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At 6, Elm Row, on the 21st ultimo, Mr Thomas Watson, uphol sterer.

At Edinburgh, on the 24th ultimo, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Adam Williamson, printer there.

At Dalmellington Manse, on the 22d ult., the Rev. Gilbert M'Ilveen, minister of that parish.

Here, on the 23d ultimo, John Napier, junior, son of John Napier, Esq., of Mollance, and late ensign in the 58th regiment of foot, aged 33 years.

At Penpont Manse, on the 3d ultimo, the Reverend John Nivison, in the 70th year of his age and thirty-fourth of his ministry.

Suddenly, at Falkirk, on the 18th ultimo, Mr William Horn, of the Commercial Bank, much and justly regretted.

At Ashworth Hall, on the 17th ultimo, near Rochdale, much respected by his parishioners and friends, the Rev. Joseph Selkirk, perpetual curate of Ashworth, and chaplain to the Right Hon. the Earl of Dunmore.

On the 15th ultimo, James White, Esq., of Norham, in his 73d year, much respected.

At Fisherrow, on the 17th ultimo, Mrs Christian M'Millan, wife of Mr William Watt, merchant there.

At Scone, Perth, on the 18th ultimo, Miss L. H. Dick, youngest daughter of the late Alexander Dick, Esq., accountant, Edinburgh. At 45, Constitution Street, Leith, on the 1st ult., Mr A. D. Barclay. At Lorn House, on the 21st ult., Isle of Man, Christian Taurman, widow of the late Lieutenant-Colonel Cunninghame, 58th regiment. At Pilmore Place, St. Andrews, on the 19th ultimo, Margaret Dawson, wife of the Rev. Robert Young, Episcopal Minister there.

On the 26th ultimo, at his house in the Albany, Sir Walter Stirling, Bart. of Faskine, N. B.

Suddenly, on the 17th ultimo, in Russell Square, London, Helen, wife of Walter Learmonth, Esq., and daughter of the late John Annand, Esq. of Belmont, Aberdeen.

At Union Street, Aberdeen, on the 25th ultimo, Joseph Edmund, infant son of Lieutenant A. Barnes, 25th regiment.

At sea, on board the Asia, 11th January, Theodore, youngest son of the late Alexander Minto, Muirtown of Haddo,

At Inchyra, on the 26th ultimo, Elizabeth, wife of Lieutenant-Colonel Campbell, 35th regiment, and eldest daughter of the late James Richardson, Esq. of Pitfour.

At Kirkton of Fraserburgh, on the 14th ultimo, James Scott, M. D. in the 50th year of his age, after a long and protracted illness.

At Montreal, on the 17th ult., Dr John Leitch Smith, late of Glasgow, where he had been for a number of years a medical practitioner.

At 18. St Andrew's Square, on the 26th ult. Mrs. Lillias Moore Stewart, wife of William Newbigging, Esq. surgeon.

At her house, 3, Lauriston Lane, on the 24th ult. Miss Christian Erskine, the last surviving daughter of the late Dr. John Erskine, of Carnock, one of the ministers of Edinburgh.

Here, on the 29th ult. Miss Jane Moir, youngest daughter of the late Andrew Moir of Otterburn.

At 2, Shandwick Place, on the 31st ult., of scarlet fever, Mary Elizabeth, youngest daughter of James Anderson, Esq. civil engineer.

At 30 Morrison Street, Edinburgh, on the 29th ult., Patrick Wemyss M'Arthur, eldest son of the late Captain Donald M'Arthur, retired list, 2d royal veteran battalion.

At the Manse of Stromness, Orkney, on the 20th ult. the Rev. William Clouston, minister of Stromness and Sandwick, in the 86th year of his ministry. Mr. Clouston was a native of Stromness, and one of the four oldest clergymen in the Church of Scotland.

At East Polton Mains, Lasswade, on the 25th ult. in her seventy-ninth year, Mrs. Jane Reid, relict of Mr. George Dobbie, late farmer there. At Broughton Place, Peebles-shire, on the 17th ult., Mr. John Anderson, Cramelt.

At Peebles on the 30th ult. Mr. John Anderson, late in Henderland. At Cairndinnis, on the 22d ult. Mrs. Katherine Todd, wife of Patrick Begbie, Esq.

At his residence in Chelsea Hospital, Sir E. Home, Bart., aged seventy

seven.

