Star. — London, England, 1831-01-11 00:00:00

NOT EXCLUSITZ. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. Frons the Moniteur of Saturday, January S. PARIS, JAN. 7. Lord Granville, Ambassador from the King of England , 0 the Court of France, arrived at Paris yesterday after noon. His Excellency alighted at an hotel of the Legation, , n the Faubourg St. Honore, which Lord Stuart left two d o s ago, and removed to the Rue d'Anjou, No. 16, in the Faubourg St. Honore. The Chamber of Peers will meet to-morrow to hear the Report of the Committee, which is appointed to examine the Project of Law relative to the suppression of the Negro Slave Trade, and likewise some Reports of its Committee of Petitions. [FROM THE MESSAGER DES CHAMBERS, DATED SUNDAY, JAN. 9.] _ _. PARIS, JAN. B.—The accounts which we receive from oni . \Vest India Colonies, dated Nov. 11, are very satisfas wrv. Baron Admiral Dupotel who arrived at Martinique. on the 2d, was very well received, and we have the satisfac tion to announce, that all the colonists rally round the Go vernment, feeling the necessity of complete union for the maintenance of internal peace, and showing their readiness to contribute to it with all their power. This news is equally interesting to the Colonies and our maritime com merce. A letter from Rheims of December 30, says—" Mr. Ro bert Lucas has just delivered in the statement of his debts : it is six millions, and consequently our commerce receives a fatal blow. This, added to 15 other bankruptcies, makes 14,825,000 francs for Rheims alone." M. Piquerel, Juge d'lnstruction, has just issued a war rant against M. Danton, nephew of the celebrated member of the Convention of that name, one of the editors of La Tribune, and against M. Lenoble, a law student, both accused of hat ing taken an active part in the troubles which took place in December. Letters from Dresden say that many Polish families daily arrive In that city from Warsaw, especially women and children; whence it is inferred, that preparations are making in that capital for an obstinate resistance. Letters from Manheim and Heidelberg say, that it is seriously contemplated to form a National Guard in those two cities. It seems that several German States intend ti introduce this admirable institution, which becomes na turalised every where. (From the Constitution's', of Saturday, Jas. 8.) VIENNA, Dan. 28. ( Private Letter.)—"The affairs of Poland and Belgium have cooled the warlike ardour of our courtiers; however, the armaments are continued with activity, but rather to defend our own possessions than to attack our neighbours. Extraordinary couriers are continually going backwards and forwards between this city and St. Petersburgh, and official reports are sent daily from our Polish provinces. Hitherto all is quiet in Galicia, and we are informed that Baron Stroganow has been ordered by his mu ter to present to him, before his departure from the capital, a report on the spirit of the inhabitants, and especially of those who are suspected of entertaining liberal principles. In the Emperor's Council there was an honest Statesman, who told his Imperial Majesty that the war with Poland was more uncertain than was supposed. It is affirmed that he has fallen into disgrace with his Sovereign." VIENNA, Dac. 28.—We learn to-day, by express, the tumultuous scenes which took place at Paris on occasion of the trial of the ex-Ministers. The conduct of the National Guard of Paris, the restoration of tranquillity, and the un hindered return of the ex-Ministers to Vincennes, prove that the French Government is stronger than was believed. This has bad a favourable effect on our funds ; our Bank Shares have risen 20 florins per share. We have but little news from Poland. The Russian army is to be concentrated ' On the 15th of January, and to commence its operations.— it excites much astonishment here, that considering the dan ger which threatens the insurrection, the members of the Diet should have openly declared that they took part in it.