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London, England, 1831-09-12 00:00:00

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PANORAMA OF THE BRITISH

EMPIRE.

IVAKEPHILD JOVIZIVAL, &IA 11.

WAKIITIALDrYaIterdAy filornin3, the on la
Ismour of the corm:Woo of their Majestks, was formed at
the bottom of Westgate, and prneeell.ed at ten o'clock op
Westgate, through Silver-street, Woon-street, St. John's,
down Nurtitgate, to the parish thumb, (where an eloquent
armor was preached by the Rev. Thomas Kilby) in the fol-1
lowin:t order :—An officer of the Yeomanry Cavalry on
horseback, the Mator Bailiff, Mr. Joseph Howgate, or
horseback, and to Clem :he highest degree of credit Is doe,
not only for his superintendence of the iota:cotton i telt, ha
also for his indefatigable exertions. makini the otliasinary
arr.mgements ; firemen ; the band of the Yeomanry Ca-
valry, with such of the truly loyal numbers of the corps
171,0 resile in Wakefield, su.l rare not absent ;row terse;
embers of " the society of the tom and sect ptu' =swat"
.he town flag, std Land of musk; finmen ; Mr. Elie, Mr.
flantlerlnnd, stn. arl Mr. Sunderland, jun. &platy consta-
bles—Mr. Gooney, the constable, did no; jolts the proces-
sion, for reasons better known to himself than ourselves ;
then followed the Rev. Messrs. Thomas Rilhy, J. Tritoty-
man, T. Juhastone, J. D. Lorraine, IL Cope, LLD. and
J. 1.1. Morris, ands few of the gentry and tradesmen, and
other inhabitants of the town and villages at Etanley, and
Alverthorpe. -
InALOYALTY AT HALITAT..--oil T 110027, a requisi.
don was presented to lir. Bernard Bartley, one of tl.e con.
stalls of Halifax, to appoint I* public meeting, to .;.I.e into
consideration the best means of celebrating the cororation.l
The coustsl,L .111pliscl pith the request, but added, is N.
individual rpluloo Is, shit i is ,ruw ft, tats to give du:
feet to :be object you bare in view.. I must beg leave to
star the, it is not uty in/as/hes to attend .he said weeny."
A correspoodent informs u', and he is borne out In his a:-
settion by thz Leeds paper of yestenloy, the, no one attend.
ed the meeting ; the etertT, retry. bunkers, taerchatde,
and principal featelfaeferers, al! stood dog,: Biycrat
tad.w..en' however, ~rend, to did: credit, subscribed arm-.
of money for site purpose of giving about 150 old people.
above slaty, a „out; substantial dinner at the Uinta.
in honour of the day. %That pitiful thine it I. to -en .11:1
" clergy, gentry, bankers, merchaits, nod priecipal mato-
fungal'," as in :his in:lance. setting a' clavicle 0;114k/-
city to the rising seneraihm ! An.i t: *re ar, tie men woo
complain of the outbreakings of the lower or.lers, tr-o glory
in special coninticAuto. in th? SOUti.b 11 th^
and plum in el.e re' ,4 perforn.ed " 1711;1 We
the bayonet, and the 'ti Abet." flail this been a day ...
celebrate 1.10 Loroustion of any one Iva Om r re- I
former, less t'lar a good hus. an:, less thin a Inter
of his cottons end his sivci.s, what a muter of Inc
piety of III: tow.. of Halifax there wonhl h-ve been ! a.. 1
would haw.: f.e: II bor. • in countenance by 'hose of " goodly
heritre," holdes. to butte ! with heads as figh as if
the world b:10u,,,;..1 .0 them. Is s yeomanry e2rpe to le
raised, to cu. mad slas'..nen's notes and wooten's breasts ?
(es was the et,: Ir 1C19,) then thLre is no keeping al.iof of
,be pen; le of Mammon thy run hcltcr.!kclter, us, 1. ur
notbln:T. file ;tour, however, will have their tuna uf good
thincm in the to come, it Is to be l'opal, of ve•lch the Re-
form B II is but the for:gunner.

