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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. NOT INCLUSIVE. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. French papers of Saturday. " It is reported that Marshal Gerard is about to set out on a tour of the northern frontiers to inspect the fortresses ; and that General Ilar rispe is charged with a similar military inspection along the southern frontiers. " Letters from Perpignan of the 20th inst. state, that the superior au thorities of Catalonia have interdicted all communication between the French and the Spaniard& The head of the bridge of Pont de Madame anti the whole line of the frontier, are closely guarded. This measure i t as thrown the inhabitants of C erdagne into consternation. The Pre fect has remonstrated with the Spanish authorities against these pro ceedings. Orders have been given by this officer to send all the Spa nish refugees without exception into the interior. The diligences are daily filled with them, and the Prefect affords pecuniary aid to those ho have not the means of paying their travelling expences. " The following is an extract of a letter, dated Puycerda, Nov. 1:: : The Count d'Espagne arrived here last night with 6 infantry and 50 cavalry. He immediately ordered all Frenchmen to quit the Spanish territory, and forbids us, under pain of death, to pass upon the French territory. According to reports in circulation here, the Captain-Gen. of Catalonia has addressed to the Prefect of the Eastern Pyrenees very serious remonstrances. He asserts that the Spanish territory has been violated by the Spanish refugees; that several Frenchmen were incor porated with these rebels ; that the French Government had tolerated them in organizing and equipping themselves in its territory, and that the prefect of the Eastern Pyrenees had protected and assisted them with his counsel. It is added, that the Captain-General has transmitted to our Government papers which prove all these facts, and that he solicits the Court of Madrid to demand satisfaction of France.' " Accounts from Copenhagen state, that there have been serious die turbances in the duchies of Sleswic anti Holstein, which have rendered it necessary for the King of Denmark to issue a proclamation. CHAMBER OF PEERS. —SITTING or Nov. 26. " Baron Seguier, Vice-President, in the absence of the President, took the chair at a quarter-past two o'clock. " The Minister of the Finances laid before the Chamber the law pro. ject for closing the accounts of the budget of 1828, which had been adopted by the Chamber of Deputies.—Ordered to be printed. Count Portalia brought up the report of the committee on the ques tions referred to it u to the liability of peers to be arrested, and said that though the persons of peers were entitled to enjoy a certain degree of in violability, they were nevertheless subject to the common law. The charter declared that no Peer of France could be arrested without au thority from the Chamber. Under what circumstances that authority ought to be granted, was the question the committee had to resolve, and it was unanimously of opinion that every person who had obtained a judgment against the person of a peer ought to have the right of carry ing it into execution, that the Chamber ought not in any cue to oppose it, and that during the recess the authority ought to be granted by the President, because there should be no obstacle thrown in the way of the execution of a judgment. The noble reporter then read the law project ir.oned in conformity with the opinion of the committee, which was or .iereil to be printed. 44 AFFAIRS OF BELGIUM. " The Temps and the Ilfessayer des CAambres contain a piece of in telligence respecting Belgium, which would be of the highest import. :ince if it were true. It is stated by these papers, that a note from Prussia and Austria was read in the S..cret Committee of the Belgian Congress ' in which these powers declare, that they will ma k e war on li:lpumif the House of Nassau be excluded from the throne. There is not a word of truth in this statement; the communication made to the Congress was on the part of the French Government, and merely advised the Congress not to exclude the House of Nassau. The French Government seems to have acted in this affair with great good faith. It is stated in the Ministerial circles, that an army of observation sill not be stationed on the Rhine. " The following article is from the Temps:—' The word war is in tvery body's mouth, and is constantly resounding in our can. We are obliged to speak of what every body speaks. To most people war ap. pests inevitable, because they do not suppose that preparations are made without an object. To us war appears impossible, because we foresee the certain effects of it ; as impossible as appeared to us the coup s d'clat with which Charles X. threatens us. It will be objected that the coups d'etail which seems impossible were put into execution.