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alich frontier to the Stupea frontier—that he was Informed the i,uilding for quarantine would not be ready for six weeks, which time ac must wait before his 21 days of quarantine could commence. FRONTIES% OF POL/UND, May 9:h..—We are MAMA, without haviiig nevertheless entire certainy, that the el.ief command of the Russian army in Poland will be withritawn from Fithi Marshal Die. Sabalknooki. to be cot.ferr. ti upon Count Prokewitch. The incur. r..ctioa in Lithuania exte. , rl• more anti more daily. I is said now that the ii;•ur4,llt. 1V.... 4:: kon r os-re.sion of the city rf Minsk. capital of that distnet. and have cut elf the communications •.of the Russian army.— : t a ppear s that the success of the Litimeniaits has been the principal 7aue of the retrograde movements of the army of Field Marshal Die. towards the Bug.— Gfurclie el' .1 a ‘,Nbqryh WARsaw, MAY 12.—The Gas;eitc d'Etai contains an official report iron colonel. now General Dembinski, npon the affew of Runcw ; the report is dated from the camp near Miria, April 23. According to this ~purr, after some mmoruvres of retreat, the Polish officer brought his eavalry upon his artillery. which he thus ma " I allowed the :neniy," says the Colo' 1, " to advance to order to bear upon them ri!ii my cannon. I unoirtaktd these by a rapid movement to the .rft of the 4th r.-7,i.nent of Hokum, and before th.e Ito clans could r .rreat, they received fourteen rooods of shot from four pa. eel. which composed the battery. Senreely had the cannonade commenced, when Benjowski advanced towards its, full gallop ; he ebaueoned the e nemy, and precipitated hint•elf .owards the ranks of his brothers ; his j.,r was great to see hints if anton,;st his coon rymen. When 1 demanded slat forces I had berm.: me. iie declared to me that I had an affair with Marshal Diebitseh in person. This intelligence redoubled my real, and when I announced it to my artillery. the ardour of oar &m -em:leers knew no bounds. Their rapid :out well directed fire forced u pon all points the enemies; columns to fall back ; but a wood permit. , r d the enemy to turn my It flank towards Ccglow, nod .het cireten- AnCe alone determined me to a retreat,which I effected without .flowing to fall into the hands of the enemy one wounded man, nor alms of ally description. Onr loss amounts to forty killed and wounded. Our loss is No rifling from the circumstance of the Russian batteries being so badly placid. 1 retreated towards live o'clock, after having fulfilled the in. tr:Aions of the Generalissimo, who had charged me to retard, as much possible, the march of the enemy ; 3600 men arrested, consequently. during a whole day, 40,000 Russians, who debouched upon Ruflew. The Gazette d'Elat contains an official report. which was brought to the Polish Government by a Deputy from Lithuania, in the name of the Lithuanian Insurgents. This report is a complete expos of the =uses and events of the insurrection. We have no news, says the Courrier of Warsaw, from our petrel pal anny, but small expeditions are always being made. ITALY. PARKA, MAY 10. EDICT, BY MARIA LOUISA &c. According to the reports which have been made to us relatively to the pretended Civic Congress (Coucenao), and to various individuals who, though invested by us with public functions, forgetting their duties to their sovereign, conducted themselves as some of the most violent ene mies of she legitimate Government during the 28 days of rebellion and anarchy yet desiring, as far as possible, to use clemency, We have decreed, and decree— I. We pardon the 90 persons who attended the meeting of the Civic Congress of Parma, on the 14th, 15th, and 17th of February, and the 10th and 11th of March last, and who took part In the deliberations. We only resolve that for three years from the Ist of May, 1831, those persons shall not hold any public office, or be proposed to fill it. The 2d and following articles relate to public offices declared vacant, and to various individuals discharged from their employments, deprived of their pensions, or suspended from their functions for three or six months. Porr DE BEAUVOISIN, MAY 17.—A French traveller, who has been at Venice, Padua, Mantua, &c. asserts to have seen an Austrian corps, 60,000 strong, accompanied by three parks of 100 pi.:ces of artillery, marching in the direction of Milan, where it is contemplated to form an intrenched camp. They are actively engaged putting Mantua in a state of defence. _ _ _ - Bans, MAY 20.—The canton of Schafhousen is in open insurrec don, and the peasantry are marching against the town. There have been already slight skirmishes, in which several people were killed and many wounded. The town is barricadoed. Roam, MAY s.—Extract of a private letter s—Tlic ambassador of France has again, it is said, made energetic protestations against the occupation of the fortress of Ancona, by the Austrian troops, and we are assured that they will at last quit the place.—GasuAte &Augsburg. Roma, MAY o.