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London, England, 1831-02-28 00:00:00

PANORAMA OF THE BRITISH

EMPIRE.

LITCHFIELD MERCURY, FEB. 25.

At our Public-office, Birmingham, on Monday week, a warrant was
granted against Joseph Allday, of Highgate, as the editor and pro.
prietor of the Argue, for a libel upon Mr. George Edmonds, and be
was held to bail to appear at the ensuing sessions to answer the
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himself in 501. and two sureties of 251. each. On the suceseding
this proceeding was followed by another Chidlow, the avowed
printer and publisher. It being ascertained that the presses and mate-
rials used in printing the publication in question were not duly kr I
tered with the clerk of the peace, the warrant was obtained of I
the magistrates, and on Wednesday the whole of the stock was seized
and conveyed to the Public-office. The capture includes part of the in-
tended number for March, already printed, and some portion of the
manuscript. A general exposure of the contributors is looked for as
the result.—Aris's Gaulle.

Three mechanics of Willenhall were committed, last Wednesday, to',
take their trial at the ensuing Sessions, for entering the workshop of
Mr. Eggington, of Wolverhampton, and destroying his bellows, &c.
bemuse he does not conform to the rules of some club, which requires
the manufacturers of this neighbourhood to close their shops two days
in every week. This sys,em of " dragging," as it is called, is so much
on the increase as to require prompt suppression.
LICIIVIELA—Nine gallons to the Bushel Wheat, new, lie. to
us. 3d; Barley, bs. 6d to Ss ; Oats, 31. 6d. to 4s ; Cheese, 411 s. to
86s. Blab, Imperial Measure, 10s. Flour, fine, per sack of lantone
fa; Beef, sd. to fled ; Mutton, 811. to 64d; Veal, sd. to 6i; Pork, Bel.
MARRIED.—M Walsall, Mr. S. Hudson, to Eliza Weaver,
daughter of the late Mr. F. Weaver, surgeon.-11r. & Green, book-
seller, Atherstone, to Barbara, daughter of Mr. Walter Bond, of Far.
ley.—The Hey. John Hudson, of Springfield House, to Mary, only
daughter of the late George Si eater, Req. of WestbrOmwich.
DlED.—Aged 84, William Adams, Fag. of Cobridge, one of the
earliest introducers of blue painting in earthenware.-31r. Hunt, of the
Cross Keys, Oswestry.
BRIGHTON HERALD, Fza. 26.
Arrivals at the Albion Hotel, Berl de la Warr, Major Baulett, Mr.
Brisco, Mr. Csaalet, Mr. Crawford, Col Woodford, Mr. Campbell,
Rev. R. Bradley, Mr. and Mrs. niFnell, &e. The Prince Lieven
has left for town.

AARIVALS AT THZ ROYAL SZA Boulez HOTEL.—Mr. Stevenson
and Son, Mr. Wright, Mr. Newberry, Mr. Brockwell, Mr. Morley,
Mr. Foulger, Mr. Gibson, Mr. Mrs. and Miss Harris, Mr. Bartleu, &c.
The Commissioners of the Tresuury hare transmitted to the Board
of Customs, and the Collectors at the Out-Posts, a copy of the Resolu-
tions of the House of Commons, upon which a Bill is now in progress
through Parliament, for repealing the duties on coals and slates, carried
coastwise.

lit, That all duties and drawbacks of Customs, payable on coals,
culm, or cinders, and on slates, brought or sent from one pan of the
United Kingdom to another part thereof, do cease and determine.
2nd, That, in lieu of the duties of Customs now payable upon the
exportation of coals, culm, and cinders, there be paid the several du-
ties of Customs hereinafter set forth, that is to say :
Coals, culm, and cinders, usually sold by measure viz.
Exported to any British possession, the chaldron imperial
measurer .. ... ... ... ... .10 1 0
Exported to any other place, viz.—in a British ship, the dial.
don imperial measure .. .. ... ... 0 8 0
In a forei,:alsh,ip, ditto ... ... ... ... 018 3
clam, and cinders, usually sold by weight, viz.
Exported to any British possession, the ton ... ... 0 0 8
Ditto to any other place, viz. in a British ship, the ton ... 0 3 4
In a foreign ship, the ton ... ... ... .. 012 2
The removal of the assizes from Horsham to Lewes has been effected
by certain persons in power, in consequence of the refusal of the inha-
bitants to be sworn in special constables.
Thursday, Henry Mason and Mary Ann illoyce were married, by
license, at our parish church. The young woman had been recently
brought home to Brighton, her parish, from Cuckfielcl, under the has-
-1 tardy laws, since which she has been an inmate of the workhouse ; and
Mason, the father of her illegitimate child, was apprehended by a war-
rant at Cuckfield ; and being brought to Brighton, was confined in our
Black-hole, Inconsequence of his inability to pay the expencn.
A letter has appeared in the ' World' newspaper, from which it
seems that the Rev. James Sherman, an eminent dissenting minister,
and pastor of Castle-street Chapel, Reading, has, without the privity
of his deacons or congregation, solicited the Bishop of the diocese to
consecrate his chapel, and ordain him (Mr. 8.) a clergyman of the
established church.