— True, but see what they cost Charles X. Europe would find, like Charles, what an unjust war, a European coup &dal would coat. We were unable to believe the senseless measures of a dynasty, because we foresaw and foretold the result. The same motive , and the experi ment in addition, prevent us believing In mad schemes on the pan of all .he Governments, because then we should expect the July 29 of the nations t Peace is to Europe what the charter was to Charles X.— Those who violate the state of things which protect it, will suffer for it like him. For then, in that war of Europe against France, of France against Europe, all means would be lawful. All among us would become revolutionary, as, on the 29th July, air:il l :ens were in insurrection." FRENCH FUNDS. PARIS, Nov. 27.—Five per Cents. 91f20c 91f 90f 60c 50e 40c 30e 26c 20e 90f 40e 30e 70e 80e 91f 90f 75c Me 91f Llf be. Four per Cents. 78f. Throe per Cents, 60f 6be 754 55c 50e 55c 7k 80e 75c 70c 80f 50c 75c Clf be 61f. Bank Actions, 1840 f 1635 f. Roue de Naples, 661 25c 6111 641 90e 65f 64f 90e 6111 65f 104 15c. Witte d'Espagne, 13. Royal Spanish Loan, 581 58 571 Rents Perpetuelle d'Espagne, 46 45 45} } 146 45} 451 11 46 15e. Exchange on London—One Month, money, 28( 20e. Three Months monc), 251 10e.—Cours Authentique. BELGIUM. NATION A LCONGRESS. SITTING 07 NOV. 24. Two proposals were made—one by Baron Ony, to procure from the Provisional Government before the close of the debate a communication of the answer of King William to the Protocol of London, to the pro posal of the armistice, &e; the other, by M. Legrette was nearly to the same effect. Several members having spoken for and against these proposals, the President ordered the Galleries to be cleared that the Assembly might to into a SeCT , 't Committee.—(The Secret Committee lasted about an tome It is affirmed that communications are made to the Congress by :he l'rovisional efovemment.) Toe Sitting being again made p u bli c , t h e d e b ate cont i nue d ; many members spoke. 31. tie Gerlache—l shall vote against the proposal. i cannot be 11111. lasted of attachment to the Nassaus, whose measures I have always op. posed, but I will not insult them when they are unfortunate. They have 'ere some good to the country, but they sought to oppress and dena. renalise the Belgians. He laments the fate of 800,000 Catholics in Holland. The Congress has exercised an act of sovereignty in declaring the independence of Belgium : what can it want more ? I have heard It , aid (continued he) that the Nassau, arc an infamous race. Thus you s:cnt to persecute whole races; you are going to bind yourselves —you ire going to bind your descendants. You can do neither; in the pro posal you have caused the word a Orange' to be inserted ; thus 1.17 except the collateral& Will the children of the House of Orange be snore guilty than their collaterale? The Naasaus are not without , upport—they have alliances with great powers, with Russia and Prua. 'is. You furnish a pretext for a destructive war. You are not satisfied with passing over the family in choosing your Chief; you wish to affront titan also. Will your declaration efface the family from the rank of Powers? If you are able to maintain their exclusion by arms, your declaration is useless iif you are not it is fatal. You depend on France, aHith experiences sufficient internal embarraanuedts, and which is only Republic, licentious rather than free. Set erul other Members having spoken, M. Duval de Beaulieu, whose name was not inscribed as one of the ei..akers, requested leave to address the Assembly. lie had intended to tote against the proposal, to which he had every possible obje ction ; but, adde unto it is with great emotion I confess that I to-day p my opin the pressure of circumstances, and it will be for this time only. It requiroe to induce me to this all the importance that I attach to the comniu fieation that has just been made to us in the Committee. But I cannon resist the idea of an intervention contrary to our rights— the idea of other events equally perhaps to be found, and sacrificing a question of form. which I think, in fact, useless. I join, not without re gret. it i s true, the majority whose strength I think, we ought now to increase. The Presider.: having put the question, the proposal of M. Roden. etch was curried by a majority of 141 to 2& The President —In consequence, " The National Congress, in the .4:11e of the Belgian people, declares all the members of the family of grange Nassau for ever excluded from all power in Belgium." W e are reduced, says the Courier lies Pays Bag, to ou.dits re ,pecting the Secret Committeethey say,.., that that an Envoyfrom a irtat power arrived at B russe l s o n the sou ;ell t- ) .e 2 4t h be : - eintat e d to the Provisional Government, and to the Diplom a tic c unimittte, that the exclusion of the Nassau. might disturb the_peace Europe and implicate a neighbouring State ; it is said that the Deplo riatie Committee and the Provisional Government frankly and anent. e l'ly declared that the ex c l us i on was absolutely necessary ; that, can. villin us g to take the responsibility upon themselves, they resolved to cressof,unicate with the Congress. They say that M. de Weyer made a verbal c ilenunica t i on to the General Committee, and that it led to a warm die. which ended wi t h t h e almost unanimous resolution to proceed ".'i , the Order of the Day. BaesseLs, Nov. 25.