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DISTRICTS.

West— K ensington, St. George r ---^-----t
( Hanover-square), Westmin- Four 1 Four
ger, St. Martin in the Fields, Ye r.. 1 Springs.
St. James
North—St. Mary-le-bone, St .
Pancras, Islington, Hackney 365,660 162 156 12$
Central—Saint Giles and Saint
George, Strand, Clerkenwell,
Holborn, St. Luke, East Lon-
don, West London, City of
L0nd0n...... ...... .. ........ 373,806 185 179 137
East—Shoreditch,Whitechapel, ~,--3
Bethnal Green, St. George
in the East, Stepney, Poplar 392-,493 206 190 :138
South—St Saviour, St. Olave, - ~..,.. I
• : f,
St.Gcorge( South; 1 ',--
rark)gir, 4'.
mondsey, Newington, Lam-
beth, Camberwell, Bother-
hitke, Greenwich .... ...... —438,060 221 210 208

.•21.

Total 1,870,727 912 871 742
It is stated that under the term Metropolis are comprised the
32 districts herein mentioned, which include the City of Lon-
don with and without the walls, the City and Liberties of
Westminster, the out-parishes within the Bills of Mortality
and the parishes of St. Maryiebone, St. Pancras, Kensington,
Fulham, Hammersmith -Chapelry), St. Luke (Chelsea), Pad-
dington, St. Mary ( Stoke Newington), St. Leonard (Brom-
ley),. St. Mary-le-bow, Camberwell, Greenwich, St. Nicholas
and St: Paul (Deptford), and Woolwich. The population,As
enumerated in 1831, was 1,594,890; and in June 1841, was
1,870,727. The weekly average for 1838,,1839, 1840, and
1841, was obtained by dividing the deaths in the four years by
208, and the deaths in the four winters by 52.
TEMYERATUKE IN THE WEEKS ENDING
June 18. June 25.
82' 84°
54 53
68 65
30, 1842.

-Highest
Lowest
Daily Mean ....
General Register Office, June

ELECTION COMMITTEES.
(THIS DAY)
BELFAST.

The Committee met this morning at eleven o'clock,
Mr. O'Connell in the Chair.
At the commencement of .the proceedings the Chair-
man read a letter addressed to him by Lord Belfast,
dated June 30th, 1842, disclaiming being a party to the
compromise, and stating that it was IA ith the utmost re•
.luctance he consented to the arrangement. The letter
was read, but not placed on the minutes,
Mr. EMERSON 'I'ENNENT said he had handed in the
corrections which Mr. Gordon -wished to make in his
evidence given before the Committee on its first day of
meeting. Some discussion ensued on the propriety of
admitting these corrections, which ended in Mr. Emer-
son Tennent withdrawing them.
CoprocK handed in the opinions of M. Austin
and Mr. Cockburn on the case, and stated that he had
furnished Mr. Bates with a statement of some of the
charges, and the names of the parties charged. He fur-
nished him with a
.list of twenty cases of personation,
and twelve of bribery. He stated that he would com-
mence with the eases-• of impersonation ; he wcifld first
prove the taking of - the house for, the purpose of hold-
ing the meetings of • the Conservative Committee, and
establishing the Committee-rooms.
Mr. BATES admitted the hiring of the rooms from a
Mr. Ewart ; 50/. was paid for the occupation. I
Mr. Ewart was called in and examined ; the proved
the hiring of his hone, and the sum paid for it, for the
week the election lasted.
William Hall, lithographic printer, residing in Belfast,
proved that he received an order from Mr. Bates to print
a list of names of electors ;. 100 copies were printed, and
he was told to take care that nobody saw them.
Arthur M'Brcar had compared the printed list spoken
of by the last witness with his own books, and he
found that the list contained the names of Conservative
voters who had lost their qualification. A person named
Mullholland gave him the list, telling him that he had
obtained it by means of a prostitute. Witness was then
examined respecting a number of persons who-had voted
having lost their qualification. .
1)r. liinixy was called, and proved that a man named
Wm. Wood personated a voter of the name of John Cull.
He gave a general description of the state of the constitu-
ency of Belfast, from which it appeared that it was in a
very confused and degraded state. There were an im-
mense number of voters on the lists who had no qualification
'-at all. More than twenty persons voted on the Liberal
side who had no right to vote. He described the system
of hiring jaunting-9rs to carry voters to the poll, in
which a complete trade was driven by the lower class of
publicans, who made double of their ears they did at any
other time. They even sent into the neighbouring towns
and hired cars from thence, going share in the profits
with the proprietors. The votes of these men went to
the parties who hired the cars. The predilection for
going up to the poll in this style was very general among
the lower class of voters. It did not prevail so much
among the Catholie voters as the Protesta..nt ; the.
former he "thought acted more as a political
party, and were more staunch to their opinions ; there
were more " indifferent" people among. the Protestants,
that is people who were-ready to be' biassed'. by money
or any' other' influence ; still there -were- many persons
among these who 14'44 very- strong political feelings.
. • , . •

