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Ui . rtv I!, 1 : , 1 1' I f i 1 r ail I % 'll k 1 f ; n , 1 4 1 t : I ' . '• t , t i i j ---Nie l .-- WAR IN POLAND. We have just received the Journal des Debuts of Sunday, containing various important intelli gence, from the seat of war in Poland, down to the 17th of May. An Estafette on that day arrived at Warsaw from Zamosc, which fortress it left on the 12th, at two o'clock. It appears that Generals Cnaz an ow sit t and Rom A RANO had, agreeably to the object for which they were dispatched by the General-in-Chief, approached Zamosc, and had previously sent before them eight hundred Russian prisoners ; and the fighting in the vicinity was still continued. General KRTZSINS . KI, the Com mander of the fortress, had sent two battalions and five pieces of cannon, to assist in the action. The same despach states that two hundred and fifty officers and soldiers of DIVERNIcsi's corps had arrived in Poland. A letter from Berlin, of the 21st May, states that the Lithuanian insurgents— or rather, we may presume, some of them—had approached the Prussian frontiers, with an intention to enter them. THE FRENCH AND DON MIGUEL. Our advices this morning from Lisbon to the 22d ult. state, that the French squadron, to demand satisfaction, had arrived off the rock of Lisbon, consisting of two 60-gun ships, two corvettes, and a brig of war. The latter had been sent into Lis bon-bay, with the peremptory demands of the French Government, as stated in our Falmouth letter; but MIGUEL being at his country palace, 48 hours time was demanded for reply, and the brig had returned to the squadron for instructions. in the mean time IN 10IIEL had arrived in Lisbon, and demanded other forty-eight hours; and it was believed in Lisbon, that the demands would be re sisted. The Agio, on the first appearance of the squadron, fell to 27 ; afterwards rose to 29 ; and, at the departure of the intelligence, had fallen again to 28. The result is expected with anxiety. But the more important intelligence by this channel, is the account received at Lisbon, that the Constitutionalists at Terceira, had taken ST. MICHAEL'S, the chief of the Azores, and had put to death the Governor—a tyrannical agent of MIGUEL. Of course the possession of the Azores, by this more reasonable power, is an important fact, with reference to the interests and navigation of Great Britain. CHANGE OF AMERICAN MINISTERS. We have received American papers of impor tance, containing a change of the President's Ministry. The new Cabinet is to consist of the under mentioned persons : Secretary of State, EDWARD LIVINGSTON, of Louisiana; Secretary of War, HUGH WHITE, of Tennessee ; Secretary',of Trea sury, Louis &FLAN E, of Delaware; St celery of the Nary, ANDREW STEV ENSON, of Vbginit. It is also added, that JOHN M. P. BERRIEN, Attorney General, has resigned, and that the Honourable JAMES BUCHANAN, of Pensylvania, will be appointed in his place. THE NEMTLIAMENT. Within a fortnight our PATRIOT KING will meet a PATRIOT PARLIAMENT, in which the , ♦oice of millions will be substituted for the in tripes of the boroughmongers. What a source of hope to twenty two millions of British subjects— to our colonies, and our dependencies around the globe—and to liberal men through all civilized nations. The questions will be, what is most advantage ous to the country ?—not what will most serve the members, their patrons, and kindred ! What will most promote the happiness of man ?—not what will most promote the pride and empty splendour of a few privileged persons ! Nevertheless, in the heterogenous assemblage of this Parliament, the old leaven will continue to show itself, and there will be quibbling and carp ing, and sophisticating, quite enough to afford pleasure to the public by the consideration that all such exertions will be v. ithout power. Four hun dred Reformers, to two hundred and sixty-eight, are odds which will create no apprehensions ; while in the majority there are untried men who with ardour will seek to flesh their maiden logic in wordy encounters with the enemies of their princi ples. If there be genius, talents, intelligence, and public virtue in Britain, sufficient to prove that the country is worth saving, they will be displayed within a month after the meeting of this Parlia ment. We shall unquestionably hear of some plane out of the ordinary routine and common place, calcu lated to revive and encourage the industry of the country, and to extricate the suffering people from the snares and toils in which they have been en tangled for the last thirty or forty years. Some men, identified by education and habits of life with the people, will arise to instruct those who brought up in the lap of luxury, and mingled only with aMuence, know so little of the true causes of pub lic discontent, and