Star. — London, England, 1831-04-06 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRANCE. In the Chamber of Deputies on Saturday, M. Casimir Perier rose to make a communication from government.— " Gentlemen," said he, " the King's ministers have not concealed from you any thing of the state of things which their predecessors had bequeathed to them. The first and most pressing claim upon our attention now, is the maintenance of public order. A preventive system in that regard is permissible, and offers at once the best and cheapest guarantee for good effects. We count upon the de votion of the Chhmber for the adoption of a project of law. We require a credit of 1,500,000 francs for secret expenses. This demand was originally fixed at 1,400,000 francs. It was successively raised to 2,000,000 and to 1,500,000, but this sum was found insufficient, and in August last we were obliged to ask 500,000 francs more. It is proposed to esta blish Commissaries-General of Police in certain stations, in order to carry the repressive measures into effect. We there fore ask your confidence. You must look to the results for the true exposition of our motives." The Minister then pro posed a project of law—" That there be opened at the Mi nistry of the Secretary of State for the Departments an ex traordinary credit of 1,500,000 francs, in order to make good the secret expenses of the year 1831, and for other urgent and unforeseen purposes."—Ordered. The Chamber then proceeded to the secret scrutiny upon the totality of the law of riots. M. de Corcelles —I desire to know why ministers have not brought down the Electoral Law. M. d'Argout —lt is in process. It was only two days ago that the law passed the Peers, and it will reach here in due time. M. Dupont (de I'Eure) We want to know, if we can, what it is we are about ? M. de Podenas—l think the Chamber ought to see the Electoral Law before it votes a single franc by way of credit to the Ministers. The Chamber, however, proceeded to the scrutiny. The result was— For Ministers . Against them .. Majority Mr Ministers 178 The bill was then passed, as was also the hill respecting offences of the press, without any alteration in the amend ments of the Peers. M. Dumeylet, as the Chamber was rising, moved that all discussion upon the supplies to the Crown be postponed till the Chamber had voted the Electoral Law. (Cries of No, no.) The motion was not even se conded, and the Chamber adjourned at a quarter to six. We are positively assured that General Bacbeler has tendered his resignation to the Minister of War, " wish ing to return to the half-pay he enjoyed in August last." —General Semele has likewise declared that he would sooner quit the service than withdraw his signature from the Act of Association. General Subervich is said to have made a similar declaration A credit of 1,500,000 francs was called for on Saturday, by the President of the Council, to enable Government to extend the sys tem of police, in the repression of insubordination, parti cularly in the western departments. We approve of the Ministers' anxiety to be prepared to put down any demon strations which might become dangerous, if they were not viorously and quickly repressed ; but we regret that it should select the moment when the situation of La Vendee is said to be alarming, to deprive itself of the services of Ge neral Lamarque, who had acquired such high reputation by his firmness and the prudence of his conduct in that country. —Gazette. SPAIN. Extract of a letter, dated Madrid, March 24:--" The discoveries of the conspiracy are increasing. The police have entered the house of an officer of engineers, of the name of Marco Artur, who was a director of the plot. At the moment of their entrance he was occupied in writing to Mina ; and a number of other persons were also engaged in similar correspondence with various parts of the Peninsula. The officer made his escape by a back window, and has not yet been taken. In the house were found a large number of tricoloured cockades, with inscriptions of Viva la Francis'— ` Viva la Libertad'—and Viva la Constitucion,' such as have been strewed about Madrid lately, and likewise tri coloured flags. The correspondence was seized, and im plicates a number of French people, and proves that large sums cf money have been distributed to the troops. The revolution was to have broken out in Madrid on the 19th instant." Mr. Burgos is preparing to set out for Paris ; he is sup posed to have unlimited powers to arrange the affair of the debt of the Cortes, as well as to contract fresh loans for our government. It is affirmed that our Minister of Finance has given orders to M. Aguado to pay in advance to the French treasury the 2,000,000 which will be due on the let of July next, as interest of the 80,000,000. This would seem to demonstrate that our coffers are not empty, whatever may be said ; or perhaps it