Star. — London, England, 1831-03-21 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGEVCE. ENTRY OF THE AUSTRIANS INTO ITALY. IcATTLE BETWEEN THE AUSTRIANS ♦ND ITALIANS. By the Marquis of Anglesey, Captain Weeks, which nrived at Southampton on Saturday afternoon, from Havre, we have received the following important information : The Austrians have entered Ferrara and Capri after a battle of nine hours, which the Italian patriots sustained with ;neat perseverance. A first bulletin has been published by the Austrian General upon this military advantage. SPAIN. From the Messager des Chuathres, dated baturday. A morning paper says—" Two couriers arrived yesterday from Madrid, one at the office of Foreign Affairs, the other at the hotel of the Spanish Legation. As the despatches which they brought are said to be extremely interesting, we hope that the Government will soon publish the news which they contain. Meantime we think we ought to communi cate to the public some of the reports which are circulated re specting the contents of these despatches, without, however, answering for the correctness or even the probability of them. According to these reports, a popular insurrection bad broken out in the capital with so much violence and suc cess, that Ferdinand had been obliged, with some troops of his guard, to fly towards Lisbon, and that Calomarde, his favourite, had lost his life : that Cadiz and the Isle of Leon were decidedly in favour of the Constitutionalists, and that General Longa was shut up in the castle of Va iencia, where the people bad obliged him to take refuge. Another raper says—' If the royal authorities command in Cadiz and the island of Leon, it is nevertheless true, that the numerous liberals who have evacuated the latter, thereby avoiding being shut up and surrounded, have joined the Constitutionalists who have come from Gibraltar, and the mountaineers who had joined them in spite of the forces dent against them by General Ramirez d'Orozco, and by the Captain General of Granada. Thus, on the 6th of this month, 10,000 men were assembled in the inaccessible mountains of La Ronda, and it is probable that band of in trepid men, devoted to the cause of liberty, has considerably increased in a country where most of the inhabitants are smugglers and well armed. The government feels consider able alarm on this subject. The following is extracted from the Memorial Bordelais. e are still without news respecting the insurrection in the Isle of Leon. We know only that the intention of the in surgents is to re-establish in Spain the moderate monarchy under the government of the young princess, daughter of Ferdinand VII. whose abdication is considered as indis pensable. A National Congress, it is added, would assemble as soon as possible at Madrid to deliberate on a new charter, the constitution of 1812 being now recognized to be incom patible with the manners of Spain. The executive power to be exercised during the minority of the young queen, by a council of regency, the number and choice of which would he determined by the supreme congress. The Gazette de France, dated March 19, says,—" The accounts from Madrid of the 9th announce, that no uneasi ness is felt respecting the troubles at Cadiz and the Island of St. Fernando. All the inhabitants of the coast have imi tated the Royal troops in courage and fidelity. A company of Royal Volunteers of San Lucar de Barameda had taken several prisoners, one of whom was suspected to be Torijos, who has disguised himself as a sailor, and had gone towards the western coast, where his troops had plundered and burnt several hamlets inhabited by fishermen." BELGIUM. Brussels, March Regent yesterday gave an audience to Lord Ponsonby. At ten o'clock there was a Council of Ministers, which sat till noon. It is affirmed that the infantry in garrison at Mona received orders on the 13tb to go to Antwerp, and that its place will be supplied by the other troops from Ghent. Ma nen 17.—1 t is reported that it is intended to call an extraordinary meeting of the Congress. We hear also of diplomatic communications to the Regent. M. Bronson set out this morning for Paris. General Nypels also left Brus sels this morning for Louvaine. A fine battery of six 12- pounders hived here yesterday from Tournay. It is in tended for the frontiers towards Maeetricht. On the 15th some heavy cannon and several powder waggons, left the new fort at Ghent, for the frontiers of Dutch Flanders. POLAND. WARSAW, MARCH 7.