—lt appears that the evacuation of 'Ancona will decidedly take place on the 15th of this month. We are informed that the fugitives of Parma and Modena, who were made prisoners in the Pontifical vessel, off Ancona, are compelled to embark for America, and that the Pope's subjects are allowed to proceed to wherever they please. FUNERAL ORATION, BY GENERAL LAFAYETTE. AT TR!' GRAVE OF LABBEY DE POISIPIERES. In approaching this tomb, to add some words to the touching and patriotic discourse which you have just listened to, my dear Fellow. Citizens, I claim the rights of an ancient frient'Aip, and thc conscious ness of a long sympsthy of principles and sentiuteils with the respec table veteran of liberty, whose toss we this day deplore. You have been told how, in his military career, he was one of the most enlightened officers—one f the best citizens of a corps justly renowned by its in. telligence and its patriotism. He embraced with devotion our Revo. lotion of 1789 ; and when afterwards, not by it, but in its name, he had to suffer the persecutions of terrorism, never did he commit the blasphemy of confounding liberty with ana rchy , and crime, or of sup. posing that violence was necessary to maintain national cothuslasin, which at the first dangers, had caused Frenchmen to run to the defence of the country. It is thus, that at a later period, he did not. find in any property, nor even in glory, a sufficient compensation against the usur pations of despotism, and the ba.seness of servitude. And when a restoration was imposed upon us by foreign bayonets, you have seen him defend the cause of liberty, of reason, and the interests of the people, with that impassioned zeal—that inflexible perseverance, —which egotism, pusillanimity, and suppleness could not corn. prebend; hut which was often crowned with success, and which posterity will be always pleased to recognize. You know, also, with what happiness he hailed, and concerned himself In onr glorious revolution of July 1830; hut it is to those of us, who hive seen him upon the bed of death, thet it belongs to any, with what anxiety he anticipated the consequences of o revolution made by the people--by the people alone—and consecrated by the blood of six thousand patriots. You have heard how, to the severity of his princi ples, and to his hatred of abuses, to that austerity worthy of the Caters of ancient history, he joined, in his private life, all the mildness, all the sensibility of an excellent friend, of the most tender father ; and it is sweet for me to add, with what solemnity, in his last adieu, he left me the inheritance, moat cordially accepted, of his paternal affection for the grand-son of which be was proud • and now, my dear fellow citizens, let us unite to hid a last and ten d er adieu to he worthy object of our veneration and our regrets. • The discourse of Alexander Delaborde, formerly published in the STAR. CITY. ONE O'CLOCK. This being paying and receiving day in the Stock Ex change for the balances of accounts, business is doing in Consols, which left off yesterday at 83i fi for the account, and opened at 83a ; at present they are 83fi and 83 for money. We do not hear of any defaulters; these cannot be ascertained until the various checks are cleared. In the Foreign Market nothing doing u yet. CITY. TWO O'CLOCK. -- Up to the present time there is very little doing in the funds. The late great failure in the House has damped the speculations; and the Bulls, who of late have been severely hot, and payed large sums of money to the Bears, have but little chance, at present, to retrieve their losses ; as they Lave made a precipitate retreat, and carried all off with them. We do not hear of any more failures as yet. Consols may be quoted 8:1+ g for the Account, and 83i to 84 for Money, both Stock and Money being very scarce in the Nlarket. In the Foreign Market little or nothing doing. .The Gazette d'Augsbourg announces, by accounts from Vienna, that the position of the Grand Visir was not so unfavourable as represented. On the contrary, that be had obtained some successes over the insurgents. A great number of Frenchmen are proceeding to Algiers by Toulon, in order to settle in that country, where they can easily procure land at a rent of 2fr. 50c. per acre. The election for a Coroner for the county of Gloucester commenced on Monday last. Colonel Berkeley, in pro posing one of the candidates (a Mr. Marklove) observed, I hope that neither I, nor any of you, will ever require tits services." A magnificent scheme is at this moment in operation in Prance, to afford the means of useful and improving reading to the whole body of the working population in France, by placing a public library in every one of the 40,000 communes (or parishes) into which the kingdom is divided. fhe scheme pr anises to be successful • it is provided by voluntary subscriptions, and the hooks are to consist of the best elementary works on the arts, sciences, and literature, Li , tory, biography, poetry, and other subjects, selected by a ulli:Littee in Paris. a U 0 P 1 I COURT CIRCULAR. REFORM DINNER. I --....