therefore have, and can have, no practical plans for relief. Of the one hundred en tirely new members, some PUTT, at least, may be expected to be such men as those described ; and from them, the rest may receive such lessons of wisdom as the people have Iong—VERY LONG —desired to see given in our public councils. But, if it prove not so—if this Parliament should be a compromise to effect one object only—we shall honour it for achieving that object, and regard its duration as the ADVENT of better things. Political abuses have grown step by step, and their removal must be effected step by step. We must, therefore, if necessary, await the coming of a Re form Parliament, in which we may presume that the fifty will be quadrupled, and then be numerous enough to maintain, and orig inal enough to enforce, by facts and arguments, th various means of re lief of which the million stand so much in need.— But to effect this requires men who are themselves identified with society, as part and parcel of its fa mily ; for no theories or theorists, no undisciplined intentions however good, no mere mawkish philan thropy, and no intercourse, how long so-ever con tinued with the privileged orders, are wholly corn petent. Nor do these plans imply revolution or violence, or injury to any—all which involve IN JUSTICE, and therefore can have no concern with the comforts of families and household enjoyments. But we have said enough. We have suffered and are suffering—and brighter prospects are before us, if we have patience, if we maintain our loyalty to the Father of his People, and if we have just confidence in his upright Ministers. ••• In two or three days, we will take an opportunity of restating the heads of plans which the enlightened People of England expect fro:n a popular Parliament. THE EVENING STAR. LON PON . \WEDNESDAY. JUNE 1. TILE KING KING OF BELGIUM. The Bruxelles papers, received this morning, confirm, as a fact, that Prince LEOPOLD has sig nified, by Lod d PON SON BY, that he will accept the throne of Belgium, if elected—and of the elec tion there can he no doubt, since the Congress had already decided, by an immense majority, in his favour. Of the good feeling that exists on the subject, in the Belgic Government, we have evi dence, in a magnanimous letter of SURLET de CHORIER, who modestly reproves an editor, for printing an article, in which he is complimented with being a fitter Sovereign than Prince LEOPOLD. For our own parts, as friends to all that is liberal, we take the liberty to state that we think, that if Belgium is not allowed to have a President in the fashion of the United States, Prince LEOPOLD is the fittest foreign Prince that could be proposed. Other points are more Belgic than European— Luxernburgh is to be Belgic for a consideration paid to the KING of HOLLAND; but Limburgh and its county are to be retained, and the Dutch are to be allowed to occupy both sides of the Scheldt, below Antwerp. Both points cannot tail to be a fruitful source of future discord ; and we can only account for dispositions so monstrous and absurd, by the consideration that some of the parties to the protocols were members of the black Congress of Vienna! tic •• i r.l THE FRENCH CHAMBERS. I I There appears to be much equivocation about the dissolution of the French Chambers. They were prorogued newly a month ago, with a professed view to dissolution ; yet owing to some mistrust, it has not taken place, thcugh spoken of week after week. In the mean time the KING has made a tour, and M. PERIER, we uro told, has sent an address to the Electoral Colleges—of extraordinary length. What should we in England have thought if any Prime Minister had presumed to take so imperti nent a liberty with the electors of England ? Was not the same indecency a chief cause of the over throw of Pomo NAc ? What do the Government want distinct from the wishes of the people, and why all this management ? But other parties are active—and we as Englishmen ask, why not? Is not this civil liberty? Are not all parties diligently at work in England before an election; yet did the Government in its own name ever interfere ? If the French Ministry have no partizans but them selves, woe to them ; but if they have, why not I trust the elections to the free play of parties ? II the pusillanimous foreign policy of the Ministry has made it generally odious—why did it not render itself popular by a more worthy policy ? Do the Ministers suppose that all the wisdom of France cen tre:. in them ? A despot may despise the public voice—not so a free government—and yet of this trito truth the French Ministers appear to be ut terly ignorant. Coquetry, equivocation, jockey ship, cajolery, and other fooleries, do no good in such cases ; and we suspect that the electors of France will pay more homage to the honour of France, and the