Star. — London, England, 1830-05-22 00:00:00

Or our return to the gallery, Mr. Hamar was addressing the C•mmittse, complaining of the operations of the excise laws, which subjected publicans to the annoyarre of informers. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the object of Government was to provide wholesome liquor for the public. Mr. BENETT wished to know how the manufacturers of cider s‘re to fare by the new regulations. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, just as the Hewers of beer. After some further conversation between several members, the liouqe resumed, and the report was ordered to be received on Tues day neat. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the house adjourned at Half-past Two o'Clock. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. _.,.__ SATURDAY, MAY 22. THE KING. " WINDSOR CASTLE, MAT 22, 1830. " The KING'S symptoms remain the same. His MA JESTY has passed a better night. (Signed) 4, HENRY HALFORD. " MATTHEW J. TIERNEY." The sailing of the expedition against Algiers, has been followed by a partial change in the French Ministry. The introduction of M. PEY RON NET, is a most extraordinary measure. It would have been utterly impossible for Cli ARL ES X. to make a more unpopular selection: but we have not room to discuss the matter to-day. Some strange reports are in circulation, relative to the move ments of our fleet, and the intention of the Der to hoist the English flag, when the attack takes place.-- Without giving much credit to these rumours, we shall be much disappointed if Ministers do not keep a watchful eye on the movements of the French armament. We sincerely hope that the next advices from Mexico «•ill contradict the following melancholy details relative to the state of that country :—Advices received this morning, from Mexico, are of considerable importance, and give a melancholy picture of the state of that Re public. There seems every reason to suppose a civil war will, ere long, break out—such is the strength of faction there. It appears that throughout the Republic nothing but anarchy prevails. Yucatan was under the yoke of a few chieftains who had proclaimed centralism. Tabasco had followed the example, but some of the leading men had adopted opposite views.— Oajaca was in a state of revolution; the Go vernor, who bad renounced his authority, had re-in stated himself by force of arms. The Governor of Vera Cruz had retired to Mange de Clavo, and it was expected the legislature would be declared null. Puebla was with out a legislature, as the different members, fearing to see the anarchy with which the state was menaced, had ad journed their body. Halpern was in agitation, Muhoacan in confusion, and Garateras had evinced symptoms of dis content. An insurrection had commenced at Durango, where Colonel GASPARD Oc Hon was attempting to de pose the Governor, and of all the States only Guanajorato and San Luis were tranquil. We have received a file of Bermuda Papers, which con tain the reply of the House of Assembly to the Goyim- Non's Speech at the opening of the Session, which we noticed a few days back : " May it please your Excellency, " We, his Majesty's moat dutiful and loyal subjects, the General Assembly of Bermuda, have much pleasure in approaching your Excellency with the expression of our thanks for your Excellency's speech on opening :he present Session of the Colonial Parliament. " The confidence with which your Excellency looks forward to our cordial assistance in whatever may tend to the improvement of the Colony, doing justice as it does to the feelings by which we are animated, is highly grati fyiti:4 to us; but we beg to assure your Excellency, that ol:!d any incentive be wanting to our faithful discharge of ti.is duty, we should find it in the uniform experience we have had since your Excellency's first assumptionof the go • eminent, cr your Excellency's own desire to promote well that object as the diffusion of content and hap pino,s throughout all classes of the community. When the account of the receipts and disbursements of the public revenue shall have been laid before us, we shall cheerfully apply ourselves to the making such further Provision for the public service as may be deemed ad visable in the present circumstances of the colony. We shall hope that this colony will derive a due pro portion of benefits from whatever arrangements the parent •tate may deem it expedient to make with the United States of America, in the difficult task of adjusting her unnuereial relations with a proper regard to her own in terest, and that of her numerous colonial possessions— Nibmitting, at all times to those temporary inconveniences, Mach are always attendant in a greater or less degree, ''port any variation in the course of trade. - Our care shall be diligently directed to the renewal such necessary laws as may have expired, and all onanunications which may be laid before us by His Majesty's commands, as well as every other matter to hich your Excellency may think fit to call our atten tion. Quill receive our best and most respectful conside- (Signed) " J. N. HARVEY, Speaker." lu the Co.umittee on the Beer Bill last night in the iloube of Commons, Mr. Mowcx moved a clause pro hibiting the beer from being drank on the premises where it was cold. The Honourable Member is afraid that if the intention of the Bill, which is to make beer good and cheap, should be carried Into effect, it would :oavert all England into an ale-house. The House, however, did not p.,:ticipate in his terrors, and the clause Was rejected. The majority, however, was not of that „ ~vz------4 1 0, 7/ lip . -A* x , ...