Star.
London, England, 1830-02-09 00:00:00

BEEF AND MUTTON.

To his ?dainty's Laud Forces In Catitoqnseity, cognen,
Barracks, in the under-mentioned apainklngrld ksaas
Bedford Leh:esti", ': -: ':
Berk*, (including the Town of Lincoln,.
Huagerford,) klideljesen,
Monmouth,
Bucks,
Cambridge, (Including the Town Norfolk.
of Nowatarket,) Northampton, •
Chessext Nortkumberlind (Including
Cotowall, (including SaillYt) wick on Twat)
Cumberland, Nottingham, •
Derby, . Oxford,
Devon, Rutland.
lidos).

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Propoesk Must be made separately
except for the Counties comprising North and South Wales, all
of which must be included In one Tender; likewise the Islands
of Alderney, Guernsey, and Jersey, as also the several Counties
in North Britain ; and each Proposal must have the Letter
which is annexed to the Tender properly filled up, by Two Persons
of known Property engaging to become bound with the Party
tendering in the Amount stated in the printed Particulars, for the
due Performance of the Contract ; and no Proposal will be
noticed unless made on a printed Tender, and the Prices expressed
in words at length; and should it so happen, that during the
Continuance of the Contract no Troops should be supplied by
virtue of the same, the Amount of the Stamps on the Contract
and Bond, pakl in the first instance by the Contractor, will be re-
funded to him.

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Parties wishing to Tender must make their Proposals on the
Printed Forms, which may be bad upon application at this Office;
and of she. Bairack Masters in the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey,
and Man.

CLERICAL, MEDICAL, and GENERAL LIFE
ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
Office, No. 4, Soutbampton.sirtet, Bloomsbury-square, Loathe.
SUBSCRIBED CAPITAL 5t.500,000.

DIRECTORS.
Scarp Piockard, 11. D. Chairman.
Lorbdale, B.D. James KlbblewMte, Esq.
Rev. James Macdonald, M.A. . Sans!. Merriman. M.D.
George Birkbeck, M.D. A. Amides Mieviße, Bp. '
G. G. Babington, Esq. Samset Mills, Raq.
W. Beatty, M.D. F.R.S. Sir Geo. Pocock.
H. J. Cholmeley, 91. D. Ashby Smith, hi .D.
T. Davis, Esq. George Vance, Esq.
John Moo, Esq.
AUDITORS.
H. Blunt, Esq. I H. Earle, Esq. F.R.S.
William Lewis, Esq. J. Stevenson, Esq.
ADVANTAGES BELONGING TO THE SOCIETY.
14Affording to all Cheese of Persons, whether la the Cburcb,the
Medical Profession, the Law, the Army, the Navy, or in any other
station of life, the utmost advantage that ems be dashed from the
system of Life Assurance,

e. Granting the privilep ai muds( sized suns to become rdoe
at the time of decease, by making a stogie present paymmitt Of.
by annual payments for titre., hie, seven, or any given numb*
of years, instead of contionbig the payments of premium tbrough
the Whole Term of life.

3. Giving to the mitred the Option of levying the Profits
to which they become entitled (every five years,) to accumulate
for the benefit of their successorstor taken in Reduction of the
payments of premium.
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4. Extending the advantages of Life Assurance to persons
subject to such deviations front the coinmon standard of health
as do not essentiaUy tend to shorten life, instead of excluding
those afflicted with Gout, Asthma, Rupture, and the other diseases
usually wpecilled.
S. Making no charge for Entrance, nor Fine for Non-ap-
pearance.
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d. The Society grants Annuities ; also Endowments for Children;
and purchases Annuities, &c. •
Prospectuses and full information may be had at the ORlce
(grati.) or by addressing a letter to the Secretary.
JOSEPH PINOLA RO, Resident Secretary.

laddigitibli b-
and any apossipsontly be coosidered u tie barbinvr of many
others of the same description. But the new light is Midis. soma