—The Warsaw Gazette says— " We have received the news that General Dwernicki has passed the Vistula, and had a rencontre on the 3d at Kurow, beyond Pulawy, with the Russians, whom, it is said, he obliged to retreat, with the loss of four cannon, which he captured. It is added, that he then advanced towards Lublin, and that on the 4th a brisk cannonade was heard in the direction of larkutzow." The main body of the Polish army has returned to the left bank of the Vistula, and is encamped near the village of Poroonek, half a league from the city. The weather is very bad. The Vistula has risen to an extraordinary height, and the roads are impassable, exccpt the causeways ; hence it is probable that the military operations of both parties will ex perience delay for some time to come. In a proclamation addressed to the nation by the Diet, signed by Prince Richael Radzivill and Jalexes Niemcerviez, as President and Secretary of the Senate, and by Wladeslaus Ortronski and Xavier Czarnocki, as Marshal and Secretary of the Chamber of Deputies, the national representatives de clare that they are firmly resolved not to prorogue the Diet, nor to separate from the Government and the army, and, even if an unforeseen event should oblige the Diet to leave the capital for a time, to continue to watch over the fate of their country. MA acts 9.--A ccording to the latest accounts, a consider able Russian corps has entered Plock, but has not been able to pass the Vistula, because the ice is too weak. SPIRIT OF rHE JOURNALS. Trairs.—We have heard of a certain ancient tory, albeit an ex. chancellor who teachei his ' , arils and dependents to slug out lustily the old cuckoo-note of " revolution." According to this venerable, though not over-devout, Jeremiah, we shall have more lords or com loons ere long. The nation is all mad ; Lord Grey is stark mad ; and this raw Chancellor, Brougham was mad always. Away go the bank ruptcy commissioners ! and t he never-ending accumulation of un. Payable fees to masters, and masters' clerks,—and the suits out. hying ten gentrations,—and all the pretty pickings of my Lead him self, and his secretaries, and of unnumbered subalterns, the ga in- iessence of chancery ju risdiction—and the jobbing of church patron age, —away it flies on the wings of the glorious borough system. numb and state—alas ! where are ye ? Profusion abroad, pecu lation at home —heir-looms of 'for, loyalists and placemen—pounced upon and demolished at one fell swoop! There will be nothing worth hying for in the British dominions, if this career of the devil incarnate of reform be not stopped. Why, we hear that the veteran purist has actually sent it round through some worthy frequenter of the Court of Queen Adelaide that Her Majesty's drawing-rooms are already num bered --that the last season of St. James's has almost expired, and that plumes and lappets are about to wave no more. But miserable will be the end of such manoeuvres, as the motives of those who practise them are at once ethnical and mean. The Court of William IV. and Queen Adelaide cannot be made, like former Courts, a field for playing off Iniquitous attempts against the people of England. His Majesty knows how to nail his colours to the mast, and did not hoist the Hoy al to strike it. The spirit of reform has now reached, tnrou g hout flag Great Britain, that heigh t f rom w hi c h it may dis dain the yelpi ng b an .d ogs of the old vicious Government. H ttALD.—Ministers seem to have been ambitious of rivalling their celebrated predecessors, of whom it was said by Sheridan, that they bad bulk a wall to dash their own heads against. It is singular enough rat, on Friday, the day preceding this discussion, the (midranges of um"' clubhouse announced, with oracular certainty, the event which `ubsequently took place ; while the ministers themselves, taking noad t, hinge of the warnings and the wishes of their opponents, guiltily 'wed still to meet their fate with as much philosophy as if they actually courted it. It is the part of wisdom to foresee danger and to avoid it, while it is that of heedless rashness to persist In error till its conse quences arc inevitable. Ministers ought to have known that, in addition to the opponents of this particular measure, their bold and valuable effort on the subject of reform m us t h ave rai sed them up a host of per sonal enemies, who will leave no means untried to prolong their own existence by ending that of their executioners. They ought to have known that the unextinie hate of the boeoughmongers, and of that lively class of t h e i r Representatives who are now doomed to breathe the:air of St. Stephen's for the last thne, would leave no stone unturned to wreak their patriotic vengeance upon those who propose to deprive the country of their invaluable services; and, knowing this, which at least every body else knew, it was their obvious policy—not to say their duty, to have not only pressed no doubtful