Star. — London, England, 1830-08-10 00:00:00

The President took the Chair at 10, a. in. lie then read a message from the Lieut.-General of the Kingdom, an nouncing that lie bail chosen from the list of the five candidates presented to him M. CASSINI! R PER lER to be President of the Chamber. M. L'Annr. DE POM r I Ea as, temporary President,then addressed the Chamber, as follows—" Before I quit the chair, in which chance, and chance only, placed me, I am desirous of expressing my gratitude for the indulgence with which my colleagues have received my endeavours. lam about to retire to the obscure station which is suited to my humble talents and inclinations. There, as long as my fellow-citizens con sider me worthy of their confidence, I will exert myself to the utmost of my feeble abilities, to defend the poor and the oppressed. I hope to be more successful than I have hitherto been. I shall never consider men, but measures ; and it shall be my glory to merit the title given me of the old Tribune. I will continue to contend against extravagance, and will do my best to re duce taxation which weighs most heavily on the middle classes—on those classes to whom we owe our freedom —on those classes to whom I am indebted for the happi ness 1 shall enjoy during the few days I have still to live." (Much cheering.) M. CASIMIR PERI Ea being absent, M. LAFITTE, as first Vice-President, took the chair. Messrs. Cunin Gridane, Jacqueminot, Pav‘v de Vambruvre, and Jars took their places as secretaries. The Vice-President in formed the Chamber that a proposition had been made, which he read, as follows : " I accuse of high treason the Ex-ministers, authors of the Report to the King, and who countersigned the Ordonnances of the 26th of July. (Signed) " EUSEBE SALVERTE." (Acclamations (1 approbation from all parts of the Chamber.) The VICE-PRESIDENT called upon M. Eusebo Sal veto to support his proposition, but lion. Deputies on every side declared that it sufficiently explained itself. M. EUSEBE SA EV ERTE said, he should limit himself, to moving that it be referred to the Bureaux, as the Chamber had even more important business for its consiE deration, and that he would defer entering further into the question for a week. Thanks were then voted by acclamation to the late Pre sident ad interim, and to the temporary Secretaries. The Sitting was suspended for a short time ; on its being resumed, M. DE CORCELLES moved that every Member should sign the Proclamation addressed to the Duke of Orleans, in order that there should not be in the Chamber any secret or avowed enemy. M. BERRYEIt moved that this motion should be referred to the Bureaux. M. BERA RD made a speech, which is too long for me to copy to-day. You shall have it to-morrow : it was a prelude to a string of resolutions. ' The Throne is de clared vacant, and that it is indispensably necessary to make provision accordingly. That all the creation of Peers during the reign of CHARLES X. be declared null and void.' It also contains 74 articles of the Charter for the Duke of ORLEANS to subscribe to—and on condition that these terms and propositions be ac cepted, the Chamber of Deputies declare : " That the general and pressing interests of the French nation call to the throne his Royal Highness Louts PHILIPPE ORLEANS, Lieutenant General of the king dom, and his descendants for ever, from male to male, in order of promogeniture, to the perpetual exclusion of females, and their descendants." OLD AND NEW CHARTER. Paris, 7th August, 1830. Last night I attended the Chamber of Deputies, to hear the pro positions which were to be made by the Representatives of the French people to France—to her future Monarch—and to the world. It was a fine spectacle. I was carried back to the former Revolution ; and as the youth without cheered or shouted, according as they were pleased or vexed at the reports of what was passing within, I could not help reviewing the history of those times when liberty filet commenced her triumphs, although her banner was af terwards stained with blood. But I must not dwell on the past. The Charter, of which I now send you a translation, was the work of L'Abbe de Montesquieu. He was assisted by three or four other individuals, but it was principally his work . This Charter was given by .ouis X VIII. to France. The order of things is now about to be reversed, and France is going to give a Charter to her self and her future Monarch. With this translation in your hand you will be able to appreciate the errors and the excellencies of the old Charter, and the superiority or inferiority of the new one. The principle o f Charter is to be retained—say King, Peers, and De puties ; but the King is to be elected by the People ; the Peers created by Charles X. are to be destituted of their rank; and the Chamber of Deputies is to be deprived of its aristocratical