cause of civil and religious li berty all over the world, than to any favourite policy of the successive Cabinets of Louts PHILIPPE. We bear no more of the bouncing article in the Journal des Debats—and really if this was a mere election trick, the parties concerned deserve exemplary punishment. THE WEST INDIA QUESTION. A few days since we exclusively laid before the public, Reports of the Demerara Planters, and of the Convention of West India Planters, held at Barbadoes, relative to the sufferings and losses of that extensive branch of industry for want of re munerating prices. The cause is, the competition of Foreign Planters in other settlements, where the continuance of the Slave Trade enables them to grow at less cost, which competition cannot be met by British Planters, owing to our heavy duties.— Hence this, like other grievances, becomes a mere question of taxation, and the enemies of Slavery, and aggravated Slavery, pat the Planters in the wrong by petitioning against those cruelties; and they ought rather to call, with one voice, for the reduction of the duties on West India produce.— This would at once enable our Planters to compete with French, Dutch, Danish, and Spanish planters, and, at the same time, ease the slaves. It is put ing the Planters in the wrong, to petition against that excess of labour by which alone they can avoid annual loss ; and it is creating perplexity to Go vernment and Planters not to sea with equal ener gy, a modification of taxes which are the primary cause of all the evils. Again, if all duties were taken off British West India productions, the ques tion of free labour might then be entertained by all parties ; for, in fact, those taxes, like others in re gard to home labourers, ultimately resolve them selves into labour, and in this case reach the labour and liberty of the wretched blacks. ROYAL EXCHANGE, THREE O'CLOCK. Consols, which left off yesterday at 84} f for the Account, opened at the same price; soon after lowered to 84; and at present may be quoted at 841 i for the Account, and 84i for money. The speculators in the city are anxious to hear the re sult of this day's important declarations in the Congress at Brussels. In the Foreign Market, little or nothing doing. In the Foreign Stock Market this morning, Brazilian Bonds, for the Account, were 621 ; Columbian Bonds, for for the Account, 134 ; Danish Bonds, 3 per Cent. 634 ; Greek Bonds, 100, 22; Mexican Bonds, 5 per Ceat. 30; Ditto for the Account, 394 ; Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent. 954 b ; Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent. 15a ; Ditto, 510, 16 ; French Rentes, 5 per Cent. 90f. 75c ; Exchange, 25i. 30e. In the Share List, ltlexican, at 71; Protector Fire, at IL Bs. Canada, 144 15 ; General Steam Navigation, 51 ; Provincial Bank of Ireland, at 264 t. PRICE OF STOCKS AT THREE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock, 1991. 3 per Ct. Cons. 841 31 41 3; 4. Cons. for Account, 84] 41. 3 per Cent. Red. 831 1. 31 per Ct. 181 8 , 91. 3/ per Ct. Red. 901 1. 31 per Cent. New, 92; 4. 4 eel. Ct. 1846, 99 81. Long An. I nuities, Jan. 1860, 16 15.16 17 161 India ;Stock, 103. India Bonds, 1 pm. 41000 Exchequer BM 11 13. .11500 Ditto, 11 13. .6100 and 0200 Do. 11 13. By Hobart Papers to Jan. 1, we learn the hor rid fact, that no less than 2,235 male and female convicts had arrived in Van Dieman's Land within the year. What a subject for deep sympathy, both as to the cause and effect. Provisions were so cheap, that a fat sheep war bet is. dd. and a bullock but 12s. or 15s. and wheat 21. 9d. per bushel. Broil lid. per lb. Captain Logan, of the Oh, had bean murdered In the woods near Mouton Day, by the satires. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. PARIS, Mosoar. SYMPATHY OF THE FRENCH AND ENGLISH LIBERALS. Our national prejudices have often rendered us unjust to wards England. It has made us confound the English people with the government. The English people sympa thize with the liberties of mankind; they had an admiration party for the emancipation of the Americans, for the Coates of Spain atd of Portugal, and for the glorious revolutions of Paris, of Brussels, and of Warsaw. We have often reproached them with egotism; it is that we have not sufficiently re marked that they have been in the hands of the aristocracy, while the aristocrats are in their nature the most egotistical of men ; moreover, the unparalleled prosperity of England, holds the people to its commerce. But it must be confessed on the other hand, that, without England, a long time since, all the nations of Europe, oppressed by the coalition of kings, would have sunk under the yoke of absolute power. The English press, by its cries of alarm, has saved more than once the liberty of the Continent. She has favoured the establishment of constitutions, she