— Augsburg Gazette. From Galipase* Meoringor. The Moniteur contains a Royal Ordinance, fixing the amount of the salaries and allowances of the several Mari time Prefects at the following sums :—Brest, 30,000 francs, Toulon, 30,000, Rochefort, 25,000 ; L'Orieut, 20,000, and Cherbourg, 25,000. (Front the Constitutions!.) The news of the arrival of letters of credence to the Rus sian ambassador, appears to have given general satisfaction, and has, no doubt, been considered as a guarantee for the peace of Europe, and a proof of the existence of a good un derstanding with our government. If these letters had ar rived before the revolution of Warsaw, we should have had more confidence in the amicable disposition of the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh, but now we are inclined to imagine that it is rather the result of the existing difficulties, which prevents that cabinet from thinking of a crusade of absolute govern.' meats against our revolution of July. If this be so, there be no more than a postponement of the great struggle which must sooner or later take place between the principle of Divine Right and the Sovereignty of the People; and this forced delay ought not to lead us to neglect the neces i2ry preparations for meeting the inevitable contest. CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES. SITTING Or SATURDAY, JAN. 8. Vice President M. de Lessen, for M. C. Perrier, president. The house to• day was again convoked for one o'clock ; at two, however, the house was still very badly attended. Gen. Lafayette entered the house at a quarter to two, and, ac companied by M. de Tracey, approached the Vice Presi dent's chair, with whom they remained conversing upwards of 20 minutes. The General appeared to-day somewhat more cheerful than he had been at the last two sittings. At a quarter after two o'clock the Chamber commenced this day's sitting. The order of the day was the continuation of yesterday's deliberation on the reformation of the crimi nal courts. This law, although of' little importance in itself, gives rise to many and very lowp discussions, in consequence of the two centres of the Chamber having united all their efforts to reject it; and that, not by any means in conse quence of the new project of law being contrary to the prin ciples of those divisions of the Chamber, but solely in oppo sition to M. Dupont (de l'Eure), a man of the most liberal entinsents, and who was the Minister who proposed this innovation in the legislature of the country. Esousii PosT-Orsict.--England has constantly re fused to admit our Journals otherwise than as letters; it is a matter of reciprocity that France has come to the deter- :imiation of not admitting the English newspapers but on , same conditions. This tax is only profitable to the ~ rks of the English Post-office, who make both a traffic Ad monopoly of the introduction into England of foreign : , nspapers, as well as of the expedition of the English pa {'r, to foreign parts. It is for the putting an end to this s:lt e of things, by a treaty of reciprocal admission of the pa .l.t;:s of both countries, subject to a moderate taxation, that the tao , t.4 of our Girernment ought to be directed. Then we bend by the ordinary mail our papers to England, where we should certainly count many subscribers, were it not for the enormity of the price now charged. Then also the postage of the English papers could, without any incon venience, be reduced within the limits of the law. Lot the public enjoy without check or restriction the rights of admis sion. It is our own wish, and what we shall at all times even solicit, provided it should be on terms of reciprocity ; but, unless that be the case, we shall consider the admission of the English papers, at a reduced postage, u against the in terest of the French press; it would only be granting a premium to the monopoly already exercised by the clerks of the English Post Office. PRIVATE LETTER IN THE TIMES. PARIS, SUNDAY EVENIVII. I cannot learn that any news has this morning arrived from Belgium or Poland. I have seen letters which came by this day's post from both countries; but they are meagre in facts, and full of speculative reason ing, according to the views taken by the writers of the condition of their respective interests. Those from Poland would encourage a belief that the Emperor Nicholas will, notwithstanding his prompt armament, listen to reasonable negotiation; and the Belgians think that the Bavarian Prince will be their future sovereign. There was a very brilliant aurora borealis visible from this city on Friday night, and all kinds of moon-gazers are at work predicting poll. deal events, from this sign in the heavens. Being north, it of course reflected the burning tints of the light of liberty from Poland, where, however, it is hoped that the real beam burns with a steadier and more lasting effulgence. The old women who correspond with the family at Holyrood-house, of course see nothing in this phenomenon but the wrath of Heaven bursting upon rebellious nations; and in company here, you are doomed to listen to all this nonsense among an easily excited people. While some persons were thus floating in the clouds, a different class of conjurors formed a little terrestrial occupation. You are aware that for the purpose of giving employment to a very