is only a bait, to tempt monied men to take part in the new loan of which we have spoken above The troops of the Isle of Leon, whose submission to His Majesty's clemency is announced by the Gazette, are a part of the brigade of artillery, and some single detachments, which were not openly implicated. They were set by the chiefs of the insurrection to guard some posts, for the pur pose of masking the retreat, which was effected by 2,000 men, with some field-pieces. This resolution, with that of ahandonding the Isla, was taken when it was known that the attempt on Cadiz, which was depended on, had failed ; and afterwards, not to be compelled to sustain a blockade by su perior forces, which General Quesada was collecting from all sides. The Official Gazette contains no despatch from the civil or military authorities of Andalusia ; its columns are filled with accounts of the death of 17 Constitutionalists, who were shot at Estepona. Among those victims are some distin guished persons, such as Don Paul Mae, Don Emmanuel Ribero, Don Emmanuel Garcia Agundes, Don Vincente Cegido, and Don Thomas Benites. General Quesada, who heretofore had never known what mercy was, has refused to execute the last act of cruelty that was dictated to him by his master. He had obtained, by a promise of pardon, the sub mission of 400 marines who had joined the Constitutionalists; bat Ferdinand, in his inexhaustible clemency, had decided that every tenth man of them (making in all 40) should be put to death. The General suspended the execution, and sent a respectful representation to the King, to beg he would accept his resignation in case his Majesty should feel of fended at his disobedience. ITALY. It is affirmed that news has been received at Paris of the arrival of a division of the army of General Frimont at Florence, on its march to Rome. Thus the Austrians occupy not only the Romagna, but also Tuscany, and are on their march to the capital of the Christian world. We shall learn how all this is to be reconciled with the principle of non-intervention. It seems pretty certain that the amendments made by the Chamber of Peers on the elec toral law will not be adopted by the Chamber of Deputies. It is said that the majority declares beforehand against the ithanges made in the law. We shall be happy if this hope should be realized. MODENA, MARCH 25.--The Archduke would not have the money in the exchequer of this city taken away, in or der that the inhabitants might not be burdened with the ex traordinary contributiuns by the revolutionists. On the ap proach of the Austrians, those liberal regenerators carried off the treasure, which they divided among themselves, but not without altercations and discontent in the soldiets, with their chiefs, aho adjudged five-sixths of it to themselves.— The tyrannical laws, and the pillage of all kinds, had so ex asperated the Modenese, that an insurrection against the re volutionists would infallibly have broken out. A letterwritten from San Fermiano, near Bologna, dated March 22, an nounces that the population of all the surrounding country had received the Austrians with testimonies of entire satis faction. Like the insurgents of Modena and Parma, those of Bologna laid under contribution all the churches and the principal farmers that were in their way. It is believed that they are going to retreat into the Apennines, where the inha bitants will carry on a war of extermination against them. Great apprehensions are felt for Cardinal Benvenuti, Bishop of Osimo, whom they have carried off a prisoner, and whose health was already impaired by the ill-treatment he had re ceived. Public prayers are put up in Upper Italy for the life and speedy delivery of this prelate. THE WEYMOUTH CASE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. " Pembroke House, April 5. " SIR S I observe in the Times of this morning a state ment of certain transactions respecting elections for the bo rough of Weymouth, which appear to have been disclosed in a Court of Justice in Scotland, and my name is men tioned in the following paragraph, which is represented to be a proposition made by Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon to Mr. Sugden Lieut.- Colonel Gordon offers to return Mr. Sugden free of expense, for Weymouth, so long as he may require a seat, Mr. Sugden allow ing Colontl Gordon to sell two of the three remaining seats. He, also, with Lords Grantham and Goderich, will use his beat endeavours to obtain a Peerage for Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon. Mr. Weyland to be excluded from the borough.' " I feel it to be my duty to state, in this public manner, that I had no concern in, and no knowledge, direct or indirect, of any part of this transaction, either before or subsequent to its occurrence ; that I never knew or even suspected, that Colonel Gordon was desirous of being created a Peer; and that the use of my name in connection with so cor rupt a proceeding was utterly unwarranted by any thing which at any time I either said, did, contemplated, or heard cd.