PROCLAMATION.—The new Ministry have issued a proclamation, in the King's
name, offering a reward of 501. for the conviction of every participator in the riots, and another reward of 5001. for the conviction Of the authors of the fires in Wiltshire, Kent, Sussex, Surrey, Hamp- shire, and Berkshire. MINISTERIAL REDUCTIONS.—Already three offices have been struck from the list of Ministerial patronage—the Mastership of the Mint, the Lieutenant-Generalship of the Ordnance, the Vice-Treasurer- ship of Ireland : these make about 7,0001. a year. The heads of the Ca- binet have also, it is stated, agreed togive up 33 per cent. of their salaries ; which will make some 10,0001. more. If they pursue this plan of re- ducing every salary 33 per cent. the saving will be great. SCRUTINY OF THE VOTES ON THE CIVIL Ltses—The following corrections have reached us :—Mr. Blacket, the Member for Beeralston ; Mr. Tunno, the Member for Bossiney ; Mr. Jenkins, the Member for Shrewsbury ; Sir C. Ogle, the Member for Portarlington ; Captain Polhill, the Member for Bedford ; and Mr. West, the Member for East Grinstead ; were present on the division, and voted in the minority. Mr. Doherty, the Solicitor-General for Ireland, was absent; he paired Off with Mr. H. Cavendish, the Member for Derby.
OFFICE or CHANCELLOR.—It is reported, that one of the first measures of the new Administration will be to separate the political from the judicial duties of the-Lord' High ausncellor.---.5tas4ard.
Hunan Secnersares.—Sir John Shee has been appointed Under Secretary for Foreign-Affairs; trice Lord Douglas:--Times.
OFFICIAL 'HONOURs.—The three new Judges Alderson,'Tauhton, and Patteson, have received the honour of knighthood. Mr. Denman, the new Attorney-General, and Mr. Horne, the SolicitorsGeneral, have received the same compliment.
SELF-DENIAL.—It is said that the Premier, on his entering on office, was offered, but declined, the ribbon of the Garter, conferred on the' Duke of Bedford ; and that Sir Robert Peel, on retiring, was offered, but de- lined, apeerage. This is common fame : we have no doubt Sir Robert might have been Baron Tamworth long ago if he had wished it.
" A Currte CALLED BROGUE-EM."—It is not generally known that. Lord Brougham was at one time a candidate for a Scotch borough. In 1812, the late Sir John Henderson of Fordel's interest, and that of the Earl of Roseberry, were exerted to have him returned for the Inver- keithing district, in opposition to General Campbell of Monzie, the Mi. nisterial member. On that occasion, we well recollect a Deacon's lady, who, on hearing that the votes of the Whig delegates, instead of being given, as it was supposed they would be, to General Maitland, Lord Lauderdale's brother, who had canvassed the borough, had been given to Mr. Brougham—exclaim with great indignation at the attempt to give away the membership " to a chid' called Brogue-em, that nobody ever heard o' before." The delegates that voted for Lord Brougham are, we believe, still resident in Queensferry and Culross ; and, we have no doubt, take due credit with their cronies for the votes they then gave.
CRIMINAL LAW.—A petition was presented to the House of Com. mons on Friday se'nnight, from the inhabitant householders of London, who are liable to serve on juries, for the improvement of the Criminal Laws, and especially for the abolition of the punishment of death. The petition was signed by the foremen of six Grand Juries for the Sessions of 1830, and by upwards of eleven hundred merchants, traders, &c. The presentation of this petition was one of the last, if not the very last act of Mr. Brougham in the Lower House.
THE WHITE HORSE PLOT.—On the celebrated 9th of November, a family which occupies Lord Mayor Key's house at Denmark Hill, were surprised by the arrival of a party of the police, who came to take posses- sion of it lest it should be burned down ! and they actually turned out and took refuge, on thegroundless alarm, at another house in the neigh- bourhood.