Homer; Rev.—Yew Hay, at Holinfirth, a pnweglon
WA place l n ',amour of the occaslun, consisting of the prin-
cipal grulemen, tradesmen, ikc. on borscb••ck, wearing hlee
met white favours, together with th: various lodges a •u
whet socktin, with banners, music, &e.
Pit Z. 11 Lank a lON OF LEND ;.—Ar. Maeauley, r.s we'
last weel anticipa ed, has sonseoted to become a candidate
with Mo. Mar.h .11, for the represeouati ar of Leeds. Mr.
lianuley is ar advocate for TOTING IT aat.t.o•r. and as
I such, if for no other reason, h: is worthy to be (*tied.
fb: °nig objectimn thich could have been raised against
Mr. Baines is the opposition which M.ght be expected at
his hands .o the question of baUe. it. a reformed Par-
liament. The Leeds InZeili...enees says that " Mr. Sadl.r
wU be called out under the au-pices of the hue party it due
season." Mr. tladier is a humane man, andoubtadly. and
has rendered himself deservedly popols. (as we ohs( reed
last week) l•y Mi speetb en Monday week ; but the bon.
gentleman must :alp^ a miyhty stride to orertoLe the carrels'
opinions of Pie :majority of the voters of Leeds kftwe he
aspires t•. toe their representaave. Mr. Sadie: is one of
the best men of his patty ; yet be has a good deal of the
old leaven remaining.
The following requisition to Lord Morpeth, Is lying at'
the Journal-office, for the signet re* of Freeholders
We. the rnderalgoed Clergy, Gentry, Freeholders,
and others who will be entitled to votes in the West
Riding of Yorkshire, under the provisions of the Re-
form Bill, deeply impressed with a sense of your Lord.
ship's distinguished talents, intellectual attainments,
and private virtues; your ready, active, and perse.
vering seal in die discharge of your Parliamentary
/furies, stool yoer tried attachment to .i.e free principles tot
the British enn•.itution, which emibettly qualify you to
advance the intereats and protect the rights and liberties of
the community, do hereby req..est diet you till be please;
to eauctio.l with your early approbation and accepumee, our
wish to nominate and retina jean as ode of the Represcotta-
awes of the West ltitliug of the County of Yot!:, whenever u
new Parliament shall be mammal's] under any law t.•hleh
may give to the Freeholders of each Ridinj it this County
the right of sent'ting separate Representatives to Parliament,
and we pledge ourselves individually and colleedvely to gin
you our support, and to use our best exertions to promote
►our return on that occasion, free from all expenses, except
those to which the law may then render your Lordship
liable as a candidate.

enuacm Raronts...-It is conAdently asserted, that Earl
Grey is con.ulting with the Episcopal &melt' for the pur-
pose or curtailing the immense revenges of some of the
bishoprics. In future, the income of a bishop Is not to ex.
tied 6,0001. a year; the sgsplus u his revenues is to p .o
a fund in aid of .Ite building and repairing elterel.es and
chapels.
DEW/BURIN—The morning was ushered in with the
ringing of the church bells, the shops were generally shut
up, and divine service was akbrated at the parish church.
A party, consisting of most of the principal inhabhants of the
towns atlerwards partook of an excellent dinner at the Man
and ;addle Inn.