angry class of work men of this metropolis, the Government lately marked lines of fortifi cations around Paris, and in following up their purpose set to work up. wards of 12,000 people. It happens here, as in other countries, that the moment the cry of distress is met by the application of prompt labour, there arc angry spirits who diffuse discontent, and reject the means of subsistence which have been supplied to them. It was found difficult to get these workmen to keep regular hours, to bring their tools with them, to be content with the stipulated payment of Is. or 18d. a day ;—in fact, they must have a " turn-out." The Na tional Guard of St. Denis and the neighbouring villages were called out, but the workmen, nothing daunted, threatened to throw them into the canal, and expresses were sent to Paris to see what course ought to be taken with these malcantents. The remedy, however, was to strength. en the guard at the barriers; to discharge a few of the turbulent; and stop a portion of the works. The corps of National Guard Artillery has not yet been re-organised. It will, however, be re-formed, not as it lately was, an integral body, but separated into small detachments, each assigned to some legion of the general Parisian body. The guns of the corps, now in the gnat court of the Louvre, are not guarded by members of the dissolved corps, as some of the journals have mentioned, but by a few regimental in.. structon of the artillery, who are always maintained as the nucleus of re-organization. The guns will, I believe, be removed tomorrow to the Roots Ilfifiroirs, or, in other words, be deposited in winter quarters. There is no truth in the story circulated yesterday, that General Fabvier had set out on a patriotically combative expedition to Belgium. The General's sword is, I believe, like those of three.quarters of the other owners of Gallic blades now worn in France—ready for service in the field of freedom, but as yet be has made no arrangement for floldng it is Belgium. Poland is the great theatre in which young Fienehmen wish at this moment to signalize themselves. Seve. tell Pdith noblemen, some of them of great wealth, have spent dis winter here, mixed much in the saloons, and are now preparing, Mao feigned passports, to return to the post of danger ; for they fear io encounter the Russian authorities, who are determined, as far as pos. Ale, to stop the way. A number of young Frenchmen, of good fa ndlies, wish to join this band of struggling patriots. The old men, too, INNeurage them ; for Lafayette, Dumas, and many octogenarians, who fanght under the standard of liberty in the old and new world, were indocility acquainted with Kosciusko, and had vowed to assist his fit& I learn, too, with some degree of surprise, that General Lamarque is to be the leads of a party in the Chamber of Deputies, who will ay out against the march of the Autocrat, and appeal to the French people against the trampling down of Polish independence by force of arms. I know this movement is talked of by M. Coreellee and other deputies, who see no breach,of the basis of non-intervention in stepping between Russia and the Poles in their present quarrel. Upon this subject I am informed that we are on the eve of very warm and angry debates in the Chamber. Y. P. S. I have had a long conversation with General Lafayette, who denies that he had ever recalled or qualified his resignation at the head of the National Guard, and I am therefore quite satisfied that my first informant was misled upon this point. The General fully admits that his own feelings would have induced him to preserve his military post until the Anniversary of the barricades, or as long as external danger was supposed to be impending—in fact, as long as be thought the retention of it could have been of use to the stability of a Throne, which is surrounded by Republican Institution,. As the acts of this venerable man will be recorded in History, it is only jnstice to his character, that wherever any of them have been misin. terpreted or misunderstood, his own explanation or refutation should speedily follow. As I have the contradiction now from his own lips, it ought to be published. There appears evidently, from General Lafayette's verbal statement, to have been • good deal of conversation among the parties on this business, and therefore room for misconceptions among those who picked op what they learned by hearsay. The General's conversation with Count Mon. talivet was sot, he says, at the Palace, but at his own house. How ever, be never for a moment hinted that he could recall his resigna tion. His letter to the Ring was not published in obedience to the wish expressed at the