Star. — London, England, 1831-03-16 00:00:00

.1:o h ,a p.:itions to present would be ptcsent, and perhaps it was deal ,,,‘,le that many of the petitions should be presented when there was a iu ll.ittendance. lir. HUNT concurred in the propriety of this suggestion. He no ic..l on the Saturday set apart for petitions, that as soon as hon. mem had ines,:nted those entrusted to them, they quietly walked out of i•e house. . . . The conversation was herc'droppecl, without any arrangement being ,ertwl upaa. TIMBER DUTIES. 3lr. Alderman THOMPSON presentesl a petidou from the ship ..vners, merchants, and others, of the City of London, against the pro• posed alteration in the timber duties. Tim honourable alderman said, the petition was agreed to unanimously, at one of the largest and most respectable meetings he bed ever attended since his connection with the City, now a puiod of twenty-live years. It was also totally divested all party or political feeling, wide) many members of that house etaild hear testimony to. After dwelling at considerable length on the importance of the trade between this country end China, the worthy al derman said that in consequence of an arrangement entered into during the time of Mt. Perccval, and afterwards sanctioned by a committee of the house in .ate year 180, it was expressly understood that no altera tion in the Baltic and Canadian timber duties was to take place ; con sequently a great capital had been embarked, not less, certainly, than me million and a half. (Hear.) The shipping employed amounted to 109,000 tons, and 22,300 seamen were engaged. These facts were suf. :hien to show the great Mil:mance of the trade, and that no measure tight to be adopted without the most mature deliberation. A great encouragement had also been held out to emigration. and within the Its( tew years not less than 250,000 had left the country. In the last year alone 30,000 had left the United Kingdom for Canada. He would therefore ask if the timber trade was to be ruined, how were these individuals to be supportedt—(Hear.) On many other grounds die question was one of great importance. Canada had always acted as a barrier to the United *nes, and the country ought to be careful how it acted towards that likantant colony. By the proposed altera tion a great capital, and a vast number of seamen, must be thrown out el employment, and the ships could not be engaged hi other business, they were not tit for it. The Hon. Member then went into s state ment of the difference in the price and quality of Baltic and Canadian timber, and after reading some extracts from the petition, concluded by stating that he saw no grounds for the proposed change, and re peated that the house ought not to make great alteration with any part of the commerce of the country without the greatest and most mature deliberation. Lord Al ; CHOMP said, that if he did lot then enter into a dis cu►sion on the subject, it was not from a want of proper feeling to wards the Colonies.—(Hear.) On Friday next he should bring the subject forward, and should then be prepared to state bli grounds for so dojos. He therefore thought it was expedient for the House not then to provoke an srgunicur. At all events he should not think him telf justified in going into a detail on the presentation of a petition, but should reserve himself until Friday, when the subject would be regularly before the House. Mr. SA DLER fully concurred in the prayer of the petition, and was f oFinion that the subject was one of the greatest importance to the L rapire at large. He exceedingly regretted that his Majesty's ministers JW not, previous to making great, and (in his opinion) ruinous changes. eoadeseend to ask the advice of those best informed on the subject. Sir M. W. H 11) LEY would not enter into an argument on the pe. tition, but he wished to state, that he had been entrusted with a similar one. He conscientiously believed with the petitioners, that the pro f tl alterations, if carried into effect, would totally annihilate the trade sith Canada. He had several other petitions to present from great towns, stating that the measure would bring the greatest distress upon the shipping interest. Mr. ATT WOOD said he was most decidedly opposed to the altera tion of the duties, and complained of the delay in bringing the plan forward. It was, he said, a gross breach of faith on the part of the government towards those merchants who had embarked their capital in the Canadian trade, and in his opinion calculated