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NOT ZICLIIIIIVI. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. EZPRICSSI TROY PARIS. INSURRECTION IN POLAND. A courier, who left Berlin on the 4th inst. has brought the follow. '.rig news from Warsaw, which completes the intelligence we gave yes. terday of the recent events in Poland :—" On Monday the 29th of No. vember, about seven in the evening, an insurrection broke out at War saw. It began, it appears, in the military school of ensigns. The young men, to the number of from 500 to 600, took up arms, and spreading themselves through the town, called the citizens to arms. A multitude of students and inhabitants soon joined them. They pro ceeded to the barracks of the infantry and the arsenal, which were taken by ten o'clock. The immense quantity of muskets and sabres it con tained were distributed to the people. The insurrection had previously gained the barracks of the infantry. The engineer regiment was the first that rose, and several other regiments soon followed it. The Grand Duke Constantine, on the point of being attacked or surrounded in his palace, effected his retreat upon Praga, with his guard, two Russian re giments, and a regiment of Polish cavalry, who only followed him from a sense of military honour, but who will remain neutral, if the soldiers do not disband themselves, or join their fellow-citisena in a body. The exasperation, for a long time smothered, was so very considerable at the moment of the insurrection, that some Polish detachments, who at the commencement refused to give up their post of arms to the people, were massacred as traitors. Forty-one colonels or majors were killed, in endeavouring to keep the troops in obedience. It is added, that two Aides-de-Camp of the Grand Duke were also slain.— The opinion at Warsaw sou, that the defection of the Polish army would become general. The Chief of the hlunicipal Police and two Russian Generals were killed. The German General Hauch and Count Stanislaus Potosky were also killed in seeking to rally the troops. The military chest and the house of the Paymaster-General were plundered. General Klopiecki has taken the command of the Polish troops, and is endeavouring to restore order. It is said that lie has already 16,000 troops of the line under his command. The French tri-coloured cockade was adopted at the beginning of the insurrection, but it was soon replaced by the Polish cockade. A corps of national guards is organising.'fhe Coun cil of Administration established by the Emperor of Russia, in conjunction with Prince Lubeski, Minister of Finances, Prince A. Cxartorinski, and Prince M. Radsivil, form the Provisional Government, and have is. sued a proclamation, in which they acknowledge the rights of sove reignty of the Emperor Nicholas, but on condition that the separation of the two states shall be complete, and that no Russian military corps shall keep garrison in the kingdom of Poland. Lieut.-General Prince Adam Csaitorinsky was the First Minister of Poland in 1814, when the Emperor Alexander gave to that country a liberal constitution, the execution of which was afterwards suspended by the same sovereign Prince Michael Radsivil, also Lieut.-General, is a cousin of Prince Anthony Radsivil, who is at present Governor-General of the Grand Duchy of Posen (Prussian Poland), and moreover brother-in-law to the King of Prussia. " General Kloplecki commanded with much distinction a Polish di vision in Spain, and in the campaign of Russia. Praga, whither the Grand Duke is tied with the Russians, is a suburb of Warsaw, and from which it is separated by the Vistula. There is a bridge of boats between the town and the suburb, which was probably cut immediately by the two parties. The Vistula is very wide at that point. When the Austrians, in 1809, invaded Poland by the right bank of the river, they est ablished themselves at Raga without being able to take Warsaw. The Vistula divides the present king. dom of Poland into two nearly equal parts. Thus the insur rection will probably extend over all the country between that river and the frontiers of Prussia, and if the Poles become masters of the fortress of Modlin, a few leagues to the north of Warsaw, on the right bank of the Vistula, independence will likewise triumph in the province of Plosk, at Pultusk, at Ostrolenka, along the Bug and the Narew, names already gloriously consecrated in the military annals of the French and Polish nations. The Russians have some chance of keeping their ground more easily in the provinces of Angostoro, Pod. lacia, and Lublin. The Provisional Government, which enjoys the confidence of the people, is endeavouring to moderate their ardour, and prevent excesses. " Another account, which corroborates most of the facts above stated, gives the following additional details:—` Poland has at length taken up again its standard, which was broken and brand e d, likete of France in 1818. For some time past, the report that the Polish army was to march into Ruuia, whilst a Russian army would come to keep Poland in awe, occupied the public mind. already agitated by the news from Francs. It was openly said that the army would not suffer this insult, and every thing being prepared for revolt, an