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London, England, 1831-02-03 00:00:00

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!lament, would ast the apt* llem is the hulls' absurdity p
But, is it MOM sherd thee tint mingsks Bowing to
Old Sarum,
_theaM atm that tames ft would sot be so
absurd. Mandiedat is haft alit titian* as the auidenoe
of a people dlaingethhed Whole 110111, AS, asel indeeoltast
whet ie use et these &owed, ahead emdbilaied, bouseghs
for? What masteelses de they army es, mop the Monufweeiro el
el pediment, set el the me wellidal of the lens, relearns,
dente of the Waugh 10 What memamee have
they" bailie the mainase of eses a? And yet times phase send
211 amehere—aid theyeat tars of Xsachaert was Wheal, not long
...thas..petvllege of soaks
_even two INSebses. Hey mall ea the
et the pities b, width rain above a niejedty of the Eng.
1at'.07.101, teaser this populadea has very little to do with
the dodos di, - Little heeled viduala have the =-
dudes pilaw of sides, ad it la they who arry on the minsfateire
width flaws Oast to, dainties their patent right fee dolg so, io
the book of theorist's sad their Idol. It hoe been stated in the
:=irtheta, IA Malmo aired that this system, a pert of
e re
have gleamed at, wee to adiebehly so polo la ell its=
that Wires net penile Ire the grommet wisdom, and the moat
virtue, to devise ens agony gall ! (Marl Really, it is dile* to
blem diet any sash media could be made, sad if it woe male, pm.
haps thine is only see whereway one would vests to Robe it.
Hie Gram is not, I uaisntasi, accomoned to be ironical, and dilator
we are not, I peeeims, at liberty to ogress that it was meet der Way.
Butt we see to take it as said serleady, then does it wpm is my
Weil as on of the norm Whiten and hatrageol lode oil Aral to
the IIIIIIIIIII• mese dos oilighesmedi perk Set there are these who en
so medals ft admit that the system ie net what it ought to be in logy.
=es wackier% we led that, In the year 1655, the peeled at the
, when the weasel system may he said to have taken a Mad
of a start, the tans calmed from the people amounted to the cam.
pradvely mull suet of 2401,5551. but at the tommeteehrtai ef the
ridge ef George lIL they had reached 5033.5401! The wee a tele-
ably fair sample of what the ream would do ; but it is nab*, to
what it has wetted tines that time. For in 1530, last year. no lea
than 47,150,8731 were extracted frost the people in the shape of
taxes ! And if we Include the expense of the collection, the wide
wen would be fifty-two millions sterling! Sir, when we bon-
a speak of millions, it is with difficulty the mind grasps the megel-
ink of the sum. It requires a most formidable effect- of the Ws. lair
shm:to present to itself, in a tangible foem, what is spoken. Dort hefty'
mkt as if we consider that these fifty-two millions seeding.. Aloft me
ohm meally from the pockets of the people is taxes,
ossrix.
1,140,600 fannies, allowing each family 601. a year; iii- ele
pose these families to average five plane each, b. .
would be amppated at that rate by the sum which is alas
lolly in meal Or, to take another mode of showing the maples& of
the sum thus taken, appose the whole town of Meetchaster to send*
of 40,000 familia, five members to a family, and these families to be
allowed SOL a yew each, then the sum paid in taxa would sumac
twenty-six such towns l—wesid leash' the whole of the thhata
of twenty.aix of such large towns as Maaeheater is at present.
