Star. — London, England, 1830-02-25 00:00:00

to its honour, to Its safety, to its very existence, is suffering .1-dr r calamities the most afflicting, and dangers the most appalling, which both the Ministers and the Parliament themselves have c iprrned their inability to relkre ! ! What then have we to eo, but to look after our own affairs ? Is the National Mind to slum ber for ever ? It is time that this state of things should come to an snit If any exertion of ours can conduce to this great result, those ..ertiens shall bot be wanting. Thomas Attwood Joseph Russell Joshua Scholefield Urban Luckcock J. F. Blunt: Thomas Shorthonse Edward Hobson George Edmonds ' John Lawrence Josiah Ernes _ Charles Jones C. W. Firehild John Slater James Claridge Benjamin Hadley J. W. Evans Thomas Todd William Beach Felix Luckcock J. B. Orem John Betts John Allday Charles Grafton Samuel Allen, sen. Matthew Dixon Robert Cottrill Joseph Bodington William Birken Henry Knight D. B. Smith John Dyer John Winfield William Pare T. C. Salt Joseph Hadley Thomas Parsons, jun. Birmingham, Jan. 2b, 1890. THE MORNING JOURNAL. In consequence of the harsh and oppressive Mea -ures that have been resorted to with a view to effect the ruin of Mr. Alexander (now a Prisoner within the walls (if Newgate,) and to destroy " The Morning Journal" Newspaper, of which he is the Editor and principal Pro prietor, it has been resolved by several distinguished Friends of the liberty of the Press to recommend that a Public Subscription be entered into forthwith, in order that those who love freedom, and desire to preserve un impaired the Constitution of Great Britain, may be enabled to testify their sense of the recent Measures, under the effects of which he is suffering. It is obvious that the nature and object of these Mea sures have been to destroy the Freedom of the Press— to prevent the possibility of Free Dismission in a free Country—and to give to the Government of the day a power most prejudicial to the liberty of the subject, and destructive of the very spirit upon which our noble and glorious Constitution is founded. That such is the fact is not only felt and believed in all parts of the Kingdom, but has been asserted by indivi duals of all parties in the Commons' House of Parlia r►ient, as well as by the various Public Journalists of the Metropolis, of the Provinces, of Ireland, and of Scotland, with scarcely an exception. It is, therefore, now proposed that a Subscription be immediately raised—the objects of which shall be to pay' the Fines imposed by the Court of King's Bench, to de fray the heavy Expenses consequent on the recent Pro locutions, and to negative the attempts to ruin " The Morning Journal," by upholding that Paper, and by supplying it with the means of being conducted with energy, ability, and effect. Several of the Public Journals having already, in a spirited and generous manner, directed the attention of their readers to the propriety of the course now adopted, their zealous and warm co-operation is earnestly requested —that they will give force and effect to the statement now put forth—and that they will receive and transmit such Subscriptions as may be forwarded to them. Subscriptions will be received at Holmes's Hotel, Par. 'lament-street, Westminster ; at Garraway's Coffee house, Cornhill ; or at the Office of " The Morning Journal," where a Committee sit daily from Twelve to Four ;—to whom Communications are requested to be addressed. D. HURST, Hon. Sec. THE EVENING STAR. - . ' Ale P' GATOS 4 • ti Nl' LONDON. THURSDAY, PRICE OF STOCKS ?EBRUARY 25. AT TWO O'CLOCK. Bank Siocilil91181 "-- ---- Do.Do.Jiii.icJan: 19 1-16th 1 44)er Cent. Red. 94 1 1 India Stock, 244 S 3 per Ct. Cons. 914 1 1 4 India Bonds 76 5 31 per Ct. 1818, 491 1001 3 per Cent. 1751, 51 per Ct. Red. 991 100 .€lOOO Exch.lEUs 75 6 3 per Cent. 1021 1 xsoo Ditto 75 6 4 per Ct. 1826.1051 1 .11100 and MOO Do. 75 6 Lang Ann. 19111-16ths 8-16 ha Bank for Acc. Do. 30 Years. 19 7-16ths Cons. for Ace. 921 2 FOREIGN FUNDS, TWO O'CLOCK. Brazil Bds, spr Ct. 694 91 919 Greek Bonds, 3 p Ct. Ditto Acct. 69 81 91 5 Do. 8.1825, S pCt. 411 Milian Bds.:6 pr Ct. Sp. Bds. 5 per 0.121 1 Do. Acc. 261 Do. Ace. BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHARES, TWO O'CLOCi.. MARL PAID. Ptit NUKE. Brazilian Company £0 5 84 1 Brazillap, Imp. (Isl. 45 pm.) 35 20 831 114 United Mex, (iss. at 41 pos.) 40 391 20 19/ 201 Ditto Subscrip. 