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LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY H, 18'28.

MASQUERADE, ARGYLL ROOMS,
THIS MONDAY NIGHT.—The ARTIST.-
engaged from the Theatres for the Masquerade, are informed
their attendance-will be required at Ten o'chick; is thei
Costumes. GOIJRIET.

RIPON.

(Fron the Eeeds li7erbkr9 of Saturday.)
Yesterday, the ceremony of electing a Member t(
represent this borough in Parliament, to supply 6.
vacancy occasioned in the representation, by the ac
ceptance of the office of Vice-Chancellor by Si
Launcelot Shadwell, took place at the Town Han
Our readers are probably aware that the electiv,
franchise in the borough of Ripon is limited to tht
octuniets of btirgag:i telitifes; tliri 4:tliolt number o;
which does not exceed 146,0 f which Mrs. Lawrence
of Studley Royal, the patroness and most liberal be-
nefactress of the borough, possesses a decided ma-
jority, and of course really returns the Members sell,
from this borough to Parliament. At eleven o'clock
in the morning, the Mayor, William Morton, Esq.,
who is the returning officer, attended by the mem-
bers of the corporation, repaired, in his municipil
robes, tri the Town Hall, where a small number o,
the btirgesses and other inhabitants of the town were
assembled.

Domino anl 'Character Tickets can be had only ti:
Seven o'Clock this Evening, at Charles Wright's, Hay-
market.

GRAND CARNIVAL and MASQUE
RADE, THIS EVENING.
To-night, dear Rosa, we sha!! mr.tt, agait ;
To-night, my futtir6 views will I explain ;
To-night we'll lay our plans for constant bliss;
To-night we'll seal our pledges with a kiss ;
To-night we'll summon Hymen to our aid;
To-night, remember ! Wright's Grand Masquerade.

This day was published, in 2 vols. 4to. price 4/.
rimiE CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY
A. of ENGLAND, from the Accession of Henri•
VII. to the Death of George
By HENRY HALLAM.
Printed for John Murray, Albemarle-street.

The Rev. HENRY GRAYSTER, Rector of
Fleetham; and one of the burgesses of the borough,
rose and proposed Sir Robert Harry Inglis, Bart.
as a fit and proper person to represent
_that borough
in Parliament. After expressing his regret-that thi
borough had been deprived of the services ,of the late
excellent representative, Sir Lancelot §hadwell—a
regret, however, which was diminished by the cause
which had led to his elevation to one of the highest
judicial stations in the kingdom, and expressing his
hopes that he would be placed still higher on the
ladder of fame—the Rev. Gentleman adverted to
the immediate business of the day, which was to
supply the vacancy thus occasioned. He should
propose to them Sir Robert Harry Inglis, who,
though personally unknown to most; probably to all
of them, was a man in every respect deserving of
their confidence. He was not only a gentleman of
independent fortune and of sound constitutional prin-
ciples, but came recommended to them from a
quarter which could not fail to predispose them ill
his favour, and he had no doubt that he would fully
come up to their wishes in his parliamentary con-
duct. His prinCiples and views were also in strict
accordance with those which had always been held
by the burgesses of that borough, which had always
been distinguished for its loyalty; and he was con-
vinced that in the hands of such a guardian their
rights and privileges would neither be endangered
nor impaired.

In Svo. with a fine Portrait, on steel, afterLonedale,
NV. BROUGHAM'S SPEECH on the
Present State of the LAW of the COUNTRY, de..
livered in the House of Commons on Thursday, Feb.' 7,
is printed verbatim from " The Times" Newspaper,
Published by Knight and Lacey, 65, Paternoiter-row,
and sold by all Bookselleri in town and country.—
Price Is, 6d.

THE " MIRROR of PARLIAMENT,"
This day was published Part 11., of this extensive
and National Wqrk ; containing accurate Reports of the
Debates in both Houses of Parliament, comprising the whole
of the Public and Private Business, Abstracts of the Pat •
liamentary Papers, &c. &c. •
Published by Winchester and Varnham, 61, Strand,
and at the Office, 52, Parliament-street.

.Now ready for delivery,
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SIIIPPINC4 INTELLIGENCE.

Mr:Alderman TERRY—I second the nomination
of Sir Robert Harry Inglis, as a fit and proper per-
son to represent this borough in Parliament, and I
hope that it will meet with your unanimous and
cordial approbation.
A show of hands was called for, when some twenty
hands were held up. Proclamation was tben made
for any person who could show any cause why Sir
Robert Harry Inglis should not be declared duly
elected, or who wished to demand a poll, to COW(
forward. No one answering to this challenge, the
Mayor declared that Sir R. H. Inglis had been duly
elected a burgess to represent that borough in Par-
liament.

