Star. — London, England, 1831-10-05 00:00:00

I•a ieiathan, and have we not twisted the strings •,,, : a• ropes and the cede welly .have wo not • • icd that atrocio u ai n in fluence behhid theihrone, .J Lord Chatham said was Stronger than the Lae itself. (Loud cheering.) He would ex i.iain that atrocious influence of the oligarchy, which had governed the Kiiig, the Lords and the people. He did not say ibwas the House of Lords,that . honourable and illustrious House composed of an Aristocracy associated wish so many great and glorious recollections, but it was a junta of about 1,5.0 individuals, and some of whom were Members of that right honourable House, and who had secretly and fraudulently usurped the powers of Lards, and Commons, and had in fact governed every thing in England with despotic . sway (cheers). These were the men who were rightly called " Oligarchs," and obese dominion • rya, now coming to an end. In accomplishing this great work, no violence was required; " by obey ing the law," said Mr. A. " we become powerful to control the law," (cheers). They had united . two millions of wen peaceably and legally in one ) .grand and dosermined associa'ion to recover the liberty, the happinesss, and the prosperity of the country, and he should like to know %lot power there was in England that could resist a power like this ? (Cheers.) ,His would explain what he meant by prosperity. He did not mean to say that men could live with mit labour, and hart! labour too. This was the Will of GOD. But he meant to say that every honest labourer in England had as good a right to a reasonable maintenance for his family in ex change for his labour, as the King had to the erown upon his head ; and this was the right that he i Mr. A.) was determined to enforce. (Cheers.) If he had seen this right secured—if he had seen every honest man in England possessing an un doubted security for an honest bread for his family —if he had seen every houest labourer possessing ;abundant wages for himself, and at the same time leaving reasonable profit to •his employer, he (Mr. A.) should never have, assisted in the formation of the Political Union. But when he found beyond doubt that the oligarchy had either no know ledge of the wrongs of the people, or no dis position to redress them, he felt compelled to come forward to assist in bringing the po litical influence of the people to relieve their miseries and redress their wrongs. There was no difficulty in this operation. The most il lustrious man in Europe, Ls Fayette, had told them fogy years ago, " that for a nation to be free it was sufficient that she willed it." (Cheers.)-- Look around at this immense and magnificent as semblage in the very heart of England, where the English blood was pure and uncontaminated with fereigat alloy—see this prodigious mass of brave and upright men assembled together to support their good, and gracious, and patriotic King—and who, with such a spectacle before them, could pos sibly doubt that the British nation willed that the Bill of Reform should pass, and that it must pass. And did they not see at this moment that the Bri tit!' nation was lifting up its mighty shoulders, and peacefully and legally shaking off the oppres sive burden with which the productive energies and happiness of her people have been kept dome. Now if the oligarchs had done their duty, if they had fed the hungry, and clothed the naked, and ren dered justice to the poor and the oppressed, he (Mr. A.) for one would never have disturbed their peaceful reign, for he deemed all power good that was used for the happiness of the people ; but in asmuch as they had been bad shepherds, who had fel themselves, and neglected their flock, he had t!• ought it his duty to endeavour to pull them down. The holy Scriptures had said " Woe unto the shepherds of Israel that d. , feed themselves and reglect the flock. Therefore I am against the she) hen's, and I will require the flock at their hands." It was, therefore, said Mr. A. that we removed the people of England from the oligarchy, end that we placed them in•the hands of 1,100,000 of their own next door neighbours add friends. He (Mr. A.) knew that the system " worked well," but he asserted and affirmed that it worked well only for the harpies and drones of society. He defied them to point out any honest man who had benefitted by it. He re membered reading in his school-days that a hero of ancient hi.tory, when once setting down to din ner, on les !court from conquest, found that the whole o' the pros its ens were carried off from his tabs, by a specie. of foul birds tallied harpies, quite as fast as they were placed thereon. Now the system cet 'airily orked well for these harpies. but how did it work for the unhappy hero of to riutece and hi. faithful friends ? Why s o we ll, th at the hero took up his bow and his arrows and de, streyed the harpies. He