put Whigs and Tories into a bag and shake them up, and it would be quite indifferent which came out first. (A laugh.) He did not believe that the hon. Member for Thetford (Hear, hear.) He believed, too, that this bill would have been most satisfactory to the country. (Hear, hear.) He cordially concurred in the observations of the hon. Member with respect to the necessity of preserving the cha-would have said what he had said, unless he racter of public men free from taint; and he hoped, therefore, that a reconciliation might yet take place, and that all the difficulties at present in the way might be successfully overcome. (Hear, hear.) Mr. DENISON was disposed to think the vote of the other evening rather premature; but after what had already taken place, and after what he had heard that night, he thought it the duty of every independent Member to concur in the recommendation that the con-like what he had seen that day. He had tending parties should endeavour to effect a reconciliation. had some ground; and he (Mr. Hunt) repeated, that although the late Government did not possess his entire confidence, the country was in such a state, from one end to the other, that only the late Government could tranquillize it. There could be no denying the agitation that was going on. If any one had been at the Bank of England that day, as he had, he would have felt it. He had seen four or five runs upon the Bank, but none himself been three-quarters of an hour before he could get a 101. note converted into Mr. HUNT thought it necessary to say a few cash. Placards had been put up (we think words, although he was not one of the 288 the honourable Gentleman said by an eminent who voted for Ministers, and the reason for banker) calling upon the people to defeat the that was, he did not wish to mix himself up Duke of Wellington by going to the Bank for with either party. He agreed with those hon. gold. Under these circumstances, what might Members who asserted that the country was be the situation of London before to-morrow in such a state that there were very few per-night, unless what had passed in the House sons, either in that or in the other House that evening, by going forth to the public, of Parliament, who could restore it to peace might assist in tranquillizing the general and good-humour. Nor would he disguise feeling? the fact, that the only persons who were at all likely to succeed in tranquillizing the people, were the late Government. Whether they really could do so or not he did not know; but this he knew, that whatever (To be continued.) was done must be done promptly; that it GEOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY. must be done without intermission or delay -otherwise he would defy any man to say THE delay in passing the Reform Bill what might happen in the course of eight-and- has caused a “suspension of business." forty hours. He had listened to the hon. in this case at any rate. This work, which Member for Westminster, as he had often I venture to say will be found to convey done before, with great pleasure. That hon. 66 more Baronet had spoken very justly of the improuseful knowledge" than VAUXpriety of the interference of a criminal judge BROUGHAM and all his crew would be in political intrigues. But he begged leave, able to put upon paper, if they were to for fair play was a jewel, to recal to the devote all the remainder of their resthon. Baronet and the Whigs a circumstance which occurred some years ago. He remem-less and meddling minds to the task; bered that when Mr. Fox and Lord Grenville this work has been suspended for more were in power, that Lord Ellenborough, a than a year, in order that it might concriminal judge, had a seat in the cabinet; so tain an account of the number of mem that the same man might one day determine bers of parliament returned for the difon the prosecution of auy person, and the next day sit in judgment on him. He was certainly ferent places; and also an account of of opinion that at all times judges should at- the division of the counties. We may tend to the bench, and not meddle with poli- now expect soon to be furnished with tics. They had heard a great deal in the course these materials, and the work will be of the debate of political immorality and political inconsistency, and be certainly admitted, published in about a month after the that if the Duke of Wellington were to accept passing of the bill; and when it is place, and then to carry the Reform Bill, it published, I pledge myself that one would show, on his part, a great deal of political single table in it shall contain more immorality and inconsistency. But what could be said of the conduct of many of the hon. Gen-"useful knowledge” than is to be found tlemen opposite when they joined Mr. Can- in the head of Vaux-Brougham and all ning (whose monument had just been put up his set, though in that set we find that in Palace-yard), who had distinctly declared couple of worthy fellow-labourers DEN bimself most inimical to reform? There was quite as much political immorality and incon- MAN and WILDE, and, if I remember sistency in that. In his opinion, they might rightly, DRAYTON the auctioneer! TWOPENNY TRASH. BANKRUPTS. Essex, beer-seller. The next number will be ready for ASBURNER, R., Liverpool, haberdasher. delivery punctually on the last day of BROOKES, T., Hereford, hotel-keeper. this month; and I will venture to say COWLEN, S. J., Bradwell-near-the-Sea, CALVERT,J.,Liverpool, flag&slate-inerchant. that it will produce ten thousand times as much effect upon the people as all Penny Magazines" of VAUX BROUGHAM and his "antallactual crew, amongst the names of whom I am sorry to see that of Mr. PARKES of the 64 " BIRMINGHAM; very sorry, because the name is thus made use of to procure success to a system of political cheatery We are now to be cheated, if possible, but I will prevent it! DEVIN, E., Liverpool, music-seller. hemp-merchant. GRIFFIN, J., Holborn, laceman. MEERS, J., Birmingham, gun-maker. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION. , manufacturers. CRAWFORD,J.