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London, England, 1831-02-14 00:00:00

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His Majway's Stag Hounds meet on !Friday at Wezbam Heath.
Mr. Oaballaton's Hounds to morrow, at Kehnanh ; Friday, at
PYithley ; Saturday, at Swinford.
The Duke of Grafton's Hounds on Wednesday, at Punta Fields ;
Friday, at Stoke Plains.
Mr. Berkeley's Hounds to-morrow, at Hampton ; Thursday, at
Clapham Park ; Saturday, at Roston.
Mr. Drake's Hounds to-morrow at Warden Kennel; TuradaY, at
Horton Common; Saturday, at Hirdingten Round-about.
The Quota Hounds Wednesday, at Beekby Holt ; Thursday, at
Staunton Wyril ; Friday, at hintinw ; Saturday, at Drabs Wood.
Sir John Gerard's Hounds to-morrow, arlisil and Butcher; Thurs-
day, at Waverly Wood; Friday, at Delano* ; Saturday, at Coombe
Abbey.
Mr. Meynell's hounds to-morrow, at Blytbbury ; Thursday, at
Foot= ; Saturday, at Rolleston.
The Puckeridge hounds Wednesday, at Scales ; Saturday, at Aston
Bu.
Haryri Fitzwilliam's bounds Wednesday, at
The Brighton harriers Wednesdayostar iii=Couree ; Friday,
sear the Dyke.
Lad Petrea hennas Tturadny,-.1 the Dogma Partridge, t3tifferd ;
Saturday, at Stock.
The Brookside Harriers, Wednesday, at Asher:robe ; Friday, at
Tehoombe

4 Tye.
The Norfolk Foi Hounds, to.morrow, at Guist-bridge; Thursday,

at Lefton Hall ; Saturday, at Barwick House.
The Cambridgeshire Hounds, Friday, at Potton Wood.
The Worcestershire Hounds, Thursday, at Grafton-Mill; Saturday,
at Brantford Bridge.
Mr. Bulteel's Hounds meet tomorrow, at Fleet Western Lodge ; and
Friday, at Blatchford.
The Somerset Subscription Foxhounds meet to-morrow, at Slowly
Wood; and Friday, at Raleigh's Cross.
Sir R. Sutton's Hounds to-morrow, at Stapleford Moor; Thursday,
at Hackthorne House ; and Saturday, at Brant Broughton.
Lord l'athorough's Hounds Wednesday, at Klngsforth House;
Friday, at Ormsby Mill ; and Saturday, at baceby Cottager's Plitt.
Mr. Freeman's Hounds meet to-morrow, at the Tower on the Moor ;
Thursday, at Cheatham House; and Saturday, at Ruckland Gores.
The H. H. to.morrow at Bosworth ; Thursday, at Chawton House:
Saturday, at Candows Church.
The Hambledon Hounds meet tomorrow at Butser Hill ; Thursday
at Upbain Pond; Saturday, at Vine Inn, near Wickham.
The N. F. Hounds to-morrow at Hunters Inn; Thutsday, at Wind-
don ; Saturday, at Hale.

PORTSMOUTH, Pas. Is.
Prom the Hampshire Telegraph.

The Onyx, 10, Lieu. Dawson, sailed on Tuesday for Havre. to con-
vey further despatches to the Tyne, 28, apt. Hope, for Mr. Fox, our
Minister at Buenos Ayres.
His Majesty's ship Ariadne, 28, Captain Phillips, sailed from Ply-
mouth on Saturday, for Milford.
The Tweed, SS, Captain Lord J. S. Churchill, was paid off into or-
dinary on Wednesday. The °Seers and crew generously subscribed
141. lb. 9d. and Lord John Churchill made a donation of 51. to the Sc..
men's Hospital Ship.
His Majesty's ship Thetis sailed from Rio de Janeiro for Ragland,
on the Sld of Deomber. His Majesty's ship Chellettgo &seised at Bom-
bay, from Bushim, on the 23d Sept.
Ths Enterprise (steamer), Lynch, sailed from Bombay on the 21st
Sept. for IWadras and Calcutta.
His Majesty's ship Chanticleer arrived at Trinidad on the 29th of Oct.
from Para, and sailed on the 7th Dec. for Porto Cabello.
Arrived at Antigua, the 7th of December, his Majesty's ship Mer-
sey, from Barbados, and sailed on the 13th on a cruise.
Arrived on the 25th November, his Majesty's ship Hyacinth, from
Halifax. His Majesty's ship Kangaroo sailed on the 14th of Novem-
ber, from Berbice, for Barbadoes.
Arrived at the Cape, on the 90th November, his Majesty's ship
Badger, from the Illauritiol and en the *oth ult. the Kaias, transport
from Portsmouth.