measure, but to have staved off every discuselon which could, by the most remote possibility, affect the ultimate fate of that one great question, upon which their own fate, and, what is of infinitely gutter consequence, the happiness, the tranquility, and prosperity of the whole country, so essentially depends. Th e error , however, has unfortunately been com mitted ; and it only rema i ns or the Ministers to repair it in the best way they can. That they will resign we cannot persuade ourselves to believe. Such a step, at the present critical moment, would be an act 1 of political insanity and suicide. Porre—From the first moment that we beard the Revolutionary mature described to the House of Common Lord John Russell, we held the opini on t h at i t was a desperate ex pe dient resorted to by the o Ministry,/ in order to overwhelm, by mans popular excitement, the universal stntiment which existed respecting their groom incapacity for the practical affairs of Government. Among many reasons for this opi nion, the strongest was, that we knew the provisions of the proposed bill to be directly opposed to the principles which the Ministers had previously advocat ed , and we therefore could not doubt that they were actually proposing a measure contrary to their owngbellef of what was for the country's welfare, in order that by any means, even per nefas , they might continue to hold the reins of government. Lord John Russell, until now, was the eulogist of close boroughs I At page 261 of his book on the English Constitution, he says—" In this man ner (by means of close boroughs) the greater pert of our distinguished statesmen have entered Parliament, and some of them, erhaps Sir Samuel Romily and Mr. Homer, would never have found - admittance by any other way. The use of such member to the house itself, and to the country, Is incalculable." What, then I are we to abolish those members so incalculably useful to the house and to the country ? But Anther, Lord John Russell's "objection" to any " broad general plan of Reform" was " the danger it would bring with it to every other institution." Has that danger, then,— passed away ? If it had away, his lordship ought to have ahewn in 1 what manner. Lord John Russell has written that to declare the pri vilege of the small boroughs to be forfeited would be a violent mea sure; and adds, that " we ought to have as good, and as strong, and as cogent reasons for disfranchising Old Sarum, as we had for expelling James the Second." That is to say, we should have as cogent a rea son for disfranchising the closest of the close boroughs as we had for revolution • and yet when SIXTY boroughs are to be utterly disfran chised, and roar r-sievsx more deprived of half their privilege, this same Lord John Russell affects indignation that such a measure should be called revolution ! The arguments which Lord John Russell has printed will, we doubt not, prevail against the measure he has proposed ; and as he falls be may feel that an arrow feathered from his own wing has brought him down. Mmes.—Whatever opinion we may have of the policy of the mes. sure on which the house divided on Friday, there can be no doubt as to the disingenuous conduct of the majority. The motives which actuated Sir R. Peel, according to the report furnished by one of his followers (for the regular reporters having been shut out, we can only refer to irregular sources,) would justify a constant and daily oppraition to every Government. Would it not be more manly in the ex- Minister to avow at once that he whams to be in office again, and that he will use all means, direct or indirect, to oust the party now in possession? Does Sir Robert wish to defeat the ministers on a collateral issue, as the lawyers call it, because he fears to be at the head of a/majority destroying the measure which the universal voice of England is daily calling for, and which the King of England is no less anxious to carry than the humblest of his subjects ? The straightfor ward course is the best, and to show that we at least have no wish to employ n. our indirect means, we assert at once, that Ministers will not res • that they will exert every nerve to consummate their noble plan of eforn i ; and that if Parliament rejects it, they will appeal to the nation. ClizowicLE.—The'country may rely on the determination of the present Ministers not to abate one jot of their ezpressed purpose. This brings us to the plain practical view of the matter. How can Sir Robt. Peel and the Duke of Wellington make a Government against the King and against the people? Do they think that—after the interest which the people have everywhere manifested in this question—after the nine hundred and ninety-nine in a thousand have left it no longer doubtful what their inclinations are.