templating the character and the deeds altogether it is as good an ear as either of our city" Charley," and by the strong of those from Guernsey or Pevensey. partiality that I feel for every-thing ap- And yet the BEAST-LIAR calls it a pertaining to civic virtues and to our civic "fraud," and begs my correspondents Government: coming back, tearing my not to give it to the labouring men to self away from these captivating topics, cultivate! The grower of this corn in and returning to the dull clod-polled Lancashire calculates his crop at 700 subject of Cobbett-corn, respecting Winchester bushels of ears to the acre which, I have to state, that one of the of that county, that is, 350 bushels to sacks (four Winchester bushels) weigh- the statute acre; that is, 175 Winchester ed 252 pounds, and Mr. Sapsford called bushels of shelled corn to the statute yesterday to tell me, that it produced acre. And I have always said, that 224 pounds of flour, and this every man with proper culture, it will always yield may have off four rods of ground; and a bushel of shelled corn to the rod, yet the FOOL-LIAR says that this is a which is 160 rods. The gentleman fraud upon the poor! In my last Re- says, that a barrel of beer was made of gister, I said, that Mr. SAPSFORD made the tops, before the corn was ripe. I the COBBETT-BREAD of three-fourths am really proud of this ear of corn wheat and one of corn flour; he tells from Lancashire: the ears are longer me, that it is two-thirds wheat and one and larger in America; but America of corn flour. never produced a better-ripened, or richer, ear of corn. COBBETT-CORN. I HAVE to thank Mr. TEMPLAR for some fine samples of the corn, growed at and near Lymington, in Hampshire. CORN-PUDDINGS. At this time I feed my EwEs partly on corn, and their lambs have corn-meal. The FOOL-LIAR has been down, in I have none to spare for pigs or poultry. person, to the HARD-PARISHES, to persuade the people that it will give pigs the "MURRAIN," and to people the WE use the corn-flour in my family," YELLOW JAUNDICE." There's a FIRST as bread, two-thirds wheaten and beast for you! I wish the good fellows one-third corn-flour; SECOND, in butter of Preston could have seen the contempt puddings baked, a pound of flour, a and scorn with which these sensible quart of water, two eggs, though these people treated the beast! It is not the last are not necessary; THIRD, in plum- LIAR, the impudent liar, it is not the puddings, a pound of flour, a pint of malignant animal that we have to conwater, half a pound of suet, the plums, template here, but the beastly foolishand no eggs; FOURTH, in plain suet-ness. Just as if the folks in the hardpuddings, and the same way, omitting parishes did not know that all farmthe plums; FIFTH, in little round animals were fatted on it in America, dumplings, with suet or without, and and that all the people ate it there. though they are apt to break, they are very good in this way; in broth, to thicken it, for which use it is, beyond all measure, better than wheaten flour. And yet the FOOL-BEAST LIAR calls it a "fraud," and uses the frank, the power of using which the good honest fellows of PRESTON thought they were bestowing upon an able and bold defender of their rights! However, I suspect that this trip into Hampshire, and this visit to the hardparishes, had some view beyond the preservation of the cattle and the people from the deadly effects of the corn! In short, look upon this as an expedition undertaken for the loan-mongers! TO SIR THOMAS DENMAN. In the next Register a handsome present for him to take to Bristol with I have just received an ear of my corn growed in Lancashire, twelve miles north of Liverpool. It is not quite so long, so large, or so heavy; but taken him. ΤΟ porter "CHARLEY" another time, and MR. MITCHELL OF PRESTON. of his Common Serjeant. Sir, From the LONDON Gazette, INSOLVENT. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. YOUR letter, in the Preston Chronicle, rescues you from the imputation of being, or having been, an accomplice of THE LIAR, which for a while you appeared to be. Your letter has made us all laugh; READ, T., Hockliffe, Bedfords., victualler. for, though we here knew him before, the trip to Liverpool, and the Catholic Charity, have really made us stare; even FLEMING, J., Pendleton, Lancas., plumber. as, who know him so well! And his "rents," which he had just received! Oh! I wish you had known all about that matter. Next time, ask him where his estates lie. I most sincerely congratulate you on your escape, and am Your most obedient servant, MR. ALDERMAN SCALES. THE new election has closed, and Mr. SCALES has now been elected by a majority of 95, he having 169 votes, and "Hughes Hughes "74 votes. His majority over Harvey was 28. So that our paragons of purity have got much by this attempt to overrule the freemen and nullify their choice. It is the duty of the LORD MAYOR to attend, and officially proclaim the Alderman that has been duly elected. Our bright ChiefMagistrate attended accordingly, having his Common-Serjeant (Law) at his elbow. It is said that the golden-chained personage hesitated whether he should not proclaim Hughes Hughes, who is an Attorney, well known at Clapham under the name of "Hewit." It was impudent enough in the Court of Aldermen, to dare to refuse to swear Mr. Seales in and to issue a new precept; but a VETO by DON KEY would have been reducing the thing to a farce indeed! The DoN did not persevere to the consummation of the act; and Mr. SCALES was proclaimed duly elected. Never was miniature more like a large picture, than this City Government is like that down at Westminster, except as to what relates to the heads of the government. Their lives are entwined: they will stand, one just as long as the other. More of DON KEY and his sup BANKRUPTS. BLOW, R., GreatGrimsby, Lincolns., merchant- baker.. BULLEY, C. C., and W. Lavers, Nicholas la., DANIEL, T., Chester-st., Grosvenor-pl., and DEXTER, R. E., Northampton, ironmonger. GOODWIN, J., Stafford, shoe-manufacturer. master-mariner. SMITH, T., Birmingham, grocer. cabinet-maker. PATTERSON, J., Garstang, Lancashire, RAGG, W.H., Dudley & Birmingham,laceman. Gloucester, Single...50s. to 54s. Gouda ...... 