Star. — London, England, 1831-02-25 00:00:00

PRICK 01: STO itS AT TWO O'CLOCK. 3 t c.. ns . 71 81 n v i 1 per Ct. 1826, 971 7 4 Cnn.. toe Ace. 78/ 3 7/ 81 Long Ann. Jan. 1860, 161 13-18 3 i,sr Ct flt• Hello 781 1 1 1 Old Annuities— New, 771 31 pet Ct. 181$. 874 11000 Rub. Bills 19 17 18 31 irr Ct. Red. 871 / 3 £s'o Ditto 3 , per Cent. New, IN 74 1100 and 1200 Do. 18 19 FOREIGN ST(WKS. Dal kh .S per tint, fur Account. M. Russian, 911; for Acct, 91i. 17eiy ; for Acct, 171 M. Spanish, 1823, 13g. French 5 per Ct. 91f 10e ; 3 per Ct, 571. Paris Exchange on London, 25f 30c. msterdant Exchange, sight,ll-181; Hamburgb, M. 8.13-11. Irish Three and a Half per Ct. 8314 I%IPANIES. Irish Grand Canal, 734 Forth and Clyde, £625 Li,. & Man. Hallway 4166 toil 90 Cromford, £45 Guirdian, Albion Fire, £75 Alliance, £8 5. County, £4O Bolanos Mines, 2180 Steam Navigation, die. £6 151 'ISII COMMERCE. CAnt—(92g.; £9 to 618. Iliogs—ntitto,2od to 43d; Buenos Ayres (A.) 9d to 104 d. Correz--Jam. middling, ,E 2 14. to £3 Ss; Dem. and Berbike, £2 8. to £4 28; Mocha, .£3 5. to X 6 10s. TRA—Bohra, to 11d to 2s Od; Congou, mid. 2s 2d to 21 ycl Ilyson, mid. 4s 3d to 4s 6d. norrsß—Cork, £4 14$ to £4 16s; Dutch, £4 10s. Cassie—Cheshire, old, 4'310s to .C 5 las ; S. Glo ster..£2 to & as. TALLOW —Russia yel. X 2 Ts 3471 ; White, £2 Ts 6d. Rica—Carolina, 14s Od to 19s; • Bengal. 13s 6d to 1716 d. Suoaa—F.6s 2!d per cwt. SMITHFIILD Fa. 25.—Beef, 4s 24 to 4a 81; Mutton, 5s 04 to 5s 4d; Veal, 5s Od to 6s Od ; Pork, 4s 6d to 5s 4d. NIA/AC-LANZ, Fa.. 25 —Meat. 66s to Us; Barley, 40s to 50s; Oats, i 29 to 339. GAZITTZ Av gRA GS, Firs 18.— Wheat, 74s 8d ; Barley, 42s 8d ; Oats. 27s Od ; Wan., 40s sd. Bonounn MARKET, Fz3.21. Kent. ish, ,f 8 12s to 114 14s; Faro. ham ' .615 Os to .ElB Os. COAL EXCHANGE. Fu. 25.—Best Wall's End, 35s Od to 35s 6d; other sorts, 27s 0.1 to 34s 6d. SMITHFIELD HAY M•EILIT, Fn. 25. Hay, .E 2 lOs to .C 4 Os. Straw, .£1 14. to £2 Os. One o'Ccocc—Barometer, 29.80; Thermometer, 47. Wind N.W. Weather, fair, and cloudy. TII EVENINC STAR. LONDON. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25. This day despatches were received at the Colonial Office, from Major-General Sir HILLGROVE TURNER, Governor of Bermuda, dated the 10th of January ; and from Major- General Sir PEREGRINE MAITLAND, Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia, dated Halifax, the 6th instant. The sumptuous entertainment given last night, at the Foreign Office by Lord PALMERSTON, in celebration of her Majesty's natal day, to the Ambassadors and Ministers Plenipotentiary of this Court was the theme of universal admiration of all present, not only for the splendour of the arrangements, but for the general hilarity which prevailed at and after the banquet. We are reluctant to credit what we have this day heard, on authority which, at the same time, it is our duty to quote, that the Polish struggle for liberty is at an end. It is ru moured, and believed in certain City circles, that the Rus sians have entered Warsaw, without resistance on the part of the helpless Poles, who have again submitted to the t yrannic yoke. The intelligence from Lisbon this day is extremely inter esting. In addition to the subjoined extracts from the Lis bon Gazettes, we are enabled, by private advices, received by the Marlborough Packet, which arrived at Falmouth at two o'clock on the morning of the 23d inst. to state, that the attempt made at Lisbon, to upset the Government of Don MIGUEL, and to proclaim Donna MARIA, has failed ; and the result is that fifteen hundred of the patriots are taken prisoners—one hundred of whom were to have been hanged last Monday or Tuesday. Don M toum., at the time, was at his country residence, about ten miles from the City. We are likewise informed, that nothing but a widely extended revolt cau possibly succeed at present—there being no less than 10,000 troops, well-affected to the present government in the City and neighbourhood, besides 3,000 Police—all old soldiers—the whole of whom, MIGUEL has recently taken care, are well paid. This force is sufficient to maintain the present order of things, as long as the despot continues to pay them ; how he contrives to do that, no one knows, as trade in Lisbon is en- 1 tirely at a