Monmouthshire Merlin

CORRESPONDENCE. To the Editor of the Monmouthshire Merlin. SIR,-Before I left London on the late scrutiny, I addressed a letter to our worthy Member, Mr. Hall, and also to Lord Granville Somerset; on which occasion I had an audience with his Lordship on the subject I had written about—namely, Cor- poration Reform and on which occasion I was very kindly re- ceived by his Lordship, who stated to me that, although the Bill before the Committee had not specifically provided a remedy for the evil I complained of, yet he had no doubt but that it would before it became a law. Now the only evil I complained of in or for our borough, was the want of a more efficient magistracy- a magistracy that could and would be ready at all times to act in the administration of the laws, answerable to all the occasions for which magistrates are required. It unfortunately has hap- pened, and does happen, and is the case at this present time, that the only two magistrates we have in the borough, viz., the Mayor and senior Alderman, cannot, however willing they may be-I say they cannot possibly make it convenient to meet together, for the discharge of their duties, where two magistrates are required to be present, and which every police officer and constable, and particular parish officers, as overseers and their assistants, must know, frequently occur; such as in cases of assault, examination of poor persons as to their settlement, orders of removal, &c. &c. I only asked if mayors of boroughs for the time being are to be allowed to act as magistrates for the counties to which they belong, why not allow of county magistrates, acting within and for boroughs, -or why not allow, or grant, or make provision in the bill, that the burgesses, aldermen, or common councilmen shall appoint from amongst themselves as many magistrates as may be neces- sary for the more speedy administration of justice? This is all I ask or want; and if your borough of Monmouth, or any other borough in the kingdom, is similarly situated to ours of Newport, every overseer, or assistant overseer, or constable, must see the necessity of the alteration, and that provision ought to be made in the Bill for that purpose. Yours &c. Newport, June 30th, 1835. S. ETHERIDGE.

To the Editor of the Monmouthshire Merlin. SIR,- Y ou will oblige me by giving insertion to the following passage, taken from the Admonition to all Persons Ecclesias- tical" prefixed to the Second Book of Ilonulies, set forth by the authority of Queen Elizabeth And where it may so chance some one or other chapter of the Old Testament to fall in order to be read upon the Sundays or Holy-days, which were better to be changed with some other of the New Testament of more spe- cification, it will be well done to spend your time to consider well of such chapters beforehand." It is on the ground of this permission, that the Apocryphal lessons are disused by various clergymen. The chapter of the Old Testament," of course, means the first lesson. The Second Book of Homilies is recognised in the 35th Article. To many minds it will appear that the provision made on this subject was wise. The Apocryphal lessons were retained, because the people had been too much used to them to discontinue them. But, coupled with this direction, was a permision to omit them, when- ever it should be found desirable to do so. Thus two objects, viz., the preservation of unity for the time, and the future relief of tender consciences, were secured. The passage is not so generally known as it deserves to be. I am, &c. S. E. L.

To the Editor of the Monmouthshire Merlin. SIR,-Allow me to call your attention to the nuisance created by the practice of bathing at all hours along Chippenham and the banks of the Wye. To enlarge upon the impropriety of the practice would be unjust to your readers, as, no aoubt, they feel it as strongly as I can express it. But I will take the liberty of .pointing out an additional reason for stopping the nuisance. The places which are most resorted to for bathing, are considered the greatest ornaments of the town and neighbourhood. At present, it is not only impossible for our families to walk there, but strangers who come here for the purpose of seeing the river Wye, are thereby prevented from doing so. Thus the place may gra- dually become less and less an object of attraction a result which will seriously affect our innkeepers and tradesmen. In- deed, all of them have an object in combining to repress the practice. In some towns, bathing is restricted to certain hours. Thus, if persons were allowed to bathe along the Wye before eight in the morning, and at Chippenham after six in the even- ing, families might arrange their walks and rides accordingly. At present they are actually shut out from both at all hours. What steps should be taken, I leave to abler persons and to the authorities of the town. Yours, &c., A. B. C.