to carry revolt into the colonies. The policy of protecting the colonies was the great question to be considered. .Ir. SYKES thought regard ought to be paid to those who had embarked their property in the trade. Mr. Alderman 11'AITHlIAh thought the proposition of the noble :ord bad not been called for, and most unjust. The lion. Charles Douglas, Mr. Schonswar, Mr. Hart Davis, and Mr. Shaw, supported the petition, and hoped the proposed plan would be well considered by Ministers. Mr. Ewart, Mr. Warburton, Mr. Robinson, Mr. W. Whitmore, Lord George Lennox, Mt. Goulburn, and Lord Loughborough, spoke on the importance of the subject, but deprecated a discussion until the subject came regularly before the House. Lord NV. POW LETT supported the petition, Sir F. BURDETT admitted that the petitioners would be sub jected to inconvenience, and that it was the duty of Government, as they formed an important body, to let them down as easy as pos sible. But die present system was one of those monopolies which, like the Methuen treaty, were formerly looked upon as wise, but, bad been shown by able men of a later period, to be productive to the country of the greatest disadvantage. If the trade were lost by the new measure, it would only prove that the trade was an unnatural one. The question was this, which is the most beneficial, to take an inferior kind of timber at a dear rate to encourage the trade of the colonies, or good timber at a cheap rate from a foreign country ? (Hear.) Mr. K. DOUGLAS said the observations of the Honourable Baronet and his friends tended to the destruction of all our Colonial connexions. Mr. S. WORTLEY agreed in the principle of the Government measure • the question was as to its extent. The inj u ry r esu lti ng to the bran ches interested was much exaggerated; still, considering that Canada was to be affected by another measure lately under discuuion, lie considered the equalization inopportune at the present moment. tlr. HL'NT said the Chancellor of the Exchequer had been obliged to resort to the timber-equalization duty, as a source of sup ply to the revenue In the place of the coal duties repealed. He (Mr. hunt) was glad the burden was transferred from the poor to those inure able to bear it. The petition was then brought up, read, and ordered to be printed. Alderman THOMPSON presented three similar petitions ; two from shipowners and others of Glasgow; and one from shipowners and others of Liverpool.—Ordered to be printed. Mr. GREEN moved for leave to bring in a bill to authotise changes of the lands, and other possessions of certain ecclesiastical cor porations.—Leave given. The Roman Catholic Charities (Ireland) bill was read a third timell Lord HOWICK presented two petitions fur reform from Stockport and Alnwick. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the house adjourned at a quarter past twelve o'clock. PRICK OF S • I ty Ks S per Ct. C-Ins. 766 I 6 i Cons. for Ace. 766 6 6 6 6 3 per Cent. Red. shut 36 pet Ct. 18IP, shut 36 per Ct. Red. shut 36 per Cent. New, 853 6 T - TWO O'CLOCK. per Ct. 1826, Long Ann. Jan. 1860, Old Annuities Nzw. £lOOO Rich. Bills 17 18 If; 8590 Ditto 17 18 16 £lOO and £2OO Do. 19 17 FOREIGN STOCKS. :Austrian, 84. Brazilian, 57 ; for the Account, 57. Chilian, 203. Danish, for Acct, 58. Mexican, for Acct, 271 ; Ditto, 1825, fur Acct, 35J. Neapolitan, 62. Russian, 893; for Acct, 893 3 ; ditto —. Spanish, 16+; for Acct, 16; ditto 510, 161. Spanish, 1823, French 5 per et, 84f 25c. Three per et, 54f 25c. Ex. change, 25f 10c. DIPLOMATIC PENSIONS. Mr. 0 ISBORNE moved for a return of dates of all diplomatic and consular pensions. whether included or not in the return of civil and military offices ; the date of appointments and length of service of the several persons receiving such pensions. The honourable member called the attention of the house to the law on the subject, and to the enor. mous amount of diplomatic pensions. Lord ALTHORP did not rise to oppose the motion, but merely to observe, that pensions to retired ambassadors were necessary to secure able diplomatic agents. As to what should be the amount of those pen. sions, that was a different question. Mr. HUME would ask the late Chancellor of the Exchequer whe ther, during his administration, the regulations of the committee of 1428, that these pensions should not exceed 40,0001. per annum, had been attended to / _ . GOULBURN said, that as far as he could recollect, the regu lations were uniformly adhered to. Mr. LEN NARD doubted whether