stand. To tuts—which is the purport of one private letter, we have to add the following corroborative extract from another, dated the 12th instant :—" We have had some little bustle, but to no good purpose. It appears there was a plot amongst some of the regiments for a revolt, which was to have commenced early en Tuesday morning; but as usual, they were betrayed. The Government was fully pre pared, and an immediate stop to it took place, and continual arrests have taken place since. Don MrGUEL breathes vengeance against all. The Despot, at the time, was in the country, on a hunting excursion. The following is the information afforded by the Lisbon Gazettes DEPARTMENT OF ECCLESIASTICAL AFFAIRS AND OF JUSTICE. The King our Sovereign having been informed that some highly cri. minal individuals have lately made attempts against the security of the State, endeavouring to corrupt the fidelity of some subaltern officers and privates of the garrison of the city of Lisbon, and inciting them to revolt; and not having been able to attain their wicked ends, always laudably counteracted by the unalterable firmness of those whom they attempted to seduce, dared at length to carry into effect an attempt to disturb the public tranquillity by MGM of a great number of sky rockets,which they discharged on the morning of this day, and some of the said individuals being detected in the fact, wbo are already arrested by your orders, His Majesty is pleased to order that, till farther measures, such a the public security requires, shall be taken, you shall immesh. ately proceed to make the strictest Inquiry into these facts, giving the commission to one of the aiminal judges, who, leaving all other bugl oss, shall make a report, without lots of time ; and to enable him to establish the facts, you are - to communicate to him the information you have already given to me, and any other that you may have received with such instructions as you may deem necessary for the requisite ac. curacy of the proceeding% And his Majesty is further pleased to desire you to proceed with all diligence, and with as little delay as possible, and to send a report to this oMce to be communicated to Ills Majesty. Salesian as Maws, Feb. 8, 1831. Jo*o DE MATTO!, Z VASCONCZILLOS, BOIIOIOIIA DE MAL/al/a., TO Si. ANTONIO GZIUMANO DA VIEGA. His Majesty has issued a decree, the preamble to which recites in almost the same terms, tile facts above stated, and " seeing the abso lute necessity of taking prompt and vigorous measures, that justice may be able, with that efficacy and activity in prosecuting and punishing, without delay, such great and abominable crimes of high treason, so as to maintain the safety of the State, and my Royal rights, lam pleased to order." The decree, which is of considerable length, orders : 1. That a commiusion shall be formed at Lisbon, and another at Oporto, each to consist of four judges, and three superior military officers. 2. These Commissions are to try and pass sentence on the criminals guilty of exciting to revolt, sedition, tumultuous assemblages prejudi cial to the security of the State, and other similar acts of high treason, whatever be the rank, condition, or privileges of the said criminals who were taken in the fact (flegrante delicto) in the said two cities of Lisbon and Oporto, and live leagues round them. & The said Commissioners bcirg assembled, and one of the number acting as Secretary, the official communication addressed to it shall be immediately recorded, which shall serve as the corpus delicti: sum. mary and merely verbal proceedings shall be commenced to prove the fact without the•legal formalities, of which persons guilty of such exe. crable crimes are unworthy, and the said criminals being without any interruption, heard in their defence before the said Commissions, shall be by them successively sentenced conformably to the laws. 4. The sentences thus passed shall be executed within 24 hours, the criminals receiving, as usual, in such cares, the spiritual aid which they require. The authorities concerned to execute this Decree, notwithstanding any Laws, Decrces, or Ordinances to the contrary, all which I am pleased to suspend for this purpose only ; they remaining otherwise in full force. PUBLIC CI Bank Stork, India Stock, Bonds, 6 4 London Docks £59 104 St. Cltherine's. £7B lOs City Gas, .