PATTERSON, J., Garstang, Lancashire,| RAGG, W.H., Dudley & Birmingham,laceman. farmer and cattle-dealer. RICKARD, S., J. Dockray, and T. Pinder, THOMSON, R. and T. D. Mildred, Sun- LONDON MARKETS. MARK-LANE, CORN-EXCHANge, DecembeR 5. Our supplies, since this day se'un'ight, of English wheat, barley, and beans, have been rather great; of English malt and flour and Hams, Irish........62s. to 70s. SMITHFIELD-December 28. This day's supply of beasts and sheep was moderately good; of calves and porkers rather limited. The trade with beef, on account of the Christmas boiling being wanted, was somewhat brisk, at an advance, with veal dull at a depression of 2d. to 4d. per stone. Mutton and pork were in steady demand at Friday's quotations. Beasts, 2,563; sheep and lambs, 17,630; calves, 141; pigs, 160. MARK-LANE.-Friday, Dec. 9. The arrivals this week are good. The mar ket dull, at Monday's prices. THE FUNDS. 3 per Cent Cons. shut. Consuls for Account (Thursday), 831 RIFFITHS TURNER'S PENNY Foreign barley moderately good; of Irish, GBLACKING, so good, so convenient, Scotch, and Foreign wheat, English peas, Scotch barley, Scotch and Irish flour and seeds, from all quarters, but limited. No Foreign flour or rye from any quarter. This day's market was tolerably well attended by buyers, many of whom, to judge from their activity amongst the samples, seemed disposed to do business; but as these aimed at depressed, the sellers either at stationary or advanced prices, the trade was, with each kind of corn, pulse, malt, and seeds, dull at last Monday's quotations, with flour at a depression of full 2s. per sack. Wheat Rye..... Barley ....... fine.. 53s. to 65s. 34s. to 38s. 27 s. to 33s. 34s. to 42s. 35s. to 40s. 40s. to 48s. 38s. to 42s. Beans, Old... 40s. to 42s. ...... and so cheap, that all the world will use it! DIRECTIONS.-Reduce it with water to the thickness of cream, and then use it like any other liquid Blacking. N.B. Two penny-worth of this Blacking is sufficient to fill a sixpenny bottle. Six penuyworth is sufficient to fill an eighteen-penny bottle. Manufactory, Wellington-street, Pentonville. This Blacking was originally invented by the late Mr. Johnson, a well-known chemist of Nantwich in Cheshire, and sold by him in his druggist's shop in that town for twentyfive years. It was introduced in London by Griffiths and Turner in June 1831; and so well has it been approved by the public, that, in the short space of five months, there have been no less than fifteen imitations of it. The names and full directions are printed on every penny packet. Wholesale at 8s. a gross; three gross and upwards at 7s. 6d. a gross; twelve gross and upwards at 7s. a gross.-For Money only, 58s. to 63s.NA Bacon, Middles, new, 40s. to 46s. per cwt. ATIONAL POLITICAL UNION.-Office is now open at Saville-house, Leicester-square, where the Secretary sits from 10 to 9 daily to enrol members' names. OBJECTS AND LAWS OF THE UNION, with an Address to the people of England. Price to members, one penny. one Also, POLITICAL UNIONS NOT CONTRARY TO LAW. Price to members, penny each. Just published by the National Political Union, and Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange. Printed by William Cobbett, Johnson's-court; and published by him, at 11, Bolt-court, Fleet-street. VOL. 74.-No. 12.] LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17TH, 1831. REFORM BILL. I SHALL first of all insert the whole of the Bill; and, when I have done that, I shall subjoin some remarks; taking, however, this earliest moment to say, that if I understand rightly the provisions of the bill, the bill is BETTER THAN THE FORMER ONE; my REASONS for saying which I will fully state, when the reader has had the Bill before him; but, clearly to comprehend these reasons, my readers must be so good as to go patiently through the whole of the Bill. If I rightly view the tendency of the ten-pound clause, Lord GREY has kept his word, and has made the bill even more efficient for every good purpose than it was before. Once more I pray my readers to go through the Bill with the greatest attention; and, when you have done that, to weigh well the grounds for this my opinion. [Price 19. 2d. ed, by the King's most excellent Majesty, by and with the cousent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that each of the fifty-six boroughs enumerated in the schedule marked A, to this Act annexed, shall from aud after the end of this present Parliament cease to return any member or members to serve in Parliament. And be it enacted, that each of the thirty boroughs enumerated in the schedule marked B, to this Act annexed, shall, from aud after the end of this present Parliament, return one member and no more to serve in Parliament. And be it enacted, that each of the places named in the schedule marked C, to this Act annexed, shall, for the purposes of this Act, be a borough, and shall as such borough include the place or places respectively which shall be comprehended within the boundaries of such borough, as such boundaries shall be settled and described by