time by his Majesty to the GeneraL O'Gorman Mahon and the gentlemen who presented the address from Ireland to the Prefect of the Seine last Thursday, were invited to a ban quet at the Hotel de Ville on Saturday, at which were present General Lafayette and his goo, the Duke of Montebello, Counts Matthieu Du. mss and Laborde, Generals Carbonnel and Fabvier, and several other military officers; I'Abb4 Pomplerre, M. C.ereelles, and other members of the Chamber of Deputies. The Prefect of the Seine spoke very handsomely about Ireland, as did also Gen. Lafayette. O'Gorman Mahon urged the company to interpose the genius of French liberty to save Poland from the tyrant of the North. SPIRIT OF TAR JOURNALS. CH aoxicr.x.—lt is especially observable, that these country agri culturists, fu distant from the seat of Government, exhibit a shrewd dis crimination of the political character of Members of Parliament. They nominate Mr. Hume from his terrier-like qualities against the barn ver min, and Lord King, as a good Mar prelate with the Bishops, to pre sent their petitions to the Legislature. Verily, they are wiser in their generation than their fore-fathers, who could not separate religion from ftlatianity, or the tithing of Priests from the service of (ion. These remarkable State Paupers are proofs of the revolt of the Laity ; twenty years ago every inhabitant of these parishes, if asked to sign soda protests. would have been seised with tits of horror. Blasphemy was the text word of the Clerical discourses when, the divine right of tithes war questioned.— Now every steward's rent dinner, every tithe dinner, when the Parson has I turned his back, betrays the popular feeling against the Levitical impo sition. The health of the Incumbent is always heartily drunk a second time at the date dinner, when he has left the mom, the most aged and hoary headed farmer justifying the compliment by the acute observation —" I never knew • new one who waa'nt a wain than the dead one." We were informed a few day. since by a magistrate of one of the mid land counties, that a parish meeting was recently called to swear in spe cial constables. It was fully attended, but no special constables volun teered r the conversation was long and significant on the state of the country , ; the farmers terminated the meeting, declaring, that they wanted no additional civil force, but " rents lowered and down with the tithe I" We have hard that at a large dinner party of country gen tlemen, ISO mike from the metropolis, the table-talk lately dis cussed the probable futare value of English and Irish tithes. The company differed, and it TM agreed to take the sense of the guests, by . "a mockisuction," the bookseller's mode of aseenaining the value of joint stock, by bidding, among themselves. Three months' purchase was bid fur Irish Tithe, seven months for English Tithe, and no advance ! The Archbishop of Canterbury may in vain compose Forms of Prayer, on account of the troubled state of certain Districts; they will not compose the troubled spirits of the untied and restless agricul tural patience. We know that these evangelical prescriptions for the agri cultural distress originating in political causes, expose religion to derision and contempt ; the agriculturists treat them, we are well informed, as the old impious farmer observed to the Pariah Parson, who read the prayer for rain in the great drat, " I'll be caned if the dry prayer is of any use till the shifted." The land-owner, and the tenantry, and the labourers, will go on to hustle the Vicar and the Rector ;to pay them off in kind—to let them gather the parsley and sage, and take th e tenth calf which the oow herd bas slily held by the tall while sucking, lest it should grow too fat for the parson. The thinking and reading farmers, of whom than are now Maiming numbers drinking at the fountain of the " Damien of Knowledge," will reflect an the muses of this deplorable state of thing., and will vary the prayer (after that including all conditions of mat " Lord I' open the eyes of the Boroughmongers, and incline their hes;ts to emancipate the nation without further trouble or cenvuhion." Trans.