£l9O Bank of Scotland, .£167 British Linen, £250 Grata! Junction, £243 Lreds, £395 lirgres, £lB 10s STAPLES OF BRI' Corron (Liv.)—Georgla, Bowed, 6d to Tid; Sea Nand, lid _ _ to 20d • N. Orleans, 60 to BJ. Wow. ( Lon.) —Saxony prima, 5a to 59; Austrian prima, 2s to 4s; Segovia, 29 od to 29 6d ; South Down, 12 to 15; Blanket ' ^ to 9. Sti.e, thrown—Piedmont White, 27s to 45s ; yellow slack, 24, to 27, ; Modena raw, 14s to 16s ; Bengal, 10s 0I to 15s; China, 13s 61 w 17s. Ft..ss —lttga, £52; Ant. £5O £65. IRON -- Pigs, 1:4 10. Od to £4 15s ; Bars. .£6 5* Otl to £6 10. Otl ; Swedish, ael3 to £l3 10s. COPTBR—XB7 to £BB Os; South Amer. £7f to Z 79 10s. Luis—airs. £l5 15$ to £l4. Tis Blocks, £3 15s. SUGAR—LuMps, large, £3 3s Od to £3 4s (ki ; Powder, fine, £3 16s to £4 6s Od; Bengal, £1 2s Od to 14s ; Jam:tics, fine, At 164 to E 3 Os. Tottacco—Nlaryland,3ld to 5.t1; Virginia, 5 to 6 ; Cuba. 15 to 18. ths—Flur. £1 is Od half chest ; Linseed, X?. Os Od per cwt; Pale Rape, .62 BRANDY—Bordeaux, 3s to 3s 6d. Rum—Jam. (14) 2s 74 to 2s 5d ; Dem (10 a 20) 2s to 2s 2d. Wiusar, 10s 9d to Its. Gsaxva.2i 6.1 to 2s 94. - _ Powr—Good, £35 to £4O. Stutoor—Go . od, £25 to MO:. Maintaa—Lon . . P. £3O to £4O. Salvaterra de Mazor, Feb. 9. (Signed by his MAJESTY.) Lisbon Gazettes, Feb. 12, (inclusive.) Private accounts from Copenhagen, received this morning, state that the demand for grain there was very brisk. The navigation was still impeded, large masses of ice having drifted back, and the frost had set in with an increased se verity. The communication with the Elbe is expected to be soon opened, and arrangements have already been made for that purpose. The first steam boat for the season is fixed to leave the river on sth of next month. The following are extracts from the Hamburgh, and German papers received this morning. COPENHAGEN, Fes. 12. On the 9th inst. Count M. Schimmelmann, Minister of State, and Chief Secretary for Foreign Affairs, departed this life, after having spent much more than half a century in the service of the State. The infirmities of age, under which he sunk, had severely affected his strength of mind. The Stale Gazelle of yesterday, announces that His Majesty, by a l rescript like that addressed to the Chancery of Sleswick, Hot. stein, and Lauenburg, for !the introduction of an assembly of the States, has now commanded the Danish Chancery to draw up a plan for Provincial Estates in Denmark, on the model of those introduced in 1823 in the Prussian States, and to submit it to his Majesty for his approbation. Soon after the publi. cation of the States Gazette, • great number of students repaired to the Royal Palace, to testify to their revered monarch their joy and gratitude. The king received this homage with that unaffected cordiality which gains the helms of all who approach him. HAM BURGH, Ft'. 14. Private accounts from Berlin of the 14th say, that a report was spread there, that Prince Michael Rad:twill, conformably to this pre. vious declaration of his readiness to give way to an experienced soldier, had transferred the chief command of the Polish troops to the late Dic tator Chloplcki. It was reported that the Polish troops had advanced at three points, and a decisive battle was therefore expected in a few days. BRUNSWICK, Fes. 16. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge came to visit our Duks on the 9th. On the 10th he saw the Burgher Guards under arms, and left us again on the 11th. It appears that Duke Charles has given up all thoughts of returning to this country. He is endeavouring to withdraw his private property, but it is supposed that this will be difficult, as the Chamber by largs claims upon the Duke; and the funds in question are, besides, In. alienable, they being a Feder eanuais of the ducal family; and when the male descendants of Duke Charles fail, will belong to Duke Wil. Liam, or his male descendants.