-Mr. Edward Bloomfield, a brazier, of Belfast, proved
a case of personation, in which a man named Martin
voted for another called Arnold ; the bribery and qua-
lification oaths were both administered to him, and he
took them ; witness afterwaads reproached him with it,
and he denied it. He knew the man well, and could not
be mistaken in him. He stated another case of the same
kind, in which a person, whose name he did not know,
voted as George Clarke, who had been dead ever since
1836 or 1837. . 4, .
Mr. Cooper, a merchant of Belfast, was called to prove
a similar case, the personator being a man named Woods,
who voted
,as John Bailey ; the same man voted a se-
cond time as John Cull, thus committing a double per-
sonation.

John Brunting proved that a voter named Donelly
was personated, whom he knew to be dead.
Stephen M'Cullagh stated that he carried a letter and
money to a man named Wood, residing in the town
of Monaghan ; he was not aware of the contents of the
letter.

William Wood was called. Was a labourer living at
Monaghan ; he was taken up to the election at Belfast,
by a man named M'Connell. - He had no vote for
Belfast. He did vote at the election, but he was
drunk at the time ; he could not tell how often he
voted ; he "voted once any way ;" he might have
voted twice, but he did not remember it in
regard of being drunk at the time In reply
to other questions put by Mr. O'Connell, wit-
ness said—" Sure, your Lordship seems to know all
about it yourself."—(Laughter.) He got 51. for voting.
He only took one oath, to his recollection, and that was
a false one. Two or three persons came with hiti.
from Monaghan to Belfast, bui he could give no account
of them. .
Mr. M'Brear identified witness as the man who voted
in the name of Cull. . .

The witness Wood was subjected to long examination,
but nothing of additional importance was elicited from him,
as he persisted in saying that he was so drunk before and
during the election, that he was oblivious as to what

tool. Pace.
Andrew M•Ciillom proved, that having lost his quali-
fication before the election, he did not vote; that there
was no other of the same name, but that some person he
did not know voted in his name.
George Carroll, a builder, stated that a false vote
was given in his name at the election.
Mr. COPPOCK put in a paper purporting to be the
tally on which the person who personated Carroll voted.
Mr. BATES said it was not such a tally as those used
at the election ; it was in the handwriting of a man
named Rowland • that person did not act for the Con-
servative party during the contest.
The Committee then adjourned till twelve o'clock on
Monday.

THE LATE LORD LEICESTER,
OF HOLKHAM, NORFOLK.

PRUDENS—QUI TATIEN s.—Motto of the Coke family.