did net wish the people ' ot england to act in this way by their har, ies, but he gas determin d that the harries should be con tined within their own domains, and that they I should. no longer' be allowed to defraud, plunder and oppress, the people. Now the Lords were not harpies, I they were he believed, honorable aed upright men. Ile believed they wore the most humane, kind hearted, aid upright men, generally speaking, in the country ; but their, gre • t misfortune was that they. sere hot n in the di uds, lived in the clouds, and not er touched ibe earth on which men lived. ,They lad been deceived. by .fiatterers• and syco phants, and designing men, and given to believe tGat.the people were gr- wn lukewarm in the cause ate reform. Why, they found out the truth, no men 11:1, England would be more ready to do justice . to . tile people than the ancient. and waive, sally - a arpeeteu Aristocracy of the land. They would .not .vijsh to " fob" off the people with " a show o jilsetty which yet they tie er must taste of." They would not give the people a mere house of • ~ • • , humbug. but a house of reaLtepreoentatives, able and' willing to restore and protect , the interests of Asepeople. -As soon as the Lords understood the wishes of . the people, they would be quite certain to attend to them. The' meeting would recol lect that two years ago, nearly the whole of the wore afflueet classes, in Birminghain were rpposed to 'reform. Now they saw that the whole of the ,inbabitants of Binning/14, employer and employed had all come for wardfin"support of the great cause. Why tihould ,not slit same influence act upon the geese of LordalisitUndouhtedly it would act ; and if, the Lards "sheisld pessially err to day, it was not It y anytneapareertain, that. they would err to morrow . (cluaert). Attwood concluded in the folio *big wards:—". It nip slat : King, personally,.' t 1 t e,Awe ) ,gtors . in thia,g,reat• weak .of reform: than tQ any tallier,buinanbeigg ! iskexistence.- An . ancient 14. 1 )lRhOr has 441. That see an man at! nem% ?Wt. ,mut:ptzsening. hie. .. .. ra .1 V.; 110138“1 • - - - - • 3 , 0 1 . • .• y; • , integrity, was a sight which the gods themselves might contemplate with satisfaction. This, is undoubtedly true ; but it is equally true that that to see a King looking dov:n from his throne, and fe ling for the miseries of his people, and determining to relkve their mi series and redress their wrongs, is a sight which PROVIDENCE might well be supposed to contem plate with satsfaction. I will now calf upon you to exhibit a spectacle, and that spectacle shall be one of loyalty and devotion. I am about to ask you to cry out the words "GOD bless the King." I therefore desire that all of you will 'take off your hats, and that you will look up to the heavens, where the just GOD rules both heaven and earth, and that you will cry out with one heart and with one voice, " Gon bless the King." [The specta- , cle which here presented itself was beautiful, and magnificently sublime. Every head was unco vered, every face was turned up to heaven, and at one moment a hundred thousand voices responded to the cry, " Gob bless the King." Mr. A. re sumed his seat amidst the most deafening cheers.] Wont of room obliges us to omit many other speeches which were afterwards delivered.—An Address to his Majesty, a memorial to Earl Grey, and a petition to the House of Lords, praying their Lordships to pass the Reform Bill, were carried with one voice, and the immence multitude quietly dispersed.—Thu following is a copy of the memorial to Earl Grey: "TO THIf RIGHT HON. EARL GREY FIRST LORD OF HIS MAJESTY'S TREASU RY, Ste. ' " The Memorial of the Inhabitants of the town and neigh , - bourhood of Birmingham, assembled at a Meeting at Newhall-bill, of 100,000 persons, this 3d day of October, 11131. " Most respectfully sheweth,-Ist, That your memo- rialists are Impressed with the deepest gratitude to your Lordship for the wisdom, firmness, and true patriotism I which your Lordship has di s pl a y e d i n b r i ng i ng f orwar d that great and salutary Bill of Parliamentary Reform, the progress of which through the House of Lords is now watched with intense and breathless anxiety by every friend, either of the liberty, or of the peace of the country. " 2d. That in case the He4se of Lords should be so mis led by the misrepresentations which have been made to them, as to reject or mutilate tfiegrest 13111 of Reform, your memorialists are apprehensive that your Lordship might possibly be Induced to resign the distinguished and most important station which you hold in his Majesty's Councils; and your memoralists greatly fear that the most tremendous consequences might arise in ease of your Lordship's resig nation a, this momentous period. " 3d. That your memorialists will never despair of carry ing the Bill of Reform into a law, peacefully and constitu