2 21 Liverpool St Mancheeter 104 90 150 TO CORRESPONDENTS. PHILOZTML is too late fee this day, or we should have much pleasure in obliging him. His Letter shall certainly appear to morrow. D. B. on die Civil Disabilities of the Jews, shall appear on an early day. There is an article in the Times to-day, relative to the motion which is to be made this night in the Peers by Lord STANHOPE, on the State of the Nation, which can not be too widely exposed, nor too signally reprobated. It is on paramount public questions like this—where the political remedy interferes with his Stock Exchange spe culations—that the abandoned recklessness of that Paper calls loudest for exposure : for it is in these matters, that he does the greatest harm, by his sophistries, to the public mind. His base and mercenary spirit is such, that there is no truth which he would not sacrifice, to maintain the hollow system by which he reaps• his gains. He would deny the distress and misery, and nakedness and hunger of the land—nay, he has denied them—to uphold his mi litary patron, and keep up the delusion of threes and fours, which is such a prolific tnilch cow to him. But his dirty traffic is now as notorious as the political apodacy which it has superinduced ; and valeat quantum valet, is the universal comment of those, who read his insidious and unprincipled effusions: The motion of the Noble EARL—Whom our Stock jobbing contemporary takes upon himself to ridicule— is looked for with deep anxiety by all who know his talents, and who can appreciate his love of country. If we made no comment yesterday, on the motion of Lord JOHN RUSSELL—for leave to bring in a Bill to enable the towns of Manchester, Leeds, and Birmingham to. return Representatives to serve in Parliament—it was not because none suggested themselves. The best comment, perhaps, that was made throughout the whole course of 4hat long debate, was the pithy observation of the Marquis of BLA N DIPO RD, that it was a tub thrown out to the whale. What good—we beg leave to inquire— would have been effected for the general interests of the community, if those three towns had been invested all at once with the privilege of sending delegates to an Assem bly, in which their voices, if honestly raised, must be overruled by preponderant venality ? What would it boot us, the people, that the Members for Manchester, Leeds, and Birmingham—presuming them to be faithful to their high trusts, which is an improbable hypothesis, and unreasonable presumption—should add six more to the deride'', and unavailing minorities, who urge in vain the necessity fora purer system ? No, no—it is not by such patching of the corrupted garment, that the consti tutional mantle can be restored to its pristine beauty and durability. What ! • leave Westbury, and Wootton- Bassett, and Corfe Castle—et id genus omne— and call that the representation of the people ? Farcical and iniquitous hypocrisy ! The whole borough system—we mean, by that, the proprietary influence — must be cut out, root and branch. As things stand now, and as HORACE Twiss and Mr. Humissor: would have them —the House of Commons no more represents the people of England, than it does those of Hindoortan or Cochin China. The speech of Mr. BROUGHAM was the only speech of great importance in this debate : for it is always important—as a lesson to the people—to expose the tergiversation, or the recklessness of splendid talents. The speech of the new Member for Knares borough was marked by two prominent peculiarities, both tending—in a remarkable degree—to show how little reliance the country ought to place on shining abilities alone. His flirtation with Mr. PEEL—the unconcealed enemy of all real reform—is the first: his objection to any farther infusion of popular principles into the House of Commons, is the other. Besides this, he called the PEOPLE of ENGLAND the rabble—which is a violent liberty in Mr. BROUGHAM, so long as he yet affects to enumerate himself among them. Had he m oun t e d th e woolsack—an elevation, which too frequently produces giddiness—or assumed only his bargained supremacy in the Rolls, some allowance would be made. But in his present situation, and while he yet presumes to call him self a Representative of the People, such proligacy is equally barefaced and offensive. Lord SAN DON met the proposition differently; for, being a sincere friend to the restoration of the repre sentative principle in that House, he moved as an amendment the abolition of all rotten boroughs, and the transfer of their franchise to populous, unrepresented