--.. --......-- Frost our Estes Reporter. The Duke of Glocester and the Princess Sophia villitad On Tuesday there was a grand Dinner of Reformers at Halstead, in . Essex, at which Mr. Wellesley presided; and yesterday the Fn.. their ?deject:a yesterday, at the Palace at St. James's. holders of the Rochford Hundred were to give Mr. Wellesley and Mr. ' His Majesty gave andier yes yesterday to the Duke of Western a grand Reform Banquet: it was expected that all the liberal Dsvonshite, Earl Grey, Lord Moll nd, and the Hanoverian 111 , ni5t,... members of Essex and its boroughs would attend. Viscount Combeimere had an audience yesterday of the It is expected that a very large dinner and illumination will take Kirg, and presenled tv o standards, then at the capture of Bhurtpoor. place in the course of next week at Colchester, to celebrate the first The Duke and Doich:.-s of Glucester nave a grand dimmer complete conquest over the Tory party In the county of Essex, as Lit evening, at Gls:tees! , v-house, to their Majes ties , the Dtic::ess of well as in the borough of Colchester, for upwards of a century. The Kent, attended by the D. , clitsta of Northumberland, the Lanerevint Tory party are trying to rally their strength against another a Hesse Homb:T.', the Prioress A s the Duke of Cumberlenti, election, and on the will of June they are to have a crated dinner at the i „ and otlin Alembers of tee: Roval u i t . u tin ta il'y ; the Duchess of Saxe. Shire Hall, which will of course consist chief of CM gr"" , who, -'" Weimar, st:d a seket party, to Mcct Jr it Majestic.. Essex, are almost all to a man enemies of r eform. It would seem, by the curious hint thrown out in the Rent and Eyes The Duchess of Kent and Prince Leopold honoured the Jfercury, that the patriotic M.P. for Colchester was about to commence Perfotolou" of 11, ' Vrendl Play. (for the benefit of M. Laporte) or. an action against the Church parson who spoke so disrespectfully of Wahl .i.de.? evening. v. ilb their present . him at Mr. Wellesley's dinner. It was, indeed, a very foolish, weak, The Russian Ambassador and the Baron de Zuylen de and ill-edvised thing, as all parties now allow, for a Clergyman of the • Nyevelt (on a 4).6'1 Ini.sioo loom th. 2 Kies of the Netherlands) hat: Church of England to volunteer a speech, (at a dinner, too, to which int hies' yesterd,,y with E.A.I Grey, at the Treasury. he was never incited, and in a society of unanimous friends, into 1 M. Moreno, the Minister from Buenos Ayres, gate a which he obtruded himself.) against one of the most deservedly poptlisr grami dinner on Wancsisy to all the South Americans resident ht members of a borough which had just gained a triumph over the anti. 1 ,,,,,. dat . , , „„t a p a rty 0;. peons, of distinction. in e..i,hreitet. of the es. Reformers ; and though we trust Air. Harvey will have the good sense to a i r ..,..., e y of the iodevendente of B. epos Ayres. spare the Rev. Gent. the severe exposure and punishment, which he 1 Mr. Moyers, ngent for Be rbadoca, and Mr. Browne, agent might inflict, on the grounds of generosity towards a fallen party, yet an interview yesterday with Viscount 6, deficit at the we trust, at the same time that it will prove as a warn- 1 f l r i lt: : o "i tie, '„ Ad . ing to all future clerical Don Quixotes , not to meddle i' " with windmills whose sails are filled by the breath of every I The II ttssian Ambassador and the Sardinian Minist.'r had patriot in the country ; and which, in spite of all that can be achieved I i! , t e ry '" s With Viscount Pain, .r-ton yesterday, at the office of the toy antiquated ecclesiastical knight-errantry, will rind down the Isce , et.,Ty of Suite for Foreign Affors. remains of bigotry to impalpable powder. The triumph of Philosophy The Marquis of Cleveland presented an address to the and of Reform Is complete; and we hop e , th e refore, that Philosophers King rat the Lvee or, Wednesday, from t:,: county of nl'ol3lll. and Reformen will bear their victory with moderation, and turn away The Marquis of Lai , sdowie, the Chancellor of the Ex with contempt from, rather than meet with resentment, the last ex. el..quer. Sir Jam -• Or , ham, and •11.? Dolt: of Itic'tmond, had inter piring insults of an odious and exploded superstition. views y stenlay ski: Ear) Or:T. at the Teos.nry. RELIEF OF THE FAMISH] NG PE.4SANTitY OF IRELAND. A meeting sou held on Wednesday, in Exeter Ilan, according to the advertisements, to raise funds and provide fur their appliewion to relieve the famine now raging in several districts in Ireland. The meet. lag um numerously attended, and the Chair sou taktn by Lord LORTON. Mr. J. S. RITNOLDN secretary to the committee, read an address, which exhibited the existence of a wide-spread and c alamitous destines Lion in several districts in Ireland, and tstablisbed the necessity Of prompt and immediate measures of relief by numerous tureen I.MS respectable correspondents, which furnished a body of