The Corporation ;old their friends afterwards par-
took of a sumptuous dinner at the Town Hall, which
was provided by Mr. Sharpin. After dinner the
" Sturdy independence of the Burgesses ofßipon and
Purity of Election" were toasted in many a hearty
bumper.

A BILL
TO tICLUIA 13oRova2i OF FAST RETTORD FROAI

ELECTING BURGESSES TO SERE IN PARLIAIIENT, AND

TO ENABLE THE TOWN OF BIRMINGHAM TO RETURN

TWO REPRESENTATIVES TO PARLIAMENT IN LIEU

i iisxzoj .

Whereas there has been the most notorious, long-
continued and general corruption in the Election of
Burgesses to serve in Parliament for the Borough of
East Retford, in the County of Nottingham ; where-
fore the said Borough should be excluded from here-
after returning such Burgesses :
And whereas the election of Members to serve in
Parliament for the said Borough at the last Election
has been declared void :

And whereas on account of the great wealth,
trade, and population of the Town of Birmingham,
in the County of Warwick, it is expedient that Two
Burgesses should be returned to the High Court of
Parliament to represent the said Town in lieu of the
said Borough of East Retford ;
May it therefore please your Majesty,
That it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the
King's most excellent Majesty, by and with the ad-
vice and consext of the Lords Spiritual and Tem-
poral, and Commons, in this present Parliament as-
sembled, and by the authority of the same, that
henceforth the Borough of East Retford, in the
County of Nottingham, shall cease to elect and re-
turn Burgesses to serve in the High Court of Par-
liament.

And be it further enacted, That the Manor of
Birmingham shall be deemed and become a Borough
for the purposes of this Act; and that in this pre-
sent Parliament, and at all times thereafter, such
Borough of Birmingham shall have two Burgesses
to serve in the High Court of Parliament, to be
elected and chosen by virtue of a writ to the She-
riff of the County of Warwick, and a precept to be
thereupon issued by him as in the case of other Bo-
roughs, to the high bailiff of the said Manor for the
time being, which high bailiff (or in case of his ill-
ness or unavoidable absence, then the low bailiff
of the said Manor, or in case of the illness or
unavoidable absence of the low bailiff; then the
deputy of the high bailiff) shall be the return-
ing officer at every such election ; and the same
election shall (in every case except as herein
after mentioned) be made from time to time by tht
major part of the inhabitant householders of the said
Borough of Birmingham, who shall have been resident
therein for entire and successive years imme-
diately preceding the teste of the writ of election in
each case; who shall also for that term have been
assessed in their own names to all suck parochial and
other local rates and charges as shall be chargeable
upon
the houses in which they shall severally have
resided, and who shall have regularly paid the same :
Provided always, that it shall not be necessary in order
to establish the right of any inhabitant householder to
vote at any such election, that he should have paid
any rate or charge whatsoever which may have
become due and payable within months
before the teste of the writ of election in such case:
Provided always, That when any person shall have
acquired possession of a house within the said Bo-
rough by inheritance, devise, marriage or marriage
settlement, or by promotion to any benefice, and
shall thereupon have become and continued an in-
habitant householder therein, and thenceforth have
paid all subsequent charges and levies necessary for
the purpose of acquiring a right to vote at such elec-
tions as aforesaid, then such occupancy by him may
be connected with the occupancy and
.due payment
of rates and charges by the preceding inhabitant of
the slime house (being his predecessor in title to the
freehold or leasehold interest therein to which he
may so succeed), so as to enable the new occupant
to vote as aforesaid, if such previous occupancy and
payment, when connected with the occupancy and
payment by the party so acquiring such house, shall
be sufficient to make out the qualification hereinbe-
fore required.
And be it further enacted, that the said Return-
ing officer, on the receipt of the precept from the
Sheriff of the County of Warwick, shall indorse
thereon the day of his receipt thereof in the presence

PRICE 7D.

of the party from whom he received the same, And
shall forthwith give public notice of the time and
place of such election by the Town Cryer betwecti
o'clock in the morning and o'clock
in the evening, and also by causing notice thereof
in writing to be affixed on the principal door
of the Town Hall (when the same shall be erected),
and on the doors of the church of Saint Martin
and Saint Philip in the said Borough; and the
saidreturning
officer shall
atshali proceed to election pur-
suanto such such place within the said
t
Borough as he shall appoint, not later than
days after the receipt thereof, but so that there shall
be at the least clear and - entire
days between the day on which the said notice shall
be given, and the day thereby named for making
such election. _ _