--Hanburgh Papers, Feb. 18. MILAN. The Garen* de Milano, to the 12th February inclusive, makes no mention of disturbances in any part of Italy. VIENNA, FED. 14. The bride of the young King of Hungary, is expected here on the 26th. Lieut. Field Marshal Count Claus Martinits, has returned from Milan, where he was sent on a military diplomatic mission. Baron Mancha is gone to Mantua today, on an extraordinary mission to the Duke of Modena, who is in that city with his family. The news that the King of France has refused the Throne of Belgium for his son, which was brought yesterday by a courier, bu given much satisfaction, being considered as a proof of the sentiments of the French Cabinet. The howcrca, bmvc uvi bout alttted by le. VIENNA, Feb. 19.—Four per Cent. Meta'Nue', 761; Bank Share 996.—Allgensetne Zeittusp, Feb. 19. Yesterday being a Parliamentary holiday, we have the opportunity of looking back on its past proceedings, at a time when, on the part of the public, so much was anxiously expected. The sufferings of the people arise from trade without profit, and from stagnation of industry; owing to the abstraction of the currency, which had become the basis and ingredient of trade and industry ; and from the pressure of taxes, interfering with enterprize, and exceeding a reasonable proportion to the reduced incomes of the people. The ava ricious use of land, too, had thrown vast masses of labourers out of employment; while the new poor laws bad placed them between two fires—that of their employers and the Select Vestries. Again, the middle classes were suffering under a cruel and inefficient system of debtor and creditor law, which delivered them over to the grinding oppressions of lawyers, who divided the effects of insolvents among them, as their legitimate spoil. Knowing the diseases which afflict the country, we may then appreciate the relevancy of the measures of the State physicians. A salutary remission of taxes was proposed, and this met part of ithe case ; but unhappily, in the same breath, others were imposed, liable to the very ob jections of those removed, viz. their interference with enterprize, industry and freedom of action. They fell, too, on concerns either not in prosperity, or on others struggling into existence ; and, therefore, have been so generally con demned, as to be withdrawn, except two—which, applying to distant interests, have not yet displayed a concentrated opposition. But if these should be carried by the force of a parliamentary majority, no question can exist, that one of them is unjust to Canada ; and the other as vexatious as in jurious, to an infant public convenience. On this subject, it is not to be dissembled, that the taxes remitted not only ought to be so, but that Assessed Taxes, the Soap and Malt Taxes, ought to be removed ; and in their place, no taxes of like kind ought to be substituted, but one of easy collection —a tax of five or ten per cent. on all incomes derived from real property, and from interest of money, in every form in which it is accumulated. If the Ministry were even in a minority on such a question in the house, they would pre serve their honour, and be in au immense majority, out of it. Another measure, the Bill or Bills of Lord BROUGHAM ' , to cleanse the Augean Stable of the Court of Chancery, of course, creates our warmest applause and admiration. If he succeed, and if committees do not neutralize his plans, he will deserve, among the moderns, to be ranked with HER CULES among the ancients, and be entitled to equal grati tude. We hope it will be the precursor to an equal cleansing of our Common Law Courts and Practice ; for these, like the Court of Chancery, are a standing obstruction of jus tice, and an opprobrium on the good intelligence of the country. The only other reference yet made by actual measures to the State of the rural population, is the Bill for ameliorating the Game Laws, by which the Ministry have merited ap plause The measure which has been introduced by Lord HOWICK to facilitate emigration from this country, founded on the ably and ardently maintained principles of Mr. WIL MOT Hon- TON, we think is a little misrepresented, when it is stated, that its object is to enforce the emigration of the distressed classes. If such be its object, it is, in so far, we con ceive, a departure from the plan of Mr. HORTON ; for he I has repeatedly, in our hearing, repudiated any such object. Hie object has been—or we are much mis taken in his views—to facilitate emigration, by