evidence mast painful and conclusive. The tint extract was from a letter of the Ali. bishop of Tuam : " Extraordinary distress, from the failure of the last pots . ° crop, exists at this moment all ong the coast of Cunnemara and Mkt'', and the islands opposite to those coasts in Ennis, and won to the county of Donegal; and at all times much distress prevails throughout this pro- Isince of Connaught for the want of employment; but I think that the very great and extraordinary distress is in most pans. if not altogether, tontined to the districts which I have now mentioned." The next is an extract from the letter of .1. Dombrain, Esq. I. spector.General of the Coast Blockade for Ireland: •• I have just returned from a visit to the coast of Donegal, mist the sanction of the Lord Lieutenant, to ascertain the state of the port In thew: remote parts, and it is with feelings of deep pain and regret I communicate to you a catalogue of miseries, almost unexampled even in this country. " The first In order, and primary cause of all the rest, was an almost complete failure of the potatoe crop; this was owing to incessant heavy rains, and a succession of violent gales of wind, which commenced about the first of August, and continued till November. Oats, from the same muse, were not more than half a crop. Hay, the season for cutting which in the mountains does not commence till October, not half a crop; and the turf almost entirely destroyed: the consequences are, that at this moment there are hundreds of human bangs neatly dying from starvation ; many are living on sea-weed, and such shell-fish as they can pseure : and should warm weather set in, I have little doubt but that fever will follow, and carry off thousands. " The snow remained an unusually long time on the ground, the fod der was soon exhausted, and the cattle are now dying by hundreds ; use person, I know, lost the week before last twenty.five head of black cattle s you may readily imagine that I feel convinced of this awful visitation, when I tell you that I have sent 2001. worth of potatoes to be retailed out at a price which will leave me a considerable loser." A further testimony was found in a letter of the Rev. James Cram ked, of Maghery Glebe. This letter proves, that even the cattle are dyinig re b e rwant of sustenance.:— fit certainly exists at present very great distress amongst the aonsseous poor people of this extensive parish, which would be increased so as alarming height during the ensuing summer months, should no relief be afforded; but many thanks to you and our English friends for your timely and liberal donation, which, together with what we expect from others, will, it is hoped, in a great measure, relieve the calamities with which we are threatened. The great failure of the potatoe clop by blight for 2 successive years, and want of employment for the super. abundant population, have been the proximate causes of the present dis tress. There has been also a great loss of cattle and sheep; there is, in con. quenee, no marketable article that would afford the people means of purchasing provisions at the present exorbitant prices. I beg to men tion acs instance, which will prove to demonstration the great want of food. Two of my friends, extensive graziers, have during the past month lost—one thirty-seven head of cattle, the other seventeen ; and they died of dis ease; and in wretched poverty the country people used the flesh for food." _ In corroboration of these proofs of the existence of the most melee choly suffering, the following communication was added from a gentle. man at Sligo " When I recollect that to-morrow is only the lat of April, I look forward with horror to the state of this country in two or three mouths,' judging from what I witnessed yesterday. The beach between 'nub., crone and Pulocherry was quite covered with women, picking the awl moo black sea-weed off the rocks, which, I am told , they miry bone to the mountains and boil for food, to eke out their few reload/1g pi. Woe!. What is to become of them in June or July 1 know not. I think, when the tide was out, there could not have been less than three thousand persons employed as I have stated." Another letter says—" The distress around is rapidly increasing. The appearance of the people speaks loudly as to their internal sufferings, although they do not utter a single word. The famine is very general over the kingdom. I could tell you tales of suffering which would her. row up your soul ; but, suffice it to say, the Noonan family that you found so ill in the cellar in St. Giles's, were in comparative comfort to many here. They are lying all Swelled from hunger as if ill of dropsy, with their children all crying for hunger around them. Description and hattitirtion fall far abort of the dreadful reality." Rev. hir. BEAMISH was next called on by the noble Chairman, Ind read a resolution,which he said had been entrusted to him to propose. Capt. B. HARCOURT Called on those who wished to rescue their Ca. tholic fellow-countrymen from