His Majesty's ship Ranger arrived at St. Kitt's on the 97th Novem-
ber ; and the Champion on the 3d of December.
The Amity transport, Lieutenant Chapman, agent, was towed out of
harbour this afternoon; she is ordered to proceed with all possible dis-
patch to Plymouth, to take on baud part of the 87th Regiment for the
ilauritius. _ _ _

The Acteon, 21, Captain Hon. F. Grey, will be taken out of dock
on Monday.
On Monday arrived the Antelope cutter, from the eastward, with vo-
huiteer seamen; on Wednesday sailed the Linnet cutter, for Jersey.
On Thursday sailed the Antelope cutlet for the Downs, and yesterday
the Highdyer tender, for Newhaven.
The Leveret, tender to the Kent, is ordered to be transferred to
the Caledonia, 120, and will be commanded by Lieut. Mute, of the
latter ship.
At Spithead—Undaunted4 In Harbour—Undaunted, St. George,
Wellesley. Ganges, Asia, Belvidere, Sapphire, Actmon, North Star, and
Hermes steam-vessel.
On Monday, arrived the Duke of Sussex, Whitehead, from London,
for Bombay and Chins, and gone to Cowes. The Jane Catherine,
Loader, and the Dale Park, for Jamaica. Tuesday, arrived Flora,
transport, from Corfu, with a part of the 90th Regiment on board, and
the Sophia, for Jamaica. On Monday sailed the Bliss, convict ship,
for New South Wales ; and on Thursday, the Thalia. Biden, for Ma-
dras' and Calcutta, and the Surrey, Dace, for Van Dieman's Land and
Sydney.
The Brailsford, Cleverly, which arrived at Plymouth on Mon-
day from Sierra Leone, lost dx men while there, and left one man In
the hospital. During the loading of this ship, a native of Sierra
Leone was employed to load timber, when in the act of attaching a
Tope round a log of wood, he was seized by the arm by a shark ; he
with great difficulty extracted it, bat stripped of its flesh. The poor
fellow immediately stood upon the kg of wood sod exclaimed," Here,
mama, see what he do." Through lon of blood, the man died the
same night.
PROMOTIONS AND APTOINTMINTS.—Mr. P. Blackwood (lately
returned from New South Wales) has been confirmed in his rank as
Lieutenant of the Success. The following gentlemen have been pro-
, mated to the rank of Purser—Messrs. Robert Barrow, Wm. Hood,
James Chemen, Francis May, Wm. Finllayson, R. Singer, Silas Suntan,
I Henry Price, James Newnham, James Pinhorn. Commodore Usher,
C.B. is appointed Commissioner of Bermuda Dockyard; and Captain
Ascough, Commissioner at Jamaica, Commander Thos. Ganwey to
the Ordinary at Chatham, vice Gregory, whom three years have ex-
pired. Lieut. James Harvey to the African steam vessel. Mr.
Master, Rev. B. Winder, Chaplain, and Mr. J. Anderson (b),
Surgeon, to the Asia.
The long miming pocket, Lady Mary Penmen, with a mail from
the Leeward Islands, has arrived. The dates from St. Thomas only
come down to the 20th December.