—We have said before now, that the grimness of Ireland must be redressed, and they are many. Ths subletting act, designed for the common welfare of landlord and tenant, has been so acted upon by the almost simultaneous, but unforeseen abolition of the 40s. free holds, and by the literal, though not reasonable construction of some of its clauses, as to open up and overturn a great number of pm-existing contracts, and to work wide and unheard of misery amongst the ejected poor. That act must be powerfully modified, and we trust will be so instanter. A great land-proprietor of the county of Kilkenny is said, but it is only on hearsay that we have learned it, to have enforced that law extensively against a numerous body of under-tenants on his estate. It is this gentleman whose trees were lately destroyed in his own presence. If he can contradict the above report, we shall willingly insert hie refutation of it. The Vestry Act of Mr. Goulburn is a tremendous evil. It yes to any two or more Protestants in a parish the uncoil. trolledright of levyin so far as we are informed) whatever sums they may thin fit, for re , or beautifying, or flog, or otherwise altering their pariah churc and of compelling the Catholic parishioners, who have no interest in the application of the money, to pay it by a peremptory assessment! This we conceive to be a monstrous abuse of law,—a cruel violation of the very first principle of British liberty, which gives the subject avoice in the employment of his own money.Thlagriev. ance ought at once to be redressed. The church of Ireland is far too richly endowed, in proportion to the number of Protestants. The Catholic clergy ought to be connected with the State, by a maintenance adequate to their wants. During the interval that elapses before any extensive Willem of reform can be perfected, let the Tithe Composition Act, which works so well, be made einepuleory on the parochial clergy. The Dr. Butler, who was lately visited by a crowd of menacing petitioners for the reduction of his tithes, is, we understand, one of those who never would compound with his parishioners. The poor of Ireland must be more tenderly treated, by having funds provided out of the land, either as wages for their labour. or as support for them in town ling idleness. England, as well as Ireland, demands, this improve ment in the Irish law. The immense assessments made on Irish coun ties must be taken out of the hands of those notorious job-masters, the 1 grand jurymen : 800,0001. per annum has been raised by them on the people. and wasted the Lord knows how. These are some, and we be lieve the principal wrongs at which Ireland may fairly murmur, and the continuance of which, now that they are known, must, in the nature of things, make proselytes to the O'Connell plot. Let Parliament de feat his manteuvres at one greet blow ;—let it examine what ought to be done, and do it without another year's hesitation ; —let it " be just, and fear not." POST.— The Lord LientenarTl PP-- t Ireland, following the example of his calumniated predecessor, is performing his duty most manfully. Nothing but the undaunted attitude he has so commendably assumed can save Ireland, discomfit her teal enemies, or restore her to that state of tranquillity, of which, by the infamous wiles of faction, she has been so long and so lamentably deprived. The restless agitator, the cease ; less brooder of mischief, having projected a new scheme, whereby he I imagined he should be able to evade the law—namely, the formation of a new Association, the Marquis of Anglesey,with a promptitude that does him honour, issued a fresh Proclamation on the day following that on which the meeting was held, prohibiting the meeting of any such Aso• ciation—a measure not only of the utmost propriety, but of the moot absolute necessity. Tide new association of conspirators lattally put. ported to be foe the prevention of unlawful meetings, he the posed.n and exercise of the right of petitioning and for the mamma of gelomm cee• but the veil was too slight and fl imsy to disguise the rural do. sign. They have indeed themselves inadvertently admitted the Ws. chievous intent of their plan; for it came out at their meet. lag that emissaries were to be sent into the provinces, under the fallacious garb of of peace, while common sense will easily discover that the teal iob was to organise a system of de termined Wstility to the existing order of things, with the view of ef. fecting a rebellion against England ; and there can be no doubt that if permitted to proceed in their present insidious course, they would be enabled to inflame the mind.of the deluded multitude to such a degree as shortly to venture upon as insurrectionary explosion throughout the country. Upon all these considerations we cannot too highly applaud the measures to which the wise foresight of the Irish Government have caused them to resort; and upon the due execution of them we rest our best hopes of the safety of Ireland. IRELAND. ANOTHER PROCLAMATION. DT TES LOAD LIS4IIIIIANT OT S&L AND •IMtYL NOTZIIOI Or lIILZLANI A PROCLAMATION. ANGLESEY, Whereas, by an Act passed in the tenth year of his late Majesty's reign, entitled " An Act for the