The Sun.
London, England, 1826-12-05 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

CANIBRIPOI, Dec. I.—The second meeting of the Philoso.
phical Society during the present term took place on Monday
evening. The Rev. Professor Cuninling, the president, being
in the chair. A paper was read to the society, by Mr. Airy, on
a mode of calculating the effect of any small forces, acting upon a
pendulum during its vibrations. Besides various other applica-
tions of this method, its use was shown in vestigating the pro-
perties of the escapements of clock. and watches ; and it was
stated that the different escapements which have heeu invented
are arranged by this theory in the same order as to their goodness,
which they are known to hold in practice. Mr. Airy also pro-
posed another escapement, founded on his own principles. After
the meeting ashort account was given by Mr. Whewell of the
nature and results of the expatiments made in Cornwall by him
and Mr. Airy, to determine the density of the earth.
The Rev. Christopher Benson, M.A. of Magdalene. College,
Master of the Temple, was presented to his Majesty, at the levee
on Monday last, on his appointment.

The select preacher at.gt.-Afary's Church for the ensuing month
is the Rev. R. N. Adams, Fellow of Sidney College.
Two Craven scholarships are now vacant. The examination of
candidates will commence on the 29th of January next.
The Rev. George Jariis has been instituted to the vicarage of
Titttington, Norfolk, on the presentation of the Bishop of Ely.

OXFORD, Dec. 2.—On Wednesday last Edward Kitson, B.A.
and George Moberly, B.A. of Banjo], and Francis William New-
man, B.A. of Worcester, were elected Fellows of Bailin].
On Friday the following Degrees were conferred:—.
NACHILOR AND DOCTOR IN DIVINITY,
ACCUMULATION.

Rar. William Vansittart, Christ Church, Graml Compounder.

SIASTRRS OF ARTS.

Davit Aitchison, Queen's.
Rev. William Peufold, Lincoln.
Rev. William Busfeild, Scholar of University.
Rev. James Joseph Goodall, Pembroke.
BACHIMOUS OF ARM

Thomas Harding, Worcester.
William Hodgson, Queen's.
Samuel Hingeston, Scholar of Lincoln.
Edward John Ward, Trinity.
John Thomas Hope, Christ Church.
Peter Maurice, Jesus.
George Les,
George Robert Kensit, Wadham.
Thomas Penruddocke,
George Ilervey Montagu, Balliol.
John Ley, Exeter.
Henry Moresby, }
On-the saute day William Henry Whitworth, of the County of
Oxford, was elected Scholar of Corpus.
ECCLISIASTICAL tftIEFERNMITS. •
The Rev. John Horaford, B.A. of Queen's College, Curate of
Weymouth and Wyke, has been appointed by the Earl of Aber.
dee% to be one of his Lordship's Domestic Chaplains.
PrOietue:Volurdrsedrely; last, in the Chapel at Hartlebury Castle, the Rev.
John Lane Freer, A. 13. of Trinity Collor, Cambridge, was ad-
mitted hy the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of War: ester into
and at the same time was instituted by his Lord.
Ship to the Vicarage of Wasperton, iu the county of Warwick, on
the presentation of the Rev. John Lucy, Rector of Hampton, in the
the resignation of his father, the Rev.
same e county, end vacant by
Len, °..
fl4', Rector of Handsworth, Staffordshire.

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SYmPATIIETIC AFFECTION 1--At the representa-
tion. of the poptilar tragedy of Foscari, on Monday even►ng: an
incident occurred which st lay exemplifies the force of feeling.
play-goer too)
Iu that scene of the thin,' act - -,,Aere the body of the murdered
"D"ata is
inh•odneed before the Senate, a gentleman (and an old
was so exceasively affected, that he was compelled
actually fainted- away.
ti:, retire precipitately from the box, and, on reaching the lobby,
amongst whom was a medical gentleman the cause, a srea-
th.etic affection, was readily bleed, and temporary indisposition
Several e'rson; crowded around him,
yielded to the effect of an anodyne, which was immediately admi-
nistered. The gentleman, When sufficiently recovered,. went back to his box, and sat out the performance.—Sunday Tin's.