RAPE, MURDER, AND SUICIDE. The county of Chester has obtained an unenviable notoriety for the commission of crimes of the most revolting character. The following exhibits a picture of depravity and crime which it is shocking to contemplate. A man advanced in years-a hoary-headed sinner with grown-up children—leaves his own house, his wife and family, in the dead of the night, and suc- ceeds in decoying a young female, only 17 years of age, the ser- vant of a neighbouring gentleman, from her master's house, under pretence that her mother is dying and wishes to see her. In going across the fields he attempts the gratification of his brutal passion by violating her person; and, failing to accom- plish his purpose, he strangles his victim. As a fitting catas- trophe to this tale of depravity, he hangs himself in a cow-house! The following is a brief narrative of the particulars of this double tragedy, as elicited on the inquests held on the bodies:- The unfortunate female deceased was named Mary Malpas, and was in the service of Mr. Henry Davison, steward to Sir John Delves Broughton, Bart., at Doddington Park, near Nant- wich. The suicide, Thomas Baguley, was a labourer, also in the employ of the same gentleman, and resided at Walherton. It appeared from the testimony of Baguley's son, that his father was at home at 11 o'clock on Sunday night; and after the rest of the family had retired for the night, he was repeatedly called to by his wife to come to bed, but he refused to do so. At two o'clock in the morning it was discovered that he had left the house, and he did not return afterwards. Mrs. Davison stated that she and her family went to bed about half-past nine o'clock on Sunday evening. About one o'clock on Monday morning the servant girl, Mary Malpas, knocked at her bed-room door to ask if she might go to see her mother, who was dying. Mrs. Davi- son, without inquiring how the girl obtained the information, gave her permission to go, and on going down stairs to lock the front door after her, she found that it was already locked and the key missing. On Monday morning, two labouring men, named Simon Da- vies and Ralph Latham, in going through what are called the Chapel-fields, in Hunterston, a short distance from Mr. Davison's house, found the dead body of Mary Malpas. She was lying on her back her clothes were above her knees, and otherwise in disorder; her bonnet was much torn her combs were lying be- side her and the appearances on the grass and the ground near the body clearly indicated that there had been a violent struggle. About six o'clock on Monday morning, Baguley was discovered in a shippon suspended by his neck with a rope from one of the steps of a ladder. He was quite dead and cold. He appeared to have been resolutely bent upon self-destruction, for his feet rested upon the ground even with his knees bent. In his pocket wera found several keys, and among them the key of Mr. Davi- son's front door. From the testimony of Mr. John Twemlow and Mr. Edward Barker, the surgeons who examined the body of the deceased fe- male, it appeared that the neck was very much discoloured all round, as if it had been clasped, and the windpipe violently pressed by both hands, and the finger-nails had penetrated through the skin over the trachea. The coroner's jury in the case of Mary Malpas found a verdict of wilful murder against Thomas Baguley and in the second a verdict offeta de se. This dreadful affair has, as may well be supposed, excited a great sensation in the neighbourhood. The family and relatives of both the deceased are in a state of distraction more easily con- ceived than desciibed.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS. TITUHSDAY, JULY "2.—In answer to Lord Londonderry, Lord Melbourne repeated his conviction that the foreign auxiliaries of the QueenofSpKin were fully entitled to the benefit of Lord Elliot's convention, although he did not know what construction might be put upon it by the insurgents of Spain and, as to the proclamation imputed to Don Carlos, threatening all foreigners who interfere against him with instant death or capture, he be- lieved it to be a forgery. The appointment of Mr. M'Dermot, as one of the Commis- sioners of Public Instruction in Ireland was then discussed. The Bishop of Exeter and the Duke of Wellington complained that a person who had been noted as a Roman Catholic agitator was selected as a Commissioner under the Board of Education-one of the warmest partisans and defenders of the Roman Catholic agitator was selected as a Commissioner under the Board of Edu- cation-one of the warmest partisans and defenders of the Roman Catholic Association, and who had declared himself in the most pointed and public manner an enemy to the established church. — Lord Melbourne stated, that he knew many persons, members of the Roman Catholic Association, who, when Catholic Eman- cipation was carried, did engage no further in political agitation, and he thought that those persons, instead of being passed over, ought to be distinguished. One of these gentlemen he had the pleasure of knowing intimately, Mr. Purcell O'Gorman, secre- tary to the association, whose conduct had been excellent since that measure passed. He fairly admitted that persons ought not to be placed in high situations whose conduct was tainted by po- litical partisanship but these were not the grounds on which Mr. M'Dermot ought to be precluded from being placed on that commission.—Mr. M'Dermot's appointment was vindicated by Lords Duncannon, Lansdowne, andfClanricarde, who insisted that since the Catholic Relief Bill, he had abstained entirely from agitation. The Archbishop of Canterbury introduced a bill for protecting the revenues of vacant ecclesiastical benefices without cure of souls, and for preventing the lapse thereof during the pending inquiries respecting the state of the Established Church in Eng- land and Wales. Lord Denman, in consequence of the conversation which took place on the preceding night, introduced a bill for enabling the Court of King's Bench to take recognizance to any amount from defendants who remove indictments and presentments into that Court by writ of certiorari, and for preventing prosecutors from obtaining such writ without leave of the Court.

FRIDAY, JULY 3.—The Duke of Richmond inquired whether it was contemplated to make any further reduction in the duty on wool exported to France !—Lord Auckland replied that there had alreedy been a reduction of one third, but that he was not aware any further reduction was intended. Lord Brougham presented his promised bill on the subject of general education, founded on his resolutions, and which he withdrew to make way for this bill. The Marquis of Londonderry called the attention of the house to a decree of Don Carlos, which, on the previous night, Lord Melbourne had pronounced to be a forgery. As he held in his hand the decree in Spanish, he wished his lordship to be ex- plicit, and thereby to remove erroneous impressions from the r minds of men now proceeding from this country to Spain.-Lord Melbourne remained silent. Lord Brougham proposed, that, as the Municipal Corporations Bill, and the Irish Church Bill, would not be sent up to the house for some time to come, their lordships should discuss and decide upon those measures by means of resolutions.—Lord Mel- bourne thought such a mode would add considerably to the la- bour of their lordships, and consume much more time than the ordinary course of waiting till the bills were sent up to them.