—l remain, sir, your obedient humble servant, " OODERICH." SPJRIT OF THE JOURNALS. Trwts.--Well ! Are the public now satisfied as to the pure, and patriodc, and disinterested motives of certain Members of Parliament, calling themselves representatives of the people of England, for oppos. hag Parliamentary Reform? Have they read the Weymouth cue 7—we ask them—the Weymouth case, copied into yesterday's Times, front the columns of the Caledonian Mercury ? • Do the public believe, that the representation of IVeymoutlt was made the subject of bargain and pale by Col. Gordon, of Cluny, with a learned personage who had been Sachet... General to the King of England, viz.—Sir K Sugden ? Do the public believe, on the authority of the statements alluded to, that Sir Edward Sugden, late Solicitor. General to his Majesty, stipulated that he should be returned on Colonel Gordon's interest for Weymouth, he allowing (a King's Counsel and late Solicitor General, allowing) Col. Gordon " to sell two of the three remaining seats !" and this the sub. ject of a distinct and formal agreement between the said parties--one of them, SirlFAlward Sugden ? We repeat th e ques ti on , 1)o the people of England believe all this ? Sell—what ? a seat in Parliament ! . the privilege of ruling over the English nation,— of raising money from the pockets of the Nation ; — of exercising every species of power, over a people,—every indi vidual of whom might he prosecuted as a libeller, and would be so, at the instance of one at least of the culprits themselves, for daring to allege on any other than official authority, that such corrupt and monstrous prac tices existed ! Sir Charles Wetherell roared loudly against the pre. sumption of any man, requiring that the members for close boroughs should retire from the discussion of the reform question, as not being disinterested parties. Now let us suppose for one moment, that Sir Charles Wetherell had been the individual agreeing to make the borough of 'Weymouth a subject of bargain and sale with Colonel Gordon,—not referring, or pretending to refer, to the voters for that borough, acknow ledged even by the wretched borough constitution as now existing, but merely bargaining with a patron. " You shall give one seat to me, and on that condition you may sell two seats to any one that suits your fancy." Supposing Sir Charles Wetherell to have been drc person pointed at, can it be imagined, that with all that learned gentleman's confidence in himself, and apparent contempt for some of those who heard him, he would have ventured to complain of any man who exhorted him to leave the house ? It is true that the documents relating to the alleged conduct of Sir Edward Sugden form but a collateral, or indeed irrelevant part of the Scotch law papers, , from which they have been extracted ; but they constitute the only part with which the public are concerned. Although ins. material to the issue as between Gordon and Fraser ' they are of vital importance in " John Bull versus Sugden," and as il lustrative of the true intent and purpose with which the latter gentleman got up to make a long defence of the borough system—or more properly, a fierce attack on the principles and provisions of the reform bill. We hold the extract from the Caledonian Mercury to be altogether invaluable. Thus are the people treated,—and yet they tell us that the "system works well." What system ? That, by virtue of which the legal right of taxing and coercing us, is exercised by men to whom we, the people, have nev er th oug h t o f delegating that, or any other trust. The system does, indeed, "work well" for those who " work ill." It gives great influence, and official honours, and large incomes, to a band of worthless and rapacious adventurers, carrying on a perpe. tual piracy against the nation,—men wh o h ave so long comineered over the finances, resources, and liberties of the realm, that they uncon. sciously argue as if England were theirs by right of conquest. After such a series of Parliamentary and other discussions on this great subject, we admit that nothing new can be said,— Oa vo invention can add another argument, and no power of language or of linty can enforce (much less can it invalidate) those with which the country has int.g since been fa. miller. Nor would it be now a lit season fur controversy, even were matetials less rare. 'When the victory is all but won, the soldier will not trouble himself much about the merits of the contest—he pants only to secure and to enjoy it. • It is but justice to ourselves to state, that the exposure of the Weymouth case, in London, was taken by the Times from the columns of the STA it. It appeared in the Cale donian Mercury of Thursday, the 31st ult. from which paper we abridged the statement for the STAR of Monday, which abridgment, verbatim et literatim, was copied into the Times of yesterday, and has given rise to the present im portant discussion. HESALD.