—While every body is eager for news how our MY, the Jo urna l s , to pat i l f y the public impatience, daily publish in carats and often erroneous reports, because they are obliged to chose among the many reports those that seem the most probable. There have certainly been marches, combats, &c. and yet the Provisional Government does not give us a scrap of a bulletin. Are the people no longer worthy of knowing what their defenders are doing? learn that Prince Frederick and the Duke of Saxe Weimar have entered Bassett, with 6,000 men, on whose approach all the civil officers fled to Liege. It is supposed there has been a battle between the Dutch and the Citizen army. It is said, that the Dutch reulved to retake Venloo, and then to go to Luxemburg. Ltßoz, Nov. 25.—A letter from hlaestricht says :—" Yesterday morning the column of 3,000 men, under the Duke of SazeWeimar, left this place, and took the road to Yenta°, which, it is said, they pro pose to retake. This is the way in which the Dutch observe the ar mistice." (Politique.) ANTWERP, Nov. 24. Yesterday at least seven lighters arrived with wood for fascinea, &e. There are now twelve vessels unloading, all with similar fire-wood, hay, straw, fasciae!, &c. What do they want with this wood in the citadel Is it to erect batteries along the river at L'Fadoket and the Kiel ? Our merchantmen arc still at Flushing, and the winter is at hand. Yet the armistice was known here on Sunday at ten o'clock. To what shall we ascribe this fatal delay ?—Beussels Papers, Nov. 27. Cast.saunc. Nov. 15.—The Duke of Brunswick is expected here on a visit to his Highness's grandmother, the Dowager Margravine of Baden, but will return to London. BRUNSWICK, Nov. 20.—0 n the 13th there was an extraordinary conference of the Committee of the estates. It is said that very agreea ble news had been received from Frankfort and London.—(Hamburgh Correspondent, Nov. 23.) HA ItIBURGH, Nov. 23. Boaswx HALLE, Half-put Four o'Clock.—Our Stock Market has been very lively. Yesterday Funds were from to i 4 per cent. higher than to-day. The fall of the Wellington Ministry, the account of which reached Hainburgh on Sunday, was unexpected. The reported death of the King of Naples acted unfavourably upon the Funds at Berlin. Discount 34 per cent. End of Nov. End of Nov. Anglo-Danish Loan ... 594 Austrian Bank Share ... 1064 Anglo-Russian Loan .. 931 Austrian New 4 per Cents 014 Haniburgh Russian Loan 92 New Hanoverian Loan ... 981 Polish Bonds .. 1084 (Hamburgh Reporter, Nov. 23.) Exchange on London.—Hamburgh„: Nov, 23.-13 9 ; two months 13 74—Berlin, Nov. 20.—Three months, 23..—Bremen, Nov. 192- Two months, 604.—Amsterdam, Nov. 10.—Three months, 020. (Reporter ) SPIRIT' OF THE JOURNALS. Mrs/EL—The National Congress at Brussels came on Wednesday afternoon to the important decision of formally deposing their King, and of excluding his family for ever from all power in Belgium. The pretensions of the Prince of Orange to the Belgic throne are thus ire. vocably superseded. The Assembly consisted of nearly its full com plement of members. The whole number present was 189, and only 28 opposed the vote of exclusion, which was carried by 161. The at tack on Brussels and the bombardment of Antwerp, which the Prince did not certainly command, and which perhaps he could not prevent, have been the real cause of the diminution of his partisans, and the loss of his crown. The political " sins of the father are thus visited on the son," and Belgium, from the impulse of passion, or the recol. lection of recent injuries, has perhaps thrown away the best oppor. tunity which can ever occur of reconciling its own interests with the general tranquillity of Europe. The overwhelming majority against his Royal Highness, or rather the minute number of deputies in his favour (for the 28 who opposed the motion were not all of them his friends), must for ever terminate all hopes of reversing the verdict of exclusion by appeals to the people, by intrigues with the nobility, by the influence of particular towns, or by the efforts of European diplomacy. At the same time, persons the least accustomed to political speculations, and the least acquainted with the conventional jealousies of states, must see in the vacant throne a source of great em. barrassment to Europe. The candidates may be as numerous as the suitors of Penelope, but are neighbouring Powers likely to look quietly on while the choice of one is made ? Can the Belgic National Congress elect a King as an English vestry an overseer of the poor, without attracting the notice of their neighbours ? Would England see with indifference • deputation sent to the Patois Royal to invite the young Duke de Nemours to accept of the Belgic Crown? Or would France not view with equal jealousy the elevation of a Prince connected with England ? Germany is fertile in the kind of article cow wanted ; but can Germany send her troop of competitors without alarming one or other of her two chief potentates? In short, we might heap question upon question without being able to give a satisfac tory answer, and proceed from conjecture to conjecture, in " wandering mazes lost," without coming to any certain conclusion.