DR. PniteroTT s.—The new Bishop was elected on Monday. His nolo episcopari speech has not been published.
ROYAL Cuaseess.—We mentioned in our second edition last week, but not in the first, that the King of Naples died on the 8th instant, and the Hereditary Prince, aged twenty, was immediately proclaimed King, by the name of Ferdinand II. The first act of the new King was a Decla- ration to redress abuses and heal the wounds that have so long afflicted the kingdom. PREMIUMS ON RIOTING.—Sir Gilbert Heathcote, Bart. has, through his steward, Mr. Syson, expressed his wish that his tenants shall not auy longer use thrashing-machines. SLAVE TRADE.—A severe action took place, in the beginning of September, between his Majesty's ship'Primrose and a Spanish ship bound for Havannah. The latter having refused to permit a search to see whether slaves were on board, the Primrose commenced the attack, which' was repelled ; but after the- second broadside, the crew of the Primrose succeeded in boarding her. They found 555 slaves on board. The crew consisted of about 150 men of different nations. Of the crew of the Primrose, three were killed and twelve wounded. Of the slavers, 46 were killed and 20 wounded.
YOUNG KERN.—The Morning Chronicle, which pries into the move- ments of players as closely as into those of politicians, gives the following bit of "genuine." "Young Kean, the actor, has met with the most decided success on the American stage. The Yankees consider him a genuine chip of the old block,' and have rewarded him accordingly. To the praise of this juvenile theatrical aspirant, last week his infirm and nearly bedridden mother received a most affectionate letter from him, enclosing a draft upon Messrs. Baring for two hundred pounds." [We rather think the "old block" might be chipped to pieces before any thing so praisewsorthy would be chipped out of it.] SECOND SIGHT.—The following notice appears in a Paris journal. The prophetic powers of the editor are rather whimsically exerted. "The Princess Polignac was brought to bed of a daughter the night before last, after a difficult labour, which inspired serious fears. The daughter of M. de Peyronnet is about to undergo a similar trial. The interest which we evince for these unfortunate ladies will not be set down to us as a re- proach—even in the midst of the conflict of opinion, there is always a generosity of sentiments common to all the citizens. These sentiments we now express, being merely the interpreters of the national delicacy and humanity." HORSE-RACING BY MACHINERY.—TheAllgIISt number of the Ameri- can Turf Register contains an article with' the above title. But we have seen something more ingenious in New York. At the counting- room of a French gentleman, who has just returned from Paris, we saw a horse which aperson mounted and moved rapidly over the floor by the simple operation of turning a pair of cranks, fastened in the neck of the steed. It was on the plan of the velocipede, but far more ingenious.— Albany Advertiser. RURAL SronTs.—Notwithstanding all the conveniences, elegancies, and luxuries which surround the ex-King of France in the Palace, the gaze of the multitude, whenever he walks abroad to enjoy the air, ap- pears to annoy him, and, being naturally of a domestic turn, and a great sportsman, he has been anxious to obtain a country-house within a few miles of Edinburgh, where, with his family, he could resort at his pleasure ; and in the privacy of retirement, and the enjoyment of the field, in some measure make up for the more splendid, but uncertain pleasures of the court. With this view, he yesterday went out •to 13a- berton, (five miles west of Edinburgh, the residence of Archibald Christie, Esq.) accompanied by the Duke and Duchess d'Angouleme, and part of his suite, to take a day's Shooting and inspect the place, which pleased him so much that he has taken -it for the winter months. The Right Honourable Lord Robert Kerr, and Mr. Christie, the proprietor, were in attendance to receive the Royal party, And accompanied them to ;the ned; where, ferttlnatehlthe.game was tolerably abundant ; and Charles, in the exultation of his favourite amusement, appeared to forget former griefs, and shot remarkably well;. indeed, those who were present ie. presemt him as being in excellent health and spirits, and as active as a young man of twenty.—Edinburgh Paper.
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