Star. — London, England, 1830-06-02 00:00:00

1'..1 .4: a - , FRENCH PAPERS. V 4 give the contents of the French journals received -yesterday, which consist of the Gazette de France, dated Monday, and the other Paris journals of Sunday : It ii not true that diplomatic conferences are going on at Paris respecting the affair of Algiers, as same English and French papers contend. —Gazette de France. " The day before yesterday, the 27th instant, Tahir-Pacha ar rived at Toulon. He is the bearer of a letter from the Orand Seignor for the Kiag of France. He set off immediately for Paris. On his road from Constantinople he presented himself before Algiers, in hopes of penetrating into the town ; but the commander of the bloc. trade having given him to understand that such a thing could not be allowed, be gave up his design. " Tahir.Pscha had been sent, at the request of the English Am. hassador, in order toendeavuur to determine the Hey to give all the satisfaction required by France, that he might not expose his coun. try to all the chances of desperate war. He was furnished with full powers to fulfil, if necessary, the functions of mediator, between France and the Regency of Algiers. " On entering the port of Toulon, Tahir-Pacha met the fleet, which was leaving it with very favourable weather.—Journut des Debate. " The news from London is of great interest. There is evidently in the resignation of Prince Leopold something more than a question of external policy ; the futurity of Great Britain itself was at stake. " As the sufferings of George IV. arc thawing to an end, the •eil which covered the great queetion of a regency is lifted up more and more : Prince Leopold has decided on not sacrificing one single chance which may call him one day to become a member, or eve n, perhaps, the chief of it. " Indeed, already the tone of the parliamentary discussions is quite different. The House of Lords, so calm, so obedient of late, has once more taken up an asperity of language in speaking to the Ministers, which we had ceased to be accustomed to. The defence of Prince Leo. pold, now accused by the Ministers, and who had so little to do with political debates a few years ago, is warmly espoused at the very outset, and even before the documents are produced, by the most distinguished member of the noble house. Lord Grey, whose name has been long pronounced as that of a man destined to form a part of the administration under the immediate heir to the crown,—Lord Grey is at the head of the partisans of the Prince of Coburg ; Lord Holland seconds him, and almost denounces the exterior policy of the Government to public ridicule. "One might really think that the future Administration is now mustering together. "There is something in all this like the symptoms of a political movement, which is only waiting for the melancholy event which must soon take place, in order to burst forth on the public."— Journal des Debate. " MADRID, MAY 20.--(Private Correspondence.) " A rumour of great importance is now in circulation in our po litical circles, in consequence of letters received to-day from Aran. juez, and from which ft would appear that it wu resolved in the Council, which was held on the 18th, that the Cortes of the king. dom shall be assembled towards the end of September, and that orders have been given to the Deputation of the Kingdom to convoke them, as a right inherent to that body. " This important measure proceeds from the ancient custom of assembling the Cortes at the moment of the birth of the presump tive heir to the Crown ; and it is said that on the present occasion they are to take the oath of fidelity, whatever may be the sex of the child. " However, some letters written by distinguished personages, affirm that the Cortes will, perhaps, have to deliberate on different projects for modifying the constitutive laws of the kingdom ; for, besides that the Government appears by its measures to be desirous of effecting some material changes, the Ministers show themselves in their confidential conversations convinced of the necessity of mo. difying the political constitution of this country." GERMAN PAPERS. NAPLES, Blair 11. The veil is not r ig t y ;holly removed that coven the negotiation with the Puha of t concerning Algiers, but we believe we may affirm that the act itself is undoubted, that a convention was concluded at Alexandria between France and the Viceroy, by which the former bound itself to subdue the Barbary States, and deliver them up to the Viceroy, who, on his part, engaged to maintain order and security on the North coast of Africa. It seems that Russia took some share in promoting this plan, but it is probable that the opposition which the matter afterwards met with from the Porte and England, have delayed the publication of that remarkable document, I which persons worthy