character. In plain fact, we shall have a Republican Government, but with a Monarchical name. Let me now point out to you as briefly as possible the alterations which it is proposed to make in the Charts, and the nature of the new laws which are to accompany these alterations. The Charts of Louis XVIII. has a long Preamble. Read it attentively. Nearly the whole of it will be suppressed. France will declare that the Throne is vacant, that France wants a Char ter. and that the Constitution shall consist of the articles there after adopted. The first fire articles of the Charter are to remain unaltered. The sixth, which established a National or State Religion, is to be suppressed ! Let Mr. Hume take outage Let the moderate Reformers and Dissenters persevere ! Let them remember that we have thousands of priests who exercise the most fearful influence over the consciences of men ; and yet they are all deprived of state pay, and the nation is relieved from Religious Taxation ! What will be the effect of this? 1 will tell you : people will go to church who never went before. The curates and priests who are humble, active, and useful, will be well paid by the voluntary offerings of those who attend the churches ; the insolent bishops and archbi shops will be compelled to follow the humble example of the poorer clergy ; and in less than one year there will be not only more of practical religion, but even more of going to church, than has been known in this country for 30 years. The 14th Article of the Charter, under which the Ex-Ministers made this wicked Report, and by a false construction of which Charles X. inirgined h e had a right to overturn the Charter, is to be thus altered— " The King is the Supreme Head of the State; he is to command the land and sea forces, declare War, make Treaties of Peace, All. :ince, and Commerc e ; a pp o i nt to a ll the Offices of Public Adminis tration, and make all the regulations and Ordonnances necessary for the execution of the laws—the whole under the responsibility of his NI misters." Only observe the difference. By the old Charter Charles the Tenth claimed the right of making laws by Ordonnances—but by the new Charter, Ordonnances arc only to be made to carry ex. isting laws into operation. Articles 16 and 17.—8 y the old Charter the King only could propose laws, and when he proposed them, then they were to be discussed by the Deputies and Peen; but neither Chambers had the right, as in England, to prepare laws. By the New Charter this will be altered, and the Peers and Deputies of France will have'! the same right as those of Great Britain. Article :±6 of the Old Charter declares that the Chamber of Peers must not hold any sitting except during the session of the deputies. The New Charter will confirm this, except that it will declare that the Chatr.bcr of Peers may assemble as a Court of Justice,and may exercise judicial functions. Article 28 of the Old Charter declares that Peers must not speak in the Chamber until they are 30 years of age, though they may take their plac es at 25. The new Charter will alter this to 25 years. This alteration has long been desired by all the true Peerage of France. It is monstrous that a man should sit five years in the Chamber of Peers without speaking. Such regulations proved the necessity for a revision of the Charter. And here let me ask you whether, for months and months past, I have not told you that the Charter must be revised, and would be revised ? Some sneering coxcombs thought that I was in error— that I was an enthusiast, or a Revolutionist. They ate their three. course dinner and drank their Bordeaux as usual at the Café An. glals, or Very's ; and, as they never read any Journal but Golly. near. Messenger, or that miserable dpar , The London Boma, and took care never to mix in any ty but that of the E4ilish, they ventured to pronounce me in error. and to declare that France was tranquil, happy, and farther removed from a revolution than ever. But I told you, in spite of th ese men, that the Charter must h revised, and today behold the revision ! The 30th Article of the Old Charter prevents the Princes of the Blood from having a deliberate voice in the Chamber of Peers until they are 341 years of age. This absurd limitation is to be suppressed. The 31st Article which rendered it illegal for the Princes to sit in the Chamber, except by command of the King, is to be sup pressed. The 32d Article of the Old Charter declared that the deliberations of the Chamber of Peers should be secret. This secrecy is now to be abolished, and aristocracy is to lose a portion of its dignity !! The 36th Article of the Old Charter is to be suppressed. The 37th Article, which rendered a renewal of a fifth of the Chamber necessary every year, is to be suppressed, and the De. puties are to be elected for five years. The 38th