There is no pleasanter country sound than that of a peal of
village bells, as they come vibrating through the air, giving token
of marriage and merriment ; nor ever was that pleasant sound
more welcome than on this still foggy gloomy November morning,
when all nature stood as if at pause ; the large drops hanging on
the thatch witbout.falling ; the sere leaves dangling on the trees;
the birds mute and motionless on the boughs; turkies, children,
geeee and pigs Unnaturally silent ; the whole world quiet and
melancholy as snore of the enchanted places in the Arabian tales.
That merry peal seemed at once to break the spell, and to awaken
sounds and life, and motion., It had a peculiar welcome too, as
stirring up one of the most active passions in woman or in man,
and rousing the rational part of creation from the torpor induced
by the season and the weather at the thrilling touch of .curiosity.
Never was a completer puzzle. Nobody in our village had heard
that a wedding was expected ; no unaccustomed conveyance, from
a Coach to a wheel-harrow, had beep observed passing up the
vicarage lane ;no banns had been published in church—no mar-
riage of gentility ; that is to say, of licence, talked of, or thought
of ; none of our village beaux had been seen, as village beaux are
;le to be on such Occasions, smirking and fidgetty ; none of our
village belles ashamed and shy. It was a most animating puzzle ;
anil regardless of the weather, half the gossips of the street—in
other words, half the inhabitants.--gathered together in knots end
clusters, to discuss flirtations and calculate possibilities.
Still the peals rang merrily on, and still the pleasant game of
guessing continued, until the appearance of a well-known, but
most unsuspected equipage, descending the hill from the church,
and spewing dimly through the fag the most unequivocal signs of
bridal finery, supplied exactly the solution which all riddles ought
to have, adding a grand climax of amauement to the previous sus-
peace—the new-married couple being precisely the two most un-
likely persons to commit matrimony in the whole neighbourhood;
the only two whose names had never came in question during the
discussion, both bride and bridegroom having been long considered
the most confirmed and resolute old maid and old batchelor to be
Found in the country side.

Master Jacob Frost is an itinerant chapman, somewhere on the
wrong side of sixty, who traverses the counties of Hants, hlerks,
and Oxon, with a noisy lumbering cart full of panniers, contain-
ing the heterogeneous commodities of fruit and fish, driving during
the summer a regular and profitable barter between the mat on
one side of us and the cherry country on the other. We who live
about midway between these two extreme points of his peregrina-
tion, have the benefit of both kinds of• merchandise going and
coming ; and there is not a man, woman, or child, in the parish,
who deem not know Master Frost's heavy cart and old grey mare
half a mile off, as well as the stentorian cry of " Cherries, crabs,
and sahnon," sometimes pickled and sometimes fresh, with which
hemakes the common and village re-echo ; for, with an indefati-
gable perseverance, he cries his goods along the whole line of road,
picking up customers where a man of less experience would despair,
and so used. to utter those sounds whilst marching beside his
rumbling equipage, that it would not be at all surprising if he
were to cry " Cherries salmon ! salmon--cherries !" in his
sleep. As to fatigue, that is entirely out of the question. Jacob
is a man of iron ; a tall lean gaunt figure, all bone and sinew,
constantly clad in a light brown jacket with breeches to match,
long leather gaiters, ands leather cap ; his face and hair tanned
by constant exposure to the weather into a tint so nearly resembling
his vestments that he looks all of a colour, like the statue ghost in
Don Giovanni, although the hue be different from that/renowned
spectre—Jacob being a brown man. Perhaps Master Peter in
Don Quixote, him of the ape and the eharnoy doublet, were the
apter comparison ; or, with all reverence be it spoken, the ape
himself. His visage is spare, and lean, and saturnine, enlivened
by a slight cast in the dexter eye, and diversified by a partial loss
of kis teeth, all those on the left hand having been knocked out by
a cricket ball, which aided by the before•mentioned obliquity of
vision, gives a peculiar one-sided expression to his physiognomy.
His tongue is well hung and oily, as suits his vocation. No
better man at a bargain than Master Frog t he would persuade
you that brill was turbot, and that black cherries were Maydukes ;
and yet to be an itinerant vender of fish, the rogue bath a con-
science. Try to bate him down, and he cheats you without
scruple or mercy; but put him on his honour, and he shall deal
as fairly with you as the honestest tnan in Billingsgate. Neither
doth he ever impose upon children, with whom, in the matter of
shrimps, perriwinkles, nuts and apples, and snub boyish ware, he
bath frequent traffic. He is liberal to the urchins; and I have
sometimes been amused to see the Wat Tyler and Robin Hood kind
of spirit with which he will fling to some wistful penniless brat,
the identical handful of cherries which, at the risk of his character
and his customer, he !lath cribbed from the scales, when weighing
out a long-contested bargain with creme clamorous housewife.