places. But that was negatived, just as the motion of Lord BLANDFORD was, and .as all motions will be negatived, which have for their aim the effectual excision of the rotten parts of the system. Tho House of Com mons thinks—and votes itself—a very capital and efficient organ of the country, though all the world knows that it is returned to that room at Westminster, by the nomination and concurrence of principally two hundred oligarchs. But it is not such motions as Lord JOHN RessELL's—nor as that even of the Marquis of BLAxDroato—which will go any way to reclaim the House of Commons. It is the VOICE FROM WITHOUT, which may, perhaps, induce it, at last, to listen : or—if it cannot induce—may perchance exert a more potential influence, and compel it. The apologist for Ministers—the Times—has already said, that they have gone the length of their tether in vo lunteered liberalities, and that they wait for popular compulsion, to fill up the measure of justice. That it will be soon filled, is not less our confident expectation, than it is our ardent hope. The " winter of our discon tent" will prove the herald of a " glorious summer." We Owe it to Mr. EDWARD DAVENPORT—Of whose postponed motion on the State of the Country we spoke, at the time, under erroneous impressions —to explain that no blame nor reproach is justly attributable to him. The Honourable Member—so far from having deserted the cause of the People, as we were led to believe he had— only deferred his important motion, on the ground of a really incapacitating indisposition. It is to be brought forward in the ensuing week, and we have no doubt the Honourable Gentleman will do full justice to the mo mentous arguments it involves. We have received two letters on the subject of Por tugal, containing a refutation of the statements put forth by Ministers during the debates on the motions of Lords MELBOURNE and PALMERSTON . From the num ber of facts brought forward in these communications, we regret extremely the impossibility of giving them a place to-day. They shall appear very soon. In the mean time, we call the attention of our readers to the private correspondence from Lisbon, which proves that the state of things in Portugal, so far from experiencing any im provement, is getting daily worse. The Letters which have appeared in our columns, ad dressed to Lord HOLLAND on the subject of Greece, seem to have attracted the attention of a writer, who, from the observations he has addressed to us, is inti mately acquainted with the past and present state Of the question. The facts with which our valued Cones pondent has favoured us, with relation to the able and judicious policyof Mr. Fox, are so important, that wa shall recur to them on the first open day ; and only re gret that the length of the debate has rendered it impos sible to keep better pace with our Correspondents, during w the last ten days. A third Letter to Lord HOLLAND has reached our Office, but must also be unavoidably deferred. It is truly gratifying to perceive that public Meetings continue to be held or proposed throughout the country. That which took place at Holywell, in Flintshire, fur nishes a new and striking proof of the great change which has taken place, and is fast working its way through every class of the community. There is such a remarkable coincidence between the sentiments ex pressed, and the statements made, at Holywell and the Mansion House, on the same day and perhaps hour, that we cannot refrain from quoting a portion of Mr. MA- Tine's speech, as reported in the Herald. The resolu tions, which are drawn up in a kindred spirit, and car ried with acclamation, shall appear to-morrow. The long and expensive wars (as he had consented to term them, in accordance with the wishes of some gentlemen with whom he acted on the present occasion, but, for himself he would say, the unjust and unnecessary wars in which this country had been engaged —first against America, and afterwards against France) were the cause of that enormous progressive incense of the national debt under which the nation now groaned, and which neither our children, nor' our children's children, would ever see redeemed.