Article of the Old Charter was absurd and injurious. By virtue of it no man could be elected Deputy until he had at. tained the age of forty years, and paid direct taxes to the amount of one thousand francs. I do not find fault with the one thousand francs' qualification, but what could be so ridiculous as to assess intellect by age, and declare that a man was not qualified to be a Deputy until he had lost the vigour of youth, and until the warmth of his young soul had been chilled by the cares and sorrows of life ? This clause is now to be repealed. The qualification will remain, but a Deputy need not in future be a dotard before be can become a legislator. Twenty-five years of age Is to be the minimum. They might as well also, I think, fix a maximum, and declare that no man after 75 should be eligible. Article 39 is to be suppressed. Article 40 in the old Charter renders it necessary that an elector should be thirty years of age. This is also to be changed, and limited to twenty-five years. The question of qualification of elec. tors is to be decided by law. Article 41 in the Old Charter gave to the King the right of naming the Presidents of the Electoral Colleges. This is now to be altered, and the Presidents are to be named by the electors. The old sys. tern was scandalous. The King exercised an unjust and tyrannical controul over electors, and in many Departments the elections were of late illegal, through the illegal conduct of the Royalist Presidents. There will be no more of this. Article 43. The Old Charter gave to the King the right of naming a President of the Chamber of Deputies out of a list of five presented to him by the Chamber. Bat in future, the "Republican King" of France is to have no such power. The President of the Chamber of Deputies is to be elected by the Chamber, and for the whole du ration of the Legislature. Articles 46 and 47 to be suppressed. This is a great triumph. Read the articles, and rejoice at the changes. Article 56 to be suppressed. It limited the offences for which Ministers might be impeached to treason and peculation. Hence forth they are to be liable to impeachment for all sorts of crimes. Article 63 allowed the establishment of Proms' Courts, but by the new Charter these horrible engines of cruelty in the hands of bad iilinisters and bad Kings, are to be suppressed. Article 74 declared that at the time of Coronation, the Kin/ should swear fi delity to the Charter; but by the new Charter be to take the oath on accession as in England. Thus far for the old and new Charter. The proposed alterations were yesterday referred tort Commission. M. Dupin, sine, was tits Chairman or Reporter, and last night be made his report. That report was ordered to be printed, and at the moment I am wilting the clauses are being discussed. In the Chamber of Deputies all the alterations:will be adopted. But what will be the conduct of the Chamber of Peers ? The Chamber of Deputies, in addition to these alterations in the Charter, propose to pass various laws 1. For the extension of the trial by Jury to misdemeanours, and particularly to those of the Press. 2. For the responsibility of Ministers, and the secondary agents of Government. 3. For the re-election of Deputies appointed to public func tions, as in England. 4. For the annual voting of the Army Estimates. 5. For the organisation of the National Guards, and for their electing their own officers. 6. For a Military Code, insuring, in a legal manner, the situ ation of officers of all ranks. No more destitutions, and sending brave men, en refraite at a moment's notice ! 7. Departmental and Municipal Laws by which the citizens will have the right of electing their own Mayors, Prefects, &c. 8. For Public Instruction, and freedom of Instruction. You may now send us Mr. Brougham's Schoolmaster; and Owen, Lancaster, and Bell may, by themselves, or their followers, in. struct France, and render her population as enlightened as it Is noble and brave. 9. For the abolition of the double vote, and for fixing the qualification of Electors and Deputies. 10. For annulling all the creations of Peers during the reign of Charles X. This is a questionable measure and may excite the rebellion of the peers. But if the peers rebel we shall have a se nate within 24 hours. When this New Charter shall have been approved, and when these terms and conditions shall have been acceded to, it is pro posed to ofer the Crown of France, subject•to this Charts and these conditions, to his Royal Highness Louis Philip Orleans, Lieut.