— One thing, - however, seems evident—that Belgium, or in other words, the Belgic National Congress, is perfectly indifferent to the opinion of the great European States, and considers the spirit of the Holy Alliance as for ever extinct. The Assembly knew that the Emperor of Russia must feel an interest In his brother-in-law, the Prince of Orange, and his children ; they were acquainted with the numerous ties which bind the Orange family to the King of Prussia ; they were aware of all the treaties to which these two Powers, along with others, are parties; and yet they were determined not to leave in existence a single shred of their connexion with the deposed dynasty. Into the probable consequences of this act of exclusion we cannot at present enter, though we have no hesitation in saying that its supporters appeared to us to ground it more on the antipathies of national prejudice, than on any reasonable objection to the personal character of their Prince, or any statesman-like regard to the interests of their country. Cuaorricaz.—The accounts from the disturbed districts are, upon the whole, less alarming. The concessions made to the labourers could hardly fail to produces temporary quiet. But when the fta•ds at the disposal of the parish overseer fall short, which must soon be the rise everywhere, the evil will assuredly recommence. In Hampshire and Wiltshire the tumultuous assemblages have been dispersed. The reports from Wiltshire last Hight were, that all was quiet. fu the other hand, the accounts from the neighbourhood of Huntingdon last night were un- favourable. It was even reported that a nobleman's rnanalon had been set on fire. Trams.—The disturbances are proceeding, and perhaps extending, in the agricultural districts: property is destroyed, violence resorted to, and personal outrages committed. This is a state of things which un doubtedly must not go on; and measures, official and extra-official, are taken in all directions, to put an end to it. But what measures ? In one short sentence we shall state, let, our conviction that the peasantry are more oppressed and more alive to the magnitude of their own wants, than at any former period ' • 2d, our belief, as to the nature and mod e of that oppression, that it has arisen from the endeavours of men of property to squeeze out of the bodies of the labouring population sparger share than justice:or humanity permitted; of the general profits of land and labour. In the war, it is well known that the rents were doubled, anti wages were considerably—though never proportionably—raised. Since the war the prices of farm produce have fallen, and fallen greatly ; but when this came to be represented to the country gentleman, " Very well," quoth he, (we speak of generals, not of exceptions), "you shall have your rent reduced a fiafe—not a great deal; but if you want to bring yourselves home, you have my leave to make a great reduction in your labourers' wages, for labour, you know, is plenty." Thus, then, it has happened. Amidst the unive rsal fall of prices the landlord has been unwilling to bear his share of the common los+. He insists on having the same in. come as ever from an article—namely, land—which In any fair market would no longer fetch the same price ; and to enfotce this pretension, he wrings out of the tarok r and the labourer a greater proportion of their profits and wages than they ever before were called upon to yield to his exaction. Until the gentleman is compelled to support his due share of the general diminution of profits, the country never will be right; and in such a case as the present, he wbo limits his care to the prosecuting, imprisoning, or transporting the miserable creatures who have been exasperated into the perpetration of crimes, commits a foul iniquity on behalf of wealth and self-indulgence, against want and suf. feting, most disgraceful to the magistrates and the sovereign power. The Corn Law—that mod flagitious of monopolies—has contributed largely to this unnatural and cruel evil. The repeal of the Corn law, the consequent equalization of profits and fall of rents, will. we sus pect, have an influence upon the public comfort and tranquillity, more beneficial than the most sanguine have yet dared to hope would result from such a reform of our legislation. Cullom I.E.—When we first announced the nomination of Mr. Stanley to the Chief Secretaryship of Ireland, we added an intimation that the appointment was not generally popular. Nor war the cause of this unpopularity difficult to discover, the youthful Statesman having com menced his career with the delivery of a violent tirade in the House of Commons against all who desired to retrench the enormous principalities of the Irish Church. In this coup d'ossai we had a lively specimen of the noxious consequences of entrusting to men of the clerical profession exclusively. as is the established practice in this country, the education of youths of every rank and degree, without reference to their several destinations in life. or to the various duties which they may be called upon to discharge. Mr. Stanley's maiden oration was, we hear, inspired by the paggestions of a scalous clergyman, his toter, whose pride and interest were alike concerned in making the heir of the House of Derby a staunch advocate of the interests of the Church. Happily the pupil has proved to be a man capable of overcoming the preju dic es so industriously ittstUkd Into hie mind. HzaALD.