MIADFOUD.—The Sunday School Jubilee was celebrated
in the town and vicinity to the dumber of 400 or 500, who
walked Li procession to their carious chapels and schools,
where they were regaled with suitable refre-haunt ; and in
the afternoon, the teachers and friends of the hadtutit.a took
tea In the large room hi Darley4treet.
Hurrah. asrts.. ~u.—Tue day vr..s celebrated with some
s:.liit, soda the mausgensenc of a Cominhtee. The bud-
sees commenced di the parish church, at balf-pari tenn when
the cathedral service was perfo.med and the coronation an.
them sung by a full choir ; on which occasion a sermon
was preached by the Bev. J. C. F. sake, A.M. Vicar.
After the service a procesgon was formed in lt shucks.
street, consisting of gentlemen on horseback, the conalable
and his deputy, Inaglstrates, the vicar, clergy, church.
wardens, erasers, gentlemen four abreast, carriages, spe-
cial constables mounted, all the various trades with their
insignia, &e.
Benesz.ev.--A dinner for two thousand workmen, on
the Market Hal, ten and sugar for dire. thousand women.
and buns and sweetened ale for one thousand seven hunched
and fifty Sunday school children, were given yaterJay by
subscription of .he inhabitant of Barnsley.
Vortra—Vt sterday, all the children or the Churet and
Wesleyan Sunday schools had s Coronatiun Medal given 1.,
them, ant, in t'..e afternoon they walked in proces.loa thrork•l-
-the principal streets of the city; after which they pans k
refreshments. After the procession, a large party of .he
Meade of the schools partook of tea, to the Wsaley-plaer
school-room. There was aka a public dinner at Hui ge's
Hotel, and a splendid ball in .he evening. The Lord Mayor
and must of the Aldermen being absent from York, pre-
vented anything being done by the Corporation ass public
body on this occasion.
CHARGS op RATE.—At the Bury Petty Sessions, on
Saturday, before Major Wadkin and William Grant, Beg
Joseph Longworth, a laLuurer on the Bolton canal bank,
was charged with committing a rape upon Susannah Booth,
a reepectahle looking woman residing at Prestolee, near Rad-
'el ffe. It appeared that on Monday week the Prisoner had
been at Bury, which place he left, in a state of intoxication,
about eight o'clock is the evening, to proceed to his own
house, near Radcliffe. He overtook the complainant on the
banks of .he Bolton canal, near to Radcliffe, and lie in.
stantly seized her and forced her over the hedge. Here site
straggled until her strength was exhausted, when the pd.
goner effected Ms Wee purposes.
A fever Is prevalent in the neighboorhood of Lbeoln,
which, in effect le very alarming. At Brewton, Norton,
and Dunstan, several persons have dßtl two days after the
first symptoms appeared.—Sfusford New.
DI RD—At Leathley, 07, William Mildierp, Req.-70,
Mr. Pewson, of Parsley, rnerchant-28, Mary, the eldest
daughter of Mr. T. Sutcliffe, of Woodhouse, near Halifax.

FELIX PARLEY'S BRISTOL JOURNAL, &pl. 10.
Alallll,D AT Baru.--Lord Sidutouth, Hon. It. Browne,
Sir H. steaebey ; Cols. Sherwood, Christie • Capt. and !dn.
pal, Porta, Newport; Caput. Caner, Dunn, Gregory,
Wfison. Coe ;
Coffin, Stevenson and family, Haynes
Lieut. and Mrs. !Lydon; Rev. Messrs. li. Browne, Eng.
Bah, Lee, Ireland, loyers, Oliver; Drs. Gardiner, Wll.
linos; Mr. and Mrs. Ogibane, Cousins, Fletcher, Gerard,
Goldsmid and family, Symes and family, Mask, Smith and
' family.
Henry Selwyn, Esq. of Chr,reli-street, Bailiwick, and his
wife, were among the passengers lost on board the Ilothsey
Castle steamer on the night of the 17th ult.
A destructive lire broke out on Sunday evening, the 28.5
ult. at the Down fano of Mr. Jesse Rumbold, ef Broad
Chalk, near Salisbury. citieii destroyed 200 sacks of r heat.
800 quarters of oats, and 50 sacks of rye. Mr. littuibold
had ft in contemplation in erect a thrashbvmachine un hi.
premises; and this calamity is s• pposl .o have been tb.
work of an incendiary. who took this diabolical inchod o.
giving vent to his vindictive feeling..
tioDsuav Scouoz..—l" th. Court of Chancery, on Titan.
day, kid anent was gIICD in the matter of Sudbury &'•ettl.
Thn questio,. was, whether the Master's Report shonl,l el
ghoul.: nut be cm timed, rppointint. the palmy of 11.: school-
mast_r to be 1001. :! veer. Originally, the mon-y-partnent
vies ordszed to be 201. ay. 17 a decree of die COIIIIII3.
stoners of Charitable Uses, 'wide in be ciao of Charles
the Flirt. Tile landed property had, of am:, sit•ce that
time, much increased it' vain; :mil It was rJcrrcd to th:
Muster to ascertain in what equal 1 roportior .lie 201. money.
payment ought to he inerem.ed. The n p.m was, that it
ought nor/ ,o be Or. times the, amount.
JAMIE 3 ESQ..—ii'S are Itappy.'m someone
dud a very splendid tribute hiss beets paid to the merits t f
this eioint aishen writer, for ills able, consist, it, yr lung,
continues' advocacy of the rigNs of the eamists, tit: in.
habitants of the imbed of St. Elisabeth, Jamaica. L consists
a magnificent and massive Epergne, die slew and btu.
branches of blisted carkownahip, of ie most delleatJ and
Tic Coronation festival at Bath, ou Thursday, was of
the most iinon.in;etitneription, and at take.. th? illum;nutioo
was Ac Proem Pons 4 to 6,000 persons were sop-
plied with bread and beef.