The antiquity of the late Lord Leicester's family, a
nobleman whom we have just had the melancholy duty of
announcing as gathered to his fathers, was settled and In-
quired into, with great pains, by the great antiquary and
historian Camden. He. derives this family, of which
Coke is the genealogical name, from William Coke of
Dedington, in South Greenhow, Norfolk, mentioned in
a deed in 120 G. Thomas Coke, in the 24th of Henry
111., was found to hold on 4 fee and a half of the Earl of
Warren in that town, and Roger Coke held the same,
as Lord, in the 35th year of that King. Sir Thomas
Coke, who served in the Wars in France, was ere"-
ated a Knight Banneret in the reign of Ed-
ward 11., and was styled Seneschal of Gascoign.
But the chief ancestor of the deceased Earl, was Sir Ed-
ward Coke, the celebrated Lord Chief Justice of Eng-
land, whose great renown and dignity is familiar to
every Englishmen,'and a great portion of whose charac-
ter has not been inaptly summed up in the Latin phrase
of " Jurisprudentium eloquentissimus, et eloquentium
jurisprudentissimus."
Lord Leicester had several among his predecessors,
who like himself had occupied seats in Parliament for
.the county of Norfolk in which their estates and family
are situated. Among others, the Lord Viscovt Coke,
whose father was one of the Post-masters General of
Great Britain, and himself a y9ung nobleman of eminent
parts, represented Norfolk in Parliament about 1750 ;
and the lion. Wellman Coke was also member fur Derby.
Holkham, indeed, in which, as we have observed, the
estate of the Earl has been situated from a remote pe-
riod, has been chiefly indebted to him and his predecessors
for whatever it shows worthy of notice. The lordship of
Holkham, shortly after the conquest, was granted to
Tovi, one of the Conqueror's attendants, on the depriva-
tion of Betel, a freeman, who was Lord in the reign of
Edward the Confessor, and subsequently, after various
tenantships, it came to the Leicesters. On their first
occupancy, Holkham was a sea-port of some eminence,
acid in the reign of Edward 11. furnished conjointly with
Burnham-deepdale, one ship, to assist in the transporta -
tion of English troops from Ireland to Scotland. It now
contains 810 inhabitants. _ _

After having sat for 30 years in Parliament his Lord-
ship was again returned for Norfolk in 1807, at the ge-
neral election in that year. Himself and two other
members of his family were in that year returned for the
same county, viz.: Thomas W. Coke, Esq., Edward -
Coke, Esq., and Thomas W. Coke, Esq. Against the
fernier gentleman, however, several of the freeholders
petitioned, and the Committee found him, in , common
with William Wyndham. Esq., not to have been duly
elected. A new writ xas consequently ordered on the
following February, 1807.
Mr. Coke was for many years a strenuous labourer in
the Parliamentary field, and his conduct during the
whole period, as a public marl, was characterized by the
strictest consistency of principle. Among the multitude
of Government measures which he thought fit either to
_uphold or oppose was that of the malt duty, the expiration
of which he considered to be the most auspicious mea-
sure that could have been made for the relief and
encouragement of the agricultural interests of this
Country. It was in the debate upon this] subject, as well
as other, during the Castlereagh administration, that he
perpetually harped upon the expression of that Minister,
made in regard to the burdened people, of their " igno-
rant impatience of taxation," and his sarcasms, chiefly
gave thess words the prominence which they then, -and
ever since have retained.
In 1822 he was the foremost among those who were
warm and zealous in the great cause of Reform in Par-
liament. He then stood forward boldly for Norfolk, set-
4ing forth eloquently in the prayers of its petitions, that
dill enormous sums of taxes raised, " were lavished by
~,000vernment to increase the influence ef the Crown;
Alyinitintaining a corrupt majori4Y in'the' House, and to.
keep tip a large standing army for no other purpose than
of subduing the constitutional feelings of a justly indig-
nant people."
In 1829, he led the van of the enlightened body of
Norfolk clergymen, who were striving in favour of Ca-
tholic emancipation ; and he then stated to the House,
to show how strong was the desire of abolishing these •
civil distinctions from among the classes of British sub-
jects, that in spite of a few counter-petitions, which had
beeii. asserted to have been got up to the contrary in
those parts, " he
.declared, before God, that he believed
the county of Norfolk to be. unanimous on this question,"
Very few, except, those who :have actually visited the •
Earl of Leitester's, magnificent scat and residence, can
1 form any idea of its palace,like air and appearance.
His late Lordship took, an especial delight in further
adding to the adornments which his ancestors had begun.
It need only be mentioned that . it is built from the de-
signs of Palladio and Inigo Jones to give an idea of its
architectural structure and . beauty. The exterior of
this spacious mansion is of white brick ; the bold portico
is supported by Corinthian columns; and the wings of
the building form fine handsome features.
The fittings up of his Lordship's drawing-rooms are
in the most splendid and elegant style. The ceilings of
Curious gilt, fret, and mosaic work ; the Venetian win-
dows, ornamented with handsome pillars; the exquisitely
sculptured chimney-pieces, marble side-boards, agate-
tables, and tapestries, are all in the most sumptuous style
of elegance.
The late Earl, agreat lover and admirer :lithe fine arts,
made several additions and greatly increased the trea-
sures of his statue gallery : among the statues the figure
of Diana is extremely fine; and a Venus, clothed with
wet drapery, is considered exquisite. He also embel-
lished the, handsome saloon appropriated to paintings,
many of which are by the most eminent masters. A
vast collection indeed of these are distributed over the
apartments of the house, and the Claude Lorraine's ex-
ceed in number those of any other in the kingdom.
His late Lordship was a highly humane, charitable,
and Christian man. During the time that he was plain
Mr. Coke, every institution in the vicinity of the town
was grateful for his support, and of many he himself was
the founder. The almshouses which are situated there
were supported by his liberality, and the living, or dis-
charged vicarage, endowed with 2001. Royal bounty, and
2001. parliamentary grant, were in his Lordship's pa-

