and another requested to Le
drawn up by Daniel Wakefield, jun., Esq. ; to which he

Subsequently, resolutions were proposed by Mr. WAKE..
FIELD for the adoption of the Council previous to the
general meeting. One of these states, its energetic
language, that the Unicn will consider any infringement
by the Loids on the disfranchising or enfranchising, or on
the 101. clause, or on that giving additional Members to
specified districts of London, as a direct attack on the
Bill, and on the principles of Reform itself, to which their
Lordships are pledged by the second reading of the Bill;
and that the Union will use every legal means in their
power to avert such a determination, and to have such
claims sanctioned by the Legislature of the country.
A general meeting of the Union will be held this evening
for the purpose of passing the petition and address ; and
of the resolutions, last night, merely read. It is expected
that Joseph Hume, Esq. M.P., will take the chair, and
assay Members of Parliament have been requested and are
expected to attend.

i 7------_-_,--:
In a paper read at a late meeting in the Col-
lege of Physicians, it was
gravely affirmed that the inha
bitants of Sr. Kilda, one of the Hebrides, one and all catch
Cold whenerer a stranger lands upon the island !
. It has been said of the proprietor of a West
India tstate, that he is not entitled to calculate upon a per-
manent income exceeding the interests of the produce of
a good year.
11ILL
through .--A chaise and gig drove sharply
l'ilETweedurouth last night, from the former of which
a flag, and from the latter a silk handkerchief, as a sub.
stitute, was displayed. Among the juvenile crowd who
jfollowed after them, eager to learn the cause of re-
ocing, was a little girl, who returned breathless to an
elderly group, exclaiming,
~ ilvot ! I "Eh ! mother, it's the Bill
ccome .
1,, .4 What
ly
aursav, Bill, bairn ?" inquired a by-stander.
dli ye no ken, l
poiticiau—" the Brio's Bill to be sure !" W" replied the e
ti ustittle
the
Bill could not be better named, lie
Advertiser.

1. That the words " northward," " southward," " east-
ward," " westward," shall respectively be understood to denote
only the general direction in which any boundary proceeds from
the point last described, and not that such boundary shall con-
tinue to proceed throughout in the same direction to the point
next described.
0 That when any road is mentioned merely by the name of
the place to which such road leads, the principal road thither
from the city, burgh, or town, of which the boundary is in
course of description shall be understood.
3. That whenever a line is said to be drawn from, to,
through, or in the direction of, or any distance to be measured
from or to, an object, such line shall, in the absence of any
direction to the contrary, be understood to be drawn from, to,
through, or in the direction of, or such distance to be measured
from or to, the centre of such object, as nearly as the centre
thereof can be ascertained.
4. That every building through which or through any part
whereof the boundary hereby established shall pass, shall be
considered as within such boundary : provided always, that if
the boundaries of any two or snore of the cities, burghs, and
towns, whereof the boundaries are hereby described, shall pass
through the same building, or any part thereof, such building
shall be considered as within that one of such two or more of
the said cities, burghs, and towns, which was before the pas-
sing of the hereinbefore recited Act entitled to return Members
or a Member to serve in Parliament; or if neither or more
than one of such two or more of the said cities, burghs, and
towns, shall have been so entitled, then within that one of
them whereof the area as hereby established is the smallest.
5. That whenever any boundary, by this Act established,
is said to pass, or any distance to be measured, along any
street, road, lane or loaning, or up, down, or along any river,
stream, canal, or burn, the middle (as nearly as the same can
be ascertained) of such street, road, lane, loaning, river, stream,
canal, or burn, shall be understood.
6. That the middle of any street, road, or lane, shall be
understood as the middle of the carriage-way along the same.
7. That when any boundary, by this Act established, is said
to proceed, or any distance to be measured, along a street,
road, or lane, or up, down, or along a river, from or to any ob-
ject, such boundary shall be understood to proceed, or such dis-
tance to be measured (as the case may be) from or to that point
in the middle of such road, lane, or river, from which the
shortest line would be drawn to the centre of such object, as
nearly as the centre thereof can be ascertained.
8. That the point at which any wall, march, boundary,
street, road, lane, loaning, avenue, railway, walk, path, river,
stream, canal, or burn, is said to meet, join, cross, reach, or
leave any march, boundary, street, road, lane, loaning, avenue,
railway, walk, river, stream, canal, or burn, shall be under-
stood as that point at which a line passing along the middle of
the march, boundary, street, road, lane, loaning, avenue, rail-
way, walk, river, stream, canal, or burn, so meet, joined,
crossed, reached, or left, would be intersected by a line drawn
along the middle of the wall, march, boundary, street, road,
lane, loaning, avenue, railway, walk, path, river, stream,
canal, or burn, so meeting, joining, crossing, reaching, or leav_
ing, if such line were prolonged sufficiently far ; and that the
point at which any burn or river joins any firth or the sea,
shall be understood as that point at which a line passing along
the low-water mark of such firth or the sea would be cut by
a line to be drawn along the middle of such burn or river,
if such line were prolonged sufficiently far; and that th•
point at which a burn or feeder joins a loch, shall be un-
derstood as that point at which a line drawn along the shore
of such loch would be cut by a line drawn thereto, along the
middle of such burn or feeder.
9. That when a line is said to be drawn to a road, lane,
river, stream, or canal, such line shall he considered as pro-
longed to the middle of such road, lane, river, stream, or
canal.
10. That by the words " sea" and " shore," shall be under-
stood the low-water mark.
11. That if any deficiency shall be found to exist in the
line of any boundary described in the said schedule to this
Act annexed, by reason of the intervention of any space
between any two immediately consecutive points, such defi-
ciency shall be supplied by a straight line to be drawn from
the one to the other of such two immediately consecutive points.