Mr. Prentice, whom talents had ban eulogised by Mr. Potter, then
spoke with great energy in Amor of the resolutions, and remarked as
follows on the misgovernment of such a plat as Manchester s—Allow
me first, however, said be, to congratulate you en the wonderful pp-
grees of liberal opinion, since the 'inhabitants of Itandraer publicly
met in this ,' splendid Hall." Little mere then a per age, when we
met to petition for the repeali of the odious and opproolve awn too.
mft.:4l meospely wb eagle never to be mentioned, even incl.
, hat in toms admonition, and to podtion fir a gnat odor,
d—e-i-17 tame, I ventured to hope that we bag we should have an
ty within these walls,sed with the boteughreeve in the chair,
reigillaxprapeligi our melbas of the great cause of impoverishing
sbelliellits wild lirindleptaNMea.—the want of a dee representation of
the Bat while I apromd the hope I scarcely felt it. Tat,
gin js, here we eamemAl ear object le rudimentary Reform—
not a hilt PlidiA Ill.alleeme—aot a dalin l
ead cob-
bling scheme. Wan. olplep up one bol stakes
tent i bat a reel. eilled.--ebim I use another word ?
iild reform. It is owe that we have adder borough-reeve oar
emit able in the ;hair, for they, honest ases, are afraid of " az.
dteasins." (Great applause.) But I see around me, a full Tepee.
samba of the wealth and talent, and worth of this great amantnlty.
It le aye we have not the nudes of Sir Oswald Motley's petty
tat r. bat we balm what Is perhaps of pole as much evategearee,
the mastics of his Majesty's Ministers. Nay, mere. gatiessea, we
have the suedes et hie Majesty himself. We have not Sit Oswald
Maley's beesseeteevet nor his ale anemone hie beer toter, nor his
dogmatise-4a we have the King. We have with ue sae, who,
Wei the womb leteenehment, reheat, peace, was declared to be de-
▪ wof hey olljit: those whom be was about to take into . his
auidis, did net of 4,4 excitement,* and i• difibsence of °pintos,"
as cur pest Ina ilk t iiitlid the matter at once by a single word s
and here are we met, loyal atilirue ma, to give our burly sappers to
sad hie senesleirlast the force which will be seised to oppose
bilethireaderschdoes
and Mr=ltillips then . spoke with *eV weal
, and they was hawed by H&J. C. Dyer: he moved din amok-
deo favour of ballet, nod spoke olds panned knowledge of Ile hone.
rkia,prectice la the Untied looe, AA it was the sheet endow d'
diid.
and also of is effects in Fame, where it had ovestomed
Mr. Thomas Potter nee to woad the easeletha, ash leidlywed
to the limey of the ballet la the olineeellehe tit die eobilier, the
I Bunk et Regbarl, and ems wee over
male.
Mrooketh rem end adiciodiatimmittla at
. M length on
dopmwakenouthusrt 11l of the laltelelieedms .
_sodg referred to Liverpool
fluilesseso if am suraula. Mit OM aillielleg is the recent ovate at
Pamela and Wgrie, the lehallealsof Ala places bed dons them-
selves benear by thdr seadeetat the lie diodes&
111 r. Harvey dela us is make sow shonadien on do
d the vote by beast. The ballet Awed proteeden ter the=
doill veto mad would dummy the gems et haw, as the poem of.
Sig a bribe Nall have as malty for do Iwo. It wee selikthat the
lilt was an l=z= on the eseethedos. Se wash •mh whether
smorft sledge hi time of peace woe not an hoomMea„ ev whether the
whole hoes of *cam and pension= was not imensloomt with that
tonedendea ?
Hr. Dya that nee to offer an addellemal illesteetlea id the working
tithe billet, in the ems of Batch, is amodea. As that plea the de.