-, , a - ' Ca/ S'‘ ) .4 :AL, . ~ -,—,Ap_......E.gicAvostrT.r,Asciva l f •atiun, decided character that would leave the minds of the sup porters of the original Bill entirely at ease with regard to the final issue. We regret that a elluF.e which would perfectly nullify the measure, and entirely defeat its pur pose, should have found so much support in the Com mittee. We should consider our notice of the pamphlet of Ad miral PEN Rosa incomplete,were we not to advert to a sub ject connected with our naval administration, of equal im portance to any of the topics which the gallant Admiral has so ably treated. We allude to those abuses of naval patron age, and the general system of advancement in the navy, which are not less unjust in themselves than injurious to the best interests of the profession. It is, indeed, some what extraordinary that these should have escaped the author's attention ; for we can easily conceive that one, who was so feelingly alive to the other defects of our naval system, could not be insensible to a mode of treat ment which continues to excite the greatest discontent throughout those classes of the service that are more par ticularly exposed to its effects. Nothing can more clearly prove the pertinacity with which abuses of every kind are adhered to in our navy, than the indifference manifested to the complaints which have assailed the Admiralty during the last twenty years. In this long period, scarcely a session has passed, without some no tice having been taken of the subject in Parliament, while the press has teemed with remonstrances urging redress. Having quoted that portion of the gallant Admiral's pamphlet, which points out the invidious distinction made between military and naval men, in the appointments to certain offices, we shall in these brief remarks confine ourselves to two classes, whose case seem to call most loudly for revision, namely, Commanders and Lieute nants. It is by comparing the relative treatment of these officers with those of equal rank in the Army, that our readers will at once be enabled to decide how far the complaints of the Navy deserve attention. Those who are at all conversant with the subject, do not require to be informed with regard to the Army, that from the momentany officer obtains a Captain's commission, his rank, whether em ployed or not, goes on progressively till he reaches the highest grade of the profession. Thus it is, that numbers, who never served a single campaign, after they became Captains, figure in the Army List as Major-Generals, enjoying the Kixo's allow ance of 5001. a-year. But what is the case in the Naval Service ? Why, that although an order in Council has conferred the rank of Major on Commanders, and of Captains, on Lieutenants, both these can never advance a single step, unless through interest, or some of those acts of gallantry which can only fall to the lot of a few. This glaring distinction between the two ser vices is very easily illustrated. Our readers are aware that the army promotions take place at stated pe riods. By referring to the Army List, it will be found that all the Majors of 1812 have obtained the rank of Lieut.-Colonels,and all the Captains of the same year, that of Majors. What a striking contrast does the Navy List exhibit ! To begin with the Commanders : out of 902 of this meritorious class, one hundred and eighty-seven have held their present rank EIGHTEEN Y c A as,while four hun dred more have been ten years on the same list! In the case of Lieutenants, the hardship is immeasurably greater : of these, in all 3,564, the first three hundred have held their actual rank from FIFTY to THIRTY YEARS, and the following seven hundred, TWENTY ! According to the present system, not one of this large mass of the two most useful classes in our naval service, has the smallest chance of promotion, except through Borough interest, as it is called, or patronage of another kind. But the dis tinction between the two services does not end here. The half pay allotted to Majors and Captains in the Army, is the same throughout in each rank, that of Captains being seven shillings a day from the top to the bottom of the list, whereas only three hundred Lieutenants are allowed this sum : the next six hundred receive six shillings, and the remainder only five. When the fatigues and priva tions to which naval men arc exposed, the necessity of serving six years before they can aspire to any rank whatever, surely there is no just ground for distinc tions so invidious as those we have pointed out.