Star. — London, England, 1830-02-02 00:00:00

fill . ENSUING SESSION OF PARLIAMENT. Among the motions which stand over from the last '-'+ S , ion , to be brought forward during that which com ing- nces on Thursday next, are the following important uu•acurea : sir. NICHOLAS Cat llaltlßill to prevent Bribery and Corruption it Fan Retfotd. Vt. Ts:mentos—Bill to exclude East Retford from eindng Bur et,ses to serve in Parliament; and to enable Birmingham to re turn two Representatives in lieu thereof. Lord Joon Russatz—Bill to enable Manchester, Leeds, and Dlr• mingham, to send Representatives to Parliament. ,Ilarqois of BLANDFOILDTO move for a Committee to inquire Into the causes why the people are not represented in this House acoirding to the spirit of the Constitution ; or to bring forward some specific measure to restore the purity of Representatioo. Dr. Ptutuxotts—Bill to alter and amend the Ecclesiastical Juris diction exercised In the several County Courts throughut Eng land and Wales. Mr. Siwrooar—Bill for the Regulation of the Posting throughout Great Britain, and placing it on some regular system. Sir MINOT PAIINaLIo.-Select Committee to inquire into the best means of taking a Census of the Population of the United Kingdom. Mr. Knitter—Bill to render all processes issuing out of the Supe rior Courts of Record at Westminster or Dublin. operative in any County or Place In the United Kingdom. Mr. Gaemta—Bill to enable the Incumbents of Livings In Eng land and Wales to commute their Tithes, by agreement, with the Owners of Land within their respective Parishes. The Marquis of Comma-1301 to make certain alterations in the Game Laws. Dr. Lusanonon—Bill to declare that all Slaves brought to Great- Britain shall thereafter be free In all British dominion. Mr. Stayer—Bill to declare and amend that part of the Poor Law relating to the employment and relief of able-bodied person and for the better rating tenements which are under a certain annual value. Mr. Saouta--To Introduce measures with s view to bettering the condition of the Labouring Poor. Mr. Orwav Cava—To move a Resolution that Children born of Slaves in the West Indies after 1850 be deemed free. Mr. Hasvar—To take into consideration the present state and actual value of all Crown Property, with a view to its beneficia l disposition. Mr. EDWARD DAvmsroar—Motion on the Pressure upon the Commercial and Labouring Chases, produced by high Taxation levied in Money of increased value. 1 Mr. Warms:mg—Bill for reguladng Schools of Anatomy. Lord Nuourr--Bill for establishing a Register of the Births of the Children of Dissenters. Mr. Cuounter —Motion for the repeal of the Act prohibiting the Growth of Tobacco in the United Kingdom. Mr. CHOLICILIT—Motion for amending the Representation of such Boroughs u do not contain more than ten voters. THE EVENING STAR. le& j; i l .4le O S° S- - • lON' DON. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2. HOLIDAY AT Tin HANIC.PITILIFICATION or YDS VIRGIN MARY. FOREIGN FUNDS, TWO O'CLOCK. Do B. 1825,6 p Ct. 251 1 Do. Ace. 20 Perwr. 11d5.6 pr Ct. 19 Do. Ace, 191 Sp. Eds. 5 per Ct. 121 Do. Ace. 121 Do. 510, 151 1 Brasil Bd.. 5 pr Ct. 71* Ditto Arm 711 Greek Bonds, 5 p Ct. Do. B. 1625, 5 pCt. 37* 61 Ditto Aec. 5, 61 Do. 100, 39 Mrs. als. 5 per Ct. 23* Do. Ace. 2$ BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHARES, TWO O'CLOCK • SHAM. PAM MR SEALE. Brazilian, Imp. (in. 45 pm.) 35 to so Real del Monte 400 400 57 SS This morning, the whole of the Cabinet Ministers, with the exception of Lord ELLENBOROUGH, left town, in order to attend the KJ no at Windsoi Castle, where his MAJESTY held a Privy Council this afternoon, for the purpose of arranging finally the Speech with which the Commissioners are to open, in his MAJESTY'S name, the Imperial Parliament on Thursday next. We publish, to-day, possibly a last letter from SID NEY to the KING. The tone of ardent and pure patriotism which pervades all the compositions of our distinguished Correspondent, is not less intensely conspicuous in this last address. Indeed, these letters have—as might be naturally expected—excited so lively an interest, and so general and deep a sensation, that we take this ooportunity of announcing our intention to reprint them shortly in another form, for the accommodation of many of our readers, who have been disappointed in obtaining tl:e back numbers of our Paper. The election of M. GUIROT for the department of Calvados, is a new triumph for the friends of European freedom, and ought to be also regarded as one fur the republic of letters, of which he is so distinguished an ornament. M. Guizor has long been cele brated as one of the most eloquent lecturers in France, while his work on our own revolution has placed him among the first rank of historical writers. We have more than once alluded to the class of persons who are at the head of the French liberal Press, and thence drawn inferences highly favourable to the future interests of Europe. If this class presents a striking and humiliating contrast with its correspondent order in this country, yet in that which exists