MONDAY, JULY 6.—CANADA.—Earl Ripon presented a peti- tion from the inhabitants of Quebec, &c., complaining of the House of Assembly. His lordship said he knew not why the petitioners had selected him for their organ, but he thought the present time vas peculiarly unfit for the discussion of the sub- ject, as the commissioners who were about to proceed to Canada, would, it was to be hoped, succeed in reconciling the differences which had so long subsisted.—The Duke of Richmond, on pre- senting a similar petition from Montreal, said that the petition- ers complained that the judges of Canada held their places de- pendent upon the House of Assembly they also complained of the great inconvenience experienced in the sale and transfer of property, by means of the intervention of the French feudal law. The noble duke said he had the greatest satisfaction in laying this petition before parliament. On the report of the select committee on the Islington Market Bill being presented, Lord Brougham took occasion to animad- vert on the practice of canvassing those who were to act as judges. THE NEW HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT. The Marquis of Lansdowne gave notice of a motion for to-mor- row, for an address to the crown on the subject of the report re- specting the new houses of parliament. liscount Duncannon presented several petitions from Scotland, against any grant to the Scotch Church establishment. POOR LAWS (IRELAND). The Dulie of Richmond presented a petition from John Law- less, of the city of Dublin, praying their lordships to take into immediate consideration the propriety of enacting poor laws in Ireland. The petitioner stated that individual charity was not sufficient to mitigate the distress of the population, and, in sup- port of that opinion, referred to the present state of the funds of the Mendicity Association in Dublin, which were so reduced, that the wants of the applicants could not be provided for. PRISON REGULATION BILL. The Duke of Richmond presented the report, with the amend- ments, from the committee on the Prisons' Regulation Bill. The noble duke moved that the bill be committed on Thursday. —Adjourned. y

HOUSE OF COMMONS. THURSDAY, JULY 2.-Previously to the house going into com- mittee on the Municipal Reform Bill, Mr. Cayley called Lord John Russell's attention to the fact, that since the introduction of the bill, some of the corporations affected by it had let out their lands on long leases. It was a gross contempt of that house. -Lord John's reply was not heard. The house having gone into committee, Sir R. Inglis attempted to substitute oath for declaration, in the 37th clause, concerning the taking of office but Lord John Russell objecting to the mul- tiplication of oaths, the amendment was withdrawn. From clause 41, the words which went to appoint the mayor of each borough, a justice of the peace for the county in which such borough might be situate, were struck out, on the motion of Lord John Russell. On the 42d clause, which gives power to the council to elect a certain number of officers, including the town-clerk, removeable at pleasure, Lord Stanley moved, as an amendment, that the town-clerk should be appointed during good hehaviour." The noble lord confined his amendment to that officer. He threw himself upon Lord John Russell's mercy, but advanced no argu- ments to induce compliance with his wishes, contending merely for the independence of the higher functionaries of corporations. —Lord Howick exposed the unsoundness of Lord Stanley's argu- ments, and showed that the object of his proposition was, to ren- der the corporations subservient to the town-clerks, instead of those officers being the servants of the corporations.- The Attor- ney-General said, that in many corporations the town-clerk was now appointed annually but, notwithstanding this, was, if he conducted himself properly, constantly re-elected year after year. He should say, too, that if the town-clerk had municipal func- tions to discharge, he should go out with the change of his party. It was true, as the right hon. baronet observed, that there was a a case of an officer's continuing to hold his place under a new government, differing widely from that which preceded it. He blushed to say that he knew one instance in which an Attorney- General did remain in office after his friends had left power. But he could assure the right hon. baronet that no consideration would have induced the law-officers of the government which preceded the right hon. baronet's to continue to hold their places under his administration.-Sir R. Peel (we believe) made a re- I mark to the hon. and learned gentleman across the table. We think he put the question, Were you asked 1" (A laugh.)- The Attorney-General admitted that he had not been asked. No question had been put to him—no lure held out. He also ad- mitted that the right hon. baronet had made a most excellent mitted that the right hon. baronet had made a most excellent selection of his law-officers.—Mr. O'Connell thought the noble lord was quite right in not wishing to have the appointment of the town-clerk made a job. Certain he was, that if this officer were to be appointed during his good behaviour, it would become a permanent job. (Cheers.) If this were to be the arrangement, the town-cleik would be the master, instead of the servant of the council. The noble lord, in speaking of the council, and especially of the appointment of the town-clerk, had spoken of it as a job too contemptible for this house to deal with. I should be glad to know (continued the learned gentleman) if any job can be too contemptible for this house to deal with. I should be glad to know how the noble lord, sitting where he now does (Lord Stanley sat on the first opposition bench), can talk of any job as too contemptible, and what job is too contemptible, for the house to deal with ? (Cheers from the treasury benches Oh, oh from the opposition and cries of Order.") The noble lord should not speak in this strain" Lord Stanley: I call on the learned gentleman to explain what he means. (Cheers from the opposition.)—Mr. O'Connell: I mean precisely what I said. (Cheers from the treasury benches.)-L(lrd Stanley: In plain terms, I insist on knowing the meaning of the charge he has made upon me in the face of the house (loud cheers), and which charge I now, in the face of the house, call on him to explain. (Continued cheering.) I stand here on my character—(great cheering)-my character is not at least to be publicly attacked. I shall always be ready to defend it here or elsewhere. (En- thusiastic cheering.) I ask the hon. and learned member for Dublin, then, what he means by addressing to me the expression, that he would be glad to know how 1, sitting in the place in which I did sit, could say that any job was too contemptible for this house to deal with 1 (Continued cheering.)—Mr. O'Con- nell: I said no such thing. (" Oh oh !") I congratulate the noble lord on his extreme valour. (" Oh oh ") I rejoice at it. ("Oh! oh and Hear, hear.") But if the noble lord had taken exactly what I said, and had waited until 1 finished, there would have been no necessity for this display. (" Hear hear," and Oh oh !")—Lord Stanley. I call on you, then' to repeat your woids.— I\ir. O'Connell: My words are the words 1 used twice. (" licar, hear," "Go on," Repeat them.") i said I should be glad to know how any job could be too contemptible for the House of Commons to think of.—Lord Slunley They are not the words.