On Sunday morning last, several anonymous letters wereied up
at and near Eastbourne, addressed to farmers in the neighbourhood, and
couched in rather threatening terms.
Three men have been committed to Horsham gaol for trial, charged
with being concerned in the tumults, which took place in that town, in
November last ! ! !

A benefit society, or club, has, for some years, been formed by the
numerous workmen and boys in Messrs. Palmer and Co.'s foundry, i.e.
From the highest to the lowest, all pay a trifling sum per week, the
principals of the firm contributing their parts as honorary members.
If a man falls sick or meets with an accident, he receives 10s. per week
while laid by from work.
The two petitions for Parliamentary Reform, the Radical one, and
the counter-petition were, we understand, forwarded to London last
night. The latter will be presented in the House of Lords by the
Duke of Richmond, and by Lord Althorp, in the House of Commons.
The late Mrs. Phebe Du Cane, of Horsham, whose death we notice
in out obituary was a lady of a very penurious disposition. Although
blest with affluence, she wanted a heart to enjoy the blessings of Provi-
dence; and her incurable niggardliness induced, it is said, her late bus.
band, Peter Du Cane, Esq. a most worthy gentleman, to leave his home
and reside in a distant pan of the country. In household economy, her
thrift was unequalled, and obtained for her so high a reputation, that,
for a series of years, Christmas Day never came, but it brought a sheep's
head, the gig of the town, appended to the knocker of her door. In
her providings for her servants, the scanty pittance doled out barely suf-
ficed to sustain nature: and a story has long been current in Horsham,
that, one day, on the servants' dinner-bell being rung, the footman,
in running, fell down ; " ah !" says the man, " I am down, and here
I'll lay, for before I can get up, the dinner will be all gone ;" and, ac.
cordingly, there he lay till the meal was finished.
AtUBIDEL. FEB. 22.—Beef, de to 4s 4d per stone; wether mutton,
di 10d to be 24 ; ewe ditto, ds dd to da 6d ; veal, bs 6d to Ss 8d ; lamb,
13s ; wheat, 191 10s to 181 per lad; barley, 36s to dOs ; oats, 27s to
30s per quarter ; flour, Mb per sack; and Is 7d per
Cincimsrea. —The corn market was particularly on Wed.
nesday, and more business was transacted than on any other-day since
the pitch market has been established. Wheat fetched from 68s to 76s ;
barley, from 3Ss to 40s ; oats, from 24s to 28s ; beans, 425; peas, 38s
to Os. The beast market was very thinly supplied with both fin beef
and muton, and prices were considerably on the advance, full 64 pa
stone for prime meat.
COLCHESTER GAZETTE, FED. 26.
Monday, in the House of Commons, the bill for making the river
Waveney navigable for sea-borne vessels from Rosehall-Plat (near
Beetles), to the mouth of Oulton Dyke, and for making a navigable
cut from the said river into the dyke, &c. was read a first time andel,.
dered to be printed, having previously passed through the Committee
for enforcing the standing orders of the day.
A meeting was held in the Guildhall, Bury, in Suffolk, on Saturday
last, for the purpose of petitioning for Parliamentary Reform. It was
both numerously and respectably attended. Richard Dalton, Esq. took
the Chair. Resolutions expressive of the feelings of the meeting to the
above effect having been carried, it was resolved that a petition should
be drawn up and confided to the Mambas for the County who should
also he requested to give it their support.
The High Sheriff of Essex has, in compliance with a requisition,
called a meeting for Monday next, at Chelmsford, of the Freehalime
and Inhabitants of Essex, on the subjects of Reform, Economy, and
Taxation.
Within about two months, upwards of 238,0001. worth of Coin sad
Bullion has left the Country by the Post Office Packets, from Harwich.
Riestovaz or A serzes.—The ensuing Assizes will be held at Nor.
with by adjournment from Thetford.
Let us have a Proportional Property Tax, graduated en suck a sale
of increment that it shall draw from the coffers of every rich man in
the arithmetical ratio of his means of meeting its demands; while
those who live hard live upon a scanty and dearly earned morsel
shall scarcely be taxed at all. This would be, in fact, a just tax; be.
cause it would tax those the most who, enjoying the luxuries of life,
have really the greatest stake in the country.
MATHVII, Garr. y. WILLICILtr, IC:L.—This was an action against
the Hon. L. Wellesley, M.P. for an election bill claimed by the plain-
tiff, as one of his agrnts at the late Essex Election. The defendant
having allowed judgment to go by default, a writ of inquiry was di.
rected to the Sheriff of Middlesex, and a jury was empannelled to
assess the damages. The plaintiff was a solicitor residing at Cosies-
ball. In the summer of 1830, the boa. Mr. Wellesley became a can-
didate for the representation of the County of Essex, and the plaintiff,
3layhew, was, with many other professional gentlemen, retained
on his behalf, under a specific contract, having the signature of Mr. D.
W. Harvey, M.P. to whom the management of every thing relating
to ilir. Wellesley's election was intrusted This contract not only de.
hoed their duties, but also fixed the amount of compensation ; so that
there could be no possibility of misunderstanding as to the validity of
tie plaintiff's claim. The plaintiff's bill was then put in, the sum was
12551. partly for his own professional services anterior to and during the
election, and partly for the services of his clerk, and for money a-
pended at various times on the defendant's account. Verdict for the
plaintiff—Damages 2121. 12s. and 4d, being a few pounds under the
amount claimed.