THE SCHEDULE TO WHICH THE FOREGOING

ACT REFERS.
TOWNS TO RETURN TWO MEMBERS

EACH.
EDINBURGIL—From a
point on the road from Leith
to Queensferry, which is distant 400 yards (measured
along such road) to the west of the point at which tha
same meets the Inverleith road at the house called Golden
Acre, in a straight line to the north-westera corner of the
enclosure of John 'Watson's Institution ; thence in a
straight line to the bridge, No. 2, on the Union Canal;
thence in a straight line to the point at which the western
wall of the enclosure of the Lunatic Anlotn at Morning_
side meets the Jordan or Pow burn; thence down the
Jordan or Pow burn to a point which is distant 150
yards (measured along such burn) below the arch over
the same on the Carlisle road; thence in a straight line to
the summit of Arthur's Seat; thence in a straight line to
the point at which the feeder enters the western side of
Lochend loch ; thence in a straight line to the point at
which Pilrig-street joins Leith-walk ; thence along Pilrig-
street and the Uonnington road to the point at which the
latter meets the road from Leith to Queensferry; thence
along the road from Leith to Queensferry to the point
first dr scribed.

GLASGOW.—From the point, on the west of the
town, at which the river Kelvin joins the river Clyde, up
the river Kelvin to a point which is distant 150 yards
(measured along the river Kelvin), above the point at
which the same is met by the park wall which comes down
thereto from Woodside road; thence in a straight line to a
point on the Great Canal which is distant 100 yards
(measured along the Great Canal) below Derry bridge ;
thence along the Great Canal and the cut of junction, to
the bridge over the cut of junction on the Stirling road ' •
thence, eastward, along the Low Garngad road, to a point
which is distant 150 yards (measured along the Low
Garngarl road), to the east of the bridge over the Grimston
burn ; thence in a straight line to a point on the road to
Edinburgh by Airdrie, which is distant 100 yards (mea-
sured along the said road to Edinburgh), to the east of the
point at which the same is joined by the road to Edin-
burgh through the village of Westmuir ; thence in a
straight line to tl:e point at which the river Clyde is joined
by Harvie's dyke ; thence down the river Clyde to the
point at which the same is joined by the Polma-
die burn; thence up the Poltnadie burn to the point
at which the same is joined by the Little Govan
burn ; thence up the Little Govan burn to the point at
which the same is divided into two branches in coming
down from Govan bill ; thence in a straight line to the
eastern extremity of the Butterbiggins road ; thence along
the Butterbiggins road, and in a line in continuation of the
direction thereof, to the Kinningitouse burn ; thence in a
straight line to the Shiels bridge over the Paisley and Ar-
dressan Canal ; thence in a straight line to the point at
which the river Clyde is joined by the Plantation burn ;
thence down the river Clyde to the point first described.