has unmasked the bigotry of kings, of courtiers and of priests, she has exposed the cowardly and cruel actions of tyrants. If England and France would go hand in hand, atuktogether plant upon the lands of despotism the flag of liberty, in less than a year from the sables of Cadiz to the borders of the Neva, entire Europe would be free. Arbitrary kings know this; they have vowed against England a profound hatred, and if the hand of some en. chanter could throw a bridge from the continent to the shores of that island, it is upon London that they would precipitate their barbarous hordes. There are two things which our legitimates will never pardon in England, ite aristocracy, not more than its de mocracy; the first is for having consecrated by the inaugura tion of an usurper, the contempt of the right divine; the second, is that of being separated from the hand of the Rcman church. Though partisans of the concentration of power and pro petty in a few hands, our legitimates offer up wishes for the triumph of radicalism, in the secret hope that in the midst of the troubles of a British Revolution, the representative go vernment of West Britain might fall with its press, and an absolute monarchy rise out of its ashes. While our Ministry of quasi-legitimates forget the origin and the promises of July, persecute the press, dismiu the patriots, and address to the Citizen King the fulsome flatte ries and adulations of Charles X. our looks are turned towards England, still in its youth. We, like its Chur -1 cellor, the illustrious Brougham, before whom our states men are so insignificant. May he pursue his salutary Reforms with much energy ! May he cause to wince, under the sarcasm of his eloquence, that Aristo cracy, saturated with pride and wealth, who only reign by corruption and the service of the rotten boroughs. We know well that in voting for the liberty of England, we vote for the increase of her strength and her grandeur. We would succour our eternal rival : but we are men as well as citi zens. We see brothers in all nations who wish to throw off the yoke of despotism, and we would aid them all in our power. There is between them and us a solidity of princi ples and interests which they will not repudiate. Whilst the Constitutionalists of France and England remain united, the holy name of liberty will not perish. From London to Paris, from Bordeaux to Dublin, the sympathies of the people will respond ; kindred emotions have crossed the channel ; they are understood ; and the two most civi. used nations of the globe—the most able to compechend and appreciate each other—ought to form a mutual associa tion against tyranny. After having overthrown, with our cannonade of July, the aristocracy of the noblesse, we now find ourselves placed under the more ridiculous aristocracy of pedants and bankers! The people—let us hope—will finish, by enlightening themselves; by ascertaining that re volutions do not affect the soil ; and that generous and pa triode blood does not flow, merely to support and fortify the presumptuous hereditary claims of a useless peerage—to fatten and encourage the idle and luxurious habits of a proud and vicious race—the gilding and frippery of the courtier_ either at the expense, or the toil e the hard-wrought, but DOW intelligent labourer.-.-Courrier Francais. PARTIALITY OF PRUSSIA AND AUSTRIA IN THE POLISH QUESTION. We have already exhausted all the language of admiration in speaking of Poland ; she sheds her blood, she dies as we write. But whose fault is it ? Diplomatists are mistresses of the ground, she is drawn in the routine of these inactive despoilers; and the partiality of the Cabinets of Vienna and Berlin wound every instant the sacred principles of the rights of men. Alas ! is it not at last time that two great nations, such as England and France, demand that these Cabinets abstain from such odious measures ? We will make a summary of a few facts,—they speak sufficiently of them. selves. Prussia and Austria, having had their share in the palliate of Poland, are visibly interested in the question. It will be great joy for them, if Warsaw returns under the all-powerful Nicholas. Thus they favour the arms of the Czar as much as possible. They watch, not to allow funds to pass which belong to the Polish government and that which is addressed to it by the Foreign Committees. At Berlin, they arrest our young physicians, and will not open a passage for them but after investigations, interrogato ries, and scientific examinations. The Prussian Cabinet alters the Polish Bulletins, and withdraws the facts not ho nourable to the Russian character. Moreover, it appears, that a Journal of Warsaw has received the eopy of an article from the Prussian Minister, by virtue of which, they will seize as property of the Emperor of Russia, not only the funds of the