the regulations had been adhered to by the late Government. Motion agreed to. Mr. GRATTAN moved for a copy of the memorial presented to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, on the subject of the union of Wicklow. Mr. SHAW defended the conduct of Archbishop Magee. Mr. C. W. WYNN thought no individual ought to hold so many separate profits ; such proceedings were calculated not to increase the re,peutability of the church. Mr. O'CONNELL condemned these unions ; they were a scandal to :h e church establishment. Mr. GOULBURN contended that there were circumstances in this case which would justify this union, and that would be seen by the production of documents. 31r. LEFROY, senior, said he should not oppose the motion, but th was sorry it was made the medium, on various occasions, of clamour 4 gainat the church. 31r. HUAI E lamented that such language was, adopted, and ob served that it was extraordinary to hear a learned gentleman so 'peak. Was it to be endured that the church of Ireland was to be eo defended ; was it not a tissue of abuses from first to last? There was scrambling every where ; " money, money, money," was the uni versal cry of the clergy in Ireland. But for them, and the animosities they created, there would be no want of such an army as was now ob. liged to be kept up there. That church must be reformed ' • its abuses must be cut down, f or Irishmen would be less than men if they were katisfied with such things. 6. H ICE said the clergy did not deserve such a sweeping an "ore ; there were belonging to the church many excellent men ; at the time he approved of the motion. He was a church reformer, and a determined enemy to the union of parishes. Motion agreed to. Mr. C. V. WYNN moved for a Select Committee, to consider l'ow far it may be expedient to relax the exercise of the privileges this House, respecting the imposition of pecuniary penalties for 31r. H. HUGHES thought the object of the right hon. gentleman was not suf f iciently explained. Mr. SPRING RICE said he could not well conceive any motion more After some conversation between Mr. Huxx and Mr. WYNN, the notion was agreed to. 'file report on the customs duty act was brought up and agreed to ; -nil a bill ordered to be brought in. The Canada Lands bill passed through a Committee, and was ordered I) be read a third time tamorrow, as was also the Canada Lands I i bill. LONDON. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16. By the Hamburgh Mails, we have received a Proclama tion to the Luxembourgers, from the REGENT and Govern ment of Belgium, written in a tone of valourous indepen dence, which we deem highly creditable to the political virtue of the newly-elected Chief. It is the fashion of the day to decry the Belgian Patriots. We have never done so ; nor have we seen any point iu their conduct, which merited the contemptuous tone used towards them by some of the English Journals. Perhaps, never in the annals of the world, has a Revolutionary Government, unfriended by all around it, and with engines at work to destroy unanimity, and produce disgraceful anarchy, conducted itself with greater moderation, yet praiseworthy pertinacity to its prin cipal object. The Belgian revolution, up this date, we be lieve, is guiltless of civil murder—we moan guiltless of executing men in cold blood for differences of political senti ment;—and that we think is speaking volumes in their praise—at which, what are called regular governments might blush. With respect to the line of policy they pursue, it is un doubtedly most inconvenient to those Powers, who have bound themselves to criminal contracts ; those Powers who, with self-assumed authority, cut and parcelled out to each other, the land of Europe geopraphically, without reference to the volition of the people upon the land. This was a criminal contract ; and only could last as long as might could pass for right. Why are the people of Luxembourg to belong to any government, but those they may now deem most conducive to their interest ? Is it not evident, that if Belgium is to be an independent State, that the interests of the Luxembourgers are to form a part of that State, rather than continue hanging on, by virtue of some obsolete treaty—a kind of anomalous adjunct to an un wieldy heterogeneous empire ? The principles of the Holy Alliance—the web woven by the METTERNICHS and CAS TLEREAOHS of Europe, are in fact obsolete, and the sooner enlightened Governments, liberate themselves from the mischievous superstitions