--(loud applause.) The war against the independence of America, in 1776, was forced upon the Minister of that day by the obstinacy of George the Third. This laid the foundation of our embarrassments; and the war with France—another war against principles--plunged ns still deeper, until the debt became upwards of eight hundred millions ! The difficulty for providing for the payment of the interest of this enor mous debt was farther increased by the expense of maintaining an unnecessarily large standing army and navy in times of profound peace—by shoals of collectors of taxes and public functionaries, always greatly overpaid for their services, and whose salaries were further augmented on the plea of the high price of provisions during the war; and by a host of placemen and pensioners, who preyed upon the vitalsof the country, as a reward for their own po litical subserviency, or that of their connections.—(Applause.) This was a state of things that would not exist if the House of Commons represented the feelings and interests of the people—.if it had been chosen by the people, and acted with and for the people— (Loud applause,) instead of a majority of it being nominated by Peers and wealthy Commoners. This fact was publicly asserted in 1792, by a society of patriotic Gentlemen, called "The Friends of the People," who offered to prove it at the bar of the House of Com mons itself.:-(Applause.) He held in his hand a list of 26 boroughs, no one of which contained more than 26 voters ; and in some of them there was not even a house ; yet each of these boroughs returned two Members to Parliament ; collectively, a number equal to half the Representatives for Ireland.—(Hear, hear, hear.) Of these the borough of Horsham alone had twenty-five voters; Andover, Wilton, Christ church, Downton, Westbury, Caine, Newport, and Beaumaris, sash 24 voters; Banbury, 19; Droitwich and Bewdley, 14 ; Bucking. ham and Malaiesbury, 13; Orford and Hastings, 12; Blilburn Port, 9 ; New Romney, 8 ; Rye, 6 ; Winchilsea and Marlborough, 3 ; Castle Rising and Gatton, 2 ; and Midhunt and Old Sarum, only 1 voter each ! This was the system that they were told " worked well." But was it for a moment to be tolerated that Gatton or Old Sarum should be put in competition with the county of Flint? And yet each of these rotten boroughs sent as many Representatives to Parliament as the county of Flint, including the Representative for the Flintshire boroughs.—(Loud applause.) This was the root of all the evils which afflicted the country—the people not being adequately represented in Parliament. Had they been so, instead of wasting the blood and treasure of the country in unjust and unnecessary wars, we should have been at peace with those nations, and cultivating the relations of commerce and mutual advantages with them. We insert a letter from a correspondent, who signs himself A. B. accusing us of such truckling as he does not remember to have witnessed for eighteen years, be cause ;,we did not rejoin yesterday to the stuff in the Morning Journal. We entreat A. B. not to fret himself about the pure and firm character of the STAR, which will always know how to maintain itself—whether on a public, or more private question—without the assistance, or instigation, of officious curiosity like his. Any body, except our correspondent—who is dying, we suppose, for all sorts of scandalous particulars—would feel quite satisfied at the condition in which that business has been left by the STAR. Any body else would perceive, with half an eye, that our opponent has dropt altogether the great subject matter of animadversion, and contented himself with discharging at us the brutum fulmen of insignificant contempt. Why should we take the childish trouble of telling him that we return the com pliment ? We shall not sink, at least, under the weight of such magniloquence: Lad aunt humeri, majoraque ponders portant. As, however, our correspondent has made free with the name of Mr. ALEXANDER, we ought to remark that we do not know Mr. ALEXANDER in this business—neither do we believe, that either one or the other of those articles to which we are now alluding, emanated from his pen: and such—as we here express it—was our conviction, when we took up our's. Whether this explanation will satisfy A. B. or not, is quite immaterial to us : we are sure it will satisfy those, who—like us—are only anxious not to see GUILT pertinaciously upheld as clothed in in nocenco. But when A. B. talks of unprincipled truck ling, why does he pass in silence the monstrous retrac tions of the Times ? There, indeed—if he desires to distinguish himself, by standing forth the castigator of public profligacy—is a fine opportunity and field for our indignant friend to show off in. His Majesty held a Court yesterday afternoon, at