At Falkirk on the 22d ult. aged 40, Thomas William Henbest, Esq. surgeon.

At his own house, No. 1, Lothian Road, after a few hours illness, Mr. John Doig, Tobacconist, much and justly regretted.

At London, suddenly, on the 6th instant, George Watt, Esq. W. S. At Pathhead, on the 7th instant, very suddenly, Eliza Trail Craigie, wife of Mr. Dove, of the Customs at Kirkaldy.

Of cholera, at Wick, on the 30th ult., Mr John Calder, fish-curer, Leith, in the 52d year of his age.

At Wedderlie, parish of Westruther, on the 2d current, Agnes Peacock, mother of the Rev. George Reid, minister of the United Associate Congregation in Westray, Orkney.

At London, on the 2d instant, of cholera, David Blackie, Esq. writer to the Signet.

At 1. Grove Street, on the 1st instant, the Rev. Alexander Harper, late of Lanark

At 14, Carlton Place, on the 3d current, Augusta Walker Campbell, daughter Charles Campbell, Esq.

At 28, Inverleith Row, on the 1st current, Jane, daughter of Captain❘ Grace.

At Portobello, on the 9th instant, Isabella Cornelia, youngest daughter of William Blair, Esq. advocate.

At Rome, on the 13th ultimo, Gilbert Laing Meason, Esq. of Lindertis.

At Finnich Malice, Stirlingshire, on the 6th instant, George Buchanan, Esq., late of Demerara

At Belladrum House, in the county of Inverness, on the 6th instant, Buchanan McMillan, Esq. of Bow Street, Covent Garden, Printer in Ordinary to his Majesty. This gentleman was distinguished by a long life of active benevolence, and liberal hospitality. He was a native of Inverness-shire, and at the age of thirteen went to London, where he afterwards attained great eminence as a printer. Mr M Millan was in the 75th year of his age.

In London of cholera, on the 9th instant, George Watt, E W.S.

At the Manse of Gladsmuir, on the 4th instant, the Reverend George Hamilton, D. D. minister of the parish of Gladsmuir, in the seventy sixth year of his age and forty-third of his ministry in that parish, At his house, 36, Clyde Buildings, Glasgow, on the 5th instant, James Young, commission-merchant.

At Aberdeen, on the 4th instant, Ann, wife of Captain D Scott.

At Thurso, on the 30th ult., after a few hours' illness, Lieuters Alexander Robeson, R.N.

At Montreal, on the 4th July, Mr Andrew Darling, late of Ec burgh.

At London on the 1st inst., Mr William Young, of Down' Wharf.

At Quebec. on the 20th July, Thomas Gordon, Esq. mercha there.

At 126, Lauriston Place, on the 10th instant, Lieutenant J. C. M chell, Fife Militia.

At Edinburgh, on the 12th instant. Mr. Andrew Craig, junior, ag 20, student of medicine, son of Mr. M'Lehose, W.S.

At her mother's house, 12, Roxburgh Place, on the 10th i Mary, eldest daughter of the late Mr. Robert Pridie, hat manufactu Edinburgh.

At his house, James' Court, Lawnmarket, on the 16th instant, s a few hours illness, Mr. Charles Stewart, printer.

At Mr. Simpson's, 54, George Square, on the 16th instant, Missis bella Storrar, of cholera.

At his house, Charlotte Street, Edinburgh, on the 7th instant, Mr John Gibb, writer.

At I, Lothian Street, on the 10th instant, Mr. John Doig, tobacc nist.

At 93, George Street, on the 12th instant, Major Cheape, of the B East India Company's Service.

At 11, Heriot Row, on the 12th instant, Frances, youngest daughte of John Cay, Esq. advocate.

At No. 6, Huntly Street, Edinburgh, on the 15th instant, He Scott, wife of Mr. David Burn, merchant in Leith.

At Glasgow on the 6th instant, Mr. Charles Ferrier Hamilton, aguas, son of Mr. David Hamilton, Sunnybank.

At Crosspoll, Island of Coll, Argyllshire, on the 19th ultimo, Capt Allan M'Lean, aged 70.

At Colombo, on the 31st March, Mrs. Hamilton Bailey, daughter d the Right Rev. Bishop Gleig, and spouse of the Rev. Benjamun Bar: senior Chaplain of Ceylon.