—they could manage matters better now than three months ago, when they fled, not from Sir H. Parnell's majority, but from their own convicted incapacity ? The opposition of that day have now the whole country at their backs. What is the use of all their intriguing—all their factious combinations in the House of Commons ? We ask them thls plain question—What would be the result of the Bill being lost ? Revolution. THE LORD CHANCELLOR'S LEVEE. The Lord Chancellor held his second Levee oo Saturday e The tollowing noblemen and gentlemen amongst m a ny o th ers at v ZI The Dukes of Devonshire and Norfolk. Starquisses—Cainden, Bristol, Clanricards. Earls—Carlisle, Spencer, Tankerrille Essex, Denbigh, Balboni, St. Vincent, Northesl, Amherst, Westm orland, Carnarroo, Aberdeen, Clarendon. The Bishops of Chichester, Lichfield, Bristol, Lincoln, Bath and Wells Winchester, Chester, B Lords—Dude, Ellenborough a , n E r rnham. Arden, Maryborough, Kil. ken, W. Poulett, Nugent, Belhaven, J. Stuart, Foley. Mahon, Beres. ford, Hill ; the Speaker of the House of Commons, the Master of the Rolls, the Attorney-General, the Knight of Kerry. Members of Parliament—Sir C. Wetherell, Sir J. Scarlett, Sir R. Heron, Sir A. Grant, Sir R. Wilson, &sr J. Wrottesley, Sir J. Stuart, Sir J. Burke, Sir W. W. Wynn, Sir W. Heathcote, sir T. Ackland, Sir G. Robinson, Sir J. IV. Gordon, Sir J. Macdonald, Sir G. War render, Sir K. Lloyd ; Col. Sibthorp, Col. Chichester, Col. Hughes, Col. Baillie ; C. Dundas, Milbank, Bouverie, Moore, V. Stuart, Lumley, Gorden, J. Smith, Jones, Irving, S. Bourne, Sykes, C. Wynne, Hughes, Kemp, Ponsonby, J. E. Taughan, Duncombe, Wilkes, and Ruthven. The Lord Mayor, Sir J. Barnett, Sir E. Stanley, Sir R. P. Jodrell Sir J. Sewell, 'ir J. Smith, Sir A. Carlisle, Sir C. Robinson. Marten in Chaneery—Dowdeswell, Wingfield, Stephen. King's Counsel—Bell, Agar. Serjearit--Taddy, Heath, Bleteweather, Scrim, Lewes. Messieurs—Linch, Preston, Wilbraham, Bacon, Wray, K. Parker. Sidebottom, Blutray, Barlow, Blunt, &c. MS. HANDEL'S sublimo Oratorio. The Messiah, was well performed on Friday last, at Drury-Lane Theatre. Mrs. WOOD gave " Rejoice greatly" with infinite spirit ' • and HINMAN. in " Comfort ye" and " Thy rebuke," was beyond praise. He was rapturously encored in the difficult uir of ' Thou shalt dash them." He was also loudly hailed at the Theatrical Fund Dinner, and sung The Boy of Biscay with such energy and effect that a universal call for a repetition fol lowed. The Lent Performances will close, after a most successful season, on Friday next, with a Orand Selection, at Drury-Lane Theatre. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Maus A mean Tait; fiti-=.flublintitrViateift;ri, 4; Guern4ey and Jersey, 1; Flanders, 1. DeaL, Mac 19 and 40—Wind N W.—Arrived the transport. No. 8, from the westward, with loss of mitten-mast. Arrived from the River, and remains, the George and Ann, convict ship, for Ports mouth. Arrived the Wm. Fiddle, and the lunk*. from China. POSTSMOUTIII, MMILIII 19 and 20.—Arrived his Majesty's ship Savage, from Plymouth. Sailed the Mary Ann, Jacks, for New South Wales; Lad Nugent, %Visible, far Madras and Beng a l ; Doke of Roxburgh, 8 r0w,,, for Madras and Bengal; and Myths, Sheppard, for Bombay and China. PU3100711. MA RCM 18 and 19.—Wind & and &R.—Arrived the Exmouth, Warren. from London for Van Diemen's Laud. Sailed the Magnet, Watkins, for the Cape of Good Hope; Herefordshire, Hope, for Bombay and China ; Arab, Amity, and Orestes transports, for the Mauritius ; his Majesty's ships Yost and Ganges, for the Medi. neao ; and Argyle, Stevens, for Van Diemen's Land. Feu/oyez, Blanca 18 and 19.—Wind S. to &W.—Sailed the Goldfinch packet, for Rio Janeiro and Buenos Ayres • Magnet packet, for Lisbon ; his Majesty's ship North &ar , for B ermuda; and the Camden packet, for St. Domingo, Jamalea, Mexico, and Havanoab. TOZIAT, Molten 18.—Sailed the Summitry, St even., for Ceylon. 'SUIT, MAME 17.—Arrived the Tom and Mary, Payne, from Honduras, and Swift, Duheaume from Cadiz. GIMUISIT, Mason 17.—Arri ved the Hope, Clieguds, from Mar seilles, and Urania, Le Page, from Mos. LIVISPOOL, MAME 19.