Alio he is an approved judge and devoted lover of country spear;
attends all poney races, donkey races, wrestlings and cricket matches,
an amateur aud arbiter of the very first water. At every revel
or :Haying within six miles of his heat, may Master Frost beseen,
pretending to the world, and doubtless to bis own conscience (for
of all lies those that one tells to that stern monitor art the most
.
frequent,) that he is only there the way of business ; whilst in
reality the cart, and the old white mare, who perfectly understands
quietude, under some
shady hedge; whilst a black sheep.dog, his constant and trusty.
follower, keeps guard over the Pannier*, Master Frost himself
the affair, may generally be found iu happy
being seated in full state amidst the thickest of the throng, gravest
of the umpires, most impartial and learned of referees, utterly
.panniers and sheep-dog. The veriest
old woman of cartanthat and
eversitoTde' before a stall, or carried a fruit-basket,
would beat our shrewd merchant out of the' field on such a day as
that ; its bath not even time to bestow a dole on his usual pen-
sioners the children? Unprofitable days to him, of a surety, so
far as blameless pleasure can be called unprofitable; bat it is worth
something to a spectator to behold hiM in his glory, to see the
earnest gravity, the solemn importance with which he will ponder

The damsel who, assisted by an old Chelsea pensioner, minus
a leg, and followed by a little stunted red-haired parish girl, and
a huge tabby cat, presided over the flourishing hostelry, was a
spinster of sonic fifty years standing, with a reputation as uptight
as her person.; a. woman of slow speech and civil demeanour,
neat, prim, • precise, and orderly, stiff-atarched and strait-laced us
any maiden gentlewoman within a hundred miles. In her youth
she must have been handsome ; even now, abstract the exceeding
prhnnesa, the pursed-up mouth and the bolt upright carriage, and
Hester is fur from uncomely, for her complexion is delicate, and
her features are regular. And Hester, besides her comeliness and
her good ale, is well to do in the world, has money, in the stocks;
some seventy pounds, a fortune in furniture, feather-beds, mat-
tresses, tables, presses, and chairs of shining walnut-tree, to say
nothing of a store of home-spun linen, and the united wardrobes
of ,thiee maiden aunts. A wealthy damsel was Heater, and her
suitors must probably have exceaded in beauty and boldness those
of any lady in the land. %lett drovers, Scotch pedlars, shep-
herds from Salisbury Plain, and pig-drivers • from Ireland—
all these she resisted for tivo.and-thirty years, determined to
live and die "in single blessedness," and " leave the world no
copy."
And she it is whom Jacob has won, from Scotchmau and Irish-
' man; pig-dealer' 'and shepherd, she who now sits at his side in
sober finery, a _demure_ and blushing bride! Who would ever
have thought of Heater's marrying ! And when ran the wooing
have, been ? And how will they go on together ? Will Master
141+,4- still travel the country, or will lie link quietly into the
landlord of the Bell? And was the match for love or for money ?
Anal what will become of the lame ostler? And how will Ja-
cob's sheep-dog agree with Hester's eat ? These, and a thousand
snub, are the questions of the village, whilst the bells ring mer-
rily, and the new-married couple wend peaceably home. M.