tionally, so long as your Lordship continues at the brad of his Majesty's Councils; but should your Lordship be in duced to resign, either from the difficulties and supposed dangers which surround you, or from distrust of the cifident support of the people. your memorialists would, in that case, altogether despair of the safety of their country. Your memorialists do, therefore, respectfully but most earnestly entreat that your lordship will, under no cireum. stances whatsoever, be induced to resign the high and im portant station which you hold, so long as you. lordship retains the confidence of his Majesty. (Signed by the unanimous order of the meeting.) WHIG AND TORY. It is curious to trace the origin of these titles, which are now " the order of the day." Hume says that 1680 was remarkable for being the epoch of the well known epithet of Whig and Tory, and by which our island has been so long divided. Of Whig, the following may be held the ori gin, from Laing's account. When Argyle and Lothian had begun an insurrection in the High lands, the expedition was termed the Whigamore's inroad, from a word employed by the peasants in the west in driving horses, and the name trans ferred in the succeeding reign to the opponents of the court, is cherished by the Whigs as the ge- Innine descendants of the covenanting Scots. Johnson says, Whig, Sax. whey, butter-milk, or vbry small beer. Again, Whig, first applied to those in Scotland who kept their meetings in the fields, their common food being sour milk • ; a nick name given those who were against the Court interest in the time of Charles and Jas. 11. and to such as were for it in succeeding reigns. As to Tory, he says, a word first used by the Protestants in Ireland, to signify those Irish com mon rAbers who stood outlawed, is now a nick name to such as call themselves high churchmen. Further : Johnson says, Tory is derived from an Irish word signifying a savage, one who adheres to the antient Constitution .of the state, and the apostolical hierarchy of the church of England --opposed to a Whig. Turbhee is the Irish appellation of a person v•-to seizes by force, whether really so or not, what he dlleges to be his property. Defoe, says Tory is Irish, and au first made use fin Ireland in the time of Elizabeth's wars, j there signifying robbers who preyed in general upon their country. Whig is decidedly Scots, and began when tho ' western men, called Cameronians, took up arms frequently for their religion. At the insurrecti n of Bothwell, in 1681, the Duke of Monmouth, then in favour here, was sent against them by Ki ng Chet les and defeated them. Instead of receiving' I thanks it his return for his good services, be found himself' ill treated for using them mercifully.— And Lauderdale told Charles, with an oath that the Duke had been so civil to the Whigs because be was a Whig himself in his heart. This made it a cone t word, and in a short time all the friends an d Ifillowers of the Duke began to be called • Whigs, and they as the other.party did by the word Tory, took it freely enough to themselves. • In different parts of Caledonia, the word whim is, to this day applied to a sour liquor obtained from milk or cream. The whim is taken from the cream after it hes been collected a week for kirning, and drawn from the bottom of the cask biiggot. It is 'also tak e n from sour milk, when in a coagulated state, or what the Scots call leppert-neifir, being merely the thin watery substance separated from the curd, on stirring it'about. The whig of sour milk and cream, is ex tremely tact to the taste. alight not the term whig have been first applied to the Covenanters, in derision of their austere manners, and unpalatabie opinions ? Teri may be also denominated—ilighfiyer ! King's College will open, in all its Departments, in the present month ;—the Medical School on the 10th, and the Senior and Junior Departments en the 17th. Sir RICHARD PHILLIPS is proposing to renew, on the first of next January, his Monthly Journal of new Voyages and Travels, under the descriptive title of " Tun TRAVELLER, or Journal of Geo graphical Novelties." It will embrace, like the former series; 'translations from the French and Gentian of all new voyages and travels published abroad, reprints of American voyages and travels, analysis of English voyages and travels, and acme pages of miscelVanio . o geographical and geological intelligence. As a periodical for general -perusal, , none will or can be more usef u l, desirable, 10 ioteresting to eve7tlass of readers: " . SKETCH OF HOME COLONIZATION. We have before mentioned that Mr. Owes, anal mate ether gentlemen are exerting theitsdeiss to! ,t/Ittnin the co.opg . rmion of Pavernatmtt to it. plan' lot nmp s loylng productively the present ittfrvini populaion of Ireland, by the egtablishmant of egricultural colonies 'similar to that at NeW tip nark, or what has