opportunity alone was waited for. This presented itself by chance. The threat of flogging two Polish sub-officers of the Military School induced these young patriots to rime. The Grand Duke Constantine, whose palace is without the town, mounted his horse at the tint news of the insurrection, and advanced with three regiments of ea refry of the Russian guards, he soon found that it was impossible to resist the popular torrent. At day-break he withdrew, and was joined by the Chasseurs of the Polish Horse Guards who had ex perienced some loss in the town. On the 30th of November, in the right, an attack was made upon the bank, but was repelled. Two Rua plan regiments had their barracks without the town ; these barracks were attacked, but at the departure of the latest news the result was not known. Several rumours were in circulation about the fate of these re. giments. No doubt was entertained of the insurrection spreading among all the corps of the Polish army, and in all the Palatinates. The fine act of the Government was to entrust the command of the troops to Ge. neral Sloplecki, who, being under the surveillance of the Russian po lice, was not allowed to leave Warsaw foe some years past. The Pro. visional Government has decreed the levy en sass* of 200,000 men, and the formation of Burgher Guards." • " The following letter from Warsaw, dated Nov. 9, although of a date anterior to the insurrection of the Polish army, will be read with interest Rumours of war are more and more prevalent every day. Indeed, the armaments and movements on every point of the territory of the three neighbouring Powers are demonstrations upon the object of which there can exist no doubt. It is stated here, that in the event of war with France, our army will be called to take an active pan in it. We would fain believe this rumour to be without foundation ; for it would be a most outrageous insult to compel us to march with the Cossacks against a people with whom in better times we have marched to victory as brothers. And for what ? To punish them for defending their liberties against perjury, and for having broken the chains so unjustly prepared for them. No ! Such a plan, we repeat, cannot have been seriously entertained ; the humiliation would be too de grading. Our patience may be at last exhausted, for they appear to be adopting every means to drive us to extremities. Our brave and youth. ful soldiery tremble with rage and indignation at the very thought. Full of patriotism, they look forward to the future with hope and confidence. Fresh funds have been appropriated to the increase of the already innu merable agents of the secret police, who have become more active than ever, but who will never be able to stifle the patriotism which beats in our hurts, and which will sooner or latex burst forth with a terrible explosion. Mistrust and disquietude, mingled with terror, prevails among the Russian agents. The Grand Duke is still at Warsaw. lie Idoili goes out, and is always attended by a strong guard.' " On the arrival of the news from Warsaw at Berlin, the Prussian funds fell from 91 to 82. At Frankfort, the Austrian funds experi eneeti a considerable fall. " We hear that the numerous Poles who Inhabit Paris applied yes terday to the Ambassador of Russia for passports for Poland, which were refused them. " Commercial letters from Riga of the 29th ult. state that numerous bodies of Russian troops had through that town , an d the IniPe fa Guard were expected. Tre lle t d otal number of forces intended to be put in motion was said to be between 200,000 and 200,000 men. The cause assigned for this display of force is singular enough ; namely, the necessity of being proposed to regulate certain differences that had arisen with respect to Galicia.' •• It is reported," says the Constillaionnel, " that the Germanic Diet will shortly issue a declaration that it has no intention of inter. tering in the internal affairs of foreign nations, and will implicitly secede to the system adopted in this respect by the Great Powers of iiumpe." The Journal do Commerce of Saturday rays—" it was stated last night that the Prussian Government had not only ordered, but had actually commenced to disarm the lAndwehr. Did it forme the insist.• hetion that has broken out at Warsaw, and wish to be upon its guard against the armed population of that part of Poland which is an. nese(' to Prussia ?" •' The A/one:errs of Saturday contains a royal ordinance, directing that the masters, journeymen, and other workmen employ e d i n t h e nava l arienalr and p orta o f Ch er bo urg, St. server', Brest, L'Orient, Roche. I tilt, Bayonne, and Toulon, between the ages of 20 and 60, shall be finnied into military companies, to be exercised to the use of arms, and organised upon a regular system. " A letter of the 6th inst. from Bayonne announces ' that the troops i% the Two Castile' have received orders to quit those provinces, and repair to the frontiers, where they will be formed into an army of ob. serration. There are in Spain 42 provincial militia regiments, 30 of shich are underarms, and we are assured that the remaining 12 are 7iedistely to be regularly organised.' The followin g i s an extract of a private letter of the 6th inst. from Litoanne