afford ing the means of its accomplishment, with in ducing advantage and safety to the emigrant, and equal ad vantage to those who are interested in their maintenance. His calculations to prove that parishes would benefit by advancing the means of removal, in substitution for the maintenance of the same individual by the poor rates, is indisputable, and a matter not of reason but of arithmetic. Whether so mortgaging the Poor rates may have other practical difficulties, and be at tended with other evils, does not interfere with the truth of the proposition—that if a man is to be maintained by others in this country, those so bound to maintain him, would make an advantageous bargain, by advancing him, at once, such a sum as to facilitate him, if inclined to leave the country, to ac complish the object, and with rational prospects of bettering his condition. If the intent of the proposed Bill should be to act compulsorily, we decidedly think that it is, in so far, both improper and absurd—improper, because it involves the liberty of man ; and absurd, because it is sure of being im practicable. A question is often discussed—whether the distresses of the labouring classes originate in a surplus of population?— If the terms of this question be understood, there can be no doubt as to the reply. If surplus of popu lation, relatively to the productive employment, be meant, it must be answered, we think, in the affirmative; and existing distress be admitted, as the result of the ex isting discrepancy, between the population and its productive employment. But then, it must naturally strike those who meditate on the question, that the &tress may be remedied, either by increasing the productive employment, or decreasing the population ; and if we were asked, whether the produc tive employment of the people of this country might not, under better circumstances, be increased, and thus the dis tress be remedied,—the answer would be, most certainly. To remove the population, would then only be desirable, as averting the necessity of alterations; and as such, we conceive, it can only be rationally advocated. These alterations may in themselves be productive of other and extraneous evils. Fur man to scatter over the globe, is the destiny of the race ; and we go farther, and think that the perpetuity of British power and glory will be best secured by colonizing. We are decidedly advocates for colonies ;—and think that emigration is only restrained by very groundless prejudices, which we have always been anxious to remove. We have some knowledge of colonization and its difficulties; we know that they are great ; but not equal to the subsisting in workhouses, or labouring under parochial overseers. Let emigration then be fairly encouraged—let it be a matter of persuasion and reason—but let there be no force. Build the bridge if you please, but do not drive people across it; or be assured, they will be likely to turn, and knock out your brains for the attempt. Those who bear in mind the substance of our first para graph, will perceive, therefore, that much remains to be done, either by this Parliament, or by that reformed one, for establishing which a great parliamentary epoch is arriv ing; but, of those golden days in embryo, we shall be able to speak, with more certain anticipations, by thin day month. The disturbances in Ireland, so much exaggerated yes- 1 terday evening, did not take place at Kilkenny, where the election is now going on; but in quite a different quarter of the country—at Navan, in the county of Meath, twenty three miles from Dublin ; and instead of its being a rebel lion against the Government, accounts received in town this morning, represent it as an effort on the part of the wretched peasantry, in a district where severe and extensive distress prevails, to procure relief by threats and violence. It is added, that it was in this very neighbourhood some months since, that a portion of the miserable peasantry, who had been dispossessed of their holdings, erected huts upon a I moor, or commonage ; from which they were afterwards driven by the neighbouring authorities. Among the distinguished individuals at present in Edin burgh is Sir Archibald Campbell, the hero of the Burmese war. Sir