44s. to 48s. 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 Sun-quotations. Beasts, 2,563; sheep and lambs, 17,630; calves, 141; pigs, 160. court, Cornhill, merchants. WORDINGHAM, J. jun., Church-street, Kensington, surgeon and apothecary. WORRILL, H., Newark-upon-Trent, Nottinghamshire, mercer and draper. LONDON MARKETS. MARK-LANE, CORN-EXCHANGE, DECEMBER 5. Our supplies, since this day se'nn'ight, of English wheat, barley, and beans, have been rather great; of English malt and flour and Foreign barley moderately good; of Irish, 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 .......... ...... fine.. Peas, White ........ Boilers ..... ........ ........... ...... Beans, Old...... Oats, Potatoe ......... Poland .... 53s. to 65s. 34s. to 42s. 41s. to 45s. 24s. to 27s. 19s. to 24s. MARK-LANE.-Friday, Dec. 9. The arrivals this week are good. The market dull, at Monday's prices. THE FUNDS. 3 per Cent Cons. shut. Consuls for Account (Thursday), 831 G RIFFITHS AND TURNER'S PENNY BLACKING, so good, so convenient, 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 pennyworth 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. NATIONAL POLITICAL UNION.-Of fice 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. Also, POLITICAL UNIONS NOT CONTRARY TO LAW. Price to members, one 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, Eolt-court, Fleet-street. VOL. 74.-No. 12.] LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17TH, 1831. REFORM BILL. [Price 1s. 2d. ed, by the King's most excellent Majesty, by and with the consent 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 and 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. I SHALL first of all insert the whole of And be it enacted, that each of the places the Bill; and, when I have done that, annexed, shall, for the purposes of this Act, named in the schedule marked C, to this Act I shall subjoin some remarks; taking, be a borough, and shall as such borough inhowever, this earliest moment to say, clude the place or places respectively which that if I understand rightly the provi- shall be comprehended within the boundaries sions of the bill, the bill is BETTER of such borough, as such boundaries shall be settled and described by an Act to be passed THAN THE FORMER ONE; my for that purpose in this present Parliament; REASONS for saying which I will fully which Act, when passed, shall be deemed and state, when the reader has had the Bill taken to be part of this Act, as fully and efbefore 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. fectually as if the same were incorporated herewith; and that each of the same boroughs 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 named in the schedule marked D, 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 of such borough, as such boundaries shall be shall be comprehended within the boundaries 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 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- [NOTE.-The words printed in italics are pro- the said schedule D, shall, from and 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 Bramber, in the county of Sussex, save and except such parts of the said rape as shall be included in the borough of Horsham; by an Act to be passed for that purpose in this present Parliament; and that the borough of Cricklade shall, for the purposes of this Act, include the hundreds and divisions of Highworth, Cricklade, Staple, Kingsbridge, and Malmesbury, in the county of Wilts, save and except such parts of the said hundred of Malmesbury as shall be included in the borough of Malmesbury, by an Act to be passed for that purpose in the present Parliament; and that the borough of Aylesbury shall, for the purs N fully and effectually as if the same were incorporated herewith. poses of this Act, include the three hundreds of Aylesbury, in the county of Buckingham; and that the borough of East Retford shall, for the purposes of this Act, include the hundred of Bassetlaw, in the county of Nottingham, and all places locally situate within the outside boundary or limit of the hundred of Batsetlaw, or surrounded by such boundary, and by any part of the county of York or county of Lincoln. And be it enacted, that the towns of Wey-ment, which Act, when passed, shall be deemmouth and Melcombe Regis, shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed and taken to be one borough, and that such borough shall, from and after the end of this present Parliament, return two members, and no more, to serve in Parliament; and that the towns of Penryn and Falmouth shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed and taken to be one borough; and that the towns of Sandwich and Deal shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed and taken to be one borough; and that each of the said boroughs 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 towns of Swansea, Lougher, Neath, Aberhaven, and Ken-fig, 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 towus, as such boundaries shall be settled and described by an Act to be passed for that purpose in this present Parliaed and taken to be part of this Act, as fully and effectually as if the same were incorporated herewith; and that the said five towns so included as aforesaid, shall for the purposes of this Act be one borough, and shall, as such borough, from and after the end of this present Parliament, return one member to serve in Parliament; and that the portreeve of Swansea shall be the returning officer for the said borough; and no person by reasou of any right accruing in any of the said five towns shall have any vote in the election of a member to serve in any future Parliament for the 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 returning 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 re the 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 suc passed, 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 Parlia ment, 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 ap pointed 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 |