Suppression of Dangerous Associations or Assemblies in Ireland," a power is vested in the Lord Lieutenant, or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland, by his or their Proclama tion or Order, to prohibit or suppress soy Association or Astembly, or Meeting of Persons in Ireland, which he os they shall deem to be dan gerous to the public peace or safety, or inconsistent chi] the due admi nistration of the law, or any adjourned, renewed, or otherwibe continued meeting of the same, or of any part thereof, under any name, pretext, or device whatsoever: And whereas it has been made known to us, that an Association, under the name of " The General Association of Ireland, for the Prevention of Unlawful Meetings, and for the Protection and Exercise of the Sacred Right of Petitioning for the Redress of Grievances," has been formed, and that the said Association, under the *hilt and device of Preventing Unlawful Afeetings, and.of protecting the tight of Petition, has been established, really for the purpose of intimidating the Magistracy of Ireland, and of controlling the exercise of Lawful Authority, and for other dangerous purposes : And whereas we deem the existence of such Association or Assembly to be dangerous to the public peace and safety, and to be inconsistent with the due administration of the laws: We, therefore, the Lord Lieutenant-General said General Governor of Ireland, being resolved to repress the same, do hereby prohibit the meeting of the said Association, assembly, or body of persons, and all adjourned, renewed, or otherwise continued meetings of the same, or of any part thereof, under any name, pretext, or device whatsoever, and being determined and resolved strictly to enforce the law and the penal ties thereof against all persons offending in the premises, do charge and command all Mayors, Sheriffs, Justices of the Peace, and all other Magistrates, Men, and others whom it may concern, to be aiding and assisting in the execution of the law, in preventing the meeting of said Association, assembly, or body of persons, and all adjourned, renewed, or otherwise continued meetings of the same, or of any part thereof, and in the effectual dispersion and suppression thereof, and in the detection and prosecution of those who, after this notice, shall offewd in the respects aforesaid. Given at his Majesty's Castle of Dublin, this 7lh day of January, 1831. By his Excellency's command, E. G. STANLEY. GOD SAVO Till KING. The above Proclamation was issued in consequence of the following notice for the formation of a new Association, pub. lished by Mr. O'Connell on Thursday : “ In consequence of the circulation of a moat illegal and highly un constitutiortal document, signed'E.G. Stanley,' I request a Meeting of the Subscribers to this Office on (Thursday) the 6th inst. at three o'clock, to make arrangements for the formation of a Society, to be called The General Association of Ireland for the Prevention of Un lawful Meetings, and for the Protection and Exercise of the Sacred Righr e of Petitioning fur Redress of Grievances." In consequence of this requisition, the meeting took place. The following is a sketch of the proceedings:— NEW ANTI-UNION ASSOCIATION. Thursday a meeting of the subscribers to what is called the Perlis. aleatory Intelligence Ma, took place at that establishment it. Dublin. to make arrangement* for the formation of a society to be called " The General Association of Ireland for the Prevention of Unlawful Meetings, and for the Protection and Exercise of the Sacred Right of Petitioning for the Redress of Grievances." This meeting was called by an adv t .?. thentent from Mr. O'Connell, in consequence, as be announced, of the circulation of " a most illegal and unconstitutional document, signed E. G. Stanley." Immediately on the antral of Mr. O'Connell. two peace officers (Han ky and Holland) entered the room, ani•sonounced that they attendort there for the purpose of watching and reporting the proceedings fur the informal ion of the Government Tt.e officers were instantly provided with the necessary acecninicelatiot s at the same table with the le porters for the newspapers. A Mr. D. DoTIA: hii•taken the Chair, Mr. O'ConwEr.r. pr oceeded to explain the nature and to enforce the objects of his new Association, tl:e fist and principal if which sass, he said, the repeal of the Union ; the second was, Varlhanentaty He laboured at great length to prov z• that Mr. Stenley's letter L. the Irish Magistrates was illegal and unconstitutional; but throughout this and the other parts of the learned genth o•an's speech there was a tank nesa, as contrasted with his former seditious harangues on the subject. hich, in