- General of the kingdom, and his descendants for ever, from male to male in order of primogeniture, to the perpetual exclusion of females and their descendants. He is to be called " King of the French ;" and not King of France. You understand this distinc tion. France is to belong to herself, and not to be henceforward the property of a man. The Crown of France is to belong to the King—the Constitutional King—who is to be now elected by the French nation. What do you say now to the triumph of republic anism ? "rig a sad pity that Washington is dead ! SPIRIT OP THE JOURNALS. some few miads, and so irradicable is the hatred of public freedom, that the overthrow of despotism in any state is too sore a subject of mortification hot to show itself through the medium of the. very few organs which, happily, such principles possess in a free state. On the subject of the late events in France it so happens that '• the powers which were" contrived to put themselves so entirely in the wrong, that we were scarcely pre pared to fi nd that th ere was any part o f t h e P ress o f E ng l an d, however so inclined, which could find a peg to hang its note of vi tuperation upon. In this, however, we were mistaken ; and we are doomed to see, in the native land of freedom, the laudable efforts of a whole people against the wanton unprovoked attacks of their oppressors, stigmatised as rebellion and treason. This is rather too much. 0 7 f what strange materials must the mind be composed which can calmly look on upon a people assailed by the most vio lent aggression, and can deem resistance to it reprehensible, and the aggressors the objects of sympath and applause ! According to this rule in mo ra l s , t h e t hi e f is to be pitied, and the party robbed the object of vengeance and condemnation. Never, perhaps, was there an instance upon record where the people have been so decidedly in the right, and the Government so unquestionably in the wrong, as in the circumstances which led to the late events in France. But take it otherwise. For argu ment sake, let us admit that the people were pressing upon their rulers, and were threatening the overthrow of the Charter. 'Could insanity itself have contrived any means to put the latter more in the wrong titan the steps which they themselves had taken ? If there has been any treason, it has been altogether the treason of the Government against the governed. But we readily admit that the writers in question, who happily represent but a very small party in this country, may well feel sore upon the events in question. They have put, we apprehend, a final extinguisher upon the last hopes which they could entertain of ever seeing the spirit of despotism re , established among the natives of Europe. That any British heart could have such a wish seems almost incredible. But let that pass. Sufficient for them that it cannot he. In this country, at least, it could never have been, had events in France been what they might. But there are other countries differently situated ; and in Spain and Portugal, for instance, to say nothing of other States, the star of freedom in France is, and must be, a beacon to light them to a regeneration of their political rights. CHROWICLE.—The Chamber of Deputies has chosen the Duke of Orleans King of the French, subject to the conditions expressed in a modified Charter. The Clown is to be settled on him and " his descendants in perpetuity, according to the order of promogeniture, and to the exclusion of females and their descendants." We refer our readers to the letter of out Corespondent for information respect. ing the modifications of the Charter. The translation of the old Charter, which he has added, will enable them to understand the extent of the alterations. There is, however, a material difference between the inference which our Correspondent draws from the suppression of the State Religion, and the Report of the speech of M. Dupla, sen. as given by the Messagcr des Chambres. We are inclined to think our Correspondent mistaken. lie says—" The sixth, which established a National or Stale Religion, is to be sup premed !i ! Let Mr. Hume take courage ! Let the moderate Re formers and Dissenters persevere ! Let them remember that we have thousands of Priests who exercise the most fearful influence over the consciences of men; and yet they are all deprived of State pay, and the nation is relieved from religious taxation ! What will be the effect of this? I will tell you: people will go to church who never went before. The Curates and Priests, who are humble, active, and useful, will be well paid by the voluntary offerings of those who attend the churches ; the insolent Bishops and Archbishops will be compelled to follow the example of the poorer Clergy, and in less than one year there will be not only more of practical religion, but even more of going to church than has been known in this country for the last thirty years." The account given in the report which we have adopted is—" We propose to you to suppress the oth Article. This is the article which has been so much abused ; but to take away every pretext for malevolence, we would not have it thought that it intends