SURRENDER OF MR. ST. JOHN LONG.
' Mr. Wontner, the governor of Newgate. on Saturday waited tic
the hlagtstrates at Bow-street, and stated that 31r. St. John bong
that morning surrendered, to take his trial at the ensuing Old Bailey
Sessions, which will commence on Thursday next. Stevens, the offi-
cer, held the Coroner's warrant for manslaughter against him, and
thought himself on the point of taking him a few days since, having
traced him to a house near the Regent'spark. The warrant was given
• up to Mr. Wontner, as an authority for the pigmies detention.
Mr. St. John Long has been a good dad looked after, and some of
the officals have been equally astonished and chagrined at the manner in
which they foubd themselves baffled. On one occasion they felt abut-
. lutely certain that the prise was theirs. To enter the house with all
possible dispatch, that no accident might occur, was the object. From
this they wore resolved that no stratagem should deter them. and they
ace edit gly made their way, to the interior. The result need net be
stated. In their eagerness to enter the house they omitted to look into
the carriage, which planed through the midst of them, and in which the
Intended prisoner was seated.
On Saturday afternoon Mr. St. John Long was brought before
Mr. Alderman Farebrother, at Geildhall, by Mr. Wanner. The pri-•
sonet had surrendered to the governor of Renate, but he not barn
power to detain him without a eotnmitment, be was brought before a
ile4stsate.
Akimmaq Farebrother said. be supposed the object of the defendant
in sunendering thus early was that there might be no retest for post.
posing his trial at the next sessions.
Mr. St. John Long admitted that ft was so; and Mr. Gibbons re-
marked that the solicitor on the other style had notice of the surrender,
and bad no intention to ask an adjournment.
Mr. Alderman Farebrother then signed tit" comntitment, Ind the pri-
soner was conveyed back to Newgate in his own carriage.

MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 14, 1831.

PARLIAMENTARY REFORWIL

MR BAILEY'S LRTTRR TO LORD GREY.
We have been led by the knowledge which we
acquired, of Mr BAILEY'S talents in our late notice of
hi admirable discourse on REVOLUTIONS, to procure ft
threepenny tract advertised in our columns, which he has
just addressed to EARL GREY on PARLIAMINTART RE-
FOISM. We lament that we are not justified in laying the
entire work before our readers, but we have selected a series
of passages in consecutive reasoning, which we are per-
suaded will highly gratify all who peruse them. and while
they raise the author in public estimation to the first rank
of political writing, they will place the great question of
PAILIAMENTAIIT REFORM in its proper light before the
nation :
MY LORO,---" I am the decided advocate of Par-1
liammstary Reform ! cf such a Reform_ie, AMU
give to die PopulaCy of the United Kingdoms their
due influence in the Commons' House, their just
share in the making of those laws by which they
are to be governed :—their necessary control over the
expenditure of those pecuniary aids which it is demanded
that their talents and industry shall furnish ; and the full
weight of their voice and character in devising and executing
those plans of national policy of which they must become in
their persona and property the honourable agents, or the
shameful victims.

