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seers to make out the lists of the names of the voters. With regard to boroughs, it was proposed, that the Town Clerk, instead of being obliged, as he now was, to put up the names and places of abode of freemen, should put up the notices of any new claims of parties to vote at elections of Members of Parliament, in the way which was practised with reference to the freeholders of counties. In the registration of towns, it was proposed, that persons rated to the poor, instead of paying every year, should only pay one shilling the first time they should have their names put on the list, as in the case of county voters.

June 10. Considerable discussion took place on Mr. P. Scrope's amendment to the 45th clause of the Poor-Act Amendment Bill, which went to preclude the Commissioners from issuing any order to the guardians of the poor which should prohibit them from giving relief, out of the workhouse, to such of the sick or impotent poor, and to such widows, orphans, and illegitimate children as they might think fit so to relieve.-Lord Althorp could not see the necessity of the amendment, as the clause did not prevent the Commissioners, in certain cases, affording relief out of the workhouses. It left the decision of that question open to the Board; but, in case of sickness, provision was made for the able-bodied labourer, without his going into the house, and in other cases of emergency, guardians and overseers would have the power to grant out-door relief. On a division, the numbers were for the Amendment, 40; against it, 148.

June 11. The COUNTY CORONERS' Bill being re-committed, a debate took place on the clause which proposed to grant to the coroner 30s. for each inquest, and Is. 6d. per mile for travelling expenses. Col. Davies moved an amendment, reducing the allowance for each inquest to 20s., which was carried. Some opposition was made to the clause declaring all coroners' inquests open courts; but it was finally agreed to.

The Felons' Property Bill was thrown out, on the motion of the Attorney-General, that the report be taken into further consideration that day 3 months.

The JEWS' DISABILITIES' Bill was read a third time, and passed.

The resolutions of committee for paying off the holders of 4 per Cent. Annuities, and for granting an allowance to the Polish exiles, were severally read and agreed to. A Bill for the more effectual registration of voters was read a first time.

June 12. The Attorney-General ob.

tained leave to bring in a bill to abolish the LAW of IMPRISONMENT for DEBT under certain modifications. Read a first time.

The report of the committee on the COUNTY CORONERS' Bill was brought up, and the Bill was ordered to be read a third time on the 16th.

Mr. F. Baring brought in a Bill to enable Government to pay off the 4 PER CENT. ANNUITIES, which was read a first time.

June 13. After considerable discussions, clauses 46 to 59, of the POOR LAWS AMENDMENT Bill, were agreed to.

The CAPITAL PUNISHMENT ABOLITION Bill was read a third time, and passed. June 16. The House went into Committee on the POOR LAWS' AMENDMENT Bill. On coming to clause 62, respecting settlement by birth, Lord Althorp said, that it was proposed to make some alterations regarding the law of settlement, which would render it necessary to strike out clauses 62, 63, 64, 65, and part of 66. It was intended to abolish settlement by hiring and service and apprenticeship, and to render it necessary, in order to gain a settlement, that the person should be rated for a year for the tenement of which he was the occupant-the bona fide amount he thought should be 101. Clauses 62 to 65 were then negatived. Clause 66 was amended, it being therein declared, that henceforth no settlement should be acquired by hiring or apprenticeship; clause 67 was agreed to; clause 68 was amended by the introduction of the words "be it enacted, that, from and after the passing of this Act, no settlement be acquired or completed by occupation of any tenement, unless the person occupying the same shall have been assessed to the poor-rates in respect of such tenement for the space of one year."

The COUNTY CORONERS' Bill was read a third time, and passed.

June 18. The House having gone into committee on the POOR LAWS AMENDMENT Bill, agreed, after a good deal of discussion, to the remaining, and also to some new, clauses. The bastardy clauses gave rise to a lengthened debate, but on a division there appeared, Ayes, 114; Noes, 33. They enact that, for the future, the mother of a bastard child shall be liable for the maintenance of her offspring, while the father is to escape without penalty, either pecuniary or personal.

June 20. Mr. G. Wood moved the second reading of the Bill for the admission of the Dissenters into the Universities. Mr. Estcourt opposed the motion, and moved an amendment that the Bill be read that day six months.-The Hon. S. Herbert seconded the amendment, and

maintained that the measure before the House would destroy the University system, and put an end to a national system of education for a national Church. He wished the Dissenters to establish Universities of their own, and try if they could produce such men as Oxford and Cambridge had sent forth.-Messrs. W. Petre, Poulter, Ewart, and E. Buller sapported the Bill.-Mr. Wynn opposed it.