an Act to be passed for that purpose in this present Parliament; which Act, when passed, shall be deemed and taken to be part of this Act, as fully and efherewith; and that each of the same boroughs fectually as if the same were incorporated named in the said schedule C, shall, from and after the end of this present Parliament, return two members to serve in Parliament. And be it enacted, that each of the places annexed, shall, for the purposes of this Act named in the schedule marked D, to this Act be a borough, and shall as such borough include the place or places respectively which shall be comprehended within the boundaries settled and described by an Act to be passed for of such borough, as such boundaries shall be that purpose in this present Parliament, which Act, when passed, shall be deemed and taken to be part of this Act, as fully and effectually as if the same were incorporated herewith; PARLIAMENTARY REFORM BILL. and that each of the said boroughs named in A BILL TO AMEND THE REPRESEN- the said schedule D, shall, from aud after the end of this present Parliament, return one member to serve in Parliament. And be it enacted, that the borough of New Shoreham shall for the purposes of this Act include the whole of the rape of [NOTE.-The words printed in italics are pro- Bramber, in the county of Sussex, save and posed to be inserted in the Committee.] except such parts of the said rape as shall be Whereas it is expedient to take effectual included in the borough of Horsham; by an measures for correcting divers abuses that Act to be passed for that purpose in this pre have long prevailed in the choice of members sent Parliament; and that the borough of to serve in the Commons House of Parliament, Cricklade shall, for the purposes of this Act, to deprive many inconsiderable places of the include the hundreds and divisions of Highright of returning members-to grant such worth, Cricklade, Staple, Kingsbridge, and privileges to large, populous, and wealthy Malmesbury, in the county of Wilts, save and towns; to increase the number of knights of except such parts of the said hundred of the shire, to extend the elective franchise to Malmesbury as shall be included in the borough many of his Majesty's subjects who have not of Malmesbury, by an Act to be passed for that heretofore enjoyed the same, and to diminish purpose in the present Parliament; and that the expense of elections; be it therefore enact-the borough of Aylesbury shall, for the purs N F poses of this Act, include the three hundreds | fully and effectually as if the same were inof Aylesbury, in the county of Buckingham; corporated herewith. and that the borough of East Retford shall, And be it enacted, that each of the towns of for the purposes of this Act, include the hun- Swansea, Lougher, Neath, Aberhaven, and dred of Bassetlaw, in the county of Notting- Ken-fig, shall, for the purposes of this Act, ham, and all places locally situate within the include the place or places respectively which outside boundary or limit of the hundred of shall be comprehended within the boundaries Batsetlaw, or surrounded by such boundary, of each of the said towns, as such boundaries and by any part of the county of York or county shall be settled and described by an Act to be of Lincoln. passed for that purpose in this present ParliaAnd be it enacted, that the towns of Wey-ment, which Act, when passed, shall be deemmouth and Melcombe Regis, shall, for the ed and taken to be part of this Act, as fully purposes of this Act, be deemed and taken and effectually as if the same were incorpoto be one borough, and that such borough | rated herewith; and that the said five towns shall, from and after the end of this present so included as aforesaid, shall for the purposes Parliament, return two members, and no more, of this Act be one borough, and shall, as such to serve in Parliament; and that the towns of borough, from and after the end of this present Penryn and Falmouth shall, for the purposes Parliament, return one member to serve in of this Act, be deemed and taken to be one Parliament; and that the portreeve of Swansea borough; and that the towns of Sandwich and shall be the returning officer for the said Deal shall, for the purposes of this Act, be borough; and no person by reason of any deemed and taken to be one borough; and right accruing in any of the said five towns that each of the said boroughs shall, from and shall have any vote in the election of a memafter the end of this present Parliament, ber to serve in any future Parliament for the return two members to serve in Parliament. borough of Cardiff. And be it enacted, that every city and bo And be it enacted, that the persons respecrough in England, which now returns a mem-tively described in the said schedules C ́and ber or members to serve in Parliament (ex-D shall be the returuing officers at all eleccept the several cities and boroughs enuine- tions of a member or members to serve in rated in the said schedule A) and the several Parliament for the boroughs in conjunction boroughs of New