error to come forward on the present occasion, and prove to those people that their opposition to their reli. gious tenets originated in love, not in hate. The resolution was then put, and curled without dissent. The Honourable and Reverend GENAID Nort. moved—" That, although a portion of the fords collected in 1323 may have been miss appropriated, this circumstance affords no ground for withholding Te. lief, when the present distress is so decided and so appalling; while the experience of the past must serve as a beacon to prevent the recur rence of similar errors." Rev. Mr. ARMSTRONG said, he was speaking to Christians; and, therefore, believing the Bible to be a fact, they must answer to the appeal that he was about to make to them. Some persons might, per baps, say, that the poor Irish had nut much claim upon them—that Irishmen had been guilty of crimes, conflagrations, and murders—and, therefore, it was hopeless to expect to be able to do anything in their behalf. What he wanted to see done was to have the landlords en couraged to live at home ; to have the British capitalist it duced to take his capital into Ireland, and the introduction of such a state of feeling into that country as should give stability to the measures of Govern ment. Toe only war in which these three advantages were to be ac complished was by introducing a moral influence into the breasts of Irishmen ; and the only way in which that influence could be intro duced was by the propagation of the Gospel. If the original sin was the great curse on mankind, he could not but look on apostacy as a greater curse; and he deemed the Roman Catholic religion to be the great apostacy from the truth of 00D. (Bisset and cheers.) Mr. DauIIWOND said, that it was far from him to deny the wrongs which Ireland had suffered from England; it was far from him to deny the injustice of the Church of Ireland, which received the money of ..1* people without being able so much as to instruct them in the% own language. It was also far from him to offer any apolor..; for the errors of Popery. But when the Rev. gentleman spoke of moral - influence, surely he must know that they could not enact laws to enforce moral influence ; and what they bad that day to think of was remedy for a tangible and very pressiag evil. (much applause.) But it might be easily shown, that let every one subscribe his thousands, the evil would still be a recurrent one: and it was, therefore, the duty of the Government to take care of the poorer part of the population, the rich being able to take care of themselves. He waist to say that it wits the imperative duty of the Government to enact poor laws in Ireland ; and it was the duty of those who supplicated the Castle of Dublin, for arms to protect them, to supplicate also for a law, by which every one who was willing to work should have week found for him, se that might be able to live. It was lamentable to hear of peseisiene being exported from Ireland, when the people there were starving ; but Ibis arose from their being sent out of the country to raise morass foe the absentee Widow& who spent their peahen here. The Noble Catalogue. in putting die resolutiesi, agreed will all that had fallen hens Mr. Drummond. He, however, objected es the term " Poor Laws." He would rashes that it abouldbe callodby some (other name. At the some time week might to be found foe the poor and It ought to be found on the estates of those that were rich, regula tions being adopted for the proper payment of the workmen. A Gentleman then auempted to speak on the extreme left of the platform ; but ti e Noble Chairman hastily put the motion, and de clared it to he ciaried in the affirmative. The gentleman then exclaimed in a loud voice, •• Is this, or is this not a public meeting It seems only so be a msneeuvre to raise money so pay the landlords' rents, and the clergyman a tithes." The Rev. Mr. DALTON Olen proceeded to move the third Resolution ; and in so doing, proceeded in the strain that had been employed by Mr. Blemish. Mr Noel, and Mr. Armstrong. He said that all the evils were to be traced so the state of religion in Ireland ; and that as long as the Catholic religion prevailed, he believed their souls to in danger. Sir JOHN Br iixr. M.l'.—My Lord, I rise to order. The CEA NAN -I cannot hear you, Sir John Burke, till Mr. Dalton has ftnl•hed. The Nlarquess of CLANRICANDE pmtetited in the warmrst way against this dtctsion. Sir John Burke, enncrit in; that the Speaker was stating that which was irrelevant, had risen to urthr, and be had a right to be heard The uproar here being excessive, almost ever) person on the plat form sear standing up, and the Chairman, S:r Jahn Burke, Jr. Grady, and a person imme:liately below the platform, w.r. , all speaking at Of CC. Sir RICHARD O'DONNELL was sorry to tee that some gentlemen had come there under the garb rf religion, for the purpose of sowing the seeds of discord, when the only question before the meeting was that of charity. He was sorry for this attack, because both English