of the Bond—the sooner will their energies be efficiently devoted for the peace and happiness of mankind. BRUSSELS. PROCLAMATION or THE RZORNT OT lIRLOII/M. " Inhabitants of the Province of Luxembourg— “ Fellow Citisens—l have sworn to maintain the independence and integrity of the Belgian territory. " I shall be faithful to my oath. " Do not suffer yourselves to be seduced by promises, or terrified by threats. " The Congress has protested spinet the sets of the Congress at London, which a great power itself considers only as proposals. The nation which has bees able to vanquish the Dutch armies will maintain the protest of its representatives. We began our revolution in spite of the treaties of 1815; we will finish it in spite of the protocols of London. " Luxemhurghers, you have been for these three centuries Belgians like us, and you have shown yourselves worthy of that name. Ever since the reign of Philip the Good, your efforts, like ours, have had for their object a common nationality. " In 1816, you had, for the first time, chosen connection with Ger. many ; but you have continued a time under the same institutions as the rest of Belgium. In the Grand Duchy, as well as in the other Belgic provinces, King William has broken the social compact which united him to the Belgians, and has released them from their engage. ments, by violating his own. " War has decided between him and us : the legitimate authority, is that which the national will has founded. " You are not strangers to our combats and our victories—you have spontaneously associated yourselves with the Belgic revolution, and the names of your volunteers are inscribed in the history of our days. " You already enjoy, as far as circumstances will permit, the benefits of the revolution. " The most odious taxes are abolished.—you have yourselves renewed your communal authorities, and your *fairs are administered by men of your own choosing. " Your Deputies have concurred in giving to Belgium the Constitu tion which governs it. " You have not forgotten the vexations of which you have been for fifteen years the victims. Fear the return of the Dutch system of taxation which has ruined your manufactures and your agriculture. The men who speak to you of legal order, and who excite among you civil war, are the agents, the accomplices, of the overthrown Go vernment ; they have lived by all the abuses, and they regret them. Reduced to itself, separated from Belgium, France and Prussia hemmed in on all sides by lines of custom-houses, your province, by constituting itself span, would be the most wretched country on earth. Luxemburghers remain united and firm. In the name of Belgium, accept the assurance, that your brethren will never abandon you. The Regent of Belgium. E. L. SURLIT ox CHOKIIR. By the Regent. (Then follow the Signatures of all the Ministers.) BRUSSEL/ PAPERII, MARCH 13. It will be seen that the new French Ministry is at last officially announced. There can be no doubt that M. C. PERRIER and his colleagues are able and faithfully inclined men ; but there can be no doubt, that so were their immediate predecessors, and so were these designated the Doctrinaires. The difficulties in French Government are not in the faults of the Ministers, but in the restless, unemployed, and easily excited population they have to govern. The sober-minded politicians in France are honestly reluctant to commence a new career of war, and uncertain glory or disaster. The inclination of the young—the unemployed—the e , :citable and we fear we may add, the majority of France, are adverse to such tame doctrines. It is impossible to predict iu what way the new Ministry may lean. '1 he passage we extract below from Le Messager des Chandires considers C. PERRIER not enthusiastically peaceful ; and the passage from Le National, we apprehend, expresses the truth of the future. The improvement in the French funds is considered a pacific symptom. We shall be surprised if C. PERRIER's Ministry sanction Austrian intervention, which is the trying point at present. Accounts from Warsaw come down to the 4th. The General SitRZTNECKI was active in organizing the troops ; and recruits pour in from the provinces, with all the weapons which patriotism could supply. The Polish army in fact consists of 60,000 men, besides a roserve at Czertochau, daily increasing,--and such men must be an overmatch for twice or thrice the number of their barbarian enemies. A Russian corps d'armt'e remains near Pratm, and one Cossacks have