Mr Spring Rice contended that, so far from injuring, the Bill would be a benefit to the Church.-Mr. Goulburn contended that it would be impossible to preserve

the religion of the country if they admitted of a mixed system of education in the Universities.-Mr. Stanley supported the principle of the Bill; and hoped that in Committee the most serious objections would be removed.-Sir Robert Inglis and Sir Robert Peel opposed, and Lord Althorp supported the motion, affirming, that, so far from injuring the Established Church, it would contribute to its advantage and security. On a division, the numbers were-for the motion, 321; for the amendment, 147.

FOREIGN NEW S.

SPAIN AND PORTUGAL.

The quadripartite alliance lately formed between England, France, Spain, and Portugal, for terminating the civil con. test which has so long desolated the Peninsula, has at length brought the struggle to a close; and the two royal pretenders, Carlos and Miguel, have been compelled to quit the Peninsula. The Madrid Gazette of the 31st of May, officially announced the departure of Don Carlos, the Spanish army of General Rodil having taken possession of the frontier towns of Portugal. According to this account, Don Carlos was excessively alarmed lest he should be taken by the Spanish troops, and hastily consented to any terms which were proposed. He was directed to embark at Aldea Gallega, in pursuance of a convention entered into at Evora between Generals Saldanha and Lemos, and Mr. Grant, secretary to the British legation at Lisbon. The Infante was accompanied by the Bishop of Leon, five generals, and some priests and monks. Three hundred officers and six hundred soldiers, who had not been permitted to embark with him, were to be sent to a depôt, there to await instructions from Madrid. At the same convention were settled the terms of submission of Don Miguel and his troops. Previously to his embarkation at Evora, Miguel signed a Declaration, that he would never return to any part of Portugal or Spain, nor interfere, directly or indirectly, in the political affairs of the kingdom or its dominions; in either of which cases he is to lose all right to his stipulated pension (in English money about 15,000l. per annum,) and be liable to all the consequences arising from such conduct. He

On the 17th of June, Don Carlos arrived at Portsmouth, on board H.M.S. the Donegal, and was received with the honours due to his rank as a member of the blood royal of Spain.

GENT. MAG, VOL. II.

has appointed Mr. Jose Luiz de Rocha Procurator of his household and all his personal property, desiring him to deliver up all the Crown jewels to Don Pedro's Commissioners at Evora as previously determined.

At Lisbon, four Decrees had been published by the Government, the first convoking the Cortes of Portugal for the 15th of August; the second abolishing all descriptions of monks and friars, and making the whole of the monastic property available for the services of the State; the 3d puts an end to the monopoly, called the "Douro Wine Company," and consequently opens the wine trade on more liberal terms than hitherto pursued, in consequence of the exclusive privileges exercised by the above named, and now no more, Company; the fourth Decree expels from the House of Peers all noblemen who have acknowledged the legiti macy of Don Miguel. The publication of these Ordinances had been received with every demonstration of satisfaction, and had rendered the Emperor very popular, as they were considered an earnest of the good intentions of the administra tion, and of their watchfulness for the welfare of the country.

The Queen of Spain is proceeding steadily with her Government. She has published seven decrees on the subject of the National Debt; the first six go to adopt into the present great book all outstanding debts of whatever character or period. To this liberal decree the seventh is the antithesis.-Art. 1. The whole of the Spanish debt, of which mention is made in the preceding decrees, shall be reduced proportionally, and according to its assigned price one-third-those debts which are provided for by diplomatic treaties always excepted. Art. 2. The other two-thirds of the debts to be converted into a deferred stock of 100 parts, of which one part shall be drawn yearly

for a hundred consecutive years, and the winner to receive 3 per cent. upon his claim. Art. 3. The whole of the Spanish debt shall be called, without exception, the national debt, and shall be entitled to receive a uniform interest of 3 per cent., to be paid fractionally every four months. Art. 4. There shall be created a sinking fund of 1 per cent., upon the whole. Art. 5. This decree to repeal all former ones upon the subject.

GERMANY.

3.