The revolution in the canton of Fribourg is happily con. l ~ Ninated. The presses of the' Courtier Fribourgeois' were destroyed 3. the people on the 2d inst. and the Jesuits are serious in thinking of r.!.ring from that town. The victorious party do not fully rely ow the promises of the Petty Council, but are preparing, in case of emergency, or a new struggle, which would inevitably bring about the diamiseal of Congrevationalist Councillors. Berne continues its military rations, but it is well known that it cannot make the least attempt armed intervention without being exposed to a general insurrection. Its i%ternal position becomes every day more critical.. All the cantons, es. •cpt Vaud, Uri, and Soleure, replied Is the negative to its proposition for continuing till next year the Federal Directory.' aZNOVAL OF TIM ZIL.IIINISTINS. The removal of the four ez•Minlsters from Vincennes to Path took place on Friday morning. Three carriages were sent at an early hour to Vincennes, with the Officers of the National Guards who were charged with their removal. A company of Horse National Guards, with a squadron of Horse Chasseurs, formed the whole military force. The Ushers of the Chamber of Peers, who had gone in one of the car riages, signified the order for removal, and proceeded to execute it. Messrs. de Polignae and de Peyronnet, with U. Thomas, a superior officer of the National Guards, were in the first carriage. In the Se cond were M. Guernon de Renville, and M. Ladvocat, Lieut..colonel of the 12th legion. pen. Atheism, and other superior officers, were on horseback at the coach doers. The minister of the Interior, whose duty it is to watch over public order, went to Vincennes as early as five o'clock in the morning, and , upon the ex-Ministers setting out, placed himself on horseback at the head of the escort. The car riages, upon reaching Paris, ed along the outer boulevards to the Rue d'Rnfer, and from t hence the Petit Luxembourg, where they arrived at about 8 o'clock • the prisoners were then delivered into the custody of the —mews charged with their persons. Not the slightest breach of the public order took place upon their passage. M. Chant/. Lure, who was left at Vincennes in the morning, in consequence of his being indisposed with the gout, arrived at the Luxembourg about two o'clock, in the carriage of Oen. Daumesnll, Governor of the Castle of Vincennes, accompanied by that officer, but without escort. During the whole of the day crowds collected in the environs of the Luxembourg, but there appeared no disposition to disturbance. " Upon the trial of the ex-Ministers the Registrar will open the pro ceedings by reading the resolution of the Chamber of Deputies, and the decree of the Court of Peers, which, together, form the act of im peachment. This terminated, one of the commissioners will state briefly the object of the impeachment, and require that the examina tions of the prisoners and depositions of the witnesses be heard. M. Persil, one of the Commissioners, will then address the Court in sup port of the impeachment, and be followed by the counsel for the prisoners. M. de Martignac will plead the cause of the Prince de Polignac, and will discuss also the political and general points, and the objections connected with the common defence of the whole four. M. Hennecoin will plead on behalf of 31. de Pey runnet ; 31. Sauset for M. Chantelause ; and N. Cremieux for Al. fluernon de Renville. The pleadings being finished, M. Ik renger and M. Nattier de Montjau will be heard on the part of the im. peachment. 111. Madier de Slontjau will confine himself to observing upon the evidence, and M. Berenger to the political questions and the objections. N. Sauset, it is said, will reply for himself and his bro. flier advocates. Hence it appears that the most important branch of the impeachment,—namely, the political question, is entrusted to NI. Be. rengcr. Arrangements have been made to admit the greatest number of persons possible into the court. The corps diplonatique will take their seats in the body of the chamber,and the tribune even will be given up to the public. The Deputies,the Peers who have not yet taken their seats on accountof nonage,and the eldest sons of Peers,will have a certain number of places allotted to them. The gallery appropriated to the Deputies not holding more than 25, there will be 40 seats reserved for them bc. hind the President. A bench is destined to the bar, and 10 tickets have been sent to the Batonnier of the eider of Advocates. Upwards of 40 reporters for journals will be admitted. The President of the Cham. bet of Peers will have the disposal of 4 tickets; the examining Corn. missionen of the Peers and of the Deputies will have 3 each ; the Court of Caseation, 2 ; the Court of Accounts, 2 ; the Royal Court, 2 ; the Tribunal de Premiere Instance, 2 ; the Tribunal of Commerce, 2 ; t h e Prefects of the Seine and Police, 4 ; the 12 Mayors of Paris, 1 each ; the 2 Deputy Mayors of the 11th Arrondissement, in which the Lux. embourg Is situated, 1 each; the Stair of the National Guards, 4; the 12 Legions, 60, or 5 to each legion ; the mounted National Guards and the Artillery, 6 ' • the General commanding the military division, 2; the Governors of Paris and