Bank of Poland, but again the sums of private money sent, if that money is a property of the Bank. If the Prussian Cabinet acts thus, is it not a real inter vention in favour of Russia ? Does she not become the agent of an Autocrat ? Dees site not descend to a character not very honourable? And, besides, has the Cabinet of Berlin the right of pronouncing upon a question, at least, doubtful to its eyes, and which is not to ours ? The funds of the Bank of Poland--are they not provided from the taxes raised in Poland ? Well I An insurrection provoked by unbearable tyranny bursts forth; Warsaw gives the signal the nation pro. claims itself independent after a vicfory void of all excess; she supports that independence with arms; force bad dis membered her, force can overthrow the work of oppressors; there is no prescription for the right of the strongest, Wh a would be the result of that spoliation, though force be wot right P Nothing I Whilst the spoliator is the most power ful, he keeps that which he has stolen; but if the 'polluted reseises his property, he re-enters in the exercise of all his rights. The treaty of Vienna ha's been invoked, but has not that treaty been violated by Russia ? A reciprocal contract re. poses upon the accomplishments of conditions equal to the parties, and the Russian Emperors have in no point obi. served it: they had promised constitutional institutions, and sought to extinguish every where nationality, to huml.l lists the Poles, to prohibit even the use of their language. The Emperor Nicholas has not then the right of exacting as his, the funds of the bank, for it is a question which will be decided by the sabre,until the Cabinets of Europe shall ay, "EneswAr and interpose between them. The duty of Prussia is to °bone a strict neutrality, and, slncei s it will, not honour itself by tendering a hand to Poland, let ft at least not be its enemy. Russia is obstinate in this sanguinary game, she prepares new armaments, Russian favouritism irritates and oats to Nicholas its gold and its peasants ; it will again throw thousands of men in his terrible wrath. And every victory of Poland is a wound which does not close, every drop of blood which escapes from her is not reparable enfeebled, she appeals, and Europe looks on : Unfortunate Poland ! That you should be left to implore us ! It tip. pears that England is moved, and that she has signified it by energetic notes to the Cur; and the entry of an English squadron in the Baltic is even spoken of. Wedare not fiat. ter ourselves with the reality of these hopes of intervention, in which we desire to see our Cabinet participate ; bnt, at lead, his its duty to cause Prussia and Austria to observe the laws of strict neutrality.—Le Constitutionnet. REPORTS OF THE DAY.—" They discourse much, in diplomatic salons, of an exchange of notes which has taken place a month since, and to which l attributed great import ance. It is said that M. Perla has demanded from Vienna and Berlin the disarming of all, or part, of their exorbitant military state, which, by exciting alarms, paralyses commer. cial transactions. It has been answered by the Cabinet of Vienna, that Austria does not desire anything better than to put her military state upon the footing of peace ; but that such a measure cannot be taken until after the solu. tion of some important questions which are connected with the present state of Poland and Italy. It has been re. plied by France, that these questions being resolved in part by the Congress of Vienna, nothing can prevent the Powers from agreeing upon the incidents created since the revolution of July, and which have not modified these stipulations of the Congress of Vienna ; but in that which concerns Italy, Austria has exercised, even beyond the limits of her rights, the intervention of police in the Italian States, and that these States cannot longer be the pretexts for new armaments. In that which regards Poland, the overtures made to the Emperor Nicholas have been repulsed ; it has been shown to him that, as the present state of Poland may threaten the peace of Europe, France and England believe it essential to call all the attention of his Majesty, the Emperor Nicholas, upon the convention ordered at Vienna, which assured the constitutional independence of Poland. It is this last note which has given rise to some reports of war which have been current since yesterday —Courrier Francais. WARSAW, Max 16. In vain we have looked for help from France, that France which led us into revolution, :and promised us her best aid. In vain do we call to the remembrance of your cruel Govern. mint the wrongs we have suffered, and the ills we yet endure. We have appealed to the delicacy, to the honour, and to the gratitude of France, but in vain. To England we must cow look. But we have no right to ask het aid