the slightest violation of the Ca tholic religion. The sth Article says every one professes freely his religion. The 7th Article, speaking of the support of the several modes of worship, will say, that the Catholic religion is that of the majority of the French, and that the Ministers of that religion shall be paid by the government." There is a material difference between having no State religion, and leaving the Clergy to be paid by the people. The truth is, that in many districts of France the people are so poor, that neither Catholic nor Protestant Clergy would be paidat all, if they were not paid by the Treasury. To leave the people to pay their own Clergy would therefore, give rise to much discontent. But we question the policy of leaving the Priests to tax the people themselves for their support, as the dissenting clergy do in America and England. The priests themselves may gain by this, but we are afraid the people will not be gainers. In Germany, where the State pays the Clergy of the different denominations, they discharge their duty in a quiet unostentatious manner. But to say nothing of England, what is the result of the system of Arne ries ? Professor Cooper, who being a warm admirer of his adopted country, may be safely taken as an evidence respecting the United States, says, " In no other country is the wise toleration esta blished by law so complete as in this. But in no country what. ever, is a spirit of persecution for mere opinions so prevalent as in the United States of America. It is a country most tolerant in the. ory, and most bigotted in practice. The laws controul no man's opinions • they controul his conduct only. They guarantee freedom of conscience, of profession, and of discussion, to every creed ad form of worship, the framers of them well knowing that the result of conflicting opinion and open discussion can only be truth; and that no opinion deserves to be protected which cannot protect it. self. But the Clergy of this country—l hope, not of all sects.... the Calvinistic Clergy chiefly, are united in persecuting every man who calls in question any of their metaphysical opinions, or who hints at their views of ambition and aggrandizement." When the clergy are paid by the State, they have a less powerful motive for the rancorous bigotry of which the professor complains. Were the people previously educated, the danger from the excessive zeal of a clergy paid by their flocks would not be so great. And, perhaps, in France, where Calvinism never appeared in the repulsive puritanical form it assumed in England and America, the danger from the zeal of the clergy might not be so great as in some other countries. But still it is as well not to make rash experiments. CHAOXICI.E.—The King haTeXpressed himself, in respect of the late proceedings in France, u a Constitutional Monarch ought, and in a way which cannot fail to gratify the people of this country. " Charles the Tenth," said he, " was my friend, and 1 pity him ; but he has been misled." His Majesty also added the word priest ridden, as applicable to the Ex-King. Cnnotricr.z.—The attempt oust Lord Palmerston from the representation of the University of Cambridge, which we noticed at the time when the agents of Government were busy about it, proved, as is known, abortive ; but Oxford adheres, with true Tory pertinacity, to the worthies by whom that Seminary of use. Jul learning is so appropriately represented. The University of Dublin, however, having the Illustrious Duke of Cumberland for its Chancellor, cuts, on the occasion of the present Election, by far the sorriest figure. The franchise of the Irish University belongs not, as in the English, to the Masters of Arts, but to the Fellows and Scholars, who do not, in the whole, exceed one hundred persons. Yet did this small body of Electors create, when convened for the exercise of their suffrages, a scene of riot, violence, and confusion, unparalleled in the conduct of the most popular constituency assembled during the present Elections. The pretenders to the favours of this choice body of voters were men every way worthy of them—Mr. Sergeant Lefrny, Mr. Croker, of the Admiralty, and Mr. J. H. North. The first named person was the successful candidate. He is a respectable gentleman in private life, but a fanatic in politics as well as religion —having talents which will add no strength to the party he espouses, while his zeal, with all its fury, has a dash in it of the ludicrous, which, as in the case of Sir Charles Wetherell, is apt to make men laugh when the speaker is himself most in earnest. Serjeant Lefroy will add an item to a knot of politicians from whom nothing is to be feared ; and regarding his election, therefore, as a mere inocuous effort of Orange zeal, we are free to rejoice in the disappointment of both his rivals, Mr. Croker and Mr. North—the first, a person with less character than any living public man of a moiety of his talents; and the latter, a mere popinjay rhetorician, to whose small traffic in tropes and metaphors all men of principle and good sense must de. sire a termination. FRENCH REVOLUTION. TimEs.