—A number of honourable members on the opposition benches cried out, after the noble lord, They are not the words."—Mr. 0. Connelt: I say they are the words I used. (Cheers and "Oh, oh !") I am in possession of the house. I only said part; I meant to go on.— Lord Stanley Then, sir, I rise to order and I ask if it be con- sistent with the orders of this house, that any gentleman should here use these words to another gentleman :—" I should like to know how any member, sitting where the noble loid sits, can say that any job is too contemptible for the House of Commons to think of?" (Cheers.)—Mr. O'Connell: Let me explain. I said two things I said I should be glad to know how any job could be too contemptible for the house to think of; and T added, I should be glad to know how the noble lord, sitting in his par- ticular place, could say that any job was too contemptible for the house to think of. (Cheers, and Oh, oh !") I said this, and I repeat it. (Cheers, and Oh, oh !")—Lord Sandon said, he desired to know if the learned gentleman intended to make this charge upon all the individuals who happened to sit on that side of the house? (Hear, hear.) If so, he threw it back. They on his side of the house had as good a right to stand upon their characters, as hon. members on the other. (Hear, hear.) —Mr. O'Connell did not mean to attack the noble lord, or any individual or body of individuals. lie spoke simply of the side of the house, and he spoke politically, not personally. (Hear, hear.) He would even go further he would make them a pre- sent of their purity. (" Hear, hear," and laughter.) He would say that not one of them would even think of a job. (Laughter.) But to pass to the real question. He maintained that the per- manency of the town clerk in office would necessarily make him a jobber. If hon. members themselves were permanently seated if they were not responsible for their conduct to their constitu- ents-would all, in his opinion, become jobbers. ("Hear, hear," and laughter.)—Lord Stanley said, at the commencement of the session, when a different government was in power, he had adopted that line of conduct which was accordant to his consci- ence and his feelings. Those did not enable him altogether to support the right hon. bjronet's administration yet was he de- termined not to offer any violent or factious opposition. He accordingly took his place on those benches which were supposed to indicate neutrality between contending parties. On the ac- cession of his noble friend's government to office, he took the same position, and from the same motives. But observations had been lately made which rendered it necessary for him to de- part from the place he had selected but not because he had abandoned his former principles-not because he had suffered change. When he found that one night, in discussing the de- tails of a measure, upon the principles of which they were agreed, he, after having left for the purpose of voting to the best of his judgment, was received, on his return to his seat, with ironical cheers which, in another place, and under other circumstances, would have amounted to a personal insult (hear, hear)-cheers which, at all events, coming as they did from hon. members op- posite, intimated that he was not fit for their society-an opinion in which he most humbly acquiesced (loud cheers from the op- position benches)-he could not be mistaken in the conclusion at which he arrived. The cheers of the night in the house by hon. members being followed up by coarse and violent com- ments in the morning by the newspapers, there could be no doubt of the intention. There was no choice left him on which he could for a moment pause. Determined on the one side not to permit insult which he could find means of preventing, and on the other to give no offence, no alternative remained for him ex- cept to withdraw from society which did not like his presence, and for which he confessed he was unfit. (Loud cheers.) He changed his place, then, because he wished to avoid giving or taking offence ;—because he felt that where he had been he was exposed to the annoyance of hearing observations about his friends and himself, which in private could not be passed over, and occasionally from men wno would not justify their expres- sions either in public or in private. He withdrew from the pro- bability of that unpleasant and bootless collision to which he had been exposed. For that purpose, and that only, he had changed his seat.—Lord J. Russell said he was grieved when differences arose between his noble friend and himself, on political matters and he had to regret that lately, when a division took place, they were seldom together. (Cheers.) As for the cheers, he thought they proceeded rather from a disposition to promote a laugh in the house, and he did think his noble friend attached too much importance to them. He was glad to hear that his noble friend did not mean to imply that his political opinions were changed by his position. If there was any man on whom nG imputation of unworthy motives could be cast, that person was his noble friend. He declined entering on the question before the house, copsidering that it had already been sufficiently debated. The committee then divided, when there appeared-For the amendment, 65 against it, 125. Majority against it, 60. Clause 43, directing that the treasurers of corporations should not pay any money except by an order signed by three town councillors, and countersigned by the town clerk.—Mr. Wilks moved, that after the words signed by three or four council- lors," there should be added these words "at the meeting of the council at which the order is made.The Attorney-General said the order being uf uuuise made by tho council, would be entered on the minutes in the council-book, and that itself would be a check as to any abuse.—The committee then divided, and the numbers were-For the amendment, 65 against it, 106. Majority, 41. On the question that clause 50, which provides that one-third of the whole number of councillors in each borough should be a quorum for the transaction of business, should stand part of the bill, Mr. H. Hughes moved that the quorum should consist of two-thirds of the whole number of councillors, which was nega- tived. On the 52d clause, relating to ale-house licenses to be granted by the council, Sir J. Graham moved, as an amendment, that in every borough to which a separate commission of the peace all be granted as hereinafter mentioned, the justices of the peace for the county or counties in which such borough may be situated, shall, after the 1st of May, 1836, exercise all the power, authority, and jurisdiction to which they are by law entitled in their respective counties; provided always that nothing herein contained shall be construed to give county magistrates any power or authority to interfere in the levying or appropriation of borough funds." This was opposed by the ministers, and, after considerable discussion, was negatived by a majority of 45-For the amendment, 166 against it, 211. Mr. P. Scrope obtained leave to bring in a bill for the relief and employment of the destitute poor of Ireland. Mr. Huma obtained leave to bring in a bill to repeal so much of the 25th and 28th of George II. as restrained the amusements of music and dancing in public places and also a bill to define and regulate the expenses of elections, to limit the duration of the poll, and to abolish the qualification required of certain members of parliament.-Adjourned.