in a still higher branch of the French community—we mean the popular representation—we do not exaggerate, when we state that for one literary Character in either of our Houses of Parliament, there will be found at least TEN in the French Chambers. The na tural consequence is, that there exists a vast superiority of information and talent among the Representa tives of our neighbours. But there is another re markable fact which we would press on the attention of our readers. A decided preference has been given to philoso phers and men of letters by the electors ofFrance. We have already alluded to the circumstance of ROYER COLLARD having been returned by fotrr different cities and depart ments. We need not say what would be the fate of a man of letters, who might appear before the Committees by whom elections are managed in this country. What then are we to infer from the contrasts thus briefly alluded to? Must we confess that civilisation bits in reality made greater progress in France than among ourselves ? Be this as it may, the blush of shame and indignation ought to dye the cheek of every Englishman, when he reflects on the advantages of every kind enjoyed in that country, while, freedom is fast retrograding in this,and distress has become universal. Let us then hope that the time is at length arrived when all classes of the social body have recognised the necessity of redeeming the character of England, and restoring her to that state of freedom and prosperity, which can alone render the people happy, and the nation powerful ! _ The Costrrier Francais of the 30th January, received this day, inserts a letter from Mahon, brought by the Circle to Toulon, dated the 17th January, of which the following is an extract :—" A Turkish Ambassador has been sent to Algiers by the SULTAN, at the demand of the French Government, in order to consolidate our differences with the DET. Since the arrival of this personage the blockade has not bees strictly observed ; during a whole night the Chat alone continued to cruise at a great distance from the shore. The Secretary to the Turkish Ambassador is now at Mahon, where he arrived in the English schooner the Pilorus, which struck on the rocks of oar harbour. He came to obtain an interview with the Count Admiral Da LA BRETA M I ERE, about our war with Algiers. It would appear that the Admiral was far from being satis fied with the result of the conferences with the Turkish Envoy ; for the frigates La Du Besse de Berri, La Bellone, the sloop L'Echo, and the brig In Voltigeur, sailed immediately to renew the blockade, which had been nearly given up for a month past. M. Di LA BASTA 11 lERE is waiting with great impatience for the arrival of his successor, M. MASBIERI DE CLERT ALI in order to give up into kis hands the command of the blockade, and to return to France." ' Several Paris Journals are received this morning by express. They convey the intelligence of continued Iris ' rule in the East of Europe ; and it is believed on the Continent that the Porte is using every underhand ma noeuvre to escape from fulfilling his engagements with Russia. The last courier from Constantinople brought the unpleasant intelligence that several exe cutions had followed the publication of a pardon granted by the GRAND SEIGNIOR to his Rajays— another proof that amnesties proclaimed by absolute Princes are nothing more than snares to inveigle those who have simple faith enough to place confidence in them. It was in consequence of a pretended amnesty that the whole population of Chio was put to the sword. This, however, cannot endure much longer : the Otto man has fallen ; and, by his present rule of conduct, he only shows that he is not fit to govern where he was not able to defend : he may vegetate, and order executions ; but he has ceased to reign—be is under the supreme will of Russia. The Journal des Debuts of the 30th ult. has a commu nication from the Nuremberg Correspondent of the fol lowing tenour—" The cession of Palestine has really been proposed to the Turkish Ministry, by certain com mercial houses, in order to establish a new Jewish em pire. Nobody, at first, would give credit to the rumour ; because it seemed unlikely that the SUBLIME PORTE could, as a high Power, accept such a proposition from a Banker ! We are now informed that the plan has been presented to the Turkish Ministry by the English Legation ; and that the Ottoman Government does not appear unwilling to agree to certain conditions." We give this as a mere continental report—believing that it is of very little consequence whether the SUBLIME PoItT E does, or does not, treat on the subject. The Devil is become a great favourite in the literary and musical world. There is Satan (the Devil), a poem ' • there is " Robert the Devil," an opera at Co vent Garden; and there is the Combat des Demons (battle of Devils), a piece executed on the piano by M. Moscuzu.sa, in a concert lately given by that composer in Paris. " TbeOrder of the Rose," instituted on the occasion of the marriage of the Emperor of Brazil, has for its motto " Love and Fidelity." The