&Co., Paisley, from TUESDAY, MAY 22, 1832. TAYLOR, T., Goff's Farm, Sussex, farmer. TO CORRESPONDENTS. A GENTLEMAN has written to me Liverpool, to make inquiry about some hand-mills. The letter was long, and I was extremely anxious to give it an answer; but, unable to make out the signature myself, and unable to find out anybody else capable of making it out, I have been compelled to let the letter go unanswered. This is an instance of the inconvenience of people writing in RICKARD, S., J. Dockray, and T. Pindar, a manner not to be understood. I always write in a plain hand; and I generally fling into the fire at once, all letters which I receive that are in an illegible scrawl, let them come from whom they may. In the present case, the letter was written in a plain and even elegant hand, all the pains bestowed upon which were wholly thrown away by the incomprehensible signa ture. From the LONDON GAZETTE, FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1832. INSOLVENTS. MORGAN, J., High-st., Kensington, porkman. WORSELDINE, J., and W. Thomas, Castleyard, Castle-street, Holborn, carpenters. BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED. ESAM, E., Thame, Oxfordshire, draper. SPRINGETT, J., Linton, Kent, cattle-dealer. THOMAS, R., Glyn, Glamorganshire, cattledealer. Leeds, machine-makers. BANKRUPTS. BARNES, T. S., Cheapside, warehouseman. BOTHAM, C., and C. Brinsden, New Bondstreet, milliners. BOUSFIELD, S., Heaton-Norris, Lancashire, saddler. BYWATER, R. and W. B., Waltham-abbey, CROFT, J., Brunswick-row, Queen-square, DIXON, R.S., Fore-st., Lambeth, flour-factor. GREENHILL, T., Great Dover-st., Surrey, HARDING, J., Nailsea, Somersetshire, baker. ORBELL, J. jun., Walsingham-place, Lam- SANGSTER, W., Holland-place, Lambeth, builder. SWAINSON, W., and T. Mustell, London, warehousemen. VOSE, J., Serle-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields, hootmaker. WILSON,T. K., Pocklington, Yorksh., tanner. LONDON MARKETS. MARK-LANE, CORN-EXCHANGE, MAY 21.Our supplies have been good, since this day se'nnight, of Euglish, Scotch, Irish, and foreign wheat and flour, English and Scotch oats, and English malt: of Irish oats (34,369 quarters) great: of Euglish and Scotch barley, English rye, English and Scotch beans aud peas, foreign oats and seeds, from all quarters, but very limited. This day's market was rather thinly attended, and the trade, owing to the abundant state of the supply, having caused much lower prices to be anticipated than were submitted to, was throughout very dull, with wheat, barley, oats, and malt, at a depression of from 1s. to 2s. per quarter; with beans, peas, seeds, and flour, at last Monday's quotations. The anticipated decline in the prices of flour is said to have been prevented by the purchase of extensive shipping supplies. HE CHURCH REFORMERS' MAGA No. V., for June, Price 1s. 6d., Conducted by WILLIAM EAGLE, Esq., Will contain,-1. Conservative Church Reformers: a Plan of Church Reform, by Lord Henley.-2. Unpopularity of the Bishops. 3. Property in Tithes: an Inquiry into the Question whether the Legislature can legally sell the Tithes:-4. Incorrectness of the Returns of the Number of Clerical Magistrates. -5. Abuses of the Ecclesiastical Courts: Prosecution of Mr. Williams in the Consistory Court of London for Brawling.-6. Mr. Aspinall's Sermon: The Crisis, or the Signs of the Times with regard to the Church of England at the present moment :—with all the important events of the preceding month relating to Church Reform. E. Wilson, 88, Royal Exchange, London; Wakeman, D'Oyley-street, Dublin; and all Booksellers. COBBETT'S WEEKLY POLITICAL REGISTER. VOL. 76.-No. 9.] LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 2ND, 1832. REFORM BILL. [Price Is. 2d. pendence of a reformed House of Commons? Does he want those who are sitting for the fifty-six rotten boroughs to pass a law to secure the independence, dignity, and morality of a reformed House of Commons? Does he, who has called this reform a revolutionary measure, expect it to produce dignity, independence, and purity, such as neverwere dreamt of before? One is WHO said that the Lords would not astonished at the bare thought of such pass the Bill? "NOT YOU!" my a thing. The bare mention of it is sa readers will exclaim. Yes, I shall have startling that it makes us look about us that justice done me, at any rate; that for the purpose of discovering the I always said that they would pass the extraordinary cause! The moment we bill. I have always said this from the read the bill, however; the moment we very time that the bill was first pre- begin to read, our astonishment ceases, sented to them. It has gone through for we learn that the tendency of the the committee without any alteration bill is to shut ou', or turn out, of Parwhatever; it will be passed next Mon- liament all those who are not very rich day night, I dare say; and, if the King men. But let us read the bill, and read have one real friend upon the face of the it with attention, and we shall not whole earth, that friend will advise him wonder any longer, except it be at a to go down to the House on Tuesday, quality in the author of it, in which he in all his royal state, and without one certainly exceeds all the rest of mansingle soldier near him, and, with his kind. own lips, give his assent to this bill. BARING'S BILL. TO ALL THE REAL REFORMERS IN This bill A BILL for preserving the Dignity and Inde pendence of the House of Commons, by causing the seats of Insolvent Members to be vacated, by preventing the election of Insolvent Persons to serve as Members, and by removing Difficulties touching the rights of Creditors against Bankrupt Members. WHEREAS it is highly necessary for the preservation of the dignity and independence of Parliament, that members of the House of Commons, who are not able to satisfy their arrest solely by reason of their privilege as creditors, and who are protected from personal members, should not retain their seats; that persons avowedly insolvent, should not be