Archibald is a hale, spirited-looking veteran, wonderfully little the worse of the pestilent climates he had sojourned in and the dangers he has braved. CITY. ONE O'CLOCC. We were in error in stating yesterday in our City articl u that it was settling day in Console, instead of which it i s this day. Consols, which left off yesterday very h eavy at 77j 78 for the Ace. opened this morning at 781 to 1, in consequence that it was generally thought that th e account in the Courier of a rebellion in Ireland wa , exceedingly exaggerated, and particularly when the public perused the Morning Journals, and not finchiv. the account to be confirmed, this, in the early part a the market, gave a lift to consols, which were done at 781 f, but soon after they receded to 771, but hav e again got up to 781. As yet we do not hear of any (A tm ,, in the house ; the extreme fluctuation during the account must have been between three and four per cent. The expres s from P..ris brings the French 3 per cents. higher at 57 70 but we do not hear of any later news from Poland, I r which the Public are waiting with great anxiety, as no doubt kfu thin some severe fighting must have taken place. In the foreign market little or nothing doing, as the atteti. tion of the brokers and jobbers is chiefly to the British mar -1 ket in adjusting their accounts. CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. The winding up of the Consol Account is going off well in the House ; but we understand that an exten3ive failure has taken place out of the House, of about eight thousand pounds difference. The person is said to Le a Portug3,,, merchant, who had retired from business. Lisbon letters tate that some disturbances had taken place there, and 130 arsons hare been arrested; since which order has been re stored.—Consols are at present 78i for the Account. In the Foreign Market nothing doing. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Meats A RILIVLD Tam Dor.—Dublln, 1 ; Waterford. 1 ; Hatnburgh,2 ; France 1 ; America, i ; Lisbon, 1. Dam., Fics. 44. —Wind N. W.—Arrived the Atalanta, from Meant. Arrived from the River, and sailed, the Duke of Roxburgh, Brown, for Bombay. Faxwourn, Fes. 23.—Wind S to W. Ughta—Arrived the Duke of Marlborough packet, from Lisbon—sailed 13th instant ; and Plovtr packet, from Bermuda--sailed 10th tilt. and hum Halifax 6th inst.— The Marlborough packet brings accounts that a plan had been tail for an insurrecdan, wl en one of the party gave information, and upward, of 150 persons were taken in consequence, and thrown into prison; and it is ear c:ed would lobe their lives. MARGATE, FIN. 24.—Arrived off the port, the Alexander, Mrs. sutler, from Havannah, and Albion, Sutherland, from Gibraltar. FROM OUR COIIREIMONDENT. FALMOUTH, FES. 23.—This morning, arrived his .Majesty pack e t Plover, Downie, sailed from Bermuda Jan. 10, a d Halifax Feb. 6, with mails. Ou the 21st December, in 'at. 45. 33. long. 45 15. spoke the Woodman, from Quebec, for London. On the Bth of Jan. at Detmutla,his Alajesty's sloop Racehorse, the Lord William Ben. tick, (transport,) and the Osborne packet, which sailed on the 9th for Halifax. On the sth of Feb. at Halifax, his Majesty's packet Rt. naldo. Durinic the stay of the Plover at Halifax, it was ascertained that the Port of Spain, a merchant brig, from the West Indies, bound to Halifax, was lost near Sambro' with all her hands ; it is suppesed in a snow storm on the 22d Jan. On the 6th Feb. the Plover also spoke the brig Hopewell, at anchor off Sambro Light-house., with her rudder gone. The Master had gone on shore for assistance.—Sailed this mo:ning, his Majesty's packet Nightingale, Fortescue, for the Ha. Tetanal) and Vera Cruz. If a suitable and equitable bargain were struck with the fundholders, and the interest of the debt in paper thirty mil lions, reduced to twenty in gold, than which nothing could be more just and reasonable, all our public difficulties would be removed at one stroke. Ten millions of taxes might thus at once be remitted. There could then be no plea for main taining the corn bill, nor for spending twenty millions on establishments, which might at once be reduced one half, and hence the burthens would be lightened from fifty to thirty millions, and