And be it further enacted, that at every such elec.
tion, in case 416 tanning officer shall receive notice
in writing from any persons having right to vote in
such election, that a contest will take place (in
which notice shall also be stated the christian and
surnames of the expected candidates, and their
places of residence,) the said !et-Awning officer shall
appoint, or cause to be erected cr made
within the said Borough commodio' s
booths or places for taking the poll, corres-
ponding with the number of districts into whit the
parish of Birmingham is divided for the collection of
the poor's rates, acid eitie tither antvenal booth or
polling place, for that part of the hernia t 1 Deritend
which is situate within the said Borough, and any
greater number of booths or places corresponding'
with any other division of the said Borough, into
convenient districts, as may to him appear advisable,
and shall cause to be affixed On the most public pail
of each of the said booths or polling places, the,name
of the district, and the names of all the streets and
places comprised therein for which such booth shall
be allotted ; and the Returning Officer shall appoint
a deputy to preside, and a Pall Clfrk or Clerks to
take the poll at each of the said booths.
And be it further enacted, that no person shall be
admitted to poll at any of the said booths who does
not reside within the district to which such booth is
appropriated.
And be it further enacted, that ere returning
officer shall, upon receiving such notice as aforesaid,
appoint some fit and proper person, being a barristel
at law, or solicitor or attorney of one of his Majesty's
Courts at Westminster, to be his assessor or-advise'
and assistant at the said election; and before such
returning officer shall proceed to the election, he
shall take and subscribe the oath in that behalf set
forth in the schedule to this Act, in the presence of
any Justice of the Peace for the county of Warwick,
who is hereby authorised and required to administer
the same ; and after the said retailing officer shall
have taken and subscribed such oath, he is hereby
authorised and required forthwith to administer to hi,
several deputies, to the assessor, and the poll clerk,
to be appointed as aforesaid,and they ato respectively
required to take and subscribe the oaths to thew
respectively appropriated in the said schedule, before
they proceed to act at such election.

And he it further enacted, That such Deputies
shall each day upon notice given to them individually
by the returning officer, close their poll books, and
deliver in the same to him immediately, and he shal'
thereupon turn tip the whole number of votes alread
polled for each candidate, and e: ter such number,
when ascertained, into his general poll book, and
shall thereupon read the same aloud; and if any
Deputy or Poll Clerk shall refuse to .deliver up his
book whet► so required, or shall continue to take the
poll after he shall have been directed by tin
Returning Officer fo close the same, he shall forfeit
the sum of to any person rrho shall, within
• twelve calendar months, sue for such .penalty, on,.
moiety of which, when recovered, shall be retained
by him, and the other moiety shall be paid to tln
overseers of the poor, in aid of the poor rates of the
said parish of Birmingham.
And be it further enacted, that the charges 0;
making and erecting the poll booths, for duly remu•
iterating the Assessor, Deputies, and Poll Clerks,
and all other necessary and unavoidable expellees in
curred by the Returning Officer in conducting such
election, shall be paid by the several persons entitled
to vote at such election; and the amount thereo:
shall be ascertained and declared in writing by auk
or more Justices of the Peace acting for the
county of Warwick, to whom the Returning Offieei
shall, within calendar months after every such
election, submit an account in writing of such his
expellees; and the said Justices shall be at liberty to
allow the whole or such part thereof as they may.
think just and reasonable; and for the purpose of
raising the sum of money so allowed and declared
by the said Justices, it shall be lawful for the over-
seers of the poor, and they are hereby required forth-
with to make a fair and equal rate upon the said elec-
tors in respect of the houses lands and tenements they
shall respectively occupy within the said borough,
which rate shall be made levied and recovered in thc
same manner as rates for the relief of the poor are
made levied and recovered by law ; and the amount
of such rate shall be collected and paid over to the
said returning officer within calendar months
after the same shall have been made.