his Palace at Windsor, which was attended by the Prussian Minister, the Lord Chancellor, the Lord President of the Council, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Secreta r i es of State for the Home, Foreign, and Colonial Depart ments, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Lord Steward of the Household, the Master of the King's Stag Hounds, the Treasurer of the Household, the Judge Advocate- General, &c. The Prussian Minister had an audience of the King, to which he was introduced by the Earl of Aberdeen, as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. The Judge-Advocate-General had an audience of the King, and laid before his Majesty the proceedings of a number of Courts Martial, for the purpose of receiving his Majesty's commands respecting them. His Majesty held a Privy Council, at which Mr. Gre yille attended as Clerk. T!! King gave audience to the Lord Chancellor, the Drlt f .Wellington, Earl Bathurst, and Mr. Secretary Peel. _ Lord Glonlyon and Colonel Arrostrong were the Lord and Groom in waiting. The Court broke up about fire o'clock. CITY, TWELVE o'CLocit. HAILE ARRIVED AND DUE THIS MORNING. •. D. •. D. •. D. 1 Dublin ... 0 0 France . 1 0 Lisbon ....... 0 1 Waterford..... 0 0 Flanders 1 0 Jamaica 0 I Guern. &Jersey 0 0 Holland 0 0 Sweden 2 0 Leeward Islands 0 5 Hamburgh .... 3 0 Malta . 0 We are again this !naming without any anivals of consequence, and the French Mail still remains due ; consequently there is no political information. This being settling day in the Cowl Mar. ket, the only business doing at present is making up their accounts, and the extreme fluctuation during the present account is about 3, per cent. Consols, which left off yesterday very heavy at 91i for the account, opened at the same price this morning ; since which the market is *shade better, and Consols may be quoted at 911 j. and 92j for the next account. Money is so abundant, that the middling merchants can obtain discounts at 2j per cent. Up to this hour we do not hear of any failures in the market. The Foreign Market is divested of doing. or nothing Report says that Prince Leopold is to receive #750,000 to give up his annuity ! We have received the Guernsey Paper to the 22d February. STATES MEETING.—The State of this island met in the large hall of the Royal Court House on Wednesday morning, to elect a Jurat in the room of Peter Le Coeq, deceased. On the recapitula tion of the votes, they appeared to be thus divided :—For Mr. Man. sell, ; Mr. Dobree, b 4 ; Mr. Vatrect, 42. The President said that she votes for Messrs. Mansell and Dobree were equal, and it was therefore impossible for him to declare who was elected; and be thought it was usual in cases of this kind to refer the matter to his Majesty in Council; and the electors appearing to be of this opi nion, the meeting broke up. • lIALF-PAST ONE. By private information received yesterday afternoon from Paris, by Express, it was the general opinion there that Prince Polignac. owing to his bad state of health, would retire from office. A Buenos Ayres mall has arrived off Falmouth.—letters and papers not as yet come to hand. Letters have been received from Oporto by a vessel which left on the 16th inst. They do not bring any political information. Information is received at the North and South American Coffee house, which states that about 80 Pail of ships are in the Bay of Flushing on the 22d inst. owing to the ice, and that a thaw of four or fire days would clear the river of the ice, when they would pro. ceed to Antwerp. The present Account of Consols being now terminated, they may be quoted for Money 91i and for the Account 94. Up to the present hour we do not hear of any thing wrong in the Market. The Foreign Market continues without the least interest—prices much the same as yesterday. A de'jestne was prepared at the Castle for the Ministers and others attending the Court on their arrival from town. His Majesty gave a grand dinner in the evening to the Duke and Duchess of Clarence, the Prussian Minister, Count and Countess Munster, Lord and Lady Clifden, and the Cabinet Ministers, the Officers of the Household, and other Official Gentlemen who were present at the Court. The Russian Ambassador entertained a large party to dinner, yesterday evening, at Ashburnham House. The Marquis of Hertford gave a grand entertainment yesterday evening, at his residence in Park-lane, to a numerous party of the Nobility and Gentry. Lord Ellenborough entertained some of the Cabinet Ministers to dinner yesterday evening, at his residence in Grosvenor-place. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India-house, when Robert Cutlar Ferguson, Fag. took the usual oath and his seat, as a Director, in the room of Richard Chicheley Plowden, Esq. dec.—Capt. Bryan Broughton was sworn into the command of the ship Earl of Balcarras, consigned to China direct. The following commanders took leave of the Court previous to departing for their respective destinations, viz.... Captain Henry A. Drummond, Castle Huntly ; Captain T. Smith, Lovdon, Madras and China. A deputation of gentlemen connected with the mining districts, amongst whom were Lord Wm. Powlett, Lord Lowther, and Sir James Graham, had a long interview with Mr. Herries and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, at the office of the Board of Trade, yesterday morning. The county petition against the Malt and Beer duties was sent from this town last Thursday morning; it was signed g py 801 persons—a trifling number, considering the population of the town and neighbourhood. But the fact is, that the question excites very little interest here, for it seems to be a general opinion that even the repeal prayed for, if granted, would produce very trifling benefit, compared with taking off the taxes un some more neces sary articles of consumption.—Boston Gazette. The Lord Chancellor, Sir Anthony Hart, has been confined to his house for some days, by a severe illness. —Dublin Paper. The will of the late Lord Redesdalo was proved yes terday at Doctors' Commons. It is dated Jan. 7, 1830. His Lordship bequeathed the whole of his real and per sonal estate to his son (the present Lord,) subject to a legacy of 20,0001. and an annuity of 4001. to his daughter, Frances Elizabeth Mitford. The personal pro perty was sworn under 60,0001. Lord and Lady Graves sailed on Friday afternoon for Liverpool, from whence they proceed direct to Hampton Court, where they remain for a few days, and then go to Bishop's Court, his Lordship's seat, near Exeter. It is the intention of Lord Graves to retire Jim the army im mediately.—Dublin Morning Register. COUNTY WATERYORD ELECTION.--.The usual pre parations for a contested election are going forward with activity. The booths for the different baronies are nearly completed in the Court-house. Precautionary measures have also been adopted to preserve the peace. Quarters have been pre pa red in our foot barracks for three addi tional companies of infantry (of the 7.3 th or 84th regi ment,) and two troops of dragoons are also expected. We understand that Counsellor Haseard is to be the She riff's Assessor.—Waterford Mail. It is rather remarkable that—whilst in the Commons condemnatory allusions to the recent newspaper prosecu tions have been " neither few nor far between"—in the Upper House not a single observation has been allowed to escape from any of their Lordships on the subject. The I presence of a Noble Duke--whose penchant for the vicinity of Battersea is well known—is suivosed to have had an important effect in securing the silence of the patrician Senators. LONDON UNIVENSITTO-.4 meeting of the Proprie tors and Shareholders was held yesterday morning in one of the lecture-rooms of the college to receive the Annual Report, Mr. A. Baring in the chair. The Report occupied hour and a half in the reading, after which Lord Althorp, . a short s pe ech, expressed his satisfaction at the promising stateofthelnstitution,andmovedthatthereportbe printed. The Noble Lord's motion was seconded by Mr. Smith, M. for Norwich, who declared his satisfaction, as a Dissenter from the Established Church, that an institution was length formed in which the conscientious opinions and be lief of no sect or party would operate as a bar to the admis sion of its professors. Mr. Fearon then rose to oppose the printing of the Report, and avowed his dissatisfaction some parts of its contents. Enough, he thought, had not been done to satisfy the public, or redeem the pledges held out at the commencement of the undertaking. After some further discussion the Report was brought up. to • a sinet ence East took room ryan Earl ring Ming y A. don, ming Lord view T, at sties was Ting the 'ere, peal refit, ces- been less. yes- -330. per - to a his pro- s for pton o to It is pre- with arty urea tens ddi- egi- ted. ihe- was KU- the mi to The nity an chin ►rie- one nual d an p, in sing led. I.P. ntsr a at be- mia- the n at had 4Ses ing. up. MUM