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well, who survives him, by whom he has issue four sons and
three daughters. The eldest son, John, who resides at
Takely Priory, succeeds to the Essex estate ; the second
son, Charles, takes the Berkshire estate, said to be worth
from five to six thousand pounds per annum. Mr. Houblon
represented this county in Parliament from the year 1810,
upon the death of Colonel Bullock, until the decease of Geo.
111. in 1020, when he was succeeeed by Sir Eliab Harvey.
Mr. Houblon stood Iwo contests with Mr. Burgoyne, the
first in the year 1810, which lasted fifteen days the other
in the year 1812, which lasted five days. The deceased was
much respected by a numerous tenantry, and by the poor,
who have lost a generous benefactor.
BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL, Juxi 4.
On Thursday, a special meeting of the Political Council
was held, for the purpose of considering the case of Mr. C.
Andrew Thomson, a Member of the Union, who claimed
the interference of the Council in endeavouring to obtain
redress for the great public wrongs of which he had been I
the victim. Mr. Thomson gave an affecting history of his
injuries. Ile stated, that he and his father had possessed in
the year 1791, the sum of 300,0001. consols, besides other
large personal property. That finding the price of his eon.l
sole had fallen from 90 to 00 in the year 1810, and that the
value of the money in which the 60 was measured was at
that time reduced one half, he had decided upon investing
his personal property in land. He accordingly made some
large purchases, having the cash in band to pay for the
whole; but some years elapsed before the lawyers could
complete a satisfactory title, and during those years he ex-
perienced losses of 100,0001. in his trade as a wine merchant
in the city of London. When the title was completed these
losses rendered it necessary for him to take up the sum of
60,0001. on mortgage, for the purpose of enabling him to
complete the purchases. He had bought one estate for
72,0e0 and another for 00,0001. and having paid the whole
of the 72,0001. he granted a mortgage upon the estates for
the sum of sixty thousand pounds. In this way his purchases
sere completed in the year 1810. His property was still
very large, and he considered that in having it invested in
land he had taken the hest possible security for preserving
it. Ile hid been deprived of more than one half of his pro.
perry by the measures of the Government and the Legials.
tun, which had reduced the value of his money and the
price of his consols at the same time. But he still retained
a very large property. Unhappily for him, however, in
the year 1819, the Government of this country adopted other
measures for again restoring the value of the currency, and
of beating down the prices of property to the ancient level
which existed in the year 1791. But they adopted no mea.
sure for reducing his mortgage of 60,0001. The copse.
quince was, that the monied price of his two estates fell one
half, and the mortgagee produced his mortgage and took
possession of both iris estates, under the form of law, and
the mask of insulted justice. In addition to this he had
paid the sum of 30,0001. for interest and expenses, and
having sustained some further losses by a similar depression
in the price of his stock of wine, he was compelled to be-
come a bankrupt in the year 1821, and reduced to the ne-
cessity of seeing his creditors receive only seven shillings in
the pound, when if justice had been done to him he could
readily have paid them twenty shillings in the pound seven
times over. Alr. Thomson here gave some distressing de-
rails of the sufferings of himself and his father, whom he de-
clared to have died of a broken heart. He stated that he
had appealed to the Courts of Law and of Equity, and to
the Houses of Parliament in vain.

On Thursday evening, five candidates contested the Ana-
tomical prize at the School of Medicine of this town, before
Jones Quoin, Esq. B.A. and Lecturer of Anatomy in Lon-
don ; the examination lasted five hours, and such was the
equality between three of the competitors, that the subject
was renewed yesterday morning, when, after a very severe
struggle, the first prize was adjudged to Mr. Lloyd, pupil
of Mr. Vaux, and son of James Lloyd, &q. of this town,
and the second to Mr. Walton, house pupil at the General
Hospital.
Tuesday night last, as one of the keepers was exhibiting
the animals in Wombwell's splendid exhibition of wild
beasts in this town, a young man, named Fletcher, living in
a court in Si. Martin's-lane, being imprudently pushed
against the tiger's den, one of its furious instates suddenly
caught him on each side of his face with its claws. For.
tunately, the tiger missed the first hold upon the young
men's neck, but the claw of the other foot caught in his
mouth.