—Arrived the Wens, Richardson; Mount Vernon, F e s; and Sappho, Raterbrook, from New Orlean s;s; Wal them, from Savannah ; and Canada. Macy, from New York. The Britannia, Thompson, from Waterford to Liverpool, sunk near the Sherries 12th inst. CM. drowned ; cargo eupeeted to beam& The Paddy Carey, M'Xeseock, from Charleston to Liverpool, was driven on shore In Dingle Bay 18th law. and would be totally wrecked. Crew saved ; cargo expected to be saved. The Clyde, Wakeman, from Greenock to Bristol. caught Sr. at Holyhead all Thursday, and insomnia'. Only a part of the quarter deck, and some crates of glass tinder it. burnt. The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have appointed Lieutenant Stratford, R.N. late Secretary to the Royal Astronomical Society, to be the Superintendent of the " Nautical Almanack." A deputation from Norwich had a conference with Vis count Althorp on Saturday, at the Treasury. SUPPORT OF MINISTERS. SECOND ESSEX COUNMVIIMETING TO SUPPORT MINISTERS. REPORTED EXPRESSLY FOR THE STAR. A second county meeting, larger even than the first, though distinguished by the absence of all the Tory and Church and King Gentry, took place on Saturday, in the ' , i front of the Shire hall, Chelmsford, the High Sheriff, W. Davis, Esq. presiding. At noon the business was opened by Sir Francis Vincent, in an able speech of some length, eho stated the policy, justice, and necessity of the measure of reform proposed, with much clearness of diction. The petition was then read by Mr. Disney, a gentleman residing at Ingatestone, and was seconded by Mr. Sheen, a respect able dissenter of Hatfield. Mr. Western, the Whig Mem ber for the county, addressed the meeting in a very powerful speech, in which he described with much feeling the length of the struggle, and brought to our recollection the many a hard battle for reform, religious liberty and catholic eman cipation, which he had fought with such consistency for nearly 4') years in parliament ; and which great objects were now almost achieved by the united efforts of all liberal men. Mr. Wellesley followed, and after making some remarks on the absence of the Whig Member at the last county meet ing, at which he (Mr. Wellesley) was present, he assured his friends of his cordial support of parliamentary reform. Mr. Lennard, M.P. for Maldon, addressed the meeting at some length in able terms, and made some remarks on the abuse of the foolish word " aristocracy," with which we were much pleased ; while he drew an accurate picture of the constitutional distinction of the three estates of King, Lords and Commons. Mr. Western, in reply to Mr. Long Wellesley, made an able, because truly just, defence of his conduct in being absent at the last meeting, by saying that he could not then know what the plan of Ministers would be, but now knowing it, was eager to support it. Mr. Tower made some observations in support of reform, which from the noise of the crowd escaped us. Dr. Forster addressed the meeting with much energy, and proclaimed himself an uncompromising advocate for reform, although he was no Whig, but a Liberal, which he represented as being a less equivocal and aristocratic form of whiggery, and he took this occasion to observe, that as his head was very warm within, and the air very cold without, he hoped the Sheriff, seeing that he could not disguise an honest Poll with a Whig, would allow him to put on his hat e addressing the crowd. He then said he gave the peti tion his cordial support ; but must be allowed, in doing so, to say that he did not pledge himself to agree with all the minutiae of the 13111, some of whose clauses were not suffi ciently liberal ; and he also objected to the subdivision of counties into small shires, which he regarded as likely to contract local and aristocratic interests, and to limit and dis organize the constituency of counties, and to abolish that spirit of general emulation, which led to the choice of ex cellence; but he said he should make no factious opposition, and trusted to the amending power of the committee, and to the wisdom of the assembled council of Parliament ; and he ended by hoping that this efficient Reform would lead to a sweeping retrenchment, and to the abolition of those as sessed taxes which pressed so hard on the industrious classes. —He then assured the meeting, that in giving way to Mr. Harvey, M.P. for Colchester, he merely made his own grape shot give way to the heavy artillery of his learned friend, who would wind up the battle against corruption, by direct ing his great cannon against boroughmongers.—Mr. Har vey rose, and in an able speech gave an outline of his poli tical creed; and professed himself friendly to reform, both in Church and State. He said his hon. friend Dr. Forster deserved a prize for having thrown a new light on the Re form question. Thanks were now voted to the Sheriff, and the Meeting dissolved.