By intelligence from Vienna, we learn that the following is a summary of the operations of the Congress:-1. That no manifestation or public declaration of principles shall be made; some articles of police will alone be made public, in order to prepare for their execution. 2. That it was not possible to come to any agreement relative to a general system of commerce between Austria and Prussia, which therefore remain widely separate. That the military forces of the Confederation shall be augmented for each contingent, and carried to the war establishment. 4. The principle of expulsion shall be universally admitted into all the Federal States, and applied not only to private offences, but to all kinds of political crimes. 5. That the censorship shall be applied not only to the journals and periodical publications, but also to the disputations of the Universities, to speeches from the tribunes, and even to books, where ever they touch upon political matters."

AMERICA.

A violent contest is agitating the United States, from the Maine to Louisania. The President, supported by a majority in the present House of Representatives, and by the democratic party among the people, has determined to put down the Bank of the United States at all hazards. On the other hand that institution, strenuously supported by a majority of the Senate, nearly the whole of the mercantile interests, and the aristocracy in the cities, is defending itself with energy. The agricultural interests are claimed by both the parties, but it is believed the majority are still with the President. The scheme of the President for dispensing with a National Bank is considered by the most eminent politicians in America, to be wholly impracticable. The Foreign Exchanges have fallen, and must continue to fall; distress already prevails to a great extent, and memorials on the subject continue to pour into Congress.

Captain Back writes from the east end of Great Slave Lake, that, during the summer, he had reached to about 109 miles from Bathurst's Inlet. The letter is dated December 7, 1833.

Letters from Lima, of Jan. 16, state that a revolution had broken out there on the 3rd. The President, it appears, had fled to the Castle of Callao. The port of Chorillos had been declared in a state of strict blockade.

DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES.

LONDON AND ITS VICINITY.

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Declaration of the Laity of the Church of England.-At a levee held on the 27th of May, the Central Committee in London, for promoting the adoption and circulation of the above declaration, presented the following address to his Majesty :"We, your Majesty's dutiful subjects, beg leave humbly to approach your Majesty with the profoundest feelings of affection and loyalty towards your Majesty's sacred person and throne, and, as Lay-members of the Church of England, to offer to your Majesty the expression of our firm attachment to her pure faith and worship, and her apostolic form of government. We further find ourselves called upon, by the events which are daily passing around us, to declare our firm conviction, that the consecration of the State by the public maintenance of the Christian religion, is the first and paramount duty of a Christian King and people; and that the Church established in these realms, by carrying its sacred and beneficial influences through all orders and degrees, and into every corner of the land, has for many

ages been the great and distinguishing blessing of this country, and not less the means, under Divine Providence, of national prosperity than of individual piety. In the preservation, therefore, of this our National Church in the integrity of her rights and privileges, and in her alliance with the State, we feel that we have an interest the most direct and real; and we accordingly avow our firm determination to do all that in us lies, in our several stations, to uphold, unimpaired in its security and efficiency, that Establishment, which we have received as the richest legacy of our forefathers, and desire to hand down as the best inheritance of our posterity. We avow these sentiments with the greater confidence, from a conviction that they are widely and deeply rooted in the hearts of your Majesty's subjects, a conviction confirmed by the fact, that, independently of many other unquestionable demonstrations, the same declaration which we now humbly make, has been most extensively adopted throughout England and Wales, having already received actual signatures of upwards of

230,000 of your Majesty's Lay Subjects, for the most part substantial householders and heads of families, and all of them persons of mature age. That your Mas jesty may long continue to watch over and protect that Church, of which your Majesty and your Royal Predecessors have so long been the nursing fathers,' is the earnest prayer of your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects,

(Signed) BEXLEY, &c. &c. &c. Having thus conveyed to the foot of the Throne the sentiments of those who have signed the Declaration, and the fact of those sentiments being so widely spread, this Committee proceeded to congratulate His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury upon this unparalleled demonstration of affection for the National Church on the part of the Laity, and to crave permission of His Grace to deposit the proofs of this feeling in His Grace's hands, with a view to the preservation of so invaluable a Record among the Archives of Lambeth. They accordingly, on the 3rd of June, waited upon His Grace at bis Palace of Lambeth, with an Address, to the above purpose; when the Committee had the high satisfaction of receiving from His Grace the following answer :