- An accl.l:et et' a peculiarly eistreulrg character oars.
red at Wen :men wenateerie, exhibiting ht d.: fair. ail
Wednesday • ming. A man rho was cinploy..d in clam.'
kg the ca,ge bt whk:s the liken W;.llac: Is confined, 1,11.1
I.rtidenely patted him at the i:ead several times, which 0 •
animal apparel to take in good part, and In moon I
licked t: Ita.nl that carom' him. A: length .:.e dos
'adds' ly aweit it: men's in his tctb, aid In his
ottensp,ing to widtalraw it, o.e flesh an) mucks was
dre.:dfully lacerated; and ere ha could extricate i• the
animal actually bit off and swallowed the unfortunate
keeper's hand !

lI.FORD PATI' v SESSIONS.
On Saturday a Petty Sessions via hoiden at the Angel
Inn, Ilford, before the Rev. Hall Duve, u t:lialrm..n, and
a full bench of Magistrates, principally for the purpose of
renewing the licences of the different Licensed Vli.wallen
In the district.

The licences, with one single excel don, and without a
%Ingle complaint against their holders, were renewed.
Mr. Briet presented a petition to the bench, praying
that he might be granted Deena tot a house and premises
which he had fitted op t Word.
Mr. Wiboi, the 121.dlottl of the lime and aown, pre.
settled n petido •en I.thalf him..it .:d h I tut rights .
the houses at pres.nt Her sed In rill, e, ward I.
.7.0 thig ate: fiat e? • •1i wl.kl. it was •ct ii•at .here
were already twenty liceined public-lunacy, and twenty.
%even h.er-shsys ..,e j arisl. ; Nor of r Welt lieei.4:4l
..uuscp, t'ire• b•a-ahops, ea; r lier wed n tail 1 rewcry. were
&intact! in Cr:a. ; and that those afiladed amble ae.
eour•italatioe .or the i..l..thitants.

A second pcdtbon aainst the licence bele; grautcd wasl
i,irsoned by J. T;...0.p50n, Esq. tiltich was 'Weal by al
another t f the moss wealthy, isluential, and respectable in.
halli ts of the vicio.ity, 0i.,1 stated that the Hawed ho•uscs
J; present doer., were. quite snakient to affot,l the necessary
accontutodatim, to the inlosbita,os no
The Magistrate, Cr conoooltaic,o,r:-ased the in..
Plicalions am Cid thoy shop a seco..cl one ro:a a I. MOD name
I.iufield, at IValthanistow ; and a third frout Ale. White.
t'ot, teeper of • betr.sloop a. Barkin.
Four proprietnis of .oeer.shops acre ruled in mitigated
penalties, rot keeping ,h. it house- open beyor•J 'be peeper
tint*, and connuittinig other acts contrary to law.
rd LICE REFORTN.