Empress found upon her toilette 240 diamonds of extraordinary beauty. In the apartments of her Majesty were placed two superb vases, on one of which was painted the portrait of her father, Prince Eugene ; upon the other the portrait of Napoleon. The National, Paris paper, contradicts the report which stated that M. Champollion, the French savant, had been stripped of his designs by the Pacha of Egypt. Of all the individuals who signed the celebrated Act of the independence of the United States of America, only one is now living, viz. Mr. Charles Caroll. He has just entered into his 93d year. The Limerick Papers state that the price of a vote at the election now in progress there is 101. and that it is ex pected to become much higher. It has been proved be fore a Committee of the House of Commons, that at one of our English rotten-borough elections, 101. has been given for a canary bird, and 401. for a Tom cat ! The Courier of last night, alluding to the union of the two Offices of Treasurer of the Navy and President of the Board of Trade in the same person, talks of the " double duty the individual has to di scharge." The Courier ought to know that the office of Treasurer of the Navy is little short of a sinecure, with a salary of 4,0001. a-year. M. FROSSARD, Dean of the Protestant College of Theology at Montauban, died in the beginning of last month. He was the author of one of the first works in favour of the abolition of the Slave Trade, and the trans lator of " Blair's Sermons." A letter from Christiana announces that the King of SWIMS/I has caused to be published, the happy intelli gence of the pregnancy of the Princess Royal, sister of the Empress of BRAZIL. Prayers have been or dered in consequence in all the churches in the kingdom. The Paris Editors dwell with apparent delight upon the benefit for the poor lately given at the Opera House. " The Ladies," says the Figaro, " contended with each other in their toilettes, thus rendering the occasion ad vantageous to industry, AS well as poverty. MADAME, who sat in the King's box, on the left of his MAIRATT, glittered with jewels and precious stones. The Lim wore the costumb of Colonel of his Guard. The DAU PHIN was also in uniform. All the officers in attendance were in richly embroidered dresses, a • t o th e i r rank and duties. A pigeon was despatched from a corner o f t h e ho use t o th e pit, with a paper attached to its neck, on which were written verses in honour of Mademoiselle SONTAG find Madame Muz.zsa.ter, who distinguished themselves so suceentfully in the Opera. CITY, TagLys o'CLocs. MAILS ARRIVED AND DUE THIS MORNING. I D011a.... ..... o 1 Waterford ..... 0 o Gum. & Jeney 0 O Leeward Nand. I O France ..... 1 O Flanders 0 o Holland 0 O Hamborgh O Lisboa ... 0 0 Jamaica 1 O Sweden ! O Bnel We ue without soy foreign arrivals this ratoroiag. owing to the severity of the weather; eassequeotty there is no information to COMMUDialte at present. The Consol Market, which left of yes. terday at 9t 93 for the Account, opened at the same pdce this morning, with little animation In the market to this boar. The Foreign Market Is fa the same doll state u the Lirldsb ; most of the prices are oomlnalom per yesterday. A recent Quebec Paper suggests to tbe Briiish Government to ' establish a hereditary Nobility In Lower Canada, with entails, &c. The number of the Barons to be one hundred and sixty, who are to meet in convention, and elect from neacept themselves thirty, to sit for life In the Legislative Council of the Province. By the 'deices from Madrid to the 19th ultimo, we learn that the King was suffering severely from an attack of the rhessaathm. A Royal Decree had been published, by which the Trocadero was comprised In the limits of the free ports of Culls. The accounts from St. Petard:6'Brib state that strong reports were caveat that the Bank was about to reduce its rate of interest from Ave to four per cent. It was thought this :eduction would induce many foreigner to withdraw their funds from this establishment. We have accounts from Rio Janeiro, which state that coffee was scarce and dear, and that the quality of the present year's crop was very Inferior. Advice' from the Ids of Bourbon have reached us to the 16th October. Ten English vessels bad arrived there. Freights were very scarce, and more than sixty vessels were In the roads. Sugar is eight piastres, and coffee Is quoted at 14 to 146 plastnts. FRENCH FUNDS, Paws, JAL W. Fl•e per Cents. 1011 f. 60e. 55e. 6k. Three per Casts. 114 f. 50e. 30e. Bank &ock, 3,8901. Rentes de Naples, 831. 20e. 25e. Royal Spasish Loan, 23i. Rents' Perpetuelk d'Repaine, 64 i i i. BICNANOB ON LONDON.Ont month, 25f. 60e. three maths, paper, 251. 45e. Ditto, ditto, money, 251. 