" Whilst, however, I know, my Lord ! that such a Re-
form in our Representative System as shall secure the above
results is a measure most necessary ; I feel that its accom-
plishment is a task most arduous to perform.
" Your task, believe me, my lord ! is not merely the trans-
fer of the right of suffrage from a larger or smaller number
of rotten boroughs, as they are technically called, to an equal
number of large towns ; it is not merely the question of com-
pensation with the proprietors of these disenfranchised bo-
roughs for the privilege which they. bees paid a valuable
consideration to exercise, under the guaranty of ancient and
universally recognised charters,—it is not merely the diffi-
culty of reconciling a deliberate violation of the rights of in-
disiduals with the profession of extraordinary regard for the
'principles of justice; though these things in themselvei,
morally and socially considered, present subjects of no ordi-'
nasty magnitude to grapple with. Your task, my lord ! in its
11111011dal duties, comprehends infinitely more than these ar-
rrigteetants, infinitely more than any poturds, shillings, and
plan lerangements ewer cattevinftaitely mom than the
legal adjustment of any individat is with .the claims of
the public ever did.
" Parliamentary Reform, my 'loid ! does not weenie the
present day what it meant in 1789,•n0r yet, subtly, eitarit
meant in 1793, the period of your ham* Reform' mode,.
At the earlier period, it might be said to be the moms
more enlightened portion of the aristocracy and men orpt
party and influence in the country, and was designed, prin-
cipally, to check the supposed growing influence of the
Crown. Reform is now the people's measure—the vehement
cry of the almost united popalacy of the empire-- and its pro-
minent and avowed object, the extermination of that domi-
nant influence in our national affairs, which the Order' to
which your lordship belongs, and to which it is ' notorious
as the sun at noon-day,' you pride yourself in belonging, has,
I was going to say, long fatally, but, I will venture to assert,
mischievously and unconstitutionally exercised.
" Hence, my lord I arises the difficulty of your situation and
that of the superlatively aristocratical ministry of which you
are premier : and hence the arduous nature of the duty you
have to perform ; requiring a degree of disinterestedness, an
extent of deliberate energy, and a fervour of patriotic devoted-
ness, seldom, if ever, required in a statesman ! The present
Lord Chancellor, whilst plain Mr. Brougham, in the House
of Commons, would have managed this question well, at
least in debate, as likewise would your Lordship in the upper
House ; but, I own I tremble for both your characters whilst
contemplating parliamentary reform as your great Cabinet
question. The ancient law of ,Engleni, I submit, never pre-
sumed to define the princkle of representation, never under-
took to fix a basis of national suffrage. Our Magna Charts,
Bill of Rights, and Act of Settlement, the ostensible triple
defence of our constitutional liberties, are singularly reserved
or vague upon this sukject : nor can the statute of Edward
the First, nor that of Edward the Third, be considered as at
all more satisfactory on this important subject, inasmuch, as
whilst providing that the subject shall not be compelled to
contribute to any tax, tallage, aid, or other like charge, not
set by common consent in Parliament,' they omit entirely to
fix any principle of representation, or lay down any basis of
national suffrage by which that common consent' shall be
really obtained.
" Hence, the thousand varied forms under which the elec-
tive franchise is at present exercised in this country, and
which perplex and bewilder every inquirer into the right of
voting, as enjoyed by our cities and boroughs.
" Does your lordship, in your intended measure of parlia-
mentary reform, purpose to perpetuate the absurd distinctions
which now prevail in different places, between burgage-hold
and frsehold—between scot and lot, pot-wallopers, populacy,
resident inhabitants and inhabitants at large,between borough-
men, free-men, port-men, select-men, burgesses, and council-
men ; I would say, can you, if entering at all upon the
question of Parliamentary Reform, think to perpetuate these
prescriptive distinctions among the Electors, which serve to
separate them in small detached bodies from each other, and
the whole from the great masa of the wealth and intelligence
of the country.
" Depend upon it, my Lord ! if you make the attempt you
will soon find yourself involved in the meshes of inextrica-
ble difficulty. With such a Representative System as ours,
no other country than England could have preserved a trace
of constitutional liberty. All popular rights, all liberal in-
stitations, would have been, for many years pest, utterly
obliterated : and a capricious oligarchy, wielding the Sceptre
which it had wrung from the hands of a fetes/taint:inanity,
would have been audaciously seated in the higk-place of
power, trampling with remorseless contempt, alike on the
natural rights, and the chartered liberties, of an insulted,
and suffering people.
4' Why has not such a state befallen us? Has not our le-
gislative body become corrupt, tom degree exceeding, in all
probability, the utmost conception of the acute mind which
vebtured upon the above ptbdiction! why pen, instead or
ouging into this wretched and Aiwa conthaen, has Ellll4'
land not only been enabled to preserve her station as a free
State, but to lift her head high over alt the
the ' watch-tower and the bulwark of the liberties of the
world ? Simply, my Lord ! because of the mighty moral

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