— There are a number of minor grievances which we have not time to notice. Among these, we cannot help animadverting on that part of the system which enables those at the head of our naval administration to place every stripling whose friends or relatives happen to possess certain influence, over the heads of ve terans who have bled and become grey in the ser vice. As this is an every-day occurrence, we are surely called on to point out an abuse so diame trically opposed to every principle of justice. We believe the whole of this subject engrossed the attention of the late Lord High Admiral, and that a plan was in contem plation for correcting the evil. But since the resignation of his Roial Highness, nothing more has been heard of the projected changes. As the Times seems to have fully appreciated the value of the suggestions put forth by Admiral PENROSE, we trust our contemporary will consider the subject we have this day discussed, equally entitled to his attention. We yesterday stated that it was our determination to observe the strictest impartiality in the misunderstanding which has arisen between the Marquis of BLANDFORD and Mr. HU YT. A letter, which will be found in another column, in reply to that of Mr. BERG U Ea, proves that we intend to adhere to our promise. Mr. HERM as visited the Duke of WELLINGTON yes terday at the Treasury. We understand that a new claimant to the Annan dale Peerage has presented himself in the person of Lieutenant Johnstone, of the 14th Foot. This gentle man, we believe, has but recently returned from India. Despatches were sent off by a Messenger last evening from the Foreign-office, for Mr. Dawkins, our resident in Greece. The Messenger took also despatches for Sir Frederick Adam, the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, from the Colonial-office. CITY, TiorFi.vr. This is one A' the dullest morrings we hare experienced f.:r some time past in the City. We ltsve neither news or the least speculation gait; furward in the Funds, and the express front Paris is of little or no importance. Owing to i:s haring been s holiday in that ca pital, the price of Hemet' are not quoted. Consul% which left off yesterday at 9t to I for the Account, oi,ened at the same price, and continue so, withnut a bargain doing as yet. The same stagnation prevails in the Foreign Market, and the prices arc nominal. Demerara Papers to the 10th April have been received at the North and South American Coffee-house. They are destitute of information. HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK. We still continue in the same dull state as in the early part of the morning. Consols have been to the present time 931 for the Account, alternately buyers and sellers ; and for next Accounts 113 1 1. No speculation of any consequence has taken place. Perhaps after the Bulletin has made its appearance, there will be some business doing. In the foreign market some business has been doing in Spanish and Oreck Bonds. The former has gone down one per cent. and the latter about two per cent, owing to reports that Prince Leopold has changed his mind, and will not proceed to Greece; but this is mere stock-jobbing information, and cannot be depended upon. TIIS MARQUIS OF RLANDFORD AND MR. HUNT TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. Stamfonl-street, May 22. Si li, Mr. Lionel Berguer, in a letter which was inserted in your Paper of yesterday, announced his intention of sending an explanatory let ter to the Morniny Herald to support the equivocal statement aids friend the iilarquis of Blandfonl, in opposition to that of mine. Mr. Berguer's counter-statement is published in the Herald this day, and permit me to ask you and your readers what his version of the affair amounts to? Why a perfect and clear contradiction to the Marquis, and a decisive confirmation of the truth of my statement. My first statement was this...." that I had an interview at the Star Office with the Marquis al his request." The Marquis denies this, and says, " that Mr. Hur.t anxiously desired the introduction, in order to prevail upon me to take the Chair at the great Metropo litan Meeting." I rejoin by saying this could not he the fact--"for, that the Marquis had previously been applied to, to take the Chair, and had declined it, upon which it had been offered to Mr. O'Connell, who had accepted it." Now comes forth Mr. Berguer, and in true Sancho stile kills off his own Knight, by giving a flat contradiction to the Marquis's assertion. In his letter this day, Mr. Berguer says " Mr. Hunt's assertion :appears quite gratuitous: more parti. cularly so when it is recollected that Mr. Hunt had already solicitously sought Lord Blandford by letter on a public occasion, which solicitation the Marquis declined to accept." That was, he had already declined for some days past, to take the Chair, and which Mr. O'Connell had accepted. There. fore, Mr. Berguer confirms my statement, and flatly contradicts that of the Marquis. But Mr. Berguer forgets to state that Captain Henley was present, and came oeer for me at the Marquis's request. But I leave the Marquis and Mr. Berguer to reconcile these coon. ter.staternents in the best way they can. I am, Sir, yours very respectfully, H. HUNT. _ _ _ P.B.