—We understood that the Sheriff did not sign the petition. Col. Tyrell, the Tory M.P. was pre vented by business, we understand, from attending the Meeting ; otherwise he would have been present. It is re markable, that for once in Essex, a great County Meeting has been held, attended by all liberal men of every diversi fied party, and has ended in complete unanimity. To the surprise of many, an illustrious Duke, who for many years has been attached to, and often voted with, what is called the old Whig party, upon the question of re form, is said to have given his adhesion to the ex-Ministers. The Duke of Sussex has openly declared himself the friend of Earl Grey's measure.—Court Journal. A letter from Uttoxeter, of the 17th says—" We are to have a county meeting in the next week in favour of reform, and there is already a powerful aristocratic influence at the head of the requisition to the Sheriff. It consists of the Marquisscs of Stafford and Cleveland, Lords Shrewsbury, Anson, Gower, Sandon, Uxbridge, St. Vincent, Stafford (Jerningham), with a host of baronets and esquires. No thing can be more popular than the measure is in this part of the country. In the town of Bilston, consisting of 16,000 inhabitants, not a dissentient voice has been heard. A county meeting for Derbyshire, on the same subj..ct, takes place on Monday." The Liverpool Tories have got up a petition, praying for a modification of the Reform Bill. They profess themselves favourable " under existing circumstances, to a moderate and equitable reform ;" but they are opposed to Lord John Rus sell's bill, fearing that it may " ultimately be the cause of greater evils than it proposes to remedy." The troth is, that the promoters of this petition are hostile to, all reform, and that they merely pretend to desire a modification of the bill for the purpose of assisting to de feat that great measure of justice. They stand, however, in a fearful minority among their fellow-townsmen : their petition, which was agreed to at a hole-and-corner meeting, not having received above 300 signatures in u day and a half! The petition recently sent from Liverpool in favour of the ministerial plan of reform received, in two days, above 12,000 signatures. So much for the opposition of the ultra-Tories of Liverpool to reform. But they have not confined their exertions to one petition alone. The corporation also held a meeting on Saturday, at which it was resolved, by the majority of the Common Council present, who professed themselves friendly to •' a moderate and equitable reform," like the hole-and corner petitioners, to petition against the clauses in the bill which they feared would, by affecting corporate rights, pre vent them from obtaining jurors to serve on juries at quarter sessions. Thus the corporation of Liverpool, which is com posed for the most part of ultra-Tories, is friendly to re form, and merely require such a modification of the bill as shall not interfere with the course of justice, burge►ses alone being eligible to serve on juries in that borough. They do not, however, wish for any reform ; and they, like the other ultras, hope to contribute to defeat the bill, by stating their selfish objections to its enactments. They have a willing tool in Gen. Gascoyne, one of the representatives of the borough, who, from having been a violent and bigotted Tory, pretends to have become a moderate reformer.— Times. The East India Company's ships Dunira and William Fairlie arrived off Portland on the 18th instant, they left China on the 18th of November, and St. Helena on the 2d of February. The Macqueen, Edinburgh, and Berwick shire, were to be despatched from China on the 25th of November. Colonel Tremenbeere, Aide-de-Camp to his Majesty, has been appointed Colonel Commandant of the Chatham Divi sion of Royal Marines, vice Col. Savage, appointed Deputy Adjutant-General. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS, 111Akcal 19. PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. - Petitions were presented in rave= of Rebell' and in favour of bard John Russell's bill, by Mr. Alderman Wood, from the Wards of Corns bill, Cripplegate Wi:hout, Aldgitte, aid Aldersgate ; by Colonel Aber. c.omby. front Alloa ; by Sir George Robinson, front Northampton ; by 31r. Buck, from Exeter; by General Palmer, tour petitions hum the parishes in Bath; by Sir Al. Shaw Stewart, (ruin Greer.ock ; l.y Mr. Patrick S cwart, from the town of Lancaster; aAI by Mr. Halt. trout Stayley-bridge. Lancashire. Sir W. RAE took n.e opportunity of slating, that by the new till at least thirty-nine boroughs in Scotland would be disfranchised. 