—The ikuager desCAufebree of Saturday, and other Paris papas of the day preceding, state that the public mind of Francs Cu noxici.E.— :)ur opinions on the question of the Repeal of the Irish Union have been recently and sufficiently expressed ; but the subject is again called to our notice, and in alliance with that of Parliamentary Reform, by the circumstance and details of a singular communication between the advocates of the Irish Union Repeal and the " Council" of the " Birmingham Po. litical Union." it appears tLat Mr. Clarke, of Waterford, attended a recent meeting of that august body, and repre sented to the " Council" the motives of the People of Ireland fot seeking a repeal of the Act of Union of the United Kingdom ; request ing their advice and co-operation. Mr. Clarke's statement was referred to a committee, whose report was subsequently discussed and debated the council. They unanimously a-solved' against the expediency of a repeal, and passed five resolutions, in substance attributing all the evils and distress suffered by the Irish people to a corrupt House of Commons, and prescribing as the sole remedy a reform in the representative system. Wc may hope that the avocations of these formidable associations may be cad) , terminated by the application of the grand panacea. SPATE O'•' THE COUNTRY. COUNTY OF KENT. FORMATION OF A TROOP OF YEOMANRY CAVALRY. A Meeting was on Friday holden at Foot's Cray, which was attended by the principal inhabitants of the district, for the purpose of forming a troop of Yeomanry, being the most effectual and constitutional means of preserving the peace of the county, and protecting the property of the inhabitants against the outrages of lawless rioters. The Hon. J. R. Towwsurwn, M.P. was called to the Chair, when the following Resolutions were unanimously agreed to :- Ist. That immediate means be taken for forming within the district a Troop of Yeomanry Cavalry, under the command of the lion J. R. Townahend, who has received the authority of Government for that purpose, in order to be ready to support the civil authorities in the sup. pression of tumult, the preservation of the peace, and the protection of the rights and property of his Majesty's subjects. 2d. That the Gentlemen and Yeomen present be invited to enrol their names, and to use their influence with such as may be absent to come forward for the purpose of constituting the Troop. Immediately on the reading of the last Resolution forty of the most respectable Yeomen enrolled themselves, and assurances were received from several who were unavoidably absent of their readiness to join. Those who felt themselves unequal to active service enrolled their names u honorary members. The zeal and alacrity displayed on this occasion by every person pre. sent cannot fail to be productive of the most beneficial molts, and in consequence of this most auspicious commencement, no doubt is enter tained of the speedy formation of a most respectable Troop of Yeomanry Cavalry in this neighbourhood. The thanks of the meeting were unanimously voted to Mr. Towns. bend, on his quitting the chair. • Amongst those present were.— Lord Bexley, Lord Wynford, the Hon. Colonel Townahend, James Chapman, Esq. R. B. Berens, Esq. Hon. John Robert Tuwnshend, M.P. and about seventy of the most respectable yeomen and farmers in the neighbourhood. WINCHESTER, Saturday. Nov. 27.—A groat number of prisoners were brought in during Tuesday and Wednesday, and news arrived age rious disturbances at Basingstoke, Andover, Fordingbridge, Owslebury, Arington, and several other places in the county. Soldiers were seat off as soon as they could be spared to several of the places, and the rest were supplied with troops from other sources. A general meeting of the Lieutenancy and Magistrates of the county was held at the Grand Jury Chamber, on Thursday morning, at which the Duke of Wellington presided. The resolutions passed upon that occasion have been printed for circulation, but thew isdom of them have I been somewhat questioned. Instead of breathing that spirit of conch liation and kindness which it was hoped they would approach, and to which the willing and honest labourer eagerly looked, the resoluti ins are principally recommendatory of the prompt application of force, and the formation of yeomanry and volunteer corps. The whole body of special constables were on duty throughout the day and made so formidable and soldier-like an appearance, that the Lord Lieutenant is reported to have said, there could not be occasion for much military assistance to a place so well defended ; an 2 whether this were said or not, it is ceriain that a considerable portion of troops have been since removed. The special commission for trial of the rioters is expected to arrive in a few days, the gaol being much crowded. The mobs are