No sooner was h rumoured at Cambridge that the university of Lon-
don were likely to have confrior= them, or had at least applied
for, the king 's charter of In , than the opponents became
slammed. They accordinly, er sundry &beings, resolved to at.
tempt to carry a grace wMth, should have for its object the appointment

of a committee to frustrate the intended boon to the metropolitan
vaulty. On Friday morning, therefore, a grace was offered to the Se-
nate, to appoint the Vies-Chancellor (Mr. Thackeray) the Master of
Jesus, Dr. Ftwch, the public orator, Mr. Tatham, Professor Musgrave,
Mr. Shelford, of Corpus, and Mr. King, of Queen's, a syndicate to con-
sider whether any and what steps should be taken by the university in
esosequence of the application of the university of London. The cir-
cumstance ceased much excitement and interest in the university. The
gnoe passed the Caput, but when it came into the Regent or White-
, consisting of the junior masters of arts, it was vehemently
opposed, and upon a division the numbers were—For the grace, 8 ;
cagiest it, 17.
Per some years pest we have submitted to our readers an outline of
the labours of each Session of Parlrament in the book-making way ;
and from which they may partly infer how the forties and fifties of
thousands voted on account of Parliamentary Printing are expended ;
we say " partly," because, though the printing of the Sessional Papers
for 1830 is just finished, (only just finished, though that session ended
July 1830 !) thole papers, occupying Thirty-Three folio volumes, of
several thousand pages each volume, do not include " the Votes"...
" the Journals"—the Bills" printed and reprinted occasionally several
times over—the " Private Bills," &c. And yet, exclusive of those
appallingly voluminous matters, there are thirty-three folio volumes for
the House of Commons alone I The first three volumes consist of
" public bills." The next seven volumes are occupied with reports
from " committees"—namely, on the East India Company, the state
of the poor in Ireland, the seal trade, civil list, Windsor castle, beer,
high sheriffs, tobacco, cultivation, &c. Then there are six volumes of
reports from commissioners"—to wit, on real property. common law,
education and charities, (continued to a most uncharitable length,)
revenue, churches, woods, and forests, &c. A volume succeeds—and a
right good heavy volume it is—occupied with the annual finance
accounts, bank of England, coinage and currency, superannuation*, and
other accounts. This revenue volume is naturally enough followed by
one of " estimates." " accounts," &c. And then there are, of course to
make clearness clear, thirteen volumes of "accounts and papers"—.on
church, chancery, courts, corn, colonies, convicts, criminals, customs,
charities, customs (Ireland,) crown droits, &c. flee. public institutions,
pamphlets, penitentiary, police, and prisons. The two remaining
volumes—to wit, the 32d and the 33rd—are, with appropriate courdi-
ness, occupied with matters of diplomacy, state papers, presented by
command of his, Majesty, on Prince Leopold's electioneering affair,
'laves in the colonies, and " on the slave trade."
CoLcnasvis Maaxxv.—We had a very full attendance to-day,
but wheat was 3s to 4s per quarter lower. Barley was its to 3s cheaper.
Beals were also lower. There appeared also a stagnation in the trade.
Per quarter—White wheat 78s a 80; Red ditto, 641 s a 70s; Barley
36s a 445; Oats 24 a 32s ; Tick beans 32e a 46s t Heise beans 313 s a
; White peas 36s a 445; are do 32s a 365.
DIED.—At Wood hall, Sudbury, Mr. Ab lobs Jones, second son i
of W. Jones, Esq.—ln Oreen-street, Enfield highway, Marianne, wife
of the Rev. T. Jana.—The Rev. Wm. Layton, A. M. 51 years rector
of 'St. Matthew's, Ipswich, and of Henley, Ituffolk.—At Romford,
Anne Maria, wife of W. Andrews, Esq.