been so successfully accomplished in Holland. We think, therefore, the following sketch by one who lately visited the Agricultural Herne Colonies of Frederick's Oord, and was an eye witness of their success, cannot be devoid of interest: A SKETCH OF FREDERICK'S 001113 IN 1830. It will be remembered that the institutions em ployed in Holland of late years for the relief of the indigent poor, occupied some time since a conside rable degree of attention in Ireland. I am not aware whether the plane have prospered which were here adopted in conformity with that system, but I have heard that party differences unfortu nately interfered. At all events a.short sketch by one who visited the agricultural home colonies of Frederick's Oord about two months ago, and was an eye witness of their success, cannot be devoid of interest except by the fault of the draughtsman, who would not ha-e thought of claiming a place in your columns, were it not in favour of an important institution at once free from the ha zards of the Poor Laws and the confessed defi ciencies of casual eharity. The Colony of Frederick's Oord is situated on the confines of Drenthe and Fritzlaid, in a distant and desolate part of Holland, but deserves much notice from being the largest establishment and from having occupied more than any other the care and examination of the natives. I crossed the. Zuyder Zee from Amsterdam, passed a marshy country for about twenty miles on a road or dyke, elevated above the "surrounding fens, and took up my abode for a day or two in the clean and coin fortable inn, established chiefly for visitors to the Colony. A small picturesque wood-of oak and fie trees forms the centre of this vast agricultural vil lage, entirely occupied by those who would in England be called paupers. On visiting the part first inhabited, I found a number of small neatly built cottages, uniform as to size, shape, and posi tion, each standing separate, and having adjoined between five and six statute acres occupied by grass, barley, rye, and potatoes in small partitions. There were no divisions to be seen of hedge, fence, or wall, but merely separations of narrow raised paths, which are found sufficient, the cattle being fed entirely in the house. Besides the farm attached to each dwelling house, and cul tivated according to the direction and will of a skilful superintendent—there is a garden for each family, entirely at their own disposal. It was generally full of vegetables, and embellished with flowers. On walking to the boundaries of the cul tivated district, I examined the nature of the soil which bad been thus reclaimed, and undergone in a few years such a complete metamorphosis. In its natural state it was as poor and as destitute of vegetation as can be conceived, consisting of a sur face of heath and mossy earth, resting on a sub stratum of sand. An English common or Irish bog is apparently a paradise of fertility, in compa rison with the sterile heath which has been par tially converted to a state of high production by labour, vigilance, and a fortunate system of cul ture, under the care of a benevolent association. The ithabitants whom I met were well clothed, healthy, and cheerful, and I was more than once invited to eater and examine the cottages, with which the occupants seemed hi g hly satisfied, and so far from the strict discipline of the establish ment having produced any thing dull or slavish in their character, they appeared to me more lively and energetic than any of their Dutch brethren I had met with before. The interior of the cottages was most comfortably arranged, and fitted up with all the requisites for cookery and cleanliness. Clocks, prints, and other humble ornaments, were not uncommon. Adjoining to the dwelling house was a barn occupied by a cow and pigs in separate partitions, and also by a heap of turf, and another of potatoes. I must not forget the arrangement of the beds, which resemble the births on board ship, with curtains to be drawn across. By this ' mode little room is occupied, a smaller supply of ' bed clothes suffices, and each individual may. have a separate birth. In short, the most cautious in vestigation has been exercised to discover the best method of supplying the wants of the poor in every point, however trifling, though I might mention some instances which would perhaps draw forth a ' smile. A family of paupers arrives at the colony destitute of the most common necessaries of life, perhaps having been for a long period unemployed and uneducated, and without hope as to future melioration. In one hour after their arrival, the said family is housed and clothed, supplied with food and furniture, with a garden, pigs, and cow. Support in case of sickness, education for children, and certain rewards for industry are ensured. I shall proceed to demil as briefly as possible, Use machinery by whicfi this useful system