FRIDAY, JULY 3.—Mr. H. L. Bulwer presented a petition from New South Wales, signed by 6000 persons, praying for a legislative assembly in that colony. The population amounted to 60,000, and the revenue to £ 135,000 a-year; the Governor had almost unlimited authority, which the petitioners considered to be a very undesirable state of things.-Sir G. Grey observed that the act under which the government of New South Wales was administered, expired in the session after 1836, and that it was the anxious desire of ministers to improve the government, at all events after the expiration of that act.—Mr. Hume and Mr. O'Connell supported the petition. Lord J. Russell proposed that the report of the Ipswich election committee be referred to a select committee, particularly that part of it regarding the conduct of certain Norwich magistrates, (Bignold and Booth).-Agreed to and committee appointed. On the motion of Lord J. Russell it was afterwards arranged that there should be morning sittings on Tuesdays and Thurs- days. His lordship thought it unnecessary to add Friday. Lord Morpeth, in reply to inquiry, said that it was the inten- tion of the government to introduce a Municipal Corporation Bill for Ireland this session. The house then again resolved into committee on the Munici- pal Corporations' Bill, and began with clause 58. The com- mittee having proceeded so far as the 94th clause (inclusive), again reported progress through their chairman.-Adjourned.

MONDAY, JULY 6.—Mr. Alderman Wood presented the report of the committee on the London Small Debts' Bill.Agreed to. -Sir- G. Strickland presented a petition from Kearsley, in the the West Riding of Yorkshire, praying for a revision of the law regarding the hours of employing factory children,-Capt. Pechell presented a petition from the western division of the county of Sussex-namely, Chichester, Arundel, Worthing, &c., expres- sive of alaim at recent decisions in the Court of Exchequer re- garding tithe on turnips intended for pasturage in the case of Kemp v. Arundel," and praying for a speedy commutation of tithes when several members expressed a hope some measures would soon be adopted with respect to them.—Petitions were also presented in favour of corporation reform—from freemen, praying their rights may be preserved—from Ireland, complain- ing of distress and the starving state of the peasantry in some districts, and praying for poor laws-from Aylesbury, for the ballot- from Bristol, complaining of the increase of dram shops -and against ceitain clauses in the Municipal Reform Bill. Mr. M. O'Connell presented a petition from Captain Robinson respecting his trial and conviction, praying the house to institute an inquiry into his case, and into the conduct of General Dar- ling while Governor of New South Wales. Mr. S. Cravford prasented petitions from Mayo, complaining of distress, and praying for poor laws for Ireland. It was repre- sented that, in a population of 14,000, there were 5000 in a state of starvation.—Mr. D. Rrowne said that he knew the government had the subject of immediate relief under consideration. Lord Morpeth, in reply to Lord Stanley, said the second read- ing of the Irish Tithe Bill would most probably be proposed on Monday next. AN'NICN'AL REFORM BILL. On the order of the day being moved for the house going into committee on this bill, Mr. Bernal in the chair, Sir W. Follett gave notice that he should at the proper opportunity propose the insertion of a series of clauses relative to courts of record. Lord John Russell, in moving that the 79th clause be read, remarked that the amendments which he contemplated, and uf which a printed copy was now in the hands ot the Chairman, were of a very important character, and materially altered that part of the bill. They had been adopted upon mature delibera- tion. The fust of these was, that the town councils of these cor- porations should not only be, as they were now by the bill, liable to make good personally, the interest of all money bor- rowed on tolls and corporate property, but should be liable to make good the principal itself. The second was, that the town council should not be at liberty to lower any toll' established legally in the borough, so long as the debts of the corporation remained unsatisfied.—Sir Robert Peel remarked that there were in the case of those corporations important distinctions to be taken. In some of the smaller, the amount of the trust property confided to the corporation was small, in others very consider- able, as for instance in the borough of Doncaster. Now, ac- cording to the usual construction of the courts of law, and he would appeal on this point to the determination of the late Lord Ellenborough, the town council of the borough would have the power to alienate the property of the corporation. He felt there was a positive restriction of this authority required by the increased powers given to the town council by this bill before the committee. There arose a question as to the exercise of this right under the existing system in the case of the corporation of Derby. The town council of that place in right of usage, levied a rate for lighting and watching the town, in the nature of a county rate, as they thought they were entitled, which the in- habitants resisted, on the grounds that the corporation had suffi- cient funds in their hands untouched, to accomplish the objects required, which they were bound to apply in that manner; and, further, that the corporation was not entitled to apply a rate until the corporation funds were exhausted. The opinion of the learned judge, Lord Ellenborough, was known against the bur- gesses.—Lord J. Russell said, he thought the right hon, bart. would find that he had made provision in the clauses he had to submit, for obviating the difficulties to which the right hon. baronet had alluded,-Sir Robert Peel would exemplify his objection by sup- posing that there was a railroad in the neighbourhood of the bo- rough, to which a number of the town council were subscribers as proprietors of shares there was a possibility that persons so situated might, under the plea that the project would be beneficial to the borough, alienate some of the property of the borough to aid the project. The hon. baronet made other suggestions. He would draw the attention of the noble lord to the discrepancy there existed between the bill and the schedule, and begged him particularly to look to page 10, line 10, which had assumed that the particular description of property under which the burgess qualified, in order to establish his right to vote in the borough election for officers, should be described at length in the burgess roll, as had been done in similar cases under the Reform Bill so that it should appear whether he voted for a messuage or dwelling-house, or for a warehouse in the borough. Now, for this description of the voter's property, so required by the bill, there was, in fact, no column reserved in the schedule. He con- ceived there ought to have been a column reserved, so that the property, and the street and number where it was to be found should be amply described to prevent fraud or misrepresentation. — Lord John Russell should attend to the suggestion as to the schedule. He believed that the present would be as proper an opportunity as he could take to state what was the intention of government as to a proposed division of boroughs into wards, upon which there had been already much discussion. He should in this respect propose that when in a borough the inhobitants amounted to 12,000 and did not amount to 18,000, the boroughs should be divided into two wards; where they amounted to 18,000 and did not exceed 24,000, they should be divided into three wards at least, and should not exceed four wards. When they exceeded 24,000 the borough might be divided into wards, pro- vided that to each ward there were elected six councillors, so that two persons should annually go out by the elections.