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THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.:
FOR THE BENEFIT OF MADAME MA LIBRAN.
THIS EVENING will be performed the Grand Opera of
LA SONNAMBULA.

Count Rho&lpho, Mr. Seguin ; Elvino, Mr. Templeton ; Alessi°
Mr. Dori:se•t ; Pedro, Mr. Efughes.
Amina, Maclaine Malibran ; Liza, Miss Betts.
Alt.!' which, AULD BORIN GRAY.
To conclude with FIDELIO.

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• lIANIBURG, MAY 1835.
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I the ST ATE of II A 11111.11 GREAT LOTTERIES.
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sixth Lottery in the English rapers, and to have Tickets on sale,
with Agents in England, beg to state that neither can be done,
btea,se it is illegal for the English Newspapers to publish Foreign
Lottery Schemes, and for any Agents in England to sell Foreign
bitters- Tickets. On the other hand, they beg to state, as it is
NOT illegal for any person in England to PuncitisF. Foreign
Lottery Tickets, that any person desirous to purchase. on addressing
4-taem by wail, will receive a full Scheme, and any des:l-able infra.-
.nation on the I,ratis), by return of post.
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LONDON,
WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 1, 1835.

We congratulate our readers on the progress which
the Municipal Reform B;11 made last night. Some of
he most vital clauses, we are happy to say, passed
through t!-,e Committee unscathed, though not unas-
sailed. There was a little skirmishing, in the earlier
part of the discussion, about the appointment of
the Mayor and Auditors to revise the lists of
the burgesses, and decide on the claims to enrol-
ment. The Tories did not think the civic autho-
rities competent to determine points of such dif-
ficulty and importance, as whether a man had re-
sided three years in a certain place, and whether he
had paid the poor-rates up to a certain time. To
talk of settling such complicated questions without
the assistance of counsel learned in the law, was,
they said, the height of folly, and smacked of destruc-
tiveness. They, therefore, proposed that this duty
should be transferred from the Mayor and Auditors,
to the Revising Barrister appointed under the Re-
form Bill. They shewe.d their pugnacious spirit by
dividing the Committee on the point. The original
clause was carried by 86 to 54.
The main battle, however, was reserved for the 19th
end 22d clauses. By the former of these clauses, it
is provided that no qualification beyond that of being
a burgess shall he necessary for a Councilman.
Sir ROBERT PEEL moved, as an amendment, that
the qualification for a member of the Council in towns
divided into wards should he either the possession of
1,0001. in real or personal property, or in both ; or a
rating to the amount of 401. a year; and in towns not
so divided, the possession of 5001., or a rating to the
amount of 201. a year. The Right Hon. Baronet
advanced no reason in support of this amendment
worthy of a moment's consideration. He confessed
that he could not appeal in favour of his views to
ancient usage, as there was no other restriction on the
appointment of the Councilmen, than that they should
be " fit and discreet persons." He therefore confined
himself to a few instances in which in recent times the Le-
gislature had, in establishing governing bodies in towns,
affixed a certain qualification. We do not find however
that he made the least allusion to the only case in point
which he could have quoted, we mean the case of the
Scotch Boroughs. In them there is no qualification
requisite for the Council—nor even for the Parliamen-
tary Representative' The Legislature wisely judged
that it might safely be left to the good sense of the
electors, to choose a person properly qualified for the
duties he had to perform, and we really cannot see why
the inhabitants of the English boroughs should be con-
sidered unworthy of enjoying the same privilege. Yet,
to withhold it, would be to affix a stigma upcin them,
which we cannot believe Sir ROBERT PEEL meant to
do. His object, no doubt, was to limit the rate-
payers to a more aristocratic class of Councilmen. He
regarded not the loss occasioned to them, by having so
many persons, excellently qualified for managing their
affairs, excluded from any participation in the govern-
ment of the borough, by the adoption of a high quali-
fication ; and he seems to have overlooked the circum-
stance, that if the rate-payers of a borough are deter-
mined to elect fools or knaves for their Councilmen, all
the qualifications that he can establish will not be able
to prevent them. After a sharp debate, the Committee
divided, and the original clause was carried by 267 to
204.

On the reading of the 22d clause, by which it is
provided that the Council shall be elected for three
years, a third part being removable annually, Lord
STANLEY relieved. Sir R. PEEL of the rather odious
task of aiming another deadly blow at the Bill. The
Noble Lord took this office upon himself, and in order,
as he said, to protect the inhabitants of boroughs from
the direful effects of a perpetual electioneering fever,
proposed an amend►nent, having for its object to
extend the duration of the Council to six years, a
third part being renewable every two years. Lord
ST.ANLEy stated that he did not approve of represen-
tatives'? whether Municipal or Parliamentary, appear-
ing too frequently before their constituents. We can
perfectly u Nlderstand this. The Parliamentary has a
fellow.feeling' for the Municipal representative. He