At Hawick, on the 12th instant, the Rev. John Cochrane, mister of that parish.

At Montreal, on the 16th August, Margaret Gray, wife of Mr. R Watson, aged 65. She, accompanied by her husband and daught arrived here from Lanark, Scotland, on the preceding Friday, on her way to Upper Canada; and during her short stay with some of her re lations in this city, was seized with cholera, and died after thirty illness.-Montreal Herald.

At Thurso, on the 3d September, in the 83d year of her age, Mr. Elizabeth Horne, relict of the late William Stewart, Esq. of Stra and mother of General William Stewart of Strath; and Mrs Mour, the only two that survive of a large family.

At Thurso, on the 7th September, in her 7th month, Johanna Eliza beth Monro, daughter of Donald Monro, Esq. merchant, thert. At Dunbar, on the 16th instant, aged 19, Charles, son of Mr Kelly, agent for the British Linen Company.

At Cromarty House, on the 19th instant, Sir Michael B. Clark, K aged 55, Physician-General, and member of His Majesty's Prry ( cil, Jamaica.

At 24, Hill Street, on the 21st instant, Helen, fourth daughter of the late William Drover, Edinburgh.

Here on the 16th instant, Mr. David Steel.

At Gellymill, on the 19th instant, Elizabeth, youngest daughter . the late George Robinson, Esq. Banff.

At St. David's, Jamaica, on the 5th ultimo, in his 19th year, Alex ander Hamilton, second surviving son of the Reverend J. M. Rober on, Livingstone.

At Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, on the 12th instant, the Reverend Alexander Nisbet, minister of the Secession Church in Portsburgh At Woodhall, on the 16th instant, the Right Honourable Lady Ele Campbell, wife of Walter Frederick Campbell of Islay, Esq. M. Pa eldest daughter of the Earl of Wemyss and March.

At Contentibus, near Mid-Calder, on the 14th instant, Margaret, eldest daughter of the late Mr. John Nicol, Hivots Mill.

At sea, on the 12th May last, on board of his Majesty's steam-vesse Pluto, off Prince's Island, Bight of Biafra, Africa, James Bae, a ant-surgeon, eldest son of John Rae of Myre Isle, Orkney. Lieutenant-Colonel Tucker, late of his Majesty's 29th regiment. At Quebec, on 11th August, Andrew Moir, Esq. merchant the youngest son of the late Rev. Dr. Moir of Peterhead.

Of cholera, aged 70, the Rev. George Crane, clerk of the parish Ardglass, of which he has been minister for 21 years,

At Ardenconnal, Dumbarton-hire, on the 15th inst, Mrs. Jean De nistoun, wife of Andrew Buchanan, Esq., of Ardenconual, in her year.

At Millburn, Dumbartonshire, on the 23d instant, James Stiring Esq. At Glasgow, on 21st inst., aged nine years, James, son of Mr. J Graham, 23, West George Street.

At Glasgow, on the 25th instant, Miss Margaret Johnston, in Vư 59th year of her age.

At Netherhouse, Chryston, of cholera, on Monday the 24th Mrs. Elizabeth Mliquham, widow of John Norrie, late cooper Glasgow.

At his house in Fortwillam, on the morning of Thursday, the inst. the Right Rev. Dr. Ronald McDonald, Roman Catholic B

in the western district of Scotland.

At Denbie House, on the 7th inst., Mrs. Mary Irving, relict tf (3

lonel Carruthers, of Denbie.

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POLITICAL REGISTER,

AND

MONTHLY CHRONICLE OF PUBLIC EVENTS,
SCOTTISH LISTS, &c.

No. 3.-VOL. I. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1832. PRICE THREE-HALFPENCE

NEWS OF THE MONTH.