—Sir It. Peel inquired what was the course the noble lord meant to pur- sue when the bill had gone through committee?—Lord J. Russell said that he did intend, when the clauses of the bill were gone through, to appoint the next evening for the bill being re-com- mitted pro forma, when he should separately propose the intro- duction of the several amendments he had to make to the bill. Sir R. Peel wished to say a few words as to the debts of the corporations. The noble lord had declared that tolls should not be alienated till the debt was paid. Some farther provision might be necessary, as in a case where debts had been incur red by a corporation in defence of property, which by a decree of the Court of Chancery might be transferred to some other party. He knew of two cases of this sort in one of which costs had been incurred to the amount of ilOOO, of which £500 had been advonced by the town clerk. He contended that the act ought to specify distinctly the mode in which the debt ought to be pro- vided for, and not leave it to endless litigation and expense.- Mr. Harvey, in answer to the right hon. baronet's question-by whom were the costs to be paid in the event of the suit termi. nating adversely to the interests of the corporatfon"1 said that if the corporation held property wrongfully, the costs must be paid by some one and if they lost the suit, they would lose it sub- ject to the party who got it paying the whole costs. In no event could they be placed in a worse situation by the new provision than that in which they now were. On clause 99 being read, Mr. Walter proposed that officers of the courts being attorneys should not suffer their clerks to prac- tise in their courts.—J.ord J. Russell acquiesced in the sugges- tion, and the clause thus amended was agieed to. When the 114th clause was proposed, Mr. Miles moved to omit the word inhabitants," and insert in its place inhabi- tant rate-payers." This would be in accordance with the prin- ciple of the bill, which required a qualification in the voters.— Lord J. Russell said he had no objection to introduce the words inhabitant householders," which would perhaps answer the views of the hon. member.—The clause thus amended was then agreed to. The 115th clause was then agreed to, and being the last it was followed by the cheers of the house. The postponed clauses were then brought, forward, clause 10 being the first.—A long desultory conversation ensued, during which Mr. Grote suggested that it would be desirable to make some arrangement which would give the power of purchasing up the rights of freemen, in order that all the property might be vested in the new omcers.—Mr. Wynn thought that the appoint- ment of a commission would he the most efficacious mode.- Lord John Russell was understood to say that he had prepared a clause which would meet the suggestion of the hon. member for London. -The clause, as amended, was then agreed to. Clause 30, as amended, was then proposed as part of the bill. The clause enacted, that wherever the population of a borough consisted of 12,000 persons, it should be divided into two wards; and wherever it consisted of more than 24,000 persons, into as many wards as to the Crown might deem fit. Some other clauses that had been considerably altered, and to which objections had been made, were adopted, but on the un- derstanding that on the recommitment, or on the report, when they could be seen in a printed form, they might be more delibe- rately reconsidered. The Linen Trade (Ireland) Bill went through committee.— Adjourned.

THE ENGLISH NIGHTINGALE.—The nightingale is celebrated in all countries its sober plumage of tawny brown would never attract our attention, though its light and elegant form might ex- cite admiration. This delightful songster is not found north of Shrewsbnry, in the west, or Doncaster in the east; and is seldom seen in Devonshire and Cornwall. It has been observed, that it is not seen but where cowslips grow plentifully, indicating a damp cool soil, and probably yielding those insects it delights in. All writers praise the song of this bird. When every object around conveys the sensation of joy (says Mr. Wilson,) and heaven's abundance is, as it were, showering around us, the grateful heart beats in unison with the varying, elevated strains of this bird. We listen to its notes in a kind of ecstacy, as a hymn to the great and most adorable Creator of all. Abject must that heart be, and callous those feelings, and depraved that taste, which neither the charms of nature, nor the melody of innocence, nor the voice of gratitude or devotion can reach. LIVERPOOL.—The number of vessels entered at Liverpool and Runcorn, from the 24th May to the 24th June, 1834, was 1374, with a burthen of 171,689 tons the number of vessels entered at the same port during the corresponding period of this year was 1620, with a burthen of 177,783 tons, giving an increase of 246 vessels and 6092 tons. JOlIN KEMBI.E.—I always had a great liking-I may say, a sort of nondescript reverence for John Kemble. What a quaint creature he was I remember a party, in which he was discours- ing in his measured manner after dinner, when the servant an- nounced his carriage. He nodded, and went on. The an- nouncement took place twice afterwards; Kemble each time nodding his head a little more impatiently, but still going on. At last, and for the fourth time, the servant entered, and said— "Mrs. Kemble says, sir, she has the rheumatise, and cannot stay. —" Add ism!" dropped John, in a parenthesis, and pro- ceeded quietly in his harangue. Kemble would correct any body at any time, and in any place. Dear Charles Mathews—a true genius in his line, in my judgment-told me he was once per- forming privately before the King. The King was much pleased with the imitation of Kemble and said-" I liked Kemble very much. He was one of my earliest friends. I remember once he was talking, and found himself out of snuff. I offered him my box. He declined taking any—' he, a poor actor, could not put his fingers into a royal box.' I said, Take some, pray you will oblige me.' Upon which Kemble replied, It would become your royal mouth better to say, oblige me and took a pir.ch." -Culeridge. WISDOM.—I was at dinner some time ago, in company with a, man; who listened to me and said nothing for a long time; but he nodded his head, and I thought him intelligent. At length, towards the end of the dinner, some apple dumplings were placed on the table, and my man had no sooner seen them than he burst forth with—" Them's the jockies for me I wish Spurz- heim could have examined the fellow's head.- Cole),i(ig e's Table Talk. MEDICAL FAGGING.— Mr. Guthrie, in his elimination before the medical committee of the House of Commons, after alluding to the hard duty of examining persons for practising surgery, very naively says, There are many evenings when, after sitting some hours at a stretch, I should be glad to give a guinea to be allowed to go for half an hour and break stones in Lincoln's-inn- fields."