of credit affirm they have seen here and in I Sicily, and many even have made the Pacha himself waver In the evolutions which he had already taken. The absence of the King, and the Ica of the Chevalier de Medld are severely felt in our country. To what a degree, notwithstanding the diverse opinions of the political character of this Statesman, his death is felt as a loss, Is evinced by the report which is generally spread, and thaigh whollumufdleies, shows the mistrust of national jealousy, th at.the mu S iaro ston 2 r . the Minister. The return of the King is expected with the more impatience, because it will be followed by various changes in the administration of the affairs of the kingdom. One thing in particular which is universally desired, is the new organisation of the Courts of Justice, of which the kingdom has so much need. Lithographic copies of a plan have been sent to the Magistrates of the circles upon which they are desired to give their opinions. According to this plan, the administration and police will be taken from the provincial Judges. Besides the advantage of setting bounds to arbitrary pro ceed ings, abuses such as we have witnessed toil be henceforth impossible. But there will be in districts, the extent of which will be fixed, Commissioners to whom will be con fided the administration and the police, which have hitherto been wholly neglected by the provincial Judges. One of the effects of such a change will certainly be, that our high roads will be at length planted with trees. The plantations made by the provincial Judges have been always so neglected, that in a few years the trees always perished. CARLSRUHE, May 23. '7,Their Royal Highness the Grand Duke and Duchess yesterday gave:audience to the Count de Styled d'Aix, Envoy Extraordinary from his Majesty the King of Bavaria,who, in return for the mission of General Von Stockholm, from Baden, was commissioned to pre. sent his Majesty's compliments of con dolence on the death of the Grand Duke Louis, and his congratulations on the accession of his Royal Highness the Grand Duke Leopold. FRANKFORT, MAT 24. Exchange on London —Two Months, 151. COLOMBIA. From the Gaceta de Columbia. BOGOTA, Manor 14. We learn from an authentic quarter that the much hoisted con.. tributlon of Venezuela does not exceed 12,000 dollars (3,0001.) although the rather harsh precaution of shutting up the subscribers till eleven o'clock at night, without meat or drink, have been re- sorted to. The same steps were adopted to produce signatures to the Act of Separation transmitted to the Liberator. The northern post informs us, that the whole garrison of Merida has rebelled against its commanders, and that the soldiers have re. turned home, because they would not serve against the Liberator.' The province of Medina is therefore bare of troops. The towns situated beyond the Tachira have refused to sign the 1 actagainst the government,and requested Oen. O'Leary to take them 1 under the protection of the Colombian troops. Gen. Plango. the Governor of Maids, writes that the opinion of the Venesuelians is in favour of the federal system, and that Gen. Sucre will probably be appointed President of the State. A commercial Consulate has been established at Carthagena. Its jurisdiction is to extend to the departments of Boyne, Cunaina. mares, Congas, Magdalena, and the Isthmus. Congress has sanctioned several resolutions, declaring all the elms-constitutional acts of the provinces as Illegal, null, and void, being Dolma contrary to good order, and the fundamental law, than to the solemn treaties Which unite the Colombian nation with the different countries which have recognised her independence. CABACCAS, Ann's. 1. The cause of Pace may be considered as good amidst, and his pro jects frustrated. Every one Imo the obtained the act of sepa ration of Venezuela by odious The people did not accede co to It! and this step, the cm of which are so important, been has only resolved upon bi f few factious men, who knew how to intimidate the weak and to extort their signatures. A courier who arrived here announces that the troops sent from Venezuela to Merida have mutinied against their oflicers, and that some soldiers have duetted, refusing to serve against the Liberator. tt a issant when the presenes of Bolivar would be so se ie nocemary, when all his activity eight be displayed, be is unfy sto Asti dm all sable occupations, a severe indisposition p The eardrea:reeringoerens. metimem, ess, to discuss the constitution, t he bole whielt km We on for some time. The nation eras indimothe wive! All discreet permits have coo. c eivel thebastlegm, imi it will rally all kinds of opinions. 1,0N1)(IN. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2. TO CORRESPONDENTS. ' We fear Mr. JANES'S valuable communication, relative to "Mr. Hobhouse's Vestry Bill," is an advertisement. We should like to hear from him on the subject. THE KING. '• WINDSOR CASTLE, Juxx 2, 1830. " The K;wo has slept well last night. His MA] 'STY continues to be embarrassed in his respiration occasionally. 4 • HENRY HALFORD. 4 • MATTHEW J. TIERNEY." (Signed) Important as it is, in every point of view, it was not our intention to have reverted to the subject of Greece to-day, but for an article that has appeared in the Times of this morning, and which bears all the marks of demi - official authority. We perfectly agree with the writer, that the people of Greece had no sympathies in common with CAPODISTRIAS, until very recently, when the unfortunate result of the protocols threw them, as it were, into the necessity of making him their mediator both with the Cabinets and Prince LEO POLD. The very circumstance of the Provisional President having been so closely connected with Russia, has made him an object of constant jea lousy to the Greeks ; and were it not for the re stricted limits, their hatred and jealousy would still remain undiminished. With respect to the Senate, it cannot be denied that several of this body are among the creatures of the Count, and warmly devoted to Russian interests ; but there are some who have always figured in what is called the English party. SEssix 1, the President, is one of those who urgedlthe application, made with regard to Prince LEOPOLD in 1825. ENIAN, a native of Patragik, alluded to in one of the despatches we published on Monday, is a very enlightened man, , and a warm admirer of this country. There is, in fact, no doubt whatever, and we would fain press this point on the attention of Government, that if CAPODISTRIAS ever becomes popular in Greece, it will arise from the defective nature of those nego ciations, which have left so large a portion of the confederacy a prey to Turkish rapacity and oppression. It would afford us infinite satisfaction, if we could say, with the writer in the Times, that the " season for in trigue is past." Nothing can be more fallacious than this hope. So long as the people of Western Greece, Candle, and Samos, are threatened with a return of the Turkish yoke, so long will intrigue• have unlimited sway. What we more particularly insist on is, the utter impossi bility of pacifying the country generally, until the boundary is extended to the line so strenuously urged in the memoir of the Senate. This is, we maintain, a sine qua non for the pacification of Greece. We quite agree with the writer, and we have long la boured to prove the fact, that Greece possesses all the elements of becoming " a great and noble country."— This, however, cannot be the case, unless she be not merely furnished with a defensible frontier, but amply guaranteed by by the Allies. Of territory there is a superabundance; but what is the use of this, if the inhabi tants are to be constantly exposed to the aggression of their old masters ? Having so repeatedly, within the last twelve months, called the attention of Ministers to the very points now in discussion, we have, really, scarcely anything new to say on the subject. When, however, there are such high interests at stake, we cannot avoid recurring to it, when opinions are put forth which we consider as erroneous. Such are the motives for offering the foregoing remarks. We have always treated this matter without the smallest reference to party foaling : it is a question of national importance, and as such deserves to be kept before the public. Referring to the concluding paragraph, we think with the writer, that it would be a " disgrace and mortifica tion to Great Britain if Greece were to be flung back into the arms of CAPODIWI'MAS." Let us hope tint this is the sentiment of Ministers, and that, as the article pretty clearly indicates, they have already taken measures fir supplying a new Sovereign to that unhappy count y. It' we have bcr, re ti;;:•«! the Li.cc,sity of losing no time, it arose fr. in v. I.m.m cf the miserable condition to which the whole country has been reduced by the war, and a consequent conviction that this must continue till the establishment of a permanent government. The last sentence gives such an earnest of generous in tentions on the part of the allies, that we cannot deny ourselves the pleasure of giving it a place here: " The Governments of Englar.d, of France, and Russia, ate waited in fulfilling the high duty which they have undertaken on behalf of this fine people and this illustrious region; nor will they relax their upright co-operation until they have raised both to the rank from which a brutal tyranny and a deplorable destiny bad de., graded them." We shall only add, GOD grant that the delightful prospect thus held out may be fully realized ! A li,t of the minority of 117 Members of the House of Commons who voted for Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S motion for Parliamentary Reform, is given in another part of our Paper. It is important, not only on account of its numerical strength, but also of its quality, distin guished as it is by talent and a spirit of independence. It is very true, we do not find in its ranks Mr. CA LCRAFT, Sir JA MES SCAELETT, and some other sorry Whigs who had not virtue enough to resist the temptations of office ; but their desertion is of little consequence in such a host, displaying as it does the main body of the old Opposition —the RUSSELLS, the CAV EN DlsnEs, and other great family connections, celebrated for their defence of the rights and liberties of the country. We also find that the number of Peers and Commoners immediately con nected with Ireland, who lately signed the Resolutions against the new Spirit and Stamp Duties, amounts to 83, containing many individuals of the first rank and property in the United Kingdom. It is with these strong facts staring hini in the face,—it is with these most por tentous appearances—a Treasury Journal has ventured to assert that it is impossible to organize an opposition to the Duke of WELLINGTON'S Administration, or that such an opposition could stand. Whether the writer had in his view Thou pagod things of sabre stray, With front of brass and feet of clay, and founded upon them his belief in the invincibility of his idol, we cannot say, but we acknowledge we cannot discover any other ground of his faith. The noble Duke has been no stranger to opposition, disaster, and defeat, since he came into office. There is not one point in his foreign policy that has given general satis faction, as may be seen in the Parliamentary Debates respecting Turkey, Portugal, and Greece. In his do mestic policy he has not been more fortunate: A lofty and high-spirited Minister, when he found himself over powered on the Catholic question, would have resigned ; the noble Duke changed his principles and kept his place. When the cry of distress lately assailed him from every part of the country, instead of supplying palliative or remedy, the people were referred by him to time for a cure. " Man wrongs—time avenges," may be a just moral sentiment.—There are physical evils which it is not within the reach of man to alleviate or avoid ; but defects in the social system it is the peculiar province of the Government to remove or supply. If we look to our colonies we are equally at a loss to discover signs of the Minister's strength or capacity. The, local le gislatures at this moment refuse to obey his instruc tions respecting the treatment of slaves, and set him at defiance, while, in the distribution of taxes at home, he is courting their good will by sacrificing the agricul tural interests of Ireland and Scotland to those of the West India colonists and proprietors. If these be proofs of the invincibility of the Minister, we should like to know what are proofs of weakness. The Repthentant of Saturday last, referring to the late debate in the House of Commons, says—" Does the right of inflicting the punishment of death for for gery belong to human institutions ? One may think yes, and still be a humane man : but we must limit, as much as possible, the cases to which this penalty should be applied. We admit only one species of crime, to which capital punishment should be opposed : that is, crimes committed against the person with intent to in flict death. " Capital punishment applied to other crimes, is a per version of the most natural and the most rational prin ciples, as when inflicted it is irreparable, whilst the crime committed might be redressed. This disproportion be tween the crime and the punishment always produces a very bad effect. For the law is considered unjustly se vere, and is not applied, or the hope of the non application of the law encourages the commission of the offence. It is, therefore, only making an useless law. This will be the case with the new law, if the Minister, warned by the weak majority which participated in his opinion, does not return to a sentiment more analogous with our ideas and our manners. Why do men, who have it in their power to do , so much good, advance with so much reserve—with so bad a grace, in the route of social ameliora tions ? How, when they can place themselves at the bead of these grand associations called Nations, and con duct them in this noble career, do they allow themselves to be taken in tow, as we may say, and to imagine that they have done a great deal in not remaining stationary? Is it very useful, is it very honourable for England, who pretends to march in the first rank of nations, to be able to offer to those who study her institutions and ob serve her examples, only codes of barbarism, whilst among people whom she despises as slaves, humanity , finding refuge in the laws, is