40c. HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK. In the Consol Market the frosty weather bas absolutely chilled the Brokers and Jobbers in their operations, as there is not the least business going forward. Consols have been during the whole of the morning at 921 to 0 for the Account, and for money 94. AU our City politicians are now anxiously waiting for his Ma jesty's Speech, which the Bears and Bulls will expound according to their •iews and interests. The Foreign Market is also in a complete state of stagnation. Greek is the only Stock in which any thing is doing, and is a shade lower than yesterday. We have no reports or political information to the present time. A vessel has arrived at Savannah from Havre, having on board the four Ones; two of them died with the small pox, which caused the Mayor of Savannah to put the vessel under quarantine. Accounts have been received from the Island of Bourbon by the Onillaime Tell, arrived at St. Murlo, left 15th October, states that ten English vessels had arrived there laden with rice. Freights were scarce ; upwards of sixty ships were waidog foreargoes at the different ports. LIVIIIPOOL Maim, Jax. St.—The imports of Cotton this week is 11,156 bags, and the sales 6,690 bags, at a deane on new and ordinary Bowed of i of a penny per lb. and § of a peony per lb. on all other descriptions. In Sugar, ISO hltds. of B. P. have been sold this week, at late prices ; with 560 bags of Bast India at 73e. Information from the French Capital says, that the Bodge' which the French Ministry is to bring famed before the Cham bers, is already prepared, and will be announced at the open ing of the Chambers. It promises a great amelioration in the finances ; • dlmismdon of the imports of salt and liquors; also the suppresdon of the lottery, and a system of economy in the army. The American Papers advert to a rumour of the pro vince of Yucatan being about to separate from the Mexi can Confederation; but it is too poor, and too thinly peopled, to maintain itself as a separate State. The ru mour probably originated in a late declaration of the in habitants, desiring certain modifications in the Constitution of the Mexican Republic. The last deaths that have taken place at Sierra Leone amongst resident Europeans are those of Mr. Mande ville of the Commissariat, Mr. Johnston of the Ordnance, Mr. Perry, a merchant's clerk, and Mr. Sharp, Police Magistrate. The shipping up the river have suffered severely, and continue to suffer. The Borodino lost her Captain and Mate, and moat of her crew ; the Isabella lost her Captain and five of her crew. The others were becoming sickly. MADRAS, SEPT. I2.—The Government of Penang, Singapore, and Malacca, we find is to be abolished on the Ist of May next, and, instead of the present establish ment, a Resident, with a Collector, a Superintendent of Police, and a Master Attendant, will be appointed to each of the three settlements. Pensions to each of the co venanted servants, according to their standing are to be assigned—viz. to those of 22 years, 5001. of 17 years, 4001. of 12 years, 300/. and under 12 years, 2501. per annum ; uncovenanted servants 110/. p er annum. future establishments will receive as follows--viz. the Residents, 30,000 rupees ; their Assistants, 10,000 ; the Collectors, 20,000 ; and the Superintendents of Police, 12,000 a year each. A Court of Justice will be held at Penang. HANOVER, JAN. 20.—We hear that during the Ses sion of the Assembly of the Estates this year, a new com mercial code will be laid before them for dicussion. Old Hanoverian Bonds at 4 per cent. to the amount of nearly a million of dollars, were redeemed, and destroyed up to the close of 1829. The Treasury continues to receive money at ai with which the debt at 4 per cent, is paid off. ST. PETEASBURGH, JAN. I.—An Imperial Mani festo, published this morning, announces the important measure of a reduction of the interest of sums borrowed from the banks of the empire, or placed in th ose esta blishments. The interest o n both is reduced one per cent. so that the debtor of those banks will pay to them henceforth only five per cent. instead of six, and the banks will have to pay only four per ce n t. instead of he, on the sums deposited in them. Of course the proprie tors of the latter will be at full liberty to withdraw them whenever they please. The repayment of these sums will not experience any delay whatever. HAMIBUROH, JAN. 26.—The Elector of Hesse has published a severe ordonnanoe against duelling. No officer in his army is to be allowed to send or accept a challenge, but, when insulted, my s t su b m i t his ossylaint to a military tribunal of honour. Whomever as a chil ling. is liable to imprimameet in a fortrese dm not less than throe nor more than six years, led ovissowor accepts a challenge is to be liable to imprisonment dm not more than three nor lees than one year. If a duel is really fought, and one of the parties killed, the surviver is to be punished as guilty of murder; if neither is Idled, both are to be expelled the service, to be deprived of th e i r letters o f D ebiNty, and to be imprison e d i n a fortraos for not less than ten years.