even to the impenetrable heads of the country gentlemen. All the
counties of Reiland, it will be observed, are in motion ; and, under
cover of the =geoid beer duties, those persons who were once the
models of orthodox loyalty, and the " life and fortune" defenders
of the constitution, are now iring off vollies at mierepresentatiou
and corruption. This is like bringing in the Jews to crown
the fulness of the Gentiles, and ought to portend the approach
of a political ridnODIUM. We rejoice with an honest joy
In these signs of the time,. We scrutinise no man's mo-
tives too closely when be is doing good. We only say to our 'buy
allies, " GOD keep you in this mind," gentlemen proselytes ; and,
as your new opinions have taken root in the chilly atmosphere of
opposition, tel us hope that they will not wither in the warmth
and sunshine of power. Please to remember that the change is
In you, not in us. We have kept our course unaltered; and after
sailing so long against the tide of your prejudices. we are delighted
to fold that it has at last turned in our favour. We are friends to
the Duke's administration, for the very reasons which make sou
its ening% but we are still warmer friends to the rights of the
people, and are wilfine to make common cause even with our an-
cient tremble, in any rational efforts to advance or secure them.
In considering the dreadful evils that now press down the
country, the first circumstance which merits attention is, that
they are indisputably the effects of bad legisiatleo, sad that legis-
lation is caclusively the work of the aristocracy. Pam:mica
has not visited the soil with a blight, or smitten our artisans sod
*bowers with blindoeu. On the contrary. the arts have been
klivederfully improved, the produce of the earth increased, sod
h the country teems beyond all precedent with skill, industry, mi.
tal, and enter prise. A motion possessing all the elements of pros.
perky in such abundant* could net possibly fall into suck ex-
'keine distress as has been gradually settling upon this empire,
without mismanagement on the part of its rulers. It
is against all reason, and all precedent that it should.
Who then are the parties to blame ? Noe we, the people, who
lave DOWD* to de with the laws, but to obey theta. It is you,
Oedemas of the aristocracy, who bare most jealously kept all
Munk but your own from Keeling or even teneking the Meet op
4be state. Whether you erred from human frailty, ignorance, ee
bad intentions, is soother question ; but the error, whatever be its
source, is yours. Yoe made war with Fiume when France was
willing to be at peace with you ; it k tore we are indebted for
r the enormous cues and debt which now weigh us down ; for the
depreciated currency which first deluded es with a false prosperity
and then wrecked the tortoises sad the hopes of thousands. You
r have perfected the game laws, raised sharers' rates to seven mil-
Sons, and brought things to such a pen% that after fifteen i
years of peace our condition appears more full of suffering, and
more hopeless than ever. White the war lasted, the perils that
accompanied it, and the deadly nature of the struggle, were an te-
ethe for oversights and errors; but for the last fifteen years you
have legislated in tranquility, without as enemy at the gates to
disturb you, and what has your wisdom accomplished?
It ham long been our anivietion that a reform in Parlbment
would have prevented the evils of which we complain from grow-
ing to their present magnitude. The aristocracy are dow suffering
severely like their ncighboors ; and we consider it fortunate that
those who have been the authors of so much misery to others, have

not reaped from sharing the general calamity. There Is a girl to
be deduced from it, which we would particularly press on the
minds of the Tory Aristocracy. They ought te tee that, for their
aim interest, apart altogether from that of the country,they ought
honestly to pronsote a reform. When they us Solution suferssand
the suliferloge of the nation most soaker or later reach thetuelves.
Had they admitted the people to a Amnia the repreeentitien 40 years
ago, they would not have been in their present unhappy plight,
sod we frankly ten them that without acceding to the claims Of
the people, they can have no setnetlty against further at
greater misfortunes in future. Our principle thug willlll4 pr
In a single: sentence is, that they must have reemine
a reform In Parliament, us a guarantee against the ruinous ism
silences resulting from their own errors and selfishness. Ifiltfilp
net say this in an *rendes sense. We believe there Isabel* stir
much virtue and talent among the aristocracy u asuair the WM.
clones ; but they ought not to assume that noddle more, or that
they ere proof against temptations which world be too strong Ihr
the honesty of men in other .tattoos of life. We mean ash ankle
as an appeal to the new friends of Reform among the Tory lain.
yoersey, and shaU explain our views a little further.
It Is not our intention to libel Parliament ; but it is no dish
paragement to that body to say, that like many .tbsr human he.