Shoreham, Cricklade, Ayles with which such persons are respectively bury, and East Retford, shall, for the purposes mentioned in the said schedules C and D ; of this Act, include the place or places respec- and that for those boroughs for which no pertively, which shall be comprehended within sons are mentioned in such schedules as rethe boundaries of such city or borough, as turning officers, the sheriff for the time being such boundaries shall be settled, and de- of the county in which such boroughs are rescribed, by an Act to be passed for that purpose spectively situate, shall, within two months in this present Parliament; which Act, when after the passing of this Act, and in every sucpassed, shall be deemed and taken to be part ceeding respective year in the month of of this Act, as fully and effectually as if the March, by writing under his hand, nominate same were incorporated herewith; and that and appoint for each of such boroughs a fit every such city or borough shall, together with person, being resident therein, to be, and such the place or places respectively so to be com-person so nominated and appointed shall acprehended therein as aforesaid, be a city or borough for the purpose of returning a member or members to serve in all future Parliaments. And be it enacted, that each of the places named in the first column of the schedule E to this Act annexed, shall have a share in the election of a member to serve in all future Parliaments, for the shire-town or borough which is mentioned in conjunction therewith, and named in the second column of the said schedule E. And be it enacted, that each of the places named in the first column of the said schedule E, and each of the shire-towns or boroughs named in the second column of the said schedule E, shall for the purposes of this Act, include the place or places respectively, which shall be comprehended within the boundaries of each of the said places, shire-towns, and boroughs respectively, as such boundaries shall be settled and described by an Act to be passed for that purpose in this present Parliament, which Act, when passed, shall be deemed and taken to be part of this Act, as cordingly be, the returning officer for each of such boroughs respectively, until the nomination to be made in the succeeding March; and in the event of the death of any such person, or of his becoming incapable to act by reason of sickness or other sufficient impediment, the sheriff for the time being shall, on notice thereof, forthwith nominate and appoint in his stead a fit person, being so resident as aforesaid, to be, and such person so nominated and appointed shall accordingly be, the returning officer for such borough for the remainder of the then current year; and no person, having been so nominated and appointed as returning officer for any borough, shall after the expiration of his office be compellable at any time thereafter to serve again in the said office for the same borough: provided always, that no person being in holy orders, nor any churchwarden or overseer of the poor within any such borough, shall be nominated or appointed as such returning officer for the same; and that no person so nominated and appointed as returning officer for any such borough, shall be appointed a described by an Act to be passed for that purpose in this present Parliament, which Act when passed, shall be deemed and taken to be part of this Act, as fully and effectually as if the same were incorporated herewith, and that in all future Parliaments there shall be four knights of the shire instead of two, to serve for each of the said counties; that is to say, two knights of the shire for each division of the said counties; and that such knights shall be chosen in the same manner and by the same classes and descriptions of voters, and in respect of the same several rights of voting, as if each of the said divisions were a separate county, and that the court for the election of knights of the shire for each division of the said counties shall be holden at the place to be named for that purpose in the Act so to be passed as aforesaid, for settling and describing the divisions of the said counties. churchwarden or overseer of the poor therein during the year for which he shall be such returning officer; provided also that no person qualified to be elected to serve as a member in Parliament for any such borough shall be compellable to serve as returning officer for such borough, if within one week after he shall have received notice of his nomination and appointment as returning officer, he shall make oath of such qualification before any justice of the peace, and shall forthwith notify the same to the sheriff: provided also, that in case his Majesty shall be pleased to grant his royal charter of incorporation to any of the boroughs named in the said schedules C and D, which are not now incorporated, and shall, by such charter, give power to elect a mayor, or other chief municipal officer for any such borough, then, and in every such case, such mayor or other chief municipal officer for the time