Catholics and Irish Catholics hart most liberally come forward. He was an Irishman and an Irish landlord, and he could not but feel Indignant at the insult that had been offered to the religion of his country. They must he aware that Ireland was a Catho. lie country, and that its people were all Catholic, ; and he could not see what ri, ht clergymen had to come forward under the garb of religion, and assert things which were utterly un•rue - - lie wished to (know what religion had to do with political eco nomy? Nothing at all! The primary cause of the pr.stnt suffering of Ireland was, that she had no where to look back to in the event of a •hurt crop The Rev. Gentleman hal ex tiled the e''a•ity of the Arch- Lishop of Tuam : and it was Tiny true that that Prelate had distin. gtfahtd himself in the cause; but the Rev. Gentleman had quite for gotten that there were several Roman Catholics who had done still more tlt in the Archbishop of Tuam. Ile had forgotten to state that Mrs. Palmr had giveb 4,000 L; he had forgotten to state that the Marquess of Sligo had given 1,500 i. (Chetrs.) The Rev. Mr. DALTON agreed with hi. ll;!verentl Brother in regret. tit g the state of religi n in Ireland, yet he by no means thought that it was the sole cause of the misery of that eoun ry. He thought that one of the chief grounds of duty on which they wt re met that eau wet, the retribution which England wrel to Ireland. Most of the evils 'Fillet afflict the ►inter nation had b e^ imp •rted there from Eng! md. This e untry bad sent to the Irish people latiellerds who dhoti. d tht) of their subsistence ; and Cnlgymen ut all denominations, who have not taught, and who do not teach them. England was, undoubtedly, the cause of that dearth of the Word of God, which was worse than any dearth of the bread of this life, and which (it was the simple fact) pre vailed there. A GENTLEMAN. in a distant part of the It4ll, said (as we under stood him) that ice was a Protestant clergyman, as anxious for the Scriptures as any man, hut that he had come there that day to aid the sufferiug Irish, and he thought a controversial dissertation inappro priate and unwise. [Applause, blues, and cries of order, and chair, were continued for a bog time, and produezd such a clamour as we never heard in a respectable assembly.) Mr. Norf. called Mr. Dalton to order. lie thought that the object of the meeting had been kin si bt t.f. In the spirit of Christian can dour he rose to say, that had the present been a Reformation Meeting, or ore in which Roman Catholics had been invited to a controversy, he would go all the wity with Mr. Dalton. But as their avowed object then was to alleviate the existing distress of Ireland, he thought it was a trespass oo gond manners and on Christian charity, when Mr. Arm. strong laid before the fleeting his czpo.e of the Catholic errors and abuses (great applause, and some disapprobation.) A long and tumultuous interruption was here occasioned by the endeavour of Mr. Xmas I'Donnell and others to obtain a hearing. At length Mr. bPDottx ELL was allowed to say, that as a householder of It: west end of the metropolis, he had been induced to come to the meet ing by seeing the invitation given in the name of Lord Lorton, and he was sure that noble lord would not have given his sanction to the in% i. tatlon, had he known that he (Mr. M Dounell), and other Roman Cs. tholics, should have heard the insults which had that day been %Mewl against them and their religion. Mr. Cuanair made teveral attempts to speak, amidst ludescribabl! confusion. The CMAMIMAN then pitt a resolution of thanks to the Gentlemen who had already subscribed ; and to the Record newspaper, for its ex ertions in aid of the Irish. Mr. Cumuli opposed the resolution [immense uproar). He yr. slated in attempting to speak, amidst unparalleled confusicn, his es, cheers, laughter, and vehement erica of " Send for a Policem: a." The honours of Knighthood was conferred on several un tlemen at the last Levee, which was not noticed in the circular of the Court Newsman. Among these gentlemen, was Dr. Beaty, physician to the immortal Nelson. The United Kingdom, one of the largest of our Sunday Papers, so called, is worthy of its object in its own une qualled dimensions. Every page contains seven columns, and is 24i inches long by 19i wide, containing 480 snare inches per page. The four pages contain, therefore, 1,920 square inches, and every square inch, on the average 32 words ! Hence this surprising sheet contains abets 60,000 words, sold for 7d, or 2,150 words for every farthing. Such are the wonders of the modern Newspaper Press. The enlarged STAR will, on Monday next, consist of 50,000 words, it self a phenomenon, when it is considered that its daily contents are chiefly original ; and though the STAR will then be about the largest of the London Evening Papen, yet the power of the least of our brethren, of circulating about 40,000 words per day, at so trifling a cost, is one of the greatest wonders yet achieved by the social ingenuity