—A variety of other regulations follow, of the severity of which an "ink= may be Mond from the preceding. SIDNEY TO THE KING. LETTER THIRD. SIRE, Once more—and possibly for the last time—do venture to prefer my supplicatory appeal to the FATIILR Ohio People. Yet a few fleeting hours, and the die of their destinies will be cast : yet a few fleeting hours, and your MAJESTY'S subjects will receive the consolations of promised relief, or the cup of expectation will be dashed la disappointment from their lips—and then, who knows what distress and despair will generate ? I tremble for the disappointment of the people, for they are borne to *s earth by oppressions, and maddened with their misery. I have heard their indignant murmurings—l have heard their curses secretly muttered—even their loyal affections restrain them not, and their allegiance hangs by a thread. It is impossible for all this to con tinue: the very next turn of the duce revulsion, and then the sword of civil contention will forsake the scabbard, and anarchy and revolt dis organise and deform the land. SIRE, this is a dreadful picture, but it is not over charged ; the colourings are high, but the delineation does not exceed the fact. The truth has been too long concealed. The real sentiments of your MAJESTT'A people, and the exposure of their unredressed wrongs, have been too long smothered by artifice, and the voice of a complaining empire intercepted in its passage to the throne. Those who have been most callous, heretofore, and indifferent to the condition of the country, seem now ready to shrink into themselves at the contemplation of its terrifying aspect. Is it not high time, then, to buckle on the armour of moral daring, and to lay bare the national canker to the state physicians ? Is it not time that the hideous excrescences engendered by long mis-government were at length exscinded, and a healthy action superinduced in the gangrenous political system ? Alas ! there is but one quarter, SIRE, whence alone re demption can now be looked for—whence, alone, re- may pro- organisation can be invoked. To my ICING, then, I put up my appeal, in this all important and alarming crisis. Upon your MAJ Err v do your faithful people now call in this hour of peril and distress, to protect their fortunes, their liberties, their lives : upon You do they lean—since all other support is withdrawn from under them—to save the Constitution and the Crown itself. And shall the pleadings of your children be made in vain ? Shall a knot of de signing and corrupt servants prevail to blunt the sen sibilities of your royal bosom, and silence the natural yearnings of your heart, to the loud cries of your people for help and deliverance; wantonly and wickedly per severing to interpose between your MAJESTY and your aggrieved subjects—at the risk of bloodshed, and confusion, and civil ruin? Already, SIRE, have the signs of the times spoken a language, which it is im possible to misconceive : already have they indicated what must be the fatal upshot, of a dogged persistence in the present plans of Government: already must they have contributed to make the enemies of the Constitution tremble, and the people's oppressors cast about to find a safe retreat, from the universal ferment which their treason is on the point of engendering. Look at the late proceedings at Birmingham ! Con template this opening scene of the grand revolutionary drama, which seems to be on the eve of speedy enactment in your MA J ESTV'S dominions. Contemplate, Si RE, the energetic, uncompromising language of the actors in this scene—consider their numbers, their intelligence, their opulence—and say if such men are to be lightly regarded: say if the united determination of such men be not of a nature to command a SOY ERE ft; les notice and respect - a SOVEREIGN, whose solemn duty it is, to reign by and for his People alone ? SIRE, events such as these should " inform Princes, and teach Senators wisdom." The ramifications of this grand Constitutional UNIox, insti tuted by your loyal subjects of Birmingham, will assur edly extend to the uttermost boundaries of your MA JESTY'S dominions. No moral power can arrest nor retard its certain and successful progress : if any Mi nister could be animated by so wild a wish, let him look to the Corn Exchange at Dublin—and despair. If Eng land should owe nothing else to O'Cou NELL, his illus tration of the prevalence of the federative principle will command her everlasting gratitude. It is incontrovertible, then, that the men of Birming ham have planted a fruitful vine, in a fruitful vineyard; a vine which cannot miss to flourish, and in brief season to bring forth wholesome and regenerating fruit—for it will be supported by, and will entwine itself round the pillars of the Constitution—it will be cherished and warmed by the force of national approbation--and watered by the all-renovating streams of public opinion. Awake, therefore, as your MAJESTY MUM now necessarily be to these undeniable and convincing appearances, will it not be well to go &foes your People—will it not be well to prevent their just desires, to accord their constitutional demands, and by a timely acquiescence evert the horrors of intestine discord t For, Sm, you may rest assured that the People are now beginning to understand their rights, and to feel their own weal worth and intrinsic power : and if the dole-