—The Duke of Wellington's avowed hostility to Parlia mentary Reform, in any shape or in any degree, must be a source of mortifying reflection to thousands, who, exulting in the splendour of his military career, cannot but grieve to see that splendour tarnished by his Grace's evident want of tact and generalship as a Minister. For, sup posing the Duke sincere, as no doubt he is, in his hostility to all reform, and in his alarms as to its danger, who, we may ask, had so prominent a hand in accelerating the crisis he so much deprecates as his Grace himself, by his ill-judged and untimely avowal of that hostility at the commencement of the present Session of Parliament 1 And who, next • to the Duke himself, have so much accelerated the arrival of the great object of all their present groundless fears and alarms as the other leaden of the saute party, who have, from time to time, done all in their power to prevent the smallest approach to any attempt at healing, by degrees, those wounds in the Constitution which now call for a so much larger and more ample remedy? The Duke of ‘Vellington, on this one subject, at least, forms a striking Instance of the rare and extraordinary fact, that it is possible for a man, endowed with strong powers of genius in one particular de partment, to pass through the scenes of a long and active life without acquiring that knowledge of mankind, and of the real state of affairs, which one would think must be almost forced upon him. We do not argue the matter in this point of view so much with re ference to any vast importance which we attach to the Duke of Wel lingtoo's opinion upon the subject, u from a feeling of regret at seeing a public man, who stands so prominent and eminent in the history of the age, risking his high character in one department by lowering it in another. We should rejoice to see the Duke of Welling ton in advance, not in arrest, of the age. We should wish to see him one of the first subjects of a free country—the friend, not the enemy, of free institutions. But, if this cannot be so, we would warn the most credulous among our countrymen to attach no weight to the Duke's alarms on the subject of Parliamentary reform, seeing how very lately his Grace's similar alarms on that of the Catholic emancipation have been completely falsified, and have vanished into air. POST—Braggarts generally prove to be cowards in their heart.— The falsest boasts are ever the loudest. In applying these remarks to the conduct of his Majesty's ministers, it would seem vety safe to con clude that they endute at the present moment the painful consdousness of expiring power—that they know their Royal Master to be really averse to the revolution upon which they have pledged their political existence—and that they have not even that unbounded confidence In popular support which they so elaborately affect. We have been led to these reflections by the proceedings at a dinner given the day before (yesterday by that eminently sagadous person the Lord Mayor of the City of London, for the purpose appa rently of gratifying his Majesty's Ministers by providing for them a fitting audience, to bear the eternal repetition of their aseuvanes that they enjoy the full confidence, and their revolutionary project the unqualified favour of the King. We have at this city dinner, to which no doubt they repaired foe the express purpose, first, the Duke of Sus sex, then Lord Brougham, then Earl Grey, and last of all, Lord J. Russell; protesting, as If the contest had been who should protest the hardest, that in respect to the reform bill the King of Eng. land is entirely of their way of thinking. Surely they must have a very large fund of credulity who can believe any thing which is protested with so much industry and emphasis. The King cannot be fettered by any pledge to promote the success of any particular measure until the period arrives for its receiving the Royal Assent. Nor will the combined assertions of the Duke of Sussex, Lord Brougham, Earl Grey, and Lord John Russell suffice, in the estimation of a loyal and reflecting people, to divest the Sovereign of this valuable immunity, of this Royal privilege, the value of which the personages above mentioned so manifestly dread. As to the unanimous concurrence of the nation, of which the revolu tionists make their secondary boast, we have fortunately the means of appreciating it, and the testimony upon which it rests. That the com. pany at the Lord Mayor's dinner were unanimous, we have no doubt; but we shall be greatly mistaken if Earl Grey and his colleagues do not speedily learn, to their mortification and regret, that neither the selected guests of Don Key, nor the rabble whose vociferation, determine the re sult of public meetings, constitute any adequate specimen of the British nation. CHIIOIIICLI.