approached its walls ; but offensive operations on their part have ceased. In truth we expect to hear that SKRZYN ECK I Will attack and disperse this remnant of the discomfited R u ssians ; and already a party of Poles have crossed at Pulawa, higher up the Vistula, and surprized a body of Russians, takinq nitarly 200 prisoners. In the meantime the Royal Prussian Gazette has, with breathless haste, published the Russian accounts of the bat tles of the 18th and 25th ; of course claiming victory, but admitting a loss of 2,000 men in the first, and of 4,500 in the second, and assigning greater loss to the Poles ! ,1t Hamburgh the loss of the Russians is stated at 15,000, and that of the Poles from sto 6,000. To baffle its own Polish subjects, the Berlin Gazette then publishes notices, to disarm any bands of dispersed Polish troops, which may seek an asylum in Prussia; and states that troops arc as sembled on the Oder to intercept the remains of any Polish army, which may attempt to open a passage to Bohemia, Saxony, or France. It gives, however, no caution in re gard to Russian corps for the present aspect of affairs. We think it far more likely, that bands of Russians will re quire the hospitality of the Prussian Government. Any person who consults the maps will observe that the proposed march of DIEBITSCH to Plock, is intercepted by the Narew and Bug ; and by the swamps and marshes which characterize the Banks of the Vistula ; while the thaws of Spring will render the whole country a quag mire, by which it is characterized in this season by all travellers. How few of 50,000 men will therefore reach Plock, after a devious march of 100 miles through such a track. It may be that some corps may endeavour to reach Plock ; but we consider the announcement as a feint to dis guise the havoc which the season, famine, and the sword have made in the Russian regiments. The posture of affairs between Belgium and Holland, is far from being auspicious. The protocols of the mediators have thrown down the apple of discord ; and left the Bel gians to open the Scheldt, and possess themselves of Mae stricht and the citadel of Antwerp, only by force of arms. From Italy, there is nothing in our Morning Papers, but statements which the STAR published a week ago. In part of our impression yesterday, we gave a copy of the REFORM BILL, as relating to England, which we re publish to-day, for such of our 'readers as were yesterday supplied with the early impressions of our paper. As a piece of legal literature, it is equal to any production in our Statute Book ; while in spirit and principle, it is a master piece of Legislation. In its present form, verbatim et lite ratim, it constitutes a geometrical sphere ; and the smallest part taken away or added, would destroy the symmetry and harmony of the whole. We make this observation at this time, for the purpose cf warning the public against the meddling and tampering of Committees ; fur it' the Fscrion cannot reject the whole Bill, they will assail points, and weary the friends of the measure into concessions. The object of that FACTION will be to destroy or neutralize that which, as it now stands, will in future be our GREAT CHARTER OF LIBERTIES. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FAA N CE. The following is the list of the new French Ministry, officially announced in the Moniteur of Monday : 1. U. Casimir-Petier, Secretary of State for the Interior, and Pre sident of the Council of Ministers. _ . 2. Baron Louis, to be Minister of Finance, in the room of M. Laffitte whose resignation is accepted. S. A 7. Barthe, to be Keeper of the Seals, Blinister of Justice, and President of the Council o f State._ 4. Count de Montalivet, to be blinister of Public Instruttion and Ecclesiastical Affairs, in the room of 11. Barthe.i A Count d'Argout, to be Minister of Commerce and Public Works. 