Vincennes, 1 each ; the 3lunicipal Guards, 2; the prisoners, 12; their counsel, b; the Officers of the Ring, 6; and the Polytechnic School, 6. If to these are added the officers of the court, the witnesses'jcounsel, and other persons necessarily attendant on the assembly, the whole will amount to 350, besides the Peers." Pros the Consfitutionnet. DEATH OF BENJAMIN CONSTANT. The country, letters, civilization, and humanity, have just sustained a severe loss. Benjamin Constant is no more. He expired yesterday at eight o'clock in the evening, after long and painful suffering. Since yeszerday that mouth, so eloquent, was closed. That powerful head has ceased to think. Cold is the generous heart which beat for the li. berty of France. Like Foy, of illustrious memory, Constant has been hurried to his end by the multiplicity of his exertions. His whole life has been a struggle against aristocracy and all the oppressive powers—writer, tribune, deputy, he attacked, during thirty years, despotism in even. shape, and did more than any other man to crush it. Death has reached him In the moment of triumph. He lived, however, to assist in the admirable days of July. His voice proclaimed the Citizen King, and his last looks were fixed upon the national flag. Heaven gave him that consolation ! Never was existence more varied than his ; never was reputation more dearly pur. chased. Attached not to men, but things ; not to particular govern. meats, but principle—he never had but one object, namely, the happi ness of his country ; and that constituted his glory and misfortune. We do not wish on this occasion to detail what he was, but what he has done. His existence has been political, and connected with every pe riod when the national interest was prominent. His name, on those important occasions, is identified with liberty. Tribune, deputy, state councillor, publisher, he was ever devoted to the best of causes • and among remarkable men, he was the most remarkable. But his best title, in our estimation, to praise, rests upon his resistance to the seductions of Oovernment. During 15 years he resolved to be nothing but a private citizen. This was rare merit. Lafayette and Canoe participated in his virtue. He has been nobly rewarded for his patriotic conduct, having received, in twenty different instances, the Bunn recompence to which a good citizen can aspire. B. Constant had a presentiment of his approaching end. We have not forgotten his last words in the tribune, "Permit me," said he, "to im. plorey our indulgence,not fur my ptinciples,but for the imperfection of a re. futation drawn with haste. Naturally weak and in bad health, I feel a sadness I cannot overcome. This sadness, gentlemen, it is not in my power to explain. I cannot account for it, but have endeavoured to surmount these obstacles in the discharge of my duty, and my inten. tion, at least, is worthy your indulgence ' These words marked a mat impressive melancholy, and produced in the Chamber and on the public a deep sensation. The unfortunate fore boding la verified. The great citizen—the great publieiste, is no more, and his death will be for France and all Europe the subject of mourning. Literature will respect his name, civilization shed tears, and the Ace dimie Francaise regret him. FRENCH FUNDS. Pants, Dec. 11.—Five per Cents. 90f 5c 90f 89f 90c 80e 50c 30c 40e 35c 89f 20e 30e 3k 70e 75c 85c 75c 110 c 80e 89f 90e. Four per Ceuta, 75f 50c. Four and a Half per Cents, —. Bank Stock, 1680 f 1575 f. Three per Cents. 59f 70c 6k 60c 110 e 5k 50e 59f 45c 40e 30c 50c 70e 90c. Bente de Naples, 61f 26e elf Glf lbe BU G°, 70e 50c 60c 90c fill. Royal Spanish Loan, 57 55. Bente Perpetuelle d'Eapagne, 461 46 4511 46 461 461. Exchange on London--One Month, paper and cash, 25f 28s ; These months, paper and cash, 25f Mc. SPIRIT OF THE JOURN4L& Tarns—There is a paragraph in some of the evening papers, stating that Lord Lyndhurst has accepted the office of Lord Chief Baron in the place of Sir William Ale xand er, who was about to resign. As Sir William Alexander does not intend to resign, though his age, and wealth, and infirmities have naturally led to such a supposition, it cannot, of course, be true that Lord Lyndhurst has been appointed to fill his place. Lord Lyndhurst, indeed, has too much good sense and philosophy not to feel that it is the man that gives dignity to the office, and not the of to the man ; and in the event of a resignation, might possibly (though of this we know nothing) consent to give additional importance to an office now only of secondary rank. Cuitoxicmc.—The appointment of Lord Lyndhurst to succeed Sir William Alexander as Chief Baron of the Exchequer, is calculated to give satisfaction in more respects than one. The pension of the Bs- Chancellor will thus be saved to the country, and no man Is better cal. culated to give effect to the new plans than his Lordship from his ac knowledged ability as a common-law Lawyer. We trust no unneces. sary delay will be interposed in the way of his appointment, at a time like the present, when men in whom the country can confide are so much wanted for the Special Commissions. Chief Baron Alexander is utterly unable to discharge this arduous duty ; and Lord Lyndhurst could render most important services at this conjuncture. Tiaza.