"Gentlemen,-I receive your assurances of respect and kindness towards me, and of veneration for the office in which it hath pleased the Almighty to place me, with more than ordinary satisfaction; and I request you to accept my grateful acknowledgments of your zeal in the cause of the Established Church, at a time when, in England and Ireland, and in all our colonial possessions, it stands so much in need of defence against the machinations of enemies avowedly intent on its destruction. Amidst the perils which are multiplying around us, the Clergy will derive the greatest encouragement to persevering exertion, from these public professions of your de voted adherence to the Church, and your implied approbation of the character and conduct of its Ministers. While such are the sentiments of the wisest and best among our Fellow-countrymen, we may look forward with hope, and, whatever may be the event of the hostility with which we are threatened, we shall find consolation in their sympathy, and in the consciousness of not being altogether unworthy of it. With great pleasure I take on me the custody of these important documents. They will be deposited among the Archives of Lambeth, and will there be preserved, as authentic memorials of your filial reverence for the National Church, your attachment to her polity, her faith, and her formularies, and your deep sense of the blessings, which, through the mercy of God, in our Lord

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June 24 The first performance of the Royal Musical Festival, at Westminster Abbey, was celebrated this day. The King and Queen, and the Royal Family, and most of the Nobility, were present. The prices of admission were one and two guineas, according to the situation, and all the tickets for disposal had been purchased several days previous. The entire area of the nave, the space within the aisles, and the great galleries at each side, were filled with ladies and gentlemen-the number of the former greatly predominating, and their dresses being of the lightest, gayest, summer colours, the effect of which was heightened by the fitful chequered fall of the light, broken as it was in its course by the heavy clustered pillars. The Royal box, or rather spacious apartment, and its two wings, as also the enclosed gallery before it, looked still more attractive from the great number of Court and military uniforms which appeared in them. His Majesty, the Queen, the Princess Angusta, the Princess Victoria, and the Duchess of Kent, occupied the front row of the apartment. The Duke of Gloucester, the Duke of Meiningen, the young Princes, and a great number of the Household, appeared behind. The side apartments were filled with her Majesty's Suite, and with Lordsin-Waiting, with the Aides-de-Camp of his Majesty. In front the Directors appeared, for the most part in uniforms. The Archbishops of Canterbury, York, and Armagh, several bishops and dignitaries of the Abbey, also had here seats provided for them. About 250 instrumental performers attended, amongst whom were 80 violins, 30 tenors, 18 violoncellos, 18 double basses, 8 flutes, 2 octave flutes, 12 oboes, 8 clarionets, 12 bassoons, 12 horns, 8 trumpets, 8 trombones, 2 ophicleides, 2 serpents, 1 side drum, 2 kettle drums, and 2 tower drums; and the vocal department was equally strong, as in the semi-chorus there were 12 soprani, & alti, 8 tenori, and 12 bassi; there being in the full chorus, 112 soprani, 60 alti, 54 tenori, and 88 bassi, in addition to the numbers before mentioned. Every thing was conducted with the greatest exactness, and both instrumentalists and vocalists acquitted themselves to the satisfaction of all present. The chorusses were admirably executed, particularly the Coronation Anthem. The performances commenced at twelve, and concluded about four.

INTELLIGENCE FROM VARIOUS PARTS OF

THE COUNTRY.

St. Mary's Church, Shrewsbury.-In addition to the improvements recently effected within the interior of the venerable Church of St. Mary, Shrewsbury, see Gent. Mag. xcvIII. ii. p. 316; xcx. i. p. (543), a handsome stone screen, in the style of Henry VII.'s time, has recently been erected beneath the fine-toned It is divided into three compartorgan. ments, formed by as many obtusely pointed arches, and divided by buttresses of two stories, highly decorated with reticulated divisions, containing an open flower in relief; round the inner recesses of the arches are text inscriptions from the Psalms in old characters.

Above is a series of smaller arches, similar in style, having cinque-foil heads, and filled with the like reticulated divisions and ornaments, each of the arches being divided by a small plain buttress; the string course is charged with elaborately carved heads of angels, pateras, &c., and the spandrils of the several arches throughout are enriched with elegant and varied foliage, exquisitely sculptured. The whole forms a prominent and imposing feature to the main entrance of the nave, and will be a permanent monument of the good taste and munificence of the donor, the Rev. William Gorsuch Rowland, M. A., Minister and Official of the Church. It was designed by Mr. John Carline, jun., of Shrewsbury. The north transept also has been

PROMOTIONS,

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

adorned with three handsome stone monuments, executed in the gothic style, which harmonize with the splendid memorial erected to the Rev. J. B. Blakeway, and form a pleasing appearance on entering the Church at the north-east end.