GAMBLING.

Mll.. WA I.ItOSTD'S STATE/41MT CONCIMNINC 1117 F. AFFAIR AT

RICHMOND.

When first I heard of the charge brought against me, in con.
sequence of the affair at Richmond, I treated it with indignant
contempt, and considered it in itself so incredible, that I would
not even inconvenience myself by taking the trouble to come to
London to repel it in person.. It has since assumed a more se-
rious aspect, and as the most base and infamous calumnies have
been put forth, I am compelled to make the following statement :
1 begin with my acquaintance with the parties accinied.
I was introduced to Mr. - O'Neill, at Cheltenham,. in 1828,
by Lord Edward Chichester, and dined in company with bins
at Lord Edward's house. From that time until the end of the
mouth of .duly last we had a mere bowing acquaintance, no
conversation or communication of any sort having ever taken
place between us. At the close of that mouth, a circum-
stance connected with my late election occasioned a closer inter-
sconrse, and took tie twice to the neighbourhood of Richmond.
This affair it Is unnecessary to detail, as it touches not in any
way the present transaction. During one of thooe trips, we
wade an engagement to dine on a subsequent day with a family
in the neighbourhood. Mr. O'Neill said he would drive me
down in his tilbury, and desired me to conic to Isis house for
that purpose I was late, and he came to my door before I was
ready; sitting with him in the tilbury was Mr. Boland, to
whom he then introduced me, and this was the that time I ever
saw that gentleman. Two or three days afterwards Mr. Bo-
land met me in the street, and talking of the emptiness of Lon-
don, asked me where I was going to dine either that day or the
next, I am not sure which, and finding I was disengaged, in-
vited me to dine at his lodgings in Stratton-street, to meet Mr.
O'Neill. I should mention, that Mr. Boland had called on me
in the interim, between the introduction and thin) invitation, but
was not at home, and had not yet returned hie visit. Y went
land there, for . the first time, saw Mr. Auldjo and his brother.
Two or three days more passed, when I was driving my cabriolet
through Hyde Park-gate, I met Mr. O'Neill, who said, " Will
you come down and dine at Richmond to-day? Lord Clauricarde
is going to drive a party of us down." I replied, " I do not
know Lord Clanricarde he said, " Oh, I'll introduce you,
come and take your chance of is seat." This was in the morn.
ing, and in the afternoon, at about five o'clock, I went to Mr.
O'Neill's door : I there found Lord Clauricarde's four-in-hand
waiting, and himself and Lord Hewth standing on the pavement.
Mr. O'Neill was not then present; whether Mr. Auldjo
was there at the time I drove up I cannot tell, ,but he certainly
was there immediately afterwards. When Mr. O'Neill came,
he introduced me to Lords Clanricarde and Howth. The last
of the Noblemen I had never before seen, the. first I had,
once many years before met at dinner at Dowager Lady Clan-
ricarde'v, but we had since bad no acquaintance, and on this sub•
jest a conversation took place between Lord Clanricarde and my.
self at dinner. We all mounted on the outside of Lord Clanri-
carde's carriage and drove to Richmond. At dinner a conversa-
tion arose between bird Clauricarde and Mr. O'Neill, which
ended in a proposal from one to the other to play at ecarte.—
Some time after dinner the bell was rung, and cards were demired
to be brought, and in the Course of the evening they rat down to
that game. I moved from the desert table soon afterwards, end
made some small bete with Mr. O'Neill upon the game. A
round game was proposed by some of the gentlemen present,
which after tome discussion which I did not hear, having left the
play
became
m recollection, ec
high,
A of Mr. R
Alru.
htiAo ul
haddj
room for a few minutes, was agreed to. On my return I found
them all sitting round the table, and sat down with them.—
Macao *AI proporsed, and rejected afterwards ; Lou was intro-
(l
11"in!'-'retsetlft tiiedist'l martisi according to na know the game, in consequence of which two
or :three rounds were played expressly to teach me before we played
wan
rrinaonliteyrg;e afterwardssi the la
I had then lost 1,400/, or 1,5004 Mr. Auld.l(l,
who sat next nre played with great coolness and care, never risk-
ing anything ufilese he had a very good hand. lie aftervettrtN.
a: dsthi
me teltlieini
ngdeevlearryediatrhgeat),ifillerembeasliitly,
wonto
the last sbtaekgaen(titollvoasse, for
have risen from the table. I recollect this the more particularly,
it struck toe at the time as rather unusual, and certainly