—ln no case should a middleman be suffered to intervene between the proprietor and the cottager--in no case should there be any condition attached to the tenure of the cottage to void ion if the occupant should be obliged to a pply f or p ar i s h re li c , f the probability of such a necessity is reduced by the industrious and sober habits which the plan tends to produce. The cottage system, with small portions of land and garden ground attached—say half an aae or an acre,—the land being contiguous to the cottage r —appears to oar many advantages, unequivocal. important, and certain. It secures many comforts to a poor family ; it encourages industry, and promotes sobriety. By endowing the labourer with the sembianto of property, and teaching him the blessings of a home unvisited by the overseer, it encourages the honest pride of independence, and alters the boa theme of ultimately subduing or reducing some of the woest evils of the pau per system. Cwaoirtemr.—A considerable sensation has been excited by the en. expected position of Mr. Hunt at the Preston denim. He le still greatly a head of Mr. Stanley. We wish we NMI elleelle for this in a way creditable to the electors of Preston ; but we weileilesei the teal secret of this suparierity le thedeterasinatien of lh. Saab, net ee throw the public.houses open during the election, and that the object of the votes for Mr. Hunt is to eompei him to indulge the electors in their beloved potations. We suspect Mr. Hunt is well aware of his being played off against Mr. Stanley's puree, and that his determination not to repair to Preston, ekcept he is returned, is grounded on this suspicion. PO/T.—The Army, owing to the internal state of the country, is Immediately to be increased. Every regiment In the service is to re ceive an addition of 80 men, Le.the whole are to be completed from their' ' present reduced establishment of 880 men each, to 740 each; which I will make the total increase about 8,000 men. The necessity of this increase will not be dit.puted by any real well-wisher of his country's happiness and prosperity ; and for our part we regret, that in compliance with the continual outcry of the present ministers, when in opposition, the reduction now to he repaired should ever have been conceded to party clamour.—Another fatal error, the result of whiggism, was committed by the Marquis of Lansdowne, when serving the office of Home Secre tary, in almost totally disbanding that most useful of all bodies on oc casions similar to the pesent—the loyal and patriotic Yeomanry Ca valry—the want of whose efficient services in such a crisis is a considera. I tion the most painful that the country for ages has had to deplore. The exertions of these patriot bands would have restored tranquillity to the nation in a very few days. We are happy however to find that the severe loss thus sustained is likely to be shortly repaired by the loyal activity of the leading Gentl e m en i n our principal Counties , who purely of their own accord, without any inducement held forth by Government, are enrolling Yeomanry Volunteers in great numbers, to the prompt embo dying and arming of whom Ministers, we hope and trust, will lose no time in giving every possible encourage and support. In the mean time the necessary orders for increasing the Regular Military Estab lishment have beet. issued from the War Office ; and the Recruits thus obtained, there is reason to expect, will at once serve to increase our strength and weaken th e f orce o f the domestic enemy, whose frightful bulk is known to have been considerably swelled by disbanded soldiers in most of the disturbed districts. HERALD._The demand Cot reform in the Church cannot long be 1. withstood, without endangering the fabric which abuses of long con. tinuance have disfigured and defiled. We are advocates of that reform, because we are anxious not to destroy, but to renovate—not to throw down, but to repair. Religious institutions. above all others, should rely for their support upon the moral force of enlightened opinion, or else their foundation is not upon a rock, but in the sand. Al. most from the era of the prosperity of the system of national worship, those corruptions began, which have tarnished its beauty, and impaired its strength. The time has come when those defilements must be tom away, or the venerable edifice which they desecrate will have to resist the shock, not of judicious re form, but of that violence whi c h a i ms at subversion. Wi,h hostile opidon:witbout, and the principles of decay undermining its atability within, how can its resistance be long or effectual ? It is vain to deny that the constitution of the Church is bad as to the unequal distribution of wealth. It is equally vain to deny that its government is bad as to a corrupt system of patronage. The one gives to the favoured few, who eat of the fruit which they scarcely tend, riches, and pomp, and worldly glory, and sends the labourers in the vineyard empty away. The other burlesques the duties of a Christian Pastor by pluralities, livings in eommendans, and other inventions, devised to pamper the indolent and luxurious favourites of secular ambition, at the expense of the dearest interests