des always commenced at ten o'dse& is dm newpilag, and though there
wave ueuly 6,000 voters, it tenninsted Wee two In the afternoon of the
sense day.
Mr. Box ones thee bdelly sassed the seat resolution, which was,
that the resoled.= be adveribei he ea the Manchester papas.
A cry of " No Georifine wee limeiktely Mad, and some sheer.
nth= were node etswedieg doe amine of the editor of that paper.
Afar some delerimed ea esposeedation hem the Chairman, the modal
was Genial erldisat Alsatian.
The t?aLaseden (says the Mo.) in which these was any differ.
eased wee whither the raolusions of the meeting sid be hou
inserted the Gesidlon ssvapapor. The discussion was terminated
by. the erggesden Mot the Olimes and others near him, that it was
bowel thi dignity of a misting asesobled on a question as Impalas
as Rehm mama in that manner their matempt of a psalmists
Journal. Sir. John Edward Taylor did not present himself at the
meeting, and we venture to predict that he never will venture to wear
again before en open Need's of his Townsmen. We leave Mm to
his well-athed Unsure ;—to the self gratuladona, of the Rows
Miser—
Populus as sibilat, at mini plaudo
Ipee deal *eel ac moon matempler in arca.
The following were the ably draws aselatione :
It was moved by Mr. Diehard Potter, sumailed by Mr. Shutdcworth,
and unanimously Resiboi—That this deeply eemilale of the
urgent necessity whichaaseeximedfier ' taly Bohm, ie 6,4
theca to expras the km which ft hse received frau the declara-
tion of his Majesty's " , in withal mann ; a imam '
don which, in the opinion of this meeting, is felt by every individual in'
the nation, with the exeepthsa of these who boa an hem* in the con-
tinuum of a corrupt system of represented's.
It was moved by hit. R. H. Ones, seasseled by Mr. Horeurs, and
unanimously resolved,..—Thet while this seseting is willing to believe
that M =era. ministers Wad es repose an elletiat Adler,
In Parnmalat, ft dome it ue avow its delibome seaviedes
that as plan of reform will mislay the just empoldiens of the reirle.
of EN which does not laded. NA ea estrodoe. et die Alit.'
tieskamidie as shall reader the mambas of the NOM if .O.
Milli not wooly the nominal, bet the real satmatatives of die.
Isribwas sowed by Mr. Mark Phillip, weeded by Mr. Ak:,..-sUI
and mualstessly resolved, That it is alio the eptelso-of this •
that the dandle of panioneate ought tote shounted, m urn glee so
electors a frown mnity of confirming or altering their chokes'
repressatedm% NA* wan I. which dime repateatadas
may have MOW the dads' of their impeneat 'Set
It was moved by Mr. J. C. Dyer, seseeded by Mr. Thomas Pater
easelmondy vessived6—That it is the decided splice aftill unit.
dot for do purees et putting an end to the eirinefal muistiden
tier
is aleelhoely readied in the election of maiebers ef •
and of seendep o ewer osier the free and entdaieed wake kip
right of dial* it Is vaitesigitydeet the mode of election ihoold, in ale
=ibit. bybealel-..e uphill' Iliad Alit, In the' Albs of this
so eels can he emelliered Allah
A Peddea woe dim wievei•bp Mr, Whittle,
Kev. 111 r. Beard le imam •st the catatal awaits
Commission, aid which it itiry be regretted r -
memeety.
At a meeting of the 'Dada's Mina of Bekaa,
maim item resolved to afford the Adsten tappoileirguibity-
wee euring their present struggle for on advance's!
Atllltl7.p.—At Walton-on.the-11111 Mr.
to MO Jitflyi of Usesse,-esertl=, ea
idata hilt 1b0...41fr. heat/ ' " et "