consoled, at least for the absence of liberty ? " Let Mr. PEEL reflect well upon this : in less than tea years, what he now refuses will be obtained. His work, will be effaced. The world will think inw.h less of tb. little good which he shall have done, than of all the evil which be shall not have prevented, and which others will have the glory of destroying: the question is simply tlia• of stcping the efluEion of blood. It is not yet too late, and we Loie that reflexion will bring him back to the desire of tearing from the law-books some pages which very shortly would not be read but with horror. Tl is the wish of the whole of mankind." A valued correspondent requests us to correct an erro: in the Private Correspondence of yesterday's Herald, where it is inferred that the Duke of ORLEANS derive, " a large sum annually" from the gambling houses u. the Palais Royal. The fact is, that the Duke only holds the eight first arcades on each side, whereas the who! of the hells, to use a fashionable phrase, belong to oth.• proprietors. CITY, Twr.r.rF. o'CLOCu. We are again this morning without any arrivals ; no foreig3 mails or ship letters have come to hand with the exception of the Hambro' steamer, consequently as yet we have no political infor. matiou to communicate. Consols opened at the same price they left off yesterday, 921 fo: the Account, and 92§ for Money, with no busincs doing as yet. h , the foreign market they are also still, and the prices at present are much the same as yesterday. larrEnpoox, MAY 29.—The import of Cotton this week is 15,678 bags, and the sales are 15,480, at a decline of 6 per pen ny per lb. in American, and at scarcely last week's rate. For other descriptions, the transactions in British plantation sugar this week, arc 880 hhds. at rather lower prices. In foreign nothing has beer, done. The sales of coffee are 100 casks of plantation to the grocer, at irregular prices. The following is the reply of the Governor of Canton to the Spanish merchants who petitioned for some alleviation of the do. tics :—" Try to contemplate the celestial empire, her abundant hay. vests, and her mountains of wealth, her national treasury full to overflowing. What dependence can she have on the petty mer. chandize of all you barbarous nations to supply her with revenue:" These foreigners, after all, should not have been befooled to this degree. It is now manifestly divulged, by the appearance of cir. cumstances, that they have been tossed and played with, as in a sieve, by some traitorous merchant. Ido proclaim to you, foreign merchants, these things, and tell you that you ought to rouse your selves, and examine with awe, and don't again permit yourselves to be befooled by others. I, the Governor, am resolved instantly to report to his Imperial Majesty the exact facts, and take both the traitorous Chinese and foreign merchants, and prosecute them to. gether, and punish them with severity. Take care and do not bring yourselves into crime and trouble. Remember this ! In the month of February last, the Republic of Central America was in utter anarchy. The State of Costa Rica had declared itself entirely independent—the union of the five States, Gualarnata, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica, were to be dis. solved, and a mere contention substituted. Great fears were enter. tattled that Spain would take advantage of the weakness of the States, and operate with some effect against Mexico. A dreadful catastrophe has just spread consternation in the Province of Gueldres. The town of Grendringer was on the 18th ult. consumed by fire.—above fifty houses, the Reformed Church, and all the Archives, became a prey to the flames ! Some of tl:c Inhabitants perished, but the loss of an immense quantity of caul , - is to be regretted. HALF.PAST ONE. It is quite an idle day with the funds—.no speculations going for. ward of the least consequence. Consols have been done at 921, and 92j for the Account ; at present they are 10211, and 9211 for Money The Foreign Market is in the same state as that of the British: with the exception of Greek Bonds, which have improved about one per cent. In Shares little or nothing doing. South Metropolitan Gas 111 premium. We have neither reports or political informs. tion. We have Malta Gazettes to the 6th of May, whicl, contain the Speech of the Lord High Commissioner of the United States of the lonian Islands, to the Legisla tive Asssembly. His Excellency congratulates the As sembly upon the internal tranquillity prevailing. notwithstanding the severe pressure of want felt over almost all the Islands during the last winter and spring. A great diminution of crime is said to have taken place in the Islands, whieh is attri buted to the measures originatel in the second Parliament. His Excellency adds that it still remained to carry into