--In almost ro r o m society it is assumed as a matter of course that the Reform p by Ministers must become law, and to this event most anti-reformers, from their subdued tone of late, seem to be fully resigned. The stories of Court intrigues produce but little impression on the public, because it is known that no men in their senses would ever think of running counter to the feeling which per vades the whole British Nation. Whatever the inclinations of people about Court may be, even if we had not the strongest assurances of his Majesty's unshaken determination to support his present Mi nisters, we might be sure that he has too much good sense to expose the country to the dangers which would necessarily result from a disappointment of their well.founded expectations. The people know, too, that the Boroughmon are wi-bout support—that no Ministry can be formed on the priaeipie of opposition to Reform, or, what is the same thing, • " bit and bit Reform. The time has passed When a Reform, which should leave the power of the boronghmongers tritest, would be accepted. Nothing less than the total annihilation of hmongering will now satisfy them. The instinct of the people of England leads them to embrace, and cordially to support, the course which promises to preserve order and tranquillity. Having ones expressed themselves in favour of reform, they will take care by their unanimity to extin guish in the evil-disposed all hope of being able to disturb tran quillity. The public man who sees this must be insane to think of forming a government of which the object is to baulk the people.— Many think that a dissolution will yet be necessary. We confess we do not. The specimens of public spirit at the elections which have lately taken place, must satisfy the most factious that a dissolution would soon set matters right, and entail on them a fruitless expense. NORTHAMPTON. VERY IMPORTANT COUNTY MEETING. We stated in our last number that a requisition to the High Sheriff had been signed, calling upon him to convene a meeting of the free. holders and inhabitants of this county, to consider the propriety of pe titioning for a reform in parliament. Intimation had some time ago been given to the Sheriff that such a requisition was in course of signa ture; and ten days ago, at least, the Under Sheriff wu also informed of it. On Thursday last it was delivered to the latter gentleman, bearing the signatures of the Duke of Grafton, the Earls Spencer, Winchilsea, and Pomfret; Lords Sondes and Milton; Sir William Wake and Sir George Robinson, Baronets ; the Honourable' Dundas and Pery ; Edw. Bouverie and Chas. Hill, Esqrs ; the Messrs. Whit. worth, Percival., Peaches. Heygates, Gotches—and upwards of seventy noblemen and gentlemen of the first character and importance in the county. The subject for the consideration of the proposed meeting is of vital consequence to the best interests of the country, affecting u it does the highest and most important privileges of the people of England. To a requisition so signed, and after such notice given of its intended presentation, will it be believed that day after day has passed away, and as yet no time is fixed for the holding of the meeting ! It is said the sheriff is sojourning in Devonshire, at a distance of two hundred miles. Is that a reason why the business of the county is to stand still ? We should have supposed, if the youth and inexperience of the sheriff had inclined him, who stands In the character of the representative of his Majesty, to so fax forget his duty, that the shrewd sagacity and acuteness for business of Mr. Under-Sheriff Burton would otherwise have counselled the sheriff, and instilled into his mind that it became incumbent upon him to take care not to neglect his public duty by residing at such a distance as to cause a delay in the business of the county. So stands the matter at present ; but we will assure our readers that the moment the Sheriff issues his fiat for holding a County Meet ing, means will be taken to inform the public of it ; and if he does not fix the time in a day or two, one will be called without kis sanction or authority, when we trust that the inhabitants of this great and important county will not be backward in testifying their willingness to support his Majesty and his Government in the glorious work of Reform Northampton Fru Press. THE THEATRES. COVZINT•GAIDXX.