TOWNS TO RETURN ONE MEMBER

EACH.
ABERDEEN.—From the point, on the north-west
part of the town, at which the Scatter burn joins the river
Don, down the river Don to the point at which the same

is joined by the old road by Stobsmuir and Cle-
pington and the old Craigie road ; thence, westward,
along the old road by S•obsmuir and Clepington, to the
point called King's Cross, at which the several boundaries
of the parishes of Dundee, Strathmartin and Liff meet ;
dance in a straight line to a point on the Liff road, which
is distant 1,200 yards (measured along the Liff road) to
the west of the point at which the Ne a•tyle road leaves the
same ; thence in a straight line drawn due south, to the
shore of the Frith of Tay ; thence along the shore of the
Frith of Tay, to the point first described.
GREENOCK.—From the point on the west of the

town, at which the shore of the Firth of Clyde is met by
the march between the parishes of Greenock and Innerkq:),
up the said march to that point thereof which is nearest
to the southern point of the ridge of Haw hill ; thence in
a straight line to the said point on Bow hill ; thence in a
straight line to the southern end of the Upper East Re-
servoir for supplying Greenock with water; thence in a
straight line in the direction of the highest prcjecting
point of Knocknair hill, to the point near Woodl ead
Quarry, at which such straight line cuts the easternmost
of the two rivulets which form the Lady burn ; thence
down such rivulet and the Lady burn to the point' at
which the same joins the Firth of Clyde ; thence along
the shore of the Firth of Clyde to the point first described.
PERTH. —From the norrh•western corner of the North
Inch, on the right bank of the river Tay, in a straight line
to the bridge on the mill-lead at the Boot of Balhousie ;
thence in a straight line to the bridge on the Gla,gow
road over the Scouring burn ; thence in a straight line to
the southern corner of the water reservoir at the Depot ;
thence in a straight line to the southern corner of the
Friarton Pier on the river Tav ; thence along the river
Tay (passing to the south of Friarton Island) to the point
at which the same is met by the boundary of the respec-
tive parishes of Kinfauns awl Kinnoul; thence, north-
ward, along the boundary of the parish of Kinfauns to the
point at which the several boundaries of the proper,ies of
Kinfauns, Kinnoul and Barnhill meet ; thence in a straight
line to the north-eastern corner of Lord Kinnoul's lodge,
at the gate of approach to Kinnottl hill ; thence in a
straight line to the north-eastern corner of the enclosure
of the Lunatic Asylum ; thence in a straight line to the
point at which the Annatty burn crosses the 13Iairgowrie
road; thence down the Annatty burn to the paint at
which the same joins the river Tay; thence in a straight
line to the point first described.

DISTRICTS TO RE7'URN ONE MEMBER

EACH.
WICK DISTRICT.

CROAIARTY.—From Samuel's well, on the south-
west of the town, in a straight line to the point at which
the southern angle of the glebe meets the Inverness road;
thence along the Inverness road to the point at which the
same is met by the Den road; thence in a straight line to
the Coal [laugh well ; thence in a straight line in the di
rection of Clachmalloch flock to the point at which such
straight line cuts the shore of the Cromarty Firth ; thence
along the shore of the Cromarty Firth to that point there-
of which is nearest to Samuel's well ; thence in a straight
ine to Samuel's well.