ravelled yarn, which the Holy Alliance and their predecessors in office entangled. A formidable British fleet is mustered-in the newspapers-to sup.EARLY in the month the Cabinet Ministers re- port Belgium, and co-operate with the French army. paired to London from their various rural so-The other foreign intelligence is of less imjourns, and on the 12th held their first Council, portance, as the country is not so closely involved, Lord DURHAM having returned from the Continent either in the contest between the brothers of Poron the previous day. Parliament was farther pro-tugal, or in the prospective changes in France, as rogued till the 11th December, and will, it is be- with this untoward affair of Belgium. It has been lieved, be dissolved without any new session before said that the King, and what is called the Court that date. The elections, which have undergone party, favour the side of the King of Holland long preparation, will be expeditiously, if not against Ministers; and also that there is a diquietly, got over, and the Reformed Parliament vision in the cabinet on the question of immemay meet about the end of January, or early in diate hostilities. February. Little is known of the result of Lord DURHAM'S mission to Russia, though it is believed that in Polish affairs his remonstrances have had no effect whatever. The old course of remorseless oppression is still followed at Warsaw. On the affairs of Belgium and Holland his Lordship's negotiation has, according to rumour, been more successful; or as probably Russia never had any serious design of interfering farther than by intrigue and an attitude of menace. The unhappy, and as it would seem, interminable dispute between the Dutch and Belgians, in which Great Britain is so inextricably mixed up, has been the important feature in the month's news. One day we are flattered with assurances that the Belgian territory is to be peacefully evacuated by the Dutch, and the citadel of Antwerp surrendered; and the next that a French army is marching, and an English maritime force moving to compel the Dutch, at the point of the sword, and the cannon's mouth, to hearken to reason. All we know for certain is, that since 1830, when the Conference, at which these squabbles were to be amicably adjusted, commenced in London, down to the present date, much has been said and written, and nothing done; nor are we certain that the obstinacy o the King of Holland has not been abetted and increased by the dilatoriness and dallying of the English government. It is, however, no slight matter to plunge the country into war; nor shall we rashly blame Ministers for exhausting every means of preserving peace before the blow, threatened so long that the terror of it has passed away, shall be struck. It should never be forgotten that our government is thus hampered by clearing the

It is to the elections, the result of which is now tolerably well ascertained, and beyond them to the meeting of Parliament, every thought is now anxiously directed, and to the prospects of the country from the working of the REFORM BILL. The interval which must yet elapse before the new Parliament assemble would be time worse than lost, were it not diligently employed by Ministers in concocting and preparing many separate measures of substantial reform. Their Church Reform Bill, we are informed, is already prepared; but the Corn Law question, thorough retrenchment, pervading all departments of the State, the removal of all taxes on knowledge, and the pacification of Ireland are at least equally pressing. A prelusive sough is heard through the real and the would-be organs of the present government against haste, impatience, precipitance, violence, and men given to change, as if the season for deliberation were not past, on matters upon which all men have made up their minds, and the time arrived for strenuous exertion. The convictions, which prove to men the necessity of reforms, may be the result of slow and deliberate thought; but the accomplishment of reform can only be obtained by strong and unceasing effort. Are church reforms to be retarded till pluralists and tithe-fed parsons own their necessity? the abolition of the Corn laws, till grasping landowners are convinced of their oppression? When shall we have sinecurists and overpaid placemen calling out for retrenchment, and going hand-in-hand with the reformers in enforcing a rigid economy and husbanding of our slender and exhausted resources? On the great measures most urgently demanded there is already

