Star.
London, England, 1831-04-13 00:00:00

CALEDONIAN MERCURY.

COUNTY or ELont.—A meeting of this county was held on
Tuesday week, (at which there were nine hundred individuals present,
according to the Elgin paper,) to consider the reform bill, when reso-
lutions were proposed by Major C. L. Cumming Bruce, of the follow.
ing tenor, and were unanimously adopted :—That while certain alte.
rations iu the state of the representation are expedient, the changes
proposed in the bill now before Parliament, are much too extensive
to be adopted with safety to the existing institutions of the country.
LErzw.—The Urania, Younger, sailed from this port on Tuesday
se'imight, for Montreal, with goods, and about thirty (migrants on
board.

NOTICE TO INHABITANTS OF A CERTAIN VILLAGE ON THE
COAST OF FIFE TO ILLUMINATE ON THE SECOND READING
OF THE REFORM BILL -4` This is to give notice, that as the Form
Bill has pow! the Common House, it is proposed that a' them that
arc favourable to it will Licht their windows to.night, and a' them that
are nu sac ki them remain in utter darkness for evermore."

Edinburgh Corn 31.irket, April G.—There were sold this day in the
market, 203 quarters of wheat, 106 quarters of barley, 340 quarters of
oats, and 64 quarters of peas rid beans. Average of wheat, 31.35. Old;
ditto of barley, 21 Wed; ditto of oats, 11. lld ; ditto of peas and
beans, 21. bs.

MARRIED.—At Lower, James Sower, Esq. to Anne, third
daughter of the late Patrick Carney, Esq.--ohn Connlagbatne, Esq.
of Hensel, to Eliza Mary, eldest daughter of the late C. Upton, Esq.
Captain R.N.—Thomas Howe, Faq. of Wood Green Park, Herta, to
Maria, eldest daughter of the late John Maitland, Esq. of Eccles—.
Mr. John Carrick, of Glasgow, to Miss Eliza, eldest daughter of Mr.
Robert M'Connell, of Belfast.
DIED.—At Glenfinlas-street, Edinburgh, Augusta,second daughter
of the late Major-General Lamont—At Chisholm., Roxburghshire,
Harriet, the wife of J. R. Scott, Esq. Chcltenhatu—At her house, Ca.
vendish•square, Mrs. Plumer ward, wife of Robert Plumer Ward, Esq.
of Oliston Park, Herta, author of Tremayne and Devere. Mrs. Ward
was grand-daughter of the 7th Earl of Abacorn, and widow of the late
W. Plums, Esq. M. P.

One Hundred and Eighty-two Insolvent Debtors were in
Lancaster Gaol, awaiting the circuit of Mr. Commissioner;
and such is the glorious uncertainty of the law, that by the
reports, full half were remanded for some informality, and
not a few adjudged to terms of further imprisonment. Why
do we continue to boast of trial by Jury? What has become
of the institutions of Alfred, and the security of Magna
Charts ? The Revolution has moved all one way !
A Boston Editor is facetious at the vulgar disappoint-
ment about the central eclipse of the Sun at noon, on the
12th of February. There was the evening-like gloom which
attends the phenomenon, and the thermometer fell 10 de-
' gees. It is delightful to observe how on these subjects
superstition has yielded to the light of science, and we have
no men now-a-days like Lord Bacon, who used to faint
away during an eclipse, whether he knew of it or not ! Yet
they tell us that such a man was the father of science—lf
so, it must be science under an eclipse—the science of clois-
ters and pedents, and not the science of common sense !