—The Whirs of France progress, as the Americans call it, tranquilly, and, as far as we can judge, happily, towards a re establishment. We have seen nothing hitherto of the Chamber of Peers. Their meetings, it is known, are not open ; but the French papers mention, that th ey are occup ied in preparing an address to the Duke of Orleans. Two of the exalinisten, as we stated yesterday, are taken. This being the ease, and it being now certain that they will be brought to trial, we shall abstain from pressing their conduct against them.—We are not strangers, neither is France a stranger to the fact, that the party most dreaded in its councils by all just, humane, and honourable men, is the republican party. That it ex ists cannot be denied ; but that it is small and odious, is, we think, proved by the circumstance that it has no organ of Its wishes. Among the numerous newspapers now published every day in Paris, not one of them is republican, or ever puts forth a principle but in support of a moderate, free, constitutional monarchy, as best adapted to the present situation of France, and the general repose of Europe. In the provinces it appears that a paper which took a republican tone has been publicly burnt. The public choice has lighted on the Duke of Orleans as the person fittest to mount the vacant throne. Some mention has certainly been made, though in one only of the journals, of the Duke of Bordeaux ; and the ex-King Charles, with his son the Duke of Angouleme, honours that young personage with the Royal title and address now when they are all running away together. This is the usual infatuation of that wretched family. It was certainly free to the French people to choose the Duke of Bordeaux for their Bove. reign ; but they have not done so: and it is surelymot competent to a King who has quitted his throne, and betaken himself to light from a justly enraged nation, to invest another with that authority which has been already torn from himselE We hear that the Duke of Buckingham has offered Hartwell as an asylum to the miserable and guilty fugitives. HERALD. —Though there is no manias on which a Maroc* of opinion cannot display itself, yet there are some an which it could hardly be expected to appear. Of shape the smelioration.and free dom of the human race might be expected to be awes but no; even that is a subject on which mankind are not agreed, and so innate in example shown them, and be was sure that tl.c de-pot of span— the embroiderer of petticoat► for the Virgin AIR-3 —would su tremble, that he would not be able to thread his needle—( Loud laughter.)— It was a matter of great import that the lower aril middling climes were united in one general bond to gain their rights. (Loud cheers.) Among the subsequent speakers were Mr. Gale Junes, Mr. Grady, and others. The Resolutions were all carried, and subscriptions laid down. THE ELECTIONS. MEMBERS ZZIOLAIID COOINTIr or HaItIPORD. Sir J. Cottrell. Sir IL Price. BASSZTLAM. Lord Newark. Captain Duneontbe. ST. MICHAIL. Hon. L. Kenyon. Tauao. Lord Encontbe. Mr. Peach. RADNOR. R. Price, Esq. Haunting. J. Fleming, Esq. Sir W. Heathcot& &UM Sir R. Hill. J. C. Pelham. BIM CROCK • T. Wood, Esq. CA 'Low. Lord Tullamore. CLOIMIL L. E. Come, Esq. IREI RETURNED. Nb WALES. Wit:ISM IRS . Sir J. D. Asdey. J. Bennett, Esq. Qt. 61141110 ROUGH. W. Holmes. J. Cape!. Sir P. Durham . SOMERSET W. Diekins n. K. A. Sandford . FLINT3HIRL. Sir T. Mostyn NORIOUSI ISLA NO. M. Bell. T. W. Braunint.t. COMET or ()IRMO W. Fine. Lord Norreys. State of the Pull, at the c'the. Mr. Pane . 9, i Lord Norrey5... Sir G. Dashwood ...... . ,A N D. DUSOAIiNON• lion. T. Knox B Sir A. Chicbeiter. STATE OF POLLS. ENGLAND AND WALES. •E/WORD, Ate. 7. I Reanuto, Auc. 7. Whitbread .. ... 494, Palmer .. .. 40d Polhill ... .. 4791 Russel ... ... 456 Russell ... ... 466 / hushington ... .. 422 =sea, aro. 9. SURREY, AUG. 9. Tyrell ... .. 1511 Mr. Denison Western .... ... 1305 Mr. Briscoe .. Wellesley ... ... 1210 1 Mr. Jollift .. IRELAND. ... 2159 ... 1487 .. 1252 CITY or DORM, AUG. G. Moore Shaw ... .• • .. 505 Grattan ... .. 222 CITY 01 AUG. 5. Boyle ... ... 281 Callaghan Baldwin CARRICKFERGUS. Load Geo. Hill Sir A. Ihichester C. Adam, Esq. 171 ... 41 ... 51 ... 46 SURREY ELECTION (MONDAY.) CLOSE OF SHE POLL. Yesterday, the election was resumed at tl:e usual hour ; but it proceeded tardily, from the circumstance of placards being circa laced in large characters that " Mr. Jolliffe had resigned." From, the confident declaration of Mr. Jolliffe on Saturday evening, that he would keep open the poll as long as the law would allow hip . this was very generally disbelieved, though those who were in the secret knew that the resignation had been, in fact, attain during t:le previous night. lllr. H. Summit was amommt the unbelievers, and he therefore required the authority for the placard. 