—Without having had any communication with you, Sir, upon the subject, knowing you to be a man of honour and inte grity, I fearlessly refer any Gentleman who has doubts on this sub. ject, to you for a confirmation of the truth to the very letter of my statements. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The following vessels have arrived :—The Charles, Milne, from Tobago, off Brighton ; Comet, Ormston, from Maderia, and the Adeline, —, from Charleston, off the Wight; Dispatch, Le(evre, from Grenada; Johanna Maria Christina, La Croix, and Paris, —, from Havannah ; Agnes, M'Gow, from Demerara, and Bet. ley, Salisbury, from Jamaica, off Belfast. The Ant, Morgan, from Waterford to Milford, was carried into that port on Thursday by the Superb steamer, having been found abandoned by the crew. The Esther, Stone, from Alicant, has arrived at Newry. The Nancy, Way, from London, has arrived at Dublin. Dram, MAY 21.—Wind E.S.E.—The Prussian ketch Julius Magdalena, Evers, from Rostock to Havre de Grace, was wrecked on the Goodwin Sand yesterday. Crew saved, and lauded at Deal. PORTSMOUTH, MAT 21.—Wind E.S.E.—Arrived the Betsey, Donaldson from Memel. Sailed his Majesty's ship Scylla, for the Mediterranean, and Brltomart transport, for Dublin and Halifax. FALMOUTH, MAT 20.—Wind E. to E.S.E.—Arrived off the port, the Legum, Muirhead, from Demerara. Lwatuotn, MAY 20.—Arrived the Providence, Barden, front Newfoundland. The Russian Ambassador and Princess LT EVEN visited the Duke and Duchess of CUMBERLA ND yeliterday at their residence in the King's Palace, St. James's. The Duke and Duchess returned to their residence at Kew• in the afternoon. The Earl of WEsT3IORLAND made his personal in quiries after the health of the KING on Thursday, at his Palace, at Windsor. There are now nine journals under prosecution in Paris.—Figaro. M. Sautelet, a partner in the National, and one of the principals in an excellent bookseller's establishment in Paris, blow out his brains on the morning of the 13th inst. Having returned to the office about midnight, he had, according to custom, corrected the proofs of his journal. At daybreak several letters were found upon his table which had been written in the course of the night. M. Sautelet, who was a man of a noble and most loyal character, was naturally of a melancholy tem perament. A disappointment in love is assigned as the cause of his suicide.—Fiyaro. Every gun for the expedition to Algiers is provided with a thousand charges. M. de Bourmont is resolved to make a loud noise in Africa. Madame PASTA, RETBINI, ZUCCOLI, are at Vienna, and Mademoiselle SONTAG at Berlin. The unpleasant circumstances which she has experienced here, made her determine to set out for St. 'Petersburg before she had finished the twelve performances promised to the Russian capital.—Figaro. Sir ROBERT PEEL and the CHANCELLOR of the Ex- CIIEQUER had a conference with the Earl of ABERDEEN yesterday at the Foreign-office. The start which his M.Air.srv's canvalescence has given to many departments of business is almost incre dible. Many shopkeepers declare that they have done as much business within the last few days as they had done in a month before. On Thursday the First Division of Royal Marines had their annual inspection, and yesterday, at two o'clock, was reviewed on Woolwich Common try Major-Gencral CAMPBELL, D.A.G. This fine body of effective troops, after the customary ceremonies of receiving the General Officer, and marching round in review order, went through a variety of beautiful evolutions in very superior style. The sub-division squares and eschelon move ments, as well as the deployments into, and advance in line, were excellently performed. While the soldier-like appearance of the battalion, together with their steadiness in the ranks, elicit a due meed of praise in favour of their commanding-officer, Colonel M'CLEvERTY, as well as on behalf of the men themselves, the Major-General expressed himself in terms of high approbation. The incases of the weather brought out a numerous assem blage of beauty and fashion to enjoy the military treat. PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE. Amur 3n, len Providence has at last rid us of that mons:— and senitrirc of the human race, our Governor, Josii Merit :tlenreiro. 'On the evening of the 9th inst. a large tr ee :pert appeared off the Port, and, on the morning of the 10:11, to the astonishment of every one, we foensi it conveyed two companies of Chasseurs, about one hund.l.4 and eighty men, and a new Governor, Don Alvaro cla Costa, a brother of the Conde de Musquitello, who im mediately landed, and, in compliance with his instrlx tions, took instant possession of his Government, to the great dismay of the displaced Monteiro and his villainous family. Monteiro was so little prepared for this event, that he had, only the day before, taken possession of a country house, to pass the summer months ; and, on hearing of the new Governor's arrival, tlic ladies of his family were thrown into 'alternate fits of fainting aril rage, but he and his sons set instantly to work to scenic the spoils of their continued robbery and oppression ever