on the store of favours we have conferred, or past services we have rendered. We saved your country from a Russian invasion last autumn, by our revolution, and, la return, we cannot even obtain muskets, under the seal of France, nor remittances of money. Lord Grey is a distinguished friend of liberty, and he is surrounded by those who have long fought against the policy of the Holy Alliance ; but will they break with Russia for the sake of Poland? If not, we must prepare for pillaged cities, murdered families, for crimes unheard of in civilised countries, and for a third invasion. We shall again; ]rive back these robbers who would wrest from us new liberty, but our strength may at last be weakness, and Po land may fall. Exert yourself, then, to the utmost in this holy cause. All goes on well at present. The Russian army does not advance on us. The cholera mochas is not so virulent or destructive as among our enemies. The enthusiasm is in creased. The confidence of our troops in their General and in their cause is unbounded. The defeat of Dwernield I discouraging, but the revolution in Volhynla is not compro mised. We have received a very important communication from Lithuania, which you will read in our journals. The decree has gone forth, that the rebel provinces of our dear ancient Poland shall be united to us. All this is encouraging, and the fundholder with the landholder is preparing to make his sacrifices. It is a national contest, but how small is that nation when opposed to Russia ? Yet to submit would be worse than to be exterminated; and though Warsaw may be destroyed, it will never be occupied by a,. Russian army, dcc. The Gazette de France gives the following extract of a private letter from Antwerp, dated the 24th inst. The object of the Regent's visit to Antwerp, was to inspect the batteries raised along the Scheldt, near Lillojand those esta blished against the citadel, and had two motives; the firs t was to satisfy the war party, by showing that preparation were making for action, and the other was to induce those who were working at the fortifications In opposition to the armistice to desist from their labours. The maritime force of Holland, below Lill*, has been considerably augmented, but the Belgians have not a single armed boat at this point ; they have, however, raised batteries of 128 guns, of 36 and 48 pounders from Lino, as far as the Tete de Flondres. The Dutch army amounts to 60,000 men, while that of Belgium is only 40,000 ; but the spirit with which the latter: are animated, causal them to be regarded as more than equal to' their adversaries. Notwithstanding tall these preparations , there is every hope of conciliation, from the disposition of the Congress, and the hope of the acceptance of Prince Leopold." The Regent has returned to Brussels:from his visit to Antwerp. Orders have been given to Oen. 3lellinet to pro. coed to Tourney, there to wait for further instructions The Military Governor of the province of Luxembourg AI. Busen, has sent Ai. de Puydt to the citadel to demand the restoration of the arms taken from the Civic Guards of several neighbouring villages. Notwishstanding the pre sence of the Prussian garrison, the inhabitants of the town received N. de Puydt with shouts of " Vivent les Beiges He was well received by the Pripet of Hesse Humbug, but we have not learnt the issue of his application. L'Avenir argues, that the principle laid down as an argu ment against the Tight of demanding specific pledges from candidates, that a Deputy once chosen is the Deputy of France, not of the department for which ha is elected, is entirely a fallacy, as a multitude of instances may occur in which it would be the bounden duty of a Deputy to advocate the individual interests of the province which he represents ; and, in the event of a majority of the representative Cham ber voting a law manifestly contrary to and destructive of the principles of the Constitution, each individual member of the minority would be Representative of his department, specifically fur the purpose of protesting, in the name of his constituents, against its adoption. Le National argues, that the only true principle of a Re presentative Government is to be found in the choice of De puties, taking with them to the Chamber the mandates of their constituents. It maintains that this was the case in the earliest periods of the States-General, and calls on the electors not to abandon their right of requiring pledges from the candidates on all points of importanos, and particularly that of an hereditary Peerage; " for," it concludes, " to re. Wowed, in the path of liberty is the lowest degree of de basement into which a nation can be plunged." Ls Tribune refers to the English elections as furnishing noble exempla for imhstion, and calla on the French nation not to allow