Other improvements in the interior of the Church are in contemplation, which when completed will render St. Mary's the handsomest, as it is now one of the most interesting ecclesiastical buildings in Shropshire. H. P.

May 15. A grand procession, at which all the Catholic inhabitants assisted, took place in Manchester. The occasion was laying the first stone of a convent, to be called the Convent of the Four Sisters of the Order of Visitation of St. Francis de Sales, and its object is the education of 400 or 500 poor female children.

June 4.-The foundation was laid of a light-house at the entrance of Falmouth harbour. The following is the inscription on the plate of the foundation stone:

"On the 4th of June, 1834, in the fourth year of the reign of His most gracious Majesty King William the Fourth, this foundation-stone of the Falmouth Light-house was laid, in form, by the Ancient and Honourable Society of Free and Accepted Masons, the Magistrates, and Committee, in the presence of the Heads of the Naval and Army Establishments, and public Officers, together with a numerous body of Ladies and Gentlemen. William Walker, esq. architect; Messrs. Oliver, builders."

PREFERMENTS, &c.

May 16. 38th Foot, Capt. E. Hopper to be Major.

May 27. Knighted, Major-Gen. the Hon. Alex. Duff, G.C.H. Major Gen. Joseph Mac Lean. May 30. 62d Foot, Lieut. Col. Thos. Reed to be Lieut. Col.

June 5. The Rt. Hon. T. Spring Rice and Sir John Vaughan, sworn of the Privy Council: and the Rt. Hon. T. Spring Rice, sworn one of his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State (for the Colonies.)

June 7. Geo. Baron Auckland, to be First Lord of the Admiralty.

June 10. Robert Shapland Carew, of Castlebore, co. Wexford, Esq. to be a Baron of Ireland, by the title of Baron Carew.

June 13. The Right Hon. James Abercromby to be Master of his Majesty's Mint.-56th Foot, Major John Wilson, h. p. to be Major.

June 18. Knighted, Hugh. Pigot, esq. Capt. R.N., C.B., and K.C.H.

June 19. Robert Cutlar Fergusson, Esq. to be Advocate General or Judge Martial of his Majes ty's forces.-Andrew Leith Hay, Esq. to be Clerk of the Orduance.

June 20. 75th Foot, Major W. Cox, from the Cape Mounted Riflemen, to be Major, vice W. Burney, who exchanges.-Robert Graham, esq. and Capt. Geo. Stevens Byng to be Commissioners of the Treasury, vice Baring and Kennedy.-F. T. Baring, esq. to be Secretary to the Treasury.

The Earl of Carlisle to be Lord Privy Seal.Rt. Hon. Edw. Ellice to have a seat in the Cabinet.-The Marquis of Conyngham to be Postmaster-gen.-Rt. Hon. Robert Grant to be Governor of Madras.-Major the Marquis of Doaro to he Commander in chief and Lieut. Governor of Guernsey.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

Rev. W. Ryder, to be Archdeacon of Cloyne, co.
Cork.

Rev.- Collins, Preb, of Cloyne Cath.
Rev. J. Fortescue, Cauon of Worcester Cath.
Rev. A. Gore, Canon in Kildare Cath.
Rev. R. J. Hobson, Preb. of Lismore Cath.
Rev. J. Barnes, Onecote P. C. co. Stafford.
Rev. A. Clarke, to the Church of Inverness.
Rev. H. Clarke, Northfield R. co. Worcester.
Rev. J. Clavering, Winbotsham R. Suffolk.
Rev. T. M. Cornish, Fitzhead P. C. Somerset.
Rev. C. Eckersale, Farmborough R. Hants.
Rev. J. Edwards, Rungton Holme R. Norfolk.
Rev. J. Fendall, Bucknall R. co. Lincoln.
Rev. J. H. Fludyer, Thisleton and Ayston R. co.
Rutland.

Rev. J. Greenly, Sharncott R. Wilts.
Rev. B. Harris, Deene R. co. Northampton.
Rev. J. Hugill, Earls Heaton R. Yorkshire.
Rev. E. Hume, Church of Pitsligo, co. Aberdeen.
Rev. R. Jarrett, Luddendon P. C. Kent.
Rev. D. Jones, Cadoxton V. co. Glamorgan.
Rev. D. E. Langley, Olney V. Bucks.

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