being shall be the returning officer for And be it enacted, that in all future Parlia such borough, instead of the person nominated ments there shall be three knights of the shire and appointed by the sheriff as aforesaid; and instead of two, to serve for each of the followthe provision herein before contained with re- ing counties; that is to say, Berkshire, Buckgard to the future nomination and appoint-inghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Dorsetshire, ment of a returning officer for such borough, Herefordshire, Monmouthshire, and Oxfordshall thenceforth cease and determine. shire: and two knights of the shire, instead And be it enacted, that in all future Parlia-of one, to serve for each of the counties of ments there shall be six knights of the shire, Carmarthen, Denbigh and Glamorgan. instead of four, to serve for the county of York; that is to say, two knights for each of the three ridings of the said county, to be elected in the same manner, and by the same classes and descriptions of voters, and in respect of the same several rights of voting, as if each of the three ridings were a separate county; and that the court for the election of knights of the shire for the north riding of the said county shall be holden at and the court for the election of knights of the shire for the west riding of the said county shall be holden at Wakefield, and the court for the election of knights of the shire for the east riding of the said county shall be holden at And be it enacted, that in all future Parliaments there shall be four knights of the shire, instead of two, to serve for the county of Lincoln; that is to say, two for the parts of Lindsey in the said county, and two for the parts of Kesteven and Holland in the same county; and that such four knights shall be chosen in the same manner, and by the same classes and descriptions of voters, and in respect of the same several rights of voting, as if the said parts of Lindsey were a separate county, and the said parts of Kesteven and Holland together were also a separate county, and that the court for the election of knights of the shire for the parts of Lindsey, in the said county, shall be holden at and the court for the election of knights of the shire for the parts of Kesteven and Holland, in the said county, shall be holden at And be it enacted, that each of the counties enumerated in the schedule marked F to this Act annexed shall be divided into two divisions, which divisions shall be settled and And be it enacted, that the Isle of Wight in the county of Southampton, shall, for the purposes of this Act, be a county of itself, separate aud apart from the county of Southampton, and shall return one knight of the shire to serve in every future Parliament; and that such knight shall be chosen by the same classes and descriptions of voters, and in respect of the said several rights of voting, as any knight of the shire shall be chosen in any county in England; and that all elections for the said county of the Isle of Wight shall be holden at the town of Newport, in the Isle of Wight, and the sheriff of the Isle of Wight, or his deputy, shall be the returning officer at such elec tions. And be it enacted, that for the purpose of electing a knight or knights of the shire to serve in any future Parliament, the East Riding of the county of York, the North Riding of the county of York, the parts of Lindsey, in the county of Lincolu, and the several counties at large enumerated in the second column of the schedule marked G to this Act annexed, shall respectively include the several cities and towns and counties of the same which are respectively mentioned in conjunction with such ridings, parts and counties at large, and named in the first column of the said schedule G. And be it enacted, that no person shall be entitled to vote in the election of a knight or knights of the shire to serve in any future Parliament in respect of any freehold lands or tenements, whereof he may be seised for his own life, or for the life of another, or for any lives whatsoever, unless the same shall be to him of the clear yearly value of not less than ten pounds, above all rents and charges paya ble out of or in respect of the same, any sta-suages, lands, or tenements, whether freehold tute to the contrary notwithstanding; pro- or otherwise, it shall not be necessary that the vided always, that nothing in this Act con- same shall be assessed to the land-tax; any tained shall prevent any person now seised for statute to the contrary notwithstanding. his own life, or for the life of another, or for any lives whatsoever, of any freehold lands or tenements of the clear yearly value to him of forty shillings above all rents and charges; from acquiring or retaining, so long as he shall be so seised of the same lands or tenements, the right of voting in such elections in respect thereof, if duly registered according to the provisions hereinafter contained. And be it enacted, that every male person of full age, and not subject to any legal incapacity, who shall be seised