elected to serve as members; and that bank Bell Court, 31 May, 1832. THERE is a bill before the House of Commons, brought in by that BARING who is the father of the famous BINGHAM BARING, and who has, from first to last, so unremittingly opposed the Reform Bill, and who was to have been the Chancellor of the Exchequer of STRATHFIELDSAY'S DUKE. rupt members should not be allowed any privilege, as members, against the rights of their professes to have for its object the up-creditors: Be it therefore enacted, by the holding of "the dignity and independ- King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with ence of the House of Commons." One the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present is naturally surprised at the bare sound Parliament assembled, and by the authority of of these words, coming from such a the same, That from and after the passing of quarter, proposed to such a House of this Act, process against the person may be Commons, and brought forward precisely the authority of any judgment, recogniissued where the same shall be issued upon at such a time. What does BARING zance, decree, order, rule, or other final want to uphold the dignity and inde- proceeding to compel the payment of money, K in respect of whose debts he shall have been discharged. although the person against whom the same is to be issued is or shall be a member of the House of Commons; but that no such process And whereas by an act passed in the fiftyshall be executed so long as the said person second year of the reign of his Majesty George shall continue to be a member. the Third, intituled, "An Act to suspend and And be it enacted, that before any such pro-" finally vacate the Seats of Members of the cess shall be issued against any such member," House of Commons of the United Kingdom, a written demand shall be personally served" who shall become Bankrupts, and who shall upon him, signed by the party by or on "not pay their debts in full within a limited whose behalf it is intended to issue such pro-"time," the seat of a member is, in certain cess, or by the attorney or solicitor of such cases therein mentioned, declared to become party, demanding payment of the sum of money for the non-payment of which it is intended to issue the same; and an affidavit of such service shall be made before the proper officer of the court out of which it is intended to issue the same, and filed in that court; and a duplicate of such affidavit shall be deposited with the clerk of the House of Commons, who shall mark thereon the day of depositing the same, and shall cause notice thereof to be given to the member. And be it further enacted, That from and after days from the day of depositing the affidavit last mentioned, such process may be issued; but that the same, instead of being delivered to the sheriff or other officer who would have to execute the same if the person were not a member, shall be delivered to the clerk of the House of Commons, who shall mark thereon the day of the delivery of the same. And be it further enacted, That in case, after the expiration of days from the delivery of the said process, the sum for the non-pay. ment of which the same shall have issued, shall continue unpaid and unsatisfied, and the said process shall continue in force, so that the same could be lawfully executed if the person were not a member, the seat of the said member shall be thereby vacated; and it shall be lawful for the Speaker of the House of Commons for the time being, during any recess of the said House, whether by prorogation or adjourn ment, and he is hereby required, forthwith after the expiration of the last-mentioned period, to issue his warrant to the clerk of the crown, to make out a new writ for electing another member in the room of such member. vacated; and it is expedient to alter some of And be it further enacted, That no person against whom any commission or fiat of bankruptcy shall hereafter issue, and under which he shall be adjudged a bankrupt, shall have any privilege as a member of the House of Commons, touching any proceeding which might be taken against him under the authority of such commission or fat, in case he had not been a member. I have always had my doubts about Political Unions, unless effectual means could be taken to keep the Government creatures out of them. On the 30th May Mr. CARPENTER made a motion, in what is called the NATIONAL POLITICAL UNION in London, to petition against this bill of BARING; and it appears that Mr. PLACE praised the bill, as calculated to insure the moral honesty of members of Parliament; and he added, that "the present Parliament "had the power and the right to pass any measure now, as well as at any previous period of their sitting." I will notice this latter point first; and though I do not say that Mr. PLACE is a creature of the Government, I shall have no scruple to say, and every man of sense will believe it, if he persevere in expressing this opinion. What! after this House itself has passed a bill, which, taken together with the reasons on which it was stated to be founded, Pronounces this House not to consist of the representatives of the people, Mr.Place contends that this same House has a right And be it further enacted, That such member, whose seat shall so become vacated, shall not be eligible to be returned as a member upon the new writ to be made out by reason thereof," in case any process which by this Act is authorised to be issued shall be in force at the time of the election. And be it further enacted, That no person who at the time of any election shall be in custody under any such process lawfully issued and executed, shall be eligible to be returned to serve as a member of the House of Commons. And be it further enacted, That no person who shall have been discharged out of custody under the authority of any act for the relief of insolvent debtors, shall be eligible at any election to be returned to serve as a member of the House of Commons, unless before such election he shall have paid or satisfied all the creditors |