A survey is making to ascertain the practicability of a
branch railway from the main line of the projected Wolver-
hampton, Dudley, and Birmingham Railway, at Tipton,
by a tunnel through the Lill, at Dudley, to the Bufferies,
and to extend from thence to Dudley-wood, the Level, Ne.l
therton, the Lye, and Stourbrldge.
The customary annual entertainment given by the High
Bailiff, took place at Dee's Royal Hotel, on Wednesday
last. About 130 gentlemen, principally inhabitants of the
town, sat down to dinner. Oliver Mason, Esq. as boat, oc-
cupied the chair of the centre table, supported on his right
by the Earl of Dartmouth, sir Gray Slupwith, James Foster,
Esq. M.P. and on his left by Lord Lyttleton. Sir B. D.
Scott, M.P. Wolwryche Whitmore, Esq. M.P. &e. The
Low Bailiff, (H. Smith, Esq.) presided as Chairman of the
table on the right of the High Bailiff, and Thomas Lee,
F.sq. at that on the left. Mr. Meredith, Mr. J. T. Lau-
rence, and Mr. Anderton, officiated as Vice-Presidents. The
dinner was of the most splendid description, the tables being
covered with every delicacy which the season affords, and
I the wines choice and excellent. _

NEWCASTLE AND CARLISLE RAILWAY.-011 Monday
last, the first stone of Coeby Beck Valley Bridge, was laid
by Philip Henry Howard, Es q. M.P. This bridge will
consist of seven arches, each of 50 feet span, and will be
about 60 feet high ; that near to it, over the Eden at We-
theral, the first stone of which was laid last year, will con-
sist of five arches, each of 80 feet span, and will be about 100
feet high. The designs for both are extremely chaste and
I substantial.
LITZRPOOL AND MA) CHIIITER RAILWAY COMPANY.—
The importance of this Company to the general interests of
the community, becomes every day more apparent. In the
best periods of the coach system of management, 750 or 800
passengers was the moat that could be conveyed to and Fro
in one day. In the present mode of conveyance by the rail.
way, there appears to be no limits to its powers of accommo-
dation. During the last week (being Manchester Races)
15,953 persons passed on the railway between Liverpool anu
Manchester, besides those taken up at the intermediate sta-
tions, and which are calculated at 2000. The inside fare is
6s. std the outside, 3s. Bd. ; the returns from which, for
passengera alone, during one week must, therefore, have been
not less than 30001. The quantity of goods, also, during
the wetk, was so immen-e that great quantities remasned
each day ; and on Wednesday, another new engine, con-
structed on the principle of the Planet, was placed upon the
I road.
Rtroax.—The following paragraph, proposing a plan
of Reform similar to the present measure, is extracted from
Aris's Birmingham Gaulle, of April 27, 1767, which
shows that so long as 84 years ago, nomination and rotten
borough, although at that time they were comparatively few,
yet the evil was felt and a remedy projected :—" It is said
a certain public spirited gentleman has made the following
proposal to a Patriot Nobleman, in order to have the same
laid before an august assembly, before the breaking up of
the present session, Viz. that all cities, and great trading
towns, shall have an additional number of Representatives
in Parliament, in proportion to their extent and populous.
ness ; that as the city and suburbs of London, together with
the borough of Southwark, are computed to contain one-
seventh of all the inhabitants of England, their Representa-
tives in Parliament shall be one-seventh part of the whole
House of Commons, that Birmingham, She Meld, and other
populous towns, which have no Representatives, shall, for
the future, have a number proportionate to their trade,
and number of inhabitants • by this means the House
will have between 2 and 300 new Members added to it,
which will prove one of the strongest barriers against the
entrance of bribery and corruption, by making it too expea•
sive a job for any Ministry to attempt it."
Tat LATE Ala. HIISEISSOIL—A tablet of white mar-
ble, bearing the following inscription, has been erected at
Parkside, near Newton :—" This Tablet, a tribute of per-
sonal affection, has been placed here to mark the spot where,
on the 16th of September, 1630, the day of the opening of
this rail-road, the Hight Honourable William Huskinton,
M.P. (singled out by the decree of an inscrutable Provi.
deuce, from the midst of the distinguished multitude that
surrounded him), in the full pride of his talents and the per.
fection of his usefulness, met with the accident that onca.
&Jonal his death, which deprived England of an illustrious
statesman and Liverpool of its most honoured representa-
tive ; which changed a moment of the noblest exultation
and triumph that science and genius had ever achieved,
into one of desolation and mourning ; and striking terror
into the hearts of assembled thousands, brought home to
every bosom the forgotten truth, that—" in the midst of life
we are in death."
It is confidently rumoured that some Important alterations
in the Church Lima are seriously contemplated, and are,
in fact, under consideration. Among others, It is said that
the Athanasian Creed will be mowed foes the Rubric, and
Incorporated is the Ankles.