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all the unanimity in the national mind that ever, wish to see the Irish relax in their efforts to shake can be attained. How much longer do we require off at once and for ever the Incubus of the sinecure church. to learn that Free Trade, Free Knowledge, Cheap To tithes they never again will submit! Justice, and an Economical government are imme- Their blood, poured out day after day, cements their resolution to oppose tithes to the last extremity. The diately necessary; and, with these, lessened taxa- opposition marshalling in England is, if less vistion, the means of general instruction, and as the lent, quite as formidable. The Dissenters, a numer guardian of the blessing just achieved, not by de- ous and powerful body, are seizing the propitions liberation, not by hopelessly waiting to conciliate, moment to assert their rights of exemption from but at the knife's point-reform in the represen- heavy imposts to support a body of clergy from tation. But we must be patient, and, as it seems, whose labours they derive no benefit, and whose wait to bring the House of Peers and the aristocracy doctrines and discipline they conscientiously disap into harmony with the people-a consummation far prove; while many of the adherents of the Church more probable next session than in twenty hence. are roused by the glaring and shameful abuses of an establishment, which exacts so much and repays 80 Delay makes every day and hour lost in so idle an little. The English anti-tithe, and anti-rate war, ifless attempt, a throwing away of the golden opportu- sanguinary and furious than that in Ireland, appears, nity, and a derelection of the duty which the re- in its beginning, equally determined. At a publje presentatives of the people owe to their constituents meeting held lately in Birmingham, it was resolved and the country. If the Government are but one to refuse payment of the rate; and addresses to the half as well prepared as the people, a very great Dissenters in other places call upon them to resist deal may be accomplished even in one tithes and rates, and to suffer their goods to be seized like the people of Edinburgh, the Quakers, sion. The aptness of Ministers to facilitate, as well as to lead, in every substantial redress of or the Irish; and thus, by establishing passive rësistance, to put an end to the system. The Spectator grievances, and establishment of withheld rights,« hopes the Dissenters will have more morality and and grant of delayed justice,—the extent of their more wisdom"-than the Quakers of England, and preparation, the clearness and consolidation of the Catholics of Ireland, of course; but we should their views, and their economizing of time where not promise for them. To meet the inevitable so much is to be done, will to us be the touch-storm, it is affirmed that Ministers have their plan stone of their honesty and sincerity. The apof Church Reform already prepared. It is to be proaching session must be one of business, of hoped, that it will be such as may deserve the sup straight-forward earnest endeavour; not of palaver, port of the people, which a narrow inefficient mes sure of Church reform never will. The dissenters form, mystification, and procrastination, carried and discontented churchmen have them in the on for a few months, to end in the old enor- dilemma, of either abolishing establishments alto mous supplies being granted, many bad speeches gether, by withdrawing the Church funds, or of made, and all else remaining nearly as before. dividing the spoils equally among all the spiritual The repeal of a few statutes, so bad that they vir- teachers of the people. A government-paid clergy, tually repeal themselves, will not, by any means, dissenters would never tolerate; and if all the boon content us. We reverse the adage, and say, "Let intended them by the projected reform shall merely, us take care of the pounds, and no fear of the as the Government papers insinuate, be relief from pence." Let us secure the valuables, in the first contributing to the building and repair of places of worship their principles forbid them to enter, and place, and their preservation will enable us easily leaving them to support their own poor only, it will to obtain whatever else is good for us. In the never meet their wishes. They will not think this meanwhile, the opposition which Whig and Tory worth asking for; though no portion of good is to alike seem tacitly leagued to offer to Mr. Hume, be refused. A trimming, milk-and-water scheme and to candidates holding his well-known opinions, of Church reform has been proposed by a certain on the great and leading questions of Irish-Church Lord Henley, an official in Chancery, and a pupil of Reform, the Corn Laws, the restraints on Trade, Lord Eldon. This same Lord Henley, after broachand shackles on Knowledge, are of singular omen. ing his plan of Church reform, has, on the strength So is the repugnance of candidates known to be Hume in Middlesex! This throws some light upe: of so popular an act, come forward to oppose Mr. favourites at the Treasury, to the fetters of his reform. He may be a well-meaning and sincer pledges as an explicit declaration of their indivi- man, though he has strangely delayed to think of dual opinions is curiously named, as if request- even the little change he proposes. Though it certaining to know their sentiments on the propriety of ly required slight consideration to reduce his Grace abolishing sinecure places, and opening Trade in the Archbishop of Canterbury, whose nerves have corn, were binding them down to some particular scarcely yet recovered the shock of the atrociou line of conduct, in every untried emergency. and revolutionary bill, to so paltry a pittance L.15,000, with L.12,000 to his brother of York. L.10,000, L.8000, and L.7000 to three more of the right reverend fathers,-while it is impossible to fancy how the other Bishops are to keep soul a body together on such a wretched pittance as L.500 a-year, to which Lord Henley mercilessly proposes they shall be reduced. How the dignified clergy of other countries exist; how, for instance, the Archbishop of Paris, a tolerably expensive capital, holds his rank at the head of the ecclesiastics of a religion

CHURCH ESTABLISHMENTS. SIGNS of fate have for a long while been gathering round the Established Church of England; but now they are crowding and darkening, either to the hour of her destruction or thorough purification. Ireland is almost in open insurrection against the Church Establishment, nor do we imagine there can be many persons, either in England or Scotland, who would

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of what Protestant bishops call a vain shew, mummery, and ostentation, on L.500 a-year, we cannot imagine. There is, however, some good in Lord Henley's plan. He proposes to enforce some degree of residence, and to abolish pluralities of the more shameless kind. In short, there is good about his Lordship, tardy as he has been, and cautious as he is. The praise given to Lord Henley in the Edinburgh Review, just published, is surely not a token that the Reviewer's ideas square with his. No, they are wise men in their generation. If Lord Henley's little scheme, promulgated in the little book, does not take, the party may go a few reluctant paces farther.-It has not taken.