31r. HUNT presented a petition from Callan, Kilkenny, against the present title system. The Honourable Gentlemen also present ti pe titionsfont the weavers of Padiham, Lancashire, and front lit:st,ing. Cornwall, in favour of ballot and short Parliaments. The 11011. , ttl able Member also presented petitions from lililberon, Lancashire. for the repeal of the duty on newspapers; from aplace in Carmarthen, against the tithes ; from the working butchers of Taunton, against the t tit on horses; and also from several societies, for the repeal of the tax wa newspapers. TRUCK SYhTEN. Mr. HUNT presented a petition from certain labourer who had been in the employment of sir. Cobbett, complaining of haer:.g been paid in truck. Tne Hon. Member took the opportunity of mating, that what he had raid of a man, by the name of Riley, having beta confined to a c 4.11 in York gaol, and a brother reformer having been re. moved Into the cell after Me had cut his throat, and before the blood wan dry, the which statement had been contradicted by Sir E. B. &ugden— the Hon. i►lcmb.•r took that opportunity of mating, that he had seen the relations of Riley, who were respectable tradesmen In London, and they ante ready to prove his statement at the bar of the House.—Petition hid on the table. Dlr O'CCrSiRE LL defended Mr. Colthett, and observed, that Irish labourers would reckon a man who fed them with meat, bread and cheese, a great beneractor. SEER LICCWCES. Mr. EVANS presented a petition from certaiu per.ons being li censed to sell beer unda the new act, against the magistrates of Lei cester, who had refused to allow them to continue their tied' milieuu they took out their freedom. They complained of the magistrates exercising a species of espionage over them. The Hon. Member stated that be had nap the opinion of the Attotney-General on the subject, who had stated that these people could not legally be compelled to take out their fre:dom. REFORM. Lord EBRINOTON presented &petition from the county of Devon, agreed to unanimously at a meeting of the county called by the High Sheriff, In favour of the ministerial plan of reform ; also a petition to the same effect from 2,000 owners and occupiers of land in the south of Devon ; and also petitions to the same effect from Dartmouth, Tavistock, Topsham, and about thirteen other plans in the county of Devon ; and slab a petition to the same effect front Liskeard, in Corn. wall; also a petition from the shipowners at Bideford, against the ad ditional duties on Canada timber. Sir It. INGLIS presented a petition from a place in Galway, pray ing for the extension of the Galway franchise. He also moved for a return of the expenses of Blectlon Committees ; alto of the expenses of building gaols in England and AVales, since the year 1800, watch were ordered. Col. SIBTHORPE presented a petition in favour of the 31 iniste. rial plan of Reform from the city of Lincoln ; also a petition to the sane effect from the Bail and Close of Lincoln. Alf. HUME took the occasion of the presentation of these lavt peti tions to remark that, although not much in the habit of defending ministers, he felt himself called upon to say that the ministers had last night been extremely ill used. Their object was a diminution of taxation, and yet they had met with the most factious opposition that he had ever witnessed. But they hail to carry on the government wall ma terials formed by the preceding Ministers, and those who held what were called the Treasury boroughs voted against them. The public ought to take notice of this, for in additionto the ninety-nine arguments in favour of reform, this was the hund re dth , and perhaps one of the strongest. Mr. O'CONNELL took the same view of the question of Reform, and observed, that on that point the voice of the whole empire was de cidedly with Ministers and yet they had been out vot e d l as t n i g h t by the aid of those who had not the race to retire when they could not agree with their principles, as 'WAS the custom with the nominees of pri vate proprietors. Ale. HUME presented sixty-nine petitions in favour of Reform, from Rutherglen, Kintore, from a place in Sussex, from St. Dunstan's Step ney, Edmonton, Fulham, from the Tower Hamlets, from Hawick, in Scotland ; the five latter in favour of the Ministerial plan—and from a variety of other places. Mr. O'CONNELL, adverting to what hid fallen from Mr. G. Dawson, denied that he was, or ever had been, an advocate for annual parliaments—he was an advocate for triennial parliaments, as estab lished at the revolution, which the right hots. gentleman had so often called " glotious," and to the principles established at which he ought to be the last to object. lie (31r. O'Connell) was also a friend to uni. venal suffrage ; but upon that point he gave way to the pending mea sure of reform, because he thought that it was calculated to produce the same ends—good government and cheap institutions. He had been also charged by the right hon. gentleman with being an enemy to the protestant church, and wishing for its overthrow; but he denied this accusation also. He respected the hierarchy of the