AGRICi LTl RAL REPORT FOR JUNE. t i ae atmospheric attributes of this month have been mall f suited as corroborations to those rumours annually circulated on if the approach of harvest, with a view to enhance the prices Of corn, \Xc., by those jobbing factors, and other speculators, who report corn-market transactions for some of our newspapers, ice- From the commencement to about the 10th of the month, it* frequently dense days, cold drying winds, and slightly frosty nights, prevented vegetation from making much progiess; hence the growing wheat—and, indeed, general corn and pulse crop- (no branch of either of which has exhibited, to any extent, a de- 1 spairing complexion, since it first made its appearance above ground), were persistingly rumoured to have become sickly to that degree, that they could not possibly so far recover as to amous* to half an average growth: that every description of the soil'* j produce must consequently be dear, &c.; to which disastrous j accounts there have been added, subsequently to the 20th, ru- it mours, quoted from the Montreal Herald, of there being a great fc scarcity of wheat and flour in Upper Canada and that | scarcity of wheat and flour in Upper Canada and that the latter, both at New York and Quebec, was in brisk demand at J advanced prices. Several of the London newspapers, as well as 1 Mark-lane factors, have been also asserting that foreign wheat io j exporting to these parts from this country Well, and what of all this 1 We congratulate those of our countrymen, who have been speculating in heavy imports of foreign corn, on their haviag foreign markets open for it, instead of its being compelled, by the enormous duty of 47s 8d per quarter, to remain under bona and rot especially as the exportation of this dead weight cannot at all affect the prices of British corn, in our home-consumption market, upon the eve of an abundant harvest. The accounts we have received from all parts of England, sinec the 24th, not- withstanding the before-mentioned rumours, and fresh ones that sprung up at Mark-lane on the 26th, of our growing wheat and barley, as well as in some instances, oats, beans, and peas, being much beaten down and damaged, by the late high winds and rains, describe the general wheat crop to manifest a more pro- mising appearance than any preceding one has promised at thit season, for several years past; while that of barley and oats i* likely to considerably exceed beans and peas come up to a fufl average growth there is also, though a rather backward, a good crop of both meadow and seed hay, about a moiety of which ha* reached the stack, in well harvested condition. Some farmers calculate upon commencing their wheat harvest by or shortly; after the 15th proximo and hence express their apprehension* f that they shall have, at the same time, to attend to their hay and corn harvest, and the shearing of their flock ewes, which come out of their wool in good plight, and are, with their lambs aad live farm stock in general, healthy and doing well; though graBS- | fattened sheep and beasts are, in the whole, much backwardel than at the termination of many Junes we have witnessed. Thfl ploughing of the fallows, destined to be sown with wheat, tor- nips, &c., in the autumn, and all other labours connected with tillage are represented as being in a forward state. Both fat and store stock, as also milch cows, poultry, and dairy produce, have been selling, during the greater part of the month, at somewhat advanced prices most kinds of corn, II also hops, are somewhat drooping and horses at about statioa* ary prices. Arrived, in the ports of the United Kingdom, in the course of the month ending on the 5th instant, 41,322 quarters of the dif- ferent descriptions of foreign grain whilst home consumption duty was paid, in the same period, on 68,569 quarters; leaving, at the above date 1,134,457 quarters, two bushels, in bond.- June 30. MONMOUTH AGRICULTURE.—The great fall of rains about Midsummer, being accompanied with strong winds, laid much of the heavy crops of wheat, and those crops that were light were left in a straggling and interwoven condition. As the wheat wa* only flowering and in its first progress of filling, it is to be feared that such crops will come very light to the sickle. The raint. however, have helped to cleanse the fruit trees, which are now partially recovering from the blight and mildew that affected them, and in many parts a full half-crop may be expected i4 has likewise retarded the progress of the fly upon the beans. The turnip sowing is now in active progress, and during stormy wea- ther the fly is generally most active at destruction-rolling, soot. lime, &c., may annoy them, but the most effective remedy is the previous manuiing.—July 8th, 1835. GARDENERS' CALENDAR FOR JULY.—Plant out a full crop of, broccoli and some late cauliflowers—also savoys, winter cabbage and celery, where still necessary. Earth up celery. Sow turnip# peas, beans, coleworts, a little broccoli for a late crop, kidney beans, winter spinach, and black turnip rooted radish. Gather seeds and herbs. Take up onions, garlick, and shallots, as tW( leaves wither. Take up bulbs, and lay pinks, &c., if not done last month. Plant cuttings of dahlias and chrysanthemum* Inoculatings may now generally be performed on trees aod shrubs. ILMINSTER.— Two old men of this town were last week actively engaged at hay-making, whose united ages amount 10 167 years.