8. Vice-Admiral de Rigny, to be Minister of Marine, in the room of Count d'Argout. M. Sebastiani and Marshal Soult continue to hold their places. The Messayer des Chanibres of Tuesday says—As for the question of peace or war, though M. C. Perier has hitherto been a declared par. tisan of peace, nothing authorizes us to believe that he is disposed to sacrifice the national dignity to it. At the commencement of the revolution in July liar was not believed to be necessary: afterwards people thought it inevitable, but would have us wait for it in our own frontier; now they formally require it. This article concludes as follows Opinion feels that war or peace no longer depends on us ; that the anti-constitutional Cabinets arc obliged by the insurrection of the people to draw the sword against them, — that is to say, against ourselves in the persons of those people wh ose fate is united to ours. Hence the incontestable tendency of p ople's minds towards war, which has gained over the coolest head., and at the head of which the Government must soon place itself to have peace at home." se Nalionui of Monday speaks thus t—" After some reflections on the conduct of the Government, in the choice of the Ministers, before the ordinances were published, it adds in a postcricpt—• We have not to wait till to.morrow ; a second edition of the Mouiteur appeals this evening at 9 o'clock, and gives the Ministry of re .action in its irrevoca ble composition The Royalty of July has reached its Ath of August. It engages in a desperate combat against the principle by virtue of which it exists. It has made its choice for peace, at whatever price—it is going to promise it to the country. It cannot keep what it will pro mise; the force of circumstances will be more powerful than it; war will come ; and if, to be in a condition to resist Europe, France is obliged to begin by vanquishing its government, we know not what to expect, we dare not ask ourselves what we should .' foresee It results from the enquiries th at we have made, that Marshal Maison, Ambassador from France at Vienna, has not arrived at Paris ; that no person, either in the government or in his own family, knows any thing of his return, and, In short, that at the moment of our writing the news is not true. POLAND AND RUSSIA. The Kuryer Polski has the following remarks; " Instead of actively assisting our cause, the French divert them selves, under the pretext of serving the Poles t they give balls, con certs, plays, and collect charitable contributions as for beggars. In this mannerthey have got together some thousand francs. They may give them, If they like, to some town in France that has suffered fro:r fire We, Poles, are ready to contribute an equal share." The St. Petersburgh papers contain the Russian account of the bat. tic fought on the 18th near Alilosna, which is described as a brilliant victory, and in which the Russians are represented to li.ire 2,0iAl men, while the loss of the Poles moat have been considerably gt.ra.er. Thsise papers also speak now, for the first time. of an insurrection whit Is broke out last autumn among the mountaineers of the Cattiasus, hearing of the French revolution. The insurrection, se art• tali,. a,. quickly sopproled by Generals Pirikratjew ant! Emmanuel in a ma.. 1., glorious to the Russian arms. PUBLIC Bank Stock, shut India Stock, —. Bonds, 2 4 London Docks, £59 10s St. Catherine's, £7B 10. City Gas, £l9O Bank of Scotland, £167 British Linen, £l5O Grand Junction, £243 Leeds, £395 Regent's, £lB 10s Ors o'Caocc—Barometer, 29-67 ; Tito Weather, cloudy. IMPANIES. Irish Grand Canal, 754 Forth and Clyde, £625 Li v. & Man.Railway,.£lB6 to£l9o Cromford, £45 Guardian, Albion Fire, £75 Alliance, £8 5s County, £4O Bolanos Mines, £lBO Steam Navigation, dis. £6 15s r, 59. Wind &W. Til E EVENING STAR. ITALY. The Precur..rur of Lyons says, 7 A courier, who arrived this &limn ing, the 10th of March, at Lyons, announces ;hat the Austriais e eatesed Ferrara and Novi, and that they were marching sgainst Mo dena, into which they have probably entered by this time." The Prccursrur de Lyon, March 10, says, that letters front Milan, Tulin, and Nice, mention. a report v.hich circulates in those countries, and which is an odious csltininy against the French government. Aus tria, I. is said, is going to interfere in independent Italy. in concert with England and France. This report is a ananteuvre of the Aus riot agents to intimidate the Italians who have shaken off the yoke, and to check those who might be tempted to do he s3l•.;e. — The French Government cannot, without ruining itself, stiffer the prin ciple of non-intervention which it has proclaimen, to be violacd; and it could not, without not only Ruining but dishonouring itself, lend its aid to stifle liberty in another country. The French Government is s little disposed to a course so contrary to its interest and its honout, that the legation at Rome having been informed of a treaty con ' eluded between the Pope and Austria, to obtain assistance. despatch. ed an extraordinary messenger to acquaint the Governmmt.