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Ilive Bosh Vivid's',
v, Of 10118 tile 'l3-112

POLICE REPORTS.
Outtrowstu. —Four powerfiiiTedring young fellows, in the attire
of mikes, who gave their senses Willis. 8.41-4 Aka Mint John
slarkloy, and Menge Nemeses, were charged with deft& log the
waiter at the Commercial Dining.ments, Newpte-strest.
The complainant stated that the prisoners, after string their ate.
maths to the utmost, and running u a bill for eatables and drinkable,
to the amount of U. le. 10d. derL thee they bed not a "shot" left
amongst them.
Mr. Aldermen FAIEBILOTIIIIII asked what they had to say to this
Aerie
One of them replied bluntly that they were distressed and hungry,
and said that he had given the complainant seam that they had no mo.
my when their bill was only 6e. 2.
The ALDIMNAN asked if this was true 11
Complainant said it was. Ooe of them did say, on seeing the bill,
that they had no money, at which the ahem bunt into a loud laugh ; but
complaint observed to the 'posher that he must be funning, and the
rest laughed away and cried " Fill the pots again, my boy, and bring us
some more pudding."
The Aennamax thought be bad been too sedulous, and din.
charged them, on their promise to call and pay the complainant at the
earliest opportunity.
BOMMTRZICT.—Richard Moore Benson, who was charged on Mon-
day last with having pawned 102 volumes of law books, and other
, belonging to Mr. Seal, a barrister, from whom he rented a
set of bers, was re-ermined.
Mr. C. Phillips, who appeared for the accused, put several sneak's.
to Mr. Sarel, with a view to show that, Inasmuch as he had com-
menced proceedings against Mr. Benson, in the Court of Meg',
Bench, the prelim proceeding was not only annecessery, but unjust.
Sir R. Mainz stopped the learned 'gentlemen, observing that, if
there was any case, it must go before the City Magistrates. He die.
aimed the complaint.
Ilirtoir.a.mx.—Yeftesday Oeorge Henry, a retail beer-seller, was
summoned under a recent ea, for not exhibiting his name on a baud in
a conspicuous part of his premien.
almonds, the witness, stated that, on passing the defendant's house,
at 111111-pood-bridge, Bermondsey, he could not at first distinguish his
swig, and that it was placed la such a situation eider the porch of the
dgeo.wayeas to render it impossible for any person to see, unless be ex.
ambled minutely.
211 is Magistrate, on perusing the Act, found that the penalty was
10L wlllistst power of mitigation.
•The deho‘nt pleaded ignorance of the statute, and trusted the pe-
en* "said not be inflicted, which would swallow up all the peaks
ameba had derived in the business since be first embarked in it.
The Magistrate said that it would be an injustice to the licensed
vistnaller, who was subjected to heavy penalties himself for any breach
of the law, if eases such as the one in question were not dealt with
severely.
The defendant was then fined 101. and costs.
Tisanes Poxicz.—Yesterday, John Oliver, Wes. Bishop, and
Wes. Waling*, three seamen of the ship Juno, were charged with
plundering the cargo, consisting of Spanish wool Oliver and Bishop
were fined 40s. each, Wellings 20a.
QIISZN.IIQUARZ. —A young dandy, fashionably attired, omneirred.
Wholassigh, residing at Melina-place, Weitmhigegasead, was dinged
with 'Welly heseltiog the windows, Ike. at die humor Mr. Mihail,
taingesoist, Prbee's-place, near the Surrey Thestss.4=1that
elis defendant had rug up a scum of Is. at dig asp
fee apes, sad ease of his big Pekes& agar with.
out payinsmt, he to the essimilemers hem, leeks the ps
hag, seem windows, molfjars, and boxes, and ultimo* Mho tie
pais of the door.
The dedminnt, in aim to the said (in the meat elibeled
manes) that be had sad threogit miles, the at the =nasal be
was taking his wins, his "Ft elms back and mid him they meld
not sada cigar, width, p: be dewed sat inenient.
The ddririt was deed we for iriddi be wanted ibe gift
eamylainsat a bin et a month, t this was raked ; sod nit
big fathoming by three o'clock, he was handl:Ad id so=
to *km tar two mentim
A journeymen taw, whose &mei drrageelagg is 'list new patfew
worthy, charged Raba Marten, balked if the " Qty of Lendea,"
in Derwickarest, Soho, with sessuldeg him en Hardy min last.
The compliant stated that he went into the alhosees bow ea
the menting Awe mentioned, with attest lax a Militia pa ha; a
pay jawed hint sad induced him to drink till he beam Mai intim
Wed, NA his esimey, with the acorns it a eimenew, slued
and a few pease, had vanished. On whin the landlord
with the ekomestanee, he struck: trim on the eye, and pushed him
out of the home.