" To B. Walrond, Esq., Chapel-street, West, May-flit."
I immediately replied, that I had myself felt the great inconve-
nience of paying down, and would never press another. That I
enclosed his T. 0. U. fur the whole amount,. and 'merely begged
he would send some acknowledgment, or a bill at six months'
• sight jar the remainder.. To this letter. I received no answer; I
went into the country, and thence, after some time, wrote to him,
saying I had sent such A letter, which certaiuly required are
answer,• and I was surprised to have received none. Ten days
afterwards he wrote, saying " He would pay no more, and would
refer the matter to the Magistrates at the Politer-office, if prettied
on the subject." -To this letter, actuated by warmth of my
feelings, I at first wrote a violent answer, but, on calmer reaec-
tion, and the advice of .my friends, who feared such a course
would lay me open to legal proceedings, suppressed it, determiniog
on my return to town to seek from Mr. Auldjo a persona) expla-
nation in the presence of all the parties.
About a month after Wards, I received a letter from 'lllr. -How-
ard, a solicitor, stating, " That he was instructed by Mr. Auldjo's
friends and relatives to proceed against me for the money paid, un-
leas I immediately returned it, and on which subject he had ap-
plied to Mr. O'Neill, but he declined to interfere. I have kept
mn copy of my answer, but in sense, and I think in words, it was
44 follows :—" Sir, I have received your letter, and Jose not a
moment in stating that I will resist to the utmost in turpower
the infamous demand made upon me, to the end that publicite
being given to the whole transaction, each party therein concerned
may be held up to the world in his Own' proper colours. Mr.
O'Neill acted properly in declining the commission you Seemed to
have wished him to undertake, for as he was one of those who
first introduced Mr: 'Auldjo into my society,' I might in that cans
have considered his conduct as connected with the above-named
individual, an idea which I should hope he would not approve."
The letter is probably still in existence, soil I challenge any one
to show that lever made or accepted any offer of compromise.
I have now fairly stated this entire transaction as it occurrred•
Mr. Auldjo himself will. not venture to impugn its acuncracy, if be
does, he can be contradicted by all the person. to whom I have re-
ferred ; and, for my (Arm part, I am perfectly ready to submit the
whole affair twit committee of gentlemen.

- -
As some insinuation has been thrown nut with respect to the
age of the parti►s, I can only atty, that I myself cm aluut 26, amt
that Mr. A ultjjo is more than 21.

(Signed)

BETHELL WALROND.