of We have visited Mr. Hancock's caoutchouc manufactory near Walham-green, and find that it confirms Mr. Farraday's report. Being able to cast any lengths ou mandrils, they dry as tubes without seams ; and being impervious to air and water, they form the most perfect flexible pipes for brewers' hose, for acoustic tubes, and various ether pirposes. A slight coating, or varnish, too, renders every substance waterproof, and prepares canvas for tents, awnings, &c. at an easy cost. Flannel and cloth thus becomes superior even 'o leatliar for shoes, and felt for hats, perfectly water-proof; while it is light, free from smell, arid imperishable. The car.ut 'lme hose in Barclay's brewhouse save 1,0001. in wast and leakage. There are two vulgar errors which cannot be too often expo.cd fur their green ab•urdity—one that the moon his any other connection with the changes of the tveattla r than the rotation of the hour-hand of the clock. The moon changes 52 tines in the year, and the weather 100 tints; hem e frequent coincidences are unavoidable, but not its cause end effect. The other error, still more gross, is the supposed connection of comets either with diseases, or any terrestrial concern whatever. The idea originated in the darkest ages. but our better knowledge of the nature and distance of comets, and their mere optical tails. destroys every phantom of ignorance on the subject. If diseases coincide with co mets, it is because we often have epidemics, and often comets ; but if a list of the two or three comets were made out that become risible every year, it would be found that there is no general coincidence of diseases. Indeed, the idea is trost absurd, and the perseverance with which both errors are constantly repeated, is only another of many proofs of the diti:culty of unlearning. The rule for a criminal information has been made Ono hite against Messrs. Wakley and King, for alleged disturb ances at the College of Surgeons, and for subsequent chter vations in The Lancet. The dispute grew out of the exclusion of naval surgeons from the Levee, and it w emi more easy to account for tl e excitement of the profeetion than for the order itself, or the 'apparent indifference of Cm heads of the plofessiou. Generally speaking, all close cor porations do what they ought not to do, and do not do what they ought to . do. Whether a corporation of enlightened surgeons is an exception is the teal point at issue—though other points have frrOwu out of it ; but the public will revert to the questicn, whether in slay case a close corporation is . qualified to act with becoming wisdom ? CRUEL PRACTICES AT SEA. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. _ Cheapside, May 25, 1831. Sza—Considering, as I do, that the crime of inhumanity is the greatest of all crimes, I am induced to offer a Sovereign Reward, to be paid at your office, in the first week of January in each year, for a List of the Cases which have been noticed in the Newspapers of the preced ing year of Cruelties at Sea. My attention was especially called to the consideration of this subject, by the mention made in your valuable Paper ( the li STAR of Saturday last), of the 111. usage of a Seaman by the ate of a Ship. Having myself witnessed the most revoltingly ferocious, cruel,and at the same time cowardly, (because death is the punishment of resistance at sea from a sailor) conduct of a Captain of a ship; I feel convinced, that were the frequent occur rences of these monstrous abuses of power regularly laid before the public, the commission of them would be less frequent. What parent can suppress his feelings of horror at the poor bey Heri tage's throwing himself into the sea to avoid the barbarous treatment of a boatswain ? or can read of a fellow-creature being ruptured by a merciless kick upon his testicles, which, at the moment, as was de scribed, "doubled the poor fellow's body up," from the agony of the torture he was enduring ! Another horrid case was a lad being com pelled to remain at the mast head in the severest weather, till nature gave way, and life became extinct, to gratify the pitiful revenge of a cruel Captain. In the hope that your pen will assist my own feeble en deavours to arrest, if possible, the progress of cruel practices at sea, I remain, Sir, your humble servant, HUMANITAS. THE COAL TRADE. NRWCASTLE.UPON-TYNE, Maw 26. (neon A CORRESPONDENT.) Yesterday afternoon the Marquis of Londonderry paid a visit to his chief agent, Mr. Huddle, at Walisend, supposed to be In consequence of a fresh " strike" on the part of his pitmen—who, notwithstanding his Lordship very gtnerously acceded to all their demands,i prior to his setting out for Ireland about a fortnight ago, have again become refrac tory. and put forth fresh claims, which they assert must be complied with before they will return to work. This, really, is very inauspicious. after the liberal concessions that bad been made. The same dissatisfied spirit seems, unhappily, to be prevalent in other places on the Near ; for, although the Hettoo pitmen had engaged to go to work as yesterd ay morning, the managing owner of that great con. cern (William Redhead, Esq. of this town), received an express yesterday evening, stating that the men had absolutely refused to go down the pit, and that things were in aloha quo, as to the refractory dis position of these operatives. Mr. Redhead immediately intimated to the Commanding.oflicer here, Lieut.