—An opera in three acts, founded on the well known story of " &mita and A:or, or the Beauty and the Beast," with music composed by Sophr, was last night brought out at this thea tre, under the reversed tide of Agar and Zentira. Miss Inverarity ap petted as Zentera, and did ample justice to the pan. Her vocal powers arc not called here as greatly into requisition as in Cinderella, though perhaps more work falls upon her hands throughout the performance ; but she sang with admirable spirit, and played with greater confidence than in her former paw. As A.or, Mr. Wilson had but little to do. He should wear a mask, in keeping with his external appearance. H's uncovered face does not convey the idea of that hideousness which is supposed to belong to the metamorphosed Prince. The two !tli s Cawse appeared as Faliosa and Labia, and sang with gond effect in several trios, quartets, and quintets. The chief weight of the per ' romance, however, devolved on Miss Inveratity. A great deal of new scenery of the most splendid description is exhibited throughout the opera, and crowds of attendants of both sexes, spirits, and figurants of all characters, in rich or grotesque dresses, add considerably to the effect of it as a spectacle. The incidents of the story are supposed to have occurred in Persia; but it would be difficult to say what other parts of the globe have supplied the models of the dresses prepared for the dra matis' personal who were to figure in this adaptation. The opera was exceedingly well received by a very crowded audience. Mivrox-sTalzT 9 FORE-STREET.—This theatre, taken as a m a t. ter of speculation by Mr. Chapman, one of the late proprietors of the theatre In Tottenhaw.street, opened on Monday with a variety of per. formances, which were repeated last evening. "Momenta of Mystery; or, the Widow Bewitched"—a little musical drama, was the first of them : and an amusing trifle it proved to be—affording mope for the singing and acting of Mrs. Fitswilliam, than which we know none more pleasing or effective. Reeve, too, in Sant, though not a little out at elbows, was not at all out of humour, as the frequent and loud laughter of his audience fully testified " First Impressions," a lively one-act piece, interspersed with puns and m us i c , f o ll owe d, an d would at any time serve to beguile the tedium of a dreary half. hour. Mrs. Chapman played well the part of Emilie, and introduced into it, with great success, three songs, which she sang very pleasingly. This was succeeded by " —lt affords Mrs. Fitswilllam ample scope for the display of her ta lents, of which she availed herself to the entire satisfaction of her audi. tors. The burlesque burletta of The Quadrupeds concluded the even. ing's entertainments. Reeve's imitations afforded great delight, and his popular parody of Heavy Wet produced in an encore its usual and proper accompaniment, Mutton Chops. Amongst our dramatic ac quaintances, besides those we have already mentioned, were Mr. Chap man, the Manager, Mr. W. 'Vining. ants the ptetty bliss Pir.cott, who acquitted themselves in tl:eir respective pates with great propriety ; nor should we omit to notice Messrs. Perry, Macarthey, and 3landers. To the neighbourhood, so distant as it is from all theatrical amusement, this theatre must be regarded as supplying a desideratum long required by its population, and by the increasing intelligence of the times; more especially if the character of its performances is not suffered to deterio rate from those already produced. SADLER'D.WELLS.—The Easter entertainments at this theatre were yesterday evening repeated, and the applause of the audience, we pre sume, will he considered a su ffi cient t es ti mo ny t o t h em meri ts. The first piece, Radar the Raven, was a melodrama of the most pugnacious character, and, as usual, represented the unhcard.of trials sustained by suffering virtue at the hands of certain nefarious personages who in habit a cavern, descend through trap-doors, and wear beavers, de corated with the clusic insignia cAlled a skull and cross bones. One of this respectable fraternity manages its spirit away a youthful damsel through a sliding panel in her own castle, and proceeds to offer her as a sacrifice to the Scandinavian dekko. At the critical moment, a middle aged gentlewoman opportunely makes her appearance, and communicates an interesting family history touch. ing all her ttoble relations, which it is unnecessary to recapitulate. In. deed, candour obliges us to acknowledge that the lady's " aunt might be an aldemian, and her mother a justice of the peace," for aught we could collect to the contrary. The effect, however, is, of course, sufficiently satisfactory to the heroine, and the hymeneal altar is accordingly, with the consent of all parties, substituted for that of Roden and Thor. Ap. patently the principal design of the performance was to afford an op- portunity for the display of sundry desperate broad sword combats. This was followed by a burletta, with the antithetical title of The Jovial Mourners, which is described in the bills to be " laughable and eccen tric;" and the entertainments concluded with • Sadler's Wells edition of the piece so popular at Drury-lane, under the designation of The Brigand. Some of the scenery was very prettily painted, and the