tronage.
This venerable Peer, at the time of his death, had at-
tained to the advanced age of 90, having been born in
the year 1752. The agriculture of the country will,
from the interest he always took in it, feel a severe loss
in its chief benefactor and promoter.

THE LONDON GAZETTE.

(THIS EVENING.)

WAR-OFFICE, JULY I.

Ist Regiment of Dragoons—W. de C. G. Elmsall, Gent., to
be Cornet, by purchase, vice Morris, whe retires, July 1.
4th Regimens of Light Dragoons—Captain H. Musters,
from half-pay of the 4th Foot., to be Captain, vice Brevet
Major A. Houston, who exchanges; Lieut. T. W. Geils to he
Captain, by purchase, vice Musters, who retires; Co/net T. J.
Francis, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Gells ; Lord A.
'Churchill to be Cornet, by purchase, July 1.
Scots Fusilier Guards—Lieutenant the Hon. J. C. p,
Murray to be Lieutenant and Captain, by purchase, vice Dal-
rj mple., who retires; W. G. Earl of Munster to be Ensign
and Lieutenant, by 1 u rch ase, vice Murray, July 1.
2d Regiment of Foot—R. 0. Potts, Gent. to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Burgh, who retires, July 1.
sth Foot—Lieutenant H. L. G. Scott, from the 66th Foot,
to be Lieutenant, vice Kebbel, whe exchanges, July 1.
14th Foot—F. Hammersley, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Quicke, who retires, July 1.
451,11 Foot—Lieut. H. J. Shaw to be Captain, by purchase,
vice Mello, who retires ; Ensign W. C. Armstrong to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Shaw; E. H. G. Calder, Gent., to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice Armstrong, July I.
51st Foot—C. P. O'Connell, Gent., to be Enstn, without
purchase, vice Martin, whose appointment has been cancelled,
July 1.
53d Foot—Captain H. Barton, from half-pay Unattached, to
be Captain, vice R. Dyott, who exchanges ; Lieutenant R.
B. Low to be Caraiii, by purchase, vice Bat ton, who retires ;
Ensign J. Chester to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Low;
Sir C. W. C. Burton, Bart., to, be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Chester, July I. ' - • -
LiseusttehnaFneto,t--.byEnpusirgenh.asGe:
vLie.eDAt- Aoggisniesl,,:fwrbomose.6"th Foot, to- be
been cancelled, July 1. promotion has