not found to consist entirely of labouring men, as has been represented ; nor are their only objects the destruction of machines and an increase of wages. I Several inhabitants of Winchester, and other towns, and many per sons in full employment, at high wages, as mechanics and trades. men, have been apprehended, and lodged in prison, as ringleaders of most flagrant outrages. Two men in full work, as sawyers, in the re ceipt of two guineas per week each, and actually sworn in as special constables, weee taken, with laurel in their hats, at the head of a despe. rate mob near hf itch eldever. Large sums of money have been extorted by violence and threats from several individuals, at their own houses, anti p-rsons have been stopped and pillaged in the public roads. Women and boys take their share in these outrages, which are concluded by a division and expenditure of the spoil at public houses and beer-shops, which last prove convenient places of mee.- log and rendezvous. Some have been beard to declare that they will not work, while they can earn so much more by mobbing. `fliers all this will end no one can tell. Too much praise cannot be given to Sir William Heathcote and oilier magistrates, for their prompt and in. cement exertions, at much personal risk and inconvenience, in the suppression of the riots in this neighbourhood, and the apprehension of the offenders. The soldiers have behaved with the utmost steadi- ness and forbearance, and are entitled to the respect and gratitude of every honest citizen. Our city police is now very effective, and the magistrates unremitting in their endeavours to preserve the public peace, but all this would be of little avail in the absence of mill. tary aid. is still troubled at the movements and eontiniing demonstration of a chemist, at Chichester, aid concealing combustible trattct:., fur the purpose of aiding incendiaries, and who was again re-examined on Sun farce displayed by the great Powers upon the Continent. France. the, my, or rather the pri day evening, by the Secretary of State for the Home D e p artretnt, on the , :ciple of government which modem France has same ehar4e, on a warrant from that office, was again sent (limn to the Consecrated by tlm revolution, is the ultimateobject of all these mum- , magistrates at Chichester, on Tuesday last, with an order for his db.. thins. They look upon immediate war as inevitable, but regard its ap.. i charge. The magistrates of the Chichester Bench have continued their sittings during the past w ee k, at w hi c h L or d G eorge L ennox has been proach with th e utmost coo l ness an d con fid ence. It w ill b e a war o f opinion --a dan gtrous test f or Ki ngs i n t h ese d ays;—o f op i n i on b e- nearly constantly in attenda he e. , tween the divine rights of Kings and ,:he rights of the people to choose their own governors. Upon one side they range all the mob of Kings who acknowledge no rule but their appetites and their pas. sions • upon the other, th e sma ll b u t goo dly b an d o f E ng l an d, F rance, and Belgium. The French Journals have no objection to enter the lista with such allies. Without the subsidies of England, Russia, they say, is too poor to move her barbarians from one place to another. Austria is too sluggish to be dangerous, and Prussia will have guile enough to do at home. Th ere was already a report of an insurrection at Berlin. In the meantime the French nation was placing itself in an attitude which must teach caution to the Kings. In the department of war all was oustle, under the indefatigable Soult. The fortresses wcte being garrisoned, inns provided, and an army of observation of 150,000 men, it is said, is about to be formed upon the Rhine, to be commanded by General Gerard. ALARMING RIOTS AT HIGH WYCOMBE. IN BUCKING- (From the Hanipshire Telegraph.) The tumultuous meetings have this week been frequent in some parts of this county, and incendiaries have been spin at work. On Sunday even ing a fire broke out on the premises of Al r. A rket.ll, of Tormare farm,about one mile from Findon, on the road to Anindel. Multitudes of persons flocked to the spot,ard, by dint of unceasing exertions, the flames were confined to the tick in which they were first discovered, and which was entirely consumed ; it contained 10 qrs. of oars.—Saturday a ban tilled with corn, in the occup a ti on o f 11 r . Sh arp , t h e overseer o f Twinelnion,was discovered to be on fire, and W4ll totally consumed. The building be. longed to Mr. James Wood, of Hick teed.