— This messenger arrived here on Monday last, (7th Match), and the information he brought was transmitted to Paris by the telegraph. " Meantime, all the reports of the entrance of Austrian troops into Modena, Parma, &c. are premature."— The Gazette de France of Sunday gives a letter from Remo, of the 2d of March, stating that a troop of Bolognese insurgents, led by the sons of Messrs. Louis, Jerome, and Lucien Buonaparte, had advi.nced nearly to Civita Caatellana, hut that the) did not venture either to att lel: or turn that citadel; and on hearing that a detachment of the civic guar.l of Rome was preparing to march against them, they returned preciuitate'y to the place whence they came. All that the Paris journal, 1....5e pub halted, of preparations for the departure of the Pole rid the Car. dinala, has no foundation whatever. In the first port of (Arita Vecchia there are no vessels that will soon be ready to sail, but a small Corsican vessel which was hired a week ago to convey some Frenchmen to Marseilles. It was supposed that they were the members of the French school, some of the pupils of which had been imprisoned. It is unhappily certain that several Frenchmen were among the rebels during the troubles of the 16th, and that they have been killed by the people, who are not easily calmed. It was affirmed that the Austrians were to march to Bologna immediately.after having pacified Modica, which will be a business of five or six days. SPIRIT OF THE JOURNALS. Texes.—The Government could not be conducted under the *duel nistration of Laffitte, without exposing France to internal agitaticn, and Europe to a general war. His Ministry passed on, from tumult to tumult, making concessions at every alarm. and rill provoking to fur ther dis:urbauces in order to obtain further concessions. Titus we lad mobs in October, which compelled the King to change a part of his council, and to renounce his intention of submitting to the Chambers a law to which he had been pledged. Again the capital was the scene of riots in December, and a new modifi cation of the Ministry took place. In February acts of pillage and profanation took place, which would disgrace the most barbarous times. and the authorities, to gratify the mob, pulled down crosses front the churches, and effaced the ancient ornaments from the Royal Arms. The vote of thanks to the students of the University, for interfering in the tumults of December, was of itself such an act of cul pable imprudence as ought immediately to have led to the dis missal of M. Laffitte. The citizens of Paris have how. in the change of Ministry, a kind of pledge that they will not be pe riodically called upon as before to desert their business and their fumes, to rush, in the uniform of the National Guard, to the head-quarters of their sections when the drum beats to arms, and to bivouack in the streets or squares, in order to disperse crowds of idle vagabonds who choose to think that they have a right to express their political opinions by menaces and violence. Another banker, who had raised himself to eminence before the revolution of July, by his Parliamentary talents, is now to be tried as a prime minister. As his capacity is infinitely supe rior, his judgment more discerning, and his knowledge of affairs more ample and enlarged, we shall neither be apprehensive of the same pre. sumption or of the WIC failure. Poter.—We hate forborne for some time past to solutes:yen upon Lord Palmerston's foreign policy. The contemptuous disregard of our protocols and despatches evinced by the Belgic government shows in the clearest manner to how low a station that policy has reduced us. The timid, vacillating, and blundering manner in which the Whigs, of non intervention fame, interfered with Belgic affairs was the tint cause of our humiliation, and of French and Belgic insolence. The 2;i was that superficial information respecting our national resources which Mean. Hume and Bo wr ing,and others of the revolutionaryschool,commu n laird to the Belgic Deputies in London. The third cause was Lord Althorp's. or rather Mr. Crolekelt Thomson's Budget. The attack on British funded property, on steam navigation, on the shipping interest, on the colonial interest, and on the Methuen treaty, were all viewed as revolu tionary in their spirit, and as subversive, in their tendency, of our national credit and resources. The invasion of Aristocratic and Parliamentary influence is held as the signal of downfal to all our Aristocratic in. stitutions ; and whatever our Greys and Stanleys, in the spirit of