was -Mt in motion. The plan is at once economical and benevolent, and peculiarly free from the ob- Lations usually brought forward against the Poor Laws. Indeed if a system had beep expressly formed to compromise between the various con tending opinions in Great Britain on th e subject, one more effectual could scarcely have been de vised. It woulil satisfy Chalmers and his followers, the contributions towards its support being volun tary, and the principles of charity being inviolate. To those who naturally dread that odious species of theft, so unfortunately. palliated •hy the light appellation of JOBBING, it may be observed that the whole establishment is Conducted with. publicity, as to make such an evil as im possible as the nature or human institutions wjll admit ; and if it is possible by any means to give a sop to the Cerberus head of Malthus, it is done by the worthy, : Dutchmen, the due proportion be tween the production of the soil and the popula tion thereby to be maintained, being kept up with the utmost care and assiduity. Notwithetading the angry din and turmoil of politics, such institutions demand the investigation of all patriotii Irishmen. They rest their claim : I not so much on theory as on the authority of az- . ample and precedent; on their salaam and zealous continuance among a eeigllbpiving people, justly celebrated for peraeveppce, ecoStecly, :be nevolence, and cautious judgment;-4Mehtiolvittest needful for ,th e, eu ppni t 4( true and politic of e l A l, YelF 1818 a thl wipe, whose object was to tio au is their Potolit •.. •• . to extirpate poverty and distress from its native country, by the application of manual industry to ' the cultivetkm of barren soils, and by instructing those !Opl their care in the means of supplying thimselves . ..with such articles of manufacture as consfoit requires. The society proposed to effect their abject by vigilant care and stiperintendence, by a moderate outlay of 'capital, and by a peculiar system of agriculture. The plan owed its pro mulgation, and in a great measure its success, to a happy union of capaciti es in its founder, den. Van den Balch. As a military man he was fully acquainted With the advantages of organisation and discipline. He was rich, influential, and en thusiastic in benevolence. Above all, he had paid much practical attention to farming, and while fulfilling an office of command in Java, had learned from some neighbouring Chinese that spe cies of minute cultivation, which he afterwards introduced for charitable pnrposes into hie native country. The essay (according to his own modest appellation) was pursued with extreme caution. *all subscriptions were received from 20,000 individuals, and this grand national system com menced when the stun collected amounted to about 6,0001. The first care was to draw up strict rules for the administration of the finances—to collect advice and even ohjections to the scheme by the moat extended publicity, and to establish the scale of necessaries and comforts to be sup plied tq tbpse who had previouely been entirely destitute, or supported by the property of others. The society then purchased about eight hundred statute acres of the most barren land that could be found. In the memory of man it had never been cultivated, and in its natural state would have given a rabbit or a brace of moor-fowl more fasts than surfeits. On this ground fifty comfortable cottages were immediately built, and successively occupied by families sent from different parishes. Tho rules to which each colonist or tenant was to conform, as well as the general treatment he was to receive, were carefully explained to the head of each fa anily, and his assent required previous to admission. These regulations referred chiefly to the main tenance of obedience and order, to the hours of work, to the diet, and to the repayment by labour of money and articles advanced. It was impossible to confer extensive and permanent benefits on the plan proposed by the society without strict rules of I discipline, but they were framed on as liberal and lenient a system as the nature of the case would admit, and by the establishment of rewards and re compenses, with prospects of peculiar advantage to those who, by proofs of industry and knowledge, became capable of enjoying them, every thing was done to avoid changing a thinking and acting being into a mere productive machine. In fact, as in the case of all other societies, (such as colleges, clubs, and nations) each member is only abridged of so much personal liberty as is necessary to insure the genend welfare. . The cottagers being installed in their tenements, are immediately set to agricultural labours, under the guidance of skilful superintendents.. The lighter tasks of the field are performed by their wives and ohildren, to whom instructions are also given in ?pinning and needle-work, for periods when field work is not required. It was found, that by a Careful culture of the land allotted to each cottage, together with the produce of the manufactures car ried on by the women and childreo, a family could not only maintain itself with comfort, but could also produce such a superabundance' of value, as in the *num of a' few years to repay the sums originally supplied.for clothes, furniture, inaterials or work, arid sundry other advaeces. Till this act of justice is done, the c;.