since they have been in the island. It was, however, no small gm tification to find that the rapacity of these thieves car ried them within the precincts of other banditti, and the Criminal Judge, who has the management of the con fiscated property, went to the new governor,•and charged the old one with taking away a large portion of furnitue: of Mr. Carvalhal, of the former Governor, General Val dez, and others; and these, to his disgrace and shame, were actually unpacked and taken from him. He has, nevertheless, carried away an immense booty. We are yet unaware of the real cause of his sudden and unlooked-for removal; but it is strongly caujecturetl, from the manner this took place, that the fact of t:. horrorizing attempt to poison the 13th regiment has been clearly brought home to him, as his too!, the late Consul-General's Italian cook, whom Monteiro raised to the dignity of Commissary, friend, and boon companies, has been condemned to ten years banishment to Angola : it is also, however, whispered that the dying confessions of the sacrilegious culprits who robbed the churches ef so much plate, likewise proved him to have been au instigator of the plan, and a participator of the seoihe Such atrocities must appear to you as quite incredible : but, in England, how little can you judge of the inise ries entailed on this devoted and unhapi.y people sile.e the fatal day that placed them under the Miguelite yoke. This Governor charged every one, except the cansail'e. with being disaffected to Miguel's Government, that Isi persecutions and rapacity might have no limits ; anl he directed that not only every gentleman, but every person who pretended to wear the garb of one, or was not a mechanic, or - peasant, should 1:0 made prisoners, in order that he might sell them their liberty by a bribe paid either immediately to him self, or to some part of his family. But if the brilie was not proportionate to the greedy expectations of this ruffian, the party was left in prison, and not unfre quently to die through want of sustenance, and a broken heart—their vain hopes having made them part with the money which at least might have purchased for them in prison some alleviations of a jailor's rigour, and some comforts of life. Such was the case with Sebastiao Chrisostimo, who, having paid his all, the sum of 500 dollars, into the Governor s own bands, for his libe ration—promised, but forfeited. This poor man died of want, vexation, and despair. All the large family of Major Florentino are dead, except one daughter, from the same cause. The only large morgado, or proprietor, that remained in the island, was the highly respect able Senor Nuno de Freitas Lomelino, and his cautious conduct, his gentlemanly manners, and his benevolent disposition, had screened him from even the breath of envy; and because the very myrmidons of this vile Go vernor refused to make him a prisoner without positive orders, he was sent for to the cast l e , and reproached with having: had an English education, and that thereupon he must be a Mallet:do. The Governor then brutally insulted and struck him, and he returned home with a bursting heart, and died in a few days. It would, how ever, require volumes to tell you all that has happened. Our new Governor, Don Alvaro da Costa, is well known for his former infamous conduct at Setuval, and his late persecutions in the province of Minho; he, nevertheless, appears to be greatly shocked at the hor rorizing persecutions and tyranny under which this un happy population has so long groaned, and particularly so of the Ladies and families of the Brigadiers Lecor and Palhares, who, had they not taken refuge in the Consul- General's house, would have gone to the common gaol with Madame Bucage and others. No justice can be expected from a Miguelite Governor ; but it must be confessed, that from the demoralization that has taken place among the lower orders, it would be no sinecure to attempt to bring about again good order and propriety amongst this once well regulated and dense population.—Yours, &c. The approaching extinction of the Drapeau Blanc is announced. This journal, which has so often amused itself with foretelling the death of others, had forgotten to foretell its own.—Figaro. DENTAL SURE; ERT.—This science is brought to u state of perfection which is truly astonishing ; and it is generally believed that the merit of its present exact state belongs to Mr. P.tv•rEitsox CL ARK r. Such has been the press of business on this gentleman, that he has found it necessary to have auxiliaries ; and among these, it will be observed that he is joined by Mr. ROBERT MACLEAN, of Mansion-) louse-street, a professional gentleman, whose acquirements and experience in this, and other respects, may not, perhaps, be matched with his friend and in structor, Mr. CLARKE. PRICE OF sTo . 1( S Rink Stock 2161 3 per Cent. Red. 991 3 per Ct. Om% 931 3i per Cr. 1818, 34 pa Ct. Red. 994 1 4 per Cent. mg 4 per 0.1826, Long Ann. 19 1-16 Do. 30Years,Apl.Oct. AT TWO O'CL •CK. Do 501rni. July. Jan. 193 India Stock, India Bon& 84 Old Annuitirs £lOOO Exch. 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