effect a permanent and precise code of laws, and that considerable progress had been made in preparing such : but he doubted whether it would be sufficiently forward to be laid before the Awe nbly during the pre sent Session. During the recess measures had been taken for carrying into effect the Bill establishing the system of Public Education. Eighth-three additional schools of mutual instruction had been established containing two thousand seven hundred boys. His Excellency requests the pro longed continuation of the vacancy of the Archiepiscopal Sees of Corfu and Zante, and states his intention of bring ing some definitive arrangement regarding the dignitaries of the Roman Catholic Church before the As sembly. He further mentions that his Majesty, having concerted measures for the pacification of Greece, the neutrality hitherto observed by the lonian Government would soon be put an end to by the termi nation of the cause. His Excellency states the revenue to be more favourable than might have been expected under the circumstances of the last year, from the depre ciation of the prices of oil and the other staple commodity of the states. The expenditure of 1829 has been con siderably reduced from that of the preceding year. In order to facilitate commerce, his Excellency rc- commends a bill to the consideration of the Assembly, for extending to the other islands the system of Port franc°, under certain modifications. Upon the whole, the tenor of the speech is ye9r satisfactory. 4 It is said that the district of Namhoy, in Canton Pro vince, contains, at least, 10,000 slaves. Other districts of similar extent contain as many. The involuntary slaves are those who have been bora in slavery ; and those who have been by government subjected to slavery as a punish ment. The voluntary slaves are those who sell themselves, or consent to their parents selling them. The children of slaves are their masters property. In the event of the master's death the slaves go to his children or other kin dred. Slaves marry only with slaves. There are certain colours and dresses they are not allowed to wear. — Square-toed shoes are forbidden to slaves. Beating them to death is punishable with 60 blows and one year and a half's transportation. Official people, whose grandfather or father, or grandmother or mother, beat a slave to death, forfeit their pay. The killing of children or grandchildren of free people is punished in the same manner as the crime of killing a slave. The treatment of slaves by the Tartar soldiery, to whom they have been given by government, is said to be often very severe.— Caxton Register. , Ate so . Pu 0 AT 1 S LIST OF THR MINORITY Of 117,wh0, on the loth of May, voted for Lord John Russell's Motion, I' That it is expedient to extend the Basis of the Repre sentation of the People in this House." Altborp, Lord Kennedy, T. F. Russell, Lord W. Baring, F. Killeen. Lord &bright. filr J. Beaumont, T. Labouchere, H. Blaney, R. W. Be!grave, Lord Lamb, Hon. G. Smith, W. Bernal, R. Lambert, J. S. Smith, J. Blandford, Lord Langston, J. H. Stanley, E. Brougham, H. Latoucke, R. Tavinock, Marquis Brosgbam, J. Lennard, T. B. Talbot, R. W. Browolow, C. Lloyd, Sir E. Tennyson, C. Byng, G. Lock, J. Thomson. C. P. Calvert, N. Lushington, Dr. Thompson, P. B. Cavendbh, W. hiacauley, J. B. Townsend, Lord C. Cholmeley, M. J. Martin, J. Taboo, Hon. H. Clifton, Lord Marjoribanks, S. Waithman, Ald. Clive, E. B. Marshall, J. Ward, J. Coke, T. Marshall, W. Webb, Cul. Craddock, Colonel Marryatt, J. Westenra, lion.H. it. Crompton, R. Maxwell, H. Whitbrc3d, W. Davies, Col. Macdonald, Sir J. White, 11. Dawson, A. 'Wilton, Lord Wilbraha m , G. Duncombe, T. Monet, J. B. Wood. Ald. Dundas, Hon. 'I. Morpetb, Lord Wood, C. Dundee, Sir R. Normanby, Lord Wood, J. Easthope, J. Nugent, Lord Wyvill, M. Ebrington, Lord O'Connell, D. TILLIII, Ellis, Hon. A. Ord, W. Hobbouse, J. C. Evans, Colonel Pallmer, N. Russell, Lord J. Boston, Earl Palmer, C. F. PAlitD or,. Fasakerley, J. N. Pendaris, E. W. W. Anson, Hon. Col. Ferguson, Sir R. C. Philips, G. R. Birch, J. Fitzgibbon, Hon. R. Ponsonby, Hon.W. F.Calvert, C. Fortescue, Hon. G. M. Ponsonby, Hon. F. Davenport, R. D. Fyler, T. Ponsonby. Hon. G. Denison, W. J. Gordon, R. Powlett, Lord W. Dundas, Capt. G. Graham, Sir J. Poynts, W. S. Guest, J. J. Grattan, J. Prettie, Hon. F. H. Lester, B. I Grattan, H. Price, Sir R. Leycester. R. Guise. Sir W. Protberoe E. Macintosh, Sir J. Harvey, D. W. Power, R. Newport, Sir J. Heron, Sir R. Ranisbnttom, J. Philips, Sir G. Honywoosl, W. F. Rancliffe, Lord Ramsden, J. C. Howick, Lord Bickford, W. Rowley, Sir W. Hume. J. Rice, T. S. Roharts, A. W. Hutchinson, J. H. Robinson, Sir G. Sykes, D. (Tipperary) Robinson, G. H. Taylor, N. A. Jephson, 0. D. Rumbol,l C. E. Wilson, Sir R. Kemp, T. R. Russell, Lord J. Wrottesley, Sir J. THE EVENING STAR.