MARKETS^ CORN EXCHANGE, MARK LANE. ;t Mondau, July 6.-Supplies have been, since this day 88'0. night, of English wheat, malt, and flour, as also of Irish, Scotch. and foreign oats, and foreign linseed, moderately good of Eng- lish, Scotch, and foreign barley, beans and peas, English oati, and, with above exception, seeds, from all quarters, very limited* In this day's market, which was, for that of a Monday, very thinly attended, both by London and country buyers, trade wa*> with each kind of corn, as also with malt, pulse, seeds, and flourt exceedingly dull, at no quotable variation from last Monday'* prices except, indeed, a few small parcels of very supenof Ware malt being said to have sold at 60s per quarter. By the statement of the inspector of Mark-lane corn returns, the amou"* of sales of wheat, barley, beans, and peas, was £ 46,660. 3s lOci the average price of wheat 43s 7d per quarter. i'er Qr. Per V" s. S. s. *• Inferior red wheat 33 to 37 Malt 35 to 6" New ditto Feed oats 16 — Middling ditto 39 — 40 Poland ditto 22 — 24 New ditto Potatoe ditto 24 — Superior ditto 42 — 46 Indian Corn ■< New ditto Large Old Beans 36 — 3' Inferiorwhiteditto..37—? New ditto — Inferior white ditto.. 37 — 39 New ditto — New ditto.. Old small ditto 39 — 4? Middling ditto 41 — 44 New ditto — — New ditto Old tick ditto 34 — 4O Superior ditto 49 — 53 New ditto — — New ditto Grey Peas 32 — 3*' Malting Barley 25 — 37 Hog ditto Grinding ditto 21 — 24 Maple ditto 30 — Brank White boiling ditto.. 37 — & Rye 32 36 Whitenonboilinedo. — Sain Foin Seed, 29s to 36s Rye Grass ditto, 30s to 46s; cey ditto, 28s to 38s Linseed, for feeding, 44s to 54s ditto, f°T sowing, 44s to 48s; Hempseed, 36s to 42s Canary, 38s to 44* per quarter. English Rape Seeds, X30 to £ 36 > and foreign ditto, X24 to f28 per last of ten quarters. White Mustard Seeíf, 8s to 10s; Brown ditto, 10s to 12s White Round Turnip dittol 9s to 12s Red and Green ditto, 12s to 16s Swede ditto, 125 to, 16s; and Tares, 4s 6d to 6s Od per bushel. Mangel WUTZel i Seed, Os Od to Os Od per 71bs. Red Clover Seed, 44s to 55s Per cwt.; White ditto, 55s to 66s; Trefoil ditto, 20s to 24s; Kf* Grass ditto, 20s to 24s English Caraway ditto, 56s to 60s Fo" f reign ditto, 50s to 55s Coriander, 10s to 12s; and Lucern Seed, 70s to 90s per cwt. i PRICE OF FLOUR. Fine Flour, 35s to 37s; second ditto, 28s to 33s; and third > ditto, 26s to 28s per sack. Bran, 9s to lis; and fine Pollard., 16s to 22s per qr. American Flour, -s to -s per barrel. Account of Wheat, &e. arrived in the Port of London, duringths I Week ending July 4, 1835. ¡ n I Wheat. 1 Barley, j Malt. Oats. Beans. Peas* yrs' 5,903 | 1,082 j 4,312 } 18,817 | 694 j 27 Flour, 4.679 sacks, and 16 barrels. Imperial Weekly Average Price of Corn and Grain. Wheat 40 0 [ Oats 23 6 Beans .40 Barley 28 8 Rye 31 5 Peas 37 ? j Aggregate Average of the Six Weeks, which regulates Duty- I Wheat 40 0 j Oats 23 11 | Beans .38 1[ Barley .29 11 | Rye 31 3 j Peas 36 1* Duty on Foreign Corn. j Wheat 46 8 I Oats 12 3 Beans 11 Barley 13 4 Rye 22 9 Peas .15 J* 1 SMITHFIELD MARKET. _j Monday, July 6.—This day's supply of beasts, sheep, asd < lambs, was both great and good the grass fattened part of the, former, which constituted nearly the whole of it, being the best, especially the runt part of it, that we, who have known Smith- field, intimately, more than 45 years, recollect to have witnessed in it, on a first Monday of July. The supply of calves and porkers was tolerably numerous, but in great part of not very superior quality. rl rade was, throughout, dull with beef, mut< ton, lamb, and veal, at a depression of from 2d to 4d per stone with pork at Friday's quotations. (Per stone of 81b. sinking offal.) 1 Inferiorbeef.from 2 0 to 2 2 Prime beef, from 3 8 to 4 I Ditto mutton. 2 2 to 2 4 Ditto mutton. 3 4 to 3 I Middling beef ..2 8 to 3 6 Veal 3 0 to 4 I Ditto mutton. 2 6 to 2 10 Pork. 3 0t»4 0 I Lamb 4s 6d to 5s 4d. I Ditto mutton. 2 6 to '2 10 Pork. 3 0t»4 0' I ro Lamb 4s 6d to 5s 4d. 8., I Z supply ot Cattle at market — Heasts, i,548 sheep anw Jambs, 29,760; calves, 236; pigs, 227. HOPS. Borough Hop Market, Monday, July 6.—Hops of all kinds ard experiencing an exceedingly dull sale, at barely last week's price## j Currency: East Kent, in pockets, 1832, £ 0. 0s to £ 0. Os f 1833, £ 4. 10s to £ 5. Ss 1834, £ 6. 0s to £ 7. 0s Mid-Kent, f 1832, £ 3.0s to £ 3. 10s 1833, £ 3. 15s to £ 4. 5s 1834, £ 5. 0* f to £6. Os; Sussex, 1832, £ 0. Os to £0. Os; 1833, £0. Os to 1 £ 0. 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