In eatuadicdon to the evidence of the complainaut, k was proved
that ha went into the house in the company of swiesal others, sod
during the time they were drinking several pots of ale, with a
tokrabk quantity of gin, one of the complalamit's friends
two of his fingers into the tallor's pociatt, and dent oat some
Oa Mates gains into the pealour, to infant the it as near
eleven eels*, alai time en ant up, the ens ieatt bosom I
violent, and Would Da have the *sacks bad_Wp ssiltsd.
WWI gm grisavoseed to rams urn whiti tie ampleinat
caught hold ofthe defendent'a &May aiding MM. fragments;
to prove 'Mai Mr. Moran brought it to the eiy lid bold it op kr
the impend= of the Magistrares‘ but h Inked era INV but Els a
ahOet. Stith treatment was not to he borne, and the armpit ezinallht
thee pm the taller " a gentle tap," and*mod him d ei
Ms. Causal said, that one tie dadan's "gentle taps* tree va.
dor bard, and that be aosiedid these was no ossmisek es ass emelt

fires to an intoxicated man.
" But look at my shirt." eadebetsd Marten, biding up the tote
linen, with a rueful eountenniest.
This appeared to YIN is desired Abet, the As vu ma im-
mediately iisesfesd. moth to the diumthiedew at is ampitheent.
A mug female, mimed /kip Cediment, was Amyl with Waling
a variety et widen.
nilt that the
giSir um ewpged milmlistesemidd in the
of J. Bug be Peek-plass,imdestrkiss being en.
tee that she had several trivial be boxes were
seembed, when swo pair of silk eves kbft seem sod other
think !slatting le her the anwreired: . Au WPM.* of
tonriss =maul Wis jime In tit a tlemsot
variety
ant;
of etbekharperty, _Mire to the Owes employee, were hued and
The pawner was committed fee trial.
a=, the informer, having obtained summonses against the irm of
end Hill. pawnhvelmos. of Oteeltainvet, SOWS fee neglecting
to ask the ineasary quids. Asa taking in pledges, on Tuesday the
pardes appeased.
• sees um peeved to the endellieden of the Magistrates, and the It.
fendmee lied In the noldpeut pewit* of Ms. and meta.
They thew per nods stepped to the Ilmehins.

We are informed that two men and their laves were ar-
rested in this town for a lawyer's bin on Thursday after-
noon ! This is anew reading of the law of arrest.—Leices-
ter Chronicle.

BIRTHS.
Sunday, at Brighton, the lady of Slr T. W. Blomefield, Bart, of a
still-born child—Tuesday, the lady of R. Bernal, Esq. M P. Park.
eriseent, o a sow

SMITHFIELD HAY.I.I SMUT—THIS DAY.
Come Hem Lowland Meadow Hay, As se. to Al 15 MINI
ditto, £3 Os. to 44 Os. Fine Upland Meadow end Rye Gran Hay.
A 4 Os to (4 Ss. Glover Hap. As Os. to AO a. Oat Maw.
tl itie to El tic Wheat Straw, .E 1 mu to Al Ns. pa bed or
, Mk trews.

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FAR RINGDOS MAR,llltrenstiVlßWWo
Prices per t to tip casestrage s
Busr—Ploest Boosting, BO to 714. Mid and 54 Bsjwl
quantity of nett, 6d Rump &ohs. Beef *gala, ad. Rump of
Beet. 644. "Nauss Pdijarosi—Les, 74 and lea, lAN dd.—
daddk. did. Shoulder, 94 .ilia dd. Maack id. sod Id. Neck.
aid. Breast, 44. Veaa—Les. lid to 9d Mkt, 10d sod Ild.
Lola; Ad. and Bid. Breast, 794.a0d Id. Medi, 74. filiouldet, Id sod
dab Pow Id and ad per 19.

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