church of England, as a faint image of that of his own church, and he was only opposed to its enormous temporalities and overgrown wealth. Mr. DAWSON begged the House to compare the statements of the Hon. Member for Waterford in the House of Commons with the state. menu he had repeatedly thundered against the Protestant Church and Parliament out of it. He was surprised that not only the Hon. Member for Waterford, but his friends, the Members for Preston and Maidk sex, should give up their plans of Reform for the milk-atul-water Wee now before the House. Sir J NEWPORT called the Right Ilon. Gentleman to order, on the ground that he was imputing to the Hon. Member for Waiertord that that lion. Member had falsely stated his opinions Mr. O. DAWSON did not impute any thing like falsehood to the Hon. Member for Waterford. He (Nit. 0. Dawton) had a right to en. tertain his own opinions as to the motives of that Hon. Gentleman. Mr.W EBB presented a petition with the same ;stayer from 'lea kes. bury, and it was supported by Mr. Philpotis. ;'Mr. BERNAL presented a petition from the mayor and corporation of Rochester, praying that the reform bill might not be passed into a law. The boo. gentleman observed, that be had explained to the mayor and corporation, that notwithstanding this expression of their opinion, he should feel himself bound, with ail due respect, to vote in savour of the measure. (Hear.) The LORD ADVOCATE presented 40 petitiors from different parts of Scotland, in favour of the reform b.ll. One-third of them came nom corporations which at present enjoyed a monopoly, and this proved the desire entertained by them of sacrificing their exclu►ive rights for the general weal of the country. Mr. GROSVENOR presented a petition from the inhabitants of Chester, which was the oldest town lu the kingdom. Ills colleague and himself had pointed out to the classes of the Corporation the 'filets that this bill would produce on their rights and privileges ; but that made no difference in their sentiments, for after a full and mature consi. devotion of the subject, they gave this petition their unanimous sup. port—(Hear.) Sir T. FREMANTLE said he had been astonished at finding that Buckingham was placed in the list a boroughs to be disfranchised. since he found in the population returns that the strict limits of the town con. tanned 2,774 inhabitants, and the whole parish and Lorough 3,4110 in. habitants. '.7he noble lord, with whom he bad had an interview, ad. witted that the case was a strong one; and he wished that admission to be made public, as it would give great satisfaction to the inhabitants of Buckingham. Mr. STANLEY had seen the Noble Lortl this morning, and totk that opportunity of stating that the caw of this particular borough was under consideration. Sir J. BURKE presented a petition fromßallinakill, in the county of Galway, complaining of distress ; another front the Chamber of Com merce of Galway, against the lowering or the duty on batilla ; and a third from a parish in the same county, fur better distribution of the funds for the education or the people. He also presented a petition from the members of the bar, hinchownent ' anti merchants of Galway, in favour of the measure of Parliwinentaryßeform, for which he felt most grateful to his Disjetiry's Ministers, and to which he should give his must cordial support. Mr. KENNEDI presented several petitions from the Corporation of Ayr, the Trades' House of Glasgow, the Goldsmiths of Relit:burgh, and various other corporations and boroughs, in favour or the measure of parliam.otary reform now introduced into that house...a measure to which ho should give his most cordial support. Mr. WA lIBUItTON presented a petition from Stockport, praying to be allowed to return two Meillbefll ; but they observed that they would not raise any opposition to the mea su r e , t h at Alinisten bad done it foe the best, and deserved tire rot:Wenn and support of the people. The honourable member also presented a petition fr‘m the Chamber of Commerce in Greenock, against the tat on steam boats. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL peossond a petition for re. form from 390 barristers. Be also presented a similar petition from Bishop's Auckland.' Adjourned at a (garter past Sta. _ The naval expedition to the Schalk, which we announced en Saturday, is with the perfect miocurrence of the French Government and the rest of our Allies : so that if the present Ministry in France keep their places, peace will not be broken. It cannot, however be concealed, that the new cabinet of Louis Philip is not more popular than the last, but an event which was expected to take place SaturdLy will either " make or mar them." Times. I