;Ts
Wit•
householder m ethe'ksaid—bbrotigh, .w o shall
d e
ts which
su c h
have.heen rats is O e each (*the last
ockial s
rior
o
thiannd
calTiloctiar.tmeso.n.
application hive been assessed in respect of the house
in which he may reside, it' shall be the duty of the
said Registrar forthwith to enter his. name in the
register aforesaid, together with the date of Such
entry, and his residence ahall, for the purposes of
this Act, be, calculated from that date ; and from
timoo time afterwards, opposite to the name of
each ~inhabitant householder so registered, shall be
entered his due and regular payment of every such
rate and charge which he may have been so assessed ;
and moreover when and as the cases shall happen,
there shall he entered in like manner the discontinu-
ance of such person as a householder within the •said
borough, or his ceasing to be rated in his own name, or
his removal to another house specifying the same ; - and
in order to enable the said registrar to complete the
registry aforesaid, the overseers of the poor and the
officers appointed for the collection of all the paro-
chial and other local rates - and charges within the
thirteen districts of the said borough herein before
mentioned, shall forthwith, after the collection of
each of such rates and charges, or at • the latest
within calendar months after each of them
shall become payable, make out particular statements
of the names of the inhabitant householders (specify-
, ir4g their places of abode) who shall have paid the
same in respect of their houses of residence within
the said ,borough, and shall deliver such statements
forthwith to the registrar aforesaid, who shad enter
and arrange the same in the said register so and in such
Manner that opposite to the name of each inhabitant
householder, the entries which have relation to his
right to vote at the said elections, may, as tar as
shall be practicable, appear at one view ; and every
months at the least, the said Registrar shstli
print and publish the names and places of residence
~aga the jnhabitant letemilowz e_s4
who for the rime
being, shall appear upon 'regieer,;iforeSiii'd, to l
entitled to vote at an election'fof the said Borough,
and .the copies thereof shall bopubliely .4 old at
each, which price shall go towards defraying the ex-
pense of such printing and publication ; and any
surplus shall be paid to the overseers of the p: or of
Birmingham, iii of the poor rates, and anv defi-
ciency- shall be paid out of the game rates ; and such
original register, and the aforesaid returns so 7111,1 e
by the said. overseers and officers, shall at all titucs
be open between the hours of anti iii
the day (Sunday, Good Friday, and Christmas Day
excepted), for the inspection of any inhabitant
householder : and the same shall at all contested
elections be produced to the returning officer and ha
Assessor, in order to determine all dirTuted votes.
Provided always, and be it further enacted, That
at the first election for the said borough, every in-
habitant householder within the same, woo shall be
rated in his own name to all the parochial and other
local rates and charges which shall within
calendar months before the passing of this Act have
been assessed in respect of their houses of residence,
arid shall have duly paid such of them as may at the
period of such first election have become due and pay-
able, shall be admitted to vote at such first election.

Provided also, and be it further enacted, that at
any subsequent election for the said borough which
may occur within years and calendar
months from the passing of this Act, all the inha-
bitant householders, who shall be registered Iln
aforesaid within calendar months from the
passing of this Act, and shall afterwards con-
tinue to be resident and rated, and whrt (except
during the last months previous to the teste
of the writ of election in such case, which shad not
be material to the validity of the vote) shall regu
larly pay their rates and charges from time to time
in the manner hereinbefore expreised, shall be ad-
mitted to vote at all such elections after the first elec-
tion, as shall happen within the said period of
years and months, although the full term
h e hereby
shallrequired
not
afpoir,earueuhropnredivicousasidrarttin
complete.be
register andister resi-
dencet

And istt it f .u.rt..6r enacted, that the aforesaid re-
gister shall in el eases be taken in evidence prima
fade for or against the title of Any inhabitant house-
holder to vote at the said elections,
And be it further enacted, that if any person/
shall feel himself aggrieved by any entry or omission
n the said register, it shall be lawful for him to
appeal to any two Magistrates of the said County,
giving days notice to the said Registrar, spe-
cifying therein the cause of complaint ; and which
two Justices are hereby authorized and required by
examination upon oath (which oath the said Justices
are hereby authorized to administer) to hear and de-
. termine the matter of such appeal, and make such
order for the amendment of the said register, as they
may think necessary„ and also to award such costs as
to them in their discretion shall seem reasonable ;
and by their order or warrant to levy the costs which
shall be so awarded, either against the party come
plaining or the Registrar aforesaid.
suetpdarbtey
himself aggrieved by the decision of such justices ictofmtu tpilairiirithegnacotfetdh,
ethßategifisttbrey,Reefilasntrtahritolkis
the peace, he may appeal to the general quarter ses-
sions of the peace, winch shall be holden in and fel:
the couety of Warwick, within calendar months
next after the cause of complaint shall have arisen, en
giving the said justices days notice in writing
of such appeal, anti of the matter thereof; and the
justices assembled in their said general quarter ses-
sions are hereby authorized and required to hear and
determine the matter of such appeal, and to make
such order therein, and to award such costs and
damages as to them in their discretion shall seem
reasonable, v,hich determination of the said justices
in sessions shall be final and conclusive on all par-
ties concerned, and shall not be litigated, removed,
or removeable by certiorari or otherwise, into any
of his Majesty's Courts of RecOrd at Westminster
er elsewhere.