A meeting was lately held at Exeter Hall, London, for the purpose of forming an association of members of the Church of England, to procure, by all lawful and constitutional means, reform in the Established Church.

Lord Henley was here the tongue of the trump, which is sufficient for the character of that meeting. Yet so infatuated are the high-paid clergy, that they conceive Lord Henley's very moderate plan of abolishing the more disgraceful pluralities, and somewhat equalizing the emoluments of the inferior clergy, as a monstrous encroachment upon the rights of the Church.

THE CHURCH IN SCOTLAND.

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CHURCH REFORM.- We understand that a number of the Dissenting clergymen in Fife have for some time past been considering the propriety of calling together all those who are friendly to Church reform, and have now come to the determination of doing so. place at Kirkcaldy, on the 1st Tuesday of November. It The meeting will take ing interest, that a petition should be got up and presented seems to be a general feeling among those of the Dissentto the new Parliament against all Church establishments. Fife Herald.

Edward Irving a list of queries regarding certain doctrinal
"The Annan Presbytery lately transmitted to the Rev.
points of Scripture, requiring, within a certain specified
time, distinct and categorical answers.
seems, within the last few days, written to the Presbytery,
Mr. Irving has, it
praying for a delay of his case for two months longer, and
promising at the end of that time a respectful and minute
answer to the questions of the Presbytery. It is believed
that he will reply to the queries of the Presbytery in pro-
pria persona."

ANOTHER SPEC. FOR MINISTERS. We have Penny
thing remains but for the Ministers and Proprietors of the
Publications out of Number, and Penny Theatres; and no
Penny Magazine to add to these economies a Penny King

and a Penny Church.-Examiner.

The Rev. Mr. Wylie of Carluke has given so much of fence to the people in the parish by his violence against reform, that they have fixed on building a Relief church

On this subject we give gleanings from the there as soon as possible. newspapers

"We are," says one, "informed that there are at present drawn'up and ready to be presented to the reformed Parliament, 50 petitions for the abolition of the Church of Scotland; that is, for throwing the support of this Church xclusively on its own members. It would go far to neuralize the hostility of dissenters and seceders to this venerible establishment, the purest of the kind ever yet exhibitd in the world, were patronage instantly and totally aboished. Nothing but this can avert or even protract its verthrow under the searching eye and the liberal mind of reformed Parliament and an enlightened people." This is from the Christian Advocate. From the Fife Herald, we learn that,

"A number of the dissenting clergymen in Fife have, for me time past, been considering the propriety of calling ogether all those who are friendly to Church reform, and ave now come to the determination of doing so. neeting will take place at Kirkcaldy on the first Tuesday The of November. It seems to be a general feeling among hose of the dissenting interest, that a petition should be ot up and presented to the new Parliament against all Church Establishments. When the meeting takes place, we shall report proceedings."

In Edinburgh, the dissenters, and those of the Church who dislike patronage, have, by their activity, drawn upon themselves the indignation of the Tory churchmen, who taunt them with being felow-labourers with Cobbett.

"GLASGOW VOLUNTARY CHURCH ASSOCIATION. Between three and four hundred dissenters, who appeared, rom their leaders, to belong to the Relief, Independent, and Secession bodies alone, assembled at breakfast in the Black Bull Inn, Glasgow, on Thursday morning, the 10th inst., he Rev. Dr. Dick in the chair, when a series of resolutions vere agreed to, an Association for the West of Scotland formed, and a Committee appointed. Dr. Heugh read a etter from Dr. Wardlaw, who was unable to attend, expressive of his having overcome all former scruples on the subject of the Association, and cordially acquiescing in its formation; and Mr. Ewing was represented as equally friendly to the object by an independent preacher. Mr. Marshall of Kirkintilloch received a vote of thanks, which was moved by Mr Beith, a proposition which was carried by a tempest of acclamation."

STATE OF THE ELECTIONS.
REGISTRATION OF VOTES.