ward robe, for the most part, exhibited the tresh and glossy evidence of holi day raiment. POLAND. The following is a letter of Earl Grey to the celebrated Koeciuszko, in 1814: " rortman.equare, July 1, 1814. " General-1 request you to accept my thanks for your letter of the 20th of May, which was delivered to me by Count Krukowiecki, and for the flattering expressions with which you have been pleased to honour me. " Be assured that it is impossible to take a deeper interest than I do in the fate of Poland. The calamities of that brave but unfortu nate people, their constancy and their virtues, of which you, General, have given personally so illustrious an example, cannot fail to excite the sympathy of hearts truly imbued with the principles of humanity and justice. "lam convinced that an enlightened policy is equally favourable to their just claims. To the first violation of the sacred principles of general liberty, which took place in the partition of Poland in 1772, and those which followed in 1793 and 1796, ought to be attributed all the dangers to which the whole of Europe has since been exposed, and from which we have so happily escaped. There can exist no real security against the return of these dangers, if Poland remain excluded from the benefit of the general deliverance which, in order to be perfect, oar ht to be guaranteed by the solemn recognition of the rights and the independence of nations. " If the Powers which seek to profit by the injustice, and which in the sequel have suffered so much, could learn the true lemon from ex perience, they would perceive that their security and their mutual tran quillity would be better preserved by re-establishing among them, as a state truly independent, that country which a false policy has so cruelly opposed. These sentiments, General, are profoundly engraven in my soul; and you may be assured, that in order to declire them loudly, I shall neglect no occasion In which I may believe 1 can do so with effect. If, during the late debates in Parliament, I have not dwelt so much on this subject as I could have desired, this proceeds from the certainty which 1 had, that I could in no way influence the policy of the Government, and the fear of adding, perhaps, to the dangers which threaten thr fate of a people whose cause is so dear to me, but whom present circum. stances deprive me of all hope of serving. " Receive the most sincere assurances of my respect and my admire elan, and believe rue, General, " Your very faithful and very humble servant, (Signed) " GREY." di COPY OF AN ADDRESS TO 1118 CLERGY, FROM THE MOST REV. THE ROMAN CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP (Da. KELLY) OF TUA M. TO TIM &OMAN oiroomo cuntormar or THE oterszesto DIMICII or GALWAY AND WAY& My dear and Rev. Friends,—perceiving by the newspapers that a meeting has taken place in Londoa, on the 26th of this month, for dia purpose of alleviating the alarming distress which at present exists in this part of the country, I feel it necessary to direct your attention to the circumstance, as affording additional evidence of that characteristic benevolence of the generous English nation which shone forth so con spicuously in 11t22. The unexampled patience displayed by your poor parishioners, during this season of accumulated misery, has called forth the sympathy of our fellow-subjects and fellow-christians in England ; and there is little doubt that, while the people continue to conduct themselves in an or derly, peaceable manner, every exertion will be made on the other side of the Channel to ameliorate their truly deplorable condition, and rats! them beyond the reach of want. With the Drviwz assistance, the noble and generous labours of those who have already com e forward in aid of suffer humanity will not or prove nugatory ineffectual. The great, the good, and the wise of the United Kingdom will cooperate i n th e e ff orts ready made to arrest the progress of famine and disease, to which **many of our fellow-gestures have fallen victims. It is your duty, my Reverend Friends, to make known to your afflicted congregations the benevolent conduct of their British friends. What a consolation to beholds Lord Mayor of London, accompanied by his humane and kindhearted Chaplain, and surrounded by so much of the wealth, the virtue, and respectability of that great city, actively and efficiently engaged in attending to their wants, and administering substantial relief to the poor of Ireland ! Hove not the poor, at least now, cause to rejoice at their connection with Britain ? Will they not be fi lled with affection and gratitude towards their liberal benefactors ? And will they not offer up their sighs and supplications for the proape rity of England ? And now allow me, through you, to caution all those over whom you may have influence, against sending any false or exaggerated statements of distress. It would be a