MANSION HOUSE.
raKIERVATION or UWE BY • RAFT.-00e of the
principal officers connected with the T. tunes Naviyation,
applied to the Lord Mayor on Satohlay fo• permi,simi (or
two gentlemen, who have constructer' s • life-raft,' to make
experiments in various parts of the lisaloes of the wonder-
ful properties of the mathine. He bad heard front several
witnesses thet the efficiency of the presener had been proved
he mains and tempests upon most dangerous and rocky
shorts, in situations where a life-boat el any desairtion
would have faded, or been incvl.ably dashed to pleas. Per.
sons in vessels wrecked are by the Inveetiou enahled to
form in a few minutes, out of statcriale always at ;sand in
ectsels of every description. a speedy tell pcfecly safe
means of reaching the adjoining 1.:10Ct. The lose of t: :1
Rothsay Cook it seems has revived the maims of mecl.a-
uical genius, and innumerable projects have ball lately
formal to prevent fatal occurrences of the kind. 'fly: raft.
however, now proposed to be tried is ow: wide, was ziteeti.
matted in the year 1830 on the met of Frazee cud Je.sty,
and several have borne testionoey to tite mining success 1
of the experiments. Otte of the Monona* s atcd was, whm 1
one or Mc inventors bested himself, the wire' blowir., a 'tut.
rinse, oo the raft, and, casting o(' t',.e towrope, abut.
(*toned hbasell to the fury of the storm, by laic:* he was
.:riveu towartls the t.angerous reeks of La Colac ; his stirs
fatal saws his breast, and, reclining backwr ds, be seem.
ed as much at ease, and in as rem ~ degree ro amity, as
if he were reposing upon a sofa; while the raft colt inu-d
to drive amongst the rocks, against the points ..f which it
was dashed repeatedly, until at length ^ hew vdoos hr:aki r
threw it upon the shore. At the close or this espertmet the
proczaled to Harr. de Pas, and there let off s.veral rockets
with a wed fastened to each. thu s shoals; a elm ri. and c mitt
method of ennveying a Iles from the short to snuck I. J irtre-s.
The LOUD Mason .all that at a period like he ;teem' it
would be moss Uesiraille to have a life-preierva sue . es tbs.
finalised. He considered it to be his duty to Tablet all the
assistance he could upon an oecasin of the kind, .oad he
had no doubt that the public would be seue4 gradii, d.
The rail is, it seems, to go dew,: the river incest Putnry
Bridge, Biel, at a time when the water to ottoet Impetuous a.
Old London Bridge, the inventors will la It dash against
the abutments and upset, on beitog plor.l:ed with violence
by the rusbiog water over tenon exteneed sans the •oil
langerous of the arches. The publk will 'aavo an.oppor-
tunity of seeing the experiments for a week or r. tom. Igen out
the Thames, after which the rats will be tried 0.. me most
rocky parts of the coast.
A wan who said his name was Jobs Thowspeon was
brought before the LORD Diavon. charged with Navin.; tic-
hat tal Messrs. Fenn and Browne, tea seal es, Cleolotte.
row, Maneion.lionse, in a manner which Los of Lite ikaane
I, very common. Mr. Browne stated mat the primmn called
' at the shop, told 'oho that he transacted began% e'vr Mr.
Aousmal, a resptc.o'de rat:seceder, en I telieited to ha al-
lowed to dispuee of Mei. hrime.: lists of prices to the ban
advantate: fo. them by wrapping them up in the newspepess
sal by hi, employer, who gave lobo permission to use the.
privilege. Ile stated Cud I.e woe Id cloatrifes. a do nand for
Jiving that sort of advertieemeot to the articles fur sale.—
Witness =sated to employ aim, an; gays him a thousand
lists of prices, toge.hco with lis far his trouble, However,
he caused inquiry to be rustle at Mr. Boustead's ham,
where he Inroad that: the prisnotr was not known there,
and that no person tau autitorised to wrap up lists in
tee way described. On Wejnesday last the prisoner called
a second time, and asked for setae lists, etatin. at the
same moment ei.at be 'SJ done ids duty with the last thou.
sand. The witness inno.:•liately caused him to be apprehended.
—The LORD Mason Laid there was Dever a titne a. which
it was more necessary for people to look sharply about them.
Thera were swindlers bight and day at work in the City, :
and regular plans roe concocted for committing frauds two 1
robberies.—Mr. Browne, the Marshal, said, there was a be-
lkf abroad, that the swindlers gave premiums to those who
bit upon the most eligible new expedient foe densoding.
Certain it was, that the shopkeepers were hourly exposed to
the most ingenious Inansatitrell.—The prosecutors ex
yrest unwillingness to prosecue unfortunate wife
bur children of the prisoner apmkikto theist mare
la a way that could not be sr said he
sever bad committed as since before, mere: distressed
wadi** et his poor family eon him to the hated.—The
Loan Illovot said be believed that the practice of de.
heeding wad er swab circumstances was very general t
but be was satisfied with giving a !grimed ea the
csteiLtt occasion, as the prisoner bad been two days con.