And be it further enacted, that if the returning
officer shall think himself aggrieved by the decision
of such Justices of the Peace, he may appeal to the
general quarter sessions of the peace which shall be
holden in and for the county of Warwick within
calendar months next after the cause of com-
plaint shall have arisen, on giving the said two Jus-
tices days notice in writing of such appeal, :and of
the matter thereof, before the aforesaid rate on account
of his expences shall be made, and on giving notice
also to the parochial officer or officers not to proceed
in making the same ; and the Justices assembled in
their general quarter sessions are hereby authorized
and required to hear and determine the matter of
such appeal, and to make such order therein, and to
award such costs and damages, either in addition to
the rate so to be made on account of the expences
of the returning officer, or to be paid by him, as to
them in their discretion shall seem reasonable ;
which determination of the said Justices in Sessions
shall be final and conclusive on all parties concerned,
and shall not be removed or removeable by certio-
rari, or otherwise, into any of his Majesty's Courts
of Record at Westminster or elsewhere.
And be it further enacted,--That from and after
the passing of this Act, an alphabetical register of
the persons entitled to vote at such elections as
aforesaid shall at all times be kept, in which shall be
specified their places of abode, the sums at which
ptfrharoeloinrc
hot
nial atloalmdtiem4o,etahtiehdre3 en
respectr ad Icy
h ar assessedgoef upever}
o i
liablesilocall a shall
o b4r
payat
an.
their houses of residence, the times. whet,
every such rate and charge was iinpose.d
and became due, and when the same w"
by such several persons, together with all otherrpcia:
•
titulars requisite to constitute their rights O n exercise
such vote; and for this end, after the pasg,...
Act, a fit and proper person shall be fortnn and
-ar of the said
from time to time appointed Regisu
of ,
Borough, by the guardians of the po:?r the parish
of Birmingham for the time being, with
a reasona-
ble salary to be paid out of the your rates of the Gain,
parish, which Registrar, upon his appointment, shall
take and subscribe the oath provided in that behalf
in the Schedule to this Act, before some Justice of
the Peace actingfor the county of Warwick, and shall
be removeable by the said guardians of the poor
for the time being, for misbehaviour or incapacity;
and upon the application of every male inhabitant

And be it further enacted, that the Burgesses so
to be elected and returned to serve in Parliament for
the said borough of Birmingham, shall have the like
authority and place therein, and the like liberties,
advantages, and privileges, as have been and are had
exercised and enjoyed by other burgesses in the said
High Court of Parliament.
And be it further enacted, That all laws now ill'
force touching the qualification, election, and returm
of Burgesses to serve in Parliament, are herehy de-
clared to extend to the qualification, election, and re-
turn of Burgesses to be elected and returned to serve
in Parliament for the said Borough of Birmingham
in manner aforesaid, so far as the same !nay b. ap_
plicable thereto, and may not be varied or affected by
this Act.

astonishing instance of longe-
:;!t.d.lse Obituary of the feathered
.4bfredices er Journal.
citsT,diel.:4l.lociiii,,ni!,:e;
which is
last wee , an , as he sup-
town, had a lark in his pos-
-3,;linel its notes till within a few days of its
tribe. Mr.
chiefk d
session for 21 Ye.a his 23d
poses, at least Year ; it is equally remarkable
whereilliti
LAUGHABLE MISTAXE.-A young farmer,
from, the neighbourhood of Rugelev, had attended market
death.--Leicester
in true city, after leaving his nag at a friend's, a short dis-
tal" 6°"l the town. As it was new market da%, ll°
many other,;, he indulged rather freely in the pleasures of
the bottle, and when it was time to return home, be was a
great deal mnre than half-gone. In this situation he started,
and some friends determined to watch him, that no this-
man in his circumstances could do, towards the place
and eghhtandaplpefetn. lie made
his horse. But an unlucky five-barred
gate was near the spot, and, by some strange delusion, he
mistook it for his nag, mounted it with all the agility of
spur-
ring with great activity-, and, strange to tell, preserved
with the greatest nicety that equilibrium oil his narrow
seat which he was unable to maintain on his legs. His
his way as straight as a
a Newmarket jockey, and commenced whipping
friends, after indulging their laughter at his odd situation
for some time, endeavoured to pvisuade him to dismount
from his wooden Rosivante ; but to no purpose. He was
sure he was on his own horse, and going a good pace! In
the end, however, persuasion and force united prevailed,
and no sooner was he lifted off, than the consciousness of
his mistake burst full upon his mind, and laughing most
heartily, he was led away,—Lichfield Mercury.

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