Alearinen, and it large proportion of the middle ranks.* i
, %fiesta IM under the disadvantage, of having their worldly
__ led and tasnlated by persons who are imperfect
,'heir emotions, and whose ignorance must betray them '
.... deeply Injurious mistakes. If there is one thing more, II
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than another, it is, that every clue In the community
to the public burdens, should have persons
lib be the organ of its wants, and to watch over
In Sweden, the peasants have their reps
liwho alwayslp belong to their cope orderb and
gi
by the tenure of ;heir Oka .
. to the wishes and interests of their constituents.
sixth evil Is, that oar government is confessedly a govern.
Muria, or in other words, that appeals to the self is
tercet of individuals are one of the means by which it caries its
purpose. The root of this evil does sot Us es much in the House
II of Commons, as in thee, knots of persons in counties and burghs
who bold the elective franchise, and whose limited number enables
government to antrall the proceedings of the whole by ministering
to the madmen of a few. In this way men who are predisposed
to vote heavy taxes, pass strong measures, and uphold extravagant
establishments, we returned.
Eaperience, we think, should now have convinced those who
have Owned, as well as those who have honestly used, their elective
privilege, that they are themselves losers in the long run by the
cover practices which arise out of this state of things. The
candid must be sensible that, for their own sake, some guarantee
is seamoary againsr the selfishness of their backsliding brethren
and the letter ourtst to be aware, that their cupidity, when not
checked, overshoots its purpose, and. like a two-edged weapon,
injures * hand which employs it. Could we get this truth ri-
veted in the minds of influential men generally, the battle of re-
form would be won, and the salvation of the country achieved.—
We admit that wisdom Linnet undo the mischief which has been
done; it cannot extinguish the ruinous debt which is a mill-none
round oor necks, but it may mitigate the existing evils, and what is
much mote, it would insure us against a renewal of the same ex-
travagance in another form.
In speaking of the kind of reform necessary, we must be brief
and what we have alresdy said of the disease indicates the nature
of the remedy. In the first place, we would extend the elective
heitehise by taking it away from smaU or rotten burghs, and coo-
keries it upon large towns. We have no objection to this being done
arsiessily, and we are prepared to show that a smaU infusion o
Menthers popularly chosen would make a much greater change in
the spirit and character of the House than is imagined. Recol-
lecting that the representation of England, if equally divided among
its poraladoo, would allow one member for every 114.000 inhabit.
tars, we would give towns like Liverpool, Edinburgh, Glasgow,
sad Idaschester, four members each.
We would divide the town Into as many districts as it returned
members, assigning one to each, and allowing every person who
paillasses taxes to vote. By this mode of distributing the• fran-
Able. an Important advantage would be gained. In the fashionable
cad of weds own. a member would be returned by the upper ranks ;
in the trading part of the town, by the merchants or shopkeepers;
and in the poorer suburbs by the artisans and labourers. We have
no wish to see the House fiUed with persons chosen by the pork-
ies classes : but it is clear to us as the sun, that if it is the duty
of a House of Commons to protect the interests of the poor and
adddle ranks, as well u the opulent, It can never answer this end,
ruins all these are &scaly, not seawalls, represented in It. There
tit twide 1

difference betwixt allowing the bumbler classes to obtain
an ascendancy, and excluding them entirely. We have no objec-
tless to humour the men of property, by confining the represents-
disk of the poor within narrow limits; but justice benefits all, and
illhe rich will find it ultimately to be for their own interest that the
humblest class of their fellow-citizens should have organs in Para
Brent to utter their complaints, and guard their rights from
invasion.

We shall startle our.readers by what we are now going teals.
pat. We would return to the ancient practice of giving regular
ioiy to members of the House of Commons, which we are satisfied
ritiould be attended with many advantages. First, it would enable
lingoes, men of small fortune to accept of the once of represents-
fie, which at present falls almost uncannily into the hands of
weeltby indolence, or of place-bunting venality. Secondly, If the
wort (;oppose 1,0001. per annum) was paid, as it ought to be, by
a*, ezerclaing the franchise, it would create a feeling of respond-
%y In the person receiving it, to which a vast proportion of our
esentatives must be at present entire stranger.. It would then
fair to reset front the person chosen, punctual attendance in the
, a correct knowledge of his duties, and attention to an
ructioni and suggestions transmitted by his constituents.—
veoublla fact be the procurator of the parties returning him.
ookl this lessen his usefulness in deciding on questions affecting
whole empire? Quite the reverse. In ninety nine questions
of a hundred, which come before Parliament, the interests at
Orlbe pans of the empire are so connected, chat be who gives
taus attentiou to the interest of his 'own district, will beet dis.
se his duty to the whole. Imagine the effeet which-114
!duels trained to badness chosen and paid by large astrieli
or peopk,and giving their Whole time to dull duties, would
lon the character of the house? What a new energy, what
gr scarcity's spirit,. would be infused* intO its prtieeediugs?
latt indolent gentlemen of family thd fOitune, provided only
sib across. of Girth and school logit, would bad 'their ins-
guirmuctr.. inuibilated in the presence Of such then, and
*sold Its contpened in self defence to assume salve hibits. and
themaelou With.useful knowledge. It 'wag on thrives:2d we
td, that small reform, rlanned on sound printiples, word
- •iostschangi In the House of Commons.' We have alreidy
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The LORD CH A riEllii6Egavenc;tiee of his Intention of
laying upon their lordships' table, in the course of a few days, a
NH revelling the Court of Chancery.
The gad of SHAFTESBURY presented several gaol returns,
pursuant to the ace of parliament.

PILIVATZ atu.s.
On the motion of the same noble lord, It was ordered that no
petition for a private bill should be received after the 25th of March,
and no teport ftom the judges after the 21st of April.
A message from the Commons requested copies of the minutes
of evidence taken before a select committee of their lordships last
session respecting the coal trade.—Copies were accordingly de-
livered.

