The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-09-02 00:00:00

FRANCE.

The Paris papers of Monday are still occupied with the mi-
nisterial question. Overtures had been made to several persons
to compose a ministry, hut it appeared that, at the departure of
these accounts, but little progress had vet been made in the
completion of a cabinet. On Sunday, M. Mole, it is said, had
accepted the preSidency of the council, with the department of
foreign affairs, and undertaken the task of constiucting the ad-
ministration. Iledrad htd a long interview with M. de Monta-
livet on the subject; but it would appear, from an article of the
Journal des Debats of Monday, that he has since declined it.
N. Guizot waited on the King immediately on his arrival in
Paris, hot declined entering the ministry. He said the cabi-
net of the 11th of October (his own) had been broken up in
consequence of a misunderstanding of the Chamber of Deputies;
that its system had been invariably supported by the majority;
and, as a proof that it was the only one practicable, he con-
tended that its successors had not dared to depart materially
from it, for fear of losing that support. He concluded by de-
claring that, having retired on account of a vote of the cham-
ber, he was determined not to accept office unless he were re-
called by the same chamber. M. Duchatel, it is said, will, in
all• probability, be minister of finances, in the place of M. d'Ar-
gout, from whom M. Tillers received, on Saturday, a letter in-
viting him and his colleagues to persevere in their resolution.
The King thus finds himself in a new position—abandoned by
one set of ministers and unable to induce the return, of another.
How much longer he will be able to govern absolutely, is a
more serious question. _ _

Ds ...rztc, August 18 —lt is well known that the Russian
Government has concluded a‘fontract with the cannon founders
of Sweden for a certain number of cannons, to be furnished
annually. Accordingly three Swedish vessels, laden with about
130 huge iron cannons, have arrived here in the course of the
summer. The cannons were immediately forwarded on board
of Oder barges to Poland.

ST. PETERSEURGH, August 20.—0 n the 29th of July, at four
in the afternoon, a dreadful storm visited the tcwn of Charcers
and the environs. The wind tore up trees by the roots, and un-
roofed houses; the rain fell in torrents, and the sky became so
dark that the largest pi int could not be read ; at the same time
tremendous hail, the stones as large as hens' eggs, and even of
a fist, fell, and, being driven horizontally by the south-west
wind, destroyed in a moment all the panes of glass in its course.
Above 5,000 panes were broken in the University alone, even
the thickest Bohemian glass could not resist; and old iron
roofs were pierced through and through. In all the streets
there were houses without windows, and the rain poured into
the rooms. A girl, ten years old, was killed in the street, and
sonic persons wounded. As the storm drove the people into
their houses few accidents occurred iu the town.

The German Papers all agree in announcing that the Hol-
lando-Belgic question has been settled by the German Diet, as
far as it is concerned. All rests now with the King of Holland.

LONDOX POLICE REPORT.

MANSIOg-HOUSE

A boy, not 10 years of age, and very small for his age, was
brought before Alderman Thomas Wood, charged with having
picked a gentleman's pocket of a handkerchief.
The bov, who',.had been observed by a tradesman in company
with a b)iy of larger size, whipped be handkerchief out of the
pocket with the'hand of a master and threw it to his companion,
who ran off with it. The prisoner appeared to be quite uncon-
cerned upon being collared, and said that he did not know what
picking of poCkets Was.
The. Turnkey of the Compter—Please your Worship he's
well known. He had a month in Bridewell the last time.
_ _

A Constable--Please your Worship theroAs no such a thing
as turning these here little tins good once they gets to drawing.
I seed this boy.a little while ago, with four or five others bigger
nor him, in Hobon-bridge, and when a gentleman passed they
says to him "Go it, Jack," and he dra wed out the ankicher as
clever as-though he was ten times as big. (A laugh.) Well, I
runned after him, but he runned under the osse's belly, cause
he knowed I couldn't folly ater him. These young uns knows
everything; I never seed such a young tin as this here.
Alderman T. Wood—Where does your father live, boy ?
Prisoner—Father lives nowhere, 'cause hel'i'4 dead.

Alderman T. Wood—Where does your mother live ?
Prisoner—ln Whitechapel; but I don't know the name
The court.

Alderman T. Wood—Has this poor child nobody to prutec
him.

The policeman said that it was evident he had no friend in the
world, and that the bigger boys with whom he associated con-
stantly made a dupe of him.
The Alderman told the gentleman who appeared to complain
that, from motives of humanity, he would be obliged to send the
unfortunate boy for trial, in the hope that some asylum would
be afforded to him.' For melancholy cases of this kind it was cer-
tainly the duty of the government to make some provision.
Prisoner—f an't cot nobody to go to.
The complainant, said that he did not know how to appear
against a mere infant, and he begged to be permitted to depart
without being bound over to prosecute.
The Alderman—You surely would not wish to find him thiev-
ing again, and the only way we now have of preventing him is
by committing him for trial.
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prisoner was then committed for trial.

WHIG LEGISLATION.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.,

SIR,—In reference to a letter from " A Revising Barrister,"
which appears in your journal of this day, I beg leave to add,
that you will do still more service to the public by informing
them that the act of the 6th and 7th William IV., c. 101, which
has been just smuggled through the two houses of parliament,
for the purpose of remedying a blundercoinuritted by the llome-
officein their circulars to the overseers, which circulars stated
different days from those specified by the reform act (or deliver-
in, the notices and lists required by that act, not only postpones
the' revision for a month, but has actually disfranchised every
elector in the kingdom from the Ist of November to the Ist of
December. One would` hardly think it possible that to rectify
one blunder another to monstrous could have been committed;
but such is the fact. By the 54th section of the reform act, the
book, which is to bicorripteted on or before the last day of Octo-
ber in every year by the clerks of the peace and the returning
officers from the revised lists; is declared to be the register of the
electors at any. election which shall take place between the Ist
of Novemher inclusive, in the year wherein the register shall
.have been Made, and the lit of November in the succeeding.
year. Now; there will be no hook completed this year on or be-
fore the last driy of October; for this precious piece of legisla-
tion, which has just passed, expressly declares, by the second
section, that the period for copying the lists into the reßpectice
books shall be extended to the last day of November in the
present year ; and that "every such hook shall be the register
of electors to vote at any election which shall take place between
the first day of December next inclusive and the first day of
November, 1837;" leaving, therefore, the whole period from the'
let of-November to the Ist of December in the present year
whollynnprovided for.

" lncidit in Scyllam, tentans vitare Charvbdim," is a saying
which your late correspondent, the member for Ludlow, may
perhaps on the present occasion think peculiar applicable to his
friend Mr. Beerbarrel, or some such name, who manufactures
acts of parliament at the Home-office.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
Augusi 30, 1836. ANOTHER REVISING 8.% RIIISTER.