AN ANTI-REFORM PARSON IN CORNWALL.—A short time since, the Rector
of a parish within a few miles of the too celebrated rotten boroughs which Mr. O'Connell so correctly described in the House of Commons in the last session, by stating that "if there was one bo- rough more corrupt than East Looe it was West,"—obtained leave to preach in the chapel of the larger of these towns ; and as he no doubt considered that none hut Boroughmongers could be amongst the con- gregation, he thought it a fine opportunity to make a display of. his politics : accordingly, towards the conclusion of his sermon, and whilst exhorting his hearers to make themselves worthy of heaven, he en- thusiastically exclaimed—" And more particularly so at this eventful,
this awful crisis, when the realm is 'shaken both in Church and State,— when the heads of the King's Government are any thing but what they should be, and when the tails of them are taken from amongst the dregs
of the people." This anathema against his Majesty's Ministers was of course highly extolled by the members of the two Corporations of the renowned boroughs ; but an officer who was present, deeming that the pulpit was not a proper place from which to excite the people to a hatred of the King's Government, and to contempt of its authority, by the next post stated the facts to the Bishop of the diocese(Exeter) ; who, much to his credit, at once took the matter up very seriously, and severely reprimanded the clerical Anti-Reformer.
The Duke of Newcastle has fortified his seat at Newark with cannon. A strong picquet is kept constantly on duty, and they sleep on guard-beds as in a fortified garrison, and a man is stationed at each gun. His Grace was returning home lately in a post-chaise, unexpected by the family, and without any previous signal, when one of the sentinels on the top of the house was about to apply his match to the gun which commanded the grand entrance, and which would have inevitably blown his master to atoms. Happily for the Duke, he was prevented by his comrade, who pushedhim aside. The shock, it is said, was so great, that his Grace did
not sleep for the two following nights. This is one of the many possible -uses of "his own" which the Duke had not dreamed of. His Grace is
a good-natured, kind-hearted man ; it is a thousand pities that the errors of his bead should lead him to adopt a line of politics which re- quires of him such precautions and exposes him to such hazards. How much better would it be to join the People at once, among whom he must live, and among whom he must desire to live in comfort !
The committee appointed to conduct the election of Mr. Cobbett, in the event of Manchester being allowed the privilege of sending members to Parliament, invited him to a public dinner at the Town- hall, Salford. Mr. Cobbett accepted the invitation, and Monday last was fixed for the dinner to take place on. Tickets were issued at 5s. each, and about one hundred and eiglity persons sat down to dinner ; Mr. John Fielden' of Todmorden, in the chair. He was supported by Mr. Cobbett on his right, and Mr. Whittle, the editor of the Ad- vertiser, on his left. Mr. Harvey and Mr. Croft were the Vice-Chair- men. Mr. Cobbett said, if elected member for Manchester, he would go up to London in his own carriage with a gridiron for his crest.
The Dorsetshire Magistrates have taken away the county advertise- ments from the Sherborne Mercury, because' it advocated Mr. Pon- sonby's cause during the late contested election. These are genteel Specimens.
On Saturday last, there was entered at the Liverpool Customhouse,. itt one entry, for one vessel, by a merchant of Liverpool, 519 packages. 'of printed, Coloured, and white cotton goods, of the value of 21,490L, being. upwards of one Million yards of Cotton getids.--Liverpool Albion. The duty for 1831- on 47,129 acres, the entire of the hop farms in England, amounts to 304,1491. 4s. 8d.
The number of bushels of malt that paid duty for 1831 was,—Eng- land and Wales, 30,0M,921; Scotland, 3,997,076; Ireland, 1,780,180. . .
The system of allowing regimental officers on half-paY to commute their half-pay for a sum of money, is now extended to officers of the Militia entitled to the disembodied allowance, and that allowance will not be granted to future appointments.— United Service Journal.
Sir John Sebright has destroyed hispreserves of game, and allowed his tenants to Shoot over theirrespective farms.
The overseers of the Abby parish were summoned to a Petty Ses- sions held last week at St. Albans, to show cause why they refused to relieve Mary Sears. Her husband had absconded, leaving her with three children, the eldest not five years of age. The parish-officers .compelled her to bring the children to the poor-house, a distance of two miles, three times a-day, for a small. portion of food, without giving herself any. The food was delivered to them at the door, where they were compelled to eat it. Mr. W. Langley, a parish-officer, stated that they only refused her byway of an experiment.
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