THOUGH the Registration is nearly completed every
where, we cannot yet state the precise number of the con-
stituency in the different towns and counties. It is rather
less than was expected.
7,024; rejected, 33. Paisley, 1,260; rejected, 18. Leith,
Edinburgh, 6,042; Glasgow,
1,155. The Registration, after the pains and penalties of
special pleading, and the whole arts of fee-craft, were ex-
erted and exhausted on objections by the lawyers employed,
has been on the whole decided by the Sheriffs, both Whig
the Tory Sheriffs, of whom we have quantum suff., were to
and Tory, with tolerable fairness. There was a rumour that
POLLING PLACES, in the most inconvenient corners they
give all the further annoyance they could, by fixing the
could devise.
durst commit so flagrant a contempt of all decency-laying
It is impossible that they could, would, or
gone by in Scotland.
aside their duty. The time for manœuvres of this sort, has

has settled the important point as to the admissibility of
LODGERS' VOTES.-In Edinburgh the Assistant Sheriff
the votes of lodgers. The lodger's claim is held good in
cases where the bare walls of the apartments he occupies,
value of L.10.
exclusive of furniture and attendance, are of the annual

ENGLISH ELECTIONS.

He nearly numbers two for one against Mr. Saddler. At
We are glad to say that Mr. Macauley will carry Leeds.
Bath, Mr. Roebuck, the barrister, has a decided majority,
over the brother of Sir J. C. Hobhouse. The interest Mr.

Hume took in the election of Mr. Roebuck, after having re-
commended him, at the request of the electors, has excited
the spleen of certain Whigs. A London paper says, "It
is much to be feared that there will be a split among the
Reformers of Middlesex. They have got some idea that
the Hobhouse party intend to support Lord Henley against
Mr. Hume, as a set-off for Mr. Hume's introduction to
Bath of Mr. Roebuck against young Hobhouse there;
and if that notion get confirmed, it is declared to be the
intention of the Westminster folks to start Mr. Hume for
Westminster against Sir J. C. Hobhouse! Undoubtedly
Sir John's rather extensive electioneering manœuvres are
likely to create some work to enable him to keep his own
seat.

Lord Henley is an Irish Peer, but an Englishman, second

cousin to Lady Brougham, and a Master in Chancery. On hospital emptied, and as quickly filled again; for several the subject of Church Reform Lord Henley says, in his ad- days scarcely a single recovery; the faculty fatigued beyond dress to the electors of Middlesex-"Though cordially and endurance, compelled to ride the shortest distances, and tes zealously attached to all our institutions in Church and unable to answer the incessant calls of suffering bumanɛn: State, I shall always be ready to support such temperate at other times seriously affected themselves, until relieves and judicious measures of reformation as the varying con- by the promptitude and skill of their brethren; shops te ditions of society, or the just demands of the nation, prove to general business shut at noon-day; publicans warned 19 be expedient." On the other questions that at present agi- close their stores at dusk, that the vicious might be h tate the public, the Master in Chancery speaks in the lan- pered in their evil propensities; every vehicle employe guage which is appropriate to the Doubting Castle in which removing family after family to the country; the publ his life has long been spent. Mr. Hume has several times schools dismissed; St. Michael's vacated from the dread e met, and addressed his constituents, with great intrepidity; cholera graves, and divine service performed in the Court. and stood the question on all points. He is now at Man-heuse; trade suspended, workshops depopulated, and indus chester. We should be sorry, indeed, that Mr. Hume could trious traders gathered into knots, discussing the fearful exbe effectually opposed in Middlesex, though he might be tent of the pestilence; many requiring medical aid, and chosen fortwenty other places. His election for that coun- paralysed from the force of terror alone; every countean ty, while Brougham was at the same time chosen, in spite shaded with grief, and a whole community the picture of of the oligarchy, for Yorkshire, fulfilled the hopes of many despair. years, and showed that the people were in earnest at last, and that the reform, which was to lead to all reforms, could not be much longer averted.

CLITHEROE. There is nothing too impudent for the Conservatives. We should have thought they would have been content with "Let a' be for let a' be," as our Northern friends have it; but the compliments of Ministers seem to have determined them to persevere in their course of wantonness. No fewer than five attempts were made at Clitheroe Petty Sessions, to convict as many men of rioting and disorder, whose only fault was, that they had been beaten, and abused, and cut down, and trampled upon, in order that Mr. John Irving might indulge his whim of making a procession into a borough where his chance of success was ́ about as great as his chance of succeeding to the Throne of England. And what were the charges for the prosecution of which the law was attempted to be stretched and tortured?-Spectator.