England, which received ha impetus front the revolution of July, to outstrip it in ha progress towards the • goal at freedom. La Quotidian* maintain that the neeseion al the P.rl.r a d m i n i s t ra ti o n to power, from which so much basest was anticipated, has, in fart, produced noire whatever. Forei gn affaln are in the same unsettled state ; commerce, tn ana h e , tures, and industry, are suffering equal distren; and Brittany proves that d internaltha n undt:r the soq tauillitlte inis tranquillity of ad the m con ntrat n yto i more disturbed rril fact, it concludes, nothing has been changed from the mo n th of June, except that we base the sun, but that .hines on an the world, and serves especially to throw light on the faults or deceptions of those who can neither do good or prevent evil. NATIONAL CONOREIS —.lrmo or NAT 27, M. Ralkeu read the report of the central aeolaa on the four motions submitted to its examination on the 25th, Ti t —l. That of M. Ch. Rodenbach to Hz the elections of the head of the state for the let June ; 2d, That of malty de. putics desiring that Prince Leopold may be elected King a Belgium; 3d. That of M. Blargnies r:spe et i eg N utt. burg, &e. 4th, That of M. Robauls, that the execu t i ve power shall employ all possible means to regain the r . rinses in the hands of the enemy. The central section est. mined then in the following order: 1. No. 3, thatof M. Blargniesrejected. 2. 4, that of M. Robaulx rejected. 3. 1, that of M. Rodenbach. Those sections that did not adopt it, desire an earlier day, 4. No. 2, supported by M. Van de Weyer. Of 122 members who were present in the sadly. 96 assented : 24 reserved their votes, and two Cal i were agaiost. The Congress consists of 200 munberi, asd above 78 did not attend the summons. The Central Sec. Lion, consisting of 11 members, unanimously assentel. N. de Hobanlx.—Gentlemen : As the arrival of L. ? Ponumby has bout announced for some days, and vas t: bring news which we expect with hopes, others with wish to k,iow, now he has arrived, if the Minister reign Affairs has any coimminication to make to us. SPIRIT OF THE JOURNALS . M. Leb,au.—l had a visit from Lord Ponsonby at o'clock yesterday evening. I had a conversation which continued till late at night, and which it is to report in a public assembly. ; I was informed cial note would be communicated to me to.da7, which, the Assembly does not sit till four o'clock, I shall not able to communicate till to-morrow. The Assembly resolved, that to-morrow, ing to the order of the day, It would discuss the head of the State, and will hear the contain' Minister, which he is invited to make at the Sitting. P.S. of the Journal de la Bel t - nuldej by M. Lebeau, to-day,",is a letter from Lord sonby. The substance of it is, that the Congress use its mAiation to obtain Luxemburg for Belgium. for Limburg and the left bank of the Scheldt, the r grees will maintain Holland in the possession of them. Prince Leopold will accept the Crown. The ' considered with respect to the debt as a proposal The debate on t h is communication is fixed for 31onday. BRUSSELS, MAY 28.—The Regent has written lowing Kum to the editors of the Emancipator: t have just read, in your 148th No. dated this an article heat'etl—' Parallel (between) Hereditary ' shy (and) Elective Monarchy,' in which you put e puison with his Highness the Prince of Saxe ' never could have expected this honour, and 1 % that 1 merit it. " I beg you, gentlemen, to confine yourselves sing the merit of things without mixing them of persons. It will be agreeable to me if you mentioning my name on all occasions when you head of the State. I have obtained in my which a citizen can aspire, the !uffrages of my . sanctioned, I believe, by the assent of the nation. sufficient for my personal satisfaction. I have r realise; it is to bring, by the aid of the Congress, sel of the state into a safe port ; to deliver ment of it to him, who shall be chosen lastly, to lay down the powers with which I invested, and which I declare I will _ ly. C. SUaLET Brussels, May 27. The ✓ourssal d'Anvers says—" The'. not made any movement, notwithstanding the make it man:louvre, and which reports by fear or malevolence !—Bruusle Papers, May LISBON. The Gayeties from 16th to 21st May, taro no political news respecting PortugaL news are the following notices s May 16.