111 r. HOCELEY said he had the authority of Mr. &tailpiece. Mr. H. SUMNER (who it may be mentioned once for all was throughout received with dreadful uproar) then wished to know what was Mr. Smailpiece's authority ? Mr. SMALLPIECE replied, that he had authority, but he should not explain what that authority was.—(Applause.) Mr H. SUMNER declared that Mr.Johl ffe's trust must have been betrayed.—(Great uproar.) Mr. SMALLPIECE indignantly repelled this insinuation. Mr. H. SUMNER said, he would not have voted, had he known it, for a man who could employ such sgen:s. Mr. Youngs a gentleman on Mr. Denison's Committee, said, that he knew the fact of Mr. Jolliffe having resigned ; he had seen letters confirmatory of it. Mr. H. Strstwza. persisted in the expression of his unbelief, amidst great uproar ; and declared that he thought it must have originated with Mr. Briscoe's Committte.—(Tremendous yelling and uproar.) After an immense deal of altercation, Mr. H. SUMNER called on the High Sheriff to proceed with the poll as though Mr. J. might have retired ; the freeholders had a right to keep open the poll. Mr. Barscoe here entered the Court, and was received with overwhelming shouts of applause. Mr. H. SUMNER having, with some difficulty, obtained a h ar ing, said he was glad Mr. Briscoe had entered the Court; he wished to know that gentleman's qualification. (Yelling tre mendous.) Mr. Barscoz eventually swore, and in the most impressive man ner, that he was qualified by virtue of property at Cbertsey and at Twickenham. (This produced great cheering.) After much further discussion, the High Sheriff read a letter, de claring that Colonel Jolliffe would no longer be at any expense to bring voters to the poll—and that if voters proceeded, they must do so at their own expense. And he then caused proclamation to be made to the effect, that if an hour elapsed without voters coming in for Mr. Jolliffe, the poll would be closed. At one o'clock the poll was closed, it being stated that Mr. Jot- We's friends had prevented his voters from appearing. The High Sheriff then declared the numbers to be as follow : Mr. Denison . . Mr. Briscoe .. . . 1487 Mr. Julliffe..... . The two first names were received with loud cheering—the ' third name was greeted in a most unceremonious manner. Mr. DENISON and Mr. BRISCOE then severally returned thanks, the High Sheriff having declared that they were duly elected. After which thanks were voted to the Sheriff, and the Members chaired. Sir. Jolliffe did not appear in the Court. It was front the tint of the morning greatly crowded. IRISH ELECTIONS. Dustin CITY, AtOrST 7.—Mr. Grattan's friends are omit g the most strenuous efforts this morning to pull down the great ma. jority which his opponents have over him, but all their exertions I are vain. The freeholders, upon whose support Sir. Grattan mainly relies, are coming up very slowly. The freemen are polling rapidly for Moore and Shaw. At the hour of post (three o'clock) the runt. ben on the gross poll stood thus: Moore 628 lestetday evening a numerous meeting was held in the Rotunda, Blackfriars.road, for the purpose of taking into consideration the glorious triumph of liberty in France, and to allow an expression of the public feeling respecting the late heroic struggle of the French people. Many persons who attended wore tricoloured cockades and favours. and several natives of France were present. The meeting was convened by the Council of the London Political Union. Mr. George Rogers in the Chair. At least 1,200 persons were present. The CHAIRMAN said that this meeting was called for the purpose of allowing the expression of the public voice at the progress of li. berty In trance. Many of the governments of the world had trampled on liberty. This meeting was called to promote a sub. sctiption for the relief of the widows of the killed and the wounded in the late struggle ; not that such subscription was needed, fur the French people would, no doubt, take care of the sufferers • but the British public now have an opportunity of showing their &ling on the late glorious event.—(Loud cheers.) The SECRETARY read a declaration issued by the Union, which . alluded to the late revolution, and the part taken by La Fayette and Grattan .. other patriots, and concluded by expressing a hope that a respectable Even Mr. Grattan's friends give up all hopes of his success. subscription would be raised. DUBLIN COUNT T.