The Arkansas advocate., 1831-02-02

enforced throughout the various establishments
 of the Empire. With regard also to another point-natnely, Parliamentary Reform, 1t IS in-
 tended to meet the wishes of the country. We can undertake to say that Ministers have agreed
 to propose real and substantial Parliamentary
 Reform, and not a Reform merely in name.---
 The country may also calculate on theadherencc of the new Administration to the principle ot
 free trade.-JIoraing Chroaicle.
 The Members of the late Cabinet waited on his Majesty at } o'clock this afternoon, for the purpose of delivering up the Seals of Office
 The audience was of short duration but the manner of his Majesty towards the late Minis
 ter was most kind and gracious.
 At about } o'clock the new Ministers had an audience of the King, who conferred upon them l the seals which he had just received, with, as we understand, many very fatterns expressions of confidence.
 The Members of the new Cabinet will enter on their respective duties immediately.
 From the London Courier of tine 9th
 STATE OF THE METROPOLIS YESTERDAY AND LAST NIGHr.-For some few day past tic vari- ous streets along which the royal pageant would have had te pass yesterday on its way to Guild hall have been unusually thronsed but evident
 J only by persons attracted from curiosity to witness the extensive preparations every where making for the occasion. Notwithstanding that these preparations had ceased before yesterday, and indeed in most places had been withdrawn, still the streets were crowded from an early hour in tie morning. The crowd was composed prin- cipaly of respectable persons, whose motive still Was curiosity, although having different object: fears. however. were entertained lest q tumult might be produced in the evening. Be- fore noon 1t was evident that organized bands of pickpockets were proving about, both ln the City and Westminster, and hence precautions were taken to defeat their ends. About two o'clock in the afternoon sham light was sattemp- i ted to be got up in Fleet-street, and crowds soon collected, some merely from idle curiosity, 1 but others from far different motives. The con- l sequence was the pathway on either side became blocked, ,and on an outery being raised, and some lats tossed up, the whole crowd were hurried oe a distance of full 590 yards. That the main object of this, as Of every recent mob in the City, VAS plunder, there can be no doubt. At an early hour in the evening the new police were called out in considerable numbers, and by five Q clock in the evening double row thanked the ] edge of either pavement on the Westmnstef side of Temple-bar for considerable distance. This precaution was not taken without occasion. l for before this period d dense mob had collect
 cd within Temple-bar, in avowed anticipation l of seeing the preparations there made for anil lumnation lighted up. Ii was at last found nc
 cessary, at d late hour in the afternoon, to enl- ploy workmen in removing the temporary gas pipes by which the lighting up was intended to l have been effected, for fear thatany of the mob should take upon themselves to chamber the bar, and communicate light to the various gas orifi- Ices. As soon as the workmen arrived for this
 purpose, a body of the vagabonds assembled,
 ran through the avenues into Westminster, and
 endeayored to excite alarm by cricsof ssFire
 Grem A large body of the police was drawn
 up about o'clock in the open space leading te
 Waterloo bridge, and similar precautions were
 taken in other parts of Westminster.
 The whole of Westminster was then, and hadbeen throughout the day, perfectly tranquil. About two o'clock in the afternoon the Duke o1
 Wellington, passing through the Horse Guards,
 was cheered. All also was perfectly quiet dur ing the sitting of the two Houses. Neither,
 however, sat late, the Lords having risen at six, and the Commons at eight o'clock. At seven o'clock the end of Fleet-strcetby Templebarwas nearly impossible. In Westminster every
 where the police were active, and marching in strong detachments from street to street. prcser-
 ving excellent order. 1e ecsty: police,Aey nine
 o'clock, mustered strongly about the Bar, and
 removed much of the annoyance which was be
 fore experienced. Early in the afternoon the l Magistrates of Bow-street issued {. caution to
 persons to abstain from stopping up the ways
 and particularly to housekeepers to keep theil I servants and children at home. In the City and l Westminster, the skopkeepers generally closed their shops before dusk. From an early houl
 also the Horse Guards were ordered to the bar
 racks, and there kept in readiness for any cmer
 gcncy. A strong detachment, fully accoutred
 was to be observed standing each by the side O
 his horse, during the night, in the area of tho Horse Guards, fronting Whitehall. The Foo Il Guards were also kept in readiness.