—1 n sight : one French brig of war; Cabo de Espochel, a corvette of war, and a' ready a frigate, both without any colours der Roca. TIME&—An attempt is making to remelts House of Lords a method of defeating the bill for which at least would have the merit of - - House has hitherto usually confined itself of duty, and abstained from any aggrandizement o. ers at the expense of the other House of Parliament. the course which is now recommended to it would at affect the right of the commons to originate any' hi advised, as soon as Parliament is scrambled, - any other business is transacted, that the Upper should make st•nie declaration against reform, against the specific mcrture by which it is about doted. A declario ion to either of thirst effects absurd and dangerous; for if against reforn can this be done, when almost all the 'remit._ House have een brought to acknowledge reform is necessary, is indispensable If measure, what right can the Upper House opinion upon a bill only just introduced ins as yet before the Lower House ? The cc given to the House of Lords seems to be Ws than this,—lnvolve yourselves as soon , quarrel with the Commons, and with wrong The Lords are too prudent to comply with They will probably wait till the bill comes be the Commons, and then give it that calm consideration which the importance previous decision of one brunch of the it require. We do not fear for the tut the Lords, if it pass the Commons in a shape. HERALD.—The furious Ukase of the 22,1 of addressed by the ttutocrat of Russia to the tbuania and Samogitia, has been can *lan aims have been successful, into Already numbers of prisoners have been or otherwise butchered by the Scythian " never at a loss to make up for their defic their energy as executioners. This is a land may expect if ever the warriors, wht the interests of their country has excited the civilised world, should suffer the fate of the the immortal Kosciusko, and perish in defence . sacred cause for which an onmemed people ever standard of defiance to a tyrant's power. What to the savage spirit in which-dm Russian forces tillage was the genmons essibset of the Pole, moment of the first *now mod excitement es,* don. The ceelliet if Wants en the ni, ; ht lest Novimsber—tbe eimes; of fifteen y ble oppreesams—misd in a sompkte Polak If vampsiess, and net e mere rodeo base talksalitset, the 'iambus youth of . ssmissaft to their /my every nuts/ upon their native salt but, with a be lto wbkh one but a nesesibla, they albwed 7, 000 the brother at the Impase, M Nam - dye land, through a musty whose stimulated with the Muff seidisetien et Russian insolence, rapacity, nod tommov. w•°' th hopes, others with kw, ed, if the Minister fad). ation to make to us. 'nom Lord Ponsonby at is ad a conversation with h'••• It, and which it is not props ; I was informed that all :d to me to-da7, which, 'our o'clock, I shall not b row. to-morrow, before proceed could discuss the question • ear the coniumnicatlon of o make at the opening of fgique.—The communion is a letter from Lord P. • is, that the Congress txemburg for Belgium. le of the Scheldt, the • the possession of them. he Crown. The Protocol lebt as a proposal ation is fixed for Mor4ay. Regent has written the • ie Emancipator: 148th No. dated this di eteseen) Hereditary U. • in which you put mein •• Prince of Saxe Coburg. tonour, and 1 do not be confine yourselves to • ,t mixing them up with ' le to me if you abstain f :salons when you speak of tallied in my country all !uffrages of my co assent of the nation. Tli talon. I have one =resit id of the Congress, the t; to deliver up the • • be chosen for sovereign, with which I am tem.. • • will never accept defiiiti 3. 817111.5 T DE Cuours 6..." The Dutch numbs: • rlthatanding the reports reports are continually. Papers, Nay 29. lON. 21st May, both inclusive.- tB P.atugaL Under the s— 'reach brig of War B. Of )f war, and a large dab any colours hoisted, of W.MB IR JOURNALS. making to prescribe to defeating the bill for R lie merit of novelty, for ofined itself within the my aggrandizement of its • er Home of Parliament. mmcnded to it would at • is to originate any Wit f' rent is assembled, and • • teed, that the Upper ID against reform, or at by which it is about to be r of theme effects would be against reform genersilYi, all the members ~f the to acknowledge that msable 1 If against the • fpper House have to d ntrodueed into Parlament, se P The counsel, t - • seems to be neither mare wives as soon as pow* Ind with wrong on your iotreac sl h ir e s ooitbtshnfi comply i l tehsh m comescocelcytanhslsweem beforeleg i sl a turestcons is t e nt nap dbtbejt t e t at t i T h bo e Ukase of the 261 Russia to the irsurlP" ten carried, wherever lk 1, into barbarous • have been shot is eali : Scythian "heroes." their deficiencies as This is a foretaste of It 'Mors, whose noble • as excited the admintas the fate of the boon perish in defence d the mused people erer it's power. hit a he Russian forces WO net of the Pole'. er g ' ~,,rimm u i t eni3e v oinneX e gyfeowyog : e:at t l i thideteM et isissene:wiin h t y tfO : nrottiort i besnwas s iut s :i r .l l . , ate but a barbsrass Rowed 7• 0 _ 0 _ 4 ? „,_11"41A •••, • return pesage.7 whose armed poW ollection of so Irian and outrage. 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