a sinking fund arise from saving in col lection. As nations are not to be trifled with, and the pay ment of the gold price is all that reason could demand, so in yielding to justice the fundholders would consult their own best interest. The aristocracy must at the same moment yield their crafty Corn Bill, and we should, forgetting past follies of war, then become again a happy nation, which we never can be with such a load, and with a corn bill to shift it from the shoulders of those who are best able to bear the burthen. The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Halifax came home in the Plover packet, and landed at Falmouth on the 23d, under a salute of 15 guns, fired by her. This morning the Lord Mayor issued a notice, stating, that in consequence of the many complaints which he re ceived of disturbance being made by the coachmen, and others plying for passengers near the Royal Exchange, on Sundays, that in future no stage coaches nor omnibuses will be allowed to ply between the hours of Divine Service. SURREY MlLlTlA.—Yesterday morning, by permission of the high bailiff of Southwark, a court of lieutenancy for the county of Surrey was held at the Sessions Court, Town ball, at which Colonel Gaitskell, and a ,number of other magistrates for the county, attended, for the purpose of re ceiving the constables' return lists for the Surrey militia, and hearing cases of appeal. Tuesday evening Mr. Bellamy, of the House of Commons, was robbed in Russell-street, near Drury-lane Theatre, about the time the Royal cortege was passing, of a valuable silver hunting watch,. Maker's name, " Yonge, Strand." Sir Edward Lees, the Chief ecretary of the Irish Post Office, has been removed to Scotland, where be is to succeed Sir D. Wedderburn, as Deputy Postmaster Geneeal, and is also to discharge the duties of Chief Secretary. Mr. Godby has been appointed to the Irish Post Office, and we can assure that ' gentleman that in the exercise of his new duties he can ob tain no higher praise from the Irish public than that of af fording as much satisfaction as his predecessor has, for, we believe, a period of 30 years, given to all those who came within the iufluence of his department. By the new arrange ment, a saving of expenditure to some extent will be effected, but we trust without any diminution of income to so valuable a public officer as Sir Edward Lees. MILITARY INSPECTION.—Yesterday morning at ten o'clock, the different battalions of the Ist, 2d, and 3d Regi ments of Foot Guards, together with the Royal Horse Guards (Blue), mustered on the Parade, in front of the Horse Guards, in St. James's Park, in honour of her MAJES TY'S Birth Day. Soon afterwards his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland, attended by Prince George of Cambridge and Prince George of Cumberland, Lord Hill, the Com mander-in-Chief of the Forces, and a splendid cortege of Staff Officers, attended on the ground, and were received with the usual military honours. The three bands of the different regiments, dressed in their splendid state uniforms, struck up God save the King. The troops then passed in slow and quick time, the bends playing several martial airs. His Royal Highness expressed hie approbation of the effective state of the different battalions, and about half-past eleven o'clock the troops left the ground. Notwithstanding the unfavourable state of the weather, the Parade displayed an unusual assemblage of rank and fashion. THE CITY New POLICE.—These men, it is expected, will appear in their new dresses in the ensuing week. In the colour of the cloth aid fashion it resembles that of the police of the county, but the buttons will be yellow, and the collar decorated with a conspicuous civic ornament of a yel low colour. There will be a aly pocket in the tail of the coat for the truncheon. The men are not to be taught the military step, &c. nor are they to go over the beats singly, but in couples, over a particular district, the bounds of which are laid down according to their own discretion, and not according to any fixed route. They are to be upon duty from eight o'clock in the morning till eight at night, one hour being allowed for dinner, but only one man to leave duty for that purpose at a time.