-11n Thursday night the premises of Mr. Scram Saxby, of Berwick, near Alfriston, were fired, when a large barn, containing the produce of two stacks of wheat (taken in only on the previous Wednesday) a winnowing machine, a thrashing 'machine, a hovel, and several pigsties, were reduced to ashes. The farm and farm-buildings belonged to Lord Gake. In most instances the labourers have exacted the promise of better wages. In the %Vattern district of the country, the agitation has greatly sub sided, owing, doubtless, in a great measure, to the judicious manner in which the constabulary force has been organised in the neighbourhood of Chichester, where the magistrates have divided the Western district into sections, and have placed the constabulary forte of them respec tively under several respectable persons. So much has Government approved of the efficiency of this plan, and of the facility of ha or ganisation, that they have communicated and recommended it to the magistracy of all the other countks, that have shared In the late per. turbations. Mr. Paseo, of Chidiester, who has been unremitting in his vigilance to detect the rioters, after about fifty miles' jaunt in pursuit of Barns, of Bognor, the well.known ringlea der of all the mobs in this pan of the county, succeeded in taking him into custody at West Wittering, on Friday morning, and he will undergo his examination to-day. Four others of the rioters have been committed during the past week to Pet worth, to take their trials at the Quarter Sessions. Evans, of Nutbourn, who was apprehended, and underwent an examination at Chichester, on Saturday last, en a charge, we understand, of purchasing of Mr. Whits, HABISHIRE: The disturbances at High Wycombe are mo.t serious. Words can not describe the agitation and alarm pervading all chst.t. , of people in this neiehboulhood. On Wednesday last a numl:,r of painsul:Attrs made their appearance in the town, stating that a mee:ing of the trade would take place on the ensuing Friday, in the Nye (a Mace about half a mile from the town), and inviting all those who were oppressed to at tend, observing, that it was their finn resolve, in the event of the tne tliinery not being removed, utterly to destroy it. On the same day a notice was issued by the mtgistr :ey ealting the inhabitants, at the request of his Grace the Duke of Buckingham, Lord Lieutenant of the county, to meet them at the Tus•n-hall no Fri. day (market-day), for the purpose of devising means to preserv- the property of those individuals, the destruction of which had heen :,treatly threatened. Pursuant to the above notice, Lord Canington, reeom panietl by Thomas Westwood, F.sq. the mayor, the Rev. Dr. Seltobeli, the 11ev. Air. Vincent, and R. Wheeler, Esq. magistrates of the county, and a number of the most respectable resilents, assetultl:d m ti..: Town-hall. The Chair being taken by Dr. S:hobell, the rev. gentleman was pro ceeding tc state the object of the meeting, when the hall wa, forc i bly taken possession of by an ininunse multitude, who, by the!; angry ex. clamations, convinced the meeting that words would not bi the only argument they intended to use. Lord Carrington attempted to address them, but in vain. His leird.hip was received by yells, aril cries of " pay your election bills," (his son being member for the coun:y.) The Chairman (Dr. Schobell) was forcibly ejected from his scat, whict was taken possession of by a loquacious itinerant barber, who addr,:ssct! colleagues, complaining loudly of the general distress. In a s!tort time lie dissolved his meeting, when they proceeded to demolish the cltirs, tables, and windows, very few of the latter being left whole. The rio:ers then proceeded to the paper.mill of Messrs. Lane, many of them having large Lammers concealed, for the purpose of deniolisbirl the machinery. At this moment the. Newport Pagnell troop of Bucks leolianry, on their r e t ur n f rom Hounslow, marched through the town, and were promptly on the spot. This increased the fury of thelnultitude, who felt persuaded that they hail been sent for. Dr. &hobcll assu..d them that their presence was purely accidental, and appealeeto the people whether, in his individual capacity as a magistrate, he hair refused to listen to their grievances. A gentleman suggested to Dr. &Jodrell that the best way to appease the feeling of the mob would he to dispense with the attendance of the yeo manry, and himself to retire. The Rev. Gentlemen acted upon this advice, and shortly after idle people separated, venting their anger in imprecations, not loud but deep, vowing to have their revenge in the course of the night. Most of the houses and shops were closed at an early hour in the aftetnoon, and near fifty special constables hate been sworn Di. Armed parties arc sent to all the paper-mills to protect the ptoper y. LITERARY REVIEW. Present State of Auatralia r7 by Roar. DAWSON', Eq. SMITH, ELDER, &C. As our space for Literary Notices cannot admit of our attempting to embrace anything, than a mere selection from the new work daily in course of publication, we have, as our readers must know, confined our task to the occasional notice of such works, as happen to fall within our perusal, and from which we think we can extract a little amusement or instruction for our Readers. We do not walk forth to pull nettles or thistles, just to take them up and tell our Readers this is a thistle, and that a nettle; but we only venture to call our Readers' attention to what fruit and flowers we van collect for him in our way, to afford him gratification by their perfume, or intellectual support by their nutriment. We have read many books on Australia—and, until we perused this, we never had conveyed to us that information, wh! ch we have been al ways most anxious to obtain—facts illustrative of the character of the Aborigines. The