at law or in equity of any lands or tenements of copyhold or customary tenure for his own life, or for the life of another, or for any lives whatsoever, or for any larger estate, of the clear yearly value to him of not less than ten pounds over and above all rents and charges payable cut of or in respect of the same, shall be entitled to vote in the election of a knight or knights of the shire to serve in any future Parliament for the county, or for the riding, parts, or division, of the county in which such lands or tenements shall be respectively situate. And be it enacted, that no person shall be allowed to have any vote in the election of a knight or knights of the shire for or by reason of any trust estate, or mortgage, unless such trustee or mortgagee be in actual possession or receipt of the rents and profits of the same estate; but that the mortgagor or cestuique trust in possession shall and may vote for the same estate, notwithstanding such mortgage or trust. And be it enacted, that notwithstanding any thing hereinbefore contained, no person shall be entitled to vote in the election of a kuight or knights of the shire to serve in any future Parliament, in respect of his estate or interest as a freeholder in any house, warebouse, counting-house, or shop, occupied by himself, or in any land occupied by himself, together with any house, ware-house, counting-house or shop, if by reason of the occupation thereof respectively he might acquire a right to vote in the election of a member or members for any city or borough, whether he shall or shall not have actually acquired the right to vote for such city or borough in respect thereof. And be it enacted, that notwithstanding anything hereinbefore contained, no person shall be entitled to vote in the election of a knight or knights of the shire to serve in any future Parliament in respect of his estate or interest as a copyholder or customary tenant, or as such lessee or assignee, or as such tenant and occupier as aforesaid, in any house, warehouse, counting-house, or shop, or in any land occupied together with a house, warehouse, counting-house or shop, if by rea son of the occupation thereof respectively he or any other person might acquire a right to vote in the election of a member or members for any city or borough, whether he or any other person shall or shall not have actually acquired the right to vote for such city or borough in respect thereof. And be it enacted, that every male person of full age, and not subject to any legal incapacity, who shall hold, as lessee or assignee, any lands or tenements, whether of freehold, copyhold, or customary tenure, originally demised for not less than sixty years (whether determinable on a life or lives or not), of the clear yearly value to him of not less than ten pounds, over and above all rents and charges payable out of or in respect of the same; or originally demised for any term not less than twenty years (whether determinable on a life or lives or not), of the clear yearly value to him of not less than fifty pounds over and above all rents and charges payable out of or in respect of the same; or who shall occupy as tenant any land or tenements for which he shall be bona fide liable to a yearly rent of not less than fifty pounds, shall be entitled to vote in the election of a knight or knights of the shire to serve in any future Parliameut for the And be it enacted, that notwithstanding county, or for the riding, parts, or divisions of anything herein before contained, no person the county in which such lands or tenements shall be entitled to vote in the election of a shall be respectively situate; provided always knight or knights of the shire to serve in any that no person being a sub-lessee, or the future Parliament, unless he shall have been assignee of any under lease shall have a right duly registered according to the provisions to vote in such election in respect of any such hereinafter contained; and that no person term of sixty years or twenty years as afore-shall be so registered in the year one said, unless he shall be in the actual occupa-thousand eight hundred and thirty two, or in tion of the premises. any succeeding year, in respect of any lands And be it declared and enacted, that no or tenements of freehold, copyhold, or custompublic or Parliamentary tax, nor any church-ary tenure, unless he shall have been in the rate, county-rate, or parochial-rate, shall be actual possession thereof, or in the receipt of deemed to be any charge payable out of or in the rents and profits thereof for his own use, respect of any lands or tenements within the for six calendar months at least next previous meaning of this Act. to the day of in the said year one thousand eight hundred and thirtytwo, or next previous to the last day of July in any such respective succeeding year, which said period of six calendar months shall be suf And be it enacted, that in order to entitle any person to vote in any election of a knight of the shire or other member to serve in any future Parliament, in respect of any mes |