all likelihood, was occasioned by the inconvenient presence of the Leta officers. lie took some pains to show that " Mr.S. was not the tiovent. matt," and that it was no libelon Govemneut to treat with contempt "the document which Putted to come from IL O. Stanley." He a ould nut however, speak of the intentions of Mr. Stanley, fur he supposed then, to be " the best that possibly could be." This letter might produce mischief in some counties where the Magistrates were not well read in • the law, and therefore it became incumbent on him (Mr. O'Connell)- to • quiet Ireland. Bodies of the peasantry were associating. Twenty or thirty thousand persons had assembled together. He heard that tire or six parishes had been collecting that week. These meetings were clearly sad he wished to put them down. " I think," said he, " that the best mode of preventing them Is by having an Association in Dublin that will be constantly combating with them. If, for instance,we should now have an Association formed before Sunday, we can have some gentlemen who will go down to the country and exert themselves to put a stop to those iftd meetings. Mr. Finn, for instance, will go down to Kilkenny." "And I," shouted a Mr. Marcus Costellue " will, with pleasure, go down to Armagh ;" " and I," said Mr. (looney, cc will go to Wexford." Mr. Steele volunteered on general aces ice, and would go to any county in which he could be most effective ; " and thus," proclaimed Mr. O'Connell, " the country will be tranquillised without costing the government one guinea." I'he learned gentleman concluded by moving that an Association should be formed, by which members should be admitted upon paying five shillings, and that Mt. Dwyer, Secretary pro import, should convene a meeting as soon as 231 should berated in this way. ROYAL NAVAL CHARITABLE SOCIETY. A Quarterly Meeting of the above Society vas held yesterday, at the Thatched House Tavern, St. James's, undtr the patronage of his mo►t Gracious Maj, sty King William the Fourth. PIEeZNT. Captain W. BROWELL, Lientenan --- in the it.tiovernor of Greenwich Hospital, Chair, Lieutenants Broedwatet , Captains Right Hon. Lord Rad stock, C.B. Hon. Wm. Waldegrave, Robert Pettett, H. S. Wilaon, Thomas Burton, C. Champion, It. Stuart, C. Williams, A. Crofton, J. Brernet, W. Monier, When the minutes of they last Taal very interesting circumstances were and the sum of S93L was voted to the relief of Nightingsli, Andrews, Drew, Cole, Thompson, Surgeon Bromley, Pursers Lethbridge, pownall, Hoyper, Willey. were read and confirmed, ie. ,bt before the committee, 1 cues. Thanks being voted to Captain Browell, for his impartial conduct in the chair, the meeting adjourned to the second Monday in April next. The above society, since its establishment, has done infinite good. and deserves every encouragement. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Mama Allan= Tun Mr.—Dublin. 1; Waterford, I ; Ilull.nd, 1 France, 1; Litbis, I. PORTSMOUTH, Jan. In.—Wind N. to N.E Sailed bis blajesi) 'a ship Cordelia, for Bermuda. SOUTHAMPTON, JAL 10.—Arrived the Pace, Eynon, from Lisbon. Famous's, Jas. 9.—Wind N. fresh breezes...—Arrived the Duke of Marlborough packet, from Lbboo--ealled the Ist inst. Pansancr, J*a. 9.—Arrived the Jane, French, from Seville. Off the poet, the Awes, from Quebec; and Brothers, Woodley, from Denia. _ _ &tux, Jam. O.—Arrived the Arno, Scales, from Cadiz ; and the Sprightly, Quinton, from Lisbon. BRUTOL, Jar. 9.—Arrived the Janus and Ellen, —, from M. lap ; Nameless, —, from Cadiz ; Awor., Whitwell, nd Alfred, .....—, from Bilboa• Liwzaroot, Jam. 9.—Arrived the Mary Harriet, &plow. from Savannah. _ Grsaacma, Des. 23.—His Majesty's ship Gli ucester sailed rte Monday for England, towards evening she was becalnie el, and carried by the current on the Pearl Rock, where she remained for about half an hour, when she got at, and is now in dock, to be hove down. It is said that a piece of rock Is in her bottom. The Emulation, Lisby, from Newfoundland, was driven ou rhore, and bilged, at Lisbon, during a violent gale from S.E. to S.W. on the 29th uh. The Elisabeth Gillespie, Carson, from Liverpool, and the Alen, Griffin, from Bristol, also ran on shore, but were got off with damage. The Mercury, Calder, bolted to Charente, ran on abort in Gourock Bay on Saturday. and bilged. The Ann, Lilly, from Newfoundland, bas arrived at Opts to. site r being on shore. and obliged to discharge part of her cargo. The Agenoria, from Cardiff has arrived at Oporto, alter being cn shore. The vessel and cargo much damaged. Tbe Theodosia Matilda, from Bourdeaus, was totally %wetted off Oporto 25th ult. PART OF N:R. HUNT'S SPEECH AT HIS