DINGWALL.—From a point on the shore of the
county of Firth, which is distant 100 yards (measured
along the shore) to the south of the mouth of the canal,
in a straight line to a point on the Inverness road, which
is distant 500 yards (measured along the Inverness road)
from the point (near the school-house) at which the same
is joined by another road ; thence in a straight line to a
point on the Knockbain burn, which is distant 450 yards
(measured along the Knockbain burn) to the west of the
point at which the same meets the main street of Ding.
wall ; thence in a straight line to a point on the Drynie
road, which is distant 100 yards (measured along the
Drynie road) from the point at which the same leaves the
New Strathpeffer road ; thence in a straight line, drawn
due east, to the shore of the Crotoarty Firth ; thence
along the shore of the Crotnarty Firth to the point first
described.

DORNOCH.—From the rock called Craig Carnaig, in
a straight line by St. Michael's well, close by the road to
the Little Ferry ; thence in a straight line to the point at
which the road to the Mound of Fleet leaves the road to
Sonar Bridge ; thence in a straight line to the point at
which the old course of the river of Dornoch joins the
Dornoch Firth ; thence along the shore of the Dornoch
Firth to Craig Carnaig.
KIRKWALL.—From a point on the sea-shore, which
is distant 500 yards (measured along the shore) to the
north-east of the north-eastern angle of Cromwell's Fort,
in a straight line to a point on the Carness road, which is
distant 700 yards (measured along the Carness road) to
the east of the point at which the same leaves the Birston
road ; thence in a straight line to a point on the Holm
road, which is distant 300 yards (measured along the
Holm road) to the south of the point at which the same
leaves the Deerness road ; thence in a straight line to a
point on the Scapa road, which is distant 400 yards (mea-
sured along the Scapa road) to the south of the point at
which the same leaves the Stromness road ; thence in a
straight line to the western end of the Air embankment;
hence along the Air embankment, and along the sea-
shore, to the point first described.

TAIN.-I:'rom St. Mary's well, on the north-west of
the town, in a straight line through the Raven's well to a
point 500 yards beyond the same; thence in a straight
line, drawn due south-east, to the Scoteburn road; thence
in a straight line, drawn due east, to the Inverness road;
thence in a straight line, drawn due north-east to the sister
of Tain ; thence down the river of Tain to the point at
wild' the same joins the sea; thence along the sea-shore
to St..lllary's well.

WICK..----From the point, on the north-east of the
town, at which the Papigce burn joins the sea, in a straight
lice to a point on the Huna road, which is distant 250 yards
(measured along the Huna read) to the north of the point
at which the same leaves the Kettleburn road ; thence in
a straight line to the nerth-western corner of Ili" glebe;
thence in a straight line to the point at which the Lents-
kerry burn joins the river Wick; thence up the Leutskerry
burn to the point at which the same meets the Thurso
road ; thence in a straight line to the point at which the
Inverness road would be cut by a straight line to be drawn
thereto due west from the rock called " The Old Mtn of
Wick; thence in a straight line to the Old Man of
Wick ; thence along the sea-shore to the point first described.
INVERNESS DISTRICT.
FORRES.—Frotn Sueno's stone, on the north-east of
the town, in a straight line to the point at which two roads
meet at the north-eastern corner of that part of the pro-
perty of the burgh of nitres, which is called " the Cluny
Hills ;" thence, southward, along the boundary of the pro-
perty of the burgh, to the point at which the same meets
the Raiford road ; thence in a straight line to a point on
the Altyre road, which is distant 50 yards (measured
along the Altyre road) to the south of the point at which
the same leaves a road to the mills of Bird's-yard ;
thence in a straight line to a point on the Nairn road,
which is distant 500 yards (measured along the Nait o