CHOLERA.

"The nights of Thursday, Friday, and Saturday w the most appalling we have yet encountered; and we hav the authority of a medical gentlemen for stating, that th horrors of war-the labours of the hospital amidst the wounded and dying—are nothing to what he witnessed or these occasions. The house of every surgeon was besieged : at every hour of the night their bells were rung with we vals of only a few minutes; and had they been able to m tiply their persons and services, the harvest of disease would still have been plentiful, the labourers disproportions NY few in number. The hospital at times was filled to overflowing, and it is to be feared that at least a small numbere poor persons passed from time to eternity without a med man to administer a draught, or a friend to close their eyes The fatigue of these terrible evenings—incessant toil anal want of rest by night and by day-completely exhausts the strength of those who had been most active in the w vice of humanity, and at least four of our practising surgeons became so seriously ill in consequence, that they SINCE our last report cholera has been severely felt inquired the most prompt attention on the part of such af their brethren as remained in something like vigorous Dumfries and Dunfermline. There was also, in the early health." part of the month, an access in Edinburgh. Dundee, and most of the towns and villages of Fife, were similarly afflicted; and after an abatement, the disease had re-appeared in Paisley. We now rejoice to be able to say, that for the last fortnight it has been lessening its devastation, and contracting the scene of its ravages considerably; and that the average of the cases reported to government is so much decreased, that we hope in a few weeks to hear of the total disappearance of this pest. As there were no regular reports from Dunfermline, the number of cases and deaths was exaggerated; the greatest number was fourteen burials in one day, an average high enough for the population. At the worst, in Edinburgh, the daily cases were 45, 38, and between 20 and 30. They have again sunk to 8, 9, or 10. Fumigation, and burning tar, have been practised here, it is said, with benefit. The fumigations must be useful, and the tar-burning may be so. It at least sooths and cheers the spirits of believers in its efficacy. At the time of our last report the people of Dumfries had concealed the prevalence of cholera among them till it would conceal no longer; and by this conduct probably spread the calamity. The daily accounts from that town became most painful and alarming. The scene described in the subjoined letter will long be remembered. Dumfries has lost many valuable citizens:-

"We at length begin to breathe a little more freely, and indulge the pleasing hope that the worst is past; and never, never may it be our fortune to witness such a week as that which has just closed on the town of Dumfries. The bare recollection of it is enough to quail the stoutest heart; what, then, must have been the dreadful reality? Hearses plying in every street; patients seized, and in imminent danger, faster than the bearers were able to remove them, or mourners to accompany them to their long home; the grave-digger's spade in constant requisition; the strong man, from neglect, stricken down in his pride; the feeble snatched in a few hours from a sick-bed to the tomb; the

has all but disappeared. We are sorry to find that it pass At Inverness, and in all the towns of the north, cholers ed over almost none of the villages. At Fort-William, fr the size of the place, it was severe. We regret to netice,

that Cholera has broken out at Kelso with considerable vir

ulence, after an interval of ten months from its appear-
ance in Scotland. On the 29th, out of 22 cases, 14 hart
proved fatal.

were few cases.
In Ireland cholera has greatly abated; in Cork ther
The Liverpool hospital is closed; and in
London the cases are very few. The disease has also disɛ-
peared in Paris, after a mortality reported at 18,373, thengt
other accounts make it from 40 to 50,000 by cholera 550
dysentry. Accounts are received from America to the
Montreal, Quebec, New York, and generally over the miss
end of September.-Cholera, which had been so severe a
States, was fast disappearing, and breaking out in im

Southern and Western States.

Total cases in Edinburgh to 30th October, 1813; Death

1026.

Leith, Cases, 431; Deaths, 253.
Glasgow, Cases, 6157; Deaths, 2976.
Paisley, Cases, 733; Deaths, 441.

Dumfries, Cases, 821; Deaths, 404.
Dublin, Cases, 12,127; Deaths, 4476.

Inverness, Cases, 543; Deaths, 167.

THE PLAGUE. The accounts which have been rece respecting the ravages of the plague in Bushire, are of a dreadful description. The disease had almost depopu the district, the deaths having amounted to from là 200 a-day. It commenced by great weakness, and sufferers were attacked with swellings in the groin, the ar pits, and the back, the pain arising from which was excesses and continued until death put an end to their misery. At one time there were 2000 lying unburied in the F streets.

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