most criminal ,abuse and injustice. Ail those who seek for, and obtain any portion of the alms or relief, and are not actually, and most urgently in need of it, or who aid or con nive at such fraudulent deception, will be gailty of the most grievous criminality. Such conduct would be evidently dishonest towards the charitable contributors, as It would be cruel and pernicious towards those who are really in want. If the poor of the country and in the towns are deeply afflicted, the more opulent are afforded the opportunity of exercising extensively the Christian and social virtues of charity, benevolence, and doe attention to the wants of the needy, and thereby attaching to than, by the strong chains of gratitude and affection, that important and meritorious class of the community, the laborious and industrious portion of society. I rely with confidence on your active seal fa promoting and firmly establishing these mutual kindly feelings among .11 chess, and pant. cularly towards the generous and liberal English people, whose disin terested kindness towards afflicted Ireland will, nape, be never forgot ten, and whom, I trust, we shall ever consider as friends, countrymen. and fellow-subjects. I mean to develt pe more fully the principles now hastily glanced at, in my next address to you....in the mean time I remain, my Rev. Friends, your's meet faithfully, Tuam, March 30. OLIVER KELLY. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. MAILS ARRIVED Tuts Dar—Dublin, I ; Waterford, I. DEAL, APRIL —Wind N.W. light breeze.—The Hon. Company's ship General Hard., Staunton, from China, and Les &fans Cheri% Letallie, from Rochelle. have passed for Landon. Arrived from the River, and sailed, the Ottawa, Douglas; Thomas, &Wart; Canadian. Morgan; Self, Morris; British Tar, Addison; Ceres, Dunn; }a mouth, —; and Emerald, Prince, for Quebec. Remaiii, the United Kingdom, Friend, for Jamaica, and Sarah, Columbine, for Bombay. Baurox, APIUL S.—Arrived the Achilles , Cox, from Naples; Temper, Slesso, from Genoa; Cottager, Harvey, and &. Birtieby, —. from St. Andero. Liviarom., Aram 4.—Arrived the Lady Amherst, Phillips, from f,enos, and 3launcy, Junes, from Lishon. SOUTHAMPTON. APEIL s.—Arrived the 8 n Galseppe, Pioggi, f - -rst Genoa. Posvisiourn, Aram 5. Wind S to W.—Arrived his 111Ajesty's ship Pearl, from Ireland. Sailed the Prince Regent transport, tor Deptford. Aran. 4.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Illarton, from Valencia. Fausoavu, Aram 4—Wind B.R. to S. light tweezes. THE TURTON DIVORCE BILL.—ln consequence ef' introduction of the Bill into the House of Lords to eli‘s,lve the marriage of Mrs. Louisa Turton, who is thus see!jug divorce, a vincula matrimonii, from her hush :nd, Michell Tinton, Esq. a practising Counsel in the Supre.na Court at Calcutta, she virtually renounces the prospeyti:e rank of that gentleman, who will inherit the dignity of a baronet from his father, Sir Thomas Turton, Bart. of liar borough Castle, Surrey, Clerk of - the Juries in the Com tof Common Plea::, and formerly representative in Par'l.rnetit for the Borough of Southwark. Mr. Turton, the alleged offending party in this suit, is now in his 40th year, and was united to Mrs. Turton (then Miss Louisa Browne, one of the daughters of Lieut.-General Browne) in Nov. 1812, at which period the lady was only 18 years of age. It appears that in this collntry the regulation of divorca, by which the conjugal relation is occasionally abrogated, cann-r said to have received any settled form in our Gm einment since the Reformation. An excessive facility i 9 ok solving marriages p reva il s t h roug h a ll the P:ote.hot countries of Germany. In Prussia, in particul.o , marriages were dissolved in the year 1817, among population not much exceeding 10,000,000. By the Prus sian Code, prepared under the direction of the cete • bi %tee] 1 7 redelick, a marriage may be dissolve by nottiril consent, if, at the close of a year, there should remain no hope of a reconciliation. According to the British eccle siastical law, no divorce, properly so named, is in :illy case granted ; for a divorce a vincula matrinioni; is by tl law only pronounced in those cases in which a marriage l.ad been, for some reason, originally void ; and a divorcee' Ace., et mensa, which may be pronounced iu certain other ertsea, is not properly a divorce, but merely a separation. Effectual divorces are not granted under the authority of any general law. The person seeking such a divorce is compelle , l tie make application to the legislature, soliciting a law re ba enacted for each particular case, and so far to supply the de ficiency of the general legislation. It appears that in an in terval of 128 years, computed from the 12th of William and Mary, 155 statutes for the dissolution of the nuptial buml have been enacted, and that all these, except 28, have Leen enacted within the two last reigns.