•lonitits are consi dered as debtors, and cannot quit the establishment. So far, however, from living in privation, they en joy comparative afiluence : —are fed, clothed and educated—receive daily visits and advice in all matters relating to their welfare; are attended gratuitously in sickness, and possessing separate housis, have the comfort of family society, instead of being huddled together in vast unsocial poor houses, with all that violence done to the feelings, which is so eloquently described by Crabby. From what I observed, I do not think that there is a single family in England receiving parish apist ance (liberally and 'well directed as it often is,) which in the scaleof comfort and future prospects, is equally well situated with the Dutch poor allo cated under the system pursued at Frederick's Oord. As to the expenditure by which such good effects are produced, the comparison will present a most sitsgular contrast with which I chill conclude for the present. The Society undprtakes to maintain individuals of all ages, (though of. course at different rates,) who are sent by private persons or p arishes as be in a state of pauperism, or evident ly falling into that lamentable condition. To ' give 'the most Ostia' Instance :—A family composed of a father and er, with four or five growing children, are re- . - ved on a bond of undoubted securitz being given 'pay annually doling a period *of *iixteen years, sum of eighteen ficiiins or thirty shillings •b, per head, For this sum, the society es to support the family . iis perpetuum. 1 terms would, appear sughesently easy for parishes, .even were they to receive nothing at, Ilse end of the sixteen years; 'but there con tract is • still more fdvourable, as at the' conclusion of this period, the six acres of lend, brought by skilful eultieation to the highest for .i.ility, together with the cottage and fixtures, be e their ahsolute property. On this head th e iety borrows money, sufficient to establish t h e. ily on its farm, safely calcukting for 'repay , ton the sum annually paid Of tiiirty'shdlings r head, for siaspen years, together Oti s th e la ir pf the colonipts, beyond whet i s s u lf c 4ent for, heir comfortable support. Let theii terms .be weighed and compared with the expense ` ii'f each pauper in Engleed. —Let the morel and physical adventegee afforded to the Dutch, be thrown into the scale, and I think it will not be den* .that the subject, though confessedly compliceteci, and *guying modifications according to - local cticum pviz ees and character, will, at the p rese nt peridsl, rre investigation. It is too ineseprient to paw ay—" Qual Anus° in dere ad in aqua la se/anvi l :l." , .. The Quarterly Revim bas .more than once qvated of this estehliebniont, and some time since ore the following decisive testimony to its merits 4 . - socoesiful lands." Twelve years of increasing extent prosperity have now entitled it to a higher (lO N than that of an .experimsat. Should theseautices be acceptable, I will end Tour, at some future time, to describe the form of the Society itself, and the agricultural system pu% aped under its auspices. F. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. BOULOGNE-MYR-MEN OCT. 1, 1831 SlR—Notwithstanding all the" wind and in many of the London papers, which are positivelr smiled at in this quarter, we members of Johii Bull's family have been perfectly tranquil, a-. 1 not under the slightest agitation whatever. All of to are on tho very best terms of friendship 1% ith Monsieur. This leads us to observe, that we ark concerned to see some trifling scuffles in Pan s just similar to some of the rows at St. Gilos' t magnified into plots, insurrections, nialisacres, and other horrors, to alarm our countrymen at honk and abroad. Elephant= at mom fade. I assure you, that you have little idea of the extreme mischief these exaggerated statements create, and farther, that unguarded lan. guage made use of in your Upper Senate by the order or faction of Miguel —not only to " blow the coal," and create animosity, but entirely destroy that amity which sul.sists, and I hope there is every prospect of continuing, between France and Eng land, but distract thus at the British helm, who are labouring so much for the public good, and hav e the confidence of their country. All this is a subject of regret to those who are inclined to meditate. You need not be told