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proiosed as a candidate, and obtained 28 votes, I
evidently a ruse to aid the petition of Serjeant
(non it LEN, for Mr. LATOUC 11 E says nothing of
petitioning, either in his speech or advertisement.
confidence with which the Serjeant speaks,
renders it probable that the election will be either
aside, or the petitioners declared the sitting
members. We return to the same point that the
interference of any municipal body, as such should
riot only vitiate an election, but be followed by
forfeiture of Charter. This combined with the
non-interference of Peers, and the vote by ballot,
v ouhl have been a short Reform Bill, worth per-
Ills that of Lord Jour; RUSSELL. In one well-
known instance, a time-serving corporation made
1,500 honorary freemen, and spent on the election
4'30,000, by mortgaging the Corporation Estates
for a series of years ; and such delinquency is con-
sidered as a legitimate part of our glorious con-
stitution.

Already severe contentions have taken place be •
tweet) candidates, under the proposed arrangements
(.1' the reform bill ; so that, before the game is
caught, preparations are made to cook it ! The
crave addresses, the solemn resolutions of com-
mittees, and the pretensions of candidates, are set
forth in local papers with an air of gravity which is
ludicrous. In a majority of cases, too, the new
candidates are far from being the kind of men cal-
culated to serve the country in its present exi-
gencies.
We want for a reform parliament, if we
t..cer get one, men who know society, its wants
and feelings, self thinkers, original thinkers, and
persons addicted, by taste and habit, to the labour
of research. Unmeaning good sort of men, who
recommend themselves by amenity, mere harmless-
ness, wealth acquired by forefathers, or style of
living, lawyers, or officers in the army and navy,
are the kind of persons who have too commonly
constituted our past legislatures; and reform will be
utterly useless, if it produce only such parliaments
as have already done so much mischief, and so
little good. We suspect that the principle of re-
presentative government is yet in its infancy, and
:hat we have yet to teach and practice the principle
th it no man should be an elector who is not himself
qualified to be elected ; and that two or three sift-
ings, or intermediate elections, should stand be-
tu•een the popular voice, and a parliament man,
before we can have a genuine and respectable Le-
gilature.

ROYAL EXCHANGE, ONE O'CLOCK.

Consols, which left off on Saturday at 82i to I
for the Account, opened at 82}. At present they
arc 8:1 sellers, with little doing.
The Foreign Market is void of interest as yet.
TWO O'CLOCK.

Since the early part of the morning, when
Consols were 821 for the Account, they have be-
come heavy, and have been done at 81f to 82 ;
at present they are 82, with little doing.

THREE O'CLOCIL
Bank Stock, 1999. Three per Cent. Red. 82e i i I
,
Three per Cent Consols, 826 11 2 15. Three and a Half
per Ct. 1818, —. Three and a Half per Cent. Red. 1101
90 5. Three and a Half per Cent New, 891 90 89i.
Four per Ct. 1826, 1005 100. Long Annuidea, Jan.
1860, 171 3-16 1-16. Annuities, Oct. 1869, —; do.
Jan. 1860, India Stock, 1991; do. Bonds, 1 3 pm.
South SmStock, £lOOO Exchequer Bills, 11 12 10;
£5OO do. 11 12; ./1100 and .1200 do. 13. Adrertised,
10 12. Console for Account. 82. 82.
FOUR O'CLOCL—Consols 82 5 1.

The arrivals this morning are mole numerous
than for a length of time past. Papers are re-
ceived from Charlestown to the 28th of July ;
Buenos Ayres, to the 3d July ; Calcutta, to the
6tli March; Jamaica, to the 21st July ; Sydney,
to the 19th April ; New South Wales, to the 18th
April ; and Quebec, to the 29th July.
The Calcutta papers to the 26th March, state
that letters from Meerut mention that the camp of
the Governor-General was at Musoori Hills on the
11th inst. His Lordship had been enjoying shoot-
ing. On the first day he shot a young tiger and
an antelope; and on the second day was unfortu-
nate. A spent ball from his lordship's rifle
mounded a peasant on the cheek.
The following mails have arrived this morning
from Malta, sailed sth Aug. from Gibraltar Aug.l7.
Rio Janeiro mail June 22.
Jamaica mail railed July 21
From Carthagena July 10
The present market price of wheat at Sydney
is 58. 6d. a bushel ; at Hobart Town it is only
9(1.

The New South Wales papers state, that owing
to the continued scarcity of German wool, at 2s. as
veil as the total absence of Spanish wool, the
prices obtained at the public sales this week, for
about 12,000 bags, has greatly exceeded the ex-
pectations of the most sanguine.
The Jamaica Papers say, " We observe by the
Minutes of the House of Assembly of Barbadoes
the following act has been sanctioned by his
*lajesty's Council—an Act to extend the benefit
enjoyed by white persons, under certain clauses of
the Consolidated Slave Act of this Island, to all
free coloured and free black persons."
It was rumoured in King's Town, that St. Do-
mingo was in a very unsettled state, when the
Champion left Port-au-Prince. The old jealousy
which had so long existed, had revived between the
bluks and browns; it was stated that the Comma.
core intended to dispatch a vessel of war to pro-
En the lives and property of our countrymen.—
Every thing was quiet when the packet left Car-
thagena.

We understand, says a Jamaica paper, from
Lnquestionable authority, that, although His
lajesty's Ministers have not altogether approved
of some of the clauses in the Slave bill of the last
.'ession, yet that his Majesty's assent would no
!on:NT be withheld.
We understand that one of the clauses of the
WI which refers to the law of the peerage in France,
is to the following effect ; that if the law should
Lot work well it may be abrogated next session. It
is expected the law will be thrown out.
e have letters from the Brasil four days later
than the Mail this morning. The Regency has
Leen appointed for life. All was in perfect tran-
yullity.—Exchange 24.