HOUSE IN STA M FORD-STH LET LAST NIGHT. My friends and fellow-countrymen, I must request, if you please, that during the short address I make to you, that ycu will occasion no inter ruption by calls of "silence" and " order." Pray do net call silence and order, and then we shall have both order and silence. I have to thank you, which I do most sincerely, fur the honour ycu have done me in accompanying me into Los. don, and through the Cities of London and Westminster. We have proved one fact, and I wish that fact to go forth to the world, that though the Duke of I Welling. ton, " the bravest of the brave," was afraid to go through the city of London, I was not afraid. (Loud cheering sad laughter.) But, my friends, there was some difference between us and the ercon.sta. ce% --(A laugh.) When the Dukc of Wellington and the King were going into the City, there was about to be spent some ten thousand pounds of the Citizens' Funds to purchase for them and those shout them a grand guttle. (Loud laughter, and cheering.) Nor was that all. I dare say that the paraphernalia, and the rest of the set-out attendant upon the guttle, would have COW the people--(Here there was a violent agitation amongst the crowd assent. bled directly in Iron of Alf. Hunt, the cause of which for a time was not very dear; but at last it appeared that a pickpocket had been detected and secured in punt:hot* his calling. His detention occasioned much mer riment amongst the crowd ; some called out that " he was only a pen. ' sifter •"—o th as asked " what was the &attune of his pension • —then they d eclared that he belonged to the Transport Board, elec.)-L3lr. H. was at length enabled to resume - 7 06 ! you have got a pickpocket, have you ? well, now you have got him keep him—it is your bus Me-s to take care of the little pickpockets ; you do that, and I will take care of the great ones. (Much cheering and laughter.) If I continue to be backed by the people, if supported by the working. classes. my efforts cannot be useless; at all events, in the House I will make el e attempt to du something for the peopk—l will do that which was never done before. However, all depends on the people. )(they support me, my efforts Inuit: be Powerful, if not. ,then, with all my grid wishes and best exertions, all must be powerless. Then I shall only run the risk of lessening my days without achieving any thing tor the people. But it is not for me to boast of what I will do. I have often said what ought to be done, and I will now go and endeavour to ace that it is done. For the last fitteen years I have been con stantly telling them that all the laws passed by them appear e d to ha...e only one object—to screw the nudity cut of the pockets of the poor, in order that it might be conveyed into the coffers of the rich. That, I .repeat, is the character of the Corn Laws. How often have I said, that the Corn Laws took more money horn the poor, and gave mote to the rich, than those rich landloeds • paid bask towards the public service in the shape of taxation. 11. at I have said over and over again of the landed aristocracy, and ti at now repeat es my deliberate opinion. 1 will not go to the House canting and crying, and whining upon the subject, raying. " Let us inquire into the question ! Let us have a Cow rnitle !"-_(A laughs) No, not I--on the contrary, 1w ll declare it to be premed that the Coin Laws arc most atrocious and tyrannical, and, the tefeie, ought to be forthwith repealed. I will tell them that those laws have caused the starvation of thousands mid the ruin of s, and therefore demand their immediate repeal. Then, if their he any cum to second; nty motion, you soil be able tone who are for ycu and who are against you. Ido not know that I shall have one Englishman to se. coed my motion for the repeal—l shall, nevertheless, rely on ore sinned my motion, I mean Daniel O'ConnelL (The boo. member then went on to speak of the silence of London papers regarding the pewee). logs at Preston, and of the remarks made by them on the result of the ,election as well. as on yesterday's contemplated procession, naming the tinnier, Ileraid, Standard, Age, kr..—but, as those were present by proxy, they cannot report the remarks, if so disponi.] One of these papers (continued Mr. Hunt) hoped, now that have got into the House, all the Members will have " clean shoes ;" to quote the language of a friend nest me, I shall be quite as well pleased If they will also have "glean hands." T o conc l u d e , If yolk please, we will We give nine cheers for the brave people of Prestos.—(There were nind good rounds of c l ue " ac , cordingly, which cheers were resound on Mr. Hunt bowing and re. tiring.)