♦MOCO TO TNT ADDRESS-

The Duke of MONTROSE said, be bad laid the address agreed
to by their lordships before his majesty, to which be had been
pleased to return the following most gracious answer :—" ?sly
lords, I have received your loyal and dutiful address. I rely with
just confidence upon your zealous co-operation in all measures cal.
ciliated to improve the condition of my subjects, and to main sin
the honour and high character of the country.
On the motion of Lord SHAPIPIIMIUST. his majesty's answer was
ordered to be inserted in their lordships' journals.

conontsou or ?MI MAIM.
Earl BATHURST laid on their lordship's table " an order of
the King in Council, for consolidating the several laws recently
made for improving the condition of the slaves in his majesty's colo-
nies of Trinidad. Bethke, Demerara, St. Lucia, the Cape of Good
Hope, and the Alaaritins."—Ordered to be printed.
♦meanie or sum.

Lord kJ BLVIL LIZ gave notice, on the pan of his noble Irked
Lord larthatogigh, that he would to-morrow (this day) move for
the a of s select committee upon the affairs of India.
woe accordingly ordered to be anewneseed for
Qs
COAL SAADI.
Lord DURHAM gave node., on the part of his noble friend
the !Marquis of Londonderry, that be would on Friday next escnt
a petition from the proprietors of coal-mines in the north of kog•
land, praying for the revival of the committee of last session spots
the cool-tradr.
Lord TRYNH Aid rose to move for resume of the amount or
mosey expended upon the poor in England and Wales ; but at the
suggestion of the Duke of W ILLINOTOSI , the noble lord postponed
his motion till to-morrow (this day).

AIrfAIIII OF CLUCK.
Lord HOLLAND said. that seeing by his Majesty's speech
that the final settlement of Greece, though not as yet accomplished.
was sow near at bind, he should feel it his duty to cell thei•
Lordships especial attention to the iubjett. With that view be
rose to give notice, that upon an early day he would bring that soh•
ject under their lordships' consideration. In fixing the time, if ht•
consulted his owu convenience or that of the house, he should be in -
dined to appoint a distant day; however, as he perceived from his
Majesty's speech that that settlement was likely very soon to take
place, he felt It due In justice to his motion to fix an early day fur it.
But, in order that their lordships might not be taken unaware,
or by surprise, though he bad not yet framed the specific words of
his motion. he should state to them its substance. He therefore
begged to give notice, that upon Friday next he should move
resolution to this effect :—" That no settlement and pacification of
Greece will be advantageous or honourable to his Majesty's cruwr.
that will not give to that country a territory sufficient to maintain
its defence, and establish a government there so constituted as to
be consistent with the wishes of the people, and secured front
foreign contruL"

POILTIJGAL.

Lord MELBOURNE gave nu lice, that upon Thursday, the
ilith inst. he should move for the production of further info:Ana.
don respecting the affairs of Portugal.

bona, Salop. _ .
Durham, (Uri:biding Holy Somerset, . . THE TORY CRY FOR REFORM. Ibmla lo 41
Island,) Stafford,
Inez, (exclusive of Tliburr. :. &dolt, From the Scotsman. wields*,
Fort,) Surrey, " Goa keep you in that mind, so merpsor tax payers shall escape ,as s, elig
Gloster, (including the City of Saws. • predestinate empty pockets r
Bristol,) • r Warwick,
Hants, .Watasso eland, lfsek ado alma Noshing.. t"P"l'di
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Hereford, :Wilts, ' Ali them.. el
Times are changed indeed t It is set tarry years since we mei Interessoiti
Hertford, Worcester, •
Hunts. York, branded as Incendiaries for advocating refonffin Parliament, W jades If ill
Isle of Mao North so South Wales. • those very pass°s who are now tab* up our BillinientS• Me '•11
Isle of Wight, In the several Coundesits North
.ersies ;hem with ea.iateespereace et „back we were pee platy 1.... : . •
Kent, (including Tilbury Fat, Britain,It was during last simmer that some yang aristocratsarmounced •
in the Comity of iissex,) , And in the bloods of Alderney,•
Lancaster, Gwermay, sod Jaw. .tbeie convorsioo btbe House of Colostsons. Since then the good I
That the Deliveries are to commence on and lee the Twenty- 'caw has /abates support of Use Sits#4o.l. koreise Issoesel, and Ps
fthh,„astaidattvalktyr.2l,o,,,l, !! !hide , . Arty leading Tory papers; sod sow it nimbus In the powered
ni ' .i garrfas.lretU a .
this Mesa or beforeTkOrariay,tlieTwenty-fifth day of F i cireoladosa What adds a wet to the eontributinos of this ha to emis4 a
huh nosiiiifkko,reesiadwfre Twelve o'Clock as that Day. '' Prifd, kid. ifs that the, ankle fa* published on ear " liaterwal•Plr• The slid
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