works which have been published are, many of them, satisfactory and interesting, as far as they mark the progress in politi cal importance, of this new world ; but so little has been contributed to the history of our species, except what might be collected almost equally well in the annals of Newgate, that the class of books, however politi cally important, have never been very inviting to the general Reader. —The author of this work, Mr. Dawron, it appears, went out to Australia, in June, 1824, as chief agent of the Australian Agri cultural Society, having under his immediate charge 40 settl.n, and accompanied by his nephew, in another ship, with other 40 settlers— all destined for New South Wales, with about 600 or 700 sheep, and some black cattle and hones. He was there about three years, during the whole of which time, he appears to hive been engaged in arc. m. pllshing the establishment, or locating—as we believe the word is—the emigrants who had left Europe with him ; and travelling over the formerly located, and much of the unlocated parts of the country. He confesses his hobby to have been, " the study of human nature in its wild and untutored state, and in its gradual approaches to civilise. don." Now it happens that the hobby here specified, is the one we have ourselves always delighted to mount ; and we are confident, not many who may have occasion to remark on this book, bare mounted it under more similar circumstances, although in a different part. When we saw this sentence, therefore, we saw enough to interest us in the vo. lame; sad if our reader should have any thing like a congenial cu. riosity, we do not hesitate to say that the work is well worthy of his perusal. There is more of plain narrative, and less of book-making quackery in it, than in any book of travels which we have for some time perused. Mr. Dawson appears to have commenced his study of the native character, with two assistants--good sense and good nature; good sense to know, that intimate intercourse can alone afford any chance of reading the mind of man ; and good nature, to treat his fallow-men with that " con siderate treatment and confidence," which he justly observes " generally secures the best return." And our own experience fully confirms this observation. The rtsult of .investigaion thus undertaken has been, we are happy to see, vladicatory of the Aborigines, who have hitherto almost incessantly been represented, as a people devoid of any amiable points of character, to interest the philosopher in their favour. We have ourselves studied human nature in very uncivilised states, and we have been struck with many analogies to what we have witnessed in the anecdotes here related--all of which have the indubitable marks of truth. Many of them are curious, as delineative of peculiarities :id generic; and, therefore, valuable as filling up the history of man. With respect to Australasia, or, rather, we should say, the parts of it visited by Mr. Dawson, this work conveys a very candid account. The author does not consider it one of the rich or productive portions of the globe, and he describes it difficient In navigable rivers, not one being yet discovered navigable more than 25 nag into the interior. Nor is the country often very pleasing, being without much low or under wood, and the trees not very picturesque. The climate he uniformly pane. gerises. The concluding chapters of the work contain much valuable intorrm lion for the emigrant. Ile does not appear favourable so emigratior, although his remarks are those of a nowt of good sense. We differ a little in opinion with him on his general disapproval of emigration. We have nail so much as to the character of the work, that we shall be obliged .o dispense with any quotation, which we generally endeavour tc make. A BDUCTION. On the night of &inlay sennight, a armed party attacked the housa of the Widow Thynnc, of Fahey, in the Barony of Barren. and forcibly carried away her daughter. The fellows dragged her off a loft wl:ett she bid herself, and when her brother tl•ought to save bee, they assaulted him and threatened to Ithoot hint. The ruffians find several shots about the house, and took the poor girl a ditance of twelve miles into a remote part of Buiren, to:the house of a man of the name of Conn, or Loughrusk, neat Ballyvaughan, where she had not been above an hew when George 1114:imara, &q. having heard of the outrage s called on the police at Ballyvaughan. who immediately proceeded with Mr. 31`Namara to the house and rescued her, but unfortunately the fel lows, on seeing the police coming, made off and escaped. One of the fellows charged with this abduction was arrested, and sent into Ennis gaol yesterday, and we sincerely hope several more of the party will share the saute fate. This is the seventh case of violent abduction, or attempts at'alkluetion, which has occurred in the Baronies of Bunco and Inchiquin, within the last six weeks.—Enstis Owe nit's. It has boen decided that in the colleges and other es. tablishments for public education in France, instruction in the use of arms shall form part of the system to be ed-opted. i? i l II i i I I II .. 1. f. • fl i•