Mr. O'Neill has published the following letter :
Sta—A paragraph that appeared in the Ape newspaper of yir4...
terday, mentioning my name as having played with Ir., \Vedder-
burn Webster, has but anticipated the publicity which wilful
umie-
atateuieuts and false reports call on men to offer. In reference to
every person from whom I ever won above 10/., those persons are
but five in number, and, in the whole course of my life, I never
moon in private play hut from them—two of thou from whom I
won by far the largest sums, I shall satisfactorily prove (and, in-
deed, they bad the candour to acknowledge) woo afterwards as,
much, or more, from nae. One, in a letter, neva the words,. "lie
cannot say on whose side the balance is;" the third won back 501.
ant of the 2001. that I won front him; Mr. Webeter's affair is the
fourth ; and some money won at Ecarti,from a gentleman ofpley
habits, and my senior, includes all I everwou. At Doncados at
Mr. Grady's hotel, I met Lord Clauriorde, Mr. Webster, Mr.
Burton, and Mr. Hawke. Mr. Grady „was at dinner when I
engagement.eame ;
l soonl a
returned
r
theatt clothera
ewasonsia
ermoreabfretici
me, avni particulargrlo a the
gentlemen at play. 'played, and bet onrny own hand,amongst others
with Mr. Webster; from whom I thus won 1001—a very trifling
difference occurred between him and me, on which I expremed
self, perhaps, too warmly, and declined play, as I conceived we were
playing for ready money. Mr. Webster borrowed 100/. from Mr.
Bowles, and paid me. I paid 404, the amount of my losses, and
went to dress far the ball, leaving Mr. Webster in the room. I
called on Lord Clanricarde, and he accompanied me to the ball.
1 knew Mr. Weimer slightly in town. Every report est it relates
to me, differing from thin, is false. My statement will contain the
letter of the gentleman at whose particular request I became ac-
quainted with Mr. Auldjo, and will prove that, except once when
riding through Charing-cross, where I was introduced to hicu,
and at Mr. Boland's table, and at the cricket-ground, in all them
times I never saw that person, and did not ever invite Jima t"
my house, or visit him. A system of persecution obliges me pre-
maturely to publish a statement, and I shall place copies of it ism
. the hands of several gentlemen of respectability and rank. But as
a Court of Justice has refused its shield, on account of my having
,iolated a statute, by playing for
ab
co-
louring, and of injurious tendency, and fore-assert libels, for which
state nente
there are now two actions pending;,
oevnedlaolil"thiis atoPwiTridst' pubal person
meeting the indictMent against him, under the following cir-
cumstances
On the evidence a Mr. Anhijo and his the Grand
Jury found a bill cif indictment against me and two other gen-
tlemen, on Saturday, November e 5. By the forms of the Court,.
plead ; hut I waved all form, pleaded
1 severed months to
on the ennuis-mg Monday (the 27th), and served notice on my
uclown the cause for trial on the following Wed-
nesday Pr`lecut°.-rtna, - setii a few hours, offering to meet a prosecution
: se
totally ,meapected, and brought on above three months after the
owe took place, and after suffering five Grand Juries to elapse,
without taking that step. My offer of short notice of trial
uclagi rejected, months will now elapse before the cause will
emus to a Jury. I, therefore, appeal to the public, not to al-
low their minds to be prejudiced by dark insinuations and un-
founded charges, as I have availed myself of every means in my
power to bring the whole transaction in the speediest man-
ner before the proper tribunal.

lam, Sir, your oltedient servant,
2S, Cilupel.ttrvcit, Grosvenor-place, A. O'NEILL.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDSi—hiotnmy, Dm 4.

The Marquis of HIATFORD took the oaths and hid seat.
Lord KING observed he had a petition to 'present
to their Lordships against' a grievoui and scandalous monopoly,
namely, the Corn Laws. It had pleased some of the landed
monopolists to deceive themselves, (he did not think that they
would deceive any body else), and to state that their own wish
was to limit, cheap 'corn. lieliad very little hopes that they would
effect their Object, nor did he think that they would carry their
ether point, namely, to-make permanent settlement, until theydid
that which was just and right. They might make a new law, and
he had very little doubtlhat they would make a new law, but until
they repealed the' existing monopoly, they never could effect a per—
manent settlement: The petition Which he held in his hand came
from Association, No. 1, he did not know how many more there
were, of a society of the manufacturers .and inhabitants of Ched-
worth, in the county of Gloucester, called the Anti. Bread 'Tax
Society. The petitioners stated, 'that they could see no reason
why the landed-interest should have' the 'special privilege of ex-
smpting .themselves froin taxes ; but the petitioners added, that
if the Landowners should exempt themselves from paying all taxes,
it would be far less injurious to the community than prohibiting
the free importation of foreign grain. They likewise state that
the English•Mantifiettirer pays Sd. per day more than the conti-
nental manufacturer, which amounted with petitioners only, to a
tax -of 86/. Weekly,- or %now. yearly on ivages. This would
show their Lordships how highly sippreesive the corn laws were
to the labourer, and-its far as regarded the manufacturer, those
laws were bad poliey,''and highly injurious to the trade of the
country.—The•petition was Lid on-the tabby.,
or ALEXANDER GRANT and others front
the Commons brought tip the Corn Indemnity Bill, which, upon
the motion of go Bathurst, was read a first time, and ordered to
be read a second timer ore, Wsidnesday next.
The official returns ;fowl the East India 'louse, relative to the
granting of !alas* and,,pensioos, were, presented at the bar.--
Adjourned.,
‘;