pane madness, may imagine to the contrary, all foreigners know that the high tone which, up to this fatal year, ever since 1688, England has given to Europeao Councils, will henceforth dwindle into the Revolutionary cant of French Jacobinism. They know that from the hour the fatal bill passes British preponderance in Europe is at an end. Farewell peace—f. ire. well social order—farewell commercial prosperity—farewell credit— farewell every principle of national honour, faith, and security, which is now found in our Parliament, and which, when a club of obedient country Whigs and democratic tradespeople is exchanged fur it, will drag us down as low as the Clubbiats of Paris have dragged dewn their Republican Monarch. POST.—That party which aims at the establishment of a R public. and who scruple not even now to avow their inicatiora in private, al. though in public they screen themselves under the mask of hypo:risy— that party of levellers, to which Hume, AVarburien, Pettlett Thonisoc, O'Connell, Colonel Jones, Mr. Wakley, and others, arc known to be long, now hails the boon of Reform with unequivocaltielight. Why ? be. cause they see in It Earl Grey's downfal and their own eventual triumph. They know that the instant the independent poser of the ar.smeracy is destroyed, that Instant the dependence of the othir two elates upon the Commons for every monied grant plaus all government at their disposal. If the downfal of an imbecile Wl.:g itdstry were the only inevitable result of their present measure, etc a:;ould not now be among its opponents ; but the lit publican party k n ow full well that when the people at arge are the depositar ies ref national power, their clan - tour will be our only court of appeal. The vox popish. not the salsa poptsli,will then be our supreme law; and whoever underbids a political rival in the auction of popular suffrag-, that man must be come the Althorp, Hume, or Lafayette of his day. 11'hoeeir seeds before the gale may live longest in the sea of revolutionary troubles ; but woe to him who attempts to alter his course against the wind. That instant, be he King or be he Minister, King William or King Philip, a Citizen King, with republican institutions, or a rcfurmine King with aristocratic institutions, that instant the vessel of state will founder, and with it all our national strength and greatness. The republicans, who see through the vista of revolution a new state of which they will Le rulers, laugh at the sinking of the King AVilliato, and if Sir J. Graham's little cock-boat be epee they feel no anxiety for the lose. They wools' throw Lord Althorp overboard after his budget in the very first se:•stor of a new parlianunt but in whom would they confide our national ache pier ? Answer that, Earl Grey. To a L'itig Minister who adopts a Tory Minister's Civil List? No. To a Whig who increased taxa tion ? No. To a Wltig who augmented OUT military and naval ate blishmeats, preserving at the same time national faith inviolate? No. —The Government would be b'd for, by your shopkeeping, pounds shillings and pence politicians. —your penny-a.live news. mongers,—your Greek Loan Jobbers,—your Radicals like Colonel Jones, or Mr. Sonic:, the buicher, now Candidate for the Tower Hamlets—your Dr. Borerin ,s—your Mr. Place the ta:ler— your Mr. efriteood of the Birmirgham Union —your liri. neys and Al true:, the linen-drapers and attorneys of Brighton —your Mints, Humes,Warburlona, O'Connell:, and Whiffle purveys—al der.e.lats, all lovers of cheap govvrnmcnt. all enemies of establishments, all pre tended friends of the people. The same clamour of which you, Earl Grey, now most unconstitutionally avail yourself against the Tory members of your order, will then be directed against that Stanley., Grosvenor., Cavendishes, Howlett's, and Russells, whose great Northern Whig confetleracy you think to strengthen by the spoliation of southern borou,ha. One year, wee single quarter, of misgoverr nit at. }Leh as that which we have just lived to witness, will then furni s h more than enough feed for ambitious democrats and revolutionists. CITY, TWO O'CLOCK Consols which were done in the early pail of the morni.lg at 76, reached 762; since which they may be quoted at 76/to for the account. The movement of the Austrian troops is the cause of the market having. declined. In the Foreign Market nothing doing at preyent. COAL-EXCHANGE—THIS DAY. Ships arrived during the month During the week Best ‘VaMend Coals 2ss Od Other sorts Ships at Market, 1154.