of religion. CHRONICLE. —The Poles have risen. The Russian garrison of Warsaw has been overpowered, after a determined resistanse, and the Grand Duke Constantine with difficulty effected his escape. This in telligence, which has been some time looked for, and of which Minis tens first received intelligence on Saturday, may be confidently relied on. A letter from Berlin, of the 3d December, announces the breaking out of a violent insurrection at Warsaw on the 29th of November, in which the Polish army took part. Four Russian Generals were killed, among them the Minister of War of the kingdom of Poland The Prince Czartorinsky has been named Chief of the new Polish Go vernment. This is, indeed, most important intelligence. At the very moment when the despots of Europe are meditating fresh aggressions, and collecting their strength for a desperate effort against the Great Na tion which has so gloriously broken its fetters—the victims of that series of acts of injustice, the most flagrant of modern times which re mains yet to be atoned for, suddenly appear on the scene, to f ur ni s h em ployment for the armies Of the despots at home. The prayers of every man, in whom all sense of justice is not obliterated, will be offered up to heaven in behalf of the Poles. M Russia, Austria, end Prussia, be compelled to abandon the spoil whi ch, in the day of Poland's divisions, they so Iniquitously shared ! What a lesson will be read to man kind, if, at the moment when despots, in the insolence of their might, are meditating further invasions of the rights of nations, their arm is walked by the consequences of former injustice ! The re-establish ment of Poland would be of immense consequence to Europe. From Its extent of fruitful territory, and the number of ha inhabitants, now upwards of twenty millions, Poland, with anything like an effective Government, will be able to maintain its Independence. From its pad don between Russia and Germany, the noxious influence of the former on the latter will be at an end, and the semi-barbarians of the North will no longer be a bugbear to civil zed Europe.— The struggles which the Poles have to maintain, before the can secure their independence, is most serious. Russia, Austria, and Prussia, will pour their armies into the country, without delay. France is now in a very different state from that in which she was when the former great partition took place. The question is full of difficulties. It is not to be supposed, that if the Great Powers direct their forces against Poland, the other Nations, now suffering under oppression, will remain passive spectators of the strife. The combustibles are everywhere prepared and the Po and the Rhine will, perhaps, more than sympathise with the Vistula. RETURN OF VISCOUNT ALTHORY FOR NORTH AMPTONSHIRE. Abridged frost Me korMaimpton Mercury. On Monday Lord Viscount Althorp was re.elected Representative in Parliament for this county. It had been previously arranged that his Lordship should be publicly received on his entrance into the town. A large body of freeholders and friends aseembled at the park gate of Delapre Abbey, the Sept of Edward Bouverie Ksq. a short distance without the town wall s , an d escorte d his Lordship, amid the most enthusiastic buzzes and plaudits, which were responded by the countless multitudes who thronged th e sums ' to the George Hotel, in this town. The cavalcade, which was composed of upwards of 200 county and town residents, preceded his Lordship's carriage in files of four each, followed by a numerous body of freeholder. and supporters on foot, in ranks of eight, all wearing crimson and white rosettes and fa vours. This body was succeeded by a band of music, which played ap ptopriate national and patriotic airs. Then followed his lordship's car riage, hung round with wreaths of laurel, triumphantly drawn by a body of his friends, and surrounded by attendants wearing coloured cockades, and bearing staves to prevent any annoyance to his Lordship from the eager curiosity of the crowds who collected round the carriage. The bells of All Saints' Church commenced ringing on his Lordship's ear. trance into the town. Shortly .after eleven o'clock, Lord Abhor!), accompanied by a large body of supporters, composed of many of the principal county gentle men entered the County Hall, and the doo rs , w hi c h had been kept closed: to allow ladies and freeholders to get seats near the returning officer, were thrown open. The hall was instantly filled ; and so great was the crowd, that an adjournment took 'place to the Market-square, when Lord Althorp, accompanied by a ine body of gentlemen and fteeholders, reached the Market-square, and entered a waggon which had been drawn to the spot for that purpose Sir William Wake, Bart. of Courteen-hall, proposed Lord Althorp for the vacant seat in the county representation ; and was seconded by Edward Bouverie, E.q of Delapre.abbey. Lord ALTHOIII, then came forward, and was most enthusiastimlly received His Lordship said he appeared before them in a new posi. tion. After the reception he bad met with, after the acclamations with which he had been greeted, it would be affectation in him to pretend to doubt whether they approved of the step he had taken in accepting office (loud chats). He would therefore say nothing to defend it. Ile had stated to them the political principles by which he was guided when addressing them at the general election, and it would be unne cessary for him to detain them now by stating them again, for they were not changed, he could assure them (cheers). He had always avowed himself a friend to Reaorm in Parliament, to economy and to pence; and these were the principles on which the Government was formed. ( Ap plause.) Indeed, nothing could have induced him to take office uukss an effectual reform had been made a Government question. (Laud cheering.) He hoped the state of the country at the time they under took the administration would be recollected—for, in point in tact, a large part of It was In a state bordering upon insurrection (Hear, bear.) He could not but address himself to the labouring classes, who, he was sure, knew that he had always been their trrend, and begged them to consider that by destroying the properly of their employers they de stroyed the means of their own employment. And the fully of destroy. ing the ricks was still greater, as that was actually destroying their own food. (Applause.) He asked the farmers if their farms were all in such complete order that they could not employ some additional bands upon them during the winter (hear I), and whether they did not think this must be more advantageous than setting active sad able-bodied men to work at starving wages upon the roads (hear, and loud cheers)? He also called on the landlords to help their tenantry as they ought In this attempt, as such improvements would tend to their advantage (cheers). His Lordship cmicluded by hoping that they would repose their conk. dens in him, and was rapturously applauded with clapping of hands for a considerable length of time. A show of hands was ibex made, and we think there was scarcely an individual of the extensive and dense crowd, which occupied all sides of the plains to an immense extent, but who exhibited kb hand on the assolos No other candidate of course appeared, and his Lord. ship wee adored duly elected amid the moat deafening and universal shoals a ilypionaa. Wands et dose livadred gentlemen subsequently sat down to a pleaded dims at the Omer, at which many patristic and spirited speeder Tees &limed, and the almost cordiality and conviviality peetnibl. SECOND EDITION. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS—Tins DAY. Eotl SIIAFTILSBUBY presented a petition fron2Dorsen ihe duty on cods. Petitions against Negro Slavery, were presented by the Duke of Nor folk, Earl of Eases, Lord King, and Lord Grosvenor. Lord RROUGHA Mmoved that the report of the Commons' House of Parliament, relative to Irish grown Tobacco, be laid on the table. Lord RADNOR presented a petition from Annandale, in Scotland, praying for Parliamentary Reform. On the motion of Lord CALEDON the Adminstration of Jus.. lice Amendment Bill was read a third time and passed. Earl GROSVENOR said in reference to certain omir•io of officers of both houses of Parliament--there were certain 00111116i0115 which rendered them exceedingly under the policy of the country in general, He did not mean to say that the omissions were Improperly oectsioned. Of one thing he wzs certain, namely, that they were very unsatisfactory. The noble earl was satisfied that, however anxious his Majesty's present ministers might be for the reduction of expenditure, much was not too be ex pected from them. He was satisfied that all the ramifications of the country's expenditure would be elan ined into in the most minute manner. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—This DAT. ELECTION. Mr. CLtwa, the Chairman of the Evesham Election Committee. pre. seined their ttepori, which set Intik that Sir James Cockerel and Lord Kennedy had not barn duly returned ; and that. both these candidates, through their agent or agents, had been guilty of bribery and conup. don. On the motion of 3Ir.CLIVF., a new writ was ordered for Evesham. The evidence before the Commiuee was ordered to be printed. Mr. PLANTA moved for a new writ in the room of Mr. Vesey Fitzgerald. lie had accepted the Stewwdship of the Chiltern Hundreds. Mr. O'HARA brought In a bill to amend and enlarge the 2d (leo. IV. for making a canal from Loch Cazan to the Bay of Oalway. REFORM ♦ND FLTITION FROM scorLaww. Mr. KENNEDY said he had to present petitions from various parts of Scotland in favour of that great measure Parliamentary Reform.— (Cheers.) He had last Scanlon declared that it would not be long he. fur Scotlard petitioned for Reform. The first was from the Council of Ayr, the Council considering they held theirprivileges for thrpeople. the second was from the town of Banff ; the third was from the incor porated trades of Kirkcudbright; the next war from the incorporated merchants of Edinburgh. (Chem.) He had no other connection with Edinburgh, than as a friend to Reform. He had ventured to tell the honourable member for Edinburgh, that he had not correctly represented the sentiments of Edinburgh on the subject of reform. This petition tended to prove how much reform WAS desired in Edinburgh. He then presented a similar petition front Pcrth.