HOUSE OF.. COMM ON S. —lsiosrna v.
ELECTION PETITIONS.
Petitions were, presented, complaining of undue returns fur
the 'following places :—Borough of Sudbury, (to be consider-
* I Thursday, jaunary 11) ; borough of East Looe, (January
11) ; borough of Wootton Bassett, (Friday, January 12) ; county
of Galway, ,(two. petitions), (January 42) ; county of Dublin,
(January IS) ; county of Monaghan, (January 13) ; borough of
Tregony! (Monday, Jtuntary 15) ; borough of Marlborough, (Ja..
unary 15) ; county, of Banff, (January 15); borough of Hedon,
(January 16); borough of St. Ives,. (January 16) ; borough of
East. Retford, (Jam 16, )„
Mr. HUME said,-he held a petition front Anthony
Alarmion, Es+, complaining of an undue election for Dundalk ;
but it wee not directly stated in' the petition that the petitioner
was an elector of that borough, though . the- agent here assured
him that he was.
The SPEAKER said it would be better to allow
the petition to be real, and the Muse would decide whether it
cattle within the limits pieseribed for election petitions by the act
of Parliament. The clause of the act to which he alluded set
forth that no petition could be received as an election petition,
unlois it was signed by an eleigor or a candidate.
The petition was now read, and it appearing that the petitioner,
with others, claimed to be electors,
Mr. C. W.,WYNN observed, that the Ilouse had
on all occasions acted in those cases on the principle that the House
should be thrown open as wide as possible to petitions; and as the
petitioners claimed to be duly qualified to vote, it would he better
to allow the petition to be received as an election petition. The
House had decided in the case of the petitioners in Middlesex, who
stated themselves to 1w freeholders (though they did not say that
they were freeholdort having a right to vote), and there might be
maw freeholders without right to, vote, such as
_persons with
freeholds under 400,, or Peer,' of the realm. That the petitiou
came within the spirit of the Act, and ought to be received.
The petition of Mr. Maripion was now ordered to be received
as an election petition, and ordered to be considered on Tuesday,
January it;.

Mr. BATLEY prettified a petition from a,Mr.
Cadman (We think,) praying that acme addition might he made
to the fees of .COnmers.

THE LORD CHANCELLOR AND BANKRUPTCY CASES.
Mr. M. A. TAYLOR gmv notice, that on the
27th of February, he would Wash a motion to teparate all matters
of bankruptcy fro* the office of tlw theut Seat.
Lord MOUNTCHARLES presented a petition
from a parish is the tliueees of Londonderry, in favour of Catholic
Emaucipation. .

Mr. SPENCE gave noiiee,that he should on Wed-
nesdayptit move for certain retsina respecting the amount of bu-
siness tranSacted in the Court of the Muter of the Rolls And the
Vice-Chancellor. „

CORN LAWS. .
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Colonel :TORRENS prepented a petition, aired
by 8,000 of the inhabitants of the townships of Great and Little
Bolton, in the county of Lancaster, praying for a repeal of the
Corn Laws. Similar petitions were presented by Mr. c 3. PHIL-
LIPS from the Chamber of Commerce in Manchester, and by
Mr. HUME, from the seven incorporated trades of Montrose;
and from the town of Bradford, in Yorkshire, and five villages '-
its vicinity.