-Col. Power of the Artillery. that under the present circumstances, it was very probable the military would be required to move into the county of Durham, at an early hour in the morning. As this, however, has not been the case, one ma rea sonably venture to hope that an adjustment is deemed pnedab by other and more gentle mow Last week the gardenias/ received an accession of 4 Comppaannies of the 6th Regiment, (Rides) under the command of Major and another woop of the 3d Might Dragoons. Several of the collieries on the Tyne hang bound disk Mass, (indeed some of them were at work), and things in postal asiothag the phases of returning ender, the magistrates of Nertlmmaberiend Judged ft exprdimt to dismiss the Newcastle and Northumberland Toessesay Cava, who had been on Permanent Service in this town and nsißlabouthood for about five weeks. The military dialog and good essiset of this excel lent corps, are thus noticed in an official letter to Lieutenant-Colonel Bell, the com manding officer on the part of the magistracy. " We the acting Magistrates of Castle Ward, in this County, offer to you, Sir, our thanks for the readiness with which your Regiment left their homes to assist In preserving the peace and protecting property in this part of the County of Northumberland. And we beg to assure you that we have remarked, with the greatest satisfaction, the orderly and praiseworthy conduct of the officers and men under your command. We request you, Sir, to accept our best acknowledgments, and that you will be pleased to communicate the same to every individual of the regiment." NEWCASTLE, MAY 21.—Notwithstanding what is communicated above, as respects the pitmen of Lord Londonderry, and those en gaged at the Hetton Colliery, there can be little doubt that the " strike" is rapidly falling to pieces. Since Saturday last, the following Col lieries have bound their men—namely, Jarrow,Walbttle, Townley Main, and Cowpen. A large portion of Lord Durham's men have also come under fresh engagements, so that it is to be hoped the transport of coals by sea to the metropolitan and southern markets, will again give employment to our shipping, and bread to our hardy and meritorious seamen, several of whom, on the Tyne, have been very badly off during this long inter. regnum of the coal trade. In point of fact, so pressing were the wants of these men, according to a statement transmitted by them to the Mayor of Newcastle, a few days ago, in tire shape of a petition, that his worship. Archibald Reed, Esq. promptly headed a subscription for their relief, by a donation of Fifty Oueas on the part of the Cor poration. Dr. Forster has withdrawn his name and support from the Essex Horticultural Society, and is turning his attention to the science of Aerostation, in which he thinks some im provement can be made. The popular rage for Bible Society Meetings, has at length given way to that for Reform Meetings ; and in pro portion as the schoolmaster extends his influence, we hear less of anxiety about distributing the Sacred Volume in foreign parts, and more about congregating to rectify poli tical abuses at horns. The Duke of Northumberland arrived at Newcastle-upon- Tyne rather unexpectedly, on Tuesday last. The day fol lowing, his Grace honoured the Mayor (Archibald Reed, W.) with his company to dinner, at the Mansion-house. A select party was invited to meet the noble duke. The Pitt-Club manceuvre is already frustrated. The grand camp of the " Army of Conservation for all England," has dwindled into a poor group of one two or three dozen elderly gentlemen, who teltspire to eat mutton and drink port, for the purpose of opposing and overthrowing the declared will of crown and people ! The " Conservators " dare not even sell their tickets openly, lest they should be overpowered by their own guests. There never was a humbug so thoroughly exposed, nor a band of twaddlers so withered by public contempt.— Times. Four London booksellers in the two last Gazettes, prove that there is " somethtng rotten in the State of Denmark." The march of intellect ought to have increased the trade in books, and improved the condition of authors; but this last effect has certainly not taken place, and the Gazette proves that the booksellers have not profited by the increase of readers. In fact, the literary capital seems to be directed to a profitless competition in cheap reprints of books out of fashion, or already in every body's band ; and hence authors are starving and publishers breaking. Original literature and science yield to commercial quackeries, and the bashing up of stale dishes. Discredit is the consequence. El