—They acre seterally ordered to be printed. LIVERPOOL ELECTION. Mr. ROBINSON (we think) prescntal a petition from John Rogers and others of Liverpool complaining of an undue return for that place, and to be considered Jan. 6. Sir R. FERGUSON presented several petitions for Reform. TIUC ',MIX. Sir B. PEEL presented Petitions from Walsall, the manufacturing districts, and Bolton, signed by 14,000 persons, against the Truck Sys. tem. lie should support the prayer of the Petitioners, and also the Bill that was about to be brought in to Increase the penalties for paying wages otherwise than by money. He should do all in his power to put down so pernicious a system, because it so materially degraded the lower classes. Mr. HUME said wonderful changes were indeed taking place, whets a member who had supported every expence raid, be called for relief to the working classes. (Hear, hear.) But the cause was not in the truck proem. In Kent, Sussex, Ncrfolk, Hampshire—the truck system had never been heard of; yet in these counties how great had been the distress. (Hear, hear.) The right honourable gc; , - denten who presented the petition had allowed his feelings to carry away Isis judgment, and to prejudge the question to be brought forward to-morrow. If that question was carried, thee would be an end to the freedom of trade. The complaint was not new; it was 300 years old, and had already been the subject of numerous Ada. The distresses of the people ought to be inquired into. Mr. H. ST. PAUL said all his votes had been conscientiously given. Lord DELORAVE objected to the truck system. 31r. Alderman WAITII MAN observed, that the truck system was certaidy one cause of the distress. If it were part of the free trade system, he hoped never to hear free trade mentioned again. Mr, LITTLETON said his bill would differ in many essential points from that moved last year. Sir R. PEEL presented several petitions in favour of the New Police. The Marquis of CHANDOS presented a petition from West India Planters. He complained of the clamorous raise for the abolition of Negro Slavery. He would support that abolition, but not without compensation to the Planters. He had to complain that the West India planter was in • very tottering condition. Mr. WA ItREN said, that they " dealt In stolen goods, know:n i r them to have been stolen;'' and that "the petitioners burned with holy indignation at the bare mention of coatper.sation to the dealers in human blood. He said that the condition of the slave was improved, and added that he was ready to join in any measure for the aincliora. tion of the condition of the slava'. He trusted that the !Ministers would do that jnst should be done to the planters, and in the mean time lot the Government send out a more official enquiry to the ‘Vest Jodie Colznies. Mr. BRISCOE observed, that the question must soon come before the Parliament. The sevetal petitioners urged that the slave trade was of the most detestable character, and suspended the ameliorating right.' of rational beings. The national conscience was at last awakened, and it would not be at rest till that was shaken of which bad occasioned the disquietude. The petitioners for the abolition founded their claim on the sacred volume, which was the true charter of the rights of man, which did not sanction the buying and selling of human beings. NAVAL INTICLIAGENCE. BiIAILII A lIIIVS/0 TWO DAT--Dubtia. 1 ; Yo'sterford, i ; Flanderio ; Fiance, I ; Jamaica. I. - - Dees, Dee- 11 and 12.—Wind W . N.W.—Arrived and ssiltd fur the Hives, the Argyle, Staves. and Sir Thomas Munro, Whirs, Irma Bengal. Kaarmsoosis, Dsc. I 1 atm! IL—Wind N.W.—Arrived the Prince Regent transport, from Deptford, and his Majesty's ste.nter Dirnies, from Plymouth. Pi.visourst, Dec. 11 —Wind S W. Foasenurts, Dec. 10.—Wind N.N. W. to W. fresh Brien.. and squally.—Arrived the Rinaldo packet, Irvin Cartbagena, Jamaica, and Crooked Island. Railed the Sunnier packet, fur Lisbon, Lis Majesty's steamer Conhat or, for the Mediterranean; Rumens@ packet, for Jamaica and Carthagens ; and the Plover packet, for Ha/ifas and Bermuda Lavessuoi, Disc. U —Arrived the Waterloo, Con lab, from Per. narnbuco; Travis, Cobb. from Maratha.' ; Christian. Hogartb, (rim De . Calmat's. Colin, from New York ; Mary Brady, Watson, trent St. Petereburgh; and Thema' Burrows, Dawson. from Memel. The Canada. Graham, Iran New York, was got off last night, and brought into duck, wit► her back broken and considerably damaged, and has nine feet water in her hold. Cargo diacbargiog. ROYAL AbIATIC SOCIETY. A very full attendance of the members of the Society took place st the Theatre of the Royal Institution, to witness the dissection of a ernnsay, which was obtained by Sir John Malcolm, at Thebes, sad promoted by him to the Society. Dr. Granville antienook the inquiry into the elate et the " horned Theban," and fulfilled his task with gnat abits• y. The eamnination was not altegether as tats factory se that which the same gentleman be en a previous 011110411111111 ; the abdonna s l Timm maned to converted into adipmeri, and the only past • hieb appeamd in a state to excite. much attentian was the mombeartes of the twain. be. Granville made sew Tay judiebes elseeletkos durirg 'the various steps of the opecatiou, uhida excited the etanciest ha/mi. 'I