63d Foot—J. A. Kennedy, Gent. to he Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Mayne, appointed to the 49th Foot, July 1.
64th Foot—T. Coßingwood, Gent. to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Amid, promoted in the 55th Foot, July 1.
66th Foot—Lieut. W. H. Kebbel, from the sth Foot, to be
Lieutenant, vice Scott, who exchanges, July 1.
84th Foot—Brevet Major G. Proctor, from half-pay of the
Ro) al Military College, to be Captain, vice T. G. Veitch, who
retires upon half-pay Unattached, July 1 ; Lieutenant H St.
John Clements, from the Ist West India Regiment, to be
Lieut., vice Glubb, whose appointment has been cancelled,
July 1.
Rifle Brigade—Second. Lieut. H. J. Brown to be First
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice V. Agnew, who retires ; R. H.
Baird, Gent., to be Second
.Lieutenint, by purchase, vice
Brown, July 1.
3d West India Regiment—Lieut. H. W. H. Graham to be
Adjutant, vice Smales, promoted, July 1.
UNATTACHED.—Brevet Lieut.-Col. T. Falls, half-pay

Unattached, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, without purchase, July 1.
STAFF.—Brevet Major R. Hort, of the 81st Foot, to be
Deputy Adjutant-General to the Forces serving in the Leeward
and Windward Islands (with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel
in the Army), vice Falli, who resigns, July 1.
BREVET. —Colonel J. G. Cu)ler, on the half-pay of the
Cape Corps, to be Major-General in the Army, Nov. 23, 1841 ;
Major J. C. Chads, of the Ist West India Regiment, to be
Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army ; Brevet-Major G. Proctor,
of the 84th Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army, July
1, 1842 ; Captain H. Barton, of the 53(1 Foot, to be Major in
the Army, Nov. 23, 1841.
MEMORANDUM.—The names of the Ensign appointed to
the 93d Foot, on 26th February, 1841, are Robert Hawthorn
Johnston Stewart.
Erratum in the Gazette of 24th June.

92d Foot—For Lieut. Robert Paley to be Captain, by pur-
chase, vice Duff, who retires, read Lieut. Patrick M'Lecd
Petley to be Captain, by purchase, &c.
ADMIRALTY JUNE '27.
Corps of Royal Marines—. Second Lieut. H. W. Brooker to
be First Lieutenant, dated 25th instant, vice G. J. Hayes,
placed on half-pay ; Second Lieut. C. F. Menzies to be First
Lieutenant, dated this day, vice F. 11. Bluett, who resigns his
commission.
Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire:
E. Holland, Esq. to be Deputy Lieutenant ; T. A. Stough-
ton, the younger, Esq., to be ditto, June 23.
Commission signed by the Lord Lieutenant of Chester.
R. G._ LeyFester, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant, June 13,

The King's Regiment of Cheshire Yeomanry Cavalry.
Congleton Troop.—Cornat W. Reade to be Lieutenant;
H. Lindsay, Gent. to be Cornet, vice Wade, promoted,
June 23.

_
Altrincnam Troop.- J. Nicholson, Gent. to be Lieutenant,
•ice Wakefield, resigned, June 24.
WHITEHALL, JUNE 23.

The Lord Chancellor has appointed Joel Smith, of Walsall,
In the county of Stafford, Gent. to be a Master Extraordinary
in the High Court of Ihancery.
DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY.
CHARLES MASSEY DARBY, printer, St. Maryle-
bone, Middlesex.
BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED.

ARTHUR STRACH AN, warehouseman, Friday-street,
City of London.
JOSEPH WOOD and JOHN HOWARD, Merchants,
Leeds.