—The election commences on Tuesday next. Mr. LOTATT rose to move the first resolution, which designated the 10th inst. The four candidates, namely. Messrs. White and the late attempt on the liberty of France as despotic, and expressed Talbot, the late members, Lad Brebazon, son of the Earl of Meath, a hope that the last attempt had been made by despotism over the and Mr. George Hamilton, are still in the field, and are most active people. Mr. Lovett then read a summary of the late transactions in their canvass. A hot contest is expected. A formal intimation in Paris. He hoped that tyrants had been read a lesson by the has been made to the committee of one of the candidates, by *he working classes and the lower orders. He paid a compliment to the Roman Catholic Bishop of the diocese, that he has issued a man. National Guard of France.--(Loud cheers.) He hoped that the date to his clergy that they shall take no part in the proceedings. Allies had now been taught that liberty in a smock-frock would do BOROUGH or DROGHEDA.—At the cle.e of the poll lust even more than military tyranny in armour.—(Loud cheers.) He con- hilt (Friday) Mr. O'Connell was, on the gross, 49 a-head of hi s eluded by observing that he hoped a ll ty ran t s wou ld take warning oPPoneot• by the fate of the Bourbons.—(Loud applause.) Cameleer Eno us, (County; Antrim.)—The election of a mem., Mr. Thostreow seconded the resolution. Ile thought such a her fur the town of Carrickfergus commenced on Thursday. S,r revolution as had occutred in France was wanted here. (Tremen. Arthur Chichester. the late member, and Lord George A. Hill, clouts cheers.) This he gave as a hint, and hoped that a flame had brother of the Marquis of Downshire, were put in nomination. The been lighted which would be transplanted to this country. The Polling went on until five o'clock in the evening, when Sir Arthur French have accomplished a mighty merciful, moral, and most stated that, owing to his absence from this country, attending on bloodless revolution that had occurred In the history of the world— his parliamentary duties. several influential freeholders, on whose (cheers), and that too, without the guillotine. The revolution support he had calculated, had engaged themselves to another, and had occurred at an opportune moment, at a time when the eke. he therefore declined any further contest. Thomas Benjamin Adair. tions were going on, and a monarch commencing a reign, who had of Loughanmore, was tri proposed a candidate, and sir Arthur the good of the people at heart; and they bad reason to expect said he would transfer his interest to that gentkman. At the that the good of the people of this country would be advanced. close of the poll on Thursday evening the numbers were as follow : ' Were the liberties of the people attacked, they would have merely lard Hill ... .. ... 64 to refer to France as an example to put down the traitorous Minis. Sir A. Chichester ... . . 44 ten. (Cheers.) The resolution he had to second was, that a fund Mr. Adair ... ... ... 5 should be raised to assist the sufferers—not that the pounds or WATEIITORD COUNTY.—It is said that Mr. Wyse "nears to penes were wante d . Th e : Agi n ., of those who had f a ll en in contest this county with Lord George Beresford and Mr. O'Connell. the s struggle were immortalized as well as those who fell. Mt. Wyse is a Roman Catholic, and was an active member of the children, lovers, and parents, would refer to the glorious Catholic Association. comment that had been raised to liberty. (Applause.) The Duke Coat CITY—The election for the City of f'ork commenced on of Orleans had been appointed to the kingly office, and he thought Wednesday. The candidates are 3lr. Daniel Callaghan, the Hon. well ; he had sufferedF in the cause of liberty, and ii suffering doth John Boyle, and Dr. Baldwin. make a man fit to govern." On the whole, it was well that theap- On Thursday evening the poll stood thus t— pointmsot had been made. Boyle . . ... .. 193 The 'evolution was again read. It was as follows :—" That Callaghan ... . . ... 113 this meeting heartily agree in the late glorious and ever memor. Baldwin ... .. ... 44 able Tinny in Paris over the armed satellites of despotism, those LIRICR COUNTV —Mr. Messy Dawson has resigned. — bet snorts of wretched st a t esmen , w h e n t h e y d esire to IIII rule in Fin be gibbon and O'Grady will returned without a contest. "parkin to the have, rights, and liberties of the peopile. Ti a t LIMICRICIE CITY the election tot the city of Limerick elm. a stdrrrlptical be opened," atc. (Canied with great apptause.) maned yesterday (Friday.) Me. Spring Rice is opposed by Mr. Several other rendedons were proposed and adopted, strongly gannet Mien. There was no polling on the hiss day. expressive of die feelings of the - Meeting on the late event in O ar.war Toww.—At the elute of the pull on Tucaday cycling, France. the numbees were. Me, HreismsixoTox thought that all despots w I elil hay. ilk ' O'Hara • . 54 I Blake , 31 =I I i' il 4