how " great a flame a small spark kindles." I hare ' daily an opportunity of seeing persons direct from ' Paris, who all concur that every thing is quiet, and the late fracas was chiefly created by some hot headed or intoxicated students, and that the Go vernment is sufficiently powerful to crush any breach of the peace that may be committed. Although the fall of Warsaw has been deeply lamented, yet a day of retribution is calculated upon to be at no great distance, besides the Rus sians will find difficulty in retaining the place lone from many considerations. Warsaw may be con quered, but Poland is not ; for twerp Pole has a rooted hatred in hie heart against the Russians, equal to that of the Tories; and I base no doubt these brave people will arise and...rescue Finland from the hand of a plunderer. hie strongly sus pected there will be a change of Ministry. The Thuilleries is once more to •be occupied with royalty. The King and Quoen are to receive pre sentations there on Sunday evening. The French Government have voted 10,000 francs to erect a statue on the top of Napoleon's coluinn near this, in place of the arms of the Bourbons. The National Guard here is a story fine body of men, and in new clothing, are drawn out in line on the Sands on Sunday morning. Among the passengers which embarked here this week were some English Peers, to attend the great contest on reform, which. it is most devoutly wished may be carried triumphantly. This has occupied much attention from English and French. It is an odd questicn to ask, " What will the Lords do ?" It is, " What else can they do but pus a bill which has the concurrence of more than the majority of the nation ?" If they have the cursor patrie at hurt, they nese! yip exercise an act to degrade them in the eye, trf• the. people, and destroy the prosperity and happiness of the island of Albion, *Ma vow, It is mpg ip our eese-bere, if. the Premier has any kind of doubt as to the issue of the battle, let him create a hundred Peers at once to ensure certain victory of a measure so highly beneficial to Britain, which has long been juggled out of bey just rights. It is gratifying to see the English church here so crowded. Last Sabbath, a Most impressive dis course was delivered by the Rev. Mr Symonds.— This is a poplar clergyman, who has clone much good here, and his labours are properVappreciated. Three steam.-boats• sailed from this to-day crowded. The latter seized in the Theme' with contraband goods from Boulogne ; a handsome vessel, and was well known het e. Alexandre brings, like Yates of London, crowded houses at this Theatre in his imitation of different characters, and hit off John Bull, and his " plumb-pudding" most excellently last night, to the high amusement of many of John's family. We have chatming weather; not the speck of a cloud or a drop of rain. Great preparations among the mariners for the herting fishery. Ball Hughes is here, Coates. of dramatic fame ; and Martin, whose benevolence towards the brute creation is so well known with many et cetents. • • Queen of the Netherlands, Duke of We ll ington, and Royal George. Letters from Alexandria IMPOWICO that the cho• lera, which has been so destruetive at Mecca, has appeared at Cossier and Suez. Sanitary precau• dolschid beet taken by the Pacba of Egypt, but alb dieriearamt saved before they could be properly 'lied into OWL Tice great caravan returning front blecca,,on bearing that the passage of Suez Was guarded by a unitary cordon, took another .direation, but the Pacha bas sent a curs of Be divine to stop and brinF it to Suez to perform quaraistiae. The wet vigorous unitary measures have been ordered by the Pacha of Egypt, boards loi health have been iastituted, and lazarettos Ma' idisbed• We shall see in the sequel the result el •the.e means, and whether they always suffice to preserve a country from the cholera morbus. Covent-garden Theatre 'opened on Monday . nigln with the tragedy of " Hamlet," followed by the drama of " The Miller and his Men. - - Mr. Young, whose theatrical career is threatened to end witlithe present season, appeared as Hamlet. Miss Taylor appsered, for the first time, at this basso, as Opbelia. The tragedy was rem' gene raibr art;delVaPd the buttes reasonably At Salisbury city 'minions last week, George Jones was sentenced to seven years' transportatiot for stealing tuo-pence ! A fire took place about half-past 10 o'clock on Satilvday night last, which destroyed a two-stal: Nelda and a barn.esptaining between two and three load , of straw, near the Clock-house, occupied by bit situated it plantations The rw , ~..r- T n., asset suueswing mauve testrukouy torts ruartni: - Mir. - Boyer, situated in his Majesty's plantatii Ilitclitcs; " The most intertiOing a , Well IS SUC". 4BII 411 "" at Virenia %tar, on the road to Barlior. 1 ' 1 ”"*. 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